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With that fact in mind, no one should have been surprised when the Imperial College computer model was made obsolete by Imperial College itself just days after making that “End of the World” prediction. After getting a bit more real-time accurate statistics, the projected death rate for the United Kingdom went from 500,000 to just under 20,000.
It should be noted that in a normal year with absolutely no pandemic the United Kingdom loses approximately 18,000 people to the common flu.
Again, the Wuhan COVID-19 pandemic was quite serious and did merit the strongest response possible from all of us. But… a reasoned response.
Sadly, reason was left behind by many.
As we saw and experienced, the doom-and-gloom computer model projections are what set off not only that initial mindless panic, but greed and… the first hints of totalitarianism.
Not letting this good crisis go to waste, a number of governors and mayors in our country soon realized that thanks entirely to the growing panic and draconian lockdowns spawned from especially the error-filled computer model projection, they could suddenly exercise close to complete dictatorial powers within their respective states, cities, and towns and issue edicts that greatly curtailed or outright forbade the God-given rights and freedoms of their citizens. One couldn’t go to church, earn a living, run a business, protest, travel. Our most basic freedoms and liberties were restricted on a scale never seen before in American history.
All, of course, under the guise of protecting us.
Shockingly, in the United States of America, citizens could be fined or even imprisoned if found violating one of these arbitrary, indiscriminate, and indefinite edicts that shut businesses, required social distancing, and, now, mandated wearing a mask.
Fined or imprisoned.
And indeed, a number of Americans were arrested or taken into custody protesting the lockdowns.
We are not talking about North Korea, the People’s Republic of China, or Iran, but right here in the United States of America.
In many cases when countries, regions, or even states and cities lose their freedoms, it is not because the tyrant or dictator of the time forcibly took it from them. More often than not, it is because the people in those countries, regions, states, or cities slowly but surely began to surrender those freedoms in return for promised protection against the terrifying external threat of the moment. In this particular case, that terrifying—dialed up to truly mind-numbing—external threat is the Wuhan COVID-19 pandemic.
Within just two weeks after the pandemic computer-model projections, American citizens within the United States of America were told by state and local officials that they could be arrested and possibly imprisoned if they violated the hastily put together edicts instantly put in place “for their protection.”
With our “leaders,” “experts,” and politicians having absolutely no clue as to whether their draconian actions would in fact work—or what the final societal, financial, mental health, or criminal costs to the nation would be—we were all collectively—and indeed forcibly—plunged into that unknown together.
The American people were literally given no say in their own fate or that of their families.
And, as we all fell toward that unknown, a select number from the left leapt at the chance to strengthen and expand that emerging tyranny, greatly expanding the alleged authority of government to run and restrict our day-to-day activities.
The radioactive dust and damage from this crisis is going to take months and even years to settle. As that process and evidence of mismanagement and especially deliberate wrongdoing unfolds, the millions of Americans and voters who lost their jobs, and life savings, and watched in desperation as their families suffered beyond comprehension must never lose sight of the life-altering lessons brought about by the virus… or… those who sought to exploit it.
One of the most telling takeaways was that many who instantly and even coldly advocated for a complete “lockdown” of our nation and the instant elimination of the jobs of tens of millions of hardworking Americans had nothing to lose themselves.
Nothing.
If they were federal, state, or local politicians, they had guaranteed salaries, health care, and more often than not a lifelong pension awaiting them.
If they were academics, they had tenured and protected jobs, paid health care, and pensions awaiting them.
If they were senior federal employees, they had their guaranteed jobs and health care.
And if they were many of the liberal media talking heads pushing for the complete “lockdown” of our nation, they had their often seven-figure plus salaries and full bank accounts to bring them comfort as millions of their fellow citizens suffered the severe consequences of those lockdowns.
As we close out this section, it is also critically important to remember that those who had no hesitation about using the world’s pandemic crisis to further their political agendas are the same individuals, organizations, and entities who are part of the Deep State, seeking to eradicate our borders, steal our elections, and transform the United States of America into something truly unrecognizable and frightening.
THE PROMISE JUDICIAL WATCH REPRESENTS
“Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppression of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.”
—THOMAS JEFFERSON, APRIL 24, 1816
There—encapsulated within the wise and increasingly relevant words articulated by the third president of the United States; the principal author of our Declaration of Independence; and a driving force behind our Constitution more than two hundred years ago—is revealed the overriding mission of Judicial Watch. We always stand at the ready to enlighten the American people so their precious freedoms and rights cannot be taken from them by those using oppression for an orchestrated tyrannical outcome.
But… as we focus on Jefferson’s quote about “Enlightening the People,” the question of our time is: Whom do we trust with such a critically important responsibility? The media? Our media of today?
One can only wonder what arguably our nation’s most powerful advocate of liberty would think of the United States and the world of today. Because, as we continue to witness, in a number of freedom-depriving ways, some things have changed dramatically for the worse since Jefferson walked the earth.
For instance… that very media.
Knowing that to be a fact, let’s examine his often quoted and highlighted remarks regarding the need for newspapers and their power to truthfully inform the American people.
In a letter written in 1787 from Paris to Edward Carrington—whom Jefferson had sent as a delegate to the Continental Congress—he spoke to the importance of a free press to keep government in check. The then minister to France said in part:
The people are the only censors of their governors; and even their errors will tend to keep these to the true principles of their institution. To punish these errors too severely would be to suppress the only safeguard of the public liberty. The way to prevent these irregular interpositions of the people is to give them full information of their affairs thro’ the channel of the public papers and to contrive that those papers should penetrate the whole mass of the people. The basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right, and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.…
In principle—and in 1787—Jefferson is and was correct.
But Jefferson’s stated belief and desire that “were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter…” is predicated entirely upon the hope and assumption that said “newspapers” were ethical, honest, and only had the best interests of the American people in mind.
Flash ahead over two hundred years to 2020 and we find that many of the
mainstream “newspapers” of today are not ethical, honest, nor have the best interests of the American people in mind, but are joined in their malfeasance by other powerful institutions and professions.
It is quite possible that in 1787, the great mind of Thomas Jefferson simply could not imagine that “newspapers” or any organizations or professions that commanded tremendous sway over the lives of his fellow citizens of the time could become so corrupt that they would embrace and espouse the liberty-robbing beliefs he had spent a lifetime fighting.
But… unfortunately, we don’t have to imagine and contemplate it because it is a part of our everyday lives. Not only are we living it, but watching as it seeks to erode the platform atop which sits the republic that Thomas Jefferson and our Founding Fathers sacrificed so much to create.
The catalyst for this destructive behavior is called “groupthink.”
The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines “groupthink” as: “A pattern of thought characterized by self-deception, forced manufacture of consent, and conformity to group values and ethics.”
Back in his day, Thomas Jefferson may have seen pockets of such “groupthink.” Unfortunately, two-hundred-plus years later, we have “Liberal Groupthink” which has come to dominate not only the mainstream media, but academia, science, medicine, and entertainment. A domination enabled and spread primarily by blatant and illegal discrimination against conservative, libertarian, faith-based, pragmatic, and dissenting thought of any kind.
The fact that this liberal groupthink is so crushingly dominant shows itself in issues pertaining to the Wuhan COVID-19 pandemic, the rule of law, terrorism, border security, global warming, energy independence, health care, education, corrupt public employee unions, and the political leaders of our nation.
As Judicial Watch has uncovered and detailed repeatedly over the last number of years, the liberal groupthink coverage of President Bill Clinton, President Barack Obama, and former first lady, senator, and secretary of state Hillary Clinton has not only been fawning to the point of embarrassment, but repeatedly deceptive as it sought to shield the Clinton and Obama teams from negative coverage and, more important, needed serious criminal investigations.
The inverse of that of course is their rabidly negative and unethical coverage of former president Ronald Reagan, former president George H. W. Bush, former president George W. Bush, and most especially, current president Donald J. Trump.
Incredibly, but not the least bit shockingly to those who follow Judicial Watch, many liberal to far-left members of this groupthink coalition of the media, academia, science, medicine, and entertainment have openly and proudly proclaimed themselves to be part of the “Resistance” against President Trump.
Let that sink in for a minute.
Countless “professionals” from these highly influential professions and arenas have openly come out to reveal themselves as part of the “Revolution” to topple a president legally and constitutionally elected by the people of the United States of America.
Had these people existed in the time of Thomas Jefferson, he would not only have never put his faith in such truth and freedom-destroying groupthink, but indeed would have vocally and loudly called it out as an enemy of democracy, liberty, and the rule of law.
Unfortunately—but always purposefully—the information flowing today from these professions or groups on a regular basis is often biased, ill-informed, deliberately deceptive, and often insulting or threatening to the opinions, narratives, or even lives of the American citizens who dare to differ with their preapproved narratives and dogma.
A fact of our everyday lives that will never change unless someone stands up to hold them accountable.
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For those not quite familiar with the work of Judicial Watch, I am here to tell you that is what we do: hold government and other important institutions accountable to the rule of law
Since the very day we were established in 1994, we have been doing precisely that. Often, as a lone voice in the wilderness.
Our core mission remains to fight for transparency, honesty, accountability, and integrity in government, politics, and the law.
Judicial Watch was created as, and remains, a conservative, nonpartisan educational foundation that seeks to promote the highest standards of ethics and morality in our nation’s public life. While we do believe in limited government, individual liberty, the free market, and a strong national defense, our organization favors no party as it stands as one to ensure that our elected and judicial officials never abuse the powers we, as the American people, entrust to them.
Some—most especially the liberal mainstream media—like to claim, and inwardly wish, that our supporters are only “Republican.” Far from it.
Because our mission is to fight for transparency, honesty, accountability, and integrity in government, politics, and the law for all Americans, that means Americans from every walk of life support us and our cause. Americans who are Democrats, independents, Republicans, or simply those who attach themselves to no labels but are sick and tired of the corruption stealing their nation from them and their children.
With that background and mission in mind, our motto remains:
“Because no one is above the law!”
How does Judicial Watch go about carrying out such a crucial mission? One day, but often, multiple cases at a time.
On a regular basis, we employ a multipronged strategy of litigation, investigation, and public outreach. As many on the wrong side of the law or adverse to the welfare of the American people have found out, we use the freedom-of-information laws as one of the most powerful tools in our arsenal of getting to the truth and uncovering wrongdoing. In fact, almost all of our investigations into wrongdoing begin with a freedom-of-information request.
The federal Freedom of Information Act allows most anyone to request documents from executive branch agencies about government activities. And if these agencies ignore or improperly withhold information, requestors can go to federal court! (States have similar freedom-of-information laws.)
While we don’t sue at the “drop of a hat,” we will sue when needed to gather information or inform and educate the American people about the operations of our government and those seeking to subvert those operations for their own means.
Not surprisingly, no one understands the power of our freedom-of-information laws to expose the corrupt or the guilty more than those who operate anonymously out of the deepest, darkest, and most cowardly shadows of the Deep State.
Ultimately, no matter if it is a famous or even infamous politician or branch or branches of our own government, Judicial Watch’s work is designed to uphold the rule of law and drag government wrongdoing out into the light, where it can been seen for the danger it is by the American people.
Not only do we strive to continually protect the rights of the American people via our litigation and civil discovery process, but many times, as soon as those actions are made known to those we are investigating, the alleged corruption by those public officials or government agencies suddenly grinds to a halt. Imagine that.
In that sense, it can be most accurately stated that we are doing the work for the government that it often won’t undertake itself for a number of not so convincing or sound reasons.
With regard to our investigations, we have often been kiddingly or even sarcastically asked if Judicial Watch also watches the judiciary. The answer to that question is a loud and underscored “Yes.”
We would be remiss in our mission and our duties to the American people if we did not. Human nature is human nature, which means that no one from any walk of life is either infallible or is always resistant to temptation. That includes the official third branch of our federal government.
As judges are human, they can be biased, run into ethical issues, or occasionally be outright corrupt. As the judiciary does maintain a critical role in the running and the governance of our nation, it is imperative that we continually monitor it, and hold e
veryone in it who holds sway over our laws and lives accountable.
Precisely because Judicial Watch is at the forefront—and often initiating—these critically important investigations, more and more Americans reach out to us to learn not only about our activities, but most especially, the outlook and results of those activities and investigations. And, similarly, a judiciary that acts beyond its power and outside the Constitution is also an “ethics” issue. Judicial decision making that is nothing more than “legislating from the bench” is also a threat to the rule of law.
To respond to the public’s increasing requests for information, we expanded our educational outreach. We do so via direct television and radio outreach, as well as regular speeches, op-eds, and public service announcements.
As those who do follow and support Judicial Watch know, all of that information, background, and daily updates are housed and ready to be viewed 24/7 on our website, www.JudicialWatch.org.
It is there because it has to be there. We want and need it to be there.
The general public and honest and ethical media must know that our research, our lawsuits, our open-records searches and documents, and, most especially, our findings and evidence are accessible to them around the clock.
Full transparency is everything.
Darkness of the sort we investigate can only be defeated by that constant light of truth. The brighter and more penetrating, the better.
As we have learned over the years and now, decades, that darkness always has two constant allies. Those being secrecy and corruption. Both of them not only help to spread the darkness, but deepen its stain into the very fabric of our republic.
Judicial Watch believes it is our moral obligation and duty to cleanse that fabric, brighten and restore it to its original and intended red, white, and blue hues, and ultimately protect it.