{"id":213968,"date":"2020-09-24T05:55:02","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T05:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=213968"},"modified":"2020-09-27T08:19:47","modified_gmt":"2020-09-27T08:19:47","slug":"boris-goes-full-fascist-against-lockdown-protests-but-not-blm-or-xr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=213968","title":{"rendered":"Boris Goes Full Fascist Against Lockdown Protests \u2013 But Not BLM or XR"},"content":{"rendered":"

James Delingpole \u2013 Breibart Sept 21, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n
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Police detain protester at anti-lockdown demo in Trafalgar Square. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

Here is some footage of the Metropolitan Police charging into action against demonstrators in London\u2019s Trafalgar Square.<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/twitter.com\/DarrenPlymouth\/status\/1307337245083533313<\/p>\n

How much braver, more confident \u2014 and aggressive! \u2014 they look than the hapless colleagues caught on camera in June fleeing from a BLM demonstration, pursued by a jeering mob chanting \u2018Run, Piggy! Run!<\/strong><\/span>\u2019<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Is this a sign that car crash Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his Home Secretary Priti Patel have finally got a grip on law and order in the United Kingdom?<\/span><\/p>\n

Sadly not. It\u2019s a sign, rather, that under Johnson\u2019s disastrous premiership Britain is enforcing a bizarre and unjust authoritarianism where genuinely malign forces such as Extinction Rebellion and Black Lives Matter \u2014 who even managed to blockade Oxford Circus<\/a><\/strong><\/span> on Sunday \u2014 get treated with kid gloves, while peaceful lovers of liberty like the anti-lockdown, anti-mask demonstrators in Trafalgar Square on Saturday are maligned, misrepresented and ruthlessly crushed with arrests, brutality and swingeing fines.<\/span><\/p>\n

The economic damage inflicted on Britain by the spoiled hard-left, anti-freedom, anti-prosperity cry-bullies of Extinction Rebellion has run into the tens of millions<\/strong><\/span><\/a>. This deeply unpleasant outfit has brought cities to a standstill, preventing commuters from getting to work, ambulances reaching hospitals, families from seeing their dying relatives<\/a><\/strong><\/span>. It has wasted many hours of police time. It has vandalised statues, dug up the lawns of a Cambridge college, even threatened the safety of airports. That\u2019s why Richard Walton \u2014 former head of the Metropolitan Police\u2019s Counter Terrorism Command \u2014 has argued that they are dangerous extremists<\/a><\/strong><\/span> who should be put behind bars.<\/span><\/p>\n

The same can be said of the Black Lives Matter demonstrators who have vandalised public property (including a number of statues), attacked passers-by and injured numerous police, including the police rider thrown from her bolting horse after it was startled by BLM activists.<\/span><\/p>\n

Compare and contrast this aggressive, relentlessly provocative behaviour by XR and BLM with the peaceable crowds which have gathered on occasion to protest against what they see as the British state\u2019s overreaction to the Chinese coronavirus. They believe that lockdowns, compulsory masks, and proposed curfews are ineffective and a needless assault on freedom; they are worried that this is all leading to the imposition of a vaccine which they believe may be unsafe \u2014 and also unnecessary for healthy people with an uncompromised immune system.<\/span><\/p>\n

About the worst you could say about these people is that some of them \u2014 the anti-vaxxers and the anti-5G protestors in particular \u2014 are at the eccentric fringe of the debate. But they\u2019re not damaging property, hurting anyone (except possibly in self-defence) or causing economic damage or disruption.<\/span><\/p>\n

Why then, is it one rule for the nasties, bullies, thugs, saboteurs, and economic terrorists in the first two groups but another for the fundamentally decent, law-abiding freedom-loving members of the public in the third group?<\/span><\/p>\n

The answer, I fear, may be even worse than cowardice.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Nelson Statue Vandal Walks Free After Judge Lets Him Off With Conditional Discharge https:\/\/t.co\/kDBnS77t1X<\/a><\/p>\n

— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) August 18, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n