Ron Paul Liberty Report - Weekly Update --- End the Shutdown: It's Time for Resurrection!
Aired: 2020-04-08
Duration: 04:43


=== Easter and Liberty (04:40) ===

[00:00:03]  Hello everybody and thank you for tuning in to the weekly report and the shutdown.
[00:00:08]  It's time for resurrection.
[00:00:10]  For many millions of Christians, Easter is a time to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
[00:00:16]  Others may celebrate the arrival of spring and the promise of new life.
[00:00:20]  Whatever one's beliefs after several weeks of mandatory stay-at-home orders and the complete shutdown of the U.S. economy over the coronavirus, this self-destructive hysteria must end and we must reclaim the freedom and liberty that has provided us so much opportunity as Americans.
[00:00:42]  To do that, we should first understand that much of the hysteria is being generated by a mainstream media that has prioritized sensationalism over investigating and reporting the truth.
[00:00:55]  Government bureaucrats are also exaggerating the threat of this virus and appear to be enjoying the power and control that fearful people are willingly handing over to them.
[00:01:07]  One coronavirus bureaucrat even told us that we can no longer go to the grocery store, so we should just starve.
[00:01:15]  It is certainly possible to believe that this virus can be dangerous while at the same time pointing out that radical steps are being taken in our society, stay-at-home orders, introduction of de facto martial law, etc., with very little knowledge of just how deadly is this disease.
[00:01:35]  On March 24th, the CDC issued an alert stating that doctors should classify probable COVID-19 or likely COVID-19 as COVID-19 deaths.
[00:01:50]  Perhaps that explains the screening drop-off of pneumonia deaths this year and the simultaneous spike in COVID-19 deaths as some researchers have reported.
[00:02:01]  The CBC reported last week that at present in the United States, any death of a COVID-19 patient, no matter what the physician believes to be the direct cause, is counted for public reporting as COVID-19 deaths.
[00:02:17]  Does that sound like a scientifically sound way of determining how deadly COVID-19 really is?
[00:02:24]  What is most dangerous is that although this virus will eventually disappear, the assault on our civil liberties is not likely to be reversed.
[00:02:33]  From this point on, whenever local officials, county officials, state governors, or federal bureaucrats decide there is sufficient reason to suspend the Constitution, they will not hesitate to do so.
[00:02:47]  Anyone who challenges the suspension of the Constitution for our own good will be labeled unpatriotic and perhaps even reported to the authorities.
[00:02:58]  We have already seen hotlines springing up across the country for Americans to report other Americans who dare venture outside to enjoy the sun and build up their vitamin D protection against coronavirus.
[00:03:14]  The government is justified in canceling the Constitution, we are told, because we are in an emergency situation caused by the COVID-19 virus.
[00:03:25]  But do people forget that the Constitution itself was written and adopted when we were in an emergency situation?
[00:03:34]  Did the framers of the Constitution fail to add an 11th Amendment to the Bill of Rights saying, oh, by the way, none of this counts if we get sick?
[00:03:44]  Of course not.
[00:03:45]  Those who wrote our Constitution understood that these rights are not granted by the government, but rather by our Creator.
[00:03:53]  Thus, it was never a question as to when or under what conditions they could be suspended.
[00:04:01]  The government had no authority to suspend them at all because it did not grant them in the first place.
[00:04:08]  Our country is far less at risk from the coronavirus than it is from the thousands of small and large authoritarians who have suddenly flexed their muscles across the country.
[00:04:20]  President Trump would do well to end this ridiculous shutdown so that Americans can get on with their lives and get back to work.
[00:04:29]  Americans should remember the tyrants who lock them down next time they go to the ballot box.
[00:04:35]  Let's demand an end to the shutdown so we can resurrect our economy, our lives, and our liberties.