Dakota Beacon

When you have been around as long as I have, and you take a look back at some of our most famous “conspiracy theories”,  in retrospect many of them turn out to have been soundly grounded in fact, not fancy.  One of the stupid things our society does is condemn ideas and views which do not conform to the current dictates or narratives.  One case in point is the absurd narrative surrounding the JFK assassination.  Looking back it is almost impossible to understand how otherwise sober, sane people could possibly have fallen into lockstep with the official version - you know, the one wherein a “lone gunman”, Lee Harvey Oswald, a man who could not hit a barn door on a bet, who had made a record of attempting to contact FBI and other authorities prior to the sniping attack, a man whose real-time, on camera cold-blooded murder took place while in police custody, was convicted in absentia (no legal representation even for his memory) on the theory that one bullet zig-zagged around a motorcade, gravely wounding one person and making several holes in the president . . . and then showing up in pristine condition on a gurney at Parkland Hospital in Dallas.  (For more on this, you can do no better than Lee Harvey Oswald, Lyndon Johnson and the JFK Assassination by John Delayne Williams).  There may be a few who still believe this because, after all, the government said it so it must be true, but the number is understandably dwindling.  

And yet here we are nearly 60 years after that all-out effort to dupe Americans, watching and listening to a heap of self-contradicting nonsense about a virus.  Not only are we supposed to believe this pile of crap but we have allowed ourselves to be committed - by our elected governments - to shutting down our entire economy, and what is worse, destroying our essential culture, leaving our elders to die alone, putting little children in “protective gear” which we all know does not protect anyone, standing ridiculous distances apart; shopping in a typical store now means running a gauntlet of sheepish entry-level employees standing at the door, in masks, next to a little table with a huge bottle of hand sanitizer and paper towels, little attendants there to make sure you don’t try to get into their store without a mask.  The other day my son and I went to the bank.  In the entryway was an old woman with a walker.   She looked to be living out her last days.  My son moved to hold the door for her.  Yet the woman’s only words to us were, “I’d wear a mask if I were you.”  Even ordinary civility has been sacrificed.  Of course she was trying to suck her last breaths through a paper mask.  Anyone who has worn one of these need only take it off and breathe the fresh air to know how unhealthy these are and how they have been harming  us..

Our president has tried to bring attention to some promising treatments and drugs such as the well-known hydroxychloroquine in combination with an antibiotic.  The result?  Ridicule and disdain.  This, despite strong evidence as to its usefulness and effectiveness.   When panicked governors like Andrew Cuomo, of New York, went screaming to Washington for ventilators, Trump jumped into action to deliver them.  When there was fear of inadequate numbers of hospital beds in New York, Trump sent the USNS Comfort to New York harbor to alleviate the crowding that was expected.  He negotiated deals with auto and pillow manufacturers to retool to produce ventilators and masks.  He acted, at one point at least, to halt travel from Asia (later, Europe) in an effort to stem the spread of the virus.  For this he was castigated as "racist".   He put together a group of consultants from among supposed “experts” to meet with the press and public to take questions.  Yet the president is accused by the Democrat team of being responsible for the virus as well as shutdowns - to which he has objected - mandated by state governors.

I would say his main weak point in this was in choosing his virus advisors, including the predatory Dr. Anthony Fauci and the apparently neurotic Dr. Deborah Birx.  The former should have been screened out merely on the basis a conflict of interest,  having contributed large sums of money to the Wuhan Institute of Virology - the home of COVID 19,  and his personal stake in developing a vaccine, in addition to eternally contradicting himself with impunity.  Meanwhile Birx is running around her own home, wearing a mask.  This would not be at all weird if masks worked.  But the entire medical world has been basically forced to admit that they don’t.  

His other mistake, in my own humble opinion, is to fast-track vaccine development, eliminating normal trials.  When I say “normal trials” this is not some high bar.  Since 1989 vaccine producers have been exempt from any liability for damage their products cause, and some of these damages are significant, including physical disability, mental disability and death.  But no big deal.  We’re dealing with the flu here.  No one should downplay the importance of avoiding crowds when possible, of washing our hands, of staying home and away from others if we are sick, of proper nutrition and adequate rest.  But come on.  Masks?  No one can possibly believe they do anything.  I am the first to admit that I promoted the use of them when the request was that we give it a couple of weeks to slow the spread of the virus so our hospitals and care providers could prepare.  It was never supposed to be three weeks.  Yet here we are.  And as the virus is obviously winding down at this point we find the mask police at the entrances to our grocery stores, we’re followed about by nags if we aren’t wearing them, while those who are are suffering discomfort and imposing it on their kids and harming their actual health in the process.

We are supposed to wait for our normal freedom until some point in the future when we can have it back for the price of subjecting ourselves to some mandatory vaccine.  Vaccines really need their own article, so suffice it to say, there is good reason to reject them. 

If you think our response to this virus is bizarre, just take a look at Australia and New Zealand.  The Australian state of Victoria has been under martial law and strict shut-down for about a month now and New Zealand - well, you just need to take a look at their prime minister in New Zealand. (You may never be able to sleep again.)  

One of the legacies of the JFK assassination has been the labeling of anyone who comes out with a differing opinion from the state story as a “conspiracy theorist”.  This label carries with it the image of some nut in a tin foil hat who is on the lookout for Martians among us.  The truth is that every advancement in our culture and society and history has been the result of the heat and light generated when conflicting views are debated.  Our “dark ages” were characterized by just the sort of mentality that is approved of today - taking without question our opinions from the “authorities”, be they religious or state or just ordinary bullies.  God protect those who risk expressing doubt!  And the doubters of the authorities are the “conspiracy theorists”.  Not the ones promoting the nonsense or the ones unquestioningly following it.  

One way we know who the players are and which is the nonsense is that only one side continues to shut down the other.  We have seen respected authorities advocate for hydroxychloroquine to combat and cure the illness that has killed enough people to create the desired panic.  We have seen people with expertise in the field caution against the widespread use of masks.  We have seen others counsel us against shutting down our economy - that we might not recover from the devastation this is causing - and they are all shut down, despite the fact that we can see with our own eyes the damage these authorities are wreaking on our lives and culture.  Little kids are growing up seeing only half of a human face, for God’s sake.  We strain to understand properly what people mumble through layers of paper and fabric which block only expression, not virus.  Some of us try to adjust to the "fishbowl" view of our world through a face shield.  This is called the "new normal".

We would appear to have all gone mad.  Well, not all, perhaps.  While our governors are jumping on the bandwagon to mandate this and that, shut down this and that, while our citizens are reduced to hiding in their homes, under their beds, for fear of catching a virus or furtively venturing out behind masks, there are those who look at this with a clear head, clear eyes and allow their own cognitive function to dictate their position and their action.  Grand Forks mayor Brandon Bochenski is resisting the urging of lemmings to mandate masks at least.  Another such is a Canadian attorney.  I hope you will take the time to listen to his whole interview with Ezra Levant.  He goes beyond mandates and business losses in this.  He holds the light up for the rest of us to see what is clearly there.  His name is Rocco Galati and you will thank yourself for carving out the time in your day to listen to the whole thing.  

I will leave you with this.  Can you remember your life back in February?  What has changed?  Do you remember what it was to feel “free”?  What has changed?  Then ask yourself how this has come about.  We have been panicked like a flock of mindless sheep into running off of a cliff.  Everything went out the window because people allowed fear to control their every move and decision.  We know it is false.  How?  Because the “authorities” which have constricted our every sane and productive move have enthusiastically endorsed “protestors” for specific causes.  We must wear a mask when ordering at a Panera, but are allowed to take it off to eat there.  Does anyone see any sense in this?  We may not congregate in normal ways to attend church or synagogue, we no longer have a sports season.  Yet if we want to join a motley assortment of earnest do-gooders and felons in the streets to demonstrate about fictional police brutality and lies about “systemic racism”, perhaps setting a few sections of our cities on fire, we  are good to go.  

We need to believe our lyin’ eyes.  Our own intelligence tells us we are being manipulated, played.  The essence of our culture and society and our economy are being stolen from us even as we look on. With the possible fines, etc., it is more like armed robbery, mugging.   We need to step back and look at the hellscape we have allowed our “trusted authorities” to impose upon us, because while we may think it temporary, they see it as a permanent change.  There is a chilling message from Canada’s Health Minister, Theresa Tam, quoted in the interview,  which says it all.  It’s time to stop this.  Tomorrow is too late.  Those who question the organized response to this virus are not “conspiracy theorists”.  We are uncovering an actual conspiracy - one with a few puppeteers holding the strings and others who have been duped by them, directing our lives.   It is not a mere “theory” any more.  It’s the real thing.

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