{"id":52108,"date":"2020-04-02T08:21:10","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T13:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=52108"},"modified":"2020-04-02T08:21:18","modified_gmt":"2020-04-02T13:21:18","slug":"draconian-lockdown-powers-its-a-slippery-slope-from-handwashing-to-house-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=52108","title":{"rendered":"Draconian Lockdown Powers: It\u2019s a Slippery Slope from Handwashing to House Arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rutherford.org\/publications_resources\/john_whiteheads_commentary\/draconian_lockdown_powers_its_a_slippery_slope_from_handwashing_to_house_arrest\">Draconian Lockdown Powers: It\u2019s a Slippery Slope from Handwashing to House Arrest\u00a0<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cEverything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms \u2014 to choose one\u2019s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one\u2019s own way.\u201d\u2014Viktor Frankl<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>We still have choices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just because we\u2019re fighting an unseen enemy in the form of a virus doesn\u2019t mean we have to relinquish every shred of our humanity, our common sense, or our freedoms to a nanny state that thinks it can do a better job of keeping us safe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whatever we give up willingly now\u2014whether it\u2019s basic human decency, the ability to manage our private affairs, the right to have a say in how the government navigates this crisis, or the few rights still left to us that haven\u2019t been disemboweled in recent years by a power-hungry police state\u2014we won\u2019t get back so easily once this crisis is past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government never cedes power willingly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Neither should we.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Every day brings a drastic new set of restrictions by government bodies (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.finra.org\/rules-guidance\/key-topics\/covid-19\/shelter-in-place\">most have been delivered by way of executive orders<\/a>) at the local, state and federal level that are eager to flex their muscles for the so-called \u201cgood\u201d of the populace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is where we run the risk of this whole fly-by-night operation going completely off the rails.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s one thing to attempt an experiment in social distancing in order to flatten the curve of this virus because we can\u2019t afford to risk overwhelming the hospitals and exposing the most vulnerable in the nation to unavoidable loss of life scenarios. However, there\u2019s a fine line between\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2020\/03\/30\/coronavirus-stay-home-shelter-in-place-orders-by-state\/5092413002\/\">strongly worded suggestions for citizens to voluntarily stay at home and strong-armed house arrest orders<\/a>\u00a0with penalties in place for non-compliance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Draconian Lockdown Powers: It\u2019s a Slippery Slope from Handwashing to House Arrest\u00a0 \u201cEverything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms \u2014 to choose one\u2019s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one\u2019s own way.\u201d\u2014Viktor Frankl We still have choices. Just because we\u2019re fighting an unseen [&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":[338,11021,13197,2144,635,6300],"class_list":["post-52108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-freedom","tag-house-arrest","tag-john-w-whitehead","tag-lockdown","tag-police-state","tag-the-rutherford-institute"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52108","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=52108"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52110,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52108\/revisions\/52110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}