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This teaching on the Resurrection is a transcript of Dr. Gene Scott as he preached it live from the Los Angeles University Cathedral.

THE RESURRECTION by Dr. w. euGENE SCOTT (Ph.D., Stanford University)
Preached at the Los Angeles University Cathedral
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The Road from Runnymede

This exceptional film traces the development of Anglo-American Political Institutions, Human Rights, and the Rule of Law, from Magna Carta through the American Constitution.

The American Revolution, by Charles Burris

Modern Historians Confront the American Revolution, by Murray N. Rothbard

The Origins of American Politics, by Bernard Bailyn

The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, by Bernard Bailyn

The Central Themes of the American Revolution: An Interpretation, by Bernard Bailyn

Conceived in Liberty Combined 1-4 Volume Edition, by Murray N, Rothbard

Conceived in Liberty Volume 5, by Murray N. Rothbard

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And it’s a doozy. US Catholic bishops have been in a bind for years, and this book tells us how we got there — including the role played  by the taxpayer grants from the Agency for International Development and Obama-Biden’s millions for the bishops’ border “charities” that  wound up on the front page this year.

So it’s kept me busy (and silent) these past couple of years… but it’s worth it. I hope that LRC can give it a link!

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Looks like the tariffs have struck us in the backside yet again, in another exercise of President Trump’s penchant for creating unforeseen consequences in mindless “statecraft.” This time, due to the overall shortsighted tariff policy (aimed, as a practical matter, mostly at China), China has embargoed 7 rare-earth minerals which are essential for many “defense related” components to our high end weapons systems, and which are equally vital in many civilian uses, as well. 

This shortsightedness is becoming more and more typical of the mercurial pronouncements of President Trump, I’m afraid.   While it is doubtless true that the overall picture would have been even bleaker under Harris, it does no good for conservatives to bury our heads in the sand regarding Trump’s strategic gaffes and moral lapses.  His thinking is almost pure impulsiveness and flailing “reaction,” there is no “wisdom” behind any of it, it seems.  And his choices for advisors – especially in military and foreign affairs – are leading him to make the same mistake of surrounding himself with backstabbing neocons of the same “quality” that permeated his administration the last time around.  From backing Israeli genocide in Gaza, to seriously undermining the freedom of speech of American citizens (also in support of Israel), to picking unnecessary fights with China via tariffs and general saber-rattling, we’re not off to a good start. 

I tried to point out Trump’s rather weak grasp of details all through the campaign, but people just wanted to reply with: “Yeah, but we have to stop Harris!”  Perhaps so, but the Republican/conservative electorate, by thinking this way, and reflexively pinning all their hopes on Trump, just managed to kick the can down the road *yet again* with regard to forcing *real* change.   He’s LARPing as a clumsy Trojan Horse for political change, and, wittingly or otherwise, he’s setting the stage for the continuation of the Republican Party’s penchant for carrot-and-stick-based Hopium for the plebes out here in the national chorus.  There’s always tomorrow!  Besides, we’re ‘Murica, dadgummit!  We can cajole the whole world and take orders from one particular “ally,” while riding the wave of worldwide chaos to unimagined prosperity!  Well, sure.  Except that the reckoning for our collective, long-term, hubristic insouciance is nigh.  Judging from the trajectory of President Trump’s first three months, there will be precious little of constitutional principles or true liberty left to preserve by the next national election in 2028, and the can won’t even be able to get kicked along any further. 

Now, just three months in, Trump’s policies in military and diplomatic relations – or those of his advisors, if one insists on the distinction – have us very close to WW3 if Israel attacks Iran (entirely and solely with our direct help);  close to another international crisis that could lead to hot war with China;  close to a real First Amendment crisis of free speech for US citizens via muzzling opinion over Israeli genocide in Gaza at Israel’s behest, with possible incarceration in foreign hell-hole prisons yet;  and close to potential economic collapse, critical resource shortages or sundry other severe crises because of these crazy tariffs. 

The foregoing are the end-result of conservative complacency over 40 years at the least, where RINOs and neocons have led us by the nose because they took over the Republican Party and offered themselves as the only “choice” opposed to even worse Democrat sociopaths and communists. We did basically nothing to demand better choices in candidates, and just concentrated on being mere “game managers,” and wound-up *still* losing in the end. 

We’re toast.  Perhaps that’s an alien and incomprehensible concept for MAGA to ruminate on, and I take no delight in saying it.  Less attention should have been paid to NASCAR, the NFL, Dancing with the Stars, and other inconsequential inanities, in favor of focusing on stopping the looming national (global?) calamity dead ahead.  Fox News, Newsmax, and the rest of the so-called “conservative” mainstream media aren’t going to give anyone a heads-up about any of that.  They’re in bed with the crowd that is about to hang us with the rope we gave them by taking our own eyes off the ball for decades. 

Anyway, check out this short video from Kernow Damo’s website on the rare-earths fiasco engendered by tariffs and mindless aggression…

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Lew,

One of the most touching, sad antiwar songs ever performed is Mr.Lonely by Bobby Vincton. Vinton, who served two years in the Army, co-wrote this song when he was a lonely soldier. It was a #1 hit for him in 1964. He sung the song on the Mike Douglas Show in 1972 and in his introduction explains US troops are about to be coming home. Vinton continued to tour until 2014 and, at 90, is still with us.

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As a kid growing up in the 80s one of my favorite cartoons was ‘Voltron: Defender of the Universe.” The main characters would pilot 5 robotic lions who would eventually assemble to create Voltron, who’d use a massive sword to defeat the enemy. In this article I’ll briefly introduce 4 main thinkers and impactful friends associated with the ‘Austrian School of Economics’, and how they create the superhero needed to defend civilization from the economic and Zionist fallacies-myths that threaten it.

Besides properly grounding economics on the subjective (not labor) theory of value, founder of ‘The Austrian School’, Carl Menger(1840-1921), via his seminal “Principles of Economics” also provided what I like to call the “flux-capacitor” idea of the social sciences: Menger’s explanation of the evolution of money.

Private-sector economic competition turns the planet into a supercomputer as companies innovate and copy the innovations of competitors thus spreading superior information. Business profit-loss accounting ensures that the private sector is ordered in a manner where more wealth is produced (sales revenue) than consumed (costs) and is thus profitable-wealth-order-life increasing. Overcoming the double-coincidence-of-wants problem allows the benefits of trade like the expanding division of labor and information to apply to populations above small tribes. All three depend on or emerge from money. Without money and its emerging benefits, homo sapiens would not have progressed beyond the tribal stage. Menger showed how similar to language, which is a vital communication mechanism that man did NOT design or invent, money too and emerging ‘Social Organism’ is “the unintended result of individual human efforts (pursuing individual interests) without a common will directed toward their establishment.” The fact that money and emerging civilization was not deliberately designed is key for understanding how we live in this mind-bogglingly complex world with complex airplanes, the Internet, microchips, etc., yet hardly anyone has the slightest clue regarding how the economy works, and the masses naively clamor for self-mutilation via coercive competition-immune-monopolistic government planning  and tribalistic good vs. evil wars.

During the Christmas holidays of 1903, while a student at the University of Vienna, Ludwig von Mises(1881-1973) read Carl Menger’s “Principles of Economics” and, in his own words, “It was through this book that I became an economist.” Among other contributions (see my article on Mises’ business cycle theory), via his 1920 essay “Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth“, Mises showed how it was impossible for soviet-style central planning to work (see my article for a Mises-Hayek inspired critique of central planning). By persuading leading Austrian politicians away from joining the Bolsheviks, Mises also helped stop its calamitous expansion. Mises properly identified economic ignorance as the main source of mankind’s problems and felt like “all reasonable men are called upon to familiarize themselves with the teachings of economics. This is, in our age, the primary civic duty.” This ethos made him a brilliant and inspiring writer, the intellectual Atlas upon whose shoulders future generations would stand.

1974 Nobel Laureate in Economics F.A. Hayek(1899-1992) writes: “the decisive influence was just reading Menger’s Principles.” And that it was “such a fascinating book—so satisfying.” By having a job under Mises, especially in 1922 when Mises published his majestic “Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis”, and having Mises help him get a job at the prestigious London School of Economics, this catapulted Hayek to prominence in the 1930s-40s where he played a leading role fighting socialist and Keynesian myths in the English-speaking world. With the help of fellow Mises disciples Henry Hazlitt(1894-1993), and Max Eastman(1883-1969), Hayek’s 1944 book ‘The Road To Serfdom’, and its condensed 40-page Eastman-created version, helped educate millions including future freemarketeers like Ron Paul, Margaret Thatcher, and countless others. His classic essays like “The Use of Knowledge in Society”, “Competition as a Discovery Procedure”, “The Theory of Complex Phenomena”, “The Three Sources of Human Values” and many other writings-books helped us further understand the vital role that markets play in generating and spreading the information that coordinates the socioeconomic order, and the complex co-evolution of the market and culture, ultimately providing a complete evolutionary hypothesis-framework for understanding all order, biological and socioeconomic. Like Mises, Hayek too felt like “nothing could contribute more to the cure of humanity’s ills than to give people a better understanding of economics.”

Absorbing the Misesian econogospel and educational ethos, Murray N. Rothbard (1926-1995, Jewish like Mises) would write his own treatise “Man, Economy and State”, which according to Mises improved-refined his ideas. Murray’s friend, great freedom-entrepreneur and founder of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, Lew Rockwell, writes in a brilliant collection of Murray’s educational essays:

”[Murray] also had a passion for public persuasion. A free society can only be sustained if the general public is aware of the vital importance of the market and the terrible consequences of statism. That’s why Rothbard hoped to convince everyone about the virtues of the free economy. For Rothbard, educating the public was strategically necessary and morally obligatory.”

If economic competition motivates the discovery and spread of superior information, why not allow competition in law, courts, police, defense, and everything we naively assume must be done by inherited competition-immune bureaucracies? Murray was a pioneer in these ideas referred to as Anarcho-Capitalism and described in his books like “For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto”

Mises:

“History speaks only to those people who know how to interpret it on the ground of correct theories.”

Rothbard used his Misesian glasses to better understand history, how perverse incentives in competition-immune governments grew state power, propagated myths of all kinds, and most importantly, promoted WAR. Murray rightly saw wars, not as necessary simplistic-tribalistic battles of good-homo-sapiens vs. bad-homo-sapiens, but as the result of complex historical events and negligent-ignorant ideologues. Murray knew, and had the courage and integrity to state, that the US should have never gotten involved in WWI, that Zionism was a monumental error, and how naive politicians, not Hitler, were the main culprits in sparking and expanding the WWII calamity.

Yes! Hitler held anti-Jewish fallacies, like misinterpreting Jewish overrepresentation in the horrific Bolshevik revolution and resulting Communist movements with some deliberately malicious plot masterminded by Jews and-or also tied to their “race”. These are very understandable and easy-to-overcome fallacies. But it was also a fallacy to neglect-overlook Hitler’s fallacies, and misrepresent Hitler as some non-homo sapiens maniacal conqueror, and prevent him from overturning the wrongs of the ‘Treaty of Versailles’ like reuniting the Danzig Germans, forcing Hitler to do it by force, and then persuading the world into a massive world war. Rothbard writes in a review of A.J.P. Taylor’s classic book, “The Origins of the Second World War”:

“Germany and Hitler were not uniquely guilty of launching World War II (indeed they were scarcely guilty at all);…Hitler, in brief, (in foreign affairs) was not a uniquely evil monster or daimon, who would continue to gobble up countries diabolically until stopped by superior force…Hitler had no designs, no plans, not even vague intimations, to expand westward against Britain and France (let alone the United States). Hitler admired the British Empire and wished to collaborate with it. Not only did Hitler do this with insight, he did it with patience, as Taylor excellently shows.”

Understandable economic fallacies fooled many into adopting Socialist mythology, morality, and “identity”. Similarly, as an understandable reaction to ‘anti-Jewish fallacies’, Jews fooled themselves, and rightly sympathetic supporters, into attempting to overcome  anti-Jewish fallacies, NOT via reason and education, which are the ONLY ways to overcome fallacies, but by abandoning the humble Synagogues and towns where they were really from to create a secular and socialist state in an area already overwhelmingly populated by Muslims, Christians, and fellow anti-Zionist Jews. People who for understandable reasons were adamantly opposed to the creation of, and potentially living under a “Jewish State”. A state concocted by misguided European ideologues who inherited some of the imperialist-racist and Socialist fallacies of their times. For example, David ben Gurion, Israel’s architect and first Prime Minister, eagerly attended Moscow in 1923 to celebrate the 7th-anniversary of the Bolsheviks’ October Revolution.

Zionism, as with Socialism, was a massive intellectual error propagated by respective echo-chambers of fallacies-myths, negligence, perverse incentives, and ultimately violence-coercion. Like the Russians, Jews increasingly tied their “identity” and morality to an error and eventually reach the stage where we are today, where saying that Zionism and resulting Israeli state was an error is seen as hate-speech. CEO of the ADL Jonathan Greenblatt mentioned that: “Anti-Zionism is antisemitism”, and that: “Anti-Zionism is genocide”. Israeli author of the great books ‘The Invention of the Jewish People’, and ‘The Invention of the Land of Israel’, Shlomo Sand, astutely mentioned that: “Zionism has become…a sort of Stalinism.”

Rothbard’s classic essay ‘War Guilt in the Middle East’(1967) succinctly summarizes the inevitable fallacy that Zionism was bound to be. With Murray and friends, our freedom-superhero is better equipped to overcome, both, economic and Zionist myths-fallacies.

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An important new public opinion survey taken by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) has revealed very little American support for the deportation of legal foreign guests in the United States for expressing support for Palestine in its current conflict with Israel.

Responding to FIRE’s quarterly National Speech Index survey conducted by the Dartmouth Polarization Research Lab this month, a mere one-quarter of the respondents supported the deportation of non-citizens legally in the US for expressing pro-Palestine views. A solid majority of 52 percent are strongly opposed or opposed to such measures.

The survey result comes as US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has boasted of revoking “at least 300” student visas for the “crime” of expressing a position on middle east politics that the current US Administration disagrees with. Derided by Rubio as “lunatics” for opposing ongoing US government support for Israel as Gaza is flattened, many foreign students have been arrested by masked, armed federal agents – who refuse to even identify themselves – and sent to a federal detention facility in Louisiana.

In the case of Turkish PhD student Rumeysa Ozturk, the State Department had already produced a report concluding that she neither supported terrorism nor anti-Semitism before masked federal agents accosted her on the street and arrested her.

Her “crime” was co-authoring an op-ed in her university newspaper a year earlier criticizing Israel.

In many cases these arrests are carried out based on lists provided to the federal government by a militant, extremist group called Betar. The group is so radical that it has even been added to the pro-Israel ADL’s “extremism” list, yet somehow it has the ear of the Trump Administration.

Commenting on the findings, FIRE Chief Research Advisor Sean Stevens said, “deporting someone simply for disagreeing with the government’s foreign policy preferences strikes at the very freedoms the First Amendment was designed to protect. Americans are right to reject this kind of viewpoint-based punishment.”

Additionally, the shocking arrests and incarceration of legal residents or guests for committing no crime beyond expressing a particular point of view has begun to eat away at Americans’ confidence that the Trump Administration can be trusted to uphold the First Amendment. From Inauguration day until the FIRE poll this month, a majority of Americans have now lost confidence in the Trump Administration’s respect for our most sacred right of free expression:

Many Americans mistakenly believe government “grants” rights enshrined in the Bill of Rights, and that it grants them to American citizens only. Constitutional scholar Andrew Napolitano dismisses such claims, writing:

We know from the writings of James Madison — who authored the Bill of Rights — that the Founders regarded the freedom of speech as a personal individual natural right. It is also, of course, expressly protected from government interference and reprisal in the First Amendment. The courts have ruled that it protects all persons — no matter their immigration status — who may think as they wish, say what they think, publish what they say, worship or not and associate with whomever they choose.

While many supporters of the Trump Administration are currently applauding the arrest and deportation of legal foreign residents who express political views they do not support, they would do well to keep in mind that the vicissitudes of the American body politic may well soon turn against them and their views, and – particularly given President Trump’s stated intent to begin deporting American citizens as well – once the trap of a precedent is set they may not be able to wiggle out of it.

Indespensible pro-liberty intellectual Jim Bovard expressed it best in a recent article:

What legal perils will pro-freedom protestors face in the coming years if the Ozturk rule is canonized, entitling federal officials to crush any disfavored opinion? Big-spending Democrats may consecrate Modern Monetary Theory and demonize anyone who criticizes the Federal Reserve. I took this ‘Kill the Central Bank’ photo of Ron Paul supporters at a 2008 Capitol Hill event for his presidential campaign. If the same protestors had peacefully carried the same banner within a half mile of the Capitol on January 6, they likely would have been nailed on a bevy of federal charges. Many politicians have made stark their hatred of libertarians and freedom advocates.

As long as anyone is sitting in shackles in a federal detention center simply for writing an op-ed, freedom of speech is not safe for anyone in the United States.

While a trip into the bowels of social media suggests a torch-bearing mob rallying to send those guilty of the “wrongthink” of the day to some El Salvadorian gulag, the good work of the freedom of expression organization FIRE reassures us that cooler heads continue to prevail. However, by no means does that suggest we can afford to let our guard down for a minute. This is not an issue of partisanship, but of principle. The mob – whether left or right – must not be allowed to take over.

Reprinted with permission from The Ron Paul Institute.

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So, you wonder why Democrats are so anxious to bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia back to the USA. Is it to lead the national ticket in 2028? Who else have they got? Pete Buttigieg doesn’t have half of Kilmar’s charisma. AOC is just pretending to be Sandy-from-the-block — and everybody knows it. Who else best represents the party’s newest constituency: the undocumented (people unfairly deprived of documents by a cruel and careless bureaucracy)? Who best represents the Democratic Party’s number one policy goal: diversity fosterization! Kilmar, of course! Viva Kilmar!

It’s also pretty obvious by his recent actions, that Judge “Jeb” Boasberg is angling to be Kilmar’s running mate in ‘28. Perfect! He could fulfil the traditional role of vice-president by doing nothing for four years, which is exactly what people of non-color should do in the Democratic Party’s new national order. (Haven’t they already done enough?) Boasberg could set an example for the rest of America’s dwindling color-deficient population: quit hogging all the action, stop collecting all those dividends and annuities, step aside and give the other a chance at the American Dream!

Did you happen to notice how enterprising Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been since he boldly breached the border in 2011, fleeing persecution from the vicious gangs of his native El Salvador? Running a one-man jobs program, he crossed the country countless times indefatigably from Maryland to California in his mobile office — the legendary KAG SUV — seeking employment opportunities for young women of color otherwise condemned to clean hotel rooms and labor in senior care facilities filled with abusive people of non-color clinging pointlessly to life only to oppress their caretakers with never-ending demands for medication and extra portions of Jello.

Kilmar’s gritty organization, Mara Salvatrucha-13, has been among the Democratic Party’s most effective NGOs in a greater galaxy of justice-seeking ventures marshaled under the USAID umbrella — recently vandalized by Elon Musk’s DOGE band of pillaging oligarchs. MS-13, for short, was beloved among the undocumented for its fund-raising abilities, its networking expertise, and its relentless search for the missing documents the undocumented have been looking high-and-low for lo these many decades — rumored to be concealed in a vast underground complex in the Catoctin Mountains of Frederick County, MD. (More white peoples’ mischief!)

Thus, it came to pass that Kilmar Abrego Garcia, Maryland Dad-of-the-Year, was cruelly snatched from an MS-13 board meeting last month and transported without benefit of due process to the Salvadorean hell-hole known as CECOT (Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo). And so, his Senator, Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) traveled this week to Central America on his one-man rescue mission. The Senator claimed he was detained miles from the gate of CECOT, and yet we have this photograph of Mr. Van Hollen meeting with Kilmar (and an unidentified aide) over Margaritas and pupusas at a cantina in the nearby town of Tecoluca. Asked to comment on the photo, El Savador’s Presidente, Nayib Bukele, declared: “Kilmar Abrego Garcia, miraculously risen from the ‘death camp’ & ‘torture!’ Now that he’s been confirmed healthy, he gets the honor of staying in El Salvador’s custody,” Mr. Bukele added.

Oh, so you say Señor Presidente! But not if “Jeb” Boasberg can help it. The dauntless super-judge has ordered Kilmar to be returned the USA pronto expressimo, or else he, the judge, is laying criminal contempt charges on the entire West Wing staff of Donald Trump’s White House. They will go to jail just like Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro, two capos regime of Trump’s MAGA gang, did last year for the insolence of refusing to testify in Congress. Only, they will get life-without-parole! Lessons to be learned, ye miserable color-deficient, oppressors!

Alas, the DC federal district court is a bit short of enforcement officers, so Judge “Jeb” has enlisted the Harvard rowing crew to bring Kilmar back home. Kilmar will take the coxswain’s place in the racing shell as the crew rows up the Pacific Coast to their planned landing spot at Las Olas, CA, just south of San Diego. Joy will reign in Wokeville.

Having displayed such pluck at diplomacy, unnamed sources say Senator Van Hollen is under consideration for Secretary of State when Kilmar wins the 2028 election. Up until now, we’d been hoping for Senator Adam Schiff to fill that spot, but he has his hands full fighting the influence of the Soviet Union on the Trump cabinet. Looking forward, though, to the bold prosecutor, New York AG Letitia ‘Tish” James, moving into the top spot at DOJ, if her term for mortgage fraud ends before Jan-20, 2029. The Democratic Party — such bright prospects! Forward together, with Kilmar and company! Documents for all, at long last!

Reprinted with permission from Kunstler.com.

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For 20 years, the REAL ID law has been languishing in enforcement purgatory. But Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem recently announced that’s about to change.

Anyone who wants to enter federal buildings, fly, or tour nuclear power plants will soon need a REAL ID. According to Noem, this is for our own good. She said:

Starting May 7, you will need a REAL ID to travel by air or to visit federal buildings in the United States. These IDs keep our country safe because they help prevent fraud and they enhance security. Please do your part to protect our country. Go today and don’t delay.

This is not what I supported!

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. – William Pitt the Younger

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem announces everyone will need a REAL ID to fly starting MAY 7. pic.twitter.com/FB7r7QB4zs

— T (@Rifleman4WVU) April 12, 2025

Conservative Pushback

But many Americans aren’t interested in “doing their part.” Noem’s announcement triggered significant pushback.

Former Representative Ron Paul (R-Texas) likened justification for the REAL ID to the erroneous justification Americans received about the Federal Reserve Bank. He laughingly pointing out how “they always twist” laws such as these to fool people into believing it’s for their safety. He said advocates of the Federal Reserve justified that monstrosity by claiming it would prevent money counterfeiting. In reality, the point of the Fed was to establish a monopoly on currency. REAL ID, he said, is similar. It’s designed to establish a government monopoly on control. Paul signaled that he was becoming disillusioned with the Trump administration:

I’m not very happy with the direction we’re going right now. It looks like we’re going to lose a lot more privacy if this bill is re-opened and made much worse. It looks like it can do a lot more damage yet to come.

Representative Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) is also a vocal opponent. He said the REAL ID will not accomplish what the government claims it would:

Real ID isn’t needed and won’t stop terrorists from hijacking planes. Most of the 9/11 hijackers held Saudi, UAE, Egyptian, or Lebanese passports. Real ID is a national standard and database of IDs that is primarily a tool for control of Americans. Trump shouldn’t enforce it.

Popular conservative YouTubers The Hodgetwins asked, “Why not delay it like past administrations did so you can hear from the people on it? Americans don’t want a big government surveillance state.”

The American Policy Center said the REAL ID “has many tentacles that are each very egregious.” The group also believes this legislation could threaten Americans’ gun rights:

You may wrongly believe the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security would never add purchasing a firearm and/or ammunition to the OFFICIAL PURPOSE of the Real ID Act 2005…. In fact, Democrats in California have already made a move in that direction. The attempt failed at the time because all States/Commonwealths were not yet certified as being Real ID compliant. In 2021, the Department of Homeland Security certified all States/Commonwealths as being Real ID compliant.

The Secretary of the DHS can require the seller of the firearm and/or ammunition to swipe the back of the Real ID compliant drivers’ license and provide the information to the DHS.

ACLU Opposition

This law is so bad that it triggered a rare episode of clarity and dedication to values from the New York branch of the ACLU. The ACLU warned REAL ID would create the first national identification system in American history. It would also set federal standards for state driver’s licenses and identification cards. That means it could be required to vote, go to a ball game, access Medicaid, or even get a gun (you read that right; the ACLU is suddenly worried about your gun rights). REAL ID requirements could also spill over into the private sector, says the ACLU. And it “could establish an enormous electronic infrastructure that government and law enforcement officials — or whoever else hacks in — could use to track Americans’ activities and movements.”

Papers, Please

Paul made similar arguments in 2005 before the bill passed. He argued on the House floor that the REAL ID would lead to the nationalization of all identification. “It will be the introduction of the notion that we will be carrying our papers.” The REAL ID bill, Paul added, had no limitations. “There are minimum standards but no maximum limitations,” meaning the government can add anything it wants, including a category for people who are in gun clubs.

He took the gun analogy further. While some advocates truly believe the REAL ID will make Americans safe, the argument is about as solid as the one that says gun registration will tell authorities which criminals have guns. He said, “So you’re registering all the American people because you’re looking for a terrorist — and all a terrorist is going to do is evade the law. But we, the American people, have to obey the law. If we don’t, we go to prison.”

REAL ID Origins

Congress passed the REAL ID in 2005 after it was recommended by the 9/11 Commission. Representative James Sensebrenner (R-Wis.) sponsored the legislation. Sensebrenner also authored the Patriot Act, which gave the federal government enormous latitude to legally spy on Americans.

The primary argument for the REAL ID was that it would strengthen national security by preventing terrorists from obtaining fake IDs. Sensebrenner also touted it as a way to support law enforcement, a notion no patriotic American would ever oppose. And, according to the venerable 9/11 Commission, REAL ID would close the security gaps that allowed that terrible day to happen.

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For most of my life, I’ve observed the FDA belligerently suppress natural treatments and any unorthodox therapy which threatens the medical monopoly while simultaneously railroading through a variety of unsafe and ineffective drugs regardless of how much public protest the agency meets. Consider this 2004 Senate testimony by the FDA scientist who got Vioxx banned that accurately described exactly what would come to pass with the COVID vaccines two decades later.

As such, I do not hold the FDA in a positive light, especially given that during COVID-19, I (like many others) spent hundreds of hours trying to get the agency to allow the limited use of off-patent therapeutics for COVID-19—all of which ultimately went nowhere due to the unjustifiable roadblocks the agency kept putting up.

Over the past year, especially since Trump’s election, I’ve received many questions about FDA reform. To address the issue properly, I’ve carefully examined both sides.

In medicine, “sensitivity” refers to a test’s ability to correctly identify those who have a condition (e.g., detecting an infection), while “specificity” measures how well the test avoids false positives (i.e., correctly identifying those who don’t have the condition). The challenge is that improving one often reduces the other. For example, increasing the PCR cycle threshold in COVID tests made it more likely to detect infections (higher sensitivity), but also increased false positives (lower specificity). This trade-off leads to problems, like breast cancer screenings, where high sensitivity can result in false positives and unnecessary “treatments” for women who don’t actually have cancer.

The FDA faces a similar challenge: it must prevent harmful foods and drugs from reaching the market while ensuring useful products aren’t blocked. Though this seems straightforward, it’s incredibly difficult, and the FDA has often failed at both, even with leadership dedicated to public health.

Crime Against the Food Law

In the late 1800s, food producers were selling adulterated products, and pharmaceutical companies peddled medicines with secret ingredients like opium and alcohol. Public outrage grew, especially after exposés like Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle, which helped spark the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act. This law gave the Bureau of Chemistry the power to ensure accurate labeling and prevent harmful additives in food.

The director of the Bureau of Chemistry (and thus the first head of the FDA), Harvey Wiley conducted tests on food additives, proving they made healthy volunteers sick. While the public and many scientists supported his findings, the food industry fought back with powerful lobbyists and legal tactics.

Note: the additives Wiley scrutinized were boric acid and borax, salicylic acid (aspirin) and salicylates, benzoic acid and benzoates, sulfur dioxide and sulfites, formaldehyde, sulfate of copper (used to green produce), and saltpeter (nitrates).

Gradually, the food industry hijacked the presidency, and in 1912, Wiley resigned, realizing he could achieve more for America’s health as a private citizen than within the government.

Wiley’s book “The History of A Crime Against The Food Law” details much of the same abhorrent industry tactics we see happening now. For example, a series of investigative reports recently showed that the processed food industry’s lobbyists worked fervently behind the scenes to block RFK’s nomination and had there not been widespread public protest, would have stopped us from Make America Healthy Again.

Those tactics also highlight a key point Wiley made—the only way to create change in this industry is to coax the public at large to demand it, as the moment you rely upon the members of the government to fix it, lobbyists will crush those efforts.

Generally Recognized as “Safe”

Many food additives are “generally recognized as safe” (GRAS), meaning they’re widely used without regulation. Wiley faced two major issues: food industry counterfeiting and harmful additives. The industry often faked products to cut costs, like selling grain alcohol as whiskey or using polluted waters to enlarge oysters.

Despite evidence of harm, the food industry claimed these additives were essential for production, even though competitors showed higher-quality (and ultimately more profitable) products could be made without them. Wiley also warned that chronic exposure to additives could cause long-term health issues, such as organ damage and aging.

Sadly, his concerns were ignored as industry influence grew and he was unable to ban them—rather they were eventually reclassified as “generally recognized as safe.” As a result, these “safe” additives have contributed to widespread chronic illness in society.

Note: those additives included sodium benzoate, sulfur dioxide, alum (potassium aluminum sulfate), sulfur dioxide, saccharin, modified corn sugars, saccharin, and nitrogen bleached flour—many of which were linked to cancer. Sadly, since 2000, nearly 99 percent of new food chemicals added to the food supply chain have exploited the GRAS loophole. I believe the widespread use of aluminum in processed foods is particularly detrimental (due to it greatly impairing the physiologic zeta potential and causing micro-clotting throughout the body), and provides a key explanation for why you often see certain rapid improvements in individuals once they stop eating processed foods and their additives.

The Kefauver–Harris Amendment

In the years that followed Wiley’s departure, the handicapping of the FDA continued. As such, the FDA agent assigned to the morning sickness drug thalidomide could only stall but not reject it—a tactic that prevented catastrophic birth defects across America. A 1962 amendment was then passed, giving the FDA the power to block unsafe drugs.

This law gave the FDA excessive power, slowing drug approval and causing mismanagement. It also required “well-controlled” trials for drug approval, which the FDA defined as expensive double-blind randomized controlled trials (RCTs). This:

• Elevated RCTs, making drug approval a “pay-to-play” system, with approval costs soaring to 0.98-4.54 billion.1,2
• Created bias, as RCTs cost so much they inevitably produce results in favor of their sponsor (which often outweigh any benefit of their expensive “controlled” design).
• Sidelined smaller, effective observational trials, which, being affordable, are feasible for investigators to conduct without pharmaceutical sponsorship and can yield the same results as large RCTs (proven by a 2014 Cochrane Review).
• Stifled innovative therapies, as unorthodox treatments lacking costly RCTs were dismissed. As a result, medical innovation in the U.S. slowed, with scientists financially pressured to avoid challenging existing paradigms, leading to fewer groundbreaking discoveries despite advancing technology.

Because the FDA had rapidly expanded in numerous directions it was not prepared for, it subsequently frequently failed to fulfill its primary responsibilities (e.g., taking something harmful off the market), and it simultaneously took things away Americans actually wanted. This in turn led to numerous committees investigating the FDA (e.g., Commissioner Lay’s Kinslow report of his agency’s serious shortcomings) and key officials with integrity like Lay being kicked out, all of which were encapsulated a series of scathing articles that were published by the New York Times in 1977.

In my eyes, the most important thing about this period of FDA reforms was that the FDA was the most complained about agency in the government. Congress made numerous attempts to fix it (as did ethical FDA officials)—but nothing was ever solved.

The DMSO Saga

Over the last seven months, I’ve begun exploring a remarkable forgotten side of medicine—DMSO. This simple and freely available natural chemical is incredibly effective at treating a variety of (often “incurable”) conditions, including many that are otherwise impossible to treat including:

•Strokes, paralysis, a wide range of neurological disorders and circulatory disorders.

•Chronic pain and a wide range of tissue injuries.

•Many autoimmune, protein and contractile disorders.

•Head conditions, such as tinnitus, vision loss, dental problems, and sinusitis.

•A wide range of internal organ diseases.

•Acute and chronic infections including shingles and herpes.

•Many skin conditions including acne, herpes, hair loss and varicose veins.

•Many aspects of cancer, and when used in combination with other therapies, directly treating challenging cancers.

Likewise, since publicizing this research, I’ve received over two thousand reports from readers who then took it and had almost unbelievable results that precisely match what many reported in the 1960s and 1970s.

This all raises a simple question. How is it that no one knows about DMSO or that an agent that could dramatically reduce the need for opioids or prevent millions with stroke and spinal cord injury from having a life of disability never saw the light of day?

That’s because as DMSO rapidly spread across America in the 1960s, the FDA reversed its initial positive stance, declaring DMSO dangerous without evidence. This pivot was initially prompted by the FDA not wanting to have to process a flood of new drug applications, and then evolved into being done to protect the status quo and to justify the FDA’s newfound police powers. Despite extensive safety studies showing DMSO posed no risk to humans and numerous Congressional hearing being held to legalize DMSO, for decades, the FDA continued to demonize it, claiming a lack of evidence for efficacy (as DMSO’s characteristic effects make blinded trials with it impossible). Because of this, DMSO only became available decades later after the public got fed up with the FDA targeting natural medicines and the 1994 Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act was enacted (which removed the FDA’s ability to regulate natural medicines).

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