COVID Propaganda Roundup: Corporate State Declares All-Out War on the Unvaccinated
Originally published via The Daily Bell:
The latest updates on the “new normal” – chronicling the lies, distortions, and abuses by the ruling class.
Corporate Media Adopts ‘Pandemic of the Unvaccinated’ to Dehumanize Skeptics
The corporate media has deluged readers and viewers to its newest “pandemic of the unvaccinated” talking points:
“As the highly contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus fuels outbreaks in the United States, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned on Friday that ‘this is becoming a pandemic of the unvaccinated.'”
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CNN talking heads and NY Times op-ed writers have not adopted this talking point by accident; through a carefully engineered rhetorical sleight of hand, they have subtly introduced the concept that the actual unvaccinated people – and not the virus itself – are the source of ongoing suffering.
The heavy implication: what does one do with a harmful pathogen? Eliminate it from society.
Homeland Security Declares Lockdown Skeptics Potential ‘Terrorists’
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“The Homeland continues to face a diverse and challenging threat environment… Such threats are also exacerbated by impacts of the ongoing global pandemic, including grievances over public health safety measures and perceived government restrictions.”
Notice the gaslighting phrase “perceived” government restrictions – not “actual and obvious” ones, which they are.
MSNBC: Unvaccinated NFL Players to Be Treated as ‘Second-Class Citizens’
At the 1:52 mark of this MSNBC clip, NBC sports columnist Peter King declares NFL players who refuse the shot “will be treated as second-class citizens.”
CNN medical analyst Leana Wen, in a similar vein, said last month that “it needs to be hard for people to remain unvaccinated.”
The Atlantic Op-Ed: Time For No-Fly Lists for Unvaccinated
Via The Atlantic:
“While flying, vaccinated people should no longer carry the burden for unvaccinated people… a no-fly list for unvaccinated adults is an obvious step that the federal government should take.”
UK Government: Unvaxxed British Citizens No Longer Allowed to Leave the Country
Via the Daily Mail:
“A [UK government] Minister told the Mail on Sunday the ‘logical’ move will be to make the booster shots a requirement for travel, adding that the most up-to-date Covid certification for travel will become as normal as the need to have a yellow fever jab to enter certain countries.”
Debunking the Illusion of Vaccine ‘Choice’
“Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.”
-Benito Mussolini
The federal government has insisted in its rhetoric throughout the pandemic – despite its obvious coercive measures to the contrary — that the decision to get vaxxed, like all medical decisions, is a choice left to the individual and his/her doctor.
Historical Western common law has recognized this obvious, inherent right to self-determination of medical treatment as canonical – if one has no control over what medications are injected into his or her bloodstream, one cannot be said to be free in any fundamental sense whatsoever.
When the Nazis violated this precept, their leaders got routed militarily, captured, prosecuted, and hanged at Nuremberg.
The COVID shots are “voluntary,” the government insists, but if you don’t get them you may soon no longer be allowed to:
Fly on an airplane
Eat in a restaurant
Drink in a bar
Exercise in a gym
Watch a movie in a theater
Attend a concert
Enroll your kids in school
Attend university
Find meaningful employment
“Get vaxxed or don’t eat” is not any kind of choice; it’s an ultimatum, a gun to the head.
The elites pass this hideous ultimatum to get jabbed or die isolated in a hole off as “choice” as if threats to sever access to vital resources and the means to participate in the economy are not coercive by definition.
Influential Professor Calls For Hate Crime Legislation to Combat ‘Anti-Science Aggression’
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Peter Hotez — a portly, apparently profoundly unhealthy Baylor University professor — issued a clarion call to combat “mounting antiscience aggression in the United States“:
“We should look at expanded protection mechanisms for scientists currently targeted by far-right extremism in the United States. Rep. Paul Tonko (D-NY) has introduced a bill known as the Scientific Integrity Act of 2021 (H.R. 849) to protect US Government scientists from political interference… Still another possibility is to extend federal hate-crime protections.”
Hotez, or some intern in his employ, even put together a pseudoscientific flow chart to lend more credibility to his extremist anti-free speech proposition:
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The above suggested remedy for normal people with a healthy skepticism of lying bureaucrats and profit-hungry pharmaceutical firms is so profoundly unethical that even countering it seems absurd, but here is a shot:
Delivering public testimony, Anthony Fauci has repeatedly, both explicitly and implicitly, told Dr. Rand Paul, a credentialed medical doctor, that he “does not know what he’s talking about” in Senate hearings.
All of which begs the question: Did Fauci science-hate-crime Dr. Rand Paul?Will Fauci be the first one brought up on charges under the Hotez rule?
Medium ‘Trust and Safety’ Team Deletes My Account Over COVID-19 ‘Misinformation’
As I anticipated would eventually occur, in early July, Medium dropped the hammer: a faceless technocrat permanently suspended my account.
I received this email from the Big Brother-style “Trust and Safety Team”:
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They linked to their ultra-generic “COVID-19 Content Policy” but never bothered to cite any specific claim I had made that violated it.
Back in 2018, when every big tech social media platform banned Alex Jones overnight, only a fool would have believed such a censorship campaign would be a one-off. That was the appetizer, to set the mass censorship wheel in motion as precedent for later, wider-sweeping crackdowns.
Infowars and Milo Yiannopoulos were merely the lowest-hanging fruit due to their highly-publicized “extremist” reputations, but we’re all hanging on the same tree.
Sooner or later, unless as a society we reinstate freedom of speech into practice, the agents of corporate state are going to come for everyone – for Armageddon Prose, for The Daily Bell, for ZeroHedge.
On a long enough timeline, we’re all going to get the Alex Jones treatment.
This is information warfare.
Ben Bartee is a Bangkok-based American journalist with opposable thumbs. Follow his stuff via his blog, Armageddon Prose, Substack, or Patreon.
I find it extremely interesting, and highly-insulting, that whilst mask & vaccine mandates are either implemented or considered, that smoking remains legal.
And though I'm not proposing more government mandates, on smoking, it does go to the show the absolute hypocrisy of the completely corrupted corporate state.
Is public health & welfare really the true goal?
As per the CDC:
☼ Smoking is the leading cause of preventable death.
☼ OVER 480,000 yearly deaths in the U.S. are attributed to tobacco smoking. That's every single year, year after year. And as such a number that completely eclipses covid deaths.
☼ Worldwide, tobacco use causes more than 7 million deaths per year. That's every single year, year after year. And as such a number that completely eclipses covid deaths.
☼ More than 41,000 yearly deaths result from secondhand smoke exposure. That's every single year, year after year. And as such a number that completely eclipses covid deaths.
☼ On average, smokers die 10 years earlier than nonsmokers (whom aren't exposed to second-hand smoke).
Interestingly, but not surprisingly, the largest institutional shareholders of the largest vaccine (not-vaccine) makers, like Pfizer (pfe), Moderna (mrna), J&J (jnj), and others, include the largest Big Money Management firms & Big Banks, like:
Vanguard, BlackRock, State Street. Fidelity, Invesco, JP Morgan, the Capital Group, et al.
Similarly, the largest institutional shareholders of the largest Big Tobacco companies, like Philip Morris Int. (pmi), Altria (mo), British American Tobacco (bats, bti), etc., include the same Cartel of largest Big Money Management firms & Big Banks, like:
Vanguard, BlackRock, State StreeVanguard, BlackRock, State Street. Fidelity, Invesco, JP Morgan, the Capital Group, et al.
This Cartel of largest institutional shareholders also exist as the largest shareholders of mask makers, like 3M (mmm).
Search & read SEC 13d/f/g investment filings for evidence/proof.
Is public health & welfare really the true goal?
I also find it extremely interesting that those people I know that are most critical of the unmasked & unvaccinated, are:
Smokers.
Heavy Drinkers.
Heavily Obese.
In other words, those least willing to take the necessary steps & precautions to protect themselves, first.
Those often screaming the first & loudest about how others need to take extreme measures to protect them, when they don't protect themselves first.
18th century British authors John Trenchard & Thomas Gordon wrote their essay title Cato's Letters regarding the massive corporate corruption of the British government.
Regarding undue influence & corruption exercised over the British government by mega-corporations like the South Sea Co., the East India Co, et al.
Their Cato's Letters are often regarded as amongst the most important & influential essays for American Revolutionaries and U.S. Founders.
Warning of special rights & protections afforded the politically-connected corporate Elite.
Helping lead to the phrase in the Declaration of Independence:
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.-- That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed."
Rights, liberty, freedoms & justice are NOT just for the wealthy.
But sadly, the U.S. has now come full-circle, back from whence the U.S. Founders sought to escape.
The Declaration of Independence was not a declaration against merely a corrupted British government, but also against the super-wealthy Elite & Corporations whom were corrupting that British government, using their wealth & power to enact special-interest legislation.
The Boston Tea Party was not an act of rebellion against merely a corrupted British government, but also against the super-wealthy Elite & Corporations whom were corrupting that British government, using their wealth & power to enact special-interest legislation.
I, FOR ONE, AM READY TO FIGHT FOR MY INNATE RIGHTS!
I WILL NOT CAVE TO FASCISM & TYRANNY!