RFK: The Real Anthony Fauci

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RFK Jr. is following in the footsteps of his father and uncle, JFK, in his new book The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health, published on November 16, 2021. Within two weeks the book had become sold out on both Amazon and Barnes and Noble, even though the mainstream media ignores it.

RFK Jr. shows that the “global war on democracy and public health” began forty years ago with AIDS. In 1981, fifty gay men in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York were found to suffer from advanced immune suppression associated with a disfiguring skin cancer called Kaposi’s sarcoma. It was initially placed under the purview of the National Cancer Institute (NCI),

He writes: “For Pharma and its NCI regulators and enablers, the AIDS crisis looked like another ATM machine for them. In 1984, however, NIH scientist Robert Gallo linked AIDS to his virus HTLV-III, renamed ‘human immunodeficiency virus’ (HIV).”

Fauci started work at NIH’s National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) in 1968. He persuaded NIH bureaucrats that this HIV virus is what causes AIDS. So, his institute should take control of AIDS and its bountiful funding for AIDS research. (Fauci was appointed NIAID’s Director in 1984, a position he continues to hold at age 81.)The Real Anthony Fauci…Kennedy Jr., Robert F.Buy New $20.98(as of 07:01 UTC – Details)

Controlling billions of dollars for AIDs research, Fauci refused to fund any investigators that had the cheek to question the viral cause of AIDS, or who supported using cheap, no-longer-patented medicines to treat it. He directed funds to develop an AIDS vaccine. In the meantime, Fauci pushed AZT (Azidothymidine), a DNA chain terminator. This chemotherapy poison killed some 300,000 healthy people who tested positive on a PCR test for HIV, like with tennis player Arthur Ashe!

RFK Jr. reports that Dr. Fauci has so far spent half a trillion dollars in government research grants trying to produce a vaccine against HIV, supporting “nearly 100 vaccine candidates.”

But what if the “human immunodeficiency virus” (HIV) doesn’t cause AIDS? RJK Jr. addresses this “AIDS denialist” question in Chapter 5, “The HIV Heretics” (with 145 references, i.e., “endnotes”), and how Fauci and his team deals with them, in Chapter 6, “Burning The HIV Heretics” (with 180 references).

Respected UC Berkeley molecular biologists Peter Duesberg, cofounder of the first retroviral oncogene and author of  Inventing the AIDS Virus, and the late Harvey Bialy, founding scientific editor of Nature Biotechnology and Peter Duesberg’s biographer (Oncogenes, Aneuploidy, and AIDS: A Scientific Life and Times of Peter H. Duesberg), along with others, contend that HIV is innocent. It is a harmless cellular passenger, like a hitchhiker. And HIV infects less than one in 10,000 T cells, which thrive. AIDS, instead, is caused by long-term, heavy duty recreational drug use; taking antiretroviral drugs, like AZT; unprotected anal sex; and, in Africa, malnutrition and bad water. Dr. Fauci has his team suppress these facts.

RFK Jr. writes:

“From the outset, I want to make clear that I take no position on the relationship between HIV and AIDS. I include this history because it provides an important case study illustrating how—some four hundred years after Galileo—politics and power continue to dictate ‘scientific consensus,’ rather than empiricism, critical thinking, or the established steps of the scientific method. It is a hazard to both democracy and public health when a kind of religious faith in authoritative pronouncements supplant disciplined observation, rigorous proofs, and reproducible results as the source of ‘truth’ in the medical field.”

The claim that HIV causes AIDS is the “critical foundation of Dr. Fauci’s career.” So, he and his PIs must ignore the fact that AIDS occurs in HIV-negative people.

Peter Duesberg ran afoul of the establishment in 1988 when he published a paper in Science 

titled, “HIV is Not the Cause of AIDS.” RFK Jr. describes it this way:

“Dr. Fauci summoned the entire upper clergy of his HIV orthodoxy—and all of its lower acolytes and altar boys—to unleash a storm of fierce retribution on the Berkeley virologist and his followers… Dr. Fauci’s career depended on the universal belief that HIV alone causes AIDS…The AIDS establishment, down to its lowliest doctor, publicly reviled Duesberg. NIH defunded him, and academia ostracized and exiled the brilliant Berkeley professor. The scientific press all but banished him. He became radioactive… A frenzy of anti-Duesbergism swept the field like grass fire. Duesberg’s name became so degraded that debasing him became a means of career advancement. Being seen with him was career suicide for aspiring scientists.”

I have studied this subject, which includes interviewing both Peter Duesberg and Harvey Bialy (at his home in Mexico), among others. See “A Modern-Day Copernicus: Peter H. Duesberg” (2006) and “HIV/AIDS: Unmasking Falsehood, Bringing Truth to Light” (2015). With this background I especially admire how RFK Jr. treats this subject. He makes a strong case that HIV is indeed innocent, writing:

“Rather than airing and openly debating such critiques, Tony Fauci and his PI [Principal Investigators] army moved actively and effectively to snuff out the careers and silence the arguments of any scientist or journalist who question the official canons of the new [HIV-causes-AIDS] state theology.”

RFK Jr. next exposes the Fauci-run “NIAID’s barbaric and illegal experiments on children,” where “AZT’s sketchy and corrupt path to regulatory approval in 1988 blazed a trail for a multibillion-dollar boom in new HIV drugs. Dr. Fauci gave his pharmaceutical partners and their PIs broad leeway to conduct unethical human experimentation that exposed both children and adults to toxic compounds.”

Following in his father’s footsteps, this intrepid investigator writes:

“In 1965, my father kicked down the door of the Willowbrook State School on Staten Island, where pharmaceutical companies were conducting cruel and often-deadly vaccine experiments on incarcerated children.57 Robert Kennedy declared Willowbrook a ‘snake pit’ and promoted legislation to close the institution and end the exploitation of children. Fifty-five years later, national media and Democratic Party sachems have beatified a man [Dr. Fauci] who presided over similar atrocities, somehow elevating him to a kind of secular sainthood.”

It gets worse:

“Of late, he [Dr. Fauci] has played a central role in undermining public health and subverting democracy and constitutional governance around the globe and in transitioning our civil governance toward medical totalitarianism. Just as President Eisenhower warned. Dr. Fauci’s COVID-19 response has steadily deconstructed our democracy and elevated the power of a tyrannical medical technocracy.”

He adds:

“Dealing with Tony Fauci is like dealing with organized crime. He’s like the godfather. He has connections everywhere. He’s always got people that he’s giving money to in powerful positions to make sure he gets his way—that he gets what he wants. These connections give him the ultimate power to fix everything, control every narrative, escape all consequences, and sweep all the dirt and all the bodies under the carpet and to terrorize and destroy anyone who crosses him.”

Dr. Fauci first cemented a close working and financial arrangement with the big pharmaceutical companies (“Big Pharma”). He then joined forces with Bill Gates, in 2000, when Gates invited him for a visit to his Seattle home—to “his 40,000-square-foot, $127 million mansion rising from forty wooded acres on the banks of Lake Washington.” Fauci and Gates agreed to form a partnership to control and expand the global vaccine enterprise. Its result? RFK Jr. writes:

“Over the next two decades, that partnership would metastasize to include pharmaceutical companies, military and intelligence planners, and international health agencies all collaborating to promote weaponized pandemics and vaccines and a new brand of corporate imperialism rooted in the ideology of biosecurity. That project would yield Mr. Gates and Dr. Fauci unprecedented bonanzas in wealth and power.”

With COVID, that power would involve installing “a regime of surveillance and extreme control over formerly free citizens.”  (And Bill Gates’s wealth expanded $23 Billion during the 2020 lockdowns.) RFK Jr. points out that the Fauci-Gates-Pharma alliance furthers the agenda of totalitarian control and is being carried out under the guise of the COVID pandemic.

Bill Gates has been described as “ruthless and immoral.” RFK Jr. pictures him this way: “His imperviousness to self-assessment allows him to treat the hundreds of thousands of casualties of his policies as acceptable damage in his self-serving schemes for humanity.”

He writes that the COVID coup has:

“Enabled allies in the technocracy to effect the most extraordinary curtailment of American constitutional rights in American history: closing churches across the country, shuttering a million businesses without due process or just compensation; suspending jury trials for corporate malefactors; passing regulations without constitutionally guaranteed transparency public hearings, or comment, violating privacy through warrantless searches; and track-and-trace surveillance and abolishing the rights of assembly and association.”

RFK Jr. next courageously takes on the CIA:

“The pervasive CIA involvement in the global vaccine putsch should give us pause. There is nothing in the CIA’s history, in its charter, in its composition, or in its institutional culture that betrays an interest in promoting either public health or democracy. The CIA’s historical preoccupations have been power and control. The CIA has been involved in at least seventy-two attempted and successful coups d’états between 1947 and 1989,50 involving about a third of the world’s governments. Many of these were functioning democracies. The CIA does not do public health. It does not do democracy. The CIA does coups d’états.”

All my mother’s brothers were pilots, and their aircraft stories are legendary. George once flew the company DC-3 under the George Washington Bridge at rush hour. Rush Skakels had to surrender his license—probably saving his skin—because on one occasion he followed a commercial airliner’s descent through a cloud bank and onto an O’Hare runway, after wandering lost above a dense cloud bank for an hour with no instruments and dwindling fuel, in a floatplane on his way home from a Canadian hunting expedition.”

He intermixes a trenchant critique of the CIA among these reminiscences.

The first sentence of the book is:

“From my youngest days I aways had the feeling that we were all involved in some great crusade, that the world was a battle-ground for good and evil, and that our lives would be consumed in that conflict.”

Wikipedia’s 15,000-word write up on RFK Jr. (with 258 references) does not mention this important book. Like with The Real Anthony Fauci, mainstream book reviewers have also completely ignored this book. Why? Such blanket suppression is most likely due to what RFK Jr. writes about the CIA in it:

In 1949, at [Allen] Dulles’s urging, Congress freed the CIA from its final restraint, budgetary review, and the Agency quickly became a clandestine government within our government, with its own enormous budget, legions of bureaucrats, and rogue armies, all completely unaccountable to American democracy. As it expanded power, the Agency metastasized like a cancer, to threaten the very democracy and national security that it was commissioned to safe-guard.”

When JFK was assassinated, “My dad immediately suspected that the CIA had killed Uncle Jack.” But the Kennedy family’s clash with the CIA began earlier, before JFK was elected President:

“In 1956, my grandfather Joseph Kennedy sat on a panel that first sounded the alarm about the growing power of the CIA and its clandestine activities… Two years later, when Uncle Jack was U.S. senator, he publicly castigated the Dulles brothers for their secretiveness… Today, the CIA has sprawled beyond recognition or control by the democracy it is supposed to serve… My family’s grappling to bring that agency and its Pentagon collaborators under the control of our democracy was the central defining battle of the Cold War era.”

In “Pursing Truth on the Kennedy Assassinations,” I contend that the CIA did indeed assassinate President Kennedy, shot and killed Bobby Kennedy, and orchestrated the plane crash that killed John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Jr., his wife, her sister, and a flight instructor in the copilot’s seat (his body and the seat were not found at the crash site). The crash occurred a week after JFK Jr. privately let it be known that he was going to run for president in the 2000 election. I further address this in “Why Three Kennedys Were Assassinated,” the transcript of a podcast on this subject I had with Lew Rockwell.

Robert Kennedy, Jr. knows the risks he confronts in speaking frankly about the CIA, the HIV/AIDS fraud, and the COVID coup. Yet he perseveres and presses forward undeterred. We must gratefully thank him for having the courage to do this.

The first chapter in “The Real Anthony Fauci” is 177 pages long and titled “Mismanaging a Pandemic.” It has five sections: “Arbitrary Decrees: Science-Free Medicine” (67 references); “Killing Hydroxychloroquine” (163); “Ivermectin” (102); Remdesivir (82); and Final Solution: Vaccines or Bust (106 references). He shows conclusively that hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin are safe and effective treatments for COVID-19—and how Fauci and the medical/media cartel have blocked physicians in the U.S. from prescribing them. (Fauci got these meds banned for “Emergency Use Approval” of the COVID vaccines, which requires that there are no safe and effective oral medications for this disease.)

RFK Jr. quotes Dr. Tess Lawrier on this important point:

“Had ivermectin been employed in 2020 when medical colleagues around the world first alerted the authorities to its efficacy, millions of lives could have been saved, and the pandemic with all its associated suffering and loss brought to a rapid and timely end… The story of ivermectin has highlighted that we are at a remarkable juncture in medical history. The tools that we use to heal and our connection with our patients are being systematically undermined by relentless disinformation stemming from corporate greed. The story of ivermectin shows that we as a public have misplaced our trust in the authorities and have underestimated the extent to which money and power corrupts.”

In The Real Anthony Fauci, RFK Jr. shows conclusively that ivermectin has a far better safety record than “Dr. Fauci’s two chosen COVID remedies, [intravenous] remdesivir (which hospital nurses have dubbed ‘Run-death-is-near’) and COVID vaccines.”

Other chapters in this book document Dr. Fauci’s African atrocities and his and NIAID’s barbaric and illegal experiments on children.

Dr. Fauci transformed “a public health agency into an incubator for [patented] pharmaceutical products,” mainly vaccines. And he has used the global COVID pandemic as an “excuse to justify the imposition of tyranny and coerced vaccination.”

RFK Jr.’s The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health could well serve as the Opening Brief for multiple criminal indictments, beginning with Dr. Anthony Fauci.

RFK Jr.’s previous book is American Values: Lessons I Learned from My Family, published in 2018. It is beautifully written and contains many interesting anecdotes about his parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, siblings, and children. Ones like this:

All my mother’s brothers were pilots, and their aircraft stories are legendary. George once flew the company DC-3 under the George Washington Bridge at rush hour. Rush Skakels had to surrender his license—probably saving his skin—because on one occasion he followed a commercial airliner’s descent through a cloud bank and onto an O’Hare runway, after wandering lost above a dense cloud bank for an hour with no instruments and dwindling fuel, in a floatplane on his way home from a Canadian hunting expedition.”

He intermixes a trenchant critique of the CIA among these reminiscences.

The first sentence of the book is:

“From my youngest days I aways had the feeling that we were all involved in some great crusade, that the world was a battle-ground for good and evil, and that our lives would be consumed in that conflict.”

Wikipedia’s 15,000-word write up on RFK Jr. (with 258 references) does not mention this important book. Like with The Real Anthony Fauci, mainstream book reviewers have also completely ignored this book. Why? Such blanket suppression is most likely due to what RFK Jr. writes about the CIA in it:

In 1949, at [Allen] Dulles’s urging, Congress freed the CIA from its final restraint, budgetary review, and the Agency quickly became a clandestine government within our government, with its own enormous budget, legions of bureaucrats, and rogue armies, all completely unaccountable to American democracy. As it expanded power, the Agency metastasized like a cancer, to threaten the very democracy and national security that it was commissioned to safe-guard.”

When JFK was assassinated, “My dad immediately suspected that the CIA had killed Uncle Jack.” But the Kennedy family’s clash with the CIA began earlier, before JFK was elected President:

“In 1956, my grandfather Joseph Kennedy sat on a panel that first sounded the alarm about the growing power of the CIA and its clandestine activities… Two years later, when Uncle Jack was U.S. senator, he publicly castigated the Dulles brothers for their secretiveness… Today, the CIA has sprawled beyond recognition or control by the democracy it is supposed to serve… My family’s grappling to bring that agency and its Pentagon collaborators under the control of our democracy was the central defining battle of the Cold War era.”

In “Pursing Truth on the Kennedy Assassinations,” I contend that the CIA did indeed assassinate President Kennedy, shot and killed Bobby Kennedy, and orchestrated the plane crash that killed John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Jr., his wife, her sister, and a flight instructor in the copilot’s seat (his body and the seat were not found at the crash site). The crash occurred a week after JFK Jr. privately let it be known that he was going to run for president in the 2000 election. I further address this in “Why Three Kennedys Were Assassinated,” the transcript of a podcast on this subject I had with Lew Rockwell.

Robert Kennedy, Jr. knows the risks he confronts in speaking frankly about the CIA, the HIV/AIDS fraud, and the COVID coup. Yet he perseveres and presses forward undeterred. We must gratefully thank him for having the courage to do this.

The first chapter in “The Real Anthony Fauci” is 177 pages long and titled “Mismanaging a Pandemic.” It has five sections: “Arbitrary Decrees: Science-Free Medicine” (67 references); “Killing Hydroxychloroquine” (163); “Ivermectin” (102); Remdesivir (82); and Final Solution: Vaccines or Bust (106 references). He shows conclusively that hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin are safe and effective treatments for COVID-19—and how Fauci and the medical/media cartel have blocked physicians in the U.S. from prescribing them. (Fauci got these meds banned for “Emergency Use Approval” of the COVID vaccines, which requires that there are no safe and effective oral medications for this disease.)

RFK Jr. quotes Dr. Tess Lawrier on this important point:

“Had ivermectin been employed in 2020 when medical colleagues around the world first alerted the authorities to its efficacy, millions of lives could have been saved, and the pandemic with all its associated suffering and loss brought to a rapid and timely end… The story of ivermectin has highlighted that we are at a remarkable juncture in medical history. The tools that we use to heal and our connection with our patients are being systematically undermined by relentless disinformation stemming from corporate greed. The story of ivermectin shows that we as a public have misplaced our trust in the authorities and have underestimated the extent to which money and power corrupts.”

In The Real Anthony Fauci, RFK Jr. shows conclusively that ivermectin has a far better safety record than “Dr. Fauci’s two chosen COVID remedies, [intravenous] remdesivir (which hospital nurses have dubbed ‘Run-death-is-near’) and COVID vaccines.”

Other chapters in this book document Dr. Fauci’s African atrocities and his and NIAID’s barbaric and illegal experiments on children.

Dr. Fauci transformed “a public health agency into an incubator for [patented] pharmaceutical products,” mainly vaccines. And he has used the global COVID pandemic as an “excuse to justify the imposition of tyranny and coerced vaccination.”

RFK Jr.’s The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health could well serve as the Opening Brief for multiple criminal indictments, beginning with Dr. Anthony Fauci.

Fauci: Wrong Again…and Again…and Again

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Based on the questionable way COVID cases are counted, we now have a surge in cases (again, assuming you consider a “case” everything they consider to be a case). This is the same surge Fauci predicted a month ago would NOT happen again, given the large number of people vaccinated. [Source: Fox News radio, 1/8/22.]

So…an HONEST assessment would include reconsidering the effectiveness of the vaccine, or at least consulting one’s underlying premises for accuracy. THIS IS HOW REAL SCIENCE WORKS.

Instead, we will simply get a triple-down on masks, lockdowns and vax mandates — more of a totalitarian dictatorship in defiance of the Bill of Rights, in defiance of intellectual honesty and with the full approval of an unquestioning media and perhaps 30-40 percent of an ignorant, petrified population. We will also get more blame, shame and threats leveled against those who are not “fully” vaccinated (meaning: boostered indefinitely, again and again, into the future).

THIS is not science. THIS is not freedom. THIS is NOT America.

Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason

COVID is Here to Stay

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COVID is here to stay. We better get used to seeing it around because like the tides, it will come and go. If you’re vaccinated, the chances of you dying or suffering from severe illness is virtually erased. You can still get it. That’s the big lie that was peddled by the Biden administration. Remember in July, get the shot and take the mask off. Well, wrong—Omicron is raging like the Great Chicago Fire. Is it less lethal? Yes, but it’s more contagious. I’ll take that mutation. Everyone is going to get COVID. It’s only a matter of time. It’s nothing to be shameful about. It’s nothing to be embarrassed about. It was always that way, but liberal America decided to shame those who got COVID to satisfy their insufferable self-righteous complex. Now, liberals are coming down with the virus by the fist-full.

It’s endemic. Everyone needs to relax over a virus with a 99 percent survivability rate. Unfortunately, Anthony Fauci, the CDC, Democrats, and their liberal media allies have turned half the country into total psychopaths when it comes to the virus. I mean, they’re unhinged. Were at the point where some are risking the lives of their children to the point where it becomes a child endangerment situation. Take this Houston woman for example who locked her son in the trunk of her car at a testing center because he tested positive. She wanted him to quarantine, so she locked him in the trunk. And yes, the police are involved (via KHOU 11):

A warrant has been issued for a Houston-area mom accused of putting her son in the trunk of her car after he tested positive for COVID-19. The woman was in line to get a COVID test, authorities said.

Sarah Beam, a teacher at Cypress Falls High School in the Cy-Fair Independent School District, has been charged with endangering a child.

According to court documents, Beam took the 13-year-old boy to a drive-thru COVID testing site at Pridgeon Stadium on Monday, January 3, for additional testing.

A CFISD employee who was gathering information from people in line said Beam told her the boy was in the trunk because she didn’t want to be exposed to the virus.

The employee asked the woman to open the trunk, and she confirmed the boy was there, according to court documents.

She alerted Cy-Fair ISD police and provided the woman’s license plate number and other information used to identify her.

“I have never heard of somebody being put in a trunk because they tested positive for anything,” said Sgt. Richard Standifer with the Texas Department of Public Safety.

She was a teacher, so she was probably vaccinated. She was certainly one of the few groups who could have received a shot when the shots were being rolled out. Regardless, this is nuts. Ms. Beam has been placed on administrative leave and as local news reported, she’s been charged with child endangerment.

Also, couldn’t she have left her kid in isolation at home? He’s 13 years old. He could’ve stayed home while ‘mom’ got a test. And was she exhibiting symptoms? If not, then why the hell was she there?

We’ve all gone mental.

Matt Vespa

Can the Supreme Court Be Counted on to Abolish the Vax Mandate?

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I would like to express confidence in our system of government, designed by far greater minds than we see around us today. But the same Supreme Court, headed by a compromised and corrupt “conservative” who would not even consider the egregious examples of questionable election procedures in Pennsylvania and elsewhere back in 2020, surely cannot be counted on to strike down nasty, demented and corrupt Emperor Biden’s vaccine mandate– even for the wrong reasons, as conservatives so often do. There’s the great Clarence Thomas and maybe one or two others sitting on the high court but, if we’re real about it, there will be no victory for individual liberty in the Supreme Court over the vax insanity, because 1-3 good guys cannot override evil or simply stupid associates who outnumber them. Even if there is an unexpected victory– the tyrants will simply ignore it, eliminate the filibuster and stack the Supreme Court to rig a new decision. We are in a post-America America. I prefer to stop dreaming of the past and ready myself for the divorce. In the meantime, IGNORE and DEFY the arrogant imbeciles who occupy the former US republic until we can break away and deprive them of the unearned power they have acquired.

At some point, “conservatives” will have to stop being conservative. WE are now the radicals. We are up against the most corrupt, well-funded and powerful establishment in all of human history. WE are the ones who must disrupt, disobey, destabilize, override and overturn EVERYTHING. I know you don’t want to hear this. You want to preserve what you knew. But everything you knew is either gone, or going. And soon enough, you will see it’s true. These are not times for the weak of heart.

Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason

Ayn Rand and Assorted Assorted Articles

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“Laissez-faire capitalism is the only social system based on the recognition of individual rights and, therefore, the only system that bans force from social relationships. By the nature of its basic principles and interests, it is the only system fundamentally opposed to war.” – AYN RAND


Today’s Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
By Edwin A Locke
Four countries have the desire and potential to destroy the free world and bring us to a new Dark Age with them as rulers—a real Apocalypse.

Making Resolutions Outlast January
By Wayne Dunn
As Ayn Rand put it, a value is something you act to gain or keep. A desire without action then is just a wish.

What is the Meaning of New Year’s?
By Scott A. McConnell
Your life is in your own hands.

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Fake Insurrection Day

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January 6” in a nutshell: Leftists trying to silence criticism and peaceful protest. Forever, in America.

Biden didn’t address the nation yesterday morning. He addressed his own party. Half the country can go to hell, as far as he’s concerned. Right back at you, creepy Joe. I am waiting for the divorce.

No, Harris and Biden, you are wrong. “January 6”, whatever that means, is NOT another Pearl Harbor or 9/11. YOU two, and the people you work for, are another Pearl Harbor and 9/11. You are destroying our economy, our culture and our Bill of Rights — with a ruthlessness and recklessness that even the perpetrators of Pearl Harbor and 9/11 could never have envisioned.

Snowflake tyrans onf MSNBC, CNN and at the NY Times and Washington Post are scared of a real insurrections. It’s so easy to scream and shake fists over a FAKE insurrection.

As Ed Mazlish wrote on Facebook: If they want to call it an insurrection, they need to charge and convict on counts of sedition. Given that hundreds of people are still locked in jail a year later without having been charged, let alone convicted, of sedition, the only insurrectionists today are the ones falsely crying “insurrection.”

Assess the moral status of people who want rapists, murderers and looters released without bail while peaceful 2020 election protesters (guilty of misdemeanors, at worst) are jailed indefinitely, without due process. THESE are your friends and relatives who support Democrats, leftists and Bidenistas. They are the problem. Stop complaining about Biden. Look at the people around you who are doing this to us!

Representative Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) said Thursday on CNN’s “Situation Room” that downplaying what happened during the riot at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 was “its own form of violence.”

TRANSLATION: “If you don’t agree with my characterization of something, then you are committing an act of violence.” Violence, of course, is against the law. So if you don’t agree with me — off to prison camp with you.

If you don’t think these people are dangerous tyrants who are a real and present threat to your liberty, and potentially to your life, then I cannot help you.

Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason

Individualism Rightly Understood

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In “Socialism: An Economic and Socialogical Analysis,” Ludwig von Mises lays out the case against socialism and its varying forms. In focusing on human persons and their wide-ranging motives, Mises’ methodology set him apart in 1922. Nearly a century later, the majority of mainstream economists still fail to appreciate the degree to which their discipline ought to rest on a more sophisticated view of human nature. Even as we might wish him to deploy a more nuanced morality in service of his arguments, Mises nonetheless helps us see the discipline’s ongoing failure to comprehend the complexity of human action and the inspiration for socialist dreams.

Praxeology and Order

Mises asserted praxeology as the foundation of all the social sciences “resting on the fundamental axiom that individual human beings act, that is, on the primordial fact that individuals engage in conscious actions toward chosen goals.” Therefore for Mises, “(A)ll rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks . . . .” and “all rational action is economic.” Economics, and indeed all social science, concerns the analysis of individuals’ choices and preferences, distinct from society. Society is primarily a consequence—not a cause—of our individual reality.

At the most basic level, Marxism reverses the order. The Marxist methodology of dialectical materialism purports to show how society grows and responds under highly constrained economic circumstances, and the way that History itself—and capitalism in particular—moves inexorably toward communism. By contrast, Mises argues that society emerges through the sum of all the individual actions of reasoning human beings, each with their own motives, status, and relative power. In viewing the human person in this manner, Mises established his methodology as individualist—that is, he ranked the work of understanding individual behavior as central to good social science, without negating external factors in forming an understanding.In a sharp distinction from even contemporary “capitalist economics,” Mises does not confine economic action to that which is profit-driven. By daily experience, we know reactions to price signals in purchasing decisions can be guided by non-economic objectives: buying for someone else’s benefit can be considered a market-based decision with a non-economic end goal (one for which profit is not the sole objective). Not-for-profits can procure goods and services for those in need, which require the price system of profits to enable procurement in the first instance; even as profit is not the end goal, it is essential to the means. Decisions for such charitable work are fully in keeping with economics in a Misesean view, because his account of the human person allows for a much richer assessment than the prevalent economic prism of profit maximizer or “homo economicus.”

An Anthropology for Real People

As contemporary scholar Samuel Gregg writes, the fundamental error of Marxism is anthropological. Method and anthropology are inseparable. By employing a methodology that denies the primacy of agency, Marxist thought fundamentally ignores the source of dignity in each human being: “According to Marx, the political faith of the individual depends on the class to which he belongs,” as Mises pointed out. Because thought is determined by class, we have “a remarkably convenient theory which saves the Marxian the trouble of arguing with them (opponents).” Some contemporary arguments, on race, nationalism, and gender issues, for example, demonstrate the old Marxist logic applied in fields well beyond traditional class analysis. Hoping to better understand the realities of power relations, a few classical liberals are seriously engaging relatively recent theories such as intersectionality, offering an alternative to an appropriated Marxist presupposition. By contrast, Mises elevates the constituent element of every group—the individual—proceeding not to negate a host of influences such as racial constructs or nationality, but to understand them from the vantage point of the person.

While Mises rejects natural law or any attempt to assert a moral basis for the preference of his methodology over that of Marx, his method nevertheless works within the bounds of natural law theory. In Socialism, Mises seeks only to make utilitarian arguments for free markets, but his methodology assumes certain facts about the nature of the human person, giving it a normative component that is anthropological in nature. Mises’s adherence to utilitarianism is perhaps based on a narrow view of natural law as “religious:” The Christian tradition of natural law and the existence of an “autonomous rational morality” identified by Aristotle are distinct, even if complementary in ways he does not quite recognize. Praxeology demands that autonomous moral reality and utilitarianism cannot offer that fully developed moral system. In a way, Socialism’s arguments contain the substance for deeper moral justifications, an endeavor Mises does not set out for himself in the book.

The Kingdom of Ends

Mises states “[a]ll economic activity depends on ends,” which “dominate the economy and alone give it meaning.” Socialism seeks coordination by the state bureaucracy as a replacement to social relations in a condition of economic liberty. Free markets rely on freely set prices, providing the measures by which we determine human needs and wants. Without the profit indicator, the means to morally improve the conditions of oneself and one’s family cannot be undertaken to the mutual benefit of others in systems of free exchange.

Mises’ rejection of socialism is not in contrast to an extreme Randian individualism, but to a just system of social cooperation within societies: “For the Marxists talk glibly about expressing the will of society, without giving the slightest hint how ‘society’ can proceed to will and act.” Mises uses the term “social” without reference to socialism on approximately 1,000 occasions in the book, demonstrating his concern with markets as a social institution for mediating just economic cooperation, and clarifying that it does not merely serve as a setting for profit maximization. Mises does not ignore the validity of action by communities through organs created by individuals in freely chosen collectives, working toward their aims as a group—praxeology helps us understand them as both social and economic activity.

What Socialism is Not

With the contemporary disparaging use of the term socialist in current discourse by some on the Right (whom Mises would strongly oppose), it is important to understand his definition: “The essence of socialism is this: All the means of production are in the exclusive control of the organized community. This and this alone is Socialism. All other definitions are misleading.” For Mises, socialism is all-encompassing, to be achieved for the original Marxist as an historical stage in an inevitable process.

Contemporary American socialism displays the defects of Marxism: rejecting the classical liberal position of the market as a social institution and seeking to use the centralized state for primacy over the individual—even while professing a commitment to liberal individualism on specifically-defined social questions of race and gender. The methodological shortcomings are not the domain of the Left, as evidenced by nationalism’s slide toward national socialism. Mises loathed racism—a social disposition all too easily enabled by the socialist presumption that the collective ought to be the master of individual fate.

Contemporary Importance

Mises explains that “socialist policy uses two methods to accomplish its purposes; the first aims directly at converting society to Socialism. The second aims only indirectly at this conversion by destroying the social order which is based on private ownership.” It is the second form that Mises identifies as more insidious, underhanded, and destructive.

A replacement of ownership with control and a variation on the original idea of class conflict are characteristics of the new socialism. Instead of the state ownership of means of production, it seeks to extract wealth by state control. The tools for control are the myriad of regulatory and legislative options held by the monopoly of state power. Mises alludes to the prospect of some of these phenomena in his day on the issue of small property holders in his chapter “Particular Forms of Socialism.” The “peasant and craftsman” can keep what they have and are fitted into “the machinery of the socialist community in such a way that the production and evaluation of their products will be regulated by the economic administration while their property remains nominally theirs.”

Only a staunch moral argument in favor of markets will combat this, as the appeal of socialist rhetoric rests on its ability to persuade society of its ability to deliver greater welfare to all. A “loss of this conviction would signify the end of socialism.” Mises’ central moral claim is that the public welfare cannot be respected without a methodology that respects all as individuals, and that socialism will inevitably destroy the individual.

Mises matters today because his method enables far more than a utilitarian calculation of the whole in building a just society. His praxeology offers a way to understand every person within our society at a deeper level than the “profit-motive,” and you can pick up Socialism to learn about it.

Garreth Bloor serves as a Council Member of the IRR, the oldest classical liberal think tank in South Africa and is a former executive politician in the country. He resides in Toronto working on trade and investment into Africa markets.