Posted on 12/16/2020 4:10:12 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Paris (AFP) - Measures imposed by governments to fight the Covid-19 pandemic have squeezed civil liberties worldwide, with authoritarian regimes seeking to exploit the restrictions as a way to shore up their sometimes shaky control on fast-changing societies, rights groups say.
Demonstrations have been outlawed, elections postponed, and activists subject to even greater repression in a health emergency the political impact of which will still be felt when the pandemic is over.
In Guinea in west Africa, the government has banned all demonstrations until further notice, citing the fight against Covid. Hungary in central Europe is under a state of emergency until February.
But the impact on freedoms is not confined to autocratic regimes. It is also felt in liberal democracies, albeit in a less blatant form.
The restrictions imposed for much of this year would have been unthinkable to most Europeans even in January.
"Emergency powers carry a risk of abuse of power by the executive" and of remaining in force even once the emergency is over, meaning "appropriate parliamentary and judicial oversight" is required to limit the risk, the EU parliament said in November.
Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben has argued "the voluntary creation of a permanent state of emergency -- even if it is not declared in the technical sense -- has become one of the essential practices of contemporary states, including those that are supposedly democratic."
The health emergency declared in France to fight the pandemic can be compared to the state of emergency imposed in the wake of a terror attack, said Laureline Fontaine, professor in public law at Sorbonne Nouvelle university.
"We have become used to living without freedom," she said.
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The Planscamdemic is working as intended.
I fixed it.
What is intended?
The biggest casualty of the Plandemic will not be miscellaneous absurd restrictions and business closings, but Freedom itself. Churchill and his stubborn courage in 1950 and 1941 kept Freedom alive for 3 more generations, but now the forces of worldwide tyranny are on the verge of their ultimate triumph, the end of the United States as it has been for nearly 250 years. The ultimate protector of Freedom for the last 100 years, the refuge for all victims of oppression fortunate enough to escape tyranny in their homeland, will be no more - all because of the go along, get along RINO assholes who allowed this election to be so easily perverted by the Marxists and bought (by China) Dems into History’s greatest theft.
The new overlords will be the CCP, the Mongol Khans of our age, armed with a technology the likes of which no past tyrants could have dreamed of using.
Unless we fight - and the Indispensable Man, the George Washington, of our times has less than 5 weeks to pull the trigger, because after that it will be too late. Drastic times require drastic actions.
“ Churchill and his stubborn courage in 1950 and 1941...”
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1940 and 1941. I hate cell phone keyboards.
See #5.
Well said.
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