British Government’s “Counter-Extremist” Unit Shuts Down Milo Yiannopoulos Speech

The British Government has shut down a speech by Milo Yiannopoulos after putting pressure on the school hosting it to call it off.
Anti-Extremism officials leaned on faculty at the school in Kent, England, where Yiannopoulos was due to speak, resulting in the event being scrapped.
Speaking to Heat Street about the cancellation, Yiannopoulos said:
‘Who knew that the government has a counter-extremism unit that would harass gays? ‘They’ve bullied and humiliated this poor school into cancelling. Maybe if I called my talk ‘Muslims are Awesome!’ they wouldn’t.’
He had been due to address sixth-form students at the Simon Langton grammar school in Canterbury, where he used to be a student until he was expelled.
The event had attracted national attention and, according to the local press, attention from the UK Government’s Department for Education, which intervened.
In a statement to the Kent Messenger newspaper, Simon Langton headmaster Matthew Baxter said he had been contacted by state officials.

This post was published at Zero Hedge on Nov 21, 2016.