Guest Post by Simon Black
Are you ready for this week’s absurdity? Here’s our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, risks to your prosperity… and on occasion, inspiring poetic justice.
Women Surrounded by British Police for Taking a Walk
You’re allowed to exercise outside of your home under the UK’s current COVID lockdown.
But the rule states vaguely that you must stay in your “local area.”
So when two women drove five miles from their homes to take a secluded walk in nature, they were immediately surrounded by police and issued £200 fines each.
The officers used their own discretion to decide that driving to a nearby park for a walk was not in the spirit of the lockdown. The officers also decided that, since the women both had beverages, their ‘walk’ was really just a picnic in disguise… which is strictly verboten.
It’s just scary to think the damage to society that could have occured if these horrible criminals were allowed to sip tea while strolling in a remote park.
Click here to read the full story.
UK Law Enforcement Demands Power to Raid Homes Over COVID
A regional police commissioner in the UK is upset that police don’t have the power to enter your home to enforce COVID rules.
The commissioner has raised the issue with the national government, because he believes “For the small minority of people who refuse entry to police officers and obstruct their work, the power of entry would seem to be a useful tool.”
Big Brother might not be watching yet… but he wants to be able to come into your home just in case.
Click here to read the full story.
Antifa Violence Forces Portland Bookstore to Cancel Book on… Antifa Violence
A book by Andy Ngo called Unmasked: Inside Antifa’s Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy, is about the violent tactics that Antifa uses to coerce and intimidate its ideological opponents.
And after a Portland bookstore began carrying the book, Antifa threatened to destroy the store and organized a seething protest outside one of the locations.
The “Anti-Fascist” activists surrounded the bookseller, plastered banners on its windows, and forced it to close early “to keep employees and customers safe.”
Antifa’s intimidation worked. The store responded that they will not carry the physical books, but that they would still keep the book in their online catalogue in order to “[shed] light on the dark corners of public discourse.”
Additionally, though, the bookstore groveled in a public statement to indicate ideological alignment with Antifa, saying “It feels ugly and sickening to give any air to writing that could cause such deep pain to members of our community.”
Sometimes it just takes the threat of violence to turn someone into a goose-stepping collaborator.
Click here to read the full statement.
New York wants to make body armor illegal
New York legislators introduced a bill that would make it a crime for all of us peasants to purchase or possess body armor, or bulletproof vests.
Law enforcement would still be allowed to buy and own body armor however.
And no one would be grandfathered in either; the commoners would have 15 days to turn in their protective gear, or face the consequences.
The first offense is a misdemeanor, which means you could face a year in prison for owning a bulletproof vest.
The second offense is a class E felony– punishable by between one and four years in prison.
Clearly only criminals would want to shield themselves from bullets.
Hypocrite Watch: “Don’t Travel” says Canadian Senator Who Traveled to Mexico
Last year, Canadian Senator Don Plett co-signed a directive barring all Senators and Members of Parliament from traveling outside of Canada on government business, due to safety concerns from COVID.
But apparently the Senator thought traveling to Mexico on vacation was perfectly safe.
The directive he co-signed is still in effect, but that didn’t stop Plett from flying to Mexico for a short vacation at the end of December.
The Canadian government also still advises citizens to avoid non-essential travel– but I guess that just applies to the little people.
Click here to read the full story.
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I hope they all start the real cure: putting a trash bag over their heads and mouths and tying it off then breathing real fast. I hear it deprives the virus of oxygen.
Excellent suggestion.
Reason #683 to loathe the Brits (their government).
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“SBC has threatened to shut down the bank accounts of customers who refuse to wear a face mask in its UK branches.
Jackie Uhi, head of branch network, HSBC UK said that the company ‘reserves the right to withdraw’ the accounts of any customer who won’t wear a face mask.
She said: ‘Sadly, some people are failing to protect themselves, our branch colleagues and other customers by refusing to wear a face covering inside our branches or observe social distancing. Our colleagues deserve respect and should not have to face violent or abusive behaviour.”
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9147125/HSBC-threatens-shut-bank-accounts-customers-refuse-wear-face-mask.html
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The UK has been lost for decades now. Started with the communist infiltration about 3 decades ago, followed up by the muslim invasion. Now add covid onto that and its the communists wet dream come true reason for the 1984 on steroids’.
Canukistan and Australia are vying for second place and I think Oz is winning but only by a hair.
There was a time when such an announcement would have resulted in a very kinetic response.
What’s so shocking to me at least, is to witness the Anglo legacy nations actually leading the march to tyranny. A Iron Curtain descending over the so-called Free World led by said nations.
Leave your smart phone at home. Go with the indestructible Nokia 3310 or other old school dumb flip phone for your mobile phone.
The Ontario, Canada provincial government said cell phone data showed the origin of several Covid clusters, then quickly backtracked when asked if they were tracking people using smart phone data without our knowledge or consent.
They are tracking you using your smart phone with or without your consent, and probably listening as well. Act accordingly.
Nothing “probably” about it … been happening for 10+ years.
It still pings the towers. They still have cameras they can turn on. GPS etc. No phone or a lead lined box for it is the best we can do.
The other day I mentioned cars reporting on the IOT or Internet of Things. Yesterday I get an email that I have X number, down to the tenths of a mile since I did so and so and “call for service.” I don’t use the dealer since I don’t need to pay $100 plus for an oil change or be pestered every 6,000 miles for a new cabin filter for 3-4 times what they cost at Wally World for a K&N(the best) when they last for years unless you are in rural Arizona or similar area.
It seems to me that a flip phone is trackable just as well as a smart phone. Someone who knows for sure please give a response.
If your car was built after 1995 good luck anyway. OnStar, GPS, and on-board computer chips track you anyway.
Plus cameras everywhere take a picture of you at every intersection and stop light.
every single phone is traceable. they all ping off the towers, all day long when they are turned on.
Yes. But that is considerably different than transmitting an exact GPS location as metadata.
It is but many of the tracking features can be turned off so to deny the information harvesting. I rarely use that phone for Internez browsing. You can purchase a VPN subscription to further deny data harvesting. All reasonable ways of resisting if that is of any importance to someone.
I have no specific knowledge, but I guarantee you the ‘tracking features’ are not actually turned-off.
Indeed. Their have been suits over that. The main thing you must know about Big Tech: They Lie. They Lie. They Lie.
The body armor is a big one. The fuckwits in the Aus gov did the same thing yet cops still wear them. Do not comply, find the retard behind the law and write to them to kindly let them know you know where they live and are not happy
That is why every little band needs a heavy caliber Designated Marksman. Good old M2 Ball will break a ceramic plate allowing the second round to “get the cheese.” That is of course assuming the hydraulic shock of stopping 2,000 ft pounds does not preclude the necessity of a second.
Most opponents one might encounter would not have plate carriers so your DM would be extremely problematic, even for those with IIIa.
How many out there think that the police will not be your frontline enemy? Hint, they already are.
Outside of blue shitholes, not as much.
A world committing suicide. WOW…the idiocy would be funny if it wasn’t so monstrous.
Crows and Buzzards will tell tales of this epoch for a thousand years.
This is what happens when you don’t shoot communists.