Oleg Koretsky
https://radiokot.com.ua
Effectively, nothing is so permanent as a temporary government measure.

“The resurrection of Jacobson has been compared to “resurrecting Dred Scott, Plessy v. Ferguson, or Korematsu”—historical Supreme Court cases referred to as “anticanon” owing to not only their lack of intellectual rigor but to the awful human tragedies they precipitated.”
― Snake Oil: How Xi Jinping Shut Down the World
― Snake Oil: How Xi Jinping Shut Down the World

“Would you go along with another lockdown for a run on the banks, an act of terror, or a food shortage? How about regular lockdowns to reduce CO2 emissions? How about every winter to reduce deaths from flu? Would our fear be deliberately elevated again to make us comply?”
― A State of Fear: How the UK government weaponised fear during the Covid-19 pandemic
― A State of Fear: How the UK government weaponised fear during the Covid-19 pandemic
“Beginning at Tiananmen Square, the CCP sought to prove that even the newest information technology could be subverted to tyrannical ends, and that ideas really could be killed with the right amount of violence”
― Snake Oil: How Xi Jinping Shut Down the World
― Snake Oil: How Xi Jinping Shut Down the World

“We destroyed other countries in the war on terror. This time we’re destroying our own.”
― A State of Fear: How the UK government weaponised fear during the Covid-19 pandemic
― A State of Fear: How the UK government weaponised fear during the Covid-19 pandemic

“Lockdown itself is prison terminology. Only wrongdoers are locked down. At least in law you are innocent until proven guilty. In our biosecurity state we are assumed infectious until proven healthy.”
― A State of Fear: How the UK government weaponised fear during the Covid-19 pandemic
― A State of Fear: How the UK government weaponised fear during the Covid-19 pandemic
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