{"id":51819,"date":"2020-03-17T21:07:12","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T02:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=51819"},"modified":"2020-03-17T21:07:14","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T02:07:14","slug":"be-wary-of-overreaching-government-responses-to-coronavirus-ron-paul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=51819","title":{"rendered":"Be wary of overreaching government responses to coronavirus: Ron Paul"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/2020\/03\/16\/be-wary-of-overreaching-government-responses-to-coronavirus-ron-paul\/\">Be wary of overreaching government responses to coronavirus: Ron Paul <\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/1130_nws_ocr-l-topphotos-18-1.jpg?w=620\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption>The Capitol Dome is seen silhouetted by the rising sun on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 30, 2017. (AP Photo\/Carolyn Kaster)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Governments love crises because when the people are fearful they are more willing to give up freedoms for promises that the government will take care of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After 9\/11, for example, Americans accepted the near-total destruction of their civil liberties in the PATRIOT Act\u2019s hollow promises of security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is ironic to see the same Democrats who tried to impeach President Trump last month for abuse of power demanding that the Trump Administration grab more power and authority in the name of fighting a virus that thus far has killed less than 100 Americans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Declaring a pandemic emergency on Friday, President Trump now claims the power to quarantine individuals suspected of being infected by the virus and, as Politico writes, \u201cstop and seize any plane, train or automobile to stymie the spread of contagious disease.\u201d He can even call out the military to cordon off a US city or state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">State and local authoritarians love panic as well. The mayor of Champaign, Illinois, signed an executive order declaring the power to ban the sale of guns and alcohol and cut off gas, water, or electricity to any citizen. The governor of Ohio just essentially closed his entire state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The chief fearmonger of the Trump Administration is without a doubt Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health. Fauci is all over the media, serving up outright falsehoods to stir up even more panic. He testified to Congress that the death rate for the coronavirus is ten times that of the seasonal flu, a claim without any scientific basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Be wary of overreaching government responses to coronavirus: Ron Paul Governments love crises because when the people are fearful they are more willing to give up freedoms for promises that the government will take care of them. After 9\/11, for example, Americans accepted the near-total destruction of their civil liberties in the PATRIOT Act\u2019s hollow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2924,379,24408,29225,607,643,664,692],"class_list":["post-51819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-emergency","tag-government","tag-government-power","tag-orange-county-register","tag-pandemic","tag-power","tag-quarantine","tag-ron-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51820,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51819\/revisions\/51820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}