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Alison Chabloz

I have no further news of the persecuted satirical singer-songwriter Alison Chabloz, currently in prison after having been sentenced to 18 weeks’ imprisonment for contravention of the notoriously bad law, the Communications Act 2003, s.127.

The imprisonment was the result of years of plotting by the malicious Jew-Zionist cabal known as the “Campaign Against Antisemitism” [“CAA”].

The sentence of 18 weeks is in fact about 7-8 weeks after taking into account normal and particular discounts and reductions. Alison has so far done about 2 weeks actually in prison (as of Wednesday 14 April 2021), and will in any event be released sometime late next month. In the meantime, her trial Counsel is thought to be applying for bail on her behalf (pending appeal). The progress of that application and that of her appeal lodgment is at present unknown to me.

Should anyone wish to send Alison a card, letter, or book, the address is:

Alison Chabloz, A6478EK,
HMP Bronzefield,
Woodthorpe Rd,
Ashford, Middx.,
TW15 3JZ
UK

Please note that any books should be *paperback, *new, and *sent direct from Amazon or other online seller. Please remember always to include the prisoner number (A6478EK).

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Jewish officials in Marine Le Pen's National Rally party are writing a blacklist of party candidates with neo-Nazi ties: https://t.co/NjvQ2YlfjM

— Lahav Harkov 🎗️ (@LahavHarkov) April 8, 2021

“Jewish officials” in the (renamed) Front National?! Non, non! Very disappointing (though not surprising).

Perhas, @annehoo77837961 Yet far less radical ways of making life quieter, such as better trains, more trams, more bicycling and walking, are not popular and have tiny political support. And millions love, play loudly (and make) hideous noise which they call 'music'. https://t.co/V9jBxkS6Ef

— Peter Hitchens (@ClarkeMicah) April 12, 2021

A 'Sunday Times' survey finds that more than 40% of those surveyed actually *enjoyed* house arrest, strangulation of the economy, travel bans etc. Yes, I know it;s an unreliable sample, but even so, I never knew bondage was so popular. https://t.co/uqHwbl9VTJ

— Peter Hitchens (@ClarkeMicah) April 12, 2021

I think that many did “enjoy” aspects of the initially-strict “lockdown”. Several reasons. Life was simpler overnight, in a world and a UK which seemed, and now again seems, often too noisy, complicated, stressed.

The iniquitous “British” so-called “long hours culture” (that in fact started to appear in the early 1980s) is part of that “society under stress”.

Then there is the fact that the now-ubiquitous “pleb”/”chavscum” element (both poor and not so poor) was stopped from driving around, crowding into places, beaches and country areas and, indeed, shopping areas. Same applies to the blacks and others in the larger urban concentrations.

Less road traffic meant that Nature could come back in a way many (including me) liked: birds, animals. Where I live is a semi-rural part of England anyway, but the effect was still noticeable.

Also, many people suddenly did not have to attend boring jobs in offices, factories, hospitals (yes, many NHS people too worked from home), pubs, restaurants. Many “worked from home”, which especially for those with comfortable detached houses, maybe with pleasant gardens, swimming pools etc, was a welcome change from the daily commuter grind.

Most of those unable to work from home were chucked furlough monies amounting to —again in many cases— 80% of their net pay, which taking into account commuting costs etc, meant that quite a few were better off than they had been when actually working!

Even those forced to rely on State benefits were better off, inasmuch as the post-2005 and then post-2010 bullying and harassment regime instituted by such as Alastair Darling (“Labour”), Iain Duncan Dunce Smith, and the Jew “lord” Freud was put on hold for the duration.

Of course, I was impelled to oppose “lockdown”, because of the enormous damage that it has caused to the UK’s society and economy, as well as to any notion of properly passed and applied law and civil rights (and because it had little effect on the spread, over time, of the dreaded virus), but there is no doubt that some aspects of it, on the ground, were welcome to many.

The challenge, of course, is to create a society with the positive aspects but without, as far as possible, the negative.

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Look how smart everyone looks. And the streets are so clean.

— Carol Bianca (@C_M_Bianca) April 12, 2021

#NoVaccinePassportsAnywhere pic.twitter.com/ucpdIJlw6z

— BatFlu (@ItsABadFlu) April 10, 2021

“Pointless” from the point of view of “keeping the public safe” but certainly not pointless from the point of view of the secret cabals hiding within and behind the State.

A “vaccine passport”, “track and trace” etc are very very useful tools in the armoury of State snoopers. The old Stasi, in the DDR (East Germany), would have fallen over itself to get hold of such tools and technology. Every citizen to be registered, tracked, identified in all locations visited, followed everywhere by electronic impulse (in the near future?). A microchip under the skin? Don’t say, “no, that would never be done” or “people would never stand for that!”… The mass psychological experiment of the past year or so has put paid to such complacent certainties.

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@lf_group France has many admirable features. But it is only under the Magna Carta/Bill of Rights tradition that freedom is the default position, rather than the conditional gift of the state. This is precisely the advantage that we have been busily trashing in the past year. https://t.co/JXdd9GI5lC

— Peter Hitchens (@ClarkeMicah) April 12, 2021

@lf_group France has many admirable features. But it is only under the Magna Carta/Bill of Rights tradition that freedom is the default position, rather than the conditional gift of the state. This is precisely the advantage that we have been busily trashing in the past year. https://t.co/JXdd9GI5lC

— Peter Hitchens (@ClarkeMicah) April 12, 2021

Hitchens may be right in some Oxford Union, theoretical, newspaper scribbler way, but is wrong in practical terms.

Workhouses, appalling prisons, low pay and no employment rights etc have all been features of British life in recent centuries, as has been detention for political purposes without trial (in both the First and Second World Wars). The Bill of Rights and Magna Carta did not much help those who were directly affected by the foregoing.

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