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Corona shutdown

What is the true story behind the Coronavirus? What will save us and is it already saving us? Is the government shutdown the real answer and solution or is it actually causing more harm than good?
To learn more go to our page on the Coronavirus! Don't get mad. Get organized. That does not mean looking to the government that exercises authority to solve your problems. It means to get organized like Jesus commanded. Learn to come together in a Network of faith, hope, and charity rather than fear, force, and fealty.

The Coronavirus shutdown was the most bizarre social experiment in the history of the world.

With little or no real evidence the world's economy was devastated and crippled by a few graphs, false comparisons by talking heads on TV, and an exaggerated threat of doom and death by megalomaniacs controlling the media and the gullible minds of the people.

Even after the "curve" was flattened, the dire predictions of killer pandemic models were retracted, and the COVID death numbers were proven to be exaggerated many politicians and the people clung to the power and their paranoia trying to keep their states, their communities, and even their neighbors shutdown.

It is and has been a crime against humanity perpetuated by the hysteria and fear, apathy and ignorance, the misplaced pride and vanity of the people who seem to have forgotten, even lost the ability to act and function as a free society.

Governments do not make men free. In fact the more you look to government the more you will suffer tyranny. It is time to admit we have been fooled, the Coronavirus threat to humanity perpetrated by the media and some opportunistic politicians has created a strong delusion.

This has happened because we have been foolish for some time. We should have seen the truth sooner and the lies as they were coming. We should have seen the unwarranted fear and exaggerated models, the errant irrational strategy and false promise of the unprecedented shutdown.

We should have seen the devastation and long term economic and emotional repercussions of what was and is to come.

We should have cared enough to see the lives we were devastating by closing down the economy, the livelihoods, and freedoms of our neighbors, both those near and far.

Millions of people around the world will now suffer and even die in the days to come. They already are. Not because of a virus but because of the needless and unwarranted shutdown which was allowed by of our ignorance, lack of foresight and fear. We are no longer the land of the free and the home of the brave. The real pandemic is ifnorance and fear, vanity and timidity, failed actions and inaction.

If we do not learn from the history of our errors, mistakes, and foolishness we are doomed to be fooled again.

"It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." Mark Twain

Were we fooled by incompetence or by conspiracy.

A conspiracy is just "a secret plan by a group to do something unlawful or harmful." They may not even mean to actually harm as much as they mean to obtain and advantage for themselves but because they are not concerned about the cost to others their plan may be at the expense of others, hence for the need for secrecy.

Winston Churchill once said "Never let a good crisis go to waste" while the idea can be traced back to Niccolo Machiavelli who wrote, “Never waste the opportunity offered by a good crisis” if not to Julius Caesar, the Pharaoh and Nimrod. Every crisis whether real or imagined involves an element of fear. Fear is the vacuum that occurs when one lacks real faith and of course we know that nature abhors a vacuum.

There are two reactions associated with fear: The first is flight, capitulation, surrender and compliance, The second is fight, opposition, combat and rebellion. None if these forms of reaction produce faith, but remain poor substitutes.

Yet, before conspirators can take control of a crises for their own purposes it would be good than wiser men say something to ease the rising curve of fear amongs the population.

Thomas Jefferson once said “All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for men of good conscience to remain silent.”

It would be essential for the people know in advance who those wiser men might be and have an ear to what they might have to say. Unfortunately the media has not been a source of wisdom. While some academics apparently did understand the true nature of the Corona crises they were not given a platform from which to inform the people.

We informed the people through the Living Network.

To learn more go to our page on the Coronavirus!

There are many who are now taking to resisting the narrative because they are beginning to feel the frustration and discover the lies and incompetence if not the conspiracy of opportunists looking for power and profit.

Anyone can get angry but the wise man says "Don't get mad. Get organized."

That does not mean looking to the government to solve the problems. It was not the Coronavirus that created the crises but the overreaction of the people due to the panic of the media, politicians, and the government imposed shutdown.

Thomas Jefferson once said “I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.” in this case the government not only wasted their labor but literally regarded it as not essential.

This takes us back to that "bizarre social experiment" unprecedented in history that caught Americans and the world so off guard even-though we have been told “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty".

“The only thing needed for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” Edmund Burke.

But the question remains what do we do? What should we have been doing all along that we have failed to do? What should we do to maintain that diligence required or liberty?

Government does not make Americans great. Almost 200 year ago the solutions to liberty were well understood.

• "[I]ndividual alms-giving established valuable ties between the rich and the poor. The deed itself involves the giver in the fate of the one whose poverty he has undertaken to alleviate. The latter, supported by aid which he had no right to demand and which he had no hope to getting, feels inspired by gratitude. A moral tie is established between those two classes whose interests and passions so often conspire to separate them from each other, and although divided by circumstance they are willingly reconciled. This is not the case with legal charity. The latter allows the alms to persist but removes its morality. The law strips the man of wealth of a part of his surplus without consulting him, and he sees the poor man only as a greedy stranger invited by the legislator to share his wealth. The poor man, on the other hand, feels no gratitude for a benefit that no one can refuse him and that could not satisfy him in any case. Public alms guarantee life but do not make it happier or more comfortable than individual alms-giving; legal charity does not thereby eliminate wealth or poverty in society. One class still views the world with fear and loathing while the other regards its misfortune with despair and envy. Far from uniting these two rival nations, who have existed since the beginning of the world and who are called the rich and poor, into a single people, it breaks the only link which could be established between them. It ranges each one under a banner, tallies them, and, bringing them face to face, prepares them for combat."

Tocqueville prophetically perceived that the social suffocating weight of a cradle to grave welfare systems. His Memoir on Pauperism warned the industrialized world is threatened by legal charity that is not true charity and as the counter effect are detrimental to the social virtues required in a free and healthy society:

• "I am deeply convinced that any permanent, regular administrative system whose aim will be to provide for the needs of the poor will breed more miseries than it can cure, will deprave the population that it wants to help and comfort, will in time reduce the rich to being no more than the tenant-farmers of the poor, will dry up the sources of savings, will stop the accumulation of capital, will retard the development of trade, will benumb human industry and activity, and will culminate by bringing about a violent revolution in the State..."

• “I want to imagine with what new features of despotism could be produced in the world: I see an innumerable crowd of like and equal men who revolve on themselves without repose, procuring the small and vulgar pleasures with which they fill their souls. Each of them, withdrawn and apart, is like a stranger to the destiny of all the others: his children and his particular friends from the whole human species for him; as for dwelling with his fellow citizens, he is beside them, but he does not see them, he exists only in himself and for himself alone, and if a family still remains for him, one can at least say that he no longer has a native country.”

“Above these an immense tutelary power is elevated, which alone takes charge of assuring their enjoyments and watch over their fate. It is absolute, detailed, regular, far-seeing, and mild. It would resemble paternal power if, like that, it had for its object to prepare men for manhood; but on the contrary, it seeks only to keep them fixed irrevocably in childhood; it likes citizens to enjoy themselves provided that they think only of enjoying themselves. It willingly works for their happiness; but it wants to be the unique agent and sole arbiter of that; it provides for their security, foresees and secures their needs, facilitates their pleasure, conducts their principal affairs, direct industry, regulates their estates, divides their inheritances; can ir not take away from them entirely the trouble of thinking and the pain of living?”

“So it is that every day it renders the employment of free will less useful and more rare; it confines the action of the will in a smaller space and little by little steals the very use of free will from each citizen. Equality has prepared men for all these things: it has disposed them to tolerate them ard often even regard them as a benefit.”

“Thus, after taking each individual by turns in its powerful hands and neading him as it likes, the sovereign extends its arms over society as a whole; it covers its surface with a network of small, complicated, painstaking, uniform rules through which the most original minds and the most vigourous souls cannot clear a way to surpass the crowd; it does not break wills, but it softens them, bends them, and directs them; it rarely forces one to act, but it constantly opposes itself to one's acting; it does not destroy, it prevents things from being born; it does not tyrannize, it hinders, compromises, enervates, extinguishes, dazes, and industrious animals of which the government is the shepherd.” ” Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville, Chapter 6 What kind of Despotism Democratic Nations have to Fear, p667

• "[It will be] an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure [the people's] gratifications, and to watch over their fate. That power is absolute, minute, regular, provident, and mild. It would be like the authority of a parent, if, like that authority, its object was to prepare men for manhood; but it seeks, on the contrary, to keep them in perpetual childhood. For their happiness such a government willingly labors, but it chooses to be the sole agent and the only arbiter of that happiness; it provides for their security, foresees and supplies their necessities, facilitates their pleasures, manages their principal concerns, directs their industry,regulates the descent of property, and subdivides their inheritances: what remains, but to spare them all the care of thinking and all the trouble of living?" ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE, DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA 302 (Richard D. Heffner ed., The New American Library 1956) (1838). page 303.

• "After having thus successively taken each member of the community in its powerful grasp, and fashioned him at will, the supreme power then extends its arm over the whole community. It covers the surface of society with a network of small complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate, to rise above the crowd. The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent, guided; men are seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting: such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, 'til each nation is reduced to be nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd." ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE, DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA 302 (Richard D. Heffner ed., The New American Library 1956) (1838). page 304.

• "They devise a sole, tutelary, and all-powerful form of government, but elected by the people. They combine the principles of centralization and that of popular sovereignty; this gives them a respite: they console themselves for being in tutelage by the reflection that they have chosen their own guardians. Every man allows himself to be put in leading-strings, because he sees that it is not a person or a class of persons but the people at large, who hold the end of his chain. By this system, the people shake off their state of dependence just long enough to select their master,and then relapse into it again."

• "A great many persons at the present day are quite contented with this sort of com-promise between administrative despotism and the sovereignty of the people; and they think they have done enough for the protection of individual freedom when they have surrendered it to the power of the nation at large. This does not satisfy me: the nature of him I am to obey signifies less to me than the fact of extorted obedience.'"

What made America great was the people took care of themselves through a Network of faith, hope, and charity rather than governments of fear, force, and fealty.

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