Tyranny Always Starts with a Little Prick

 Ten years ago, when Tea Party Patriot groups were popping up all over America to fight back against Obamacare's socialized medicine and its expansion of the welfare state, it was common to hear the battle framed as one between "makers" and "takers," a rebuke by working-class Americans who knew they would ultimately be paying more in taxes for worse health care so that Americans who paid no taxes at all could have their "fair share."  When people called out Obama and his medical mandates (you must have Obamacare, and Obamacare must cover abortions, "sex change" operations, and anything else the government decrees...) for orchestrating a federal takeover of one-fifth of the economy while inviting Big Brother to peek behind the hospital curtain and spy on the private health decisions of every American, they were lambasted for not having enough empathy for those in need.  Obama was just implementing Romneycare on a national scale and walking in George Bush's "compassionate conservative" footsteps, after all.  What could possibly go wrong?

Turns out an awful lot can go wrong awfully quickly.  Obamacare mandates have morphed into mask and lockdown and injection mandates.  Obama's use of the NSA, IRS, and FBI to threaten conservative speech became redundant when Silicon Valley censorship boards jumped in to do the government's bidding in the name of public health.  After conditioning Americans to recoil at anything deemed "hate speech" or "harmful misinformation," the government has had a pretty easy time banning as "hateful" or "harmful" anybody still putting up a fight.  And after scaring enough Americans into thinking they would instantly die for breathing fresh air, the gangrenous Obama Gang has had no problem finding volunteers willing to spy on their neighbors, lock themselves behind closed doors, and demand implementation of government-issued travel papers for future movements of any kind.

Thank goodness the World Health Organization wasn't around in 1781, or General Cornwallis might have won at Yorktown just by browbeating our colonial ancestors into believing that freedom can be granted only by credentialed health professionals.  "You see, George, our civilian wellness authorities assure us that your little revolution has been a super-spreader event of the highest order, and these are nonpartisan 'experts,' mind you, so to continue would just be devilishly selfish.  Best to lock everyone back in their homes.  You don't mind garrisoning some of our troops, do you?  Whole thing should be over in fifteen days.  Honest."  Nah, when you're fighting for freedom at any cost, nothing stands in your way.  When you're handed freedom at no cost, nothing seems worth the fight.  You can't secure independence while declaring dependence on government at every turn.

Obviously, people who take freedom for granted don't spend a lot of time considering how they're being led by their government one baby step at a time toward their own imprisonment.  Still, surely there's a point when a person of reasonable intelligence looks around and thinks, "Hmm, letting a bunch of politicians decide what I write on Facebook, whether I can go to work when I might see my friends and family, and how many trips I make outside my apartment doesn't seem very different from asking a warden for permission to live."  Whom am I kidding?  Just the other day, Jennifer Aniston was telling millions of impressionable celebrity gawkers that it is their "moral and professional obligation" to publicly reveal their vaccination status, and people applauded.  (Asking about someone's HIV status, on the other hand, is still strictly verboten.)  It's clear that years of pop culture peer pressure and social media manipulation have lobotomized just enough Americans into believing they can truly be free only by following orders.  

When self-described "progressives" gleefully condemn "fascism" by urging the government to take ever more control over their lives, it's obvious that most of them wouldn't catch on even if Obama stood there, himself, handing them the bricks and wet cement for their own 6 x 8 cell.  For crying out loud, Obama literally went down to communist Cuba to surrender to Castro, and the Hollywood set called it a historic time for "Libertad."  Then, when the Cuban people rose up in 2021 to demand actual liberty, Obama's followers blamed Cubans in the streets for daring to fight for freedom during a "pandemic."  Do we see a pattern here?  Independence must be put on hold when communists call for "health timeouts" and universal lockdowns in the name of public safety.  It's not that commies want to keep control over the peasants; it's that commies take your health very seriously.  So seriously, in fact, that you might not get to keep it if you can't do what they say.

Democrat Congressman Ted Lieu just finished lecturing Americans that they have no right to breathe in public spaces.  He actually called this the "tyranny of the minority."  Lieu's woke wisdom comes at the same time Darth Fauci has declared that "individual rights" can be protected only by forcing people to wear masks in perpetuity, even though mandatory face coverings have been mocked as nothing more than "comfort blankets" and "cosmetic theater" for pacifying the hysterical since they do next to nothing to contain viral spread.  Only Democrats would fight for "justice" by suffocating the masses and shaming the un-indoctrinated for believing they have the right to breathe.

What's the lesson here?  Tyranny always starts with a little prick.  Obamacare didn't make America healthy.  The vaccines haven't set Americans free.  As Camus potently warned those willing to listen, "The welfare of the people is the alibi of tyrants."  Forget the battle between "makers" and "takers."  For Americans to win back their freedom, it's "slaves" versus "braves" from here on out.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/08/tyranny_always_starts_with_a_little_prick.html

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/health/fourth-case-fatal-rare-melioidosis-us-found-georgia

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Fauci's latest faux pas

Dr. Anthony Fauci recently made a bold declaration against “the sea of lies we are living in” -- and then lied about the science of COVID-19 and vaccine protection.  Not just a little lie: a massive misstatement of well-established scientific fact. Now he has proclaimed that the COVID vaccine will protect Americans to the same degree as the measles shot:

A virus cannot mutate unless it is replicating, and if you allow the virus to freely replicate chronically in society it will mutate… If we can get the overwhelming proportion of the people vaccinated, as a nation ...we will do very, very well. Just the same way as we’re all protected from measles because the level of protection in measles is very, very good in this country. It’s 90-some-odd percent.

Is he attempting here to suggest that experimental MRNA COVID-19 vaccines are as innocuous as the measles vaccine?  He doesn’t say this, but by linking these completely different pathogens he is inviting false comfort.  The two diseases differ tremendously: measles cannot mutate into new strains; COVID-19 most certainly can. Indeed, Dr. Fauci claims urgency in vaccinations to prevent exactly that:

"There's a tenet that everybody knows in virology: a virus will not mutate unless you allow it to replicate," Fauci told NBC’s Chuck Todd on "Meet the Press." "Fortunately for us, the vaccines do quite well against delta, particularly in protecting you from severe disease, but if you give the virus the chance to continue to change, you're leading to a vulnerability that we might get a worse variant…

Fauci’s analogy to measles protection is doublespeak: “....there is a near-zero probability for the natural emergence of a new measles virus capable of evading vaccine-induced immunity.”  Measles is especially “rigid” in its evolutionary design, employing a complex mechanism of “...binding to specific cellular protein receptors as its doorway” past the natural human immune system.

Thus, it is impossible for America to ever be provided vaccine protection from COVID-19 equivalent to that achieved by measles vaccines.  This doesn’t stop Fauci from stating that Americans will be protected “just the same way” as the nation is for measles -- if only people will prevail “despite the sea of lies.” 

Is the “science” really so baffling for the good Doctor F?  COVID-19 is more akin to flu in its mutability:

Viruses that encode their genome in RNA, such as SARS-CoV-2, HIV and influenza, tend to pick up mutations quickly as they are copied inside their hosts, because enzymes that copy RNA are prone to making errors.

Annual flu shots are required because flu mutates so rapidly -- this is also why flu shots are often of only limited protection.  While COVID-19 mutates more slowly than influenza, to compare it to the “rigid” virus measles, and suggest it can be similarly prevented for the future by a single vaccine, is astounding.  Further critical thinking suggests that immunizing an infected population during a pandemic can also cause vaccine-resistant variants to arise.  Instead, Fauci et al conjure a make-believe world in which 100% of people who create variants are the unvaccinated. 

When science is so brazenly fudged, it becomes frighteningly clear that this “new science” is really a new religion, warped like scriptures (only kept by the Doctor-class clergy, who also decide what the Constitution says, and what legal rights all humans should have) into whatever meaning is required for the moment. 

To comprehend Dr. Fauci in an American sea of lies, modern science grants access to the reasons why some people -- even people in important positions of authority on which great trust is placed -- lie as easily as breathing.  Scientific American uncannily hints at what might be percolating in the mind of Dr. Fauci:

Current thinking about the psychological processes involved in deception holds that people typically tell the truth more easily than they tell a lie and that lying requires far more cognitive resources. First, we must become aware of the truth; then we have to invent a plausible scenario that is consistent and does not contradict the observable facts. At the same time, we must suppress the truth so that we do not spill the beans -- that is, we must engage in response inhibition.

The psychological processes witnessed in Dr. Fauci’s science circus reveal a person who is craftily lying, not unintelligently believing that measles mutates like COVID -- just as he lied about gain-of function research. 

When America’s health czar smugly condemns others as liars while denigrating the unvaccinated based on an abuse of vaccine science, who would trust a vaccine that was actually safe and effective? 

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/08/faucis_latest_faux_pas.html

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/08/a_new_video_with_the_best_pushback_yet_against_critical_race_theory.html