By Michael D. Shaw @ Mike's Point of View
Various feudal systems existed from Roman times well into the Middle Ages. In the simplest sense, “Feudalism” is a social system whereby people (usually called “serfs”) worked and fought for nobles who gave them protection and the use of land in return. The serf would also have to pay some amount of taxes back to the noble. The tax rate was based on many factors, but often was around one-third, generally payable in work and produce.
In most cases, the serf’s first responsibility was to the lord’s designated produce.
These days, if one considers federal, state, and local taxes, along with all sorts of licensing fees, most of us would be happy with the one-third rate. But, there’s more here than just taxes.
Many folks have no appreciation of how close we came to a full-blown social credit system, with the proposed vaccine passports during the pandemic. We were on the brink of downright tyranny, in which freedom to move about was threatened. And, not far behind was digital currency such that your very purchases of food, fuel, and living accommodations could be controlled.
Does your digital health record indicate that you are too fat? No cookie purchases for you. Did you log on to a website not approved by Big Brother? No more internet service for you! The possibilities are as endless as they are terrifying.
Today’s would-be feudal lords include the World Economic Forum and the United Nations—via its World Health Organization. The WEF is proposing its so-called “15-minute cities,” and its own odd brand of secular humanism, mixed in with plenty of socialism—for the serfs. “You will own nothing, and you will be happy about it.”
WHO, which decades ago actually did some good for humanity, is now trying desperately hard to take charge of all public health, and is wishing upon a star for the next pandemic. In fact, they’re already talking about “Disease X,” and they just can’t wait for it to arrive.
One easy way to tell that these latter-day feudal lords are pure evil is that absolutely no apologies are ever made for either the hideously failed COVID vaccines or the disasters promoted by mini-lords such as the execrable Justin Trudeau, when he seized bank accounts of protesting truckers.
Cold comfort indeed, that a federal court in Ottawa ruled that Trudeau’s use of the Emergencies Act was unconstitutional. Yes, friends, after civil rights were flagrantly violated, Justin baby gets a strongly worded letter.
Only, we Americans shouldn’t feel too smug. Our very own Supreme Court somehow ruled that the US Border Patrol can dismantle razor wire fencing, installed by Texas officials along the border. To no one’s surprise, the gelded Chief Justice John Roberts went along with the liberals. To the surprise of some, Amy Coney Barrett also joined the liberals.
Barrett and Roberts had no problem at all ignoring Article IV Section 4 of the Constitution, which clearly states… The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.
Barrett, despite her assurances upon nomination to the Court that she would “apply the law as written,” clearly fell prey to peer pressure, and exposed herself as little more than a kiss-ass to the Administration. It didn’t bother these two traitors that what they did directly contradicted John Marshall, founding father and fourth Chief Justice.
There is good news, though. Texas is continuing to install the razor wire, and its actions have been seconded by six states so far: Montana, South Dakota, Utah, Oklahoma, Virginia, and Georgia.
Not surprisingly, soy boy Beto O’Rourke says that Biden should federalize the Texas National Guard, cluelessly invoking Eisenhower’s 1957 actions against Arkansas governor Orville Faubus. Faubus, of course, was a segregationist Democrat, and Eisenhower was very aggressive against illegal aliens.
The saving grace here is that most of today’s would-be feudal lords are more akin to court jesters.
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