Must Watch Documentary on COVID Vaccine Adverse Reactions and their Cover-Up: “Follow the Silenced.”

I just finished watching the new documentary, "Follow the Silenced," an allusion to thousands of Americans who were vaccine-injured. I'm irate at the fraud committed by public health officials, legacy media and pharma. Anyone who thinks that our COVID response was anything less than detestable should watch this video. You might have it in your mind that these entities were trying to act in good faith in a difficult set of circumstances.

Bullshit. Why were the % of adverse reactions rigged downward by claiming that a person is not considered vaccinated until WEEKS after the first shot, even though many of the severe injuries were manifest immediately? Watching this documentary, you'll learn that doctors were discouraged from reporting side effects to VAERS. You'll learn that people who suffered severe injuries were ignored. They were told by doctors and public health that they were merely anxious and that they had no injuries even though they were bed-ridden. You'll see the actual numbers that constituted a safety signal while, at the same time, public health official and politicians were telling us to keep pumping these dangerous products into our arms. Like I did. Three times. Without informed consent. Here is the documentary's indictment: in summary form, along with some screenshots from the documentary:

Suppression of Vaccine Injury Stories: Public health authorities, pharmaceutical companies, and the government systematically silenced and censored individuals who experienced severe adverse reactions to COVID-19 vaccines. Victims, such as Brianne Dressen and Ernest Ramirez Sr., were ignored when attempting to share their experiences, pointing to a broader effort to conceal the scope of vaccine injuries.

Illegal Censorship Campaign: The federal government, in collaboration with Stanford University and social media companies, engaged in an illegal censorship campaign that violated the First Amendment rights of vaccine injury victims. This effort allegedly aimed to suppress narratives that questioned the safety of COVID-19 vaccines. For instance, FB shut down numerous groups of organically organized vaccine-injured people.

Abandonment by the Medical Establishment: The medical establishment abandoned vaccine-injured individuals, leaving them without proper care or acknowledgment. Victims were dismissed or neglected by healthcare systems after experiencing life-altering adverse effects.

Cover-Up of Adverse Effects Data: Consider the Defense Medical Database (DMED), where an alleged 1100% increase in neurological diseases among service members was observed in the year following the introduction of COVID-19 vaccines. The Department of Defense shut down access to this data to obscure these findings, a deliberate cover-up. Pfizer's own data (that it attempted to hide) showed 26,000 cases of nervous system disorders in its clinical trials. 24 Hours after Senator Ron Johnson told the Biden WH to preserve DIMED data (that indicated that the vaccines were dangerous) the system went down and then reappeared with doctored data.

Media Complicity in Misinformation: The news media betrayed public trust by aligning with pharmaceutical and government narratives, failing to investigate or report on vaccine injury cases, and contributing to the marginalization of affected individuals. These accusations frame a narrative of systemic misconduct, lack of transparency, and disregard for those harmed by vaccines.

You are invited to view "Follow the Silenced," without charge, here:

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Free Speech Hypocrisy

Nico Perrino (of FIRE) sternly points out the rampant hypocrisy.

Do we actually believe in free speech?

Do we actually believe controversial speakers have a right to speak in America — free from government censorship?

For the past decade, I stood alongside conservatives who loudly — and justifiably — protested when speakers like Ben Shapiro and Charles Murray were prevented from speaking on college campuses, often under the guise of vague appeals to "safety."

Will those same voices rise up now that the boot is on the other foot?

Do we actually believe in free speech as a principle, or merely as an expedient argument when our side is censored?

Do we actually oppose cancel culture?

Do we actually oppose the heckler's veto?

Do we actually oppose vague security rationales for censorship?

I will work with anyone to defend free speech in any scenario, even if doing so means those same people — whether they are the canceled conservatives of the past or the canceled left-wingers of the present — will sometimes abandon free speech when it's their side doing the censoring.

Believing in free speech is as simple as the golden rule: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."

Nat Henthoff's book title comes to mind: "Free Speech for me, but not for thee."

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NPR Forgets Important Facts Regarding Michael Brown

NPR reports the "News."

Grok Offers this description of an excellent documentary I viewed: "What Killed Michael Brown?" Well worth watching:

What Killed Michael Brown? (2020), written and narrated by Shelby Steele and directed by his son, Eli Steele. Below is an overview based on available information:

Overview

What Killed Michael Brown? is a 1-hour, 49-minute documentary that explores the 2014 shooting of Michael Brown, an 18-year-old Black man, by white police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri. The incident sparked nationwide protests and became a pivotal moment for the Black Lives Matter movement. The film challenges mainstream narratives about the event, particularly the "hands up, don’t shoot" slogan, which it argues is a "poetic truth" not grounded in evidence. Instead, it presents a perspective rooted in Shelby Steele’s conservative viewpoint, emphasizing personal responsibility and questioning systemic racism as the sole explanation for Brown’s death. Key Details

* Director: Eli Steele

* Writer/Narrator: Shelby Steele, a Hoover Institution fellow and noted conservative author who argues that systemic racism is more a strategy than a truth.

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When You Lose Friends for Saying Out Loud the Things You Observe

Lost any friends for saying what you actually think? None of them have return even after the legacy news finally catches up with the truth.

Things like these:

Many more COVID lies here.

People addicted to legacy news insist that the above untruths were only mistakes, not lies.  My response: if a expert in the field claims that they know something that they don't know, and that they know they don't know it, it is a lie.

"It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled."

And in the meantime, I have met and befriended numerous courageous thinkers, those who say what they think regardless of the fact that we are surrounded by fact-police, opinion-police and language police.

It's sometimes disorienting, disappointing and hurtful, but eventually you will be part of a much improved social network: people who think for themselves rather than huddling with sheep, people run in tribes. Steve Kirsch and Brett Weinstein independently described this turnover of friends here.

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Shutting You Up – Being Canceled by the Political Left’s Perfect Rhetorical Fortress

Over at Facebook I often post news items (from X) that people won't see if they get their "news" from legacy outlets. In response, many people have tried to belittle me with many flavors of ad hominem attacks. It's amazing to see grown adults resort to such tactics. They also use many other tactics, most of which are described in an excellent book by Greg Lukianoff and Rikki Schlott: The Canceling of the American Mind.

I asked Grok 3 to summarize the tactics often used by people on the political far Left against anyone who disagrees, including people like me who had for many years voted for Democrats. No longer. I don't recognize the current Democratic Party and I abhor many of their positions, such as pro-war, pro-censorship, race-essentialism and advocating for confused teenagers to undergo permanent life-changing surgeries and sterilization through cross-sex hormones and so-called "puberty blockers."

When I criticize these positions on social media it doesn't take long for the attacks to start. Many of these attacks have been described in Chapter 6 of The Canceling, "The Perfect Rhetorical Fortress." These are not attempts to communicate. Rather, they are attempts to shut people up, to cancel them. I asked Grok to summarize these "barricades." Here's Grok's response (which I reviewed for accuracy):

These tactics are described as "barricades" that form an impregnable fortress, protecting the user from having to address arguments on their merits. Below is a summary of the 11 barricades as presented in the chapter, based on the book’s framework:

Fasco-Casting This barricade involves labeling someone as "conservative," "right-wing," "far-right," "fascist," or even "neo-confederate," regardless of their actual beliefs. By associating the speaker with a negatively perceived ideology, their arguments can be dismissed outright as inherently bad or unworthy of consideration.

Are You a Man or a Woman? This tactic questions whether the speaker’s gender disqualifies them from speaking on certain issues. For example, men might be told they can’t discuss women’s issues, creating a barrier based on identity rather than the argument’s validity.

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