The Looming post-Covid Civil Liberties Battle

George Rebane

As most on the Right and Left understand, the country’s command and control collectivists see the Covid-19 pandemic as a godsend.  Given the educational state of our electorate, there are enough cognitively deficient voters out there to swallow unhesitatingly the socialist propaganda which today blankets their waking hours.  The viral scourge could not have arrived at a more propitious moment.  The Dems entered 2020 without a viable candidate against an incumbent who had America firing on all cylinders going into the presidential election which also seats one-third of the Senate and all of the House.

To all who could hear him, their standard bearer is a failing septuagenarian who is seen to be wedged somewhere between a has-been and a never-was.  Rumors had team Pelosi and the DNC cooking up all kinds of plans with which to plausibly banish Bumblebrain Biden from the November ballots.  And most of them are still viable, but perhaps no longer needed given the hit to our economy that the federal panic to lockdown our country’s commerce that caused the loss of tens of millions of jobs and added trillions of bailout dollars to our national debt.  How can you not be able to paint the man in the White House as an incompetent idiot, especially when you have never been restricted to a truthful narrative?

But the real price to our now lightly camouflaged socialists is the opportunity to pass all kinds of collateral legislation with the bailout bills to turn today’s federal and state lockdown restrictions into some serious and enduring laws that make permanent the hunker down regulations when the pandemic is over.  (see also ‘A Nation Risk-Averse, Scared, Cowering, and Compliant’)  And don’t be surprised if this is the first pandemic for the ages – in one form or another, it will never be officially over.  Such a contagious disease can easily serve as the proxy of foreign danger that communist regimes used during the last century to keep entire countries as poverty-stricken prisons wherein citizens were required to perpetually suffer and sacrifice so that the state could maintain adequate defenses against ever-present enemies, which in fact were its own population.

Remaining compliant was the socially correct and patriotic thing to do, with the wayward and complaining ones being declared clear enemies of the people.  The potential recurrence of C19 and its variants will well serve a similar purpose.  Watch for the spate of lockdown laws to become a permanent part of US Code and state laws.  All autocracies on their road to tyranny have known that the ability to immobilize a disarmed citizenry is the penultimate guarantee of an enduring regime.  (more here and here)

Comments

[Don Bessee]

What else would you expect from the congressional jihadi caucus? -

https://dailycaller.com/2020/07/07/ilhan-omar-calls-for-the-dismantling-of-us-economy-political-system/

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[Don Bessee]

Good luck with that -

https://www.mediaite.com/news/j-k-rowling-bari-weiss-and-noam-chomsky-among-dozens-to-sign-open-letter-calling-for-end-to-cancel-culture/

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[scenes]

I was just musing over the surveillance opportunities getting fired up right now. Contact tracing will be the least of it. In this case, I think that COVID isn't so much a replay of Cold War fears as it is 9/11. I was just reading 'Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance State (Gellman)' and thinking of the beast let loose by the Bush II regime (which successfully co-opted Obama and, likely, Trump).

[scenes]

re: DonB@3:40PM July 7, Year Zero.

"Good luck with that -"

I agree, they're all too old. They're barely viewed as humans by the Star Chambers you can see in a bunch of videos on youtube. It's a combination of crazy 20-30 year olds and the occasional middle-aged person who sees it as an opportunity to accrue power.

Ignore how ridiculous this is and simply watch the body language and demands.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9SiRNibD14

[Scott O]

scenes 7:57 - re the vid. "...science from an African perspective..."
OK - explain gravity from an African perspective.
But they all expect their cell phones to work.

Ignorance Is Strength!

[Bill Tozer]

Get ready for Lockdown 2.0. Then they will do it again and again.

@BuckSexton

So these outdoor events that bring together the community and let people enjoy their lives are banned-

but De Blasio thinks thousands of shrieking protestors screaming in each others faces for hours is awesome and we need more of it

Seems fair

https://mobile.twitter.com/BuckSexton?

[Don Bessee]

It takes a strong politician to buck the new red guard -

In comments that came just days after Britain’s Indian-heritage home secretary Priti Patel hit out at “racist” left-wing politicians for attacking her for not conforming to their “stereotypical view of what an ethnic minority woman should stand for”, Kurten told Breitbart London that it was becoming impossible for ethnic minority people in the United Kingdom to articulate conservative views without being accused of betraying their race.

On the hypocrisy of BLM supporters lashing out at BAME politicians for not sharing their political views, Mr Kurten said: “They aren’t interested in Black People — they are interested in following a narrow, far-left political agenda. The same kind of supporters who have attacked me verbally on social media, are actually physically destroying black-owned businesses in the United States. They don’t care about people in slave-like conditions in Africa digging up cobalt for these green electric vehicles, don’t care about black Christians in central Nigeria being brutalised by Fulani Muslims — they don’t care for these people.

“They are only concerned in a narrow aim, because they are fuelled by hatred. They hate Western civilisation, they want to tear it down. That started symbolically with statues, but it is moving on to real people, verbally and physically.”

Mr Kurten also elaborated further on his opposition to Black Lives Matter UK itself, the organisation which behind an agreeable-sounding name, is campaigning for radical political and social change. He told Breitbart: “I don’t agree with the aims of black lives matter because it is a Marxist organisation with Marxist aims to defund the police, disrupt the nuclear family, smash capitalism. And all those things would be detrimental to everybody, including black people. So it doesn’t make any sense.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/06/30/black-politician-on-uncle-tom-slurs-he-got-for-going-against-blm/

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