Public-Private Partnerships are killing our freedoms
Are you experiencing tyranny at the hands of private companies who are acting on behalf of the government? You bet you are.
I got a traffic ticket in the mail several months ago from Tacoma Municipal court. A traffic camera filmed me not fully stopping at a red light when I was turning right. The bill itself had to be paid on a website called, euphemistically, Zero Fatality. Zero Fatality is operated by Novoaglobal, which operates in Colombia and Argentina as well as the US.
In other words, I got a ticket from a private multi-national company and was forced to create an account on their website in order to pay them, not the government. Why should a private corporation be allowed to give me a traffic violation? (As an aside, I learned that if you ever get such a ticket, remember, they have to ticket the driver, not the car.)
I wish that were my only experience of tyranny at the hands of pubic-private partnerships, but there are many more. Here are just a couple:
When I refused to take the Covid vaccine, my school district forced me to submit a weekly PCR test to Everlywell, another multi-national corporation. My government employer was forcing me to use a private lab that I did not know anything about. I had to accept the terms of agreement that I did not actually want to accept. Sure, I had a "choice": either accept the accommodation or lose my job. More about that experience here if you're interested.
Jay Inslee (Washington's third-term leftist "governor") issued his vaccine mandate on the website Medium. I received notice of that announcement via my public school email address. I clicked the link and decided to post my questions about the vaccines on the governor's Medium page. After nearly 150 views on my webpage, my Medium account was deleted. The government issued its press release on a private company's platform that has a left-leaning bias.
From this experience, I learned that the government doesn't have to censor you itself. They can shut you down by using private company platforms that do not have the same free-speech requirements as a government entity might. Every government website I have seen has a link to Facebook, X and Instagram. All of these have been know to censor content.
In this digital era, the biggest private tech companies can engage in what we term ‘censorship by proxy,’ restricting freedom of expression or ability to raise funds in ways that the government cannot.
The above are just three personal examples of how my own freedom of speech and rights to privacy were violated by public-private partnerships. Sadly, the examples are endless:
We outsource our prisons to private companies and create a market for incarceration.
We outsource our weapons manufacturing and much of our defense infrastructure to private companies, thereby creating a market for war.
We outsource our money printing to the Federal Reserve, which is a private bank, thereby enabling avarice.
We outsource our election counting technology, enabling, well, you decide for yourself. If you challenge the private company tasked with providing our voting machines, you run the risk of being sued.
We outsource education curricula to left-leaning companies.
We outsource our health to big pharma. What a great business model Moderna and Pfizer had with the covid vaccines. The government guaranteed the market and demand for their products, purchased their products with taxpayer money, and then absolved them from all liability!
I don't presume to have an alternative to public-private partnerships. This is just the way our country and most of the world works, and has been since at least the 1600s. (Consider the Dutch East India company.)
Given that our freedoms are a threat to the new world order, it’s interesting that PPS are being promoted by the globalists. The World Bank Public-Private Partnership Legal Resource Center offers help with establishing PPPs. The PPP Knowledge Lab partners with large banks and other organizations, including the World Economic Forum, to help promote PPPs.
We need a disinterested regulatory body to oversee these partnerships. But knowing the human condition, such a body can never exist. Even if it did, it would be subject to corruption as soon as authority is granted to it.
As far as I can tell, the only logical plan of action for individuals is not to participate in PPPs whenever possible. Give the government a hard time when it uses private companies to limit your rights.
It probably won't solve anything, but it may slow down the implementation of absolute tyranny, which is coming not so much by a conspiracy among the elites as by complacency among the masses.