Is there a case to defund the police? The New Age of Liberal Feminism and Defiance against the state.
Outrage and anger is what I felt as I saw the photos and videos of police using their powers to tackle and use their force arbitrarily to act with aggression when people stood in solidarity. As they seem a sister, a woman who’s murder emulates all the fear and anxiety of not feeling safe to live freely without freedom. A privilege only granted to cis-gendered men, paints the picture of a vile state of toxic masculinity. What I saw made my blood boil but was I shocked or surprised? Sadly not.
What we are seeing is illiberal we should all be alarmed and feel waken to the realities of social injustices within society not to defend the status quo. This is the time where we need liberalism to be the philosophy for tomorrow not a pragmatic, centrist version of a falsehood of liberalism but a radical one. We seeing a moment where the government and the police are stepping on people’s civil liberties in away no one can defend. Upheaval against the Conservative government and London Metropolitan police will continue as the government dictate what counts as nuisance and annoyance a step likens it self to behaviours of an authoritarian regime. The argument now is for liberalism nor centrist, pragmatist liberalism as the establishment is beyond reform and there is no rational argument that changing minor things will get to the root of the issue it barely scratches the surface. It is time to realise Conservative governments and socialist or centrist governments of labour. Liberal parties must make the case for fundemental state radical liberalism and shift away from the status quo with moving away from the dreadful coalition seen under Clegg’s leadership of the Liberal Democrat’s thar tarnished the reputation of liberalism in the United Kingdom but now is when we need it and liberalism shouldn’t be casted away from the public debate. As we all deserve a voice and our liberties and not be persecuted by state that is institutionally Conservative protecting institutions that belong in the past not the present.
The government trying to sanction peaceful protests and vigils shows a decline in western democracy and something we’d expect our governments to call out if this were to happen in eastern autocracies. We would want a government and need a government that recognises institutional racism and misogyny and toxic masculinity rather than allowing the Metropolitan Police to double down. This corruption isn’t a shock and a surprised after years of racial profiling and victim blaming and disdain to liberal causes like the Black Lives Matter movement and the radical environmentalist movement extinction rebellion. Is this a new age for the civil rights and feminist movements in Britain at a great turning point that we mustn’t lose momentum or risk further demise of our democracy, we must hold on to our rights and liberties that accepts that politics mustn’t be politics as usual and we must accept that this means the state must hand powers to the people and accept a smaller state a state reliant on people having agency and power something anyone who is disillusioned with the establishment can agree on when on many issues are greatly polarised.
We have a morally bankrupt police here in the United kinfolk and the United States of America. We have in Britain the metropolitan police who have lost the trust and faith in protecting women against violence and abuse after a metropolitan police officer abducted and murdered a young woman walking home, women recognise this could’ve been anyone of them. This fear is rational but no person should live in fear, fear of civilians and fear of the state. Later in the search for the missing woman now confirmed to be murdered an officer shared an inappropriate and insensitive graphic.
Opposition to a new bill sanctioning and banning any form of public protest or annoyance is a great step on our rights and has saw opposition from within the governments parliamentary back benchers former PM and conservative MP Theresa May ‘freedom of speech is an important right in our democracy, however annoying or uncomfortable that may sometimes be… I do worry about the unintended consequences of some measures in the bill which have drawn quite widely.’ mildly put from May but I concur however mild a powerful message as protestors shouted for the bill to be killed and to be voted down from Parliament Square to Westminster bridge their words defy the totalitarian words of the government going against classic liberal philosophy I could imagine Churchill would oppose this governments actions. May showed defiance and willing to go against the party message. This is merely a defence of democracy as a process not a hegemony that is directed by the state and is a singular event but a process which people require to be heard every step of the way. It shouldn’t be for the government to state what the nation is and that what is it’s trying to do with the falsehood of culture wars the police being a robotic part of the state machine are removed of all morals and there to protect the status quo what ever the government states the nation is in its history, in its culture in its values, morals and ethics. No one can tell someone what to think democracy and how to interpret history and ethics but the government are trying to disrupt the movement to shift to the pursuit of truth which is fundamentally essential in democracies with out truth it is neither liberal nor democratic. With the images of the protests against the bill proposed by the government police officers took to the streets not to defend the people’s rights and protect their well-being or safety but inanimate objects and defending statues that could be replaced, statues of Churchill the prime minister seen to been victorious in defeating fascism. Yet his statue is protected over the well-being of people alive today.
No wonder why people see the police is beyond reform buy neither the two major political parties willing to take on the police one the Conservative who will conserve the status quo even if that detracts from their own values as its a party known of what it opposes but not what it’s for; hardly a surprise when the party’s ideology is in fact not a collective values and beliefs and principles but definition of irrational emotions to cling on to the past and the status quo. Why we need a third in British politics Starmer’s Labour Party prior to a change of heart was ready to abstain that is concerning and concern of Dianne Abbott Former Shadow Home Secretary, clueless on why he wanted the party to abstain in the first place.
This is an open door and an open opportunity for the Liberal Democrat’s and other liberal parties including the Green Patyto reform theirselves as not a party for reform but for action and change. For the sake of protecting peaceful protest the issue with the coronavirus pandemic had made it easy for the government to repeal our civil liberties for the short term but greed comes with power and we must do everything in our rights to restore that power. Sisters Uncut a feminist group taking action against sexual violence and domestic abuse tweeted ‘This is just begining… We will not be silenced. We will not ask permission. We won’t take orders from violent men’ strength and resilience how no government may try but never take away its citizens voice. It will only grow calls to smash the patriarch will grow and must get louder liberal parties must continue to turn up the volume as Priti Patel and Cressida Dick aim to repeal people’s rights in its attempts to double down over the so called myth of the need of having police to protect society if they don’t even protect people. After all, if police were the solution and what society needs to solve its its issues there would be no one calling out police brutality and people wouldn’t have protested over police racism and murder after death of George Floyd with him one of many names. No one would’ve protested to reclaim the streets over the recent murder committed by serving police officers because if the police were the solution there wouldn’t be these issues the police is now a institution beyond a defence. After seeing the vigil where a woman was pinned to the ground in attendance is a tipping point to say enough is enough it should’ve been enough before but it exposes its corruption, moral corruption after Cressida Dick Metropolitan Police defended actions of that police officer and refused to resign.
Enough is Enough. Its time to defund the police and create a new or face the demise of liberal democracy
