Granna Bytes: 500,000 Indictments, 84 Million Crimes

Anna von Reitz

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Anna reflects on the limits of justice after profound and irreversible harm. She concludes that compensation and punishment cannot restore everything people have lost, and that lasting change also depends on personal conduct. Drawing on the suffering and institutional failures discussed in her wider work, she asks readers to consider the consequences of action and inaction. Her message places everyday choices, values and responsibility at the heart of building a different future.

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Anna recognises that some losses cannot be repaired through compensation or punishment.
She asks readers to consider the lasting effects of both action and inaction.
Her conclusion connects wider change with personal values and conduct.

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By Anna Von Reitz

Let's be honest.

There's no "making up" for what has gone on in this country, nor in many other countries around the world.

You can't make up for lovers who died as a result of deliberately introduced STDs like AIDS. Or children, parents, friends, and siblings who died as a result of phony vaccinations. Or entire nations destroyed by man made plagues.

You can't make up for husbands and wives, sons and daughters, killed in the line of (mercenary) duty.

You can't make up for babies aborted.

You can't make up for land stolen from former generations.

You can't give back years spent in prison for non-existent crimes.

You can't make it up for people who starved, who lived in fear, who lived truncated, crippled, miserable lives because other men and women didn't deserve the trust placed in them.

There is no way that "justice" can be served in any of these examples. The damage has been done. There is nothing that a mortal man can do to change it and there is no way to make up for it.

We need to pause and think about this, realizing the long term irremediable effects our actions and inactions have and not just for "others", for ourselves, too.

Think of all the victims of all the genocides. Think of all the thievery of natural resources, all the peonage and enslavement.

It's not enough to tear down whatever institutions and whatever group of people we blame for this horrific record of self-service and destruction.

We have to fundamentally change ourselves, change our values, change our focus --- and resolve to create a different world.

Always, it comes down to this: if we want to change the world, we have to change ourselves first.

Granna

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