This article was originally published by John W. Whitehead at The Rutherford Institute.
“The things we were worried would happen are happening.”—Angus Johnston, professor at the City University of New York
No one is safe.
No one is immune.
No one gets spared the anguish, fear, and heartache of living under the shadow of an authoritarian police state.
That’s the message being broadcast 24/7 with every new piece of government propaganda, every new law that criminalizes otherwise lawful activity, every new policeman on the beat, every new surveillance camera casting a watchful eye, every sensationalist news story that titillates and distracts, every new prison or detention center built to house troublemakers and other undesirables, every new court ruling that gives government agents a green light to strip and steal and rape and ravage the citizenry, every school that opts to indoctrinate rather than educate, and every new justification for why Americans should comply with the government’s attempts to trample the Constitution underfoot.
Yes, COVID-19 has taken a significant toll on the nation emotionally, physically, and economically, but there are still greater dangers on the horizon.
As long as “we the people” continue to allow the government to trample our rights in the so-called name of national security, things will get worse, not better.
It’s already worse.
Now there’s talk of mass testing for COVID-19 antibodies, screening checkpoints, contact tracing, immunity passports to allow those who have recovered from the virus to move around more freely and snitch tip lines for reporting “rule breakers” to the authorities.
If you can’t read the writing on the wall, you need to pay better attention.
These may seem like small, necessary steps in the war against the COVID-19 virus, but they’re only necessary to the police state in its efforts to further undermine the Constitution, extend its control over the populace, and feed its insatiable appetite for ever-greater powers.
Nothing is ever as simple as the government claims it is.
Whatever dangerous practices you allow the government to carry out now—whether it’s in the name of national security or protecting America’s borders or making America healthy again—rest assured, these same practices can and will be used against you when the government decides to set its sights on you.
The war on drugs turned out to be a war on the American people, waged with SWAT teams and militarized police.
The war on terror turned out to be a war on the American people, waged with warrantless surveillance and indefinite detention.
The war on immigration turned out to be a war on the American people, waged with roving government agents demanding “papers, please.”
This war on COVID-19 will be 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.
So you see, when you talk about empowering government agents to screen the populace in order to control and prevent the spread of this virus, what you’re really talking about is creating a society in which ID cards, roundups, checkpoints, and detention centers become routine weapons used by the government to control and suppress the populace, no matter the threat.
This is also how you pave the way for a national identification system of epic proportions.
Imagine it: a national classification system that not only categorizes you according to your health status but also allows the government to sort you in a hundred other ways: by gender, orientation, wealth, medical condition, religious beliefs, political viewpoint, legal status, etc.
Are you starting to get the bigger picture yet?
This is just another wolf in sheep’s clothing, a “show me your papers” scheme disguised as a means of fighting a virus.
Don’t fall for it.
The ramifications of such a “show me your papers” society in which government officials are empowered to stop individuals, demand they identify themselves, and subject them to patdowns, warrantless screenings, searches, and interrogations are beyond chilling.
By allowing government agents to establish a litmus test for individuals to be able to exit a state of lockdown and engage in commerce, movement and any other right that corresponds to life in a supposedly free society, it lays the groundwork for a society in which you are required to identify yourself at any time to any government worker who demands it for any reason.
Such tactics quickly lead one down a slippery slope that ends with government agents empowered to force anyone and everyone to prove they are in compliance with every statute and regulation on the books.
It used to be that unless police had a reasonable suspicion that a person was guilty of wrongdoing, they had no legal authority to stop the person and require identification. In other words, “we the people” had the right to come and go as we please without the fear of being questioned by police or forced to identify ourselves.
Unfortunately, in this age of COVID-19, the unrestricted right to move about freely is being pitted against the government’s power to lock down communities at a moment’s notice. And in this tug-of-war between individual freedoms and government power, “we the people” have been on the losing end of the deal.
Curiously enough, these COVID-19 restrictions dovetail conveniently with a national timeline for states to comply with the Real ID Act, which imposes federal standards on identity documents such as state drivers’ licenses, a prelude to this national identification system.
Talk about a perfect storm for bringing about a national ID card, the ultimate human tracking device.
Granted, in the absence of a national ID card, which would make the police state’s task of monitoring, tracking and singling out individual suspects far simpler, “we the people” are already tracked in a myriad of ways: through our state driver’s licenses, Social Security numbers, bank accounts, purchases, and electronic transactions; by way of our correspondence and communication devices—email, phone calls, and mobile phones; through chips implanted in our vehicles, identification documents, even our clothing.
Add to this the fact that businesses, schools, and other facilities are relying more and more on fingerprints and facial recognition to identify us. All the while, data companies such as Acxiom are capturing vast caches of personal information to help airports, retailers, police, and other government authorities instantly determine whether someone is the person he or she claims to be.
This informational glut—used to great advantage by both the government and corporate sectors—has converged into a mandate for “an internal passport,” a.k.a., a national ID card that would store information as basic as a person’s name, birth date, and place of birth, as well as private information, including a Social Security number, fingerprint, retinal scan, and personal, criminal and financial records.
A federalized, computerized, cross-referenced, databased system of identification policed by government agents would be the final nail in the coffin for privacy (not to mention a logistical security nightmare that would leave Americans even more vulnerable to every hacker in the cybersphere).
Americans have always resisted adopting a national ID card for good reason: it gives the government and its agents the ultimate power to target, track and terrorize the populace according to the government’s own nefarious purposes.
National ID card systems have been used before, by other oppressive governments, in the name of national security, invariably with horrifying results.
For instance, in Germany, the Nazis required all Jews to carry special stamped ID cards for travel within the country. A prelude to the yellow Star of David badges, these stamped cards were instrumental in identifying Jews for deportation to death camps in Poland.
Author Raul Hilberg summarizes the impact that such a system had on the Jews:
The whole identification system, with its personal documents, specially assigned names, and conspicuous tagging in public, was a powerful weapon in the hands of the police. First, the system was an auxiliary device that facilitated the enforcement of residence and movement restrictions. Second, it was an independent control measure in that it enabled the police to pick up any Jew, anywhere, anytime. Third, and perhaps most important, identification had a paralyzing effect on its victims.
In South Africa during apartheid, pass books were used to regulate the movement of black citizens and segregate the population. The Pass Laws Act of 1952 stipulated where, when, and for how long a black African could remain in certain areas. Any government employee could strike out entries, which canceled the permission to remain in an area. A passbook that did not have a valid entry resulted in the arrest and imprisonment of the bearer.
Identity cards played a crucial role in the genocide of the Tutsis in the central African country of Rwanda. The assault, carried out by extremist Hutu militia groups, lasted around 100 days and resulted in close to a million deaths. While the ID cards were not a precondition to the genocide, they were a facilitating factor. Once the genocide began, the production of an identity card with the designation “Tutsi” spelled a death sentence at any roadblock.
Identity cards have also helped oppressive regimes carry out eliminationist policies such as mass expulsion, forced relocation, and group denationalization. Through the use of identity cards, Ethiopian authorities were able to identify people with Eritrean affiliation during the mass expulsion of 1998. The Vietnamese government was able to locate ethnic Chinese more easily during their 1978-79 expulsion. The USSR used identity cards to force the relocation of ethnic Koreans (1937), Volga Germans (1941), Kamyks and Karachai (1943), Crimean Tartars, Meshkhetian Turks, Chechens, Ingush and Balkars (1944) and ethnic Greeks (1949). And ethnic Vietnamese were identified for group denationalization through identity cards in Cambodia in 1993, as were the Kurds in Syria in 1962.
And in the United States, post-9/11, more than 750 Muslim men were rounded up on the basis of their religion and ethnicity and detained for up to eight months. Their experiences echo those of 120,000 Japanese-Americans who were similarly detained 75 years ago following the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Despite a belated apology and monetary issuance by the U.S. government, the U.S. Supreme Court has yet to declare such a practice illegal. Moreover, laws such as the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) empower the government to arrest and detain indefinitely anyone they “suspect” of being an enemy of the state.
You see, you may be innocent of wrongdoing now, but when the standard for innocence is set by the government, no one is safe.
Everyone is a suspect.
And anyone can be a criminal when it’s the government determining what is a crime.
It’s no longer a matter of if, but when.
Remember, the police state does not discriminate.
At some point, it will not matter whether your skin is black or yellow or brown or white. It will not matter whether you’re an immigrant or a citizen. It will not matter whether you’re rich or poor. It won’t even matter whether you’re driving, flying or walking.
After all, government-issued bullets will kill you just as easily whether you’re a law-abiding citizen or a hardened criminal. Government jails will hold you just as easily whether you’ve obeyed every law or broken a dozen. And whether or not you’ve done anything wrong, government agents will treat you like a suspect simply because they have been trained to view and treat everyone like potential criminals.
Eventually, when the police state has turned that final screw and slammed that final door, all that will matter is whether some government agent—poorly trained, utterly ignorant and dismissive of the Constitution, way too hyped up on the power of their badges, and authorized to detain, search, interrogate, threaten and generally harass anyone they see fit—chooses to single you out for special treatment.
We’ve been having this same debate about the perils of government overreach for the past 50-plus years, and still, we don’t seem to learn, or if we learn, we learn too late.
All of the excessive, abusive tactics employed by the government today—warrantless surveillance, stop and frisk searches, SWAT team raids, roadside strip searches, asset forfeiture schemes, private prisons, indefinite detention, militarized police, etc.—started out as a seemingly well-meaning plan to address some problem in society that needed a little extra help.
Be careful what you wish for: you will get more than you bargained for, especially when the government’s involved.
In the case of a national identification system, it might start off as a means of tracking COVID-19 cases in order to “safely” re-open the nation, but it will end up as a means of controlling the American people.
For those tempted to justify these draconian measures for whatever reason—for the sake of their health, the economy, or national security—remember, you can’t have it both ways.
You can’t live in a constitutional republic if you allow the government to act like a police state.
You can’t expect to have your rights respected if you allow the government to treat whomever it pleases with disrespect and an utter disregard for the rule of law.
As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, if you’re inclined to advance this double standard because you believe you have done nothing wrong and have nothing to hide, beware: there’s always a boomerang effect.
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I hate to break it to everyone, but the Monroe Doctrine took on a new form. Space is no longer the final frontier, the human brain is. I happen to be an unfortunate victim of retarded psychopaths at St. Mary’s Ozaukee, WHO, and the Digital Mafia.
They want it all. Everyone’s DNA, ovums, every cell in everyone’s body and every thought in everyone’s brain.
Illegal and unconsented surgery was performed on me on March 27,2014 at St. Mary’s Ozaukee Hospital while I was unconscious, illegally implanting micro-chips, sensors or RFIDs in my ears and nose and stole my ovums too. Initially it was loud tinnitus, sleep deprivation, and a sudden inability to cry, followed by DEWs and mind raping technology following my phone being hacked in June of 2017. The only reason that I have not committed suicide is because I owe it to humanity to expose these sadistic monsters for who they are, to try to stop it from happening to more people. Pretty sure that the testing is just for DNA. Vampires can’t get enough blood! It is why they hated Elizabeth Holmes so much! Stay away from the AMA! They are farming us for everything that they can!
Sound too hard to believe? I thought so too! Dr. John R. Hall is an anasthesiologist from Austin Texas who has verified that this is taking place on a mass scale in America, and many countries in the world are involved in this! That leads to WHO! My brain is my intellectual property! This is mind rape! Universities throughout the world are involved in this, and so is Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Google, AT&T, and many others! Of course they claim that it is for ALS victims, or Parkinsons, or whatever! The point is that I am none of those! It was unconsented, uninformed, and 100% illegal! Dr. Hall believes that at least 300,000 Americans are victims of this! It’s probably why they want people to get colonoscopies! Because people are unconscious! They would be totally oblivious to it! It is sick beyond anyone’s worst nightmare!
My Stingray Surveillance Detector and EMF meter were some of the many things stolen from my home during the hundreds of illegal break-ins! Those would have confirmed it! The Stingray was returned broken. The EMF meter was never returned.My neighbors spy on me, stalk me, gas-light me by letting me know in subtle ways, but deny it, as many others are as well! It must suck being such a god damned fucking retard that you need to leech off of someone else’s brain! They are though! Look at how retarded everyone is acting in America! It’s a fucking epidemic of mental retardation, insanity, and psychopathy! This country is just one giant fucking looney bin and cess pool of moral and intellectual depravity! Not willing to share my brain to help you out! Drop dead! It’s not my problem that you are a fucking retard!
Here is evidence that I am not imagining this! international Center Against Abuse of Covert Technologies:
http://www.ICAACT.org
Only the Luciferians would be willing to ask someone to sacrifice their civil rights and free will in exchange for money or to associate with them!
Who in the hell would want to?!
It is better to die in honor than to live in vain!
Death to the Luciferian Psychopaths! They are the equivalent of flesh eating bacteria, so submitting to them is a losing battle!
Can’t ever win by negotiating with a thief!
Live free or die!
Considering that I am in the land of McCarthy Dahmerville, I don’t feel like I’m missing out on anything at home!
Those that violate God given civil rights and God given free will and ask people to forfeit those in exchange for money or associating with them are the disease, and they have no fucking idea how immune I am to them! They are Luciferians!
A friend of the devil is no friend of mine!
It is better to die in honor than to live in vain!
You look like a criminal! The software said so!
Psychiatrists and professors say the darndest things!
From Mint Press:
“For instance, Cesare Lombroso’s 1876 book, Criminal Man, told students that large jaws and high cheekbones were a feature of “criminals, savages and apes,” and was a sure sign of the “love of orgies and the irresistible craving for evil for its own sake, the desire not only to extinguish life in the victim, but to mutilate the corpse, tear its flesh, and drink its blood.” Meanwhile, rapists nearly always have jug ears, delicate features, swollen lips, and hunchbacks. Lombroso himself was a professor in psychiatry and criminal anthropology and his book were taught in universities for decades. To Lombroso, it was almost impossible for a good-looking person to commit a serious crime.”
https://www.mintpressnews.com/new-facial-recognition-software-predicts-youre-a-criminal-based-on-your-face/267436/
It doesn’t appear this site bothers to post comments in a timely manner much anymore. Frequently, new articles are shown days before many comments posted for previous articles are shown, therefore reducing the likeliness of comments being read. Could be one reason why the number of posted comments seem to be much less than they use to be.
I hate to break it to everyone, but Manifest Destiny took on a new form. Space is no longer the final frontier, the human brain is. I happen to be an unfortunate victim of retarded psychopaths at St. Mary’s Ozaukee, WHO, and the Digital Mafia.
They want it all. Everyone’s DNA, ovums, every cell in everyone’s body and every thought in everyone’s brain.
Illegal and unconsented surgery was performed on me on March 27,2014 at St. Mary’s Ozaukee Hospital while I was unconscious, illegally implanting micro-chips, sensors or RFIDs in my ears and nose and stole my ovums too. Initially it was loud tinnitus, sleep deprivation, and a sudden inability to cry, followed by DEWs and mind raping technology following my phone being hacked in June of 2017. The only reason that I have not committed suicide is because I owe it to humanity to expose these sadistic monsters for who they are, to try to stop it from happening to more people. Pretty sure that the testing is just for DNA. Vampires can’t get enough blood! It is why they hated Elizabeth Holmes so much! Stay away from the AMA! They are farming us for everything that they can!
Sound too hard to believe? I thought so too! Dr. John R. Hall is an anasthesiologist from Austin Texas who has verified that this is taking place on a mass scale in America, and many countries in the world are involved in this! That leads to WHO! My brain is my intellectual property! This is mind rape! Universities throughout the world are involved in this, and so is Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Google, AT&T, and many others! Of course they claim that it is for ALS victims, or Parkinsons, or whatever! The point is that I am none of those! It was unconsented, uninformed, and 100% illegal! Dr. Hall believes that at least 300,000 Americans are victims of this! It’s probably why they want people to get colonoscopies! Because people are unconscious! They would be totally oblivious to it! It is sick beyond anyone’s worst nightmare!
My Stingray Surveillance Detector and EMF meter were some of the many things stolen from my home during the hundreds of illegal break-ins! Those would have confirmed it! The Stingray was returned broken. The EMF meter was never returned.My neighbors spy on me, stalk me, gas-light me by letting me know in subtle ways, but deny it, as many others are as well! It must suck being such a god damned fucking retard that you need to leach off of someone else’s brain! They are though! Look at how retarded everyone is acting in America! It’s a fucking epidemic of mental retardation, insanity, and psychopathy! This country is just one giant fucking looney bin and cess pool of moral and inte
lectual depravity! Not willing to share my brain to help you out! Drop dead! It’s not my problem that you are a fucking retard!
Here is evidence that I am not imagining this! international Center Against Abuse of Covert Technologies:
http://www.ICAACT.org
Former Labor Party leader brother of Jeremy Corbin, Peirce Corbin was arrested for attending an anti-lockdown protest in Hyde Park London while giving a speech claiming that 5G is related to the Coronavirus. David Icke’s Youtube channel was shut down for the same assertion.
There are definitely extremely weird things occuring simultaeneously that are being attributed to coronavirus that legitimize their assertions!
Like these Wuhan videos of apparently healthy pedestrians spontaeneosly collapsing in Wuhan in January published by UK’s own Daily Mail!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7923981/Coronavirus-Disturbing-videos-claim-people-collapsing-Wuhan.html
Adding further fuel to the fire against 5G is also the sudden developement of a new pediatric illness, never documented before in children in Italy, UK, and New York, all coincidently after having rolled out 5G.
Physicians have confirmed that there are children who are victims of this deadly new syndrome that have not tested positively for Covid-19!
https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/14/health/pediatric-coronavirus-syndrome-multisystem-health/index.html
This new disease is being refered to as Pediatric Multisystem Inflamatory Syndrome.
This sounds like 5G symptoms killing 3 young children in New York, from high level EFMs from 5G which rolled out in New York just prior to the COVID-19 outbreak. 5G can vibrate water molecules at the high end of its frequency range. Wi-Fi uses microwave radiation. The higher the Gs, the higher the radiation levels.
From Sputnik:
“The children, who tested positive for the virus, were said to be experiencing inflammation of blood vessels or the heart, instead of the ordinary COVID-19-related symptoms.” -Sputnik
“Cuomo said that the symptoms that appeared in the reported cases were similar to toxic-shock syndrome and Kawasaki disease, an unexplained illness that mainly affects children under 5.” – Sputnik
“It’s possible that these cases were coming in and were not diagnosed as related to COVID, as they don’t appear as COVID,” the governor said. “It may even be probable that this exists in other states and we want to make sure they are aware of it”. – Sputnik
“Cuomo noted that the state health department is urgently working alongside the New York Genome Center and the Rockefeller University to carry out more research on the new syndrome.” – Sputnik
“Health experts in New York first noted the mysterious syndrome appearing in children about a month ago, during the peak of the spread of the pandemic in the state, according to The New York Times.” – Sputnik
“Doctors believe that children with weak immune systems are at high risk for the syndrome.” – Sputnik
“New York Health Commissioner and pediatric cardiologist Dr. Howard Zucker on Sunday urged US parents to pay more attention to the symptoms of the potentially deadly syndrome, which is now officially termed “pediatric multisystem inflammatory syndrome”.” – Sputnik
““I would tell parents that if your child has any nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, pallor – the color of their face changing, the color of their lips and fingers – if they have any chest pains… they should call their doctor and they need to be evaluated,” Zucker said during the state coronavirus briefing.” Sputnik
https://sputniknews.com/us/202005111079265677-andrew-cuomo-notifies-other-us-states-of-mysterious-covid-related-illness-in-children-as-three-die/
Firstly, the 5G connection to Covert19 is the excellent accuracy of the location tracking, centimetre-grade. In the end this whole mess was originally planned as an excersize in global preparedness, then hijacked by certain interests, the ones who create “financial vehicles”. That translates into grand theft, but nevermind, not the issue here, which is 5G and vaccines.
Research the nanoparticulate metalic ‘pollutants’ found in ALL vaccines tested so far. Have you ever put a dinner plate with a thin gold edging into a microwave? Seen the gold paint evaporate in a shower of sparks? Now imagine that, but the sparks are inside your very fibres! Inflammation of the blood system, indeed!
On a slightly lighter note, there is an even more bizarre theory, but I couch it in a short story about wonder, greed and romance.
https://greenpets.co.za/index.php/en/50-greenpets-natural-happiness/natural-living/stories/180-metallic-inheritance
This stuff scares the bejeebies out of me, especially as I read the book of Revelation. One day (I think soon) we’ll see a controlling government with a powerful central figure come to power and our Constitution will in effect be thrown out the window. There will be a place of safety n refuge though I don’t know where yet. May God give me the wisdom, knowledge n resources to find it and escape to it. Blessings on each of us. Let us trusting Christ alone for our salvation.
And none of them are immune to Triple Buckshot in their faces when they show up at your door trespassing. And also assist any neighbor who has Tyrannical A-holes that show up at their door, give them lead poisoning also.
Hint – Never try to defend your house from the inside, Engage them miles from your property. look up the 3% rule.
The State wants you to believe:
You are free as long as the State CONTROLS your resources.
You are free as long as the State CONTROLS your income.
You are free as long as the State CONTROLS your rights.
You are free as long as the State CONTROLS your land.
You are free as long as the State CONTROLS your education.
You are free as long as the State CONTROLS your movement.
You are free as long as the State CONTROLS your thinking.
You are free as long as the State controls your behavior.
Soon you can add – You are free as long as you SUBMIT to your State I mandated covid-19 vaccination.
Think of things that don’t normally get along, in nature, being grafted together.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/64/CatDog.jpeg
If this works, correctly (according to Gates’ own description) you and your kids’ (and their kids’) cells should be secreting the same irritants as the unwanted disease. Genetic tampering is heritable.
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“According to a press release from the US Dept. of Defense, featuring an announcement from Lt. Col. Mike Andrews, the Department of Defense is partnering with Health and Human Services to acquire 500 million ApiJect vaccine injection devices, with deliveries expected to begin in October of this year.”
The ApiJect syringes come with an optional RFID tag so that health care workers can track the GPS location and identity of the individual being injected. Via the Apiject.com website: “With an optional RFID/NFC tag on each BFS prefilled syringe, ApiJect will make this possible. Before giving an injection, the healthcare worker will be able to launch a free mobile app and “tap” the prefilled syringe on their phone, capturing the NFC tag’s unique serial number, GPS location and date/time. The app then uploads the data to a government-selected cloud database. Aggregated injection data provides health administrators an evolving real-time “injection map.”
https://vaccines.news/2020-05-13-dept-of-defense-purchasing-500-million-apiject-syringes-coronavirus-vaccine.html
https://www.apiject.com/
“He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, so that no man might buy or sell, unless he had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.”
Didn’t you know, the vaccine won’t be mandatory. Trump says the military is coming out to help, but it is not mandatory.
Won’t “Q” save us?
Jared Kushner i.e. President Kushner has ties to Soros, did you know. He and Ivanka worship Kabbalah.
Trump’s IQ is supposed to be top shelf. So why does he surround himself with deep state traitors? Unless he might be one of them perhaps.
It’s not about health. It’s about control. Dystopian nightmare. People are starting to lose it. Have you noticed.
As I see it we have two options. God and guns…That’s it period. And when I say God I mean Jesus.