Clive Derby Lewis, Ross Ulbricht and the Virtue Signalling Voter.
All Bitcoiners everywhere on the proverbial right have a natural disdain for Communism, those on the left sort of ashamedly admit that any form of Socialism is untenable on a Bitcoin standard. When debating the issue of whether voting is an efficate means of bringing about meaningful change, as soon as you throw your support into the abstain from voting camp, no matter what your reasoning, you are shamed with a statement which implies "Don't you care if Ross rots in jail?"
My assertive answer is yes. I do care about Ross. I have spent nights praying for him. I sympathise with him. My heart went out to him like it does for all who are imprisoned unfairly and for exclusively political reasons. More than most. I have prayed ardently for Julain Assange's freedom. But claiming to pray for someone is just as useless as voting to free someone in a national election. What then is the difference between they who vote and they who pray? Because prayer is a introspection responsibility which leads to action. Voting is a right that ends in passivity and abdication of responsibility. Statistics are in my favour here. This action I took requires some explanatory background.
Chris Hani was supposed to be the successor to Nelson Mandela and initiate the full transition of South Africa from a Republic to democracy and then by popular vote to communism. Something few people know is that uMkhonto we Siswe, the African National Congress and the South African Communist party is a trilateral organisation. (They still claim to be but the ANC have sort of snubbed the other groups) One helping the other all with the same end goal. Full blown Communism and State domination of civilian life.
Something threw a spanner in the works. A political crime born from fear of Communist Russian influence and the scars Stalin left as a legacy on Asia and Eastern Europe. This justified fear motivated normal good Christian men to commit a crime. They conspired and successfully assassinated Chris Hani.
Chris Hani (28 June 1942 – 10 April 1993),[1] born Martin Thembisile Hani was the leader of the South African Communist Party and chief of staff of uMkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC). He was a fierce opponent of the apartheid government, and was assassinated by Janusz Waluś, a Polish immigrant and sympathiser of the Conservative opposition on 10 April 1993, during the unrest preceding the transition to democracy.
The 1982 demonstrations in Poland refers to anti-government street demonstrations organized by underground Solidarity to commemorate the second anniversary of the Gdańsk Agreement. The bloodiest protest occurred in southwestern Poland, in the town of Lubin, on 31 August 1982. The Lubin demonstration resulted in three protesters killed by Communist services, and an unknown number of wounded.[1][2] On the same day, rallies and demonstrations took place in several cities across the country. According to Solidarity sources, there were four more victims—in Wrocław, Gdańsk, Nowa Huta, and Toruń.[3] According to official government sources, there were demonstrations in 66 cities.
So in the Northern Hemisphere communism is killing political activists and in the Southern Hemisphere the conservative right is resisting full blown communist revolt fighting a war in five countries. Rhodesia, Zambia, Mozambique, Angola and South Africa. Janusz Walus left Poland, a country saturated with communism and sought hope and freemarket opportunities in The South African Republic. When it became evident that the ANC, SACP, MWS in collaboration with the National Party was going to be successful at establishing a one man one vote system, communism was the inevitable outcome, unless...
Janusz who made connections in right wing conservative circles, volunteered to stop the whole scheme. The whole plan seems a little naive and untenable but men have done far more foolish things being guided by hope, false or otherwise. He was provided a gun by Clive, a plan and on the regrettable day of 10 April 1993 killed Chris Hani by handgun in the driveway of his home.
Janusz Wallus and Clive Derby Lewis, were sentenced to be executed by the Apartheid government. In 1994 Nelson Mandela became president and the death penalty was repealed, reversing the death sentence of many political criminals including Janusz and Clive. The ANC wanted to save/pardon all the freedom fighters who were under death penalty convictions. Clive and Janusz were beneficiaries of this pardon. Their sentences were commuted to life imprisonment after an extended stint of fanfare.
Fast forward to 2014.
Now everyone knows how mainstream media manages to downplay and mock anything that goes against what government actually want. The protests were slightly more impressive and extremist socialist communist groups namely the Economic Freedom Fighters even harassed and intimidated the white minority who were protesting for Clive's release. Any way (EchDel) I was present at Pretoria town square to participate at this demonstration in favour of Clive Derby Lewis's release. Why would I be in support of freeing a convicted criminal who already received a semi pardon? Because all the other terrorists on the side of the ANC were systemically pardoned and freed after the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. This opportunity for Clive to being pardoned was vehemently opposed by the SACP.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_and_Reconciliation_Commission\_(South_Africa)
I acted.
I participated in this protest because I really cared. If I voted for it I could conveniently virtue signal my support but voting was not an option anyway, I participated in this protest demonstrating for his release. I screamed and chanted for hours demanding for him to be freed and was spat at by commies and jostled aggressively by a mob of rowdy EFF supporters. I had lost my voice for three days after the affair. And then you have the audacity to say. "Don't you want Ross to be free?" The Bitcoiners at the Nashville conference did a lot of work, spent time, energy and possibly prayers to turn Donald Trumps arm get him to suggest Ross's freedom in exchange for a vote. Freeing Ross is an awesome rallying cry, but wanting him to be free and not supporting the system is not mutually exclusive.
No nobody deserves one nickel or dime of the freedom they currently enjoy unless they can come to one very important conclusion. Bitcoin fixes this and Bitcoin only fixes this.
Nickle and dime pun intended.
Bitcoin fixes racial tension. Bitcoin fixes party politics. Bitcoin fixes terrorism. Bitcoin fixes war. We (mankind) are not isolated groups fighting in different countries with different ideals to survive and retain our dignity and property anymore. We are all under the same boot of FIAT CURRENCY.
And no politician has the moral willpower to challenge that force and even when they do they fail because of the flawed nature of their institution. The grassroots movement of plebs adopting Bitcoin and withdrawing their support from the system which is the perpetrator of all this eye for eye, tooth for tooth, tit for tat political bullshit, that is where the power and tangible efficate change is going to happen. There are no bad guys, only humans stuck in fallible systems of their own design. There is no political solution.
Only a monetary one. Bitcoin.
Watch this interview and keep voting in mind as subject matter. The repeated failures of parliamentary democracy is a stepping stone away from socialism.
Everyone voted, everyone is still voting, no one is happy, everyone is impoverished. Crime goes up. Freedom's go down. The fruits of voting is putrid and rotten. So you vote and I will Bitcoin. When the elected party betrays your values with regard to speech, finance, property or war, remember to vote even harder next time.
Post script.
If Hani would have been alive and taken the South African presidency, I would have probably grown up as an immigrant in some European country having had to flee communism with my parents and siblings. The least I could do was protest peacefully for Clive's release. Janusz Wallus did not wait to vote. He acted and is still in prison to this day. He does deserve a pardon if only to receive equal treatment as all the other political prisoners did. I owe him and all the brave men in history who chose to act and make real change my thanks. You only risk action if you believe, even if it is foolishly.
A man has to believe in something, I believe I'll have another drink.
Matthew 25:31-40
“When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then He will sit on the throne of His glory. All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats. And He will set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on the left. Then the King will say to those on His right hand, ‘Come, you blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: for I was hungry and you gave Me food; I was thirsty and you gave Me drink; I was a stranger and you took Me in; I was naked and you clothed Me; I was sick and you visited Me; I was in prison and you came to Me.’
“Then the righteous will answer Him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry and feed You, or thirsty and give You drink? When did we see You a stranger and take You in, or naked and clothe You? Or when did we see You sick, or in prison, and come to You?’ And the King will answer and say to them, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me.’
Echdel
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