"The things we were worried would happen are happening." — Angus Johnston, professor at the City University of New YorkNo one is safe.
No one is immune.
No one gets spared the anguish, fear and heartache of living under the shadow of an authoritarian police state.
That's the message being broadcast 24/7 with every new piece of government propaganda, every new law that criminalizes otherwise lawful activity, every new policeman on the beat, every new surveillance camera casting a watchful eye, every sensationalist news story that titillates and distracts, every new prison or detention center built to house troublemakers and other undesirables, every new court ruling that gives government agents a green light to strip and steal and rape and ravage the citizenry, every school that opts to indoctrinate rather than educate, and every new justification for why Americans should comply with the government's attempts to trample the Constitution underfoot.
Yes, COVID-19 has taken a significant toll on the nation emotionally, physically, and economically, but there are still greater dangers on the horizon.
As long as "we the people" continue to allow the government to trample our rights in the name of so-called national security, things will get worse, not better.
It's already worse.
Now there's talk of mass testing for COVID-19 antibodies, screening checkpoints, contact tracing, immunity passports to allow those who have recovered from the virus to move around more freely, and snitch tip lines for reporting "rule breakers" to the authorities.
If you can't read the writing on the wall, you need to pay better attention.
These may seem like small, necessary steps in the war against the COVID-19 virus, but they're only necessary to the police state in its efforts to further undermine the Constitution, extend its control over the populace, and feed its insatiable appetite for ever-greater powers.
Nothing is ever as simple as the government claims it is.
Whatever dangerous practices you allow the government to carry out now — whether it's in the name of national security or protecting America's borders or making America healthy again — rest assured, these same practices can and will be used against you when the government decides to set its sights on you.
The war on drugs turned out to be a war on the American people, waged with SWAT teams and militarized police.
The war on terror turned out to be a war on the American people, waged with warrantless surveillance and indefinite detention.
The war on immigration turned out to be a war on the American people, waged with roving government agents demanding "papers, please."
This war on COVID-19 will be yet another war on the American people, waged with all of the surveillance weaponry at the government's disposal: thermal imaging cameras, drones, contact tracing, biometric databases, etc.
So you see, when you talk about empowering government agents to screen the populace in order to control and prevent spread of this virus, what you're really talking about is creating a society in which ID cards, round ups, checkpoints and detention centers become routine weapons used by the government to control and suppress the populace, no matter the threat.
This is also how you pave the way for a national identification system of epic proportions.
Imagine it: a national classification system that not only categorizes you according to your health status but also allows the government to sort you in a hundred other ways: by gender, orientation, wealth, medical condition, religious beliefs, political viewpoint, legal status, etc.
Are you starting to get the bigger picture yet?
This is just another wolf in sheep's clothing, a "show me your papers" scheme disguised as a means of fighting a virus.
Don't fall for it.
The ramifications of such a "show me your papers" society in which government officials are empowered to stop individuals, demand they identify themselves, and subject them to patdowns, warrantless screenings, searches, and interrogations are beyond chilling.
By allowing government agents to establish a litmus test for individuals to be able to exit a state of lockdown and engage in commerce, movement and any other right that corresponds to life in a supposedly free society, it lays the groundwork for a society in which you are required to identify yourself at any time to any government worker who demands it for any reason.
Such tactics quickly lead one down a slippery slope that ends with government agents empowered to force anyone and everyone to prove they are in compliance with every statute and regulation on the books.
It used to be that unless police had a reasonable suspicion that a person was guilty of wrongdoing, they had no legal authority to stop the person and require identification. In other words, "we the people" had the right to come and go as we please without the fear of being questioned by police or forced to identify ourselves.
Unfortunately, in this age of COVID-19, that unrestricted right to move about freely is being pitted against the government's power to lock down communities at a moment's notice. And in this tug-of-war between individual freedoms and government power, "we the people" have been on the losing end of the deal.
Curiously enough, these COVID-19 restrictions dovetail conveniently with a national timeline for states to comply with the Real ID Act, which imposes federal standards on identity documents such as state drivers' licenses, a prelude to this national identification system.
Talk about a perfect storm for bringing about a national ID card, the ultimate human tracking device.
Granted, in the absence of a national ID card, which would make the police state's task of monitoring, tracking and singling out individual suspects far simpler, "we the people" are already tracked in a myriad of ways: through our state driver's licenses, Social Security numbers, bank accounts, purchases and electronic transactions; by way of our correspondence and communication devices — email, phone calls and mobile phones; through chips implanted in our vehicles, identification documents, even our clothing.
Add to this the fact that businesses, schools and other facilities are relying more and more on fingerprints and facial recognition to identify us. All the while, data companies such as Acxiom are capturing vast caches of personal information to help airports, retailers, police and other government authorities instantly determine whether someone is the person he or she claims to be.
This informational glut — used to great advantage by both the government and corporate sectors — has converged into a mandate for "an internal passport," a.k.a. a national ID card that would store information as basic as a person's name, birth date and place of birth, as well as private information, including a Social Security number, fingerprint, retinal scan and personal, criminal and financial records.
A federalized, computerized, cross-referenced, databased system of identification policed by government agents would be the final nail in the coffin for privacy (not to mention a logistical security nightmare that would leave Americans even more vulnerable to every hacker in the cybersphere).
Americans have always resisted adopting a national ID card for good reason: it gives the government and its agents the ultimate power to target, track and terrorize the populace according to the government's own nefarious purposes.
National ID card systems have been used before, by other oppressive governments, in the name of national security, invariably with horrifying results.
For instance, in Germany, the Nazis required all Jews to carry special stamped ID cards for travel within the country. A prelude to the yellow Star of David badges, these stamped cards were instrumental in identifying Jews for deportation to death camps in Poland.
Author Raul Hilberg summarizes the impact that such a system had on the Jews:
The whole identification system, with its personal documents, specially assigned names, and conspicuous tagging in public, was a powerful weapon in the hands of the police. First, the system was an auxiliary device that facilitated the enforcement of residence and movement restrictions. Second, it was an independent control measure in that it enabled the police to pick up any Jew, anywhere, anytime. Third, and perhaps most important, identification had a paralyzing effect on its victims.In South Africa during apartheid, pass books were used to regulate the movement of black citizens and segregate the population. The Pass Laws Act of 1952 stipulated where, when and for how long a black African could remain in certain areas. Any government employee could strike out entries, which cancelled the permission to remain in an area. A pass book that did not have a valid entry resulted in the arrest and imprisonment of the bearer.
Identity cards played a crucial role in the genocide of the Tutsis in the central African country of Rwanda. The assault, carried out by extremist Hutu militia groups, lasted around 100 days and resulted in close to a million deaths. While the ID cards were not a precondition to the genocide, they were a facilitating factor. Once the genocide began, the production of an identity card with the designation "Tutsi" spelled a death sentence at any roadblock.
Identity cards have also helped oppressive regimes carry out eliminationist policies such as mass expulsion, forced relocation and group denationalization. Through the use of identity cards, Ethiopian authorities were able to identify people with Eritrean affiliation during the mass expulsion of 1998. The Vietnamese government was able to locate ethnic Chinese more easily during their 1978-79 expulsion. The USSR used identity cards to force the relocation of ethnic Koreans (1937), Volga Germans (1941), Kamyks and Karachai (1943), Crimean Tartars, Meshkhetian Turks, Chechens, Ingush and Balkars (1944) and ethnic Greeks (1949). And ethnic Vietnamese were identified for group denationalization through identity cards in Cambodia in 1993, as were the Kurds in Syria in 1962.
And in the United States, post-9/11, more than 750 Muslim men were rounded up on the basis of their religion and ethnicity and detained for up to eight months. Their experiences echo those of 120,000 Japanese-Americans who were similarly detained 75 years ago following the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Despite a belated apology and monetary issuance by the U.S. government, the U.S. Supreme Court has yet to declare such a practice illegal. Moreover, laws such as the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) empower the government to arrest and detain indefinitely anyone they "suspect" of being an enemy of the state.
You see, you may be innocent of wrongdoing now, but when the standard for innocence is set by the government, no one is safe.
Everyone is a suspect.
And anyone can be a criminal when it's the government determining what is a crime.
It's no longer a matter of if, but when.
Remember, the police state does not discriminate.
At some point, it will not matter whether your skin is black or yellow or brown or white. It will not matter whether you're an immigrant or a citizen. It will not matter whether you're rich or poor. It won't even matter whether you're driving, flying or walking.
After all, government-issued bullets will kill you just as easily whether you're a law-abiding citizen or a hardened criminal. Government jails will hold you just as easily whether you've obeyed every law or broken a dozen. And whether or not you've done anything wrong, government agents will treat you like a suspect simply because they have been trained to view and treat everyone like potential criminals.
Eventually, when the police state has turned that final screw and slammed that final door, all that will matter is whether some government agent — poorly trained, utterly ignorant and dismissive of the Constitution, way too hyped up on the power of their badges, and authorized to detain, search, interrogate, threaten and generally harass anyone they see fit — chooses to single you out for special treatment.
We've been having this same debate about the perils of government overreach for the past 50-plus years, and still we don't seem to learn, or if we learn, we learn too late.
All of the excessive, abusive tactics employed by the government today — warrantless surveillance, stop and frisk searches, SWAT team raids, roadside strip searches, asset forfeiture schemes, private prisons, indefinite detention, militarized police, etc. — started out as a seemingly well-meaning plan to address some problem in society that needed a little extra help.
Be careful what you wish for: you will get more than you bargained for, especially when the government's involved.
In the case of a national identification system, it might start off as a means of tracking COVID-19 cases in order to "safely" re-open the nation, but it will end up as a means of controlling the American people.
For those tempted to justify these draconian measures for whatever reason — for the sake of their health, the economy, or national security — remember, you can't have it both ways.
You can't live in a constitutional republic if you allow the government to act like a police state.
You can't claim to value freedom if you allow the government to operate like a dictatorship.
You can't expect to have your rights respected if you allow the government to treat whomever it pleases with disrespect and an utter disregard for the rule of law.
As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, if you're inclined to advance this double standard because you believe you have done nothing wrong and have nothing to hide, beware: there's always a boomerang effect.
About the author
Constitutional attorney and author John W. Whitehead is founder and president of The Rutherford Institute. His new book Battlefield America: The War on the American People is available at amazon.com. Whitehead can be contacted at johnw@rutherford.org
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I was out food shopping yesterday. I kept gawking, i just CANNOT get over the IDIOCY theatrics going on with the society!! Like so fucken absurd!!
Waiting in very short outdoors line-up i looked to our GrandFather 🌞 and closed my eyes to tan (FINALLY) my eyelids too and not look at the peeps🙈 and sneezed twice (that happens when i look to the Sun)... well.... you can imagine the rest
Anyways... it (the wheel) is about to turn.[Link]
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(Yes a tad painful but still informative)
As I said before... HUMANITY NEEDS SOME MIRACLES ASAP!
Peeps have not wanted to master themselves. Not one soul is NOT RESPONSIBLE.
A Tao saying goes: When the house is on fire, run. Choose the destination later!
And... as RC says... we learned what we needed in KinderGarten.
I felt like highlighting the entire post!
90% schleeping... NOT awake -- (Once awakened (that is easy), remaining awake is the constant continuous work-out.
Nada... we were all told in KinderGarten and Grade 1... Respectez-vous les uns les autres.
No one is Alone . We all have had MANY lifetimes of training wheels .
RE:kindergarten
Maybe you had nice kindergarten ladies around and you were bright enough to soak in some good knowledge. At that time I was taught only that Im different and to be avoided since I had no father to teach me manly stuff. And to drown my sorrows in sugar addiction. Later I learned that my Dad was way worse to have around than not. My 10 year younger half-bro who had the "luck" to have him as a father is now a lost alcoholic and his mother (a high school teacher) even tried to kill him with a baseball bat at one occasion. Then he ended up in a psych-ward cause he wanted to kill himself.
And when I see what path led me to properly wake up I concluded that theres a good reason most choose to stay asleep untill something REALLY BAD happenst to them. But I also came to a recent conclusion that it was connected to me not having anyone with the right aura/soul/energy around me. So regarding what NADA said that we truthers are making mistakes when trying to reach others I think there is some truth to that. But since most of us, that are using our brains as they should be used, are struggling with living in a society that is laughing at our views we become negative and hatefull towards it. And thats why we can never organise or reach people. I now know that the only way to reach others is the same as the way we reach ourselves and re-connect with our souls. And thats through LOVE and LIGHT... AND accepting our dark sides and using it to our advantage. So lets not kid ourselves... Cause if I ask you to show me people that are like that you will draw a blank, lets be honest. Thats the reason why I say 90% are still not there.... and our reality is a reflection of it. So in my mind the only way is to let go and see who will come our way and THEN come at them out of the position and vibration of love and understanding. If peeps dont pose the right questions and make the necessary steps our hands are tied. Will there be time for that? We will see. I think we are the last generation that can make a difference and steer us away from this destructive path. And we are for now still just the margines of society.
Life is not a walk in the park.Life is a walk in the heart of god. <3
Nature is abundant, therefore nothing can ever lack in our enfolding our inner gifts n treasures.
No kidding. Check out the synopsis for this novel series. [Link] Written in 1999!!
I'm on the fifth one and it's RIGHT THERE!
" THE EPIDEMIC OF 2024.
In the years before the epidemic, western civilization had been coping with divided societies, and uncontrolled migrations of displaced people. A collapsing financial system was bankrupting countries and destroying economies. The fear of sliding into chaos was the trigger for politically unthinkable measures.
Government institutions and big business took the joint decision to introduce Global Identification. It was a new national register to identify and protect citizens on their streets and professionals within their organizations. It became mandatory for civil servants and the executive class to accept a sub-dermal implant to access places of work. Further turmoil saw colleges, schools and hospitals adopting the new standard. An adaptation of mobile phone technology, called a GLiD - the Global Identification account - linked the user and their implants to a permanent and watchful internet. Those who did not readily join were gradually seen as an underclass, increasingly excluded from many of the benefits of the new society.
The epidemic, when it came, in the turbulent global atmosphere of 2024, was a flu-like fever that spread through the world's most crowded urban areas. Millions died as the demand for resources overwhelmed the supply. Urban centers failed to provide enough food, power and transport. The virus had already spread around the world through international air travel before the full impact of destabilized regimes led to an opportunity for military occupations.
THE LIMITED NUCLEAR WAR OF 2025.
Twelve months into the disastrous epidemic and the world population had begun to shrink dramatically. As though there had been some design, through which no crisis might go to waste, unseen cabals within the deep state structures of the superpowers launched pre-emptive strikes across sovereign boundaries. Was it in fear for their own security, or cynical opportunism? History cannot accurately report and surviving state media could not know.
In the wake of mass depopulation, countries became parts of new regions and survivors were contained within emergency camps. As the fog of war dispersed, a new day on earth revealed an endless landscape of unburied dead.
SEVEN YEARS LATER.
The western media are celebrating a world unified by the United Nations and answerable to an International Court of Justice. UN troops, alongside their mechanised 'Peacekeepers', are deployed to areas of the world where there is local resistance to the new world authority.
Old fiat monetary systems are declared obsolete and a new Universal Basic Allowance has been introduced to cover the needs of the ordinary citizen. Only governments and multinational business use a digital Credit Mark to account for the movement and trade of raw materials. The democratic functions of western parliaments are reduced to votes for regional members of a unity government. Prime Ministers are chosen by internal vote.
Private property has been abolished, all goods and assets sequestered by governments to allocate as required. Televisions have been issued to citizens and giant screens broadcast twenty four hours a day in the city squares.
New technologies, held secretly by the military, have reached the streets. Highly efficient electric battery technology replaces the internal combustion engine. Hard light holography and autonomous robots have begun to be integrated into daily life.
Multinational corporations have reached agreements with worldwide regional states to build 'campus' systems on the sites of depopulated cities where displaced survivors can be employed in a new feudal system.
As the cities are dismantled and materials recycled, the use of metal is gradually being phased out and replaced with 3D printed items using a new material called cerastic. Like much in the new world, its biodegradable lifespan is designed to be utilitarian... and short.
And then, there's the dark-net..."
As I said in one of my earlier posts: "Seems like they either take lessons from these novels or those who write them are “in the know”. I just hope the masses rediscover their individuality and soon."
If we do not know how the pathogen is acting in regards secondary infection rates; how in the world can a person carry a card
that states
100% immunity ?
This is not what it is about. You know it. We all should know it.
& while I'm at it; Mass testing? Just think about that for a second.
Will they 'test' each person continually? In what realm of never, never-land does this make any sense?
It would be like a game of whacko' mole. Oh, we tested you mr. jones, here's your card, you are free to go...
mr jones where have you been? Oh, no worries, you have been "tested". We know where you've been.
That is not normal, that is insanity if that is the case. Do you know the statistics of CV cases at your Uni ?
Thanks
I walk out to start my day and wonder if we'll still be laughing when the Beast and its mark are actually here.
@Tsidkenu:
Great comment.
The eye is not bionic, or technological or scientific.
The beast is, and is enormous and very gross; but not the eye, which is enormouser and yet not gross.....
Somehow.
ned
probably- just to give the fool a scare - just before walking in, hit my forehead with an hot hair dryer:..Boss (Wielding the air thermometer): Hold on, RC. You don't look too good this morning . . . beep beep BEEEP - Oh My God!
RC: aCHOO! Uh, sorry about that loogie, boss, it was an accidental follow - through, you know...So say what?
Boss: "RC: OMG! You've got a 108F fever!!
RC: (Like some prototypical sloppy affectionate drunk: Hanging on boss's shoulders, faces 2 feet apart): "COUGH! COUGH! I just KNEW you always really cared for me!
RC
I don't want to stress you out but you might see mandatory "testing" actual "testing" with the swab at your workplace. Then you will have to decide what to do. I personally will not be tested or vaxxed.
Have a look at what our President is planning to do.
[Link] Ask yourself why? Ask yourself why would they 'need' to have military 'distribute this to the elderly and those in nursing homes?
When asked by the interviewed if a line could be drawn and not vax healthy people-he said, yeah if they're healthy.
With the possibility of each state calling for mandatory 'testing', the gov (president) can claim they did not mandate it. But, they won't need to. If your gov mandates it, it is as good as being govern-mentally mandated. From what I understand from others, and from doing research, they test in a series of (3) if you test 2 times and it is negative, but the 3rd time you test it is positive, then you are declared 'infected' and then you are in for an ordeal. This thing is like a script from a sci fi horror show. "testing kits' that were on their way to the UK were found to have had the "virus" in them. Now if you anything about bio'labs, those things are sealed and anyone working in them are sealed. How do you reckon that the "v" got into the sealed kits? That's just the tip of a stinky iceberg. There were kits that came out of the c dc in Atlanta that were found to have been "faulty", but they would not disclose what faulty meant. That's not all. No no.
Then there were the hundreds of thousands of "kits" that China distributed around the globe; and were found to be, yep, you guessed right..."faulty".. They have tried to bury the stories but if you search/dig, you will find them. So now when you hear people telling you to "be safe", you must really heed the warning. But, I don't think most of them know what is coming this way. Heads up. Cheers.
Once normalised, it is a relatively simple affair to introduce the compulsory Mark. We've already been conditioned to the scanning, so why not take it to its logical conclusion?
I am actually arming myself with understanding of the PCR tests themselves (Celia Farber https://uncoverdc.com/2020/04/07/was-the-covid-19-test-meant-to-detect-a-virus/), the failure of a CV-19 gold standard (Dr. Kaufmann https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGGd7-vvd9Y) and associated evidences. Then when my turn comes to be given a test, I will ask all the hard questions no-one wants to answer, and then rightfully refuse by informed consent. If I lose my job, my wife is a lawyer and we will take it to court.
@RUListening:
Oh, yeah.
It is crazy to think we all need the same set of respirators and goggles.
And have to ride the same train.
And listen to the boss.
Who listens to his boss.
Who builds the train.
And manufactures the respirators.
It is crazy.
ned
What we are seeing today, is the culmination of centuries of growth of artficial organization and government, producing a rabid belief system, among most citizens, who hold (through their 'citizenship')onto the idea of the final and lasting superiority of a strong central and supreme 'scientific' (rational and logical) command.
This is the anti-God or Satan, if you will, at work.
It is mind-control.
It sure ain't the Tao!
And yet it is.
The reason it is, is because we all have something to learn that cannot be learned in any other way.
And when we know, we will know.
And that is all.
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DICTATURE DISGUISED AS PANDEMIC RESPONSE WAKE UP! - reads the sign on the pic.
Germany: Thousands of protesters slam isolation measures
Over 3,000 people rallied in Munich and thousands more gathered in Stuttgart and across Germany on Saturday to demand the lifting of restrictions ordered by the German authorities. Many of the...Over 3,000 people rallied in Munich and thousands more gathered in Stuttgart and across Germany on Saturday to demand the lifting of restrictions ordered by the German authorities. Many of the protesters defied the guidelines which call for a limited number of participants and for social distancing to be maintained during such events.
The protesters accuse politicians and medical workers of spreading panic and infringing on the population's rights with the prolonged lockdown. Some of the rallies included anti-vaccination activists.
I mean... testing reaching and contacting everyone....