What does digital ID mean for you?
Discover more from Nation First, by George Christensen
What does digital ID mean for you?
Nation First explores the global push for digital identity systems.
Dear friend of freedom,
You’ve probably heard of China’s controversial social credit system, which monitors the behaviours of its citizens and rates the trustworthiness of individuals based on numerous factors determined by the Chinese Communist Party regime.
Now, the powers-that-be in the World Economic Forum (WEF) and their minions in governments around the world want to replicate it, starting with building a compulsory digital identity system.
More on that after this message from our Nation First sponsor…
At Good Success Therapy, certified hypnotherapist Louise Le Mottee helps your brilliant subconscious mind deal with difficult issues, typically in 1 to 3 sessions. Counselling is done via Zoom, usually during the Australian Eastern Standard Time business hours.
Louise is currently offering free 45 minute coaching sessions to help clients work out how to get to where they want to be. Her service can help with issues such as depression, anxiety, confidence, eating habits, quitting smoking, etc.
Louise makes use of hypnosis and other typical counselling techniques arranged in a very powerful way. She has had tremendous success with this technique. Unfortunately, Louise cannot help with serious mental health disorders requiring psychiatry.
Contact Louise Le Mottee of Good Success Therapy today for further details!
On paper, the WEF digital identity proposal aims to “provide verified personally identifying information of an individual for a software to read and process.”
It is applicable to both online and offline environments and “act[s] as a key by storing and deploying permission.”
The WEF claims that this system can help centralise information pertinent to a spectrum of human transactions and interactions such as voting, government benefits, healthcare, and taxes, among others.
Despite its promise of potential benefits, industry experts warn that a digital identity system poses massive risks on freedom and privacy.
A digital identity system is ‘Orwellian’
The European Union (EU) — behaving like good little boys and girls doing the WEF’s bidding — is moving quickly to adopt a transnational digital identity system.
However, the EU proposal came under attack in turopean Parliament several months ago for running the risk of replicating Communist China’s social credit system.
European Parliament Member Cristian Terhes said the move was equivalent to the “Chinafication of Europe” where the government acts as the all-encompassing Big Brother who sees everyone, everything, everywhere.
“This is an example of tyranny,” Terhes was quoted as saying.
In Communist China, citizens, government agencies, and companies are tracked and assessed based on their trustworthiness, which covers criminal and government history and financial records.
An entity is given a social credit score that corresponds to rewards or punishments based on one’s ranking.
The system is one where the government is authorized to track every movement of its citizens—similar to the plot in dystopian novel 1984 by George Orwell.
It’s what you’d expect from a Communist regime but not from nations that style themselves as democracies.
And yet the plot of 1984 is coming to Europe.
Those who have read Orwell know things didn’t end well for Winston Smith, the central character in that story.
Meanwhile, the EU says that unlike China’s social credit system, its digital identity platform will only be voluntary.
But sceptics have cast doubts particularly following the implementation of the COVID-19 passport, which sparked violent protests across Europe.
The passport had initially been lobbied as a voluntary and temporary solution to enable ‘safe’ cross-border travel amid the pandemic.
Now, it is a mandatory tool that EU officials are mulling to extend further.
Australia comes next?
Australia is doing away with the pretence of a voluntary digital identity system, and is on the brink of introducing a compulsory system despite concerns of abuse.
A voluntary digital identity system is actually already in existence in Australia. It’s called myGOVID.
The federal government wants to expand myGovID, mandating its use and linking it to state and federal services, and perhaps involving the private sector as well.
The proposed digital identity system is directly comparable to the now-defunct Australia Card initiative that gained notoriety in the 1980s.
Former Queensland Premier Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen railed against the Australia Card calling it a “system of privacy invasion”.
His blistering attack on the Australia Card in the Queensland Parliament proposal sums up the argument against a digital identity system:
“The Government can call it what it likes—the Australia Card or a national identification system—but by any name it is a plastic tattoo upon every Australian to mark every one of us for the control of our lives, in the grand socialistic ideal…
If you do not have this card with you at all times, you will not be able to deposit or withdraw money at your bank; you will not be able to claim your Medicare benefits; you will not be able to get a job; you will not be able to buy or sell any property; you will not be able to sell primary products, even to a marketing authority; and you will not be admitted to a hospital.
The Australia Card—the plastic tattoo—will provide a system to consolidate the information and build up personal dossiers with every scrap of private information on every person in this land.”
Indeed, it is feared that government access to sensitive information that a digital identity system would provide could be weaponized and grant authorities greater powers than needed.
Like the Australian Card, the current proposed system can also be used against an individual and weigh on the rights of the citizens.
To paraphrase Sir Joh, it will be a digital tattoo upon every Australian to mark every one of us for the control of our lives.
Aside from government abuse, privacy advocates warn that a central database of personal information that would be needed for any digital identity system could lure in hackers and pave the way for costly cyberattacks.
The digital identity agenda is, quite frankly, dehumanising, treating people as if they were mere products to tracked, and controlled.
Don’t just take my word for it. Here’s what WEF Founder and Chairman Klaus Schwab said in his book The Fourth Industrial Revolution in 2017.
“Any package, pallet or container can now be equipped with a sensor, transmitter or radio frequency identification (RFID) tag that allows a company to track where it is as it moves through the supply chain—how it is performing, how it is being used, and so on.
In the near future, similar monitoring systems will also be applied to the movement and tracking of people.”
This is the end game of a digital identity system.
Until tomorrow, God bless you, your family and our nation.
Take care,
George Christensen
P.S. As I am having to travel later today, the regular Behind The Fake News section won’t be running this week. Apologies.
In the meantime, enjoy this podcast I did with Julian Vigo of Savage Minds:
George Christensen is a former Australian politician, a Christian, freedom lover, conservative, blogger, podcaster, journalist and theologian. He has been feted by the Epoch Times as a “champion of human rights” and his writings have been praised by Infowars’ Alex Jones as “excellent and informative”.
George believes Nation First will be an essential part of the ongoing fight for freedom:
“The time is now for every proud patriot to step to the fore and fight for our freedom, sovereignty and way of life. Information is a key tool in any battle and the Nation First newsletter will be a valuable tool in the battle for the future of the West.”
— George Christensen.
Find more about George at his www.georgechristensen.com.au website.
What does digital ID mean for you?
Dislike technology too old to bother much but only when compelled to do so and digital activity warps my brain Easy to see how control is being used to make inroads into personal privacy Why do so many others need to know so much about me that I dont want disclosed I am a very ordinary person who has my own place in this world not needing to be shepherded into some other category to suit other's aims and wishes No Australia card for me,thanks
Nothing to do with this topic but I was wondering if anyone has heard or knows much about the QLD Health Practitioner Regulation National Law and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2022.
I'm hearing it's pretty scary stuff?