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After a year and a half I do not understand the fanaticism of the mask wearers and the government officials that enable and encourage them. At the beginning of the pandemic St. Fauci himself declared them basically useless. A month later he became the head mask Nazi; personal behavior aside. As the pandemic wore on it became obvious that states and localities that had mask mandates fared no better that those who didn't. In fact, they had more cases and deaths. That is the science of statistics. The other scientific fact is that virus particles are are hundreds of times smaller than the weave of cloth masks and surgical masks have no ability to contain the aerosol. The most they can do is contain the droplets of a cough or sneeze of a sick person. Nothing else. Yet for way too many, mask wearing has become a religion. How else do you explain the absolute absurd behavior of people. Wearing them alone outside, alone in their car, while jogging, trying to keep it on a three year old who has, statistically, zero chance of getting sick and dying. Wearing them even after being “vaccinated”. “Vaccination” has become a cult all of its own now, becoming a natural extension of the masking religion. Medical science established over decades and centuries, along with common sense, have been completely ignored since the early stages of the Covid Crisis. The worst of it has to do with masking children; this is child abuse. As mentioned earlier, they have a practically zero chance of serious illness or death. More children have been victims of gun violence than have died of Covid. Masking has been shown to be harmful to them, constantly breathing in carbon dioxide and a wide variety of pathogens that grow in that moist environment. Then there is the psychological effect. Children need to see faces to learn how to properly interact with others. Be honest, we all need to see someone smile at us. Yet municipalities, and whole countries, are bring back mask mandates and lockdowns. In the U.S. masking is recommended for all children in school. The Delta Variant is supposed to be much more contagious so if masking and lockdowns didn't work with regular Covid, what makes these idiots think they will work against a more contagious strain? It will go through the masks just as easily, it will infect people funneled into big box stores even more easily. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing again and again and expecting a different result. So masking and lockdowns are not science or even common sense; so what are they? Masks are a symbol like a flag or a MAGA hat, a gang tattoo or a uniform. They demonstrate the adherence to a particular group or ideology. So who makes up this group? The reasons are not monolithic but they do have a common denominator. Some people have been so gripped by the fear propagated by the government and their media propagandists that they are terrified to have any normal interactions with their fellow citizens and cannot understand why others are not as fearful as they. In the U.K. behavioral scientists were brought in to increase people's fear level because it was thought that early on people didn't take the pandemic seriously enough. They did a great job there, and here as well. Six months ago when a poll was taken people thought that the Covid deaths were already in the tens of millions in the U.S. and there were similar exaggerated beliefs in the U.K. This for a flu that has a well over a 99% survival rate. Studies have shown that obesity and its handmaiden diabetes are the two greatest risk factors or comorbidities. Covid is not Ebola or the Black Death. But people think it is so they live in mortal fear praying at the altar of St. Fauci and doing any penance he asks in order to preserve their lives. Then there are those who not only live in fear but are evangelists for the cause. Death from Covid is their hell and salvation exists only in following everything St. Fauci, the WHO and the government tell them. Of course not even the WHO is recommending children wear masks but consistency fell out the window with common sense a long time ago. The difference between evangelical Christians and these Covid evangelicals is that their personal salvation is insecure as long as there are sinners who won't mask up or get “vaccinated.” These defiant reprobates not only put their own lives at risk but the lives of the faithful as well so no amount of browbeating, shaming or coercion is enough to force these people to join the cult. Again, no common sense. If masks are so effective, whether I wear one or not should not affect you as long as you are wearing your trusty mask. If you got your shot you are protected from any sickness the “unvaccinated” may carry. They have an irrational faith in their mask and shot while also believing their holy water ineffective at warding off infection from the disobedient. Yet this inconsistency does to occur to them as they place blind faith in government officials no less intense than an ancient Greek seeking guidance from the Oracle of Delphi. These government officials are the third group. Their behavior toward masking and lockdowns demonstrates they don't believe their own words, their hypocrisy is obvious. They gather unmasked, they travel, while demanding the peasants obey their every dictate. They have lied, they have contradicted themselves, they have covered up the facts and truths about the pandemic in order to spread fear. To these men and women in government, from the administration and St. Fauci to governors, mayors and councilpeople, it is all about exercising total and absolute control. They control whether you work or not, where you can go, in some cases whether you live or die, what you put in your body and increasingly what you can say. The mask is a symbol of subservience to it all. They are the infallible high priests of the cult of government and the mask is a badge of membership. It is a cult of lies, fear and suffering led by the most untrustworthy, diabolical and malevolent people of all-politicians and government bureaucrats.

If you listen to the media and many government sources you would believe that a race war of epic proportions is about to erupt. You would think that every white person who is not sufficiently contrite and cowed secretly desires to enslave all minorities under his thumb and that police officers are prowling the streets looking for unarmed black men to shoot. According to the president of the United States, minorities are too stupid to be lawyers, accountants or to get photo Ids and it is all because the system is racist. In fact, everything is racist from pancake syrup to math to the belief in hard work. If you believe those reliable sources you would also think that if you are a heterosexual there is something wrong with you. Deviant sexual behavior is the norm and millions of children are having their gender preferences forced upon them by an evil patriarchal society that wants to rigidly categorize people into only two sexes. You cis people betray your contempt through microaggressions only seen by the permanently aggrieved. The solution to all this racial and sexual bigotry is to punish all white heterosexuals, particularly those who identify as males, because they are incorrigible and beyond redemption, unless they're Democrats. I will ask you this question. Do you see this in your everyday life? I don't. Now you may say, hey, you live in southwest Florida which is almost as white as Vermont. Currently, I am not in Florida, I'm in north central North Carolina and I'm working in a factory where I am the minority. Apparently my white privilege hasn't gotten me much since my boss is a black man. I work with blacks, hispanics, and number of asians and a few other white folks. And you know what, we all get along. We are nice to each other. I have never talked to a black coworker and felt a burning resentment toward my incorrigible, irredeemable whiteness. The same is true at the gym. Blacks, whites, women, men, all getting along, being polite to one another, friendly waves and encouragement. When I go into a restaurant, the same thing is true. My guess is your experience has been the same. America is not a racist country, most of us treat our fellows with respect regardless of race. That is what we see every day. But the media, and social media in particular, want to make the anomalies appear to be the norm. Every white woman has a Karen inside just waiting to burst out. Every white man longs for the day when slavery is reestablished. If you don't think kids should be able to have gender reassignment surgery your are bigoted against the LGBTQRST+ community. So every exception becomes the norm, every deviant becomes a profile in courage and criminals becomes martyrs. Are there racists in America? Sure. Antisemitism is on the rise. That seems to be an acceptable racism today. There are white racists, black racists, asian racists, hispanic racists, there are racists in every group but they are not the norm. America is the most successfully integrated nation on earth. Before Obama injected his poison into our culture, a black man claiming racism in a country that elected him to the highest office, we were far along the path of realizing the dream of both the founders and men like Martin Luther King Jr. For each succeeding generation racism and sexism faded farther from the cultural consciousness. We judged men and women by their character first. My guess is that most of you still do the same thing. However, if the current media-government complex has its way, they will teach this generation to see race and sexual preference as the only characteristics that matter. They are teaching that there is a irredeemable stain of guilt on one race and a permanent condition of incompetence on another. The only systemic racists are the condescending white Democrats who have miraculously expunged themselves of racial guilt and believe minorities are incapable of achievement without their hand holding and handouts. They are Marxists who have substituted race and gender for class and want to divide us so they can impose their totalitarian vision on us all. Their vision is based on an ideology of lies and we must reject it. Most of America is a place of racial harmony where traditional norms and values are still believed and practiced. We need to hold on to that. We've got to reject their poisonous claims, we cannot become suspicious and resentful of one another based on their lies. We are Americans first, let us remain united on the things that bind us. Respect for one another, liberty, hard work, a sense of justice, and hope for an even better future.

It is one of the great philosophical questions of all ages. Why do men suffer? Why is life so unfair and brutal? Why have the great majority of men and women throughout history lived in grinding poverty and under oppression, one generation after another suffering and dying, never even taking that first step to realize their potential as human beings? Certainly some resent their station in life but too many accept it willingly, consider suffering a virtue and embrace a worldview that sees their life as inconsequential. They are merely disposable cogs in someone else's machine. It is the mind of a slave. For most of history the world, in most places, humanity was divided into two groups. There was the king, the pharaoh, the tsar and their small circle and then there were the peasants, the serfs, the slaves who gave their lives and labor to the first group so they could lives lives of luxury and build great monuments to satiate their egos. Even today we accept this worldview as normal. Rulers and ruled, the ruled providing for the rulers enormous portions of their labor and lives, ruler squandering it on their gilded lives. Why?! Deep down we all have a sense of justice, of morality, a sense of right and wrong. We know that if we produce something with our hands it belongs to us and for someone to demand it from us for no reason other than they want it is stealing. Think of the first time this happened in the murky past. A group of hunter gatherers hunted and gathered, each to meet his or her own needs and the needs of their families. One day someone stands up and says “Each of you will give me a portion of what you hunt or gather while I sit comfortably in my tent and enjoy the fruits of your labor.” Why would anyone agree to that? Two reasons. One, he may be the biggest, baddest man in the tribe and you would agree because of fear. The other option is he or she convinces the tribe that placing them in such a position confers some future benefit. These two options that have come down to us today. The first is simple, every thug and dictator throughout history understood the value of imparting fear to get the people to fork over their wealth and lives. We suffer it still today even in the United States. Is the IRS not the most feared agency in the country? But let's concentrate on the second because conditioning a population to slavery is much more effective for the tyrant. The ruler needs only convince the people that serving him or her confers some benefit. Perhaps they are a sorcerer who will guarantee the rains will come at the proper time. Or he is a strong man who will protect them from outside forces. Or, in the greatest con of all, the ruler convinces the people that their servitude and the suffering that goes with it is a virtue, that it is not only good for them personally but it is good for the group as a whole. We see all three at work today. The sorcerers of today are the academic wizards and brainless politicians who tell us that if we just turn the reins of our economy over to them they can guarantee prosperity; a car in every driveway and a chicken in every pot. The central planners and the central bankers do their best to convince us that if we just support them with our wealth and defer our freedom to choose to them, allowing them the time to think all this through, they will use our wealth and direct our choices in a way that will bring happiness and wealth to everyone. And the excuse for their constant failure is that they do not have enough money and control. The road to totalitarianism is paved with relinquished economic choices. The second is the security state, the strong man protecting us from a dangerous world. He must peddle in fear, there must always be an enemy about to storm the gates or one threatening the group from within. This gives rise to the police state and huge standing armies. Terrorists without and within demand that we sacrifice our freedom for our security. Our ability to travel, to be secure in our persons and papers, to have a life outside the state, none of that can have a higher priority that the safety and security provided by the state. The road to totalitarianism is paved with cries of safety. Finally, there are the rulers convincing the people there is virtue in sacrificing for the state. This can take many forms. The false patriotism that led so many to become cannon fodder for the ambitions of kings. Pride in the wealth of a court compared to other nations. The lie you are giving to something greater than yourself when the truth is that all that is deposited in the state's coffers is used to benefit the ruler and his circle of enablers. But there is something even more insidious and here Marx was right. He famously said that religion was the opiate of the people. Just think about it. If you can convince people not only to focus their attention away from their suffering for a future benefit like heaven but to embrace their suffering as a virtue, you can demand anything of them. On top of that, convince them that the state, regardless of how instituted or organized, is the very arm of God on earth and then any complaints, much less rebellion, are derided as sinful. This was the western world after Christianity wedded itself to the state in the time of Constantine. What is basic Christian doctrine in this regard? Suffering is good, heaven is the reward for suffering and this world will remain sinful and evil until some time in the distant future so you might as well accept it. What motivation is there to improve one's lot under such a worldview? Now we are no longer in the dark ages but a new religion is being preached by the ruling class to the same effect. This is the religion of climate change. It has all the same elements. Sacrifice now, suffer now, for some future benefit when the planet will be saved or healed. Such sacrifice is the height of virtue. It is our moral duty to put aside our liberty and prosperity and become subservient to a state that ensures our salvation. Of course the sacrifices they demand of us never touch the beneficiaries of this fraud. That is how you know it is all a fraud. It is always “The rules are for thee and not for me.” While we are confined to our homes with diapers on our faces, they are out eating at fancy restaurants or getting their hair styled with beaming, uncovered smiles. While they demand you ride a bicycle to cut your carbon footprint, they fly around on private jets. While they demand more and more of your money, they are buying mansions and limousines. We all know it is hypocritical but because of their position at the top, they feel entitled to it; they feel no guilt in enjoying the fruits of their con. As human beings we have the right to freedom, choices and the fruits of our labor. We have the right to our dreams and aspirations, we have the right to seek our full potential. It is what being human is all about. This applies to every individual equally. The fruits of our minds and labor belong to us to dispose of as we see fit. No one has the right to demand our labor or minds for their own benefit. Who are they to do so? Who are they to demand we become less so they can rise above us? Those at the top are no better than we are, they are our overlords only because they are the best liars and cons. They have no right to make us less or treat us as slaves. Why are Biden and Pelosi and Schumer and Kerry immune from suffering while inflicting it upon us? They preach our need to suffer but never allow any discomfort to touch them. They demand that we put off our dreams and goals while they live high on the hog. Why do we have to be less so they can be more? There is no moral reason the world needs to be organized in this fashion, there is no inherent reason for a few to live at the expense of the many. The few are not morally superior, they certainly are not more intelligent. Have you listened to King Joe and his minions? The only reason it is so is because the many either lack the courage to reject the claims of the few upon them or they have deluded themselves into accepting the lies. This injustice visits itself upon us because we allow it. It will only end when we choose to end it.

Many years ago Disney made a movie called “The Rocketeer” set in Hollywood in the 1930s. The villain was a famous actor who was a Nazi spy. He had hired some local mob thugs to help him. However, at the climax of the film the mobsters find out he's a Nazi and the head thug objects. The villain tells him, who cares, you're being paid well. And the mobster replies that he's a red blooded American first and he's not going to work for some Nazi no matter how much he pays. He then switches sides and fights alongside the FBI and the hero. Once upon a time, that was the norm. People were proud to be Americans and would never knowingly do things that hurt or betrayed their country. Of course there were exceptions. There was certainly a fascination with fascism and Hitler in the thirties, Hitler himself greatly admired Henry Ford. But once the war started, there was a clear line of demarcation between sides. The same was true for our relationship with the Soviet Union. Again, there was some fascination with Stalin in the thirties, the New York Times is famous for its glowing descriptions of his murderous regime. But during the cold war, most Americans saw them as the enemy and sympathy, much less open collaboration, would have been regarded by most as treasonous. Back then Americans supported America and each other. We supported American companies, American workers, pro-American films. Certainly the cold war years paralleled change in America, we acknowledged our flaws and worked to remedy them. But, by God, we were still the best place to live in the world. President Reagan, and the pride he had in our ideals and optimism he had for America, personified this belief for the vast majority of Americans. Those days are gone. Of course we are all well aware that since Reagan's time the voices denigrating this country have grown increasingly loud. Government school curriculum emphasized America's flaws and ignored her triumphs. Now every day we hear how horrible, racist, exploitative and evil America is and anyone who dares speak up for her is ridiculed and canceled. But this is much more than the Marxists in education and government trying to destroy our once great nation from within. Such people are traitors and their words and actions clearly identify them as such. Why we put up with them, even electing them to the highest positions in government, is sheer stupidity on our part. But it is even worse than that because while they are the few whose hatred for the country that gave them so much make them obvious villains, there are many who care so little for the country that gave them so much that they are willing to sell her out for an extra dollar. China is our enemy. They are a communist country ruled by ruthless communist autocrats. They rule their people with an iron fist and brutally suppress any opposition. They have killed tens of millions of their own people and continue acts of persecution and genocide today. They are increasingly aggressive toward their neighbors and their relationship with America has been one of deception and thievery. Recently, they have become outright hostile. Alongside Russia and other nefarious actors, they have hacked into vital systems to steal and disrupt. If the truth is ever told about Covid-19, we will probably find out they released another bio-weapon on the world. The esteemed Dr, Fauci demonstrated the heights of his stupidity when he stated emphatically that the Communist Chinese wouldn't create a virus that would harm their own people in addition to the rest of the world. Really? Mao murdered tens of millions of his own people! Do you think the current communists care any more about a few million deaths among their own when it can cripple the western world? This is the reality of the Chinese Communists. They may not want to bury us like Khrushchev but they definitely want us subservient. They are well on their way to achieving that goal. I'm not just talking about King Joe's attitude either. I'm talking about all the businesses that have sold out their country for a quick buck. Apple and Nike and thousands of others who use cheap or slave Chinese labor to make their products and will do anything to keep the Chinese happy even at the expense of their own country. John Cena apologizing for calling Taiwan a country is simply emblematic of a Hollywood that has bent over backwards to modify films so as not to offend the Chinese Communists so they can have access to their markets. The stars of the NBA gushing over China so they can keep their exalted status over there. Newsrooms and social media companies serving as the propaganda arm of the Chinese Communist party. All done for the almighty dollar. Now I am a free market guy, I have no problem with people making a buck, or a lot of bucks. But when you compromise your integrity to do so, I do have a problem with that. What kind of journalist bends or ignores the truth because it might offend the murderers in Beijing? What CEO accepts child slave labor to make his products a little cheaper? What celebrity trashes the country that made him what he is to praise an oppressive regime? They have all bought into the lie that America is no different, and certainly no better, than any other country. So the origins of their wealth no longer matter. No one cares if what they must do for their payments harms their country and advances a murderous communist regime. If an American sitting on a park bench in Washington took an envelope full of cash for information, we would call it treason. Yet when these companies and their underlings take money and favors from the Chinese communists in exchange for favors and influence, we call it smart business. All these people have sold out their country for to rake in a little more cash. And it is these businessmen and women at the top of all these companies who buy men like Joe Biden who will bend over for the Chinese Communists and do nothing to thwart their nefarious plans.

The End of the Old Normal: We've Been So Spoiled We have been spoiled. Since the Great Depression, and certainly since the seventies, we have become accustomed to a high degree of certainty. Until recently, there were a lot of things we took for granted. Grocery shelves would always be full unless there was a snowstorm; then the bread and milk would be scarce for a few days. There would always be gas as the station. Changes in the business cycle and government policy would be slow and incremental. Money in the bank was safe. The vast majority of your neighbors loved America and the ideals it represented-and that went for politicians as well. Those days are gone and their disappearance is a disaster for liberty and prosperity. This is crucial for you to understand. Without a high degree of certainty prosperity is difficult to achieve. This is important because economic liberty is intimately connected to political liberty. Now I am not talking about natural disasters. Some of those can be planned for and some will destroy life and property indiscriminately. That has been and always will be the case in certain geographic locations. But an earthquake, tornado and even a hurricane are localized. What we are experiencing now is completely different. Today we live in a deeply interconnected system that is very efficient when it is working. Goods and services move around the country and the world at lightning speeds. One hiccup at any point will cause severe, or even catastrophic, disruptions. A mega-ship stuck in the Suez Canal for days. An accident with huge consequences. But as we have seen malicious attacks on our dependent systems can be just as severe. The hacking of the Colonial Pipeline should be a huge wake up call for us. A Russian group shut down the main gasoline supply pipeline to the entire southeast. In a few days the local stations ran out of gas, in North Carolina the number of stations without gas rose to seventy five percent! No gas, no cars, no deliveries, no work, no ability to get around for groceries. Fortunately, the pipeline was up and running within a week after they paid the ransom so the disruption did not last long. But know this. Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea all have hackers whose sole job it is to get into our systems and cause disruptions. And with our weak president demonstrating ineptitude in dealing with this issue, these attacks will only increase. His stupid line that it was a private company that was attacked and they needed to deal with it is absolute bull pucky! This was an attack on vital infrastructure that affected a third of the country. And you know what? The twin towers were also privately owned. That attack was met with ferocity and resolve. Now do I think we should bomb Russia? No, of course not. But we had better put massive pressure on Putin to reveal those responsible and allow us to deal with them. If not, then these actors who work with or are at least protected by these enemy states are going to continue their malfeasance. What will be next? The electrical grid? All of you in your electric cars laughing at the gas shortage, what are you going to do when the lights go out? Do you realize how much more catastrophic that would be? A week or two or three without electricity and people will die by the thousands or tens of thousands. How about a nuclear power plant meltdown? Do we even want to think about that? Those are external threats that are new to us. Americans haven't faced a real external threat since World War Two. I won't count the cold war because total nuclear annihilation isn't something you deal with and survive. But now we have these foreign actors capable of just as much damage as if they had dropped a bomb on a power plant or pipeline. But now we are subject to crazy uncertainties at the hands of our fellow Americans. The coronavirus pandemic has demonstrated the fact that government intrusion has broken any restraints placed upon it by the Constitution, law or even common sense. A governor or unelected bureaucrat can shutter your business, put you out of a job, make you cover your face, ban travel, weddings and funerals and even confine you to your home. First Amendment guarantees of freedom of religion and assembly went out the window. And it was all for nothing, almost everything the government told us was a lie. So how can you plan for incompetent, arbitrary or just plain malicious government action? You can't. How can you risk your life savings on a venture that the government may shut down for any of a variety of reasons or no discernible reason at all? And finally, we cannot forget the uncertainty visited upon us by our fellow citizens. Rioting, burning and looting is becoming a regular feature in a number of cities around the country. Cancel culture can ruin a career or livelihood at the drop of a hat. You could be enjoying a quiet dinner with your spouse when a bunch of hoodlums show up to accuse you of the heinous crime of being a particular race. The world we knew just ten or twenty years ago is gone. We are living in an unfamiliar world where politicians are free to hate the country they serve, where there are a lot of people not working and a glut of jobs remain unfilled, where trillions of dollars are created out of thin air and no one thinks it is a problem and an individual's race is their defining characteristic, imparting guilt or victim-hood. We have accepted a two tiered justice system, endemic corruption, propaganda and total surveillance. It is a world that can only end in disaster and death. And it is a future we are allowing to unfold due to our tepid and inconsequential reaction to it.

King Joe has declared that the greatest threat to the security of the United States is white supremacists. Not China or Russia or Islamic Jihadists or the crackpot in North Korea or the fascists in Iran. No, the greatest threat to the nation exists among white Trump supporters, particularly white male Trump supporters. This was exemplified in the events surrounding the Capitol on January sixth, the great “insurrection”. They call it an insurrection, sometimes an “armed insurrection” to make it sound horribly ominous. An “insurrection”, of course, is an attempt to take over the government. If this was their intent, they were woefully unprepared and inept. It's hard to have an armed insurrection without arms, none of which were found among the people in the Capitol. Calling it a “riot” is even a stretch. Yes, there was some property damage but nothing compared to what BLM and Antifa have done in cities across the country. In fact, many of the so called “rioters” were escorted in by police. No, the most we can attribute to these patriots is an attempt to stall the certification of a fraudulent election, to disrupt the proceedings of the government. Something the radical left is constantly doing. Remember the Kavenaugh hearings? But the full force of the federal government has been brought to bear on this group. Hundreds of arrests have been made and many of them have been held without bond in solitary confinement for months. The have been denied access to their lawyers, their lawyers have been denied exculpatory evidence, they have been beaten. The government has acquired phone records and associated GPS coordinates from everyone in D.C. that day without a warrant, whether they were in the Capitol or not. They impeached the President over it! And they continue to state that every Trump supporter specifically, and every republican in general, is a actual, or at least potential, insurrectionist. They, who executed a marxist coup, are calling anyone who even questions their actions and motives a terrorist. While Old King Joe and his minions round up and persecute any domestic opposition, they are ignoring actual acts or war against the United States. Yes, I said acts of war. These Russian and Chinese cyber attacks and the Covid19 pandemic are acts of war. The are not treated as such, of course. Just pesky inconveniences and unfortunate accidents. But that is just the cowards in government and their accomplices in the media covering for their communist and authoritarian friends. Look at it this way. If a group of mercenaries from Russia, based in Russia, blew up sections of the Colonial Pipeline or took over one of only four meat packing plants in the country and held the people there hostage demanding ransom, what would have been our reaction? I would think the FBI and all the domestic forces in the country would have been deployed to stop them and bring them to justice and if not, we would have demanded it-loudly! But don't these hacks accomplish the same thing? A group of cyber mercenaries based in Russia, with a nod and a wink from Putin, shut down two pieces of vital infrastructure; fuel and food. The communist Chinese have been just as busy with their cyberhacks but the pandemic was nothing less than biological warfare. What if they had exploded a dirty bomb or two over LA or New York which led to radiation sickness and deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans. Is that an act of war? Yet they have a lab in China led by their former chief of biological warfare dedicated to gain of function research to make viruses more contagious and lethal and one of those viruses just happens to escape because their security is lax to say the least and it quickly spreads around the world leading to millions of deaths. Do we really think it was an accident? Are the Chinese communists behaving as though it's an accident or are they withholding any and all information relating to the lab and its work? Dr. Fouci led the stupidity squad in Washington when he stated that the Chinese communists would not have purposely released a deadly virus that killed its own people. Has he never heard of Mao or Stalin?! Communists don't care about their people, the CCP doesn't care if a few million of their own die if their actions hurt the West, their enemies! Yes, China and Russia and Iran and North Korea are enemies who smell blood in the water with our inept commander and chief and all the sympathetic marxists who surround him. China, in particular, knows it has us over a barrel and having bought the media, believes it can act with impunity. These were once regarded as acts of war. The destruction of infrastructure, the murder of citizens, such actions once required a strong response. Now do I want to see a shooting war with Russia or China? No, that is a last resort. But, my God, we're ignoring these attacks! President Trump has at least called for China to pay reparations for all the death and economic destruction the pandemic has caused. We have ways to hurt both these countries if we chose to. I'm sure we could hack some vital infrastructure in Russia if we chose. Remember stuxnet and the Iranians? We're capable of fighting on this front if we summon the will. And we've got to start treating Communist China as an enemy and act in our national interest, not theirs! These countries desire our downfall and with all the stupidity our leadership has shown in the past five months, they see a grand opportunity to hasten our demise. If we continue to just shrug off these obvious provocations, the consequences of the next attacks could be catastrophic.

I listen to a lot of news, talk radio and podcasts. As such, I daily deluge myself with information, from all sides. Since the explosion of the internet and social media and innumerable news outlets, we are never left in the dark about what is going on. Nothing is hidden anymore, even amid all the attempts at distortion and propaganda. For those of us who care about liberty, we are more than aware of the destruction all around us. What we are missing are solutions, real, concrete, effective solutions that will not only protect our liberties and natural rights but restore them when they have been infringed upon, ignored or deliberately violated. So what is the solution? When Joe Pags was asked this by a caller recently, the answer given was getting out the truth; dissemination factual information. Now while I believe that is very important, any action must be taken based on truth, that cannot be the end. This is why I have always said that we've got to do more than complain. Talk radio, social media, various groups and organizations, they've got to be more than support groups for the aggrieved. Others will point to electoral politics, the solution is electing the right people. That is certainly true but we've all got to admit, electoral politics has failed us when it comes to protecting, much less restoring, liberty. To all of you right wing, alternative media folks out there, your audience is looking for more than information and hope. They want solutions, they want to know what they can do in their own lives that will make a difference. We see our country being systematically dismantled and wantonly destroyed. Our traditional culture and all the things that made this country great are denigrated and now eliminated from the public discourse. We need more than just people telling us this is happening. We know what's going on! We need a plan of action to fight against it. Have we, like President Trump said, been the victim of a coup? I have heard it repeated by others. So we know it's true, then what? Knowledge of our demise and the establishment of the totalitarian state is pointless without action, it only leads to frustration and depression. So here are some solutions, real concrete actions we can all take that will make a real difference, much more than a strongly worded e-mail, not that those should be ignored. I have often said that we are funding our enslavement, that we are paying for our chains. I was recently listening to Dana Loesch and she repeated her contention that taxation is theft, particularly income taxes. Others have noted that especially now with the supposed Covid relief bill and the blue state and city bailouts, we are subject specifically to taxation without representation. We revolted over this two hundred and fifty years ago, remember? How about we stop! Will Dana and the others put their money where their mouth is and stop paying like I have for over a decade? Will you? Government uses our money to exercise their power and forge our chains. Cut it off and they will be powerless. How about not complying with all their stupidity. Don't want your kids indoctrinated with critical race theory and all the other woke claptrap in government schools? Pull your kids out. Find alternatives or home school them. This is even easier now that when I did it with my kids. And I'm sure the Covid shutdowns have demonstrated to a lot of parents that it is a viable option. Do it. Businesses, take courage from the few like the owners of Tinhorn Flats in California who have been fighting to stay open. It is the easiest thing in the world not to do business with all these woke companies supporting the democrat narrative and their destructive policies. Forgo your two day Amazon deliveries, find an alternative to Coke products, use another airline. There are over one hundred million of us. And we are the ones who work, we are the ones paying for this tyranny, we are the ones propping up this edifice of lies and fascist tyranny. If we dropped out, not in the Atlas Shrugged sense but if we all made the conscious decision to stop supporting this government corporate conglomerate bent on totalitarian control, imagine what would happen. We would all go to jail. Is that what you are afraid of? You still don't get it then. If you believe that this present administration is the result of a coup, if you believe that we are living in a post constitutional time as Mark Levin if fond of saying, then attempting to put any of us in jail for standing up for our God given rights is simply an illegitimate government enforcing immoral and, under our constitution, illegal laws. Why would we subject ourselves to such an authority? If you were a Venezuelan suddenly under the tyranny of Hugo Chavez in 1998 or a Czeck in 1948 when the communists took control, would you simply sit back and learn to live under tyranny? If you protested, would you just allow yourself to be subject to a show trial and thrown in a hole somewhere? As the late great Rush Limbaugh would say, we are in a battle of ideas. But it does not end there. It cannot end there. Government is force; it is guns and prisons and eventually under every communist tyranny, firing squads and mass graves. Our government is not even seeking to win the battle of ideas anymore, they are forcing us to accept their lies as truth, ignore their contradictions and embrace their absurdities. That force is at the point of a gun. Job loss, arrest and prosecution, financial ruin, prison. The question is, when that gun comes for you, what will you do? Will you allow yourself to be subjected to their illegitimate authority or will you fight back. Oh no! We can't have that! I can hear Glenn Beck's protestations now. We can never be violent. No? Then we have already lost. Without the brave citizen soldiers at Lexington and Concord, would we have a free country? Was any tyrant from Hitler to Napoleon to the Roman Emperors ever defeated peacefully? No. Why? Because any time government power is exercised in a manner destructive of rights it ceases to be legitimate, it can no longer win the battle of ideas by taking the moral high ground and must therefore resort to deception and force to exert power. If it is not met with real resistance, it will only grow in power. It is time for real resistance, substantial risky resistance, resistance for which we put our lives, fortunes and sacred honor on the line. If not, not only will we lose our country, but the world will fall to an all powerful totalitarian authority that will make any resistance all the more difficult. Or are your God given rights and freedom not worth it?

The great defender of the Roman republic Cato, before he committed suicide rather than live under the tyranny of Caesar, told his son Marcus to seek Caesar's mercy. Upon hearing this all Marcus wanted to know was why it was right for him to accept a pardon while his father refused one. Cato is said to have replied, “I, who have been brought up in freedom, with the right of free speech, cannot in my old age change and learn slavery instead. But for you, who were both born and brought up amid such a condition, it is proper for you to now serve the divinity that now presides over your fortunes.” Cato was expressing a deep pessimism, believing the world as he knew it was dying with him. He had no hope for his son. For how could his generation fight for a freedom it had known only in the abstract, from hearsay? No doubt with tears in his eyes he told his son he had been born into slavery. He was a slave and that was all he would ever be. It was, and is, a most depressing sentiment. I find Cato's sentiments dispiriting, for sure, but also realistic. He had spent his entire life fighting endemic corruption and warning about the coming tyranny. He was fearless and bold. But with the remnants of the Republic melting away in Africa and Caesar's army closing in, he knew the republic was over. While he would probably have received mercy from Caesar, he chose not to seek it in his defeat. I find it quite discouraging that this tireless defender of republican liberty would simply give up so completely. Why would he not try to pass the fight on to the next generation, to inspire others to take up the torch he could no longer hold high. How could he claim to embrace liberty so vehemently and then turn around and tell the next generation not to bother? But our current circumstance makes his final sentiments understandable. While I have no interest in Cato's solution, I do sometimes vacillate between fighting for what looks like a hopeless cause and just retreating as far away from the tyranny as possible. Look at us, if we don't fit Cato's description of his son's generation, I don't know who does. Born into slavery, accepting the yoke as normal; freedom, true freedom, known only by hearsay from a disappearing history. We eagerly suck on the government teat, trading the animating contest for freedom and the risks of living that make life worthwhile for the lazy mindlessness found in government's ready embrace. How many of you live off stolen money but don't care that your sustenance is provided through immorality. How many of you are conditioned to obey the silliest rules and regulations that come from innumerable bureaucrats who claim to know everything yet know nothing? And that was before Covid! How many of you don't even think about how much money and dignity has been stolen from you? Hardly any because you keep giving it up. Do you agree with Cato that such an attitude makes it proper to serve a government that long ago broke its contract with us and now holds us in open contempt? How many of our fellow citizens are so well conditioned that rebellion does not even occur to them? Dutifully wearing their masks alone in the car. Conditioned to slavery from birth, can they even fathom what freedom would mean, and if they do, would they reject it for the safety of servitude? How about you? Are you ready to live without the safety net? No welfare, no Social Security, government health care, no FDA telling you what food is safe or OSHA telling you how to do your job? Are you willing to be totally responsible for your life? That's freedom. Can we even conceive of it anymore? Lenin said “Give me just one generation of youth, and I'll transform the whole world.” President Reagan stated that “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.” It been almost one hundred years since Franklin Roosevelt changed the country with the New Deal, seventy years since the rise of the military industrial complex, sixty since the great society and less than twenty years of social media. And throughout that time our grandparents, parents, us, our children and grandchildren have been indoctrinated in government schools to accept and revere the ever expanding growth of government influence and power. Media, from the days of Walter Durante and Cronkite have disseminated and defended Marxist propaganda. We have all been subjected to this conditioning and it takes a lot of conscious effort and education to combat it and an even greater courage to reject its implications and effects in our lives. The question I often ask myself is how many of my fellow citizens are left who have the will and courage to live free and fight to do so? Sure, there are a lot who give lip service or talk a good game but who really puts their money where their mouth is? Who refuses to pay for their chains, who refuses to comply with their tyrannical laws and regulations? Very few. Perhaps Cato saw something in his son Marcus that told him his son had been conditioned too deeply, that a life of liberty was beyond his comprehension, that a life of normalized servitude had made him incapable of embracing freedom and fighting for it with all his heart and soul. Perhaps Cato knew his son would fail if he tried, his courage would surely falter for his conviction was too compromised. Therefore, Cato thought it proper he simply shouldn't try. How many of our fellow citizens, our family and friends does that describe? How many of you? Are you failing already when standing against the forces of tyranny is inconvenient? When your job or ability to travel is on the line? Then how will you stand when things get really serious? Those without the courage to live free should follow Cato's advice, swallow your pride, reject your humanity and live as a slave. Samuel Adams said it best. “If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.” So you need to ask yourself, who are you and what will your legacy be?

Most people who are paying attention to politics or are involved think that the policies of King Joe and his democrat accomplices are just policy differences to be rectified after the next election. Democrats are just wrong about things, their policies are the result of misinformation or an incorrect philosophy. If republicans, particularly conservative republicans, could just get control of the government again, we can fix all this. Really, that's what you think? The actions of the current crop in power, not just in Washington but in state and local governments around the country, cannot be attributed simply to misguided ignoramuses. I recently heard a discussion of the sheriff's department in San Francisco and the sanctuary policy they have implemented, for which they are being sued, rightly, by the people. They are refusing to inform ICE about illegal aliens who have committed crimes. Not just parking tickets or expired tags either. Rape, assault, serious crimes. Not only do they not contact ICE but they release them into the population. Now what possible motivation can there be for this? What voting block wants dangerous criminals on the street, what benefit is it to the sheriff's department or the government of San Francisco to have this policy? Can you come up with one? I can't! There is only one outcome to this policy of allowing criminals who are terrorizing the people of San Francisco back on the street to continue their reign of terror and that is to harm to the people of San Francisco and others-real bodily harm. We can extrapolate this idiocy to a lot of democrat statist policies currently being implemented. Who benefits from Iran, the largest state sponsor of terrorism around the world, having nuclear bombs and the ICBMs that can deliver them anywhere they choose? How is that good for anyone? How about allowing Russia and China, two totalitarian regimes, to expand their power and influence and take more territory, putting more unfortunates under their boot? How is that good for us or anyone in the world? Do we really want to go back to the way things were in previous centuries with equally powerful nations in a constant state of war? This supposed foreign policy, led by people like the UN ambassador who believes her country was founded by white supremacists and is the embodiment of racism, is designed to denigrate our power and position and enhance that of our enemies and the forces of totalitarianism and tyranny. Anyone with eyes can see that. These policies are deliberate choices and will have disastrous consequences for the entire planet. What about domestic policy? They are just as destructive. Look at their economic policy of print, borrow and spend. Now I will readily admit that there are people in government who are just plain stupid and truly believe that the government can make up money and spend it without consequence. But there are plenty who know exactly what the results of this will be. We are already seeing inflation and it will only get worse. That will make all of us poorer because our income will always be behind rising costs, particularly if we go into hyperinflation and currency destruction. How is that good for the country, for anyone? How about HR1 and the elimination of any form of voter identification? There will be no way to know who is voting or how many times, it will be no different than some internet poll. No one will believe the outcome anymore, it will destroy one of the most fundamental pillars of our society, the ability to choose our public servants. Now it is obvious who benefits from this initially, but having a country where half of the people or more no longer feel represented is not a recipe for stability and harmony. They know this and they don't care. There are so many other examples, I'm sure you can think of plenty. Gun control. Take the means of protection away from people, defund the police and release criminals onto the streets. Does that make any sense if you actually care about people? Of course not. Corporations now telling millions of their customers they are horrible racists and exerting pressure on recalcitrant states for rejecting even some of this foolishness. When has business, any business, made a conscious decision to insult and berate their customers? Of course we cannot forget the absurdities of their Covid restrictions. But all of this is being done with a straight face and deadly seriousness. So the big question is why? Is it a short term power grab? This might explain the open southern border-democrats just importing more voters. Is it a last ditch effort to rape the public and get as much wealth as possible before the system collapses? Maybe for some. There is no question these people want power and several of their policies, packing the supreme court, adding states, legalizing cheating in elections, serve that aim. But that does not explain the totality of the destruction of the combination of all these foreign and domestic policies and ideas. If these people destroy the United States as the primary economic and military power in the world, of what benefit is it to them? Why would Biden or Pelosi or Schumer want to rule over a ruin instead of a powerhouse? There are two possibilities as I see it. One, the pursuit of power has blinded them to the extent that they don't care. Like every communist, the well being of the country and its people are inconsequential to the exercise of uncontested and unlimited power. The economic destruction is ignored as long as they can rule with impunity from their ivory towers. But even that does not explain why they are empowering and emboldening fascist and totalitarian regimes at the expense of our traditional democratic allies. The only logical explanation for this is that they are looking for something even bigger. The United States is the greatest bulwark against totalitarian tyranny in the world and has been for over a century. If it is reduced to a third rate country there is nothing standing in the way of the oligarchs running the other powers to cooperate and form a world governmental power. I know this was once the realm of the tin foil hat crowd but with the Great Reset out in the open, this is no longer in the domain of conspiracy theory, it is fact. All these men and women, these oligarchs in government, corporations and in big tech are cooperating to destroy the United States as a viable economic and military power to pave the way for this new world order. This means that the people pushing these policies are not simply misguided and stupid, they are traitors to the republic. They have violated their oath of office and are openly carrying out the wishes of the enemies of the United States. It is time to stop giving these people the benefit of the doubt and not only see them for what they are but call them out on it. If you think fighting for your liberty against the US government is hard, try doing it against a worldwide power with its tentacles in everything, everywhere. Last stand people. This is no longer a pendulum swing from one side to the other. These people have a sledge hammer poised over the clock.

King Joe with his pen and the Democrat party with their slim majority have been very busy since January 20. Not only are they undoing everything that had President Trump's name on it out of their blind hatred, so much of what they are doing is irreversible and will cause permanent catastrophic changes to our country and the world. And these are things we cannot stop, our individual protests and even our non-compliance will have no effect on them. They are even beyond the control of action by individual states and governors. These are actions and policies, domestically and in foreign policy, that will fundamentally transform the nation and the world in ways that will make us all poor slaves to the political and corporate elite around the world. The Border Crisis and Immigration. A nation without borders is not a nation yet the Biden administration has embraced a truly open border policy. Hundreds of thousands are coming across with no checks to see who they are, where they are from or what diseases they may have. These are not just Mexicans or people from Central America. People from all over the world, including plenty of unfriendly countries, know that if they can get into Mexico, the door to the United States is wide open. Once they are here, they are not going to leave. And once they are given amnesty or citizenship, this will result in a permanent demographic shift in this country. Citizens or not, if Democrats have their way, they will be voting, another step to the one party state they desire. Foreign Policy. Look at just two examples. Biden's conciliatory policy toward China encourages their aggression. If they end up invading Taiwan, that free nation will be gone forever. It will suffer brutal oppression just like Hong Kong. And Biden, Like Obama before him, is cozying up to Iran. Once they get a nuclear weapon, once they are a nuclear power, that is irreversible and it will have devastating consequences for the Middle East and beyond. The One World Order. Biden, specifically through his “climate envoy” John Kerry, have pledged their support to The Great Reset, a global reordering of economic and social structures so they conform with the dictates of radical environmentalism, Marxist totalitarianism with a little eugenics thrown in for good measure. If embraced by the United States, there will be no outpost of freedom left in the world. Economic Policy. Biden's tax, spend, borrow and print government model is going to destroy our economy. Of course tax policy can always be changed back but the trillions and trillions printed, borrowed and spent cannot be reversed. Our debt is now 150% of GDP. That puts us in a pretty exclusive club, one that includes Greece, for instance. All that debt and money printing will have consequences; inflation and possibly hyper-inflation, the debt will be an ever greater drag on the economy, the necessity of ever higher taxes to service the debt. These are irreversible and devastating consequences of these economic policies. But the destruction of the political and economic power of the United States is not all. They are seeking the complete destruction of our traditional culture and history. It is basic Judaeo-Christian morality and our unique attitude of entrepreneurship as Americans that made us what we are. Now all the good things that made America great are denigrated as racism and white supremacy. Things like hard work, self reliance, objectivity, the nuclear family, respect for authority, being polite, rational thinking, conventional grammar, the Judaeo-Christian tradition, these are all examples of racist white culture. Even stressing that math is objective and has right and wrong answers is racist and an example of white supremacy. There can be no question that those in power are seeking the total and complete destruction of the United States of America as a place of political freedom, economic opportunity and bastion of Western values and culture. But this begs the question; with what are they replacing it? Do they have an alternate set of values to which we are to adhere, some list of beliefs that define our acceptance? With all their meticulously planned demolition, there does not appear to be a coherent edifice to replace what they have destroyed. In Nazi Germany or Communist Russia, China or North Korea there was, or is, the ugly yet simple religion of the party and the cult of the dear leader. But here there is not even that, membership in the elite is not clearly defined, its definition and requirements are increasingly fluid. Ask Governor Cuomo. Generally they are against traditional America, Republicans, Trump personally, of course, conservative Christianity, capitalism and most recently, “whiteness,” which has become a catch all for all the foregoing. But even those things are ambiguous, their wrath against them ever changing and broadening to encompass more nuanced offenses. Even those who humbly genuflect at the altar of the anti-racists can still find themselves on the receiving end of the mob's wrath. For that is what it is, a mob of activists bent on destruction, useful idiots for those really pulling the strings. Our current situation is like the French Revolution or the Cultural Revolution in China. Acceptable today, condemned tomorrow, you can never be sure. When there are no anchors in society for mores and values, the safest position is to just keep your head down and be quiet, to become a non person with no thoughts, no opinions, no values of your own. But that is what those really in charge want-docile, fearful sheep who will jump at the barking of the dogs. Fearful of speaking out against those who peddle irrational fear; fear of Covid, fear of a climate catastrophe, fear of offense. For those in control, our silence, our lack of objections is seen as consent to their theft, and if some need it, psychological cover for their evil. So what are we left with? Those in control do not seek our adulation, only our obedience. They have no lasting values they want us to embrace, only transient memes to instill fear and silence opposition. All that matters to them is power wielded for their own wealth and comfort. That is all they are for and so after they have reduced all we hold dear to rubble, they have nothing to give us. So what are we left to embrace after they have eliminated all the things they are against? When morality and reason and ambition are merely deplored vestiges of a racist past? A mindless hedonistic society where the most perverse sexual appetites are celebrated and sexual proclivities are the defining human characteristic. An irrational society where every individual defines his or her reality according to their preference at the moment. A society in which we are divided into grievance groups, suspicious and fearful of everyone else. A society in which the individual's relationship with government is primary and family ties are a fading anomaly. With nothing to believe in beyond ourselves, ambition, family, reason and education relegated to the dustbin of evil racist values, when the past is erased and the future uncertain and unknown due to the ever shifting whims of those in control, we will have no place to find meaning in life. Accomplishment, religion, family, tradition; these are all the things that have always given us meaning, things that separate us from animals. But that is the purpose, to reduce us to mindless domestic animals who will do what we are told, docilely submitting our labor and minds to their will for their benefit. In their eyes we are mere merely tools for their use and to them, there are way too many obsolete tools in the shed. This is a cult of death, Marxism always results in death, and coupled with radical environmentalism, the over population of our fragile earth is a perfect excuse for mass extermination. So what can we do against this overwhelming tide? Is there any hope? As long as one man or woman believes in liberty and natural rights, there is hope. But the all encompassing nature of the demolition of our fragile edifice of freedom requires an all out assault on their plans and actions. First of all, we must fight on the battlefields we can compete on. Do not comply with any edicts that violate rights. Stop supporting the evil by acquiescing to their demands for plunder. Reject things like Critical Race Theory and the 1619 project that are deliberate attempts to destroy our history and culture. Educate yourself, use your mind, hold onto reason, faith and morality and teach your children to do the same. Second, we need to reject this idea that electoral politics is a winner take all, majority/mob rule game in this country. That's what the democrats and political elite want us to believe; that their power as elected officials entitles them to any action. We need to reject that idea. We are supposed to be a constitutional republic with a severely limited government. If we reject all their unconstitutional edicts their flood of new voters will be of little consequence. If we refuse to fund their immoral actions, they will have no benefits with which to bribe new voters. Do you get it? All these people coming to America do so for the freebies we are funding. Stop funding the freebies and they will stop coming and even if they do, they will work hard for everything they get just like our ancestors did. That will make them value freedom. Third, we need to prepare for the economic destruction that all this printing and borrowing will bring on our heads. We cannot let them use it as an excuse to tighten their grip and we must remain civilized and not engage in desperate mob action. Community support will be crucial. We will need to develop alternative economic structures and institutions that will be outside their control and manipulation. These will be statewide efforts, the states will need to become lifeboats from all the irrationality. Through the Covid crisis and now the pushback on wokeness, Florida has started to blaze this path and others are joining in. It needs to become much more comprehensive and we need to elect local leaders who will have the courage to do what is necessary to protect and enhance liberty. Finally, we will eventually need to take back control of our national government. We need to make it what it should be, a uniting force for liberty within our borders and a beacon for freedom to the world. Its power over us must be weak but internationally we must be very strong or we may all be speaking Mandarin in a decade or two. But it cannot be anything like it is now, most agencies will need to be disbanded, its power reduced to original constitutional limits. This will require election reform to even get people in who will work to that end, and it will require starving the swamp of our money and support. There is no other way. As long as the gravy train of plunder keeps feeding the beast, it will not stop. Our future is still in our hands even if so much seems out of our control. But their efforts at fundamental transformation through the destruction of all that is good and right must be met with equally daring and comprehensive efforts on our part. It will require hard work and sacrifice, it will require playing outside the rules and laws they use for our subjugation, it will require we pledge our lives, fortunes and honor to the most worthy task of all, liberty for ourselves and our posterity. May we not be forever cursed as the generation who let this most noble experiment in freedom die.

Klaus Schwab, you may have heard of him by now. He is the founder and leader of the World Economic Forum and the organizer of the Davos conference every year. For decades he has provided the leadership and organization for the cabal of rich elites who want to rule the world after the Great Reset. No longer a conspiracy theory, it is all out in the open. Build Back Better did not originate with Joe Biden. Canada's prime minister is looking forward to the Great Reset. This idea of world government as a way to 'solve' the invented crisis of Covid and the deliberate destruction of Western economies that is its handmaiden is here for all to see. It is being advertised, big tech and corporate media are behind it, world political leaders are all in, the UN is smiling with glee. For those of you with your head in the sand who haven't heard of the Great Reset, here it is in a nutshell. It is a marriage of communist ideology and radical environmentalism in which all private property is banned and a chip is implanted in your brain to make you part of the AI hive. Your life will have no more meaning than that of a worker bee. Who is going to go along with this? You say, 'no way' with confidence and bluster. But will you really? Are you willing to make the sacrifices necessary to maintain even the little liberty you have left? If 2020 was any indication, it is unlikely. The vast, vast majority of people all over the world have gone along with the most egregious assaults on our most sacred rights. Why? Why have people who proclaim their love and fidelity to their rights by and large acquiesced to this obvious tyranny? Two reasons; training and fear. We are trained from our youth to obey authority. It starts in government schools where we are trained to conform to the norms propagated by the teachers unions and education tsars. We are trained to accept the goodness of government, we are taught that government has our best interests at heart, that without all the programs and spending we would be poor and sickly; death would be just around the corner. Conformity and compliance are bred into us. So when they say “Coronavirus will kill us all unless we do all these things” we do all these things. Even though “all these things” don't seem to work and have actually been shown to be destructive they will just do more of the same. Some are waking up and that's good but most will keep complying because that is their first instinct. That attitude is what feeds tyranny, the subject's desire to obey coupled with the desire of the tyrant to control. The more obedience shown, the greater the tyranny. We see it all around us today. The second motivation for compliance is fear. No one wants to be fined or go to jail for say, opening their business in defiance of some lockdown edict. The sign says “By Order of the Governor you are required to wear a facemask” so you go out and get a facemask because you don't want to cause trouble. Do you want to find out what happens if you are out and about after curfew? Of course no one wants to go though the ringer the IRS, the most powerful collection agency in the world, has created to make sure you keep paying for your chains. We fear loss, we acquiesce because we want to keep what we have. We desperately want to hold onto what is left of normal and will not engage in any behavior that might put that at risk. But this is how the very few can control the many. They have control of education and media to the extent that resistance and rebellion do not even occur to most. And they leave just enough stuff or liberty to the remainder so they will not rebel out of fear of losing the little they have. So we acquiesce because we want to hold on to what we have. Ironically, if we get to the point where we have nothing to lose, then fear is gone. You no longer fear loss for there is nothing to lose. It is attachments that result in fear. If we make things like truth, justice and liberty our priority and consider our things of little consequence in comparison, our fear will fade. Tyranny grows through lies and fear and will be defeated with truth and courage. There are very few of them, top down control by definition means the very few are controlling the many and they only do so with our compliance and cooperation, however reluctant. When we reject their dictates, disobey their rules, refuse to allow their plunder and demonstrate our power to defend ourselves against the imposition of their malevolent will, then we will be free once again.

We currently live under the illusion that reason, logic and the rule of law are the foundation of our society. We believe there are facts, that there is a basic reality, that there is an objective historical record of how we got here. We think we are free people living in a free country with unalienable rights. We look at our fellow human beings and we believe they are basically good, that they are reasonable, that they will follow predictable patterns based on our long established cultural mores and moral foundations. This worldview, this way of looking at and operating in the world, is gone. It has been waning for some time but in the last year it has been utterly obliterated. I hate to shatter your illusion but you have no rights-only permissions, the rule of law does not exist-only force and fraud, reason is dead-only emotion and propaganda exist, and reality is now defined only by individual opinion. This is the world we live in and if we keep playing as if all those things still exist we will continue to lose; and eventually we will lose everything. Look at what happened in the 2020 election. Republicans are already making plans for the midterm elections and speculating about the next presidential race as if elections and the exercise of government power has not fundamentally changed. HR1, whether it passes or not, demonstrates the democrat's intention to make sure the unconstitutional and illegal changes they made to ensure their victory in 2020 are permanent. And its not just HR1, it is the illegal immigrant citizenship process, the propaganda blitz painting any opposition as white nationalist terrorists and the support of censorship; it is all designed to make the United States a one party state like California or New York. The fact is they acquired power illegitimately yet we are treating this administration like any other. This was the culmination of a coup yet we are debating its merits and edicts as if everything is normal. Its not! Do you really think that they are going to go back to playing by the old rules, or any rules, when they broke them all to get where they are? They are already demonstrating they won't. Do you think there is going to be another free and fair election? And here is the other question for you. Do you really think that even if the republicans succeed in taking the house and the senate they are going to change anything, that they will reverse our trajectory in any meaningful way? Have they ever? They say the democrats are overreaching and the pendulum will swing back. Does it ever swing all the way back to liberty? Or does it just swing back enough to placate the masses and allow the codification of most of the tyranny. Many believe another viable avenue of obstruction to Biden's indisputable exercise of unconstitutional power and catastrophic policies is to use the courts. The democrats have been doing this for decades. When they can't get their policies passed legislatively they find activist judges to do it for them. That should tell you all you need to know, the courts are not going to be any help. Nor have they been. Most courts refused to hear any case of election fraud, refused to even look at the evidence or hear from thousands of witnesses. The supreme court couldn't be bothered to consider the blatant disregard of the voting rules or constitutional requirements for changing them. But this is just the latest evidence that our justice system is anything but just. The obvious nature of our two tiered justice system had been clear for decades. Those favored by the state swamp are never prosecuted or held to account for obvious lawbreaking. Hillary Clinton was the poster child for this but the Bidens, the people in the FBI and other agencies who initiated the coup against President Trump, they were all protected even though they lied to courts and congresses, actions that would get the rest of us thrown in jail. There is no justice for the rest of us, if we offend the swamp law enforcement and the courts will not help. Investigations and indictments are for us, not for the connected. Look at the difference in treatment for the rioters from Antifa and BLM and those who entered the capitol in January. Courts will ignore evidence, the law and the rules to protect the swamp and punish those who dare question the looting and lawlessness. I've seen it personally, we all see it in the news every day. Of course we cannot ignore the pandemic response where the rules, and specifically our rights, were eliminated along with our reason. Recently Texas “opened up”, the governor gracious “allowed” businesses to open back up. Allowed? Do you get the language we have accepted? The government, state, federal or local, has decided we must get its permission to exercise our fundamental rights, to assemble, to work, to travel. Our freedom now operates on a sliding scale subject to the whims of those in power. And their rules are arbitrary, sort of. They seem that way because we can't understand why small businesses are closed down and large ones stay open. If you follow the money and power, it becomes obvious. After all, if masks work on airplanes, why not in restaurants? If you get a vaccine, why do you still have to wear a mask and be socially distanced? If you wonder if your fellow citizens still have the capacity for reason and see the absurdity in all these policies, look at how many of them wear their masks alone in the car! Washington is lost, we must face that reality. The swamp is in control, has been for a long time and no election is going to change that. Trump tried and ultimately failed. It broke the bonds of the Constitution and the rule of law a long time ago. They have no regard for our natural rights. It is a criminal enterprise that looks on us as marks to be defrauded and impoverished for their own gain and it will continue until it destroys itself and the country. When the rule of law no longer exists for those in power, the acquisition and exercise of power is the only maxim. Laws, constitutions, basic morality are only empty conventions to be used or ignored as required by the situation on the road to totalitarian control. Any such power is only constrained when it meets a greater, more potent and ruthless power. If we desire to restore our natural liberties and rights and live by reason, we must confront the evil that attacks them and we cannot do that successfully on their field with their officials according to rules by which they are not bound. To beat back this tyranny requires three things. We must first acknowledge that the people who desire to enslave us and all their minions are not good people, we can no longer give them the benefit of the doubt-they are evil. Any man or woman who desires to steal from and enslave another is evil. Second, we must ignore their rules and restrictions on our basic rights and liberties and reject their assaults on reason and history. Third, we must no longer bind ourselves to the institutions of power and injustice that enforce their tyranny. Why should we accept and suffer penalties for exercising our natural rights just because they passed a law that criminalizes the exercise of those rights? We are only going to restore our liberty and freedoms if we reject the very system that is destroying them. Our obviously unjust and tyrannical system depends on our respect and compliance to work. It depends on our funding. If we continue to give their edicts respect and fund our enslavement, we will never reverse the tide of totalitarianism. Our government deserves neither our respect nor support. The only way to win is to stop playing the game the way they want us to. Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual. Thomas Jefferson

April 15th rapidly approaches. Many of you have already filed you taxes, getting a return of some of your money, money the government borrowed from you without interest for the last year. Nice deal, for them. While they had that extra money along with everything else they steal from you, what did they do with it? We all know it is wasted, used to pay off political friends and contributors, it is wealth redistribution not to the poor but to politicians, career bureaucrats and the politically connected. We all know it yet we accept it, we put up with it and we continue to send our hard earned money to these looters and thieves. This nation was founded on a revolution fought against unjust taxation. Taxation without representation was the battle cry. Now we accept it as normal in Washington. Nancy has done away with committee hearings where our representatives ostensibly get to look over these massive thousand page bills. The “American Rescue Plan” is a poster child for taxation without representation. Billions to bail out bankrupt blue states and cities. Did the rest of us have any say in what California, New York or Illinois did with their money? The waste, the stupidity, the deals with unions and payouts to illegals? No, but now our money is being confiscated to pay for their irresponsibility; but that is nothing new, our money has been stolen to pay for people's irresponsibility for a long time. Back to founding principles. How about Jefferson's statement that it is immoral to take someone's money through taxes and use it for things that person finds morally objectionable? Most of our money is used to pay for things we don't want or approve of, unconstitutional things. Pallets of cash to Iran, baby killing all over the world, stimulus checks to felons and illegal immigrants, just to name a few recent examples. This is immoral and we should refuse to send another dime of tax money for these reasons alone. The use, or abuse, of our money is one thing. How about the fact that they take it from us in the first place? The founders believed it was immoral to take what someone earned through their hands or with their minds. That is why direct taxes were prohibited in the Constitution. The products of our labor belong to us and us alone to dispose of as we see fit. That is the moral position. Only thieves and tyrants see it otherwise. The looters in Washington, and all politicians really, see our money as their money first, and what remains after taxes is our allowance. I mean, really, our system is so convoluted and immoral. The graduated income tax is a communist idea meant to punish success. Punish success, how stupid is that? The death tax, that's immoral on so many levels. Now they are proposing a wealth tax on what people have accumulated on their allowance. They want to expand the IRS to collect new and higher taxes with most of the money going to enforcement. Is this the government you want? A government that is going to double down on immoral taking and spending, a government that will gladly put it's boot on your neck if you whimper in protest? Of course there is not enough money to steal to satisfy their obscene appetites. To make up the difference they are creating money out of thin air and turning it into debt. Deficits used to be in the billions, now they are in the trillions and most in the political class have adopted the idea that it doesn't matter. Those who object say that we are obligating our children, grandchildren and great grandchildren to repay this crushing debt. On its face that is immoral, stealing from future generations so a few in the connected political class can enjoy the fruits of their immorality. But beyond the obvious, are we obligated to pay the debt the government has accrued? Is it a contract we must honor like a mortgage or other loan? The sanctity of contract, a crucial principle of justice, does not apply to government promises to pay because the government does not promise to pay, it promises to make you and I pay. We were not asked for our consent, most of us disapprove, our representatives have no real input, and in no way can all this borrowing be justified by saying it is for the common good. How can we be bound by a contract others make for the explicit purpose of depriving us of our property for their own benefit? How can that be considered a valid transaction in any way? It can't. Nothing the government does concerning money is moral. They take it from us by force, they use it for purposes we find objectionable and they borrow on our behalf when what they steal is not enough. And they have the audacity to say it is in any way voluntary and that it is all for the public good. Liars and thieves! Why any of us give these people our support and loyalty I will never know. But too many believe the lies, too many are happy receiving their pittance from the spoils and those who object do not have the courage to stop supporting this evil edifice of corruption. And so it will go on. We will be impoverished, eventually the currency will be destroyed but the political class will enjoy their plunder. And so the greatest experiment in personal liberty will meet its end all because you lacked the courage to withdraw your consent to this abomination of lies and immorality.

The brave patriots who took the capitol building and delayed the certification of the fraudulent election are still on our minds. Did you cheer them on, did you wish you had been there to be part of something truly significant and historical? I did although distance and prior commitments kept be close to home. Perhaps you do not see yourself doing something so radical or secretly wish you had the courage of those who did. What keeps most of us from doing the type of things that really get the attention of the tyrants ruling over us? Why don't we resist in ways that might actually bring about real change? In a word, fear. Fear of loss. Loss of liberty, being locked up. Loss of property, having it confiscated or losing it defending yourself from persecution in a corrupt justice system. Ultimately, loss of life, ending up in an unmarked grave, the end for hundreds of millions who displeased tyrants throughout the centuries. You see, there is a trick to tyranny, a balancing act so few seem able to master. While they plunder the people for their own appetites and exert greater control to satisfy their own narcissistic passions, they need to leave the serfs and slaves enough so they think that if they just keep their heads down the little they have left won't be demanded of them. So the smart tyrant takes it slow, demanding more and more over time, playing on the people's hopes that each requisition of property and each abuse of rights will be the last. Let the people settle into the new normal before making another demand. As the Declaration of Independence says, men are more disposed to suffer while the evils are sufferable. And throughout history, men have suffered and endured the worst degradation at the hands of their fellow men. The thing is, governments and those who run them will always demand more, their power will continually expand while our rights diminish. We may keep drawing lines in the sand but they will always cross them. Do you even have a line they cannot cross? Because they will cross every one if we fail to do more than whine and protest loudly. Because the end game is this; Greed and lust for power eventually get the best of them and they will reduce us all to abject slavery. When that happens, when men have everything taken, ironically they are free again; there is no more fear for there can be no more loss. The only loss left is that of life and a man whose life is devoid of anything of value does not fear losing it as much as others may. A man from whom the tyrant has taken everything is the most dangerous man of all. He is no longer under the tyrant's power, he no longer fears the tyrant's wrath. He will fight with a holy vengeance, he will seek justice untempered with mercy. He may burn out in an explosive conflagration or he may ignite an uncontrollable inferno but his actions will have an impact; a loud, disruptive, historical impact. So the question is this, are you going to wait until the tyrant has put you in a corner, until he has taken everything before you act to restore your liberty and humanity? If we know that our current trajectory toward totalitarianism has not been changed by any of our actions within the system and that an absolute despotism is in sight, why do we desperately hold on to the things we know will be stolen, vestiges of freedom we know will be taken. Why do we refrain from acting out of fear of losing the very things that will be taken if we don't act? If we fail to act, we will surely lose everything of value. If we do act, there is a chance we will restore our liberty and secure our property. So we have a choice before us. We can continue as we have, writing our clever memes, contacting our deaf representatives, casting a now worthless vote, hoping we won't live long enough to see it get really bad and so condemning succeeding generations to slavery by our cowardice. Or we can do as our forefathers did, men and women who put the struggle for liberty far and above the value they placed on their lives and fortunes. They had not yet lost everything but they saw the writing on the wall and were willing to put it all on the line for the hope of a better future. Americans have always done that, it is part of the American spirit to risk big. Freedom, the defiance of tyranny, it is in our DNA. You can do significant things to restore your liberty. Non-compliance is a start. Stop obeying their unconstitutional dictates. How about this, stop paying for your chains; that will get their attention; believe me, I know. If you get the chance, protest, make your voice heard. Keep the powder dry folks, be prepared. Samuel Adams wrote “If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.” Which are you? An American who courageously engages in the contest for freedom or one who lives in fear of losing what you have, doing your best to ignore the rattle of your chains as you prostrate yourself before your masters? The time for choosing is upon us, our descent into an absolute tyranny has gained a frightening speed. Who will you be and how will your grandchildren remember you? “...you are strong only as long as you don't deprive people of everything. For a person you've taken everything from is no longer in your power. He's free all over again.” ―Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The First Circle

We are all more than familiar with the level of corruption in government at all levels. In school we learned about the Teapot Dome scandal, Tammany Hall and Watergate. In those days the perception at least was that these events were the exception rather than the rule, that corruption was not endemic to our system of government. As I said, that is the perception, I believe corruption is the natural order of things in government and will become endemic if it goes unpunished. We have obviously arrived at that point and did so some time ago. But before we go on, what am I talking about when I say there is rampant corruption in government? I would say there are two kinds of corruption practiced among those in power. The first kind is the corruption exemplified by Joe Biden. He used his position and influence to enrich himself, his family and his friends. He is a common thief using the power with which he was entrusted to steal millions of dollars from us and other peoples around the world. To do so he not only encouraged corruption here and abroad but sold out our country, its technology and interests to the highest bidder. He used and abused our trust for the almighty dollar. The second form of corruption is to gain or consolidate power. This is the corruption of Barack Obama. This is the use of power to crush opposition. The weaponization of agencies like the IRS and EPA, the use of the justice department to harm political opponents and journalists and eventually initiate a coup. This is the form of corruption that leads to the theft of property and liberty, silences opposition and eventually results in camps and mass graves. The real problem is not that there are corrupt people in government. There will always be charlatans for whom public service is merely a tool for self aggrandizement. When money and power are so concentrated, such people are inevitable. What is not inevitable is the lack of punishment when they are caught. When violations of the law and abuses of power are not prosecuted, when there is a two tiered system of justice where those in the deep state and establishment are excused or even rewarded for behavior that would land the ordinary person in prison, then it becomes a serious problem. Think about the examples from the very top to the bottom. We may soon have a president whose corruption is on a massive scale. We have a secretary of state that destroyed evidence-Hillary Clinton. An FBI director and his minions who manufactured evidence and lied to the court to initiate a coup! Lois Learner abused taxpayers under Obama. How many rioters or looters have been prosecuted? We know that during this election there was fraud on a massive scale. Poll workers who physically kept observers out of counting areas, tampering with ballots, postal workers backdating ballots, all felonious activities. We have people on facebook boasting that they voted more than once, video evidence of candidates and poll workers filling out ballots for voters, pictures of people displaying Trump signs they stole or destroyed. These are all illegal activities evidence for which is irrefutable. But what do we get? Usually not even an investigation. Certainly no one goes to jail. There is no accountability. We each have an innate sense of justice, the idea that people should get what they deserve. If people work hard and play by the basic rules of morality, they should reap the rewards. If people break the law and abuse our trust they should be punished. Protecting that ideal is the primary function of government. Here is our real problem. If the connected are never even investigated, if the politically correct are excused due to race, gender, political ideology or any other reason, when justice is no longer blind but makes her decisions based on any other standard, then justice no longer exists and government has failed in its fundamental duty. There are two important consequences to this failure. One, it emboldens the reprobates to engage in more blatant illegal and immoral behavior. Corruption is so endemic to our government at all levels that not only are the corrupt rewarded, the good are persecuted and pushed out. If voter fraud is rewarded and the participants are never prosecuted, every election will be stolen. Those on the winning side, from the president to your neighbor who stole your yard sign, will be emboldened to more malevolent behavior. This results in the kind of tyranny of organized communist regimes like the old Soviet Union or banana republic dictatorships. The second consequence is that the average person loses all faith in the system. Elections are frauds, the justice department is a joke, the whole system is a sham. There is no hope for the average person to find justice in such a place. Therefore, if you are the victim of injustice and know the system will not help you, you have two choices. You can deny your basic dignity as a human being and suffer the evil of others or you can satisfy the requirements of justice on your own. When tyranny becomes law, when justice is denied, when the system protects the evil and punishes the good then resistance becomes our duty, the righteous become outlaws and justice is fulfilled in the actions of the vigilante.

One of the major points of contention in the election was taxes. Old Uncle Joe promised that he was going to eliminate the Trump tax cuts which means that taxes are going to go up for almost everyone. It is estimated that if that happens the average family will pay $2000 more a year in taxes. $2000 here, $2000 there, does this add up to real money to you? I know it does to me. The popular saying goes that you can't buy time. But that's not really true. Think about something as simple as cooking. You can spend several hours taking a pile of ingredients and mixing them together to make a meal. Or, you can pick up the phone and have something delivered. It may cost a little more but now you have the time you would have spent cooking to do something else. Or we can take it a step further and you can consider the fact that those hours spent cooking would become days or months if you had to grow or hunt for all the ingredients for your meal. You see, every mind in the history of man that thought of a better way to do something bought us more time. The machines that harvest, the trucks that transport, the electricity to run refrigerators and lights in the store and a million other things that make modern life possible all give us time. That is the point of a labor saving device like a mixer or oven, they give us time. That is one reason freedom is so important to everyone, only a mind free from restraint and properly rewarded will truly benefit us all through innovation. So the time you spend working produces money you can spend in ways that give you more time. A car will get you places a lot faster than walking. Buying a house gets a roof over your head a lost faster than building one with your ax. But the fact that time can be bought means that time can also be stolen. You may know what tax freedom day is. Right now it is a day in late April when you have paid all the federal, state and local taxes and you are allowed to keep what you earn the rest of the year. In socialist European countries where taxes run sixty or seventy percent or more, that day moves into fall. In the days of slavery, after the slaves gave their labor to the master all day, the time they had left they could produce for themselves. The same thing happened in the days of serfs and lords. So you must pay twelve months of bills with eight months of work. The higher taxes go, the fewer months will be in your column and the more will be in government's. What if you had that money? Maybe you wouldn't have to work as hard, maybe both parents in a family would not have to work full time and they could actually be around to raise their own children. Maybe you'd take a vacation or two, spend more time doing other things or being able to save enough to try something new. The possibilities are as endless as your imagination but the state has stolen that from each of us, they have stolen our time, our choices, our options. And for what? So they and their cronies could have it for themselves? Stealing the products of our time like common thieves for their own benefit!? This is why our forefathers staged a rebellion in the first place, this is why they wanted a small government that would not steal the products of our labor and they put that limitation in the Constitution. They knew it was wrong to steal the fruits of a man's labor to give themselves, their cronies or to causes and activities he disagrees with. They didn't want to see what we have now, the theft of our labor to pay for our own chains. Taxes are not trivial, they are not inevitable. Don't you think it is time to stop contributing to your own enslavement and that of future generations?

Out of all the times to live in the history of man, we are truly blessed to be in the here and now. To live in an era when a man or woman is free to do or be anything, where their ambitions are limited only by the amount of work and thought they are willing to put into them. A time when the idea that man is a sovereign individual with rights that are inseparable from his existence and his life has an innate worth and value. It may not seem that way all the time but that is the foundation of these United States, an idea exported to many parts of the world with varying degrees of success. This is not normal. Throughout the millennia man has walked the earth, the normal state of most was to live under oppression. The rights of most men and women were not even acknowledged, much less respected, and they were forced to live for the benefit of others. Master-slave, Lord-serf, King-subject, Ruler-peasant, these were the various roles men and women have been subject to through the centuries all around the globe. Then a bunch of English guys in the New World said to hell with that, all men are equal, all have unalienable rights and that is the way it should be. The establishment of the United States of America as a place of individual human freedom where liberty was respected and celebrated, where government was subject to the people whose rights superseded said government was a completely unique event in human history. But as the saying goes, “Freedom ain't free.” Being a sovereign individual requires work, protecting liberty demands vigilance. One of Ronald Reagan's most famous sayings was that freedom is only ever one generation away from extinction. That is so very true and at no time since our founding have we been so close to losing freedom completely. We have let it wane for generations but it is this generation that may see that flickering flame extinguished. Everything that has happened this year alone should be the loudest of wake up calls. From the bold tyranny of so many politicians and bureaucrats to the silencing of opposing voices to the tearing down of statues; they are all attempts to erase this idea that man is, or ever has been, a free and sovereign individual who is meant to live free of coercion. If a stolen election is allowed to stand, we will have lost. We will have betrayed the founders vision, we will have spit on the graves of all who bled and died to protect this ideal, we will condemn our children and the rest of the world to the norm of tyranny and history will look back on us and think us foolish for trying; for it is the despots writing that history who will laugh at us for our cowardice. I believe all this is a result of us forgetting who we are and that all hierarchical structures are inventions of our minds exist only with our consent. Today we are born into them and because they are familiar we accept them as an integral part of life. But they are not, they are artificial. They only exist because at some point one man said to another, you owe me your obedience and property, and that other man consented. The first master and slave. It is all a fraud. But because it is the norm and has been for most of our history, we accept it. This just goes to show you how much wisdom and courage that founding generation had to break with such long standing ideology and tradition. Who are our masters, these men and women who have put themselves in positions of authority? They are in these positions not because of their superior wisdom or character but because they have elevated themselves above their fellows by inventing a rank that enables them to live at the expense of others. Not because any such status confers a benefit to others that outweighs the harm they do to their lives, liberty and property but because they have convinced others through force or fraud they are worthy of such an exalted station. Think of that next time you see Biden or Pelosi or Maxine Waters or one of these tyrannical governors or mayors or even some supposed expert bureaucrat open their pie hole. Do you really think any of these people are smarter than you?! Do they deserve our respect or admiration, is there anything about them that makes them proper custodians of our trust, confidence and dependence? Obviously not. No man or woman is worthy of my respect if they have no respect for my rights, life, liberty and property. They have nothing of value to exchange for my admiration or loyalty, their lives are worthy only of contempt. They are no more than common thieves looking for ways to acquire the property of others through fraud of force. In fact they are worse than common thieves who may find themselves in desperate situations that make thievery the only option they see. No, the men and women of government could do something productive with their hands and minds but instead they choose to demand the work of others for no other reason than they believe they can, that they are entitled to it. This was the case back when the Egyptians enslaved the Hebrews and made them build treasure cities and it is no different than the politicians and bureaucrats of today who steal our money and liberty, enslaving us in a system that benefits only them. The whip has been replaced by taxes and regulations but the few living at the expense of the many has not changed. We have got to reject this worldview of master-slave, king-subject, it is not inevitable and it only exists with our consent. Our founders mustered the courage not to consent and if we are to salvage anything they built, we have got to find some courage as well. The smiling benevolent masks of our rulers have been removed, the corruption and theft are obvious, their lies and evil can no longer be hidden behind flowery words and appeals to tradition, their naked play for power is all out in the open and the destructive nature of its exercise surrounds us. Too many are duped into accepting compensation for the loss of their livelihood and freedom with a stimulus check. Don't you see they are just paying you not to revolt against their tyranny? Don't be pacified with bread and circuses! Rise up against these impostors, withdraw your consent from being governed this way, muster the courage to change the course of history and expand the scope of liberty for yourself, your children and for the hope of those all around the world. “There is one thing in the world more wicked than the desire to command... and that is the will to obey.” William Clifford

The first amendment entitles us to free speech, particularity political speech. If there was one thing the Trump administration revealed, it is that there are a lot of people who have no tolerance whatsoever for opinions which diverge from their own. The insidious cancer of political correctness has infected every area of our country and lives and the rise of social media has made it terminally virulent. Differences of opinion or political support are no longer tolerated among the tyrannical political class, their accomplices in the media and their sycophant followers throughout society. We have lived with corporate boycotts for a long time but now the boycotting applies to the individual. This has become known as the cancel culture. An individual, sometimes famous but often just a normal person, expresses an opinion that offends someone somehow and they find themselves shamed. But it is more than that. Pressure is put on employers to fire them, any organizational or professional memberships are revoked. The point is to destroy that person's life, make them unemployable and isolate them from friends and family until they genuflect before the bullies and acknowledge their sin of holding an incorrect opinion or worldview. It was once primarily about global warming and sexual orientation. For the last four years Trump has become the personification of everything the politically correct elites hated, they attached to him everything they believe is wrong with society and people. He, and even more importantly, his supporters, are backward Neanderthals who oppose everything they believe characterizes a proper modern leftist society. With this focus and the fact that he was the president, the cancel culture and the war on divergent political speech escalated by several factors. The intimidation now became very personal; as in face to face. Politicians, most famously senator Maxine Waters, told their supporters to seek out their political opponents when they were out and about at a store or restaurant and get in their faces and yell and make them very uncomfortable. This mode of intimidation spread to any supporters of President Trump and to those who refuse to actively support organizations like Black Lives Matter. Who can forget the images of BLM thugs shouting at people in restaurants and refusing to let seniors with walkers cross the street. The methods have gotten more sophisticated and boldly crossed the line in obvious illegality. The violence that too often accompanied the intimidation is one example. Doxing is another. Doxing is the illegal activity of revealing documents and other personal information about someone with the intent to threaten, harass, intimidate, shame, humiliate or place them at risk. Who is going to stick their neck out when they could end up with the BLM and antifa brown shirts showing up on their front lawn? How many are willing to risk their livelihood to express a political or social opinion that may offend? But this is all our fault, we are the ones bowing to this pressure, we are the ones genuflecting before these people. We need the courage to stand up to these bullies as individuals and businesses. If we don't respect one another's right to speak and if we allow ourselves to be intimidated, we will not need the government to explicitly take this right, we will have already given it up. We are rapidly heading in the direction of Europe and other western nations where restrictions on free speech are onerous and getting worse. Here are some examples. Britain prohibits any “abusive or insulting words” meant “to stir up racial hatred.” Canada outlaws “any writing, sign or visible representation” that “incites hatred against any identifiable group.” These laws ban speech based not only on its content but on the reaction of others. Supposed blasphemy against Islam will subject people to legal penalties in a lot of western countries. In Paris a man was prosecuted for getting into a cursing match in a bar in which he used sexist and anti-Semitic slurs. A comedian in Canada was charged for violating the human rights of a lesbian couple with whom he got into a trash talking session with a group of women during open mic night. In Australia a woman was arrested and drug out of her home in front of her children for attempting to plan an anit-lockdown protest. It should come as no surprise to learn that these laws have a chilling effect on people's feelings about expressing themselves. A recent poll in Germany found only 18 percent of Germans feel free to express their views in public. Over 31 percent of Germans did not even feel free expressing themselves in private among friends. Just 17 percent felt free to express themselves on the Internet and 35 percent said that freedom to speak is confined to the smallest of private circles. Their fears may be well founded if Norway's recent action catches on. Norway has criminalized anything that could be construed as hate speech against transgender people or ideas. For public comments you could be jailed for three years. Even more chilling is the fact you can be jailed for a year for private comments. So among your friends or in your own home you could be jailed for your opinion. Think your home would be safe? Are you sure your children have not been indoctrinated to the point where they wouldn't turn you in? Are you sure your friends would not snitch? Turning us against one another is what the statists want. But also consider this. Alexa and Siri and Google are always listening. You don't think there will be some algorithm in the NSA bunker that will sort those out? Free speech is a fundamental right that is required in a free society. We need to push back against those who would bully us into silence, we need to bury political correctness and rebel against a government that spies and regulates this most precious right. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.” Anais Nin

Death and taxes, the two things you supposedly cannot avoid. Yet for 140 years of American history, a time of unparalleled growth and prosperity, there were no direct taxes on American citizens in line with what the founders believed and put in the Constitution. The founders understood that not only were direct taxes on the individual for making a living or simply existing, wrong, the prohibition of such taxes would ensure that the government did not have a form of income that would enable it to grow into a huge and intrusive size. Of course those days are long behind us. Founded on the idea that taxation without representation was evil, that taxing labor was immoral and that burdensome taxes and burdensome and tyrannical government go hand in hand, we have become that which we rebelled against two and a half centuries ago. The principles have not changed, all those things are still immoral and evil, yet we willingly, however reluctantly, participate in perpetuating this nefarious scheme to rape us of our wealth. King Joe has not been shy about requiring more of your money and wealth for all his corrupt friends and the denizens of the swamp. Just an aside, the last time a Democrat candidate ran on a platform of raising taxes, Walter Mondale lost in a landslide. Yet senile old Joe won. Hmmm. However, it will take a little while to actually increase tax rates on individuals and activities the communists disapprove of. But how current taxes are bring allocated and used is changing with a simple stroke Old King Joe's now well worn pen. Let's look at two of them which clearly violate the founder's vision for the limits and application of taxation in America. One of the first things Old King Joe did was eliminate the prohibition on taxpayer funding for abortions overseas and he has been clear on his opposition to the Hyde Amendment which supposedly prohibits domestic taxpayer funding for abortion. Most Americans oppose abortion on demand after the first trimester and very few would voluntarily pay for a woman to kill her baby. Would you? If not, then what are you going to do about the fact that the government is forcibly requiring you to pay for baby killing around the world? If abortion is murder to you, are you willing to continue to provide the contract fee for the assassin? Thomas Jefferson said it best. “To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.” The second affront to our founding principles is the idea that the Covid relief bill is going to include money to pay for all the debts of these democrat states they have run into the ground. Fundamentally, this is taxation without representation. I live in Florida which has not remained locked down for months on end and has confiscated more tax revenue than expected and can pay its own bills. New York, Illinois, California, and other democrat run states have spent their states into bankruptcy. I had no say when they decided to give their swarms of state workers generous pensions and salaries, when they decided to pay for sex change operations or failed welfare policies or benefits for illegal immigrants or raised taxes so high they drove all the productive people out of their states. I supported none of this yet with this Covid bill me and my children and grandchildren and their grandchildren are going to be paying for all of these things and more. This is wrong, this is why we rebelled against Britain. This is, of course, just the tip of the iceberg. All the money confiscated by our government is not for our benefit. It is for the benefit of the politicians, the connected, the swamp. All that foreign aid for things like gender studies in Pakistan is nothing but kickbacks. All those contracts are just favors to donors. All those cushy salaries and pensions are just to make the swamp wealthy and powerful. This is exactly what what the founders sought to avoid. Again, this is what Jefferson said. “Direct taxation is to be avoided, this could be done by avoiding expenses that are not necessary. when merely by avoiding false objects of expense we are able, without a direct tax, without internal taxes, and without borrowing to make large and effectual payments toward the discharge of our public debt and the emancipation of our posterity from that mortal canker, it is an encouragement, fellow citizens, of the highest order to proceed as we have begun in substituting economy for taxation, and in pursuing what is useful for a nation placed as we are, rather than what is practiced by others under different circumstances.” We were supposed to be different, we were not supposed to transfer wealth from the masses to the elite, to royalty, to the connected. And we held that line for over a century. Today that line has been obliterated as we spend half our working life paying for the lives of others; or for the taking of their lives. It is wrong, it is immoral and we should not do it. All we are doing is supporting immorality and we are doing it by voluntarily, however reluctantly, handing over our hard earned money to the looters and extortionists. It is time to stop, it is time to revolt. Do you have enough courage in your convictions to stop paying for all this evil? “To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.” Thomas Jefferson

I haven't heard a lot of comparisons recently about the fall of the Roman Empire and the current trajectory of America. I suppose the majority believe with the ascent of King Joe to the presidency America will be saved from whatever destruction President Trump was supposed to visit upon us. Somehow we think we are different, I'm sure the Romans did as well. They were once a republic with a constitution, lived under the rule of law and the system created great wealth. By the time of Marcus Tullius Cicero, who lived to see the rise of Caesar, the foundations of the republic were gone. If we take a look at some moments of his life and his comments on his time, I believe you will see some eerie parallels. Young Cicero was an idealistic law student under the legal star of his day, Scaevola. By this time Rome, by force of arms, guile and trickery, dominated the world. Its citizens had grown wealthy and fat, ignorant or indifferent of their rights, and had become apathetic about the ruthless politicians who craved ever more power and riches. Cicero's first client was a wealthy businessman, a man of integrity who believed in and trusted the system and his fellow man. But there were powerful men in government who coveted his wealth and used the power of the bureaucracy to destroy him. Young idealistic Cicero submitted documentary proof of his client's innocence to the judges confident that with such irrefutable proof, justice would prevail. The case was not going as he had expected, however, so he consulted his mentor, Scaevola, and asked the reason for his failure. Scaevola, disgusted, pounded the table and said "Imbecile! Of what use are records presented to tribunes, consuls, or senators if the government is determined to rob and destroy a man who had displeased them, or who possesses what they want? Have I truly wasted all these years on such an idiot as this Marcus Tullius Cicero!" Does this sound familiar? A justice department weaponized against those who dare confront the swamp, a knee jerk media who condemn without facts, show trials of men like President Trump and his allies. We do not live under the rule of law but of men who pervert the law or ignore it all together to destroy their enemies and protect their friends. A two tiered justice system is the very definition of injustice. This particular client was ruined through confiscatory and unjust taxation and what Cicero has to say in his defense is chilling in its description of America. Before the Roman Senate he pleaded the man's case with these words. "We are taxed in our bread and our wine, in our incomes and our investments, on our land and on our property, not only for base creatures who do not deserve the name of man, but for foreign nations, for complacent nations who will bow to us and accept our largess and promise us to assist in the keeping of the peace - these mendicant nations who will destroy us when we show a moment of weakness or our treasury is bare. We are taxed to maintain legions on their soil, in the name of law and order and the Pax Romana, a document which will fall into dust when it pleases our allies and our vassals. We keep them in precarious balance only with our gold. Is the heart-blood of our nation worth these? Shall one Italian be sacrificed for Britain, for Gaul, for Egypt, for India, even for Greece, and a score of other nations? Were they bound to us with ties of love, they would not ask our gold. They would ask only our laws. They take our very flesh, and they hate and despise us. And who shall say we are worthy of more?" Is this not a perfect description of our current situation? Taxed on every activity to pay for those who hold the enslaved contributor in contempt both domestically and abroad? Do many of our supposed allies around the world not despise us? Obama dropped billions in cash at at airfield in Iran, King Joe will no doubt to the same. Will they not continue to chant “Death to America” along with the Saudis and others? When our economy and currency are destroyed you don't think King Joe's Chinese “friends” will turn on us overtly and gladly take our position in the world as top dog with many cheering them on? We learn nothing from history and continue to throw good money after bad. At least President Trump tried to hold our allies accountable and halted some of the stupidity by stopping the flow of money to the Palestinians and others. Now the spigot will be turned back on full force. Cicero did not win his case, his client was bankrupted. But he spent his life pleading the cause for fair and honest government, unfortunately a losing proposition then as it is now. His discussions with Sulla, who had little faith in the people, were recorded. Sulla believed the vast majority of people were wrapped up in themselves and their own welfare and too timid to stand up for their natural rights. He told Cicero the middle class, the lawyers, the physicians, the bankers, and the merchants would make no sacrifices. He said none of your lawyers will challenge the lawmakers and cry to them, "This is unconstitutional, an affront to a free people, and it must not pass!" He asked Cicero, "Will one of these, your own, lift his eyes from his ledgers long enough to scan the Twelve Tables of Roman Law, and then expose those who violate them and help to remove them from power, even if it costs their lives? These fat men. Will six of them in this city, disregarding personal safety, rise up from their offices and stand in the Forum, and tell the people the inevitable fate of Rome unless they return to virtue and thrift and drive from the Senate the evil men who have corrupted them for the power they have to bestow?" Is this us? How few true whistleblowers in government will stand up for truth and against the swamp in today's cancel culture? Too many hold faith in Republicans but they did nothing substantial to contest the election or do more that occasionally slow our decent in tyranny for decades. Ultimately, they are cowards. How many of us will risk our money, our comfortable lifestyle, even our lives to stop complying with and feeding the beast that desires our complete subjugation? Are Americans really unique? Or are we no different that the Romans or any other people. I guess time will tell. Cicero battled against Catiline, a brilliant, ambitious and evil man who was attempting to overthrow the Roman Republic decades before Caesar. He was using emergencies to destroy the liberties of the people. Sound familiar? He was also trying to silence those who disagreed. Also familiar. Cicero, standing before the Senate had this to say. "Too long have we said to ourselves 'intolerance of another's politics is barbarous and not to be countenanced in a civilized country. Are we not free? Shall a man be denied his right to speak under the law which established that right?' I tell you that freedom does not mean the freedom to exploit law in order to destroy it! It is not freedom which permits the Trojan Horse to be wheeled within the gates. He who is not for Rome and Roman Law and Roman liberty is against Rome. He who espouses tyranny and oppression and the old dead despotisms is against Rome. He who plots against established authority and incites the populace to violence is against Rome. He cannot ride two horses at the same time. We cannot be for lawful ordinances and for an alien conspiracy at one and the same moment." Hypocrisy is nothing to this whose only value is power. They are happy to incite violence when it suits them and condemn it when it might work against them. They proclaim the sacredness of the Constitution as they destroy it spirit and letter. They abuse the lovers of liberty and freedom by perverting those very words. Cicero continued: "Though liberty is established by law, we must be vigilant, for liberty to enslave us is always present under that very liberty. Our Constitution speaks of the 'general welfare of the people.' Under that phrase all sorts of excesses can be employed by lusting tyrants to make us bondsmen." I need not even comment on that, the excesses of our government and their enslavement of us under the guise of providing for the general welfare are obvious to anyone with eyes. Cicero eventually became Consul and did his best to stop the waste and thievery. The corrupt could not let that stand and sought to remove and banish him. Does this sound familiar as well? Pleading his own case before the Senate, he stated "The Senate, in truth, has no right to censure me for anything, for I did but my duty and exposed traitors and treason against the State. If that is a crime, then I am indeed a criminal." Crassus, Caesar and Pompey were all present and agreed with his banishment. His smile was sad as he spoke. "You have succeeded against me. Be it as you will. I will depart." He then told them all, "For this day's work, lords, you have encouraged treason and opened the prison doors to free the traitors. A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly against the city. But the traitor moves among those within the gates freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears no traitor; he speaks in the accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their garments, and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation; he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city; he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared. The traitor is the carrier of the plague. You have unbarred the gates of Rome to him." The corrupt enemies of America now reside in the highest offices of the land and protect the traitors to the Republic who began the coup five years ago. They speak the language of liberty but betray its every principle for their own gain. The left, the statists, the Democrat party that embraces the ideology of Marx and Lenin and their enablers among the so called opposition are surely rotting the soul of our nation, the plague they have brought will be our end. Exiled from politics, Cicero continued to fight against the corruption but Sulla was right. The people he knew, the businessmen, the doctors, the lawyers, Rome's middle class told him, "We do not meddle in politics. Rome is prosperous and at peace. We have our villas in Caprae, our racing vessels, our houses, our servants, our pretty mistresses, and our comfort and treasures. We implore you, Cicero, do not disturb us with your lamentations of disaster. Rome is on the march to the mighty society, for all Romans." Until the barbarians are at the gates, no one believes the gravy train will end. No one wants to hear the truth, they enjoy their delusion too much. Cicero despaired of ever being able to make a change. He wrote a book but his publisher asked, "But who will read it? Romans care nothing for law any longer, their bellies are too full." His was truly a voice crying in the wilderness. So who was to blame for the death of the Roman Republic? Was it Caesar? Brutus thought so but Cicero bitterly corrected him. He said, "Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome who have so enthusiastically acclaimed and adored him and rejoiced in their loss of freedom and danced in his path and gave him triumphal processions and laughed delightedly at his licentiousness and thought it very superior of him to acquire vast amounts of gold illicitly. Blame the people who hail him when he speaks in the Forum of the 'new, wonderful good society' which shall now be Rome's, interpreted to mean 'more money, more ease, more security, more living fatly at the expense of the industrious.' Julius was always an ambitious villain, but he is only one man." We the people make up this nation. But too many, perhaps you are one of them, have willing traded freedom for the security offered by the charlatans who fleece us and desire to reduce us to slavery. While there may or may not be a majority who give lip service to the Constitution and the republic there is no question the vast majority are comfortable receiving the largess stolen from the productive and now, from a multitude of future generations. Who is willing to jeopardize all the temporary benefits of a frayed and strained safety net? We have sold our freedom and our future for the hope that government will provide for all our needs and fix all society's problems. Of course to those who understand liberty and human nature none of this is a surprise and the founders, who were all too familiar with Cicero, saw it as well. Patrick Henry, who thought the Constitution gave way too much power to the national government warned us to "be extremely cautious, watchful, jealous of your liberty. Instead of securing your rights, you may lose them forever." He said, "there will be no checks, no real balances in this government," and looking ahead he said "this government will destroy the state governments and swallow the liberties of the people." Benjamin Franklin thought things would be well run for a time and then it would end in despotism. Thomas Jefferson gave name to its form when he said it would become an oligarchy. They were right, they warned us, but nothing is preordained or predetermined. We yet have free will, we choose our path, we choose whether our liberty is worth defending. If liberty gained is not highly valued, there will always be men and women who will gladly reduce us to servitude for their own ends. The choice is ours, the struggle is not over, it only ends when we give up. May there yet be enough men and women of courage who will restore all that has been lost, who will rescue our most noble experiment from the jaws of destruction, a new generation of patriots who will pledge their lives, fortunes and sacred honor to the most worthy cause of all. This edition is a rewrite and consolidation of “Cicero's Prognosis” by THE HONORABLE MILLARD F. CALDWELL in 1965

Tyranny, The Lesser magistrate and Constitutional Sanctuaries The tyranny of the state. Despots at every level of government claiming the authority to order everything in our lives, even within the walls of our own homes. What had been a steadily growing stream of totalitarian edicts has become a tsunami and an even bigger second wave is on the way. If we are not only to protect the little liberty we have but restore the rights and freedoms bestowed on us by nature and nature's God and legally guaranteed us under the Constitution, we need to do more than sit in our living room with a loaded gun. We need a plan. Tyrants have been around forever, there will always be one man who will trample the rights of others, stealing the products of their minds and hands for his own aggrandizement. Therefore, there have always been forms of resistance because man yearns to be free. The question is, what form of resistance will best achieve the goal in a specific circumstance? In most western countries, power is exercised at various levels, from national to local, with each level of government having different responsibilities and authority. In the United States, this was made explicit under the doctrine of federalism. Each level of government not only had defined and limited powers but each level served as a check on the other. There were not only checks and balances within a specific level of government, legislative, judicial and executive, but the various levels of government served as checks on each other. The states were supposed to keep the federal government in check, this was once done primarily with senatorial representatives. Local governments kept states in check. Each level of government has its own legal authority and when one level oversteps their authority, it is the duty of the others to step in and stop the abuses. The ever expanding power of imperial Washington has destroyed this system. Now a court decision, an executive order, an agency regulation or, occasionally, an actual law handed down from the national government can destroy freedom and regulate a right out of existence for everyone. But this is only true because we allow it. Somewhere along the line we lost our courage or allowed ourselves to be bribed with our own money. The only way to restore our liberty is through organized resistance and that begins, in our system, with the doctrine of the lesser magistrate. This idea actually goes back to the Magdeburg Confession of 1550. There, the power of the lesser magistrate to resist tyranny was first published in Europe. It states that when the higher or superior authority makes an unjust or immoral law or decree, the lower or lesser magistrates have both a right and duty to interpose and refuse obedience to the superior authority, and if needs be, openly resist their unjust or immoral law or decree. This means if a state governor institutes a lockdown or prohibits people from going to church or forces them to cover their faces the local authorities, city and county officials, have the right and duty to ignore and resist the implementation of such a decree. Just because the state authorities have violated their oath to the Constitution does not mean the local authorities must comply. They have a duty to their own oath and that duty supersedes their obligations to state or national authorities. Earlier this year in Virginia and other places, Second Amendment Sanctuaries were declared that would at least ignore any unconstitutional gun legislation enacted by state or federal authorities. Sheriffs in various counties across the country have refused to enforce the draconian lockdown edicts of various governors. These are small and limited examples of this doctrine. If we are to restore our natural rights and liberties we need more than an occasional stand against the most outrageous abuses. We have been letting all this incrementalism slide for too long, we have fought minor skirmishes while the great army of tyranny just moved around and enveloped us until the skirmish was forgotten, the new outrage accepted. We need to resist all the abuses of our rights, every attack on our liberty. That is why I developed the idea of the Constitutional Sanctuary where a local or state government would ignore the implementation and resist the enforcement of any law, rule, regulation, executive or court order that infringed on any right or restricted any liberty. Our right to speak and assemble, our right to the fruits of our labor, our right to be secure in our persons and possession, don't these rights need protection as well? Of course they do and we should stand up for them too. The Covid Crisis has not only revealed the worst tyrannical impulses of our leaders but also showed that there are men and women of courage out there who still believe in liberty and have the guts to stand up for it. It's a start but we need to do so much more. Of course the lesser magistrate doctrine means nothing if your lesser magistrate; sheriff, county supervisor, or mayor is a spineless conformist or a petty tyrant themselves. We the people must get involved at the local level and make this an issue. Candidates need to be asked how seriously they are about freedom and their oath to the Constitution. We need to elect local people of real courage, leaders worthy of being followed and supported, men and women who will stand against tyranny from any source. This will necessitate big changes in the way things are done. The state and federal governments buy loyalty and authority with the money they steal from us and we've got to stop that give and take. The local authorities need to take their mouth off the higher government's teat just like we do. If you are not willing to take responsibility for your own life and stop living at the expense of others, how are we to expect the local authorities to stick their necks out and thumb their noses at the state and feds? If defying the tyrants means the subsidies stop coming to the local government, are you ready and willing to give up all your own subsidies and welfare benefits? If we expect the local government to stop obeying the state or feds, are you willing to stop giving those same authorities financial support? Restoring liberty must be a comprehensive endeavor that demands courage and sacrifice and it starts with each of us. Paraphrasing Samuel Adams; if you love the illusion of your wealth and the fleeting tranquility of your servitude more than difficult contest for liberty, go away! Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you a pittance wrapped in lies. You are not worthy of the title American and may history forget you were our countrymen.

In the face of our slide into tyranny I have listened to lots of people on the radio, television, read posts and they all whine and moan. They tell us to have faith in the American people. How can I have faith in the majority of my fellow citizens when they vote for corrupt despots, when the polls tell me they embrace our slide into Marxism? Some of them tell us to pray. Oh, King James would be proud. That was his solution. If the king is a tyrant, the solution was for the people to pray and endure. Others implore us to stand up but for what? Do we stand up and say no and then let them cart us away to prison or some camp for the recalcitrant? Then there is the lock and load crowd. Who are you going to shoot at when some unknown bureaucrat at the IRS empties your bank account due to your political views? We need a better solution, a real solution. A solution that restores the integrity of our constitutional republic and our individual rights. I call this a Constitutional Sanctuary. For those who are fans of Ayn Rand as I am, perhaps you find yourself yearning for Galt's Gulch about now. Well, Galt's Gulch is not somewhere we can go, it is a place we must create. Look at the electoral map by county. It is a sea of red. Look at places like Oregon, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Minnesota. Mostly red. But majority rules. I wrote a blog about it a few years ago, I called it the “Tyranny of the Urban Statists.” The large cities where democrat corruption rules determine the level of tyranny in the rest of the state. Now the corrupt democrat tyrants in Philadelphia, Detroit, Atlanta and Las Vegas are going to determine the level of tyranny for the whole country. What about your red county where you love liberty and the American ideal and American culture? I am coming to you from western Virginia, Henry county, next to Patrick county, yeah, that Patrick Henry. A place where Trump signs are more plentiful that trees. Maybe your county is the same. Do you have to submit to the despots these cities elect? At the beginning of 2020, before the Chinese virus took the headlines, counties in Virginia came up with an answer to their tyrant's actions against the second Amendment. They formed what were called “Second Amendment Sanctuaries” where Governor Northam's unconstitutional limits on firearms and self protection would not be enforced. As a political body, counties and towns all over the state engaged in organized non-compliance. I propose to you that all the amendments, all our rights are worthy of the same protection. So I give you a “Constitutional Sanctuary” where laws and rules infringing on any right is not only ignored but resisted. The details can be found in Hasticharot's Revolution which is available for free. Our individual dedication to non-compliance with tyranny is noble, it is our duty, but as the saying goes, one bee can be ignored or swatted away, but a swarm sends even the most powerful running. 70 million of us supported Donald Trump because we believed America is a good place, a place of liberty, where family and religion and hard work and common sense are among the rocks of its foundation. We are the people who get our hands dirty and produce. If all of us choose to no longer submit to injustice and tyranny, if we rise up and withhold our consent to be governed by despots, if we refuse to cooperate with our enslavement, if we commit to resisting any effort to place manacles on our hands and the yoke or servitude upon our necks, we will break the back of the tyrants, restore our glorious republic and fulfill the ideal of our founding. Are you with me? “Imagine a generation of men and women with a clear vision, a heroic penchant for the tremendous, a courageous tenacity for the truth and an unconditional intolerance for evil. Imagine the bold strides of these dragon slayers, the proud audacity with which they turn their backs on all the lies and false doctrines of the moochers and looters, the thieves and murderers, resolving to live in liberty and fullness. They will be the ones who will destroy the old and acceptable edifice of coercion and subjugation and see the potential of free men realized.”

So it has begun. The forces of tyranny all over the world, seeing the prize so close, will do what the forces of tyranny always do; resort to deception and intimidation to get their way. Totalitarians all over the world, and in our own country, have seen what they can get away with, how the vast majority of the people will comply with the most inane and oppressive dictates even if it means the loss of their livelihood and most cherished rights. They see a world ripe for their plan to totally reorder the world's economic and political systems. They believe humanity is now willing to accept the tyranny of the Great Reset. Only one obstacle stands in the way, America under Donald Trump. Yesterday's election was filled with hyperbole- the most important election in our lifetime, a contest between freedom and tyranny, good and evil. This election was to determine whether we continue to enjoy some measure of liberty or put us on an irreversible course to absolute despotism. Perhaps that is the case and if so, it is tragic. Our government was never supposed to have so much power that a single election, or any election, would have such significant consequences to our everyday lives. But it does. Which brings us back to President Trump. He is a unique phenomenon in American politics, and perhaps the world political scene. No one has generated his crowds, crowds that chant “we love you!” But he is more than a populist, he is not some authoritarian huckster in sheep's clothing promising to steal for some aggrieved group to get power. No, his supporters love him because he actually stands up for the American ideal, for basic values like family, the rule of law, the American Dream, for liberty. And he does so not just through his many words but his actions. I dare say many see him as a savior like figure, the only significant bulwark against Marxist revolutionaries, lawlessness, and radicals. And therein lies the problem. Should President Trump prevail against all the forces arrayed against him and the basic principles of liberty and freedom and secure a second term, those forces are not going to give up and go home. The deep state remains, the career politicians will still be there. If you thought the effort against him was bad the last four years, you haven't seen anything yet. And ultimately, they can wait him out. Four years from now he will exit the stage and then they can put the petal to the metal on their totalitarian agenda. And who is going to stop them? Do you see anyone in the wings who has the President's unique abilities to frustrate the despotic aims of liberty's enemies. I don't. So whether President Trump leaves office in January 2021 or 2025, he will be just a temporary irritant, a speed bump on the way to an absolute despotism just like Ronald Reagan, Newt Gingrich or the TEA Party. And even while he is in office all the petty tyrants in the administrative state, the bureaucracy, continue to oppress us without fear. Tyranny has grown steadily and liberty retreated for well over 150 years in this country. And it will continue to do so, it is the natural course of governments and the people who inhabit them. Why? Because we allow it. It is our cooperation, enthusiastic or reluctant, that allows or encourages the growth of totalitarianism. It is our failure to do anything other than whine that has enabled the continual erosion of our most fundamental rights. It is our misguided adherence to a system rigged in favor of the despots that ensures our continual failure. In the face of our total and ultimate subjugation under national and global tyrants, this has got to stop. Donald Trump may have slowed the advance of tyranny but he is not the ultimate solution; he can't be. We are. When we muster the courage to stop complying with our subjugation, then we will begin to see liberty begin to advance. Stay tuned. I'm not here to give meaningless platitudes but real solutions and concrete actions for those who are still brave in the land once free.

So the media has called the election for Biden. Now what? Now that this has been done the media and the establishment are going to push the narrative that it is over, he won, Trump lost, and that momentum is likely to take him to inauguration day. No matter what kind of fraud is proven, the majority of our fellow citizens are going to want this to end, the majority of whom seemed to have voted for this corruption. The media is going to push the narrative that he is the president, social media is going to quash any narrative to the contrary. Is there still a slim hope? Sure, but slim it is. It is time to figure out what we are going to do next. What are you going to do? Was this just another lost election, better luck next time? Bush to Clinton to Bush to Obama, the ebb and flow of democrat to republican and back. Do you really think that after Biden and Harris there will be another Trump? Do you think that after everything that has happened over the last four years, the lies, the persecution, the corruption whose sole aim has been to get rid of Trump and make sure no one like him ever happens again that there will be another fair election? Do you really think that a candidate who did so little, who doesn't even know what day it is half the time, really got that many votes? You don't think that the fix was in from the very beginning, that the mail in voting, the lawsuits to let votes come in after the election day with no postmarks or signatures, the tens of thousands of votes magically appearing and one hundred percent of them are for Biden, making sure no one can get in and see what they are doing are all to make sure they don't lose this election? And since their lawlessness and corruption has been on naked display and there have been no consequences, they will be emboldened to do this every election. If they get away with it, why would they stop? Your last option to make your voice heard is over, your vote has been canceled. So do you simply say ok, you won, we lost, the majority want socialism and communism. Here's my checkbook. Do you simply hold out your wrists to accept your chains? Are you going to go meekly into the dark night of Marxism, submit to the globalists and their Great Reset? God, I hope not, I hope there's more to your enthusiasm for freedom than a vote, that you are not satisfied with cheering, however enthusiastically, from the sidelines only to go home sadly when your team loses, hoping for a better result next time. If they get away with this, there is not going to be a next time, our elections are going to be a sham like those in Russia or Venezuela. A choice of one party of tyrants with no real opposition. Are you willing to live with that, to have your children and grandchildren grow up under that system knowing that you betrayed the heritage bequeathed to all of us by the blood of previous generations? I know I'm not. My freedom was never in the hands of Donald Trump, it is in my hands. Whether elected fairly or fraudulently, I am not going to go begging on my knees for scraps before the impostors who would make themselves absolute rulers when I am my own king. I am an individual endowed by my creator with unalienable rights, they belong to me. They are not privileges granted by presidents, governors, congress or the courts to be exercised or restricted at their pleasure. My rights are mine and I am going to fight for them. I am not going to reluctantly relinquish my property and freedom just because a majority of my fellow citizens voted for a corrupt despot. Do you think democracy legitimizes tyranny? I will not cooperate or comply with my own enslavement. Will you?

So it looks like President Trump may still prevail and all the hopes and dreams of his supporters will be realized. America is saved! Don't be so naive! What has changed? Have the forces of tyranny suffered a resounding defeat, are they going to go away, huddled in some dark corner with their tail between their legs? Of course not! Look at it from their perspective. A majority of the people voted for them, it is just that pesky anachronism, the Electoral College, that kept them from victory. They kept the House, Nancy and the squad and Schiff and the rest are all coming back. Schumer and Waters are still in the senate, hopefully remaining in the minority. The millions of petty tyrants in the Deep State are still violating their oath to the Constitution every day. The Media is not going to change, Facebook, Twitter and Google are still going to censor, the education system is still going to indoctrinate young minds with Marxism, rioters are still going to loot and burn. Trump may win but the left has lost nothing. Their rhetoric, their absurdity, their destructive decrees, tyrannical behavior and outright lawlessness has cost them nothing. Do you think that if they continue, or even increase their horrible behavior a few notches they are going to lose the support they already have? Obviously not. They are not hiding their corruption, their tyranny, their evil, yet over half the country still supports them. There are no electoral consequences and there have been no legal ones either. Why would they let up, why not continue to try to steal the election when there is no down side for them? Don't you see? We've lost. Will I be glad if Trump holds on to the presidency? Of course. But he is one man. Perhaps he can continue to hold them off for four more years but then what? In so many ways the forces of tyranny will continue to grow while gleefully looking forward to his departure. Then what? Where will we be? Where will you be? In four years will they finally take control of it all, will every road block to their green totalitarian utopia finally be removed, will we descend irrevocably into an absolute despotism? What are you going to do about it? If the President does prevail, he just might give us time to find our true courage, the courage of our forefathers, our individual courage to stand against tyranny as a people. We should not look to one man or woman to protect us or save us. America is made up of “We The People”, it is we who are the ultimate defenders of our rights and liberties. We have got to stop cooperating with our own subjugation, we have got to stop empowering the forces of tyranny, we've got to stop acquiescing to a system stacked against us and we must realize that a majority cannot vote us into slavery unless we submit to it. If he does lose? We will have to muster that courage even sooner. People. It is time to take the gloves off. The trends are against liberty and freedom, the majority of our fellows want to accept socialist totalitarianism. These trends survived the Reagan Revolution, the Contract with America and the TEA Party. And they will survive Trump because the trend of all governments is to tyranny and ours is no exception. It is a trend that has picked up speed for over one hundred years. Our representative government, our courts, our electoral system itself, now all conspire against individual freedom. Our self imposed confinement to this rigged system has resulted in our enslavement. It is time to realize that our government has become destructive to the ends of liberty and rights and we owe it no loyalty or fealty. It is time that we take courageous action that will put our livelihood, our property, our freedom and maybe our lives on the line. If we want to restore our freedom under our constitutional republic it is going to take more than ambiguous encouragement to 'stand up'. It is going to require specific actions beginning with non-compliance that demonstrate our commitment to liberty and deprives our oppressors of our cooperation. The exercise of our God-given natural rights should not, indeed it cannot, depend on the good will of the powerful or the erudition and courage of our fellow man. Just because the vast majority choose to live in meek, subservient, ignorance is no reason for you or I to suffer the indignity of slavery.