Dakota Beacon

Our American heritage has given a primary place to our personal freedoms and our ownership of our own bodies.  This was basically established for all of us, not just one race, with the War Between the States.  The status of “human being” in America, in other words, has a special meaning.

We have had some slips since then.  For forty years “scientists” conducted the Tuskegee Institute Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male - from 1932 until 1972.  For some reason, we decided, finally, in 1972, that this is immoral.  Black men were told that the federal government was going to provide them with “free” “medical care”.  Instead they received placebos.  The real purpose was just to see what syphilis would do to a person if left untreated.  While in the United States this human experiment assumed a racial aspect, it was, in fact, based upon a similar study which had been ongoing in Oslo, Norway, involving both men and women.  

Because there was widespread illiteracy among black people in Macon County, Alabama, it was chosen as a good location for this experiment - a population of people who were regarded as “lesser” - assumed to be of lower than average intelligence due to the problem of illiteracy - was needed.  People whose perceived station in life was low enough that they would be willing to participate in such a plan.  Unfortunately, syphilis was also a serious problem, with an estimated 40% of the Black population infected.  

The initial phase of this experiment began during the Great Depression.  The offer of “free medical care” was enticing, but many people remained very skeptical and fearful.  More incentives were offered - free transportation, free meals, etc.  The “medical care” which was provided to the people used in this experiment were placebos.  None of these subjects actually received any medical treatment on a consistent basis.  When the “scientists” knew they would be in trouble for this they occasionally and temporarily provided dangerous heavy metal treatments to satisfy requirements of Alabama health guidelines.  The main idea of the study was to just sit and watch the disease kill the subjects.  Some who survived got little “certificates” for 25 years of participation in the project.  These men were not told they had syphilis.  Some thought they were being treated for rheumatism or other disorders.  This ignorance of their true medical issues allowed them to spread the illness unknowingly.  The whole thing reeked of immorality on the part of the so-called scientists.  But the thing which made it possible was the financial desperation of those who basically offered their bodies on the altar of “science”.  

Today we look upon this as a shocking lapse in our nation’s covenant with its people - all of them - that they are citizens, that they have basic human rights and that they are not to be bought and sold.  But we are in a new crisis, much like the days of the Great Depression.  True, this depression is man-made.  It is the result of public policy in most of our states which has ground our economy and our businesses and livelihoods and consequently our self-worth into dust.  As during the famous Depression of the ‘30s, there are the “haves” and the “have-nots”.  Those who were well-situated to ride out the virus attack are doing fine.  Politicians are doing very well.  Congressmen are riding fairly high.  

But some people are really suffering.  In my city we just lost three restaurants in the past 30 days.  Others are under a dark cloud and all are under threat of imminent shutdown at the whim of a capricious governor.  It is likely the same in your hometown and your state.  Only a couple of states seem to be weathering this in a normal way, with people still working and earning a living and supporting themselves and their families.  To “help” people who, through no fault of their own and against their wishes, are thrown out of work and face repossessions, evictions, hunger and domestic trauma, the federal government is considering sending checks to “help out” as it were, help people get by until they can earn their own keep again.  The suggested amount has been $2,000.

During the Depression of the 1930s at least those who could find something to do to earn money were allowed to do so.  If you lost your job in a factory you could maybe sell apples or raise chickens or shine shoes.  That is not possible now for a lot of reasons - we are over-regulated to the point where a kid can’t run a lemonade stand.  And now we are beaten down with fines and worse for even being open for business.  People are shamed for even trying.  These so-called “stimulus” checks might make the difference of life or death to some people.  So far, everyone was supposed to have been given $600.  This is a joke.  We have been shut down for most of a year.  A $600 check is almost invisible in this picture.  

Concurrent with this abject need among most people, recently impoverished, is a push to vaccinate everyone in sight with an untested vaccine.  A vaccine developed over a period of a few short months with most safeguards eliminated in the interest of speed and to satisfy the hopes and fears of a population that has fallen prey to a media-hyped hysteria over the virus that was unleashed by the Chinese Communist Party from a lab in Wuhan.  People are conflicted.  Every day we see where some doctor or nurse, eager to be a “good example” and allay our fears of the vaccine, is injected and then dies.  In Norway there are reports of large numbers of deaths, not to mention adverse reactions, which can often be severe and life-altering.  Hank Aaron, who was not ill, was such a shining example.  He died from the vaccine.  A teenage boy in Israel, with no pre-existing conditions, keeled over dead from his second dose.  If these instances were not enough, there is other ominous evidence that vaccines in general are possibly causing various conditions, one being autism.  These questions, despite vehement denials by the proponents of these vaccines, remain unanswered.  There is much we don’t know.

So, we have a population in dire need of public financial assistance and a “science” community eager to foist its untried and undercooked vaccine on them.  Sound familiar?  Well, the principle is similar, that’s for sure.  Comes Congressman Steve Stivers from Ohio’s 15th district.  His grand scheme is to hold these desperate Americans, impoverished by government decisions over which they have no control, hostage.  If they want the rest of their “stimulus” money they must, he proposes, agree to be vaccinated.  In other words, they must agree to be guinea pigs for the purveyors of COVID vaccines.  We are to sell our bodies to science for $1,400 apiece.  

From the comfort of Congressman Stivers’ cushy seat, this looks entirely reasonable.  Someone who, for example, used to own a restaurant, paid his rent, his employees, his suppliers and services, his utilities and taxes and supported his family - who now finds himself not only shut out of business and therefore unable to pay these costs but now has, say, a $10,000 fine to boot, as is the case with at least one business owner in my little community, this guy should be willing to sell his body for $1,400, surely.  

The Tuskegee experiment goes down as one of the darkest chapters in our history - the exploitation of impoverished people, regarded as somehow less than human by their self-perceived “betters” for the “common good”, whatever that means.   There is no “common good” that is served by the sacrifice of the sovereign individual.  We are sovereign individuals.  There will be those who would perhaps volunteer with full knowledge of the risks involved, but this should be purely of their own accord, not to “earn” their tax money back because they have been put out of business by government.  Such coercion is little better than the experiments of Dr. Mengele or the shameful Tuskegee episode.  Shame on Mr. Stivers.  Perhaps he has no objection to being the subject of the coronavirus vaccine experiment.  Let him do so of his own volition.  Pay him.  If he has confidence in the vaccine let him go for it.  No one should be deprived of the vaccine if they want it.  And no one should be used in such a way against his wishes because he needs to sustain himself or his family.  Period. 

Congressman Stivers (R-OH), who conceived this plan, has a net worth of $9 million USD, plus his regular income from various sources.  Does this suggest to anyone out there that this guy needs to be removed, surely not from life itself, but at least from the United States Congress? (That, by the way, is not a rhetorical question.)

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