America is in a haze right
now. It seems like half the country is in denial of the danger while the other
half is awaking from apathy and frantically trying to prepare. This is creating
a fog of confusion as one side screams “it’s nothing but the flu, stop buying
up the grocery store…!”, and the other side just keeps stocking goods, though
in an inexperienced way that prioritizes comfort over practicality.
The other day I went by the
grocery store to grab a few peripheral items while they still exist on sale,
and this was the first time since the Covid-19 situation began that people in
my area actually seemed…different. The usual carefree obliviousness was
gone from their faces and they all had a deer-in-the-headlights look, their
eyes wide as saucers as they nervously scrambled around the store. None
of them were absorbed into their cell phones. All of them were alert as
many people huddled over their cart, quickly snatching items from the shelves
as if protecting themselves from potential thieves. It seems that reality
is finally hitting the masses square in the face like a sucker punch.
Suddenly, the prepper
movement doesn’t look so “crazy” after all, and average people are now turning
to prepper forums and websites to ask us for information on how to plan more
effectively. Instead of stacking piles of toilet paper for psychological
comfort, they are now buying food supplies. The people who used to accuse
us of being “chicken littles” and “doom mongers” are eerily silent. I almost
miss them. At the very least, everyone is now concerned about the situation, if
not for different reasons.
This
is a far cry from the past two months, when governments around the world as
well as the UN’s WHO continually downplayed the pandemic threat and offered the
public nothing in terms of usable advice. The establishment consistently kept
the public in the dark, not just on the virus and its capabilities but also on
the vast weaknesses in the global economy. Abruptly in the past week they suggest
that a threat is ahead and now millions of people are scrambling to prepare
however they can.
As I have noted in previous articles, there is a reason why
the establishment refused to inform the citizenry of the instabilities inherent
in the pandemic scenario; the more unknowns there are for the public the more
panic will set it, chaos ensues, and it is chaos that can be exploited to push
forward numerous agendas. These agendas include global centralization as well
as the erasure of constitutional liberties.
Now that a national collapse
event is slowly being accepted by many as a legitimate possibility, there is a
debate rising as to what measures the government should take, or should be
allowed to take. Those of us in the prepper and liberty movements always knew
this day was coming; a day when the public would start considering trading away
an array of freedoms in exchange for promises of security.
Even now, government
officials are still trying to tell people that this event will be “short
lived”.
“Don’t worry”, they say, “It
will only last a couple of weeks.” Oh, and “Don’t concern yourselves with food
shortages, that’s not going to happen…” You can look at these lies in two
different ways:
1)
The government is trying to stave off a “panic” by slowly easing people into
the reality that the system is breaking.
2)
The government is trying to keep people passive to the danger so that when the
system breaks completely they will be unprepared, desperate and easier to
manipulate.
I believe the second option is the most likely given the evidence at
hand, but in either case the government is crippling the public response time
to the disaster. They did this for months and they are still trying to do it
now.
So, my argument is, why should we
suddenly take their advice or take orders from them when the manure hits the
fan? They have FAILED in their responsibilities to inform and protect the
citizenry, and they are about to violate their prime mandate, which is to
protect the personal liberties that make our society worth living in. Without
these freedoms, there is no point to keeping our system intact anyway.
The establishment and its
defenders will claim that we all “have to make sacrifices” today in order to
have freedoms tomorrow, but that’s not how the constitution was designed to
work. Our rights are MORE important during times of distress and crisis, for it
is in these times that we need to know what we are fighting for, and what we
are struggling for. Survival is meaningless if we have to accept tyranny to achieve it.
Once governments see a chance to usurp freedoms from the people, they
DO NOT tend to give those freedoms back later unless the people become a viable
opponent that could bring the establishment down.
There are some who will say
that a forced quarantine is necessary to protect the “greater good” of the
greater number. It is true that the Covid-19 virus is a danger, and I think the
people who claim it’s “no worse than the flu” are fighting a losing battle as
the death rate is clearly much higher than the average flu virus. They will
look extremely foolish a few months from now as the virus continues to cycle
through the population and the dead continue to increase. That said, I think I
understand why they cling to this crumbling argument.
They think that by arguing
that the pandemic is “all hype” they can morally justify resistance to the
inevitable totalitarian response from governments. They think it has to be one
or the other: Either the virus is hyped and resistance is acceptable, or
the virus is real and resistance is unacceptable. I ask – Why can’t it be both?
The virus is dangerous to many, but a totalitarian response is still
unacceptable.
The virus is in fact more
destructive than any flu in recent memory – It’s not a plague on the level of
the Black Death, but if it continues to kill at a rate of 3% to 5% as it has
been then this puts a large number of human beings at risk. It is not something
to be taken lightly, and those people that are actively trying to discourage
others from preparing for it are truly narcissistic in their ideology. If you
don’t think it’s a threat, then don’t prepare, but don’t scream at others for
taking precautions just because you desperately want to be right, and don’t come
around demanding food and supplies from those same people when the ceiling
comes crashing down on your head.
Also, understand that Covid-19 is
only part of the problem. The bigger crisis is in the economy itself; a
collapse has been built into the system for years now, and the virus has little
to do with it. Leftist kids are going around calling this pandemic the
“boomer remover”, almost cheering the assumption that mostly older and
conservative Americans will die from this. I have to break it to them
that during the economic collapse that is inevitably coming they will have to
wipe the snot from their noses and put on their big-boy diapers otherwise they
aren’t going to survive either; most of them have no discernible skills and no
preparations to speak of. They are essentially useless.
If Covid-19 is a “boomer
remover”, then the economic crisis is a “snowflake bake”, and they are about to
get roasted.
As I have noted time and time again
over the past few years, the Everything Bubble only needed one major trigger event to fully implode,
but the international banks and central banks created that precarious bubble in the
first place, and they set up all the conditions which made it so dangerous. The
virus is not the cause of the crash, it is just very good cover for the banks
who are the real perpetrators.
Ignore the virus if you want, but
the economic collapse is undeniable. Accept that the national and global
emergency is real (even if it has been financially engineered), and let’s move
on to a more meaningful debate: Should governments be allowed to implement
martial law measures in response?
In my
view there is no excuse for tyranny, even during a pandemic event. The majority
of the public is more than capable of voluntary quarantine without government
enforcement. Add government intervention into the mix and it will only make
people want to do the opposite. And beyond that, Covid-19 has such a long
incubation period that ultimately most people will probably contract it anyway.
Total containment is not achievable (as we have just seen in South Korea).
Quarantines might slow the spread, which is good, but do not expect to avoid
this virus indefinitely. Why sacrifice your freedoms for safety that is an
illusion?
Then there is the argument of
“herd immunity”, which is utter nonsense and always has been. Either a person
or group is immune, or they are not, and people who are not immune do not put
immune people at risk. Period. The claim that the virus might “mutate” within
non-vaccinated or non-immune people and put vaccinated people at risk is a
propaganda argument that ignores science. Generally, when a virus does mutate,
it mutates into a less deadly or infectious strain, not a more deadly strain.
Viruses are programmed to survive, too. If they evolved to kill ALL potential
hosts then that would be counter to their survival imperative, which is why
they usually evolve in the other direction.
In terms of Covid-19, there
is no “herd immunity” by the establishment definition anyway, because it is a
brand new virus. There is no vaccine and the vast majority of people have no
antibodies. No one can make the argument that people need to be forcefully
locked down in order to maintain a herd immunity that doesn’t exist.
Finally,
there is a question of agenda and motive behind the rising call for martial
law-like measures over the pandemic. For example, Champaign, Illinois mayor
Deborah Frank Feinen has given herself executive powers in
response to the coronavirus infection that are outright dictatorial and Soviet
in their violations. Among other things, she demands the power to enforce
curfews, ban public gatherings, ban alcohol, ban or confiscate firearms, as
well as confiscate supplies from any citizen if those supplies are “needed for
emergency response”.
Is this really about
protecting the public? How does it protect the public to confiscate their only
means of defense, or confiscate their food and supplies? This type of thing is
usually done in communist countries, and it is done to protect government
power, not protect the people.
Understand
also that the Champaign mayor is not the only official calling for these types
of actions. From New York to LA and beyond, those of
us who are paying attention have noticed a swift and quiet implementation of
orders that are whittling down American freedoms. Do not expect Donald Trump to
operate differently, either. Expect him to initiate martial law measures
(though he may not call it “martial law”) in the next few months. Expect him to
activate Executive Order 13603, which was created by
Barack Obama in 2012 and allows the federal government to appropriate
everything from land to food to firearms in the event of a national emergency.
This is going to happen. Count on it.
The pandemic is not an
excuse for tyranny, and I for one will not comply. I and many I know will self
quarantine for a time with the expectation that we will eventually contract the
virus, and hopefully our immune systems are strong enough to fight it. In the
meantime, I will not be allowing any government officials to confiscate my
supplies or my firearms “for my own safety” or “for the greater good”.
I will not be cooperating
with census takers asking questions about how much supplies I have stocked and
whether or not I am ill. I will not sit idle while checkpoints are set up
in my county to enforce travel restrictions or demand people test for symptoms.
I will not be signing up for government rations in exchange for my biometric
data. I will not be visiting the local FEMA center for government aid. And, I
will fight anyone that tries to assert martial law tactics in my area.
A message to the government:
I know you won’t, but I suggest you leave people alone and let them self
isolate in peace. Your brand of “help” is not the kind of help we need. You and
the financial elites that reside over you created this mess, and we do not
trust you to clean it up. At bottom, this disaster should result in your
removal from power. You should be held accountable and replaced.
The system itself needs to be
rebuilt from the ground up and principles of liberty need to return to the
forefront of our society. Centralization and globalization have caused untold
grief and terror to humanity; this collapse only reinforces the argument that
we need to try something different. They will say that the world was “not
centralized enough” and that a more global (totalitarian) framework is the
solution. But, of course, who really benefits from that in the end? The common
man, or the elites?
They can offer any rationalization they want in the name of public
safety, but we know what the real play is here. If the line is crossed into
martial law, I plan to fight. Not just for me, but for the next generation.
Because if I do not, those children may grow up in the world never knowing what
freedom truly is. There are fates worse than death, and a life of tyranny and
slavery is one of them.
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