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Not surprisingly, ‘Facebook, Twitter and other big tech companies actually want standardized Internet speech regulations. In fact, Facebook has been spending millions of dollars on ads that openly call for more government regulation of speech on the Internet. You can view an example of what I am talking about right here. At first glance, it may seem odd that Facebook wants more government regulation of the tech industry, but it actually makes perfect sense. If the federal government is the one making the rules, Facebook and the other big tech companies can legally censor you into oblivion without ever having to worry about any legal consequences. And then because all other social media platforms in existence will have to follow the exact same rules, there will be nowhere else for you to turn. There won’t be any “free speech alternatives” to Facebook and Twitter, because all of those “alternatives” will be forced to apply the same speech standards that Facebook and Twitter and applying.’http://endoftheamericandream.com/
And we were led to believe Hitler was dead!
‘The Austrian government is meeting over the weekend with the intent of imposing a nationwide lockdown on unvaccinated citizens, and at least two provinces are slated to be under such orders starting Monday.
Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg said Friday that he and regional leaders would get together on Sunday to discuss the plans, and that “The aim is very clear: that we give the green light this Sunday for a nationwide lockdown for the unvaccinated,” the Associated Press reported.
Regardless of whether the federal government approves the lockdown for the unvaccinated to apply to the entire country, unvaccinated residents in the provinces of Upper Austria and Salzburg will be under lockdown beginning Monday and will only be allowed to leave their homes for necessities such as buying groceries or going to doctor’s appointments.
Unvaccinated Austrians are already banned from going to events that have 25 or more attendees, and have also been prohibited from going to hairdressers or most restaurants under rules that went into effect this week.
Roughly 65% of Austrians are vaccinated for COVID-19, which is the same average for the population of the entire European Economic Area according to European Union data, Reuters reported.’https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/austria-set-to-impose-nationwide-lockdown-for-unvaccinated/ar-AAQE5P2?cvid=e1b1e52ef8af4ffab37b698b64cd992c&ocid=winp1taskbar
Australia is the same. Apartheid is alive and well in these Communist/Marxist leaning nations! When the CCP takes over it will not be such a shock to the system.
‘There were some fine words from the Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, this week when he spoke in Melbourne to a Victorian Chamber of Commerce event attended mainly by small business owners. Apparently there are still some left in that long-suffering city, home to the longest-lasting lockdowns in the world and easily the most draconian Covid restrictions in the Western world. After some typically Morrisonian ‘how good is Australia’ blather about getting your hair cut or meeting friends at the pub, he finally got to the point. ‘The taste of freedom,’ he announced; a sentence without a verb as if it were the title of a new book or movie. ‘It must never be taken from us again. That is why I put the national plan together. A plan based on the best possible medical science and economics to ensure we open safely and stay safely open. Australians have kept their side of this deal by getting vaccinated. Governments must now keep theirs and return to Australians their freedoms.’
Full marks for the sentiment. But the detail of his comments reveals the disappointing fact that our Prime Minister not only doesn’t understand the true concept of freedom, but worse, is trying to excuse and paper over the gaping black hole of genuine leadership that has engulfed the nation these last eighteen months.
Let’s start with the taste of freedom. Rather than being an ancient concept that millions of humans have died so that others may experience and cherish it, Mr Morrison instead sees freedom as akin to a new brand of Vegemite or a new Aussie beer (mid-strength, obviously). In the Morrison world view, freedom is as you-beaut-ripper as a Kingswood station wagon packed with the kids heading down to the coast for the summer hols (and about as irritating). Freedom is as convenient and as comfy as your favourite pair of tracksuit pants and thongs (and just as easily discarded).
Morrison’s ‘freedom’ is ‘part of who we are’, much in the same way that a burnt snag at a Bunnings sausage sizzle is.
And as such – and this is the disturbing bit – freedom is actually something the government manufactures, that the government owns and that the government will give you if you’ve been a good boy or a good girl. Indeed, in the Prime Minister’s mind, freedom is very much and very explicitly a bargaining chip. A token in a game of viral tiddlywinks. Freedom in exchange for being vaccinated.
That is a dangerous precedent. Freedom should be the inalienable right of every law-abiding Australian regardless of their health status. The Prime Minister, several months ago, claimed that the vaccines would not be mandatory. Although that may be technically correct in the most legalistic sense, the stark reality is that for the time being to all intents and purposes Covid vaccines are mandatory in Australia. Therefore the Prime Minister has broken his own word either through neglect or on purpose.
Depressingly, NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet has retreated on his own fine words that freedom was not a gift of any government, and now that he is in power has similarly using denial of freedoms and social isolation as forms of punishment by arbitrarily extending restrictions on the unvaccinated by a fortnight.
Then comes the prime ministerial non-sequitur, and it’s a real doozy. Mr Morrison claims that he put his much-prized ‘national plan’ together in order to ensure that our freedoms will ‘never be taken from us again’. That’s quite the claim! In fact, the self-stated purpose of the national plan was to ‘relink the states’ and ‘connect Australia to the world’. Nothing in there about ensuring our freedoms would ‘never be taken from us again’. In order to achieve that noble goal, the Prime Minister will have to do what he should have done last year when he was offered the chance (you only get one Clive Palmer in your lifetime) to challenge the Constitutional legality of closed borders. That would have been one crucial step towards guaranteeing the permanence and inalienability of individual freedoms. Another would be to legislate – as has been done by the Republican governor of Florida, Ron de Santis – to make it illegal under Australia’s human rights laws to discriminate against any Australian citizen within this country based on their vaccination status.
So – no, Prime Minister, your national plan was not designed to ensure that the taste of freedom will never be taken from us again. That might sound good in the research focus groups, but it is a lie. Australians, and in particular Australian businesses, have no guarantee that their freedoms won’t be ripped from them again the moment that, for example, a new variant of the virus should appear, or even a new virus pops out again from a bowl of bat soup or any other delicacy being conveniently served up adjacent to a Chinese bio-weapons lab, or the efficacy of vaccines wears off or, for whatever reason, the public decides against immunisation boosters or other such measures.
Having ignored freedom when we needed it the Prime Minister is now waving it around on the eve an election. Australians may currently have the illusion of ‘freedom’ but, like that family trip to the coast, we’re definitely not there yet.’https://spectator.com.au/2021/11/are-we-free-yet/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MDS%20%2020211111%20%20SG&utm_content=MDS%20%2020211111%20%20SG+CID_f41c9caec8be7507b2ab2d14a2008fca&utm_source=CampaignMonitor_Australia&utm_term=Are%20we%20free%20yet
Whatever democracy is supposed to be it isn’t anymore in Australia. The China virus has allowed the Federal and state governments to rip away the freedoms once enjoyed. Once taken they will NEVER be returned! What is surprising and sad is how easily these freedoms were snatched from the citizens. Our political masters are selling us out to the highest bidder.
‘William Pitt, The Younger, warned in 1783, “Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants. It is the creed of slaves.” And that’s where we are at this time in history. Political and medical totalitarians, tyrants, and ordinary thugs tell us we need to get vaccinated for everyone’s good; we need to wear masks; we need to close businesses; we need to close churches; we need to listen to our betters. Just do what we are told to do.
Such demands are reminiscent of mass rallies in Berlin in the 1930s although back then the flags were black and white, their shirts were brown, and everyone drove a Volkswagen.
Totalitarians can never be trusted and must understand—we are not their slaves.
Sen. Ron Johnson stunned the U.S. Senate declaring 63% of Britain’s Delta deaths in the last 7.5 months “were fully vaccinated while Biden and other health experts tell us we need to get the vaccine to keep from getting COVID!” The medical tyrants disregard scientific facts and demand we must be vaccinated even though the vaccines do not protect from the virus.
Health officials and politicians demand the jab, and many Americans are saying, “No.” Obviously, we are experiencing a major train wreck.
Years ago, a vaccine was defined as something that prevented disease and they seemed to work. However, vaccination has been re-defined to mean something that promotes “antibodies or immunity.” It seems someone is changing the rules of the game to confuse us or to guarantee themselves a minor victory jerked from the jaws of disaster.
I’m not going to submit to slavery. I don’t like slave masters whether they were black chiefs selling fellow Blacks in west African ports; Jewish and Arab ship captains on the Middle Passage from Europe, to Africa, to America, then back to Europe; or Bible-quoting Simon Legrees sipping mint juleps on the front porch of a Memphis plantation.
I for sure don’t like government slave masters on the public payroll who think they are endowered with authority to command lowly citizens to obey their unscientific, unnecessary, and unhealthy mandates.
I won’t consent.
Furthermore, there is scriptural basis in Proverbs 1:10 for refusing to obey. “My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.” Solomon tells us after asserting that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, we are not to consent to do evil even if required by elders and rulers. An official requires a dangerous mask or forbids church attendance, we are told “consent thou not.” Not even the Devil himself can lead one astray if he does not consent.
In calm, determined dignity one does his duty even if he stands alone in his devotion and discretion firmly saying, “I will not consent.”
When I was young, the pitch was to get vaccinated so you would not get measles, whooping cough, diphtheria, etc., and they seemed to work; however, Americans are being forced to take a vaccine that does not work and was rushed into production, with no long-term testing results!
A retired California nurse asked her Board of Supervisors, “Why do the protected need to be protected from the unprotected by forcing the unprotected to use the protection that didn’t protect the protected in the first place?” Not sure how they answered her.
To make matters even worse, some health experts assert that the vaccines create the variants. World-renowned Nobel winner virologist Luc Montagnier explained, “(H)istory…will show that (jabbing) create(s) variants” that could be resistant to current treatments. Note, this famous expert claims the shot causes different COVID variants.
Dr. Peter McCullough, Baylor epidemiologist, and COVID expert declared, “I think this Delta outbreak that we have right now is the product of mass vaccination.”
Wow, that means the vaccines are spreading the disease they are supposed to cure.
Remember, the vaccines are not effective. Even the dullards among us have noted the “breakaway” cases where many fully vaccinated people have been infected with COVID and died! I thought the reason everyone was to get the shot was so they would not get COVID. Biden promised us we would not be hospitalized or die if we took the shot.
According to the British government, the infection rate in fully vaccinated people in their 40s was 100% higher than in the unvaccinated.
But it’s worse than that. It seems the vaccines are often causing disease, disability, and death. Yet we are told this is “not a sign of vaccine failure.” Well, it’s sure a sign of some kind of failure.
Health Impact News reported September 29, 2021, that Dr. Gérard Delépine from France, recently published a study based on public data from the countries with the highest vaccination rates that clearly shows that “the COVID-19 shots are hospitalizing people and killing people at higher rates than countries who have adopted early treatment protocols without the use of vaccines.”
Maybe I don’t know the definitions of fully and protected.
The statistics are difficult to accumulate and are often hidden in a mass of other data. Still, even the CDC reports that approximately 74% of new COVID cases in at least one situation were in fully vaccinated individuals.
A news reporter for Detroit’s ABC affiliate WXYZ sought reports of relatives who had died of COVID-19 after refusing to be vaccinated. Shockingly the station’s Facebook page was flooded with stories of loved ones who were injured or died after getting the jab.
According to the World Tribune, the station received “more than 39,000 angry and often heartbreaking responses as of noon Monday after posting the request Friday.” The number of pitiful responses now numbers 182,000, proof the adage is true: murder will out. Atrocious crimes can be hidden for a while, especially by famous and influential men, but they cannot be suppressed, denied, or remain undetected forever.
Just wait another three months!
Israel is resorting to deception to force all Israelis to get the jab. Israeli politician Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz admitted on a “hot” microphone that Israel’s green pass COVID rules were not for medical reasons but to pressure citizens to get vaccinated. The Minister was speaking with Channel 12 News, not knowing he was being recorded for the world to hear.
Many Israelis and Americans are losing their jobs because of a government and business mandate: no jab, no job, no joke.
Yet, more shots for Israelis are required even though the Israeli Peoples Committee reported in April of 2021, about the Pfizer shots: “there has never been a vaccine that has harmed as many people.” While Israel has the highest vaccine rate (Pfizer) in the world, Pfizer vaccine is linked to more deaths in Israel than AstraZeneca is in the whole of Europe.
Israelis are balking at what seems to be a shot-of-the-month club.
All politicians have an obsessive tendency to control people, and deception is a well-worn tool used for that purpose. Americans are being manipulated into doing what their political masters demand.
Not long ago, the young (now old) were told to “question all authority.” Now, they meekly roll up their sleeves to get a vaccine that they don’t need and doesn’t work. They close their businesses at the command of a governor, even if it means bankruptcy. They obey an order to stay away from church services, while strip clubs are permitted to remain open.
We are no longer people but sheeple.
Is it possible that all the pressure to accept the COVID-19 vaccination is all about money? If so, that is equivalent to a vast criminal enterprise.
National and international health officials have been selling vaccines to gullible people. It is called a “sales pitch,” and make no mistake about that fact. The vaccine manufacturers have spent billions of dollars (much of it from American taxpayers) to produce the vaccines, so they must fly off the shelves to pay billions of profits for Big Pharma. Recently, Moderna announced their COVID vaccine brought in more than $4 billion in second-quarter sales. Moderna officials also tell us people need a vaccine booster to protect against future mutations of the coronavirus.
Follow the money.
Pfizer’s data shows it made $3.5 billion in revenue during the first three months of 2021 and Whistleblower, June 2021reports Pfizer and Moderna will “generate $32 billion in COVID-19 vaccine revenue” this year.
Well, that’s no surprise. That’s why every company has a sales department, often without impressive marketing titles. CNN reported on May 21, 2021, Covid-19 vaccines have created at least nine new billionaires associated with the vaccine companies. Big money is involved as well as big reputations, so everyone must take the shot whatever the science reveals.
It makes one think that the drive to get everyone vaccinated is not to save lives but to sell vaccines and control citizens. And it is working.
Don’t go to those with a vested interest in the vaccines’ success to get an opinion on the shot’s effectiveness. Of course, the vaccines are safe and effective and free, says the pharmaceutical companies’ pitchmen.
Federal health officials have a close relationship with Big Pharma. Indeed, Bill Gates, who has no medical training or experience, admitted in a CNBC interview that he turned an initial $10 billion investment in vaccine manufacturing into $200 billion.
Follow the money.
When judging a person’s veracity, one must know about his credentials, reputation, experience, and any conflict of interest (COI). Many public health officials own patents on various drugs and vaccines while others get federal grants, and still others write peer-reviewed articles in medical journals. The record is replete with health officials not admitting their COI.
In 2020, former director of the FDA, Dr. Scott Gottlieb was paid $338,587 by Pfizer and also earned $525,850 as a director if Illumina. Furthermore, as a member of Pfizer’s Board of Directors, he is well paid to attend board meetings each year. Moreover, three people at the head of Moderna, were recently listed on Forbes’ list of 400 wealthiest people in the nation.
The money tree will go bare if it is not manured and protected by the pharmaceutical and health products industry, so they spent $171,262,239 billion so far this year in lobbying to keep the money flowing. Pfizer and Merck were among the top five patrons.
In October of 2021, Merck announced a new pill to supplement the vaccines. Molnupiravir was produced under a $1.2 billion contract with the federal government. The government has options to purchase $3.7 billion of the pill. Ivermectin and HCQ are inexpensive, over-the-counter drugs that have proved their safety and effectiveness for many decades. Merck is also the producer of ivermectin and their patent has expired. I wonder if Merck simply tweaked it to produce a new pill that could be patented and sold for an outrageous price. The new drug will sell for $700 per treatment as compared to $30.00 for ivermectin and HCQ including azithromycin and zinc!
Merck denies the charge that Molnupiravir is a remake of ivermectin.
Merck is asking the FDA for emergency approval of their new drug, but isn’t it interesting that the FDA refuses to recognize the two available drugs with excellent safety records as a COVID-19 treatment? Why gamble on a new drug with no long-time safety studies when the answer is in every pharmacy in most nations of the world?
But then, nothing must be done to queer the sale of the rushed vaccines. Plus, a new high-priced pill would add much more income in everyone’s bank account, except the patients.
Those of us who refuse to be shot with an unproven, rushed vaccine are being demonized as domestic terrorists. The Washington Post reported anti-vaccine extremism is akin to domestic terrorism. We become second-class citizens who must be put on a “no-fly” list.
Biden issued a National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism on his first day in office, yet he nominated eco-terrorists and BLM terrorists for federal positions! And irresponsible, irrepressible, and infuriating politicians approved them to high government positions.
We only think we have liberty; and we will not struggle in our chains as long as we think we are free.’https://donboys.cstnews.com/americans-forced-to-get-vaccines-that-dont-work-but-do-produce-billions-for-big-pharma
‘Tyrants are alive and well during these Covid days. If you tremble with righteous anger when tyrants raise a clenched fist to crush the innocent and helpless, then you and I can become friends, even if you’re a Liberal.
Yes, I’m getting mellow at my advanced age. But then, mellow is only one stage from being rotten, so we can at least be friendly.
Righteous anger is producing stirrings of courage, convictions, and commitment around the globe.
A few days ago, thousands of physicians told national governments they are resisting their totalitarianism and will not take it anymore. They declared government officials are not in charge of health care, and in attempting to control it, they are tyrants and totalitarians.
Such officials would also be ordinary thugs.
It was September 29 of this year that more than 6700 physicians threw down the gauntlet and demanded an end to the medical tyranny that national and international health officials had forced upon them. The concerned physicians are weary of being bullied, browbeaten, and bludgeoned by political physicians and restricted on how they treat COVID-19 patients before they are hospitalized in a life and death position. Often the mandatory unsuccessful treatment fails, ending with death.
I think death would indicate the treatment was unsuccessful.
The brave physicians declared, “this is not medicine. This is not care. These policies may actually constitute crimes against humanity.” It must be remembered that these physicians work on the frontline in the COVID battle, not sitting in ivory towers pontificating their wisdom to the unwashed masses in the streets.
Others have made similar comments about “crimes against humanity.” That is not hyperbolic but real. Health “experts” at the CDC, NIH, FDA, and WHO have been accused of dragging their feet in restricting and refusing (even ridiculing) the use of common, effective drugs to cure patients in early stages of COVID. It is alleged they are doing that to guarantee the financial success of quick and questionable but expensive vaccines. If so, that is “crimes against humanity.”
I hesitate to use the Nazi comparison at any time, but it is appropriate here. Twelve Nazi officers were sentenced to hang at Nuremberg for the deaths of innocent people, and the guilt of some officers is in doubt. IF the allegations against federal and international health officials are true, it is far worse than those Nazis, and there will be many physicians in court who sold out for 30 pieces of silver—or the hope of a Nobel Prize.
Even if all the charges against public health officials are untrue, the accusation of tyranny is clearly valid. Without seeking information from all sources, politicians took the word of people with doctorates but who had never treated a patient. Furthermore, some of the health officials had conflicts of interest—financial, political, and economical. Or egotistical.
Furthermore, no honest person would disagree that much political reaction was prompted by hatred of Donald Trump. Such politicians made decisions not based on science while they talked about following the science!
The lockdowns are unprecedented, and it’s unbelievable that so many allegedly independent-thinking Americans would obey such dictatorial mandates. How did these political tyrants— mayors, governors (and president), think they had the authority to force a businessperson to close their business after putting their life savings and sweat into it? Moreover, it is shocking that so many obeyed and thus were forced out of business.
However, this has been going on for decades since the 1964 Civil Rights Act, when the feds took freedom from everyone with the pretense of helping minorities have more freedom. If the state or federal government can tell you that you must serve certain people, then they can tell you what hours you can open, how much you must pay, what pension plans you must provide, rules about overtime, workplace regulations, and on and on and on. Political totalitarians should have been stopped at the first intrusion into a business that was not their own. Businesspeople don’t work for themselves anymore but for the government.
Lockdowns forced churches to close while strip clubs and similar places remained open! I suppose there may be a feeble argument for a businessperson to make about caving to officials but not for a church. The church must obey Scripture, and it has first amendment protection. Yet, church leaders permitted elected officials to decide whether the church could be open, how many people could attend, how they were seated, and the duration of services.
The early Disciples would reply, “We ought to obey God rather than men.”
Many, maybe most, of the submissive pastors were simply trying to be obedient and wanted to help, not hinder, the community. Some pastors compounded their compromise by paying a fine. For others, it was cowardice and capitulation to secular authority. That will be revealed in eternity and not before a human tribunal.
We were told that masks are required, and one could not enter a business without a mask, but that mandate is not science-based. Masks are not capable of or made for preventing the spread of any virus. Proof of that fact is printed on the side of every mask box.
Is this a dry run for the time when one cannot buy or sell without a mark? Not much difference between a mark and a mask. Both mean subservience. But then, a businessperson can set any qualifications he chooses within very narrow guidelines since 1964. I would support a business owner’s right to require a Goodyear tire around each customer’s neck.
The governor of Texas has forbidden any business to forbid masks in the state, but a businessperson should have the right to set his own requirements for those he serves.
A medical doctor or nurse is different from a businessperson. First, he probably had a huge student loan guaranteed by the federal government. However, he took an oath to help the sick and to “do no harm.” When a physician refuses to see a patient or do early treatment, he breaks his oath, and the patient should remind him of that. A non-mask-wearing patient should not be denied treatment.
The Washington Examiner ran a story about the effectiveness of masks protecting wearers from COVID. They asked, “Do masks actually work? The best studies suggest they don’t”! A 2020 study in Denmark with 4,800 participants found that “1.8 percent of those in the mask group and 2.1 percent of those in the control group became infected with Covid-19 within a month, with this 0.3-point difference not being statistically significant.”
Reports of toxic mold and bacteria can harm your lungs and immune system as you also inhale synthetic fibers from the masks. Only the special N95 masks that few people have might be somewhat helpful.
Now the tyrants tell us that two-year-old children must be masked. Have these people lost their minds? They must not have children because small children will not wear a mask all day. Or an hour. It should be remembered that children have as much chance of getting COVID as being struck by lightning in an Iowa lake while fighting off a monster crocodile.
Some wackos have required children at school lunches to keep the masks on while eating. They must insert the food, then replace the mask, and chew and swallow the food. Then remove the mast to insert the food, replace the mask and chew the food. On and on and on. My reply: Nuts.
Dr. Mike Ryan, executive director of the WHO health emergencies program, declared, “There is no specific evidence to suggest that the wearing of masks by the mass population has any potential benefit.”
Health officials at the CDC, NIH, FDA, and WHO have flipped more than a gasping fish on a riverbank. And are shocked when we ridicule their “expertise.”
Masks don’t work and even do great harm; moreover, they are abnormal since one’s face is a significant part of ones’ identity.
God reminds us in II Corinthians 3:18, “But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.” Genesis 38:15 reminds us that when Judah saw his face-covered daughter-in-law, he “thought her to be an harlot; because she had covered her face.”
In II Chronicles 25, King Amaziah of Judah went to see Joash, King of Israel, saying, “Come, let us see one another in the face.” The face is very valuable in communication, understanding, and making judgments.
The petty health tyrants get their jollies out of issuing lockdowns, masks, treatments, etc., but they are bags of wind and driven by ego. Those that are not, might be sincere but sincerely stupid.
The federal government is trying to sell costly vaccines, face masks, and lockdowns to a naïve public without any scientific or legal support. Medical matters are the responsibility of the state, not the federal government. That doesn’t seem to matter since the force of the federal government is often used illegally.
Moreover, the federal government cannot regulate each state’s health requirements since it is the state’s legal responsibility. Biden and his shysters at the CDC, NIH, FDA, and WHO can pontificate all they want, but the states are responsible. According to the U.S. Supreme Court, “Direct control of medical practice in the states is beyond the power of the federal government.” (Linder v. United States, 268 U. S. 5, 18, 45 S. Ct. 446, 449 (69 L. Ed. 819, 39 A. L. R. 229.)
Congress or the CDC, NIH, FDA, or Joe Biden cannot directly restrict a physician’s professional judgment or interfere with the free exercise in treating disease. Whatever power exists in that respect belongs to the states exclusively.
Political and medical tyrants have demanded masks and vaccinations but thinking Americans are saying, “no.” School teachers, bus drivers, pilots, police officers, firemen, and many medical personnel have refused the shot and masks. It tells the tyrants we will not be controlled.
With all the workers refusing the jab, mask-wearing, etc., it will break the back of the tyrants; or the workers will cave, energizing the tyrants. Our massive federal debt, bankrupt businesses, climbing inflation, and our refusal to stand will produce a total collapse of America. We can defeat tyranny again.
Tyrants are never impressed by cowardly compliance and craven capitulation; it only emboldens, empowers, and encourages tyranny. George Orwell reminded us, “All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed, they must rely exclusively on force.” We are watching a demonstration of raw force in various nations. Thomas Jefferson opined, “When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.”
We live under tyranny if the people fear their government instead of government officials fearing the people. It’s time to stand. As Jefferson said, it’s your duty.’https://donboys.cstnews.com/over-6700-doctors-sign-letter-rejecting-coronavirus-tyranny
‘China’s military announced Monday that it carried out beach landing and assault drills just across from Taiwan at a moment the rhetoric coming out of Beijing, Taipei and Taiwan’s powerful backer Washington is growing increasingly bellicose.
The assault drills were held “in recent days” according to the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) statement, located in the southern part of Fujian province, which is directly across the sea from the self-ruled island.’https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/chinas-military-conducts-beach-landing-assault-drills-just-across-taiwan
‘As we survey the current political, social and cultural landscape of Australia, we see that this pandemic has perhaps irrevocably changed who we are as a people and a nation.
Our national anthem boasts that “we are one and free”. However, the reality is we are anything but “one and free” right now.
The nation is as divided as we’ve ever seen it, not just with State borders closed so tight that it almost seems like you need a visa to get into parts of your own country but Australians are attacking other Australians on the basis of whether or not they’ve had a medical procedure that has only been provisionally approved by the Therapeutic Goods Administration.
And “free”? What, with lockdowns, curfews, restrictions on gatherings, vaccine mandates for work, vaccine mandates for shopping, restrictions on GPs prescribing treatments, restrictions on leaving and entering the country? To paraphrase Darryl Kerrigan of The Castle, “you’ve got to be dreaming!”
Veteran journalist Chris Uhlmann summed up the situation in an opinion piece a few months ago. I want to quote the article at length because it is the best analysis I’ve read that so aptly describes the collective insanity that has captured our country:
So conditioned by fear are Australians to accepting the notion that COVID-19 is equivalent to the plague, the majority have learned to love Big Brother and hate dissenters…
… our pursuit of the fool’s errand of COVID Zero has seen us level every liberty, destroy educations and livelihoods and shut ourselves off from the world.
… it took us 230 years, but we finally managed to perfect the prison colony. We have even invented a perverse new “Covese” lexicon where “freedoms” are not rights, but gifts bestowed by premiers and where the police complain of “illegal family gatherings”.
Among the most depressing aspects of this supine acceptance of rank authoritarianism is the role of the media. Much of it has become a cheer squad for the blunt instrument of lockdowns and a moral hall monitor that polices thought crimes. The same organs that ritually hyperventilate about the detention of asylum seekers are the loudest voices in advocating imprisoning entire states.
Some lockdown fetishists appear to be planning to make shutdowns a lifestyle. There are sage warnings from “experts” not to pin our hopes of liberation on high rates of vaccination, for their perfect future to be realised restrictions must be as endemic as the disease.
This is Wuhan syndrome. The Economist has noted that the only countries persisting with a COVID elimination strategy are islands and dictatorships. We are now both.
Uhlmann’s assessment is not just the rantings of someone fed up with being stuck at home for too long. He’s actually got history and a lot of quality academic research on his side. The concept of mass psychosis and its connection with the rise of totalitarian regimes has long been studied by experts such as Carl Jung, Joost Merloo, Hannah Arendt and Frank Furedi to name but a few. In fact, the phenomenon has even been studied in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic. In the study COVID-19 and the Political Economy of Mass Hysteria, researchers concluded:
Negative information which is spread through mass media repetitively can affect public health negatively in the form of nocebo effects and mass hysteria. We argue that mass and digital media in connection with the state may have had adverse consequences during the COVID-19 crisis. The resulting collective hysteria may have contributed to policy errors by governments not in line with health recommendations…
Unfortunately, once a mass hysteria takes hold of the government, the amount of damage the hysteria can inflict to life and liberty surges as the state’s respect for private property and basic human rights is limited. The violation of basic human rights in the form of curfews, lockdowns, and coercive closure of business has been amply illustrated during the COVID-19 crisis.
We have seen periods of mass insanity before, including during the infamous witch hunts in Europe and the United States that occurred in the 16th and 17th centuries, and in many nations that devolved in despotic regimes throughout the 20th century.
In his seminal work, The Rape of the Mind, the aforementioned Merloo noted:
… the totalitarian systems of the 20th century represent a kind of collective psychosis. Whether gradually or suddenly, reason and common human decency are no longer possible in such a system: there is only a pervasive atmosphere of terror, and a projection of “the enemy,” imagined to be “in our midst.” Thus society turns on itself, urged on by the ruling authorities.
A very informative animated explainer by After Skool on this concept can be found in the YouTube video below. I challenge you to watch it and see whether or not the concepts and conclusions it comes to around mass insanity are not relevant to the world and, sadly, country we live in today.
So the question is: what do we do about it?
I am by no means any sage that can point us out of this mess but, as you might have seen at the end of the After Skool video, other great minds have contemplated such questions in different eras where the many seem to have fallen for a delusion, which can also be termed The Lie.
It seems then that there are five key steps to defeat The Lie:
- Get your own life in order and live free of The Lie.
- Spread the truth to counter The Lie.
- Ridicule the Elites who are behind The Lie.
- Join a movement that fosters a culture of truth within a society that is dominated by The Lie. (This is exactly what I am attempting to do with the Nation First newsletter.)
- Peaceful action by as many people as possible who have not succumbed to The Lie.
We should contemplate how each of us can follow these five steps if we are to save our country and restore true freedom to its peoples.’https://nationfirst.substack.com/p/are-we-living-in-an-insane-world?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo0MjUyOTI1MiwicG9zdF9pZCI6NDIzNzM3MTgsIl8iOiJvN0ZoWCIsImlhdCI6MTYzMzgwOTIyMywiZXhwIjoxNjMzODEyODIzLCJpc3MiOiJwdWItNDU0MTgyIiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.lfeXIGevuy6sO9BUeZa_jHpih9pWV7lfAC-lUgi_3ew
