Predictably, the pandemic became a pretense for expanded tyranny across the globe—making changes that have nothing to do with a virus. Hungary clamped down on free speech and banned public depictions of homosexuality. China shuttered Hong Kong’s last pro-democracy newspaper and jailed its executives, editors, and journalists. In Belarus, President Lukashenko subdued protests with mass arrests and even hijacked a passenger plane to arrest a dissident journalist. Cambodia abolished due process and arrested political opponents. Poland’s government abolished rights for women and gays and effectively banned abortion. India’s Prime Minister arrested journalists and ordered Twitter to remove critical posts. Russia’s President Vladimir Putin used the pandemic as (another) pretext for jailing powerful opponents and banning mass gatherings. And democracies were not much different: France required its citizens to show a signed declaration to travel more than 1 kilometer from home. Australia was more liberal, allowing citizens to venture up to 5 kilometers from home— but then again, Australia also built new detention centers. Britain banned its citizens from traveling abroad.
Many similar things happened in the United States, including New York’s Senate passing a law to allow for the forcible and indefinite detention of residents deemed to be a threat to “public health.” But for America, freedom of speech has been the biggest casualty of the emerging tyranny. The now-popular term “misinformation” has come to mean any expression that departs from official orthodoxies. Social media and news media companies serve as stenographer and defender of any position pronounced by government. The intentional failure of journalistic inquiry, curiosity, and investigation, the failure to probe, to ask tough questions (or any questions) of those in power—has enabled the madness and the sadness of 2020 and 2021. There is a web of motives at work, but I’ll cite a simple one:
Big pharmaceutical companies are the biggest advertisers on news and television outlets. Their $9.6 billion annual advertising budget buys more than commercials—it buys obeisance. (In 2014, network president Roger Ailes told me he would fire any of his news show hosts who allowed me to talk about vaccine safety on air. “Our news division,” he explained, “gets up to 70 percent of ad revenues from pharma in non-election years.”)
I know the role of the news media is not news to you, so I’ll cite just one example: Vaccine mandates are ostensibly based upon the idea that vaccines will prevent transmission of COVID-19. If they don’t prevent transmission, if both the vaccinated and unvaccinated can spread the virus, then there is no relevant difference between the two groups—other than that one group is not complying with government commands.
Forcing an entire population to accept an arbitrary and risky medical intervention is the most intrusive and demeaning action ever imposed by the United States Government, and perhaps any government.
And it is based upon a lie.
The Director of the CDC, Dr. Fauci, and the WHO have all had to reluctantly acknowledge that the vaccines cannot stop transmission.
When Israel’s Director of Public Health addressed the FDA Advisory Panel, she left no doubt about the vaccines’ inability to stop transmission of the virus, or stop sickness, or stop death. Describing Israel’s situation as of September 17th, 2021, she said:
Sixty percent of the people in severe and critical condition were, um, were immunized, doubly immunized, fully vaccinated. Forty-five percent of the people who died in this fourth wave were doubly vaccinated.
Even so, three weeks later, on October 7th—just days before this book went to press—the President of the United States announced that he was ensuring healthcare workers are vaccinated, “because if you seek care at a healthcare facility, you should have the certainty that the people providing that care are protected from COVID and cannot spread it to you.”
The President just told Americans that being vaccinated provides “certainty” that vaccinated people are “protected from COVID and cannot pass it to you.”
Not one question was posed to the President about this stunning disconnect, about the obvious untruth—and that speech gives us a stark example of what’s going on.
A televised image of an unchallenged leader mouthing untrue pronouncements to mislead and control the population—that is the world of George Orwell’s sadly prophetic novel, 1984.
It is a hopeful sign that halfway into 2021, Orwell’s seventy-year-old book suddenly became a top-20 bestseller in the United States. Apparently, more people are aware of what’s going on than the powerful give them credit for.
That awareness, that basic common sense, reminds us that democracies can reassert legislative control over rogue dictators—whether mayors, governors, presidents or prime ministers. Rational legislatures can choke off funding that supports few and harms many. They can initiate investigations, spur criminal prosecutions, and restore freedom.
Even without government engagement, it is ordinary people who can rescue us from tyranny. We can say No to compliance with jabs for work, No to sending children to school with forced testing and masking, No to censored social media platforms, No to buying products from the companies bankrupting and seeking to control us. These actions are not easy, but living with the consequences of inaction would be far harder. By calling on our moral courage, we can stop this march towards a global police state.
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I founded Children’s Health Defense (CHD) long before COVID-19. Our goal was to put an end to the epidemic of childhood diseases arising from toxic exposures of all types, including some vaccines. CHD seeks to educate the public and hold bad actors accountable in order to help ensure a healthy future for our children. As this book goes to press, the campaign to force unsafe COVID vaccines into children’s bodies is reaching its peak. If our children are to enjoy the blessings of liberty and health, we must end this COVID-19 nightmare. We can no longer “trust the experts” or follow their warped version of science. That’s what got us here.
With the information in this book, I hope you’ll educate others, engage more effectively with your local government, school board, health department, legislators, police (and often more promising, your elected sheriff). CHD has chapters around the country and the world; join any of many health freedom groups. Sign up for the free Children’s Health Defense online news site, The Defender. Stay informed. Stay active. We can jettison this insanity if enough people refuse to participate in a new apartheid based upon forced medical procedures.
The United States still suffers from the brutal and ugly history of slavery, segregation, racism, and alas, forced medical procedures. Let us not start this all over again, condemning African-Americans more than any other racial group, to second-class citizen status.
As I was writing this book, I reread Martin Luther King, Jr.’s majestic “I Have a Dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial in 1963. Reverend King reaches out to us through all these years:
But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so, we’ve come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom, and the security of justice. We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy.
Join with us to take back our democracy and our freedom. I’ll see you on the barricades.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.