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Signs of Resistance - A Distinct Minority

“A distinct minority of Americans, supported by a distinct minority of elected officials, are keeping us from turning the corner..This is not about freedom or personal choice..” ― Joe Biden (9/9/2021), announcing tyrannical plans to coerce millions of Americans into getting an experimental and undertested gene therapy.

“The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within me. And even though I have to face the prospect of being a minority of one, I humbly believe I have the courage to be in such a hopeless minority.” ― Mahatma Gandhi

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Revealing Questions

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Questioning the Orthodoxy

In the city of Athens, in the year 399 BC, one of the world's greatest thinkers is sentenced to death, condemned to drink the poisonous hemlock.

His alleged crime: "Corrupting the youth of Athens" by "refusing to recognize the gods recognized by the state".

His real crime: encouraging the youth of Athens to think independently, to challenge orthodoxy, and to question, always to question.

The namesake of the Socratic Method and teacher of Plato, this lover of wisdom is known to us as Socrates.

Fast forward to the modern age. Not much has changed, it would seem, for in our advanced, technical, and supposedly secular world it is demanded that we worship a new pantheon of gods. In the modern incarnation the state itself has become a god, perhaps even "the" god. As always, though, the citizen has the subservient role: to accept the absolute authority of the state, to embrace its symbols of power, and to obey, always to obey.

The State: Destroyer of Lives, Enemy of Freedom and Truth

Over the centuries philosophers, teachers and other guides have endeavored to share the tools of reason and evidence, intellectual gifts from our ancestors, to further the discovery of truth. Unfortunately, there have been many times in our history they have been violently and irrationally opposed. Our modern world seems to be one of those times as we are encouraged to reject these tools, to hate the truth, and to submissively wait for the ever changing "truth" of the State to be revealed.

The attack on truth is a part of a larger attack on personal freedom. It is a sickness that has infected societies many times through the ages. It is the dark and monomaniacal desire to rule over others.

Most of us seek only to rule ourselves, and thus have a difficult time imagining the levels of depravity that some will go in their lust to dominate (libido domanandi). We should always understand that any of us can become the next target. Unfortunately, as with war, the most likely victims will be the young and innocent.

Sacrificing the Children

By February 2020 it was known that children and young people had little to fear from the SARS-CoV-2 corona virus. As with other viruses in its class, for the young and healthy it would be far less dangerous than the annual flu. Despite knowing this, and in the ultimate act of cowardice, it was decided that the young would be sacrificed in a vain attempt for the older generations, those with power, to live another six months. That six month figure was based on an early review of the data from the UK and elsewhere showing that the virus primary impacted the elderly and frail and resulted in a loss of about six months of life, on average. Subsequent data revealed that the early assessment was remarkably accurate and that the youth were always at very low risk.

In clear contradiction to the data and basic scientific reasoning, however, in many countries across the globe the lives of the young would be turned upside down. No playing in parks, no seeing friends faces in the classroom, no classroom at all for many, and then for most and, in some countries, no school at all. Fortunately the enlightened Swedes and a scattering of communities globally insisted that the lives of children would be best protected by continuing to live as normal and enriching lives as possible. By leaving sports venues, restaurants, nightclubs and other businesses open and by allowing mask wearing to remain voluntary, places like Sweden created healthy environments for living and, contrary to the hysterical predictions of the press and others, did not become hellholes of death but remained healthy and vibrant communities.

Heroes become villains

Children were not the only innocent victims of governmental reaction to the virus. Front line doctors, nurses and other medical professionals, hailed as heroes at the start of the outbreak, quickly became zeros if they dared question the safety and efficacy of the rushed gene therapy shots. Having seen the serious and sometimes deadly side effects of the shots, many resisted getting the experimental injections, even when their jobs were threatened or even terminated. It was truly appalling. Few others in our society were better positioned to witness the impact of both the "vaccines" and the virus and weigh the actual risks of the minimally tested jabs compared to the disease. To the great detriment to all of us, many were coerced into silence.

Other groups were also targeted. The military, tasked with protecting the homeland from foreign tyranny, was itself attacked by a far more dangerous tyranny within. Healthy young men and women service members, having exceptionally low risk of harm from the novel virus, were forced to be injected with an experimental gene treatment. Religious and medical exemptions were granted rarely, if at all. It was not until December 2022, as part of deal to ensure passage of an insane $858 billion "defense" spending bill, that the vaccine mandates were finally dropped, but not before inflicting untold damage to the ranks of young patriots desiring to serve their country.

In a cruel irony, in their lust to dominate others, it was often governments long dominated by the Democrat party that most negatively impacted their own core constituencies. In cities from LA to Chicago, NYC and DC, restaurants, night clubs, theaters and other businesses were coerced into requiring patrons to present evidence of "vaccination", a clear violation of an individual's right to medical privacy, and privacy in general. Having an institutional knowledge of previous government atrocities such as the four decades of unethical experiments conducted by the CDC on syphilis patients at Tuskegee University, self identified blacks, in disproportionately large numbers, resisted the incredible pressure to receive the undertested and questionable mRNA shots. The end result of the government mandates was a reintroduction of institutionally supported segregation.

Of course, it is the young people who have paid and will continue to pay the greatest price from the reckless, authoritarian and blatantly unscientific actions of governments at multiple levels. The damage done will take decades to assess, but already we know that the impact has been significant, negatively affecting the educational development and physical and emotional health of millions.

Terrorized into believing their every breath could endanger grandma, the beautiful faces of our children were unnecessarily covered in a clear contradiction to the actual data. Muffled in their ability to speak and lacking the ability to see the faces of others, the language development of the very young was severely retarded. Older children did not fare better as national test scores of 4th and 8th graders in the U.S. showed significant decreases, plunging to 30 year lows.

Needlessly restricted from participating in normal and healthy childhood activities, the suicide rate of young people has increased significantly. As early as July 2021 it was shown that "five times more children and young people committed suicide than died of Covid-19 during the first year of the pandemic in the United Kingdom". Increases in obesity, socialization issues and reduced resistance to infection are some of the other negative outcomes of the government mandates and the excessive and irrational fear promulgated by government agencies and the obedient corporate press.

Most horrifying of all are the reports of significant increases of "excess deaths" reported by insurance companies in multiple countries. Insurance companies providing group life insurance to working age populations for large companies have seen huge increases in non-Covid related deaths among 18 to 65 year old workers. For example, Lincoln National, the 5th largest insurance company in the U.S, in 2022 reported a 163 percent increase in death benefit payouts for non-pandemic-related mortality compared to the previous year. These large increases in deaths were not seen in this normally healthy population in 2020 during the height of the initial and most deadly wave of infection but coincided with the mass roll-out of the experimental mRNA injections.

An Economic Crater

In addition to the damage done to their health and welfare, citizens of the U.S. and many other countries are now confronted with the enormous economic damage created by foolish government policies. In the years 2020 and 2021, insane amounts of money were spent by governments across the globe to implement edicts and dictates that did little, if anything, to mitigate the spread of the dreaded virus. One example of this was the utterly irresponsible and ill-conceived act of sending multiple "stimulus" checks to tens of millions of social security recipients already retired and living off of the unsustainable taxation of young workers.

In a coordinated demonstration of mass derangement, the U.S. and other countries went on a massive spending spree, spending money they did not have. The short term solution? Have the central banks print more money. In just two years, the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank (the Fed) increased the money supply by 40 percent. The immediate effects were massive price increases and the devaluing of hard earned savings, disproportionately impacting the working class and those with limited incomes. The long term impacts will likely be a weaker economy and massive debt for the youngest generations for decades to come. These are the same young people already faced with the prospects of bailing out the clearly unsustainable Medicare and Social Security pyramid schemes.

Torturing the Truth

It seems insane that anyone can think that torture is the path to truth, but there are apparently some in government that believe this. It is one of the dark, largely unspoken truths of history that the U.S. government has engaged in torture for centuries. During the Spanish American War of 1898, for example, as the American empire began expanding overseas by seizing formerly Spanish colonies, there were numerous accounts of the "water cure" torture being administered to "uncooperative" Filipinos. This was not an anomaly, however, as government records show that torture has been used against native and slave populations since the 1700's.

In this century, George W. Bush bragged about using torture on suspected "terrorists", Obama kept the torture camp of Guantanamo Bay open and continued to hold suspects for years without due process, and Trump promised that he would torture even more while campaigning in 2016.

We can see from thousands of years of history that torture is something that empires excel at. Given their apparent lack of hesitation in torturing and destroying the lives of human beings, it should not be surprising to see language, and even truth itself, being tortured by those seeking to gain or maintain their power over others.

The lies that we have been subjected to, since the start of the Covid panic, have been monumental and breathtaking in scope. We have seen long standing definitions changed, research data manipulated, opposition voices silenced, and outright lies being propagated by governments and a compliant corporate press. The standard criteria for assigning cause of death was changed to amplify the reported number of deaths "from Covid", creating absurd situations where deaths from accidents were reported as Covid deaths if the patient had tested positive within 30 days of their passing.

So many falsehoods and lies of omission have been propagated that it can be difficult to determine the most damaging. Lockdowns, masking and undertested and coerced vaccinations have all been shown to have significantly detrimental impacts. The use of PCR technology as a method of disease diagnosis was perhaps the most destructive, however, as it provided the foundation for numerous misguided and damaging government edicts.

PCR technology is a method for amplifying small amounts of DNA. It was never meant to be used at a method for diagnosing disease. In the words of its creator, Nobel prize winning Dr. Kary Mullis, "The PCR is a process. It does not tell you that you are sick".

There was ample data at the very beginning showing that using PCR technology as a diagnostic tool was creating large numbers of false positives. A New York Times article from August 29, 2020 suggested that PCR "tests" were resulting in a false positive rate as high as 90%. They reported that most labs were running samples for 40 cycles. This was in contradiction to information provided by Anthony Fauci himself. On a July 17, 2020 “This Week In Virology” podcast, Fauci stated that the PCR Covid test was useless and misleading when the test was run at “35 cycles or higher.” Demonstrating a clear case of bureaucratic incompetence, the FDA at that time was recommending that the PCR process be run for 40 cycles.

In a striking example of outright fraud, in April 2021 the CDC began recommending PCR tests of just 28 cycles, but only for the vaccinated. Any person with even a rudimentary understanding of science and statistics can understand the obvious error of comparing "apples to oranges". It seems likely that this change in policy was driven by the need to drive down the reported number of "breakthrough cases" as more and more "vaccinated" patients were struck ill with Covid 19, puncturing the myth that the experimental mRNA jabs were effective.

The obvious conclusion from the misguided and unscientific use of PCR technology is that the case counts provided by the PCR tests are largely meaningless. The coerced masking, the damaging lockdowns, the forced injections were all built on an unsupportable foundation of fraudulent data.

Down the Rabbit Hole

Given the obviously questionable infection numbers, what was the reason for amplifying the case counts, for panicking the public, for frightening young children and their parents, for shutting down the economy on the basis of questionable data? Why were discussions of gain of function research and lab leaks at Wuhan suppressed? Why was information on natural immunity and the benefits of Vitamin D and exercise not discussed? Why were the screaming warning signs in the CDC's and FDA's own Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) ignored? Why were discussions of early treatments like monoclonal antibodies, antimicrobials and antivirals, safely used by millions of people, attacked mercilessly? Was it because Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) could not be legally granted to the experimental mRNA shots if a viable alternative treatment was available?

Why were corrupt and inept pharmaceutical companies given legal immunity for their unproven and woefully undertested mRNA shots? In 2009 Pfizer was forced to pay out $2.3 billion for fraud, the largest fine in history for a pharmaceutical company, while more recently Johnson and Johnson has had to set aside billions to deal with numerous lawsuits, including many related to asbestos in its baby powder. Moderna, on the other hand, as of 2020 had never had a successful product in its entire ten years of existence.

How did Bill Gates know to make a significant investment in September 2019 in a company called BioNTech, a Pfizer partner, and then cash out with a 15x return 2021, just two years later, when the company was near the peak of its value? Was it the negative reports leaking out that the jabs were neither safe nor effective, contrary to his own previous public statements? Did he know when he sold the stock that the product he had been promoting was an abysmal failure? Does the public know that most of the $250 million in profit made from the sale was “tax free” because it was laundered through his foundation? Perhaps it is time for more people to raise these and other questions and begin to challenge the "Cult of Covid".

Challenging the Covid Cult

"If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we are up for grabs for the next charlatan (political or religious) who comes rambling along." ― Carl Sagan

“Imagine a vaccine so safe you have to be threatened to take it, for a disease so deadly you have to be tested to know you have it.” ― Unknown

In the U.S. and across the globe, millions of people have pushed back against the Cult of Covid. A brave few did this openly, putting their reputations and livelihoods on the line. Many millions of others resisted quietly, carefully navigating the toxic environment created by the immensely destructive authoritarian State, the hijacked corporate media and the compliant majoritarian mob.

In the early days of the lockdown madness, it was encouraging to see members of New York City's Orthodox Jewish community openly resisting the tyrannical and unconstitutional restrictions. Other communities, such as the Amish and Mennonites, took a quieter approach, continuing to practice a healthy lifestyle in their tight knit communities, eschewing masks and allowing their children, never in any real danger from the virus, to build their natural immunities and overall health.

A positive development for real science came in October 2020 in the form of the Great Barrington Declaration. Authored by scientists from Oxford, Harvard and Stanford Medical, the proposal called for focused protection. Signed by tens of thousands of doctors and scientists, it called into question the wisdom of lockdowns and other extreme measures.

Given what we now know about the State's manipulation of social media sites like Twitter, Facebook, Google and others, it is fortunate that a number of independent journalists and alternative news sites have been able to provide valuable information challenging the narrative. Alternate news and opinion sites like Lew Rockwell, Children's Heath Defense, the Epoch Times, the Brownstone Institute, the The Ron Paul Liberty Report and the Tom Woods Show have provided readers and listeners with excellent information to help gain a fuller understanding of the actual risks of the novel virus and the health, social and economic costs of many of the State's actions.

Substack in particular has proven to be a valuable platform for readers to find and support independent journalists and other writers. Alex Berenson, Ian Miller and Eugyppius have all provided excellent information through that platform. Glenn Greenwald continues to do incredible work investigating the State's attacks on our civil liberties. Scientists such as Dr. Robert Malone, inventor of several mRNA delivery technologies, and Dr. Peter McCullough, cardiologist and distinguished researcher, have drawn from their considerable expertise to provide excellent information through Substack and other outlets.

Other special mentions go to Project Veritas for their independent investigations, Zero Hedge, a popular news aggregator for those interested in economics and politics, and the Babylon Bee, a source of consistently good satire for those looking for a laugh!

Embracing a Questioning Attitude

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly." ― Albert Einstein

Science is a process for discovering the true nature of reality. It requires careful observation and measurement. It is driven by curiosity and skepticism. It benefits from honest conversation, rational debate and examining the evidence from multiple perspectives. It is humble in the recognition of its own ignorance.

Science is not an idol to be worshipped and obeyed. It is not a singular "truth" but a process for revealing truth. For science to flourish, dogmatic claims, misleading language and attacks against honest inquiry must be opposed. Together we must stand against the powerful who presume to speak for science or even claim, like the criminally fraudulent Fauci, to be "the science".

For any complex society to succeed, the freedom of every person to question and challenge the prevailing narrative is not a luxury but a necessity. We must each be free to ask the fundamental questions of all good journalism: who, what, why, when and where?

The first amendment right to a free press was not meant to be restricted to those that own a newspaper and a printing press, nor was freedom of speech meant to be restricted to a self-anointed group. With billions of internet-connected smart phones dispersed across the globe, we need not and should not rely on government controlled corporate media to filter and distort reality to fit an obviously false and increasingly destructive narrative.

Every one of us is a miraculous manifestation of consciousness, each with the ability to experience the world with our own senses and to reflect thoughtfully and rationally on those experiences. More than any other person or agency, we each know best what we have personally experienced in our own lives. When our personal experiences and those of others we trust conflict with the official narrative, it is imperative that we embrace a questioning attitude, even when we find ourselves targeted as members of a small but distinct minority.

"The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities." - Ayn Rand