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Back in 1997, a family member returned from an extended stay in Britain just after the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. He had an interesting take on the wave of hysteria which had recently gripped the country: “It was scary”.
The social pressure to join in the mass weepin’n’wailin’ was extraordinary and sinister. As even the Queen found out, anyone who failed to ostentatiously wail and tear their hair out was subject to immediate suspicion and denunciation. “You could suddenly see how something like Fascism could happen,” he said.
Well, we’re all getting an object lesson in just how easily fascist states happen, now. Because we’re living in it.
In just a matter of weeks, we’ve suddenly descended into quasi-socialist states where the government mandates which businesses are or are not permitted, funds “essential” industries with lavish public money, and citizens are locked-down, spied on and drip-fed state pensions.
We’ve woken up in Stasi-land. Even taking your kids to the park is illegal.
Police officers enforcing social distancing rules arrested a father on Sunday for throwing a ball with his 6-year-old daughter in a near-empty park.
Matt Mooney, 33, was handcuffed by police in Brighton, Colorado after he walked with his wife and young daughter to a nearby park to play softball alone.
“We’re just having a good time, not near anybody else,” Mooney told ABC News. “The next closest person is at least 15 feet away from me and my daughter at this point.”
Shortly after, police arrived at the park and told him and others in the area to leave. Mooney, a former Colorado State Patrol trooper, told the officers that he was familiar with the rules and believed he and his family were in compliance[…]
Mooney was then arrested and placed in a patrol car for 10 to 15 minutes before the officers released him without issuing a citation.
Survivors of Eastern European communist regimes warn that the worst thing about living in police states is knowing that you can never trust anyone, not neighbours, not family. Anyone, anyone could be a snitch. New Zealand is rapidly becoming a nation of snitches.
While [Jacinda] Ardern smiles out at the world from the comfort of her taxpayer-funded, multi-million dollar official Wellington residence, New Zealanders are beginning to devour one another.
Ardern minions have filed “4,200 reports to police”, reporting on their neighbours who breach New Zealand’s house arrest rules. As [A Newspaper] quipped, “curtain-twitchers outing members of the public crashed the new police reporting site within an hour of it going live yesterday”[…]
The Corona-V is grim. Grimmer still is Government-sponsored domestic terror, where if the Coronavirus doesn’t get you, under Corona-V laws, you can guarantee that your paranoid, fuehrer worshipping neighbours will. All of which strongly contradicts Jacinda’s “be kind and stay calm”, ‘new kind of soft power’ mantras.
Britain has long been on a low trajectory into a festering police state. The Chinese virus has just put Britain’s power-mad rozzers on steroids.
Northamptonshire chief constable has threatened to arrest people who “flout” coronavirus restrictions, despite the coronavirus bill not granting police such powers[…]
When the host asked if the police actually had the powers to make arrests, [Chief constable Nick] Adderley replied: “Not under the coronavirus bill. The coronavirus bill is fairly clear in terms of the fines, but what we do have of course is the wide-ranging powers that police officers have in carrying any case[…]
Mr Adderley also warned that if the public does not heed police warnings, they will start to marshal supermarkets and perform trolley-checks to make sure people aren’t purchasing items they personally deem non-essential.
What next? Viz’s dreaded Bottom Inspectors?
“People keep assuring me that we’re not living in a police state. Well tell me what a police state looks like if not like this”
Matt Walsh.
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