Article here. Excerpt:
If you can’t watch the video, what it shows is a dog latching onto a man’s arm, while police beat him (and others) with batons for “breaking” COVID restrictions. Worse, once the man is on the ground, arm bent back, and likely injured, the police just continue to hit him instead of ordering the dog to release him. As the scene unfolds, other police officers gather around to block the view of cameras filming the incident.
It was an absolutely disgusting spectacle, and it happened in a nation that is ostensibly a “free” democracy. Yet, these Western countries aren’t operating as such. Rather, they are mimicking the tactics of communist and fascist nations throughout history, all the while still insisting they hold some moral superiority over the next tin-pot dictator.
But that moral authority is burning down before our eyes, and that’s assuming these nations even had any left after the last two years of draconian, tyrannical, COVID mitigation measures. If Western democracies can morph into the CCP over a virus, what can’t they do?
There will always be the “next crisis” to feed the next power grab, and once you allow authoritarians a taste for total control, they never relinquish it. That’s why those who are fighting back in the streets right now, including that man in that video, are so important. While many on the left in the United States scoff at the idea of individual rights right now, we cease to have a society worth preserving the moment those rights are taken away — no matter what the excuse is.
Here’s the bottom line: You cannot claim to be better than the tyrants when you aren’t actually better than the tyrants. Right now, Western nations that once claimed to be beacons of freedom and prosperity are showing their true colors. That’s not only morally repulsive, but it’s a dangerous situation for the world.
If the situation in Korea gets much worse for us "untouchables" (i.e., the unvaxxed), I may seriously consider moving back to the States. But the situation in the States isn't much better, is it? Do the red states guarantee full freedoms, or are elements of governmental stupidity as visible there as in the blue states?
Florida seems to be a good example of a state getting things mostly right. Texas too. Other red states, like Wyoming, are so small population-wise that they rarely make the news.
ReplyDeleteI keep waiting for people to rise up and say enough of this bullshit. Here in the PI they've just begun implementing a quarantine pass requirement to move about freely and to enter indoor businesses. Not in my town thankfully. Yet.