In 1981 Polish authorities arrested anyone organizing protests against the authoritarian state. In 2020 numerous authoritarian officials arrested citizens for non-compliance with unilateral dictates. From a New Jersey governor arresting a woman for organizing a protect; to an Idaho mother arrested for allowing her children to play at a park; to a Texas salon owner arrested for operating her business.
In 1981 Polish authorities had a program for citizens to report subversive activity against the state. Snitching. In 2020 New York City, LA and numerous state and local officials started programs for citizens to report non-compliant activity against the state. Similar snitching.
In both 1981 Poland and 2020 USA we also see media exclusively creating ideological content as propaganda for the interests of the authoritarian state (controlling citizens).
If one barber shop opens, the owner becomes a target. However, if every barber shop and beauty salon in town opens… there is absolutely nothing the government can do about it.
If one restaurant and/or bar opens, the state can target the owner. But if every bar and restaurant in town opens; and if everyone ignores and dispatches the silly dictates of the local, regional or state officials… there isn’t a damned thing they can do about it.
The power of the local, regional or state authority comes from the expressed consent of the people. As soon as the majority of people deny that consent, those officials and state authoritarians lose all of their power. Yes, it really is that simple.
They've lost my consent, at least as to this virus thing.
This happened in Sacramento, Ca. Sacramento!
And those are CHP! Traffic cops! Since when have traffic cops become jack booted storm troopers?
It will take ages for the legitimate government to regain trust and authority, and all because these fools of politicians couldn't resist forcing people to bend to their will.
People keep electing them.
ReplyDeleteJust promise dumb lefties a free ice cream cone on election day and they'll be there.
DeleteAnd the next election, if it's not Gavin, it'll be a clone that they'll vote for...As long as there's a (D) behind the name.
ReplyDelete...........Because Republicans are dictators.
Republicans are racists. You don't want THEM calling the shots.
ReplyDeleteThe CHP is really the only State Police in California. Yes, there are State Police officers that guard the Capitol in Sacramento and have a limited function, and State University Police, who are technically California State Police. But it really comes down to the CHP (three copies, press hard/AAA -with-a-gun)
PS - You're becoming a rabble rouser, CW.... You want to keep firearms and now you want barber shops to open. What will you demand next? Nevada and Arizona aren't that far away...
DeleteI know, but I don't want the bastards to win. They've ruined everything they've touched, and the Golden State is too fine a place to let them destroy that too. I'd definitely go for a new state or two: slice off most of the coast and let them Detroit-ize that. Leave the rest for the normals. But I'm almost certainly tilting at windmills here.
DeleteWould only work if you made sure the Soviet section included San Fran and it's surrounding areas, Sacramento, Los Angeles and the surrounding areas.
DeleteCarve out a Federal Reserve around Vandenberg, let Santa Maria go to Hell.
Only include San Diego if they swear, on a stack of bibles and a virtual Constitution, that they'll behave, as long as any Donks and any of Newsom's buddies are kicked out.
Otherwise, no sense in separating if you don't cut all the rot out.
This quote has been making the rounds and popping up rather frequently, lately:
ReplyDelete“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
Yes, the donkeys have a lot to answer for; and some of the elephants too.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the post.
Paul L. Quandt
...and now we understand why the State Police were merged into the CHP.
ReplyDeleteKeep in mind this. If you open and some jackass comes along and sues you, your insurance will deny any clam on the grounds of you broke the law. Frigging insurance companies try to deny any claim.
ReplyDeleteWhat law? What you mean is edict, decree, order, rule by fiat.
DeleteRick
You can't vote your way out of a Gulag.
ReplyDeleteExcellent. That is bumper sticker worthy.
Delete"You can vote your way into communism but, you'll have to shoot your way out"..
DeleteThe problem is, somebody has to be first....first restaurant, first barber shop, etc.....the sooner the realization hits that if we lose our freedoms we really have nothing else to lose in standing up to the tyranny, the better....
ReplyDeleteBars and restaurants selling alcohol are dependent on resupply from monopolistic wholesalers that won't deliver products in defiance of state directives.
ReplyDeleteThis same theory also applies to taxes. If one person decides to not file taxes, they come after you. What if 10's of thousands of us did it?
ReplyDeleteThe reality is they come for people one at a time and you stand in court one at a time, at that point you will get as much justice as you can afford and the Justice Machine is greedy.
ReplyDeleteFeels like we're getting awful close to the entire population rescinding its consent to be governed. I damn sure don't want to be an elected official or some tin star wearing asshole if that comes to pass.
ReplyDeleteI said much the same when the subject was No Fly Zones over Wash. D.C.
ReplyDeleteI proposed a 1,000 plane protest. Everyone takes off to fly to a rally point. Then we all fly en masse over Berlin, I mean D.C.
Many people - quite a lot - said while we wouldn't be shot down, we would all be arrested. Even if we all landed at the same airport after the event.
As we have seen repeatedly, any event which features thousands or even tens of thousands of persons, it will be infiltrated and the mass of people will be bullied and pushed and shoved. Any increase in resistance will be met with an increase in force.
Still, we should do it anyway. Because either there is a point where the mass becomes critical therefore overpowering or because after multiple such events, the opposition just pack it in.
And freedom hangs in the balance. That right there is all the reason needed to go for it.
Rick
Enough, support those who open their businesses. Patronize the rebels!
ReplyDelete20,000 armed civilians in Virginia were defeated by a temporary fence and a sign. Nobody is going to do a darn thing.
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