GB News has pulled off a brilliant coup of a segment which not only exposed an eco-fascist for wha they are but also showed that one of the great values of freedom of speech is letting those with truly appalling ideas spin out enough intellectual rope that they then proceed to hang themselves with. Recently the co-founder of the eco-fascist group Extinction Rebellion, Roger Hallam was interviewed on GB News by Andrew Neil and it was a delight to behold.

Mr Neil didn’t engage in the sort of ‘gotcha’ interview that many might have expected of such an interview, bearing in mind the nature of GB News and neither did he fawn over Mr Hallam and his views as the BBC or Sky News UK might. Instead Mr Neil let Mr Hallam talk and show himself up to be the deranged eco-fascist that he truly is.

I must admit that I was completely in awe of how Mr Neil handled Mr Hallam. Mr Neil let Mr Hallam make all the points he wanted to make but shot him down when he engaged in climate hyperbole. However for me the best part of the interview was when Mr Neil brought up the subject of how Hallam’s views were so out there that other Extinction Rebellion groups in places like Germany had distanced themselves from him and that Hallam had too little to say about China and their CO2 emissions.

For far too long outlets like the BBC and Sky have gone easy on the representatives of Extinction Rebellion, they’ve nodded along to their points and tossed them softball questions. This GB News interview with a leading light in Extinction Rebellion was very very refreshing to witness.

One of my consistent positions with regards to freedom of speech is that it is only in an open marketplace of ideas can bad ideas be examined and rejected but good ideas examined and put into practise. Andrew Neil let Roger Hallam express his ideas and let him voice views that will more than likely cause some to question whether the image that the BBC and Sky have given of Extinction Rebellion as the fluffy heirs of Greenpeace is rooted in reality.

You can view the interview over at Guido’s place via the link below.

https://order-order.com/2021/06/25/brillo-takes-on-extinction-rebellion-founder/#comments

This is a very important interview because as one of the commenters on the Guido article said it exposes Hallam as a potentially very dangerous pied piper who is able to convince the unwary, the naive and the stupid to follow him. The commenter said:

Tim NBD

I was struck by just how very dangerous to other people that man could be.

Clearly on the outer fringes of sanity, but probably very forceful and seductive to the immature and feeble of thinking of which we have a lot these days.  Particularly in educational establishments.

Pied-Piper came to mind.

This is a good point by Tim NBD. In the echo chambers that our educational establishments have become people like Hallam have a lot, far too much to my mind, influence. The problem has been that for the most part the public doesn’t hear the voices of nutters like Hallam, they are hidden from the public behind the walls of the academy. Dragging people like this into the open allows us to see what they are and plan how to counter them. As I said earlier and previously, we must let nutters speak or how else will we know that they are nutters who need to be rejected?