Taking A Break, Getting Things Done...
Haven’t posted anything for about three weeks, and things appear to be pretty static, event-wise.
It’s pretty obvious that the vaccines don’t work - at least to prevent infection - and it’s doubtful they ever will, joining a decades-long list of failures to create a vaccine for an upper respiratory viral infection. I predicted this outcome in a long-lost facebook post in 2020, so it’s no surprise to me. None of the measures - lockdowns, masks, social distancing - had any effect against the infection. They were very useful in preventing people from communicating with each other, and organizing to stop the actions of incompetent governments and bad actors like the WEF and WHO - and perhaps that was the true intent. Complying with anything these people attempt to impose in the name of public health in the future should be stringently and widely opposed - “Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me” should be the watchword. And it doesn’t matter which political party is (apparently) in power, because they’re not the people setting policy, it’s the Administrative State pulling that trick - and the corporations behind it - and that goes for every country involved, not just the US. The solution is to get rid of as much government as possible, people can run their own lives for far cheaper and far better than a lot of highly paid corrupt and unaccountable bureaucrats. For details -
The Durham Report has come out, and they figured out that the FBI and associated agencies were used to enforce the political agenda of the incompetent and corrupt ruling class. No great surprise here, this started out with the Palmer Raids in the 1920s, continuing through to the 1960s and 1970s with the persecution and repression of those opposed to the Vietnam War, and now this. Owing to the widespread and relatively inexpensive availability of forensic technology, there is no reason for the FBI to exist - or most of the Department of Justice, for that matter. There’s this thing called the Tenth Amendment - “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people” - which makes nearly every sentence in the Code of Federal Regulations unconstitutional - an invasion of your rights and mine - and that goes for the vast plethora of federal agencies, including the National Security State.
“Under the U.S. Constitution, there are only three federal crimes: piracy, treason and counterfeiting. All other criminal matters are left to the individual states. Any federal legislation dealing with criminal matters not related to these three issues usurps state authority over criminal law and takes a step toward turning the states into mere administrative units of the federal government.” https://www.rutherford.org/constitutional_corner/amendment_x_rights_retained_by_the_states
This was predicted in Antifederalist Paper #9, written in 1788:
”We have frequently endeavored to effect in our respective states, the happy discrimination which pervades this system; but finding we could not bring the states into it individually, we have determined ... and have taken pains to leave the legislature of each free and independent state, as they now call themselves, in such a situation that they will eventually be absorbed by our grand continental vortex, or dwindle into petty corporations, and have power over little else than yoaking hogs or determining the width of cart wheels.” https://ia801404.us.archive.org/3/items/TheAntiFederalistPapers/TheAntiFederalistPapers.pdf
Here’s the problem - and it will take a revolution - or collapse - in the ability and will of the various governments to project power and perpetuate their rule, perhaps as happened with the Soviet Union, where the Soviet Air Force was reduced to selling its MiGs in order for pilots and ground crews to buy food, back in the late 1980s:
”The post-New Deal administrative state is unconstitutional,' and
its validation by the legal system amounts to nothing less than a
bloodless constitutional revolution. The original New Dealers were
aware, at least to some degree, that their vision of the national gov-
ernment's proper role and structure could not be squared with the
written Constitution: The Administrative Process, James Landis's
classic exposition of the New Deal model of administration, fairly
drips with contempt for the idea of a limited national government
subject to a formal, tripartite separation of powers. Faced with a
choice between the administrative state and the Constitution, the
architects of our modern government chose the administrative state,
and their choice has stuck.” https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1941&context=faculty_scholarship
and so on and so forth. We’re looking more and more like Russia as time goes on, and if Putin and his ilk pass from the scene to be replaced by actual constitutional government, we may yet refer to Russia as being part of the free world - and the US, not, if things continue on their present path. The trouble, I think, lies with people who are both old and have been in government for their entire lives. The worst are those who have used their power to make themselves millions and even billions of dollars. And gerontocratic political classes are simply the worst, wherever they appear.
Perhaps a representative government could be best created the same way we select juries - which even now have and exercise the power of deciding life or death. Abolishing the Administrative State, and limiting terms in office to two years, with other restrictions, such as strict compliance with the Bill of Rights could create a better situation than we have now. Simple reforms, with the various Administrative States still in existence, will not solve any problem. And the prospect of being called to serve will strongly deepen civic engagement…
And it’s getting late. Ukraine, the censorship regimes exercised by legacy and social media, and the rest will have to wait for another day, besides I’ve posted quite a lot on those in the past - you can re-read those posts if you want, little has changed so they’re still quite timely. I’m working on a few other things, perhaps I’ll post on those, but not more than one or two posts per week…