John R. Houk
© March 23, 2020
Thanks to America’s Founding Fathers we live in nation in
which a Constitution was crafted with the thought of limiting the power of a
Centralized national government. Thus in the USA the central (Federal)
government consists of three branches: Executive, Legislative and Judiciary.
The Constitutional theory behind the three branches is that each is to balance
power with checks on the other’s authority.
The theory was to protect “We The People” from government
despotism experienced by American Colonialists prior to American Independence
and the hope to prevent future government despotism.
Checks and Balances worked well until national divisions on American
culture divided the nation over slavery. The U.S.’s more industrialized
Northeastern States began the desire to impose its will on the more agrarian
slave-economy Southern States.
Abraham Lincoln stood in the middle realizing the only
strong America was a united America. Lincoln utilized the War between State
visions to extend the power of the Federal government which occurred after the
more industrialized Northern States provided the manpower to overcome the
agrarian Southern States.
The benefit was the blight of slavery ended nationally. The
deficit was the increase of power of a central government over the Liberty of
individual Americans. The Liberty deficit has increased in favor of government
intrusion pretty much since 1865.
Taxation needed to feed that centralized government robbed
more American Liberty. Two World Wars; the Cold War (really war against
Soviet Communism); involvement in Cold War-related regional wars (e.g.
Korea & Vietnam) and more recently a Global War on Islamic Terrorism
-- have all contributed to more power to the Central government to
increased deficit to Individual Liberty.
NOW it appears the Coronavirus/COVID-19 global pandemic
originating from Communist China very likely is on the very cusp of robbing
more American Liberty.
Recommended self-quarantining seems to be evolving to
mandatory quarantining to the point martial law restrictions on travel. On a
personal level I actually understand strong measures may enter desperation for
the public good. MY PROBLEM: strong measures tend to stick around even after
the public good has been served.
The strong measures concerning me is the government
utilization of travel papers to move around geographically. Are Checks and Balances
irrelevant in today’s application? How long will travel papers be required in
post-pandemic days in America?
Liberty deficits are rarely restored once removed. THAT
CONCERNS ME and it should concern YOU my fellow American.
A quite on travel papers the Activist Post:
Papers that people sent were
from Pennsylvania, New York, Arizona, Michigan, North Carolina, Kansas, New
Jersey, West Virginia, Virginia, Oregon, Florida, Louisiana, and Ohio.
Industries mentioned in the papers were trucking, grocery stores, medical
clinics, hospitals, nursing homes, city transit workers, railroads, food
production plants, pharmacies, gas stations, stores like Target and Walmart,
and automotive repair facilities.
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“Travel Papers” and the Pandemic Patriot Act 2.0
By Daisy Luther
March 22, 2020
Did you ever think we’d reach the point in the United States
where you had to have papers to freely travel from one place to another? It
appears we’re at the point.
The MTA issued “travel papers” to their workers
On March 17th, a few days before New York issued a shelter
in place order, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority issued “travel
papers” to their employees to prepare for a potential coronavirus curfew. The NY
Daily News reports:
If non-emergency travel is
restricted, workers can show law enforcement officials the letter if they’re
stopped on the way to work.
“This letter along with current New
York CIty Transit identification identifies this individual as an essential
employee who is required to travel during the curfew imposed due to the Coronavirus
emergency,” states the letter, which is signed by the Metropolitan
Transportation Authority’s Police Department’s acting chief Joseph McGrann.
“Please give this individual due consideration during this crisis.”
MTA spokeswoman Abbey Collins said
the letter was distributed on Monday to a “limited number of NYCT bus employees
living in New Jersey” because the state’s Gov. Murphy suggested imposing a
statewide curfew between 8 p.m. and 5 a.m. (source)
Clearly, the wheels have been in motion for several days.
And it’s not just the MTA.
Your papers, please.
For everyone who thought the article about the Lockdown of America
was a “hysterical overstatement” and that they could still do whatever they
wanted because it wasn’t really being enforced, what are you thinking now that
“travel papers” are being handed out? To me, this sounds like the lockdowns I
wrote of yesterday were just the first incremental step toward a society that
nobody hopes to see.
Yesterday, readers sent me photos of “travel papers”
provided to them by employers so they could get to and from work. These are
employees who work in industries like healthcare, pharmacies, and food service,
as well as those who work in the production, transport, and sales of essential
supplies.
One reader wrote, “We were told to show these if we got
stopped on the way to or from work and that if the authorities gave us any
trouble, to not argue and just go back home.”
Here are some of the papers that people sent. Identifying
information has been redacted.
Papers that people sent were from Pennsylvania, New York,
Arizona, Michigan, North Carolina, Kansas, New Jersey, West Virginia, Virginia,
Oregon, Florida, Louisiana, and Ohio. Industries mentioned in the papers were
trucking, grocery stores, medical clinics, hospitals, nursing homes, city
transit workers, railroads, food production plants, pharmacies, gas stations,
stores like Target and Walmart, and automotive repair facilities.
Most people were given their papers on Friday or Saturday
and told they’d need them to get to and from work starting the week ahead.
I wonder who’s going to be checking your “travel
papers.” Will it be the local PD? The National Guard? The military? Maybe
it’ll be all those TSA agents who are currently out of work but already
accustomed to molesting innocent travelers.
What does this mean for those told they’d be able to go
to the store?
We’ve been repeatedly told during task force press
conferences that nobody needs to worry about buying extra supplies because the
stores will remain open. We were chastised about stocking up and “hoarding” supplies.
But if you need travel papers just to get to work, how will a person get to the
store when they need to pick up some groceries? Will these papers only be
required during certain hours?
It’s easy to prove you just went to the store when you have
a bag of groceries in hand, but how do you prove you are going to the
store? Will they just begin distributing the food to us as opposed to allowing
people to shop for their own food?
A little clarity and less subterfuge would go a lot further
toward preventing concern that we’re about to go full Wuhan here in
America.
If I didn’t have supplies already, I would head to the store
today and get enough for a couple of extra weeks at the very least. Here are some ideas for finding supplies
amidst the picked-over inventory that remains.
So, what happens if you get caught without your papers? I’m
glad you asked.
It seems like the DoJ is itching to suspend the
Constitution.
At this point, the “Department of Justice” sounds like one
of those other phrases the government uses to mean the complete opposite. Like
the “Patriot Act” which is as far from patriotic as it gets.
And speaking of the Patriot Act, the government is now
introducing what I’d like to dub the Pandemic Patriot Act 2.0.
The DoJ has secretly asked Congress to draft legislation
allowing them to indefinitely detain people without due process during the
coronavirus pandemic. Because who doesn’t want to add a little spice to our
economic crisis with the added threat of indefinite detention?
Documents reviewed by POLITICO
detail the department’s requests to lawmakers on a host of topics, including
the statute of limitations, asylum and the way court hearings are conducted.
POLITICO also reviewed and previously reported on
documents seeking the authority to extend deadlines on merger reviews and
prosecutions…
…In one of the documents, the
department proposed that Congress grant the attorney general power to ask the
chief judge of any district court to pause court proceedings “whenever the
district court is fully or partially closed by virtue of any natural disaster,
civil disobedience, or other emergency situation.”
The proposal would also grant those
top judges broad authority to pause court proceedings during emergencies. It
would apply to “any statutes or rules of procedure otherwise affecting
pre-arrest, post-arrest, pre-trial, trial, and post-trial procedures in
criminal and juvenile proceedings and all civil process and proceedings,”
according to draft legislative language the department shared with Congress. In
making the case for the change, the DOJ document wrote that individual judges
can currently pause proceedings during emergencies, but that their proposal
would make sure all judges in any particular district could handle emergencies
“in a consistent manner.” (source)
What the heck are “pre-arrest” procedures, anyway? Is that
the part where government investigators go and set someone up to commit a crime
like all those “bombing plots”
the FBI keeps saving us from?
I wouldn’t be surprised to see another 300-page legislation
like the original Patriot Act that was rolled out just weeks after 9/11, giving
us the TSA, indefinite detention, and all sorts of other dystopian nonsense.
Never let a serious crisis go to waste.
In the infamous words of Rahm Emmanuel, the former mayor of
Chicago, “You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that
it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.”
It looks like the government is taking those words to heart
with travel papers and new draconian laws.
Since I wrote the article about America locking down
yesterday, more states have joined in. Now New York, California, Illinois,
Connecticut, and New Jersey are all under restriction.
Is your state coming soon? Are these lockdowns being rolled
out incrementally, starting out gently (sure you can walk your dog!) and then
moving on to the point where you can’t leave your house without “travel
papers?”
So far, 2020 has brought us an out-of-control deadly pandemic,
an economic collapse,
statewide lockdowns,
and now travel papers and a potential new law to eradicate the Fifth Amendment.
I hesitate to ask what’s next.
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abortion in one post and criticizing Virginia Dems for gun-grabbing legislation
and levying protester restrictions. Rather than capitulate to Facebook
censorship by abandoning the platform, I choose to post and share until the
Leftist censors ban me completely. Conservatives are a huge portion of
Facebook. If more or all Conservatives are banned, it will affect
the Facebook advertising revenue paradigm. SO FIGHT CENSORSHIP BY SHARE – SHARE
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manage until April 18 at 7:04 PM.”
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Liberty Erosion Deficits
Government Despotism Pandemic-Style
John R. Houk
© March 23, 2020
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“Travel Papers” and the
Pandemic Patriot Act 2.0
Daisy Luther writes about
current events, preparedness, frugality, voluntaryism, and the pursuit of
liberty on her website, The Organic Prepper. She is widely republished across alternative media and
she curates all the most important news links on her aggregate site, PreppersDailyNews.com. Daisy is the best-selling author of 4
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