[
Waking Times]: The very first executive order Joe Biden signed upon becoming the forty-sixth President of the United States was the national mask mandate he promised
at the Democratic National Convention back in August. The order makes
face coverings and social distancing mandatory on all federal property
and a legal requisite for interstate commerce. The move signals a clear
intent on the part of his administration to double down on the
“authoritarian” emergency measures – as described in a recent paper
from Oxford University – implemented in the wake of the pandemic crisis
and sets the stage for what may be the greatest threat to human rights
and civil liberties the world has ever known.
Under the cover of a
public health emergency, governments around the globe have imposed a
litany of authoritarian measures to curb freedom of movement, assembly,
and association. The implications have not been lost on most of us and
pockets of resistance have sprung up in various cities and towns across
America and the world. Even academia has now begun to examine the risks
these measures pose to the rights enshrined in international treaties
like the American Convention on Human Rights or Pact of San Jose, the
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), and the
Arab Charter on Human Rights among others....<<<Read The Full Article Here>>>...
