Standards?

March 14, 2021 Longrider Civil Liberties, General News, misanthropy, Political 12

If they didn’t have two, they would have none. Look at this headline, for example.

Met criticised over lockdown protest policing

Oh, wait, no, that wasn’t it at all.

Met criticised over Clapham vigil policing

The Met – to their credit (if that’s the right word) – have behaved exactly the same over the two sets of protests, having learned, perhaps, from the opprobrium they received over the BLM protests last summer when they allowed the burn, loot and murder arseholes to run riot through our cities with impunity.

I deplore the covid restrictions. However, if protest is illegal under those restrictions it is illegal for everyone as Toby Young points out.

I’m sorry, but if you didn’t object to the Metropolitan Police’s brutal tactics in dispersing anti-lockdown protestors in Trafalgar Square last September, you cannot condemn their employment of identical tactics last night. Either you defend the right to protest for everyone, or you defend it for no one. You cannot just get worked up about it when it affects those whose cause you approve of.

Quite so. If you believe in liberty then you support it for everyone whether they agree with you or not.

And can I add at this point that it sickens me to the stomach to see this young woman’s murder being politicised by the various victimhood groups. I would say that they should be ashamed of themselves, but shame is something alien to them. They are beneath contempt.

12 Comments

  1. “And can I add at this point that it sickens me to the stomach to see this young woman’s murder being politicised by the various victimhood groups.”

    I see it the same way. Yes it is tragic but no more so than numerous other tragedies and bringing politics into it is disgusting.

    • Yup, same MO every time. Minority extreme group hijacks case unrelated to their cause for their own ends.

      Extremism always promotes extremism. Divide and rule.

  2. Interesting to see how the Met will react when in the next few days BLM will organise a protest…

  3. What hope has this country got when elected politicians are asking the police to ‘explain their actions’ in enforcing a law the very same politicians voted through less than a year ago with not so much as a peep of dissent?

  4. Nobody has commented on the fact that under current rules the murdered woman should not have been visiting friends.

  5. Toby Young nails the hypocrisy of the hand wringers, woke, left, feminazis, lockdown zealots…

    First They Came For the Anti-Lockdown Protestors…

    Twitter was aflame last night with prominent politicians and journalists condemning the Metropolitan Police´s
    heavy-handed treatment of women gathering on Clapham Common at a vigil to mourn the death of Sarah Everard and calling
    for the resignation of Cressida Dick, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner.

    The irony, of course, is that these are the very same people who´ve enthusiastically supported the lockdowns, including the suspension of the right to protest, and who´ve condemned anti-lockdown protestors for being “selfish” and “irresponsible”.

    I´m sorry, but if you didn´t object to the Metropolitan Police´s brutal tactics in dispersing anti-lockdown protestors in Trafalgar Square last September, you cannot condemn their employment of identical tactics last night. Either you defend the right to protest for everyone, or you defend it for no one. You cannot just get worked up about it when it affects those whose cause you approve of.

    You cheered when our Government suspended our civil liberties, claiming it was “necessary” to contain a virus that kills 0.25% of those who catch it and which, if you´re under-65, is less deadly than an average bout of seasonal flu.

    You cheered when our Government continued to pursue its reckless lockdown policy in the face of mounting evidence that it causes more harm than it prevents, destroying hospitality and retail businesses, wreaking havoc with children´s mental health and separating people from their loved ones.

    You cheered when the tiny handful of people who took to our streets to demonstrate against the suspension of our liberties were led away in handcuffs, branding them “Covid deniers” and “conspiracy theorists”.

    This is on you.

    This is what an authoritarian state looks like.

    https://lockdownsceptics.org/2021/03/14/first-they-came-for-the-anti-lockdown-protestors/

    Well said Toby, superb piece. Should be front page news everywhere. Spectator have updated their editorial to reflect this

    @Timothy
    Excellent point, hadn’t occurred to me as I ignore Covid Regs

  6. Politicians create these ‘laws’ and then get uppity when they are enforced. It is not the cops that want seeing to, it is those who politicise the murder of this poor young woman. That group who scream, shot and spit as the cops, but only when there is a camera present.

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