Inside the campaign to free an anti-vaxxer
Militarised bioweapons and satanic paedophiles in a south Manchester suburb
Dear subscribers — this week I went to a protest organised by anti-vaccine activists in south Manchester. I was struck by the antisemitic conspiracy theories I heard, many of which are staples of far-right forums. I’ve been interested in how the anti-vaxx movement has found common cause with the far-right, and Tuesday’s demo was illuminating. An earlier version of this article appeared in The Mill, a Manchester news site.
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Meet the belligerents of an asymmetrical war
I’m standing on a grassy pavement in Cheadle, south Manchester, where a nice woman tells me about how a wealthy group of Jewish paedophiles runs a trafficking network through which they purchase children and torture them to death. The woman is named Jane, and if I understand her correctly, she says social care legislation brought in by Tony Blair allowed the Rothschild family to exploit the adoption system for their own bloodthirsty ends.
“It’s all fixed up,” she says. “This is global.”
We’re outside Cheadle Royal Hospital, where a protest is underway on behalf of Simon Parry, a prominent anti-vaccine activist. Last month, he was sectioned under mental health laws, meaning he has to stay in hospital because he might be a danger to himself or others.
Parry has become something of a martyr. His followers — he has more than 4,000 on Telegram, the social media app — say he has been kidnapped and they have launched a campaign to liberate him. In a video shot by friends visiting his hospital room, Parry claims to have been the victim of a government “stitch-up” and says he is waging “asymmetrical war” with the authorities. “You’re protecting paedophiles that are trying to kill your own children,” he says. “Wake up police officers, go and arrest your MPs.”
A group of 30 people have showed up for Parry. They have given up their Tuesdays to put up banners demanding his release, although their creations are a little too eye-catching for the passing traffic. The driver of a silver Mercedes is so transfixed by the signs that he crashes into the car in front, crumpling his bonnet.
The demonstrators are a lively bunch. I meet a woman named Thursa who sells clothing that protects the purchaser from electronic signals. I ask a chap with piercing blue eyes what he’s called and he says: “I am the man using the name Clive. It’s not my name. Your name isn’t yours, is it? It doesn’t belong to you. You can’t show me a copyright on your name. You’re just using the name.”
Neither Jane, Thursa, nor the man using the name Clive have ever met Parry, although they were so concerned about his sectioning that they have come from as far as Gloucestershire to support him. They think they might be the next activists to be maliciously silenced.
Two years ago, this trio might have been called anti-vaccine activists, although it’s not just opposition to injections (or “militarised bioweapons”, as Parry calls them) that animates them. This week, I heard just as much about Jews, Freemasons, child trafficking and chemtrails — mind-control chemicals sprayed into the atmosphere — as I did about Covid jabs. Perhaps a better term would be conspiracy theorists. I thought about hippies going sour, the promise of free love and joyful happenings curdling into paranoia and distrust.
On Scout, we’ve been looking at how the anti-vaccine movement has started to team up with white nationalist groups, finding common cause in their belief that a cabal of powerful elites are in charge of global affairs. While they might disagree on a lot of other things, an extreme anti-vaxxer who thinks this cabal exists is not a million miles away from a white nationalist who thinks this cabal exists and is Jewish.
Sure enough, on the Telegram group organising the Parry protest, participants talk about sharing resources and bolstering their numbers with “red pills”, a shorthand describing people in the far right. Another post discussed whether to involve Tommy Robinson in the event, until he was dismissed as “CO” or “controlled opposition”.
A scan of Parry’s social media group, Box Clever Army, reveals posts about “sick satanic Zionist Jews” manipulating world events. “This is what we are truly up against,” says a message Parry reposted. “You might want to get your sick bucket ready.”
One video Parry shared accuses the Rothschild banking dynasty of using “Convid” as a distraction for their evil deeds. Another is titled “Nazi Klaus ‘Rothschild’ Schwab”, referring to the founder of the World Economic Forum, a popular hate figure in anti-vaccine circles for his views on “resetting” society after the pandemic.
Parry has been a fixture at Covid demonstrations since the pandemic began. He has camped outside Downing Street and Scotland Yard for months and is known for filming on-the-street encounters with MPs, shouting that vaccines are part of a genocidal agenda. He has shared his exchanges with Michael Gove, Jacob Rees Mogg and Lord Frost. Parry has also appeared in videos with Piers Corbyn, the brother of former Labour leader Jeremy. Piers couldn’t make it to Cheadle as he was due in court, although he sent his best.
Parry’s messages to followers are long diatribes against police and politicians, who are apparently controlled by “pathological lying democidal satanic paedophiles”. In one message to subscribers, he says the police should arrest MPs for the vaccine rollout, writing: “POLICE are a Bunch of spineless, cowardly psychopaths with blood on their hands who are all Pussy whipped bitches in breach of their oaths.”
He would regularly ring up MI5 and Scotland Yard to ask that MPs be investigated and arrested. In one clip of him trying to hand a homemade arrest warrant for Boris Johnson to police outside Scotland Yard, Parry outlined a plan to exchange former health secretary Matt Hancock for Julian Assange, the jailed WikiLeaks founder. “Put Hancock in Belmarsh,” he says. “He’s a mass murdering cunt.”
One of Parry’s fans suggested that he had been vaporised by law enforcement agencies. “This agenda is from the top,” they said. Parry’s other followers speak of being monitored by the police and having their houses secretly searched by undercover investigators in their absence.
Initially, the protesters I meet are a little wary of me. I say I have an open mind, and I start hearing about all kinds of scary ideas from Jane and Ann, who has her dog Toby with her, about who really runs Britain.
But I sense that Thursa is unsure about taking me into the conspiracy theory deep end. Jane, who’s standing in a trio with Thursa and me, asks: “I don’t know if you know about adrenochrome and the elites?” Adrenochrome is the fictional chemical released when a child is tortured, which is said to be consumed by politicians and billionaires as youth serum.
Thursa says: “No, let’s not go there.” Jane ignores Thursa, and begins telling me about how paedophiles have sewn up the justice system to source children for satanic ritual abuse. “They have Freemason judges in the family courts,” says Jane. “And if that child fits the description that’s been ordered, they’ll make up some shit to take it out the family. And that child’s not seen again.”
Two police officers come to speak to the protesters about Parry. A crowd forms and someone asks the constables if they are Freemasons. They say they aren’t. After a few minutes of arguing, one of the officers says “I’m not getting drawn into this,” and both retreat to jeers.
Later, Jane tells me that she was recently interviewed by the police for a livestream in which she claimed the ritualistic abuse of children was coordinated by Jews. “I was saying it’s funded by Jewish banks,” she says. “What I should have said was ‘the Rothschilds’, not saying ‘Jewish’. They took that out of context and sent it to the police and said I was being racist.”
Earlier this year I thought, naively perhaps, that the lifting of lockdown measures in the UK, and the u-turn on vaccine mandates in the NHS would take the oomph out of the anti-vaccine movement. And although there are only 30 demonstrators here today — it is a weekday afternoon in an isolated area — I’m stunned by their persistence.
In thinking about this article, I spoke to my friend Lewis, a former anti-vaccine activist from Merseyside, who used to run a group of 400 campaigners. The way he sees it, hardcore conspiracy theorists don’t want to stop believing in arcane secret societies ruling the world because it makes them feel like a hero. He pictures conspiracy belief as a ferris wheel: “When one conspiracy theory like Covid runs out, you want to stay on the ride.”
Back at the protest, Mikey appears. He’s the organiser of the protest, and sports a stone necklace to protect against electromagnetic signals. He also has a piece of quartz on a string for “good vibes”. Mikey tells me about a phone call he just had with the manager of Parry’s hospital ward. I listen to the recording, and it sounds like the woman on the other end of the phone is saying there was a mix-up with paperwork that meant Parry should have been released on the weekend, although doctors extended his stay.
Mikey says that this extension was unlawful, and demands Parry’s release, or else he will take legal action against the ward manager that will see her home confiscated. “Understand: this is what we do for a living,” Mikey says, to show he’s serious. Off the phone, he says he got involved in Covid activism after a stint in the army and a struggle with alcoholism. “We’re all classed as batshit conspiracy theorists, but all we’re trying to do is expose the truth.”
I make my excuses and walk away, more than a little confused. What really happened to Parry? Has he been sectioned because of his mental health? Or is he a political prisoner, locked up for saying things the government didn’t want to hear? But by the time I get to my car, I wonder if the British establishment had wanted to vaporise a meddlesome activist, they might have locked him up in a facility a little more secure than a suburban hospital in between a TGI Friday’s and the big Sainsbury’s off the Wilmslow Road.
Update
After I leave, footage circulates online of Mikey, Thursa and a few others going up to the front doors of the Priory and trying to gain access. In a stand-off with the security guards, Mikey can be heard saying to them: “Are you stupid? Are you retarded? Are you thick?” Mikey tries to perform a citizen’s arrest of the guard and then attempts to barge his way past. “Gestapo!” shout the group.
“I can only rely on the police,” says one of the guards, refusing to allow the crowd entry into the hospital. “I can’t rely on protesters to tell me what to do.”
“Well you’re fucking pathetic,” responds Mikey. “Remove that ignorance and get educated.”
The group are printing leaflets for circulation on Saturday that name the medical staff they believe have kidnapped and forcibly medicated Mikey, saying they are “the real lunatics who need locking up”. Others are forming plans to camp outside the hospital.
Update again
This blog post — and let’s be clear, this is just a blog — has not gone down too well among the Free Simon Parry crowd. Mikey has been sending irate voice notes to the Telegram group on which the Parry liberation campaign is being coordinated.
A Scout reader has helpfully taped a couple of them:
“Let’s go fucking rat hunting,” says Mikey. “Let’s find his home address and we’ll go serve him notice there as well, for misinformation.” Serving notice is a tactic used by anti-vaccine activists, and it involves handing a stack of paperwork to doctors or headteachers, usually with a dose of yelling. See a bit more on that practice here.
In another voice note, Mikey says: “Says it all, doesn’t it, the little fucking rent boy.” Which strikes me as a little hypocritical, seeing as on Tuesday, Mikey complained to me at length about how the son of a member of hospital staff called him a “faggot”.
Simons a delusional lunatic and is where he should be.
Fictional youth serum you'll find the MSM news have reported on it, I can send you the video footage of the news report, your so lost with your reporting