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https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/07/no_author/freedom-gardens-speech-corridors-and-black-markets/

Freedom Gardens, Speech Corridors, and Black Markets

By J.B. Shurk

Battered conservative syndrome is real! We have gotten clobbered over the head so many times during the last decade that we’re almost numb to the pain. Even worse, we’ve been conditioned to accept each new blow as if we somehow deserved it more than the last. We do not.

We have seen how quickly Western governments will use every “emergency” to dispatch basic civil liberties. We have watched American political operatives rig elections with mail-in-ballot fraud. We have endured online censorship of our political speech. We have been targets of gun-grabbing politicians seeking to disarm us. We have suffered discrimination from banks that refuse us service. We have remained mostly quiet as the DOJ treats J6 protesters as seditious traitors and blacklists the rest of us as likely terrorists. We have put up with Marxist prosecutors maliciously pursuing us for our personal beliefs. We have kept our heads down while corporate employers demand total obedience to their “woke” religion.

We also know what’s coming. The technological infrastructure for “vaccine” passports, digital IDs, central bank digital currencies, online speech codes, race-based privileges, AI surveillance, and social credit scores is being built right now. “Climate change” fanatics are making it harder and more expensive to grow food. Digital prison walls are going up all around us. “Green energy” regulators and technocratic snoops are creating a system that minimizes our freedom and maximizes their control. The question, then, is whether we use this foresight to prepare for the future or to complain about its inevitability. ......