FURY: Brussels mayor UNLEASHED 'private MILITIA' to SILENCE Farage and anti-EU voices

Acceptable and unconstitutional, is how Belgium's Prime Minister described a local

mayor

's call to suspend yesterday's conservative national conference in Brussels before the country's highest court overturned his decision; However, the court's ruling will undoubtedly provide relief for freedom of expression. The government spokesperson described the very attempt to shut down this conference, in fact the dispatch of the police, as we can see here, was described as extremely disturbing. You can see why with those images, we can now cross into Brussels and speak to the GB news reporter. Charlie Peters, who is now inside the conference, this all happened very, very late last night or very early this morning.

Was it 2:30 a.m.? m. When did the High Court rule on this emergency ruling? That's right, Emily, that was when the ruling was passed in the early hours. and it was at 4:00 a.m. m. This morning we all received an email from the organizers here asking to get to the venue as early as possible in case the police tried to stop people from entering because that's what happened yesterday people were not allowed to enter this place after an order to end the 15-minute conference was issued and that was issued on the order of the district

mayor

, Emir Kier, who said that the mere holding of this event was a threat to public safety.

Here, a day after winning that legal challenge against the regional mayor's order, it has been a peaceful conference, the keynote speakers who were expected to attend, we heard from Victor Orban, the Prime Minister of Hungary, and right now we are hearing the end of a speech. by former Polish Prime Minister Matas Morisy, who is discussing various issues in Europe, many people in Britain reacted quite strongly to the possible ban of this event yesterday, where Nigel Farage was speaking on stage when the order was given, but At the same time there has also been significant criticism about the relative

silence

on the continent about that order.

Why did so few world leaders stand up and oppose what organizers here said was an extreme level of censorship? It's a really worrying example even though it was repealed. Thanks Charlie for bringing us. We who lived from the conference, let's now get the perspective of one of the organizers of the events, the associate professor of the University of Cambridge and president of the Edmund Burke Foundation, uh, James or James, thank you for joining us. This was the most extraordinary scene we saw live. On this show yesterday, how did you feel like not one, not two, but finally the third place was, uh, it was closed or tried to be closed by a local mayor and the police sent very well to be with you two.

Yesterday was a day of great drama, but it really has been a week of great drama. It wasn't just one local mayor, we had three cancellations in three different municipal districts in Brussels, so three different Mays canceled this, but what happened with the first two cancellations in effect is that the local authorities just put so much pressure on the first two venues that, so to speak, were the venues that got in the way and we were in contractual disputes with them. We intend to request precautionary measures for the specific execution of the contract with a second headquarters.

This was shit, it was Monday afternoon so 15 hours before the start of the conference I was trying to sort things out from the Eurostar on a very very spotty um uh mobile phone network uh we looked and looked and couldn't obtain inductive relief, the judge denied our request on the extraordinary grounds that civic authorities had intervened and therefore there was a credible threat, in the judge's opinion, the The judge had to accept that there was a credible threat to public safety by people with mainstream conservative views gathering peacefully speaking peacefully, including many elected politicians, journalists, academics, so it was just extraordinary now the difference with this third place is that the owners of the place simply refuse to budge under pressure from the mayor and that forced the mayor to issue a police order.

It turns out that in Brussels each local mayor has his own police force, a sort of almost

private

militia

, etc. When the owners, a wonderful family, calling themselves Freedom of Expression Warriors, refused to budge, the mayor issued an order and sent 15 armed police officers, to put an end to the event, now it didn't work out well. It's difficult to get Nigel Farage off the stage, anyway, and I think the police realized what a difficult situation they had on their hands, so they turned around, walked out and decided to set up a perimeter outside the front of the venue to prevent than anyone. enter and prevent any delegate who left from returning, so yesterday afternoon I found myself in a rather unusual position, trying to smuggle three speakers, a British parliamentarian, a distinguished European aristocrat and a Catholic cardinal into an adjoining property in Disguise was like something out of Mills and boom, top of a joke, wasn't it?

What a story, I mean, James. I have to ask you, you are a prominent academic, of course, and an organizer of this. In this case, not all academics felt the same as you when this conference was going to close. The head of the equality and diversity unit at the University of Oxford tweeted these words. I applaud the mayor and the police of Brussels for his The decision to close this conference reflects a vision held by WID in our institutions and in our best universities. Well, I certainly think it reflects a pretty standard view within, if you will, the diversity industrial complex.

I think it looks like a Brussels mayor is trying to manipulate. with our connection here we are going to have to reestablish that connection, but that was James, the president of the Edmund Burke Foundation of the United Kingdom, one of the organizers of this conference. I really appreciate James, you're joining us, sorry, it seems. that the EU Gremlins have been trying to disrupt this conversation, well yes, it is quite extraordinary that some academics would celebrate this. Brussels may be closing a conference, yes, and they are strange political views, it is strange that you have seen the shadow of health.

The Secretary of State was on the street yesterday on the union front laughing at all this and, in fact, it took none other than Owen Jones on Twitter today, the left-wing palmist, to say that he doesn't actually

silence

his political opponents with Using police forces is not a good idea. something to do right, yes, it just requires a little foresight or historical knowledge to realize that it could happen to you, it could happen to your meeting, it could happen to your conference, it could happen to your institution, whatever it is , this is It's not just a right-wing issue, no, as Owen Jones said, if you support the state's right to shut down your opponents, you legitimize the states that want to shut you down too.