HUNTER THOMPSON + LOCKDOWN FILES

Even he would be grossed out

As promised, I’ve been diving into Britain’s #lockdownfiles of WhatsApp messages between government bigwigs on Covid-19. And with every loathsome, selfish, nitwitted crack from the UK Covid czars, my mind travels back to the golden age of Gonzo journalism and Hunter Thompson. His description of the music business swaps out perfectly to describe the scoundrels in Western governments who in concert with Big Pharma confined us like animals while they got richer, more powerful and in the case of Health Secretary, Matt Hancock…..laid.

[COVID-19} is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs.

Oh, how I wish Hunter was still around but I fear like many of my journalistic heroes he might have succumbed to the fever. He’d be old and perhaps alone, given his habit of impetuous gun-shooting and constant drug-taking. And my God, look what’s happened to Noam since March of 2020. Not only does he look terrible. He is terrible, rambling about locking up the unvaccinated with the zeal of the tyrants he’s been warning us about. What happens to the brains of aging revolutionaries?

Below — the Telegraph front page going into lockdowns - March/2020

Below is an early favourite from the files so far. On the 29th of February, 2020 — Chris Whitty, the Chief Medical Officer of health makes exactly the case that the so-called anti-vaxxers would be thoughtfully making in a year. And being pilloried for.

COVID NOT DEADLY ENOUGH TO FASTRACK VACCINES should have been a headline but Witty’s analysis was never transmitted to the public who were only fed a steady diet of fear, fear, fear.

Meanwhile the files are exposing the kind of sociopathy we are coming to understand is a psychic feature of our political class. Matt Hancock tried to barter away help for disabled children in order to get support for his lockdowns.

Jake Berry has described Matt Hancock as “drunk on power” during the pandemic as he said the former health secretary should be questioned in the House of Commons over his leaked WhatsApps.

It comes after The Telegraph revealed the former health secretary discussed a plan to block funding for a disabled children’s centre as a way of pressuring a rebel MP to vote for new lockdown restrictions.

The ex-Conservative Party chairman called for Mr Hancock to be grilled over his proposed tactics after the latest Lockdown Files revelations.

Mr Berry, the MP for Rossendale and Darwen, wrote on Twitter: “This is an absolute disgrace. Hancock should be dragged to the bar of the House of Commons first thing tomorrow morning to be questioned on this.”

Speaking on Times Radio on Tuesday, he said the tactics “crossed line” and called for an apology, adding: “What he has effectively said is that he wants to weaponise provision of care for disabled children to force MPs to vote in a certain way.

“This clearly shows someone who is prepared to do anything to get their own way or someone who is drunk on the power of ordering people round and telling people what to do.”

Hancock is also the chap who was caught on CCTV in a clutch with a woman — breaking lockdown rules. A woman who was not his wife. Eww.

More to come.

Last word to Hunter, who in the end might have resisted the tyranny of psychotic safety-ism and personally, I adhere to the edict below.

“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!” Hunter S. Thompson.

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