Masking the Truth: It’s not about the Virus, It’s about Obedience
By: Karen Kataline
It is time to resist the edicts and mandates of blue city mayors and blue state governors. We must remind them that they are out public servants and that we are not their subjects. They have gone too far with their elitist god complexes and control freak zealotry.
S E E D E D C O N T E N T
The Left has sprinted past what we previously thought was a line in the sand between personal freedom and forced dictates of personal behavior by the state.
The breach of that boundary has led to numerous other fundamental rights crumbling to dust along with our historical monuments.
There is still time to restore those boundaries and our rights but only if we start telling the truth en masse and defying unjust edicts from lawless lawmakers. We can’t simply hope that there will be enough lawful lawmakers to speak up. We must speak up.
Coronavirus is still being used as an excuse to crack down on our freedoms despite false projections that even the CDC dramatically ratcheted down months ago.
Democrat governors and other politicians are refusing to relinquish the “emergency powers” they awarded themselves to allow them to continue to impose lock downs and restrict businesses at their own whim.
As if they somehow thought of it themselves, they act simultaneously to continually tighten demands and micromanage our lives. As if on cue, they are now moving from suggesting to demanding that everyone, no matter what their risk level, health or opinion be forced to wear masks in public. What a perfect and ever-present reminder that we are not in charge of our lives. They are.
Even weak-kneed Republicans like Governor Greg Abbott of Texas have become lost in this masquerade.
It doesn’t matter whether masks work or make sense. It only matters that it has been a wildly successful tool for obedience training in collectivism for Americans. Socialism can’t take hold without it.
The avowed and secret socialists among us are engaged in an all-out battle to punish America for being built precisely on that individualism and for flourishing because of a constitution that was created to protect it.
While Democrat tacticians have their Democrat politicians ramping up threats of fines and jail time for refusing to wear a mask, they’re also pushing the idea that masks are “cool.” There is a whole new cottage industry that is marketing masks as an opportunity to make a “signature” fashion statement. There’s nothing quite like superficial individuality to “mask” one’s prostration to serfdom and conformity.
Savvy watchers of the Left were suspicious early on when they noticed a familiar Leftist tactic being warmed up and served for public consumption. They went to work making it socially acceptable to vilify dissenters and brand them as selfish. They rewarded it. How dare anyone question the efficacy of masks or the use of bullying and intimidation to force Americans to comply? How dare anyone care about their own personal freedom and the freedom of their fellow citizens, even those too ignorant or complacent to care? We’re in the middle of a pandemic!
Masks create further alienation and suspicion between friends, neighbors and business associates. They muzzle us while helping to easily identify dissenters.
We have seen how deadly the combination of collectivism and social bullying can be. It can often lead to mob rule and violence. At that point, politicians don’t have to worry about enforcing their unconstitutional orders. The mob does it for them.
Masks also blur the lines between criminals and law-abiding citizens. We are indistinguishable from Antifa and other groups who now commit heinous crimes in plain sight and with impunity. The backward subliminal message is that masked people are law-abiding and unmasked people are criminals.
After watching the same Democrat politicians refuse to impose their own orders on rioters, looters and vandals, their credibility is lower than the fatality rate of the coronavirus.
In light of such a blatant dereliction of duty to protect their innocent constituents, they still have the chutzpah to claim that it is compassion that compels them to order us to wear masks.
The good news is that a growing number of people believe that these suffocating orders are ridiculous and even dangerous. The bad news is that most still only whisper it in muffled tones behind their cloth masks.
As we have seen, complying with the orders of authoritarians only brings more authoritarianism. Masks will continue to be a major battleground on which we can beat it back.
Previously polite, law-abiding citizens must unmask themselves and let their voices be heard. Unlike their oppressive opposition, they have little interest in vilifying those who choose to wear a mask for their own reasons.
In the 1982 film, Ben Kingsley portrayed Gandhi as saying, “100,000 Englishmen simply cannot control 350 million Indians, if those Indians refuse to cooperate.”
It’s time to stop cooperating.
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More bullshit
We are seeing the true colors of a lot of people this year. They are claiming serious violation of their civil rights because they are required to wear a thin cloth mask inside a store or office. It is ridiculous.
This is what violation of civil rights looks like
I'd hate to see what people who don't want to wear masks would have been like during WWII, so sad that this is to benefit all people living here, yet some are too ignorant to see that.
" I have a right as an American to buy as much steak as I want. If you want the soldiers in the combat zones to have meat too, grow more cows." "
That's really divisive and it also creates a false narrative. I didn't see many masks worn by those vicious demonstrators.
Did I ever once post anywhere on this site that I agreed with the demonstrations, NO I did not.
Did I ever once post anywhere on this site that I excused any demonstrator for not wearing a mask, NO I did not.
That poster implies something. If anyone doubts that, all one has to do is look at the leanings of those who voted it up.
The poster implies, wear a mask and if not, you won't get served at a business.
What side are you talking about....I posted about me and that you will not find one post from me that condoned the demonstrations and condoned the demonstrators not wearing masks, I don't speak for anyone but myself
There is nothing divisive about the poster LIB.
I know there isn't..it's plain common sense.
Lol...You just did two little articles portraying those who don't wear masks as partisan.
Personally, when I go to the supermarket - during senior hours (6AM -7AM), I don't see any shoppers not wearing a mask. I don't think the problem lies with people shopping. It usually involves the more serious matter of large groups not distancing themselves.
This is so ridiculous.
When in public, engage in social distancing and wear a mask to mitigate infecting others in close proximity. Keep your hands clean and avoid touching your face. If you feel sick, stay home.
Once we have a vaccine and infection is mitigated by effective herd immunity we will be able to slowly return to something closer to normal. Until then, it is foolish to follow partisan attempts to work people into a frenzy. Get past the partisan agendas and think critically.
I have problems with some of the emergency policies, but honestly making people wear masks is not one of them. It's pretty simple. It's not very disruptive of our lives. The things are cheap. And the government doesn't get anything out of it. It's a small thing that inhibits spread of the disease and might save a lot of lives. I can see complaining about some things, but come on. Masks?
Other stuff makes less sense. Science tells us being outside is better than being inside, so government closes the beaches. If you just restrict people to family groups, the beach seems pretty safe to me. Lower risk, at any rate. But marching down Main Street in groups of hundreds is A-OK.
Also, they opened up bars before they opened up churches. What's the difference?
A buddy of mine who runs a car shop gets harassed constantly by government officials who test him and his guys frequently and get on them about disinfecting surfaces (which the CDC says is lower risk for transmission) and wants to charge him thousands of dollars for special equipment and chemicals to clean his place. That is the kind of thing that seems like a scam to make the government money and pay government employees. Think about it: it's a car shop. Customers are already not allowed in there and he's got his desk blocked off by plastic.
Masks seem like small potatoes by comparison.