Lockdown Protests in the UK

May 16: Police crack-down on London protests [YouTube]


Lockdown Protests in the UK

Covid-19 no excuse for militarized police and human rights violations.

Spiked May 15: Epidemiologist Knut Wittkowski on deadly consequences of lockdown.

• ‘We could open up again and forget the whole thing’

Clearly, forgetting is not wanted. But Londoners have been resisting the restrictions loud and clear, coming face to face with the militarized long arm of British law:

Spiked May 9: In London today, the police behaved disgracefully

• Cops are enforcing the lockdown in a rude, arrogant and heavy-handed way.
• You heard them before you saw them. It sounded like a platoon of soldiers. The one in charge was barking orders to ‘move forward!’ and then came the trudge of their boots. Scores of them, making military manoeuvres, marching in a long, thin line through one of Britain’s prettiest parks: St James’s Park in London. This was the Metropolitan Police today, enforcing the lockdown, sweeping through parks and streets and issuing the same warning to everyone they came across, from young lovers to dads playing football with their kids to homeless people with nowhere else to go: ‘Move on.’ It’s one of the most disturbing things I’ve ever seen the police do.
• Watching them stream through St James’s Park, looking for all the world like a line of soldiers conquering a small town, you’d think they were on their way to confront some serious organised crime.

Videos tell the story:

May 16: UK: Jeremy Corbyn's brother among 19 arrested at [Hyde Park] London anti-lockdown protest YouTube

This fairly indepth video shows the arrest of Piers Corbyn.

Here's another video of the police in action at May 16 protest.

Corbyn was issued a fine at the May 9 protest, (where another gentleman who decried the loss of freedoms said, "We know it's about something else"). Clearly the fine was intended as step one in a planned process. A week later he dared to join the protest again and let himself be interviewed by media, so was swooped down upon again by police and this time hand-cuffed and led away to the paddy wagon.

Londoners are also protesting 5G in this short video.

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Note that the police don't bother with masks, nor distancing, obviously, and wear gloves that pick up germs from everybody they touch and transfer them to other people and objects. What's that all about, eh? Not setting a very good example for the plebes.

If and when they do show up wearing masks, and possibly hiding their badges, be very worried because they may well intend serious harm.

In Canada:

Here's what came down at the beginning of the lock-down in my hometown, Kingston ON. Residents were not asked politely by City Council to follow emergency orders, but were instead threatened with police action if they failed to do so.

In Ontario, at least, it seems that City Councils were enabled to pass bylaws to give police more powers to control the behaviour of city residents, not to mention that the public were encouraged to report infractions of social gathering regulations:

Reporting enforceable infractions:

• On Tuesday evening, City Council passed a bylaw which allows enforcement by Municipal Enforcement Officers and Kingston Police to enforce any emergency orders passed by the City under the Emergency Management and Civil Protection Act.  At this point in time however, no local orders have been issued, and all potential infractions of provincial and federal orders should be reported to the following agencies accordingly.

Yeah, they used people's fear to get them to do the job of public surveillance!

• Call Kingston Police non-emergency line at 613-549-4660 for:
• Organized public or social gatherings of more than 5 people
• Use of outdoor recreational amenities (e.g. basketball court, soccer field, park bench, park picnic table, playground structures)

Submit an online complaint to KFL&A Public Health for:

• Non-essential businesses that are open
• Essential businesses that are not compliant
• Self-isolation for returning travellers, under the Quarantine Act

And, strangely, nobody questioned why, all of a sudden, ordinary, everyday behaviour could get a person in trouble with the cops. So, instead of protesting on behalf of their own constitutional rights being arbitrarily trampled on, Kingstonians took out their frustration by squealing on their neighbours!

(Please take a look at this video in which an American policeman expresses his regret at what is happening.)

It's no wonder that even hack * politicians feel justified in looking down on what Justin Trudeau likes to call "ordinary Canadians'.  And it's strange that the same people who squeal on their neighbours are not expressing rage at Trudeau for violating the very same "health" rules. He "wanted to see" his family, so he did. And that's why he's special and the rest are "ordinary Canadians".

The same kind of good old boys are trying -- again -- to introduce fluoride to Kingston's drinking water!  All over the USA and Canada, and in Europe, fluoride is being discontinued; so it sure looks as if whoever profits from it is putting on some high-pressure sales acts elsewhere!

Can't help wondering what perks have been offered. I was told by a City Councillor that it wouldn't cost much money. But it will cost Kingstonians a pile of money to buy and operate water purifiers and distillers to avoid the downsides of fluoride (not to mention the cost of the supplements they will have to take if they are drinking distilled water).
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So, again, health concerns certainly appear to be not about the people, but about the politicians themselves. It's becoming easier and easier to believe that none of this is about the welfare of citizens, but in service to the ultimate centralization of power (and massive reduction of populations) and our politicians are merely lazy-minded strawmen being propped up for purposes of distraction.

All that's required is that they know how to brazen out of any revelation of their own shortcomings. Maybe we do have some honest politicians, but the signs are pointing to the ultimate aims of self-serving strawmen.

* A political hack is a negative term ascribed to a person who is part of the political party apparatus, but whose intentions are more aligned with victory than personal conviction. The term "hired gun" is often used in tandem to further describe the moral bankruptcy of the "hack".

Image: Trudeau in Strawface?