thelibertybeacon--2020-05-20--Email: Comey warned Obama about sharing info with Flynn

Email : Comey warned Obama that it was ‘ potentially ’ dangerous to share Russian info with Flynn Former FBI Director James Comey warned President Obama in early January 2017 that it was “ potentially ” dangerous to share “ sensitive ” information on Russia with Gen. Michael Flynn , a newly declassified email reveals .
The email , sent by then-National Security Advisor Susan Rice to herself on the day of President Trump ’ s inauguration , had previously been largely declassified , though one paragraph remained under wraps until Monday .
The message describes a discussion between Comey @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Biden and Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates on Jan. 20 , 2017 , in which Obama stressed that his administration should “ ascertain if there is any reason we can not share information fully [ with the Trump administration ] as it relates to Russia.
” In the declassified paragraph , Rice writes that , at the time , Comey told Obama that he had “ some concerns that incoming NSA Flynn is speaking frequently with Russian Ambassador Kislyak.
” Comey “ said that could be an issue as it relates to sharing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Flynn should be prevented from learning sensitive intelligence about Russia , Comey allegedly told him , “ Potentially.
” The director admitted that he had “ no indication thus far that Flynn has passed classified information to Kislyak , ” but that “ the level of communication [ between the two ] is unusual.
” Other newly declassified documents suggest Comey ordered two FBI agents to go to the White House during the early days of the Trump administration to interview then-National Security Advisor Flynn about contact with Russian officials , despite knowing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ presidential campaign had colluded with Russia , which should have effectively ended the federal investigation .
Comey said in a TV interview several months ago about his decision to break protocol and send the agents to the White House : “ I probably wouldn ’ t have done or gotten away with it in a more organized investigation – a more organized administration.
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Email: Comey warned Obama that it was ‘potentially’ dangerous to share Russian info with Flynn
The director reportedly had ‘no indication’ at the time that Flynn had shared sensitive information with Kislyak
By Daniel Payne and Joseph Weber
Former FBI Director James Comey warned President Obama in early January 2017 that it was “potentially” dangerous to share “sensitive” information on Russia with Gen. Michael Flynn, a newly declassified email reveals.
The email, sent by then-National Security Advisor Susan Rice to herself on the day of President Trump’s inauguration, had previously been largely declassified, though one paragraph remained under wraps until Monday.
The message describes a discussion between Comey, Rice, Obama, Vice President Biden and Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates on Jan. 20, 2017, in which Obama stressed that his administration should “ascertain if there is any reason we cannot share information fully [with the Trump administration] as it relates to Russia.”
In the declassified paragraph, Rice writes that, at the time, Comey told Obama that he had “some concerns that incoming NSA Flynn is speaking frequently with Russian Ambassador Kislyak.”
Comey “said that could be an issue as it relates to sharing sensitive information.”
Asked by Obama if Flynn should be prevented from learning sensitive intelligence about Russia, Comey allegedly told him, “Potentially.”
The director admitted that he had “no indication thus far that Flynn has passed classified information to Kislyak,” but that “the level of communication [between the two] is unusual.”
Other newly declassified documents suggest Comey ordered two FBI agents to go to the White House during the early days of the Trump administration to interview then-National Security Advisor Flynn about contact with Russian officials, despite knowing that no members of the 2016 Trump presidential campaign had colluded with Russia, which should have effectively ended the federal investigation.
Comey said in a TV interview several months ago about his decision to break protocol and send the agents to the White House: “I probably wouldn’t have done or gotten away with it in a more organized investigation – a more organized administration.”
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thelibertybeacon--2020-05-20--SAGE shifty shenanigans. Why the secrecy? Something to hide?

The government purports to have based its decision to wreck the country on the best scientific advice .
Well , what scientific advice exactly and from whom ?
Does it stand up to scrutiny ?
We want to see it .
Oh , we can ’ t be allowed to do that ?
Surely for the love of God we have a right to know ?
Could it be that the government acted on “ advice ” but the so-called advice wasn ’ t very scientific ?
What does the government not want us to find out ?
A millionaire @ @ @ @ @ @ @ government after it refused to disclose minutes of the Sage meetings that informed its decision to impose the coronavirus lockdown .
Simon Dolan , who owns Jota Aviation , said he received an unsatisfactory response to his challenge over the legality of the lockdown in a “ letter before action ” sent two weeks ago .
He and his lawyers intend to go to the high court to seek permission for an urgent judicial review of the background to the lockdown imposed on 23 March .
He had sought to obtain minutes from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Advisory Group for Emergencies ( Sage ) .
His lawyers have argued that the lockdown was ultra vires – outside of legal authority – because it implemented regulations under the Public Health Act 1984 instead of the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 or the emergency Coronavirus Act 2020 .
They have also argued that the lockdown , which must be reviewed every three weeks , was reimposed on a “ disproportionate ” basis in law , using an “ over-rigid ” test regarding its effect on containing the disease but not its impact on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ; and third , that it breached the European convention on human rights covering the right to liberty , family life , education and property .
Dolan was seeking disclosure of the minutes of Sage meetings this year to give the government the opportunity to fully explain its justifications for the five tests Boris Johnson has set out for lifting the lockdown .
Dolan says he is not opposed to the lockdown in principle , but to what he describes as a “ totalitarian ” approach involving lack of transparency over Sage advice @ @ @ @ @ @ @ government has been widely criticised in the last week for the lack of clarity in its lockdown guidelines .
Scotland and Wales are continuing to tell residents to “ stay at home ” , while Boris Johnson has relaxed the message in England .
Johnson is also under pressure after epidemiological models suggested transmission rates in London were now half those in north-east England and Yorkshire , raising the question of whether all areas would be safe to emerge from lockdown at the same time .
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Court case pressures government to come clean
Introduction
The government purports to have based its decision to wreck the country on the best scientific advice. Well, what scientific advice exactly and from whom? Does it stand up to scrutiny? We want to see it. Oh, we can’t be allowed to do that? Surely for the love of God we have a right to know? Could it be that the government acted on “advice” but the so-called advice wasn’t very scientific? What does the government not want us to find out?
Government faces legal action over refusal to publish SAGE minutes
A millionaire businessman is launching legal action against the government after it refused to disclose minutes of the Sage meetings that informed its decision to impose the coronavirus lockdown.
Simon Dolan, who owns Jota Aviation, said he received an unsatisfactory response to his challenge over the legality of the lockdown in a “letter before action” sent two weeks ago.
He and his lawyers intend to go to the high court to seek permission for an urgent judicial review of the background to the lockdown imposed on 23 March. He had sought to obtain minutes from meetings of the government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage).
“We are pressing ahead with the case and expect to be heard within the next 10 days or so,” Dolan said. “I believe it is absolutely crucial in holding the government to account – they have introduced entirely unprecedented restrictions on basic freedoms, caused the losses of millions of jobs, destroyed businesses, incurred eye-watering amounts of debt, which will take generations to pay back, and yet they refuse to share the basic information they say they rely on to make these devastating decisions.” [emphasis added]
His lawyers have argued that the lockdown was ultra vires – outside of legal authority – because it implemented regulations under the Public Health Act 1984 instead of the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 or the emergency Coronavirus Act 2020.
They have also argued that the lockdown, which must be reviewed every three weeks, was reimposed on a “disproportionate” basis in law, using an “over-rigid” test regarding its effect on containing the disease but not its impact on the economy, jobs and wider health; and third, that it breached the European convention on human rights covering the right to liberty, family life, education and property.
Dolan was seeking disclosure of the minutes of Sage meetings this year to give the government the opportunity to fully explain its justifications for the five tests Boris Johnson has set out for lifting the lockdown.
“It is now apparent that the five tests are nothing more than another example of empty rhetoric,” he said. ”Remember ‘flatten the curve?’ The curve is flat [but] we are still in lockdown. Remember ‘Save the NHS’? It’s been running at 60% capacity across the board for the entire period.” Dolan argued that economic tests should also be part of the publicly argued tests for continuing a strict lockdown.
Dolan says he is not opposed to the lockdown in principle, but to what he describes as a “totalitarian” approach involving lack of transparency over Sage advice and other key government advice.
“What is [the government] afraid of? Why won’t it let the public see the advice that it continually says it is following? Surely we all have a right to see why we remain in lockdown, why millions of people are not allowed to earn a living or see family or friends,” he said.
The government has been widely criticised in the last week for the lack of clarity in its lockdown guidelines. Scotland and Wales are continuing to tell residents to “stay at home”, while Boris Johnson has relaxed the message in England.
Johnson is also under pressure after epidemiological models suggested transmission rates in London were now half those in north-east England and Yorkshire, raising the question of whether all areas would be safe to emerge from lockdown at the same time.
The Department of Health and Social Care has been approached for comment.
The above article is from Yahoo News
The above feature is from UK Reloaded
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thelibertybeacon--2020-05-20--The Shutdown May Soon Collapse in Pennsylvania

The Shutdown May Soon Collapse in Pennsylvania Thanks to Local Resistance As in the rest of the country , life in Pennsylvania has been greatly disturbed by the COVID-19 pandemic and the chaos that has resulted from the state government ’ s attempts to handle the situation .
On March 16 , Governor Wolf ordered that all “ nonessential ” businesses be closed for at least two weeks .
They are still closed today , and as a result , 1.8 million Pennsylvanians have filed for unemployment .
At the end of December of last year , the state estimated @ @ @ @ @ @ @ persons in Pennsylvania .
If we set aside all the workers whose incomes have been reduced through pay cuts or reduced hours , or who for various reasons have not filed for unemployment , still nearly a third of people who were working in December are now out of work .
Such an astounding figure is truly hard to comprehend , and its consequences likely haven ’ t been fully understood .
It is therefore very understandable that Pennsylvanians around the commonwealth are eager to return to work and salvage the situation as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ left destitute .
However , Governor Wolf ( pictured ) , having assumed emergency powers , seems loathe to let that happen on anything other than his administration ’ s opaque and poorly understood timetable .
Under the current plan , all counties are currently categorized as either red , yellow , or green , with red counties having the strictest restrictions and green ones allowing all businesses to reopen .
By May 15 , thirty-seven of Pennsylvania ’ s sixty-seven counties will officially become yellow zones .
These counties will include nearly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ From the beginning , the entire shutdown process has been wracked with confusion over which businesses are essential and which ones need to apply for waivers to keep running .
The waiver process has not been very transparent , and it is little wonder that the granting of a waiver to Wolf Home Products , the furniture manufacturer formerly owned by the governor , caused an uproar .
As of May 10 , the state had only processed 70 percent of the unemployment claims it had received .
There is not only confusion @ @ @ @ @ @ @ also over the public health approach as more and more data becomes available .
On May 6 , it was revealed to lawmakers during a phone briefing that of the roughly 3,100 virus deaths by that date , 68 percent had occurred in nursing homes and similar care facilities , that the average age of those who had passed was 79 ( in a state where the average life expectancy is 78.5 years ) , and that 84.4 percent of the victims suffered from one to four comorbidities .
These shocking figures are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fact that the state ’ s aggressive plan for protecting nursing homes was never fully implemented .
The state government ’ s incompetence is even more egregious considering the fact that the state health department issued a memo on March 18 stating that “ Nursing care facilities must continue to accept new admissions and receive readmissions for current residents who have been discharged from the hospital who are stable….This may include stable patients who have had the COVID-19 virus.
” Although the administration apparently lacked the ability to enact their own plan for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the time to make sure to include radical progressive demands in his state recovery plan , such as an increase of the minimum wage to $ 12 which would be set to grow to $ 15 and an expansion of mandatory paid leave policies .
With such chaos , confusion , and incompetence in the background , it is little wonder that there is a growing sense of rebellion among both the inhabitants and local government officials throughout the state .
All of southwestern Pennsylvania was declared free to move from red- to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Beaver County .
This exception , the county government believes , is largely due to the county ’ s stats being skewed due to a particularly lethal outbreak at a nursing home in the county that killed at least seventy-one residents .
As a result , they declared that as far as the county government and law enforcement were concerned the county would be moving to yellow-level restrictions along with all of its neighbors on May 15 .
Local officials also pointed out that many residents who work in the surrounding counties will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Beaver to work , defeating the entire purpose of keeping the county locked down .
This is not an insignificant number of people given that Beaver is part of the greater Pittsburgh area .
What ’ s more , the district attorney announced that his office would not be prosecuting any violations of the shutdown orders and had advised all local police departments to not get involved in state enforcement orders .
This defiance was echoed by two other counties in the central part of the state , including Dauphin County , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ located , whose officials released statements effectively saying that they would no longer participate in the enforcement of the red-level shutdown orders .
The county sheriffs of two additional central counties also released statements saying that their offices would not participate in any enforcement activities .
A few days later , these counties have been joined by an additional eight counties that are variously demanding that the state let them move on to the yellow phase or simply declaring that they are planning to do so .
With nearly a third of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ rebellion is not surprising in the least .
Of course , Governor Wolf did not take such defiance lightly and unleashed a torrent of threats and abuse on the recalcitrant offenders , declaring that they had “ decided to surrender to the enemy ” and that they were “ choosing to desert in the face of the enemy , in the middle of a war.
” He then threatened to withhold any discretionary federal funds from any counties that rebelled , and then went even further , warning businesses that he would unleash @ @ @ @ @ @ @ them bend the knee .
Restaurants ’ liquor licenses would be suspended , any business that reopened in defiance would no longer have business liability insurance , and they could risk losing certificates of occupancy and health certificates .
However , having already pushed thousands of businesses to the brink of extinction , it seems unlikely that Wolf ’ s threats have much persuasive power .
The state simply doesn ’ t have the resources to hunt down every rebellious business owner , so at the worst , an owner is taking a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sure if the shutdown continues and facing regulatory headaches in the event that the state authorities actually manage to find out about it .
Although the state department of health has set up a complaint form for people to inform on businesses , even state lawmakers have likened it to the East German secret police , and the form has reportedly been inundated with online trolls submitting bogus reports .
The situation in Pennsylvania is continuing to evolve , but it seems clear that Governor Wolf ’ s authority is collapsing by the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ an important reminder of the lesson at the heart of Étienne de la Boétie ’ s short book The Politics of Obedience : The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude : all political authority in rulers is , in the end , derived from the ruled .
When such power is withdrawn , political authority is revealed to be impotent .
The governor may issue all the orders he desires , but without the cooperation of the lower levels of government and the people themselves , they are toothless .
In the unlikely event that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ enforce his emergency decrees , he would lack the resources to realistically do so , having only forty-seven hundred state police under his control who could not hope to replace the local police across the nearly forty-five thousand square miles that make up the state .
Even if he tried , local district attorneys have already indicated that they will not prosecute such cases .
Pennsylvania has no shortage of problems and onerous laws and regulations , but we are very fortunate that our governance structure is decentralized to the extent that it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ local governments in the country , Pennsylvania is ideally suited for the kind of recalcitrance that is currently materializing against the centralized emergency decrees from the state government .
Hopefully such resistance will lead not to chaos , but to more realistic policymaking that recognizes that disemploying a third of the workforce by decree is not a sustainable solution to the COVID-19 pandemic .
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The Shutdown May Soon Collapse in Pennsylvania Thanks to Local Resistance
Zachary Yost
As in the rest of the country, life in Pennsylvania has been greatly disturbed by the COVID-19 pandemic and the chaos that has resulted from the state government’s attempts to handle the situation. On March 16, Governor Wolf ordered that all “nonessential” businesses be closed for at least two weeks. They are still closed today, and as a result, 1.8 million Pennsylvanians have filed for unemployment. At the end of December of last year, the state estimated that there were roughly 6 million employed persons in Pennsylvania. If we set aside all the workers whose incomes have been reduced through pay cuts or reduced hours, or who for various reasons have not filed for unemployment, still nearly a third of people who were working in December are now out of work.
Such an astounding figure is truly hard to comprehend, and its consequences likely haven’t been fully understood. It is therefore very understandable that Pennsylvanians around the commonwealth are eager to return to work and salvage the situation as much as possible before we are all left destitute. However, Governor Wolf (pictured), having assumed emergency powers, seems loathe to let that happen on anything other than his administration’s opaque and poorly understood timetable. Under the current plan, all counties are currently categorized as either red, yellow, or green, with red counties having the strictest restrictions and green ones allowing all businesses to reopen. By May 15, thirty-seven of Pennsylvania’s sixty-seven counties will officially become yellow zones. These counties will include nearly all of western and north-central Pennsylvania.
From the beginning, the entire shutdown process has been wracked with confusion over which businesses are essential and which ones need to apply for waivers to keep running. The waiver process has not been very transparent, and it is little wonder that the granting of a waiver to Wolf Home Products, the furniture manufacturer formerly owned by the governor, caused an uproar. As of May 10, the state had only processed 70 percent of the unemployment claims it had received.
There is not only confusion regarding the economic shutdown rules, but also over the public health approach as more and more data becomes available. On May 6, it was revealed to lawmakers during a phone briefing that of the roughly 3,100 virus deaths by that date, 68 percent had occurred in nursing homes and similar care facilities, that the average age of those who had passed was 79 (in a state where the average life expectancy is 78.5 years), and that 84.4 percent of the victims suffered from one to four comorbidities.
These shocking figures are even more tragic in light of the fact that the state’s aggressive plan for protecting nursing homes was never fully implemented. The state government’s incompetence is even more egregious considering the fact that the state health department issued a memo on March 18 stating that “Nursing care facilities must continue to accept new admissions and receive readmissions for current residents who have been discharged from the hospital who are stable….This may include stable patients who have had the COVID-19 virus.”
Although the administration apparently lacked the ability to enact their own plan for protecting nursing homes, Wolf did have the time to make sure to include radical progressive demands in his state recovery plan, such as an increase of the minimum wage to $12 which would be set to grow to $15 and an expansion of mandatory paid leave policies.
With such chaos, confusion, and incompetence in the background, it is little wonder that there is a growing sense of rebellion among both the inhabitants and local government officials throughout the state. All of southwestern Pennsylvania was declared free to move from red- to yellow-level restrictions on May 15 except for Beaver County. This exception, the county government believes, is largely due to the county’s stats being skewed due to a particularly lethal outbreak at a nursing home in the county that killed at least seventy-one residents. As a result, they declared that as far as the county government and law enforcement were concerned the county would be moving to yellow-level restrictions along with all of its neighbors on May 15. Local officials also pointed out that many residents who work in the surrounding counties will be free to travel in and out of Beaver to work, defeating the entire purpose of keeping the county locked down. This is not an insignificant number of people given that Beaver is part of the greater Pittsburgh area. What’s more, the district attorney announced that his office would not be prosecuting any violations of the shutdown orders and had advised all local police departments to not get involved in state enforcement orders.
This defiance was echoed by two other counties in the central part of the state, including Dauphin County, where the state capital of Harrisburg is located, whose officials released statements effectively saying that they would no longer participate in the enforcement of the red-level shutdown orders. The county sheriffs of two additional central counties also released statements saying that their offices would not participate in any enforcement activities. A few days later, these counties have been joined by an additional eight counties that are variously demanding that the state let them move on to the yellow phase or simply declaring that they are planning to do so. With nearly a third of the state now out of work, such rebellion is not surprising in the least.
Of course, Governor Wolf did not take such defiance lightly and unleashed a torrent of threats and abuse on the recalcitrant offenders, declaring that they had “decided to surrender to the enemy” and that they were “choosing to desert in the face of the enemy, in the middle of a war.” He then threatened to withhold any discretionary federal funds from any counties that rebelled, and then went even further, warning businesses that he would unleash the regulatory goons on them to make them bend the knee. Restaurants’ liquor licenses would be suspended, any business that reopened in defiance would no longer have business liability insurance, and they could risk losing certificates of occupancy and health certificates.
However, having already pushed thousands of businesses to the brink of extinction, it seems unlikely that Wolf’s threats have much persuasive power. The state simply doesn’t have the resources to hunt down every rebellious business owner, so at the worst, an owner is taking a gamble between going out of business for sure if the shutdown continues and facing regulatory headaches in the event that the state authorities actually manage to find out about it. Although the state department of health has set up a complaint form for people to inform on businesses, even state lawmakers have likened it to the East German secret police, and the form has reportedly been inundated with online trolls submitting bogus reports.
The situation in Pennsylvania is continuing to evolve, but it seems clear that Governor Wolf’s authority is collapsing by the day. The whole affair serves as an important reminder of the lesson at the heart of Étienne de la Boétie’s short book The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude: all political authority in rulers is, in the end, derived from the ruled. When such power is withdrawn, political authority is revealed to be impotent.
The governor may issue all the orders he desires, but without the cooperation of the lower levels of government and the people themselves, they are toothless. In the unlikely event that he desired to escalate the situation to enforce his emergency decrees, he would lack the resources to realistically do so, having only forty-seven hundred state police under his control who could not hope to replace the local police across the nearly forty-five thousand square miles that make up the state. Even if he tried, local district attorneys have already indicated that they will not prosecute such cases.
Pennsylvania has no shortage of problems and onerous laws and regulations, but we are very fortunate that our governance structure is decentralized to the extent that it is. With the third-highest number of local governments in the country, Pennsylvania is ideally suited for the kind of recalcitrance that is currently materializing against the centralized emergency decrees from the state government. Hopefully such resistance will lead not to chaos, but to more realistic policymaking that recognizes that disemploying a third of the workforce by decree is not a sustainable solution to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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thelibertybeacon--2020-05-20--Democide: Understanding the State’s Monopoly on Violence & the 2nd Amendment

Democide : Understanding the State ’ s Monopoly on Violence and the Second Amendment Gun control is predicated on the belief that private citizens can not be trusted with firearms .
That the state should have a “ ” because it is less violent than individuals .
And that firearms should be taken away from private citizens because only the state is responsible enough to handle them .
There is , however , a major problem with this : States are statistically far more violent than individuals .
After all , in the 20th century alone , 262 MILLION people @ @ @ @ @ @ @ governments .
The term for this sort of atrocity is “ democide.
” It is one of the reasons the Founding Fathers included the Second Amendment in the U.S. Constitution – to allow citizens some form of protection against agents of a tyrannical government meaning to do them harm , as the Founders were forcibly disarmed as colonists by the British prior to the American Revolution .
Democide is the murder of any person or people by their government .
It ’ s an important concept , as it is more expansive than @ @ @ @ @ @ @ largest genocide in history is widely thought to be the Holocaust , Adolf Hitler ’ s work pales in comparison to that of Josef Stalin or Mao Zedong .
In fact , one aspect of Stalin ’ s terror was the “ Holodomor , ” the intentional mass starvation of Ukrainians , which killed in less than two years ( compared to six million Jews over the four years of the Holocaust ) .
Sometimes democide is ethnically motivated , as in the Holocaust .
In other cases , like Stalin ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is enough to get one killed .
In the Ottoman Empire ’ s persecution of its Greek and Armenian populations , religion was the motivating factor .
However , in all of these cases , it ’ s difficult to ascertain where the political , religious and ethnic motivations begin and end .
Rather than splitting hairs , democide is a more inclusive term .
Government killings tend to have mixed motivations , as religion , ethnicity and politics often overlap .
And , after all , do the motivations even matter ?
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ hands of one ’ s government as a single crime , allowing us to better compare apples to apples .
A Brief History of the Concept of Democide Democide might be a practice as old as time , but it reached new depths in the 20th century .
This is when warfare became mechanized and , as pointed out by anarchist philosopher Hans-Hermann Hoppe , war shifted from being about property disputes over pieces of land into ideological crusades .
Democracy vs. monarchy or liberalism and communism vs. fascism are great examples of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ killing their own citizens is not unique to this century , the concept of democide was first formulated by , a late professor emeritus of political science at the University of and frequent Nobel Peace Prize nominee .
He studied the political violence of the 20th century with an eye toward doing all he could to end it .
In doing so , he quickly noticed that not all mass killings committed by governments fell under the heading of “ genocide.
” Further , as stated above , the differences between mass killing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are often difficult to separate from one another .
Rummel found a far more elegant term in “ democide , ” which could easily refer to all of this and more .
Rummel ’ s conclusions were based on empirical study over a period of 15 years .
He penned six books on the subject , publishing his abstracts and statistics on his website as a free resource for all to read .
The major conclusions that Rummel came to were that despite their other shortcomings , Western liberal democracies excelled over all @ @ @ @ @ @ @ respects : • None Democratically elected governments were the least likely to kill their own citizens .
• None Democratically elected governments do not wage war against one another .
Rummel employed a broad definition of democide , which included not just lining people up and shooting them , but also deliberate neglect , intentionally poor policy or forced labor .
Hence , the Holodomor , a planned famine which is widely agreed upon to have been the result of deliberate Soviet policies directed against Ukrainians , fits squarely in the camp of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ proponent of international liberal democracy and a critic of communism , Rummel did not support going to war for the sole purpose of replacing a dictatorship with a democracy .
Far and away , the worst offenders in the world of democide are communist regimes .
The Soviet Union , the People ’ s Republic of China and the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia all enter in the “ million-plus ” club and rank among the most democidal regimes in human history .
Other forms of dictatorships , ranging from fascist to quasi-Marxist Third @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with the autocracy of the Ottoman Empire being a relative outlier .
The other major example of democide from a monarchy is the Belgian colonial authority in the Congo , which took place at the hands of a constitutional monarch ( not an absolute one ) .
While Western liberal democracies are by no means beyond rebuke , they ’ re comparatively innocent when it comes to democide .
What ’ s more , most democidal deaths at the hands of democratic powers tend to happen during times of war – such as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have been known to act with undue care or even blood lust with regard to rival nations .
They ’ re not known for wholesale mass slaughter of their own citizens or that of other nations .
While this certainly doesn ’ t make the victims of modern liberal democracies any less tragic , it does result in an overall body count that is much less than totalitarian regimes and military dictatorships .
Incidents like the storming of the or are noteworthy as aberrations – shocking scandals precisely because of how far they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : The Tale of the Tape While Hitler is often the symbol of ultimate evil in human history , he only gets the bronze when it comes to democide .
The worst offenders were on the other extreme of the political spectrum , with the top two spots being occupied by communist governments .
So who are the most blood-soaked dictators in human history ?
Here ’ s a look by the numbers : • None Communist China under the stewardship of Mao Zedong holds the ignoble honor of being the most democidal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of 65 million people killed , including 30 million during the Great Leap Forward alone .
• None Second is the Soviet Union , with 29 million deaths .
This breaks down into 20 million under Stalin , 9 million under Lenin and 7 million in the Holodomor .
• None As stated above , Hitler comes in third with official estimates of the total dead ranging from 10 million to 12.5 million .
• None Ten other countries killed somewhere between 1 million and 10 million of their own people between 1900 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ – 46.6 % – of all deaths in China between 1900 and 1987 were the result of democide .
• None Five different regimes have killed over 10 million people , with two of them based in China : The People ’ s Republic of China and the Republic of China under Chiang Kai-hek .
The other three are the Soviet Union , Nazi Germany and the Congo Free State .
• None China , in one form or another , has been responsible for fully one out of every three democide deaths @ @ @ @ @ @ @ regimes are responsible for a combined 219 million deaths .
Though restricted by geography , democide is the leading non-natural cause of death in the 20th century .
For example , while the chances of death by government in China were almost half during the 20th century , they were near zero in the United States and Canada .
The link between gun control and the Holocaust is not clear-cut , despite it being a go-to example of gun control proceeding democide .
In fact , the Nazi government loosened gun control for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to Jews .
The post-World War I Weimar Republic passed intensely strict gun control laws between the wars .
In interwar Germany , gun ownership was effectively banned for private citizens .
There were two reasons for this : First , post-war Germany was a hotbed of revolution and reaction , often teetering on the brink of civil war .
Second , it was a form of compliance with the terms of the 1919 Versailles Treaty , which Germany signed upon surrender – requiring massive disarmament of the entire nation .
In 1928 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ slightly with the Law on Firearms and Ammunition .
This law instituted a strict firearms licensing system , while continuing to restrict gun ownership to private citizens deemed “ trustworthy.
” Five years later , Hitler was elected Chancellor of Germany .
In 1938 , five years after his election and well into the Third Reich , the government passed a new weapons law in March of that year , which made it easier for most private German citizens ( again , those deemed “ trustworthy ” ) to obtain firearms , with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that “ No ( gun ) permits may be given to Jews .
” While Hitler was liberalizing gun ownership restrictions in Germany for “ trustworthy ” citizens ( and , it ’ s worth mentioning , to support the German weapons industry ) , he was also actively disarming people termed “ unreliable.
” In particular , Jews in Germany .
Not only were Jews prohibited from owning firearms , they weren ’ t even allowed to work in their manufacture .
In November of 1938 , Hitler ’ s government went @ @ @ @ @ @ @ owning any kind of weapons , including swords , which were popular souvenirs of the First World War .
This law came one day after the “ , ” during which Nazi mobs attacked Jews and destroyed synagogues .
German Jews represented less than one percent of the overall German population , so it ’ s unfair to say that had the Jews been armed , they could have prevented the Holocaust .
They were vastly outmanned and outgunned .
The 1943 was mercilessly crushed , and at a time when German military @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fronts .
There are a number of cases where a wave of gun confiscation and registration directly presaged a democidal outbreak , including a history of gun control and genocide .
of this include : • None In Turkey , gun control was tightened prior to the Armenian genocide .
• None The Soviet Union instituted gun control in 1929 , disarming the formerly heavily armed Soviet populace .
• None China ’ s gun control program was rolled out by the Republic of China in 1938 .
• None Uganda ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ almost immediately before an eight-year program of exterminating Christians began .
The question of democide ’ s relation to gun ownership becomes more complex when we look at which countries own the most guns .
Arguably the nation with the longest-standing tradition of personal freedom , the United States , also has the highest rates of gun ownership .
Beyond that , things start getting less clear .
Switzerland , like the U.S. , has a longstanding tradition of both freedom and gun ownership , though far fewer citizens have ammunition than have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are other countries in as “ Free ” by Freedom House , with high levels of gun ownership , along with Uruguay .
However , also in the top ten of gun ownership we find Iraq , Yemen and Saudi Arabia , all of which are rated as “ not free ” ( the last of which has become a bit of a symbol for countries lacking in basic freedom and human rights ) .
The other end of the spectrum – correlating gun control with a lack of freedom – is much @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the way of freedom also have gun control .
However , no one would accuse South Korea , Japan or Ireland of being totalitarian states ripe for democide , despite the extreme difficulty of owning weapons and the near impossibility of owning handguns .
While the Imperial Japanese government committed a slew of atrocities during the Second World War , it ’ s almost certain that no one would place a bet on them to take that up anew any time soon .
Gun confiscation is neither necessary nor sufficient for democidal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Germany , where some people had their gun rights restricted , but others had them expanded .
However , as we can see from the above cases , removing guns from the populace also removes at least one major obstacle .
Consider , as a thought experiment , the chances of the United States government exterminating the people of Coastal ( where citizens owning firearms is frowned upon ) versus their chances of doing the same in Greater Appalachia .
Also consider that democide isn ’ t necessarily more difficult in this day @ @ @ @ @ @ @ technologies like directed energy weapons .
Perhaps one thing is uncontroversial : If you don ’ t resist a democide , your chances of death are almost certain .
And if you do choose to resist , you ’ ll need something sterner than rocks and empty bottles .
Firearms , at the very least , provide a fighting chance against the very real possibility that your government decides your group is the next Ukrainian kulaks – or against the far more tangible threats to your daily existence , like street crime or @ @ @

Democide: Understanding the State’s Monopoly on Violence and the Second Amendment
By: Sam Jacobs
Gun control is predicated on the belief that private citizens cannot be trusted with firearms. That the state should have a “ monopoly on violence ” because it is less violent than individuals. And that firearms should be taken away from private citizens because only the state is responsible enough to handle them.
There is, however, a major problem with this: States are statistically far more violent than individuals. After all, in the 20th century alone, 262 MILLION people died at the hands of their own governments .
The term for this sort of atrocity is “democide.” It is one of the reasons the Founding Fathers included the Second Amendment in the U.S. Constitution – to allow citizens some form of protection against agents of a tyrannical government meaning to do them harm, as the Founders were forcibly disarmed as colonists by the British prior to the American Revolution.
What Is Democide?
Democide is the murder of any person or people by their government . It’s an important concept, as it is more expansive than the better-known term genocide. While the largest genocide in history is widely thought to be the Holocaust, Adolf Hitler’s work pales in comparison to that of Josef Stalin or Mao Zedong. In fact, one aspect of Stalin’s terror was the “Holodomor,” the intentional mass starvation of Ukrainians, which killed over seven million victims in less than two years (compared to six million Jews over the four years of the Holocaust).
Sometimes democide is ethnically motivated, as in the Holocaust. In other cases, like Stalin’s Great Purge, having the wrong politics is enough to get one killed. In the Ottoman Empire’s persecution of its Greek and Armenian populations, religion was the motivating factor. However, in all of these cases, it’s difficult to ascertain where the political, religious and ethnic motivations begin and end.
Rather than splitting hairs, democide is a more inclusive term. Government killings tend to have mixed motivations, as religion, ethnicity and politics often overlap. And, after all, do the motivations even matter? Democide treats all mass killings at the hands of one’s government as a single crime, allowing us to better compare apples to apples.
A Brief History of the Concept of Democide
Democide might be a practice as old as time, but it reached new depths in the 20th century. This is when warfare became mechanized and, as pointed out by anarchist philosopher Hans-Hermann Hoppe , war shifted from being about property disputes over pieces of land into ideological crusades. Democracy vs. monarchy or liberalism and communism vs. fascism are great examples of this.
While the act of governments killing their own citizens is not unique to this century, the concept of democide was first formulated by Rudolph Rummel , a late professor emeritus of political science at the University of Hawaii and frequent Nobel Peace Prize nominee. He studied the political violence of the 20th century with an eye toward doing all he could to end it. In doing so, he quickly noticed that not all mass killings committed by governments fell under the heading of “genocide.” Further, as stated above, the differences between mass killing for religious, political and ethnic reasons are often difficult to separate from one another. Rummel found a far more elegant term in “democide,” which could easily refer to all of this and more.
Rummel’s conclusions were based on empirical study over a period of 15 years. He penned six books on the subject, publishing his abstracts and statistics on his website as a free resource for all to read. The major conclusions that Rummel came to were that despite their other shortcomings, Western liberal democracies excelled over all other forms of government in two major respects:
Democratically elected governments were the least likely to kill their own citizens.
Democratically elected governments do not wage war against one another.
Rummel employed a broad definition of democide, which included not just lining people up and shooting them, but also deliberate neglect, intentionally poor policy or forced labor. Hence, the Holodomor, a planned famine which is widely agreed upon to have been the result of deliberate Soviet policies directed against Ukrainians, fits squarely in the camp of democide. Although he was an outspoken proponent of international liberal democracy and a critic of communism, Rummel did not support going to war for the sole purpose of replacing a dictatorship with a democracy.
Far and away, the worst offenders in the world of democide are communist regimes. The Soviet Union, the People’s Republic of China and the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia all enter in the “million-plus” club and rank among the most democidal regimes in human history. Other forms of dictatorships, ranging from fascist to quasi-Marxist Third World nationalism, also rank high – with the autocracy of the Ottoman Empire being a relative outlier. The other major example of democide from a monarchy is the Belgian colonial authority in the Congo, which took place at the hands of a constitutional monarch (not an absolute one).
While Western liberal democracies are by no means beyond rebuke, they’re comparatively innocent when it comes to democide. What’s more, most democidal deaths at the hands of democratic powers tend to happen during times of war – such as the firebombing of Dresden. Western democracies have been known to act with undue care or even blood lust with regard to rival nations. They’re not known for wholesale mass slaughter of their own citizens or that of other nations.
While this certainly doesn’t make the victims of modern liberal democracies any less tragic, it does result in an overall body count that is much less than totalitarian regimes and military dictatorships. Incidents like the storming of the Branch Davidian compound in Waco or Ruby Ridge are noteworthy as aberrations – shocking scandals precisely because of how far they fall outside of democratic norms.
Democide: The Tale of the Tape
While Hitler is often the symbol of ultimate evil in human history, he only gets the bronze when it comes to democide. The worst offenders were on the other extreme of the political spectrum, with the top two spots being occupied by communist governments. So who are the most blood-soaked dictators in human history? Here’s a look by the numbers:
Communist China under the stewardship of Mao Zedong holds the ignoble honor of being the most democidal regime in human history to the tune of 65 million people killed, including 30 million during the Great Leap Forward alone.
Second is the Soviet Union, with 29 million deaths. This breaks down into 20 million under Stalin, 9 million under Lenin and 7 million in the Holodomor.
As stated above, Hitler comes in third with official estimates of the total dead ranging from 10 million to 12.5 million.
Ten other countries killed somewhere between 1 million and 10 million of their own people between 1900 and 1987: Japan under Emperor Tojo Russia during Lenin’s Bolshevik Revolution Pasha’s Turkey Pol Pot in Cambodia Kim Il-Sung’s North Korea Mariam’s Communist regime in Ethiopia Gowon in Nigeria Bangladesh under Yahya Khan Saddam Hussein in Iraq Vietnam under Ho Chi Minh Idi Amin in Uganda.
Nearly half – 46.6% – of all deaths in China between 1900 and 1987 were the result of democide.
Five different regimes have killed over 10 million people, with two of them based in China: The People’s Republic of China and the Republic of China under Chiang Kai-hek. The other three are the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany and the Congo Free State.
China, in one form or another, has been responsible for fully one out of every three democide deaths.
The top five democidal regimes are responsible for a combined 219 million deaths.
Though restricted by geography, democide is the leading non-natural cause of death in the 20th century . For example, while the chances of death by government in China were almost half during the 20th century, they were near zero in the United States and Canada.
Hitler, the Holocaust, and Gun Control
The link between gun control and the Holocaust is not clear-cut, despite it being a go-to example of gun control proceeding democide. In fact, the Nazi government loosened gun control for most German citizens, while restricting access to Jews.
The post-World War I Weimar Republic passed intensely strict gun control laws between the wars. In interwar Germany, gun ownership was effectively banned for private citizens. There were two reasons for this: First, post-war Germany was a hotbed of revolution and reaction, often teetering on the brink of civil war. Second, it was a form of compliance with the terms of the 1919 Versailles Treaty, which Germany signed upon surrender – requiring massive disarmament of the entire nation.
In 1928, the Weimar Republic relaxed the laws slightly with the Law on Firearms and Ammunition. This law instituted a strict firearms licensing system, while continuing to restrict gun ownership to private citizens deemed “trustworthy.”
Five years later, Hitler was elected Chancellor of Germany. In 1938, five years after his election and well into the Third Reich, the government passed a new weapons law in March of that year, which made it easier for most private German citizens (again, those deemed “trustworthy”) to obtain firearms, with one caveat – the law explicitly stated that “ No (gun) permits may be given to Jews .”
While Hitler was liberalizing gun ownership restrictions in Germany for “trustworthy” citizens (and, it’s worth mentioning, to support the German weapons industry), he was also actively disarming people termed “unreliable.” In particular, Jews in Germany. Not only were Jews prohibited from owning firearms, they weren’t even allowed to work in their manufacture.
In November of 1938, Hitler’s government went one step further, prohibiting Jews from owning any kind of weapons, including swords, which were popular souvenirs of the First World War. This law came one day after the “ Night of Broken Glass ,” during which Nazi mobs attacked Jews and destroyed synagogues.
German Jews represented less than one percent of the overall German population, so it’s unfair to say that had the Jews been armed, they could have prevented the Holocaust. They were vastly outmanned and outgunned. The 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was mercilessly crushed, and at a time when German military resources were being drained elsewhere on two fronts.
Gun Confiscation and Democide
There are a number of cases where a wave of gun confiscation and registration directly presaged a democidal outbreak, including a history of gun control and genocide. Examples of this include:
In Turkey, gun control was tightened prior to the Armenian genocide.
The Soviet Union instituted gun control in 1929, disarming the formerly heavily armed Soviet populace.
China’s gun control program was rolled out by the Republic of China in 1938.
Guatemala started gun control in 1964, prior to killing 100,000 Mayan Indians.
Uganda’s gun control program began in 1970, almost immediately before an eight-year program of exterminating Christians began.
The question of democide’s relation to gun ownership becomes more complex when we look at which countries own the most guns. Arguably the nation with the longest-standing tradition of personal freedom, the United States, also has the highest rates of gun ownership. Beyond that, things start getting less clear. Switzerland, like the U.S., has a longstanding tradition of both freedom and gun ownership, though far fewer citizens have ammunition than have firearms. Finland, Norway and Sweden are other countries in the top ten classified as “Free” by Freedom House, with high levels of gun ownership, along with Uruguay. However, also in the top ten of gun ownership we find Iraq, Yemen and Saudi Arabia, all of which are rated as “not free” (the last of which has become a bit of a symbol for countries lacking in basic freedom and human rights).
The other end of the spectrum – correlating gun control with a lack of freedom – is much more clear. Most countries without much in the way of freedom also have gun control. However, no one would accuse South Korea, Japan or Ireland of being totalitarian states ripe for democide, despite the extreme difficulty of owning weapons and the near impossibility of owning handguns. While the Imperial Japanese government committed a slew of atrocities during the Second World War, it’s almost certain that no one would place a bet on them to take that up anew any time soon.
Gun confiscation is neither necessary nor sufficient for democidal atrocities. Remember the case of Nazi Germany, where some people had their gun rights restricted, but others had them expanded. However, as we can see from the above cases, removing guns from the populace also removes at least one major obstacle. Consider, as a thought experiment, the chances of the United States government exterminating the people of Coastal California (where citizens owning firearms is frowned upon) versus their chances of doing the same in Greater Appalachia. Also consider that democide against an armed population isn’t necessarily more difficult in this day and age – especially with newer military technologies like directed energy weapons.
Perhaps one thing is uncontroversial: If you don’t resist a democide, your chances of death are almost certain. And if you do choose to resist, you’ll need something sterner than rocks and empty bottles. Firearms, at the very least, provide a fighting chance against the very real possibility that your government decides your group is the next Ukrainian kulaks – or against the far more tangible threats to your daily existence, like street crime or home invasions.
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thelibertybeacon--2020-05-20--Washington State: Residents Who Refuse COVID Test to Be Placed Under House Arrest

Washington State : Residents Who Refuse COVID Test to Be Placed Under House Arrest As many US states struggle to roll-back their highly damaging lockdown policies , various complex technocratic ‘ gating ’ systems are now being devised by public health officials – all of them presumable designed to prevent a theoretical “ second wave ” of coronavirus infections and deaths .
One such precondition is the call for “ mass testing and contact tracing ” for COVID-19 .
This is being proposed as a requirement for the lifting lockdown restrictions , supposedly until a vaccine or effective treatments arrive @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from the alleged unprecedented global pandemic .
Most Americans have yet to question what this system of medical martial law really means in terms of basic rights and civil liberties .
This issue may be coming to a head now .
During a recent press conference on May 12th , Washington State Governor Jay Inslee revealed his radical agenda for rolling out his statewide contact tracing program , saying that his initiative “ is robust , it is vigorous and it is comprehensive , and it needs to be all three to be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ If we do not succeed in this second stage of our efforts , this virus could come bright back and bite us.
” Again , Inslee is predicating his entire state strategy on the theory of a “ second wave ” of coronavirus ravaging the population if lockdown is lifted .
However , this theory has been widely contested by other countries and epidemiological experts .
The other practical consideration is what good will mass testing do when it ’ s now well known that the overwhelming majority of COVID-19 victims are above @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and that most carriers in other age groups are asymptomatic and will never require any medical care after being infected with the virus .
What is the point of tracking , tracing and quarantining the healthy in large numbers if the virus poses no significant threat to the wider population ?
Inslee ’ s aggressive approach medical surveillance is similar to that of California governor Gavin Newsom ’ s 20,000 strong “ Army of Contact Tracers “ , and also echos calls by Dr. Anthony Fauci , director of the National Institute @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is advocating for large-scale contact tracing as a condition ‘ a return to normalcy ’ .
How practical or necessary a mass contact tracing regime would be in order to contain a respiratory virus in its late stages – remains highly debatable : “ At the very beginning of a pandemic , the best way to stop it is to track down all the contacts of the initial , indicator cases , ” said Dr. Bettina Fries , chief of the infectious diseases division at Stony Brook Medicine .
“ That approach doesn @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is out of the bottle and when you have widespread community-based transmission .
Then you would put too many resources to trace contacts .
By the time you have your contact , that contact has already generated many more contacts.
” At the press conference , Washington State health officials unveiled their medical surveillance master plan , the ‘ Contact Tracing Box , ’ which very much mirrors system which has already been rolled out in countries like China : Things took a very dark turn when a reporter asked the governor the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ attached to the families a family support person who will check in with them to see what they need on a daily basis … and help them .
If they can ’ t get a friend to do their grocery shopping , we will help get them groceries in some fashion .
If they need pharmaceuticals to be picked up , we will make sure they get their pharmaceuticals [ … ] That ’ s going to help encourage them to maintain their isolation too .
“ As far as refusal , it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and it really hasn ’ t .
We ’ ve had really good success when we ask people to isolate , and they ’ ve done so in really high percentages , so we ’ re happy about that , and we believe that will continue.
” The implications of this statement are clear : if you refuse the State ’ s COVID test , then you will be placed under indefinite house arrest , and be assigned a State Minder to who will effectively be acting as a personal prison guard @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and authoritarianism raises the specter of whether the State will use these very same draconian measures to force its citizens to accept a mandated vaccine for COVID-19 .
Investigative journalist John Rappaport explains how deeply enmeshed Governor Inslee is with the Gates Foundation global vaccine network and why this issue may be coming quickly over the horizon : “ The first thing to know about Governor Jay Inslee : under President Bill Clinton , he served as a regional director for the US Dept .
of Health and Human Services .
HHS is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is , therefore , actually a PUBLIC HEALTH OFFICIAL .
That means , as governor of WA , he ’ s already on the team of Fauci and Birx clones who have staged state coups and are usurping and destroying human rights , including the right to make a living .
When Inslee ran for a seat in the US Congress , in 2009-10 , among his largest campaign donors were pharma companies .
Then there is Inslee ’ s connection to Bill Gates , the dark prince of lockdowns , the man @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in chains until his COVID vaccine arrives .
A clinical trial of a COVID vaccine has begun in Seattle .
This March , Inslee signed a bill into law , giving Gates ’ pet project , charter schools , state-aid money .
Apparently , Bill himself is short on cash .
Dr. Mary Alice Heuschel , a Gates Foundation deputy director , was formerly chief of staff for Inslee .
During his election campaigns covering 2011-12 , Inslee ’ s top donor was Microsoft ( employees and families ) .
” The problem @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is that Bill Gates has already announced publicly the many US states should remain in lockdown “ until we have a vaccine that we ’ ve gotten out to basically the entire world.
” If state governors are no longer independent and taking instructions from federal health official and NGOs like the Gates Foundation , while seized unprecedented dictatorial powers over their citizenry , then where can the electorate go for redress of grievances ?
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Washington State: Residents Who Refuse COVID Test to Be Placed Under House Arrest
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As many US states struggle to roll-back their highly damaging lockdown policies, various complex technocratic ‘gating’ systems are now being devised by public health officials – all of them presumable designed to prevent a theoretical “second wave” of coronavirus infections and deaths. One such precondition is the call for “mass testing and contact tracing” for COVID-19. This is being proposed as a requirement for the lifting lockdown restrictions, supposedly until a vaccine or effective treatments arrive which are meant to rescue the public from the alleged unprecedented global pandemic. Most Americans have yet to question what this system of medical martial law really means in terms of basic rights and civil liberties. This issue may be coming to a head now.
During a recent press conference on May 12th, Washington State Governor Jay Inslee revealed his radical agenda for rolling out his statewide contact tracing program, saying that his initiative “is robust, it is vigorous and it is comprehensive, and it needs to be all three to be successful,” Inslee said. “If we do not succeed in this second stage of our efforts, this virus could come bright back and bite us.”
Again, Inslee is predicating his entire state strategy on the theory of a “second wave” of coronavirus ravaging the population if lockdown is lifted. However, this theory has been widely contested by other countries and epidemiological experts.
The other practical consideration is what good will mass testing do when it’s now well known that the overwhelming majority of COVID-19 victims are above the age of 75 with multiple comorbidities, and that most carriers in other age groups are asymptomatic and will never require any medical care after being infected with the virus. What is the point of tracking, tracing and quarantining the healthy in large numbers if the virus poses no significant threat to the wider population?
Inslee’s aggressive approach medical surveillance is similar to that of California governor Gavin Newsom’s 20,000 strong “Army of Contact Tracers“, and also echos calls by Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, who is advocating for large-scale contact tracing as a condition ‘a return to normalcy’.
How practical or necessary a mass contact tracing regime would be in order to contain a respiratory virus in its late stages – remains highly debatable:
“At the very beginning of a pandemic, the best way to stop it is to track down all the contacts of the initial, indicator cases,” said Dr. Bettina Fries, chief of the infectious diseases division at Stony Brook Medicine. “That approach doesn’t work anymore when the genie is out of the bottle and when you have widespread community-based transmission. Then you would put too many resources to trace contacts. By the time you have your contact, that contact has already generated many more contacts.”
At the press conference, Washington State health officials unveiled their medical surveillance master plan, the ‘Contact Tracing Box,’ which very much mirrors system which has already been rolled out in countries like China:
Things took a very dark turn when a reporter asked the governor the following question:
“When it comes to contact tracing, how are you guys going to handle people or families who want to refuse to test or to self isolate? […] If they want to leave their home to get groceries I know you’ve said they can’t do that; how will you make sure they don’t?“
To this point Governor Inslee responded:
“We will have attached to the families a family support person who will check in with them to see what they need on a daily basis … and help them. If they can’t get a friend to do their grocery shopping, we will help get them groceries in some fashion. If they need pharmaceuticals to be picked up, we will make sure they get their pharmaceuticals […] That’s going to help encourage them to maintain their isolation too. “As far as refusal, it just shouldn’t come to that, and it really hasn’t. We’ve had really good success when we ask people to isolate, and they’ve done so in really high percentages, so we’re happy about that, and we believe that will continue.”
The implications of this statement are clear: if you refuse the State’s COVID test, then you will be placed under indefinite house arrest, and be assigned a State Minder to who will effectively be acting as a personal prison guard.
This unprecedented level of medical surveillance and authoritarianism raises the specter of whether the State will use these very same draconian measures to force its citizens to accept a mandated vaccine for COVID-19.
Investigative journalist John Rappaport explains how deeply enmeshed Governor Inslee is with the Gates Foundation global vaccine network and why this issue may be coming quickly over the horizon:
“The first thing to know about Governor Jay Inslee: under President Bill Clinton, he served as a regional director for the US Dept. of Health and Human Services. HHS is in charge of the CDC. Inslee is, therefore, actually a PUBLIC HEALTH OFFICIAL. That means, as governor of WA, he’s already on the team of Fauci and Birx clones who have staged state coups and are usurping and destroying human rights, including the right to make a living. When Inslee ran for a seat in the US Congress, in 2009-10, among his largest campaign donors were pharma companies. Then there is Inslee’s connection to Bill Gates, the dark prince of lockdowns, the man who wants to keep the global population in chains until his COVID vaccine arrives. A clinical trial of a COVID vaccine has begun in Seattle.
This March, Inslee signed a bill into law, giving Gates’ pet project, charter schools, state-aid money. Apparently, Bill himself is short on cash. Dr. Mary Alice Heuschel, a Gates Foundation deputy director, was formerly chief of staff for Inslee. During his election campaigns covering 2011-12, Inslee’s top donor was Microsoft (employees and families).”
The problem with this inherent conflict of interest, is that Bill Gates has already announced publicly the many US states should remain in lockdown “until we have a vaccine that we’ve gotten out to basically the entire world.”
If state governors are no longer independent and taking instructions from federal health official and NGOs like the Gates Foundation, while seized unprecedented dictatorial powers over their citizenry, then where can the electorate go for redress of grievances?
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thelibertybeacon--2020-05-20--How Bill Gates Controls Global Messaging & Censorship

Bill Gates is the world ’ s largest vaccine producer and the single largest donor to the World Health Organization ( WHO ) —since President Trump halted U.S. support pending an investigation of WHO ’ s handling of the COVID-19 crisis—and the CDC Foundation .
Those agencies are now marketing arms for his vaccine empire .
In January of 2019 , Gates had WHO declare “ vaccine hesitancy ” a top “ global health threat ” ( with Ebola , HIV , war , and drug-resistant pathogens among others ) , signaling a worldwide Pharma Gold Rush to mandate vaccines @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 2019 , Schiff wrote to Facebook , Google , and Amazon , demanding they censor “ vaccine misinformation , ” a term meaning all skepticism toward government and industry pronouncements about vaccine safety or efficacy – whether true or not .
“ Vaccines are both effective and safe , ” Schiff wrote .
“ There is no evidence to suggest that vaccines cause life-threatening or disabling disease.
” This was misinformation .
A year earlier , Schiff pushed a bill to hike the Vaccine Court admin budget to $ 11,200,000 to reduce vaccine @ @ @ @ @ @ @ paid out $ 4 billion for vaccine deaths and disabilities .
Facebook and Pinterest said that they will rely on Gates ’ s WHO and CDC to say which online statements are “ misinformation or hoaxes.
” In his article , “ Facebook “ Fact-Checker ” Misinforms Users about Vaccine Safety ” investigative journalist Jeremy Hammond concludes , “ Facebook is guilty of misinforming its users about vaccine safety … They have no problem with lies about vaccine safety and effectiveness , as long as it ’ s intended to persuade parents to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , 2017 , FactChecker declared false Del Bigtree ’ s statement , “ Vaccines include aluminum and mercury , which are neurotoxins , and vaccines cause encephalopathy.
” FactChecker explained , “ Current data show vaccines are safe and do not cause toxicity or encephalopathy.
” Manufacturer ’ s inserts reveal that many vaccines contain aluminum and mercury , and cause encephalopathy .
Finally , massive gifts to NPR and PBS buys Gates biased vaccine coverage from public media .
About Robert F. Kennedy , Jr. – His reputation as a resolute defender @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of successful legal actions .
Mr. Kennedy was named one of Time magazine ’ s “ Heroes for the Planet ” for his success helping Riverkeeper lead the fight to restore the Hudson River .
The group ’ s achievement helped spawn 300 Waterkeeper organizations across the globe .
Mr. Kennedy serves as Senior Attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council , Chief Prosecuting Attorney for the Hudson Riverkeeper and President of Waterkeeper Alliance .
He is also a Clinical Professor and Supervising Attorney at Pace University School of Law ’ s Environmental @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Morgan & Morgan , a nationwide personal injury practice .
He is co-host of Ring of Fire on Air America Radio .
Earlier in his career he served as Assistant District Attorney in New York City .
He has worked on environmental issues across the Americas and has assisted several indigenous tribes in Latin America and Canada in successfully negotiating treaties protecting traditional homelands .
He is credited with leading the fight to protect New York City ’ s water supply .
The New York City watershed agreement , which he negotiated on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ watershed consumers , is regarded as an international model in stakeholder consensus negotiations and sustainable development .
Mr. Kennedy is also a devout proponent for vaccine rights , the right to chose , informed consent , and the publication and public awareness of information needed by parents to make informed decisions for their much more vulnerable children .
A large portion of his related works can be found on the Children ’ s Health Defense website TLB Editors Note : This is World Mercury Project on steroids !
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How Bill Gates Controls Global Messaging and Censorship
By: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Chairman, Children’s Health Defense (CHD)
Bill Gates is the world’s largest vaccine producer and the single largest donor to the World Health Organization (WHO)—since President Trump halted U.S. support pending an investigation of WHO’s handling of the COVID-19 crisis—and the CDC Foundation. Those agencies are now marketing arms for his vaccine empire.
In January of 2019, Gates had WHO declare “vaccine hesitancy” a top “global health threat” (with Ebola, HIV, war, and drug-resistant pathogens among others), signaling a worldwide Pharma Gold Rush to mandate vaccines to all people.
Gates maxed-out in donations to Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff’s PAC.
In February of 2019, Schiff wrote to Facebook, Google, and Amazon, demanding they censor “vaccine misinformation,” a term meaning all skepticism toward government and industry pronouncements about vaccine safety or efficacy – whether true or not.
“Vaccines are both effective and safe,” Schiff wrote. “There is no evidence to suggest that vaccines cause life-threatening or disabling disease.”
This was misinformation. A year earlier, Schiff pushed a bill to hike the Vaccine Court admin budget to $11,200,000 to reduce vaccine injury backlogs. The court had already paid out $4 billion for vaccine deaths and disabilities.
Facebook and Pinterest said that they will rely on Gates’s WHO and CDC to say which online statements are “misinformation or hoaxes.”
Facebook and Google hired “FactChecker” (Politifact) to censor vaccine misinformation.
The Gates Foundation is “FactChecker’s” largest funder.
In his article, “Facebook “Fact-Checker” Misinforms Users about Vaccine Safety” investigative journalist Jeremy Hammond concludes, “Facebook is guilty of misinforming its users about vaccine safety … They have no problem with lies about vaccine safety and effectiveness, as long as it’s intended to persuade parents to vaccinate their children.”
On May 4, 2017, FactChecker declared false Del Bigtree’s statement, “Vaccines include aluminum and mercury, which are neurotoxins, and vaccines cause encephalopathy.”
FactChecker explained, “Current data show vaccines are safe and do not cause toxicity or encephalopathy.”
Manufacturer’s inserts reveal that many vaccines contain aluminum and mercury, and cause encephalopathy.
Finally, massive gifts to NPR and PBS buys Gates biased vaccine coverage from public media.
(TLB Note: All images above added by TLB staff.)
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About Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. – His reputation as a resolute defender of the environment stems from a litany of successful legal actions. Mr. Kennedy was named one of Time magazine’s “Heroes for the Planet” for his success helping Riverkeeper lead the fight to restore the Hudson River. The group’s achievement helped spawn 300 Waterkeeper organizations across the globe. Mr. Kennedy serves as Senior Attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council, Chief Prosecuting Attorney for the Hudson Riverkeeper and President of Waterkeeper Alliance. He is also a Clinical Professor and Supervising Attorney at Pace University School of Law’s Environmental Litigation Clinic and is of counsel to Morgan & Morgan, a nationwide personal injury practice. He is co-host of Ring of Fire on Air America Radio. Earlier in his career he served as Assistant District Attorney in New York City. He has worked on environmental issues across the Americas and has assisted several indigenous tribes in Latin America and Canada in successfully negotiating treaties protecting traditional homelands. He is credited with leading the fight to protect New York City’s water supply. The New York City watershed agreement, which he negotiated on behalf of environmentalists and New York City watershed consumers, is regarded as an international model in stakeholder consensus negotiations and sustainable development. Mr. Kennedy is also a devout proponent for vaccine rights, the right to chose, informed consent, and the publication and public awareness of information needed by parents to make informed decisions for their much more vulnerable children. A large portion of his related works can be found on the Children’s Health Defense website
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TLB Editors Note: This is World Mercury Project on steroids! TLB highly recommends you click on the image below, visit this great website, and do whatever you can to help see this vital forum succeed … for the sake of our children !!! Sign up for free news and updates from Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and the Children’s Health Defense. CHD is planning many strategies, including legal, in an effort to defend the health of our children and obtain justice for those already injured. Your support is essential to CHD’s successful mission.
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The Liberty Beacon Project is now expanding at a near exponential rate, and for this we are grateful and excited! But we must also be practical. For 7 years we have not asked for any donations, and have built this project with our own funds as we grew. We are now experiencing ever increasing growing pains due to the large number of websites and projects we represent. So we have just installed donation buttons on our websites and ask that you consider this when you visit them. Nothing is too small. We thank you for all your support and your considerations … (TLB)
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