REPUBLIC REBORN

Great article over at Reason, The FBI Rebrands Its Sex Worker Harassment Campaign.

The primary objection to prostitution, in the eyes of the government, is essentially the exchange of money, not the act itself. But a prohibition on that simple exchange has ruined countless thousands of lives, be it the workers themselves, or the desperate “Johns” that get entrapped by thugs in law enforcement who surely have better things to do. Because they are sex workers we are told not to care. “Their lives don’t matter” is the unspoken assumption. We’re told that they engage in “child sex trafficking” and bring disease and crime into our communities. But this isn’t a result of their profession, but of the prohibition on their profession. Outlawing prostitution has created a black market, with all the same side effects of drug prohibition. Sex workers, denied access to courts of law, marginalized, harassed, locked up, etc., operate outside civilized society, and so the crime, violence, and disease naturally follow. Legalizing the profession would bring it into the light, afford it legal protection, thereby making it safer and cleaner. The black market would evaporate. Legalizing it would heal one aspect of society that has drawn in too many of the most vulnerable in our society. It would also eliminate the bloated jobs program that dedicates its time to harassing these people, people who, unlike the badged parasites who waste tax dollars by spending their days and nights ruining others’ lives, are engaged in voluntary, consensual exchange. It’s a business transaction, and it should be treated as such.

The legalization of prostitution is the only way to save and empower those engaged in it.

While we Americans have made it a national pastime to descend into paranoia and hysteria over entirely fabricated threats, be it ISIS or measles, we seem to ignore clear and present danger despite the facts. One such fact that no one seems to talk about, or even know about, is the horrifyingly high number of U.S. citizens who die as a result of “medical error” each year. Johns Hopkins researchers have estimated that number to be around 250,000 annual deaths. Others believe it to be higher, upwards of 400,000. This is insane, almost too difficult to believe. Even more so is the fact that it’s never mentioned. Not on the news, by regulators, or by our own benevolent ruling class. Instead we’re treated to breathless accounts of possible measles infections, death from which is on par with a Bigfoot sighting. And yet our reckless, or ignorant, or indifferent, or psychopathic, or klutzy, or distracted, or stupid, or something, medical workers are killing Americans left and right. You can find the individual stories online: parents take their toddler in for routine dental work, or some supremely minor operation, and they turn around and their child has died. The medical establishment issues a collective shrug, “hey, it happens”, and that’s that. Or first-rate dumbass working in a pharmacy mixes up a kid’s prescription, and he dies. Or someone takes their aging mother for a routine exam, and comes back a few hours later and they’re just gone. Even staring at the numbers, the bald facts of professionally conducted study, it’s almost impossible to believe. And yet there it is.

We Americans only seem to fear what we’re told to fear by the corporate media. It’s terrifying how easily we’re manipulated, how easily the media can conjure a fear-stricken mob out of the citizenry, and then Piped-Piper it into rubber-stamping any new law, regulation, or overseas bloodbath. That’s called manufacturing consent, a phrase coined by the great Noam Chomsky for his book of the same name.

One of my favorite quotes comes from, of all places, the film Men in Black: “A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it.” 

The corporate media and it’s owners don’t want a nation of individuals, thinking, pondering, and calling BS. They want one big herd, panicky, emotional, unable to think on its own. Much more easy to manipulate.

Well this is pleasantly surprising:

I can defeat Trump and the Clinton Doctrine

And if you don’t happen to subscribe to the WSJ, here is a serviceable summary of the article over at Breitbart.

Here is a snippet of Tulsi’s Op-Ed, lifted via the Breitbart article:

“This isn’t a petty “spat” between Mrs. Clinton and me. It’s a serious contrast in views about the choice voters face as they decide which Democratic candidate is best equipped to defeat President Trump. Mrs. Clinton already lost to Mr. Trump once. Why would Democrats think a Hillary 2.0 candidate would result in anything different?

Whether Mrs. Clinton’s name is on the ballot or not, her foreign policy will be, as many of the Democratic candidates adhere to her doctrine of acting as the world’s police, using the tools of war to overthrow governments we don’t like, wasting taxpayer dollars, costing American lives, causing suffering and destruction abroad, and undermining America’s security.”

Tulsi is the only choice in 2020. Any other will be a stooge, wittingly or unwittingly, of the Warfare State, and who will be cajoled into escalating some other conflict on the other side of the globe. It has to stop, and the only candidate with the spine to apply the brake is Tulsi.

The death of ISIS front man Abū Bakr al-Baghdadi has got the flag-waving, “America F– Yeah!” crowd in a tizzy. They’re over the moon that this person they know nothing about, and who has never set foot within a thousand miles of the United States, “died like a dog”, “whimpering”, etc. They rejoiced at their President strutting, sky-hooting, and affecting airs of a phony machismo while he celebrated the death in front of the nation, as if he had anything to do with Baghdadi’s death. “We’re winning the War on Terror!” many editorials exclaimed, with an unspoken “finally” somewhere in there. But, are we? Let’s think about it. This now-deceased person headed a terrorist organization, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, popped up seemingly out of nowhere in 2014. Convenient timing for the U.S., as there were few terrorist groups big enough or threatening enough to justify America’s continued predatory presence in the Mideast. ISIS arrived, and the Warfare State breathed a sigh of relief.

The point is that ISIS didn’t exist in 2001, when Bush launched his misbegotten War on Terror. ISIS arose out of the chaos and carnage that our government created. It is a testament to the immortal arrogance of our race that it believes it can remake an entire social order in its image with no harmful effects. Well, we now have several textbook examples of what happens when the most powerful military the world has ever known attempts it. Iraqi civilization, ancient, complex, and beautiful, disintegrated in a matter of just a few years. The social order tore itself apart, and a once-beautiful, thriving desert society effectively died. Ancient, priceless architecture was reduced to dust by American forces, who, with Philistine abandon, decimated lives, culture, and history. How many innocents died? Hundreds of thousands. Do there lives count for anything?

What about Libya, where a similarly beautiful culture and civilization was utterly ruined? It’s now a failed state, whatever civilization resides there now exists in a prehistoric, ‘red in tooth and claw’ form. Thousands died at the hands of US bombs, too. Why don’t their lives matter?

Syria has been no different, another regime-change war launched on false pretense, with the explicit purpose of ousting Assad. Syria, home to Damascus, the history of civilization itself, a civilization far more beautiful and charming than the vulgar mass consumerism that Americans open their doors to every morning. Millions displaced, hundreds of thousands of innocents dead. An irreplaceable culture utterly ruined, never to return.

The flying, armed robots of the drone war has done so much damage, killed many thousands of innocents throughout the Mideast. What about those lives?

And here we are, vulgar Americans, personified in the most vulgar of Presidents, holding a national hootenanny for a single death that occurred on the other side of the globe.

I’m reminded of a quote from Friedrich Nietzsche:

“The value of a thing sometimes lies not in what one attains with it, but in what one pays for it – what it costs us.”

What in gods name have we allowed our government to do? Our military has run amok, shooting and bombing indiscriminately, cutting a wide swath of gore across arguably the most beautiful, complex, civilized culture on earth. A culture we base, vulgar Americans could’ve possibly learned something from.  What is our culture other than a debased, materialistic nihilism? We feed on everything like pigs, be it food, television, the latest Apple gadget, “pop culture”, dumping it all in a trough and shoving our snout in, gorging until overfull. Could American society be more aptly described than that of a never-ending trough? There is nothing elevated, or civilized about this. And few aspects of real culture or civilization have remained untouched by this base materialism. And yet many believe it to be the duty of our government to spread the panacea to people who see it for what it is and want nothing of it.

There is nothing honorable in celebrating Baghdadi’s death, someone who never set foot in America, much less attempted to invade and occupy it.  The mindless, primitive celebration of his death, the utter unconcern with the deaths of hundreds of thousands of the innocent of the Mideast, combined with the complete lack of concern about what our own government has done to those abroad is a sign of terminal infection.

We’ve allowed our government to rack up a cosmic tab and then skip out on the bill. We citizens will be the ones to pay it off, to re-balance the scales, and we will finally face the cost of all the wanton death and destruction that we turned a blind eye to, because it didn’t affect us directly anyway.

Re-blogging a Facebook post from the group ‘Hear This Well‘ in its entirety for preservation in the event of some kind of social media Night of the Long Knives-style censorship blitz:

“Is anyone else as sick of this s**t as we are? How many more casualties before the country decides enough is enough? How many more children have to be injured?

☀️ 💙 From Soleil’s dad, Van Blue: “After receiving high doses of Immunoglobulin treatments Soleil is finally starting to show signs of improvement! She is walking a little better and her energetic personality has returned! All CSF test have come back negative which means her GBS was not caused by a viral infection! Which is confirmation that it was caused by the Flu Vaccine which she received on October 2nd. She will need Physical Therapy and still has a long road to recovery, but God is amazing and all of your prayers have been answered! 🙏🏽💙

In the Fall of 2014, Jasmine Lopez developed severe symptoms six days after the vaccinations that she felt pressured into receiving by the hospital she worked at. She was eventually diagnosed with transverse myelitis, a condition with symptoms virtually indistinguishable from some of the most severe of polio.

H/T Hear This Well

In Maui, Hawaii. 

In the spirit of using this space also as an arena to think out loud, I’d like to get one thought in print regarding the traditional distrust of large corporations by the Democratic party, the party that happens to be spearheading the various vaccine mandate bills in state legislatures across the country. The rhetoric of that party has always been that of a deep-seated distrust of enormous, impersonal companies that appear to be far too cozy with the government. That distrust extends to Pharma, that globe-spanning, colossal conglomeration of corporations that mass produce deadly, insanity-inducing drugs, various Frankenstein GMO products, et cetera. Yet the distrust stops at the feet of their vaccine division And not only stops, it inverts into enthusiastic support, to the point that the Democratic party would actively push to mandate this particular pharmaceutical product. The only one that happens to be completely shielded from lawsuits, in the event that someone is injured or dies.

The cognitive dissonance must be jarring, to say the least.

Instead, the party that has always been branded as the tool of industry, the Republican party, has stepped up to oppose legislative mandates. They’ve also been the sole party to acknowledge the existence of vaccine injury, and to give recognition to the growing community of vaccine-injured U.S. citizens. The Democratic party has done neither. It’s members act as a single entity on the topic of vaccines, bizarrely. And if there ever existed a party that allowed itself to be used as a tool of industry, on the vaccine question the Democratic party is surely it.

Trump once tossed around the idea of creating a vaccine safety commission, headed by RFK Jr., that would investigate vaccine safety, something that, surprisingly to almost everyone, does not happen. He ran the idea by Gates, who, according to Gates himself, responded with:

“And I said no, that’s a dead end, that would be a bad thing, don’t do that.”

Vaccines don’t get the same scrutiny as other pharmaceuticals, and everyone involved in some way with the vaccine industry also discourages applying the same standards to vaccines, just like Gates. They are apparently afraid of what would result from a vaccinated-versus-unvaccinated study. This is no way to do science, or public policy. It’s reckless, and if a policy requires for its success the suppression of real independent investigation, and censorship, then it obviously needs to change. Gates appears to care more about protecting the prestige of vaccine policy in the eyes of the public, and he will defend that first, even if it means ignoring alarming rates of injury.