Governor Grisham's "Beautiful Power!"

Just call it a health emergency and you can do whatever you want.

Back in 2020, I warned people until I was blue in the face, that rolling over for lockdowns, mask mandates, vaccine mandates and all the other atrocities foisted upon us in the not so distant past, would lead to the further erosion of civil liberties. All the authorities have to do is declare some emergency for pretty much any reason, and anything goes. I certainly wasn’t the only one. A vocal minority all over the United States did and we were largely ignored.

Alas, the members of Covidian, are attempting to bring back all of those measures and more for a new strain of Covid which appears…less lethal than all previous. It’s beyond ludicrous. There are no benefits to shutting down and masking up school kids or testing non-symptomatic people at this point when 90% of Americans have already had Covid. Not that it did any good back then either. It did do an awful lot of harm, though.

But because masses of Americans did, in fact, roll over and put up with it for so long, the powers that be have not learned their lesson, and as I predicted one of them has boldly gone where no one’s gone before.

It all makes perfect sense, given the endless states of emergency used to justify removing our civil rights over a highly transmissible respiratory virus that was never going to be stopped by masking toddlers in daycare. (While letting them take off the masks to nap. I swear, the nitwittery is mind boggling.)

Her name, as you probably have heard by now, is Michelle Lujan Grisham, the Governor of New Mexico. There have been some shootings there. (Any murder is tragic. However, the number of shootings reported there from June to September statewide are nothing compared to what the average Chicago dweller would sneeze at on a normal day. And Chicago’s gun restrictions are pretty hefty, so…) Normally, New Mexico Democrats would be yelling about “common sense gun control” by now. But, Gov. Grisham has just watched people’s Constitutionally protected rights suspended as if by magic by declaring a state of emergency.

And she’s probably noticed that trying to get gun control measures passed the right way, via legislative action, just takes so doggone long. And then you have to deal with all those pesky judicial challenges if you even get the darn thing passed after two or three legislative sessions. So, she thought she’d work a little bit more magic. After all, she did the same thing during Covid and everyone just went along with it. So, she lifted her magic wand, chanted the magic words “public health emergency” and “It’s for the children!”, added a little sprinkle of glitter, and presto chango, she can ban anything she wants and everybody has to do what she says! So handy!

And with that, she suspended rights of legal gun owners to carry their weapons in Albuquerque.

For thirty days only!

Until the curve of gun violence has been flattened! (Wanna bet?)

Speaking in praise of the good governor’s ban, Miranda Viscoli, the co-president of New Mexicans to Prevent Gun Violence said, “If it saves one life, it’s worth doing.” Given the last three years, that familiar sentence sends shivers up and down my spine. And it ought to do the same for the residents of Albuquerque. For that matter, the entire state of New Mexico.

When questioned about whether she thought the criminals responsible for most of these shootings would respect her ban, I kid you not, she actually said, “Uhhh, no. But it sends a really strong message.” Supposedly, it will make it easier for people to report illegal gun activity. It also makes law abiding citizens sitting ducks for the criminal element, whom she admits, won’t respect her ban.

This is what we get, and what we deserve, when we let politicians remove our Constitutionally-protected rights without due process, without separation of powers, and under the magic of an emergency. They will find an emergency to fit any ban they want to enact. The stage has been set for this.

Natural gas getting hard to come by? More expensive? People moving about freely adds a burden to this shortage, causing dissatisfaction and frustration among the peasants thereby threatening the power of the authorities? Just declare a climate emergency and lock everyone in their homes until some imaginary milestone has been reached, like the average temperature dropping by a tenth of a degree. Easy peasy.(Doesn’t even have to drop, by the way, they can just say that it has.)

Or, here’s a good one I hadn’t even thought of from a guy I follow on Locals. You can watch his video about this here: California’s shoplifting problem. People just walk into the stores in places like San Fransisco and Los Angeles, fill bags full of stuff and walk out. The store employees aren’t allowed to intervene. The police may or may not arrest these jokers and when they do, they get released almost immediately because Soros-backed leftists are in charge and are only interested in putting people in prison who rattle temporary gates in Washington DC on a certain day in January and not shoplifters. Once people get good and tired of this emergency crisis being perpetrated by the authorities, the authorities will have a brilliant solution.

They’ll say, “This situation has gotten out of hand. This situation, that we definitely didn’t manufacture by refusing to punish evil doers, has become such an emergency, that we have to act in unprecedented ways. We know what will stop this. Anyone who wants to shop has to scan their digital ID to get into a store. If bad people try to get in, they’ll be turned away at the door. Only good, nice, and cooperative and vaccinated people get to come in the store.”

And voila! There’s your emergency social credit system that will definitely only last for thirty days. Until the shoplifting curve is flattened. It’s for the children.

In my upcoming novel, 27, every personal decision, from what your occupation will be to whether you’re allowed to procreate, is determined by the surveillance state. How does that sort of thing happen?

Well, folks, it happens just like this. With emergencies, real or imagined, used to take away human rights…enabled by ever-increasing laciviousness, lawlessness, and a passive, cowed citizenry eager to just go along to get along.

Enough is enough, people. Go find some courage to resist before resisting means a trip to the gulags. Because if you don’t and I’m left to resist all by myself, I will not share my moldy bread with you when we all meet at the prison camp.

That’s all for now. Until next time, folks…