Posted on 01/23/2021 3:33:58 AM PST by MtnClimber
The government's idea of freedom sure is oppressive.
I have an old Nigerian friend who has filled my head with so many traditional Igbo proverbs that I sometimes forget whether I'm recalling folksy American wisdom or folksy Igbo wisdom. (When it has anything to do with yams, it's the latter.) These days, I can't stop thinking about a sage little gem he threw my way long ago. consulted his advice on a particularly difficult decision confronting me, and he just nodded his head and said, "Yes, a large fly has landed on your nether regions." When I raised an eyebrow in his direction, he said gravely, "Whether you swat it away or leave it there, you're in trouble."
SNIP
If you question how the Constitution empowers local municipal tyrants to combat illness by unilaterally sentencing Americans to house arrest, confiscating their places of business, and separating them from their families, nobody even pretends the Constitution still exists. It doesn't matter whether wearing a mask reduces the spread of disease or just forces people to touch their faces routinely with unclean hands and dirty strips of cloth; you have been told to wear a mask! It doesn't matter whether social isolation causes more deaths than the Chinese virus or whether enforced business closures permanently destroy Americans' futures; science must be obeyed, even when it's routinely wrong. Especially when it's wrong! Government fiat works, you see, only when common people are trained to abandon common sense. When people know that rules are absurd but follow them nonetheless, they are finally progressive enough to do exactly as the government commands!
Freedom of the press still exists, fellow Americans, but only if the press chooses its words carefully.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Google has been actively working with the Chinese government on their internet censorship programs. How long until they implement the same here under the direction of our dear leaders?
Or even without direction. They know what needs to be eliminated and get right to it even without orders.
That sums it up nicely.
Resist. Uncover face.
TANSTAAFL :-)
75 million voters know this election was stolen. The media, both houses of Congress and the corporations think they can put Biden on us. They think they’re in charge.
Now where’s that gif of They Live when I need it?
They don’t follow rules, why should we?! Come and get us all 75 million of us! I dare you!
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