Scott Lively Ministries

I will begin this article by confessing that I was once a strong defender of George W. Bush (43), starting with the national conservative uprising triggered by the “hanging chad” political scandal in the Bush v Gore election of 2000. I participated in a massive gathering of conservatives who descended spontaneously on the California State House in my then home-town of Sacramento like a swarm of angry hornets, as other did in countless cities across America. I’ve since come to recognize that the Bush Clan has always been Deep State, it’s continuing political dynasty representing the top strata of the Red Republican half of the Bush/Clinton/Obama/Romney Purple Uniparty.

I was not surprised, therefore, to see the Bush political war machine recently roll onto the 2020 election battlefield flying the flag of George Soros’ Anti-Trump “Purple Revolution.” In early June, Bush 43 announced his intention not to vote for Trump, and then, as reported by WND in early July, a new Pro-Biden super-pac, “43 Alumni for Biden,” was created by “hundreds of former George w Bush staffers….to ‘unite and mobilize a community of historically Republican voters who are dismayed and disappointed by the damage done to our nation’… ‘not necessarily in full support of [Biden’s] political agenda but rather in full agreement with the urgent need to restore the soul of this nation.’ ” I predict this is just the beginning of a major “second front” in the elites’ war on Trump.

When we talk Deep State, we’re talking about a huge, multi-layered, multi-disciplinary, fully integrated network of Cultural Marxists who share the common religion of Secular Humanism, its’ moral code of “political correctness” (especially regarding sexual morality), and the dogmatic cultural narratives that serve as Scripture for them all. It’s roots go very deep indeed – all the way back to the late 1800s in America – but the most relevant period for this essay begins with the shady career of Deep Stater George HW Bush (41).

Bush 41 was apparently high-level CIA under JFK and LBJ before becoming a pro-abortion Texas GOP Congressman during LBJ administration. Though he denied having been a spook, a declassified FBI memo from J. Edgar Hoover named 41 as the sole CIA representative verbally briefed on November 23, 1963 about JFK’s assassination the day before. There’s always been considerable buzz in conspiracy circles about his (and LBJ’s) possible role in that “regime change.” And, of course, Bush 41 was later tapped in 1976 as CIA Director by Gerald Ford.

I have long argued that “Landslide Lyndon,” America history’s poster boy for election fraud, was the most corrupt president in US history (until Obama). From his infamous and unconstitutional 1954 “Johnson Amendment” banning churches from endorsing political candidates, to his “War on Poverty” agenda that created the federal entitlement system by which Democrats gained a seemingly unbreakable hold on nearly every big city in America, LBJ’s legacy was poisonous. Yet the LBJ Presidential Library features a special tribute to Bush 41, stating in part “The Bush and Johnson families share a long history and friendship, beginning in the 1950s when Lyndon Johnson served in the U.S. Senate with Prescott Bush, George H.W. Bush’s father. Although from different political parties, the two men enjoyed a productive working relationship steeped in mutual respect.”

The Bush 41/LBJ “productive working relationship” hinted at a “Purple Uniparty” long before we started color coding the GOP as red and the Dems as blue. The much-heralded Bush 43/Bill Clinton “collegiality” was further evidence. Today, of course, we live in a world where Donald Trump’s paradigm shattering election in 2016 has exposed the Purple Uniparty so fully that Bush 43 has now unashamedly joined the Dems and opened a second front in the war on Trump.

Former MA Governor now Utah Senator Mitt Romney has represented the Bush Dynasty on the battlefield since 2016. He pops up whenever his cheap shots against Trump can get the maximum media coverage, the most recent regarding the Roger Stone commutation. Romney’s protégé, second term MA Governor Charlie Baker (whom I ran against in 2014 and 2018) has also sniped repeatedly at Trump and will likely soon escalate his anti-Tump rhetoric. (To show how cozy they all are, Baker’s purple party predecessor and close Obama buddy, Deval Patrick, transitioned from the MA Governor’s office to a seat on the board at Romney-brand “Bain Capital.”)

Many “Establishment Republicans,” meaning Cultural Marxists who still pretend (to varying degrees) to be Conservatives, have been forced to align with Trump to retain power, but now that Bush 43 has emerged from the shadows under the purple banner, some of them will show their true color as well.

Looking back I am now convinced that Bush 41 intentionally lost to Bill Clinton in ‘92 to fast-track the Marxist agenda, on the understanding that the Bush Clan would get back the baton in 2000. I believe Bob Dole, John McCain and Mitt Romney were all Bush Team members tasked with taking a dive in their respective races, and that was the role Jeb Bush was intended to play for Hillary, before Trump upset their apple cart.

Looking forward I think the Bush Team will incrementally bring ALL of its assets to bear against Donald Trump and many people will be shocked at how deep the Deep State goes in the ranks of the GOP – especially among “conservatives.” (Jeff Sessions is not an anomaly.)

I am especially concerned about Texas Governor Greg Abbot, since I believe the Covid 19 “second wave” is central to the Anti-Trump strategy, and the media seems to be setting up Texas to be the New York of the second wave. I’m hoping Abbot is a true constitutionalist, but I know his political ascendency was kick-started by appointment to the Texas Supreme Court in 1995 by then Governor George W. Bush. Time will tell if he is a Bush asset, but even if he isn’t there are many who are, and we’re about to see them step out of the shadows with guns aimed at Trump.

All that having been said, I still think Trump will win in a landslide, and by then, for the first time since the start of the Marxist invasion, we’ll know who most of the Deep Staters are when the second Trump term – the Great American Swamp Draining – begins in earnest. At least that’s my hope and prayer.

Scott Lively on Why the Dems are Burning Their Cities

I have repeatedly argued that the reason the globalists played their Black Lives Matter riot-and-mayhem card on the day before the release of the fully exculpatory Michael Flynn transcript was to deflect public attention from Obamagate which the Flynn transcript finally proved was conspiracy-FACT and not theory. That explains the timing of the start of riots, but there’s another, more diabolical reason that the Democrats are goading BLM specifically into burning down their own cities, and augmenting the (mostly peaceful) Black forces with highly trained (and mostly White) Antifa storm troopers to ensure it happens.

The White liberal elites who have owned all these cities since LBJ created the entitlement system and political machinery that made perpetual liberal control possible have finally run out of “other peoples money” and the gravy train is about to drive off the cliff, leaving them holding the bag. These grossly racist White liberal elites are therefore setting up inner-city Blacks as the scapegoats for the collapse of the cities, while cynically creating a false narrative in which they themselves play heroes for supporting “a long-awaited social accounting for systemic racism” (which is all the more ironic, since nearly all the racism being complained of as first-hand accounts by these inner-city Blacks must logically have occurred in the deepest of the deep blue cities where they live).

Why have these While liberal elites run out of other people’s money? Because the Trump Tax Reform of 2018 limited the deductibility of state and local taxes on federal tax returns. That literally killed the “soak the rich” component of the LBJ strategy by triggering an exodus of the rich and super rich from the Dem’s ultra-high-tax showpiece cities like Manhattan, Chicago, Atlanta, Seattle, San Francisco, Portland, Minneapolis, etcetera.

PLUS, the incredible Trump economy created by that Tax Reform dried up the While liberal elites’ other primary income source – federal entitlement money – by liberating their main cash cows – inner-city Blacks – from government dependency. Every job in the miraculous post-Tax Reform explosion of Black inner-city employment (the highest in American history) represented another Black family pulling out of the entitlement system, cutting off another spigot of revenue from the feds to state and city slush funds which had always kept most of that money to fund their army of Democrat loyalist public employee union members – the secret to their perpetual control of the cities.

So, because Trump forced healthy anti-Marxist economic policies upon them these While liberal elites are faced with impending political doom, and their worst nightmare – public accountability – as the river of other peoples money runs dry. With no conceivable solution to this crisis in their Socialism-addled brains, images of guillotines began swimming in their soon to be detached heads.

Who are these White liberal elites most afraid of? First and foremost, they fear the public employee unions, especially the Police Unions, whose political loyalty they have bought election after election since the 1960s with the ever-dangling carrot of increasingly Fatter (but unfunded) Pensions! In the “new normal” these pensions hold about as much value as the confederate currency issued by an earlier generation of Democrat leaders.

Who do they fear almost as much? Inner-city Blacks, whom they have kept politically enslaved by breaking up their families and addicting them to drip-by-drip government subsistence programs. It is these same White liberal elites who have intentionally fostered and nurtured racial and class resentment to ensure that all blame for the LBJ policies was placed at the feet of “the rich,” as leverage to extort increasingly more money from the rich and the businesses they own. (Never forget, that poverty in the inner cities could have been eliminated generations ago by simply promoting and assisting entrepreneurialism in the Black community!)

Now you know not only why the cities are burning, but why the two sides of the “war” for the cities are the Police and the Rioters, while the White liberal elites are pretending to be independent arbiters and referees high above the fray when they are in fact the masterminds of the entire mess. They are implicitly and in some cases expressly encouraging Blacks to dismantle the city infrastructures, pretending that is the reason for defunding the police, when the real reason is they just don’t have the money and can’t get any more unless they force the feds to bail them out – and even that would be a bandaid on a gushing artery. By perpetuating this cynical and racist scam they can put all the blame on the Blacks, whom they secretly loathe.

At the same time, these White liberal elites are using all their propaganda skills and machinery, and are expertly leveraging the race-based rioting, to smear the police forces as a single monolithic group – not individuals – as “systemic irredeemable racists” to justify the elimination of their pensions. Mark my words, the as-yet unannounced plan is to rescind police pension fund obligations and divert the (imaginary) funds for the purpose of reparations for Black slavery.

As is always the case, the White liberal elites project their own evil motives upon the conservatives. But in this situation they have outdone themselves by deliberately attempting to promote racist sentiments in the American public by portraying a tiny fraction of Black thugs and looters as the spokesmen for the entire Black community – and setting them up to take the blame for the now inevitable collapse of the Blue cities – while simultaneously throwing Blue Lives –one of their key municipal constituencies – under the bus because they are no longer useful to them.

I urge every conservative and constitutionalist to raise awareness of this scam as an act against racism, and to help the Black community and the Police unions to recognize they are being pitted against each other purposefully by the White liberal elites they once trusted.

Scott Lively on the Coming Antifa Armageddon

This could be the video that gets me banned from YouTube, but I put my trust in God and reaffirm my personal commitment to the love of TRUTH above all else. Jesus Christ is the Way the Truth and the Life, and I will not give my loyalty to any person, position or philosophy that contradicts Him or His Word.

“Antifa Armageddon” could mean one of two things. Either, that Antifa (and the Marxists) face an imminent political Armageddon against them, or that Antifa will have victory over constitutionalism, and bring a wave of destruction like we’ve never seen. I believe both of these paths would lead to or at least be the herald of the Biblical Armageddon of the end times, over different political terrain, unless Christianity were restored as America’s primary cultural influence.

If the former Antifa Armageddon is “fated,” then we can assume the left’s day of reckoning is drawing near and it won’t be pretty. In any hard-fought war, the hammer of revenge always falls hardest on the losing side’s front-line units – and that’s a lesson that would soon be learned by the Antifa storm-troopers of the hard left.

As a Christian, I don’t believe in revenge because “vengeance is mine, sayeth the Lord.” But I do believe in Justice and the Rule of Law, which appropriately punish criminal conduct and dismantle systems and structures built for criminal purposes, including the crimes of sedition, treason, and conspiracy to subvert the constitution.

However, the secular populists and conservatives do not operate by the same rules, and like human societies nearly always do, I believe they will “over-correct” past the line of just punishment and pursue a full and harsh accounting until every indignity imposed upon them by decades of political correctness and trampling of conservative values has been avenged.

It would be like Jehu slaughtering the descendants of Ahab and Jezebel as an act of personal will which invalidated his license from God to execute them as an act of justice. That literally brought an “Armageddon” upon the Kingdom of Israel in the Valley of Jezreel (Hosea 1:4-5) that literally prefigures the end-times version.

Politically/culturally we would then trade secular liberalism for secular conservatism in America and the pendulum would swing all the way to the “right,” where the devil operates just as aggressively among corrupt men as he does on the “left.” We would truly trade Communism for Fascism then, just as in 1930s Germany, where both sides were literally dominated by homosexuals (as Kevin Abrams and I thoroughly documented in The Pink Swastika): it was the Femme-Homosexual affiliated Communists against the Butch-Homosexual affiliated Nazis and the devil really didn’t care which side won. Stalin or Hitler, take your choice.

Now, if “Antifa Armageddon” has the latter meaning, then they will, in essence, take down Trump like toppling the Statue of Liberty into New York harbor (which could literally occur!).

Justice has long slumbered in America under the assault of Marxism upon our Constitutional Republic and upon the Judeo-Christian civilization for which America serves as a capstone.

Indeed, America is like a physical monument resting upon the pedestal of Bible-based civilization, and toppling THIS monument IS the ultimate purpose of Antifa and the globalists. If America falls to the Marxists, the world falls with it, and that is why Donald Trump, the symbol of American antiglobalism is the one man who stands in their way.

Trump is, in the political sense, and perhaps the religious sense as well, the “restrainer” of 2 Thessalonians 2, whose removal would be the final barrier to the Antichrist’s last days reign of terror.

This eventuality in November of 2020 would mark the end of our 400 years as a Judeo-Christian Republic (begun in November 1620 with the Pilgrim’s landing at Plymouth, Massachusetts), in direct parallel to the 400 year life-span of the Israelite Republic (which began with Joshua’s entrance into the Holy Land, and ended with the Hebrews demand to become a monarchy instead). (400 – 40×10 – is the ultimate Biblical number related to God’s testing of human character). In this “Antifa Armageddon” scenario, Trump ends his reign as a vanquished hero and is replace by an Antichrist.

In the former scenario, Trump would win but then preside over a post-Republic Empire – the King Saul of the story; an Antichrist figure – IF it were to be learned in retrospect that his pro-Christian speech and actions had all been just cynical opportunism to win evangelical political support, as some allege.

TO BE ABSOLUTELY CLEAR I personally still believe Donald Trump is God’s man in the White House and if that is true, there is a third path possible in which America is restored by a return to Christ. That is my hope and prayer.

Thus, the single most disturbing factor in the Donald Trump presidency is his public endorsement of homosexuality, because it casts serious doubt on the sincerity of his self-proclaimed Christianity. If his LGBT support is sincere and he’s attempting to reconcile it with his presumedly sincere Christian faith, it simply reflects bad theology, and that can be forgiven to a point, since we’re all works in progress as far as sanctification and Christian maturity goes.

If instead his LGBT support is insincere and he’s just pandering to the large part of the homosexual community that considers itself politically conservative, that is also understandable to a point. But it’s not excusable, because it reflects the non-Christian view that God will honor political strategy that openly defies His moral code.

Either way, it is a gross error of judgment that implicitly affirms both a core tenet of Marxist ideology and a central social policy of the Antichrist kingdom.

The fate or America, therefore, appears to hang not on the effectiveness of the Antifa/globalists strategy and tactics, nor the form that the coming Antifa Armegeddon will take, but on the truth or falsity of Donald Trump’s Christianity, as challenged by the spiritual litmus test of one’s attitude about the societal normalization of homosexuality.

To understand just how serious an issue this is Biblically, I refer you to my book The Petros Prophecy. And I urge you to pray with me that President Trump be spiritually awakened on this issue before the Antifa Armageddon (of either form) becomes his legacy and our national demise.

A NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED POST FROM OCTOBER 2017 IS RELEVANT TODAY AS A REMINDER THAT THE CURRENT ASSAULT ON OUR AMERICAN HERITAGE BY THE MARXISTS DID NOT START IN 2020. 

THIS IS ALSO A HEADS-UP TO PREPARE FOR A MUCH BIGGER ASSAULT ON COLUMBUS IN THE USA THREE MONTHS FROM NOW.

Where Columbus Day is Still Huge

America’s Marxist revolutionaries, led by the guerilla group “Antifa,” co-opted Columbus Day (October 9th, 2017) for a day of rage and vandalism against the legacy of Christopher Columbus, or as he is known in the Spanish world, Cristobal Colon. Antifa has actually done us a service by bringing attention to a monumental historical event that (under pressure from the left, ironically) has been increasingly downplayed in America, where it has been relegated to the status of a boring bank holiday alongside “Presidents’ Day.”

Unexpectedly, my current research project in Spain on the “Golden Age” of Christian/Jewish/Moslem “harmony” (relatively speaking) on the Iberian Peninsula has been dominated by the phenomenon of Columbus Day and I can tell you that the Spanish go “ALL IN” for Mr. Colon on this massive national holiday, which was celebrated here in Spain on October 12th.

World Net Daily published my article “Antifa Turns its Guns on Hispanics” on October 8th http://www.wnd.com/2017/10/antifa-turns-its-guns-on-hispanics/ in which I discussed the interesting timing of Antifa’s day of rage against Columbus monuments in the US and the announcement by the (leftist) Catalonian separatists that they would declare independence from Spain on the same day (though that declaration has yet too occur – thanks to the major pushback by the conservative Spanish government and an exodus of multinational corporations from Barcelona, the capital of the Catalon province). As I pointed out in my article, the Catalonians are casting themselves as anti-Fascists much the same as the hard left is doing in the US, and this all seems to be part of a global strategy by the left. http://abcnews.go.com/International/strikes-catalonia-leaders-push-independence-spain/story?id=50260034

My wife and I flew into Barcelona from Tel Aviv just hours after the vote for independence and got caught up in some street demonstrations as we drove north across Catalon to Andorra then next day. We have been touring Spain ever since, arriving on the 7th in Valladolid – where Christopher Columbus died in 1506 — just as both the secession news and the Antifa news back home was peaking, so I wrote my WND article and included a few pictures, including one of the massive monument to Columbus in Valladolid.

Two days ago, on October 12th, we arrived in Granada without having known either that this was the Spanish Columbus Day or that this was the city in which Columbus received his commission from King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella to make the journey that would result in his discovery of the Americas. (An impressive monument commemorating that meeting stands just a hundred yards from our hotel.) Consequently for us, the city is simply mobbed with people, and tickets to the Alhambra (Moorish) fortress above the city were completely sold out (though so much of the site is open to the public that we really don’t feel like we missed anything).

My point in writing this short update is just that Americans shouldn’t allow political correctness to rob us of our heritage. Columbus Day should be an even bigger deal in America than it is here in Spain.

I also want to thank God for arranging this completely unique experience for Anne and me. Arriving in Barcelona, Valladolid and Granada just when we did and in that precise sequence, with no prior planning or awareness, what a remarkable thing!

Oh, one last item. At the end of our day at Alhambra, as we were walking back to our hotel, talking religion, history and politics as we always do, we stopped in a park at the base of the mountain fortress to rest. Spray painted across the stone bench there was the bare message “Anti-Fascists.” It was just that singular, incongruous exclamation with no apparent logic or purpose for being in that spot, except perhaps as a wink and a nod of confirmation from the Lord that I was on the right track in my assessment of who’s really driving the secessionist movement.

The full series of Dynasty of Darkness in video and PDF as of this date may be found HERE

THE FIRST ANTICHRISTS
(an article based upon Chapter Three of Dynasty of Darkness)

With prophecy unfolding before us like never before, there is great interest in the topic of the Antichrist. This has prompted me to finally publish my book “Dynasty of Darkness: Satan’s long serpentine trail through human history in the role of successive antichrists, and the imminent rise of his last days kingdom.” As the subtitle suggests, I believe the figure we call the Antichrist is whatever human host the demon Satan happens to be inhabiting at any given time, and that there have been a very long succession of them from the beginning of time. This week I published the third chapter of Dynasty of Darkness, titled “Unmasking the Antichrists of Earliest Antiquity” in video and PDF form. I will gladly send a free copy by email upon request to scottlivelyministries@gmail.com.

To better understand and recognize the final Antichrist, it is helpful to review his resume, as it were – especially since he is almost certainly active in the world today but still hidden per 2 Thessalonians 2:7 “For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work, but the one who now restrains it will continue until he is taken out of the way.” So let’s look to the Bible for the clues.

“[Satan] was a murderer from the beginning” (John 8:44).

My hypothesis is that Satan can only operate in the physical world by spiritual possession of a living person or animal. If so, the only way Satan is capable of murder is by the hand of a human host. The first murder in the Bible was of Abel by his brother Cain, who introduced that grievous sin to human society. The first Antichrist, therefore, appears to be Cain. For His own reasons, the Lord put a mark on Cain so that no one finding him would slay him in vengeance, warning “whoever kills Cain, vengeance will be taken on him seven-fold” (Genesis 4:8-15). This “Mark of Cain” is reminiscent of the last days “Mark of the Beast” in that both marks (while having different purposes) are inseparably associated with a man of evil by which the whole world can recognize him.

Several generations later, Cain’s direct descendant Lamech, the first person specifically identified as a polygamist in the Bible, fits the Antichrist profile even more closely.

“Lamech said to his wives, Adah and Zillah, Listen to my voice, you wives of Lamech…For I have killed a man for wounding me, And a boy for striking me. If Cain is avenged seven-fold, then Lamech seventy-sevenfold” (Genesis 4:23-24).

Not only is polygamist Lamech the second identified murderer of the Bible, and the first identified megalomaniac, his boast reflects a satanic principle of vengeance that directly contradicts the Messiah’s commandment in Matthew 18:21-22. In that passage Peter asked the Lord whether it was his duty to forgive his brother seven times. Jesus replied we must forgive “seventy times seven” times.

It appears that Lamech was the Antichrist of his time. Based on the average multi-century lifespan of the pre-flood world, Lamech’s term as Antichrist may have extended through his entire lifespan, perhaps until the flood itself.

In any case, insufficient details are provided to specifically identify other Antichrist figures before the great flood. However, from what we read in Genesis 6 we know that through his agents both human and angelic (and perhaps hybrids of the two — Genesis 6:4), Satan managed to corrupt the pre-flood world so completely that God was forced to cleanse the earth of all human beings except righteous Noah and his family (Genesis 6-9).

The first Antichrist figure in the post-flood world was Nimrod, who became “a mighty one on the earth.” Nimrod was the grandson of Ham and great-grandson of Noah.

Ham appears to have served as a carrier of the wicked pre-flood culture into the new world, corrupting at least two of his sons (Canaan and Sidon). In Genesis 9:22-25, Ham’s son Canaan was banished from Noah’s presence for what the ancient Hebrew sages concluded was most likely an act of homosexual molestation of his grandfather Noah (Rabbi Elie Munk, “Call of the Torah” p. 220).

As I addressed in Chapter Two of Dynasty of Darkness, sexual perversion is one of the six Antichrist attributes commonly seen in likely Antichrist figures through history, meaning that Canaan (almost certainly), and possibly Ham as well could have been Antichrists.

Ham’s grandson through Cush was Nimrod, described in Genesis 10:8-11: “He was a mighty hunter before the LORD; therefore it is said, ‘Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before the LORD.’ The beginning of his kingdom was Babel and Erech and Accad and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. From that land he went forth into Assyria, and built Nineveh and Rehoboth-Ir and Calah” (Genesis 10:8-11).

Nimrod’s campaign to build the Tower of Babel was an implementation of the Satanic goal described in Isaiah 14:13: “For you have said in your heart: ‘I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God.’ ” Under Nimrod’s rule, the people said, “Come, let us build for ourselves a city, and a tower whose top will reach into heaven, and let us make for ourselves a name, otherwise we will be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.” (Genesis 11:4).

Nimrod was a totalitarian megalomaniac (another of the six Antichrist attributes) who exploited all of the people and resources under his control to build a monument to himself. This is the model of Antichrist government we will see repeated throughout the following centuries. Time after time, from the Pharaohs of Egypt to the Emperors of Rome, to the Fuhrer of the Third Reich, we will see armies of slaves building gigantic structures intended to reflect the god-like power and importance of the supreme ruler. Nimrod was the first in the post-flood world.

Importantly, centuries later, the two nations founded by Nimrod (Babylon and Assyria), were, respectively, the conquerors and enslavers of the two Houses/Kingdoms of the Hebrew people. The House of Israel was conquered by the Assyrians in 722BC and the House of Judah was conquered by the Babylonians in 586BC.

This brief summary of the earliest Antichrists offers numerous clues as to the last days Antichrist who is soon to be revealed. For more on this theme, please feel free to email me.

Covid 19 is a serious disease, and the fact the left has politicized it, and that perhaps the globalists created it for nefarious purposes, should not cloud our judgment in responding to it as a health risk. Even if, as seems likely, Covid 19 turns out to be the disease equivalent of a bad flu, a bad flu season hurts and kills a lot of people, and encouraging policies like better attention to disinfecting public areas and increasing voluntary face mask usage in bad flu seasons would probably be a good idea going forward. So there’s a concession to the pro-mask people.

HOWEVER, these things must be balanced against the disastrous consequences of surrendering personal liberty to over-reaching government, especially regarding mandatory face mask policies, which are in some ways worse than police-enforced lockdowns, because they represent a literal “in-your-face” exercise of statist power like Islamist head coverings for women, or the Nazis “yellow star” for Jews. Unnecessary public mask wearing – as opposed to reasonable usage – is no less a statement of psychological submission to a higher authority than a dog collar.

My position is that face masks are helpful in group settings where the same set of people will be in close proximity for extended periods of time, including public transportation and enclosed workplaces, and in places where one might spend more than a few seconds face to face with highly vulnerable people, such as a hospital or nursing home. They are next to useless in an outdoor setting except as a protection for other nearby people by symptomatic people who are coughing and sneezing. They are unnecessary in settings like supermarkets where nonsymptomatic people, even those who may be unwittingly infected, are simply passing by each other, and in places with advanced air filtration systems, such as some churches that have been in the news. It’s all about viral load, and universal mask mandates ignore that fact and remove discretion from the citizens as to when and where they conclude it is important to wear them.

By imposing nanny-state mandates on people, governments are pushing liberty-loving Americans into a much stronger contrarian position than they would otherwise take, especially those who correctly perceive that public policy related to Covid 19 is heavily driven by 1) anti-Trump politics and 2) Big-Pharma’s predatory scheme to impose mandatory vaccines on the world. The problem here, as in so many left vs right battles, is lack of objectivity and an unwillingness to concede any facts that support the other side’s perspective, even in the slightest degree, especially by leftists, but also by many on the right. And it doesn’t help that at every step in the process various lies and manipulations of the “experts” and “leaders” are being exposed as politically driven when contrasted with hindsight-proven fact-based reality, such as the national and global death rate projections.

And in the greater scheme of things, I believe Liberty is more important than Security if one is forced to choose between the two. Those who don’t believe that are ripe for the Mark of the Beast, which is what this entire season of chaos is really about, in my view. I would rather die or be maimed from Covid 19 — or be beheaded by a mob of Anarchists and Islamists — than become a “safe” slave in a global totalitarian government.

Thankfully, that isn’t the choice today, because we still have the freedom to civilly disobey government overreach, such as mandatory universal mask orders and bans on church and other public gatherings — so long as we exercise those rights in open rebellion for the cause of liberty — while voluntarily following reasonable precautions on our own initiative.

When it comes to mask wearing policies in private settings, like restaurants and department stores, we should acknowledge that business owners have rights, too. If they want to mandate mask, so be it. We can each decide for ourselves whether that’s a deal-breaker regarding our patronage or not.

When it comes to self-evidently symptomatic people deliberately refusing to use a mask when they know they’re risking other people’s life or health, that’s an entirely different matter, and such conduct should be publicly discouraged, and perhaps punished if it results in harm to others.

But by the same token, those who are not symptomatic and choose not to wear face masks in higher risk settings, like indoor church services without effective air-filtration systems, should have the right to take that risk. Let me rephrase that – not “should have” but “do have” that right, because this is still America, whose legal system still rests upon the recognition that rights are from God, not government.

So I suggest that we all think very carefully about our personal choices in the matter of face masks and similar things and don’t get trapped into the false choice of total surrender or total rebellion, but make sure to separate truth from error, wisdom from folly so we don’t lose our balance on this political tightrope America is being forced to walk during this season of widespread irrationality.

Lastly, since hidden conspiracies to do evil are a very real part of the Marxist strategy, I always look for them in the form of leftist media manipulations and in the form of disinformation and social engineering campaigns supposedly from the “right.” In this case, I wonder how much of the less reasonable anti-mask rhetoric we’re letting influence us might be globalist trickery to get more of us infected.

Keeping our balance based on facts and reason is the only real antidote to that.