What is the public interest?
This may seem like quite an irrelevant, inconsequential question to ask.
But if you do not know the answer to this, and if you do not know where you stand in relation to it, then you are far more vulnerable to an Establishment attack than you realise.
The “public interest” is the term your government, its agencies, regulators, and the mainstream media use to justify certain actions that, in their eyes, supposedly benefit the whole.
It sounds reasonable. It sounds responsible. It sounds as though someone, somewhere, is acting on behalf of ordinary people.
But who decides what is truly in the public interest?
And perhaps even more importantly, who holds them accountable when they get it wrong, abuse it, or weaponise it?
If you try to search online for a clear answer to this question, you will not find a universal, comprehensive definition. You will find fragments. You will find institutional language. You will find organisations giving themselves broad scope to decide what is and is not acceptable.
The BBC’s definition, for example, includes:
- exposing or detecting crime
- exposing significantly anti-social behaviour
- exposing corruption or injustice
- disclosing significant incompetence or negligence
- protecting people’s health and safety
- preventing people from being misled by some statement or action of an individual or organisation
At first glance, this may appear perfectly reasonable.
But then we must ask the obvious question.
Who determines what is in people’s health and safety?
Who determines when people are being misled?
Who determines what counts as corruption, injustice, negligence, or significantly anti-social behaviour?
The BBC.
Not you.
Not the actual public.
This is why the term is such a powerful weapon of what we have described as Scamtology. It is a circular definition that no one can truly hold them, or any other institution, accountable to. They define the public interest, act in the name of the public interest, and then defend themselves by claiming that what they did was in the public interest.
That is not accountability.
That is institutional self-licensing.
And this is not limited to the BBC.
Government agencies like the UK Insolvency Service can, and do, target their victims using this same justification. Ask former tennis champion Boris Becker. Or indeed, ask us at Lighthouse Global.
The phrase “public interest” becomes, in effect, a blank cheque for any commissioned attack by the Establishment. They can come after anyone, any organisation, any individual, and justify it in the name of protecting the public.
Yet they never have to properly define what that public interest is.
They never have to prove that the public asked for it.
They never have to show that the public benefited from it.
They simply say it was necessary because they decided it was necessary.
This means that if you say “the wrong thing” according to the Establishment, if you choose “the wrong” political stance, the “wrong” religious position, or the “wrong” moral conviction, your life, family, reputation, livelihood, and business can be ripped apart in the name of the public interest.
They will say it is for the good of society.
They will say it is to protect people.
They will say it is to prevent harm.
And then they will tell you that there is nothing you can do about it.
This is how language becomes a weapon. A phrase that should belong to the public is captured by institutions and turned against the very people it claims to protect.
We at Lighthouse are fast changing this vulnerability.
We are in the process of launching programmes and initiatives to help ordinary citizens and small business owners understand, prepare for, and protect themselves from such unwarranted, unjustified attacks.
Because the public interest must not be defined by those who profit from attacking the public.
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Jeffrey Leigh-Jones – Victim to Scamtologist Predator – Part 1: How The BBC Groomed Jeffrey Leigh-Jones to Become Their Living Sacrifice
The Real Identity Scam: Why the Mainstream Media Targets Tommy Robinson
When the Media Becomes the Executioner: The Abuse of Press Power and the Public Interest in the Cliff Richard Scandal
Why Purpose-Built Communities Are the Answer to Establishment-Controlled Chaos
This term is an extremely pernicious and devastating weapon used by the Establishment. It is clearly circular reasoning and self defeating… we are acting in the public interest, which is whatever we deem that to be because there’s no actual definition of what that is. That’s a licence to kill in the name of protecting the public! Sir Cliff Richard is prime example of this. As are we at Lighthouse Global. This is something that critically needs to be exposed categorically.
This is such a crucial message to understand. Who defines these terms, what meaning do they attach to them, and who ultimately determines that? These are questions that very few people stop to ask, let alone have clear answers for.
That is why seeking truth in all of these situations is so important — including in the case of Lighthouse Global. Thank you for sharing this.
“The “public interest” is the term your government, its agencies, regulators, and the mainstream media use to justify certain actions that, in their eyes, supposedly benefit the whole.”
This is damning especially when you look at many, many, many cases just like Sir Cliff Richard, with horrific and life changing accusations made and justified in the name of public interest.
With the BBC’s proven unconscionable character, they are certainly NOT the people to be trusted to act in the public interest!
Thank you. This shows me how unaware I have been and how I blindly accepted phrases like “public interest”, assuming that those who use them have the public’s best interests at heart. From my own experience over the last few years, I can see that this is not the case and how institutions use certain phrases to attack and control the public, and how they try to silence people who challenge the establishment and its agenda.
It is so crucial to be switched on to the establishment’s tricks, satanic methods, and ways of controlling the public. For something to be in the public interest, the public needs to be asked!
When I see definitions arbitrarily given to words and phrases like ‘in the public interest’ I think back to the play ‘1984’.
In that play ‘The Establishment’ looks to control ‘the people’ by limiting the words they can use in the dictionary, and therefore, they can control what people think and what they do.
So in real life, when organisations give us reasons like;
‘in the public interest’
or
‘war on terror’
or
‘weapon of mass destruction’
or
‘my truth’
or
‘black lives matter’…
‘DEI’……
etc
etc
etc
You just know there is evil behind it somewhere!
The term public interest is a catch all term that the mainstream media and Establishment use as a false warrant to pursue whatever actions they want. It’s like the police stopping everyone they feel like saying ” we have reason to suspect” – if that happened to everybody the country would be up in arms. Most people don’t realise how susceptible
they are to the lie of the “public interest”
I think that in order for any public institution to claim public interest there needs to be clear and ongoing evidence for starters that they themselves have demonstrated and can prove that they genuinely have the public’s best interests at heart and not their own. There is a reason this term is so vague, in order that it can be wielded as a catch all term to excuse institutional and establishment abuse of their powers. There needs to be meticulous scrutiny of terms like this by us, the public, with intense pressure on these institutions to ensure they cannot and do not abuse this because, where they can they will and they do it a lot. We only have ourselves to blame for not intervening as we ought to and need to.
What’s worse than not acting in the public interest is justifying your propaganda as public interest while it is quite literally at the public’s expense. Horrific abuse of position and power. The BBC is not fit for purpose.
What I am realising is that by saying it’s in the public’s interest, what they are actually doing is taking away our choice. Why I say that is because they make the choice for us about what we, as the public, want and need to know, not what we want to know and learn about.
Thank you for this critical article.
Just like the BBC to manipulates for their own ends in name of the public.
Until my experience with the Daily Mail and then the Insolvency Service, I thought that the ‘public interest’ was describing what our government and media institutions do to protect and serve the public.
Now I see it’s an excuse to abuse power to serve and protect an Establishment agenda instead.