Dec 29th, 2021: We Should Be Uncomfortable...


Last week we learned that the Public Health Agency of Canada had been tracking 33 million mobile devices during lockdown till this past Oct. The Agency said that it did not violate the Privacy Act in such surveillance. The lack of transparency of PHAC can only add to the distrust and apprehension of people who believe that governments around the world have propagated this pandemic to take away their freedom and to establish power to erase the human sense of safety.


We also need to realize that PAHC is not alone in collecting such data. Have you ever had a conversation with someone about a specific brand name and product then discovered that ads about them appear on your cellphone internet browser? The same thing happens when we use Google to search for products or services. Someone is listening to us and tracking us via our mobile devices.


We are monitored (surveillance) and censored (abusive control) daily. We will be living in denial if we deny that. Freedom of thought and freedom of speech is an illusion these days. Someone is trying to dictate our thoughts, actions, and priorities. The future of our democracy is in danger if we do not address this honestly and forcefully.


Christians believe that the Holy Spirit guides our life choices that bring about our transformation. The Holy Spirit is not there to make us less than whom God has intended for us to be. He is not God's surveillance power. He is God's empowerment power. Controlling surveillance is not based on faith but fear. Our trust in political authority has eroded so terribly during this COVID 19. Do we have any idea why?


Matthew 5: 1-48

 

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