Callum, a swell British guy who is the face of the popular YouTube channel; EnglishShooting, has been forced to put his account on an indefinite hiatus, and he's also been forced to privatize many of the videos that he's made over the years regarding his time being a licensed firearms owner in the United Kingdom...
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Now you might be asking yourself, what circumstances or ill-luck has forced him to do this?
Is it due to the current pussification of YouTube by Google?
Well, as shocking as it may seem, it's due to external factors outside of the internet, which you can hear about in this video that he just made;
(Pause your reading and watch this video first before continuing on):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tr3Ze0qt33s&t=403s
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Yep, you heard him right folks, Callum has been forced to put his channel on indefinite hiatus and privatize some of his past videos because;
The government branch of the Police over there have deemed him to be "unfit" or "not sane enough", to own any more firearms or licenses due to (in their personal opinions) the videos he's posted over the years, and how the videos on his YouTube channel stray into the area of "extremism" subjects, and how these videos and his channel may be used by others as an "extremist" platform to spread their views.
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After hearing all of this, my only reaction to it is...
Wow...
Just... fucking... wow...
Truly, it is a sad day when a sane, law-abiding, tax-paying citizen is deemed unstable to legally own a firearm because his local police or government were looking through all the stuff he's posted on the internet, and they come to the conclusion that he is an unfit extremist who cannot be trusted to own guns.
Now granted, those of us who live in the "free states" or "free countries", don't really have to deal with this sort of issues. But for those of you who live in the United States, allow me to bend your ears for a moment to discuss something extremely serious about this event, and how it can affect you as a firearm owner...
Whenever you feel yourselves getting down in the dumps from all the screaming, crying, ranting and raving from the liberals, professors, professional lobbyists, lawyers, social justice warriors, tumblr, Jimmy Kimmel, David Hogg, Flea, anti-gun people, the Brady Center, PETA, and anyone else who speaks out against firearms and firearm owners here in the United States, always remember this;
When the government has control over your guns, what's to stop them from taking control of everything else?
What's to stop them from taking control of your public or personal life?
What's to stop them from always having their eyes on you wherever you go? Whether it's to hang out with your friends, family, or going to work?
What's to stop them from deciding that you're a dangerous individual because of something you posted on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, etc.?
What's to stop them from influencing the supervisors or bosses at the job you work at from suspending, dismissing or firing you because they told them about something you posted on the internet? Like in the case of what happened to YouTube user ObabScribbler back in 2016?
What's to stop them from taking the next step in kicking down your doors in the middle of the night to slap handcuffs onto your wrists and haul you away to prison for simply speaking your mind?
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Now before you all dismiss me as some sort of conspiracy nut, allow me to say the following things;
As Monster Hunter author Larry Correia once said in the aftermath of the 2016 election; America is a long, long way off from ever going down the road of absolute dictatorship where it's full on Stasi-jackboot Gestapo and cattle car time.
But I say, never take this fear for granted.
And believe me, America has gone down that road quite a few times throughout history.
Maybe not in the same extremes as Adolf Hitler or Joseph Stalin have done...
(...unless you count the atrocities committed by both sides during the Native American wars from the 1770s until about the early 1910s, but that's too difficult of a subject to approach without turning a comments section into a full-blown war of words...)
...but you cannot gloss over the facts when, most notably; 120,000 Japanese people, American citizens, mind you, were forcibly removed from their homes, lost their jobs, livelihoods, everything they ever owned or saved up on, and were thrown into Internment Camps, which were ironically called "concentration camps", by F.D.R.'s Executive Order No. 9066 in the aftermath of the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor by the Imperial Japanese Navy.
And this is a FACT. Look it up.
(And yes, I am in the small minority who knows that F.D.R. was a scumbag socialist)
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Anyway, back to what I was originally going to talk about;
I personally think it's absolutely fucking ridiculous that this man has essentially been turned into the victim of a smear campaign orchestrated by those in a position of power higher than him, all because of the informative subjects, lessons and shooting sessions he talks about or showcased in his videos.
I don't know about the rest of you, but personally, after seeing what happened to EnglishShooting and even ObabScribbler years before, we, the common citizens in the United States, and the citizens all over the world where there's internet access; We need to stand up, now more than ever, and fight for our rights to personal privacy on the internet, and we need to fight for our rights to keep onlookers such as the government, the police, employers, and those who are too nosy for their own good, from using whatever we post on the internet as a stepping stool to judge and label us.
I've always been a firm believer in the idea that whatever you do in the online world shouldn't affect your life outside of the internet.
Now, you may argue this point and say that employers need to look at the things we post on the internet during or after a job interview, or to review an employee's performance in their life outside of the job, or to make sure that whatever an employee posts on the internet doesn't reflect badly on the job or company...
...but honestly, I'm here to say; fuck that shit.
There is nothing, I repeat; nothing, that can be said or done on the internet that would warrant ANY, sort of job performance review or job dismissal.
Just like there should be nothing, that can be said or done on the internet that would warrant a government employee denying a person the ability to go out and buy a firearm.
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Unless you are planning to take part in the crimes of identity theft, underage pornography, illegal arms and drug trafficking in the online world, then there should be nothing, that can be said or done on the internet that would warrant a police officer or government employee denying an honest, law-abiding, tax-paying citizen from going out to apply for a firearm license, or from going out to buy a firearm.
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*sigh*
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This whole thing that's happened to EnglishShooting, is just pure bullshit.
And it's a shame that his YouTube Channel will be going on an indefinite hiatus, and that some of his older videos are now gone.
It's ridiculous folks, it really is.
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Well, that's all I've got for today.
So once again, we need to stand up now more than ever for our right to privacy in the online world. And we need to stand up and show the powers that be, that whatever we say or do in the online world should be kept separate from who we are as a person in public.
Unless a person shows serious, legit intent on breaking into the world of crime through the internet, what they do in their time here in the online world is something that should be their business, and no one else's.
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And Callum, if you happen to find this blog post, just know that you still have a huge fanbase that's willing to support and back you.
We will miss you, and we sincerely hope that one day, you will be able to return.
Rest In Peace, EnglishShooting (2012 - 2018)
And until next time folks...
Goodnight America, and to all the ships out at sea...
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