Chris Bryant MP Calls for Nigel Farage and Others to be Sanctioned in Insane Commons Rant.

 Nigel Farage is rightly up in arms about Chris Bryant MP saying he should be sanctioned for taking money from the Russia Today TV channel in 2018.

Now let's unpack Bryant's insanity here.

First off, the £500,000 figure for 2018 is Farage's TOTAL earnings, not from RT. Farage says he only appeared on RT for comments and that he didn't ern anything in 2018 for doing that.

Now Farage is being a bit coy by saying that he didn't earn anything in 2018, but the careful qualification means as we all know that Farage must have earned money from RT in other years. Just not 2018.

However, why would we sanction Farage for taking money from RT (and by extension the Russian state) 5 years ago? Was it illegal back then to take money from Russia?

We can't start backdating laws like social media comments from decades ago. 

Farage has done nothing illegal. Illegality is the lawful excuse for freezing accounts. I'm pretty sure that in the end, the Russian citizens that have has assets seized and accounts frozen will have a legal claim against banks for unlawful seizure.

And if Bryant says anything outside the protection of Parliament Farage will have a claim too. 

And let's be honest, Farage's fees pale into insignificance compared to the Billions Germany continues to pay for Russian gas, that they are allowed to pay to the Russians even while they shell Ukrainian cities, because they  got the EU to exempt gas and oil money from sanctions. 

Now if that doesn't stink, nothing does. But of course Remainer Chris Bryant won't criticise the EU would he?

Russia Sanctions: Rabid Insanity of Punishing Innocent People

 I've been having a but of a spat on Twitter and YouTube in the comments on various posts demanding the West do more to punish Russia.

I've stood up and said that punishing Russians just for being Russian is unlawful, unjust and unfair. Because they have no influence over the Russian government, so why should they be punished?

But some of the responses that I've received just show how the media have stirred up the mob mentality.

Basically the jist is that "58% of Russians voted for Putin, so they are all guilty".

So let's set aside the 58% figure. What about the 42% that didn't vote for him? Do they deserve to be punished as well then? How do you segregate Russians who support and that oppose Putin?  Are you going as far as saying they should put their lives on the line in Russia and protest against the war and then maybe we'll not sanction them? 

They don't seem to understand how insane their viewpoint that ALL Russians should be punished for the crimes of their government. 

Basically the media have tarred ALL Russians as evil and that they should be essentially erased from the face of the planet, or at the very least not invited to polite dinner parties. 

I mean, my go-to example is Nikita Mazepin, the F1 driver. He's lost his job in F1 and to add insult to injury has had his assets frozen and seized. Now I could understand the legality of doing this IF he'd been in the Russian government and had earned his fortune whilst in government. 

But he's a fucking racing driver and has earned his money racing cars. He's not served in the Russian government, so why is he being punished? His money has been earned legally.

For Being Russian. 

Now this rings warning bells with me. It's just like the persecution of Jews for the crime of being Jewish, or the persecution of unvaccinated people for being unvaccinated.

This instant unpersoning, instant demonisation of people has to stop. Because at some point it will go too far and before you know it we'll be rounding up people and loading them into camps for "processing".

Or is that what the authorities are desinsitising us to? Will there eventually be a class or race of people that the authorities will eventually want to cull from the population?

Just be careful people and really think what is happening here with some depth and not the shallow knee-jerk reaction the press and media are goading you into.

Russian Sanctions: Targeting Innocent People.

 Okay, I understand sanctions against a government, restricting their ability to (for instance) procure weapons, or finance, or basically to dramatically affect their ability to do the things that governments do.

But... what's going on with sanctioning ordinary Russian citizens? 

What have they done that is illegal? For instance, Nikita Mazepin, the Formula 1 driver. He's lost his seat in the car at the Hass F1 team. He's now had his assets seized. But what has he done that is illegal? What is the lawful excuse for seizing his assets? Just because he is Russian? Isn't that unfair? Isn't that unlawful?

I could understand IF he was a Russian minister with direct influence over Putin, or benefitting directly from the action of government in some way.

But I draw the line at unpersoning someone just because they are Russian. Some wealthy Russians have not made their fortunes in Russia, have not benefitted from the Russian government and have no influence over government decisions. So why are the West targeting them unfairly?

Remember, the West supposedly hates Putin because he is a dictator. He's been in government for over 20 years. He's benefitted financially vastly during his tenure. His government is corrupt. So I can understand sanctioning the government.

But I can't for the life of me understand why ordinary Russian citizens are being persecuted in this way. It is vindictive and unfair.

Why not sanction the German government that paid billions to Russia for Russian Gas? They have had a far bigger contribution to the Russian government's coffers than ordinary Russians have. 

How hypocritical is it of Europe to exempt energy supplies from sanctions, supplying billions of dollars in funds to Russia for their gas, while at the same time impounding Russian-owned superyachts, businesses and bank accounts?

You really do have to ask if the ends really are the justification for the West's actions. Because otherwise we would resolutely cut off ALL funding to Russia. NOW.