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The Lockdown Turned Liberals into Nazis
I don’t know why the pandemic lockdown turned so many of my liberal friends into Nazis, but it did. Of course, they don’t see themselves as Nazis, they just think they are doing their part to “flatten the curve” or whatever, and wish they could do more. They’re not interested in discussing the wisdom of any of the democracy-crushing measures instituted in the name of “Public Health.” If you disagree with them, it’s only because you are a stupid, selfish, racist, Trump-worshiping, flat-earther.
That’s why you cannot be trusted to make responsible decisions for yourself, and should be coerced through media censorship, economic sanctions, social pressure, and physical violence, if necessary, to comply with any and all Public Health diktats, regardless of how draconian, whether they work or not, and no matter how much harm they cause. My liberal friends tell me to shut-up, sign the papers, take the shots, and “trust the experts,” because unless we all do it, it won’t work for any of us. The absurdity of that position is completely lost on them, and they don’t realize that attitude makes them Nazis.
They don’t realize that all of a sudden they look dumber than Trump, more bigoted than the Proud Boys, and scarier than the KKK. If I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes, and experienced it first hand, I would not have believed that my liberal friends would fall for this flood of bioengineered bullshit, but they swallowed every last bit of it and they’re begging for more.
So, now I’m surrounded by liberal Jewish, feminist, LGBTQ, and SNAG Nazis, and they’re all goose-stepping right into the gas-chambers. They don’t know they’ve signed-up for a lethal injection lottery in the name of “Public Health,” but that’s exactly what they did. They don’t know that they are capitulating to global Nazism and selling their children into slavery, without a fight, but they are.
I think the lockdown did something to them. All of that time spent in mediated, propaganda-saturated, virtual environments, physically separated from other humans, must have affected their thinking. Perhaps, because of the isolation, they failed to catch the cynical smirks, outbursts of incredulity, and disbelieving eye-rolls of their peers that would have tipped them off that no part of this pandemic story was believable.
Instead, they meekly accepted the cowardly anonymity of mask and screen. They abandoned the real world for a “safe” online “experience,” and now they’re cooperating with a global Nazi coup because they are afraid of a respiratory virus. Whether the lockdown did something to them, or merely revealed something about them, it really hurts to watch it happen to my friends.
As disappointed as I am in them, and I’m very disappointed, I still consider them friends. More importantly, I still consider them people. I still recognize them as my community. I know that my fate is intimately wrapped-up with theirs, and that we need each other to survive this. That is why I speak-out about it, and that’s why I’m writing to you. I don’t care if you’re offended. I want you to know that it’s not OK to remain silent. It’s not OK to censor, and it’s not OK to comply with any more “Public Health” orders that muzzle our voices or limit our right to assemble.
Cooperating with Nazis makes you a Nazi. Cooperating with Nazis makes you an accessory to their crimes against humanity, and cooperating with Nazis will get you killed. It’s time to wake-up, friends, because that’s not how I want to remember you.
Censored by The Indie
I submitted this letter to the Humboldt Indie, my local paper, twice. I received no response from staff, nor was the letter printed in the paper. I don’t know why I even bother anymore.
Dear Editor,
I do appreciate that The Indie provides me with free dry kindling each week, however, your coverage of the pandemic really burns me up.
Once upon a time, Kelly Lincoln promised a report about the documents Pfizer was forced to release under a court order stemming from an FOIA request. That report never materialized, instead she gives us the same nonsensical fear-mongering spiel we get from corporate media. Worse are the editorials submitted on behalf of SoHum Health, written by people with no medical expertise, full of false claims and misleading statements with no sources sited at all. But SoHum Health’s recent ad really blew my mind.
In the ad, SoHum Health informs readers that “If you’re ages 12 and up and it’s been at least two months since you’ve had any Covid vaccine or booster, it’s time for a boost!” TWO MONTHS!
What happened to the original claim that the initial 2-jab vaccine was “absolutely safe and absolutely effective.” The original vaccine promised lifelong protection from disease and an end to the pandemic. Why didn’t it live up to those expectations? Why was no one held accountable for that? Why would we ever trust the people who told us that lie again?
By now many people in this community have taken three or four of these injections, and most of the people I know who took these injections, subsequently got sick from Covid. Some of them have gotten sick from Covid two or three times since they got “vaccinated.” If those people are not immune to Covid by now, I daresay they never will be.
A “vaccine” that requires a “booster” every two months is no vaccine at all. What the hell is it? Why does SoHum Health continue to recommend these shots even though they obviously do not prevent infection or stop the spread of disease? Most importantly, why don’t Indie reporters ever ask these questions?
Frankly, The Indie’s coverage of the pandemic has served only one purpose, and that is to undermine the credibility of both SoHum Health and The Indie. I used to respect The Indie as a reliable source of local news. I miss that. Now, I’m just thankful that it burns. As for SoHum Health, I’m simply disgusted.
Sincerely,
John Hardin
Censored by the NCJ
I submitted this Letter to the Editor to the North Coast Journal last week. They did not print it. I was not at all surprised by that.
Dear Editor,
What a surprise to find two thoughtful, perceptive and spot-on letters to the editor in the NCJ last week. Both D Lamar Hudson and Amy Gustin raise important points about the newly reignited abortion debate. For the last two years, the NCJ has endorsed vaccine mandates, vaccine apartheid, and even suggested that we embrace a policy of forcibly injecting vaccine-resistant citizens against their will, all the while disparaging and censoring anyone who opposed those gross violations of human and civil rights, so it was clever rhetoric, albeit inaccurate and misleading, to attempt to frame a woman’s right to abortion in other terms, terms like “reproductive rights.”
Hudson explains why the term “reproductive rights” does not apply to abortion. A woman’s right to abortion derives from the inalienable human right of bodily sovereignty and the constitutionally guaranteed right of privacy. Unless we uphold both of these principles as sacred inviolable human rights for everyone, a woman’s right to an abortion becomes tenuous. Here’s why:
The State has an obligation to punish the taking of human life. However, the State also has an obligation to respect the rights of the accused. A woman’s bodily sovereignty gives her the right to choose to abort. Her right to privacy deprives the State of evidence that a life has been taken. That’s why a woman’s right to choose is not contingent on whether life begins at conception or birth.
Unfortunately, Amy Gustin correctly observes that the NCJ and Democrats in general have thrown bodily sovereignty and privacy under the bus in their passion to embrace intrusive Covid policies. This embrace, to quote Hannah Arendt,* “was like a political demonstration… that no such thing as inalienable rights existed and that affirmations… to the contrary were mere prejudice, hypocrisy and cowardice.” God help us.
Sincerely,
John Hardin
rom: The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt, Chapter 9- Decline of the Nation-State and the End of the Rights of Man, p. 269
This Saturday July 23 at the Mateel in Redway
I’ll play my first SoHum gig in years this Saturday at The Mateel Community Center on Rusk Ln in Redway as part of Steve’s Big Rock Show. The show starts at 3pm. See you there!
Having Too Much Fun IRL
It’s been kind of a while since I’ve posted anything here. I guess I’ve just been having too much fun in real life to worry about what’s going on in VR. Also, most of my inspiration has been musical lately. Music is so much bigger than words, and any musical project demands much more energy than a simple essay. I’ve got a lot of musical projects in the works right now, so it’s a little overwhelming.
I’ve been brushing up my bass chops and learning a bunch of songs by Teri Smolens and Seabury Gould of The Control Group. We played out together for the first time last month at Siren’s Song, and we got a great response. We have another gig coming up Friday July 29th at the Mad River Brewery in Blue Lake. The Control Group plays topical songs that address current events. The show is called “The Pandemic Newsical” and includes songs like “Lockdown Blues,” “Walking Biohazard,” and “Fauci, He’s No Hero.” The Pandemic Newsical offers an entertaining, humorous, and educational take on the events that changed our lives so dramatically in the last couple of years.
Teri writes terrific songs in the tradition of classic Americana. She’s like the Tom Lehrer of Covid. Seabury Gould is a masterful multi-instrumentalist and it is a great pleasure to play with them. The music is so friendly, and these tunes so cleverly crafted and full of biting humor that it really feels great to be laying down basslines for them.
Of course I still play my didgeridoo, both as a solo artist, and with Sean Powers as the Hardin-Powers Act. Sean and I will play a SoHum gig on Saturday July 23rd at the Mateel Community Center in Redway. It’s the first time I’ve played in SoHum for many years, so I’m looking forward to playing for my neighbors.
Music has a power that transcends mere words, and live music in the real world has a magic that you will never find online. The online world is controlled, monitored and manipulated, but the real world is still free and life can still happen there, if you have the courage and make the effort to show up. I think live music matters now more than ever. If we are going to survive as a nation, as a culture, and as a community, it will only be because we got offline and started living in the real world again.
What Happened to Liberals and Progressives?
Just so you know where I’m coming from: I was raised in a union family, and I served as a UAW shop steward for a time. My mother never let me forget the importance of a woman’s right to safe, legal access to reproductive medical care, including abortion. I’ve been politically active and outspoken most of my life, advocating for cannabis legalization and an end to the War on Drugs, saner environmental policies, and civil rights. I supported Bernie Sanders, and I think European style socialism, like you find in Sweden, Norway and Denmark, looks pretty good from my perspective.
I also despise Trump. I hate rich people on principle. People don’t get rich by accident, and it is neither a noble nor worthy goal. People get rich by making other people poor, and taking advantage of them, not necessarily in that order. They do it because money is how men with no talent get laid, and Trump is the perfect example of that. I find him obnoxious, boorish and dim-witted, and I would vote for an infectious disease before I would vote for him.
Really, I would vote for Covid-19 for President of the United States before I would vote for Trump. Considering the alternatives, why not? Covid-19 has great name recognition. Thanks to a hugely successful pandemic with numerous variant sequels, no one has wooed the media in the last two years more than that spikey little coronavirus. Of course all Covid-19 has done is kill people and make them sick, so Covid-19 has some image problems to work out. But, considering that both presumed candidates supported Operation Warp Speed and share responsibility for the Covid Vaccine Disaster that has already killed more people than Covid-19, and promises to keep killing Americans through the election cycle, I think Covid-19 can win the 2024 presidential election. But I digress.
My point is, that until the pandemic, I identified with liberals and progressive Democrats more than anyone else in the political spectrum. Today, however, when I hear liberals and progressives cheer vaccine mandates, censorship, lockdown measures, and medical tyranny, it turns my stomach. When liberals and progressives sneer at personal freedom and advocate authoritarianism in the name of “Public Health,” they cross a very bright line, and it should give them pause. When you throw civil rights under the bus in favor of public safety, you are asking for a very different kind of country. I know that I, and I suspect that you, really don’t want to live in in that kind of place.
When we forget the principles that unite us, despite our differences, only our differences remain. I will stand for personal freedom, bodily autonomy, privacy, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and freedom of association for everyone, including myself. When we stand together on those uniting principles, we have the power to insure them for everyone. Without those uniting principles, the movement shatters into a jumble of militant minorities with narrowly-focused agendas and narrow-minded constituents.
If I have to roll up my sleeve to get a job, why should I care if you have to spread your legs to get one. If I can’t go to a restaurant, concert or bar because I’m unvaccinated, why should I care if you can’t get in because you are Black or Jewish. If my doctor is censored, vilified and driven underground because he practices alternative medicine, why should I care if you are censored, vilified and driven underground because of your alternative sexual practices. Without the overarching principles of personal freedom, bodily autonomy and human dignity, Progressives lack the vitality to inspire solidarity.
More starkly, by embracing media censorship over the principle of Free Speech, by trusting government spokesmen rather than investigating evidence of the illegal bio-weapons program that spawned Covid-19, by turning against your unvaccinated and mask-averse neighbors instead of condemning the criminality of lockdown measures that disrupted our lives and bankrupted over a million small businesses, and by buying into the corrupt Covid vaccine scheme which killed hundreds of thousands of Americans and siphoned billions of tax-dollars into the coffers of Big Pharma, progressives helped facilitate a global fascist coup that annihilated our civil rights, free press, and national sovereignty in favor of global “Public Health” authoritarianism that serves the very narrow interests of a few technocratic billionaires.
These are not the “progressives” I remember. Progressives know better than to trust government, even when it’s run by Democrats. Progressives know that in politics, stated goals are never real goals, and real goals are usually nefarious. Progressives know that corporations lie to them and take advantage of them at every opportunity, and that disasters create opportunities. Progressives know that unless you keep a watchful and skeptical eye on your government, and keep it moored to the principles upon which it was founded, it won’t be long before the atrocities start, and once they start, those atrocities become very difficult to stop. That’s why Progressives need to come to their senses right now! It’s already too late.
Played Like a Fiddle
As soon as the bombs started falling on Ukraine, the memes started dropping on Facebook. Suddenly, I’m getting bombed by blue and yellow Support Ukraine memes, followed by Boogieman Putin memes, Ukrainian refugees with their pets memes, and heroic Ukrainian freedom fighter memes. This is what a 21st Century propaganda war looks like. I don’t know where these memes come from, but they were clearly created by professionals, and released strategically.
Don’t get me wrong. I have only sympathy, compassion and concern for the people of Ukraine and my prayers go out to them. I also have sympathy, compassion and prayers for the Russian soldiers who have no desire to kill Ukrainian people or destroy their homes, but who have been sent on this tragic errand. I have no affection for Putin, and I condemn this invasion. However, the US invades sovereign nations all the time, with much less provocation. If we can’t control our own government’s military aggression, who are we to complain about Russia’s.
What is missing from this deluge of propaganda, is any acknowledgment of US culpability in this dreadful situation. There’s no mention of the long-term CIA operations to install pro-western governments all over Eastern Europe, especially the Ukraine, or of how those operations foment and finance Nazi movements that have persisted in Ukraine since WWII. Nor do they mention the business deals which insure that Ukrainian wealth, humanity and resources be exploited by oligarchs in Berlin, London, and New York, rather than those in Moscow.
On the ground, in that part of the world, there is great disagreement over which of those two “trading partners” offer a better deal, and more than a few idealistic Ukrainians would prefer to cultivate a free and independent nation without any unwelcome influence from abroad. Most, however, would prefer any of the above options, to war.
Considering US culpability as the driving force behind NATO’s eastward expansion, We the People, bear responsibility for this mess, even though most of us had no idea what our government was doing over there behind our backs. This is a problem. Our government represents us, and when our government commits really horrible, atrocious crimes against humanity, We the People are to blame. However, We the People are the most media-hypnotized people on Earth, and consequently, corporate interests can obtain our permission, through hypnosis, to use our government in any way they choose.
Let me say that again. We are the most media-hypnotized people on Earth, and corporate interests use media hypnosis to get our permission to use our government to do their dirty work. It’s called “Manufactured Consent.” We get bombarded with one-sided propaganda promoting an impossibly simple, unbelievably naive narrative about Ukraine, just at the moment that their impossibly simple, unbelievably naive narrative about Covid began to collapse.
Russia launched its invasion, just as 2021 US mortality rates revealed a shockingly high death toll. The US overall mortality rate, which remained unchanged through the 2020 Covid pandemic, shot up by 40% in 2021 following the roll-out of Covid vaccines. That’s an unprecedented spike in overall mortality. Researchers estimate that lockdown measures reduced the average American’s life expectancy by almost 2 years, another shocking impact, and a recent study by the Harvard School of Applied Economics revealed that lockdown measures did almost no good, for the enormous amount of harm they caused.
I’m just warning you that the people feeding you this bullshit about Ukraine are the same people who convinced you to needlessly live under house arrest for two years, take potentially lethal injections of experimental drugs that don’t work, and wear a mask that you know doesn’t stop the fine particulate matter associated with forest-fires, but somehow prevents the spread of a virus that is a hundred times smaller.
As I see it, there are four great tragedies playing out here:
1. The tragedy of war in Ukraine, for which we bear some responsibility.
2. The Tragedy of US Foreign Policy, driven by oligarchs, promoted through corporate media and drenched in the blood of humanity that stains the hands of every American. The crimes against humanity attributed to our out-of-control government’s policies would, in fact does, fill many volumes. For brevity’s sake only, let’s leave it at that.
3. The Tragedy of Media Monopoly, internet censorship, and the deluge of propaganda that manipulated Americans into doing far more harm, not only to millions of people all over the world, but to themselves, their fellow citizens and their own country, than any foreign power could dream of.
4. Finally, The Tragedy of the American People. Thousands of Americans died needlessly because they were denied early treatment to Covid. Tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of people died, and continue to die, from adverse reactions to Covid vaccines, and thousands more people died deaths of despair as they watched their businesses, marriages, and/or careers collapse under lockdown measures. Perhaps worst of all, in the midst of this tragedy, a kind of insanity has taken hold.
In this socially atomized, media-hypnotized, environment of fear and isolation, Americans are shell-shocked, confused and traumatized. They have no idea where to turn. Out of habit, they turn on the TV; they read the news; they scroll through their feed, because they don’t know what else to do. So, they still live in a virtual reality where Covid vaccines are “safe and effective” and the disease is worth sacrificing your quality of life to avoid. The media continues to ignore the mountain of Covid “vaccine” injuries, while Biden’s administration keeps pushing Americans into this new medical authoritarianism that censors the wails of grieving families while it floods cyberspace with electronic propaganda.
The schizophrenia has taken a toll on the American psyche, and understandably so. Without a firm grip on reality, we’re left rudderless in a shit-storm of sophisticated propaganda. Unfortunately, the technocrats spreading this propaganda know this, and they know how to capitalize on the injuries they’ve already inflicted. Thus far, they’ve played us like a fiddle, and they’re still calling the tune. Regardless of the situation in Ukraine, the tragedy of the American people strikes closest to home, and that’s the one I’m most concerned about.
An Unpublished Letter to the NCJ
I submitted this letter to the North Coast Journal after they announced that they were going to stop focusing on pandemic fearmongering. This is the letter they refused to print:
Dear Editor,
I’m so glad to hear that the NCJ will stop hyper-focusing on Covid. While I am most eager to get back to living a less severely restricted life, I know that a lot of us have questions about what we just went through. For instance: Why did following “Best Medical Practices” as ordered by our Public Health officials, lead to the worst case scenario for our community?
We in the US comprise 4% of the world’s human population, but we suffered 15% of the world’s Covid casualties, despite the fact, or perhaps because of the fact, that Public Health authorities turned our lives upside-down in response. Why did all of the emergency measures, that disrupted our lives so dramatically, fail so spectacularly? Who is responsible, not only at the national level, but also here in Humboldt? How can we insure that nothing like this ever happens again?
And while we are on the subject of medical malfeasance. Why are the world’s most vaccinated nations, like Israel and the UK, seeing the biggest surges of Omicron? Why are so many people dying suddenly after vaccination? Why does anyone still recommend or require Covid vaccines given their complete failure to stop the disease, and their proven danger? Specifically, why didn’t the NCJ report on the spike in death and injury reports to CDC’s VAERS system following the Covid “vaccine” rollout?
Finally, why did the NCJ use such sleazy rhetoric, including scapegoating and dehumanizing epithets, to marginalize anyone who disagreed with those disastrous Public Health diktats? We deserve answers to these questions, and if you ever expect us to trust you again, you’ve got some explaining to do.
Sincerely,
John Hardin
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