P.S. a detail I think you'll appreciate. The madness reached its crooked claws into the highest, sacred, hallowed halls of even the Palais de Justice, where, first, you had to pass through the X-ray, whereafter, you had to suffocate yourself (throughout the scam, I used a winter scarf, or bandit-style bandana), and keep your six-feet apart, as you were reminded by hash marks at 6' intervals on the escalators, and every other public seat or two, was yellow-taped to ensure compliance. The judge, however, wore no face diaper.
Thanks, Todd, let me say that I don't want to see anyone else go through what I did. Especially not you. Even in retrospect, I can hardly believe it myself, except it happened, and the memory of it has plagued me incessantly since it happened, at the turn from May to June, 2020. I have never struggled harder to recover my sanity. REBEL NEWS couldn't be there for everyone. Who knows how many we haven't heard about. Within a month of my release, 25-year old Shaquille Sacha Joseph -- RIP -- was beaten to death by inmates after departing guards told them to 'have a good time.' He was due to be released that day. His lawyer was waiting for him as it happened and totally unaware of it, wondering why he hadn't shown up. He was arrested for arguing with a woman in the street. My cell mate was a 22-year old Haitian. His crime? "Breaking conditions." Most of the guys I spoke with were there for the same reason, breaking conditions, which could be just about anything -- one of my conditions was that I could not communicate on social media or via email about community gardens. MAIN THING, TODD, to avoid...Todd, I was once previously arrested at an anti-war protest in another city. On that occasion, I joined up with a group of, really, professional, organized agitators, who had back-up people to wait outside jail for everybody's release, lawyers, and so on. DON'T STAND UP ON YOUR OWN UNLESS SOMEHOW THE CIRCUMSTANCES PUT YOU IN INVOLUNTARY REACTION -- LIKE YOU SEE A CHILD BEING ABDUCTED, SOME PRIMITIVE EVIL YOU CAN'T NOT INTERVENE IN.
You have people around you who love and admire you, you are articulate, defiant for truth -- IF YOU CAN'T STOP YOURSELF, AND COURAGE COMPELS YOU, REMEMBER: KEEP YOUR CLOSEST FRIENDS AND LOVED ONES INFORMED, and if you have an excellent lawyer, keep the number handy. ALSO, it used to be I had everybody's number in my head. Not so with the devices. When they took me, I could only remember one phone number, mine. That was scary. Memorize a couple. I still haven't. We need you outside the prison walls, in the more open one, where we can still talk and stroll together. CHEERS!
Yet another thing for which we can thank social media. I'm not even that old (59) but never understood the oversharing fostered by social media. I don't give a crap what you're eating for breakfast or what medication you're taking. If I cared about where my former classmates were and what they're doing now I would have kept in touch with them. Is it any wonder these oversharers have no respect for privacy?
No coincidence that these addicts are sheep and dependent on "likes" for their sense of self. Of course they go along with the "current thing" and embrace the collectivism at the heart of the "greater good" Convid narrative.
Like you, I also donated to the truckers and was terrified of having our bank accounts frozen. I'm so sorry that happened to you and I'm still beyond furious when I think back to that time. It's what started us on our Plan B journey and we now have a second residency and a house there, precious metals in a vault offshore and will soon open a bank account in our country of second residency. We plan to move more money outside of Canada later this year.
I'll never understand those who spout the nothing to hide argument, but I guess it makes sense if you trust government and intend to always do what you're told. If you're that person, we shrews are the enemy who are selfish, subversive, and most likely racist, far right domestic terrorists. Another great piece of writing Todd!
You know, I was amazed at how quickly and easily people i know went along with the show me your papers... As a healthcare professional, divulging patient info is forbidden and yet we were supposed to let the pimple faced kid at a restaurant know our personal medical information. And my old neighbours blithely said well we have our yellow immunization record... what’s the big deal?
The immunization card comparison is a typical sheep rationalization. There is a quite a bit of difference. Although not a good thing in its own right, the official at immigration when entering a foreign country invading your privacy by asking for your "yellow fever proof of immunization" is different than the pimple faced kid at the restaurant asking for it. I am not saying the immigration situation is ok, just that it is different. Just like being pat down at the airport is different than someone at a restaurant patting you down (not yet, but coming). Both are serious infringements on freedoms and rights, but they are different.
The reason the pimply faced kid is different than an immigration officer is because he is an average everyday citizen. Not a trained agent of the state. The is a very important goal of the agenda to give authority to fellow citizens (look at the Stanford Prison Experiment). It is part of what makes an authoritarian rule work. Eroding a sense of "us against them" is imperative for the agenda. They want no sense of camaraderie amongst us, we must feel there is the enemy at the door all of the time.
The first step is to have trained agents, police, immigration officials, anyone in a uniform, the next step is to have "control figures" weilding authority, bank tellers, government officials (Social Security, IRS), the next is just anyone who has any sort of control over your well being, anyone you pay utility fees to, heat, oil, gas. The final stage is pimply faced kids at restaurants...they are the "Hitler Jungen"...devoted to the state because the state has given them power over anyone they can bar from the restaurant, store, or other venue.
AND! "Judge Jackass" as I call him, the one who ordered my arbitrary detention, me, a guy with no criminal record or history (more than 60 years, at the time), and who had, at one time, secret clearance to work on CANDU reactor maintenance manuals, a federal firearms business license, with authorizations to carry "for the protection of life," along with two emplyees, what did he do, and what was the result? He rounded out my education of the city of Montreal and introduced me to crack cocaine and license-free gun dealer contacts.
This is the way "socialism" works -- it destroys economies and lives, making everyone equal -- equally impoverished (except for the bureaucrats in power. I'm sure most of the cowards here feel the same about me as you describe about your own experience of blaming the victim -- TODD, YOU ASKED FOR IT!)
Know what the arresting cop said to me about the (authorized, but, fortunately failed) night raid in the lobby, after he cuffed me behind my back, without prompting?
"Good thing this didn't happen upstairs [in my apartment] things could have gotten messy." VERBATIM. That was his fantasy, and, I spoiled it). The only thing that saved my life, was my appetite. It was late, I hadn't eaten, got hungry and headed down the street for takeout. A plainclothes guy, with a bag of some kind under his arm pit, followed me in, allowed me a few steps of liberty, then informed me I was under arrest, immediately followed by the out-of-breath unit leader, who'd been surveilling me on my trip to the falafel shop. I asked them to stick it in the fridge (I wouldn't return until Monday, 2 a.m., it was Thursday, 8-10 p.m.), they did. So, I finally ate it. They didn't even allow me a phone call. Nobody even knew it had happened. I still have outrage over it. However, I'm doing exactly as I have suggested to others: I'm turning my back on everything, and following the light, wherever it leads. And I hope you keep shining yours on all of us. I think you provide all of us with moral support, insight and encouragement. Your work has been and remains a huge help to me where I could not otherwise hope to find it. Once again, Thank YOU, Todd Hayen!
Your story blows me away, and actually adds even more validity to what I see happening but has not yet happened to me...but it happened to you, and it could happen to any of us. I am speechless with what you describe here...I don't know what to say.
Thank you for the kind words, if I can do anything the help in anyway, I am here for that. I don't doubt if I keep doing this at some point I am going to get in trouble for it. I am not careful at all with what I say because I have always believed that a person's opinion is just that, an opinion, and as long as I am not slanderous or libelous, I should be ok (I don't typically name names, but I do sometimes and still feel it is just my opinion about a public figure). Still, I am headed for the gulag I am sure...
Your post reminded me of the Leonard Cohen song Everybody Knows. More the "meter on your bed" part but I think the rest is sadly relevant these days ...
And everybody knows that the Plague is coming
Everybody knows that it's moving fast
Everybody knows that the naked man and woman
Are just a shining artifact of the past
Everybody knows the scene is dead
But there's gonna be a meter on your bed
That will disclose
What everybody knows
In terms of trying to protect one's private information, there really isn't anything to do so I don't fret about it much. If someone wants to get me, they will find a way. I keep a journal on my computer for general observations, rants etc. I often make comments in my journal entries goading the google lackey monitoring my entries to dare them to do something. It's funny to me anyway.
I have noticed a tendency of late in the "shrew community" that seems to mimic sheep tendencies. I think worrying about vax shedding, or whether mrna is being injected into cattle, or the drinking water is being contaminated are really not that different from wearing masks and obsessively washing hands from the sheep side. We don't really have any control on who is monitoring us or what will kill us. So I choose to not let it bother me. That doesn't mean I don't monitor and observe and analyze things because that has always been my nature. But I don't let the bastards get to me.
I pretty much agree with you here, but I always thought it was because I was old and I don't really care. I think young people with young children really don't want to give up, so they worry and maybe obsess over a lot of this and really want to give their kids the best shot they can. I would probably attempt the same thing if I had a young family to deal with. Of course they won't avoid everything, but they might make a better go of it in a different country, or far from the city, or whatever...
I had heard of someone who was told to avoid shedding they should start wearing a mask. How ironic is that??? So I know just want you mean, and oftentimes I feel that this "reversal of fears" is also a tactic of the agenda...just to make us ALL as crazy as they can.
Well, first of all, I have no ability to save the world, and secondly, I don't give a shit about MYSELF, I wouldn't be doing this writing if I didn't give a shit about everyone else or the future of mankind..😆😆😆😆
Anyone who 'thinks' we are not becoming totalitarian is just not paying attention. Yesterday a journalist was ARRESTED for asking questions of a politician. Where are we? Pnom Penh? Saigon? Shanghai? Riyadh? Minsk? Buenos Aires? Guantanamo? ... no, just Toronto.
Good lord. And look at poor CJ Hopkins in Germany...it really IS getting crazy...it is interesting how everything going on is a set up for arresting people for just about anything. It is so obvious to see.
It is only trickling in, like you say here, an arrest there, and an arrest here. Things like not using the correct pronouns is a violation of rights, or the police trying to prevent someone from jumping off a bridge will be a rights violation (the right to suicide). Anything considered offensive will be hate speech...on and on. Crazy.
There have been a few incidents with 'freeland' over the last while that they generally spin to people not respecting women in politics. All I can say is if you think pm turd-o is bad, he is only the opening act. Wait until the WEF board member gets into the seat. The first order of business will be to install the hotline to Klaus (if it isn't there already).
Yeah, I have to recycle some of these due to feeling I am wasting them if only going to 100 or so people. The free ones can go anywhere...although I might start writing exclusive articles for both OG and for Shrewviews...meaning nothing will get recycled. It all depends if I can keep up this "hobby" of mine...
Ironic that abortion was justified by the privacy argument in the US in 1973. A mother has the right to destroy her unborn child, just because (it aligned with the overpopulation eugenicist elites at the time).
Now, all our rights of privacy are being subverted and every abuse from authority is being excused.
People, Sheeple, wake up!
------The parties appealed this ruling to the Supreme Court. In January 1973, the Supreme Court issued a 7–2 decision in McCorvey's favor holding that the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution provides a fundamental "right to privacy", which protects a pregnant woman's right to an abortion. ------- wikipedia
The whole abortion issue is a weird one indeed. I think a "right to privacy" does not give a woman the right to abort their child...there may be other issues which are more arguable, but not that one.
This piece made some excellent points. It seemed to include at least one selective perception though, that really jumped out to me.
"No woman, unless one of ill repute, wore clothes that revealed much of anything. Female bodies were pretty sacred, or at least private"
Well, I'm 73, and when I was a teenager we had a very nice fashion rage called miniskirts. Not only that, most girls then had really sexy legs, not the thick pillars most sport today. They were strutting their stuff as much as anything seen recently. Well, I should probably add - I do think the leggings women wear today that hug not only their legs, but their butts and crotches are disgusting, not sexy like those miniskirts were. Or like the short shorts the real girls still wear. Unbelievably, the plus size females seem especially enamored of those tights, leggings, yoga pants or whatever they are. The few well-proportioned women look obscene, the rest just look horrible.
I probably should have spent a bit more time on this "clothes that reveal" idea. I don't think I was very clear in pinpointing the time my statement applied to. I am not much younger than you, and of course in my time mini-skirts were prevalent, and you didn't have to be a woman of "ill repute" to wear one. I think I was actually referring to maybe our parents' generation, or the one before. Although very unclear I will admit, I hope my point was made.
There is a very complex phenomenon surrounding this idea of women "dressing sexy"...as to whether that "sexiness" is supposed to act as an attraction to men (which back in the very old days it was always considered thus) or is just a "woman finding herself attractive" sexually. Lots can be said about this, and as if you would have guessed, I have a lot to say about it.
Douglas Murray, one of my favorite contemporary authors, says in "The Madness of Crowds" that women today wish be sexual, but not sexualized. I'm really not quite sure what that is supposed to mean.
It's definitely a complex and interesting phenomenon. When I see a woman who can rock short cutoffs and a midriff-baring halter top demonstrating that ability, I think she's doing exactly what she should be doing. The further removed from her twenties, the more impressive it is. My girl is 67 and still gets plenty of looks in her perfectly appropriate summer attire btw. It's just beauty, like a sunset, nature scene, or my pretty dog - pleasant to look at so wtf is the problem? Female beauty is provocative, no denying that. And too provocative is subjective. So there will always be disagreement, especially from women who can't rock cutoffs.
Those who would say that it's not going to happen deny the objective reality and suffer from self-induced amnesia.
Back in my childhood, we had a radio on the wall. The radio was plugged into a special socket, a radio socket. From there we listen to the communist TASS radio programm(ing)s.
Sometimes they would put local language programming.
I don't remember what happened with the radio, I think it broke and my parents never replaced it.
I am not sure whether they did it by accident or on purpose but the programming in the kitchen disappeared from life.
I must disagree with you on caring what others think about me.
Most of the people I come across are zombified in one way or another. And am not saying that I disrespect them, it is just their opinions may get me and my family killed.
I'm not sure what I said about what people think of us. But I agree with you regarding other's opinions, and behaviour, being a very real threat. I feel that all of the time, although probably true even before Covid (that other people and their daft worldview is dangerous) I think the Covid times made it easier to spot them.
"...privacy and autonomy are inextricably linked."
I never really thought about that, specifically, but you're absolutely right.
And, regarding people's willingness to openly discuss their mental health circumstances, I find it astounding how 'normal' it has become. The people I work with routinely use phrases such as "my meds" as if it's a given to be taking them. I swear, it seems that virtually ALL of the younger generation are on some sort of mind-altering drug(s). One girl carries her meds around in a clear plastic zip pouch; it contains about 15 separate pill bottles. And, she's quite happy to explain, "This one for for my anxiety, this one is for my bi-polar, this one is for my depression..."
In a related vein, this is a girl who, when conversing with almost anyone, listens intently to find something to be offended about; then to correct them on their stance, in keeping with her own woke ideologies. I truly pity the young; they (at least, the majority of them) have no idea what they're in for.
Don't get me started with the psychopharmacology issue...it is a big part of my profession, and it all drives me crazy. Wearing a mental illness diagnosis like it is some sort of badge of honour completely negates any sort of advantage to sharing a diagnosis at all. I was trained in the US (California) so I was trained how to diagnose, but here in Canada it is beyond the "controlled act" so I am not allowed to do so. It is a blessing in disguise. I am not much of a fan of DSM diagnoses, although it can help in identifying treatment protocols.
The whole med thing is beyond the scope of this substake!!😆 So I will not comment!! Suffice it to say, "I hear 'ya."
Our credit card banks have done the same. Privacy and rule violations here are punished by WHO WE ARE.
When B.O. was President banks shut off credit card processing for legitimate firearms selling companies. Bank of AMERIKA my aSS.
Look what Chase Bank just got sued and were caught doing for Epstein.
I get emails from my Bank wanting me to send them customers. Up to $500 reward to send them my business associate's email. I won't do THAT even though my CC bank is a privately started bank. The really nasty culprits are Master Card and Visa because we can change our credit card number which should stop difficult charges we no longer want to use (Turbo Tax for one) and the lady at my CC bank said MC and Visa send the NEW NUMBER to the old charger. I had to put a ban on them to stop it.
Incidentally I liked Turbo Tax and used it for 5 years but on the 6th it wouldn't bring up my past 5 for depreciation continuances and an hour and a half with them on the phone and THEY couldn't fix it either. (Something about privacy?) so I quit using them but the annual software charges kept coming.
What we order that is legal online should be nobodies business but ours and our supplier's.
I get hounded constantly with texts and emails to donate to politicians so bad that I cut them all off.
I seriously doubt that books I order are secret. I ordered books for research because I intended to write a few novels and needed to be accurate in historical firearms, machinery, wagon manufacturing and I BET JB knows what I bought.
Wouldn't surprise me at all. And yes, I didn't touch much on our privacy being wrenched from us by banking institutions. It is horrible, and again, no one seems to mind.
In a decent country this may be the original intention, but it is always what comes in totalitarian rule...EVERYTHING is against the LAW...basically that is how it will go. And if you get away with breaking some, it's just because at that moment they don't want you.
We lived in a small town where everyone knew the one officer. When he had a heart attack and died making an arrest-drug dealer resisted-the high school canceled classes for the funeral and most of the young people went.
We were taught that the police were there to help and protect. The lesson was so strong that my brother became a policeman. He believed in his role as a servant of the people, and he was loved and respected in his community.
My husband was raised that the police were after you. Of course, he and his brothers were always in trouble. He had a hard time adjusting to me and my way of looking at law enforcement. But we taught our kids to trust the law and stay out of trouble.
I no longer preach that. I say obey the law, don’t be stupid, be careful, but I don’t teach trust for any government authority. And it makes me sad
You were saying this at the initial proposal of the patriot act, right?
P.S. a detail I think you'll appreciate. The madness reached its crooked claws into the highest, sacred, hallowed halls of even the Palais de Justice, where, first, you had to pass through the X-ray, whereafter, you had to suffocate yourself (throughout the scam, I used a winter scarf, or bandit-style bandana), and keep your six-feet apart, as you were reminded by hash marks at 6' intervals on the escalators, and every other public seat or two, was yellow-taped to ensure compliance. The judge, however, wore no face diaper.
Thanks, Todd, let me say that I don't want to see anyone else go through what I did. Especially not you. Even in retrospect, I can hardly believe it myself, except it happened, and the memory of it has plagued me incessantly since it happened, at the turn from May to June, 2020. I have never struggled harder to recover my sanity. REBEL NEWS couldn't be there for everyone. Who knows how many we haven't heard about. Within a month of my release, 25-year old Shaquille Sacha Joseph -- RIP -- was beaten to death by inmates after departing guards told them to 'have a good time.' He was due to be released that day. His lawyer was waiting for him as it happened and totally unaware of it, wondering why he hadn't shown up. He was arrested for arguing with a woman in the street. My cell mate was a 22-year old Haitian. His crime? "Breaking conditions." Most of the guys I spoke with were there for the same reason, breaking conditions, which could be just about anything -- one of my conditions was that I could not communicate on social media or via email about community gardens. MAIN THING, TODD, to avoid...Todd, I was once previously arrested at an anti-war protest in another city. On that occasion, I joined up with a group of, really, professional, organized agitators, who had back-up people to wait outside jail for everybody's release, lawyers, and so on. DON'T STAND UP ON YOUR OWN UNLESS SOMEHOW THE CIRCUMSTANCES PUT YOU IN INVOLUNTARY REACTION -- LIKE YOU SEE A CHILD BEING ABDUCTED, SOME PRIMITIVE EVIL YOU CAN'T NOT INTERVENE IN.
You have people around you who love and admire you, you are articulate, defiant for truth -- IF YOU CAN'T STOP YOURSELF, AND COURAGE COMPELS YOU, REMEMBER: KEEP YOUR CLOSEST FRIENDS AND LOVED ONES INFORMED, and if you have an excellent lawyer, keep the number handy. ALSO, it used to be I had everybody's number in my head. Not so with the devices. When they took me, I could only remember one phone number, mine. That was scary. Memorize a couple. I still haven't. We need you outside the prison walls, in the more open one, where we can still talk and stroll together. CHEERS!
Yet another thing for which we can thank social media. I'm not even that old (59) but never understood the oversharing fostered by social media. I don't give a crap what you're eating for breakfast or what medication you're taking. If I cared about where my former classmates were and what they're doing now I would have kept in touch with them. Is it any wonder these oversharers have no respect for privacy?
No coincidence that these addicts are sheep and dependent on "likes" for their sense of self. Of course they go along with the "current thing" and embrace the collectivism at the heart of the "greater good" Convid narrative.
Like you, I also donated to the truckers and was terrified of having our bank accounts frozen. I'm so sorry that happened to you and I'm still beyond furious when I think back to that time. It's what started us on our Plan B journey and we now have a second residency and a house there, precious metals in a vault offshore and will soon open a bank account in our country of second residency. We plan to move more money outside of Canada later this year.
I'll never understand those who spout the nothing to hide argument, but I guess it makes sense if you trust government and intend to always do what you're told. If you're that person, we shrews are the enemy who are selfish, subversive, and most likely racist, far right domestic terrorists. Another great piece of writing Todd!
You know, I was amazed at how quickly and easily people i know went along with the show me your papers... As a healthcare professional, divulging patient info is forbidden and yet we were supposed to let the pimple faced kid at a restaurant know our personal medical information. And my old neighbours blithely said well we have our yellow immunization record... what’s the big deal?
The immunization card comparison is a typical sheep rationalization. There is a quite a bit of difference. Although not a good thing in its own right, the official at immigration when entering a foreign country invading your privacy by asking for your "yellow fever proof of immunization" is different than the pimple faced kid at the restaurant asking for it. I am not saying the immigration situation is ok, just that it is different. Just like being pat down at the airport is different than someone at a restaurant patting you down (not yet, but coming). Both are serious infringements on freedoms and rights, but they are different.
The reason the pimply faced kid is different than an immigration officer is because he is an average everyday citizen. Not a trained agent of the state. The is a very important goal of the agenda to give authority to fellow citizens (look at the Stanford Prison Experiment). It is part of what makes an authoritarian rule work. Eroding a sense of "us against them" is imperative for the agenda. They want no sense of camaraderie amongst us, we must feel there is the enemy at the door all of the time.
The first step is to have trained agents, police, immigration officials, anyone in a uniform, the next step is to have "control figures" weilding authority, bank tellers, government officials (Social Security, IRS), the next is just anyone who has any sort of control over your well being, anyone you pay utility fees to, heat, oil, gas. The final stage is pimply faced kids at restaurants...they are the "Hitler Jungen"...devoted to the state because the state has given them power over anyone they can bar from the restaurant, store, or other venue.
AND! "Judge Jackass" as I call him, the one who ordered my arbitrary detention, me, a guy with no criminal record or history (more than 60 years, at the time), and who had, at one time, secret clearance to work on CANDU reactor maintenance manuals, a federal firearms business license, with authorizations to carry "for the protection of life," along with two emplyees, what did he do, and what was the result? He rounded out my education of the city of Montreal and introduced me to crack cocaine and license-free gun dealer contacts.
This is the way "socialism" works -- it destroys economies and lives, making everyone equal -- equally impoverished (except for the bureaucrats in power. I'm sure most of the cowards here feel the same about me as you describe about your own experience of blaming the victim -- TODD, YOU ASKED FOR IT!)
Know what the arresting cop said to me about the (authorized, but, fortunately failed) night raid in the lobby, after he cuffed me behind my back, without prompting?
"Good thing this didn't happen upstairs [in my apartment] things could have gotten messy." VERBATIM. That was his fantasy, and, I spoiled it). The only thing that saved my life, was my appetite. It was late, I hadn't eaten, got hungry and headed down the street for takeout. A plainclothes guy, with a bag of some kind under his arm pit, followed me in, allowed me a few steps of liberty, then informed me I was under arrest, immediately followed by the out-of-breath unit leader, who'd been surveilling me on my trip to the falafel shop. I asked them to stick it in the fridge (I wouldn't return until Monday, 2 a.m., it was Thursday, 8-10 p.m.), they did. So, I finally ate it. They didn't even allow me a phone call. Nobody even knew it had happened. I still have outrage over it. However, I'm doing exactly as I have suggested to others: I'm turning my back on everything, and following the light, wherever it leads. And I hope you keep shining yours on all of us. I think you provide all of us with moral support, insight and encouragement. Your work has been and remains a huge help to me where I could not otherwise hope to find it. Once again, Thank YOU, Todd Hayen!
Your story blows me away, and actually adds even more validity to what I see happening but has not yet happened to me...but it happened to you, and it could happen to any of us. I am speechless with what you describe here...I don't know what to say.
Thank you for the kind words, if I can do anything the help in anyway, I am here for that. I don't doubt if I keep doing this at some point I am going to get in trouble for it. I am not careful at all with what I say because I have always believed that a person's opinion is just that, an opinion, and as long as I am not slanderous or libelous, I should be ok (I don't typically name names, but I do sometimes and still feel it is just my opinion about a public figure). Still, I am headed for the gulag I am sure...
Your post reminded me of the Leonard Cohen song Everybody Knows. More the "meter on your bed" part but I think the rest is sadly relevant these days ...
And everybody knows that the Plague is coming
Everybody knows that it's moving fast
Everybody knows that the naked man and woman
Are just a shining artifact of the past
Everybody knows the scene is dead
But there's gonna be a meter on your bed
That will disclose
What everybody knows
In terms of trying to protect one's private information, there really isn't anything to do so I don't fret about it much. If someone wants to get me, they will find a way. I keep a journal on my computer for general observations, rants etc. I often make comments in my journal entries goading the google lackey monitoring my entries to dare them to do something. It's funny to me anyway.
I have noticed a tendency of late in the "shrew community" that seems to mimic sheep tendencies. I think worrying about vax shedding, or whether mrna is being injected into cattle, or the drinking water is being contaminated are really not that different from wearing masks and obsessively washing hands from the sheep side. We don't really have any control on who is monitoring us or what will kill us. So I choose to not let it bother me. That doesn't mean I don't monitor and observe and analyze things because that has always been my nature. But I don't let the bastards get to me.
I pretty much agree with you here, but I always thought it was because I was old and I don't really care. I think young people with young children really don't want to give up, so they worry and maybe obsess over a lot of this and really want to give their kids the best shot they can. I would probably attempt the same thing if I had a young family to deal with. Of course they won't avoid everything, but they might make a better go of it in a different country, or far from the city, or whatever...
I had heard of someone who was told to avoid shedding they should start wearing a mask. How ironic is that??? So I know just want you mean, and oftentimes I feel that this "reversal of fears" is also a tactic of the agenda...just to make us ALL as crazy as they can.
Who knew that the future of mankind depended on old farts who no longer give a shit. Just shoot me now! :-)
Well, first of all, I have no ability to save the world, and secondly, I don't give a shit about MYSELF, I wouldn't be doing this writing if I didn't give a shit about everyone else or the future of mankind..😆😆😆😆
Anyone who 'thinks' we are not becoming totalitarian is just not paying attention. Yesterday a journalist was ARRESTED for asking questions of a politician. Where are we? Pnom Penh? Saigon? Shanghai? Riyadh? Minsk? Buenos Aires? Guantanamo? ... no, just Toronto.
Good lord. And look at poor CJ Hopkins in Germany...it really IS getting crazy...it is interesting how everything going on is a set up for arresting people for just about anything. It is so obvious to see.
It is only trickling in, like you say here, an arrest there, and an arrest here. Things like not using the correct pronouns is a violation of rights, or the police trying to prevent someone from jumping off a bridge will be a rights violation (the right to suicide). Anything considered offensive will be hate speech...on and on. Crazy.
There have been a few incidents with 'freeland' over the last while that they generally spin to people not respecting women in politics. All I can say is if you think pm turd-o is bad, he is only the opening act. Wait until the WEF board member gets into the seat. The first order of business will be to install the hotline to Klaus (if it isn't there already).
Linked this one last month when it was posted on Off Guardian. Good one as usual!!!
https://nothingnewunderthesun2016.com/2023/12/17/79997/
Yeah, I have to recycle some of these due to feeling I am wasting them if only going to 100 or so people. The free ones can go anywhere...although I might start writing exclusive articles for both OG and for Shrewviews...meaning nothing will get recycled. It all depends if I can keep up this "hobby" of mine...
THANKS FOR POSTING!!!
Agree with your excellent post today.
Ironic that abortion was justified by the privacy argument in the US in 1973. A mother has the right to destroy her unborn child, just because (it aligned with the overpopulation eugenicist elites at the time).
Now, all our rights of privacy are being subverted and every abuse from authority is being excused.
People, Sheeple, wake up!
------The parties appealed this ruling to the Supreme Court. In January 1973, the Supreme Court issued a 7–2 decision in McCorvey's favor holding that the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution provides a fundamental "right to privacy", which protects a pregnant woman's right to an abortion. ------- wikipedia
The whole abortion issue is a weird one indeed. I think a "right to privacy" does not give a woman the right to abort their child...there may be other issues which are more arguable, but not that one.
This piece made some excellent points. It seemed to include at least one selective perception though, that really jumped out to me.
"No woman, unless one of ill repute, wore clothes that revealed much of anything. Female bodies were pretty sacred, or at least private"
Well, I'm 73, and when I was a teenager we had a very nice fashion rage called miniskirts. Not only that, most girls then had really sexy legs, not the thick pillars most sport today. They were strutting their stuff as much as anything seen recently. Well, I should probably add - I do think the leggings women wear today that hug not only their legs, but their butts and crotches are disgusting, not sexy like those miniskirts were. Or like the short shorts the real girls still wear. Unbelievably, the plus size females seem especially enamored of those tights, leggings, yoga pants or whatever they are. The few well-proportioned women look obscene, the rest just look horrible.
I probably should have spent a bit more time on this "clothes that reveal" idea. I don't think I was very clear in pinpointing the time my statement applied to. I am not much younger than you, and of course in my time mini-skirts were prevalent, and you didn't have to be a woman of "ill repute" to wear one. I think I was actually referring to maybe our parents' generation, or the one before. Although very unclear I will admit, I hope my point was made.
There is a very complex phenomenon surrounding this idea of women "dressing sexy"...as to whether that "sexiness" is supposed to act as an attraction to men (which back in the very old days it was always considered thus) or is just a "woman finding herself attractive" sexually. Lots can be said about this, and as if you would have guessed, I have a lot to say about it.
Douglas Murray, one of my favorite contemporary authors, says in "The Madness of Crowds" that women today wish be sexual, but not sexualized. I'm really not quite sure what that is supposed to mean.
It's definitely a complex and interesting phenomenon. When I see a woman who can rock short cutoffs and a midriff-baring halter top demonstrating that ability, I think she's doing exactly what she should be doing. The further removed from her twenties, the more impressive it is. My girl is 67 and still gets plenty of looks in her perfectly appropriate summer attire btw. It's just beauty, like a sunset, nature scene, or my pretty dog - pleasant to look at so wtf is the problem? Female beauty is provocative, no denying that. And too provocative is subjective. So there will always be disagreement, especially from women who can't rock cutoffs.
Very well put.
Those who would say that it's not going to happen deny the objective reality and suffer from self-induced amnesia.
Back in my childhood, we had a radio on the wall. The radio was plugged into a special socket, a radio socket. From there we listen to the communist TASS radio programm(ing)s.
Sometimes they would put local language programming.
I don't remember what happened with the radio, I think it broke and my parents never replaced it.
I am not sure whether they did it by accident or on purpose but the programming in the kitchen disappeared from life.
I must disagree with you on caring what others think about me.
Most of the people I come across are zombified in one way or another. And am not saying that I disrespect them, it is just their opinions may get me and my family killed.
Where did you grow up??
I'm not sure what I said about what people think of us. But I agree with you regarding other's opinions, and behaviour, being a very real threat. I feel that all of the time, although probably true even before Covid (that other people and their daft worldview is dangerous) I think the Covid times made it easier to spot them.
Precisely.
I was born and grew up in Lithuania.
"...privacy and autonomy are inextricably linked."
I never really thought about that, specifically, but you're absolutely right.
And, regarding people's willingness to openly discuss their mental health circumstances, I find it astounding how 'normal' it has become. The people I work with routinely use phrases such as "my meds" as if it's a given to be taking them. I swear, it seems that virtually ALL of the younger generation are on some sort of mind-altering drug(s). One girl carries her meds around in a clear plastic zip pouch; it contains about 15 separate pill bottles. And, she's quite happy to explain, "This one for for my anxiety, this one is for my bi-polar, this one is for my depression..."
In a related vein, this is a girl who, when conversing with almost anyone, listens intently to find something to be offended about; then to correct them on their stance, in keeping with her own woke ideologies. I truly pity the young; they (at least, the majority of them) have no idea what they're in for.
Don't get me started with the psychopharmacology issue...it is a big part of my profession, and it all drives me crazy. Wearing a mental illness diagnosis like it is some sort of badge of honour completely negates any sort of advantage to sharing a diagnosis at all. I was trained in the US (California) so I was trained how to diagnose, but here in Canada it is beyond the "controlled act" so I am not allowed to do so. It is a blessing in disguise. I am not much of a fan of DSM diagnoses, although it can help in identifying treatment protocols.
The whole med thing is beyond the scope of this substake!!😆 So I will not comment!! Suffice it to say, "I hear 'ya."
It will most likely take an asteroid or meteor to fix it.
I am afraid you might be right.
Good morning. This was a great story.
Our credit card banks have done the same. Privacy and rule violations here are punished by WHO WE ARE.
When B.O. was President banks shut off credit card processing for legitimate firearms selling companies. Bank of AMERIKA my aSS.
Look what Chase Bank just got sued and were caught doing for Epstein.
I get emails from my Bank wanting me to send them customers. Up to $500 reward to send them my business associate's email. I won't do THAT even though my CC bank is a privately started bank. The really nasty culprits are Master Card and Visa because we can change our credit card number which should stop difficult charges we no longer want to use (Turbo Tax for one) and the lady at my CC bank said MC and Visa send the NEW NUMBER to the old charger. I had to put a ban on them to stop it.
Incidentally I liked Turbo Tax and used it for 5 years but on the 6th it wouldn't bring up my past 5 for depreciation continuances and an hour and a half with them on the phone and THEY couldn't fix it either. (Something about privacy?) so I quit using them but the annual software charges kept coming.
What we order that is legal online should be nobodies business but ours and our supplier's.
I get hounded constantly with texts and emails to donate to politicians so bad that I cut them all off.
I seriously doubt that books I order are secret. I ordered books for research because I intended to write a few novels and needed to be accurate in historical firearms, machinery, wagon manufacturing and I BET JB knows what I bought.
Wouldn't surprise me at all. And yes, I didn't touch much on our privacy being wrenched from us by banking institutions. It is horrible, and again, no one seems to mind.
Yep, yep, yep. I was raised that if you obey the law you have nothing to fear.
It’s a different world
In a decent country this may be the original intention, but it is always what comes in totalitarian rule...EVERYTHING is against the LAW...basically that is how it will go. And if you get away with breaking some, it's just because at that moment they don't want you.
We lived in a small town where everyone knew the one officer. When he had a heart attack and died making an arrest-drug dealer resisted-the high school canceled classes for the funeral and most of the young people went.
We were taught that the police were there to help and protect. The lesson was so strong that my brother became a policeman. He believed in his role as a servant of the people, and he was loved and respected in his community.
My husband was raised that the police were after you. Of course, he and his brothers were always in trouble. He had a hard time adjusting to me and my way of looking at law enforcement. But we taught our kids to trust the law and stay out of trouble.
I no longer preach that. I say obey the law, don’t be stupid, be careful, but I don’t teach trust for any government authority. And it makes me sad
If you are a crooked president or Congress person and disobey the law you still have nothing to fear!
The laws aren't for them. Laws are for thee, not for me, they say.
Lol