Warning: Rant Alert – I’m unavoidably livid today. Personal freedom, within the world of societal participation, is being threatened. Schools are shut down because of … drumroll … the swine flu. I had been rolling my eyes and treating this like yet another example of government gone wrong, general stupidity afoot until I got online today to see that schools in the U.S. are being shut down due to this flu. Why not strep? Why not any other illness?
Put an animal name in front of the shortened form of “influenza” and you have an image or symbol to go with an everyday common reality. Symbols are powerful. The nasty ones stick in the mind oinking out associations to wash the brain in dogma dulling basic intelligence. Put a mask on people posing in fear and you have more marketing power than ever. Then start to close the schools down when someone gets this strain of the flu, a strain many are saying is mild. What do you have then?
You have an easily manipulated, far-too-trusting public projecting their own innocent integrity onto sources far removed from any qualification of solid integrity. What you have is an amazingly ugly caricature of freedom and “public health.” For anyone to refuse this nonsense requires they make a total spectacle of the status-quo. Not many people are too wild about that. So, it’s a perfect set-up. If you want to be respected in your community, you don’t stand up and call “foul” on a skirmish posing as the benevolent arm of the law, public health and all that glorious wealth of governemnt concern. If you want to protect yourself and your children from the real threat, you must give up a few connections. Or risk losing them when you speak up.
Homeschooling is gaining more merit than it ever had with me before. And it has had plenty (if you can stay sane and homeschool your children, you’re a hero and you have given your children something precious). When they can come in and hijack a community and ambush education for the flu, they’ve gone even farther than too far. When you can glance at Twitter and see how people with brains are not even questioning this, it’s surreal. So, this is my spit in the wind of nonsense, my snarl in the face of tyranny posing as “concern,” my foot stomping in the wake of fear-mongering and my fist shaking at greed that skews the facts to make big bucks. Don’t forget that you’ll be shamed for not taking “proper care” of yourself and your children, too. It’s the perfect set-up. While we can’t afford to become caught up in perpetual anger, perpetual fear or perpetual reaction against a violation, neither can we afford to ignore those events that rightfully arouse anger and ignite an empowered fear against the potential loss of more liberty. This is no Tar Baby. This is a true threat to liberty and personal freedom.
Check out these links to keep yourself well-informed of the facts surrounding this trumped-up pandemic fantasy, this pig-gone-wild, swine flu government/media/pharma corruption. Speak the truth about this issue whenever life gives you the chance to do so. When goverment can come in and herd us around like so much sheep and work up an event catalyst, systematically marking off the milestones to do things to our bodies in the name of “health,” we can’t not call it what it is – a violation of personal liberty, a raping of our trust in community and a murder of our rights to choose (closing schools down? what’ next? will they knock on our doors and insist we pay to be injected with something that killed more people than the swine flu in 1976? if they charge a mere $5 a shot, what do they make after a few million vaccinations against a mild illness? and how perfect is it that the law protects doctors and vaccine-makers from liability? what a racket!)
Read those sources who dare to question, challenge and refute the media’s alleged “news” feed and ask yourself why the flu has become an international event:
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/04/29/Swine-Flu.aspx
http://www.vaccineawakening.blogspot.com/
http://www.momsagainstmercury.com/
My son brought home a swine flu alert this past week from his school. His comment says it all: “They want to vaccinate us against being alive.” All I can say in response is this – It will fail. The creative work of chaos and love’s deeper, more sophisticated moves, ancient and all-knowing, will eventually spoil the pigs that fly their shite in the winds of “change.”
In the meantime, if you read nothing of the links, do read the following from Barbara Loe Fisher’s blog:
“. . . If the State can tag, track down and force citizens against their will to be injected with biologicals of unknown toxicity today, there will be no limit on which individual freedoms the State can take away in the name of the greater good tomorrow.”
Don’t be fooled into thinking these biologicals have been adequately tested. But do know that they’ll urge the removal of hydroxy-cut from the shelves in order to appear to give a damn (while they studiously ignore the damages and deaths caused by the wondrous vaccines they continue to allow and approve!) when what they are really doing is carving out a trail to justify removing anything not connected to pharmaceutical giants.
‘nough said, for now.
jrk


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By: Happy Birthday . . . « J. Ruth Kelly’s Blog on August 13, 2009
at 4:08 am
I have been devouring your blog…what an inspiring woman you are…and you are still sane…smile, you’re beautiful.
Thank you for putting a link to my blog on yours. I put you on mine as well.
As for this story, I agree…over reaction by all. I won’t even get a normal flu shot let alone an un-tested vaccination…no thank you.
By: italco on May 16, 2009
at 7:25 am
Wow, thank you. It’s a pleasure to have your presence here and I was so glad to be found and to come across your own wonderful blog. I’m going to post a link to your recent post that I find so helpful next week. It’s a breath of fresh air to cross paths with another person who refuses to sit back and watch the corruption!
Vaccinations simply should not be mandatory. I want to see that change. To say the least!
By: jruthkelly on May 16, 2009
at 3:02 pm
You got your hands full with your own schooling, and that’s an awesome role model for your kids. If your daughter really wants to do it, maybe she could figure it all out on her own. Find the program, register, and then sit down and do the work. All you’d have to do is be home, I guess. I don’t even do that, but we’re so safe in the mountains, I don’t worry about leaving Forrest alone.
By: highmountainmuse on May 4, 2009
at 2:08 pm
Safe here too. She goes back and forth on the idea. I’m going to check the info you gave me and let her know she has choices. I look at the whole symphony of who she is and I find it difficult to trust she’ll be satisfied for long on her own. But this information is so empowering. And who knows…
I’ll certainly pick your brain if Marion continues to show interest! Thanks Gin…
By: jruthkelly on May 4, 2009
at 2:43 pm
Folks are going nuts, I know. My mom just forwarded a notice her former doctor had mailed to all his patients saying DON”T BUY INTO IT, it’s not a big deal!!!! I think it’s the Y2K syndrome – folks are looking for the end of the world around every corner.
FYI – homeschooling. I don’t teach. I can’t sit still. Forrest is 100% self taught. I sit down and do Spanish with him just because I want to learn it too. He’s still much better than me.
There are fantastic programs out there that do it all for you. He’s enrolled in Laurel Springs School, fully accedited, lots of teachers he writes to, testing, even a prom if he wants to go to CA for that (knowing Forrest, not a chance.). You don’t have to do anything, except pay the bills. Most public schools are still happy to let kids participate in after school activities like soccer even if the kid is home schooled. It’s a great way to go, and you don’t have to be a saint or a real teacher. I’m far from both. If you ever have questions, please ask. Just know, it’s not cheap, but it is easy.
By: highmountainmuse on May 4, 2009
at 12:09 am
Y2K syndrome…so true! And sad.
Thank you(!!) for the info on homeschooling. I’m not sure if I’ll embark on it since I have my own schooling to focus on at this time. But my eldest has, off and on, expressed a strong desire to be homeschooled. She gets fed up with the mindset and the disruption to her creativity. With so many interests and too much homework, it’s frustating. And I’m like you. I can’t sit still (except when I’ve no choice or am writing, reading or doing dots) long enough to be able to teach. I don’t want any one thing to pin me down for long. But if self-taught works…there’s hope. Funny, I’d be right there next to my child, too, with the Spanish. I’m gradually working on learning that language myself.
By: jruthkelly on May 4, 2009
at 12:07 pm