“Also, I’ve been told that the company’s expense accounts have been frozen. . . “ – Arrested Development
It’s hard to explain theft to a government, because they take things, literally.
The power to regulate is the power to destroy. If you know who has that power over your life, that’s one aspect of preparedness – financial or otherwise.
Here’s an example I saw play out in real life: In Modern Mayberry there was a retailer who had a small specialty shop. Now, in Modern Mayberry there are limited shopping opportunities. There’s the Walmart®. There are seventeen antique stores selling stuff from nearby barns. There’s a used kids clothes store – they’re very specific about just taking the clothes. I tried to sell Pugsley during his difficult phase, and they simply wouldn’t take him.
But this shop was different. It was a very specialized store – bicycles and parts – and nice bikes, the ones that cost more than the $75 that Walmart™ wants for a Huffy© with “some assembly required.” It just so happened I was going through a biking phase, so I was gearing up. One day, I got a package that I’d ordered from Amazon™ – I noticed that this small package (bicycle stuff) had come from the local retailer.
I thought to myself, “That’s weird. Not as weird as a badger wearing underwear and lip gloss, but it’s not Saturday night yet, either.”
I did find two badgers in a U-Haul® once and called the ranger. “Are they moving?” he asked. “Maybe. I guess that would explain the U-Haul®,” I replied.
I walked in there since I’d bought my bike from him and asked the owner what was up. About the bikes, not the badgers. I don’t think anyone can explain the badgers except people over at the military base, and they’re not talking.
The owner explained his business model to me. It turned out that he did very little business locally. What he had done was to build a small niche business selling specialty bike stuff on Amazon©. Even though his merchandise was branded by non-Chinese makers, he bought it in bulk from China and sold it via Amazon®.
“I even sell some of it back to customers in China,” he laughed.
Then one day, Amazon© changed (in some fashion, I’m not aware of the details) the terms of the deal. Within six months the shop was closed. Within a year, he was divorced and had sold his house and had left to wander and find rights to wrong, or wrongs to write. Or something. I kinda got bored after he kept wanting me to snatch a pebble from his hand and stopped listening.
The six or so employees? Also gone. Not dead. Just had to find new jobs, like looking for stuff in barns. Side question – where did barn owls sleep before we invented barns?
The entire business gone – all with one, simple rule change.
Is there freedom of speech in Canada? Sure, but if the government doesn’t agree with you, there won’t be freedom after speech.
Canada made a simple rule change, too. They suspended the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. They decided that if you disagreed with them politically, you could have your money frozen. I’d use the word “stolen” but it’s not clear that’s the case yet. Of course, like any breaking news in the land of the Internet, take every story you see below with a grain of salt.
I knew Trudeau had a fixation on single moms, but this is ridiculous:
And they can shut down your life nearly immediately:
The idea is clear, though. Just like that small businessman in Modern Mayberry, one tiny rule change can make everything go away. In this case, of course, the rule change wasn’t tiny. It allows banks to shut down the accounts of those people who try to get all their money.
And for what crime? Giving (in some cases) token amounts to the Truckers Who Honked. A $50 donation, made before the emergency act, before it was “illegal” resulted in all of her cash being (at least for now) forfeit.
To be clear, if the government can do that with a stroke of a pen, is it really your money? Thankfully, though the Canadian government is taking a stand against tyranny. In Ukraine:
Roses are red, sorry for the hypocrisy, we’ve just updated our foreign policy.
There was a push a while back for what’s called “Universal Basic Income.” The idea that everyone would get a check each month for breathing. Think the government would manipulate that to manipulate you?
Nah, no danger in with this, right?
It gets worse. It turns out that this is, by far, the biggest dream that Leftists have had since, well, forever. Let’s hear it straight from one of them on Plebbit® (Reddit©). . . .
This is what they admit that they want to do to those who don’t follow their dictates. They admit this in public. The poet and well-known philosophizer Samuel Hyde perhaps said it best:
And there’s certainly no danger and nothing you’d have to prepare for with this new government change, is there?
