Sven Longshanks: Not Quite Free

Sven Longshanks: Not Quite Free

Now I have an addendum for this podcast before presenting it at Christogenea, and Sven is not aware of that, but I am certain he shall be after it is posted.

So Sven Longshanks is out of prison, and now his period of internet and social media restrictions is expired, for which reason he was able to get into contact with me, and to begin podcasting once again, which happened almost exactly two months ago. But as our title states this evening, he is not quite free, and that is because nobody in Britain is free. Britain has actually become a prison island for its own citizens.

Another friend of ours, whom I will not name, had recently planned on coming to the United States to vacation, and had hoped that maybe he could visit us and some other friends. He has never had issues with speech online, or any other activities that are considered unlawful by the British government. But since he is unmarried and self-employed, the British government decided that his travel request should be denied, explaining that because he did not have enough substance or enough of a connection to keep him in Britain, such as a house or property or employment, that they were afraid that he might not return. That is not a home, it is indeed a literal prison, from which a man may not easily escape even if he wanted to, something which our friend did not want.

In addition to these situations, in September of 2025 the rather mainstream media outlet, Forbes magazine, had published an article with the headline People Are Being Thrown In U.K. Prisons Over What They’ve Said Online. Can Free Speech Be Saved? The article is said to have been written by Steve Forbes himself, the Chairman of the company and editor-in-chief of the magazine. This is the same Steve Forbes who had attempted to run for U.S. President a couple of times in the late 1990’s. He was initially responding to the arrest of an Irish comedian in the U.K. for what he described as “the ‘crime’ of three politically incorrect tweets”. Here is an excerpt from the article:

Starting with the Magna Carta in 1215, when nobles first curbed the unlimited powers of the monarch who has ever since been dubbed “Bad King John,” England, in fits and starts, began the trek toward individual rights that happily set it apart from other European powers. In the 1600s the British parliament firmly established its predominance over the king, while Europe saw the rise of absolute monarchies in the then-great continental powers of Spain and France.

The growth of property rights in England was summed up in the phrase, “A man’s home is his castle.”

The American colonies took this trend to its logical conclusion with the Declaration of Independence, whose 250th anniversary we celebrate next year. Thankfully, the U.S. Constitution contains the First Amendment, guaranteeing the right of free speech.

What a contrast this right is with what’s now happening in the Sceptred Isle. For years, the U.K. has, with increasing vigor, been curbing what one is allowed to say, all in the name of fighting racism, sexism, Islamophobia, transgenderism, climate-change denial and whatever else the woke extremists conjure up. In actions one expects from China and North Korea, British police zealously examine social media messages and individual utterances for any deviation from the reigning woke orthodoxy. Police are making more than 30 arrests a day over what they deem to be offensive online posts, retweets or cartoons. That’s 12,000 arrests a year.

That is the end of our citation of this article, which was relatively short anyway. But that alone should be enough to explain why Sven is released from prison, and from his restrictions, but he is not quite free. Nobody in Britain is free. Once these British so-called “criminals” are released, they are virtually walking on eggshells trying not to “offend” once again, and as I remember saying in the discussion, which was conducted this past Sunday, the government is constantly moving the goalposts as to what sort of speech constitutes such an offense.

So there were some things I said at the end of the discussion with Sven, which we had later decided should probably be left out, because not only is any dissent to the status quo criminalized in Britain, the government also does everything it can to erase any and all records that such dissent had even existed. So they are trying to create a world where dissent is not only forbidden, but also forgotten and even unimaginable. If they have their way, there would not even be any records of dissent, or any knowledge that there were ever any political parties or religious activities which had ever been proscribed. This is Orwellian, but it is actually like Orwell on anabolic steroids. Perhaps adrenochrome is more accurate but this is certainly no mere QAnon conspiracy since people really do go to jail. I hope to do more on this topic in the future.

As I had also said in the introduction to this podcast, I wanted to have another friend on this evening, but I could not reach him and decided not to edit the program introduction. I was hoping to have had Michael Weaver, who had been with us for a discussion of his own pro-White activism back in 2017. He sent me a request some weeks ago, but when I went to find him and ask him if he could give us some time, his account at X.com had been suspended, and I had no other way to reach him. Michael has been working to bring to light a free speech case in Georgia involving the distribution of leaflets, for which a Georgia couple had been arrested. Their arrest is in spite of the fact that their leaflet distribution was evidently conducted in a manner which has been upheld as a free speech right by federal courts. The case is not new, but evidently it is ongoing, and it was written about in the American Free Press and other media.

So Yahweh willing, we shall return to this subject in the near future, and be able to hear from Michael again as well.

During the discussion, I mentioned this UK Parliament discussion: Grooming Gangs - Volume 797: debated on Tuesday 14 May 2019. Click here for a screenshot, or click here for a PDF, in case the page fails or gets removed.