State power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the straitjacket of its laws. Its intellectual form of expression is dead dogma, its physical form brute force. The state can train subjects, but it can never develop free people who take their affairs into their own hands, for independent thought is the greatest danger that it has to fear.
--Rudolf Rocker
The following audio podcast is a shortened version of a video
interview from a few weeks ago. Our conversation touched on many
aspects of the CIA’s devious role in so many aspects of history,
including its relentless lying attacks on the Kennedy family that go
back decades, its assassinations of Kennedys, and its egregious
character assassination of RFK, Jr. His recent book, The Real Anthony Fauci, has been ignored by the mainstream media because they speak for the CIA, as they have been doing for decades,
and Kennedy is a great threat to their stranglehold on the truth. We
discuss many issues: Operation Mockingbird, Anthony Fauci, Covid, Noam
Chomsky and his acolytes, JFK, the CIA’s long deep involvement in germ warfare, the militarizing of medicine, and its pushing of drugs, etc.
The Histrionics and Melodrama Around 1/6 Are Laughable, but They Serve Several Key Purposes
As
Kamala Harris compares 1/6 to 9/11 and Nancy Pelosi introduces the cast
of Hamilton to sing about democracy, today's inanity should not obscure
its dangers.
A
pro-Trump protester carries the lectern of U.S. Speaker of the House
Nancy Pelosi through the Roturnda of the U.S. Capitol Building (Photo by
Win McNamee/Getty Images)
The number of people killed
by pro-Trump supporters at the January 6 Capitol riot is equal to the
number of pro-Trump supporters who brandished guns or knives inside the
Capitol. That is the same number as the total of Americans who — after a
full year of a Democrat-led DOJ conducting what is heralded
as “the most expansive federal law enforcement investigation in US
history” — have been charged with inciting insurrection, sedition,
treason or conspiracy to overthrow the government as a result of that
riot one year ago. Coincidentally, it is the same number as Americans
who ended up being criminally charged by the Mueller probe of conspiring
with Russia over the 2016 election, and the number of wounds — grave or
light — which AOC, who finally emerged at night to assure
an on-edge nation that she was “okay" while waiting in an office
building away from the riot at the rotunda, sustained on that solemn
day.
That number is zero. But just as these rather crucial facts
do not prevent the dominant wing of the U.S. corporate media and
Democratic Party leaders from continuing to insist that Donald Trump's
2016 election victory was illegitimate due to his collusion with the
Kremlin, it also does not prevent January 6 from being widely described
in those same circles as an Insurrection, an attempted coup, an event as
traumatizing as Pearl Harbor (2,403 dead) or the 9/11 attack (2,977
dead), and as the gravest attack on American democracy since the mid-19th Century Civil War (750,000 dead). The Huffington Post's White House reporter S.V. Date said that it was wrong to compare 1/6 to 9/11, because the former — the three-hour riot at the Capitol — was “1,000 percent worse.”
Indeed,
when it comes to melodrama, histrionics, and exploitation of fear
levels from the 1/6 riot, there has never been any apparent limit. And
today — the one-year anniversary of that three-hour riot — there is no
apparent end in sight. Too many political and media elites are far too
vested in this maximalist narrative for them to relinquish it
voluntarily.
The orgy of psychodrama today was so much worse and
more pathetic than I expected — and I expected it to be extremely bad
and pathetic. “House Democrats [waited] their turn on the House floor to
talk to Dick Cheney as a beacon for American democracy,” reported
CNN's Edward-Isaac Dovere; “One by one, Democrats are coming over to
introduce themselves to former VP Dick Cheney and shake his hand,” added ABC News’ Ben Siegel. Nancy Pelosi gravely introduced Lin-Manuel Miranda and the cast of Hamilton to sermonize and sing about the importance of American democracy. The Huffington Post's senior politics reporter Igor Bobic unironically expressed gratitude
for “the four legged emotional support professionals roaming the
Capitol this week, helping officers, staffers, and reporters alike” —
meaning therapy dogs. Yesterday, CNN's Kaise Hunt announced: "Tomorrow
is going to be a tough one for those of us who were there or had loved
ones in the building. Thinking of all of you and finding strength
knowing I’m not alone in this." Unsurprisingly but still repellently:
Kamala Harris today compared 1/6 to 9/11.
That the January 6 riot was some sort of serious attempted
insurrection or "coup” was laughable from the start, and has become even
more preposterous with the passage of time and the emergence of more
facts. The United States is the most armed, militarized and powerful
regime in the history of humanity. The idea that a thousand or so Trump
supporters, largely composed of Gen X and Boomers, who had been locked
in their homes during a pandemic — three of whom were so physically
infirm that they dropped dead from the stress — posed anything
approaching a serious threat to “overthrow” the federal government of
the United States of America is such a self-evidently ludicrous
assertion that any healthy political culture would instantly expel
someone suggesting it with a straight face.
Putting the events
of January 6 into their proper perspective is not to dismiss the fact
that it was a lamentable event — any more than opposing the exploitation
of 9/11 and exaggeration of the domestic threat of Muslim extremism,
which I spent a full decade doing, meant that one was denying the
heinousness of that attack. The day after the 1/6 riot, I wrote in this space that
“the introduction of physical force into political protest is always
lamentable, usually dangerous, and, except in the rarest of
circumstances that are plainly inapplicable here, unjustifiable.” I
still believe that to be the case. There was nothing virtuous about the
1/6 riot.
But it is typically the case that fear-mongering and
deliberate exaggeration of threats has an element of truth to them. Al
Qaeda and ISIS really did want to carry out mass-casualty events on U.S.
soil. COVID is a fatal virus that can kill people and has done so
around the world. There are right-wing extremists in the U.S. bent on
using violence to advance their political agenda, just as there are
left-wing extremists and anarchist insurrectionary movements and many
other types eager to do the same (more destruction was caused by the latter than the former over the last two years, to say nothing of the dozens of journalists physically assaulted by individuals participating in Antifa protests).
Far
too many centers of political and economic power benefit from an
exaggerated and even false narrative about January 6 to expect it ever
to end.
Thanks to
Left(Flank)…not behind for recommending this video. It's on Rumble so I'll have to link it: https://rumble.com/vrxzct-video-title-the-semi-inside-story-of-why-trump-refused-to-pardon-snowden-an.html
Greenwald says of the video,
For months, Trump indicated -- publicly but
especially privately -- that he was strongly considering pardoning NSA
whistleblower Edward Snowden, and considering a pardon for WikiLeaks
founder Julian Assange. Yet Trump vacated the White House on January 20,
2021 without doing either, leaving two of the prime enemies of the Deep
State in exile and in prison, respectively. Why did Trump refuse to
pardon two of the people who most bravely exposed the crimes and deceit
of these security state agencies that targeted him? I share some
insights from the work I did in trying to secure a pardon for each.
Here's the transcript on Substack:
Video Transcript: The Semi-Inside Story of Why Trump Refused to Pardon Snowden and Assange
For
months, Trump indicated that he was strongly considering pardoning NSA
whistleblower Edward Snowden, and considering a pardon for Assange as
well. Yet he never did. Why?
In an interview at Mar-a-Logo, Candace Owens presses Donald Trump on
why he did not pardon either Edward Snowden or Julian Assange, Dec. 29,
2021
When Donald Trump vacated
the White House on January 20, 2021, it became clear that he had
refused to issue two pardons which many of his most ardent supporters
were advocating and even expecting: one for the NSA whistleblower Edward
Snowden, who has spent eight years in exile in Russia for revealing to
American citizens that the Obama-era NSA was secretly and
unconstitutionally spying en masse on their communications and
other online activities, and Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder whose
reporting in 2010 on grave crimes by the U.S. and its allies and in
2016 on the Clinton campaign were among the most consequential
journalism stories of the last two decades.
Trump's failure to
pardon either of them fostered disappointment and anger in many circles —
“Trump left the White House about as weak, cucked, and submissive as
it's possible for a grown adult to scamper away,” I tweeted
on that day, with an obviously considerable mix of each sentiment. That
reaction was due to the fact that Trump himself had raised the
possibility that he might pardon Snowden — infuriating everyone from
Susan Rice to Liz Cheney — and was also actively considering a pardon
for Assange. Given that it is virtually impossible to imagine any other
U.S. president even remotely considering such a move, Trump seemed to be
not just the best but the last chance for either of these two
courageous dissidents to finally earn their freedom and be able to go
home. That many of Trump's most trusted Congressional allies [such as
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) and Matt Gaetz (R-FL)] were strongly advocating
for a pardon of one or both), and because Trump himself harbored so many
valid personal reasons for wanting to confront these security state
agencies — he had, as much as anyone, seen first-hand how pernicious and
sinister these agencies can be, and what grave menaces they pose for
American democracy — it was difficult for many people to understand why
he did not pardon one or both of them.
This question was raised again last week when Candace Owens interviewed Trump at Mar-a-Lago and pressed him quite persistently
on his rationale for failing to issue these pardons. It was the first
time Trump had been publicly confronted about his decision not to do so,
and Owens adeptly challenged him with all of the reasons she and many
others believed he should have. Everyone can judge for themselves, but
Trump appeared clearly chastened and uncharacteristically timid in
explaining himself, insisting he was “very close” to pardoning one of them (Snowden) but ultimately suggesting that he "was too nice” to do it.
The question that obviously emerges from that answer: too nice to whom?
To the U.S. security services — the CIA, NSA and FBI — which had spent
four years doing everything possible to sabotage and undermine Trump and
his presidency with their concoction of Russiagate and other leaks of false accusations
to their corporate media allies? Too nice to the war-mongering servants
of the military-industrial complex in the establishment wings of both
parties who were the allies of those security services in attempting to
derail Trump's America First foreign policy agenda? Too nice to John
Brennan, James Clapper and Susan Rice, the Obama-era security officials
most eager to see both Assange and Snowden rot in prison for life
because they exposed Obama's spying crimes and the Democrats’ corruption
in 2016? Trump's “I'm too nice” explanation is, shall we say, less than
persuasive.
As most readers know, I very vocally advocated for a
pardon of each throughout 2020 — in this space, on Fox News, on social
media, on countless other shows, in every platform I could find. I did
so in part out of journalistic duty (I believe it is my ethical
obligation to do everything possible to secure protection of my source,
Edward Snowden); friendship (I count each of them as friends); but most
of all out of political conviction (I believe it would have been one of
the greatest and most beneficial blows, if not the greatest, to the
impunity and omnipotence which the Deep State has enjoyed in Washington
for decades if their demands were brushed aside and the two people who
did as much as anyone to reveal their crimes were protected and heralded
rather than imprisoned and destroyed.
But beyond my public
advocacy, I also engaged in extensive efforts privately to do everything
possible to secure a pardon for each of them. I did not hide that I was
doing this: I was candid at the time that I was trying. But because
those efforts involved private conversations with people close to or
inside of the Trump circle, I did not talk about them because doing so
would have undermined those efforts, and I did not want to do anything
that might have jeopardized the campaign to secure their freedom. Now
that Trump is publicly speaking about his decision, I decided it was
time to share what I know about Trump’s decision-making process as a
result of my involvement in that private campaign. On Tuesday, we
published a 30-minute video report on Rumble
to examine the answers. I do know some of the story, but not all of it,
so the video report we produced bears the humble and cautious title:
"The Semi-Inside Story of Why Trump Refused to Pardon Snowden and
Assange.” I tried hard to avoid speculation and instead confine myself
to what I actually know. You can watch that video on Rumble
or on the video player below; as always, for those who prefer to read
it rather than watch, we have also produced a full transcript of the
program that appears below.
On a separate note: I wanted to remind
readers that all episodes for the weekly podcast I host on the great
new app Callin are available online and can be heard here.
The last episode on Wednesday night explored Australia's refusal to
allow the unvaccinated tennis star Novak Djokovic to enter their country
to play in the Australian Open and what this shows about the utter
irrationality of current COVID policy; I also devoted some of that show
to anticipating and analyzing the one-year anniversary of 1/6. The
separate weekly podcast show I co-host with the Canadian leftist
journalist Andray Domise can also be heard online; our last episode was taped before days before New Year's and is a year-end review focused on the sustained and growing civil
liberties assaults from COVID, along with everything relating to the
Biden presidency. Although, currently, the app itself is needed to
participate in the live shows and ask questions and that app is still
available only to iPhone users, it will also be available to Android
users very, very shortly — within a few weeks or so is the estimate. For
now, all episodes are posted to the web immediately after they are
taped so that they can be heard by everyone.
The following is a full transcript of Glenn Greenwald’s Rumble video report:“The Semi-Inside Story of Why Trump Refused to Pardon Snowden and Assange,” published on Jan, 4 2021. Click the link here
to watch the full program on Rumble, or watch the video on the player
below (we post the YouTube version here on Substack only because we are
forced to by virtue of the fact that Substack has not yet enabled
embedding of Rumble videos).
Glenn Greenwald: Hey,
everyone, it's Glenn Greenwald, and I'm back with a new episode of
System Update here on our home on Rumble, and I want to give as much as I
can of an inside look into why it is that former President Trump did
not pardon either Edward Snowden or Julian Assange, as many expected
that he would prior to leaving the White House.
This is a topic
that has been much discussed over the past year. The discussion
intensified as he was in the transition, getting ready to leave the
White House, and it's been rejuvenated as a result of a recent interview
he did with Candace Owens, where she asked him quite assertively and
pressed him on why it is that he didn't pass the pardon on either of
them, and his answer in which he indicated that he was very close to
pardoning one, but not necessarily the other, rose once again these
questions about why it is that Trump didn't issue these pardons and what
really happened. And as someone who was involved both publicly,
obviously, but also behind the scenes in trying to secure pardons for
one or both of them, I do want to shed as much light as I can based on
my knowledge of what it is that happened here
Now just to remind
you of this series of events: Prior to becoming president well before he
even ran in 2016, Trump was very harsh in his assessment of
whistleblowers like Edward Snowden and Julian Assange. He had, I
remember very clearly during the Snowden reporting, said he thought
Snowden was a traitor who deserved to be executed. He had said similar
things about Julian Assange at a time when Joe Biden and Barack Obama
and Obama officials all were saying the same thing. And once he got into
office, he obviously became an antagonist of the very agencies that
both Julian Assange and Edward Snowden devoted themselves to exposing
the CIA, the NSA, the FBI.
And so Trump clearly had a change of
heart. He often praised Julian Assange during the 2016 campaign as a
hero when Assange was doing the reporting that Hillary Clinton believes
was, along with Jim Comey, the primary reason she lost. And then in
2020, in an event that surprised a lot of people in August of 2020, in a
press conference when asked, Trump said he was quote, "looking very
strongly" at the possibility of granting a pardon to Edward Snowden.
This took everybody by a lot of surprise.
But people who are
close to Trump, who are more civil libertarians in the Republican Party,
such as Congressman Matt Gaetz of Florida and Senator Rand Paul of
Kentucky, had been lobbying Trump, trying to persuade him to issue a
pardon of Snowden. Others were doing the same with Assange, and that's
what led to this question. And you'll hear Trump here say that while he
wasn't sure, he was looking very closely at doing it.
Reporter: You want to give Edward Snowden a pardon and bring him back. You once suggested…
Trump: I
mean, I'm not that aware of the Snowden situation, but I'm going to
start looking at it. There are many, many people. It seems to be a split
decision that many people think that he should be somehow treated
differently and other people think he did very bad things. And I'm going
to take a very good look at it, OK? I mean, I've seen people that are
very conservative and very liberal, and they agree on the same issue.
They agree both ways. I'm going to take a look at that very strongly.
Edward Snowden.
Glenn Greenwald: Now,
as the question suggested he had actually made reference on his own to
the possibility that he would pardon Snowden several months earlier,
which is what led to that question and the lobbying. Now, as soon as
Trump said that in that press conference and it generated headlines that
he was very strongly considering a pardon, Snowden, it created a lot of
reaction in the political class. People who are more anti-establishment
in both parties, who are more populist, who view the security state as a
noxious and nefarious force in American political life instantly
manifested in favor of a pardon.
While the Pro CIA pro-militarism
pro-deep state establishment politicians in both parties instantly
proclaimed dead here heinous that Trump was even considering it. You can
see the breakdown here. Here, for example, is Senator Rand Paul in a
tweet from October 5th, August 15th, where he says in response to a
headline that a lot of people think Edward Snowden should not be treated
like a criminal. Senator Paul said "I'm one of them. Snowden revealed
that Trump haters, Clapper and Komi, among others, were illegally spying
on Americans. Clapper lied to Congress about it. Donald Trump should
pardon Edward Snowden."
Here from November, a couple of months
after it was Tulsi Gabbard, the Democratic congresswoman from Hawaii,
urging Trump publicly to pardon Edward Snowden and Julian Assange and
the subheadline, you can see that Congressman Thomas Massie, who is a
populist, anti-establishment Republican from Kentucky, also according to
this article, asked Trump to pardon both Snowden and Assange. And then
here is Congressman Matt Gaetz in September, and he repeatedly said this
"Pardon Snowden."
He put it very simply and to the point, so you
had these people who are more aligned with President Trump in both the
Republican and Democratic parties aligned with the anti-establishment
politics of that era, urging that one or both be pardoned. And then you
had the worst people in American political life from both parties who
are servants to the deep state who use the abuses of the deep state for
their own ends. Expressing horror here, for example, was Susan Rice, who
was President Obama's ambassador to the U.N. and also his national
security adviser, who invoked the language of an eight year old or an
eighth grader at best on MySpace, circa 1998 And in response to the
headlines that Trump was considering a pardon of, Snowden tweeted, "I
just can't." Congratulations, GOP, this is who you are now. That was
echoed by Congresswoman Liz Cheney, who tweeted, quote, "Edward Snowden
is a traitor. He is responsible for the largest and most dangerous
release of classified info in U.S. history. He handed over U.S. secrets
to Russia and Chinese intelligence, putting our troops and our nation at
risk. Pardoning him would be unconscionable."
Now, I probably
don't even need to point out that Liz Cheney is a pathological liar. Her
claim that Edward Snowden handed over U.S. secrets to Chinese and
Russian intelligence is a complete and utter lie that she fabricated. I
did an entire video actually on that one when Joe Scarborough
Scarborough made the same claim recently on NBC News, dissecting and
proving that that's a lie, but that two Liz Cheney is. And then she
again tweeted in December during the transition when it was being
discussed again.
Quote "Edward Snowden is a traitor." And she
said something very similar. Now the argument for why President Trump
not only should have pardoned Julian Assange and Edward Snowden, but why
some of us believed there was a chance that he could didn't rely on the
benevolence of President Trump. It relied on the fact that he knew
better than anybody how deceitful and abusive and dangerous these
agencies are. The agencies that were exposed by Snowden and Assange and
the ones that were demanding that they be imprisoned forever. He knew,
as well as anybody, the treachery and the illegal interference in our
domestic politics because he was one of their targets.
And that
was why some of us thought that it was a genuine possibility. And one of
the people in the media who most advocated for it and covered the
reasons to pardon both Assange and Snowden was Fox News's Tucker
Carlson, who went on a virtual crusade. He hosted Assange's fiancee,
Stella Morris, his father and his brother, as well as celebrities
advocating for Assange, such as Roger Waters and Pamela Anderson.
Knowing that Donald Trump often watches the Tucker Carlson Show. And
this was an opportunity for all of them to speak directly to Trump and
advocate for that pardon, and I went on several times to do the same
thing here in September of 2020 was my summary of the arguments to
President Trump about why he should pardon Snowden. Assange. This was
the case we were all making, not just publicly on Fox News, but also
behind the scenes to the people who had Trump's ears. Here's the
argument we were making tonight.
Tucker Carlson: So,
Glenn, thanks for coming on. I think a lot of people have heard for
years that Julian Assange is a bad guy who hurt the United States. Now
the United States is going to bring justice in this case. What's your
view of this? Tell us what we should know in three minutes about Julian
Assange?
Glenn Greenwald: Let's remember,
Tucker, that the criminal investigation into Julian Assange began by the
Obama administration because in 2010, WikiLeaks published a slew of
documents, none of which harmed anybody, not even the government claims
that, that was very embarrassing to the Obama administration that
revealed all kinds of abuses and lies that they were telling about these
endless wars that the Pentagon and the CIA are determined to fight.
They were embarrassing to Hillary Clinton. And so they conducted a grand
jury investigation to try and prosecute him for reporting to the
public. He worked with the New York Times, The Guardian to publish very
embarrassing information about the endless war machine, about the
neocons who were working in the Obama administration to understand
what's happening here, we can look at a very similar case, which is one
that President Trump recently raised, which is the prosecution by the
Obama administration as well of Edward Snowden. For the same reason that
he exposed the lies that James Clapper told, he exposed how there's
this massive spying system that the NSA and the CIA control that they
can use against American citizens.
And obviously, this isn't
coming from President Trump. He praised WikiLeaks in 2016 for informing
the public. He knows firsthand how these spying systems that Edward
Snowden exposed can be abused and were abused in 2016. This is coming
from people who work in the CIA, who work in the Pentagon, who insist on
endless war and who believe that they're a government unto themselves.
More powerful than the president. I posted this week a speech from
Dwight Eisenhower warning that this Military-Industrial Complex, what we
now call the deep state, is becoming more powerful than the President,
Chuck Schumer warned right before President Obama. President Trump took
office that President Trump challenging the CIA was foolish because they
have many ways to get back at anybody who impedes them.
That's
what these cases are about. Tucker, they're punishing Julian Assange and
trying to punish Edward Snowden for informing the public about things
they have the right to know about the Obama administration. They're
basically saying to President Trump, You don't run the country even
though you were elected. We do. And they're daring him to use his pardon
power to put an end to these very abusive prosecutions.
Glenn Greenwald: So
that was the argument that we were making. And I think to this very
day, it's true. The CIA and the NSA and the Pentagon believe that they
run Washington, and they made it very clear that they absolutely
vehemently were opposed to a pardon of either Julian Assange or Edward
Snowden. Destroying each of them is a top priority of those agencies
because of their anger to this very day that their crimes and lies were
exposed by both of their brave acts. And it was up to President Trump to
essentially make a strong statement that it's not those deep state
operatives who run our government, but it's the elected president, and
that was what a pardon could have done. Now I know for a fact, for a
fact, that heading into the transition, once Joe Biden was formally and
officially declared the winner of the 2020 presidential election, even
though President Trump hadn't yet accepted it, he was obviously aware of
the significant possibility, though he believed the election result was
fraudulent, that he would leave the White House.
And he was
looking at those weeks as part of his transition and was actively and
strongly considering pardoning both of them. Snowden more than Assange,
as we'll get to, but it was absolutely a very distinct possibility. I
was speaking to the people as close to Trump as you get, all of whom
were telling me exactly the same thing. I was speaking to other people
who speak directly to Trump all the time, who were very confident that
they could get at least one of those done, if not bold, that they had
persuaded him that it was the best thing to do. Reporters in Washington
knew that and started reporting it.
So here, for example, is a
Politico article from December 24th, 2020 headlined "Snowden Allies See
Opening Amid Trump Clemency Blitz" Knowing that Trump was starting to
issue a lot of pardons, he had pardoned a lot of his associates, like
Paul Manafort and Roger Stone. And it was definitely a very serious
option being considered by Trump himself as late as mid-December. The
political article explains Senator Rand Paul has talked to Trump about a
Snowden pardon, as has Representative Matt Gaetz, both lawmakers who
have had Trump's ear. The just-pardoned Roger Stone, a longtime Trump
adviser, also made a public appeal for Snowden's clemency. Their pitch:
Snowden has been unfairly persecuted after revealing the mendacity of
people like James Clapper, the former director of national intelligence.
It's an argument that may play well with Trump, who also sees himself
as a victim of the American intelligence services and despises Clapper.
"He
revealed that James Clapper, the highest ranking most powerful spy in
the world, was spying on Americans and lied to us about it," Paul said
in an interview. "So I would think Snowden did what he did was a service
to the American people and ought to be pardoned." But while the
libertarian wing of the GOP is pushing for a Snowden pardon alongside a
few scattered Democrats and high profile human rights groups, including
the ACLU, more traditional Republicans, meaning the Republican
establishment are opposed to them, Snowden is a traitor. Full stop. He
broke the law by leaking classified information and did irreparable
damage to the country spying capability. I showed you earlier that
that's what Liz Cheney, a leading opponent of a pardon, was saying.
That's why Susan Rice was saying, and it was also what people like Marco
Rubio were saying, quote, "I think he's a traitor worthy of federal
prison."
So you had the Republican establishment that never liked
Trump, that never supported Trump. And demanding that he not pardon
Assange or Snowden, it was an incredibly high priority to them. The
problem is he wasn't listening to people like Marco Rubio or warmongers
or Liz Cheney. He was listening to people like Rand Paul and that Gaetz,
those were the people who were supporting him. Now what I heard at the
time was that the only meaningful impediment to a pardon. The only
person who had Trump's ear that was really being effective in arguing
against it was Mike Pompeo, who was the director of the CIA and the
person most responsible for the prosecution of Assange under the Trump
presidency and then became the secretary of state.
As I've often
said, Pompeo was a neocon who manipulated and deceived Trump by
flattering him and staying in his good graces. So Pompeo was the one who
was the one we knew we had to overcome in the transition. But there
were enough people pushing Trump that we started to hear and believe
based on very good, reliable information, that there was more than a 50
percent chance that Snowden was going to pardon Trump and less than 50
percent, but very far from zero, that he would pardon Assange.
Now,
as we know, Trump left the White House and he pardoned neither of them.
And I was angry about that because I knew it was a real possibility.
And here's the tweet I posted on January 20th, the day Trump left the
White House and Joe Biden moved in, I tweeted quote "Trump left the
White House about his week, cucked and submissive as it's possible for a
grown adult to scamper away."
Now you can obviously see the anger
and disgust in that tweet, because I knew that Trump wanted to pardon
Edward Snowden and had strongly considered pardoning Julian Assange, but
got scared into pardoning neither of them for reasons I'm about to
explain to you.
Now, remember what happened after that Politico
article on December 24th? After all of these indications were coming
that Donald Trump was considering pardoning both Snowden and Assange, he
was considering declassifying the JFK files. He was considering a whole
variety of other acts that the establishment in Washington, meaning the
establishment wings of all parties or petrified he was going to do.
What
happened, they brought a second impeachment trial against him after
January six. They brought in impeachment proceedings against the
president, who they knew they had no time to impeach and remove from
office. Why would they do that? It never made any sense from that
perspective. Why would you try and impeach somebody who is obviously
going to be leaving the White House before you have a chance to impeach
them?
The reason is is because that gave them enormous leverage
Republicans in particular over Trump being able to say to him, we know
you want to do things like pardoning Edward Snowden and are considering
Julian Assange and are considering declassifying CIA documents from 60
years ago about the JFK assassination and other matters that we don't
want you to do. And now we have leverage over you. If you do something
like pardoning Julian Assange or Edward Snowden, we will vote to convict
you in that impeachment trial that will render you potentially barred
from seeking office in the future. You will have been the first
president or the second president and the first president in over a
century to be impeached and then convicted. It was a serious threat that
Trump wanted to avoid. And the Republicans like Marco Rubio and Lindsey
Graham, who were working with Liz Cheney to prevent these pardons,
suddenly had a lot of leverage over Trump.
Here, for example, is
Trump now on this kind of apology tour December 22nd. So about two weeks
ago, he said that he was quote "close to pardoning Julian Assange or
Edward Snowden," saying, I know a lot of you are mad at me that he
didn't pardon either Edward Snowden nor Julian Assange. I submitted to
the deep state I got cucked by the CIA and the NSA. But the reason that I
did was because it was my own decision. I was so close to doing it. I
was about to do it, and just at the last second, I decided I wasn't
going to now. To her credit, Candace Owens sat down with President
Trump, former President Trump about a week ago on December twenty nine
and pressed him on this topic. I think it's the first time anyone has
and listen to what President Trump told her,
Candace Owens: I
want to ask you in terms of talking about this corruption, by the way, a
name that comes to mind in the news recently is Julian Assange. You
know, he was exposing this corruption early on. He's had his life ruined
because of it. It's a really sad story. Edward Snowden, I mean, think
about that bravery. For me, I was quite young when that was going on.
But I mean, the idea of saying, Hey, whistleblowing, actually, we've got
some corruption going on. They're not being honest with the American
people. You could have had a chance to pardon these individuals. What
was what? Why, why decide not?
Donald Trump: In
that moment, you have two sides of it, in one case, you have sort of a
spy deal going on, and in another case you have somebody that's exposing
real corruption. I feel a little bit I won't say which one, but I feel a
little bit more strongly about one than the other. Right? But you
probably understand that. Mm-Hmm. But I could have done it, but I will
say, you have people on both sides of that issue, good people on both
sides and you have some bad people on one side. But I decided to let
that one ride, let the courts work it out. And I guess the courts are
actually doing that.
Candace Owens: Yeah, these are big decisions.
Donald Trump: Yeah,
in a certain way, you know, you have a country and there was some
spying things and there was some bad things released that really set us
back and really hurt us with what they did. You understand that. But at
the same time, in many cases, what they did, these are the same people.
They came after me so viciously and dishonestly. So, you
Candace Owens: You know, that's why I thought, hey, if I'm in your circumstance, I'm going, you know what?
Donald Trump: You can you? I could have gone. I was very close to going the other way.
Candace Owens: I think you were too nice.
Donald Trump: I might have been too nice. Might have been a little too nice. I've been known for being very nice.
Glenn Greenwald: I
was so close to doing it, he said. And she said, I think you were too
nice. You didn't confront the people who just got done saying, spent
four years viciously trying to destroy your presidency. Why didn't you?
Why didn't you confront them this way? Why didn't you defy them? Why
didn't you protect the people who were courageous enough to stand up to
them and are now paying for it with their lives? Edward Snowden, who's
in a country he never chose to be in? You got trapped in that country
for eight years now with his American wife and American son, who can't
come home because they will immediately arrest him.
I did a video
where I proved that he never chose to go to Russia as Susan Rice and
Liz Cheney, and so many others have lied for years, claiming that he
did. Ben Rhodes wrote a book about the Obama aide in which he boasted of
the fact that Snowden was trying to get out of Russia, go through to
Cuba on his way to Latin America to seek asylum. And Ben Rhodes
successfully bullied the Cubans into withdrawing their guarantee of
free, safe passage of Snowden, which is what trapped Snowden in Russia.
Assange is now in prison tomorrow, and taping this on Tuesday will be
his 1000th day in Belmarsh Prison, the high security prison in the UK,
with no end in sight to get out. And he spent seven years protected in
the Ecuadorian Embassy prior to that because of persecution by the
United States.
Why didn't Trump protect them after they so
courageously stood up to these agencies that Trump personally knows are
so pernicious. Here's Matt Gaetz confirming what I said earlier. He said
I lobbied Trump extensively on this. He felt better about Snowden and
Assange. I regret we didn't make it happen.
So he's saying as
Trump said, I felt better about one than the other. He was closer to
pardoning Snowden than Assange. I regret that we didn't make it happen
again. It's not hard to know why this didn't happen.
Here is CNN
in December of 2020 saying as "Trump lays pardon GOP divided on whether
Snowden should receive one." There were Republican senators aggressively
demanding that Trump drop the intention to pardon Snowden and Assange.
One of them, just as an example was Lindsey Graham, who in December of
2020 said during the transition tweeted to "those urging a pardon of
Edward Snowden, You are suggesting President Trump pardon a traitor.
Edward Snowden is not a victim. Snowden has American blood on his hands
and should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law."
Now
that too, was a lie, as I documented in that same video, not one
document that we published with Edward Snowden ever jeopardized a single
individual. The same is true of Assange, but Lindsey Graham doesn't
care. He'll just say that anyway. But this is what was going on inside
the Republican caucus in December, though they really had no leverage,
which is why he was getting closer and closer to pardoning Edward
Snowden. And that's when. As you see here from U.S. News on January 12,
six days after the Jan. 6th riot, "the headline on the eve of
impeachment, some Republicans jumped ship as Trump sinks. Three
Republicans so far have announced their support for impeaching President
Donald Trump as the party considers a post-Trump era."
They were
making very clear to him explicitly clear Republican senators like
Lindsey Graham and Marco Rubio and Mitch McConnell that if you do any of
those things that you are considering doing, pardoning Assange and
Snowden, declassifying JFK files, declassifying other secrets that
should have been declassified long ago because they're from decades old
treachery on the part of the US government, we will vote to impeach you.
They had this leverage the sword of Damocles hanging over his head, and
I am not saying this to justify Trump's cowardly refusal to do what he
should have done in pardoning Edward Snowden, then Julian Assange.
Candace Owens was right in that video that he should have and that if
she were in his position, she would have. I'm just
I'm explaining
what I know happened, which is that all signs are pointing in the
direction of him pardoning Snowden, for sure. And maybe Assange. And
then suddenly this preposterous impeachment proceeding to impeach a
president who was on his way out anyway, emerged precisely because it
gave them the leverage to threaten Trump and say that they would convict
him if he did any of those things.
And that is why he left
office without doing what you can tell from that video he knows he
should have done. He's very sheepish, very uncharacteristically timid
about explaining why he didn't. "Oh, I was just too nice. I was just too
nice. I'm known for being too nice."
That wasn't the reason. The
reason was, because he was afraid of those Republican threats to convict
him. As a result, Julian Assange languishes in prison. His mental and
physical health are more in danger than ever, and Edward Snowden is
going to be in Russia indefinitely can't leave the borders of that
country without being immediately arrested for at least the next three
years. There's no chance Biden will pardon Edward Snowden. Maybe Donald
Trump will have another chance in 2024 to do what he should have done
the first time. Maybe some other president will do so. But this is the
story of why the deep state yet again got its way. Even with a person in
the White House who knows firsthand just how evil and destructive and
toxic they are.
“People
who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us...
It's people who claim that they're good...that you have to be wary of.”
~ Gregory Maguire, Wicked
I’ve
been sick over the holidays—not with the dreaded Covid, or the milder
Omega, or the much milder Omicron, or whatever you want to call whatever
it is that's going around. I didn’t take a test for it, but my daughter
did, and she has the same illness as me and she tested negative.
Of
course, those tests…we will get into that later. Anyway, I took some
time off from my writing, enjoying my kids and my grandkids, finding so
much joy and thankfulness in my family.
So here we go, back into
the thick of things. Recapping the past two years and looking at what to
expect in the coming months. And yes, it’s a long one, but not as long
as RFK Jr’s informative book, so there’s that.
On November 15, 2021,
“[Maria], a German mother critical of the state’s Covid measures had
her home raided and her children violently removed by police and child
protective services.”
Over the Christmas holidays, Maria and other
protestors, have been standing outside the quarantine center
imprisoning children in isolation. They have been singing Christmas carols in the hope the children can hear them.
Back when Germans first started eliminating undesirable portions of society, they made up a word for them: Untermensch. Roughly translated it means “under” or an inferior person.
The
realization that this is happening again, despite first-hand witnesses
reminding us of the torture and death that was carried out on
undesirables under the Nazi regime, should chill us to the bone. Soon
the last of these brave souls will be gone. If we do not heed their
warnings, what future do we have?
Ever true to inundating us with contradictory information, the latest live updates from the MSM tell us:
Fauci warns of danger of hospitalization surge due to large number of COVID cases.
Israel’s PM warns of a coming COVID-19 storm.
Israel,
the country who sold its people as one big Pfizer experiment, now finds
cases have risen in the past two weeks from around 700 to the more than
4,000.
“These are numbers that the world has not known, and that we also haven’t known,” Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said.
Michigan schools hiring hundreds of mental health staffers
to work with students because children are suffering, not from COVID,
but from restrictions put on their lives because of it. One grandmother
told me in tears of how the only way to get a mask off her fourteen year
old granddaughter, even when no one is around, is to tear it off her
face. She has watched her smart, intelligent granddaughter retreat
further and further from the terrifying real world into the world of
TikTok and Youtube influencers who are now the ones she goes to for
friendship and solace.
Dozens of US colleges and university's returning to online classes, even though all students are required to be vaxxed and masked. In Wyoming a 16-year-old was arrested for not wearing a mask at school
Cruise ships requiring 100% vaccinated passengers are being overrun by outbreaks.
December 27th, 106 NFL players were placed on COVID-19 reserve, bringing total to 505 in that month.
And in perhaps the most bizarre turn of events, half of the researchers at an isolated Antarctica Ice Center have come down with Covid. All of them are “fully vaccinated.”
Yet,
incredibly, the frenzy to vaccinate every single person in the entire
world, down to babies, continues at full speed. And why wouldn’t it? The
fact that the vaccines don’t work has nothing to do with how successful
they have been. Not a single politician or media pundit that I can
think of, except Candace Owens, has dared to even suggest the vaccines
might be dangerous and we shouldn’t take them. They haven’t even spoken
out against giving them to children. Let me be clear, there are
politicians like Rand Paul and Ron Johnson who have raised the point
that people with natural immunity shouldn’t have to be vaccinated and
those with vaccine injuries should be listened to. But that is not the
same as questioning the vaccines themselves. Even Ron Desantis
encourages people to get vaccinated. It is equally troubling that our
politicians do not give an ear to the hundreds and now thousands of
doctors and nurses, researchers and scientists who are sounding the
alarm on the dangers this experiment poses.
If you think my essays come across a trifle dark, don’t blame me, blame our leaders.
Biden’s
promise when he took office one year ago to “shut down the virus”
turned into “slow the spread” to “there isn’t anything the Federal
government can do about it.” This he said right before turning his back
on the country and hobbling off in the rain to celebrate New Year’s Eve
at his beach house.
The week before, this buffoon’s Christmas
message was to bestow his blessing on the vaccinated while telling the
unvaccinated to prepare for a winter of “severe illness and death.”
Imagine wishing death on millions of people you are supposed to serve.
Canada’s Justin Trudeau had his own special holiday message for the unvaccinated:
“They
don’t believe in science/progress and are often misogynistic and
racist…. This leads us, as a leader and as a country, to make a choice:
do we tolerate these people?”
Boris Johnson’s New Year’s appeal to the unvaccinated included “it could be you,” in the ICU.
So,
we have these schoolyard bullies running this scam across North America
and the UK, not to mention the entire world, speaking rhetoric meant to
incite hatred and violence, worthy of Hitler. And it is lie after lie
after lie.
All of this, at a time when we should be celebrating
the end of Covid. With Omicron we can reach herd immunity. In fact, it
seems to be behaving in exactly the way most viruses behave, losing
virulence as it becomes more contagious. Fantastic! Pack up your vaccine
and your testing kits. There should be no more need to impose these
procedures when this illness is now no deadlier than the common cold.
Yet, the pace quickens, and the experiments continue on infants and
babies.
All those cloth masks children were wearing to school
should be tossed into the trash with great fanfare. Instead, we are
being warned that since cloth masks don’t really protect against viruses
(wait, they’ve changed the messaging again?) it might become necessary
for children to wear N95 masks in school. Children wearing N95 masks 8
hours a day and during play will cause even more health and
psychological problems than they already have had, thanks to the cloth
ones.
But there is something else quite sinister about these
masks. Not only do they make everyone look the same. They make us all
look like we have pig snouts. Imagine our masters partying with their
beautiful, surgically improved faces free, while they are served by
pigs.
I know. We want to believe things will get better in the
coming year. Logically, they should. But we do not live in a logical
world. We’ve been herded into a funhouse where sometimes it appears as
if we are walking on the ceiling, sometimes we are elongated and skinny,
sometimes short and fat, we wander from room to room, completely
disoriented. Any view of ourselves is grotesque and embarrassing. Each
time we enter a room that looks normal, before we have a chance to fully
adjust, the room begins to oddly tilt or shrink or expand, or the floor
falls out and we end up in a dungeon.
After two years of this
incongruity, the confusion is so rampant we cannot even get a straight
answer about how many died from Covid. For all we know, most of them
died from the flu. Plenty of people doubt Covid exists at all. The PCR
testing, touted as the “gold standard,” will end in 2022. Why? Because
the CDC
now tells us that it never worked in the first place. No apology, no
acknowledgment that with such an admission every other “fact” they have
told us could well be equally bogus.
And instead of saying, wait a
minute, I’m not taking one of these faulty tests, people lined up for
hours to do so. Proud and relieved, folks who were jabbed 3 times posted
photos of their negative tests on social media saying now they could
visit their friends and relatives after two years of isolation. What a
victory!
And how about those at-home rapid Covid tests, which we
are told are ‘reliable” but not as reliable as the PCR tests. So, wait.
If the PCR tests aren’t reliable and the home-tests are even less
reliable, why are we doing this?
Reputable doctors warned against Fauci’s orders in The Great Barrington Declaration,
stating: “As infectious disease epidemiologists and public health
scientists we have grave concerns about the damaging physical and mental
health impacts of the prevailing COVID-19 policies, and recommend an
approach we call Focused Protection.”
For the record, here are the 3 originals creators of this document:
Dr. Martin Kulldorff,
professor of medicine at Harvard University, a biostatistician, and
epidemiologist with expertise in detecting and monitoring infectious
disease outbreaks and vaccine safety evaluations.
Dr. Sunetra Gupta,
professor at Oxford University, an epidemiologist with expertise in
immunology, vaccine development, and mathematical modeling of infectious
diseases.
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, professor at
Stanford University Medical School, a physician, epidemiologist, health
economist, and public health policy expert focusing on infectious
diseases and vulnerable populations.
Dr. Fauci could not abide
anyone disagreeing with his edicts and instead of listening, he doubled
down on his murderous orders. As Robert F. Kennedy says in The Real
Anthony Fauci:
Dr. Fauci’s protocols of “mandatory masking, social
distancing, quarantining the healthy,” resulted in “business closures
[that'] pulverized America’s middle class and engineered the largest
upward transfer of wealth in human history.” Fauci’s strategy of
“instructing Covid patients to return home and do nothing—receive no
treatment whatsoever—until difficulties in breathing sent them back to
the hospital to submit to intravenous remdesivir and ventilation,” an
approach never before advised in the history of pandemics, led to
America racking up “the world’s highest body counts.”
Add to this
the fallout that the GBC warned of, such as a rise in depression,
suicide, untreated cancer and other diseases, not to mention increased
starvation in poorer nations, and death count could well be beyond
anything humanity has ever previously seen.
This was an illness
of the elderly. But so are most illnesses. My mom, for example had to be
very careful with the flu because she had contracted pneumonia
previously. If my mom had died from pneumonia while she had the flu, I
would never have said “My mom died from the flu.” I would have said she
died from pneumonia. I don’t recall anyone who happened to have a
relative who died of cancer or a heart attack, but who also happened to
have the flu at the same time, ever having described their relative or
friend as having “died of the flu.” No, maybe they might say, “She was
so weak, it’s too bad she got the flu at the same time.” But as far as
cause of death, they would have said, “She died of cancer.” “She died of
a heart attack.” And that’s what would have been on the death
certificate.
We begin the new year carrying on from where we left off, with massive testing. As I discussed in my latest essay War,
massive testing means collecting DNA and collecting DNA means they can
create bioweapons targeting certain ethnics groups or those with certain
weaknesses and illnesses.
Too bad we didn’t pay attention when we had a chance.
In 2008, our prophet Bill Gates predicted that a coming disease could kill 30 million people within 6 months. He advised us to prepare for it as we do for war.
Revealing
this publicly was a psychological move. Whether we took it seriously or
not, the result on our minds would the same. What could we, as ordinary
people do? We couldn’t save ourselves. But Bill Gates and his band of
experts could. We would leave the hard work to them while we amused
ourselves on social media.
I’m not a big fan of psychology in
general but I agree with psychologist Emma Kenny who says social media
“teaches us to externally gaze into worlds that we cannot change and
have no impact or power over, instead of internally gazing into our own
worlds which we have complete control and power over.
“Instead of
using it for a tool of aspiration, positivity and motivation, we use it
against ourselves. We believe we are less than, have less than, and will
be less than everyone else, because we can see all these other
opportunities out there that we’re not able to engage in.”
These virtual connections create literally billions of passive people who believe they are actually doing something
if they make a comment and 500 people like it. But all of those 500
people are just sitting there, too, wishing and hoping they can say
something that will create the same reaction or even bigger. And no one
has moved from their chairs in the meantime.
So, while we sat
there, we trusted Gates and the experts he gathered around him to
protect us. We might not have liked Gates, we might even have thought of
him as slightly weird, but he was doing what we could not.
Gates’
woeful predictions became a distant memory while we fell further and
further under the spell of the technological devices they sold to us—a
new one every year that we simply had to line up and buy the very day it
was released so we could be “ahead of everyone else;” our children not
just begging but insisting they get phones and tablets too or they would
make our lives a misery. In the process we learned well the easy art of
giving up our data to Facebook, Google, Tik Tok and pretty much any
website we wanted to browse.
The gathering of information and
control over its dissemination became the key to power. Ever since Adam
and Eve ate the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, we have
had an insatiable appetite for knowledge. If you don’t believe the
biblical story, you can still agree with the validity of its premise.
Easy
access to knowledge was how they wooed us. We no longer needed to
remember anything. It was all stored in our devices. Who even knows
their own children’s phone numbers anymore? Your phone will tell you.
You don’t need to use your own reflexes or avoid running into the car in
front of you. Many people now have “smart houses.” Alexa is in every
room. You can talk to her, and she obeys your commands. She listens. All
the time.
And as I have talked about in other essays, it will
not be long before we will be one with our devices. Some people argue
that we already are. But that is not true. You can still turn off your
phone. You can turn off Alexa. Except very few of us do.
Once we are melded with our machines, we will never be able to turn off anything.
The
big question, as the new golden boy Elon Musk muses, is whether or not
we will be able to control AI or if it will control us.
“As AI
gets probably much smarter than humans, the relative intelligence ratio
is probably similar to that between a person and a cat, maybe bigger,” Musk told Swisher. “I do think we need to be very careful about the advancement of AI.”
And lest you still don’t get it—we are the cat and AI is the person. And no, this isn’t science fiction. It’s here, right now.
Considering
the lies and the cover-ups and how badly the “experts” have botched
Covid, why would we have any confidence that they will do any better
with protecting us from AI? Covid and AI go hand in hand. Covid is
useless without our advances in AI.
While we were being
hypnotized by the voices inside our heads, Gates and his buddies were
busily taking control of our bodies and our minds.
In the winter
of 2020, just after we had celebrated the New Year—you could say our
last year of innocence—the overlords determined the time was right and
they hit us. Hard. The velvet gloves of seduction came off. We found
ourselves reeling from punch after punch. Bruised and broken, beaten
down from a steady diet of fear and guilt, we allowed ourselves to be
imprisoned, muzzled, tracked and traced.
And yet, something
amazing happened. Millions of us woke up. We began to question in ways
we never had before. We began to notice how every media pundit repeated
the exact same words. We saw Fauci’s lying contradictions. We grew more
suspicious than we’d already been of drug companies. Why the mad rush?
What weren’t they telling us? We revisited those videos out of China
with people dropping like flies in the streets. They were so obviously
fake. Like those campy Godzilla movies (I love those) how could anyone
have believed they were real?
And
then, we asked ourselves, could the entire thing have been staged? We
tried to voice our concerns. Naively speculating to our friends on
social media, because surely other people saw it, too?
We were
stunned to find that our questions were met with vicious attacks. If we
dared continue, we were discredited, made fun of, even threatened with
losing our jobs. Families and friends disowned us.
For many of
us, our suspicions only grew. We researched more, beyond the State
sanctioned media. We found others who were asking questions, too. We
realized we weren’t alone. We became part of a growing movement. When we
saw highly regarded health specialists being discredited, and that they
still refused to back down, they inspired us to do the same. We gained
strength and courage.
And this is where our hope lies. We have
survived the poison, the lies, the fear mongering, the threats. And all
we do is grow stronger because of it.
This does not mean the
darkness will end. It does not mean some happily ever after, like a
Disney movie. Far from it. We’ve been taught that success means a quick
fix, like a new drug or a new car, or a new house.
But there is no quick fix for battles of the spirit. We have overcome, not tomorrow, not next year, but right now.
In this moment we are conquerors. Not because our exterior
circumstances have changed. But because our spirits have grown stronger.
Because our eyes are open. We have seen through the lies and embraced
the truth.
Who knows what the future holds? It all could
miraculously end, although, honestly, that’s the longest shot
conceivable. Or the suffering could escalate, even to the point of
imprisonment or death for some. Does that mean we should shake in our
boots with fear, we should be discouraged and give up? Absolutely not.
It means we become more determined. How could we possibly give up and go
back to the way we were before? Close our minds to the truth and accept
the lie?
The truth has set us free. Even if they put us in
prison, we are free. It is those who are allowing themselves to be
violated by countless jabs and muzzles that are in the prisons of their
own making. They are afraid while we are not. That is why they hate us
so much.
And that is why I have called my Substack writing “Break Free.”
Artur Pawlowski,
the pastor of Street Church and the Cave of Adullam in Calgary,
Alberta, comes to mind, who has recently been arrested again for
peacefully protesting against Covid restrictions outside the home of
Alberta Health Minister Jason Copping. Paulowski knows about
persecution. He came to Canada from Poland. In videos of his arrests,
you can hear him calling Canada “Chinadon” and calling the officers
“Gestapo Nazis.”
This tugs at my heart since as a child, my family
smuggled Bibles behind the Iron Curtain and I saw first-hand the
persecution of Christians there. To see this happening in the “free
world” is chilling.
If we ask ourselves, would we rather have
stayed asleep or would we rather have awakened, I know my answer. I
think I know the answer of most people who are reading this now. I am
thankful to be awake, not “woke,” and I can only pray that more and more
people will do likewise.
Within this context, we can truly say with much love and joy in our hearts that we are thankful for the past two years.
Sometimes
I feel as if I am in a medieval morality play. There are many actors in
this play, and I’ve previously discussed quite a few of them. But right
now, at the beginning of the new year, three faces of evil swim before
my eyes:
President Joe Biden, Dr. Anthony Fauci, and Bill Gates.
Like
a three-headed monster inextricably, they sway this way and that,
telling us riddles and punishing us when we refuse to give the
irrational answers they demand. These three men were anointed with the
power to rule our lives and no matter how deceitful, murderous, or just
plain stupid they are proven to be, their power only multiplies.
Watching and listening to them expound from their thrones, I wonder, who are they really? What are they behind their masks?
President Joe Biden
With
Biden it isn’t difficult to ascertain: Not much. Surely it is some kind
of joke that this man is the “most powerful leader in the world.” Weak
and easily corrupted, his choices as a career politician groomed him to
be used, abused and manipulated as an elderly man. Although he may be in
cognitive decline, being president was the highest goal he, or any
politician, could ever hope to achieve. So, you know he wanted to be
right where he is now. We should take heed. Biden is exactly what they
want us all to be: shells of our former selves into which they can pour
their poison. We can call him Biden the Buffoon.
Dr. Anthony Fauci
Dr.
Fauci is the High Priest of the One World Church, a sorcerer casting
spells on both the government and the people, ensuring that we follow
the edicts of the church: obsessive testing, handwashing and wearing of
masks, properly distancing from one another, rejecting and condemning
the unclean, and unquestioningly submitting to church-sanctioned medical
procedures, no matter how invasive or potentially dangerous they may
be. We must believe in the science.
To question Fauci is to question science. Fauci is Science.
When
the light reflects off Fauci’s glasses, I imagine a horror movie, where
a girl is walking down a long, dark corridor and rounds a corner to see
him standing there, silent and staring, except she can’t see his eyes,
only that frosted light. Where to run? There is nowhere to hide from an
eyeless High Priest who sees and knows all. No matter how many crimes he
has committed, nothing ever sticks, he’s as slippery as an eel, having
seen the rise and demise of 6 presidents while he remained, as
entrenched as ever.
And then there is the Prophet of Doom, Bill
Gates, who comes before us with boundless energy, waving his hands in
glee every time he predicts another disaster. There have been so many of
them and there will be so many more. But never fear, Gates is here.
It
was in 1955, the year Gates was born, that the first call to eradicate
malaria was heard. Malaria was still with us by 2007, the year Gates
made the same promise. By 2014, he was still vowing to
eradicate the disease. Instead of eliminating the mosquitoes that cause
malaria, repeating the tactic that had so effectively eliminated the
disease by the early 1900s in the Americas, Gates chose to continue the
expensive chemical and gene therapy technology that had started up in
the 1930s.
Why not follow the simplest, easiest solution that
actually worked? Here is one of the most sinister reasons, laid out in
my essay COVID and the Greater Good:
“It was on June 13, 2013 that the Supreme Court
“published their ruling in an important lawsuit case, unanimously
finding that isolated but otherwise unmodified genes were products of
nature and therefore not patent eligible subject matter. However,
cDNA, or synthetic DNA molecules that contain only the exons of a gene,
do involved an inventive step, and thus remain patent eligible.”
Genes
that are modified within our bodies can be patented. They can be owned
by men like Bill Gates. Just as he is doing with mosquitoes. Just as he
is doing with food. We are another product he can modify to his liking.
The same scenario played out with AIDS. Empty promises and
moving goalposts. While the bodies piled up, billions of dollars were
squandered on academic research, the bolstering of corrupt institutions
like WHO and NIH, glittering awards ceremonies and highly publicized
conferences, along with the never-ending production of new drugs rather
than the helping of communities to gain better health practices.
Under
these shameful protocols of drugs rather than healthy habits, the
Western world has become sicker, with the United States leading the
pack.
Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, with its right arm Biontech,
is strong-arming out other drug companies like Johnson & Johnson and
Moderna, taking the lead as the most powerful drug company in the
world.
In September 2019, “Gates
prophetically bought $55 million – to reach 10 million – shares in
BIONTECH, right before 3 Wuhan scientists were believed to have gotten
infected with Covid that November.”
With such an investment, there was no way Pfizer could be allowed to fail, no matter how it deserved to.
Incredibly,
billions of people the world over, at Biden, Fauci and Gates’
encouragement, are now allowing this company to experiment upon them; a
company so profoundly corrupt that in 2009 it was ordered to pay $2.3
billion due to allegations that the company illegally promoted uses of
four of its drugs. At that time, it was the largest fraud payout in
history.
Parents start meticulously researching preschools before
their children are even born. If they find out the preschool has a
history of hiring pedophiles and hiding the fact, do they say,
fantastic, that’s exactly where I want my children to be? Of course not.
Yet, somehow, parents didn’t find it important to research a company
that wanted to inject an experimental gene therapy inside of their
children.
If they had, they would have found out what happened to
children in Nigeria 25 years ago. Out of 200 children who participated
in a Pfizer Trovan drug
trial during a meningitis epidemic, 11 died. It was later discovered
that Pfizer tampered with and backdated an approval letter from a
Nigerian ethics committee to justify the experiment.
A panel of
Nigerian medical experts concluded that Pfizer violated international
law by testing an unapproved drug on children with brain infections without ever even obtaining permission from the Nigerian government or the parents of the children.
Pfizer
said its motives were purely “philanthropic.,” a claim the Nigerian
committee rejected since the Pfizer physicians completed their trial and
left while "the epidemic was still raging."
Pfizer was developing Trovan for release in the United States, where it was expected to gross up to $1 billion a year.
The
FDA never approved Trovan for American children. Yet, it was cleared
for adults in 1997 and became one of the most prescribed antibiotics in
the United States. Later, it was discovered that Trovan was associated
with liver damage and deaths. In 1999, the FDA severely restricted its
use. It has been banned in Europe.
Then there’s the nearly $300
million Pfizer paid to 3,000 trial participants who developed suicidal
thoughts and severe psychological disorders while taking the smoking
cessation drug, Chantix.
Common sense should tell the “experts” to demand that the toxic
chemical additives be removed from cigarettes. But that would do what
they do not want to have happen: it would solve the problem rather than
perpetuate it.
Check out The Covid World, where people not only tell their personal stories of vaccine injuries, but “The Canadian Covid Care Alliance (CCCA),
a group of over 500 independent Canadian doctors, scientists and health
care practitioners, has released a video presentation called “The Pfizer Inoculations For COVID-19 – More Harm Than Good.” The evidence it presents about Pfizer’s safety trials for its mRNA vaccine is truly shocking.”
As
for Moderna, it never had a drug approved before its experimental mRNA
gene therapy. Taking an injection from Moderna is like searching for a
heart surgeon and picking the one with zero reviews because he’s never
even performed a single surgery.
Yet people shrug and take the
jab. Never mind that, true to form, Pfizer has lied and fudged on data
with its Pfizer Covid trials. Never mind that you cannot sue these
companies if something goes horribly wrong. Never mind that you cannot
even see what is in the contracts our governments have signed on our
behalf.
Would you buy a house, sight unseen, and then, when
presented with the contract, put a blindfold on and sign because the
seller has assured you that you can “trust them?”
The latest VAERS report:
Millions
of zombie citizens shrugged along with Biden as he walked off into the
rain at the start of a new year. Oh well. There’s nothing we can do
about it.
Those VAERS reports?
Lies.
Those reputable doctors begging for us to listen to their concerns?
Frauds.
Friends and family members who tell us to please not get that booster?
Idiots.
Millions obediently line up for their boosters. In Israel they are going on their fourth jab.
Yes,
the last two years have been terrible. The endless disasters have kept
our minds occupied. However, now that we are fully awake, it is imperative
that we look beyond the past two years to the broader picture and take
heed of honest experts like Ronald Ross who received the Nobel Prize for
his malaria research in 1902 and warned against “researches of little
value” like the ones from Pfizer that do not benefit the people being
experimented upon, only the elite funding them and the chemical
companies they own.
Robert F. Kennedy describes in his new book,
The Real Anthony Fauci, the reasons behind it all and how Fauci and
Gates built an army set to take over the world.
“As the director
of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) —
part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) — Fauci has a $6.1
billion budget that he distributes to colleges and universities to do
drug research for various diseases. He has another $1.7 billion that
comes from the military to do bioweapons research.”
Over the
years, Fauci has carefully built his army of “heads of state, health
ministers, international health regulators, the WHO, the World Bank, the
World Economic Forum, key leaders from the financial industry and
military officials who served as command center of the burgeoning
Biosecurity Apparatus.”
Beneath them are the “foot soldiers;”
thousands of doctors, hospital administrators, health officials,
researchers, who are all dependent on money flowing from Fauci and
Gates’ vast network of charities, government institutions and for-profit
companies. The NIH alone controls an annual $37 billion budget
distributed in over 50,000 grants supporting over 300,000 positions
globally in medical research.
All those years in Africa
experimenting with HIV, malaria, and who knows what all, led Fauci to
the nearly indestructible position he was in when Covid broke. The time
had come for Fauci and Gates to boldly expand their experiments to
include, literally, everyone. In January 2020, we were all dropped into Fauci’s and Gates’ petri dish.
I
like to think I have jumped out of the petri dish. I know I would never
willingly stay inside of it. Still, I wonder what it will take to
really declare freedom.
Just a few days ago a friend in England
who would rather die than be jabbed told me that every single person in
the country received a message reminding them to get their booster. Mind
you, this message wasn’t on some app people could choose to download,
it was a text on her phone. I’ve suggested it in other essays but
perhaps our freedoms will narrow so far that we will have to decide at
last, do we give in or do we give up every single technological device
that we own, thereby cutting ourselves off completely from the rest of
the humanity?
They will not stop until every single person on the planet has been injected.
Testing,
testing, testing. I cannot say it enough. Testing is where it’s at.
Conditioning people to take these tests monthly, weekly, daily, it will
become such a chore that people will welcome the technology placed under
their skin so it will do the hard work for them.
Biden promises us 500 million at-home rapid covid tests,
but the “health experts” say even that isn’t enough. Can you imagine
the chaos when everyone is forced to test; the psychological toll it
will take on children—on everyone?
Gates pretty much owns the UK as far as health policies around Covid. In 2017, UK’s Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Authority (MHRA)
awarded over £980,000 for collaboration with the Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation and the World Health Organization. Gates also funds Professor Andrew Pollard, the chair of JCVIand
Director of the Oxford Vaccine Group in the Department of Pediatrics at
the University of Oxford. It’s too much to explore here the shady
goings-on of that cozy little cohort.
Each time I open my
computer, swimming before my eyes is the 3-headed monster, guiding us
further toward destruction. And off we go.
There are obvious murderers. Death Row is filled with them; monsters who killed, how many—one, two, or more if they were serial killers?
Small potatoes.
Biden, Fauci and Gates are responsible for the deaths of millions. And yet they are rewarded as saviors.
What,
I wonder with some fascination, do these ministers of death talk about
when they get together privately amongst themselves? The weather?
Perhaps they are too distrustful, even of each other. After all, they
are old hands at palace intrigue and guard their positions jealously.
So,
how about when they go home to their spouses and their children?
Surely, they let down their defenses. Do they hug and kiss their kids,
read them stories and tuck them into bed at night? Do they sit at the
dinner table and talk with their spouses about their challenging days?
Do they drink too much and then feel guilty afterwards? Do they make New
Year’s Resolutions?
When
they look in the mirror, do they see themselves as benevolent minsters
of health and reason? Saviors of future generations? Do they believe in
their heart of hearts that they are doing good? Do they believe history
will treat them well?
Do they take the drugs they tell us we should take? Have they all been vaccinated against Covid? How would we ever really know?
Have they injected their own children?
When they go to bed at night after a long, hard day, do they sleep easily, with a clear conscience?
Do you think that’s possible? That they even have a conscience?
Are they capable of empathy?
Did Stalin feel guilty?
Or Hitler?
Are such comparisons going too far?
Nations
argue over the official meaning of the word “genocide,” which covers
national, ethnic, racial and religious groups. Naimark, author of the
book Stalin’s Genocides, argues that we need a much broader
definition of genocide, one that includes the killing of social classes
and political groups. Not only did Stalin kill “over a million of his
own people but millions more died due to liquidation and repression of
the so-called kulaks, the Ukrainian famine, the purge of nationalities,
and the Great Terror.”
When all is told, not today, but one day
in the future, Biden, Fauci, Gates and their other accomplices will have
been responsible not only for “Covid deaths” but the millions more that
will have accumulated thanks to their malevolent mandates, laws and
edicts. Hitler and Stalin and other leaders of the past killed within
nations. Our monsters kill throughout the entire world.
Have you ever met a murderer?
I
met one once. Or at least, someone who had been convicted of murder.
Because truth is never easy to discern and whoever tells the best story
usually wins, regardless of whether it’s true or not.
Maureen McDermott
It was over ten years ago that I sat across the table from California death row inmate Maureen “Mikki” McDermott.
I did this on two occasions, traveling up from Los Angeles to
Chowchilla Women’s Prison, spending a total of approximately 5 hours
each time with her.
Back in June of 1990, Mikki, a registered nurse, had been sentenced to death for a particularly heinous and callous crime.
Five
years earlier, Mikki had hired a hospital orderly, Jimmy Luna, to
murder her roommate, Stephen Eldridge, so she could collect a $100,000
mortgage insurance policy. Stephen, co-owner of the house where they
lived together, was stabbed 44 times and his penis cut off by Luna.
Mikki and Stephen were both gay and this was made much of in the trial,
which took place in t1985 at the height of the AIDS scare. Luna claimed
Mikki had ordered him to cut off the penis so the police would think it
was a crime committed by a crazed lover or a homphobe.
So why had I gone to visit a monster like Mikki?
It was 1997 that I met private investigator Casey Cohen. At that time, I was president of InsideOUT Writers,
a creative writing program for incarcerated youth that I had founded
with then Catholic Chaplain of Central Juvenile Hall, Sister Janet
Harris. The youth I worked with were kids who were facing life sentences
thanks to Biden’s draconian laws. Many of those youths I remained
friends with until this day. Some, instead spending their lives in
prison, went on to be lawyers and run businesses, most just went on to
live ordinary lives. Others spent the rest of their lives in prison. One
fourteen year old girl, Erika, finally had a chance to get out a couple
of years ago. She was so afraid of being free that she committed
suicide shortly before her release. Everyone’s story is different.
It
was Janet who had introduced me to Casey. I used to joke when I walked
through the grounds of CJH, the Catholic nun on one side of me and the
atheist Jew on the other side, that I was perfectly balanced. Those were
great days, but they didn’t last.
Casey on the far left with the beard, interviewing a witness.
Casey’s
real name was Kaddish, meaning in Hebrew “a prayer for the dying.” He
often spoke of his name ruefully, as if it was a kind of curse given to
him by his father who hadn’t been religious but had bowed to the power
of tradition. With Casey’s thick beard and soulful brown eyes, he was
like a father confessor and witnesses and criminals alike found
themselves confessing their deepest and darkest secrets.
At the
time I met him, Casey had the reputation as one of the foremost
authorities on the death penalty phase. He was usually hired by the
defense during the habeas appeal to help uncover stories from the
murder’s past in order to humanize them so that they could escape the
death penalty for life in prison.
Casey had worked on some of the most notorious murder trials in the country, all the way back to the tragic murder involving Marlon Brando’s son, Christian Brando. He was a favorite of famed criminal attorney Leslie Abramson and his last job involved her client, 18 year old Jeremy Stromeyer.
On May 25, 1997, at 3:47 am, Jeremy followed 7-year-old Sherrice
Iverson into the bathroom of a Nevada casino and molested and killed
her, twisting her neck to make sure she was dead, just like he’d seen on
TV.
You’re probably thinking as you read this, what a morbid
world, how did you end up there? That’s a longer story than I have room
to tell here, but suffice it to say, it was a world that interested me.
After all, I was working with incarcerated youth who were facing life
sentences for serious crimes. From Casey, I learned how better to talk
to the girls who were in my first writing group and how to help them
share their stories.
Teaching High Risk Offender boys at Barry J. Nidorf JH
“Everybody reads about Jeremy, but no one comes to know
Jeremy the way I do,” Casey told me during those days before the trial.
“No one else hears him speak those barely audible words. And then I
have the responsibility of interpreting it all so the attorney can go
into the courtroom like into the lion’s den, and fight for their
client’s life. People may think they don’t deserve saving, but when it
comes to the courtroom, it isn’t a moral issue. It’s about honesty and
fairness. Well it should be. But most often it’s about power and
political careers. If you can beat them at their own game, now that’s a
victory.”
Over the course of his career, Casey had traveled the
world in search of those stories. He’d gone anywhere, down some dark
alley in Chinatown, or across the world to some mountainous village,
interviewing the friends and families of convicted murders. He
complained that the stories came to fill him like poison.
Hearing
Casey talk about the stories as poison caused me great sadness. From
the firs time I met him, at a little Mexican restaurant not far from the
downtown courthouse, frequented by lawyers, detectives and judges, I’d
found out he was dying of cancer. I would know him for only three years.
When Casey wasn’t working on murder trials, he worked with Charlie English,
known at that time as “attorney to the stars,” handling damage control
with the likes of Tommy Lee when he got in trouble for allegedly abusing
Pamela Andersen; or Robert Downey Jr. when he was picked up for drug or
alcohol related charges, in the days before he turned his life around.
Casey’s job was fascinating and dangerous, inhabited by a host of
characters more colorful than any movie, with him the most colorful of
all.
But it was Mikki’s case that troubled Casey until the very
end. He was sure she had been innocent. He talked about it to me often
and I came to know the case very well. I never questioned Casey’s
assessment. After all, he was the expert, not me, and highly regarded in
the field by his peers. Even the BBC had taken notice, doing a segment
on his life for their Everyman series.
Casey had worked on
Mikki’s habeas appeal with attorney Verna Wefald. They had done their
best, but her appeal had been denied. He couldn’t bear the thought of
Mikki sitting in a sterile room on death row, day after day, year after
year, never being free again. Never traveling to far off lands, as she
had hoped to do.
So, he started writing her letters. Only they
weren’t ordinary letters. They were the most fantastical letters you
could ever imagine. Within the pages of the letters, Casey created an
imaginary world, inhabited by wild and wonderful characters. Casey wrote
as if he were one of those characters, calling himself C. and her M.
Each letter talked as if he was in some exotic location, Paris, Rome,
San Franscisco during the 60s, a tropical island, running into old
flames and dangerous acquaintances, attending wild parties.
None
of it was true. But it was true within the world of the letters and when
I read them, I was transported into that world and saw it all. I
thought of Mikki receiving the letters, taking them out of the envelope,
settling on her bunk, and sailing away on a ship of imagination. Away,
away, from the purgatory of waiting, waiting for death.
Here is a little taste of one of the letters:
Dear M.
Do you remember the endless days and nights of heat and the painful
summer we spent in Brazil (before you ran off with Bobbi Havana)? I can
still see the room we rented, the large window overlooking the river. I
dreamed about that time last night and it was like we were there again. I
felt the tropical air. I saw the restaurant we would walk to down the
dark, tree-lined path that led from our back yard. I heard the music and
saw the lights of the town and the colorful, slow moving boats dancing
on the water. In all my previous letters, in all my recriminations and
complaints about your friends, I never mentioned, nor did I think, about
that time or of Bobbi. What brought this up?
I
can't say where I've been recently, but for five days I was trapped
(depressed and lonely without you) in a cabin in a very remote park.
Night after night I sat up, propped against the pillows, listening to
the hissing rain on the trees just outside my open window. One night I
must have been drifting off to sleep when I was startled by a sudden
flash of strobe-like lightening and a loud reverberating thunder that
seemed to go on forever. When I was fully awake I saw a living black
stripe on the wall opposite the bed. When I walked closer it turned out
to be a column of ants seemingly stirred by the heat and humidity,
crossing horizontally from the window to a crack in the wall on the
other side of the room. The column was fully four inches wide and at
least 12 feet long. Eventually, the weather let up and in that brief
time I walked outside just as a full moon came into view through an
opening in the clouds, which were moving quickly across the sky. Then
more lightening, rolling volleys of thunder and rain even more
relentless than before.
I came inside and picked
up a book of poetry which had been unread since I stuffed it into a
compartment of my suitcase weeks earlier before I left Malaysia. Here
was what it said on the page that fell open:
Do not think
after the clouds have vanished away,
“How bright it has become!”
For in the sky, all the while,
The moon of dawn.
At that moment I realized what a fool I had been not to see my M., the
M. I had known, the M. I had traveled with in Europe (during that golden
age). I realized I didn't know you then and that just possibly it was
why you ran off with the likes of that aged, disgusting Artur, who I
later learned was a unit leader in the Hitler Youth. And it explains why
the Bobbi Havana episode.
Now I know why your
tears fell like raindrops and why that melancholy air after the fun
stopped. I understand why you needed people and why you threw yourself
into planning parties with such intensity. That night the clouds parted,
I understood the brightness that was hidden all that time. I know I was
miserable to be with much of the time. And there were many occasions
you had to take care of me.
Madrid, for example.
New Year's Eve. A closet-sized room, confined to a squalid little bed,
shivering and coughing. A small light bulb hanging overhead from a wire.
And despite the fatigue, the apprehension and depression, lacking the
will to stand and turn off that light, listening to the Christmas music
on the street below, hungry, shabby, unshaven. And eventually a deep
sleep in which I dreamed of “our” beach in Mexico. Bright, hot sunshine.
Dos Equis on ice. Tanned bodies. No longer racked by coughing spasms.
Young again. Healthy. Do you remember my white suit? Do you remember the
night you took my hand and led me on to the open dance floor? My dream
didn't last long.
When the door burst open, you
were there with Mario, (our bartender friend from Barcelona). You had
run into him on the street and somehow located me. I can still see the
shock on your face. But what a joy it was. My misery instantly turned to
hope. My self-pity erased. My survival assured. And because of you, M.
The way you washed my face and dressed me. And then you and Mario
helping me down the stairs and into a waiting taxi. And before I knew it
we were at Fatumbi's villa. Fatumbi (“reborn”), how appropriate. Is it
any wonder I can't abandon you no matter what?
Now, some sad news. Fatumbi is dead. Yes, he was in his 90's. No one
knows for sure. He was so vibrant, alive, interested in the world until
the end. He was the only European to penetrate the Yoruba society and
learn their language. I heard he was even a “priest” in Africa where he
learned voodoo. They said he was a babalao, a father of secrets. What
secrets he must have taken with him. We were so lucky to have known him
and learned from him.
Enough for now, M. I will no
longer have a sarcastic tone when I refer to you as the Jewel of Paris.
I will no longer refer to your wardrobe as “tres tackeee.” I will send
you postcards from my destinations. And who knows. There is still our
Paris, our Barcelona, our songs, our true friends. And, as always, you
are in my thoughts.
M., if you know how to get in
touch with Danielle, the one whose mother let us use her house when we
flew to the Cote d'Azure, please let me know. Raphael Limon (sourpuss)
asked me to locate her.
Forever, C.
Perhaps
you can see now why I considered Casey’s gift to me of the letters as
beyond any price. I began to research the letters. I found that reality
was mixed with fiction. When he spoke of illness or special places, of M
being abandoned, they were subtle hints of things that had really
happened. When I discovered that Fatumbi,
“Reborn,” was a real person named Pierre Verger, I started writing
about all of it. That writing has ended up being almost 400 pages. Will
it ever find its way into the world beyond my imagination? I don’t know.
All thanks to Casey, who took the lives of monsters and found
who they were beyond the one moment of their terrible crimes, absorbed
their tragedies and turned it all over the lawyers and prosecutors,
judges and courts to then decide their fate.
What sort of a person
would think up such letters let alone write them, to a woman on death
row, so despised and feared, convicted of such a gruesome murder? Only
one person, Kaddish “Casey” Cohen.
Casey asked me to draw a picture, inspired by the last letter he sent to her, and I did. Here it is:
Shortly before his death, he asked me to please visit Mikki. Who knows, he said, perhaps one day you’ll write about us all.
I promised I would. It took me 10 years to fulfill my promise, but I finally did.
You
can imagine after all those years, all the letters and the stories he
had told me about Mikki, I was filled with a nervous excitement to see
her at last.
And so, I found myself sitting there in that tiny
room, a big glass window on one side with a burly guard outside,
wondering what to say to this tiny woman that I towered over. She looked
so ordinary, it was hard to imagine her thinking up such a devious,
horrific murder and then carrying it out. I’d written to her first, of
course, explaining who I was, and she’d agreed for me to visit. A friend
of Casey’s was always welcome she told me.
Sitting there with
Mikki, we talked about her life on death row, she told me about the
other women, many of whom were there for killing abusive partners or
their own children. She told me how she only got out once a day for a
short period, to walk around and around a tiny yard with walls so high
all you could see was a square of sky far above. Once, a bird had fallen
from the sky and she and the other women with her gathered around it.
Mikki picked it up. It was the first time in years she had felt another
living being, feeling it’s small heart fluttering inside. Those
murderers prayed and pleaded for the bird not to die and then, suddenly
it ruffled its feathers and flew off again and disappeared.
That
was the best story I heard. Otherwise, she talked about other friends
who wrote to her, the television shows she watched. When I mentioned the
letters, I expected a light to shine in her eyes, a far-off expression
of nostalgia to overtake her. But nothing of the sort happened. She had
forgotten about them. They hadn’t held any magic for her. It didn’t
occur to her how brilliant and how unique the letters were. Her TV shows
were much more interesting.
That moment reinforced what Casey had said, that most murderers are boring people.
I
began to doubt Casey’s version. Could he have been wrong? Why had he
been so insistent that she was innocent. I ended up meeting with Verna
Wefald and reading through the 1,000 pages of the habeas trial. I saw
how the original trial and Mikki’s conviction had certainly been unfair.
The prosecutor Katherine Mader had formerly defended Angelo
Buono, one of the Hillside Stranglers. In that case, she had fawned over
Buono and treated him like a misguided little boy, a tactic used to
humanize him for the jury. With Mikki, she did the opposite, likening
her to ‘a Nazi working in the crematorium by day and listening to Mozart
by night,’ a ‘mutation of a human being,’ a ‘wolf in sheep’s clothing,’
a person who ‘stalked people like animals,’ and someone who had
“resigned from the human race.” Casey had explained all this to me and
that a trial like that can make or break a District Attorney’s career.
Mader won the case. And she became a Superior Court Judge.
Angelo Buono and Katherine Mader
Casey
had known what I came later to understand very well myself, that
whoever tells the best story, or perhaps even more important, whoever
tells the story with the most money and press behind it, is the one that
wins.
Perhaps Casey had wanted desperately for this one story that he
had told of Mikki to be true. And in that, he was no different from
anyone else. We all create the stories of our lives, and we tell them
over and over and we want them to be true.
Was Mikki innocent, or
had she told herself that story so often over the years that now she
actually believed it? How about Biden, Fauci and Gates. I knew they
weren’t innocent. There was no doubt in my mind. But had they told
themselves the story of their benevolence so often that they, too,
believed it?
Mikki was a nurse. She had made a vow to save her
patients. When she had first been put in jail, awaiting her trial, she’d
saved another woman’s life who’d been choking on an apple.
“Is
that the action of a murderer?” she demanded of me, her eyes, always
wide as if confronting some confounding surprise, grew wider, her voice
taking on a slightly belligerent tone.
I could only shake my head, no, of course not.
Biden,
Fauci and Gates were all public servants of different sorts. Each one
could point to countless lives they had saved. Surely, they would never
knowingly, willingly kill anyone?
Mikki refused to talk about the
crime. She had reason to be distrustful. The press had eaten her alive
during the trial and a terrible TV movie had been made about the crime.
She refused to support me in writing about her life and her case.
And
that made me wonder. She had nothing more to lose. She’d already been
condemned to death. Why wouldn’t she want a better version to be left
behind, not just the sordid tale that was out there?
After the
second visit she cut me off and I never went back. In fact, even without
her cutting me off I doubt I would have returned. It seemed after the
initial spark of interest on both sides, we had nothing more to say to
one another.
To this day, the doubts remain. Is she innocent or not?
Of one thing, I am sure. I would never want to share a house with her.
In a series of tweets
right before Christmas, a concerned Bill Gates said he planned to
cancel most of his holiday plans and warned that the United States
"could be entering the worst part of the pandemic."
At the same time, he assured us that we would likely see the pandemic wind down. In Bill Gates’ “2021 Year in Review”
he wrote: “In a couple years, my hope is that the only time you will
really have to think about the virus is when you get your joint COVID
and flu vaccine every fall.”
“My hope.” Did he truly hope? Could
someone cause mass murder and actually think he had never done it, only
wanted the best for everyone?
Those words of his sound all the more sinister because they are said with such conviction.
Biden will be gone and easily replaced.
But for Fauci and Gates, they are setting the stage so that, even when they depart this earth their legacy will never die.
"It's
possible that new variants could evade our countermeasures and become
fully resistant to current vaccines or past infection, necessitating
vaccine adaptations," WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.
He chided leaders of wealthier nations, saying that “reactionary
political movements fostered vaccine inequity and created the ideal
conditions for the emergence of new variants."
Great. More proof
that despite the good news of Covid becoming a regular illness like the
common cold, we are only dipping our feet into the new reality of deadly
plagues, But not the plagues of the past. Genetically engineered ones
that target certain populations.
By the time everyone is happily
getting their yearly Covid/flu jab, these highest servants of our
overlords could well be in control of the entire pharmaceutical empire,
having pushed out other companies like J&J and Merck, administering
their concoctions to a world population so addled by addictions they are
no longer capable of doing anything except holding out their arms or
swallowing their pills or being infused with drug cocktails directly
into their skin.
Imagine the day when everyone has technology
implanted into their bodies at birth, that monitors everything they do,
sending that information to government agents.
I remember when
traveling behind the Iron Curtain as a child. In all the hotels, on
every floor, sat an old lady at the end of the corridor, a babushka, who
watched and reported on all the comings and goings. We were warned of
listening devices inside our rooms. Before entering each country, we had
to buy gas vouchers, having calculated exactly how much gas we would
need. We were only allowed to travel on certain roads and on the rare
occasions when we deviated, even when it was out in the middle of
nowhere, a car magically appeared to direct us back en route.
Imagine
having someone like that inside your skin, reminding you to take your
mediation, telling you if you’d eaten too much sugar that day, knowing
where you had been and no doubt listening to all your conversations.
By
the time we get to the pandemic that Gates warned us about in 2008,
people will be begging for this level of control. Covid was just a test
run. It did what it was supposed to do. It killed the elderly and those
with comorbidities such as diabetes and heart disease. Of course,
neither Gates nor the others wanted it to kill themselves or their own
children.
Remember Italy, the first Western nation hit so hard by
Covid in the beginning? We all watched in horror as the country was
brought to its knees by this terrifying virus that no one seemed to know
anything about.
An article in Bloomberg
says that 99% of people who died from coronavirus in Italy were elderly
with preexisting conditions. The average age was around 80. And 60%
suffered from at least 3 preexisting illnesses while a fifth had two.
In the United States the CDC
tells us that “more than 81% of COVID-19 deaths occur in people over
age 65. The number of deaths among people over age 65 is 80 times higher
than the number of deaths among people aged 18-29.”
This has been
a disease of the elderly. For most of those elderly, they died alone,
in cold, clinical rooms, not surrounded by loved ones but by masked
strangers. They were not even allowed funerals.
And now, for
those elderly who remained healthy, Anderson Cooper made jokes to a
gleeful Bill Gates about taking away their social security if they do
not bow to take a vaccine that, if they haven’t taken it by now, they
probably don’t want to. These people should be congratulated as being
strong and healthy to have made it through, not treated like pieces of
garbage.
Any pandemic in the future will also need to target a
certain portion of the population, as Covid did. If you suspected Covid
was biologically engineered just wait for the next one.
Prophet
Gates has something to say about that: “Also, related to pandemics is
something people don't like to talk about much, which is bioterrorism,
that somebody who wants to cause damage could engineer a virus. So that
means the chance of running into this is more than just the naturally
caused epidemics like the current one.”
Gates has mentioned
smallpox a number of times. Uncannily, the dreaded disease began
cropping up in the news. “Vials labeled 'smallpox' found at vaccine
research facility in Pennsylvania, CDC says,” read a November 2021, CNN Headline.
In my last essay, Wa’R, I talk about biowarfare and quote from Guo Jiwei (郭继卫), a professor with the Third Military Medical University, 2010’s War for Biological Dominance
(制生权战争), where he emphasizes the impact of biology on future
warfare. "biotech will be positioned in the battlefield of the human
body itself, targeted at people, limited to people, where it can attack
parts or fractions of the human body, accurate to specific biological
characteristics ..."
Further, “Biology is among seven "new domains of warfare" discussed in a 2017 book
by Zhang Shibo (张仕波), a retired general and former president of the
National Defense University, who concludes: “Modern biotechnology
development is gradually showing strong signs characteristic of an
offensive capability,” including the possibility that “specific ethnic
genetic attacks” (特定种族基因攻击) could be employed.”
And as I have shown in other essays, such as The Chinafication of the Western World,
we in the West love to self-righteously lay the blame on China for
their lack of moral integrity. However, the truth is that when it got
too hot in the West, our “experts” simply sent their questionable
research over to China and funded it there. Gain of function research
and organ harvesting didn’t stop. Nor did the hunt for rare earth
minerals that I talk about in my essay, The Magic of Rare Earth Elements & the Hypocrisy of Clean Energy.
It’s
a lot to absorb, I know. But once we see the bigger picture, we realize
how it all fits together and very little over the past two years has
happened by chance. Much of it appeared chaotic, the information was
constantly changing, but that was to create fear and uncertainty and to
prep people to accept whatever they were told. The information provided
has been on such a massive scale, people grew weary of trying to
disseminate it all. It was easier to simply believe in our prophets and
sorcerers.
There is a new film out called A Good Death
which documents the stories from people who “lost loved ones to fatal
doses of morphine and Midazolam. Each year, tens of thousands of elderly
and terminally ill patients are quietly euthanized in NHS facilities.
In hospitals, care homes and hospices, behind closed doors, their deaths
are hastened in what appears to be a caring and humane way. But how has
this practice of euthanasia – illegal in the UK and carrying a life
prison sentence - become so widespread and acceptable? And why are
people who are nowhere near the end of their lives being given killer
‘cocktails’ of drugs that are used in many US states for executions?
That
is how Mikki will die, with a lethal cocktail of drugs, unless she dies
a natural death while she is waiting, which is more likely. How ironic
that she lives, waiting for her drugs of death, while countless of the
innocent have died.
Have they succeeded in normalizing fascism to
such an extent? And if so, how much longer will it be before those
identified with other “flaws” will be put out of their misery?
In
1905 when the yellow fever and malaria plague was threatening lives
across the border in America, Dr. Alexander Lambert, personal physician
to President Theodore Roosevelt, made this statement:
“I am sorry
for you tonight, Mr. President. You are facing one of the greatest
decisions of your career. If you fall back on the old methods…you will
fail…. If you back up Dr. Gorgas and his ideas, and you let him make his
campaign against the mosquitoes, then you get your canal. I can only
give my advice: you must decide for yourself. There is only one way of
controlling yellow fever and malaria, and that is the eradication of the
mosquito.” From William Crawford Gorgas, His Life and Work. Gorgas and Hendrick, 1924.
Walter Reed went on to find funding apart from the government and proved that yellow fever was spread not by poor sanitation but by the Aedes Aegypti
mosquitoes. Because it was America and they wanted the Panama Canal to
succeed, the moquitoes that caused the diseases were eradicated—not
simply controlled. The idea that “fomites” spread the disease, causing
obsessive sanitizing of products and surfaces was debunked, and millions
of dollars were saved, not to mention millions of lives.
Interestingly,
Fauci used the old scare tactic of “fomites” at the beginning when
everyone was told to obsessively sanitize every surface. Then, like so
many other theories that he already knew were bogus, we were told to
stop and everyone blindly obeyed.
In Scott Atlas’s book, A Plague Upon Our House, he tells how the press vilified President Trump for shutting down Fauci and putting a “kook in charge.”
That “kook” of course was Atlas. He went on to describe how he “watched
the nation’s ‘top scientists’ lie about covid and get away with it.”
It is impossible for us on the outside
to imagine the severe pressure, the frustration, the battles that must
have raged as Trump and Atlas tried to combat the true misinformation:
Fauci, Gates and the mainstream media.
And then, incredibly,
while Joe Biden, who hid in his basement as he “campaigned” for the
presidency, Donald Trump went out amongst the people and contracted
Covid, whereupon he was sent to be treated at Walter Reed Hospital,
named after the very man who had helped eradicate the mosquito that had
infected so many with Yellow Fever.
I will never forget that
moment when Trump returned to the White House and triumphantly tore of
his mask on the balcony for the world to see. I thought surely, whether
you love him or you hate him, whether it’s true or whether it’s theater,
it’s inspiring.
But
no. Of course, the press vilified him. Joy Reid saying she was
“disgusted.” Biden making fun of that “macho thing.” When I tried to say
this to my friends, they became angrier than ever. Trump was a reckless
killer of grandmothers. Biden was the one who would save us all. When I
tried to say his fearless attitude was inspiring, I was derided as an
idiot and a killer of grandmas too. We should be afraid. Not being
afraid was irresponsible.
That was perhaps the saddest moment
when I knew America was lost. If people truly now believed that cowering
in in our homes when we were healthy was the right thing to do and our
only hope was fear, then we had no hope.
I lost many friends at that time, as I know so many of us did.
In
the end, Trump jumped on the vaccine train, and he is there to this
day. If you can’t beat them, join them. I like to believe that Trump
tried, really tried. Fauci was a weed whose roots ran too deep.
Everything Trump tried to get people to accept was destroyed by the
media. Rather than admit Trump was right and preventive remedies such as
Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin should be tried, no prevention was
allowed. This crime must be paid for.
Sir
Ronald Ross, winner of the Nobel Prize in 1902 for his discovery of the
malaria parasite in mosquitoes, railed against “academics” in the place
of practical research when he said,
“It implies the sacrifice of life and health on a large scale while
researches which may have little real value and may be continued
indefinitely are being attempted…In practical life we observe that the
best practical discoveries are obtained during the execution of
practical work and that long academic discussions are apt to lead to
nothing but academic profit.”
The
money will allow the company over three years to build a new facility
to produce nitrocellulose membranes, the paper that displays test
results, in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. That, in turn, will allow for 85
million more tests to be produced per month, the official said.
What, I wonder, could these tests possibly be for?
I wish Casey was alive now. I would love to hear his take on all of this. I know he wouldn’t be fooled. Casey lived his
life. He would never have endured a lock down. When he found out he was
dying, he destroyed most of his case files and took off to Thailand,
thinking he’d live a life of meditation and stay there until he died.
“But
I didn’t die,” he told me. “And eventually I realized that there were
the same McDonalds on street corners in Thailand that there were in Los
Angeles. So, I came back.”
We were both glad he did. If he
hadn’t, we never would have met. He married a Thai woman, the sister of
one of the men whose case he had worked on, the only person on death row
who was executed, shortly before Casey’s own death. He told me that
with Jay’s execution, his life had come full circle. Too many stories to
include that one here.
As Casey grew weaker and weaker, he
talked to me on the phone as if he’d been transported out of his pain
and into the past. I would close my eyes and listen to his soft,
struggling voice.
Remembering how his Santa Monica condo had
contained only a mattress on the floor and a large table against the
wall on which sat a computer and a printer. A closet with six pairs of
jeans, four pairs of K-Swiss shoes, and 35 or so Gap T-shirts. Walking
on the beach, listening to birds, feeling the cold wind. Upscale
restaurants on Montana Ave. and his hangout on Ocean Avenue—the mail
drop place and the magazine stand.
A weak laugh and a painful
cough. “That was my office, where Debbie kept a director’s chair for me
so I could sit out on the sidewalk and read the newspapers. I never had a
real office. People knew where to find me.”
Meeting one or the other of his sons on Main Street at night in Russel’s Bar.
Memories
stretched out in a long line. “Like 1956, the year you were born,
Karen, when I was on the destroyer, the McKean, off the coast, near the
pier and we fired 5” Starshells high into the air. Chief Skorzak, Bud
Davis, later to become a well-respected stuntman, Pete Gray, who owned
every shit-kicking record ever made. The time I was stationed in the
Pacific three miles down-wind from an Atomic Test and how years later
the Veterans Administration said my slow-growing, but unstoppable,
cancer was service connected from radiation at that test. I got
discharged from the navy and went crazy (literally) and ran away to
Australia. I got a sales job at Hicks Atkinson in Sidney all because of a
young lady, but she ended up stealing all my money.”
“Just
imagine, Karen, at 16, you were lamenting that you’d never been kissed,
while at that age I was losing my virginity to a lady of the night in
some dark dive in Asia.”
“I have a long list of conquests—take,
for example, that dangerous liaison with the girlfriend of the Israeli
Mafioso—Las Vegas branch, I mention no names—now that was insanity, the
two of us entering her apartment one night when he was out of town,
stumbling over our feet in our eagerness, hands poised to tear each
other’s clothes off and then the gasp, the wide-eyed terror as she
noticed the picture on the wall, and I turn to see that one and the
next, and the next, all of them priceless pieces of art, turned to the
wall. And the photos of her on the mantle, lying face down, not smashed
in anger, but lined up neatly in a row, face down with finality. The
subtlety, the intelligence, the artfulness of the message not lost on
me. I can appreciate a creative mind, a grand gesture, and how perfect
was his thinking when he did this. My fear all the stronger, caught in a
situation more dangerous than any I had ever known in a long list of
dangerous situations.
“Not more than five frozen seconds of
standing stupidly and staring before her frantic hiss, ‘Go, go!’ and she
was pushing me out the door.
“‘You’ll be okay?’ What a
meaningless, cowardly question to ask of the woman I was about to make
love to and was instead scurrying away from like a scared rat.
“Her terrified eyes, and yet resigned. ‘Yes.’
“I
left just like that, no more contact, no last kiss, rapidly and yet
with perfect control, down the hall, the disciplined years of training
returning, instincts on high alert, standing to one side as the elevator
doors opened, prepared for a bullet to make a third eye in my forehead.
“I never saw her again. The message had done its job, the sender
a man of class and distinction. I had helped him out of a sticky
situation and so I suppose that is why I wasn’t gutted and thrown into
the desert. Man to man, respect. The debt had been paid and I was never
tempted to cross that bridge again. I don’t regret a minute of the mad
pleasure, made that much realer, as with every ecstatic moan, every burn
of flesh on flesh, we flirted with death. I have been lucky. I have lived. Who am I to complain that my time is up?”
So many stories.
“It
doesn’t matter what people say, Karen, as long as they believe it. I’ve
heard the most outrageous claims made by academics, junkies, gangsters,
pastors, sweet old ladies, agonized housewives, shifty politicians and
powerful businessmen. In the end their stories unify them. The banal
accounting of a sweet old lady can hide a secret just as horrific and
insanely perverse as the confession of a serial killer. “
We
talked a lot about saving people, how you can’t save everyone—no, not
their souls, or getting them off drugs, or anything really. In the end,
everyone has to save themselves.
The burden of saving even monsters from death had sat on his shoulders for so long. And the time had come to let it go.
“It’s my name. A father shouldn’t give a son a name like Kaddish. It’s a curse.”
“And a blessing,” I said.
Shortly
before his death, Casey called me for the last time. “I had a dream,”
he said. “We were sitting on the balcony of my condo in Santa Monica. We
were sitting in chairs and I saw that your chair was floating in a pond
where there were many beautiful koi fish. They were swimming around
you, and I said, ‘Karen, wow, look at all those coy fish, you’re so
lucky, those are the luckiest fish, and they’re swimming around you.’
And you know what? You looked, but for the life of you, you couldn’t see
those fish. I just want you to know, they’re there, Karen! They’re all
around you. The luckiest fish. You’re so lucky. Don’t ever forget it.”
By
that point, he was in so much pain he could hardly speak, but he was
determined to tell me his dream. I cried as he told it to me. Unbearable
pain and unbearable beauty. To the end, he gave so me much and those
last words, along with the letters, were his greatest gift. Little did
he know how important that dream would become in the difficult days
ahead.
A
page from Casey’s journal that arrived in the mail for me, along with
Mikki’s letters, shortly after his death. Over the years, he’d had his
friends write their favorite sayings in this journal
There
are monsters who live next door to us, or that we read about in the
newspapers. There are monsters who are in prison. There are monsters on
death row, and we feel safer because they can no longer hurt us.
And
then there are the worst monsters of all, the Biden’s and the Fauci’s
and the Gates’, who walk openly above us, never in our midst, so
protected that no one can touch them. One moment they may be revered and
worshiped. The next moment they may be despised and feared. It doesn’t
seem to matter. They have been chosen by the overlords and there they
stay until their use is done.
Looking at them after two years of
death and destruction, still telling their lies, can fill us with anger
and despair. But then I think of Maria and the others, singing outside
the prison where their children are being held. The human spirit is
amazingly resilient. I think we will surprise ourselves in this coming
year with our ability to act courageously and shed light upon the evil.
Casey
left this earth on Valentine’s Day, 2000. I was on a plane flying back
from Senegal to New York when it happened. I miss him most days.
And
so, here I am, writing about Casey and the story of Mikki, just as my
dear friend hoped I would. How I would love to have heard his thoughts
on Biden, Fauci and Gates. I know he is smiling, with his usual touch of
cynicism. He might have been an atheist, but if anyone is in heaven
right now, it’s him.
