Thursday, May 28, 2020

California's coronavirus Stasi

California's government is in the grip of lunatics and power-mongers, as Governor Newsom seeks to establish a corps of "coronavirus detectives" to “test, trace and isolate people who may have been infected.” So, when the coronavirus is finally under control to the governor's satisfaction, what to do with this new army?
In the best Kafkaesque style, a government Stasi force could be empowered to track and isolate just about anybody, “until we have a vaccine,” or a “cure.” Illegal aliens, even the criminals among them, would remain a protected and privileged class. As in California, this imported electorate would be supported by American taxpayers.

Law-abiding gun owners, even Sheriff’s deputies, could be blocked from exercising their rights under the Second Amendment, and the First Amendment would also stand at risk. So-called “red flag” laws could empower confiscation of firearms and ammunition from anybody the government doesn’t like.
Progressivism ruins everything, and, if we're not vigilant, California may become the model for the whole nation.

Meanwhile, lockdown state governors continue to practice two-track government in true commie style: "Democrat Lockdowners Keep Getting Caught Breaking their Own Rules".

3 comments:

ck said...

When I was growing up in California in the 50's and 60's it was pretty much heaven on earth. The California of Jim Rockford and Jack Burton(Kurt Russell). Then came the invasion of the east coast trustfunders. They bought up everything with their parents money, the rest as they say is history. Pelosi is finishing the work her family started in Baltimore.

Spiny Norman said...

King Gavin the Gruesome is madly in love with the emergency powers he's been granted, and I don't think he'll be giving them up any time soon. Watch for the Democrat super-majority in Sacramento repeal term limits for the governor.

ck,

Then came the invasion of the east coast trustfunders.

I'm old enough to remember. The vast majority of conservatives in the US staunchly believe all the leftist "progressive" bullshit started here. But it didn't: it began at Harvard, Yale and Princeton more than a century ago. Remember, Progressive hero (and unrepentant racist) Woodrow Wilson was the president of Princeton University and governor of New Jersey before bringing his version of academic Marxism to the White House.

Paco said...

I've never been to California, but, from what I've seen in movies, documentaries and photos, it is arguably the most naturally beautiful state in the union. A thousand pities that progressives have ruined it for everybody but a privileged few.

Absolutely correct about the whole progressive project beginning in the east. The Frankfurt School had a presence in California, but it really took root and thrived in places like Columbia and Princeton. And, yes, the sainted Woodrow was definitely a man of the east (and, I'm embarrassed to say, a native of Virginia).