A note from a friend and the importance of The 3.5% Rule
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I friend of mine, living in Victoria (Australia), recently wrote the following. Shared with permission.
Our situation
Where to begin…. it’s been a long time coming in so many ways.
Let me first talk about the crossroad our country is at…we have as a society in one way or the other allowed ourselves to be herded into a position of complete dominance by Government. The indignities they have heaped upon us for the last 15-18 months are things we could not have dreamed of happening. Our democratic life has been usurped and we are now under totalitarian rule, without a shot being fired!
Just to underscore this, here is where we are at…
• Require Government permission to travel overseas
• Require Government permission to return if already overseas
• Are denied the right to freely travel within our own country, our own state and at times our own city or town
• Are denied freedom of association
• Are denied rights to visit, console and even bury loved ones
• Are denied the right to work
• Are denied the right to education
• Are denied the right to move beyond our local area
• Are denied the right to play organised sport
• Are denied the right to play, interact and generally socialise with whom we choose and when
• Are denied the right to freely worship at our chosen church/synagogue/temple or mosque as and when we choose
• Are required to register our attendance AT ALL LOCATIONS THAT ARE NOT OUR HOME
• Are required to wear a face mask that provides zero protection and most likely caused more harm than good
• Our Police Services are being co-opted as a tool of the ruling party as opposed to a service sworn to protect the people and uphold the rule of law
• Our elected politicians have abrogated their mandates to govern for all people and have passed power to health bureaucrats or police commanders in a way never intended or envisaged under the legislative Acts they are using to do so
• Our institutions and major businesses have sat idly by ignoring the trampling of our rights without a whimper
• Are being scared, shamed, talked down to and disproportionally misgoverned at State and Federal level
• Are ignoring the genuine health and wellbeing damage being caused in the community for non-covid matters
• Are being mandated to take an experimental treatment misnamed as a vaccine to work in certain industries, despite genuine concerns not only of its safety but of its efficacy to do the job it is purported to be designed to do
• Are being cajoled, shamed, coerced, and bullied into taking the above experimental treatment
• Are being denied the opportunity to take treatments that have proven to be safe if not totally effective for the treatment and prevention of Covid
THIS IS NOT THE AUSTRALIA I GREW UP IN, WORKED HARD TO GET AHEAD IN, PROUDLY PRESENTED MY PASSPORT FROM, GLEEFULLY BROUGHT MY CHILDREN INTO AND WELCOMED PEOPLE FROM AROUND THE GLOBE TO JOIN ME IN CALLING THIS OUR HOME.
MOREOVER, OUR CURRENT SITUATION IS NOT THE TYPE OF COUNTRY I WISH UPON MY CHILDREN OR THEIR CHILDREN AND I AM DETERMINED TO DO ALL IN MY POWER TO STOP THIS WHILST I STILL HAVE A BEATING HEART. THE LEGACY OF MY PARENTS AND THE GENERATIONS WHO WENT BEFORE US, WHO SACRIFICED LIFE AND LIMB TO ENSURE THOSE FREEDOMS ARE DESERVNG OF NOTHING LESS.
The political class and media have done a sterling job of creating an environment of fear in the community (this is globally not just in Australia) and it is apparent to me this has created a Collective Psychosis.
None of what is happening makes any sense on medical or logical risk management grounds…NONE of it.
This is the same type of group think/psychosis that facilitated the Nazi regime co-opting the German people into actively participating at worst and idly burying their heads in the sand at best as millions of Jews, Gypsies, Slavs, homosexuals, intellectually or physically disabled people or those of differing political opinions were first ostracised, corralled into ghettos, enslaved in industrial production, and then ultimately exterminated in death camps.
Similar fear and propaganda have been the hallmarks of every totalitarian regime in the history of the world…in the 20thCentury alone this has been the M.O. of Stalin (USSR), Mao (CCP), Franco (Spain), Pol Pot (Cambodia), Castro (Cuba) etc etc.
On Friday last week I had a lengthy meeting with like-minded people to start to plan ways and means of waking people up to the tyranny we are facing…this is not an easy task nor is it one that has any guarantee of success, but it is a fight we know must be had.
This is a fight I am willing to risk all for as if we cannot reverse this now, all will be lost anyway. If not us, then who???
Evil only ever triumphs when good people look the other way.
Well said sir!
Something has to be done, and the cavalry is not coming. We are it. Just hoping that you can vote for the other guy, and you will get all your freedoms back will not work this time.
Which brings us to the 3.5% Rule
Here are 3 highlights from this article on the effectiveness of civil disobedience and non-violent campaigns
The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world
Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change.
It takes around 3.5% of the population actively participating in the protests to ensure serious political change.
“Numbers really matter for building power in ways that can really pose a serious challenge or threat to entrenched authorities or occupations,” Chenoweth says – and nonviolent protest seems to be the best way to get that widespread support. Once around 3.5% of the whole population has begun to participate actively, success appears to be inevitable.