The End of Auditing

 

The auditing phenomenon grew up as an adjunct to the freeman-on-the-land movement in the 2000's. Its purpose was to engage government officials in conflict situations and expose them breaking their own rules, either through lack of knowledge on their part, or taking advantage of another in the assumption that their victim was ignorant of the law. The auditors recorded their encounters on camera and posted them on social media for their viewers' education, and entertainment of course. A typical auditing session would be somebody being stopped by the police and refusing to give their name, and the police wrongly telling them that they were obliged to; or the police telling them to stop recording and the reply being: "I'm in a public place so I can film if I want!" The best known of these pioneers was Charlie Veitch, in fact Charlie arguably invented auditing. The auditors essentially achieved their objectives. Thanks to them, over the last decade the police are far less arrogant and are wary of underestimating members of the public; and said members of the public are far more streetwise these days, knowing their rights and asserting them. However, there has been a downside, in that auditing has really become a victim of its own success. In fact the real thing hardly ever happens anymore. There are one or two classic auditors left, such as "Power to the Proletariat", see: https://www.youtube.com/@powertotheproletariat, but generally speaking, the well of auditing content has almost dried up. This is why most auditors in the 20-teens changed tactics. They moved on from the police to private security. Here's a prime example from the master himself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HROuJhZWktQ. That one was produced thirteen years ago and since then private security personnel have changed in the same way the police have. They have also learned from experience not to rise to the bait. You might think the response from the auditing community would be to rejoice; it's a mission accomplished situation, isn't it? No, because of the entertainment value I mentioned above. The remaining auditors have resorted to desperate measures to keep their industry going. These "neo-auditors" have stopped targeting state actors altogether and have gone searching for very different prey. Among them is the OG of the movement himself, Charlie Veitch. Charlie is infamous in the Conspirasphere for renouncing his beliefs that 9/11 was an inside job on a BBC documentary, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2011/09/911-conspiracy-road-trip.html. (I was asked to take part in this series myself... I declined.)

Charlie Veitch has changed once more since his 2011 transformation. Previously, even in his post-conspiratorial period, Charlie used to rail against "Zionism!", but since October the 7th 2023 he has decided to do a one-eighty. In the wake of the massacre in Israel the streets in Britain have filled with protesters aligned to both sides in the conflict, yet the Israeli supporters are far calmer and more stoic, and I'm sure Charlie has noticed this. I suspect he has professed support for Israel because the Palestinian protesters are far more volatile. They are easier to provoke and therefore generate the drama he needs for his content. I don't know what's going on inside the mind of Veitch; only he knows that, but I question his sincerity. Has he taken the Israeli side because he really feels that way, or is he just pretending to? Charlie has also switched benches when it comes to other kinds of people. Many of the participants in his uploads are the homeless drug addicts who populate the streets of Manchester whom he calls "crackheads". Charlie used to defend these people from the police, but no longer. I suspect it is because these beggars have little or no self-control and therefore cannot stop themselves reacting to Charlie's teasing. Here's an example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYSQgh0BJ04. He is not alone; in fact a virtual phalanx of copycat channels have risen in the slipstream of Charlie Veitch's antics. Auditors used to perform a dedicated service in a professional and dignified manner that made a serious point about society and the abuse of the population by the government. It's dismaying to see the phenomenon degenerate into a false and plastic parody of its former self. It would have been better to see the auditors simply celebrate their victory and demob rather than watch some of them continue in this shallow, tabloid, sadistic and pointless manner.
See here for background: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2024/12/why-i-left-fmotl.html.
And: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2018/03/charlie-veitch-is-back.html.