MP's Voice Is Silenced By Murder
An attack on democracy - but from which direction?
UDATED Oct 26, 2021 (Oct 18)
A tangled web connects the death of an MP, massacres abroad, the government’s hypocritical stance on democracy, the restriction of free speech and the silencing of a voice against pharmaceutical malpractice.
On the same day the press reported the killing of Sir David Amess MP, the press revealed the murderous lengths to which the British government has gone to put corporate income ahead of human lives.
In the 1960s the British Foreign Office stoked Indonesian massacres to protect corporate profits in the former colonies. Almost six decades later, an MP’s murder is blamed on a Somali, a young adult displaced by today’s colonial wars.
Last week’s murder has not led to calls to defend democracy — quite the reverse. There are demands to quarantine MPs for their safety while socially-distanced representatives “discuss” an Online Safety Bill that would shadow ban online speech. How can Parliament discuss legislation if it cannot even meet? MPs are in the same straits as the rest of us: separated, shackled, silenced.
For there is a third line of analysis — more dark and sinister: David Amess just happens to have been a campaigner for stricter drug trials in the face of hundreds of thousands of pharmaceutical deaths from adverse reactions. Scroll down for that section.
Oct 16, 2021
British MPs don't generally get abused by their own people — certainly no more than any figure who aspires to prominence, from sports to entertainment. No-one cares enough, to be brutally honest. Their status has declined as parliament is increasingly constrained, a foil for the executive power that resides in the Cabinet Office.
The power of nation states is declining relative to globalist corporate voices who set out their stalls in Davos and Brussels, rendering the humble local MP something of a relic in need of revival and restoration.
If anyone was trying to stay relevant it was Sir David Amess MP, as we shall go on to see. Yet his cruel death is already being roped into the service of other agendas. So far we don’t even know where the motive lies. Without a political element it could hardly be deemed terrorism, yet that is the narrative that the state-corporatist media is stenographing.
The Speaker of the House of Commons Sir Lindsay Hoyle said we must end the hatred aimed at our MPs. He would do better to silence such self-serving commentary. He should urge MPs to lead, to amplify the people’s voice and win their support — not retreat behind the portcullis.
Such simpering weakness from the Speaker will only encourage the bullies who are intimidating our MPs into silence. And a prime culprit is the corporate mafia.
The people have been on the receiving end of government hostility and brutality for 18 months on the pretext of a disease no more deadly than the flu. You may blame the government’s deliberate use of fear and psychological torture techniques on incompetence. In that case, MPs are ineffectual. If intentional, MPs are complicit.
This murder will inevitably be called an attack on democracy but that’s a contested term nowadays. Legislatures have effectively been suspended for 18 months since the start of Event Covid. Few MPs attend the House of Commons in person. The once-sacral duty of voting in person has degenerated into a disputed grey area. As the Welsh Senedd recently showed, votes go ahead even if delegates can’t get online.
It’s not the people who show such disrespect for elected representatives: it’s the establishment and the increasingly corporatized bureaucracy.
In Britain the head of the civil service is the nexus of the intelligence services and the growing bio-security state. The National Health Service, whose GPs still deny face-to-face consultations to most of their patents, hands patient data to commercial third parties. Government and public services increasingly resemble the executive arm of corporate lobbying.
Speaker Hoyle called for conversation to “be kinder and based on respect.” The Guardian, close to British military intelligence, picked up the ball and ran with it: declaring that Hoyle’s comments reflect “a wider problem about the levels of hatred and intimidation in politics that must be addressed… with many MPs privately confiding that they face death threats on a regular basis on social media.”
Former Green Jacket Tobias Ellwood MP who is a serving Lt Col in the 77th Brigade propaganda unit of the British Army, called for MPs to halt face-to-face meetings with the public. The media tells us that “communicating with MPs, either on social media or by other means, was becoming more hostile and aggressive all the time.”
Recall Ellwood in May 2020 called for the head of the Cabinet Office, then civil service chief Mark Sedwill, to take the reins of the Covid response and push aside prime minister Boris Johnson.
Ellwood was present when police constable Keith Palmer was stabbed outside the House of Commons in 2017 and gave him first aid. Ellwood’s brother Jonathan was killed in the 2002 Bali bombings, though Jonathan left a light digital footprint.
The new head of Mi5, Ken McCallum, led the agency’s response to the 2017 Whitehall attack. Writer Nick Must reviewed the series of terror attacks that have occurred under Mi5’s watch in an article for Lobster magazine. [1]
Banal Somali
The man alleged to have committed this latest attack is Ali Harbi Ali, 25, who was referred to the government’s Prevent Strategy (on the various ways people are drawn to terrorism, “including far right extremism and some aspects of non-violent extremism”) but he was not on MI5’s database of persons of interest.
Why should a random Somali be motivated to kill a British MP? Do random Englishmen kill Italian or Peruvian politicians? The actions of Ali make little sense without more information.
Was Ali radicalised by Twitter? That takes us full circle. Why was a non-native speaker of English influenced by English-dominated social media directed, we are told, at British MPs? In that case, why don’t more consumers of social media pelt eggs at politicians on a daily basis? None of this makes sense.
Perhaps he has greater political sensibility than your average 25 year-old Brit who displays little interest in politics at all. Was Ali radicalized by British foreign policy — well, then politicians bear some responsibility.
There is absolutely no evidence to suggest terrorism, without some connection to Britain’s actions abroad. Let us therefore speculate: Ali's act might constitute the response by a muslim or an East African to British foreign policy, rooted in the protest movements against British colonial policy. The difference being that in the 1960s those protests took place in their home country many thousands of miles away. Nowadays it’s closer to home, as London mayor Sadiq Khan said in 2017: terror attacks are “part and parcel” of living in a major city. [2]
If Britain’s military has global reach then so, today, do those who would oppose it. As outgoing Chief of the Defence Staff Gen Sir Nick Carter put it, the enemy may be at home.
Those who consider themselves dispossessed once found their voice championed by that self-declared liberal bastion, The Guardian. Today it calls to censor speech on grounds of “hate” on social media, underlining its own increasing irrelevance as part of the old media.
Foreign perfidy
On the same weekend that it linked the MP’s death to social media The Guardian retold how British spies promoted the Indonesian massacres of 1965-66 that led to the deaths of between 500,000 and three million people accused of supporting communists, a massacre that was then used to oust the sitting president.
“In 1965 specialist propagandists from the Foreign Office’s information research department (IRD) were sent to Singapore to produce black propaganda to undermine Sukarno’s regime.” [3]
Signals intelligence at GCHQ monitored the massacres as they progressed, while British propagandists egged them on.
Money was at the root of it. Sukarno opposed Britain reshaping the borders in the Straits — as it had done in Arabia with Sykes-Picot — including the creation of Malaysia. The Foreign Office reckoned its bloody meddling yielded a profit for Britain of £250 million a year.
Today democracy has become a sloganeering vehicle of the hybrid state of permanent war: something to be promoted by think tanks, a fist shaken in the face of putative enemy states, a tool of foreign policy, which signs actual contracts with journalistic organizations like Reuters and the BBC to cultivate Color Revolution activists through international “charities” such as BBC Media Action.
Such foreign policy is financed by tax-exempt foundations such as the Royal Institute of International Affairs-Council On Foreign Relations, whose pockets are deeper than the British Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), as it was clunkily renamed in Sep 2020.
Britain has championed its leadership of the D-10, which expands the G-7 with the democracies of India, Australia and South Korea. The Alliance of Democracies Foundation was founded in 2017 by Anders Fogh Rasmussen, a former NATO Secretary General and Danish prime minister. AoD executive director Jonas Parello-Plesner quotes think-tanker Ben Judah as saying the AoD will “keep China in check, India close, and the US steady in the turbulent years to come.”[4]
Take the pill
So far I have indulged the official explanations. I have given them more attention than perhaps they deserve.
The alleged perpetrator could not be more unlikely. My late father was a British diplomat in the country some decades ago. Somalis are pretty insular. When I lived in The Hague in the early 2000s, the Dutch municipality tried to disperse the Somali ghetto and relocate families throughout the city. Instead the Somali families decamped en masse to Britain so they could continue to live as a community.
It's doubtful Ali cared about the UK political system or followed MPs closely enough to know much about them individually. We may discover in time some other motive. Unlike 90 per cent of accused terror incidents the perpetrator is this time alive.
Sometimes misdemeanors by Somalis are blamed on the very widespread habit of chewing the leafy green narcotic khat, that produces an effect like a weakened amphetamine or speed. But perhaps there were other drugs involved.
Too much medicine
David Amess was, in 2004, the member of the House of Commons Health Committee which investigated and reported on The Influence of the Pharmaceutical Industry. [5]
This criticised “disease mongering… with the interest of the pharmaceutical industry in seeing an increase of the abnormal population who need drugs for one reason or another.” It criticised inadequate testing which makes the report still relevant today:
Patient information leaflets (PIL) are often written to minimize legal liability for the pharma companies.
Research-into-prevention diverts money from treatment, which in turn diverts money away from the sick, poor or old.
A public inquiry should be conducted every time a drug is withdrawn on health grounds to determine whether sufficient testing of the drug took place.
Phama funds much of the post-graduate education of GPs.
Where pharma funds more than 20% of an organization’s budget, it becomes dependent on the industry. Patients’ organizations are increasingly influenced by big pharma.
Codes of conduct between the pharmaceutical industry and the health service are needed, and standards of behaviour for pharma industry representatives.
The following year he supported an Early Day Motion entitled The British Pharmaceutical Industry that called for “the highest ethical standards in the research and promotion of medicines… to ensure that the appropriate use of medicines both improves patient care and helps the NHS budget to go further.” [6]
In 2010 David Amess proposed a Bill on the Safety of Medicines. Adverse drug reactions resulting in hospital admissions cost the NHS £2 billion a year. He asked what constitutes adequate testing, pointing to the painkiller Vioxx, withdrawn in 2004, which killed more than 100,000 people worldwide in its five years on the market — the biggest drug disaster in history… up to that time. [7]
In the speech proposing the Bill he pointed out:
Nine out of 10 new drugs that pass animal tests go on to fail in human clinical trials.
The testing regime has not kept up with technology, citing human DNA “chips” and computer modelling.
Many drugs for the elderly are never tested on the elderly, and women are massively under-represented in clinical trials.
More recent comments are not immediately apparent from computer searches. I would never suggest that Google or Twitter would censor a politician! Whatever — David Amess made his position perfecly clear.
Dr Aseem Malhotra FRCP Tweeted: “Very sad news about David Amess. I met him in parliament in 2016 when he took an interest in BMJ Too Much Medicine campaign. He understood our request for a parliamentary inquiry into the misdemeanors of the pharmaceutical industry.” [8]
Deaths as a result of the Covid vaccines already vastly exceed those of Vioxx. The silence of regulatory authorities, government officials and the state-corporatist media suggest that, just as in Indonesia 60 years ago, the calculation has been made: hundreds of thousands of lives equate to $/£ millions.
Timing and response
The killing of David Amess also comes as British MPs are considering in committee the Online Safety Bill. [9]
This would severely restrict freedom of speech by giving official censors to “shadow ban” content. It would embed fact checkers within the UK regulatory aparatus — like Newsguard, which is funded by Microsoft, Time and Wired, the State Department and the U.S. Department of Defense.
Newsguard’s sophomoric Anna-Sophie Harling, Managing Director, Europe sits on OFCOM as Online Safety Principal. OFCOM will become the UK’s censor under the Bill.
Other countries are implementing similar legislation. Australia has already passed its Online Safety Bill, in Jul 2021. Canada will introduce an online harms bill this autumn, in addition to the Hate Speech Bill C-36 of Jun, 2021, to create a digital safety commissioner to police internet content.
Three days after the Amess murder the British press was linking his killing to “angry mobs of anti-vaccine protesters” and Brexit, the issue that the press used to explain the murder of Jo Cox MP in 2016 on the eve of the vote to leave the European Union.
Whatever the cause of this latest outrage the media, politicians and pressure groups already know how they’re going to use it. MPs call for restrictions on constituents meeting MPs. Contact, even by email, is toxic. The answer, we are told, is more control of online discourse.
What is the outlook for democracy if it is honoured more in the breach than the observance?
There is no question that the killing of an MP is an attack on democracy. Our response should be to defend our electoral and representative system — and the right of MPs and constituents to be vocal.
UPDATE, Oct 26, 2021
Amess was to have been a speaker on the debate to extend the Coronavirus Act restrictions on Oct 18th. In the past he has strongly opposed the Lockdowns, saying a year ago that he was “horrified” at the government’s “shambolic” handline of the issue. [10]
Earlier he had called the plan to make masks-wearing mandatory an attack on civil liberties [11] Last March he led a debate by MPs on vaccine passports. [12]
Perhaps most significantly, he was an MP who took the job seriously. As a legislator he tried to be a check on the executive, even when the party in power was his own. The snivelling comments of MPs competing to describe how they’ve been insulted online misses, or deliberately obscures, the point that the people’s voice in government is being silenced by malevolent forces.
The man accused of his murder is the 25 year-old son of a former Somali government press officer, Harbi Ali Kullane (61) who now lives between Britain and Kenya. He is said to have been opposed to the Islamic element who now run Somalia, as well as the movement al-Shabaab.
The accused, Ali Harbi Ali, will not face court until next March.
The Coronavirus Act was passed without a vote, after MPs who supported the extension shouted down opponents.
[1] Nick Must, Lobster — MI5 speaks to the nation! (PDF)
[2] The Independent, 2017 — Sadiq Khan: London mayor says being prepared for terror attacks 'part and parcel' of living in a major city
[3] The Guardian, Oct 17, 2021 — Revealed: how UK spies incited mass murder of Indonesia’s communists
[4] Foreign Policy Centre, Dec 2020 — How the UK becomes a global force for Democracy and Freedom
[5] House of Commons Health Committee report, 2005 — The Influence of the Pharmaceutical Industry
[6] Early Day Motion, 2006 — The British Pharmaceutical Industry
[7] David Amess, Safety of Medicines, Commons Speech 2010
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[9] UK Online Safety Bill, Parliament, Jul 2021 — Joint Committee on the Draft Online Safety Bill established
[10] Echo, Nov 2020 — Sir David Amess of Southend West 'horrified' by second lockdown
[11] Yellow Advertiser, Jul 2020 — Southend MP calls plans to make masks mandatory an ‘infringement on civil liberties’
[12] Parallel Parliament, Mar 2021 — Vaccine Passports, David Amess Excerpts
From which direction? The anti Brexit direction.
The murder of David Amess is very sad indeed. Sincere condolences to his family. This was an attack on democracy. Here's why Sir David Amess was murdered :
From the pov of his real assassins, not the nominal patsy, his unforgivable mistake was to be a staunch Brexiteer and member of Leave Means Leave ...
David Amess was murdered on October 15, 2021 = 666 days into Boris Johnson's Tory government - the State Opening of Parliament and the Queen's Speech and the introduction of the European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill 2019-20, all on December 19, 2019.
The UK's EU Referendum project began when the, then leader of the opposition, David Cameron, stated that "if he became PM, a Conservative government will hold a Referendum on any EU treaty". This offer was announced on September 26, 2007 = 666 months after David Amess was born on March 26, 1952 - hence why David Amess was selected as the victim rather than any other Euro-sceptic Tory MP.
October 15, 2021 also, just happened to be = 666 months and 666 days since Boris Johnson was born on June 19, 1964.
Kabbalistically, this is clearly an attack on the Tories for reasons of Brexit. No doubt about it.
Note : This is the second "666 day terrorist attack" on recent Tory governments, both occurring 666 days into their term, the State Opening of Parliament and the Queens Speech.
The first was the 2017 Westminster Attack on March 22, 2017 = the 666 th day of David Cameron's Tory government which began on May 27, 2015.
I very much doubt whether the patsies are the ones with the keys to the kabbalistic calendar ...
MG