US hunt for two peas of a different pod. Who’s next?

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If anyone had mentioned the name Andrew Tate 15-months ago, it would have had people asking Andrew who? That’s unless you were a kick-boxing fan immersed in the world of combat sports. 

As a kick boxer, Tate was a serious combat warrior.  

Yet for someone with such stature in the sport, he was no Anderson Silva or Mirko Cro Cop. 

Tate was just Tate, a 4-time world champion kick boxer in a different world, until late 2021 where he shot to internet fame. 

Away from kick boxing – Tate’s emergence on the social media scene produced a different Andrew Tate – a man battling a different fight. 

The self-styled misogynistic influencer, has evolved into a social media mega star, consistently shrouded in controversy. 

Tate’s been notorious for his views on the emasculation of men, what it now means to be a man in a world where men are feminised along with other fascinatingly disturbing eyebrow raising views.  

As the world has quickly discovered, Tate isn’t without opinion - he’s embroiled himself in battles on all social and political fronts. 

His willingness to challenge the establishment has consistently landed him in hot water.  

On social media, he’s been a vocal supporter of former President Donald Trump, and Tate’s forged reputation also sees him with a chequered social media past. 

In 2017, Tate was banned from Twitter for claiming women should bear responsibility for being sexually assaulted. 

Late in 2022, his Twitter account was reinstated after Elon Musk took ownership of the social media platform.

To Musk’s word, Twitter would not be a free speech cancelling platform, it would be a place where opinions and views could be expressed. 

Twitter was moving on from the insidious practice of cancel culture it had aggressively asserted under the previous management -Tate’s reinstatement holds true to Musk’s commitment. 

Tate’s also been banned from other social media platforms for saying women belong in the home or shouldn’t be allowed to drive or are the property of men.

As the King of ‘Toxic Masculinity’ Tate is one of the internet’s most controversial figures - his polemic style is popular among Gen Zers. 

Recently however, his Twitter stoush with environmental activist Greta Thunberg, may have proven a ‘stoush too far’. 

In an extraordinary exchange of tweets, rants and videos, Tate may have pissed-off influential supporters of woke pinup girl, Thunberg - enough to find himself arrested.   

Tate’s self-imposed exile from his native America, a British national and now resident of Romania for the past five-years, arrested with his brother in a move to not only silence Tate, but have him extradited to the US on alleged criminal charges of human trafficking, rape and forming an organized crime group.

But Tate’s arrest appears suspicious. It has a similar stench to the Julian Assange and Wikileaks fiasco – which the world and Australians have not forgotten.

Assange remains in a UK prison suffering serious medical and mental health issues as a battle ensues to stop the US extraditing him to face trumped up charges of spying. 

Julian Assange’s crime has only ever been to expose the level of corruption operating within the US government.  

As a journalist, he was doing his job, and for doing so, became a target - hunted in a three-way conspiracy between the US, UK and Sweden to get him to the US.  Once there, Assange would never have been heard or seen of again.  

Assange would have been there for the Americans to do with him as they pleased.  But he’s not and while a fierce battle rages to stop the Americans getting their hands on him, an alignment of similarities exists between the Assange and Tate cases.

Whether you agree or disagree with Tate’s views, nobody can deny his right to voice an opinion.  

As offensive and seemingly dangerous as Tate’s views are, sees him with a right to express them.  

The parallels between Assange and Tate are frighteningly similar, and the US government is using the same playbook to get their man.  

As Assange rots in a UK prison, Tate is in the hands of the Romanian Government, facing extradition to the U.S.  

It’s no coincidence after Tate posted a photo of himself standing next to a Bugatti, captioned with "Hello @GretaThunberg. I have 33 cars. [...] Please provide your email address so I can send a complete list of my car collection and their respective enormous emissions."

The next day Thunberg tweeted back, "Yes, please do enlighten me. Email me at smalldickenergy@getalife.com."

From that moment, Tate sealed his fate. He had unwittingly set in motion a series of events that led to his arrest by Romania’s anti-organized crime agency DIICOT.

Connect the dots and economic survival is at the heart of the Romanian Government’s decision to arrest Tate. 

The US embassy in Bucharest would have leant on the Romanians to arrest Tate or face economic sanctions. 

Romania could ill afford to risk being cut off economically.

No matter how people view Tate, and as distasteful he is, his misogyny is frightening but not to the extent Government’s will go to lie and deceive to imprison people because of the questions they ask or stand they take.

Tate is a misogynist that’s clear. What’s more dangerous are out of control corrupt administrations who will go to any length and do what they want to quash free speech and the people who question them.

Assange and Tate are two who’ve done that. While Assange’s battle of persecution has raged for 11-years and continues, Tate’s is about to begin.

Will Jordan Peterson, Ben Schapiro and other vocal commentators be next to be hunted?