Train Conductor Fired for Patriotic Message

Where moonbattery prevails, you have to watch what you say or there may be consequences. Jack Peterson, a train conductor on Chattanooga’s historic Incline Railway, gave the following message on the USA’s 250th anniversary:

“To the very, very few Americans in here, Happy Independence Day. To the rest of you, welcome to the greatest country on the face of the planet, and if you disagree, you can leave.”

For arguably getting slightly carried away in his patriotic enthusiasm, he was fired.

Announced Chattanooga Area Regional Transportation Authority Chief of Staff Scott Wilson:

“I want to apologize directly to the passengers who experienced this, and to everyone who has seen the video and felt its sting.”

Wilson righteously proclaimed:

“We have zero tolerance for language that demeans or excludes anyone who rides with us.”

Nothing sums up moonbattery like the term “zero tolerance.”

But some seem to agree with Peterson. He launched a GoFundMe that has raised over $17,000.

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Fort Worth Evangelists Threatened by Police for Being Offensive to LGBTers

It isn’t just in once great Britain that law enforcement comes down on those who preach the gospel in public. Last month a street preacher was dragged out of a public park in Lakeland, Florida during an LGBT event as degenerates cheered. A few days later, the police in Fort Worth, Texas told a street preacher that he could be cited for calling a transvestite “sir.” More of the same from Fort Worth:

Via WECU News:

A viral video from Trinity Pride Fest on June 27, 2026, has ignited controversy over free speech rights after a Fort Worth police officer warned Christian street preachers that they could face citations for speech deemed offensive by attendees.

“Trinity” Pride Fest. The blasphemy is characteristic of a movement named after one of the Seven Deadly Sins.

In the footage, Officer [Sarah] Stogner (badge #3531) interacts with evangelists Rich Penkoski and David Grisham as they attempt to preach on public sidewalks near the event. When questioned about potential enforcement, the officer states that if someone is offended by their speech, it could constitute disorderly conduct, leading to a ticket.

No wonder privileged I mean “oppressed” identity groups are offended by most everything. It gives them the power to shut down any speech they don’t want to hear.

The Fort Worth Police Department (FWPD) later reviewed the incident and clarified that Officer Stogner’s statements regarding citations for offensive speech content were “not accurate.” Officials emphasized that the citation issued to Grisham stemmed from noise volume—specifically the use of amplification near the event—not the religious or critical nature of the preaching.

That’s not what we just heard Officer Stogner say.

FWPD announced mandatory First Amendment refresher training for officers following the review.

In the meantime,

Both preachers plan to pursue legal action against the city, asserting viewpoint discrimination and improper application of disorderly conduct rules.

Pushback still works sometimes and is strongly encouraged. To quote Leonardo da Vinci, “It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.”

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Fort Worth Police Tell Street Preacher He Could Be Cited for Calling Transsexual “Sir”

It isn’t just Florida. A police officer in Fort Worth told a street preacher at an “all-ages Pride event” that he could be cited for calling a cross-dressing man “sir”:

As Amy Curtis observes at Townhall,

You do not have a right not to be offended. Even the racial slurs the officer mentions are still protected speech. Some may find that abhorrent, but it’s protected nonetheless. The First Amendment isn’t written to protect polite speech. It’s meant to protect the controversial speech; without that, we do not have free speech.

Being offended is how protected groups exert power over the rest of us. Expect the First Amendment to be rendered null and void soon after Democrats pack the Supreme Court with leftist apparatchiks.

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UK Government to Impose Leftist Sources on Social Media

Under Labour rule, the British government continues to strangulate freedom of information. Via GB News:

On Monday, the Government published its “Watch this Space: A new strategic direction for UK media” Green Paper.

The document sets out plans to ensure social media companies and video-sharing platforms prioritise content from “public service” media (PSM), which includes the BBC, ITV and Channel 4.

That is, social media is to be forced to prioritize propaganda from liberal establishment sources.

The move would see mainstream media outlets pushed to the top of people’s social media feeds when they search for news stories – even if they don’t want to read them.

That way, people won’t read what leftists call “misinformation.” It will be replaced by what leftists call “trustworthy” sources.

At least the UK’s moonbat rulers have a sense of humor:

Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy … rejected criticisms aimed at the BBC, insisting the public broadcaster remains “the most trustworthy source of news, not just in this country, but across the world”.

Not since Soviet era Pravda has the world enjoyed such a trustworthy source of news.

Incidentally, George Orwell named the government torture chamber Room 101 in 1984 after a conference room at the BBC, which is owned and funded by the government.

“So I think we should be careful about not trashing the BBC,” she added.

Britons need to be careful all right, or Big Government might suspect them of committing misinformation.

On a tip from abcanc.

Europe Is No Longer Free

We pick up a large percentage of the tab for Europe’s defense, freeing up money to finance the lavish welfare states that have drawn so many millions of moochers from the Third World. Supposedly we do this to defend freedom. But having succumbed to moonbattery, is Europe still free?

Not Germany. Via the European Conservative:

German director Uwe Boll’s latest film about a man who turns to vigilantism after becoming frustrated by rising street crime has been effectively barred from release in Germany. According to Boll, the ban is linked to the film’s portrayal of migrants as perpetrators of serious crimes.

Crime in Germany is disproportionately committed by migrants. But that’s in real life. Fiction must represent the alternate world of the ruling class’s suicidal ideology.

Not Italy. Remix News reports what happened when a banner was unfurled that read, “Italy for Italians”:

The banner was hung from a window of Liceo Classico Vincenzo Monti on June 6 by a group of graduating students. Following a police investigation, those responsible were identified and subjected to disciplinary measures by the school’s governing body, Il Giornale reported.

Not France. European Conservative reports on the trial of French activist and online commentator Thaïs d’Escufon:

The case stems from statements she made on BFM TV in 2023, during a discussion about a rape involving an illegal immigrant. d’Escufon, who was herself the victim of a home invasion and sexual assault two years earlier at the hands of a Tunisian migrant, said during the segment that “The main danger for women is immigrant men, Africans, blacks, and Arabs.”

This is indisputably true, which is why she is not allowed to say it.

DILCRAH (the Interministerial Delegation to Fight Against Racism, Antisemitism, and Anti-LGBT Hate) filed a complaint after that TV appearance, leading to prosecution. …

Prosecutors have requested a sentence of up to one year in prison and a fine of 45,000 euros for “incitement to racial hatred.”

The sentence has come down. She wound up with a €1,000 fine.

This is not authorities’ first attempt to shut her up:

d’Escufon described her six years of activism as marked by media controversy, account suspensions, legal proceedings, and what she sees as systematic efforts to silence dissenting opinions. “Freedom of expression doesn’t exist,” she said.

She came to public attention as a spokesperson for Génération Identitaire — which Macron shut down as a supposed threat to public order because it opposed the Great Replacement.

Social media platforms repeatedly suspended her accounts, eventually removing her from Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and other mainstream networks.

D’Escufon said multiple banks also refused to provide her with banking services, without giving any clear explanations.

There have been previous legal repercussions:

She has already received a six-month suspended prison sentence and a €3,000 fine in one case, while continuing to pursue appeals through the courts.

Doesn’t look much like this spunky countermoonbat is ready to throw in the towel:

Those in control suppress free speech so as to stall resistance until it is too late to prevent the demographic displacement of the native population. Many rulers have come to power in Europe over the centuries, but this is the first ruling class to pose an existential threat to European civilization, which will no longer exist when Europe is no longer primarily populated by Europeans.

By paying to defend Europe, the USA is helping to destroy it. Rather than provide military defense, it would be more productive to support voices of freedom like Thaïs d’Escufon’s before they are snuffed out.

On tips from abcanc.

Factual Truth Ruled to Be Thoughtcrime in Belgium

Under moonbat rule, just because it is factually true does not mean you are allowed to say it. After all, it could be “disinformation” or even “hate speech.”

CBN reports on an alarming ruling from Belgium in the case of Great Replacement opponent Dries Van Langenhove:

Van Langenhove’s conviction was based on a lecture given in 2024 at Catholic University Leuven, in which he linked mass migration to “crime and a deterioration of our quality of life.”

This correlation is not hard to substantiate. So rather than argue, moonbats make it illegal to discuss.

Snarled the judge:

“Even if all of the statements made by Van Langenhove are based on scientific evidence and statistics, it makes no difference to the criminal intent. Van Langenhove is not charged with spreading false information. He is charged with presenting facts in a way that incites hatred against persons on the grounds of one or more of the protected criteria in the Anti-Racism Law.”

To his credit, Van Langenhove is a repeat offender:

It is Van Langenhove’s second hate speech conviction, and he faces another court case in September.

He claims there are a dozen active criminal investigations against him for hate speech and has already paid more than 420 thousand euros ($489,000) in legal fees.

Authorities want to prevent Europeans from realizing what is being done to them until it is too late to reverse it. Eradication by demographic displacement can still be avoided if enough people rally behind countermoonbats like Eva Vlaardingerbroek, who is attempting to force EU bureaucrats to acknowledge what is happening through the Save Europe Act:

On tips from patthedog and Straight Shootr.

British Flock to Trump’s Free Speech Portal

Even under moonbat rule, Britons may still have free speech — thanks to the USA.

GB News reports on Freedom.gov, a free speech portal designed by the Trump Administration to allow people in repressive countries to share officially disfavored information.

Censorship has become increasingly prevalent in Europe under left-wing domination — an alarming development that the Trump Administration has taken a leading role in combatting.

For now, only the landing page is live, but apparently it is already getting plenty of hits from the UK. A senior Trump official is unsurprised by the site’s appeal to Britons:

“We have more in common with these people than divides us. Just because Government and key sectors of civil society are hostile to freedom of speech doesn’t mean the people are.”

We do have a lot in common. What has been happening there could happen here too if the wrong people take control of the government. Nina Jankowicz, who headed the Ministry of Truth (aka Disinformation Governance Board) during the Biden Regime, is vociferously hostile to Freedom.gov.

On a tip from seaoh.

Angela Merkel Awarded European Order of Merit for Inflicting Massive Damage on Germany and Europe

When the obituary is written for Germany, former Chancellor Angela Merkel will rank among those most responsible for its demise. She infamously opened the border to mass Third World immigration, flooding the country with millions of unassimilable Muslims drawn largely by generous welfare payments. She drove the pointless green energy lunacy that has crippled the German economy and left the country dependent on Russian gas. She continues to help squash free speech. Consequently, she has been granted a European Order of Merit.

Remix News notes that the damage inflicted by Merkel extends Europe-wide:

Merkel is seen as not only the architect of the EU’s open border policy back in 2015, which ultimately allowed in millions of migrants, with far-reaching and violent consequences for France, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Italy, Sweden, Austria, to list just a few stories.

She also laid the groundwork for Germany’s exit from nuclear power, which has fueled the country’s economic deterioration in the face of higher energy prices and the challenges of green technologies.

As for the free speech required for a genuine democracy to function,

Investigative journalist Zara Riffler called out Merkel for her idea of democracy: “Merkel is no longer making any secret of her understanding of ‘democracy.’ She wants tough regulation for social media & AI – she wants to punish ‘lies’ (!) – in other words, a digital world in which there is only the one truth that is approved from above. That is her true face.”

As the Nobel Peace Prize, Pulitzer Prize, Emmys, Peabody Award, and Presidential Medal of Freedom confirm, there is no greater shame than to be awarded honors by the moonbat establishment.

Not everyone is pleased. Finnish MEP Sebastian Tynkkynen speaks countermoonbattery to power:

On a tip from abcanc.