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#26 David Renton - No Free Speech for Fascists

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The Tommy Roggensen Campaign

Tommy Roggensen's campaign against free speech starts in Luton, 2010. He tried to stop Islamic provocateurs from speaking at a protest about the war. In court he argued that his right to speak protected by European Convention on Human Rights and Article 10 principles of free speech. If you gauge people not by what they say their politics are, but by what they do,. it's not difficult at all to find lots of examples of Tommy Roggensen campaigning against the speech rights that people disagree with. It's rather like, I mean, one of the experiences I talk about in the book was being in the court of the Peel where he was arguing that he shouldn't go to

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