Ep. 536 - Lockdown vs. Liberty
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Summary
As we approach the 45th day since President Trump told us to hunker down for 15 days to slow the spread, some people are beginning to wonder if these lockdowns are destroying our liberty. Unfortunately, our liberty problems run a lot deeper than being locked in your house for a few weeks, and both sides of the aisle are to blame.
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As more and more people around the country get arrested for leaving their homes,
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as we approach the 45th day since President Trump told us to hunker down for 15 days to slow the spread,
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some people are beginning to wonder if these lockdowns are destroying our liberty.
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Unfortunately, our liberty problems run a lot deeper than being locked in your house for a few weeks,
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Then, more evidence emerges that Joe Biden got handsy with the staffer in the 90s,
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as the mainstream media steadfastly and courageously refuse to ask him any questions about it.
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The government confirms the existence of UFOs, okay,
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and Nancy Pelosi wants to bribe you with your own money.
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I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
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You'd think, remember 15 days to slow the spread?
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Then it was, what would it become, 20 days, 25, 30, 35?
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We have slowed the spread, and yet some politicians don't want to lighten up at all.
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We will get to those incursions, because I think some people are freaking out about a loss of liberty
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I think we have fallen from reasonable lockdown measures into total farce.
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We did that over the weekend in Oxnard, California,
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in Gavin Newsom's left-wing hellscape of California.
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The beaches are kind of opening up a little bit in California.
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They stayed far away from everybody, totally socially distanced,
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and they sat down on some beach chairs in the sand.
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And a mounted police officer on a giant horse comes trotting over to them and says,
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because apparently letting 93-year-olds sit in chairs spreads coronavirus.
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I'll narrate because it's a little hard to hear the audio.
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The 93-year-old guy kind of gets out of the chair, stands up.
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Because luckily some younger people are walking.
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but they're saying, They're old people, officer.
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Are you insane that you're going to tell 93-year-olds
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The leftists and the experts and the politicians
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They said it would be 2.2 million dead in America.
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But they're trying to justify it any way they can.
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not in the shallow sense of let me do exactly what I want to do,
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having the great traditions of Western liberty,
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But instead, we're being told from paternalistic politicians
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even the few liberties that we still have remaining.
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That's what we're getting from Governor Patrick Bateman.
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and meaningful changes to our stay-at-home order.
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we can impact the science, the health, and the data.
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and maybe I'll let you go to the beach sometimes.
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Okay, well, I promise I'll be a good little boy.
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without getting just pure American psycho vibes.
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It's not just about the pleasures of conformity
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It's also a personal statement about the band itself.
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That's all I'm getting is just pure Patrick Bateman from him.
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And it's a psycho message that he has for all of his constituents.
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but you've got to change your behavior, little boys and girls.
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Something tells me our grandparents would not have stood
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for this kind of condescension from the politicians.
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Because virtually every conservative I've talked to
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has not disputed that the states have police powers.
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They do have police powers, especially during a pandemic.
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What we are against is arbitrary exercises in power
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that don't do anything to actually protect the public health.
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And they've taken out the two biggest criminals,
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two women who had a little private beauty salon in their house.
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They shut down people who were helping other women look nice.
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They're letting criminals out of prison left and right,
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Yes, the authorities in Laredo, Texas, have done it.
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They arrested two women in an undercover sting operation.
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Ana Isabel Gastro-Garcia and Brenda Stephanie Mata
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have been operating a cosmetology business from their home
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because they're not allowed to go to work anymore.
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We got, what is it, 23, 24 million unemployed right now at least.
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The $1,200 check you got from the federal government
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And so they were taking some clients out of their homes
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and the Laredo lockdown says that you can't operate
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non-essential businesses defined somewhat arbitrarily.
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How did they even know this business was going on?
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It's the most disgusting part of the whole story.
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And you're seeing this spread all throughout the U.S.
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Once this pandemic's over, guess what's not going away?
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then charged the women with a class B misdemeanor,
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Two women have already had to fork up $500 bonds
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for recognizance bonds to be released from jail.
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that this was an outrageous government overstep.
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What's so crazy is that Texas is currently reopening.
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They say that they're going to let their lockdown order
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And teachers are wishing death on their students.
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I don't know that you can hear me over your music.
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Now, this just obviously on its face is not true.
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China and the Wuhan Institute of Virology, very likely,
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to spread 95% worse than anyone expected it would,
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by the public health experts who got everything wrong.
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exalted, vaunted experts in the white lab coat.
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that 100 million people would have coronavirus by now.
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