Posted on 08/25/2021 5:42:59 AM PDT by Heartlander
In 1938, one year before the outbreak of World War II, Winston Churchill gave his famous “the lights are going out” speech, in which he said, instructively: “Alexander the Great remarked that the people of Asia were slaves because they had not learned to pronounce the word ‘No.’ Let that not be the epitaph of the English-speaking peoples.”
In 2021, the world takes stock of its freedom and finds out just how little is left. In Australia, Melbourne has been locked down for 19 months and the police are shooting violators with rubber bullets. In New Zealand, citizens testing positive for COVID-19 were quarantined by force in government camps run by the military: “I cannot allow the gains we have all made to be squandered by processes that are not followed,” said New Zealand’s prime minister.
In Great Britain, the National Health Service built an app that “pings” people who have been near a person with a positive COVID test and requires those people to leave work. Last month the app was “pinging” more than half a million people every week. Boris Johnson’s spokesman says the app is doing “what it’s designed to do.”
In America, New Yorkers will not be allowed indoors anywhere—no bars, restaurants, museums, movie theaters, gyms—without their “Key to NYC” proof of vaccination. This despite the fact that the vaccine only inhibits one from developing symptoms, but does not at all affect the likelihood of having the virus in one’s system or passing it to others.
This year, much of the world discovered that its freedom was illusory: Nothing more than words and slogans to soothe the credulous, feeble public. But not in Florida, where I happen to be at the moment. When “Key to NYC” was announced by Bill de Blasio, I knew it was the right time to visit some friends in the south and see how the other half lives.
And down here, under the calm guidance of the best governor in America by far, and with no masks, no restrictions of any sort whatsoever, life is free and normal. The press reports a high number of COVID cases in Florida without showing the inconvenient truth—that despite the number of people testing positive, the outcomes are extremely good. Hospitalizations are rare and deaths exceptionally so, despite the Mayo Clinic’s estimate that only half the people down here are vaccinated.
The reality in Florida exposes the worldwide response to the novel coronavirus for what it is: An exercise in oppression. A precious opportunity for governments to see just how far their tentacles can intrude into peoples’ daily lives. An excuse to grant governments across the world extraordinary, emergency powers that, once granted, will become normal and then permanent. It’s an excuse—that’s all it is. A phony pretext for everything the government wanted to do anyway.
Coronavirus may have been the careless, Fauci-funded mistake of criminally inept Chinese researchers. But governments everywhere saw COVID as a gift. It is the global equivalent of Putin’s Russian apartment bombings, or Hitler’s Reichstag fire. Out of panic, power.
It is chilling and sobering to see how aggressively governments will subjugate populations of whom they are not afraid. In almost every country in the world, people are coming up against the unfortunate realization that, when push comes to shove, they are utterly helpless.
And they allowed themselves to become helpless: In 1996, Australia enacted a mandatory “buyback” for semi-automatic firearms and confiscated 650,000 rifles over the next year. Britain banned all handguns in 1997. New York City has the most restrictive gun laws in America. It is no coincidence that gun confiscations have preceded other government abuses of power. A gun ban renders a population defenseless and—perhaps even more importantly—it tests a peoples’ inclination to obey. If you’re willing to give up your firearms, you won’t say no to anything else the government tells you to do.
When the Nazis invaded Western Europe, the first act of the occupation government in every province of Holland, Belgium, Denmark, and France was to demand the surrender of all personal firearms. Failure to comply was punishable by death. These confications were followed, in the cities, by mandatory curfews.
Most people in most places complied. Many—especially in France, to their eternal shame—cooperated actively and eagerly with the new authorities by turning their resistant neighbors over to the police. These neighbors, they felt, were making life more dangerous for everyone else. Incidentally, New York wants you to know that if you suspect someone of trying to use a fake proof of vaccination, you should please email the COVID Gestapo at STOPVAXFRAUD@health.ny.gov.
A people disarmed is a people enslaved. Enslaved not only by their lacking effective means of resistance, but by their having shown their willingness to surrender those means to the authorities. When you look at American states with the freest gun laws, you know you’re looking at states with the freest people: Not simply because these people have guns, but because they had the strength of character to keep them. They were the ones who, when the government came around to lock them in their homes, said “No.”
If America is to enjoy a new birth of freedom, as I believe it will, it starts with those Americans who believe there are some things more important than safety, some things dearer even than life. To those in less-fortunate circumstances and places, it may fall to you to take the first step towards freedom regained: The government will ask you for your papers. You know what to say.
The United States just suffered the GREATEST military defeat of our LIFETIMES, far worse than in Vietnam, because North Vietnam just wanted us out, but had no intention of carrying the war to our shores, in a messianic crusade. And we did not leave THOUSANDS of Americans behind in Vietnam, as Benedict Biden has done in Afghanistan. Benedict will not be able to stop their infiltration amongst the refugees, or across our open southern border.
Pretty soon we’ll have to send a loud report with saying no.
All the VAX SHILLS are the enemies of freedom. They propagate lie after lie to keep carrying water for our ENEMIES.
Here is an example of how to say “NO” at a local level. It is a school board meeting and some stuckup TWOT announces that because of local/state “health” guidelines (i.e., from someone else, don’t blame me) everyone has to don a mask or police will toss them out.
One brave lady gets up and tells them, figuratively, “F**You” by saying she will not. Gets standing ovation and everyone starts chanting.
Prissy, worthless board members kill meeting.
Cause chaos! Get in their faces! Make it personal, ‘cause it is!
Bears repeating.
Excellent video. I am tired of being pushed around. I had a woman at the door of Walmart handing out masks and I just smiled and said “No Thank You”. No one else said a word to me and if they had I would have left my buggy where it was.
Excellent video. I am tired of being pushed around. I had a woman at the door of Walmart handing out masks and I just smiled and said “No Thank You”. No one else said a word to me and if they had I would have left my buggy where it was
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Hubby and I have done that from day one. I actually had some people come up and say something to me: They said we agree with what you did - we just didn’t want to have to argue.
Amazing, because there wasn’t even any argument. Can’t speak for Walmart in other locations - I think the closer to the St. Louis they are, the more dictatorial they get.
PING!
Don’t confuse acts of tyranny of the unconstitutional government with the constitutionally-protected freedom of individuals and companies like Walmart to do what they see best. If Walmart feels forced by government to require mases, then the issue is between Walmart and the government. But free enterprise has every right to do what they want and you are not forced to buy from them and may go elsewhere.
Our fight is against the acts and decrees of governmental tyranny including mask requirements, not against the choices private business makes.
I love it! Lets post this everywhere. JUST SAY NO!!!
See my tag line.
True, but I exercise my right to say "NO" anywhere I can.
That’s fine. You have the right to say no to private business and they have the right to say no to you.
The fight, however, is against unconstitutional government, not private business.
1000’s were left behind in Laos. Oh ya, we weren’t there... Got it.
Regan wanted to go and got them out, congress stopped him.
My son is starting college next week (sophomore). The school's COVID policies are pretty generous but now they say they are going to test all students every couple of weeks. (on-campus lab, same as they did last spring).
My son says no. He says no test, no vax, no mask. He says he will not participate in any way with the lie. He's going to show up at orientation activities this week and try to convince more students to join him.
Simply tell them they can no more force you to put on a mask or force you to receive a vaccine than you can force them to behave rationally ... and should you decide to not wear a mask and, emboldened by their "authority" they insist you leave, turn and say -- politely but directly: "You should know that I am digusted with you for wearing a mask as you are with me for not wearing one."
No need to argue ... the bully’s control over you is limited to the front door. Let them know that it’s your decision as to whether or not to wear a mask or whether or not to receive a vaccine, and that choice is yours and yours alone.
Simply tell them they can no more force you to put on a mask or force you to receive a vaccine than you can force them to behave rationally ... and should you decide to not wear a mask and, emboldened by their “authority” they insist you leave, turn and say — politely but directly: “You should know that I am digusted with you for wearing a mask as you are with me for not wearing one.”
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Which is why I simply said no I don’t and walked right on in. I didn’t need to tell them anything.
Or ask them “Are you really that scared of the sight of a human face?”.
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