“Ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone.”
If you know the song, then you know no more poignant musical expression of emotion exists. (If you don’t know the song and have never been gripped by it, MusicLove sez do yourself a favor by listening to the artistry of Mr. Bill Withers.)
Ain’t.
This moving, powerful song begins with a negative. It serves as a stark reminder that there are times when the mood is stronger set and the truth better stated by the negative, by stating with certainty that which is not.
Ain’t.
Here is my certainty. If it be yours as well, then time to raise your voice. Time now to rise. I suspect, that like me, many of you wish simply to be left alone to make your own choices and live your own lives as best you see fit. This is your birthright as Americans. It was set forth in the sacred documents: stated in the Declaration of Independence (When in the course of human events…; codified in the Constitution (We the People…). But today in our nation powerful forces work in league to deprive us the individual freedoms granted by our Constitution. In their hubris, by their condescension, in their lust for control over us to their gain this evil league seeks to replace our own choices with their dictates. My certainty, forged in the guarantees of the Constitution, tempered by the blood sacrifices of our ancestors and contemporaries, is that they shall fail.
They ain’t think for me. They ain’t speak for me. They ain’t choose for me. They ain’t live in my stead for me.
Today, the members of this league of lunacy are plain to see, easy to name, frightful in their aims. The tools they work with are tried and true and can be wickedly effective when wielded by the hands of tyrants. An essential tool of tyranny is censorship of the expression of thought and censorship of debate. And, of course, censorship is no working tool at all but a weapon.
This weapon of the wicked is being deployed daily in the United States of America by internet social media platforms bent on depriving Americans of access to alternative, fact- based posts that debunk the league of lies narrative about the safety, efficacy and necessity for rushed-to-market vaccines that have not met even minimal established testing standards and masks that are virtually useless against the spread of viral infection.
Speak these truths –and they are truths well established—and you can expect your internet post and often your entire site to be deleted: Truth 1; the porous, flimsy masks government wants to force you to wear in the deluded hope of preventing the spread of covid are all but useless for that purpose. (I ain’t wearing one.) Truth 2; the available vaccines being forced on you do not prevent you from contracting covid. (Even though the U.S. President went on television and emphatically declared, then repeated, that you cannot get covid if you are fully vaccinated.) Media, rather than challenge that dangerous lie, attempted to mitigate it at first by admitting to such a thing as rare “breakout cases” occurring in the vaccinated –but, of course, cases of the vaccinated getting the virus are now so numerous that the absurd euphemism is fast disappearing from use. (I ain’t getting the shot.) Truth 3; these vaccines are dangerous, even deadly, for some folks. Consequently, it must be individual choice to receive the shot or not. Truth 4; there are and have been throughout this panic-demic well known, highly effective treatments for this virus. The lie told to you by government and media and parroted by regular folks suffering from fear induced hysteria is that these treatments are untried and maybe even dangerous. No. They ain’t that. Covid can be dangerous. These treatments are well known to work and are being used by doctors who are actually ethical to successfully treat patients infected by covid. If you hear a government official, hospital administrator or doctor lament that the ER, or even the hospital as a whole is overwhelmed by covid patients –then ask those ethics deficients how many of those unfortunate sick folks are being treated with these protocols being successfully used by ethical doctors all across the country. Ask them how many of their suffering victims are even being offered the option of trying these known-to-be-safe -and -effective treatments. The public hears little about these life saving treatments because internet media deletes the multitude of posts lauding their success and TV media refuses to acknowledge and accurately report on that success. Truth 5; It is a lie when some self-proclaimed authority tells you more children are suffering serious illness and death now from the variant of the virus than from the original version and, therefore, children must be vaccinated. The rate of child hospitalizations and child death rates from covid were higher in August 2020 than in August 2021. This information is readily available. (You ain’t putting the shot in my child).
Ain’t.
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