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Thanks for all your hard work. Along with Denis Rancourt and Simon Elmer, I think you’re one of the Covid greats in your meticulous documenting of events and analysis. I only came across you recently when I watched your interview on Geo Politics and Empire. Your work is fantastic and you deliver your devastating analysis in such a humble way. I was appalled by the left and many of my comrades of days gone by in how they capitulated so easily to obvious tyranny. But I think it is something you feel in your gut and that gut feeling is a reflection of your journey in life up until that point. The tyranny was always there bubbling under the surface for many years before it exploded and set a whole world on fire in an instance. The groundwork had been set in the preceding years and a perfect storm descended on humanity. My own gut feeling was that it felt very fascistic from day one. I lost some long standing friends, as many did, but I wouldn’t shut up, in fact I became bolder as time went on. I travelled to London to take part in the huge demonstrations that were completely ignored by the media. The feeling was indescribable, hugging fellow dissenters, total strangers, and it felt oh so good. The most diverse set of people I’ve ever seen on a demonstration, laughing and talking and hugging and powerfully asserting their humanity as an act of defiance. Hugging was a revolutionary act. Who would have ever imagined that?!

I’m not a religious person and this didn’t really change during this period or since but I did see a strong class element and divide. It was mostly my middle class, “educated” friends who were some of the worse believers of this nonsense. They would aggressively chastise me on social media for my heathen ways, how could I be so stupid and ignorant they would ask. Doesn’t matter what facts or analysis I presented, they were completely blind to it, they were hypnotised by the heavily propagandised atmosphere coming at them from every direction and their life journey had almost always involved deference to authority. My working class friends less so because they generally have a different, more cynical, relation to authority and generally had to get on with life regardless, unable to hide behind a laptop. For those intellectuals who stood out, I would say many of them came from humble backgrounds or had a strong sense of ethics and justice. Yes religious belief probably did play a part but I don’t think it was necessarily the most important factor.

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Dear David: Thank you very much for this thoughtful essay. Your “Roll Call of Christian Dissidents” features some whose work I know. But others are new to me, and I look forward to familiarizing myself with them.

Thanks for sharing some of the details with regard to why, in your personal experience, recent years have been “profoundly challenging.” For me, your openness here constitutes a gift from the soul. I admire your resilience, and I am wishing you all the best as you navigate your way through your personal challenges ahead. God bless you!

Your essay ends with a worthwhile pondering of the “Holy Rage” you sense is coming. Here, your writing calls to mind one observation by a fellow attendee, back in 2021, at a meeting of New York’s Medical Freedom Alliance. She wondered whether the evildoers had considered whether, if they persisted in advancing their agenda, they might not eventually find themselves hanging from lampposts.

Hopefully, the “global mass movement to root out and serve righteous justice” will be more orderly than that!

I think that the process through which such a “global mass movement” comes into existence is complex. To be sure, there are propagandistic (and other) factors in play to try to stymie any such movement. At any rate, it was fascinating for me, back in 2022, to realize that the famous mystery writer, Agatha Christie, had apparently identified one aspect of human psychology that might partially account for the strange reluctance to accept reality that we are witnessing now, in the 2020s.

On 11/21/22, posted on Facebook, presenting my thoughts on the phenomenon (along with a photo collage). You might enjoy my dark, ironic humor. So I’m reproducing the text of my post below.

Best wishes, P.A.

11/21/22 PA’s post on Facebook:

WHO’S NEXT?! SOMETIMES I FEEL as though I’m living in Agatha Christie’s AND THEN THERE WERE NONE. First published in 1939, Wikipedia notes that it is “the world’s best-selling mystery” and “one of the best-selling books of all time.” Over the years, there have been numerous screen adaptations. Below are two screen captures from the second movie version of the novel, released theatrically with a new title: “Ten Little Indians” (1965).

The plot is very strange. Over the course of a weekend, a series of deaths occurs among 10 people, all isolated in a remote mansion from which they cannot escape. Who is responsible for each death? Who will be the next to die? Sitting out on display in the mansion is a grouping of 10 “little Indian” statuettes. After each death, when none of the survivors are looking, one of the figures gets removed from the display.

Under these ghastly circumstances, you’d think that the remaining people would become half-crazy with nervous tension. But — no! I find it downright bizarre that, instead, they basically remain calm — and continue to converse with one another in a civil manner, relax and even sit down at the table to eat meals together. It’s as though, from their perspective, there’s nothing particularly remarkable about the occurrence of death after death after death after death!

It seems to me that nowadays, in the world at large, I’m witnessing a comparable phenomenon. Death after death after death is occurring — often among ostensibly healthy people in the prime of their lives. These people, we are told, “died suddenly” or “died unexpectedly” — often with no cited cause. As NYU’s Mark Crispin Miller has observed, it used to be that the phrases “died suddenly” and “died unexpectedly” were typically euphemisms — employed in death reports or obituaries when the cause of death had been suicide or a drug overdose.

Nowadays, however, these baffling deaths are often occurring out in the open — when, for example, a healthy-and-fit professional soccer player drops dead in the middle of a game or somebody dancing at a party collapses and expires. In media reports, cited causes have included “referee whistles,” “loud music” and even “climate change.”

But like the characters in Agatha Christie’s AND THEN THERE WERE NONE, most people seem simply to take all these deaths in stride . . . and calmly go about their lives as though nothing remarkable is happening. I find this flabbergasting. Why such indifference? I guess many people feel reassured by the so-called experts in charge of The Science™ — who inform us that this phenomenon is simply a new (or, perhaps, heretofore overlooked) medical malady: “Sudden Adult Death Syndrome” (or “S.A.D.S.”).

That’s kinda weird and mysterious, isn’t it? So I guess people are deciding: “If I pretend that nothing unusual is happening, then surely that’ll cause this skyrocketing death rate to stop.” Alternatively, maybe they believe that benevolent Big Pharma surely must have, under development, an injectable concoction that’ll provide them with immunity against “S.A.D.S.” — and that whatever inchoate anxiety they feel with regard to catching a “S.A.D.S.” germ will soon be assuaged. Who knows?!

So: With regard to all these deaths, what do *I* think is going on?

Here on semi-public Facebook, I’m going to stick with affirming the official narrative: “referee whistles,” “loud music,” “climate change” and “S.A.D.S.”

What can I say? I live in New York State — where the First Amendment is now basically null and void. Anything I say that deviates from the official narrative — even speaking up with a merely *speculative* opinion — might be used against me as “evidence” of my being a threat to public health. To be sure, the NYS Supreme Court has struck down as unconstitutional the governor’s “administrative regulation” allowing the NYS government to detain and quarantine *anybody* for *any* reason for *any length* of time. But the NYS attorney general intends to appeal the decision. With enough money and manipulation, the thinking goes, that pesky nuisance — the NYS constitution — can surely be set aside. It will be “for the public’s own good,” of course.

BTW, in recent months, three friends of mine have died “suddenly” *and* “unexpectedly.” Who’s next?

The title of Agatha Christie’s novel, AND THEN THERE WERE NONE, implies a plot in which all 10 characters die. In actuality, however, 2 of them survive. In the present parade of “sudden” and “unexpected” deaths, which of *us* will survive? Time will tell . . . !

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