Posted on 03/21/2022 4:28:13 AM PDT by MtnClimber
At the heart of the debate over COVID-19 restrictions is the distinction between rights and privileges. For most of human history some supreme authority, – a king, a sultan, a class of aristocrats – has presumed to grant to the common people certain privileges. By definition, as privileges, they can be granted, and they can be taken away.
The American concept of liberty is built on something fundamentally different. We do not enjoy privileges. We have rights. They are enshrined in the Constitution, but they are given to us by our Creator. We do not have the right to free speech, because some ‘body of humans’ granted it to us. We were born with it, and it cannot be taken away.
For two years now powerful interests in this country have attempted to change this. They have used all the power at their discretion to convert our rights into privileges that can be taken away whenever the powers that be decide some “emergency” requires it.
The real danger therein is obvious. Once you have enshrined the principle that an “emergency” justifies the revocation of God-given rights, it requires only the declaration of an “emergency” to do it again. And again.
Once this would have seemed the stuff of bad dystopian science fiction. No longer. Now it is as real as it gets.
This week the International Energy Agency (IEA) proposed that all Western economies should impose measures to reduce the use of oil. These measures are required to deal with the “emergency” caused by rising fuel prices. They include:
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The COVID scare worked for two years now. Will they bring the lockdowns back or is it time for the next emergency?
What the Nazis did to the Jews, Democrats will do to us.
You’ve heard of the First World War?
IMO, we’ve just lived through two years of the First World Dystopia.
If your government can force you to undergo an invasive medical procedure with an experimental substance on the basis of something with a low mortality rate like COVID, they can rationalize anything to suit their political goals.
And people should understand that, given human nature, that this particular tyranny is is going to manifest itself in a much more terrible way in our future.
There is a great deal of confusion these days as to what constitutes a “right” vs. a “privilege.” The distinction is one that should be taught in every school at the proper time.
Rights are relatively few in number, at least if one draws their number from our founding documents.
As for “free speech,” one must be of derelict conscience to believe anyone can say anything anywhere any time without consequence, legal or otherwise.
A lot of those rights infringements during WWI were courtesy of totalitarian Progressive Democrat President Woodrow Wilson. He was a nasty evil SOB. Look into some of PA’s posts on the subject.
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“Crisis is the rallying cry of the tyrant.”
— James Madison
The issue isn’t emergencies — there will always be “emergencies. The threat — the ultimate issue — is the loss of God-given, Constitutionally-protected Liberty when mere politicians and, particularly, unelected bureaucrats self-declare vast, new, unchallengeable powers over their fellow citizens and who are, being omnipotent in their evil minds, the sole determiner of when the “emergency” — and their vast, new, self-awarded powers end.
Indeed so. Morning radio “nuze” stated that the temps at the Arctic and Antarctic are greater than ever before, and COVID is increasing in Europe.
Eff them and the toilet they stink on. This time, there’s going to be trouble. For them.
I have some friends who don’t see the eerie parallels between the COVID-19(84) thing and the Mark of the Beast.
Now it’s not the Mark of the Beast but it divided people, limited buying and selling in some ways, restricted freedoms and it was mandated all over the world.
Oh and some offered to microchip your hand or barcode your phone (QR code app).
But they are doing well financially so it’s vaxx all the way for them.
(and COVID is increasing in Europe.)
OH MY GOODNESS!!!!
EVERYBODY PANIC!!!
SERPENTINE!!!
Any President can pull the pin.
The The Thirty-One National Emergencies Still in Effect.
The rats want Brandon to declare a Climate Emergency.
If you all remember, under Clinton, we had several “emergency” pieces of legislation.
Under Obama, nearly every piece of legislation was an “emergency”, which is how we ended up with “we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.”
You see, back then the opposition was “controversy” or “racist”.
Now the opposition is “Russian disinformation” “seditionists” or whatever.
We are the frogs in the water and it is getting warmer and warmer over time.
Do you deny that a seditionist cabal destroyed President Trump?
(We are the frogs in the water and it is getting warmer and warmer over time.)
The hour 🕚 is very, very late.
“What the Nazis did to the Jews, Democrats will do to us.”
I arrived at a FSU party after Obama’s victory. The university grad students and the professors had arrived early and were drunk. One student giggled out, “We should put the Republicans in reeducation camps.” A professor replied, “Reeducation Hell! Extermination camps!” Everyone howled with laughter. I spun on my heel and never went to another university party.
I believe that to be true..
The "army" (Obama's army, that he spoke of.) that will be used to preform the act is coming a crossed the southern border by the ten's of thousands this very day...
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