"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -Benjamin Franklin
I've run across a lot of great articles online over the last few weeks and I suppose I had better post them now before there are too many. I hope you find the below helpful.
When all of this starts to make me feel overwhelmed and confused, here's what I remember to keep my sanity: (1) powerful people not only stand to make billions on these vaccines, but they benefit greatly, as all tyrants do, by taking away freedom of speech and exploiting rule by experts, (2) this sort of tyranny has happened in civilization for thousands of years and is nothing new, and (3) it gives the brave and true a chance to stand for what is right, to show real heroism and compassion. Don't ever get discouraged. Continue in your peaceful work and keep being a credit to our generation. May God be with us and with the cause of truth and freedom in these trials.
For some inspiring quotes from the philosophers Thomas Jefferson, Thoreau, and Cicero, you can scroll to the bottom.
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These two articles on AIER win the award for the best, most concise, and most sobering short pieces arguing for an end to all this coronavirus nonsense. Basically, the lockdowns are costing us far more lives and money than they are saving us. Insanely more:
https://www.aier.org/article/whats-gone-wrong-with-left-liberalism-and-lockdowns/
https://www.aier.org/article/the-covid-19-catastrophe/
1. You may have heard about some of the problems developing the COVID-19 vaccine. Here's an interview with a specialist that gets into some of the more disturbing technical details. In particular, it looks like the vaccine over-sensitizes the immune system so that when you finally do get covid the reaction can be so strong it causes death. This was a problem with the SARS vaccine years ago:
https://thehighwire.com/videos/the-covid-vaccines-dirty-secret/
2. "There is no good evidence that facemasks protect the public against infection with respiratory viruses, including COVID-19." A scientific study.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7323223/#jpc14936-bib-0005
3. Senator Dr. Scott Jensen on how covid numbers are terribly skewed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNSnHX9bF2g
4. Another fantastic summary of why the lockdowns are ridiculous. Very long (with 3 parts) but great citations and Part 3 is pretty recent:
https://jbhandleyblog.com/home/lockdownlunacy
5. "Older Americans should be anti-lockdown activists":
https://www.aier.org/article/older-americans-should-be-anti-lockdown-activists/
6. Facemasks were actually ineffective with the Spanish Flu:
https://circleofmamas.com/health-news/masks-failed-to-prevent-the-1918-spanish-flu/
7. How did early Christians respond to plagues? It was the opposite of lockdown: stay and care for the sick, as Jesus taught. And it was more effective.
How Did Early Christians Respond to Plagues? - The Good Book Blog - Biola University
8. More creepy plans in motion:
9. The brutality of lockdown is crossing over into outright totalitarianism in some places:
10. Big Tech is censoring lockdown protests around the world. It's a growing movement and there are millions of people at some of these gatherings:
https://off-guardian.org/2020/09/01/facebook-censors-defense-of-unite-for-freedom-protest/
https://thehighwire.com/videos/millions-peacefully-protest-covid-restrictions/
11. The "pandemic" if you can call it that, is ending. We are well past the peak of the curve. This article explains with some telling graphs comparing this years' spike in deaths compared to previous years':
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/09/the_covid19_pandemic_is_ending.html
12. This is an old article, very concise, but terrifying in its implications. It compares censorship in China to what has now become a global censorship campaign:
https://thehighwire.com/is-chinese-style-censorship-taking-hold-in-america/
Google, whose staff is now mostly Chinese according to one whistleblower, was implicit in this censorship, as I recently discovered in a 2008 book, Blown to Bits. American Google results for the search "Falun Gong," gave terms and phrases like "morality," "Buddha's School," "Buddha Fa," "Chinese government is terrified," "spiritual movement," and "freedom of belief":
The Chinese version of the Google search, as Google was complicit in programming for, features terms and phrases like "Cult," "sabotage," "homophobic," "racist," "hijacking," and "propaganda."
I've also highlighted in yellow the sentence "The Falun Gong cult has been widely condemned for hindering the prevention and control of severe acute respiratory syndrome [SARS]." Can it be spelled out any more clearly? This was back in 2008. Fake pandemics as social engineering is a Chinese invention, I guess.
13. A good site with alternative news you may want to bookmark:
14. But of course, this is all a "conspiracy theory" based on "hearsay" that coronavirus is very mild:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/02/politics/joni-ernst-covid-19-coronavirus/index.html
15. Meanwhile, in other news ...
https://www.breitbart.com/education/2020/09/04/homeschooling-surges-public-school-openings-falter/
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I'd also like to share a couple of quotations I ran across in The 5000 Year Leap, a classic introduction to the U.S. Constitution.
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never can be." (Thomas Jefferson, letter to Chas. Yancey, 1816).
"True law is right reason in agreement with nature; it is of universal application, unchanging and everlasting; it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions. . . . It is a sin to try to alter this law, nor is it allowable to repeal any part of it, and it is impossible to abolish it entirely. We cannot be freed from its obligations by senate or people, and we need not look outside ourselves for an expounder or interpreter of it. And there will not be different laws at Rome and at Athens, or different laws now and in the future, but one eternal and unchangeable law will be valid for all nations and all times ..." (Cicero, quoted in The 5000 Year Leap, p. 40)
"But the most foolish notion of all is the belief that everything is just which is found in the customs or laws of nations. . . . What of the many deadly, the many pestilential statutes which nations put in force? These no more deserve to be called laws than the rules a band of robbers might pass in their assembly. For if ignorant and unskillful men have prescribed these deadly poisons instead of healing drugs, these cannot possibly be called physicians' prescriptions; neither in a nation can a statute of any sort be called a law, even though the nation, in spite of being a ruinous regulation has accepted it." (Cicero, quoted p. 44)
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Thoreau's Civil Disobedience has plenty of wisdom for times like ours, and continues the above thought:
