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Got Some Extra TP From Last Spring? Use It For Freedom!

“A Farmer” doesn’t want to see the gains patriots have achieved in Boise and Akron squandered. He suggests,

If you do not have a copy of “Total Resistance” get it.  A good manual on gorilla warfare issued to the Swiss in the early 50’s.

Forward by Wendell Fertig.  He is why MacArthur waded ashore, Furtig was waiting for him with his 30,000 Filipino soldiers.

The book has a lot of things for the civilians to do the enemy. A lot like what just happened in Idaho.  

Follow up needs to be little things like blowing the horn late at night, eggings, TP rolling, weed seed on the lawn, Round-up on the lawn, salt thrown into the shrubbery, putting them on mailing lists for junk mail, ID their cars and put door dents in the parking lot……

Why should the left have all the fun?

Indeed! Defiance is more essential than ever. A people that refuses to be ruled won’t be. Rebel, resist, fight!

11:03 am on December 12, 2020

No Free Speech for Doctors

In an article that appeared in The New York Times on December 11, the psychiatrist Dr. Richard A.  Friedman calls for suppression of doctors who dissent from his views on Covid-19. He says, “Take Scott Atlas, a former Stanford University radiologist with no training or expertise in public health or infectious disease. As President Trump’s special adviser on coronavirus, he cast doubt on the efficacy of face masks, long after science had confirmed their efficacy. He was a staunch proponent of herd immunity — a recommendation that would almost certainly have resulted in vast mortality.”

What should be done with such a dreadful character? “But where is the outcry from medical leaders and various professional organizations in the face of this betrayal of public trust? Where was Stanford University, for example, when its faculty member Scott Atlas was telling Americans that they could forget face masks?. . . Doctors who provide outrageous advice that is far outside the bounds of accepted standards should be investigated by their state board and subject to sanctions, including revocation of their medical license. . . there are limits to what’s allowed, and no doctor should get away with pushing bad advice, especially during a pandemic.”

In England before World War II, some people called psychiatrists “trick cyclists.” I first heard the phrase from Walter Starkie, and Sir Lewis Namier also used it. Dr. Friedman is an apt candidate for the designation.

10:47 am on December 12, 2020

Lies, Corruption, Violence, Threats of Violence, Censorship, Executive Dictatorship at All Levels, Political Blackmail

That’s the new Amerian System.  Any conservative who continues to harrumph, “but we’re a constitutional republic, not a democracy,” should immediately have a big red Bozo the Clown nose implanted on his face.

Every judge in America, including the “supreme” court’s government lawyers with lifetime tenure, was given the clear message over the summer that any rule-of-law-ish opposition to the pre-planned massive vote fraud that was organized by the Demo-Bolsheviks would be met with more pervasive and more violent riots than those conducted by the military wing of the Demo-Bolshevik party — Antifa and Only Black Lives Matter.  The Demo-Bolsheviks knew that no judge would want that on his hands, guaranteeing that the mob would show up at his house — and worse.  The dark art of political blackmail.

9:35 am on December 12, 2020

The Supreme Court Is As Broken A Reed As Ancient Egypt

Marc Davis gave me some unhappy news this morning:

Things have changed in the last few hours. The Supreme Dead have upheld the recent election steal and Joe Biden will be President on January 20th. All that is left is a secession movement of Red States. 

From the beginning of this electoral charade, I never understood why patriots believed the Court would rule in favor of decency and fairness. Does it ever? The Supreme Dorks are Leviathan’s creatures and always have been—all of them. Whether they’re conservative or Marxist, they don’t descend to that level without cooperating and even enthusiastically endorsing the State’s wickedness. They’ve declared abortion, Obummercare, and all manner of other evil “Constitutional.” Heck, way back in 1905, their demonic decision that states may require vaccines and punish those who refuse paved the way for our current hell.

Other options besides secession are also on the table. We are still armed and can defend ourselves from these tyrants. And we can pray. Join me in asking the Almighty to destroy these His enemies and ours.

9:20 am on December 12, 2020

Walter E. Williams, RIP

Here are six letters regarding the passing of my friend Walter, and my responses.

Block, Walter E. 2020. “RIP Walter E. Williams, a great economist and friend.” December 8; https://www.ocregister.com/2020/12/08/rip-walter-e-williams-a-great-economist-and-friend-walter-block/;

Reprint: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/12/walter-e-block/rip-walter-e-williams-a-great-economist-and-friend/;

Link: https://cafehayek.com/2020/12/some-links-1696.html

Block, Walter E. 2020. “A great loss of a free-market African American columnist.” December 7; https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/article_7a7cb95a-38a2-11eb-9802-479cdbeb6b4a.html

Letter 1

Dear John:

Well and truly said. When I first heard of his passing, I felt so sad, empty. He was a great man.

Best regards,

Walter

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4:01 am on December 12, 2020

No One Likes You, Klaus


The Great Reset is creating the pretext for the elite’s technocratic New World Order of the digital, Social Credit Scoring economy and centralized political control in a totalitarian corporatist entity, with all pervasive mass surveillance by facial recognition databases and coercive regimentation. These actions are running parallel with the transition to a cashless society with all financial transactions via a credit/debit card or “electronic purse” monitored through biometric identification using such technologies as fingerprints, hand geometry and retina scanning.

In this time of unprecedented planned chaos, each of us must steel ourselves to understand, discuss and analyze the crucial global dimensions of what is scheduled to take place and how it plays into the technocrats’ plan to control the world’s resources and implement genocidal eugenics-based austerity.

10:23 pm on December 11, 2020

When They Protest COVIDCon in Albania, They Mean It

Mr. Anonymous reports,

Good news from Albania: After police shot and killed a man for violating the pointless, tyrannical coronavirus curfew (naturally, they claimed he had a weapon, but he didn’t), citizens rioted to such an extent that the country’s interior minister resigned and the murderous cop was arrested

8:55 pm on December 11, 2020

How to Write Bureaucrats About Another Bureaucrat

The busybody in question is Dr. Sundari Mase, who “has an interesting history,” Tim McGraw explains. “Prior to being hired as Sonoma County’s Health Officer last March, she was India’s national Tuberculosis Medical Officer and worked for the WHO (Bill Gates).”

“Interesting” is one word for such a resume; “sinister” is another.

And now Tim’s masterpiece:

From: Tim McGraw 

To: publicaffairs@sonoma-county.org <publicaffairs@sonoma-county.org>

Sent: Thu, Dec 10, 2020 9:54 pm

Subject: RE: December 10th, Stay at Home Orders in Sonoma County

Dear Sir,

Please tell Dr. Mase to take her stay at home orders and shove them up her rectum. This crap has been going on since March. Masks, social distancing, lockdowns, etc.. The virus is still being a virus.

It is OBVIOUS to anyone except a government bureaucrat that the masks, social distancing, and lockdowns don’t stop the spread of the virus.

Albert Einstein said years ago that the definition of insanity was doing the same things over and over and expecting a different result.

That’s you being insane. Sell Crazy Someplace Else

But besides all that empirical evidence of your bullshit; you have NO RIGHT to tell us what to do or how to live. This is a free country of liberty. You work for US! We pay your salaries.

Leave us alone.

Sincerely,

Tim McGraw

Healdsburg, CA

8:41 pm on December 11, 2020

It’s Official: Trump Just Got Vote Frauded Out of Office

D.C.’s black-robed deities have issued their decree, giving their blessing to the use of vote fraud by any and all means if it benefits the deep state, of which they are the guardians and gatekeepers.

No wonder the evil, statist moron Woodrow Wilson celebrated in one of his books the fact that the “Civil War” resulted in the “supreme” court becoming the sole arbiter of constitutionality in America.  No longer would the citizens themselves, organized politically at the state and local levels, have any say whatsoever, even indirectly.  From 1865 on, Wilson chortled, everyone’s liberties would be in the hands of five government lawyers with lifetime tenure that isolated them from any negative repercussions from destroying constitutional liberty in America.  And that of course is exactly what they have done over the generations.

In one of his speeches Judge Napolitano asked, “Whatever Happened to the Constitution?”  Well, there you have it:  It was put into the hands of the “supreme” court as its sole interpreters by the Lincoln Republicans.

8:35 pm on December 11, 2020

“Hygiene Theater”

The Washington Post really goofed this time. It published an op-ed by three professors—one of them, absurdly enough, is the “director of the Healthy Buildings program at Harvard University’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health.” Love these oh-so-contrived specialties!–that disputes a foundation of COVIDCon: the obsessive sanitizing of surfaces.

The trio blows this nonsense out of the water with its very first sentence:

We don’t have a single documented case of covid-19 transmission from surfaces. Not one.

So why, then, are we spending a small fortune to deep clean our offices, schools, subways and buses?

Indeed.

Thanks to Vinnie Terranova for alerting me to the WaPo’s bizarre lapse. I’m forwarding this article to the car-rental company: maybe they’ll lower their rates, given the fortune they’ll save on bleach.

7:34 pm on December 11, 2020

Another Template For Protests When Retailers Require Diapers

Sam Picasso—no relation to Pablo, I’m sure, despite his interest in paint—wrote a manager when a favorite store changed its policies on masks:

Boffa’s

33 Gerard Street, Suite 204

Huntington, NY 11743

Attn: Safety Policy Czar

Good Day,

I have been a customer of Boffa’s in various locations for at least twenty years, regularly purchasing Benjamin Moore paints and miscellaneous supplies. Yesterday I entered one of your stores and was immediately told that I needed a mask. No other customers were present.

I asked what for?

The clerk replied that it was company policy.

I asked for whose protection was it intended?

He replied the employees’.

“Really? I asked. “You have exposure to a thousand gallons of carcinogenic compounds in your store,  no virus could live in that.”

We laughed about that and then the conversation became more serious. It was agreed by all of us that none of these so-called safety procedures were of any use, and that this entire mask business is one of control. The icing on the cake was the ludicrous announcement that currency must be sanitized each day after closing. At that point my mask came off and went back into my pocket.

My final statement to them was an apology with regrets that they had to work there under those uncomfortable conditions, but that I had a choice of where I could purchase painting supplies. There is a William Sherman store within a 5-minute walk from my place of employment. They will be seeing more of me. Boffa’s will not.

I urge you to cease blind abeyance to irrational and arbitrary decisions handed down from power-grabbing government officials. That we can now eat in a restaurant without a mask, yet cannot buy paint thinner without one, is totally asinine and without logic.

We as normal citizens and taxpayers must take charge of our own affairs, or the noose around our necks will continue to be tightened.

Regards,

Sam Picasso

6:38 pm on December 11, 2020

Jeff Deist and I Talk About “When Money Dies”

I joined Jeff Deist on the Human Action Podcast today to discuss Adam Fergusson’s seminal history of Weimar-era hyperinflation in Germany, When Money Dies. Americans accustomed to the dollar’s king status have no idea how quickly and brutally a currency can lose value. A big part of the problem is that while it’s always technically possible for the central bank to simply stop monetizing debt and government spending, political calculations means policymakers keep deciding it’s never really a good time to do so. And then things get out of hand. (By the way, Jeff will tell you how to get a free copy of When Money Dies throughout this episode.)

6:07 pm on December 11, 2020

His Mommy Made Him Do It

Karen, a fellow and “Unreconstructed Virginian” wrote me yesterday afternoon about the unenforceable curfew:

His High And Mighty Grand Illustrious Potentate Ralph (Blackface) Northam, Governor of Virginia,  issued a new edict today. It’s a curfew between 12;00 AM and 5 AM. When asked by a reporter why the arbitrary decree he stated, “My mom said nothing good happens after midnight.” Not making this up. Too bad she didn’t teach this post-birth abortion advocate a thing or two about human life.

Even worse that she didn’t practice what he preaches on him. Think of the trouble she’d have saved Virginians.

5:14 pm on December 11, 2020

Noisy in Boise, Smackin’ in Akron

John Basil Barnhill said, “Where the people fear the government you have tyranny. Where the government fears the people you have liberty.” And increasingly, patriots across the country are teaching fear to the unspeakable politicians and bureaucrats who’ve ruined our world.

Dirk Edwards sent me this first story. A petty tyrant in Idaho fled from a meeting of the Central District Health board 

because of protesters at her home.

“My 12-year-old son is home by himself right now and there are protesters banging outside the door,” she said, fighting back tears. “I’m gonna go home and make sure he’s okay.”

Oh, what joy, that finally this criminal cries instead of her victims! Here’s hoping she sobs twice as much as any of them have!

Several minutes later, CDH director Russ Duke said that Mayor Lauren McLean had called and asked the board to end the meeting.

“I got a call from the mayor, and it sounds like the police, and she is requesting that we stop the meeting at this time because of the intense level of protesters in the parking lot and concern for police safety and staff safety as well as the protesters that are at some of our board members’ homes right now,” Duke said. 

…several hundred protesters – most of them not wearing face coverings – 

Yes!

gathered in front of the building during the meeting. The crowd began to disperse after the meeting ended.

These heroes demonstrated “outside the homes of at least three board members…” Naturally, Our Rulers sicced the cops on them. 

Rather than admit that her serfs have tired of tyranny, Boise’s mayor chose to blame “people from outside our community whose purpose here was to disrupt local government in action, to intimidate their families. This is not ok. Let me be clear: we will hold offenders accountable. The rule of law is necessary for our democracy, and local government in action.”

Yo, Dictatress: the rule of law forbids precisely what you and your henchmen on the Control—sorry, Health Board have done to the good folks of Boise. 

Mayorette Moron also insisted, “…no local official should fear violence for their public service.”

Au contraire on every point. Poltroons have always whitewashed the state’s sins against us as “public service,” but Mayorette Moron’s use stretches it far beyond even those lenient bounds. As to whether “local officials” should fear violence for destroying our lives and livelihoods, well, sic semper tyrannis.

Hop across the country with me to Akron, Ohio, for our next thrill. Freedom’s fighters there also hit “local officials’” homes—and a measure of their success lies in the Akron Beacon Journal’s smearing them as “racists.”

Akron’s newspaper is part of “USA Today’s Network,” which puts it somewhere to the left of Pravda. Heartiest congratulations, then, to all the dissidents in the “mostly white crowd upset with local COVID-19 laws that regulate private businesses and homes”! These brave souls 

protested outside a Black councilwoman’s home,

Ahem: catch the capitalization of “Black” while “white” is lower case. Yet Marxists insist the latter are bigots!

where her friends and family came in greater numbers to her defense. …

Many in the crowd had shirts, hats or flags supporting President Donald Trump. … They called Samples [the councilcritter] and those who came to support her expletives, “terrorists” and “rioting trash.”

Samples’ defenders called the crowd expletives, “crackers” and “fatties.”

“Fatties”! Hey, obesity damages the country infinitely less than does despotism.

1:07 pm on December 11, 2020

Marxism Obliterates Any Difference Between Official and Unofficial Looting

Not that there were many to begin with.

David Mueller observes,

In America you can get arrested for opening a business but not for looting a business, and that is because the government can’t distinguish from what it does and what the looters are doing.  Government and the looters are on the same side.

And their goals are identical: enriching themselves while terrorizing us.

10:10 am on December 11, 2020

Herr Northam, get a life!

Lame duck governor (as they all are in Virginia) Ralphie announced a new “order” for all residents of our formerly free commonweal.  I’m torn whether to laugh about its glaring inconsistencies, or chuckle at the wording that makes it preordained to be unenforceable.  Unenforceable orders may be the best kind, of course, for those who prefer liberty.  The part I liked best:  “The curfew starts at 12:01 a.m. Monday for everyone except those going to or from work, buying food or goods, or seeking medical attention…” At least we know what to say in the off chance that someone is going to try and enforce this.  His cavalier attitude towards religious freedom, or freedom of any kind, is on display.  I wonder when our Virginia motto, sic semper tyrannis or thus always for tyrants, will kick in.

10:43 pm on December 10, 2020

Out of 114 Countries, Where Does the U.S. Rank in Terms of Racism?

World traveler Kathleen Brush answers.

10:43 pm on December 10, 2020

Glenn Greenwald: Media Suppression of Biden Family Corruption Story a “Historic Crime and Disgrace”

The recurring pattern of the last four years: intelligence agencies feed lies to the mainstream media who repeat them to advance establishment interests.

10:31 pm on December 10, 2020

Becky’s Fabulous Vacation

I rented a car last weekend for a trip that took me into Trump Country, judging by the forest of signs in yard after yard. Immensely cheering: these patriots firmly reject Marxism, nor are they conceding the election to any thieves. As far as they’re concerned, the contest has not yet been decided; why else would “Trump/Pence” and “Keep America Great” still festoon their lawns more than a month after the polls imploded?

Alas, when I entered any store or restaurant, Masked Morons reigned supreme. I was always and ever the only naked face. Yo, Always-Trumpers: ditch the diaper. Act like free men instead of cringing, sick and sickening Progressives. 

Meanwhile, the Senile Imposter babbles about masks for 100 days should he succeed in stealing the White House. Yee-haw! Wanna bet the Not-My-President majority bares its visage once and for all after that? Senile Imposter’ll be the best thing that ever happened to the Anti-Mask Brigade!

Tragically, COVIDCon was on full display at the rental company, with the clerks swathed in masks (and no doubt envying my ease in breathing). A huge bottle of hand-sanitizer lurked on the counter; as I am barely 5’ tall, I was eye-level with it. And there, in the upper left corner, was the disclaimer, “Kills Most Bacteria.”

The clerk touched her mask about 14 times before reaching for my driver’s license and credit card. Oh, yuck. Give me some sanitizer that kills viruses, and I’d have doused the two pieces of plastic in it. After adjusting her “face covering” (any theories on why that’s the preferred jargon lo, these many months? When and why did it replace “mask”?) another couple of dozen times, she handed me the car’s key. Yuck again. But the crowning lunacy was arriving at the vehicle to find a sticker sealing the door: “SANITIZED FOR YOUR PROTECTION!” 

I hated to climb inside with my contaminated cards and key.

8:07 pm on December 10, 2020

Doing Washington State’s Namesake Proud!

Must be something in the air way out West–perhaps the stench from Olympia–because multitudes there are defying tyranny! And their rebellion has encouraged patriots across the country: no less than three of LRC’s readers sent me stories about the revolts in one day!

From Kathleen comes an account of Mossyrock, a town that

passed an ordinance allowing businesses to stay open in defiance of Gov. Inslee’s COVID mandates. Mayor Randall Sasser argues that there’s little data to support keeping businesses closed, and that not all areas should be held to the same standard. … 

“One of the interesting comments I made at our council meeting was that in Lewis County this year, we’ve had a total, as of today, of 14 deaths due to COVID, unfortunately,” he said. “But so far this year, we’ve had 10 suicides, and last year there was only three suicides in Lewis County. So when we look at the shutdowns and everything that’s happening and there’s no data that says the Mossyrock area … has any cases or deaths, why then should we suffer as a city and as citizens following the governor’s mandate?” …

Sasser … believes the approach that’s being taken in the state of Washington is more about control.

No!

“Early on, I thought it was a financial thing, but I believe it’s more of a control than anything else,” he said.

And I believe the old boy is onto something.

“I believe that they want to be able to control us and tell us what we need to do and get us accustomed to always following what they say. Because I believe that there is something bigger that they have planned to keep us under their thumb.”

Clearly, this mayor-cum-whistleblower has no higher political ambitions.

“First thing, I believe that they’re definitely going to try to get some sort of income tax to pay for all of the money that’s been printed,” he added. “I believe also that as people are just following whatever the governor says that it makes it easier for them to … pass legislation for gun control and that sort of thing.”

What’s more revolutionary: Sasser’s “conspiracy theory” or his protecting serfs from Inslee’s despotism?

Next, Kevin Akesson from Washington State informed me of a secession movement there. He explains, “This group has been organized for a few years now.  Establishment leaders are well aware of it.“  Hmmm. I hope it’s more of a threat than that statement implies.

Finally, Jean cheered the news that a dissident in “SE Washington State” will host a mask-burning party:

Time To Party Like It’s 1773!

On December 16th, in honor of those Bostonians who dressed like Indians (and thus committed a terrible hate crime) who had the audacity to dump King George’s tea into Boston Harbor rather than pay the King’s tax, I will be holding a Mask-Burning Party, my place, at 6:30 PM PDT. …

The colonists protested taxation without representation and the suspension of their rights as British subjects.

Me, I’m not protesting a damn thing.

I AM asserting my rights as a free American citizen. I have the right to free speech and the right to peacefully assemble. These are not rights conferred by government, nor are they rights the government can revoke; they are granted to me by a power greater than the government. I intend to exercise my rights fully, despite the unconstitutional edicts of Governor Inslee.

Whoa! Clearly not a product of the public educational gulag!

I further assert that I have the right to pursue happiness – and the non-scientific twaddle about masks gives me the sads. So, I’m going to burn some of mine in my front yard. That will make me happier. I’m inviting friends, all three of them, neighbors, and random passers-by.

The only people not invited? Well, the petty tyrants, of course. And, those folks who are in the danger zone for the WuFlu – elderly, one foot on a banana peel, the other in the casket. We’re Americans – we’re capable of good judgment. (Most of the time and when it counts, that is.) This flu is dangerous to one group. Toast us from afar, please, and we’ll return the compliment.

If you can’t make it to my Mask-Burning Party, I understand. Wednesday nights are a tough party night, and I live in the middle of nowhere, the epitome of fly-over, drive-around, you can’t get here territory. So, consider having party of your own. The Boston Tea Party wasn’t the only event of its kind – there were similar splashes up and down the Eastern Seaboard. Go wild, have your own party, laugh at the progs, remind them of who and what you are .

Ornery. Independent. Americans.

This Ornery, Independent American seconds his motion. May bonfires of masks burn from one coast of this formerly free country to the other! “Remember, remember/The sixteenth of December…”! 

And brew a pot of tea, too.

7:19 pm on December 10, 2020

What If The Vaccine Isn’t a Vaccine?

David asks,

Media reports refer to the SCOTUS Jacobson vs. Massachusetts 197 U.S. 11 (1905) case as the precedent as to making vaccines mandatory for the populations.  The definition of a vaccine is “a preparation of killed microorganisms, living attenuated organisms, or living fully virulent organisms that is administered to produce or artificially increase immunity to a particular disease”.  This is the definition of a vaccine from multiple sources.  The CDC website states the mRNA  “vaccine” does not use a weakened or inactivated germ into our bodies. Instead, they teach our bodies how to make a protein that triggers an immune response in our bodies.  So, if the mRNA “vaccine” is not really a vaccine by the definition of the word how could a ruling 115 years ago by SCOTUS dealing with vaccines have any applications to mRNA  today?   

Poor David! Through how much impenetrable legalese did he wade to so neatly defeat Our Rulers?

Alas, dictators who have repeatedly and incorrigibly demonstrated their supreme contempt for the Constitution, us, and even simple decency probably won’t relinquish their grandiose schemes because of a definition.

So while I congratulate David on his scholarship, I fear it won’t persuade our enemy.

When I said as much to him, David responded, “You are right … [but] We just want to give the friendlies more ammo.”

Yo, Friendlies: lock and load. 

4:48 pm on December 10, 2020

Radio Rothbard: Why the Electoral College Matters

The important thing about the electoral college is not that it’s in the Constitution, or that the so-called “founding fathers” thought it was swell. The important thing to know is that it is a byproduct of the fact the framers of the Constitution recognized the United States was a collection of diverse and independent states which could only be held together in the long term by a system that offered both large and small states a chance at power-sharing.

In spite of the fact the Left (probably) won the 2020 election, we’re still hearing calls for the abolition of the electoral college. If successful, this could lead to one-party rule for the Democrats and accelerate national division. National division, conflict, and de facto separation is the likely prognosis for the United States in any case, but abolition of the electoral college could accelerate a more chaotic and acrimonious separation.

Tho Bishop and I discuss some recent developments in this debate in this week’s episode of Radio Rothbard:

4:25 pm on December 10, 2020

The Evil Empire Strikes Back Again

A bill in committee at New York State’s Assembly that “Relates to administering a COVID-19 vaccine” states in part:

IF PUBLIC HEALTH OFFICIALS  DETERMINE  THAT  RESIDENTS  OF  THE STATE  ARE NOT DEVELOPING SUFFICIENT IMMUNITY FROM COVID-19, THE DEPARTMENT SHALL MANDATE VACCINATION FOR ALL INDIVIDUALS OR GROUPS OF INDIVIDUALS WHO, AS SHOWN BY CLINICAL DATA, ARE PROVEN TO BE  SAFE  TO  RECEIVE SUCH VACCINE.

Yes, the legislation allows medical exemptions—but the doctors who grant those exemptions look to the state for permission to practice medicine. Whom will they placate: patients who oppose this vaccines or the bureaucrats who can yank their licenses?

Ah, but there’s a bright side: New York City’s Mayor Mao, a.k.a.,  Bill DeBlabbio, seems to be working at cross-purposes to the Assembly. DeBlabbio has degraded the Big Apple so fearsomely that its serfs have vamoosed. That means far fewer victims remain for the Public Control–sorry, Health monsters to jab than formerly.

Thanks to David Mueller for alerting me to this horror.

4:24 pm on December 10, 2020

Mike Rowe on the Dangers of the Obsession with Safety (12.9.20)

Absolute stunner: the law of diminishing returns applies to safety. Safety measures beyond an optimal point bring more accidents. Sam Peltzman (1975): seat belt laws brought about little change in the number of driver deaths but increased pedestrian deaths. C.S. Lewis: On Living in an Atomic Age.

1:25 pm on December 10, 2020

Melinda Gates: ‘We Hadn’t Thought Through The Economic Impacts’

12:52 pm on December 10, 2020

A Spartan Speaks

“Leonidas” copied me on his

letter to Costco. The 4 enclosures are the pieces of my membership card.

09 December 2020

Costco Wholesale Corporation                     

2900 Cumberland Mall SE                     

Atlanta, GA 30339

Attn: Ainsley Brown General Manager

Re: your communication to me of 4 December 2020

Dear Ainsley Brown

Thank you for your clarification of the new no-tolerance policy instituted on 16 November 2020 at Costco locations regarding your dress code. I apologize for being unaware of the change prior to being rudely accosted by the two harridans posted at the entrance at 10:09 hrs 1 December. 

Gradually over our 30 year Costco membership my hearing has degenerated to the degree of a permanent disability.

For that reason and in order to function near normally I utilize various strategies to communicate e.g. electronic behind the ear devices, reading lips, body language and rudimentary signing. I cannot wear a surgical face mask due to the straps interfering with the devices nor can I read the lips of a person wearing a face covering.

Due to the issuing of ukases by ignorant and petty authority figures, my hearing aid provider has supplied me with an explanation card addressing the issue of my being unable to submit to the current compliance kabuki. Prior to 16 November 2020 the above had sufficed at your business location.

I have noted that your business makes an effort to comply with the Federal “Americans with Disabilities Act” regarding the reserving of convenient parking, providing electric ambulatory vehicles and allowance of  service animals. For that reason I am puzzled by your insistence on the wearing of more or less useless facial coverings. 

In any event, I thank you for refunding my recently submitted membership fee without my having to request it.

Incidentally, I would call your attention to this non political presentation by an eminent scientific authority. It is well worth your valuable time: <https://odysee.com/@clive:6/Mike-Yeadon-Unlocked-Why-Lockdown-was-a-mistake:5?fbclid=IwAR2sh7hKvF9F_9Xa62E6jkuDZNlG4soFkV6HLEeodg28LP7zq3qOB82TUN0>

Sincerely,

Leo

4 enclosures

A worthy template for other customers Costco expels, despite Mr. L’s courtesy to this corporate busybody.

10:58 am on December 10, 2020

Torches Against Tyranny

Someone once said that evil is never creative, that it only imitates and repeats. And COVIDCon has certainly proven that observation, as a governor here or there seizes on some despotic measure, and soon his worthless cohorts impose it on their serfs as well. 

We see this monkey-see,-monkey-do phenomenon in the curfews states have decreed. Generally, these dictates restrict serfs to their homes overnight, when most of us are there anyway. They also include so many exemptions (a tacit admission of such mandates illegality?) that anyone who wants to leave his premises will. Nor need he fear enforcement; only businesses, which is to say bars and restaurants, suffer penalties for defying this nonsense.

Mark Seiler proposes some fun to oppose this tyranny:

Here in North Carolina today King (F.) Roy Cooper issued a curfew for the entire state from 10P to 5A. Of course there are many exemptions but, I think we need to start having Candle Light Vigils across the country to protest these outrages. I think they should be called Liberty Candle Vigils.

Here’s how to make yours… 

Go forth and light up the night for freedom, all ye villeins!

10:46 am on December 10, 2020

No Wonder I Hated School!

Don McFadden writes that 

Biderman’s work is reminiscent of Dr. Steven Hassan’s research on mind control in cults. Hassan developed the BITE model: “My mind control model outlines many key elements that need to be controlled: Behavior, Information, Thoughts and Emotions (BITE). If these four components can be controlled, then an individual’s identity can be systematically manipulated and changed.” 

Several years ago, I compared compulsory government schooling to the BITE model on my blog post titled “Destructive mind control as a public service.” 

Unsurprisingly, government schooling has most of the characteristics of an authoritarian cult.

10:06 am on December 10, 2020

Glenn Greenwald: The Erosion of Free Speech and Imposition of Imperious Conformity and Repressive Groupthink by the Establishment Corporate Regime Media and the Doctrinaire Left


Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald on leaving The Intercept for Substack, and the erosion of free speech and imposition of imperious conformity and repressive groupthink by the establishment corporate regime media and the doctrinaire left.

9:12 am on December 10, 2020

America’s “Globalist Billionaires” Are Selling Us Out to China


Wall Street is selling out the United States to Communist China. US China policy for decades has been influenced by Wall Street lobbyists at companies like Blackrock, Blackstone, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, and pushed forward by willing politicians. And now China wants the great reset of US China relations. And their old friends in Wall Street are helping. Plus, Chinese dean Di Dongsheng was caught in a speech bragging about how China captures the American elite.

See this related Glenn Greenwald article, The Hunter Biden Criminal Probe Bolsters a Chinese Scholar’s Claim About Beijing’s Influence With the Biden Administration

8:06 am on December 10, 2020