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BBC conspired in the intentional misleading propaganda of fear that kept Britain locked up

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posted on Mar, 5 2023 @ 09:36 AM
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Looking for a better source BTW....that not behind a paywall

Yet millions watch the BBC and believe they won't lie about the rest of the news. These people decided it was okay to destroy lives and businesses on something that wasn't as urgent as they portrayed it. They should have zero credibility, I know even as an American, the BBC always had an air of knowledge authority and legitimacy. What on earth was everybody thinking? Indeed

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The BBC conspired in the campaign of fear that kept Britain locked up
The Sunday Telegraph5 Mar 2023

It wasn’t about science, it was about politics. That was obvious as soon as the Government began talking about following The Science, as if it were a fixed body of revealed truth. Nobody who knows anything about science could say such a thing unless they were engaged in a deliberately misleading campaign of public coercion.

The sheer absurdity and pointlessness of so many of the restrictions on normal life should have given the game away: this programme was designed to frighten, not to inform, and to make doubt or scepticism appear morally irresponsible – which is precisely the opposite of what science does. But those of us who decried all this at the time were not just protesting at an intellectual betrayal – the dismantling of a tradition of open argument and rational debate that had created the modern world.

What was being messed with here, often it seems with breathtaking glibness, were the conditions that make life recognisably human: the intimacies and bonds that are the currency of personal relationships and emotional health. Much of this went way beyond what we generally regard as authoritarianism: even the East German Stasi did not forbid children from hugging their grandparents, or outlaw sexual relations between people who lived in different households.

The mass public acceptance of these extraordinary diktats was, initially, not all that surprising. At its outset, this was classed as a temporary emergency. What’s a few weeks (of what was exceptionally pleasant sunny weather) out of a lifetime if it serves to protect yourself and others – and, of course, the National Health Service? But it went on and on – and the longer it went on, the more the population appeared to accept it as a new normal. Even when the damage – especially to the young in both educational and psychological terms – was becoming clear, it went on. It is important to try to understand this.

The model for the monumental government programme in which sitting on a park bench, or meeting with extended family, became a criminal offence was the nation at war. The co-operation and willing sacrifices of the population during the last world war (which was often referred to at the time as “the present emergency”) were clearly the inspiration for the lockdown operation.

The publicity campaigns that normalised – and lauded as virtuous – the acceptance of horrifying levels of social isolation were deliberately designed to present the country as mobilised in a collective effort against a malign enemy. Every other consideration had to be relegated in a heroic national struggle against an invading army whose objective was to kill as many of us as possible. And this enemy was particularly insidious because it was invisible.

The threat now was from the presence of other people who harboured this wicked aggressor inside their bodies. Because the Covid virus was a hostile alien force, it had to be defeated by the same sort of propaganda techniques we would employ against a foreign state.

Of course, the analogy was bogus.

This “enemy” was not a sentient being with a wicked plan for conquest. It had no objective except that shared by every living organism – to survive and replicate. It was not engaged in some conscious battle for domination from which we must never be seen to flinch.

The suppression of any doubt or conflicting argument is justified in wartime because it can, in the words of the American Constitution, give “aid and comfort to the enemy”. In law and in living reality, it constitutes treason. But Covid was never going to be emboldened by any careless talk in Westminster. Treating anyone – even Carl Heneghan, a professor of

Ministers and the broadcasters treated fighting the virus like a war – justifying the shutdown of all dissent

Even the East German Stasi did not forbid children from hugging their grandparents

evidence-based medicine at Oxford – who cast doubt on official policy as a potentially dangerous subversive was simply outrageous.

What was most alarming was the alacrity with which the broadcast news media fell into line – with boundless enthusiasm – as they were given a key role in the day-to-day dissemination of government authority. As the medium through which the official information was conveyed – with, as we now know, often misleading modelling projections and outdated death figures – they went from being public-service news media to what the BBC notably has always insisted it is not: state broadcasters. From disinterested journalism to Pravda in a single bound.

Certainly, it was the duty of the news broadcasters to present what government officials wanted to tell the country. But did they need to ban – and sometimes implicitly demonise – those who questioned those judgments? Did they have to join in with the metaphorical stoning of any dissident – even Lord Sumption, a former Supreme Court justice – who suggested that the suppression of basic liberties was unacceptable?

If this crisis was as severe as we were being told, wasn’t it vitally important that every source of expertise was given a fair hearing? Or was the appearance of unity considered so vital that it overrode everything – even sometimes the facts? Perhaps the worst effect of all this uncritical coverage was that government ministers, having manipulated public opinion into a frenzy of anxiety and potential guilt, then found themselves trapped in the national mood they had created.

How could we not have seen the consequences coming? How could anyone who has raised children not have foreseen the damage that would probably result when developing infants, growing toddlers and sensitive adolescents were deprived of all that essential contact with the unfamiliar world beyond their own homes? Let alone the hideous fate of those elderly patients who had to die alone, and the interminable grief of their loved ones who were forced to miss the final moments and were even denied the comfort of a full funeral.

What on earth was everybody thinking?


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posted on Mar, 5 2023 @ 10:14 AM
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They should have zero credibility, I know even as an American, the BBC always had an air of knowledge authority and legitimacy.

15-20 years ago the BBC was independent of government and produced world leading news coverage , educational documentaries and public interest programs , years of political interference mainly from the Tories but also Labour have left us with the husk of the corporation which bears no resemblance of its past glories.

In 2004 the BBC produced a 3 part documentary series which laid out how governments use the "politics of fear" on populations to force compliance , at the time the war in Iraq had begun so the program showed the population the "politics of fear" Blair's government were using against us , the BBC was a danger to the ruling elite so they needed to deal with it ... which they did so now it's a politically correct bubble gum producing factory pushing out mindless drivel just like most other channels.

The power of nightmares is still being used today most recently during the Pandemic , but it's the BBC who helped to push it not the BBC who warned against it that we see today.
RiP the real BBC.
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posted on Mar, 5 2023 @ 10:40 AM
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the us, uk and eu are leaky sieves so it was all always going to come out at some point, the point appears to be now with the lockdown and twitter files.... we where always heading for this pivot point, it was unavoidable with the level of incompetent oin out elite, an elite that has no grasp on the reality nor the destruction they have wrought to their own power structures..

we are fast closing in on a new reformation..



posted on Mar, 5 2023 @ 10:52 AM
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Usually not a fan of guilt-by-association tactics but...

While I don't know specifics, obviously the BBC had problems with managemental judgment previously as well, even though there is no doubt a separation of the news and entertainment divisions. Saville held a lot of influence at the BBC for a while, did he not?

www.theguardian.com...



posted on Mar, 5 2023 @ 10:56 AM
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Just telling you how it was before it became what it is now , deviant stars have and will always exist , the BBC is not alone there.



posted on Mar, 5 2023 @ 11:36 AM
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15-20 years ago the BBC was independent of government and produced world leading news coverage , educational documentaries and public interest programs , years of political interference mainly from the Tories but also Labour have left us with the husk of the corporation which bears no resemblance of its past glories.


the bbc is the bbc if anything its the political arm of the civil service not the gov and is one if not the worlds the most effective misinformation agencies. it invented many modern misinformation tactics . many of its stars include those from mi9 (stage) and mi9a (stage magic) is where we get the bond q figure..

in the 80s the bbc (nee civil service) set their sights on removing thatcher from office so nothing much changes..

the thing is both the cons and labour want to control the bbc but as we've seen with Johnson and Corbyn the bbc can run deeply effective misinformation operations when it wants change..

the thing with the bbc is, if you end up questioning something its because they want it questioned or a narrative to collapse and it can get both sides frothing in no time.

my interest comes from working close to aspidistra (Crowborough) in the late 80s and early 90s.. aspidistra was an antenna used to intercept and disrupt Germans/French stations as the bbc outdid the nazi propaganda machine.

The Fake British Radio Show That Helped Defeat the Nazis



posted on Mar, 5 2023 @ 12:23 PM
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originally posted by: gortex
a reply to: putnam6

Just telling you how it was before it became what it is now , deviant stars have and will always exist , the BBC is not alone there.


a before that never existed though.. the bbc has always been the bbc its why that 1930s Eric Gill statue was attacked.. its always been this way..



posted on Mar, 5 2023 @ 01:26 PM
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The BBC is nothing but a mouthpiece for the Conservative party. Who decides what at the BBC was controlled by the BBC trust which was supposed to be independent from the BBC management and any outside bodies. But if you would care to look the Trust is virtually all Conservative peers and sympathisers. The Trust was turned over to OFCOM which is a government entity. Now you tell me who runs the show now.



posted on Mar, 5 2023 @ 02:33 PM
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It was not just the BBC, but every corporate media outlet in lockstep pushing the constant fear and selling harmful countermeasures to the public.

When a voice of reason did try to surface like the American Frontline Doctors, they just got banned and discredited as this information went against the coordinated globalist agenda.



posted on Mar, 5 2023 @ 02:35 PM
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originally posted by: gortex
a reply to: putnam6

Just telling you how it was before it became what it is now , deviant stars have and will always exist , the BBC is not alone there.


Yea don't want to derail my own thread, but isn't likely the BBC knew and covered it up? They certainly knew in 2011 and deep-sixed an earlier expose on Savile.

Not sure what other networks had such a long and obviously covered-up scandal, but this is about the BBC, when you add the Savile situation, the esteemed BBC upper management has a history of manipulation and cover-up. They should have been discredited for a long time, no telling how many Royal shenanigans stories have been censored or outright canceled.

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