Unite for Freedom March 28th August 2021
So I finally, after months of saying I was going to go to one of the big anti-medical tyranny protests in London, actually went to one.
I arrived at Hyde Park about 1 o'clock, so most of the crowd had already gathered at this point. I don't want to hazard a guess as to the size. Later on, I filmed some of it walking past but I don't think I got close to the actual size.
The approach taken by the organisers this time was a march throughout London (a long one at that). There was criticism of the last event for having speakers not likely to appeal to ordinary people (such as Gareth Icke) and having the same line up as a year ago. It was also criticised for bringing up issues that don't seem obviously related to medical tyranny to the ordinary person.
I don't know the organisers, but I would guess that they took this criticism into account when organising this protest. There were no speakers this time, just a march that lasted from 1.15 until 4.00. The advertising also seemed a bit more focussed on specifically vaccine passports and medical tyranny. Before the march, there were also people handing out free t-shirts stating 'Against Vaccine Passports' (this is the website). Quite a few people had them on. It did make the message a bit more focussed, although the signs still varied.
I ended up near the front of the march because I arrived near dead last.
The walking route from Hyde Park to Clapham Common is quite long anyway, over an hour apparently. The route taken by the march was not the most direct one, as it went via The Oval and Brixton.
The march started off going through Wellington Arch.
I don't exactly know what route the march took, all I can say is that I wasn't familiar with the landmarks. Which doesn't mean much as I'm not a Londoner.
Instead I will offer some reflections on the march.
The mainstream media like to portray people who are sceptical of the Official Covid Narrative as fitting into a particular box - generally middle-aged white people sympathetic to Brexit (or 'Gammons' as they are mocked by the woke brigade). Having attended this march, and other previous anti-lockdown events in Birmingham, this is not true. The mix of people was pretty broad, including all ages and races and different religions.
As far as I could tell there were also different political ideologies at the march - though of course you cannot tell political ideologies by looking at people. Right wing people were more prominent in the symbols displayed. There were a couple of pro-Trump flags and the Heritage Party - led by David Kurten - were also in attendance. There were also a few signs referring to medical tyranny as 'communism' - though also some (more accurately) analogising medical tyranny to Nazism.* The established left wing groups - as I have pointed out in previous articles - are supporters of medical tyranny making any left wing presence there much less obvious. But there were a few indications of anarchist presense there as well. Independent media - such as UK Column and 21 Wire - were also represented in the tshirts. Most people did not seem to be promoting a specific ideology.
The second impression that mainstream media likes to give of people sceptical of the Official Covid Narrative is that they are a crazy mob of people that are full of hatred and want people to die. Again, this is not true. I saw no examples of violence or any aggression towards police or bystanders. There were a few examples of a random person from the march telling people to take off the mask, that is the most 'aggressive' that it got.
The third impression the mainstream media likes to give is that people who question the narrative are an extreme lunatic fringe. Again, this is not true. Of course there were people there who believe in 'conspiracy theories' that the general public reject (or even that I personally reject).
However, most passersby seemed either neutral towards the march or supportive of it. There were several examples of bystanders cheering the march that I saw, however I saw no examples of hostility such as people calling us covidiots, anti-vaxxers, or any other slurs used by the mainstream media. Now, of course, individuals could have thought that privately and not expressed that view.
In terms of the approach to the protest, I think that a march may have helped to get the anti-vaccine passport message out to more people. It would have been helpful, however, for the organisers to have announced where the march was going to end up beforehand. I did not know where I was going, which is why I stayed relatively near the front, and the only plan I had to get home was hoping that I ended up by a Tube station. Fortunately Clapham Common is on the Northern Charing Cross route so it was okay in the end, but it would have been much more convienient to know, especially for people with disabilities.
To close I will state that footage of the march is available on my Bitchute account.
[*End note: I know that someone will try to strawman this argument and claim that I am saying that Boris Johnson is Hitler, or disrespecting the Holocaust by stating this opinion. What I mean specifically by stating that this analogy is more accurate is that both Nazi Germany and modern medical tyranny demonise a group of people as unclean disease spreaders that infect the body politic with their mere presense.]