NC Renegades

Sometimes, it’s hard to see what’s right in front of your face – mostly because you don’t want to see it.

Because it’s so hard (for a decent person) to believe it. That such a thing is even possible. The hare freezes at the sight of the fox. It hopes the fox doesn’t see him.

Soon, the hare sees nothing at all.

The people being loaded onto those boxcars back in the long-ago also didn’t want to see it – because they didn’t want to believe it, either.

They froze.

Such things can’t happen, they told themselves as they queued up in line. Not in civilized countries and besides, we’ve done nothing to warrant it. We are just people and just people aren’t herded like cattle and sent to an abattoir by the government. We are just being resettled in the east.

All will be well.

They were so blind they even packed suitcases, filled with clothes they’d never wear again.

But then, it was a process. It didn’t happen suddenly because if it had, they would have seen – and probably not queued up peacefully, to be herded off to be “resettled” in the East.

They had to be corralled, first.

Mentally and morally penned in. As well as set apart, by the rest of the people.

Conditioned to accept what was coming – all of them – without seeing where it was headed. Each step toward the gate where Work Makes You Free an isolated, momentary progression . . . on the way to the next step.

And so on, until you’re there.

Until it’s too late to go back.  

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This is indeed a dark day. Even if Assange wins his court case in the U.S., certainly not the betting favorite, the intimidation effect sounds the death knell for freedom of the press, and by implication every one of the other freedoms once nobly enshrined in the First Amendment. Glenn Greenwald’s article is excellent. Read it and weep. From Greenwald at greenwald.substack.com:

PRESS FREEDOM GROUPS HAVE WARNED ASSANGE’S PROSECUTION IS A GRAVE THREAT. THE BIDEN DOJ IGNORED THEM, AND TODAY WON A MAJOR VICTORY TOWARD PERMANENTLY SILENCING THE PIONEERING TRANSPARENCY ACTIVIST.

In a London courtroom on Friday morning, Julian Assange suffered a devastating blow to his quest for freedom. A two-judge appellate panel of the United Kingdom’s High Court ruled that the U.S.’s request to extradite Assange to the U.S. to stand trial on espionage charges is legally valid.

As a result, that extradition request will now be sent to British Home Secretary Prita Patel, who technically must approve all extradition requests but, given the U.K. Government’s long-time subservience to the U.S. security state, is all but certain to rubber-stamp it. Assange’s representatives, including his fiancee Stella Morris, have vowed to appeal the ruling, but today’s victory for the U.S. means that Assange’s freedom, if it ever comes, is further away than ever: not months but years even under the best of circumstances.

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This is a picture of the cat food aisle at the Murphy, NC Ingles today. While the government and the media continue to spew forth their propaganda, the reality of Socialism is seen everywhere by regular people. The price of food, gas, automobiles and housing have devastated the middle class.

But America is at full employment:

Despite last Friday’s mixed unemployment report which saw a huge miss in payrolls but also indicated that the US unemployment rate had tumbled to just 4.2% (below the lowest estimate) from 4.6%, it remains well above the pre-covid levels in the very low 3%-range. However, according to Bank of America Chief Executive Officer Brian Moynihan, this may be as good as it gets. Speaking in a wide-ranging interview with Bloomberg television, Moynihan said that the U.S. economy is now at full employment, adding that supply-chain problems are beginning to normalize slowly. We agree with the former, and disagree with the latter. The CEO also said that inflation is “no longer up for debate” in the U.S., and reining in the problem will be “hard work.”

The consequences of two generations of public school indoctrination, cancel culture and unchecked political power have now come home to roost. Traitors stole the 2020 elections using the same software as Venezuela did. In less than one year after the fall of the Republic, the United States has devolved into Socialism with all of its “rewards”.

The enemy may have won for now but

Because at some point, some people will stand up to tyranny regardless of the consequences.

David DeGerolamo

And don’t say it can’t/won’t happen here…

BY JEFFREY A. TUCKER  

If the pandemic policy response had taken the form of mere advice, we would not be in the midst of this social, economic, cultural, political disaster. What caused the wreckage was the application of political force that was baked into the pandemic response this time in a way that has no precedent in human history. 

The response relied on compulsion imposed by all levels of government. The policies in turn energized a populist movement, Covid Red Guard that became a civilian enforcement arm. They policed the grocery aisles to upbraid the maskless. Drones swarmed the skies looking for parties to rat out and shut down. A blood lust against non compliers came to be unleashed at all levels of society. 

Lockdowns granted some people meaning and purpose, the way war does for some people. The compulsion to bludgeon others trickled down from government to the people. Madness overtook rationality. Once this took place, there was no longer a question of “Two weeks to flatten the curve.” The mania to suppress the virus by ending person-to-person contact extended to two years. 

This happened in the US and all over the world. The madness achieved nothing positive because the virus paid no attention to the edicts and enforcers. Ending social and economic functioning, however, shattered lives in countless ways, and continues to do so. 

It is precisely because so much about life (and science) is uncertain that civilized societies operate on the presumption of the freedom to choose. That’s a policy of humility: no one possesses enough expertise to presume the right to restrict other people’s peaceful actions. 

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h/t Hermit Sister

https://rumble.com/vqhq8v-unvaccinated-doctor-denied-entry-to-his-own-naturopathic-clinic.html