How believable is Banksy?

You make an excellent point.
The hypocrisy of it all is very clear.
There is a very similar theme across many past and current political issues. The “Free Palestine” movement, at least at the organizing level, is full of the establishment loving middle class demographic. Many with more in common with power than the people they supposedly represent. Most are very sympathetic with law enforcement when arrested, just not on camera for propaganda material. In custody (before being released within an hour of detention no less) they are like whipped Victorian schoolchildren adoring of their authoritarian masters and wouldn’t so much as fart without apologizing for the appalling atrocity they have just committed.

It’s also why many of them don’t get punished for their so-called “anarchism”, probably because its state sanctioned. All the most recent protests regarding anti-establishment rhetoric consists of the same themes, and strangely never gets reported on and often is encouraged but when the common folk hailing from some council estate take to the streets demanding why one of their own was victim of a heinous crime it’s all over TV and they are branding far-right extremists. The public can’t get enough of it and want swift justice for the offenders, that is, the protesters, not the criminals.

I read somewhere this was a gradual process that began in the sixties and seventies when government began infiltrating grassroot movements and compromising their capacity to have a voice on the real political stage. At least that was true in the US when the Vietnam war came about and then the war on drugs used to deliberately destabilize particular groups that threatened the then current administration and their agendas. In the UK the government has been dividing the population for a long time particularly taking aim at, and demonizing, the working class for generations and there’s lots to suggest over decades entire populations have been destabilized in order to make solving these issues through proper channels more difficult. The atrocities committed like in Rochdale and beyond regarding grooming gangs, failed multiculturalism and rampant failings at all levels of ordinary native people of the country. These people are branded as extremists while the never-ending extremism on the streets by the so-called “anarchists” continues unabated and is pushed on people endlessly as if completely acceptable.

BLM protests were no different. Most were highly educated privileged university students, many who had no real dealings with the problems they were claiming to be a victim of. And they sure didn’t want to live like their lower class counterparts who have experienced injustices. That was also encouraged and punishments for the depravity that unfolded was minimum but when people protest in the street over the death of innocent young girls in a working class part of Liverpool, it’s front page news and the participants are considered scum.

It makes you challenge what REALLY is anti-establishment. And this “artwork” is no different. If anything it’s spitting in the faces of all those who really contain within themselves deep resentment for the establishment in this country. It’s almost eerily convenient considering we have elections and much chaos ensuing over many contemporary issues. As you say, anti-establishment today is more virtue signalling than it is an actual legitimate stance and charlatans come and go on the timeline seeking to misdirect. Maybe Banksy is one of them? We know he’s never been thrown in jail for non-crimes like Julian Assange and probably never will but he can get closer to the seat of power in this country, erect a statue and continue on as a free man?

When a poor man can’t steal a loaf of bread from the multi billion pound empire that is Tesco without being vilified as the worst of the worst, so bad it has Daily Mail readers lapsing into a full blown psychosis, an “artist” can vandalize a public space with uncommissioned work in one of the most protected and surveiled part of the county and wait for it… Be congratulated!

The establishment knows quite well the monetary value of Banksy’s art sold in auctions.

The establishment doesn’t attack the millionaires who made their money selling Banksy’s art or the millionaires who can afford to buy art in auctions.

The question is: who do they think owns the statue?

Whose property is it? How much is it worth? Can someone sell it to another? Greedy minds want to know. They certainly wouldn’t destroy such a valuable thing, would they?

The statue is placed on land controlled by Westminster City Council and the Crown Estate. So they practically got a piece of art worth millions, if not more. Who would be so stupid and try to destroy it, remove it or even discredit it? It may belong to the King!

It is certainly not in the interests of the landowners to remove it or harm it. The statue may be worth a fortune, and money is all they care about.

Touched a nerve with the Bob Moran brigade.
Now apply the same logic.
You wont.

Cf. Miri AF: If you know their name, they’re in the game.

Obviously this is an extreme stance and ultimately self-defeating. However, there is the seed of truth in that the more highly visible a personage is, the more likely (and indeed to the point of definitely) that they are a con.

The Banksy phenomenon is so laughably fraudulent that only a population whose minds have been liquidised by covid and transgenderism could fall for it.

When the choice is nationalism or globalism – choose localism ?

wow, rude. I wasn’t even talking to you, but you made my point anyway.

You don’t mean in these comments, because there is no one doing that here. And the point isn’t that he wasn’t caught you dimwit, it’s that he WOULD have been caught if he was a genuine subversive. Are you that dim or just pretending for spook reasons?

Robin of Locksley stands for England.

I use Banksterism for systemic financial fraud and a rigged or captured control system. The capacity to leverage institutions, governments, media and public is a much wider application of their device for repackaging toxic debt-conflict into narratives, big lies or variant strains of the ‘noble lie’ by which to manage perception and thus shape response to intended outcomes.
banking on ‘futures’ is an investment seeking to minimise risk by offsetting to ‘othereds’ or ‘socialising the pain to maximise private profit’.

i don’t see ‘THEM’ as homogenous or unified – by anything except alliance of self-interest – that may be internalised as systemic capture relative to protected investments.

So I allow for differences and divergences of perceived self-interest.
I also stay open to different ‘messaging’ operating to different targets or audiences.

That Banksterism is deeply involved in restructuring the human order on all levels is simply part of the world I am born and raised in. I can call it other names; why steal kingdoms when you can steal the mind by which they think, communicate and exchange.

But the management of minds, emotions and perceptions carries consequences that also have to be managed – unless you are a hit and run opportunist.

Banksyi-sm is a bit like Q or the organised ‘Resistance’ in ‘1984’.
perhaps its critical that the belief that there is one is kept alive as part of the management script?

But what I sketch out is not engaging with or fighting lies in their own framing.
What is framing but the context of intention or purpose that runs beneath the pretext or provocation for baiting engagement?

“How believable?” might be rephrased as how willing are you to accept as real or true for you?
I can believe there is a new statue as shown, but who put it there and for what purpose?
I live my own purpose. the symbol I see in this one might serve a waking up from polarised false flagged identity conflict, but I wouldn’t bank on it outside my own decision. You may see whatever serves you – as you currently define and accept yourself to be.

I once read that CIA mind control programming had taken some ‘targets’ so deep into dissociation that there was some movement to bring them back. But what do I know! I feel that not all who are aligned in the ‘restructuring agenda’ are set on destruction of humanity, but some are – or some facet of our minds runs a psychopathic hatred of life (deep or demonic self-hatred).
But it runs dark while fronting as power of protection against projected or predictive risk.