“Bit by bit and piece by piece, freedom is taken away. Eventually, most people don’t remember what is gone. All they’re left with is the feeling that some thoughts and actions would be dangerous, would leave them vulnerable, on the outside looking in. Of course, ‘on the outside looking in’ is the platform from which any sane person launches his future.” (The Underground, Jon Rappoport)
The other day, I wrote about radical changes in Australian vaccination policy. Principally, the national government has unilaterally decided that parents who receive government money will have that money taken away, if they don’t vaccinate their children. (See: Australia: refuse vaccination, lose $15,000)
Now I have learned that all families in Australia receive some form of government money. So the policy change affects everyone.
Which, of course, is what happens when citizens become beholden to big government. Government taketh, giveth back, taketh again, on their own timetable, according to their own dictates…