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1984 COMES TO BRITAIN
Powerline ^ | March 28,202 | BY JOHN HINDERAKER

Posted on 03/28/2020 4:36:45 PM PDT by Hojczyk

In Great Britain, extraordinary measures are being taken to ensure compliance with a nationwide shutdown order. From Breitbart:

Humberside Police in northern England has built a website for citizens to inform on their neighbours for violating the government’s rules on daily exercise and social distancing.

You can only go for one walk a day. If you go out twice, you can be reported to the police. People’s worst instincts are coming to the fore.

This is what amazed me: the Derbyshire police have sent drones out, to catch citizens going for unauthorized walks.

When the current madness is behind us, we will need to reflect on how easily governments, via orders that may or may not have any legal basis, have done away with our basic liberties, and on how few have objected.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: bloggers; britain; england; hysteria; policestate; powerlineblog

1 posted on 03/28/2020 4:36:45 PM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: Hojczyk

That’s strange. 1984 has been in the U.S. for years.


2 posted on 03/28/2020 4:40:18 PM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: Hojczyk

In Britain, the government protects Paki rape gangs and imprisons British men who question such a system. Britain is about gone.


3 posted on 03/28/2020 4:42:47 PM PDT by cdcdawg ("Americanism, not Globalism, will be our credo." DJT 2016)
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To: Hojczyk

Can you get you’re little chocolate bar?


4 posted on 03/28/2020 4:42:55 PM PDT by HighSierra5
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To: Hojczyk

Derbyshire police drone operators.

Not Essential.

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5 posted on 03/28/2020 4:45:23 PM PDT by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: Hojczyk
This is what amazed me: the Derbyshire police have sent drones out, to catch citizens going for unauthorized walks.

Does this apply to muslim rape gangs too?

6 posted on 03/28/2020 4:56:43 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: Hojczyk

This is mad. Aside from the big-brother aspects of this, the handful of people out walking appear to be MILES from any other people. Are the Derbyshire police worried that the rocks are going to be infected?

If we’re all in on “social distancing”, it appears that they couldn’t get more distant than this.


7 posted on 03/28/2020 4:57:30 PM PDT by absalom01 (You should do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, and you should never wish to do less.)
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To: Hojczyk

1984, Fahrenheit 451, or Robespierre’s reign of terror in revolutionary France


8 posted on 03/28/2020 5:24:35 PM PDT by MrChips ("To wisdom belongs the apprehension of eternal things." - St. Augustine Do you think we have a chan)
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To: Hojczyk

It has to be remembered that the UK Police Force separated itself from the population and became statist Jack booted thugs in 1982.
Many of the Chief Constables are so far up their own posteriors they do actually make up local “Laws”.
If you can find a Police officer that actually knows the law you have a rare specimen these days.
Sad but true.


9 posted on 03/28/2020 5:30:37 PM PDT by moose07 (DMCS (Dit Me Cong San ) Life really does begin at forty. Until then, you are just doing research.)
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To: moose07

You are correct.


10 posted on 03/28/2020 5:48:25 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear ("Progressives" (elitist Communists) "Love you to death".)
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To: HighSierra5
Can you get you’re little chocolate bar?

Good news. Yes, they've just "increased" the ration to 20 grams from 30. :-)

11 posted on 03/28/2020 6:12:14 PM PDT by Oatka
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Damn - if they only had shotguns they could shoot those buggers out of the sky!


12 posted on 03/28/2020 7:18:45 PM PDT by melsec (There's a track, winding back, to an old forgotten shack along the road to Gundagai..)
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In Great Britain, extraordinary measures are being taken to ensure compliance with a nationwide shutdown order.

And yet, the no-go zones remain no-go zones.

13 posted on 03/28/2020 7:20:57 PM PDT by rhinohunter (I have nothing but disdain for liberals. Their tears fill me with delight...)
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And yet, the no-go zones remain no-go zones.

Sharia lives and dies by its own law.

The caste system has arrived in the UK.

Muslims are the Brahmins.

14 posted on 03/28/2020 8:47:34 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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