There are common tactics and strategies that authoritarian regimes use to consolidate and maintain power. In her 2007 book, ‘The End Of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot’, Naomi Wolf warned of the early stages of such a dictatorship.
The first stage she noted was that all dictators invoke an external and internal threat; to create a sense of fear and threat to justify authoritarian measures. This can include exaggerating the danger posed by external enemies or demonising a particular group or ideology as an internal threat.
In the case of the UK, they are using a grossly exaggerated and to a large extent falsified internal threat to the Muslim population while demonising a fictional “far-right,” a broad and undefined term they are applying to anyone who acts, speaks or posts on social media in a way that they deem unacceptable according to their opinion, or ideology.
Using the excuse of a threat from the so-called “far-right” the UK government has announced a new national Violent Disorder Programme that will consider broader use of facial recognition technology; is supporting police efforts to maintain order, with a focus on online activity; is working with social media companies to prevent the spread of “disinformation” and selective inflammatory rhetoric; and, is using lessons in schools to “arm” children against “putrid conspiracy theories.”
So far, the UK government is focusing on more surveillance of the population, a crackdown on freedom of expression and indoctrination of children with government-approved narratives. In the case of curtailing free speech, they are enlisting the help of not only the police and courts but also corporate media among others. Below Dan Wootton has compiled a list of the 10 biggest enemies of free speech in the UK...<<<Read More>>>...
