day no. 16,348: the State of emergency

"Emergencies have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded – and once they are suspended it is not difficult for anyone who has assumed emergency powers to see to it that the emergency will persist.“ — Friedrich Hayek, Law, Legislation and Liberty, Volume 3

There is a type of state that only comes into being by accident. It requires an emergency to exist. That said, the accident does not need to be accidental, it can be engineered or on purpose. The guise required to bring it about, however, must be an “emergency.” A crisis is required to be or do certain things; and so, rest assured, unforeseen events are often seen and the unheard of is often heard. If a crisis is required, a crisis can be rigged. A state of emergency must be declared in order to create the State of Emergency. It cannot come into being without one. The state of emergency can be anything that permits the State to do anything.

Proverbs 29:4

The king by justice establisheth the land;

But he that exacteth gifts overthroweth it.

The type of State that emerges as a result of an emergency is a type that doesn’t readily surrender its new state of power arguing that the land needs to be overthrown in order to be established. So, though the emergency expires, some or all of the emergency powers remain in force. It is often explained that these new powers are needed to prevent future emergencies, that is to say, "We must overthrow the land in order to establish it."

A state of emergency is often the steroids of the State used to gain a competitive advantage.

The State secures certain powers through the presence of the emergency and either continues to keep them when the emergency is long since passed or perpetuates the emergency in order to perpetuate its power, but the end game is always to do away with the accouterments. Just as the scaffolding eventually gives way to the shape of the structure and can at that point then safely be discarded, so the emergency is merely the mechanism or apparatus required to build the structure and will be discarded once it is sturdy enough to stand on its own. Rest assured, when the pretense of the emergency begins to be disassembled, it is because the State assumes it now has established itself sufficiently enough to continue on without it. By the time pretense is dropped, power has already been established.

The State of Emergency could not be built without the scaffolding of a crisis, but will do away with the crisis once the structure can stand on its own. Once the State of Emergency has gained its seat in the cabinet, it can safely declare the emergency over. The State wants to be the only Emergency you respond to. So, the citizenry catches it both ways. Their lack of planning becomes our emergency, but their plans are to be an emergency that leads to our lack.