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Has the Time Come For a Boston Mask Party?

by Toby Young
15 June 2021 1:46 PM

I have written a piece for the Mail today in which I say it’s becoming increasingly clear that the only way we’re going to get our freedoms back is if we take them back – and we should start with masks. Here’s an extract:

I’m sceptical that any of the lockdown measures reduce transmission of the virus – we’ve had three lockdowns and still have one of the highest Covid death counts in Europe – but the evidence that masks protect people who are wearing them is particularly thin.

At the beginning of the pandemic, Jenny Harries, the then Deputy Chief Medical Officer and now Head of NHS Test and Trace, cautioned against members of the public wearing masks, saying they could do more harm than good.

A scientific study in Denmark last year involving more than 6,000 people, in which half wore masks for a month and the other half didn’t, found those who didn’t wear them were no more likely to become infected than those that did.

Even Dr. Anthony Fauci, the Chief Medical Adviser to the U.S. President, admitted last year that store-bought masks were ineffective. In an email that came to light after a freedom of information request, he wrote to a friend that masks were “not really effective in keeping out [the] virus, which is small enough to pass through material”.

I have decided enough is enough – and I will simply refuse to wear them. If a security guard stops me entering a shop or building, I will explain that I am refusing to wear a mask as a protest against the continuing restrictions and that I will wait outside until they change their mind.

If I’m told to put on a mask when I get up to go to the lavatory in a pub or a restaurant, I’ll ask the waiter to explain why it’s necessary to wear a mask when I’m standing but not when I am sitting. If they fall back on the excuse that they’re just following the rules, I’ll point out that some rules are so silly they don’t deserve to be followed.

I’ve waited 15 months for my liberties to be restored and I’m not prepared to wait another month, even if I believed Boris’s assurance that life would return to normal by July 19th.

No, the only way to get our freedoms back is to take them back. And I will start by throwing out my masks on June 21st.

Worth reading in full.

How about this? A large group of anti-lockdown protestors take a trip to Boston, Lincolnshire on June 21st and hurl our masks into the River Withan? I suggested this on Mike Graham’s show on talkRADIO today.

It's becoming clear that the only way we're going to get our freedoms back is if we take them back.

On the @Iromg show on @talkRADIO today I suggested a Boston Mask Party in which we stage a protest in Boston, Lincolnshire and throw our face masks into the River Withan. pic.twitter.com/qCChZMSlyq

— The Daily Sceptic (@LD_Sceptics) June 15, 2021

As Lord Sumption said, “Sometimes, the most public-spirited thing you can do with despotic laws like these is to ignore them.”

Stop Press: Last year, the Czech Republic was universally praised for getting its infection rate under control in Prague by enforcing a draconian mask policy. See this USA Today article, for instance: “In this capital city of 1.3 million, among the first in Europe to decree mandatory universal mask-wearing almost four months ago, life has now returned to normal.” Fast forward to June, and now we’re seeing headlines like this: “Czech Republic: What’s behind world’s worst COVID infection rate?”

Masks don’t work. Period.

Stop Press 2: Israel has dropped the requirement for masks in enclosed spaces. The Jerusalem Post has more.

Tags: Boston Mask PartyCivil Disobedience

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sskinner
sskinner
1 year ago

Then remove the threat to that teacher. Deport the threat, or threats to a country more in keeping with their values. Multiculturalism is not possible because as in this case a ‘new and vibrant’ culture is making every effort for us all to be in line with their culture.

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Mogwai
Mogwai
1 year ago
Reply to  sskinner

I quite agree. Did the police not identify the people making the threats? Why should this chap and his family have their lives turned upside down? This is what really gets on my tripe because it should be a blanket rule for everybody. If you come into our countries then you adhere to our laws and respect our culture. Our culture says that we can draw anyone’s god, be it Buddha, Jesus, God, any Hindu god etc..so why should Islam be held to some different standard to all others? If people want to burn some religion’s Holy book then let them get on with it, but why should Islam’s Koran come with the threat of death if none of the others do?
Well I think I’ve made my feelings clear on the entire Islam situation by now, but this is it in a nutshell;

https://twitter.com/NiohBerg/status/1751582000488526119

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Cristi.Neagu
Cristi.Neagu
1 year ago
Reply to  Mogwai

Evidence is pretty clear that England is an Islamic country at this point. There’s blasphemy laws, there’s Sharia courts all over the place, mosques everywhere, and seems like you can get away with anything as long as it’s done in the name of the prophet, from death threats to sexually abusing thousands of children.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
1 year ago
Reply to  Cristi.Neagu

An argument that is often wheeled out is to avoid “inflaming community tensions” but that does not seem to apply when the white community is the one getting “tense” – look at what happened in Ireland with the recent protests

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Mogwai
Mogwai
1 year ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

And have you noticed the change in terminology as well? As if it makes it less shocking and disgusting somehow… Since when did the term ”paedophile ring” morph into ”grooming gang”? It would appear that the latter seems only to apply when the perpetrators are of a non-white ethnicity, but paedophiles are exactly what they are and always will be. The victims were all aged from 10yrs – 15yrs old.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
1 year ago
Reply to  Mogwai

We’ve seen many instances of the language being abused and corrupted by our enemies

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

Which is why tof I am so keen to reject the language.

Misinformation = lies, and so on. Let’s tell it as it is.

Grooming gangs – Pakistani Paedophiles.

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Tyrbiter
Tyrbiter
1 year ago
Reply to  Mogwai

Some were 9, and referred to by local councillors and police officers as “prostitutes”.

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Mogwai
Mogwai
1 year ago
Reply to  Cristi.Neagu

Well I don’t know if you saw any of the footage online but Tommy Robinson and his supporters did a fantastic job in Telford yesterday. Meanwhile, these were the pitiful nobhead counter-protestors. And this is the problem, in my opinion. The amount of natives who are nothing but out and out traitors to the people. It’s not even the Muslims in and of themselves exclusively, but the Leftards right the way from the politicians and judiciary to the regular folk on the street. We saw with the scamdemic years how readily ordinary people will shaft their fellow citizens and it’s exactly the same with other agendas, including the immigration/invasion agenda. These people are treacherous and delusional;

”Far-left activists from the ‘Stand Up To Racism’ organization hold a protest in Telford, UK against British activist @TRobinsonNewEra
holding a march against child trafficking gangs.

Dozens of activists attempted to disrupt Robinson and the several thousands British citizens who had gathered to raise awareness of around 1,000 young teen girls who had been trafficked and abused by Pakistani grooming gangs over several decades.”

https://twitter.com/OliLondonTV/status/1751583087350120596

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Cristi.Neagu
Cristi.Neagu
1 year ago
Reply to  Mogwai

Yeah, the whole “racist far-right extremists” narrative is crumbling, especially now that Elon owns Twitter and let everyone back in, especially Tommy Robinson. Now everyone that wants to see can see what he’s saying, rather than consuming second and third hand opinions. I recently watched his documentary on the Ellie Williams scandal and it was quite something to see. The courts forced him to shut up and the media just attacked him relentlessly, saying he was there to stoke racial tensions. Here were are, couple of years later, and it turns out the media was stoking racial tensions and the only one there that found out the truth and sided with the victims was Tommy Robinson. But whereas the media was quick to create hatred towards him, now no one is reporting that he got it right and was silenced, and they were allowed to spew out their lies.

So too will this come to light, some day. When they started publishing news about grooming gangs, no one acknowledged that they demonized Tommy for saying the same things. To this day they still call him a racist over saying the same things they said, only much earlier.

The truth will out. But after how long a wait?

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Heretic
Heretic
1 year ago
Reply to  Mogwai

Well done for even mentioning the heroic Tommy Robinson. I’m astonished that he is still standing up for British children, after all that he and his courageous wife and family have suffered. I can’t forget Nigel Farage denouncing him as “scum” or some such word a few years ago. I was shocked.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  Mogwai

100 agreement Mogs.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  sskinner

A more obvious example of the utter contempt the people of Westminster House have for the people of this country would be difficult to find.

Why is this man’s MP not making a song and dance about this? Let’s guess, it’s a Labour MP elected on the strength of the mullahs harvested postal vote and wouldn’t want to upset the muzzies now would we?

I am sure the absolute depths have not been plumbed yet but for establishment cowardice this takes some beating. As skinner points out the threat to this man must be removed. An announcement should be made, tantamount to a declaration of local war, that if anyone makes a move against this man or his family then the perp and every single relative will be on the next plane to Pakistan and the courts be damned.

#uck ’em!

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Mogwai
Mogwai
1 year ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

You’re right, hux. The thing is, it’s not just a reflection of how messed up and incompatible their culture is, but it’s a reflection of *our* culture in how the authorities deal with things such as in the article, the organized paedo predators etc, which just goes to highlight how massively messed up the West is when it comes to all things Islam.
Another thing that’s p’ing me off ( and I could be wrong but it seems to be more of a thing since Oct 7th ) is all of this praying on the streets and in public places, such as on trains/planes, in the aisles, and basically being an all round inconvenience to others. As if there aren’t enough mosques in western countries now! But I know exactly why they’re doing it…
Meanwhile, this from Italy yesterday, when the terrorist-supporting rape-apologist mob hit the streets, deliberately disrespecting Holocaust Memorial Day despite being warned in advance.

”Italian Riot Police use batons against a largely Muslim mob of pro-Palestinian protesters who held an anti-Israel rally on Holocaust Memorial Day.

The Italian government had banned all protests on the anniversary of The Holocaust out of respect for the Jewish community.”

https://twitter.com/OliLondonTV/status/1751570470485258352

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  Mogwai

Thanks for the link Mogs.

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D J
D J
1 year ago

Whatever the multiculturalists say, we have our eyes. We see and read that is Islam is the most powerful,hateful ideology in any society it enters.
I know it personally from 7/7 and the separate murders of friends and people I knew such as Andreas Liveras and Alex Pigeard.
On top of that I see how it has instilled fear of central London in my Jewish neighbours and led to heroic behaviour on the part of a friend’s daughter at the Supernova Festival in Israel.
Is this comment Islamophobic? No,it is the distillation of my experience and reading of the Koran and Hadith.

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Heretic
Heretic
1 year ago
Reply to  D J

As someone once said, “It’s not Islamo-phobia, because we are not afraid.
It’s Islamo-nausea, because the whole world is sick of Islam.”

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Mogwai
Mogwai
1 year ago
Reply to  Heretic

We sure are. And there’s evidence from all over online to back that statement up. But the treacherous, conniving Leftards keep banging on about the so-called ”far-right” being the real threat. What it is though is that their plans and power are under threat because people are demonstrably waking up to their shenanigans and sick to the back teeth of it all.

https://twitter.com/RadioGenova/status/1751638375826612319

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  Mogwai

Hear, hear.

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Shirespeed
Shirespeed
1 year ago

What a writhing, simpering coward the headmaster seems to be.

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RDG
RDG
1 year ago
Reply to  Shirespeed

that’s my take too.

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Marque1
Marque1
1 year ago

I am perplexed that so many people are against the building of a new mosque. I think it should be the goal of everyone living here to be tolerant regardless of their religious beliefs. Thus the new mosque should be allowed, in an effort to promote tolerance.
That is why I also propose that two nightclubs be opened next door thereby promoting tolerance from within the mosque. We could call one, which would be gay, “The Turban Cowboy”, and the other, a topless bar, would be called, but “You Mecca Me Hot”.
Next door should be a butcher shop specialising in pork, and adjacent to that an open pit barbecue pork restaurant called, Iraq of Ribs”. Across the street there could be a sexy lingerie shop called, “Victoria Keeps Nothing Secret” with sexy mannequins modelling the wares, and next door an off license called, “Morehammered”.
All this would encourage Muslims to demonstrate the tolerance they demand of us.
(Not mine, pinched from a fb post)

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