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I know many journalists that work for MSM. They want to speak up but they are not allowed to: they will lose their jobs. Basically they're scared, like many NHS workers at all levels. Until people are prepared to make sacrifices - and they are big sacrifices - then I don't see much changing. People conveniently ignoring the cattle trucks in Nazi Germany. come to mind.
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I know many journalists that work for MSM. They want to speak up but they are not allowed to: they will lose their jobs. Basically they're scared, like many NHS workers at all levels. Until people are prepared to make sacrifices - and they are big sacrifices - then I don't see much changing. People conveniently ignoring the cattle trucks in Nazi Germany. come to mind.
Thank you, Sharon. I was in touch for six months with a very prominent TV front person. They kept thanking me & understood what was happening. They promised to break silence on air but never did. By the end of 2020, we were at an impasse. I warned them that the security they were concerned they’d lose was itself an illusion. They’ll lose it anyway. They eventually resigned & emigrated, coward.
I can’t distinguish between cowardice as a reason why so many who’ve detected things are badly wrong or simply a failure of imagination (once it’s realised that several policy decisions lead directly to massive, avoidable deaths, the question is surely “what limits if any are they to the killing?”
Perhaps it’s both lack of imagination (about how terrifying it’s going to be) & cowardice about stepping out from the crowd.