Commentary: Trading liberty for security

Submitted by Freedomman on Wed, 04/01/2020 - 21:57

By Jacob G. Hornberger

March 25, 2020 - There was a good reason why our American ancestors failed to include an emergency exception in the Bill of Rights. It was because they knew that throughout history emergencies have been the time-honored way by which people lose their liberty.

The government is using Covid-19 to deprive us of our fundamental rights

Submitted by Freedomman on Wed, 04/01/2020 - 21:49

By Robert Barnes

March 24, 2020 - Do we really think it can’t happen here in Amerika? Could we quarantine the Constitution? Are we doing it already?

Panics from pandemics unleash unchecked governmental power. The very premise of popular films like V for Vendetta reveal this: a group uses a virus to seize power and create a totalitarian society. Anyone could witness this from far-off lands, watching the news about China locking people up in their own homes and then removing them screaming from those homes whenever the State wanted. World War I and the Great Depression birthed virulent forms of governments with leaders like Hitler, Mao, Mussolini and Stalin.

Viva la Revolución

Submitted by Freedomman on Wed, 04/01/2020 - 21:37

By Daniel McAdams

March 22, 2020 - I just spoke with relatives in Kalifornia who were sick of being shut up inside Gulag Kalifornia with nothing to buy at the stores, so they decided to seek out a restaurant that actually allowed willing customers to enjoy their food inside the establishment.

Infectious disease specialist says mass panic may be worse than the virus itself

Submitted by Freedomman on Wed, 04/01/2020 - 21:21

By Dr. Abdu Sharkawy

March 10, 2020 - The coronavirus is here. But fear not.

Mass panic is also here. Fear.

V for Vendetta speech

Submitted by Freedomman on Thu, 03/26/2020 - 00:33

This spectacular and riveting speech given by the main character in V for Vendetta is a stark reminder of the times in which we all live. Are you one of those who will just go on with your sad, pointless, existence, subject to the controls of others (your government, for example), or will you stand and be heard; let your passion and commitment to freedom represent a dawning of a genuine new age of humankind; one in which the people are the rulers and what governments exist are their public servants? Now is the time to stand! Revolution Now!

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Peter Finch in Network (1976): Mind Control Speech

Submitted by Freedomman on Thu, 03/26/2020 - 00:30

Brilliant speech given by movie television broadcaster Howard Beale (Peter Finch) in the movie Network. Watch and listen to this piece from a 45-year old movie!

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Commentary: Freedom in a time of madness

Submitted by Freedomman on Thu, 03/26/2020 - 00:22

By Patriot Andrew P. Napolitano

“The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men, at all times and under all circumstances.” - Ex parte Milligan, U.S. Supreme Court (1866)

March 19, 2020 - During the Civil War, when President Abraham Lincoln thought it expedient to silence those in the northern states who challenged his wartime decisions by incarcerating them in military prisons in the name of public safety, he was rebuked by a unanimous Supreme Court. The essence of the rebuke is that no matter the state of difficulties - whether war or pestilence - the Constitution protects our natural rights, and its provisions are to be upheld when they pinch as well as when they comfort.

This basic principle of Amerikan law - that our rights can only be interfered with by means of due process - is being put to a severe test today in most Amerikan states.

Commentary: Should government really have any power in a crisis?

Submitted by Freedomman on Thu, 03/26/2020 - 00:18

By Allan Stevo

March 18, 2020 - Please forgive what may appear as fatalistic to some. It is quite the opposite. Fatalism would be the belief that all events are predetermined and therefore inevitable. No events are predetermined as far as I can tell. Free will is everywhere.

Humans tend to be imperfect. To date I’ve yet to meet a perfect human. The better I know a person, the more flawed I realize he or she is. Which is okay.

What is not okay is putting so much power in the hands of someone so flawed.

30 years ago my country declared independence

Submitted by Freedomman on Thu, 03/26/2020 - 00:07

A testament to freedom.

By Zilvinas Salenas

March 11, 2020 - Thirty years ago, on March 11, 1990, Lithuania unilaterally declared independence from the Soviet Union. More precisely, it declared that the Soviet occupation of Lithuania, enabled by secret agreements between the Soviets and Nazi Germany, was unlawful, and restored the independent Lithuania of 1918. Latvia and Estonia soon followed.

This set off a chain of events that, together with the Fall of the Berlin Wall (1989) and an attempted military coup in Russia (August 1991), led to the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

Just like that, the evil empire was no more.

Kid Rock's Nashville bar refuses to close amid coronavirus concerns

Submitted by Freedomman on Wed, 03/18/2020 - 23:00

Calls mayor's mandate unconstitutional.

NASHVILLE, Tennessee (PNN) - March 15, 2020 - The owner of Kid Rock's Big Ass Honky Tonk Rock N' Roll Steakhouse in Nashville said he is refusing to follow Mayor John Cooper's plan to shut down all bars in the city’s tourist hot-spot Lower Broadway during the coronavirus scare. After a video of a packed bar went viral overnight, the Metro Board of Health approved a plan to shut down all bars in Davidson County, including the honky-tonks in downtown Nashville. The Tennessee Department of Health reported 39 cases of coronavirus in the state, with 17 in Davidson County.