Comments by "XSportSeeker" (@XSpImmaLion) on "Canada’s 'True' Queen is a QAnon Influencer | Alternate Reality" video.
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And this woman, somehow, still isn't arrested? Plus all of her followers? Yes, she is a cult leader. Extreme cults don't necessarily have to follow a religious structure, because it's not a religion that is at fault for most cults, it's just the structure of power, often for exploitation.
You know what the real problem in modern democracies is? Permissiveness. Or an extreme lack of clarity in boundaries.
It's reflected perfectly by people who justify their actions by claiming "freedoms" of the countries they are living in.
I think this loaded word is a huge problem, but perhaps now it's just too late to change it to something else.
What democracies need to educate, enforce, and make sure every citizen understand is that these supposed freedoms democracies have, do not equate to anarchy or chaos. It's not a free for all, nor a free for anyone in particular.
The freedoms you have is a guarantee that the state gives you under certain conditions and certain obligations. It was created in a scenario where countries had classes of people who didn't have access to basic human rights or even were considered humans at all.
It's a social contract, it's not something pulled out of thin air. It is not to be considered sacred, immortal, or permanent too. A social contract still is dependent on you doing your side and the government doing theirs. And one of the dangers of this constant abuse and testing of waters that these lunatics are doing is to have freedoms taken away once again so we can restructure society.
People need to understand the concept of democratic freedoms better so we can preserve them.
Freedom of press and freedom of speech should never be freedom of responsibilization or freedom to commit crimes. This should, and I believe, will at some point need to be made abundantly clear so that we stop these abuses. Freedom of speech in modern democracies should never include freedom to incite violence against others, freedom to threat the safety of others, freedom to question government and authority without proof for it (aka libel). Libel laws for democratic institutions needs to be made stronger, more enforceable, and more strict.
And the most important part of those freedoms is somehow always left aside, which is that your freedoms end where mine begins. Your entitlement to freedom cannot ever be at the cost of violating the freedom of others.
Because thinking of freedom as an absolute concept that respect no rules, what that is really called is violence. If the mentality you have is that you can do whatever you want because freedom, then what you really have in mind is not freedom, it's violence, it's having your way by force, ignoring those around you, and doing it at any cost.
I'll say even more on this subject. Anyone, specially this so called "queen", who attempts against a democratically elected government, governmental institutions and rules established by a democratically elected justice, should be considered a traitor by definition, and criminally prosecuted for it, together with all of her followers taking any sort of supportive action. I'm not kidding here, that's what is needed to be done to preserve democracies.
And this is only the beginning of her criminal charges.
Depending on the level of action, her statements, her incitement to violence, and what she is telling her followers to do, I'd personally upgrade her status to full blown domestic terrorist, with a dangerous domestic terrorist group, that should immediately be arrested and prosecuted.
I'd go so far as saying that citizen action might be necessary for those cases, so they don't get strictly limited to police or intelligence action. These groups are dangerous, and they need to be dealt with as fast as possible, else we let them become like so many huge cults making several victims every single day worldwide.
This is a problem that all democracies around the world need to work better, faster and with way more dedication to stop.
And this is going through the base idea that yes, you are entitled to believe in whatever bullshit you may want to, but when your beliefs turn to action that affects anyone else other than yourself, then you have a responsibility as a citizen, as a person, as an individual towards the society you live in, that will have consequences for yourself.
We can deal with potential distortions and misuses of such concepts in a democratic way overtime, but things like this "queen" of Canada case cannot keep going like this.
Let me also just say that this also applies to QAnon, neo-nazi, a huge portion of the alt-right and other fringe groups. Because violence. Because this misrepresentation that freedom equates to violence. Because of it's anti-democratic structuring. Because it wants to autocratically enforce their beliefs by force and by use of violence. Because of how antithetical it is to a democratic system.
There needs to be extremely strong and visible action that such things are not allowed in modern democracies, even at the risk of looking like autocratic actions in the eyes of such extremists, because democracy needs it's own defenses too much like any other form of government. And the only way we can really spread the democratic ideals in fast response to this explosive growth in authoritarian thinking, is by setting visible examples up.
I am very much of the opinion that modern democracies need to be reformed to strengthen it's defenses. It's because the defenses we currently have are all ill fit to modern times. The structures we had on communications, information, the shape of the social strata, values, ideals, cultures, psychology of the masses, and all sorts of things are undergoing a very deep transformation that is putting several pillars of democracy at risk. If the system of government does not adapt to the changes society is going through, we're once again at the risk of it getting the system toppled over.
I really hope we don't need a full change of system that will need to go through a bloody revolution to understand this. We grew too used and too accommodated with the idea of democracy always being there to protect us. But it's not a guarantee any longer. There needs to be real action to keep it going.
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