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Justice Gorsuch Has Some Thoughts About   The Serious You: How Current Events Affect You

Started Jun-9 by WALTER784; 176 views.
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From: WALTER784

Jun-9

Justice Gorsuch Has Some Thoughts About the Response to COVID-19

BY STEVE MACDONALD
24 MAY 2023

In what may be the non-sequitur of the century, US Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch appended a procedural order with a 900+ word public service announcement about the danger to liberty and Democracy … from the political response to COVID-19.
 
These observations and warnings are for everyone, from the politicians who abandoned their duty to uphold the protections in the State and Federal constitutions to the people who let them.
 
As I’ve said in the past, everything is a test. COVID-19 was a test. And almost everyone failed.
 
Here is Justice Gorsuch (Emphasis mine).
 
Since March 2020, we may have experienced the greatest intrusions on civil liberties in the peacetime history of this country. Executive officials across the country issued emergency decrees on a breathtaking scale. Governors and local leaders imposed lockdown orders forcing people to remain in their homes. They shuttered businesses and schools, public and private. They closed churches even as they allowed casinos and other favored businesses to carry on. They threatened violators not just with civil penalties but with criminal sanctions too. They surveilled church parking lots, recorded license plates, and issued notices warning that attendance at even outdoor services satisfying all state social-distancing and hygiene requirements could amount to criminal conduct. They divided cities and neighborhoods into color-coded zones, forced individuals to fight for their freedoms in court on emergency timetables, and then changed their color-coded schemes when defeat in court seemed imminent.
 
Federal executive officials entered the act too. Not just with emergency immigration decrees. They deployed a public-health agency to regulate landlord-tenant relations nationwide. They used a workplace-safety agency to issue a vaccination mandate for most working Americans. They threatened to fire noncompliant employees, and warned that service members who refused to vaccinate might face dishonorable discharge and confinement. Along the way, it seems federal officials may have pressured social-media companies to suppress information about pandemic policies with which they disagreed.
 
While executive officials issued new emergency decrees at a furious pace, state legislatures and Congress—the bodies normally responsible for adopting our laws—too often fell silent. Courts bound to protect our liberties addressed a few—but hardly all—of the intrusions upon them. In some cases, like this one, courts even allowed themselves to be used to perpetuate emergency public-health decrees for collateral purposes, itself a form of emergency-lawmaking-by-litigation.
 
Doubtless, many lessons can be learned from this chapter in our history, and hopefully serious efforts will be made to study it. One lesson might be this: Fear and the desire for safety are powerful forces. They can lead to a clamor for action—almost any action—as long as someone does something to address a perceived threat. A leader or an expert who claims he can fix everything, if only we do exactly as he says, can prove an irresistible force. We do not need to confront a bayonet, we need only a nudge, before we willingly abandon the nicety of requiring laws to be adopted by our legislative representatives and accept rule by decree. Along the way, we will accede to the loss of many cherished civil liberties—the right to worship freely, to debate public policy without censorship, to gather with friends and family, or simply to leave our homes. We may even cheer on those who ask us to disregard our normal lawmaking processes and forfeit our personal freedoms. Of course, this is no new story. Even the ancients warned that democracies can degenerate toward autocracy in the face of fear.
 
But maybe we have learned another lesson too. The concentration of power in the hands of so few may be efficient and sometimes popular. But it does not tend toward sound government. However wise one person or his advisors may be, that is no substitute for the wisdom of the whole of the American people that can be tapped in the legislative process. Decisions produced by those who indulge no criticism are rarely as good as those produced after robust and uncensored debate. Decisions announced on the fly are rarely as wise as those that come after careful deliberation. Decisions made by a few often yield unintended consequences that may be avoided when more are consulted. Autocracies have always suffered these defects. Maybe, hopefully, we have relearned these lessons too.
 
In the 1970s, Congress studied the use of emergency decrees. It observed that they can allow executive authorities to tap into extraordinary powers. Congress also observed that emergency decrees have a habit of long outliving the crises that generate them; some federal emergency proclamations, Congress noted, had remained in effect for years or decades after the em
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Jun-10

The public learned a valuable lesson as well. They won’t be locked down again.

 
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From: Dee (DLAINEDEE)

Jun-10

WALTER784 said...

Doubtless, many lessons can be learned from this chapter in our history, and hopefully serious efforts will be made to study it. One lesson might be this: Fear and the desire for safety are powerful forces. They can lead to a clamor for action—almost any action—as long as someone does something to address a perceived threat. A leader or an expert who claims he can fix everything, if only we do exactly as he says, can prove an irresistible force. We do not need to confront a bayonet, we need only a nudge, before we willingly abandon the nicety of requiring laws to be adopted by our legislative representatives and accept rule by decree. Along the way, we will accede to the loss of many cherished civil liberties—the right to worship freely, to debate public policy without censorship, to gather with friends and family, or simply to leave our homes. We may even cheer on those who ask us to disregard our normal lawmaking processes and forfeit our personal freedoms. Of course, this is no new story. Even the ancients warned that democracies can degenerate toward autocracy in the face of fear.

That speaks volumes.  No, people don't learn.  I think it was Hegel that said - "The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history."

Even when they release the real plague, people will lock themselves down, even if it means starvation, and roll up their sleeves and take another toxic shot, labeled a 'vaccine'.  Of course, the thugs won't lock themselves down, they will go door to door on a killing spree to get all that they want.  People will beg for their government to save them.  There will, of course, be conditions for this 'saving'.

People are extremely brainwashed, and they will sell their souls for a bowl of stew.

These people, at the VERY top and their immediate subordinates, hate Christianity, hate it, but they hate atheists also.  Christians are being targeted as we all know, but atheists are on the chopping block also.

One world government also means one world religion.  Guess what that is...

Conspiracy, yes, theory, no.

 
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Jun-10

There will be those who do similar to what you state, but yet there will be others who stand up and say NEVER AGAIN!

I believe the numbers who say never again are greater, but those who will bow down to government are growing!

As for your "people don't learn"... I have a very simple exercise for those to follow:

Take a lighter and hold it in your left or right hand. Now light that lighter and leave it burning for at least 2 minutes. While the flame is still lit, take your pointer finger of your other hand and hold it in the flame for at least 1 minute. 

If your finger is on fire after 1 minute, you haven't learned anything. 

If you removed your finger after 2 ~ 5 seconds, you've learned something!

Nuff said!

FWIW

  • Edited June 10, 2023 1:00 pm  by  WALTER784
 
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The schools woke people up in the real sense to what is being done by institutions.  Then they started looking  at everything. 

 
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