6 replies on “CLIMATE LOCKDOWNS ARE COMING…NOT ONLY IN BRITRAIN”
I can hear the “That can’t happen here” voices already starting up!!
If this is real, let the cheating begin. California…..we dictate that only E cars will be sold in 2035, but there has been no progress on increasing the supply of the precious “E”. So it would be an insane leap to adopt this before they could lock in supplying E cars power supply.
And thanks, Jon, for posting this
I don’t know Oxford at all but I can’t see how this could ever be made to work in the U.S.
Imagine trying to quarter up Los Angeles into go and no-go zones where you have to work and shop within 15 minutes of your front door. Even in the more residential parts of the greater metro area 15 minutes is about 2 miles.
There’s a reason why Los Angeles traffic is so notorious for rush hour traffic jams, people don’t live anywhere near where they work, they live dozens or more miles away.
Business lobby’s, unions and other powerful entities would also have a lot to say against this. You might have a neighborhood grocery store like Ralph’s or Kroger’s within 15 minutes but Disneyland, Knott’s Berry Farm, Universal Studios, Hughes Aircraft, Raytheon, General Motors, Boeing, Northrop Grumman and many, many other mega-million dollar businesses depend on that very large population they’re situated in both for customers and employees.
This does sound like something the most intrusive surveillance nation on the planet would do. Brits can be pretty goofy sometimes. Pretty much every town and village in the UK is run by what amounts to a Homeowner’s Association.
Canada can be almost as bad. There’s some sort of genetic weirdness going on in the whole British Commonwealth, come to think of it.
Look at how Australia and New Zealand handled COVID. Many alarmists said “We’re next, the concentration camps and RONA gulags will be here before you know it!”
And of course they never got here.
It’s good to learn about things like this lady is talking about in this video. So you can be more aware about what’s going on in the world around you.
It’s not good to jump to the conclusion that because someone in Oxford thinks this is a great idea then it will become mandatory everywhere in the civilized world in the next few years. This is like so many schemes, it sounds reasonable, it sounds doable, but the fact is that it’s a nearly impossible thing to scale up to a nation the size of the United States.
This is why we don’t have high speed rail, it doesn’t scale up economically in America. Airports and aircraft are our high speed rail because it works better here to fly than it does to roll.
That doesn’t mean that some Soy Boy Greenie Commie Poindexter isn’t going to suggest this sort of thing, or try to implement such a thing.
It means that it’s not practical and therefore not possible here in the U.S. I’m not saying “it can’t happen here”, I’m saying “it can’t be made to work here no matter what political backing it has”. Something like this could only be implemented in the U.S. after a coup destroys our Republic and after we run out of ammo. There’s a shitload of ammo in National Guard Armories and other places where it could be gotten to …
The British Conservative is the same as an American Center-Left Democrat. There’s a reason why those people and everyone further left want to take guns away from American Citizens.
This Oxford woman is all Chicken Little about this encroachment on her ‘freedom’ which she and her ilk surrendered long ago. If you told her “They don’t dare do this kind of thing because you’re armed” … she’d remember she’s not armed and she’d crap herself at the mere thought of owning a gun. Those people are willing to bitch a lot, fighting not so much.
It’s good to have things like this lady is addressing on the radar but I’m not even a tiny bit worried it will happen here. Not because we’re all that much better, because it would be damn near impossible to implement and enforce.
Thank God this isn’t the UK and the wars we fought to drive those nincompoops back to their island (and Canada) were successful.
I can only imagine……County Quadrant Karen….”Excuse me, Mr. Drive By Gang-Banger….it doesn’t matter if you’re in a high speed chase after your shooting,you MAY NOT cross Katella and Harbor without Incurring a stiff fine and a stern letter from Our office!”
Yeah, no shit, huh? Not gonna work here in the States, probably not even going to work in Oxford, England either.
There’s all sorts of this crap going on around the world, many of them we never hear about. If Jon hadn’t posted this one I probably never would have heard about it myself.
Alarmism is just as harmful in many cases as an actual, real threat. Look at climate change alarmism as a prime example. As level headed intelligent critical thinking Conservatives it’s important that we don’t fall for our own brand of alarmism. That makes us every bit as bad as some nose-ringed purple haired land whale screeching about climate. Most ‘threats’ never live up to their hype. There are people even here on BWC that amp up minor, mistaken or non-existent threats with disturbing regularity.
Where I live the city and county governments combined quite a few years ago. I live in a rural area on several acres of land. Out here people set up rifle and handgun ranges all over the place. They’re safe with substantial backstops to avoid any danger to others from ricochet.
(I moved here from Los Angeles and I hear more gunfire here than there, and I heard quite a bit of gunfire there. It doesn’t bother me at all because here I know the gunfire is just my neighbors practicing to shoot the kind of people generating gunfire in L.A. If you drive down my driveway there’s a good chance a neighbor will see you and watch what you’re doing. They’re not being snoopy, they’re trying to determine if you are a legitimate target or something more benign. I do the same for them.)
A few years back the city tried to outlaw all shooting within the city/county boundaries. Not outlaw guns, outlaw using them on our own property — THAT was a genuine threat and there were hundreds of people from out here where I live, well away from the city proper, who showed up at city council meetings to make it known that we did not approve of the proposed ordinances.
The local government’s position was that because target/recreational shooting was occurring in the small landscaped areas around apartment buildings and such they needed to ban all target and recreational shooting. We loudly pointed out that because there’s already an ordinance against discharging a firearm within 200 feet of an occupied building they needed to enforce the ordinances already on the books and they didn’t need any new ordinances telling people like me what we can do on their own property.
We made such a stink that the city quietly dropped the whole idea.
I did NOT go on YouTube and warn everyone that this was going to come to their town too. Because I knew it was not going to happen and I knew we had dealt with the problem sufficiently to resolve it to our satisfaction.
I can only imagine what would happen if the city tried to do something ridiculous like tell people where and how far they could drive. Think about the large number of people who live right on the border of a ‘quadrant’ and couldn’t cross the street or drive to a grocery store in an adjacent quadrant that just happened to be closer to their home than stores in their own ‘allowed’ area.
Threats need to be triaged and assigned severity in a realistic manner. This stupid thing they’re doing in Oxford, England is very, very low on that scale.
6 replies on “CLIMATE LOCKDOWNS ARE COMING…NOT ONLY IN BRITRAIN”
I can hear the “That can’t happen here” voices already starting up!!
If this is real, let the cheating begin. California…..we dictate that only E cars will be sold in 2035, but there has been no progress on increasing the supply of the precious “E”. So it would be an insane leap to adopt this before they could lock in supplying E cars power supply.
And thanks, Jon, for posting this
I don’t know Oxford at all but I can’t see how this could ever be made to work in the U.S.
Imagine trying to quarter up Los Angeles into go and no-go zones where you have to work and shop within 15 minutes of your front door. Even in the more residential parts of the greater metro area 15 minutes is about 2 miles.
There’s a reason why Los Angeles traffic is so notorious for rush hour traffic jams, people don’t live anywhere near where they work, they live dozens or more miles away.
Business lobby’s, unions and other powerful entities would also have a lot to say against this. You might have a neighborhood grocery store like Ralph’s or Kroger’s within 15 minutes but Disneyland, Knott’s Berry Farm, Universal Studios, Hughes Aircraft, Raytheon, General Motors, Boeing, Northrop Grumman and many, many other mega-million dollar businesses depend on that very large population they’re situated in both for customers and employees.
This does sound like something the most intrusive surveillance nation on the planet would do. Brits can be pretty goofy sometimes. Pretty much every town and village in the UK is run by what amounts to a Homeowner’s Association.
Canada can be almost as bad. There’s some sort of genetic weirdness going on in the whole British Commonwealth, come to think of it.
Look at how Australia and New Zealand handled COVID. Many alarmists said “We’re next, the concentration camps and RONA gulags will be here before you know it!”
And of course they never got here.
It’s good to learn about things like this lady is talking about in this video. So you can be more aware about what’s going on in the world around you.
It’s not good to jump to the conclusion that because someone in Oxford thinks this is a great idea then it will become mandatory everywhere in the civilized world in the next few years. This is like so many schemes, it sounds reasonable, it sounds doable, but the fact is that it’s a nearly impossible thing to scale up to a nation the size of the United States.
This is why we don’t have high speed rail, it doesn’t scale up economically in America. Airports and aircraft are our high speed rail because it works better here to fly than it does to roll.
That doesn’t mean that some Soy Boy Greenie Commie Poindexter isn’t going to suggest this sort of thing, or try to implement such a thing.
It means that it’s not practical and therefore not possible here in the U.S. I’m not saying “it can’t happen here”, I’m saying “it can’t be made to work here no matter what political backing it has”. Something like this could only be implemented in the U.S. after a coup destroys our Republic and after we run out of ammo. There’s a shitload of ammo in National Guard Armories and other places where it could be gotten to …
The British Conservative is the same as an American Center-Left Democrat. There’s a reason why those people and everyone further left want to take guns away from American Citizens.
This Oxford woman is all Chicken Little about this encroachment on her ‘freedom’ which she and her ilk surrendered long ago. If you told her “They don’t dare do this kind of thing because you’re armed” … she’d remember she’s not armed and she’d crap herself at the mere thought of owning a gun. Those people are willing to bitch a lot, fighting not so much.
It’s good to have things like this lady is addressing on the radar but I’m not even a tiny bit worried it will happen here. Not because we’re all that much better, because it would be damn near impossible to implement and enforce.
Thank God this isn’t the UK and the wars we fought to drive those nincompoops back to their island (and Canada) were successful.
I can only imagine……County Quadrant Karen….”Excuse me, Mr. Drive By Gang-Banger….it doesn’t matter if you’re in a high speed chase after your shooting,you MAY NOT cross Katella and Harbor without Incurring a stiff fine and a stern letter from Our office!”
Yeah, no shit, huh? Not gonna work here in the States, probably not even going to work in Oxford, England either.
There’s all sorts of this crap going on around the world, many of them we never hear about. If Jon hadn’t posted this one I probably never would have heard about it myself.
Alarmism is just as harmful in many cases as an actual, real threat. Look at climate change alarmism as a prime example. As level headed intelligent critical thinking Conservatives it’s important that we don’t fall for our own brand of alarmism. That makes us every bit as bad as some nose-ringed purple haired land whale screeching about climate. Most ‘threats’ never live up to their hype. There are people even here on BWC that amp up minor, mistaken or non-existent threats with disturbing regularity.
Where I live the city and county governments combined quite a few years ago. I live in a rural area on several acres of land. Out here people set up rifle and handgun ranges all over the place. They’re safe with substantial backstops to avoid any danger to others from ricochet.
(I moved here from Los Angeles and I hear more gunfire here than there, and I heard quite a bit of gunfire there. It doesn’t bother me at all because here I know the gunfire is just my neighbors practicing to shoot the kind of people generating gunfire in L.A. If you drive down my driveway there’s a good chance a neighbor will see you and watch what you’re doing. They’re not being snoopy, they’re trying to determine if you are a legitimate target or something more benign. I do the same for them.)
A few years back the city tried to outlaw all shooting within the city/county boundaries. Not outlaw guns, outlaw using them on our own property — THAT was a genuine threat and there were hundreds of people from out here where I live, well away from the city proper, who showed up at city council meetings to make it known that we did not approve of the proposed ordinances.
The local government’s position was that because target/recreational shooting was occurring in the small landscaped areas around apartment buildings and such they needed to ban all target and recreational shooting. We loudly pointed out that because there’s already an ordinance against discharging a firearm within 200 feet of an occupied building they needed to enforce the ordinances already on the books and they didn’t need any new ordinances telling people like me what we can do on their own property.
We made such a stink that the city quietly dropped the whole idea.
I did NOT go on YouTube and warn everyone that this was going to come to their town too. Because I knew it was not going to happen and I knew we had dealt with the problem sufficiently to resolve it to our satisfaction.
I can only imagine what would happen if the city tried to do something ridiculous like tell people where and how far they could drive. Think about the large number of people who live right on the border of a ‘quadrant’ and couldn’t cross the street or drive to a grocery store in an adjacent quadrant that just happened to be closer to their home than stores in their own ‘allowed’ area.
Threats need to be triaged and assigned severity in a realistic manner. This stupid thing they’re doing in Oxford, England is very, very low on that scale.