David Solway at PJ Media is writing about Canada, but his words apply to
America today as well:
. . . The fact is that the government
from hell is working to transform a democratic nation into a police state and
normalize totalitarian rule without having to mobilize the military and
scramble its jet fighters. It moves subtly, insidiously, through legislation,
decree, deception, legal subterfuge, financial penalties, and targeted
defamation. It divides a country into sectarian belligerents, employs tested
techniques of misinformation and disinformation, prevents the free expression
of opinion (Bill C-11), and impoverishes and segregates its perceived
adversaries. It manipulates a strategy of covert control which, in the long
run, may be more effective than overt physical repression. It doesn’t need
tanks; a few RCMP horses will do. Slander and sanctimony are excellent weapons.
The truckers were never a menace,
bore no resemblance to the volley of epithets hurled against them: white
supremacists, racists, misogynists, antisemites, and the like. A Liberal MP is convinced that “honk honk” is code for
“Heil Hitler.” Reviewing Paul Gottfried’s must-read Antifascism: The Course of a Crusade in American Greatness, Christopher Zeeman writes, “Organizing
a state around a nonexistent threat is a novel approach to governing…the lack
of proof is confirmation that they must redouble their efforts to thwart the
threat”—a threat, be it said, not to the nation but to the impious power of the
managerial elect. In other words, our political elites must conjure their
enemies in order to maintain their own compromised existence. The dumbing down
of a supine population, still wearing their badges of conformity across their
faces, completes the task.
Of course, as noted, there will be
the inevitable casualties. The truckers who protested the draconian and useless
vaccine mandates have been crushed and their lives ruined. And the majority of
Canadians do not care. Some believe the truckers got what they deserved,
gloating over the misfortune of their betters. Others do not give them a second
thought. The feeble-minded claim to be suffering from “phantom honking.” Some hover over the top like a helicopter
pilot surveying rush hour traffic and move on: nothing very significant to see
here. Their sympathies go out to the Ukrainian victims of Russian aggression.
The victims of government oppression in their own country are an afterthought.
Stupefying indifference to the fate of their nation is the order of the day.
The government from hell remains solidly entrenched. . . .
Mr. Solway’s entire column is here.
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