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| Archbishop Viganò: Message to the Catholic Resistance in Poland |
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Posted by: Stone - 06-05-2024, 10:44 AM - Forum: Archbishop Viganò
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Msgr. Carlo Maria Viganò
RESISTITE FORTES
Message to the Catholic Resistance in Poland
May 31, 2024
[Emphasis mine]
Most Reverend Excellency, dear Monsignor Michal, Reverend priests and clerics, dear faithful: allow me first of all to thank you for inviting me to speak at your conference in defense of the Catholic Faith and to denounce the deviations of the modernist hierarchy. Your community in Poland constitutes the nucleus of the future revival of Catholicism in your beloved homeland.
Your faithfulness, and the even more courageous faithfulness of your Pastors, makes you privileged today: because with the eyes of Faith, and with the lessons of the history of your homeland, you are able to recognize that epochal battle underway between God and Satan, which will conclude at the end of time with the victory of Christ over the Antichrist, precisely at the moment when the reign of the son of iniquity will seem to be at its apogee. A battle with no quarter, which today in other nations is fought in an even more harsh and bloody manner, and which you have known from a more recent time, and in particular after the Bergoglian purges silenced the voices of Bishops who were not totally subservient to the tyranny of the Argentine Jesuit. In the meantime, government crises and political diktats of the European Union have brought emissaries of the World Economic Forum, the main architect of the globalist agenda, into your Parliament and assumed government roles. The reforms that they are already imposing on you are clearly aimed at destroying Poland by affecting its faith, its morals, its patriotism, its historical memory, and its identity.
Speaking of Poland without speaking of the Catholic Church is impossible. Poland is, among all the Slavic nations, the largest of Catholic faith. Since the Baptism of Miecislaus I, in 966, and along with him his entire Court – thanks to the prayers and testimony of Queen Dubrawka of Bohemia – Poland has been a Catholic nation and has remained so through the centuries, despite numerous wars where she found herself fighting against pagans, against Islamic idolaters, against Protestant heretics, and finally against the atheistic materialism of Bolshevik Communism. But in all those battles, the flame of Faith was never weakened, nor put at risk of going out as it has been in these last very unfortunate decades.
By the grace of God, the great celebrations for the Millenary of the Baptism of Poland in 1966 – which had already begun in 1957 with a preparatory Novena of fasting and penance in which all Polish Catholics joined – had the merit of overshadowing the sad events that in those years troubled the universal Church, as she became the victim of that modernist coup d’état that was the Second Vatican Council. The Sacrum Poloniæ Millennium led your grandfathers and fathers to accompany the empty frame of the icon of the Virgin of Częstochowa in procession throughout your homeland, in courageous Christian testimony in the face of the bans of the communist government. You had before your eyes the horrors of a tyrannical and anti-Christian regime, and centuries of memory of wars and those killed defending Poland from the Mohammedan invasion. Talking to you Polish Catholics about ecumenism, dialogue with heretics, and the secular nature of the State would have made you rise up with indignation against anyone who had tried to convince you to deny your Faith and your national identity, which is intrinsically Catholic. Yet today it is the leaders of the Church who are asking you to erase those thousand years of homeland history, in the name of an inclusiveness which in other nations is destroying their Christian identity and bringing back barbarism.
Few, in those years of revolution, understood what they had witnessed even in the civil sphere: the partition of Poland between Germany and the Soviet Union which occurred in 1939 – when the Allies promised support which they then culpably did not want to guarantee – seemed to be repeated in the religious sphere thirty years later, when the modernist Hierarchy left you spiritually disarmed in the face of the increasingly ferocious assault of the two main enemies of the Church: Liberalism and Communism, both born from Freemasonry. It took away – took away from all of us – the Catholic Mass, and with it the entire treasure of spirituality and doctrine of the Apostolic Liturgy. In its place it offered you, like a piece of rancid bread thrown to someone who has been deprived of their place at the King’s table, a rite plagiarized by heretics and designed to please them, to the detriment of the adoration due to the Majesty of God. It took away the purity of Catholic doctrine, to give you the stones of the Council and the scorpions of the modernists. And today it asks you to recognize as our shared “Father” an apostate heresiarch who has infested the Roman Curia with his protégés or people he holds under blackmail. It asks you to maintain communion with the first destroyer of Catholic communion, threatening you that if you do not recognize his usurped authority and his heretical magisterium you would be separated from the Catholic Church, to which he clearly does not belong, but yet dares to claim to hold Christ’s sacred Authority over her.
You will have understood by now, dear faithful, that this is an attack that is not limited to an internal crisis within the Catholic Church, but that it involves all of humanity, the governments of nations, the leaders of supranational organizations, the great usurious families of high finance and with them the entire entourage of courtiers and servants, convinced that by serving the powerful they will be able to save themselves from the impending ruin. We are faced with a global coup d’état, in which a minority of traitors and corrupt people has managed to rise to the top of the institutions, dividing power between the deep state in the civil sphere and the deep church in the ecclesial sphere. Both obey the same satanic lobby, the same Masonic Lodges, the same characters devoted to Evil. And we have already seen the horrors that are slowly but surely becoming normal in your homeland for some time: Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, Ireland – all once Catholic nations – are hostage to subversives who abuse their power to knowingly harm their subjects.
Citizens find themselves considered enemies of the State, while believers are considered enemies of the Church; and those who accuse them flaunt their vices, their corruption, the mocking presumption of impunity, and the illusion of having already won. You have Ministers who impose the woke ideology and all the LGBTQ+ rubbish on you, who want to force you to accept abortion, euthanasia, surrogacy, gender transition, ethnic substitution, sodomitic marriage, the destruction of agriculture and livestock farming, green madness, the poisoning of the air and waters with geoengineering, your impoverishment in the name of proxy wars and continuous emergencies, your transformation into slaves through total control and into chronically ill patients using gene serums and mock vaccines. But you also have a Hierarchy that is silent, as it has been silent in Italy, in France, in Ireland, in Spain, in Portugal, and wherever the infernal plan of the New World Order could be in some way hindered by the Faith and Morals of the people. And on the throne that once belonged to Blessed Pius IX there sits today – the abomination of desolation – the Argentine Jesuit, the salesman of BigPharma, the apostle of climate change, the worshiper of Pachamama, the advocate of the persecution of Chinese Catholics, the defender of pornographers and perverts, the promoter of the Islamic invasion business, the servant of the World Economic Forum, the operator of the synodal farce, the enemy of the Mass of Saint Pius V, the bankruptcy liquidator of the Church of Christ.
But in this obscene ostentation of everything that is the most alien to the Papacy that could be imagined; in this brazen offense against God, the Martyrs, and the Saints of the Church of all times; in this desolating proof of the fearfulness and vile obsequiousness of so many cardinals, bishops, and priests; and in the face of evidence that the conspiracy of the globalist Sanhedrin has subversive accomplices in both the State and in those who have infiltrated their way into the Catholic Hierarchy, the eyes of the people and of many priests are finally opening. The chasm that separates citizens from their rulers is the same as that which divides the faithful from their Pastors. The subjugation of the elite by those in authority is now so evident as to disconcert even the most moderate. For this reason it is essential that you understand the danger that looms over Poland, and that you make it understood by those who delude themselves into thinking that they can avoid what has already occurred elsewhere.
Persevere, dear brothers! Persevere; resistite fortes in fide! Because our approach to the end times requires heroic testimony but also reserves for us great consolations. Just as sheep recognize the voice of the Good Shepherd, so souls follow the Ministers of God who become docile instruments of Grace and who burn with the fire of Charity. If we are few now, our numbers will ever increase, and we will be able to create widespread communities in which to educate our children in a Christian way and pass on to them what will make them strong and determined. If today you are mocked, tomorrow they will honor you. If they marginalize you now, tomorrow they will come knocking on your door. But precisely because you have understood and will have to pass on to posterity that nucleus of resistance that will allow Poland to be reconstructed and reconverted tomorrow, you have the duty to live consistently with the Catholic Faith that you profess, being a model for others of what it is to be good Christians.
This, dearest brothers, is my most sincere hope for all of you. This must be your determination. This is the Grace that together we ask for from the Blessed Virgin Mary of Częstochowa, Queen of Poland.
+ Carlo Maria Viganò, Archbishop
31 Maggio 2024
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| Fauci admitted to Congress that 6-foot social distancing ban during COVID ‘wasn’t based on data’ |
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Posted by: Stone - 06-04-2024, 01:04 PM - Forum: Pandemic 2020 [Secular]
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Fauci admitted to Congress that 6-foot social distancing ban during COVID ‘wasn’t based on data’
Fauci said in testimony to Congress in January that the six-foot social distancing rule ‘sort of just appeared’ and ‘wasn’t based on data,’ adding he ‘was not aware of studies’ about it.
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Stephen
Kokx
Mon Jun 3, 2024
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews [adapted - not all hyperlinks included from original]) — A new memo issued by the House of Representatives’ Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic sheds light on a revealing closed-door, 14-hour testimony given in January by Dr. Anthony Fauci.
On Friday, May 31, GOP Congressman Brad Wenstrup released transcripts from Fauci’s two-day remarks. At the time, Fauci had been asked to share his opinion on social distancing and other COVID measures, including masking for children.
LifeSite previously reported on some of Fauci’s testimony. The full transcripts, which can be read here and here, were released on Friday ahead of his scheduled appearance in Congress on Monday, June 3.
Fauci’s comments shockingly indicate he essentially had zero scientific evidence to support his recommendations.
“It sort of just appeared,” he said, when asked about where the six-foot social distancing ban came from. “I was not aware of studies” on that, he added. It was “an empiric decision that wasn’t based on data.”
READ: Japan’s most senior cancer doctor: COVID shots are ‘essentially murder’
Wenstrup’s memo further noted that Fauci “testified that he did not recall any supporting evidence for masking children.”
Dr. Fauci has repeatedly denied any blame whatsoever for the many controversial and even fatal policies enacted during the COVID pandemic. Fauci’s evasive remarks on the origins of the virus and public promotion of the shot while simultaneously vilifying alternative treatments have often resulted in him being grilled by GOP Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, who has repeatedly pressed him for answers during his many appearances on Capitol Hill.
Wenstrup’s memo further states that Fauci “unequivocally agreed with EVERY travel restriction issued by the Trump Administration at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic” but that “this testimony runs counter to the public narrative that the Trump Administration’s travel restrictions were xenophobic.”
Fauci also confirmed that it is not necessarily a “conspiracy theory” to think the virus emerged from a lab leak.
“Well, it’s a possibility. I think people have made conspiracy aspects from it,” he claimed. “And I think you have to separate the two when you keep an open mind, that it could be a lab leak or it could be a natural occurrence. I’ve mentioned in this committee that I believe the evidence that I’ve seen weighs my opinion towards one, which is a natural occurrence, but I still leave an open mind.”
Fauci dictated COVID policies for the federal government along with Dr. Deborah Birx, who recently admitted the jab may have injured “thousands” of people. Fauci stepped down as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in December 2023.
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| Pope Francis writes preface to pro-LGBT Fr. James Martin’s latest book |
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Posted by: Stone - 06-04-2024, 01:00 PM - Forum: Pope Francis
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Pope Francis writes preface to pro-LGBT Fr. James Martin’s latest book
Pope Francis wrote a preface to James Martin’s new book about the raising of Lazarus, which the heretical Jesuit priest has used to promote LGBT ideology and urge homosexuals to ‘come out’ and ‘embrace’ their disordered tendencies.
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Pope Francis and Father James Martin, S.J.
Vatican News/X
Jun 3, 2024
VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews [adapted - not all hyperlinks included]) — The Vatican has published Pope Francis’ preface to a book by pro-LGBT Father James Martin, S.J., in which the pontiff makes a statement that may be interpreted to claim that one can maintain friendship with God while in mortal sin.
In September 2023, Martin’s book Come Forth: The Promise of Jesus’s Greatest Miracle was published, described as a “meditation on the Raising of Lazarus” and used by Martin to urge homosexuals to “come out” and “embrace” their homosexual tendencies. On Monday, Vatican News published Francis’ preface to Martin’s Italian version of the book, with the preface itself dated on March 11, 2024.
Francis opened the preface noting, “Father James Martin [is] the author of many other books that I know and appreciate,” among which are Building a Bridge, Martin’s notorious 2017 pro-LGBT book in which he attempts to normalize homosexuality and criticizes Catholic doctrine that homosexuality is “disordered.” The heretical Jesuit has elsewhere affirmed homosexual activity despite the Catholic Church’s teaching that such activity is mortally sinful.
READ: Cardinal Müller: Father James Martin’s LGBT propaganda is ‘heresy’
Francis continued, “Jesus didn’t just talk about eternal life; He gave it to us. He didn’t just say ‘I am the resurrection’; He also resurrected Lazarus, who’d been dead for three days.” He went on to incorrectly claim that the “divine” is never separated from the “human” in Christianity, writing: “Christian faith is the ever-present co-mingling of the eternal and the contingent, of heaven and earth, of the divine and the human—never one without the other.”
“All of us, then, are Lazarus,” wrote Francis, going on to reference Martin’s book: “Rooting himself firmly in the Ignatian tradition, Father Martin brings us directly into the story of this friend of Jesus. We’re His friends, too—’dead’ as we sometimes are on account of our sins, our failings and infidelities, the despondency that discourages us and crushes our spirits.”
Without quoting Martin or pointing to a specific passage in his book, Francis appears to suggest that one can be friends with God even while “dead” in mortal sin, while, on the contrary, the Church has always understood mortal sin to be a breaking of one’s friendship with God.
Francis has signaled his support of Martin in many ways despite the latter’s support of homosexuality, such as by appointing and re-appointing him as a Vatican Communications consultant and by meeting with Martin and praising his pro-LGBT initiatives.
Martin has previously proposed that the Catechism of the Catholic Church use the term “differently ordered” rather than “intrinsically disordered” in reference to sinful homosexual acts. He frequently makes scandalous statements regarding homosexuality that violate Catholic teaching on sexual morality. High-profile prelates and Catholic figures warn that Martin is leading people astray and putting souls at risk by encouraging homosexual activity and failing to call people to be chaste.
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| Archbishop Viganò: Homily for the Feast of Corpus Christi |
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Posted by: Stone - 06-03-2024, 01:35 PM - Forum: Archbishop Viganò
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Archbishop Viganò: The Eucharist offers strength and grace against the satanic chaos of the world
Every soul that is worthily nourished by the Most Holy Eucharist receives with it the formidable protection
of grace, growth in the virtues, and progress in holiness.
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Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò
Exsurge Domine
Jun 3, 2024
Editor’s note: The following is the full text of Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò’s homily for the feast of Corpus Christi.
Et verbum caro factum est, et habitavit in nobis.
– “And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt amongst us.” (Jn 1:14)
(LifeSiteNews) — Tantum ergo Sacramentum veneremur cernui – “Let us fall prostrate in veneration of such a great sacrament.” These are the famous words of the Corpus Christi hymn, composed by St. Thomas Aquinas, just like the other liturgical texts of this feast. We repeat them every time the Blessed Sacrament is exposed to the adoration of the faithful, underlining our internal disposition by bowing our bodies, in the same posture as Moses before the burning bush. Even the priests of the New Covenant cover their hands with the humeral veil, as a sign of respect, when they have to impart the Eucharistic blessing. And it is also in this manner – cernui, “prostrate” – that we must present ourselves before the King of kings.
The modern mentality hates every earthly hierarchy and proclaims the equality of individuals, not because it wants peace and brotherhood between peoples, but because it knows very well that the only earthly society in which peace and brotherhood can reign is the one in which both civil and religious authority are the vicarious expression of the sole, supreme power of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King and High Priest. Because it is around the ontological reality of the universal Lordship of Christ that the entire creation revolves: omnia per ipsum facta sunt, et sine ipso factum est nihil, quod factum est – “All things were made by him: and without him was made nothing that was made” (Jn 1:3).
The history of redemption revolves around Christ, the Unconquered Sun; and the Cross on the summit of Golgotha has become the center of the universe: Stat Crux, dum volvitur orbis – “The Cross stands while the word is turned.” The same Cross is planted on our altars, where the priest acts in the person of Christ, and where Christ is offered under the species of bread and wine. And it is in Christ that all things are summarized, it is in Him that every aspect of our life takes on meaning, it is to Him that we must give an account of our own souls and the souls of those whom Providence has entrusted to our care.
The world does not want peace, because peace exists only where Christ is, and if Satan is to reign, then chaos, destruction, and war must also reign. The peace of Christ is founded on the stability of order, and this earthly order must necessarily be a mirror of the divine order: sicut in cœlo et in terra – “on earth as it is in heaven.”
It is very painful to see that in the midst of a society hostile to Christ and entirely devoted to evil, the Catholic hierarchy has effectively separated itself from the ecclesial body, causing scandal to the faithful and also alienating priests and religious. Just as the battle rages most fiercely, the generals and officers open the doors of the citadel and allow both soldiers and civilians to be massacred. Bella premunt hostilia – “hostile armies press,” we sing in the hymn Verbum Supernum Prodiens at Lauds on the feast of Corpus Christi: terrible wars loom, and they are spiritual wars for which we must be prepared: da robur, fer auxilium – “give strength, bear aid.” But these battles that we face daily both as individuals and as an ecclesial body are part of an epochal war that has already been won, once and for all, by our King and Lord, who has become our ally, making Himself the nourishment of our souls, offering Himself as a ransom by His own Passion and giving Himself triumphantly as a reward: Se nascens dedit socium, convescens in edulium, se moriens in prætium, se regnans dat in præmium – “When he was born he became our companion, in his banquet He gave himself as food, when He died He became our price, in his kingdom He gives Himself as a reward.”
This betrayal of the Roman Sanhedrin is no different from the betrayal of the high priests in the time of Our Lord. Their subservience to power is the same, and both contemptuously consider Christ as a usurper of an authority that in reality they have usurped from Him. But just as among the crowds of that time there were those who triumphantly welcomed the King of Israel and those who had Him crucified, so even today there are those who love and adore Him and those who profane Him and abandon Him to sacrilege.
Just as happened during the Passion, the Lord agrees to allow Himself to be offended and beaten even in His Eucharistic flesh, and other apostles abandon Him, deny Him, and hand Him over to His enemies. The Judases of today are no less guilty than the Iscariot, whom it is no coincidence that they admire; and while they deny his betrayal they try to hide their own.
But this Presence – without which the world would end – gathers together at the foot of the tabernacle many good souls, many simple people, many repentant sinners, who precisely by getting on their knees and adoring their God, Lord, and King, find the strength and the grace to cross the desert of this world, the darkness of this rebellious and hostile society. Manna absconditum – “hidden manna”: heavenly nourishment, viaticum to face the earthly journey towards eternity. Panis supersubstantialis, the Bread of Angels that becomes the Bread of men. O res mirabilis: manducat Dominum pauper, servus et humilis – “The poor man, the servant, the humble person nourishes himself with the Lord!”
The world does not understand the priceless gift that the Lord has given us, making Himself truly present in the Blessed Sacrament of the altar. It does not understand this gift because every soul that is worthily nourished by the Most Holy Eucharist receives with it the formidable protection of grace, growth in the virtues, and progress in holiness. Here on earth she takes confidence, so to speak, in the divine presence of God which makes her blessed in eternity. Holy Communion is the medicine against the plague of the world, because it restores in each soul the primacy of Our Lord over creatures, encouraging each soul to fight under the banner of the Cross.
Pay attention to this: the solitude into which Satan pushes his victims is first of all distance from the Lord, abandonment or profanation of Holy Communion, and contempt for the Blessed Sacrament. And when this enormous void of the absence of God has been created in a soul that was created to be inhabited by Him, the surrogate, the superstition, and the ideology all reveal their fraud and show forth the deformed traits of the enemy, who is envious of the privilege granted to us miserable mortals and denied to the angels themselves.
This is why it is important that our soul becomes an increasingly worthy tabernacle for the Lord; may it shine with simplicity and decorum, to allow itself to be reverberated by the divine splendor of the spotless Lamb.
Do not forget, dear brothers, to visit the Blessed Sacrament frequently. Do not fail to send your guardian angel to the Divine Prisoner of the Tabernacle, so that he may render due adoration to Him on your behalf. Do not neglect to make thanksgiving after Holy Communion, because in those blessed moments your voice rises more acceptably to heaven. If the voice is that of children, it moves the Most Sacred Heart of Our Lord: teach them to ask Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament to make them saints, and to confuse the plans of His (and our) enemies.
On this solemn feast, in which the Holy Church honors Her Lord by proclaiming Her unchanged faith in the real presence of the Blessed Sacrament, we return to the foot of the altar, to Him who is and must be the center of everything. We recognize in St. Paul’s warning, instaurare omnia in Christo – “to restore all things in Christ” (Eph 1:9), a call to recapitulate every aspect of our life in the Eucharistic King, quia te contemplans totum deficit, because only by contemplating Christ do we realize that without Him everything else it has no value. And so may it be.
+ Carlo Maria Viganò, Archbishop
June 2, 2024
Dominica infra Octavam Corporis Christi
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| Sorrowful Heart of Mary Newsletter - Spring 2024 |
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Posted by: Stone - 05-30-2024, 07:31 AM - Forum: Sorrowful Heart of Mary
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Spring 2024
Dear Few, Happy Few!
In every renewed surge of persecution against the Church it seems the Good God is always pleased to dwindle His friends down to a few. Why few? Because:
1.) It’s a lot easier for the majority of men to follow the crowd,
2.) It obliges those who remain faithful to understand the principles of the Faith and to truly love Christ the Savior, for Whom they must be ready to die, and
3.) God is pleased to purge His followers, as gold is tried in the fire.
How often He is pleased to sift the wheat from the chaff! But we must be careful and walk prayerfully and humbly, for it sometimes happens that good wheat falls to become chaff and chaff becomes outstanding wheat! St. Paul was chaff, but became the best of the Lord’s wheat, and a Bishop Nestor who was good wheat became chaff and a heresiarch!
The faithful few begin to feel the pinch and sting of the price of fidelity to Christ when they are singled out, ignored by once smiling friends, persecuted, and find themselves quite alone, humanly speaking. Abp. Marcel Lefebvre once said that even if the whole world went with the Conciliar Church and he stood abandoned by all, he still has Christ the King and all the saints in Heaven with him. He could point to all the Popes of Tradition and the shining ancient Magisterium and say “I stand with the Catholic Church not the “Conciliar” Church! They were right in previous ages, they will be right in this apostate age, despite the fact that the whole world seems to have turned its back on the Faith and Mass of all time!”
Fidelity of the few seems to please Our Lord very much. Fewness echoes back to the Flood of Noah, for only eight were saved in the ark. Few survived the fire and brimstone of Sodom and Gomorrah, because they were faithful to God. Few marched around the walls of Jericho and few were sifted out, by God’s will, to fight with Gideon’ army. Judith and her maids, won the victory over General Holerfernes; fewer still, would refuse to bend their knees to the pagan gods with Daniel the Prophet. The Maccabees entered battle with the insanely small number of 300 against 48,000 Syrians, and won! Our Lord reveals “Many are called, few are chosen.” And, “How narrow is the gate, and strait is the way that leadeth to life: and few there are that find it!” (Mt. 7:14). Few were His Apostles, and even that small number was shaken with the denials of St. Peter and suicide of Judas!
The first three hundred years of the Catholic Church was a constant purging under the ten violent waves of the Roman persecutions. Then, in the age of the great Fathers of the Church, how few stood with Tradition when the “the whole world groaned to find itself Arian!” as St. Jerome recorded. St. Athanasius was the laughing stock of bishops, he was condemned in frequent synods, excommunicated by a weak Pope, and ran for his life numerous times! The few faithful Catholics were scornfully labeled “Athanasians” by the prevailing Arians. But Truth stands on its own, no matter how few profess it!
Shall we not forget the few Catholics in the time of the English persecutions when only one bishop, St. John Fisher, and a handful of priests stood publicly opposed to the new Religion? What of the relatively few found constant in all of France, when over half the bishops and priests signed the Oath of the Civil Constitution of the Clergy in 1790, and only the Catholics in the Vendee region rose up unanimously to resist the New Masonic Regime?
What of the relatively few who resisted the Communist persecution of the Church in Spain from 1936 to 1939? Also in Mexico, from 1926 to 1930, where the Cristeros and clergy boldly resisted the Freemasonic persecution? But with each of the three successive waves of attacks, the Cristeros were increasingly betrayed and deserted by the bishops and priests, down to 1937 and beyond. Then, when the liberal bishops handed all the names of the Cristeros generals to the Masons, they were hunted down like wild animals and hung up on telephone poles, for years to come. In each case, the majority of Catholics went along with the status quo, slid with the popular current, and turned their backs on those defending Truth.
Then, lo and behold, the Second Vatican Council hit the Church from 1962 to 1965! This was the “French Revolution” in the Church bringing in the new Masonic Regime! This was the “October Revolution” of the Communists penetrating within the walls of the Vatican! 250 bishops stood with Tradition, 250 bishops were progressive Modernists and the other 2,000 bishops floated somewhere in the middle!
Shall we go on? After the nuclear blast of Vatican II, when the dust somewhat settled, Abp. Lefebvre found himself quite alone in defending Tradition. There were a few bishops clandestinely applauding him from the sidelines, but only one publicly rallied with him around the banner of Christ the King, that was Bp. De Castro Mayer. When Modernist Rome tried to stop the first wave of Catholic Resistance by leveling an, albeit, null and void suspension ‘a divinis’ against Abp. Lefebvre, in 1976, many defected from the true Resistance, but he forged forward.
Then, in 1988, Abp. Lefebvre was forced to consecrate bishops for the survival of the Catholic Faith and valid sacraments. The Catholic Faith must continue! Tradition must continue! Modernist Rome, now in the grip of Judeo-Masonic forces (as proven by the document Nostra Aetate and scandalous ecumenical-Assisi meetings) leveled a null and void “excommunication”.
This nearly scared the skin off many who stood with Abp. Lefebvre. But Modernist Rome had a quick solution. They promised the fence-sitters: “We’ll let you have your nostalgic Mass and rites, as your particular ‘charisma’, but you must accept certain aspects of Vatican II as well as accept the New Mass as ‘legitimately promulgated’, and we even promise you a bishop in the future.” Those priests who abandoned the True Catholic Resistance with Abp. Lefebvre now joined the first wave of the Fake Resistance set up by Ecclesia Dei with St. Peter’s Fraternity! Abp. Lefebvre said they were doing the Devil’s work. Their key error: putting Liturgy above Doctrine.
Shall we continue with the next attempts of the Devil to infiltrate and neutralize the world’s last bastion of Catholic Resistance; the Society of St. Pius X? It was cleverly prepared by the GREC meetings that Bp. Fellay approved of, by sending priests to their discussions in the 1990’s.
Then, Modernist Rome made its attempts to lure the SSPX leaders into fresh sessions of dialogue, knowing full well that the now-deceased Abp. Lefebvre adamantly refused all discussions until Rome returns to Catholic Tradition. For him, there must be no discussions “until Rome re-crowns Our Lord Jesus Christ as King of all nations and peoples.” This was a principle based on the primacy of the Faith. Admire the beauty of it! For Abp. Lefebvre and the saints, it is always Faith before Liturgy; Doctrine above morality and canon law! Christ the King always first!
But the ancient serpent seduced the leaders of the SSPX by thinking that they could do better than our Founder, convincing them that “now is no longer the time for the outdated ‘88-ism’, things are different now”, “we have new friends in Rome” and, as for the Society’s abnormal situation, “Rome will not tolerate it any longer” (Bp. Fellay). So, dialogue was re-opened in 2010, brashly casting aside all the warnings of our Founder. The bar was lowered from: first and foremost defending the Faith, to now: “having our approval for the traditional Liturgy.”
Now, the SSPX leaders will settle with: 1. the lifting of the so-called “excommunications” and 2. the phony semblance of having the “abrogation lifted” to say the ‘62 Latin Mass Missal, as the conditions for trusting Rome’s good will. The error: placing Liturgy above Doctrine.
Then, in 2012, the tragic Vatican II Revolution within the SSPX took place. The General Chapter of that summer overthrew the principles laid down by Abp. Lefebvre and the 2006 General Chapter, and the leaders signed the Doctrinal Declaration along with the “Six Conditions For The Agreement With Rome.” This was the “thirty pieces of silver” paying for the “unilateral recognition” from unconverted Rome! “Because they have deceived My people, saying: Peace, peace: when there is no peace.” (Ezekiel 13:10).
In 2012, there arose simultaneously the second wave of the Catholic Resistance. Most priests and faithful slid with the new direction of the Conciliar-SSPX, all the while pretending “nothing has changed, everything is the same”. Yet, priests were expelled and silenced, faithful were refused Communion, talks and publications were disseminated in support of the new liberal direction. The Angelus magazine announced a new 'non-militant approach' to defending the Faith and that would now focus on liturgical chant, aesthetics and architecture. Pressure was now applied to the priests to stop condemning the Agreement with Modernist Rome and start seeing the positive side of the Conciliar Church (in fact, Bp. Fellay will stop calling it the “Conciliar Church” altogether), they must tone down the condemnations of immodest dress and immoral vac*#+*nes from the pulpits, they must not mention political figures, etc., etc.
Finally, in 2015 and 2017, the “thirty pieces of silver” of the Doctrinal Declaration paid off, in full. Pope Francis granted the SSPX the “favors” of jurisdiction for confessions, marriages, and holy orders. Bp. Fellay will remark: “This is not a trap!” But in fact, the neutralizing of the Society founded by Abp. Lefebvre was complete! They are at last reduced to silence! (Aside from a few insignificant peeps from uninfluential quarters).
Now, in this milieu, even fewer priests and faithful, worldwide, rose up with the second wave of the Catholic Resistance. But there were still enough to rebuild. There was still hope for a resurgence. A seminary was started in Kentucky in 2013, a handful of priests were still speaking out, and most were wholeheartedly committed to continue the work of Abp. Lefebvre. However, this was the opportune time to stifle once again, any possible resurgence of the work of Abp. Lefebvre. This time there arose the second wave of the Fake Resistance, headed by Bp. Williamson!
By 2017, not one of the bishops consecrated by Abp. Lefebvre would be found to fearlessly maintain his position; they had all been successfully neutralized! Bp. Williamson would soon squelch any hopes of resurgence by mocking the true Catholic Resistance, labeling it a reaction of “Resistants” who needed to, once and for all, “put away the toys” in their hopes of continuing Abp. Lefebvre’s work. Erroneous opinions were then recklessly introduced in his conferences and Eleison Comments, such as: “the New Mass can nourish your faith,” “the New Mass gives grace,” “this is not the time for structure and organization,” “this is not the time for seminaries as envisioned by the Council of Trent,” “scientific proof supports the New Mass miracles,” "The Thuc line poses no problem now,” etc., etc. Thus, was issued-in an entire blizzard of novelties and confusion totally and systematically opposed to the positions of Abp. Marcel Lefebvre!
Now, by 2024, not one of the six or seven bishops consecrated by Bp. Williamson publicly oppose his erroneous opinions so dangerous to the Faith! Not one is heard (at least until now), to openly maintain the doctrinal position of Abp. Lefebvre, our founder! How did the champion of Catholic Tradition come to be so quickly buried and forgotten by his own sons? How could they forget his warnings about the danger of compromise with Modernist Rome, Vatican II, and the New Mass? Why are they all silent and work in silence? Where is the missionary spirit? Why do so few courageously stand with the true Catholic Resistance as publicly and unmistakably upheld by Abp. Lefebvre? Why the criminal silence against the scandals of Modernist Rome and the diocesan bishops? What happened to the primacy of the Faith? What happened to the primacy of Doctrine? What happened to the fight for the public Rights of Christ the King? What ever happened to working for Rome’s conversion to Tradition? What happened to the goal of re-Christianizing politics, economics, the family and all social institutions? What happened to rebuilding the Catholic City?
Fulfilled now are the prophetic words of Our Lady of Fatima, “only She can help you!” Only the powerful Queen of the Holy Rosary can solve this! Let us beg Her as Her devoted children, to step in quickly and grant the Church at last, a truly Catholic Pope, fearless bishops and priests who proclaim the Social Reign of the Sacred Heart of Jesus! Let us fervently pray and offer penances for all our traditional bishops, they can still regain their first fervor! “I have one somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first charity!” (Apocalypse 2:4).
Indeed, Truth does not depend on numbers! God is pleased with a faithful few who know their nothingness and totally depend on Him and on the one He gave us as our exclusive help in this atheistic age; the Queen of the Holy Rosary! In Her hands is placed the Oratory of the Sorrowful Heart of Mary in Wentworth, New Hampshire. All it’s apostolate belongs to Her! The work of Abp. Lefebvre continues! Keep fighting, we few, we happy few!
In Christ the King,
Fr. David Hewko
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| Oregon Counties Voting to Join 'Greater Idaho |
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Posted by: SAguide - 05-25-2024, 02:32 PM - Forum: General Commentary
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Oregon Counties Voting to Join 'Greater Idaho'
Demonstrators hold signs in favor of the Greater Idaho Movement
in Enterprise, Oregon, on May 12, 2023. Voters in Crook County, Oregon,
backed the project on Tuesday.
On Tuesday, Crook County in Oregon became the 13th county to approve a proposal to secede from the state and join neighboring Idaho by 53.5 percent of the vote against 46.5 percent, as part of what supporters are calling the "Greater Idaho" project.
Backers of the plan argue the more conservative areas of eastern and central Oregon are currently dominated by liberal-leaning cities such as Portland and Salem and argue their interests would be better represented in traditionally Republican Idaho.
Thus far, the Oregon counties of Wallowa, Union, Baker, Malheur, Grant, Harney, Morrow, Wheeler, Crook, Lake, Sherman, Jefferson and Klamath have all voted to support the Greater Idaho project according to Citizens for Greater Idaho, a group campaigning in favor of such a split.
Advocates of Greater Idaho hope Umatilla and Gilliam counties will vote to join the project in full, as well as Wasco and Deschutes counties in part, at which point roughly the eastern two-thirds of what is now Oregon will have backed secession. Initially, Citizens for Greater Idaho also hoped to incorporate part of southern Oregon, but they ended this plan after voters in Josephine and Douglas counties voted against the proposal.
Citizens for Greater Idaho executive director Matt McCaw welcomed the Crook County result in a statement, saying: "The voters of eastern Oregon have spoken loudly and clearly about their desire to see border talks move forward. With this latest result in Crook County, there's no excuse left for the Legislature and Governor to continue to ignore the people's wishes."
Speaking to Newsweek he added: "We are happy for the people of Crook County that they had a chance to have their voice heard on the matter, and that their elected leaders now have no doubt what the people want.
"Crook County voters, as well as the rest of eastern Oregon, have made clear that they want to pursue changing their state governance through this peaceful, win-win solution. We call on the governor and leaders of the Oregon legislature to move this forward and open up border talks."
Idaho Governor Brad Little told Newsweek: "I understand why many people want to be Idahoans. They're looking at Idaho fondly because of our strong economy, regulatory atmosphere and our values.
"Still, the decision to change Idaho and Oregon's borders would need to go through both states' legislatures and the U.S. Congress for approval. There's a lot that needs to happen before moving the border is within the realm of possibility."
The proposal would require approval by the legislatures in both states and Congress itself for counties to leave Oregon and join Idaho.
On its official website the Citizens for Greater Idaho states: "If the United States were governed as a single state, we wouldn't have the opportunity for state governance to vary according to the culture of a local area. The purpose of having state lines is to allow this variance.
"The Oregon/Idaho line was established 163 years ago and is now outdated. It makes no sense in its current location because it doesn't match the location of the cultural divide in Oregon. The Oregon/Washington line was updated in 1958. It's time to move other state lines."
If the Greater Idaho plan comes to fruition, Oregon would lose around two-thirds of its land but only 10 percent of its population, the New York Post reported, reflecting the more rural nature of the state's east.
Western States Strategies, the political arm of the Portland-based nonprofit Western States Center, opposes the Greater Idaho movement.
Speaking to Oregon Public Broadcasting in 2023, Western States chief of staff Jill Garvey said the group was concerned about Greater Idaho because of the history of secessionist movements in eastern Oregon linked to white nationalist campaigners.
"What we're doing is just pulling back the curtain. Nothing else. These are how these organizations are connected. We're naming what we believe their real goals are," Garvey said.
Newsweek has not seen any evidence that those behind Citizens for Greater Idaho hold white nationalist views.
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| Courage Under Fire- ‘It is not people, but Jesus Christ who I am trying to please’ |
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Posted by: SAguide - 05-25-2024, 02:13 PM - Forum: General Commentary
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NFL’s Harrison Butker doubles down on pro-
family speech: ‘What I value most is my Catholic faith’
NASHVILLE, Tennessee (LifeSiteNews) — In his first public appearance since enduring relentless attacks from mainstream media outlets for his pro-family commencement address last week, Kansas City Chiefs’ kicker Harrison Butker showed no sign of backing down, declaring that the “shocking level of hate” is a clear sign that “timeless Catholic values are hated by many.”
The three-time Super Bowl champion delivered his latest remarks at a fundraising event in Nashville for the Regina Caeli Academy (RCA), a classical preK-12 homeschool hybrid for Catholic families. Butker serves on the academy’s board.
“The theme for tonight’s gala, ‘Courage Under Fire,’ was decided many months ago,” began the tuxedoed Butker, “but it now feels providential that this would be the theme after what we have all witnessed these past two weeks.”
“If it wasn’t clear that the timeless Catholic values are hated by many, it is now,” he said, referring to the storm of criticism against his earlier speech at Benedictine College.
‘It is not people, but Jesus Christ who I am trying to please’
During last week’s 20-minute address at Benedictine, Butker unapologetically pushed back against abortion as well as so-called Pride Month, which he called a “deadly sin.” He singled out President Joe Biden, cowardly U.S. Catholic bishops, and “people pushing dangerous gender ideologies onto the youth of America.”
Butker also addressed himself to female graduates specifically, warning them to be aware of the “diabolical lies” the world tells them about putting their job ahead of their family.
“The more I’ve talked about what I value most – which is my Catholic faith – the more polarizing I have become,” explained Butker in his address last night to the RCA. “It’s a decision I’ve consciously made, and one I do not regret at all.”
“If we have truth and charity, we should trust in the Lord’s providence and let the holy Ghost do the rest of the work,” he continued to loud applause from the crowd. “Our love for Jesus, and thus our desire to speak out, should never be outweighed by the longing of our fallen nature to be loved by the world. Glorifying God, and not ourselves, should always remain our motivation despite any pushback or even support.”
“It is not people, but Jesus Christ who I am trying to please,” he added.
“If heaven is our goal, we should embrace our cross, however large or small it may be, and live our life with joy, to be a bold witness for Christ,” declared Butker, adding that he hoped that “many more will be unapologetic of their Catholic faith and never be afraid to speak out for truth, even when it goes against the loudest voices.”
A LifeSiteNews petiotion supporting Butker has garnered more than 20,000 signatures in less than a week after being launched.
A growing number of clergy, including Bishop Joseph Strickland, San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, as well as prominent lay persons like former Notre Dame football coach Lou Holtz have expressed support for Butker in recent days. His red number 7 jersey has become a best-seller.
A devout Catholic who exclusively attends the Latin Mass, Butker, the 28-year-old father of two was signed by the Chiefs in 2017 after being waived by the Carolina Panthers. The franchise won its third Super Bowl in five years in 2024. He has constantly given “glory to God” after his many impressive performances.
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| 24 Republican governors tell Biden they will resist ‘unconstitutional’ WHO pandemic treaty |
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Posted by: Stone - 05-25-2024, 07:00 AM - Forum: Health
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24 Republican governors tell Biden they will resist ‘unconstitutional’ WHO pandemic treaty
Republican governors in nearly half the states condemned the WHO’s pandemic treaty and International Health Regulations in a letter to Joe Biden, warning that they violate ‘our Constitution’s core principles’ and threaten America’s ‘national sovereignty.’
May 24, 2024
(LifeSiteNews [adapted - not all hyperlinks included]) — Almost half the governors in the U.S., all of them Republicans, have signed a letter to President Joe Biden declaring that they will resist any efforts of the World Health Organization (WHO) to control public policy in America through its proposed “Pandemic Agreement” and amended International Health Regulations (IHRs).
The 24 governors declared their united opposition to the pending treaty and IHRs because the agreements “would undermine national sovereignty, infringe upon states’ rights, and jeopardize constitutionally guaranteed freedoms.” The Biden administration reportedly plans to bypass the legal requirement that the U.S. Senate agree to a treaty with a two-thirds vote.
The GOP state leaders said that the aim of these agreements is to allow the WHO to “restrict the rights of U.S. citizens, including freedoms such as speech, privacy, travel, choice of medical care, and informed consent, thus violating our Constitution’s core principles.”
The governors asserted that the agreements would “seek to elevate the WHO” from a merely advisory – if already massively influential – body, “to a global authority in public health” able to “compe[l] citizens to comply with WHO directives,” potentially including medical intervention mandates. They noted that the WHO would furthermore be able to unilaterally “declare a ‘public health emergency of international concern’ (PHEIC) in member nations, extending beyond pandemics to include a range of perceived emergencies.”
READ: Rep. Chris Smith warns WHO pandemic treaty is the greatest threat to freedom in human history
Echoing the concerns of other public figures around the world, they stressed that this would altogether undermine the sovereignty of WHO member nations. Other dangers of the agreements include “global surveillance infrastructure and requirements for member states to censor speech related to public health,” according to the governors.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin, and the others noted that the pandemic treaty and the IHRs would give the WHO “unprecedented and unconstitutional powers over the United States and its people” and “could drastically change the role of governors in response to their charge as the state health officials.”
“As governors, we affirm that public health policy is a matter reserved for the states, not the federal government, and certainly not international bodies like the WHO. We are committed to resisting any attempts to transfer authority to the WHO over public policy affecting our citizens or any efforts by the WHO to assert such authority over them,” the governors concluded.
A growing number of public figures as well as U.S. states and elected officials have raised the alarm about the so-called Pandemic Agreement in recent months.
Earlier this month, Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin rallied every Republican in the U.S. Senate to sign an open letter imploring the Biden administration to reject the pending agreements being considered at the World Health Assembly (WHA) in late May.
READ: All 49 GOP senators call on Biden admin to withdraw support for WHO pandemic treaty
On Thursday, April 18, a group of GOP lawmakers and conservative activists similarly warned about the agreement at a press conference on Capitol Hill organized by the Sovereignty Coalition.
“The treaty would put us under the thumb of the UN and communist China and the WHO for whatever they wanted to declare a crisis, whether it’s poverty crisis, or a gun violence crisis or a climate crisis, or a health crisis, and make us listen to the WHO. That is not constitutional,” Rep. Bob Good of Virginia declared.
This year’s meeting of the World Health Assembly, the decision-making body of the WHO, will be held from May 27 to June 1 in Geneva, Switzerland.
The governors who signed the letter to Biden include: Governor Kay Ivey (AL), Governor Mike Dunleavy (AK), Governor Sarah Sanders (AR), Governor Ron DeSantis (FL), Governor Brian Kemp (GA), Governor Brad Little (ID), Governor Eric Holcomb (IN), Governor Kim Reynolds (IA), Governor Jeff Landry (LA), Governor Tate Reeves (MS), Governor Greg Gianforte (MT), Governor Jim Pillen (NE), Governor Joe Lombardo (NV), Governor Chris Sununu (NH), Governor Doug Burgum (ND), Governor Kevin Stitt (OK), Governor Henry McMaster (SC), Governor Kristi Noem (SD), Governor Bill Lee (TN), Governor Greg Abbott (TX), Governor Spencer Cox (UT), Governor Glenn Youngkin (VA), Governor Jim Justice (WV), and Governor Mark Gordon (WY).
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| CA to legalize human composting by 2027 |
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Posted by: Stone - 05-25-2024, 06:51 AM - Forum: General Commentary
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California to legalize human composting by 2027 as residents seek environmentally healthy burials
Growing industry of 'out-of-state customers, especially Californians' flying or driving
deceased loved ones to be composted in Washington: LA Times
Fox News [adapted: not all hyperlinks included]| May 23, 2024
California has already voted to legalize the composting of human remains in 2027, but some residents are not willing to wait that long.
The Los Angeles Times wrote about California resident Blaire Van Valkenburgh being one of a growing number of residents composting the remains of their loved ones, "But this kind of burial — natural organic reduction — won’t be legal in California until 2027, so Van Valkenburgh paid to fly her husband’s body to Washington, the first state to legalize human composting in 2020."
Until 2027, it appears that there will be a budding industry of collaboration to facilitate compost burials for those who live in California. "[I]n the first of what will probably be other such collaborations, the family-owned Clarity Funerals and Cremation in Anaheim has partnered with Return Home to offer a package deal for people in Southern California who want to compost their loved ones in Washington," the LA Times wrote.
The same outlet reported that currently, the three human composting mortuaries operating in Washington "have reported steady business from out-of-state customers, especially Californians, who are either flying or driving their deceased loved ones north."
Former Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia, who took credit for authoring California’s law, spoke about her reasons for doing so.
"I love the outdoors and I really want to be a tree in my afterlife," she told the LA Times. "My family has a crypt in Mexico, where there are no trees or shade around .... I want my soil to be used specifically for a plum tree, my favorite fruit, and my loved ones can visit me there."
Garcia added that she wanted an earlier date than 2027 for legalization of human composting, but needed to satisfy the state Cemetery and Funeral Bureau’s request for more time to set rules and standards.
"I didn’t want to risk it not getting passed," Garcia said.
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| The Proof of Censorship Is … Censored |
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Posted by: Stone - 05-21-2024, 07:10 AM - Forum: General Commentary
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The Proof of Censorship Is … Censored
Jeffrey A. Tucker
TIA | May 20, 2024
It’s not been a good week for the Censorship Industrial Complex.
The machine has been built and put into action over nearly a decade but largely in secret. Its way of doing business has been via surreptitious contacts with media and tech companies, intelligence carve-outs in “fact-checking” organizations, payoffs, and various other clever strategies, all directed toward boosting some sources of information and suppressing others. The goal has always been to advance regime narratives and curate the public mind.
And yet, based on its operations and insofar as we can tell, it had every intention of remaining secret. This is for a reason. A systematic effort by government to bully private sector companies into a particular narrative while suppressing dissent contradicts American law and tradition. It was a consensus, until very recently, that free speech was essential to the functioning of the good society.
Four years ago, many of us suspected censorship was going on, that the throttling and banning was not merely a mistake or the result of zealous employees stepping out of line. Three years ago, the proof started to arrive. Two years ago, it became a flood. With the Twitter files from a year ago, we had all the proof we needed that the censorship was systematic, directed, and highly effective. But even then, we only knew a fraction of it.
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U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy demanding censorship of any dissent over Covid policy in 2021
Thanks to discovery from court cases, FOIA requests, whistleblowers, Congressional inquiries thanks to the very narrow Republican control, and some industrial upheavals such as what happened at Twitter, we are overwhelmed with tens of thousands of pages all pointing to the same reality.
The censors developed a belief at the highest levels of control in government that it was their job to govern what information the American people would and would not see, regardless of the truth. The actions became truly tribal: our side favors banning gatherings, closing schools, says the Hunter Biden laptop is a fake, favors masking, mass vaccination, and mail-in voting, and denies the import of voter fraud and vaccine injury, whereas their side takes the opposite approach.
It was a war over information, undertaken in total disregard for the First Amendment, as if it doesn’t even exist. Moreover, the operation was not only political. It clearly involved intelligence agencies that were already hip deep in the “all-of-society” pandemic response.
“All of Society” means all, including the information you receive and are allowed to distribute.
A vast swath of unelected bureaucrats took it upon themselves to manage all knowledge flows in the age of the Internet, with the ambition to turn the main source of news and sharing into a giant American version of Pravda. All of this occurred right under our noses – and is still going on today.
Indeed, censorship is a full-on industry now, with hundreds and thousands of cut-outs, universities, media companies, government agencies, and even young people in school studying to be disinformation specialists, and bragging about it on social media. We are just one step away from a New York Times article – as follow-ups to their recent praise of the Deep State and also government surveillance – with a headline like “The Good Society Needs Censors.”
Incredibly, the censorship is so pervasive now that it is not even reported. All these revelations should have been front page news. But so captured is the news media today that there are very few outlets that even bother to report the fullness of the problem.
Not receiving nearly enough attention is the new report from the Committee on the Judiciary and the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government of the US House of Representatives.
Running nearly 1,000 pages including documentation (however many pages are purposely blank), we have here an overwhelming amount of evidence of a systematic, aggressive, and deeply entrenched effort on the part of the federal government, including the Biden White House and many agencies including the World Health Organization, to tear out the guts of the Internet and social media culture and replace them with propaganda.
Among the well-documented facts are that the White House directly intervened in Amazon’s own marketing methods to deprecate books that raised doubts about the Covid vaccine and all vaccines. Amazon responded reluctantly but did what it could to satisfy the censors. All these companies – Google, YouTube, Facebook, Amazon – became acquiescent to Biden administration priorities, even to the point of running algorithmic changes by the White House before implementation.
When YouTube announced that it would take down any content that contradicted the World Health Organization, it was because the White House instructed them to do so.
As for Amazon, which is like every publisher in wanting full freedom to distribute, they faced intense pressure from government.
These are just a few of thousands of pieces of evidence of routine interference from government against social media companies, either directly or through various government-funded cut-outs, all designed to enforce a certain way of thinking on the American public.
What’s amazing is that this industry was allowed to metastasize to such an extent over 4-8 years or so, with no legal oversight and very little knowledge on the part of the public. It’s as if there is no such thing as the First Amendment. It’s a dead letter. Even now, the Supreme Court seems confused, based on our reading of the oral arguments over this whole case (Murthy v. Missouri).
One gets the sense when reading through all this correspondence that the companies were more than a bit rattled by the pressure. They must have wondered a few things: 1) is this normal? 2) do we really have to go along? 3) what happens to us if we just say no?
Probably every corner grocery store in any neighborhood run by a crime syndicate in history has asked these questions. The best answer is to do what you can in order to make them go away. This is precisely what they did time after time. After a while, the protocol probably begins to feel normal and no one asks anymore the basic questions: is this right? Is this freedom? Is this legal? Is this just the way things go in the US?
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The Censorship Industrial Complex report - click here to read the full report
This article was first published in Brownstone Institute on May 7, 2024
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