lewrockwell--2020-06-26--This Way Lies Madness: the Summer of Hate Meets the Age of Intolerance

Marches , protests , boycotts , sit-ins : these are nonviolent tactics that work .
Looting , vandalism , the destruction of public property , intimidation tactics aimed at eliminating anything that might cause offense to the establishment : these tactics of mobs and bullies may work in the short term , but they will only give rise to greater injustices in the long term .
George Floyd ’ s death sparked the flame of outrage over racial injustice and police brutality , but political correctness is creating a raging inferno that threatens to engulf the nation .
Battlefield America @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Price : $ 10.95 Buy New $ 18.80 In Boston , racial justice activists beheaded a statue of Christopher Columbus .
Protesters in Richmond , Va. , used ropes to topple that city ’ s Columbus statue , spray-painted it , set it on fire and tossed it into a lake .
Columbus ’ crimes against indigenous peoples throughout the Americas are well known .
In San Francisco ’ s Golden Gate Park , protesters tore down a statue of Francis Scott Key , who penned “ The Star-Spangled Banner.
” Key was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ prosecute abolitionists vocally opposing slavery .
Activists who object to Yale University being named after its founder Elihu Yale , a slave trader , are lobbying to re-name the school .
Students at Harvard University want to re-name Mather House , one of the dorms named after Increase Mather , the college president from 1685 to 1692 and a slave owner .
Administrators at Woodrow Wilson High School in Camden , N.J.—named after the nation ’ s 28th president , who guided the nation through World War I while upholding segregation policies—are now @ @ @ @ @ @ @ an apparent bid to be more culturally sensitive , Land O ’ Lakes has removed from its packaging the image of a Native American princess that had been featured on its products for a hundred years .
The distributors of Aunt Jemima Pancake Syrup , Uncle Ben ’ s Rice and Mrs. Butterworth ’ s Syrup have also announced plans to re-brand and re-name their products in an effort to avoid perpetuating racist stereotypes .
Cream of Wheat is considering what to do about the smiling black chef that graces its breakfast porridge @ @ @ @ @ @ @ being stereotypically subservient ) .
Not to be outdone , Dreyer ’ s Ice Cream plans to retire the 99-year-old name for its Eskimo Pie frozen confections on a stick because “ Eskimo ” has been denounced as a racist nomenclature used by “ colonizers to Arctic regions to refer to Inuit and Yupik people.
” Gone with the Wind , the Civil War epic that won 10 Academy Awards and has long been considered one of the greatest films of all times , was temporarily pulled from HBOMax ’ s streaming service @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ ethnic and racial prejudices ” that “ were wrong then and are wrong today.
” The University of Georgia ’ s marching band has removed “ Tara ’ s Theme , ” the opening orchestral theme from Gone with the Wind , from its musical repertoire .
What is the end sum of all these actions ?
The Mis-Education of t ... Woodson , Carter Godwin Best Price : $ 6.99 Buy New $ 4.73 What started as a movement to denounce police brutality in the wake of George Floyd ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has become a free-for-all campaign to rid the country of any monument , literal or figurative , to anyone who may have at any time in history expressed a racist thought , exhibited racist behavior , or existed within a racist society .
The police state has got us exactly where it wants us : distracted , distraught and divided .
While protesters topple statues of men with racist pasts who are long dead , unarmed Americans continue to be killed by militarized police trained to shoot first and ask questions later .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ pressure corporations to rebrand products in a more racially sensitive fashion , the American police state—aided and abetted by the Corporate State—continues to disproportionately target blacks , Hispanics and other minorities .
And while politically correct censorship is attempting to sanitize the public sphere of words and images that denigrate minorities , it is not doing anything to rid hearts and minds of racism .
As Rod Serling , creator of the Twilight Zone , concluded in the “ Deaths-Head Revisited ” episode : In other words , what we need is more @ @ @ @ @ @ @ greater understanding of history and the evils perpetrated in the name of conquest , profit and racial supremacy .
Because if we bury the mistakes of the past under a sanitized present , if we fail to at least provide context to the past , we risk allowing the government to repeat those past mistakes—rewritten for a new age—and no one will be the wiser .
It has happened already : we have allowed the government strip people of their humanity ; to segregate them into polarized classes ; to treat them as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ rights ; and to reduce them to figures on a ledger sheet .
Out of America Keith B. Richburg Best Price : $ 8.02 Buy New $ 17.99 Censoring speech—toppling monuments—kowtowing to political correctness—is not the answer to what ails this nation .
As long as we focus on words and ignore the systemic injustices that undergird the words , the disease will spread .
As long as we continue to allow the most controversial issues of our day—gay rights , abortion , race , religion , sexuality , political correctness , police @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for those who claim to believe in freedom of speech but only when it favors the views and positions they support , we will all eventually lose .
Silencing unpopular viewpoints with which the majority might disagree—whether it ’ s by shouting them down , censoring them , muzzling them , or criminalizing them—only empowers the controllers of the Deep State .
Consider some of the kinds of speech being targeted for censorship or outright elimination .
Offensive , politically incorrect and “ unsafe ” speech : Disguised as tolerance , civility and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the chilling of free speech and the demonizing of viewpoints that run counter to the cultural elite .
Consequently , college campuses have become hotbeds of student-led censorship , trigger warnings , microaggressions , and “ red light ” speech policies targeting anything that might cause someone to feel uncomfortable , unsafe or offended .
Bullying , intimidating speech : Warning that “ school bullies become tomorrow ’ s hate crimes defendants , ” the Justice Department has led the way in urging schools to curtail bullying , going so far as to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of “ bullying , ” and “ rude ” or “ hurtful ” “ text messages ” as “ cyberbullying.
” Hateful speech : Hate speech—speech that attacks a person or group on the basis of attributes such as gender , ethnic origin , religion , race , disability , or sexual orientation—is the primary candidate for online censorship .
Corporate internet giants Google , Twitter and Facebook are in the process of determining what kinds of speech will be permitted online and what will be deleted .
Dangerous , anti-government speech : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ extremism , ” the government partnered with the tech industry to establish a task force to counter online “ propaganda ” by terrorists hoping to recruit support or plan attacks ( the program started under President Obama ) .
In this way , anyone who criticizes the government online can be considered an extremist and will have their content reported to government agencies for further investigation or deleted .
They might even find themselves pulled from their homes , arrested by the police and thrown into a mental hospital for expressing their @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to Marine Brandon Raub .
The Courageous Police ... Chaix , JC Best Price : $ 35.81 Buy New $ 18.99 The police state could not ask for a better citizenry than one that carries out its own censorship .
It ’ s a brilliant ploy , with the added bonus that while the citizenry remains focused on and distrustful of each other , they ’ re incapable of presenting a united front against the threats posed by the government and its cabal of Constitution-destroying agencies and corporate partners .
The antidote to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ requires is opening the door to more speech not less , even if that speech is offensive to some .
Understanding that freedom for those in the unpopular minority constitutes the ultimate tolerance in a free society , James Madison , the author of the Bill of Rights , fought for a First Amendment that protected the “ minority ” against the majority , ensuring that even in the face of overwhelming pressure , a minority of one—even one who espouses distasteful viewpoints—would still have the right to speak freely , pray freely @ @ @ @ @ @ @ freely , and broadcast his views in the media freely .
The First Amendment is a steam valve .
It allows people to speak their minds , air their grievances and contribute to a larger dialogue that hopefully results in a more just world .
When there is no steam valve—when there is no one to hear what the people have to say—frustration builds , anger grows and people become more volatile and desperate to force a conversation .
By bottling up dissent , we have created a pressure cooker of stifled misery @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and fomenting even more hate , distrust and paranoia among portions of the populace .
By becoming so fearfully polite , careful to avoid offense , and largely unwilling to be labeled intolerant , hateful or closed-minded that we ’ ve eliminated words , phrases and symbols from public discourse , we have entered into an egotistical , insulated , narcissistic era in which free speech has become regulated speech : to be celebrated when it reflects the values of the majority and tolerated otherwise , unless it moves so far beyond our @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as to be rendered dangerous and unacceptable .
Protest laws , free speech zones , bubble zones , trespass zones , anti-bullying legislation , zero tolerance policies , hate crime laws and a host of other legalistic maladies dreamed up by politicians and prosecutors ( and championed by those who want to suppress speech with which they might disagree ) have conspired to corrode our core freedoms , purportedly for our own good .
On paper—at least according to the U.S. Constitution—we are technically free to speak .
The War on Cops : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Best Price : $ 16.73 Buy New $ 16.61 In reality , however , we are only as free to speak as a government official—or corporate entities such as Facebook , Google or YouTube—may allow .
The end result : free speech is no longer free , and injustice persists .
So what we can do to end racial inequality , police brutality , and systemic injustice that does not involve sacrificing free speech on the altar of political correctness or adopting violent tactics ?
Stop tiptoeing around , easily offended or afraid @ @ @ @ @ @ @ government and its architects to micromanage your life and curtail your freedoms .
Stop being a pawn in someone else ’ s game .
Find your own voice .
Give voice to your own outrage .
Speak truth to power nonviolently .
And throughout it all , love your enemies and put that love into action .
That last point , to love your enemies , is the hardest of all , yet it was the principle that Jesus Christ spoke of most often : “ Love your enemies , bless them that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that hate you , and pray for them that despitefully use you.
” This principle was also at the core of Martin Luther King Jr. ’ s efforts to combat racism and injustice .
In fact , King delivered an entire sermon on what it means to love one ’ s enemies even when they continue to wrong you .
King was not speaking in abstracts .
This was a man who , despite having faced down water cannons , police dogs and police brutality , intimidation and prejudice and assassination attempts , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ based on the principle of love ” was his best weapon .
The first step in loving one ’ s enemies , says King , is to discover the element of good in them .
“ Within the best of us , there is some evil , and within the worst of us , there is some good .
When we come to see this , we take a different attitude toward individuals .
The person who hates you most has some good in him ; even the nation that hates you most @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the race that hates you most has some good in it… There is an element of goodness that he can never slough off .
Discover the element of good in your enemy .
And as you seek to hate him , find the center of goodness and place your attention there and you will take a new attitude.
” Killer High : A History ... Andreas , Peter Best Price : $ 19.48 Buy New $ 19.49 Second , says King , focus on defeating evil systems , rather than vanquishing individuals caught @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Love is greater than like .
Love is understanding , redemptive goodwill for all men , so that you love everybody , because God loves them .
You refuse to do anything that will defeat an individual , because you have agape [ the love of God working in the lives of men ] in your soul .
And here you come to the point that you love the individual who does the evil deed , while hating the deed that the person does .
This is what Jesus means when he says @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is the way to do it .
When the opportunity presents itself when you can defeat your enemy , you must not do it.
” Third , says Kings , cut off the chain of hate and the chain of evil in the universe with love .
“ If I hit you and you hit me and I hit you back and you hit me back and go on , you see , that goes on ad infinitum .
It just never ends… And that is the tragedy of hate , that it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ It only intensifies the existence of hate and evil in the universe… Men must see that force begets force , hate begets hate , toughness begets toughness .
And it is all a descending spiral , ultimately ending in destruction for all and everybody.
” Fourth , says King , hate ends up in tragic , neurotic responses .
“ Hate at any point is a cancer that gnaws away at the very vital center of your life and your existence .
It is like eroding acid that eats away the best and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ So Jesus says love , because hate destroys the hater as well as the hated.
” Instead , use love to redeem and transform those who would do you harm .
King ’ s conclusion to his sermon is a timeless message , sent through time , to our present age .
As I make clear in my book Battlefield America : The War on the American People , we are still fighting the triple evils of racism , poverty and militarism .
We are still struggling to find our way in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ambition .
We are still being manipulated into focusing our anger on flawed individuals rather than working to defeat evil establishments .
Sixty-three years later , King ’ s words are still relevant : “ Our world is in transition now .
Our whole world is facing a revolution .
Our nation is facing a revolution .
History unfortunately leaves some people oppressed and some people oppressors .
And there are … ways that individuals who are oppressed can deal with their oppression .
One of them is to rise up against their @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
But there is another way .
And that is to organize mass non-violent resistance based on the principle of love… This is the only way .
And our civilization must discover that .
Individuals must discover that as they deal with other individuals… [ T ] o a power-drunk generation … love is the only way… to a generation depending on nuclear and atomic energy , a generation depending on physical violence…love is the only creative , redemptive , transforming power in the universe… .
[ T ] hrough the power of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ most recalcitrant bent will be transformed… because we had the power to love our enemies , to bless those persons that cursed us , to even decide to be good to those persons who hated us , and we even prayed for those persons who despitefully used us.
” The Best of John W. Whitehead

“Violence creates many more social problems than it solves…. If they succumb to the temptation of using violence in their struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and our chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos. Violence isn’t the way.”—Martin Luther King Jr.
Marches, protests, boycotts, sit-ins: these are nonviolent tactics that work.
Looting, vandalism, the destruction of public property, intimidation tactics aimed at eliminating anything that might cause offense to the establishment: these tactics of mobs and bullies may work in the short term, but they will only give rise to greater injustices in the long term.
George Floyd’s death sparked the flame of outrage over racial injustice and police brutality, but political correctness is creating a raging inferno that threatens to engulf the nation.
Battlefield America: T... John W. Whitehead Best Price: $10.95 Buy New $18.80 (as of 10:15 UTC - Details) In Boston, racial justice activists beheaded a statue of Christopher Columbus. Protesters in Richmond, Va., used ropes to topple that city’s Columbus statue, spray-painted it, set it on fire and tossed it into a lake. Columbus’ crimes against indigenous peoples throughout the Americas are well known.
In San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, protesters tore down a statue of Francis Scott Key, who penned “The Star-Spangled Banner.” Key was also a slaveholding lawyer who tried to prosecute abolitionists vocally opposing slavery.
Activists who object to Yale University being named after its founder Elihu Yale, a slave trader, are lobbying to re-name the school.
Students at Harvard University want to re-name Mather House, one of the dorms named after Increase Mather, the college president from 1685 to 1692 and a slave owner.
Administrators at Woodrow Wilson High School in Camden, N.J.—named after the nation’s 28th president, who guided the nation through World War I while upholding segregation policies—are now looking for a new name.
In an apparent bid to be more culturally sensitive, Land O’ Lakes has removed from its packaging the image of a Native American princess that had been featured on its products for a hundred years.
The distributors of Aunt Jemima Pancake Syrup, Uncle Ben’s Rice and Mrs. Butterworth’s Syrup have also announced plans to re-brand and re-name their products in an effort to avoid perpetuating racist stereotypes. Cream of Wheat is considering what to do about the smiling black chef that graces its breakfast porridge (his visage has been criticized for being stereotypically subservient).
Not to be outdone, Dreyer’s Ice Cream plans to retire the 99-year-old name for its Eskimo Pie frozen confections on a stick because “Eskimo” has been denounced as a racist nomenclature used by “colonizers to Arctic regions to refer to Inuit and Yupik people.”
Gone with the Wind, the Civil War epic that won 10 Academy Awards and has long been considered one of the greatest films of all times, was temporarily pulled from HBOMax’s streaming service in response to concerns that it depicts “ethnic and racial prejudices” that “were wrong then and are wrong today.”
The University of Georgia’s marching band has removed “Tara’s Theme,” the opening orchestral theme from Gone with the Wind, from its musical repertoire.
What is the end sum of all these actions? The Mis-Education of t... Woodson, Carter Godwin Best Price: $6.99 Buy New $4.73 (as of 05:47 UTC - Details)
What started as a movement to denounce police brutality in the wake of George Floyd’s death at the hands of killer cops has become a free-for-all campaign to rid the country of any monument, literal or figurative, to anyone who may have at any time in history expressed a racist thought, exhibited racist behavior, or existed within a racist society.
The police state has got us exactly where it wants us: distracted, distraught and divided.
While protesters topple statues of men with racist pasts who are long dead, unarmed Americans continue to be killed by militarized police trained to shoot first and ask questions later.
While activists use their collective might to pressure corporations to rebrand products in a more racially sensitive fashion, the American police state—aided and abetted by the Corporate State—continues to disproportionately target blacks, Hispanics and other minorities.
And while politically correct censorship is attempting to sanitize the public sphere of words and images that denigrate minorities, it is not doing anything to rid hearts and minds of racism.
Muzzling speech, censoring discourse, erasing history: that’s the worst possible antidote.
As Rod Serling, creator of the Twilight Zone, concluded in the “Deaths-Head Revisited” episode:
“All the Dachaus must remain standing. The Dachaus, the Belsens, the Buchenwalds, the Auschwitzes, all of them. They must remain standing because they are a monument to a moment in time when some men decided to turn the earth into a graveyard. Into it, they shoveled all of their reason, their logic, their knowledge, but worst of all, their conscience. And the moment we forget this, the moment we cease to be haunted by its remembrance, then we become the gravediggers.”
In other words, what we need is more speech, more discourse, and a greater understanding of history and the evils perpetrated in the name of conquest, profit and racial supremacy. Because if we bury the mistakes of the past under a sanitized present, if we fail to at least provide context to the past, we risk allowing the government to repeat those past mistakes—rewritten for a new age—and no one will be the wiser.
It has happened already: we have allowed the government strip people of their humanity; to segregate them into polarized classes; to treat them as chattel; to deny them basic human rights; and to reduce them to figures on a ledger sheet. Out of America Keith B. Richburg Best Price: $8.02 Buy New $17.99 (as of 09:53 UTC - Details)
Censoring speech—toppling monuments—kowtowing to political correctness—is not the answer to what ails this nation.
As long as we focus on words and ignore the systemic injustices that undergird the words, the disease will spread.
As long as we continue to allow the most controversial issues of our day—gay rights, abortion, race, religion, sexuality, political correctness, police brutality, et al.—to serve as battlegrounds for those who claim to believe in freedom of speech but only when it favors the views and positions they support, we will all eventually lose.
Silencing unpopular viewpoints with which the majority might disagree—whether it’s by shouting them down, censoring them, muzzling them, or criminalizing them—only empowers the controllers of the Deep State.
Consider some of the kinds of speech being targeted for censorship or outright elimination.
Offensive, politically incorrect and “unsafe” speech: Disguised as tolerance, civility and love, political correctness has resulted in the chilling of free speech and the demonizing of viewpoints that run counter to the cultural elite. Consequently, college campuses have become hotbeds of student-led censorship, trigger warnings, microaggressions, and “red light” speech policies targeting anything that might cause someone to feel uncomfortable, unsafe or offended.
Bullying, intimidating speech: Warning that “school bullies become tomorrow’s hate crimes defendants,” the Justice Department has led the way in urging schools to curtail bullying, going so far as to classify “teasing” as a form of “bullying,” and “rude” or “hurtful” “text messages” as “cyberbullying.”
Hateful speech: Hate speech—speech that attacks a person or group on the basis of attributes such as gender, ethnic origin, religion, race, disability, or sexual orientation—is the primary candidate for online censorship. Corporate internet giants Google, Twitter and Facebook are in the process of determining what kinds of speech will be permitted online and what will be deleted.
Dangerous, anti-government speech: As part of its ongoing war on “extremism,” the government partnered with the tech industry to establish a task force to counter online “propaganda” by terrorists hoping to recruit support or plan attacks (the program started under President Obama). In this way, anyone who criticizes the government online can be considered an extremist and will have their content reported to government agencies for further investigation or deleted. They might even find themselves pulled from their homes, arrested by the police and thrown into a mental hospital for expressing their opposition to government policies, as happened to Marine Brandon Raub. The Courageous Police ... Chaix, JC Best Price: $35.81 Buy New $18.99 (as of 04:27 UTC - Details)
The police state could not ask for a better citizenry than one that carries out its own censorship.
It’s a brilliant ploy, with the added bonus that while the citizenry remains focused on and distrustful of each other, they’re incapable of presenting a united front against the threats posed by the government and its cabal of Constitution-destroying agencies and corporate partners.
The antidote to intolerance is more tolerance.
What this requires is opening the door to more speech not less, even if that speech is offensive to some.
Understanding that freedom for those in the unpopular minority constitutes the ultimate tolerance in a free society, James Madison, the author of the Bill of Rights, fought for a First Amendment that protected the “minority” against the majority, ensuring that even in the face of overwhelming pressure, a minority of one—even one who espouses distasteful viewpoints—would still have the right to speak freely, pray freely, assemble freely, challenge the government freely, and broadcast his views in the media freely.
The First Amendment is a steam valve. It allows people to speak their minds, air their grievances and contribute to a larger dialogue that hopefully results in a more just world.
When there is no steam valve—when there is no one to hear what the people have to say—frustration builds, anger grows and people become more volatile and desperate to force a conversation. By bottling up dissent, we have created a pressure cooker of stifled misery and discontent that is now bubbling over and fomenting even more hate, distrust and paranoia among portions of the populace.
By becoming so fearfully polite, careful to avoid offense, and largely unwilling to be labeled intolerant, hateful or closed-minded that we’ve eliminated words, phrases and symbols from public discourse, we have entered into an egotistical, insulated, narcissistic era in which free speech has become regulated speech: to be celebrated when it reflects the values of the majority and tolerated otherwise, unless it moves so far beyond our political, religious and socio-economic comfort zones as to be rendered dangerous and unacceptable.
Protest laws, free speech zones, bubble zones, trespass zones, anti-bullying legislation, zero tolerance policies, hate crime laws and a host of other legalistic maladies dreamed up by politicians and prosecutors (and championed by those who want to suppress speech with which they might disagree) have conspired to corrode our core freedoms, purportedly for our own good.
On paper—at least according to the U.S. Constitution—we are technically free to speak. The War on Cops: How t... Mac Donald, Heather Best Price: $16.73 Buy New $16.61 (as of 05:30 UTC - Details)
In reality, however, we are only as free to speak as a government official—or corporate entities such as Facebook, Google or YouTube—may allow.
The end result: free speech is no longer free, and injustice persists.
So what we can do to end racial inequality, police brutality, and systemic injustice that does not involve sacrificing free speech on the altar of political correctness or adopting violent tactics?
Stop tiptoeing around, easily offended or afraid to cause offense. Stop allowing the government and its architects to micromanage your life and curtail your freedoms. Stop being a pawn in someone else’s game.
Find your own voice. Give voice to your own outrage. Speak truth to power nonviolently. And throughout it all, love your enemies and put that love into action.
That last point, to love your enemies, is the hardest of all, yet it was the principle that Jesus Christ spoke of most often: “Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them that despitefully use you.”
This principle was also at the core of Martin Luther King Jr.’s efforts to combat racism and injustice. In fact, King delivered an entire sermon on what it means to love one’s enemies even when they continue to wrong you.
King was not speaking in abstracts. This was a man who, despite having faced down water cannons, police dogs and police brutality, intimidation and prejudice and assassination attempts, still insisted that “mass non-violent resistance based on the principle of love” was his best weapon.
The first step in loving one’s enemies, says King, is to discover the element of good in them. “Within the best of us, there is some evil, and within the worst of us, there is some good. When we come to see this, we take a different attitude toward individuals. The person who hates you most has some good in him; even the nation that hates you most has some good in it; even the race that hates you most has some good in it… There is an element of goodness that he can never slough off. Discover the element of good in your enemy. And as you seek to hate him, find the center of goodness and place your attention there and you will take a new attitude.”
Killer High: A History... Andreas, Peter Best Price: $19.48 Buy New $19.49 (as of 05:30 UTC - Details) Second, says King, focus on defeating evil systems, rather than vanquishing individuals caught up in an evil system. “Love is greater than like. Love is understanding, redemptive goodwill for all men, so that you love everybody, because God loves them. You refuse to do anything that will defeat an individual, because you have agape [the love of God working in the lives of men] in your soul. And here you come to the point that you love the individual who does the evil deed, while hating the deed that the person does. This is what Jesus means when he says, ‘Love your enemy.’ This is the way to do it. When the opportunity presents itself when you can defeat your enemy, you must not do it.”
Third, says Kings, cut off the chain of hate and the chain of evil in the universe with love. “If I hit you and you hit me and I hit you back and you hit me back and go on, you see, that goes on ad infinitum. It just never ends… And that is the tragedy of hate, that it doesn’t cut it off. It only intensifies the existence of hate and evil in the universe… Men must see that force begets force, hate begets hate, toughness begets toughness. And it is all a descending spiral, ultimately ending in destruction for all and everybody.”
Fourth, says King, hate ends up in tragic, neurotic responses. “Hate at any point is a cancer that gnaws away at the very vital center of your life and your existence. It is like eroding acid that eats away the best and the objective center of your life. So Jesus says love, because hate destroys the hater as well as the hated.” Instead, use love to redeem and transform those who would do you harm.
Lastly, don’t resort to violence.
King’s conclusion to his sermon is a timeless message, sent through time, to our present age. As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, we are still fighting the triple evils of racism, poverty and militarism. We are still struggling to find our way in the world dominated by corporate greed and political ambition. We are still being manipulated into focusing our anger on flawed individuals rather than working to defeat evil establishments.
Sixty-three years later, King’s words are still relevant:
“Our world is in transition now. Our whole world is facing a revolution. Our nation is facing a revolution. History unfortunately leaves some people oppressed and some people oppressors. And there are … ways that individuals who are oppressed can deal with their oppression. One of them is to rise up against their oppressors with physical violence and corroding hatred. But there is another way. And that is to organize mass non-violent resistance based on the principle of love… This is the only way. And our civilization must discover that. Individuals must discover that as they deal with other individuals… [T]o a power-drunk generation … love is the only way… to a generation depending on nuclear and atomic energy, a generation depending on physical violence…love is the only creative, redemptive, transforming power in the universe…. [T]hrough the power of this love somewhere, men of the most recalcitrant bent will be transformed… because we had the power to love our enemies, to bless those persons that cursed us, to even decide to be good to those persons who hated us, and we even prayed for those persons who despitefully used us.”
The Best of John W. Whitehead


lewrockwell--2020-06-26--Pastors And Physicians: From Protectors to Predators

Historically , society has deemed pastors and physicians two of its most sacred callings .
Pastors watched over our souls , while physicians watched over our bodies .
The duties of each office were both respected and protected in our nation ’ s most important documents and doctrines .
But in about four months , our federal government has turned both professions from that of protector to that of predator .
The so-called coronavirus pandemic has totally changed the spiritual , emotional , psychological , philosophical and medical soul of America .
The entire country has turned against itself .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ meet , whether in a grocery store , drug store , restaurant , gas station , department store or even church , is viewed as a threat .
Masks , social distancing and home isolation are all considered the “ new normal.
” Tens of thousands of pastors are yet today forbidding their congregants from assembling together for worship .
And tens of thousands of physicians are still largely out of reach from their patients .
Many physicians have been on vacation for months .
Hospitals are still refusing to see patients .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ are not being treated .
People with heart disease are not being treated .
Gallbladder disease is not being treated .
Meanwhile , our hospitals are as EMPTY as our churches .
What Your Doctor May N ... Cave MD FAAFP , Stephanie Best Price : $ 3.07 Buy New $ 9.51 In fact , physicians and hospitals are being paid by our federal government to NOT treat people .
And that same federal government is bribing hospitals and doctors to make an all-out effort to “ find ” corona cases .
They @ @ @ @ @ @ @ which are largely inaccurate ) ; they are paid to identify corona cases , whether they exist or not ; they are paid to isolate people as a preventative against corona ; they are paid to put people on respirators ; ad infinitum ; ad nauseam .
And we are not talking chicken feed here ; we are talking hundreds of millions and even billions of dollars .
By the same token , 501 ( c ) ( 3 ) government churches are being paid by that same federal government to NOT conduct @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the most respected callings in the country , pastor and physician , have become nothing more than sniveling servants of the state .
The horror stories that are taking place in nursing homes , retirement facilities and hospitals across America rival the horror stories that came out of Nazi Germany .
All over America , tens of thousands of seniors are dying totally ALONE .
They endure life-and-death surgeries alone ; they are enslaved in their medical wards alone .
Their families are forbidden to see them as they suffer and die .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ of care ( or lack thereof ) that their loved ones are receiving .
Think of the despair and suffering these elderly people are experiencing as they are forcefully separated from their loved ones—at the time when they need them most .
Think of those with diminished mental acuity who don ’ t understand why their husbands and wives or their children and grandchildren are not coming to see them .
What is happening to America ’ s seniors today is CRIMINAL .
Families should be suing these heartless , money-grubbing , conscienceless @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Ah , but , the U.S. Congress is in the process of protecting physicians and hospitals who deny medical treatment from being sued , don ’ t you know .
Unvaccinated : Why grow ... Maready , Forrest Best Price : $ 7.00 Buy New $ 6.99 The act is called the Coronavirus Provider Protection Act ( H.R .
7059 ) .
In a nutshell , it gives physicians and hospitals ( and other caregivers ) carte blanche insulation from any attempt by the victims of all of this medical negligence to seek @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the coronavirus to turn physicians into predators .
All of these stupid socialists who are clamoring for government healthcare are quickly going to find out what America ’ s veterans have known for a long time : Government healthcare is a monstrous FAILURE that shatters the doctor-patient relationship and turns patients into human guinea pigs and physicians into nameless bureaucrats .
Furthermore , the corona scamdemic is already in the process of creating an Orwellian , Stalinesque Police State in this country .
The overblown response to the WuFlu coronavirus has ushered in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that is being used to restrict the rights of citizens , and it ’ s infected even the most conservative states .
Weaponizing emergency , urgent care and hospital policy was a major step .
Entrance into these facilities requires mandatory temperature reading , donning a facemask ( proven to be useless against the spread of the disease ) before an employee will tend to the visitor .
Recent events have shown that the CDC has pressured doctors and nurses to view every potential patient as a Covid-19 carrier , disregarding the individual @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are armed with a sketchy list of possible WuFlu symptoms that could describe seasonal allergies to heartburn , and the first thing done by healthcare workers is insist that the patient be tested , which they are still free to refuse .
Refusal , however , is close to becoming a black listing .
Don ’ t be surprised when rejecting a test will brand the individual as a danger to society .
Dictatorial states like Washington have already implemented contact tracing , where “ trained interviewers ” knock on doors and take @ @ @ @ @ @ @ B ...
THE PEOPLES CHEMIST Best Price : $ 35.95 Buy New $ 39.95 The objective behind pressuring individuals to be tested is to boost case numbers in order to validate the overreaching regulations being implemented by government agencies .
Should the individual refuse to be tested ?
That ’ s hardly an obstacle .
Medical professionals are being directed to report “ probable ” infections based on the catchall list of symptoms .
It ’ s become imperative for individuals to arm themselves with the real facts about Covid-19 : that the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ diagnosed ; that testing positive is not indicative of resultant illness nor does it require vaccination ; that the virus is not that easily spread and that the vast number of false positives and reports of probable cases is far beyond the actual numbers .
Dr. Deborah Birx said publicly that the numbers are inflated by approximately 25 % .
What is true is that the pandemic is an epidemic of government repression focusing on tracking individuals in their activities ( if they tend toward freedom of conservative speech and religious expression ) @ @ @ @ @ @ @ censored lives .
This is the only way the progressive agenda can press ahead .
Inexcusably , too many republican officials and administrators accept the propaganda , ignoring their constitutional duty and becoming accessories to creeping tyranny .
Recommendation ?
Refuse testing for the virus .
The vast number of false positive results make it of no use .
Refuse vaccination when it is finally offered for being ineffective .
Vaccines have proven to infect individuals more often than protect them against viruses .
Do not relent from speaking out against ineffective , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the guise of seeking a cure .
The only cure available to a free society is to adamantly maintain our mobility and freedom to conduct business without social limits , gather with friends in public and worship without constraints .
This nation was designed to protect and defend commerce , unrestricted speech and religious pursuits , never to suppress liberty .
And as I said at the very beginning of this nonsense , none of it could happen without the sheepish submission of America ’ s pastors .
The Problem with Socia ... @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Buy New $ 11.93 The pastor is rightly characterized as being a shepherd .
His duty is to both feed the flock and protect it from wolves .
Any pastor who can not see that these government lockdowns , forced isolations , forced business closings and forced church closings are the work of demonic forces is no shepherd .
His sheep should certainly move on to safer pastures .
By surrendering their flocks to the worst kind of Nanny State , pastors have abandoned their role as shepherds and are leading their sheep @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of beasts .
P.S .
This is the last call for people to vote for a pro-Constitution , pro-Bill of Rights , pro-Natural Law , pro-Liberty , pro-Second Amendment , anti-government lockdown , anti-forced vaccination and anti-Scofield futurism pastor ( Yours Truly ) in the current online poll .
There are only a few days left to vote .
I really need your help .
PLEASE VOTE .
Please read my appeal on Facebook , which includes a link to vote .
And while you are voting , I urge readers to also @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Physician in the online poll .
In the middle of the worst lockdowns and shutdowns , Dr. Annie courageously stood in the pulpit at Liberty Fellowship and told the nation the truth about how the CDC was encouraging physicians to inflate and exaggerate corona deaths on death certificates .
You can not believe the fury that was unleashed against this 30-year primary care physician for her courage .
I mean it was VICIOUS .
And she never flinched .
Dr. Bukacek was voted “ Best Family Physician ” last year , and she @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this year .
Please vote for Dr. Annie Bukacek here .
This is also the final call for THE FREEDOM DOCUMENTS .
This is the giant compilation of America ’ s greatest historical documents in one volume .
It is available nowhere else .
We print each June ; and this is the last call .
If you want a copy of this magnificent collection of America ’ s great documents , ORDER NOW .
And also remember that we are NOW shipping the Matthew Henry Study Bible .
This is the one @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as it is the one study Bible that does NOT promote Christian Zionism .
Written between 1708 – 1710 , the Matthew Henry Bible commentaries are yet today the gold standard of Bible commentaries .
And I am excited to now be able to offer the Matthew Henry Study Bible to my readers .
The Best of Chuck Baldwin

Historically, society has deemed pastors and physicians two of its most sacred callings. Pastors watched over our souls, while physicians watched over our bodies. The duties of each office were both respected and protected in our nation’s most important documents and doctrines. But in about four months, our federal government has turned both professions from that of protector to that of predator.
The so-called coronavirus pandemic has totally changed the spiritual, emotional, psychological, philosophical and medical soul of America. The entire country has turned against itself. No one trusts anyone. Everyone they meet, whether in a grocery store, drug store, restaurant, gas station, department store or even church, is viewed as a threat. Masks, social distancing and home isolation are all considered the “new normal.”
Tens of thousands of pastors are yet today forbidding their congregants from assembling together for worship. And tens of thousands of physicians are still largely out of reach from their patients.
Many physicians have been on vacation for months. Hospitals are still refusing to see patients. Surgeries have been postponed. Cancer victims are not being treated. People with heart disease are not being treated. Gallbladder disease is not being treated. Meanwhile, our hospitals are as EMPTY as our churches. What Your Doctor May N... Cave MD FAAFP, Stephanie Best Price: $3.07 Buy New $9.51 (as of 05:43 UTC - Details)
In fact, physicians and hospitals are being paid by our federal government to NOT treat people. And that same federal government is bribing hospitals and doctors to make an all-out effort to “find” corona cases. They are paid to issue corona tests (which are largely inaccurate); they are paid to identify corona cases, whether they exist or not; they are paid to isolate people as a preventative against corona; they are paid to put people on respirators; ad infinitum; ad nauseam. And we are not talking chicken feed here; we are talking hundreds of millions and even billions of dollars. By the same token, 501(c)(3) government churches are being paid by that same federal government to NOT conduct services.
Almost overnight, two of the most respected callings in the country, pastor and physician, have become nothing more than sniveling servants of the state.
The horror stories that are taking place in nursing homes, retirement facilities and hospitals across America rival the horror stories that came out of Nazi Germany. All over America, tens of thousands of seniors are dying totally ALONE. They endure life-and-death surgeries alone; they are enslaved in their medical wards alone. Their families are forbidden to see them as they suffer and die. Families have no idea of the kind of care (or lack thereof) that their loved ones are receiving.
Think of the despair and suffering these elderly people are experiencing as they are forcefully separated from their loved ones—at the time when they need them most. Think of those with diminished mental acuity who don’t understand why their husbands and wives or their children and grandchildren are not coming to see them.
What is happening to America’s seniors today is CRIMINAL. Families should be suing these heartless, money-grubbing, conscienceless “caregivers” out the ying-yang. Ah, but, the U.S. Congress is in the process of protecting physicians and hospitals who deny medical treatment from being sued, don’t you know. Unvaccinated: Why grow... Maready, Forrest Best Price: $7.00 Buy New $6.99 (as of 05:43 UTC - Details)
The act is called the Coronavirus Provider Protection Act (H.R. 7059). In a nutshell, it gives physicians and hospitals (and other caregivers) carte blanche insulation from any attempt by the victims of all of this medical negligence to seek justice.
The federal government is using the coronavirus to turn physicians into predators. All of these stupid socialists who are clamoring for government healthcare are quickly going to find out what America’s veterans have known for a long time: Government healthcare is a monstrous FAILURE that shatters the doctor-patient relationship and turns patients into human guinea pigs and physicians into nameless bureaucrats.
Furthermore, the corona scamdemic is already in the process of creating an Orwellian, Stalinesque Police State in this country.
Dru Kristenev observes:
The overblown response to the WuFlu coronavirus has ushered in another chapter of data collection and regulation that is being used to restrict the rights of citizens, and it’s infected even the most conservative states.
Weaponizing emergency, urgent care and hospital policy was a major step. Entrance into these facilities requires mandatory temperature reading, donning a facemask (proven to be useless against the spread of the disease) before an employee will tend to the visitor.
Recent events have shown that the CDC has pressured doctors and nurses to view every potential patient as a Covid-19 carrier, disregarding the individual’s complaint as superfluous. Personnel are armed with a sketchy list of possible WuFlu symptoms that could describe seasonal allergies to heartburn, and the first thing done by healthcare workers is insist that the patient be tested, which they are still free to refuse. Refusal, however, is close to becoming a black listing. Don’t be surprised when rejecting a test will brand the individual as a danger to society. Dictatorial states like Washington have already implemented contact tracing, where “trained interviewers” knock on doors and take names. 3 WORST MEDS, Former B... THE PEOPLES CHEMIST Best Price: $35.95 Buy New $39.95 (as of 08:21 UTC - Details)
The objective behind pressuring individuals to be tested is to boost case numbers in order to validate the overreaching regulations being implemented by government agencies. Should the individual refuse to be tested? That’s hardly an obstacle. Medical professionals are being directed to report “probable” infections based on the catchall list of symptoms.
It’s become imperative for individuals to arm themselves with the real facts about Covid-19: that the mortality rate is .1% of cases diagnosed; that testing positive is not indicative of resultant illness nor does it require vaccination; that the virus is not that easily spread and that the vast number of false positives and reports of probable cases is far beyond the actual numbers. Dr. Deborah Birx said publicly that the numbers are inflated by approximately 25%.
What is true is that the pandemic is an epidemic of government repression focusing on tracking individuals in their activities (if they tend toward freedom of conservative speech and religious expression) and confine them to living separate, censored lives. This is the only way the progressive agenda can press ahead. Inexcusably, too many republican officials and administrators accept the propaganda, ignoring their constitutional duty and becoming accessories to creeping tyranny.
Recommendation? Refuse testing for the virus. The vast number of false positive results make it of no use. Refuse vaccination when it is finally offered for being ineffective. Vaccines have proven to infect individuals more often than protect them against viruses. Do not relent from speaking out against ineffective, vain regulations being forced upon individuals under the guise of seeking a cure.
The only cure available to a free society is to adamantly maintain our mobility and freedom to conduct business without social limits, gather with friends in public and worship without constraints.
This nation was designed to protect and defend commerce, unrestricted speech and religious pursuits, never to suppress liberty.
And as I said at the very beginning of this nonsense, none of it could happen without the sheepish submission of America’s pastors. The Problem with Socia... Thomas DiLorenzo Best Price: $9.49 Buy New $11.93 (as of 06:45 UTC - Details)
The pastor is rightly characterized as being a shepherd. His duty is to both feed the flock and protect it from wolves. Any pastor who cannot see that these government lockdowns, forced isolations, forced business closings and forced church closings are the work of demonic forces is no shepherd. His sheep should certainly move on to safer pastures.
By surrendering their flocks to the worst kind of Nanny State, pastors have abandoned their role as shepherds and are leading their sheep to the slaughter from the most savage of beasts.
P.S. This is the last call for people to vote for a pro-Constitution, pro-Bill of Rights, pro-Natural Law, pro-Liberty, pro-Second Amendment, anti-government lockdown, anti-forced vaccination and anti-Scofield futurism pastor (Yours Truly) in the current online poll. There are only a few days left to vote. I really need your help. PLEASE VOTE.
Please read my appeal on Facebook, which includes a link to vote.
And while you are voting, I urge readers to also vote for Dr. Annie Bukacek as Best Physician in the online poll. In the middle of the worst lockdowns and shutdowns, Dr. Annie courageously stood in the pulpit at Liberty Fellowship and told the nation the truth about how the CDC was encouraging physicians to inflate and exaggerate corona deaths on death certificates.
You cannot believe the fury that was unleashed against this 30-year primary care physician for her courage. I mean it was VICIOUS. And she never flinched. Dr. Bukacek was voted “Best Family Physician” last year, and she should definitely be given that award again this year.
Please vote for Dr. Annie Bukacek here.
This is also the final call for THE FREEDOM DOCUMENTS. This is the giant compilation of America’s greatest historical documents in one volume. It is available nowhere else. We print each June; and this is the last call. If you want a copy of this magnificent collection of America’s great documents, ORDER NOW.
And also remember that we are NOW shipping the Matthew Henry Study Bible. This is the one study Bible that I can recommend, as it is the one study Bible that does NOT promote Christian Zionism.
Written between 1708 – 1710, the Matthew Henry Bible commentaries are yet today the gold standard of Bible commentaries. And I am excited to now be able to offer the Matthew Henry Study Bible to my readers.
Order the Matthew Henry Study Bible at a special introductory price.
Reprinted with permission from Chuck Baldwin.
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lewrockwell--2020-06-26--Your iPhone Has a Hidden Map of Everywhere You Go

The little-known feature is buried deep within your iPhone settings , and shows your exact movements over the past few months .
Your iPhone has a feature called Location Services , which uses your location to improve various features on the device .
This includes Significant Locations , a rolling log of your real-world movements , which are then used to offer other services .
The Vitamin D Revoluti ... Soram Khalsa Best Price : $ 1.25 Buy New $ 10.69 For instance , if your iPhone knows about your daily commute , it can provide tailored timing information about @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to learn places significant to you in order to provide useful location-related information in Maps , Calendar , Photos and more , ” Apple explains .
You might be panicking that Apple is keeping a log of your every move , but that ’ s not quite the case .
“ Significant Locations are encrypted and can not be read by Apple , ” according to Apple .
Amazon.com Gift Card i ... Buy New $ 25.00 That means that the location info is stored on your iPhone , and is encrypted and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ leave the device .
No outsiders can see your Significant Locations , and they ’ re not accessible through iCloud either .
And even if a pal is using your iPhone , they can ’ t get into Significant Locations without getting past a Face ID or Touch ID lock first .
However , if you ’ re really worried that a spouse might sneak their way onto your iPhone and catch you at the pub when you were supposed to be at work , it might be worth deactivating the system – @ @ @ @ @ @ @ least .
We ’ ll explain how to do that below .

The little-known feature is buried deep within your iPhone settings, and shows your exact movements over the past few months.
What is iPhone Significant Locations?
Your iPhone has a feature called Location Services, which uses your location to improve various features on the device.
This includes Significant Locations, a rolling log of your real-world movements, which are then used to offer other services. The Vitamin D Revoluti... Soram Khalsa Best Price: $1.25 Buy New $10.69 (as of 08:00 UTC - Details)
For instance, if your iPhone knows about your daily commute, it can provide tailored timing information about your journey.
“Allow your iPhone to learn places significant to you in order to provide useful location-related information in Maps, Calendar, Photos and more,” Apple explains.
Is iPhone Significant Locations safe?
You might be panicking that Apple is keeping a log of your every move, but that’s not quite the case.
“Significant Locations are encrypted and cannot be read by Apple,” according to Apple. Amazon.com Gift Card i... Buy New $25.00 (as of 06:10 UTC - Details)
That means that the location info is stored on your iPhone, and is encrypted and dissociated from you if it needs to leave the device.
No outsiders can see your Significant Locations, and they’re not accessible through iCloud either.
And even if a pal is using your iPhone, they can’t get into Significant Locations without getting past a Face ID or Touch ID lock first.
However, if you’re really worried that a spouse might sneak their way onto your iPhone and catch you at the pub when you were supposed to be at work, it might be worth deactivating the system – or clearing your history at the very least. We’ll explain how to do that below.
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lewrockwell--2020-06-26--Why Social Distancing Should Not Be the New Normal

According to some , Bill Gates prominently among them , social distancing is part of “ the new normal.
” Alas , there ’ s plenty of evidence to suggest social distancing and lockdowns will not be necessary at all , and were probably a bad idea in the first place .
According to Nobel-prize-winning scientist Michael Levitt,1 the rate of SARS-CoV-2 mortality never experienced exponential growth , as was predicted , which suggests a majority of people may have had some sort of prior resistance or immunity .
Levitt , a professor of structural biology at the Stanford School @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in 2013 for his development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems .
A VOYAGE IN IMAGINATIO ... Holmes , Dr Joel S Buy New $ 9.95 Statistical data , he points out , reveal a mathematical pattern that has stayed consistent regardless of the interventions implemented .
As reported by Freddie Sayers in the video above : Now , evidence for prior resistance to SARS-CoV-2 is emerging , adding support to Levitt ’ s suspicions that the lack of exponential mortality growth may be due to the fact that a majority simply @ @ @ @ @ @ @ t ) susceptible to the disease in the first place .
A study2 published May 14 , 2020 , in the journal Cell , found 40 % to 60 % of people who had not been exposed to SARS-CoV-2 still had resistance to the virus on the T-cell level .
According to the authors , this suggests there ’ s “ cross-reactive T cell recognition between circulating ‘ common cold ’ coronaviruses and SARS-CoV-2.
” Fauci : The Bernie Mado ... Ortleb , Charles Buy New $ 5.99 In other words , exposure @ @ @ @ @ @ @ appear to allow your immune system to recognize and fight off SARS-CoV-2 as well .
This is great news .
Professor Karl Friston , another statistician whose expertise is in mathematical modeling , believes resistance or prior immunity could be as high as 80 % .
Sayers reports:3 Social Distancing Should Not Be Part of ‘ New Normal ’ As noted by Sayers , this really throws the idea of social distancing being an unavoidable part of the post-COVID-19 “ new normal ” into question .
What ’ s more , once sensible @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are entered into this model , the effect of lockdown efforts “ literally goes away , ” Friston says .
According to Friston , the reason why Sweden and the U.K. , for example , have had very similar mortality rates despite vastly different government interventions ( Sweden did not impose mandatory stay-at-home orders or business closures while the U.K. did ) , is because Swedes who felt sick stayed home anyway .
This is common sense for most people , especially during an active pandemic .
When Sayer asks Friston to comment @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Imperial College model4 that predicted the death of 2 million Americans and 500,000 Britons unless draconian lockdown and social distancing measures were implemented , he replied that Ferguson ’ s models were correct “ under the qualification that the population they were talking about is much smaller than you might imagine.
” History of the Deep St ... Stone , Jeremy Buy New $ 14.99 Why did U.S. public health officials persuade lawmakers to almost immediately shutter businesses and issue stay-at-home orders for most of our population rather than implementing traditional disease control @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the sick ?
Remember , quarantining is normally reserved for those infected , not for the healthy .
This is a question that deserves an answer .
We ’ re unlikely to get it , however , because the answer would likely reveal that this pandemic has been yet another massive fraud to enrich multinational corporations at the expense of just about everything and everyone else .
And , if it weren ’ t for the captured mainstream media , it would never have worked .
At this point , we can clearly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ had been quietly put together , piece by piece , behind the scenes , only to be put into action once a pandemic — real or imagined — emerged .
A key player in the coordination of this plan has been Bill Gates , who stands to profit in any number of ways , both from vaccines and technological rollouts .
As noted by investigative journalist James Corbett in his four-part Corbett Report on Gates,5 “ every aspect of the current coronavirus pandemic involves organizations , groups and individuals with direct ties to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Health Organization , of course , but also the two research groups responsible for shaping the decision to lock down the U.K. and U.S. — the Imperial College COVID-19 Research Team responsible for the grossly inaccurate mortality model , and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation — as well as the National Institutes of Health , and the NIH ’ s Dr. Anthony Fauci , who has been leading the White House pandemic response team .
Then , of course , there was Event 201 , conducted six weeks before the infections @ @ @ @ @ @ @ staged in October 2019 in which the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation , the World Economic Forum and the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security got together to gauge the nation ’ s preparedness for a global coronavirus pandemic .
While that exercise revealed “ massive preparedness gaps , ” 6 we ’ ve seen no shortage of preparedness in terms of comprehensive plans for how to track and trace the infection and vaccine status of everyone using electronic means .
The Invisible Enemy Garrett , Mr. Gregory L ... Buy New $ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ carry vaccine records in order to regain the freedom to work , get an education , travel and engage in social activities going forward .
I wrote about this elaborate proposal in “ Rockefeller Foundation ’ s Plan to Track Americans.
” As noted by Corbett:7 Indeed , I wrote about this illegal setup in “ Bill Gates — Most Dangerous Philanthropist in Modern History ?
” The Canadian citizen journalist who goes by the name “ Amazing Polly , ” has also detailed how global health groups shamelessly use extortion and protection @ @ @ @ @ @ @ everything to do with building wealth and nothing to do with protecting or improving public health.8 For more details on this , see “ Global Health Mafia Protection.
” In Mafia protection racket schemes , people will pay extortion money when they are convinced bad things can or will happen if they don ’ t pay the fee .
The same phenomenon is now seen with governments who might have been skeptical about an imminent pandemic until the arrival of COVID-19 and now want to pay for preparedness .
All in all , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ racketeering scheme .
And to keep it going into the future , they need everything to fall in line with the idea that nothing can ever be the same as it was pre-COVID-19 .
Well , that is a lie .
Throughout this pandemic , common-sense prevention strategies have been rebuffed and denigrated , helpful treatment strategies have been suppressed , and scientists and doctors have been censored for speaking out about the usefulness of alternative therapies or older , inexpensive drugs such as hydrochloroquine .
Stand or Fall in the P ... @ @ @ @ @ @ @ New $ 10.95 All of this is evidence that public health is not a primary concern but transferring assets to the very wealthy certainly is .
Many will be enriched from the global vaccination program and its tracking and tracing technologies , which will ultimately be tied to digital IDs and digital economies .
Enough is enough .
The global population needs to see the plan for what it is — a global , totalitarian power grab — and renounce it .
We ’ ve allowed fear to dramatically alter our world .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ by making those alterations permanent .
As noted by Barbara Loe Fisher in her thought-provoking commentary , “ How Fear of a Virus Changed Our World ” : The Best of Joseph Mercola

According to some, Bill Gates prominently among them, social distancing is part of “the new normal.” Alas, there’s plenty of evidence to suggest social distancing and lockdowns will not be necessary at all, and were probably a bad idea in the first place.
According to Nobel-prize-winning scientist Michael Levitt,1 the rate of SARS-CoV-2 mortality never experienced exponential growth, as was predicted, which suggests a majority of people may have had some sort of prior resistance or immunity.
Levitt, a professor of structural biology at the Stanford School of Medicine, received the Nobel Prize in 2013 for his development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems.
No Exponential Growth in Mortality
A VOYAGE IN IMAGINATIO... Holmes, Dr Joel S Buy New $9.95 (as of 04:21 UTC - Details) Statistical data, he points out, reveal a mathematical pattern that has stayed consistent regardless of the interventions implemented. As reported by Freddie Sayers in the video above:
“After around a two-week exponential growth of cases (and, subsequently, deaths) some kind of break kicks in, and growth starts slowing down. The curve quickly becomes ‘sub-exponential.’ This may seem like a technical distinction, but its implications are profound.
The ‘unmitigated’ scenarios modelled by (among others) Imperial College, and which tilted governments across the world into drastic action, relied on a presumption of continued exponential growth — that with a consistent R number of significantly above 1 and a consistent death rate, very quickly the majority of the population would be infected and huge numbers of deaths would be recorded.
But Professor Levitt’s point is that that hasn’t actually happened anywhere, even in countries that have been relatively lax in their responses …
He believes that both some degree of prior immunity and large numbers of asymptomatic cases are important factors … He describes indiscriminate lockdown measures as ‘a huge mistake,’ and advocates a ‘smart lockdown’ policy, focused on … protecting elderly people.”
Quarantining the Healthy Was Unnecessary
Now, evidence for prior resistance to SARS-CoV-2 is emerging, adding support to Levitt’s suspicions that the lack of exponential mortality growth may be due to the fact that a majority simply aren’t (and weren’t) susceptible to the disease in the first place.
At this point, we can clearly see that an all-encompassing global totalitarian plan had been quietly put together, piece by piece, behind the scenes, only to be put into action once a pandemic — real or imagined — emerged. A key player in the coordination of this plan has been Bill Gates, who stands to profit in any number of ways, both from vaccines and technological rollouts.
A study2 published May 14, 2020, in the journal Cell, found 40% to 60% of people who had not been exposed to SARS-CoV-2 still had resistance to the virus on the T-cell level. According to the authors, this suggests there’s “cross-reactive T cell recognition between circulating ‘common cold’ coronaviruses and SARS-CoV-2.”
Fauci: The Bernie Mado... Ortleb, Charles Buy New $5.99 (as of 02:55 UTC - Details) In other words, exposure to coronaviruses that cause the common cold appear to allow your immune system to recognize and fight off SARS-CoV-2 as well. This is great news. Professor Karl Friston, another statistician whose expertise is in mathematical modeling, believes resistance or prior immunity could be as high as 80%. Sayers reports:3
“[Friston] invented the now standard ‘statistical parametric mapping’ technique for understanding brain imaging — and for the past months he has been applying his particular method of Bayesian analysis, which he calls ‘dynamic causal modelling,’ to the available Covid-19 data …
His models suggest that the stark difference between outcomes in the UK and Germany, for example, is not primarily an effect of different government actions (such as … earlier lockdowns), but is better explained by intrinsic differences between the populations that make the ‘susceptible population’ in Germany — the group that is vulnerable to Covid-19 — much smaller than in the UK …
Even within the UK, the numbers point to the same thing: that the ‘effective susceptible population’ was never 100%, and was at most 50% and probably more like only 20% of the population.”
Social Distancing Should Not Be Part of ‘New Normal’
As noted by Sayers, this really throws the idea of social distancing being an unavoidable part of the post-COVID-19 “new normal” into question. What’s more, once sensible behaviors such as staying home when sick are entered into this model, the effect of lockdown efforts “literally goes away,” Friston says.
According to Friston, the reason why Sweden and the U.K., for example, have had very similar mortality rates despite vastly different government interventions (Sweden did not impose mandatory stay-at-home orders or business closures while the U.K. did), is because Swedes who felt sick stayed home anyway. This is common sense for most people, especially during an active pandemic.
When Sayer asks Friston to comment on Neil Ferguson’s now discredited Imperial College model4 that predicted the death of 2 million Americans and 500,000 Britons unless draconian lockdown and social distancing measures were implemented, he replied that Ferguson’s models were correct “under the qualification that the population they were talking about is much smaller than you might imagine.”
“In other words, Ferguson was right that around 80% of susceptible people would rapidly become infected, and … that of those between 0.5% and 1% would die — he just missed the fact that the relevant ‘susceptible population’ was only ever a small portion of people …” Sayer writes.
Pandemic Response Plan Has Been a Giant Flop
History of the Deep St... Stone, Jeremy Buy New $14.99 (as of 06:14 UTC - Details) Why did U.S. public health officials persuade lawmakers to almost immediately shutter businesses and issue stay-at-home orders for most of our population rather than implementing traditional disease control measures that identify, quarantine and treat the sick? Remember, quarantining is normally reserved for those infected, not for the healthy.
This is a question that deserves an answer. We’re unlikely to get it, however, because the answer would likely reveal that this pandemic has been yet another massive fraud to enrich multinational corporations at the expense of just about everything and everyone else. And, if it weren’t for the captured mainstream media, it would never have worked.
At this point, we can clearly see that an all-encompassing global totalitarian plan had been quietly put together, piece by piece, behind the scenes, only to be put into action once a pandemic — real or imagined — emerged. A key player in the coordination of this plan has been Bill Gates, who stands to profit in any number of ways, both from vaccines and technological rollouts.
As noted by investigative journalist James Corbett in his four-part Corbett Report on Gates,5 “every aspect of the current coronavirus pandemic involves organizations, groups and individuals with direct ties to Gates funding.”
This includes the World Health Organization, of course, but also the two research groups responsible for shaping the decision to lock down the U.K. and U.S. — the Imperial College COVID-19 Research Team responsible for the grossly inaccurate mortality model, and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation — as well as the National Institutes of Health, and the NIH’s Dr. Anthony Fauci, who has been leading the White House pandemic response team.
Then, of course, there was Event 201, conducted six weeks before the infections started. This was a tabletop exercise staged in October 2019 in which the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Economic Forum and the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security got together to gauge the nation’s preparedness for a global coronavirus pandemic.
While that exercise revealed “massive preparedness gaps,”6 we’ve seen no shortage of preparedness in terms of comprehensive plans for how to track and trace the infection and vaccine status of everyone using electronic means.
The Invisible Enemy Garrett, Mr. Gregory L... Buy New $26.94 (as of 05:21 UTC - Details) Ditto for plans requiring everyone to carry vaccine records in order to regain the freedom to work, get an education, travel and engage in social activities going forward. I wrote about this elaborate proposal in “Rockefeller Foundation’s Plan to Track Americans.” As noted by Corbett:7
“Given the incredible reach that the tentacles of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have into every corner of the global health markets, it should not be surprising that the foundation has been intimately involved with every stage of the current pandemic crisis, either.
In effect, Gates has merely used the wealth from his domination of the software market to leverage himself into a similar position in the world of global health. The whole process has been cloaked in the mantle of selfless philanthropy, but the foundation is not structured as a charitable endeavor.
Instead, it maintains a dual structure: the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation distributes money to grantees, but a separate entity, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust, manages the endowment assets. These two entities often have overlapping interests, and … grants given by the foundation often directly benefit the value of the trust’s assets.”
Medical Mafia
Indeed, I wrote about this illegal setup in “Bill Gates — Most Dangerous Philanthropist in Modern History?” The Canadian citizen journalist who goes by the name “Amazing Polly,” has also detailed how global health groups shamelessly use extortion and protection to achieve their goals, which have everything to do with building wealth and nothing to do with protecting or improving public health.8 For more details on this, see “Global Health Mafia Protection.”
In Mafia protection racket schemes, people will pay extortion money when they are convinced bad things can or will happen if they don’t pay the fee. The same phenomenon is now seen with governments who might have been skeptical about an imminent pandemic until the arrival of COVID-19 and now want to pay for preparedness.
All in all, it’s looking like a giant racketeering scheme. And to keep it going into the future, they need everything to fall in line with the idea that nothing can ever be the same as it was pre-COVID-19. Well, that is a lie.
Throughout this pandemic, common-sense prevention strategies have been rebuffed and denigrated, helpful treatment strategies have been suppressed, and scientists and doctors have been censored for speaking out about the usefulness of alternative therapies or older, inexpensive drugs such as hydrochloroquine. Stand or Fall in the P... Garrett, Mr. Gregory L... Buy New $10.95 (as of 04:56 UTC - Details)
All of this is evidence that public health is not a primary concern but transferring assets to the very wealthy certainly is. Many will be enriched from the global vaccination program and its tracking and tracing technologies, which will ultimately be tied to digital IDs and digital economies.
Enough is enough. The global population needs to see the plan for what it is — a global, totalitarian power grab — and renounce it. We’ve allowed fear to dramatically alter our world. Let’s not make things worse by making those alterations permanent. As noted by Barbara Loe Fisher in her thought-provoking commentary, “How Fear of a Virus Changed Our World”:
“Some of the core values, which have shaped our history and defined who we are as a nation, have been put on trial in 2020 because we are paralyzed by fear of a virus that doctors say could be hiding in the breath of every person who comes near us and contaminate everything we touch …
The authoritarian lockdown approach by governments to the coronavirus pandemic has been framed as a choice between safety and liberty … Public health officials have persuaded lawmakers to divide the American people into two classes: those who are considered “essential” and allowed to continue working and those who are considered “nonessential” and barred from earning a living.
Small businesses and services judged to be “nonessential” have been forced to close their doors … while, paradoxically, everyone is free to roam through grocery stores, drug stores and big box stores like Walmart, Target and Home Depot, owned by big corporations … What we have allowed to be done in the name of public health has no parallel in American history or human history.
The world did not lock down during centuries of epidemics of smallpox, which was a highly contagious virus and had a case fatality rate of 30% … Societies have not closed businesses and schools to prevent tuberculosis, a contagious disease that spreads the same way as coronavirus and has a case fatality rate still between 20% and 70% …
Why are the majority of people in educated societies like the U.S. cowering in fear before a virus that does not cause any symptoms or complications in the majority of children and adults under the age of 65, and has a mortality rate of about 1%, which is even lower if all the asymptomatic infections are counted? …
You have an opportunity, right now, to contact your elected representatives and let them know how you feel about protecting civil liberties and vaccine informed consent rights in your state. Sign up to use NVIC’s Advocacy Portal to defend voluntary vaccine choices.
And, when you go to the polls November 4, 2020, think hard about who you are voting for and why. If you don’t like the response to the COVID-19 pandemic that your governor or other elected representatives have made, your vote in this and every election beyond this one could affect whether America will continue to value liberty or throw it away.”
Sources and References
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lewrockwell--2020-06-27--COVID-19 Goes to Family Court

COVID-19 Goes to Family Court

I got hauled into family court Wednesday ( June 24 ) over a report I wrote that was posted at LewRockwell.com back in February of 2020 .
I was the only case before the judge that day .
This was an emergency hearing of a life-and-death matter .
I had to cancel all other appointments and drive to Los Angeles for an emergency matter of unknown content .
The hearing lasted two-and-a-half hours .
Everyone was required to wear a mask during the proceeding .
Social distancing was strict .
Chairs were marked where you could sit .
You could @ @ @ @ @ @ @ drama on the level of the Dragnet – -renamed “ Badge 714 ” TV series of the 1950s which became famous for this quip from “ Lieutenant Joe Friday of the LAPD : “ Just the facts ma ’ am .
All we want are the facts , ma ’ am.
” Of course , the facts would never see the light of day in this court .
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It was just another sequel to a long 6-year child custody battle that has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ orders ( 3 hearings at a cost of $ 6000 in legal fees ) , false contempt of court charges that were dismissed in a 10—minute hearing ( at a cost of $ 12,000 in legal fees ) , and calls to the police over imagined threats posed to my son by me , his father ( no arrests ) .
The article in question was entitled : WHY I WANT TO BE INFECTED WITH THE COVID-19 CORONAVIRUS AND YOU SHOULD TOO The judge was given a copy of this report and my @ @ @ @ @ @ @ forward it to me so I could defend myself in family court .
I was ambushed in family court in an ex parte ( rush emergency ) motion .
I was only able to read the allegations after the hearing was over .
The allegation was that I had intentionally exposed my 16-year old son during his visitations to my home every other weekend to the dreaded COVID-19 coronavirus .
And that exposure , upon his return to his mother ’ s house , indirectly exposed his grandmother to transmission of the virus @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of age , considered a high-risk group for the COVID-19 , and had not left her house during the past few months of the lockdown and had chosen to live in imagined fear .
So , the court concluded , among other evidence presented , that my son should be taken away from any visitation with his son for 45 days .
I can have no contact with my son whatsoever , not even inform him why dad isn ’ t going to show up on Friday to pick him up .
A @ @ @ @ @ @ @ son in a brainwashing exercise about how evil dads can be .
Dad is now a COVID-19 criminal spreader of disease .
And of course , the psychologist needs the money and revels in her imagined importance to save my son from his evil father and COVID-19 .
The judge and my son ’ s attorney wondered if my son would rebel during this 45-day period of exclusion of his father , so the need for a psychologist to calm his fears and concerns .
Of course !
Northlight 14 ” L ... @ @ @ @ @ @ @ court really believed this then I would be tagged as a disease spreader and place on electronic-only visitation with my son .
( Hey , I had better not give them any ideas. )
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My son ’ s counselor is likely going to alienate my son from his father by scaring him I may give him a life-threatening disease .
Now all this is unConstitutional .
And my lame attorney failed to ask for a STAY until proper adjudication could be performed .
( I ’ m looking for a new attorney @ @ @ @ @ @ @ attorney would take me as a client when I pose such a risk ?
I ’ m a legal outcast . )
No , the presumed risk was too much to risk proper legal due process .
This represents a form of legal kidnapping .
Now neither my son or his grandmother have been tested for COVID-19 .
Testing should have been demanded to see if they had already been exposed to the virus and developed antibodies .
The irony of this sad account is that I am 75-years of age – – @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in an exclusional group according to the court .
I should have been hauled into court electronically ( Skype , Zoom ) .
I should have never been physically hauled into court and exposed to others in a public charade of justice .
It was OK for dad to be potentially exposed by force , but not for my son , who is in a low-risk group , to get exposed and develop natural antibodies in an imagined risk of some kind .
Of course , without a vaccine , the only way @ @ @ @ @ @ @ natural exposure and development of antibodies ( and zinc-dependent T-cells as we only recently have learned ) .
And did my son ’ s grandmother come down with COVID-19 ?
No , but that didn ’ t matter .
And if she had , odds are she would have only experienced mild if any symptoms .
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This is the rub – that a so-called killed virus ( viruses aren ’ t alive , they infect a living cell and take over its @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a syringe and delivered by needle along with antibody-provoking heavy metals is the only way to protect against infectious disease , but community exposure to a virus and development of natural antibodies is not acceptable , maybe not even legal .
Every time you read or hear of laboratory blood-test-confirmed COVID-19 coronavirus cases of infection , you are reading or hearing of someone whose immune system kicked in and overwhelmed the virus .
That is the Janus face of infection .
We must stay inside , away from contact with others , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ can obtain the legal way to develop antibodies .
Which is the obvious social scheme in practice , which is to ensure there are enough people who can benefit from an upcoming vaccine .
That vaccine is obviously not available at the present time .
But I foresee a future legal quagmire .
In order to attend court , you will have to show you have been vaccinated , once it becomes available .
COVID-19 is now the get-out-of-jail card .
According to a recent Stanford/UCLA study , a person in the U.S. @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by COVID-19 coronavirus without taking any precautions ( face masks , social distancing ) and a 1-in-19 million chance of dying from COVID-19 .
These were the numbers the court didn ’ t have in its hands to assess the risk .
Now there were some court clerks and others in the court who were obviously born overseas .
And they comprise a population that is highly likely to harbor latent ( dormant ) tuberculosis in their lungs ( there are 14 million of these people in the US ) that could erupt @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , these people can come and go in the courtroom .
But the 75-year old father of a 16-year old child poses a risk as a virus spreader , even though his own age group is high risk .
Outdoor Patriotic Ligh ... Buy New $ 29.99 My son ’ s mother has been reportedly taking photos of me in my car when I drop my son off at his mother ’ s house , to determine if I was wearing a mask during the drop off .
And this is the hysteria @ @ @ @ @ @ @ weapon against a father in family court .
COVID-19 is a weapon beyond reason .
And if the judge reads this report , there will be more sanctions .
The judge ’ s ruling is the science of the day .
Imagined risk dressed up in legalese and delivered in a black robe in a backdrop of a courtroom .
I ’ m surprised I got out of court without handcuffs .
And more legal costs if I want to protest , in a prolonged case in family court that has cost $ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ way , masks are not required by law in the State of California .
They are only a guideline published by public health authorities .
But intentionally misdirected news reports say otherwise .
Health educator Peggy Hall sets the record straight .

I got hauled into family court Wednesday (June 24) over a report I wrote that was posted at LewRockwell.com back in February of 2020.
I was the only case before the judge that day. This was an emergency hearing of a life-and-death matter. I had to cancel all other appointments and drive to Los Angeles for an emergency matter of unknown content. The hearing lasted two-and-a-half hours.
Everyone was required to wear a mask during the proceeding. Social distancing was strict. Chairs were marked where you could sit. You could sense the case was developing into high drama on the level of the Dragnet – -renamed “Badge 714” TV series of the 1950s which became famous for this quip from “Lieutenant Joe Friday of the LAPD: “Just the facts ma’am. All we want are the facts, ma’am.” Of course, the facts would never see the light of day in this court.
2016 1 oz American Sil... Check Amazon for Pricing. It was just another sequel to a long 6-year child custody battle that has been filled with bogus requests for restraining orders (3 hearings at a cost of $6000 in legal fees), false contempt of court charges that were dismissed in a 10—minute hearing (at a cost of $12,000 in legal fees), and calls to the police over imagined threats posed to my son by me, his father (no arrests).
The article in question was entitled: WHY I WANT TO BE INFECTED WITH THE COVID-19 CORONAVIRUS AND YOU SHOULD TOO
The judge was given a copy of this report and my lame attorney failed to read it and forward it to me so I could defend myself in family court. I was ambushed in family court in an ex parte (rush emergency) motion. I was only able to read the allegations after the hearing was over.
The allegation was that I had intentionally exposed my 16-year old son during his visitations to my home every other weekend to the dreaded COVID-19 coronavirus.
And that exposure, upon his return to his mother’s house, indirectly exposed his grandmother to transmission of the virus, and she is over 80 years of age, considered a high-risk group for the COVID-19, and had not left her house during the past few months of the lockdown and had chosen to live in imagined fear.
So, the court concluded, among other evidence presented, that my son should be taken away from any visitation with his father for 45 days. I can have no contact with my son whatsoever, not even inform him why dad isn’t going to show up on Friday to pick him up. A psychologist will break the news to my son in a brainwashing exercise about how evil dads can be. Dad is now a COVID-19 criminal spreader of disease. And of course, the psychologist needs the money and revels in her imagined importance to save my son from his evil father and COVID-19.
The judge and my son’s attorney wondered if my son would rebel during this 45-day period of exclusion of his father, so the need for a psychologist to calm his fears and concerns. Of course! Northlight 14” L... Buy New $19.79 (as of 04:44 UTC - Details)
If the family court really believed this then I would be tagged as a disease spreader and place on electronic-only visitation with my son. (Hey, I had better not give them any ideas.). My son’s counselor is likely going to alienate my son from his father by scaring him I may give him a life-threatening disease.
Now all this is unConstitutional. And my lame attorney failed to ask for a STAY until proper adjudication could be performed. (I’m looking for a new attorney if you know one. But which attorney would take me as a client when I pose such a risk? I’m a legal outcast.)
No, the presumed risk was too much to risk proper legal due process. This represents a form of legal kidnapping.
Now neither my son or his grandmother have been tested for COVID-19. Testing should have been demanded to see if they had already been exposed to the virus and developed antibodies.
The irony of this sad account is that I am 75-years of age – – considered high-risk for COVID-19. I am in an exclusional group according to the court. I should have been hauled into court electronically (Skype, Zoom). I should have never been physically hauled into court and exposed to others in a public charade of justice. It was OK for dad to be potentially exposed by force, but not for my son, who is in a low-risk group, to get exposed and develop natural antibodies in an imagined risk of some kind.
Of course, without a vaccine, the only way to assuredly protect against the virus is natural exposure and development of antibodies (and zinc-dependent T-cells as we only recently have learned). And did my son’s grandmother come down with COVID-19? No, but that didn’t matter. And if she had, odds are she would have only experienced mild if any symptoms. 1988 S US Mint Olpympi... Check Amazon for Pricing.
This is the rub – that a so-called killed virus (viruses aren’t alive, they infect a living cell and take over its machinery to replicate wildly) housed inside a syringe and delivered by needle along with antibody-provoking heavy metals is the only way to protect against infectious disease, but community exposure to a virus and development of natural antibodies is not acceptable, maybe not even legal. Every time you read or hear of laboratory blood-test-confirmed COVID-19 coronavirus cases of infection, you are reading or hearing of someone whose immune system kicked in and overwhelmed the virus. That is the Janus face of infection.
We must stay inside, away from contact with others, and remain vulnerable to this virus until we can obtain the legal way to develop antibodies. Which is the obvious social scheme in practice, which is to ensure there are enough people who can benefit from an upcoming vaccine.
That vaccine is obviously not available at the present time. But I foresee a future legal quagmire. In order to attend court, you will have to show you have been vaccinated, once it becomes available. COVID-19 is now the get-out-of-jail card.
According to a recent Stanford/UCLA study, a person in the U.S. has a 1-in-4000 chance of being infected by COVID-19 coronavirus without taking any precautions (face masks, social distancing) and a 1-in-19 million chance of dying from COVID-19. These were the numbers the court didn’t have in its hands to assess the risk.
Now there were some court clerks and others in the court who were obviously born overseas. And they comprise a population that is highly likely to harbor latent (dormant) tuberculosis in their lungs (there are 14 million of these people in the US) that could erupt into active lung disease. No problem, these people can come and go in the courtroom. But the 75-year old father of a 16-year old child poses a risk as a virus spreader, even though his own age group is high risk. Outdoor Patriotic Ligh... Buy New $29.99 (as of 04:44 UTC - Details)
My son’s mother has been reportedly taking photos of me in my car when I drop my son off at his mother’s house, to determine if I was wearing a mask during the drop off. And this is the hysteria that now is utilized as a legal weapon against a father in family court. COVID-19 is a weapon beyond reason. And if the judge reads this report, there will be more sanctions. The judge’s ruling is the science of the day. Imagined risk dressed up in legalese and delivered in a black robe in a backdrop of a courtroom. I’m surprised I got out of court without handcuffs. And more legal costs if I want to protest, in a prolonged case in family court that has cost $1.7 million and counting.
By the way, masks are not required by law in the State of California. They are only a guideline published by public health authorities. But intentionally misdirected news reports say otherwise. Health educator Peggy Hall sets the record straight.