Friday, January 28, 2022

Slippery Slopes And 'The Greater Good'

Authoritarian Madness: The Slippery Slope




In the politically charged, polarizing tug-of-war that is the debate over COVID-19, we find ourselves buffeted by fear over a viral pandemic that continues to wreak havoc with lives and the economy, threats of vaccine mandates and financial penalties for noncompliance, and discord over how to legislate the public good without sacrificing individual liberty.

The discord is getting more discordant by the day.

Just recently, for instance, the Salt Lake Tribune Editorial Board suggested that government officials should mandate mass vaccinations and deploy the National Guard “to ensure that people without proof of vaccination would not be allowed, well, anywhere.”

In other words, lock up the unvaccinated and use the military to determine who gets to be “free.”

These tactics have been used before.

This is why significant numbers of people are worried: because this is the slippery slope that starts with well-meaning intentions for the greater good and ends with tyrannical abuses no one should tolerate.

In Italy, the unvaccinated are banned from restaurants, bars and public transportation, and could face suspensions from work and monthly fines. Similarly, France will ban the unvaccinated from most public venues.

In Austria, anyone who has not complied with the vaccine mandate could face fines up to $4100. Police will be authorized to carry out routine checks and demand proof of vaccination, with penalties of as much as $685 for failure to do so.

In China, which has adopted a zero tolerance, “zero COVID” strategy, whole cities—some with populations in the tens of millions—are being forced into home lockdowns for weeks on end, resulting in mass shortages of food and household supplies. Reports have surfaced of residents “trading cigarettes for cabbage, dishwashing liquid for apples and sanitary pads for a small pile of vegetables. One resident traded a Nintendo Switch console for a packet of instant noodles and two steamed buns.”

For those unfortunate enough to contract COVID-19, China has constructed “quarantine camps” throughout the country: massive complexes boasting thousands of small, metal boxes containing little more than a bed and a toilet. Detainees—including children, pregnant women and the elderly— were reportedly ordered to leave their homes in the middle of the night, transported to the quarantine camps in busesand held in isolation.

If this last scenario sounds chillingly familiar, it should.

Eighty years ago, another authoritarian regime established more than 44,000 quarantine camps for those perceived as “enemies of the state”: racially inferior, politically unacceptable or simply noncompliant.

While the majority of those imprisoned in the Nazi concentration camps, forced labor camps, incarceration sites and ghettos were Jews, there were also Polish nationals, gypsies, Russians, political dissidents, resistance fighters, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and homosexuals.

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4 comments:

ShelleyB said...

Hey Scott, I didn't read the article Why Are They Killing Us? because mostly I have only so much time, but also because all of us believers can answer that very simply. The Powers that Be are slaves to the Father of Lies. They are Satan's children. And Satan hates God and he hates God's children. So, he wants us all dead. Yes?

I never really understood Satan since as he kills us all off, he really has nothing to rule as those who do survive and are ruled by him will go utterly insane and be of no use to him anyhow. I guess that shows what sin can do to you. Anyhow, thanks for posting and being so faithful, Scott. Even your headlines, when that's all we can ingest, are beneficial to remind us that, in the end, God has the Victory!!! Yippee! See you soon, all you brothers and sisters in Christ, and many blessings to you and yours. Maranatha!!!

Scott said...

Thanks Shelley --- Honestly the pertinent articles have become so numerous and so long, Ive been considering just switching to daily headlines and just adding to one list throughout the day...and to think when I started this blog, there were only 1-2 pertinent articles every week or two...now is by the hour...incredible uptick in birth pains

ShelleyB said...

That's so true. I started watching 25+ years ago and the stories would dribble in. Now it's like drinking water from a firehose. Or maybe worse. I sometimes feel like I'm drowning in information. But, it is still so exciting and only getting more so.

While I still pick through your articles (much appreciate your hi-lighting them), I don't think we have much longer, so do what you must. Headlines would be fine, too. We still appreciate you doing all the digging. Maranatha, brother!

Scott said...

Thanks Shelley - See ya when we get there :))