As IF Times

Who doesn’t despise politicians? It’s a profession as ancient as the “oldest” one and the similarities are quite striking. They both claim to make your life better; they tell you things you want to hear; but in reality, they both cost you money and in many cases, you’re actually worse off.  In reality, the true purpose of both of their jobs is to get you to use them again.

Nothing has changed much in our lifetime except that the compensation for being in the political racket has vastly outpaced the compensation from the more pedestrian ‘oldest’ profession. In fact the ability to enrich themselves is quite a remarkable skill since politicians are able to parlay somewhat nominal salaries into improbable fortunes during their terms.  They all seem to have miraculous money management skills; at least personally.

In practice, politicians come and go, at least in so-called democracies. The premise is that if the citizens are not amused with the activities of the incumbents, they get tossed out at the next election; provided of course that they actually hold an election.

If only it were that simple.  What politicians leave behind, even as they leave the active theater of politics are often an enormous legacy of bureaucrats that continue to operate without controls.  People who populate bureaucracies are fully aware that once a trajectory has been initiated on a program, then it becomes almost impossible to stop, even with changing political faces.

Bureaucracies have become effectively a fifth column. While ostensibly created to facilitate the wishes of politicians, with time, they become their own arm of influence, not accountable to the electorate.  This reality was brought into stark focus recently with the revelations of the expenditures of USAID, an organization created to “spread American goodwill”. There’s more than enough discussion of disclosures involving their expenditures over the decades in previous articles and elsewhere, so no need to enumerate them here.

Bureaucracies are a social and economic malaise that infects all nations of course.  In the possibly future 51^st state of Canada, the growth of public sector employees between 2019 and 2023 grew by 13 percent; 3.6 times the growth in the private sector. These kinds of bureaucracies serve to make life difficult for those having to deal with them.  Think the motor vehicle licensing station on a super scale.

But the activities of another more dangerous bureaucracy has revealed itself recently and that is the European Union.  Some may be aware that originally this body was formed to look after the economic interests of the nations within the European Union.  The main purpose was to ensure economic activities passed smoothly between nations and to create internal rules for such.  How big need this body be?  Each nation sends a few reps and you get some accountants to work the numbers.  That would seem logical.  But in a recent interview with Viktor Orban, the president of Hungary, he revealed that the EU bureaucracy now numbers over 30,000 employees.  So for each of the 27 nations represented in the EU, that amounts to over 1100 bureaucrats per nation. As an aside, the number of employees estimated at another world bureaucracy, the UN, numbers over 133,000.

Well you may say, it’s Europe, they love their bureaucracies, their holidays and their social systems, so it’s no big deal.  Of course, we can accept that, since they can spend their money as they wish.

Of more sinister issue is that the EU have expanded their area of influence to dictating policies to their member states that have nothing to do with trade, or that  involves non-members such as Ukraine.  Suddenly, the unelected bureaucrats are now directing political and military policies as well. Thus, rather than permitting member nations to retain their own identity, they are all being forced to comply with edicts issued by the unelected tyrannical bureaucrats effectively removing nations’ constituents from decision making.  This was starkly demonstrated recently when they decided to suspend Hungary’s voting privileges for reasons of ‘solidarity’; ironically supposedly fighting for European democracy.  They have confused themselves with NATO.

Suddenly, an organization that was formed to police agricultural and marketing policies internally are now mandating military expenditures to fight the imminent existential threat of Russia! The EU, a trade organization, has been allowed to morph into a political entity not beholden to the wishes of their own member nations.

As we’ve observed here in the US, the taking back of power and influence from entrenched bureaucracy will not be easy. The structures took generations to build and they cannot be dismantled without severe pushback from entrenched interests. We’ve seen the image of Musk wielding a chainsaw to this monstrosity in the US to the horror of bureaucratic beneficiaries.  It would appear that a bit of horror is needed at the EU.

link: https://www.cicnews.com/2020/04/stay-home-travellers-to-canada-must-quarantine-for-two-weeks-0414047.html#gs.ck3zpo

Some may recall that when there first emerged an inkling that a medical emergency requiring national action began in February of this year, there was initially skepticism among many, especially in the media, about the potential seriousness.  In fact, the usual political and media sources chided the US President for acting in an irresponsible manner by restricting travel from the virus’ source, China, citing the usual claims of racism.

Now, 6 months into the ‘pandemic’, the media are hysterically reporting about Covid as if it was the worst pandemic in history with daily infection counts running like baseball scores on their screens.  Now they are all about restrictions and lockdowns.  Restrictions and prohibitions on people’s lives have become even more severe, not less as you would expect if the danger period was 14 days and the effects of crowd immunization were allowed to work their way through a population.  In fact the restrictions and prohibitions don’t appear to have any end in sight, even as the survival rate by those afflicted with the ailment is over 99%.   The ‘experts’ in the medical community have flip flopped numerous times on the efficacy of a number of balms including the wearing of masks…or not, to face shields and eye protection to full out space suits for the really paranoid.  There is on going talk about a second wave.  Why not a third?

And yet there is ample evidence that an effective treatment for Covid already exists.  Many in the practicing medical community  insist that hydroxychloroquine, an effective and inexpensive drug used to treat malaria, has a stellar record of treatment and preventative properties to address Covid.

Despite the earnest entreaties of numerous outspoken physicians, their views have been marginalized and purposefully deleted from public view.  Apparently, only a vaccine will suffice as the ultimate fix.  Never mind that there has never been a vaccine to fix any flu, or that any such vaccine may be way off into the future given the standard pharma protocols.  Thus, a large community of practicing doctors is overruled by a bureaucrat who has not treated a patient in 40 years and effectively places the world on hold with his inconsistent utterances.

Even as numerous nations such as Sweden and Finland have elected to go with saner policies for their societies with no appreciably higher mortality statistics, in North America, the climate of fear continues to be propagated by politicians and the media.  People who advocate hiding under beds are hailed as heroes rather than the destroyers of society they really are.

If we itemize the draconian measures that have been imposed upon the people to save them, we arrive at a list which is in fact quite the opposite of saving the people.

No going to work

No going to school

No going to church

No parties and concerts

No sports events

No going to weddings

No funerals (unless political)

No going to restaurants

Close businesses

Mandatory masks

No travelling (unless political)

No going to the beach

No gathering in large groups (unless rioting)

14 day quarantine for travelers (unless attending political funeral)

It’s hard to believe that after 6 months of this bumbling and destructive narrative that people still believe that their best interests are being looked after by their political appointees.  This is gaslighting on an epic scale. The list above looks like a roster of rules for a communist gulag. Let’s not forget that the majority of people who get voted into office that make these rules are bureaucrats of the worst kind, having done nothing else in their lives but run for office.  Even worse, many of those are lawyers whose worldviews are shaped only by issues of liability.

The misguided policies that most politicos are pushing today will have long term adverse impact upon their constituents. The only good thing that can come of this on-going man made tragedy is that the vacant minds that pretended to set constructive public policy will be outed as the vacuous demagogues that they are.  The real threat to society’s health is allowing such morons to control the lives of gullible people.  Toss them all out…and their little masks too.