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The Rise of Public Health and ‘Green’ Police: Securitization Theory Policing has come a long way since the days of good ole boy Barney Fife. Once upon a time, cops were tasked primarily with things like catching murderers and rapists and protecting property. They were always used, of course, whenever necessary, to protect state interests – but, then again, the state’s interests weren’t always so obviously nefarious and illegitimate as they are today. Law enforcement’s purview expansion is explained in large part by securitization theory. As a result of the this process, peculiar new breeds of law enforcement – Public Health© officers and green police – have sprung up throughout the West. Securitization theory: the advent of new security threats The basic premise of securitization theory in political science is that, given the opportunity, a state will endlessly concoct new security “threats” as a justification to exercise greater power outside of the constraints of the normal political process:
The process, in a nutshell, works like this:
The threats change, but whether “domestic terrorism,” COVID-19, or climate change, the process largely remains the same. Once you download the blueprint for the securitization process, analyzing the state’s actions in real-time becomes as easy as reading lines off a script. COVID-19 gets reframed as a ‘national security issue’ The average pre-9/11 American wouldn’t have believed that a trumped-up flu could ever be conceived as a “national security threat.” But, 9/11 changed everything. Securitization became routine. The corporate state’s apparatuses, like the Rand Corporation, were ready to pounce on the new COVID-19 Public Health© emergency and cast it as a “national security” issue. Here the Rand Corporation likens COVID-19 hysteria to World War II:
America used to go to war with Nazis; now it goes to war against microbes and climate. Security issues require securitizing actors – enforcement mechanisms to counter the threat. Hence the Public Health© officer. Hence biomedical martial law. The rise of the Public Health© officer Meet the biomedical state’s new frontline enforcer: the Public Health© officer. This miserable creature is here to ensure you take your shots, wear your mask, and, most importantly, shut your mouth. He is granted full enforcement power and broad jurisdiction to enforce Public Health© orders, such as:
(*Somehow, “self-quarantine” is both voluntary and enforceable by a Public Health© officer if you won’t do it yourself.) Here’s one in action: Here, the masked, portly Canadian Public Health© officer detains a pair of overpolite Canadian travelers, confiscates their passports and demands proof of vaccination for “noncompliance” with COVID protocols. He cites the broad power granted in the Canadian Quarantine Act as the source of his authority. Is the robot police dog here with a mounted RPG for the vaxxed, or unvaxxed?Let’s consider the pertinent points:
Seems like a recipe for more of the same, just with robots instead of Rover. How long until the RPG dog gets sicced on you? Welcome to Techno-Hell. The Public Health© Officer’s Successor: ‘Green Police’ France recently created a legion of “green police” brigades to combat climate change offenders:
European and North American “green police” will enforce increasingly common North Korea-tier curtailing of basic human dignity, like forcing shop owners to turn off their lights at night and limiting heating and air conditioning. ‘Just following orders’: no dice “Just following orders” is the oldest, lamest excuse for government goons to excuse their aberrant behavior – one that didn’t save the Nazi camp guards at Nuremberg, and won’t this time either if we don’t allow it. We’re long overdue for Nuremberg II, which should be a pillar of every opposition candidate’s platform. As for individual action, get free with the parallel economy. Ben Bartee is an independent Bangkok-based American journalist with opposable thumbs. Follow his stuff via Armageddon Prose and/or Substack, Patreon, Gab, and Twitter. Bitcoin public address: 14gU3aHBXkNq8bDqmibfnubV7kSJqfx5LX
Ben Bartee is a Bangkok-based American journalist with opposable thumbs. Contact him via his portfolio or on LinkedIn.
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