The tyrannical voices had to go quiet for a while after their despicable outbursts during the pandemic. They were shamed into silence because most things they shrieked about turned out to be wrong. Fortunately, enough of us stood up to their hysterical bleating, enduring the pain until the truth prevailed.
But once a tyrant, always a tyrant and those people who want to use power unfairly and cruelly are starting to make a resurgence.
Take for example Sam Bowman, editor of Works in Progress. This week the ‘libertarian’ journalist called for parents not to receive child benefit if their children don’t get the MMR jab.
Looking back through Sam’s tweets we can see he said the following during the pandemic:
- “We’re just not going to triage away from people just because they haven’t been vaccinated, even if we should.”
- “You’d have to be a very strange, inconsistent ‘libertarian’ to oppose this [vaccine passports in pubs]! Private businesses being able to refuse entry to customers who might put others at risk of infection seem like a total no-brainer.”
- “I wish the messaging was clearer about how dangerous being unvaccinated is”
- “I feel very sorry for people asking how a vaccinated person could be at risk from an unvaccinated person.”
- “The more I think about it the more I think vaccine passports should be done as an opt-in system that allows people to verify that they’ve had certain jabs but doesn’t include unvaccinated people at all. It seems like the only way it can work politically.”
- “The main exception is that unvaccinated people still impose a big cost on others when they get sick and clog up the health service, so IMO pressure/incentives to get people vaccinated are still reasonable.”
- “Given that unvaccinated people are the main problem in terms of hospitals being overwhelmed, it’s pretty dumb that the U.K. Government seems to prefer lockdown-type measures that hurt everyone instead of just putting pressure on the unvaccinated like this.”
- “If you’ve chosen not to get a vaccine, other people shouldn’t have to have their lives disrupted to protect you from your stupidity.”
Freddie Sayers from UnHerd rightly pointed out to Sam that his comments during the pandemic are largely responsible for fewer children getting vaccinated. The trust in public health has dissipated.
Sam responded by saying that Freddie’s claim, along with most of his writing, is “made up”.
Another tyrannical voice this week decided to try and ban journalists entering the EU. Just because he doesn’t agree with who the journalist is supposedly interviewing.
Guy Verhofstadt, former Belgian PM, is a hardcore EU remainer. He absolutely hates Brexit. I have no problem with people who have an opposing view to me, in fact they are very much welcome. However, guys like Verhofstadt just won’t accept a democratic vote and they try their hardest to reverse a decision that has absolutely nothing to do with them. He suffers from Brexit Derangement Syndrome so badly that he thinks Russia wouldn’t have invaded Ukraine if the U.K. had stayed in the EU.
Verhofstadt thinks that because Tucker Carlson may interview Putin, he should be banned from entering the EU.
Gone are the days when journalists could interview whomever they chose. Now, mainstream journalists are only allowed to interview people who are following the narrative du jour.
These authoritarians need to be put back in their boxes before they lead us to a dark place.
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Who is that prat? Never heard of him.
Verhofstadt? Frothing EU nutcase – he alone justified Brexit. And by frothing, I mean FROTHING. Follow him on Twitter for evidence!
I remember being given a few free tickets to listen to lectures at Hay Festival, one speech was by A,C Grayling….Had no idea who he was but he was much the same. Never have I been in the same placed as so many rabid Remainers who had contempt for working people.
Without a strong intrusive bureaucracy, these people would be a joke not even worth paying attention to. You could just.laugh at them.
But with a highly intrusive bureaucratic apparatus prepared to act on their ideas, they are incredibly dangerous.
The problem isn’t idiots like these with god complexes. These people are always going to exist. The danger is the machinery that can at any time start imposing their horrific ideas on us.
Sam Bowman? Utterly stupid but with a public voice via some publication I have never heard of so a bit of a danger.
Definitely an oxygen thief.
I’d not heard of him or his publication. A quick look at it suggests a bunch of smug gits with technocrat/we’re the anointed tendencies who probably think that plebs should not be able to decide things because they will hinder these geniuses from saving the world. The Bowman creep managed to write an article on solving lots of our problems by building lots more houses, because there is apparently a shortage, without recognising that the “shortage” must be caused entirely by mass immigration, given that we have had lower than replacement birthrate in the UK since the 70s. Most of them seem to have a background in the public, academic or quango sectors – not much evidence of having done a real job. God help us.
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He is a young man and I would bet has never been seriously ill or had to look after sick or aging family members. His ideas are all theory with no actual practice.
The fact that they still will not produce statistics re the jabbed v unjabbed proves the jabs were ‘problematic’.
Oh but surely he will be up-to-date with his jibby’s and boosters so on a short road.
Let’s hope so
If he a jabber then he might soon remain young forever. If yiu get my drift
That horse bolted a long, long, time ago.
All very well and good Mr. Bowman.
But what do you actually know about –
Immunology.
Vaccinology.
Epidemiology.
Genetically engineered “vaccines” ie mRNA jabs,
Virology,
The complexities of transmission of “diseases”.
The square root of F. all.
So shut the F. up you dangerously incompetent imbecile.
PS I hope he’s fully boostered. Tick Tock.
Oh, just in case you may believe orthodox jabs are safe, maybe take a good look at this –
http://vaccinepapers.org/
And if you think that studies such as ” Re Smith” refute the link between MMR and Autism, study it carefully. No difference between the MMR jabbed and “unjabbed.”.
Lol.
All the study proves is that there’s little difference between the “perfectly Jabbed” and not so perfectly jabbed cohorts!
No study has ever compared autism outcomes of jabbed versus NEVER jabbed.
I wonder why….
It is really hard to believe (and most people who should remember seem to have forgotten) but when Rainmain (1988) came out hardly anyone had heard of autism.
That’s very true DS99. I remember hearing about autism for the first time in 1985, despite having grown up in the 1960s and 1970s.
The science is that the vaxxed are more susceptible to covid infection. Therefore…
Zing!
You’d have to be a very strange, inconsistent ‘libertarian’ to oppose this [vaccine passports in pubs]! Private businesses being able to refuse entry to customers who might put others at risk of infection seem like a total no-brainer.”
Er well you prannock that wasn’t what happened – pubs and other private businesses were forced to close by the state and only allowed to reopen under certain conditions dictated by the state. What an utter tool.
I’m very forgiving, but not for such authoritarians as Sam Bowman, not for anyone who tries to take away freedom, who thinks their belief is so superior that they have the right to impose it on us lesser mortals.
I used to vote for the SDLP in Northern Ireland but not after their leader, Colum Eastwood, revealed himself to be an authoritarian like Sam Bowman in 2021 when he demanded that workers should be forced to be vaccinated with the experimental vaccine or be sacked. I now vote for the DUP, the least worst of the political parties in Northern Ireland, who at least respect freedom of choice.
https://x.com/agentp22/status/1754938290245869788?s=48&t=z-QEFmo-T7EyF1VraAWbsg
Useless Usaf sends NHS Scotland’s supplies to Gaza.
Such a caring chap.
This shows that the only difference between “ward” paternalism and “regular” paternalism is the name, and the precise location on the slippery slope to tyranny.
One of the adherents of the all too common stick and
carrotstick method #because I know I’m right.I once had an encounter with an activist on FB (before I binned it) who was protesting outside power stations. His argument came down to – “It doesn’t matter how many facts you present (and he admitted my argument was factual) I am not changing my position”.
Rational it is not.
I wonder if Mr Bowman has children and he sends them to have poison pumped into their veins…?
This journalist is clearly a closet or open leftie (I don’t know about him) and is behaving as communists do (socialism just being a polite form of communism).
Verhofstadt is a full on CID (communist in disguise). He is behaving just as they always do: elections are only to give a veneer of democracy to their utterly vile plans. They’d prefer there to be only one election to put them into power, then cancel the rest. Verhofstadt and his communist chums need to be tried and jailed for about 30 years for their crimes against democracy and people’s freedom. Disgusting Belgian. An embarrassment to his nation.
““I feel very sorry for people asking how a vaccinated person could be at risk from an unvaccinated person.” I feel very sorry that he couldn’t understand his own lack of logical awareness. Surely, to him, he must logically believe if a person is vaccinated then they are at no risk from an unvaccinated person. As he seems not to believe that, then he must therefore logically believe the vaccine doesn’t work.
I think you are crediting him with too much sense!
This to$$er doesn’t seem to know or understand that the Nuremberg Code requires informed consent for any medical intervention ….. and there must be NO inducement, including coercion or monetary payment to encourage compliance.
Bowman shows his ignorance of vaccines that 1 minute on the internet would enlighten the very basic knowledge that MMR vaccines do not prevent all cases of measles. More than 10 to 15% of the vaccinated still get it. No, his posturing is not about health but about his need for power and control. We have seen lots of those rear their needy heads during cv.
It’s hard not to open you mouth or think of a garage of suitable words to describe such animals ! They’re not human