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The New Abnormal: Authoritarian Control Freaks Want To Micromanage Our Lives

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Authored by John & Nisha Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute,

    “Man is born free but everywhere is in chains.”

    - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Authoritarian control freaks out to micromanage our lives have become
the new normal or, to be more accurate, the new abnormal when it comes
to how the government relates to the citizenry.

This overbearing despotism, which pre-dates the COVID-19 hysteria, is
the very definition of a Nanny State, where government representatives
(those elected and appointed to work for us) adopt the authoritarian
notion that the government knows best and therefore must control,
regulate and dictate almost everything about the citizenry’s public,
private and professional lives.

Indeed, it’s a dangerous time for anyone who still clings to the idea
that freedom means the right to think for yourself and act responsibly
according to your best judgment.

This tug-of-war for control and sovereignty over our selves impacts
almost every aspect of our lives, whether you’re talking about
decisions relating to our health, our homes, how we raise our
children, what we consume, what we drive, what we wear, how we spend
our money, how we protect ourselves and our loved ones, and even who
we associate with and what we think.

As Liz Wolfe writes for Reason, “Little things that make people’s
lives better, tastier, and less tedious are being cracked down on by
big government types in federal and state governments.”

You can’t even buy a stove, a dishwasher, a showerhead, a leaf blower,
or a lightbulb anymore without running afoul of the Nanny State.

In this way, under the guise of pseudo-benevolence, the government has
meted out this bureaucratic tyranny in such a way as to nullify the
inalienable rights of the individual and limit our choices to those
few that the government deems safe enough.

Yet limited choice is no choice at all. Likewise, regulated freedom is
no freedom at all.

Indeed, as a study by the Cato Institute concludes, for the average
American, freedom has declined generally over the past 20 years. As
researchers William Ruger and Jason Sorens explain, “We ground our
conception of freedom on an individual rights framework. In our view,
individuals should be allowed to dispose of their lives, liberties,
and property as they see fit, so long as they do not infringe on the
rights of others.”

The overt signs of the despotism exercised by the increasingly
authoritarian regime that passes itself off as the United States
government (and its corporate partners in crime) are all around us:
censorship, criminalizing, shadow banning and de-platforming of
individuals who express ideas that are politically incorrect or
unpopular; warrantless surveillance of Americans’ movements and
communications; SWAT team raids of Americans’ homes; shootings of
unarmed citizens by police; harsh punishments meted out to
schoolchildren in the name of zero tolerance; community-wide lockdowns
and health mandates that strip Americans of their freedom of movement
and bodily integrity; armed drones taking to the skies domestically;
endless wars; out-of-control spending; militarized police; roadside
strip searches; privatized prisons with a profit incentive for jailing
Americans; fusion centers that spy on, collect and disseminate data on
Americans’ private transactions; and militarized agencies with
stockpiles of ammunition, to name some of the most appalling.

Yet as egregious as these incursions on our rights may be, it’s the
endless, petty tyrannies—the heavy-handed, punitive-laden dictates
inflicted by a self-righteous, Big-Brother-Knows-Best bureaucracy on
an overtaxed, overregulated, and underrepresented populace—that
illustrate so clearly the degree to which “we the people” are viewed
as incapable of common sense, moral judgment, fairness, and
intelligence, not to mention lacking a basic understanding of how to
stay alive, raise a family, or be part of a functioning community.

When the dictates of petty bureaucrats carry greater weight than the
individual rights of the citizenry, we’re in trouble, folks.

Federal and state governments have used the law as a bludgeon to
litigate, legislate and micromanage our lives through overregulation
and overcriminalization.

This is what happens when bureaucrats run the show, and the rule of
law becomes little more than a cattle prod for forcing the citizenry
to march in lockstep with the government.

Overregulation is just the other side of the coin to
overcriminalization, that phenomenon in which everything is rendered
illegal, and everyone becomes a lawbreaker.

You don’t have to look far to find abundant examples of Nanny State
laws that infantilize individuals and strip them of their ability to
decide things for themselves. Back in 2012, then-New York Mayor
Michael Bloomberg infamously proposed a ban on the sale of sodas and
large sugary drinks in order to guard against obesity. Other
localities enacted bans on texting while jaywalking, wearing saggy
pants, having too much mud on your car, smoking outdoors, storing
trash in your car, improperly sorting your trash, cursing within
earshot of others, or screeching your tires.

Yet while there are endless ways for the Nanny State to micromanage
our lives, things become truly ominous when the government adopts
mechanisms enabling it to monitor us for violations in order to
enforce its many laws.

Nanny State, meet the all-seeing, all-knowing Surveillance State and
its sidekick, the muscle-flexing Police State.

You see, in an age of overcriminalization—when the law is wielded like
a hammer to force compliance to the government’s dictates whatever
they might be—you don’t have to do anything “wrong” to be fined,
arrested or subjected to raids and seizures and surveillance.

You just have to refuse to march in lockstep with the government.

As policy analyst Michael Van Beek warns, the problem with
overcriminalization is that there are so many laws at the federal,
state and local levels—that we can’t possibly know them all.

    “It’s also impossible to enforce all these laws. Instead, law
enforcement officials must choose which ones are important and which
are not. The result is that they pick the laws Americans really must
follow, because they’re the ones deciding which laws really matter,”
concludes Van Beek. “Federal, state and local regulations — rules
created by unelected government bureaucrats — carry the same force of
law and can turn you into a criminal if you violate any one of them…
if we violate these rules, we could be prosecuted as criminals. No
matter how antiquated or ridiculous, they still carry the full force
of the law. By letting so many of these sit around, just waiting to be
used against us, we increase the power of law enforcement, which has
lots of options to charge people with legal and regulatory
violations.”

This is the police state’s superpower: empowered by the Nanny State,
it has been vested with the authority to make our lives a bureaucratic
hell.

Indeed, if you were unnerved by the rapid deterioration of privacy
under the Surveillance State, prepare to be terrified by the
surveillance matrix that will be ushered in by the Nanny State working
in tandem with the Police State.

The government’s response to COVID-19 saddled us with a Nanny State
inclined to use its draconian pandemic powers to protect us from
ourselves.

The groundwork laid with COVID-19 is a prologue to what will become
the police state’s conquest of a new, relatively uncharted, frontier:
inner space, specifically, the inner workings (genetic, biological,
biometric, mental, emotional) of the human race.

Consider how many more ways the government could “protect us” from
ourselves under the guise of public health and safety.

For instance, under the guise of public health and safety, the
government could use mental health care as a pretext for targeting and
locking up dissidents, activists and anyone unfortunate enough to be
placed on a government watch list.

When combined with advances in mass surveillance technologies,
artificial intelligence-powered programs that can track people by
their biometrics and behavior, mental health sensor data (tracked by
wearable data and monitored by government agencies such as HARPA),
threat assessments, behavioral sensing warnings, precrime initiatives,
red flag gun laws, and mental health first-aid programs aimed at
training gatekeepers to identify who might pose a threat to public
safety, these preemptive mental health programs could well signal a
tipping point in the government’s efforts to penalize those engaging
in so-called “thought crimes.”

This is how it begins.

On a daily basis, Americans are already relinquishing (in many cases,
voluntarily) the most intimate details of who we are—their biological
makeup, our genetic blueprints, and our biometrics (facial
characteristics and structure, fingerprints, iris scans, etc.)—in
order to navigate an increasingly technologically-enabled world.

Having conditioned the population to the idea that being part of
society is a privilege and not a right, such access could easily be
predicated on social credit scores, the worthiness of one’s political
views, or the extent to which one is willing to comply with the
government’s dictates, no matter what they might be.

COVID-19 with its talk of mass testing, screening checkpoints, contact
tracing, immunity passports, and snitch tip lines for reporting “rule
breakers” to the authorities was a preview of what’s to come.

We should all be leery and afraid.

At a time when the government has a growing list—shared with fusion
centers and law enforcement agencies—of ideologies, behaviors,
affiliations and other characteristics that could flag someone as
suspicious and result in their being labeled potential enemies of the
state, it won’t take much for any of us to be considered outlaws or
terrorists.

After all, the government likes to use the words “anti-government,”
“extremist” and “terrorist” interchangeably. The Department of
Homeland Security broadly defines extremists as individuals “that are
mainly antigovernment, rejecting federal authority in favor of state
or local authority, or rejecting government authority entirely.”

At some point, being an individualist will be considered as dangerous
as being a terrorist.

When anything goes when it’s done in the name of national security,
crime fighting and terrorism, “we the people” have little to no
protection against SWAT team raids, domestic surveillance, police
shootings of unarmed citizens, indefinite detentions, and the like,
whether or  not you’ve done anything wrong.

In an age of overcriminalization, you’re already a criminal.

All the government needs is proof of your law-breaking. They’ll get it, too.

Whether it’s through the use of surveillance software such as
ShadowDragon that allows police to watch people’s social media
activity, or technology that uses a home’s WiFi router and smart
appliances to allow those on the outside to “see” throughout your
home, it’s just a matter of time.

As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the
American People and in its fictional counterpart The Erik Blair
Diaries, it’s no longer a question of whether the government will lock
up Americans for defying one of its numerous mandates but when.