Digital terrorism

It’s incredible, and George Orwell would have sighed in recognition, that people now in the UK protesting for peace in the Middle East are labelled “Hamas supporters” and “Hezbollah supporters”, as well, of course, as anybody supporting Palestine Action being labelled as a “terrorist” and being arrested under anti-terrorism laws. As this nonsense is being played out in the public consciousness, we’re being moved closer and closer to an exclusive digital nightmare and total digital slavery.

At what stage in the intellectual development of our nation did it become a terrorist offence to sit on the ground in a public space holding a sign claiming support for a pro-Palestinian organisation?

When all money is digitalised and programmable, we will literally be told where we can buy, what we can buy, and in what quantities we can buy. That’s the world we are being edged towards and it’s a form of terrorism, but which will never be labelled such. In a present day context, it would be like everybody being shadowed by thugs who could order us not to buy this and not to buy that and the same thugs barring us from shopping in certain places and the same thugs limiting how much of something we could buy. In many cases, the same thugs might casually decide we can’t buy, sell, or work – period.

This is a scenario many of us have encountered when having our bank accounts frozen, but luckily still having the ability to utilise physical cash. However, what happens when physical cash doesn’t exist? Hard cash is very hard to control and this is the reason why it’s being phased out by a network of powerful people working on a global level who want total control over us.

Address for publication: Louis Shawcross, Co. Down