lewrockwell--2020-12-31--The Freedom To Pursue Happiness

The Freedom To Pursue Happiness

The governors of all 50 states , and the mayors of many large cities , have assumed unto themselves the powers to restrict private personal choices and lawful public behavior in an effort to curb the spread of COVID-19 .
They have done so not by enforcing previously existing legislation but by crafting their own executive orders , styling those orders as if they were laws , using state and local police to enforce those so-called laws and — presumably when life returns to normal and the courts reopen — prosecuting the alleged offenders in court .
1984 ( Signet @ @ @ @ @ @ @ $ 1.49 Buy New $ 3.58 It is hard to believe that any judge in America would permit a criminal trial of any person for violating a standard of behavior that has not been enacted into law by a legislature .
We know this because under our system of representative government , separated powers and guaranteed liberties , only the legislative branch can craft laws and assign punishments for noncompliance .
This is Constitutional Law 101 .
Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch has written that the executive branch can not enforce a law @ @ @ @ @ @ @ does , we will have approached tyranny .
Have we approached tyranny already ?
During the past eight weeks , governors and mayors have closed most businesses , public venues and houses of worship , prohibited public assembly and restricted travel — all of which they have unilaterally decreed to be nonessential .
In his terrifying novel “ 1984 ” — which posits a future of total control of all persons by the government and total control of the government by one political party — George Orwell argued that he who controls the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ well .
That Orwellian truism has been manifested like never before here in America , where executive branch officeholders have used state and local police to restrain people from engaging in private and public behavior which they concede was lawful two months ago because today it is not deemed “ essential.
” Frankly , I am surprised at the ferocity of police enforcement and the lameness of police compliance .
The police have taken the same oaths to uphold the same Bill of Rights — it ’ s not the Bill of Safety @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Rights — as have all other officeholders .
The police also know that it is unlawful for them to obey an unlawful order , particularly when they use force .
The lockdown orders are all unlawful because none of them — none — has been enacted by a legislature , and all of them — all — interfere with fundamental liberties , each of which is guaranteed — guaranteed — by the Constitution .
Brave New World Aldous Huxley Best Price : $ 1.00 Buy New $ 6.99 Please don ’ t misunderstand @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of personal efforts to control contagion .
But under the Constitution , these social-distancing , wear-your-mask , shut-your-business , stay-at-home edicts constitute mere recommendations that should induce rational voluntary compliance , because the government in America is without lawful power to compel compliance .
The governors complain about resistance .
They need to know that Americans will resist efforts to interfere in behavior that remains as moral , natural , lawful and constitutional as it was 60 days ago .
Last week , President Donald Trump , sounding fed up with gubernatorial lockdown @ @ @ @ @ @ @ essential — meaning , in his opinion , all houses of worship should be opened — and he offered that he was prepared to “ override ” any governors who disagreed with him .
When he realized that he lacked any authority to override even unlawful gubernatorial decrees , he dispatched the Department of Justice to begin filing challenges to governors in federal courts and to argue that constitutional freedoms are being impaired by the states .
I applaud this , but it is too little , too late .
Where was the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ arrest for saying Mass or distributing palms and when Jewish rabbis were put in COVID-19-infested jails for holding funerals ?
At all these religious events , folks freely chose to exercise their freedom to worship ; and to take their chances .
These DOJ interventions provoked the question : Who should decide what goods , services or venues are essential — the states or the federal government ?
The question is Orwellian , as the answer is : neither of them .
The government in America — state or federal — has no @ @ @ @ @ @ @ goods , services and venues are essential .
Those determinations have been for individuals to make since 1776 , and those individual choices have been constitutionally protected from the feds since the Bill of Rights was ratified in 1791 and from the states since the 14th Amendment was ratified in 1868 .
Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury Best Price : $ 1.98 Buy New $ 8.29 What is essential to the laborer or student or housewife may not be essential to the former Goldman Sachs partner who was elected governor of New Jersey , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ It shall be the duty of every person or entity in this State… to cooperate fully ” with his orders , or essential to the ideologue who is mayor of the Big Apple and who , for all his professed liberality , threatened to close permanently — permanently — businesses and houses of worship that flaunt his guidelines .
A duty is undertaken voluntarily or by nature , not by executive command , Governor Murphy .
And the government can not take property away from its owners except for a legitimate public use @ @ @ @ @ @ @ de Blasio .
Governors and mayors can make all the dictatorial pronouncements and threats that they wish .
But they can not use public assets to enforce them .
And when they seek to use force , those from whom they seek it should decline the offer .
In America , we decide for ourselves what produces happiness .
We have never delegated to the government — ever — the power to make personal choices for us .
And some of us are willing to take chances and even do “ nonessential ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for which we have fought since 1776 is the liberty to be ourselves .
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The governors of all 50 states, and the mayors of many large cities, have assumed unto themselves the powers to restrict private personal choices and lawful public behavior in an effort to curb the spread of COVID-19.
They have done so not by enforcing previously existing legislation but by crafting their own executive orders, styling those orders as if they were laws, using state and local police to enforce those so-called laws and — presumably when life returns to normal and the courts reopen — prosecuting the alleged offenders in court.
1984 (Signet Classics) George Orwell Best Price: $1.49 Buy New $3.58 (as of 10:53 UTC - Details) It is hard to believe that any judge in America would permit a criminal trial of any person for violating a standard of behavior that has not been enacted into law by a legislature. We know this because under our system of representative government, separated powers and guaranteed liberties, only the legislative branch can craft laws and assign punishments for noncompliance. This is Constitutional Law 101. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch has written that the executive branch cannot enforce a law that it has written. If it does, we will have approached tyranny.
Have we approached tyranny already?
During the past eight weeks, governors and mayors have closed most businesses, public venues and houses of worship, prohibited public assembly and restricted travel — all of which they have unilaterally decreed to be nonessential.
In his terrifying novel “1984” — which posits a future of total control of all persons by the government and total control of the government by one political party — George Orwell argued that he who controls the meaning of words controls the laws as well.
That Orwellian truism has been manifested like never before here in America, where executive branch officeholders have used state and local police to restrain people from engaging in private and public behavior which they concede was lawful two months ago because today it is not deemed “essential.”
Frankly, I am surprised at the ferocity of police enforcement and the lameness of police compliance. The police have taken the same oaths to uphold the same Bill of Rights — it’s not the Bill of Safety; it’s the Bill of Rights — as have all other officeholders. The police also know that it is unlawful for them to obey an unlawful order, particularly when they use force.
The lockdown orders are all unlawful because none of them — none — has been enacted by a legislature, and all of them — all — interfere with fundamental liberties, each of which is guaranteed — guaranteed — by the Constitution. Brave New World Aldous Huxley Best Price: $1.00 Buy New $6.99 (as of 05:15 UTC - Details)
Please don’t misunderstand me. I recognize the scientific value of personal efforts to control contagion. But under the Constitution, these social-distancing, wear-your-mask, shut-your-business, stay-at-home edicts constitute mere recommendations that should induce rational voluntary compliance, because the government in America is without lawful power to compel compliance.
The governors complain about resistance. They need to know that Americans will resist efforts to interfere in behavior that remains as moral, natural, lawful and constitutional as it was 60 days ago.
Last week, President Donald Trump, sounding fed up with gubernatorial lockdown orders, declared that religious worship is essential — meaning, in his opinion, all houses of worship should be opened — and he offered that he was prepared to “override” any governors who disagreed with him.
When he realized that he lacked any authority to override even unlawful gubernatorial decrees, he dispatched the Department of Justice to begin filing challenges to governors in federal courts and to argue that constitutional freedoms are being impaired by the states.
I applaud this, but it is too little, too late. Where was the DOJ when Catholic priests were threatened with arrest for saying Mass or distributing palms and when Jewish rabbis were put in COVID-19-infested jails for holding funerals? At all these religious events, folks freely chose to exercise their freedom to worship; and to take their chances.
These DOJ interventions provoked the question: Who should decide what goods, services or venues are essential — the states or the federal government? The question is Orwellian, as the answer is: neither of them. The government in America — state or federal — has no power and no right to determine what goods, services and venues are essential.
Those determinations have been for individuals to make since 1776, and those individual choices have been constitutionally protected from the feds since the Bill of Rights was ratified in 1791 and from the states since the 14th Amendment was ratified in 1868. Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury Best Price: $1.98 Buy New $8.29 (as of 07:00 UTC - Details)
What is essential to the laborer or student or housewife may not be essential to the former Goldman Sachs partner who was elected governor of New Jersey, and who decreed last week, “It shall be the duty of every person or entity in this State… to cooperate fully” with his orders, or essential to the ideologue who is mayor of the Big Apple and who, for all his professed liberality, threatened to close permanently — permanently — businesses and houses of worship that flaunt his guidelines.
A duty is undertaken voluntarily or by nature, not by executive command, Governor Murphy. And the government cannot take property away from its owners except for a legitimate public use and only for just compensation, Mayor de Blasio.
Governors and mayors can make all the dictatorial pronouncements and threats that they wish. But they cannot use public assets to enforce them. And when they seek to use force, those from whom they seek it should decline the offer.
In America, we decide for ourselves what produces happiness. We have never delegated to the government — ever — the power to make personal choices for us.
And some of us are willing to take chances and even do “nonessential” things. The essence of the freedoms for which we have fought since 1776 is the liberty to be ourselves.
Reprinted with the author’s permission.
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lewrockwell--2020-12-31--Looking For Warriors: Face Masks, Giving In, & Proceeding Boldly Against Evil

I read your article “ Face Masks Refusal Says So Much , Because Courage Is the Prerequisite to All Virtuous Behavior.
” When the suggestion first started to wear a mask to help stop the spread of Covid , I was skeptical and not a believer .
And did not wear one .
Then it became a requirement .
I was very reluctant .
However , I did then do a lot of research regarding mask wearing for Covid .
There are many articles and videos on this subject .
And after reading on this matter , I became convinced @ @ @ @ @ @ @ some level , in helping stop the spread of Covid .
It is apparent you think masks are useless .
I would like to believe this .
But how do I combat videos such as this one at Men ’ s Health and It ’ s Okay To Be Smart that supposedly show masks stopping the droplets containing the virus from someone with the virus ?
Thank you for this note .
Face Masks In One Lesson Stevo , Allan Buy New $ 10.00 Men ’ s Health is a poor source for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ depicts the popular sentiment that is now circulating , so I am grateful for the reference point .
The information at those links is spread with a lack of understanding by those writing on the topic , or is alternately spread with some dishonesty .
It ’ s not clear which is more common .
Certainly it is both dishonest and irresponsible to write for an audience about a topic which the writer is unable to comprehend the magnitude of .
Articles like the one linked are reverberators of unhelpful information taken out @ @ @ @ @ @ @ quo .
Confirmation Bias : Beware Of Information Obedient To The Status quo When information is obedient to a status quo , it deserves a special level of skepticism to avoid the bias known as confirmation bias , an easy bias to fall into .
The link you sent points to mechanistic studies .
Mechanistic studies are not useful in prescribing behavior on this matter because they use theory to attempt to depict reality instead of actually measuring reality to the best of our ability .
Sometimes we can not measure the results @ @ @ @ @ @ @ face masks we can .
Mechanistic studies are commonly cited because they fit the narrative that everyone must be masked .
They are not commonly cited because they are the best depictions of reality , which should be the meritocratic basis for citing a study .
Better Sources : Look For Randomized Controlled Trials With Laboratory Confirmed Results If you desire to avoid the confirmation bias that has accompanied face masks in this heavily politicized electoral year , I recommend you look for randomized controlled trials with laboratory confirmed results .
These are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of our ability .
Studies like these have often been ignored and even censored in 2020 because the results so clearly counter the politicized narrative that all must be masked .
Mechanistic studies consistently tell us what can be summarized as “ Face masks should in theory work to prevent Covid-19 transmission , ” while randomized controlled trials with laboratory confirmed results consistently tell us what can be summarized as “ In reality however , masks do not in fact work to prevent Covid transmission and may increase transmission , making face masks @ @ @ @ @ @ @ No Need For A Narrative Of Divisiveness , Yet This Is What We Have There is no need for divisiveness on this topic .
The two types of studies are very helpful when read alongside each other and the results integrate quite nicely .
Against the Left : A Ro ... Llewellyn H Rockwell Jr Best Price : $ 13.57 Buy New $ 8.00 It should be no surprise that theory and reality in this field are divergent , since theory and reality are divergent in many fields .
Scientific journalists covering the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for the subject matter would have no problem integrating these two types of studies , by saying : “ In theory face masks should work to prevent the spread of Covid , in reality they don ’ t work to prevent the spread of Covid.
” There ’ s nothing complicated about constructing such a sentence .
There ’ s nothing complicated about presenting the idea in a way that anyone over the age of eight could easily read it .
Beware Of Those Telling You How A Theory Is So Complicated There @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I have long found that theories that can not be described to an eight-year-old are either fallacious or poorly understood by the speaker .
Simplicity of communication is obtainable to he who understands his subject matter and possesses a sincere desire to communicate .
Instead , this topic of face masks and Covid is covered with great divisiveness .
Anyone who suggests that an unmasked person is putting others in harm ’ s way or does not care about another is doing their audience a great disservice .
Either they don ’ t @ @ @ @ @ @ @ subject matter or they don ’ t respect their audience enough to cover the subject matter honestly .
For A Person Trying To Make Sense Of Efficacy , Xiao Presents The Most Useful Face Mask Research Of 2020 Xiao in the May 2020 issue of Emerging Infectious Disease is the best study of the year on the topic .
For those interested in delving deeper , I address that topic further in a recent article entitled “ Reminder : The CDC Says Face Masks Don ’ t Stop Covid.
” I cover the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ recent book Face Masks in One Lesson .
I strongly recommend Xiao ’ s journal article .
Emerging Infectious Disease is a CDC journal of epidemiology .
Attempting to avoid lip service or the lure of political correctness , Xiao and her co-authors looked at Covid as a serious concern and sought to distinguish superstition from efficacious approaches .
In Xiao ’ s Emerging Infectious Disease review of 14 randomized controlled trials with laboratory confirmed results , we see quite conclusively that • 1 . )
Face masks do not reduce the spread @ @ @ @ @ @ @ • 2 . )
Hand washing does not reduce the spread of Covid-19 or other respiratory viruses , and • 3 . )
Disinfecting surfaces does not reduce the spread of Covid-19 or other respiratory viruses .
This information is so vitally important , and Xiao deserves reading by anyone with an interest in the topic .
Again Xiao does not need to be seen as a contradiction of mechanistic face mask studies , but an elaboration that we can turn to in order to see that theory diverges from reality on this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ accordingly .
Xiao ’ s Conclusion : Face Masks Are Superstition At Best The face mask is superstition at best .
There is no question about that .
This has been known for a long time and is even more obvious now after billions have been masked .
Xiao , takes this a step further .
Xiao points out that the face mask is harmful and may increase the spread of Covid , especially when it is worn in disregard for the following protocol : • 1 . )
Face masks are single @ @ @ @ @ @ @ They are to be sterile when put on , • 3 . )
They are to be put on with sterile hands , • 4 . )
The nose and mouth should not be touched while wearing a face mask , and • 5 . )
If the face mask becomes moist it should be changed immediately .
Xiao cites a 2009 World Health Organization circular on this topic .
I ’ ve never seen a single person in 2020 follow this protocol and no one should not be expected to as they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Notably , as much as this protocol is followed , face masks do not work to reduce the spread of Covid-19 or other respiratory viruses .
That is the bottom line .
Face masks are superstition at best .
“ At Best , ” Is Not A Realistic Standard , There Is Much Downside To Masking There is also much worse to be said about face masks .
Xiao does not cover the vastly more harmful aspects of face mask wearing : Against the State : An ... Rockwell Jr. , Llewelly ... @ @ @ @ @ @ @ $ 5.52 • 5 . )
Deceased oxygen increased carbon dioxide in the micro environment of the face mask , This was outside of her scope .
The entire picture is something that must be responsibly synthesized by doctor and patient for an individual approach .
Central Planning Makes Its Way To Medicine Under The Guise Of “ Public Health ” As with all central planning , a one-size-fits-all approach from central planners in the public health field brings with it all the same downfalls of other blunt force central planning .
This @ @ @ @ @ @ @ relations developed term “ public health , ” in our era , is a polar opposite of medicine , which at its best has an individualized approach going back more than 2500 years and pits doctor and patient as a team against the world .
“ Public health ” is a theory that came about in the second half of the 1800s on the English and later the American side of the North Atlantic and seeks to drive a wedge between doctor and patient in order to make it the decision of neighbor @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Rather than doctor and patient against the world , it is doctor as a servant of the plebiscite , imposing that will upon the patient .
Public health has aspects of communism and utilitarianism mixed in with medicine to effectively make it the very opposite of medicine .
It may be no surprise to readers that those who advocate for one-size-fits-all central planning in the field of public health have the same opinion about that same technocratic-led one-size-fits-all central planning in government and economics .
It is a truly vile field that seeks @ @ @ @ @ @ @ A VOYAGE IN IMAGINATIO ... Holmes , Dr Joel S Buy New $ 9.95 Public health motivation theory is an openly discussed topic in the field that is fundamental to public health and so contrary to medical ethics for it seeks to frame and spin apparently unbiased education to achieve a predetermined outcome , making doctor into a salesman or pitchman rather than someone seeking to achieve informed consent for his patient , to whom he has that duty .
Public Health Has Become A Countermovement To Medical Ethics Public health is in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , including the ethics around informed consent that grew out of the Nuremberg trials .
It may be no shock therefore to recognize that the reincarnation of the most vile socialists of the past century — the national socialist of Germany , the Stalinist socialists of Russia , the Maoist socialists of East Asia , and their many compatriots — are kept alive and well in the field of public health .
All of these men were young and charismatic in their time and praised in the pages of The New York Times @ @ @ @ @ @ @ health politburo members of our day as heroes .
There is nothing heroic about men and women who bring tyranny to their homeland and seek to extinguish liberty from the globe , all the while claiming through cynical gaslighting that this utter destruction of human society is the only way to protect your loved ones and all that you hold dear .
It is hard to be appropriately pejorative about such behavior .
While They Are Effective Marketers , And Unethically Manipulative , The Field Of “ Public Health ” Has Not Hid @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , the forefathers of the public health field have publicly stated their desire to eliminate the structures of society and all people hold dear — church , free expression , self-defense , private property , livelihood , business , family .
Should anyone be surprised that in 2020 , the year that the public health professional was allowed to take over society , we ended up with exactly the kind of life that the public health profession and their forefathers have been promising for 170 years ?
Listen to them .
They are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ never hid it .
He who follows a single one of their orders , the face mask included , betrays freedom .
You enable the most disgusting evil in the world .
Face Masks Should Not Be Worn By Any Person Of Conscience Pursue the Cause of Li ... Paul , Ron Buy New $ 8.20 The face mask is a total joke of a medical intervention advanced by the clown of a man we call Fauci .
It is with great sadness that I ’ ve seen even a single American adopt @ @ @ @ @ @ @ adoption of face masks have been far more impactful to society than just a single American engaging in this harmful superstition .
That would be forgivable .
That would be so minor as to be unnoticed .
We are past the point where anyone should say “ Anyone who wants to should wear a face mask.
” The toxic symbol of obedience should be eradicated with the greatest level of societal pressure that a peaceful people can tolerate .
2020 is very different and the comfort of supplicating oneself to the masses is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that I hold dear and so deceitfully done in the name of protecting all that we hold dear .
No person of conscience should wear the mask even a single minute more .
Not a minute .
To do so is to give tacit approval to a great lie and to send ripples of harm through society as you empower such a lie .
I do not wear a mask .
I will not wear a mask .
I seldom allow anyone in a mask to speak to me without first removing their @ @ @ @ @ @ @ contempt for those who wear masks .
Readers of these pages refuse masks in their businesses for the liability it creates for them as a fainting hazard .
They refuse service personnel who come onto their property masked .
They sue government agencies that force them to be masked .
They take their children out of schools where they are masked and brainwashed about Covid .
They scold managers for requiring their employees to be masked .
They push against the illogical and unjust .
They inform their bosses that they can fire @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they will never again wear a mask .
Had 2020 not come as it did , I would never have met these brave souls who so boldly walk the earth and demand freedom for themselves and others .
If you are not already behaving like these brave readers , it is not too late .
You , too , can set a higher standard and demand such freedoms in your own life .
Sheeplike Behavior Happens , But Tacit Approval From Those Who Know Better Is So Much Worse No adult should be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they engage in .
Sheeplike people exist though and that is a reality of life .
Those who know better and refuse to go through the discomfort of acting on their realization are truly awful .
Humanity needs those who see the reality of this behavior to act in defense of reason and liberty .
So many do not .
They abrogate that role .
They burn down society because they refuse to act to protect it .
Minor discomfort and subtle displays of courage are all that is required for them to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and others .
It is a testament to how little society must mean to them or how costly subtle displays of courage must appear to them if they are unable to summon the ability to no longer fly this disgusting flag on their precious faces .
No decent liberty-lover would fly a Nazi flag or a Soviet flag out of sincerity , but many fly a far more pernicious symbol .
There is clearly a disconnect for so many Americans to so potently represent such an awful symbol and to carry it around @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or embroidered to a hat — but on their precious faces , covering their precious mouths .
Out of many conversations , the most clear sense I ’ ve been able to make of that disconnect is the far greater prevalence of cowardice in the United States than I had previously realized .
There I reach an axiomatic disconnect with the mask wearer , for if you have no courage , you are not a man to be trusted , you are not an adult who has come of age , you are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that modernity wants you to be and wants to convince you that you are .
There is a question left up to each of us to answer : “ Am I too cowardly to be inconvenienced in the name of human freedom ?
” People who I once viewed as heroes have answered that question in ways I would never have expected .
I hope that you have decided to never again wear a mask .
If You Criticize A Governor While Obediently Wearing A Mask , You Have Not Turned The Mirror @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The lockdown doesn ’ t end when a blue ribbon committee says it ends .
It ends one person at a time saying that it has to end in their life and then bringing lockdowns to an end in their life by acting as if there are no lockdowns .
I live in lockdown land , but that lockdown never started in my own life .
And I ’ ve heard many other stories of people who have lived life the same .
Some have been doing that since 9/11 , some @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that .
They refuse to live by the low standard or liberty that others would happily impose upon them .
If you wear a mask , you have no place criticizing Gavin Newsome or Gretchen Whitmer or that soft Pritzker boy or that Cuomo child , whatever his first name is , for they are merely placing guidances on you that you are clearly , through your actions , showing your full support for .
Your words are made cheap by your actions .
If that describes you , you can be assured @ @ @ @ @ @ @ except for you .
If that describes you , your mother , your daughter , your boss , your employee , they all see your hypocrisy on some level .
It may not be on a rational level , but on some level your hypocrisy is made apparent to them .
Your cowardice is made apparent .
Your compliance is made apparent , and you tell everyone around you through your actions that you expect their compliance as well .
That is the leadership you show in your own life .
The tyrant @ @ @ @ @ @ @ needs willing accomplices who will have it imposed upon them .
The only way to end these orders begins with individual human action .
That is also the only way any order begins .
There is no other way .
If the student of liberty can not recognize the value of even incremental liberty and can not summon the courage to bring face mask orders to an end in his own life , then we are in a bad situation as a society .
These Are Very Poorly Enforced Orders , With Enormous @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Ashamed To Find Themselves In Compliance With These are very poorly enforced orders .
I ’ ve written a book : Face Masks in One Lesson about how poorly enforced they are and how every single American can quickly and easily stop wearing face masks .
The effort in doing so is to let every person have an excuse-free , easy blueprint for never again wearing a mask in the face of such feeble tyranny .
Such a feeble effort these face mask orders are , yet they have so disabled a great @ @ @ @ @ @ @ poorly enforced orders , you can ’ t blame a governor , a president , or a Fauci for your compliance .
You have no one to blame but yourself when you don ’ t reach out and grab your God-given liberty by doing the easiest possible thing in the world : nothing .
Asked to place a mask on : Do nothing .
If you ’ re a slow learner , like me , read that book or read any of these four or five dozen articles here on lockdowns and face @ @ @ @ @ @ @ information , free of charge .
But really , you don ’ t even need that .
You just need to stop wearing your mask .
Perhaps in February it was forgivable to wear a mask .
Perhaps in March it was forgivable to wear a mask .
Perhaps in April it was forgivable to wear a mask , after the April 3 , 2020 CDC mask orders .
But after the unending “ 3-week ” lockdowns , parents dying alone in hospitals , thousands dying from maltreatment , known toxic and ineffective @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , forced economic devastation alongside massive money printing to perpetuate the image of a boom economy everywhere from Tesla to Bitcoin , families divided and alone , neighbors divided and alone , the most frail in our society divided and alone .
After all that , enabling any bit of this is evil .
You enable evil when you put on a face mask .
Contrary To Popular Belief , You Aren ’ t Being A Nice Guy When You Wear Your Mask You aren ’ t being a nice guy who just @ @ @ @ @ @ @ re being a really bad dude , enabling really bad things with your tacit approval , sending ripples of really evil stuff through the world .
No part of what you ’ re doing is okay .
No part of it is excusable .
Your immediate and full opposition is demanded .
One day you ’ ll be able to lie to others about your level of complicity in this all .
But if you have a conscience you will know that you played a role in what may be the most evil @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ t Claim Moral High Ground As You Offer Your Compliance I can ’ t answer if you wore a mask one second longer than the moment you realized how awful the mask is .
I can ’ t answer if you empowered lockdowns with your cowardice and compliance .
That ’ s between you and your maker .
But I am here to tell you that you have no right to claim moral high ground over policies that you won ’ t fight , that you won ’ t abstain from , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fully endorse through your deeds .
Is that not what you ’ re going for ?
Then go burn the damn thing now .
Walk outside and set it on fire .
Do it right in the middle of the street for all to see .
Leave the half-burnt scraps as rubbish on the street for all to see as proof of your decisive finality .
Go tell your boss you won ’ t be wearing it anymore .
Go tell your banker , your lawyer , your maid that if they have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that , but that you ’ re done doing business with them .
Go tell your employees and customers that they aren ’ t welcome to use masks on your property anymore , because you don ’ t want the liability of them tripping or fainting .
Yell like you have guts .
Yell in a way that no one expects you to yell .
Not like a crazy person .
Yell like a man who has come into his own again .
Yell the awful yawp of someone who will not be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ want you to yell .
Ever .
They want you masked and muffled through the most horrifying evil .
And to their desire you comply .
Yell .
Yell like the economist Ludwig von Mises who escaped not once but twice from the Nazis , only to settle in a country that wanted so much of those same awful policies for itself .
Mises , who sat at the culmination of a life ’ s work , and returned to Switzerland from whence he escaped the demise that his library did not escape @ @ @ @ @ @ @ founding of the Mont Pelerin Society .
He was surrounded by the most esteemed free market minds of his day , and this was a moment in the spotlight .
He was one of the great minds in the room , well understood to be under-rated and so insightful and talented .
At the founding of the great Mont Pelerin Society , Mises likely appeared as an honored guest , at the behest of some generous donor .
In this setting , would Mises finally swallow his values and bow to the opportunity @ @ @ @ @ @ @ he walked into a room and he found the great minds of his day talking about trivialities .
They missed the point .
They missed it all .
There are some things so trivial that if you even find anyone engaging in them , it is obvious that they miss the point .
Yes , these chaps so clearly missed the point and Mises , who did not miss the point , saw that .
In his own way he called them cowards .
He used a word so ugly for a man @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , had spent the majority of the past century publicly denouncing socialism .
Legend has it that he yelled at them that they were socialists , and left the room .
In that setting , in that context , in the midst of such esteemed company , can you imagine the guts it takes to do such a thing ?
And yet that is when such a truth-based , diligent , corrective action is most needed .
This economist , born in Austro-Hungary had a motto .
The Motto adorns his family crest @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the institute named for him .
Mises didn ’ t choose as his motto “ Give into evil as long as it makes life easier.
” Mises didn ’ t pride himself on the phrase “ Make evil easier for evildoers to commit.
” The Mises Institute isn ’ t built on the motto “ A little evil is okay.
” Mises , the inspiration to great men of action like Ron Paul , Lew Rockwell , Murray Rothbard and many others did not say “ Let ’ s put up with evil @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in due time.
” No .
Mises proudly used as his motto “ Do NOT give into evil , but proceed ever more boldly against it.
” It takes me twenty seconds of conversation to figure out which Austrians are Misesians and which are other .
Much of it comes down to courage and passion contained in that phrase .
That single phrase .
The man was extreme in his devotion to what was right .
Does Cuomo Operate In Your Best Interest ?
Can anyone say that the Whitmers , Newsoms , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ best interest of their people with these mask mandates and lockdowns ?
Then why the hell do you obey them and do so for all to see ?
Perhaps even your own children .
What an opportunity you have to teach them courage , an opportunity unparalleled , and oh , how you have squandered that moment if you haven ’ t seized it .
Do NOT give into evil , but proceed ever more boldly against it .
If we can ’ t use our learning to move ourselves to act , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is for nothing .
Your action is what matters .
The instruction about what to do in the face of evil is clear .
Do not give into evil .
Proceed ever more boldly against it .
Don ’ t Confuse Yourself , The Instruction Is Clear Don ’ t confuse morality with an unwillingness to understand what ’ s right .
Don ’ t confuse morality with an unwillingness to do what ’ s right .
Don ’ t confuse morality with an unwillingness to summon courage .
Do not give into @ @ @ @ @ @ @ against it .
Do not be overcome ye remnant .
Now is such a moment that you will never your whole life forget .
If you can rise to the occasion , it will be a moment you can glory in your entire life .
If you refuse to rise to the occasion , it will be a decision that torments you your entire life .
A decision you will wish to forget , will wish to downplay , and one , that in the depth of your heart , you will never @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of our lives follow us perpetually , and the worst of those moments make us who we are if we rise to them .
We have little control over what life puts in front of us .
We have every bit of control over what we do in response .
2020 is the best of times and the worst of times depending on what you make of it .
Regrets can be made .
Heroes can be made .
The choice is yours .
Oh , how plentifully that choice matters .
Mind @ @ @ @ @ @ @ gathering your pollen those little bees from God .
They will seal it into their little bodies .
They imitate you .
They are the most exact living little mirrors of you .
Their shape is from your anvils .
They live from your bread .
One day they will be exactly like you .
So be humane to each other .
Your actions matter .
People are watching you , children and adults , trying to themselves figure out what to do .
Many are confused .
Your leadership is needed .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
A trillion dollar media machine exists to tell you otherwise .
A multi-trillion dollar government exists to tell you otherwise , to say : you are not deserving of representation , you are deserving of ostracization .
And they matter so much at a moment like this .
I ’ ve got everything sorted out in my own life to be on the glorious side of this battle .
Do you ?
If you ’ re wearing that mask , even for a moment , even just hanging on your chin , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ t , you don ’ t have it sorted out .
And I can tell you , it sure would be nice to find myself on the glorious side of this battle right alongside you at battle ’ s end .
How about we do that ?
We don ’ t know what the future will bring , but we know this : one step at a time , one correct step , in the direction we know to be true , away from mediocrity , toward excellence is all it takes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be perfect .
One step at a time can bring a lot of good into the world .
One step at a time , you and I can do so much good .
The stories that move the hearts of men to bravery and courage for generations hence are today being written .
Let the rhymes of the future , the ballads , the epics be told about those of us who knew enough , were bold enough , to put one true step after the next , that we can one day @ @ @ @ @ @ @ we together walked and against all adversity .
So tough , so evil that everywhere you turn the options seem entirely wicked .
There is no good that can come from any act of yours so why bother to act .
Why not just give up .
That is exactly what evil wants of you : for you to think you don ’ t matter .
To have apathy .
A movement began some years ago , a second revolution , that today impacts every center of thought , every office of power @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
And it began with one sentiment so well-defined by a homemade sign : It didn ’ t start with that sign .
It didn ’ t just start with that single person , Ron Paul : one of the most impactful men of this era .
But so much was captured in the sentiment of that sign .
You matter my friend .
Your every choice matters .
Let that apathy be washed away , because you matter .
Do not let the many , many evil voices of the world tell @ @ @ @ @ @ @ You know the voices .
The ones who deny you your guns , the ones who deny you your church , the ones who deny you your ballot , the ones who deny you your business , the ones who deny you your voice , the ones who deny you your family , the ones who deny you your smile .
Only with your apathetic consent can any of those voices of the world matter .
Make the next step a step true and in the right direction .
Not a perfect step @ @ @ @ @ @ @ t know if such a thing even exists , so why fret over such a pursuit as perfection .
But make it a step toward excellence and in the right direction and do it now .
Now is practically too late .
You are needed now .
“ But how ?
How do you act in such confusing times ?
” is exactly what those voices of the world want : to find you stuck in deliberating , endless deliberation , for in such a state you are no contest to anyone , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ just dead weight and distraction .
There is always a good option .
There is always a true path .
You have the ability to discern what it is .
Yes , the times are tough .
Yes , there is much evil around us , and a wonderful man who I never met taught me what to do at a moment like this : DO NOT GIVE INTO EVIL , BUT PROCEED EVER MORE BOLDLY AGAINST IT .
The Best of Allan Stevo

Mr. Stevo:
I read your article “Face Masks Refusal Says So Much, Because Courage Is the Prerequisite to All Virtuous Behavior.”
When the suggestion first started to wear a mask to help stop the spread of Covid, I was skeptical and not a believer. And did not wear one. Then it became a requirement. I was very reluctant . However, I did then do a lot of research regarding mask wearing for Covid. There are many articles and videos on this subject. And after reading on this matter, I became convinced masks could help, at least on some level, in helping stop the spread of Covid.
It is apparent you think masks are useless. I would like to believe this. But how do I combat videos such as this one at Men’s Health and It’s Okay To Be Smart that supposedly show masks stopping the droplets containing the virus from someone with the virus?
J.T.
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Dear J.T.,
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This Is A Poor Source
Men’s Health is a poor source for this type of information, but it depicts the popular sentiment that is now circulating, so I am grateful for the reference point.
The information at those links is spread with a lack of understanding by those writing on the topic, or is alternately spread with some dishonesty. It’s not clear which is more common. Certainly it is both dishonest and irresponsible to write for an audience about a topic which the writer is unable to comprehend the magnitude of. Articles like the one linked are reverberators of unhelpful information taken out of context and obedient to a status quo.
Confirmation Bias: Beware Of Information Obedient To The Status quo
When information is obedient to a status quo, it deserves a special level of skepticism to avoid the bias known as confirmation bias, an easy bias to fall into.
Mechanistic Studies Are Accurate “In Theory”
The link you sent points to mechanistic studies. Mechanistic studies are not useful in prescribing behavior on this matter because they use theory to attempt to depict reality instead of actually measuring reality to the best of our ability. Sometimes we cannot measure the results of an experiment very well. With face masks we can. Mechanistic studies are commonly cited because they fit the narrative that everyone must be masked. They are not commonly cited because they are the best depictions of reality, which should be the meritocratic basis for citing a study.
Better Sources: Look For Randomized Controlled Trials With Laboratory Confirmed Results
If you desire to avoid the confirmation bias that has accompanied face masks in this heavily politicized electoral year, I recommend you look for randomized controlled trials with laboratory confirmed results. These are attempts at measuring reality to the best of our ability. Studies like these have often been ignored and even censored in 2020 because the results so clearly counter the politicized narrative that all must be masked.
Mechanistic studies consistently tell us what can be summarized as “Face masks should in theory work to prevent Covid-19 transmission,” while randomized controlled trials with laboratory confirmed results consistently tell us what can be summarized as “In reality however, masks do not in fact work to prevent Covid transmission and may increase transmission, making face masks not neutral but harmful.”
There Is No Need For A Narrative Of Divisiveness, Yet This Is What We Have
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It should be no surprise that theory and reality in this field are divergent, since theory and reality are divergent in many fields. Scientific journalists covering the topic out of a sense of honesty for the subject matter would have no problem integrating these two types of studies, by saying: “In theory face masks should work to prevent the spread of Covid, in reality they don’t work to prevent the spread of Covid.” There’s nothing complicated about constructing such a sentence. There’s nothing complicated about presenting the idea in a way that anyone over the age of eight could easily read it.
Beware Of Those Telling You How A Theory Is So Complicated There Is No Way You Would Possibly Understand
I have long found that theories that cannot be described to an eight-year-old are either fallacious or poorly understood by the speaker. Simplicity of communication is obtainable to he who understands his subject matter and possesses a sincere desire to communicate.
Instead, this topic of face masks and Covid is covered with great divisiveness. Anyone who suggests that an unmasked person is putting others in harm’s way or does not care about another is doing their audience a great disservice. Either they don’t respect their audience enough to understand their subject matter or they don’t respect their audience enough to cover the subject matter honestly.
For A Person Trying To Make Sense Of Efficacy, Xiao Presents The Most Useful Face Mask Research Of 2020
Xiao in the May 2020 issue of Emerging Infectious Disease is the best study of the year on the topic. For those interested in delving deeper, I address that topic further in a recent article entitled “Reminder: The CDC Says Face Masks Don’t Stop Covid.” I cover the same topic in greater detail in my recent book Face Masks in One Lesson. I strongly recommend Xiao’s journal article.
Emerging Infectious Disease is a CDC journal of epidemiology. Attempting to avoid lip service or the lure of political correctness, Xiao and her co-authors looked at Covid as a serious concern and sought to distinguish superstition from efficacious approaches.
In Xiao’s Emerging Infectious Disease review of 14 randomized controlled trials with laboratory confirmed results, we see quite conclusively that
1.) Face masks do not reduce the spread of Covid-19 or other respiratory viruses,
2.) Hand washing does not reduce the spread of Covid-19 or other respiratory viruses, and
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This information is so vitally important, and Xiao deserves reading by anyone with an interest in the topic. Again Xiao does not need to be seen as a contradiction of mechanistic face mask studies, but an elaboration that we can turn to in order to see that theory diverges from reality on this topic and that practice should be modified accordingly.
Xiao’s Conclusion: Face Masks Are Superstition At Best
The face mask is superstition at best. There is no question about that. This has been known for a long time and is even more obvious now after billions have been masked.
Xiao, takes this a step further. Xiao points out that the face mask is harmful and may increase the spread of Covid, especially when it is worn in disregard for the following protocol:
1.) Face masks are single use only,
2.) They are to be sterile when put on,
3.) They are to be put on with sterile hands,
4.) The nose and mouth should not be touched while wearing a face mask, and
5.) If the face mask becomes moist it should be changed immediately.
Xiao cites a 2009 World Health Organization circular on this topic. I’ve never seen a single person in 2020 follow this protocol and no one should not be expected to as they are not trained in the protocol. Notably, as much as this protocol is followed, face masks do not work to reduce the spread of Covid-19 or other respiratory viruses. That is the bottom line.
Face masks are superstition at best.
“At Best,” Is Not A Realistic Standard, There Is Much Downside To Masking
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1.) Restriction of breathing,
2.) Restriction of waste removal,
3.) Medical impact,
4.) Individualized impact necessitating an individual approach,
5.) Deceased oxygen increased carbon dioxide in the micro environment of the face mask,
6.) Social impact,
7.) Developmental impact,
8.) Communicational impact.
This was outside of her scope. The entire picture is something that must be responsibly synthesized by doctor and patient for an individual approach.
Central Planning Makes Its Way To Medicine Under The Guise Of “Public Health”
As with all central planning, a one-size-fits-all approach from central planners in the public health field brings with it all the same downfalls of other blunt force central planning. This approach which we call by the public relations developed term “public health,” in our era, is a polar opposite of medicine, which at its best has an individualized approach going back more than 2500 years and pits doctor and patient as a team against the world.
“Public health” is a theory that came about in the second half of the 1800s on the English and later the American side of the North Atlantic and seeks to drive a wedge between doctor and patient in order to make it the decision of neighbor what medical treatment a patient receive. Rather than doctor and patient against the world, it is doctor as a servant of the plebiscite, imposing that will upon the patient. Public health has aspects of communism and utilitarianism mixed in with medicine to effectively make it the very opposite of medicine.
It may be no surprise to readers that those who advocate for one-size-fits-all central planning in the field of public health have the same opinion about that same technocratic-led one-size-fits-all central planning in government and economics. It is a truly vile field that seeks to use manipulation to control man. A VOYAGE IN IMAGINATIO... Holmes, Dr Joel S Buy New $9.95 (as of 04:21 UTC - Details)
Public health motivation theory is an openly discussed topic in the field that is fundamental to public health and so contrary to medical ethics for it seeks to frame and spin apparently unbiased education to achieve a predetermined outcome, making doctor into a salesman or pitchman rather than someone seeking to achieve informed consent for his patient, to whom he has that duty.
Public Health Has Become A Countermovement To Medical Ethics
Public health is in total contradiction to virtually all medical ethics, including the ethics around informed consent that grew out of the Nuremberg trials. It may be no shock therefore to recognize that the reincarnation of the most vile socialists of the past century — the national socialist of Germany, the Stalinist socialists of Russia, the Maoist socialists of East Asia, and their many compatriots — are kept alive and well in the field of public health. All of these men were young and charismatic in their time and praised in the pages of The New York Times. The same paper praises the public health politburo members of our day as heroes.
There is nothing heroic about men and women who bring tyranny to their homeland and seek to extinguish liberty from the globe, all the while claiming through cynical gaslighting that this utter destruction of human society is the only way to protect your loved ones and all that you hold dear.
It is hard to be appropriately pejorative about such behavior.
While They Are Effective Marketers, And Unethically Manipulative, The Field Of “Public Health” Has Not Hid Its Intent
For more than 170 years, the forefathers of the public health field have publicly stated their desire to eliminate the structures of society and all people hold dear — church, free expression, self-defense, private property, livelihood, business, family.
Should anyone be surprised that in 2020, the year that the public health professional was allowed to take over society, we ended up with exactly the kind of life that the public health profession and their forefathers have been promising for 170 years?
Listen to them. They are telling you their plans. They have never hid it.
He who follows a single one of their orders, the face mask included, betrays freedom. You enable the most disgusting evil in the world.
Face Masks Should Not Be Worn By Any Person Of Conscience
Pursue the Cause of Li... Paul, Ron Best Price: $3.95 Buy New $4.99 (as of 10:47 UTC - Details) The face mask is a total joke of a medical intervention advanced by the clown of a man we call Fauci. It is with great sadness that I’ve seen even a single American adopt this medical intervention. Sadly, this adoption of face masks have been far more impactful to society than just a single American engaging in this harmful superstition.
That would be forgivable. That would be so minor as to be unnoticed. We are past the point where anyone should say “Anyone who wants to should wear a face mask.” The toxic symbol of obedience should be eradicated with the greatest level of societal pressure that a peaceful people can tolerate. 2020 is very different and the comfort of supplicating oneself to the masses is so impactful, so harmful to all that I hold dear and so deceitfully done in the name of protecting all that we hold dear.
No person of conscience should wear the mask even a single minute more. Not a minute. To do so is to give tacit approval to a great lie and to send ripples of harm through society as you empower such a lie.
I do not wear a mask. I will not wear a mask. I seldom allow anyone in a mask to speak to me without first removing their mask. I hold some degree of contempt for those who wear masks.
Heroes Walk The Earth
Readers of these pages refuse masks in their businesses for the liability it creates for them as a fainting hazard. They refuse service personnel who come onto their property masked. They sue government agencies that force them to be masked. They take their children out of schools where they are masked and brainwashed about Covid. They scold managers for requiring their employees to be masked. They push against the illogical and unjust. They inform their bosses that they can fire them if they need to, but they will never again wear a mask. Had 2020 not come as it did, I would never have met these brave souls who so boldly walk the earth and demand freedom for themselves and others.
If you are not already behaving like these brave readers, it is not too late. You, too, can set a higher standard and demand such freedoms in your own life.
Sheeplike Behavior Happens, But Tacit Approval From Those Who Know Better Is So Much Worse
No adult should be given a bye for the sheeplike behavior they engage in. Sheeplike people exist though and that is a reality of life. Those who know better and refuse to go through the discomfort of acting on their realization are truly awful.
Humanity needs those who see the reality of this behavior to act in defense of reason and liberty. So many do not. They abrogate that role. They burn down society because they refuse to act to protect it.
Minor discomfort and subtle displays of courage are all that is required for them to behave accordingly to advance freedom for themselves and others. It is a testament to how little society must mean to them or how costly subtle displays of courage must appear to them if they are unable to summon the ability to no longer fly this disgusting flag on their precious faces.
No decent liberty-lover would fly a Nazi flag or a Soviet flag out of sincerity, but many fly a far more pernicious symbol.
Courage Is An Axiom
There is clearly a disconnect for so many Americans to so potently represent such an awful symbol and to carry it around with them — not on an armband or embroidered to a hat — but on their precious faces, covering their precious mouths.
Out of many conversations, the most clear sense I’ve been able to make of that disconnect is the far greater prevalence of cowardice in the United States than I had previously realized.
There I reach an axiomatic disconnect with the mask wearer, for if you have no courage, you are not a man to be trusted, you are not an adult who has come of age, you are playing the role of the perpetual child that modernity wants you to be and wants to convince you that you are.
There is a question left up to each of us to answer: “Am I too cowardly to be inconvenienced in the name of human freedom?”
People who I once viewed as heroes have answered that question in ways I would never have expected.
I hope that you have decided to never again wear a mask.
If You Criticize A Governor While Obediently Wearing A Mask, You Have Not Turned The Mirror On Yourself
Make no doubt about this. The lockdown doesn’t end when a blue ribbon committee says it ends. It ends one person at a time saying that it has to end in their life and then bringing lockdowns to an end in their life by acting as if there are no lockdowns.
I live in lockdown land, but that lockdown never started in my own life. And I’ve heard many other stories of people who have lived life the same. Some have been doing that since 9/11, some have been doing it since long before that. They refuse to live by the low standard or liberty that others would happily impose upon them.
If you wear a mask, you have no place criticizing Gavin Newsome or Gretchen Whitmer or that soft Pritzker boy or that Cuomo child, whatever his first name is, for they are merely placing guidances on you that you are clearly, through your actions, showing your full support for.
Your words are made cheap by your actions. If that describes you, you can be assured that everyone around you sees it, except for you. If that describes you, your mother, your daughter, your boss, your employee, they all see your hypocrisy on some level. It may not be on a rational level, but on some level your hypocrisy is made apparent to them. Your cowardice is made apparent. Your compliance is made apparent, and you tell everyone around you through your actions that you expect their compliance as well.
That is the leadership you show in your own life. The tyrant can not impose tyranny alone. He needs willing accomplices who will have it imposed upon them.
The only way to end these orders begins with individual human action. That is also the only way any order begins. There is no other way. If the student of liberty cannot recognize the value of even incremental liberty and cannot summon the courage to bring face mask orders to an end in his own life, then we are in a bad situation as a society.
These Are Very Poorly Enforced Orders, With Enormous Loopholes That Any Liberty Lover Should Be Ashamed To Find Themselves In Compliance With
These are very poorly enforced orders. I’ve written a book: Face Masks in One Lesson about how poorly enforced they are and how every single American can quickly and easily stop wearing face masks. The effort in doing so is to let every person have an excuse-free, easy blueprint for never again wearing a mask in the face of such feeble tyranny.
Such a feeble effort these face mask orders are, yet they have so disabled a great people.
In the face of such poorly enforced orders, you can’t blame a governor, a president, or a Fauci for your compliance. You have no one to blame but yourself when you don’t reach out and grab your God-given liberty by doing the easiest possible thing in the world: nothing.
Asked to place a mask on: Do nothing.
That’s it.
If you’re a slow learner, like me, read that book or read any of these four or five dozen articles here on lockdowns and face masks that provide much of the same information, free of charge.
But really, you don’t even need that. You just need to stop wearing your mask.
It’s Not February 2020 Anymore
Perhaps in February it was forgivable to wear a mask. Perhaps in March it was forgivable to wear a mask. Perhaps in April it was forgivable to wear a mask, after the April 3, 2020 CDC mask orders.
But after the unending “3-week” lockdowns, parents dying alone in hospitals, thousands dying from maltreatment, known toxic and ineffective vaccines, church closings, business closures, forced economic devastation alongside massive money printing to perpetuate the image of a boom economy everywhere from Tesla to Bitcoin, families divided and alone, neighbors divided and alone, the most frail in our society divided and alone.
After all that, enabling any bit of this is evil.
You enable evil when you put on a face mask.
Contrary To Popular Belief, You Aren’t Being A Nice Guy When You Wear Your Mask
You aren’t being a nice guy who just wants to get along. You’re being a really bad dude, enabling really bad things with your tacit approval, sending ripples of really evil stuff through the world.
No part of what you’re doing is okay. No part of it is excusable.
Your immediate and full opposition is demanded. One day you’ll be able to lie to others about your level of complicity in this all. But if you have a conscience you will know that you played a role in what may be the most evil period of American history.
You Can’t Claim Moral High Ground As You Offer Your Compliance
I can’t answer if you wore a mask one second longer than the moment you realized how awful the mask is. I can’t answer if you empowered lockdowns with your cowardice and compliance. That’s between you and your maker.
But I am here to tell you that you have no right to claim moral high ground over policies that you won’t fight, that you won’t abstain from, and which by all outward appearances you fully endorse through your deeds.
Is that not what you’re going for? Then go burn the damn thing now.
Go Burn The Damn Thing
Walk outside and set it on fire. Do it right in the middle of the street for all to see. Leave the half-burnt scraps as rubbish on the street for all to see as proof of your decisive finality. Go tell your boss you won’t be wearing it anymore. Go tell your banker, your lawyer, your maid that if they have a problem with you unmasked you accept that, but that you’re done doing business with them. Go tell your employees and customers that they aren’t welcome to use masks on your property anymore, because you don’t want the liability of them tripping or fainting.
And yell damn you.
Yell !
Yell like you have guts. Yell in a way that no one expects you to yell. Not like a crazy person. Yell like a man who has come into his own again. Yell the awful yawp of someone who will not be trifled with.
They don’t want you to yell. Ever. They want you masked and muffled through the most horrifying evil.
And to their desire you comply.
Yell. Yell like the economist Ludwig von Mises who escaped not once but twice from the Nazis, only to settle in a country that wanted so much of those same awful policies for itself. Mises, who sat at the culmination of a life’s work, and returned to Switzerland from whence he escaped the demise that his library did not escape, returned to that land at the founding of the Mont Pelerin Society.
He was surrounded by the most esteemed free market minds of his day, and this was a moment in the spotlight. He was one of the great minds in the room, well understood to be under-rated and so insightful and talented. At the founding of the great Mont Pelerin Society, Mises likely appeared as an honored guest, at the behest of some generous donor. In this setting, would Mises finally swallow his values and bow to the opportunity for adulation?
No.
During the proceedings, he walked into a room and he found the great minds of his day talking about trivialities. They missed the point. They missed it all.
There are some things so trivial that if you even find anyone engaging in them, it is obvious that they miss the point. Yes, these chaps so clearly missed the point and Mises, who did not miss the point, saw that.
In his own way he called them cowards. He used a word so ugly for a man who, at great risk to himself, had spent the majority of the past century publicly denouncing socialism.
He called them socialists.
Legend has it that he yelled at them that they were socialists, and left the room. In that setting, in that context, in the midst of such esteemed company, can you imagine the guts it takes to do such a thing?
And yet that is when such a truth-based, diligent, corrective action is most needed.
Mises Had A Motto
This economist, born in Austro-Hungary had a motto. The Motto adorns his family crest. It continues on the crest of the institute named for him.
Mises didn’t choose as his motto “Give into evil as long as it makes life easier.”
Mises didn’t pride himself on the phrase “Make evil easier for evildoers to commit.”
The Mises Institute isn’t built on the motto “A little evil is okay.”
Mises, the inspiration to great men of action like Ron Paul, Lew Rockwell, Murray Rothbard and many others did not say “Let’s put up with evil today, and figure out a workaround in due time.”
No. Mises proudly used as his motto “Do NOT give into evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.”
It takes me twenty seconds of conversation to figure out which Austrians are Misesians and which are other. Much of it comes down to courage and passion contained in that phrase. That single phrase. The man was extreme in his devotion to what was right.
Does Cuomo Operate In Your Best Interest?
Can anyone say that the Whitmers, Newsoms, Pritzkers, or Cuomos operate in the best interest of their people with these mask mandates and lockdowns?
Then why the hell do you obey them and do so for all to see?
Perhaps even your own children.
What an opportunity you have to teach them courage, an opportunity unparalleled, and oh, how you have squandered that moment if you haven’t seized it.
Do NOT give into evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.
If we can’t use our learning to move ourselves to act, then everything we have put into learning is for nothing.
Your action is what matters.
Your action.
Your action.
Not your words.
Your action.
The face mask is evil.
Whitmer’s behavior is evil.
The lockdowns are evil.
The vaccine is evil.
The instruction about what to do in the face of evil is clear.
Do not give into evil. Proceed ever more boldly against it.
Don’t Confuse Yourself, The Instruction Is Clear
Don’t confuse morality with an unwillingness to understand what’s right. Don’t confuse morality with an unwillingness to do what’s right. Don’t confuse morality with an unwillingness to summon courage.
The instruction is clear.
Do not give into evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.
The Remnant
Do not be overcome ye remnant. Now is such a moment that you will never your whole life forget. If you can rise to the occasion, it will be a moment you can glory in your entire life. If you refuse to rise to the occasion, it will be a decision that torments you your entire life.
A decision you will wish to forget, will wish to downplay, and one, that in the depth of your heart, you will never be able to.
The greatest moment of our lives follow us perpetually, and the worst of those moments make us who we are if we rise to them.
We have little control over what life puts in front of us. We have every bit of control over what we do in response.
2020 is the best of times and the worst of times depending on what you make of it. Regrets can be made. Heroes can be made. The choice is yours. Oh, how plentifully that choice matters.
The Nobel nominee Milan Rufus wrote:
Mind your kids
you bigguns.
They are gathering your pollen
those little bees from God.
They will seal it into their little bodies.
They imitate you.
They are the most exact living
little mirrors of you.
Their shape is from your anvils.
They live from your bread.
One day they will be exactly like you.
So be humane to each other.
Your actions matter. People are watching you, children and adults, trying to themselves figure out what to do. Many are confused. Your leadership is needed. Especially now.
It Matters
It matters.
Everything you do matters.
Modern life matters.
You matter.
A trillion dollar media machine exists to tell you otherwise.
A multi-trillion dollar government exists to tell you otherwise, to say: you are not deserving of representation, you are deserving of ostracization.
You matter.
Your every decision matters.
And they matter so much at a moment like this.
I’ve got everything sorted out in my own life to be on the glorious side of this battle. Do you?
If you’re wearing that mask, even for a moment, even just hanging on your chin, I know the answer: you don’t, you don’t have it sorted out. And I can tell you, it sure would be nice to find myself on the glorious side of this battle right alongside you at battle’s end.
How about we do that?
One Step At A Time
We don’t know what the future will bring, but we know this: one step at a time, one correct step, in the direction we know to be true, away from mediocrity, toward excellence is all it takes. It doesn’t have to be perfect. One step at a time can bring a lot of good into the world.
One step at a time, you and I can do so much good.
The stories that move the hearts of men to bravery and courage for generations hence are today being written.
Let the rhymes of the future, the ballads, the epics be told about those of us who knew enough, were bold enough, to put one true step after the next, that we can one day look back and see the awful path we together walked and against all adversity.
The Times Are Tough
The times are tough.
So tough, so evil that everywhere you turn the options seem entirely wicked. There is no good that can come from any act of yours so why bother to act. Why not just give up. That is exactly what evil wants of you: for you to think you don’t matter. To have apathy.
A Movement Began
A movement began some years ago, a second revolution, that today impacts every center of thought, every office of power, every classroom, and every household.
And it began with one sentiment so well-defined by a homemade sign:
DR. PAUL
CURED MY
APATHY
It didn’t start with that sign. It didn’t just start with that single person, Ron Paul: one of the most impactful men of this era. But so much was captured in the sentiment of that sign.
You matter my friend. Your every choice matters. Let that apathy be washed away, because you matter. Do not let the many, many evil voices of the world tell you otherwise.
You Know The Voices
You know the voices.
The ones who deny you your guns, the ones who deny you your church, the ones who deny you your ballot, the ones who deny you your business, the ones who deny you your voice, the ones who deny you your family, the ones who deny you your smile.
Only with your apathetic consent can any of those voices of the world matter.
Refuse to be apathetic.
Refuse them your inaction.
Act.
The Next Step
Make the next step a step true and in the right direction. Not a perfect step. No need. I don’t know if such a thing even exists, so why fret over such a pursuit as perfection. But make it a step toward excellence and in the right direction and do it now.
Now is practically too late.
You are needed now.
But How?
“But how? How do you act in such confusing times?” is exactly what those voices of the world want: to find you stuck in deliberating, endless deliberation, for in such a state you are no contest to anyone, no threat, and no help, just dead weight and distraction.
There is always a good option.
There is always a true path.
You have the ability to discern what it is.
Yes, the times are tough.
Yes, there is much evil around us, and a wonderful man who I never met taught me what to do at a moment like this:
DO NOT GIVE INTO EVIL, BUT PROCEED EVER MORE BOLDLY AGAINST IT.
The Best of Allan Stevo


lewrockwell--2020-12-31--Political Correctness in the History of the South

I was recently gifted The South Was Right , by James Ronald and Walter Donald Kennedy , an updated version of a work originally produced in 1994 .
Seeking an antidote to the PC historiography in which our universities are now awash , I happily plunged into this printed gift .
The present “ leftist ideologues , ” more than their predecessors , hate the white South and have worked tirelessly to discredit it , facing no significant opposition .
As a result , “ everything associated with the traditional , conservative Bible-believing South has been demonized.
” This is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Marxism , ” the Kennedy brothers write , have been replaced by “ Neo-Marxists composed of liberals , progressives , socialists and other social justice warriors.
” Such complaints echo my own arguments about the rampaging “ post-Marxist Left ” that is taking over our country .
The South Was Right !
: ... Kennedy , Walter Donald Best Price : $ 25.58 Buy New $ 24.95 Although the first part of The South Was Right includes obligatory , predictable attacks on “ Yankeedom , ” the Kennedy brothers ’ discussions of antebellum @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Reconstruction are certainly worth looking at .
Their treatment of these topics brings up historical interpretations and researchers that were still taken quite seriously when I was in college in the early 1960s .
These include opinions on Reconstruction , segregation , and the Civil War as a “ repressible Conflict , ” from respected historians such as J.A .
Dunning , C. Vann Woodward , and Avery Craven .
Slavery Was Not the Ca ... Kizer Jr , Gene Buy New $ 21.95 The interpretations of such historians are often ignored because @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s anti-white agenda , much of which centers on perpetually dumping on Southern whites as racists with a uniform history of racial oppression .
Yet in the not-so-distant past even Marxist historians could write about the antebellum South without falling into hate-filled spasms .
S. L. Engerman and Eugene Genovese , whom the Kennedy brothers mention in discussing the antebellum South ’ s slave economy , were both Marxists when they produced their seminal works .
Holding such views of the South—regardless of left or right ideology—seems to no longer be an option @ @ @ @ @ @ @ resigned to having less-than-desirable publishing houses accept their material .
The Kennedys produce copious evidence that many Americans , including constitutional jurists , believed prior to 1861 that states had the rights to nullify and secede .
This belief persisted among Northerners as well as Southerners , as New England states discussed secession in January 1815 , at the Hartford Convention , because of their outrage over the War of 1812 .
What held them back was not a sudden discovery that they misunderstood the Constitution .
They assumed they had a right @ @ @ @ @ @ @ right because the war they opposed ended as they were meeting .
The Best of Paul Gottfried

I was recently gifted The South Was Right, by James Ronald and Walter Donald Kennedy, an updated version of a work originally produced in 1994. Seeking an antidote to the PC historiography in which our universities are now awash, I happily plunged into this printed gift.
The present “leftist ideologues,” more than their predecessors, hate the white South and have worked tirelessly to discredit it, facing no significant opposition. As a result, “everything associated with the traditional, conservative Bible-believing South has been demonized.” This is especially true since “older forms of Marxism,” the Kennedy brothers write, have been replaced by “Neo-Marxists composed of liberals, progressives, socialists and other social justice warriors.” Such complaints echo my own arguments about the rampaging “post-Marxist Left” that is taking over our country. The South Was Right!: ... Kennedy, Walter Donald Best Price: $22.69 Buy New $25.20 (as of 10:47 UTC - Details)
Although the first part of The South Was Right includes obligatory, predictable attacks on “Yankeedom,” the Kennedy brothers’ discussions of antebellum slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction are certainly worth looking at. Their treatment of these topics brings up historical interpretations and researchers that were still taken quite seriously when I was in college in the early 1960s. These include opinions on Reconstruction, segregation, and the Civil War as a “repressible Conflict,” from respected historians such as J.A. Dunning, C. Vann Woodward, and Avery Craven.
Slavery Was Not the Ca... Kizer Jr, Gene Best Price: $9.12 Buy New $21.95 (as of 10:47 UTC - Details) The interpretations of such historians are often ignored because they fail to advance the Left’s anti-white agenda, much of which centers on perpetually dumping on Southern whites as racists with a uniform history of racial oppression. Yet in the not-so-distant past even Marxist historians could write about the antebellum South without falling into hate-filled spasms. S. L. Engerman and Eugene Genovese, whom the Kennedy brothers mention in discussing the antebellum South’s slave economy, were both Marxists when they produced their seminal works. Holding such views of the South—regardless of left or right ideology—seems to no longer be an option for young scholars, unless they are resigned to having less-than-desirable publishing houses accept their material.
The Kennedys produce copious evidence that many Americans, including constitutional jurists, believed prior to 1861 that states had the rights to nullify and secede. This belief persisted among Northerners as well as Southerners, as New England states discussed secession in January 1815, at the Hartford Convention, because of their outrage over the War of 1812. What held them back was not a sudden discovery that they misunderstood the Constitution. They assumed they had a right to leave but did not exercise that right because the war they opposed ended as they were meeting.
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lewrockwell--2020-12-31--Another Solution to Lockdowns: The Constitutional Lawyers

There are a few principles involved in any effort to change the direction of fascist control .
One person alone doing or saying something may have an effect .
Two hundred people—each on his own—doing or saying the same basic thing—will have a significant effect .
Two hundred people—some alone and some together—will have a larger effect .
A person who sees himself as isolated and alone will probably not believe his actions have any effect .
So he stays silent .
He could have an IQ of 90 or 190 ; he stays silent .
The primary mistake lockdown @ @ @ @ @ @ @ failure to see the bigger picture .
Rights of Man , Common ... Paine , Thomas Best Price : $ 5.18 Buy New $ 11.94 And the big picture is composed of many different individuals and groups taking action of various kinds—which add up to a tsunami of our own , against the wall-to-wall messaging of the lockdown liars and fascists .
I ’ ve read a great deal of what constitutional lawyers have to say about the lockdowns .
I ’ m not talking about heroic lawyers who are actively filing lawsuits @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are largely spelling out problems in bringing these cases to court .
Problems having to do with judges , with the intricacies of the law , with past court decisions , with technical issues .
If two hundred of those lawyers instead turned their attention to BASIC constitutional foundations , and published papers and essays and spoke out on THAT subject , we would see a tide beginning to turn in our favor .
Constitutional lawyers are , first and foremost , supposed to understand the underlying meaning and purpose of the Constitution @ @ @ @ @ @ @ If they can ’ t see the forest for the trees , they should pack up their offices and seek other work .
So let me repeat what I ’ ve been saying for months .
There is a constitutional line that can ’ t be crossed for ANY reason .
A government can ’ t take away the freedom of citizens because some disaster has occurred .
This goes beyond the question of whether the disaster is real or imagined .
It doesn ’ t matter .
Freedom to live , to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ work , to do business , to survive , is untouchable .
There are a million ways to spell this out .
I challenge constitutional lawyers to DO IT .
Not just a few lawyers .
MANY .
Go to work .
Your area of focus is the jackpot of all legal focuses : the Constitution itself , why it is there , what it means , what it is FOR .
John Adams David McCullough Best Price : $ 1.10 Buy New $ 7.20 What are you waiting for ?
The sky @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 200 or 5000 of you turning into tigers ?
Are you trying to prove to doomsayers that they ’ re right and we ’ re all irretrievably going down the drain ?
Is that your final response to the constitutional crisis we ’ re facing ?
Is the measure of your worth the amount of dilly-dallying you can perform on the minutiae surrounding the eternal struggle for FREEDOM ?
Realize that if a few hundred of you publish and speak out , you can have an enormous effect .
I understand that some @ @ @ @ @ @ @ publicity for your views .
I do know something about gaining publicity for the truth .
If a group of 20 of you comes to me , I will give you what I can to help you achieve visibility .
Turn your attention to writing and speaking on behalf of the people , instead of the media and your colleagues .
Come to grips with what first inspired you to study the founding documents of the Republic—before the practicalities of your profession turned you into… Samuel Adams : Father o ... Mark Puls @ @ @ @ @ @ @ $ 15.25 Whatever you are now .
If you think I ’ m being unduly harsh on you , take a look at the economic and political landscape .
Look at the devastation .
Ask yourself under what banner this tyrannical operation marches .
And what it is doing to people .
Everyone speaks of “ culture ” these days .
Well , you constitutional lawyers can influence the culture directly .
You can make a heroic stand .
You can make your words have fire , just as the words of Paine @ @ @ @ @ @ @ minds , when it counted .
The Best of Jon Rappoport

There are a few principles involved in any effort to change the direction of fascist control.
One person alone doing or saying something may have an effect.
Two hundred people—each on his own—doing or saying the same basic thing—will have a significant effect.
Two hundred people—some alone and some together—will have a larger effect.
A person who sees himself as isolated and alone will probably not believe his actions have any effect. So he stays silent. He could have an IQ of 90 or 190; he stays silent.
The primary mistake lockdown opponents are making comes down to: failure to see the bigger picture. Rights of Man, Common ... Paine, Thomas Best Price: $5.18 Buy New $11.94 (as of 04:40 UTC - Details)
And the big picture is composed of many different individuals and groups taking action of various kinds—which add up to a tsunami of our own, against the wall-to-wall messaging of the lockdown liars and fascists.
I’ve read a great deal of what constitutional lawyers have to say about the lockdowns. I’m not talking about heroic lawyers who are actively filing lawsuits against governments. I mean lawyers who are largely spelling out problems in bringing these cases to court.
Problems having to do with judges, with the intricacies of the law, with past court decisions, with technical issues.
If two hundred of those lawyers instead turned their attention to BASIC constitutional foundations, and published papers and essays and spoke out on THAT subject, we would see a tide beginning to turn in our favor.
Constitutional lawyers are, first and foremost, supposed to understand the underlying meaning and purpose of the Constitution, which takes precedent over minutiae.
If they can’t see the forest for the trees, they should pack up their offices and seek other work.
So let me repeat what I’ve been saying for months. There is a constitutional line that can’t be crossed for ANY reason. A government can’t take away the freedom of citizens because some disaster has occurred.
This goes beyond the question of whether the disaster is real or imagined. It doesn’t matter. Freedom to live, to live out in the open, to work, to do business, to survive, is untouchable.
There are a million ways to spell this out. I challenge constitutional lawyers to DO IT. Not just a few lawyers. MANY. Go to work. Your area of focus is the jackpot of all legal focuses: the Constitution itself, why it is there, what it means, what it is FOR. John Adams David McCullough Best Price: $1.10 Buy New $7.20 (as of 04:25 UTC - Details)
What are you waiting for? The sky to collapse?
Why aren’t 200 or 5000 of you turning into tigers?
Are you trying to prove to doomsayers that they’re right and we’re all irretrievably going down the drain?
Is that your final response to the constitutional crisis we’re facing?
Is the measure of your worth the amount of dilly-dallying you can perform on the minutiae surrounding the eternal struggle for FREEDOM?
Realize that if a few hundred of you publish and speak out, you can have an enormous effect.
I understand that some of you know very little about gaining publicity for your views. I do know something about gaining publicity for the truth. If a group of 20 of you comes to me, I will give you what I can to help you achieve visibility.
Turn your attention to writing and speaking on behalf of the people, instead of the media and your colleagues. Come to grips with what first inspired you to study the founding documents of the Republic—before the practicalities of your profession turned you into…
Samuel Adams: Father o... Mark Puls Best Price: $3.80 Buy New $16.69 (as of 10:47 UTC - Details) Whatever you are now.
If you think I’m being unduly harsh on you, take a look at the economic and political landscape. Look at the devastation. Ask yourself under what banner this tyrannical operation marches. And what it is doing to people.
Everyone speaks of “culture” these days. Well, you constitutional lawyers can influence the culture directly. You can make a heroic stand. You can make your words have fire, just as the words of Paine and John Adams and Samuel Adams ignited minds, when it counted.
Be heroes, not clerks.
ADDITIONAL READING:
[1] https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/tag/lawsuit/
[2] https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2020/09/15/grand-ohio-covid-legal-case-against-kings-on-their-thrones/
[3] https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2020/12/29/covid-open-letter-to-business-owners/
[4] https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2020/12/28/covid-where-are-the-courageous-religious-leaders/
[5] https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/category/public-relations/
Reprinted with permission from Jon Rappoport’s blog.
The Best of Jon Rappoport


lewrockwell--2020-12-31--Ukraine Press Conference Explicitly Ties Hunter and Joe Biden to Corruption

A video from a press conference in Ukraine is going viral .
It is the follow-up to a video press conference that Ukraine released over a year ago , in which members of the Ukraine Parliament demanded that President Zelensky and President Trump investigate billions of dollars of corruption in Ukraine that is tied to the U.S .
The newly released video is meant to provide documentary and eyewitness information about the corruption — and the Biden family figures prominently in the story .
The video is long — over an hour — and not all of it involves the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ portions of the press conference that address Biden family corruption .
The gist of it is that , while Democrats obsess about Trump ’ s purported criminality , despite the absence of any evidence , their chosen standard-bearer is extraordinarily corrupt .
Indeed , I would argue that Biden is one of the most corrupt politicians ever in America .
In the past , corrupt politicians have confined themselves to playing dirty in their own backyard , making money from deals with fellow Americans .
I believe that Biden is the first person @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of government — the Senate and the vice presidency — who sold his country out to the highest foreign bidders .
It ’ s an insult to everything America has stood for since its inception that massive election fraud might allow this person to set foot in the Oval Office .
With that intro , here ’ s the video , followed by quotations from the video regarding Joe and Hunter Biden .
I recommend Nabu Leaks for more information , enlarged pictures of the relevant documents naming the Bidens , audio of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Poroshenko after Trump won the election , and the full transcript of the press conference .
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A video from a press conference in Ukraine is going viral. It is the follow-up to a video press conference that Ukraine released over a year ago, in which members of the Ukraine Parliament demanded that President Zelensky and President Trump investigate billions of dollars of corruption in Ukraine that is tied to the U.S. The newly released video is meant to provide documentary and eyewitness information about the corruption — and the Biden family figures prominently in the story.
The video is long — over an hour — and not all of it involves the Biden family. This post quotes those portions of the press conference that address Biden family corruption. The gist of it is that, while Democrats obsess about Trump’s purported criminality, despite the absence of any evidence, their chosen standard-bearer is extraordinarily corrupt.
Indeed, I would argue that Biden is one of the most corrupt politicians ever in America. In the past, corrupt politicians have confined themselves to playing dirty in their own backyard, making money from deals with fellow Americans.
I believe that Biden is the first person ever to serve in the highest reaches of government — the Senate and the vice presidency — who sold his country out to the highest foreign bidders. It’s an insult to everything America has stood for since its inception that massive election fraud might allow this person to set foot in the Oval Office.
With that intro, here’s the video, followed by quotations from the video regarding Joe and Hunter Biden. I recommend Nabu Leaks for more information, enlarged pictures of the relevant documents naming the Bidens, audio of phone calls between Biden and former President Poroshenko after Trump won the election, and the full transcript of the press conference.
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