Justin Smith contends much of the economic/financial
difficulties America is facing is less from the Coronavirus and more from Big Government
intrusion into markets at home and abroad. The Pandemic is merely the straw utilized
to crush the economy. The crush is bringing forms of Anti-Liberty solutions
robbing freedom to favor government control of people’s lives. THINK OF THAT
when the government tells you what to do and where you can go with the OR ELSE
insinuation of martial law.
Communists should be pleased as Americans are tricked out of
Liberty again.
JRH 3/20/20
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COVID-19 and the Loss of Liberty
America Trends Towards Martial Law
By Justin O. Smith
Sent 3/20/2020
1:10 AM
"One detects a pattern in
American politics: Every challenge is a crisis, every crisis is a Moral
Equivalent of War, and winning that war, we are told, means giving the Left
everything it demands, without opposition and generally with no regard for the
Constitution, process, or democratic norms." ~
Kevin D. Williamson, Fellow at the
National Review Institute [Quote:
“MEOW, They Roared;” National Review;
3/13/20 12:09 PM]
Hard as it is to imagine, many people are buying the current
propaganda being generated by the World Health Organization, the Trump
administration and governments around the globe, as some, such as Greg Gutfeld
of Fox News, are agreeing that this COVID-19 scare is tantamount to a war
against an unseen enemy, after President Trump declared a national emergency on
March 13th and later essentially called himself "a wartime
president". COVID-19, as bad as it is, is nowhere close to visiting the
horrors of war on America, that the world saw during the invasion of Normandy
during WWII, when 10,000 men were wounded and killed. And far more than the
severe and highly dangerous and deadly pandemic COVID-19 has been painted to
be, it is actually serving as cover for the greatest economic collapse in U.S.
history, a global collapse in fact, and an excuse to go full steam ahead with a
Modern Monetary Theory that
facilitates out-of-control spending and printing as much money as a nation
wants, along with passing any new "law" that ensures public
compliance with everything to follow this complete reset of the global order
and a loss of liberty.
America is being told it now faces a "serious and
deadly" COVID-19 outbreak, that has only resulted in 88 deaths in the
country, so far, and that is terrible to hear on any day, and especially so for
the family members; but, COVID-19 isn't any greater a threat or more virulent
or deadly than the yearly influenza virus this flu season. And yet everywhere
in the nation, America is being placed in quarantine by way of arbitrary
commands and unconstitutional orders, similar to the likes of those that were
contrived, connived and agreed upon by President Trump and the Democratic Party
tyrant wannabe, Governor Andrew Cuomo, for the State of New York, while the
national guard is preparing for "urban lockdowns" in several states, through
heavy-handed and oppressive social and economic control [some refer to it as
"soft tyranny"], even though the worse case scenario that predicts
millions of deaths in our country will NEVER happen, unless the sun suddenly
doesn't rise bright in the morning.
The current "pandemic" is just the latest
"enemy of the state", that is being manipulated by the U.S.
federal government emboldened over the past three decades and more willing
now than ever to fabricate fear to secure a political end. Political ends
are always about greater control, corruption, and too often hiding government
wrongdoing, cover-ups. [Blog Editor: Bold emphasis mine]
Once upon a time,
Frederic Bastiat, the magnificently
profound philosopher,
noted: "The politician
attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil
in the first place: legal plunder."
Just recently, the Federal Reserve Bank approved $1.5
trillion more to bail out the Repurchasing Markets, bringing the total to
approximately $5 trillion spent since September 2nd 2019 to essentially cover
the massive leverage built by banks and hedge funds again, the same exact bad
practices that led to the economic crisis of 2008; and, despite President
Trump's assurances that corporate America isn't to blame this time. This is the
equivalent of adding $40,000 more in taxpayer debt to every American household.
And it went unnoticed by ninety-nine percent of America.
It is important to note here, that the Fed began its second
epic "bank bailout", another massive theft and transference of wealth,
on September 2nd, and so, from that alone, it should be readily apparent that
the current financial crisis has absolutely nothing to do with the COVID-19
virus, although the current charade is certain to exacerbate it and make the
crisis deepen, providing all the excuse the government needs to continue to
suppress our individual liberty along the way.
On March 16th, the U.S. stock market suffered its worse
point loss in U.S. history, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average took a loss of
nearly 3000 points and wiped out all gains in the last three years. Its 12.93
percent loss was greater what we saw on
October 28th 1929 when the Dow lost
12.8 percent, but it is only the second greatest percentage loss in U.S.
history, far from the 22.6 percent loss of
Black Monday, October 19th 1987.
Although we could not have predicted COVID-19, it was only
the trigger for the ongoing financial crash, the proverbial straw that broke
the finance sector's back. With asset price bubbles across the world and the
total global debt over 322 percent of the world gross domestic product in the
third quarter of 2019, something was certain to break, and we are seeing the
results now.
On March 17th 2020, Pam and Russ Martens, financial experts,
observed: "And yet no matter
what pundit you see on TV, all that one hears is that Wall Street banks have
plenty of capital. These two things cannot be simultaneously true: the Fed
cannot have had to be pumping hundreds of billions of dollars each week into
Wall Street banks and their trading arms for the past six months (long before
there was any coronavirus outbreak anywhere in the world) if these banks
actually did have adequate capital."
Despite all the blame being laid upon the COVID-19 outbreak,
one must note that over a century ago, in 1918-19, a true pandemic and epidemic
of the Spanish flu created chaos, as 500 million were infected worldwide and 50
million people died from the virus, and approximately 675,000 of those deaths
were Americans. And
even though this pandemic was the deadliest in history, the
Dow Jones rose throughout the year from 76 to 81. Now
isn't that interesting?
Once again, I iterate the fact that our leaders are further
destroying the economy, by printing trillions of dollars more, and throwing
good money after bad without any sound reason, other than corrupt politicians
and bankers are benefiting and pocketing massive amounts of real asset wealth
that will be seen in catastrophic retail inflation, similar to 1923 Germany,
and later tax rate hikes for the average taxpayer on down the road, especially
if a 1929 credit collapse is currently underway.
If any government assistance of any kind is distributed, it
should be given to the elderly and those with the most severe symptoms and
reactions to COVID-19, not just handed out like a security blanket to everyone
and anybody; however, on March 14th, the House passed the Families First Act
that offers two weeks of paid sick leave to COVID-19 victims, paying their
entire salary up to $511 per day (approximately $130,000 a year). And
ironically and typical for our corrupt government, large companies with over
five-hundred employees are exempt.
As I have stated in other articles, President Trump believes
he has no real choice except to be seen acting proactively in the face of
COVID-19, no matter the unintended consequences of those actions, as he also
deals with the very real and separate crisis of an economy under threat of a
massive collapse. However, the guidance he has set in place and his tacit
support of the continued fear-mongering by advisors, such as Dr. Anthony Fauci,
director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, is
giving rise to many egregious and tyrannical local responses, all from his own
fear that he cannot get re-elected, unless he rolls with the current Deep State
project, postures for political gain and allows our Bill of Rights to be
trashed in the process.
There is not any federal authority in existence than can legally
force everyone across the nation everywhere to stay home and self-quarantine or
"Self-isolate", however, federal powers combined with extensive state
and local emergency powers can and are, essentially effecting a national
shutdown, as we also find the largest corporations, like Amazon and Nissan and
many others operating in the U.S., now going along with the suggested two to
three week closures, or restricted operations. This is forcing millions of
Americans to stay at home, sick or not, when millions are one paycheck away
from homelessness and other catastrophes that go hand-in-hand with financial
ruin; this applies equally to small businesses too.
And yet, all across America we see a new trend, whereby
military and police now act as if America is under martial law without a formal
declaration of such. Many states, such as New Jersey, California, Ohio,
Illinois, Massachusetts and Washington, have already taken unconstitutional
martial law measures without an official declaration, exhibiting our potential
unconstitutional future under any new fear, real or imagined, once this crisis
has passed.
Americans are being forced to stay home by New York Governor
Cuomo, if they are not deemed "essential workers". He has issued an
arbitrary, selective and unconstitutional executive order that requires
companies to send fifty percent of their people home to
"Self-isolate". Well, don't essential workers get sick? What's the
difference, when there isn't any "cure" and the only recommended treatment
is identical to what one would do with the common cold?
Worse yet, according to Fox 5 San Diego, on March 19th, the
Governor of California, Gavin Newsom, issued a "stay at home" order
effective immediately and to remain in place "until further notice".
And, in clarification, Fox 5 also reported, "Everyone is required to stay
home except to get food, care for a relative or friend, get necessary health
care, or go to an essential job."
San Francisco has ordered county and city law enforcement to
"ensure compliance" with its recent "shelter in place"
order, prior to Gov. Newsom's order, although officials stated they would not
"rush to enforce" the directives, while residents were fully informed
to what is permissible. Any violation of the orders will supposedly be considered
a misdemeanor punishable by a fine or jail time.
One certainly cannot help but wonder, who will be the first
American arrested for violating a "stay at home" or "shelter in
place" order?
On March 12th in Champaign, Illinois, Mayor Deborah Feinen
declared a state of emergency due to the COVID-19 outbreak granting herself the
power to ban firearms, alcohol and gasoline, during the "crisis",
along with the power to prevent individuals' from accessing gas, water and
electricity, and even to take possession of private property, according to the
Washington Examiner.
The Mayor of Nashville, TN, John Cooper, not to be outdone
by anyone, ordered bars on Lower Broadway and throughout Davidson County
to close their business, on March 15th, until further notice. All restaurants
were told to limit their maximum seating to fifty percent of available seated
capacity, all of which is absolutely in violation of the spirit of our
Declaration of Independence and the pursuit of life, liberty and happiness and
the Constitution itself. The orders are certain to be met with challenges along
the way, such as already presented by the owners of Tootsie's Orchid Lounge,
Honky Tonk Central and Kid Rock's establishments, who called Cooper's orders
"unconstitutional", as they vowed to remain open until Governor Bill
Lee issues a statewide mandate.
Nashville's Downtown Merchant Association responded to the
rise of unconstitutional orders across the country, in part, with the following
statement: "We are compassionate with those who have contracted the
COVID-19 coronavirus and all who are helping manage the crisis as the entire
world addresses the outbreak. However, a Tootsie's patron as immediate as last
night, mentioned having lived through the polio epidemic and didn't recall such
extreme measures being handed down in history."
In one breath the government tells us all to stay home for
two weeks, and in another they disingenuously claim there isn't any reason to
hoard anything. But just how are Americans then expected to survive, if they
don't stock up for what could extend into eight weeks or longer?
Political posturing is the rule today in our polarized
country, as politicians go through the motions of a contrived COVID-19 crisis.
Political concerns seem to be more important than what is the best course for
everybody's health and finances, in their fear that a refusal to shut the
nation down will result in blame for every death being blamed on their
political inaction. And there will be a steep price to be paid, at the expense
of our individual liberty.
Nobody really knows how deep and harsh this will get, and
just maybe those who do have an inkling aren't sayin', but it goes without
saying that a good deal of disorder will come of this ordeal. One must wonder
what America looks like in the aftermath, once all the dust has settled.
Former Congressman and Presidential candidate, Ron Paul,
wrote the following on March 16th: "Governments love crises because when
the people are fearful they are more willing to give up their freedoms for
promises that the government will take care of them. After 9/11, for example,
Americans accepted the near-total destruction of their civil liberties in the
PATRIOT Act's hollow promises of security.
It is ironic to see the same Democrats who tried to impeach
President Trump last month for abuse of power demanding that the administration
grab more power and authority in the name of fighting a virus that thus far has
killed less than 100 Americans."
Our Constitutional Rights have steadily been attacked and
eroded for decades now, but especially so with the PATRIOT Act and the FISA
Reauthorization Act, but if anyone thinks the U.S. federal government has
trashed their rights, just wait. The worse is yet to come.
Every current action being taken by Congress is to save Wall
Street and the mega-corporations who control it, while President Trump and his
administration follow the exact same playbook from the 2008 economic collapse,
as the average Americans lose jobs and watch their 401k portfolios wiped out
for the third time in the last two decades. Main Street is once again getting
the worse end of any deals coming out of current legislation, as the Zero
Interest Rate Policy harms senior citizens' retirement funds, while the
propaganda from the media continues to move the most ignorant masses within the
nation to beg the government, their "Keepers", to save their lives.
Critical thinking Americans have already concluded that their elected and
unelected government officials -- so-called "leaders" -- have once
again proven themselves to be incompetent, corrupt and evil.
More than any threat from any virus, Americans should worry
for the cause of liberty in our country, as we see our government evolving into
a thing far too willing to take control over every segment of our lives and
imprison us, if we do not comply with their fiats and diktats. Liberty faces a
very real threat from the socialists and communists of the Democratic Party,
who urge a far too willing President Trump for more dictatorial measures in the
face of a manufactured crisis, as the CDC pulls the wool over the nation's eyes
and our massive debt seems poised to come crashing down like an avalanche,
while the Federal Reserve continues to act like a whore for the Wall Street
bankers; and, in the meantime, the nation is mere steps away from military
vehicles patrolling our streets threatening citizens with arrest or death, once
the current social order begins to be swept away, as decades of thievery,
corruption, lies and corporate fascism come crashing down. And, if America is
still strong enough to face the gravest of consequences, the wheat will be
separated from the chaff and those proponents of truth, life and liberty will
pick up the pieces and determine the future of this America I love so
well.
By Justin O. Smith
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