{"id":203447,"date":"2020-03-06T08:05:53","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T08:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=203447"},"modified":"2020-03-08T07:50:45","modified_gmt":"2020-03-08T07:50:45","slug":"have-we-brewed-a-whirlwind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=203447","title":{"rendered":"Have we brewed a whirlwind?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Paul Craig Roberts \u2013 paulcraigroberts.org March 4, 2020<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><em>Dear friends, it is March and time for my quarterly call for your donations. \u00a0I am here for you as long as you want me. \u00a0PCR<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In the United States and throughout the Western World there is public distrust of public authorities and distrust among the public of one another.\u00a0 Public authorities who do not like \u201cconspiracy theories\u201d do a lot to generate them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">We can see the public\u2019s distrust of public authorities in the negligent response to the coronavirus.\u00a0 The refusal of public authorities to stop incoming flights from infected countries has brought the dangerous virus into the Western World where inaction has so far prevailed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Many virologists and other experts have criticized the inaction for seriously endangering the public.\u00a0 I recently posted some of the expert statements made to public health authorities.\u00a0 See:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Belgium:\u00a0 <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paulcraigroberts.org\/2020\/03\/02\/virologist-advises-belgium-health-minister-country-is-unprepared\/\">https:\/\/www.paulcraigroberts.org\/2020\/03\/02\/virologist-advises-belgium-health-minister-country-is-unprepared\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Germany:\u00a0 <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paulcraigroberts.org\/2020\/03\/03\/coronavirus-people-are-left-alone-in-the-face-of-a-rapidly-growing-virus-pandemic-some-thoughts-out-of-germany\/\">https:\/\/www.paulcraigroberts.org\/2020\/03\/03\/coronavirus-people-are-left-alone-in-the-face-of-a-rapidly-growing-virus-pandemic-some-thoughts-out-of-germany\/<\/a> .<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The refusals of public officials to take protective steps partly reside in ideological positions.\u00a0 In Europe it is the European Union\u2019s commitment to open borders and one Europe.\u00a0 Closing the borders goes against the ideology that nationalism is the problem.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In other instances, Canada for example, the Prime Minister apparently considers it \u201cracist\u201d to protect Canadians from incoming flights from Iran.\u00a0 See: <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paulcraigroberts.org\/2020\/03\/02\/we-cannot-protect-ourselves-because-travel-bans-are-racist\/\">https:\/\/www.paulcraigroberts.org\/2020\/03\/02\/we-cannot-protect-ourselves-because-travel-bans-are-racist\/<\/a> .<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The public sees inaction, disbelieves the feeble reasons given, and takes action to exhaust supplies of protective gear, storable foods, and everything else that disappears in a panic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">As the inaction of public authorities is not understandable, all sorts of explanations arise.\u00a0 For example: The Center for Disease Control (CDC) and the National Institute for Health (NIH) want the virus to spread, because the result will be bigger budgets;\u00a0 the pharmaceutical companies (Big-Pharma) want the virus to spread, because it will bring them profits in mandatory vaccination whether it prevents or aids the spread of the virus;\u00a0 governments want the virus to spread, because it allows them to impose martial law and abolish civil liberties;\u00a0 elites are using the virus to reduce the world population;\u00a0 governments are using the virus to reduce the strain of the elderly on health care systems and save money.\u00a0 You can add to this list on your own.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">One consequence of distrust of public authorities is lack of public cooperation in whatever response effort public authorities eventually mount.\u00a0 Another consequence is that this lack of public cooperation justifies more coercion by government in order to deal with the threat.\u00a0 Remember all of the violations of Constitutional protections made by the George W. Bush and Obama regimes in responst to 9\/11 and the \u201cterrorist threat.\u201d\u00a0 A big difference is that then there was no pandemic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Distrust among the public of one another has been fomented by decades of feminist attacks on men and by decades of attacks on white people as \u201cracists.\u201d\u00a0 These attacks have been institutionalized in the educational system.\u00a0 They have been useful to feminist and \u201cracial minorities\u201d for advancement.\u00a0 But they have atomized the population.\u00a0 Where there was once community, no matter how unequal, there is the lack of community.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The \u201csexist\u201d and \u201cracist\u201d offences are more taught than felt and are reaching the point of absurdity.\u00a0 Every day someone finds a slur in a word that has been part of the language for centuries before the presence in the population of racial minorities. These manufactured \u201coffences\u201d are used to excoriate men and to fire them from jobs and deny them professional careers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Guillaume Durocher points out that community is also being destroyed by the decline in national community. The core entities that produced national communities or countries are being flooded out by incoming multitudes of immigrants from different cultures and value systems. Many on the left show open contempt for nationhood and national solidarity.\u00a0 Durocher explains the collapse of national community here:\u00a0 <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unz.com\/gdurocher\/towards-expat-nationalism\/\">https:\/\/www.unz.com\/gdurocher\/towards-expat-nationalism\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Now assaulting a fragmenting Western World comes a pandemic whose consequences cannot be known.\u00a0 Is there enough leadership to overcome the long-inflicted damages and to pull the people together and to reestablish community?\u00a0 With the Democrats politically weaponizing the coronavirus against President Trump, it does not seem so.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paulcraigroberts.org\/pages\/donate\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-175417 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2002\/10\/donate-pp.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"80\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember all of the violations of Constitutional protections made by the George W. Bush and Obama regimes in responst to 9\/11 and the \u201cterrorist threat.\u201d  A big difference is that then there was no pandemic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=203447"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203450,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203447\/revisions\/203450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=203447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=203447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=203447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}