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SeanJohnson · « **on:** April 29, 2020, 07:36:17 AM »

Our Dress Rehearsal for a Police State
Dennis Prager / @DennisPrager / April 28, 2020 / 67 Comments

https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/04/28/our-dress-rehearsal-for-a-police-state/

Huntington Beach police patrol the beach on April 25 near the pier as thousands of beach-goers enjoy a warm, sunny day amid state-mandated stay-at-home and social distancing orders to stave off the coronavirus pandemic in Huntington Beach, California. (Photo: Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times/Getty Images)
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Dennis Prager @DennisPrager
Dennis Prager is a columnist for The Daily Signal, nationally syndicated radio host, and creator of PragerU.
All my life, I have dismissed paranoids on the right (“America is headed to communism”) and the left (“It can happen here”—referring to fascism).
It’s not that I’ve ever believed liberty was guaranteed. Being familiar with history and a pessimist regarding the human condition, I never believed that.
But the ease with which police state tactics have been employed and the equal ease with which most Americans have accepted them have been breathtaking.
People will argue that a temporary police state has been justified because of the allegedly unique threat to life posed by the new coronavirus. I do not believe the data will bear that out. Regardless, let us at least agree that we are closer to a police state than ever in American history.
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“Police state” does not mean totalitarian state. America is not a totalitarian state; we still have many freedoms.
In a totalitarian state, this article could not be legally published, and if it were illegally published, I would be imprisoned and/or executed.
But we are presently living with all four of the key hallmarks of a police state:
No. 1: Draconian laws depriving citizens of elementary civil rights.
The federal, state, county, and city governments are now restricting almost every freedom except those of travel and speech.
Americans have been banned from going to work (and thereby earning a living), meeting in groups (both indoors and outdoors), meeting in their cars in church parking lots to pray, and entering state-owned properties such as beaches and parks—among many other prohibitions.
No. 2: A mass media supportive of the state’s messaging and deprivation of rights.
The New York Times, CNN, and every other mainstream mass medium—except Fox News, The Wall Street Journal (editorial and opinion pages only), and talk radio—have served the cause of state control over individual Americans’ lives just as Pravda served the Soviet government.
In fact, there is almost no more dissent in The New York Times than there was in Pravda. And the Big Tech platforms are removing posts about the virus and potential treatments they deem “misinformation.”
No. 3: Use of police.
Police departments throughout America have agreed to enforce these laws and edicts with what can only be described as frightening alacrity.
After hearing me describe police giving summonses to, or even arresting, people for playing baseball with their children on a beach, jogging alone without a mask, or worshipping on Easter while sitting isolated in their cars in a church parking lot, a police officer called my show.
He explained that the police have no choice. They must respond to every dispatch they receive.
“And why are they dispatched to a person jogging on a beach or sitting alone in a park?” I asked.
Because the department was informed about these lawbreakers.
“And who told the police about these lawbreakers?” I asked.
His answer brings us to the fourth characteristic of a police state:
No. 4: Snitches.
How do the police dispatchers learn of lawbreakers such as families playing softball in a public park, lone joggers without face masks, etc.? From their fellow citizens snitching on them.
The mayor of New York City, Bill de Blasio, set up a “snitch line,” whereby New Yorkers were told to send authorities photos of fellow New Yorkers violating any of the quarantine laws.
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti similarly encouraged snitching, unabashedly using the term.
It is said that about 1 in every 100 East German citizens were informers for the Stasi, the East German secret police, as superbly portrayed in the film “The Lives of Others.” It would be interesting, and, I think, important, to know what percentage of New Yorkers informed on their fellow citizens.
Now, again, you may think such a comparison is not morally valid, that de Blasio’s call to New Yorkers to serve a Stasi-like role was morally justified given the coronavirus pandemic. But you cannot deny it is Stasi-like or that, other than identifying spies during World War II, this is unprecedented in American history at anywhere near this level.
This past Friday night, I gathered with six others for a Shabbat dinner with friends in Santa Monica, California. On my Friday radio show, I announced I would be doing that, and if I was arrested, it would be worth it.
In my most pessimistic dreams, I never imagined that in America, having dinner at a friend’s house would be an act of civil disobedience, perhaps even a criminal act.
But that is precisely what happens in a police state.
The reason I believe this is a dress rehearsal is that too many Americans appear untroubled by it; the dominant force in America, the left, supports it, and one of the two major political parties has been taken over by the left.
Democrats and their supporters have, in effect, announced they will use state power to enforce any law they can to combat the even greater “existential” crisis of global warming.
On the CNN website this weekend, in one of the most frightening and fanatical articles in an era of fanaticism, Bill Weir, CNN chief climate correspondent, wrote an open letter to his newborn son.
In it, he wrote of his idealized future for America: “completely new forms of power, food, construction, transportation, economics, and politics.”
You cannot get there without a police state.
If you love liberty, you must see that it is jeopardized more than at any time since America’s founding. And that means, among other things, that at this time, a vote for any Democrat is a vote to end liberty.

SeanJohnson · « **Reply #1 on:** April 29, 2020, 07:38:25 AM »

The powers that be have been watching our acquiesce during this dry run, and will only be emboldened at the submissiveness the lemmings have demonstrated.

This practically ensures “the big one” is coming (if this isn’t it already being gradually rolled out).

SeanJohnson · « **Reply #2 on:** April 29, 2020, 08:19:16 AM »

I received this email from my friend, who is a
Farmer:

“Welome to the nєω ωσrℓ∂ σr∂єr Sean.

One world government, main stream media, big brother, military industrial complex.

There you have it.

Sounds like this shut down activity is going to go on for 18 months for a total of 2 years from the viruses beginning. The vaccine sounds like it will have the mark of the beast in it. If you refuse to take it, either they will force you to take it or put you in a fema camp or kill you and actually by the guillotine, my family's choice, or gas you.

First you will have to give them a sample of your blood so they can put that into their Master computer Data Base for your DNA record. Don't let them do that. Possibly we farmers will all be broke by next year. I think this will be my last year of farming. No need for corn anylonger. Cattle and hogs are being euthanized now and destroying the herds etc. Chickens also. There will be no more food to eat and big brother will force you to come to them. I was hoping I would not see this in my life time but it is here. No doubt. Get out of the cities...Riot's are going to break out in the big city's.

Keep the faith and hopefully we can get our heads chopped off and die a martyrs death and go straight to heaven. How about that ending. Heaven.

Iceland is one of the few places I have heard that is kind of resisting this hoax. Watch for catastrophic events happening coming from God who is in charge.

It will be interesting to see everything unfold. What I have heard for the last 30 years is unfolding exactly like I have heard it to be. They have a play book and follow it exactly.

Good luck.

God bless you and your family”

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