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It's almost exactly
like that scene from V for Vendetta...
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January
20, 2014
Sovereign
Valley Farm, Chile
It's
almost exactly like that scene from V for Vendetta.
You
know-- the part in the end where swarms of people go up against the
police with their sticks and Guy Fawkes masks...
That's what's happening in Ukraine right now. And
with reason.
After
weeks of student protests over the government's failure to sign a
European integration and association treaty, the police violently cracked
down on protestors, and politicians passed a series of new laws in the
middle of the night. Among them:
- Criminal
extremist activity is now redefined, broadly and loosely, that
effectively criminalizes protest, press reports, or social media
that is anti-government.
- Insulting a
policeman or judge is now a criminal offense. This includes behavior
that "patently offends" or "shows insolent
disrespect".
- Blocking of
administrative buildings is now criminalized with a 5-year prison
sentence.
- Anyone who
organizes an assembly in violation of 'established procedures' can
be arrested.
- The
government has streamlined its ability to force Internet Service
Providers to block certain websites it deems harmful in its sole
discretion.
- New
amendments to the criminal code allow pre-trial and trial
proceedings to be conducted, even if the defendant is not physically
present to defend himself.
The laws
go on and on. It's Soviet stuff all over again. And people aren't taking
this lightly.
In total
defiance of these new laws, the gun-toting police thugs, and the bone
chilling winter cold, people are once again out in the streets.
There's a
great video from a few nights ago where the cops were assaulting a few
protestors. Then suddenly a swarm of people with nothing more than fists
and sticks ran over and began attacking the police.
Click here to watch the video (about 60 seconds).
Societies,
like individuals, have their own breaking points. Citizens can only
tolerate so much abuse before enough of them take action. Sometimes that
means meeting violence with violence.
I wonder
where this line is in the West. Back in the Land of the Free, the
government has taken every possible step it can to abuse citizens.
It has
enriched banks at the people's expense. It has robbed the masses of the
purchasing power of their savings. It has destroyed liberties, indebted
future generations, raised taxes, and regulated the most fundamental
aspects of our lives.
All of
this has been done shamelessly, unapologetically. For example, President
Obama's "solution" to the NSA spying debacle is to simply
outsource the metadata storage to some unknown company.
Pathetically,
this is what passes for liberty in the Land of the Free today.
Yet while
Ukrainians have clearly reached their breaking points and are fighting it
out in the streets for their freedom, it remains unclear where North
Americans and Europeans draw the line. Most people don't seem to care.
Fortunately,
anyone who actually values liberty doesn't need to wait around for
Ukrainian-style armed revolution.
The world
is a big place, and there are a number of options to reduce our exposure
to bankrupt, insolvent, destructive governments.
Every
single person who holds dollars in a US bank account, for example, is
entirely beholden to the whims of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors.
You can
substantially reduce this exposure by moving funds to a place like Norway
or Hong Kong, holding krones or Hong Kong dollars.
Or even
still, owning precious metals at a foreign depository in a place like
Singapore.
You
can reduce your exposure to NSA spying by using simple encryption
plug-ins for email (see
our free report on how to give the NSA the finger...)
You can
further reduce your risk and exposure to your home government by
obtaining a low-cost second residency in a place like Chile or Panama, to
ensure that you always have another option.
There are
a plethora of solutions-- individual solutions-- that anyone can take
advantage of. And in doing so, we are relying on ourselves. Not on our
neighbors. And definitely not on government.
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