REPUBLIC REBORN

Ammon Bundy was present at the protest of the spineless thuggery exhibited by the cop that arrested Sarah Brady, a young mother who arranged a play-date with friends and their children at the local park. It was an act of civil disobedience, yes, but one so benign, so innocent, that anyone attempting to stop it would surely look the part of a petty authoritarian with nothing better to do.

When a society moves from freedom to authoritarianism, the quality and character of law enforcement change as well. That change is in the direction of “serve and protect”, to becoming the armed enforcers of the totalitarian state’s diktats. The officers who have any qualms about beating and arresting citizens for dissident political opinions or non-conformist beliefs will shown the door, and in will come the thugs that have no problem with brutality.

At least 2.7 million New Yorkers have developed antibodies to COVID-19, proving what we’ve all been saying from the beginning: the infection is widespread, highly contagious, and about as dangerous as the seasonal flu. But will the governor and local mayors relinquish power? Something very dangerous has occurred within government at every level: the most evil entity to have ever existed, the State, has been let out of its cage, and it does not want to go back in.

Bringing the total to more than 26 million lockdown-induced unemployed.

Italian researchers have found that almost all children experience mild to no symptoms when infected with COVID-19, and recover within two weeks.

Calm, cool-headed, reasonable Sweden is showing the world that a health challenge can be met without transforming society into a prison: 

“I’m happy to say that those fears haven’t materialised. But the pressure on Sweden to change tack hasn’t gone away. We haven’t u-turned. We’re careful, staying inside a lot more. But schools and shops remain open. Unlike some countries on the continent, no one is asking for ‘our papers’ when we move around in cities. The police don’t stop us and ask why we are spending so much time outdoors: authorities rather encourage it. No one is prying in shopping baskets to make sure you only buy essentials.

The country’s Public Health Agency and the ‘state epidemiologist’, Anders Tegnell, have kept their cool and still don’t recommend a lockdown. They are getting criticised by scientific modellers but the agency is sticking to its own model of how the virus is expected to develop and what pressure hospitals will be under. The government still heeds the agency’s advice; no party in the opposition argues for a lockdown. Rather, opinion polls show that Swedes remain strongly in favour of the country’s liberal approach to the pandemic.”

Sweden’s example is dealing black eyes to the mini-totalitarians that have sprung up like mushrooms across the United States, the alleged “land of the free”. All the self-inflicted pain caused by our own government’s overreaction has been for naught.

They like their newfound power, and they don’t want to give it up.

Sarah Brady, mother of a young special needs child, was arrested for taking her child to the park.

If there’s ever been a time to grow a spine and resist the forward goosestep march toward what is euphemistically called “the new normal”, it is now, dear reader.

This is the real crisis. Not coronavirus, but the devastating fallout from the government reaction to it.

This is about to get very interesting.