“If the dream is won though everything is lost, we will pay the price, but we will not count the cost.” ~ Rush
Madmen in America are in charge and they are driving the nation in a direction that forces Americans to pay the cost of whatever the federal government wishes to incur, as they seem to be attempting to further render the people more dependent on the government for financial handouts, medical services and general sustenance and protection, while Americans are embracing their own chains of servitude. Not only are the state and federal governments tearing asunder the fabric of the Constitution and the country, they are wreaking havoc with shutdown mandates that have further exacerbated the economy and attacked individual liberty, in one more vast overreach and expansion of government power.
As Judge Andrew Napolitano noted on March 19th: “Throughout history, free people have been willing to accept the devil’s bargain of trading liberty for safety when they are fearful. We supinely accept the shallow and hollow offers of government that somehow less liberty equals more safety.”
On February 29th, I observed that the death rate from COVID-19 appeared to be tracking around two percent, but now, it is apparent it is much less at approximately a little over five one-hundredths of one percent, .05 percent, when the numbers of confirmed cases are placed against those deaths occurring from the virus.
This should illuminate for everyone that there is more behind this than meets the eyes, since our government has never before been too concerned with the human cost, when in pursuit of their agendas and goals. The Civil War killed nearly two percent of the population, and any consideration of human lives to be lost didn’t make our leaders shut down everything in any other similar situation, i.e. the Spanish or Swine Flu, or prevent them from waging the Spanish-American War, World Wars I & II, Korea, Vietnam and all the adventures to follow in the Middle East, no matter if the war was necessary or one that could be avoided. Historically, no one in government, any government, has ever really cared about American lives and sacrifices, if it came at a cost to their power.
Does anyone out there really believe that the Trump administration, Governor Andrew Cuomo’s administration in New York and 49 other administrations are eliminating what’s left of our liberty and destroying our economy to protect us from a virus that represents a minimal risk of .05 percent of the American population possibly being killed?
Curiously and quite troubling, all America should be concerned that our Department of Justice has been seeking Congressional authority to suspend habeas corpus and court proceedings, in the wake of the so-called “crisis”, since the middle of March; this also includes “any statutes or rules of procedure otherwise affecting pre-arrest, post-arrest, pre-trial, trial, and post-trial procedures in criminal and juvenile proceedings and all civil process and proceedings”. And while it may be unlikely that Congress will grant their wish, it perfectly exhibits the first inclination of bureaucrats in any crisis situation leans towards tyranny rather than more liberty.
After this is over, will the political response to this minor virus and manufactured COVID crisis be that shutting down the country and the deaths resulting from government actions and mandates and the economic destruction, worse than the virus itself, were all somehow worth it?
Taken in totality, approximately one in five Americans are currently being treated for cancer, lung or heart disease, and diabetes. If a mere one in one thousand of these people dies due to being unable to acquire their medications, or because hospitals haven’t any more room, that equates to seventy-five thousand deaths alone, not to mention those living paycheck to paycheck who may be going hungry, as they wait for the paltry $1200 dollar government “stimulus” checks that are supposed to come their way, maybe by May.
Americans everywhere are under stress and wondering how they will feed their families, pay rent, water and electric bills and other necessities. Some of us may be able to individually step in and assist other family members, but when I hear leaders saying “We have to help everyone”, who is the collective “We” they are speaking of? “We” are all in trouble now, due to this shutdown. How long can we feed everybody when nothing is being produced at the moment? Nobody is producing much of anything at the moment, with most of the nation socially distance into unemployment, and shuttered resources aren’t just turned back on overnight.
Sadly, these events have unfolded before all America, as the hypnotized Sheeple cower in their homes, peeking from the shadows and staring at their neighbors with suspicion and disdain for not wearing their “protective” masks and standing six feet apart. One would think they were witnessing another episode of The Walking Dead.
And now after $5 trillion simply vanished into thin air in February, along with trillions more on March 16th, President Trump and Congress are utilizing a $2.2 trillion stimulus to supposedly keep the economy afloat, most of which is going to corporations, the largest aid package in U.S. history. The checks going to individuals only account for approximately $4 billion, so once again, companies that have engaged in bad business are being rewarded, just as they were in 2008, and this sort of continued policy smacks of fascism to the inth degree, as we see a deepening of the convergence between communism and capitalism in America, i.e. a plutocratic led crony-capitalist policy, under a President who just months ago swore, “America will never be a socialist nation”. Coulda’ fooled me.
One can almost hear them singing, “Here a trillion, there a trillion, everywhere a trillion … Old McDonald had a farm, e-i-e-i-o.” It’s almost as though all they need do is bend over and pull it from their arse.
Look America! Look at the multi-trillion dollars already spent to “save the economy” and trillions more used to transfer wealth from the lower and middle classes to those who already control the nation’s assets. Watch Wall Street, Big Banks, Big Businesses all reap the benefits of this massive money transfer, and then watch all the politicians who will benefit from the payoffs coming their way, since this couldn’t happen without them.
In the meantime, small businesses are being given “secured” loans [with what?], that drives them deeper in debt, unless they can turn them into grants by meeting certain criteria. What a deal … Not! This can only further facilitate consolidation of power through global distribution networks and centralized supply lines, as the remains of Main Street crumbles to dust.
America was sold out by the Globalists some time ago, and now, either by design or purposeful intent, the psychopaths in power are using COVID-19 here in America, world-wide too, in order to clamp down and expand their powers and authority over their people, while deflecting attention from the largest economic collapse in history, just in time to avoid too much extra scrutiny that would reveal their criminal actions.
A great reset is underway and America and the world is under a lockdown, whether they want to call it that or not, and under the radar, mechanisms are in operation that are much more dangerous to us all than a little “killer virus”, that may or may not kill us. All the current legislation, executive orders and mass control measures emanating from this mess will never be rescinded and will persecute Americans for years into the future. This massive theft, a transfer of wealth, that is being largely ignored due to this government and media driven false pandemic, will only add to the nation’s economic devastation in the unfolding years ahead, creating more havoc leading to one economic collapse after another with increasing frequency, until there is no return; and, with each successive crisis, the government and politicians will use it as a further excuse to take away our individual liberty, our “permission slips”, according to their whims, as they assault our freedom.
Perhaps the resolution will come through the people’s own patience, or loss of the same, and their decision to continue their compliance to an orderly self-confinement, even in the face of COVID-19. That moment may be a bit longer away, especially with tightening controls all across the nation and the turmoil in New York at the moment, as the numbers of panicked people and frightening hospital scenes increase. However, whether it’s a week or weeks from now, or Easter Sunday, or anytime after, one surely must be wondering what scenes will play out once the average, everyday ordinary American people decide en masse to refuse to be herded and confined any longer and return to the streets in one huge roar, for freedom.
One can only hope that from the chaos, the nation finds order and a return of real freedom and liberty.
March 29, 2020
~ The Author ~
Justin O. Smith has lived in Tennessee off and on most of his adult life, and graduated from Middle Tennessee State University in 1980, with a B.S. and a double major in International Relations and Cultural Geography – minors in Military Science and English, for what its worth. His real education started from that point on. Smith is a frequent contributor to the family of Kettle Moraine Publications.