Virtue and Terror
Resisting the UK Biosecurity State
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This is the third collection of articles by Simon Elmer about the rise of the UK biosecurity state. Like the previous volumes, it collects 6 months’ of published texts, and ends in an extended reflection on what the latest coronavirus-justified programmes and regulations mean for UK citizens. The most important of these has been the UK ‘vaccination’ programme, and the three long articles on the legal and cultural contexts in which this programme has been implemented, and what we know already about its medical and political consequences for both the compliant and the resistant, make up nearly half of this volume. Like most of the biosecurity state apparatus, this has been imposed on the complementary principles of public virtue and state terror. It’s under these terms, therefore, that we publish this collection.
However, as the British public’s awareness of these consequences has grown, the tasks of reporting, analysing and warning have given way to the growing urgency of non-compliance and civil disobedience with biosecurity regulations. This spring and into the summer, millions of British citizens across the UK demonstrated against the biosecurity state, and several of these articles reflect on what we can learn from these marches and how they can be turned into active resistance against our increasingly unaccountable Government.
This winter, the UK Government will impose what it calls ‘mandatory COVID-status certification’. Already introduced as a condition of entry or service by numerous UK businesses and public institutions, these will initially be a requirement of access to certain hospitality and entertainment venues. But as fully implemented in France, Italy and many other countries, ‘vaccine’ passports will progressively make access to shopping centres, public transport, state education, our place of work, medical care and social security conditional upon compliance with whatever biosecurity regulations the UK state chooses to impose on us in the future. It is this rising tide of totalitarian rule across the globe that we must resist here in the UK today.
Details
- Publication Date
- Oct 21, 2021
- Language
- English
- Category
- Social Science
- Copyright
- All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License
- Contributors
- By (author): Simon Elmer
Specifications
- Pages
- 249
- Binding
- Perfect Bound
- Interior Color
- Black & White
- Dimensions
- A4 (8.27 x 11.69 in / 210 x 297 mm)
Keywords
BiosecurityCOVID-19CoronavirusVaccineHuman RightsBiosecurity StateTotalitarianismProtestDemonstrationConspiracy TheoriesState TerrorCivic VirtueFreedom of SpeechCapitalismThe LeftWokeIdentity PoliticsPolitical CorrectnessCensorshipCoronavirus ActPublic Health ActGillick CompetenceUK Vaccination ProgrammeCOVID-19 VaccinesPandemicAuthoritarianismCivil Liberties