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How governments have failed their citizens

By Murray Hunter - posted Monday, 12 September 2022


This collaboration extends to Google, Twitter, and Youtube. In addition, payment platforms like PayPal have shutdown accounts of organizations and groups protesting against Covid-19 vaccine mandates, preventing them from raising funds from the public.

Britain, Australia, and Canada have used the old D Notice systeminformally to prevent mainstream media report certain stories relating to foreign policy.

There are two major concerns over government control and manipulation of narratives. Government is directly influencing the outcomes of elections. The suppression new research on vaccine safety issues may have cost lives with media and social media promoting the product’s safety, when evidence now shows it was clearly not. We are only just starting to learn of this grave breach of duty of care by government to its citizens.

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The biggest crisis is going on now

Perhaps the world’s most unexplained public health crisis is occurring now. There is no concern by governments today, which put the world in shutdown over covid-19. Since the beginning of 2022, there have been a significant rise in excess mortality rate. Excess deaths is a measurement of the number of deaths from all causes above what we would expect, based upon a five year rolling average.  The mainstream media is not covering this story, even though it is a major concern to public health.

Democratic societies have created bureaucracies through emergency proclamations that by-pass the democratic system, requiring public review. While many western countries are being transformed into compliance societies, through fear, coercion, and pseudo-moral argument, national leaders have been caught out, time and time again ignoring and flaunting the very rules they set for the rest of their nation’s citizens. They have shown themselves to be elite apparatchiks, rather than servants of the people.

National leadership has created a pseudo-fantasy world where focus has become selfish and inward. Issues like indigenous rights, gender, racism, rewriting history, censorship, migration, mandates, abortion, anti-culture, and identity have become wrapped up in virtual signalling, while nations are facing crises on numerous fronts.

If governments continue not to act on behalf of their citizens, public aggravation will continue to increase.

The danger to the world is not from totalitarianism, its coming from the lack in competence in governance. Citizens without question have complied with the whims of bureaucracy. This has encouraged bureaucrats to take more power. The solutions are organizational, as it’s our bureacracies that have failed the citizenry.

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Murray Hunter is an associate professor at the University Malaysia Perlis. He blogs at Murray Hunter.

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