Yom HaZikaron, Yom HaShoah, Holocaust remembrance day was April 20th, one day after the 77th anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising on April 19th. I’ve got a few random thoughts this year.
The Warsaw Ghetto uprising actually had 3 different resistance groups that were fighting. Most know of ZOB with Mordechai Anielewicz, The Jewish Fighting Organization. Less well known was the communists and Bund also fought against the nazis, and the other group was right wing, the Zionist youth movement “Beitar” the “Jewish Military Union” (ZZW). Beitar sound familiar? It was established by Zev Jabostinsky. My puppy’s middle name is Zev, that’s appropriate as it means “wolf”. Most of the fighters were younger, and I’m guessing had seen their families hauled off and knew what was coming.
Locked in a ghetto and told they aren’t allowed to leave without a permission slip. Possibly like the one I’m carrying in my purse along with my name badge which will get me through road blocks should the be instituted. I shamelessly swiped this from a friend of mine, who also apparently likes Mark Levin
How far are you willing to go with this?
If they told you to load your families onto train cars so that you could be taken to Virus Protection Facilities for your own safety, would you do it?
YES. Yes, you would. That much has become painfully obvious to me. And the whole time, you’d be shaking your finger and yelling at those of us who refused, accusing us of being “a danger to society” and “not caring if people die.”
But they don’t have to load you onto train cars and take you to Virus Protection Facilities or force you to comply, because you do that voluntarily. They control your mind. They control you through fear. They control you by convincing you that the world is a scary dangerous place, but they’re here to protect you, care for you, and keep you safe, just as long as you OBEY.
They know that as long as you’re locked inside your comfortable home with Netflix, Hulu, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and a cell phone while dangling a $1200 check in front of you like a carrot on a stick, you’ll comply. No force is necessary for the majority of the herd.
YOU ARE IMPRISONED, willingly, and you’re too blind to see it.
By Mark Levin
Our country has been locked down, and I think there are some lessons worth mulling over. Parents are being hauled off in handcuffs in front of their children because they took them to a park. A public park. I’ve covered some of these abuses in other columns. I’m guessing you know by now that while I do believe the virus is absolutely real, I also believe the reaction has been way overblown.
Better safe than sorry? For whom? The 22 million people now out of work? The business owners that have lost or are losing a business because of what Doctors Fauci and Birx have urged? Honestly I have no idea why anyone would ever start a business now knowing it can be yanked away and your life’s work and savings down the drain at the whim of a government. Their employees that now may well face losing their homes and struggle with trying to support their families all the while the government is forcing farmers to dump milk, eggs and vegetables. I’m pretty sure the food banks could use them about now. Food like knowledge, is power. What will people do to feed their hungry children? Government is seizing power, no doubt. Some governors like the governor of South Dakota and Wyoming pretty much left their states open while others like the governor of Michigan took the power given by the federal government and then became a tin pot despot. What happened after that disturbs me even more. When people protested, she threatened them for speaking out by saying she might extend the lock down. Free speech not permitted. Along with freedom to assemble or to worship.
The following videos make several points, but the reason I’m putting them in are those listed above. This is going on all over the world. I have to tell you when I heard those German voices yelling “Ack-TUNG” and hauling people away I got nauseated. Beating people, using tear gas on them, explain to me how this keeps them safe? I mean, that’s what this is suppose to be about right? Saving lives from the Wuhan flu? Another friend of mine wrote this is response to something I had posted on facebook.
“When the State tells you it’s safe to go to Home Depot to buy a sponge but dangerous to go and buy a flower, it’s not about your health.
When the State shuts down millions of private businesses but doesn’t lay off a single government employee, it’s not about your health.
When the State bans dentists because it’s unsafe, but deems abortion visits are safe, it’s not about your health.
When the State prevents you from buying cucumber seeds because it’s dangerous, but allows in-person lottery ticket sales, it’s not about your health.
When the State tells you it’s dangerous to go golf alone, fish alone or be in a motorboat alone, but the Governor can get his stage make up done, and hair done for 5 TV appearances a week, it’s not about your health.
When the state puts you IN a jail cell for walking in a park with your child because it’s too dangerous but lets criminals OUT of jail cells for their health- It’s not about YOUR health!
When the state tells you it’s too dangerous to get treated by a doctor of chiropractic or physical therapy treatments yet deems a liquor store essential- It’s not about your health!
When the State lets you go to the grocery store or hardware store but is demanding mail-in voting, IT’S NOT ABOUT YOUR HEALTH.
WAKE UP PEOPLE — If you think this is all about your health you’re mistaken! Please open your eyes! Stop being lead like blind sheep.
I should probably mention this was originally one video, YouTube censored it and someone else put it up in three parts, so hopefully you can still see it.
And these protests to open the states back up are going on all over the country. Who decides the value of a life? I take death very seriously. When people get towards the end of life, one of the things one often does is to give an “Advance Directive” meaning they state what they consider to be an acceptable quality of life, and if something medically happens they can not do those things they do not want heroic measures done to save them. Quality of life counts. At what point do we begin to care about the 22 million that have been forced out of work due to flawed models designed by a man who has yet to get one right.
Wuhan Flu we will survive, but this government seizure of power? When has government ever handed back power once it’s been seized? Your rights are suspended. I keep hearing that line from the video. How much further will it go? Who knows. Just like the left are hypocrites about guns denying citizens the right to defend themselves and their families all the while having armed guards they are out of touch with the pain the lock down is causing. Yes, I know it’s a Trump ad, but it still sums it up really well.
And the new paradigm is set. Had a Democrat been president, I shudder because Democrats are communist now. Power and control, never enough. What will happen the next time there is a “crisis” be it in the fall or next year? I heard another great video from a politician named Paul Curtman who has written a couple of books Don’t Tread On Me and Don’t Tread On Me! The Constitution and State Soverneignty. Paul’s video was talking about the role of government. He said people have the misconception the role of government is to keep your safe. It is not, the proper role of government is to keep you free. And while you chew that over, I will give you the Partisans Song, because I honor those that resisted and fought against the tyranny.
וגם בעברית
In his most recent radio program Phantom Nation, host Sha’i ben-Tekoa talked about how some criticize and look down on the Jews in Germany who didn’t fight back. But he asked the question if you have a young man of 20, who has a wife and maybe a couple of kids what realistically could he have done when they heard that forceful knock on the door at midnight and opened it to find 5 nazis with guns at the ready?
The best answer I can give is to not let things get to that point. To recognize the signs, see people clearly, especially politicians and vote accordingly. We can still vote in this country perhaps. Some of the actions are familiar from the past, but is history going to repeat?
Do we obey the edicts of government when we know they to be wrong and against our will?
Is it any different when due to a government edict we leave our homes to travel somewhere we do not want to than to be required to stay in our homes when we do not want to?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UoF6uIQOK8
How could be people of their own free will get on cattle cars to be transported to their death, there is only one reason; they believed in their government always having their best interests at heart.
Think for yourself!!!
Dear. G-d! I’ve never been able to see that movie. Perhaps it’s time. In hindsight, so much we see but do we see what is happening now? And while I blame the President for making policy based on the opinions of swamp dwellers and Ferguson and Imperial College who have yet to be right, it is our local politicians, Governors, Mayors and city council that are really seizing the power and becoming despots. They are easier to run against and vote out. But you are SO right, people have to take off the blinders.
Make sure you have a tissue available when you do.
Thanks for the warning. I’m not sure I’ll be able to get through it. But sometimes things like that just increase resolve and commitment to #NeverAgain. But that clip makes me think it’s time. Shabbat Shalom שבת שלום
Sheila,
Sorry I didn’t see this until now. We in Michigan are not happy with the dictatorial edicts coming from Lansing. There have been many protests, with more to come. Governor Gretchen Whitmer just extended the quarantine order from the 30th of April until the middle of May.
I am not sure what the quarantine is meant to accomplish, but I know that the real thing that it is doing, and that is, it is getting more citizens used to being considered subjects, who are meant to be controlled by the state.
People love to glibly state that old phrase, ” Never Again!” Yet they sit back and allow the governor to tell them that the sky is green, and they nod their heads and accept it, asking for more. And you can bet that more will be coming, the next time they get the chance, and you can bet that more of our rights are going to be gone.
I wish that our generation could have left the next one with a better country than we inherited. Now, we will be lucky if we even leave them a country.
Oy Vey! The Goyim know. Shut it down!
This is such a timely article. I would love to share it with family and friends but, alas, I have discovere something about the CoronaBots who believe every word that falls from government lips. To ask questions about how much of what we are being told is considered unpatriotic. Worse, to stand on the Constitution and ask what part of the Constitution authorizes its suspension (Bill of Rights) other than habeas corpus, in a battle zone, is to garner real anger. I have lost at least one friend over this and some family members are not speaking to me. All I did was ask where in the Constitution does any government have the right to do what they are doing with respect to lockdowns, stay at home orders, etc. The reaction is anger. The reaction is denunciation as being “against science” as if the science is even known on this virus. And, worse, I ask: how long must we remain in lockdown? What happens after we are freed and the outbreak spikes? Why not do this for all flu (type B kills about 60,000…every year) and the cold. It too is a virus. Lastly, I ask, why is it liberal governors are closing churches and gun stores but leaving open weed shops for potheads, liquor stores, and abortion mills? I get no answers but an awful lot of anger. The Cornona fanatics believe by following orders, they are good citizens. And patriotic. They tell me so. What then, does this make people like me who raise the above questions? I do not know as they are not speaking to me. I am shocked by how quickly government can use a scare to regiment people and condition their thinking. You just know liberals are pondering other scare schemes do do the same. They just get to get their hands on everyone’s guns!
You know, I remember reading about the Salem witch trials. A bunch of school girls would all come down sick and some poor soul would be accused of being a witch for whatever reason. Doctors would examine the girls and couldn’t find anything. One theory I heard was like mass hysteria or some such. But basically their fears all fed off of each others. I never could imagine being in such a society. Huh, now I don’t have to imagine it.
I picked this up from a post on Fbook, on a post by Michael Bane.
I am reminded more and more of the Thomas Paine quote, “If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my children may have peace.” We are approaching the point where a certain group of people is determined that the American Way is no longer The Way, and they are determined to destroy it.
I was moved by it,and had to respond.
I had forgotten this quote. Thank you for posting it. It sums up exactly my thoughts and feelings of what we are facing. Our founders, who were so intelligent, insightful, and prescient, have faded into history for so many. But for those of us who revere the Constitution, they are heroes, even greater than those who we love so much, from WWII, and G-d knows how great of a love we place on their sacrifice. The founders made even greater sacrifices than the Greatest Generation. Now, I believe that it may be our time to make some sacrifices, in order to save the country that has been entrusted to us. May the Lord hold our arms up strong.
I have never truly felt before that we are close to a shooting civil war in America. I now am all but certain that it will come within perhaps 2 years, a brief pause in time, when considering how long the left has been pushing a socialistic agenda. Anyone who is concerned for their family, should begin planning hard for the future. I will be 60 in June, and while I thought that at this age,I would be able to sort of relax, it seems as if now, I am being called for a purpose. Would that I am found faithful to heed that call.