Comments on: The Power of the ‘Safety First’ Ideology

By: Wendy

Wendy — Sat, 13 Jul 2024 05:43:08 +0000

“New”? How can something that’s been going on since at least the early 20th century be “new”? Back in colonial days, people might shake their heads at a guy that connected his barn to his house, risking fire more easily crossing from one building to the other for the convenience and comfort of not having to go outside to get from one to the other, but they didn’t pass a building code to stop it. Never needed a license to drive or ride a horse, then along comes the car (and from personal experience, I can say you need a lot less experience to control a car than drive a horse properly) and the easier they get to drive, the more hoops we demand for a license. The number of occupations requiring licenses has exploded. The rules on producing (and often, testing) are so time- and money-consuming that it’s forcing out the little guy and leaving consumers with features that make things unpleasant to use or even unusable. Why did they think they could get away with all their covid mandates?

Simple. Because it’s the same shenanagins we’d been letting them get away with for over a century.

By: Timothy McCoy

Timothy McCoy — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 21:21:09 +0000

You ignore the ultra rightwing threats of government control as evidenced by Program 2025 which the last ex president claims he knows nothing about despite solid evidence to the contrary. One aspect is the Presidential Administration Academy a screening device to teach skills to new hires for ” advancing conservative ideas” And then there is Schedule F designed to exert more control over federal government employees to make government ‘more responsive’ but will result in the loss of civil service protections and increase the number of political appointments. The result of these projects will be the beginnings of an extremist right wing take over of the federal government by eliminating employees (ie democrats) who would oppose their policies. Our democratic government of checks and balances among the three branches was designed to prevent one party from controling the government. The real threat to democracy and ‘free speech’ is the ultra right wing cabal and their propaganda machine led by an ex president who for almost four years declared the last presidential election to be fraudulent.

Stick to the the agenda of protection of food supplements and stay out of politics.

By: Bonnie Wick

Bonnie Wick — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 20:26:32 +0000

So true! Thank you! We cannot sacrifice our liberty for supposed “safety”. It’s not the government’s job to keep us safe from disease! They only are supposed to keep us safe from invaders (human!), which they are not doing. They are using this whole context of “safety” to remove our freedoms step by step. Under the guise of “threatening sickness and possible death” they believe they can remove our ability to speak, congregate, move freely, and decide what does and does not go into our own bodies. Even to the extent of saying that disagreeing with someone is a “threat to their safety”! So ridiculous! The gullible have put too much blind faith in a powerful central government so they will be “safe”. Even though their mandates actually do not make us safe. Remember part of Patrick Henry’s powerful speech: “Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me
liberty or give me death!”
* William Wirt (1772-1834) reconstructed this accepted text of Patrick Henry. It’s the whole basis of America! Liberty is greater than life itself because it is what makes us a truly alive human being!