Extract of Robert F. Kennedy’s foreword to “The Truth about Covid-19: Exposing the Great Reset, Lockdowns, Vaccine Passports, and the New Normal.
Government technocrats, billionaire oligarchs, Big Pharma, Big data, Big Media, the high-financed robber barons, and the military industrial intelligence apparatus love pandemics for the same reasons they love wars and terrorist attacks.
Catastrophic crises create opportunities of convenience to increase both power and wealth.
In her seminal book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, Naomi Klein chronicles how authoritarian demagogues, large corporations, and the wealthy plutocrats use mass disruptions to shift wealth upwards, obliterate the middle class, abolish civil rights, privatize the commons, and expand authoritarian controls.
A consummate insider, the former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel is known for his admonition that the vested power structures should “never let a serious crisis to go to waste”. But this tread-worn strategy – to use crisis to inflame the public terror that paves the road to dictatorial power – has served as the central strategy of totalitarian systems for the millennia.
The methodology is, in fact, formulaic, as Hitler’s Luftwaffe commander, Herman Goring explained during the Nazi war crimes trial at Nuremberg.
“It is always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it is for democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, 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, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger, It works the same in any country.”
The Nazis pointed to the threats from Jews and Gypsies to justify the homicidal authoritarianism in the Third Reich.
The dictatorial demagogue Senator Joseph McCarthy, and the HUAC committee warned against communist infiltration of the State Department and film industry to rationalize loyalty oaths and the blacklist.
Dick Cheney used the 911 attack to launce his “long war” against amorphous terrorism and the Patriot Act abridgements that laid the groundwork for the modern surveillance state.
Now the medical cartel and its billionaire Big Tech accomplices have invoked the most potent, frightening, and enduring enemy of all – the microbe,
Of course, the first casualty must be freedom of speech. After stroking sufficient panic against the hobgoblin du jour, robber barons need to silence protest against their wealth and power grab. As soon as they get hold of the levers of authority, tyrants impose Orwellian censorship and begin gaslighting dissenters.
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