Problem: How to crush the unvaxxed masses?
Robots? Uniformed thugs? Why not both?
The big news from the East is that Kazakhstan’s government resigned following large and seemingly spontaneous protests. Our friends at Ivan Chai have many interesting videos documenting the civil unrest.
The demonstrations have been blamed on rising fuel prices but obviously there had to be pre-existing grievances to motivate people to take to the streets. Perhaps disenchantment with compulsory vaccination and other coercive “public health” measures played a role in the Kazakh government’s downfall? Very possibly.
Although the situation seems far from cataclysmic, it’s safe to assume the Kremlin isn’t exactly overjoyed by these recent developments. People Power: not good. The Russian people might get some crazy “ideas” now that their own government is actively pursuing polices that literally nobody wants or needs.
With vocal support from Vladimir Putin, the State Duma is preparing to push through a nationwide QR code regime opposed by the overwhelming majority of Russians.
St. Petersburg and many other parts of the country are already under the QR code yoke. These digital cattle tags aren’t just a death sentence for basic human rights—the right to freedom of association, free movement and commerce—but will also massacre Russia’s small businesses. Many people will become grumpy, probably. Kazakhstan-level grumpy? Maybe.
Luckily, the Russian government had the foresight to slash healthcare spending while increasing the budget for police and security forces, during a “pandemic”:
In total, the budget will “save” 640 billion rubles on medicine, the economy and social support of citizens, and the government plans to spend almost the entire amount on a sharp increase in funding for law enforcement agencies.
Expenditures under the item “national security and law enforcement”, which includes the budgets of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Rosgvardia [Russia’s national guard/internal military force] and the Federal Penitentiary Service, in the 2022 budget will increase from 2.384 to 2.799 trillion rubles.
“It is through the budget that we are looking for an opportunity to help people solve problems,” State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin said at the end of November. And we believe him.
“To ensure the safety of citizens”
In December, Russia’s police force was granted sweeping new powers:
The new law will allow police to pen-in Russians like cattle and carry out intimate inspections:
The document secures the right of the police to cordon off (blockade) territories, residential premises, buildings and other objects; within the cordon, the police will be able to carry out a personal inspection of citizens, things they have with them, inspection of vehicles and transported goods. If a citizen refuses to be examined, law enforcement officers have the right not to let him in or out of the cordoned-off territory.
Police officers will also have the authority to open a car and enter it to “save lives and ensure the safety of citizens or public safety during riots and emergencies, to detain suspects or accused.”
But what if normal human police are not reliable? After all, some of them might be among the 90% of the country that is not overly excited about being digitally tagged.
Thankfully a federally-funded institute attached to the Russian Academy of Sciences developed a riot robot. Or at least a blueprint for one:
These RoboCops will be armed with a “stun gun, mesh-throwing mechanism and quick-hardening foam,” according to RIA Novosti.
To be honest, probably a lot of Russians would prefer to be policed by robots. The Rosgvardia does not have a great reputation.
Rest assured, Russian authorities are committed to keeping everyone safe and healthy.
On a related topic: the Russian government is now quite open about how it wants to inject every single person in the country. How will this be accomplished through “voluntary” means? (Trick question: the unproven genetic shot is already compulsory for millions of Russians.)
It will be interesting to see who is still playing defense for the Kremlin once the forced injections, digital tagging and government-inflicted economic misery begins in earnest. It’s already started, actually.
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After seeing enough videos it's safe to say the protests in Kazakhstan are well organized, like a color revolution. Some guys were spraying traffic surveillance cams, seizing police equipment and vehicles and so on. Someone is clearly behind this.
But whatever the case may be, the government deserves everything thats coming to them, they do not give people a choice but to rise up. F the rich mofos and their robots. In the end its still us who program and maintain those robots.