Rotterdam Police Shoot Protestors
The news is full of unpleasant surprises, and that’s no surprise. Business as usual in 2021.
The Dutch, of all people, had a covid riot, and the police fired actual lead bullets at participants. The “progressive” Dutch! I thought all they did was vote for socialists, frequent prostitutes, and smoke dope. American leftists love the Netherlands. How can leftists go on, now that one of their model countries is shooting protestors with lead bullets?
Wait. I forgot. Leftists are okay with GOVERNMENTS owning guns. But American leftists get upset when our police shoot criminals. By “criminals,” I don’t mean people who go to Kroger without masks or dangerous people who feel entitled to contribute their input on the courses their children are taught. I mean violent criminals like Jacob Blake, an accused rapist who was shot at the home of the woman he was accused of raping, while trying to knife a cop.
Shouldn’t they be upset when the police shoot protestors? I don’t think they are. They’re not flipping out about it on American TV.
It’s confusing. The protestors were mostly white, and they were enemies of the gospel of St. Anthony of Fauci, so they were bad, but aren’t all cops bastards? Isn’t that the scientific consensus?
I still remember when leftists hated the government and loved the USSR, and rightists took the opposing positions. Now leftists call rightists “comrade” and take up for the government all the time, except for the police and the military. Rightists aren’t particularly cozy with Russia, but we now side against the government regularly. But we love the military and the police, who…are part of the government.
Anyway, it’s weird to see the Dutch shooting protestors. Whoops. Rioters.
Covid protests are going on all over the world now, in places where you would never expect it, and if you want to find out about it, you have to mine the web. You have to search. MSM journalists are openly hiding it, if openly hiding is something that can actually be done. They’re muffling news people can easily uncover by going around them, thanks to the Tim Berners-Lee, the man who will be remembered as the destroyer of retail stores and history’s single most effective facilitator of the dissemination of pornography.
It’s remarkable when Fox, the anti-establishment channel, buries important stories about covid protests and riots. It shows how flimsy their anti-establishment facade is. Fox is run by death-fearing Northerners, for all its faux pro-red-state posing. They’ll help Republican presidents and air funny stories about people saying, “Let’s go, Brandon,” but they worship at the altar of St. Anthony. If you work for Fox in New York, you take the shots, or you get tested every single day, or you go work for an AM station in Wyoming.
The protest and riot stories are problematic for the MSM, because they shatter the myth that covid measures are well-tolerated by the public. A lot of people are showing up to protest. It’s not just a few American kooks in red hats.
These stories are important.
Civil liberties are important. Leftists and poorly educated people don’t understand this. It’s a very big deal when you tell a citizen of a republic he can’t go outside except for short periods for certain purposes. It’s incarceration. Courts call it “house arrest.” It’s what the Constitution refers to as deprivation of liberty.
In any free country, you should pay attention to citizens who are upset over being deprived of liberty. Frivolous, illegal, and unwarranted mass infringements can’t be tolerated. They lead to authoritarianism. Mass deprivations have to be examined and reexamined, continually.
Making adults take poorly-tested vaccines is a draconian measure. It’s not the same as requiring kids to take old, crusty shots that have proven safe over multiple decades.
There is now research suggesting the mRNA vaccines may reduce the body’s ability to repair severed DNA strands. We were told this was impossible last year. They said nothing would get inside our cell nuclei as a result of these shots, and now scientists at two universities have found vaccine-created spike proteins exactly where they weren’t supposed to be, inhibiting two proteins that help us fix damaged DNA.
DNA damage causes cancer and horrible hereditary diseases. Do the mRNA shots lead to DNA damage that causes catastrophic disease? We don’t know. Should we keep forcing people to take the shots while we wait for the answer?
Right now, the web is full of smug MSM and government articles saying mRNA vaccines can’t change your DNA, but they don’t have to change your DNA to cause problems, do they? If they prevent the repair of DNA damaged by other means, aren’t they accomplishing the same end? I don’t know, but you have to wonder. It looks like researchers need to look into it.
How would you like to find out you and your year-old child had a hereditary predisposition to cancer, caused by an mRNA vaccine? Events like that could lead to some interesting outcomes. You could take the shots, get covid anyway, find out you have cancer while you’re being treated, and then die from both.
Protestors aren’t whiners making a big deal out of nothing. They have to be heard.
Human beings are stupid for practical purposes, even though we don’t have to be. We are not taught to think critically. We could do better, but we prefer to be lazy and irrational. You would think our leaders would be people who were driven by logic, but they aren’t. They run on emotion and cravings for power and admiration. What do they do when they want us to take vaccine shots? Do they present solid arguments? Do they explain things patiently? For the most part, no. Generally, they rely on peer pressure, and when that fails, they use coercion.
Peer pressure and coercion are manipulation. Manipulation is what people use when they won’t or can’t rely on logic, which is truth. Manipulation is evil. No one seems to be talking about the evil of pro-vaccine manipulation. It’s evil even if the vaccines are wonderful and necessary.
The people who want us to take shots have some facts on their side, but instead of relying on facts to get cooperation, they shame us. They arrest us. They fine us. They gaslight us. They feed us misinformation they haven’t vetted. They gag us, nullifying the First Amendment, even when we tell the truth. It’s not a good system, regardless of the goals.
When I was a kid, kids were taught that peer pressure was evil. It was considered obvious. Peer pressure was the biggest factor in promoting drug use and reckless premarital sex. No cheerleader ever slipped off her prom dress and took on the basketball team because it was part of her long-term plan for success and self-improvement.
People were tired of reading that college kids on LSD had jumped out of windows because they thought they could fly. They were tired of finding out local children had drowned in vomit after using heroin. They were tired of seeing girls turn up pregnant. They were upset because their kids were contracting VD. As a result, schools started telling us peer pressure was bad, and they were right.
Now our government is the kid who wants you to smoke your first joint. “Everybody else is doing it.” “You won’t be cool if you don’t do it.” “You can’t hang out with us if you don’t do it.” “It’s actually good for you.” The government/press/entertainment combine is telling us we are malevolent, untouchable ignoramuses if we don’t shoot up.
Yesterday, I told my wife it was unnatural for a society to know less than it knew in the past. I repeat it today. We used to know things we no longer know, even though we know we knew them. That shouldn’t even be possible, except maybe in a Donald Rumsfeld meme.
I’m extremely glad my wife and I didn’t take the mRNA shots. I’m glad we found out about the new research before accepting mRNA boosters. I hope the adenovirus shots we took don’t produce similar concerns. Some think covid itself damages DNA. I hope that isn’t true, but I can’t do anything about it, so it’s a concern that won’t affect my actions.
I keep trying to figure out whether the shots do any good at all. They still tell us they reduce the risk of death very significantly, but they are also telling us 2021 has already produced more than twice as many deaths as non-vaccinated 2020. One hopes skillful interpretation of the statistics will show that the death toll rise would have been worse without vaccines, but nothing is clear right now.
Is it because 2020’s problems started relatively late in the year? Is it because people who got sick in 2020 died in 2021?
So far, the experts haven’t been able to answer simple questions; they tend to parrot guesses made by other experts, often without characterizing them as guesses. The information they give us is very unreliable, so I hold out little hope that it will firm up in the future.
If it weren’t real life, it would be funny if we got a worldwide cancer epidemic a couple of years from now. It would be like the plot of a Terry Gilliam movie. What will the zealots say if something like that happens?
Coronavirus doesn’t make sense. It refuses to yield to logical analysis because it’s a supernatural punishment. That’s why we have a doubled death rate after vaccination. It’s why our experts keep getting everything wrong. God is humiliating science.
When God sent 10 plagues to humiliate the Egyptians, he didn’t pick the plagues randomly. He chose plagues that disgraced Egypt’s false gods, like an angry mother hanging a bedwetter’s sheets out of a window. He sent darkness to shame the sun god. He turned the water into blood to shame the water god. He killed livestock because the Egyptians worshiped a cow. He exposed the magicians of Egypt, showing they were helpless before his power. It looks like he is now allowing a slippery disease that defies our medical gurus, for the purpose of humiliating their god: science.
Of course, science isn’t really their god. Real scientists are slaves to logic, not fear of death and ideology. Real scientists don’t censor reasonable people for political reasons. Modern scientists worship a warped caricature of real science.
God is showing us how weak we are and how little we know. He’s showing us what happens to his protection when we promote sin and pride and shame the obedient.
Meanwhile, the Zambian program of vaccine avoidance, social proximation, mask mandate defiance, and mass prayer to the God of Christianity, directed by the country’s president, is generating 12 reported cases per day, out of 20 million people, in a country where the delta variant has already come and gone.
Florida, with a similar population, is doing great by American standards, and we have an average of 1437 cases per day, or only 120 times the Zambian rate.
The Bible says that if God’s people will pray AND humble themselves AND turn from their sin, he will heal their land. A preacher I like pointed out that it doesn’t say “everyone.” Just God’s people. But America has had no real national day of prayer, even among Christians, and the very idea that we should humble ourselves and admit we have provoked God is anathema. Saying a thing like that can destroy your career. Correction is hate; don’t forget that.
On a related note, I am reading 1984. I saw the movie the other day. It was not easy to watch. The warnings said there was nudity in it, but I figured a very brief glimpse of John Hurt’s rear end was pretty unlikely to entice me to sin. Much the opposite, in fact. Then I found out there were sex scenes, so I had to do some fast-forwarding, even though the actress was not much to look at.
After I saw the movie, I downloaded a PDF from Google Docs and ordered a paperback so I could say I paid royalties.
I’m amazed at how little I remembered. I’m sure I read it when I was a kid, because everyone did. A lot of it seems new to me. A few decades can really suck things out of your memory. I had forgotten, “2+2=5.”
You can dissect the book and come up with lots of clever commentary, but the two things about it that impressed me the most were the Party’s hatred of truth and reliance on peer pressure.
The book is about a post-nuclear future under an authoritarian government, as everyone knows. The protagonist, Winston (named for Churchill, I would guess) is a member of the nation’s only party.
In 1984, the cancel culture is at its zenith. A person can be guilty of saying the wrong thing, thinking the wrong thing (“thoughtcrime”), and even making the wrong face (“facecrime”). When they catch criminals, they don’t just kill them. They torture them for a long time, then they release them, then they capture them again, then they make them give long “confessions” on TV, and then they execute them.
A person who commits a crime is libeled by the state after he is caught, and once he is gone, all mention of him in print is scrubbed, to the extent that it’s possible. Not only does he no longer exist; he never existed in the past. Such people are called “unpersons.”
It’s a lot like what we do today. If you say the wrong thing, even if you’re right (especially if you’re right), you are likely to have leftists try to fix it so whatever fame you have is rendered unprofitable to you. They try to discredit you retroactively. They try to take away your means of making a living.
Leftists appear to respect the concept of thoughtcrime, because they persecute people for not saying things. My friend Mike has a new granddaughter, and there is some question as to how much he will be allowed to interact with her because he refuses to repost leftist propaganda on his Facebook page, where his friends and business contacts would be disturbed by it. Famous people have been “canceled” because they failed to respond to perceived offenses with sufficient vitriol.
Leftists can’t quite make you an unperson, because it’s not possible to get rid of all past references to you. They would do it if they could.
People in 1984 live in constant terror. They’re not just afraid of the Thought Police. They’re afraid of their neighbors and their children. Anyone can denounce them, for any reason or no reason, starting the process of detention and torture.
It’s a lot like being a Republican on Twitter, while working for an employer that fears leftists.
It’s particularly notable that adults in 1984 fear children. Children are much more strongly indoctrinated than adults, and they are feared because they can report misbehavior. This has actually happened under leftist regimes, and Michelle Obama recruited kids to police adults when her husband was in power.
Leftists have a long history of butting into family relationships and trying to train other people’s children (“it takes a village”). If you can prevent parents from teaching their kids, and you can substitute your own dogma for time-honored wisdom, you can break the chain of tradition and create new generations of household spies and true believers. It may be hard to indoctrinate a middle-aged person who has read a few books, but get them while they’re young, and you have a shot. You can train them to be compliant adults, and you can also use them to terrorize their families, relieving you of the trouble and expense of monitoring them by other means.
Michelle Obama told kids to monitor their elders and correct them when they were perceived to be politically incorrect. No one should have to take correction from a child. It’s perverse. Children are foolish, and our job is to correct them.
When I was a kibbutz volunteer, I slept in a little building across from a dormitory called the Beit Zimmer. The kibbutz was founded by starry-eyed, Stalinist state-worshipers, and they believed kids needed to be raised by the village, not unreliable parents, so they took kids and kept them together in the Beit Zimmer. Eventually, they gave up on it, because the whole idea was unbearable. They got the notion from mainstream leftists. It was nothing new.
Americans are allowed to keep their kids at home, but we have teachers suspending kids for saying, correctly, that there are only two genders. We have kids being suspended for protected political speech. We have kids who are given bad grades for rejecting discredited socialist ideas.
Satan is all about the fatherless. God is our true father, and like a father, he teaches us and helps us not to believe stupid things. God gives us earthly fathers to assist with this. Satan has a long history of coming between children and parents so he can be a fake father and fill their hearts with excrement. This is why Jesus said some Jews who opposed him were sons of hell. They didn’t listen to God, who wanted to be their father. They listened to a supplanter.
Satan undermined Western fathers with toxic feminism. America is largely matriarchal now, and we suffer because of it. Deluded women are the main reason corrosive leftists are elected to powerful offices. It’s not surprising. The first known woman deposed her husband and God and voted for Satan.
Satan is also overempowering children. He wants a state where both women and children have great power over us, because he knows they will rule stupidly and advance his cause. Isaiah pointed out that it was a curse to have men of wisdom removed and to be ruled by women and children.
Orwell’s book was published in 1949, it was read all over the world, and it showed how awful it was for children to dominate adults. It showed how important it was for parents to lead and children to be kept in their place. The world did absolutely nothing to address the problem.
Rewriting history is basically the same thing as undermining fathers. It interferes with inheritance. A society that writes things down provides an inheritance of knowledge for future generations. When you get to erase the truth and write down lies, you take the inheritance away and replace it with poison.
In modern America, leftists work hard to record history incorrectly. For example, right now, they are all over the web and the airwaves, recording false information intended to convince people Kyle Rittenhouse is a criminal, as though it were an obvious and foregone conclusion no reasonable person could question. If it weren’t for people who write down the truth, the leftist lies would become accepted history in the future. Our descendants would be denied their inheritance of truth and fed a plate of arsenic and thorazine.
Leftists have even rewritten the Bible, our most precious written inheritance. They’ve taken out things they don’t like. They’ve even called God “she.” Ian McKellen, a homosexual, claims that when he stays in hotels, he takes Gideon Bibles and rips out the pages criticizing perversion. He thinks it’s cute. He grins when he talks about it.
Those pages are extremely important. They prevent those who take them to heart from indulging in practices God calls “abomination.” Those pages have kept people from being burned in hell.
Since I’ve been reading the book, I’ve learned something very interesting. Orwell was a socialist. I had always thought he hated socialism, because he wrote two books that undermined it. I was wrong. Orwell was deluded. He thought it was possible to have socialism without authoritarianism, even though he wrote Animal Farm.
It shows how a person who doesn’t know God can see part of the picture and still swallow enough poop to do him in.
I guess he was one of the many fools who think the only problem with socialism is that we don’t do it right. Orwell was fatherless, so he had no one to teach him the truth. He didn’t know his father in heaven.
Orwell was guilty of “doublethink,” which was the Party’s word for cognitive dissonance. He believed two contradictory things at once. He was for socialism but against authoritarianism, which is a natural consequence of socialism, as Orwell knew.
It’s sad to see how 1984 resembles modern America. We are becoming afraid of each other. We bend the knee to anyone we think might denounce us.
The social giants now perform the task of 1984’s Ministry of Truth, where texts were destroyed and rewritten. They delete the accounts and postings of people who disseminate important information and reasoned opinion, simply because the new ministries disagree.
Nigeria’s T.B. Joshua had one of the world’s most powerful ministries, and Youtube was packed with his videos. He cast out demons. He healed cripples on camera. He destroyed tumors. He taught people how to know God. Youtube removed all of his helpful, important videos because he cast demons of sexual perversion out of a grown man who asked him for much-needed help. Youtube decided a customary, Bible-sanctioned practice which is an important part of the world’s most popular religion was not fit for public consumption. Youtube also decided the West’s opinions about homosexuality were valid and the beliefs of Africans were not.
By removing Joshua’s channel, Youtube cut people off from part of their divine inheritance. They did Satan’s job. May God destroy their power and abase them for that. I plan to curse Youtube from time to time. I started today.
I don’t expect to learn anything new from the rest of the book. Every lesson it could be expected to teach me has been played out in real life already, starting before I was born.