Posted on 04/07/2024 5:06:55 AM PDT by MtnClimber
It is important to understand that censorship does not occur in a vacuum. It is a symptom of a worsening disease. It is an early indicator of the political repression to come. Like a canary in a coal mine, the criminalization of speech forewarns that State-sponsored terror and murder are not far away. First, certain words and thoughts are banned. Next, certain people are rounded up and imprisoned. Finally, certain “enemies of the State” are executed quite publicly. The imposition of fear supersedes the rule of law. Terrorism undergirds social order. Oppression replaces popular support.
What is happening in the West today is a concentrated push for global communism. We could bicker about precise definitions — whether we are under attack from Marxists, socialists, Leninists, Trotskyites, Maoists, or other “revolutionaries” — but the end goal is clear. A small group of global “elites” seek to use ideological and economic leverage to centralize political power and direct all human activity. They seek the abolition of private property. They seek absolute control over individual lives and local communities. They are rebuilding twentieth-century totalitarianism with the privacy-destroying surveillance technologies of the twenty-first century.
Most Western nations are working together to promote a public vision that achieves their private totalitarian goals. Governments do not care about “hate speech”; they are dedicated to seizing control of the press, punishing dissent, censoring political opposition, and regulating public debate. Governments do not care about “climate change”; they are dedicated to seizing control over all economic activity by first establishing a monopoly on available energy. Governments do not care about “systemic racism,” “social justice,” or “income inequality”; they are dedicated to maximizing social divisions and distorting the meaning of fundamental rights, so that they may undermine long-cherished personal liberties. Governments do not care about “gun violence”...
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Rhetorical question I assume, because you know the answer is an indisputable, yes absolutely.
Including this country.
What they do not understand is the criticality of people fulfilling their role in managing habitat sustaining early successional native biodiversity. As of now, the planet is overrun with exotic introductions at the behest of these very perpetrators as coupled with uninterrupted vegetative succession. The result has been mass extinctions.
Over the last 34 years, our project, Wildergarten, is the only native plant restoration project that has succeeded in reversing a 200-year history of that destructive process with the last fifty of abandonment, effectively environmental "preservation." I started with only 60 species of plants still reproducing. The local 19th Century botanical record is of sufficient quality that it can be proven that, under a regimen of "preservation," over 80% of native plant biodiversity was no longer reproducing. We now host nearly 400 plant species, of which 240 are native, with grasslands at the end of the season expressing 99% or better nativity.
I have shown and published that to succeed requires technology and tool development, along with enormous amounts of hand labor. These demands stand in stark contrast to the population reduction thesis of these globalist thugs.
This is not about restoring huge landscapes. With current technology, that cannot be done. It is about maintaining samples of locally adapted alleles alive and reproducing such that insect, fungal, and avian life can be sustained. Needless to say, herbivores like it too.
Little is understood of how to go about this. Hence, for that science and technology to develop demands liberty, such that each landowner can develop processes particular to their location. It demands stable families to develop multigenerational knowledge and commitment. Hopefully, we can develop a restoration industry To do this at larger scale.
My hope is that our example will get some of these idiot globalists to break ranks, albeit it may be too late given how far into sexual depravity we have fallen.
Well stated.
Huxley, Orwell and Rand were 20th century prophets who tried to warn us that this was coming.
“Huxley, Orwell and Rand were 20th century prophets who tried to warn us that this was coming.”
They sure did. But they were considered conspiracy theorists at the time just like the current prophets are.
It is all based on human nature, and human nature is actually a very simple concept to understand and predict 99% of the time.
Let me quibble just a bit.
What we saw here around the beginning of (the ineligible) Barry’s 1st term was academic librarians (as blue a group there has ever been in the last 50 years) informing us that they would be adding to their public services by better curating materials, which in some sense they’d long been doing, but in the current sense, meant they would purge their shelves of less mainstream, alternate news sources. They claimed there simply wasn’t enough shelf space to consider subscribing to and retaining “everything under the sun.”
They would also limit their retention of even well-intentioned, free copies of some publications, also to conserve space. Interestingly, to use conservation of space as justification came just at a time in which almost all publications were becoming available in electronic form. Even if they weren’t, making electronic scans of such materials were almost always feasible.
Furthermore, libraries’ previous space requirement calculations for future collections probably infrequently assumed any significant benefit from electronification. In other words, the limiting of non-mainstream publications was from its inception likely the calculated political ploy it only years later clearly manifested itself to be.
Early censorship criteria may have seemed to be a benign optimization of efficiency that only later ramped up to be employed on online social media, where ubiquitous electronic “space” (magnet discs, optical platters, etc.) concerns and their criteria gave way to “misinformation,” and “disinformation,” and so on.
In Barry’s early days, I argued with my local librarian that she should recognize her culling-through-curation for the unnecessary, oppressive budding-authoritarianism it was—to no avail, as best I can tell.
She has also long been a (Dem) poll watcher, who assured me that there was just no chance for voter or election fraud—until Barry astonishingly came out and said the opposite, regarding the 2016 vote.
Knock me over with a feather! What a surprise! /s
Fascism and Marxism are just variations on totalitarianism.
The Gods of the Copybook Headings are rubbing their hands in anticipation.
islam is a totalitarian death cult founded by a child rapist.
(Free Speech: Use it or lose it!)
A little quote from Orwell, written in 1933 from Homage to Catalonia:
In reality, it was the Communists above all others who prevented revolution in Spain. Later, when the Right Wing forces were in full control, the Communists showed themselves willing to go a great deal further than the Liberals in hunting down revolutionary leaders.[Snip]
Between the Communists and those who claim to stand to the Left of them there is a real difference. The Communists hold that Fascism can be beaten by alliance with sections of the capitalist class (the Popular Front); their opponents hold that this maneuver simply gives Fascism new breeding-grounds. The question has got to be settled; to make the wrong decision may be to land ourselves in for centuries of semi-slavery.
“WILL”???? Where the ‘Ell were you in 2019 when the DNC hired Antifa/BLM thugs to riot and murder?
The DNC might as well be ISIS.
Biden and party are doing their fair share of helping them into this country to get a foothold.
Dangerous times ahead Trump needs to be elected or nothing will change for the better only for the worse.
This Biden term is only a sample of what is about to come communism has a stronghold now stand or live on your knees.
Agree totally.
Helecopter time then.
So they'll stop at nothing to thwart his re-election.
“Fascism and Marxism are just variations on totalitarianism.”
You are 100 % correct! Fascists allow you to keep title to your property but they dictate what you can do with it.
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