Does People Power Exist?

Yes, but not in the way you might think.

People Power?

The ‘Freedom Community’ has always existed, but has grown rapidly in recent years. A common theme among these movements has been that groups can form and gather power, which would afford themselves the chance to make demands on others. The demands made recently have varied. Here are some which I have observed:

• Stop discriminating in the workplace based on health status

• Stop censorhsip in mainstream media

• Stop using authoritarian measures on populations in the name of health

• Investigate and punish those who profited from or perpetrated recent abuses

• Use the recent disrupted times to find and praise god/organised religion

• Sack them all

• Stop Central Bank Digital Currencies

• Cease actively harming people via jab or mask

• Stop robbing ordinary people via inflation

• Free Julian Assange

A few movements have progressed to more specific demands, but we are a long way from “deciding what we should collectively do with these guilty criminals.” And yet, there is a little sniff of that in the air, as the overwhelming evidence of 3 years of global crimes against humanity permeate the sand in which many still have their heads. This is why the freedom fighters have made such a big deal of recent calls for ‘covid amnesty’.

What would we do with power?

Hence, it is time to consider afresh what it really means that we differentiate murder with manslaughter, or that a defendant can plead insanity. It means we aim to blame people less depending on the circumstances surrounding their crime. I want this to be widespread. If I ever accidentally hurt someone, I’d like the chance to continue spending time with my family afterwards. Imprisoning me would achieve nothing.

Similarly, we appear to gain little collective benefit by charging the deceived parent of a vaccine injured child with abuse, or by putting a 10 year old who unwittingly burns a forest in prison, or by insisting on overly harsh reparations from Germany after World War I.

So do we really need to get widespread confessions, apologies, reparations for the Covid crimes?

After all, according to the letter of the laws which were ignored during the plandemic, pretty much every citizen is guilty of some combination of child abuse, discrimination, negligence, treason, arbitrary imprisonment, dereliction of duty of care, genetic experimentation without permission, abuse, neglect, assault, fraud, and more. It would seem unreasonable to attempt to bring charges against so many.

Many people have pointed to the Nuremburg Code, and related criminal charges/capital punishments. If the claim is that by hanging those guilty of war-crimes we set an example, then this must be taken in the context that the vast majority of war criminals were highly sought after commodities who never suffered any consequences for their actions. If Nazi scientists who experimented on babies can be spared, I hope my deluded high school friends who experimented on their babies can also be spared.

The sad fact is that sweeping ‘justice’ often takes the form of atrocities. Yes, I am scathing of my leaders, friends, neighbours and family who persecuted, discriminated, conducted harmful genetic expriments on unwilling people, assaulted, lied, cheated, stole, supported tyrants or became petty versions themselves. But I do not think there is a realistic form of trial or punishment available. I do not want a repeat of the Cultural Revolution or Rwandan Genocide. Conversely, I have no idea whether I have it in me to forgive and move on - I may never even find out while apologies are such an endangered species and if my forgiveness continues to be an unvalued commodity.

People in positions of responsibility have definitely not sought forgiveness so far, and I definitely do not forgive this group. After all, if we are differentiating due to the circumstances, this works both ways, and the circumstances of seeking out responsibility for other’s welfare - then using that to enrich yourself at the direct expense of those who trusted you - are particularly heinous. Yet this, also, means little. While I think it is a worthy dream to have true equality and fairness, you and I will likely have to join the ranks of everyone else in history who failed to get any accountability at all from the rich, powerful, elite, corrupt. Think I’m too negative? Dick Cheney is still not in prison, let alone Scott Morrison.

Real People Power is not the power we want, but is the power we truly have.

This is where the 'white pill' analogy comes in. There are no institutions which will hold anyone responsible. I mean, they exist, but have been captured or proven inept almost univerally. If new institutions rise up, they too will become less trustworthy the more they gain trust. Power corrupts and ‘People Power’ in any form would be no exception. We either succeed in ‘freedom & truth’ on our own personal terms or we are forever assuming the role of the victim. Our numbers and resources are few, and our values are diverse - resulting in considerable disunity in the ‘resistance’ movement. Change, genuine and long lasting, is largely out of our hands. Widespread confessions, reparations, apologies are highly unlikely. If they do eventuate, it will likely be from a combination of forces, systems and interactions within which a single person has no sway. I agree with the older Naomi Klein on this at least - that individuals have no real power to shape the modern world. Claims otherwise are false hopes. Perhaps more importantly, I also agree with the spiritual gurus - that individuals have immense power to shape the landscape within, and to make sure our actions or our attempts to steer groups resonate with higher values. Though I’m currently failing, I know that this will eventually have to include forgiveness, tolerance or acceptance even for those who show no remorse. As Ghandi says, “An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind”.