Privatizing
Tyranny
Liberty and the Crony Corporate State
Short link: http://tinyurl.com/privatizingtyranny
When
Governor Jerry Brownshirt of
California signed SB277 into law in 2015 he gave California parents an unconstitutional
choice between their child receiving the so-called “free public education” promised
by the California Constitution, or, their family exercising the universal right
to Informed Consent by interposing their conscientious objection to vaccines.
The
California governor violated basic norms of civilization. He enlisted not just
the government’s schools, but even private and religious schools in his plan to
force children to receive dozens of “unavoidably unsafe” and uninsurable
vaccines. The state pretends to recognize our traditional right to freedom of
choice, but it actively seeks the abrogation of that right.
During
the early centuries of the Roman Empire the old forms of the Roman Republic also
remained, with annual Consular elections and traditional magistrates. But that
state had in fact been turned over to the Imperator who had life and death
power over all others. “I am the only
free person in Rome.” Caligula
The
ancient city had no room for liberty. Fustel de Coulanges, The Ancient City, commented,
"The city had been founded on a religion and constituted a church. Hence
its strength; hence, also, its omnipotence and the absolute empire which it
exercised over its members. In a
society established on such principles, individual liberty could not exist. The
citizen was subordinate in everything, and without any reserve, to the city; he
belonged to it body and soul. The
religion which had produced the state, and the state which supported the
religion, sustained each other...”
That ancient order was, it is said,
overthrown in recent centuries by the great liberal (in its original sense)
revolutions which established the primacy of individual freedom,
“We hold these
truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are
endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights; that among these are
Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights,
Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the
consent of the governed.”
Control
over most humans had been maintained for millennia through the use of religious
and, later, political ideologies inevitably justifying the dominance of the few
over the many, even when the controllers pretend to speak for, and protect,
the "majority".
Through
the use of what early freedom theorists such as the American abolitionist
Lysandor Spooner saw as the great monopolies created by political power, this
strict social control dominated human society for most of its existence. These
included the monopolies over conscience embodied by state religions, over the
bodies of certain people (e.g., chattel slavery; prisoners, war captives, caste
system members, etc.), or the property rights of approximately half of the
species (the legal “infirmities” of women, etc.) and over all property through
royal claims to “own” the land and economic activities of a territory
(feudalism and mercantilism).
But
in more modern times the structure of bureaucracy itself has been redesigned to
become, not just to serve, the control system. Consider, for, example, how the
regulatory structure of the Military Draft was used in the USA during the 1960s
and ‘70s to “channel” students into certain fields, such as science,
engineering and weapons design, which were considered of benefit to the state.
Now
we see the same process at work with the incessant demands for ever more
vaccines, and for forcing adults and children to receive all the vaccines that
crony corporatist-tainted science can concoct without regard for either
scientific validation or personal rights.
However,
in 2009, during the Swine Flu Vax Panic, the would-be tyrants, who planned to
vaccinate every American “starting with the volunteers” with unsafety tested
vaccines (with the supply “stretched” by adding the adjuvant Squalene, at
levels shown to cause irreversible infertility in Patents held by the US
government) found themselves stymied by a population that refused to cooperate
and who, in the millions, told their “representatives” so. The plan collapsed and even the first responders
were able to escape state vax mandates unharmed, though that took a law suit.
There was no pandemic.
The incipient tyrants learned an
important lesson from the power of our Push Back: overt Federal mandates will
be resisted.
That
is when we began to see the authorities passing off the mandates to allegedly
private actors for enforcement. While we will see, below, how this privatizing
of tyranny works to increase censorship and impose unlawful financial controls,
the vax mandate gambit remains a primary example of this political process.
The
drug companies (the most crony of the crony corporatist interests) start by
obtaining a Patent for their vaccine or other drug. A Patent is a monopoly grant
of power from government. The regulatory agencies, such as the FDA and FTC, are
obligated under US case law to deem the formal Claims in the Patent as legally
substantiated – as “true.”
So
the FDA does not have to look further than the Patent when approving a vaccine
for use. First the FDA accepts the drug company’s self-serving clinical trials
which underlie the Patent and then it approves the vaccine. Then the CDC,
another agency of the HHS department, “recommends” the use of said vaccine.
The
CDC committee that does so is completely corrupted by crony corporate
interests. So much so that they had to change the rules to allow the conflicted
members to vote nonetheless, or there would never be a quorum.
One
example: a so-called “ethicist” and physician from a famous children’s hospital,
was allowed to vote to “recommend” a vaccine in which he had a Patent interest;
his vote netted him tens of millions of dollars. Meanwhile the US government,
deeply involved in approving and disseminating vaccines, through mandates and
sponsored propaganda, owns financial interests in over 50 vaccine Patents.
After
the CDC “recommendation” is voted the privatization of the mandate starts, with
some local governments issuing mandates, but with private hospitals requiring
staff to be vaccinated, even staff members who never have patient contact.
Similarly schools join in the rush to increase their vaccine levels (as higher
vaccination rates translate into more money for the institution) – in one
particularly egregious example from 2007, Prince Georges County, Maryland
revaccinated hundreds of children literally at gun point to prevent the loss of
hundreds of thousands of dollars a month in Federal subsidies. The school
system claimed it had lost the vaccination records of nearly a thousand
children.
We now see a disturbing trend where
private employers join the mandate madness although the businesses have nothing
to do with health care.
This
trend is building despite the fact that the courts have clearly held that people retain their
right to Informed Consent even where governments are restricting religious and
philosophical conscientious objections to vaccination. Several years ago an
Administrative Judge in New Jersey held that it was illegal to fire a nurse for
refusing vaccines for philosophical reasons while the people were permitted to
assert a religious conscientious objection to refuse the injection.
As
recently as 2013 the US Supreme Court upheld Informed Consent, stating,
Even a
“…diminished expectation of privacy does not diminish the… privacy interest in preventing a
government agent from piercing the… skin. And though a blood test
conducted in a medical setting by trained personnel is less intrusive than
other bodily invasions, this Court has never retreated from its
recognition that any compelled intrusion into the human body implicates
significant, constitutionally protected privacy interests…” Missouri
v McNeely 133 SCt 1553.
As a side note, McNeely teaches us that unless you assert your
right to Informed Consent, it will be deemed waived. Assert your conscientious
objection to forced vaccination with the Advance Vaccine Directive card, http://tinyurl.com/AVDcard - an advance medical directive that must be respected by ethical
health care professionals.
It’s
not just vaccines where the tyranny is privatized. One can conceive of the
so-called Affordable Care Act (or its potential “single payer” or even
market-oriented replacements) as a law enfranchising insurance industry control
over health care decisions, abrogating our right to Freedom of Choice in Health
Care. Thus, government “death committees” and rationing of health care are
privatized with the insurance industry acting as the depopulationist
government’s surrogate.
Nor
is it just health care where the tyranny is privatized. Consider the private
prison system – almost the only “growth” area of American cheap-labor
industrial production. But that is an issue for another time. Here, we focus on
health, free speech and trade.
Our
Freedom of Speech is under a world wide web of attack. While various
authoritarian states make no effort to hide direct censorship of speech, the
“advanced democracies” are more subtle. Germany, with no absolute constitutional
protection for Free Speech, is contemplating empowering Internet Service
Providers to refuse service to “hate groups.” At the same time the large
international corporate controllers of the Internet, such as Facebook and
Google, are already escalating content controls to enforce “political
correctness” – if you don’t follow the Party Line, you cannot be heard.
These
supposed private actors are actually exercising government authority. They are
the privatized agents of control. They exercise this control on several levels.
Each of these mega-corporations is, in fact and in law, “a creature of the
state.” It is created by registration with government that gives it authorities
(such as limited liability to third parties) which it could not exercise as a
truly private association.
If
the same Rule of Law that applies to truly private actors applied to government
and its crony corporations, “content control” efforts would be understood to be
exactly what they are: censorship. Real free market competition and
technological progress would rapidly make the near-monopoly power of Google and
Facebook irrelevant.
Yet
another example of privatizing tyranny is Operation
Chokepoint, the illegal US government program empowering financial
institutions to deny service to otherwise lawful activities (including
activities by private persons, nongovernmental organizations and businesses)
where the government has not banned the activity but merely disfavors it.
The
sale of CBDs, cannabidiols, comes to mind. This neurotransmitter is made by human
bodies and has a powerful role in maintaining homeostasis, neurological balance
and immune system function [Rima E. Laibow MD calls it “The Holy Grail of
Natural Health.”]
While
the body makes CBDs, the most abundant source of CBDs from food is found in
Hemp. CBDs do not get you high (that’s what the THC in Hemp does). Nonetheless,
without explicit Congressional authority, the DEA, FDA and FTC are treating CBD
as though it were contraband, as though government could have power to ban a normal
part of our bodies.
(King Kanute commanding the tide to
reverse itself comes to mind here).
Financial
institutions licensed and regulated by the government are refusing to provide
banking and merchant account services to companies that seek to satisfy
consumer demand, although the US Supreme Court has held, Thompson v. Western States Medical Center, 535 U.S. 357, 2002:
"We have
previously rejected the notion that the Government has an interest in
preventing the dissemination of truthful commercial information in order to
prevent members of the public from making bad decisions with the
information."
Thus
we see how government, ever seeking to extend its control over our lives, uses
its crony corporate partners to impose detailed controls that would be
politically impossible to impose directly.
Internet Censorship, forced medical
treatment, banning commerce... all privatized tyranny.
“Of liberty I would say
that, in the whole plenitude of its extent, it is unobstructed action according
to our will. But rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will
within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add
'within the limits of the law,' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and
always so when it violates the right of an individual.” Thomas Jefferson
Ralph
Fucetola JD
