michaelcalpino

The conventional wisdom about Old King Joe is that he is a senile old man, the presidency merely a convenient cap to his long political career. King Joe really has no core beliefs as evidenced from his rapidly and widely changing positions over the years and that makes him simply a malleable patsy for the radical left. Certainly a corrupt creature of the swamp but hey, he's Lunchbox Joe, the every-man, a kindly old grandfather type figure who really means well. Look at him playing games with his granddaughter, sitting by the fire in the White House, things are so much more relaxed now. I think that is a carefully crafted persona that is designed to cover the fact that King Joe is a leftist radical who is not simply putting his signature on a bunch of executive orders he doesn't care about but that he actually believes in the radical leftist agenda. Now I do believe he is having cognitive difficulty and that it is progressing but that does not mitigate the fact that he supports, and is now implementing, a leftist, anti-American agenda. He can craft and tell a lie with the best of them. Do you really think he didn't remember that there was a vaccine, a vaccine he received before his inauguration along with millions of others when he told a crowd in Wisconsin that there was no vaccine before he took office? He knew it but he harbors no less hatred for President Trump than Pelosi or Schumer and will say and do anything to destroy the man and his legacy. His supposed gaffs, his “misstatements”, they are excused as “Joe being Joe” or as “brain farts” from an old man. They are not. Another example, King Joe is a racist, always has been and continues to be one. He looks down on people of color who he doesn't think are smart enough to use computers. Blacks who don't support him are not black. Without Democrat help, people of color are incompetent and helpless to make anything of their lives. He supported segregation and segregationists in the past and his worldview has not changed. This stems from his elitist view, a view he shares with the vast majority of politicians and bureaucrats. The law does not apply to him and his cohorts, just to the little people. His corruption is legendary, it takes a smart and savvy man to negotiate the bureaucracy and budget and properly use his name and influence to bring so many millions of dollars into the family coffers without having his fingerprints all over it. The “Big Guy” is a smart political animal and businessman who knows how to game the system with the best of them. The man has no moral compass, no leftist does. Look at his comments on China. When asked about the fact that China is locking up and eliminating whole sectors of the population, like the Uighers, and has engaged is brutal political suppression in Hong Kong among other places, and is now actively threatening Taiwan, such actions to Joe Biden are merely cultural differences. So genocide is simply a cultural difference?! King Joe, like every leftist, has no moral absolutes, nothing is immoral as long as it is in service to the goal of acquiring power. That is what makes these people so very dangerous. We need to stop underestimating Joe Biden or dismissing his power and influence. He is not simply a patsy, a dupe, and puppet for the left. He is a corrupt, racist, ideologue who is now advancing an agenda he zealously shares with Sanders and AOC as much as Pelosi and Schumer. Like them all, his only value is power and his first few weeks in office demonstrate his enthusiasm for its exercise. I call him King Joe for a reason. He is wielding power as dictators do with the encouragement of his congressional allies and a sycophantic media. He is wholly on board with the goal of making the United States of America a one party communist state run for the benefit of the political and corporate elite. The first step in stopping this immoral transformation is to recognize the goal and the evil minds behind it and those minds include Joe Biden.

We are approaching a grievous milestone for tyranny in America; one year since the lockdowns started, one year since government conned us into taking drastic and despotic action to “flatten the curve” which was supposed to only last two weeks. Actions that destroyed millions of lives and livelihoods. Dictates that changed the very fabric of American life. Policies that destroyed the credibility of revered institutions and exposed tyranny in our officials and the intolerance of our neighbors. And what was the reason given for this paradigm shift? It was to keep us safe. But if safety is the overriding principle for our lives and more importantly, government action, we will live in a very cruel world. As Benjamin Franklin said, “Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” We have given up so much essential liberty, we have allowed government at all levels to shred the bill of rights. Our essential rights, the right to assemble, to worship, to work and run our businesses are all gone, now treated as privileges to be curtailed or eliminated at the whim of a governor. And did we get any safety? Did they flatten the curve, did they keep people from dying? Look at states like New York and California with the most severe lockdowns and compare them to the free state of Florida and it is obvious the answer is no. Trading liberty for safety did not make people more safe. But it is more than that. Not only is making safety the single overriding political goal tyrannical, it is cruel. It forces us to deny our humanity, it prohibits our common expressions of kindness in even the most intimate situations. How many people suffered and died alone during this manufactured crisis, their loved ones prohibited from holding their spouse's or parent's hand as their lives slipped away? How many people locked themselves away in fear, suffering the torment of loneliness, starved for a smile, a hug. How many people were denied the celebration of life's milestones, birthdays, anniversaries, graduations, proms, events that can never be replicated or repeated. How many lives have been ruined as their life's work, their business, their careers have been ripped away by an arbitrary dictate? Human beings are social creatures, we need to see each other's faces, feel each other's presence, touch one another. It is necessary for our mental and physical health. Sure, if we all lived in a plastic bubble and never left our homes we would be a lot safer but that is not life, life which consists of so much more than simply existing. Of course Covid is merely the most recent and poignant example of using the cry of “safety” as the excuse to destroy our liberty by scaring us. The whole climate change mantra, “the world is going to end in twelve years is we all don't give up all our money and freedom” is another excuse for cruelty. Look at what King Joe did in his first few executive orders. He put tens of thousands of people out of work. They lost good paying jobs with the stroke of Joe's pen. These are people with families and mortgages and college tuition to pay for who depended on those good paychecks. But King Joe and his commie friends don't care. What's their response? Forget your six figure job, you can go assemble solar panels for $15/hr. Cruel and heartless. This whole save the planet thing is simply to take choices, read freedom, away from us through regulation and taxation. But just like trading freedom for safety didn't save any lives from Covid all the sacrifices we the people are supposed to make for the planet aren't going to amount to a hill of beans in making things cleaner and better. It will only make the politicians and the connected wealthier. Finally, the war on free speech. This too is for our safety. It started years ago with safe spaces, some people needed to be protected from offensive speech so some people were not allowed to speak at all because they may harm someone's fragile psyche. But now, now it is so much more. We need to cancel people who's speech we don't like not just because we may be offended but because such speech is subversive and may lead to insurrection. People who engage in certain kinds of speech are mentally deranged and need deprogramming so their lies will not upset the rest of the sheep. Shutting us up is for the safety of society, certain ideas are simply too dangerous to be allowed to float about freely to be discussed openly. None of this, the assault on free speech, the sacrifices demanded of us by the climate change fanatics, the Covid lockdowns, make us safer, they simply destroy liberty. Why? To protect and enrich the corrupt and connected, the political class and their friends, the large corporations and their government partners. The Covid lockdowns separate us and destroy our humanity, reducing us to worker bees who will hand over our money and lives to ostensibly save the planet and the war on speech is to marginalize and silence anyone who would reveal this corruption. We need to stop believing these lies, we need to stop adjusting our lives to their perverted distortions. It is not the job of government to ensure our personal, daily safety. It is our responsibility as free people to weigh risks and live according to our reason and wisdom. None of what they are doing is making us safer, it is only destroying liberty. It is time we stopped following these dictates, it is time we took back the liberty they have stolen. Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin

In his first week in office King Joe signed dozens of executive orders. Some of them pandered to the far left cultural warriors like destroying women's sports by letting men who claim to be women compete with the ladies. But most of them, one way or another, were economic and the result of them all will be the impoverishment of the American people and, more specifically, the destruction of the middle class. These treasonous acts are not pandering to normal democrat special interests, like unions, they only make sense in the context of deliberately eliminating the middle class as a political and economic force in order to pave the way for the Great Reset. Look at three things Old King Joe did in his first week. He made war on the energy industry by killing the Keystone Pipeline and suspending any new drilling permits on Federal land and “reviewing” current ones. He halted deportations and prepared to open the doors to more migrants. He proposed a new Covid relief bill of $1.9 trillion dollars. Each one of these things will make you poorer and combined with the others and many more to come, they will ruin our economy and make everyone dependent on the government's largess; which will be very stingy to us average folk. Just look at the help they've given so far! $600! $600 after seven months! $600 hardly covers food for a month much less all the expenses for half a year. And now they are going to add another $1400? Big deal. For those of you looking forward to Universal Basic Income, how much do you thing our government is going to give you every month if they think $2000 in a year is “relief”! But let's get back to how these policies make us poor. The war on the fossil fuel industry. First of all, for all his talk about jobs and getting Americans back to work, the first thing King Joe does is put tens of thousands of men and women out of work by canceling the pipeline and border wall construction. These were good, well paying jobs, gone with the stoke of a pen. Now all those people are going to have to compete with all the others still unemployed due to Covid shutdowns. We'll get back to that in a minute. The war on fossil fuels and this climate crisis nonsense is going to have one major effect and it is not to heal the earth. It will make energy prices go up...dramatically. When you are paying double for gas and your electricity bills go up, that means less money for other things. Higher fuel prices to move all our goods will force all prices higher, we will all be paying more for the basics and we will have less for other things, the things that make life enjoyable as well as donations to causes we want to support including political campaigns. Now, back to unemployment. Freezing deportations on illegals already here and starting to fast track green cards and citizenship for these same millions is going to put additional pressure on the labor market. Add a $15 minimum wage on top of it and you have a two pronged attack on the economy and the middle class. A lot of entry level jobs are going to disappear or the small businesses that employed lower wage workers like restaurants and small retail outlets who were already struggling mightily under lockdown restrictions, they are going to go under. Unemployment will rise, add ten or more million illegals to the mix and it will put pressure on wages to keep them at the minimum even if that minimum is $15 and hour. Now that high paid union worker whose job on the pipeline or wall was just eliminated needs to compete with laborers from Honduras who will happily do a $50 an hour job for $15. So consumer prices will go up due retail business, even the large ones, having to pay $15/hr, and wages for higher paying work will go down due to a glut of workers willing to do anything for a low wage. Finally, the Covid relief bill. All this supposed relief does little for us and we all know that this is not money coming from some rainy day fund. We are printing and borrowing it. Do you remember that a just few years ago the entire federal budget was $4 trillion? Now we have spent almost double that on supposed relief which is just a slush fund for the connected, as all stimulus is. Well, printing and borrowing will only go on so long. Money printing will lead to inflation, hyperinflation if it continues. Add this to the inflationary pressure of high energy prices and artificially high minimum wages and our buying power is going to drop like a rock. Eventually, all this printing and borrowing will destroy the currency and then...well, we may look back on these as the good ol' days. Of course the ultra wealthy and the connected in government will not suffer the ravages of these policies. But we will. Without the means to do more than put bread on the table and a roof over our heads, if that, there will be no money to donate to liberty candidates or organizations that promote freedom. Reduced to poverty, our voices silenced, we will be powerless. The oligarchs who control the media and hold the political purse strings will choose their puppets so they can continue raping the masses for their own benefit and vanity. Slavery, after all, has always been the most profitable business. Economic freedom cannot be sacrificed if political freedom is to be preserved. Herbert Hoover

The war for freedom is ultimately an economic one. You see freedom is not about enabling depravity. It is not about sex or music or clothes or pretending to be the opposite sex. Those are distractions, they lie on the surface. The real meaning of liberty, what you fight and die for, it is about meaningful choices and those choices are all economic, one way or another. It is your freedom to choose your own way in life which means what you choose to do to make a living. The ability to take your gifts, talents and hard work as far as you desire. The freedom to choose with whom you associate along that path; partners, employees, friends. It is the freedom to enjoy the fruits of your labor as you see fit without some criminal or criminal government demanding an unearned and unmerited cut. Do you even know why the founders rebelled against Britain? It was over taxes and the violation of their property rights. It was for economic reasons. They understood that a man can only be free when his property is secure and his choices limited only with respect to the fundamental rights of the men around him. That vision of liberty, the American ideal, created more wealth for more people than any other time in the history of man. America was not a place of lords and serfs but of self made men and women of all races and creeds, a place of upward mobility, each generation living better than the one before, each man and woman limited only by their imagination and hard work. America was a large and thriving middle class, some reaching greater heights, the poor free to enter at any time. That America is gone, it disappeared some time ago although the myth persists, it must persist for that is how they keep us from revolting for what they have done to us. Who are they? The political class, the elites, the ultra wealthy, the globalists. They are the ones who benefit from all the looting, from the crises they manufacture. They are the ones who desire total control through the Great Reset, combining communist ideology with radical environmentalism and the trans humanist agenda. The supposed globalist agenda used to be relegated to the realm of conspiracy theories but no longer. It is all out in the open, it is advertised, it is pushed by big tech and media. The ones at the top get the next level to acquiesce to their wishes-the politicians, big corporations, media and hollywood, who benefit socially and economically as well as receiving protection. They in turn mold our minds to the new normal they are creating so opposition not only becomes difficult or impossible but it doesn't even occur to the sheep. It is all about the consolidation of power and wealth among the few. It has been a silent coup against democracy and individual rights and liberty that has been going on for decades. The virus is the conclusion of the coup, it is the excuse for the elites to keep what they have stolen while the system they used collapses on our heads. And they have stolen all the money. They spent all the Social Security funds, that's old news. All the pork in all those 5000 page bills is not actually helping people, all that domestic and foreign aid, all those lucrative contracts and stupid studies, it is not for our benefit. It is a transfer of wealth from you and I through our taxes, and from our children and grandchildren through borrowing. And it is not wealth distribution from the wealthy to the poor but from all of us to the elites. You think Hunter Biden and Uncle Joe with their selling of influence, bribes, threats and kickbacks are the exception? They are the rule, they are the standard for the system. They and the connected among the political class and the ultra wealthy who benefit from the looting and manufactured disasters continue to get wealthier but we the people and the nation they use and abuse are broke. And now Pelosi has made it even easier by relaxing house rules like pay as you go that will allow them to spend and borrow even more without any thought of fiscal responsibility. The green new deal, single payer health care? All transfers of wealth to the connected, none of it will actually benefit us. This system of wealth transfer has never been sustainable. You can only steal so much through taxes before people either can't or won't pay. You can only borrow so much until no one will lend. You can only print so much before you destroy the currency. They key for the elites to to make sure they get theirs before the system collapses. All those bills are now coming due. How many states are bankrupt because of pensions, paying the political class? How much money has been borrowed and spent at every level to fatten the wallets of the connected? But the system can only take so much, it will collapse. Hyperinflation, bankruptcy, poverty are right around the corner. Then along comes the virus and brings a halt to most economic activity among the people who actually pay taxes. The money stops coming into states and cities and municipalities and even the feds-although they can always print more. Now bankruptcy for all these places becomes a real possibility and who's to blame? All the money printing is destroying the currency; whose to blame? People are out of work, have had their lives and businesses destroyed; whose to blame? Not the politicians who borrowed and spent and locked us down. No, it is the virus' fault, not ours. Everything can be blamed on the virus. Its like magic! And the solution to the disaster they created? Scrap the old system and bring in a new one. How many times have you heard that the old system doesn't work, it benefits the few at the expense of the many and they call it capitalism, capitalism has failed us. The system was not capitalism, it was, is, socialism, it is a system of theft that benefited the connected and impoverished the rest of us. It is not the free market, it is not freedom that failed. It was the lack of freedom for us and greed among the political class and elites who demanded more and more over time, deceiving us through fraud. They pretended we had a choice, they let us elect people but with the exception of a few mavericks, they were all the same, putting together massive bills to steal and spend to enrich themselves and their cronies. Now the mask is off, the elections are obviously fixed, the illusion of democracy is gone. The want the control, and their naked play in this election proves that. They have always looked upon us as slaves, utilitarian objects to be used for their own benefit. Now they want to institute total control, saying that the system they created has failed, but relabeling it so no one makes the connection, convincing us that more control is better, that freedom is the problem. The lockdowns, the media assault on Trump and his supporters, are all designed to destroy opposition to their tyranny. It is a concerted effort to destroy the middle class, not just to make more government dependents but to eliminate them as a political force. The middle class and their money supported populists like Trump. Never again do they want to see a phenomenon like that. Without money the populists can never get significant support and the globalists will control the agenda and the media. The globalists and elites will choose all the candidates and the choice will be for bad or worse. But we will have a choice and that is the lie they tell us to keep us pacified, to make us believe we still have freedom because we can vote. Well, they vote in Venezuela, they voted in the Soviet Union, they voted for Saddam Hussein in Iraq. So what? Our founders understood a crucial principle of liberty. Without economic freedom there is no political freedom. Who cares if you can vote if your vote is only a choice between tyrants? Do you really think that because you vote you have freedom? Look around you?! Don't be a fool! Our enslavement requires our cooperation. There are too few of them, that is what top down means. If we are to have any hope of restoring our liberty for ourselves and our children we have to stop cooperating! The destruction of the economy, our livelihoods, our wealth it has got to stop and only we can do it. Stop complying with their dictates, stop contributing to their enrichment. Non-compliance is where it starts but it has to start with us, with you and me, and we need to cooperate with and support one another. There one hundred million of us in America and I'm sure there are millions more around the world who still have a passion for liberty. It is them or us, liberty or tyranny, poverty and slavery or freedom. We outnumber them a million to one. Its only a fight because we have refused to engage. They have no power without our cooperation and compliance. Take it from them and we will win. Economic freedom cannot be sacrificed if political freedom is to be preserved. Herbert Hoover

The war on cash has been going on for a long time and has accelerated as technology has made digital transactions more secure, acceptable and convenient. We all know that those transactions are part of our digital footprint, the information they provide to merchants and search engines give them the ability to target advertising and their algorithms are able to anticipate our needs even before we are aware of them. Those transactions are also available to the government should they desire to look into your spending habits. Are you buying ammunition or junk food, how much gas does it take to fill up your planet killing SUV? Did you donate to some politically incorrect group or, worst of all, the Trump campaign? You know the communists are working on a list for such people. Some of us still like to use cash whenever possible. Not just because it keeps purchases anonymous but also because the transaction is more tangible when you actually hand over money, you can see it actually leave your hand and it provides a little psychological check on frivolous overspending. It is becoming more difficult however. With Covid there are more and more businesses that don't want to take cash as if it is more infectious than the act of passing the bag containing the item you bought. I have been at too many Wal Marts where the self checkouts don't take cash. Does that make any sense? If you are really worried about the virus, why you are going to steer me away from a machine and force an actual person to handle my cash? Anyway, the point is that many businesses are becoming unwitting or active accomplices in the elimination of cash. You need to understand that the right to trade is the totality of your life. Here is what I mean by that. Our founders understood fundamental rights as life, liberty and property and your life and liberty are inseparable from your ability to acquire and dispose of property as you see fit. If you no longer have the ability to trade without those transactions being subject to scrutiny by the government you have lost all freedom. There is nothing you can do that will be outside their knowledge. What you eat, where you live, your hobbies and activities, your forms of entertainment will all be known by the technocrats who will subject those purchases to the filter of political correctness. You will not even be able to buy a knick knack at a yard sale without them knowing. Ultimately, how you spend your money is a reflection of what makes you happy as an individual. What makes you happy is not the same as what makes anyone else happy, it is a function of your individuality. If you knew that everything you did was being observed, would it change your behavior? Would your deny yourself some measure of happiness because some anonymous bureaucrat may disapprove? Or if some leftist group might docx you and show up on your front lawn? However, we all know where this is really headed. The ability to know and control the flow of all money is to have control of everything, all businesses and every individual. Our individual ability to do anything will be subject to approval. The car you drive, the food you eat, the work you do will all be under their control, the ability to choose will be limited to the choices they decide to make available. Transactions for certain items or with certain businesses will be easily prohibited. There will be no ability to protest. A business will not be able to stay open in defiance of some lockdown order because their accounts can be frozen and their ability to make transactions will be prohibited all with the stroke of a key. If you as an individual voice a politically incorrect opinion you can be fined, a fine you cannot ignore because the money will be taken from your account without your permission or consent. For anyone like myself who has seen the government in action, confiscating money from bank accounts or paychecks, we know the government already exercises this option when it chooses irregardless of the law or natural rights. Without cash, there will be no asset beyond their reach. These political hunts have already begun and it has been a corporate/government partnership. The use of the justice system and other government agencies to harass political opposition to the established deep state has been well established. The use of corporate permission to do business has also gained traction. Social media giants demonetizing sites and businesses due to political views or the publishing of inconvenient facts that do not support the establishment narrative is now routine. Amazon has refused politically incorrect businesses use of its platform and financial institutions have denied those same businesses the ability to use their services. The corporate media has demonized individuals or made government and corporate corruption disappear through their willful choice to remain silent. The big players have been coordinating to make life difficult for freedom lovers for a while and it is only getting worse. But there are still cracks in their tyrannical monolith where freedom yet survives. When all trade is monitored and controlled, that will be impossible. Uncovering and eliminating opposition will be as easy as a keystroke. The goal is to make anyone who does not tow the line a non person. In the old days of communist oppression, to make a non person you put a bullet in their head. Now all you need is a keystroke to erase someone, to separate them from society, to make it impossible for them to live modern life even at its most basic level. You will have no voice, social media will see to that. You will have no business opportunities, the large corporations will take care of that. And you will have no assets, the government will take care of that. You will be unable to purchase even the basic necessities, access any services, and you will have no voice to complain. You will be cut off from the world. We cannot let this happen. There is no question that the dollar and other fiat currencies are going to fail by design. But a digital currency controlled by government or the world bank or whoever is not and cannot be the answer. That amount of control is despotic and immoral and we cannot allow it. We need to make plans for an alternative, another medium of exchange, I would prefer precious metals, but it must be beyond the ability of government to manipulate and control. That is how we have gotten into this mess. With courage and ingenuity we will solve it in a way that will restore freedom, not eliminate it. I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Thomas Jefferson

The End of the Pax Americana, Stability and Certainty and the Rise of Fascism We have been privileged to live in a time and place of stability. For most of man's time on earth that has not been his fate. Thought history the next year or even the next day was not a certainty. Natural disasters, droughts, floods, or infestations could lead to starvation in no time. Death from disease was common. Any day a bunch of criminals or a criminal nation could take everything you own and sell you into slavery. Since the end of World War Two most of the nations that made up the old British Empire have enjoyed a rare state of stability. No aggressor has invaded our shores. There is always food on the shelves of the grocery stores. Medical science has eradicated so many diseases that premature death from them is a tragedy instead of a normal part of life. People treat each other with civility and in most places violent crime is rare. It is in these rare times that mankind is afforded the opportunity to advance. The great achievements of Greece and Rome were a result of the Pax Romana. So our own have been due to the Pax Americana and the Pax Britannia before it. If men and women can't think past the next day and need to work tirelessly for every meal there is little time left for musings on technology or philosophy. We have been very blessed. Until now. 2020 has shown us how fragile such a world really is. But this fairy tale world was not shattered by war and invasion. No meteor strike eradicated life on earth in a movie style Armageddon. It was not even the pandemic. Regardless of what the media or government tells us Covid is not the black death or the great plague, it is never going to kill even one thousandth of the population much less a third. No, this was no natural disaster. It was caused wholly and entirely by petty tyrants in governments around the world. We are back to not knowing what is going to happen next year, next month or next week. We used to have the luxury of planning things years in advance. We could put money down on a cruise two years from now. We could make career decisions on the assumption that a well run business would be around for a while or plan to save up for additional schooling. We could book a venue for a wedding a year in advance, we could go back to a restaurant for an anniversary where a meeting took place ten or twenty years ago. We could make plans for the holidays. Now we can do none of that. We have no idea when some governor or a government is going to initiate another lockdown or stay at home order or decide certain businesses must close. Or if your holiday celebration can have no more than twenty five or ten or six people. But it is not just the events in our personal lives that have been upended. These arbitrary decrees are destroying the prosperity that is the result of stability and certainty. Of course businesses have always had to deal with onerous and capricious government restrictions, regulations and taxes that changed all the time. But these changes happened slowly and incrementally. It gave businesses time to adapt. Now the changes happen overnight and the option to adapt does not exist. If the governor decrees that your bar or restaurant or gym or hair salon will close, that's it. Game over. You still have expenses; rent, electric, insurance but if you don't have much in savings, and a lot of small businesses don't, you won't last long. And what if the governor does allow you to open back up but at 25% capacity. Can you make it on that? And if you order inventory, particularly perishable inventory, and the decision is made to shut down again, then what? How can anyone run a business under those conditions? Even more insidious is the government's decision to arbitrarily void private contracts, specifically rental and mortgage agreements. The owner of a rental still has to pay mortgages and taxes but the government has refused him the right to evict non paying tenants. How is that property owner supposed to survive especially when in one state they even decided to make him liable for the tenant's moving expenses! The word fascist is bandied about a lot but that is exactly what this is. We may own our property, we may own our business but the government decides exactly how we may use our property and how and when we run our business all the while taking a very large portion of the profits. Not only do we have certain legal rights under the Constitution but that very Constitution states that the government was formed to “establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.” There is no justice when government arbitrarily picks winners and losers. There can be no tranquility when illegitimate power is exercised capriciously. The general welfare cannot be promoted when the government actively destroys certitude and there is no liberty under such despotism. The Declaration of Independence and our innate sense of justice tells us our duty when we find ourselves in a situation such as this. When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties. Marquis de Lafayette

Inauguration Day, Despotism Enthroned. The Question Is Not 'What Do We Do Now?' But 'What Are You Willing To Do?' Inauguration Day. If we have the courage, perhaps only among our families and friends, we voice the words describing our situation. We have an illegitimate president in charge of an unaccountable bureaucracy that has finally succeeded in its coup. The legislative branch is controlled by Marxists and the judicial branch couldn't find justice if you hit them in the head with it. Our government is completely and totally occupied by a force foreign to its foundation and intent. Now that they have achieved power through the most nefarious means they will hold onto and consolidate that power. Do you really think there will be another fair election? Do you really think our voices will be heard? Do you really think they will govern with our best interests in mind? Are you kidding? They gained power by fraud because that is the only way they could, we would have never chosen them. Their ideas, their intentions, their anti-American, anti-liberty agenda does not fly with the majority of us. So they nullified our our voice, our final check, our vote. They will govern as they please, implement their agenda and they will not care a whit about us and what we think. Why do you think that there is a concerted effort to silence the opposition and the installation of this regime needs to be protected by 25000 troops? Because they know they don't have the support of the people and they are afraid of the very people they are planning on plundering and terrorizing. So what do we do? I was recently talking to some friends about it. We went thorough our list of gripes and complaints, we recounted all the examples of fraud and deceit, we gave voice to our fears. Recognizing that we are now subject to an illegitimate government with a Marxist agenda I asked them, I ask you, now what? What do we do? Rallies and marches and memes will do nothing to sway these communists. Just getting out the information about what they are doing, documenting their abuses, will not change the fact that they will abuse us. These are people who think we, the people who believe in the American Ideal, in freedom, the one's who support President Trump and the concept of American greatness, we are the enemy-deluded, sick perhaps, ignorant. They will not listen to us because to them there is no validity to our worldview. We don't have the right to speak; to some, the right to exist. So I ask you, what do you do when totalitarianism and tyranny stare you in the face? My friend looked at me with desperation in her eyes and said, that is the problem, we don't know what to do. The old methods of dissent and protest only work if both sides respect the rules, if they care about people, or if, ultimately, they believe they will have something to lose, like an election. But if they have fixed the system so they are totally unaccountable for anything they do, if they have corrupted every institution meant to check their power and cowed any possible opposition to their actions; What do we do? If we, if you, truly believe that this administration is the result of a coup, an illegitimate fraud, and if it is allowed to stand it will be the final nail in the coffin for Liberty and all the things that made America great, then it is time to muster a level of courage we have not needed for two hundred and fifty years. Most of you have not taken real risks against power, risks that may result in actual loss, the risks our founders took when they pledged their lives, fortunes and sacred honor to the cause of liberty. If this administration and the deep state that stands behind it are impostors, thieves and cheats who will wield the power of the most powerful nation on earth in an unconstitutional manner for nefarious purposes, if the anti-american Marxists now in charge are an occupying force in our once free land, then it is time we stopped giving it our loyalty or any emotional or material support. Legitimate government only exists and operates with our free consent, this government does not have it and it is time we stopped behaving as if it does. We should not comply with any of its dictates and we've got to stop paying for our own chains. If we all stop following their orders and stop giving them money the whole thing will come crashing down. But we have to stop, we have to actually resist, not with simple words but with consequential action. I am not naive, this will be neither quick nor easy. It was not for our founders and it will not be for us. We have allowed the government an inordinate amount of control and power and resisting that will be hard. We need to disentangle ourselves from it, protect ourselves and our assets, and most importantly, support one another. As the courageous have found during the covid lockdowns, non-compliance can lead to fines and arrests. If you stop supporting the state monetarily, they will come after you and try to take it, I know all about that. Don't think they won't. If you are holding out hope that the police and military will take their oath to the constitution more seriously than orders from a tyrannical power, think again. Remember New Orleans after Katrina when both the local police and the National Guard went door to door confiscating guns from law abiding citizens? All the abuses we have seen by law enforcement over the last year during lockdowns? Enthusiastic or reluctant, people in the government machine follow orders while our rights and their oath take a back seat. Not for all, there have been some courageous men and women who have refused to violate the rights of their fellow citizens, but I hold out little hope it is the majority. Ultimately, all the edicts and dictates from the tyrants need to be enforced by bureaucrats issuing fines or police making arrests. This is where resistance is hardest, where the exercise of our second amendment right to defend all our other rights becomes very real. This is where the real conflict exists. Tyrannical dictates mean nothing without enforcement and that is at the point of a gun. The defense of rights means nothing if those rights are surrendered without a fight and that means meeting the force of the tyrant with the force of liberty. So the real question is not, what can we do, but, what are you willing to do? We have acquiesced to tyranny for too long, we have surrendered our rights to majority rule in the mistaken belief that elections have unlimited consequences including consequences that result in the violation of our sacred rights. But this is not even that anymore. The majority did not choose this, we did not choose this. It was a coup, a fraud, and the result is an occupation foreign to our ideals and institutions of liberty. Resistance to it is not even a choice. As the Declaration of Independence says, it is a duty. The time for whining and platitudes is long past. If we are to have any hope of restoring our liberty, if our children and grandchildren are to know America as a unique place of freedom to which the whole world looks for inspiration, then we must act, we must resist, we must once again show bravery so we can be free. "Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!" Patrick Henry

If there was ever collusion in this country for nefarious purposes, it is in the elimination of free speech by the leftist Marxists. The coordination between government, big tech and large corporations and organizations to silence any opposition to their totalitarian agenda is on full display. Why? Because the leftist agenda cannot tolerate dissent if it is to be successful. Now that the coup has been accomplished they do what all totalitarians do when they seize power; control the media and silence opposition. This control has been made so much easier now that the plandemic has forced even more activity than before online where it can be watched and monitored. Everything is now done online-commerce, work, school, even most of our social interaction. We have become so very dependent on the internet and as we have found out, that internet is controlled by a select few and those few support the leftist anti liberty and anti free speech agenda. Their power was quickly demonstrated by the fact that they prohibited the President of the United States from communicating with the American people. The fact is that the government does not have to pass a law banning free speech if we self regulate out of fear of being denied our primary mode of commercial and social interaction. That denial is very real. Sure, having your personal account frozen or deleted by Facebook and Twitter is bad but there are a lot of people losing their businesses because they were dependent on those platforms, and there is no redress. But what happened to President Trump's campaign site and Parler is even more chilling. Stripe Inc. said it will no longer process payments for the President's campaign website. Stripe handles card payments for millions of online businesses and e-commerce platforms, perhaps for your business. The ability of these payment processing platforms, and I will include the big banks and Visa, Mastercard and others in this, to simply kick an individual or business off their service with no warning and no redress and with few other options available is devastating. E-commerce has become the way businesses grow, and in the era of Covid, survive. Trump wasn't the first, however. The big banks and credit card companies have already shown they will stop doing business with non politically correct businesses like gun manufactures and sellers. Who is going to speak out when their livelihood can be cut off with the stroke of a key? What happened to Parler is even worse. If Facebook and Twitter and Stripe were going to discriminate against freedom loving citizens then, as the entrepreneurial folks we are, we would simply start our own platforms and services. Parler demonstrated that that is not a simple option. Twitter, Parler's main competitor, Apple and Amazon colluded to destroy Parler by eliminating a huge part of their distribution and then simply wiping them off the internet. The Apple and Google app stores are the primary way a lot of businesses make it easy for their customers to access their services and there are currently no other viable options. For them to discriminate in this way is disastrous for any business dependent on that kind of distribution. But what Amazon did by denying Parler server space is on a whole other level of destruction. You may not know this but Amazon and Google provide just about all the server space for what goes on on the internet. If you have a web site, it is probably on Amazon's servers and if not, Google's. That they could arbitrarily and suddenly deny server space to anyone they choose would be devastating for many businesses. The chaos of having your internet presence disappear overnight with no recourse, well you can just imagine. And how many small businesses have the resources to sue and even if they do, by the time such lawsuits wind their way through the courts, will there be a business left? Again, who is going to risk it? And sure, you could get your own servers but that is an expensive proposition and these days who can afford it? Which brings us to the next point, the destruction of the middle class. How is this related? Money is political power, the left knows this better than anyone. Everything that has happened with the Covid lockdowns has been directed to destroy the middle class, entrepreneurs, the people who work. Small businesses are closed while large corporations are allowed to continue operating. Why? To impoverish the very people who support populist candidates like President Trump. If we have no money to donate, few candidates for office will be able to stand up against all the money from corporations and Hollywood that support the left. And if we have no money, we will not be able to fight these huge corporations in court nor develop a parallel economy that will allow us to continue our lives outside their totalitarian control. Do you see the corner these corporations have put us in, the control they have, the ability to intimidate people by threatening their livelihood? Economic freedom is political freedom and these corporations are destroying our economic freedom and so stifling our free speech and eliminating our political freedom. Of course we cannot forget the intimidation offered by the cancel culture-facilitated by social media. We are currently in a burgeoning purge of anyone who had the audacity to support President Trump or a liberty agenda. People who have been at his rallys have lost their jobs, anyone who served in his administration is being blacklisted. One glaring example is the national Association of Realtors spying on its member's social media for any hint of politically incorrect speech, i.e. “hate speech”, in order to discipline or remove such deplorables from their organization. And getting back to the internet giants for a moment, we cannot forget how they simply remove voices that do not fit the narrative of the left; or really any speech they don't approve of. In October, Zoom, Facebook and Twitter all shut down an open academic webinar hosted by a Palestinian activist. This war on academic and scientific debate has been most obvious in the silencing of any physician or scientist who dared oppose the revered Dr. Fauci and the government line on Coronavirus. Do you see what is happening? There is a coordinated effort among all these players to create a totalitarian reality where dissent is eliminated; and the government did not have to pass a single law. This politically correct culture, still run by a small minority, is being accepted by the majority and that minority is given power primarily through social and corporate media. Some or us give in reluctantly, some through cowardice and too many because they don't even know there is an alternative because it doesn't occur to them, they've never heard it. While comparisons to Nazi Germany are usually overblown, there are too many parallels to ignore. We have had digital book burnings and other books, even classics, are being digitally rewritten to make them acceptable to the new woke culture. We don't need armbands to show our allegiance and obedience, we have facemasks. Our history is being destroyed and rewritten. The worst part about it is that we are doing it to ourselves, no government law or regulation has forced this upon us. The majority compliance with this intolerant minority has put us here. But that doesn't mean the government is not active in silencing dissent. Every totalitarian regime, in addition to a cultural revolution, needs to demonstrate its power over the opposition. And what demonstrates their power better than a show trial, persecution cloaked in legal legitimacy. The criminalization of opposition. The second impeachment of President Trump is a perfect example of this. The fact that they came after his supporters and even administration officials like Michael Flynn, prosecuting and bankrupting them on trumped up charges, demonstrates their vindictiveness. This is what happens in communist countries. And this vindictiveness is now being expanded to include his supporters. You and I. They are redefining what opposition means to further weaponize the justice department. If you question the integrity of the election? That is now sedition. Patriotism and love of country? Insurrection. I have heard that some, even on the conservative side, are calling the people who entered the capitol “Domestic Terrorists”. It looks like a few may have been, those who planned nefarious actions well before the protest. But we better be very careful with that label. Individuals affixed with that designation have no rights and get thrown into a hole never to be heard from again. Then there are the actions of the women in congress. Nancy is pushing election reform which will not only legalize all the methods of cheating democrats have perfected over the years but will criminalize speech that the government believes is discouraging to voters. That could mean anything?! And then you have AOC and her commission to do something about all the 'disinformation' on the internet. Well I can tell you this, disinformation to her is anything that might question her opinion and worldview. Others want to expand hate crimes legislation to include criminalizing any offensive speech. You have a number of members calling for a Truth and Reconciliation commission and others demanding more open and nefarious revenge against all those who support President Trump. This is what happens in totalitarian regimes. The opposition is isolated, ghettoized, persecuted, prosecuted, locked up and eventually murdered. This is where we are America. Half of the country has been labeled enemies of the state to the current government. An administration is about to take power that acquired that power through force and fraud. In order to install these illegitimate rulers, 15000 troops will surround the inauguration to protect them from the people they are about to terrorize. The voices of opposition are being silenced. If we simply sit back and accept this occupation as normal, as just another electoral loss in the constant ebb and flow of losses and wins, our country will be gone. We will enter Joe's Dark Winter of Soviet style totalitarianism where the only truth is government truth and any dissent is eliminated.

Some of you have heard of the Great Reset, this plan prompted by the opportunity the Covid Crisis has given the globalists to reorder the world according to a socialist environmental vision. This will be the end of personal and economic liberty for everyone if implemented next year. I do however, believe that the Covid crisis has revealed in stark terms the necessity for a great reset. Look at it this way. When the United States was founded, it was a new program called liberty run in a new computer called limited government. It had a few bugs to work out but it ran better than anything else out there. Over time, however, viruses were introduced, as well as a few destructive hardware upgrades. These corrupted the system even as the original bugs were worked out. We occasionally and halfheartedly tried to deal with these viruses but in the end we learned to live with them, tried to work around them or, worst of all, accepted them as part of the original programming. The corruption has now reached the point where the original program is unworkable and unrecognizable, even its purpose has not only been obscured but completely reversed. It is time for a reset that will eliminate the viruses and return our system to its original program and purpose. We need to once again embrace the original purpose and intent of our nation outlined in its foundational documents. Look at what 2020 has brought us. Things that were once wacko conspiracy theories have become normalized either through actual implementation or in serious conversation and proposals. Consider what has already happened, and keep in mind that all of this happened in a matter of a few months. GPS tracking: your phone tracks your whereabouts to see who you have been in contact with. It is supposed to be for contact tracing to see if you have been exposed to Covid but it could just as easily be used to see if you have been in contact with people who have the virus of politically unacceptable views. Travel papers: Papers issued to allow you to leave your home under lockdown orders. Forced quarantine even when you are not sick as a result of contact tracing. The acceptance of the idea that the government can put you under house arrest at any time, also known as stay at home orders. The government picks and chooses which businesses can be open and which must close. They have banned gun sales and prohibited people from going to church. They require you to wear something to cover your face like some poor woman in a Muslim hell hole. Pennsylvania reinstituted Prohibition by fiat, no alcohol sales before Thanksgiving. They suppress the right to assemble and protest unless you are part of a protected group like Black Lives Matter. Think of what the Great Reset is. It is the proposal by a bunch of rich global elites who want to run the world. Forget the Bilderburgers and the like, this is reality and it is all out in the open. We are being encouraged to snitch on our neighbors if we are breaking lockdown edicts like we live in some communist country where neighbors are encouraged to turn each other in. This snitching involves the government assuming the authority to determine who may be in your own home and under what conditions. They have arbitrarily voided private contracts, specifically rental agreements and mortgages. Does anyone now doubt there is a shadow government in the United States, also known as the deep state? The pervasive nature of government propaganda and the suppression of free speech should be obvious to anyone who wants to look and is what has given cover to all this totalitarianism. Lies have become the truth, truth is ridiculed as a lie. That is what has already happened, perhaps not everywhere but the fact that it happens anywhere is wrong. Do you seriously believe that all of these tyrannical impositions will not become national under a Biden/Harris administration? I don't know if I can say what is coming is worse, but it will be a more intense and pervasive despotism that will build on these unconstitutional acts too many have reluctantly acquiesced to. Here is what is being seriously considered and proposed. Putting microchips in our bodies. The elimination of all physical money, i.e. cash. Mandatory vaccinations and requiring proof of the same to do basically anything; buy, sell, work, travel. Putting political opponents on lists and sending them to reeducation camps. Instituting a Universal Basic Income for all, especially those out of work when they shut down entire business and industries. Any personal liberty we have, every choice, every right, they will all be subject to restriction and will only be exercised with permission under this totalitarian system. Totalitarian in the true sense of the word, every aspect of life will totally under their regulation and control. There will be no escape from this. With the technology we already have, if we allow this, they will know where you are, who you are with and what you are doing every moment of every day. Is this where we want to go? I don't, do you? Are you willing to allow this to happen, are you so blind to the chains that already bind you that you are willing to accept not only what has happened but what is coming? Do you love the illusion of tranquility in your servitude, do you ignore the choices and happiness denied you and settle for what your overlords permit, will you continue to disregard what you see with your own eyes and those things which alienate your common sense, offend your sense of justice and sicken your spirit? Have you lost the stomach for the sacrifices liberty demands? As I have always said, it is only our consent that allows any of this to happen. But the struggle for liberty is hard, it is risky, but we will not be moved from the horrors of tyranny to the blessings of liberty on a comfortable couch. Our great reset will not be accomplished by a bunch of elites in a smoke filled room in Europe, it will not be the result of one outsider in the presidency. It will only be effected by we the people rising up against those who would enslave us, we the people refusing to abide their tyranny, we the people taking our liberty with both hands and demanding our rights be respected. We need to finally stand up and revolt against this despotism not just with words and complaints, not with wishful thinking, but with real action. When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensable of duties. Marquis de Lafayette

The Capitol Occupation. Patriotic or Perverse? The Moral Case for Violence. Last week a group of frustrated and angry patriots descended on the Capitol Building. They were angry about a fraudulent election, angry no one in power seemed to care, angry the rule of law was constantly ignored, angry that a pretender and his cohorts were preparing to make good on their promise to destroy the last vestiges of the American ideal. It was not entirely peaceful although based on what Antifa and BLM engaged in in 2020, it wasn't particularly violent either. A patriot was killed by police. Tragic, absolutely tragic. As is was happening and in the days that followed, there was a loud cacophony of condemnation for the protester's actions. This isn't how we act, remember Martin Luther King and Gandhi, we need to let our better angels prevail. And I'm not just talking about the propaganda media either, I'm talking about voices on the right as well. No no no, they say. This is not how we do things, we must remain peaceful, we must accept this fraud and continue to work to take the house and senate in two years, write your representatives, continue to speak the truth but never, ever, ever, do something like this again. Be good little slaves, stop whining, and do as your masters say. The question we must ask is whether such action was not only understandable but justifiable. Some may agree with the first but I have heard no one proclaim the second. Lets look at this and try to be objective. Why were those protesters there in the first place. It was a “Stop the Steal” rally. They were there to voice there objections to a fraudulent election. These were people who supported President Trump because he represented their love for America and her ideals. They were angry because for years they have been vilified, dismissed, insulted and used by those who hold political power. They, we, have seen the nation we love systematically destroyed, we have seen our liberty assaulted, we have been force fed lies, we have been ridiculed for believing facts. No one listened to us when we protested against the growing tyranny. Our representatives constantly let us down, the media has become mere statist propaganda, our voice was being systematically silenced. Trump represented us like no one since Reagan. President Trump gave us a voice, he stood for us, for America as it was meant to be. We finally had someone to champion our interests, our liberty. And they, the powerful, the Democrats of course but the entire political class, elected and unelected, did everything they could to destroy him and those who supported them. We were called deplorable, uneducated, gullible, stupid and worse. We were attacked verbally and physically, we lost friends, family and jobs, we were 'cancelled' for our support of the idea that America was once, and could again, be great. When no one else would listen, Trump did. After electing worthless politicians for so long we finally voted in a man who was not a politician, who was not bought and paid for, who would actually represent us. Our vote was the only voice we had left, our vote for the man who proved his love for this country and its ideals, who actually did what he said he would to make America great again. They stole that from us, they negated our voice, our vote. For years the democrats have attacked election integrity, expanding the time to vote, fighting voter ID at every turn, championing mail in ballots. Now with Covid as the excuse, they changed all the rules illegally at the last minute and ramped up the tried and true methods of cheating to a degree that would make any tin pot dictator proud. They wanted their unchecked power back and they did it through force and fraud. We lost our voice. No, we didn't lose it, we had it taken, stolen from us. With all of our institutions corrupted, it was our last hope for redress. So what do people who have been denied any political power, any voice, any justice within the system do? They protest. But what happened on January sixth was not just a protest. It was a final effort to stop the fraud, to foil the coup. The people taking power have promised to destroy what is left of the American ideal and to seek revenge on all who supported President Trump. They are communists. The certification by Congress was the last step in their ascent to power. While a few courageous representatives objected, the vast majority were going to make sure the coup was complete, place their rubber stamp on the fraud and install an illegitimate president and his cronies in the most powerful office in the land. Complaining was not going to stop it. In the face of evil we must act and those who would gain power through force and fraud and then wield that power to destroy our rights are evil. It is our duty to do what we can to stop it. It is moral to stand up against evil. Those men and women who entered the capitol and stopped that vote, even if it was only for a little while, are heroes, patriots. If this had happened in some small oppressive dictatorship, we would be applauding these freedom fighters for their courage. But it happens here now, even after all the blatant tyranny of the past year and they say these patriots are threat to democracy, that their actions are unconstitutional and immoral. Are you kidding me? The greatest threat to democracy has come from the despotic looters in congress who will now exercise absolute and unchecked power. Unconstitutional?! Everything they do is unconstitutional and a violation of our rights. Immoral? 5000 page bills that loot the American people to enrich themselves and their cronies, that is immoral. That it has taken this long to actually push back against this evil it a shame upon us all. But now it has finally happened and the cacophony of condemnation by the powerful demonstrates their fear. No longer can they assume that they can go about their looting and lying and we will simply buckle under. No, this act showed that there are still men and women of great courage who will not back down in the face of evil and they will be remembered by patriots as such. Their condemnation by so many who support liberty is born of ignorance of what it means to actually stand up to evil. Bullies, mobsters, and criminals will do what they will until they are stopped, until their intended victim instills enough fear in them that they stop. Bullies, mobsters and criminals intimidate by threatening violence, or actually engaging it, and they do so only because they think they will win. If the victim no longer wants to be victimized, they must either make the criminal believe they will win a violent contest, or actually win one. The first is why in states with liberal gun laws and concealed carry, crime drops. The second is what removes tyrants. Evil is violent because its aims cannot be achieved through reason or morality. The only way to stop evil is to not only be more powerful but to be willing to demonstrate that power in a way that makes the evil back down. Are you starting to get it now? Government is violence. Let me say that again and let it sink in. Government, every government, is violence. Do you think that Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Kamala Harris, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and all their minions just sit up there and make laws and rules and pass 5000 page bills for their own satisfaction? They expect those rules and regulations to be obeyed, they expect you to fork over your dough to pay for gender studies in Pakistan. And if you don't what is the result? Force, violence. They will take your money, they will not tolerate disobedience. My God, have the lockdowns shown you all nothing?! They will arrest you for too many people in your house, for leaving your home against orders, they will fine and arrest your for opening your business when all you are doing is trying to feed your family and keep a roof over their head. We have seen government force, government violence, on full display. And it is only going to get worse now that these communists are in control of the most powerful government in the world. Look at China, that's where we're going. People, this is what an absolute despotism looks like. One party rule, fixed elections, rubber stamp courts, no rule of law, a Constitution treated like toilet paper. What do you do when the system meant to keep this from happening has been ignored, rigged or systematically destroyed? What do you do when they demand your property, your means of self defense, your loyalty and obedience? Do you follow the propagandists on both sides and just give in, bow before your new gods, be good little slaves who remain meek and quiet, slaves who would never actually rise up against those who have enslaved them? You have got to change your thinking. The government of the United States has been occupied by a hostile power foreign to its values and traditions. This fraudulent election has put an exclamation point on that fact but it has been the case for some time. We need to start looking at these people like the criminals they are. Most of us would not have a problem defending our home and families from individual criminals who desire to harm us and take our property. We need to transfer that thinking to our government which is no more that a criminal enterprise cloaked in legality, a legality they create to benefit themselves and insulate themselves from repercussions. They have no moral, or legal under our Constitution, right to reduce our liberty or take our property. When that IRS official demands tribute so these people can enrich themselves and their cronies, they are no different than a mob enforcer demanding protection money. When that state official shows up to close your business he is no different than a mob enforcer pushing you out of a neighborhood so the mob can swoop in and take over for their own enrichment. Do you get it? These people are criminals...evil. I mean what kind of person makes their living taking our property and liberty, participating in a fraudulent election, lying about the innocent to neutralize them? At some point in time, if you desire any liberty at all, tyranny must be resisted. Not just with words or information. Tyrants don't care about that, if they did they wouldn't be tyrants, they wouldn't have to gain and exercise power through force and fraud. They expect their will to be obeyed and force, violence, is they way they do it, government knows no other way. When it is a question of the tyrant's will or our liberty and property, we have a right, a duty, to resist that will and that will mean violence. Go read the Declaration of Independence, accept your duty, muster some courage! Otherwise, just give it all up now, put out your hands to accept your manacles and bow your knee to your masters.

As elected executives all across the land issue more restrictions in the name of our health, there are those who may say we are living in a police state. The spying and snitching, the arrests for what were once activities protected by the Constitution, the naked power these men and women believe they have the right to exercise is tyranny is its most basic form. But tyranny requires more than simply a lone despot sitting on a throne shouting edicts, it requires an army of enforcers. In other words a police state requires...police. In the old days and in less technologically sophisticated countries the military and the police were all a police state needed. Official thugs to go out and enforce the edicts of the despot, rounding up those who dare defy even the most inane decree. In more modern totalitarian states like ours, many of the enforcers hide behind keyboards. They don't get their hands dirty, they simply steal with the stroke of a key, rescind permission for a business or professional license, take a house or other property, steal an election. Ultimately, the thugs will show up to throw you out of your house or confiscate property that exists in the real world but the thugs sitting at a computer and the thug with a gun are still just goons the despot hires to enforce his or her will. Now here in the good 'ol US of A, all government employees take an oath to defend and protect the Constitution. So what is one to do when the petty tyrant in the governor's mansion tells you to go put a padlock on a church or arrest people for having their family gathered in their own home for Thanksgiving? If there is one good thing about the Covid Crisis it is that it has made some things very clear. The tyrants are glaringly evident, as are the submissive. People are finding their courage and non-compliance is gaining traction. The sides are becoming obvious to everyone. The question for all those enforcers out there is whose side are you on? Some of the wheat and the chaff have been separated. There have been some officers who have enforced the most oppressive edicts. I'll never forget the marine police in California arresting a lone paddleboarder on the ocean. Business owners and pastors prosecuted for exercising their fundamental rights. The men and women in blue who are following these orders are the kind of people who made up the SS in Hitler's Germany, the soldiers who gunned down demonstrators in Tienanmen Square and goons who recently shot protesters in Venezuela. These are the sort who just follow orders. They have violated their oath and so reduced themselves to thugs in a criminal enterprise. Of course there were others who stated publicly they would not be enforcing the illegitimate lockdowns and their associated edicts. These are men and women who understand their obligations to the Constitution and the people they serve. They still use their common sense and respect the rights of we the people. These brave souls deserve our respect and support. So I ask all of you public servants out there, those with badges and those who sit at desks. Are you going to be part of the police state? Are you going to be a bully enforcing the will of a tyrannical government? If so, then don't be surprised when you are treated by we the people as the criminal and thug you are. For those who resist the pressure of conformity, who refuse to obey unconstitutional and nonsensical orders, I applaud you for your courage and you have my deepest respect and admiration. Thank you for your service. “The only thing viler than tyrants are their lackeys.” Marty Rubin

The Coup is Nearly Complete: 2021 Under American Communists and The Great Reset; and a Plan for Resistance So it's nearly official. If the Democrats succeed in stealing the election the radicals and communists in their party will have their hands on all the levers of power. The elites calling for the Great Reset will applaud the removal of the last obstacle to their grandiose vision to remake the world according to their socialist, environmentally friendly vision. So if President Trump leaves on January 20 what can we expect in 2021? First, here is what the Biden/Harris, Harris/Biden administration has promised for the first hundred days and beyond. This is what happens first, in no particular order, most by executive fiat. Immigration changes completely. All deportations are halted. Amnesty is granted to all criminal immigrants currently here, taxpayer funded healthcare is granted to illegals and welfare-dependent legal immigration is restarted. Dreamers and DACA kids are immediately put on a path to citizenship and made eligible for federal student aid. They end prosecution of illegal parents for 'minor' immigration violations and workplace raids based on workers' status. They end border wall construction and may begin to tear down recently built sections. They will lift travel restrictions on countries with known terrorist ties. They will address the racial divide they created, promising to deal with institutional racism and set up a police oversight body. They will eliminate cash bail, shut down private prisons, create a national use of force standard for police, and ban choke holds and carotid holds. They will step up their assault on traditional values. They will roll back conscience protections and civil liberties for Catholic organizations and medical providers, and others, and reverse limits on taxpayer funding for abortion procedures overseas. They will take executive action to block states from defunding Planned Parenthood, as well as loosening restrictions on the availability of chemical abortions. They will reinstate federal guidance, issued by Obama and revoked by Trump, that would restore transgender students’ access to sports, bathrooms and locker rooms in accordance with their gender identity. They will nationalize the most oppressive pandemic restrictions. They will impose a mask mandate and a nationwide lockdown. They will appoint a supply commander to oversee production and distribution of testing and vaccines as well as materials like masks and gowns. They will install a “pandemic board” that will oversee more testing and additional resources for combating the coronavirus. They will rejoin and refund the WHO. On their first day they will restore federal workers’ right to unionize. They will form a task force to provide a road map for ending homelessness. The 'fairness doctrine' will be re-implemented to shut down opposition in the media. They will rejoin the Paris climate accord by executive order, but roll out higher standards. They will immediately reverse Trump’s rollback of 100 public health and environmental rules that the Obama administration had in place and double the tax on overseas companies. They will also start working with congress on hate crime legislation, repeal liability protections for gun manufacturers and implement universal background checks. They will work to reinstate the assault weapons ban, develop a mandatory buy back program, and end online sales of guns and ammunition. BidenCare will be rolled out eventually resulting in a single payer government run healthcare system. Fracking will be banned on public land and new environmental regulations will strangle the energy industry. All this will happen quickly, I can guarantee you the bills are already written. Of course the Supreme Court will be expanded to 13, the senate filibuster will be history and an amendment to eliminate the electoral college will be forwarded. Eventually, DC and Puerto Rico will become states and they will ramp up their ongoing effort to criminalize opposition by prosecuting President Trump and his allies, thus ensuring one party rule in the United States for the foreseeable future. After all that, this is what happens next summer and beyond. Here the Biden administration, or the Harris Administration, Biden may not last that long, will merge their goals with that of the globalist agenda for the Great Reset. But first the destruction of the old must be completed. Another alleged mutation of Covid-19 will necessitate more enforced national lockdowns like those in Europe and blue states. Coupled with new and higher taxes a recovering economy will plunge into the tank. This will necessitate trillions more in relief funds, money created out of thin air by the Federal Reserve and other central banks. The dollar will plummet in value as will other currencies. Even more small businesses will be destroyed. Supply chains will break down and shortages will become more widespread. Energy prices will skyrocket. Extended unemployment benefits and direct cash payments will eventually turn into a universal basic income. Isolation facilities will be constructed for those who refuse the vaccine mandates or abide by the lockdowns. Travel restrictions will be implemented even between states and municipalities. The military will be deployed in cities where rioting becomes widespread and violent. We are now ready for the “Great Reset.” This will be the answer to the worldwide economic and societal collapse. To alleviate economic hardship some national governments will eliminate all personal debt in exchange for the individual forfeiting ownership of all personal assets forever. The individual will also need to agree to participate in the vaccination schedule which would permit the individual unrestricted travel even under the strictest lockdowns with an immunity passport. Those who refuse to participate will be relocated to isolation facilities and given the choice of staying there indefinitely or relinquishing ownership of their property and bodies. In response to widespread currency collapses, a new world digital currency will be rolled out. Cash will be eliminated, gold ownership will be illegal and all transactions will be monitored and under control of a world body like the World Bank. This currency will be used to bail out bankrupt governments and those governments will now implement policies to ensure 'fairer outcomes.' This will be wealth redistribution through taxation and regulation on steroids There will be new rules for intellectual property, trade and competition. There will no longer be any support for the fossil fuel industry which will be phased out. All governments, backed by the World Bank, will engage in large scale spending and stimulus programs not to prop up the old system but to create a new one which is environmentally friendly and sustainable and it will enforce equality. This will result in global standards regulated by task forces to regulate every area of life and ensure compliance with the goals of UN Agenda 2030 among others. They will harness the innovations of the fourth industrial revolution-high tech-to support the 'public good', specifically to address health and social challenges. Much of this will revolve around mandatory vaccination which may well be a form of population control and/or depopulation. WHO, along with the Gates Foundation, has been working on sterility vaccines for decades and the Gates Foundation's track record on vaccines is one of death and destruction. Beyond this, when decisions about your body and what is done to it are no longer a natural right, will be the implementation of the trans humanist agenda where man and machine are merged. This seems like science fiction but the technology is already becoming available; Elon Musk and his Neuralink are just one example. External spying for compliance will no longer be necessary when all our actions and even our thoughts are available to our overlords. Of course long before this is widespread, big tech and media will have perfected its ability to mold public opinion and steer individuals into accepting all of this as normal and good while censoring any opposition. In this new world there will be the elites and their cronies who run things and the rest of us. Lords and serfs, masters and slaves. The elites and those who carry out their dictates will live well as they do in all authoritarian regimes. They will enjoy the best health care, they will have material possessions most only dream of, they will be secure in gleaming cities. The rest of us will have nothing, literally. Property ownership will be a thing of the past. As one of their ads says, “you will own nothing and will be happy.” Our consumption will be controlled through our Universal Basic Income allowance and the new digital monetary system which will monitor all our activities. Work will be redefined when technology, artificial intelligence and robots do most tasks and whole industries and sectors of the economy are eliminated. What will it mean to be productive in a society where individuals are either prohibited from the work they enjoy or have become accustomed to or those tasks are no longer needed due to technology? Where will we find worth and fulfillment when productive work is unavailable and meaningful social interaction is denied us under long term enforced lockdowns? How will we express our individual humanity when even our thoughts are monitored for compliance with the will and ideals of our overlords? Over the top? Crazy? No, everything outlined here are in the words and expressions of those involved; the Biden/Harris Democrat establishment, the World Economic Forum, United Nations documents, the Rockefeller Foundation and others. They have been planning this for years, decades, just waiting for the convergence of advanced technology and a crisis they could take advantage of. Here we are and if you think it won't happen, that there will be some pushback, where do you think it will come from? The most severe restrictions on our most cherished liberties has been met with little more than whining. In this brave new 1984 world you, as an individual, will be a pawn, a cog, a slave to the technocrats and their world vision. You will have no rights, only privileges granted if you demonstrate your cooperation. Freedom will be an anachronistic concept. Even fixed elections will have few consequences, everything will be run by unelected bureaucrats and elites who will have the real power. What are you going to do when you can't leave your home unless you get a vaccine and a biometric identifier or they require you to get a chip implanted in your brain? When you can't buy anything, when all your assets are gone? When your voice is silenced? Everything that has happened during this pandemic is geared toward this outcome. Forcing universal lockdowns, which we have NEVER done in an epidemic and which obviously do not work in this one, only make sense in this context. What are the results? People are separated and isolated. When we are unable to work we will become dependent on government for basic sustenance. Small businesses are all but eliminated forcing people to work for the large corporations where their surveillance is easier and their money is more easily controlled, the war on cash, no option of hiding income from the taxing authorities. Deficit spending by governments through central bank money creation on a scale unheard of before will destroy national currencies. Due to our isolation, all activity from commerce to social interaction takes place online where it can be tracked and monitored. Mask wearing destroys our individuality. Perhaps the most important question is, when an individual is reduced to living on an allowance of fiat money granted by government and becomes someone who merely consumes and produces nothing, and their support through voting or taxation is no longer necessary, what purpose do they serve? What will the elites do with all the parasites they have created? Will they decide such people are no longer beneficial to the collective? That such people are a useless drain on society and harmful, wasteful blights on the planet's limited resources and fragile systems? When communist utilitarian ideology is combined with radical environmentalism in a totalitarian system...I think you know the answer. This is what is coming. It is not some wacko conspiracy theory, it is happening all around you, it is the plan and program of these despots that they have laid out for all to see. Knowing this - what are you going to do? Are you going to “stand up” against it? What does that even mean? How are you going to stand up, what are you going to do? How are you going to fight back? Oooo you post a good meme, you keep your gun oiled. Are you going to go hide in the mountains and hope they don't find you, surrendering the life you knew and giving up the dream of real freedom for whatever liberty you can find under a rock somewhere? If that is all you've got, you've lost. I, for one, am not going to go quietly into this nightmare. I will not comply, I will resist, I will rebel. That will be hard, it will require sacrifice and loss. But my work will not simply be defensive, I have no desire to simply keep the little liberty I am currently permitted to exercise. I am going to struggle mightily to expand the sphere of my liberty to include not only that legally guaranteed me under the Constitution but that with which nature and nature's God have endowed me. I am a human being, not a tool for some globalist agenda, not a beast of burden for an elite, not a serf condemned to beg for scraps. I refuse to live that way. And I have a plan to achieve it. The question for you today, if you love liberty and are willing to defend it, do you have a plan to protect your life, restore your liberty and ensure your happiness? I do. You may find value in it, it may give you ideas of your own, it may inspire you to come up with a better plan. But if you've got nothing, then consider the idea of Constitutional Sanctuaries where non-compliance with tyranny is protected. Things are happening quickly, faster than we ever imagined. Look at what has happened just in the last few months. I am making this plan available for free, the book is called Hashticharot's Revolution and it is not simply philosophical but specific and action oriented. We are long past the time of empty platitudes, it is time for action. Just send me an e-mail and I will send you a copy. Freedom demands a spirited and organized defense. Are you in? When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties. Marquis de Lafayette

I took my wife to the movies the other night. Admittedly, we are staying in a small town in western Virginia but as we drove up there were three cars in the whole parking lot. Three. One or two of them belonged to the employees I'm sure. We were the only ones in the theater and this was on a Saturday night. Obviously, it was not a Regal theater as those have been shut down since early October when several large releases were delayed again. Do you think that theater will stay open when our ticket purchase didn't even cover the single employee's hourly wage for the time we were there? Will all theaters go belly up? Will movie releases only happen on streaming services from now on? It seems more likely all the time. Dinner and a movie, gone. We will lose an avenue of entertainment that united Americans through world wars and depressions not because people lost interest or found something better but because of arbitrary decisions made by politicians and bureaucrats. Of course the ability to go see a movie on the big screen is just one aspect of what was once normal in America in which we can no longer participate. Perhaps your favorite bar or restaurant has gone out of business. If staycations are not mandated where you live, where are you going to go? International travel has ground to a halt, the hospitality industry has been decimated, who knows when or if you will ever go on a cruise again. Of course there are other aspects of American life that have disappeared. There are no more concerts and live sporting events are severely restricted. Things with a distinct American flavor like parades on Independence Day, state fairs or local events that raise money for community centers and other charities have all been canceled. How about rites of passage like graduations, proms, homecomings. Holiday celebrations like Thanksgiving or birthdays where families reunite have been discouraged or prohibited. Even life events like weddings and funerals are restricted. And too many people have been prohibited from being with their loved ones when they passed from any illness. We are being systematically stripped of things that not only provide some sense of common culture as Americans but things that have been part of civilized society for millennia. It is people assembling together and sharing these common experiences that provide us a sense of belonging to a community and, in a larger sense, a nation. It is shared experiences that define a people. It is clear that if the petty tyrants who have restricted or prohibited all these common events have their way a new normal will emerge in which some of these things will never return and we will participate in others only with permission. And if we hope to see any of these thing come back under the new normal we will have to adhere to their requirements. There is no doubt one of the first requirements for participating in society will be a vaccine certificate. Ticketmaster has already made this clear that when they do start running concerts again that it will be a requirement. This will expand to include your ability to any of the things listed. Go to a restaurant, a movie, a wedding. Even a birthday party in your own home. Don't think so? You don't believe that a neighbor who snitches on you about having too many people in your house will call the police who will show up and demand to see vaccination cards for a gathering over six or ten or whatever the number is by then. It is all about control and new ways to exercise it. But it is also about destroying American culture, particularly religious culture. They have tried to destroy our holidays for years. We just celebrated Thanksgiving which they have painted as racist and genocidal for years. Now they were simply able to prohibit it by reducing the numbers of people in the home to six or restricting the number of separate households. Christmas will be no different. They are isolating us from one another, taking away every event we find meaningful, and prohibiting us from coming together as a community or even as a family. What will we be left with, what is all this being replaced with? The religion of the left? Political correctness, the worship of black lives matter and radical environmentalism? Will we enter the world of 1984 where all that mattered was work and there was nothing else of meaning or substance? Where we don't know or trust anyone? They are destroying our spirit and if we allow it we will end up like the old Soviet Union with a compliant, morose populace numbed by marijuana and other drugs instead of vodka. Is that the world you want to live in? Are you willing to see all the things that made life enjoyable in the old normal either disappear or come under the permanent jurisdiction of all the petty tyrants in our new totalitarian state? I'm not. So stop putting up with it. Open up your business, celebrate, stop living in fear, stop acknowledging their right to control your life and live it! “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”Anais Nin

I'm Not Just Running My Mouth: My Non-Compliance and Ten Year Fight with the Beast There's a lot of people who blow a lot of hot air, telling people to stand up against tyranny but taking no risks themselves. Some of you are the same way, a lot of talk but in the end you turn over your liberty and property and comply with the wishes of your overlords. Perhaps you think the same of me. In this episode I am going to set your straight. My refusal to comply with my enslavement, specifically my refusal to pay for my own chains and yours, goes back to the early years of the Obama administration. So when I implore you to stop complying with those who seek to subject you to servitude and steal your property for their own profit, I have done a lot more than burn my mask or have more than ten people over to my house. This is also why I have told you that President Trump is not our savior, that the deep state and bureaucracy will continue to oppress us no matter who's in office because the whole edifice exists to support the elites and the deep state, give them cover and make sure everyone continues to benefit from all the theft. To them, we exist to submit, obey and feed their voracious appetite. Congress, the bureaucrats, the justice department and the courts are all in on the game and I have seen it first hand. The law and the truth mean nothing to these people, the massive election fraud should be proof enough that corruption exists at all levels for the sole purpose of acquiring and maintaining power. So what have I seen and experienced? Article One, Section 9 of the Constitution states that congress shall not lay a capitation or direct tax on the people. Now I'm not going to argue the application of the 16th amendment, suffice it to say that the supreme court in 1916 stated that the amendment did not set aside article one, section nine and it did not give the government some new power of taxation. The founders knew direct taxes on a man's right to make a living was immoral and to take his money and to give it to causes he disagrees with is wrong. I believe that but it is not simply a philosophical belief, in the United States it is supported by the Constitution, the law and the Income Tax Code itself. I will make several of my court documents available at links at the end for you to look at. But regardless of what the Constitution or the law says, the money to support the state needs to keep flowing. The lazy need to be supported, the stupid need to be bailed out, payoffs need to be make, chains need to be forged. This is what I have experienced. The IRS has taken basically identical returns from different years, labeled one invalid and slapped on a $5000 fine and then accepted the next years return and confiscated the refund to apply it to the fine from the previous year. I have demanded documents the law requires the IRS to produce and have always, always been ignored. They have applied laws to me that only apply to a select group of people. The taxpayer bill of rights is a joke and the courts are laughable. I have had judges say in court that it doesn't matter what the law says. I had a judge in one case actually see my point about the requirements the IRS had ignored. That judge was removed and replaced by one who would rubber stamp the claims of this lawless agency. There is no justice to be found in the tax court and the federal courts are no more help. They are currently trying to confiscate any property they can get their hands on. I have experienced injustice and tyranny up close and I will continue to fight it even as I risk my property at least at this point. I know we are not the only ones and it is certainly the IRS is not the only agency trampling our rights. Covid restrictions, the cancel culture, censorship, the two tiered injustice system, it is all part of the effort by those in power to trample our rights, eliminate freedom and destroy the foundational principles of this great nation. As a human being, I will not submit to injustice, I refuse to hold out my hands to receive my shackles, I will not turn over my property to looters and moochers. Tyranny, injustice, and evil only exist within our sphere with our consent. We have consented too long, we have let them infringe on our rights to the point where they believe our natural and constitutional rights are only exercised by their consent. If you so easily give up your property, is it any surprise you will adhere to the most inane edicts or turn over your guns? Stop picking and choosing the rights you defend, capitulation on one is the death of all. To stand up against a pervasive evil takes guts, it entails risk but the legacy we inherited from the men who pledged their lives, fortunes and sacred honor compels us to real and substantial action. Evil requires the sanction of the victim. Ayn Rand

Do You Believe the Covid Numbers and Have we Found Cure for Heart Disease? We are inundated with numbers every day. Polls tell us what people think, Covid cases are tracked daily, numbers of votes in an election. But all these numbers are not just interesting trivia, they are used to make government policy and influence our individual choices, big and small. The question is, are the numbers right, do they make sense, can we trust them? Our lives have been completely upended due to Covid-19. This not very deadly virus has resulted in unprecedented and tyrannical government action. The government and media have pounded us with the narrative that this virus is unique and deadly, that it is highly contagious, and for our safety we needed to set aside any love of cherished rights and follow their most draconian edicts. Every day we are breathlessly given ever increasing numbers of cases and deaths by wide eyed reporters and somber bureaucrats. The fear-mongering has had its effect, most Americans believe that Covid has killed 9% of the US population or 30 million people! Currently we are surpassing 14 million cases and heading toward 300,000 deaths in the US. We are led to believe this number would increase exponentially, the healthcare system would be overwhelmed and millions of people would die if we don't wear a mask. But what if it's all a lie? The daily numbers are supplied by the Johns Hopkins Medical Center Covid-19 tracking map. Certainly such a prestigious institution lends credibility to such numbers, who's going to question them? Apparently, they have questioned themselves. On November 27 an article called “A Closer Look at the Death Rate from Covid-19” appeared in the Johns Hopkins News-Letter. In it Genevieve Briand analyzed the death rate from Covid-19 and compared it to the overall death rate and the rates of death from other causes. By looking at statistics supplied by the CDC, she found some interesting facts. Number one, the overall death rate has not increased over the last seven months, it had been running between 50,000 to 70,000 a month before Covid. Covid-19 has not been adding an additional 40-50,000 deaths a month. There was not even an increase in the number of deaths among older people, supposedly the most vulnerable, or any other age group for that matter. So to make this clear. Since the pandemic began, since the deadly novel coronavirus has gripped the world, the there has not been an increase in the total number of deaths nor has the percentage of deaths among age groups has not changed. Then she looked at rates of death from specific causes. Every year heart disease tops the list followed by respiratory diseases and then influenza/pneumonia. You would expect that when you add a quarter million deaths from Covid it would add to the totals. We have already seen that this has not been the case. In fact Briand found that death from other causes had dropped precipitously and in direct proportion to the increase in Covid deaths. So either there has been a cure for heart disease and all other respiratory diseases we have not heard about or there has been a reclassification of deaths. Obviously it is the latter. She came to an interesting conclusion. She stated that “All of this points to no evidence that Covid-19 created any excess deaths. Total death numbers are not above normal death numbers. We found no evidence to the contrary.” She also stated that we have no “choice but to point to some misclassification.” This goes back to May when the esteemed Dr. Brix said that deaths with, not of, Covid were classified as Covid deaths and a few months ago President Trump was blasted for citing a study that said only 6% of Covid deaths were actually from Covid-19. That 6% figure would bring us to around 17,000 deaths, not many more than the 12,000 caused by the swine flu in 2009. The point of all this is that Covid is not causing widespread death, it is not the black plague and the numbers are all a lie. Add to that the fraudulent PCR test to inflate cases and the numbers do not support the government's tyrannical policies. What was the reaction to this article in the Johns Hopkins News-Letter? They retracted it because it was being used as proof by those who think the whole pandemic was overblown and the reaction to it nonsensical. But how could you not come to that conclusion? Not only do the statistics demonstrate this fact but the policy reaction to it is an affront to common sense. If it is as contagious as they say, a single breath dispersing an aerosol of infected droplets that will infect everyone in a room, why do they have to scrape your brain to find evidence? Wouldn't a simple oral swab be sufficient? If masks work, which has not always been the opinion of the technocrats in charge, why must we social distance and if that works, why the masks? How many people can be in a group? Is it ten, six, twenty-five? Do curfews make sense, does the virus become more deadly or contagious at night? Why won't I get it if I go to Wal Mart but I will if I go to my favorite restaurant? Why do these severe restrictions apply to us but not to our esteemed leaders? There is something very nefarious at work here. Two things are obvious. One, Covid-19 is not a deadly plague that is going to kill us all. The second, all the hype and fear is being used to assert control and destroy our current economic system. We cannot let this charade go on, we cannot let them continue to manipulate us until we are in a position from which there is no escape. We need to stop cooperating, stop complying with all these foolish guidelines and unconstitutional edicts. It is high time to get back to living. “Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship.” Bruce Coville www.michaelcalpino.com A closer look at U.S. deaths due to COVID-19 - The Johns Hopkins News-Letter.pdf - Google Drive

Just in time for Thanksgiving the Supreme court in its gracious wisdom agreed to allow the Christians and Jews of New York to attend worship services. How nice. How benevolent. Our supreme leaders acquiesced to the pleas of the peasants to be allowed to attend church or synagogue. Can't you just picture them seated high on their thrones, smiling sympathetically as they wave their hands and grant the wishes of their lowly subjects. When the hell did it become the norm to grovel before our government and beg to be allowed to exercise a natural right guaranteed by the Constitution? Does the Constitution not say “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” There were no caveats like 'unless there is a pandemic caused by a virus with a 99.5% survival rate.' Then we can prohibit the free exercise thereof. Then we can prohibit you from assembling in groups of more than six or ten or twenty-five. Then we can force you to cover your face. Then we can put you under house arrest. Then we can close your business. Do you see yourselves anxiously awaiting the proclamation of your dear leaders to see if some rights have been restored or simply prohibited again by executive fiat? Have we finally moved from state two to stage three or are we going back to stage one? We are pathetic. Rights exercised only with permission are not rights at all, they are privileges. Privileges granted by government can be taken away on a whim. And so they have. Of course rights have always been a pesky obstacle to government control so they have always supported the narrative they have the right to regulate or restrict rights. Your right to protect yourself with a firearm is heavily regulated and in most states your right to possess and carry said firearm is only done with permission. Your right to be secure in your person has disappeared with all the spying and things like asset forfeiture laws. Don't even get me started on the injustice system. Do you see the point? If we accept the idea that government can regulate a right it is no longer a right at all, it is a privilege which you may exercise only with permission and within the parameters they define. The real problem is that we have accepted this narrative; most believe, and almost all of us behave as if government does have the authority to regulate the exercise of our rights. Look around, it is obvious. Even the process of going to court is an acknowledgment that a judge, or nine of them, have the right to determine how and when you may exercise a right. What if the court had ruled the NY case 5-4 the other way? Sorry, no church for you. Do we accept that? We shouldn't, we can't, not if we want to have any freedom left. Rights belong to us, we the people, and to each individual and they existed prior to government and they exist apart from government. Our rights to speak and assemble and worship and protect ourselves and to secure our property belong to us and they are not subject to regulation morally or legally under the Constitution. It is time we started acting like that is the truth. Open your church or synagogue, open your business, live your life as a free individual, not in fear of the whims of government. Oh, they will try to enforce their edicts but that is why we have the second amendment guaranteeing us the right to protect ourselves from criminals or a criminal government. Wouldn't it be something to see a church or synagogue open its doors for worship and station armed guards outside to keep the government thugs from interrupting the exercise of their rights? Remember, government does not and will not respect our rights. We will only exercise them to the extent we are willing to defend them. “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

In response to the coronavirus pandemic, there is social and legal pressure to wear masks, ostensibly to protect us from infection. They do no such thing. Mask wearing is political, not scientific. Early in the pandemic the WHO, the CDC and even the revered Dr. Fauci all said masks were ineffective against the spread of Covid-19 just like any other flu virus, which is why we don't all wear masks during flu season. So why the change? The science hasn't changed so why force the masks, especially when their detrimental effects have been established. It is the social effect of mask wearing that is the reason. If you have not yet figured out that the government response to the Covid-19 pandemic is about politics and not science, you have not been doing your homework or you have lost the ability to use your common sense. We have lost any vestige of constitutionally guaranteed freedom or a representative republic. We now live under executive mandate. Mandated masks, mandated lockdowns, onerous restrictions on the most basic rights; the right to assemble, the right to work, the right to worship, the right to travel, the right to leave your home. For all the proclamations that we need to follow the science, they ignore it. Even the vaunted Dr. Fauci and the WHO say lockdowns are ineffective yet we keep locking down. Dr. Fauci and the WHO originally said masks wouldn't work and the WHO has at least admitted it was political pressure that made them change the recommendation. If masks and lockdowns worked, we'd wear masks every time the flu flared up and lock up at least the vulnerable populations. As much as they try to suppress any studies that say masks are ineffective, one sneaked out that says that 70% of infected people wore the mask all the time. They don't work. Think about it. Use your common sense. A well fitting M95 mask my offer decent protection if it doesn't come from a Chinese manufacturer in which case only about half of them work. But the rest of them? Handkerchiefs and cloth masks, come on. And apparently the synthetic face shields are worse than wearing nothing because they actually break up the particles and cause them to spread more efficiently. If masks were really about stopping the spread, only the most effective would be allowed to meet the requirements of the mandate. And the lockdowns, in addition to violating our freedom at every level, fly in the face of common sense. Curfews? Does the virus only come out at night? Close churches but not liquor stores? Restrict the number of people you can have in your own home and dictate you wear a mask while you are there? If masks and lockdowns actually worked, you would see a significant difference in states and countries with the strictest mandates but you don't. But it is all about control, not health. You can tell because the dictators are not following their own dictates. The numbers are all inflated to scare us and separate the sheep from the wolves. The sheep will do whatever the government tells them, they will not do their own research, they will ignore what they see with their own eyes and ignore their own common sense and follow every dictate. The sheep will comply even as that compliance makes them sick and impoverished. The sheep will wear a mask when they are driving alone in their car. This mask is the mark of your compliance, it is the first step in your dehumanization, it is a demonstration of your acceptance of your servitude. If you want to wear it, if it gives you peace of mind, go ahead. If you are fearful, stay home and lock your doors. But my health, my life, is my business. What ever happened to my body, my choice? But these slogans are just politics, they are not consistent beliefs among the despotic. Government mandates are all about measuring compliance and I refuse to comply with this or a rule that dictates who I may have in my own home or if I can work or worship or travel or any other unconstitutional mandate. Here is your challenge, burn your mask. Because if you can't stand up against this mandate, what makes you think you are going to muster the courage when they require you to be injected with a vaccine or come for your guns or to take you to a reeducation camp? Rise up people! Courage is a muscle that needs to be exercised. It is time to start working out folks. “The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.” Fredrick Douglas

There have been a preponderance of amusing memes as well as very angry and disappointed comments on social media since the announcement that Biden is the presumed winner of the presidential contest. Now I like a good meme just as much as the next guy, Lord knows we need a chuckle right about now. And as stories of massive voter fraud continue to circulate, anger is understandable. But is that all? Come January and inauguration day, will you simply shake your head and hope for the best under the coming Marxist tyranny? Or are you prepared for a more substantive response, one that actually entails risk, one that actually has the potential to effect real change? As I have talked to my family about the election, about what has happened, what will happen and what we should do, my father said that a picture of me behind bars is not a good look. My wife asked me if I was going to go to jail. Do I want to? Of course not. But tyranny does not abide dissent. Now it may take a while until your meme sharing and venting actually result prison time. But for some, they have already experienced persecution. People have lost jobs or had careers ruined for posts or tweets. You may have lost family and friends. The democrats are talking about putting Trump supporters on lists. But you are not whisked off in the middle of the night for it....yet. But what about non-compliance with their agenda. Uncle Joe is going to force you to wear a mask, a nationwide lockdown is on the agenda, no doubt a mandated vaccine is next. You people in California, Michigan or New York already know the penalties for failing to comply with these executive edicts. Some have been arrested for going to church or protesting these unconstitutional mandates. That tyranny is coming to the whole country. So you need to ask yourself, what will be the last straw for you? What will cause you to say no to something that will land you in jail or some camp? Is it the mask or vaccine? Will it be the requirement for reeducation for your inherent racist attitudes under the banner of critical race theory? When they refuse to let you assemble in protest or go to church? Will it be when they come for your guns under the guise of public health? When will you stop submitting or will you simply adjust your position so you can find some comfort in your chains? If you can't stand up against a mask mandate what makes you think you are going to find your courage when they silence your voice and come for your guns? Going to jail also assumes your are assenting to the legitimacy of their unconstitutional edicts and the system that enforces it. If a law is unconstitutional, immoral and violates natural rights it is illegitimate and we are under no obligation to accept punishment for its violation. In fact, if we meekly submit to punishment under such a law are we not acknowledging the validity of the illegitimate law and the right of the tyrant to enforce it? Does that make any sense to you? While we may admire men like Nelson Mandela, who wants to spend thirty years in prison hoping the tide of history turns in your favor? Non-compliance is not simply refusing to abide by illegitimate proclamations from tyrants but resisting their attempts to enforce them. I do not submit to a mugger demanding my compliance with his wishes, why should I submit to the demands of a criminal government? I will not romanticize the difficulty of doing this as an individual, it will be hard-rebels and outlaws- which is why we must stand together and support one another as we withhold our consent from a tyrannical government. Lives, fortunes and sacred honor people, only those risks will restore our liberty and the republic now. “We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.” Thomas Jefferson

Most of us have dealt with bullies at one time or another in life. In days past it was the kid who beat the snot out of you on the playground. Now its cyberbulling and cancel culture. We all know its wrong....or do we? There was a move for a while to humanize the bully; the poor misunderstood cretin, just lashing out because of daddy issues or some other psychological trauma. Do you really think that those who engage in today's cancel culture are acting out of some subconscious anguish? Its time to get over this mushy psychobabble and realize that bullying is wrong, no matter what the motivation and that there are a lot of bullies who just like to be a bully. They like the sense of power and control they exert over others by threatening them. I don't care if this offends you but there are just bad people in the world and their actions do not entitle them to the benefit of the doubt. So in a bullying situation you have a bully and the bullied. The bully relies on his or her ability to instill fear. Fear of physical harm, fear of material loss, fear of the destruction of reputation or honor, fear of embarrassment. The bully does this because he or she wants to reduce you to a slave, remove your humanity and set themselves up as lord and master and control you and/or take from you so they don't have to work. Ultimately, that is what bullying is, it is a short cut to wealth and position without having to work for it. It is, at a base level, thievery, taking that which has not been earned. It is morally wrong. It is, therefore, our responsibility and duty as moral beings to stand up to such evil. But most of the time we don't. Why? Because regardless of what we say, our values are distorted. Our highest value should be our individual sovereign humanity, our right to free thought and action, and the same freedom for others. That is what makes us human. But instead we place value on other thing by which we define ourselves; our material possessions, our physical well being, our ego. It is threats against these things that the bully uses to instill fear. We fear losing material possessions so we compromise hoping that giving some will appease the bully and he will not demand it all. We fear physical harm so we obey his commands. We fear embarrassment so we bow to his wishes. And the bully knows just how far to push his victims to get the maximum out of them. If he takes too much he will create a perilous situation for himself; for it is the man or woman who fears no loss, or who has lost everything, who is the most dangerous of all. Look at us as Americans, we are being bullied, skillfully and brutally by our government. What do these bullies want? Money and power. Unearned money and power. They are no different than the schoolyard bully who demands your lunch money. They are taking a short cut, stealing money and demanding obedience not because they are smarter or better but because they think they are entitled to it by virtue of conning us into electing them or because they were appointed to a position by someone who conned us into electing them. They believe their position entitles them to tell us what to do and to whatever portion of our property they desire. Their demands are immoral and you and I both know it. They confiscate our hard earned money at the point of a gun, don't forget that. And for what? To redistribute it. But don't be fooled, they are not a bunch of Robin Hoods stealing from the rich to give to the poor. If that was the case perhaps we could at least subscribe some nobility to their theft; but even then it cannot be excused. Forced charity is not charity, it is still robbery. No, for all the trillions they have stolen for the welfare state, there are still just as many poor people as when they started and they have managed to make their conditions worse. No, the redistribution of the looters is from you and I to them and their friends. The supposed Covid relief bill. The average American gets a whopping $1400. If 300 million of us get that money, that is less than a fourth of the price tag. Where does all the rest of it go? Into the pockets of those in the swamp. Easy money for doing little to nothing but supporting the thieves who come up with 600 page bills passed without input from our representatives. Beneficiaries of stolen property. But we just keep handing it over no matter how outrageous the spending is, no matter the fact that it is immoral to saddle succeeding generations with this debt, no matter that it will destroy the economy and leave every average American destitute. But it is not just the money, The bullies are now demanding we ignore reality and accept the absurd. Men can be women and men can get pregnant. Murdering babies is OK. Masks work when we are on crowded airplanes but not in crowded restaurants. The world will end in nine years if we don't get rid of fossil fuels. And if we don't at least give lip service to their absurd assertions we are canceled, humiliated, sometimes prosecuted but definitely persecuted. The bullies are starting to use the large financial and corporate institutions to force us into compliance with their twisted worldview. Bullies who want to silence us, deny us our right to commerce, to make a living, and eventually, to live at all, because that is where all this ends eventually. This total and complete destruction and reorganization of our culture and values only happens with our cowardice. When the cancel bullies come too many grovel at their feet for forgiveness. Too many businesses cow to their demands. Do you understand that those demands will never end, that there will always be something else, that they constantly change the goalposts, searching for some new and previously hidden offense with which to bludgeon us? It only ends when we refuse to acquiesce to their absurdities. The bullies in government, large corporate and financial institutions and the cancel culture are coordinating to terrorize us into accepting our subservient position, to deny our rights and renounce reality. Are we going to continue to let them get away with it? Are we going to keep handing over our money, our minds and our dignity to these bullies? I'm not. But it is only when we refuse to give them power and demonstrate our courage that it will stop. It won't be easy, the bullies are long used to their power and position and will seek to do more of the same; force is their only weapon, they left reason behind a long time ago. We will need to develop our own businesses and institutions outside their control. We will have to preserve our cultural norms and history from their efforts to annihilate it. Most importantly, we need to support one another for it is when we come together that we will prevail.