When major parts of the country’s busiest motorway are forced to close by deliberate sabotage for four days running, that is a news story of national importance, says Janet Daley in the Telegraph. Why then have the police arrested a journalist for covering the story – and defended their actions by saying journalists should stop reporting on it? Hertfordshire police’s defence of their chilling actions carry dangerous implications, says Janet.
While attending one of the sites of this lunatic delinquency on a busy section of the M25 last week, they formally arrested not only the Just Stop Oil brats but a broadcast journalist who was covering the incident.
Charlotte Lynch, a reporter from LBC radio was a considerable distance from the protesters desporting themselves on the gantry, and was in possession of an accredited press card which a five minute telephone call would have verified.
Nonetheless, she was apprehended by officers on “suspicion of conspiracy to commit a public nuisance” and imprisoned for five hours. That is to say, she was potentially to be charged with precisely the same offence as the protesters would be.
Nobody so far as I can see has actually suggested that the arresting officers believed her to be part of the demonstration or even supportive of it. This is where the explanation of the arrest by David Lloyd, Hertfordshire’s Police and Crime Commissioner, becomes really alarming. He did not defend it on the basis that his force made a mistake: that they believed wrongly that Ms Lynch belonged to the Just Stop Oil troops.
What he did say was much more far-reaching and political than that. He advised journalists generally to “think about how we as a society… ensure that the oxygen of publicity that Just Stop Oil is seeking is moderated, so that we don’t end up with people doing this and really they’re only doing it because they know it’s going to be reported.” The syntax may be garbled but you get the point.
When the police say these things “we can see the shadow of the Stasi loom quite clearly before us”, Janet says. And this is far from the only area where silence is regarded as the socially correct choice and speaking out is seen by the guardians of manners as unacceptable.
But almost identical sentiments are now dominating areas of national life that have generally been assumed to be dedicated to the preservation of free thought and uncensored debate. In fact, it is within the social circles inclined to support extreme climate protest that you are most likely to find approval of such censorship.
What Mr. Lloyd advocated is nothing more than yet another species of cancel culture. Put succinctly, it is now a received truth of Left-liberal orthodoxy that if you see views or activities which you believe to be harmful being promoted in your society, it is your moral duty to suppress them or prevent them from being promulgated. That is pretty much precisely the philosophy that Mr. Lloyd is espousing.
The wall-to-wall pro-lockdown narrative during the pandemic is a recent case in point, says Janet:
I – and many others – believed that the uncritical pro-lockdown campaign run by the broadcast media during the Covid pandemic was ethically dubious and professionally misjudged. Those of us who criticised it did so on the grounds that such coverage had ceased to be news at all: that the broadcast organisations had turned themselves into an arm of Government and were effectively now propagandists.
Sceptical viewpoints were deemed dangerous and their proponents attacked and censored. Yet no sceptic is suggesting media should be banned from running alarmist stories, Janet says: “We need to open up the arguments not close them down. That’s the whole point of journalism.”
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I hope and wish our membership grows over the next few months and that DS becomes rightfully stronger, a light in the darkness.
To all DS members, especially the vets
, thanks for being here, thanks for hanging on and I hope you have a great couple of days.
There are truly great people posting on here and many thanks to you all.
Have a great Christmas.
Seconded. Lots of progress in bringing the truth to the world, but a long way to go. Rest and enjoy before the mission continues. Cheers to all.!
Thanks Neil.
Lovely post hux, and a merry Xmas to you and all of the respectful people who keep the comments sections alive.
I do actually celebrate Xmas but got up obscenely early and now the cat is having her fun with all the torn wrapping paper. Coffee!! lol
Thank you Mogs.
Well said, HP – I second that emotion.
Thanks Michael.
Cheers Hux. Stay the way you are, there aren’t enough like you.
Thank you very much Marcus.
You are much appreciated on here Aethelred
Thanks.
The story about the UK and Moderna partnership is worrying confirmation that this mRNA crud is never going away and they will for sure be manufacturing further plandemics in order to create demand. And isn’t the WHO meant to have planned for 10 years of pandemics? But I’m sure that’s another coincidence..
”Developing vaccines on UK shores means it will be able to scale up production rapidly in the event of a health emergency, significantly boosting our ability to respond to future pandemics.”
What I’m wondering though is how many suckers will eagerly roll up at the next whiff of a scamdemic next time around. You can fool people once, but time and again? Doubtful.
It is indeed shocking that mRNA vaccines are the technology they have latched on to in order to move to a digital computerised health system and they are determined that nothing is going to derail this sinister ideological plan.
If they can make this digital mRNA health approach work it will mean continual injections for all and shed loads of money for them. The prize is so huge they are not going to give up easily.
Here’s John Campbell’s thoughts on the whole thing. It’s what you say and obviously profit but I maintain the depopulation theory cannot be dismissed. If studies are now showing the genetic code can be reverse transcribed into human cells, and we’ve seen from biodistribution data that the LNPs concentrate in ovaries, just what assurance is there that this won’t have an affect on the reproductive potential of the next generation? And that’s before we mention all of the worrying data on women’s reproductive issues post-vax, low sperm counts/mobility, low birth rates, increased stillbirths and miscarriages. It’s the experts in these related fields, such as Dr Thorpe, who are sounding the alarm as they’re seeing it first-hand, but are being studiously ignored, much like the adverse event reporting systems’ data. Criminal and malicious. So any further mRNA ”vaccines” will hardly be expected to perform any differently will they? More of the same.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDLx1IAITTg&ab_channel=Dr.JohnCampbell
Billy ran his table-top for his next “pandemic,” in October 2022 with predominantly African nations. The next one is called SEERS-25. Due to be released in…2025, which will probably be just after the Plandemic Preparedness Treaty gets the nod.
SEERS-25 is based on the polio virus and this time it will target our youth.
Nice.
Yes potentially we are in great peril !!
Maybe they are just going to go for it now , based on The WHO getting their global treaty in place when it comes back on the table ! Things will get very messy indeed !
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-cements-10-year-partnership-with-moderna-in-major-boost-for-vaccines-and-research
More public money wasted to create a homegrown cesspool of disease-inducing pharmaceutical slurry. The gift that never stops giving to those who partake…
As it is the season of goodwill, best wishes – to those who have and those who did not.
The Baby Alex story is beyond awful. Totally heartbreaking.
Yes I’ve read it also. Nothing short of murder. A dreadful story.
“Harry and Meghan say the Sun’s apology for Jeremy Clarkson column ‘nothing more than a PR stunt’
A good example of why in general it’s pointless apologising to the offended woke. Worse than pointless, what happens is that having been given an inch they will want a mile.
It’s the one area where one should double down.
There are very few public figures who speak their minds, and fewer still who refuse to back down when a furore ensues. I can’t think of many who have done this.
Crumbs! Eat your heart out Tomorrow’s World.
If this is a glimpse into the future of medicine delivery methods then that’s even more incentive to stay healthy and the hell away from pharma products. Gelbots and transformer bots anyone?? Creepy;
https://bailiwicknews.substack.com/p/gel-bots-and-rubbery-clots
Full Guardian Xmas joy….
It’s every version of Scrooge in 2022.
Why is Clarkson being crucified for telling Sun readers how he feels about certain hangers-on to the Royal family. Most of us share his antipathy.
From what I have seen reported Clarkson’s language might be considered a bit robust but the left are able to do that without any comment save admiration from their fellows.
the Sun is being wet in its withdrawal of support from Clarkson and I suspect it’s readers side with the columnist, not the Editor.
The removal of the old-fashioned Page 3 seemed to be a sad moment in the history of The Sun. Marked a turning point. But then perhaps I am nostalgic, remembering back to the hour or two three times a week hauling a bag of papers around the neighborhood, before traipsing unwillingly – and usually late – to school.
I am sure this excellent piece will appear on here shortly but have a read…
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-damascene-conversion-of-andrew-bridgen/
Goodnight kids , well done whoever posted the Film , “They Live” we all watched it tonight , so prophetic !!