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Germ theory and virology are not the result of solid scientific explorations or groundbreaking discoveries. Instead, they’re the products of political maneuvering, established by some of the most unscrupulous scientific and political actors of their time.
Political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness. Defenceless villages are bombarded from the air, the inhabitants driven out into the countryside, the cattle machine-gunned, the huts set on fire with incendiary bullets: this is called pacification.
Now. Bush will declare a National Security Emergency and clamp down Hard on Everybody, no matter where they live or why. If the guilty won’t hold up their hands and confess, he and the Generals will ferret them out by force.
So what’s the response when two reputable reporters pull back the curtain on what looks suspiciously like a control mechanism for media narratives? Simple: You accuse them of spreading “misinformation.”
Hospitals use drug tests that return false positives from poppy seed bagels, decongestants and Zantac. Yet newborns are being taken from parents based on the results.
Twenty-three years ago, America’s leaders asserted the right to ignore the law. Now, they want voters to ratify their own disenfranchisement.