Orange Guy Fawkes Democracy

NSFW : a bit ranty and blue in places

Here in the UK we have something called “bonfire night” on the 5th of November. I was never very sure what it was all about as a kid, but we busily collected all sorts of waste (which we merely hoped was flammable) and built the biggest bonfire we could during the preceding week or two. On the night itself we’d watch as the adults tried (and often failed until the petrol showed up) to light the thing and we’d lose our teeth trying to chew through treacle toffee and some mostly inedible thing called a “toffee apple”. If we were lucky we’d have a bunch of sparklers and there would be fireworks.

Haven’t been to one of these bonfire things for a while, but doubtless they’re no longer allowed because DANGER or KLIMATE KRISIS or sumfin - or possibly because of the fear we’d try to put an immigrant hotel on one, us whiteys being right-wing scum ‘n all.

They’re probably allowed in woke circles, but only if you burn the books written by dead white men.

Anyway, for one reason or another, we indulge (or indulged) in this annual bout of pyromania in celebration (commemoration?) of someone called Guy Fawkes who in 1605 was caught guarding a whole load of gunpowder in a leased cellar room under the House of Lords. The idea was to blow the ruling class, including the King, to, erm, kingdom come and install a Catholic monarch on the throne.

It’s kind of interesting that the US election is being held on the 5th of November. Depending on whether you’re one of Harris’ brats or Trump’s fascists¹ you’ll view this forthcoming election as being about which ‘monarch’ you want - and which one will either ‘save’ or ‘destroy’ democracy will entirely depend on your allegiance, which has for many become an almost religious thing at this point.

In very real terms however, this election, like others we’ve recently seen, is at least partly about the establishment vs the people. Those who want the instruments of the status quo to continue² and even become more intrusive in our lives will talk about the ‘institutions’ of democracy. They still talk about the legacy media as “trusted sources” and expect you to follow the advice of the CDC.

It’s a shame because I’m sure there are still a few journalists who try to honestly pursue the truth and write with some degree of integrity, but mostly my overall opinion of the worth of journalists is only a smidgeon above that of a child-trafficker, which is to say they’re pretty much actively evil.

Oh - that’s going a bit too far now Rigger, isn’t it? Maybe - but let’s have a look at exhibit 1.

If you feel you need a little bit of blazing white-hot anger to brighten up your day then I recommend Matt Orfalea’s video below (11m 24s) which is just a snippet of the disgusting authoritarianism and vile tactics employed to ensure that Pharma made a mint get everyone stabbed with some experimental crap they called a ‘vaccine’.

Their arguments didn’t even make sense. You can see here several scientific ‘luminaries’ telling us that if we got the vaccine we’d be safe - you wouldn’t get ill, you wouldn’t get infected - and then saying that the unvaccinated represented a ‘danger’. Presumably only to themselves since being vaccinated rendered you, erm, safe.

It got to the point where people, in legacy media, were even advocating that unvaccinated people should not be treated at hospital if they became ill, or had a heart attack. Evil bastards.

Where were the courageous journalists with integrity during these unbelievably sick, twisted and evil times, eh?

Where the fuck were you?

And you think I should ‘trust’ you now? Go fuck yourselves to hell and back, and then do it again.

You insisted that kids, yes kids, at a risk from covid practically indistinguishable from zero, to get the shot. So, yeah, you advocated for evil to be done to kids. You wanted them to be jabbed to the eyeballs to protect adults³. It sure as shit wasn’t for the kids’ benefit was it?

So go fuck yourselves you sanctimonious evil twats.

I really shouldn’t have watched that video, should I?

There were lots of things that made my blood boil (and it wasn’t Climate Change™) during covid, but the burden we placed on kids, as adults who should be protecting them, was nothing short of evil and unforgiveable.

I don’t blame the parents who listened to the bullshit they were being fed at all. I had the time, and capability, to investigate things in more detail. I knew what we were being fed on our TV screens and in our newspapers was a disgraceful distortion of the facts, if not a whole tissue of lies. People leading busy lives, who had for all their lives been told to trust the health authorities and doctors, could not be expected to suddenly see through the deceit - a deceit that has had appalling consequences.

It was up to the journalists to defend the people with their questions, their willingness to uncover the truth, to dig a little deeper.

I ask again, where the fuck were you?

When we needed you the most, you failed us.

You just acted as mouthpieces for the government and Pharma. And you moan about not being ‘trusted’ now?

We’ve seen what happens when you allow information to be controlled. You get evil. In spades. This is what’s in store if you allow any government (or its de facto agents, like that spineless git Zuckerberg’s platform, for example) to claim the right to determine what is, and isn’t, acceptable information.

This is the question for the 5th November. Which of the two parties is going to seek to limit the flow of information on social media (and other) platforms, and which one isn’t?

Forget all the, admittedly entertaining, nonsense about which candidate spewed the most lies and which one is more authoritarian than the other. This is the single biggest issue.

Which one of these two choices is going to best defend your freedom to express your views and to hear the views of others?

Choose wisely or we might all be Fawked

1. I use this term sarcastically, in case you’re wondering. Only someone with the IQ of Detritus on a tropical beach would genuinely believe Trump is a fascist.

2. And to have ever more power, particularly with regard to controlling the market place of ideas and censoring so-called “misinformation”

3. And even adults were not at particularly high risk from serious covid outcomes unless they were quite elderly or otherwise extremely vulnerable.