{"id":57254,"date":"2020-05-19T03:00:46","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T07:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=57254"},"modified":"2023-06-20T11:50:07","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T15:50:07","slug":"the-karenist-coup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2020\/05\/19\/the-karenist-coup\/","title":{"rendered":"The Karenist coup"},"content":{"rendered":"

L. Neil Smith<\/a> on our current self-inflicted plight:<\/p>\n

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We find ourselves here, in this particular time and this particular place in the history of our republic, because of a 239-year-old oversight made by the Founding Fathers, in that the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution, commonly known as the Bill of Rights (the name itself is a mistake), contain no penalty clause for those \u2014 politicians, bureaucrats, policemen \u2014 who violate them. I’m not entirely sure it was accidental, but, as a result, they are violated daily, hourly, as a matter of course, and this Corona Virus farce \u2014 many others come to mind \u2014 is simply the most recent and most preposterous example.<\/p>\n

(The name itself is an error because this document is not a mere list of privileges that the government generously lets the people exercise. Quite the opposite, it is a list of things that the government is absolutely forbidden<\/em> to do It should have been called the “Bill of Limits”. And if the Founders, who had just fought and won a desperate, bloody war against the world’s most brutal and rapacious super-power, hadn’t meant them to be absolute, then why \u2014 for all you “living document” idiots out there \u2014 would they have even bothered to write them down?)<\/p>\n

All over this bruised and battered country, a flock of mean, moronic, petty tyrants have issued illegal orders to those they clearly regard as the peasantry: stay home, avoid your fellow human beings, and above all, shut down the Machinery of Freedom which we know as capitalism. If it’s ever allowed to start up again, it must strictly be on terms that are essentially Marxist in character. No mere individual can ever again scratch his ass without written government approval and permission. In effect, the left has the revolution \u2014 as usual, achieved by somebody else \u2014 it has wanted for 180 years, since the days of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon.<\/p>\n

What’s more, many otherwise decent and intelligent folks are out there begging<\/em> for their rulers to let them be free again. I find that repulsive and unAmerican. And to those boobies (including Sean Hannity and Joy Behar) blubbering about patriots bring their weapons to demonstrations, listen up: the Founders meant<\/em> the government to be intimidated by the people, you hapless buffoons.<\/p>\n

My bottom line, here, is that, in the short run, we must free ourselves \u2014 now<\/em> \u2014 from what we have to call Faucism. Scientific pleaders like the dictatorial doctor must be made painfully aware that when their pronouncements have clear political and economic consequences, their protests of innocence sound a bit too much like “I was just following orders”.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

L. Neil Smith on our current self-inflicted plight: We find ourselves here, in this particular time and this particular place in the history of our republic, because of a 239-year-old oversight made by the Founding Fathers, in that the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution, commonly known as the Bill of Rights (the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,66,9,10,13],"tags":[715,1517,1202,1382,1020,217,1363],"class_list":["post-57254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-health-science","category-law","category-liberty","category-usa","tag-constitution","tag-coup","tag-epidemic","tag-lneilsmith","tag-progressives","tag-rights","tag-wuhancoronavirus"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-eTs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57256,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57254\/revisions\/57256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}