As the General Election
approaches we watch a comedic and vacuous contest between the main
parties as they attempt to variously bribe, frighten or deceive the
electorate into electing them.
The major parties need
bogeymen. So whether it's the SNP, Plaid Cymru, UKIP or the Greens,
you can bet the spin doctors are working overtime vilifying those who threaten their traditional voting base.
Generally the pompous
self serving propaganda is more high farce than high politics.
But even so, a special
and vile black propaganda is reserved for “racist” UKIP. While
the other minor parties are disliked, UKIP is despised - and feared. Probably because it offers the biggest immediate threat to the status
quo.
Racist. What a word!
A vile word speaking of
Eugenics, pseudo science and demonic bigotry.
A word that today, is
chanted, screamed and spat out. A vile word currently aimed at
generally decent and politically virginal folk. Folk who generally wouldn't
know how to be racist if they tried.
It is the modern day
equivalent of the 17th century Witch-Finder judgement of
Witch! Witch! Witch!
A word of hate screamed
with the aim of subjugating opposition and silencing dissent.
Most of the supporters
of UKIP are blue collar working people. Folk who feel impelled to
support UKIP because they feel disenfranchised by the ruling
metropolitan elites. In some ways UKIP support is a mirror of the way
working class Scots have rallied behind the SNP and abandoned a
complacent, tired and irrelevant Scottish Labour Party.
But Racist!
The word racist, by
such gross misrepresentation, loses its meaning. It is now a word
that has become the property of anti-democratic bigots all the way
from the upholstered boardrooms at the BBC down through to the vile
spiteful losers that inhabit the sewer like recesses of the extreme
left.
But the word racist
screamed out by a hate filled zealot and aimed at a decent, kind and
moral 80 year old pensioner is of course, still sadly undeniable.
Just as terrified young girls in the 17th century found
that being tortured and then declared a witch was undeniable as well.
In the 17th
century a woman accused of witchcraft would be “Pricked”.
Pricking involved drawing blood with a needle. If a place was found
that either didn't bleed or had maybe become numb from the torment
then the woman bore the “Devils Mark” and was clearly a witch.
It was a pathetically
stupid way of determining guilt for a non crime.
Today's equivalent of
pricking is the continual hostile interrogation. The perpetual
attempts to put words into people's mouths. The sneering innuendo and
trickery perpetrated on simple folk as they seek to explain their
position. A media inquisition (led by the BBC) intent on building an
ugly image, no matter how false.
Truly, like other
political parties, UKIP policies need to be subjected to tight
scrutiny and clear analysis but conducting a hate filled pogrom
against their right to free-speech is simple mindless witch hunting.
There is no place for
it in modern society.
Please Note:
Billothewisp is not
a member of UKIP or any other political party. He knows nobody within
UKIP. He has never had any direct contact with anyone within UKIP. He
is unlikely to vote UKIP in the coming General Election.
He does however
believe in free speech.
If such a travesty was perpetrated against the Lib-Dems or the Greens or even the Labour or Conservative parties, he would write the same.
2 comments:
Mr Whisp, you make me laugh and you make me cry. But I beleive every word you state.
You're quite right. The number of people who embraced 'Je suis Charlie' but who want to close down all opinions they don't like demonstrates how deeply double-think runs through political debate.
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