April 22, 2020
Killing Liberty, Coronavirus-Style
By Paul Krause
It should now be self-evident for anyone with common sense that the Democrats, liberals, and their convenient Republican allies like "Republicans for the Rule of Law" are using the coronavirus as a cover to advance their deconstruction of America without opposition behind the veil of "saving lives" and "saving democracy." This has been the dream of liberals for over a century. Now they will not relent until they deliver the coup de grâce to their enemies: Christianity, small businesses, and civil society as a whole.
The importance of civil liberties in the Anglo-American tradition, as venerable writers like Alexis de Tocqueville, Michael Oakeshott, and Robert Nisbet have written, is that civil liberties constitute the pulsating heart of the first order of our existence. The purpose of civil liberties is to create a wall of separation between the people and overreaching political tyranny. Civil liberties ensure the independence and sovereignty of houses of worship, intermediate associations, and free enterprise from the collectivizing and totalizing iron rod of centralized government.
In his insightful, and now seemingly prophetic, essay "The Political Economy of Freedom," Michael Oakeshott reminds us that the prerequisites for a free society are "freedom of association" and the "freedom enjoyed in the right to own private property." These two pillars that support a free society and free people are enshrined in the American Constitution, and for good reason. Free association (exemplified in the First Amendment) and the right to property and the enjoyment of private property (exemplified in the Fourth Amendment) are under siege by the totalitarian impulses of petty governors and mayors who wish for nothing more than to burn what is left of an already mostly shredded Constitution.
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