Category Archives: Galloping statism

Video of police busting party for unapproved song on Youtube playlist

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This is also rumoured to be the song that was playing.

I have a request for the readers of this site please.

As much as the event depicted in the top video, showing multiple police busting a British yard party for playing an unapproved song infuriates me, and should infuriate anyone with even the dimmest recollection of what personal liberty means, what infuriates me more is the submission shown to the police by people at a private party who had done nothing wrong whatsoever.

We need a new word which is the equivalent of dhimmitude, but refers to submission to post modern/Marxist authority. We need to name it so we can shame it and stop people from showing it.

People faced with authority on their own property for playing an “unapproved song” should  say to that authority, “This is my property and Ill play what ever song I want. Now get a warrant, arrest me, or get off my property”.

We must learn to show defiance. It is justified, it is our legal right, and much more importantly, it is our inherent right and obligation to show defiance to totalitarian and irrational authority.

If anyone knows of a word, perhaps a Russian or Polish or Czech word for showing obsequious submission to communist authority we could start with that. If not, lets make one up.

 

Sweden races to totalitarianism (and they are winning)

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Sweden now has a registry where people who are “guilty of wrong-think” can be looked up. And if you are on that registry, there will be consequences. Wrong think by the way, includes people who speak openly about the population replacement by migrants in a less than glowing way.

Lauren Southern has found herself on that registry:

Clicking this link to her tweet should also show you replies and other people who are on this list.

From a Google translation of the article linked at the top about this registry:

“The authority justifies view the registry to those listed expressed objectionable views.

“About 12 000 international and Swedish accounts dedicated to the drive, threat, hatred and incitement against migrants, women and LGBT people, but also against organizations involved in human rights. These accounts often have right-wing and / or neo-Nazi orientation and excites even violence, “the Authority on its website.”

I can’t exactly determine what the consequences of being on this list are. But I am certain of one thing. As time goes by the list will either be destroyed, just like the Canadian long gun registry was no doubt (which is to say it never was destroyed despite orders from the PMO) or the consequences to people in this list will grow from simply not being allowed in the country, having all electronic communications blocked in the country, to Seth Rich.

The resistance is just starting to form out of the mist of disbelief as to what is happening to the Western World. And the left and Islam, which has always been several steps ahead of us, must have prepared themselves for our awakening. This list looks like an early stage of that preparation.

Additionally:

Here is the Swedish Database which includes of all people, Thomas Sowel, or a fan account of his that just tweets Sowel quotes.

The title of the database is:

SI (Swedish Institute) makes a “krafttag” (extraordinary effort) TO PROTECT FREE SPEECH

 

H/T Tania Groth and IE

 

Canada’s Marxist replacement for law becomes more and more apparent and above board

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Notice the language by the government bureaucrat. For those who have made it to the 90 minute mark in the very important audio-book, “Explaining Post Modernism”, his language is familiar and sinister. Quite specifically it is about using the power of the state to limit freedoms in the interests of feelings and at the expense of reason. Truth be damned. And even more dangerous is the selective enforcement used. We all know that if Muslims have a plate which is pro-sharia and one of us found it offensive it would be protected as free expression. But oppose it and its racist or hateful and it must be crushed.

Could the first item in this post be the cause of the second?

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And then this:

From the Toronto Sun

Bill C-6, which proposes changes to the Citizenship Act does a number of troubling things:

– removes the right to revoke citizenships from dual nationals convicted terrorists;

– ends the obligation for new citizens 14-18 and 55-65 to know either English or French or even pass a citizenship test;

– reduces the number of days someone must spend in Canada before they are eligible for citizenship;

– eliminates the obligation that a new citizen will have to “intend” to reside in Canada.

Canada is a generous country. We allow new citizens, under most conditions, to retain the passport of their birth. These individuals become fully eligible for all the benefits from our generous social safety net that Canadians have worked so hard over generations to provide.

These benefits include but are not limited to our universal health care system, Old Age Security, Guaranteed Income Supplement, as well as access to our education system.

H/T Shabnam A.

A proof that the mask is coming off the Marxist basis of Canadian government agencies: Jordan Peterson loses grant

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Jordan Peterson loses government grant for being politically incorrect on an unrelated issue.

(I cannot think of a better example of how communism works than that)

TORONTO — University of Toronto psychology professor Dr. Jordan Peterson has had a federal research grant application denied for the first time in his long and distinguished academic career.

And he’s certain that the rejection from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the government agency that supports post-secondary research, is linked to the controversy surrounding his stand on gender-neutral pronouns such as “zie” and “zher,” and the modern notion of gender as being fluid.

That his application was also rated so poorly is telling, he said, meaning that if the proposal had just missed the mark, it might have been a credible critique, but the proposal failed abysmally.

Julia Gualtieri, spokeswoman for the council, said in an email Monday that grants are awarded through a merit review process, and that “past funding is not a guarantee of further funding.” Names of the peer review committee members will be publicly posted once all applicants have been fully notified, she said. […]

Well before Peterson erupted on to the public consciousness last fall with his YouTube videos questioning the current push for genderless pronouns and gender equity, he was recognized as a respected scientist.

He taught at Harvard University for six years.

His so-called “h-index,” for instance, is considered exceptional.

The h-index is the result of physicist Jorge Hirsch’s attempt to measure the quality of scientists, not just the number of times he or she was published.

In other words, both productivity and impact are measured.

According to Hirsch, after 20 years of research, an h-index of 20 is good, 40 outstanding; Peterson’s score is 49. His total citation count is almost 8,000.

For those not familiar with the brilliant Dr. Peterson, here is a video of a lecture he gave recently in Ottawa, which in today’s climate, thanks to the resurgent totalitarian left, is a brave position to have, but really really should’t be.

Can any reader of this site, find an example of leftist and even openly Marxist profs with 1/4 of the credentials but no problems getting grants?

H/T M.

EUSR agrees on European military, taking over nuclear weapons

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…and central planning works so well, this should be great! Right?

Breitbart has the story:

Claim: European Union Considers Plan to Take Over French, British Nuclear Weapons For EU Defence

Discussions are ongoing at high levels within the European Union (EU) to assume command of the nuclear weapons possessed by member states for the purpose of common European defence, according to claims published by The New York Times (NYT).

While even organising a combined European defence based on conventional forces — ships, troops, and aircraft — has proven more than the EU is politically capable of and has been a major contributing factor to the impending departure of the United Kingdom from the bloc, the claims are that a common nuclear defence system have at least been considered.

 

H/T M.

 

Some thoughts about personal security. Just because “its 2017”

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Canada, federally and provincially, is in the process of passing multiple draconian, Marxist and totalitarian bits of legislation, each of which will end democracy and rule of law. In fact, will end Greek thought as a legal means of making personal determinations.

Below, a small excerpt from Ontario bill 89, which is being interpreted, in our view correctly, to mean that if your child wants to wear a dress and you say no, the child can and may be taken by the state and raised by the state till its somewhere between 16 and 18 years old.

“Significant changes are made to terminology.  The terms society ward and Crown ward are no longer used.  Instead, the new Act refers to children who are in interim society care or extended society care.  The new Act also does not refer to children being abandoned or to runaways.

The age of protection is increased to include 16 and 17 year olds:  societies may now apprehend and bring into care children aged 16 and 17.  Under the current Act, children may only be apprehended and brought into care until they turn 16 (although children subject to a protection order before they turn 16 may continue to receive protection services until they are 18).  As part of this change, the definition of a child being in need of protection in the new Act now specifies that a 16 or 17 year old is in need of protection in circumstances or conditions that may be prescribed by regulation.  A new authority to enter into agreements with 16 and 17 year olds in need of protection is included in this Part.

The matters to be considered in determining the best interests of a child are changed.  The current Act incudes the child’s views and wishes, if they can be reasonably ascertained; the new Act also includes the child’s views and wishes, and specifies that they are to be given due weight in accordance with the child’s age and maturity.  The current Act includes the child’s cultural background; the new Act includes the child’s cultural and linguistic heritage.  The religious faith in which the child is being raised is deleted as a matter to be considered.  Added is the child’s race, ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, family diversity, disability, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression.  The provision in the current Act that the best interests of an Indian or native child (referred to in the new Act as a First Nations, Inuk or Métis child) be determined by taking into consideration the importance of preserving the child’s cultural identity is expanded to also require taking into consideration the importance of the child’s connection to community.

The authority for societies to enter into voluntary agreements with persons unable to temporarily care for their children and with young persons is moved from Part II (Voluntary Access to Services) of the current Act to Part V of the new Act.  Temporary care agreements may be entered into with respect to children of any age and are no longer restricted to children younger than 16.  The authority to enter into special needs agreements is not included in the new Act.”

It is likely that if Canada has become Marxist enough to pass this bill (notice all the exemptions for non-White non Western peoples) then its Marxist enough to criminalize opposition to it in any meaningful way. Certainly if not criminalize, to marginalize, publicly humiliate and disenfranchise. As Hillary Clinton said she would do as a way of sneaking UN resolution 16/18 in light of the US 1st amendment.

Canada’s federal M103 certainly destined to become an actual law criminalizing criticism of Islam, and what else could it possibly ever be by the admission of the people who want it, and other tactics in the cauldron like E-411 are powerful indicators that the days of democracy and Greek thought, The Enlightenment, are certainly over. At least in Canada and probably in much of Western Europe. Only in the US is there any pushback in favour of people’s actual rule of themselves via constitutional law. Something Canada has only in name.

To the point:

Some years ago I had a conversation with two security experts. One was American, a lawyer and had considerable experience with the various security apparatus of the USA. The other, a top level computer security person with powerful credentials and more importantly, a practical record of accomplishment in the security field which adds more weight in some ways than many academics in the field for this article.

The discussion was. on the pros and cons of using an encrypted messaging/calling application like Signal on your phone. Signal has been in the news recently because Obama appointees and hires in the usual departments of the deconstruction of America brick by brick like ‘climate change’ and so on, have been installing it to hide their activities  from President Trump, who is less enthusiastic about their mission to destroy industrial society in the USA.

The opinions on using encrypted or hidden comms went like this:

US Security expert:

can likely monitor any communications you have no matter how. One shouldn’t bother to use Signal or other programs like that if you genuinely want your communications to be private.

However you SHOULD use encryption, Signal or otherwise. The reason being that the NSA and similar agencies use the flimsy and thin excuse that they merely gather all signals out there in the aether because they are out there to grab and look at them cause they are just floating by. If you encrypt your communications you are at least demanding your legal 4th amendment rights*  to privacy.

So while the NSA is still reading your private communications and violating your right to privacy wholesale and often for trivial purposes (*2) using encryption means they have to actually go to a judge to get a warrant to violate your rights before they can actually use that information to act against you, as you asserted your rights by attempting to make your communications private.

Canadian security expert:

Signal is an open source PGP based encryption program which would take the entire computing power of ALL NSA COMPUTERS to crack even one text message several years to do. So use it. Your comms will be safe.

ME:

Any google device is spying on you. Google has become Orwell Meets Kafka meets Hillary Clinton.  If you use a google device, you have no privacy in almost any way. Google submits to data requests from the NSA without warrants. So you have no protection under US constitutional laws. And the chances are that google devices can read your texts before they are encrypted, and the other side’s messages after they are decrypted.

Social media? Forget about it. You may as well call the police and read your posts yourself. Which will at least annoy them as they prefer to get it illegally cause its easier to sort that way.

We have already seen in 2016 how authorities, police in fact, went to people’s homes and warned or arrested people in Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands and Germany just for posting on their own social media accounts things which opposed government policy on mass immigration and the destruction of their civilizations and cultures.

This is days away in Canada.

Just having an opinion contrary to government policy is now known by authorities that have no business knowing it, and acted upon in ways ranging from actual arrest to firing to public humiliation.

Apple make a big splash last year about protecting the data on their devices from US authorities. The story was amazingly fishy. I do not believe a word of it.

By the way Canadians, Canada has a nearly identical well funded agency to the NSA, and we don’t even have a 4th amendment or anything nearly as useful as that. Just in case you thought you could sigh with relief.

If you want privacy, write a letter, hand deliver it, and then burn it after you show it to them.

But definitely use Signal or a similar app. At least then you force them to at least pretend to obey the law. The American expert makes the point. At least take your right to privacy. Make them prove that they had a probable cause to Big Brother you.

For technically minded people, you may find this a worthy Sunday afternoon project:

Thank you for everything ML.

Eeyore for VladTepesBlog

*(in the USA Canadians may or may not have anything like that as our constitution is nearly incomprehensible)

*2 NSA employees were caught spying on lovers to check for sexual fidelity

Time to have a look at the NSA. No its WAY past time

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While we are on it, this seems like the right time to recommend the Julian Assange book, “When Google met Wikileaks”.

Now I don’t have the time or the energy to read books anymore. But this one Im making myself read. Im about 50 pages in and its chilling to the bone. Google’s power is dystopian and its connections to the US state department under Clinton/Obama are nothing short of Orwellian and way way beyond.

It can be purchased, for the moment, here.

In one way its great to hear powerful people upset about the NSA. But in another way, its highly irritating that they have not up to now, as the NSA spies on every US citizen in flagrant breach of their clearly established 4th amendment rights. ANd suddenly its a problem when they use that power, a power equalled only by google, to affect their agenda. And yes, the Trump agenda so far is also mine and the majority of readers here.

But the time to close down the NSA and replace it with something sane is now.

And while they are at it, they should at least look at giving a medal to Ed Snowdon.

Finland training children to rat out parents for ‘wrong-think’

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This would be an excellent post for parents in the Western nations to write their own stories about having to reeducate their children after especially intense periods of Marxist brainwashing.

Many parents have relayed stories about how their children where told to report back to the school if, for example, the family had the wrong kinds of appliances, which would allegedly lead to ‘global-warming’ for using too much power.

This Stalin-Orwellian treatment by schools, using children as Stasi against their own families, is becoming more the rule than the exception. But there would likely be catharsis for others to know they are not alone in the constant battle to instil critical thought in their children as opposed to critical theory.

So please do. The time to really make this kind of event known is now before it is simply accepted as the new normal.

The ship is slowly turning. The more hands on the helm the easier it is for each of us to steer away from the iceberg.