[..] Tucker Carlson is also one of those worrying about the Biden administration using the excuse of the Wuhan virus to turn America into a totalitarian state with the Bill of Rights a forgotten, dead letter. Therefore, he invited Naomi to be his guest to discuss the issue.
Tucker was stunned – as were those of us who know Naomi – to hear her give a fluent, impassioned disquisition on American liberties and the threats they’re facing as states and Biden use them to grab permanent power.
Wolf asserts that what we are witnessing in America “is not a partisan thing.” Instead, “it transcends everything that you and I might disagree or agree on. That should bring together left and right to protect our Constitution.” Gathering steam, she told Tucker,
The state has now crushed businesses, kept us from gathering in free assembly to worship as the First Amendment provides, is invading our bodies … which is a violation of the Fourth Amendment, restricting movement, fining us in New York state … the violations go on and on.
She’s right, too. According to Wolf, totalitarian dictatorships always start the same way.
Whether they are on the left or the right, they do these same ten things and now we’re at something I never thought I would see in my lifetime … it is step 10 and that is the suspension of the rule of law and that is when you start to be a police state, and we’re here. There is no way around it.
Wolf then sounded an ominous warning: “I really hope we wake up quickly because history also shows that it’s a small window in which people can fight back before it is too dangerous to fight back.” She’s right about that, too.
Naomi’s an odd bird, but she is extremely smart and she does understand the principles of individual liberty (helped, perhaps, by the fact that, in 2018, she married a U.S. Army veteran). People on both the left and the right would be wise to heed her warning and to act upon it to preserve their liberties. The Bill of Rights has meaning only if our government does not use its police power to destroy those rights but, instead, honors its obligations under the Constitution.
@ Adam Dalgliesh:
The criminal case (for fraud and monetary damages) brought in a Russian court against Navalny and his brother several years ago by a French firm was brought before the European Human Rights court (or whatever it is called) on appeal, and the court denied Navalny’s appeal.
I suspect that Amnesty International is aware of it.
The guy got what he deserved, he has about 2% support in Russia.
Amnesty International has decided that Navalny is not a “prisoner of conscience” because he allegedly holds opinions that differ from those of Amnesty International. Or in other words, you can only be a “prisoner of conscience” if your “conscience” agrees with that of AI. So much for AI’s claims to be a “Human Rights” organization.
Here is an example of the denial of freedom of speech and due process denounced by Naomi:
Ted, Thanks for posting this. I avoid anything on Fox these days and this would have been a real miss.
I find it curious that people are clearly surprised, shocked even, when they see someone like Naomi Wolf, Glenn Greenwald, and Matt Taibbi taking a stand against what many perceive to be their own base. But it is not against their own base. Wolfe and company are not conservatives – they are liberals. But we are now all at the table of a group of very evil minds. The group that has claimed victory in this coup is the China Class, and they are an authoritarian, internationally based cabal intent upon the destruction of our constitution and the perversion of our society. It is not liberal vs conservative. The China Class espouses violently radical and extreme measures that would impermanently silence the voices of all who oppose them. They won’t bother to consider their former liberal friends as exempt to these measures and their former liberal friends should not be stupid enough to sit silently by as their rights to dissent are collectively removed along with the rest of us. Wolfe and company understand this as being the case. The thing that has resiliently appeared as odd to me are those vegetative minds who can’t seem to catch the news of the day more than once every 6 months and then only thru a selective lens. They sit by and laugh and rejoice in the removal of the Orange Man Bad while their world is remodeled without their input and regardless of their interests. They are not immune to the measures being put in place, but they appear to be eternally stupid enough to allow it to occur without objection. Where are those liberal voices of old who once were chanting about civil liberties – they are silent. Wolfe and company are notable because they cry out into a vacuum of silence. I thought the liberally minded people might be awakened to their coming dilemma in masse by the early, radical moves of the president Bobble-Head and crew, but they are still quite silent outside of their collective elation over the president Bobble-Head faked inauguration. This is where my surprise and shock lies – as well as my deep disappointment.