Two English Defence League supporters have been banned from joining protests outside their home city for 10 years.
I am not a historian, but I have read a lot of books (some with no pictures) , so even I know that one of the main ways that totalitarian regimes and the ‘Powers That Be’ down the centuries have tried to keep the peasantry in their supposed ‘place’ is the restriction of freedom of movement often accompanied with the harshest of punishments.
From serfdom in the middle ages where you had to obtain your Lords permission to travel off his estate, to the internal passports of Soviet Russia. The right of free travel and freedom of association has been suppressed at every turn. by the ruling classes either Royal or Elected (hah)
Because you see, if people can travel they may see things are done better elsewhere and might want to change the status quo. They might talk to other people and exchange ideas, ideas that the Political Class don’t like and that do not fit with their global agenda.
That’s part of the reason I’m sure for all these travel taxes in the last few years, sod the Green agenda, they don’t want the serfs going to Greece and seeing how they stuck two fingers up to the smoking ban, or going to the US and seeing how petrol is the same price per gallon there as it is per litre here. (It never seems to stop ‘them’ holidaying or conferencing though does it.)
No, don’t broaden your mind, don’t experience other cultures, don’t meet with people just like yourself and perhaps organise internationally over the evil internet.
Oh, they tell us it’s for ‘Public Safety’ or ‘ Saving The Planet’ you see, they love us, and just want the best for us.
“Yes, it’s really unpleasant standing in line for 3 hours for a 4 hour flight, is it really worth all the aggravation, you could always stay home and No, we can’t adopt the El AL model as they are Israeli and it would racist to profile (and didn’t you know you must hate all things Israeli, the BBC says so) But that 78 year old IC1 grandmother from Dorking might also be a terrorist, so everyone must be screened. You wouldn’t want to be blown up would you?”
“Oh, the extra surcharges and Green taxes have added so much to your fare that you can’t afford the holiday anymore? Never mind have a ‘Staycation’ it’s the done thing thing. I hear Norfolk’s lovely and best of all you get to keep the pittance we’ve left you after tax in this country and that’s a good thing isn’t it? You’re helping your fellow Britons and saving the planet at the same time. Who could argue with that?”
You see the thing is, ‘They’ are having trouble with the internet, ‘They’ hate it, it is everything they abhor, it is free association, it is exchange of ideas, things secret in one country are available under ‘Freedom of Information ‘ laws in another. Would we have known about the expenses scandal without the internet, I doubt it and yet even now they are trying to close down the agency set up to police the expenses.
They are rooted in a feudalist mindset, they didn’t see the internet coming or percieve the ramifications and are now on the back foot, the Global hysterical reaction by the PTB to the Wikileaks (Even though they were pretty meh) should tell you that.
‘They’ are fighting back though, not a day goes by without a government sponsored lobby group shilling for Government control over some small part of the interwebs and once the precedent has been set, once the ‘Law’s’ done. Well you can guess the rest.
Supposedly a General once said to an Air Commander “I don’t care how many bombers you have and how many missions you fly, it’s boots on the ground that will win the war.”
And if we can’t put our boots on the ground, they win.
The ‘Powers That Be’, The Cleggeron and the Bliar’s children know that
So, what they still have control of is travel, this was sown up centuries ago, they are the ones who issue the passports, driving licences, VED, they are the ones that set the taxes on airlines and on fuel. They allow the train and bus companies to set fares that allow you to just manage to travel to work and leave nothing left over in your purse to travel elsewhere.
They can still control our movements.
It’s all well and good organising on the interwebs for a demo, but what if petrol is so expensive you can only afford to fill your car up with enough to get to work and back next week and no further, the work where you haven’t had a pay rise for 3 years due to the ‘recession’ and yet your gas and electric supplier just posted a profit and raised their prices along with your council tax, water rates and VAT going up.
Never mind I’ll go by train, Oh noes, they’ve just put their prices up to cope with meeting new ‘Green targets’ or new rolling stock that will come in in 5 years time possibly.
OK, I’ll walk it, it’s only just down the road “What do you mean I’m banned from leaving town without permission and will go to prison if I cross the county line?”
And there you have it, job done, nasty ideas [to their minds] suppressed, status quo restored.
If you can’t get there, you can’t put ‘boots on the ground’ and no matter how large your interweb campaign it can be ignored, because only when their own personal safety or wallets are at risk will they listen.
Anyway to get to my point as I fear my tinfoil hat is getting a bit warm.
I know nothing about these two men other than the report on the BBC (draw your own conclusions). There is nothing about previous convictions or details , they could be a couple of football hooligans out for starting trouble on any excuse, I just don’t know.
And yet at the end of the day a so called court has denied them the Right of Travel and the Right of Assembly on a possibility and the word of the state controlled Police.
We are back to feudalism
That we have come to this in this day and age is obscene,
That is all for now.
