We are living in tough times and all indications are that they are going to get a lot tougher. Oxfam announced recently that by 2016 the top one percent of the world’s population will own more than the whole of the rest of the world.
How did we come to this? – Control!
Control of the money supply and control of our information: i.e. the media.
For example, what we have witnessed in Paris in the last few weeks after the attack at the offices of Charlie Hebdo (regardless of who you believe was behind them) was a shameless hijacking of public outrage by world leaders.
It was an accomplished display of how to control and re-package the news for general public consumption in order to serve a political end. That is, to narrow the boundaries of free speech even beyond the choke-hold we are currently enduring. That objective is precisely what is being discussed at home and around the world as I write – despite our leaders parading in front of all those ‘Je suis Charlie’ banners last week. See any irony here?
Whatever dangers we are told we face through the use of hate speech, on-line bullying, or terrorist conversations on Facebook, they are nothing by comparison to those we will face through the loss of our ‘open’ free speech. Even if you still have some faith in mainstream media it is easily provable (by the smallest amount of research on line) that we aren’t getting anything like the whole picture. Indeed, mainstream journalists have admitted to sources on the internet that they are no longer free to be entirely truthful without consequences.
This is only my fourth article in ‘Dorset Eye’ but I already understand its unique value.
The problem with censorship is X X X X X X X X X !
It is the censorship problem that is behind so many of the things we need to change about our world. Access to the truth along with honest, open debate, are essential tools in this fight. Without them we are lost. We should never be offended by truth, however bad it is because it brings with it opportunity for change. As Julian Assange has said: “If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.”
‘Dorset Eye’ is a rare and valuable beast, because it is news and opinion reported at ground level by you and I.
We feel the consequences of many of the ‘good ideas’ dreamt up by people in warm comfortable offices who will never be subjected to them. These new ideas are being implemented by unsympathetic, career-oriented individuals whether they be in local councils, or in parliament. There is now a growing and facilitated policy of detachment and immunity from wrong doing right across the board.
The policies we live under desperately need to change, I think almost everyone can see that. Despite the politician’s endless speeches and promises of improvement it turns out in the end that its just more spin.
I never thought I would see the day in my lifetime in this country, when victims and their legal representatives would be arrested and imprisoned on trumped up charges after reporting child abuse or paedophilia. (Google: Melanie Shaw, Ben Fellows, Robert Green.) These people have been ‘shut up’ by locking them up, just to protect prominent figures in the establishment.
I never thought I’d see perfectly, happy, healthy children being taken away from loving parents without cause, by social services. Or secret family courts making them available to strangers for adoption where they are often abused by their ‘carers’ and State-protected paedophile rings.
Or when you could be arrested off the street without credible cause, proper paperwork or fair trial and then be imprisoned.
Or when people’s owned property would be seized by private bailiffs, using fraudulent paperwork, aided by the police, putting the rightful owners out on the street. Google: Guy Taylor
I could go on.
My point here is that most of the time, none of the above is reported in the mainstream media.
I had two articles published here in the ‘Eye’ about geoengineering. (‘What’s really going on with the weather’ and ‘Chemtrails: The conspiracy theory that never was.’) They were picked up by Dane Wigington of geoengineeringwatch.org and as a consequence, topped Google searches on the net and were read by many thousands of people, giving a very serious subject some important extra exposure. I doubt very much it would have happened without appearing first in ‘Dorset Eye.’
They might have been articles about anything, but the important point is that the public was given open access to the material and they were allowed to decide whether it was important or not. This is something that would not have happened through the mainstream media.
In the past, being published was a privilege of the very talented, very rich or very well connected. Now we all potentially have a voice. The internet is constantly buzzing with the exchange of information between friends, families and businesses. But if the government has its way, a dark shadow will be cast over all that optimism and connectivity. Social media will become a dark, forbidding mine field, where an innocent comment may be misinterpreted in an interconnecting web of suspicion, leading to arrest or who knows what else? We are pretty close to that already.
Most people aren’t aware that our liberties are protected under common law by our constitution. The government are duty bound to abide by it. Google: www.britishconstitutiongroup.com but all that is set to change on 1st November 2015 when the government replace it. I wonder why? We need our voices now more than ever.
Outlets for street level news and honest opinion without fear of recrimination are essential. Where issues can be discussed and debated in the open, solutions to problems sought and information imparted to those who need it. Whether it be scheduled local events, advice on growing your own vegetables, safe, natural alternatives to prescription drugs or protecting your assets in common law court.
If the government truly had any intention of protecting free speech it would be supporting publications like ‘Dorset Eye’ instead of marching in Paris streets in front of the cameras while at the same time introducing new laws to curb it.
The irony behind the Charlie Hebdo leader’s photo op, is the more we are ‘protected’ from insults, opinions and possible terrorist incitement on the internet ‘for our own good’, the faster we slide towards a full-blown dictatorship with no free speech whatsoever.
I supported ‘The People’s Voice’ when it was launched. I donated. I could see the enormous amount of potential. But despite the large amount of cash raised (£400,000+) by the public it was only on air for just 4 months. We still do not have a proper explanation of what went wrong or where exactly the money went. I was absolutely on side with what they were trying to do but their catastrophic failure proves the need, once again, for open access and transparency if we are to get to the truth.
As far as I’m concerned, ‘Dorset Eye’ has already demonstrated its value. It stimulates debate, opens minds, shapes new friendships and thoughtfully touches hearts. If that doesn’t prove the need for real freedom of speech then nothing can.
Sean Hunter
