{"id":592986,"date":"2023-09-10T19:23:44","date_gmt":"2023-09-10T23:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=592986"},"modified":"2023-09-10T19:23:44","modified_gmt":"2023-09-10T23:23:44","slug":"the-criminalization-of-dissent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=592986","title":{"rendered":"THE CRIMINALIZATION OF DISSENT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CJ HOPKINS IS GOING THROUGH A VERY TOUGH TIME WITH HIS CRIMINAL PROSECUTION IN GERMANY<\/p>\n<p>There are many thousands of cases all overthe world like this&#8230;People&#8217;s lives are being ruined &#8230;let us continue to offer them support any way we can<\/p>\n<p>snip<\/p>\n<p>The goal of horseshit prosecutions like mine (and those of many other dissidents currently) is (a) to punish us for speaking out against \u201cNew Normal\u201d totalitarianism by making our lives as miserable as possible, (b) to make examples of us to discourage others from speaking out, and (c) to intimidate us into shutting the fuck up.<\/p>\n<p>Totalitarians, fascists, and other power freaks are essentially just glorified schoolyard bullies. They may cloak themselves in the mantle of the law, but their modus operandi is brute force. Beneath all the bullshit, their message is simple: \u201ceither do what we say, or we will hurt you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>OK, prepare yourself, because I\u2019m going to give you some advice. I do not generally like to do that, but, in this case, I\u2019m going to make an exception.<\/p>\n<p>Never, ever, give in to a bully. The second you do, that bully owns you. What the bully wants, more than whatever he is demanding, more than anything else in the world, is your fear. The bully interprets your fear as respect, because the bully doesn\u2019t understand respect. The bully craves your fear, and your obedience, because they reify the bully\u2019s \u201cauthority.\u201d They enable the bully to feel powerful and important. The bully needs to feel \u201cpowerful\u201d and \u201cimportant\u201d because the bully feels weak and unimportant, and afraid. All fascists are essentially cowards. They are cowards, and nihilists, who hate themselves, and fear themselves, and hate and fear life, which is why they are so obsessed with controlling everything.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cjhopkins.substack.com\/p\/the-criminalization-of-dissent-continued?utm_source=post-email-title&#038;publication_id=298057&#038;post_id=136907557&#038;utm_campaign=email-post-title&#038;isFreemail=true&#038;r=owbv4&#038;utm_medium=email\">https:\/\/cjhopkins.substack.com\/p\/the-criminalization-of-dissent-continued?utm_source=post-email-title&#038;publication_id=298057&#038;post_id=136907557&#038;utm_campaign=email-post-title&#038;isFreemail=true&#038;r=owbv4&#038;utm_medium=email<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CJ HOPKINS IS GOING THROUGH A VERY TOUGH TIME WITH HIS CRIMINAL PROSECUTION IN GERMANY There are many thousands of cases all overthe world like this&#8230;People&#8217;s lives are being ruined &#8230;let us continue to offer them support any way we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=592986\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-592986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=592986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":592987,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592986\/revisions\/592987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=592986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=592986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=592986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}