The COVID Aftermath and Lessons Learned

 American Thinker

The most extreme abridgments took the form of lockdowns, sometimes known as "stay at home" orders.  Under these lockdowns, people were prohibited from leaving their residences except under specific limited conditions.  They were presented as necessary measures to "flatten the curve" — that is, to reduce the spread of the disease and delay infections so as to keep health services from being overwhelmed.  A first lesson is that these lockdowns didn't work.  Numerous recent studies demonstrate that there was no significant change in the course of the epidemic attributable to a lockdown, and further, lockdowns actually seemed to increase infections and mortality in proportion to the severity of the lockdown.   ............This brings us to the second lesson: overreliance on certain "scientific" experts.  With the decline of religious authority, people have sought replacements.  Science has taken on much of the vacant role, with certain figures gaining credibility by speaking with certainty and authority.  Unfortunately, that isn't science.  Real science, especially under dynamic circumstances such as a pandemic, consists of many different viewpoints with much debate and disagreement.  ....A third lesson is that authorities were granted too much power under various "emergency" orders — powers that they used virtually without restraint for extended periods of time.  Many of the normal mechanisms that would restrain state power, such as legislative and judicial methods, as well as the ability of the people to demonstrate and petition, were prohibited or severely curtailed.  As a result, even though many objected to this arbitrary exercise of power, they were prevented from taking effective measures to oppose it.  ....A fourth lesson is to be found in the contemptuous dismissal of the competence of the general populace, coupled with massive disinformation campaigns by both government and media designed to manipulate rather than inform.  Too many saw the pandemic as an opportunity to exercise power and implement programs that would, under normal conditions, never be accepted. . ...."

 

It looks as if there was massive election fraud in Fulton County, Georgia

 American Thinker

 Garland Favorito founded VoterGA, an election integrity organization that has tenaciously followed the November election in Fulton County, including the ballot storage and recounts.  His organization now has irrefutable proof that there was election and recount fraud in Fulton County, Georgia. It's noteworthy that Biden "won" in Georgia by only 11,779 votes.   ......What happened in Fulton County wasn't an election; it was a joke, with a predetermined Democrat outcome."

So Much Evidence that January 6, 2021 was a Calculated Set-Up

 American Thinker

Political persecution and isolation of vast swaths of the citizenry by the Justice Department, the Intelligence Community, and the Judiciary in the wake of the January 6, 2021, Capitol incursion should bring a chill down the spine of every American. This same troika, but with different nomenclature, was mobilized by 20th Century despots to eliminate their political enemies and establish a police state.

Thanks to the intrepid reporting by Julie Kelly at the American Greatness website, we know the following: 

1) No one has been charged with sedition or using or possessing a lethal weapon, thus, no armed insurrection.  The most common charge filed against the more than 500 that have been arrested is trespassing, despite many being let into the Capitol by the police.

2) As bail was not granted, despite the minor charges and no prior convictions, numerous detainees are being held in a reopened jail in appalling third-world conditions and at times in solitary confinement subject to physical abuse.  All are awaiting trials that will not happen for nearly a year.  

3) The FBI has used theatrical and unjustified SWAT team tactics in arresting suspects.  People who were not in the Capitol have been arrested, questioned, detained, and publicly humiliated.  After overtly insisting that friends, relatives, and neighbors must spy on their fellow citizens, the FBI is using uncorroborated information from virtually anyone as a pretext to arrest rally-goers. 

4) All those arrested and being detained will be tried in Washington, a city that voted against Trump by a margin of 17 to 1.   Federal Judges, who are supposed to be impartial, have openly sided with the government in virtually all their filings and bail requests and have not forced the prosecutors to release the exculpatory information requested by the defendants or shown a willingness to correct the abuses in prison.

5)  Meanwhile many thousands of rioters, looters, and arsonists that destroyed buildings, businesses, and injured police officers during the summer of 2020 have not been arrested or if arrested, the vast majority have been released or given suspended sentences."

 

TWA 800: 25 Years of Deep State Deception

 American Thinker

 On July 17, 1996, TWA Flight 800, a Paris-bound 747 out of JFK, blew up off the coast of Long Island. It seemed somehow fitting that James Kallstrom, the public face of the FBI investigation into the plane's destruction, would die two weeks before the 25^th anniversary. As a patriot, a Vietnam vet, and an outspoken critic of all things Clinton, Kallstrom once held promise as the insider most likely to come clean. He never did.  ....... Reporting that the U.S. Navy had inadvertently shot down TWA 800—it went no deeper than that. .....At the time, I found it difficult to believe that major media reporters could miss a story as large as a missile strike on a 747. After three days chez Sanders, my only question was why they missed the story.

So began my deep dive into this doomed flight. One documentary and two books later, I can say with 100 percent confidence that missile fire destroyed TWA Flight 800. I can say with 95 percent confidence that the U.S. Navy fired those missiles. As James Sanders will attest, I resisted that latter conclusion until the evidence overwhelmed me. I did not want to believe it to be true. ......."While keeping her eyes on the aircraft," the FBI report continued, "she observed a 'red streak' moving up from the ground toward the aircraft at an approximately 45 degree angle. The 'red streak' was leaving a light gray colored smoke trail. The 'red streak' went passed [sic] the right side and above the aircraft before arcing back toward the aircraft's right wing."