Flags and Tags in The Twenty-First Century
In 1935 my father left his family and homeland in Eastern Europe to live in freedom here in the USA. Why others of his family did ot also come is a story of complex family dynamics now lost to time.
In 1944 neighbors denounced my grandparents to the authorities for having an unauthorized short-wave radio hidden in the oven. It was forbidden to listen to news broadcast by the BBC in England, they might hear the truth. Only half of the extended family survived the war packed off to Nazi concentration camps. I was told that being liberated by the Russians was only marginally better.
The part of this story I'd like to focus on here is the
illegal radio and being turned in by people that you know. How is this different from the flagging and tracking going on today. Why is it becoming illegal to profess a belief contrary to the official position of the Government? If I say here or on some social media platform, that I will not get vaccinated until I feel confident about long-term side effects, will I get a visit from the Government? If I refuse to have my children vaccinated, will Child Protective Services put them in foster homes and vaccinate them againdt my will?
No, this is not the same as going to a death camp: This is not 1944. But things are moving in that direction . . .it might instead be 1932