Watching the Canadian trucker situation got me thinking, “Could the government confiscate my money?” I already know they can lock me up for minor infractions. In some cases, I can be held without bail for “presenting a threat to others and myself”. As nefarious as this is, taking away my ability to live by restricting my access to my own money is cutting to the bone. Yet, given the actions taken against those involved in the Capitol protests of January 6^th, and what happens in countries like China, Russia, Cuba, Venezuela and now, Canada, it’s apparent that it could happen to me or anyone not in synch with the politics of the day.

These missives of mine might be interpreted as seditious by someone trying to put me away. Anyone on whom they put their target can be made to look like a terrorist given the state of a compliant media and the technical means of editing both word and video. Scary stuff and no longer that of “conspiracy theorists” as we have examples right here in the US and it is happening right next door.

While the summer of 2020 was “mostly peaceful”, the truckers are Nazis and white supremacists. The people who voted to recall the San Francisco school board members have been labeled as white supremacists. Contributors to the truckers were doxed and their businesses damaged. It’s not a big step to have the state here jump in on the “public outcry to do something” that gives them the opening to thwart any dissension by any means necessary. Hell, even Abraham Lincoln subverted the Constitution!

Complacency and apathy rule our current population with a large portion already dependent on the state, bringing us ever closer to completing the circle attributed to Alexander Tytler. Only each individual standing up to authoritarians will save the day.