It is often helpful to examine recent history. Sometimes, as time moves forward, we forget the deceptions that were foisted on us. Dr. Tom Woods has taken a quick look back at a couple of the more egregious lies that were perpetrated on the American public.
We know they lie, but it’s nice to get it in black and white.
Former CDC director Rochelle Walensky said in January 2022 that the Covid shots were really excellent, except “what they can’t do anymore is prevent transmission.”
Thanks to a Freedom of Information Act request, we now know she knew that all the way back in January 2021, a full year earlier, when in internal communications she was already speaking of breakthrough infections.
And they pushed the mandates anyway, knowing full well they were pointless.
At this point the list of major lies — not mistakes, but actual lies — is grotesquely long. And not just about Covid by a long shot.
How many people have died because these people within the highest levels of our public health institutions lied? It’s not that the information wasn’t there. It was. It’s not that the scientific facts weren’t known. They were. They lied anyway. They put people’s lives at risk.
Why did they do this? For money, of course. If they spoke the truth, the charade would have been exposed. Big Pharma would not have made all that money.
I think back to that Covington Catholic High School issue years ago, in which the media spun an instant narrative according to which the students involved were racially insensitive. So, we were treated to the usual inane hysteria.
Now here’s the thing: we had video footage of the entire situation, before and after student Nicholas Sandmann had his fateful confrontation with Native American con man Nathan Phillips. A two-hour video was available for anyone to examine.
So, I watched the whole thing, which nobody rendering immediate judgment based on 15 seconds of footage had bothered to do, and I discovered — what a surprise! — that the truth was the exact opposite of what we’d been told.
It was at that moment that it truly sank in with me how easy it can be to discover the truth — and yet not one major media outlet bothered to do what I, just an isolated person, had assumed was the natural thing to do.
Not only did the major media outlets not bother to look any further than the 15-second video, neither did the bishop of the diocese where Covington High School was located. The bishop and the school issued the following statement without bothering to get any facts.
“We condemn the actions of the Covington Catholic High School students towards Nathan Phillips specifically, and Native Americans in general, Jan. 18, after the March for Life, in Washington, D.C. We extend our deepest apologies to Mr. Phillips. This behavior is opposed to the Church’s teachings on the dignity and respect of the human person. The matter is being investigated and we will take appropriate action, up to and including expulsion. We know this incident also has tainted the entire witness of the March for Life and express our most sincere apologies to all those who attended the March and all those who support the pro-life movement.
This was a knee-jerk response to pressure being applied. It showed that the bishop, who is supposed to be the leader of his flock, is a jellyfish who will bow down before man. A true man of God would have delayed any judgement. His statement convicted the students and Nick Sandman in particular, without any semblance of due process. It was abhorrent.
Now it is true that the bishop subsequently apologized to the students and their families. But, the damage had been done. Few people see apologies in Big Media. The students had been convicted by their own bishop of being racist bigots.
The bishop seemed to believe that this was a no-win situation.
“This is a no-win situation. We are not going to win. No matter what we say one way or another there are going to be people who are going to argue about it … The best we can do is, first of all, to find out the truth. To find out what really went on.”
This solidifies that this bishop should not be in the position he was in. Standing up for the truth may not be a popular position. However, it is always a winning position.
I’ve been thinking about this whole incident again this afternoon as I contemplate the list of flat-out falsehoods we’ve been expected to believe.
We were told that racist Catholic kids had mocked a Native American man, who was trying to spread a message of peace.
There were indeed people mocking Native Americans in the video, but it wasn’t the schoolkids doing it.
The video begins with a strange group called the Black Hebrews taunting the native Americans gathered at the Lincoln Memorial (where the students had gathered at the conclusion of the march, and where by coincidence some Native Americans were having a gathering of their own).
“You[‘re] not supposed to worship eagles, buffalos, rams, all types of animals! This is the reason the Lord took away your land!” one of them bellows.
Gee, I wonder what we would have been discussing if those schoolkids had been shouting things like that.
A woman who may have been with the native American gathering (it’s unclear from the video) approached the Black Hebrews to dispute their position. One of the men turned to the camera and said, “This is the problem, Israel; it’s always our women coming up with they [sic] loud mouth…thinking they can come and distract things with they [sic] loud-ass mouth, cause they [sic] not used to dealing with no [sic] real men.”
Imagine if the school kids had addressed a woman like that.
This goes on for quite a long time, with torrents of abuse coming from the Black Hebrews.
For a solid hour the students endured language like: “You little dirty-ass crackers, your day coming!” “Dusty-ass animals!” “Bunch of child-molesting faggots!” The kids are also compared to “dogs” and “hyenas.”
The kids kept their cool.
Let’s think carefully about this. These were teenage boys and girls. They withstood agitation and provocation that might have caused adults to lose their cool. They were heroes in the truest sense of the word.
Nobody reading the mainstream press had any idea that these things had been said at all. Now suppose it had been the schoolkids who had been comparing the Black Hebrews to dogs and hyenas. Think we might have heard about it then?
Then the students were told that only whites shoot up schools, and that they themselves
“look like they [sic] about to shoot up a school right now!”The kids, who had gathered to listen to the Black Hebrews by that point, showed remarkable restraint by walking away.
The students passed the time (and drowned out the Black Hebrews) with some school sports cheers.
It was in this context that Nathan Phillips, a native American, entered the scene, banging a drum and marching into the crowd of students.
So note: Phillips’ people were repeatedly insulted and mocked by the Black Hebrews, while a group of schoolkids minded their own business. So, being the courageous man he evidently is, Phillips confronted…
…the school kids.
What a fearless and noble man we had on our hands!
Phillips later told the media that the students “were in the process of attacking these four black individuals.” “There was that moment,” he went on, “when I realized I’ve put myself between beast and prey. These young men were beastly and these old black individuals was their prey, and I stood in between them and so they needed their pounds of flesh and they were looking at me for that.”
Not one word of that story is true, we know from the video. Nobody was attacking anybody. The Black Hebrews themselves had threatened people, it’s true, but the students? Not a single threatening word.
The Black Hebrews had shown up to taunt Phillips’ own people, and had been doing so over and over. Phillips doesn’t even mention this. But that’s obviously the whole story!
If he had really wanted to defuse the situation, Phillps should have banged his drum in the faces of the Black Hebrews, the hysterical lunatics who had been screaming racialist inanities for over an hour by that point.
Instead he chose to take the much safer route of confronting some harmless high school students, whom he knew full well would not lay a hand on him.
Phillips also told the media that the students had been chanting, “Build the wall!”
We have all two hours’ worth of footage of what occurred. Not one person uttered those words.
One student recalled: “In the midst of our cheers, we were approached by a group of adults led by Nathan Phillips, with Phillips beating his drum. They forced their way to the center of our group. We initially thought this was a cultural display since he was beating along to our cheers and so we clapped to the beat.”
Soon the situation became confusing, especially with Phillips inappropriately in a student’s physical space. No one quite knew what was happening; you can hear multiple people asking, “What is going on?”
But they had shouted their cheers to the beat of Phillips’ drum, and this is unforgivable.
These students should be ruined for this, according to major celebrities and half the Twitterverse, the vast majority of whom never saw the video.
Immediately after the confrontation between Phillips and the students, by the way, the Black Hebrews were back at it, telling the kids that America would be destroyed in a nuclear holocaust, and that they themselves were all bound to become school shooters.
This was ignored by the media. It’s kids jumping up and down to a drum beat for two minutes that everyone needed to hear about.
You’d think someone in the media might have mentioned how odd it was that this Native American man thought it was the students, after an hour’s worth of vile filth being spewed at them, who needed to be approached with his drum. How deranged is that?
Meanwhile, half the country rushed to judgment on the basis of Phillips’ false statement, and of a picture of a student staring at Phillips, who was banging a drum an inch from his face.
I’d say the kid handled himself well. After having endured a full hour of vicious taunting — which would itself have been national news had the races involved been reversed — he stood there silently.
Oooh, but standing there silently can also be “racist”!
What can you say to something like that?
Meanwhile, this kid was compared to a Klansman and a ’60s-era segregationist — for standing there amidst what was obviously intended to be a provocation, and a completely unwarranted one, by a media-seeking coward.
That kid and his classmates had done nothing. They had goofed off, or even just remained silent, during a full hour of abuse. They deserved medals.
Now here’s how con-man Phillips described the situation to CNN (Phillips’ words in bold):
“We were finishing up with Indigenous Peoples March and rally and there were some folks there that were expressing their (First Amendment) rights there, freedom of speech.”
So that’s how he describes the openly racist Black Hebrew Israelites. “Some folks there that were expressing their…freedom of speech.” (Note later that he will not extend the same courtesy to the students.)
“The folks that were having their moment there” [he is referring here to the black racists] “they were saying things that I don’t know if I agreed with them or not, but some of it was educational, and it was truth, and it was history about religious views and ideologies, but these other folks, the young students, they couldn’t see it. They had one point of view, it seemed, and that was that their point of view was the only point of view that was worthwhile.”
So the Black Hebrews were saying things that were “educational,” and “truth,” and “history.”
These “folks” were in fact telling the Native Americans: “You[‘re] not supposed to worship eagles, buffalos, rams, all types of animals! This is the reason the Lord took away your land!”They also taunted the natives as “Uncle Tomahawks.”
Phillips says, “I don’t know if I agreed with them or not.” The man is bold!
Remember, too, the vile things the black racists shouted at the students. So how would you classify that, Nathan Phillips? Was that “educational,” “truth,” or “history”?
Now don’t you worry, because remember: the bold Nathan Phillips said, “I don’t know if I agreed with them or not.” Don’t you feel better now? He doesn’t know if he agreed with some loudmouths who said his own people had deserved to lose their land!
Meanwhile, according to Phillips it was the students — the students! — who thought “their point of view was the only point of view that was worthwhile.”
Think back to what the Black Hebrews were saying. Doesn’t that sound a teensy-weensy bit like people who thought their “point of view was the only point of view that was worthwhile”?
The students, meanwhile, were so flabbergasted that they scarcely knew how to respond. To listen to Nathan Phillips you’d think they had been shouting out theological propositions. They mostly kept to themselves in a combination of amusement and horror. At no time did they seriously advance any “point of view
Every single aspect of the official story was false just as all the info about the COVID “vaccine” was false. In this case all you had to do to determine that was to watch a video that was available to anyone who had an Internet connection. This is why CNN paid out all that money in the defamation case.
Big Media will spout whatever narrative that aligns with the Deep State’s efforts to turn the country into a dictatorship. If you want to learn the truth in such a world, you’ll have to exert additional effort. Fortunately the Internet provides us with that ability. You will have to use the brain God gave us to sift through the morass. However, the truth is there if you look hard enough.