340 - Mailbox: "Cash Is king..."
Reader comment on article #337 - Situational realities: Cash. Digital currency and crime.
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Thanks to KiwiChic for writing in response to:
She writes:
“Cash IS king, even beyond the media induced fear porn threat of electrical blackouts.. at least for anyone who is even mildly concerned by the WEF's so called Great Reset.
Or even just for anyone who wants any degree of autonomy - because they sure as heck won't have any of that if we allow a wholly digitised monetary system to eradicate the use of cash.
I mean, ask yourself, is your social credit score going to be high enough that the government will grant you permission to spend on whatever you want? Or do you maybe just maybe eat a bit too much junk food? Drink a little bit too much wine? Drive too frequently (look at what they're trying to implement in Oxford as we speak)? Will big brother perhaps need to 'guide' you into 'correct' behaviour by way of restriction?
Personally I use cash as often as I can, I - like many others - boycott businesses that don't accept cash, and I applaud the people organising street protests over the loss of the use of cash (even if the MSM won't report on it).”
Thanks KiwiChic.
The key word here is “autonomy”. For those that are interested in self protection - pretty much anyone reading this - this word is probably at the centre of your inclination to train in the first place, whether consciously or not.
For those who say it isn’t, you are saying that you are happy to allow others to impose their will upon you and those important to you.
“Rob me, assault me, control me, whatever you want - I won’t fight back or say no”.
It is interesting to think that to coerce or control another person against their will is a criminal offence in the UK. The government states that this is including, but not limited to:
“(Controlling behaviour is) a range of acts designed to make a person subordinate and/or dependent by isolating them from sources of support, exploiting their resources and capacities for personal gain, depriving them of the means needed for independence, resistance and escape and regulating their everyday behaviour”
“substantial adverse effect on usual day-to-day activities' may include, but is not limited to:
Stopping or changing the way someone socialises
Physical or mental health deterioration
A change in routine at home including those associated with mealtimes or household chores
Attendance record at school
Putting in place measures at home to safeguard themselves or their children
Changes to work patterns, employment status or routes to work”.
This would also include limiting and controlling a person’s money, what they’re allowed to spend and where. What they are allowed to eat, drink. What activities have been decided are not acceptable for the abuser for whatever reason and so on.
But that of course is in the context of an interpersonal relationship and wouldn’t be relevant as a model for controlling .. keeping society “safe and secure”.
Digital currency is coming whether we want it or not. It will be sold as convenience and safety and will be applauded as it’s rolled out.
The agreements have already been made by whoever that guy is who’s prime minister this week, the dementia patient across the pond and his Orwellian neighbour to the north and others of their “ilk”.
Consider the situation of a totally digital and traceable system on the victim of partner control. Your phone calls, texts, purchases, daily movements checked and restrained already by your partner.
Cash would be one of the few things you could scrape together as part of an unmonitored escape plan.
It will be fascinating to watch the transformation of crime when this new system is introduced, ironically on a narrative of security amongst other arguments.
Yes, transactions will be traceable and transparent to the all seeing eye, so certain illegal markets will be massively impacted.
What will change, will be the personal threat risk of the average person as they will be needed to submit to violent persuasion to enter PINs and other identification methods to circumvent the system. This is not always the case with cash theft or even fast cash focused mugging.
Hand it over and they are gone.
In the new safer digital age, the victim / predator interaction will need to be longer and with that, the risk increases for both parties.
You can almost hear the well trained automatic responses of “Well…if you have nothing to hide…”
Any attempt to rationalise a wish to be allowed at least a private and self directed life are always met with attempts to portray such basic requests as signs of something dark…
This isn’t criminal or some underhand agenda - privacy and autonomy are fundamental to being human as is choice.
Just as liberty is not the same as freedom, cash is something you can have.
Digital currency will be something you are allowed to have.
Further reading:
https://www.oxford.gov.uk/info/20299/air_quality_projects/208/oxfords_low_emission_zone_lez
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/02/key-takeaways-on-digital-currency-from-the-davos-agenda/
https://www.weforum.org/communities/digital-currency-governance-consortium