GOVERNMENT MANDATES AND ALERTS ARE CONDITIONING US TO OBEY

GOVERNMENT MANDATES AND ALERTS ARE CONDITIONING US TO OBEY

By Domenick J. Maglio Ph.D. Traditional Realist

As Ben Franklin said about security and liberty, “ Those who give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

Local and state governments are mandating evacuations of communities during hurricanes, fires, floods and other pending disasters. Currently they usually do not employ law enforcement to remove people from their homes. However, they are calling evacuations “mandated” but back off when people demand their right remain in their private property.

This is especially insane since the pseudo-scientific hyper-meteorologists changed the predicted path of the hurricane numerous times throughout the day. Irma was originally going to go over the east coast of Florida then up the middle of the state and eventually the west coast where the storm did the most damage. People from the east coast evacuated to the west coast where the storm hit. The mass evacuation of certain areas caused many to go towards danger rather than safety causing panic, unnecessary pain and confusion.

Just like the seatbelt laws that were introduced as a suggestion and quickly turned into a civil offense. This “suggestion” to mandate evacuations will probably follow the same course. Citizens are being coerced by government officials to accept  government mandates over their own decisions. People in the vicinity of the storm have all the information needed to make their own personal choice to remain or leave. Instead government bureaucrats have decided that citizens need to be herded like a bunch of sheep for the greater good.

The great example of Houston’s Hurricane Harvey’s enormous flooding showed self-reliant strangers helping each other with a flotilla of boats from all the surrounding states. Everyone pitched in to save others regardless of who they were. Big government did supply information, first responders, direction and money for aiding the restoration but it was the local government and people helping people that was the backbone of the process.

President Trump had to politically take a second trip to Houston to personally hand out food to victims to show he had empathy for the people. These photo ops won the approval of the media and the public. It put a face on government’s highest official being the inspiration of the recovery effort. Average people helping themselves and others in “the American Way “ had to be downplayed for the reputation of governmental power and its future expansion.

The annoying testing of the Emergency Broadcasting System and  “Amber Alerts” all over the nation that cut off regular programming of radio and television are conditioning us to the right and power of government to control the flow of information in times of so-called “emergencies.” Amber Alerts are sometimes as parochial as a father taking his own child without legal permission in a city over 300 miles away or notification that a senior citizen with dementia has wandered away or drove away and has not come back. Whatever the message, it is far removed from anyone’s ability to help except in very rare cases.

Government intrusion into the lives of the average Americans is becoming more common. Governors are proclaiming a proper diet including the amount of salt, pepper, and size of drinks.  They have passed laws to force adherence in private restaurants. Some businesses are being forced to service people who are contrary to their religions beliefs. The federal government has passed enormous amounts of regulations that are making it more difficult for small businesses to start up and survive. They are picking winners and losers in the big international corporate world.

Dependency on big government is being aggressively and subtly required by government elites and their bureaucrats so we rely on them instead of our own common sense. Once citizens look to government for security and protection they are surrendering their independence and freedom. Americans need to say “no” to government-disguised invasion into our homes through a variety of ways to dictate how we should think and what we do on our own property.

We should not surrender our self-reliant American Spirit for sporadic and temporary assistance. If and when citizens expect government assistance for every difficulty we will have lost our independence and freedom.  We will be transformed without awareness from courageous people to docile sheeple. We will accept meekly a top-down government controlled nation without even as much as a whimper.

Domenick Maglio, PhD. is a columnist carried by various newspapers, an author of several books and owner/director of Wider Horizons School, a college prep program. Dr. Maglio is an author of weekly newspaper articles, INVASION WITHIN  and a new just published book, entitled, IN CHARGE PARENTING In a PC World. You can visit Dr. Maglio at www.drmaglio.blogspot.com.