We are the Communists
now. Though communist is not the best term, because Communism speaks to a
particular form of governing philosophy that has gone extinct in many parts of
the world, and failed utterly in others. But I think calling it Communism makes
sense, because most people on the right side of politics and even some on the
centre left, associate Communism with everything that is bad and horrible in the
government and the state. But whatever you call it, whether authoritarianism,
Babylonianism, or Communism, or whatever else, I think those of us in the West
need to recognize a horrible truth: we are now on the inside of the iron
curtain. That is we are being locked into the non-free world.
Let me
demonstrate:
Communists
were famously anti-press, their Newspapers were just propaganda arms for the state.
Communists were famously anti-free speech, or really any kind of open political
speech, at least once they took power. They used free speech before they had
power as an effective tool to disarm their opponents ability to stop them. Communists
were also anti-protests, because protests would allow people to congregate and
move towards potentially gathering support and numbers to overthrow the system.
On top of this they were anti-free association, allowing only those
associations which strengthened the Communist state, and banning those which
could oppose it successfully, like Churches and free businesses. I think you
can now see, this is now increasingly what the West is looking like. We are not
fully there yet, but the trajectory is very clear. We are now inside the iron curtain,
and the restrictions are tightening.
Writer
Caitlin Johnstone demonstrates this quite clearly in her article, “Authoritarianism
Keeps Surging In Western ‘Free Democracies.’”[i]
She gives three examples. Firstly, “The Grayzone's Kit Klarenberg was detained
by "six anonymous plainclothes counter-terror officers" who
"grilled him for over five hours about his reporting" upon returning
to Britain on the 17th of May, according to a new report by Grayzone editor Max
Blumenthal.”[ii]
The Grayzone notes this was in retaliation for revealing embarrassing information.
Secondly, she notes how South Australia is bringing in new authoritarian
anti-protest laws,
“Reacting to recent inconvenient demonstrations by
environmental activists, the state of South Australia has just rapidly shoved
through legislation — without consulting the public — to exponentially increase
the penalties for unauthorized protesting. Demonstrators will now face up to
three months in jail and fines of $50,000 if they are deemed guilty of the
extremely vague offense of "obstructing a public place" with their
protesting.”[iii]
Thirdly she
notes, that government officials in the United States are just brushing aside
piercing questions about the treatment of their own citizens by allied
governments,
“At a press conference last week the State Department's new
spokesman Matthew Miller flatly brushed off questions about whether the US
government was doing anything about the fact that commentator Gonzalo Lira has
been arrested and charged with what amount to speech crimes by the Ukrainian
government.”[iv]
And I will
add one more example from my own home state of Queensland and from another
outfit you may know, Caldronpool,
“In a draconian move said to be “protecting minority groups,”
the Queensland Labor government has introduced a bill that would “dramatically
increase the maximum prison sentence for racist, anti-gay, anti-trans or
seriously bigoted statements.”
The Criminal Code (Serious Vilification and Hate Crimes) and
Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2023 proposes an increase in the penalty for
“bigoted public statements” from six months in prison to three years.
Inflammatory Facebook posts would be a criminal offence with
legislation covering “any form of communication to the public, including by
speaking, writing, printing, displaying notices, broadcasting, telecasting,
screening or playing of tapes or other recorded material, or by electronic
means.”[v]
There is an
increasing trend in the globalist allied western nations, particularly in the
Anglo-sphere, to come down harder and harder on various kinds of political
speech. The ability for citizens to speak up on a range issues is being
increasingly restricted, and more and more people are being threatened not just
to be labelled as bigots, and racists and all kinds of …phobes, but to be
prosecuted as such and more.
If the
hysteria of the Covid years was not enough proof for you, then perhaps the way
that various different governments in the West are refusing to defend someone
like Julian Assange, but are instead making it harder for those who report on
the powerful, to do so without fearing reprisal, might help you start to take
notice. The elites of the West don’t want their activities reported on and
noticed by their populations. They have long since rejected any pretence of open
government.
The absolute
hysterical overreach of government powers in recent years is becoming an
increasingly noticeable pattern. But the complete unwillingness of most people
to speak out publicly about any of this happening, means that those of us who
live in the West find ourselves in a boiling pot with the temperature slowly
being increased, while most people settle in for what they think is going to be
a comfortable bath, which is in fact anything but. The iron curtain is being
drawn tightly.
The
so-called “Free World” has failed, and those who are in charge of it are slowly
revealing their true natures more and more. We are the Communists now. We now
live in the anti-free world. We now live in the world that rejects national sovereignty,
and promotes globalized empire. We now live in the world that rejects political
speech, but promotes degraded speech and calls it free speech. We now live in
the world where Christianity is under increasing attack and is being increasingly
sidelined. It is incredible to observe, because we have become accustomed to
seeing ourselves as a free and peaceful people. But the West is now neither
free, nor a promoter of peace, but rather a harbinger of more increasingly
destructive wars, and a persecutor of many of those who are on the frontlines
seeking to expose what is happening. We are not one and free, we are fractured
and increasingly under surveillance.
We know that
the fallen world is filled with lies, but the level of the lies surrounding us
every day now is at an astonishing level that we would have found hard to
believe just 10 years ago. In the increasing darkness we are seeing, the bright
ray of hope we have, as believers in the Lord Jesus Christ, is that his Church
has both seen and overcome worse. And perhaps, by the grace of God, we might
see the Church grow so much in the next few years, that our society is
protected from going as far behind the iron curtain as the Soviets did. Let’s
hope and pray that this is the case.
References
[i] Caitlin
Johnstone, 2023, “Authoritarianism Keeps Surging In Western "Free Democracies"
https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/authoritarianism-keeps-surging-in?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=82124&post_id=125009112&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email
[ii] Ibid.
[iii] Ibid.
[iv] Ibid.
[v]
Ben Davis, 2023, “Three Years Jail for a ‘Bigoted’ Facebook Post?” Caldron
Pool, https://caldronpool.com/three-years-jail-for-a-bigoted-facebook-post/
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