New Jersey as a police state

Sunday, May 24, 2020

Union City cops raided my favorite pizza place yesterday for violating the Governor Murphy’s decree over social distancing.

It seems the state had declared war on all those places north and south where I have done business, even closing a nearby county park where I sometimes stroll.

In Cape May, black-booted police descended on a beach side store like Stormtroopers on Friday forcing it to re-close part of this hysteria that has been brewing in the world since the beginning of the year.

This is the aftermath of the pandemic that point where people start waking up and realizing that they have left their futures in the hands of a bunch of egomaniacs.

This is no longer about flattening the curve it is about power politics and breaking the spirit of people who resist.

Perhaps this is all about breaking the back of the more conservative parts of the state the head of the November election after Wildwood held a massive pro-Trump rally late last year.

In many cases it is also about local politicians being too scared to buck the governor who spends most of his time ingratiating Democrats then actually running the state.

Flattening of the curve was only supposed to be for 2 weeks, a kind of reset button in order to get people used to some of the restrictions that would allow the state to deal with the flu pandemic.

But once you give the power of God to governor’s like Murphy, don’t expect them to give it up soon.

The two-week reprieve was designed to slow down the spread so that hospitals and doctors and Medical Services would not be overwhelmed.

 instead it turned out to be a remake of The Black Plague with leaders threatening to burn at the stake any of those who dared oppose their dictates.

Cape May is a classic conservative town a place I've gone to for more than 35 years through all of the political ups and downs.

I was there during the first Gulf War with America reinvented patriotism.

I was there during the Anita Hill hearings that kind of Witch Hunt that we later saw with Kavanaugh.  I was there post 9/11 when the country was just reeling from the attacks and then you could almost still smell the smoke rising from the World Trade Center site in the North.

Historically it has been a place of Common Sense and common decency but clearly in the current pandemic that has all changed and like the rest of the state has become a place of hysteria.

My favorite resort town has gotten into lockstep with an out-of-control governor who wants to socially engineer reality rather than allow people to live their own lives openly and free.

I guess it is going to take heroic actions of people like the store owner to stand up to the Stormtroopers and tell them no way.

But this is going to need support of people who also believed in freedom over oppression.  And it won't happen until people wake up and take off mass that are more symbols of slavery than they are of salvation.

 People who like the walking dead are walking around with plastic gloves on because they're scared, they might catch something or hardly the Revolutionary Spirit needed to take back government from oppressors.

We have hysterical mobs in Walmart and Home Depot who threatened to beat up people who won't wear a mask inside or even outside.

We get news reports teaching people how to report those who violate social distancing and mask laws imitating the kind of thought that Nazi Germany imposed upon its citizens.

It's easy to control the masses when you have these finks working for the oppressor.

But this is the nature of mankind when you create such fear and hysteria they will react in the most ludicrous ways, trusting people who should not be trusted putting their hope behind charlatans who  pretend to have their best interest in heart.

The sad part is I looked down at a ring I bought at that store in Cape May last fall and I keep thinking about how slim the chance many of these people will have to pick up their lives after the politicians have stomped on  their livelihoods with heavy black boots pretending like they're doing it for some social good.

We are watching ourselves lose our civil liberties one precious drop at a time in a kind of perverted Chinese torture.  We are watching political figures use this pandemic as an excuse to clutch power and regain the White House.  We are watching honest business people being put out of business for interest that have nothing to do with them and everything to do with incompetent leaders and compliant masses who could care less about anything but hiding under their beds or having people obey their orders.

This is no longer about Public Safety; it is about forcing people to comply – the fundamental element of a police state.