compare and contrast the rules of tyranny - language warning!
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Some time earlier in the covid scam, Dmitry Orlov asserted that part of its purpose is to enforce a severe clamp on mass air-travel. The point being to get people used to the harsh restrictions in liquid fuel use which are now on the behind-the-scenes planning circles’ agendas.
People have to be stung into accepting the sort of sharp reduction in mass air-travel which is now inevitable (Long Descent…). Fossil-hydrocarbon-derived fuels are heading into endemic global scarcity territory. Feckless air and road travel have to be curtailed; as also masses of ships doing essentially-inessential international maritime trade.
The plethora of horrible finger-burning experiences such as these recounted here are exactly what’s needed to prime people to accept that the time of unlimited easy travel - for the world’s Pampered Twenty Percent - are now scheduled to fade into the past. Once again, that becomes a minority pursuit of the privileged one-percenters; and their gofers, of course.
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Travel by air has been made as undignified and inhumane as possible for a long time now: treated like a terrorist, whatever that even means, by default. it’s quite clearly much worse now and not going to improve, as Joanna Sharp’s very moving piece illustrates. It’s a very harsh awakening for people, pampered and otherwise.
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Hi @RhisiartGwilym , the need for restraint in all we do is clear but these domestic sanctions are in the main aimed at controlling society by removing their human rights - these same rules would apply to sailing across the channel and walking around Europe! They fit with the safety online bill to restrict our voices to our own little boxes. The SICs have found a way of controlling those who they fear the most - us- by fear, threats and sanctions all at the mention of “plague”! And fools that most of us are we just lie back and take it! They no longer care about lying their way into power, there is no difference at the political muppet level anyway but still we are handing it to them on a plate.
We the people don’t have to be stung into accepting anymore crap from these SICs - if there is a shortage of fuel then seek the consent of the nation to ration it as we did in the War and provide alternatives that care for the planet as well as human rights and human dignities including the right to spend some time with your furthest but dearest as they pass.
We all have the inalienable rights of free movement - the fact that fuel is to be conserved for the rich and the arms industry is something that everyone should be shouting about - whilst we still can!
cheers
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Thansk for the links CJ – very moving stories. The difference with our dear leaders’ treatment at the G7 can hardly be starker!
I understand RG, that we need to seriously curtail air travel but at least let’s not use some pretence about a disease to stop our rights from even travelling and impose a surveillance state. I often go on cycling holidays crossing through various EU countries but can forget that too now!
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It’s a deeply depressing thought, but I fear that all sorts of freedoms which we’ve dreamt our way into believing are inviolable will turn out in fact to be eminently violable, and indeed routinely violated - as we’re already seeing done quite blatantly with the covid scam and other recent instances, Julian Assange, for instance - by the powers that shouldn’t be, as these already interesting times get more so by much, because of the steadily accelerating Long Descent. [That’s all one sentence. I really ought to break it up… 
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I keep coming back to the idea that we’re faced with just two practical choices as a species, in the near-term future: Neo-feudalism, or scarcity socialism. We shall be getting the scarcity in any case. The Earth is not putting that up for negotiation. It will be feudal by default if we don’t get up off our arses, and with a huge gradient of material wealth between the thug minority and the majority; or it will be socialistic and relatively just and fair, only if we rise up and insist.
I imagine we shall see a patchwork across the world, with extreme inequality and injustice in some places, and actually functioning social democracy ruled by properly-functioning law in others. Depends on how much cojones local communities can muster. And the sad fact seems to be that we shall only get even provisional rights guaranteed to us if we’re willing to fight for them. Literally. As the times get more interesting, the mask of civilisation slips. Sad bloody business.
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indeed - see Peter Hitchins posted above.
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