Comments by "Itinerant Patriot" (@itinerantpatriot1196) on "" video.

  1. COVID showed the powers-that-be how pliable we have become over the past few decades. And in the digital world, with everyone hooked to the big brain, enforcement is that much easier. But here's the rub, someone has to do the enforcing at the ground level. The trains to Auschwitz didn't run by themselves. Stalin was an effective dictator because he was a bureaucrat and he looked at the world through a bureaucratic lens. When police in London arrest a woman for the crime of praying to herself near an abortion clinic they know it's fundamentally wrong, but they are more concerned with self-interest than moral imperatives. There is a scene in the film Judgement at Nuremberg where the defense attorney asks one of the judges who is testifying against his former colleagues why he didn't do more than simply resign his post in 1935 and why he signed an oath of allegiance to Hitler in 1934. He basically got the guy to admit he was more concerned with protecting his pension than he was in protecting the innocent. It's not dictators who kill the people, it's middle-managers and the street-level enforcers. All in the name of self-interest. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for self-interest, to a point. And you know when that point is reached. You don't need someone else's example to follow. You know right and wrong. But how many actually have the courage to stand on their own convictions? I'd like to think I do but I'll admit I took the damned shot, but not because I was afraid of any virus. I just didn't want to be hassled. Shame on me I suppose. Silence may make cowards of us all, but lies are loud and the truth is quiet. How many people can are willing to compete with noise, especially when the truth is quiet? Inquiring minds want to know. How did Brad Pitt put in in the film Twelve Monkeys: "There is no right or wrong, there's only popular opinion." Hard to argue with that. Just sayin.
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  2.  @Motor0oola  At the time I was doing contract work the government and after biden issued his vaccination edict the agencies and departments I was working with wanted proof you got the shot. The fact I was a remote worker didn't matter. I could have fought it, probably should have fought it, but I was midway through some projects and it was easier to just get the jab. I was also flying a lot in conjunction with my work and the airlines were getting in on the act as well.
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