You Talkin’ To Me, Pal? – The Dos and Don’ts of Digital Discourse
By James Fitzgerald It felt like all eyes were on him as he sat there pondering his last words — an utterance that had come from his heart, and which he thought would take the dull, cruel conversation in another, healthier, direction. But the silence was deafening, as if he had just walked into a saloon in the old Wild West and the piano had just stopped playing. What should he do now, he pondered, withdraw and find another outlet, or pull his proverbial gun out one more time, and blast these sycophants between the eyes? “John98765354” wasn’t really in a western bar, but he was in Bandit Country — a focal point of cyberspace we have come to know as social media. He had interjected in a thread about mask wearing under Covid conditions, and had challenged the status quo of the group by suggesting that masks might be…
Adventures in Homeschooling Open Up New Possibilities
By James Fitzgerald The threat of mandatory temperature checks and mask wearing in schools has some parents at the tipping point, where they start to plot a future with tutelage of their kids moved firmly under their supervision and roof. This was preceded by evidence of extreme liberal agendas being added to curriculums in some states, where traditional notions of sexuality and gender are being challenged or overturned completely. Divisive and disturbing statements made by academics from elite universities on race and gender have further undermined confidence in the educational system in the US and Europe. When Pink Floyd sang “we don’t need no education”, they were lamenting the harsh and industrial nature of the schools of the 1960s and ‘70s, where cynicism and the cane were the order of the day. The pendulum of western society has now swung towards parental paranoia around safety and an indulgence in the…
Vax Zealots Try to Put Their Message in A Bottle
By James Fitzgerald My mother was a nurse in London in the 1960s, where respiratory illness was prevalent amid the industrial pollution of the day. The hospital wards would be filled with patients in tents, meticulously maintained and cleaned to avoid infection by the regimented and strict battalions of nurses. Woe betide anyone who stood up the matrons of the day. Those fearsome custodians of good practice were there to enforce rules that saved lives — or so they believed. However, that trusting medical orthodoxy of the time did not dare question the wisdom of placing patients under plastic bags, with the result that many would have died of asphyxiation, as witnessed by my mother. Noticeably absent was also an outcry and public exposure of this widespread malpractice. At some point, someone realized that the tents were killing people, and they came down quietly and suddenly, never to be mentioned…
Attorneys Fight for Constitutional Rights Against Tyranny
First, they wanted everyone masked and stocked up on hand sanitizer, then came the toilet paper mania, and in short time states were mandating stay-at-home quarantines and “non-essential” business closures due to COVID-19. What began as a two-week quarantine, turned into weeks and months, and by May they had crashed the entire economy. Everything was blown out of proportion, including the potential death rate, sending a lightning bolt of panic through the country. With each week, more freedoms were stripped away, people’s constitutional rights were stomped on, unjustified fines and arrests were being implemented against people who couldn’t wear masks, those who attempted to open their business so they could feed their families, or those who wished to pray at church. In a matter of a few short months, the country was turned upside down and governors were abusing their authority. Eventually, class action suits began in multiple states, citizens…
Let’s Get Real Before Real Gets Us
The number one question in the U.S. right now is who is going to stop all this lawlessness from coast to coast? This is a multipronged approach at destabilizing our country to take it over. And whereas there are definitely some well overdue changes needed in this country, lighting a path for its destruction is not one of them. It’s time to get real before real gets us. If it’s not already crystal clear that what is being orchestrated on a global scale is an attempt for the UN to carry out their one world governance plan, then you’ve missed the writing on the wall. Recently, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres tweeted, “as we mark the 75th anniversary of the UN Charter, we must reimagine the way nations cooperate. We need an effective multilateralism with scale, ambition and teeth.” As Breitbart reported, Guterres claimed in the 21st century, governments are no…
