A Declaration by the People of Utah Ending the State of Emergency

If you are a Utah resident you can sign this: Termination of State of Emergency and Emergency Powers by the People of Utah.

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A group of Belgian doctors has put together an open letter that does a good job of explaining why the state of emergency, including widespread censorship and house arrest, needs to end worldwide: https://docs4opendebate.be/en/open-letter/

Below is a graph which to me sums up all the most relevant facts surrounding the covid scare and its absurdity. Take your time looking at this and thinking about what it means. (You can click on it to view the entire video, which is full of excellent analysis):

Note that this graph is for Sweden, which had no lockdowns, no quarantine, no required face masks. This shows the total mortality rate for the country, deaths from any cause. You can see quite clearly that the Spanish Flu was many times worse than Covid-19. You can even see that back in the nineties there were seasonal spikes (these are caused by the flu and pneumonia and related respiratory illnesses) that were much worse than the Covid spike!

Take some time to let this sink in. Never before has the media made so much noise over so mild an illness.

But here's the essential point: No disease, no plague, no virus, no state of emergency whatsoever justifies government violation of rights to Life, Liberty, and Happiness. Furthermore, no government can revoke those eternal laws of Christian charity that command us to care for the sick, comfort those in prison, and allow the poor their daily bread. Out of fear, we are allowed the government to restrict our carrying out of these duties. I have watched my grandfather's health decline in quarantine, so that he can no longer walk and has worsening infections in his feet, all to prevent a virus that rarely kills unless there is some other deadly condition present. And we have been barred from visiting him in person -- we must seen him behind glass, faces covered by masks. He can't even take part in family gatherings, spending an entire day with his grandchildren and great-grandchildren as he once could. His right to happiness in his last moments of life have been taken away. 

It is no wonder to me that the early Christian withstood the plagues of the Dark Ages better than any Pagan did. The Pagans, more scared of death than of breaking the laws of charity, quarantine their loved ones and ran away, and their economies collapsed and their societies more often succumbed to the plagues. Christians, who continued to work to earn their living, and to care for the sick and comfort the lonely, even at risk to themselves, gaining the immunity necessary to end the crisis.  

https://www.biola.edu/blogs/good-book-blog/2020/how-did-early-christians-respond-to-plagues

Even with Spanish Flu, which was ten times worse than Covid, we did not lock down, did not restrict freedoms. If we had--it is becoming abundantly clear--it would have been even worse.

For example, consider this warning from the United Nations World Food Program: "[We] could see 300,000 people die per day over a 90-day period":

"Pandemic could mean 260 million people worldwide 'marching toward starvation'"

Links: Unite for Freedom, Homeschooling Surge, the End of the Pandemic

"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:

https://www.mintpressnews.com/mass-tracking-covi-pass-immunity-passports-slated-roll-15-countries/269006/

9. The brutality of lockdown is crossing over into outright totalitarianism in some places:

https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2020/08/12/letters-from-melbourne-ghost-town-police-state-under-brutal-covid-lockdown/

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://childrenshealthdefense.org/news/robert-f-kennedy-jr-speaks-at-berlin-rally-for-freedom-and-peace/?itm_term=home

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:

https://www.globalresearch.ca 

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/politics/2020/09/04/tennessee-woman-who-died-6-months-ago-receives-letter-claiming-she-has-coronavirus/

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:

"Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once? Men generally, under such a government as this, think that they ought to wait until they have persuaded the majority to alter them. They think that, if they should resist, the remedy would be worse than the evil. But it is the fault of the government itself that the remedy is worse than the evil. It makes it worse."

"[P]erhaps you may consider whether the remedy will not be worse than the evil; but if it is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine. What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do not lend myself to the wrong which I condemn."

"Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison."