LYING BRIGHTLY!


Testimony that was not sworn to, and remains unchallenged, has in fact unmasked the cynical agenda of Democrats to interfere with the 2020 election–and meant to damage the president and the American nation during a global pandemic crisis

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Re-Posted from the Canada Free Press By  —— Bio and ArchivesMay 17, 2020

Rick Bright

Questions:

Can one assume that if the witness at a congressional hearing is either blocked from swearing in by the investigating committee, or is not sworn in to tell the truth, and nothing but the truth, there may be a good reason?

Can one assume that if the witness happens to be a whistleblower, he may have an agenda behind his appearance other than what he says it is? What can the witness gain from Adam Schiff’s circus?

We found out during the fraudulent impeachment hearings from the whistleblower’s attorney, revealed right after the President was sworn into office in 2017, that the whistleblower and his attorney are both Democrat activists. They both had an agenda. It just happened to be the same as congressman Adam Schiff’s, Nancy Pelosi’s, Schmuck Schemer (not a misprint), and Jerrod Nadler.

We found at the Kavanaugh hearings that the chief witness, Christine Blasey Ford, committed a series of perjuries. Her own witnesses did not back up her fictious delusions. We found she too, had an agenda. We found her attorney also had a hidden agenda.

Can we assume that if a witness is prevented from swearing in, the witness can say anything he wants to say without the risking legal liability? In other words, he can make it all up as he goes, like a bull rampaging through the china shop. And then scurry away free from lies that are intended to smear, libel, impugn, soil, and damage.

Lying to congress under oath has severe penalties. One good reason for not wanting to be sworn in.

Take the 17 vehicle armored, masked FBI SWAT Team with 29 agents brandishing automatic weapons and bright lights, showing up at one’s home in the middle of the night.

That is exactly what happened to Trump ally Roger Stone. It is pretty much what happened to Trump ally Paul Manafort and others who questioned, and then got netted in the Mueller Witch Hunt started by Hillary Clinton’s Russia PP Dossier and Barack Obama’s illegal and unconstitutional abuse of power.

We are now uncovering Obama’s illegal  domestic spying operation. These self-dealing criminals enacted a coupwith fabricated evidence. Otherwise known as treason.

The Rich Bright testimony is a continuation of this ongoing process to replace an elected executive with a dictatorship of elites.

Dr. Richard Bright will not have to fear repercussions behind the fictions of his trumped up testimony. The pre-prepared statements written by Adam Schiff and Jerrod Nadler will replace a DOJ prosecution that can’t happen without the witness being sworn in. No evidence is needed either. After all, the evidence of the Russia Collusion after four years is still hiding somewhere in Adam Schiff’s pockets. It’s exactly as real as Barry Soetoro’s birth certificate.

That, is the point for the media event staged for children, a circus to convince the unknowing that up is down, and in is out. Never mind that all the major points Dr. Bright complained about were actually met by the crisis team—and then some. Never mind that China sent us defective masks. Never mind that Obama depleted the nation’s pandemic materials.

Never mind that the virus was being sent around the world along with five million tourists from Wuhan, China encouraged to travel. Never mind that China was quietly buying up the world’s supply of masks.

Never mind that Dr. Bright’s performance was not believed among his peers, and not a single one of them have come forward to support his tale. A repeat of Christine Ford’s failed attempt to unseat a great jurist on the mere blathering of a crazed Democrat activist.

Never mind that the good doctor never met Donald Trump, or exchanged any information with him. Never mind that the “issues” Dr. Bright proposed against the president were not issues he ever raised during his time with the Fauci Team.

He disagreed you say, with Fauci, or others, or Trump?

So what?

BREITBART: “Dr. Rick Bright, the vaccine expert who claims he was ousted from his former position in the administration because of his opposition to the promotion of hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for coronavirus, was already going to lose his job months before, according to information released on Twitter by Politico reporter Dan Diamond.”

(Boldfacing is this writer’s):
Diamond wrote “…..Jan. 2, about Bright’s imminent removal from BARDA for “incompetence and insubordination.” That was months before hydroxychloroquine became a topic of debate. The Trump administration has been working to oust Bright since last year, as officials battled with him over his management and leadership…” 
Ironically, Bright reversed himself soon enough and demanded more supplies of the drug HCQ:

“In March, Rick Bright requested the FDA issue an “Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for emergency use of oral formulations of chloroquine phosphate and hydroxychloroquine sulfate for the treatment of 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19)…” 

In other words, Bright was singing with the choir all along about the shortage of pandemic supplies and the delivery of which no America attempted to delay. He did not disagree with others on Team Trump. Earlier he and his boss, Dr. Fauci opposed the very drug that has been proven to work around the globe, and just in last week’s NYU study, to save the lives of 44% of treated patients! In other words, Bright—and Dr. Anthony Fauci—were wrong. Bright was insubordinate, and got fired.

 

More importantly, against the hysterical juggernaut of media political hacks and their Democrats who were pooh-pooing the drug (as these people would rather let thousands of Americans die to prove a political point), Donald Trump stood firm and proved to be right all along about the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine.

It is now a matter of record that this president will have saved tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of lives. No spin can change that fact.

This unmasking of a possible politically-motivated assault against the president, including a possible agenda that motivated Bright’s hostility, may not be accepted in politically-correct circles.

Too bad.

Certainly not proper to contemplate the obvious: that testimony that was not sworn to, and remains unchallenged, has in fact unmasked the cynical agenda of Democrats to interfere with the 2020 election—and meant to damage the president and the American nation during a global pandemic crisis.

Supreme Court Held Vaccines Can Be Mandated


The Supreme Court in Jacobson v. Massachusetts, 197 U.S. 11 (1905) held that vaccines can be mandated. They acknowledged many pros and cons of vaccines, but the court ultimately concluded that whether vaccines were the best (or even an effective) method to combat measles was not in its power to decide. Specifically, the court wrote, “there is scarcely any belief that is accepted by everyone.” However, there was enough medical opinion of vaccine effectiveness that vaccines could be mandated by legislatures like that city’s governing council.

In other words, the court stated vaccines very well may later be found to be unsafe/ineffective, but sufficient information analyzed by elected officials at the time made it reasonable to mandate vaccines to combat smallpox in 1905.

Supreme Court Upheld no Liability for Death by Vaccine


The Supreme Cout held in Bruesewitz v. Wyeth, 562 U.S. 223 (2011), that the section of the Vaccine Act of 1986 preempts all vaccine design defect claims against vaccine manufacturers. The case was decided on February 22, 2011. The Court, in a 6-2 opinion by Justice Scalia, held that the “plaintiffs design defect claims [were] expressly preempted by the Vaccine Act.” Thus, the court affirmed laws that vaccine manufacturers are not liable for vaccine-induced injury or death if they are “accompanied by proper directions and warnings.”

This was a very disappointing decision. They ruled that the Act’s structural quid pro quo also leads to the same conclusion. The vaccine manufacturers fund an informal, efficient compensation program for vaccine injuries in exchange for avoiding costly tort litigation and the occasional disproportionate jury verdict. Taxing their product to fund the compensation program, while leaving their liability for design defect virtually unaltered, would hardly coax them back into the market.

DEFIANCE – There are More of Us Than Them…


In April something was bugging me… a familiarity amid the COVID lock-down status & another time… I couldn’t quite put my finger on it until a dear friend reminded me.

Many U.S. states are acting like the early 1980’s and the imposition of Martial law in Poland to target the Solidarity movement.  Subsequently I wrote about it on a Twitter thread, because the parallels were really quite remarkable.

Both Poland circa 1980 and the U.S. friction in 2020, center around fragile economic issues. Both were an outcome of state control; and the key connection is government targeting control over the workers.

In both examples the state took exclusive control of the economic and social state of the citizens, and the courts provided no option for redress. In both examples the state locked down the citizens and would not permit them to interact with each other.

In 1981 the government in Poland initiated Martial Law and citizens were forced to communicate underground. In 2020 a considerable number of U.S. state governments locked-down citizens in similar fashion and banned citizen assembly.

In 1981 in Poland the communist regime used economic psychological pressure, selecting workers permitted to earn wages. Those workers identified as “essential” to the state. In 2020 many State governors selected workers to earn an income by designating them “essential” to the state.

In 1981 in Poland; communication amid the Solidarity Movement was forced underground. In 2020 many oppressive State governors demanded social media remove public content adverse to the interests of the Stay-at-Home confinement orders. Big Tech complied with the authoritarian dictate.

In 1981 Polish authorities arrested anyone organizing protests against the authoritarian state. In 2020 numerous authoritarian officials arrested citizens for non-compliance with unilateral dictates. From a New Jersey governor arresting a woman for organizing a protect; to an Idaho mother arrested for allowing her children to play at a park; to a Texas salon owner arrested for operating her business.

In 1981 Polish authorities had a program for citizens to report subversive activity against the state. Snitching. In 2020 New York City, LA and numerous state and local officials started programs for citizens to report non-compliant activity against the state. Similar snitching.

In both 1981 Poland and 2020 USA we also see media exclusively creating ideological content as propaganda for the interests of the authoritarian state (controlling citizens).

Interestingly, as we begin to see the American people saying “enough”, and openly defying the authoritarian state. There’s another parallel that is comparable, enlightening and quite remarkable.

Just before the authoritarian state in Poland collapsed there was a rapid movement for the citizens to take to the streets in defiance of state control. I remember watching with great enthusiasm as I saw a very determined pole shout on television:

…”we take to the streets and today we realize, there are more of us than them”…

Fast forward more than thirty years later and those glorious voices are prescient. The power of the government comes from the people; or as we say in the U.S. “from the consent of the governed.” Thus the underlying principle behind our defiance.

If the people will lead, the politicians are forced to follow:

If one person refuses to comply, government can and as we have witnessed arrest them. However, if tens of thousands rebuke these unconstitutional decrees, there isn’t a damn thing government can do to stop it…. and they know it.

If one barber shop opens, the owner becomes a target.  However, if every barber shop and beauty salon in town opens… there is absolutely nothing the government can do about it.

If one restaurant and/or bar opens, the state can target the owner.  But if every bar and restaurant in town opens; and if everyone ignores  and dispatches the silly dictates of the local, regional or state officials… there isn’t a damned thing they can do about it.

The power of the local, regional or state authority comes from the expressed consent of the people.  As soon as the majority of people deny that consent, those officials and state authoritarians lose all of their power.  Yes, it really is that simple.

Go live your best life.

You’re worth it.

PS. Another similarity – ultimately the key control issue, the heart of the battle in Poland, came down to an election finally held in 1989.  Likewise the key control issue, the heart of battle in the United States will come down to an election in November 2020.

Sunday Talks: Peter Navarro -vs- George Stephanopoulos…


The American electorate are wide-eyed and well aware of how President Obama and Vice-President Biden were co-enablers to Chinese duplicity on a wide range of aspects including theft of U.S. intellectual property, economic espionage and exfiltration of U.S. wealth.

Against that backdrop; and understanding the political risk inherent within the policy of the former administration; ABC News’ George Stephopoulos enters with his rehearsed narrative to cloud the truth.  However, White House China-hawk and policy advisor Peter Navarro easily and righteously smacks down the Biden/Obama political defenses fabricated by a combative Stephanopoulos with the atomic sledgehammer of truth.

When Stephanopoulos tries to use the Rick Bright whistle-blower narrative; Navarro squished Stephanopoulos into a puddle of political mush…

Sunday Talks: President Trump Discusses China’s Cover-Up of Wuhan Virus – The Economic Consequences Will Now Increase…


A visibly angered President Trump told Maria Bartiromo he “doesn’t want to talk to China right now” and expresses a more open opinion that we should just decouple from all economic attachment to China.  This is a seismic shift in tone toward Beijing.

All administration policy and economic influence is now targeted to remove Chinese manufacturing from the U.S. supply chain. President Trump and white house officials openly discussing a U.S. effort to decouple from China is a significant shift.

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President Trump has been creating a dual position for several years; this is very unique because it is the same strategy used by China.  By expressing a panda face, yet concealing the underlying dragon, President Trump’s policy to China is a mirror of themselves.

Historic Chinese geopolitical policy, vis-a-vis their totalitarian control over political sentiment (action) and diplomacy through silence, is evident in the strategic use of the space between carefully chosen words, not just the words themselves.

Each time China takes aggressive action (red dragon) China projects a panda face through silence and non-response to opinion of that action;…. and the action continues. The red dragon has a tendency to say one necessary thing publicly, while manipulating another necessary thing privately.  The Art of War.

President Trump is the first U.S. President to understand how the red dragon hides behind the panda mask.

First he got their attention with tariffs.  Then… On one hand President Trump has engaged in very public and friendly trade negotiations with China (panda approach); yet on the other hand, long before the Wuhan virus, Trump fractured their global supply chains, influenced the movement of industrial goods to alternate nations, and incentivized an exodus of manufacturing (dragon result).

It is specifically because he understands that Panda is a mask that President Trump messages warmth toward the Chinese people, and pours vociferous praise upon Xi Jinping, while simultaneously confronting the geopolitical doctrine of the Xi regime.

In essence Trump has mirrored the behavior of China while confronting their economic duplicity.

There is no doubt in my mind that President Trump has a very well thought out long-term strategy regarding China. In the background of his action there has always been a duality in position; in my opinion Trump was always preparing to fully disconnect from China.

As part of the careful withdrawal President Trump used strategic messaging toward the people of china very importantly.  Trump has, very publicly, complimented the friendship he feels toward President Xi Jinping; and praised Chairman Xi for his character, strength and purposeful leadership.

To build upon that projected and strategic message – President Trump seeded the background by appointing Ambassador Terry Branstad, a 30-year personal friend of President Xi Jinping.

To enhance and amplify the message – and broadcast cultural respect – President Trump used Mar-a-Lago as the venue for their first visit, not the White House.  And President Trump’s beautiful granddaughter, Arabella, sweetly serenaded the Chinese First Familytwice in Mandarin Chinese song showing the utmost respect for the guests and later for the hosts.

All of this activity mirrors the duplicity of China.  However, from the November 2017 tour of Asia to the January 2020 China phase-1 trade deal, President Trump has been positioning, for an economic decoupling and a complete realignment of global trade and manufacturing.

After years of careful positioning while unwinding the economic dependency; and while warning U.S. multinationals to prepare themselves financially for a significant shift in position toward China; President Trump has now fully triggered the decoupling phase.

COVID-19 is the perfect global justification needed for the financial markets to remain stable and understand what comes next…

White House Manufacturing Policy Advisor Peter Navarro and U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer will be the two primary enforcement officials.

BLOOMBERG –  Five months and a global pandemic later, Lighthizer isn’t using words like integrated anymore about China. In an opinion piece in the New York Times late Monday, he casts new doubt about whether such economic symbiosis is actually the end the Trump administration is now seeking.

In the article, China isn’’t his only villain. The USTR likened the American capitalists who sought cheaper ways of production in places like China, Vietnam and Indonesia to a mass migration of rodents. Over the past few decades, those who weren’t egged on by Wall Street analysts and management consultants were “simply swept up by the herd mentality of their peers” — all to benefit shareholders rather than workers, he said.

“The era of reflexive offshoring is over, and with it the old overzealous emphasis on efficiency and the concomitant lack of concern for the jobs that were lost,” Lighthizer wrote. “After we have defeated this disease and reopened our economy, we cannot forget the hard lessons learned from this misguided experiment.”

What Lighthizer says matters, of course, because he’s the top trade policy voice in a Trump administration where some officials want to leverage the outbreak to go harder on China.

But perhaps even more important is the timing of Lighthizer’s pronouncement. His boss is unhappy with China for the damage the coronavirus is causing to the U.S. economy. (read more)

A Series of Videos on Bill Gates and his Quest to Rule the World!


Bill Gates has determined that there are way to many humans on the planet; and he has decided to do something about it. That something is a virus that he had China develop for him and then after it was in play the  The World Health Organization (also controlled by Gates) hid it from the world until it was to late to stop. But that was not all Gates master stroke was to cultivated the head of the National institute o Health (NIH) one Dr. Anthony Fauci into his circle of “friends” where he could control him. Fauci has been nothing but a shill for Gates and at this point and both he and Gates along with: Neil Ferguson and Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus should all be arrested and tried for crimes against humanity. 

This picture represents Bill Gates’ vision of Utopia where he and the world elites live in a futuristic city of plenty while the rest of us hovel in abject poverty and only life to serve the Gates and the rest of the lords of the world.  

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Where Gates Belongs!

On COVID-19, Dallas Clinician Dr. Ivette Lozano says – Stupid is as Stupid Does!


Making people stay home to suffer and possibly die when they don’t have to is well, super stupid

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Re-Posted from the Canada Free Press By  —— Bio and ArchivesMay 16, 2020

Dr. Ivette Lozano of the Lozano

Playing the role of Forrest Gump’s mom, Dr. Ivette Lozano of the Lozano clinic in Dallas, Texas has been treating her patients with a 100% record of success. She has been prescribing hydroxychloroquine in spite of intense resistance from politicians and the medical community.

You Tube posted a video of Dr. Lozano addressing a group of citizens who cheered heartily as she described the spectacular success stories coming from her approach to the COVID-19 pandemic.

To date there has been little press coverage of her successes with the exception of a One America News piece aired on May 16, 2020. It is believed that the You Tube video may be pulled soon, so this is a news item that may sink before the public gets the whole story.

Where’s Fox?

Forget the fox in the hen house—is there a chicken in the fox den? Do something on this story,Tucker!

While Dr Lozano did not actually say stupid is as stupid does, after listening to how she was treated by politicians, pharmacists and certain drugstore chains, she didn’t have to.

All of her patients became asymptomatic within 24 to 48 hours after being treated at her clinic. After hearing about her success people from all over Texas have been showing up at her clinic.

Dr. Lozano is an activist who cares about her patient’s health, but also wants the public to know the truth.

The truth, she says, is that when victims of the coronavirus show up at hospitals and clinics, they are sent home to quarantine and suffer.

Dr. Lozano is without fear, a quality we need to see more of during this pandemic, she is unafraid to say where she first learned about the effectiveness and the treatment protocol of hydroxychloroquine. Dr Ivette boldly proclaims that it was President Trump who gave her the key. She followed the President’s first revelation about the protocol and followed through with it—now all of her coronavirus patients are glad that she did.

Dr. Lozano says the hydroxychloroquine cost a mere $13.00 – so there is little chance that people may be saddled with a bill for treatments that they could never handle.

Senator Bob Hall has stood by Dr. Lozano in her fight against the pharmacies and the pharmacy board. At one point the pharmacies insisted that Dr. Lozano provide a diagnosis for every hydroxychloroquine prescription she wrote. Besides being a clear violation of doctor—patient confidentiality, it is also, clearly, very stupid.

And that is why—stupid is as stupid does.

“Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment.” (Ex 23:2)

The scriptures admonish us not to follow a crowd to do something evil—would it also be expedient not to follow a crowd to do something stupid?

Making people stay home to suffer and possibly die when they don’t have to is well, super stupid.

 

‘Operation Warp Speed’? You Must Be Kidding Mr. President


Fauci and Birx could have been human billboards for something called ‘The United Vaccine Front’

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Re-Posted from the Canada Free Press By  —— Bio and ArchivesMay 16, 2020

‘Operation Warp Speed’? You Must Be Kidding Mr. President

Grab onto your sense of reality and hold onto it for dear life—‘Operation Warp Speed’ is here.

‘Operation Warp Speed’ (OWS), not to be confused with Occupy Wall Street, was announced by President Donald Trump in the White House Rose Garden yesterday.

‘The United Vaccine Front’

“In a Friday press briefing, President Donald Trump discussed “Operation Warp Speed,” a new federal government initiative to finish the development, manufacture and distribution of a proven coronavirus vaccine.(Fox News, May 15, 2020)

“Operation Warp Speed, that means big and it means fast,” President Donald Trump said in a Friday press briefing, remarking on how the initiative would accelerate the development and diagnostics of COVID-19 breakthrough therapies, and would be “unlike anything our country has seen since the Manhattan Project.”

Hold on, Mr. President, before Dr. Anthony Fauci, who shows up standing behind you in all camera shots wearing a ginormous mask, that radio talk show giant Rush Limbaugh described as “one of the biggest masks I have ever seen in my life time” and who described Dr. Deborah Birx as “the scarf lady wearing a scarf that came down to her knees”,  fly the President’s Task Force straight over the cuckoo’s nest.

Though Fauci was the only person other than the president always in yesterday’s camera shots, both he and Birx could have been human billboards for something called ‘The United Vaccine Front’.

They’ve certainly been canoodling together on the current coronavirus shutdown

So Fauci and Birx—who keep moving the goal posts as to when America can be reopened—let their masks do their talking for them, unlike reporters who wear them into all Rose Garden briefings but slide them down when asking questions—to make sure their all-important voices can be easily heard.

“The president said the initiative will bring together the efforts of federal agencies such as the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).  (Fox News)

Since when have the efforts of federal agencies not been together?

They’ve certainly been canoodling together on the current coronavirus shutdown.

Is the President’s Task Force hoping that the masses will forget that Fauci and Birx started off their response to the Coronavirus pushing mitigation and a necessary 15-day shut down to “lessen the curve”? Now two months later it’s stay closed until the vaccine is ready, with ominous hints that life in America may never return to normal.

Will the ‘initiative’ called ‘Operation Warp Speed’ leave American society as helpless test rabbits in creepy ‘scientist’ Bill Gates’ laboratories?

President Trump said yesterday that he doesn’t care who gets the contracts for the coronavirus vaccine, which will be delivered “at scale” by the military.

There is no valid argument that the millions the vaccine will be tried on sure do.

“U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper said that the Department of Defense would deliver a vaccine “at scale” by the end of the year, while the president remarked that providing larger vaccine quantities to areas in higher need of them would “make sense.” (Fox News)

As for Fauci and Birx, why should the masses trust scientists who have yet to come up with a cure for the common cold?

“Previous optimistic projections by White House health officials for when a COVID-19 vaccine may be available have been between 12-18 months. When asked by a reporter on why this initiative would supposedly take less time, the president did not provide specifics. (Fox News)

Is that because he doesn’t have them?

“While remdesivir, chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine have been used to treat COVID-19 patients in hospitals and health settings, there are studies still underway exploring their supposed efficacy and potential side effects.

“On April 24, the Food and Drug Administration cautioned against the used of hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine for COVID-19 treatment outside of a hospital setting or clinical trial, as the drugs had been linked to serious “heart-related adverse events” and death in patients with COVID-19.

“As of May 15, more than 1.4 million people in the U.S. had been confirmed to have COVID-19. There had been more than 86,000 deaths and 246,000 recoveries, according to Johns Hopkins’ data.

‘Operation Get Real’ would have been a better name for OWS

Problem is that with questionable computerized models, inaccurate death certificates, padded death numbers and the forced placement of COVID patients into vulnerable nursing homes and long term facilities, the actual number may always remain more myth than fact.

Unless the president knows something that we don’t ‘Operation Warp Speed’ should be used with the manure fill that keeps the flowers growing in the White House Rose Garden.

‘Operation Get Real’ would have been a better name for OWS.

Showdown over Religious Freedom via COVID-19 Church Shutdowns!


“Give me liberty,or give me death!”

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Re-Posted from the Canada Free Press By  —— Bio and ArchivesMay 16, 2020

Showdown over Religious Freedom via COVID-19 Church Shutdowns

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Demonstrations of average citizens, not DNC or Soros’ paid protestors, continue to express just how fed up citizens are of lockdowns that may have moved well past their purpose in many states and localities across America. Several “Democratic” governors are showing their true colors as they cannot resist exercising their executive power over hairdressers, ministers, and the regular people of faith. Prisoners are allowed to go free from prison; yet, the people of faith are prevented by law to leave their homes to go worship God. Several thousands of years ago, that same scenario played out between an all powerful Pharaoh and a simple shepherd named Moses.

Americans are witnessing firsthand the differences in leadership style

Americans are witnessing firsthand the differences in leadership style between several “Democratic” governors and Republican governors as they navigate the COVID-19 Pandemic. Americans are witnessing “Democratic” governors and other elected and unelected “Democratic” officials disregard, even trample, basic freedoms across America. This “Pharaoh phenomenon” is not limited to governors, but citizens see control freaks at every level of government. It means that elected officials and administrative appointees,
do not really believe they are elected to serve the will of the people.

The COVID-19 “pandemic,” defined rather narrowly, can be used as a “legitimate” way to absolutely control people under the legal authority via whatever administration inclined to put “shutdown” or “lockdown” orders in place. Most Americans, however, do not pay too much attention to the loss of freedoms that do not involve them very directly. Yet, fear is also a major deterrent to react to unconstitutional mandates from on high.

Ironically, unless one is receptive to a liberating thought, and then acts upon that thought, that idea is never transformed into a substantial reality. And, the notion of whether anyone is receptive to a liberating thought is primarily dependent on the individual. If no one paid attention to the ideals in the Declaration of Independence, the U.S.A. would not have been born.

Even if people can consume and digest liberating wisdom, the challenge is whether the receivers of such ideals can do something about them. If the founding generation had not accepted the ideals woven into the Declaration of Independence, America would not have been “conceived in liberty.” More importantly, if the founders had not had the courage to act upon such ideals in the Declaration of Independence, the nation would not have been born. America could have been aborted by fear. And, the founding generation had much to fear.

The Continental Congress was deliberating their collective colonial destiny at the same time Britain was launching their largest deployment of troops to control a colony in their history to that point. Yet the founding fathers voted to declare independence. Those brilliant and very brave men accepted the ideals of the Declaration of Independence, and overcame their fears, and acted upon their faith. They had the courage to be willing to die for what they believed in. And, many did die—for what they believed in.

In 2020, amidst the COVID-19 “pandemic,” we know many people are dying, and that is truly tragic. As President Trump has said, one life is too many. But, the deeper question may be: is our Republic in danger of dying?

Americans are now at this point in history, and again face the reality that   the Hebrews faced as they witnessed the struggle between Moses and the mighty Pharaoh. Americans again face the same concerns confronting the Pilgrim fathers as they were the victims of the Anglican church with the weight of the British government behind it.

Big brother has arrested and jailed hairdressers for simply trying to survive amidst the shutdown rules for “non-essential” businesses

Yet, for American citizens there is nowhere left to run. America is the last bastion of principled freedom of any type. There can be no Exodus from Egypt, nor an escape from England. American citizens have enjoyed several privileges of growing up in a land of plenty, within the land of the Free. But in 2020, American citizens need to make a decision as to whether they still hold those truths to be self evident, or whether those truths are no longer relevant.

In 2020, big brother has arrested and jailed hairdressers for simply trying to survive amidst the shutdown rules for “non-essential” businesses. Yet, more importantly, in some localities, Christian ministers have been arrested for defying the government shutdown mandates, which restrict the freedom of worship. The logic, which is not truly logic, does not align with the Bill of Rights. While much of the lockdown mandates seem logical and reasonable, those mandates that violate the First Amendment freedoms are practically ignored. This should not be tolerated in the Land of the Free.

When ministers are being arrested and congregants are fined for gathering in parking lots in their cars, despite the MSM, it is being witnessed by those who still value religious freedom and the freedom to worship. This gets back to Moses and the Pharoah. It also gets back to why the Pilgrims fled to the New World: ministers were being arrested and congregations were living in fear because of what they believed. The Pilgrims were really Separatists who did not align well with the Church of England. We seem to have come full circle in 400 years!

Christian ministers have been arrested for defying the government shutdown mandates

Those Separatists had such faith that they pursued their freedom to worship even at the risk pf their “fortunes,” their familiar lives in England (comfort zones), and their survival (their very lives). They left their customary surroundings to go off into unknown territory – risking their very lives. In short, they did what patriot Patrick Henry proclaimed in 1775: “Give me liberty,or give me death!” Their pursuit of freedom in those days was more than an intellectual perception or acknowledgement of the egregious violations of religious liberty.

Patrick Henry and the brilliant and brave men of the founding generation not only shouted their faith, like the Separatists, they acted upon it. Henry’s very volatile speech voiced sentiments that inspired the revolutionary generation. Inside St. John’s Episcopal Church in Richmond, Virginia on March 23, 1775, the delegates to the Second Second Virginia Convention were moved to action by Henry’s words:

“Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me Liberty or give me death!”