SPECIAL REPORT: BRITISH JOURNALIST PETER HITCHENS CENSORED BY BRITISH GOVERNMENT WITH SPECIAL ORDER AMIDST UKRAINE TENSIONS

 

                                                     (NEWS AND COMMENTARY)

"During more than 40 years of active journalism, including a stint as a defence reporter, I have never once been prevented from writing anything by a so-called "D" Notice (nowadays they are officially called DSMA notices, if you care), until now.   I used to scoff when people told me that such things were common, or that I was constrained in reporting by them.  Now I cannot"-

                              Peter Hitchens Column Saturday April 30, 2022

"In the United Kingdom, a DSMA-Notice (Defense and Security Media Advisory Notice) is an official request to news editors not to publish or broadcast items on specified subjects for reasons of national security..."

                               Wikipedia Article On "DSMA-Notice"-LINK

British journalist Peter Hitchens, the contrarian conservative journalist and outspoken defender of British tradition and traditional values including a Christian aversion to war, now finds himself constrained in his work by a government order.

The order comes amidst the conflict in Ukraine which increasing concerns Mr. Hitchens who was able to write and publish this regarding the situation in his weekly column this weekend.

"It is time to ask some very simple questions about the Ukraine crisis, which each day threatens to spread, very dangerously indeed.

I never really believed there was a nuclear danger in the Cold War, which I lived through.  Now I think there is one.

Though this country is not actually at war with Russia, and has no defence treaty with Ukraine, politicians and other supporters of this conflict often refer to 'we' when discussing it.

Who is this 'we'?  What British national interest is served by deeper involvement in what is at root a Russo-American war?   Must we yet again be the fifth wheel in America's cart?

How much are you prepared to pay in taxes for the munitions we send?   If, as is horribly possible, British soldiers are drawn in, what British interest will they be dying or being injured for?

Why is our Defence Ministry mounting a running commentary on the conflict?   It is as if the Italian defence ministry had been holding press conferences on the Falklands War back in 1982.

Is it because they want to draw attention away from our very small Army and our shrunken, malfunctioning Navy?  Yet our military 'experts' speak from a position of assumed superiority."

Peter Hitchens Column Concluding Paragraphs Saturday April 30, 2022-LINK

It's obvious from those paragraphs that Mr. Hitchens can write about some matters but the question raised is what is he being prevented by the British government from writing about.

DSMA Notices come in five categories:

1.  Military Operations, Plans and Capabilities

2.  Nuclear and Non-Nuclear Weapons Systems and Equipment

3. Military Counter-Terrorist Forces, Special Forces and Intelligence Agency Operations, Activities and Communication Methods and Techniques

4. Physical Property and Assets

5. Personnel and their Families who work in Sensitive Positions

My gut sense is that Peter Hitchens knows his government is involved in a massive propaganda and disinformation campaign related to Ukraine and has sources who have exposed its full scope.

But he is prevented from writing about the lies being spread by the BBC, the "Daily Mail", "The Sun", "The Guardian" and so on with information funneled to them by British Intelligence-Government operatives.

A bigger question is what is the United Kingdom becoming?

Its been obvious from the jailing of Tommy Robinson to the arrest of Julian Assange on behalf of the United States and the COVID restrictions hastily abandoned as the conflict in Ukraine approached earlier this year etc. etc. that a less free society is emerging and freedom is being lost.

The British Hate Crimes police knocking on people's doors because of social media posts are the norm and the list goes on...

And we are all supposed to be upset about the tyranny of Vladimir Putin and increasingly it seems the tyranny of Communist China?    Why?

Distraction from tyranny in the US and the UK much of it driven by Cultural Communism?