This is the event that the BBC and the rest of the legacy media tried to airbrush out of history: thousands upon thousands of people marching through central London in protest over lockdown and the imminent threat of vaccine passports.
It was by some margin the biggest rally held so far in the UK against the governmentâs draconian Chinese coronavirus restrictions. While the MSM put a low estimate on the numbers â 10,000, according to Reuters â others claim the turnout was considerably higher.
Whatâs certain is that, as with previous anti-lockdown marches, the MSM has done its very best to ignore it. In order for Extinction Rebellion to get mass media coverage, all it has to do is persuade a handful of activists to go with hammers (one ludicrously bearing the message âCare â act with loveâ) and chisels to smash a few windows at a corporate HQ and the story is everywhere, from the BBC to the Sun.
But when perhaps 50,000 or more anti-vaccine-passport protestors bring central London to a standstill as they march down the length of Oxford Street, the event either goes unreported or is sneerily dismissed as a bunch of weirdo conspiracy theorists flouting the governmentâs supposedly sensible and proportionate mask-and-social-distancing regulations.
Here, for example, is the BBCâs âspecialist reporter covering disinformation and social mediaâ pouring scorn on the event:
Anti-lockdown protesters â predominantly organised in Telegram channels promoting conspiracy theories about vaccines and pandemic are marching in Central London.
There are placards claiming covid is a hoax, âthe experimental vaccine killsâ and the QAnon âSave Our Childrenâ. pic.twitter.com/6anw6iRhkx
â Marianna Spring (@mariannaspring) April 24, 2021
In truth, the vast majority of people at the event werenât activists but ordinary folk of all ages, races, and classes whoâd had enough after a year of government lockdowns, and who felt especially concerned by proposals to bring in vaccine passports. They considered these to be illiberal, discriminatory â and the precursor to a Chinese-style social credit system.
Among the crowds, I was especially pleased to meet one of Britainâs most distinguished movie stars from the â60s â James Fox â who had come along to support his son Laurence, who is running to be Mayor of London on an anti-lockdown freedom ticket:
50,000 + wonderful people on the march today and my 82 year old dad is the most wonderful of them all. â¤ď¸ London. pic.twitter.com/MXX3ShkZXd
â Laurence Fox (@LozzaFox) April 24, 2021
Fox was among many opposed to vaccine passports, which he believes are not only discriminatory but un-Christian:
Suppose a church pastor is having a congregation come to him and somebody at the door says: âWeâre only going to allow those people in whoâve been vaccinated.â Would Jesus do that? No he wouldnât. He accepted everybody.
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Breitbart News 2021-04-25 15:48:00