{"id":16096,"date":"2021-06-17T17:33:37","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T21:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=16096"},"modified":"2021-06-18T08:43:04","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T12:43:04","slug":"defining-freedom-down-redefinindo-a-liberdade-portuguese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/17\/defining-freedom-down-redefinindo-a-liberdade-portuguese\/","title":{"rendered":"Defining Freedom Down &#8211; Redefinindo a Liberdade &#8211; Portuguese"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"td-post-header\">\n<header class=\"td-post-title\">\n<p data-fontsize=\"45.1\" data-lineheight=\"45.5167px\">Thanks a lot to the Instituto Rothbard for translating my &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aier.org\/article\/defining-down-freedom\/\"><strong>Defining Freedom Down<\/strong><\/a>&#8221; into Portuguese &#8211; and for the great art work!<\/p>\n<h1 data-fontsize=\"45.1\" data-lineheight=\"45.5167px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/rothbard-full-size-image-covid-mask-brazil.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-16103\" src=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/rothbard-full-size-image-covid-mask-brazil-784x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"714\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/rothbard-full-size-image-covid-mask-brazil-784x800.jpg 784w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/rothbard-full-size-image-covid-mask-brazil-1004x1024.jpg 1004w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/rothbard-full-size-image-covid-mask-brazil-147x150.jpg 147w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/rothbard-full-size-image-covid-mask-brazil-768x784.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/rothbard-full-size-image-covid-mask-brazil.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/rothbardbrasil.com\/\">Instituto Rothbard<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/logo-h.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-16098\" src=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/logo-h.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"155\" height=\"51\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/logo-h.png 272w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/logo-h-150x50.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 155px) 100vw, 155px\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<h1 class=\"entry-title fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" data-fontsize=\"45.1\" data-lineheight=\"45.5167px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rothbardbrasil.com\/redefinindo-a-liberdade\/\">Redefinindo a liberdade<\/a><\/h1>\n<div class=\"td-module-meta-info\">\n<div class=\"td-post-author-name\">\n<div class=\"td-author-by\">Por<a href=\"https:\/\/rothbardbrasil.com\/profile\/james-bovard\/\"> James Bovard<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"td-author-line\">&#8211;<\/div>\n<div class=\"td-author-line\">A Grande Pandemia ter\u00e1 soltado as r\u00e9deas dos governos permanentemente em todo o mundo? A Covid-19 est\u00e1 permitindo que os pol\u00edticos transformem a liberdade de um direito individual em uma dispensa burocr\u00e1tica condicional. A defini\u00e7\u00e3o de liberdade foi exemplificada pelo G-7 Summit, que se tornou uma rid\u00edcula e hip\u00f3crita celebra\u00e7\u00e3o da vit\u00f3ria do <a href=\"https:\/\/rothbardbrasil.com\/quarentena-o-novo-totalitarismo\/\">quarentenismo<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td-post-content\">\n<p>Os l\u00edderes do G-7, reunidos na Cornualha, emitiram um comunicado prometendo \u201cproteger os <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2021\/06\/13\/carbis-bay-g7-summit-communique\/\">indiv\u00edduos do trabalho for\u00e7ado<\/a> e garantir que as cadeias de abastecimento globais estejam livres do uso de trabalho for\u00e7ado\u201d. Mas os chefes pol\u00edticos n\u00e3o se preocupavam com o \u201cn\u00e3o trabalho for\u00e7ado\u201d \u2013 seus pr\u00f3prios decretos que destru\u00edram dezenas de milh\u00f5es de empregos. Isso n\u00e3o foi problema porque, como os l\u00edderes do G-7 se gabaram, \u201cOferecemos um apoio sem precedentes aos cidad\u00e3os e \u00e0s empresas \u2026 totalizando mais de US$ 12 trilh\u00f5es, incluindo apoio fiscal e medidas de liquidez\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Mas os aux\u00edlios n\u00e3o substituem a liberdade e a autossufici\u00eancia. A ajuda governamental est\u00e1 sempre a apenas um decreto dos termos obrigat\u00f3rios de submiss\u00e3o. Em 1942, a Suprema Corte declarou: \u201cDificilmente <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/opinion\/la-xpm-2012-mar-29-la-oe-bovard-supremecourt-precedent-healthcare-20120329-story.html\">falta o devido processo<\/a> para o governo regular o que subsidia\u201d. Os <em>summiteers<\/em> do G-7 proclamaram in\u00fameros objetivos ambientais. Os futuros \u201cpagamentos de est\u00edmulo\u201d ser\u00e3o restritos a pessoas que reduzem sua \u201cemiss\u00e3o de carbono\u201d ou abandonam seus ve\u00edculos n\u00e3o el\u00e9tricos?<\/p>\n<p>O governo Biden ficou entusiasmado com a adapta\u00e7\u00e3o do slogan dos participantes do G-7, \u201cBuild Back Better\u201d (\u201cReconstruir Melhor\u201d), no comunicado. Esse slogan dar\u00e1 aos pol\u00edticos o direito de obter mais receita e poder para reparar os danos das paralisa\u00e7\u00f5es que infligiram. A reconstru\u00e7\u00e3o ao estilo de Biden presume que qualquer gasto do governo confere enormes benef\u00edcios, pelo menos aos pol\u00edticos. Os colegas de Biden tamb\u00e9m apoiaram seu apelo para <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aier.org\/article\/bidens-america-the-beautiful-vision-ignores-feds-dreadful-record\/\">colocar pelo menos 30% de toda a terra e \u00e1gua<\/a> sob restri\u00e7\u00f5es do governo em nome da conserva\u00e7\u00e3o.<\/p>\n<p>Os l\u00edderes do G-7 desfrutaram de <a href=\"https:\/\/rothbardbrasil.com\/no-g7-palhacos-da-elite-global-planejam-substituir-a-crise-covid-pela-mudanca-climatica\/\">festas e muitos tapinhas nas costas<\/a> \u2013 privil\u00e9gios negados aos cidad\u00e3os brit\u00e2nicos pr\u00f3ximos, cujas vidas continuam semi-paralisadas por restri\u00e7\u00f5es governamentais generalizadas. Os brit\u00e2nicos foram informados de que a mis\u00e9ria do lockdown terminaria em 21 de junho, que ficou conhecido como \u201cDia da Liberdade\u201d. Mas os pol\u00edticos brit\u00e2nicos invocaram o medo de novas variantes para justificar a extens\u00e3o do lockdown por pelo menos mais um m\u00eas e possivelmente muito mais. O primeiro-ministro Boris Johnson declarou na segunda-feira: \u201cAgora \u00e9 a hora de <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2021\/06\/14\/coronavirus-covid-live-updates-us\/\">desacelerar<\/a>\u201d, independentemente de quantos direitos individuais sejam atropelamentos. O editor especializado Brendan O\u2019Neil declarou que \u201cesta suspens\u00e3o adicional da liberdade s\u00f3 \u00e9 poss\u00edvel em uma sociedade que <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spiked-online.com\/2021\/06\/14\/delaying-freedom-day-would-be-a-disaster\/\">desvalorizou totalmente a liberdade<\/a>\u201c.<\/p>\n<p>Nos EUA, o presidente Joe Biden designou o 4 de julho como o \u201cDia da Liberdade\u201d embrulhado para presente aos americanos. Em 11 de mar\u00e7o, Biden declarou que, se as pessoas obedecerem aos decretos do governo, \u201ch\u00e1 uma boa chance de voc\u00eas, suas fam\u00edlias e amigos, serem [autorizados] a <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7.com\/joe-biden-speech-last-night-yesterday-stimulus-american-rescue-plan\/10410116\/\">se reunir em seu quintal<\/a> ou em sua vizinhan\u00e7a e fazer um churrasco ou festa e comemorar o Dia da Independ\u00eancia.\u201d Biden repetiu sua declara\u00e7\u00e3o em 21 de abril: \u201cPara <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/speeches-remarks\/2021\/04\/21\/remarks-by-president-biden-on-the-covid-19-response-and-the-state-of-vaccinations-2\/\">celebrar nossa independ\u00eancia<\/a> deste v\u00edrus em 4 de julho com familiares e amigos em pequenos grupos\u2026. Todos n\u00f3s precisamos nos proteger \u2026 at\u00e9 que todos tenham a chance de se vacinar.\u201d Biden converteu o 4 de julho em uma refer\u00eancia de submiss\u00e3o aos decretos presidenciais. Em 4 de maio, Biden anunciou que queria que <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/05\/04\/993537622\/biden-sets-new-goal-for-at-least-70-of-adults-to-be-vaccinated-by-july-4\">70% dos adultos americanos<\/a> recebessem pelo menos uma dose de vacina Covid at\u00e9 4 de julho. Em 2 de junho, Biden declarou que as pessoas deveriam \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/biden-announce-america-sprint-vaccinated-july-fourth\/story?id=78040222\">exercer sua liberdade<\/a>\u201d de serem vacinadas para que os americanos pudessem desfrutar de um \u201cver\u00e3o de liberdade.\u201d A liberdade de receber inje\u00e7\u00f5es com mandato pol\u00edtico n\u00e3o era uma das cl\u00e1usulas inclu\u00eddas na Declara\u00e7\u00e3o de Direitos. Independentemente do alarmismo do governo Biden, a maioria dos estados j\u00e1 suspendeu as ordens de lockdown.<\/p>\n<p>A tentativa de expropria\u00e7\u00e3o do Dia da Independ\u00eancia de Biden n\u00e3o teve impacto em sua lua de mel com a m\u00eddia. Quando os pr\u00eamios Pulitzer foram concedidos na sexta-feira passada, nenhum pr\u00eamio foi dado por expor as fraudes e loucuras das pol\u00edticas repressivas da Covid-19 que destru\u00edram a prosperidade e a liberdade. Em vez disso, o Pulitzer de Servi\u00e7o P\u00fablico foi concedido a uma equipe do <em>New York Times<\/em> que inclu\u00eda Donald McNeil. Conforme relatado por Jeffrey Tucker, no in\u00edcio da pandemia, McNeil alimentou o medo com um artigo bizarro intitulado: \u201cPara enfrentar o Coronav\u00edrus, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aier.org\/article\/dont-cry-for-donald-mcneil\/\">torne-se medieval<\/a>\u201c. Ele exortou os legisladores americanos a confiarem em t\u00e1ticas \u201cda era da Peste Negra \u2026 encurralem cidad\u00e3os aterrorizados dentro de suas cidades envenenadas \u2026 Medidas duras horrorizam os libert\u00e1rios civis, mas muitas vezes salvam vidas, especialmente quando s\u00e3o impostas nos primeiros dias.\u201d McNeil turbinou seu alarmismo ao superestimar o prov\u00e1vel n\u00famero de mortos em mais de 20 vezes. Ironicamente, em uma \u00e9poca em que a m\u00eddia americana se tornou muito mais cr\u00edtica em rela\u00e7\u00e3o ao poder policial, os especialistas consagraram o poder burocr\u00e1tico.<\/p>\n<p>Na era Covid, destruir a liberdade \u00e9 uma perda insignificante, semelhante a uma ag\u00eancia governamental que perde algumas centenas de arquivos. O prefeito de Los Angeles, Eric Garcetti, enfrentou cr\u00edticas m\u00ednimas em dezembro passado quando ele <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/12\/03\/los-angeles-mayor-eric-garcetti-covid-restrictions-ban-walking-traveling\/\">proibiu todas as \u201cviagens desnecess\u00e1rias<\/a>, incluindo, sem limita\u00e7\u00e3o, viagens a p\u00e9, de bicicleta, scooter, motocicleta, autom\u00f3vel ou transporte p\u00fablico\u201d. O prefeito n\u00e3o ofereceu nenhuma evid\u00eancia para justificar a coloca\u00e7\u00e3o de quatro milh\u00f5es de residentes em pris\u00e3o domiciliar. Restri\u00e7\u00f5es semelhantes atingiram residentes de Michigan, Nova York, Oregon e outros estados. O juiz federal William Stickman IV declarou acertadamente em setembro passado: \u201cOs lockdowns generalizados de toda a popula\u00e7\u00e3o s\u00e3o uma <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/us-law-week\/pennsylvania-covid-restrictions-unconstitutional-judge-says\">invers\u00e3o t\u00e3o dram\u00e1tica do conceito de liberdade<\/a> em uma sociedade livre que chega a ser quase presumivelmente inconstitucional\u201d. Mas a escassa controv\u00e9rsia sobre os lockdowns \u00e9 um sinal de que muitos meios de comunica\u00e7\u00e3o ficam felizes em ver a liberdade \u201cinvertida\u201d em obedi\u00eancia inquestion\u00e1vel a qualquer comando emitido por qualquer funcion\u00e1rio do governo.<\/p>\n<p>Os pol\u00edticos puderam dizimar a liberdade porque seus decretos Covid-19 quase instantaneamente tornaram-se santificados com a aura de \u201cci\u00eancia\u201d \u2013 independentemente de quantas vezes a orienta\u00e7\u00e3o oficial mudou. Desde que Biden se tornou presidente, as vacinas da Covid tamb\u00e9m se tornaram sacrossantas e lan\u00e7ar quaisquer d\u00favidas sobre sua seguran\u00e7a ou efic\u00e1cia \u00e9 retratado como prova de idiotice ou vilania. Os pol\u00edticos e seus aliados da m\u00eddia agora falam como se o \u00fanico indicador confi\u00e1vel de sa\u00fade e seguran\u00e7a fosse a porcentagem de americanos que foram injetados (ignorando a imunidade natural de que gozam <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/cases-updates\/burden.html\">os 115 milh\u00f5es de pessoas infectadas com Covid<\/a>). O resultado \u00e9 uma longa s\u00e9rie de proclama\u00e7\u00f5es de vit\u00f3ria no estilo socialista, substituindo o n\u00famero de bra\u00e7os injetados por estat\u00edsticas falsas sobre a colheita de trigo em fazendas coletivas. E quem se recusa a ser vacinado \u00e9 o novo Kulak, insultado e retratado como uma terr\u00edvel amea\u00e7a \u00e0 sobreviv\u00eancia de tudo que \u00e9 decente. N\u00e3o seria surpreendente se os pol\u00edticos limitassem os futuros aux\u00edlios da Covid a indiv\u00edduos que pudessem provar que foram vacinados.<\/p>\n<p>Muitos americanos presumem que as dificuldades pol\u00edticas de Covid est\u00e3o principalmente no espelho retrovisor. As letras mi\u00fadas do comunicado do G-7 s\u00e3o um inferno para tanto otimismo. \u201cA pandemia COVID-19 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2021\/06\/13\/carbis-bay-g7-summit-communique\/\">n\u00e3o est\u00e1 sob controle em qualquer lugar<\/a> at\u00e9 que esteja sob controle em todos os lugares\u201d, advertiram os participantes da Confer\u00eancia. E enquanto a pandemia estiver fora de controle, os governantes devem permanecer de r\u00e9deas soltas. Se algu\u00e9m tiver o v\u00edrus, ningu\u00e9m est\u00e1 livre \u2013 ou pelo menos ningu\u00e9m deveria ter permiss\u00e3o para ser livre. As prerrogativas e precedentes que se multiplicaram durante a pandemia de Covid est\u00e3o esperando para serem explorados para o pr\u00f3ximo surto viral \u2013 ou talvez simplesmente para fazer <a href=\"https:\/\/rothbardbrasil.com\/novas-oportunidades-para-marxistas-mudanca-climatica-e-coronavirus\/\">adicionar dramaticidade as mudan\u00e7as clim\u00e1ticas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>O Comunicado do G-7 prometia infinitamente \u201ctranspar\u00eancia\u201d, mas apenas os tolos deveriam esperar franqueza oficial durante pandemias ou outras emerg\u00eancias proclamadas politicamente. Cientistas brit\u00e2nicos que moldaram as pol\u00edticas do governo da Covid admitiram recentemente o uso da propaganda de medo \u201canti\u00e9tica\u201d e \u201cdist\u00f3pica\u201d para aterrorizar as pessoas at\u00e9 a submiss\u00e3o. Um cientista declarou que \u201cusar o medo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2021\/05\/14\/scientists-admit-totalitarian-use-fear-control-behaviour-covid\/\">cheira a totalitarismo<\/a>\u201d, e outro cientista admitiu estar \u201csurpreso com a transforma\u00e7\u00e3o da psicologia comportamental em arma\u201d para impor o cumprimento dos ditames de Covid.<\/p>\n<p>Pol\u00edticos e ag\u00eancias governamentais confiaram em muitas das mesmas t\u00e1ticas de medo neste pa\u00eds. A m\u00eddia d\u00f3cil ajudou a convencer as pessoas a verem a liberdade dos outros como a amea\u00e7a mais mortal para sua pr\u00f3pria sa\u00fade. Em vez disso, o maior perigo que os cidad\u00e3os enfrentavam era que seus governantes n\u00e3o teriam poder suficiente para for\u00e7ar todos os outros a parar de trabalhar, de ir a igreja, para ficar dentro de casa e receber uma inje\u00e7\u00e3o.<\/p>\n<p>Os czares sem culpa n\u00e3o substituem a liberdade individual. Os pol\u00edticos justificaram os lockdowns alegando que todos os sacrif\u00edcios s\u00e3o justificados se \u201csalvarem apenas uma vida\u201d. Mas e quanto a \u201capenas uma liberdade\u201d \u2013 especialmente as liberdades anteriormente desfrutadas por centenas de milh\u00f5es de pessoas? Em vez de \u201cReconstruir Melhor\u201d, fortalecendo ainda mais os governantes imprudentes, precisamos \u201cReconstruir Mais Livre\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/jpb-instituto-rothbard-art-for-defining-down-freedom.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-16106\" src=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/jpb-instituto-rothbard-art-for-defining-down-freedom-800x508.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"508\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/jpb-instituto-rothbard-art-for-defining-down-freedom-800x508.jpg 800w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/jpb-instituto-rothbard-art-for-defining-down-freedom-1024x650.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/jpb-instituto-rothbard-art-for-defining-down-freedom-150x95.jpg 150w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/jpb-instituto-rothbard-art-for-defining-down-freedom-768x488.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/jpb-instituto-rothbard-art-for-defining-down-freedom.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks a lot to the Instituto Rothbard for translating my &#8220;Defining Freedom Down&#8221; into Portuguese &#8211; and for the great art work! 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