Editorial
West : from a state of security emergency to a state of health emergency ...
Is there a link between the state of health emergency which since 2020 has strangled the fundamental freedoms of Western citizens , and the post September 11 , 2001 security state of emergency , and its cohort of attacks in the West , without to forget the terror campaigns of the West in foreign lands with intensive and high-tech bombardments which caused the most ubiquitous “ collateral damage ” from Somalia to Afghanistan via Libya , Iraq , or Syria ?. The bookish answer is simple . A state of emergency is a measure taken by a government in the event of imminent danger in a country . Some fundamental freedoms may be restricted , such as freedom of movement or freedom of the press .
Obviously , this laconic definition for those who can understand beyond words , acutely describes the situation experienced by citizens of the Western world , where freedom of movement has since been restricted just like freedom of the press with self-proclaimed censors like Facebook or Twitter which since , censor all writings of dissident nature towards the o cial speech related to the Covid-19 pandemic . We are not far from the directives of the politburo of the Soviet Union which in the name of the discipline of the Communist Party sanctioned everything that questioned the truths , however false truths , imposed by the central power or supreme presidium .
Flashmag ! Issue 121 September 2021
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