By Mike Smith
10th April 2020
As Easter 2020 came to us, you could sense a feeling of anticipation, a feeling of impatience and just a slight urgency to when this Corona madness would end and life would return to “normal”.
People around the globe and especially in Europe were starting to talk about a “Corona exit strategy” actually looking towards their respective governments to come up with “solutions” to set them free again.
One can only shake one’s head, for the people don’t realise that they are already free. They are not prisoners of their governments nor slaves to whip and beat up as they please. People have not yet realised what the “servant” in “Civil Servant” means. Who is REALLY in charge here? Who pays their goddamn salaries?
Like when you received a beating and look at your scars and bruises in the mirror, it is about time that people start taking stock of the last few weeks and what actually happened and most importantly ensure that it never ever happens again.
First of all, people should educate themselves as to what a constitution actually is and how “a government of the people, by the people, for the people” is supposed to work and what a “democracy” and a “republic” really are, because even totalitarian dictatorships such as the GDR and North Korea called themselves “democracies” and “republics”. (German Democratic Republic and Democratic People's Republic of Korea).
As Benjamin Franklin said; “A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins.”
I hope that people have learned out of Corona that you NEVER give your government too much power. Not a jot or tittle more than it needs. I hope that from now on people will take note of those “special clauses” in their constitutions and remove them, because Corona has shown us all, that those little “special clauses” that were sneaked in over the years, usually over Christmas periods when there are few people in parliament, can easily be abused to grab power and abolish that very same constitution and all it’s individual rights it is meant to protect.
Corona has shown us what a doddle it was for a few people at the top to grab power in a matter of hours and a couple of days and turn the whole world into a gigantic concentration camp with goons patrolling the streets and literally stamping on people. It has shown us how easily the sheeple can be manipulated through the media to be led to the slaughter with hardly any resistance apart from a few insignificant idiots like yours truly bleating away on a blog. When you are caught up in the flow of that current of idiocy, you are practically helpless and there is not much you can do. You can swim upstream and shout as loud as you can, but your voice of reason is drowned out by a cacophony of sheeple suffering from cognitive dissonance.
Of course, under such times of universal deceit and confusion, you, the upstream swimmer, the questioner and loud bleater is made out to be the idiot, the “Covidiot” in fact. You are ostracised for being the denier, the conspiracy theorist, the mental case… you are scoffed at for not toeing the official line, for questioning and for challenging the official WHO, political and MSM narrative.
The Communist WHO Narrative
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| Communist scumbag Tedros |
Communist scumbag Tedros Adhanom is a liar and fraudster who covered up of three cholera epidemics in his home country of Ethiopia in 2006, 2009 and 2011, labeling it as "acute watery diarrhea" killing thousands of people.
Even his own countrymen were opposed to him becoming head of the WHO due to his long career in the violent Communist Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) . The TPLF, listed as a Marxist terrorist organization by the USA, provided millions of dollars in financial support for Tedros's candidacy in WHO. According to one Ethiopian newspaper, Adhanom was listed as the 3rd most important member of the politbureau standing committee in the TPLF.
When Corona broke out in Communist China, it was this idiot who advised against a blocking of Chinese travelers based on “racism”. Tedros also blamed Taiwan for racist insults leveled against him which turned out to be Communist trolls from mainland China trying to discredit Taiwan.
Racism hey? That old Communist trump card, no pun intended.
Yet the TPLF engaged in “systematic discrimination and human rights abuses” by refusing emergency healthcare to the Amhara ethnic group because of their affiliation with the opposition party. The Ministry of Health that oversaw these abuses was led at the time by Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
WHO Director Was Top Member of Violent Ethiopian Communist Party
So pardon me for rejecting this WHO bullshit with the contempt it deserves.
Tin pot dictators
Nevertheless, I hope that people will see how addictive power is and why those people are in those positions in the first place.
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| Constable Plod, Nick Adderley |
A police chief threatened to start checking shopping trolleys for 'unnecessary' items during the UK coronavirus lockdown
In fact, I am sure Nick Adderley had a hard-on from all the power at the time he uttered those words. It took the Home Secretary Priti Patel, to put him in his place and forced him to later backtrack on FaceCrook on his threat, but if it wasn’t for that, he would be no different to megalomaniac Julias Malema who said, “We are not calling for the slaughtering of White people, at least for now.”
Nick Adderley is sadly not the only power carouser and totalitarian junky.
In South Africa we have our own power dipsomaniac, Chief of the South African National Defence Force, the former MK terrorist, General Solly Shoke.
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| Slapgat General Solly Shoke on live television |
The other day he addressed a contingent of soldiers at the army’s Tshwane (Pretoria) Regiment and said that human life is more important than individual human rights.
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| They must have changed the salute since my days |
“There are those who speak of human rights. All of us must enjoy our human rights. But human life is more important than individual human rights. You are out there to protect human lives and those who threaten human lives must be dealt with accordingly within, of course, the confines of the law,”
Echoed clearly by their platoon commander, Lieutenant Puseletso Modise:
“Here, there is no democracy. What the general [Shoke] says, goes. The general is the overall commander. It is me on the ground who must put together a plan to [make sure] what the general wants, happens,” Modise said.
SANDF Chief ramps up tough talk
How exactly you want to protect human life without individual human rights is beyond my grasp, because at the core of Human rights is The right to life. A human life without human rights is worse than a slave, because human rights define what a human is. Without human rights, humans are lower than animals, mere materialistic things and objects to be kicked around and even killed by the likes of General Shoke.
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| "Look at me! Look at me!...I am the Captain now!" |
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| "Ma Man!" |
“I hear them (people) crying that cops and soldiers are brutal. Not listening to us is brutality. It's our duty. If you don't want to protect yourself and the rest of us, we must start by protecting you ... so we need to push a little bit."
Bheki Cele on lockdown extension, police brutality and no kissing
What struck me about this fool is how he described the Western Cape, the only province still OK seeing that it is not run and therefore not destroyed yet, by the Marxist terrorist ANC, as “The Butcher of the Republic”.
'His hatred for alcohol is too personal': Mzansi weighs in on Bheki Cele's comments on alcohol ban extension
Nevertheless, Bheki Cele is ecstatic, because the lockdown reduced crime. He, of course sees it as due to his ban on alcohol. So, there you have the Police Minister’s solution to crime and his vision of a free and democratic country in a nutshell; Take all their alcohol away and throw the whole country in solitary confinement in prison.
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I am no psychologist, but one does not have to be to see that there are some serious psychological issues at play here.
In classical psychology there are two experiments about power and obedience that stand out namely the famous Zimbardo Prison Experiment and the Milgram obedience to authority experiment
To see how ordinary people can be conditioned into helplessness and the “There is nothing I can do about the situation” mindset, see Martin Seligman’s Learned Helplessness conditioning
All these experiments show how easy it is for people to oppress other people. How easy it is for psychopaths to abuse their victims and how seemingly normal people, can at any given time, be conditioned into being either a psychopathic killer, an apathetic bystander or a victim.
Just take a step back and look at the school bully beating up his weaker victim…look at how all the other children gather around maybe cringe at every blow and splatter of blood, but will do nothing to stop it. Most will actually encourage the beating to continue.
Look at the neighbour beating up his wife or raping his daughter. Look at how people will shrug their shoulders and turn a blind eye. It’s got nothing to do with them. It is not their concern. Neither do the victims ask for help. Look at homeless people who have lost everything and who have given up on life. Nobody helps them and they don’t ask for help either. They simply accept it the way it is.
Look at the concentration camps of the British during the Anglo Boer War, the concentration camps of Hitler and Stalin. Nobody came to help the victims. Look at how the UN stood by and did nothing when the Rwanda Genocide happened in 1994. Look how Dutch UN soldiers in 1995 were standing around with Walkman’s on their ears when Serbian soldiers and their Greek volunteers raped little girls within an arm’s length of them in a so called “Safe Area” during the Srebrenica massacre. Look how American soldiers in Afghanistan today do absolutely nothing when they hear the screams when older men rape young boys within hearing distance of them simply because they have been told by their superiors not to interfere with the Afghan culture and Bacha Bazi (boy play) is imbedded in Afghan culture. See: The Dancing boys of Afghanistan
Nevertheless, I hope that after this Corona madness people will sit still, think and realise how important it is when and how much authority you allow others to have over you. Peoples should not be naïve and think that those in authority will not get carried away and abuse their authority. It takes a special kind of person to become a true leader. You cannot just make anybody a military general, a police chief, a judge, a captain of a ship or a politician for that matter. Most people cannot handle so much authority.
You can put it to the test. Offer people The Ring of Gyges as Plato’s brother Glaucon offered to Socrates in The Republic.
What if you could put on a ring that would make you invisible at an instant? A condition of absolute power that would allow you to do what you want, because nobody can see what you are doing and nobody can hold you accountable. Would you use that power to do good or to do bad? Most people would immediately choose to do bad, but won’t even consider it as bad, seeing that they cannot be held accountable for it and told that it is bad. They would choose to rob, rape, beat and murder to their heart’s content…and enjoy it.
Of course one can appeal to their higher intellects like Socrates ultimately did and say that the man who chooses to abuse this power and to do evil is enslaved by his own lustful appetites and a man who chooses to be just and righteous will be free, rationally in control of himself and therefore happier, but almost nobody will fall for it. They WILL abuse the power. Some people cannot even be the head of his own household without abusing that power.
So, my ultimate hope for life after Corona is that Corona NEVER happens again. I mean viruses come and go, but the abuse of power as we have seen with Corona, I never want to see again.
I want to see that people will put better checks on the abuse of power. Corona took away all checks on the Government’s abuse of power and showed that given half a chance or a mere whiff of power, they will grab it and abuse it. They will use their goons to bully people into submission.
One of the best checks on the abuse of power is the Second Amendment to the American constitution. "A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
Therefore, this right to “keep and bear Arms” should be universal.
