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Don’t Panic: The comprehensive Ars Technica guide to the coronavirus [Updated 4/5]
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Interesting perspective suggesting that the lack of ethical conduct, [i.e. emphasis added] may this be geopolitical, caused this pandemic.
Missed the link! Sorry. On Fox Judge Jeannie interviewed the leader of Samaritan Purse who placed field hospitals in Central Park, New York, suggested via a spiritual perspective that man's lack of ethical or moral conduct caused this plague. In my eyes, thinking the work of evil politicians; reinterpretation of his spiritual perspective that the plague was the act of evil doing or unethical conduct (thinking geopolitical). Seems like that paradigm would apply to politicians who failed to properly prepare for a plague and protect the citizens with needed supplies.Watch Fox News Channel Online | Stream Fox News
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In our NWF case, there are a lot of like minded people on this board who for years took it upon themselves to prepare for the unexpected and the potential hazards that could arise in the course of a life time. Maybe it come natural to us because so many of us enjoy the outdoors and prepare our travels into remote wilderness areas.
While the verdict is still out on the treatment's effectiveness, pharmaceutical companies have been racing to increase production of the cheap and decades-old medicine. Cadila Healthcare Ltd., the Indian company which is world's largest maker of the drug, has said it plans to boost capacity more than 10-fold to meet the surging global demand.
Somebody on one of our local Nashville area facebook groups posted this pic from a local police officer here in Nashville area. I believe it most likely was a Sheriff Deputy or local State Highway Patrol person. It scares me to think how some law enforcement will use this occasion to blatantly violate our civil rights. Since when does aperson have to prove their innocent to a police officer and their daily activities for something like a traffic stop? That basically turns the USA into a more Nazi like police state. I am no civil rights lawyer, but I am certain what this officer wrote is blatantly illegal , intimidating and a violation of our rights. I don't believe being pulled over for speeding or even missing a stop light gives them probable cause to prove what your daily activities are. If this is the case then we basically are GUILTY until PROVEN INNOCENT which violates the 6th Amendment of our Bill of Rights, as well as just pulling people over to question them about their daily activities as well as our 4th Amendment rights requiring probable cause for a stop and illegal search and seizure.
I know the quarantine /shelter at rest is for the greater good (I don't think it will help in the long run), but I also know with increase in governing authoritative powers will come with inevitable abuse of certain authority figures who may allow their own emotions or egos to get the best of them in these times. After being in Africa half a year and having to be harassed and even at one point had a police officer point an AK-47 at me and demand money and food for him and his fellow officers, I come to fear living in a society where there is unchecked powers on authority and where they can abuse the rights of their citizens. In Africa, this is daily life, but I fear an extended quarantine/shelter at rest, because I fear their will be (and I do think there will be some) of authority figures. If they start setting up things like checkpoints we will be living in a very different America. The one I loathed when spending time in Africa and having to constantly explain myself to officers at every damn checkpoints and many times them demanding I give them money, food or bribes . Many of my drivers were harassed, detained, sometimes stripped of their licenses for not giving money to crooked police and government officials.
After living under this kind of condition for 6 months I have to say I am just phobic of abusive authority figures. I pray this never happens in this country, but I will never be complacent and never take anything for granted. I understand police officers have a job to do and we should respect these rules, but if authority figures will abuse their power at a time like this, we need to be even more vocal to speak out against this. I think abuse of authority is more threatening than the Coronavirus. I have seen what an authoritarian dictatorship can do to a country and I would prefer the coronavirus over that.
Can Police Pull You Over for No Reason?
An officer’s pulling over a driver constitutes a detention—the driver hasn’t been arrested, but nevertheless isn’t free to leave.www.nolo.com
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Can you say "Stop-and-frisk"? I knew you could...Somebody on one of our local Nashville area facebook groups posted this pic from a local police officer here in Nashville area. I believe it most likely was a Sheriff Deputy or local State Highway Patrol person. It scares me to think how some law enforcement will use this occasion to blatantly violate our civil rights. Since when does aperson have to prove their innocent to a police officer and their daily activities for something like a traffic stop? That basically turns the USA into a more Nazi like police state. I am no civil rights lawyer, but I am certain what this officer wrote is blatantly illegal , intimidating and a violation of our rights. I don't believe being pulled over for speeding or even missing a stop light gives them probable cause to prove what your daily activities are. If this is the case then we basically are GUILTY until PROVEN INNOCENT which violates the 6th Amendment of our Bill of Rights, as well as just pulling people over to question them about their daily activities as well as our 4th Amendment rights requiring probable cause for a stop and illegal search and seizure.
This is the true fear during this "crisis" and the thing which we must guard against...After living under this kind of condition for 6 months I have to say I am just phobic of abusive authority figures. I pray this never happens in this country, but I will never be complacent and never take anything for granted. I understand police officers have a job to do and we should respect these rules, but if authority figures will abuse their power at a time like this, we need to be even more vocal to speak out against this. I think abuse of authority is more threatening than the Coronavirus. I have seen what an authoritarian dictatorship can do to a country and I would prefer the coronavirus over that.
And nary a peep out of the MSM about it... Even though it's all Trump's fault, too!About 480,000 people die each year due to smoking.
Since when does aperson have to prove their innocent to a police officer and their daily activities for something like a traffic stop?
If they start setting up things like checkpoints we will be living in a very different America.