While you may find my reasons for writing this letter unusual, I am sending it because I trust you to give me the benefit of the doubt when I begin by asserting: Every one of us must begin now to actively work to protect our inherent, inalienable human rights or reconcile ourselves to their extinction—yes, ceasing to exist as fully human beings—within a few more generations.
The extinction would not result from environmental damage caused by humans, or from collision of an asteroid with earth, or even from nuclear war—though these threats do exist. Rather, accumulating evidence points to a more dire and urgent danger, the imminent extinction of our ability to assert our inherent, inalienable human rights. This threat of extinction has been made possible by widespread learned tolerance of deliberate and persistent human rights violations over many decades. However, with the latest crisis acting as catalyst and cover, this threat has risen to an extreme level. Whether aware of this or not, almost every person on earth has recently witnessed outright criminal misuse of advanced technology.
Human rights violators, while always present in society, now openly use their powerful technological advantages, enabled by vast accumulations of wealth, to increase their grip on the minds of good people: by the minute, by the hour, by the day. They act in the guise of providing services and supportive goals for the good of all people. However, their underlying purpose, solidified long ago and incrementally implemented over the decades, includes directing and managing the “world’s population,” into a future they, not the people, have envisioned; a future they, not the people, will control.
One purpose the human rights violators share, other than a lust for power, includes gaining control of ever more of the world’s true wealth, its resources—farmland, grazing land, mineral sources, and water sources, all vital to human existence. Eerily, using abusive and intrusive technology, this alliance of human rights violators can now beam consistent and persistent propaganda to almost every corner of the world, while also collecting vast amounts of data about individual behavior and personal lives, creating a reach far beyond mere print, telegram, radio, movies, telephone, or television.
By this means of the internet and its companion devices—all great forces for good when not controlled or managed by those with deep conflicts of interest—human rights criminals have almost succeeded in teaching human beings to accept being controlled. These criminals have almost succeeded in convincing people to relinquish independent thoughts and principle-based deeds to the intimidating and directing force of this “higher” unseen power.
These control mechanisms, disguised as terms of some “benevolent” social contract from which good people cannot withdraw, have proven to be deadly—to our bodies, to our minds, and to our spirits. If we continue to permit ourselves to be stripped of our inalienable human rights, we will eventually lose all power to direct and protect our own communities, properties, and the vital resources we rely upon. If we lose this power, we will lose the power to help determine our own fates through good and productive actions and wise stewardship. Eventually, or maybe even sooner than we could imagine, we will lose the power to sustain ourselves and our neighbors, having lost direct access to our own resources, finding them suddenly placed behind impenetrable “pay walls.”
As human beings, we stand at a crossroads.
One path leads toward technology-enabled domination of our persons and our lives, by enormous corporations allied with secretive governments, “charitable” foundations of dubious virtue, and self-appointed “thought leaders” with outsized wealth and influence. These combined forces have begun a process of attempting to persuade the people of the world to willingly accept a powerful system designed to manage people from cradle to grave.
In some parts of China, the government, in conjunction with commercial entities, has constructed a massive human surveillance and control system, which presumably will continue expanding, barring a miracle rejection by huge numbers of people. In some areas the system has the capability to rapidly locate anyone, based on a facial image, within its tight net containing millions of cameras and sensors. The visual surveillance system, in combination with commercial, financial, and judicial systems, tracks the behaviors, interactions, movements, and purchases of individuals. The commercial entity or government agency then issues or subtracts social credits based upon its determination of the appropriateness of the person’s behavior across a range of areas, as a means of social control. These social credits control a person’s access to “rights” within the society. This itself violates the human rights of every person subjected to such a system, as does the intrusive degree of surveillance. However, many naively welcome the increased “order” they believe it adds to society, failing to recognize its inherently abusive nature.
Alas, many people of the world have been born into and lived entire lives without experiencing autonomy, privacy, and the independence of thought on which human creativity and human-friendly innovation depend. Many have also been impaired by extreme poverty, another reason developing human-focused thought, dedicated to empowering people to be free and self-sufficient, remains essential.
One particular coalition of human rights usurpers and violators have existed as various non-governmental (NGO) policy-oriented organizations for many decades. Their topical areas of focus include population and resource control and management but placed under the mantle of philanthropy—health and economic welfare and environmental protection. These groups have established ties in many countries of the world. An organization perhaps extending the reach of the NGOs, the Commonwealth of Nations, consists of former British dependencies who have “chosen to maintain ties of friendship and practical cooperation and who acknowledge the British monarch as symbolic head.” I will list all of them to help make clear the reach of any policies these groups might implement: United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Ghana, Malaysia, Nigeria, Cyprus, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, Kenya, Malawi, Malta, Zambia, The Gambia, Singapore, Guyana, Botswana, Lesotho, Barbados, Mauritius, Nauru, Swaziland, Tonga, Samoa, Fiji, Bangladesh, The Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, Seychelles, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Dominica, Kiribati, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Vanuatu, Belize, Antigua and Barbuda, Maldives, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Brunei, Namibia, Cameroon, Mozambique, Rwanda.
Currently, members of these elite policy-making groups may be found in the International Monetary Fund, The World Bank, and The World Economic Forum, among other groups. Much of the time, they place evidence of their intentions in plain sight, presumably as one element of their propaganda. See Klaus Schwab’s recently published book COVID-19: The Great Reset and other “future shaping” plans published by Schwab’s World Economic Forum (WEF). Many of these ideas have been around for ages but get redesigned to take advantage of current times and current crises.
Also, to further understand the forces determined to place most of humanity into a total control and surveillance net, akin to the developing system in China but with tweaks to make it more “palatable,” it pays to examine the “future shaping” projects of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and of the Rockefeller Foundation. The underlying agenda of these “charitable” foundations aligns with those of the elite NGOs. Many great researchers have spent years attempting to expose these groups, which, while pretending to have the best-interests of the average person at heart, continue actively working to undermine the most meaningful elements of human life. Chief among these would be private property ownership and self-sufficiency—the ability to access clean water and fertile land and to grow or raise food, and to keep the fruits of one’s labor as well as benefit from the excess by selling or sharing it. If you read the WEF plans for our future, they include weakening private property ownership and “urging” people into carefully managed smart cities. Please review the WEF website yourself for greater detail.
The other path, the one leading away from technology-enabled domination, the one still open to us, leads to a human-centered, human- and nature-friendly society, with operating principles rooted in protection of inalienable human rights. Such a society would include continued individual private property ownership and shared direct stewardship of public resources. Of course, such a society would be free to use and advance technology—digital, biologic, genetic and other tools—but subject to stringent openness, allowing for public review and enforcement of appropriate limits, such as informed consent, personal privacy, and strict containment of other potential abuses and harms.
I and many others sense the people of the world being pushed rapidly down a path leading into the maw of a Leviathan. This monster, comprised of an alliance of extremely wealthy and connected individuals with corrupt corporate, governmental, “charitable,” and non-governmental organizations (NGOs, such as WEF), has thus far succeeded in increasing its power, by deliberately demoralizing many human beings through repeated financial crises and incessant propaganda, sapping people’s strength and will to protect their own dignity and right to live in freedom, peace, and financial security. The monster has done this, culminating in the current crisis, to prepare humankind to accept and even welcome The Great Reset, referenced above, which, while seeming to be benevolent and offer security, will undermine human autonomy and self-sufficiency. This Reset will, sooner or later, be imposed upon the world without the consent of the people, unless we protect ourselves, starting now, by sending a resounding: No!
Every human being has inherent, inalienable rights to live without subjection to constant coercion and violation from other entities or persons. Every human being has an inherent right to autonomy and to respect. The only requirement of each person is a recognition of and consistent respect for the human rights of others. Authentic and legitimate “laws” and “governments” exist for the sole purpose of protecting inherent, inalienable human rights, while also helping people work together in peaceful, well-functioning societies, which contribute to every person’s well-being and to vibrant cultures.
Before reading further, please take a moment to read or re-read the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, sponsored by the United Nations in 1948. As you read, please consider the events of the last eight months. The words of this Declaration serve to highlight the extreme human rights violations the world’s leaders have perpetrated and continue to perpetrate upon billions of good people, in the name of protecting public health and safety.
Standing as we do at this crossroads, we will either continue being complicit in permitting further imposition of a world and societies devoid of human rights’ protections, as The Great Reset portends, or we will choose to be actively involved in building a world and societies dedicated to protecting human rights, including human autonomy and individual privacy and private property.
It may be worth noting here one of my favorite independent journalists, Caitlin Johnstone, who has been trying for years to help people see beyond the illusions created to keep us compliant, opined upon her surprise at seeing so many suddenly wake up to a sense of urgency since the widespread imposition of public safety despotism. Caitlin, who calls herself a “bogan socialist,” which I take to mean a regular gal who wants working class people to have half a chance, has a Buddhist-rooted and wise long view, which recognizes we do need to awaken but we must not kill ourselves trying. One can try too hard to force a change. I believe her point may be valuable: change must be organic, take root, and slowly grow into existence. Meanwhile, people like me feel an urgency, which may be necessary to motivate some of us to take the risk of speaking out and necessary to make an impression on others. But the actual change will take more time. We must expect it to take time and meanwhile live our lives and take heart, not despair.
We could easily despair at the number of obstacles humanity currently faces, but we must not. Instead, we must realize protecting our human rights depends upon our ability to join together in an intelligent, persistent, and peaceful effort. If enough people from all walks of life, from various philosophies, from all over the world come together, we can protect our rights from further intrusions and violations and establish a framework to consistently protect the people of the world now, as well as future generations.
This crisis has presented a unique opportunity to identify the true allies of human rights among our leaders. These people will help connect us and show the way forward. Accomplishing a project of this scale will require concerted and persistent effort, perhaps the rest of my life, and of your life, long-term effort from billions of people who refuse to give up on each other. If we fail, we fail the future of humankind. We must find a way to succeed.
The first step would be to imagine a world in which we make use of technology, but in which we never again permit technology to encroach upon or violate human rights—the inherent rights which make our lives worth living. Of course, it would take many people working together to build such a protective framework, but I believe it can and must be done. I am guessing some people and groups have already done a tremendous amount of work toward trying to rein in technology and keep it human-friendly, so a second step would be to identify those people or groups working FOR and not against humankind and ally ourselves with them.
My CRUDE outline of the basics for a better world includes:
(1) Development of human-friendly, privacy-protecting digital tools, with full openness and accountability required by their creators, manufacturers, and communications systems operators, and others involved in their functioning. Additionally, these tools and their users would undergo regular independent review and public reporting, for every corporation, charitable foundation, government entity, and associated entity of any kind. This matters because of the unique and almost limitless inherent power of digital, biologic, and yet to be invented data collection or transmission devices to potentially violate human rights. As we know, these technologies currently hold inordinate power—to censor, to influence, to monitor, to track, to collect information—over the human user or possessor, power over which we have ever-lessening control. Humans, therefore, must insist upon retaining control over the power of any technology to alter, collect, control, monitor, record, or transmit information of any kind associated with human persons, property, or surroundings we inhabit or move through, regardless of the means collected.
(2) Agreement to a total prohibition of forced or coerced medical or pharmaceutical interventions, bodily invasions by biometric scanners, implanted devices (digital or biologic), or any other technology designed to collect, monitor, and, or transmit biological or other information from a human being’s body or mind, or designed in any way to control or interfere with human brain waves, thoughts, biological systems, or other human behaviors. The agreement to a total prohibition of forced or coerced reporting to any entity regarding a human being’s personal health, mental health, or medical condition or regarding the human being’s related perceptions. The agreement to a total prohibition of forced or coerced release of detailed medical records to a central database.
(3) Agreement to total openness and regular review, as described in item (1), respecting any voluntary invasions or implantations of the human person, to ensure only ethical and humane uses of technology, including in other animals, and including in the structures we inhabit, in our natural environment, in public spaces, and within the other tools we use, such as our appliances, devices, and vehicles, among other applications.
(4) Development of persistent protection of all human rights from violations enabled by any technology, including through biologic or genetic modification techniques or related techniques yet to be developed. This would, therefore, include a complete ban on restrictions or burdens being imposed upon any human being for choosing to opt out of any and all personal data collection programs, implanted, environmental, or administrative, even those intended or used for medical or security reasons. Furthermore, this would include a complete ban on genetically modified organisms or otherwise engineered devices (such as nanoparticles and nanobots), which through their use, have potential to affect persons who have not given consent. For example, this ban would include the release and use of genetically modified mosquitoes or vaccines or other products designed to alter human or animal cells, which cannot be reliably contained or could knowingly or unwittingly be shed or be spread. Organized monitoring and exposure of entities suspected of violating the ban or restrictions would be essential. Development of benevolent tools to protect human beings against malicious construction and use of banned or restricted technologies would also be essential. The idea would be to avoid needlessly infringing on the rights of others to create and engineer while protecting innocent parties from being subject to life-altering technologies against their own interests or free will.
(5) Recognition of the right of human beings to exist and interact in their biologically natural states, meaning they may at times shed and possibly transmit natural pathogens or adapted pathogens to one another. Recognition of the beauty and power of the human immune system in maintaining human health and well-being. Recognition human immune systems function optimally with regular mild exposure to challenges. Recognition most infectious illness can be remedied through immune response or early medical treatment when needed. Finally, following the long tradition of human culture, recognition of the right of the vulnerable to choose their own acceptable degrees of exposure and risk, at any given time, and to never be isolated against their will, while also recognizing they retain the power to shape their personal environments within reasonable limits, but may not violate the human rights of others as a means of shaping public or shared environments.
(6) Creation of an effective movement to end to all secrecy regarding the functioning of any entity or person—administrative, executive, legislative, judicial, military, corporate, or private—holding any power to or contributing to use of coercion or force to place a burden upon another person or persons, for any reason. This would include de facto coercion through compliance-related privileges, involving employment, travel, or other significant element of life. This open means of operating society would require ongoing review of the justification for any act or mandate or order or law in itself a violation of a human right. It would also require an extremely high bar for coercive demands upon people, placing all preferences upon non-coercive, non-violent, principled means to accomplish goals. This would not be license for people to invade the private affairs of families; however, people would be encouraged to follow the same principles with family members but making allowances for the existence of familial duties and the need for parents to have authority over their children as a means of guiding and protecting them.
(7) Dedication to building honest, compassionate, non-coercive, and open ways of organizing communities and societies firmly committed to protecting human rights through principled actions and full accountability at all times, even, especially, in times of crisis. The impositions and violations of human rights lately encountered by most people of the world, such as lockdowns, restrictions on operations of businesses and institutions, travel restrictions, forced isolations, forced quarantines, forced distancing, forced testing, and mask mandates, would be abhorred by all, knowing more humane solutions could be found and voluntarily agreed upon. A society built upon protection of human rights also includes a deep commitment to humane, and respectful stewardship of animals, nature, and shared resources, such as air, sunlight, water, public land, airwaves, and other aspects of the natural environment, including spaces and places beyond the earth, the modifications of which could adversely affect the lives of human beings.
I’ve been thinking about all of this because of my deep concerns about the widespread disregard for inalienable human rights we have all witnessed throughout these last eight months. Many people of the world, including in our own country, in the name of public safety, have been and continue to be subjected to barbaric, callous, and sadistic restrictions and other intrusions.
Only a few countries in the world and a few states in the US have put human rights ahead of perceived safety and tempered their actions with reason, some to a greater extent than others. For a while, I felt overwhelmed with sadness for all we humans have lost so swiftly, and for all we will continue to lose in the coming years. However, after letting myself feel the loss, deeply, I have decided to channel my sadness into helping shape a better world going forward, but NOT in “Great Reset” fashion.
To the contrary, I want to help others understand the power of using the principles of inalienable human rights to guide human action in all of its forms. A world and societies built on protecting human rights would not, could not, permit top-down control or management of people for any reason, not even for so-called common good or “safety,” because such impositions inherently violate human rights. Therefore, a world devoted to protecting human rights and humane societies would move away from homogenization and central planning and toward diversity and creative collaborations.
Every single safety or health concern or other widespread problem people face can be addressed while also adhering to the principles of human rights. Each time people permit authorities to deny this fact and to violate their human rights in the name of public safety or “national defense,” we take another collective step down the path to totalitarianism. Each time people insist upon solutions which never violate human rights, we take a big step towards humanitarianism.
The world and societies I envision protect human rights no matter what, place them first, and allow human beings the freedom to grow and thrive in diverse communities without constant intrusions and invasions made in the name of the common good, safety, or security. This world and these societies would not be desolate, denuded, or destitute. This is because when people live by good principles they become good people. They build communities and strive to take care of each other, naturally, as well as of their property and of the environment. The only people who do not want to even consider a more humane way forward or to understand how it could work, will most likely be either fearful and traumatized people who need help healing, or the people who willfully choose to violate human rights because of their greed or lust for power.
I trust you to believe me when I say my motives for writing to you bear no connection to electoral politics. I am no longer registered with any political party or effort. Furthermore, I am firmly committed to remaining non-partisan, though this does not mean certain politicians could not be considered allies on certain issues at certain times. I recognize billions of good people of the world will have to work together on this project to protect human rights. Politics as we know it today serves only to divide. I have an opposite goal of bringing people together. We need not agree upon every detail; however, I believe good people agree inalienable human rights need protecting, and building consensus around this idea means less use of coercion and force and a more humane and vibrant world for all. I am writing to connect with you, to bare my heart, mind, and soul for a good cause. I believe this is THE cause for these times and for many years ahead.
To be continued . . .
This is the work of happiness.
Kindred spirits, please share this far and wide!
Sources:
https://www.wired.com/story/china-social-credit-score-system/
https://time.com/collection/davos-2019/5502592/china-social-credit-score/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/china-social-credit-system-surveillance-cameras/
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Commonwealth-association-of-states
https://www.imf.org/en/countries
https://www.weforum.org/great-reset
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/06/now-is-the-time-for-a-great-reset/
https://www.gatesfoundation.org/
https://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/index.html
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