Written by Michael Newland
Saturday’s demonstration was a hugely successful and enthusiastic coming together of people of different political persuasions in the common cause of defending freedom – something we can all agree on whatever our other views – and in opposition to what amounts to a terror campaign against us by the government, the media and a part of the medical profession. 10,000 people protested against the destruction of our liberties and social alienation using the pretext of a virus.
You can’t turn on the radio without a veiled threat of death looming over you every few minutes. Yet people are told to go back to work! Not even in wartime has there ever been anything like this. Much of the population are at least to some extent frightened to leave their homes and have been trained up to look on their fellow humans as a lethal threat to them. Even alone in cars now many wear a mask. As many deaths as during WWII were predicted at the start.
We were told in the spring that there would be a brief lockdown to prevent hospitals being overrun with virus cases. Either they were lying with the promise of the most enjoyable virtue signal in history or there has been an unexplained mission creep. The lockdown system has now been intensified in one direction by our being ordered to wear masks when at the start we were told they were useless. When you wear a mask you send everyone around you an unhealthy message, that normal life is too dangerous to risk.
At the start we were told to take a brief, mostly paid for by the Government, dreamtime holiday and enjoy a warm fuzzy feeling about how we’d saved lives. It’s been like being asked to go into prison on the promise of free ice cream and then finding the door locked behind you.
Months later 90% of the country, covering 51 million people, has not had a death from the virus in a month and yet, far from celebrating, the Government talks of more lockdown without any definite end to it and the need for four million virus tests a day. Even the possibility of a vaccine is being downplayed as a solution. We are still muzzled and controlled in a manner only known in totalitarian states.
Along the way the Government admitted that the death toll from the side effects of the lockdown might be 200,000. The deaths from the virus so far are like a bad flu year and in the tens of thousands while ironically the expected collateral deaths from the Government’s own policy really are akin to those suffered during several years of WWII.
The cure appears to be worse than the disease even if the lockdown had a substantial effect on the lethality of the virus which is dubious in view of the Swedish experience. It’s said that Peru had the severest and earliest lockdown but now has the worst excess death total in the world.
Yet people clapped in the streets when hospital services were largely shut down for everything except the virus – cancer, heart disease and all the rest. Doctors still sit idle in hospitals and GPs hide behind their surgery doors. Surgeons are working at 50% capacity. The mental health effects have been catastrophic with 20% of people complaining of depression. They clapped all this on instructions like the poor citizens of a hellhole like North Korea.
It’s the greatest national tragedy since WWII and entirely self-inflicted. People have been trained to blank from their minds any death which is not from the virus – cancer, heart disease and all the rest barely exist – as though the Government could abolish death and offer immortality if we destroy our society in the cause of eradicating the last Covid case.
The Government’s slogan could well be that in order to protect public health you are asked to lose the will to live. Even singing is banned as too dangerous. Quality of life is of little concern. Elections are not held and the general run of political and cultural meetings are as good as banned.
Generations ago Winston Churchill said something during an election campaign about socialism, startling in its prescience. By socialism he meant essentially the school of thought which says that the secret of a better life is more and more powerful government. Today that includes not just formal socialists but the fake conservative-in-name-only party we allow to deceive us and many others like it throughout the West.
Churchill said that “socialism is an attack on the right of an ordinary man or woman to breathe freely without having a tyrannical hand across their mouth and nostrils”. We are now literally in that situation with mask wearing imposed by law. It’s uncanny how right he was in a way he never could have conceived.
Why are they doing this to us?
The head of the World Health Organisation said recently that ‘The Covid 19 pandemic has given new impetus to the need to accelerate efforts to respond to climate change’. What?? What has climate got to do with it? Everything – if you understand that what is being done about the virus is a part of a greater plan to eradicate our existing society, training obedience by the use of fear about the virus being the starting point. We have been turned into psychological prisoners as much as physical ones.
Nearly every official body has been quietly taken over by some sort of Marxists during the last decades. Their aim is our eradication on the path to a world government utopia which will always end up as the opposite in their hands. They won’t succeed. The project is too ambitious but they are capable of ruining the lives of all of us along their path to failure.
Does not Piers Corbyn come from a family of terrorist sympathizers and Marxist revolutionaries?
Freedom is a common cause. No one can campaign for anything if the Tories get away with the police state.
Totally agree – This ‘pandemic’ is getting surreal – The determination by Social Media Giants to de platform doctors who recommend low cost treatments they have seen work extremely well is beyond comprehension – It looks so like they only want the Billion dollar vaccine to be the only saviour – It so seems our masters want to keep the virus fear going until they can impose a compulsory vaccine and on the back of that the authority of World Health Passports – The US authorities have just admitted that only 6% of their Covid deaths were Covid only deaths – This spoof looks more and more real! – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQcvuftqXFY
Spectator sniffing around whether the collateral deaths from the lockdown will exceed the virus deaths and that’s starting.
Looking at the latest law until Friday only a registered political party business or charity could organise an outdoor meeting. Thus I think the police told someone trying to run a BLM march he was not qualified early last week. But that changed on Friday to include individuals. This was designed to catch rave organisers in the £10000 fines. But it also meant that Piers Corbyn if it was he who was the organiser could hold one. Looks as though they arrested under outdated law.
No got this wrong just printed out the new law. The only over 30 people outdoor meetings permitted are those for work, education.sports training and some minor things. All larger political demonstrations are thus illegal (unless deemed PC of course nudge nudge). Yet the police negotiated and then allowed the event on Saturday to happen and afterwards arrested the organiser. However the £10,000 fine does not apply if there is a ‘reasonable excuse’. I’d say the police allowing it is one.
Cure worse than disease says professor
https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/health/1320428/Coronavirus-news-lockdown-mistake-second-wave-Boris-Johnson
I imagine that this article and the way its content is presented would find accord in the minds of the majority of us. It certainly summates most of what I feel. Thank you.
The Government’s slogan could well be that in order to protect public health you are asked to lose the will to live
Well said, and great article
Does freedom include the freedom to pose a possible health threat to those around you? i suppose it must.
So anyone with a cold should quarantine? Anyone at any time could have a disease. Should we all be locked up forever just in case? Anyone driving a car or bicycle must stop in case of an accident? No one should invite anyone round in case they trip on the step? It’s a question of degree or normal life is impossible. What about your having the freedom to plant exaggerated fear of others in people’s heads. You are definitely a danger.
What ”health threat” would that be, then?
There can be no doubt that government is taking full advantage of the virus, lethal or not, to impose its will on the people. Those people need to waken up before they find themselves under a totalitarian government that is difficult to escape from.
Interesting times ahead and our PM is simply not to be trusted.
Bit extreme. Totalitarian government – dream on. See North Korea!
Are you seriously proposing that the Covid does not exist?
Do you believe that examination and criticism of Government/NHS/MSM/etc. action and reaction amounts, on its’ own, to Covid denial?
No but it’s not the danger it was made out to be.
Great article Michael, As an example of how this are going Jim Davidson on his You Tube Channel was ranting on about all the people there were idiot now nothings who were conspiracy merchants and people should go around to the relatives of somebody who had died after seven weeks fighting covid. From what I saw of the comments from viewers however the ‘rant’ didn’t go down very well with them.
Well then Jim is a lot more dim-witted than I took him for.
How’s this for police state, someone just sent me this from New Zealand; funny but frightening.
“Jacinda Ardern Police at it again”
https://youtu.be/x-JV6AMShFQ
He’d done nothing illegal or the bully boy would have arrested him.
Yes, but NZ’s record on covid is way, way better than ours. My mates in NZ would laugh at the suggestion it is a police state! Ever visited a REAL one like Iron Curtai East Germany or Poland? No? Well, don’t write nonsense, then.
It’s record is better, is it? And how will that pan out once the virus gets a hold, as all who actually know their stuff say it will. You can’t keep it out forever, but only delay it.
Soon NZ will go the way of all countries. Then the dodgy vaccine can be introduced. I suppose it will then serve for the rest of the world as a control experiment. Don’t crow too soon, Mr Trust.
Poor New Zealand.
Not nonsense at all, the police in New Zealand are getting out of control, there are reports like the one above from all over the place. The government’s COVID-19 response is a failure, they’ve lost 30% of their economy and jobs are being lost by the thousand, yet COVID is back and spreading.
Of course with an election coming up the unelected government is trying to place this down, I really hope that they can get rid of this vile Prime Minister.
Your mates in New Zealand need to wake up!
I did not want to be accused of exaggeration so took the Mail’s figure of 10,000 people. You may assess it as far more from the photographs. Political campaigning of any sort has now been almost completely banned by law on threat of an arbitrarily issued £10000 fine. Welcome to the police state many have been warning was coming to shrieks of disbelief.
I was at the rally, and Trafalgar Square was full, but I’d guess less than 10,000. Fewer than on the huge Brexit Betrayal March, which I also went to. The crowd was amiable, with a notable lack of masks and social distancing. I saw only two people there wearing masks, apart from the police who stood around in small groups not doing anything.
No counter-rallies, either.
Michael, I think the true attendance figure was more likely in the 35,000 – 40,000 range. The MSM are up to their usual tricks of downplaying the attendance figures and trying to portray the demonstrators as ‘far right extremists’.
There was a bloke standing by the outside wall draping a BUF flag over it. Did not attract much attention but my guess is he was a plant. He did not look right somehow. Just standing there.
So. Wadda we do ? We join a painfully legal proper protest party That funds half a dozen umbrella popular self funded protests all of which are guaranteed support by the public. If you can find one, but all are foiled by incompetant but rabid ambition.
There is a bigger problem. The fact that you need name recognition to get the numbers. Farage is needed to propel his Reform Party.
Find a tall BAME Footballer with brains who smiles just occasionally. The BBC might help.. Or at least weeken their resistance to sanity.
Trafalgar Square demonstration against the lockdown on 29 August. Get-away – what a bunch of fibbers.
bbc didn’t report it so it didn’t happen. Next you’ll by making up a story about similar protests in Jermany.
It transpires the demonstration was negotiated with police for two weeks who presumably agreed to it. They certainly did not try to stop it but then arrested Piers Corbyn for holding it. Looks like entrapment.