Al Mayadeen English

  • Ar
  • Es
  • x
Al Mayadeen English

Slogan

  • News
    • Politics
    • Economy
    • Sports
    • Arts&Culture
    • Health
    • Miscellaneous
    • Technology
    • Environment
  • Articles
    • Opinion
    • Analysis
    • Blog
    • Features
  • Videos
    • NewsFeed
    • Video Features
    • Explainers
    • TV
    • Digital Series
  • Infographs
  • In Pictures
  • • LIVE
News
  • Politics
  • Economy
  • Sports
  • Arts&Culture
  • Health
  • Miscellaneous
  • Technology
  • Environment
Articles
  • Opinion
  • Analysis
  • Blog
  • Features
Videos
  • NewsFeed
  • Video Features
  • Explainers
  • TV
  • Digital Series
Infographs
In Pictures
  • Africa
  • Asia
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Europe
  • Latin America
  • MENA
  • Palestine
  • US & Canada
BREAKING
Al Mayadeen correspondent: An Israeli drone fired two missiles at a car on the Hadatha-Hares road, Southen Lebanon
Larijani: Iran did not give Lebanon a paper [to implement]; it was the US that did so, and it was "Israel" that aggressed against Lebanon and its sovereingty.
Larijani: Foreign countries must not give orders to Lebanon, Tehran does not interfere in Lebanon's decision-making.
Larijani: The ones interfering in Lebanese affairs are those dictating plans and deadlines.
Aoun: Lebanon, which never interferes in the affairs of any other country and respects its privacy, including that of Iran, will not accept anyone interfering in its internal affairs
Aoun: The friendship we seek between Lebanon and Iran should encompass all Lebanese, not just one sect or political group
The Lebanese President, during his meeting with Larijani: Some recent remarks by Iranian officials have been unhelpful for Lebanon
Aoun, during his meeting with Larijani: Lebanon is willing to cooperate with Iran within the bounds of sovereignty and friendship based on mutual respect
Larijani: I will hold a number of meetings with Lebanese officials, namely the president, prime minister, and speaker.
Larijani from Beirut: We will stand beside the dear people of Lebanon.

The French COVID Pass and the Death of Liberty

  • Gearóid Ó Colmáin Gearóid Ó Colmáin
  • Source: Al Mayadeen
  • 3 Aug 2021 21:55
7 Min Read

European liberté was always, as Marx correctly understood, the liberty of the ruling class.

  • x
  • The French COVID Pass and the Death of Liberty

French President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to impose COVID vaccination passports for entry into shops, restaurants, cafes and bars is an important step in the direction of redefining what it means to be free. Henceforth, to be free is to be considered ‘healthy’ by the government.

However, if you have AIDS, leprosy, TB or other infectious diseases, you can enter any premises. Of course, all of this makes perfect sense in #Aburdistan#.  Covid-19 is clearly the most abominable disease since the Black Plague. Last year, a French nun who was 117 years old got COVID. She recovered. But she could have died! Imagine that!

What is death? Does anyone ask this question anymore? Our modern atheistic world lives in blissful denial of death. Yet, under the surface lurks an irrepressible fear of our finitude. There is a sense in which the COVID psychosis is being driven by our unconscious dread of hell. The Davos elites tell us that there will be “no going back to normal.” People are living in a kind of mourning for the freedoms they have lost.

The emerging global COVID regime adumbrates the horror of hell. The horror of hell is not the fire and the pain, but the fact that it cannot end, that one cannot die. So, in a sense, our irrational fear of death is a foreshadowing of the pain, realizing that we cannot end it. 

It is foolish to believe this regime can be toppled without prayer and repentance for sin. Sin is our sickness. But that does not mean political action is futile. Physical battles must be won to reclaim our countries from these technocratic psychopaths. Our children’s futures depend on it. What we are witnessing is the demise of the modern concept of abstract freedom. European liberté was always, as Marx correctly understood, the liberty of the ruling class.

 For the past year, the French were phlegmatic and docile. While millions of demonstrators went out to the streets of London and Berlin to protest against lockdowns, the French seemed asleep. That is why Macron took the risk of imposing the vaccine pass to bring about an absolutist technocracy. But he may have gone too far this time.

 The French have risen. Hundreds of thousands took the streets on July 24 to protest against the COVID dictatorship. But it looks like the oligarchy is up to its usual tricks. They’ve turned to the controlled leftist ‘opposition’. 

Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of the ironically titled France Unbowed party and Francois Ruffin, another leftist agent of the oligarchy, have come out in support of the protest movement. Neither of these scoundrels has ever supported any genuinely popular movement. They exist to prevent effective rebellion. Their involvement in the protest shows that the oligarchy wants the focus to be on the question of forcing the vaccines, rather than the extremely dangerous experimental MRNA technology being pushed by Big Pharma.

Related News

European gestures towards a Palestinian state ultimately serve 'Israel'

Europe bends the knee: How Ursula von der Leyen surrendered to Trump's tariff threat

Big Pharma doesn’t want the discussion to be about the safety of the untested MRNA technology. So, the controlled opposition will keep the focus on defending the dead concept of liberté.

 France has a reputation for being skeptical about vaccines. The mass media never explains why that is the case. The reason is simple: The French eat well, live well and have a good level of general education. They don’t all believe that staying healthy requires being injected with cocktails of experimental chemicals. 

Furthermore, it was French science in the 19th century which set the terms of what should be the current debate on health: Whether one becomes ill when a germ enters the body or whether an illness is a result of a combination of agents internal and external to the body. The former germ theory is most associated with Louis Pasteur.

The latter organic view of health owes much to a lesser known biologist Antoine Béchamp. Béchamp conducted thousands of experiments which proved that the vitality of the body’s milieu interieur, its internal terrain, is the key to its health. According to Gerald L. Geison’s book The Private Science of Louis Pasteur, the famous French chemist falsified many of his experiments to prove the efficacy of vaccination. Pasteur used his political contacts to get funding for his work, and the secularist state couldn’t resist the opportunity to play God through mass preventive medicine programs. 

Pasteur’s subsequent status as a great scientist did much to propel the current cult of scientism: the ludicrous belief that scientists are demi-gods with the solutions to all our problems. Pasteur reduced life processes to dead matter, while Béchamp saw the ambiguities of complex life forces.  The abstract view of liberty based on the denial of God and the moral law, matched perfectly with Pastoran reductionism.

The current protest movement risks falling into the same trap as that of the Yellow Vests if it is led by imbeciles like Mélenchon or Ruffin. The only way out of this crisis of civilization is to form vital parallel economic, social and political structures to those of the morbid capitalist system. This requires creativity and determination. Those people who refuse to submit to the agenda of the New World Order should form their own tightly-knit communities, living simply and sustainably. 

All dictatorships collapse in time. This regime will collapse in time too. Being excluded from their corrupt society and their monopoly businesses will provide us with the opportunity of building our own alternatives. It’s time to get off the internet and physically meet all those people who are resisting this COVID tyranny. There is an expression in Irish which says, “níl neart gur chur le chéile”, there is only strength in numbers. They have divided us. We must focus on unity.

You cannot kill a system which is already dead. We should instead focus on building new futures outside the system. Building the internal terrain of the body and the soul is just as important as fighting the pathogen of the technocratic regime. Ora et labora, prayer and work, these Benedictine values built Western civilization. The revolution should not necessarily be some epic event with flags, seizures of government buildings and executions; it should be a total moral transformation of our lives, an internal round tower built to last. To a world obsessed with longevity, health and comfort, we say memento mori, remember that you must die. Christians do not fear death but the judgement that comes after we die. Macron’s regime of death has no future. It is the millions of French patriots who will ultimately ‘build back better’. 

The views expressed in this article are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect Al Mayadeen’s editorial stance.
  • Europe
  • COVID-19
  • Vaccines
  • France
  • Coronavirus
  • COVID-19 Vaccines
Gearóid Ó Colmáin

Gearóid Ó Colmáin

Journalist and political analyst

Most Read

All
Everything we have seen occur across the region over the past 22 months teaches the Arab public that capitulation spells the end of their nations and leaves them vulnerable to endless abuses. (Al Mayadeen English; Illustrated by Batoul Chamas)

The US wants Lebanon, Gaza and Iraq to disarm and will fail

  • Opinion
  • 7 Aug 2025
We must honestly evaluate such moves less as vaguely well-intentioned acts of political virtue signaling and more as active campaigns of counterinsurgency designed only to save "Israel" from itself. (Al Mayadeen English; Illustrated by Batoul Chamas)

European gestures towards a Palestinian state ultimately serve 'Israel'

  • Opinion
  • 8 Aug 2025
Georges Ibrahim Abdallah: Lebanon’s lion roars the truth

Georges Ibrahim Abdallah: Lebanon’s lion roars the truth

  • Opinion
  • 31 Jul 2025
The whistleblower’s testimony indicates they were surprised the FBI expressed “high confidence” in the 2017 ICA. (Al Mayadeen English; Illustrated by Zeinab el-Hajj)

Whistleblower exposes real 2016 US election meddling

  • Opinion
  • 5 Aug 2025

Coverage

All
War on Iran

More from this writer

All
Is France supporting terrorism in Mali?

Is France supporting terrorism in Mali?

The Redeployment of US Troops in Somalia will Destabilise the Horn of Africa

The Redeployment of US Troops in Somalia will Destabilise the Horn of Africa

The Holodomor Myth and the Global Food Crisis

The Holodomor Myth and the Global Food Crisis

Is the Russian war in Ukraine legal?

Is the Russian war in Ukraine legal?

Al Mayadeen English

Al Mayadeen is an Arab Independent Media Satellite Channel.

All Rights Reserved

  • x
  • Privacy Policy
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Authors
Android
iOS