It's a Trap

Don't let your governments turn you against your neighbours

Hello everyone, I hope you haven’t missed me too much. My circumstances remain quite dire, but after the events of the last week I do feel somewhat compelled to speak up, as I see things heading in a dangerous direction.

I’ll preface this and say this may be an unpopular opinion, but I don’t particularly care. I’m confident I’m right on this one and if I can slap some sense into even one person, writing this will have been worth ti.

If I’m honest I’m a little disappointed with a lot of you lot right now, it seems a lot of folks have already forgotten many of the lessons we should have learned back in 2021.

Do you remember how our governments tried to divide us along the status of vaccinated vs unvaccinated? If you had strong feelings on either side of that divide, this period is in fact unforgettable.

Well, look at the events in the world right now, and particularly the last week. The level of anger internationally over various issues is palpable.

One of the things that I found beautiful about the freedom movement here in Australia was the sense of unity it gave me. I left many of the protests feeling a new-found sense of hope and optimism, just knowing there were many people aligned with me in thought.

But almost straight away, it all started falling apart. The sovereign citizens, the cults, the no virus and ivermectin advocates, there was this rainbow of people attending, many with their own individual agendas, and not all of them were compatible.

This is not atypical for a protest movement, they often draw in all kinds of strange people. But unfortunately all these separate factions just made us less unified over time, and nowadays there are so many factions within the faction that it’s pretty easy to conclude that these divides have been manufactured purposefully to split us once again.

The worst part is, it’s worked really well.

The first really memorable experience I had along these lines was in 2021. I was very active on LinkedIn and I’d made a connection with a fantastic young bloke over east. We had some great conversations and took on many trolls together and I definitely counted him a friend.

Then Russia invaded Ukraine, and everything changed. He was incensed, he had Ukrainian family and he told me he was getting ready to go and fight.

I remember exactly what I said to him - “No, Simon, don’t go and fight the Russians. You’ll probably die pointlessly and it’ll make your mum really sad. Don’t do it mate.”

He told me very rudely what he thought of that and blocked me. I was stunned. We’d been such great mates up to that point. The fact that this new point of division had just sprung up and was being weaponised wasn’t lost on me. I saw other people fall out over this issue too.

Since then, our governments have done literally everything they can to drive a wedge between us all. The situation in Gaza and the IDF’s actions against the population, the immigration situation and the issues around militant Islam, issues around race and crime, gender identity politics and of course just regular old politics, all these issues have been lightning rods for further division, and it’s worked wonderfully, to our detriment and to the benefit of those who continue to seek to harm humanity.

Recently I had a chap on Twitter get very angry with me and block me, I’ve known him since all this started. Fierce chap, a little too fierce if you ask me, he’d get a bit carried away at times. But hey, some people say similar things about me so I’ve always tolerated his temper. What was really crazy though was why. Check it out.

This was his cause of offence.

This chap is very pro-Israel. I’m really neither for or against really, I have a more balanced view on things. Well, he interpreted this as criticism of Israel, and it didn’t go down well, to put it mildly.

I’m not sure about you, I don’t consider my post very controversial or critical of anyone in particular really. I also think I am in a better position to hold an opinion like this than many people because I worked with veterans for quite a long time. When you see the march of broken people coming out of wars, it does tend to drive home what a pointless waste of life it is.

It’s left me staunchly anti-war, and I make no apologies for that. I don’t know how you could see what I have seen and be pro-war, frankly. I have seen and heard some terrible, terrible things, most often straight from the horses mouth, not some romantic Hollywood interpretation of war.

But I digress - my point is - we seriously fell out over almost nothing. It was a trivial disagreement at best, but that line is now drawn. Our opinions on almost every other thing are pretty darn close to each other, but because of that one issue, he won’t even talk to me anymore.

I’ve seen this same chap do this to other folks too, and I’m not picking on him, he’s not the only one by a long shot. I see it all over social media, people who were once aligned and supported each other falling out over one issue. They agree on 90% of stuff but apparently that 10% disagreement just cannot be tolerated.

WTAF? How did we get like this?

So thousands, maybe millions of relationships are again damaged around the world by this pointless division, and most of us are not seeing it.

I’ve written before about how angry people are, especially since Covid, and I still think that’s very true. I’ve pointed out that people on all sides are angry, often for different reasons, but if there’s one thing that seems to unify humanity at the moment it’s an unprecedented level of anger out there generally.

Us freedom lovers are mad that our freedoms were trampled on, we were called names and ostracised for exercising our own bodily autonomy, the harms done by vaccines, and so on. On the other side, folks are mad that we didn’t comply, and “prolonged the pandemic” and so on and so forth.

THEY’RE IN THE MIDST OF WEAPONISING YOUR ANGER AGAINST YOU

So, everyone is really pissed off, and they keep throwing out the bait for us, and we keep taking it. So what?

Well I think the last week answers that question, as people all over the world give in to their worst inclinations all over social media.

I’m horrified and disappointed at a number of things.

First of all that somebody saw fit to publicly murder a man who was speaking in front of hundreds of people and in the presence of his family, including his little children. What a terrible crime.

Then in the wake of this there is a massive outpouring of grief and sadness from those you would normally consider “on his side”, and a repugnant wave of sadistic schadenfreude in many of the people who oppose his views.

Many of these folks have posted their revolting takes on social media and for some reason many of these posts which either glorify violence or indeed even incite further violence are allowed a presence on social media. Nothing sus though, I’ll get a block within minutes if I post a meme with a noose in it talking about covid accountability, but these people can directly incite and glorify violence and just get away with it?

Are you starting to see that there’s something very inorganic about all of this?

Then in the wake of this, there’s understandable indignation and outrage from the “right”, but for some inexplicable reason the approach taken to these horrible takes is instead of ignoring them or challenging them, people are amplifying these messages by posting them up, further amplifying the anger and outrage out there, as if that is helpful.

Not only that, now we have right-wing cancel mobs running around getting people fired from their jobs over their social media posts. They’ve even made a database of offenders! It could be some of these people are well deserving of such a fate, but personally I think engaging in these tactics is taking things too far. You’re damaging people in your own community because they said something you don’t like? Hmm…

I know some of you will fiercely disagree with that, but remember when people lost their jobs over expressing their views on Covid? Did you think that was fair? Is this better, you think? After all, those people were outraged over what they perceived was a threat to their health and wellbeing.

Worst of all, the rhetoric on the right has escalated suddenly in the wake of these terrible events, clearly people are very emotional and not calm at all. What could go wrong?

People who are in an emotional state such as fear, anger, outrage, sadness are easier to manipulate than those who are not. In fact if you can instil these emotions effectively it actually becomes pretty easy to control the large majority of the population. Basic totalitarianism, it’s all been done before.

It seems many are forgettting that we are constantly being manipulated, I see people who a fortnight ago were angry at the Trump administration for their gaslighting over Epstein suddenly turn on a thread and become loyal to him all over again, all over this issue.

People who accuse the government of lying about everything are suddenly accepting the media lines without question and ferociously attacking anyone questioning the current narrative.

Is this all starting to sound familiar yet?

So apparently this is now “war” between the Right and Left?

I’ve been hearing this a lot recently, especially on Twitter, but also on certain Youtube channels.

Comments like -

“My patience has run out”
”I’m fed up and I’ve had enough of these people”
”There’s no coming together now”
”They’re evil”
”They’re demonic”
”They don’t know what’s coming”

…and finally, “This is WAR”?

All of this emerging from prominent influencers and major youtube channels, once again in a way that can only be described as highly inorganic.

Now, I will refer you all back to my experience in dealing with the fallout from war. War is hell, have no doubt, and there is no worse war than a civil war. Nobody wants what these people are calling for, trust me. Ever seen a gunshot wound up close? If not, just take my word for it, OK?

I’m calling it, and I don’t care who hates me for it, this is a total psyop. The intention is to create a martyr to rally behind, and it seems pretty clear that the events of the last week are going to do exactly that.

The anger we have all been feeling ever since our freedoms were crushed are being tapped and weaponised against us. They want to galvanise that anger to get you fighting in the streets with your neighbours or the blacks or whoever, they want civil war, that’s all part of the script.

The worst part is that so, so many of us are falling for it, often with the best of intentions, lessons learned from 2021 be damned.

Your anger is understandable, but unity is what is needed, not a war

I get it, the last 5 years have been shit for many of us. I know it’s turned aspects of my life completely upside down, and I admit to still being sore and angry about it. It’s an understandable reaction, especially in the face of the complete lack of accountability about the harms done by lockdowns, mandates and vaccines.

We’ve been called all sorts of names, Nazis, extreme right wingers, white supremacists, racists, and so forth, just over our views over vaccines! We’ve been vilified, cancelled off social media, kicked out of jobs, lost relationships and goodwill. Some of us have been brutalised or faced legal consequences for not complying, the list goes on.

I get it, I have a beef too.

When I wrote my article “Open Letter to the Vaccinated” (link below) the reaction I got from many of you in the comments was surprise and indeed anger that I would even consider reuniting with some of the people that either vilified or turned their backs on us over the Covid years.

I understand your points of view, believe me, but I do disagree. I think we need the sheep too. I think we need each other, still. I think we should try to work things out as best we can and get on with things, I really do.

I mean, what’s the alternative? Are we going to round up all the people we don’t like? Or ban them off social media, or cancel them in other ways?

Going down that road simply leads to a place where there are people getting lined up to be shot, and people shooting them, ultimately. This sort of division always ends up the same.

Do you want to be the one holding the gun, or against the wall?

Or do you think there might be another, better way to resolve our differences?

The same applies in this situation we find ourselves in this week, or indeed almost any other situation. If we allow ourselves to be radically divided, one group ends up turning on the other and there is death.

Some of the actions of our opponents are repugnant, disgusting, and violent. Some of the things done to us and said to us over the last 5 years or so have been unforgivable.

But we have to try, because the alternative is unthinkable.

I would urge you to be a force for unity in your own life, and not the opposite. Most of all, I urge you to not fight in the street with fellow citizens, they’re not your enemy.

This is important, this is a spiritual war. We must not devolve and become our enemy.

The war to be fought is not between us and our fellow citizens. As I said in the tweet below, the real enemy is someone else…you should know who that is by now.

I’ll leave you with some music, a song entitled “Bloody Revolutions” which is not only a pretty good critique of Marxism, but has some very relevant lyrics to what we’re seeing today.

Just because this is aimed at the left, don’t think this can’t happen to us too…particularly if we heed calls to war from social media.

If you’ve made it this far, thanks very much for sticking around, and I hope to be in touch again soon.

You talk about your revolution, well, that's fine
But what are you going to be doing come the time?
Are you going to be the big man with the Tommy gun?
Will you talk of freedom when the blood begins to run?
Well, freedom has no value if violence is the price…

But what about those people who don't want your new restrictions?
Those that disagree with you and have their own convictions?
You say they've got it wrong because they don't agree with you
So when the revolution comes you'll have to run them through
You say that revolution will bring freedom for us all
Well freedom just ain't freedom when your back's against the wall

You talk of overthrowing power with violence as your tool
You speak of liberation and when the people rule
Well ain't it people rule right now, what difference would there be?
Just another set of bigots with their rifle-sights on me

Will you indoctrinate the masses to serve your new regime?
And simply do away with those whose views are too extreme?
Transportation details could be left to British rail
Where Zyklon be succeeded, North Sea Gas will fail
It's just the same old story of man destroying man
We've got to look for other answers to the problems of this land

It all seems very easy, this revolution game
But when you start to really play things won't be quite the same
Your intellectual theories on how it's going to be
Don't seem to take into account the true reality
'cause the truth of what you're saying, as you sit there sipping beer
Is pain and death and suffering, but of course you wouldn't care