Hüseyin Dogru is a journalist. He has been sanctioned by the EU for a couple of months already.
The sanctions prohibit any EU business and people from offering him any resources. His bank accounts are frozen, he has no money, he cannot pay rent, he cannot pay for food, he cannot feed his 2 newborn children.
Is Hüseyin some kind of vicious terrorist ready to jump on you? Not really, he was sanctinned because of wrong-think, literaly. He was propagating ideas that were not in line with what the EU thinks is right. Unfortunately he was a bit too successful at it, so BAM! Sanctions! No more food for Hüseyin. He is now reduced to begging friends, family, and complete strangers for food.
Regardless of what you think of what Hüseyin did, the truth is that he had not violated any laws and has not been accused of any crime, otherwise, there would have been a court case and a judge would have decided if he was guilty and what punishment he would receive. That’s not how it works with these sanctions, you go straight to the no-more-food-for-you case, and it’s all decided by some bureaucrat in a high tower. It’s pretty terrifying lack of any due process, if you ask me. No need to be working for Al-Qaeda or ISIS, more importantly, no need to prove any of that, they just need to write something as justification in the form, and that’s it, you are done for! Oh, I almost forgot, it does not matter if you are an EU citizen or not, and you don’t have any money, so you cannot even pay lawyers to defend your case or try to appeal the decision.
As you see things can go wrong pretty fast in this new world we are living in. And don’t think that living in the USA would protect you. Some day you or your favorite TV personality could wake up and find out that you are sanctioned because of another stupid wrong-think offense.
For example, I see you are already participating in the new “organized gang” called Monero Reddit, some abomination trying to challenge the economic foundation of our modern and very democratic societies! And I have proof because you have joined this subreddit! That’s really all that’s needed for us all to go to the begging case. And Monero does not even have to be designated a terrorist organization, it’s enough for the bureaucrats to say Monero very bad, something, something protecting the children/fighting against terrorism.
Anyway, hypothetically speaking, how would you manage if you were sanctioned like Hüseyin? I want to write an article about it, for myself, not for distribution to other people (sanctioned or not). This way, I can rest assured that I have a plan for this low probability/high impact scenario. Here are some of my first thoughts:
Short term (survival mode)
- get a way for people to know your situation and your xmr address
- put it in your Twitter/X handle
- make a kuno on https://kuno.anne.media/
- ask/demand reporters writing about you to always mention it in their article
- beg friends, family and strangers for food and essentials
Mid-term (making money)
- save some money to move out of the sanctions area if you are still inside and live somewhere you can earn some money
Long term (new life)
- Move to a country that does not enforce sanctions that were not voted by the UN Security Council
Please share any idea or link that could help!
P.S: It goes without saying, obviously this is not a recommendation for sanction evasion, just a thought exercise among 100% law-abiding people, and you should always dutifully respect and follow your local laws and regulations. Joke: You could also voluntarily genuflect and bow from time to time towards the building of your local overlords in order to show appreciation that you are not yet sanctioned even though you are a potential wrong-thinker.
Being sanctioned in your own country seems crazy I never thought of that
- XMR stash you exchange for cash
- Sell your bank account assets on some multiple where you repay if sanctions ever get lifted. Depends on your situation what your rate would be
The whole thing is very bad, there is really no need to prove anything:
“He also published the “evidence pack” used to justify the measures, which consisted solely of a few tweets from his personal X account and from Red Media.” SourceSelling your assets on a multiple is a pretty innovative idea! Nice! You will have difficulty doing this via institutional entities, but you can do it using xmr.
Use your honor and reputation so people understand that you are not going to scam them, then those virtual bank assets for xmr to us degens on Crypto Twitter. You just need to promise to repay the people that are helping you now with the money that might some day become available to you again.
On the face of it, it does not look too convincing, but there are people that genuinely want to help you and they will appreciate getting something in return.
>His bank accounts are frozen
Well, don’t rely on the banks in the first place, use cash and crypto for everything. Is it not possible to live like this in his country?
In the case of sanctions, people and businesses are not allowed to deal with him, even using crypto.
From what I understand, his grocery shop is not allowed to take his money.
In the case of a bank card payment, it does not matter because the bank has blocked his card.
I guess that he was able to get around that when he still had some cash, but now he no longer has any cash and he cannot withdraw any more. If he had some xmr he could pay with that at the places where xmr payment is accepted.The same applies for paying rent, he cannot pay the landlord, and it’s unlikely that the landlord is ready to accept our preferred magic internet money.
@silverpill @monero @ArseneSpeculoos He’s German so using crypto is probably against some weird interpretation of their law that has nothing to do with crypto. And especially privacy related crypto, because as is little known, German government doesn’t like you to have privacy.
@phnt @monero @ArseneSpeculoos Yeah I heard they want to make privacy coins illegal, but there are simple workarounds. Do they plan to go cashless as well?
