[Peace-discuss] 'A Nation Awakes From Slumber' - RPI May 1st Update

[C. G. Estabrook]

The federal government - the Congress and the president - must immediately provide a universal basic income at the level of a living wage.

Inequities - grants to people who don’t need it - can be recouped in next year's income taxes. But the need is now.

Congress & the president must act.
 


> On May 1, 2020, at 7:45 PM, Daniel McAdams/RPI <info at ronpaulinstitute.org> wrote:
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> Anti-Lockdown Protest in Madison, WI
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> The Rule of the CoronaTyrants is Coming to an End
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> Dear Friends of the Ron Paul Institute:
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> I mentioned in my last update that the Ron Paul Liberty Report viewer and subscriber numbers have exploded since we've been regularly covering the coronavirus lockdown with a skeptical eye. Dr. Paul's "The Coronavirus Hoax" article on March 16th set off a wave of skepticism over the authoritarian response at every level of government to the "pandemic" panic that ultimately has shut down most of the United States and brought us to levels of unemployment not seen since the Great Depression.
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> More than thirty million Americans have filed for unemployment because either federal, state, or local governments decided that their work was not "essential." Liquor stores and big-box chain supermarts are deemed "essential," while mom and pop shops and dining establishments have been forcibly shut down under pain of arrest, steep fine, and even cancellation of business license.
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> Many of those who most vociferously urge everyone to "stay home" - perhaps not surprisingly - have been able to retain their income, be it from "working from home" in government or other white collar jobs, social security, pensions, or other means. 
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> As Professor Denis Rancourt so eloquently pointed out in an episode of the Liberty Report this week:
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> One of the reasons this [lockdown] is working is because the workers in the professional classes are just happy to get away from the office. They haven't lost their jobs, and they're still salaried, and they're able to stay at home with the kids and do family activities. It's like a big holiday for them. So one of the sources for compliance is that it's been such a nice family holiday for a lot of professional class workers. 
> Meanwhile, those whose livelihoods and very existence depend on going to a physical job or being open for business are becoming increasingly desperate. This week we highlighted the plight of a local businesswoman, Shauntae Johnston, owner of the Bad "S" Icehouse in Oyster Creek, TX, who wrote on her Facebook page that she would open her establishment tomorrow, May 2nd - with outside tables only and at the appropriate distance from each other - because her business is her life's work into which she has poured her life savings, and that she has written her last check from an account that is now completely depleted. Ms. Johnston has since been served a "cease and desist" letter from the local authorities, warning her that if she dares do business (with willing customers) she will be arrested.
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> It's no surprise, then, that anger at the new authoritarians who have literally snatched the food from the mouths of babes has reached such a pitch that there literally is no telling where it may lead. As I write this on Friday afternoon, California has erupted in mass protest from Sacramento to Huntington Beach, furious at Governor Gavin Newsom's seemingly rash and petulant executive order to close all beaches in the state because he was furious that Californians ignored his previous order to stay away from the beaches. In video from the Sacramento protest a woman can be heard yelling plaintively that she is the mother of a six year old child and must be able to get back to work. The police are dressed like military officers facing an Iraqi insurrection, rather than public servants protecting civilians according to the Constitution which they swore to defend.
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> While monsters like Newsom scream and pound their fists on the table over the public ignoring their edicts consigning constituents to literal starvation, citizens - with lots of time on their hands - are finding their voices and connecting with others who have done the same.
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> Newsom outlawed protest. Californians again laughed in his face.
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> As tyrannical as Newsom is, he's a piker compared to Gretchen "Pick Me For VP!" Whitmer, the wannabe dictator of Michigan. When the Michigan legislature rejected the idea of keeping Michigan shut down for another month, Gretchen stamped her feet and screamed "deus vult!"  
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> Michigan residents had had enough and for at least the second major time trekked to the state capital building to demand a redress of their grievances. This time they were demonstrably more defiant of Gretchen's disdain, storming into the capital building fully armed and furious.
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> While I would dispute the utility of making this resistance to state tyranny an armed resistance - it gives unbelievable ammo to those who seek to repulse the silent majority with claims that it's just a bunch of "right wing extremists" - there is no denying their sincerity or determination.
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> The "Stalin of the Week" award, then, must go to Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer, who scoffed at the people, scoffed at their elected representatives, and decided to rule according to her own personal whim.
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> But there are also dishonorable mentions when it comes to the fight for liberty. Let's be clear about one thing: what we find ourselves in at present is no theoretical struggle for libertarian ideals. We are in, as our Secretary of State might say, a "live exercise" here. We have witnessed in these past four weeks an assault on the US Constitution and on our civil liberties that has not been seen perhaps in 100 years. Perhaps ever. Government officials - from the federal to the city level - have succeeded in completely obliterating our First Amendment and a few others. Petty tyrants tell us we must starve because of a virus. In the meantime they have no clue what they are doing. South Dakota has not shut down and has far less death than the states that have gone full-tilt totalitarian.
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> But I will be honest with you: even as we are face-to-face with a frontal assault on our liberties, so many organizations who have been set up to fight for same liberties have gone incredibly squishy when it comes to an actual attack. Yeah, it's fine to scribble endless articles about how we need to defend our liberties. But when those liberties are actually - in real time - under attack there has been a shameful silence from many organizations I've come to appreciate and trust.
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> This is the great divide. If you call yourself a libertarian or civil libertarian organization and you in any way make excuses for the totalitarian government lockdown you are done. If you call for a "responsible" opening, meaning, as Dr. Paul said recently on a broadcast, that a mugger attacks and robs you and while he is beating you you ask him to slow down, you are done. Hang up your spurs and return your donor money. You've failed. 
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> I won't name names. If you're not out front actively decrying this actual, violent assault in no uncertain terms without pulling any punches you have failed.
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> Meanwhile, we do have some heroes. The Mises Institute has been absolutely on fire with brilliant articles against this totalitarian takeover. Lew Rockwell has been an inspiration. Robert Wenzel of Target Liberty has been an island of sanity. Judge Napolitano has been a beacon. There are others, to be sure. But there have been many disappointments as well. How many who never trust a single word the US government says when it comes to the "need" to bomb Syria or sanction Iran have shamefully rolled over when a 50 year government bureaucrat with a track record that would make Bill Kristol blush tells us we can't have our Constitution back until Bill Gates forcibly injects us with his vaccine? Many friendships have ended due to this blind faith in the same government they condemn on other fronts.
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> Whatever the case, things are coming to a head. As our good friend Gerald Celenteoften says, when you've lost everything and you have nothing to lose...you lose it!
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> Be safe in the face of this horrible assault. The virus is a danger, but we are facing totalitarianism and economic collapse. Don't give in to fear!
> Sincerely yours,
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> Daniel McAdams
> Executive Director
> Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity
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