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2020: Vote out the Dimms & buy em 1 way tickets to Europe! <Europe’s Move Toward Ecological Tyranny Emerging Rapidly Claims of an escalating climate crisis are getting ever shriller in Europe and calls for “real and radical action” are becoming increasingly urgent. Leaders are now labeling their own citizens “ecological vandals” and openly demanding they be brought under tight control by a China-modelled system. The building blocks for tyranny are in place. Lately, the thinly veiled calls for watering down western democracy have been becoming increasingly clear and unmistakable. All the cornerstones for a green tyranny are emerging in Europe: 1) a claimed climate crisis that is 2) attributable to reckless human behavior, 3) it is urgent and 4) thus justifies strict regulation of human behavior, and all accompanied by 5) actions to silence dissident views. Consumers criminalized, being labeled “ecological vandals” Blaming humans for the ” climate crisis” is already well underway across Europe. Recently the online Die Welt reported on a DPA interview of Green Party mastermind Nico Paech, who in the interview called for “a radical change in the behavior of citizens.” Economist Paech, a proponent of a “post-growth economy which calls for a move away from consumerism and further economic growth, told the DPA that a majority of society “believes it is climate competent, but lives like ecological vandals.” In other words, free citizens are to be viewed as criminals. What is needed, said Paech, was a “radical reorientation” in order to “drastically reduce the emission of greenhouse gases quickly” and that it was necessary to “clear out our lifestyles”. What is needed is an authoritarian government to take swift and harsh control, he suggests. German leader: China-like dictatorship “more efficient” Meanwhile German Green Party leader Robert Habeck last year in an interview with Phoenix German public television told viewers that if democracy is unable to keep pace with the pressing challenges, then “a centralized system, which is naturally faster” needs to be seriously considered. Habeck cites China as an example of how to get things done when citizens get in the way. In China: There is no opposition or participation by citizens. And if they make mistakes, they still cannot be elected out of office. Maybe there will be a revolt in China, but first of all the system is more efficient. Do we want that or not? The decision cannot be made economically. It can be made only based on values and, yes, I would say that’s what we want.” EU declares climate state of emergency And to lay the groundwork for implementing such radical authoritarian initiatives, it comes as no surprise that the EU just recently declared “a climate emergency” after a vote of 429 MEPs in favor and 225 against. “Europe became the first continent to make this declaration,” Euronews.com reported. Note that a state of emergency is defined as follows: A situation in which a government is empowered to perform actions or impose policies that it would normally not be permitted to undertake. A government can declare such a state during a disaster, civil unrest, or armed conflict. Such declarations alert citizens to change their normal behavior and orders government agencies to implement emergency plans.” So, there’s really not much left to keep the EU from grabbing a lot more power, except ardent protests. But here, too, EU leaders are at work. Free speech has its limits Listen to German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s speech on freedom of expression, where she says ” freedom of speech has its limits” and that “we have to take away your freedom of speech, or else society won’t be free.” Surely everyone is against hate speech. But deciding what qualifies as hate speech should not be left to governments – especially those obsessed with a climate doomsday to the point that they now label climate science skeptics as “deniers” and hinder them from expressing dissent and participating in public debate. Moreover, Big Social Media like Twitter, Google and Facebook are also busily working behind the scenes obstructing dissenters from getting their views out over a variety of issues. And they are under increasing pressure to clamp down even harder. So the building blocks of a green tyranny are already in place in Europe: crisis, urgency, culprit, proposed system, suppression of speech. Opportunity knocks Right now, the EU is just waiting patiently for that one opportune moment. We are possibly witnessing a watershed historical event in the making.> climatechangedispatch.com