Petition to Require English and Romanian Authorities to Fix Trial Dates for Andrew Tate

 Here is a link to the petition in question, and below that a few reasons why it might well be worth the bother of signing it, because doing so may produce interesting results on a surprising number of fronts. Medawar will also offer a suggestion for an alternative petition that might be tried, either if this one fails or, more usefully, as a concurrent effort to attract powerful attention in another quarter;

 https://www.change.org/p/demand-justice-set-a-date-for-andrew-tate-s-romanian-trial-and-expedite-uk-extradition

Andrew Tate faces 21 known charges in England, brought by Bedfordshire Police and Devon and Cornwall Police. In the past there have been criminal investigations into similar charges in Hertfordshire, these were not progressed as criminal cases but are now the subject of a civil lawsuit being brought by four victims.

 For the tax-related charges brought by Devon and Cornwall Police, the investigating authority will be the HMRC (concerning documents filed with their Exeter Office) and the Economic Crime Unit in Newton Abbot. There is an unnamed third person facing charges: a "Tax Agent" for the Tate Brothers. If this is who Medawar thinks it is, the ECU people in Newton Abbot know him well and he's always willing to act for those unable or unwilling to visit his premises and check him out. 

 For the rape, assault, coercion, trafficking and Modern Slavery charges brought by Bedfordshire Police, the actual investigative body may have been the Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire Major Crimes Unit, though it would be possible, but a little odd, for Bedfordshire Police to have proceeded entirely independently. This has not been made clear in media reports, but that may be due to prevailing poor journalistic standards as much as any policy issue. The historical case, which is now before the High Court as a civil claim, had victims of rape and false imprisonment, coercion etc. in both Hitchin (in Hertfordshire) and Luton (in Bedfordshire), so there would have to be a compelling reason for the joint Major Crimes Unit for those counties NOT to be involved. 

  Due to interventions by "The Trump Administration" (which do not seem to have been instigated by President Trump, who professed almost complete ignorance about the Tates when asked by a reporter he trusted) Andrew and Tristan Tate currently enjoy the right of free international travel to countries they see as safe, whilst awaiting trial in Romania under "house arrest" even if the house is in Florida or Dubai. The Governor of Florida does not agree with this and is doing everything he can to deter the Tates from returning to his State, other than to face criminal or civil proceedings there. Mr DeSantis does not share the Trump Administration's view of the Tates as saintly prisoners of conscience, largely because he does not share President Trump's ignorance about their openly-promoted extreme ideology and alleged violent, coercive personal conduct. That ideology, BTW if you take all their extreme positions together, adds up to Accelerationism. As with Mr DeSantis, an overwhelming number of Mr Trump's ordinary supporters would be appalled if they knew and understood that this is FBI-speak for "Satanism!"

 Here is a link to a Wikipedia article about the main Accelerationist (dis)organisation for adults:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_Nine_Angles

And below is a link to a Wikipedia article for the youth/online wing "764", largely based in Texas. Texas seems to be where the money for extreme ideology comes from in many cases.

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/764_(organization) 

 Now, a lot of people have interpreted President Trump's determination to give liberal demons such as Vladimir Putin and Benjamin Netanyahu the benefit of the doubt as unconditional support! Indeed, both Putin and Netanyahu themselves were so convinced that they "owned" Trump that they started to openly play him for a fool by blandly asserting things which he knew to be untrue ("there are no starving children in Gaza" for example). Playing Trump for a fool is a grave miscalculation born of arrogance and if there's anyone else on the planet as arrogant as Putin and Netanyahu, Andrew Tate is it! And, yes, by using his supporters within the Trump Administration to further his career, Andrew Tate is also playing Trump for a fool.

 If the petition, above, generates any publicity at all, and if people sign it, it will, then sooner or later the truth will penetrate Trump's information bubble and he will know that not only Andrew Tate, but people in his administration that he trusted to keep him informed, have been playing him towards an end that most of his supporters will loathe.

 A supplementary or follow-on petition might usefully address President Trump directly and ask him to require FBI agents with direct experience of investigating Accelerationist terrorism act as lead agents in a re-evaluation of what the US Federal Government and its law enforcement and intelligence agencies thinks of the Tate Brothers, their online output and the likely and intended outcomes of the lifestyle choices they are promoting so vigorously on a global scale.