People need community. After 9/11 many of us became more isolated, sometimes out of fear, but mostly because it made sense to change how we socialize. We couldn’t go anywhere without experiencing government working overtime to protect us. In the process more buildings had cement barricades in front of them, just in case a suicide bomber managed to blow up an entire block. Security measures were put in place everywhere we went, because the bad guys could be anyone, and they were just waiting to attack. We needed to be afraid, and we needed government to put things in place to protect us.
Metal detectors were (and remain) everywhere. To this day we can’t go into most public buildings without emptying our pockets, putting our purses in baskets to be searched and walking through a scanner to make sure we aren’t a threat when we enter. It’s that way for sports and entertainment venues as well. Citizens are scanned and their belongings are checked to make sure we, law abiding citizens doing things we want and need to do, aren’t a threat to everyone else doing the same thing.
Airports have gone next level. They not only scan and search us, sometimes they even detain us. It’s all an effort to help protect us from ourselves. Except we are not the problem. We aren’t on any terrorist watch list. We haven’t broken any laws or done anything wrong. All these measures have been put in place against us, to protect us from the enemy.
The government knows what the enemy will do. They have a profile of who the enemy could be. Even though they can identify individuals who might be the enemy, they choose to treat all of us, the whole of society, like the enemy. We are all suspects in this war against terrorism. We are all guilty until proven innocent. None of us can get on a plane with more than 2 ounces of liquid, because we are suspect that we might use that liquid to blow up the plane. None of us can get on a plane with a metal knitting needle, crochet hook, letter opener or other sharp object, because these are considered weapons that could be a threat to everyone else on the plane.
It doesn’t matter that we haven’t done anything wrong. Nor does it matter that the government already knows exactly who we are, and that we don’t need to be treated like a terrorist. The amount of information the government has on each one of us is frightening! It’s more than a lot of people think, because after 9/11 the government passed the Patriot Act which lets them spy on American citizens. All in the name of safety. For our own protection, because we are too helpless to take care of ourselves.
About 20 years later Covid comes along and what does the government do? They protect us, of course. Suddenly we all need to lock down, avoid fresh air, stand six feet apart, quit going to school, church and other social gatherings. We are told we need to wear masks and get a series of shots meant to protect us. We are told those who don’t do these things are the enemy. They are the terrorists who will end up killing us if they don’t comply.
It’s not true. Ordinary citizens flying to visit family, go on vacation and those who need to travel for work have never been a threat to anyone. People attending sporting events, concerts and other public events are not threatening the rest of the people attending the same event. Unvaccinated people aren’t killing the elderly or those who have been vaccinated. There is no data anywhere that can prove all the people flying on planes or the unvaccinated are causing harm to anyone.
There is a terrorist watch list, however. Government has identified by name and other intimate details exactly who our enemies are, and the threat they pose to society. Government tracks terrorists just like they track the rest of us. That’s how they know how many terrorists have crossed the southern border since this massive influx of millions of people started entering the country. Law & Border is an informative series explaining the influx of crime, trafficking and terrorists since border policies have been so relaxed in our country.
Spy Ops is an interesting series on Netflix, explaining how the CIA, FBI and other government agencies neutralize our enemies here and abroad. This entire narrative about needing to limit our freedoms to protect us from terrorists, the same bad guys governments around the world have on watch lists, is an exaggeration and over-reaction. All it does is give the government more power over our lives.
Government has gotten pretty big in the last several decades. They have a say in just about everything we do including how much of our paycheck we get to keep, how much we spend on groceries, what we teach our kids in school, how to manage our finances, what we pay for gas, what type of appliances we can buy, what we can see on social media, how we can manage our health.
Those who live in certain states have even more government intervention in their lives. There are water restrictions, medical restrictions, energy restrictions, small business restrictions. Sanctuary cities pose another set of problems, because criminals are encouraged to live there. They are not prosecuted when they commit crimes. If they even get arrested, they are quickly released without any penalty whatsoever. Drug addicts are given free drugs. The homeless are allowed to shit in the streets and urinate in every open doorway.
The rest of us, citizens on a special government watchlist, are being surveilled so the government knows who dissenters are, and who they can more easily control. A whole lot of people are taking to the streets in New Mexico this week. They are carrying their guns too. They are protesting the governor declaring a public health emergency, so she can arrest and disarm anyone exercising their 2nd Amendment rights. While they are being loud and refusing to comply, these law abiding citizens are not a threat. Nor have they caused any violence.
Any government big enough to give us everything and protect us from ourselves, is also big enough to take everything away from us, and harm us if we don’t comply. When a government gets so big, that they don’t take care of their citizens, and still tell them how to live, they become a tyrannical government that no longer represents the people at all. When that same government ignores needs of its own people experiencing catastrophic events, and then sends billions of dollars abroad to fight foreign wars, all while making its citizens pay for these funds with their taxes, that government is rogue and has gone completely off the rails.
We the People…
This is our home and our country. We are not useful idiots or slaves to a government that has no use for us, other than compliance to their emergency orders giving them power over our lives. We do know how to take care of and defend ourselves. We are intelligent and capable human beings born with the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. We don’t work for the government, and even though the government isn’t working for us right now, we do have the power to change it. We do have the power to challenge our government when it goes rogue, and dismisses the rights of the people. Our voices matter, as does our non-compliance. Peacefully and patriotically, we get to keep our rights.
Wishing you all only the best things in life,
Teresa
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Good one Teresa!!