I came across a blog comment I came across the other day:
It should have never happened in the first place. The entire country gave up essential liberty for a little temporary safety, which gave government unfettered control over their lives.
Indeed, it has. Today on a number of websites, I saw a "This day in history" but none mentioned the 1889 birthday of der Führer.
However, some grim, very totalitarian news to report that might have pleased the Nazi leader:
First, one should read Victor Davis Hanson here (highlights are my own):
An excerpt:
What explains the current taboo on topics regarding the coronavirus?
It is now a truism that almost every influential model that has been
advanced about the spread of the coronavirus was flawed. They almost all erred
on the side of exaggerated morbidity. But to suggest that in public is deemed
heresy.
This article by Willis Eschenbach is excellent at exploring how these models predicted such dire
consquences -- and are now are proven to be (to put it mildly)
grotesquely off -- is fascinating.
This site: https://swprs.org/a-swiss-doctor-on-covid-19/#latest is a Swiss site with a lot of info, if you want it. And I mean, a lot. Check it out.
Now, with that in mind, consider the following:
Yes, Facebook is taking down all posts wherein U.S. citizens try to organize protests against the lockdown. See here at the invaluable Conservative Treehouse:
An excerpt:
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook CEO – “If someone is spreading
something that is misinformation—certainly, someone saying that social
distancing is not effective to help limit the spread of coronavirus—we do
classify that as harmful misinformation and we take that down.”
“At the same time, it’s important for people to debate
policies, basically give their opinions on different things, so there’s a line
on this. But more than normal political discourse, I think, a lot of the things
people are saying that is false around a health emergency can be classified as
harmful misinformation that has a risk of leading to physical danger, and we
will take that down.”
[Ron: Has Zuckerman never heard of Sweden?]
...The rules restricting liberty, in response to the
crisis, have been pronounced without any representative voice supporting them.
All of the rules are arbitrary, and many of these rules will be challenged in
court.
However, until those court challenges take place,
the only option for a redress of grievance comes in the form of public protest.
Currently, there is no way for an citizen to appeal to a representative voice
against the decrees from a state governor; other than a public protest…. This
is a critical point; because non-representative government was the origination
of the first great American rebellion against dictates from King George III.
Rebellion against unilateral and authoritarian
power is America. Rebellion or push-back against non-representative government
is the thread that connects the varying patchworks of our constitutional
republic. Protest is so critical to our nation that it is protected within the
very first amendment to our constitution.
Blue state governors have united to begin an
economic civil war and block any White House effort to re-open the U.S.
economy. Enforcement of these unilateral orders is part of that
plan. The governors must use all censorship tools to retain their
totalitarian agenda.
Again, this is all very predictable, during this
economic war residents within the Blue occupied territories will be held
captive to the political whims of their regional generals.
It is as though they want to bring on a civil war. They might well get that wish.
Then, in pure damnation, the U.S. federal government plans to tax people to pay for their own incarceration.
An excerpt:
Comrades, senators within the
United States government have proposed a terrific scheme to force taxpayers to
fund their own confinement. According to the plan $500 billion will
be provided to state and local officials in an effort to offset lost revenue as
a result of keeping citizens under house arrest. Under the remarkable
plan, taxpayers will now be paying for their own confinement.
Under the proposal, citizens who
are not permitted to work; and who cannot leave the confinement of their homes
or residence to earn a living; are now going to be compelled by the authority
of the government, to pay the continued salaries of government workers.
Meanwhile, in a
brilliant twist to benefit the State, as a result of their dictatorial power
there is no currently functioning system of representation for any citizen to
petition their unwarranted house-arrest. You just can’t make this stuff
up folks… unfortunately.
Ron again: The "blue state"
governors are pushing this thing to the maximum, and the Federalis seem
to have drunk the Kool-Aid. It doesn't matter what Sweden does, or
anyplace else in the world (South Dakota). Violence will surely erupt,
and in the very near future. As noted in this American Greatness article. That certainly seems to be the reality: small businessmen, the
"deplorables" who voted for Trump, they're the ones being flattened.
Whether the Chinese ChiComs plotted all this or not, it sure is turing
out to their advantage.
As for the actual virus, technically Sars-Cov-2 (it should be Sars
period, as the original Sars seems to have disappeared), yes, it is
deadly enough to people like me, older, with pre-existing conditions (I
have COPD) and so on, so they could be quarantined, naturally enough,
and occasionally lock-downs (quarantines) of specific towns and regions
might be warranted, as in Lombardy and NYC. (NYC, and its immediately
adjoining counties, were they a separate country from the U.S., has more
per captia deaths per million people than ANY other country! If
you substract NY from the U.S., the U.S. isn't even in the top ten
countries for COVID deaths! (And that is with them inflating the COVID
death stats shamelessly.)
And
where, oh where is the common sense in herding locals into one specific
place -- their local groceries -- if this disease is spread through
close contact? This is an important interview with Professor Johan Giesecke regarding lockdown policies.
An excerpt:
The only
measure “we know” will work “is washing your hands is good for you and good for
others when you’re in epidemic, but the rest, like border closures, school
closures, social distancing, there’s almost no science behind most of these,”
argued Giesecke.
Enough
is enough. Americans have some degree of patience, but it is wearing
thin. Even in Europe, people are beginning to ask questions.
BTW, a "true spirit of America" post:
local government officials flooded a skate part with sand to stop the
skaters, so the kids turned it into a dirt bike track!
An Préachán
