Perhaps nothing has done more to expose the authoritarian tendencies of many “democratic” leaders throughout the world than COVID-19. Australia’s most well-known example is probably the COVID-19. Many viral videos show police beating innocent people simply for wearing a mask. Then there are the COVID concentration camps where people are forced into multi-week confinement — even if they aren’t positive for the virus.
It is hard to find better scenes in Europe. Today, a video emerged that is so brutal that you’d think it was filmed in mid-’30s Germany. The video comes from Amsterdam. It shows officers attacking and attacking victims with dogs.
NOW – People mauled by police dogs, beaten with batons at unauthorized protest against Covid restrictions in #Amsterdam.pic.twitter.com/BR5pUBqHuc
— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) January 2, 2022
If you can’t watch the video, what it shows is a dog latching onto a man’s arm, while police beat him (and others) with batons for “breaking” COVID restrictions. Even worse, when the victim is on the ground with his arm bent and possibly injured, police continue hitting him, instead of releasing the dog. The scene is being filmed by other officers who block cameras.
It’s was an absolutely disgusting spectacle, and it happened in a nation that is ostensibly a “free” democracy. Yet, these Western countries aren’t operating as such. Instead, they mimic the tactics used by communist and fascist countries throughout history while insisting on some moral superiority over any tin-pot dictator.
But that moral authority is burning down before our eyes, and that’s assuming these nations even had any left after the last two years of draconian, tyrannical, COVID mitigation measures. If Western democracies can morph into the CCP over a virus, what can’t they do?
There will always be the “next crisis” to feed the next power grab, and once you allow authoritarians a taste for total control, they never relinquish it. That’s why those who are fighting back in the streets right now, including that man in that video, are so important. While many on the left in the United States scoff at the idea of individual rights right now, we cease to have a society worth preserving the moment those rights are taken away — no matter what the excuse is.
Here’s the bottom line: You cannot claim to be better than the tyrants when you aren’t actually better than the tyrants. The West, once a beacon of liberty and prosperity, is showing its true colors right now. That’s not only morally repulsive, but it’s a dangerous situation for the world. China and Russia are more than happy enough to use the moral ambiguity fostered by many of the world’s “democracies” over the last two years to justify their own authoritarian goals.
This didn’t have to happen, but far too many people got far too comfortable with the idea that their leaders were “different” and could be trusted. But they aren’t different, and now the Overton window has been moved to the point where public beatings for not wearing an ineffective facemask or daring to exit one’s home are now seen as acceptable and necessary.
The West has lost decades of moral authority and trust built over the years. What? To combat an airborne virus we can’t control anyway? We can only pray that this wakes up enough people to allow them to regain some ground.
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