Following orders? Like these guy are doing?:
Posted on 04/28/2020 4:11:32 AM PDT by Kaslin
Yes, this was a “dress rehersal” to see how far the Constitution could be destroyed.
The next time it will be even more treasonous.
“Imagine being told last December that this would be imposed by law in February.”
These are Executive Orders and rules pulled out of a bureaucrats ass not laws. Yet the police enforce them and no on takes them to court. Where are the civil rights lawyers?
That was the moment I knew this country is doomed.
I really was surprised how many governors just “made laws” to deal with the virus. It was like their legislative branches were completely superfluous. Oh, look at me! I have emergency powers! I’m gonna do stuff!
With almost no push back.
Kill the snitches. They go first. And second ...
Following orders? Like these guy are doing?:
I understand. I just hope that when there’s a real push by the authorities that some police will refuse to go along. I know that there are good cops everywhere but liberty is more important than anything.
Thank you for your optimism, I’m trying to “make some lemonade from lemons” from this as well. Hopefully this will drastically alter our relationship with Communist China, we didn’t become so dependent on them overnight and disentanglement won’t happen overnight either. Models and experts have been wrong so many times in all aspects of the China virus, hopefully less credence will be given to them in the future in dealing with pandemics and anything else (climate change for one).
“The reason I believe this is a dress rehearsal is that too many Americans appear untroubled by it.”
a very simple explanation for it; the feminization of America...we are all becoming chicks, inculcated by all their underlying phobias and hangups...
It’s very sad. There will always be those, however, who will rebel against it because they know the state is not their master. Problem is, it gets very messy. It’s easier to get to a police state than to get out of it.
“Doomed!”
.
Well,
Perhaps.
I saw the same parade of satellites last month. Just before dawn. At first I thought I was seeing things but then I remembered the news of his starlink program. Weird.
“... the human condition is that most people would be perfectly content living in a police state because they are emotionally conditioned to have their lives managed by others.”
Our Founders broke that. And America became great.
But our teachers, professors, unionists, Democrats and MSM have been very very busy, for many decades, thwarting our Founders’ ideals and emotionally conditioning us toward a police state.
I’m still amazed by the level of hyperbole and panic that seems to characterize much of what’s being posted here the past week or so.
“America is destroyed” “Police state” “We’ve surrendered all of our liberty”... It’s nonsense. No one is being dragged from their homes for reeducation. No one’s having the doors to their home welded shut so they can’t get out as was done in China. The police are not shooting curfew breakers indiscriminately... If that begins to happen, we should return fire. It goes without saying that we will be breaking their curfew.
Most everyone has been mildly inconvenienced so far. That is all. Your favorite restaurant is closed, (and may never open again). The local barber can’t cut your hair.
When it becomes a life or death matter (if it ever does), YOU are the one responsible for finding a solution for you and your tribe. If you are old and disabled and incapable of providing that solution, then YOU were responsible for training the young men in your tribe, so that THEY can provide a solution. Let’s hope you did.
Having failed to do that, you and yours will likely Darwin out, either in this crisis or in one that hasn’t yet occurred. It’s a shame.
The truth post-coronavirus is the same as the truth pre-coronavirus: The only liberty you’ve ever had is the liberty you exercise. The only things that you own, or ever have, are those things that you can possess and defend. Nothing else is yours, or ever was.
It isn’t that all the people will willingly go into servitude. It’s that so many have already done so, and are therefore unable to function in an environment of change.
That’s the principal reason that so many cry out to “restart the economy now”, and dive head-first into the wilder sort of conspiracy fiction... More of the same servitude they’ve always enjoyed is the only condition they’re equipped to handle.
These people actually believe that some all-powerful “other” controls whether there is an economy or not.
That’s MY opinion anyway.
‘You have the right to leave your house and sit in your car at church, but that right stops if I’m afraid of a virus.’
ha...that’s pretty good; wish I’d thought of using that against these sheep that I was arguing with on our local FB page...these people were accusing me of the gravest of human crimes because I don’t want to wear a mask...
Words mean things. The problem with many of the actions by "law enforcement," during this pandemic is that they aren't really laws. This shows the troubling, problematic results of poor civics education in our schools. In our republic, "laws," are generally speaking, passed by an elected, representative legislature and then signed by an elected executive (or vetoed and over-ridden by the legislature).
What our "law" enforcers are enforcing are in many cases not laws, but rather unilateral executive decrees by governors, mayors or worse yet, unelected bureaucrats.
The customers may be mildly inconvenienced. But if you are the restaurant owner or the barber this is hardly just an inconvenience.
THIS is why the police state is so easy to impose on a population of willing sheep ... because most people are NOT business owners.
YES. I can’t put into words how encouraging it is. It also makes me remember (this was when real American history was taught in the schools) that during the American Revolution a/k/a War of Independence, the vast majority of people sat on their butts, just like they are today. A very small number of people fought, and that very small number of people WON.
One has to remember there are many left wing trolls on FR for the purpose of swaying opinions here leftward.
There will be others who’ll open a business to replace the ones that don’t survive.
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