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The more this plays out the more I believe this hasn't got much to do with "controlling and containing the virus" it's more about controlling the population. I hope I'm wrong but this doesn't look good.
The mayor of Champaign, Illinois has declared a town emergency over the Wuhan coronavirus that includes a potential ban on the sale of firearms and ammunition. According to a local report from WAND 17, Champaign Mayor Deborah Frank Feinen has issued an executive order that would give her office "extraordinary powers." She has issued the order despite the town and surrounding area not having a single case of the disease.
Here is the list of other items from the declaration/executive order, which also includes the ability to ban the sale of "food, water, fuel, clothing, and/or other commodities, materials, goods, services and resources," in addition to alcohol and gasoline. Additionally, government agents or officials have the ability to seize private property and to cut off the city water supply. The mayor justifies everything "in the interest of public safety and wolf.
originally posted by: DBCowboy
a reply to: intergalactic fire
The true test will be how much freedom will they return once all this is over.
originally posted by: gortex
a reply to: intergalactic fire
Given the state of the "free world" at the moment , surveillance , data retention and laws to criminalise the otherwise law abiding , I wouldn't rule anything out in terms of them using situations to their advantage.
For years we have warned and been warned of possible depopulation plans , war was always the favourite proposed method but viral pandemic is a cleaner safer method , if you can tie population control in with that then all the better in the eyes of the controllers I guess.
originally posted by: intergalactic fire
Little by little they have been taking away our freedom.
As for myself, I'm not panicking or fearing this virus much. The aftermath and to what this will lead to scares me more. Still...
In the process, according to Rene Sandler, an attorney for the family, police opened fire through an outside window and murdered Lemp and shot his girlfriend as they slept.
According to ABC, Sandler said the family believes police fired gunshots, not a flashbang or other projectile, from outside the home, including through Lemp’s bedroom window, while he and his girlfriend were sleeping. Nobody in the home heard any warnings or commands before police opened fire, she said.
“There is no warrant or other justification that would ever allow for that unless there is an imminent threat, which there was not,” Sandler said.
“The facts as I understand them from eyewitnesses are incredibly concerning,” she told The Associated Press.
originally posted by: gortex
a reply to: intergalactic fire
Given the state of the "free world" at the moment , surveillance , data retention and laws to criminalise the otherwise law abiding , I wouldn't rule anything out in terms of them using situations to their advantage.
For years we have warned and been warned of possible depopulation plans , war was always the favourite proposed method but viral pandemic is a cleaner safer method , if you can tie population control in with that then all the better in the eyes of the controllers I guess.
The more this plays out the more I believe this hasn't got much to do with "controlling and containing the virus" it's more about controlling the population.
originally posted by: The2Billies
I am more worried about the implications down the road of this bio-engineered virus especially because of the part of the virus that you will NEVER see on the news except as "a more serious virus".
And now it is in play right before your very eyes using a perfectly designed best results wish list tool that is just the job for depopulation and stemming population growth some. If you list the tool set of this virus BW its obvious it was designed for a) effect & b) to appear natural c) and so they say derived from a market.
originally posted by: gortex
a reply to: intergalactic fire
Given the state of the "free world" at the moment , surveillance , data retention and laws to criminalise the otherwise law abiding , I wouldn't rule anything out in terms of them using situations to their advantage.
For years we have warned and been warned of possible depopulation plans , war was always the favourite proposed method but viral pandemic is a cleaner safer method , if you can tie population control in with that then all the better in the eyes of the controllers I guess.
originally posted by: Boadicea
a reply to: intergalactic fire
The more this plays out the more I believe this hasn't got much to do with "controlling and containing the virus" it's more about controlling the population.
I don't believe the Coronapocalypse is a planned event. But I have no doubt those so inclined (the usual suspects) aren't letting the crisis go to waste.
I also expect that these same folks are watching closely to see if the people come together in this time of crisis, cooperating and working with each other and taking care of each other... or if we will turn on each other, dog eat dog, and further divide ourselves.
The former is a position of strength that will make them think again. The latter is a position of weakness that will make us all ripe for the killing.
Each and every one of has needs to decide on which side we will stand. Will we stand on our feet? Or grovel on our knees?