No!

September 14, 2020 Longrider Civil Liberties, General News, General Rants, misanthropy, Political 34

I will not become an informant.

Ministers today urged people to snitch on their neighbours if they are flouting new ‘Rule of Six’ coronavirus curbs.

Policing minister Kit Malthouse said rule-breakers should be flagged to the authorities, amid a backlash at the draconian measures.

The drastic intervention came as Home Secretary Priti Patel warned that people face criminal records as well as thousands of pounds in fines if they refuse to abide by the law.

Last year I was somewhat agnostic about Boris Johnson and his government. Without a majority, their hands were tied. Despite my underlying concerns, I was prepared to give them the benefit of the doubt. But now… Jesus!

This is full-on Stasi and I refuse absolutely. My neighbours could hold a rave and I won’t be calling the police. I refuse point blank to assist this draconian, authoritarian government in its relentless assault on our civil liberties. No! No! No! Never!

34 Comments

  1. Dear Mr Longrider

    Like the face nappy direktif, which provides a sample of those who will not bend the knee to demands for public displays of obedience, this is a great opportunity for government to gather names of people who will shop their neighbours, as future recruits for the stasi.

    It is amazing how quickly freedom, democracy and the rule of law can be over-ridden, while the proles cheer on.

    DP

  2. In the last century the types they are appealing to would have been willing stasi informers, many would have been in their element as nazi concentration camp guards.

    To quote my Mrs’ turn of phrase, she isn’t having a bar of this crap either, they’ve got more chance of pissing in the queen’s handbag.

  3. I will not be an informer either. I’d also like to remind those who are thinking of being a covid grass that there”s an old saying about how ‘snitches get stitches’ and to think very carefully about how shit your life is going to be if you inform on your neighbours friends and families. I would cut out of my life anyone who was foolish to become a Covid grass.

  4. Surely the answer is for thousands of ordinary people to suddenly start anonymously “dobbing in” Kit Malthouse – just for laughs

  5. I am tempted to become a covid marshall though.

    I wouldn’t actually do anything, would just see how long it took them to notice. Quite some time would be my guess.

  6. I have always been a fan of the concept of life long learning. I have always read quite a lot, I’m eternally curious and just love learning new stuff and finding things out. It took a long time for it to dawn on me that most people are just not like this. As a result, there are people who have no idea about the grinding misery that was life behind the iron curtain during the cold war. No idea about the significance of Animal Farm or 1984. This kind of profound ignorance is widespread and all pervasive and it would appear that our elected representatives are among the worst affected. Just look at this zero carbon shit, the level of ignorance required to think that it is either possible or a good idea is beyond belief. Yet almost all of our MPs think that it is a great idea. Only a tiny minority can see that an almost total lack of racial prejudice among the general population has meant that those who make a government funded living from race relations are stoking racial hatred to keep themselves in a job. I try not to get disheartened, I’ve always been on the glass is half full side, but it gets harder every day.

    • I forgot to mention those who think that the NHS is wonderful. It is a terrible service but it doesn’t matter because it’s free. It isn’t free you halfwits you pay for it via sky high taxes.

    • Re. The green shit and all the MPs thinking it’s a good idea…

      Science is hard. At least once you get beyond the basics taught in school. Maths intensive. Requires a lot of effort to understand, that’s if it even makes sense, which it may not (looking at you, quantum physics…)

      Most MPs aren’t engineers, or scientists.
      And science has become the modern day religion – and to question it is heresy.
      “Follow the science”
      Hmmm.

      That’s why they don’t question it and think it’s possible. Companies and individuals with vested interests in convincing them it can work and is a good idea, have them hoodwinked. Along with most of the MSM.

        • I never got beyond A level, but that was enough to give me an understanding of the concepts involved and it frustrates me that people in a position of power, not only don’t, but lack the understanding to know that they don’t and neither do their advisers.

  7. I hope some Left snitches now follow Policing minister Kit Malthouse around 24/7 and report every law/rule he breaks

    I don’t give a sh1t about what others do so long as it complies with Common Law “Do no harm” – pedants on 6+ “might” FO

    Under 75s more likely to die in and RTA than with C-19 – ban all mechanical transport?

  10. There is a very funny vid on YT of a Scottish guy phoning Police Scotland to report Nicola Sturgeon for hate speech.

  11. Voltaire h/t Dave Cullen, YouTube
    “If you can make people do something they know to be ridiculous (masks/rule of 6)
    You can make them commit atrocities”.

    Yes indeed.

  12. During lock down one of my neighbours complained to another that I must be breaking lock down rules. I was going out most evenings, in my own clothes driving somewhere. He assumed I was meeting friends. Luckily the neighbours he was complaining to put him right. I work in a care home, where we don’t have uniform and i do 12 hour night turns. Yet he was out clapping for NHS. My boss got me a leaflet printed uo to put in my car window in case others were thinking the same!!!

  13. I won’t dob anyone in either. the rule of 6 reads like a Sherlock Holmes title. But there are exceptions including FFS a grouse shoot. If there are exceptions then 6 is just arbitrary and therefore has no credibility. So nope, will not be dropping anyone in the mire for this utter nonsense!

    • Why the FFS?

      Grouse/pheasant shoot no different to other sports like foolball, rugby, cricket, F1…

      Our dogs are happy to be spending a day with their doggy friends again

  14. Snitches never think about what might happen at a later date, when this “crisis” is over, for example. At the end of the second world war, in countries like France and the Netherlands, collaborators were public humiliated. Some had their heads shaved, some were stripped naked, they were beaten and some were shot as traitors. Now, I’m not for one moment advocating violence in any form. However, publicly shunning the modern collaborators would be a viable, legal option. That’s of course, assuming we ever return to normal.

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