The German-language video below discusses the EU’s plan to remove privacy protections from much of social media and messaging services, all in the name of combating child pornography.

Many thanks to MissPiggy for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for the subtitling:

The following article seems to fit in with the video somehow. If the state is going to monitor all your financial transactions and expropriate a percentage of your wealth, isn’t total surveillance of your digital activities a prerequisite?

In any case, it seems that the German and Austrian governments are aiming to get their sticky fingers into their citizens’ virtual pocketbooks.

Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from the Austrian weekly Der Wochenblick:

Expropriation threatened just like in Cyprus in 2013

This is how the government gets your gold and your savings — “Crisis Security Act” planned

Government plans mass expropriation: freezing of savings, confiscation of gold coins, confiscation of apartments. The Great Reset is being implemented more and more openly. Soon we really won’t own anything if the plans of the turquoise-green government [coalition of the ÖVP (turquoise) and the Greens] have their way. A proposed “crisis security law” could give the government scary powers.

The problem here is the very definition of a “crisis”. Because for turquoise-green, this not only includes a “pandemic”, terrorism or “massive national and international human movements”, but also a danger to “the environment, public order and internal security, national security and economic well-being”.

So the alleged “climate crisis” is probably a suitable pretext for the total disenfranchisement of the population. As early as December 2020, Germany’s current Minister of Health, Karl Lauterbach, called for measures to combat climate change similar to those used to combat the pandemic.

On the national holiday, the Council of Ministers passed a so-called “Crisis Security Act”. “In a crisis, everyone has to stick together and work together — the new Crisis Security Act defines the rules for this,” said Interior Minister Karl Nehammer on October 26, 2021 after the Council of Ministers meeting. It is a milestone for an efficient “procedure in crisis situations, such as a pandemic, a blackout or hybrid threat scenarios,” Nehammer explained. A federal situation center is to be set up as a center for crisis management in the Ministry of the Interior.

More powers for the army

This federal situation center should be on standby around the clock and “continuously create situation reports on the current situation in the areas of energy, security and health”. The creation of so-called crisis camps under the leadership of the federal army “as a strategic reserve of the republic” is also planned, according to the website of the Ministry of the Interior . Apart from that, measures for crisis prevention and management should be transferred to the army in the event of a crisis.

Expropriation of savings as in Cyprus in 2013

With this law, the government is enormously expanding its power to intervene in fundamental rights and freedoms. In the course of a financial crisis like the one in 2008, it would be conceivable for the government to simply freeze savings or introduce compulsory levies in order to maintain “economic well-being”. The example of Cyprus shows that this is not just a theoretical possibility. In 2013, savings were frozen overnight there. At that time, savers had to give up almost 10 percent of their assets — by compulsion. Later, this rate was even increased to an unbelievable 47.5 percent. In order to avert the impending state bankruptcy, savers were simply fleeced. This would now also be possible in Austria in the future.

This “crisis security law” is, so to speak, a free pass for the government. Because if you are too incompetent to solve a problem, a crisis can now be declared and the problem passed on to the citizens. The confiscation of gold by the government is just as conceivable as the confiscation of vacant apartments in the event of a new migration crisis like in 2015. Expropriation instead of border protection, compulsory levies instead of orderly management. This law is a further step towards the total disenfranchisement and expropriation of the population.

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