By Jay Davidson | Guest Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice
Fauci’s testimony is evidence of how the Bill of Rights works now. In this referenced article, Jeff Tucker points out that the personification of the lockdown, Fauci, successfully used the Fifth Amendment to protect his freedom, writing,
“It’s actually quite inspiring to see how the Bill of Rights works in a case of such significance.”
But how did the breakdown in individual rights manifest? Was intent behind the panic or did certain people in power jump at the chance to use a crisis to gain control? Perhaps it was simply mass hysteria and no one was behind it and no one amplified it. The fact is much simpler: The pandemic led to massive loss of individual rights and enormous disruption of business transactions.
Jeff Tucker takes each Amendment and discusses the infraction that Covid lockdown wrought. On the First Amendment, Tucker writes,
“Churches and synagogues faced capacity limits or outright indoor bans while secular ‘essential’ businesses (liquor stores, big-box retail, casinos in some places) operated with fewer or no comparable limits.”
Fauci is just a useful idiot for the actual culprits. Who are the perpetrators of such a well executed plan to sow mass hysteria across the world? Their objective was that of any power-mad maniac: Control as opposed to individual liberty. All tyrants exhibit this single trait: Eliminate the concept of the individual by gaining central control. Government is the vehicle the modern tyrant uses to gain control. More laws, regulations, taxes and fees are the tools by which they gain control.
Their methods are varied but always result in loss of individual liberty. That is the litmus test: Does the politician, bureaucrat, law or action lead to liberty and individual choice or to central control? Is another law, regulation, tax or fee ever going to lead to more liberty or will each new restraint lead to less?
Until we wake up from our slumber, our platitude-induced coma, we will continue to give up freedom to a central controlling entity. It will be the “government” initially but will eventually devolve into a monarch, a tyrant, the politburos.
We have historical records of central control’s rise to power and its inevitable demise. Just look at Communist Russia, Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan during WWII. Even with this factual evidence we see Socialism and Communism gain footing. Today we witness the rise of central control in Europe, Canada, California and New York. The threat is real, the intent exists, but so does the solution. The battle is ongoing, never won conclusively, only held at bay, but it can be lost if we individuals stop resisting and give up. Our path to success is adherence to a Principle and that Principle is perfectly articulated in the Declaration of Independence. It is the fact that our Creator endowed each individual with liberty.
The only entity that can stand against this tyranny is the citizen, the true individual. The person about whom and for whom our Constitution, Bill of Rights and Declaration of Independence were written.
Jay Davidson is founder and CEO of a commercial bank, a student of the Austrian School of Economics and a dedicated capitalist. There is a direct connection between individual right and responsibility, our Constitution, capitalism, and the intent of our Creator.
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