April 29, 2020
MY CORNER by Boyd
Cathey
Will COVID-19 Bring
Full Totalitarianism to America?
Friends,
It all
came together last night. In less than ten minutes all the major points were
sculpted and fit, and the massive tomes of explanation and interpretation were
summed up in a few chilling words: it was the opening monologue of April 28 offered
by Tucker Carlson in his primetime program, the one figure left on Fox News who
occasionally gets it right (as most of the others featured on that channel have
at least made peace with the Deep State, if not been co-opted by it).
Carlson’s
monologue, like his riveting book, Ship
of Fools, pulled no punches: this present COVID-19 epidemic is being
consciously used by our major tech media—Facebook, Youtube—and government to greatly
increase power and control over us and stanch and suppress any dissent, even
the most mild and cautious. Hugely increased censorship, executive orders (many
of dubious legality) spewing out the wahzoo, newly enforced speech codes, and open
calls by so-called respected academics to, in fact, suppress free speech—that is,
speech which doesn’t fit the Establishment’s idea of “norms and standards”
(which are assuredly not those of traditional Americans): these exist
increasingly all around us and threaten to engulf and submerge us.
Finally,
then, is it not the full appearance of the sullen face of rank totalitarianism,
something that has lurked very near the surface for years, for centuries, but
always kept at bay by law, by common sense, by our constitution and its
protections…and by our civilization’s faith in God? Now it bids fair to emerge
from its fetid cave and ask, as English writer Thomas Carlyle’s “many-headed,
fire-breathing monster” in his volume, The
French Revolution: “What think ye of me?”
Once
again Hilaire Belloc’s quote about the “modern barbarian” from a century ago comes
to mind:
“We sit by and watch the
Barbarian, we tolerate him; in the long stretches of peace we are not
afraid. We are tickled by his irreverence, his comic inversion of our old
certitudes and our fixed creeds refreshes us: we laugh. But as
we laugh we are watched by large and awful faces from beyond: and on these
faces there is no smile.” [This and That and the Other, 1912, 282]
Those
large and awful, unsmiling faces are the faces of Facebook billionaire Mark Zuckerberg, of the media personalities at CNN, at The New York Times, in academia, and in our Federal government and
in our statehouses across the United States.
You know
Carlson has hit a nerve, has hit his target when apparatchik card-carrying Deep
Staters like MSNBC’s Chris Hayes come
out and slam him and avoid almost totally Carlson’s point about censorship
and totalitarian control. For they cannot contest that, so they must dissemble
and target something else: instead Hayes attacks Carlson on his views on
re-opening the economy, certainly a major point but not at all the overall
emphasis of the monologue.
As I
wrote recently, truth dies in the darkness…and so do our liberties. Our enemies—for
that is what they are—are trying desperately to keep the lid on while they
vastly increase their power. This present pestilence for them presents a
capital opportunity, and they are utilizing it up to the hilt, in every way.
It is up
to us to stop them.
*****
Here is
the Youtube of the Tucker Carlson program for Tuesday night, April 28; please
watch at least the first nine minutes—before the censors take it down:
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