Experts are never held accountable when they are wrong. They just move on to the next ‘expert’ topic.
Yup. Experts.
They should be the first to dangle from lamp posts.
Actually, this Aussie understands American thinking pretty well. Most American tolerate government, they don’t worship it or revere it. We revere the principles in our founding document because those documents put citizens right above govt, which has only powers allowed it by the people.
In most countries govts tell citizens what rights they have.
Rousseau lays out that type of thinking.
We are witnessing in bas relief the tension between corporate and individual behavior. As a Christian, I honor both. At the same time, there are perverse aspects to both. This life, for Christians anyway, includes a cross, and that means it ain’t all pretty.
Experts search for excuse to enact martial law...
“Experts” with no name and no citation of specific scholarly work on the subject = fabrications.
Oppressive government is not a “must have”.
Read the article, it is very short, so most FReepers can handle it.
DemonRat politicians and media impacted the most.
The 4th largest metro area in Washington State just deemed to extension of the Stay at Home order unconstitutional and will no longer enforce Gov’s actions.
This is a big deal.
About time.
Had an unfortunate encounter with one of Gov. Wolf’s sheeple outside of Home Depot yesterday. She objected vociferously to my reference to Wolf as “Tommie the Commie” with a number of “F bombs.” I applied my “So, you want to be treated just like a man, huh?” philosophy and, as it turns out, she really doesn’t want to be treated like a man. Go figure...
In the IT industry, I tell the foreign workers who sometimes ask me questions that in the USA, we are ‘citizens’. In just about all other countries, they are ‘subjects’.
I explain to them that they are the primary protector of their families, neighborhoods, villages, towns, cities, counties, and states. They have a MORAL responsibility to fight tyranny even if it puts them at risk.
This is alien to non-Americans.
Sounds pretty spot-on to me: “...deep independent streak that believes the government is a nice-to-have not a must-have.”
EXPERT!, tHIS IS WHY THEY RATS IN BLUE STATES ARE DOING THIS, they want civil disobedience
Better stock up on tar and feathers before the big run on Home Depot. ;-)
Civil disobedience not civil unrest. I expect that some restaurants and small bars will open in defience of the shutdown orders. They will move tables apart and put masks on servers paying lip service to the quarantine but will be open for business as usual. Tyrannical governors will seek to close them but I think LEOs will be very reluctant for such confrontation. The media will scream calling them murderers, right wing nuts and every slander. However if they stand their ground others will follow and the flood gates will be open. When the mass deaths, flooding of hospitals and spiking of new cases doesn’t materialize the models will be seen as the jokes they have always been