Starmer to have his own "freedom convoy" moment - mass surveillance, targeting of freedom and movement of the "far-right" and mandates to shut down communication via social and telecom networks - Kotaku In Action 2

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Starmer to have his own "freedom convoy" moment - mass surveillance, targeting of freedom and movement of the "far-right" and mandates to shut down communication via social and telecom networks

posted 113 days ago by TheOpiner 113 days ago by TheOpiner +105 / -0

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Starmer announced a new police unit to deal with "violent disorder". While the main focus has been on the rioting over the last couple of days, lesser known measures that have been introduced include:

Mass surveillance including monitoring and facial recognition of all individuals to target anyone through special measures that could include banning of freedom of movement, freezing bank accounts and criminal behaviour orders imposed on anyone who is expected to dissent. Everyone will be subject to movement restrictions.
Targeting of the "far-right" in a political and media sphere. Farage was singled out by the media. Martin Daubney who presents for GB News has been arrested.
A legal request to shut down and remove all "speculation" or speech that could be deemed incitement or shutting down telecom networks in areas where people are protesting or trouble has broken out.

All police forces and the Government will implement these measures with immediate effect.

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– cccpneveragain 41 points 113 days ago +41 / -0

I’m just going to guess if these were women, blacks, turbanites, or whatever the party protected class is in the UK, these would totally not be “violent riots” but peaceful protests.

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– LeinsterLad 25 points 113 days ago +25 / -0

No need to guess, literally 3 riots from them in the past 2 weeks. Roma gypsies in Leeds because social services took their abused kids off them, Bangladeshis in London because someone got shot in Bangladesh and muzzies in Manchester because they attacked police officers in an airport and got a deserved kick to the head.

This is a message to White people that you have to accept your children being stabbed by a sub-saharan invader or else.

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– dodgy 8 points 113 days ago +8 / -0

Many quotes suit this situation, here are two -

Why, then, should you run away? And how can you resist right then? After all, you’ll only make your situation worse; you’ll make it more difficult for them to sort out the mistake. And it isn’t just that you don’t put up any resistance; you even walk down the stairs on tiptoe, as you are ordered to do, so your neighbors won’t hear.

And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood that they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? After all, you knew ahead of time that those bluecaps were out at night for no good purpose. And you could be sure ahead of time that you’d be cracking the skull of a cutthroat. Or what about the Black Maria sitting out there on the street with one lonely chauffeur — what if it had been driven off or its tires spiked? The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt!

If… If… We didn’t love freedom enough.

“At no time have governments been moralists. They never imprisoned people and executed them for having done something. They imprisoned and executed them to keep them from doing something. They imprisoned all those POW's, of course, not for treason to the motherland, because it was absolutely clear even to a fool that only the Vlasov men could be accused of treason. They imprisoned all of them to keep them from telling their fellow villagers about Europe. What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve for.” ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago

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