On this date 244 years ago, Captain Nathan Hale stepped off a gallows and into immortality with his last words, “I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country.” The Redcoats hanged him for espionage after finding him out of uniform behind their lines during the American Revolution. (You can look him up in any [boring] textbook—or read of his thrilling, inspiring adventures in my [exciting] novel Halestorm!)
Appropriately, then, Bill Martin sent me a wildly hilarious story about a modern spy named Bill Crews:
The managing editor of the prominent conservative website RedState has spent months trashing U.S. officials tasked with combating COVID-19, dubbing White House coronavirus task force member Dr. Anthony Fauci a “mask nazi,” and intimating that government officials responsible for the pandemic response should be executed.
Yes! And that’s some of his tamer stuff! Feast on a few of his other bon mots:
“I think we’re at the point where it is safe to say that the entire Wuhan virus scare was nothing more or less than a massive fraud perpetrated upon the American people by ‘experts’ who were determined to fundamentally change the way the country lives and is organized and governed,” Crews wrote in a June post on RedState.
“If there were justice,” he added, “we’d send and [sic] few dozen of these fascists to the gallows and gibbet their tarred bodies in chains until they fall apart.” …
Wearing masks to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, he wrote last month, is “a political statement” akin to “wearing the red ribbon when AIDS was a huge deal, and we were supposed to believe that you can have an epidemic without having casual transmission of a virus (sorry, in most areas of the world’s landmass outside a San Francisco bathhouse, butt sex is not considered ‘casual’).” …
“This whole thing has been a total fraud, insofar as the policy response to Wuhan virus, from day one,” he wrote in June. “There has never been a need for a lockdown. There has never been a need for wearing masks.”
Sounds as if he could blog for LRC, doesn’t it? Best of all, he has a little secret: Mr. Crews,
who goes by the pseudonym “streiff,” isn’t just another political blogger. … he actually works in the public affairs shop of the very agency that Fauci leads.
Oh, TOO GOOD!!!!!
Needless to say, our hero has suddenly “retired.” But his insider’s view of the NIH and Fauxci lend his scathing critique even more credibility.
Alas, I doubt even his knowledgeable condemnation can dent the Masked Morons’ faith in their idol.
10:17 am on September 22, 2020
