COVID-19 Lockdown Compared to Actions of a Police State | Eastern NC Now

Dennis Prager writes for the Daily Signal that government’s response to COVID-19 offers a “dress rehearsal” for a police state.

ENCNow
Publisher's note: The author of this post is Mitch Kokai for the John Locke Foundation.

    Dennis Prager writes for the Daily Signal that government's response to COVID-19 offers a "dress rehearsal" for a police state.

  • All my life, I have dismissed paranoids on the right ("America is headed to communism") and the left ("It can happen here"-referring to fascism).
  • It's not that I've ever believed liberty was guaranteed. Being familiar with history and a pessimist regarding the human condition, I never believed that.
  • But the ease with which police state tactics have been employed and the equal ease with which most Americans have accepted them have been breathtaking.
  • People will argue that a temporary police state has been justified because of the allegedly unique threat to life posed by the new coronavirus. I do not believe the data will bear that out. Regardless, let us at least agree that we are closer to a police state than ever in American history. ...
  • ... But we are presently living with all four of the key hallmarks of a police state:
  • No. 1: Draconian laws depriving citizens of elementary civil rights.
  • The federal, state, county, and city governments are now restricting almost every freedom except those of travel and speech.
  • Americans have been banned from going to work (and thereby earning a living), meeting in groups (both indoors and outdoors), meeting in their cars in church parking lots to pray, and entering state-owned properties such as beaches and parks-among many other prohibitions.
  • No. 2: A mass media supportive of the state's messaging and deprivation of rights. ...
  • ... No. 3: Use of police.
  • Police departments throughout America have agreed to enforce these laws and edicts with what can only be described as frightening alacrity. ...
  • ... No. 4: Snitches.
  • How do the police dispatchers learn of lawbreakers such as families playing softball in a public park, lone joggers without face masks, etc.? From their fellow citizens snitching on them.

    Follow Carolina Journal Online's continuing coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic HERE.
Go Back


Leave a Guest Comment

Your Name or Alias
Your Email Address ( your email address will not be published )
Enter Your Comment ( text only please )




NC Senate Wants DHHS to Release More Data John Locke Foundation Guest Editorial, Editorials, Op-Ed & Politics The House of Representatives as ‘Nonessential Service’


HbAD0

Latest Op-Ed & Politics

says foreign ties of Democrat Socialists of America need to be investigated
massive data collection by license plate readers on highways and streets threaten freedom

HbAD1

“I’m from America, 250 years ago we were way bigger than 6/1 dogs, and look at us thriving now.” Justin Gaethje pulls off an all time sports upset.
There are many people who overlook the brilliance of the US Constitution. They argue that it is outdated and unfit to adequately govern such a modern nation as ours in the 21st century.

HbAD2

"I plan to keep his counsel close until our paths cross again," JD Vance said on Thursday.
On Tuesday, Democratic Gov. Josh Stein signed an executive order creating the bipartisan Health Care Affordability Commission that he said will look at ways to make healthcare more affordable for North Carolinians.
"Margo’s Got Money Troubles" explores how financial desperation drives women to OnlyFans. That’s not empowering. It’s exploitative.

HbAD3

 
 
Back to Top