Mar 13, 2023Liked by Titus Techera, Carl Eric Scott
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble..."
That's the 1st Amendment talking.
To shut down churches and prevent peaceable assembly is simply not legal, unless the Constitution is amended. Certainly the CDC had no legal power to do that.
And yet precedent is set, not only for the next epidemic, but for whatever else our overlords choose to do to us from now on. Our protections under the First Amendment are null and void.
Mar 14, 2023Liked by Titus Techera, Carl Eric Scott
I've been meaning to write about that horrid word "lockdown", so finally did thanks to your prompt!
(So, see my substack, she shamelessly hints!) You, good sir, are much better at argumentative restraint, than I! Like you I was seldom seen on Facebook, but when I did post something I had to duck from the word-missiles hurled at me. I then deleted my account (and started a new one later but almost never go there).
My first thought to all of it was "me-too freakout." Everyone jumping on the freakout bandwagon trying to out-do the other in freakoutism. It has not changed in three years. EVERY SINGLE THING in the past three years is freakoutism and is wrong. I'm a hermit, thus I don't see the appeal in herd group think and in fact see the outright danger. But society has officially lauded itself as a bunch of tween girls at the middle school, cool kids lunch table, freaking out and throwing tater tots at the the kid sitting by him/herself because that kid refuses to cow-tow to the cool kids. That's where we were at in 2020 and that's where we are at now.
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble..."
That's the 1st Amendment talking.
To shut down churches and prevent peaceable assembly is simply not legal, unless the Constitution is amended. Certainly the CDC had no legal power to do that.
And yet precedent is set, not only for the next epidemic, but for whatever else our overlords choose to do to us from now on. Our protections under the First Amendment are null and void.
We can overcome what has surely been intended to be “ precedent” ....with the individual and community courage and will to ensure...”Never Again”!
I've been meaning to write about that horrid word "lockdown", so finally did thanks to your prompt!
(So, see my substack, she shamelessly hints!) You, good sir, are much better at argumentative restraint, than I! Like you I was seldom seen on Facebook, but when I did post something I had to duck from the word-missiles hurled at me. I then deleted my account (and started a new one later but almost never go there).
My first thought to all of it was "me-too freakout." Everyone jumping on the freakout bandwagon trying to out-do the other in freakoutism. It has not changed in three years. EVERY SINGLE THING in the past three years is freakoutism and is wrong. I'm a hermit, thus I don't see the appeal in herd group think and in fact see the outright danger. But society has officially lauded itself as a bunch of tween girls at the middle school, cool kids lunch table, freaking out and throwing tater tots at the the kid sitting by him/herself because that kid refuses to cow-tow to the cool kids. That's where we were at in 2020 and that's where we are at now.