The next red pill for people is to stop equating democracy with all that is good and benevolent. Slavery was the law of the land. Hitler gained office by winning an election. Any system where people can vote away the rights of their neighbors is very dangerous.
This is especially obvious in this day and age where the art and science of propaganda has become so sophisticated and powerful that large segments of the population can simply be programmed to believe anything the propaganda-masters want (there are people who legit believe that Rittenhouse kill black men - even after viewing the videos!!!! That is scary). So TPTB simply program the electorate for the result they want, and hold a "free and fair" election. What could go wrong?
The Bill of Rights doesn't grant us rights, it's there to protect us against the government, and by extension, our neighbors.
It's really sort of fascinating watching 'minority' groups demand pure democracy. Don't gay people remember the bashing of the 1980s? Why on earth would they want to place all their eggs in the 'the state will protect us' basket?
If America is so racist, why would you want to remove the protection the Constitution provides and move into a mob rule situation?
That's a trifle misleading. It's not "Australians" en masse, it's a few dozen indigenous people in small communities, in the state with the most psychotic leader. Which is still a bad thing, but you make it sound like they are going around the cities depopulating them.
It sounds like it's *more* than a trifle misleading, but Substack doesn't permit editing so my only option is to delete my comment. But the part about surrendering their firearms isn't misleading, AFAIK, and that may ultimately be the deciding factor in how this plays out in the entirety of Australia. So I'll leave it up along with my concession that the second paragraph is terribly overstated, not just misleading, but dead-wrong.
No worries, a lot of people are freaking out over it because of "army trucks", which is understandable.
FWIW, I'm not aware that the Aboriginal communities ever had guns in large numbers to begin with. Plus we've never had a "right to bear arms" even before the famous restrictions a few decades back... sad but true. Heck, we don't even legally have a right to "free speech".
This is the psychotic state leader I mentioned, and his unhinged rant about anyone opposing him being "anti vax" is very much true. It's also true that the army was "assisting" with transporting people from the remote communities to the quarantine camp, so it's not technically false, just being misunderstood or exaggerated. ("Infected" have been locked down and quarantined for ages here, it just seems the fact that the army was involved with the transport this time is suddenly making people notice...)
Borrowing and meming that: The Bill of Rights doesn't grant us rights, it's there to protect us against the government, and by extension, our neighbors.
Right, it doesn't grant our rights, it *protects* our rights.
But still, even with that document, the EXERCISING of our rights is what ultimately protects them. Starting, paradoxically, with the Second. Without the Second, and without the threat of its exercise, the rest are just words on paper.
The Founding Fathers were rightfully fearful of “pure” Democracy. The Constitution and Bill of Rights were carefully crafted to protect against ALL tyranny, including the tyranny of the majority.
Well played. Rights are rights. I am reminded of the prosecutor rebuking Mr Rittenhouse for remaining silent and requesting an attorney. HOW DARE HE!!!
Graduated from law school but never practiced and when the very first 'mandates' came into being in March of 2020 I had dinner with an actual practicing attorney and said this was all overbroad, not narrowly tailored, tyrannical and unconstitutional. He looked at me like I was nuts because his fear had gained control of his brain stem. Apparently it takes around 20 months to cool off enough brain stems to resume the practice of law. Hallelujah!
I was in Missouri, just outside St. Louis this past weekend, at a large wrestling tournament for college students. The county has a mask mandate, and though signs were displayed, few masks were seen on anyone, and no one asked us to don one the entire weekend. Do not comply in advance and relinquish your rights! Thank you, el gato for the glorious Thanksgiving update and for keeping us focused on the big picture!
Exactly. It's fine that it's happening at all but as you pointed out, these sociopaths have been allowed to set up beachheads in their war against We The People.
This "pandemic" had the rather dramatic effect of breaking my admittedly-foolish general operating principle that (law in a democracy) = (morally good).
Apples and oranges, which sometimes go well together in a parfait, but apples and oranges nonetheless.
This should go well beyond the “unelected”. It’s antithetical to the constitution for the legislature to permit a governor indefinite emergency power to create his own laws. Yet the courts keep on allowing it. Infuriating. Nearly 2 years of “90 day” emergency power here in Hawaii.
Excellent. I'm don't live there but I hope this reinforces the need for people to go back to living in the State of Missouri instead of the state of misery. If you will.
This is fantastic! Now if the courts would use the same logic on state election boards and Secretaries of State that decided to make new election regulations due to Covid. This also overruled the laws that the elected officials enacted.
The Covid fable of 2020 was and is a nasty lie- all of it from top to bottom.
All of the exaggerated and repeated fear-based messages from the media and government agencies this past year were just part of the advertising campaign for the pharmaceutical industry’s newest lucrative product- mRNA “vaccines” which they plan to roll out as new medical “miracle cures” for a variety of “ailments”, e.g. new line of “cancer vaccines.”
Every single one of the media bullhorns that were blasting the Covid fiction for the past year have direct financial ties to Pharma Inc.
It’s not exactly accurate to say Pharma uses its power to influence the news- more to the point it is Pharma that writes the script. Pharma and it’s investors own “the news” and you will speak the Pharma gospel if you wish to maintain your position of privilege- it goes without saying.
And when we speak about Pharma this cannot be separated out from the investor class who rakes in oceans of taxpayer wealth through numerous Pandemic Ponzi Schemes with Pharma as it’s “offering” and its Trojan Horse.
Covid-19 is a business plan not a medical situation.
Now more than ever it’s important to understand the economics of vaccines. Traditional systems of vaccine procurement and distribution are rapidly giving way to vast public–private supply chains. Despite annual revenues approaching US$1 trillion, the industry has been unable to reverse a declining rate of profit and finds itself in a perpetual state of crisis.
In Fall/Winter of 2019 all stocks of Big Pharma companies were in steep decline. This changed dramatically in Spring 2020 as we know.
The experimental gene therapy mRNA drugs are set to become the most lucrative drugs in medical history. Pharma depends on its “blockbuster drugs” to remain profitable and appealing to investors. It is not an exaggeration to say that without these “blockbuster drugs” the Pharma industry implodes.
What happened in 2020 was simply that the flu was re-branded and repurposed- the term Covid-19 was invented to turn the seasonal virus into the equivalent of the mythical “Al-Qaeda” meaning to terrorize the population with the false construct of a boogeyman.
This was done as the Western economies were in total free fall in late 2019 and the plan to digitize the economies of The West had to be rushed through lest the collapse be seen for what it was- the by-product of decades of Ponzi schemes by the Wall St. parasites and their allies.
The Virus™ is superfluous, just like the Swine Flu scamdemic of 2009. All they needed to do was create the perception of a pandemic/mass panic with staged Hollywood productions, doomsday models, and the fraudulent PCR test to manufacture the cases/falsely attributed as “Covid deaths.”
Covid-19 deaths follow the same age/risk stratification and seasonal curve of flu/pneumonia at the same time that flu inexplicably vanished from the face of the earth while all pneumonia deaths were suddenly called “Covid” using mass death certification fraud.
Without the fear-mongering propaganda campaign no one would’ve noticed anything unusual about the last two flu seasons because there was nothing unusual, except for the criminal, murderous, and utterly unscientific lockdown policies in response to the non- existent threat.
We need to do the same in California. My understanding was that attorneys were reluctant to take on these challenges because of the reach of "emergency" powers, but those powers now also seem like so much overreach.
School board meetings are becoming battlegrounds. I hear somebody in Columbus (OH) went in using state liability for conduct of public servants in this vein and the board acquiesced pretty fast. Insurance co.'s seem to be more pragmatic than bureaucrats. Who knew?
Would love to see this strategy become an area of pro bono expertise.
If I ever move out of my communist-adjacent coastal degeneracy zone, the first thing I will do is go to every new neighbor and say, Don't worry -- I'm voting to the right of you.
Hear, hear! If we could excise the two cancers of KC and STL (and the minor one in Columbia) it would be amazing. Same story in many other states as well, of course.
I like to think of them as either warts (two major and one minor), or containment units.
Maybe we can claim SE KS in exchange for KC to Kansas, and all of downstate Illinois and give STL to IL? The other minor containment unit isn't big enough to cause much consternation. A guy can dream.
Well now that's a bit of a Freudian slip at the beginning of that Judgment. How many of you caught it?
"Separation of powers among the three branches of government -- legislative, administrative, judicial . . . ."
There is no "administrative" branch of government. The third branch is "executive." If this opinion was prepared like most others, some law clerk (or, more likely, law clerks) drew up the opinion, consistent with what the judge or judges decided. The suggestion is that we've got some folks coming out of law school who have become so conditioned to the administrative state under which we live that they've come to believe bureaucrats have their own branch of government.
In this context, they seem like they are relatively similar in meaning... the branch that "executes" or "administers" the laws, but does not (in theory) make laws itself. The problems is when the executive/administrative are allowed to start making "regulations" at their whim...
Nope. The executive was not intended to be interchangeable with or the same thing as the bloated vast bureaucracy of appointees. "Administrative" is NOT an acceptable substitute. The executive should stay lean, like the rest. Anybody know what the current ratio of elected officials to career bureaucrats is?
The next red pill for people is to stop equating democracy with all that is good and benevolent. Slavery was the law of the land. Hitler gained office by winning an election. Any system where people can vote away the rights of their neighbors is very dangerous.
This is especially obvious in this day and age where the art and science of propaganda has become so sophisticated and powerful that large segments of the population can simply be programmed to believe anything the propaganda-masters want (there are people who legit believe that Rittenhouse kill black men - even after viewing the videos!!!! That is scary). So TPTB simply program the electorate for the result they want, and hold a "free and fair" election. What could go wrong?
The Bill of Rights doesn't grant us rights, it's there to protect us against the government, and by extension, our neighbors.
It's really sort of fascinating watching 'minority' groups demand pure democracy. Don't gay people remember the bashing of the 1980s? Why on earth would they want to place all their eggs in the 'the state will protect us' basket?
If America is so racist, why would you want to remove the protection the Constitution provides and move into a mob rule situation?
It doesn't make any sense.
Just recently, Australians placed all *their* eggs in the "the state will protect us" basket, and surrendered their firearms.
Now, today, Australians are being rounded up like cattle and sheep, and herded into concentration camps.
#DefendTheSecond
That's a trifle misleading. It's not "Australians" en masse, it's a few dozen indigenous people in small communities, in the state with the most psychotic leader. Which is still a bad thing, but you make it sound like they are going around the cities depopulating them.
It's a test to see how much they can get away with. I didn't complain when they came for the aboriginies because I wasn't one ...
Yes he certainly is. But let's not allow him that defence at Nuremburg 2.0
It sounds like it's *more* than a trifle misleading, but Substack doesn't permit editing so my only option is to delete my comment. But the part about surrendering their firearms isn't misleading, AFAIK, and that may ultimately be the deciding factor in how this plays out in the entirety of Australia. So I'll leave it up along with my concession that the second paragraph is terribly overstated, not just misleading, but dead-wrong.
#DefendTheSecond still applies, here in America.
No worries, a lot of people are freaking out over it because of "army trucks", which is understandable.
FWIW, I'm not aware that the Aboriginal communities ever had guns in large numbers to begin with. Plus we've never had a "right to bear arms" even before the famous restrictions a few decades back... sad but true. Heck, we don't even legally have a right to "free speech".
I wonder why we USAmericans had this romanitized vision of Australians as free kindred spirits?
So these are not true? https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1462740215571918849 https://twitter.com/Togetherdec/status/1462717008609435650
This is the psychotic state leader I mentioned, and his unhinged rant about anyone opposing him being "anti vax" is very much true. It's also true that the army was "assisting" with transporting people from the remote communities to the quarantine camp, so it's not technically false, just being misunderstood or exaggerated. ("Infected" have been locked down and quarantined for ages here, it just seems the fact that the army was involved with the transport this time is suddenly making people notice...)
Borrowing and meming that: The Bill of Rights doesn't grant us rights, it's there to protect us against the government, and by extension, our neighbors.
Right, it doesn't grant our rights, it *protects* our rights.
But still, even with that document, the EXERCISING of our rights is what ultimately protects them. Starting, paradoxically, with the Second. Without the Second, and without the threat of its exercise, the rest are just words on paper.
The Founding Fathers were rightfully fearful of “pure” Democracy. The Constitution and Bill of Rights were carefully crafted to protect against ALL tyranny, including the tyranny of the majority.
Well played. Rights are rights. I am reminded of the prosecutor rebuking Mr Rittenhouse for remaining silent and requesting an attorney. HOW DARE HE!!!
Something to truly give thanks for this week. Happy Thanksgiving all!
Praise God for a court with a spine, who spells it all out without mealy mouthed stipulations for "precents sake".
Graduated from law school but never practiced and when the very first 'mandates' came into being in March of 2020 I had dinner with an actual practicing attorney and said this was all overbroad, not narrowly tailored, tyrannical and unconstitutional. He looked at me like I was nuts because his fear had gained control of his brain stem. Apparently it takes around 20 months to cool off enough brain stems to resume the practice of law. Hallelujah!
Bring out the ice machines. May be we can cool some more down.
I was in Missouri, just outside St. Louis this past weekend, at a large wrestling tournament for college students. The county has a mask mandate, and though signs were displayed, few masks were seen on anyone, and no one asked us to don one the entire weekend. Do not comply in advance and relinquish your rights! Thank you, el gato for the glorious Thanksgiving update and for keeping us focused on the big picture!
Pandemic of the unelected bureaucrats
We've been headed in this direction for a long time.
>>"where was this in March 2020?"
Exactly. It's fine that it's happening at all but as you pointed out, these sociopaths have been allowed to set up beachheads in their war against We The People.
This "pandemic" had the rather dramatic effect of breaking my admittedly-foolish general operating principle that (law in a democracy) = (morally good).
Apples and oranges, which sometimes go well together in a parfait, but apples and oranges nonetheless.
This should go well beyond the “unelected”. It’s antithetical to the constitution for the legislature to permit a governor indefinite emergency power to create his own laws. Yet the courts keep on allowing it. Infuriating. Nearly 2 years of “90 day” emergency power here in Hawaii.
Do you want to know the worst thing about "15 days to flatten the curve" ?
The first 2 years !
Greetings from Oxford, England.
Same crap happening here in Oregon.
Illinois says hello as well.
I want Pritzker trussed up like a turkey and roasted just as thoroughly.
Those are going to have to be some industrial strength bindings to hold in that girth.
The rope used to keep other large vessels from floating away ought to do the trick.
Excellent. I'm don't live there but I hope this reinforces the need for people to go back to living in the State of Missouri instead of the state of misery. If you will.
This is fantastic! Now if the courts would use the same logic on state election boards and Secretaries of State that decided to make new election regulations due to Covid. This also overruled the laws that the elected officials enacted.
The Covid fable of 2020 was and is a nasty lie- all of it from top to bottom.
All of the exaggerated and repeated fear-based messages from the media and government agencies this past year were just part of the advertising campaign for the pharmaceutical industry’s newest lucrative product- mRNA “vaccines” which they plan to roll out as new medical “miracle cures” for a variety of “ailments”, e.g. new line of “cancer vaccines.”
Every single one of the media bullhorns that were blasting the Covid fiction for the past year have direct financial ties to Pharma Inc.
It’s not exactly accurate to say Pharma uses its power to influence the news- more to the point it is Pharma that writes the script. Pharma and it’s investors own “the news” and you will speak the Pharma gospel if you wish to maintain your position of privilege- it goes without saying.
And when we speak about Pharma this cannot be separated out from the investor class who rakes in oceans of taxpayer wealth through numerous Pandemic Ponzi Schemes with Pharma as it’s “offering” and its Trojan Horse.
Covid-19 is a business plan not a medical situation.
Now more than ever it’s important to understand the economics of vaccines. Traditional systems of vaccine procurement and distribution are rapidly giving way to vast public–private supply chains. Despite annual revenues approaching US$1 trillion, the industry has been unable to reverse a declining rate of profit and finds itself in a perpetual state of crisis.
In Fall/Winter of 2019 all stocks of Big Pharma companies were in steep decline. This changed dramatically in Spring 2020 as we know.
The experimental gene therapy mRNA drugs are set to become the most lucrative drugs in medical history. Pharma depends on its “blockbuster drugs” to remain profitable and appealing to investors. It is not an exaggeration to say that without these “blockbuster drugs” the Pharma industry implodes.
What happened in 2020 was simply that the flu was re-branded and repurposed- the term Covid-19 was invented to turn the seasonal virus into the equivalent of the mythical “Al-Qaeda” meaning to terrorize the population with the false construct of a boogeyman.
This was done as the Western economies were in total free fall in late 2019 and the plan to digitize the economies of The West had to be rushed through lest the collapse be seen for what it was- the by-product of decades of Ponzi schemes by the Wall St. parasites and their allies.
The Virus™ is superfluous, just like the Swine Flu scamdemic of 2009. All they needed to do was create the perception of a pandemic/mass panic with staged Hollywood productions, doomsday models, and the fraudulent PCR test to manufacture the cases/falsely attributed as “Covid deaths.”
Covid-19 deaths follow the same age/risk stratification and seasonal curve of flu/pneumonia at the same time that flu inexplicably vanished from the face of the earth while all pneumonia deaths were suddenly called “Covid” using mass death certification fraud.
Without the fear-mongering propaganda campaign no one would’ve noticed anything unusual about the last two flu seasons because there was nothing unusual, except for the criminal, murderous, and utterly unscientific lockdown policies in response to the non- existent threat.
Bless these judges. And be damned to anyone who, in their own craven panic, hand-waves away our Constitutional liberties.
We need to do the same in California. My understanding was that attorneys were reluctant to take on these challenges because of the reach of "emergency" powers, but those powers now also seem like so much overreach.
If an "emergency" goes on for two years, someone is failing at their purported role as savior.
This is great!
Emulate excellence, everyone file today. City council and cite this ruling, school board meetings and do the same. Let's goooooooo 🙏
School board meetings are becoming battlegrounds. I hear somebody in Columbus (OH) went in using state liability for conduct of public servants in this vein and the board acquiesced pretty fast. Insurance co.'s seem to be more pragmatic than bureaucrats. Who knew?
Would love to see this strategy become an area of pro bono expertise.
I love my state. Go, MO!
And to anybody who isnt a free thinker and thinking about moving here: go away, we're full.
If I ever move out of my communist-adjacent coastal degeneracy zone, the first thing I will do is go to every new neighbor and say, Don't worry -- I'm voting to the right of you.
That's a challenge I am willing to accept, potential good neighbor. Best of luck to you on your escape!
Hear, hear! If we could excise the two cancers of KC and STL (and the minor one in Columbia) it would be amazing. Same story in many other states as well, of course.
I like to think of them as either warts (two major and one minor), or containment units.
Maybe we can claim SE KS in exchange for KC to Kansas, and all of downstate Illinois and give STL to IL? The other minor containment unit isn't big enough to cause much consternation. A guy can dream.
Well now that's a bit of a Freudian slip at the beginning of that Judgment. How many of you caught it?
"Separation of powers among the three branches of government -- legislative, administrative, judicial . . . ."
There is no "administrative" branch of government. The third branch is "executive." If this opinion was prepared like most others, some law clerk (or, more likely, law clerks) drew up the opinion, consistent with what the judge or judges decided. The suggestion is that we've got some folks coming out of law school who have become so conditioned to the administrative state under which we live that they've come to believe bureaucrats have their own branch of government.
In this context, they seem like they are relatively similar in meaning... the branch that "executes" or "administers" the laws, but does not (in theory) make laws itself. The problems is when the executive/administrative are allowed to start making "regulations" at their whim...
Nope. The executive was not intended to be interchangeable with or the same thing as the bloated vast bureaucracy of appointees. "Administrative" is NOT an acceptable substitute. The executive should stay lean, like the rest. Anybody know what the current ratio of elected officials to career bureaucrats is?
Is This ruling relevant for other states
If it's upheld by the Supreme Court.