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The Right to Be Let Alone: What to Do When COVID Strike Force Teams Come Knocking

By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead

“Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficent.”—Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis

A federal COVID-19 vaccination strike force may soon be knocking on your door, especially if you live in a community with low vaccination rates. Will you let them in?

More to the point, are you required to open the door?

The Biden Administration has announced that it plans to send federal “surge response teams” on a “targeted community door-to-door outreach“ to communities with low vaccination rates in order to promote the safety and accessibility of the COVID-19 vaccines. Continue reading “The Right to Be Let Alone: What to Do When COVID Strike Force Teams Come Knocking”

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After a Year Under Lockdown, Will Our Freedoms Survive the Tyranny of COVID-19?

“Americans deserve the freedom to choose a life without surveillance and the government regulation that would make that possible. While we continue to believe the sentiment, we fear it may soon be obsolete or irrelevant. We deserve that freedom, but the window to achieve it narrows a little more each day. If we don’t act now, with great urgency, it may very well close for good.”—Charlie Warzel and Stuart A. Thompson, New York Times

Databit by databit, we are building our own electronic concentration camps. Continue reading “After a Year Under Lockdown, Will Our Freedoms Survive the Tyranny of COVID-19?”

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From 9/11 to COVID-19, It’s Been a Perpetual State of Emergency

By John W. Whitehead

“The fundamental political question is why do people obey a government. The answer is that they tend to enslave themselves, to let themselves be governed by tyrants. Freedom from servitude comes not from violent action, but from the refusal to serve. Tyrants fall when the people withdraw their support.”—Étienne De La Boétie, The Politics Of Obedience

Don’t pity this year’s crop of graduates because this COVID-19 pandemic caused them to miss out on the antics of their senior year and the pomp and circumstance of graduation.

Pity them because they have spent their entire lives in a state of emergency.
Continue reading “From 9/11 to COVID-19, It’s Been a Perpetual State of Emergency”