The UK has fallen, not because of the barbarians at the gates, although there are plenty of those, but because it’s being torn down by the people at the top.

Long gone are the days of William Wallace and his cry for freedom, even at the price of his life. Today’s United Kingdom isn’t willing to risk even freedom of speech if it comes at the expense of some hurty feelings. The UK has criminalized speech since 2003 with the online communications act and the associated creation of the office of communications or Ofcom. Think of them as our E-Karen but with a more sophisticated accent. In 2023, the UK made more than 12,000 arrests for speech offenses. But recently, they’ve ramped things up further with the Online Safety Act of 2023 because apparently 12,000 arrests was just rookie numbers. And they’ve got to pump those numbers up.

And sadly, there are many people in power here in Australia who would love to follow the UK down this dark path of censorship, denying to Australians the basic right to freedom of speech, which has long been part of our English common law heritage. So, it is a concern to us all that the UK are diving even deeper down this rabbit hole down to hell and with the creation of a whole new police department for the explicit purpose of shutting down any criticism of specifically immigration. My name is Topher Field. This is the Topher project and I help busy people like you to keep up with the world as it changes around us. Sadly, the changes we’re seeing in the UK right now are a preview of the kinds of changes that our politicians would like to bring in right here at home in Australia. And so, these changes deserve our attention.

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The UK Home Office have just established the National Internet Intelligence Investigations Team run directly out of the highest levels of the Met Police in Westminster.

This is hilariously described as an elite unit. Elite. Um, I hate to break it to you, but the word elite has a meaning. And sitting at a computer covered in cookie crumbs, having heart attacks at hurty words isn’t it. This police unit is elite in the same way that the kids on the short bus are special. It’s an abuse of language and nothing more. Think about it. How many kids dreamed of being cops so that they could arrest grandmothers in their homes for thought crimes? None. And yet, as adults, they’ll happily sit there collecting their taxpayer funded paycheck, walking that virtual beat, and sending people to prison for thought crimes.

The UK is being destroyed in exactly the same way as Australia is being destroyed from the top. But it’s only possible because the police are only too happy to be the enforcement arm of these petty tyrants at the top. And increasingly those petty tyrants are turning out to be not so petty after all. It was barely 6 months ago that many in the UK were offended when US Vice President called them out for being anti-free speech. Let’s remind ourselves of what JD Vance said in Munich.

[From video]

“And perhaps most concerningly, I look to our very dear friends, the United Kingdom, where the backslide away from conscience rights has placed the basic liberties of religious Britain, in particular, in the crosshairs. A little over two years ago, the British government charged Adam Smith Connor, a 51-year-old physiotherapist and an Army veteran, with the heinous crime of standing 50 m from an abortion clinic and silently praying for three minutes. Not obstructing anyone, not interacting with anyone, just silently praying on his own. And after British law enforcement spotted him and demanded to know what he was praying for, Adam replied simply, ‘It was on behalf of the unborn son he and his former girlfriend had aborted years before.”

Now, the officers were not moved. Adam was found guilty of breaking the government’s new buffer zones law, which criminalizes silent prayer and other actions that could influence a person’s decision within 200 meters of an abortion facility. He was sentenced to pay thousands of pounds in legal costs to the prosecution. Now, I wish I could say that this was a fluke, a one-off crazy example of a badly written law being enacted against a single person. But no, this last October, just a few months ago, the Scottish government began distributing letters to citizens whose houses lay within so-called safe access zones, warning them that even private prayer within their own homes may amount to breaking the law. Naturally, the government urged readers to report any fellow citizen suspected guilty of thought crime. In Britain and across Europe, free speech, I fear, is in retreat. [End video]

And the UK predictably were very upset at being called out by JD Vance like that. And soon afterwards, the UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer was at the White House for this memorable encounter.

[From video]

“Great. Uh yeah, look, I I said what I said, which is that we do have, of course, a special relationship with our friends in the UK and also with some of our European allies, but we also know that there have been infringements on free speech that actually affect not just the British, of course, what the British do in their own country is up to them, but also affect American technology companies and by extension American citizens. So that is something that we’ll talk about today at lunch.” “Well, we’ve had free speech for a very very long time in the United Kingdom and uh and it will last for a very very long time. Well, no, I mean I certainly we wouldn’t want to reach across US citizens and we don’t and that’s absolutely right. But um in relation to free speech in the UK, I’m very proud of our history there. [End video]

“We’ve had free speech for a long time.” Well, as a matter of historical record, that is true. But it begs the question, how come the people and the police of the UK are seemingly so happy to throw it away now? How come the police are so willing to debase themselves, becoming elite and arresting people for posting hurty words on the internet or for praying silently outside abortion clinics? Well, sadly for the answer to that question, we have to look much closer to home in Australia and specifically at what happened in my home city of Melbourne as we became the most locked down city in the world. Now, those of you who have seen my documentary Battleground Melbourne will be all too familiar with this clip.

[From video]

“Go home. Otherwise, they start issuing tickets. If you don’t want to do it, but we will do it, right?” “Well, if you don’t want to do it, don’t do it. Stand up for what you believe in rather than paying.” “Just go home. All right. We get paid to do this, mate. I’m just as over this [……] protest as you are. By protest, I mean lockdown, right? Unfortunately, I got to do what I got to do.” “You don’t have to do that. You don’t have to. You’re choosing to do…” “I’m not skilled to do anything else, mate. So, unfortunately, at this time of my life, that’s what I have to do.” “And the people of us that aren’t skilled, we don’t we don’t get paid. We’re not getting food at the moment.” “I hear you, mate. My wife’s in the same position. She’s out of a job at the moment as well. I understand you’re being pissed off about it.” [End video]

That police officer betrayed his conscience and participated in what he knew to be wrong because he needed that paycheck.

Sadly, we know that if the Australian government were to send out police to arrest people for hurty words, the police would obey without question because they already have. Let’s not forget that they came and arrested me in my home during the lockdowns for the crime of urging people to participate in peaceful protests against the lockdowns, which is our human right. But notice how they avoid acknowledging that in the language they used when they arrested me.

[From video]

“How are you? Good. I’m Josh um from the Dy Police Station. We’re here today to arrest you for incitement. [End video]

“We’re here today to arrest you for incitement.” Now again, you can watch Battleground Melbourne, my multi-award-winning documentary, either by buying it on DVD from goodpeoplebreakbadlaws.com, which would also help me out financially, or you can actually watch it completely for free at battlegroundmelbourne.com. I had the privilege of directing this documentary, but it’s not my story. This is the story of the people of Victoria and Melbourne who stood up and did what was right, even when their government was wrong. So, I made a commitment to keep it available to watch for free for as long as I could, and it is there available for and it is there available for free at battlegroundmelbourne.com to this day. Now, I want you to notice what they said that they were doing when they arrested me. They were arresting me for incitement.

[From video]

“How are you? Good. I’m Josh um from the Dy Police Station. We’re here today to arrest you for incitement. [End video]

This is important. They not there to arrest me for standing up for human rights or for being a voice for the voiceless or any of the good and decent and right things that I was doing. No, no. They had a very specific view of me and what I was doing. One that was dictated to them by the police force, the chain of command and the government that they served and were paid by. And this is the third kind of police officer, the third problem that we’ll get to in a minute.

So, the first one is the many police who know it’s wrong but will go along with it anyway because they’re scared. See, William Wallace fought for freedom at the cost of his life, but they won’t fight for freedom if it costs them their paycheck. But actually, they’re not the really bad ones. The ones who really cause the misery are the second group, which are the ones who actually enjoy it. These are the police officers who either enjoy the power for their own psychological reasons or just 100% buy into the lies, the narratives all about the thin blue line that the whole civilization is held together by them enforcing such rules and they’re on the right side of history and all that.

Never forget that police officers are subjected to a daily barrage of information warfare designed to deceive them, to ensure their compliance with every order they are given. This information warfare is disguised as important updates of things that they supposedly need to know so that they always know better than you. In their months of training and then years of service, they often will just lose touch with the real world over time and come to believe everything that their employer, which is the government, tells them. And I’ll illustrate with a simple example out of the US.

In the US, there’s lots of police and sheriffs, some of whom I know personally, who will proudly tell me that they would never obey an order to disarm law-abiding Americans. The Second Amendment is sacred, and I would never participate in government tyranny. But every day, right across the USA, people get their doors kicked in and their guns confiscated by those very police officers and those sheriffs. Why? Well, if you ask the officers, they’ll say, “Oh, but this is different.” Because, see, the order doesn’t say go and take guns off law-abiding Americans in violation of their Second Amendment rights. Of course, it doesn’t say that. It says, “Go and protect the public by taking guns off that person who did you know they’re a danger to their family or they’re a suspected right-wing extremist or did you know that they’re associated with drug smugglers or whatever the particular cover may be.”

They never get told to be a tyrant. They get told that what they’re doing is the right thing. These officers never go and verify any of the information they’re being fed. They just go out there armed with their orders and their sense of self-righteousness and they do as they’re told. Which brings us to that third group of officers, the type that arrested me. So firstly, there’s the ones that betray their conscience cuz they know it’s wrong, but they do it anyway. They’re cowards. The second group are the ones who actually enjoy it and they are psychopaths. Then there’s the third group that chooses ignorance. They choose to believe whatever they’re being told, even though if they actually spent a moment thinking about it, they would realize that what they’re being told is wrong.

“I’m just doing what I’m told.” It’s the same thing as “I’m just following orders.” I call this outsourcing your morality.

And there’s a reason that I quit the Australian Infantry. I realized that I was expected to trust the accuracy, the honesty, and the moral judgment of people who quite frankly deserve no such faith. I decided that I wasn’t willing to outsource my morality to them. So, I quit. But many police officers who are faced with the same dilemma, they willingly outsource their morality. Either they truly believe the BS they get fed or they simply choose not to question it because it’s easier and safer that way. It’s certainly safer for their career.

Getting out of the mess that we’re in and stopping ourselves from following the UK down this very dark path is going to require courage. Ideally, it would have required just a little bit of courage from the police cuz that’s all that it would have taken for them to stand up and to stop the enforcement of these tyrannical restrictions on free speech. But if recent history is a guide, then sadly we can’t count on our police for any amount of courage to stand up against their pay masters. And so instead, it falls to you and me. And we are going to need to find a lot of courage because we’re not only standing up against the petty tyrants who are trying to destroy Australia from the top, we’re also having to stand up against their enforcers, the police, who either out of cowardice or out of ignorance or out of gleeful power tripping, willingly enforce the destruction of our nation.

Now, if you don’t know what that looks like to stand up to your government, to do what’s right even when your government is wrong, then please begin to educate yourself by heading over to battleground.com and watching completely for free my documentary about the covid lockdowns and the human rights abuses that came with them. This story is about civil disobedience, but it’s also about courage and how ordinary people found the courage to do what was right even when the government was wrong.

And then if you want to go deeper still to really get a grasp of where governments get their power, of where we get ours, and if you really want to understand the one and only thing that historically has ever worked to successfully limit the power of government, then grab yourself a copy of my first book, Good People Break Bad Laws. It’s all about human rights, civil disobedience, and the limit of government power. It’s about practical ways that we, the people, can enforce those limits.

I’m sorry to say that the UK don’t appear likely to change direction anytime soon despite ongoing pressure from Trump and from JD Vance. And I’m even more sorry to say that here in Australia, we are likely to continue to follow the UK, at least for a while. And given that our leaders are determined to destroy Australia from the top down, that means that we’re going to have to fight to save Australia from the bottom up.

My name is Topher Field. This is the Topher project and I help busy people like you to make sense of the nonsense that surrounds us. I am 100% viewer supported. So if this video has been informative, helpful, or if you’d just like to see more of this sort of content, by an Aussie for Aussies, then please buy me a coffee via the button at topherfield.net. And of course, you’ll find my books, DVDs, t-shirts, and hoodies at goodpeoplebreakbadlaws.com.

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