Lights Out for the City on the Hill. “Dismantling the West’s Commitment to Personal Liberties”

The main aspects with which the West brought its rivals to their knees in 1990 – Prosperity and Freedom – are today intentionally and systematically detonated to make way for the most terrible totalitarianism.

Throughout the decades of the Cold War, whilst the blocs were competing, two major attractions worked powerfully to the advantage of the West.

Firstly, the comfort and prosperity that it was able to provide to its citizens, which its Eastern rivals could hardly match.

The second feature that in the eyes of the world gave the West a huge competitive edge was the comparatively better performance of its institutions in securing personal liberties.

The twin advantages of prosperity and the impression that the West valued freedom neutralised successfully most of the theoretical critique of the capitalist social and economic model.

The West’s ostensible commitment to personal liberties acted as a powerful magnet. As a political weapon it thus served its purpose effectively.

So long as scrupulous adherence to the rule of law and respect for personal rights were seen as their distinguishing characteristic, Western societies were perceived as a desirable alternative to the competing systems, which often disregarded strict legality and did little to reduce arbitrariness.

That state of affairs prevailed until roughly the 1990s, when the Western bloc reached the pinnacle of its global might and was widely perceived as triumphant over its adversaries.

Since then, throughout the Western world the social gains which brought a modicum of comfort and safety to the common people are being systematically dismantled.

The sense of legal security that for decades was enjoyed by citizens of Western societies proved equally evanescent.

Lawless abuse and vulnerability to the powers that be, phenomena normal elsewhere but long absent from the practice of Western societies and largely faded from the memory of their citizens, are reappearing with a vengeance.

On both the domestic and international levels, the “rule of law” has rapidly morphed into its unrecognisable caricature. That metamorphosis has become jokingly known as the “rules-based order.”

With scant internal opposition or even public awareness, the core countries of the collective West became infected with the contagion of arbitrariness in the interpretation of inherent human rights and application of legal principles erected to protect them.

The transformation, which in historical terms took place with lightning speed, has been spearheaded by a ruthless and duplicitous political cabal which directs the flow of events from behind the scenes.

It was implemented with the connivance of a judiciary that is utterly corrupt and cowardly in the fulfillment of its professional duties.

Breakdown of legality is generally a precursor of worse aspects to come, which almost invariably takes the form of increasingly egregious abuse of power. That can be illustrated with disturbing but by no means isolated examples of the emerging state of affairs in the countries of the collective West that used to be envied for their freedom.

Maybe you recall the famous line, “they hate us for our freedom.” That false assertion made in 2001, whilst doing nothing to advance the cause of freedom, introduced an orgy of destruction and mass slaughter.

A striking representation of the breakdown of the legal order is the illegal kidnapping and incarceration in Germany on fabricated embezzlement charges of German-American lawyer, Dr. Reiner Fuellmich. The German judicial system is fully complicit in this appalling farce.

There are many solid reasons for the deep state cabal’s virulent hatred of Dr. Fuellmich. He was the one who in 2020 had the temerity to found the covid pandemic research committee, just as the social control experiment was gaining momentum.

The committee did outstanding work under the leadership of Dr. Fuellmich to expose the sordid motives and homicidal objectives of the orchestrators of the bogus medical emergency.

That was a major blow to them, the more so because it was delivered successfully under conditions of nearly total informational blockade.

Dr. Fuellmich’s ultimate, and perhaps overambitious, naively conceived goal of a medical Nuremberg to bring the culprits to justice unfortunately could not be achieved.

But the very thought of it has given rage to those he intended to be prosecuted.

“This agenda has been long planned,” Dr. Fuellmich summarised his Committee’s findings.

“Its ultimately unsuccessful precursor was the swine flu some 12 years ago, and it is cooked up by a group of super-rich psychopathic and sociopathic people who hate and fear people at the same time, have no empathy, and are driven by the desire to gain full control over all of us, the people of the world.”

The time came, however, for the psychopaths to get their revenge, and the operation was not exceedingly difficult because they control the mechanisms of power.

Eleven months ago, Dr. Fuellmich was imprisoned in Germany on the false allegation made by a former colleague, who may have been infiltrated by security agencies into the Covid Committee, that he misused the organisation’s assets for personal benefit.

A charge that under German law is a misdemeanour and for which there is no precedent of lengthy pre-trial incarceration resulted in imprisonment that has now lasted for over 400 days, under Abu Ghraib conditions, except that it is in Germany and not in Iraq. For a shocking portrayal of those detention conditions, see here and here the disgraceful procedural deficiencies of the trial itself, which currently is in progress.

The proceedings are stained by practices incompatible with the image of Rechtsstaat that is misleadingly cultivated by Germany, along with the rest of the collective West regimes associated with it.

The lawless persecution of Dr. Fuellmich in reality is for the “offence” of performing a remarkable public service by uncovering and documenting the fraudulent nature and sinister background of the covid “pandemic.”

It is, however, but the tip of the iceberg in the collapse of the rule of law in societies that portray themselves as its champions. The breakdown of legality and its dire impact on the elementary freedoms of citizens, rendering them utterly defenceless before the demands of unaccountable Power, can be illustrated by additional examples.

In Ireland, the entire Burke family of Christian believers who refuse to bend their knee to the dictates of gender ideology is being targeted for vindictive persecution.

One of the sons, Enoch, who is a school teacher, has so far spent over 400 days in solitary confinement, like Dr. Fuellmich in Germany.

His “offence” is that in formerly Christian and Catholic Ireland he refuses to use the pronoun preferred by one of his students who claims other than his biological gender.

Enoch Burke is a law breaker because he holds that acquiescence to the gender identity charade would be a violation of his religious principles.

In fact, Enoch Burke is being punished for refusing to debase himself as a professional educator and as a free human being by confessing falsely, under the duress of his persecutors, that 2 + 2 = 5.

Nothing short of such a recantation of his conscientiously held beliefs would satisfy his country’s legal and educational overseers, who have manifestly gone berserk. He therefore remains in an Irish prison, despite being assured of instant release if only he signalled submission to their lunatic demand.

For an insight into the broad official scope of that lunacy, see here.

Enoch’s brother Simeon, who has completed his law studies with honours, is being excluded from admission to the Irish Bar for reasons that have not yet been revealed with full clarity but which appear to be related also to his firmly held religious world-view, identical to his brother’s. In contemporary Ireland that seems to disqualify one from working in a professional capacity.

Moreover, Enoch and Simeon’s father, Enoch Burke Sr., has also been punished, for objecting to LGBT symbols on Irish postal vehicles.

For his insolence, taxpayer Burke was informed that henceforth he may come to the local post office if he wishes to pick up his mail, but that it will no longer be delivered to his home address.

As in the Fuellmich case, the collective and exemplary punishment meted out to the Burke family is being kept out of the public eye as much as possible.

Political and even religious figures refuse to take a stand or comment on it, and the controlled media studiously avoid discussing the subject.

Not to round off this complex picture of civilizational decline but merely to supplement it with another unsettling detail, the institution of thought crime portrayed in George Orwell’s novel, once considered no more than literary fiction, appears now to be enshrined in British law.

For the present it appears to be a pilot programme, perhaps a precursor to even more frightening aspects to come. It operates as a prohibition of prayer within a designated exclusion perimeter around abortion “clinics” in Great Britain.

The incriminating prayer would presumably be for the souls of children that departed this world due to the medical attention that they received in those establishments.

The private performance of such unauthorised religious offices is now prohibited as it may cause “harassment and distress” to the employees of the “clinics” and their clients.

And ominously, according to the Home Office, “anyone found guilty of breaking the law will face an unlimited fine.”

One wonders if the European Court of Human Rights would have anything to say about such open-ended punishment schemes. Was anything of the sort ever before recorded in the annals of civilised jurisprudence?

Interaction between the thought police, who of course are merely “following orders,” and citizens suspected of mentally violating the “law” may be watched here by all who cherish their liberty and human integrity.

Wretched British jurisprudence can now boast its first successful prosecution of a thought crime violator.

British Army veteran Adam Smith-Connor was recently found guilty of silently praying for his aborted son inside an abortion “clinic” buffer zone.

For that, he was sentenced conditionally to two years in prison and fined £9000 in costs for His Majesty’s court’s expense and trouble in prosecuting him.

The courts still are not imposing “unlimited fines,” as the Home Office prescribes, but for a retired person like Smith-Connor, who needs to support a family, even that is a considerable sum.

And Smith-Connor, be it noted, is far from being the only victim of abortion-related thought crime harassment in the United Kingdom.

Also for the record, the theme here is not one’s personal position on covid, transgenderism, or abortion. The central issue in every one of the cited instances, and others of a similar sort too numerous to mention, is the evident crumbling in the collective West of the legal order.

That makes it possible to impose on peaceful citizens draconian punishments wholly disproportionate to the alleged conduct they have been accused of.

To what limits will the severity of punishment extend, or is it potentially as “unlimited” as the threat of monetary assessment the British Home Office is prepared to impose on those undertaking to silently pray in public for unborn babies?

The famed “City on the Hill” that many had been tricked into believing was illuminating mankind from on high is now forlorn and largely deserted. Its lights are getting progressively dimmer, life in it increasingly intolerable. Its deceived inhabitants and ardent admirers are dispersing in every direction.

Word is out that a new City of great luminosity and magnetic attraction is being erected elsewhere, and that its architects had recently met in Kazan.

Author: Stephen Karganovic

 

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November 10, 2024

 

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