lewrockwell--2020-10-14--CIA Intercepts Suggest US Lied About Biological Weapon Use During Its War on Korea

During the early 1950s War on Korea the U.S. used biological weapons against North Korea and China .
Bombs designed to spread leaflets were filled with plague infested rats and dropped on Korean towns .
Various infecting insects were released .
Leaflets were contaminated with small pox and then distributed .
Several local epidemics were caused by these attacks .
The program was a continuation of one which a special unit of the Imperial Japanese Army had developed during the second world war .
Unit 731 and its leaders were not indicted for the war crimes they had committed during @ @ @ @ @ @ @ biological warfare program .
The Soviet Union and China made political noise about the use of biological weapons but the U.S. stoically denied that it ever used such weapons .
U.S. pilots , shot down and imprisoned by the North Korean forces , admitted that they had dropped such bombs .
The U.S. then falsely alleged that the pilots had been tortured and must have lied .
This led to demands to train all pilots to resist torture measures : Cover-up at Guantanamo ... Kaye , Jeffrey S Buy New $ 11.95 Since @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Navy had established training courses in Survival , Evasion , Resistance and Escape ( SERE ) for pilots that might be captured by enemies .
During these courses interrogations were staged to provide realistic training .
After the Korea War anti-torture training was added .
Torture of “ prisoners ” was “ simulated ” with the trainees .
Decades later , during the war of terror and on Iraq , the CIA hired two psychologists from the SERE training staff as “ behavioral science consultants ” to teach its agents how to use @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and dangerous methods those SERE “ experts ” devised proliferated to the U.S. military which , together with the CIA , used them on alleged enemy combatants in Abu Ghraib , Guantanamo and other places .
Now back to the War on Korea .
The Chinese and Soviets sponsored the International Scientific Commission ( ISC ) headed by one of the foremost British scientists of his time , Sir Joseph Needham , to investigate the use of biological weapons during the war .
Three years ago we wrote about its report : Now @ @ @ @ @ @ @ which confirm the other reports of U.S. germ attacks on North Korea and China .
Interestingly these documents are from the CIA .
Jeffrey Kaye has read through these documents and is discussing them here in the context of what is known from other sources .
He summarizes : The COMINT cables and other intelligence reports released by the CIA in 2013 under the heading “ Baptism by Fire ” provide a real contribution to our understanding of the North Korean and Chinese experience of the war , as well as U.S. communications @ @ @ @ @ @ @ provide a rare window into North Korean and Chinese military reactions and responses to what they said was a biological warfare attack , whose air component began in January 1952 and continued almost up to the armistice in July 1953 .
… Importantly , a selection of COMINT cables and other previously secret and “ confidential ” intelligence reports from the Korean War now are available to serve as historical evidence .
The information from the COMINT data corroborates charges that North Korea and China were under bacteriological attack in 1952 , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the attacks were really a “ hoax ” or an exaggerated response to presumed , but more innocent attack .
The war crimes the U.S. committed during the War on Korea had serious historic consequences some of which continue today .
There is not only a direct line from those biological attacks on North Korea and China to the CIA ’ s torture methods at Abu Ghraib and elsewhere .
The germ warfare is also a major reason why North Korea continues the development of its nuclear weapons and of the means to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ research is still happening today .
Two years ago eminent German and French scientists publicly warned about the dangers of a new project by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ( DARPA ) .
The agency wants to use insects to spread viruses that can modify the genes of plants .
As we stated at that time : Biohazard : The Chillin ... Handelman , Stephen Best Price : $ 9.10 Buy New $ 15.00 The mechanism of spreading infectious genetically modified viruses to genetically modify and ‘ heal ’ plants in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ dangers .
To use insects for distributing such viruses borders on insane .
If one has access to the targeted crop fields and if one has a genetically modified virus to influence the plants why would one use insects to distribute it ?
Why not use the well known targeted process of spraying the affected fields , just like it is widely done today ?
Only when one does not have access to the fields , when these are situated in a foreign country the U.S. has no access to , does it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ purposes .
The idea that the real ( and illegal ) purpose of such U.S. research is biological warfare is not far fetched at all .
It is important to raise public awareness of past and current biological weapon programs .
Jeffrey Kaye is doing yeoman ’ s work to enable that .
Please help to distribute his past and present work .
Reprinted with permission from Moon of Alabama .

During the early 1950s War on Korea the U.S. used biological weapons against North Korea and China. Bombs designed to spread leaflets were filled with plague infested rats and dropped on Korean towns. Various infecting insects were released. Leaflets were contaminated with small pox and then distributed. Several local epidemics were caused by these attacks.
The program was a continuation of one which a special unit of the Imperial Japanese Army had developed during the second world war. Unit 731 and its leaders were not indicted for the war crimes they had committed during the war but integrated into the U.S. biological warfare program.
The Soviet Union and China made political noise about the use of biological weapons but the U.S. stoically denied that it ever used such weapons. U.S. pilots, shot down and imprisoned by the North Korean forces, admitted that they had dropped such bombs. The U.S. then falsely alleged that the pilots had been tortured and must have lied. This led to demands to train all pilots to resist torture measures: Cover-up at Guantanamo... Kaye, Jeffrey S Buy New $11.95 (as of 05:32 UTC - Details)
Since World War II the U.S. Airforce and Navy had established training courses in Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape (SERE) for pilots that might be captured by enemies. During these courses interrogations were staged to provide realistic training. After the Korea War anti-torture training was added. Torture of “prisoners” was “simulated” with the trainees. Decades later, during the war of terror and on Iraq, the CIA hired two psychologists from the SERE training staff as “behavioral science consultants” to teach its agents how to use torture on prisoners. The absolutely inhuman and dangerous methods those SERE “experts” devised proliferated to the U.S. military which, together with the CIA, used them on alleged enemy combatants in Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo and other places.
Now back to the War on Korea. The Chinese and Soviets sponsored the International Scientific Commission (ISC) headed by one of the foremost British scientists of his time, Sir Joseph Needham, to investigate the use of biological weapons during the war. Three years ago we wrote about its report:
Now Jeffrey Kaye has dug up additional documents which confirm the other reports of U.S. germ attacks on North Korea and China. Interestingly these documents are from the CIA.
Cover art for the CIA pamphlet release in 2013
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The published documents are 1,300 items which were declassified and released 60 years after the 1953 ceasefire stopped the war. They included analysis of U.S. communication intercepts (COMINT) between various North Korean and Chinese military and political entities.
Jeffrey Kaye has read through these documents and is discussing them here in the context of what is known from other sources. He summarizes:
The COMINT cables and other intelligence reports released by the CIA in 2013 under the heading “Baptism by Fire” provide a real contribution to our understanding of the North Korean and Chinese experience of the war, as well as U.S. communications intelligence efforts. In particular, they provide a rare window into North Korean and Chinese military reactions and responses to what they said was a biological warfare attack, whose air component began in January 1952 and continued almost up to the armistice in July 1953.
…
Importantly, a selection of COMINT cables and other previously secret and “confidential” intelligence reports from the Korean War now are available to serve as historical evidence. The information from the COMINT data corroborates charges that North Korea and China were under bacteriological attack in 1952, and disconfirms some of the evidence offered suggesting the attacks were really a “hoax” or an exaggerated response to presumed, but more innocent attack.
The war crimes the U.S. committed during the War on Korea had serious historic consequences some of which continue today. There is not only a direct line from those biological attacks on North Korea and China to the CIA’s torture methods at Abu Ghraib and elsewhere. The germ warfare is also a major reason why North Korea continues the development of its nuclear weapons and of the means to deliver them.
Dangerous U.S. biological weapon research is still happening today. Two years ago eminent German and French scientists publicly warned about the dangers of a new project by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The agency wants to use insects to spread viruses that can modify the genes of plants. As we stated at that time: Biohazard: The Chillin... Handelman, Stephen Best Price: $9.10 Buy New $15.00 (as of 06:08 UTC - Details)
The mechanism of spreading infectious genetically modified viruses to genetically modify and ‘heal’ plants in the fields is itself full of problems and dangers. To use insects for distributing such viruses borders on insane. If one has access to the targeted crop fields and if one has a genetically modified virus to influence the plants why would one use insects to distribute it? Why not use the well known targeted process of spraying the affected fields, just like it is widely done today? Only when one does not have access to the fields, when these are situated in a foreign country the U.S. has no access to, does it make sense to use insects for such purposes. The idea that the real (and illegal) purpose of such U.S. research is biological warfare is not far fetched at all.
It is important to raise public awareness of past and current biological weapon programs. Jeffrey Kaye is doing yeoman’s work to enable that. Please help to distribute his past and present work.
Reprinted with permission from Moon of Alabama.


lewrockwell--2020-10-14--2 + 2 = Thought Crime?

2 + 2 = Thought Crime?

Not even the rules-based world of mathematics is safe from the PC inquisition , with the Mathematical Association of America claiming it is inherently racially biased .
This madness threatens to halt progress in its tracks .
This month , Americans got another bitter taste of ‘ progressive ’ insanity from one of the most unexpected of places .
The Mathematical Association of America ( MAA ) , which prides itself as “ the world ’ s largest community of mathematicians , students , and enthusiasts , ” came out and declared that “ mathematics is created by humans and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ MAA ’ s revelation came in its October newsletter , which reads more like a fiery political manifesto than any mundane briefing on the math scene .
It continued , “ Reaching this potential in mathematics relies upon the academy and higher education engaging in … uncomfortable conversations about the detrimental effects of race and racism on our community.
” Columbia Men ’ s W ... Buy New $ 56.88 Perhaps in no other period of human history could otherwise intelligent people speak with alarm about mathematical inquiry and the racial background of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ An angry throng of mathematicians protesting in the street , while getting in the faces of passers-by and patio diners demanding that they publicly confess to their mathematical heresies and accept some new-fangled ‘ ethno-mathematic ’ system in its place ?
Will engineers , architects and other math-based professionals be accused of fomenting ‘ racism ’ for adhering to the models of dead white mathematicians ?
Where exactly will this insanity lead us ?
On a personal note , I have never been very fond of mathematics , but I can readily appreciate @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , after hours of arduous contemplation over a single problem , they finally arrive at the one and only indisputable answer .
To quote the legendary British wit , Samuel Johnson , “ You may have a reason why two and two should make five , but they will still make but four.
” And therein lies the problem with mathematicians attempting to hop aboard the social justice train : like it or not , mathematics is undoubtedly the most intensely objective field of study , where the results are not open for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ nearly impossible to understand what the MAA means by “ human biases ” when speaking about a science that is closed to personal interpretation and ‘ feelings ’ , the byword of these emotion-fueled woke times .
For example , if it is discovered that a renowned white mathematician , who solved a long-standing math problem , was at the same time a slave owner , this regrettable news would do little to refute the veracity of his ( or her ) findings .
Unlike the world of literature , for example , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ racial stereotypes and slurs , it would not be possible to ‘ ban ’ a mathematical solution due to the personal faults of the discoverer .
Incidentally , I used the example of a white mathematician intentionally because , unfortunately , that seems to be where the focus of the MAA appears to be heading .
Indeed , even before the newsletter apologizes for the “ inherent biases ” of mathematics , it speaks out on behalf of ‘ critical race theory ’ , a highly controversial concept which postulates that America is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ seminar hosted by none other than the US Department of the Treasury , “ virtually all white people , regardless of how ‘ woke ’ they are , contribute to racism.
” Due to their supposed “ privileged ” status and skin color , white people in America are characterized as “ white supremacists ” and natural-born “ oppressors.
” CLC Custom Leathercraf ... Best Price : $ 7.11 Buy New $ 10.54 Much to the consternation of the MAA , President Donald Trump banned these teachings at the federal level in an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ideas , says the idea that meritocracy is “ racist or sexist ” is a “ divisive concept.
” The MAA ventured beyond its field of scholarship when it argued that critical race theory is “ an established social science inquiry which is grounded in decades of scholarship.
” Then , with incredible arrogance and hypocrisy , it criticized the banning of these teachings inside of US federal agencies as “ an encroachment on science and the academy.
” As if injecting political vitriol into the field of mathematics during an election year @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fail to understand that they themselves are encroaching on the government with unproven ideas of an extremely divisive nature .
At a time when the country remains on edge over the killing of a black man at the hands of a white cop , a tragedy that seems more symptomatic of poor police training than any institutional racism , the MAA is simply fueling street protests as well as unprovoked violence against innocent white people .
At this point , it seems fair to ask about the situation inside the world of mathematics @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have us believe – by knuckle-dragging oppressors of minorities .
Consider the tragic case of Lisa Piccirillo , for example , a graduate student at the University of Texas , Austin .
In the course of her studies , Piccirillo learned about the ‘ Conway knot ’ , a problem that had baffled mathematicians for half a century .
By the week ’ s end , the graduate student had already solved the riddle .
Tommy Hilfiger Men & rsq ... Buy New $ 49.99 The young female ventured to present her findings @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at the university .
So how did Gordon respond ?
Not by locking up the woman in the college dungeon and stealing her discovery , as one might suspect would happen by the alarming MAA newsletter .
Instead , Professor Gordon promised to have her finding published in the Annals of Mathematics , one of the discipline ’ s top journals .
“ He started yelling , ‘ Why aren ’ t you more excited ?
’ ” recalled Piccirillo , now a postdoctoral fellow at Brandeis University .
“ He sort of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Emeagwali , the Nigerian-born computer scientist who was educated at none other than George Washington University .
Despite the “ inherent biases ” allegedly plaguing the math community , Emeagwali won the Gordon Bell Prize for high-performance computing applications using a novel mathematical formulation .
Today , he is ranked as one of the most influential computer scientists in the world , and is said to be worth $ 250 million .
In closing , it seems that mathematicians like Piccirillo and Emeagwali , and countless other minorities , would not have had @ @ @ @ @ @ @ if their fields of study were truly bastions of white oppression and racism .
Instead of espousing what amounts to another form of racism , this time aimed at white people , the MAA , in the spirit of true mathematicians , should be required to provide proofs for their arguments lest they produce tragically wrong answers to the detriment of everyone .

Not even the rules-based world of mathematics is safe from the PC inquisition, with the Mathematical Association of America claiming it is inherently racially biased. This madness threatens to halt progress in its tracks.
This month, Americans got another bitter taste of ‘progressive’ insanity from one of the most unexpected of places. The Mathematical Association of America (MAA), which prides itself as “the world’s largest community of mathematicians, students, and enthusiasts,” came out and declared that “mathematics is created by humans and therefore inherently carries human biases.”
The MAA’s revelation came in its October newsletter, which reads more like a fiery political manifesto than any mundane briefing on the math scene. It continued, “Reaching this potential in mathematics relies upon the academy and higher education engaging in … uncomfortable conversations about the detrimental effects of race and racism on our community.”
Columbia Men’s W... Buy New $56.88 (as of 05:33 UTC - Details) Perhaps in no other period of human history could otherwise intelligent people speak with alarm about mathematical inquiry and the racial background of the problem solvers. What next? An angry throng of mathematicians protesting in the street, while getting in the faces of passers-by and patio diners demanding that they publicly confess to their mathematical heresies and accept some new-fangled ‘ethno-mathematic’ system in its place? Will engineers, architects and other math-based professionals be accused of fomenting ‘racism’ for adhering to the models of dead white mathematicians? Where exactly will this insanity lead us?
On a personal note, I have never been very fond of mathematics, but I can readily appreciate the pleasure that mathematicians speak of when, after hours of arduous contemplation over a single problem, they finally arrive at the one and only indisputable answer. To quote the legendary British wit, Samuel Johnson, “You may have a reason why two and two should make five, but they will still make but four.”
And therein lies the problem with mathematicians attempting to hop aboard the social justice train: like it or not, mathematics is undoubtedly the most intensely objective field of study, where the results are not open for debate. In fact, it is nearly impossible to understand what the MAA means by “human biases” when speaking about a science that is closed to personal interpretation and ‘feelings’, the byword of these emotion-fueled woke times.
For example, if it is discovered that a renowned white mathematician, who solved a long-standing math problem, was at the same time a slave owner, this regrettable news would do little to refute the veracity of his (or her) findings. Unlike the world of literature, for example, which regularly bans period novels that contain racial stereotypes and slurs, it would not be possible to ‘ban’ a mathematical solution due to the personal faults of the discoverer. Incidentally, I used the example of a white mathematician intentionally because, unfortunately, that seems to be where the focus of the MAA appears to be heading.
Indeed, even before the newsletter apologizes for the “inherent biases” of mathematics, it speaks out on behalf of ‘critical race theory’, a highly controversial concept which postulates that America is a country where, to quote a seminar hosted by none other than the US Department of the Treasury, “virtually all white people, regardless of how ‘woke’ they are, contribute to racism.” Due to their supposed “privileged” status and skin color, white people in America are characterized as “white supremacists” and natural-born “oppressors.” CLC Custom Leathercraf... Best Price: $7.11 Buy New $10.54 (as of 10:54 UTC - Details)
Much to the consternation of the MAA, President Donald Trump banned these teachings at the federal level in an executive order, which, among other ideas, says the idea that meritocracy is “racist or sexist” is a “divisive concept.”
The MAA ventured beyond its field of scholarship when it argued that critical race theory is “an established social science inquiry which is grounded in decades of scholarship.” Then, with incredible arrogance and hypocrisy, it criticized the banning of these teachings inside of US federal agencies as “an encroachment on science and the academy.”
As if injecting political vitriol into the field of mathematics during an election year were not bad enough, these academics fail to understand that they themselves are encroaching on the government with unproven ideas of an extremely divisive nature. At a time when the country remains on edge over the killing of a black man at the hands of a white cop, a tragedy that seems more symptomatic of poor police training than any institutional racism, the MAA is simply fueling street protests as well as unprovoked violence against innocent white people.
At this point, it seems fair to ask about the situation inside the world of mathematics, dominated – as the MAA would have us believe – by knuckle-dragging oppressors of minorities. Consider the tragic case of Lisa Piccirillo, for example, a graduate student at the University of Texas, Austin. In the course of her studies, Piccirillo learned about the ‘Conway knot’, a problem that had baffled mathematicians for half a century. By the week’s end, the graduate student had already solved the riddle.
Tommy Hilfiger Men&rsq... Buy New $49.99 (as of 05:33 UTC - Details) The young female ventured to present her findings to Cameron Gordon, a white professor at the university. So how did Gordon respond? Not by locking up the woman in the college dungeon and stealing her discovery, as one might suspect would happen by the alarming MAA newsletter. Instead, Professor Gordon promised to have her finding published in the Annals of Mathematics, one of the discipline’s top journals.
“He started yelling, ‘Why aren’t you more excited?’” recalled Piccirillo, now a postdoctoral fellow at Brandeis University. “He sort of freaked out.”
Or how about Philip Emeagwali, the Nigerian-born computer scientist who was educated at none other than George Washington University. Despite the “inherent biases” allegedly plaguing the math community, Emeagwali won the Gordon Bell Prize for high-performance computing applications using a novel mathematical formulation. Today, he is ranked as one of the most influential computer scientists in the world, and is said to be worth $250 million.
In closing, it seems that mathematicians like Piccirillo and Emeagwali, and countless other minorities, would not have had the opportunity to excel as they did if their fields of study were truly bastions of white oppression and racism. Instead of espousing what amounts to another form of racism, this time aimed at white people, the MAA, in the spirit of true mathematicians, should be required to provide proofs for their arguments lest they produce tragically wrong answers to the detriment of everyone.
The statements, views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of RT.


lewrockwell--2020-10-14--Who Are the Real ‘Crazies’?

Who Are the Real ‘Crazies’?

A few days ago I sent out to some friends a short piece , unsigned , on “ gaslighting.
” If you follow media pundits and online scribblers , you ’ ve probably heard or seen the term used in a political or social context and wondered exactly what it meant .
Gaslighting , in that currently employed sense , can be defined as a form of psychological abuse aimed at controlling a person by altering perceived reality to the point where the person will doubt his own sanity .
Essentially it involves mental manipulation “ in which a person @ @ @ @ @ @ @ doubt in a targeted individual or group , making them question their own memory , perception , or judgment , often evoking in them cognitive dissonance and other changes , including low self-esteem .
Using denial , misdirection , contradiction , and information , gaslighting involves attempts to destabilize the victim and delegitimize the victim ’ s beliefs.
” This usage apparently originates with the play , Gas Light ( 1938 ) and two succeeding classic movies from 1940 and 1944 ( this latter film famously stars Ingrid Bergman , Charles Boyer , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ character in the play ( and in the films ) literally attempts to drive his wife crazy by gradually dimming the gas-powered lights in their home .
As she complains that the lights seem to be getting dimmer , her husband not only denies the fact , but convinces her that it is just her imagination…to the point where she begins to question her own sanity .
Marmot Men ’ s Min ... Buy New $ 129.99 In contemporary America “ gaslighting ” has become a praxis , a weapon of choice of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , repeatedly projecting on to their opponents the belief and sense that somehow they ( we ) , because of our “ unenlightened views ” are racist , sexist , and “ against progress and ‘ democratic values ’ .
” Nearly the entirety of the media , the entertainment industry , and many political leaders do this on a regular basis ; it is inculcated into our children in practically all our schools… .
And once we begin to believe that meme , we then retreat from real opposition , we may @ @ @ @ @ @ @ defensively we may compromise and give way , or just be silent .
This praxis has been very successful in essentially neutering many voices of the supposed opposition to the madness that is eating away at our society .
How many elected Republicans have given way to “ gaslighting ” for fear of being called “ racists ” or “ white supremacists ” ?
But not just their apologies or silence , and their running to hide “ in the tall grass ” : Some have convinced themselves of the rightness of Progressivist @ @ @ @ @ @ @ We only need cite the literally dozens of former Bush administration officials , staffers for John McCain ( his wife is voting for Biden ) and Mitt Romney , and Neoconservatives like Max Boot , Bill Kristol , and others who now openly support Joe Biden and Kamala Harris .
Textile Motorcycle Jac ... Buy New $ 69.99 Does this not indicate something deeply disquieting about these so-called “ Establishment Conservatives ” ?
That they are easily spooked by the constant barrage of Progressivist accusations is one thing…but more profoundly , does this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ conservative convictions ?
And these were the folks we were to support as our champions in 2000 , 2004 , 2008 , and 2012 ?
Whatever criticisms we might level at Donald Trump , and yes , certainly there are some , he has at least done one thing of immense value : he has torn the mask partially off those “ Deep State ” apparatchiks , made them surface publicly , revealing them as the condescending elitists , Managerial State globalists that they are .
And that , despite all the negative @ @ @ @ @ @ @ some ways for many of the Donald ’ s peccadillos… .
Motorcycle Pants For M ... Buy New $ 59.99 It is those who righteously claim the Progressivist mantle who are the real madmen , lacking rationality , outside reality , and strangers to the inherent laws of nature and Divine Positive Laws of God .
It is they who , like demons from the bowels of Hell , seek to convince us that we are “ outside reality ” and “ unprogressive.
” And in this they engage in a form of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ onto their victims—onto the “ deplorables ” and those who dissent from their template—the insecurities and sense that our thinking and actions are somehow distorted , wrong , hurtful , and not normal…that we are crazy .
In fact , it is they who are , to quote the great Christian English essayist G. K. Chesterton , the real “ lunatics.
” In his volume , The Poet and the Lunatics ( 1929 ) , Chesterton discusses the concept of liberty , and in so doing defines it succinctly as “ the power @ @ @ @ @ @ @ limited by our brains and bodies ; and if we break out , we cease to be ourselves , and , perhaps , to be anything .
The lunatic is he who loses his way and can not return….
” Those who have rebelled against the order of Creation and nature , he adds , are “ already outside the world of reason , raging with a desire to be outside of everything.
” It is they who have in fact rejected reality .
Thus , their frenzy and anxiety not so much @ @ @ @ @ @ @ themselves of their rightness….for like all Children of the Night , down deep , gnawing at them is the dark , if faint but constant sensation that this is so .
Against their constant barrage we need to affirm our rootedness in our God-given and created nature and in two-thousand years of Western tradition and civilization…while rejecting the Progressivists as crazed fanatical rebels against that Creation and its Author .
They must be totally repudiated…no compromises or deals with them .
Things may—and probably will—get worse , and our enemies appear to gain @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Faith will conquer…if we let it .

Friends,
A few days ago I sent out to some friends a short piece, unsigned, on “gaslighting.” If you follow media pundits and online scribblers, you’ve probably heard or seen the term used in a political or social context and wondered exactly what it meant.
Gaslighting, in that currently employed sense, can be defined as a form of psychological abuse aimed at controlling a person by altering perceived reality to the point where the person will doubt his own sanity. Essentially it involves mental manipulation “in which a person or a group covertly sows seeds of doubt in a targeted individual or group, making them question their own memory, perception, or judgment, often evoking in them cognitive dissonance and other changes, including low self-esteem. Using denial, misdirection, contradiction, and information, gaslighting involves attempts to destabilize the victim and delegitimize the victim’s beliefs.”
This usage apparently originates with the play, Gas Light (1938) and two succeeding classic movies from 1940 and 1944 (this latter film famously stars Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, and Joseph Cotten). The main character in the play (and in the films) literally attempts to drive his wife crazy by gradually dimming the gas-powered lights in their home. As she complains that the lights seem to be getting dimmer, her husband not only denies the fact, but convinces her that it is just her imagination…to the point where she begins to question her own sanity. Marmot Men’s Min... Buy New $129.99 (as of 05:34 UTC - Details)
In contemporary America “gaslighting” has become a praxis, a weapon of choice of the post-Marxist Progressivist Left: That is, repeatedly projecting on to their opponents the belief and sense that somehow they (we), because of our “unenlightened views” are racist, sexist, and “against progress and ‘democratic values’.” Nearly the entirety of the media, the entertainment industry, and many political leaders do this on a regular basis; it is inculcated into our children in practically all our schools…. And once we begin to believe that meme, we then retreat from real opposition, we may apologize for our perceived sins, and defensively we may compromise and give way, or just be silent.
This praxis has been very successful in essentially neutering many voices of the supposed opposition to the madness that is eating away at our society.
How many elected Republicans have given way to “gaslighting” for fear of being called “racists” or “white supremacists”? But not just their apologies or silence, and their running to hide “in the tall grass”: Some have convinced themselves of the rightness of Progressivist positions, even supporting them publicly. We only need cite the literally dozens of former Bush administration officials, staffers for John McCain (his wife is voting for Biden) and Mitt Romney, and Neoconservatives like Max Boot, Bill Kristol, and others who now openly support Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Textile Motorcycle Jac... Buy New $69.99 (as of 05:34 UTC - Details)
Does this not indicate something deeply disquieting about these so-called “Establishment Conservatives”? That they are easily spooked by the constant barrage of Progressivist accusations is one thing…but more profoundly, does this not indicate their own lack of deeply-held conservative convictions?
And these were the folks we were to support as our champions in 2000, 2004, 2008, and 2012?
Whatever criticisms we might level at Donald Trump, and yes, certainly there are some, he has at least done one thing of immense value: he has torn the mask partially off those “Deep State” apparatchiks, made them surface publicly, revealing them as the condescending elitists, Managerial State globalists that they are. And that, despite all the negative things, in a sense compensates in some ways for many of the Donald’s peccadillos…. Motorcycle Pants For M... Buy New $59.99 (as of 05:34 UTC - Details)
It is those who righteously claim the Progressivist mantle who are the real madmen, lacking rationality, outside reality, and strangers to the inherent laws of nature and Divine Positive Laws of God. It is they who, like demons from the bowels of Hell, seek to convince us that we are “outside reality” and “unprogressive.” And in this they engage in a form of transference, that is, projecting zealously onto their victims—onto the “deplorables” and those who dissent from their template—the insecurities and sense that our thinking and actions are somehow distorted, wrong, hurtful, and not normal…that we are crazy.
In fact, it is they who are, to quote the great Christian English essayist G. K. Chesterton, the real “lunatics.” In his volume, The Poet and the Lunatics (1929), Chesterton discusses the concept of liberty, and in so doing defines it succinctly as “the power of a thing to be itself…We are limited by our brains and bodies; and if we break out, we cease to be ourselves, and, perhaps, to be anything. The lunatic is he who loses his way and cannot return….” Those who have rebelled against the order of Creation and nature, he adds, are “already outside the world of reason, raging with a desire to be outside of everything.” It is they who have in fact rejected reality. Thus, their frenzy and anxiety not so much to convince us, as to convince themselves of their rightness….for like all Children of the Night, down deep, gnawing at them is the dark, if faint but constant sensation that this is so.
Against their constant barrage we need to affirm our rootedness in our God-given and created nature and in two-thousand years of Western tradition and civilization…while rejecting the Progressivists as crazed fanatical rebels against that Creation and its Author.
They must be totally repudiated…no compromises or deals with them. Things may—and probably will—get worse, and our enemies appear to gain triumph. But in the end the Faith will conquer…if we let it.
Reprinted with the author’s permission.


lewrockwell--2020-10-14--Life Within the Matrix Is Our Future

Life Within the Matrix Is Our Future

The question each of us needs to ask ourselves , and one another , is why do we get so much misinformation about Covid from public health authorities , political authorities , and press prostitutes ?
We get a lot of misinformation from health practioners , because they get the bogus information from health authorities and from researchers associated with Big Pharma .
But why do health authorities themselves lie to us ?
Take the issue of masks .
The masks being worn by the vast majority of the world population , including health care providers , can not prevent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ viruses .
If a person wearing one of these masks is sick with a cold , flu , or Covid , the mask can prevent the person from sneezing and coughing on others , countertops , and fresh produce .
But the masks can not prevent the wearer from breathing in and exhaling out Covid , which is airborn and aerosol spread .
The only people who should be wearing one of these masks are people who are out in public areas coughing and sneezing among other people .
To avoid the spread @ @ @ @ @ @ @ stay at home .
Funny Donald Trump Shi ... Buy New $ 16.99 If the masks people are wearing protected against bacteria , viruses , and other pathogens , there would be no point in N95 and higher rated masks .
Medical authorities know this , so why are people told , indeed forced , to wear ineffectual masks ?
This is an especially troubling question when experts unaffiliated with Big Pharma tell us that wearing a mask is dangerous as it reduces oxygen intake and increases CO 2 intake .
This expert @ @ @ @ @ @ @ brain damage that can not be reversed .
Why do health authorities want to stunt children ’ s development and increase dementia among the elderly ?
This doctor tells us that mask wearing is increasing bacterial pneumonias .
Public health authorities know that the Covid death rate is greatly exaggerated .
Hospitals are economically incentivized to report all deaths as Covid deaths .
The CDC itself let the cat out of the bag when it reported that among the 200,000 US Covid deaths , only 9,000 were due to Covid alone .
All @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fatal comorbidities .
See this .
Deaths are concentrated in an elderly population with comorbidities , and those infected , if they were and it wasn ’ t a false positive , could as easily have died from seasonal flu .
Perhaps without meaning to , the World Health Organization ( WHO ) seems to have confirmed that Covid is no more dangerous than flu .
All Aboard the Trump T ... Buy New $ 18.00 So , why do public health authorities withhold this information from political authorities and the public , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ out ?
The information exists .
It just isn ’ t reported .
Public heath authorities also know that the number of Covid cases is vastly overstated , because the PCR test produces more false positives than correct positives .
See this .
An international group of lawyers has concluded based on evidence provided in expert testimony that the Covid Pandemic is an orchestration that has served powerful interests at the expense of the public ’ s health .
See this .
The doctors acknowledge that Covid itself is real , but the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is not .
It is possible that the courts are as corrupted as the media and democratic institutions , and that nothing will come of the lawyers ’ efforts .
Nevertheless , neither Americans nor other peoples need to cling to their gullibility and behave as sheep programmed by “ authorities ” who are serving every interest but public health .
As I have reported in previous columns , Covid is being used to serve many interests .
Among them , Covid is being used to complete the universal Police State by digitizing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ place of currency , checks , and coins , your financial privacy and your control over your money and wealth will disappear .
The government will know every payment you make and receive , and your access to your own income and wealth can be curtailed at the whim of the government and those who control the digitized monetary system .
There will be no way that you can accumulate cash reserves as protection against your dispossession .
Donald Trump Gold Coin ... Buy New $ 5.95 Private cryptocurrencies will be destroyed , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and silver coins can be prevented by seizing gold and silver holdings .
The Great Liberal Hero Franklin D. Roosevelt was able to take gold out of Americans ’ hands with the technology of the 1930s .
Today it would be a cinch .
Authorities have many Americans terrified of Covid infection .
People scared out of their minds can ’ t wait for the unneeded and insufficiently tested vaccine .
The HCQ/zinc cure works , but continues to be demonized by public health authorities in order to keep the market primed for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not what .
Over the course of our history we Americans have been deceived about many things for the sake of political agendas .
The length of the list depends on how far you want to go back .
Let ’ s just start with the 20 years of the 21st century—September 11 , 2001 , Osama bin Laden and the Talliban , Saddam Hussein ’ s weapons of mass destruction , the endless lies about Gadaffi and Libya , Russian invasion of Ukraine , Assad ’ s use of chemical weapons , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Tallian to kill American soldiers , the lies about China , Somalia , and now the Covid Deception .
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How many lies do they have to be told before they begin to wonder ?
It is not entirely their fault .
The explanations given them are controlled and aligned with their innate biases .
Super patriots , for example , love to have enemies to denounce , and you can hear rightwing talk radio denouncing China , Russia @ @ @ @ @ @ @ loves to hear confirmation of their belief in the evil that is America .
The left has glorified in the rioting , looting , and destruction that resulted from press prostitutes withholding the fact that George Floyd died from an overdose of fentanyl .
The younger generations have never been taught how to think .
Instead , they are taught what to think .
You see the result in the majority white presence in Antifa and Black Lives Matter .
Throughout the Western world facts have given way to emotions .
The concept @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Truth is whatever serves the agenda .
You can see this in Assange ’ s trial underway in a British court .
The Judge and prosecutor have no interest in any evidence , only in delivering the result demanded by the agenda .
Science itself is imperiled as there are only race and gender truths .
Media serves money and ideologies .
Universities and public schools are a great danger to the societies that host them .
Public discourse and debate no longer exist .
Among Americans , violence is rising as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Truth-tellers , at first ostracized and shoved aside are now being criminalized with the help of the media .
The bought-and-paid-for Western media no longer expects to be free and will take no risk in behalf of the First Amendmant .
The Western media are helping to destroy the last Western journalist—Julian Assange .
Without a media there is no accountable government and no democracy .
Voting becomes impotent as in Stalinist Russia .
Voting is used to give legitimacy to whatever government those who rule have decided upon .
Donald Trump will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to put the people ’ s interest above those of the ruling elites .
Henceforth , all presidential candidates will understand that their political success depends only on being the best puppet for the Establishment .
The Best of Paul Craig Roberts

The question each of us needs to ask ourselves, and one another, is why do we get so much misinformation about Covid from public health authorities, political authorities, and press prostitutes? We get a lot of misinformation from health practioners, because they get the bogus information from health authorities and from researchers associated with Big Pharma. But why do health authorities themselves lie to us?
Take the issue of masks. The masks being worn by the vast majority of the world population, including health care providers, cannot prevent the inhalation and exhalation of bacteria and viruses. If a person wearing one of these masks is sick with a cold, flu, or Covid, the mask can prevent the person from sneezing and coughing on others, countertops, and fresh produce. But the masks cannot prevent the wearer from breathing in and exhaling out Covid, which is airborn and aerosol spread. The only people who should be wearing one of these masks are people who are out in public areas coughing and sneezing among other people. To avoid the spread of the virus, infected people should stay at home.
Funny Donald Trump Shi... Buy New $16.99 (as of 05:36 UTC - Details) If the masks people are wearing protected against bacteria, viruses, and other pathogens, there would be no point in N95 and higher rated masks. Medical authorities know this, so why are people told, indeed forced, to wear ineffectual masks?
This is an especially troubling question when experts unaffiliated with Big Pharma tell us that wearing a mask is dangerous as it reduces oxygen intake and increases CO 2 intake. This expert tells us that wearing a mask causes brain damage that cannot be reversed. Why do health authorities want to stunt children’s development and increase dementia among the elderly?
This doctor tells us that mask wearing is increasing bacterial pneumonias.
Public health authorities know that the Covid death rate is greatly exaggerated. Hospitals are economically incentivized to report all deaths as Covid deaths. The CDC itself let the cat out of the bag when it reported that among the 200,000 US Covid deaths, only 9,000 were due to Covid alone. All others had in addition to Covid 2.6 fatal comorbidities. See this. Deaths are concentrated in an elderly population with comorbidities, and those infected, if they were and it wasn’t a false positive, could as easily have died from seasonal flu.
Perhaps without meaning to, the World Health Organization (WHO) seems to have confirmed that Covid is no more dangerous than flu. All Aboard the Trump T... Buy New $18.00 (as of 05:36 UTC - Details)
So, why do public health authorities withhold this information from political authorities and the public, and why do reporters not ferret it out? The information exists. It just isn’t reported.
Public heath authorities also know that the number of Covid cases is vastly overstated, because the PCR test produces more false positives than correct positives. See this.
An international group of lawyers has concluded based on evidence provided in expert testimony that the Covid Pandemic is an orchestration that has served powerful interests at the expense of the public’s health. See this. The doctors acknowledge that Covid itself is real, but the pandemic that has been built around it is not.
It is possible that the courts are as corrupted as the media and democratic institutions, and that nothing will come of the lawyers’ efforts. Nevertheless, neither Americans nor other peoples need to cling to their gullibility and behave as sheep programmed by “authorities” who are serving every interest but public health.
As I have reported in previous columns, Covid is being used to serve many interests. Among them, Covid is being used to complete the universal Police State by digitizing money. Once electronic money takes the place of currency, checks, and coins, your financial privacy and your control over your money and wealth will disappear. The government will know every payment you make and receive, and your access to your own income and wealth can be curtailed at the whim of the government and those who control the digitized monetary system. There will be no way that you can accumulate cash reserves as protection against your dispossession. Donald Trump Gold Coin... Buy New $5.95 (as of 06:23 UTC - Details)
Private cryptocurrencies will be destroyed, and a black market fueled by gold and silver coins can be prevented by seizing gold and silver holdings. The Great Liberal Hero Franklin D. Roosevelt was able to take gold out of Americans’ hands with the technology of the 1930s. Today it would be a cinch.
Authorities have many Americans terrified of Covid infection. People scared out of their minds can’t wait for the unneeded and insufficiently tested vaccine. The HCQ/zinc cure works, but continues to be demonized by public health authorities in order to keep the market primed for a vaccine that contains elements we know not what.
Over the course of our history we Americans have been deceived about many things for the sake of political agendas. The length of the list depends on how far you want to go back. Let’s just start with the 20 years of the 21st century—September 11, 2001, Osama bin Laden and the Talliban, Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction, the endless lies about Gadaffi and Libya, Russian invasion of Ukraine, Assad’s use of chemical weapons, Russiagate, Impeachgate, Russian bounties to the Tallian to kill American soldiers, the lies about China, Somalia, and now the Covid Deception. Treefrogg Apparel Trum... Buy New $13.99 (as of 05:36 UTC - Details)
Are Americans capable of learning? How many lies do they have to be told before they begin to wonder? It is not entirely their fault. The explanations given them are controlled and aligned with their innate biases. Super patriots, for example, love to have enemies to denounce, and you can hear rightwing talk radio denouncing China, Russia, and Iran daily. The left loves to hear confirmation of their belief in the evil that is America. The left has glorified in the rioting, looting, and destruction that resulted from press prostitutes withholding the fact that George Floyd died from an overdose of fentanyl.
The younger generations have never been taught how to think. Instead, they are taught what to think. You see the result in the majority white presence in Antifa and Black Lives Matter.
Throughout the Western world facts have given way to emotions. The concept of independent truth itself has been lost. Truth is whatever serves the agenda. You can see this in Assange’s trial underway in a British court. The Judge and prosecutor have no interest in any evidence, only in delivering the result demanded by the agenda.
Science itself is imperiled as there are only race and gender truths. Media serves money and ideologies. Universities and public schools are a great danger to the societies that host them.
Public discourse and debate no longer exist. Among Americans, violence is rising as the preferred way to settle disagreements.
Truth-tellers, at first ostracized and shoved aside are now being criminalized with the help of the media. The bought-and-paid-for Western media no longer expects to be free and will take no risk in behalf of the First Amendmant. The Western media are helping to destroy the last Western journalist—Julian Assange.
Without a media there is no accountable government and no democracy. Voting becomes impotent as in Stalinist Russia. Voting is used to give legitimacy to whatever government those who rule have decided upon.
Donald Trump will be the last American president who tried to put the people’s interest above those of the ruling elites. Henceforth, all presidential candidates will understand that their political success depends only on being the best puppet for the Establishment.
The Best of Paul Craig Roberts


Racial Deception

During slavery , many black women , often in a forcible union with a white man , bore mixed-race children .
Based on their percentage of white blood , they were deemed “ mulattos , ” “ quadroons , ” “ octoroons ” or even “ hexadecaroons.
” Depending on skin color , they could pass as white and avoid the gross racial discrimination suffered by their darker skinned brothers and sisters .
This was portrayed in a 1949 motion picture titled “ Pinky ” that highlighted “ passing ” for white .
Now the tables have been turned with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
For years , Rachel Dolezal claimed that she was black .
As a result of her deception , she became president of the Spokane , Washington , office of the NAACP and an instructor of Africana studies at Eastern Washington University .
Her two white parents outed her .
Just recently , Jessica Krug , George Washington University professor of history , who for years claimed that she was black , confessed that she was white .
Her faculty bio listed her as a scholar in African American history , imperialism and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of contrition , apologized for her “ continued appropriation of a black Caribbean identity.
” She confessed : “ I am not a culture vulture .
I am a culture leech.
” After Krug ’ s confession , she resigned from the GWU faculty .
UPSOLO Mens Winter Tre ... Buy New $ 38.99 An Indianapolis activist for Black Lives Matter , Satchuel Paigelyn Cole , born to two white parents , has admitted to pretending to be black for years .
CV Vitolo-Haddad , a graduate student at UW ’ s School @ @ @ @ @ @ @ faking her race , has resigned from her teaching position and stepped down as co-president of the school ’ s chapter of the Teaching Assistants ’ Association .
One can not be sure about race these days because of “ blackfishing , ” a trend in which people alter their appearance to present themselves as black .
Dolezal , Krug , Cole and others are not the only white women who have benefited from racial fakery .
Sen. Elizabeth Warren , sometimes called “ Pocahontas , ” claimed that she was of Cherokee @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a job at diversity-hungry Harvard University as a professor of law and was paid $ 400,000 to teach two courses .
She described herself as a minority in the Harvard Law School directory and claimed that her great-grandfather was Cherokee .
Not only was her great-grandfather not a Cherokee as she claimed but he was a white man who boasted of shooting a Cherokee Indian .
By the way , if as it has now become acceptable to call oneself a woman , when one has the anatomical equipment of a male , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to claim that one is black , Latino or Asian when one is really Caucasian ?
According to the U.S. Bureau of Census , people self-identify their race or ethnicity .
VIFUUR Water Sports Un ... Best Price : $ 12.10 Buy New $ 13.68 Personally , I do not hold Dolezal , Krug , Cole , Warren or other undiscovered university professors at fault for racial fakery .
I am guilty of the same during my troubled time in the Army .
In 1960 , landing in Incheon harbor in Korea , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Arriving soldiers were required to fill out a form containing information such as blood type , religion and next of kin .
I checked off “ Caucasian ” where it asked for race .
A chief warrant officer , in charge of inspecting the forms noticed the entry and told me I should have checked off Negro .
I told him that if I put down “ Negro , ” I would get the worst job over there .
The warrant officer probably changed the designation .
Some years ago , I declared @ @ @ @ @ @ @ body .
A springbok is a highly agile , cute , deer-like animal that resides in southern and southwestern African .
Some people suggested that I suffered from a condition known as species dysphoria , in which one thinks he is a wild animal trapped in a human body .
Species dysphoria is similar to gender dysphoria , a condition in which a person believes he is a woman trapped in a male body or a man trapped in a female body .
Psychological counseling was recommended , which , in my opinion @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
One might ask , “ Williams , why in the world would you want to call yourself a springbok ?
” The reason is quite simple .
There is nothing in the Internal Revenue Code that says springboks have a federal tax obligation .
If IRS officials were to demand that a springbok pay taxes , they could be referred to the U.S. Department of Justice for prosecution and reported to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals .
The Best of Walter E. Williams

During slavery, many black women, often in a forcible union with a white man, bore mixed-race children. Based on their percentage of white blood, they were deemed “mulattos,” “quadroons,” “octoroons” or even “hexadecaroons.” Depending on skin color, they could pass as white and avoid the gross racial discrimination suffered by their darker skinned brothers and sisters. This was portrayed in a 1949 motion picture titled “Pinky” that highlighted “passing” for white.
Now the tables have been turned with some white women claiming they are black. For years, Rachel Dolezal claimed that she was black. As a result of her deception, she became president of the Spokane, Washington, office of the NAACP and an instructor of Africana studies at Eastern Washington University. Her two white parents outed her.
Just recently, Jessica Krug, George Washington University professor of history, who for years claimed that she was black, confessed that she was white. Her faculty bio listed her as a scholar in African American history, imperialism and colonialism. Krug, in a fit of contrition, apologized for her “continued appropriation of a black Caribbean identity.” She confessed: “I am not a culture vulture. I am a culture leech.” After Krug’s confession, she resigned from the GWU faculty. UPSOLO Mens Winter Tre... Buy New $38.99 (as of 05:36 UTC - Details)
An Indianapolis activist for Black Lives Matter, Satchuel Paigelyn Cole, born to two white parents, has admitted to pretending to be black for years. CV Vitolo-Haddad, a graduate student at UW’s School of Journalism and Mass Communications, after faking her race, has resigned from her teaching position and stepped down as co-president of the school’s chapter of the Teaching Assistants’ Association. One cannot be sure about race these days because of “blackfishing,” a trend in which people alter their appearance to present themselves as black.
Dolezal, Krug, Cole and others are not the only white women who have benefited from racial fakery. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, sometimes called “Pocahontas,” claimed that she was of Cherokee Indian ancestry. That helped her land a job at diversity-hungry Harvard University as a professor of law and was paid $400,000 to teach two courses. She described herself as a minority in the Harvard Law School directory and claimed that her great-grandfather was Cherokee. Not only was her great-grandfather not a Cherokee as she claimed but he was a white man who boasted of shooting a Cherokee Indian.
By the way, if as it has now become acceptable to call oneself a woman, when one has the anatomical equipment of a male, then why isn’t it okay to claim that one is black, Latino or Asian when one is really Caucasian? According to the U.S. Bureau of Census, people self-identify their race or ethnicity. VIFUUR Water Sports Un... Best Price: $12.10 Buy New $13.68 (as of 05:36 UTC - Details)
Personally, I do not hold Dolezal, Krug, Cole, Warren or other undiscovered university professors at fault for racial fakery. I am guilty of the same during my troubled time in the Army. In 1960, landing in Incheon harbor in Korea, I tried to fake my race. Arriving soldiers were required to fill out a form containing information such as blood type, religion and next of kin. I checked off “Caucasian” where it asked for race. A chief warrant officer, in charge of inspecting the forms noticed the entry and told me I should have checked off Negro. I told him that if I put down “Negro,” I would get the worst job over there. The warrant officer probably changed the designation.
Some years ago, I declared myself a springbok trapped in a human body. A springbok is a highly agile, cute, deer-like animal that resides in southern and southwestern African. Some people suggested that I suffered from a condition known as species dysphoria, in which one thinks he is a wild animal trapped in a human body. Species dysphoria is similar to gender dysphoria, a condition in which a person believes he is a woman trapped in a male body or a man trapped in a female body.
Psychological counseling was recommended, which, in my opinion, is nothing less than animal phobia. One might ask, “Williams, why in the world would you want to call yourself a springbok?” The reason is quite simple. There is nothing in the Internal Revenue Code that says springboks have a federal tax obligation. If IRS officials were to demand that a springbok pay taxes, they could be referred to the U.S. Department of Justice for prosecution and reported to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
The Best of Walter E. Williams


lewrockwell--2020-10-14--Flu Shots as Risk Factors for Covid-19 in the Over-65 Age Group

There are a large number of risk factors for acquiring or being seriously affected by COVID-19 .
These involve pre-existing co-morbidities , including advanced age , living in long-term care facilities , obesity , polypharmacy/over-medication , malnutrition ( including eating the typical malnourishing America/ fast food diet ) , dyspnea ( shortness of breath ) , chest pain , cough , expectoration , decreased lymphocyte count , increased inflammation , low socioeconomic status , hypertension ( drug-treated ) , any chronic illness ( including chronic lung disease , chronic kidney disease , diabetes , cancer , chronic cardiovascular disease ) @ @ @ @ @ @ @ electromagnetic radiation ( ie 4G , 5G , cell phone and microwave radiation ) .
Repel Umbrella Windpro ... Buy New $ 22.95 Here is the summary of a new epidemiological study that shows that populations of older folks who typically have higher rates of annual flu shots ( all of which have a variety of immuno-toxic ingredients in them ) , needs to have frequent flu vaccinations added to the list of risk factors .
Much more information about the downsides of the “ annual ” influenza vaccinations .
The title of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to Consider Forgoing Flu Vaccinations This Year ( and Perhaps Also Next Year ) ” – Gary G. Kohls , MD Positive Association Between COVID-19 Deaths and Influenza Vaccination Rates in Elderly People Worldwide The Best of Gary G. Kohls , MD

There are a large number of risk factors for acquiring or being seriously affected by COVID-19.
These involve pre-existing co-morbidities, including advanced age, living in long-term care facilities, obesity, polypharmacy/over-medication, malnutrition (including eating the typical malnourishing America/ fast food diet), dyspnea (shortness of breath), chest pain, cough, expectoration, decreased lymphocyte count, increased inflammation, low socioeconomic status, hypertension (drug-treated), any chronic illness (including chronic lung disease, chronic kidney disease, diabetes, cancer, chronic cardiovascular disease) andchronic (and acute) exposure to electromagnetic radiation (ie 4G, 5G, cell phone and microwave radiation). Repel Umbrella Windpro... Buy New $22.95 (as of 04:49 UTC - Details)
Here is the summary of a new epidemiological study that shows that populations of older folks who typically have higher rates of annual flu shots (all of which have a variety of immuno-toxic ingredients in them), needs to have frequent flu vaccinations added to the list of risk factors.
Much more information about the downsides of the “annual” influenza vaccinations. The title of that article is: “18 Reasons to Consider Forgoing Flu Vaccinations This Year (and Perhaps Also Next Year)” – Gary G. Kohls, MD
__________________________________________________________________________
Positive Association Between COVID-19 Deaths and Influenza Vaccination Rates in Elderly People Worldwide
By Christian Wehenkel– October 1, 2020
The Best of Gary G. Kohls, MD


lewrockwell--2020-10-14--These Sheriffs Are the Difference Between Freedom and Tyranny

Richard Mack , a retired sheriff and current president of Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers ( CSPOA ) ,1 is hard at work , educating sheriffs around the country to get them up to speed on the Constitutional rights of U.S. citizens .
Before the COVID-19 pandemic , I was essentially clueless as to the importance of your local county sheriffs .
I had no idea how crucial they are .
Today , I view them as some of the most important elected officials we all have the opportunity to vote for .
( Three states — Alaska , Hawaii @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , so their laws are enforced by other officers such as marshals or deputy sheriffs.2 ) In this interview , Mack details the action steps you can take to make sure your sheriff is safeguarding your Constitutional rights and protecting your civil liberties against unlawful government overreach .
GEMYSE Men ’ s Mou ... Buy New $ 65.98 Your Sheriff Is the One Protecting Your Constitutional Rights Ultimately , your local sheriff is in charge of actually enforcing whatever rules and regulations are laid down by state lawmakers , your city or county @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or governors .
Contrary to what some people think , mayors and governors don ’ t make laws — the state legislatures do that — but they can influence city and state legislation as well as invoke executive orders under certain circumstances.4 Sometimes sheriffs and local and state police may be asked by their mayor or governor to enforce an executive order .
However , some sheriffs may refuse to do that , if they believe the executive order is unconstitutional .
For example , some Michigan5 and Texas6 sheriffs informed their governors @ @ @ @ @ @ @ orders since they aren ’ t actual laws .
Knowing this , if you do not have a good sheriff who knows the Constitution and adheres to it , you could end up at the mercy of tyrannical government officials trying to create rules and orders outside the powers of your elected legislative officials .
During this pandemic , we ’ ve seen quite a few mayors and governors implementing pandemic response mandates that violate the U.S. Constitution and infringe on civil liberties .
The counterbalance to such overreaches is the local county @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Mack is perhaps best known for suing the U.S. government over the Brady Bill , also known as the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act,7 signed into law by President Clinton in November 1993 , which for the first time in U.S. history conscripted county sheriffs to enforce federal law .
BALEAF Men ’ s Lig ... Buy New $ 46.99 The Constitution Protects Us From Our Best Intentions Had it not been for Mack winning this lawsuit , sheriffs would not have had the legal ability to stand up against tyranny and protect @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have refused to enforce the often ridiculous and biased mandates issued by mayors and governors under the guise of protecting public health .
Molemsx Men ’ s Ho ... Buy New $ 129.99 Another example is sheriff Sharon Wehrly in Nye County , Nevada .
She is a lifetime member of the CSPOA .
Pam Elliott in Edwards County , Texas , is also a Constitutional sheriff who has gone through CSPOA ’ s training .
The Constitution Protects Us From the Crisis of the Day In his court decision , Scalia also @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from the crisis of the day .
“ It prevents the temptation to concentrate power in one location as an expedient solution to the crisis of the day , ” he said .
And the COVID-19 pandemic is just that , Mack says .
It ’ s the crisis of the day .
Uoiuxc Men ’ s Win ... Buy New $ 69.98 Among the most egregious overreaches we ’ ve seen during this pandemic is the case of a supermarket security guard who shot a customer in the back for refusing to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ charged with murder.12 Many of these mask mandates are in direct violation of the Constitution and shouldn ’ t be enforced to begin with , let alone get killed over .
Most of us would probably want a sheriff who will protect your civil liberties and personal freedoms .
One area where your local sheriff might end up playing a crucial role is if they roll out forced vaccinations .
Undoubtedly , that ’ s the next step in this COVID-19 pandemic .
I believe the orders to wear masks everywhere we go @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Were rules or laws enacted saying you must get the COVID-19 vaccine or you ’ ll be barred from various locations , your sheriff would be the one to either comply with such orders or refuse to enforce them .
How Do You Get a Constitutional Sheriff in Your County ?
The question then becomes , how do you ensure your local sheriff understands and protects your rights under the Constitution ?
You basically have two options here .
Either vote a Constitutional sheriff in , or educate the one you have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ CSPOA — The Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association .
Its purpose is to create a partnership between the people , the sheriff and the local law enforcement chiefs .
I encourage you to join me in supporting this worthy organization .
Next , you need to vet your candidates .
There are just under 3,100 sheriffs in the U.S. , and as in all other professions , some are better educated and informed than others .
In the case of sheriffs , it ’ s imperative that they understand , and vow @ @ @ @ @ @ @ United States .
It ’ s important to realize the CSPOA is the only organization of its kind and helps educate sheriffs all around the country .
Joining the CSPOA is really one of the most highly leveraged investments you could make to secure your personal liberties .
Their funding comes from private donations and membership fees , which are then used to train sheriffs .
The organization doesn ’ t even have any paid employees .
But the sheriffs don ’ t flock there by themselves ( although some might ) .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ is by getting citizens involved in the process .
Don ’ t All Sheriffs Already Know Everything They Need to Know ?
The training CSPOA offers is crucial , as the traditional training sheriffs receive is fairly inadequate with respect to the understanding and appreciation of their oath , which is to protect and uphold Constitutional rights .
Many get distracted or confused by the belief or idea that they must enforce things that really are not within their scope of duty .
What Does It Mean to Take an Oath ?
As @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Constitution requires federal and state peace officers , including state officials , to swear an oath of allegiance to the U.S. Constitution .
This is important , because when they do , liberty is protected at every level of government in all three branches .
All agents , on local , state and federal levels , are supposed to be enforcing the principles in the Constitution .
Looking around today , it ’ s clear that many do not , and part of the problem is that people do not understand what @ @ @ @ @ @ @ means .
The Best Way to Reform Our Police Force As noted by Mack , when you get sheriffs and police officers to understand that upholding the Constitution is their actual role , that this is their No .
1 job , the paradigm shifts from kicking in doors and arresting people for not wearing a mask to being a defender of liberty and a guard of the Constitution .
It results in a mental paradigm shift .
Naturally , once a sheriff has been re-educated and is committed to the principles of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ then they will typically train their entire police department , since the deputies are the ones with boots on the ground , answering most of the calls .
Interestingly , Mack is now also working with a national health freedom organization .
His goal with that organization is to start promoting health freedom and food freedom as well , using the Constitution as a guide .
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Richard Mack, a retired sheriff and current president of Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers (CSPOA),1 is hard at work, educating sheriffs around the country to get them up to speed on the Constitutional rights of U.S. citizens.
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, I was essentially clueless as to the importance of your local county sheriffs. I had no idea how crucial they are. Today, I view them as some of the most important elected officials we all have the opportunity to vote for. (Three states — Alaska, Hawaii and Connecticut — do not have sheriffs, so their laws are enforced by other officers such as marshals or deputy sheriffs.2)
In this interview, Mack details the action steps you can take to make sure your sheriff is safeguarding your Constitutional rights and protecting your civil liberties against unlawful government overreach. GEMYSE Men’s Mou... Buy New $65.98 (as of 05:38 UTC - Details)
Your Sheriff Is the One Protecting Your Constitutional Rights
Ultimately, your local sheriff is in charge of actually enforcing whatever rules and regulations are laid down by state lawmakers, your city or county councils,3 and executive orders from city mayors or governors. Contrary to what some people think, mayors and governors don’t make laws — the state legislatures do that — but they can influence city and state legislation as well as invoke executive orders under certain circumstances.4
Sometimes sheriffs and local and state police may be asked by their mayor or governor to enforce an executive order. However, some sheriffs may refuse to do that, if they believe the executive order is unconstitutional. For example, some Michigan5 and Texas6 sheriffs informed their governors they won’t enforce mandatory mask orders since they aren’t actual laws.
Knowing this, if you do not have a good sheriff who knows the Constitution and adheres to it, you could end up at the mercy of tyrannical government officials trying to create rules and orders outside the powers of your elected legislative officials.
During this pandemic, we’ve seen quite a few mayors and governors implementing pandemic response mandates that violate the U.S. Constitution and infringe on civil liberties. The counterbalance to such overreaches is the local county sheriff. As explained by Mack:
“This is a crucial time in American history, and we actually have a peaceful and effective solution to it. The only thing that needs to happen is your local officials, especially your sheriff, keep [their] oath of office.
That’s the only thing he has to do in order to effectuate the philosophy you just mentioned, and that is that the sheriff is here to protect your civil liberties, your God given rights.
As the founding fathers put it in the Declaration of Independence, ‘The laws of nature are nature’s God.’ Either way, you don’t have to believe in God to appreciate this or to be a part of it. You don’t, because these are the rights you were born with.”
The Brady Bill
Mack is perhaps best known for suing the U.S. government over the Brady Bill, also known as the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act,7 signed into law by President Clinton in November 1993, which for the first time in U.S. history conscripted county sheriffs to enforce federal law. BALEAF Men’s Lig... Buy New $46.99 (as of 05:38 UTC - Details)
“Cornell University did the best review8 of the case that I ever saw. If you want to look up the case, see Printz, Mac V. U.S.9 It’s the most amazing 10th Amendment decision in the history of our country. It is so powerful,” Mack says.
“Justice [Antonin] Scalia wrote the decision, and it went 10 times further than I ever dreamed. In fact, I never dreamed of even going to the Supreme Court. I thought it would all be squashed and forgotten at the district level. But we went through the district court. Six other sheriffs joined me in this lawsuit. All of them won at the district court except the one in Texas.
I don’t know how you lose a 10th Amendment, Second Amendment case in Texas. People need to understand we sued on the 10th Amendment to protect the Second Amendment, yes, but also to protect state sovereignty. This is the one thing that really got to me the most.
I understand we’re always going to have people believing in gun control. I do not, because it’s against the Constitution. However, and I’m not a big gun guy — I never even owned a gun until I was elected sheriff … But I am a freedom guy. That’s all this was about.
And I said that the federal government cannot tell any sheriff what to do. Not me, not the sheriff in Bangor, Maine, or any sheriff across this country. They have no authority. They have no jurisdiction to tell us what to do. And that is where we won.
It pushed the federal government back, but nobody knows about this decision. It’s very hidden. Nobody enforces it, and I’m trying to wake the country up to enforce (1) the Constitution, and (2) this decision that just reinforced the Constitution and the principle of Federalism.”
The Constitution Protects Us From Our Best Intentions
Had it not been for Mack winning this lawsuit, sheriffs would not have had the legal ability to stand up against tyranny and protect Constitutional rights today. Hundreds of sheriffs have refused to enforce the often ridiculous and biased mandates issued by mayors and governors under the guise of protecting public health. Molemsx Men’s Ho... Buy New $129.99 (as of 05:38 UTC - Details)
“One of our best Constitutional sheriffs is Mike Carpinelli out of Lewis County, New York, and he’s actually announced10 that he’s going to run against [New York governor Andrew] Cuomo …
[Carpinelli] is a really solid Constitutional conservative — somebody who actually believes in freedom, who wants to put aside the socialist, communist takeover of our states and our country, and who really believes in individual liberty.”
Another example is sheriff Sharon Wehrly in Nye County, Nevada. She is a lifetime member of the CSPOA. Pam Elliott in Edwards County, Texas, is also a Constitutional sheriff who has gone through CSPOA’s training.
“Sheriffs know that when they come to our training, it will change America,” Mack says. “I’m going to tell everybody right now; communism and socialism are the antithesis of individual liberty. They do not allow for property rights.
They do not allow for personal freedom. It’s all about the state mandating and controlling everything, including your own property. You don’t have property under those systems.
Scalia, like I said, went a lot further than I ever thought he would. He said this: ‘But the Constitution protects us from our own best intentions.’ You would think that quote right there would be enough to get everybody so excited about this case that they would go to our website and buy the reviews of the case.
I have this little pocket sized review, all the highlights, all the best parts of the case, called ‘The Victory for State Sovereignty.’ You can get that at cspoa.org. You should be passing them out to everyone so that they wake up to this.”
The Constitution Protects Us From the Crisis of the Day
In his court decision, Scalia also talked about how the Constitution protects us from the crisis of the day. “It prevents the temptation to concentrate power in one location as an expedient solution to the crisis of the day,” he said. And the COVID-19 pandemic is just that, Mack says. It’s the crisis of the day. Uoiuxc Men’s Win... Buy New $69.98 (as of 05:38 UTC - Details)
“How many Americans die from obesity, heart disease and the effects of smoking? About a million a year? Yet we don’t make cigarette smoking against the law. Why don’t we make obesity against the law? It would be easy to put a little computer chip in everybody or just have everybody keep their federal obesity card.
When you go to a Dairy Queen, they run it and go, ‘Whoops. You can’t have a Blizzard today. You had one last week’ … I mean, aren’t they going to take care of us? … Isn’t this the same thing as them trying to ‘protect us’ and make sure that we’re all ‘safe’ by [telling us we must] stay … in our homes, social distance and wear masks in public?
There’s no freedom of choice in any of that … My message is to all peace officers because we’ve already seen … where sheriffs and peace officers across the country are saying, ‘I will not force people to do that.’
It might be a good idea to wear a mask. I don’t know. But I do know that it has to be up to the individual because liberty is based on the choices that the individual makes, not that the government makes for us.
Even now we have some cities in America, like Englewood, Colorado, that have instituted a rule that if you’re not wearing a mask, it’s a $2,600 fine and a year in jail.11 At the same time, we’re releasing tens of thousands of convicted hardcore felons so, I guess, we can make room in our prisons for the non-mask wearers.”
Americans Jailed and Shot Over Unconstitutional Rules
Among the most egregious overreaches we’ve seen during this pandemic is the case of a supermarket security guard who shot a customer in the back for refusing to wear a mask. He is now charged with murder.12 Many of these mask mandates are in direct violation of the Constitution and shouldn’t be enforced to begin with, let alone get killed over.
“This is a question I ask on every program. Sheriff [Scott] Nichols in Franklin County, Maine, told his governor, ‘We will not make our county a police state. We will not conduct ourselves like Nazi soldiers. We will follow the Constitution.’ He was refusing … social engineering orders …
The question is, do you want the sheriff in Florida who arrested pastor Howard Brown [for holding church services in violation of stay-at-home order], or do you want the sheriff in Maine who said, ‘We won’t conduct ourselves like that? We will still respect the rights of the people to make their own choices, even if it’s uncomfortable for other people.’ Isn’t that what liberty is? …
You would think we already made a law that freedom of religion would be the one principle that we would all agree on, yet we’re arresting people in this country, literally, just for going to church … This is so absurd.
So, which sheriff do you want in your county? The one who will protect your liberty, still educate you as to how you should be careful, but then respect your right to choose for yourself?
I also submit that he actually protects you from other governments trying to arrest you. He protects you from that security guard. They’re not actually very well trained. Sometimes cops aren’t either, and we need to understand de-escalation, and that we don’t shoot somebody over a mask issue, which isn’t even a law.
The insanity just seems to get worse and worse every day, and I’m saying, let’s go back to American ideals. Let’s go back to the Constitution. And we literally train sheriffs and peace officers across this country to follow the Constitution, and to do that you have to know and understand the Constitution, especially the Bill of Rights.”
Most of us would probably want a sheriff who will protect your civil liberties and personal freedoms. One area where your local sheriff might end up playing a crucial role is if they roll out forced vaccinations. Undoubtedly, that’s the next step in this COVID-19 pandemic.
I believe the orders to wear masks everywhere we go is a preliminary step in that direction. Were rules or laws enacted saying you must get the COVID-19 vaccine or you’ll be barred from various locations, your sheriff would be the one to either comply with such orders or refuse to enforce them.
How Do You Get a Constitutional Sheriff in Your County?
The question then becomes, how do you ensure your local sheriff understands and protects your rights under the Constitution? You basically have two options here. Either vote a Constitutional sheriff in, or educate the one you have.
“We the people need to be involved in that process. Remember, [Thomas] Jefferson said the price of liberty is eternal vigilance. And that’s one place where we have failed in this country,” Mack says. “We the people have trusted government to take care of liberty. Big mistake.
We were told to never do that. Never trust. I don’t care if it’s your brother that’s in office, never trust anybody in government, including me. Check on me. Always be checking and see what I’m doing, and your public officials should be making that very transparent. This is what I believe. This is what I’m doing.”
Mack urges everyone to join the CSPOA — The Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association. Its purpose is to create a partnership between the people, the sheriff and the local law enforcement chiefs. I encourage you to join me in supporting this worthy organization.
Next, you need to vet your candidates. There are just under 3,100 sheriffs in the U.S., and as in all other professions, some are better educated and informed than others. In the case of sheriffs, it’s imperative that they understand, and vow to uphold, the Constitution of the United States.
“Be friendly, be tactful, but you need to ask every sheriff candidate running right now if he will be a Constitutional sheriff,” Mack says. “You should be able to find that out with one quick phone call, or you can look at their history …
They need to hear from you, and they need to know you’re concerned about this issue. It’s great that you go to them and say, ‘Sheriff, I’m a member of the CSPOA. I’m on the Constitutional Sheriff’s Posse’ … If a sheriff hears from 10 of his constituents, he’ll say hundreds of people are calling. They can’t ignore you …
Everybody needs to be a member of the CSPOA. It’s the only one out there doing this, and believe me, it’s a peaceful and effective solution that is working.”
Why Join the CSPOA?
It’s important to realize the CSPOA is the only organization of its kind and helps educate sheriffs all around the country. Joining the CSPOA is really one of the most highly leveraged investments you could make to secure your personal liberties.
If we get just a third of the sheriffs to do this Constitutional training, we take back American liberty tomorrow. We don’t have to wait for another piece of legislation. We don’t have to wait for another election. We can do it now, today.
Their funding comes from private donations and membership fees, which are then used to train sheriffs. The organization doesn’t even have any paid employees. But the sheriffs don’t flock there by themselves (although some might). The only way the organization can work is by getting citizens involved in the process.
“If people want this solution, become a part of it. The success of this organization is based on your involvement in it, how much time you spend on this, how much money you put into this …
We want you to have these books. They’re tools for liberty. We want you to be able to take a copy of the Supreme Court decision to your sheriff candidate, to your sheriff forum, and you’ve got to get going on that because some of these primaries have already happened. You might only have two candidates left, a Democrat and Republican. And you need to find out which one will be a Constitutional sheriff.
I get calls from these candidates all the time. In fact, yesterday I got another one from Florida saying, ‘Will you endorse me?’ CSPOA does not endorse, but I do. And you need to go [to them] and say, ‘Sheriff, have you heard of the Constitutional Sheriffs Association?… Most of them have already heard about us.
Whether they have or not, you need to ask them, ‘Will you be a Constitutional sheriff? Will you protect me from being victimized by other government? Will you protect me if I don’t wear a mask in public? Will you protect me if they come and knock on my door and want to come into my home? Will you protect me and my choice to take a vaccination or not?’ …
You need dozens of people to make those calls … These sheriffs need to create their own policies also, and we train in that. But we train sheriffs to do all this. And we go as far as your donations and your membership fees take us. That’s just the simple fact of it.”
Don’t All Sheriffs Already Know Everything They Need to Know?
The training CSPOA offers is crucial, as the traditional training sheriffs receive is fairly inadequate with respect to the understanding and appreciation of their oath, which is to protect and uphold Constitutional rights. Many get distracted or confused by the belief or idea that they must enforce things that really are not within their scope of duty.
“Look, we’re not going to get every sheriff. We really hope to get about a third of the nation’s sheriffs, that’s 1,000. If we get just a third of the sheriffs to do this [Constitutional training], we take back American liberty tomorrow. We don’t have to wait for another piece of legislation. We don’t have to wait for another election. We can do it now, today,” Mack says.
“And so, folks, this is where you come in. The sheriff’s position is extremely vital to all of this because he is elected by you. You’re the only boss. You’re the sheriff’s only supervisor. He does not report to anyone else, except you, the voters. And he needs to hear from you. If he never hears from you, he’s going to do whatever he wants.”
What Does It Mean to Take an Oath?
As explained by Mack, Article 6 in the Constitution requires federal and state peace officers, including state officials, to swear an oath of allegiance to the U.S. Constitution. This is important, because when they do, liberty is protected at every level of government in all three branches.
All agents, on local, state and federal levels, are supposed to be enforcing the principles in the Constitution. Looking around today, it’s clear that many do not, and part of the problem is that people do not understand what the oath they’re taking actually means.
“How can you take an oath and then not study and know and understand what that means? If you take an oath to the Constitution, that presupposes that you know the Constitution. And that’s where the training in law enforcement has failed miserably.
The police academies, ongoing certification training and all agencies in this country do not train at all to understand what your oath means, how you keep your oath, and what our role is in America as peace officers and sheriffs. What our role truly is is in protecting liberty.
The place we start is the Declaration of Independence because … most of us don’t even know what form of government we have in America. How can we be a part of protecting the liberties of America when we don’t even know what form of government America has? So, we teach all that. We get rid of all the brainwashing, like ‘We’re a democracy.’ That’s brainwashing. That’s a lie.
If you take an oath, how will you keep it? And then we go into the Bill of Rights. I’m telling you, if our peace officers in this country understand that quote, ‘To secure these rights, governments are instituted among men,’ right from the Declaration of Independence, we find what the proper role of government is, and that is to secure God given rights, natural rights, our innate rights. That is the job of every peace officer in this country.”
The Best Way to Reform Our Police Force
As noted by Mack, when you get sheriffs and police officers to understand that upholding the Constitution is their actual role, that this is their No. 1 job, the paradigm shifts from kicking in doors and arresting people for not wearing a mask to being a defender of liberty and a guard of the Constitution. It results in a mental paradigm shift.
“That paradigm will make a huge shift and the beneficiary of that will be the American people,” Mack says. “The best tool for any situation in de-escalation is the Constitution of the United States of America.
If [police officers] know and understand the Constitution and their role in defending it, then I believe the problems with police brutality are going to disappear in this country, at least diminish extremely …
Once we understand the principles of freedom that we as peace officers swore an oath to uphold and defend, our job is going to change immensely. If I can enforce the law without beating people into compliance, which I did for 20 years, then every peace officer can do the same.
Isn’t it amazing the coincidence that I studied and became a convert to the oath of office and the Constitution back when I was a rookie cop in 1983? When I found out what all that was for, it changed how I viewed my job in law enforcement, and it really took me from a by-the-numbers jerk to a by, for and of the people peace officer and defender.
This would’ve never happened to George Floyd if we had officers that truly were converted to why we have peace officers in the first place. And when we understand that my job is to protect liberty … [then] how we effectuate all those arrests … will change America … Getting sheriffs and peace officers in this country to go from the master to the servant is a huge process, and that’s what we’re doing.”
Naturally, once a sheriff has been re-educated and is committed to the principles of being a defender of the Constitution, then they will typically train their entire police department, since the deputies are the ones with boots on the ground, answering most of the calls.
Interestingly, Mack is now also working with a national health freedom organization. His goal with that organization is to start promoting health freedom and food freedom as well, using the Constitution as a guide.
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