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Dr. Ron Brown – Opinion Editorial
November 15, 2021
TrialSite previously reported on the 5th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals’ decision to halt U.S. President Biden’s vaccine mandate: Conservative 5th Circuit Makes Move to Block POTUS COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate. The opinion of the Appeals Court is documented under Docket 21-60845, available for download here. Reading deeper into this court document implicates the true purpose of the vaccine mandate, which applies as well to a long history of vaccine mandates that I have previously written about. For example, in my editorial, Fear and Coercion in Public Health Vaccination Campaigns, I quoted testimony of a U.S. public health official from the early 20th century who admitted using identical workplace coercion policies to drive vaccination rates for smallpox almost 100 years ago.
On page 3 of the recent Appeal Court document, the Circuit Judges wrote that the case involved the “Mandate” issued by the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). The mandate required “employees of covered employers to undergo COVID-19 vaccination or take weekly COVID-19 tests and wear a mask.”Subscribe to the Trialsitenews “Vaccine” ChannelNo spam – we promise
On page 15 of the document, the Judges wrote about the “underinclusive” nature of the mandate that didn’t apply to companies with under 100 employees. The Judges questioned why employees of smaller companies would be denied the same safety afforded to larger companies if the mandate’s true purpose was workplace safety during a public health emergency. This caused the Judges to question “the premise that any of this is truly an emergency.”
Moreover, the Judges wrote, “The underinclusive nature of the Mandate implies that the Mandate’s true purpose is not to enhance workplace safety, but instead to ramp up vaccine uptake by any means necessary.”
Furthermore, in a footnote on page 15 of the document, the Judges pointed out that vaccination alone doesn’t prevent employees from spreading the virus, and that weekly testing is insufficient to prevent daily exposures to infections. These points raise additional doubts about the Mandate’s intention to address workplace safety during a true public health emergency.
Covered Employers
Coercion is not a new tactic to “ramp up vaccine uptake.” Coercion can also apply to “deputized” employers who may be threatened with shutdowns for non-compliance. On page 4 of the Appeal Court document, the Judges wrote about the employers covered by the Mandate:
“…the Mandate imposes a financial burden upon them by deputizing their participation in OSHA’s regulatory scheme, exposes them to severe financial risk if they refuse or fail to comply, and threatens to decimate their workforces…”
History shows that these coercion tactics to promote vaccination have been used by public health agencies for at least a hundred years or more. At least we have the courts to step in to halt the damage…temporarily.
It’s up to state legislatures to make it an official crime for public health agencies to issue and enforce coercion policies that threaten workers and employers while under prioritizing workplace safety during a questionable public health emergency.
Posted originally on the conservative tree house on November 15, 2021 | Sundance | 116 Comments
The Scottsdale Unified School District in Arizona was scrambling after a group of moms discovered that Board President Jann-Michael Greenburg was keeping secret surveillance files, a dossier of sorts, on parents and students the school board head viewed as a risk to the interests of the district.
In essence what the parents discovered was evidence their own school system was keeping creepy opposition files on the parents of students in the school district.
Parents gathered today to demand the removal of the Governing Board President Jann-Michael Greenburg, and the destruction of the Google Drive files filled with personal information, documents, and photos of about 47 people, including children.
Creepy Mr. Greenburg was removed, but not fired.
SCOTTSDALE, AZ — Jann-Michael Greenburg has been ousted as the Scottsdale Unified School Board president following controversy over a dossier of information he is accused of keeping on parents who were openly critical of the district.
The board voted 4-1 Monday evening to elect board member Patty Beckman to replace Greenburg as the president for the remainder of his term. Board members Zach Lindsay and Libby Hart-Wells called for Greenburg’s resignation, but Greenburg did not resign. Greenburg is still a member of the board, although stripped of the title of president. (read more)
Bill Gates simply cannot be this stupid. He is engaging in pure sophistry to sell his population-climate change agenda. The mistake people are making here is they are judging the third world by our way of life. Gates is claiming that we need to vaccinate everyone in the world so they will have a healthier single child so they will not need more than one child. This scheme will reduce the population by 50%. Gates waves his hands wildly desperately trying to gesture for emphasis to make his claims more declarative. It might be dangerous to sit too close to him. You may be poked in the eye with an elbow. Nevertheless, is this all a complete lie? Is Bill Gates promoting LGB relationships to also reduce population?
Those who have made up these estimates of the world population since the start of recorded history have created a linear progression that is FAKE and never reflected wars or disease. The Black Death reduced the population by 50% in most areas. They estimate the world population between 1200 to 1500 grew from 360 million to 450 million. There is NEVER a single downtick in their estimates. They have totally ignored the history of plagues. The plague of smallpox often wiped out 50% to 70% of the population.
Climate has impacted the population tremendously. Even studies of field mice have revealed that they would produce more offspring when food was abundant and fewer babies when food was scarce. The ebb and flow of the climate have had a huge impact upon population growth as is the case for economic expansion. As empires rose, the birth rate would decline for people did not need children as much to survive and the birth rate declines.
Even in China right now, the newborn population has plummeted by 40% in the past five years (from 18 million in 2016 to 12 million in2020), and authorities are pulling out all the stops to convince people to have children. Back in 2013, China had to pass a law that thechildren must visit their parents. Elderly couples began importing girls from Southeast Asia to take care of them and they would leave them the property. It wasn’t long ago when China had the one-child rule which led to many girls being abandoned to be adopted by Westerners.
The greatest the economic advancement, the greater the decline in the birth rate. We see this trend throughout the industrialized world. The birth rates have declined substantially in Japan, Europe, and America with the rise in the economy. Russia was paying $9,000 for women to have children because the population declines only with economic advancement. Is Gates’ fear of population and climate change all based upon linear projections that ignore reality? Has he been brainwashed by his father’s effort to provide abortions with Planned Parenthood in minority areas?
Abortion was practiced on a regular basis among the poor, slave, merchant, and royal classes in ancient Rome. There was no consideration that abortion was killing a child. There was nothing in Roman law that criminalized such an act. Even if we read Ovid, we find the passage on abortion where his mistress aborted his child and he wished she had died with the child. He wrote:
“She who first essayed to expel from her womb the tender fruit she bore therein, deserved to perish in the struggle she had invited….If in the childhood of the world mothers had followed this wicked custom, the human race would have vanished from the face of the earth…” The Loves 2.14
It was Emperor Augustus (27 BC-14 AD) who banished his daughter Julia for her sex orgies and also banish Ovid to the Black Sea for his encouragement. It was Augustus who passed family laws to force men to marry because the Latin population was declining as economic expansion flourished. Marriages in Roman times were arrangements between two Roman families. The girl would be married soon after puberty to a suitable male generally 10 to 15 years older. The parents would consult with friends to find suitable partners that could improve the family’s wealth or class. In ancient Egypt, one was considered fortunate if they could marry their sister to keep the wealth in the family.
In Rome, there were very specific laws governing marriage. A proper Roman marriage could not take place unless the bride and groom were Roman citizens, or had been granted special permission, called “conubium.” At one point in Roman history, freed slaves had been forbidden to marry citizens. This restriction was lifted by Augustus who passed as part of his family laws in 18BC to increase the population. A freed slave, however, was still prohibited from marrying a senator.
The birth rates have always declined with economic growth throughout history. The higher birth rates in India and Africa that have tormented Bill Gates in his dreams are in agrarian-based economies where they need children for their retirement. The reason is very simple. In an agrarian society, you have more children for they are your retirement and they take care of you in your old age and allow the farm to keep producing. You would typically have several children because also because the mortality rate was high. Even the legal age for a girl in most of the world is 14 years old. The only countries with 18 years old are the United States and Turkey. These lower legal ages outside the United States reflect the ancient tradition of marrying soon after puberty for the life expectancy was also lower and at times in the late 40s. So a girl did not wait until she passed thirty to get married. She would not be there as a mother more often than not when the child reached twenty.
While social security was hailed as a major benefit during the Great Depress, the problem it has introduced was that it fundamentally altered the family structure of responsibility that extended back thousands of years. People would have children and they, in turn, took care of their parents in their old age. Today, few children save for their parents and they assume that it is the government’s job to take care of them in their old age – no longer the children. Then the politicians took the money and used it as a slush fund to fill it with their debt and prohibited it from ever investing in the country.
Historically, the age difference in marriage declined with the industrial revolution to the point it was only 50% older by 1900 and then dropped to perhaps 10-15 years older by 1930. The introduction of social security also altered the entire marriage trend. The man would ask the father for the hand of his daughter and the question was – What do you have? The boy first had to become a man, work hard, get the house and the chickens to prove he could take care of her and their children. With the introduction of socialism, the age collapsed and it was all about love, and no longer did the boy have to become a man. Even the dowry was not a payment to the boy to marry his daughter, it was a payment to her to contribute to her future. It was all about providing for the girl and her children into the future. Therefore, only after the Great Depression did the age difference collapse and divorce skyrocketed because girls naturally matured faster than boys. Money was no longer an issue for the great government replaced family, dowries, and concern about the future.
Gates’ proposition falls apart because these third-world countries are still in the agrarian stage. They lack the economic development that reduces the population. They need the children to run the farm and they need them for retirement for they lack such pension schemes. Gates’ nightmare about population growth in India and Africa can be solved by improving their economies – not vaccinating them so they will have fewer children. That is just absurd. To me, it seems he is just following his father is trying to impose Eugenics on the World. Yet Gates had three children – so it’s Eugenics. Do as I command, but not as I do.
There is absolutely no support whatsoever for his claim that vaccinating children will make them healthier so they will have less. Donate food if that is really the issue – but there is no profit in that. Gates then pretends to be the great philanthropist, but in the next breath refuses to share vaccine technology and lobbies the industrialized rich countries to buy his vaccines and they donate them to the third world. Oh, he has just admitted that they do not work anyhow.
This scheme is clever and the end goal is to make him the richest man in 6,000 years of recorded history. Even the billionaire tax will kill his competition and he will never pay a dime for he stuffed his wealth tax-free in a foundation like Hillary.
It seems that power is like money. Gates shifted his quest for wealth to power. The more he buys, the more he wants.
Forget the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights. All rights are now irrelevant. Austria has now ordered that all unvaccinated are to be imprisoned in their homes. In Britain, reliable sources in London are saying that it may be necessary to impose lockdowns regularly well into 2026. The Netherlands has returned to a partial lockdown. I warned at the WEC that there is a deliberate effort to recreate the Great Depression for force submission to their new Green World Order and to Build Back Better. Britain is headed into a winter of disastercome the first quarter of ’22.
If you are wondering WHY Bill Gates has admitted that the vaccines do not work, he is preparing to bring in a new version with new claims and promises. Like the computer industry, when there was a flaw with the first version of the software, they made you pay for 2.0 which corrected all the mistakes in version 1.0. This is not a victory, but a warning that version 2.0 will come out and then everyone will be forced into another round of vaccines.
Covid is soring in the very countries with the highest vaccinations and whose people have been crushed the most with lockdowns and forced to have COVID passes to even move. Despite the fact that none of this has worked, there was NEVER any intention that these tyrannical sanctions were for the benefit of the people. This has ALWAYS been because the government is collapsing. Their negative interest rates in Europe since 2014 have not just destroyed their bond markets, they have wiped out pension funds and those in power have used this manufactured pandemic to crush human rights in order to usher in a new authoritarian government.
When the CDC was subpoenaed for records proving that the unvaccinated person who had COVID can spread the disease, they replied that they had no such records showing that. Meanwhile, the evidence surfacing from around the world shows that natural immunity is better. The effect of the corona vaccines against infection decreases significantly after a few months. This is the result of a large-scale study from Sweden. Meanwhile, it is shaping up that young men are at greater risk from taking the vaccines. A number of European athletes have been injured. The Brazilian jiu-jitsu world champion, two Olympic gold medalists, an NBA point guard, and the world’s top static breath-hold freediver have all suffered Covid-19 vaccine injuries. Yet governments are pushing these vaccines like drug dealers. Why? Have they just been bribed or ios it just a control mechanism to suppress society to prevent a civil uprising in the face of economic changes?
Posted originally on the conservative tree house on November 14, 2021 | Sundance | 138 Comments
JoeBama’s National Economic Council Director Brian Deese, the twenty-something central planner in charge of all White House economic policy, tells a curiously skeptical Jake Tapper that things are working swimmingly, exactly according to plan.
According to the Biden-Deese theory on sustainable economic policy, massive spending creates massive inflation; which creates an increased demand for government subsidy to afford basic products; which creates a growing dependency on the government; which creates a need for massive spending. Wash-Rinse-Repeat.
This is exactly the expanding economic dependency model sold by socialists around the world for generations, which Barack Obama and his Biden administration promise they have now perfected in order to remove the pesky inequities always associated with unbridled capitalism. Smile everyone, government cheese aplenty…
.In a rather ironic note, the parseltongue White House explanation is so disconnected from common sense, that furrowed brow’s brain is having an out of body issue, seemingly he is watching himself participate. The producers shift the camera angles quickly to compensate.
It would appear that somewhere in the recesses of Tapper’s frontal cortex, there remains a glowing ember of the common sense particle. Unfortunately for the CNN host, the synapse for the common sense particle is pinched between the ‘Smarter than thou tumor‘ and the expanding grey brain matter of moral relativity needed to sit silently and listen to bulls**t.
Within this cognitive conflict, you can visibly see Tapper’s guilt hypothalamus trying to make him uncomfortable… he sighs heavily as the infrequently exercised guilt glands attempt to trigger him to react. Alas, the party groupthink microchip in his ear warns him to stay quiet.
Posted originally on the conservative tree house on November 14, 2021 | Sundance | 234 Comments
Robert Kennedy Jr. is an ally in the fight against medical tyranny and by extension he has become a warrior against the global World Economic Forum participants who are attempting to reconstruct all global finance under the auspices of COVID-19 regulation. {Direct Rumble Link}
In this brief video Robert Kennedy Jr delivers a big truth. WATCH:
Posted originally on the conservative tree house on November 14, 2021 | Sundance | 207 Comments
Well, there it is. According to political engineers who are tasked with pushing the COVID-19 narrative, the bureaucrats who determine U.S. health policy have not yet decided on how many booster shots will be needed to keep a person’s “vaccinated status” compliant.
Put another way, they have not determined the vaccine rate that keeps the pharmaceutical companies operating at maximum profitability.
Bloomberg – […] Some states, such as California and Colorado, have opened up booster shots to all adults who are at least six months past their second mRNA dose. It may turn out that the term “booster” is a bit of a misnomer, and that the correct number of shots for maximum efficacy isn’t yet known.
Vaccination recommendations often change as more data becomes available over time. “It’s a good idea to keep an eye on CDC guidance.”
[…] It’s possible, says Justman, that the months-long gap between initial doses of the vaccine and boosters will help the immune system maintain a strong response for a much longer period than the initial regimen did. But we need more data to have any sort of definitive answer on that, she says. (link)
Posted originally on the conservative tree hour on November 14, 2021 | Sundance | 174 Comments
Neel Kashkari is head of the Minneapolis Federal Reserve. If you know the financial lingo, you can see the dire forecast behind the opaque language. In plain-speak, Kashari is saying when it comes to prices and inflation, “we’re screwed“…
In this interview with CBS talking head Margaret Brennan, Kashkari admits inflation is still going up, and it will get worse. Keep in mind, the lingo of the inflation conversation is discussing “percentages of change.” Kashkari claims the percentages of change will start to slow in a few years, but the prices will never return to their former level.
The percentage of inflationary change (this year vs last year) will continue going up, as prices continue to skyrocket over almost every sector. CTH points out this issue, because as the Fed continues printing current money, the value of future money drops and the price of goods continues to climb. The fast-turn goods rise in price quickest (now recorded at 6.2%), and the inflation on slow-turn durable goods lags but hits even harder.
Current real inflation inside the ‘total’ economy, the cumulative snowball that is coming down the mountain, is over 20% and still growing. This situation puts the forecast prices of 2022 goods at an alarming level. WATCH:
The fed has no tools to slow the rate of current inflation, as interest rates are disconnected {Revisit The New Dimension in Modern Economics} from the cost of goods produced. The only thing the Fed can do is to stop purchasing debt (Quantitative Easing), stop purchasing our own bonds, at a slower rate.
Despite being a progressive himself, even Neel Kashkari is telling congress to stop spending money.
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Maybe you don’t have kids at home, maybe you don’t pack lunches or care what the cost of a pound of bologna will be, maybe you are retired and the stove hasn’t been operated all year as you prefer to dine out…. but I can assure you, to a demonstrable certainty, that almost all middle class working Americans will be making decisions on what food products they can afford. Head lettuce at $4 to $5 each, eggs at $3/doz, milk around $6/gal, butter around $8/lb, and citrus so expensive getting an orange in your Christmas stocking will be a trend again in 2022.
The background conversations in the raw material, processing, manufacturing, wholesaling and food contract networks are enough to make you lose sleep.
[…] Tyson sent a letter to at least two regional distributors last month in which it said that prices on Ball Park, Hillshire Farm, Jimmy Dean, State Fair and all deli meats will increase by a range of 5% to 10.2% beginning Jan. 2 for “all retail customers.” … “We continue to face accelerating levels of extraordinary inflation,” Tyson said in the letter. “The sustained duration and significant impact of the inflation necessitates additional pricing action.” (link)
The traditional net terms at 30, 60 or 90 days are right now a hot topic, as producers and suppliers in the food supply chain can no longer commit to contractual prices for future goods delivered. The upstream price increases are so large, the downstream suppliers will not contract on fixed prices, EVEN for the big box retailers.
Only those who know the scale of Walmart buying office pressure and dominance can appropriately contextualize a current WM supplier telling the behemoth to “go spit” if they don’t like the fact that price guarantees are no longer part of the equation. Yeah, it is THAT bad.
We are only a few months away from seeing massive inflation that will fundamentally change the way everyone looks at food shopping, or highly consumable purchases, and what the middle class formerly considered to be “luxury” purchases. Inflation, in the background, is going to come through the supply chain like a thundershock…. and it’s not just food.
“I am an executive in the detergent chemical industry that supplies all of the major pharmaceutical companies, and am in charge of pricing and purchasing of large quantities of raw materials – both commodities, and surfactants, which are the main ingredients in detergents. Here is a brief overview of the situation.
Commodities, such as sodium bicarbonate (baking soda), sodium carbonate (soda ash), and other basic additives that adjust pH, thickness, anti-redeposition, rinseability, and other properties are up around 10-15% on a raw material cost basis from February. Not a single material is unaffected.
Citric acid is up nearly 40-50% when it can be found, at minimum. There is a nationwide allocation, which means that they give material to whom they feel like. One of the major domestic manufacturers of these materials shut down production of citric acids and other acidulants due to maintenance. Many companies in my industry are paying nearly 300% (not a typo – three hundred percent) increases on citric acid.
Domestic primary surfactants, which are made by a handful of companies such as Stepan Company, Solvay, Huntsman, and many more, are up 15-20%, due mainly to oil cost, transportation, etc.
Domestic specialty surfactants, specifically of a class called ethoxylated surfactants, are nearly gone. Not hard to get, not difficult to find – gone. In February, the ice storm took out piping and power lines along the entire gulf coast. The two towns that got hit hardest were Houston, TX, and a little town called St. Charles, LA. St. Charles is where all ethoxylation takes place in the USA for everyone from Dow to Sasol to BASF, and is the key process to make these specialty ethoxylated surfactants. Then, after 4 months of shutdowns, just when everything was getting back into swing, Hurricane Ida wrecked everything all over again.
Dow, one of the largest companies in the world, only restarted production at their facility there in early October.
The crisis of transportation and at the ports is only adding to this crisis of manufacturing in the chemical industry. News to everyone? It was never covered, not even once, on the news.
If truckers are going to be forced to be vaccinated come January, there will be even less trucks than there are now.
The wheels of the world are being purposefully and deliberately ground to a halt. We’d be better off with the mafia back in control of the ports worldwide.
This is going to get so much worse before it gets any better, and the administration in office is doing everything in their power to make sure it is as bad as possible.” (link)
Kamala Harris is worried about feeding children of the world, while we are literally weeks away from millions of working class, non-subsidized Americans being worried about feeding their own kids. Infuriating is an understatement.
Please prepare yourselves and your families accordingly. The proactive window to prepare for what’s coming in the short term is approximately 60 days from today; and then spending options begin to diminish quickly.
Yes, the rate of price increase may indeed level off. However, we will not see prices dropping or returning to their prior position even after this is over. The price of goods is climbing, will continue to climb and will eventually reach a point that they stop climbing – if policies change and/or the 2022 mid term election gets rid of the communists who are spending the money; but those prices are not going to come back down, ever.
A current loaf of bread, widget or (fill_in_the_blank) at $4.69 will climb to near $6.00 in 2022, and that will be the new normal price of that widget, bread or item from that moment into the future. If you accept that behind you is a massive price increase about to hit on almost everything you purchase, anything you can do now to offset the impact to your household budget when the full weight of these price increases hit is going to be well worth doing.
Posted originally on the conservative tree house on November 14, 2021 | Sundance | 202 Comments
ABC always pairs with The Washington Post for their media polling [DATA pdf HERE]. It has always made sense for the deep swamp (DC Inc) to work with the intelligence PR firm of the Washington Post, as they attempt to prop up their politics. Unfortunately, the results of the latest outlook look terribly horrible for their future.
Why does George Stephanopoulos have a case of the sads… “As things stand, if the midterm elections were today, 51 percent of registered voters say they’d support the Republican candidate in their congressional district, 41 percent the Democrat. That’s the biggest lead for the Republicans in 110 ABC/Post polls to ask this question since November 1981.” The economic outcomes from JoeBama policy are again crushing Americans, as only 29% of voters view the economy as good.
70 percent of Americans say f**k Joe Biden, things are not good. The key factor is the economy. With inflation soaring, 70 percent say it’s in bad shape, up from 58 percent last spring. Joe Biden’s approval for handling the economy overall is down to 39 percent. Fifty-five percent now disapprove of Biden’s economic performance. In terms of Biden’s job performance overall, a new low of 41 percent approve, while 53 percent disapprove; similar to his rating on the economy.
The Biden economic agenda is purposefully destroying America with massive inflation that is crushing the middle class. While the majority of Americans do not know the specifics of how the JoeBama policy is doing this, everyone can see and feel the outcomes…. and it is only getting worse.
In the states of Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin – Biden’s overall job approval rating is 33 percent, compared with 43 percent elsewhere. Registered voters in these states favor Republicans over Democrats for the House by a 23-point margin, 58-35 percent, vs 7 points, 49-42 percent, in the rest of the country. Independents, often swing voters in national elections, favor GOP candidates by 18 points (50-32 percent).
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Throughout history, to avoid material harm, or to gain social acceptance from an oppressor group, many people have suppressed a stigmatizing identity and “passed.” Jews have passed for gentile; mixed-race for white; indigenous for non-indigenous. Most of these fakers sought the greatest possible anonymity; the more they blended in, the less scrutiny they attracted. Their motivation—fear of the oppressor—was grounded in reality.
Today, it is quite the opposite: Identity fraud by official oppressors passing as the officially oppressed can whisk the perpetrator from anonymity to high status involving social and material reward. Their motivation? Not fear. Envy.
The contemporary faker’s habitat is most often a university, where he or, increasingly, she (as opportunities for women in high places soar) is paid large sums of money to promote the interests of the group the faker identifies with.
U.S. race fabulist Rachel Dolezal was outed in 2015 after passing for years as black. Not only was the former teacher of Africana studies able to dupe her university, Dolezal managed to insinuate herself into leadership of a National Association for the Advancement of Colored People chapter before her house of cards collapsed.
Likewise, Canadian Carrie Bourassa, recently outed as a “pretendian” Métis, worked to advance the fortunes of indigenous people. Now on leave, both from her tenured position at the University of Saskatchewan and as scientific director of the indigenous health arm of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Bourassa had also successfully passed as indigenous for many years.
It was only when Bourassa began to gild the lily, upping her Métis genetic claims with alleged links to include the Anishinaabe and Tlingit First Nations, that a colleague of indigenous heritage looked into Bourassa’s genealogy. She alerted the CBC to her findings, prompting their own independent investigation, which resulted in exposure of Bourassa’s all-European DNA.
Bourassa’s grand deception elicited shock and criticism from indigenous and non-indigenous critics. A hail-Mary revisionist statement proffering a fig leaf for her claim (“custom adoption” rather than blood quantum) fell flat.
It is natural to assume, and most observers did, that rapid career advancement was the principal motivation behind Bourassa’s elaborate charade. But I find that explanation alone insufficient.
First, because it is a demanding job in itself for a public figure to remain “in character” all the livelong day for a projected lifetime. No ordinary person of Bourassa’s genuine intelligence and competence would consider accelerated career advancement alone a good enough reason for such an investment of time and effort, when the alternative wasn’t penury, but a perfectly satisfactory career in her field, even if achieved at a slower pace and without public acclaim.
And second, because anyone guided by an unoccluded capacity for weighing the risks against the benefits in her situation—her own family was living proof of her deception—would surely have anticipated and quailed before the strong possibility, indeed the probability, of eventual disclosure, with all the shame and humiliation such a revelation would, and has, entailed.
Only an individual driven by extreme psychological need to internalize her myth as truth would pursue such a reckless course of action. So I do not see cold calculation in Bourassa’s delusion; rather I see a highly ambitious but psychologically fragile human being whose mental vulnerability made her a vessel into which certain ideological strains in our culture were easily poured.
We find a supportive clue to this hypothesis in a reported statement Bourassa issued through an anonymous group in which she claimed that she has the right to “self-identify as an Indigenous Person, within the greater family of Indigenous Peoples in Canada.” She reportedly asserted that the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (UNDRIP) “confirms and legally supports her to Self-identify as an Indigenous Person.”
Of course, UNDRIP, which curiously does not actually define the word “indigenous,” does no such thing. The allusion likely refers to Article 33, which states: “Indigenous peoples have the right to determine their own identity or membership in accordance with their customs and traditions.” Peoples, not individuals.
It may well be that Bourassa truly believes she “is” indigenous because her mind fused the two dominant but contradictory belief systems guiding the present cultural moment: gender fluidity and critical race theory (CRT). CRT tells us that immutable, genetically embedded characteristics like race and indigenous blood quantum are the bedrock of one’s identity, while gender ideology tells us that immutable biological factors like chromosomes and gametes are meaningless beside subjective feelings of identity.
So on the one hand, Bourassa was educated to believe that as a white woman, she harboured an original sin she could never extirpate. On the other, she was educated to believe that her own feelings were the sole arbiter of her own identity.
What Bourassa did was wrong, but can we not sympathize with her? Our society’s most influential institutions—government, education, law, health services—have endorsed both these pernicious woke belief systems as worthy of entrenchment in our pedagogy and policies. Take any sensitive child with an unstable sense of self, for whatever reason. Indoctrinate that child to believe that nothing about his or her body may be taken as a clue to his or her “real” identity. At the same time, hammer home the message that skin colour and DNA—the only indications of one’s “real” identity in everything but gender—are infallible signs of either lifelong victimhood, or of ineradicable genocidal guilt.
The two messages conflict, but since one, if untethered from gender and applied to indigeneity, offers not only release from tormenting guilt but also material reward and reverence from cultural elites to boot—well, the wonder isn’t that Carrie Bourassa synthesized a personal myth from them; the wonder is there are so few copycats.
Bourassa’s flamboyancy was her downfall. At a 2019 TEDx talk, dramatically garbed in traditional aboriginal costume and with a feather in her hand, “Morning Star Bear” choked up with genetic pride. “I’m Bear Clan. I’m Anishinaabe Métis from Treaty Four Territory,” she announced to ecstatically woke applause.
Bourassa’s role immersion recalls Grey Owl (1888-1938), a.k.a. Archie Belaney, a British-born Canadian pretendian who, falsely claiming Ojibwe lineage, became known in the 1930s as “the most famous Canadian alive.” The native people Belaney lived amongst knew he was a charlatan, but his effective conservation activism earned their silence.
Today’s compulsively chatty digital panopticon has made protective silence a superannuated luxury for fraudsters. That’s a fact of life. Alas, Bourassa was indoctrinated to believe “feelings” can trump facts. Everyone now is similarly indoctrinated. But unlike “everyone,” Bourassa took her “felt” identity to an extreme but logical conclusion.
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