Army spied on lockdown critics: Sceptics, including our own Peter Hitchens, long suspected they were under surveillance. Now we’ve obtained official records that prove they were right all along

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  2. If by surveillance they mean their public tweets/Facebook status’s were printed and compiled – seriously who cares. By those standards I’m ‘surveilling’ my Nan.

  3. It is documented that many Covid-19 anti-lockdown theorists were were given a platform and were promoted by Russian state propaganda all across Europe. It would be remiss if the army hadn’t kept tabs on the lies these idiots were disseminating.

  4. Gonna say something similar to what I’ve said previously… Biggest irony is, they spend millions of YOU’RE money on equipment to spy on YOU, when most of us here are just trying to get on in with life and make do, all the while they are fastly taking away our privacy and when really, it seems apparent more than ever now, that we need these cameras turned round on these parasitic cretins… These people are the ones fuckin it all up for the rest of us, the politicians and their dodgy deals/policies, the bills that go against our human rights, they steal, they lie, they break the law, only to openly lie about breaking the law and then form a human centipede in order to hold up said lie… And the worst thing of all, which is a result of everything I’ve mentioned, is the cost of lives, people literally losing their lives, and their mental well being, whether it be through not being able to cope or due to health/financial/circumstantial reasons caused by the examples given. They value us and our lives so cheaply, i truly get the impression they don’t give a monkeys, how much we are suffering right now and all the while patting themselves on the back and getting payrise after payrise, MPs expenses, a second home and almost complete immunity from the law.. We have to start taking action, in order to better our country’s political infrastructure, so that we can have a better standard of living and the kids coming up can have a better standard of living and better role models for their kids to aspire to..

  7. Not being funny have you heard some of the loons about lockdown, I want the army spying on them some are right nutters. I work with a guy that’s a prepper he’s got a crossbow and in his own words a treasure list for what to take when it “all goes down”

  8. So during a pandemic, the government read public articles and social media posts by prominent people who criticised their policies, to understand how best to respond and communicate policies to a scared public?

    Yes, of course they did. Wouldn’t you expect that?

  9. >They compiled dossiers on public figures such as ex-Minister David Davis, who questioned the modelling behind alarming death toll predictions, as well as journalists such as Peter Hitchens and Toby Young.

    Ex ministers and journalists?

    >Mr Hitchens was monitored after sharing an article, based on leaked NHS papers, which claimed data used to publicly justify lockdown was incomplete

    Was this misinformation or just data they didn’t like.

    >”I developed the impression the Government were more interested in protecting the success of their policies than uncovering any potential foreign interference… ”

    Lol, of course.

    >This is an alarming case of mission creep, where public money and military power have been misused to monitor academics, journalists, campaigners and MPs who criticised the Government

    …

    >It was about domestic perception, not national security.

    So same as all foreign policy reporting.

    >TheFusilier, Oldbury, United Kingdom, 3 weeks ago:
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    >When the government tasks the armed forces to conduct operations of any sort against the citizens that pay their wages then the country is under a tyrannical regime and we have a duty to oppose it.

    Salute to a real patriot. Some of you don’t get it, are happy being shepherded from one event to the next as long as no-one breaks character.

  10. The Government is supposed to Serve and Protect its people.

    Instead we live in a False Democracy which makes people believe they are free, but are actually more restricted that mice in a lab.

  11. I think the issue surrounds misinformation/disinformation.
    Some still say “lockdowns don’t work” when we know reduced social interaction=reduced transmission=fewer deaths.

    Aside from that it becomes a political decision.

  12. Is the silly definition of “spying” that means “read the BS they were publishing in the media and social media”?

    In which case. Doh.

  13. Hilariously transparent attempt to mislead from the mail here, implying heavily that the MOD unit was responsible for monitoring the named people when actually when you get further down they sneak in the fact that the MOD unit was only allowed to look at anonymous accounts that could plausibly be foreign disinformation campaigns. That is literally the entire point of such units and the government would be completely negligent if they were not monitoring potential foreign disinformation campaigns, especially after recent events.

    Completely dishonest from the mail to conflate the 2. What actually happened was the government looked at social media posts to see what points were being made and to adjust messaging (shocking I know) while an MOD unit did an entirely separate thing that is literally its sole purpose.

    Also the amount of times they shoehorn the word “sinister” in there – just because you repeatedly call something normal sinister doesn’t make it so. Was this article written by a 15 year old?

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