Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Remind me again who won the Cold War? The British police are urging ordinary people to inform on neighbours who breach Covid-19 lockdown rules.
UK Police: It’s Your ‘Civic Duty’ to Inform on Fellow Britons Breaching Lockdown
VICTORIA FRIEDMAN
31 Oct 2020A British police chief has said it is the public’s “civic duty” to inform on each other if they are suspected of having breached coronavirus lockdown laws.
Merseyside Chief Constable Andy Cooke also condemned the so-called “sneering culture” which disapproves of snitching.
“People are doing a civic duty in contacting us for the right reasons. The vast majority of people across the country are really concerned about this. Any information that you can give us in relation to breaches will save lives, and that’s why people are doing it,” Chief Constable Cooke said, according to The Mirror.
A number of government ministers in recent months have also told Britons that they should inform on people in their community over perceived social distancing violations, with forces reporting such a high increase in calls, they had to add more telephony shifts in their stations.
The remarks come after the Police and Crime Commissioners for Merseyside and the West Midlands said they would break up family Christmas gatherings if they contravened lockdown rules.
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Read more: https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/10/31/uk-police-its-your-civic-duty-inform-britons-breaching-lockdown/
Boris Johnson to his credit has argued against such unhinged authoritarianism. Boris suggested people should try talking to their neighbours before taking any other action, only call the police for gross breaches of the rules. But pretty much everyone else in the British government seems to be ignoring him.
It’s not just COVID. I saw a poster by Devon & Cornwall police last week encouraging drivers to use their dash cams to report other drivers. Arguably justifiable but it will attract the self righteous nutter and increase social mistrust.
We creep ever closer to the Orwellian British ‘brave new world’ ; a mix of East Germany, North Korea & ‘1984’.
Plenty of uk agencies for decades have had ,hot lines, email contact forms, to snitch on your neibours ,
Decades of goodie goodies who have nothing better to do, who have been brainwashed into thinking thier ideology is government ideology, a philosophy of I’m all right jack, ideology driving a wedge between people,
It’s already been done here:
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2020/04/04/la-mayor-enlists-citizen-snitches-to-tattle-on-neighbors-who-violate-stay-at-home-orders-n384599
https://www.independentsentinel.com/big-bro-cuomo-now-has-a-24-hour-turn-in-your-neighbor-tattletale-hotline/
This is a great way to get back at neighbors who are noisy, have barking dogs, or who you just don’t like for any reason. It reminds me of Miss Gulch in the Wizard of Oz taking Dorothy’s little dog Toto to be put down, for barking at her, because it is a “menace to society”.
Germany is on the same way asking for denunciation in public TV.
Creation of GDR 2.0 on the way, waiting for the rebirth of the STASI
Happening on this side of the pond, of all places, Montana. However, we have (at least until January) a dictatorial Democrat Governor who believes he is King.
Cool thing about Montana, however. If you snitch on your neighbor about Covid “violations,” your name is a matter of public record. Folks in Billings have been putting up billboards with pictures of the snitches, so their neighbors will know who they are.
We had some years ago the little “Climate Detectives”, these were even asked to denunciate their parents in case of climate misbehaviour….
Kindergarten education at it’s best…..
All explained in detail by Yuri Bezmenov. Start here for an 8 minute introduction and gop from there:
https://youtu.be/pgCnpCBORyM
Stock up on weapons. You are ging to need them.
I guess it’s a good thing they aren’t doing another vote on Brexit right now. Half the population would report on the other half.
“Boris Johnson to his credit…”
Now that made me laugh. There is nothing about this man that deserves credit.
Don’t tell them your name, Pike!
Who the bleep do plod think they are?
And so the cycle continues-From serfdom, through enlightenment and back through dependence and apathy, returning to serfdom. The dobbing in neighbours (for a concocted crime) -where have we seen this before? Has it ever ended well?
To add insult to injury, it is based on a total fearmongering campaign-the hyping up of the seasonal flu being used as a feeble excuse to crash the entire system. This is the catalyst to reintroducing universal slavery on the pretext of equality.
Have we really outgrown irrational fear and superstition? Do we have the right to laugh at our forebears for being so gullible? Have we actually learned the lessons of history?
They want people to snitch on lockdown escapees who are not infected, but they refuse to tell us who or where the infected cases are in any useful detail.
They breached the rules????? “Off with their heads!” shouted the Red Queen. She dithered and bothered and wiggled and waddled and then, after looking at herself in the mirror, again shouted “Off with their heads!!!!”
Fortunately, Alice had left and the White Rabbit and the Caterpillar were sharing a hookah and didn’t really care what that old bat shouted.
Twas brilling and the slithy toves
Did gyer and gimble in the wabe.
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe…..
A little uptight. They need to hear some good covid jokes to loosen them up a bit.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ElQphBCX0AEHhTt?format=jpg
For Heavens sake, this is a really bad WUWT article. Equating the lockdown with some sort of east european stasi type controlling is ludicrous. Like it or not the lockdown rules (personally I’m against a lockdown), will have been passed in parliament by a government elected by an overwhelming majority one year ago. Asking people to inform the police of breaches is just the same as telling your police if you saw your neighbour pinching a car. For better or for worse this is the law. To equate it to a dictatorship is just ludicrous
If Biden gets in, the USA will be worse than Britain before long.
At least our politicians appear to regard it as a short term measure but the US Democrats see it as a long term management tool.
Just as our Corbyn led Labour Party did.
THE QUESTION IS AS THE MOVIE LINE GOES:
“I’M MAD AS HELL AND I’M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE”
AS A NY RADIO GUY LIONEL ALWAYS SAID— L&L.
This is not in ‘isolation’, though it should be. Judge a man by the company he keeps – judge this encouragement by the other ‘offences ‘ the police are encouraging the public to report. How many ways to earn a ‘cool’ black armband are there now?
The virus, a flimsy excuse to govern like the USSR under the guise of public safety and civic duty. Isolation did not work during the plagues and even contributed to death due to neglect in Europe.
The communists are practicing their craft and seeing how much they can get away with without penalty while attempting to condition the public to their control.
The question is were here others involved with China in the spread of the virus.
BBC Radio 4 news @ur momisugly 13:00 14th Sept.
News reader: “The policing minister said we should report on others if we seem them breaking the rule of six. Would you ‘dob in’ next door?”
Random person: “If my next door neighbour I found out was a terrorist, then I would report them, because they are potentially a killer. Now Kovid 19 in my opinion is a killer, and therefore I think anybody who flouts the rules is basically the same as a terrorist walking down the road spraying a machine gun.”
This was a strange broadcast because it was just this nameless guy talking and the news item just rolled on with comment on this bizarre view point.
It’s a shame we can’t edit our comments? I meant to say “… the news item just rolled on without comment on this bizarre view point.”
What’s next? Block Wardens?
Remind me again who won the Cold War?
The German Democratic Republic.
And now we are a nation of curtain-twitchers and snitchers – cameras can’t cover everything; yet. It’s amazing just how many latent tin-pot Hitlers there are are out there. But this attitude comes down the line.
As the Prime Minister arrived in Downing Street juggling a baby bottle, Dilyn the dog, his red box and a folder under his arm, policing minister Kit Malthouse told the morning media round that residents should “absolutely” call the police if they see neighbours holding gatherings of seven or more next door.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/kit-malthouse-police-neighbours-break-social-gathering-rules-a4546696.html
The latest from our de-facto police state is:
Ministers believe that the four-week coronavirus lockdown in England could continue until next year, with a short break for Christmas.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/11/02/englands-coronavirus-lockdown-could-last-until-next-year/
Who knew the Chinese virus celebrates Christmas?