Mask as symbol of oppression

April 27, 2020

So, we are approached 6 weeks of total madness and still have not resolved the fact that we are coming to the end of the flu season rather than the end of the world.

The one thing this lockdown did is bring together a strange group of civil liberties people who might not have united under any other circumstance.

Since it is mostly the Democratic states that have violated civil liberties in so-called protection against this plague those on the left who fought for civil liberties prior to this are very confused.

In the past they focused on Trump as the evil emperor but now I've come to realize there are no good guys in this game and that all the people involved in the political theater have one aspiration and that's the game Power.

Even conservative parts of the state have now taken the next step to curtail civil liberties forcing people to wear masks in certain parts of the city.

While some towns are opening parks, they will not give up the great symbol of Oppression that has made this pandemic different from any other.

 If you don't wear a mask you've be fined and if you don't pay the fine you could be arrested.

 One video in New York should cops dragging a person off a train because he would not wear a mask.

There is a lot of irony in all this. Government officials knew the flu was coming months ago and either downplayed or ignored it. then completely panicked and said the most odious rules for containing the population.

But even then, they did not mandate these rules about wearing masks in stores or on the street but invented these things as they went along -- as if the flu for some reason was more threatening as it started to expire not less.

We are now learning that to justify these actions the government is paying doctors more to report a death due to the virus rather than other causes.  We are never going to know the truth of this because his is not in the interest of government officials to admit that they made a mistake or worse that they deliberately conspired to violate the most sacrosanct rights we have as Americans.

Both sides Democrats and Republicans are pointing fingers at each other when they are all equally culpable.  And we all now know that once a right was taken it will be taken again. If you can remove civil liberties with an executive order, then you haven't had civil liberties at all.

But we have been going down this road for quite some time violating free speech in the same manner.

We have passed laws condemning people for something called hate speech which is exactly the speech that most the Constitution was designed to protect.

The fact is government ignored its most significant Duty in protecting those people most vulnerable sending the elderly to nursing homes as if being sent to death camps well freeing prisoners who the government is too lazy to protect or provide for in a controlled setting to wander the streets jobless and hungry and perhaps even desperate enough to return to a life of crime.

We are seeing a complete breakdown of government on every level, incompetent leaders who make either bad or corrupt choices that kill people and steal civil liberties while hiding behind the idea that they are saving us from a fate worse than death.