At the heart of the debate over COVID-19 restrictions is the distinction between rights and privileges. For most of human history some supreme authority, – a king, a sultan, a class of aristocrats – has presumed to grant to the common people certain privileges. By definition, as privileges, they can be granted, and they can be taken away.
The American concept of liberty is built on something fundamentally different. We do not enjoy privileges. We have rights. They are enshrined in the Constitution, but they are given to us by our Creator. We do not have the right to free speech, because some ‘body of humans’ granted it to us. We were born with it, and it cannot be taken away.
For two years now powerful interests in this country have attempted to change this. They have used all the power at their discretion to convert our rights into privileges that can be taken away whenever the powers that be decide some “emergency” requires it.
The real danger therein is obvious. Once you have enshrined the principle that an “emergency” justifies the revocation of God-given rights, it requires only the declaration of an “emergency” to do it again. And again.
Once this would have seemed the stuff of bad dystopian science fiction. No longer. Now it is as real as it gets.
This week the International Energy Agency (IEA) proposed that all Western economies should impose measures to reduce the use of oil. These measures are required to deal with the “emergency” caused by rising fuel prices. They include:
1. Reducing speed limits on highways by at least 10 km/h.
2. Directing people to work from home up to three days a week. No word on what all those people who have jobs that actually require them to be on-site in restaurants, garages, laboratories, factories, etc. are supposed to do.
read more:
https://andmagazine.substack.com/p/there-will-always-be-an-emergency?s=r
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Kerry and Guteres both park your jets or shut up!! Fly commercial or else!!
In a brief presser... moments after stepping off his "Private Jumbo Jet", U.N. Chief Guterres says: You will Endure High Gas Prices for the Good of the Planet. The Response from Citizens of the Planet: Phque-Off!
Well Said and Well Written.
MLo.. "The most important people in the world right now, are the precinct captains in America’s swing states." I would say then that makes me pretty important, as I am one...but. .there is a but.
Ohio Central Committee is where the important decisions are made and rather casually we were told that, 1. Central Committee is fine (again) with early voting. 2. Central Committee endorses the incumbent (again), with no reflection upon 2020 whatsoever, not a **** thing will change.
DeWine gets the piggy bank payoff for all the favors he dished out and the 3 of challengers for both Gov and Lt Gov. don't stand a chance. DeWine said it himself, the "best thing I've got is 3 opponents who will split the primary." So we get little Napolean all over again. Ron Hood is the best candidate but even he got in late and so doesn't have recognition. Blystone seemed good but "he isn't what he appears to be."
So, we do the dirty work and don't even get to have an opinion voiced and be heard and noted.
Ohio Central is also, I am told, hiding some financial dealings, according to two States Central Committee members. So, two people committed to uncover crooked dealings.
Still rotten in Denmark.
YOU BETCHA IT IS .....
https://www.bitchute.com/video/O5OEOf8BhdU/
The Democrats are already learning " Top marching tunes of the third reich ".
I didn't cooperate this time, I stayed open at my business. As long as I have patients who feel the same ....we are good!
Fauci is the one who needs locked down and in isolation so he can convince himself he needs it.
States of emergency have been enacted since the civil war era. The constitution is a box meant to keep the federal government small and under the control of we the people. The constitution only allows for a standing army for a period of 2 years, unless an emergency exists. Hence the ongoing emergencies. The emergency has to be re-enacted every 2 years. Whenever a POTUS proclaims an emergency using the word "war', the emergency starts all over again. "the WAR on drugs, the WAR on poverty, the WAR on crime, etc... Although the constitution does not even mention the WAR powers acts. Blacks Law dictionary cites that during an emergency/crisis, the constitution is to be applied more liberally to allow the people to protect their lives and property. Why do we allow the government to claim powers they do not have?
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