Parasites Give You Nothing.
"Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state lives at the expense of everyone." - Frédéric Bastiat
[graphic by FEE / The Foundation for Economic Freedom]
We Tried To Warn You.
But it's not too late to start.
Never Forget Their Excuses for Lockdowns.
story by John Tamney / image by Alexandra Koch
The worst arguments against the lockdowns inspired by the coronavirus were medical and statistical. To see why, it’s worth remembering that as humans we’ve evolved to protect ourselves from death and disease. The taking of freedom to protect us is always and everywhere excess.
The above statement of the obvious requires mention as free thinkers and free-thinking organizations continue to either ignore how they sat out the lockdowns, or worse, excuse their inaction amid a massive bludgeoning of freedom back in 2020. Let’s start with those trying to excuse their inaction.
The not-infrequently offered excuse is that since most organizations and individuals in the libertarian space either weren’t staffed by medical doctors or weren’t medical doctors themselves, how could they have made credible cases against the lockdowns? Instead, and rather than take a stand, they adopted “wait and see” approaches so that medical verdicts could be rendered. About those verdicts, some libertarian types are now saying that those who were publicly against the lockdowns back in 2020 were correct, but they made their cases obnoxiously and blindly given their lack of medical knowledge. The only response to this kind of dissembling is nonsense, utter nonsense. See this write-up’s introductory paragraph to see why.
Just as the worst arguments against the lockdowns were medical and statistical, the medical and statistical arguments made in favor of lockdowns were, if possible, even worse. As stated above, no one requires force to avoid sickness or death. About this point, more on it in a bit.
For now, it should just be said that even if the medical consensus had been correct, that millions and millions of Americans would die absent being forced out of work and into their homes, then any lockdown orders foisted on us by nail-biting politicians would have read as tame relative to the precautions taken by free people. The more threatening anything is, the more superfluous is any kind of policy reaction to the threat.
The simple, overwhelming truth is that people should never have their individual freedom to protect themselves taken from them, period. End of story.
Applying the previous assertion to organizations like Cato, Students for Liberty, and others that seemingly took a “wait and see” approach to the lockdowns, their stances were wrongheaded. Lest they or readers forget, the organizations mentioned were founded on the notion of individual freedom as the foremost ideal. In which case a “wait and see what the science or medical establishment says” is dangerously wrong.
It is simply because, as Brownstone Institute founder Jeffrey Tucker has pointed out, politicians at the local, state, and national levels did not take a “wait and see” approach. That they didn’t calls into serious question organizations and individuals sitting on their hands. How could they? Since we know government will never wait and see on anything, what an odd excuse or piece of internal reasoning to explain away a lack of action. It implies that freedom should always be the loser in times of uncertainty, or when politicians are feeling particularly hysterical.
At which point it should be said that freedom is easily the best way to turn the unknowns and uncertainty into true knowledge. So, while libertarian groups and individuals who sat out the lockdowns should reflexively defend freedom every time government is in the process of taking it, it’s useful to add that free people crucially produce information.
Which brings us back to the earlier assertion in this write-up that people don’t need to be forced to avoid sickness or death. Some no doubt responded as they read the latter that some people would in fact have lived, worked, and run their businesses without regard to a spreading virus. To which the answer here can only be precisely.
Precisely because free people will respond in all manner of ways (including disdain) to fears driven by unknowns, we need them to be free. Without millions of different responses, or realistically hundreds of millions of different responses in the US, people (including “experts”) will be blinded to the truth about whatever it is that threatens us, or not. Since free people once again produce information, the only answer to uncertainty about what we don’t know is freedom.
It’s just something to keep in mind in the here and now. Four years ago this month, over 40 million Americans lost their jobs, and hundreds of millions around the world found themselves hurtling toward starvation amid a global panic among politicians. Shamefully and tragically, some of the foremost organizations and individuals devoted to liberty sat out the tragedy and seemingly defend their inaction to this day by hiding behind medicine, science, and a lack of information. The excuses and internal justifications are wholly insufficient. Freedom is its own always and everywhere virtue, period.
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Source: The Brownstone Institute / RealClearMarkets.com
David Icke Describes The Two Types Of People Who Allow Fascism To Happen.
"We must not just talk about freedom. We must live it, and live it by ceasing to cooperate with that which is by the hour now destroying freedom. There are three types of people. Two of the groups are responsible for every tyranny in history. And the third group is responsible for ending every tyranny in history. Group number one: those who mindlessly accept anything authority tells them without question, and they will just do whatever they're told and think whatever they're told to think. Then there is group number two: those who don't want to do what authority tells them, but they're terrified of not doing so because they fear the consequences. Those two groups together have been responsible for every tyranny in history.
Fascism is not imposed by fascists; there's never enough of them. Fascism is imposed by the population acquiescing to fascism. See Nazi Germany. So if anyone says "well what can we do?". Well you can get off your bloody ass, stiffen your backbone, and stop being a bloody wimp - there's a start! Look your children and grandchildren in the eye and tell them what you were doing when fascism was introduced. "Oh I was keeping my mouth shut". And then there's group number three, that has ended every tyranny in history, the true renegades of this human family. Those who see they're being lied to, who see where this is going, and refuse to cooperate. The people who understand the most powerful word in the English language: no, no, no. English language or any other language: no, no, no. Not doing it. Not cooperating.
So, what can we do? There is everything we can do. Stop giving your power to authority, and then you'll see authority never had power in the first place because it was always yours."
--David Icke
[see more at DavidIcke.com]
Revelations: May 26, 2025.
[image: AP]
Compromised sell-out Kristi Noem went to Israel to kiss some ass after the shooting deaths of two Israeli Embassy staffers in Washington, D.C. (which many say was a false-flag event to bring in more laws governing "anti-semitism"). While in Israel, Noem visited the Western Wall, writing in the visitors' book that "Israel is the chosen people, and the United States stands by you." She also met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu later on Sunday night, where Noem expressed "unwavering support for the Prime Minister and the State of Israel." Although American politicians have inexplicably supported Israel for decades (most likely due to blackmail and bribery), the Trump administration has taken it to insane new heights. I'm beginning to think that when Trump was saying "Make America Great Again", he meant he wants it be great for the Zionists who will soon dominate our nation, and he's willing to use censorship and the threat of arrests to make it happen.
After mentioning this on social media, I received a reply from Dave4691:
"Our cosmetically enhanced Secretary of DHS submitting to the Talmudic ritual of “praying” at a stone wall. How do Bible believing Christians not see the absurdness of this? Many believe this is part of a wall from the temple that existed when Jesus walked the earth. Jesus told us after he left the temple that NOT ONE STONE WOULD REMAIN STANDING! Did Jesus lie? Of course not. So what wall is she “praying” to? It is the wall of an old Roman fort….that's what it is.
This is why I worry about our future. The deception is so ingrained in most people they seem to be unable to see the world as it is. It is not that many miles from where she is pretending to honor our Creator, the people who manage this wall are starving children. The silence from churches on this equates to them being complicit."
“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless."
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Will Donald Trump send your children to die for Israel?
[image: AP]
From the Associated Press: "Chanting “Death to Arabs” and singing “May your village burn,” groups of young Israeli Jews made their way through Muslim neighborhoods of Jerusalem’s Old City on Monday during an annual march marking Israel’s conquest of the eastern part of the city."
A group of young Jewish Israelis followed a Palestinian woman through the streets, calling her “charmouta” — Arabic for “whore.”
Israel has become a nation of sociopaths, so far removed from anything divine that it's no surprise many call it "The Synagogue of Satan". Any group of people that willingly commits genocide, laughs at the death of children, and demands even more blood must be seen as a clear and present danger. Israel in not our ally and it never has been. Israel is deceiving us, extorting our politicians and draining our wealth to achieve its own selfish goals. And when we have nothing left to give them except our land, the next thing they'll be chanting is "Death to Americans. May your cities burn."
I was sent this image of a post by writer CJ Hopkins, no fan of Elon Musk. He writes, "You are reading these words on a communications platform owned and controlled by a US government operative and member of the Military Industrial Complex who "filters" the "visibility" of everything you see. It couldn't get any more Orwellian. Enjoy your "freedom".
I can relate to his feelings. After Musk bought Twitter, I had hoped free speech would return to the social media platform that was little more than an echo chamber for the radical left. I opened a new account and began unleashing some truth. I gently, but firmly, pushed back against the misinformation being vomited out by the few leftists who dared to stay as Twitter morphed into "X". I followed the rules. I was polite, but unwavering. And within two months my account was permanently suspended without an explanation. I appealed the decision. Musk's team ignored me. Later I tried to delete my account, but Twitter refused to let me, I'm guessing so they can retain my data for eternity. So yeah, it couldn't be more Orwellian as millions of people cheer the government operative who they imagine is giving them freedom.
A COVID memorial is being planned in Chicago Illinois with an unveiling set for 2026. I'm mentioning it because it's not the kind of memorial we really need. Instead of being a reminder of the multi-billion dollar psychological operation that world governments put us through, the Chicago monument is meant to reinforce the illusion that a virus killed millions of people before we were saved by Donald Trump's "beautiful shot". It's truly unfortunate that the monument won't mention the avoidable deaths caused by Anthony Fauci's hospital protocol of Remdesivir and ventilators, coupled with the banning of proven treatments such as Ivermectin and Budesonide. It's equally unfortunate that the victims of the COVID vaccines, those millions of people who suffered strokes, heart attacks, miscarriages, and cancer, won't be honored at the memorial. Instead, we'll continue to believe the lies we were fed by institutions we thought we could trust, because we really want to trust those institutions and it's just too scary to accept the truth.
An Unjust Parasitic Entity.
"Without voluntary association, no matter how seemingly pure the system of governance, no matter how many checks and balances, the people are basing the entirety of their desires and dreams on faith in the benevolence and infallibility of the state - an inherently immoral and unjust parasitic entity which exists, and is completely dependent on, forcefully and coercively extorting funds from its populace." -- Karl K. Wuckert
[See more on his Substack page, The Liberated Man.]
