“Totalitarianism as a social manifestation is a disease of inter-human relations, and, like any other disease, man can best resist its corroding effects if, through knowledge and training, he is well immunized against it. …In the battle against this dread disease, social factors as well as personal ones play an important role…We aim to develop in our citizens a sense of self-responsibility, a willingness to confront the world as it is, and an ability to distinguish between right and wrong through their own feelings and thoughts. Such men and women are impelled to action by their personal moral standards rather than by what some outside group sets up as correct. They are unwilling to accept group evaluations immediately unless these coincide with their own personal convictions, or unless they have been able to discuss them in a democratic way. People like this are responsible to their communities because they are first responsible to themselves.” – Joost Merloo in The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing
Joost Meerloo was an M.D. and Ph.D. He survived the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands being put in prison. He escaped to England and later relocated to the US. He was decorated with the Distinguished Service Cross in 1943. The Rape of the Mind was his fourteenth book.
I saw this book quoted in the following video and picked up a copy immediately.
It’s time to call a spade a spade. We are fast entering into a global totalitarian state. Some countries, such as Australia, the main focus of this article, seem to be vying for first place.
How aware are you of what is occurring down under?
Australia was operating off of a “Zero Covid” policy, meaning they aimed to have zero Covid, doing whatever it took to do so. Recently they literally locked down millions of people over a single death. The policy, like all the government health policies, has failed. As with all lockdowns any end date is just kicked further out in the distance.
Even throughout the over year and a half of COVID, Australia has had a total of 1,076 deaths, from a total population of almost 26 million. That’s a 0.00414% death rate.
Ask yourself, is that worth all of the following?
Here’s a list of some of the rules imposed in different areas of Australia (compiled from here, here and here):
- People are barred from leaving the city except for “essential” purposes
- Arrivals include 14 day quarantine at quarantine camps
- People must apply for permits to enter Victoria and other places
- Travel from elsewhere in NSW to Victoria is not permitted, even for Victorian residents, unless you have been granted an exemption
- There is a curfew from 9pm to 5am in about 40% of Sydney
- Fines for travelling into Victoria without a permit, or in breach of the border bubble restrictions, are $5,452
- Essential workers attempting to enter from NSW must have had at least one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine
- You must stay within 5 kilometers of your home
- You can only travel in a car with other people you live with, with only a few exceptions
- Only 1 person per household may leave their home each day to shop for food or other goods and services
- You can exercise with 1 other person that you do not live with, or your nominated visitor (“singles bubble”). If you live with more than 2 other people, you can all go out together for exercise.
- You must carry proof of your address if you have left your home for a reasonable excuse or are exercising outdoors or have left your home for outdoor recreation. The cops may stop and ask about this at any time.
- Businesses that do not require employees to work from home if they are reasonably able to do so face a fine of up to $10,000 for corporations and $2,000 for individuals.
- You must wear a facemask indoors or in any public place.
- Gatherings are limited to two people. This means no church, no weddings, no funerals, no parties, nothing allowed.
- Most retail businesses are closed.
- People are encouraged to rat out on others breaking all of these rules.
This video gives a look at some of these in action.
Let’s just say for the sake of argument that Covid is as bad as many people think it is. Even if that was the case (and there are extremely compelling arguments that it is not) then I would be far more frightened by the totalitarian push going on!
The (totalitarian) cure is worse than the disease (Covid).
Here’s some deeper dives into what is going on…
Hypocrite Leaders
Of course, in any totalitarian state, it’s “rules for thee, not for me.”
Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison was able to fly home to Sydney to see his family, while others could not. He is, of course, “essential” and thus the rules don’t apply to him.
Meanwhile, many were stuck celebrating the day at a “wall” between states (because they couldn’t visit families across state lines). (Don’t forget that these gatherings would technically all be illegal as well.)
Everyone enjoy your Labor Day weekend. Cherish the time you get to spend with your family and friends. Do whatever makes you happy.
— 🤙🏻Lynae🌺 (@lynaem88) September 5, 2021
Because this is how Australians at the NSW/QLD border are forced to celebrate Father’s Day. pic.twitter.com/CjYI51SNKj
The Vaccinated Economy
The key point that many people don’t get is this is not about health but about reshaping economics and culture. Victoria’s Premier Daniel Andrews called it a “Vaccinated Economy”
“There is going to be a vaccinated economy, and you get to participate in that if you are vaccinated. We’re going to move to a situation where, to protect the health system, we are going to lock out people who are not vaccinated and can be…If you’re making the choice not to get vaccinated, then you’re making the wrong choice.”
And you will be punished, aka locked out, for not following the totalitarian dictates.
The vaccines are not about health but are about compliance, carrying the benefits of participating in society, a carrot for obedient citizens. After all the vaccines do not stop you from getting the disease nor transmitting it.
Choked for Not Wearing a Mask Outside
My argument has been that masks were about building up the compliance before the vaccines were out. No mask, no service is being transformed into no vaccine, no service.
If you get vaccinated you don’t need a mask…psyche! It’s only if 100% of people get vaccinated…psyche, even then the masks wouldn’t come off permanently. (After all, you can still get infected and transmit the virus even with the vaccines and masks.)
Here’s a chilling video from Melbourne.
You can listen to the heartfelt and frustrated ranting. But specifically I want to point you to what begins at the 1:10 mark as a cop begins choking a woman for not wearing a mask outside.
You can say that’s a horrible cop. Sure is! But lots of petty tyrants are being given the power to be violent towards the scapegoated.
Meerloo writes that totalitarian states “can provide official sanctions for the expression of man’s most antisocial impulses.”
Arrested for Protesting
Last week I shared the many examples of pushback that are occurring. Many Australians are out there as mentioned in last’s weeks Positive Pushback. This is despite the high costs!
Protestors are being arrested. In Austrailia it is a crime to protest. You can hear the fear in his voice starting about one hour, 19 minutes in.
And shouldn’t he be afraid? If the government is going full totalitarian, we’re not too many steps removed from people “disappearing” when the police come to take them away, are we?
Australia has been going after protestors for a while now, even people that just post about protests on social media! They have a detective strike force just for identifying and charging protestors.
Quarantine Camps
“In Totalitaria, jails and concentration camps by the score are built in order to provoke fear and awe among the population. They may be called ‘punishment’ or ‘correction’ camps, but this is only a cheap justification for the truth.” – Joost Meerloo
Meerloo wrote those words back in 1956. I’m guessing he’d be willing to add quarantine camps to that list.
For decades the “conspiracy theorists” have been talking about FEMA camps and the like that would be used to round up people. It’s never amounted to much…until now.
Right now, these quarantine camps seem humane enough. But when COVID ramps up this winter with the next big push, how long do you think that will remain?
I wrote that line but then came across this video…
This video purportedly from inside a camp has a quarantinee (aka prisoner) have their stay extending and is threatened “calm down or your gunna get fucking gassed.”
According this they’re locked in rooms for about fourteen days with nothing to do.
Is this humane treatment? If it really was about the virus, couldn’t these people just test negative without requiring 14 day mandatory stay?
(And yes, there are hints of this coming to the USA too. The CDC discusses the “shielding approach” and even a USA Today Fact Check labels the quarantine camps as real but of course whitewashes them.
Do you get it yet?
Australian Chief Health Offier Dr. Kerry Chant
Here’s a few quotes from this leading tyrant.
Dr Chant
— Razorback1111 (@razorback11111) August 30, 2021
“We need to get used to being vaccinated with covid vaccines for the future “ pic.twitter.com/WKkvfvDOE9
“We need to get used to being vaccinated with COVID vaccines for the future … I can’t see COVID is not going to be with us forever…Booster doses and repeat doses will be part of it.”
Once again, the vaccines were never meant to eradicate COVID. Instead it is an ongoing continuity program or pharmaceutical hamster wheel, for the physical and digital control that provides.
Imagine having all these procedures for the flu back in 2017 and you get an idea of how ludicrous these actions are.
Chant even told people not to talk to each other. “Whilst it’s human nature to engage in conversation with others — to be friendly — unfortunately this is not the time to do that. So even if you run into your next-door neighbor in the shopping center … don’t start up a conversation. Now is the time for minimizing your interactions with others, even if you’ve got a mask.”
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA.
— NoRisk_NoReward (@noreward_norisk) July 20, 2021
DON’T ACT LIKE A HUMAN. DON’T TALK TO YOUR FRIENDS, EVEN WHEN MASKED. DON’T BE FRIENDLY. THIS IS NOT THE TIME. pic.twitter.com/iiPgz2D8Bb
More recently she said, “We will be looking at what contact tracing looks like in the new world order.”
It’s interesting. By using that phrase all the normies think that all the conspiracies are even more kooky conspiracies. Just like The Great Reset was somehow a “conspiracy theory”, despite the book, website and more showing exactly how it was a plan to reshape the world. Good ol’ gaslighting.
So what does the NWO contact tracing will look like? Here’s a hint…
Digital Survellience
“And the government of South Australia, one of the country’s six states, developed and is now testing an app as Orwellian as any in the free world to enforce its quarantine rules. Returning travelers quarantining at home will be forced to download an app that combines facial recognition and geolocation. The state will text them at random times, and thereafter they will have 15 minutes to take a picture of their face in the location where they are supposed to be. Should they fail, the local police department will be sent to follow up in person,” reports the Atlantic.
That’s right! The new Home Quarantine SA app makes sure you’re at home or else they’ll send police.
So in the future your app can let you know you’ve come in contact with someone who’s infected then you can report to either home quarantine or the quarantine camp as they tell you to. Right now they’re sending cops. Soon enough drones or robo-dogs.
Just another step in your smart phone becoming your jailor.
It Will Escalate from Here
Someone accused me of hyperbole when mentioning kids being ripped out of parents hands.
Yet that is exactly hat is what this video shows starting at 6 seconds.
And if for some reason that is inaccurately labeled, which it may well be, with everything shown here it is clear that this is the direction things are moving in.
In other words, it will happen soon enough if it hasn’t already. Vaccine approval for children is not yet ready in most places but it’s obviously going to happen soon enough on current trajectories. (Cuba started vaccinating toddlers for Covid.)
New South Wales Health Minister Brad Hazzard discussed an event where 24,000 teenagers were vaccinated. The parents were told to “stay outside the arena.”
AUSTRALIA- 24,000 children will be vaccinated in a stadium next week. No parents will be allowed access.
— Elander’s Voice (@Elanders_Voice) August 16, 2021
Er…#COVID19 #CovidVic #NoVaccinePassports pic.twitter.com/TMGUOB2xwz
How soon until parents not vaccinating their children is deemed unfit and they must be separated? For the kids protection from their racist, white supremacist, Qanon, conspiracy theorist, antivaxxer, domestic terrorist parents of course!
How to Stand Up Against Totalitarianism
I hate sharing this stuff. It makes me sick. And I’m sorry that I’ve quite possibly ruined your day.
Still, I don’t know about you, but I’d rather be aware of what was happening then to have my head in a hole in the ground.
Totalitarianism happens inch by creeping inch.
Just look at the vaccine mandates, the linchpin to this whole thing. People weren’t told about boosters up front. Mandates just went from you can opt out for Federal workers to it now being mandatory. Mandates just went from suggested to necessary for employers with over 100 employees. Inch by creeping inch.
This is why the “conspiracy theorists” have been shouting for years. There’s a recognition of how bad things are and where they’re going. It was creeping inch by inch long before COVID was a household word.
It’s moving fast…but still has to go step by step. They can’t announce the they’re gassing the unvaccinated at quarantine camps anytime soon.
The propaganda confuses and confounds the normies, while the power hungry slide through what’s acceptable just a bit at a time.
It’s like that saying that I keep coming back to. When is the best time to plant a tree? 20 years ago!
What’s the next best time? Now.
The best way to stop totalitarians is to stop them 20 years ago, not when the plan is in action. The good news is they still have far to go…at least outside Australia.
Now’s the time to stand up and say no more.
Summon up the courage to do whatever you can do now. That’s all it takes. Enough people just doing what they can right now.
We Americans were privileged. We could opt out of paying attention to politics and the world. I know I did for many years.
But you reap what you harvest. The populous was propagandized. Those that recognized as such mostly opted out because they could. You could go on your life without being bothered too much.
Not any more.
There’s no more time to wonder. Now is the time to act. Now is the time to make our stand.
Make people aware of what is happening in Australia. Ask them, “Are you aware of what is happening in Australia?” Point them to this post if it helps.
Only the most fascist of people, the petty tyrants, when made aware of these facts, will agree with them. That is NOT most people.
If you’re in Australia…maybe it is time to get out. At least start thinking about it and planning for it. At what point should the Jews have fled Germany? At what point should the people have fled Guatemala before the death squads become a thing?
Remember the quote attributed to Edmund Burke…
“The Only Thing Necessary for the Triumph of Evil is that Good Men Do Nothing”
Act now…while the threat of being taken away by the police to quarantine camps does not yet exist. This has been a tactic of totalitarians all throughout history. And it could very well be our future unless we act to stop it now.
Do not give another inch.
And work with others to take back inch by inch our freedoms and rights. It is happening, and I’ll share more positive examples in the future.
Logan thank you so very very much for this article. For one thing this has been at the forefront of my mind now for so long that it’s almost driving me to insanity. It’s so very reassuring to know that other intelligent people see this, acknowledge it, and are spreading the truth. I lost my wife of 52 years recently and am thankful she will not experience this but I worry about my daughters and grandchildren and what an awful life they will have to endure. At 76 years old I am close to the end of my journey but I am consumed with anxiety for them.
Again thank you, and this is just one reason I will be a loyal customer of Lost Empire until the day I join my wife in the ground.
Btw Australia is an antigun country also. It is very hard if not impossible to obtain a firearm there. You can get a firearm in the US but you can’t find ammo for it. We can make millions of vaccines but not enough toilet paper, only certain types of food and clearly no ammo. We can pass some laws and mandates but we can’t fix roads or feed the people in real need. Don’t cigarettes, motor vehicles and cell phones kill more people than this pandemic? Where is the outrage and complete ban of those things?????????? Btw what is going in China as far as vaccines and the new “spread”.
Logan, thanks for posting man. Unfortunately it is not that easy to leave Australia at present as one must obtain permission from the federal government to do so. I believe that one of the qualifiers to leave is vaccination. Fortunately, I am based in Tasmania, which is not quite as fascist as NSW or VIC. However, I’m sure this will change in time. Unfortunately, my two oldest children are in NSW and are facing mandatory vaccination to be able to attend school. I never thought that I would see the day that fascism would return to this extreme and on a global scale.
Cheers mate.
Thanks for sharing. I’m glad that Tasmania is better off for now, but sorry about your kids. I hope things turn around!
I have been on to this since I was a teen… I just didn’t know it was above ground… I knew they were always nefarious and controlling everything… I just never thought it would effect day to day… once the NBA closed… I knew it was the beginning…. either
1. Something was drastically wrong and they didn’t know what to do or how to contain it
2. It was always part of the plan…
Either way… it wasn’t going to end well
I have hope that it can end well…eventually. But for that to happen there will be some major disruption. And that’s the good direction!
It most definitely WILL end well. When pushback starts, liberty will reign afterwards. At last, the true face of the god Authority is revealing itself. After this ends, and it won’t last long, people will realize they cannot abdicate their responsibilities to others and evade the consequences.