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Gluboco Lietuva
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Lithuanian father, husband, forager of wild mushrooms. Banished 5 months for refusing the Covid Pass: Sep. 2021 — Feb. 2022. Email: gluboco@pm.me.
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After 5 months, our banishment ended: Lithuania suspended the Covid Pass this month. But it's suspended, not abolished. Politicians—in Lithuania and all Europe—are now laying the foundation for the Pass to become a permanent feature of society. Update:
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For refusing the Covid Pass, my family was banished from society for 5 months. Finally, our country, Lithuania, suspended the Pass...for now. Here's a look at life under the segregation of the Pass. And why it'll soon be permanent in all Europe unless we ban it now forever. 1/
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After 5 months, our banishment ended: Lithuania suspended the Covid Pass this month. But it's suspended, not abolished. Politicians—in Lithuania and all Europe—are now laying the foundation for the Pass to become a permanent feature of society. Update:
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For refusing the Covid Pass, my family was banished from society for 5 months. Finally, our country, Lithuania, suspended the Pass...for now. Here's a look at life under the segregation of the Pass. And why it'll soon be permanent in all Europe unless we ban it now forever. 1/
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After 5 months, our banishment ended: Lithuania suspended the Covid Pass this month. But it's suspended, not abolished. Politicians—in Lithuania and all Europe—are now laying the foundation for the Pass to become a permanent feature of society. Update:
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For refusing the Covid Pass, my family was banished from society for 5 months. Finally, our country, Lithuania, suspended the Pass...for now. Here's a look at life under the segregation of the Pass. And why it'll soon be permanent in all Europe unless we ban it now forever. 1/
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After 5 months, our banishment ended: Lithuania suspended the Covid Pass. But it's suspended, not abolished. Politicians—in Lithuania and in all Europe—are now laying the foundation for the Pass to become a permanent feature of society. Update:
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For refusing the Covid Pass, my family was banished from society for 5 months. Finally, our country, Lithuania, suspended the Pass...for now. Here's a look at life under the segregation of the Pass. And why it'll soon be permanent in all Europe unless we ban it now forever. 1/
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For 5 months, we could only pick up a pre-ordered book thru a side door, while people with the Pass could enter and use the facilities as usual. Now, we too entered thru the front door. We too went to the reading room. And we too read books. Just like everyone else. ps-end/
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And the first thing we did after the Pass? We finally took our kids to the library again. They were so happy that they jumped and bounced as they looked at books. And us? We were so happy that we tried not to cry - or at least, not too much - as we were reading to them. ps8/
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We have more time now (even with the new baby). Being banished is hard work: it turns out it's extremely time-consuming to maintain a semblance of normality for the kids while living in modern society,surrounded by modern society, yet banished by modern society. Who knew. ps7/
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For those asking about life post-banishment: Our third child was born. Mom, baby: great. Dad: happy he can buy them supplies with no restrictions. No jobs yet. Can't return to our previous jobs; death wishes against us and all that. But we're getting by. Life finds a way. ps6/
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This now is our struggle: to ban the Pass. Bureaucratic inertia is unstoppable: once embedded,the Pass will grow to ban ever more behavior as bureaucrats expand their power. So I'd be grateful for your help to share this message, so that together, we can stop this madness. ps5/
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Freedom seems so abstract. But when it was ripped from us, we realized how real freedom is: every moment of our life depends on it. Freedom is fragile, and it must be defended. The struggle never ends: every generation must fight its own fight to earn it and win it. ps4/
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If liberty is to have any meaning, it must be inviolable. It doesn't matter what liberty we have under law, if bureaucrats can redefine that liberty in any crisis, and then—as is happening with the Pass—claim success in order to justify embedding the changes permanently. ps3/
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No one should ever again be banished anywhere as we were banished here. The Pass is global, so our opposition must be global as well: none of us will be free until the Pass is banned, forever, in all our societies. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. ps2/
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POSTSCRIPT: Many people have emailed to offer help. I'm humbled by the generosity. Thank you, truly. But my wife and I don't want, and will never take, money or donations. And we don't care about credit or recognition. Our only goal is freedom and equality for all. ps1/
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The Pass wasn't ended. It's just suspended... for now. By labeling the Covid Pass a success, the politicians—in Lithuania and in all the EU—are laying the foundation for the Pass as a permanent feature of society, to be turned on and off at any time. This will never end. 18/
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EDIT: In tweet #18, I mistakenly uploaded the image from #17. So the image intended for #18 didn't post. Can't edit tweets; so, in the next message, I re-post #18 with the correct image. It's important—leaders' quotes that the Pass isn't abolished—so I'm kicking myself. Sorry!
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We will continue to fight until the Pass is banned everywhere, forever. Because no one should ever again be banished as we have been banished. No hand should ever again hold this whip. Not today, not tomorrow. Not in our country, not in any country. Never again. end/
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With this message,we hope to document the destruction inevitably wrought by the Pass. We hope to reach the people of good conscience who recognize the wrong but fear to speak out. And we hope to send forth a tiny ripple of hope to those who struggle with us. Never submit. 42/
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Success? Saved our freedoms? No. We will not allow bureaucrats to rewrite history to permanently embed the Pass for future waves, future viruses,future behaviors. Segregation is not equality. Banishment is not freedom. Societal destruction is not success. Never forget. 41/
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With the Pass, you lashed us with the whip of banishment. Banned from shops. No clothes,toys for our kids. Restricted on food,gas. No income. For 5 months, you whipped us. But we did not submit. We will never submit to the hate, segregation, authoritarianism of the Pass. 40/
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With the Pass, you offered us the cookie of freedom. But freedom is not yours to give. Freedom is our birthright: inalienable, beyond the reach of the tyranny of a mob or of bureaucrats flipping a QR code on and off. Freedom does not come from a Pass. Freedom is ours already.
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Segregation. Blame for disease. Incitement. Accusations of fascism, insanity, treason, devil-worship. This is not a history textbook. This has been the reality of life for my family in 2021-22. Our humanity has been erased. This is wrong. So deeply, deeply wrong. 38/
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Our society has been torn asunder. No longer do we work together, pray together, eat together, shop together. Restriction by restriction, the Pass has ripped apart the bonds which held us together in one society. 34/
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Science-deniers living immersed in medieval fears! Hard-core anti-vaxxers throwing on their pants and rushing to hospital! Our medical leaders disparage people opposed to Covid Pass restrictions, with the most strident voices featured prominently in mainstream media. 31/
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Our police launch surprise raids to inspect the Pass: shopping centers, supermarkets, restaurants, even mothers playing with their kids in children’s centers. The penalty for Pass violations: arrest, fine, and/or imprisonment of up to 6 years. 30/
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Our society's businesses banished us for 5 months. Enforcement has been strict. No big company has publicly taken a stand against discrimination. None have been willing to brave the stigmatization, censure, wrath. 29/
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Superiority of one group. "Our" way of life threatened by the other group. Exclusion, discrimination. This is the essence of othering. It's the essence of the Covid Pass. Since summer 2021, it's come from every part of our community. And it has ripped our society apart. 28/
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Like many cases in history, Covid Pass authoritarianism has fueled—and been fueled by—segregation and hate. Each historical case is unique. It's wrong to say it's the same. But what's similar is the underlying psychology unleashed by the Pass: the othering of us-vs.-them. 27/
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In summer 2021, dialog and consent were replaced by coercion and punishment. The new policy became the cookie and whip of the Covid Pass: if you refuse the cookie, then they whip you until you submit. That is not health. It is power and control. It is authoritarianism. 26/
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But just get vaccinated! You'll get your freedom back! No. Vaccinated or not, needing government approval for food or clothes isn’t freedom. A QR code to work isn’t freedom. Banishment for opposition isn’t freedom. This is about more than vaccination. This is about freedom.
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SEGREGATION & SOCIETAL DESTRUCTION: The Covid Pass has redefined freedom. Before, you were free to do whatever you want, unless the law prohibits you. Under the Covid Pass regime, freedom was inverted: you can't do anything, unless a bureaucrat allows you. 23/
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This will never end if we allow politicians to claim success. This will never end if we ignore the evidence of societal destruction which the Pass has caused. This will never end if we don't acknowledge what the Pass is at its core: segregation, othering, authoritarianism. 22/
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The EU announced plans this month to use the Covid Pass for all travel within Europe until June 2023 "to save freedom of movement." Restrict our freedom of movement in order to save our freedom of movement?! The Pass for another year and a half?! This will never end. 21/
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