Our crumbling stature of liberty

The direction of travel in regards to dealing with terrorism under draconian measures is unerring; what initially stoked my interest was the Prevent program and the imposed ‘new powers’ given to surveillance enforcers.  Today, the Corona Virus Bill 2020 leaves us with a loaded question. When will normality resume? There’s a possibility that the new norm is here to stay, the old norm of greater liberty is merely a distant memory. Now anti-terrorism has a different mantra to skip to, the human rights tin lid is tightly screwed… our chieftain’s semi promise to release the tin lid every-so-often seems a long way off - alas, our precious lives are on hold – all devised on a risk assessment approach, which is fit for the toxic chemical laboratory. Unfortunately our primary children cannot protest collectively with their felt-tip pen placards this time round.


Normally when aspects of terror is analysed, interconnected questions arise such as ‘definition’ ‘explanation’, and ‘history.’ Developed threat levels are also reconfigured partly to warn the public and serves as a gauge for observers keeping us safe. Two main issues here are [1] Getting the correct terror threat and economic balance. [2] Maintain the terror threat level over a period of time without adjudicating disharmony and hysteria. Quite an easy method to relay to an interconnected nation… signals from the Home Office a few months ago stipulated a severe issue across Her Majesty’s Government, they had difficulties in prioritizing fear management, by wasting Prevent program resources on schoolchildren as an equal threat as terrorists i.e. (Daesh, Far Right) by adding them to a watch list. A truly bad prophecy for things to come and depicted an incoherent logos. The policy automatically, puts greater pressure on our system devised to protect us all.


Not only is this close to an impossible task, this is a depleted service - but this ‘new strategy’ is shifting their numbers, quotas onto invalid groups of ‘risk.’ Every administration has a galvanised phenomenon to subscribe to; this is no different to any other department /administration, apart from another major factor outside the control of UK’s internal practices. Before our very eyes the corona virus disease went global, but the UK watched the tsunami of malady rather than getting prepared for it, this inaction for a handful of weeks could be our undoing; CoVid-19 has the transmissible, trepidation ingredients to break an already defunct system.


Even before the global health emergency, the UK’s self-harming meant that after 31/01/20, our depleted services was a skeleton from what they were pre 2008, the collapse of the subprime markets.  UK’s dependency on Europol Communications directives from the EU27, laid evident for the CoVid-19 national threat could’ve been valid if the prevention of disease protocol was able to intercept efficiently via the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). In other words there was always a plan; however the EU were found to be ball-watching protectionism in Europe instead of the blatant disease control emergency measures in Asia -- a state of emergency duped by an indoctrinated political ideology.  


To combat the septicity there had to be a coordinated emergency order, an EU directive instructed by TESSy in Stockholm. This subsequent disorganized mess basically offered no assistance to the expert virologists, meaning they’re just making do with the viral data provided to them, the absence of ECDC as a collective force to eradicate CoVid-19 has put no pressure on less than transparent nations who’re systematically transfixed on protecting their Gross Domestic Output (GDP) the best they can, at the expense of national health, some say it’s their choice, alas the virus remains rampant, destroying lives and livelihoods. Therefore, to think we have the luxury of international denunciation defies comprehension for now its damage limitation on a global scale.


My main apprehension is, after forty-seven years of having supposed EU authorization through a plethora of surveillance on mainland Europe, the initial CoVid-19 response was habitually relaxed in Blighty. The corona virus idiocies of collapsing the economy, delivering loans rather than grants to UK businesses so they can stay afloat in the short term, spreading falsehoods on PPE logistics and numbers directly from Central Office – this is a daily occurrence and proves the UK administration is not fit for purpose, and the fact Boris Johnson has a majority government is extraneous; because at present the UK is on the road to hysteria, non-compliance with social distancing mandates and seismic distress, following in the emerging civil unrest of our Latin cousins.


Laughable comparisons in my lifetime is the working observations, practices in combating Y2K Bug also known as the Millennial Bug in 1999; whereby the scaremongering eclipsed the codec date configuration logic and doomsters were announcing the end of time we’ll be going back to the year 1900, when Brunel’s spellbinding civil engineering and philosophy was still fresh. Of course, hindsight is marvelous, although I suspect the true cost and judgement is yet to descend on the West, our archaic constitutions are quaking under a viral attack as well as a protectionist attack. The UK / US are not equipped socially as the death toll rises; and this leads me onto the late Edward S. Herman who was an American economic scholar who illuminated ‘retail terrorism’ the designated violent act of governance devised to ensure popular submission. 


So-called democracies generically fall for the retail terrorism mantra which is transmitted to the public by mass media without solemn critique or merriment. Why CoVid-19 is a peculiar animal, for the invisible threat seems to have unearthed a ‘retail terrorism’ response, even when the origin of the virus is nebulous - this charms those who discriminate with selfish interests, and more troublesome with those with underlying ideological political agendas. Ultimately, explains why Boris Johnson didn’t join the European Union Ventilator Scheme (EUVS) to safeguard a nation’s health - i.e.  #BrexitBeforeBreathing.


Informants rightly express considerable concern on governmental priority and this labels all of us. Whether you’re deemed a threat to society through strong beliefs or have a contrarian disposition there’s now equal surveillance on all groups regardless if you protest peacefully or not, see the Corona Virus Bill (2020). Stringent social measures last until 2021, alas, it is unspecified to when exactly, the Bill etymology adheres to the term ‘temporary.’ Why I am writing this stark warning; the centre-ground has immeasurably shifted inwardly towards a protectionist Orwellian state of surveillance, done so under the pretext of national health yet the UK is lackluster on CoVid-19 testing. Law enforcers and governmental authorities are morphing into the ‘Thought Police’ and ominously so the concept of permanency is valid - why? There’s no legislative power / system to remove these draconian measures; normally coherent policy or sensible people win through -- albeit, of late the opposite has occurred.


At present, the UK is fighting a battle on two fronts; [1] CoVid-19 and [2] a protectionist ideology keen on a herd immunity principle, specifically eugenics on steroids. For those who disagree, consider this: one major core aspect of truth in regards to retail terrorism is resorting to buzz words / shibboleth, usually in three words – brevity rules.  The act is to stop people from the burden of independent thought.

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