The Roy Green Show Podcast - June 3, 2018 - Joe Warmington talks freedom of expression, Gerard Batten on Tommy Robinson’s arrest, and Alfredo Corchado on Mexican drug cartels

The Roy Green Show Podcast

Joe Warmington returns to the show to talk about the nuances of freedom of expression, Member of European Parliament Gerard Batten discusses the arrest of Tommy Robinson, and Journalist Alfredo Corchado  shares stories from his time reporting on Mexican drug cartels.

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Is freedom of expression increasingly limited? A few weeks ago, Roy and Toronto Sun columnist Joe Warmington brought up the topic while discussing the conduct of some members of Ontario’s NDP. Now Joe and Roy pick up the topic again, to dig deeper into the ideas of freedom of expression, political correctness and double-standards. Meanwhile, there has been no apology from the NDP and none of the contentious candidates faced firing. What can be done, how should these issues should be handled?

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Tommy Robinson was arrested, charged, tried and imprisoned in a matter of hours. The self-described British journalist and co-founder of the English Defense League, now member of the Quillium think tank was live-streaming the arrivals of a number of men at a British court where they were charged with sexual grooming of girls and women.  The men were predominantly of Pakistani origin and Muslim. What is the story behind these events? Our guest knows Batten personally, and can speak on the sexual exploitation taking place in the U.K.

Guest: Gerard Batten, Member of the European Parliament for London, U.K. Independence Party, Batten knows Robinson personally and has been interviewed by him.

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Alfredo Corchado is a Dallas Morning News correspondent who has written extensively about Mexican drug cartels and has had his life threatened several times, even once narrowly escaping a hit team. Alfredo joins us to speak about the ongoing issues on the U.S/Mexico border as well as concerns about MS-13 and other drug gangs illegally crossing the Canadian border.

Guest:  Alfredo Corchado, journalist, author of ‘Homelands: Four Friends, Two Countries, and the Fate of the Great Mexican-American Migration’

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