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Obey Or Die

By Ben Garrison

I keep thinking of the late Aaron Russo’s excellent video, “From Freedom to Fascism.” His video helped wake me up and if he were alive today he’d be very disappointed at how easily Americans have fallen lockstep in line with whatever big government ‘authorities’ tell them to do. We’ve now arrived at the Orwellian police state he warned us about.

Bill Gates is worth over $100 billion and like his fellow billionaire George Soros, he funds a great many organizations to help him reach his goal. Bill wants medical tyranny, which will result in eugenics.

Gates is neither a doctor nor an elected official, but his control over us is staggering. Gates funds globalist medical institutions such as the World’s Health Organization, headed by a communist revolutionary and close friend of China. Gates has many medical and pharmacological stooges working for him—including the diminutive Fauci, who helped make sure American taxpayer money went to fund the coronavirus research in Wuhan.

While the Covid-19 virus may be real and dangerous, it’s being way over-hyped and over-blown by the medical tyrants and the mass media, who drum a daily beat of fear into the heads of citizens. For decades, the globalists have used their climate change narrative as a means to make us all afraid. They wanted to make us feel bad for breathing, as if we all were some sort of cancer that was destroying their planet with fossil fuels. They wanted the Green New Deal to destroy our industry and economy, thus making it possible to usher in their vision of complete control over the populace by means of tracking, social credits, and digital currency.

The virus is working much better for them than their climate change bunk. They want to portray humans as a virus infecting the planet. THEIR planet. They own it. They see us as nuisance.

The very top of the pyramid, including Gates, owns and controls most everything and they want us fearful, masked, and content at losing our income and ability to socialize. Social distancing prevents protest. They certainly don’t want a repeat of “Occupy Wall Street.” Bear in mind there is no law that people can’t gather, but the police haven’t let that stop them. In many states, the cops are handing out huge fines and threats of jail time. Churches have been targeted. They want faith directed at Gates, not God.

So here we are. A squeaky-throated computer nerd named Bill Gates is now Big Brother. He expects the economic stranglehold to produce such fear and desperation that everyone will gladly take his vaccine and be digitally tracked.

Humans are NOT a virus. Resist the vaccine as if your life depends on it, because it will. Down with Big Brother!

Check out all of Ben’s great cartoons and commentary HERE.

Coronavirus Authoritarianism Is Getting Out of Hand

Via The National Review

We should be preserving our laws and our freedom in times of crisis.

It’s reasonable to assume that the vast majority of Americans process news and data, and calculate that self-quarantining, wearing masks, and social distancing make sense for themselves, their families, and the country. Free people act out of self-preservation, but they shouldn’t be coerced to act through the authoritarian whims of the state. Yet this is exactly what’s happening.

There has been lots of pounding of keyboards over the power grabs of authoritarians in Central and Eastern Europe. Rightly so. Yet right here, politicians act as if a health crisis gives them license to lord over the most private activities of America people in ways that are wholly inconsistent with the spirit and letter of the Constitution.

I’m not even talking about national political and media elites who, after fueling years of hysteria over the coming Republican dictatorship, now demand Donald Trump dominate state actions. I’m talking about local governments.

Under what imperious conception of governance does Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer believe it is within her power to unilaterally ban garden stores from selling fruit or vegetable plants and seeds? What business is it of Vermont or Howard County, Ind., to dictate that Walmart, Costco, or Target stop selling “non-essential” items, such as electronics or clothing? Vermont has 628 cases of coronavirus as of this writing. Is that the magic number authorizing the governor to ban people from buying seeds for their gardens?

Maybe a family needs new pajamas for their young kids because they’re stuck a new town. Or maybe mom needs a remote hard drive to help her work remotely. Or maybe dad just likes apples. Whatever the case, it’s absolutely none of your mayor’s business.

It makes sense for places like Washington, D.C., Virginia, and Maryland to ban large, avoidable gatherings. But it is an astonishing abuse of power to issue stay-at-home orders, enforced by criminal law, empowering police to harass and fine individuals for nothing more than taking a walk.

The criminalization of movement ends with ten Philly cops dragging a passenger off a bus for not wearing a face mask. It ends with local Brighton, Colo., cops handcuffing a father in front of his family for playing T-ball with his daughter in an empty park. It ends with three Massachusetts men being arrested, and facing the possibility of 90 days in jail, for crossing state lines and golfing — a sport built for social distancing — in Rhode Island.

There is no reason to close “public” parks, where Americans can maintain social distance while getting some air or space for their mental and physical well-being — or maybe see a grandchild from afar. In California, surfers, who stay far away from each other, are banned from going in the water. Elsewhere, hikers are banned from roaming the millions of acres in national parks. Millions of lower-income and urban-dwelling Americans don’t have the luxury of backyards, and there is absolutely no reason to inhibit their movement, either.

Two days before Easter, Louisville, Ky., mayor Greg Fischer attempted to unilaterally ban drive-in church services for the most holy day in Christianity. It’s one thing if people are purposely and openly undermining public health. The constitutional right to assemble peacefully and protest or practice your religion, however, is not inoperable in presence of a viral pandemic.

Would-be petty tyrants, such as Dallas judge Clay Jenkins, who implores residences to rat out neighbors who sell cigarettes for “putting profits over public health,” forgets that we are not ruled by him, and that he is merely our temporary servant.

Read the entire article HERE.

The Surveillance State Thrives During the Pandemic

Via Reason

From cellphone tracking to drone eyes in the sky, perused health records, and GPS ankle bracelets, an epidemic of surveillance-state measures is spreading across the world. It’s all done in the name of battling the spread of COVID-19, of course, since every crisis is used to justify incursions into our liberty. But long after the virus has done its worst and moved on, we’re likely to be stuck with these invasions of our privacy—unless we push back, hard.

The rationales for surveillance are easy to understand, within certain limits. Public health authorities battling the pandemic want to know who is spreading the virus, which people they may have infected, and the movements of those potentially carrying the bug.

China, where the COVID-19 outbreak began, leveraged its already deeply intrusive system of social control to force people to install cellphone apps that assigned them a code according to (allegedly) their perceived risk of spreading contagion. Permission to travel or enter public spaces depended on that code even as the software also tracked their whereabouts and shared data on users’ phones with the authorities.

Democratic South Korea didn’t go as far as China, but it still tracked people’s cellphones and credit card usage. Officials also used surveillance cameras to monitor the movements of those suspected of being infected.

Emulating a Chinese tactic, Spanish authorities turned to aerial drones to detect unauthorized gatherings of people—already a cringe-worthy concept for those of us disinclined to ask permission to meet with friends. Loudspeakers on the drones then ordered violators to return home.

Here in the U.S., government officials joined with tech companies to paw through the location data that most of us share with cellphone apps. The idea is to determine if people are staying at home as ordered; if not, the information detects where we’re clustering.

Privacy rules have also been relaxed to allow easier sharing of patients’ medical records with government health officials.

And some government agencies are attaching GPS ankle monitors to COVID-19 patients and those suspected of exposure lest they go for a walk in the country or pick up groceries from a curbside.

In most cases, Big Brother-ish tactics have been sold as temporary measures intended to battle very real danger from the COVID-19 pandemic. The surveillance is intended to enforce social distancing and track carriers of the new coronavirus so we can end the health crisis and return to normal. But can we take government officials at their word that they’ll eventually abandon their new powers?

Read the entire article HERE.

Starving Rats Are Cannibalizing Each Other Amid The Coronavirus Pandemic

Via The Daily Caller

As thousands of restaurants across the country close down over the coronavirus pandemic and stop discarding their leftovers outside, rats are becoming so starving that they are resorting to all out battles and even cannibalism to survive, according to a rodentologist.

In New York City, where many eateries line the streets but are no longer in operation, rats are waging war, eating each other, and killing their young in order to fill their stomachs, according to an expert on the subject.

“It’s just like we’ve seen in the history of mankind, where people try to take over lands and they come in with militaries and armies and fight to the death, literally, for who’s going to conquer that land,” Bobby Corrigan, a rodentologist who specializes in urban vermin, said to NBC News.

“And that’s what happens with rats,” he continued. “A new ‘army’ of rats come in, and whichever army has the strongest rats is going to conquer that area.”

More than half a million Americans have tested positive for COVID-19. The crisis has led to over 20,000 deaths from coronavirus in the U.S.

Read the entire article HERE.

Big Tech’s Toadying to Chinese Communists Demands Action

Via American Greatness

The world is finally waking up to China’s bad behavior. Will Big Tech?

As the world grapples with the coronavirus pandemic, China has become infamous for its role in allowing the virus to spread. From misleading the World Health Organization about the virus’s contagious elements, restricting the access of global investigators to infected sites, and lying about their infection numbers, China single-handedly stole months of preparation from other countries that have been savaged by the disease.

China has also hoarded masks and personal protective equipment from desperate countries and threatened to withhold critical medicines relied upon by millions of Americans.

It turns out that China actually is the supervillain about which we’ve been warned. This now presents a question for U.S. tech companies, which in many cases, have bound their futures to China. Presented with the undeniable evidence of China’s treachery, will they now finally untangle themselves from the country?

For years, tech companies like Apple have outsourced their manufacturing to China—and, increasingly, bent the knee to Chinese demands. Apple, in particular, has a troubling pattern of acquiescing to China’s commands on things like privacy and data storage. Even Apple’s encryption keys—which unlock the data of millions of users—are stored in China.

As residents of Hong Kong protested for their freedoms in October, Apple, at the behest of the Chinese government, removed an app from its store that was allowing protestors to evade police. This is par for the course for Apple, which dutifully pulled 25,000 apps from Chinese app store after the Chinese government declared them “illegal” in 2018.

Likewise, Google, salivating over the profits to be made in the country, was busted developing a censored search engine for the Communist regime. Google’s decision to end the project was due only to the protestations of their own employees. In July, billionaire investor and Facebook board member Peter Thiel raised questions about Google’s work with the Chinese military, and called Google’s behavior “seemingly treasonous.” Google also recently let their contract with the U.S. military lapse.

In a particularly vile discovery last year, it was revealed that Google, Apple, and even Amazon have been complicit in facilitating the sale of apps used by the Chinese government to suppress and imprison the country’s minority Muslim population. Tech companies have also been accused of using the forced labor of China’s persecuted minorities to build their devices.

Read the entire article HERE.

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