Tommy Robinson's extended interview with Ezra Levant on Rebel Media
This is the uncut version (there is a slightly shorter version just under 2 hours).
My take: knowing Tommy he looks stressed when talking but it comes because he's recalling very stressful events. If there are any exaggerations or falsehoods in here, I can't see them particularly.
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It is impossible for people to understand the torture prisons are designed to inflict without having endured it. Sensory deprivation, deliberate malnourishment, the psychological torment of having your person and loved ones under the power of sadists exerting exemplary skill at manipulation of institutional mechanisms, as well as the human mind, and more, and worse, is beyond the experience or imagination of them as haven't seen it.
We think of torture as beatings, physical harm, and the like, but psychological torture is no less harmful. Indeed, it is far worse. The conditions in factory farms, and the bare cells that used to be provided to animals in zoos are actually less harmful than what is done to people in prisons, and society has refused to tolerate abusing animals kept in zoos in better conditions than those availed to prisoners for good reason.
People in prisons are intentionally and deliberately tortured in every way imaginable, and more that normal people cannot conceive of. That makes their cells indescribably worse even than factory farms. Worst of all is that we have such greater capacity to grasp what harm is done to us than chickens or cows, and the almost universal offer to end the torture if we will but abandon principle and serve our captors as snitches or minions, that knowing we are being tortured is yet another layer of deliberate harm inflicted on us.
Malicious actors then allow the psychopaths in captivity to run the institutions from within, as a reward for their sadism, as long as it serves the masters. Such savage barbarism has no place in the world, never has, and never will.
The cruel, dull, or nescient might argue that sensory deprivation is no more significant than a retreat, or institutional manipulations comparable to queueing at the DMV or Post Office. Having sadistic psychopaths empowered to exercise their sole option to implement any and all such effects is qualitatively different. It's not a hundred times worse. There's no comparison.
I've watched the whole interview, and his discussion of powerlessness, institutional sadism, concern for family and person, is very real, and of indescribably malign impact on captives - particularly for folks like Tommy, that have endeavored to protect their family, friends, and communities from harm that is being effected by their own governments.
That is a whole additional level of torturous stress. The extortion, blackmail, and venal practices of corrupt prosecutorial, judicial, and police actors is literally unimaginable, and beyond description in it's desecratory effects. None of it is unique to England. Such torture is ubiquitous in penal institutions everywhere they exist.
It is a crime against humanity, has always been, and always will be. Every participant in such institutions is guilty, and all will face judgment no matter their present power, ignorance, belief they have gotten away with it, or advocacy of such oppression. Captives of penal institutions are slaves, and any participation or support of slavery is a crime.
I doubt not a word of his relation of his ordeal, and despite that I disagree with some of his positions and actions, am sure that he is sincere in all of them. His point at the end of the interview, however, is no less true: surviving such torture is immeasurable victory, and while he has been irreparably harmed, he has also gained ineffable power over himself as a result. He has learned that he is free, even when in captivity and subjected to torture. We yet can refuse to succor our captors, to mentally break and join their ranks. We can be hurt, die, or watch our loved ones be hurt and die, but we cannot be broken if we refuse to be.
May he achieve every success he hopes for, and may none of the harm he rightly fears come to him or his.
Thanks!
Knowing Tommy has opened up my eyes to a whole world I never would have known about. There is such a deep problem in the UK it totally shock me still what they can throw at him.
They can - and did - treat him worse than an animal in a factory farm, but he, and all of us, are far more than mere animals.
We are men, and we are free men who know it. As Tommy said, even if they kill him, he knows we know the truth he is dying to tell us, and the corrupt thugs can't hide it.
It's not by accident that prison is torture. Nor is it accident they threw Tommy in. That's what prison is for, to crush the people that would challenge the status quo. That's why America has the largest prison population the world has ever seen, because Americans have tasted the words that reveal the freedom from oppression all men yearn for, and the oppressors put the screws to them to keep them from overturning their apple cart.
Sadly, the UK seems not far behind us in that oppression.