Sometimes, when the law is made by tyrants, when you have tried peaceful means, when the consultation has been ignored by corrupt ideological obsessives, then, having tried everything that is within the law, breaking it becomes the final solution.
A secret activist army is vandalising and stealing Sadiq Khan‘s hated Ulez cameras.
Dubbed the ‘Blade Runners’, the covert group has been attacking ANPR cameras that catch out drivers using high-polluting vehicles across the capital.
The London Mayor’s controversial scheme will force Londoners to pay £12.50-a-day to drive in Greater London from August 29, if their cars don’t meet certain environmental standards.
One of the secretive Blade Runners, who met with MailOnline, vowed: ‘We are going to take down every single one no matter what’.
Dressed in a balaclava to protect his identity, the father in his mid-forties revealed he had stolen 34 Ulez cameras himself but his group and others like them have taken down hundreds.
Sadiq Khan is a tyrant. He has ignored the consultation that told him that the people he was elected to serve do not want this, yet he has ploughed ahead regardless. Ordinarily, I abhor such vandalism. However, we are in a situation where it is justified. Of course, they are breaking the law and of course, if caught, have no option but to face the consequences. That said, I fully support them in their endeavours, for this is the only language the tyrant understands.
Yes, I know that this is precisely the argument used by the eco loons in XR, Animal Rebellion, Jut stop Oil etc., use. The difference, however, is that they are the tyrants here. Ergo, it does not undermine the core argument. Sometimes, good men have to break unjust laws to get them changed. Indeed, there comes a point where breaking the law becomes a duty. This is one of them.
Of all the pieces of arrogant, degenerate (and never forget STUPID) filth, of all the disgusting syphilitic turds clogging the rancid bowl that is current “British” politics, suckdick cunt is perhaps the worse.
You are absolutely correct. Nobody is morally bound by this ULEZ prison any more than a soldier is bound to obey an order to callously murder prisoners. It is an illegal order, as this is (forgive the word spaghetti) an illegal law, having no basis in any sort of established democratic, law making process.
As for these true Englishmen breaking the law. Technically yes, but excremental rebellion do exactly the same thing and are clearly allowed – actively encouraged I would posit – to do so. The political sewage complaining that decent people are breaking their borg like illegal laws are happy for their infantilised idiots to break actual laws (i.e. those that HAVE largely been the result of a correct, democratically based law making process).
Are these fine people ninjas? I should imagine they could pass me without being seen.
“excremental rebellion” – superb. I have made a note of it.
What law are they breaking?
Criminal damage is what they would get charged with.
I imagine if caught, they would be charged with theft and criminal damage. Personally, I’m surprised it’s taken this long for people to rise up against this eco loonery. I have no sympathy for Khan and his ilk. He was told that Londoners did not want ULEZ and he ignored them. Now he’s facing the consequences.
If you really think Khan is a tyrant you’re no different from the idiot lefties who think anyone to the right of Jeremy Corbyn is a fascist.
Not at all. His behaviour is that of a tyrant. He has deliberately invoked a policy in defiance of the democratic process – indeed, he started the purchasing and installation before the consultation was in. That imperious behaviour fits within the definition ‘unrestrained by law or constitution’, so I’m more than content to use the label. I do not apply the label liberally to everyone to the left of Pinochet, so the comparison doesn’t hold up.
Please try harder.
The final victory will be when a jury finds the culprits not guilty if they get caught.
I wouldn’t convict.
The precedent has been set in the Colston statue case. Sauce for the goose…
The old congestion charge was pretty corrupt as I remember. Back in the 1990s or early naughties, I had to take some supplies down to an exhibition centre down in London. The building was near to the congestion zone but, if you didn’t know the area, were using a satnav and not sure which entrance it was that you needed to go into the right part of the complex, it was impossible for me to know whether I had gone into the zone or not. I rang the works secretary and asked her to check for me and make a payment if needed. Here’s the problem. They wouldn’t tell you whether a fee is due or not until the following day. If you wait until the following day they would charge you double. So if you weren’t sure you had to make a payment just in case. Criminals really isn’t too strong a word to describe these people.
I’m wondering how many of these cameras there are in total, how many will have to be taken down before the scheme becomes unworkable?
Serial non payment combined would make it unworkable.
If Vlad Putin wanted to seriously hinder Britain while refraining from starting WW3, he could instruct his hackers to untraceably break into the ULEZ and congestion charge, delete all outstanding fines and charges, then lock the system which would need a pass code to unlock. Or maybe just break it somehow.
It would cost London council loads to fix, take ages and he’d make himself popular in this country.
As said before, if people get fines because of this stupid, not a law. Just ignore, will tangle the courts for years.
Certainly a mass refusal would have that effect and I’d be delighted to see it happening. Likewise with the fifteen minute cities. Routinely ignore them and the subsequent threatening letters. As you say, clog the system up.
This, I would say, is the solution to every case of the government getting too big for their boots. The problem is that everyone needs to join in. Just a handful of refuseniks can’t succeed, it has to be almost universal. My hope is that refusal to comply becomes the default position for every single unpopular government initiative.