What Other Evils Does the Suppression Deliver?
A Handful More ABCs
Other Evils
In “The ABCs of Suppression” I showed how every participant in the present Suppression of the Covid-vax harms story is betraying a core duty which modern constitutional democracy puts upon all its citizens who are journalists, pundits, and politicians: the duty to foster open discussion of issues of concern to the public.
But there are other evils the Suppression delivers.
Since I mean even this addition to also be at an “ABC” level, let’s be quick:
1.) The Suppression hinders research into cures for, or mitigations of, the chronic harms suffered by tens of millions1 caused by the Covid-19 vaxxes. It also hinders research into what might prevent the coming deaths. The major dissident expert Peter McCullough recently made the claim that an estimated 24,000 persons died in 2024 from the jabs, in some cases from boosters, but in many cases due to a delayed development of a fatal condition which began with the injections received in 2021. Thus, any political-class or media suppressor of the story may be asked this: “How many thousands of those 2024 deaths might have been prevented had you not helped squelch the discussion of the dissidents’ claims, back in ’22 and ’23?” And this: “How many more preventable deaths in the future will you have a share of the guilt for, if you continue to suppress?”
2.) The Suppression deludes millions of people into taking the shots to this very day, or accepting them for their children. It keeps these poisons on the market. Every day it continues, it fools yet more persons into harming themselves or their loved ones.
This is why Tucker Carlson, who while not an outright suppressor of the Covid-vax story, but who has been doing far too little to combat the Suppression, had reason to be quite horrified at this recent statistic—here’s The Vigilant Fox’s transcript:
Tucker was horrified when Dr. Bowden mentioned a disturbing fact:
“According to the CDC, 9 million American children have gotten the latest version of these COVID shots.”
Clearly caught off guard, Carlson asked, “Actually?”
“Yes,” Bowden confirmed.
“Still?” he pressed.
“Yes. Yes. 9 million [kids]—12% [of US children have been injected].”
Tucker, in disbelief, asked, “Wait, this is going on right now?”
“Yes,” Bowden replied.
“I think we voted against this,” Tucker said.
Why would you think that, Tucker? Shutting down the Covid-19 shots could have been a major plank of Trump’s 2024 campaign, but it was not. Or, doing new rigorous research on their safety could have been an explicit promise, and not some possibly half-implied/hinted-at promise, but it sure wasn’t. For either of those things to have been things voters were invited to vote for, it would have required people like yourself to have stepped-up and to have clearly called out the conservative side of The Suppression back in ‘23, when you had come to realize the dangerousness of the shots. It would have required you to have called out Trump’s ignorance. Why didn’t you have a John Rich-style conversation with him? We all know you could have!
But you didn’t, alongside the “didn’ts” of many other conservatives, and so the Suppression, and the possibly life-altering injections for children, march on…
3.) The Suppression allows the radical corruption infesting most of our hospital and pharmacy leadership, and all of Big Pharma, to continue and to spread. Hospitals continue to be places feared by all rational persons, and wherein the relevant personnel continue to avoid all accountability for the in-hospital-deaths-due-to-mandated-Covid-19-protocols, which could account for as much as three-fourths of the mortality officially attributed to Covid-19.
4.) The Suppression requires the sidelining and slandering of the dissidents. The suppressors are logically pushed to exclude these persons of conscience from all positions of real power, not simply in hospitals and science organizations, but also in media, in non-medical academic think tanks and schools, and in political office. In terms of the conservative movement, every day of the Suppression’s continuance is another in which we cull our leadership of truth-tellers, and further empower the mendacious and cowardly.
And if you think the part of the conservative movement which really matters is the online New Right one, or the populist MAGA one, precisely the same logic applies to both of those, for alas, in terms of the Suppression, there has been next to no difference between the behavior of populist or new right influences and insiders, and that of standard conservative influencers and insiders.
And anyone who still tries to resist…such a person appears…an eccentric, a fool, a Don Quixote, and in the end is regarded inevitably with some aversion, like everyone who behaves differently from the rest and in a way which, moreover, threatens to hold up a critical mirror before their eyes. (Václav Havel, Open Letters, p. 57)
5.) The Suppression contemptuously ignores the Bible’s clear teaching that God hates mendacity. That is the case even though the kind of lying involved, a silence about an important matter when the public expects open reporting and discussion from one, does not fit the letter of the Exodus commandment against false witness. (On the general teaching, see Rom 3:23, Ps 101:7, Ps 119:29, Prov 14:8, Prov 19:9, Prov 26:24-26, Col 3:9-10, Rev 21:8, Eph 4:25, 1 Pet 3:10, and Mark 7:20-23.)
Now yes, not a few good expounders of Christian or Jewish political philosophy accept some degree of downplaying and hyperbole in normal political (and pulpit) rhetoric, some outright deceptions by leaders in emergency or wartime political actions, and perhaps some deceptive play in tactical legislative maneuvers. What I mean is that they don’t interpret the commandment against false witness in a Coriolanus- or Cordelia- like spirit which would try to prohibit rhetoric and reticence, and that they accept a degree of forced-to-it “cunning” for political leaders, which might be labelled “moderate Machiavellianism,” though only when it is deployed in politics-for-the-common-good.2 Bible-obedient political philosophy allows nothing further than this, and in terms of republican politics, what it encourages is the practice of candid and scrupulously honest deliberation.
6.) The Suppression contemptuously ignores the fact that a.) anti-totalitarian political thought (e.g., Havel, Solzhenitsyn, and Arendt), and b.) every sound tradition of democratic or republican thought make demands for truth-telling in public deliberation nearly as stringent as those made by Biblical political philosophy. Such political principles may be held by atheists or agnostics, and so our Suppressors are not merely defying God’s word, but also the political philosophy wisdom of the ages, and the most hard-earned wisdom of the 20th-century.
7.) The Suppression is guilty, if the set of dissidents are correct who hold that there is a “big conspiracy” behind Covid 19’s concoction, the Covid policies and propaganda launched in 2020, and the Covid-vaxxes, and one that intends to impose a new kind of totalitarian despotism, of recklessly exposing our society to this threat, by hindering the exposure of the conspirators.
Now I do not join this set in this belief—and there are various versions of this theory—, but I nonetheless demand investigations into the evidence which seems to support it, and I do know, whether such a posited big conspiracy exists or not, that some degree of guilt of being cavalier about the threat of totalitarianism does fall upon our Suppressors. For to participate in the Suppression is to refuse to understand how desperately our societies need a serious Reckoning for the crimes of the last five years; it is to employ one’s position and power to indefinitely “defer” that Reckoning. That is a horrifying-enough fact to have to realize about our progressivist and “moderate-so-called” leaders; it is even more horrifying to see that it largely applies to nearly the entire class of our “conservative” leaders also.
Three Words
Well, there are surely a number of other evils of the Suppression besides these, and the main one I focused on last time. But for this piece, I only have three words more, which I address to every leader engaged in the Suppression, but especially, to those who claim to abide by conservative principles:
Stop this. Repent!!!
In the latest VSRF episode, neuroscientist Dr. Kevin McCairn estimates that the world-wide number of serious injuries is 600 million! (Somewhere around 50:00-110:00)
See the secular thinker Raymond Aron’s cordial disagreement with the Roman Catholic political philosopher Jacques Maritain, in “French Though in Exile: Jacques Maritain and the Quarrel over Machiavellianism.” 1943, written in reply to Maritain’s “End of Machiavellianism” from a year or so earlier. I believe a Bible-obedient Christian or Jew could side with Aron in this dispute.