This war on COVID-19 could usher in yet another war on the American people, waged with all of the surveillance weaponry at the government's disposal: thermal imaging cameras, drones, contact tracing, biometric databases, etc.
Unless we find some way to rein in the government's power grabs, the fall-out will be epic.
Everything I have warned about for yearsgovernment overreach, invasive surveillance, martial law, abuse of powers, militarized police, weaponized technology used to track and control the citizenry, and so onhas coalesced into this present moment.
The government's shameless exploitation of past national emergencies for its own nefarious purposes pales in comparison to what is presently unfolding.
Consider that under the Trump administration, the Department of Justice started to quietly trot out and test a long laundry list of terrifying powers that override the Constitution.
We're talking about lockdown powers (at both the federal and state level): the ability to suspend the Constitution, indefinitely detain American citizens, bypass the courts, quarantine whole communities or segments of the population, override the First Amendment by outlawing religious gatherings and assemblies of more than a few people, shut down entire industries and manipulate the economy, muzzle dissidents, "stop and seize any plane, train or automobile to stymie the spread of contagious disease," reshape financial markets, create a digital currency (and thus further restrict the use of cash), determine who should live or die.
These are powers the police state would desperately like to make permanent.
Don't make the mistake of assuming that anything will change for the better under the Biden administration. That's not how totalitarian regimes operate.
Be warned, however: once you surrender your freedoms to the governmentno matter how compelling the reason might be for doing soyou can never get them back.
Blindly following the path of least resistanceacquiescing without question to whatever the government dictatescan only lead to more misery, suffering and the erection of a totalitarian regime in which there is no balance.
Whatever we give up willingly nowwhether it's basic human decency, the ability to manage our private affairs, the right to have a say in how the government navigates this crisis, or the few rights still left to us that haven't been disemboweled in recent years by a power-hungry police statewe won't get back so easily once this crisis is past.
As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, the government never cedes power willingly. Neither should we.
A year ago, I warned that this was a test to see whether the Constitutionand our commitment to the principles enshrined in the Bill of Rightscan survive a national crisis and true state of emergency.
Nothing has changed on that front.
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