They Just Massively Crossed The Line...

Russell Brand
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Is Britain still a liberal democracy? Is it? Is it? What does it mean when facial recognition,
digital identity, programmable money and mass surveillance are quietly woven together
like a filthy wig of corruption into a system that makes anonymity, dissent and refusal
increasingly impossible? What does it mean when Elon Musk, or as I call him,
Oh, Muskie, described Britain as a police state sounded to many like a provocation or exaggeration.
Yet the reality now emerging suggests his remark may have barely scratched the surface
of a far deeper transformation already underway in the UK.
This is about extending the use of live facial recognition.
We've got 10 vans that are going to be used in seven police force areas over the coming months
and that will allow police officers then to use that technology to then make decisions
about individuals who the police need to speak to, interview and take forward for charging.
So people who are wanted for rape, GBH, knife crime, domestic abuse and also sex offenders who
have conditions on them being in the community who may be breaching those conditions.
Plans to deploy live facial recognition cameras across every city,
town and village mark a decisive shift in how power is exercised in Britain and shows you
how a state that sees itself as God in simple things like the registration of birth,
the sanctioning of marriages and the recording of death is becoming a God-like entity.
Let me know what you think about that in the comments and the chat because what I believe
now is that the state is God and is emulating the very God that it claims doesn't exist.
Come to me like little children, depend on me for your universal basic income,
for your ideologies, for your morality and for your ethics.
The state can't carry that burden because the state is just an amalgam of individuals
and human beings' collective power is still not divine.
Zero plus zero plus zero equals zero.
And a bunch of human beings sitting trying to work stuff out will never equate to divine power
in the same way that aggregated AI power will never equal divine power.
It will be supreme and superlative and difficult to surpass for
humans eventually, evidently, obviously, plainly.
But it is not divine because consciousness,
that is the molecular power that you have access to and that I have access to.
The light by which we see light, keep that in mind.
This man didn't want to be caught by the police cameras so he covered his face.
Police stopped him.
They photographed him anyway.
The police said this was disorderly behaviour so they gave him a fine.
This whole plan, this facial recognition plan,
is a decisive shift in how power is exercised in our country and it is our country, the UK.
This is not merely an upgrade to policing tools, even if they sell it as that.
It's the construction of an AI-driven surveillance architecture
that collapses the boundary between observation and control.
Her name is Silky Carlo, I think, and she works at Big Brother Watch.
Even though she distanced herself from me when I was unfairly and unjustly
accused and then charged with rape crimes, her work is excellent,
excellent and you should pursue and support her.
biometric databases, online age verification like in Australia
and a future central bank digital currency known as the digital pound.
He ran into a bank and showed **** the pound.
A digital pound.
Pound is too old a word to live with digital, isn't it?
It doesn't work for me.
With the advent of the digital pound, Britain edges towards a permanent state of monitoring
where anonymity becomes impossible and dissent increasingly risky.
So get obedient to your new God, the state.
Because now you don't decide whether or not you believe in God,
you decide in what that God's going to be.
Luckily, people like me, alcoholics and drug addicts,
we've always known that.
We know that worship is inevitable.
The government and the state know that as well.
That's why they tell you firstly there is no God
and then they essentially demand ritualistic worship through material bureaucracy.
Just try doing anything without paying your tithes to your God.
Firstly, confiscate your e-tax.
Bang!
That's one of the things that you're meant to do through sacrifice, first fruits.
Now with this new immersive blob of power, that's what Mike Benz calls it, isn't it?
The blob.
You're going to be with God all the time, whether you believe in God or not.
Your only way out of this God is actual real God.
Where did all this come from?
The rules of the universe, love, divinity,
and the metrics that make pattern recognition possible and meaningful.
Again and again, you see that there would be no patterning.
There would be no geometry.
There would be no mathematics.
There'd be no music.
Facial recognition is described as the greatest breakthrough in policing since DNA matching.
Digital ideas framed as non-mandatory.
It's non-mandatory, a convenience rather than a condition of participation in modern life.
Yet history, our old friend yesterday,
shows that systems built for optional efficiency have a filthy, stinking,
sneaking habit of becoming compulsory infrastructure.
Once embedded, they're almost impossible to refuse.
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This shift represents a striking reversal in the promises made by Keir Starmer in July 2024.
He pledged that a labor government, labor, remember that word,
would tread more lightly on people's lives.
Try treading at all in Texas, baby.
Don't tread on me.
You have given us a clear mandate and we will use it to deliver change.
Person doesn't look like they should be in charge of a country,
just doesn't have that kind of charisma, freight, or weight,
unless running a country was just going to be managerial and bureaucratic.
Then he'd be perfect.
He's a person that's good if what you want is just order and organization.
Keir Starmer's what you want.
If you want to make sure the pencils are sharpened, Keir Starmer.
But if you see the person in a position of leadership as a kind of living antennae
who's got to be hit with great waves of psychic and spiritual power
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To restore service and respect to politics.
End the era of noisy performance.
Tread more lightly on your lives.
Within two months, that promise was quietly abandoned.
Addressing the Labour Party conference,
Starman made it clear that the state would, in fact, take greater control.
The direction of travel was set.
That direction didn't begin with Labour, and it won't end with it.
Labour's just a temporary facsimile, as you know by now,
of true sets of power that don't tell you how they're operating.
Because if they did, you would oppose them.
It doesn't matter which one of those parties
enters into that established infrastructure.
It will behave in the way that that infrastructure demands of it.
The expansion of surveillance completes a project started under the Conservatives.
Increased powers for the Department for Work and Pensions
to monitor claimants' bank accounts.
Intensified crackdowns on lawful protests.
More than 30 arrests a day for offensive online speech in 2023.
And plans to curtail the right to trial by jury.
All predate the current government.
Party labels change.
The machinery continues to grow.
The goal is always control.
Try to stay focused on this.
Does this enable them to have more control?
If the answer is yes, then think about, reflect on, contemplate
whether or not that control will be misused
or whether you want another ideology to use those same levers of control
in order to control you.
Police forces themselves lobbied to use facial recognition technology
despite clear evidence of bias and misidentification.
Even the Home Office has conceded that live facial recognition
interferes with human rights.
Human rights interferes, right, interferes with human rights.
If human rights are absolute, as George Carlin pointed out,
you're sort of making a claim to the divine.
And obviously George Carlin did it from a somewhat atheistic perspective.
People say, well, they come from God.
They're God-given rights.
Oh, ****, here we go again.
But from the perspective of a believer, the same thing is true.
To have human rights, you have to have universal truths.
To have universal truths, you have to have an absolute creator.
Otherwise, what you're doing is just arguing about preferences.
One day, you might say a universal right is the universal right to be who you are.
And the next day, you might say a universal right is unlimited access to Coca-Cola.
And that's actually what's happened over time.
Interferes with human rights.
Silky Carlo, whose name I remembered without reading this, thank you, Lord,
of Big Brother Watch has warned that Britain is being turned into an open prison,
where passports become mugshots for a giant surveillance database,
exposing millions to error, abuse and injustice.
What makes this moment uniquely dangerous is not any single policy,
but the way these systems interlock.
Facial recognition tracks where you go.
Digital ID defines who you are.
Online age verification links identity to speech and consumption.
A central bank digital currency would make money itself programmable,
traceable and potentially restrictable, of course.
Together, they form a digital control grid in which participation in everyday life
becomes conditional on compliance.
And that has always been the aim.
They own you.
They will have you.
That's not to mention that every stimulant that you experience,
even biochemically, bodily, anatomically,
is an electromagnetic impulse once it's received by your consciousness.
If you don't allow something more powerful than these systems of absolute control
into your life, then you are their quarry.
They own you.
You have no chance of fighting back.
I pray for you.
I pray that you find access to the divine force
before this counterfeit force takes total control of your life.
Without digital identity, programmable digital currencies would be unworkable.
Without programmable money,
financial pressure as a tool of governance would remain blunt.
With both in place, exclusion becomes precise.
Those who do not submit to the system might find themselves unable to work,
transact, travel, or even exist economically.
This is not speculative paranoia.
It's how control systems function once friction is removed.
Remember, Canada, during the trucker process,
shut down people's banks just for donating to stuff through PayPal.
You'll remember that.
And dear old Nigel Farage, whether you like him or not,
at the arse end of all this, had his Coots bank account messed with
precisely for these reasons.
It's possible.
Tyrants of the past could only dream of the tools now being normalized.
They relied on informants, paperwork, and fear.
Modern governments can rely on algorithms, cameras,
and compliance engineered through convenience.
The most effective surveillance state is not the one people fear,
but the one they barely notice.
The real danger is not that Britain will suddenly declare itself authoritarian.
It's that democracy will persist in name while its substance quietly erodes.
It's already happened, hasn't it?
Rights will still exist on paper,
but their exercise will be filled through systems designed to observe, score, and intervene.
Musk's comment struck a nerve because it named something people can sense
but struggle to articulate.
The question now is whether Britain recognizes what is being built around it
before the cameras are everywhere,
the IDs unavoidable,
and the freedom to opt out disappears entirely.
But that's just what I think.
Let me know what you think in the comments and chat.
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