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Freedom’s The Maine Thing

Jean Carbonneau reports from Maine:

Last week, the tyrant-brute, Governor Janet Mills, mandated all healthcare workers to be jabbed by Oct 1st.  Well, people here are pushing back.  I attended a protest here in Portland … this past Saturday.  Had a decent turnout.  About 300 plus turned out on a very hot, humid day, but it was worth it.  It was peaceful, and great speakers spoke, and the protest took place near the largest hospital in Maine.  As you guessed, most of the protestors were people in the healthcare field.  I spoke with many of them, and most are either retiring, or going to look for other work.  None of these people will ever take this jab.  It’s good to see this resistance.  

And good to read of it, too! Especially when the corporate media ignores such spirited opposition. Do not lose heart in your stance against evil. People are awakening and objecting; we are no longer the minority! But this combat requires perseverance.

10:37 am on August 17, 2021

Re: The New World Order, Courtesy of Rube Goldberg

9:04 am on August 17, 2021

The One Best Example of the Word “Oxymoron” is Now Cemented into Place

“Military Intelligence” now replaces “Jumbo Shrimp.”  If you are a member of the “intelligence community” you are, by definition, a moron (and, of course, a pathological liar as well).

8:21 am on August 17, 2021

Potential Terror Threats

8:05 am on August 17, 2021

Obedience

8:00 am on August 17, 2021

CDC Libertarians Don’t Like Governor DeSantis

CDC libertarians love the Covid-19 vaccine. Even in an article critical of mask mandates, CDC libertarians have to criticize Florida Governor Ron DeSantis for making it “difficult for both government agencies and private businesses to require vaccination.” His “COVID-19 declarations get in the way of individual public schools or districts requiring teachers to get vaccinated as a condition of employment.” Good. No government entity should require anyone, employee or not, to get the Covid jab. Three cheers for Governor DeSantis. Why would a libertarian think otherwise?

I am waiting for these CDC libertarians to name Dr. Fauci libertarian of the year. But of course, they hate Trump, one of the greatest proponents of the vaccine they so love.

8:16 pm on August 16, 2021

Lawfare in the USSA’s Kangaroo Courts

Mr. Anonymous disputes that, “You can help support Brian with his legal fees at his website fight4kolfage.com.” He rages,

I’m sorry, but “lawfare” doesn’t work in this country anymore, now that the rule of law is as dead as the founding generation that gave it to us. In particular, the federal government is the most criminally lawless body in the world, with rigged kangaroo courts that would make Koba Stalin weep with envy and that are peerless at crushing those who are unfortunate enough to stand before them. Spending money on lawyers to fight this satanic body is as useless a move as taking aspirin to cure cancer. The federal courts eat defense attorneys for breakfast.

No, let people who want to help Brian Kolfage keep their money and instead gather together in as massive numbers as they can and take up arms to free him from these satanic monsters. There are MILLIONS of Brian’s fellow veterans out there (yours truly included) capable of making this happen. While they’re at it, they can spring everyone else in Uncle Sam’s hoosegow. As thoroughly corrupt and compromised as the federal judiciary is and has been for decades, none of their convictions or prison sentences should be allowed to stand, and everyone held in Uncle’s gulags should be immediately released. 

Hear, hear!

Would there be real and possibly dangerous criminals among those released? Most certainly, but none are anywhere near as dangerous as the people who locked them up!

That gets a standing O!

As you can guess, I’m at the point where I’m done with the system, but am probably even more fed up with people who continue to insist on playing by our demonic overlords’ one-sided rules for chumps, even as they plainly see what contempt said overlords have for both them and “rules.” No wonder they keep turning the screws tighter! “Chump” is the perfect description for anyone who thinks lawyering up Brian Kolfage is going to do anything other than make them and Brian poorer and corrupt insider shysters richer while Brian will still gets buried in the gulag!

What are we now, five seconds to midnight with the Revolution?

5:50 pm on August 16, 2021

New York City’s Future

What happens when rulers force all restaurants, bars, grocery-stores, museums, delis, sports, theaters, hospitals—in short, the entire public sphere—to prohibit the unJabbed from entering? And when they also compel workers at these venues to submit to their monstrous experiment as a condition of employment? 

Look to France for the answer:

All the low paid employees quit, they can make more on welfare here. (for now) We can still technically “get take out food” but I just tried last night and every restaurant in our town (that is dine in with take out) has closed their doors due to the lack of staff. … [Medical personnel] took to the streets by the millions and now all the hospitals just lost another 50% of staff capacity. My doctor just went into early retirement (a.k.a. he quit) and I have yet to find a replacement. … Aug 15th Truckers will be going on strike nation wide; Blocking all access roads in and out of Paris.

Yesterday an entire airport in Northern France closed due to the majority of staff quitting.

Thanks to Bill Martin for sending this cautionary tale.

5:27 pm on August 16, 2021

The Satanic State’s Jabs

One of Canada’s recent martyrs, Tim Stephens, lists the reasons that faithful Christians who truly love the Lord rather than Leviathan will oppose mandatory Jabs:

Last year we heard over and over again from Christian leaders the need to follow the government mandates surrounding COVID (like masks, restrictions on gatherings, travel, etc) because this is what it means to love our neighbor, obey Romans 13, and be a good witness for Jesus. I’m not sure if we’ll hear the same refrain again or not, but let’s look at those categories in light of mandatory vaccinations.

Love For Neighbor (Matthew 22:39)

If you love your neighbor, you will oppose mandatory vaccines! You will oppose mandatory vaccines to qualify for jobs or to keep a job. You will oppose mandatory vaccines for travel, for commerce, or to access any service. Why? When we love our neighbor we respect what belongs to them.

God has given us commands not to steal or covet our neighbor’s wife or possessions. Why? Because those things belong to him. They are a stewardship given by God. Personal property, children, or means of income are not to be violated, destroyed, or taken. To uphold justice is to uphold a person’s lawful right to their property and possessions. In an increasingly unbiblical society that rejects this notion, we should advocate that our neighbors have, and to continue to have, what is theirs. And even more important than protecting property is protecting life, safety, health, and choices surround such matters.

Mandatory vaccines will hurt our neighbors. They will prevent travel, prevent continuing a career, or prevent informed medical choice as our neighbors are coerced into compliance. Mandatory vaccines will hurt our neighbors since this will further divide families, communities, and our country. This will create a two class society, a social credit score, further censorship of doctors or scientists, and further challenges to conscientious objectors. Does not loving our neighbor demand we stand against such harms brought against them?

Obeying Romans 13

If you believe Romans 13, you will oppose mandatory vaccines. This may seem counter-intuitive since we’ve repeatedly heard Romans 13 used to justify obeying our authorities—even as they restrict and regulate the corporate worship of Christ’s bride. If you believe Romans 13, you will see that our governing authorities have gone beyond the mandate of public justice that we see in verse 4, “For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God’s wrath on the wrongdoer.” The government is using the power of the sword—intended to punish the wrongdoer—to punish those who do not agree with being injected with a medical treatment that has received emergency approval for a disease with very little risk for most people.

If we honor our authorities, honor their role under God, and honor our democratic system in which the government rules by the permission of the people, we will tell them plainly that they have crossed the line once again.

Did the prophets not love God, the king of Israel, and the people by warning the king of his folly? Were the prophets schismatics or rebellious traitors as they called the king to his rightful duty? Did John the Baptist not do what was loving for Herod by caring enough for his soul to call out his sin? Will the church stand united to love our governing authorities by telling them they have gone beyond their mandate and are taking the place of God by seeking to bind the conscience of the people? Will we pray, stand, and call them to repentance, not only for their unjust laws, but for their sin before God to whom they will give an account? Who will be the conscience of the nation, and the voice of truth if not for the church?

 A Good Witness (Luke 21:12–13)

We’ve seen over the past eighteen months that a good witness is not synonymous with a good reputation. It has often been assumed that if the world appreciates you, you have been a good witness for Jesus. After all, if they like you they may like Jesus too. We must surely reject such notions of witness or testimony.

In Luke 21:13, after being persecuted and handed over to the courts for acting in loyalty to Jesus and his word, it says, “This will be your opportunity to bear witness.” It is the contrast of God’s righteousness to the world’s evil that brings opportunity to bear witness.

If you desire to be a witness for the Lord Jesus Christ and the gospel, you will oppose mandatory vaccines. You will oppose it because it is contrary to God’s design and boundaries he has established for human governments. By so doing, you will endure the hatred of the world. “This will be your opportunity to bear witness” (Luke 21:13). We will confess that Jesus is Lord of lords and King of kings. We will explain how he is the only lord of the conscience and that he has given authority to the family and individuals in this regard that do not belong to the state. We will explain that we will render to Caesar what is Caesar’s but our bodies belong to the Lord.

By defending the right of the business owner, the medical choices of a family, or the travel of individuals, we bear witness that it is God who is sovereign, not the governments of men. We bear witness that we have freedom because there is a higher law that holds everyone to account. And through this, we will bear witness to the supremacy of Christ, the beauty of the gospel, and the truthfulness of his word.

Conclusion

May God grant us unity as the body of Christ to stand for truth, love our neighbor, respectfully direct the government to its duty, and bear witness of the greatness of Christ in this cultural moment.

“The king’s heart is a stream of water in the hand of the Lord; he turns it wherever he will. Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the heart. To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice” (Proverbs 21:1–3).

Thanks to Kevin, who forwarded Pastor Stephen’s email to me. 

4:40 pm on August 16, 2021

Should We Blame Biden For Afghan War Loss?

12:37 pm on August 16, 2021

Wisdom from Rothbard

The collapse of the American-backed state in Afghanistan brings home the wisdom of Murray Rothbard’s essay “The Death of a State,” written in July 1975.  The lessons that Rothbard drew from the fall of South Vietnam apply equally to the present crisis. Among these were the importance of guerilla warfare, the dependence of all states on majority support, and the blow to U.S. imperialism with its false doctrine that “the United States has the moral duty, and the permanent power, to install, prop up, and rule governments and peoples throughout the world. We are being forced into a policy of ‘neo-isolationism,’ unfortunately not through the adoption of moral principle, but through the concrete realization that imperialism is no longer realistically viable.” We should follow Rothbard’s advice and end all American overseas military commitments.

11:16 am on August 16, 2021

No Hidden Code, Just a Hidden Agenda

Many of you offered theories as to why “233” appears so frequently in reports of COVIDCon’s alleged casualties. But Don McFadden, a “retired CPA/MBA,” observes, 

The apparent anomaly of the repeating news of 233 new cases of Covid appears to be a reflection of the obsessive reporting of the PCR tests results (i.e. the fake cases). If you run other numbers through a search engine (preferably not Google), you will find many hits on those as well. The real conspiracy is the use of high cycle thresholds on the PCR tests and then calling them “cases” as if they were diagnosed with the disease.

And the conspiracy inspiring that conspiracy is totalitarianism. 

10:01 am on August 16, 2021

The Old Dominion Does Its Heritage Proud!

This outstanding story of Virginia’s serfs rising against their rulers was behind a paywall, so Mr Anonymous kindly extracted it for us:

MONTEREY — The Highland County School Board voted to defy Governor Ralph Northam’s public health order on Thursday night.

See? Told ya this story inspires!

After a contentious meeting that lasted more than three hours, board chairman Kenny Hodges made a motion not to accept the COVID-19 mitigation policy proposed by superintendent Dr. Tom Schott and instead make masks in school optional with a letter sent to parents to state their choice for their children.

There’s a novel concept!

Hodges and school board member Sherry Sullenberger discussed their concerns with masks and parental choice and potential legal liability for the school and the board for each option.

“I truly have a problem with masks,” Hodges said. “I have a problem with the masks, but I know this puts Dr. Schott in an awkward position because it’s a law.”

Many people in the audience shouted, saying masks were only a recommendation.

What an astute group!

Thursday afternoon, Gov. Northam announced a Public Health Emergency Order requiring universal masking in all indoor settings in Virginia’s K-12 schools for all students, teachers, staff, and visitors ages two and up. The order reinforces current state law, which requires Virginia schools to adhere to mitigation strategies outlined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. …

Sheriff David Neil spoke up, recommending the school board not require masks. “I hope you all vote your conscience and  not what the governor’s telling you to do,” Neil said. “These masks things are just a compliance thing … I’d like to see people in Highland county take a stand,” Sheriff Neil continued. “Let them take us to court.”

Whoa! No doubt a member of CSPOA!

“Who’s liable if we go against the department of health recommendations and the governor’s recommendation?” board member Joe Neil asked. “Who is going to get sued? It is the board who gets sued.”

Neil responded that he was advised by the commonwealth’s attorney, Melissa Dowd. “If I’m scared of getting sued, I should go home.”

Joe Neil replied he was thinking of going home. Several people in the audience shouted for him to resign.

Good advice, Neil. Take it.

Several people spoke out against masks and demanded a decision from the board so they could make alternate education plans if masks were mandated.

“We could be losing students,” Sullenberger said, and many people shouted, “Yes.”

Some people shouted questions, asking if masks would still be required on buses, which is a federal order.

“Are we going to buck federal, too?” Sullenberger asked, but no motion was made addressing masks on buses. …

Hodges declared the motion to make masks optional with a letter to parents passed.

Yee haw! Here’s hoping for thousands more reports like this one nationwide!

9:30 am on August 16, 2021

“Graveyard of Empires” Claims Another Victim


“Graveyard of Empires” Claims Another Victim, by James Corbett

So what’s really happening in Afghanistan?

The simplest answer to that question might be: Nothing unexpected. After all, the country is called “The Graveyard of Empires” for a reason.

First, the history lesson: Situated on the main land route between Iran, Central Asia and India, Afghanistan has for millennia been recognized as a key square on the geopolitical chess board. The country has been subject to periodic invasions and conquests by various civilizations—the Macedonians, the Mauryans, the Greco-Bactrians, the Indo-Scythians, the Mongols, etc.—for thousands of years. In fact, control of Afghanistan continues to be recognized as the strategic lynchpin of any would-be world empire in the modern age, with Zbigniew Brzezinski having defined the “Eurasian Balkans” in which Afghanistan sits as the pivot point of global geopolitics for the 21st century.

In the 19th century, Britain came to see Afghanistan as a valuable buffer between the Russians and the crown jewel of the British Empire: India. This led to a century-long covert proxy war for control over the country known to history as The Great Game and resulted in not one, not two, but three wars between the British Empire and the Emirate of Afghanistan. Spoiler: it didn’t end well for the British.

In the late 20th century, Afghanistan once again became the victim of a dramatic invasion (and a witness to the eventual retreat) of a major world superpower. This time, it was the Soviet Union’s turn to fail to subdue the notoriously ungovernable country, drawn in by America’s campaign to stir up “some agitated Muslims” and restore order to a politically turbulent country. Ten years later—after the CIA had engaged in the largest (acknowledged) covert operation in history and overseen the birth of Al CIAda in their attempt to “bleed” the mighty Soviet Empire to death—the CCCP’s mighty army was marching back to Moscow with their tails between their legs.

Now it’s America’s turn to suffer the same fate. Almost exactly 20 years after rolling into the country (for completely fictitious reasons and on completely spurious grounds), they are now exiting the country in disgrace. And so, from a purely historical perspective, we can say that this chaotic ending to the American Empire’s Afghanistan adventure is not unexpected.

We have to understand that Afghanistan was invaded for a number of overlapping geostrategic, military and economic reasons. In no particular order, these reasons include:

All of which makes this “withdrawal” all the more puzzling. Why is Biden pulling out at all? All of the geostrategic and economic imperatives that prompted the invasion 20 years ago are still in play today; in fact, given China’s growing influence in the Central Asian region, it’s arguably even more important for America to have a military deployment on their doorstep than it was in 2001.

9:14 am on August 16, 2021

They Died in Vain

It is being reported that the Taliban will soon declare the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. I have said for years and years that every U.S. soldier who died in Afghanistan died in vain. I rest my case.

4:15 pm on August 15, 2021

Senile Joe Sending 5,000 MORE Troops to Afghanistan . . .

. . . as part of his “Troop Drawdown” policy, as reported today by the LMS (Lying Media Scum).

10:07 am on August 15, 2021

Modern Educayshun

2:59 am on August 15, 2021

Biden Sends More Troops to Afghanistan

Instead of having U.S. troops just get out of Afghanistan, Biden is sending 5,000 more troops to help the thousands there to get out. As I have said from the beginning of the war in Afghanistan: Just get out! Walk away, fly away, drive away, sail away—just get out. How many more troops will have to be sent to help the 5,000 to get out?

7:38 pm on August 14, 2021

Happy 140th Birthday, Smedley Darlington Butler

Brainwashed

12:45 pm on August 14, 2021

“Once the Dept. of [In]Justice goes after a target who’s pro-God, pro-family, and pro-American they never stop”

Senior Airman Brian Kolfage while on his second deployment for Operation Iraqi Freedom … was severely injured by a bomb in Iraq.  Somehow Brian survived but he lost both his legs and an arm, one of the most severely injured soldiers in US history to make it.

This hero went on to get married and start a family and then he joined forces with Steve Bannon and others to “Build a Wall” on the Southern border.  And they did, they built a wall with donations from people across the USA.

Now, astute students of liberty understand how walls eviscerate our inalienable right to go and to live where we please. They also know that walls not only keep others out but us in—and how many Americans may wish to forsake this dystopia over the next months?

On the other hand, the Dims have undermined America for decades by enticing hordes of Marxists across the southern border. And Brian Kolfage tried to stop them. That earned him the undying enmity of the Deep State:

As we reported last year, fifteen (15) members from the New York United States Postal Inspection Service (USPIS)

Seems an odd agency to involve at this point. Or am I missing a sinister element here?

showed up on Brian Kolfage’s doorstep to arrest him on August 20, 2020. It took 15 USPIS officers to arrest a triple amputee war hero in a wheelchair at home with his wife and two children! …

…they searched all over [his house], including in the children’s rooms.  They asked Kolfage about his guns, how many, and their characteristics.  They allowed Kolfage to only take his medications with him and then took Kolfage outside while his two children huddled in their room with fear. …

Once outside the 15 agents dragged triple-amputee war hero Brian Kolfage with one good arm and no legs into their arrest vehicle!  Not one of the 15 USPIS agents even considered providing a vehicle that was wheelchair accessible for their arrest of triple-amputee war hero Kolfage. …

Now today after years of abuse from the government he swore to protect,

Big mistake, sir. But we all make ’em and hopefully learn from them.

the federal government is after him again.  

Today Brian Kolfage received word that his pain medication is being taken away from him by the Federal government.

Hero Kolfage was told by his doctor today that the highest level of the VA looked into his file.  Kolfage takes a very small amount of a certain drug to manage his nerve pain.  He has only taken this one medication and it works. Kolfage says:

“I literally can’t function with [sic] it.  I get severe nerve pain that feels like being stabbed in my legs every minute.  It’s the worst thing to experience over and over.  (Kolfage has no legs.)”

The feds are not offering a substitute.  They are taking away his pain meds with no substitute.  Anyone who has dealt with even a small amount of pain can only guess what Kolfage goes through on a daily basis.

Communists hate Americans.  They want us all dead.

You can help support Brian with his legal fees at his website fight4kolfage.com

Gary, who alerted me to this story, bitterly opined, 

While all the focus is is on a virus that 99.8 per cent of the people who contract it survive, this is what our tax dollars pay for. If you think all the BS ends if everyone gets the injections, you are sadly wrong. These bastards in govt won’t stop till they destroy the middle class. Just remember, people who work for the government these days only lie when their lips move. 

How much longer will we tolerate the torture of good men like Brian Kolfage and the Patriots of Jan. 6?

12:44 pm on August 14, 2021

“The Jab” Is Unprecedented

Development of mRNA vaccines against infectious disease is unprecedented in many ways. In a 2018 publication sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, vaccines were divided into three categories: Simple, Complex, and Unprecedented (Young et al., 2018). Simple and Complex vaccines represented standard and modified applications of existing vaccine technologies. Unprecedented represents a category of vaccine against a disease for which there has never before been a suitable vaccine. Vaccines against HIV and malaria are examples. As their analysis indicates, depicted in Figure 1, unprecedented vaccines are expected to take 12.5 years to develop. Even more ominously, they have a 5% estimated chance of making it through Phase II trials (assessing efficacy) and, of that 5%, a 40% chance of making it through Phase III trials (assessing population benefit). In other words, an unprecedented vaccine was predicted to have a 2% probability of success at the stage of a Phase III clinical trial. As the authors bluntly put it, there is a “low probability of success, especially for unprecedented vaccines.”

More scary details at the link. You can thank Vinnie Terranova for sending this story when you worry all weekend! Or you can thank the Lord He endowed you with the sense to flee this nightmare.

11:41 am on August 14, 2021

What’s With 233?

Vinnie Terranova forwarded this intriguing compilation of stories about COVIDCon that repeat the same number as well as a link to a video exploring this “coincidence”:  

Alberta reports 233 new cases of COVID-19, no new deaths

Jul 29, 2021 — Alberta reports 233 new cases of COVID-19, no new deaths … Alberta reported 233 new cases of COVID-19, the highest single day number since early …

Croatia Registers 233 New Coronavirus Cases, One Death

7 days ago — Croatia Registers 233 New Coronavirus Cases, One Death … ZAGREB, 7 Aug, 2021 – In the past 24 hours, 233 coronavirus cases and one COVID-19 …

Mexico posts 12,821 new COVID-19 cases, 233 more deaths …

Jul 15, 2021 — Mexico’s health ministry on Thursday reported 12821 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 233 more fatalities, bringing its total figures to …\

233 new COVID-19 cases – EN.DELFI

Jul 23, 2021 — 233 new COVID-19 cases … On Thursday, 233 new COVID-19 cases were recorded in Lithuania. Since the beginning of the pandemic, the country has …

T&T records one more COVID-19 fatality, 233 new cases …

Jul 29, 2021 — T&T records one more COVID-19 fatality, 233 new cases … An elderly female is Trinidad and Tobago’s latest COVID-19 victim. This was announced …

Hawaii sees 9th straight day of triple-digit cases; 233 new …

No new virus-related fatalities were reported today so the statewide COVID-19 death toll remains 527. The state’s official coronavirus-related …

Jul 23, 2021

San Diego County Reports 233 New COVID-19 Cases, No …

May 10, 2021 — San Diego County public health officials reported 233 new COVID-19 cases and no additional deaths from the pandemic disease.

Covid-19: NSW records 233 new community cases and two …

Aug 4, 2021 — Covid-19: NSW records 233 new community cases and two deaths … The New South Wales Premier has reported 233 new community cases of Covid-19 in …

Yet more proof of cooked figures, hoaxes and malfeasance?

11:04 am on August 14, 2021

COVID And Cattle Cars

Bob Shipp responds to the totalitarian who whined, “If people who go out and buy fake vaccine cards get COVID, do they expect someone to put them on a real ventilator?”

Perhaps a more appropriate question is “When Nazis caught Jews with fake ID papers, did they load them onto real cattle cars?”

The MSM and our political Czars use their microphone to make us believe that we are a minority so that we will obey.  If we were a minority, they wouldn’t have needed to STEAL the election, would they?

Bob optimistically adds, 

I think we are at a point where not just a few people are espousing individual rights and duties, but rather the bulk of people are speaking out. 

Lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid“!

10:46 am on August 14, 2021

30 Years Ago: The Week That Shook The World: The Soviet Coup Which Failed


An ABC News documentary covering the military coup attempt in the Soviet Union from August 19 to August 25, 1991.

Gorbachev and Bush meet at Malta in December 1989 to consider the recent dramatic events. Only the previous week the Communist government resigned in Czechoslovakia; and shortly Nicolae Ceaușescu would be deposed and executed in the bloody Romanian Revolution. Gorbachev permits German reunification and removes Soviet troops from Europe, but fails to secure financial support from the West. As the Soviet economy collapses, Gorbachev faces opposition from both reformers and hardliners.

Sharing their abhorrence of Soviet disintegration, Gorbachev brings in hardliners to his government and cracks down on the Lithuanian independence movement. However they later turn on Gorbachev and stage a coup. Boris Yeltsin is instrumental in rallying the public and military to defeat the coup. Sidelining Gorbachev, Yeltsin sets the course for Russia to leave the Soviet Union by establishing the Commonwealth of Independent States. The Soviet Union ends on 25 December 1991, and in his Christmas Day address Bush announces the Cold War is over.

8:00 am on August 14, 2021

Tweaking Tyranny

I hate to be a party-pooper, but the “religious liberty” bill the Head Cheese in New Hampshire signed isn’t nearly as thrilling as some Patriots seem to think. The

bill declar[es] Churches and other houses of worship as essential services [that] will never close again.

HB 542 bill will allow “religious organizations to operate to the same degree as essential businesses during a state of emergency,” The Associated Press reported.”

We ought to eradicate government’s ability to close anything during crises (or at any other time). The sociopaths in office will magnify every glitch into an “emergency” if  their powers increase then.

The entire premise of this argument—that we are too stupid to recognize danger and might head to the movies while a hurricane ravages the town, but for Our Benevolent and Brilliant Rulers—is so insulting as to foment rebellion. Alas, Americans would rather color-coordinate their facial diapers to their outfits than damn such despotism. 

Then there’s this frightening codicil in the bill:

“Nothing in this section shall prohibit the state government from requiring religious organizations to comply with neutral health, safety, or occupancy requirements issued by the state or federal government that are applicable to all organizations and businesses that provide essential services.”

Masks? A ban on singing? Yep. And anything else godless governors wish to inflict on Christ’s Church.

The answer to tyranny is never to tweak it. The answer is to rise up and eradicate it. 

Thanks to Vinnie Terranova for alerting me to this story. 

4:15 pm on August 13, 2021

Wonders Never Cease!

From the “Wow,-A-Politician-Defending-Freedom” Department, which is just down the hall from the “Wow,-A-Dog-That-Walks-On-Its-Hind-Legs” one:

Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt eviscerated a reporter who suggested the top state law enforcement officer use “fear” to coerce citizens into getting the experimental Covid injections.

During the Thursday press conference, a reporter asked Schmitt, “What would you say to somebody who says, ‘It’s a very sane thing to do, that we need to use the pressure of someone’s fear of losing their job to force them to get vaccinated for the good of the community?’”

“Yeah, if someone says that using fear is good, that is what every tyrant in the history of the world and dictator in the history of the world has ever said to accumulate, aggregate and maintain power,” the AG responded.

He continued, “This is America. The freest country in the history of the world and I don’t think that we should not be allowing individual politicians who want to grab power and never let go of it gain it in the first place.”

The Missouri official explained that he fears living in a society where bureaucrats can use technology to force-plunge needles into arms.

“People can make their decisions,” Schmitt stated. “I believe in freedom, I believe in responsibility, but people can make these very important decisions themselves. And, I don’t want to live in some futuristic, dystopian, biomedical security state.”

For those who may say AG Schmitt is just another anti-vaxxer, he spoke with reporters outside the state Capitol on Tuesday to explain that while he’s been vaccinated, he doesn’t want to push the decision on his constituents.

“I’ve answered this before,” he told a journalist. “I think you stalking candidates about it is creepy. But, yes, I have been vaccinated. It’s a personal decision. I think everybody should make that personal decision. I don’t think we should mandate vaccinations, I don’t think we should mandate passports, and I don’t think we should have lockdowns.”

I would wager that John, who forwarded this story, joins me in hoping that the AG puts his money where his mouth is.

12:45 pm on August 13, 2021

For Those Still Trying to Reason With Cultists

Steve Smith recommends an expose of COVIDCon from a nurse:

I’ve watched tons of videos and read hundreds of articles to try to understand what is going on. In my opinion, this video, by a traveling ICU nurse, neatly and calmly summarizes ALL of the points that fuel my own skepticism about everything that’s been sold to us. 

I have mostly ceased trying to argue with those I consider brainwashed among my friends, acquaintances and family members. However, I’ve decided the next time someone assails me about it, I will send them this link. They must commit to spending the 50 minutes needed to watch it, and then I will discuss it further if they wish.

What I like is that she sticks entirely to established facts, quoting only reputable scientists, papers and studies, as well as the government’s own data. She doesn’t go off on what I consider to be questionable tangents about magnets and microchips and such. She doesn’t scream or rant, but she doesn’t hide her passion, concern and outrage at what’s happening.

I hope someone is posting this video to other platforms (Rumble, Odysee, Bitchute, BrandNewTube, etc.). I fear it could be “disappeared” if it is only on Instagram. I believe it deserves as wide attention as possible.

12:14 pm on August 13, 2021

When You Outlaw Guns…

Six people, including a child, were killed in a mass shooting in the city of Plymouth in southwest England on Thursday evening, in an incident described by the British Home Secretary as “shocking”…

Oh, indeed, ‘tis shocking, as “Angus McThag” explains:

I was assured that England was now a crime free, or at least murder free, paradise because they’d banned nearly every firearm.

Even more so, I was also assured that you needed semiautomaticassaultweapons to do a mass shooting.

Clearly someone is lying.

I think I know who. So does Bill Martin, who forwarded this story.

12:04 pm on August 13, 2021

Passport to War

Andy Slavitt is an American businessman and healthcare advisor who served as the acting administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services from March 2015 to January 2017 and as a temporary Senior Advisor to the COVID-19 Response Coordinator in the Biden administration.

Slavitt tweeted the following:

If people who go out and buy fake vaccine cards get COVID, do they expect someone to put them on a real ventilator?

Yeah, the sheer stupidity has me shaking my head, too. People who buy fake vaccine cards are likely to buy ivermectin, too, you moron. We’re smart enough to avoid deadly ventilators.

A load of his followers on Twitter begged him to do something so that people could not get or use CDC Vaccine Record Cards, which are already being forged by the tens-of-thousands…

This is called a set-up. And his “followers”—I suspect many of whom are plants—duly demanded “something that could not be forged.”

To which he responded, “Hold on for 3 1/2 weeks and you will see…”

Monnie alerted me to this threat, and he points out, “That timing puts it at around Labor Day.”

Hal Turner, reporting the story on his radio show, urges us to

step-up right now and make known to Congress that we will NOT accept being forced into a vaccine, or having our freedom curtailed by some Vaccine Passport for a sickness which is little more than a nasty Flu.

Politicians need to start hearing very assertive folks telling them in no uncertain terms we will not comply and if they want to make a fight out of it, we are prepared to use FORCE to defend ourselves from their vaccine.  It’s called “self-defense” when someone is trying to stab you with a syringe you don’t want!

If it’s a fight they want, then they need to know — RIGHT NOW — it’s a fight they will get.

11:45 am on August 13, 2021