Posted on 05/19/2024 5:18:29 AM PDT by MtnClimber
There was plenty of calculated strategy behind Western governments’ COVID madness.
The COVID police state revealed Western governments’ zeal for totalitarianism. Forced masking, forced experimental injections, forced school and business closures, forced isolation, and forced compliance provided Western citizens an opportunity to see the tyrannical inclinations hiding just beneath the surface of their supposedly beneficent “democracies.”
None of it was pretty. Mass propaganda disguised as medical expertise (remember when Joe Biden and his CDC army of Goebbels clones demanded that we wear three or more masks outside?) and mass censorship of social media conversations (because, we were frequently told, disinformation kills!) proved that — when push comes to shove — Western governments will quickly dispense with protections for free speech. Wannabe dictators (intent on protecting “democracy” by being authoritarian) embraced their true “Do as we say!” dispositions and branded the public’s rights and liberties as “enemies of the State.”
Officials summarily punished anyone who resisted COVID’s descending Iron Curtain. Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau seized the bank accounts and property titles of Freedom Convoy protesters. Videos from Australia and New Zealand showing police forces blocking roads, securing quarantine camps, and pushing citizens back into their homes looked like scenes from a Mad Max movie. California Democrats buried skateparks in sand, cordoned off jungle-gyms with yellow crime tape, and arrested lone surfers paddling in the ocean. Abandoning moderation and constitutional constraints, Western totalitarians embraced intimidation, coercion, and surveillance on a wide scale.
Throughout the West, governments prohibited places of worship from conducting religious services, recorded license plate numbers of congregants, and issued excessive fines to clergy.
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” If justice as a juridical principle were still alive and kicking, a vast number of government officials and bureaucrats would be defending themselves before Nuremberg-like prosecutions today.”
Without a complicit media to run cover for the leftists this would never have happened.
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” If justice as a juridical principle were still alive and kicking, a vast number of government officials and bureaucrats would be defending themselves before Nuremberg-like prosecutions today.”
Agreed 100%. There won’t be any discussion next time. Nor will there be ANY protection for ANY local authority that tries to enforce any of that BS again.
Or…you could have Nuremberg-like prosecutions and begin to restore some of our faith in government.
In my neighborhood there are two local bars nearby. Great places to have a beer while being just a few miles from home. When SC reopened, the state recommended the six foot distancing for restaurants and bars. One bar complied by setting up plastic partitions, closed tables and recommended masking. The other nearby bar did nothing. The owner said that if you are uncomfortable, go someplace else. Not surprisingly the compliant bar became essentially a take out restaurant. The waitresses were miserable. The other bar was bustling with business where life was completely normal.
The real lesson was people’s unwillingness to execute the enforcers at the outset.
Worse. So did the sheep.
Covid was nothing but a communist plot to see how easy it would be to control the population of the world. Now they know they can, easily!
many "citizens" wanted unvaxxed to suffer...wanted to take way their rights to health care..to work...to grocery shop....
one can not rely on the cops nor the military to defend us....
you can't even depend on most churches...let alone schools...
it was a pathetic display of fascism..
BTT
True.
When Easter of 2020 rolled around without mass disobedience everywhere to church restrictions, I knew it was worse than I had thought.
Agreed.
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