Dictatorship for a good cause…the march to tyranny: The public can be convinced “to accept even the most serious encroachments on fundamental rights,” writes a German public law professor, state high court judge at his blog.
Germany, true to its DNA, is once again gravitating toward dictatorial rule. A number of leading figures are praising the corona restrictions as an example of what needs to be done to fight the climate crisis.
One example is German public law professor Thomas Schomerus, who writes at his blog that “lessons for the climate crisis can be drawn from the corona crisis.”
Make people fear for their lives, the German federal judge and law professor implies.
Make the public accept “even the most serious encroachments”
The only thing that is needed for the public acceptance of “stringent measures”, says Schomerus is a communication made “in a transparent, comprehensible, science-based and multimedia-based manner.”
If this is done, he writes, “the population will be prepared to accept even the most serious encroachments on fundamental rights.”
Just as convincing as the fear of death
He writes that the concern about the future of children and grandchildren “can be just as convincing” as the fear of death by the coronavirus.
Schmoerus at his blog expresses that the current collapse of global air travel and massive economic slowdown – which involves millions of unemployed – as a positive thing for the environment and thus similar restrictions should be kept in place even after the corona crisis subsides.
“The fight against the virus can set an example in the fight against global warming,” he claims.
Climate crisis requires “freedom-limiting measures”
Schomerus, a specialist for public law for energy and environmental law, asks at his blog why the government doesn’t take the same strict action against climate that it is now taking against the coronavirus. He adds:
Both the corona crisis and the climate crisis require freedom-limiting measures. The earlier and more vigorously these are defined and implemented, the sooner the success that is vital for survival can be expected.
In this respect, corona and climate protection measures do not differ in principle, but only on the time axis. The following also applies to climate protection: the earlier and the more far-reaching they are taken, the lower the ecological, economic and social follow-up costs.”
According to his blog, Thomas Schomerus is Professor of Public Law for Energy and Environmental Law at the Faculty of Sustainability, Leuphana University Lueneburg and Judge at the Higher Public Administration Court for Lower Saxony.
h/t Rúnar O.
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Make people fear for their lives, the German federal judge and law professor implies.
They tried
It didn’t work
https://tambonthongchai.com/2019/12/25/earth-day-wisdom/
Just another intellectial egghead with sawdust for Brains who come up with all these stupid ideas they call themselves Smart but in reality their total idiots
But of course it wouldn’t include him or the other so-called “elite” in the group requiring limiting their freedoms. Just us knuckle-dragging mouth-breathers.
” Germany, true to its DNA, is once again gravitating toward dictatorial rule” .I
wonder if the author would be so kind, as to list, the other countries that have dictatorial tendencies in their DNA. It would save me having to think about present political context.
Both sides of my family are German descendants. I don’t take exception to the author’s suggestion.
How much of a Salary dose this moron collect to babble out this mindless nonsense anyway?
I think sometimes we deserve whatever we get in Western democracies. When I have conversations with people about how the Coronavirus lock-downs are kind of a peek into what the climate change movement wants for us; I get stunned looks of disbelief. Nobody seems to equate their yearly trips to the Caribbean or cruise ship journeys as hurting the planet and that they expect their neighbor to sacrifice but not them. Its almost reminds me of the term fat, happy and stupid. These people are in for a rough ride thanks to the church of climatology.
The hypocrites are the real deniers.
The environmental left is always talking about what is sustainable. Yet they celebrate the economic impact of the pandemic. This impact is not sustainable. Though what we are doing to fight the pandemic is absolutely necessary, on the long term our economies and even our lives can not continue long term under these restrictions.
What a total idiot he is thinking we need to live with fewer Freedoms all over this Global Warming/Climate Change Scam and thats a lll it is a Scam being used by a bunch or Eco-Nazis/Watermelons to make us surrender our Freedoms and Liberty to the demands of the Eco-Freaks who want us all to return to a Primative Life and Sacrifice a few Virgins or children to their EARTH GODDESS or maybe a few chosen persons like the Aztecs did
This is nothing new.
Two thousand five hundred ago, the Greek philosopher Plato published a book entitled ‘The Republic’. In it, he argued that most people lacked the intelligence or good sense or both to behave in ways that are conducive to good government and an ordered society. He proposed that the general populace should be fed believable lies and false propaganda to promote public welfare.
Plato called such deception ‘The Noble Lie’ and maintained that it was justified in promoting peace, harmony and good government. He would have been proud to see how well his advice has been adopted by the modern proponents of the man-made global warming/climate change scare. Consider the following quotations:
“The impacts of global warming are such that I have no hesitation in describing it as a weapon of mass destruction”.
John Houghton, director of the UK Meterological Office and lead author of the first three reports of the United Nations Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
and:
“…we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified dramatic statements and make little mention of any doubts we might have….Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest”.
Stephen Schneider, science advisor to seven US presidents from Nixon to Obama for 48 years from 1969 to 2017.
Like I said, nothing new.
As an aside to this, back in the 1970s, Schneider was droning on about “global cooling” and how we would all soon freeze to death or die from hunger due to the imminent ice age.
Lies are told by devious people.
Their plan is to stay ahead of their lies. Easy enough to do because Truth is slow. The onus of proof is a burden.