On 2/6/2022 11:42 AM:
We have to defend stupid policies on principle, apparently. Anything to stick it to libertarian conservatives.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/libertarian-republicans-love-local-control-044632490.html
Dear Mr. Sarwark,
A libertarian friend of mine linked me to your article, ‘Libertarian’ Republicans Love Local Control, Unless It’s About COVID Safety, in which you ask a pointed question and then apparently go on to answer it.
Q: If “liberty” Republicans like Massie and Paul speak out for localism and against federal overreach on every other issue, why are they taking such a strong stand against local health codes in the midst of a pandemic that has killed over 13,000 Kentuckians and nearly 1,300 D.C. residents?
A: The key is to evaluate the [STATE’s] behaviors according to the evidence and make good choices regardless of the government mandates.
However, I have to wonder if you recognized answering your own question. Because Massie, Paul, and millions of other Americans have evaluated the STATE’s behaviors according to the evidence and have individually made good choices, in spite of the STATE’s own ineffective mandates and questionable statistics.
I’ve found one of the primary problems with the LP in general is confusion over what is most important to maximize peace, prosperity, and liberty in a society.
The matter is not really about local government vs. federal government, or even rallying behind a single NAP axiom, but rather about whether or not statutes passed into Civil Law by the mere whim of legislators violate or usurp our individual Natural Rights.
Mask mandates? Shut downs of “non-essential” businesses? “Vaccine” mandates?
All of these are direct violations to our Natural Rights. Beyond this are practical matters to consider, for example considering the effectiveness of such blatantly tyrannical actions.
The truth as many of us already knew from the onset of the plandemic is that masks are ineffective against viruses. The manufacturers of N95 masks actually disclaimer this on the packaging. For further confirmation, various charts remain widely available which indicate N95 mask filtration effectiveness for various particulates. Even further, the fact that COVID can be transmitted via touch and survives on various surfaces for hours alone makes mask mandates moot.
Then there are the shut downs to consider… well, of the smaller mom & pop shops and niche venues anyway, while the corporate stores remained open. Of course, all the data shows that these shut downs were largely ineffective at slowing and/or stopping the spread of COVID, yet were very effective in putting people out of work and closing businesses down for good.
For example, a small venue in Asheville, NC called Ambrose West, which had been acclaimed as one of the best listening rooms around anywhere (partially thanks to yours truly) was forced to permanently shut down after being prohibited to operate for months. So there’s another unique mom & pop business providing jobs to several individuals that had begun to thrive after being open for only two years — gone.
We are all now being threatened with “vaccine” mandates, alleging they are “safe and effective” by BIG PHARMA, F-MSM, and the STATE. To fellow liberty minded individuals you may wish to provide evidence which would prove beyond a shadow of doubt that we can trust anything these collectives have to say. Because frankly, I don’t trust anything they say based upon history and personal experience.
For example, what has been accurately conveyed since the onset of this plandemic? Besides the falsehoods given regarding masks and shut downs, the numbers you cite cannot even be trusted because anyone dying with COVID is assumed and recorded as dying from COVID.
Then there’s the blatant censorship of any medical opinion for treatment other than the mainstream narrative for “vaccination”, which apparently isn’t even an actual vaccine as commonly thought of (not that it would be trustworthy otherwise). There has only recently been “official” acknowledgment of the fact that post COVID immunity is as or more effective than the “jab”, but of course any such prior advocation was cancelled and labeled as “misinformation”.
So if we cannot trust the data which is being used to legislate local or federal health codes, why should we comply with them?
It seems you may have temporarily lost sight of the slogan on your Nicholas Sarwark website, “All of your freedoms. All of the time,” for these “Libertarian Republicans” have been weighing plandemic evidence advanced by BIG PHARMA, F-MSM, and the STATE and have found it to be most lacking in truth. Those liberty minded among us who aren’t Republican have also done likewise.
Therefore, opposition to the various ineffective mandates has not been formed as a matter of contrarian pride as you assert, but rather as a matter of discernment through individual investigation and experience.
If your personal investigation and experience has led you to trust BIG PHARMA, F-MSM, and the STATE to the point you are comfortable with putting your health and very life at risk by doing so, that is certainly your prerogative and I honestly hope the best for you and your family.
However, please don’t support the collectivists who via the power of the STATE, both locally and nationally, routinely force their personal opinions upon others who have concluded they do not trust these institutions. As a Natural Rights libertarian, I’m somewhat surprised I would feel the need to remind an “LP Libertarian” of this fundamental principle.
Thank you for answering in your own article your own question, for doing so reminds us to never cease striving to discern truth from deceit.
Your article also inadvertently acknowledges that “Libertarian Republicans” have largely been evaluating the STATE’s behaviors according to the evidence and making good choices regardless of the government mandates.
And that’s something the LP ought to seriously consider doing more of.
In liberty,
8-)
bernard baruch carman
- truth seeker/seeder • audio engineer • musician
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