Sunday, August 30, 2020

Coup D'état by the Labcoats

aka: BULLIES & BULLY Pulpit!

Have we noticed that mask dominance has become the obsession of the officials and the COVID narrative. Mask obedience has become the 100 yard marker in a marathon race toward total domination.

Headlines
Delta has banned nearly 250 passengers for refusing to wear masks1
WestJet to remove unmasked passengers from flights and ban them for a year2
United Extends Mask Requirements to Airports3
Walmart will require masks in all its Canadian stores starting Aug. 124
10 Biggest Chains Now Mandate Masks for Shoppers5
And the list goes on and on, because people, companies, cities, counties, entire regions are falling like wooden dominoes to the Stanley Milgram labcoats. Milgram's 1961 study was a fascinating investigation into understanding obedience to perceived “authority” in the face of common sense, conscience, and discomfort. But Milgram's study has been twisted and abused – weaponized. Are we so blind to the pre-2020 science on masks that we think there is only one unified observation – that of the 2020 demanding labcoats? that other qualified, knowledgeable, reasonable labcoats who disagree must be shamed, shunned, disparaged, banned, threatened? That in itself tells the story:

If you can't stand your “truth” being questioned, it MUST be questioned and your “science” MUST be suspect and subjected to the closest scrutiny.

The propaganda of labeling and shaming of dissidents is also escalating. Those who question the confusing, contradicting, flip-flopping tyrannical narrative of this “pandemic” are being characterized as enemies of the common good by complicit or compromised players, when just the opposite is true. The recent favorite mantra is headlined thus:
● ‘Cynical spreaders’: 1 in 5 Canadians doing little to curb coronavirus spread, survey says6
Another “mantra” has been created from the supposed study / analysis that non-maskers are possible sociopaths:
Sociopathic traits linked to non-compliance with mask guidelines and other COVID-19 containment measures7
Sociopaths Are More Likely to Refuse Wearing a Mask and Other COVID-19 Measures, Study Finds8
Maskers on the other hand have been given the positive label “infection fighters,” when in truth and science, they are infection incubators. Everything is being turned upside down and inside out as the complicit, compromised, or naive labcoats flood the zone with an agenda of total herd obedience.

When the bought-and-paid-for MSM floods the world with the same sound bites of 1) believe & obey the labcoats; and 2) police & report the “disobedient,” it is time to realize almost nothing in their flood can be trusted.

So, here is another (revised) PDF to hand out or mail to store managers, elected officials, church leaders, friends, family, strangers, or anyone who continues to accept the “official” COVID narrative (IF you can do so without getting assaulted). Strange how suddenly the believers in all the new rules have become de facto police for the officials. It's all part of the scenario where the few use the willing or naive many to accomplish what the few never could do on their own. The many who could never have imagined in the past that they would tell strangers what they should wear on their face have been fear-triggered into tyrannical demands.

Thus, WE, too, must flood the zone – with a counterflood exposing the lies, deceptions, agendas, and profiteering (in power and gain) that lies in, around, above, and below this orchestrated coup d'état by the labcoats many of whom will not benefit in the end for their support of those few insiders who live and dictate without conscience.



This PDF is broader in scope than the one from July 30, and can be emailed as is, or hard copied back-to-back and cut-in-half for passing out. Or the PDF orientation at the end of the footnotes can be used full page with the 1984 “shock” image from https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2020/07/suggested-protestflooding-zone.html copied on the reverse and then folded in-half.

In any event, we must counter this coup with all our energy and intellect, remembering always to not render evil for the evil that is being done.9

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1. https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/delta-airlines-no-fly-list-tops-240/index.html
2. https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/westjet-covid-masks-pandemic-airlines-safety-1.5703063
3. https://hub.united.com/2020-07-22-united-extends-mask-requirements-to-airports-2646449310.html
4. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/walmart-mandatory-masks-policy-canada-1.5678142
5. https://www.aarp.org/health/healthy-living/info-2020/retailers-require-face-masks-coronavirus.html
6. https://globalnews.ca/news/7281456/canadians-curbing-coronavirus-survey/
7. https://www.psypost.org/2020/08/sociopathic-traits-linked-to-non-compliance-with-mask-guidelines-and-other-covid-19-containment-measures-57773
8. https://www.newsweek.com/sociopaths-more-likely-refuse-wear-masks-1526985
9. New Testament | Romans 12:17 ~ Recompense to no man evil for evil.
New Testament | 1 Thessalonians 5:15 ~ See that none render evil for evil unto any man;
New Testament | 1 Peter 3:9 ~ Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing;
New Testament | Matthew 5:39 ~ But I [Jesus] say unto you, That ye resist not evil [with evil]:




Thursday, August 20, 2020

It Can't Happen Here?!


Eighty-five years ago (1935), the American author Sinclair Lewis published a political novel titled, It Can't Happen Here. This is Wiki's description:
The novel was published during the heyday of fascism in Europe, which was reported on by Dorothy Thompson, Lewis' wife. The novel describes the rise of Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip, a demagogue who is elected President of the United States, after fomenting fear and promising drastic economic and social reforms while promoting a return to patriotism and "traditional" values. After his election, Windrip takes complete control of the government and imposes totalitarian rule with the help of a ruthless paramilitary force, in the manner of European fascists such as Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini. The novel's plot centers on journalist Doremus Jessup's opposition to the new regime and his subsequent struggle against it as part of a liberal rebellion.1
I would suggest that totalitarian rule HAS happened here, BUT with a twist. The twist is this:

Liberal / conservative DNA have conjoined — a conception of opposites giving gestation to a WO of total domination whichever side "wins." The Republican half spouts patriotism and traditional values, while under the sheets it is anything but. The Democrats spout equality, fraternity, and social justice while behind the blackout curtain they, like the Republicans, sell everything and everyone for the dream of increasing power, gain, and glory. Both are totalitarian to the core. Both stage their opposing scripts like Punch & Judy2 shows before the masses who face-off in psy-oped rage (egged on by crisis actors) while the hidden puppet-masters manoeuvre arms and legs, heads and speech at will.

To the puppet-masters everyone is a useful prop — rabble-rousers in the making; gangsters of opposition (birthing gang / counter-gang strategies3): maskers v. anti-maskers; vaxxers v. anti-vaxxers; trackers v. anti-trackers; believers v. skeptics; police v. defunders; obedients v. disobedients; sleepers v. conspiracy analysts; and on and on.

Lewis saw the inevitable déjà vu outcomes (Right or Left) of "well-intended" rabble-rousers :
[Doremus] recalled an article in which Neil Carothers asserted that the “rabble-rousers” of America in the mid-’ thirties had a long and dishonorable ancestry of prophets who had felt called upon to stir up the masses to save the world, and save it in the prophets’ own way, and do it right now, and most violently: Peter the Hermit, the ragged, mad, and stinking monk who, to rescue the (unidentified) tomb of the Savior from undefined “outrages by the pagans,” led out on the Crusades some hundreds of thousands of European peasants, to die on the way of starvation, after burning, raping, and murdering fellow peasants in foreign villages all along the road.
There was John Ball who “in 1381 was a share-the-wealth advocate; he preached equality of wealth, the abolition of class distinctions, and what would now be called communism,” and whose follower, Wat Tyler, looted London, with the final gratifying result that afterward Labor was by the frightened government more oppressed than ever. And nearly three hundred years later, Cromwell’s methods of expounding the sweet winsomeness of Purity and Liberty were shooting, slashing, clubbing, starving, and burning people, and after him the workers paid for the spree of bloody righteousness with blood. Brooding about it, fishing in the muddy slew of recollection which most Americans have in place of a clear pool of history, Doremus was able to add other names of well-meaning rabble-rousers:
Marat and Danton and Robespierre, who helped shift the control of France from the moldy aristocrats to the stuffy, centime-pinching shopkeepers. Lenin and Trotzky who gave to the illiterate Russian peasants the privileges of punching a time clock and of being as learned, gay, and dignified as the factory hands in Detroit; and Lenin’s man, Borodin, who extended this boon to China. And that William Randolph Hearst who in 1898 was the Lenin of Cuba and switched the mastery of the golden isle from the cruel Spaniards to the peaceful, unarmed, brotherly-loving Cuban politicians of today.
The American Moses, Dowie, and his theocracy at Zion City, Illinois, where the only results of the direct leadership of God— as directed and encouraged by Mr. Dowie and by his even more spirited successor, Mr. Voliva— were that the holy denizens were deprived of oysters and cigarettes and cursing, and died without the aid of doctors instead of with it, and that the stretch of road through Zion City incessantly caused the breakage of springs on the cars of citizens from Evanston, Wilmette, and Winnetka, which may or not have been a desirable Good Deed.
Cecil Rhodes, his vision of making South Africa a British paradise, and the actuality of making it a graveyard for British soldiers.
All the Utopias— Brook Farm, Robert Owen’s sanctuary of chatter, Upton Sinclair’s Helicon Hall— and their regulation end in scandal, feuds, poverty, griminess, disillusion. All the leaders of Prohibition, so certain that their cause was world-regenerating that for it they were willing to shoot down violators.
It seemed to Doremus that the only rabble-rouser to build permanently had been Brigham Young, with his bearded Mormon captains, who not only turned the Utah desert into an Eden but made it pay and kept it up.
Pondered Doremus: Blessed be they who are not Patriots and Idealists, and who do not feel they must dash right in and Do Something About It, something so immediately important that all doubters must be liquidated— tortured— slaughtered! Good old murder, that since the slaying of Abel by Cain has always been the new device by which all oligarchies and dictators have, for all future ages to come, removed opposition!4
How much has happened already? Just look around. Listen to the exposés, the witnesses. Consider the new laws. Consider the threats, fines, shaming, censorship, smears, bullying, harassment, intimidation, arrests, unlawful prosecutions, convictions, disappearances, countless impossible suicides, secret murders, and on and on.

Let us admit: It can and is happening here at this very hour. Trump is no more a savior than Biden, Harris, Pelosi, Hillary or whatever other counter-force should arise to take the "win." How much more are we going to allow?? How long will we insist that this is a two-sided show when, in real time, the DNA has become a single, twisted strand?

Perhaps it's time to review:
Tragedy and Hope 101: The Illusion of Justice, Freedom, and Democracy by Joseph Plummer / Carroll Quigley5

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1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Can%27t_Happen_Here (footnotes ommitted)
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punch_and_Judy
3. For a discussion on the gang v. counter-gang strategy see Thursday Trio with Professor Hamamoto and George Webb. 081320 (McDuff: Kennedy's Man to Smash the CIA | August 13, 2020 | Time - begin about min. 25:00 of 58:41) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3WkkvF-ps8
NOTE: I see these astute men as being blind to the real Trump despite their otherwise valuable information. On the other hand, the Democrats also seem utterly blind to the hypocrisy of their own leaders.
4. Lewis, Sinclair. It Can't Happen Here (Signet Classics) (Kindle Locations 1926-1953). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. (Bold emphasis added)
5. https://www.joeplummer.com/ (free audio available here) | See also: http://tragedyandhope.com/

Monday, August 10, 2020

Anarchy: Four Fatal Flaws?


(In Response to “The Most Dangerous Superstition”1)

More and more we are encountering both theoretical and practising neo-anarchists.2 A recent encounter was through the words of Larken Rose. He has many accurate observations and criticisms of authority, and of statists, but like other anarchists, his conclusions and prescriptions contain fatal flaws, (in my view).

Fatal #1: Misunderstanding Human Nature
Three times, when critiquing “statists,” Larken accuses them of “a profound misunderstanding of human nature”3  The irony is: this phrase may be Larken's most fatal flaw — a massive blind spot to the observable science and history of human nature and to the will that drives millions to pursue power, gain, and glory, often without conscience, and under the cloak of secret dealings and agreements.4 This human passion for power, gain, and glory has plagued mankind since the “days of Cain” and though Larken may or may not believe in Biblical history, there are unending examples in secular history and even current headlines to reconsider Larken's apparent belief that volunteerists and free-markets can readily handle this obsessive will to power, gain, and glory that corrupts most of what it pursues or protects. The anarchist's delusion is reminiscent of Ayn Rand and her Galt autonomous zone5 or the recent CHAZ/CHOP in Seattle,6 or the myriad off-shoots that are being birthed, monied, co-opted, and micro-managed by the hidden pursuers and protectors of power and gain. One of Larken's suggestions is this:
“If they [volunteerist, non-authoritarian protectors privately hired under the anarchist system] ever acted as aggressors, retribution against them would be certain and swift. In a population that has given up the superstition of "authority," any group of protectors which decided to become a group of extortionists, thugs and tyrants would not be "voted" against, or sued, or complained about to some "authority." They would be shot.”7
I suggest that critical questions for Larken and associates to consider are: Who decides the guilt? On what evidence? Or is it all decided by his suggested preemptive warning system:
"I believe that if you do this, I have the right to respond in this way"8?
Which brings us to a collateral massive blind spot — the failure to consider that almost all humans manifest (in varying times and amounts) myopic, self-serving, mis-perceiving, misconceiving, self-defensive, self-justifying, easily offended, thoughts and behaviors.9

SO IF, as a general “rule,” we humans see and hear less than half of what there is to see and hear in any given event or circumstance, what hired, free-market protector could safely trust an individual or a group presentation of “facts”? We witness every day, on social and broadcast media, how people can observe the same event and then report such diverse interpretations that one would never know they were reporting a shared event. YouTube comments witness the same. We are all at such differing levels and degrees of maturity, awareness, and mental health, so how can we possibly imagine to act in justice without some broader way to adjudicate truth or its closest approximation.

And must we not consider the shadow side of human nature explored by many psychologists / philosophers / scientists and revealed in numerous experiments such as the Stanley Milgram one and the Zimbardo one (SPE)?10 If we are not aware of the nature and disposition of almost all men and women to abuse power or acquiesce to its abuse, we set ourselves up to become unwitting power abusers in this world where we will be continually confronted: 1) with people-without-conscience (PWOCs); 2) with enticements to become leaders and authorities to manage PWOC and other offenses; and 3) with our own unacknowledged dark side. That's the nature of human nature and this world.

Fatal #2: The power of money to corrupt
Another apparent blind spot seems to be the power of money to corrupt, not just government, but private business, service, and individuals. What incentive, considering the reality of human nature, would motivate a “volunteerist, non-authoritarian protector privately hired” to inquire too aggressively into the justifications for retribution of a perceived wrong, especially when s/he knows that some volunteerist down the street is aggressively competing for more business? The corrupting power of money has been the lament of thousands of the wise and not so wise as seen here: Money Woes11

Fatal #3: The myth of informed consumers, open competition, and free markets
Larken writes:
... in a truly free market, with informed consumers and open competition, corruption and crime would not pay, and businesses would be unable to insulate themselves from the consequences of their irresponsibility.12
But how informed is anyone in the current state of PR, propaganda, psy-op, competition, deceptive advertising, and the endless pursuit and persuasion of consumers? Yes, the unholy alliances between big business and government accounts for much of the present corruption of the economy, but the nature of many people makes them vulnerable to the many PWOCs that gravitate to opportunities for power, gain, and glory. As Larken acknowledges:
Most people simply do not want the hassles and the stress that comes with confrontations, and especially do not want the risks that come with violent confrontations. Many people "turn the other cheek" quite often, not necessarily because they are patient and loving, but simply to avoid being bothered with timewasting, futile bickering. Many, when they encounter someone doing something obnoxious, simply "let it slide," because they have more important things to worry about. There is, in most people, a strong tendency to "get along," even if just for one's own benefit.13
And so free-market PWOCs, even without government support / protection, can conceal their crimes and almost endlessly repeat business deceptions and failures upon new, unsuspecting consumers and communities who let things slide because it's too much hassle and frustration.

So, if the competitive free market is touted as the foundation of utopian anarchism, all I can do is repeat myself with sorrow: Classic Capitalism for Romantics?14

Fatal #4: Discounting or ignoring the WE
As I see it, anarchism severs the social half from the individual half of the human quadrant of reality promoting a ME mentality that appeals to the worst aspects of the natural man15 and fails to acknowledge that in some instances the whole (the sum) of society is greater than its parts or even the partial sum of them. The delicate balance between ME and WE is not helped by ignoring the needs or realities of the WE that surrounds the ME.

It appears that neo-anarchists are trying to impose a utopia of higher-dimension human evolution / enlightenment upon a mixed dimension world filled with all sorts of personalities and moral perspectives from naive believers to sociopaths / psychopaths. Neo-anarchists seem to imagine that free-markets, open competition, and self-defense can control the worst of human nature when science and history prove otherwise. Consider all the 'gurus' who have led willing people into destructive paths when they supposedly began their causes with the best of philosophies, intentions and motives. And consider all the sycophants and citizens who have blindly, trustingly empowered authority figures to roll-out tyrannies such as we are witnessing on a global scale here in 2020. And consider how rapidly a leaderless vacuum fills with diverging opinions and wanna-be leaders.

A Mental Reset?
A possible (partial) solution to unjustified authority has been around for 2000 years. It requires a mental reset. A reset where “leaders” are not authoritarians with power to dictate, control, demand, legislate, but where they are contracted (and monitored) as servants to do an extremely limited number of responsibilities — not as authorities, but as servants of the society recognizing that
8 ... the law is good, if a man use it lawfully;
9 Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
10 For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;16
However, the servant paradigm of leadership is only a partial answer, because as long as the natural man exists, there will be PWOCs and others seeking / abusing power, gain, and glory and followers who purposely or naively support them. Thus the need for appropriate, but limited law in the spirit of 1 Timothy 1 above and with the understanding that
“whatsoever is more or less than the constitutional law of the land cometh of evil.”17

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1. Larken Rose. The Most Dangerous Superstition. Unknown. Kindle Edition.
2. Traditionally, anarchism was defined as: n. 1  the political theory that government and law are unnecessary and harmful because they prevent individuals from reaching their greatest development.  2  lawlessness or terrorism, BUT the neo-anarchists, as I term them, believe in some laws and rules that justify their self-defence (or volunteerist, leaderless group action) when defending rights and freedoms that they perceive have been offended or infringed. In their view, when someone harms another, it does not confer any authority over the offender by the victim; it merely triggers natural rights consequence which the victim can choose to apply. In other words, each self is sovereign, subject only to consequence for harming another if the harmed one chooses consequence or hires another (in the free-market system) to apply consequence.
3. Rose, Larken. The Most Dangerous Superstition (p. 216 & 224x2). Unknown. Kindle Edition.
4. Adam Smith: "People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices." (The Wealth of Nations, p. 148—I.X.I) See also: https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2019/10/conspiracy-deny-ers-in-nutshell.html
5. GAZ? as in GAZlighting. See https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2020/06/gazlighting-by-anarchists.html
6. CHOP/CHAZ: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Hill_Autonomous_Zone
7. Rose, Larken. The Most Dangerous Superstition (p. 223). Unknown. Kindle Edition.
8. Ibid., (p. 213). Unknown. Kindle Edition.
9. Consider, amongst many other “human nature” studies, Robert Greene's, The Laws of Human Nature. which details amongst others:
   ● The Law of Covetousness
   ● The Law of Shortsightedness
   ● The Law of Defensiveness
   ● The Law of Envy
   ● The Law of Grandiosity
   ● The Law of Conformity
   ● The Law of Fickleness
   ● The Law of Aggression
   ● The Law of Generational Myopia
10. https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2020/04/real-life-milgram-spe.html
11. https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2009/07/money-woes.html
12. Rose, Larken. The Most Dangerous Superstition (pp. 224-225). Unknown. Kindle Edition.
13. Ibid., (p. 228). Unknown. Kindle Edition.
14. https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2019/03/classic-capitalism-for-romantics.html
      https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2009/04/vc-bill-of-goods.html
15. https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2010/05/natural-man.html
16. New Testament | 1 Timothy 1:8-10
17. Doctrine and Covenants | Section 98:5-9 ~ ... that law of the land which is constitutional, supporting that principle of freedom in maintaining rights and privileges, belongs to all mankind, and is justifiable before me. Therefore, I, the Lord, justify you, and your brethren of my church, in befriending that law which is the constitutional law of the land; And as pertaining to law of man, whatsoever is more or less than this [the constitutional law of the land], cometh of evil. I, the Lord God, make you free, therefore ye are free indeed; and the law also maketh you free. Nevertheless, when the wicked rule the people mourn. (Bold emphasis added.)

 
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