The Sultanate of the Proletarian state of Great Britainistan

One of the most telling aspects of a Communist state, is the curious way in which all people are empowered to destroy anyone else in that polity, so long as it enhances the power of the state and the state narratives.
Having had numerous conversations, (although not nearly as many as I want to) with expats from the former Soviet Union and beyond the iron curtain, one common feature is how a neighbour can rat you out to the state and get you taken away or otherwise destroyed if you for example, fail to publicly grieve for a dead official with sufficient intensity.

No where is this more obvious than in North Korea. But I am reliably told this also happened in Poland and other parts of Soviet Controlled Eurasia.

If a person had a romantic interest in a woman, or did want want to pay back a loan, the constant looming threat of being outed for some kind of thought crime was an effective form of blackmail. Pretty much exactly like blasphemy laws in Islam.

Currently there is a case against a boy in Pakistan who is facing the death penalty for receiving a blasphemous image on his phone from someone. No one has seen this image, and no evidence of it is presented. But he was found guilty of having recieved it and may be murdered by the state because of it if there isn’t massive US state dept. intervention.

Which reminds me of my first exposure to Islamic law well over 20 years ago. There was an article in the Ottawa Citizen about a boy who was alleged to have thrown a piece of paper with blasphemous writing on it off the back of a motorcycle towards a mosque. But Pakistani law says that a sharia court judge may not look upon anything blasphemous. So he had to take the prosecution’s word for it and find the accused guilty on the say-so of the prosecutor that inside this sealed cigar box, was a piece of paper with a blasphemous writing which had been hurled at a mosque by a kid on a motorbike.

And once again we see there is no meaningful daylight between Islam and communism.
Currently, across the West, but with focus on the Anglosphere for the moment (shy of the US thank Trump) laws are being implemented that causing offence to an arbitrarily defined, protected group. And for that matter, even entirely fictitious groups so long as people can be persuaded to claim to belong to it.

Also laws are being passed that allow anyone to report anyone who might be in breach of those laws, and hold people to account for even an unrelated person breaking those laws. And even if someone suspects that someone else might say something which could be offensive to some self identified member of a fictitious group.

So it seems as if a bar owner can be held liable if a customer of that bar says something in any context that an employee can arbitrarily decide was offensive.

This is of course, a dialectic attack on the individual. The removal of real rights to invented collective rights, and enforceable arbitrarily by the state to the point of whimsy. Less whimsical though, is that enforcement will pretty much always be whatever is the most destructive to classical constitutional republics like the West was post WW II.

The precedent has been created for decades as well. The incremental destruction of agency for the purpose of collective guilt as defined by the state. The fact that a bartender can be held responsible for what an adult does who gets himself drunk and gets in an accident even if the bartender had no idea how much the patron had to drink.

And my personal favorite, a woman can go to a bar, get herself drunk, pick up a man, drag him home, undress and have sex with him and in the morning if she wishes she hadn’t done those things, according to Canadian law, the man is guilty of rape.

What all of these things have in common is the attack on the individual. The assumption that people have agency and are responsible for their actions as well as may enjoy the rewards of them, such as hard work and disciplined savings.

And of course, the constant, looming threat of utter tyranny and the deracination of the individual, even as a concept in one’s own mind.

The mRNA shots coercion proved that out well. A large percentage of the population defaulted to collective rights at the expense of anyone who felt their right to refuse something which was frankly, patently insane. You either had to give yourself an autoimmune disease to protect your grandmother who you couldn’t visit anyway or have your whole life’s work destroyed. Your vaccine protects the public. The collective good, as defined not by science, but by the state’s literal declaration of what the science was, as Fauci himself declared out loud.

Scientism in a word.

Black Belt Barrister has a video on the newest vice-like crushing destruction of the individual in Great Britain under Sultan Starmer. Or is it Comrade Sultan Starmer.

This is and has also been happening in Canada for a long long time. And Comrade Carney’s actions since taking the reins have been so consistent with everything Trudeau has done, it also adds fuel to the idea that Carney was always the architect behind Trudeau’s destruction of Canada.

No idea if this is true or not yet, but I wouldn’t bet against it. This appears to be the source but I can’t find that actual info yet.

John Ivison: The first Carney spending numbers are out, and they’re as bad as Trudeau’s