Consent Of The Governed

From The Automatic Earth blog:

They’re [politicians] not benign public servants, they’re drug pushers - in this case vaccines - with armies and bodyguards. They protect corporations and institutions, not the rights of their people. They’re not democrats, they’re authoritarians. We are ruled by ideologies, not principles. The only rights we have are those that they "allow" us to have. There are no basic or inalienable rights left. Our politicians represent, and serve, long established parties and systems that have ruled for at least decades, in a symbiosis with corporations.

If there’s one lesson to learn from the sordid never-ending Covid episode it must be that: your human rights are just a thin veneer that serves to make your reality look nice and shiny, but may be scraped off at any moment. What does that say about our forefathers and -mothers who fought, and died, in order to provide us with inalienable rights? Do we really owe those people less than we owe our current ruling classes?

You can read the rest @

https://www.theautomaticearth.com/2021/03/the-consent-of-the-governed/

The issue is not so much what we owe to "our forefathers and -mothers", but what we owe to ourselves and to each other. We didn't elect those bastards so they could cancel our rights or to be more concerned with foreigners than with their own citizens. I know I didn't.