Lord Sumption: The Lockdown Is Without Doubt the Greatest Interference with Personal Liberty in Our History https://www.aier.org/?p=53595  via @aier

This is seven months old. It’s more pertinent than ever. Lord Sumption poses a series of questions on the limits to which the state, in..
...a liberal democracy, may coerce its subjects against their will, even if on grounds of their own good. His answer is not much. I’m in agreement with many that the actions of the state represented huge overreach even in May. Seven months on, I have come to despise each and...
...every one of our institutions which I used to hold dear & regard with pride as a citizen of a modern, liberal democracy. There is nothing left at all of a once great country that hasn’t been smashed, ignored, allowed itself to be corrupted, become impotent without argument...
...and in some cases, actively connived at helping the disreputable actions of the executive deceive the people.
Lord Sumption reminded the Govt that, before they forced the untested & as it turned out, wholly ineffective ‘lockdown’ - a term straight out of the handbook of...
...prison terms - they should have defined terms for getting, or rather, letting us out again. It’s not a medical or scientific question but a political question.
I know next to nothing about politics but there are plenty who do. They need to gird up their loins & force a...
...political solution to this self-inflicted crisis which is worsening by the day.
I’m merely a scientist, an onlooker to the political process. What I have been doing, however, is to puncture the pseudo-science which has been used to justify the cruel & damaging repression of...
...many activities. I do not believe Govt can justify a single one of its ‘measures’ as having saved any lives. It is extraordinary that there are no public documents which demonstrate the net benefits of the near-totalitarian extent of state control of almost everything.
Those who’ve followed me will know that I’m of the view that at a national level, we have already all but arrived at an equilibrium with this virus. Death is not avoidable. It’s a deceit to pretend that the state has extended anyone’s life through the many ‘measures’ it has...
...introduced, tightened & now seems to have every intention of reimposing ‘lockdown’ into 2021.
There is no evidence whatsoever that we have a public health emergency that’s due to this virus. Even if there was, there is no evidence that the grounds used time & again to...
...frighten people into acceptance are true. Locking down hasn’t saved any lives. It doesn’t prevent the NHS being pressured. It is completely unjustified. The combination of OFCOM guidelines which effectively constitute censorship, coupled with our mass media acquiescing...
...by unquestioningly rebroadcasting Govt’s deceptions, the latter mostly arising from flawed & uncharacterised PCR mass testing is disgusting. The repeated use of psychological methods to deliberately augment fear in our fellow citizens is the most revolting abuse of power...
...that I’ve ever witnessed. Once you notice it, you can’t fail to see it all around.
I think serious crimes are now being committed, simply by Govt continuing to oppress us, with no adequate justification & keeping its decision-making processes away from scrutiny.
For if...
...evidence for life-saving benefits flowing from ‘measures’ is lacking, we see all around us direct & indirect damage (which at least qualitatively was entirely anticipated ) not only to individuals, extending to worsening their health & in some cases ending their lives...
...prematurely as well as near total destruction of many businesses, culture & society.
As we run up to Christmas, please ask yourself: do you believe what you’re being told?
Another question for you: even if you do broadly accept the stories, how much longer do you think...
...this can go on, before irreversible changes result?
Science & scientists cannot bring this era to an end. Only politics can, whether of the debating chamber or of the street. I recommend those if the former venue quickly arrive at solutions before those desperate & in the...
...other decide that there are no other options available to them.
Happy Christmas & keep those you love close to you.
As CS Lewis said of the atom bomb fears: “If the bomb comes, let it find us doing sensible & human things, praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to...
...music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts—not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs”.
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