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“One lesson might be this: Fear and the desire for safety are powerful forces,” he said. “They can lead to a clamor for action — almost any action — as long as someone does something to address a perceived threat.

Benjamin Franklin warned:

"Those who abandon liberty out of a desire for temporary safety deserve neither liberty or safety"

1 posted on 05/19/2023 6:25:45 PM PDT by lightman
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To: lightman

Gorsuch is right.


2 posted on 05/19/2023 6:27:53 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: lightman

Sorry, but that is Captain Obvious.


3 posted on 05/19/2023 6:31:36 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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Wow. The other lefties won’t like him admitting this.


5 posted on 05/19/2023 6:33:14 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Justice Neil Gorsuch called government responses to the COVID-19 pandemic the “greatest intrusions on civil liberties in the peacetime history of this country” on Thursday...

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Wartime also. Internment camps held 125,000 Japanese people in World War Two. I wonder how many MILLIONS OF AMERICANS were held in 2020?


6 posted on 05/19/2023 6:33:45 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Donald Trump is a setting sun. Ron DeSantis is a rising star.)
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The greatest sin of the Covid pandemic was not all those restrictions.

The greatest sin was that no debate was permitted. No debate! Every objection, every alternate view, was brutally suppressed. It was either Fauci’s way or the highway. So much for scientific freedom.

And we have learned nothing from this. Consider ‘Climate Change’. It’s Greta Thunberg’s way or the highway. Try to present an alternative view, and you will be shouted down. You might even be assaulted.

Again, so much for scientific freedom.


7 posted on 05/19/2023 6:38:02 PM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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Fauci funded the creation of a virus that would kill millions and Americans gave up fundamental rights out of fear. Of course Fauci and his wife received millions and millions of dollars in bribes and kickbacks from the pharmaceutical companies for what he did. Now he will retire with millions in the bank after all those lies that he said. Justice would be for him to get a nasty updated virus and not survive.


9 posted on 05/19/2023 6:40:32 PM PDT by George J. Jetso
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TO LATE! SHOULD HAVE BEEN ISSUED IN APRIL 2020!


11 posted on 05/19/2023 6:47:40 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! AMERICA FIRST! DEATH TO MARXISM AND GLOBALISM!)
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To: lightman

Yet the USSC upheld those violations of liberty many times.


13 posted on 05/19/2023 7:11:43 PM PDT by Revel
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Until the day I die I'll believe that Rats in DC and in state capitals deliberately shut down the nation in order to destroy the economy...an economy that was running beautifully at the time.

Why? Orange Man Bad. They knew that that,along with voter fraud,was their only chance.

An example: The unemployment rate in Massachusetts in December 2019 was 2.8%. In July 2020,about four months after the Trump hating RINO Governor had completely shut down the state,it was 11.8%

14 posted on 05/19/2023 7:26:23 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Two Words: BANANA REPUBLIC!)
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And yet this very same Supreme Court voted 5-4 that mandating Covid vaccination for health care workers is A-okay.


15 posted on 05/19/2023 7:43:45 PM PDT by Obadiah
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Thank you Supreme Court for the obvious interpretation 2 years after the worse ended. The courts really need to gut and castrate the administrative agencies. Republicans need to pass a reestablishment and redirection law that agencies must be reaffirmed every 7-10 years and their responsibilities severely limited in scope. Most of them are runaway powers delegated by Congress. For the executive agencies, they need to be “enabled” in the same timeline.


16 posted on 05/19/2023 7:54:09 PM PDT by wgmalabama (Censored !)
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They also illegally changed elections but -— no standing. right judge?


18 posted on 05/20/2023 2:39:18 AM PDT by Pollard ( >>> The Great Reset is already underway! <<<)
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Trump — a man so powerful that the puny people had to create a worldwide disease just to stop him. And in the end they didn’t, really.


20 posted on 05/20/2023 3:18:58 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Worrying doesn't take away tomorrow's troubles. It takes away today's peace.)
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Dear Neil, What took you so effing long? You had years to speak up. Now that Covid has been declared as “over”, you find your balls and voice.

It’s like Durham”s report being released too late.

Feckless freaks.


21 posted on 05/20/2023 3:24:41 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Worrying doesn't take away tomorrow's troubles. It takes away today's peace.)
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The Bible had it right from the beginning it’s is not death which enslaves, but the Fear of death.
I got to spend 5 minutes with my husband before his open heart. So I crawled on the bed and we were laughing and cutting up. The nurse walked in and said in her entire career she never saw people laughing in those last moments.
Later I told her, if it were our last moments together here, they were going to be fun ones. We know where we are going and are utterly unafraid.
85% of Americans took the vax.. that is holocaust levels of obey without question.
This loss of civil liberties started with trump telling us the biggest lie in human history. 2 weeks to flatten the curve.
Then he paid it pharma billions to save us.
If Obama would have been prez there is no way 85% would have taken it. My progressive acquaintances now see that trump was their greatest ally.
Here on FR it is clear many would give him their last round, last weapon and call it 4d chess.


24 posted on 05/20/2023 3:47:17 AM PDT by momincombatboots (BQEphesians 6... who you are really at war with. )
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I couldn’t agree more. Americans can crow about “land of the free/home of the brave” all day long, but once government successfully plays on their fears, they will become stunningly malleable and submissive. Look how the majority of Americans willingly … no, EAGERLY … surrendered their freedoms when Fauci and Co. convinced them they were going to die an agonizing death if they don’t lock themselves down and wear masks.


26 posted on 05/20/2023 4:19:11 AM PDT by ScottinVA (A national divorce is the only option)
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To: lightman

Founding fathers would not have stood for any lockdowns.


30 posted on 05/20/2023 8:47:54 AM PDT by Jonny7797
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To: lightman

Founding fathers would not have stood for any lockdowns.


31 posted on 05/20/2023 8:47:54 AM PDT by Jonny7797
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They also used it to steal an election.


33 posted on 05/20/2023 8:52:37 AM PDT by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Support our troops by praying for their victory. )
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“Might makes right, that is the only law.” - Thrasymachus of Chalcedon


36 posted on 05/20/2023 12:17:44 PM PDT by JJBookman (Democrats = Party of weaponized gov.)
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