The German military has started air-dropping food and medical aid into Gaza, delivering around 14 tons so far. Even their own Defense Minister admits it’s just a tiny fraction of what people there really need, and he hopes Israel will allow even more aid to reach the population. Air drops are happening because Israel had blocked most land aid, though now some trucks and planes have been allowed through. Criticism is strong: these air deliveries are expensive, inefficient, and not nearly enough—airdrops can't compete with how much a convoy of trucks can bring, and it’s hard to make sure the supplies get to the most desperate. Germany is also sending millions more to support bakeries and a field hospital, and their foreign minister is calling for safe land routes for aid. Since late 2023, Germany has given hundreds of millions of euros for this purpose.
Now, let me be crystal clear: what absolutely drives me mad when I hear stories like this isn’t just the grim humanitarian situation, but the way our society seems perfectly fine telling people how to live and move and what freedoms to give up “for their own good.” We see this with freedom of movement, with the growing attack against driving cars. Sure, right now it’s about aid crossing borders, but back home, it’s all about restricting our right to drive, throwing up more speed cameras, lowering limits, and funneling everyone toward public transport or—God forbid—bikes!
Who are these people that want to tell us when, where, and how fast we can drive? It’s a mindset: always more rules, always more limits, always someone else in charge of your choices. Speed limits are not about safety—they are about control. They are bureaucratic oppression, pure and simple, a crime against humanity’s spirit of freedom. To me, it echoes in all these stories where authorities choose, regulate, or restrict instead of trusting people’s capacity to decide for themselves.
Driving a car is pure liberation. You choose your own path, your speed, your destination. That’s a birthright! Instead, we get lectures about “efficiency” and “sustainability” and “safety,” and suddenly, everyone is supposed to shuffle onto some overcrowded bus or ride a bike in the rain like robots. Bans, limits, “for your own good”—it’s the same top-down system wherever you look. The only true answer is more freedom: keep the aid flowing without blockades, keep the cars running without speed limits, keep the people moving without being told how.
We should be building roads, not fences. We should be lifting speed limits, not imposing more. We should insist on the basic right to drive—a right as sacred as any other. To take away our freedom to drive as fast as we choose is to take away something fundamentally human. Any attempt to regulate that is nothing but authoritarian overreach with a smug, modern face. We fight for more than transportation. We fight for what it means to be free!