I was searching the web on the subject of Anarcho-Tyranny a system where the authorities come down hard on generally law abiding people either because they’ve nothing wrong or committed some minor infraction whilst leaving alone serious and socially damaging criminals. It’s a system where the innocent are punished whilst the guilty go free. The reason for this is in part because it’s easier for the state to go after the low hanging fruit of society than go after real criminals. The State would rather go after the person who says something that goes against government narratives or someone who might be a day late in taxing their car or puts the ‘wrong’ rubbish in the bin than tackle for example a person carrying a knife for nefarious purposes.

In an Anarco-Tyrannyy the laws are not enforced either equitably or fairly or with any sense of justice. Laws are enforced not to keep the Kings Peace but to enforce adherence to ideology, to punish those who have made an honest mistake or because it gives the inflexible enforcer a warm glowing feeling deep in their Stasi-like heart. The same system that goes after these sort of ‘criminals’ is inclined to let alone those who might give the State a great deal of trouble or if enforcement against them would cause political ‘optics’ problems.

It’s fair to say that we’ve seen a fair bit of Anarcho-Tyranny in Britain over the last twenty to twenty five years or so. There’s the way that multiple police forces assiduously prosecuted rape allegations, unless the rapists were part of a large and mostly Muslim rape gang. There’s the ban on wearing face coverings at demonstrations which is enforced when British nationalists wear them but not when it’s Hamas fans marching through London. There’s also as the Tory MP Neil O’Brien points out in a Substack article, Government’s failing to deal with root cause problems and in response bring in laws that make life extremely difficult for ordinary people. Mr O’Brien used the example of ‘Martyn’s Law’ a kneejerk response to security failures leading up to the Islamic attack on Manchester Arena in 2017. The government’s response to security failures was not to empower venue security staff to report any and all suspicious characters and not have their suspicions retarded by worries about ‘am I being racist in reporting the guy with a sweaty backpack’ but to make things cumbersome and expensive for small community groups.

Mr O’Brien said:

“The British state persecutes the law-abiding while coddling dangerous people. This worst-of-both-worlds has been dubbed “anarcho-tyranny”. Examples of it abound. Take Martyn’s Law.

Security Guard Kyle Lawler was suspicious of Manchester bomber Salman Abedi, but did not confront him because, he says, he didn’t want to be branded a racist. Rather than confronting this real problem, Parliament instead passed a law requiring village halls and small events to draw up bureaucratic terrorism action plans.

Exactly as predicted, the cost of this bureaucracy has led to events being closed for the law-abiding population: Shrewsbury Flower Show (started in 1875) has folded, to some extent, because of the extra costs of security.”

Mr O’Brien is correct. It would have been better to have security staff being able to confidently say that this or that man or woman, no matter what their skin colour is or what group they may be a member of is dodgy even if they are mistaken. Certainly better than penalising everyone else but the government does so because it’s easier and poses less political risk to bring in a law that penalises many rather than deal with the real problem, which was in the case of the Manchester Arena security guard, the effect of continual brainwashing of people to fear being accused of racism. Considering the effect of brainwashing someone so much about racism that they err too much on the side of caution is the sort of uncomfortable task that our political and administrative spheres do not want to get involved in. Much better, for them of course, to bring in a nice sounding kneejerk law that might do what it says on the tin but then again maybe not but what it does do is penalise a whole host of people and groups that were not overly penalised before.

The sort of Anarcho-Tyranny that we are currently experiencing in Britain is robbing Britons of equitable justice and I believe will ultimately lead to a total collapse in public respect for the law and institutions. We are already part way there. Gross examples of two tier policing such as the Henry Nowak case and the continual examples of kid glove policing of Hamas fans and how this tactic is not used with nationalist demonstrators, along with the continual drip drip drip of information about police lack of action against the Rape Gangs has already hurt public trust in the police. I reckon that the public trust level has much further to go down and I believe it will. It won’t be long now, if things continue on the same path as they are, that police will be looked upon with the same level of disdain as the public looks on the politicians who have created Britain’s current mess.

It’s not good for a society like Britain to fall into Anarcho-Tyranny. It corrodes trust between the people and government and because some of the more Anarcho-Tyrannical laws that we labour under such as speech control laws and customs that favour one group over another, it also erodes trust between people. It’s difficult to be easy around a person when you are constantly worrying whether they are a potential informer or not. You may constantly be thinking ‘will this person grass me up for…..’ an opinion or having a ‘questionable’ book on the shelf or even worrying if they are going to make a fake racism/anti-gay/’transphobia’ complaint about you. Anarcho-Tyranny and the laws it creates and how they are enforced as well as being a bad thing in and of itself also creates the need for informers and there are too many people out there who are quite prepared to be petty grasses, especially if it gets them what they want.

Anarcho-Tyranny is a terrible system to live under but we in Britain are currently forced to live in such a system. I pray for better times.

Link

Neil O’Brien’s substack

https://www.neilobrien.co.uk/p/anarcho-tyranny-in-the-uk