George Rebane
Coming to a private conversation near you, we can look forward to our socialists putting more screws on our liberties. Those lovable Scandinavians are again taking the lead in showing our progressives how a compliant and controlled citizenry can be managed. Reason.com reports (here) – “Norway has banned hate speech against “gender, gender identity or expression” and “sexual orientation,” including remarks said in private. The law, approved by the legislature without a vote, calls for up to one year in prison for private remarks and up to three years in prison for public remarks that incite hatred, persecution, or contempt against protected groups or remarks that dehumanize them.” How about government monitored smart phones that report your private conversations should these be subversive, seditious, or sexually incorrect?
‘Your money or your life?’ Actually, the government already has rules in place to take both with its draconian financial monitoring programs and death committees denying healthcare for nationalized programs like Medicare and Obamacare. Now we hear that the feds intend to tighten the screws on monitoring your banking habits and monetary behavior. They propose to lower the ‘travel rule’ threshold to $250 to capture and record all international transfers down to that amount. (more here) This is just the latest ratchet in America’s massive financial surveillance system already in place functioning quite efficiently, thank you. (more here)
More social signposts on 21st century’s return road to serfdom. Just shelter and feed us regularly, and we promise not to make a sound. Friedrich Hayek laid it out for us almost 80 years ago.
Thanksgiving 2020. Safeway ratted us out. So now we have Gov Newsom’s new dicta about how we should spend our holidays and behave inside our homes. The brave new world of constant compliance has arrived, and no one has a shred of ‘science’ to show that lockdowns work or have worked with infectious diseases.
[20nov20 update] Ineptocracy (new English word) – A system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least likely makers, and where those least likely to sustain themselves (takers) are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of the diminishing number of makers. It appears that we have just voted ourselves into an ineptocracy.
[23nov20 update] “the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on an unsuspecting public” is just the latest of the growing number of medical experts’ admonitions about Covid-19 (more here). It has been clear for some months now that the lamestream promoted information about the pandemic is mostly adulterated bullcrap. When the dust settles, and assuming we still have a free press, C19 will be recorded as the world’s first and largest Political Pandemic to serve the agendas of the global Left and their corporatist allies. The worldwide spread of this virus truly has become a crisis too valuable to waste in terms of its manageable transformative power. The astute reader will notice 1) the absence of any ‘science’ that supports the population control dicta of the various governments, and 2) the active suppression of clinical studies and therapeutics that contest the cited lockdown mentality. Everything in the news is so, simply because they say it is so.
‘Defecate or relinquish the receptacle’ has been my sentiment in these pages about releasing evidence to substantiate Team Trump’s claim of an historically massive electoral fraud. Not all readers have agreed, but I take comfort that VDH is now making a similar call – “But in the world of politics and perceptions, if the Kraken is really not to be birthed as a canary, overwhelming data should be produced immediately, given the arena is not just electoral and legal but now political.” (more here)
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