#governmental abuse

[360degreesasthecrowflies]

The UK government: Covid harms overweight, obese and unhealthy people more

Also the UK government: So we're forcing all gyms to close for months at a time even though they're well-ventilated and haven't been found to be spreaders. Also, here's money off food vouchers that you can ONLY use on fast food!

I am SO pissed off that my gym is going to stay closed until at least January. We were supposed to come out of lockdown today but it now looks like we only get shops (of course) back. Typical. I was ready to not be allowed to socialise, but not even to get the services back we had in November... The UK government is actively helping to create a mental health crisis.

"You can just exercise outside!" Uh only if you're an able-bodied man large enough to not put yourself at risk by going out at night by yourself! Also it gets dark at literally 4pm now. Gtfo with your sexist bullshit!

I'm just exhausted by this all now & feel like a trapped rat.

[donnnoir]

A Bitter Farewell...

When last I saw my Father, it was just past four in the morning, of 2017. He was dressed in his cowboy hat, boots, jeans and western long sleeve shirt.  He was sitting at the bus stop on West Anaheim Street between 1st Street and Hayes Avenue, waiting for a bus that was not coming.  I was on the other side of the West Anaheim heading into Wilmington.  As with most nights back then I was running through the hoops being FOXed by elements of Our Shadow Government. Needless to say I was shocked to see my Father sitting at a bus stop at four in the morning.  Particularly since he was suppose to be in the VA Hospital's Long Term Hospice care due to a rapid on set of Alzheimer's/Dementia.  It was yet another cruel indignation heaped upon many.  For what could I have done?  He no longer recognized me as his son.  I had lost the family business primarily because I could not get any due process from the police or any government agency, with most everyone being part of the “street theatre” robbing the business blind.  Testing me while attempting to provoke me into a murderous rage.  If I had attempted to help him, I would no doubt have been arrested on some trumped up charges or worse.  I watched him for over twenty minutes.  I knew it would be the last time I would see him in this world.  With a heavy heart I turned on my heel and continued up Anaheim Blvd.  The next day as I was speaking with Joe (an embedded Navel Intelligence Officer) I mentioned seeing my father the previous evening well actually morning, and the circumstances.  As he looked at me; he did not seem shocked in the least at my Father being at the bus stop at four in the morning, rather he was judging my reactions.  I explained to him plainly, that in this struggle against darkness that I already knew it was going to take everyone from me that I Loved.  Even so, I was made of sterner stuff and that I leave the dead to bury the dead.  He quickly tried to change the subject and had to excuse himself from my presence.

   My Father is now deceased.  I know this as a son knows such.  Also as one with heightened empathic abilities does.  The particulars I do not know.  However in some strange acknowledgment, when I applied for a copy of my social security card.  In all previous copies my name has included “Jr”.  As I am my Father's name sake.  This new card no longer shows “Jr”.  As I was informed; “there you go you are no longer Junior”.

[bustedbeing]

I don't participate much in the outrage side of Tumblr, but if I don't say something about this, my head is going to explode. Seeing what has become of the state in which I grew up has me actually crying in my frustration and dismay. This is such an abuse of executive power, such an affront to citizens--christian and non-christian alike--that I am actually shaking with emotional turmoil. Seriously. I weep for my home state, my country, my planet, and the future of humanity.

[hellokhodahafiz]

If you’re not somebody who films the devastation wrought by the U.S. on the countries it attacks, or provides insight into Iraqi occupation opponents and bin Laden loyalists in Yemen, or documents expanding NSA activities on U.S. soil, then perhaps you’re unlikely to be subjected to such abuses and therefore perhaps unlikely to care much. As is true for all states that expand and abuse their own powers, that’s what the U.S. Government counts on: that it is sending the message that none of this will affect you as long as you avoid posing any meaningful challenges to what they do. In other words: you can avoid being targeted if you passively acquiesce to what they do and refrain from interfering in it. That’s precisely what makes it so pernicious, and why it’s so imperative to find a way to rein it in.

U.S. filmmaker repeatedly detained at border - Salon.com

This is the must-read article of the year so far.

[sciencenews]

All of that dystopian future we've read about is becoming reality.  I hope that we see the last straw soon and people wake up to smell the shit served to them and called "in their best interest" before it is too late.