Police State Dry Run
a Huge Success
American Thinker,
by
Carol Brown
Original Article
Posted By: Magnante,
5/15/2020 8:45:07 AM
When the coronavirus landed on our shores, communist China came with it.
We have become part of a mass scale human experiment in government control and it turned out that stripping away our freedom wasn’t all that difficult. Under the guise of concern for our health and well-being, tyrants came out of the woodwork. Our Constitution, our Bill of Rights, and our lives are being destroyed as the left solidifies and expands their oppressive powers. We’ve been herded around like cattle, threatened, isolated, confined, silenced, and arrested. You name it, it’s happening
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Highlander 5/15/2020 8:56:09 AM (No. 411769)
Herded like cattle? Not me.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
planetgeo 5/15/2020 8:57:56 AM (No. 411772)
Hits the nail squarely on the head. We voluntarily walked into the lockdown. We are coming closer every day to having to shoot our way out.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Catfur27 5/15/2020 8:59:06 AM (No. 411775)
...this article hits the nail on the head.
... if only we had a REAL media...with integrity ...instead of partisan apparatchiks ...the left would NOT have gotten away with this ...and the Attempted Coup.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Clinger 5/15/2020 9:14:22 AM (No. 411800)
Our job my fellow patriots is to leverage this as our dry run and to do an after action assessment as though this was a war game.
I hope that this glimpse at a socialist future has awakened some sheep. For once big government stepped on their toes and impinged on things they care about.
If nothing else, this should serve as a reminder of the true purpose of the second amendment.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 5/15/2020 9:23:13 AM (No. 411812)
Brown brings home the key point in her last sentence which sums up the left and its plan:
"There is one thing and one thing only they desire: power. And they’re having at it. So far, the police state has been a wild success."
Anyone with at least one brain cell should now be able to understand the totalitarianism the dims intend to transform America with if they are given power - at any level. This was and still is Obie's dream.
Never vote dim, not even for dog catcher.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
msjena 5/15/2020 9:31:43 AM (No. 411821)
How easy it would be for this to happen. People are afraid of minor punishments like losing their business license. How much more afraid would they be of police force that arrested people for protesting or criticizing the government and put them in jail--or a "re-education camp?" Would churches dare operate if their leaders could be arrested and imprisoned? All it takes is a little terror. We have seen this happen over and over again.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 5/15/2020 9:40:37 AM (No. 411834)
Nope. Next time they try this nonsense, it will be immediately blown apart by freedom loving Americans. They spent their political capital on this foolishness. No two-bit, three letter alphabet agency will EVER be able to do this to us again... and you can bet on that.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
stablemoney 5/15/2020 9:42:14 AM (No. 411837)
Everything in this article is true, And there is more. The economy has been nationalized. Everything that matters is controlled by the government through regulation, or now, government required subsidies, including finance, energy, health, manufacturing, airlines, hospitality, all of it. Even the bars and gyms, the hair and nail salons, everybody.
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Americans have failed the most important civics test since 1865...
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
KatieJo 5/15/2020 9:47:02 AM (No. 411846)
This is the best summary on the subject that I have seen. Thank you for posting.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Strike3 5/15/2020 9:50:31 AM (No. 411855)
I look at this as a valuable lesson. It will not be so easy to lock anything down next time that an excuse arises. We have learned which governors can not handle the office and will eliminate them. Rights are called "rights" for a reason. Even democrats can learn something if they pay attention.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
LesUNo 5/15/2020 10:02:49 AM (No. 411870)
Where is Trump? Still cowering in fear of the proven false modeling and dire predictions from Ferguson and touted by Fauci. Stand taller Mr. President. This is all happening on your watch.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
h24015 5/15/2020 10:15:42 AM (No. 411889)
I agree with #7 and #11. It's going to be a lot tougher after enduring all the boys who cried wolf for the ruling class to pull this off a second time.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
zzzghy 5/15/2020 10:24:33 AM (No. 411902)
I'm with #1. The chinese disease hustle hasn't really stopped me from doing anything except going places that were forced to close, and even that's not always stopping me. Still taking my dog to the same park for his business meetings (we both like it better when it's closed anyway); there are always a few other dog-walkers there as well.
I live in the desert and they can't close that; hiking trails might be "closed" so just go off-trail. Nobody is paying attention anyway.
Golf courses and swimming pools are opening this weekend under certain conditions, sit-down restaurants too so there's that
Not bothering with a nasty mask unless I have to -- most stores require them or you're asked to leave -- and I've never once felt obliged or compelled to "shelter in place." Not for a political shakedown.
I refuse to be a fool and I resent when stupid people expect me to behave stupidly just because they say so. To hell with that noise.
What bothers me is how easily most of the country rolled over and went ass-up without much of a second thought.
What government steals it never freely returns, so prepare for a stolen life for a long time. We're not "all in this together."
You've heard the iconic tale of the frog in the simmering pan, yes? That's what this is. Worthless masks, hiding behind the couch, abandoning our parks, beaches, churches and pretty much everywhere else under totalitarian threat...
They won't stop until something stops them.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
chumley 5/15/2020 10:37:26 AM (No. 411919)
NEXT TIME? Its always freaking next time, and next time never comes. How about this time? So far its us that has done all the paying and all the suffering. The guilty have paid noting. They have been taking and taking for over a hundred years and few have said a thing. Would it not be appropriate for those SOBs to live in fear for a change, and do it THIS TIME?
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
DrOstrow 5/15/2020 10:42:15 AM (No. 411929)
No. 7 - I REALLY hope you are correct but if not, we're going to be headed toward something no one really wants.
I've been saying these things to whomever would listen for weeks. This is a dry run, too convenient, it has to have been planned & orchestrated by something / someone, it's intentional from start to finish and top to bottom, the timing is just a bit too perfect etc.
The speed & ruthlessness with which this has happened is both terrifying and shocking. The startling number of people who simply roll over to do WHATEVER they are told to do by almost ANYONE is jaw dropping ! City councilmen telling me where I can / cannot go, what I have to wear, how close I can get, on and on.
We have cut our own throats, in many ways, not the least of which is economically, based on computer models ( DON'T get me started on that ! ), so-called experts, a fear mongering press and simple arrogance and power grabbing masquerading as 'helping'. All of it swallowed by a society who, so far, seemingly, will, in general DO ANYTHING to be 'protected' and 'taken care of' ( they're not ) so that they themselves do not have to worry about a thing !
I would have laughed at anyone who told me just a mere 6 months ago that this is where we would be today & how and why we got here.
We have done this VOLUNTARILY to ourselves and are continuing to do it. It's breathtaking, sad & frightening, but still breathtaking !
This may never happen again because, right now, today, THIS IS NOT 'OVER', and IT MAY NEVER BE OVER !! Think about that for a moment.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Southron 5/15/2020 11:47:50 AM (No. 412012)
The Bible predicts that those of us that refuse to follow orders and wear a designation of allegiance will be put to the streets and if anyone helps - hides them, feeds them, they too will suffer the same consequences.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
mc squared 5/15/2020 11:50:09 AM (No. 412014)
Demand all the state politicians pass laws that if they require the peasants go without a check, they will too. A guarantee this never happens again,
( I know, I know)
Keep your powder dry.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
jacksin5 5/15/2020 12:03:12 PM (No. 412024)
Consider this as a dry run to demand citizens surrender their firearms the next time a nut or a terrorist goes on a shooting spree. State Governors of had a taste of unbridled power, and will no longer hesitate to ban or control anything that runs contrary to their agenda.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
rabblerouser 5/15/2020 12:24:50 PM (No. 412052)
#17, wholeheartedly agreed with your post. It is in the same vein as what I have been thinking when reading the comments on this article.
Who says this is over?
It is a great success.
People have to get it thru their heads that now is the time to determine whether or not we stay free. And accomplishing that is not going to be easy or comfortable. It is going to be painful, scary and heart wrenching.
And the majority does not appear to be ready to sacrifice their comforts, meager as they may be.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Crusty_Rusty 5/15/2020 12:27:53 PM (No. 412056)
Just as on December 7th, 1941 and on NineEleven, America has been awoken but this time to the CCP, Globalists in general and the Marxist/Fascist/Commie/Socialist/DemoCrap/POS Governors who are Sticking-It to the American Economy.
Do these DirtBags POSs really expect to be Re-Elected next time around? There will be Tens of Millions of Dollars of anti DirtBag Donations from Out-of-State donors focused on every one of them and no amount of Leftist-HollyWood/Hi-Tech money will save them. Not even the MSM/LSM! HA,HA,HA
The DirtBag POSs have awoken the Proverbial 'Sleeping Giant' and we'll be ready for then next time. Really, Really Ready.........
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
anniebc 5/15/2020 12:54:05 PM (No. 412097)
On the other hand, this scam has helped a lot of US come to terms with what's really important. And, it's exposed the failure of government big time. Federal government is inefficient and spending money we don't have. State and local (and a lot of federal) "rulers" have revealed themselves to be tyrants, and a lot of US here have tried to tell people we know that democrats are communists; now they can see it for themselves. I agree with others who have stated that it will not be so easy next time. Next time may come as soon as when tyrants who have opened beaches start to shut them down again because of bogus increases of infected cases.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Penney 5/15/2020 8:36:45 PM (No. 412331)
Another more hopeful possibility is that this power grab has awakened anew everyone who cherishes each individual's Rights to what exactly is terribly wrong with central planning by Big Government socialist politicos. America's Founders knew from their personal experiences and history that the statists' tyranny and bad policies result in sensless suffering for all. It should be evident to everyone after this virus threat that our Republic form of governance is best for all. This challenge to our Republic alerts us to how liberty's enemies would & could use ANYTHING to lure the country away from the Constitution & Bill of Rights but we must stay alert & not fall for whatever they conjure up. Freedom isn't free. We must value & protect it .
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