Are we being gagged?

[fallen-archie]

Few cannot have noticed the criticism of our media, they are accused of blatant bias particularly by those on the left who seem to be the only ones who read the tabloids! This is far from the whole story though, the BBC is openly targeted along with sky news etc etc indeed the only news outlets that appear to be accepted are Russia Today and Sputnik? We have had little information on the progress of the Salisbury investigation and none on the Dhouma investigation which resulted in the French, British and US bombing strategic locations. Instead all seems to be played out on social media with many spending hours posting stories that we have no way of knowing whether they are true or not. Yesterday saw the arrest and imprisonment of Tommy Robinson for violating the rules of court a problem which he had already been warned about, yet there remain those who question what he was trying to achieve and why it was deemed necessary to go to such lengths which could lead to him being placed in considerable danger! If anything were to happen to him whilst he is held in custody it could prove even more inflammatory than the crimes he is alleged to have committed. Surely the time has come for us to have an open and frank discussion on what constitutes a hate crime, what is the deep state, what is white privilege, whether there is the level of corruption within our society that many claim and from a personal point of view why we must keep growing our population at an uncontrollable level! Would you be prepared to pay a bit more tax to improve our nhs? I would providing it went on front line services, Would you like to see less rough sleeping? I would as long as they recognised their role in society and started to contribute accordingly.
Everything about modern society smacks of conflict black on black, white on white, Muslim on Christian. Young on Gammon! And so on! Why can’t we map out a way forward that embraces our heritage, acknowledges about past misdemeanours and allows our society to interact socially and on a working level with pride, a society where jealousy is abandoned in favour of opportunity, where compassion for the elderly and lonely becomes the norm, is it really down to the behaviour of a our failing press or is it more to do with our own personal aspirations? I don’t know any more!!!!

[cee-dee]

Well that was a rant and a half?

There's just too much in there to comment on it all but I think I'd sum up by saying this:-

It doesn't seem to matter these day what you say because someone, somewhere will take a perceived offence, blow it up out of all proportion and not let it drop until they get something they'd call a result?

[al**bear]

I still believe Dhouma was a false flag 'attack' set up by Islamists 

Have You watched the videos exposing the White Helmet fake video (which caused the outcry)

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Sky News and BBC News (& BBC Politics dept),  are so pro-West and pro-Conservative nowadays,

they are hardly worth watching - for UK or World news

[cee-dee]

Sky is pro Conservative? No way, I find them to be left wing and socialist biased. Faisal Islam and Adam Boulton are so far Left it's a wonder they've not dropped off the side!

[fallen-archie]

Al there is so much conflicting evidence about the role of the white helmets, much of it based upon their sources of funding, which is predominantly through western nations, this immediately leads to accusations of them being lead by their puppet masters from both right and left! Aside from the well publicised incident involving the death and disposal of a number of bodies by a couple of their members for which they were punished there doesn’t appear to be a great deal of hard evidence either way! They do put themselves in danger frequently and have been responsible for saving many lives!

[fallen-archie]

CD as far as sky and mainstream media goes they are as left wing or right wing as you wish to make them, all they need to do is to question the given narrative, which is there job, and they are immediately branded as being anti this or that! What I find far more worrying is our inability to argue our differences in a reasoned way, and the fact that so much is now off limits in terms of discussion, Grooming gangs comes to mind! As does the roll of the so called establishment in our day to day lives.

[cee-dee]

You're right about not being able to argue in a reasoned way ie without insults or abuse. I like argueing my corner...

[theelench]

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@fallen-archie wrote:Why can’t we map out a way forward that embraces our heritage, acknowledges about past misdemeanours and allows our society to interact socially and on a working level with pride, a society where jealousy is abandoned in favour of opportunity, where compassion for the elderly and lonely becomes the norm, is it really down to the behaviour of a our failing press or is it more to do with our own personal aspirations? I don’t know any more!!!!

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Isn't it true to say that opportunity is being curtailed for so many that even aspiration is failing by the wayside?  How many can aspire to anything more than keeping the job they've got and that their next pay rise will be enough to keep their heads above water as bills and taxes continue their inexorable rise?

Any sense of heritage is down-played as it demonstrates that the past has helped form what we have now and its continuity can help construct our future.  Far better to have a never ending now, apparently without beginning or end, where we are all nothing more than consumers whose main aspiration is to increase our credit rating.

Politics is played out in sound bites, reacting to the latest sensational revelation.  Largely policy free with little reference to historical values or long term goals, this weeks aspirational sound bite so often jettisoned the following week.  So many now have never been taught how to develop a reasoned argument or how to organise their thoughts to debate a point of view.  Many will never have even heard such a thing done by a politician or anyone else.  Education has largely been replaced by courses designed solely to pass exams demonstrating how employable the victims are.   

I don't think any of the things you cite above will come about until education starts producing generations with a sense of history, the place of their heritage within it and the determination to make the future how they want it.  I don't see any of those around right now.  All I see is a population beguiled by transient images on flickering screens being led into the future by those who control the images and who would prefer that everyone else doesn't think at all.