As our own American truckers prepare for their trip to DC to protest the stupid and unconstitutional mandates to do with the China Flu – whoops – virus, I cannot help think about Canada and the totalitarian leadership that many Canadian citizens seem to think is ok. They have lost every inch of any manhood they might have had.
Having spent a lot of my life in law enforcement, I am so angry and so disappointed in the actions taken against Canadian patriotic and peaceful truckers and protesters that only want their entitled liberty and freedom back from the draconian rules put in by the Canadian premier Justin “Adolf” Trudeau.
The Ottawa police and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, a force I once looked up to as a shining example of law enforcement professionals, have acted like animals. They have obeyed unconstitutional orders from a dictator and committed many crimes against the peaceful protesters that had every right to be protesting. They have deliberately injured some, rode them over with their horses, illegally stolen their property, attacked their livelihood and even shut down private crypto currency accounts.
The lies told by Canadian media and from the bully pulpit of Adolf Trudeau, about the truckers being criminals, vandals and all round bad guys, was swallowed by a liberal extremist set of police chiefs who couldn’t wait to pound heads and in the words of one, let the protesters feel the weight of the police jackboots! Jackboots. A term used by the Nazi stormtroopers when they were abusing ordinary citizens and Jews, masons, Gypsies and other weaker minorities.
I am attaching 8 screen grabs from some of those Canadian police officers ( PINO – police in name only! ) Facebook pages. These will be at the bottom of this blog. You can read each one and see their disgusting faces and names. They are a disgrace to their uniform and a disgrace to the country which is now a 100% police state. If you are not as incensed as I am there is something wrong with you.
As I mentioned earlier, understand that our brave and patriotic American truck drivers are heading to the belly of the devils spawn, Washington DC. The largest concentration of satanic evil anywhere on the planet. The largest and darkest swamp of evil, foul smelling swamp creatures from both political parties. There they will exercise their rights to peacefully protest the insane mandates of this usurper and draconian king like administration.
They will at some stage meet the most corrupt and disgusting police force in America, the Capitol Police, ( more PINOs ) whose members have one and all totally disregarded the Oaths they took when they joined up. They can get away with everything under this administration, including cold blooded murder. Yes. Murder. I am talking about the black Capitol Police officer, Lt Michael Byrd, who unlawfully, and cowardly, shot and killed an unarmed, unthreatening, white, petite former military veteran and a housewife, Ashli Babbitt, on January 6th.
That America was murder. Premeditated murder. Plain and simple. No charges and none coming.
This sorry excuse of a law enforcement agency, now also a national intelligence agency, one that needs to be disbanded and many of the members charged, which is made up of thugs, cowards hiding behind badges and horses, barricades, guns and batons and yes, jackbooted traitors, are preparing to meet our trucker protesters. It will be all hands on deck as they prepare to stop the truckers getting too close to the Capitol. They are even putting up barricades and fences around the Capitol as all the cops and politicians and their evil hacks are scared sh**less! Turning the area into a no go third world looking area.
I am interested in watching their interaction and those of other law enforcement officers from other agencies, with the protesters and am wondering if the same kind of actions taken by their Canadian counterparts, will be seen here in the streets of our capital.
If we do see that, I believe that could very well be the spark, no, catalyst, that could set this country on fire. It would further divide this country deeper and I believe there is a greater chance of open rebellion. We have seen the total overkill and reaction to the January 6th protest, where hundreds of citizens have been stripped unconstitutionally of their legal rights, and can expect more of the same.
We the people are pissed off.
We the people have had enough.
We the people want our freedoms, our constitutional rights back fully intact.
We the people want to return to the time where our elected officials actually represent our interests and not theirs.
We the people want to return to a time of sanity where right is right and wrong is wrong.
If you get the chance to support these protesting truckers etc. do it. Help them with food, gas, money. Have their backs if they are attacked, arrested and jailed. Help their families. In other words, be true American patriots. Stand up and be counted.
When it is time for patriots to stand up and do patriot stuff, don’t be found wanting. This fraudulent administration, under a pathetic, treasonous, criminal and mentally challenged leader and his equally pitiful, mentally deranged whore of a Vice President, needs to be put in its place.
This country is ours.
It does not exist for the politicians to enrich themselves and to destroy everything our forefathers built and left us, in the name of wokeness or whatever other terminology they want to use.
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The White House has extended the national emergency in response to the COVID pandemic “beyond March 1, 2022.” President Biden, who promised to “shut down the virus,” will celebrate the second birthday of “two weeks to slow the spread” by pretending most people haven’t resumed business as usual. Meanwhile, the disease is screeching to a halt, as every available metric — cases, hospitalizations, deaths — plummets. Washington, D.C. may also screech to a halt, as the U.S. Freedom Convoy piles in next week to protest ongoing, unwarranted restrictions. “I don’t understand why he’s doing it,” exclaimed Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) on “Washington Watch.”
Even some of the strictest Democratic governors have recognized the impending end of the pandemic and are rolling back restrictions and inching towards normalcy. But not the White House. “Two years [ago], there was so much we didn’t know about the coronavirus, but we’ve earned an awful lot,” Johnson noted. “One of the things we’ve learned is this isn’t going to go away.” We also know who is most at risk, how the illness progresses, and how to treat it — not to mention developing and widely distributing three vaccines in record time. Yet the Biden administration refuses to suggest a possible condition to end the emergency.
Two years is too long to struggle with remote or hybrid work, virtual “school,” perpetual masking, constant health screening, and rapidly evolving restrictions. America’s social fabric has unraveled before our eyes as we’ve experienced a breakdown in social trust, unruly airline passengers, fiery protests, a mob at the capitol, two partisan impeachments, and an unbearable regime of online censorship. “Does the president expect to keep America in a perpetual state of emergency?” Johnson asked. America needs a break.
America also needs to return healthcare to the hands of doctors. Johnson suggested “the biggest blunder” in America’s COVID response was how “the administration, the agencies, big pharma, the legacy media, big tech, social media giants — the COVID cartel — has prevented and sabotaged early treatment,” potentially costing “hundreds of thousands of… lives.”
Instead, the Biden administration seems to be pursuing the increasingly unrealistic and absurd objective of 100 percent vaccination. And it chose to pursue that strategy by deceiving the public, deriding reasonable objections, and punishing anyone who distrusted the brand-new drugs. Even the progressive opinion-setter New York Timesreported that the CDC hid vaccination data, because, an official said, “they might be misinterpreted as the vaccines being ineffective.” In other words, a reasonable person would interpret the data as showing that vaccines are ineffective, but the prefix “mis-” dismisses that conclusion because it would violate their preferred (that is, the only permitted) narrative.
There may be cases where the vaccine does more harm than good, although by now we all know that suggesting such an obvious possibility would provoke instinctive outrage in many friends and relatives. A January study found unexpectedly high rates of the heart condition myocarditis reported in vaccinated teenage boys, who are at practically no risk of severe infection from COVID. And yet the COVID cartel is ramping up the pressure to force all children to be vaccinated, with one outlet insisting “vaccine refusal is child abuse.”
Johnson insists doctors, not bureaucrats, must have the final say. “I’m personally affected,” he said, “by doctors practicing medicine,” who saved his daughter’s life with an experimental procedure 38 years ago. That’s why he introduced the Right to Treat Act, which would provide doctors latitude in prescribing any fully FDA-approved drug, even off-label. “Twenty to 25 percent of all prescriptions are prescribed off-label…. The federal government should not interfere.”
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Tuesday on MSNBC’s All In, failed vice presidential hopeful Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) said the upcoming vote in Congress to sanction Russia for their invasion into Ukrainian territory will expose whether Republican lawmakers are “appeasers” of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Asked if Republicans are going to work with Democrats to further the Biden foreign policy agenda (whatever that is), the unhinged Kaine replied, “Yes, I think there will be some who will follow Donald Trump. Donald Trump calling Putin’s move a genius move, a savvy move, you, know he couldn’t get a Nobel prize, so maybe he’s trying now for the Order of Lenin, or even better, finally, a Trump Tower in Moscow. But we will put our Republican colleagues on the board and see whether they’re Vladimir Putin appeasers or they’re standing up for the Western democracies…”
If Kaine and his tough-talking fellow Democrat blowhards really care about defending freedom around the world, they could start by sanctioning the totalitarian Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of our neighbor to the north, over his ruthless crackdown on truckers protesting COVID mandates. But they won’t because they’re Trudeau appeasers, and because they — not Trump — are the supporters of authoritarian dictators around the world.
In a March 2019 appearance on CBS’sFace the Nation, Kaine, discussing two mass shootings that had just killed 51 people at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, blamed President Trump’s allegedly reckless, bigoted rhetoric for emboldening white nationalists and racists to engage in such acts of violence:
“[White nationalism] is on the rise and the president should call it out but sadly he’s not doing that. We saw in the aftermath of the horrible [August 2017] attack in Charlottesville that he tried to say that the white supremacists, neo-Nazis, neo confederates there were just, you know, good people.[4] But when you see church shootings in Charleston, a synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh, you see this hate filled manifesto of the shooter in New Zealand who is murdering Muslims, we have to confront the fact that there is a rise in white supremacy, anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim attitudes. The president uses language often that’s very similar to the language used by these bigots and racists. And if he’s not going to call it out then other leaders have to do more to call it out and I certainly will.”
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I had a relative tell me over the holidays he will not consult any media sources on the political Right because they are all “fascistic” and “reactionary”, whatever that means. He is quite content to live in ignorant bliss of what half the world thinks and says. Even though he admitted to me it’s important to get both sides of the story, he won’t, he refuses.
This reminds me that I’ve steadily been clipping stories about the outrages perpetrated by large media outlets which, in case you haven’t noticed, all tilt Left and do their best to keep important information, like the Hillary Clinton campaign and governmental spying on Donald Trump, away from you.
Just last week, an editor at Politico admitted using an unfair poll in its coverage of former Missouri Governor and now U.S. Senate candidate Eric Greitens. The editor admitted in an email to the Greitens campaign the anonymous poll was “unfair” and using it went against the publication’s usual standards. Critics said the poll did not disclose who paid for it, the sample size, or the results for other candidates. They also said, for all we know, the poll was just done among the reporters inside Politico’s newsroom. They also suggested the poll was cooked up by Washington insiders who don’t want to see Greitens elected and Politico was only too happy to play along.
Earlier this year, NPR’s Nina Totenberg reported the fake news that Justice Sotomayor was staying home because Justice Gorsuch wouldn’t wear a mask. Gorsuch and Chief Justice John Roberts rebuked Totenberg in statements they issued denying what she had alleged.
NPR also tried and failed to debunk reporting from a conservative media outlet about election fraud in Michigan. NPR tried to claim an election audit had been performed there, but neglected to tell listeners the so-called ‘audit’ was just a small review of procedures, not ballots. NPR also claimed no one is denying vans mysteriously showed up at the Detroit vote counting center in the middle of the night, but numerous media outlets had been denying it for months. Among other things, NPR also tried to claim the big batch of ballots for Biden came from drop boxes, but the boxes had already been cleared out every hour.
NPR also twisted the results of a study on meth addicts. The study found a small improvement in their behavior for a few weeks when the government paid them to stay off meth. NPR used this to claim such payments work long-term and to extol the virtues of a proposal to make such payments in California. However, NPR exaggerated the importance of a single study finding a marginal short-term benefit, puffing it up into the claim this was the best course of action and other treatments don’t work.
Last August, CNN’s Chris Cuomo lied to viewers when he claimed he never talked to other members of the press about his brother’s sexual harassment scandal, his brother being the former Governor of New York before they were both dethroned. However, documents show Chris Cuomo did call around to other news outlets trying to sniff out what damaging stories might be coming. He also drafted entire statements he hoped would help his brother.
A CNN cameraman issued a death threat to Congressman Matt Gaetz and was stupid enough to leave it on voicemail. “I’m going to put a bullet in you. I’m going to put a bullet in one of your f***ing kids too…. Die in a hole, I hope you die in a shallow grave, you despicable tyrant.” OK, tell us how you really feel.
ABC7 in San Francisco declared the term ‘looters’ out of bounds and would not use it to describe the looting taking place in the city late last year.
These are just the latest outrages. There’s more, but you get the point. These are the media sources in which my relative has placed his trust – people who lie to viewers, run fake polls, ignore important stories, won’t call a spade a spade, and make stuff up. They are deranged and violent, but my relative still trusts them, to this day. Are you going to make the same mistake? I hope not. As for me, I’ll take “fascistic” and “reactionary” over unhinged dishonest propagandists any day.
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“The closer the collapse of an empire, the crazier their laws.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.” – George Orwell
“I have always been of the opinion that unpopularity earned by doing what is right is not unpopularity at all, but glory.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
“There is no denying that Hitler and Stalin are alive today… they are waiting for us to forget, because this is what makes possible the resurrection of these two monsters.” – Simon Wiesenthal
A warrior knows he could die in battle, he just doesn’t expect the arrows to be from his own government. Today’s warriors are the doctors, scientists, pathologists, funeral directors, actuaries, conservative journalists and radio hosts who are bringing us the truth. The floodgates are opened, but we the people must be behind those who are standing for the rest of us. If the enemies of freedom can eliminate them, we are next.
Today’s censorship is the greatest threat of all. Silence is not golden. The very right of free speech was so important to our founders that it was placed in our first amendment.
The Lord God Almighty gave us free will to choose whom we shall worship. Our country was founded on the words of our Declaration of Independence, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
We are again facing what our founders faced with, “a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”
When a nation turns its back on the Creator, He lifts His Hand of blessing. Our Judeo-Christian heritage is all but obliterated from every facet of society. It is imperative that we turn back to Him.
We are at war, a Revolution to be exact, will we put on the full armor of God and having done all, to Stand? Will we fight for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness or will we kneel to the despots who claim that we are domestic terrorists?
Domestic Terrorists
Our current President has declared white supremacists to be the “most lethal terrorist threat” to the US today. There is no evidence to support the belief that white supremacy is a significant problem in America today. Link Neither is there any evidence to support the presence of systemic racism. Yet, our intelligence communities have decided that white supremacists are the greatest threat in America.
The National School Boards Association (NSBA) sent a letter on September 29, to President Biden warning that school boards face “physical threats” due to opposition to COVID-19 policies and critical race theory. The letter claimed that some unruly parent protests may be “equivalent to a form of domestic terrorism.” Upon investigation, not one case of a “physical threat” was unearthed. The NSBA issued a letter of apology, but it was too little, too late. Link
Patriotic God-fearing Americans who love their country and our US Constitution are now classified by the federal government and intelligence branches as being domestic terrorists. Our future does not bode well. One need only look at what our neighbors to the north are going through.
Trudeau just went full Nazi in Canada and declared the Emergencies Act – and is even sending in armed soldiers on horseback to beat and trample innocent protesters and is arresting any reporter who dares to report on his tyranny. Fifteen days (two lousy weeks) to slow the spread and it turned into two full years. If you resist in Canada, or protest, they will freeze your bank accounts, take your children and pets, tow your vehicles and toss you in prison.
Is America next?
US Intelligence Community
The US intelligence community consists of 18 organizations, including intelligence elements of the five DoD services; the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, and Space Force. The two agencies wielding the most political power in today’s environ are the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
The FBI has defined Domestic Terrorists, but does not include Black Lives Matter, Antifa, Islamic “Extremists,” The New Black Panthers, or the Not F’g Around Coalition, to name just a few.
Some U.S. government agencies have outlined the threat from domestic extremists, though most have not provided recent data about terrorist incidents. In its Homeland Threat Assessment released in October 2020, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security concluded that “racially and ethnically motivated violent extremists—specifically white supremacist extremists (WSEs)—will remain the most persistent and lethal threat in the Homeland.”
The Federal Bureau of Investigation similarly argued that the “top threat we face from domestic violent extremists” is from racially- and ethnically-motivated violent extremists, including white supremacists.
Violence and the threat of violence are important components of terrorism. This analysis divides terrorism into several categories: religious, ethnonationalist, violent-far-right, violent-far-left, and other (which includes terrorism that does not fit neatly into any of the other categories).
There you have it. Whites Americans are the target!
How many times did America’s Pravda media call the 2020 riots and violence by BLM and Antifa “fiery protests, but mostly peaceful?” Mostly peaceful? Who the hell are they kidding? The destruction was massive. Police were told to stand down while stores were damaged and looted, businesses burned, and Portland, Oregon’s federal building has $2.3 million in damages. These communist thugs damaged federal and private property throughout the country.
Certainly, they are on the FBI and DHS list of domestic terrorists, aren’t they?
Well, No!
The DHS put out a National Terrorism Advisory System Bulletin on Feb. 7, 2022, stating that, “The United States remains in a heightened threat environment fueled by several factors, including an online environment filled with false or misleading narratives and conspiracy theories, and other forms of mis- dis- and mal-information (MDM) introduced and/or amplified by foreign and domestic threat actors. These threat actors seek to exacerbate societal friction to sow discord and undermine public trust in government institutions to encourage unrest, which could potentially inspire acts of violence.”
Truth has become the new hate speech.
FBI/DHS
In the early 1900s, America was bereft of intelligence agencies other than the small staff of the Secret Service. One issue of the day was anarchism, an often-violent offshoot of Marxism, with its revolutionary call to overthrow capitalism and bring power to the common man. Anarchists took it a step further, they wanted to do away with government entirely.
The prevailing anarchistic creed that government was oppressive and repressive, that it should be overthrown by random attacks on the ruling class (including everyone from police to priests to politicians), was preached by often articulate spokesmen and women around the world. By the end of the nineteenth century, several world leaders were among those who had been assassinated. Anarchists were the first modern day terrorists.
After the assassination of President McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt became the President and named Charles Bonaparte as the Attorney General. With a need for criminal investigators, Bonaparte kept borrowing Secret Service (SS) men until Congress put a stop to it. He decided to start his own investigatory agency and hired several of the SS he had borrowed. In 1909, Bonaparte’s successor, Attorney General George W. Wickersham, gave this band of agents their first name—the Bureau of Investigation. It stuck.
During its first 15 years, the Bureau was a shadow of its future self. It was not yet strong enough to withstand the sometimes-corrupting influence of patronage politics on hiring, promotions, and transfers. (Sounds as though it never changed) J. Edgar Hoover was appointed as Director of the Bureau of Investigation and was credited for the founding of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1935 and built it into the huge organization it is today. He amassed a great deal of power and was in a position to intimidate and threaten others, including multiple sitting presidents of the United States. Here is the list of directors who headed the FBI from its inception.
The US Department of Homeland Security is a relatively new member of the intelligence community. It was founded in 2003, in response to the devastation of the September 11, 2001 attacks. Its stated missions involve anti-terrorism, border security, immigration and customs, cyber security, and disaster prevention and management. Like the FBI, the DHS is more about leftist politics than doing the job they were formed to do.
Our latest FBI Director, Christopher Wray, was suggested to President Donald Trump by Chris Christie. His nomination should have been pulled when he testified that he would not take orders from President Trump, but the 45th President let it slide. The FBI Director reports to the Attorney General who is the number one legal advisor to the president.
I’ll never forget the photo of FBI agents kneeling for George Floyd…a known drug addict and felon.
Few FBI Directors have had the public’s interest at heart, most, including Hoover, who spent his career amassing and expanding his power, a power he abused, were political animals. Hoover never trusted anyone he didn’t have something on. He was a monumental egotist with an insatiable demand for flattering publicity; he had little respect for American constitutional values. He was above all an aggrandizing bureaucrat, whose reach knew no bounds. He expanded his power and survived through abuses that amounted to little less than blackmail of prominent public officials and private citizens and personal intimidation toward any person or institution daring to question his authority.
Eighty years ago, a brilliant female cryptologist found out exactly what Hoover and the FBI were all about.
William studied genetics at Cornell University (B.S., 1914). Elizebeth Smith majored in English at Hillsdale (Michigan) College (B.A., 1915). They met at the Riverbank Laboratories (Geneva, Illinois), run by millionaire eccentric, George Fabyan, where they both eventually became involved in cryptology working often for the government in decoding diplomatic messages. In 1917–18 William served in the U.S. Army, partly in France, analyzing German code books.
In the 1930s, Elizebeth became America’s, and the world’s, most famous codebreaker. The evidence she gave in criminal trials describing how she cracked encrypted messages passing between mobsters made her a newspaper sensation. She even had to be protected by security guards.
Throughout World War II Elizebeth used her skills to hunt Nazi spies who were spreading into the West. She broke these Nazi spy codes for the FBI, which would have been lost without her—and then Hoover turned around and painted himself as the big hero. There was nothing she could do, because of secrecy rules.
She also broke coded messages sent on Germany’s Enigma machines. These messages revealed a plot by the Argentinian government to help Germany replace South American governments with Nazis, giving Germany bases from which to attack America. Her discoveries allowed the western allies to thwart the Argentinian and German plans.
While working for the intelligence department of the Coast Guard, Elisebeth discovered there were clandestine Nazi spies in Brazil sending codes. Hoover’s FBI attacked and captured this group, beat them mercilessly and exposed their code breaking and then thanked the South American police. His actions ruined the American and UK code breaking efforts. After this happened, the Coast Guard and Navy purposely bypassed the publicity seeking Hoover, and gave nothing to the FBI. It took months for them to again break the new codes, and many American’s and allies’ lives were lost because of Hoover’s foolish self-aggrandizing bravado.
Elizebeth Smith Friedman’s wartime codebreaking work was so secret that she was forbidden to mention it in public. She died many years before government archives were brought to light showing what she had done. During and after World War II, Hoover and the FBI took the credit for work Elizebeth and her U.S. Coast Guard team had carried out. Those were the early years of Hoover’s nearly half-century reign as FBI Director.
Since those days, we’ve seen dozens of very negative FBI actions.
Whitey Bulger was an FBI informant who murdered 19 people while working for the FBI.
Cook County State’s Attorney’s office, with justa little bit of help and guidance from the FBI raided the home of Fred Hampton, a prominent Black Panther, and assassinated him while he slept. The immense amount of energy, time and resources the FBI spent subverting Hampton, a noted orator and political strategist, came out over the years and in 1982 his family won a major civil lawsuit.
Jack Olsen’s, Last Man Standing: The Tragedy and Triumph of Geronimo Pratt, is the gripping story of Geronimo Pratt, war hero, (two combat tours in Vietnam), and community leader, who was framed by the FBI in one of the greatest travesties of justice in American history. Geronimo Pratt did not commit the murder for which he served twenty-seven nightmarish years. As a UCLA student, though, he had led the Los Angeles Chapter of the Black Panther Party, and became a target of the FBI. Why? He detested violence. The FBI willfully and criminally withheld evidence they knew would exonerate Pratt, because they wanted his outspoken voice silenced via prison. Stu Hanlon and Johnny Cochran proved his innocence and sued the FBI and LAPD and won $5 million.
The 1992 siege at Ruby Ridge, FBI sniper kills two innocents. Randy Weaver sues FBI and wins $3.1 million.
The FBI spying on President Trump, the phony Russian collusion, and the set up by two FBI agents to eliminate National Security Advisor, General Michael T. Flynn.
I’ve mentioned only a few of the circumstances where the FBI failed to act or their actions cost lives. Here is a list of many of their controversies.
Has the FBI had good men and women? Yes, they have! But most of those agents left or were forced out. John Guandolo and Robyn Gritz (Link) are just two of the wonderful agents who are no longer protecting America. There are far more.
Conclusion
We are facing the most treacherous time in American history and it is apparent that US intelligence communities will “just follow orders.”
Our Judeo-Christian society has long been the object of destruction. We must pray, fight and stand. “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” Ephesians 6:12
Resistance to tyranny comes with many consequences, but then so does submission.
UPDATE: This article initially indicated that the AR-15’s standard round was “moderate in muzzle velocity.” I should have written that it’s lacking in “killing power” according to this analysis. The article has been corrected to reflect this reality. I deeply regret the error, which was the result of a lamentable brain cramp.
A good response to the self-righteous exclamation “You let your son play with toy guns!?” might once have been, “Well, yeah, he’s too young to have a real one!” But perhaps not anymore, not with a new addition to the firearms market: a smaller, lighter AR-15 designed just for kids.
Dubbed the JR-15, the AFP relates that it’s “marketed by maker WEE1 Tactical as ‘the first in a line of shooting platforms that will safely help adults introduce children to the shooting sports.’” Clearly aghast, the news organ further reports that the “company’s website says the rifle ‘also looks, feels, and operates just like Mom and Dad’s gun.’”
Unsurprisingly, the AFP reminds people in its commentary masquerading as hard news that the AR-15 “has been used in multiple mass killings in the United States…” while quoting only anti-Second Amendment activists in its piece. Yet is mixing kids and guns really anything to fear? Let’s examine the matter.
Many people today won’t let their sons play with toy guns, perhaps afraid that it could increase the chances their boys could become murderers. But, question: Do these people also stop their kids from playing with trucks for fear they’ll turn into truck drivers? (And with the Canadian protests, this may especially trouble leftists now!)
It’s quite silly supposing that instruction in or experience with a thing increases the probability that thing will be used for evil. Does teaching a youngster to drive increase the chances he’ll mow down a crowd with a car? If a kid becomes skilled at baseball, is it more likely he’ll bludgeon someone unconscious with a bat? Does schooling a lad in carpentry raise the odds he’ll kill with a hammer?
Apropos of this, more people are murdered yearly with blunt instruments than with AR-15s or, for that matter, with rifles of any kind. Do we need blunt-instrument control?
Making this even odder is that there was a time when, unlike today, gun-control efforts had at least some relationship to reality. While I didn’t support the proposals, the emphasis back in the ’90s was on criminalizing handguns. The thinking was that most firearm murders are committed with handguns largely because, being concealable, they’re criminals’ weapons of choice.
In recent times, however, there’s been a fixation on prohibiting law-abiding sport shooters’ weapon of choice (the AR-15 is our nation’s most popular rifle). Given this jump-the-shark version of gun-grabbing, is it surprising that many Second Amendment advocates believe current proposals have nothing to do with safety and everything to do with control?
Moreover, while AR-15s have been used in some horrific massacres, they’re not actually the most effective firearms for a typical mass-shooting situation; that is, with “soft” targets (people without body armor) at close range. For this purpose, a semi-automatic shotgun would be far, far more devastating. After all, the AR’s standard round is small caliber — approximately the same as a .22 — and is moderate in muzzle velocity. (Yes, really. The weapon is the Wizard of Oz of firearms, with a reputation greatly exceeding its power.)
So why do some mass shooters choose AR’s, anyway? Part of the reason is that it’s more likely than other long guns to be on hand because, again, it’s our most popular rifle. Second, it’s appealing because it looks cool. Put differently, mass shooters may choose ARs because….
They usually know little about firearms.
Returning to the fevered fears over kids and guns, I remember reading the comments years ago of a judge who noted (I’m paraphrasing), “I’ve never seen a boy with a hunting or fishing license come before me [in court].” This is just common sense. Do you really think the lad with an engaged father — who teaches him proper gun-handling and takes him hunting or target-shooting — fits the criminal profile? The average mass shooter or career criminal is more likely to have had no dad around at all or one who was a miscreant himself.
In truth, the fear that exposure to firearms will somehow increase the chances a child will kill often reflects the godless perspective that conceives of man as just another animal. Put appealing food before a dog and he’ll gobble it down without thinking, governed by instinct; he’ll practically eat himself to death if you let him. Though also subject to temptation, only a human being will think: Should I eat this? Is it healthful? Will it make me fat?
Consider also that every child must learn to manage weapons — they’re called hands, fists and feet. Note, too, the FBI informs that more murders are committed yearly with these appendages, which the bureau classifies as “personnel weapons,” than with rifles of anykind.
The point is that man is a rational being, reflecting God in that he possesses intellect and free will. Yet those making the youth+gun exposure=trouble assumption appear to ignore the moral component. What’s more, they also don’t even rightly consider correlations. To wit: The phenomenon of increasingly frequent mass shootings manifested itself in the ’90s, but AR-15s weren’t born in the ’90s but in the late ’50s.
What does correlate with the ’90s mass shooting phenomenon, however, is the greatly increased medicating of children (especially boys) with psychotropic drugs, the intensification of mindless entertainment violence, the Internet’s rise, continued family breakdown, and burgeoning godlessness with its associated moral relativism. Any discussion about reducing crime that doesn’t include these factors simply isn’t serious.
In the same vein, in earlier times we had relatively few gun laws, and teaching boys to shoot at young ages was common. Why, in the ’40s and ’50s, lads would carry firearms openly on New York City subways (try that today) because they had rifle clubs at school. What changed in the ’60s and beyond? Access to guns?
As for the JR-15, it’s not only a brilliant marketing idea but makes sense. ARs are extremely light and have virtually no recoil, making them ideal for physically weaker people such as women and children. And since it’s smaller and uses .22 ammunition, the JR-15 is even lighter with less kick still. So it only makes sense that if you’re going to teach your kid to use a gun — in keeping with longstanding American tradition — such a weapon would be a logical choice.
None of this will matter to leftists, though, as they occupy an inverted moral universe. They believe children mustn’t be taught to shoot before 10 but must be taught about sex before 8, that it can be toxic to push a boy toward masculine pursuits but healthful to tell him he can become a girl. Operating with intellectual blanks and moral misfires, leftists are twisted souls — and their ideology has killed far more people than any gun ever could.
For those interested, below is a video from the SHOT Show 2022 (a gun trade event) in which the JR-15 is displayed and its features discussed.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. /PRNewswire/ — America First Political Committee Chairman KW Miller set to primary RINO Carlos Gimenez (FL-26). Florida RINO Carlos Gimenez has betrayed Republican Voters far too many times. RINO Gimenez will be replaced in Congress with a true Constitutional Republican to represent residents in Southern Dade County and Monroe County Florida.
Gimenez is NOT supported by America First or the Republican voters in Florida’s 26thCongressional District. RINO Carlos Gimenez has openly voted with Nancy Pelosi and the radical leftists in Congress on critical ‘Unconstitutional Issues’.
RINO Gimenez openly supported and ‘Voted for Hillary Clinton’ in 2016. Gimenez also defended disgraced RINO Liz Cheney after she voted in favor of the ‘Sham Impeachment’ against Donald Trump.
RINO Gimenez doubled down in defending Cheney after the Republican Caucus censored and removed RINO Liz Cheney from Republican Party Leadership.
RINO Gimenez also voted for the ‘January 6‘ Socialist Democrat witch hunt against American Citizens and Republican voters. Gimenez, like RINO Liz Cheney openly votes and sides with the Socialist and Radical Democrats.
Some other notable examples of Gimenez Socialist votes include:
RINO Gimenez voted withNancy Pelosi on H.R. 550, to allow the federal government to create a database, track unvaccinated Americans, who could be targeted, segregated, discriminated against, and forced to comply with vaccination mandates;
RINO Gimenez voted withNancy Pelosi on Anti-Second Amendment legislation HR-8, making it more difficult for law-abiding citizens to purchase, own, carry, and use a firearm;
RINO Gimenez voted withNancy Pelosi on H.R. 6 for ‘Open Borders and Amnesty’ to over 20 million criminal illegal aliens, which would permanently avoid deportation, obtain a pathway to citizenship, and full voting rights;
RINO Gimenez also voted withNancy Pelosi to strip Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of all Congressional Committee positions.
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Trucker Convoy is Coming to DC— Their Leader Has a Message for Joe Biden.
TRANSCRIPT
“This message is for the President of the United States of America.
“My name is Kyle Sefcik of the Freedom Convoy USA 2022 and our routes meet here in DC on March 1st, in time for your State of the Union address.
“We are very organized and our routes are public. I even put a permit for the National Mall to be respectful.
“I just want to be as transparent as possible from the start so there’s no confusion.
“We are coming peacefully and we’re going to do this lawfully and Constitutionally.
“I want the rest of the world to know our plans so that there’s no twisting and lying about who and what we are.
“I’m coming to you as a father, a small business owner who’s unaffiliated to any parties.
“We just want government overreach to end.
“On behalf of Freedom Convoy USA 2022, we are asking you to end the State of Emergency. End the mandates once and for all.
“Sir, the world is watching us, because they know that if what’s happening in Canada happens to us here in the Land of the Free, then freedom as we know it is gone.
“So, we are leaving the choice to you. The decision is in your hands.
“This whole convoy, this whole assembly on the national mall – it doesn’t even have to happen, if you just end things now and we can get on with our lives.
“To you other convoys that plan on meeting us here, we look forward to seeing you and joining with you.
“We’re going to do this right. We’re going to do this honorably.
“Mr President, we have no other motives in this mission.
“You see, the Government, our elected officials of both parties have failed us tremendously in the last two years and now it’s time for us, We the People to fix this. To end this.
“We’re ready to get back to our lives, the ones promised and guaranteed in the United States Constitution, Bill of Rights and the contract that you signed and swore an oath to under the One True God.
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A former Prime Minister of Australia warns that Vladimir Putin’s ambitions in Ukraine threaten us all.
History isn’t malicious, just instructive. It tells us that progress isn’t inevitable; that justice isn’t always done; that good won’t always win; and that danger always lurks.
Above all, it tells us that individual and collective choice matters: that our beliefs drive our actions, and that havoc can be wreaked, or stopped, because people decide to make a stand.
Few things have been more telling than the reaction of key countries to the Russian army poised on Ukraine’s borders.
Britain and America have sent anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles but no troops. Germany has been reluctant even to threaten sanctions, should Russia invade. And in shades of Munich, France has championed a peace deal based on changing the Ukrainian constitution to meet Russia’s demands.
In trying to extract a pledge from his smaller neighbour that it will never join NATO, the Russian president is exploiting the universal fear of war in an attempt to dictate the policy of NATO and to smash the independence of Ukraine.
He’s relying on everyone’s unwillingness to take risks for someone else. And so far, he’s succeeding; the Europeans and the Americans are divided and the West looks impotent.
The only ones to emerge with much credit are the Ukrainians themselves, who’ve manned their defences and insisted on their right to conduct an independent foreign policy, including joining NATO and the EU.
But regardless of how this particular episode plays out, let’s be under no illusion. Vladimir Putin sees himself as the new Tsar, a ruler for life, determined to restore greater Russia.
To that end, he’s invaded Georgia, annexed the Crimea, occupied the Donbas, killed-without-compunction opponents at home and abroad, and restored Russia as a military superpower despite an economy smaller than Italy’s.
Ukraine is but his present target, because it persists in looking west not east; and because the 1994 Anglo-American security assurance, named for this very city, in return for the surrender of Soviet-era nuclear weapons, failed to replicate the one-in, all-in provision of Article 5 of the NATO Charter.
However the current stand-off ends, we can be confident that Putin’s campaign will continue, remorseless, relentless, by all means up to and including all-out-war, until Ukraine becomes a Russian colony.
And then his attention will turn to the Baltic States, and then to Poland, and then to the other former Soviet satellites, until Russia is again the overlord of Eastern Europe.
I fear the only thing that will stop him is death, defeat, or the conviction that he would lose.
On what do I base that?
Well, after a Russian missile battery shot down MH17 over the eastern Ukraine, killing 38 Australians, I promised to “shirtfront” the Russian president – it’s an Australian sporting term for a rough tackle.
I had that very robust conversation with him on the sidelines of the APEC summit in Beijing in 2014. With rare intensity, he insisted that Ukraine was really Russian and that their government was fascist or worse – and that provocateurs had brought down the plane.
And then he grabbed me with both hands and said something both strange and revealing: “you are not a native Australian”, he said, “but I am a native Russian”.
It’s this passion for blood and soil and sacred mission that drives my sense that he’s ready to take big risks, to restore the Russia of his dreams, especially against weakness and vulnerability.
Of course, Putin is not Hitler, and Ukraine is not Czechoslovakia, and these are not the 1930s, but there are plenty of disturbing parallels, including a new “axis” of great powers ready to disturb the peace to get what they want.
A fortnight back, the Russian dictator and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, issued a declaration on “International Relations Entering a New Era”. We know the type of new era they have in mind from their preposterous claim that both Russia and China enjoy “long-standing traditions of democracy”.
This would be news to the gaoled Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, and to the gaoled Australian news anchor Cheng Lei, and to the tennis star Peng Shuai now doomed to life in a cage.
For Beijing, ”democracy with Chinese characteristics” obviously covers the internment of more than a million Uighurs, the strangulation of Hong Kong despite the solemn promise of one country, two systems, and the near daily intimidation of Taiwan, a genuine democracy that proves there’s no totalitarian gene in the Chinese DNA.
Not for nothing has China built what’s already the world’s largest navy, plus a militarised coast guard, plus a maritime militia, and achieved what many defence planners think is military superiority over the United States in the Western Pacific.
The main purpose of this joint declaration, this Moscow-Beijing axis, is to bury, they say, the “political and military alliances of the Cold War era” – so no more NATO, no US troops in Japan and South Korea, and ultimately an end to the Pax Americana – through a dictators’ partnership that has, they say, “no limits” and no “forbidden areas of cooperation”.
The Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, maybe it’s not; but it’s definitely a free hand from each, for the other to do its worst.
At heart, what they both reject is the American-backed world order, a liberal and humane set of understandings and arrangements, that’s enabled the very best time in human history; with the world’s people more free, more safe and more prosperous than ever before.
Even though they’ve both befitted from it, with half a billion Chinese moving from the third world to the middle class in scarcely a generation, after President Clinton bent the rules to admit China to the WTO; and with Russia becoming a petro-power that can turn Europe’s energy on-and-off like a tap.
For years, American officialdom ignored the Chinese leadership’s much- stated intention to be the world’s top country by mid-century; only for the secretary of state, just a week ago in Melbourne, belatedly to declare that China’s goal was indeed global domination.
So, with these latter-day dictators clearly on the march, as Lenin once asked: what is to be done?
In his celebrated speech attacking the Munich sell-out as a “defeat without a war”, Winston Churchill declared that this was but “the first foretaste of a bitter cup which will be proffered to us year by year, unless by a supreme recovery of moral health” – let’s underline that – “moral health” he said, “and martial vigour, we arise again and take our stand for freedom, as in the olden time”.
A response to the dictators starts with appreciating that just because war is unthinkable to us, doesn’t make it unthinkable to them.
Since the beginning of time, the strong have always been tempted to take advantage of the weak; and the tough and the hungry have always sought to usurp the indolent and the soft.
Throw in what [British philosopher David] Hume recognised, that passions drive reason, and what’s unthinkable to most can become entirely reasonable to some, especially those on a quest for national glory.
Last week, the German chancellor proclaimed that “war has become unthinkable in Europe and we have to make sure it stays that way” – even though he must know, that up against someone who thinks differently, and who routinely uses war to achieve his ends, the only way to avoid war is to surrender.
Is Germany so ashamed of its past, and so enervated by its wealth, that it can no longer stand up to those set on taking advantage of it, including a Russian president bent on economic and military blackmail?
We must hope that events don’t give us the wrong answer.
That’s the baleful side of 1989: this notion that the fall of the Berlin Wall marked the “end of history” and the era of universal peace based on the triumph of liberal capitalism.
Rather than a new beginning, 1989 was simply one brief shining moment in time, when liberal nations were clearly ascendant over illiberal ones.
But that was soon squandered, through misplaced idealism: by bloody, expensive and largely futile nation-building in Iraq and Afghanistan, that’s sapped the West’s strength and self-confidence; and by welcoming China and Russia into global markets, that’s increased their wealth and strength but not their goodwill.
As their current adventurism shows, both countries’ exceptionalism still includes the conviction that they should dominate their regions, if not the wider world.
All that’s lingered from those heady days, three decades back, is the conviction of Western elites that their obsessions with climate change and identity politics are widely shared; coupled with their strange unwillingness to call-out in other cultures what they condemn in their own.
As the five decades after 1945 show, the only way to keep aggressors at bay is collective security; otherwise, the strong do what they will, and the weak suffer what they must.
Take Eastern Europe: if it’s Russia against Ukraine, sooner or later, Russia will prevail; as Russia ultimately did against Finland in 1940.
Take East Asia: if it’s China against Taiwan, China will inevitably prevail.
But if it’s Russia or China versus the democracies, one for all and all for one, that’s an entirely different matter.
Perhaps this military crisis might awaken the people of Western countries, so recently discombobulated by a virus, and so unaccustomed to sacrifice, to how readily a freedom that’s not cherished and defended can be lost.
We have to make the war that’s unthinkable to us, for moral reasons, unthinkable to them for prudential reasons. We who shrink from war because it’s morally wrong have to make others shrink from war because they’d likely lose.
Of course, our instinctive initial reaction is to avoid entirely “quarrels in faraway countries between people of whom we know nothing”.
Yet what other countries’ freedom might be dispensable, if theirs is? And who would we fight alongside, if not them? And if others’ fights aren’t ours, who might help us, when our turn comes?
This is where moral health is indeed called for, as much as martial vigour, in any contest between nations.
We can’t forget Churchill’s other observation that “jaw-jaw is better than war-war”, provided we remember that the point of diplomacy with dictators is to deliver a stern message that their demands are unacceptable.
It would be shameful were any pressure to be put on Ukraine to accept Putin’s demands because concessions would just embolden a bully.
Even now, I’m not sure how widely it’s grasped what’s at stake in this confrontation between democracy and autocracy, between sovereignty and subservience – and how the whole trajectory of history could change.
Meanwhile, comrades Putin and Xi watch the scuttle from Kabul, because a long-term military presence was judged to be too hard; the toppling of statues, because yesterday’s heroes have to be damned by today’s standards; and our self-flagellation over race and identity, even though there’s never been less racism, and minorities have never had a fairer go, and conclude that a decadent West is unlikely to defend itself with vigour, let alone stand up for others.
They see America in retreat, and no other country or collection of countries with strength and goodwill sufficient to be the guardian of peace with freedom.
For all of us as individuals and for each of our countries, the challenge is to prove them wrong. As long there are millions who would seek a better life in Western countries, we need to accept that vote of confidence in ourselves, and never weaken on what’s made us great.
Tony Abbott was Prime Minister of Australia from 2013 to 2015. This is an edited excerpt from his speech this week to the Danube Institute in Budapest. More by Tony Abbott
President Biden promised a “swift and severe” response. He did not deliver.
Ukraine is a test of western resolve. It’s not just about Putin. The Chinese communists and Iranian jihadists are watching too. It’s a major leadership moment for Biden. So far, he’s failing.
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“The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie–deliberate, contrived and dishonest–but the myth–persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.” – John F. Kennedy, Commencement Address at Yale University, June 11 1962.
If you are new to the crazy world of gender, you’ve heard that trans is something you just know. So, if your kid comes out as “trans”, that’s who they are, who they’ve always been. You just somehow missed the obvious.
And now that you are aware you have a trans kid, your job is to help them “become” the sex that they are inside through social changes (pronouns, clothing choices), drugs (hormones) to halt their development and develop alternate secondary sex characteristics to the extent possible, restrictive garments that hide their secondary sex characteristics (binders), and cosmetic surgeries.
Coercion
This is the Myth of Permanence. Similar to the Suicide Myth (affirm your child’s trans identity or they will kill themselves), which says you must affirm a trans-identified person or they will kill themselves, with the Myth of Permanence, you must instantly medicalise people who proclaim they are trans because if one says they are trans, it’s because it’s an irrefutable, immutable fact about you that cannot change.
Along with the Suicide Myth, the Myth of Permanence is used to bully parents into actions they feel are against the best long-term interests of their children.
If you believe in this ideological dogma, it is wrong to do anything except enable social and medical transition immediately and fully because, to do otherwise, would cause certain, immediate and extreme harm to the trans-identified person.
Imagination vs reality
The Myth of Permanence has thrown a lot of good people into logical tailspins trying to do the correct thing, in the absence of physical/biological evidence that trans is an actual state of being, and not just a metaphysical or religious concept.
However, the Myth of Permanence has been clearly disproved both in long term studies, through parent experiences, and by detransitioners and desisters that felt certain they were “trans” and then later changed their minds.
If Trans-ness was permanent, none of this would be possible. But yet, it is.
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It’s being used as a slur and means almost nothing.
The concept of “misinformation,” or “misleading, false and/or harmful information,” has been repeatedly invoked by Big Tech media companies and governments to justify the suppression and invalidation of information and perspectives they disapprove of.
It has been employed by Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, and national health authorities either to delegitimate or silence views they deem to be false or harmful to the public interest. But the concept of misinformation is very slippery indeed, and wide open to ruthless exploitation on behalf of political or ideological causes.
Consider the case of American podcaster Joe Rogan. He hosts the podcast with the largest listenership in the history of podcasts, leaving mainstream media like CNN far behind. Rogan asks tough questions and brings on controversial guests. He does not deal in cheap soundbites but extended, multi-hour interviews. There are now calls by a whole range of public figures, from the United States Surgeon General Vivek Murphy to music artists like Neil Young and Joni Mitchell, to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, for Spotify to censor Rogan on grounds of spreading anti-vaccine misinformation.
What sparked this campaign to silence Joe Rogan was a recent interview he conducted with Twitter-censored virologist Dr Robert Malone (here are some excerpts from the interview) to discuss a number of issues related to pandemic policy, most notably the rollout of the Covid vaccines.
Dr Malone is an outspoken critic of the pharmaceutical industry and of the vaccination campaign. He is himself vaccinated, but believes the administration of the vaccine on a massive scale to all age groups is a reckless experiment that unnecessarily puts people’s lives and health in danger, given that the long-term risks of the vaccine remain unknown and that many people being vaccinated are at very low risk from Covid-19.
Was Joe Rogan guilt of spreading “misinformation,” as alleged by people like Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, and Prince Harry, by allowing Dr Malone to voice his concerns about pandemic policies on his podcast?
One might think that this question could be settled by simply deciding whether or not one is in agreement with Dr Malone or finds his arguments persuasive. But this would be to naively assume that in every serious political or scientific disagreement, one party to the disagreement can be identified authoritatively, before the argument has even taken off, as a perpetrator of “misinformation” to be shut down, while the other, as the bearer of Truth, to be given a red carpet.
If that were so, public debate and disagreement about high stakes issues could be short-circuited in advance by a censor under the direction of an elite class of handpicked philosophers or scientists. But that starts to sound a lot like the death of science and the birth of totalitarianism.
The question at issue, then, is not whether we agree with Dr Malone’s assessment of the vaccination campaign, but whether the mere fact of interviewing this controversial individual makes Rogan complicit in the propagation of “misinformation.” I doubt it very much, even if Joni Mitchell and Prince Harry think otherwise.
Accusations of misinformation certainly carry some rhetorical “umph”. They have an air of scientific rigour and objectivity. The person who leads the charge immediately assumes a position of epistemic and possibly moral superiority with respect to the accused.
After all, if I accuse you of peddling “misinformation,” that means that I must be more “scientific,” more knowledgeable, and more in touch with the “facts” than you. In opposing “misinformation,” it may appear that my motives are above reproach.
If the motives of accusers of misinformation are as pure as the driven snow, and the content of misinformation is just determined by inconsistency with the plain facts of science, then why has the concept of “misinformation” become so politicised and contested?
Is it just because ignorant, misinformed people, don’t like to hear their falsehoods exposed? Or might it be that the term is being used dishonestly to arbitrarily silence people the censor happens to disagree with?
It seems fair to assume that some statements genuinely constitute “misinformation” — for example, the statement that drinking lots of tea will cure severe cases of Covid-19. Similarly, it is hard to deny that there are some types of information that are intrinsically dangerous or harmful — for example, a bomb-making YouTube video.
Fair enough. But scratch beneath the surface, and it quickly becomes clear that the category of “misinformation” is infinitely malleable and very easily weaponised for political and ideological purposes. In practice, “misinformation” is very much in the eye of the beholder and is rarely deployed in a politically or scientifically neutral manner.
This becomes clear as soon as we consider how charges of misinformation have been weaponised during the pandemic to selectively suppress certain opinions deemed politically unacceptable, until the “right people” started uttering them.
For example, for a long time, Facebook slammed virtually every statement connecting SARS-CoV-2 to a lab in Wuhan as erroneous or misleading — even though some high-level scientific experts viewed the lab leak hypothesis as plausible. When experts Facebook relied on, like Dr Anthony Fauci, admitted the lab leak hypothesis could not be ruled out, Facebook embarrassingly reversed themselves (here is a detailed account of those events). Suddenly, the lab leak hypothesis was no longer deemed to constitute a quack conspiracy theory, or “misinformation.”
Again, consider the fact that a corona roundtable of highly qualified scientists (Dr Kulldorff from Harvard, Dr Bhattacharya from Stanford, Dr Gupta from Oxford, and Dr Scott Atlas from Stanford) moderated on March 18, 2021 by the Governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, was abruptly removed from YouTube, allegedly because at least one of the participants was critical of the practice of masking children.
Putting aside the fact that the “fact-checkers” of Google, Facebook and Twitter are hardly qualified to review the soundness of the opinions of highly qualified scientists on a matter as complex as disease control, how might we justify the decision of a media platform to censor a contested scientific opinion on community masking (or any other matter) as a piece of “misinformation”’?
Is it because a majority of scientists disagree with it? In that case, we would have to suppress every unpopular scientific opinion before it even got a chance to be publicly considered, and endorse a crude majoritarian view of scientific truth, which is completely contrary to the spirit of open scientific inquiry.
Or is it the fact that the claim in question is not accepted by some official scientific authority, such as the WHO or the CDC? But “official” opinion could only be a gold standard for scientific truth if two things were true: first, that all official experts will converge automatically on the same “truth”; and second, that some people, by virtue of their position as “official” experts, are so smart, or wise, or virtuous, that their pronouncements may be considered as infallible wisdom, and could never be corrected or proven wrong by being challenged in public.
However, there is absolutely no reason to assume that a medical expert nominated to the World Health Organisation is more likely to share true and safe information than a professor of medicine at Harvard or Stanford medical school. Science does not work like that, nor does any field of knowledge. To believe otherwise is to be in the grips of an extraordinarily naive and childish conception of expert knowledge.
Charges of misinformation are consistently levelled against those who threaten the censor’s cherished opinions, and almost never against those who reaffirm the views of the censor. For example, Twitter aggressively censors opinions that question Covid vaccination campaigns or support the development and use of cheap and safe pharmaceutical treatments for Covid-19, yet they happily turn a blind eye to false and misleading claims that support their own narrative.
Here are some examples of false and/or misleading claims that have been given a free pass by Twitter and Youtube:
gross exaggerations of the dangers Covid-19 poses for young and health individuals
the misleading and arguably fraudulent use of PCR “case” data in spite of repeated warnings by experts that it was a deficient diagnostic tool
false statements suggesting that the vaccines are all “perfectly safe” for anyone to take, in spite of clear evidence that some Covid vaccines are associated with worrying increases in the incidence of diseases like myocarditis, especially in young populations
the constant equation of “death from” and “death with” Covid-19
plenty of defamatory claims about critics of Covid vaccination policies, including the claim that they are all “anti-vaxxers.”
statements implying that Ivermectin is a drug intended exclusively for horses.
All of these claims are manifestly “false or misleading,” yet Big Tech giants turn a blind eye to them. Why? Because they swim in the same direction as the narrative they are determined to push through.
Do not be fooled: “misinformation” is not a politically neutral, scientific criterion of correctness, but a powerful tool of political propaganda and persuasion.
It is imperative that the advocates of heavy-handed political censorship, parading under the banner of “misinformation-detectors,” do not win the day, because if they do, then the public sphere will become a hall of mirrors, in which the lazy, self-serving mantras of a few powerful actors bounce, virtually unchallenged, from one platform to another, while dissenting voices, however intelligent or discerning, are consigned to the shadows and dismissed as the rantings of crazy people.
This article has been reposted from David Thunder’s The Freedom Blog.
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Led by former Rep. Devin Nunes, Trump Media & Technology Group has high hopes for the launch, anticipating some big numbers within the first month.
“This week we will begin to roll out on the Apple App Store. That’s going to be awesome, because we’re going to get so many more people that are going to be on the platform,” Nunes said in a Sunday appearance on Fox News’s Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo.
“Our goal is, I think we’re going to hit it, I think by the end of March we’re going to be fully operational at least within the United States,” he added.
Truth is positioning itself as a champion of free speech with one of the biggest draws being the former President, himself.
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CDC is refusing to publish data it has collected on booster effectiveness for 33 MILLION Americans aged 18-49 over fears it might show the vaccines as ineffective: FDA expert tells CDC to ‘tell the truth’
Two weeks ago the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published data about the effectiveness of boosters against COVID-19
The CDC failed to publish a tranche of their data, however – omitting the impact on those aged 18-49, who are least likely to benefit from boosters
The CDC are also being criticized for failing to publish their information about child hospitalization rates and comorbidities
A spokeswoman for the CDC said they were concerned that the data would be misinterpreted, pointing out that it was incomplete and not verified
Critics said that it was always better to publish the information rather than withhold, and allow scientists to analyze and explain what they could
By Harriet Alexander For Dailymail.com, 22 February 2022
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has withheld vast swaths of the information it holds about the impact of COVID-19, leading to anger from the scientific community and speculation the agency is not releasing the data because it weakens the case for booster shots in certain demographics.
Two weeks ago, the CDC published the first significant data on the effectiveness of boosters in adults younger than 65.
But the agency, led by Dr Rochelle Walensky, did not share the information on those aged 18-49, who are considered to be the least likely to benefit from a booster.
It has also failed to provide information they held on child hospitalizations, scientists complained.
Kristen Nordlund, a spokeswoman for the CDC, said the agency has been slow to release the different streams of data ‘because basically, at the end of the day, it’s not yet ready for prime time.’
She said the agency’s ‘priority when gathering any data is to ensure that it’s accurate and actionable,’ and told The New York Times that they were concerned it might be misinterpreted to show the vaccines were ineffective.
She also said that they were reluctant to publish the data because it represents only 10 percent of the population of the United States – accounting for 33 million people – the same sample size the CDC has used to track influenza for years.
Rochelle Walensky, director of the CDC. The agency has been criticized for withholding some of its data
The 18-49 year old age group is considered least likely to benefit from the booster, given that death rates among the age group are already low. It is far more likely for the elderly and immunocompromised to get sick without their booster than healthy young and middle aged people.
Boosters became available for children aged 12 and upwards only last month, and so would not be covered by the dataset.
As of Monday, 65 percent of Americans are fully vaccinated. There were 103,150 new cases reported nationwide, on a seven day rolling average – a dramatic decrease from January, when there were regularly over 700,000 new cases a day.
Outraged scientists stressed that publishing the data went hand in hand with educating the public about vaccines – explaining that as more people are vaccinated, the percentage of vaccinated people who are infected or hospitalized would also rise.
They urged the CDC to publish the information.
Dr Paul Offit urged the CDC to ‘tell the truth, present the data’
‘Tell the truth, present the data,’ said Dr Paul Offit, a vaccine expert and adviser to the Food and Drug Administration.
‘I have to believe that there is a way to explain these things so people can understand it.’
He noted that, because the CDC had not published the information, American scientists were forced to rely on Israeli data.
‘There’s no reason that they should be better at collecting and putting forth data than we were,’ he said.
‘The CDC is the principal epidemiological agency in this country, and so you would like to think the data came from them.’
Another expressed shock that the CDC had the data at all.
‘We have been begging for that sort of granularity of data for two years,’ said Jessica Malaty Rivera, an epidemiologist and part of the team that ran the Covid Tracking Project, which brought together data on the pandemic for a website they ran until March 2021.
She denied that there was a risk of the data being misinterpreted, adding that it instead ‘builds public trust, and it paints a much clearer picture of what’s actually going on.’
She added: ‘It gets really exhausting when you see the private sector working faster than the premier public health agency of the world.’
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Notre quotidien. Après cette vidéo, il a tenté de voler mon téléphone et a frotté son chibre contre moi. Un joger inconnu a récupéré mon téléphone et m’a protégé. Merci à lui. Je me suis faite agresser sexuellement 12 fois dans une balade de 20 min. C’est ça la 🇫🇷 en 2022. pic.twitter.com/HNyxIuKJHX
Mila, however, says, “I’m not attacked as Mila, but as a woman,” and describes “an everyday life that has become unbearable for women.”
This is because she and other women who are harassed are walking around unveiled. “O prophet, tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers to draw their veils close around them. That will be better, so that they may be recognized and not molested.” (Qur’an 33:59
A warning cry, but also a cry of rage. On Instagram and later on Twitter, Mila recounted her nightmarish afternoon walking along the banks of the Rhône in Lyon. On the phone with her boyfriend, she first declared that she was being “annoyed” everywhere she went, “every 30 seconds”: “You get harassed, any young woman could confirm it the same way,” she said at first. Then she explains the assaults she has just experienced: “You have a nice ass, we are going to spank you, we are going to rape you,” etc.
She is quite annoyed and admits that she reacted by insulting them, which she did not really want to do. While she was reporting the first attacks, she was again harassed by a group of other people who spoke poor French. When she videoed them, the situation finally got out of hand. As can be seen in the footage she posted, one of the men pretended to show her his private part and spat in her direction. He then grabbed her arm and took her mobile phone away.
She managed to free herself, but another interfered and started deleting the videos on the mobile phone that incriminated him. At the same time, her attackers call her a “son of a bitch” and threaten to throw her mobile phone into the Rhône. When she started screaming but no one came to her aid, a man who was actually jogging managed to save the mobile phone and drove the attackers away.
She recounted these scenes later that evening, still in her posts. “I get so annoyed all the time, but 99% of the time you don’t feel like filming it,” she laments. “I’m not attacked as Mila, but as a woman,” she adds, describing an everyday life that has become unbearable for women. Finally, in the evening, she decided to press charges. On Twitter, she revealed that the police “probably can’t do much” because the main attacker was “probably an illegal.”
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Democrats widely support Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s handling of the “Freedom Convoy” protests, according to a Trafalgar Group poll released Tuesday.
A majority of respondents, 55.3%, said they disapprove of Trudeau’s handling of the protests, while 35.1% said they approve. When polling Democrats only, a whopping 65.7% said they approve of Trudeau’s handling while 17.2% said they disapprove.
Republicans offered a stark contrast, with 87.3% saying they disapprove and 8.1% saying they approve. Among those who offered no party affiliation, 74.4% disapprove.
The poll was conducted among 1,080 likely general election voters between Feb. 18 to Feb. 20. There was a 2.99% margin of error.
In an unprecedented move, Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act on Feb. 14. The move allowed him to take additional steps to quell the protests against mandates in Canada. With the invocation of the act, Trudeau said police would be given additional tools to strengthen their ability to impose fines or imprisonment on those who do not comply with orders.
The government could then ensure essential services are rendered, such as towing vehicles blocking roadways, while permitting financial institutions to regulate and prohibit the use of property to fund or support illegal blockades.
“This is not a peaceful protest,” Trudeau said. “The blockades are harming our economy and endangering public safety. This is hurting workers who rely on these jobs to feed their families.”
“I want to be very clear, the scope of these measures will be time limited, geographically targeted and reasonable and proportional to the threats they are meant to address. This is about keeping Canadians safe.”
The Canadian Civil Liberties Association publicly opposed Trudeau’s invocation, calling it a “threat” to democracy and civil liberties.
“The federal government has not met the threshold necessary to invoke the Emergencies Act. This law creates a high and clear standard for good reason: the Act allows government to bypass ordinary democratic processes. This standard has not been met,” the association said. “Emergency legislation should not be normalized. It threatens our democracy and our civil liberties.”
WATCH: Close up of peaceful protestors in Ottawa protesting mandates being trampled by the mounted unit.
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