The Death of Peter Lynch
The Death of Peter Lynch
Speechcrime and punishment in modern Britain
Peter Lynch was a 61 year old English grandad who said things the state did not like. This week, a few months into his sentence, he committed suicide in prison.
His crime was to speak truth to power.
He said the state was corrupt. He was given 32 months in gaol for calling the police “scum”, and holding up a sign which said migrants were “child killers”.
Lynch’s placard stated that police chiefs, reporters, civil servants, judges and the Environment Agency were all ‘corrupt’.
He was described as a “conspiracy theorist” for this.
If you are a “conspiracy theorist”, anything you say is devalued, and can be thrown away, along with you and your life.
I wrote an extensive report on the “riots” in August which followed the murders in Southport.
In it, I examine the murders, the public and government response, and the context of decades of criminality without consequence that has come to characterise British life.
Headlines said Peter Lynch was a “rioter”. The story beneath them shows Peter Lynch did not do anything - unless words are deeds.
Lynch shouted “racist and provocative remarks” towards officers and called asylum seekers in the hotel “child killers”, the Recorder of Sheffield, Judge Jeremy Richardson KC, told the court during his sentencing.
Lynch was angry at the fact that a migrant described as Welsh had stabbed three children to death, and wounded many more - attempting to kill as many little girls as he could.
Lynch had been radicalised by a migrant killing English children.
He had also very likely been “radicalised” by the fact that the police have permitted migrants to rape over a million white English children.
This was the figure given by the Labour MP for Rotherham in 2015. With almost ten years having passed, that figure is certainly exceeded by now. Police, press and politicians have all been complicit in this.
Is that a crime? No. There are no consequences for crimes on this scale.
It is a crime, a riot, a “conspiracy theory” to call this corruption.
If you dare to do so, you too may die alone in prison, in despair.
Why are speech crimes punished so severely? Surely these “conspiracy theories” are harmless if they are the fantasies of the deranged?
Recent guidance on the danger of conspiracy theories was issued to UK members of Parliament this summer.
The report explains the risk to democracy and social cohesion presented by conspiracy theories.
“The common notion shared by many conspiracy theories, of a secret cabal that seeks world domination by controlling world events, promoting conflicts and financial instability, can find its roots in age-old antisemitism.”
Yet it is not “false, harmful and divisive themes” causing “division” which are “a danger to democracies, public health, social cohesion, and public safety”.
It is reality that is radicalising people. This reality, created by our political leaders, is called a conspiracy theory when it is criticised by the people who have to suffer it.
JUST SAY “TRUE”
Of course, in the game of Let’s Pretend that is our New Culture, words are deeds.
Words are only crimes when they are true, however, and when that truth is spoken about power.
When you hear that something is a “conspiracy theory”, you can commonly1 just substitute the word “true”.
The same can be said for “that is racist”, “that is antisemitic”, that is “transphobic”. Just say “that is true” instead.
Naming things accurately is a crime.
Our leaders lead by example.
Our politicians say things which they never do, and do things which they never precisely say. The things they do to us all are criminal.
Some words are now crimes. In the right context, words are riots. In the case of prayer outside abortion centres, silence is a sign of terrorism.
So Peter Lynch was a rioter. Not an “armchair rioter” - those people committed writing crimes. None of them rioted in reality.
Lynch’s crime was saying words in person, not tapping them out on twitter.
Twitter of course is run by a man who says his platform will uphold free speech within the limits of the law.
Where does this leave the definition of freedom of speech?
The insistence on speech crimes as equivalent to acts, and violent ones at that, leads to immediate cancellation of the right to liberty.
The power to define is the power of a propaganda system. Ours is a system ruled by make belief. To define Peter Lynch as a rioter is to make people believe he deserved what he got.
He killed himself in prison as a result of this.
The crimes of Peter Lynch were recorded in a report by the Daily Telegraph.
He was filmed calling the police “scum”. His sign and protest was not unlawful, but his verbal abuse towards police officers during the “racist incident” crossed the line, the Recorder added.
Lynch, of Burman Road, Wath-upon-Dearne, was a “full participant” in the disorder, the court was told. “You were unquestionably endeavouring to rev up the situation the best you could,” the Recorder added.
Lynch’s placard stated that police chiefs, reporters, civil servants, judges and the Environment Agency were all “corrupt”.
Lynch would have been out within a year. The justice secretary, who is called Shabana Mahmood, has introduced a scheme where offenders are released having served 40 percent of their sentence.
“Lynch would have been eligible, having been sentenced to under four years in jail for a violent offence.”
A violent offence, a rioter, a conspiracy theorist. These are the words that consigned a man to death in prison for his accurate, if angry, description of the state he was in.
Keep your mouth shut, and your mind free of prayers for life, and there will be no trouble.
Most, not all, conspiracy theories are true. Some are in the process of being proven, others replaced by better explanations. A joke, but one that is played on us.
The fact is that government is a conspiracy against the people, of course, and all the truths you tell about it are called lies for this reason.
That this conspiracy exists produces paranoia, and some claims which arise are not true. Practically all of the “mainstream” ones are obviously true, of course.
Oh wow, Frank!
Thank you for articulating so well how we all feel. What a country we now inhabit!
Never, ever forget what these filthy traitors have done. RIP Peter Lynch.