May I see your (digital) papers, please?

American Thinker ^ | 12 Jun, 2023 | Vic Hughes

[MtnClimber]

The World Health Organization has disturbing plans for freedom of movement, including in the United States.

In the classic movie Casablanca, two Nazi-controlled French Vichy police utter the famous, or infamous, line: "May I see your papers?" When the suspect provides expired government-issued identification papers and attempts to flee, the fascist supporting police gun him down in the street. Even though the suspect is outnumbered two to one, no attempt is made to pursue him, to apprehend him, or to establish guilt. He is just gunned down. The lesson couldn't be clearer. Have the proper government-issued papers, or you can (will?) be killed by authorities with complete immunity. Comply or die!

While there is another set of government-issued papers critical to the movie plotline that I will return to shortly, the phrase "May I see your papers?" became a symbol of the dangers of the police state to the freedom-loving Hippie generation. Sadly, what once was art is now becoming reality.

On May 17, I wrote of the threat of "mandatory digital health passports (probably first for travelers, then for everyone)." I also noted about implementation that "speed is critical."

Now the other shoe is dropping. From the Epoch Times:

The WHO said in a June 5 statement it has entered into a "landmark digital health partnership" with the European Commission (EC), the European Union's executive body.

As part of this new joint venture, Europe's existing framework of digital vaccine passports will serve as the first building block of a global network of digital health products.

The WHO stated it will "take up the European Union (EU) system of digital Covid-19 certification to establish a global system that will help facilitate global mobility and protect citizens across the world from on-going and future health threats."

[MtnClimber]

I would also expect the Chinese Social Credit System to be adopted world-wide.

[rlmorel]

"...The WHO stated it will "take up the European Union (EU) system of digital Covid-19 certification to establish a global system that will help facilitate global mobility and protect citizens across the world from on-going and future health threats which WHO, CCP, DNC, Obama er, Biden Administration, and the Deep State are currently concocting..."

They left that last part out.

[alexander_busek]

In the classic movie Casablanca, two Nazi-controlled French Vichy police utter the famous, or infamous, line: "May I see your papers?" When the suspect provides expired government-issued identification papers and attempts to flee, the fascist supporting police gun him down in the street. Even though the suspect is outnumbered two to one, no attempt is made to pursue him, to apprehend him, or to establish guilt. He is just gunned down. The lesson couldn't be clearer.

Poor example. Vichy is definitely portrayed in a consistently bad (deservedly so!) light throughout the film - but it is implied in the film that the fleeing suspect was involved in the assassination of the two German couriers carrying the "Letters of Transit" (the film's macguffin) which had, meanwhile, come into the possession of "Senor Ugarte" (played by the incomparable Peter Lorre), who is later likewise shot down while fleeing.

Doesn't alter the fact that digital passports are indeed always to be viewed with suspicion.

Regards,

[JoJo354]

Digital passports for legal citizens but not illegal or roving immigrants? It is amazing how in your face the governments are that their citizens freedoms are taken away but the illegals get all the freedoms they want?

[magooey]

As these are not to facilitate transit but to restrict transit, they are like the apartheid era passbooks. We are all to be restricted into our 15 minute bantustans.

[Vaduz]

AHH the wonders of the digital world only good when the power is on no troublesome papers to deal with.