people like to play the “reasonable” card and claim this is not so and that it’s some kind of edge-lord extremist position.
but it’s not.
sometimes, there can be no compromise, no middle way.
it is a hard and objective ground truth that only one may be paramount:
you, the individual
or they, the state.
choose.
if you allow your rights to be treated as anything other than inalienable and intrinsic to you as a fundamental property of your personhood and you no longer have rights at all.
period.
there are no exceptions, no special cases, no carve outs.
none.
allow even one and you are left with no rights, only privileges that can be taken away by the state if they claim they have a good reason. (or worse, a popular one)
and once you open that door, oh what reasons they will find…
rights place the individual above the state. this is the essence of a republic and what separates it from the brutal ravages of a tyranny of the majority.
if you do not allow hate speech, you will have no right to speech.
if you are not a bodily integrity absolutist, you will have no bodily integrity.
all your life will be a negotiation with the state about the terms of your indenture.
you are a subject, not a citizen.
this is why they come at you when you are frightened. this is why they seek to terrify you further. this is why they start small with provocative edge cases that demand that you defend rights being used in some unpopular fashion.
they want to drive in the thin end of the wedge.
and once they do, they have you. the fight becomes “when and how much this time?” not “if”…
your appeasement builds their muscles.
and you will lose.
you get to keep only those rights you will fight for and if you will not fight, your subjugation is assured.
choose.
find the strength to stand and to become ungovernable or accept that holding your prerogative to go outside hostage as an “incentive” to force you to comply is now the remit of your rulers.
and it will not satisfy them.
and if you think that sucks, wait until you see what comes next.
these are the digital shackles from which you will never escape. it’s been the goal of the top-down social planners for decades. this will be linked to everything and become a social credit system like the chinese one that the davos technocrats so desperately envy.
this has been the plan all along. they just broke it down into bite sized chunks to get you to swallow them and not put up a fuss because no inch they took ever quite seemed worth it at the time.
in every single place that has imposed vaccine requirements to socialize, the ratchet has been one way. have they given you freedom in return? removed masks? allowed normal life?
has a single one even MENTIONED a process or standard by which this restriction could one day be removed?
because i sure have not seen it.
instead, they move the definitions again. “up to date” replaces “fully vaxxed.” this was never supposed to be temporary. ever. it was sold as a one time thing to get your life back. they knew damn well that this was a lie when they told it.
then they gave you nothing and demanded more.
can you seriously not see the pattern? can you not see what’s coming?
this will be the affirmative requirement for you to gain permission from the state every 6 months to be able to have a life, work, socialize, or go to school.
just wait until they start linking everything to this and your snarky joke on facebook gets you denied for a car loan AND renders you unable to ride the bus.
this sort of certification to engage in society is the dream of the central planner since the club of rome.
they back off when you buck, but they keep coming back the minute you calm down.
they seek to wear you out, wear you down, and push you over the line.
this is the inch you cannot yield.
cross this event horizon, and getting back takes something that looks an awful lot like actual war.
you do NOT wanna have to do that.
and this ALL stems from acceding that rights are not absolute and permitting exceptions.
it comes from saying “well, who could support bigoted speech?” or “well, we’ll just trade a little bodily autonomy for a little safety.”
no.
that ends one way.
always.
the price of liberty is the liberty of others, of defending the right of others to say, at the top of their lungs, things you have spent your whole life opposing at the top of yours.
it’s accepting that people will make you mad.
it’s watching people do things you hate.
and if you will not do this, then you are not suited to be free. and so you won’t be. they will rule you. good and hard.
An anonymous cat on the internet, that can't use the shift key to capitalize words, understands more about human rights than some of the Supreme Court Justices.
Every person getting a booster or injection under pressure is implicitly signing a new social contract that says they want to live in a country where the government can arbitrarily decide their fate
The progressive left is essentially totalitarian. But it represents a minority in the country. The problem is that the people in the middle who consider themselves “moderate” and “pragmatic” are all too willing to cede their liberties to the state during emergencies (real, exaggerated of manufactured).
As Hayek put it:
“‘Emergencies’ have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have eroded.”
These moderates believe that they are only ceding their liberty temporarily. But nothing is so permanent, in reality, as a government seizure of power.
And so, of course, the progressives exploit, exaggerate, exacerbate and even fabricate emergencies in order to augment the power of the Leviathan.
Those of us who are committed to a free society never believed that we had to grant the government “temporary” emergency dictatorial powers to handle the pandemic.
Free societies are more resilient to shocks than authoritarian ones. But only if they choose to remain free.
The sad part is many people, including those within our families, just want to go along to get along. They have no sense,, taste, smell of what "inalienable rights" are. Therefore, how can they stand up for something they don't know. 🥺
“This is the story of a duel. It is a duel between two very unequal adversaries: an exceedingly powerful, formidable, and ruthless state and an insignificant, unknown private individual. The duel does not take place in what is commonly known as the sphere of politics; the individual is by no means a politician, still less a conspirator or an enemy of the state. Throughout, he finds himself very much on the defensive. He only wishes to preserve what he considers his integrity, his private life, and his personal honor. These are under constant attack by the government of the country he lives in, and by the most brutal, but often also clumsy, means.”
I never had a lot of respect for judges in general, always considered it an overrated profession. But seeing some of the idiots that made it to the us supreme court is still a surprise to me.
I received an email update today about the SCOTUS case about the vaccine mandates and some of it is infuriating. The justices who wave off legitimate concerns about a mandate of that magnitude are disgusting. The one quote that really got me was this:
"Justice Kagan said that the government is paying for these services, saying that if you want “my money" (and calling federal money “its money"), then CMS can require the Covid vaccine."
This goes EXACTLY to your point Gato when you say all your life would you a negotiation with the state. It's like living in someone else's house where they foot the bill. At the end of the day you are there are that entities behest and they get to decide for you the terms. He who supplies the gold makes the rules, as it were. This is what handing over personal decision making and responsibility (for the sake of what? the ease of not having to ever make a decision yourself?) to the government get you. A shiny slab of earth to beg from that one mistakenly thinks of as their own.
People need to gather their convictions and stand up! Stop letting - nay, asking in some cases - the government own you! If you do not own yourself and what goes into your body, then what do you own? Jaack shit
Sweden still supports the vaccine caused deaths theory according to YOUR OWN graph Gato. Around week 15 or 16 Sweden was hitting its highest rate of vaccinations. In your graph above we see a massive drop in the mortality deficit. It is still blue, but the deficit shrinks considerably. It eventually inverts to excess mortality at week 35, but note that in the beginning out October Sweden paused the Moderna vaccine to all younger age groups. That would be week 37 about. That would help keep the orange excess mortality region small and likely scared other age groups/vulnerable away from the vaccine due to the announcement, which likely had the effect of keeping the excess mortality in weeks 35 to 45 relatively under control. The vaccine hypothesis is still highly valid as an excess mortality explanation.
The overall excess mortality for Sweden is an outlier, but it's clear the vaccines are still causing a lot of deaths. Sweden just happened to start 2021 with a big mortality deficit to make the vaccine impact look non-existent, but in fact vaccines were still causing havoc.
One cannot abandon a theory on one counterexample so easily when the theory fits several other countries separated by geographical space and timing in their vaccination campaigns.
After all, we have considerable data over many countries showing that increases in vaccinations lead to considerable increases in covid cases. This possible weakening of the immune system is likely leaking into the death bin for some unfortunate folks.
People generally don't respect freedom because they never had to truly live without it. It wasn't their blood that was spilled in pursuit of it and the memory of those who choose to bleed for freedom, have long time passed. Peaceful and prosperous times simply made people weaker, not only in body but also in the mind.
If Supreme Court rules to allow the vac mandates, that is opening the door to killing off old people (someday) under the guise of "saving the healthcare system from their overuse" or some such thing. Not to mention requiring women to carry babies to term that are deemed to be "special" or "important to society."
This is a WAR. This Evil agenda is about destruction of the Human race and bringing about a "new order of the Ages".It has been building for for centuries, and The Medical Industrial/Inquisition Complex is an important part of it. When nations reject God, they get three things: Rulers who hate them: Psalms. 106:35-42, Laws that enslave them: Ezekiel 20:24-25, Rights taken from them: Isaiah. 5:20, 23, 24 'Since the beginning of the Corona operation, many people began to realize that their governments have been taken over by very powerful and extremely evil forces, making political leaders worldwide move in unison to unleash unprecedented tyranny on their citizens.' - The Hidden History of the Revived Roman Empire: https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/the-hidden-history-of-the-revived Using predictive programming they've told us the truth years in advance. Humanity is the Virus they are fighting: The Olympics Rituals of 1992/2012 "Predicted" The Corona Operation https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/the-corona-end-game-addendum
There is one other element to this that you didn't cover in this piece but have in others. That is the power of peer pressure.
During this whole evil operation, they have used the compliant to hector, pressure, threaten those who would not comply. Fuck, they even used Pastors and other clergy who willingly went along. I saw it first hand. (yes I say F*** too much but still believe in Jesus, which is why I need and believe in Jesus among other things).
And they will ramp this part of the operation up big time. Folks, peer pressure is the greatest force on earth, with all due respect and apologies to Albert Einstein (he falsely claimed it was compound interest, what did he know anyhow? His primary school teacher said little Al was a dull boy).
Don't kid yourself, peer pressure didn't end in high school. You think all the folks at the store or the airport who are wearing a dirty, cloth mask like a chin strap believe those things DO anything? Of course not. That, my friends is peer pressure in action.
Unfortunately, human nature is not naturally courageous. If it was, we wouldn't be having this convo and the AWFUL CAT wouldn't need to post this kind of thing. Sure, there are a few folks, like me, who enjoy watching dumb people squirm (another reason I need redemption, believe me, the list is long) but most folks DO NOT WANT TO STICK OUT!!!
Think about it this way. We live in a cultural current. Most of us fish just swim with the tide, occasionally taking a side trip to see this or that, maybe even eventually going upstream to see something again, whatever. But if you want to see what is really going on then you must swim UPSTREAM most of your life and that is HARD.
Go to duckduckgo.com and look up how salmon spend the last few days or weeks of their lives. It ain't pretty. Almost all of them DIE going all the way up stream.
Some of us will die. But the more of us who begin to object, who refuse to comply, who decide to "stick out", then fewer of us will have to die.
But you have to do this. Don't wait until the time is right. It is always time to do right.
Albert Einstein wrote: "It is certainly unnecessary to await my voice in acclaiming Pablo Casals as a very great artist, since all who are qualified to speak are unanimous on this subject. What I particularly admire in him is the firm stand he has taken, not only against the oppressors of his countrymen, but also against those opportunists who are always ready to compromise with the Devil. He perceives very clearly that the world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it."
The original text in German: "Die Wertschätzung Pablo Casals (') als grossen Künstler braucht fürwahr nicht auf mich zu warten, denn hierin herrscht Einstimmigkeit unter den Auguren. Was ich aber an ihm besonders bewundere, ist seine charaktervolle Haltung nicht nur gegen die Unterdrücker seines Volkes, sondern auch gegen alle diejenigen Opportunisten, die immer bereit sind, mit dem Teufel zu paktieren. Er hat klar erkannt, dass die Welt mehr bedroht ist durch die, welche das Uebel dulden oder ihm Vorschub leisten, als durch die Uebeltäter selbst. Princeton N.J. / 30. März 1953 (übersetzt von Andre Mangeot)
If the crate is big enough, and you give him a bunch of tasty treats and some cool gadgets, that pug might not even notice he's in it. Maybe throw in a marijuana dispensary and let him occasionally wave a gun at you without prosecuting him and he'll even feel triumphantly free.
Reminds me of Aesop's fable about the wolf and the dog. "Better starve free than be a fat slave."
I think I'm with you, except that I don't know what you mean by "a bodily integrity absolutist." If that means no forced vax, fully agree. If that's code for "abortion is okay," I'm not with you because nothing justifies the murder of a child in the womb.
After posting on FB about the hypocrisy of the Illinois Holocaust Museum requiring vax “papers” to enter, I got in a huge and incredibly frustrating back and forth with my sister-in-law. She argued that the Jews in Nazi Germany were persecuted because of their genes...that those unvaxxed made a CHOICE, therefore their discrimination and “persecution” are of their own making.
Of course I argued those who CHOSE to hide the Jews were executed for their choice, and as far as the choice to pass on the toxic inoculation...every human being has inalienable rights, and that includes the rights to bodily autonomy.
She came back with “your rights end where mine begin”. I kid you not. At that point I told her our “discussion” was no longer worth my time or my peace and that I was ending it...as is my right.
"Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense — nonsense upon stilts. " Bentham.
"The sovereign is he who decides the state of exception." Carl Schmitt.
I think this appeal to the foundational myths of liberal democracy is misguided; the people and institutions who are acting to centralise power and control are indifferent to them.
Look at Macron; if you aren't vaccinated you're not even a citizen. You're "homo sacer" to use Agamben's terminology.
One of the biggest effects of this scam has been being forced to massively revise my liberal priors and theories of political power.
Amen. Bold and in our faces. Even in the liberty community there is still *way* too much "going along" with the last 2 years of madness.
"if you are not a bodily integrity absolutist, you will have no bodily integrity."
This point alone makes my blood pressure skyrocket as I see "popular" so-called "libertarians" bragging about their latest flight for some leisure trip somewhere where I know damn well they had to submit to giving their body up for "testing" and mask wearing.
If we can't start enduring some hardship and volunteering to suffer a bit to try and hold on to what is quickly disappearing then we deserve what we get. Too many people are still thinking that this is all going away if we just comply and sit back and wait. I've said it numerous times to, what seems, deaf ears: We either endure a few years of hardship, make a bit less money, postpone trips, maybe sell a few things or whatever it takes *now* on *our terms* with the liberty we have left, or we will be forced into generations of hardship on someone else's terms *without* ANY liberty. I'm shocked that some of us still don't seem to get it.
Where has all the outrage been while the State has been mandating childhood vaccines all this time? Hardly a peep out of the "liberty movement", as far as I know.
The inimitable Winston Churchill said it perfectly. “If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.” - Winston Churchill
for someone covered in fur with only claws to type, you speak more truth than can be found much of elsewhere. i can only thank you with an endless supply of dreamies and catnip, which I am sure you have already in fan mail. seriously though (that was seriously) the feline facts foisted upon us like a ferocious furball incite every attempt at regaining our freedom. it's not slipping away. we can regain it the moment we wish. it just takes relocating our intestinal fortitude to climb out of the slumber of convenience obedience. all hail chairman meow!
I say, bring on the war. I'm fine with that and that is the only way this ends!
"What country before ever existed a century and half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it’s natural manure. "
I have Covid right now. The idea that anyone would require me to vax or boost so that I don't get or spread it is literally insane. But as I understand it, that's how most vax mandates and passports work. Even on a practical level, if one accepted that these shots were a good idea for everyone, that has zero sense. And that's one really good reason to assume the practical reasoning is wrong, whatever else you know or think.
Exactly right! Just want to add to this that the Illuminati ideology, based on Hegel’s philosophy of the early XIX century, subjugates the individual to the state. No inalienable rights, period. And this is whom we are facing.
But how do you resist? Are you gonna be the lone crazy guy making a scene at Starbucks because they asked for proof of vaccination? There are no good options for resistance.
"this will be the affirmative requirement for you to gain permission from the state every 6 months to be able to have a life, work, socialize, or go to school."
Just saw on my local news tonight (a CBS affiliate), it's _5_ months now for Pfizer and Moderna.
"rights place the individual above the state. this is the essence of a republic and what separates it from the brutal ravages of a tyranny of the majority"
__tyranny of the majority__
In other words, a democracy. Boy, do I cringe when I see the figureheads in media extol "our democracy". It's almost equally cringe to have to say it as reminder, "we're a Constitutional Republic", but there you are. If it's not that, then it's just a _tyranny_.
if it's not inalienable, it's not a right
2022 in a nutshell--
An anonymous cat on the internet, that can't use the shift key to capitalize words, understands more about human rights than some of the Supreme Court Justices.
Every person getting a booster or injection under pressure is implicitly signing a new social contract that says they want to live in a country where the government can arbitrarily decide their fate
The progressive left is essentially totalitarian. But it represents a minority in the country. The problem is that the people in the middle who consider themselves “moderate” and “pragmatic” are all too willing to cede their liberties to the state during emergencies (real, exaggerated of manufactured).
As Hayek put it:
“‘Emergencies’ have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have eroded.”
These moderates believe that they are only ceding their liberty temporarily. But nothing is so permanent, in reality, as a government seizure of power.
And so, of course, the progressives exploit, exaggerate, exacerbate and even fabricate emergencies in order to augment the power of the Leviathan.
Those of us who are committed to a free society never believed that we had to grant the government “temporary” emergency dictatorial powers to handle the pandemic.
Free societies are more resilient to shocks than authoritarian ones. But only if they choose to remain free.
The sad part is many people, including those within our families, just want to go along to get along. They have no sense,, taste, smell of what "inalienable rights" are. Therefore, how can they stand up for something they don't know. 🥺
“This is the story of a duel. It is a duel between two very unequal adversaries: an exceedingly powerful, formidable, and ruthless state and an insignificant, unknown private individual. The duel does not take place in what is commonly known as the sphere of politics; the individual is by no means a politician, still less a conspirator or an enemy of the state. Throughout, he finds himself very much on the defensive. He only wishes to preserve what he considers his integrity, his private life, and his personal honor. These are under constant attack by the government of the country he lives in, and by the most brutal, but often also clumsy, means.”
—Sebastian Haffner, “Defying Hitler”
Solzhenitsyn warned against their infinite energy to impose their ideology.
You may tire but they never will.
I never had a lot of respect for judges in general, always considered it an overrated profession. But seeing some of the idiots that made it to the us supreme court is still a surprise to me.
I received an email update today about the SCOTUS case about the vaccine mandates and some of it is infuriating. The justices who wave off legitimate concerns about a mandate of that magnitude are disgusting. The one quote that really got me was this:
"Justice Kagan said that the government is paying for these services, saying that if you want “my money" (and calling federal money “its money"), then CMS can require the Covid vaccine."
This goes EXACTLY to your point Gato when you say all your life would you a negotiation with the state. It's like living in someone else's house where they foot the bill. At the end of the day you are there are that entities behest and they get to decide for you the terms. He who supplies the gold makes the rules, as it were. This is what handing over personal decision making and responsibility (for the sake of what? the ease of not having to ever make a decision yourself?) to the government get you. A shiny slab of earth to beg from that one mistakenly thinks of as their own.
People need to gather their convictions and stand up! Stop letting - nay, asking in some cases - the government own you! If you do not own yourself and what goes into your body, then what do you own? Jaack shit
Sweden still supports the vaccine caused deaths theory according to YOUR OWN graph Gato. Around week 15 or 16 Sweden was hitting its highest rate of vaccinations. In your graph above we see a massive drop in the mortality deficit. It is still blue, but the deficit shrinks considerably. It eventually inverts to excess mortality at week 35, but note that in the beginning out October Sweden paused the Moderna vaccine to all younger age groups. That would be week 37 about. That would help keep the orange excess mortality region small and likely scared other age groups/vulnerable away from the vaccine due to the announcement, which likely had the effect of keeping the excess mortality in weeks 35 to 45 relatively under control. The vaccine hypothesis is still highly valid as an excess mortality explanation.
The overall excess mortality for Sweden is an outlier, but it's clear the vaccines are still causing a lot of deaths. Sweden just happened to start 2021 with a big mortality deficit to make the vaccine impact look non-existent, but in fact vaccines were still causing havoc.
One cannot abandon a theory on one counterexample so easily when the theory fits several other countries separated by geographical space and timing in their vaccination campaigns.
After all, we have considerable data over many countries showing that increases in vaccinations lead to considerable increases in covid cases. This possible weakening of the immune system is likely leaking into the death bin for some unfortunate folks.
What should be mandatory is this essay. Pitch Perfect.
100%. Another brilliantly word-smithed piece.
People generally don't respect freedom because they never had to truly live without it. It wasn't their blood that was spilled in pursuit of it and the memory of those who choose to bleed for freedom, have long time passed. Peaceful and prosperous times simply made people weaker, not only in body but also in the mind.
What it means to be free?
What is freedom?
Do you deserve it?
Does your family and kids deserve to be free?
What is the price of freedom?
What it means to be human?
Do humans deserve to be free?
"The Price Of Freedom" - https://mellob33.substack.com/p/the-price-of-freedom
If Supreme Court rules to allow the vac mandates, that is opening the door to killing off old people (someday) under the guise of "saving the healthcare system from their overuse" or some such thing. Not to mention requiring women to carry babies to term that are deemed to be "special" or "important to society."
When will you start a podcast or go on Joe Rogan to help spread the word beyond your Substack following?
👏 👏 #DoNotComply is the only way forward
Bad cat, I don’t know who you are, but you are my brother (or sister?)
No matter what a court says about a mandate, you can still say NO to an employer.
If mandated, RESIST.
https://markoshinskie8de.substack.com/p/the-scamdemic-will-magically-end
"Provinces likely to make vaccination mandatory", says federal health minister. Starting to get really dumb in Canada.
This is a WAR. This Evil agenda is about destruction of the Human race and bringing about a "new order of the Ages".It has been building for for centuries, and The Medical Industrial/Inquisition Complex is an important part of it. When nations reject God, they get three things: Rulers who hate them: Psalms. 106:35-42, Laws that enslave them: Ezekiel 20:24-25, Rights taken from them: Isaiah. 5:20, 23, 24 'Since the beginning of the Corona operation, many people began to realize that their governments have been taken over by very powerful and extremely evil forces, making political leaders worldwide move in unison to unleash unprecedented tyranny on their citizens.' - The Hidden History of the Revived Roman Empire: https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/the-hidden-history-of-the-revived Using predictive programming they've told us the truth years in advance. Humanity is the Virus they are fighting: The Olympics Rituals of 1992/2012 "Predicted" The Corona Operation https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/the-corona-end-game-addendum
There is one other element to this that you didn't cover in this piece but have in others. That is the power of peer pressure.
During this whole evil operation, they have used the compliant to hector, pressure, threaten those who would not comply. Fuck, they even used Pastors and other clergy who willingly went along. I saw it first hand. (yes I say F*** too much but still believe in Jesus, which is why I need and believe in Jesus among other things).
And they will ramp this part of the operation up big time. Folks, peer pressure is the greatest force on earth, with all due respect and apologies to Albert Einstein (he falsely claimed it was compound interest, what did he know anyhow? His primary school teacher said little Al was a dull boy).
Don't kid yourself, peer pressure didn't end in high school. You think all the folks at the store or the airport who are wearing a dirty, cloth mask like a chin strap believe those things DO anything? Of course not. That, my friends is peer pressure in action.
Unfortunately, human nature is not naturally courageous. If it was, we wouldn't be having this convo and the AWFUL CAT wouldn't need to post this kind of thing. Sure, there are a few folks, like me, who enjoy watching dumb people squirm (another reason I need redemption, believe me, the list is long) but most folks DO NOT WANT TO STICK OUT!!!
Think about it this way. We live in a cultural current. Most of us fish just swim with the tide, occasionally taking a side trip to see this or that, maybe even eventually going upstream to see something again, whatever. But if you want to see what is really going on then you must swim UPSTREAM most of your life and that is HARD.
Go to duckduckgo.com and look up how salmon spend the last few days or weeks of their lives. It ain't pretty. Almost all of them DIE going all the way up stream.
Some of us will die. But the more of us who begin to object, who refuse to comply, who decide to "stick out", then fewer of us will have to die.
But you have to do this. Don't wait until the time is right. It is always time to do right.
Albert Einstein wrote it on March 30, 1953, in honor of the cellist, composer and conductor Pablo Casals (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Casals).
Albert Einstein wrote: "It is certainly unnecessary to await my voice in acclaiming Pablo Casals as a very great artist, since all who are qualified to speak are unanimous on this subject. What I particularly admire in him is the firm stand he has taken, not only against the oppressors of his countrymen, but also against those opportunists who are always ready to compromise with the Devil. He perceives very clearly that the world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it."
Albert Einstein, Princeton N.J., March 30, 1953 (translated by Andre Mangeot) (original typoscript in the Einstein Archive from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem: https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hHK2LkY4enE/WstyFzpWYSI/AAAAAAAAO54/DNGRsYsZtbQNGvv7IEeEUwryHGlFSx80gCLcBGAs/s640/Einstein.tif)
The original text in German: "Die Wertschätzung Pablo Casals (') als grossen Künstler braucht fürwahr nicht auf mich zu warten, denn hierin herrscht Einstimmigkeit unter den Auguren. Was ich aber an ihm besonders bewundere, ist seine charaktervolle Haltung nicht nur gegen die Unterdrücker seines Volkes, sondern auch gegen alle diejenigen Opportunisten, die immer bereit sind, mit dem Teufel zu paktieren. Er hat klar erkannt, dass die Welt mehr bedroht ist durch die, welche das Uebel dulden oder ihm Vorschub leisten, als durch die Uebeltäter selbst. Princeton N.J. / 30. März 1953 (übersetzt von Andre Mangeot)
An absolutist and absolutely correct take. Thanks again to the bad cat. Have a treat kitty.
If the crate is big enough, and you give him a bunch of tasty treats and some cool gadgets, that pug might not even notice he's in it. Maybe throw in a marijuana dispensary and let him occasionally wave a gun at you without prosecuting him and he'll even feel triumphantly free.
Reminds me of Aesop's fable about the wolf and the dog. "Better starve free than be a fat slave."
Reminds me of the end of the old joke....."We KNOW what kind of woman you are, now we're just discussing the price."
I.AM.SO.GRATEFUL.FOR.WHAT.YOU.DO.
🙏🙏🙏
I think I'm with you, except that I don't know what you mean by "a bodily integrity absolutist." If that means no forced vax, fully agree. If that's code for "abortion is okay," I'm not with you because nothing justifies the murder of a child in the womb.
After posting on FB about the hypocrisy of the Illinois Holocaust Museum requiring vax “papers” to enter, I got in a huge and incredibly frustrating back and forth with my sister-in-law. She argued that the Jews in Nazi Germany were persecuted because of their genes...that those unvaxxed made a CHOICE, therefore their discrimination and “persecution” are of their own making.
Of course I argued those who CHOSE to hide the Jews were executed for their choice, and as far as the choice to pass on the toxic inoculation...every human being has inalienable rights, and that includes the rights to bodily autonomy.
She came back with “your rights end where mine begin”. I kid you not. At that point I told her our “discussion” was no longer worth my time or my peace and that I was ending it...as is my right.
And the 'certain' in "certain unalienable rights" was in the sense of "sure," "indisputable," not, as some seem to think, "particular, of the whole."
Said elsewhere, when tyranny did come to the USA, UK, Germany, etc, Anitfa were nowhere to be seen . . .
Fauci predicted mandatory vaccinations in 2009:
https://twitter.com/vollmererika54/status/1479375696812249090
Early 2020 there were rumors in Germany about mandatory vaccinations being the goal from the very start:
https://twitter.com/B33Mello/status/1463057300420276224
You can never satisfy a bully/abuser no matter how much you concede, they will always want one thing more, one thing more, one thing more….
Two quotes frame this for me.
"Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense — nonsense upon stilts. " Bentham.
"The sovereign is he who decides the state of exception." Carl Schmitt.
I think this appeal to the foundational myths of liberal democracy is misguided; the people and institutions who are acting to centralise power and control are indifferent to them.
Look at Macron; if you aren't vaccinated you're not even a citizen. You're "homo sacer" to use Agamben's terminology.
One of the biggest effects of this scam has been being forced to massively revise my liberal priors and theories of political power.
I'd like to point out that the members of the Supreme Court and their aides are exempt from vaccination mandates. What are they so afraid of?
Amen. Bold and in our faces. Even in the liberty community there is still *way* too much "going along" with the last 2 years of madness.
"if you are not a bodily integrity absolutist, you will have no bodily integrity."
This point alone makes my blood pressure skyrocket as I see "popular" so-called "libertarians" bragging about their latest flight for some leisure trip somewhere where I know damn well they had to submit to giving their body up for "testing" and mask wearing.
If we can't start enduring some hardship and volunteering to suffer a bit to try and hold on to what is quickly disappearing then we deserve what we get. Too many people are still thinking that this is all going away if we just comply and sit back and wait. I've said it numerous times to, what seems, deaf ears: We either endure a few years of hardship, make a bit less money, postpone trips, maybe sell a few things or whatever it takes *now* on *our terms* with the liberty we have left, or we will be forced into generations of hardship on someone else's terms *without* ANY liberty. I'm shocked that some of us still don't seem to get it.
Thanks for putting my thoughts, after listening to SCOTUS, into excellent, feline words!
Where has all the outrage been while the State has been mandating childhood vaccines all this time? Hardly a peep out of the "liberty movement", as far as I know.
IT WILL NEVER STOP! Even a liberal / progressive should understand this.
Beautiful--my sentiments exactly!
Thank you!!
Yup, how do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.
The inimitable Winston Churchill said it perfectly. “If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.” - Winston Churchill
for someone covered in fur with only claws to type, you speak more truth than can be found much of elsewhere. i can only thank you with an endless supply of dreamies and catnip, which I am sure you have already in fan mail. seriously though (that was seriously) the feline facts foisted upon us like a ferocious furball incite every attempt at regaining our freedom. it's not slipping away. we can regain it the moment we wish. it just takes relocating our intestinal fortitude to climb out of the slumber of convenience obedience. all hail chairman meow!
I say, bring on the war. I'm fine with that and that is the only way this ends!
"What country before ever existed a century and half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it’s natural manure. "
Thomas Jefferson
I have Covid right now. The idea that anyone would require me to vax or boost so that I don't get or spread it is literally insane. But as I understand it, that's how most vax mandates and passports work. Even on a practical level, if one accepted that these shots were a good idea for everyone, that has zero sense. And that's one really good reason to assume the practical reasoning is wrong, whatever else you know or think.
Amen.
Exactly right! Just want to add to this that the Illuminati ideology, based on Hegel’s philosophy of the early XIX century, subjugates the individual to the state. No inalienable rights, period. And this is whom we are facing.
great comics.great piece.
But how do you resist? Are you gonna be the lone crazy guy making a scene at Starbucks because they asked for proof of vaccination? There are no good options for resistance.
"this will be the affirmative requirement for you to gain permission from the state every 6 months to be able to have a life, work, socialize, or go to school."
Just saw on my local news tonight (a CBS affiliate), it's _5_ months now for Pfizer and Moderna.
"rights place the individual above the state. this is the essence of a republic and what separates it from the brutal ravages of a tyranny of the majority"
__tyranny of the majority__
In other words, a democracy. Boy, do I cringe when I see the figureheads in media extol "our democracy". It's almost equally cringe to have to say it as reminder, "we're a Constitutional Republic", but there you are. If it's not that, then it's just a _tyranny_.