I learned how heavy-handed policing can turn peaceful protests into a violent confrontations (making for establishment-useful headlines) during COVID. And I learned how there are sometimes suspicious connections between the forces of Laura Norder and protesters of all shades during the BLM demonstrations. And so it is that I record an impression I’ve been gaining since viewing some of the footage of recent riots. Perhaps you can inform me if you’ve noticed the same, or whether it’s just me.
My observation is that the truly violent acts, like throwing paving slabs rather than beer cans, or turning over and lighting vehicles, seem to be perpetrated by guys looking just like Antifa people, all in black and with balaclavas, and highly organised. Well, perhaps they are these gangs of Far Right football thugs that Keir Starmer et al are telling us about, travelling from city to city to foment trouble with their riot-kit in carrier bags.
But that’s not the whole story. For a start, how is it that such well-coordinated fascist groups can organise and travel without being detected or infiltrated by our wonderful Special Branch, MI6 and so on? The police know they are Far-Right groups, but not who they are.
But it’s also strange how these are the guys who appear at their destructive work on the mainstream news, whereas they seem to be able to do their stuff unhindered by the riot police who are never around – we never see pictures of cars being righted by officers before catching fire, whilst the men-in-black are hauled away in handcuffs. They usually seem to be pretty old cars too, which may be a function of inner-city poverty, or a desire for rioting on a budget: I’ve not noticed high-end BMWs or Teslas being torched. One old car is enough for the photo-opportunity – never a street-full.
In contrast, the citizen journalists capture footage of dozens of helmeted riot police laying into middle-aged protesters in mufti, and the close-ups of those thrown to the ground and pinned down by burly officers never seem to show people in black with balaclavas.
Now it could be that telling your officers to arrest anybody indiscriminately (later, I suppose, to be de-arrested – is that really legal?) will be likely to encourage them to target the halt and maimed, rather than the well armed and threatening, but by the law of averages you would somehow expect the black storm-troopers to be nicked one by one fortuitously, charged with fomenting violence, and banged up whilst their mugshots are front-page news. The net result should be that that the small but incredibly dedicated Far-Right group is rapidly depleted in numbers, and no longer has the manpower to even lift a police car. At the very least, one of the captured villains, being a thug, could be induced to grass on the reconstituted EDL, or Waffen SS, or whoever it is, and get it closed down. But that never happens.
As it is, it is almost as if the whole thing is staged managed so that protests become riots, the most violent acts are filmed but never punished, and the guys in the black uniforms, who look like a chapter of Antifa or a special division of the police, are left free to be bussed to the next hot spot.
Such unthinkable ideas would suggest that there is some Astroturf protesting going on to suit an elite agenda, and of course that is impossible in our open and transparent democracy. So let me know your own impressions of the footage.
If it will be deemed incitement to express a cause other than mindless far right thuggery might this solve the inconveniences unleashed by Gutenberg II (defined as not only distribution of writings but unlimited multimedia interaction at almost zero marginal cost?) But surely the genie can’t be put totally back in the bottle? Whether by TOR or via encrypted VPN there would appear to be means in even the most repressive regimes whereby channels may be kept open? Perhaps that though is why Ross Ulbricht remains incarcerated?
Genies and bottles – agree. The censorship and propaganda seems to be damage limitation, aimed at persuading “the ordinary man” that there is nothing to see here except “mindless” (hence don’t inquire for causes) “thuggery” (therefore, like those waterboarded after 9/11 and still not convictable in a trial, “bad people”).
The trouble is that the “ordinary man” becomes a decreasing constituency as more people experience the truth for themselves, and even those within the game who have bought into the deception begin to apostasise. Once agents provocateurs become whistleblowers in increasing numbers, the game is up.