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Our Enemy, the Government: How Covid Enabled the Expansion and Abuse of State Power Kindle Edition

by Ramesh Thakur (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 16 ratings

Among the most shocking developments as the pandemic dragged on for more than two years was the degree of coercion and force used by some of the best known champions of democracy. The boundary between liberal democracy and draconian dictatorship proved to be virus thin. Tools of repression like unleashing heavily armed cops on peacefully protesting citizens, once the identifying traits of fascists, communists, and tin-pot despots, became uncomfortably familiar on the streets of Western democracies.

Interventions rooted in panic, driven by political machinations, and using all the levers of state power to terrify citizens and muzzle critics in the end needlessly killed massive numbers of the most vulnerable, while putting the vast low-risk majority under house arrest. The benefits were questionable but the harms are increasingly obvious, revalidating Lord Acton’s dictum that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

“Prof. Ramesh Thakur has consistently championed the concept of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P). This principle underscores the obligation of both nations and the international community to safeguard populations from mass atrocities, encompassing genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing, and crimes against humanity.

This book is worth the attention of anyone who wants to understand how and why governments and the world’s health bureaucracies ignored the devastating harms and failures of the lockdown-focused policies they implemented during the covid pandemic.” - Jay Bhattacharya

“The emergence of Ramesh Thakur as a voice of reason during the last three years is one of the few good things to come out of the pandemic. I find it difficult to disagree with anything he says.” - Toby Young, Editor-in-Chief, The Daily Sceptic.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0CL99S2K6
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Brownstone Institute (October 17, 2023)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 17, 2023
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 34.2 MB
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    5.0 out of 5 stars don’t let the author become another Cassandra
    Reviewed in Australia on January 27, 2024
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    It’s time to break the curse of Cassandra

    If governments and the 4th estate (the media) don’t take heed of the actual science and sound analysis such as is found cover to cover in this book, and of the author’s warnings, which they won’t until we the people understand this content ourselves and start leveraging our voices and votes and hip pockets when and where it counts, I fear that this author will join the very small but growing chorus of Cassandras trying to give a warning and prophesy which we will foolishly refuse to heed, curse or no curse.

    As long as it takes, everyone needs to slowly but surely work through this book and adopt the information contained herein. You have no choice, or more accurately you won’t have, soon enough. These types of warnings will be banned and memory holed.

    Kudos to this brave author.
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