The Shadow Pandemic: Censorship is destroying America, not protecting it

Fauci's true legacy

We must not allow the truth of the COVID-19 pandemic to be erased

-Chickens-

“True information is the real misinformation” - Ezra Klein

This tweet may be 3 months old, but it’s no less relevant today:

Charles Rixey, MA MBA (c) @CharlesRixey

COVID-19 killed ~885K Americans, and millions more will suffer from its effects for years. For almost ALL other Americans, censorship has caused the most lasting damage to their lives, perspectives, trust, compassion & hope. It has only protected the people who least deserve it

I’m sure that some people would disagree with my depiction of the impact of censorship during the last two years, but I’d point out that one of the hallmarks of censorship is that it distorts everything - even our perceptions of the censorship itself. The cruelest aspect is that it has come during the moment in which we were artificially isolated more than at any time since the Spanish Influenza of 1918. The manipulation of statistics to support narratives became so confusing for Americans that we largely just gave up trying to figure out what was happening.

Of course, not everyone believes that our current censorship regime is a net negative; the quote from Ezra Klein [above] is an actual article title - all the more stunning because Klein was the author of Sorry, but Democrats need to talk about Hunter Biden, the 10/19/19 article that was blocked when I tried to post it on Facebook in October 2020. I figured Facebook wouldn’t censor someone who almost became a host on MSNBC, but I was wrong. Nor did Klein seem to care.

It would be easy to point out that all of our chickens are coming home to roost at the moment, as our current president [the recipient of potentially election-swinging censored coverage] faces severe challenges from two countries [China & Russia] his son received millions of dollars from, largely because of events related to a 3rd country that also supported the Biden family charity with millions in donations [Ukraine]. It would be more beneficial for Americans to learn the real reason the story was killed - because it was destined to expose how the Obama administration was helping to facilitate the transfer of $9B to fund a proxy war against Russia in Ukraine, one that hadn’t been authorized by Congress.

All of that was simply icing on the pandemic cake, however - it was Anthony Fauci who opened the floodgates, and when the water recedes, Americans will discover that what they don’t know can still hurt them.

“The basic trouble with the modern world … is the intellectual fallacy that freedom and compulsion are opposites. To solve the gigantic problems crushing the world today, we must clarify our mental confusion. We must acquire a philosophical perspective. In essence, freedom and compulsion are one. Let me give you a simple illustration. Traffic lights restrain your freedom to cross a street whenever you wish. But this restraint gives you the freedom from being run over by a truck. If you were assigned to a job and prohibited from leaving it, it would restrain the freedom of your career. But it would give you freedom from the fear of unemployment. Whenever a new compulsion is forced upon us, we automatically gain a new freedom. The two are inseparable. Only by accepting total compulsion can we achieve total freedom.”

-Ellsworth Toohey, from Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead

Ayn Rand’s most famous novel, Atlas Shrugged, is frequently referenced when the topic of authoritarianism comes up in pseudo-intellectual debates, but the Fountainhead is a better story and contains a chillingly accurate depiction of woke censorship. The antagonist, Ellsworth Toohey, is a well-known author-intellectual who goes to great lengths to dumb-down public discourse by literally celebrating the worst of culture [I wanted to use Ice Ice Baby as a stereotypical example here, but in truth, our cultural rot has slid far beyond Vanilla Ice at this point].

Toohey’s proclamations all point towards an eventual collectivist society whose culture will be banal enough to prevent the instability that comes with individual thoughts and motives. One doesn’t have to dive deeply into the headlines to discover real-life examples of this philosophy, especially when considering the recent Joe Rogan pearl-clutching:

Mother Jones whines about losing in the free marketplace of ideas, The pressure campaign on Spotify to remove Joe Rogan reveals the religion of liberals: censorship, The problem with Joe Rogan is that he’s too successful, NYT on 'misinformation', etc.

Just like Ayn Rand portrayed ad nauseum via the archetype of Ellsworth Toohey, behind this soft bigotry of low expectations is an intentional push to diminish the value of creativity & individual achievement. The primary difference, of course, is that the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the ‘Toohey Effect’ within the scientific disciplines rather than the humanities; the inevitable result was catastrophic mismanagement of the public health response - a price ultimately paid by patients.

-Tears in Rain-

We continue to reap the ‘fruits’ this censored harvest:

My wife lost her best friend/maid of honor & struggled with how to phrase her Facebook posts about it so they wouldn't be blocked, or overcome by trolls repeatedly asking whether Kaitlyn was vaccinated or not. On Twitter, I couldn’t post comments that explicitly linked her kidney failure/dialysis to the antiviral Remdesivir - even though it was a mandatory part of the protocol for that hospital chain in Norfolk, Virigina.

What a sick calculus - further punishment for victims.

Senators couldn't discuss facts, scientists couldn't publish evidence, and newspapers couldn't print news.

I'm literally investigating a potential crime against ALL of humanity, & a Dr. I'd never met called my blog "anti-vax" and "conspiracy theory" while referencing NO specific evidence:

I've compiled the largest full-spectrum list of COVID-origin references on Earth [all publicly available], discovered portions of and elaborated upon the breadth and depth of censorship and narrative construction, and had numerous findings confirmed by Congress.

Typically, my response would be something like a shrug, but I know that the purpose of highlighting my Substack was to signal to others that this blog should be targeted for ‘clarification’ by the disinformation police. This is literally the world we live in at the moment, and at the center of it all remains Dr. Fauci.

Imagine if the defendant in a court case could pick & choose which evidence [of yours] went before the court at all - that is literally happening right now in the Senate. There's no legal precedent because censorship is literally the opposite of the 1st Amendment. By definition, it abuses human rights.

The NIH admitted-in writing-that it had funded GOF research, and days later Dr. Fauci denied it, again, in a Senate hearing. I tried to Tweet about it & 5 times it was made a 'reply' so my followers wouldn't see it.

That is tyranny. I can & will call it by its name. I was in Anbar Prov on election day in Dec. 2005; I watched poll workers cry tears of joy as they held up ink-stained fingers, hugging me and shaking my hand, some with bloody bandages after their fingers were blown off that day…

because freedom was worth it.

No federal agency's authority supersedes an American citizen’s right of free speech. No president's authority does. I am an historian - not just a Marine. I wrote my thesis¹ on the abuse of power in the Roman Republic. I've sacrificed my personal income for two years because our own agencies are silent.

I know what tyranny is; I’ve studied it, fought against it, and at this moment I am investigating it with DRASTIC. My wife's best friend died at 26 because she lived in Virigina, not Texas - that’s the primary and perhaps the only reason. She died on a ventilator, on dialysis, at a hospital 8 miles from Dr. Marik's, and alone.

Censorship isolates our spirit, and yet they persist.

The day before Kaitlyn died, DRASTIC published our DEFUSE² analysis. I knew it was real. So did the Intel community, yet they 'censored' it, even though they knew that it had come from their own top-secret JWICS server. Several months later, Project Veritas leaked Major Murphy's USMC Inspector General’s whistleblower complaint to the Pentagon, which included further proof . When Senator Marshall asked Dr. Fauci about it later that same day, Fauci shrugged it off and called him a moron.³

I will call censorship the name it deserves: Obstruction of Justice.

Our doctors and nurses are heroes, not insurgents.

Joe Rogan’s a hero, too.

Even Canadian Truckers understand Rousseau:

"The ability to coerce is not a legitimate power, and there is no rightful duty to submit to it"⁴

For the sake of a million dead Americans, we mustn’t submit - or forget.

~Rixey

1. The Double-Edged Sword: The Context, Composition & Impact of the Cursus Honorum, 2017.

2. Documents provided by a DARPA source which show a proposal to insert human protease- targeting Furin cleavage sites into SARS-like bat coronaviruses.

3. This is especially galling given my latest findings, which indicate that Fauci’s censorship may be directly tied to the existence of certain HIV inserts in the SARS-CoV-2 viral genome which appear to allow the virus to infect our t-cells - a key component of AIDS.

4. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Du contrat social; ou Principes du droit politique [The Social Contract or Principles of Political Right], 1762.