Tuesday, September 26, 2023

The War On Cash

 



Everyone knows Cash is King but what happens when the Man comes around and bans it? So what, you say, gleefully tapping your cheery little plastic digital id on the nearest Starbucks payment scanner. So what? So a lot.

Say, by way of wild conjecture, that you're a Canadian trucker who protests against the government in Ottawa, which is a kind of town in Ontario. The government doesn't like this and tells your bank to freeze your account. Hey presto, all of a sudden that happy little card doesn't work any more and guess what, you can't buy anything. No, don't even think of cashing your paycheck because you can't, there is no cash. Look at you, unperson.




Again, try to imagine a scenario in which you're a political figure in England, say, Nigel Farage, and you're saying things against the ruling political class, let's call it the Uniparty. How very brave. Sorry, buddy, Coutts & Co. have debanked you and good luck paying for anything with all the paper you've hidden under the mattress, traitor.

You get the point, whether you agree with the truckers, Farage or anyone else, and the point is this: A cashless society opens the way to tyranny and it's just a step away from CBDC (Central Bank Digital Currency) in which all your spending is under government scrutiny. Of course we all know that'll be utterly benign.




On point, I was shocked last time I was in London (UK, not Ontario) to see how hard it was to purchase anything with cash. Notable exceptions were Cordings in Piccadilly, who loved it, and a  coffee stand outside Embankment station, Blues and Royals, I think. More shocking still was the reaction of some of my friends, erstwhile and present anarchists no less, they didn't seem to see the issue. Scotland was better, but still.

I tell you, we're sleepwalking into something bad here, a tyrannous digital cattle pen. Perhaps Texas needs to issue its own gold backed currency by way of leading the world to freedom and fiscal sanity?

Just a thought,

LSP

26 comments:

  1. CBDC IS all about control of us peons.

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  2. Is this the beginning of The Mark Of The Beast, Parson? Sure looks like it to me.....

    And if TPTB outlaw cash? Oh, well....I always had a bit of the "Outlaw Spirit" in me. Looks like I'll be in good company....

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  3. Guilty here of using those pieces of plastic for nearly everything. So convenient.

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  4. I still use cash or checks. And of course the plastic. All we can do is keep praying, really.
    You all be safe and God bless.

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  5. Totally that, NFO, and we're sleepwalking into it.

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  6. Dam straight, drjim. God speed.

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  7. I really avoid 'em, WSF. Seriously.

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  8. Linda, I feel we're moving into a very horrible thing. I pray I am wrong.

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  9. I’m no expert on scripture but I have a friend who is big on end times passages and insists that this digital currency will eventually require a chip in your body to use it. He equates this to the mark of the beast and that if you take the chip you are condemning yourself to hell! Your comment would be appreciated.

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  10. “ many of my friends, erstwhile and present anarchists no less, they didn't see the issue”

    I run into the same thing. Not anarchists* but definitely anti-[whatever the hell abomination rules us**], albeit from a soft-left perspective. Some of these friends are proud of never having cash on their persons.

    Mike_C

    * nothing personal against any anarchist friends of yours, but sincere capital-A anarchists are idiots. High-IQ idealistic idiots perhaps, but idiots nonetheless.

    ** noticing what rules us is the greatest sin. Irony intended, since how do you sin against those who unceasingly strive to advance degeneracy, even as they claim to be the most moral, just, and kindly people — of whom the rest of us are eternally jealous.

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  11. Revelations 13: 16 & 17 (NIV)

    16 It also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads, 17 so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name.

    Any questions? There will be a test on the subject matter later.

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  12. Mike-C- …and therein lies the rub, frogs in the pot as the heat gets turned up, enjoying the [initial] warmth like a societal hot tub.

    WWW- Spot on. We are being warned, time to end the hostile takeover.

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  13. How do I bribe my local politician if there is no cash?

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  14. I am wary of any government policy that is done in the name of convenience, security, or "The Greater Good", it is ALWAYS a step towards authoritarian control.

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  15. Barter economy, LL. Hookers, gold and blow, with 10% back to the Big Guy, gets 'em every time.

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  16. "How do I bribe my local politician if there is no cash?"


    Gold coins seem to work just fine for some.

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  17. I've understood this since I was a 2nd grader.

    And, you're idea about the Lone Star State is an excellent idea.

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  18. Good heavens, Howard.

    The chip is clearly internal. That in mind, they'll doubtless involve technics to enslave us further. The question is, how can we be free in the midst of that? Let's step back:

    On the sixth hour of the sixth day the followers of the false prophet Caiaphas stamped themselves with the mark of the beast when they cried out, "We have no king but Caesar."

    Let's not be fooled by that.

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  19. Mike, it seems weird to me that some of my friends should trust the government, as it stands. Of course it comes on with leftist PR, 'get tranny bathrooms and everything's sorted." Uh Huh.

    Just bizarre they don't see through it. I was amazed, anarcho or not, at the sheer extent of UK agitprop and its success, these people really believe Net Zero and get yourself vaxxed, serfs. Wow. Geobbels would be proud.

    http://www.commonprayer.org/offices.cfm

    PS. Not an anarchist myself, more a... St. Petersburg monarchist.

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  20. Favors, LL.

    Cars, houses, whores, position, and on.

    But you know all this, RHSM.

    We must hedge against the cashless future.

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  21. Herr Swankenstein, we agree. Are you somehow saying you dislike government control?

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  22. Dear Lord, Wild we've devolved to that. And all in the midst of a proxy war.

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  23. I'm with you LSP. My youngest (32) literally carries no cash on him, everything is bank card or credit card (that generates mileage for free flights).

    My careful explanation on what happens when all non traceable money disappears and everything you do is 100% traceable/controllable by others turns into serfdom as opposed to freedom, falls on deaf ears.

    No freedom loving person should ever support the elimination of cash or equivalent (gold, silver, bullets etc.) or they will no longer be free.

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