This is How You Respond to Slobbering Oil Propagandists Like Adam Boulton, Nick Ferrari and Richard Madeley

Newscorp news-actor, Adam Boulton, has come out with yet another attack. Previously he spun a story about jogging into demands for strangling cycling with red-tape, but this time he’s skipped straight to slinging muck at those on two wheels.

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Aug 27, 2017 · 6 min read

Boulton wants you to be on the defensive, bogged down wading through effluence. Maybe you’ll fire back calling him braindead, or mock his obesity alienating some thirty-percent of Britain (but yourself and more if you include the first category). Perhaps you’ll argue “not all cyclists” which means “some cyclists”, or attempt to cycle-splain away some Boulton “fallacy”. Either way you are still drawing attention to how much covered in excrement you are and people just don’t want to be around that regardless of source.

Compacting matters further, defending or debunking false claims just gives an opponent opportunity to reiterate on initial talking points, or indeed throw more accusations. It’s the intellectual equivalent to deciding the battlefield and he has your head down the toilet. He can diarrhoea lies faster than you can flush, and doing so forever keeps focus on the subject he chooses. The tactic was also used by motor-mouth slob, Nick Ferrari, against Donnachadh McCarthy of StopKillingCyclists.org who sadly was too ready to step into the ITV bowl and open his mouth. Richard Madely did the same thing to Duncan Dollimore from Cycling UK, again on ITV going apoplectic about children being able to cycle with no insurance.

A hands up submission asking the officers not to shoot whilst Ferrari by name couch potato by nature smugs proud. However preened and plumped did you not think there would be snarling lions in the emperor’s Colosseum?

Boulton did however let slip a nugget of sweet truth. Cycle campaign groups (or rather their supporters) should indeed take his advice and “engage their brains”. Maybe whilst there also ask why a former London cycling “Tzar”, Andrew Gilligan, now works at a haulage lobby group which hates cycling, Russians and public transport. You have cycling Tzars but Ministers of Transport — do you see a pattern?

What Boulton has been tasked with is keeping focus on cycling and away from the motivations behind the disgusting propaganda campaign, and especially from what his organisations seek to achieve. Everything they say is a lie even when they seem to tell the truth, they don’t believe their own words, and you can’t change their minds.

In his latest hit-piece, he’s revealed himself further by transposing all the essential arguments from anti-semitism onto cycling, which seems a strange claim to make but I mean this literally and without hyperbole. It was Henry Ford that initiated the jewish holocaust with a vile hate campaign long before Hitler was cool, but don’t let Boulton be the only one learning from history. Successful strategies of old will be used again, and here the parallels are so close he even starts off contriving an association between cycle campaigners and a foreboding communism:

“Forget about zombies and North Koreans who are famously impervious to rational argument, the cyclists are coming.”

Echoing previous claims by Janet “Newscorp” Porter, Boulton would have you believe there exists some sort of cycling conspiracy to take over government. This is ridiculous and sounds like something from an Alex Jones podcast. He claims cyclists have undeserved riches, a shady cabal of influencers, and a government now pandering to their elite interests, meaning “our” British way of life is under threat. Ridiculous but intended, because his audience is dumb, and his audience is the typically average, degree holding, broadsheet reading professional. That’s probably you.

Boulton also implies people who cycle are tattooed scruffy sub-humans obsessed with death which is a contradiction to his previous sentiment of an elite. But propaganda does not need to be consistent just effective. He even likens those cycling to North Korean nuclear missiles. That was subtle but his poetry — a little further and we will be at blood-libel levels of hysteria if we aren’t there already. The Times have previously called for the “decapitation” of those cycling via piano wire strung across paths, after which the author insisted he was joking. I don’t hear the dead or injured laughing.

Along with other brands, newsprint hauliers and TV — even and especially the BBC — are forever running “gags” radicalising motorists towards taking violence. Former BBC’s resident car salesman, Jeremy Clarkson is the obvious example. The vicious editorial policies will inevitably be acted upon creating innocent victims, but why do this?

This is not “clickbait”, accidental, nor just three Top Gear guffaws, because those that do have their greasy tentacles through our government are of course companies like Royal Dutch Shell, British Petroleum, and their partners in motoring. It is they who have Boulton leashed as their slobbering attack dog whose enorphous blobs hide true intentions. They accuse victimised groups of what they do themselves.

Quite simply, private interests and the state want cycling eradicated as a competitor so they can give London over to those wanting full dronification, and at the same time — a key aim of Brexit — they will be locked into buying petroleum well beyond 2040.

Unsurprisingly newsprint hauliers like the Times are all too happy to help. Their businesses are reliant on car advertising and demand the freedom of London to roar around tabloid filth in their killer HGVs. Facing a ban on these dangerous vehicles they’ve instead chosen a media blitz over engineering safety, and are using the sad case of Kim Briggs as emotional blackmail to make cycling illegal in all but explicit legislation.

None of these long tantrummed demands coming from the motoring cartel have anything to do with our safety. With enough legal restriction on the safest wheeled transport they’ll always be some way to blame the victim, and the hassle created will be enough to make people give up cycling or never start.

For those that do cut through the red-tape they’ll still provide flesh for the mobile meat grinder, popping up in the press as the occasional head on tarmac stakes dissuading people further. I say this because the cartel’s dronified cars and HGVs can’t operate safely round people walking or cycling without totalitarian restrictions. Their system may not work even if they are granted full demands, which is wanting all people dressing in reflective clothing and tagged with radio beacons monitoring your every move. It’ll be easier to just call for a drone, at least then your have less chance of seeing one aimed in your direction.

First they came for the cyclists… but only the ones providing limp opposition during interviews. Well actually it was the muslims, but I’m not muslim so I bought my poppies and didn’t speak out.

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