Posted on 08/12/2024 7:34:54 AM PDT by Rummyfan
We can safely declare, without exaggeration or hyperbole, that Britain is now a totalitarian state. The ruling machine may not yet have the absolute control that Stalin did, but it's not for lack of trying. The British government's hysterical Chicken Little response to online support for this past week's rioting is proof enough for anyone paying attention that it attaches no value whatsoever to Western principles like freedom of speech and freedom of conscience.
Here's a video of an elderly man being arrested in his home for "improper use" of social media for "some comments that [he] made" on his Facebook page. The two Stasi thugs masquerading as police officers are doing the dirty work for a government that, not too long ago, declared that "just following orders" was not an excuse for human rights violations. And yet...
This is where Britain is now, and if there's a definition for it other than "totalitarian," I'm open for suggestions.
The British government's push to criminalize all speech and thought that runs counter to state ideology didn't just begin this past week. In February 2019, a street preacher was arrested in Enfield for preaching Christianity in a Muslim neighborhood. In February 2021, two men were arrested in south London for distributing flyers critical of COVID vaccines. In March 2023, a woman was arrested in Birmingham for silently praying outside an abortion clinic.
But Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley, who thinks criticism of mass immigration equates "hate" and "terrorism," had no qualms about letting a pro-Hamas rally march through London after the 10/7 attacks last year, and on Armistice Day no less.
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
What’s there to know? They were that way with their colonies. We really gave it to the limits at Yorktown.
Orwell wasn’t writing about 1984... He was writing about 1948. The UK has been a Totalitarian state since World War 2 and a Socialist state since the 1940s... Rationing didn’t end in Britain until 1954... 9 years after the end of the war. They’ve been a nanny state for several generations.
Coming soon to a country nearer to you...
Ballots are all you need to get yourself in to socialism but it likely will take bullets to get you out.
Where Islam goes democracy dies, one way or another.
[Koran quotes unverified]
Alinsky "Rule 4: Make opponents live up to their own book of rules.
https://www.citizenshandbook.org/rules.html
Blame King Charles. He is a namby pamby coward. The RED King. He enjoys those gifts from the Muslim countries for the Royal Museums. But when it comes to sex deviates raping British girls like in Rothersham, he’s done nothing. He sides with the muzzies.
It has always been so. Monarchs… no right to vote until after WWI. They had a few decades of limited freedom until they went fully socialist. But despite their bragging… essentially the people have never had much of a voice there.
Britain has a long history of class division that pre-dates our current times by hundreds of years. It’s part of their national DNA for the upper classes to view themselves as entitled by birth, to rule the country. So the new elitism of the leftist globalists has built on the historical elitism that already existed in the country. Their rigid class distinctions played an indirect but significant role in motivating the American colonies to seek independence.
You wanna see riots? Try stealing an American citizen off American soil for exercising hi/her First Amendment rights. Then you'll see riots. Good luck making it back to the airport. As you well know, we also have other amendments..."
And the British people could put an end to it if they summoned the will to do so.
You have to sometimes wonder why they fought so hard in the 1940s only to accept what is being done to them now.
Then again, we seem to be following the same path in the US....
https://www.factcheck.org/2019/03/meme-distorts-quran-verses/
I’ll use it instead. Just about as good.
Ah yes. Where the world turned upside-down for them at exactly 10:30 am on October 19, 1781!
Some “Brits” proudly give a Norman heritage.
We rejected titles of nobility.
The multiplication of offices tending financially to eat out our substance was also a big issue.
The British government is actively working to replace the British people with people who belong to a violent death cult. The British folk are making their displeasure known, and their government is persecuting, harassing, and prosecuting them for complaining.
Their government wants them to be compliant, submissive sheep and to willingly accept being raped or knifed by their replacements.
Their government is so obsessed with making the death cult take over the country that it monitors the thoughts of the British people and throws them in jail for resisting.
Remember remember the 5th of November might take on a new meaning.
The Tories recently had huge majorities. If anything restrictions on speech and expression got worse. Homosexuals and Muslims are protected classes. France is not any better. There are solid reasons why the US should pull out of NATO.
It ended on July 4--so a generation of Brits had something to celebrate on that day.
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