“For
if Men are to be precluded from offering their Sentiments on a matter,
which may involve the most serious and alarming consequences, that can
invite the consideration of Mankind, reason is of no use to us; the
freedom of Speech may be taken away, and, dumb and silent we may be led,
like sheep, to the Slaughter.” George Washington, 1783
Many, many people believe that spreading COVID falsehoods can be so dangerous that censorship is absolutely necessary.
This view happens to be the central refuge of liars.
It
turns out that big-time liars always want to censor their
opponents. It’s the only leg they have to stand on. In an atmosphere of
free discourse, they would fall.
And
of course, who decides what is false and what is true? Who hangs out
that shingle and makes judgments that affect the lives of millions of
people?
There
is an astounding level of ignorance here: many people believe “the
truth” should carry the day. Once it is established, there is no need to
permit freedom of speech.
These
people have a very low ceiling of understanding. They’ve never explored
what freedom of speech is all about. They’re citizens in name only.
“If someone says the vaccine is harmful, people will be dissuaded from taking it. That would be dangerous.”
Putting
aside the fact that the vaccine is a destroyer, free speech implies
living with danger. The remedy is intelligence and knowledge. The only
workable remedy is raising people’s ability to consider all sorts of
judgments, opinions, and conclusions, without being irrationally swayed
to one side or another.
Otherwise, we have Fascists on parade. Mobs of clueless ignoramuses.
Once
upon a time, there was a never-never land called Dolt with millions of
traffic lights. A writer penned, “Always cross the street when you’re
facing a red light. Stay on the curb when the light is green.”
Outrage followed. The writer was censored for dangerous speech.
The
rulers and their followers were so impressed with this victory, they
established a national task force to root out falsehoods of all kinds
and censor them. Pursuing this path, the society turned into a police
state. And the majority of people approved.
We’re heading in that direction now.
“Strange
it is that men should admit the validity of the arguments for free
speech but object to their being ‘pushed to an extreme,’ not seeing that
unless the reasons are good for an extreme case, they are not good for
any case.” John Stuart Mill, 1859
It’s
no surprise that modern civilization, intellectually based on a fool’s
version of “science,” has built science as a new religion, with all the
restrictions that organized religions have enforced.
After
all, when the teachings of a man called Jesus were incorporated into a
powerful Church, that Church set about censoring, imprisoning,
torturing, and burning dissidents. As if Jesus would have approved.
Centuries
later, people were shocked to learn this Church was rife with pedophile
priests. I would be shocked to learn the Church isn’t filled with
pedophiles.
Many
are the OTHER secret crimes the men in power today are committing,
given that they’re already relentlessly pushing a highly destructive
vaccine into the arms of a billion people.
They HAVE TO demand censorship of dissidents.
So
no, I’m not surprised that the press and social media and politicians
are trying to censor COVID information which doesn’t serve their
purposes.
Consider
this. A week ago, at a standard FDA conference to discuss recommending
COVID boosters, several scientists testified that convincing data to
support the additional shots were entirely lacking. Two leading in-house
FDA scientists had just resigned because they opposed the push for
boosters. And finally, the FDA committee as a whole rejected the present
need for boosters.
Yet
the following day, the head of the NIH, and the White House itself,
ignored the FDA and said that boosters were coming. Even the FDA was
effectively censored.
There
are thousands of scientists all over the world who strenuously oppose
the official COVID narrative, and they can’t even get a glance from
editors of medical journals, when they submit papers.
Talking
news heads are feeding the population fast-food COVID science---a
manufactured product consisting of synthetic bullshit about cases,
deaths, the virus, the vaccine. It’s cardboard. And no dissenters
allowed.
Since
I stopped writing for mainstream and so-called alternative outlets in
the early 1990s, I’ve gone my own way. As of this writing, I’m still
here. My videos have been taken down. My site was hacked. We restored
it. I’m still here.
I take freedom of speech seriously. No matter what.
Only
low scum want to censor us. They make an absurd pretense of claiming
WE’RE liars. But we don’t want to censor THEM. That’s called a clue.
Right
now, as I write this, Australian men with balls, union construction
workers, are staging an insurrection against their union bosses, who are
colluding with corrupt politicians to enforce COVID restrictions and
vaccine mandates. The workers are facing off against cops in the
street. This is one of the biggest stories in the world.
The
New York Times and the Washington Post and the news networks should be
leading with it and covering breaking developments wall to
wall. Instead, they’re downplaying and hiding it. These news whores and
their pimps are holding the line for Fascism.
I’ll
close, for now, with this story. Months ago, an “alternative
journalist” approached me, urging me to stop saying the pandemic virus
doesn’t exist.
I
sized up the complaint. It seemed to have several roots. One, I was
“confusing people,” who couldn’t decide what to believe. Two, there were
far more important COVID issues that needed to be explored. And three,
that journalist was receiving emails citing my work and asking for
clarification---and this was bothersome, especially when the emailers
agreed with me.
The journalist off-handedly and blithely assumed I would obey and stop writing about the existence of the virus.
Of
course, I reacted oppositely. I always do. I dig deeper and farther
along the track I’m pursuing. In this case, I found and wrote about more
evidence for the non-existence of the virus.
That
issue happens to be CENTRAL and BASIC to the whole COVID story. And if
writing about it confuses some people, that’s what happens when free
speech is still possible. There’s nothing wrong with confusion. It’s
productive. It’s supposed to be a prelude to more profound
understanding.
I’m not running some sort of operation that seeks uniformity.
That journalist was trying to censor me by having me censor myself.
No dice.
“He who stifles free discussion, secretly doubts whether what he professes to believe is really true.” Wendell Phillips, 1870
Those
fools who can only “opt for the truth” will never grasp the meaning of
the 1st Amendment. They’ll never see the freight train of Fascism
coming.
~~~
(The link to this article posted on my blog is here.)
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