Pfizer Admits ‘Directing’ the Evolution of COVID-19 Virus

Analysis by Dr. Joseph MercolaFact Checked

• February 06, 2023

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STORY AT-A-GLANCE

• January 25, 2023, Project Veritas released an undercover video of Dr. Jordon Trishton Walker, director of Research and Development for Strategic Operations and mRNA Scientific Planning at Pfizer, discussing an internal plan to “direct the evolution” of the COVID-19 virus in order to make more money from COVID boosters
• According to Walker, Pfizer is doing research to make the virus “more potent,” and this research is “ongoing”
• Walker explains how the drug industry has captured American regulators, and states that while it’s good for the industry, “it’s bad for everyone else in America”
• At 8 p.m., January 27, 2023, two days after Project Veritas released the video, Pfizer finally published a response which, oddly enough, seems to substantiate rather than refute Walker’s claims
• Pfizer basically denies using “directed evolution” in its vaccine development, but suggests it may be used in ongoing Paxlovid-related research

By now, many of you will have seen Project Veritas’ undercover video of Dr. Jordon Trishton Walker, director of Research and Development for Strategic Operations and mRNA Scientific Planning at Pfizer, discussing an internal plan to “direct the evolution” of the COVID-19 virus in order to make more money from COVID boosters. The video was released January 25, 2023.

Allegedly, the undercover journalist working with Project Veritas also worked at Pfizer. This would help explain Walker’s surprising candor. However, during a later confrontation by Project Veritas, Walker insisted he’d “lied” to impress a date.

“I’m literally a liar,” Walker said when confronted by Project Veritas journalist James O’Keefe in a New York City café. “I was trying to impress a person on a date — by lying.”

Pfizer Considering Mutating COVID to Drive Profits

In the undercover video, you can hear Walker saying:

“You know how the virus keeps mutating? Well, one of the things we’re exploring is, like, why don’t we just mutate it ourselves so we could focus on — so we could create and preemptively develop new vaccines, right?

So, we have to do that. If we’re gonna do that, though, there’s a risk of, like, as you could imagine, no one wants to be having a pharma company mutating f**king viruses.

So, we’re like, do we want to do this? So, that’s like one of the things we’re considering, for, like, the future, like maybe we can, like, create new versions of the vaccines and things like that.”

“OK. So, Pfizer ultimately is thinking about mutating COVID?” the Project Veritas journalist asks, to which Walker replies: “Well, that is not what we say to the public. No. That’s why it was, it was a thought that came up in a meeting.” Later Walker says:

“Part of what they [Pfizer scientists] want to do is, to some extent, to try to figure out, you know, how there are all these new strains and variants that just pop up.

So, it’s like trying to catch them before they pop up and we can develop a vaccine prophylactically, like, for new variants. So, that’s why they like, do it controlled in a lab, where they say this is a new epitope, and so if it comes out later on in the public, we already have a vaccine working.”

“Oh my God. That’s perfect. Isn’t that the best business model though? Just control nature before nature even happens itself, right?” the Project Veritas journalist says. “Yeah, if it works,” Walker replies. When asked for an explanation, Walker replies:

“Because some of the times there are mutations that pop up that we are not prepared for, like the delta and omicron, and things like that. So, who knows? I mean, either way, it’s going to be a cash cow. COVID will probably be a cash cow for us for a while going forward [laughs].”

Is Pfizer Engaged in Illegal Gain-of-Function Research?

While Walker, at one point, states that this is just an idea they’re considering for the future, later he claims efforts to mutate the virus are “ongoing.” So, which is it? Here’s a transcription of that conversation:

Project Veritas journalist: “So, I mean, when is Pfizer going to implement the mutation of all these viruses?”

Walker: “I don’t know. It depends on how the experiments work out because this is just, like, something we’re trying, right?”

Project Veritas journalist: “It sounds like gain of function to me.”

Walker: “I don’t know, it’s a little bit different. I think it’s different. It’s, like, this [thing] — it’s definitely not gain of function.”

Project Veritas journalist: “It sounds like it is. I mean, it’s OK [laughs].”

Walker: “No, no, no. But directed evolution is very different.”

Project Veritas journalist: “Directed evolution, OK. Well, so, I mean, is that what it is?”

Walker: “Maybe. I don’t know [laughs] … Well, you’re not supposed to do gain-of-function research with the viruses. They’d rather we not. But we do these selected structure mutations to try to see if we can make them more potent. So, there is research ongoing about that.”

As noted by Carlson, it very much sounds like Pfizer is engaged in illegal gain-of-function research. Merely making up another term (directed evolution) doesn’t change the end result. Walker clearly stated that Pfizer is doing research to make the virus “more potent,” which is what gain of function is all about. That research, Walker also admitted, is “ongoing,” which means it’s currently happening, and not something merely pondered as a future possibility.

How Is Pfizer Mutating the COVID Virus?

Assuming Walker was telling the truth to his “date,” just how is Pfizer going about mutating COVID into something “more potent”? According to Walker:

“… they’re still kind of conducting the experiments on it, but it seems like, from what I’ve heard, they’re kind of optimizing it. But they’re going slow, [be]cause everyone’s very cautions.

Like, you know, obviously they don’t want to accelerate it too much. But I think they’re also just trying to do it as an exploratory thing, because you obviously don’t want to advertise that you’re figuring out future mutations …

But you have to be, like, very controlled to make sure that this virus that you mutate doesn’t create something [that], you know, just goes everywhere — which, I suspect, is the way that the virus started in Wuhan, to be honest. Like, it makes no sense that this virus popped out of nowhere. It’s bullshit …

Don’t tell anyone. Promise you won’t tell anyone. The way it [the experiment] would work is that we put the virus in monkeys, and we successively cause them to keep infecting each other, and we collect serial samples from them.”

As noted by Carlson, if you suspect the COVID pandemic was the result of a lab-created virus that got out, why would you conduct the same kind of experiments and risk another, possibly worse, pandemic?

Walker Admits Regulatory Capture Is Real

Walker also explains to his “date” how the drug industry has captured American regulators:

“It [Pfizer] is a revolving door for all government officials. Yeah, for any industry though. So, in the pharma industry, all the government officials who, you know, review our drugs, eventually they come work for pharma companies. And the military, all the Army and defense government officials eventually go work for the defense companies afterward.”

When asked how he feels about that revolving door, Walker replies:

“It’s pretty good for the industry, to be honest. But it’s bad for everyone else in America.”

When asked “Why is it bad for everybody else?” Walker explains:

“Because if the regulators, who review our drugs, you know that once they stop being a regulator they want to go work for the company, they are not going to be as harsh on the company where they’re getting their job.”

As noted by Carlson, this is a very clear and succinct description of regulatory capture, which we’ve long suspected to be real. We’ve just not heard an industry executive admit it.

Is Walker Really a Pfizer Exec?

In case you’re wondering if Walker might have lied about working for Pfizer, Project Veritas did its homework before putting the video out. Screenshots¹ from Pfizer’s HR system “Workday” confirm Walker works under Global Pipeline Planning, just two levels below CEO Albert Bourla. His immediate supervisor reports to Dr. Mikael Dolsten, who in turn reports directly to Bourla.²

Walker’s LinkedIn also confirmed his position. Additional corroborations of his position can be found on Brian O’Shea’s Substack.³

One of the strangest features of the Hall of Mirrors in which we now live is that the public facade of powerful institutions and corporations is staffed with people who seem stunningly incompetent and unserious. ~ John Leake

As reported by the Substack Pharma Files:⁴

“He works under Global Pipeline Planning. These are the people who plan new drugs (i.e. analyzing disease trends and unmet needs and evaluating the demographics to see if these drugs would be profitable).

One of their primary responsibilities is ensuring R & D money goes into the right therapeutic areas. For example, spend less R & D money on finding treatment for diseases in some poor countries and put more R & D money into finding treatment for diseases in developed countries because those governments are rich enough to subsidize expensive drugs.

So, when you work in Pharma, usually there are terms that you use ‘publicly,’ and there are terms that you use ‘privately.’ So, for example, his job description would be ‘to evaluate potential future diseases and unmet treatment needs.’

But privately, they are just looking for future drugs that potentially turn into cash cows. That’s why you hear him talk casually about ‘cash cows.’ This is very common among execs in Pharma.

Terminologies are essential in Pharma because they don’t want to get caught. Another example is that he insists that this is not a ‘Gain of Function’ but ‘Directed Evolution.’

For example, people who work in the Commercial side of Pharma are constantly trained to say ‘increasing patient treatment’ instead of ‘increasing sales’ whenever they discuss marketing tactics. You don’t want to get caught, especially since some junior staffs capture these in meeting minutes, and these meeting minutes might go public.”

‘Stunningly Incompetent and Unserious’

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That people initially doubted Walker could be a Pfizer executive isn’t surprising, considering his behavior. As noted by John Leake, who coauthored “The Courage to Face COVID-19” with Dr. Peter McCullough:⁵

“One of the strangest features of the Hall of Mirrors in which we now live is that the public facade of powerful institutions and corporations is staffed with people who seem stunningly incompetent and unserious …

[It] does seem incredible that a major corporation — one that has played a key role in perpetrating a global criminal fiasco — is staffed with an executive who seems to have been recruited at a frat party.”

Walker isn’t the only example of incompetence at Pfizer. During an FDA Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) meeting, (see video above) the FDA wanted to know why Pfizer’s shot only contained 3 micrograms of mRNA while Moderna’s contained 25 mcg. Was Pfizer’s mRNA just more efficient at making cells produce spike protein?

The Pfizer executive’s response was that they “obviously, we don’t have a complete understanding of the nature in which the COVID vaccine works in terms of producing an immune response.”

They just experimented and found that 3 mcgs seemed to work, but why that dose, they have no clue. In other words, we’re dealing with something that is the complete opposite of precision medicine. This Pfizer representative also lied, stating that the primary benefit of the shot is that it “prevents infection,” which it never did, and wasn’t designed to do.

Pfizer Press Release Does Not Refute Walker’s Statements

At 8 p.m., January 27, 2023, two days after Project Veritas released the video, Pfizer finally published a response via press release.⁶ Oddly enough, the press release actually seems to substantiate Walker’s claims rather than refute them:

“New York, N.Y., January 27, 2023 — Allegations have recently been made related to gain of function and directed evolution research at Pfizer and the company would like to set the record straight.

In the ongoing development of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, Pfizer has not conducted gain of function or directed evolution research. Working with collaborators, we have conducted research where the original SARS-CoV-2 virus has been used to express the spike protein from new variants of concern.

This work is undertaken once a new variant of concern has been identified by public health authorities. This research provides a way for us to rapidly assess the ability of an existing vaccine to induce antibodies that neutralize a newly identified variant of concern. We then make this data available through peer reviewed scientific journals and use it as one of the steps to determine whether a vaccine update is required.

In addition, to meet U.S. and global regulatory requirements for our oral treatment, PAXLOVID™, Pfizer undertakes in vitro work (e.g., in a laboratory culture dish) to identify potential resistance mutations to nirmatrelvir, one of PAXLOVID’s two components. With a naturally evolving virus, it is important to routinely assess the activity of an antiviral.

Most of this work is conducted using computer simulations or mutations of the main protease — a non-infectious part of the virus. In a limited number of cases when a full virus does not contain any known gain of function mutations, such virus may be engineered to enable the assessment of antiviral activity in cells.

In addition, in vitro resistance selection experiments are undertaken in cells incubated with SARS-CoV-2 and nirmatrelvir in our secure Biosafety level 3 (BSL3) laboratory to assess whether the main protease can mutate to yield resistant strains of the virus.

It is important to note that these studies are required by U.S. and global regulators for all antiviral products and are carried out by many companies and academic institutions in the U.S. and around the world.”

In a Substack commentary,⁷ Dr. Robert Malone noted that Pfizer “only denies directed evolution as a component of vaccine development, but leaves that research door open for ongoing research supporting Paxlovid … They literally say they engineer viruses that don’t even exist outside of simulations … There’s also no direct response suggesting that Mr. Walker was lying. Interesting … Doesn’t look like they denied anything.”

Worldwide Media Blackout

Not surprisingly, while this is clearly one of the biggest stories of the pandemic, legacy media hasn’t printed or said a word about it, except for Fox News host Tucker Carlson (see video above).

The U.K. Daily Mail did post a summary of the video, but the article was taken down minutes later.^8,9YouTube also blocked and removed the video for violating community guidelines on COVID-19 vaccines, but by then it had already racked up more than 20 million views.

If you haven’t seen it, you can view Part 1 on the Project Veritas website. Carlson also featured parts of it in his report. Part 2, which shows Walker’s response when O’Keefe confronted him about what he’d said, is embedded below.

According to Project Veritas, there’s also more undercover footage of Walker that they haven’t released yet. If you’re in New York City, you can stop by Pfizer’s headquarters at 235 East 42nd Street and view the video “live.” Project Veritas parked a van with video screens on all sides right outside their office, with the video playing on a constant loop.10https://rumble.com/embed/v24neoc/?pub=4Video Link

In his Substack commentary,¹¹ Malone also reviewed evidence suggesting a massive collaboration between Pfizer and Google took place in the hours after the video’s release to censor online searches and memory-hole anything related to Walker:

“Almost immediately after the first Veritas video dropped, we all got a masters class in the amazing power and capabilities to control narrative and information which Pfizer has assembled …

People are hitting Google like crazy with queries regarding Jordon Walker, Pfizer and Veritas. As they did when I said ‘mass formation psychosis’ on Rogan #1757, Google manually interferes with the searches, returning wishy washy ‘these results are changing rapidly’ screens instead of actual links.

So, now we have a pretty clear smoking gun involving collusion between Pfizer and Google to suppress the story. Then everything, anything, having to do with Jordon Walker, MD gets memory holed. Wiped from the internet, including the Wayback machine.

And then the chaos agents, bots and trolls descend on all social media channels. Sowing doubt that Jordon Walker is even a real person. Floating paranoid conspiracy theories that this is all a big deep-fake set up of Veritas, O’Keefe and myself.

Which of course get amplified by the usual actors. Now THAT is an example of Fifth Gen Warfare power! And by the way, I gently advise that readers who were aware of this as it was happening set a check-bit in their brains on the names of those chaos agents who actively promoted this false narrative …

Pfizer legal … finally dropped a response at 8:00 PM EST Friday night. Again, classic textbook timing. Designed to bypass the Friday PM news cycle and more importantly to give Wall Street maximal time to digest the news before opening bell next Monday. These guys are professional grade.

To recap, they have shut Google searches down, memory holed/scrubbed the internet, deployed an army of bots, trolls and chaos agents to cause confusion and doubt on social media, and almost completely suppressed any coverage of the story by the many corporate media outlets that they have been pumping money into over the last three years.”

McCullough and Kirsch also discussed Project Veritas’ drop on Tommy Carrigan’s podcast, below.https://rumble.com/embed/v24xoeu/?pub=4Video Link

The COVID Cash Cow

Pfizer has made record-high revenues these past two years and it seems the waterfall-like cashflow may have gone to their heads. In 2021, they had a net revenue of $81.3 billion¹² — a 92% operational growth in revenue from 2020 — and in 2022, they raked in $100.3 billion, more than half of which came from COVID jabs and Paxlovid.¹³ It’s worth noting that BOTH of these drugs promote COVID reinfection, which in itself appears to be part of Pfizer’s revenue-growth strategy.

With uptake of boosters dwindling, they expect revenues to drop by 33% in 2023,¹⁴ and that’s despite quadrupling the price of the shots. Still, that revenue stream is relatively secure, as the the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) has added the unlicensed shots to the U.S. childhood, adolescent and adult vaccine schedules.

The European Union is also considering paying more for fewer doses, as governments already have too large a stockpile, so Pfizer will make out like a bandit there too.¹⁵

The question now is, is Pfizer also mutating the COVID virus to keep demand for reformulated boosters going? If Walker is telling the truth, the answer appears to be yes. In January 2023, Pfizer suffered the largest monthly loss of value since 2009,¹⁶ and down-trends are never viewed favorably, no matter how much money they’ve already made.

That’s one of the problems with many companies. They must continue to grow, but how do you surpass the success of more than doubling growth in just two years? In this case, could they be resorting to crime to keep milking the cash cow that is COVID?

Sen. Ron Johnson Calls for Investigation

It’ll be interesting to see what happens next. Pfizer’s financial downturn occurred before Walker spilled the beans on Pfizer’s plans and made himself, and therefore the company, appear foolish, shallow, callous and incompetent at best, and criminal at worst. Just how many scandals and how much criminality will the American people and Congress accept before they say “Enough”?

Time will tell. For now, in response to Project Veritas’ undercover video of Walker, Sen. Ron Johnson has taken the lead and is calling on Congress to investigate vaccine manufacturers and the COVID jab approval process. In a January 26, 2023, tweet, Johnson wrote:¹⁷

“Federal health agencies have been captured by Big Pharma and grossly derelict in their duties throughout the pandemic. It’s time for Congress to thoroughly investigate vaccine manufacturers and the entire COVID vaccine approval process.”

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War On Religion Spiking In U.S. And U.K. February 6, 2023 Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the war on religion in the West: People of faith, mostly Christian, in the United States and the United Kingdom, are being harassed and arrested by government agents at an alarming rate. The most common reason why these non-violent persons are being bullied is their biblical objection to the radical LGBT agenda. Their freedom of speech and freedom of religion are being trounced, and most civil libertarians are cheering it on, so far gone are they from their founding principles. Here are a few examples of this war on religion. United States: In January, 2023, a dozen Catholic students and their chaperons from a Greenville, South Carolina Catholic high school were ordered out of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington D.C. because they wore beanies with pro-life messages. In town for the annual March for Life, they were allegedly mocked and cursed at by the museum staff.In January, 2023, Ivan Provorov, a hockey player for the Philadelphia Flyers, skipped the warmups on Pride Night because he was expected to wear a pro-Pride jersey. A member of the Russian Orthodox Church, he was subjected to hate speech by some fans and commentators. “I respect everybody’s choices,” he said. “My choice is to stay true to myself and my religion.”In January, 2023, Paul Shoro, a black Christian, walked into the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota, wearing a T-shirt that said, “Jesus Is The Only Way.” Security officers, responding to complaints, said to him, “If you want to shop here you need to take off that shirt.” He was explicitly told that “Jesus is associated with religion and it is offending people.” In August, 2022, on the first day of class at George Washington University, a female psychology professor, Lara Sheehi, berated a Jewish female student in class because she said she was born in Israel. The professor continued to harass Jewish students throughout the semester, smearing their reputations and using bigoted and obscene language to describe Israel on Twitter.In April, 2022, three students at the University of Idaho were asked by a fellow student why the Christian Legal Society (to which they belonged) required its members to believe in the Christian understanding of marriage. After they gave a biblical answer, they were reported to school officials, and three days later the university’s Office of Civil Rights and Investigation censored their speech, ordering the Christian students to stop all communication between them and the complaining student.  In January, 2022, a Michigan junior high school student filed suit in U.S. District Court against his high school district because he was suspended for three days the previous fall for stating his Christian beliefs in a private text conversation in a hallway at Plainwell High School.In January 2022, a U.S. Army veteran was arrested for holding a sign that said “God bless the homeless vets.” He was standing on the sidewalk in front of Alpharetta City Hall, a town in Georgia. He was handcuffed by police and charged with “panhandling,” though all he did was to hold the sign. He sued a year later.In October 2021, a scholar-in-residence at Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Virginia, who “proudly and openly identified as a Christian woman of color,” was condemned for criticizing DC Comics for making Superman’s son bisexual. Students protested and wanted her removed from the campus, despite the fact that she deleted her tweet.  United Kingdom: In December, 2022, a Christian English woman, Isabel Vaughan-Spruce, was arrested for silently praying outside an abortion clinic. She faces two years behind bars.In December 2022, a Christian English man, Adam Smith-Connor, was accosted by the police for silently praying outside an abortion clinic. The British army veteran was asked, “Can I ask what is the nature of your prayer today?” He was fined 100-pounds (roughly $123.65).In April, 2022, Pastor John Sherwood was arrested by London police for causing “alarm and distress” to pedestrians. His crime was publicly quoting from Genesis about God’s design for mankind. In April, 2022, a 76-year-old grandmother in Liverpool, England was questioned by the police, and then fined, for praying silently on a public street.  Notice that in every one of these cases it was militant secularists who complained about, or bullied, people of faith, most of whom are Christians. It is not the latter who are seeking to deny the rights of secularists; no, it is secularists who are punishing people of faith. While all of these incidents are horrific, none smacks of totalitarianism more than the English cop who asked the army veteran, “Can I ask what is the nature of your prayer today?” That is right out of Stalin’s Russia, Hitler’s Germany and Mao’s China. If they can find the technology to read your mind, some will demand that Christians caught praying in public be shot. That’s where we’re headed. Stay up to date on our social media posts. 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“Do you know who this is a photo of? Chances are you don’t, but don’t feel bad because probably not one American in one million does, and that is a National tragedy. His name is Eugene Jacques Bullard, and he is the first African-American fighter pilot in history. But he is also much more then that: He’s also a national hero, and his story is so incredible that I bet if you wrote a movie script based on it Hollywood would reject it as being too far-fetched.

Bullard was an expat living in France, and when World War 1 broke out he joined the French Infantry. He was seriously wounded, and France awarded him the Croix de Guerre and Medaille Militaire. In 1916 he joined the French air service and he first trained as a gunner but later he trained as a pilot. When American pilots volunteered to help France and formed the famous Lafayette Escadrille, he asked to join but by the time he became a qualified pilot they were no longer accepting new recruits, so he joined the Lafayette Flying Corps instead. He served with French flying units and he completed 20 combat missions.

When the United States finally joined the war, Bullard was the only member of the Escadrille or the French Flying Corps who was NOT invited to join the US Air Service. The reason? At that time the Air Service only accepted white men.

Now here is the part that almost sounds like a sequel to ‘Casablanca’: After WWI Bullard became a jazz musician in Paris and he eventually owned a nightclub called ‘L’Escadrille’. When the Germans invaded France and conquered it in WW2, his Club, and Bullard, became hugely popular with German officers, but what they DIDN’T know was that Bullard, who spoke fluent German, was actually working for the Free French as a spy. He eventually joined a French infantry unit, but he was badly wounded and had to leave the service.

By the end of the war, Bullard had become a national hero in France, but he later moved back to the U.S. where he was of course completely unknown. Practically no one in the United States was aware of it when, in 1959, the French government named him a national Chevalier, or Knight.

In 1960, the President of France, Charles DeGaulle, paid a state visit to the United States and when he arrived he said that one of the first things he wanted to do was to meet Bullard. That sent the White House staff scrambling because most of them, of course, had never even heard of him. They finally located him in New York City, and DeGaulle traveled there to meet him personally. At the time, Eugene Bullard was working as … An elevator operator.

Not long after Eugene Bullard met with the President of France, he passed away, and today very, very few Americans, and especially African-Americans, even know who he is. But, now YOU do, don’t you? And I hope you’ll be able to find opportunities to tell other people about this great American hero that probably only 1 American in 1 Million has ever heard of.”

Tyneka Santiago de Laveau

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By: Bill Schoettler

February 3, 2023

We hear a lot about racism so let’s discuss it. 

Basically, it is thought of in many different ways. Racism could be the attitude one individual exhibits toward another of a different ethnic grouping. Or it can be a group expression or even the negative attitude of one race toward another. 

Let’s start with a one-on-one situation. I hold a mental evaluation of a member of a different (from mine) race that is “negative” toward this other person. 

If we stop at the moment of just holding a judgment, an opinion, even acknowledging the opinion is based solely on the race of the other person, we have to examine the issue of mentation, of thinking, of what is not [yet] expressed…merely a mental process.

How I happen to come by this judgment or opinion is irrelevant; I hold it. Now, is there any way that any other person can determine that I hold this opinion? Of course not. How I think, how any of us think is one of the few, truly private “acts” that are possible in today’s world. And, at least presently, there is no law against how any person thinks or against any opinion a person holds.

The next step, the next issue becomes the iteration, the broadcast, the physical demonstration of that privately held opinion. If I orally express my opinion to others then I am displaying my racism. Expressions of racism can be done by speaking, writing, or conduct. Denying another employment, an opportunity or recognition of the other, or any conduct which may be considered detrimental to the other solely based on the other’s race is against the law. 

Why is it against the law? Because in this country we have laws that are designed to protect people from harm, and “harm” can be defined in many ways. You can harm another with words, with conduct, or with writing. When such harm to another can be found to be against some law, particularly when the harm is prompted by and caused by the opinion or judgment the actor has against the victim, punishment may be administered.

But what we are discussing so far is the conduct of and the opinion and judgment of an individual. Now let us consider the judgments of a group of people. Here we deal with any grouping that is called upon to express a unified opinion or judgment. We’re not talking about members of a race but members of an organization such as a club, a partnership, or a segment of society. The holding of similar opinions toward others, opinions based solely on the race or ethnicity of others is, by itself innocuous. It is when the group acts [to the detriment of the other] upon such “group” opinion and the action can be labeled “discriminatory” that the conduct becomes unacceptable…and frequently against the law. 

Next, we look at the privately held opinions of a society. Here we can discuss an entire race within a geographical area such as [to describe the favorite whipping boy] all members of the white race living in the United States of America.

Again we must accept the right of the individual who holds but does not act upon discriminatory opinions. It is the action, the outward manifestation of such opinions that result in a negative fashion toward members of the “target” race that we condemn. 

The right of any individual to hold private opinions, and to make private judgments is something that cannot be challenged. We recognize that opinions and judgments can be changed and the efforts to change such judgments, so long as the proprieties of social conduct are observed, are perfectly acceptable. But the right to hold any opinion, to make any personal and internal judgment about any subject is inviolate. 

What about expressing opinions in a public way? Writing a book, a newspaper, or a magazine article…what about speaking on the radio or appearing on television and expressing opinions that, by definition are “racist”? Can this be acceptable? If so, by whom?

Historically, the enemy has always been fair game. Identifying the enemy is usually easy. During wartime, the enemy is/are those against whom you are fighting.

This brings up another idea. What constitutes “wartime” and how do we define or recognize the “enemy”? Considering that we regularly hear from newscasters and some politicians that blacks are regularly victims of racism, even when there is a black-on-black “attack”, it would seem that many blacks consider themselves involved in a wartime situation with non-blacks being the aggressor and blacks the perennial victims. Thus events like climate change are the result of racism…or at least white supremacy.

This brings up another term that would appear to be either an offshoot of racism or perhaps a synonym. I suppose if you’re a white supremacist, you’re automatically a racist.

Now let us consider the real relevancy of racism. First, of course, is the regular use of the word by black politicians and black television commentators. If they don’t like something, in fact, if they dislike anything from climate change to gas stoves to the police they use either the term racist or white supremacy as an integral part of the expression. As in “climate change is the result of white supremacy” or “the police are all racist”.  These terms are used with such frequency that they would seem to lose any serious meaning. In fact, it would seem that anything in the world a black person dislikes is either the result of or itself an example of white supremacy or racism. 

A careful examination of such statements suggests first, there is no genuine evidence of any connection between the classical definitions of either word and the objects to which they are being applied. As just mentioned, these words have become, in the lexicon of those who regularly use them, common pejoratives which misuse has made meaningless. Objects cannot have such characteristics as prejudicial thoughts or conduct and when these words are applied to universal organizations such as corporations or political groups or even entire police departments the average listener/reader automatically ignores them. 

Reality and propaganda seldom have strong similarities. Propaganda is usually the vehicle used to convince non-believers whereas reality appeals to an objective analysis that is commonly devoid of emotional content. Calling a person, a group, or a thing racist, the way it is so commonly heard today is sure to evoke a response that recognizes the term is inaccurate. In fact, when the term is applied in the contemporary way, many listeners immediately run a mental comparison between the apparent accused and their personal interpretation of the word. Such comparisons invariably fall on the side of a rejection of the term.

Misuse or overuse of these pejorative words delivers a negative reaction that infects the entire message sought to be delivered by the accuser. Credibility is thus lost and the messages sought to be delivered are ignored. 

It is perhaps unfortunate that when anything is overused it becomes so commonplace that real significance or meaning is lost. This is probably why expressions that become popular in youth culture are so frequently changed. I recently heard the word “sick” used to describe a successful and complex athletic feat. My father would have called the feat “spiffy”, I would have used the term “neat”, and my wife suggested “cool”. I won’t begin to speculate on what terms will be used tomorrow, but I would hope to hear tomorrow different terms to describe individuals who have warped senses of reality. A separation of propaganda and reality is called for to avoid what is becoming a popular descent into yesterday’s way of thinking.

Hated Speech

By: Judd Garrett

January 25, 2023

Last week at the World Economic Forum, the vice president for Values and Transparency for the European Commission, Věra Jourová predicted that hate speech laws that are now in place in Europe will soon be imposed upon the American public, despite the Supreme Court’s precedent of protecting such speech under the First Amendment. FBI Director Christopher Wray supported her prediction when he discussed the “significant strides” that have been made in “the level of collaboration between the private sector and the government, especially the FBI” in controlling speech on the internet.

Banning “hate speech” sounds good on the surface. The less hate in the world, the better. So, banning hateful things, should make the world a better place, right? The problem is how do we define hate speech? Representative Sheila Jackson-Lee tried to do just that when she introduced an anti-hate bill in Congress last week, designed “to prevent and prosecute white supremacy-inspired hate crime.” Interestingly, the bill only focuses on hate crimes motivated by white supremacy. Apparently, she doesn’t care about stopping hate crimes committed by people of color against white people or other minorities.  

The legislation outlaws “material advancing white supremacy, white supremacist ideology, antagonism based on ‘replacement theory,’ or hate speech that vilifies or is otherwise directed against any non-white person or group.”Once again, it only prohibits hate speech directed at non-white people. So, it’s legal for her to spew vile, hate-filled racist speech as long as it vilifies white people, which she does regularly. 

She was also careful to include “replacement theory” into the wording of her legislation which means that pointing out how the Democrat Party is promoting mass illegal immigration to change the electorate to win more elections is now considered as promoting white supremacy, and would be a crime. So, we are not allowed to speak out loud about what we see happening right in front of our eyes. 

They never try to win an argument based on the merits because their positions have no merit. They use the accusation of racism as a weapon and a shield against their opponents. The open-borders crowd claims that borders are racist, so they can label anyone who is against unfettered illegal immigration into our country as racist, and have them silenced. 

That’s how this all works. They pass a law to censor “hate speech”, and then they use the flimsiest thread to label any speech that they don’t like or is inconvenient to them as “hate speech” or “racist” so they can censor it. And they use this strategy on almost every issue. Secretary of Transportation, Pete Buttigieg has labeled certain bridges and roads as “racist”. So, if you disagree with Pete Buttigieg tearing down a bridge or rerouting a highway, you could be charged with engaging in “white supremacy” and arrested.

Far-left magazine, the Atlantic, claims that the concept of meritocracy is racist. So, if you espouse the belief that people should earn what they get, and not be given handouts such as welfare and food stamps, by the government, then you could be charged with violating “hate speech” laws and thrown in jail.  

The Seattle Public School System claims that mathematics is racist, stating that “math has been and continues to be used to oppress and marginalize people and communities of color.” So, if your white daughter gets a 100% on her math test, then she is a racist and has violated federal law. Therefore, all white students must fail their math tests or they could possibly be thrown in jail.

Astrophysicist at Colorado College, Natalie Gosnell, Ph.D., stated that the field of Astrophysics is “steeped in systemic racism and white supremacy… The tenets of white supremacy that show up [in physics] of individualism and exceptionalism and perfectionism.” So, the human qualities which were necessary to help physicists discover and understand the Laws of Newton, the equations of Einstein, and the movement of the planets through space are now racist? 

But we all know that if the students of color were performing better in math and astrophysics than the white students, the same people claiming that fields of math and astrophysics are racist would be extolling the virtues of merit-based scholarship in those disciplines. No one is claiming that the individualism, exceptionalism, perfectionism, and meritocracy which define the NBA and the NFL are racist. These types of speech laws are not designed to protect anyone. They are designed to give the people in power the ability to shut down speech they don’t like so they can control outcomes in their favor.

Climate change activists have argued for years that not doing enough to stop climate change is racist. So, when Jim Hagemann Snabe, the chairman of the German manufacturing giant Siemens, told the panel at the WEF that one billion people should stop eating meat to save the planet from climate change, he was really saying, if you do not want to eat bugs, and you want to eat a steak, then you are engaging in white supremacy. You must eat what we are telling you to eat or you’re a racist.

Colombia’s far-left President, Gustavo Petro took it one step further when he told the WEF that for the world to survive climate change, humans must “overcome capitalism.” So, once again, if you believe in the capitalist system, and also believe that Petro’s socialist system in Colombia is destroying that country, then you are not combatting climate change, and therefore, you are racist and should be thrown in federal prison. 

The diversity, equity, and inclusion crowd are the least diverse and inclusive people out there. They want no diversity of thought and will exclude anyone who has a belief that is different from theirs. This is why they are the champions of anti-speech laws. They do not want to hear a different point of view, and some of them even want people to be arrested if they have a different opinion than they do. If you claim to be a champion of diversity and inclusion then you must be willing to include a wide range of diverse beliefs and ideologies, even the ones with which you adamantly disagree. That is what diversity and inclusion means. But sadly, the people who want to control our speech only want to hear that with which they agree.

If you do not take an interest 

in the affairs of your government, 

then you are doomed to live under 

the rule of fools.

Plato

Living, Breathing American Woman Sent to Funeral Home in Body Bag!

If you’re ever placed in a home for the elderly, the last thing you want happening is being mistaken for a corpse. While that does technically sound impossible, one woman experienced this earlier in January.

According to reports done by state inspectors in Iowa, a resident at the Glen Oaks Alzheimer’s care center was taken in, due to her declining health in late December last year. Several days later, she was found to be dead.

Special care center fined $10k for sending living woman to funeral home

The problem is she actually wasn’t dead.

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The worker who checked for her pulse must’ve not felt it and declared her to be dead. That’s despite her having her eyes wide open, which led to what can only be described as one of the most horrific experiences anyone could go through.

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* A CARE CENTRE IN THE US HAS BEEN FINED $10,000 AFTER A FUNERAL HOME DISCOVERED A WOMAN SENT TO IT IN A BODY BAG WAS STILL ALIVE. THE IOWA DEPARTMENT OF INSPECTION AND APPEALS SAID THE 66-YEAR-OLD WOMAN WAS DECLARED DEAD AT THE GLEN OAKS ALZHEIMER’S SPECIAL CARE CENTRE PIC.TWITTER.COM/BOYGK7Z94W

— TSC INTERNATIONAL NEWS (@NEWS_TSC) FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The next morning, a funeral home director arrived at the facility and helped place the supposedly “dead” woman onto a gurney and into a body bag.

However, it wouldn’t take long for the staff to notice the bag soon began to move. As they unzipped it, they found the woman inside was gasping for air and they called an EMT to assist her.

Despite her showing signs of life, her eyes remained fixed in place. She wasn’t speaking to anyone in the room, which may be why the staff at the care facility thought her to be dead.

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After receiving emergency medical care, the woman was transported back to the care facility, where she was placed in hospice, only for her to die two days later, with her family right next to her.

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AN IOWA WOMAN WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AND PUT INSIDE A BODY BAG AND TAKEN TO A FUNERAL HOME WHERE SHE WAS FOUND TO BE ALIVE!!??

— BIGTZDESIGNS.COM (@TNJHD) FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Poor judgment from the family

Records show the woman was originally taken into the facility in late 2021 when she was diagnosed with end-age and early-onset dementia.

Starting in December 2022, almost a full year after she was admitted, the woman was placed into hospice with strict do-not-resuscitate orders.

While the service the facility provided was sufficient up until her “death,” the irresponsible treatment that followed was found to be inexcusable by the state court. Glen Oaks was fined $10k, which is embarrassingly low for an incident of this caliber.

On the other hand, Glen Oaks doesn’t fall under the federal regulations that standard nursing homes do, seeing as it’s not a skilled nursing facility per se.

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WOMAN MISTAKENLY PRONOUNCED DEAD WAS FOUND ALIVE IN BODY BAG, REPORT SAYS. AND HOW WAS YOUR DAY?

— JERSEY (@SHOTHIT1) FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Actually, Glen Oaks is nothing more than a residential care home that offers daily living activities with some minor assistance for its residents. They can’t be held fully accountable for what happened.

What this means is the woman should’ve been placed in a qualified nursing home, rather than a care facility, seeing as she doesn’t fit the requirements for being in one.

Due to this, the Iowa Department of Inspections and Appeals was light on the Glen Oaks care facility and decided the entirety of the blame doesn’t fall on them, but also on the family.

The End of Liberal Catholicism

What comes next? Something worse.

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If you want to live a long and happy life, the first rule to follow is this:  Never read the comments.  I broke this rule the other day after finishing Ross Douthat’s latest column for The New York Times, about the civil war that’s brewing in the College of Cardinals. 

In the blue corner, you have the conservatives like George Pell.  Last month, shortly after his death, Cardinal Pell was revealed as the author of a notorious memorandum calling Francis’s papacy a “catastrophe.”  In the rec corner, you have the liberals like Robert McElroy.  Last week, Cardinal McElroy made headlines for an essay he wrote for America Magazine, in which he strongly suggested that active homosexuals (among others) should be admitted to Holy Communion

According to Mr. Douthat, there’s no hope for reconciliation between the two factions.  The worldviews represented by Pell and McElroy are mutually exclusive.  He’s right, you know.  Some are hoping that a via media—a middle way—will present itself.  But in this case, I’m afraid those who seeketh will not findeth.

Anyway.  As I got to the end of the article, I wondered what the Times’ more usual readers would make of all this.  What does the well-educated, secular, urban Democrat think of the situation in Rome? 

I expected to see lots of cheering for Cardinal McElroy.  In fact, most readers breezed right past Mr. Douthat’s careful analysis.  They were more interested in attacking the Catholic Church, and organized religion more generally.

I guess that’s not totally surprising.

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Just a few years ago, it seems, progressives were still wedded to Christianity by “cultural bonds.”  Their parents made them go to church as kids.  They went to parochial school, or at least Sunday school.  They had happy memories of fish fries or bean suppers.  Their grandparents, whom they adored, were usually quite devout.  They never forgot smell of incense at High Mass, or the Angus Dei being chanted from the choir loft, or the comfort of fingering rosary beads, or the statue of Our Lady smiling down from the mantle.

Some older liberals, like Garry Wills, were formed in the Christian tradition.  All of them have at least read enough Scripture to admire Jesus.  Even if they haven’t been to Mass in years, they still see themselves—or want to be seen—as “good Catholics.”  They feel invested in the Church, even if they misunderstand how it worked (which they do, quite spectacularly).  Of course, Joe Biden is the perfect example of this type.   

But as Americans are increasingly “unchurched,” we’re also losing this ancestral memory of faith.  So, many secular progressives see the Catholic Church as nothing more than a bastion of homophobic, superstitious pedophiles.  To them, churchmen like Cardinal McElroy are quixotic at best.  More likely, these secular progressives view liberal Catholics with contempt, the way Marx viewed democratic socialists.  After all, reformists serve only to prop up reactionary institutions, thereby delaying the revolution.

Honestly, it’s kind of sad.  As the gulf between Christianity and progressivism widens, liberal Catholics are increasingly alienated from both sides.  It’s as though Pangea were breaking up:  Alaska is drifting away from Kamchatka, and folks like McElroy are stuck on an ice floe in the middle of the Behring Strait.

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Still, I’m less interested in living fossils like America Magazine than in these secular, “post-Christian” liberals.  Because it’s really hard to understand just how little these folks understand religion. 

For instance, one of the most popular comments on Mr. Douthat’s column suggests that he “reread the Grand Inquisitor, assuming he has read it”:

Ivan got it right.  Christ gave us moral freedom, he abolished the law in favour of love.  But for those who could not tolerate the heavy burden of freedom, who wanted someone else to assume the burden of making moral choices, the Church was there to tell them what to do.  I know of people who converted because they needed an authority to tell them what to do.  Religion, as wished for by Douthat, is for those who would rather be slaves than free.  In short, it is for the weak and moral cowards.

Dare we point out that Dostoyevsky was a loyal son of the Russian Orthodox Church?  “The Grand Inquisitor” is a powerful meditation on the problem of pain, the burden of freedom, and the nature of faith.  I wouldn’t call it “pro-religion”; that makes it sound too polemical.  But it’s certainly not anti-religion. 

How could anyone say otherwise?  Only if they had no meaningful exposure to Christianity.  None whatsoever.

This is something I think all Christians would do well to bear in mind. Liberal Christians like President Biden and Cardinal McElroy are a dying breed. The next generation of progressives will be far more hostile to the Church even though—perhaps because—they understand it less, or not at all.

Race Everywhere

By: Victor Davis Hanson

American Greatness

February 2, 2023

Recently an unarmed 29-year-old African American, Tyre Nichols, was brutally beaten to death by five black Memphis police officers. They were charged with murder. All belonged to a special crime unit known as the Scorpions.

Both the victimizers and the victim were black. The Memphis police chief is black. The assistant police chief is black.

Nearly 60 % of the police force is black. The white population of Memphis is about 25 %.

The now-disbanded Scorpion unit of mostly black officers was created as a response to grassroots appeals to stop spiraling crime in mostly black neighborhoods.

The death of Tyre Nichols could be attributed to many things: a basic lack of humanity on the part of the officers, poor police training, lax administrative supervision, and lowered hiring standards.

Instead, no sooner was the beating death announced than accusations of “systemic racism” surfaced.

Van Jones, the former Obama Administration green czar and recent recipient of Jeff Bezos’ $100 million “courage and civility award,” pronounced on CNN that the black police oppressors were acting out white racism.

Some claimed that charging the five black officers with murder was itself racist. Others alleged that creating the unit in the first place to reduce black-on-black crime was racist.

Yet, when everything becomes racist, then nothing, in particular, can be racist.

At about the same time, the city of San Francisco, along with the state of California, was exploring paying out huge cash reparations to its African-American residents for the ancestral sin of slavery.

That evil institution was abolished some 158 years ago through a Civil War that killed some 700,000 Americans.

Yet California was always a free state with no history of slavery.

No resident of America in six generations has been either a slave or slave owner.

Such multibillion-dollar payouts are to be funded by a nearly bankrupt state facing a $25 billion budget shortfall.

How do we quantify either current eligibility or culpability in multiracial California where 27% of the residents were not born in the United States? Whites make up only 35% of the state’s population.

College campuses increasingly greenlight racially segregated resident housing.

These reactionaries seem eager to return to “separate but equal” apartheid, supposedly outlawed nearly 60 years ago by the 1964 Civil Right Act.

A recent National Association of Scholars study found that of some 173 schools surveyed, 42% provided racially segregated residences. Some 46% offered racially segregated orientation programs. An overwhelming 72%  hosted racially segregated graduation ceremonies.

So-called “safe spaces” on campus exclude students based on race, especially whites who are reduced to stereotyped members of a toxic collective.

Race-based admissions have transmogrified from proportional representation—the entering class should reflect roughly the racial make-up of the nation—to reparatory or compensatory admittance.

So, for example, Stanford University’s incoming class of 2026 lists white students as 22% of the enrolled, roughly one-third of their percentage of the nation’s general population.

Ironically, current racial engineering resurrects the old quota systems used in the past to discriminate against Jews.

“Whites”—to the extent we can determine any race in an intermarried, multiracial society—do not fit the now ossified definition of an exploitive majority.

They no longer even compose a majority in most major American cities and some states.

They rank well behind many nonwhite ethnic groups in terms of per capita income and millions of working-class Americans certainly don’t fit the tired stereotype of “privileged.”

In racist fashion, white males are often smeared as exhibiting collective “white rage.”

Yet they commit suicide at double their demographics—and more than twice as frequently as blacks and Latinos.

They were also killed in combat in Afghanistan and Iraq at twice their numbers in the general population.

In terms of hate-crime offenders, whites are demographically underrepresented. The most over-represented victims of hate crimes are whites of Jewish background.

Whites commit violent crimes against those of different races at rates below their percentages in the general population.

In sum, class, not race, remains the best litmus test of being underprivileged in America. It is no longer synonymous with race.

No wonder the identity politics industry now strains to attach prefixes such as “systemic” or “implicit” to “racism,” or “micro” to “aggression,” purportedly to ferret out bias that otherwise is not apparent.

Pause to reflect that America is the only successful multiracial constitutional republic in history.

To survive in an increasingly dysfunctional and hostile world abroad, the unique idea of the United States requires concord.

But national cohesion is only possible through citizens subordinating their tribal interests to a common culture. Only then do they cease being automatons of warring tribes and collectives.

As the world becomes ever scarier, Americans must—as Benjamin Franklin once warned—hang together, or most certainly they will soon all hang separately.

Practical Morality

By: Judd Garrett

Objectivity is the Objective

February 1, 2023

For years, those of us who have adamantly opposed government-run healthcare, have been told that we should look at Canada and Great Britain for examples of well-run systems that provide efficient and affordable healthcare for all citizens. Their systems should be the model for the American healthcare system. Those of us who feared government-run healthcare believed that it would inevitably lead to rationing of care and death panels where a board of bureaucrats decides who gets the care and who doesn’t. The anti-state-run healthcare contingent has been accused of wanting people to die in the streets because they could not afford the healthcare they needed. Government-run anything, whether it is healthcare, or retirement system, or schools, always leads to rationing, inefficiency, corruption, and waste of whatever they are running.

So, it came as no surprise to me when it was reported in September of 2022, that a 22-year-old Canadian woman, Amelie Champagne, decided to commit suicide, under the Canadian program MAID – Medical Assistance in Dying which became law in 2016. Ms. Champagne believed that life was no longer worth living because she was dealing with the pain and discomfort of the lasting symptoms of Lyme disease, a disease that is completely treatable with antibiotics. Even if she developed Post-Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome, the CDC claims that “Patients with PTLDS usually get better over time, but it can take many months to feel completely well.” It seems very strange that a 22-year-old woman would be unwilling to deal with a few months or possibly a half year of pain to live the remaining 50-60 years of life.

Last year, more than 10,000 people were euthanized in Canada through the MAID program, which is a 1000% increase since the program was instituted in 2016. We’re not talking about a 90-year-old with advanced Alzheimer’s who put on his living will a “do not resuscitate” order. Many of the people who are deciding to commit suicide under the MAID program, have 30-40 more years of life left in them, but the expense to the government to keep these people living 30-40 more years is just too costly. A 54-year-old Canadian man, Amir Farsoud, applied for MAID because he recently found himself homeless, and dealing with some medical issues such as persistent back pain. But he admitted, “I don’t want to die but I don’t want to be homeless more than I don’t want to die. It [dying] is not my first choice.” He is choosing to die because he believes he has no other choice. The government-run healthcare and socialized political system in Canada is failing him, so he is choosing death.

In October of 2022, a 37-year-old woman, Jennyfer Hatch, decided to commit suicide through the MAID program. In an interview in June, Jennyfer told CTV: “I feel like I’m falling through the cracks so if I’m not able to access health care am I then able to access death care? And that’s what led me to look into medical assistance in dying (MAID).” She added: “Our health-care system is set up so it’s really bouncing the patient around treating symptom after symptom and not really addressing the underlying collagen issue… I can’t afford the resources that would help improve my quality of life. Because of being locked in financially as well and geographically.” She concluded by saying, it is “far easier to let go than keep fighting”. It is clear that this 37-year-old woman does not want to die, but she is almost being steered to this assisted dying decision through the system that is run by the state. 

Before her death, Jennyfer Hatch filmed a pro-assisted suicide commercial that aired throughout Canada. In the commercial, she said, “Last breaths are sacred. When I imagine my final days, I see bubbles. I see the ocean. I see music. Even now as I seek help to end my life, there is still so much beauty, you just have to be brave enough to see it.”What we all should see as a tragedy, a 37-year-old woman choosing to go to her death because she cannot get the proper medical care she needs, the state has tried to turn into something heroic. Why? Because it is much more cost-effective for the state for citizens to kill themselves than to get the care they need. And one of the victims of this failing healthcare system in Canada willingly took part in a propaganda commercial that may entice many other young people in her situation to choose death over life. Who needs death panels when you can convince young people that suicide is “beautiful” and “brave”?

We have all seen the influence that the state has over many people in every country – taking everything the government tells them as the absolute irrefutable truth. Hundreds of millions of people in this country lined up like sheep to take a vaccine that didn’t really work, wasn’t properly tested, and potentially could harm them, because the government told them to do so. The government shamed them into taking the shot by telling them that they weren’t doing it to save their own life, they were doing it to save their neighbors’ lives. How many of these Canadian citizens who are getting medical assistance in dying are doing so because they believe that is what is best for themselves, or have they been bullied into believing it is what’s best for their neighbor, and for their country? Remember, the Canadian government has told them that killing yourself is “brave” and “beautiful”.

There is a similar push for medically assisted suicide in the United Kingdom which has its own government-run healthcare system. A study concluded that assisted suicide could result in £84 million in reduced costs per year for the UK government-run healthcare system. In 2021, Molly Meacher, a member of the House of Lords of the United Kingdom, introduced the Assisted Dying Bill which “would create a legal framework to allow a terminally ill patient to end their life.” In October of 2022, Liberal Democrat Member of the Scottish Parliament, Liam McArthur introduced legislation that would make assisted suicide legal in Scotland. So far, none of the legislation has passed in the UK, by it is being pushed persistently. 

This is where you end up when you embrace a political system that moves society away from God, and the state replaces God. People claim that you do not need God to be moral, which is true. But a morality that is not grounded in an authority that transcends the self will eventually devolve into a form of practical morality, a pragmatism where there is no inherent value to anything, only what is practical. So, if the pragmatic thing for the whole of society is to encourage young people who are dealing with a medical issue to kill themselves to save resources to prop up the government-run system which is touted as the savior of society, then medically assisted suicide becomes the most moral thing to do because it is the most pragmatic thing to do. The value is derived from making the most pragmatic decision. There is no longer an inherent value to human life. And history has tragically shown far too often what happens when the state and its citizens no longer see human life as inherently valuable.