Maybe the single most important article I have ever written.
A few things to keep in mind.
The measures that have been used for Covid, against the truckers, and now against Russia, are here to stay (even if temporarily suspended, the precedence has been set, and WILL be used again!).
If we, the free citizens of the US, of Canada, of all those other countries, do not step up, and put a proper end to this, they really WILL be used again, against us all.
What am I talking about?
Health Passports, that control your mobility, your health care, even your freedom itself, among other things, and that can be coupled to all kind of other databases.
Even MSNBC warned on April 23, 2021 about the potential of abuse of such passport, given the amount of private and protected data such passports collect.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/risks-covid-vaccine-passports-are-scarier-you-might-think-n1265023
People DIED because they got refused health care based on their vaccination status.
Expulsion from public life, by banning from social media and other communication means (this happened exactly like that, or was attempted. They even try to shut down TS, and will try to shut down Starlink, as well. “Unless they put a gun to my head”, Musk said rejecting demands he censor Russians from his service. This was not just tough guy talk, hyperbolic, but struck me as a warning.
Complete theft of money, by blocking any and all use of the banking and payment systems. See Canadian Truckers, see Russia and Russian businesses, groups and such right now, as well.
And make no mistake, there have been enough lapses that let us peek into the cards of those elites wielding those very tyrannical and oppressive methods: even supporting Trump was enough to have your bank accounts frozen, in Canada, for example.
This was NOT about freezing accounts of ACTUAL CRIMINALS, but employing brazenly thought crime: “You support Trump? You are a criminal, and we will shut your life down.”
And it mattered not if you were a single mom who donated $50 to the truckers, either: “We’re cutting you off from all your money! So starve, and have your kids starve and freeze, too!”
This is REAL. This is happening TODAY, in so-called free and democratic Western countries.
This is pure tyranny, pure oppression.
If we let them get away with this, we will soon regret our laxness or passive cowardice, but then it will be too late.
They are after our mobility.
They are after our health and health care.
They are after our money.
They are after our social life and contacts.
EVERY ASPECT of our lives, they want to control, with force and threats and all kinds of spying tools, up to and including incentivizing people to start ratting on each other (total breakdown of any civil society!).
We need to enshrine, not just in laws, but in our very constitutions, very explicit language prohibiting the state from going there, EVER AGAIN!
This is not a partisan issue, for those in power can come after ANYONE, for ANY ‘crime’ and ANY set of beliefs that are deemed ‘dangerous’ and ‘against the common welfare of the state’.
They have PROVEN to be heartless, brutal, and very violent in enacting and enforcing those attempts.
THIS CANNOT BE ALLOWED TO CONTINUE.
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
Franklin knew this already, centuries ago.
Will our generation have the guts, wisdom and strength to stand up and safeguard the future for ourselves and our children?
That being said, there ARE legitimate uses of emergency powers. The whole idea of martial law, for example.
But today, we see all safeguards and definitions stretched well beyond what should happen.
People are arrested and ostraziced and cut off for protesting. For saying things that are ridiculed and labeled as 'conspiracy theory', only to be vindicated soon after (however without proper restitution).
The shift to thought crime and penalizing verbal opposition is a bridge too far.
The elites are weaponizing valid systems and provisions, and targeting their opponents, in ways well beyond what is necessary given the (real or perceived) emergency.
Thàt is the crime we need to prevent from ever happening again.
Obama started using banks to target an American writing about Islamic terrorism and reporting on the violent acts in the Middle East against women, gays, children, pretty much anybody. When I mentioned it in a discussion that this coming, people thought I was crazy.