I just responded to a friend about how we now are isolated. My view is that in the old days <before t’web> we would all meet in the pub and put the world to rights. Covid and lockdown was the last nail for many pubs, so now it’s social media, which is openly watched, monitored and censored by the very people making the world wrong.
We cannot organise anything using mobile phones, computers, WhatsApp, Facebook, X or any other platform. I am sure folk will bring up yge fabled “dark web”, but that’s not accessible to all, and I truly doubt anywhere near as secure as even the most gifted hacker (or nerd as I call them) would like to think.
I am sure there are sites that are not that easy to access for some security forces, but in the UK we have GCHQ, along with countless information security companies that will seek out any subversion and sell the info to whoever it benefits most.
I think it more likely there is a man in the moon who has been staying down upon us for eons, than there being a “safe place” on the Internet.
If you ever were a member of certain groups like SWP, ANL, AFA, ALF or even CND, of you were ever a steward for NUM, or any once thought of ‘radical union’ you wi have a file on you held by MI5 or some other secret government department.
If you ever voiced concern or ire over Israel, then Mossad will likely know of you. If you criticised the USA ……well
You get my point.
Anything you post will be monitored somewhere. Key words will trigger closer supervision and even control. Anything that may actually work to undermine the cruelty and corruption prevalent in the British Establishment could cause a knock upon your door, and if you were to be deemed a serious enough threat to them a holiday of undisclosed duration could be incurred.
That’s I believe why many are actually fearful of even commenting on any political post, whether they agree with it or not. They see even a like to be enough to be noticed.
Remember fear is the greatest tool for right wing government and their Establishment masters.
So when people talk about arranging a march, going on a demo, the police, the security services already have discussed it with the Cabinet and devised a plan to minimise it. It is why the only chance of revolutionary change will come from a single spark, not from an organised group.
A simple incident can ignite flames, but without true leadership soon they will be doused.
Moss Side, Toxteth and Brixton riots in the 80’s could have brought about real change, they did give rise to some positives, but there was only a general focused, nothing led in such away that it would truly change people’s perceptions.
I was a 14yr old teenager sitting in the back of my parents car, driving through Brixton as it began. I actually saw the spark, the police officers randomly attacking people as they left different pubs, or were simply walking down the street. Men and women being the victims, several police officers surrounding one person and beating them. At 14yrs old I had my first lesson of breach of trust. I saw the police in their true colours,as tools of the Establishment and absolute bullies, protected by not ethics or morality, just a black uniform. In 1983 at 16yrs old, I was part of a strike/demonstration in Warrington. The print workers were in dispute with Eddie Shah, here I was with all the other pickets and supporters charged at by mounted police, corralled by riot shields, had brazers physically thrown at us, the crowd, by uniformed police. This was my second and never forgotten lesson in regard to British police.
Since then I have had the displeasure of having to work with many officers who hold the same attitude as these officers presented, including a very recent incident.
There are good officers, I know some, but there are still now a huge number that should never be trusted.
And they are but the foot soldiers of an extremely cruel and corrupt political system in the UK.
So in effect, unless we go back to how people organised before the Internet, word of mouth, small meetings, trusted groups, change will never happen. Whilst people are convinced by the Daily Mail, the SUN and Tiktok, no one will join.
If we want to hold onto hope of change, we need thinkers, we need leaders that can out think the huge teams emoted to keep us in our place.
So far I just see the moral and ethical, the good folk, squabbling amongst themselves, and the political representatives and their true masters lying back and laughing with their martini’s in hand.
Jonesy.
Jonesy, simply a human 