You quoted Bonhoeffer "There are people who are intellectually agile who are stupid, while intellectually inept people may be anything but stupid. We discover this to our surprise in certain situations." So true. What a brilliant and good man. One's reaction to the COVID scamdemic was the best IQ test I've seen in my lifetime. Which is why I can't take seriously anything a person who got the jab says. Malone and Aseem Malhotra come to mind. There are plenty of others on our side who fell for the obvious BS. Remember how easily fooled they were.
While I actually DID get the first two jabs I agree with most all you say. Some of us, though foolishly accepted the Kool Aid, woke up finally, and now, refuse to comply. . . while regretting.
As far as being fooled, I can say I was, partially, but mostly I just did not see anything coming of the media narrative.
Foolish as it sounds, I just did not want to . . . wait for it. . . wear a mask at the local lumber store!
Exactly. Convid scamdemic finally opened my eyes to how the Amish and Mennonites are able to see the endless war nonsense for exactly what it is. Evil men determined to cause intentional harm in direct opposition to God's commandments and the teachings of his son Jesus Christ.
in the wonderful book The Dirty Life, the author says that when you buy horses or tools at auction, if they are amish horses or amish tools, you know that they will be good, that they were treated right and well cared for.
i've spent some time on amish farms and saw horses very well cared for.
I have a friend who's father is a veterinarian in Amish country and he says the same thing! Horses are as essential and valuable to the Amish as our cars are to us. And they take very good care of them.
A reporter asked an Amish man why the Amish are so healthy, and don't get vaxxinated. The Amish man replied "We Amish are healthy and don't get vaxxinated because we don't have television."
Do they treat them badly? RSPCA was formed in London in 1824 to help enforce anti cruelty laws relating to horses and livestock since so much cruelty was witnessed in the street - including beating horses to death in a rage. I sometimes wonder what it would be like our main method of transportation was alive and required care. I hope we would be patient and look after our animals well. The problem is that many humans are so embittered by the constant economic battle of all against all and often take it out on whoever or whatever they can.
Yes, there is a horse rescue in Virginia that I follow that go to horse auctions and they have post numerous stories about Amish bringing their used up horses to slaughter auctions. They are overworked and underfed etc. I'm not all of them treat them that way. At least I hope so. I think the insensitivity comes from a Mind virus and unhealed trauma. Just as this article has brought up.
you risk ostracizing powerful allies by demanding ideological purity. the majority of people were ok with the childhood vaccine schedule (safe and effective), for example, and some, because of personal experience (an autistic child), converted to "anti-vaxxers." then there are the late comers who held onto their pro-vaccine beliefs until the covid overreach caused them to change their views. some people took the covid vaccine and suffered an "event" and are now vocal opposition. shall we toss them aside because they didn't join the team early enough?
my suspicion of vaccines goes back to the early 70's when, as a psych major, we were taught that autism was caused by a cold, rejecting mother, giving many fathers the justification they needed to flee a bad situation and try again with a "kinder" woman. i thought it was nonsense, although "settled science," and decided on a less authoritarian profession. in 1976, my cousin's wife spent a year in a wheelchair with GBS after taking the swine flu vaccine that was later taken off the market. you can show me all the data in the world, but NOTHING will ever top that up close and personal experience!
Malhotra became convinced that the covid shot killed his father. Malone has sacrificed a comfortable life breeding horses for ridicule and being written out of wikipedia (a long time ago i read the wikipedia page on mRNA and he was named as patent holder of the lipid nano-particle process; a bit later, the wording was changed to "many scientists contributed to the technology" or something vague). Malone also suffered life threatening side effects.
i'm thrilled to have such powerful and credentialed voices on "our" side. why would anyone listen to me, a theatrical costumer, ex psych major, who lost my career of 40 years and most of my "friends" because i refused the covid vaccine? Malone and Malhotra bring some credibility to the cause. Malone knows how government "works" and i'm thrilled that RFKjr has put him on the ACIP committee.
i even take a fiendish pleasure in welcoming Dr Paul Offit to the club of "anti-vaxxers;" after all he advised his 20ish year old son to skip the booster, which according to the updated Webster's dictionary definition, makes him an "anti-vaxxer."
I don't demand ideological purity. I sure as heck don't want to cast converts aside. What kind of IQ would that indicate? I just think when somebody failed to see through what was going on, and thought the jabs passed the risk/benefit evaluation with what we knew at the time, it makes no sense to think they are nearly as worthy of taking seriously as any of the millions of us who passed the test. That does not mean they can't be effective members of the side I'm on. Of course they should be welcomed and valued. We should not forget the poor judgement they demonstrated is all I'm saying. It's easy to see why Malhotra was fooled. He doesn't think things through at all. I watched him on Rogan and he made 3 glaring contradictions that showed how he thinks, or doesn't I should say. It's been a few years ago, I think I remember two, but this is too long already to relate them. Long interview, I probably missed some other inanities. You seem smart enough to spot them too if you watched it. Nice post, great writing skills, I agree with everything you said, except for jumping to the conclusion I want to cast anybody aside. I took psych courses around '70 and remember the same autism dogma.
I think I’ll go back and listen to that Rogan and see if I can spot what you mentioned. So no offense meant. I’ve been banging this drum in isolation for so long that I’m thrilled to have millions of new “members” even if they aren’t “perfect.”
I’ve been skeptical of conventional medicine since childhood so pretty much everyone got to the party later than me. I guess that makes me more tolerant. Some people take longer to see things that others find obvious.
BTW, i did re-listen to the Rogan/Malhotra podcast. at one point he said that the spike protein could still be in the body for up to 4 months. i felt he should have said "we don't know how long the spike protein lasts in the body but we've found it still there after 4 months which is as long as the study lasted."
the 2nd thing he said at 1:39 was that it was a psychological barrier to considering vaccines as possibly harmful and not an intellectual one and i'm not sure i agree with that. i think it's more of an act of faith.
now i'm thinking i may have to listen to it again!
i remember the first Rogan i ever listened to. he was talking to Sanjay Gupta and i marveled that he somehow managed to treat Gupta with the upmost respect while still not taking any shit from him and calling out all his inconsistencies (of which there were many!). i thought "this is a very genuine person with a rare skill." i would have spit in Gupta's face!
i listened to that podcast 3 times in a row that day and called my brother and told him to listen to it.
you may wonder how i had that much time. i had been hit by a texting driver while biking to a strength training session and my leg was in a cast. i felt i had recovered enough to try a bit of sewing and had picked up the bed skirt i was making for our guest room which was in a pile in my sewing room where i had left it before the accident. i couldn't really do much in terms of machine sewing but i had lots of hand work to do.
i'm the kind of person who goes into a trance when i sew. the house could catch fire and i wouldn't notice. so i sat there, my hands occupied and my ears full, and listened for 9 hours straight!
One contradiction I remember was he trashed the value of medical studies as being agenda and money-driven, so basically worthless. So it's unfortunate that they are used to justify misguided recommendations and policies. Then he proceeded to cite studies to "prove" a position he was staking out. I agree with him studies are nearly all junk, and I agreed with his position. But the disconnect I found startling.
Another thing was - he did a good job of illustrating how the government can't be trusted on dietary guidance, medical recommendations, and policy-making in general, all for very good reasons. Then, he proceeded to say the government should be levying taxes on unhealthy food like sugar-laden beverages. A 180 if I ever saw one. He seemed oblivious that the very same government, given that power, would have taxed eggs, red meat, butter, and other out-of-fashion foods due to the corrupt recommendations at the time. Not to mention the slippery-slope that invites, even if they correctly identify a harmful food. But the contradiction is what really bothered me.
I forget the third now but it was similar - basing an argument on a premise he'd just debunked as useless (saying studies can't be trusted, then saying "studies show that". Or staking a position (the government is not fit to dictate guidelines) then directly contradicting that position, (saying the government should be trusted to pick some foods as "losers" that we should tax).
I saw these as evidence of incoherent thinking. They jumped out at me as nothing a smart person would do. Which is why he failed the COVID/MRNA IQ test, and got the jab, despite being very smart in many ways. He's an effective advocate of a lot of what I believe. Discrepancies like these slip by most people.
You are smart to do strength training, most don't. Any exercise is better than none, but that's the most valuable, and best reward per effort expended IMO.
This is an elitist attitude with a massive amount of Duning Kreuger layered on top. Your dismissal of the power of propaganda, especially coming from a government that was pretty much in bi-partisan support of "the jab" is naive and shows an incredible lack of compassion and, frankly, narcissism. I am surprised that 18% of people refused, frankly, myself and my family being among of them. But for a brief period we considered doing it and, if not for my family being in a fortunate enough position to financially be able to avoid the pressure of being fired from work if we did not going along with it, we may well have had to. The number of people both financially and mentally strong enough to avoid being scared and/or pressured into it is certainly fewer than 18%. So, you need to step back and reassess your arrogance.
You are the one who sounds arrogant. This was an obvious scam. You didn't have to be particularly smart to see through it. Just not a sycophantic herd animal. We are all susceptible to propaganda and scare tactics. The difference is some see what's going on and have the insight and strength of character to resist. I sympathize with those forced to choose between getting the jab and losing a job. Risk/benefit was clearly on the side of not jabbing, until you add the cost of losing your job. Factoring in the known severe cost of job loss against unknown dangers of the jab, getting the jab was a reasonable decision for many. More than a few faked it, a better choice IMO. You are entitled to think being easily fooled by obvious propaganda is not a personal failing. I'm entitled to think the opposite and you'll never convince me otherwise. I give a pass to those young enough to lack life experience to see how things work in this world. 25 or so maybe? The cutoff age can be debated. You misspelled both parts of Dunning-Kruger in your attempt to appear learned.
well, try to remember that this was possibly the largest, best funded propaganda campaign in history and many people got swept up into it. all Western governments just suddenly turned in lockstep. remember Macron saying he would make life as hard as possible for his citizens? and shops in Germany with posters in their windows saying "Gas the unvaccinated!" or the irony of the Holocaust Museum asking for papers!!!?
people did go crazy! not that i will ever forgive them or trust them again. just because someone tells you to drive off a cliff, doesn't mean you have to do it and you know they will do it the next time the government launches a propaganda campaign.
it helps that i saw Lee Harvey Oswald killed on live television as a 9 year old and said out loud "well, that was convenient." haven't believed anything the government has said since that moment.
there was a horrific moment when we were at the farmers market. i asked a woman if we could share her table (large outdoor 6 seater). she said yes and i sat down and made small talk. then my boyfriend came with our pizza and she said "i have to ask, are you both vaccinated?"
my boyfriend, who is very nice, deferred and said we would eat in our car. i started screaming at the top of my lungs: "YOU FUCKING CUNT! HOW DARE YOU! IT'S NOT YOUR TABLE, etc" i was yelling all the way while John dragged me to the car. he was mortified.
My wife read your post and said "That's my kind of gal!". Your boyfriend sounds as lucky to have you as I am for my wife of 45 years. Cat Stevens' "hard headed woman" comes to my mind all the time. I saw Oswald killed too - I was 12. Same thoughts. IMO, that this was such an over-the-top propaganda campaign, rather than being an excuse for falling for it, was another gigantic red flag. As if more were needed.
You contradict yourself about 10 times in your own post. "Obvious scam...didn't have to be particularly smart to see through it...we are all susceptible to propaganda and scare tactics...sympathize with those forced to choose...being easily fooled by obvious propaganda is not a personal failing..." You sound like every politician who has ever existed. You are clearly a disingenuous, narcissistic dimwit. The universe has a way of dealing with people like you and its name is karma. Keep tempting fate and riding that big ego.
Oh, and did you mean "learned"? You misspelled it.
See how fast the universe reacts to people like you?
i'm sure for a lot of people, it was very hard to resist, especially if they weren't in a financial place that enabled them to resist. i had structured my life so that i was able to survive financially although nothing can compensate for the heart break of being fired after 40 years from the career i was born for.
perhaps it's because we don't have a television and so weren't watching those "death counts" every day.
there were days when my boyfriend would taunt me: "yeah, you're so principled but what will you do when a government official comes to our house and says he will seize it if you don't get vaccinated? will you be so tough then?"
i would burst into tears and scream at him to stop. let's face it, if we get to that point, the United States is over.
in his defense, he was on to the lab leak a few months before i came around and had been stockpiling IVM since early 2020. his job also paid way more than mine so by not getting vaccinated, he would lose much more in dollars than i would. of course, his identity was not tied up in his work the way mine was and he did not ultimately take the shot (good thing or he would have had to move out of the house!) and often thanks me for taking such a hard stand against it.
Yes, forcing people to choose between taking an untested, experimental shot and losing their job is the exact sort of thing that was supposed to be abolished forever after the Nuremberg trials yet here we are in the country that helped author the Nuremberg codes still allowing this sort of coercion. The SCOTUS and its scumbag federalist advocates like Alan Dershowitz use one particular historical case to bypass the rights of the individual to choose not to be injected: Jacobson v Massachusetts. That case was decided under extreme panic over smallpox and the falsified data supporting the obviously (now) lies about the effectiveness of the smallpox vaccine. It is long past time for Jacobson to be burned at the stake and the obvious lies of vaccinology - a pseudoscience if there ever was one - to be relegated to the waste bin of so much other medical hokum like leeching, phrenology and cigarettes are healthy.
i have a funny story about Jacobson. i was spending the weekend with friends in their off grid survivalist community when my next door neighbor called me. he's a retired medical doctor AND a lawyer and he was on a rant over the phone saying that any parents who wouldn't get the covid vaccine for themselves should have their children removed by CPS (thank god he's not in charge of anything). then he added that the government had the "Right" to forcibly inject a person and i said "ah yes, Jacobson v Mass, 1905." well he was stunned! "did you ever study law?" he asked me, "how do you know about Jacobson?"
i impressed him by explaining that Jacobson was used as precedent in Buck v Bell, 1927.
now maybe, if he wasn't such a dick, he might have been able to figure out that a mere theatrical costumer would only know about such historic supreme court decisions if she was an anti-vaxxer and made it a point to know about such cases.
about a year later, when the next booster came out, he called to inform me where to get it, if i wanted one, no lines, no waiting; by then i guess they couldn't give it away! he said that it wasn't essential anymore since it was now known that the vaccine didn't stop infection or transmission so it was up to my level of comfort if i wanted one or not. i said i thought i'd pass on it but thanked him for the info.
of course, i knew- me, not a Doctor- on Day 1 that it wouldn't stop infection or transmission. you could hardly miss that it was a non-sterilizing vaccine and that there's never been a really effective vaccine for a respiratory virus since they mutate so quickly.
He isn’t really! That’s my little joke. I did hear him on a podcast once say that he told his son to skip the booster which is a kind of heresy for a guy in his position
Thank you, you are correct. For some reason I always confuse him with John Campbell. I asked AI and in spite of being supportive of the jabs initially, there is no clear evidence whether Campbell got the jab or not. I'll edit my post. Malhotra is a good substitution. Thanks!
but still became a very vocal critic. i remember him almost in tears when he realized his profession's complicity in murdering tons of hospitalized patients with an end of life protocol never meant to be given to people suffering from a flu.
Yes, and full credit to him for doing this. It takes a gutsy person to admit he was wrong and to take responsibility for the harm he may have done through his influence.
Thanks, I was pretty sure he did, but didn't want to make another mistake so checked with Grok. He said no evidence he did. I believe you, Grok is not as reliable as I suspect you are.
So the CIA hasn't changed. And if Trump's DOJ arrests him, I will change to Independent. They will be weaponizing the government just like the Demoncrats do...just because Tucker dares to question all this Zionist support. Laura Loomer has been calling for his arrest and several others.
Yes, go independent. Why let a political party do the thinking for you? Both parties are vile and demonic in their own right. If you're a Christian, remember Jesus word: my kingdom is not part of this world." Satan even offered Jesus political power, but he refused.
Turning independent is a good thing in any event. Especially if you are able to think for yourself and care about specific issues as opposed to the groupy-identity. For starters, the base of each of the two parties, is just taken for granted when it comes to all important issues.
Thank you John Leake for being a great critical and independent-minded thinker who knows his history and how the "banality of evil" works! You might have also quoted Edmund Burke, "Nothing so effectively robs the mind of its ability to think as fear." Or Hitler Assistant Goring's tips on how to manipulate "otherwise good Germans" by telling them they were being attacked. Since WWII, social psychologists Asch, Milgram and Zimbardo, among others, repeatedly and sadly proved the human group vulnerability to being manipulated by fear, hate, greed, false pride and blind loyalty by those in or deemed to be in authority.
I had the great fortune of meeting Fred Korematsu in his 90's just a year or two before he passed away. Too bad we can't post photos here! But he and Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson, who became the Nuremberg Prosecutor and was also one of the three who dissented in favor of Korematsu, are some of my heroes. And you too standing up with Bonhoeffer to the Dummheit Club!
Is it fear when an enemy that’s told Christian’s, Jews and everyone who isn’t Muslim that they have 440 kilos of enriched “ weapons grade”, uranium, during “peace” negotiations and they have always publicly said that they wanted to use them? Should we be threatened by a country who has killed over a million people residing in said country over the last 47 years? Should we be concerned when their proxies are responsible for millions dead in Africa because they don’t have the desire to be Muslims? Should we be concerned about millions of the same people, who are in the US, and want to impose sharia law in the US, which killing infidel’s is their duty? The same laws that it’s OK to throw acid on a woman’s face or “mercy killing “ of women for multiple reasons including if they are raped? To prove that we don’t have the “mind virus “, should we allow/ encourage the same people to do as they are doing in Europe and every other country that they have “migrated “ to? Is the mind virus worse than committing your own genocide? Food for thought.
Has it occurred to you that your government and its media lackeys are not telling you a full and impartial account of Iran and what has been going on with Iran since the CIA overthrew its democratically elected government in 1953? Do you think the government and its media lackeys told you the truth about C-19 and the vaccine?
Don't care what the govt has said. Iran has been active (among others) in inducing a change in American daily life for decades. Go figure the reasons; maybe they originate in the USA. Regardless, IRGC is a venomous entity, and American life is less free because if it. Decapitating the snake is warranted, who cares who gave birth to it.
Has it occurred to you that sometimes there are actually enemies that need to be confronted? Is it not unusual that not ONE country has actually come to the aid of Iran? Perhaps Islamic radicals who fund terrorism throughout the world are actually something to confront, despite whatever ‘government and media lackeys’ don’t tell us.
It did occur to me in 2001 when I was in New York that we had an Al-Qaeda problem, so you can imagine my surprise when the US government put a top Al-Qaeda operative into the president's seat in Syria last fall. I guess you might say the US government has a bit of a credibility problem at this point.
Took a moment and listened. An excellent illustration of the saying "the pot calling the kettle black". Or else, a poker game played by anglo-saxon crooks.
As national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, famously wrote to Hillary Clinton in 2011, 'al-Qaeda is on our side in Syria'.
The degree of ignorance displayed by some in the comments to your articles is extraordinary. Most clearly can’t define who the terrorists actually are, who their supporters are, and the historical and geopolitical contexts. I suspect most have little knowledge of the differences between Alawites, Shiites and Sunnis. I don’t think most can take your points about the irrational fear virus. Triple Trump vax only resulted in aggressive war encephalopathy.
Perhaps link your information of how the US assisted Juliana’s coup against Assad. Considering that his ‘nomination’ was welcomed by Egypt, Qatar, Turkey and Saudi Arabia, I find this somewhat questionable.
perhaps if we hadn't overthrown Iran's government and installed our puppet Shah, they wouldn't have gone for religious fundamentalism once they had the chance. we tend to forget our hand in these events
Ignorant, Jan. Russia and China are assisting Iran in important ways to defend against this illegal war of aggression. (But this time, I’m not going to do your homework for you.)
Jan, you are not just ignorant, you are stupid, with no respect for actual evidence. Of course, Russia and China are assisting. But like I said, I’m not going to do your homework for you…
LOL…Yeah, that’s why oil sanctions have been removed from Russia, etc. There is not one iota of input from China or Russia in this conflict. Link your source. There are none.
How many deaths has the USA been responsible for either through their Covid actions (and non actions), their forever wars, their color revolutions, their proxy wars, their corporate capture causing cancer and death and on and on.
The point here is we do not have the moral authority to say we are the good guys.
We are an Empire. One that is waning, but still trying to hang on and assert our will via proxy wars, embargos and tariffs.
I understand that I benefit from this empire activity but I do not rationalize that we are better than the other guy.
A present day Bonhoeffer might ponder the question of why the American people — despite their education, culture, and intellectual achievements — had fallen so far from reason and morality.
Tucker v. CIA is a non starter, as CIA won't police domestic anything, and FARA is reserved for agents, which Tucker is not, unless he has been shown to have taken payment from a foriegn source in return for a domestic PR deliverable. Even so, that would not be CIA.
Easy to fall into the Internment scold in 2026. You weren't there in the 1940's, so best to take a pass on laying into value judgments. You can say it did not pass strict scrutiny in accord with the written law, but you cannot say it was unjust in time of active peril. That there was found to be no lurking Japanese war machine off the coast does not absolve of real fears from pattern recognition training: Pearl Harbor caused loss of loved ones; subsequent artillery fire from an actual combatant inducing a native reaction is wholly justified. You can shame and ridicule fear all you like, but when real events do occur, they become confirmations that cement reality to fear; it's justified.
Also regarding the Internment, kinship is/can be more powerful than national identity. So, in time of war, it is rational to suspect alliances of kinship despite membership as a citizen. You can say it's not "fair"; you cannot dismiss it as a stupid human behavior. Makes the point that a common cultural heritage allows constitutional frameworks to remain viable and robust.
Somehow this relates to Iran and Trump's attack on it. You fail to realize that the entirety of YOUR life has been undeniably altered due to terrorism exclusively. Middle East exported terrorism has induced an American siege mentality that has brought about DHS--there is no American Homeland--and Patriot Act, TSA, FISA, and the works...even covid tied in to the centralization of policing and coercive powers. ALL due to M.E. terrorism. You can source the reasons for M.E. terrorism, but it all comes back to an American inability to live out a secure existence devoid of paranoia.
Many who welcome Trump's disarming of Iran are NOT afraid of Iran visiting harm at their doorstep. Hardly. Rather, many view it opportunistically: Trump decided, he acted, IRGC gets defanged, and bravo! Now, let's let the world get back to more normal behaviors and relations so that American life can begin to return to normal without a paranoid obsession with terror around every corner.
Regarding the internment of US citizens of Japanese ancestry: In 1988, the United States formally apologized for the internment of over 110,000 Japanese Americans during World War II. President Ronald Reagan signed the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, which formally acknowledged the injustice, offered a national apology, restitution to each surviving internee, recognizing the action was based on prejudice rather than military necessity. Though it may take many years, the mind may recover from mind viruses, the trance fades, and reason returns.
Well done, John. Well explicated. I wonder at people like Trump who think that a Golden Age can arise from war. The individual must already be living the "the Golden Age" for the Golden Age to appear. War doesn't create peace. Very few people seem to understand this notion. War creates war. Bloodshed creates bloodshed. Etc.
No doubt the invasion of Tucker's privacy by the CIA, or the leaking of it, was meant to sow the seeds of fear among many, especially those who disseminate information to a wide audience and who may not always comport with the voice of the dominant power. Tucker's audience is large. Charlie Kirk drew a wide audience. I found Tucker's speech at Charlie's memorial very authentic and inspiring, yet it drew lots of criticism, and baseless accusations of anti-semitism followed, for which I find no evidence. Now this. Yes, it was meant to sow fear.
I find that there is a spirit of war that can influence individuals, groups, and nations, and it seems to move in a manner intense, swift, and fierce -- and exponentially so with the techno-surveillance structures now operating.
Constructive fear is the recognition and the laying hold of a danger, or the apprehension of a real evil -- with its emotional and physiological accommodations.
I would ask -- are the words of reason, however powerful, the danger? Is Tucker a danger to national security because he speaks words of reason? Was Charlie?
Should we not rather fear an inability to apprehend the real evil of the censorship state that would silence the words of reason? Yes, I fear the censorship state.
“When you are put on trial in synagogues or in front of rulers and authorities, don’t worry about how you will defend yourselves or what you will say. 12 At that time the Holy Spirit will teach you what you must say.”
I was arrested 5 times and jailed 55 graceful day with no priors for Covid. I also was 1 of the last video interviews of my attorny friend, Reiner Feullmich. We discussed faith before he was arrested and got his ~3 years. The verse is to encourage and the time served is not to cause fear, much the contrary. Do everything the Lord tells you to do and you will thrive. You are not to be a holy martyr, rather blessed. If you serve time, my guess is it'll be better conditions than Reiner and ai got. I bless it'll lead to glorious outcomes like all the Bible protagonists (Joseph next becoming 2nd to the King, Daniel, Paul + Silas and others not named John the Baptist) May contemporary, historical legacies mark your path for peace, liketh once Atty Mahatma Gandhi & Nelson Mandela who served time. Be brave, be bold, be blesed.
Under German law (§ 57 StGB), prisoners are often eligible for release after serving two-thirds of their sentence, provided they exhibit good behavior and it is their first offense.
Arrest Date: October 13, 2023
Two-Thirds (2/3) Release Date: April 13, 2026 (This is less than a month away from today's date of March 15, 2026).
do some research. I already have. Do your own then you'll be satisfied. He's already admitted in interviews he applied...... yet I've explored beyond that.
People have trouble grappling with the fact that the CIA funds the Dali Lama (what has the Dalai Lama ever really done for Tibet....other than lip service), funded Gloria Steinem (she helped convince women to destroy the family unit ), funded Julia Child (she gathered intel while living in Paris with her husband) and the list goes on. Look up Operation Mocking Bird to understand how the media is controlled. Things are not as they appear.
I learned a long time ago to never hand the proof/research to people. If they don't do it themselves they will ALWAYS reject it. Cuz once you take that 1st bite.......your little world goes topsy-turvy then you start to see it everywhere and it's heartbreaking to wake up and realize you've been lied to/programmed your whole life by everyone! Big Pill to swallow!
Where did you do your research? Google? People change over their lifetime. But it’s more convenient for people to judge others on who they were decades ago. Personally, I choose to research who people are now, in the present, not who they once were.
I didn’t take the jab and never will. But, certain circumstances required some of my family to do it. When my brother’s wife’s father died, they weren’t allowed to go inside the funeral home without proof of the jab. This was in Massachusetts. Some of my relatives with newborn children advised the grandparents that they wouldn’t be allowed to see their grandchildren without it.
I saw from the get go the horrendous division the plandemic was causing amongst friends and families. I’m 73 and this is unquestionably the worst thing that has happened in my lifetime.
A little off-subject, but I'd like to suggest that John Leake from Focal Points consider not always publishing the grotesque image drummed up by AI that is proposed to be the front cover of his new book. I'm becoming hesitant to read the posts due to the fact that my eyes keep seeing that image and it's disturbing. I'm hoping that the substack authors I read aren't becoming part of some "psyop" themselves; maybe "war nerves" are hitting home.
Also, we don't know what anyone's real motives are in what they do. I don"t know what Tucker Carlson's agenda is, but I do know that he's been very vocal about his view of Jewish people not being Jewish people, i.e., not the descendants of the ancient Jewish people in the Bible, and he has shown online a look of contempt when speaking about this subject. That bothers me. While I wouldn't want him persecuted for free speech, nor arrested for being a political dissident, and while I appreciate the warnings he issues about the CIA (who probably spy on all kinds of people!), it seems he has some sort of bone to pick specifically with Jewish people and with Israel. Why single them out? Are they so much worse than other people?! Why spread all these theories these last few years? He says he's not secretive, but he appears that way at times. It's a bit ironic that he is lumped in this piece with Deitrich Bonhoeffer, who was against the torture and murder of the Jewish people.
It's certainly sad when innocent people are categorized as enemies such as the American Japanese were during WWII. It's possible that Christian Zionists could undergo such treatment as well if the slander against modern day Jewish people and their "supporters" continues. Mr. Carlson hates them, anyway, along with "baby boomers", which I distinctly remember him saying in an interview. Labeling a whole swath of people aged approximately 62-82 is such a silly thing to do because making biased blanket statements about groups of people is degrading, although I admit that I've succumbed to doing that at times, but I try not to.
You quoted Bonhoeffer "There are people who are intellectually agile who are stupid, while intellectually inept people may be anything but stupid. We discover this to our surprise in certain situations." So true. What a brilliant and good man. One's reaction to the COVID scamdemic was the best IQ test I've seen in my lifetime. Which is why I can't take seriously anything a person who got the jab says. Malone and Aseem Malhotra come to mind. There are plenty of others on our side who fell for the obvious BS. Remember how easily fooled they were.
While I actually DID get the first two jabs I agree with most all you say. Some of us, though foolishly accepted the Kool Aid, woke up finally, and now, refuse to comply. . . while regretting.
As far as being fooled, I can say I was, partially, but mostly I just did not see anything coming of the media narrative.
Foolish as it sounds, I just did not want to . . . wait for it. . . wear a mask at the local lumber store!
There are exceptions to every rule.
Exactly. Convid scamdemic finally opened my eyes to how the Amish and Mennonites are able to see the endless war nonsense for exactly what it is. Evil men determined to cause intentional harm in direct opposition to God's commandments and the teachings of his son Jesus Christ.
While the Amish do not believe in getting a vaccines they still have a long way to go when it comes to treating their buggy horses humanely.
in the wonderful book The Dirty Life, the author says that when you buy horses or tools at auction, if they are amish horses or amish tools, you know that they will be good, that they were treated right and well cared for.
i've spent some time on amish farms and saw horses very well cared for.
Thank you Carolyn!
I have a friend who's father is a veterinarian in Amish country and he says the same thing! Horses are as essential and valuable to the Amish as our cars are to us. And they take very good care of them.
A reporter asked an Amish man why the Amish are so healthy, and don't get vaxxinated. The Amish man replied "We Amish are healthy and don't get vaxxinated because we don't have television."
Do they treat them badly? RSPCA was formed in London in 1824 to help enforce anti cruelty laws relating to horses and livestock since so much cruelty was witnessed in the street - including beating horses to death in a rage. I sometimes wonder what it would be like our main method of transportation was alive and required care. I hope we would be patient and look after our animals well. The problem is that many humans are so embittered by the constant economic battle of all against all and often take it out on whoever or whatever they can.
Yes, there is a horse rescue in Virginia that I follow that go to horse auctions and they have post numerous stories about Amish bringing their used up horses to slaughter auctions. They are overworked and underfed etc. I'm not all of them treat them that way. At least I hope so. I think the insensitivity comes from a Mind virus and unhealed trauma. Just as this article has brought up.
you risk ostracizing powerful allies by demanding ideological purity. the majority of people were ok with the childhood vaccine schedule (safe and effective), for example, and some, because of personal experience (an autistic child), converted to "anti-vaxxers." then there are the late comers who held onto their pro-vaccine beliefs until the covid overreach caused them to change their views. some people took the covid vaccine and suffered an "event" and are now vocal opposition. shall we toss them aside because they didn't join the team early enough?
my suspicion of vaccines goes back to the early 70's when, as a psych major, we were taught that autism was caused by a cold, rejecting mother, giving many fathers the justification they needed to flee a bad situation and try again with a "kinder" woman. i thought it was nonsense, although "settled science," and decided on a less authoritarian profession. in 1976, my cousin's wife spent a year in a wheelchair with GBS after taking the swine flu vaccine that was later taken off the market. you can show me all the data in the world, but NOTHING will ever top that up close and personal experience!
Malhotra became convinced that the covid shot killed his father. Malone has sacrificed a comfortable life breeding horses for ridicule and being written out of wikipedia (a long time ago i read the wikipedia page on mRNA and he was named as patent holder of the lipid nano-particle process; a bit later, the wording was changed to "many scientists contributed to the technology" or something vague). Malone also suffered life threatening side effects.
i'm thrilled to have such powerful and credentialed voices on "our" side. why would anyone listen to me, a theatrical costumer, ex psych major, who lost my career of 40 years and most of my "friends" because i refused the covid vaccine? Malone and Malhotra bring some credibility to the cause. Malone knows how government "works" and i'm thrilled that RFKjr has put him on the ACIP committee.
i even take a fiendish pleasure in welcoming Dr Paul Offit to the club of "anti-vaxxers;" after all he advised his 20ish year old son to skip the booster, which according to the updated Webster's dictionary definition, makes him an "anti-vaxxer."
the more the merrier, i say.
I don't demand ideological purity. I sure as heck don't want to cast converts aside. What kind of IQ would that indicate? I just think when somebody failed to see through what was going on, and thought the jabs passed the risk/benefit evaluation with what we knew at the time, it makes no sense to think they are nearly as worthy of taking seriously as any of the millions of us who passed the test. That does not mean they can't be effective members of the side I'm on. Of course they should be welcomed and valued. We should not forget the poor judgement they demonstrated is all I'm saying. It's easy to see why Malhotra was fooled. He doesn't think things through at all. I watched him on Rogan and he made 3 glaring contradictions that showed how he thinks, or doesn't I should say. It's been a few years ago, I think I remember two, but this is too long already to relate them. Long interview, I probably missed some other inanities. You seem smart enough to spot them too if you watched it. Nice post, great writing skills, I agree with everything you said, except for jumping to the conclusion I want to cast anybody aside. I took psych courses around '70 and remember the same autism dogma.
I think I’ll go back and listen to that Rogan and see if I can spot what you mentioned. So no offense meant. I’ve been banging this drum in isolation for so long that I’m thrilled to have millions of new “members” even if they aren’t “perfect.”
I’ve been skeptical of conventional medicine since childhood so pretty much everyone got to the party later than me. I guess that makes me more tolerant. Some people take longer to see things that others find obvious.
BTW, i did re-listen to the Rogan/Malhotra podcast. at one point he said that the spike protein could still be in the body for up to 4 months. i felt he should have said "we don't know how long the spike protein lasts in the body but we've found it still there after 4 months which is as long as the study lasted."
the 2nd thing he said at 1:39 was that it was a psychological barrier to considering vaccines as possibly harmful and not an intellectual one and i'm not sure i agree with that. i think it's more of an act of faith.
now i'm thinking i may have to listen to it again!
i remember the first Rogan i ever listened to. he was talking to Sanjay Gupta and i marveled that he somehow managed to treat Gupta with the upmost respect while still not taking any shit from him and calling out all his inconsistencies (of which there were many!). i thought "this is a very genuine person with a rare skill." i would have spit in Gupta's face!
i listened to that podcast 3 times in a row that day and called my brother and told him to listen to it.
you may wonder how i had that much time. i had been hit by a texting driver while biking to a strength training session and my leg was in a cast. i felt i had recovered enough to try a bit of sewing and had picked up the bed skirt i was making for our guest room which was in a pile in my sewing room where i had left it before the accident. i couldn't really do much in terms of machine sewing but i had lots of hand work to do.
i'm the kind of person who goes into a trance when i sew. the house could catch fire and i wouldn't notice. so i sat there, my hands occupied and my ears full, and listened for 9 hours straight!
One contradiction I remember was he trashed the value of medical studies as being agenda and money-driven, so basically worthless. So it's unfortunate that they are used to justify misguided recommendations and policies. Then he proceeded to cite studies to "prove" a position he was staking out. I agree with him studies are nearly all junk, and I agreed with his position. But the disconnect I found startling.
Another thing was - he did a good job of illustrating how the government can't be trusted on dietary guidance, medical recommendations, and policy-making in general, all for very good reasons. Then, he proceeded to say the government should be levying taxes on unhealthy food like sugar-laden beverages. A 180 if I ever saw one. He seemed oblivious that the very same government, given that power, would have taxed eggs, red meat, butter, and other out-of-fashion foods due to the corrupt recommendations at the time. Not to mention the slippery-slope that invites, even if they correctly identify a harmful food. But the contradiction is what really bothered me.
I forget the third now but it was similar - basing an argument on a premise he'd just debunked as useless (saying studies can't be trusted, then saying "studies show that". Or staking a position (the government is not fit to dictate guidelines) then directly contradicting that position, (saying the government should be trusted to pick some foods as "losers" that we should tax).
I saw these as evidence of incoherent thinking. They jumped out at me as nothing a smart person would do. Which is why he failed the COVID/MRNA IQ test, and got the jab, despite being very smart in many ways. He's an effective advocate of a lot of what I believe. Discrepancies like these slip by most people.
You are smart to do strength training, most don't. Any exercise is better than none, but that's the most valuable, and best reward per effort expended IMO.
This is an elitist attitude with a massive amount of Duning Kreuger layered on top. Your dismissal of the power of propaganda, especially coming from a government that was pretty much in bi-partisan support of "the jab" is naive and shows an incredible lack of compassion and, frankly, narcissism. I am surprised that 18% of people refused, frankly, myself and my family being among of them. But for a brief period we considered doing it and, if not for my family being in a fortunate enough position to financially be able to avoid the pressure of being fired from work if we did not going along with it, we may well have had to. The number of people both financially and mentally strong enough to avoid being scared and/or pressured into it is certainly fewer than 18%. So, you need to step back and reassess your arrogance.
You are the one who sounds arrogant. This was an obvious scam. You didn't have to be particularly smart to see through it. Just not a sycophantic herd animal. We are all susceptible to propaganda and scare tactics. The difference is some see what's going on and have the insight and strength of character to resist. I sympathize with those forced to choose between getting the jab and losing a job. Risk/benefit was clearly on the side of not jabbing, until you add the cost of losing your job. Factoring in the known severe cost of job loss against unknown dangers of the jab, getting the jab was a reasonable decision for many. More than a few faked it, a better choice IMO. You are entitled to think being easily fooled by obvious propaganda is not a personal failing. I'm entitled to think the opposite and you'll never convince me otherwise. I give a pass to those young enough to lack life experience to see how things work in this world. 25 or so maybe? The cutoff age can be debated. You misspelled both parts of Dunning-Kruger in your attempt to appear learned.
brilliant
well, try to remember that this was possibly the largest, best funded propaganda campaign in history and many people got swept up into it. all Western governments just suddenly turned in lockstep. remember Macron saying he would make life as hard as possible for his citizens? and shops in Germany with posters in their windows saying "Gas the unvaccinated!" or the irony of the Holocaust Museum asking for papers!!!?
people did go crazy! not that i will ever forgive them or trust them again. just because someone tells you to drive off a cliff, doesn't mean you have to do it and you know they will do it the next time the government launches a propaganda campaign.
it helps that i saw Lee Harvey Oswald killed on live television as a 9 year old and said out loud "well, that was convenient." haven't believed anything the government has said since that moment.
there was a horrific moment when we were at the farmers market. i asked a woman if we could share her table (large outdoor 6 seater). she said yes and i sat down and made small talk. then my boyfriend came with our pizza and she said "i have to ask, are you both vaccinated?"
my boyfriend, who is very nice, deferred and said we would eat in our car. i started screaming at the top of my lungs: "YOU FUCKING CUNT! HOW DARE YOU! IT'S NOT YOUR TABLE, etc" i was yelling all the way while John dragged me to the car. he was mortified.
My wife read your post and said "That's my kind of gal!". Your boyfriend sounds as lucky to have you as I am for my wife of 45 years. Cat Stevens' "hard headed woman" comes to my mind all the time. I saw Oswald killed too - I was 12. Same thoughts. IMO, that this was such an over-the-top propaganda campaign, rather than being an excuse for falling for it, was another gigantic red flag. As if more were needed.
You contradict yourself about 10 times in your own post. "Obvious scam...didn't have to be particularly smart to see through it...we are all susceptible to propaganda and scare tactics...sympathize with those forced to choose...being easily fooled by obvious propaganda is not a personal failing..." You sound like every politician who has ever existed. You are clearly a disingenuous, narcissistic dimwit. The universe has a way of dealing with people like you and its name is karma. Keep tempting fate and riding that big ego.
Oh, and did you mean "learned"? You misspelled it.
See how fast the universe reacts to people like you?
i'm sure for a lot of people, it was very hard to resist, especially if they weren't in a financial place that enabled them to resist. i had structured my life so that i was able to survive financially although nothing can compensate for the heart break of being fired after 40 years from the career i was born for.
perhaps it's because we don't have a television and so weren't watching those "death counts" every day.
there were days when my boyfriend would taunt me: "yeah, you're so principled but what will you do when a government official comes to our house and says he will seize it if you don't get vaccinated? will you be so tough then?"
i would burst into tears and scream at him to stop. let's face it, if we get to that point, the United States is over.
in his defense, he was on to the lab leak a few months before i came around and had been stockpiling IVM since early 2020. his job also paid way more than mine so by not getting vaccinated, he would lose much more in dollars than i would. of course, his identity was not tied up in his work the way mine was and he did not ultimately take the shot (good thing or he would have had to move out of the house!) and often thanks me for taking such a hard stand against it.
Yes, forcing people to choose between taking an untested, experimental shot and losing their job is the exact sort of thing that was supposed to be abolished forever after the Nuremberg trials yet here we are in the country that helped author the Nuremberg codes still allowing this sort of coercion. The SCOTUS and its scumbag federalist advocates like Alan Dershowitz use one particular historical case to bypass the rights of the individual to choose not to be injected: Jacobson v Massachusetts. That case was decided under extreme panic over smallpox and the falsified data supporting the obviously (now) lies about the effectiveness of the smallpox vaccine. It is long past time for Jacobson to be burned at the stake and the obvious lies of vaccinology - a pseudoscience if there ever was one - to be relegated to the waste bin of so much other medical hokum like leeching, phrenology and cigarettes are healthy.
i have a funny story about Jacobson. i was spending the weekend with friends in their off grid survivalist community when my next door neighbor called me. he's a retired medical doctor AND a lawyer and he was on a rant over the phone saying that any parents who wouldn't get the covid vaccine for themselves should have their children removed by CPS (thank god he's not in charge of anything). then he added that the government had the "Right" to forcibly inject a person and i said "ah yes, Jacobson v Mass, 1905." well he was stunned! "did you ever study law?" he asked me, "how do you know about Jacobson?"
i impressed him by explaining that Jacobson was used as precedent in Buck v Bell, 1927.
now maybe, if he wasn't such a dick, he might have been able to figure out that a mere theatrical costumer would only know about such historic supreme court decisions if she was an anti-vaxxer and made it a point to know about such cases.
about a year later, when the next booster came out, he called to inform me where to get it, if i wanted one, no lines, no waiting; by then i guess they couldn't give it away! he said that it wasn't essential anymore since it was now known that the vaccine didn't stop infection or transmission so it was up to my level of comfort if i wanted one or not. i said i thought i'd pass on it but thanked him for the info.
of course, i knew- me, not a Doctor- on Day 1 that it wouldn't stop infection or transmission. you could hardly miss that it was a non-sterilizing vaccine and that there's never been a really effective vaccine for a respiratory virus since they mutate so quickly.
oh well, what can i say?
Thanks. Interesting to hear that Paul Offit is an anti vaxxer. I suspect many serial vaccine evangelists are secretly on our side.
He isn’t really! That’s my little joke. I did hear him on a podcast once say that he told his son to skip the booster which is a kind of heresy for a guy in his position
very well said
I believe Vernon did not take the jab.
Thank you, you are correct. For some reason I always confuse him with John Campbell. I asked AI and in spite of being supportive of the jabs initially, there is no clear evidence whether Campbell got the jab or not. I'll edit my post. Malhotra is a good substitution. Thanks!
Campbell took the AstraZeneca shots. He has talked about it often.
but still became a very vocal critic. i remember him almost in tears when he realized his profession's complicity in murdering tons of hospitalized patients with an end of life protocol never meant to be given to people suffering from a flu.
Yes, and full credit to him for doing this. It takes a gutsy person to admit he was wrong and to take responsibility for the harm he may have done through his influence.
Thanks, I was pretty sure he did, but didn't want to make another mistake so checked with Grok. He said no evidence he did. I believe you, Grok is not as reliable as I suspect you are.
Thanks, I'm flattered! I've seen quite a few of Campbell's videos and have been very impressed by his honesty.
I like him too. I think he does great work. But remember, he's easily fooled.
or desperately wanted to fit in
So the CIA hasn't changed. And if Trump's DOJ arrests him, I will change to Independent. They will be weaponizing the government just like the Demoncrats do...just because Tucker dares to question all this Zionist support. Laura Loomer has been calling for his arrest and several others.
Yes, go independent. Why let a political party do the thinking for you? Both parties are vile and demonic in their own right. If you're a Christian, remember Jesus word: my kingdom is not part of this world." Satan even offered Jesus political power, but he refused.
Turning independent is a good thing in any event. Especially if you are able to think for yourself and care about specific issues as opposed to the groupy-identity. For starters, the base of each of the two parties, is just taken for granted when it comes to all important issues.
Thank you John Leake for being a great critical and independent-minded thinker who knows his history and how the "banality of evil" works! You might have also quoted Edmund Burke, "Nothing so effectively robs the mind of its ability to think as fear." Or Hitler Assistant Goring's tips on how to manipulate "otherwise good Germans" by telling them they were being attacked. Since WWII, social psychologists Asch, Milgram and Zimbardo, among others, repeatedly and sadly proved the human group vulnerability to being manipulated by fear, hate, greed, false pride and blind loyalty by those in or deemed to be in authority.
I had the great fortune of meeting Fred Korematsu in his 90's just a year or two before he passed away. Too bad we can't post photos here! But he and Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson, who became the Nuremberg Prosecutor and was also one of the three who dissented in favor of Korematsu, are some of my heroes. And you too standing up with Bonhoeffer to the Dummheit Club!
Is it fear when an enemy that’s told Christian’s, Jews and everyone who isn’t Muslim that they have 440 kilos of enriched “ weapons grade”, uranium, during “peace” negotiations and they have always publicly said that they wanted to use them? Should we be threatened by a country who has killed over a million people residing in said country over the last 47 years? Should we be concerned when their proxies are responsible for millions dead in Africa because they don’t have the desire to be Muslims? Should we be concerned about millions of the same people, who are in the US, and want to impose sharia law in the US, which killing infidel’s is their duty? The same laws that it’s OK to throw acid on a woman’s face or “mercy killing “ of women for multiple reasons including if they are raped? To prove that we don’t have the “mind virus “, should we allow/ encourage the same people to do as they are doing in Europe and every other country that they have “migrated “ to? Is the mind virus worse than committing your own genocide? Food for thought.
Has it occurred to you that your government and its media lackeys are not telling you a full and impartial account of Iran and what has been going on with Iran since the CIA overthrew its democratically elected government in 1953? Do you think the government and its media lackeys told you the truth about C-19 and the vaccine?
Don't care what the govt has said. Iran has been active (among others) in inducing a change in American daily life for decades. Go figure the reasons; maybe they originate in the USA. Regardless, IRGC is a venomous entity, and American life is less free because if it. Decapitating the snake is warranted, who cares who gave birth to it.
I´m interested in who those "others" are, among whom Iran has been active. Could you enlighten me?
Has it occurred to you that sometimes there are actually enemies that need to be confronted? Is it not unusual that not ONE country has actually come to the aid of Iran? Perhaps Islamic radicals who fund terrorism throughout the world are actually something to confront, despite whatever ‘government and media lackeys’ don’t tell us.
It did occur to me in 2001 when I was in New York that we had an Al-Qaeda problem, so you can imagine my surprise when the US government put a top Al-Qaeda operative into the president's seat in Syria last fall. I guess you might say the US government has a bit of a credibility problem at this point.
at least in my eyes
I would recommend that you take a moment to listen to this: https://youtu.be/fVHoJ0Nmo2I?si=myoLR4P8WdptfXmW
Took a moment and listened. An excellent illustration of the saying "the pot calling the kettle black". Or else, a poker game played by anglo-saxon crooks.
As national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, famously wrote to Hillary Clinton in 2011, 'al-Qaeda is on our side in Syria'.
The degree of ignorance displayed by some in the comments to your articles is extraordinary. Most clearly can’t define who the terrorists actually are, who their supporters are, and the historical and geopolitical contexts. I suspect most have little knowledge of the differences between Alawites, Shiites and Sunnis. I don’t think most can take your points about the irrational fear virus. Triple Trump vax only resulted in aggressive war encephalopathy.
Americans never understand the complexity of the nations they attack (too many John Wayne movies) which is why our "adventures" never go as planned.
Fine, cred problem.
Taking down IRGC = good thing.
why is that our business? maybe their form of government works for them. not every country can be a representative democracy- we certainly aren't!
Govt knew on 9/11 who the perp was. They stated so.
What does that tell you?
Perhaps link your information of how the US assisted Juliana’s coup against Assad. Considering that his ‘nomination’ was welcomed by Egypt, Qatar, Turkey and Saudi Arabia, I find this somewhat questionable.
perhaps if we hadn't overthrown Iran's government and installed our puppet Shah, they wouldn't have gone for religious fundamentalism once they had the chance. we tend to forget our hand in these events
no country funds more Terrorism than the USA
Not ONE country has ACTUALLY come to the aid of the US/Israel team. What´s your take here?
Not one country has actively opposed it.
It´s called evading the point.
Ignorant, Jan. Russia and China are assisting Iran in important ways to defend against this illegal war of aggression. (But this time, I’m not going to do your homework for you.)
Nope. Not supporting, either with weapons, manpower or even intelligence. Sorry to disappoint you.
Jan, you are not just ignorant, you are stupid, with no respect for actual evidence. Of course, Russia and China are assisting. But like I said, I’m not going to do your homework for you…
LOL…Yeah, that’s why oil sanctions have been removed from Russia, etc. There is not one iota of input from China or Russia in this conflict. Link your source. There are none.
How many deaths has the USA been responsible for either through their Covid actions (and non actions), their forever wars, their color revolutions, their proxy wars, their corporate capture causing cancer and death and on and on.
The point here is we do not have the moral authority to say we are the good guys.
We are an Empire. One that is waning, but still trying to hang on and assert our will via proxy wars, embargos and tariffs.
I understand that I benefit from this empire activity but I do not rationalize that we are better than the other guy.
The false framing of the covid response as a “war” ensured the same pattern of fear, oppression, and collective stupidity.
A present day Bonhoeffer might ponder the question of why the American people — despite their education, culture, and intellectual achievements — had fallen so far from reason and morality.
Tucker v. CIA is a non starter, as CIA won't police domestic anything, and FARA is reserved for agents, which Tucker is not, unless he has been shown to have taken payment from a foriegn source in return for a domestic PR deliverable. Even so, that would not be CIA.
Easy to fall into the Internment scold in 2026. You weren't there in the 1940's, so best to take a pass on laying into value judgments. You can say it did not pass strict scrutiny in accord with the written law, but you cannot say it was unjust in time of active peril. That there was found to be no lurking Japanese war machine off the coast does not absolve of real fears from pattern recognition training: Pearl Harbor caused loss of loved ones; subsequent artillery fire from an actual combatant inducing a native reaction is wholly justified. You can shame and ridicule fear all you like, but when real events do occur, they become confirmations that cement reality to fear; it's justified.
Also regarding the Internment, kinship is/can be more powerful than national identity. So, in time of war, it is rational to suspect alliances of kinship despite membership as a citizen. You can say it's not "fair"; you cannot dismiss it as a stupid human behavior. Makes the point that a common cultural heritage allows constitutional frameworks to remain viable and robust.
Somehow this relates to Iran and Trump's attack on it. You fail to realize that the entirety of YOUR life has been undeniably altered due to terrorism exclusively. Middle East exported terrorism has induced an American siege mentality that has brought about DHS--there is no American Homeland--and Patriot Act, TSA, FISA, and the works...even covid tied in to the centralization of policing and coercive powers. ALL due to M.E. terrorism. You can source the reasons for M.E. terrorism, but it all comes back to an American inability to live out a secure existence devoid of paranoia.
Many who welcome Trump's disarming of Iran are NOT afraid of Iran visiting harm at their doorstep. Hardly. Rather, many view it opportunistically: Trump decided, he acted, IRGC gets defanged, and bravo! Now, let's let the world get back to more normal behaviors and relations so that American life can begin to return to normal without a paranoid obsession with terror around every corner.
Regarding the internment of US citizens of Japanese ancestry: In 1988, the United States formally apologized for the internment of over 110,000 Japanese Americans during World War II. President Ronald Reagan signed the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, which formally acknowledged the injustice, offered a national apology, restitution to each surviving internee, recognizing the action was based on prejudice rather than military necessity. Though it may take many years, the mind may recover from mind viruses, the trance fades, and reason returns.
Perfect.
So, why didn't Truman or Eisenhower do it?
Because, it takes a disengaged conscience with a value judgment to become moved enough to act.
Eisenhower got wise by the time he left office in 1961. Kennedy got wise but then he got taken out. Wisdom can be a very dangerous thing.
Who had it worse?
The Japanese American who was interned or the other citizen who was drafted into uniform and died on foreign shores?
Which was more just?
neither
Desperate damage control. Silence truthy-Tucker!
;-o
Well done, John. Well explicated. I wonder at people like Trump who think that a Golden Age can arise from war. The individual must already be living the "the Golden Age" for the Golden Age to appear. War doesn't create peace. Very few people seem to understand this notion. War creates war. Bloodshed creates bloodshed. Etc.
Very important point for today and always!! Thank you!!!!!
No doubt the invasion of Tucker's privacy by the CIA, or the leaking of it, was meant to sow the seeds of fear among many, especially those who disseminate information to a wide audience and who may not always comport with the voice of the dominant power. Tucker's audience is large. Charlie Kirk drew a wide audience. I found Tucker's speech at Charlie's memorial very authentic and inspiring, yet it drew lots of criticism, and baseless accusations of anti-semitism followed, for which I find no evidence. Now this. Yes, it was meant to sow fear.
I find that there is a spirit of war that can influence individuals, groups, and nations, and it seems to move in a manner intense, swift, and fierce -- and exponentially so with the techno-surveillance structures now operating.
Constructive fear is the recognition and the laying hold of a danger, or the apprehension of a real evil -- with its emotional and physiological accommodations.
I would ask -- are the words of reason, however powerful, the danger? Is Tucker a danger to national security because he speaks words of reason? Was Charlie?
Should we not rather fear an inability to apprehend the real evil of the censorship state that would silence the words of reason? Yes, I fear the censorship state.
Luke 12:11-12
GOD’S WORD Translation
“When you are put on trial in synagogues or in front of rulers and authorities, don’t worry about how you will defend yourselves or what you will say. 12 At that time the Holy Spirit will teach you what you must say.”
I was arrested 5 times and jailed 55 graceful day with no priors for Covid. I also was 1 of the last video interviews of my attorny friend, Reiner Feullmich. We discussed faith before he was arrested and got his ~3 years. The verse is to encourage and the time served is not to cause fear, much the contrary. Do everything the Lord tells you to do and you will thrive. You are not to be a holy martyr, rather blessed. If you serve time, my guess is it'll be better conditions than Reiner and ai got. I bless it'll lead to glorious outcomes like all the Bible protagonists (Joseph next becoming 2nd to the King, Daniel, Paul + Silas and others not named John the Baptist) May contemporary, historical legacies mark your path for peace, liketh once Atty Mahatma Gandhi & Nelson Mandela who served time. Be brave, be bold, be blesed.
When will Reiner Feullmich be released?
According to Ai:
Under German law (§ 57 StGB), prisoners are often eligible for release after serving two-thirds of their sentence, provided they exhibit good behavior and it is their first offense.
Arrest Date: October 13, 2023
Two-Thirds (2/3) Release Date: April 13, 2026 (This is less than a month away from today's date of March 15, 2026).
Full Term Release Date: July 13, 2027
There are a lot of bots and psy-ops being run on we the people. John's new book will be most welcome when the release date finally gets here.
Tucker Carlson is CIA.
Prove it please. Just because his father was, does not mean that Tucker is also.
do some research. I already have. Do your own then you'll be satisfied. He's already admitted in interviews he applied...... yet I've explored beyond that.
People have trouble grappling with the fact that the CIA funds the Dali Lama (what has the Dalai Lama ever really done for Tibet....other than lip service), funded Gloria Steinem (she helped convince women to destroy the family unit ), funded Julia Child (she gathered intel while living in Paris with her husband) and the list goes on. Look up Operation Mocking Bird to understand how the media is controlled. Things are not as they appear.
that's all true but none of the things you listed have anything to do with Tucker
You’ll never convince anyone in this substack of that information. Sadly, as much of it is actually true.
I learned a long time ago to never hand the proof/research to people. If they don't do it themselves they will ALWAYS reject it. Cuz once you take that 1st bite.......your little world goes topsy-turvy then you start to see it everywhere and it's heartbreaking to wake up and realize you've been lied to/programmed your whole life by everyone! Big Pill to swallow!
Where did you do your research? Google? People change over their lifetime. But it’s more convenient for people to judge others on who they were decades ago. Personally, I choose to research who people are now, in the present, not who they once were.
The Dummheit Club of America welcomes Kim!
do your research Coleen
Nope
Well his dad worked for them and he wanted to follow in his footsteps.
I guess he got his wish.
Well his dad worked for them and he wanted to follow in his footsteps.
I guess he got his wish.
I didn’t take the jab and never will. But, certain circumstances required some of my family to do it. When my brother’s wife’s father died, they weren’t allowed to go inside the funeral home without proof of the jab. This was in Massachusetts. Some of my relatives with newborn children advised the grandparents that they wouldn’t be allowed to see their grandchildren without it.
I saw from the get go the horrendous division the plandemic was causing amongst friends and families. I’m 73 and this is unquestionably the worst thing that has happened in my lifetime.
We should never forget what they did.
A little off-subject, but I'd like to suggest that John Leake from Focal Points consider not always publishing the grotesque image drummed up by AI that is proposed to be the front cover of his new book. I'm becoming hesitant to read the posts due to the fact that my eyes keep seeing that image and it's disturbing. I'm hoping that the substack authors I read aren't becoming part of some "psyop" themselves; maybe "war nerves" are hitting home.
Also, we don't know what anyone's real motives are in what they do. I don"t know what Tucker Carlson's agenda is, but I do know that he's been very vocal about his view of Jewish people not being Jewish people, i.e., not the descendants of the ancient Jewish people in the Bible, and he has shown online a look of contempt when speaking about this subject. That bothers me. While I wouldn't want him persecuted for free speech, nor arrested for being a political dissident, and while I appreciate the warnings he issues about the CIA (who probably spy on all kinds of people!), it seems he has some sort of bone to pick specifically with Jewish people and with Israel. Why single them out? Are they so much worse than other people?! Why spread all these theories these last few years? He says he's not secretive, but he appears that way at times. It's a bit ironic that he is lumped in this piece with Deitrich Bonhoeffer, who was against the torture and murder of the Jewish people.
It's certainly sad when innocent people are categorized as enemies such as the American Japanese were during WWII. It's possible that Christian Zionists could undergo such treatment as well if the slander against modern day Jewish people and their "supporters" continues. Mr. Carlson hates them, anyway, along with "baby boomers", which I distinctly remember him saying in an interview. Labeling a whole swath of people aged approximately 62-82 is such a silly thing to do because making biased blanket statements about groups of people is degrading, although I admit that I've succumbed to doing that at times, but I try not to.