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Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill., points to guests in the balcony as he takes his seat on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017, before President Donald Trump’s speech to a joint session of Congress. (AP Photo\/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) ** FILE **<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n
By Cheryl K. Chumley – The Washington Times<\/p>\n
ANALYSIS\/OPINION:<\/strong><\/p>\n A House resolution from Illinois Democrat Rep. Bobby Rush that would put Big Government in charge of tracking citizens\u2019 movements as they relate to COVID-19 mitigation efforts \u2014 even sending health bureaucrats to \u201cindividuals\u2019 residences,\u201d \u201cas necessary,\u201d as the legislation states \u2014 has a most apt number: 6666.<\/p>\n Mark of the beast. Mark of the beast for a beastly, monstrously unconstitutional bill.<\/p>\n After all, what\u2019s more devilishly un-American than launching one of the most massive government surveillance programs of private citizens in U.S. history, all under the guise of protecting people from the coronavirus?<\/p>\n That\u2019s the \u201cCOVID-19 Testing, Reaching, And Contacting Everyone (TRACE) Act\u201d in all its $100 billion grant giveaway glory.<\/p>\n According to H.R. 6666\u2019s text: The taxpayer funds will be\u00a0used<\/a>\u00a0to \u201ctrace and monitor the contacts of infected individuals, and to support the quarantine of such contacts, through mobile health units and, as necessary \u2026 at [citizens\u2019] residences.\u201d<\/p>\n That means government comes to your home, taps on your door and demands you take a COVID-19 test. And if you test positive, that means the government makes sure you stay at home. How? Good question. Good unanswered question. Good chillingly unclear question.<\/p>\n The top dogs at the Health and Human Services and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are in control of disbursing the $100 billion to local governments to carry out the COVID-19 testing \u2014 more specifically, to \u201chire, train, compensate and pay the expenses of individuals\u201d to staff mobile health units and to knock on citizens\u2019 doors and to enforce compliance with quarantining.<\/p>\n It\u2019s all for the good of the country, dontcha know.<\/p>\n \u201cReopening our economy and getting back to normal will be all but impossible if we do not step up our testing efforts and implement robust and widespread contact tracing,\u201d Rush\u00a0said<\/a> in a statement on his House webpage. \u201cThe COVID-19 TRACE Act will allow us to do this by creating a $100 billion grant program for local organizations to hire, train and pay individuals and to purchase supplies to run mobile testing units and door-to-door outreach as is safe and necessary.\u201d<\/p>\n Be afraid; be very afraid. The resolution\u00a0has<\/a>\u00a0dozens of cosponsors.<\/p>\n This is nothing but a massive government surveillance program cloaked in a cure-the-coronavirus label.<\/p>\n A petition at Change.org to stop the nonsense has generated about 28,000 signatures. That\u2019s pitifully low.<\/p>\n \u201cHR 6666 violates inalienable rights to one\u2019s person, home and property, to one\u2019s life, freedoms, privacy and security,\u201d the petition\u00a0states<\/a>. \u201cIt is a violation of the Fourth Amendment, as well as the First, Fifth, Eighth and Ninth amendments \u2026 It is an illegal act of forced medical treatment upon We the People and an invasion into our local communities \u2026 [it] grants the [feds] broad authority as to empower any \u2018entity\u2019 \u2026 to hunt down people with no reasonable suspicion of threat to public health \u2026 HR 6666 is unconstitutional, unacceptable and unlawful.\u201d<\/p>\n Devilishly so.<\/p>\n H.R. 6666 takes COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, and turns it into a mass surveillance authority for government against society.<\/p>\n And it does it deceptively so, under the guise of providing a societal good. Be not fooled: As 2 Corinthians warns, \u201ceven Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.\u201d<\/p>\n This resolution, in America, has no right to see the light of day.<\/p>\n