Letter to the editor: War on virus is hijacking our liberty

The covid-19 threat is much more than just a viral pandemic. It’s the hijacking of normalcy for nefarious purposes. It’s a dark occult ritual taking place in plain view in the light of day. It’s a monstrous criminal consolidation of wealth and power. It’s version 2.0 of hijackers with box cutters.

Our neverending war on terror has just been complemented by a neverending war on viral contagions. No need to force total control and surveillance on the populace when you can frighten them, first with foreign terrorists and now with foreign viruses, into freely relinquishing their sacred freedoms, rights and liberties for the illusion of safety.

This is global, technocratic tyranny being enacted with little resistance, and letting it happen to our country is an indictment of the American people. Benjamin Franklin said, “Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

Emotions replace reason for those traumatized by media-driven fear and after a lifetime of educational indoctrination, television propaganda and news disinformation, most are conditioned into passively accepting Draconian measures.

The controlled demolition of the economy creating dependence upon government largesse, medical martial law and unprecedented surveillance, censorship and authoritarian control are quickly moving us toward an Orwellian dystopia. This psychological terrorism will soon destroy our constitutional republic, yet most will embrace it because in a Brave New World the slave is conditioned to love his servitude.

Will a mesmerized, masked America under house arrest let 250 years of hard-won liberty die with a whimper?

Steven Crichley

South Side