{"id":12387,"date":"2021-09-30T05:00:21","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T09:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/blog\/?p=12387"},"modified":"2021-10-06T14:00:40","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T18:00:40","slug":"726-emergency-ethics-and-the-rule-of-lawlessness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/archives\/12387","title":{"rendered":"726 &#8211; Emergency ethics and the rule of lawlessness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/726-STATEofEMERGENCY-168x100-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"168\" height=\"100\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12388\" \/><audio controls preload=\"none\"><source src=\"\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/BROADCASTS\/20210930-justRIGHT-726-EmergencyEthicsAndTheRULEofLAWLESSNESS.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\"><\/audio><br \/>\nThere is a growing fear among many in the legal profession that the courts are no longer an instrument of justice. <strong>Laws, rules, and definitions are being constantly manipulated to push the perpetual mantra of \u2018getting vaccinated<\/strong>,\u2019 which has all along been the objective even before anyone ever heard of coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Ontario Human Rights Commission recently ruled that \u201crequiring proof of vaccination to protect people at work or when receiving services is generally permissible.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Given the nature and dismal record of the so-called \u2018vaccines\u2019 in question, <strong>the ruling is immoral, irrational, and futile.<\/strong>  Even those pushing the vaccines admit that the \u2018vaccines\u2019 offer no protection against getting or spreading the \u2018virus,\u2019 no matter the variant being offered on any given day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Many rightly consider the vaccine mandates to be a violation of their rights even though that may not be the case in law.<\/strong>  Justified by declaring a \u2018state of emergency,\u2019 it appears that governments are permitted to violate rights and impose restrictions on individual freedom without limits.  <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In the face of a tyranny unlike any experienced in the West, those who believed they had fundamental <strong>rights and freedoms<\/strong> are fast learning that such fundamentals <strong>have no place in a world of perpetual emergencies.<\/strong> This presents a dilemma.  How can it be possible to restore individual freedom and to prevent lockdowns and mandates of this nature from ever happening again in the future?<\/p>\n<p>To tyrants and dictators, the necessity and role of emergencies is self-evident: by declaring an \u2018emergency,\u2019 a path is cleared to violate individual rights, thanks to what might be called a broad acceptance of <strong>\u2018emergency ethics.\u2019<\/strong>  The problem with the political \u2018Covid\u2019 narrative is that it requires a perpetual flow of propaganda, lies, censorship, mandates, and restrictions to keep people from learning that it is false.  But <strong>the reality of the \u2018vaccines\u2019 and the \u2018adverse\u2019 reactions to their use is mounting to a point where the current official narrative can no longer be sustained.<\/strong>  What then?<\/p>\n<p>In her essay entitled <strong>The Inexplicable Personal Alchemy<\/strong>, philosopher-novelist <strong>Ayn Rand<\/strong> observed:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the ultimate penalty of all dictators (and all liars): their nemesis is those who believe them.  A dictatorship has to promulgate some sort of distant goals and moral ideals in order to justify its rule and the people\u2019s immolation. The extent to which it succeeds in convincing its victims is the extent of its own danger. Sooner or later, its contradictions are thrown in its face by the best of its subjects: the ablest, the most intelligent, the most honest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>The rule of lawlessness is a moral and philosophical crisis, not a medical, legal, or political one, despite the fact that those are the areas where the crisis manifests itself.<\/strong>  As Ontario lawyer <strong>Bruce Pardy<\/strong> noted, politics and law are \u201cdownstream from culture.\u201d  Until this is recognized, it will be impossible to make things Just Right again. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/blog\/726-topics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/images\/buttons\/topics.gif\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/blog\/726-clips-credits\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/images\/buttons\/clips_and_credits.gif\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you found this presentation valuable please consider supporting us:<br \/>\n&#x1f9e1; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.me\/justrightmedia\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">PayPal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a growing fear among many in the legal profession that the courts are no longer an instrument of justice. Laws, rules, and definitions are being constantly manipulated to push the perpetual mantra of \u2018getting vaccinated,\u2019 which has all along been the objective even before anyone ever heard of coronavirus. 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