I’m not sure whether he ever really said it, but I remember hearing President Nixon quoted as saying that the United States might have to ‘destroy Cambodia in order to save it’. I’ve been thinking about that a lot lately, because it appears that His Excellency is working from the same playbook — destroying New Hampshire in order to ‘save’ it.
I’ve also been thinking about something that President Kennedy said, that ‘there is little value in insuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it’.
Everyone is going to die, sooner or later. We can’t prevent that. What we may be able to prevent are the deaths of New Hampshire’s traditions of self-reliance, personal responsibility, and limited government — but only if we refuse to accept ‘Public health trumps everything’ as a replacement for ‘Live free or die: Death is not the worst of evils’.
If your life is so important to you that you’re willing to purchase it by giving up all control over it, then by all means, stay in your house when you can, wear a mask (or a space suit) when you have to go out, and avoid all contact with anyone who might have the smallest chance of infecting you.
But no one’s life is so important that everyone else’s rights can be destroyed in order to save it.
