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Introducing a new "inside the government thread" where I will be chronicling any kind of day-to-day observations I find interesting at my work.

For those who don't know me, I'm a civil servant that works for a large financial center. I do policy and legislation and so I'm faced with implementing global standards on a day-to-day basis.

I'm always open to do podcasts, but unfortunately, I just don't have the contacts in that space. So I'm just going to chronicle things I see here.

OpnState 7mo ago

Hidden allies

My entire legislative department had a meeting about sanctions last week. There were about 60 senior level government individuals in the room all talking and trying to find ways to more efficaciously seize assets and implement sanctions and ensure that sanctions are implemented by banks and other financial institutions in the jurisdiction.

The key takeaway here is that nobody asked what due process there was to prevent sanctions from being used as a political tool... in other words, using sanctions to supress political opponents or people who a government doesn't like, at a whim. All this, of course, without any kind of proper due process.

A big surprise was that one of the individuals in the room did say that " One person's terrorist is another person's freedom fighter". This was a pleasant revelation - even if those in theroom were eager mindless zealots, a few like me and him hold pur tongues and are silent witnesses to the establishment of a global control grid.

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47 7mo ago

so heavy

OpnState 7mo ago

Sadly, that's how I feel. I wanted to raise my hand during that meeting and ask "what safeguards are we putting in place to prevent misuse of these frameworks?"

I stayed quiet. It would have put a target on my back.

That's why such a small comment like the one made by a colleague means a lot. I often wonder, looking at a room like that, how many people are like me, secretly feeling this is complete bullshit.