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Fear is the most certain path to tyranny.
Here’s how it happens. 1/
Here’s how it happens. 1/
Nuremberg Trials, 1946:
[Question to Goering on how the Nazis succeeded in establishing fascism.] 2/
[Question to Goering on how the Nazis succeeded in establishing fascism.] 2/
Goering: “The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. . . .
"All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked. . . . It works the same way in any country.” 3/
"All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked. . . . It works the same way in any country.” 3/
But how exactly was this accomplished? How were people convinced that they were being attacked?
Here’s how they managed to do it: 4/
Here’s how they managed to do it: 4/
Goebbels:
“Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.”
And “The bigger the lie, the more it will be believed.” 5/
“Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.”
And “The bigger the lie, the more it will be believed.” 5/
So now in the 21st century, when a virus with a lower death rate (adjusted for size of population) than the last 100 years' major outbreaks, as we see from this table . . . /6
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5198166/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5198166/
When that virus scares people so badly that they are willing to obstruct their own breathing with #masks, and to take untested vaccines, and to want those radical procedures to be forced on adults and children, . . . 7/
And when the very recently free countries of Australian and New Zealand adopt fascist measures against their citizens, then we know . . . 8/
Then, during these horrible events, we come to see that the above instructions of the Nazis have been followed, and that their 80+ year old recipe results in the same dish starting to be served up once again. 9/
But now, for those who have indeed learned from the Holocaust, we can agree with the wisdom of US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt: 10/
Why is #fear the biggest danger that we face, worse than any other threat?
Because we can see in our own time as well the fear of a virus is leading to the callous destruction of civil liberties (the most basic being the right to breathe freely without obstruction), . . . 11/
Because we can see in our own time as well the fear of a virus is leading to the callous destruction of civil liberties (the most basic being the right to breathe freely without obstruction), . . . 11/
And children’s education, the right of adults to work and to travel to their work and elsewhere, the right to gather publicly for worship or social events, graduations, weddings, funerals of loved ones, the right to peacefully assemble, for any reason . . . 12/
And because fear leads people to want to snitch on their neighbors ("contact trace" in the modern translation of "gestapo,") force #masks and quarantine even on their healthy neighbors and fellow citizens. 13/
And . . .
And . . .
And:
Mary Holland, Esq:
“If we learned anything from World War II, it’s that medical procedures must NOT be forced on individuals.” 14/
Mary Holland, Esq:
“If we learned anything from World War II, it’s that medical procedures must NOT be forced on individuals.” 14/
85 million people died in World War II. Is anyone so ignorant of this history that they need it to be fought again, given all the blood spilled by our recent ancestors and their loved ones?
In order to re-establish, as we know all people need, freedom over fascism? 15/end
In order to re-establish, as we know all people need, freedom over fascism? 15/end
