by Mark Armstrong
It looks like it’s about to get ugly. People are getting furious on every side of the debate about whether everything should be destroyed in order that everyone be kept “safe.” The media, pretty much without exception, has been on the side of the continued shutdown. The 24 hour mantra has invaded every media source. There is no escape. Certain of the news anchors are really ticked that some people go out in public where, asymptomatic, they might infect someone who will get pneumonia and die. They’re not following the mandatory guidelines!
We like our freedom, and thought it was guaranteed. Remember the U. S. Constitution? The fear-monger media and those who covet power have been trying to wrench freedom from our grasp over one overblown panic after another for years. They were going to do it over global warming, and are undoubtedly keeping that approach warm. They demanded mandates lest the planet be destroyed. That wasn’t going so well. But now the available power of the bat-flu is coming into focus and they can’t get enough. Turns out that the Constitution means nothing, at least until the courts are able to consider what’s happened and even then we’re learning the hard way that some judges have an agenda and make decisions to match. Meanwhile edicts are coming down like rain, and you’d better not resist. You might be guilty of endangering yourselves and others! Media reminds us every moment, “Stay safe, and stay home.”
Can you even imagine if our parents were able to see what’s become of us and our nation? When you realize the suffering in battle, the loss of life by those who believed that FREEDOM was God’s plan bought with the blood of patriots who died for it, what might they think if they saw the nation “sheltering in place” on the orders of some self-important doctors and agenda-driven politicians?
What country is this? The Constitution is suspended on doctors orders? Governors and mayors now have unquestioned authority?
It’s hard to believe anything that’s going on due to the virus panic. Some governors and local officials that nobody ever heard of don’t appreciate those few who’ve decided that their businesses would open before “officials” sound the all clear. When might that be? Business licenses, liquor licenses, the paperwork that cities require to operate are being threatened with revocation. You’ve probably heard some of these despots, whose names we’d as soon not know, issuing one threatening edict after another.
Many of them are virulent enemies of President Trump and those of us who are determined to remain free despite an ever-changing series of rules and regulations. It will never be over now that these bristling little autocrats have tasted power. To listen to the ever-sensitive Governor of California, Gavin Newsom, people better not get impatient even as they are financially destroyed.
To hear the media explain it, you’re a HERO if you cower in your domicile and are particularly worthy of praise if you report neighbors who might be breaking the rules. It may have been the mayor of Los Angeles who said, “Snitches get rewards.” That may depend on which neighborhood we’re talking about, but that doesn’t even rhyme!
Some of these local “officials” hate President Trump with a passion and want him out of office no matter the cost. They appear to be determined to drag this panic out as long as necessary if that will help prevent a second term. If the nation is crippled for years to come, they guess that is an acceptable price. Some of them are pushing for socialism in America.
Remember the Cloward and Piven strategy? Overload the system until everything is bankrupted and everyone is dependent upon government for mere survival. They’ve worked on the philosophy from several angles. One was immigration. Let the whole world come in, and sign up for all manner of federal subsistence. Anyone expecting the United States should be spared the importation of Middle Eastern terrorists, or the human convoys from poverty-striken cesspools to our south is racist, plain and simple. Have you no empathy?! Many segments of cities and some little towns in America’s rural areas have been completely transformed to the point that you can’t read the billboards or communicate with the locals. They now represent their own countries and cultures and you better not complain or the media will call you a racist xenophobe.
We all hope that there will be an economic boom that will return the nation to prosperity, but that is obviously not the intention of some power-drunk governors. California has just canceled summer. Don’t think things are going back to normal by September or October, or ever, said the former Mayor of San Francisco, now Governor. No, not until there’s a vaccine or a cure can we contemplate normal life again. But what if these medical geniuses don’t come up with a vaccine or cure? They’ve never come up with a vaccine or cure for AIDS.
Who ever suspected that it would be doctors in Federal agencies that would cripple the United States of America? How did this happen? Suddenly we’ve had governors, mayors and county commissioners issuing unconstitutional “orders,” which if disobeyed can land you in jail as demonstrated by the lady salon owner in Dallas, Texas of all places.
Suddenly governors and other “local officials” have powers none of us ever realized. They cannot be overturned by a court, at least not now. And woe be to whoever considers “disobeying.” In several instances they’ve become angry and set out to accuse, humiliate and punish anybody who steps out of line. We don’t have, or didn’t have, people with King-like powers over us little children, waiting patiently to find out what we can and can’t do; what we can and can’t think or say.
The President has been criticized and accused for supposedly behaving dictatorially. There’s been no shortage of outrage on all the mainstream outlets, because Trump thinks he can make dictatorial decisions on any number of issues (true or otherwise), and we’re told we’re in danger of coming under a third-world dictatorship. But now he’s not dictatorial enough, and the very same critics are outraged that he’s not issued national, uniform orders “to keep everybody safe.” Oh yeah, we need to be led around by the hand, waiting for the latest “order,” or we’re guilty of endangering ourselves and everybody else.
Our founders never sanctioned this kind of power being exercised by any agency of federal or local government. Our Constitution and Bill of Rights were drafted to make sure the public would never become subservient to the whims, fears or aspirations of officials. Not that they might not try to justify the use of “emergency powers” for the sake of public safety. But here’s an analogy that is worth considering. How many times have we seen “mandatory” evacuation orders based on the approach of a powerful hurricane? Several if not many times, right? But people sometimes choose not to abandon their property, whether they’re worried about looting, or they just reject the forecast. Do you know of any circumstance where people have been prosecuted and jailed for failing to obey a “mandatory” evacuation? No! Because this is the United States of America! Officials don’t get to punish people for things that are not, and could not be established as Constitutional law. They’ve never even tried. But as we all are reminded several times daily, these are “unprecedented times.” Do tell.
One of the primary hurdles that any proposed law must clear in order to be declared Constitutional is that it apply to everyone equally. How on earth do officials have the authority to declare some jobs “essential” and others not? Is that hidden somewhere in the fine print of our Constitution? No, it isn’t. So there will be an explosion of lawsuits, with the resulting damages liable to bankrupt every city and state that imposed legal (or illegal) punishments for people and their jobs declared “non-essential.” Millions (so far 20 million plus) are unemployed because their line of work was declared “non-essential.” If and when the judicial system ever figures out how to hold court again there will be legal challenges, probably thousands of them. Legislatures are going to have to get busy and pass laws that prohibit suing states, counties and cities for damages resulting from this.
Life wouldn’t have been much fun at all if Dr. Fauci had been keeping us all “safe.” Think about it. If you’ve ever enjoyed any activity during which some get injured or killed, and about 20 come to mind immediately, the doctors would undoubtedly recommend against it. Thankfully, they haven’t been making our decisions for us, or life wouldn’t have been nearly so fulfilling.
But it turns out that the little doctor has quite a history of destroying those who dare disagree with him. The social media giants are banning testimony that tells those stories from the victims’ perspective, but they’re making the rounds anyway. Surely the President cannot be unaware of these things. Though he did declare a state of emergency under what was undoubtedly unbearable pressure, it was the governors and other local officials who’ve “mandated a shutdown.” Whether the nation survives it, how many years it takes to compensate for the damage done we’ll just have to see. Some governors had the good sense not to “mandate” everybody stay home. Too bad there weren’t more.
The U. S. is not the only nation to have “shutdown” economically over the panic. Britain is in historically dire straits. The EU was already in big economic trouble and some believe this will further weaken the European Union to the point of collapse. Australia, Canada and every so-called western nation is on the brink of economic collapse and it’s all somehow justified by the queer “numbers” of Covid cases and the purported death toll?
We’re all going to die someday, and we hope that day is way off in the unforeseeable future. But this might be a good time to remember that the first lie ever told was in the garden of Eden when Satan told Eve, “You shall not surely die…” Unless we’re alive at the Second Coming, we’re all going to die sooner or later. But this is unacceptable in popular culture. “People are dying!” And they claim everybody who is dying is dying from you know what. But, look it up if you must. The death rate in nearly every circumstance is equal to or lower than the statistics from every other year. How can that be when the bat-flu is killing people right and left? Shouldn’t the death rates increase by at least as many Covid deaths they’re reporting? Kind of makes you go, “Hmmm,” doesn’t it? Maybe it’s the decrease in traffic deaths with so many “sheltering in place,” but it’s doubtful that makes up the difference.
The main thing is that we obey the mandates, or the “authorities” will see that we’re punished. Some in law enforcement have expressed their loyalty to our Constitution and made it be known that they’re not about to arrest or jail citizens for merely going to work. Unfortunately, some of the tipsy tyrants have other methods of punishing the disobedient.
Our rights may come from God, as the Founding Fathers of the United States agreed, but we’re finding out they’re not inalienable after all. Far from it. State governors, mayors and county commissioners obviously have the power, if not the legitimate authority, to alienate every last right. Do something completely logical that endangers the safety of no one, and you just might get to wear some fancy bracelets and get a free ride to the local lockup. Don’t want to get locked up? Stay locked down! Go broke and demand some of that brand new government money. I’m sure the grandkids will understand.
