REPUBLIC REBORN

Mary Knowlton was the 73-year old retired librarian who made the ill-fated decision to participate in a “shoot/don’t shoot” demonstration with a criminally incompetent member of the punitive class. Lee Coel was supposed to be shooting blanks, but instead fired two live rounds through Knowlton’s heart, killing her. This rooting, snorting, unionized piece of garbage has been charged with “manslaughter”, and will more than likely serve no time at all, thanks to the “thin blue line” institutional support, amplified by the unconditional love held by an idiotic and unthinking public. Knowlton is a victim of the culture of incompetence that is rampant among police departments today. The kid who killed her had probably never even held a gun 6 months ago, but he did have the quick temper and eagerness to escalate a situation so prized among departments. IQ hovering below that of my dog. (That is an insult to my pit bull, actually, who exhibits daily a capacity for reflection and judgment far above that of most people I encounter).

As every firearm owner knows, you never point your gun at anyone, whether you think you’re loaded or not. Every real gun owner feels the gravitational pull of their barrel down to the ground, and obeys that instinct. No real gun owner would ever dream of pointing their weapon at an elderly woman, much less fire blanks at her heart.

Here’s a good example of why it’s a bad idea to mingle education and medical procedures. Many have pointed out the fact that if any of those students had been diabetic, the school would’ve had a death on their hands. Now everyone involved is getting sued, and the families will probably get a sizable pay-out. Litigation is the answer here.

The most outrageous part of the story, though, is that, once the school realized its mistake, it told the students not to tell their parents about the mishap. The student that OD’d also was not administered medical aid at the school. The parents evidently arrived to find their child unconscious in a chair.

Public schools have no business administering medical procedures, including vaccines. The personnel, more often than not, isn’t competent. Shots, and everything else, must be done in a doctor’s office, with parents present.

The greatest revolution and most dramatic advance toward a freer and far better future has been the flowering of marijuana legalization throughout the nation. Congress is now poised to give the cannabis industry banking rights, hitherto denied to them. Legalization takes the honors not primarily due to the many health benefits from its use, but because its legalization took the beating heart out of the tragic, almost century-long War on Drugs. The drug war is now terminal, as can plainly be seen. The arguments developed to discredit marijuana prohibition apply to the entire bureaucratic superstructure, as the public can clearly see. A flood of editorials and jeremiads, of which I contributed a small amount, were too much for the policy to withstand. No one could deny the injustice of the drug war. This phenomenon is probably one of the primary benefits of such prolonged struggles for liberty: the best minds are forced to develop and unleash the most devastating and convincing of arguments to combat the tyranny. Books, columns, speeches, documentaries, all of this will exist long after the battle has been won, stockpiled like an armory in the event that they ever need to be made use of again.

The foundation of a free society is voluntarism. All mutually-consenting contracts and interactions are permitted. The instigation of violence is prohibited. This has always been the ultimate goal. But it seems clear that it won’t happen all at once. Small victories will build on one another, and liberty activists will gain ground. The logic of liberty applied to one issue will then be transferred to another. More people will wake up to this logic, and then one day we will have reached a point where the principle of voluntarism has been pushed further than ever before. But pushed in a self-conscious, philosophical manner. Nothing by accident, and therefore more permanent. That is the ultimate goal.

Boy is politics entertaining, and provides much fodder for someone like the great Jimmy Dore:

H/t Oklahomans for Cannabis:

Vaccines are safe and effective? Not so for Cheron Golding, who received a flu shot in 2013 and developed transverse myelitis, a disease on par with the worst aspects of polio: paralysis, loss of vision, etc. She took her case to vaccine court and won.

It’s good that she received the payment, but the question needs to be answered: how can an allegedly innocuous medical procedure cause a complication as severe as transverse myelitis? There are around 1,400 new cases of this polio-like illness in the United States each year, with over 33,000 Americans affected permanently in some manner by the illness. With all the fear-mongering circulating about polio, why don’t we hear more about those numbers? How many cases are vaccines responsible for? This is important. Vaccine injuries need to be spoken about plainly, even if only to confront the fact that safer vaccines need to be developed. Hiding the problem, or denying that it exists, is harming thousands needlessly. The logic goes that if some vaccines were perceived by the public as unsafe, then vaccine uptake would plummet. It would take years, maybe decades to rebuild public confidence, so health authorities believe it to be better to deny vaccine injury rates at every instance. I believe this to be the cause of the phenomenon of giving multiple vaccines in a single visit. If a doctor were to admit that more than one vaccine at a time is dangerous, the first question would be, why? And so now we have doctors administering combinations of vaccines at once, despite their never having been tested for reactions.

Combining various medications and administering them to a child all at once would be insane if it were any other product. But for vaccines it is standard procedure, regardless of the outcome.

Ex-Dallas cop Amber Guyger has been convicted of murder for the 2018 shooting death of her neighbor, Botham Jean, after entering his apartment.

Surprising, considering what cops get away with on a daily basis. Guyger faces up to 99 years, which she deserves, but will more than likely receive much less. Justice has been sweetly served in this instance, and hopefully it will send a message to cops, that their mantle of impunity is rapidly disappearing.

Barring a Tulsi Gabbard nomination, Trump will serve a second term. It’s astounding, in a way, given his general boorishness, that this will be so. It seems like it would be much harder to nominate a candidate that would lose to such a knucklehead, but the Democratic Party is well on its way to seeing its candidate get steamrolled in 2020. The only candidate that could conceivably win is Tulsi. Can you picture how quickly Trump would deflate once he begins attacking the personal character, or looks, of an active-duty member of the military, and veteran of the misbegotten Iraq war? Tulsi would trounce Trump with grace, and he would appear nothing more than a bumbling old fool, and America would marvel at how they could’ve elected such a bottom-dweller. Of course, he won by default. Hillary was a terrible candidate, and would’ve been a hideous President. How many wars would we be engaged in now, had she won?

Tulsi is more presidential as a candidate than all the inhabitants of that office of the past century. She would swat Trump like a fly, and be every bit the president that Obama should’ve been. Anti-war with a backbone.

I digress. The Trump impeachment scandal, complete with a “whistleblower” from inside the White House that turned out to be a CIA officer, who has now been conveniently deposited into “witness protection” so as to not reveal his identity, is doing nothing but ensuring his second term. Why? Because it is broadcasting the overt corruption of Biden and his dealings with Ukraine. Biden openly bragged about doing what Trump is now accused of doing, and most Americans see that, and realize that impeachment is a political Hail Mary. It’s even worse for Democratic candidates, who now have to answer uncomfortable questions about the whole affair. These candidates can’t afford to appear sympathetic to Trump, so, if asked, they must answer that Biden’s actions with Ukraine are no big deal. Nor is it a big deal that his son was handed a cushy “job” on the board of a Ukrainian energy company.

It must have seemed clever to push for impeachment after such a conveniently-timed leak, but the facts that voters will care about will be the revelations of massive corruption that were the focus of Trump’s call with the Ukrainian president. For all his faults, Trump will be seen as at least making a genuine attempt to get to the bottom of one instance of the commonplace corruption that has so outraged voters for so long, outrage that propelled him into office in the first place. It will do the same a second time.

Insane story out of Chicago.

The mother had just given birth, and a nurse prepared to administer the shot before both parents objected. The nurse deemed this to be medical neglect, and walked out of the delivery room with the newborn infant. Thankfully, the parents were reunited with their new child 12 hours later. And now those parents are suing, and it’s fairly certain that they’ll receive a sizable settlement for what amounted to kidnapping, and an unimaginable degree of emotional distress for the mother and father. Hopefully the costly litigation will send a message to other hospitals to respect the wishes of their patients, and above all, not to kidnap newborns.

Doctors like to spring the vitamin K shot onto parents shortly after a child is born, giving them almost no time to make an informed decision. The shot is sold as a completely safe way to protect a newborn’s blood-clotting ability in the event of an accident, but the truth isn’t so innocent. The vitamin K shot, phytonadione, contains polysorbate 80, benzyl alcohol, and aluminum. These three ingredients have been implicated in a host of neurological issues later in life, yet it is apparently fine to administer to a minutes-old infant. Aside from this, a baby doesn’t begin developing its own vitamin K until 8 days after birth for a host of reasons crucial to the child’s survival and development.

This is more than adequate to rationally refuse the shot at birth. But in a world with strict protection and enforcement of parental rights, no justification is needed other than a firm ‘No’.

From Activist Post: Facebook censors trending vitamin D story to protect flu vaccines by using former CNN reporter, with the story in question here: Study: Vitamin D more effective than flu vaccine.