Why do so many "left" outlets support the new police state taking shape to "save" us from the new coronavirus?

[Mark Crispin Miller]

Here the excellent Catte Black raises a key question: Why is so much of "the left" press 

standing with the New York Times and CNN, in favor of the new police state taking shape

to "save" us all from the coronavirus? I posed this question in my recent piece about 

Consortium News' shocking editorial that fiercely seconded the UN Secretary-General's

decrial of the "wild conspiracy theories" now "infecting the Internet"—"theories" that

are actually all facts that everybody needs to know. 

Here's a pertinent and very helpful comment by Mike Champine, on Facebook. (He

doesn't mention Consortium News, although he could, and should.)

I'm reviewing all my once-cherished "leftist" sources to see which ones are still worth reading 

and which deserve to be discarded. Over the last couple weeks I've removed from my reading 

list RT, Sputnik, TASS, Xinhua, Moon of Alabama, Unz, The Saker, New Eastern Outlook, The 

Grayzone and Counterpunch.

I commend 21st Century Wire, Global Research, Off-Guardian, Consent Factory, Mark Taliano, 

Eva Karene Bartlett, CJ Hopkins, Vanessa Beeley, Cory Morningstar, John Pilger, John Whitehead, 

Wendy Broffman-Jackson, and all my clear-thinking friends for exposing the Covid lies and 

propaganda rather than being devoured and swallowed by it like so many of our old friends. 

Thank you all.

I don't think it's improper, or irrational, to suggest that those "left" outlets standing up

for the new medical police state may be linked, either through their funding or because 

of agents in their ranks, to higher powers—like, say, the CIA. 

MCM 

 

 

 

 

Apr 12, 2020 

Why are some respected alt-media embracing a police state?

Catte Black

https://off-guardian.org/2020/04/12/why-are-some-alt-media-embracing-a-permanent-police-state/

It should be obvious by now to anyone that the covid19 pandemic, whatever its origins, is being used to fast forward a “new normal” world of unparalleled government power, surveillance and curtailment of individual liberty.

We are looking already at:

• Compulsory DNRs for some elderly.
• Biometric chips or bracelets to monitor whether or not you have permission to be outside your home or engage in work
• Drone surveillance as normal.
• Apps on your phone that can detect any breach of the self-isolation policy.
• Huge new police powers of arrest and detention for anyone suspected of carrying the virus.
• Suspension of elections for indefinite periods at government discretion

And this is only the starter course. We can be pretty sure they are currently just easing us in. The real stuff will be rolling along in the next months or maybe years (depending on how quickly they feel able to get this on)

This is the fabric of nightmare. A worst-case horror story that is the absolute quintessence of everything the alt-media is supposed to oppose.

Surely, you would think, any self-respecting alt-media person would be opposing this with everything they have while they still have a voice.

Well, some of us are of course. And we’re going to be posting links to other sites currently doing great work challenging this rollout.

But, weeks into this crisis, there are some very prominent voices still refusing to either question the official narrative of the pandemic or unequivocally condemn the fast dawn of the “new normal” Brave New World.

We’ve held off from confronting this for a while now. We figured people needed time to adjust or wake up to the reality of what was happening. It’s shocking after all, and deeply disorienting, and different individuals need different amounts of time to get their bearings when something that shakes their worldview comes along.

But adjustment time is long over by now.

Let’s also be clear, we’re not condemning people for simply disagreeing with us. We expect disagreement on some issues. It’s a source of strength for all of us.

But this is not about relatively minor differences of opinion or interpretation.

This is sophisticated analysts, with resources and experience, failing to condemn, and even supporting, what amounts to de facto international martial law.

This is Labour activists who mere weeks ago were calling Boris Johnson a murderer and psychopath, now cheering as he is handed total control of their lives and their children’s lives.

This is respected journalists, commentators and academics who loudly condemned the cynical lies about WMDs or ‘chemical attacks’ in Douma, the fake videos and fake White Helmets, suddenly and uncritically accepting the veracity of every government virus narrative, every unsourced video and media meme that has #covid19 as a hashtag.

This is people who have campaigned against the Patriot Act for 19 years, signing off on the new US anti-covid19 legislation without a murmur; who know that governments always abuse their powers, thinking they somehow just won’t abuse these.

This is people who know about Guantanamo and who have seen Julian Assange humiliated and abused, somehow thinking the people who did these things won’t use the new post-covid police state to do them even more.

This is something more than simple denial. It’s – what?

Click on the link for the rest.