humansarefree--2020-05-06--Technofascism: Digital Book Burning in a Totalitarian Age

“ Those who created this country chose freedom .
With all of its dangers .
And do you know the riskiest part of that choice they made ?
“ They actually believed that we could be trusted to make up our own minds in the whirl of differing ideas .
“ That we could be trusted to remain free , even when there were very , very seductive voices — taking advantage of our freedom of speech — who were trying to turn this country into the kind of place where the government could tell you what you can and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ We are fast becoming a nation — nay , a world — of book burners .
While on paper , we are technically free to speak — at least according to the U.S. Constitution — in reality , however , we are only as free to speak as the government and its corporate partners such as Facebook , Google or YouTube may allow .
That ’ s not a whole lot of freedom .
Especially if you ’ re inclined to voice opinions that may be construed as conspiratorial or dangerous .
Take @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , a popular commentator and author often labeled a conspiracy theorist by his detractors , recently had his Facebook page and YouTube channel ( owned by Google ) deleted for violating site policies by “ spreading coronavirus disinformation.
” The Centre for Countering Digital Hate , which has been vocal about calling for Icke ’ s de-platforming , is also pushing for the removal of all other sites and individuals who promote Icke ’ s content in an effort to supposedly “ save lives.
” Translation : the CCDH evidently believes the public @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and must be protected from dangerous ideas .
This is the goosestepping Nanny State trying to protect us from ourselves .
In the long run , this “ safety ” control ( the censorship and shadowbanning of anyone who challenges a mainstream narrative ) will be far worse than merely allowing people to think for themselves .
“ The people who want to add a censorship regime to a health crisis are more dangerous and more stupid by leaps and bounds than a president who tells people to inject disinfectant.
” These internet @ @ @ @ @ @ @ interests to protect us from dangerous , disinformation campaigns about COVID-19 , a virus whose source and behavior continue to elude medical officials .
They ’ re laying the groundwork now , with Icke as an easy target , to preempt any “ dangerous ” ideas that might challenge the power elite ’ s stranglehold over our lives .
This is how freedom dies .
It doesn ’ t matter what disinformation Icke may or may not have been spreading about COVID-19 .
That ’ s not the issue .
As commentator Caitlin @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Icke by these internet media giants has nothing to do with Icke : “ What matters is that we ’ re seeing a consistent and accelerating pattern of powerful plutocratic institutions collaborating with the US-centralized empire to control what ideas people around the world are permitted to share with each other , and it ’ s a very unsafe trajectory.
” Welcome to the age of technofascism .
Technofascism , clothed in tyrannical self-righteousness , is powered by technological behemoths ( both corporate and governmental ) working in tandem .
As journalist Chet @ @ @ @ @ @ @ level of efficiency and totalitarian potential can easily lead to repressive systems that will not tolerate dissent.
” The internet , hailed as a super-information highway , is increasingly becoming the police state ’ s secret weapon .
This “ policing of the mind : is exactly the danger author Jim Keith warned about when he predicted that “ information and communication sources are gradually being linked together into a single computerized network , providing an opportunity for unheralded control of hat will be broadcast , what will be said , and ultimately @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as George Orwell predicted , telling the truth will become a revolutionary act .
We ’ re almost at that point now .
What you are witnessing is the modern-day equivalent of book burning which involves doing away with dangerous ideas — legitimate or not — and the people who espouse them .
Today , the forces of political correctness , working in conjunction with corporate and government agencies , have managed to replace actual book burning with intellectual book burning .
“ Free speech for me but not for thee ” is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ purist Nat Hentoff used to sum up this double standard .
This is about much more than free speech , however .
This is about repression and control .
With every passing day , we ’ re being moved further down the road towards a totalitarian society characterized by government censorship , violence , corruption , hypocrisy and intolerance , all packaged for our supposed benefit in the Orwellian doublespeak of national security , tolerance and so-called “ government speech.
” The reasons for such censorship vary widely from political correctness , safety @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hate crimes but the end result remains the same : the complete eradication of what Benjamin Franklin referred to as the “ principal pillar of a free government.
” The upshot of all of this editing , parsing , banning and silencing is the emergence of a new language , what George Orwell referred to as Newspeak , which places the power to control language in the hands of the totalitarian state .
Under such a system , language becomes a weapon to change the way people think by changing the words they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
police states — where conformity and compliance are enforced at the end of a loaded gun , the government dictates what words can and can not be used .
In countries where the police state hides behind a benevolent mask and disguises itself as tolerance , the citizens censor themselves , policing their words and thoughts to conform to the dictates of the mass mind lest they find themselves ostracized or placed under surveillance .
Even when the motives behind this rigidly calibrated reorientation of societal language appear well-intentioned—discouraging racism , condemning @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the end result is the same : intolerance , indoctrination and infantilism .
It ’ s political correctness disguised as tolerance , civility and love , but what it really amounts to is the chilling of free speech and the demonizing of viewpoints that run counter to the cultural elite .
The police state could not ask for a better citizenry than one that carries out its own censorship , spying and policing : this is how you turn a nation of free people into extensions of the omniscient , omnipotent , omnipresent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ turn a citizenry against each other .
Tread cautiously : Orwell ’ s 1984 , which depicts the ominous rise of ubiquitous technology , fascism and totalitarianism , has become an operation manual for the omnipresent , modern-day surveillance state .
1984 portrays a global society of total control in which people are not allowed to have thoughts that in any way disagree with the corporate state .
There is no personal freedom , and advanced technology has become the driving force behind a surveillance-driven society .
Snitches and cameras are everywhere .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ , who deal with anyone guilty of thought crimes .
The government , or “ Party , ” is headed by Big Brother who appears on posters everywhere with the words : “ Big Brother is watching you.
” We have arrived , way ahead of schedule , into the dystopian future dreamed up by not only Orwell but also such fiction writers as Aldous Huxley , Margaret Atwood and Philip K. Dick .
Much like Orwell ’ s Big Brother in 1984 , the government and its corporate spies now watch our @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s A Brave New World , we are churning out a society of watchers who “ have their liberties taken away from them , but … rather enjoy it , because they [ are ] distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing.
” Much like Atwood ’ s The Handmaid ’ s Tale , the populace is now taught to “ know their place and their duties , to understand that they have no real rights but will be protected up to a point if they conform , and to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ will accept their assigned fate and not rebel or run away.
” And in keeping with Philip K. Dick ’ s darkly prophetic vision of a dystopian police state — which became the basis for Steven Spielberg ’ s futuristic thriller Minority Report — we are now trapped in a world in which the government is all-seeing , all-knowing and all-powerful , and if you dare to step out of line , dark-clad police SWAT teams and pre-crime units will crack a few skulls to bring the populace under control .
What once @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of science fiction .
Incredibly , as the various nascent technologies employed and shared by the government and corporations alike — facial recognition , iris scanners , massive databases , behavior prediction software , and so on—are incorporated into a complex , interwoven cyber network aimed at tracking our movements , predicting our thoughts and controlling our behavior , the dystopian visions of past writers is fast becoming our reality .
In fact , our world is characterized by widespread surveillance , behavior prediction technologies , data mining , fusion centers , driverless @ @ @ @ @ @ @ systems , cybugs and drones , and predictive policing ( pre-crime ) aimed at capturing would-be criminals before they can do any damage .
Surveillance cameras are everywhere .
Government agents listen in on our telephone calls and read our emails .
And privacy and bodily integrity have been utterly eviscerated .
We are increasingly ruled by multi-corporations wedded to the police state .
What many fail to realize is that the government is not operating alone .
It can not .
Thus , the increasingly complex security needs of the massive federal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ defense , surveillance and data management , have been met within the corporate sector , which has shown itself to be a powerful ally that both depends on and feeds the growth of governmental overreach .
In fact , Big Tech wedded to Big Government has become Big Brother , and we are now ruled by the Corporate Elite whose tentacles have spread worldwide .
The government now has at its disposal technological arsenals so sophisticated and invasive as to render any constitutional protections null and void .
Spearheaded by the NSA , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to nothing for constitutional limits or privacy , the “ security/industrial complex ” — a marriage of government , military and corporate interests aimed at keeping Americans under constant surveillance — has come to dominate the government and our lives .
There is no shortage of motives fueling the convergence of mega-corporations and government .
But who is paying the price ?
“ We the people , ” of course .
Not just we Americans , but people the world over .
We have entered into a global state of tyranny .
Where @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of OldSpeak ( where words have meanings , and ideas can be dangerous ) and Newspeak ( where only that which is “ safe ” and “ accepted ” by the majority is permitted ) .
The power elite has made their intentions clear : they will pursue and prosecute any and all words , thoughts and expressions that challenge their authority .
This is the final link in the police state chain .
Americans have been conditioned to accept routine incursions on their privacy rights .
In fact , the addiction to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has created a hive effect where the populace not only watched but is controlled by AI bots .
However , at one time , the idea of a total surveillance state tracking one ’ s every move would have been abhorrent to most Americans .
That all changed with the 9/11 attacks .
As professor Jeffrey Rosen observes , “ Before Sept. 11 , the idea that Americans would voluntarily agree to live their lives under the gaze of a network of biometric surveillance cameras , peering at them in government buildings , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ would have seemed unthinkable , a dystopian fantasy of a society that had surrendered privacy and anonymity.
” Having been reduced to a cowering citizenry — mute in the face of elected officials who refuse to represent us , helpless in the face of police brutality , powerless in the face of militarized tactics and technology that treat us like enemy combatants on a battlefield , and naked in the face of government surveillance that sees and hears all — we have nowhere left to go .
We have , so to speak @ @ @ @ @ @ @ privacy is king to one where nothing is safe from the prying eyes of government .
In search of so-called terrorists and extremists hiding amongst us — the proverbial “ needle in a haystack , ” as one official termed it — the Corporate State has taken to monitoring all aspects of our lives , from cell phone calls and emails to Internet activity and credit card transactions .
This data is being fed through fusion centers across the country , which work with the Department of Homeland Security to make threat assessments @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Wherever you go and whatever you do , you are now being watched , especially if you leave behind an electronic footprint .
When you use your cell phone , you leave a record of when the call was placed , who you called , how long it lasted and even where you were at the time .
When you use your ATM card , you leave a record of where and when you used the card .
There is even a video camera at most locations equipped with facial recognition software @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or drive a car enabled with GPS , you can be tracked by satellite .
Such information is shared with government agents , including local police .
And all of this once-private information about your consumer habits , your whereabouts and your activities is now being fed to the U.S. government .
The government has nearly inexhaustible resources when it comes to tracking our movements , from electronic wiretapping devices , traffic cameras and biometrics to radio-frequency identification cards , satellites and Internet surveillance .
Speech recognition technology now makes it possible for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by way of sophisticated computer systems .
Phone calls can be monitored , the audio converted to text files and stored in computer databases indefinitely .
And if any “ threatening ” words are detected — no matter how inane or silly — the record can be flagged and assigned to a government agent for further investigation .
Federal and state governments , again working with private corporations , monitor your Internet content .
Users are profiled and tracked in order to identify , target and even prosecute them .
In such a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ And you ’ re guilty until you can prove yourself innocent .
Here ’ s what a lot of people fail to understand , however : it ’ s not just what you say or do that is being monitored , but how you think that is being tracked and targeted .
We ’ ve already seen this play out on the state and federal level with hate crime legislation that cracks down on so-called “ hateful ” thoughts and expression , encourages self-censoring and reduces free debate on various subject matter .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Total Internet surveillance by the Corporate State , as omnipresent as God , is used by the government to predict and , more importantly , control the populace , and it ’ s not as far-fetched as you might think .
For example , the NSA has designed an artificial intelligence system that can anticipate your every move .
In a nutshell , the NSA feeds vast amounts of the information it collects to a computer system known as Aquaint ( the acronym stands for Advanced QUestion Answering for INTelligence ) , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ patterns and predict behavior .
No information is sacred or spared .
Everything from cell phone recordings and logs , to emails , to text messages , to personal information posted on social networking sites , to credit card statements , to library circulation records , to credit card histories , etc.
, is collected by the NSA and shared freely with its agents .
Thus , what we are witnessing , in the so-called name of security and efficiency , is the creation of a new class system comprised of the watched @ @ @ @ @ @ @ me ) and the watchers ( government bureaucrats , technicians and private corporations ) .
Clearly , the age of privacy is at an end .
So where does that leave us ?
We now find ourselves in the unenviable position of being monitored , managed and controlled by our technology , which answers not to us but to our government and corporate rulers .
This is the fact-is-stranger-than-fiction lesson that is being pounded into us on a daily basis .
It won ’ t be long before we find ourselves looking back @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to an age where we could speak to whom we wanted , buy what we wanted , think what we wanted without those thoughts , words and activities being tracked , processed and stored by corporate giants such as Google , sold to government agencies such as the NSA and CIA , and used against us by militarized police with their army of futuristic technologies .
To be an individual today , to not conform , to have even a shred of privacy , and to live beyond the reach of the government @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , one must not only be a rebel but rebel .
Even when you rebel and take your stand , there is rarely a happy ending awaiting you .
You are rendered an outlaw .
So how do you survive this global surveillance state ?
As I make clear in my book Battlefield America : The War on the American People , we ’ re running out of options .
We ’ ll soon have to choose between self-indulgence ( the bread-and-circus distractions offered up by the news media , politicians , sports @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ) and self-preservation in the form of renewed vigilance about threats to our freedoms and active engagement in self-governance .
Yet as Aldous Huxley acknowledged in Brave New World Revisited : “ Only the vigilant can maintain their liberties , and only those who are constantly and intelligently on the spot can hope to govern themselves effectively by democratic procedures .
“ A society , most of whose members spend a great part of their time , not on the spot , not here and now and in their calculable future , but @ @ @ @ @ @ @ worlds of sport and soap opera , of mythology and metaphysical fantasy , will find it hard to resist the encroachments of those would manipulate and control it.
” Which brings me back to this technofascist tyranny being meted out on David Icke and all those like him who dare to voice ideas that diverge from what the government and its corporate controllers deem to be acceptable .
The problem as I see it is that we ’ ve allowed ourselves to be persuaded that we need someone else to think and speak @ @ @ @ @ @ @ allowed ourselves to become so timid in the face of offensive words and ideas that we ’ ve bought into the idea that we need the government to shield us from that which is ugly or upsetting or mean .
The result is a society in which we ’ ve stopped debating among ourselves , stopped thinking for ourselves , and stopped believing that we can fix our own problems and resolve our own differences .
In short , we have reduced ourselves to a largely silent , passive , polarized populace incapable @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reliant on the government to protect us from our fears .
In this way , we have become our worst enemy .
You want to reclaim some of the ground we ’ re fast losing to the techno-tyrants ?
Start by thinking for yourself .
If that means reading the “ dangerous ” ideas being floated out there by the David Ickes of the world — or the John Whiteheads for that matter — and then deciding for yourself what is true , so be it .
As Orwell concluded , “ Freedom @ @ @ @ @ @ @ two make four.
” By John W. Whitehead , constitutional attorney , author , and founder and president of The Rutherford Institute .
His new book Battlefield America : The War on the American People is available at Amazon.com

“Those who created this country chose freedom. With all of its dangers. And do you know the riskiest part of that choice they made?
“They actually believed that we could be trusted to make up our own minds in the whirl of differing ideas.
“That we could be trusted to remain free, even when there were very, very seductive voices — taking advantage of our freedom of speech — who were trying to turn this country into the kind of place where the government could tell you what you can and cannot do.” — Nat Hentoff
We are fast becoming a nation — nay, a world — of book burners.
While on paper, we are technically free to speak — at least according to the U.S. Constitution — in reality, however, we are only as free to speak as the government and its corporate partners such as Facebook, Google or YouTube may allow.
That’s not a whole lot of freedom. Especially if you’re inclined to voice opinions that may be construed as conspiratorial or dangerous.
Take David Icke, for example.
Icke, a popular commentator and author often labeled a conspiracy theorist by his detractors, recently had his Facebook page and YouTube channel (owned by Google) deleted for violating site policies by “spreading coronavirus disinformation.”
The Centre for Countering Digital Hate, which has been vocal about calling for Icke’s de-platforming, is also pushing for the removal of all other sites and individuals who promote Icke’s content in an effort to supposedly “save lives.”
Translation: the CCDH evidently believes the public is too dumb to think for itself and must be protected from dangerous ideas.
This is the goosestepping Nanny State trying to protect us from ourselves.
In the long run, this “safety” control (the censorship and shadowbanning of anyone who challenges a mainstream narrative) will be far worse than merely allowing people to think for themselves.
Journalist Matt Taibbi gets its:
“The people who want to add a censorship regime to a health crisis are more dangerous and more stupid by leaps and bounds than a president who tells people to inject disinfectant.”
Don’t fall for the propaganda.
These internet censors are not acting in our best interests to protect us from dangerous, disinformation campaigns about COVID-19, a virus whose source and behavior continue to elude medical officials.
They’re laying the groundwork now, with Icke as an easy target, to preempt any “dangerous” ideas that might challenge the power elite’s stranglehold over our lives.
This is how freedom dies.
It doesn’t matter what disinformation Icke may or may not have been spreading about COVID-19. That’s not the issue.
As commentator Caitlin Johnstone recognizes, the censorship of David Icke by these internet media giants has nothing to do with Icke:
“What matters is that we’re seeing a consistent and accelerating pattern of powerful plutocratic institutions collaborating with the US-centralized empire to control what ideas people around the world are permitted to share with each other, and it’s a very unsafe trajectory.”
Welcome to the age of technofascism.
Technofascism, clothed in tyrannical self-righteousness, is powered by technological behemoths (both corporate and governmental) working in tandem.
As journalist Chet Bowers explains, “Technofascism’s level of efficiency and totalitarian potential can easily lead to repressive systems that will not tolerate dissent.”
The internet, hailed as a super-information highway, is increasingly becoming the police state’s secret weapon.
This “policing of the mind: is exactly the danger author Jim Keith warned about when he predicted that “information and communication sources are gradually being linked together into a single computerized network, providing an opportunity for unheralded control of hat will be broadcast, what will be said, and ultimately what will be thought.”
It’s a slippery slope from censoring so-called illegitimate ideas to silencing truth.
Eventually, as George Orwell predicted, telling the truth will become a revolutionary act.
We’re almost at that point now.
What you are witnessing is the modern-day equivalent of book burning which involves doing away with dangerous ideas — legitimate or not — and the people who espouse them.
Today, the forces of political correctness, working in conjunction with corporate and government agencies, have managed to replace actual book burning with intellectual book burning.
“Free speech for me but not for thee” is how my good friend and free speech purist Nat Hentoff used to sum up this double standard.
This is about much more than free speech, however. This is about repression and control.
With every passing day, we’re being moved further down the road towards a totalitarian society characterized by government censorship, violence, corruption, hypocrisy and intolerance, all packaged for our supposed benefit in the Orwellian doublespeak of national security, tolerance and so-called “government speech.”
The reasons for such censorship vary widely from political correctness, safety concerns and bullying to national security and hate crimes but the end result remains the same: the complete eradication of what Benjamin Franklin referred to as the “principal pillar of a free government.”
The upshot of all of this editing, parsing, banning and silencing is the emergence of a new language, what George Orwell referred to as Newspeak, which places the power to control language in the hands of the totalitarian state.
Under such a system, language becomes a weapon to change the way people think by changing the words they use.
The end result is control.
In totalitarian regimes — a.k.a. police states — where conformity and compliance are enforced at the end of a loaded gun, the government dictates what words can and cannot be used.
In countries where the police state hides behind a benevolent mask and disguises itself as tolerance, the citizens censor themselves, policing their words and thoughts to conform to the dictates of the mass mind lest they find themselves ostracized or placed under surveillance.
Even when the motives behind this rigidly calibrated reorientation of societal language appear well-intentioned—discouraging racism, condemning violence, denouncing discrimination and hatred—inevitably, the end result is the same: intolerance, indoctrination and infantilism.
It’s political correctness disguised as tolerance, civility and love, but what it really amounts to is the chilling of free speech and the demonizing of viewpoints that run counter to the cultural elite.
The police state could not ask for a better citizenry than one that carries out its own censorship, spying and policing: this is how you turn a nation of free people into extensions of the omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent police state, and in the process turn a citizenry against each other.
Tread cautiously: Orwell’s 1984, which depicts the ominous rise of ubiquitous technology, fascism and totalitarianism, has become an operation manual for the omnipresent, modern-day surveillance state.
1984 portrays a global society of total control in which people are not allowed to have thoughts that in any way disagree with the corporate state.
There is no personal freedom, and advanced technology has become the driving force behind a surveillance-driven society. Snitches and cameras are everywhere.
People are subject to the Thought Police, who deal with anyone guilty of thought crimes.
The government, or “Party,” is headed by Big Brother who appears on posters everywhere with the words: “Big Brother is watching you.”
We have arrived, way ahead of schedule, into the dystopian future dreamed up by not only Orwell but also such fiction writers as Aldous Huxley, Margaret Atwood and Philip K. Dick.
Much like Orwell’s Big Brother in 1984, the government and its corporate spies now watch our every move.
Much like Huxley’s A Brave New World, we are churning out a society of watchers who “have their liberties taken away from them, but … rather enjoy it, because they [are] distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing.”
Much like Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, the populace is now taught to “know their place and their duties, to understand that they have no real rights but will be protected up to a point if they conform, and to think so poorly of themselves that they will accept their assigned fate and not rebel or run away.”
And in keeping with Philip K. Dick’s darkly prophetic vision of a dystopian police state — which became the basis for Steven Spielberg’s futuristic thriller Minority Report — we are now trapped in a world in which the government is all-seeing, all-knowing and all-powerful, and if you dare to step out of line, dark-clad police SWAT teams and pre-crime units will crack a few skulls to bring the populace under control.
What once seemed futuristic no longer occupies the realm of science fiction.
Incredibly, as the various nascent technologies employed and shared by the government and corporations alike — facial recognition, iris scanners, massive databases, behavior prediction software, and so on—are incorporated into a complex, interwoven cyber network aimed at tracking our movements, predicting our thoughts and controlling our behavior, the dystopian visions of past writers is fast becoming our reality.
In fact, our world is characterized by widespread surveillance, behavior prediction technologies, data mining, fusion centers, driverless cars, voice-controlled homes, facial recognition systems, cybugs and drones, and predictive policing (pre-crime) aimed at capturing would-be criminals before they can do any damage.
Surveillance cameras are everywhere. Government agents listen in on our telephone calls and read our emails. And privacy and bodily integrity have been utterly eviscerated.
We are increasingly ruled by multi-corporations wedded to the police state.
What many fail to realize is that the government is not operating alone. It cannot.
The government requires an accomplice.
Thus, the increasingly complex security needs of the massive federal government, especially in the areas of defense, surveillance and data management, have been met within the corporate sector, which has shown itself to be a powerful ally that both depends on and feeds the growth of governmental overreach.
In fact, Big Tech wedded to Big Government has become Big Brother, and we are now ruled by the Corporate Elite whose tentacles have spread worldwide.
The government now has at its disposal technological arsenals so sophisticated and invasive as to render any constitutional protections null and void.
Spearheaded by the NSA, which has shown itself to care little to nothing for constitutional limits or privacy, the “security/industrial complex” — a marriage of government, military and corporate interests aimed at keeping Americans under constant surveillance — has come to dominate the government and our lives.
Money, power, control.
There is no shortage of motives fueling the convergence of mega-corporations and government. But who is paying the price?
“We the people,” of course. Not just we Americans, but people the world over.
We have entered into a global state of tyranny.
Where we stand now is at the juncture of OldSpeak (where words have meanings, and ideas can be dangerous) and Newspeak (where only that which is “safe” and “accepted” by the majority is permitted).
The power elite has made their intentions clear: they will pursue and prosecute any and all words, thoughts and expressions that challenge their authority.
This is the final link in the police state chain.
Americans have been conditioned to accept routine incursions on their privacy rights.
In fact, the addiction to screen devices — especially cell phones — has created a hive effect where the populace not only watched but is controlled by AI bots.
However, at one time, the idea of a total surveillance state tracking one’s every move would have been abhorrent to most Americans.
That all changed with the 9/11 attacks.
As professor Jeffrey Rosen observes, “Before Sept. 11, the idea that Americans would voluntarily agree to live their lives under the gaze of a network of biometric surveillance cameras, peering at them in government buildings, shopping malls, subways and stadiums, would have seemed unthinkable, a dystopian fantasy of a society that had surrendered privacy and anonymity.”
Having been reduced to a cowering citizenry — mute in the face of elected officials who refuse to represent us, helpless in the face of police brutality, powerless in the face of militarized tactics and technology that treat us like enemy combatants on a battlefield, and naked in the face of government surveillance that sees and hears all — we have nowhere left to go.
We have, so to speak, gone from being a nation where privacy is king to one where nothing is safe from the prying eyes of government.
In search of so-called terrorists and extremists hiding amongst us — the proverbial “needle in a haystack,” as one official termed it — the Corporate State has taken to monitoring all aspects of our lives, from cell phone calls and emails to Internet activity and credit card transactions.
This data is being fed through fusion centers across the country, which work with the Department of Homeland Security to make threat assessments on every citizen, including school children.
Wherever you go and whatever you do, you are now being watched, especially if you leave behind an electronic footprint.
When you use your cell phone, you leave a record of when the call was placed, who you called, how long it lasted and even where you were at the time. When you use your ATM card, you leave a record of where and when you used the card.
There is even a video camera at most locations equipped with facial recognition software. When you use a cell phone or drive a car enabled with GPS, you can be tracked by satellite.
Such information is shared with government agents, including local police. And all of this once-private information about your consumer habits, your whereabouts and your activities is now being fed to the U.S. government.
The government has nearly inexhaustible resources when it comes to tracking our movements, from electronic wiretapping devices, traffic cameras and biometrics to radio-frequency identification cards, satellites and Internet surveillance.
Speech recognition technology now makes it possible for the government to carry out massive eavesdropping by way of sophisticated computer systems.
Phone calls can be monitored, the audio converted to text files and stored in computer databases indefinitely.
And if any “threatening” words are detected — no matter how inane or silly — the record can be flagged and assigned to a government agent for further investigation.
Federal and state governments, again working with private corporations, monitor your Internet content.
Users are profiled and tracked in order to identify, target and even prosecute them.
In such a climate, everyone is a suspect. And you’re guilty until you can prove yourself innocent.
Here’s what a lot of people fail to understand, however: it’s not just what you say or do that is being monitored, but how you think that is being tracked and targeted.
We’ve already seen this play out on the state and federal level with hate crime legislation that cracks down on so-called “hateful” thoughts and expression, encourages self-censoring and reduces free debate on various subject matter.
Say hello to the new Thought Police.
Total Internet surveillance by the Corporate State, as omnipresent as God, is used by the government to predict and, more importantly, control the populace, and it’s not as far-fetched as you might think.
For example, the NSA has designed an artificial intelligence system that can anticipate your every move.
In a nutshell, the NSA feeds vast amounts of the information it collects to a computer system known as Aquaint (the acronym stands for Advanced QUestion Answering for INTelligence), which the computer then uses to detect patterns and predict behavior.
No information is sacred or spared.
Everything from cell phone recordings and logs, to emails, to text messages, to personal information posted on social networking sites, to credit card statements, to library circulation records, to credit card histories, etc., is collected by the NSA and shared freely with its agents.
Thus, what we are witnessing, in the so-called name of security and efficiency, is the creation of a new class system comprised of the watched (average Americans such as you and me) and the watchers (government bureaucrats, technicians and private corporations).
Clearly, the age of privacy is at an end.
So where does that leave us?
We now find ourselves in the unenviable position of being monitored, managed and controlled by our technology, which answers not to us but to our government and corporate rulers.
This is the fact-is-stranger-than-fiction lesson that is being pounded into us on a daily basis.
It won’t be long before we find ourselves looking back on the past with longing, back to an age where we could speak to whom we wanted, buy what we wanted, think what we wanted without those thoughts, words and activities being tracked, processed and stored by corporate giants such as Google, sold to government agencies such as the NSA and CIA, and used against us by militarized police with their army of futuristic technologies.
To be an individual today, to not conform, to have even a shred of privacy, and to live beyond the reach of the government’s roaming eyes and technological spies, one must not only be a rebel but rebel.
Even when you rebel and take your stand, there is rarely a happy ending awaiting you. You are rendered an outlaw.
So how do you survive this global surveillance state?
As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, we’re running out of options.
We’ll soon have to choose between self-indulgence (the bread-and-circus distractions offered up by the news media, politicians, sports conglomerates, entertainment industry, etc.) and self-preservation in the form of renewed vigilance about threats to our freedoms and active engagement in self-governance.
Yet as Aldous Huxley acknowledged in Brave New World Revisited:
“Only the vigilant can maintain their liberties, and only those who are constantly and intelligently on the spot can hope to govern themselves effectively by democratic procedures.
“A society, most of whose members spend a great part of their time, not on the spot, not here and now and in their calculable future, but somewhere else, in the irrelevant other worlds of sport and soap opera, of mythology and metaphysical fantasy, will find it hard to resist the encroachments of those would manipulate and control it.”
Which brings me back to this technofascist tyranny being meted out on David Icke and all those like him who dare to voice ideas that diverge from what the government and its corporate controllers deem to be acceptable.
The problem as I see it is that we’ve allowed ourselves to be persuaded that we need someone else to think and speak for us.
And we’ve allowed ourselves to become so timid in the face of offensive words and ideas that we’ve bought into the idea that we need the government to shield us from that which is ugly or upsetting or mean.
The result is a society in which we’ve stopped debating among ourselves, stopped thinking for ourselves, and stopped believing that we can fix our own problems and resolve our own differences.
In short, we have reduced ourselves to a largely silent, passive, polarized populace incapable of working through our own problems and reliant on the government to protect us from our fears.
In this way, we have become our worst enemy.
You want to reclaim some of the ground we’re fast losing to the techno-tyrants?
Start by thinking for yourself. If that means reading the “dangerous” ideas being floated out there by the David Ickes of the world — or the John Whiteheads for that matter — and then deciding for yourself what is true, so be it.
As Orwell concluded, “Freedom is the right to say two plus two make four.”
By John W. Whitehead, constitutional attorney, author, and founder and president of The Rutherford Institute. His new book Battlefield America: The War on the American People is available at Amazon.com


humansarefree--2020-05-06--Slovenia’s Official Antibodies Study: COVID Fatality Rate Just 0.15%, Comparable to Seasonal Influen

Slovenia’s Official Antibodies Study: COVID Fatality Rate Just 0.15%, Comparable to Seasonal Influenza

Infection is far more widespread ( and far less lethal ) than captured by PCR tests ( 15 to 58 times more so ) The full findings of Slovenia ’ s official covid antibodies study will be released later today ( after which we ’ ll update this article ) , but for now the country ’ s Health Minister has already revealed key information : “ With 95-percent confidence we can say that antibodies are present in between two and four percent.
” Slovenia is a country of 2.08 million people and has recorded 97 covid-positive deaths .
If @ @ @ @ @ @ @ million were infected that means between 42 and 84 thousand infected , means an infection fatality rate of between 0.23 % and 0.12 % .
The most likely implied infection fatality rate is 97 deaths divided by 63 thousand infected ( 3 percent of the total ) which is 0.15 % .
Every single antibodies studies so far has implied the same thing : • The true number of infected is far , far higher than those captured by PCR tests .
• The infection fatality rate is somewhere between 0.5 and 0.1 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ we need before we understand that the fatality rate for Covid-19 is about the same as the seasonal influenza ?
These are the studies that prove this : • the University of Miami study for the Miami-Dade county ( USA ) , • The Mail said a similar fatality rate — 0.19 % — was found in a study of residents in Helsinki ( Finland ) , • and now the Antibodies Study in Slovenia … they all say the same thing .
And there hasn ’ t been a single antibodies study @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is the retort of the lockdown enthusiasts ?
We would have never locked down had it been clear from the start that actual fatality rates are this low — no worse than for the flu — so what possible justification could there be for maintaining it ?
In fact , they don ’ t have a retort , their chosen strategy has been to squarely ignore the new knowledge about the disease .
Slovenia has a very high testing rate per capita nearly comparable to that in Germany , Switzerland and Austria and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ UK and France , but still identified fewer than 1,500 of its 42,000 to 84,000 actual cases — that ’ s 15 to 58 times fewer than actual .

Infection is far more widespread (and far less lethal) than captured by PCR tests (15 to 58 times more so)
The full findings of Slovenia’s official covid antibodies study will be released later today (after which we’ll update this article), but for now the country’s Health Minister has already revealed key information:
“With 95-percent confidence we can say that antibodies are present in between two and four percent.”
Slovenia is a country of 2.08 million people and has recorded 97 covid-positive deaths.
If between 2 and 4 percent of 2.08 million were infected that means between 42 and 84 thousand infected, means an infection fatality rate of between 0.23% and 0.12%.
The most likely implied infection fatality rate is 97 deaths divided by 63 thousand infected (3 percent of the total) which is 0.15%.
Every single antibodies studies so far has implied the same thing:
The true number of infected is far, far higher than those captured by PCR tests.
The infection fatality rate is somewhere between 0.5 and 0.1 percent.
How may more studies do we need before we understand that the fatality rate for Covid-19 is about the same as the seasonal influenza? These are the studies that prove this:
And there hasn’t been a single antibodies study to contradict them.
So what exactly is the retort of the lockdown enthusiasts?
We would have never locked down had it been clear from the start that actual fatality rates are this low — no worse than for the flu — so what possible justification could there be for maintaining it?
In fact, they don’t have a retort, their chosen strategy has been to squarely ignore the new knowledge about the disease.
Slovenia has a very high testing rate per capita nearly comparable to that in Germany, Switzerland and Austria and well above those in the US, UK and France, but still identified fewer than 1,500 of its 42,000 to 84,000 actual cases — that’s 15 to 58 times fewer than actual.
Reference: Anti-empire.com


humansarefree--2020-05-07--Small Business Owner Jailed Over Lockdown While Criminal Sex Offenders Are Released

I hope you are all enjoying your government-mandated lockdowns , as millions and millions of people are out of work and billions of people around the world are affected .
As the so-called experts like Bill Gates and his co-conspirator Dr Tony Fauci say , things will never be the same .
Every day we are reaching new profound levels of absurdity , as we continue full steam ahead into the new normal of COVID-1984 .
From here we go to Dallas , Texas — a place some would argue is the heart and soul of the US .
After @ @ @ @ @ @ @ anymore American than Texas , right ?
Well the authorities just arrested a small business owner in Texas and have thrown her in jail for 7 days for refusing to close her salon despite a court order signed by a judge .
If that is not enough… they also fined Shelley Luther $ 7,000 on top of the jail time !
At the same time , convicted sex offenders guilty of abusing children are being released from jails only to be arrested yet again for more sex crimes .
How much more will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Group To Governors : Release As Many Prisoners As Possible Due To Coronavirus

I hope you are all enjoying your government-mandated lockdowns, as millions and millions of people are out of work and billions of people around the world are affected. As the so-called experts like Billy Boy and his co-conspirator Dr Tony Fauci say, things will never be the same.
Every day we are reaching new profound levels of absurdity, as we continue full steam ahead into the new normal of COVID-1984.
From here we go to Dallas, Texas — a place some would argue is the heart and soul of the US. After all, it doesn’t get anymore American than Texas, right?
Well the authorities just arrested a small business owner in Texas and have thrown her in jail for 7 days for refusing to close her salon despite a court order signed by a judge.
If that is not enough… they also fined Shelley Luther $7,000 on top of the jail time! At the same time, convicted sex offenders guilty of abusing children are being released from jails only to be arrested yet again for more sex crimes.
How much more will people put up with?
George Soros-Funded Group To Governors: Release As Many Prisoners As Possible Due To Coronavirus
Source: YouTube.com


humansarefree--2020-05-07--Elvis Was King, Ike Was President, and 116,000 Americans Died in a Pandemic (Little to No Media Cove

Elvis Was King, Ike Was President, and 116,000 Americans Died in a Pandemic (Little to No Media Coverage)

Elvis ’ s new movie “ Jailhouse Rock ” was packing the theaters .
The last episode of “ I Love Lucy ” aired on television .
The show “ West Side Story ” held tryouts in Washington , D.C. , and opened on Broadway in September .
Ford ’ s new car the Edsel rolled off the assembly line .
The Cold War with Russia was on and “ In God We Trust ” appeared on U.S. currency .
The first Toys R Us store opened .
Also that year , the so-called Asian Flu killed 116,000 Americans .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Centers for Disease Control : In February 1957 , a new influenza A ( H2N2 ) virus emerged in East Asia , triggering a pandemic ( “ Asian Flu ” ) .
This H2N2 virus was comprised of three different genes from an H2N2 virus that originated from an avian influenza A virus , including the H2 hemagglutinin and the N2 neuraminidase genes .
It was first reported in Singapore in February 1957 , Hong Kong in April 1957 , and in coastal cities in the United States in summer 1957 .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ worldwide and 116,000 in the United States .
Like the current pandemic , there was a demographic pattern to the deaths .
It hit the elderly population with heart and lung disease .
In a frightening twist , the virus could also be fatal for pregnant women .
The infection rate was probably even higher than the Spanish flu of 1918 ( 675,000 Americans died from this ) , but this lowered the overall case fatality rate to 0.67 % .
A vaccine became available in late 1957 but was not widely distributed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the time was 172 million , which is a little more than half of the current population .
Life expectancy was 69 as versus 78 today .
Even with shorter lives , it was a healthier population with lower rates of obesity .
To extrapolate the data to a counterfactual , we can conclude that this virus was more wicked than COVID-19 thus far .
What ’ s remarkable when we look back at this year , nothing was shut down .
Without a 24-hour news cycle with thousands of news agencies and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mostly people paid no attention other than to keep basic hygiene .
It was covered in the press as a medical problem .
The notion that there was a political solution never occurred to anyone .
[ Note of correction .
A correspondent pointed out to me that “ The October 1957 LDS General Conference was cancelled because of the flu epidemic in 1957 and there may have been other organizations that did so.
” I ’ m grateful for the correction , and it makes the point : society was not ignorant @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was a variety of intelligent responses depending on the risk .
I ’ m speculating that this event would have included quite a number of people on the list of the vulnerable . ]
Again , this was a very serious flu , and it persisted for 10 years until it mutated to become the Hong Kong flu of 1968 .
The New York Times had some but not much coverage .
On September 18 , 1957 , an editorial counseled : “ Let us all keep a cool head about Asian influenza @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the virulence of the disease begin to accumulate .
“ For one thing , let us be sure that the 1957 type of A influenza virus is innocuous , as early returns show , and that antibiotics can indeed control the complications that may develop.
” Woodstock Occurred In The Middle Of A Pandemic : Nothing closed .
Schools stayed open .
All businesses did too .
You could go to the movies .
You could go to bars and restaurants .
The mystery of why today vast numbers of governments around the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ crushed economies , locked people under house arrest , wrecked business , spread despair , disregarded basic freedoms and rights will require years if not decades to sort out .
Is it the news cycle that is creating mass hysteria ?
Political ambition and arrogance ?
[ Bill Gates , WHO & Big Pharma ? ]
A decline in philosophical regard for freedom as the best system for dealing with crises ?
Most likely , the ultimate answer will look roughly like what historians say about the Great War ( WWI ) : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a calamity that no one intended at the outset .
For staying calm and treating the terrible Asian flu of 1957 as a medical problem to address with medical intelligence , rather than as an excuse to unleash Medieval-style brutality , this first postwar generation deserves our respect and admiration .
By Jeffrey A. Tucker , the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press and eight books in 5 languages , most recently The Market Loves You .

The year was 1957.
Elvis’s new movie “Jailhouse Rock” was packing the theaters. The last episode of “I Love Lucy” aired on television. The show “West Side Story” held tryouts in Washington, D.C., and opened on Broadway in September.
Ford’s new car the Edsel rolled off the assembly line. The Cold War with Russia was on and “In God We Trust” appeared on U.S. currency. The first Toys R Us store opened.
Also that year, the so-called Asian Flu killed 116,000 Americans. Here is the full summary from the Centers for Disease Control:
In February 1957, a new influenza A (H2N2) virus emerged in East Asia, triggering a pandemic (“Asian Flu”).
This H2N2 virus was comprised of three different genes from an H2N2 virus that originated from an avian influenza A virus, including the H2 hemagglutinin and the N2 neuraminidase genes.
It was first reported in Singapore in February 1957, Hong Kong in April 1957, and in coastal cities in the United States in summer 1957. The estimated number of deaths was 1.1 million worldwide and 116,000 in the United States.
Like the current pandemic, there was a demographic pattern to the deaths. It hit the elderly population with heart and lung disease.
In a frightening twist, the virus could also be fatal for pregnant women. The infection rate was probably even higher than the Spanish flu of 1918 (675,000 Americans died from this), but this lowered the overall case fatality rate to 0.67%.
A jjab became available in late 1957 but was not widely distributed.
The population of the U.S. at the time was 172 million, which is a little more than half of the current population. Life expectancy was 69 as versus 78 today.
Even with shorter lives, it was a healthier population with lower rates of obesity. To extrapolate the data to a counterfactual, we can conclude that this virus was more wicked than COVID-19 thus far.
What’s remarkable when we look back at this year, nothing was shut down.
Restaurants, schools, theaters, sporting events, travel – everything continued without interruption.
Without a 24-hour news cycle with thousands of news agencies and a billion websites hungry for traffic, mostly people paid no attention other than to keep basic hygiene.
It was covered in the press as a medical problem. The notion that there was a political solution never occurred to anyone.
[Note of correction. A correspondent pointed out to me that “The October 1957 LDS General Conference was cancelled because of the flu epidemic in 1957 and there may have been other organizations that did so.”
I’m grateful for the correction, and it makes the point: society was not ignorant of the pandemic. Instead, there was a variety of intelligent responses depending on the risk. I’m speculating that this event would have included quite a number of people on the list of the vulnerable.]
Again, this was a very serious flu, and it persisted for 10 years until it mutated to become the Hong Kong flu of 1968.
The New York Times had some but not much coverage. On September 18, 1957, an editorial counseled:
“Let us all keep a cool head about Asian influenza as the statistics on the spread and the virulence of the disease begin to accumulate.
“For one thing, let us be sure that the 1957 type of A influenza virus is innocuous, as early returns show, and that antibiotics can indeed control the complications that may develop.”
Woodstock Occurred In The Middle Of A Pandemic: Nothing closed. Schools stayed open. All businesses did too. You could go to the movies. You could go to bars and restaurants.
The mystery of why today vast numbers of governments around the world (but not all) have crushed economies, locked people under house arrest, wrecked business, spread despair, disregarded basic freedoms and rights will require years if not decades to sort out.
Is it the news cycle that is creating mass hysteria? Political ambition and arrogance? [Billy Boy, WHO & Big Pharma?] A decline in philosophical regard for freedom as the best system for dealing with crises?
Most likely, the ultimate answer will look roughly like what historians say about the Great War (WWI): it was a perfect storm that created a calamity that no one intended at the outset.
For staying calm and treating the terrible Asian flu of 1957 as a medical problem to address with medical intelligence, rather than as an excuse to unleash Medieval-style brutality, this first postwar generation deserves our respect and admiration.
By Jeffrey A. Tucker, the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press and eight books in 5 languages, most recently The Market Loves You.


humansarefree--2020-05-07--Woodstock Occurred in the Middle of a Pandemic

“ Stock markets didn ’ t crash .
Congress passed no legislation .
The Federal Reserve did nothing .
Not a single governor acted to enforce social distancing… ” In my lifetime , there was another deadly flu epidemic in the United States .
The flu spread from Hong Kong to the United States , arriving December 1968 and peaking a year later .
It ultimately killed 100,000 people in the U.S. , mostly over the age of 65 , and one million worldwide .
Lifespan in the US in those days was 70 whereas it is 78 today .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ 328 million today .
It was also a healthier population with low obesity .
If it would be possible to extrapolate the death data based on population and demographics , we might be looking at a quarter million deaths today from this virus .
So in terms of lethality , it was as deadly and scary as COVID-19 if not more so , though we shall have to wait to see .
“ In 1968 , ” says Nathaniel L. Moir in National Interest , “ the H3N2 pandemic killed more individuals in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of American fatalities during both the Vietnam and Korean Wars.
” And this happened in the lifetimes of every American over 52 years of age .
I was 5 years old and have no memory of this at all .
My mother vaguely remembers being careful and washing surfaces , and encouraging her mom and dad to be careful.Otherwise , it ’ s mostly forgotten today .
Why is that ?
Nothing closed .
Schools stayed open .
All businesses did too .
You could go to the movies .
You could go @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has a friend who reports having attended a Grateful Dead concert .
In fact , people have no memory or awareness that the famous Woodstock concert of August 1969 – planned in January during the worse period of death – actually occurred during a deadly American flu pandemic that only peaked globally six months later .
There was no thought given to the virus which , like ours today , was dangerous mainly for a non-concert-going demographic .
Stock markets didn ’ t crash .
Congress passed no legislation .
The Federal Reserve @ @ @ @ @ @ @ acted to enforce social distancing , curve flattening ( even though hundreds of thousands of people were hospitalized ) , or banning of crowds .
No mothers were arrested for taking their kids to other homes .
No surfers were arrested .
No daycares were shut even though there were more infant deaths with this virus than the one we are experiencing now .
There were no suicides , no unemployment , no drug overdoses .
Media covered the pandemic but it never became a big issue .
As Bojan Pancevski in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ In 1968-70 , news outlets devoted cursory attention to the virus while training their lenses on other events such as the moon landing and the Vietnam War , and the cultural upheaval of the civil-rights movements , student protests and the sexual revolution.
” The only actions governments took was to collect data , watch and wait , encourage testing and vaccines , and so on .
The medical community took the primary responsibility for disease mitigation , as one might expect .
It was widely assumed that diseases require medical not political @ @ @ @ @ @ @ if we had governments unwilling to intervene in other matters .
We had the Vietnam War , social welfare , public housing , urban renewal , and the rise of Medicare and Medicaid .
We had a president swearing to cure all poverty , illiteracy , and disease .
Government was as intrusive as it had ever been in history .
But for some reason , there was no thought given to shutdowns .
Which raises the question : why was this different ?
We will be trying to figure this one out @ @ @ @ @ @ @ we have mass media invading our lives with endless notifications blowing up in our pockets ?
Was there some change in philosophy such that we now think politics is responsible for all existing aspects of life ?
Was there a political element here in that the media blew this wildly out of proportion as revenge against Trump and his deplorables ?
Or did our excessive adoration of predictive modelling get out of control to the point that we let a physicist with ridiculous models frighten the world ’ s governments into violating the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Maybe all of these were factors .
Or maybe there is something darker and nefarious at work , as the conspiracy theorists would have it .
Regardless , they all have some explaining to do .
By way of personal recollection , my own mother and father were part of a generation that believed they had developed sophisticated views of viruses .
They understood that less vulnerable people getting them not only strengthened immune systems but contributed to disease mitigation by reaching “ herd immunity.
” They had a whole protocol to make @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
I got a “ sick toy , ” unlimited ice cream , Vicks rub on my chest , a humidifier in my room , and so on .
They would constantly congratulate me on building immunity .
They did their very best to be happy about my viruses , while doing their best to get me through them .
If we used government lockdowns then like we use them now , Woodstock ( which changed music forever and still resonates today ) would never have occurred .
How much prosperity , culture @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in this calamity ?
What happened between then and now ?
Was there some kind of lost knowledge , as happened with scurvy , when we once had sophistication and then the knowledge was lost and had to be re-found ?
For COVID-19 , we reverted to medieval-style understandings and policies , even in the 21st century .
It ’ s all very strange .
The contrast between 1968 and 2020 couldn ’ t be more striking .
They were smart .
We are idiots .
Or at least our governments are .

“Stock markets didn’t crash. Congress passed no legislation. The Federal Reserve did nothing. Not a single governor acted to enforce social distancing…”
by Jeffrey A. Tucker
In my lifetime, there was another deadly flu epidemic in the United States. The flu spread from Hong Kong to the United States, arriving December 1968 and peaking a year later. It ultimately killed 100,000 people in the U.S., mostly over the age of 65, and one million worldwide.
Lifespan in the US in those days was 70 whereas it is 78 today. Population was 200 million as compared with 328 million today. It was also a healthier population with low obesity.
If it would be possible to extrapolate the death data based on population and demographics, we might be looking at a quarter million deaths today from this virus. So in terms of lethality, it was as deadly and scary as COVID-19 if not more so, though we shall have to wait to see.
“In 1968,” says Nathaniel L. Moir in National Interest, “the H3N2 pandemic killed more individuals in the U.S. than the combined total number of American fatalities during both the Vietnam and Korean Wars.”
And this happened in the lifetimes of every American over 52 years of age.
I was 5 years old and have no memory of this at all. My mother vaguely remembers being careful and washing surfaces, and encouraging her mom and dad to be careful.Otherwise, it’s mostly forgotten today. Why is that?
Nothing closed. Schools stayed open. All businesses did too. You could go to the movies. You could go to bars and restaurants.
John Fund has a friend who reports having attended a Grateful Dead concert. In fact, people have no memory or awareness that the famous Woodstock concert of August 1969 – planned in January during the worse period of death – actually occurred during a deadly American flu pandemic that only peaked globally six months later.
There was no thought given to the virus which, like ours today, was dangerous mainly for a non-concert-going demographic.
Stock markets didn’t crash. Congress passed no legislation. The Federal Reserve did nothing. Not a single governor acted to enforce social distancing, curve flattening (even though hundreds of thousands of people were hospitalized), or banning of crowds.
No mothers were arrested for taking their kids to other homes. No surfers were arrested. No daycares were shut even though there were more infant deaths with this virus than the one we are experiencing now. There were no suicides, no unemployment, no drug overdoses.
Media covered the pandemic but it never became a big issue.
As Bojan Pancevski in the Wall Street Journal points out, “In 1968-70, news outlets devoted cursory attention to the virus while training their lenses on other events such as the moon landing and the Vietnam War, and the cultural upheaval of the civil-rights movements, student protests and the sexual revolution.”


humansarefree--2020-05-07--Child Sex Offender Let Out Early for COVID-19, Arrested Days Later for Sex Offense

We have been reporting on the release of multiple dangerous high-risk sex offenders across the country and now , our concern has been legitimized .
As TFTP reported last week , residents of Orange County were issued a warning by District Attorney Todd Spitzer , letting them know that seven registered sex offenders who he said were “ high-risk ” were recently released from custody .
Spitzer said the convicted men spent “ just days ” in jail instead of the six months required by law for those registered as sex offenders .
Illustrating the reckless nature of such a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ these violent sex offenders had also been charged with cutting off their GPS monitors or tampering with their tracking devices .
The DA called the men “ the most dangerous kind of criminal and the most likely to reoffend.
” “ These are not the kind of people who should be getting a break , ” he said .
“ It is not the court ’ s responsibility to control the jail population by releasing these dangerous criminals back into our communities , ” the DA said .
“ The residents of Orange @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mind that registered sex offenders are being held accountable and not just let out the front door of a jail by a court commissioner who refuses to follow the law.
” On top of the court knowing these men had convictions for tampering with their ankle monitors , all seven of these men have violent criminal records , and five of the seven have been arrested for criminal sex acts against children .
One of these child sex offenders released back into the public was Rudy William Grajeda Magdaleno , 39 .
His @ @ @ @ @ @ @ exposure , assault , battery , criminal threats and inflicting injury on an adult , officials said .
He has had five parole violations since 2017 .
He was released on April 13 after serving 142 days on a parole violation for failing to charge his GPS monitoring device .
He was ordered to report but he “ does not report , ” officials said .
Unsurprisingly , Magdaleno was arrested over the weekend only days after he was released .
For what , you ask ?
Another sex offense .
According to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ were called to a parole resource center four days after Magdaleno ’ s release after he allegedly exposed himself to staff members there , police said .
Magdaleno ran from the scene before police arrived , but a parole warrant was issued for his arrest April 20 .
“ The arrest of this dangerous sex offender just days after he walked out of jail demonstrates the Court ’ s grave error in releasing him and six other high-risk sex offenders early , ” Santa Ana Mayor Miguel A. Pulido said in the news @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the safety of the Santa Ana community.
” Days later , he was arrested yet again on April 30 .
Investigators are now seeking multiple charges along with the indecent exposure .
As the Herald notes , Magdaleno has an extensive record .
In January 2019 , Magdaleno was arrested after breaking into a home while naked from the waist down , police said .
He allegedly was peeking into an 11-year-old girl ’ s room “ while covering his penis with his hand , ” police said .
In May 2018 , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ law office and masturbated while staring at a female worker , according to police .
He was also arrested and convicted of abuse of a dependent adult from a 2010 incident where Magdaleno reportedly “ attacked a 41-year-old mentally disabled person at a restaurant located in Santa Ana , ” police said .
As people like Magdaleno , who pose a threat to the public and are a high risk of hurting people get released , legitimate business owners like elderly Native American trinket and souvenir dealer Daniel J. Mazon are being shaken @ @ @ @ @ @ @ open their businesses .
This must be the “ new normal ” we constantly hear mainstream media harping about in the land of the house arrested .

We have been reporting on the release of multiple dangerous high-risk sex offenders across the country and now, our concern has been legitimized.
As TFTP reported last week, residents of Orange County were issued a warning by District Attorney Todd Spitzer, letting them know that seven registered sex offenders who he said were “high-risk” were recently released from custody.
Spitzer said the convicted men spent “just days” in jail instead of the six months required by law for those registered as sex offenders.
Illustrating the reckless nature of such a decision is the fact that all of these violent sex offenders had also been charged with cutting off their GPS monitors or tampering with their tracking devices.
The DA called the men “the most dangerous kind of criminal and the most likely to reoffend.”
“These are not the kind of people who should be getting a break,” he said.
“It is not the court’s responsibility to control the jail population by releasing these dangerous criminals back into our communities,” the DA said.
“The residents of Orange County deserve to have the peace of mind that registered sex offenders are being held accountable and not just let out the front door of a jail by a court commissioner who refuses to follow the law.”
On top of the court knowing these men had convictions for tampering with their ankle monitors, all seven of these men have violent criminal records, and five of the seven have been arrested for criminal sex acts against children.
One of these child sex offenders released back into the public was Rudy William Grajeda Magdaleno, 39.
His criminal history includes child molestation, indecent exposure, assault, battery, criminal threats and inflicting injury on an adult, officials said.
He has had five parole violations since 2017. He was released on April 13 after serving 142 days on a parole violation for failing to charge his GPS monitoring device. He was ordered to report but he “does not report,” officials said.
Unsurprisingly, Magdaleno was arrested over the weekend only days after he was released. For what, you ask? Another sex offense.
According to the Miami Herald, Santa Ana police were called to a parole resource center four days after Magdaleno’s release after he allegedly exposed himself to staff members there, police said.
Magdaleno ran from the scene before police arrived, but a parole warrant was issued for his arrest April 20.
“The arrest of this dangerous sex offender just days after he walked out of jail demonstrates the Court’s grave error in releasing him and six other high-risk sex offenders early,” Santa Ana Mayor Miguel A. Pulido said in the news release.
“These ill-conceived decisions risk the safety of the Santa Ana community.”
Days later, he was arrested yet again on April 30. Investigators are now seeking multiple charges along with the indecent exposure.
As the Herald notes, Magdaleno has an extensive record.
In January 2019, Magdaleno was arrested after breaking into a home while naked from the waist down, police said.
He allegedly was peeking into an 11-year-old girl’s room “while covering his penis with his hand,” police said.
In May 2018, Magdaleno sat on the floor of a law office and masturbated while staring at a female worker, according to police.
He was also arrested and convicted of abuse of a dependent adult from a 2010 incident where Magdaleno reportedly “attacked a 41-year-old mentally disabled person at a restaurant located in Santa Ana,” police said.
As people like Magdaleno, who pose a threat to the public and are a high risk of hurting people get released, legitimate business owners like elderly Native American trinket and souvenir dealer Daniel J. Mazon are being shaken down and handcuffed for attempting to legally open their businesses.
This must be the “new normal” we constantly hear mainstream media harping about in the land of the house arrested.
Reference: TheFreeThoughtProject.com


humansarefree--2020-05-07--Forbes: Is Bitcoin the Solution to Our Failing Monetary System?

The third Bitcoin Halving is merely days away .
Historically , the previous two events have been followed by a @ @ @ @ @ of the dominant crypto asset .
Bitcoin was born in the wake of the last @ @ @ @ @ may come of age in this one .
While governments and central banks create new @ @ @ @ @ , devaluating the existing currencies , Bitcoin ’ s third Halving will cut new supply @ @ @ @ @ the time for Bitcoin to shine and prove itself to be the solution to our @ @ @ @

The third Bitcoin Halving is merely days away.
Historically, the previous two events have been followed by a massive rise in the price of the dominant crypto asset.
Bitcoin was born in the wake of the last financial crisis, and it may come of age in this one.
While governments and central banks create new FIAT out of thin air, devaluating the existing currencies, Bitcoin’s third Halving will cut new supply in half.
Now is the time for Bitcoin to shine and prove itself to be the solution to our failing monetary system.
Source: CryptoSnippets.com / Read more: Forbes.com


humansarefree--2020-05-07--Nevada Nurse in NYC: COVID is NOT Killing People – They’re Being Murdered

Another nurse who has traveled to New York City to help with treating COVID-19 patients has gone public , describing the horrors she is seeing in how patients are being treated .
Nicole Sirotek is reported to be from Nevada , and she expressed her frustrations in a Facebook Live broadcast , apparently Sunday , May 3rd .
Her video and Facebook Page appear to have been removed by Facebook Monday morning , although the video has surfaced elsewhere .
While trying to hold back her tears , she claims : “ Nobody is listening .
They don ’ t @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
They don ’ t .
I ’ m literally coming here every day and watching them kill them.
” She explains that everyone coming into her hospital , which she claims is “ in the hood , ” is labeled as a COVID patient , but that they are not dying from COVID , but from poor medical care .
She claims that every time she tries to advocate for her patients because they are receiving poor medical care , that they reassign the patient to someone else .
Because her patients @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hospital she was at , and Blacks at her current assignment , she has even tried to reach out to advocacy groups who specialize in advocating for these minority groups , but no one seems to want to listen to her .
100 % of her patients have died , and she makes it clear that although she is not a doctor , she is sure that these patients are not getting the proper treatment they deserve .
She claims that she has even been assigned to care for patients that are already @ @ @ @ @ @ @ even using disposable stethoscopes to verify that they are still alive .
She actually compared what was going on in this hospital to Nazi Germany in the past : “ This is going to be kind of an extreme example , but this is really the only thing I can come up with .
It ’ s like if we were in Nazi Germany and they were like , taking the Jews to go put them in a gas chamber .
I ’ m the one there saying like , “ Hey , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ bad , this is wrong , we should not be doing this.
” Then everyone tells me “ hang in there , you ’ re doing a great job , you can ’ t save everybody .
You ’ re amazing , you ’ re a great nurse.
” If the YouTube version above disappears , use this one below : It is obvious that Nicole is very upset and passionate about what she is speaking about , being on the front lines like this .
Some may question the accuracy of her @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in this NYC hospital .
But she is putting her career on the line by going public like this .
In spite of efforts to censor what she is reporting , other medical professionals have come forward to report similar experiences , and question the official narrative that the corporate media is portraying about COVID-19 .
One such person reached out to Health Impact News , stating that they had 43 years of clinical diagnostics experience , including 25 years of that 43 working for medical device manufactures as a biomedical field service @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reported to us : I installed , repaired , trouble shot and validated laboratory instrumentation .
My territory was NYC and the 5 boroughs ; Bronx , Brooklyn , Queens , Manhattan and Staten Island .
The reason I found so many opportunities is because no one else wanted the NYC territory .
The situation Nurse Sirotek described is not new .
It ’ s the entire NYC Health Care System , not isolated to “ the hood ” as Nurse Sirotek describes .
While the consequences of inadequate care are much more @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ICU , Operating rooms , the situation in the hospital laboratories are equally as bad .
Compounding the problem are the members of the bureaucracy that head up the regulatory agencies responsible for ensuring hospitals are compliant with Federal , State and Local regulations .
I ’ ve worked in NY hospital labs that didn ’ t even have soap and hot water .
It is so bad that when friends , co-workers and I discuss what we would do if we needed to be hospitalized for COVID 19 , we all agree @ @ @ @ @ @ @ surviving if we self quarantined at home .
As an FSE you are required to contact the company ’ s dispatcher when you arrive and leave a hospital account .
Most often , a dispatcher would be one of the few people that would know where you are .
More often than not , I would call in to dispatch and say “ I ’ m headed to account XYZ .
If I ’ m involved in an accident , tell EMS to leave me on site to die !
” Here are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ published , and which have gone viral and are therefore difficult to censor now .
How many others are there out there that have tried to come forward and have been censored , or are just simply too afraid to speak out ?
A Nurse ( Sara ) Speaking out for a Friend Who is a Nurse that Went to NYC and Reports Similar Experiences to What Nicole Reports A Respiratory Therapist Blowing the Whistle About the Improper Use of Ventilators that is Harming People A NYC ICU and ER Doctor Also Talking @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Doctors in California Who Work in Emergency Care Talk About Their Experience in Testing and Treating Over 5000 Patients and How They Disagree with Social Distancing which They Feel Does More Harm than Good These doctors have been banned from YouTube , so here is a non-YouTube version :

Another nurse who has traveled to New York City to help with treating COVID-19 patients has gone public, describing the horrors she is seeing in how patients are being treated.
Nicole Sirotek is reported to be from Nevada, and she expressed her frustrations in a Facebook Live broadcast, apparently Sunday, May 3rd. Her video and Facebook Page appear to have been removed by Facebook Monday morning, although the video has surfaced elsewhere.
While trying to hold back her tears, she claims:
“Nobody is listening. They don’t care what is happening to these people. They don’t. I’m literally coming here every day and watching them kill them.”
She explains that everyone coming into her hospital, which she claims is “in the hood,” is labeled as a COVID patient, but that they are not dying from COVID, but from poor medical care.
She claims that every time she tries to advocate for her patients because they are receiving poor medical care, that they reassign the patient to someone else.
Because her patients are minorities, Latinos at the first hospital she was at, and Blacks at her current assignment, she has even tried to reach out to advocacy groups who specialize in advocating for these minority groups, but no one seems to want to listen to her.
100% of her patients have died, and she makes it clear that although she is not a doctor, she is sure that these patients are not getting the proper treatment they deserve.
She claims that she has even been assigned to care for patients that are already dead, because medical personnel are not even using disposable stethoscopes to verify that they are still alive.
She actually compared what was going on in this hospital to Nazi Germany in the past:
“This is going to be kind of an extreme example, but this is really the only thing I can come up with. It’s like if we were in Nazi Germany and they were like, taking the Jews to go put them in a gas chamber.
I’m the one there saying like, “Hey, this is not good, this is bad, this is wrong, we should not be doing this.”
Then everyone tells me “hang in there, you’re doing a great job, you can’t save everybody. You’re amazing, you’re a great nurse.”
Watch her entire testimony. (BEWARE: GRAPHIC LANGUAGE!)
If the YouTube version above disappears, use this one below:

It is obvious that Nicole is very upset and passionate about what she is speaking about, being on the front lines like this.
Some may question the accuracy of her description of what is actually going on in this NYC hospital. But she is putting her career on the line by going public like this.
In spite of efforts to censor what she is reporting, other medical professionals have come forward to report similar experiences, and question the official narrative that the corporate media is portraying about COVID-19.
One such person reached out to Health Impact News, stating that they had 43 years of clinical diagnostics experience, including 25 years of that 43 working for medical device manufactures as a biomedical field service engineer and technical consultant.
This person reported to us:
I installed, repaired, trouble shot and validated laboratory instrumentation. My territory was NYC and the 5 boroughs; Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan and Staten Island. The reason I found so many opportunities is because no one else wanted the NYC territory.
The situation Nurse Sirotek described is not new. It’s the entire NYC Health Care System, not isolated to “the hood” as Nurse Sirotek describes.
While the consequences of inadequate care are much more critical in the patient care setting; ICU, Operating rooms, the situation in the hospital laboratories are equally as bad.
Compounding the problem are the members of the bureaucracy that head up the regulatory agencies responsible for ensuring hospitals are compliant with Federal, State and Local regulations.
I’ve worked in NY hospital labs that didn’t even have soap and hot water. It is so bad that when friends, co-workers and I discuss what we would do if we needed to be hospitalized for COVID 19, we all agree we would have a better chance of surviving if we self quarantined at home.
As an FSE you are required to contact the company’s dispatcher when you arrive and leave a hospital account. Most often, a dispatcher would be one of the few people that would know where you are.
More often than not, I would call in to dispatch and say “I’m headed to account XYZ. If I’m involved in an accident, tell EMS to leave me on site to die!”
Here are a few others that we have already published, and which have gone viral and are therefore difficult to censor now.
How many others are there out there that have tried to come forward and have been censored, or are just simply too afraid to speak out?
A Nurse (Sara) Speaking out for a Friend Who is a Nurse that Went to NYC and Reports Similar Experiences to What Nicole Reports
A Respiratory Therapist Blowing the Whistle About the Improper Use of Ventilators that is Harming People

A NYC ICU and ER Doctor Also Talking About the Wrong Use of Ventilators
2 Doctors in California Who Work in Emergency Care Talk About Their Experience in Testing and Treating Over 5000 Patients and How They Disagree with Social Distancing which They Feel Does More Harm than Good
These doctors have been banned from YouTube, so here is a non-YouTube version:

Source: HealthImpactNews.com


humansarefree--2020-05-08--Bitcoin’s Third Halving: Is BTC the Solution to Our Failing Monetary System?


humansarefree--2020-05-08--Fmr. Security for Rap Superstars and School Cop Charged with Raping Multiple Children

While most parents of school children in the United States will take comfort in knowing a police officer is at their child ’ s school , all too often , school cops are caught committing the vilest of offenses .
As the following case out of Philadelphia illustrates , “ protection and safety ” are the last things some of the young children receive from their school cop .
A now-former Philadelphia school police officer has been charged in multiple instances of child sex abuse from his time as a school police officer .
Former cop Howard Rubin , 51 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is being held on $ 3 million bail , court records show .
As the Philadelphia Inquirer points out , the most serious charge , involuntary deviate sexual intercourse — an adult engaging in sodomy with a person 15 or younger — is a felony that carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison .
The charges also include witness/victim intimidation , statutory sexual assault of a person 11 years or older , indecent assault of a person under 13 years old , and displaying obscene sexual materials .
According to the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ charges are unavailable and can not be requested currently due to closures from the COVID-19 outbreak .
Questions regarding the case were referred by a Philadelphia Police Department spokesperson to the District Attorney ’ s Office .
Jane Roh , spokesperson for the District Attorney ’ s Office , declined to comment , saying it is an open case .
However , according to court records , two days before Rubin was fired from his position as school officer , his personnel file shows the school received multiple complaints from multiple young boys @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , in which principal James Higgins reportedly wrote that : “ some serious allegations have been made against you , which are now being investigated by police.… While we have yet to complete our investigation , we have determined that your behavior , at the very least , and even by your own admission , was unbecoming of a school police officer and a public employee.
” Two weeks later , CBS3 reported Rubin ’ s firing and said he was under investigation in the sexual assault of a male student .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in a letter to parents the following day , the Inquirer reports .
According to online records , Rubin ’ s alleged crimes took place on or before July 2013 when he was employed as a school police office at the Multicultural Academy Charter School in Hunting Park .
After the allegations were made public and reported on at the time , Rubin sued CBS Philadelphia for reporting the allegations against him and his firing from the school .
However , Common Pleas Court Judge Karen Shreeves-Johns dismissed Rubin ’ s lawsuit , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the allegations of child sexual abuse .
Before his rape allegations , Rubin appeared in the media for a different reason .
He was known as “ 5 foot tall hip hop cop.
” According to Jumpphilly.org , around 1993 , Rubin began providing security for the Bad Boy Records roster of Biggie Smalls , Junior Mafia and Lil ’ Kim .
It was Biggie who looked at Rubin and told him he reminded him of Sweetchuck from the Police Academy movies .
He began calling Rubin “ Sweetchuck , the Hip-Hop Cop.
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ point forward , whenever artists came through Philly , Rubin served as their point man on security .
“ I have a Napoleon complex .
I will move crowds , ” the alleged child rapist cop reportedly said during a 2013 interview with the magazine .
Perhaps his fame had a role during the investigation into the 2013 child sex abuse allegations .
And perhaps that is why no charges were filed and for the last 7 years , he ’ s been a free man .
Hopefully , if he is truly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , he will get what he deserves .
Sadly , however , there is a pattern of police officers getting caught preying on children , raping women , and committing other unspeakable crimes—and never going to jail .
Last year , we reported on another school cop , officer Matthew Priebe .
This officer pleaded no contest to second-degree criminal sexual conduct , attempted fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct , misconduct in office and two counts of assault and battery .
The charges all stemmed from his role as a school resource officer and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ girls while on the job .
In exchange for his no-contest plea , prosecutors dropped the charge of distributing sexually explicit material to a minor .
The charge of distributing sexually explicit material to a minor was dropped in spite of prosecutors having the photos of Priebe ’ s erect penis that he sent to the children .
The Livingston County Prosecutor William Vailliencourt said that Priebe ’ s plea deal would guarantee that he would spend no more than 12 months in jail — all of which were suspended .
Also , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Highway Patrol lieutenant Stephen Robert Deck who was given probation for attempting to have sex with a 13-year-old .
The officer was caught in an undercover sting operation set up by police to catch pedophiles in the act of trying to have sex with kids .
Unlike most of the other 12 defendants in the case , who were sentenced to at least one year in prison , Deck was afforded probation simply because he wore a badge .
Although every other person caught in the same sting received jail time , Deck @ @ @ @ @ @ @ privilege .
What ’ s more , this child predator was allowed to keep his taxpayer-funded medical retirement .
And we call this “ justice ” in the land of the free .

While most parents of school children in the United States will take comfort in knowing a police officer is at their child’s school, all too often, school cops are caught committing the vilest of offenses.
As the following case out of Philadelphia illustrates, “protection and safety” are the last things some of the young children receive from their school cop.
A now-former Philadelphia school police officer has been charged in multiple instances of child sex abuse from his time as a school police officer.
Former cop Howard Rubin, 51, was arrested on 12 counts and is being held on $3 million bail, court records show.
As the Philadelphia Inquirer points out, the most serious charge, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse — an adult engaging in sodomy with a person 15 or younger — is a felony that carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.
The charges also include witness/victim intimidation, statutory sexual assault of a person 11 years or older, indecent assault of a person under 13 years old, and displaying obscene sexual materials.
According to the report, the exact details of these charges are unavailable and cannot be requested currently due to closures from the COVID-19 outbreak.
Questions regarding the case were referred by a Philadelphia Police Department spokesperson to the District Attorney’s Office. Jane Roh, spokesperson for the District Attorney’s Office, declined to comment, saying it is an open case.
However, according to court records, two days before Rubin was fired from his position as school officer, his personnel file shows the school received multiple complaints from multiple young boys.
The Inquirer obtained the termination letter, in which principal James Higgins reportedly wrote that:
“some serious allegations have been made against you, which are now being investigated by police.… While we have yet to complete our investigation, we have determined that your behavior, at the very least, and even by your own admission, was unbecoming of a school police officer and a public employee.”
Two weeks later, CBS3 reported Rubin’s firing and said he was under investigation in the sexual assault of a male student.
The school’s principal denied the story in a letter to parents the following day, the Inquirer reports.
According to online records, Rubin’s alleged crimes took place on or before July 2013 when he was employed as a school police office at the Multicultural Academy Charter School in Hunting Park.
After the allegations were made public and reported on at the time, Rubin sued CBS Philadelphia for reporting the allegations against him and his firing from the school.
However, Common Pleas Court Judge Karen Shreeves-Johns dismissed Rubin’s lawsuit, citing his school personnel file which contained the allegations of child sexual abuse.
Before his rape allegations, Rubin appeared in the media for a different reason. He was known as “5 foot tall hip hop cop.”
According to Jumpphilly.org, around 1993, Rubin began providing security for the Bad Boy Records roster of Biggie Smalls, Junior Mafia and Lil’ Kim.
It was Biggie who looked at Rubin and told him he reminded him of Sweetchuck from the Police Academy movies. He began calling Rubin “Sweetchuck, the Hip-Hop Cop.”
The name stuck. From that point forward, whenever artists came through Philly, Rubin served as their point man on security.
“I have a Napoleon complex. I will move crowds,” the alleged child rapist cop reportedly said during a 2013 interview with the magazine.
Perhaps his fame had a role during the investigation into the 2013 child sex abuse allegations.
And perhaps that is why no charges were filed and for the last 7 years, he’s been a free man. Hopefully, if he is truly guilty of such horrid acts against children, he will get what he deserves.
Sadly, however, there is a pattern of police officers getting caught preying on children, raping women, and committing other unspeakable crimes—and never going to jail.
Last year, we reported on another school cop, officer Matthew Priebe.
This officer pleaded no contest to second-degree criminal sexual conduct, attempted fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct, misconduct in office and two counts of assault and battery.
The charges all stemmed from his role as a school resource officer and the repeated sexual assault of multiple young girls while on the job.
In exchange for his no-contest plea, prosecutors dropped the charge of distributing sexually explicit material to a minor.
The charge of distributing sexually explicit material to a minor was dropped in spite of prosecutors having the photos of Priebe’s erect penis that he sent to the children.
The Livingston County Prosecutor William Vailliencourt said that Priebe’s plea deal would guarantee that he would spend no more than 12 months in jail — all of which were suspended.
Also, TFTP reported on the case of California Highway Patrol lieutenant Stephen Robert Deck who was given probation for attempting to have sex with a 13-year-old.
The officer was caught in an undercover sting operation set up by police to catch pedophiles in the act of trying to have sex with kids.
Unlike most of the other 12 defendants in the case, who were sentenced to at least one year in prison, Deck was afforded probation simply because he wore a badge.
Although every other person caught in the same sting received jail time, Deck’s badge apparently granted him special privilege.
What’s more, this child predator was allowed to keep his taxpayer-funded medical retirement. And we call this “justice” in the land of the free.
By Matt Agorist, Guest writer