Posted on 03/10/2021 4:04:17 PM PST by CheshireTheCat
While the number of fatalities attributed to Covid-19 is carefully tracked by governments, few people have recognized how pandemic-spurred crackdowns have devastated democracy around the world. Emergency proclamations have entitled presidents and other government officials to seize vast new powers previously forbidden to them. Government bureaucrats became a new priesthood that could sanctify unlimited sacrifices merely by invoking dubious statistical extrapolations of future perils.
In October, Freedom House issued a report, Democracy under Lockdown – The Impact of COVID-19 on Global Freedom, which warned that since the pandemic started, “the condition of democracy and human rights has worsened in 80 countries.” Sarah Repucci, co-author of the report, warned that “governments’ responses to the pandemic are eroding the pillars of democracy around the world.” Abuses of power have been propelled by a presumption that government officials are entitled to all the power they claim to need to keep people safe.
When the pandemic arrived in America, governors in many states responded by dropping the equivalent of a Reverse Neutron Bomb – something which destroys the economy while supposedly leaving human beings unharmed. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo set the standard when he effectively declared that he was entitled to inflict any burden on his state’s residents to “save just one life.” Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer prohibited anyone from leaving their home to visit family or friends. Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti banned people from walking or bicycling outside. More than ten million jobs were lost thanks to lockdowns, a major reason why life expectancy in the United States last year had its sharpest plunge since World War Two....
Britain unleashed some of the most absurd restrictions. In June, it prohibited couples who live in different homes from having sex indoors...
(Excerpt) Read more at aier.org ...
And the ChiComs are loving it
Good. Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what is for dinner. Prefer a constitutional republic that protects me from all the idiot voters who surround me.
‘Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.…’
Winston S Churchill, 11 November 1947
James Bovard is a patriot treasure. Continue writing, sir knight.
I don’t think the economic damage was a bug. It was a feature, perhaps even the objective.
Just as they were designed to do.
Just as they were designed to do.
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yep
Yes, indeed. They are sweeping aside all opposition to their NWO Marxist dictatorship.
It is collective insanity, and frightening to see.
911 and now 311. Reverse neutron bomb. Good one.
For later - thanks - good find.
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