Guest Post by Eric Peters
It used to be governments that demanded to see your “papers.” Today, it’s corporations. Which function as governments, without the bother of elections – without the hassle of having to pass laws that might be reviewed (and rejected) by courts.
Instead, policies – which have the force and effect of laws – and which you cannot appeal. There is only the choice: Comply – or be fired.
Which wouldn’t be so terrible were it not for the terrible fact that corporations – a relative handful, effectively – now own the country, in the sense that is becoming very difficult for anyone to find employment that isn’t corporate. The tentacles of the octopus reach into every nook and cranny. Even businesses that aren’t corporations often have to deal with them – as suppliers, as their major customers.
And thereby, the corporations set policies which become very difficult to avoid.
The genius of this deserves grudging respect. It is the realization of Mussolini’s dictum about “Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State” – via corporations, which exploit their disingenuous status as “private” enterprises to audaciously impose that which the state dare not even propose.
GM has just imposed a requirement that every salaried employee must produce papers to prove they have rolled up their sleeve and been injected with the Jab that the corporation decrees they must submit to as a condition of their employment. That is to say, do this – or be fired.
It will be done via a “confidential reporting tool” – with all the confidentiality that attends providing a corporation with details about yourself. It’ll be just between you . . . and every sour-pussed frau in the “human resources” department; every busybody at the HMO that issues the corporate health insurance policy. And of course, the corporation’s partner, the government – which will surely have the same access to everything in the corporate database that the DMV/car insurance partnership has regarding your “status.”
According to the Detroit News, the papers, please policy will initially affect 40,000 workers. Italicized to reflect the reality that – eventually – this will encompass everyone who does business with GM, perhaps even car journalists such as this writer. Is it unlikely that access to press cars for evaluation will soon be conditional upon Proof of Jab?
It is inevitable.
Government can only do so much, in part because government is not everywhere. When the country became a “Homeland” some 20 years ago this September 11th – and it became impossible to travel by air without being degraded by being presumed a “terrorist” and made to spread your legs to prove otherwise – it was possible to opt out by no longer traveling by air.
One could still drive.
It was inconvenient, obviously, to put airports on the No-Go list but it was a doable thing. Life could go on. More importantly, work could go on. Certain jobs require air travel, it is true. But not most. One could get a different job, if one didn’t like the idea of having to spread one’s legs and stand there like a convicted felon being processed while a government agent touched you in places and ways that were – prior to America-as-a-Homeland – an act of criminal sexual assault.
But how do you avoid being processed at work? When the only work – as a practical matter – is corporate work?
“Reporting your vaccination status to GM Medical helps the company assess the overall immunity level of our employee population and determine appropriate measures to support employee safety,” says Dr. Jeffery Hess, GM’s corporate medical director.
Any relation to Rudolf?
Or perhaps Karl – as in Docktor Professor und SS-Standartenfuhrer Karl Brandt?
“In addition to helping assess the overall immunity of our employee population, the information will also be used to verify compliance with COVID-19 safety protocols, such as mask wearing, and influence future public health decisions the company may need to make to continue to protect our employees and the business,” says GM spokesperson Maria Raynal.
When – how – did corporations become arbiters of the health of the people who work for them? It happened, of course, when corporations became the dispensers of health insurance, tied to corporate employment – a misbegotten thing arising from government, after the latter imposed wage and price controls some 80 years ago, during World War II (also brought to you by government). Corporations could not pay employees more money to lure employees, so they paid them in kind – with health coverage, provided by the corporation.
Of course, this benefit came at a cost. The employee’s health was now a matter of corporate “concern,” as opposed to his own business. It became the wedge used to insert the corporation into the employee’s business.
No-smoking edicts; degrading requirements to pee in a cup while someone watches – to assure the corporation you’re not a drug addict.
And now, 80-something years after the fact, corporations assert their regal prerogative to require employees to submit to dangerous medical procedures and produce proof – papers – that they have submitted.
Else be fired – and good luck finding a job anywhere else. Else lose accrued benefits, including perhaps years invested in a corporate pension or supported 401k. The weight of this leverage is enormous, especially since there is little, if any alternative.
The government hardly needs to “mandate” anything when it can get corporations to do the same on its behalf, the both of these entities profiting from the degradation and dehumanization imposed on people rendered economically impotent to resist.
Is there a solution? A way out?
Yes.
Corporations must be done away with. Their have-it-both-ways status.
These creatures of government, masquerading as private enterprises.
Which they are to the same degree that Caitlyn Jenner is a woman. It was – it remains – an enormous, a suicidal mistake, to grant government-created entities the status of private enterprises. They are not, by definition. Only human beings can rightly be said to own property; not legally confected “corporate persons.” And one can only hold flesh-and-blood human beings accountable for the harms they cause.
What is going on now would be all-but-impossible in a free market, decentralized system of thousands of individually-owned business, owned and run by human beings and bound by the same rules that have always bound human beings.
A relative handful of giant corporations are able to abuse human beings because of their government-granted status as corporations; they have the legal benefit of “rights” – without the human obligation of being held responsible for the harms they cause.
They can do as they like, with impunity – driven by sociopathy. They are unbound by empathy or conscience, nor chastened by guilt. They crave dominion and that is all.
They are able to act as governments, without the essential restrictions that keep governments in check, somewhat – such as elections and courts that can be used to challenge what governments do and without which government becomes transparently illegitimate, tyrannical – and which can be rightly resisted with every effort that can be brought to bear.
Until similar discipline is applied to corporations, we can expect to be tyrannized by them to a degree no government has ever achieved.
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This is only the beginning:
Lose weight…. or else
Turn in your gun(s)…or else
Vote (haha) this way….or else
probably more
The initial response was silence or a polite “no thanks”. Next the response was a fearful no thank you. The next response from a minority was “I resign”. The next response was “No thank you, go ahead and fire me”. The next response was a legal maneuver which was Overturned by supreme court wrongly. The next response was marching and social media no way, my body my choice. The next response was Petty boycotts, voiced refusal anf all of the above continued. When govt had to change the definition of vaccine so the experimental gene therapy shot could be classified as a vax many said “fuck you, no”. What is the definition of rape? Someone sticking something inside your body without your consent and or unknown origin and leaving a deposit of unknown things. I fear the coming response to this “medical rape” from the victim will be “metallic lead rape” when the victims decide to place lead inside of their oppressors as a defensive response. Somehow, knowing our society they will again blame the victim. Again. The victim is somehow the bad guy, again.
There are no free markets. What appear to be free retail markets are not, just look at the corporate ownership, they own each other. And by the way, the red-team and blue-team are owned by the same people.
There are free markets.
Unfettered by regulation and red tape.
Unaffected by licensing decrees and unburdened by overbearing taxes and fees.
The only true free market is the black market.
It has existed in spite of and because of every government invented by man.
No government can stop eliminate it.
Not the Soviets, not the Chicoms, not the Eurotrash, not even Uncle Sam.
Observe the smashing success of Prohibition.
And the unparalleled accomplishments of the War on Drugs.
Despite what the proles are told, the state is always playing catch-up trying to stymie the black market.
And when they realize that they can’t beat them, they try to join them.
Like the states’ attempts at legalizing marijuana.
Once a scourge, now they will tax it.
Except black market weed is still cheaper than the state’s legal weed.
Of course it is, there is no regulatory overhead.
And this is not just ‘illicit’ goods trumpeted by the Lamestream Media.
Any transaction where cash, goods, or services are exchanged without the shakedown paid to the state is black market.
Everybody knows of it. Everybody has done it at some time or another.
Imagine your entire life operated in this market.
You’ve got to start some time.
It is always the defacto market when the white market inevitably collapses.
Thank you fujigm, I never thought of it that way. I totally agree and don’t know why I never made that connection. “The only true free market is the black market.”
The black market is used by the beast too. It even creates black markets. The eternal war against drugs. Anyone caught violating the “law” will be sent to the plantation.
The Chinese and Russians are not giving their people The Shot that Americans are getting; within 2-3 years, the Chinese and Russians will invade our country because about 70 % of Americans (and all GIs) will already be sick or dead from The Shot. The Chinese and Russians will be supported by the Fifth Column of millions of illegal fighting age males brought in secretly by Hussein and Kamala. TPTB responsible for The Shot Genocide are committing High Treason.
and you will wear a uniform, with the appropriate insignia
Who gives a flying fuck about GM? They haven’t built a good car for over 25 years, and everything they sell now is not built but “assembled” meaning every piece of steel and electronic part is made in China. Repairs that used to cost $400 now cost $4000, and that is if you can get the parts that they almost NEVER have in stock, but you have to pay for prior to order and then wait up to 6 months to get it. That’s ALL of them, for that matter.
I’ll add GM to the list of things I’m boycotting: Coke, professional sports, American Airlines, Delta Airlines, Burger King. Some of them interfered with Georgia’s election integrity law, Burger King started advertising rainbow flag bullshit just to troll Chik fil-A. Problem is I don’t buy anything already, so they don’t even miss me.
I think these mandates are mostly designed to make people lose their minds. I don’t know what to tell GM workers. I’d try the religious exemption purely on the basis of Rev 13:16.
If I’m ever on a jury of some employee who “went postal” over this, I’ll be a certain vote to acquit.
Not acquit.
Jury Nullification.
It is the people’s last non-violent opportunity to stymie the criminal judges.
Every company i boycott i purchase huge sums and either obtain refund or walk away at point of sale. Both ways i loydly exclaim why i demand refund or walk away. Two huge grocery carts full of meat and frozen items, buying two GM cars then prior to final signature walk away……order a dozen custom subway sandwiches then walk away reminding them their lesbian, flag kneeling, anti american olympian spokesperson reminded me suddenly why i cannot buy the sandwiches. Fight back causing most obvious pain. Loudly. Make a scene….often
>>>reminding them their lesbian, flag kneeling, anti american olympian spokesperson
As a non-viewer of TeeVee, which sub sandwich place is that?
FWIW, I don’t give a rat’s ass who the olympian is, as these theatrics are a dime-a-dozen.
Thanks. I’m actually thinking of picketing a Chevy dealership.
as a boy whose father was in the GM Flint factories, i began boycotting GM in 2009 when they gave bond holders the illegal Obama insisted shaft by instead handing over bond holder money to the unions. they do not impress on warranty coverage either.
CON-gress serves GAB with papers trying to hunt down more Jan 6th dupes: https://news.gab.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Letter_August26.pdf
https://conservativedailypost.com/biden-regime-brings-in-14000-afghans-no-vetting-meanwhile-americans-keep-dying/
If the lockdowns have taught us anything it is that we can be free of this corporate world by opting out and doing your own thing, locally and trading though local markets for the essentials of life, much in the vein of HSF.
The corporate world relies on the 20th century concept of ‘consumerism’. Once you forsake the acquisition of ‘things’ and focus on the necessities, life becomes simpler and easily managed. My Chapter 13 – The New Emergent Economy – foresees the emergence of local economies following the collapse of this 21st century illusion of ‘wealth’ and ‘health’. We will all need to be self-reliant which will cull many who are unprepared.
There are billions of people in the world who won’t even notice the demise of the fake Anglo/American Empire as nature takes its course.
https://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2021/07/how-breakdown-cascades-into-collapse.html
>>>There are billions of people in the world who won’t even notice the demise of the fake Anglo/American Empire
You’re right. And, properly managed, the Empire’s End would entail only a 30% or so decline in Americans’ standard of living, such as that is.
However, I’m starting to suspect that as Empire’s End draws ever closer, it will be deliberately mis-managed, just as the Afghanistan occupation and withdrawal have been, and we could actually end up with Mad Max….
Agreed August – there are several scenarios which might play out but I am hoping for the resilience of the patriots in both USA and Britain to eradicate the weak elites before the bottom falls out and recover the Constitution on both sides of the pond.
Lock-downs have become a double edge sword now, haven’t they?
Yes david, IMHO lockdowns have shown people that there is another way to live and that maybe being a wage-slave and commuting half your life is not the way to go. Selling your soul to the corporation for a minimal return is a mug’s game. You only have to see what the bosses make to realise that employment is a corporate con game.
Trading is the way to go – in goods or services – I learned this early in life because my parents were shopkeepers and showed me the many tricks to turn a buck. I encourage everyone to learn from the lockdown experience and recover personal dignity for profit.
“The genius of this deserves grudging respect.”
Why would we/should we give any kind of respect, grudging or otherwise, to evil?
yes, we need to get a lot louder about this basic item (among many important items for our era): the corporation as a construct must cease to exist. It is the unwholesome conflation of government power and private unaccountability. People can still pool their capital and efforts to form an enterprise together, but the liability shield and the immportality of a corporation in a life independent of its shareholders, give form and force to some kind of golem straight out of medieval alchemy. it’s faust’s demon. it’s what centuries of bitter, desperate sorcerors seeking profit without effort dreamed of. it’s the closest thing to maxwell’s demon we’ve ever constructed, an abomination even in the face of the laws of thermodynamics! profits go through one door and liability through another, separated irrevocably by some black magic, and backed by the full force of the power of the state to do violence.
the entire concept of the corporation must end, forever.
Yugoslavia under Marshall Tito had an interesting economic policy: you could run your own business, but there was a limit to how big it could grow. I believe the ceiling for employment by any single private firm was around twenty persons; any more employees than that, and the state would step in, one way or another.
given what we have today that doesnt sound too bad, nor does such a limit get too intrusive in terms of monitoring/reporting/draconian invasion of privacy or documenting every last time you fart. employ more than X people, it’s a ‘big’ operation and falls under greater scrutiny/heavier burden, simple enough.
interesting bit of information. i wonder what their treatment of private property , especially farmland was.
today here in greece it is so much more dictatorial and so much more arbitrary, that people would be nostalgic for even something as ugly as tito’s yugoslavia.
Corporations are considered as persons under the law.
Although the corps are not alive and the boards and mgmt are the “people” making up the corp, as a whole they form the entity of a corp, which is legally a person. Therefore, if a person acts as slaveowner, blackmailer, tyrant, or oppressor of rights they are liable. Where are all the covid lawsuits in this manner. The supreme court got it wrong allowing a texas hospital to force employees to get vax. How did that lawsuit get fastracked to supreme court? How can the blackmail of vax or lose benefits and pensions and vesting be considered anything but blackmail.
The corporations do not fear the right because the right is composed mostly of lazy minded weaklings who still go around saying “google it” and swilling their Coke and Budweisser while they are glued to Obama-worshiping Netflix. The right has not conducted even one large scale boycott ever. (Christians did Cracker Barrel. Trump violated his own call to boycott Coke the very next day, and the next.) Cucks for bigbiz like Hannity are still saying their long time mantras about monopolies, “It’s a private company, they can do whatever they want” and “You can’t punish success.”
It would be ultra doable to cripple google if the 70 million who voted against Biden stopped using google search. But not one top figure on the right even discusses that. At least TBP advises in the sidebar for people to use Startpage instead. How many of you actually do? Or DuckDuckGo or others?
I boycott many of these. Fuck gaggle, Wally, Target, Amazon, Gillette, fagbook, twatter, Subway, Home Despot, the big 3, union products, et al.
Bravo to you, Melty. But the other 99% of our side figures, “I’m all for rights and freedoms and stuff, but I’m not giving up my favorite brands.”
I wonder what would have if enough folks whispered in the ear of those pushing the work or else vaccine mantra, ” If I take the shot and suffer; so will you ” . After cleaning the shit out their underwear I’d bet their attitude would be different .