Help, Officer... I'm Being Murdered
by an Unmasked Gunman
American Thinker,
by
Clarice Feldman
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
5/3/2020 5:45:26 AM
We have rather taken for granted the constitutional guarantees of certainty, rule of law, and due process in recent years. We ignored the water drip torture of prosecutorial misconduct (the Trayvon Martin, Lewis Libby, Ted Stevens cases) and government overreaching (ObamaCare, the Kelo case), but in the past few weeks more of us -- from surfers and skateboarders to doctors, dentists, hospitals, and small shopkeepers -- have been forced to realize what life without these protections is like. And we don’t like it, any more than we like how the government lied, ignored the law quite clearly for purely partisan political purposes
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Judy W. 5/3/2020 6:46:41 AM (No. 399119)
There's so much useful info and commentary in here -- on the virus, our violated constitutional rights, malfeasance in every way. A must-read, please.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
cThree 5/3/2020 8:10:24 AM (No. 399185)
Clarice is brilliant and thorough, as usual.
The ambition to tyrannize is strong, and it's no surprise that the virus crisis is wildly exaggerated in service of that ambition.
It's also no surprise, but bitterly disappointing, that most of the media, certainly including the internet giants like Facebook, are happy to cooperate, to abet the effort to destroy this republic. Their culpability is second only to the radicals themselves.
I figure the media is deluding itself, believing that they themselves will be in the rulers' circle, favored and protected; they have raised journalism to a calling, more important than a mere craft, by using their occupation to promote ideology; and the more pedestrian belief, that reporting—even if it means fomenting—a "crisis" is always better for ratings and career advancement.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
RCFLyer98 5/3/2020 8:20:02 AM (No. 399196)
Another angle to this story . . . why has the "virus" not decimated the homeless encampments? Seems like this would be an excellent opportunity to go through a petri dish such as the homeless camps like a speeding roller coaster. Maybe it has, but I've not seen, nor read about it. I'm sure it would make a bleeding heart reporter top news story.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
JackBurton 5/3/2020 8:56:49 AM (No. 399223)
Covers all the bases. 1) Covid is less severe/dangerous than projected. 2) We have treatments 3) governmental response has been tyrannical and stupid.
To the extent that the governor's response eliminates protection of the citizenry from crime (actual crime less a priority than not wearing a mask), that it allows the despoiling of the commons by defecating vagrants, and illegally "violated (our) constitutional guarantees against having property taken without compensation and their rights to judicial review, equal protection under the law and free speech", that response should be considered criminal, wrong, and met with protest, indignation and, perhaps, some appropriate rebellion.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
planetgeo 5/3/2020 10:21:06 AM (No. 399312)
Everybody knows that the Democrats and their enemedia have gone full Cloward-Piven using this virus as the plausible cover for their actions. Overwhelm the system with ever-increasing numbers of desperately dependent people. There it is...the PLAN.
And even though the numbers are declining almost everywhere, they continue to extend the lockdowns to exert even more pressure and further overload the system.The end game of this strategy isn't just to "beat Trump," it's to cause so much damage that it moves into mass riots and general chaos, during which their very well funded and very well organized activist cells take control of the government at every level. Heck, it has already started. What do you think Governor GQ's pronouncement that California is now a "nation state" was? Sounds like a secession to me. Why wasn't a detachment of Marines sent to Sacramento to arrest this would be Glam-Lenin?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 5/3/2020 10:22:06 AM (No. 399313)
Another hit out of the ballpark by Clarice. She is a blessing to all of us, and I am so glad she uses her skills for truth and honesty rather than darkness and harm.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Strike3 5/3/2020 10:39:05 AM (No. 399329)
The brainwashing campaign has affected a lot of gullible people. In a county in flyover country with less than 20 cases, I walked into my post office yesterday sans mask because there is no personal interaction, just a key in my mailbox. Some ditz coming out gasped, muttered something, hurriedly distanced herself from me and put her hand over her mask to make sure it was in place. It was pathetic but all I could do was laugh.
Apparently she doesn't know that her mail is sorted, loaded onto several vehicles in the course of its journey and stuffed in her mailbox by some human. Those little things with the ugly red crowns could be crawling EVERYWHERE.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
mc squared 5/3/2020 12:06:21 PM (No. 399422)
FTA: When the Democrats retake the White House.... YES. ( shouting)
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
TennDon 5/3/2020 1:10:58 PM (No. 399512)
FTA: We were led to believe that even a-symptomatic persons could transmit the virus. We now learn that isn't true and was based on a false account. People without fevers, coughs, sneezes cannot transmit COVID-19. (URL to article: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/02/paper-non-symptomatic-patient-transmitting-coronavirus-wrong?fbclid=IwAR06Z5YGeFV_6tywn9DbWhYb_T2xgJgrwnCHzKOWtnveajTsRQJiqij2TbM)
If this article is really now things are — the virus isn’t transmittable by a-symptomatic individuals — this would seem to me to be a game-changer. An important reason given for the drastic, shelter in place and other restrictions WAS that a-symptomatic individuals could transmit the virus BEFORE they knew they were infected.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
caljeepgirl 5/3/2020 1:52:05 PM (No. 399554)
Ms. Feldman's claims regarding the non-existence of "asymptomatic infection" definitely came as a surprise to me! HOWEVER, her embedded link to another February article seems to belie her point!
[https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/02/paper-non-symptomatic-patient-transmitting-coronavirus-wrong?fbclid=IwAR06Z5YGeFV_6tywn9DbWhYb_T2xgJgrwnCHzKOWtnveajTsRQJiqij2TbM]
That article contains the following key passage near the end:
"The fact that the paper got it wrong doesn’t mean transmission from asymptomatic people doesn’t occur. Fauci, for one, still believes it does. "This evening I telephoned one of my colleagues in China who is a highly respected infectious diseases scientist and health official," he says. "He said that he is convinced that there is asymptomatic infection and that some asymptomatic people are transmitting infection." But even if they do, asymptomatic transmission likely plays a minor role in the epidemic overall, WHO says. People who cough or sneeze are more likely to spread the virus, the agency wrote in a situation report on Saturday. “More data may come out soon. We will just have to wait,” Lipsitch says."
So, bottom-line.....which is it? Seems like a fairly critical issue to me, about which there is apparently no certainty!
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
DVC 5/3/2020 1:59:11 PM (No. 399562)
Maybe a way to "thank" your state government is to just refuse to pay your tax bill when it comes due.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
TennDon 5/3/2020 2:08:18 PM (No. 399578)
#11. Fauci’s Chinese college says he BELIEVES in asymptomatic transmission.
The key word here is “believes”. Belief ain’t evidence, it is opinion.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
kono 5/3/2020 2:47:19 PM (No. 399634)
Clarice illuminates with wit and incisiveness here, as is customary for her.
Her first line confuses me, though: Where does our Constitution guarantee certainty?
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
real fifi 5/3/2020 4:38:18 PM (No. 399718)
"Certainty" in that if , for example, you are licensed, registered and meet applicable health standards when you signed the lease and contracted with employees, you could lawfully run your hair salon. Certainty that if you didn't assault your fellow beachgoers you could go to the beach without fear of arrest. Certainty that if you were a physician with the right licenses to operate your practice you wouldn't be stuck with rent and equipment payments without being able to practice your profession. Certainty, if you were a commercial landlord on the hook for property taxes and loan payments, your tenants would be shuttered by the state and you'd be broke.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
real fifi 5/3/2020 4:39:44 PM (No. 399721)
In last sentence "would" should be would NOT
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
DVC 5/3/2020 8:54:57 PM (No. 399861)
I saw the same thing that #11, did and clicked on the link.
The "asymptomatic spread" is based on an AMAZINGLY feeble bit of "data" which crumbled when touched.
Worth reading the paper she linked to on that topic.
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