night_son
Diamond Member
**This opinion piece was authored by yours truly and published nowhere.
I realize the title of my post sounds sensational. I would have thought so as well until I read the White House's "secret" coronavirus red zone or task force reports. In these bi-monthly reports the White House analyzes coronavirus outbreak levels in each state and then provides guidelines (which read more like direct orders) for each state's governor and health department officials regarding how "best" to proceed with strategies to limit or reduce the spread of COVID-19 among their respective populations. Quite frankly, all of these guidelines read like George Orwell's outline notes for his classic novel 1984.
You see, even though we Americans used to celebrate our God given rights and freedoms (with national holidays, even), such no longer seems to be the case. Of what am I speaking? Well, it is all about the masks. Many politicians, pundits and asshole cable TV talking heads as well as some of our fellow American citizens have run on at the mouth about how government mandated requirements to wear a mask to buy food or even leave our own homes is a very small requirement and/or our patriotic duty. But just think about these mask mandates for a moment; really, really give them some thought. Our government, in collusion with countless small and large businesses, has dictated that if we refuse to comply with an order, not a law legislated into being by our elected representatives, then we cannot buy food under penalty of fines and/or jail time and possibly threat of being brutalized by our local police officers. Think about it.
Across the nation, in just about every community in every state, We The People have been forced under threat of violence to hide our faces from our own reflections and each other, in order to practice our everyday freedoms as American citizens. But of course, it goes deeper than that. Not only must we wear masks if we want to eat, we also must stand on stickers applied to grocery store floors by minimum wage high school and unskilled workers—none of whom know jack squat about how viruses work and spread. That mentally slow guy down at your local store who pushes the carts around the parking lot we all feel sorry for every time we see him? Now he's the guy controlling your fate and making sure you remain six feet away from everyone else at all times.
What our government has done to us with the WHOLE coronavirus pandemonium is as brilliant as it is insidious. They have stolen our Constitutional rights over the span of a few days back in March of this year and then dared to slowly return them to us, but with very specific, dictated conditions. My fellow countrymen . . . we have been conquered. The war for our freedoms as we once knew them is OVER and lost.
Even more brilliantly, our federal government has delegated the enforcement of coronavirus dictates to tens of thousands of low-level, low-speed, low-intelligence local politicians, none of whom have clue one about the very intricate specifics of how viruses work and spread. Thus, in this way, the federal government cannot be held accountable by We The People for stealing our freedoms and cancelling our Constitutional rights. Oh no, because now there's plenty of other assholes to blame in the form of city, town, borough and county commissions and councils, mayors, governors health department officials and even local doctors. So tell me . . . who IS the enemy of our freedom? Ten thousand plus people We elected to local offices and school boards and union posts . . . that's who.
Our government has made it so we have no one to blame but ourselves for the loss of our rights and freedoms. See, the war to remove our American way of life has already happened. We watched it happen for months on cable news television programs, read about it in newspapers and on social media, and we did nothing to stop it or even fight back. Now we are as guilty as the federal government in ruining our own rights and freedoms. How so? Because half of Americans will turn in the other half to local and state government officials for not wearing masks; for not social distancing or for hosting too large a gathering on one's own fucking property.
We have become our own oppressors. What a genius war our government has waged upon us and what a clever victory they have achieved in removing our rights and freedoms . . . without a single shot fired in their direction. Smooth fucking move, America.
I realize the title of my post sounds sensational. I would have thought so as well until I read the White House's "secret" coronavirus red zone or task force reports. In these bi-monthly reports the White House analyzes coronavirus outbreak levels in each state and then provides guidelines (which read more like direct orders) for each state's governor and health department officials regarding how "best" to proceed with strategies to limit or reduce the spread of COVID-19 among their respective populations. Quite frankly, all of these guidelines read like George Orwell's outline notes for his classic novel 1984.
You see, even though we Americans used to celebrate our God given rights and freedoms (with national holidays, even), such no longer seems to be the case. Of what am I speaking? Well, it is all about the masks. Many politicians, pundits and asshole cable TV talking heads as well as some of our fellow American citizens have run on at the mouth about how government mandated requirements to wear a mask to buy food or even leave our own homes is a very small requirement and/or our patriotic duty. But just think about these mask mandates for a moment; really, really give them some thought. Our government, in collusion with countless small and large businesses, has dictated that if we refuse to comply with an order, not a law legislated into being by our elected representatives, then we cannot buy food under penalty of fines and/or jail time and possibly threat of being brutalized by our local police officers. Think about it.
Across the nation, in just about every community in every state, We The People have been forced under threat of violence to hide our faces from our own reflections and each other, in order to practice our everyday freedoms as American citizens. But of course, it goes deeper than that. Not only must we wear masks if we want to eat, we also must stand on stickers applied to grocery store floors by minimum wage high school and unskilled workers—none of whom know jack squat about how viruses work and spread. That mentally slow guy down at your local store who pushes the carts around the parking lot we all feel sorry for every time we see him? Now he's the guy controlling your fate and making sure you remain six feet away from everyone else at all times.
What our government has done to us with the WHOLE coronavirus pandemonium is as brilliant as it is insidious. They have stolen our Constitutional rights over the span of a few days back in March of this year and then dared to slowly return them to us, but with very specific, dictated conditions. My fellow countrymen . . . we have been conquered. The war for our freedoms as we once knew them is OVER and lost.
Even more brilliantly, our federal government has delegated the enforcement of coronavirus dictates to tens of thousands of low-level, low-speed, low-intelligence local politicians, none of whom have clue one about the very intricate specifics of how viruses work and spread. Thus, in this way, the federal government cannot be held accountable by We The People for stealing our freedoms and cancelling our Constitutional rights. Oh no, because now there's plenty of other assholes to blame in the form of city, town, borough and county commissions and councils, mayors, governors health department officials and even local doctors. So tell me . . . who IS the enemy of our freedom? Ten thousand plus people We elected to local offices and school boards and union posts . . . that's who.
Our government has made it so we have no one to blame but ourselves for the loss of our rights and freedoms. See, the war to remove our American way of life has already happened. We watched it happen for months on cable news television programs, read about it in newspapers and on social media, and we did nothing to stop it or even fight back. Now we are as guilty as the federal government in ruining our own rights and freedoms. How so? Because half of Americans will turn in the other half to local and state government officials for not wearing masks; for not social distancing or for hosting too large a gathering on one's own fucking property.
We have become our own oppressors. What a genius war our government has waged upon us and what a clever victory they have achieved in removing our rights and freedoms . . . without a single shot fired in their direction. Smooth fucking move, America.
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