CRUSHING OUR FREEDOM THROUGH FEAR WILL NOT WORK AGAIN

CRUSHING OUR FREEDOM THROUGH FEAR WILL NOT WORK AGAIN                          

By Domenick J. Maglio PhD. Traditional Realist

The Coronavirus provided progressive leaders an opportunity to spin a crisis. The ultra-wealthy, pseudo scientists and political big brother figures were the first to “yell fire” in our nation. Covid-19 was falsely predicted to kill many millions worldwide and numerous millions in the United States. This prediction was widely wrong with more and more frightening predictions for this autumn. The greater the speculation that more deaths would occur from the virus, the greater the power of the scientific community to keep us in lock step following their dictates.

Even more revealing, much of the scientific evidence and practices for combating the virus have not demonstrated they have worked. Instead of admitting they were incorrect, they have dug deeper into non-scientific narratives to keep the United States’ citizens in panic of dying from Coronavirus. They decided to quarantine the general public, not only isolating the infected but quarantining even the uninfected. This is the first time in the history of pandemics that the healthy population was treated the same as the highly vulnerable members.

These bureaucratic elites want to confiscate our rights, our belief in our constitution and freedom to make choices. They view citizens as their subjects that should be controlled in all aspects of their lives. These so-called “deplorables” should be taught by criminal punishment to follow the rules developed by the elites, not use their own knowledge and judgment. This arrogant attitude of elites is repulsive and perilous to our nation. The progressives have built a powerful bureaucracy in the majority of our institutions that they believe is their right to exercise.

Americans are realizing their progressive leaders are after the power to control every aspect of our lives. These politicians are loving exercising their “fascist power” to pick winners and losers. Somehow it makes them feel more like emperors rather than just government representatives following the will of the people. Slowly but steadily more citizens are peacefully protesting by making their own choices, which are better for them and their families. US small business owners are disgusted with the nonsensical government restrictions and are resisting by challenging their unconstitutional mandates. There has not been any looting and rioting in these protests against this unconstitutional usurpation of power, but the protestors have been described by the leftist media as being aggressive agitators.

However, when the BLM crowds sprung up in cities throughout the USA the large crowds were tagged as “mostly peaceful” demonstrations.  But our eyes witnessed destruction of businesses, burning, looting, violence towards others, confiscation of police stations and seizing and ripping down our national monuments to erase our proud history. These demonstrators were anything but peaceful in contrast to the “end the lockdown” protests. Also, concern over spreading the virus were muted during the BLM protests.

The radical experiment of the United States Constitution and Bill of Rights has demonstrated that the majority of citizen voices can keep us on a better course than any top down totalitarian governance. Capricious laws can intimidate people to follow them for a period of time. Although, in the long run, resentment towards repressive laws ignites the people to react. This repetitive cycle has been witnessed repeatedly in history and is now occurring in Hong Kong.  The Chinese leader, Xi, is brutally ending the necessary freedom of the advocates of a capitalist economy.

In the United States the Coronavirus epidemic, not a police action has been used by progressive governors and local state officials to employ rules and mandates to put fear in the hearts of law-abiding citizens. Progressives are not directly employing violent methods to establish compliance but subtle fear and using mob social disapproval as enforcement. They are playing with fire when they encourage mob rule. Many of the silent majority are standing up by spontaneous personal stances all over our country and are forcing many progressive governors and officials to retract their inexplicable restrictive decrees.

These civil peaceful statements show the average American citizen will not cower to progressive policies once they realize their leader’s underhanded intentions to bypass our constitution. New Jersey Governor Murray was asked whether his arbitrary edicts were constitutional as they restricted the freedoms of the people of his state. While smiling broadly, he glibly stated, “That is above my pay grade.” Even though as governor, he swore on the Bible to uphold our constitution. These arrogant elitist statements are no longer being overlooked as they are exposing these politicians’ true distain for our Constitutional Republic.

Americans of all political stripes should demand government officials abide by our constitutional law and quit playing “tin horn” dictator with law abiding citizens while acting like wimps with out-of-control anarchists and young naïve followers tagging along for excitement and a dangerous evening “happening.”

Patriotic Americans must continue to increase standing up for our way of life or we will lose it all.

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 recent book entitled, IN CHARGE PARENTING In a PC World. You can see many of Dr. Maglio’s articles at www.drmaglioblogspot.com.

FREEDOM AND RIGHTS SHOULD NOT BE SACRIFICED ON THE SCIENTIFIC ALTAR

FREEDOM AND RIGHTS SHOULD NOT BE SACRIFICED ON THE SCIENTIFIC ALTAR

By Domenick J. Maglio PhD. Traditional Realist

The United States constitution endowed citizens with God given inalienable rights of Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. These limits on the government are specifically spelled out in our Bill of Rights. They are not negotiable.

The Covid-19 virus has turned out to be much overblown. It was originally advertised as a pandemic where millions, not thousands would die. The models were dead wrong. In the United States they originally estimated 2.2 million deaths.  The estimate now has been drastically reduced to 60,000 deaths. This low figure is 1,000 fewer than the flu deaths of last year. This figure is inflated by hospitals that are reporting all deaths as Coronavirus even when the patients had co-morbid issues. According to many authorities they are reclassifying deaths.

The reported scientific consensus of managing this virus was never reality. The U.S. has never quarantined its citizens or shut down the economy for any other health epidemic. This questionable panic is still being hyped as potentially the worst disaster in history. The social distancing rule was introduced as lowering the curve of people dying. It has strongly been followed in the U.S. while Sweden did not practice it and its numbers decreased. It does not prevent deaths but spaces them out over a longer period of time. This is to avoid too many patients overwhelming our hospital system. The speculative requirements make less and less sense as the facts paint a different reality.

Yet draconian measures continue to be suggested and some implemented. Drones are being used in certain cities to insure “social distancing,” by finding people who are violating the rules. Freedom of religion by congregating in a church has been ruled illegal by many community leaders even on Easter Sunday. Our public schools and universities have been summarily shut down for the year or longer even when youngsters have shown great resistance to this virus. Our economy has ground to a halt except for government picked “essential businesses.”

The most frightening aspect of this temporary suspension of our constitutional freedoms are the elites along with their scientific high priests who call for permanent cancellation of our constitutional freedoms under the guise of national health. Worldwide known, Bill Gates, is funding seven different Covid-19 vaccines. This arrogant, global elitist has openly suggested mandating citizens to carry a digital certificate of immunity that proves a person has been vaccinated for the Covid-19 virus.

Being forced to carry official papers by any government is reminiscent of NAZI tactics to isolate and insert fear into the hearts of every citizen to follow the decrees of the central government. This is antithetical to our U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights. The citizens are supposed to be the ultimate decision makers, not a totalitarian government.The national and global elites are joined together as true totalitarians in believing they are all knowing and powerful. They want to dictate what the average person should do using their pseudo-scientific god-like truths. The fear of pandemic is the perfect event to capsize local, national and international governments. It is immaterial to the progressives if we find an effective vaccine or not. Our present flu vaccine, which is changed each year, is not a vaccine in the traditional sense. The flu is a collection of illness and the vaccine only protects against a small number of them. It should be up to the public to weigh the dangers and benefits of treatment not the government. Once fear overpowers the citizen’s rights the elites have won and the people have been squashed.

The Coronavirus fear campaign was perfected by learning from the H1N1, SARS, Zika, Swine Flu, and HIV diseases. Americans are killing themselves at an incredible rate by their own hands using dangerous drugs such as Meth, Heroin, Fentanyl and others. There are many Americans who do abusive things to their own bodies. They are overeating, eating junk food, smoking, drugging, not exercising, not getting sufficient sleep, and over medicating.

Yet the same people run in a panic to doctors to be prescribed drugs and operations to be cured while neglecting their own immune system.  These same individuals are wholeheartedly obeying the elites shredding their freedoms for the promise of preventing them from dying from Covid-19. Currently they are conforming to ridiculous government mandates in the hope that they will avoid death.

We are trading freedom for the assurance of living, which cannot be granted by the government. We should never sacrifice our constitutional rights and freedoms for promises that cannot be granted by men, even the high priests of science.

Only God has the ultimate power of life and death.

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 recent book entitled, IN CHARGE PARENTING In a PC World. You can see many of Dr. Maglio’s articles at www.drmaglioblogspot.com.

THE IMPORTANCE OF NATIONAL STABILITY IS CURRENTLY ON DISPLAY

THE IMPORTANCE OF NATIONAL STABILITY IS CURRENTLY ON DISPLAY

By Domenick J. Maglio PhD. Traditional Realist

One of the greatest virtues of the United States has been its stability. Our founders understood that everything changes with time, nothing stays consistent. Over reaction or under reaction will determine the severity of any change. The inability to know the future caused our wise forefathers to slow down our decision-making and include debate to determine the best decision. They realized that any radical shift in our course could capsize the ship. This would lead to unmitigated disaster of over-reacting that might not be salvageable. They believed in “steady as you go” to avoid grievous mistakes of one’s own making.

This is the reason these wisemen after all their historical research of ancient civilizations found that democracies in the long run were destined to fail. People generally overreact from fear, fickleness and being short sighted. They want everything they had in the past without considering the consequences.

For this human shortcoming these men of reason decided on a representative government with separation of powers. That would slow down the process and force a consensus of competing groups of society to agree to a better decision. Our form of government has allowed US citizens to live in a culture and economic society of predictability and security. There is a built-in tacking as found in sailing that never encourages a radical change in direction. It causes a high level of “steady as it goes” from one administration to another. Irrational changes and revolutions as seen in a democracy are constrained in a constitutional republic.

In a crisis like our current experience with Coronavirus there are many voices heard expressing different routes to alleviate the issue. One day we are social distancing, then we should not wear masks, then we should. A level-headed strategy will hopefully continue to stabilize until this crisis eases and calm is restored. Steady as you go will keep the boat from tipping over until we are on solid ground.

The United States ratcheted up testing, surpassing every other nation in the world. As the number of people tested increases so do the number of people who tested positive for the virus. This increasing number of people who tested positive was reported as an alarming occurrence. The panic increased even when the predictions turned out to be too high. It appears we will have fewer deaths than last year’s flu of 61,000. The inaccurate scientific models have constantly been lowered from 2.2 million deaths indicating the predictions were never credible.

The crucial number is the number of deaths. This is what created the panic in the first place. The death total has been a fraction of what had initially been forecast. It has included all the deaths due to multiple health complications, while the death rate from other causes has dropped.

The death forecast has been a moving target due to different models with different assumptions. As Dr. Fauci said, on March 31^st, after lowering the estimates many times that there could be 100,000 to 200,000 Covid-19 deaths in total. Then he quickly added that he did not want to be held to that number. This arrogant scientific priest dictatorially stated, “we won’t end the quarantine until there are no more deaths from the virus.” Drastic speculative change leads to more uncertainty that fans the flames of greater panic. Citizens are being conditioned to follow “speculative scientific mandates” without presenting hard factual evidence. Many experts are questioning the effectiveness of social distancing. It has never been scientifically proven to be effective. We are supposed to follow it on faith although scientific experts reject evolving promising treatments because they have not been “thoroughly tested.” This double standard is undermining scientific credibility while increasing legitimate questions rather than quelling them.

The elites’ tendency to use a crisis to enlarge government and limit citizen’s freedom appears to be a serious motivator of this pandemic. Our civil rights should only be temporarily forfeited for public health concerns. Instability is a time when elites like to make dramatic changes to limit our freedoms and gain greater control. We must remain vigilant and brave not to let this happen.

 America’s constitution has guided our decision-making, keeping us stable and on course. Many elites are urging we surrender our civil rights for public health. Dramatic pseudo-scientific predictions, no matter how piously presented, should not determine our decisions. Constitutional rights should not be permanently eliminated on such flimsy speculation. We need to remain calm, thoughtful and consider everything we need to keep for a balanced society.

Our national hallmark of “steady as it goes” needs to continue to guide us on the economic and health front.

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 recent book entitled, IN CHARGE PARENTING In a PC World. You can see many of Dr. Maglio’s articles at www.drmaglioblogspot.com.

THE FEAR FACTOR COULD BE THE DOWNFALL OF THE UNITED STATES

THE FEAR FACTOR COULD BE THE DOWNFALL OF THE UNITED STATES

By Domenick J. Maglio Ph.D. Traditional Realist

The US has had a long period of prosperity and peace. We have been the strongest nation in the world with military and economic superiority. The greatest concern many people faced was what was the next luxury item to buy.

Most of us have never previously faced a world depression, world war, national catastrophe or a pandemic. We are currently confronted by a world-wide panic that is being fanned by conflicting information. These are based on wild speculation and government elites’ desire to blanket the nation with their ominous edicts to alter our government. It appears they want to frighten us then demand that we do things that Americans have never been forced to do in the past.

The First Amendment of the Bill of Rights has been suspended in many areas of the country. Schools, restaurants, and various businesses have been shut down. “Social distancing” has been the reason given for not being able to gather in groups. Even public access to beaches (one of the healthiest environments there is) has been revoked by government decree. People have been told to remain in their homes and not congregate in the streets, bars, clubs, stores, homes or any place where people can interact even churches. These government mandated self-quarantine is being done for supposedly “the greater good” of all citizens. It has devastated our economic system. 

The frightening and unnerving feature of this intrusion into citizens’ lives is how easily people have complied. The main thing the government planners have done is introduce relentless fear into the public arena every day. The government health agencies talk daily about speculative scientific disease models. These have been introduced into the discussion to create a narrative that is more threatening than the last one.

The models are as valid as the assumptions and data fed into it. As the number of deaths claimed by the medical profession to be caused by the Coronavirus changes, the panic level increases. Recently Dr. Fauci said there could be from 100,000 to 200,000 deaths, “but don’t quote me on that” after the experts originally stated there could be 2.2 million deaths in the United States. Any of these estimates are high enough to raise the heart rate of most Americans. These pseudo-scientific figures are spread like wildfire by the media. The public repeats them to each other increasing the apparent veracity of the number and creating an avalanche of fear.

Life is tenuous. The death tolls per year for the following categories is staggering: heart disease- 650,000, cancer- 600,000, accidental deaths- 165,000, respiratory disease- 160,000, strokes- 146,000, diabetes- 83,000, suicides- 47,000, drug deaths-70,200, smoking related deaths- 480,000, second hand smoking- 7,330, influenza- 56,000. They all would cause a great amount of panic if they were orchestrated by the media night after night. These are only some of the major groups of deaths. Focusing on death can only increase anxiety, depression, that lowers our immune system. This is what the Covid-19 panic is doing, even though many of the other disease death tolls are much greater.

As FDR stated during WWII, “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” Of course we should do everything to lower the risk of being exposed to Coronavirus including building up our immune systems by eating well, sleeping enough and living properly with positive thinking. FDR’S wise advice allowed many citizens during WWII to deal with and overcome legitimate issues of survival.

Our government could easily choose to create panic for many of the illnesses listed above with the same level of fear factor especially for influenza except it was not presented as dramatically as was the pandemic. This Covid-19 is running its course. We will develop a vaccine that will defeat the virus.

There are many ways of living in our short life span. Living in fear is the least preferable. Americans in the past have been forward- looking optimists. They had faith and lived everyday appreciating the grace of God. Most asked Him for courage to conquer their worst fears and he answered.

Without God’s afterlife the thought of any means of dying would provoke distress, anxiety or immobilization. This is not in the DNA of Americans. Our nation’s ancestors were adventurous and brave people who overcame immense hardships to come here and struggled to reach the American Dream. These sturdy individuals pushed aside troubles, rejection and fears to fight to become assimilated and accepted as Americans. We need to have the same faith in God as did our ancestors.

We again need to think positively, thankfully and humbly for all we have been given and rid ourselves of destructive fear. We need to elevate our courage to regain our strength as the leader of the free world.

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 recent book entitled, IN CHARGE PARENTING In a PC World. You can see many of Dr. Maglio’s articles at www.drmaglioblogspot.com.