The sort of surveillance state that George Orwell imagined in his book ‘1984’ is to a large extent already here in the United Kingdom. However, in today’s world, the ‘thought criminals’ are not those who question Big Brother but instead those who point out inconvenient truths such as the fact that Islam is not a religion of peace.

This piece by Benjamin, whose work has been featured here before, speaks of the harassment by police and punishments that are handed down by the courts to those who refuse to succumb to the dominant political narratives that say that Islam is a religion of peace and that multiculturalism works.

Here’s Benjamin’s piece.

Tommy Robinson and 1984

The year is 2018 but we might as well be living in 1984. For anyone not familiar with George Orwell’s book, he predicted a time when words would lose their meaning and media outlets would deliberately feed us lies and distort truths in order to subdue the masses, brainwash us, and attempt to turn people against one another.

He was right about the lies and the double-speak:

• Islam is a religion of peace.

• Terrorists are perverting a beautiful religion.

And the media:

• The biggest threat our country faces is from white far-right extremists.

• Islamic terrorist attacks are carried out by lone wolves.

• The majority of the communities are unaware of the rape gangs.

• The killers were not real Muslims.

In George Orwell’s 1984 there are cameras everywhere. In his book, while you are watching TV, the TV is also watching you. This is true of our computing systems today. The cameras on our monitors are able to be accessed in order to watch us in our rooms. Our locations can be traced via our electronic devices also. There’s no hiding in today’s age of surveillance.

Then there are the morality police who go after people for stepping out of line, or for writing and saying the wrong things, and for criticizing the wrong people. Examples of today’s thought-police would be Hope Not Hate and Tell Mama. Their scouts scour Speakers’ Corner with cameras, taking pictures of people and sending them through facial recognition devices to find out who they are and what they’ve been up to in their lives. The scouts turn up at any and all alleged right-wing events with their cameras, again looking for new faces, collecting and collating and keeping data on people. Their lackeys spend hours on social media platforms looking for someone who is saying something which they perceive to be inflammatory. The lackeys create fake profiles and try to befriend people online in order to access their friends’ lists and private photographs, their location and places of employment. They do this so that they can then write hit pieces on those of us that they believe are guilty of wrongthink. We’re not supposed to have an opinion that differs from the narrative that the left and the government are feeding us. If we do, then they view us as a danger and we must be silenced.

Tommy Robinson, when he first appeared with the EDL, confused the left. He mightily confused Hope Not Hate who had no idea that the British public would turn out to support him in such large numbers. Hope Not Hate went into panic mode, which explains the lengths that they go to today in order to smear people. In Orwell’s book 1984 there is a group of people who are referred to as “proles”, those members of the general public who are still asleep or too busy being brainwashed by lies or fighting over sale items at market stalls or who are simply apathetic in regards to politics. But when Tommy Robinson started speaking, a lot of proles woke up and started supporting him. The proles, in 1984, are the 85% of the population that the main character, Winston, wishes would wake up. A revolt by the proles, he says in the book, would bring the censorial and dictatorship of a governmental system crashing down and people could be free to enjoy life again. How many people are awake and speaking up in Britain today? What percentage does it feel like? How many feel safe to do so?

Tommy is in jail again. A safe one this time. He has already done his time in Room 101. In 1984, Room 101 is your worst nightmare, you are contained in a room with the worst possible thing in the world for you. Winston’s biggest fear was rats and Big Brother had a cage strapped to Winston’s face with two starving rats ready to devour him. If Winston answered a question wrong, Big Brother would open the hatch that separated Winston’s face from the rats. Tommy Robinson, fierce critic of Islam, has done his time in a jail filled with Muslims who would regularly attack him. That’s his Room 101 – violence or death being visited upon him by the people he would critique. But the proles in the UK are becoming ever more awake. Next Saturday will see the third demonstration in a row to FreeTommy. Up and down the land, the proles are getting out of their beds and their voices are being heard. They have a reason now, and they have a passion behind them. Let’s see if we proles can make a blind bit of difference to the powers that be.