Idaho Legislative Watch 2021-02-08
This weekend, Sen. Regina Bayer shared some information on bills that were passed by the Senate last week. Most of these show great cause for alarm! Not only because they were passed in a state that claims to be majority "Conservatives" and "Republicans," but because they need to be opposed! Please inform yourselves on these bills, and then reach out to everyone in the House, asking them to oppose these bills! The text following the bill numbers is Senator Bayer's, immediately followed by our commentary. We have included links to pages where you can read the proposed text of the bills, and see who supported them. “S1006: This legislation would consolidate current statutory requirements for literacy intervention and update provisions in alignment with the Task Force recommendation for focusing on the importance of having every student reading at grade level by the end of grade 3. The bill passed the Senate with a vote of 35-0-0 and was referred to the House Education Committee. ” This is a "bleeding heart" law that sounds good on its face, but lays the groundwork for future failure. No two children are alike, and we all have different strengths and weaknesses. We learn at different times and paces. As we saw with "No Child Left Behind," what bills like this is do to force schools to lower educational standards once it becomes obvious that some children will not meet existing standards, because their federal funding will be on the line. “S1027: This legislation would compensate individuals who were wrongfully convicted and imprisoned with $62,000 per year of incarceration or $75,000 per year if incarcerated on death row. Those who were put on the sex offender registry wrongfully would receive an additional $25,000 per year on the registry. Exonerees would be given a two-year window to file a claim from the moment they were formally exonerated by a court. The bill passed the Senate with a vote of 35-0-0 and was referred to the House. ” It is horrific to think of wrongful convictions, and the havoc it wreaks on a person's livelihood. Their future employment may be affected because they have a conviction on their record, they've lost the ability to be with their families, they have been socially ostracized (particularly in the case of a wrongful sex offender conviction), and so forth. They definitely deserve assistance to help get their lives back on track. Our issue here is that the general citizen of Idaho will pay those bills, when they were not responsible for the wrongful convictions. Remember, there is no such thing as "the state." It is all you. The proper solution, then, is to gather funds charitably, ie, from those who willingly choose and are able to do so. We do believe, however, that there should be punishment considered for those who wrongfully accused them. "Thou shalt not bear false witness." “S1039: This bill would allow school districts to award a Workplace Readiness Diploma to graduates who have completed career technical education programs. The bill passed out of the Senate Education Committee with a Do Pass Recommendation and is filed for its Third Reading."” Of the bills presented here, this one is the cause for greatest concern, as it advances the tenth plank of the Communist Manifesto! Be aware that this bill only supports an existing program that itself advances this agenda, which is that education be used to prepare children for specific future needs of industries. In effect, this means the education your children receive in public school is crafted to meet specific future needs of businesses, instead of teaching them to think for themselves. This is already in effect across the nation, with so-called "School to Work" initiatives, and can be seen in its ultimate form in totalitarian states like China and North Korea, where children have no choice in their future vocations, and receive only the education that will prepare them for their state-appointed employment. Call To Action: Once again, we urge you to contact everyone in the House, and ask them to oppose the bills mentioned above! Further Action: We can't be everywhere at once, nor can we read every bill and understand all that it entails. Please visit this page on legislature.idaho.gov, and look through the bills. Contact us if you see cause for concern, so we can sound the alarm!
What Is The Proper Role of Government? Part 1
We live in a day when federal, state, and even local, governments interfere in nearly everything we do. Want to build another home on your 18 acres? Only if Big Brother says so. Want to park on the street or grow a garden in your front yard? Only if Big Brother says so. Want to travel by plane? Only if Big Brother says you can, and hasn't put you on a secret watch list, and only if you aren't carrying anything on Big Brother's blacklist. ("Four ounces of shampoo?!? Only terrorists travel with such paraphernalia!") It's too bad America's citizens don't understand the proper role of government. Thankfully, former Secretary of Agriculture (and Apostle for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, at the time), Ezra Taft Benson, outlined the exact principles we need to know to keep from becoming slaves to government! In this podcast, our buddies over at Defending Utah discuss the first four of the fifteen principles laid out by Benson, in his excellent work, The Proper Role of Government: One: ““NO PEOPLE CAN MAINTAIN FREEDOM UNLESS THEIR POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS ARE FOUNDED UPON FAITH IN GOD AND BELIEF IN THE EXISTENCE OF MORAL LAW.” ” Two: ““GOD HAS ENDOWED MEN WITH CERTAIN UNALIENABLE RIGHTS AS SET FORTH IN THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE AND THAT NO LEGISLATURE AND NO MAJORITY, HOWEVER GREAT, MAY MORALLY LIMIT OR DESTROY THESE; THAT THE SOLE FUNCTION OF GOVERNMENT IS TO PROTECT LIFE, LIBERTY, AND PROPERTY AND ANYTHING MORE THAN THIS IS USURPATION AND OPPRESSION.” ” Three: ““THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES WAS PREPARED AND ADOPTED BY MEN ACTING UNDER INSPIRATION FROM ALMIGHTY GOD; THAT IT IS A SOLEMN COMPACT BETWEEN THE PEOPLES OF THE STATES OF THIS NATION WHICH ALL OFFICERS OF GOVERNMENT ARE UNDER DUTY TO OBEY; THAT THE ETERNAL MORAL LAWS EXPRESSED THEREIN MUST BE ADHERED TO OR INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY WILL PERISH.” ” Four: ““I BELIEVE IT A VIOLATION OF THE CONSTITUTION FOR GOVERNMENT TO DEPRIVE THE INDIVIDUAL OF EITHER LIFE, LIBERTY, OR PROPERTY EXCEPT FOR THESE PURPOSES: (A) PUNISH CRIME AND PROVIDE FOR THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE; (B) PROTECT THE RIGHT AND CONTROL OF PRIVATE PROPERTY; (C) WAGE DEFENSIVE WAR AND PROVIDE FOR THE NATION’S DEFENSE; (D) COMPEL EACH ONE WHO ENJOYS THE PROTECTION OF GOVERNMENT TO BEAR HIS FAIR SHARE OF THE BURDEN OF PERFORMING THE ABOVE FUNCTIONS.” ” You can see Ezra Taft Benson deliver The Proper Role of Government, himself, in the video above!
UN Goals Unveiled: Local and Regional Governments Leading the Way to Sustainable Communities
Today, we will learn about how the UN has been involved in "Local and Regional Governments Leading the Way to Sustainable Communities". Once again, the carefully-chosen words make you feel all warm and tingly inside, but the truth will set you free from the touchy-feelies. As usual, let's kick this off with a reading of the UN text that's complete and utter nonsense, and then commence with the text that does make sense. Take it away, United Nations PR Department: “"Local and regional governments are leading the way to “Build Inclusive and Sustainable Communities.” As the closest government entity to their citizens, they are uniquely positioned to make a difference in people’s lives, while also being on the frontlines of responding to climate change and its impacts on communities. These local governments are making meaningful progress in reducing carbon emissions, becoming more resilient to a warming world, and improving air quality while doing so in an equitable manner to ensure the needs of their citizens are being met. Collaboration is the key to success. This Thematic Session will explore and emphasize the power of multi-stakeholder networks to share information and amplify impact. Concrete examples from several Utah communities will highlight how local governments and civil society organizations have worked together to craft programs, policies, and regulations to create more sustainable communities. Speakers will include senior-level city sustainability staff, a state representative, and local nonprofit partners. They will detail legislation that created a pathway for large-scale renewable energy development, electrified transportation initiatives, and community food production. Attend this session if you work for a municipal government; represent a civil society organization that is looking for examples on ways to collaborate with your local government; or have an interest in renewable energy, energy efficiency, improving air quality, electrified transportation, food security or equitable program design."” Lovely, isn't it? We at Defending Idaho are enormous fans and followers of Ezra Taft Benson, and promoters of the "Proper Role of Government" that he taught. The proper role of government actually only encompasses about fifteen principles, and "whatsoever is more or less than this, cometh of evil." (D&C 98:4-7) We don't have space here to recount all of the principles, but a) you can hear them for yourself here, and b) ain't none of this nonsense in it! Some people–mostly those who think of themselves as "social justice warriors"–seem to think that they know what is best for humanity, and that it is their personal duty to right every wrong they can imagine, no matter what anyone else thinks. (Do you know who Gavin Newsom is?) These people are dangerous with any sort of power or position because they don't care what you think (they think they know better, remember?), and they aren't afraid to pass garbage laws and craft "partnerships" under cover of darkness to get these things done. To be fair, many of these people do honestly believe they are doing the right thing, but that doesn't make their actions Constitutional or correct. In America, we elect people to represent the people, not to be their temporary mothers or dictatorial fathers. We also have a Constitution that outlines what the federal government can and cannot do. Local and state governments have their own constitutions and laws that are supposed to likewise constrain local and state representatives. The "social justice warriors," however, do not feel constrained. They have been taught in government indoctrination centers that the United Nations supersedes all other laws, because it is somehow a "greater good." We also need to point out, as we have before, that the United Nations' agendas are humanist agendas. That is, they believe that there is no God, so they have to step up and "save humanity" themselves. By taking away all of their freedoms. Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will recognize this is Satan's plan. Familiarity with the scriptures can be enormously helpful in recognizing deception. For one thing, as the UN scaremongers try to convince us that we are going to run out of food and water, the Lord informs us that "the earth is full, and there is enough and to spare." (D&C 104:17) I live in an area where farmers are paid by the federal government to NOT grow anything on their farmland. And then they turn around and tell us that there are food shortages. Stupid much? With the government, you always have to know what both hands are doing. Now, in that same verse above, the Lord does say that "I… have given unto the children of men to be agents unto themselves." We still need to use our resources wisely, but everything will work out fine. No need for alarm. But if you believe something needs to change, you are to use persuasion and not force. Government is nothing but force. We are facing the use of force today precisely because their methods of persuasion were not… persuasive. People were seeing through their lies. So then they ran an end-run around us and took to brainwashing kids who don't know better and recruiting government officials who want to "change the world," even though that's not what we hired them to do. Look at the list of people who will be speaking at this Thematic Session. Some of the positions they hold are so far outside the proper role of government I don't know where to begin: • Vicki Bennett, Salt Lake City Sustainability Director • Representative Patrice Arent, Utah State Legislature • Luke Cartin, Park City Sustainability Manager, Salt Lake City • Supreet Gill, Salt Lake City Food Program Manager • Debbie Lyons, Salt Lake City Deputy Sustainability Director • Tyler Poulson, Salt Lake City Energy Program Manager • Sarah Wright, Director, Utah Clean Energy "Sustainability" managers and directors? This ridiculous buzzword simply means what I described above: that we are going to run out of stuff and we're all going to die unless we give up all of our freedoms to someone else who will be a benevolent dictator and take care of us! We haven't discussed too many specifics from the description this time. That's because the truth is more important, and when you understand the truth, you won't need anyone to explain why this is all wrong. We will, however, continue to dissect these things in future articles, so you can be informed and help to inform others. I do wish to point out, by the way, the use of the phrase "regional government." These are pseudo-governmental bodies that are unelected by–and unaccountable to–the people! We have learned of one such regional government that straddles Northern Utah and Southern Idaho. Yes, friends, here in Idaho. We've had the wool pulled over our eyes, and the freedom pulled out from under our feet. We will report on this in future articles, as well. I know we already linked to it above, but there really would be no better time than now to learn the Proper Role of Government. View it in the video above.
Lies, Big Lies, and COVID-19
Even though we are now several months into this whole Coronavirus/COVID-19 experience, it is still difficult to know what the truth is. About the virus itself, the response to the virus, future treatment options. While some things are still up in the air, there are several things we can be certain about, and they are discussed below. These are articles you probably have not seen before, and much of the information will be new to you. Please read them. They come from many different places, from mainstream news sources to the blogs of scientists. The main points are these, in no particular order: 1. The various responses to the Coronavirus all serve the agenda of the United Nations, of which the World Health organization (WHO) is a part. 2. These responses all serve to remove our freedoms and increase the surveillance state. 3. The testing and classification of who "has" COVID-19 is an unscientific farce. We have arbitrarily chosen to list these articles in chronological order. Each article is accompanied by our commentary, usually with a relevant quote from the article itself. We hope that the following will help you understand why so many people are a) refusing to wear a mask, and b) concerned about where this is all leading! Smartphone data reveal which Americans are social distancing (and not) March 24, 2020 https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/03/24/social-distancing-maps-cellphone-location/ “If you have a smartphone, you’re probably contributing to a massive coronavirus surveillance system.” Interestingly, the Washington Post pointed out from the very beginning how this incident was immediately being used to thrust us all into the deep surveillance state. This was months before Apple and Google secretly installed contact tracing apps on our smartphones. Oh wait, it was just a "framework" for said apps to work? That's much better. 'Heartbreaking': Moms could be separated from their newborns under coronavirus guidelines March 26, 2020 https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2020/03/26/pregnant-women-covid-19-could-separated-babies-birth/2907751001/ People said this would never happen. Guess what? It did. More than once. Here are some screenshots we received from People's Rights on June 10th: [1-People's Rights Text 01.jpg] The recipients responded immediately, and this follow-up text was sent about 3 hours later: [2-People's Rights Text 02.jpg] After about 5 hours total, the situation came to a positive conclusion: [3-People's Rights Text 03.jpg] Those parents were lucky enough to have a connection to the People's Rights group. Others are at least being threatened. The following was posted on Facebook within the past week: [4-St Luke's FB Msg.jpg] While the first story, with the text messages, above, had to do with a hospital in Washington State, this is in reference to St. Luke's Hospital, here in Boise, Idaho. COVID-19 Phone Location Tracking: Yes, It’s Happening Now—Here’s What You Should Know March 27, 2020 https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2020/03/27/covid-19-phone-location-tracking-its-moving-fast-this-is-whats-happening-now/ “ [T]here was an acknowledgement of this darker data mining in comments made by Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu on march 14. “All means will be used to fight the spread of the coronavirus,” he said, before referencing the use of the country’s counter-terror tech. “that until today I have refrained from using among the civilian population.”” Counter-terror technology will be used against the public… to fight coronavirus? That doesn't sound dystopian in any way, whatsoever, does it? PLEASE NOTE: We consider the following article to be the most important article on this page! If you do not read anything else, read this! Was the COVID-19 Test Meant to Detect a Virus? April 8, 2020 https://uncoverdc.com/2020/04/07/was-the-covid-19-test-meant-to-detect-a-virus/ We include here a collection of especially poignant statements from this article, but sincerely urge you to read it in its entirety! We apologize in advance for some of the language. ““What do we mean when we say a person “tests positive” for Covid-19? We don’t actually mean they have been found to “have” it. We’ve been hijacked by our technologies, but left illiterate about what they actually mean. In this case, I am in the rare position of having known, spent time with, and interviewed the inventor of the method used in the presently available Covid-19 tests, which is called PCR, (Polymerase Chain Reaction.)”” Note that PCR is the primary means of testing for coronavirus in use today. ““The number of “cases” is often a very big number, back-lit in red. Today for example, the number of “total cases,” in the US, according to Worldometer, is 309,728. The total death figure is 8,441. “Active cases,” is 286,546, of which 8,206 are “Serious, Critical.” The number of “new deaths” is 1,037, and the number of “total recovered” is 14,741. I’m not clear what an “active” case is. Does that mean fully symptomatic? Partially symptomatic? If the latter, it surely encompasses influenza/pneumonia, which has magically, as many have observed, dropped off a cliff for 2020.”” We often forget that definitions matter! Everyone keeps talking about "cases," and "spikes," without ever defining what they mean. In this situation, even the subtle nuances have vast consequences! ““Austrian MD Christian Fiala [wrote:] “during the first weeks most tests were done on sick people. Therefore, the percentage of positive tests was relatively high. But there are not so many sick people and with the general roll out of tests, the vast majority of those tested will be healthy. Consequently, the percentage of positive tests will be low, and most will be false positive. In other words, it is impossible to continue the increase of positive test results.”” Catch that? You probably need to read it again. “““You have to have a whopping amount of any organism to cause symptoms. Huge amounts of it,” Dr. David Rasnick, bio-chemist, protease developer, and former founder of an EM lab called Viral Forensics told me. “You don’t start with testing; you start with listening to the lungs. I’m skeptical that a PRC test is ever true. It’s a great scientific research tool. It’s a horrible tool for clinical medicine. 30% of your infected cells have been killed before you show symptoms. By the time you show symptoms…the dead cells are generating the symptoms.”” "I’m skeptical that a PRC test is ever true." Yes, he actually said that, and yes, that is, as we said earlier, the primary test being used for coronavirus today! “I asked Dr. Rasnick what advice he has for people who want to be tested for COVID-19. “Don’t do it, I say, when people ask me,” he replies. “No healthy person should be tested. It means nothing but it can destroy your life, make you absolutely miserable.”” To be clear, the PRC test was not meant to be used for its current task. Its results are extremely unreliable for this purpose. “… “Every time somebody takes a swab, a tissue sample of their DNA, it goes into a government database. It’s to track us,” says David Rasnick. “They’re not just looking for the virus. Please put that in your article.””” We had privately surmised that this might be the case, so we felt it important to include a scientist's comments on the matter. ““Yes, you read that right. Labs can manipulate how many 'cases’ of Covid-19 their country has.”” You'll have to read the article for the technical explanation of how this works, but it is apparently quite simple. “““There was a famous Chinese paper that estimated that if you’re testing asymptomatic people, up to 80% of positives could be false positive. That was kind of shocking, so shocking that PubMed had to withdraw the abstract even though the Chinese paper appears to still be published and available. I actually have a translation with a friend. I translated it into English and it’s a really, standard calculation of what they call positive predictive value. The abstract basically said that in asymptomatic populations, the chance of a positive coronavirus test being a true positive is only about 20%. 80% will be false positive.” “Doesn’t that mean the test means nothing?” I asked. “The Chinese analysis was a mathematical analysis, a standard, the standard analysis that’s been done a million times before. There’s no reason to withdraw the paper for any reason. There’s nothing dramatic about the paper. It’s a really boring analysis. It’s just that they did the standard analysis and said, in some populations, like they estimated 1% of people are actually infected in the population. You could have 80% false positive. Uh, they couldn’t do a real analysis of false positives in terms of determining whether a test is correct or not because that requires a gold standard and the only gold standard is purification of the virus. So, we get back to the fact that the virus is not being purified. If you could purify the virus, then you could take a hundred people who tested positive and you could search for the virus in them. And if you found the virus in 50 out of a hundred and not in the other 50, you could say that the test is only accurate 50% of the time. But we have no way to do that because we haven’t yet purified the virus. And I don’t think we ever will.””” "[W]e haven’t yet purified the virus." According to the article, this means that no one has actually isolated it yet, to pinpoint what it is exactly, and what gives it its own specific identity. Yep. ““Crowe described a case in the literature of a woman who had been in contact with a suspect case of Corona (in Wuhan) they believed was the index case. “She was important to the supposed chain of infection because of this. They tested her 18 times, different parts of the body, like nose, throat—different PCR tests. 18 different tests. And she tested negative every time. And then they—because of her epidemiological connection with the other cases, they said: “We consider her infected. So, they had 18 negative tests and they said she was infected.” “Now why was she important? Well there was only one other person who could have theoretically transmitted the virus if the original patient, outside the family was who they thought it was. But secondly, she had the same exact symptoms as everybody else. Right? So, four people in his family came down with fever and cough and headaches, fatigue and all these kinds of big symptoms. So, if she could get those symptoms without the virus, then you, you’ve got to say, well, why couldn’t everybody else’s symptoms be explained by whatever she had? I mean, maybe they, they ate some bad seafood or something and so they all got sick, but it had nothing to do with the coronavirus.”” So, it goes something like this: "Um, boss? 18 tests and no dice. What do we do?" "Well, without her the whole thing falls apart." "So…" "She's positive, of course! Lock her up!" ““Another interesting thing is that they did a lot of tests. The first person in the list of people tested, he was positive on three out of 11 tests. So again, they took nose and throat samples and you know, different methods and all this kind of stuff. And they got 11 separate tests and only three were positive. And of course, all you need to be considered infected is one positive test. They could test you 20 times and if you test positive once, then you’re infected. So, a positive test is meaningful. A negative test. It’s like, eh. Not so much.”” What kind of test comes back positive 3 out of 11 times? And what kind of doctor/scientists relies on such sketchy tests?!? US: Hospitals Get Paid $13K to List Patients as COVID-19 and $39K to Put Them on a Ventilator April 9, 2020 https://needtoknow.news/2020/04/us-hospitals-get-paid-13k-to-list-patients-as-covid-19-and-39k-to-put-them-on-a-ventilator “Republican state senator Scott Jensen, who is also a medical doctor, says the AMA is encouraging doctors to over-count coronavirus deaths. He revealed that “Medicare is determining that if you have a COVID-19 admission to the hospital you get $13,000. If that COVID-19 patient goes on a ventilator you get $39,000, three times as much.” Several days ago, he told local media he received a directive from the Minnesota Department of Health to list COVID-19 as the cause of death on death certificates even if patients were never tested for it. –G. Edward Griffin” This one is well-known by now, but we think it is entirely undervalued! Hospitals are businesses! This is a major conflict of interests! James Corbett also mentioned recently that putting someone on a ventilator is a serious medical intervention, and that, on a regular day, something on the order of 40% of people put on them die! But, oh, that was coronavirus. Governors of 10 States Will Require ‘Contact Tracing’ to Reopen April 15, 2020 https://needtoknow.news/2020/05/governors-of-10-states-will-require-contact-tracing-to-reopen If you look at the date, you will notice that this was already the language back when we were roughly a month into this whole debacle! It's almost as if it was previously decided. Dr. Ngozi Ezike | How COVID Deaths are Classified April 27, 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tw9Ci2PZKZg&feature=youtu.be “Everyone who is listed as a COVID death, doesn’t mean that was the cause of death, but that they had COVID at the time of death.” This is another one of those things most people (should) know about by now, but again is super important, as it means that the numbers being reported as "COVID deaths" are really, really not that. This also represents another conflict of interests, as there is big money for hospitals for reporting COVID deaths (this is discussed below). Gov. Little plans to distribute $300 million in cash grants to small businesses as state enters Stage 1 of reopening April 30, 2020 https://gov.idaho.gov/pressrelease/gov-little-plans-to-distribute-300-million-in-cash-grants-to-small-businesses-as-state-enters-stage-1-of-reopening/ Our "conservative" governor, here in Idaho, made sure to declare us to be in a state of "extreme emergency" right from the start, when we had exactly zero deaths, and only a small number of "cases". This assured him approximately $1.3 BILLION in federal funds. Declare non-existent pandemic. Check. Get loads of "free money." Check. Hooray for "redistributing the wealth!" New York Funeral Directors Say COVID-19 Deaths are Greatly Exaggerated April 30, 2020 https://needtoknow.news/2020/05/new-york-funeral-directors-say-covid-19-deaths-are-greatly-exaggerated/ “James O’Keefe of Project Veritas spoke to several funeral directors in New York who say the number of reported COVID-19 death is greatly exaggerated and that no one is testing. Funeral director Michael Lanza said that it was his opinion that NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio is looking for federal funding and, the more COVID death certificate they can create, the more federal funds they receive.” -G. Edward Griffin” It is more than appropriate that this article follows the one above. The Farce and Diabolical Agenda of A “Universal Lockdown” May 1, 2020 https://www.globalresearch.ca/covid-19-cruelty-universal-lockdown/5710798 “On January 30, WHO declared COVID-19 a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). At that time, there were only 150 known COVID-19 cases outside of China. No reason whatsoever to declare a pandemic.” Golly gee, it's almost like this was just an excuse for a planned incident…! Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Suggests People Who Promote Gatherings On Social Media Will Face Legal Action May 3, 2020 https://www.dailywire.com/news/chicago-mayor-lori-lightfoot-suggests-people-who-promote-gatherings-on-social-media-will-face-legal-action “So, that means if you host a party, if you promote a party, if you go to a party, we’re not playing games, we mean business and we are going to shut this down one way or the other,” Lightfoot continued. “The time for educating people into compliance is over, don’t be stupid don’t come out, don’t advertise on social media, we’re watching you and we are going to take decisive action.”” This woman is an utter fool, as demonstrated by her recently recorded comments about wanting to hire city employees who pledge allegiance to the New World Order, but note the theme here: Stop thinking for yourselves! Big Brother knows what's best for you! Not only surveillance state, but promoting the police state, as well. * Fact-checking sites claim that the mayor's comments were somehow altered or taken out of context. We think the linked video makes it pretty clear that this is untrue. Tanzania suspends laboratory head after president questions coronavirus tests May 4, 2020 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-tanzania/tanzania-suspends-laboratory-head-after-president-questions-coronavirus-tests-idUSKBN22G295 “Tanzania has suspended the head of its national health laboratory in charge of testing for the coronavirus and ordered an investigation, a day after President John Magufuli questioned the tests’ accuracy. Magufuli said on Sunday the imported test kits were faulty as they had returned positive results on a goat and a pawpaw — among several non-human samples submitted for testing, with technicians left deliberately unaware of their origins.” Oopsies. Well, that doesn't inspire trust in those tests, now, does it? Fever-detecting Drones and Other Intrusive Practices Grow Under COVID-19 May 4, 2020 https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/35634-fever-detecting-drones-and-other-intrusive-practices-grow-under-covid-19 “Fever-reading drones, thermal cameras, and other coronavirus policies are part of “a looming wave of intrusive technology and constitutionally questionable measures pushed by governments — from local to state to federal — under the mission of protecting a fearful community,”” Notice how fear-mongering plays into this. If they can keep you afraid, you won't fight them when they take away your freedoms. Whistleblower: CBS News Staged Fake COVID-19 Testing Line In Michigan May 6, 2020 https://needtoknow.news/2020/05/whistleblower-cbs-news-staged-fake-covid-19-testing-line-in-michigan “An insider came forward to Project Veritas with hidden camera recordings revealing how CBS News organized a fake coronavirus testing line at the Cherry Health facility in Grand Rapids, and used “fake patients” recruited from the medical staff to make the CBS news report look authentic. CBS denied staging the event and removed the Cherry Health portion from the piece.” -G. Edward Griffin” This was back when all the talk was still about "flattening the curve" (ie, keeping the hospitals from being overwhelmed with sick and dying), and all the mainstream media outlets were talking about huge lines for testing. All the while, emergency tents were being taken down because they never saw a single person. ’60 Minutes’ Exposes 1976 Swine Flu Hoax & Mass Vaccine Injuries That Followed May 7, 2020 https://needtoknow.news/2020/05/60-minutes-exposes-1976-swine-flu-hoax-mass-vaccine-injuries-that-followed/ “In 1976, the US government declared that everyone should take a vaccine to stop a national pandemic from the Swine flu. At that time, the US had a population of 218-million people, and 46-million took the vaccine. Four-thousand were injured by the vaccine and filed lawsuits for-$3.5 billion. Most of the claims were for neurological damage and death. According to 60 Minutes, the vaccine was never even tested, although the media propaganda proclaimed that it was safe and effective – and necessary to prevent the spread of a pandemic that never was.” -G. Edward Griffin” Sound familiar? We wonder why so many people are publicly declaring their opposition to this exact same scenario? It's almost like they don't want to repeat history, or something. Dr. Birx Reportedly Believes Coronavirus Death Toll Inflated By Up To 25% May 11, 2020 https://dailycaller.com/2020/05/11/doctor-deborah-birx-coronavirus-covid-19-death-toll-inflated-numbers-cases-cdc-white-house-meeting-report/ “Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus task force response coordinator, believes some official COVID-19 statistics like death tolls may be inflated by up to 25%, a new report states.” Again with the inflated death tolls. State to invest $7M in boosting contact tracing ability May 12, 2020 https://www.idahopress.com/coronavirus/state-to-invest-7m-in-boosting-contact-tracing-ability/article_6f1f4e8e-f0ae-5c92-bfbd-283f8f76de00.html Idaho will be spending $7 MILLION to track our every move. For a "pandemic" that still does not exist. CDC acknowledges mixing up coronavirus testing data May 21, 2020 https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/499085-cdc-acknowledges-mixing-up-coronavirus-testing-data What? The "professionals" at the CDC mixed up some unrelated and completely different data, and reported it as one number? That's hard to believe! (Note: We don't.) Also, other professionals also find it hard to believe, as evidenced by the quotes in the next article: ‘How Could the CDC Make That Mistake?’ May 21, 2020 https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/05/cdc-and-states-are-misreporting-covid-19-test-data-pennsylvania-georgia-texas/611935/ “The government’s disease-fighting agency is conflating viral and antibody tests, compromising a few crucial metrics that governors depend on to reopen their economies.” Remember that article with a ton of quotes, above? The one we said was super-important? Yeah, so that PRC test that was declared by its creator as unfit for medical diagnosis is the same one "that governors depend on to reopen their economies". That shouldn't concern you at all, though. Doctor Says COVID-19 Death Statistics are Criminally Fraudulent May 26, 2020 https://redpilluniversity.org/2020/05/27/doctor-says-covid-19-death-statistics-are-criminally-fraudulent/ “Dr. Pamela Popper, teacher and consultant in the field of nutrition-based medicine, reviews the COVID-19 death statistics and shows they are deliberately falsified to make the numbers larger than they really are.” "Deliberately." Before face masks, Americans went to war against seat belts May 26, 2020 https://www.businessinsider.com/when-americans-went-to-war-against-seat-belts-2020-5 This crappy article correctly identifies this as yet another step in the war of coercion versus liberty, and basically claims that since we allowed the federal government to take away our freedom previously, we should not have a problem with it now. Which, itself, is actually the problem. Oregon uses coronavirus data to make decisions about reopening. It refuses to release that data. June 3, 2020 https://www.oregonlive.com/coronavirus/2020/06/oregon-uses-coronavirus-data-to-make-decisions-about-reopening-it-refuses-to-release-that-data.html This is just like how NIST has still never released their data for calculating the collapse of WTC7, or Pelosi saying we could find out what was in the Obamacare bill after it had passed. Frankly, we don't trust anyone, especially not government. US company rolls out ‘health pass’ app to block ‘unhealthy’ users from airports, workplace June 4, 2020 https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/us-company-rolls-out-health-pass-app-to-block-unhealthy-users-from-airports-workplace “The 'health pass' service is being marketed for businesses to scan arriving employees at a workplace, giving them a passing or failing COVID-19 grade, which determines whether they can enter.” With tests that arbitrarily deem you positive or negative for coronavirus, now we have businesses and other locations who will use that to determine whether or not you have access to, say, your job. Choose not to comply with ridiculous mandates or policies because you now know how stupid this whole thing is? Too bad. You will be treated like a criminal. Didn't anyone else see that Black Mirror episode? French contact tracing app lays groundwork for ‘techno-police,’ group warns June 4, 2020 https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/french-contract-tracing-app-lays-groundwork-for-techno-police-group-warns “The app, called StopCovid, has raised a number of concerns regarding individual freedom and anonymity among both left-wing and right-wing citizens' rights groups.” Asymptomatic spread of coronavirus is ‘very rare,’ WHO says June 8, 2020 https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/08/asymptomatic-coronavirus-patients-arent-spreading-new-infections-who-says.html What's "funny" is that the very next day, the WHO publicly denied this to be the case. Whew! That was a close one! If true, this would have meant an end to everything the UN has been able to convince people to implement so far. Think of all the Agenda 21/2030 goals they’ve suddenly been able to force on us that would no longer make any sense! Rights Suspended Under Martial Law and Active Duty Chapter of Idaho Code June 17, 2020 https://healthfreedomidaho.org/martial-law-rights-suspended/ This one will give you an overview of what dictatorial powers Governor Little has assumed while we are in a "state of emergency," and help to explain why he keeps extending it. It Finally Happened: Child Taken Due to COVID-19 June 17, 2020 https://parentalrights.org/it-finally-happened-child-taken-due-to-covid-19/ “Today in dependency court madness, LA County Dept. of Children and Family Services (DCFS) recommended that the court remove my client’s child from their physical custody after the parent tested positive for COVID-19. This is a non-offending parent. The judge ruled in favor of DCFS and detained.” As shown previously, these things are happening, but they aren't being made public! People's Rights got involved in the other case, which kept it from ending up on the news. Here, the individual's attorney is bringing it to light, although they are unable to provide details. Oregon health officials ‘have not seen any evidence’ of coronavirus spread at protests June 18, 2020 https://www.oregonlive.com/coronavirus/2020/06/oregon-health-officials-have-not-seen-any-evidence-of-coronavirus-spread-at-protests.html “[A]fter 21 days of statewide protests… some of them drawing thousands of participants, health officials know of only a handful of coronavirus patients who said they attended one.” For many people, this was when the silliness started to set in. You know, "as long as you are out being a Social Justice Warrior, you're magically protected from coronavirus!" Our Endless State of "Emergency" and De Facto Dictatorship June 25, 2020 https://mises.org/power-market/our-endless-state-emergency-and-de-facto-dictatorship “But even this highly moderate view of Hayek's would be an immense improvement from the current status quo, which is one in which governors can appoint themselves de facto dictators for an open-ended amount of time, and in which the only way of ending the one-man rule is for the legislature to take extraordinary measures.” This accurately describes what has happened here in Idaho. Modelers Were ‘Astronomically Wrong’ in COVID-19 Predictions, Says Leading Epidemiologist—and the World Is Paying the Price July 2, 2020 https://fee.org/articles/modelers-were-astronomically-wrong-in-covid-19-predictions-says-leading-epidemiologist-and-the-world-is-paying-the-price/ While this article isn't earth-shattering, it was a good excuse to post that title. The Recent Spikes in COVID-19 Cases Represents a Patently Fake Increase July 7, 2020 http://stateofthenation.co/?p=19396 “New definitions for designating Covid-19 cases have been distributed by the Department of State Health Services in Texas… In the new case definition contact tracing is included to report other people who were in contact with the one person who physically tested positive.” So, in Texas, "cases" now include anyone they can trace to a person who has tested positive, Whether or not they have been tested themselves, and whether or not they are sick. Makes sense… OPERATION COVID-19 is pushing Western Civilization into the Third World July 7, 2020 http://stateofthenation.co/?p=19415 Large and powerful organizations like the World Economic Forum are currently planning to use this “pandemic” as a way to push something called “The Great Reset,” about which they say: “”…the world must act jointly and swiftly to revamp all aspects of our societies and economies, from education to social contracts and working conditions. Every country, from the United States to China, must participate, and every industry, from oil and gas to tech, must be transformed. In short, we need a “Great Reset” of capitalism.”” This is another of the most important things we hope you will take away from this article. Globalists want to use it–and are using it!–to destroy everything we hold dear. My investigation of COVID-19 July 7, 2020 https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2020/07/07/my-investigation-of-covid-19/ “Drug companies make money on the vaccine and the drugs used to treat COVID-19 patients. State governments receive federal money to “fight the virus.” Researchers win promotions. Public health agencies obtain more funding, and more power. Financiers buy up devalued properties at bargain prices. At the top of the ladder, key plotters contrive selling the story of a new killer virus, because they intend to use it to lock down the planet. Why? Because they want to torpedo economies and move in on the wreckage and build a new economic, social, and political world order.” Jon Rappaport is a good journalist, but this is the most important quote from this article, and it belongs right here, beneath the article above. Should We Trust The Covid Tests? Jul7 8, 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hac3ibzFf2E Many people do not know that former presidential candidate, Senator Ron Paul, is also a doctor. They discuss, among other things, the fact that a professional baseball player has received two positive and two negative test results within a period of 10 days. “[T]wo Texas counties are threatening felony charges against those with positive tests who do not stay home.” Does this make sense when “It’s No Longer a Felony to Knowingly Infect Someone with HIV-AIDS in California“? Well, it makes about as much sense as letting actual criminals out of jail because coronavirus, just to turn around and put people in jail because they violated lockdown orders by going to church. Politics Influences the Science of COVID-19 July 8, 2020 https://joshmitteldorf.scienceblog.com/2020/07/08/politics-influences-the-science-of-covid-19/ “I’m writing here about two issues: (1) Numbers reported by CDC have been gamed to make it appear that America is in the second wave of a pandemic. Instead of reporting COVID deaths, they began reported COVID cases. Then they conflated recovered individuals (who test positive for antibodies) with current cases (who test positive for the active virus). No wonder numbers are rising! (2) A new report featured prominently in Nature purports to show that lockdowns have stemmed the spread of the virus and have saved lives. The article is by the same team whose flawed models produced apocalyptic predictions last March that justified lockdowns in Europe and the US.” Another good article that deserves a full read-through. 3 States Account for 42 Percent of All COVID-19 Deaths in America. Why? July 9, 2020 https://fee.org/articles/3-states-account-for-42-percent-of-all-covid-19-deaths-in-america-why/ “In some ways, COVID-19 data are like a Rorschach blot from which writers, politicians, and experts can glean whatever conclusions they wish to find.” These three states skew the numbers for the entire country. NBC Guest Doctor Who Was Suffering from Coronavirus in Hospital in TV Interviews — NEVER HAD CORONAVIRUS! July 10, 2020 https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/07/wow-nbc-guest-doctor-suffering-coronavirus-hospital-tv-interviews-never-coronavirus-video/ “An NBC medical expert who was brought on air nearly a dozen times to detail his struggle with COVID-19 never had the virus, he revealed this week.” More shenanigans from the mainstream media, as they try to push the official narrative about coronavirus. And they wonder why people no longer trust them. Further Research The people over at FreedomMan.org have also assembled a bunch of articles on this topic, which you may find interesting: List of Fake News and Propaganda About COVID-19 https://freedomman.org/2020/fake-news-and-propaganda-about-covid-19/ Credits Coronavirus used in cover image: centennialco.gov
Idaho Student-Parent Mask Opt Out Now Available!
Please note: The original version of these forms had some typos. The forms have been corrected. Thanks to those who pointed out our early morning mishap. Our highly requested Idaho Student-Parent Mask Opt Out template is finally available! Feel free to download the form, add your child(ren)'s names, and sign! Turn them in to the school office when you drop the kids off for class. Here is the form: • Student-Parent Mask Opt Out Template 2020-09-16.docx (Any OS | Microsoft Word) • Student-Parent Mask Opt Out Template 2020-09-16.pages (Mac | Pages) Here are the related laws and other sources: • Eastern Idaho Public Health Order, July 21, 2020 (PDF) • Idaho Title 39-90 (Idaho Health Freedom Act) • Idaho Title 32-1010 (INTENT OF THE LEGISLATURE — PARENTAL RIGHTS) • Idaho Title 32-1013 (INTERFERENCE WITH FUNDAMENTAL PARENTAL RIGHTS RESTRICTED) • Idaho State Constitution, Article III, Section I The CDC lists these exemptions: • children under the age of 2 • anyone who has trouble breathing, is unconscious, incapacitated • otherwise unable to remove the mask without assistance. We would point out that everyone has trouble breathing when their mouth and nose are covered! Here are the exemptions listed for the Boise mandate: i. Children under the age of five (5). ii. Persons who cannot medically tolerate wearing a face covering. A person is not required to provide documentation demonstrating that the person cannot medically tolerate wearing a face covering. iii. Persons who are hearing impaired, or communicating with a person who is hearing impaired, where the ability to see the mouth is essential for communication. iv. Persons, including on-duty first responders, for whom wearing a face covering would create a risk to the person related to their work, as determined by local, state, or federal regulators or workplace safety v. Persons who are obtaining a service involving the nose, face, or head for which temporary removal of the face covering is necessary to perform the service. Persons who are eating or drinking at a restaurant or other establishment that offers food or beverage service, so long as the person is able to maintain a distance of 6 feet away from persons who are not members of the same household or party as the person. vi. Outdoor public places where people can employ social distancing as recommended by CDC. vii. Indoor recreational facilities (i.e., gyms and fitness facilities) where people can employ social distancing as recommended by the CDC. The Eastern Idaho Public Health order says the following: "Facial coverings are not required to be worn under the following circumstances: • Children under the age of 2. • Persons with medical conditions, mental health condition, or disability that prevent them from wearing a face covering. A person is not required to provide documentation demonstrating that the person cannot tolerate wearing a face covering. • Persons who are deaf or hard of hearing, or communicating with a person who is deaf or hard of hearing, where the ability to see the mouth is essential for communication. • Persons, including on-duty law enforcement officers, for whom wearing a face covering would create a risk to the person related to their work, as determined by local, state, or federal regulators or workplace safety guidelines. • Persons who are obtaining a service involving the nose, face, or head for which temporary removal of the face covering is necessary to perform the service. • Persons who are eating or drinking at a restaurant or other establishment that offers food or beverage service, so long as they are seated at a table and able to maintain a distance of 6 feet from persons who are not members of the same household or party as the person. Update 2020-09-17: For an in-depth explanation of the principles behind this form, please read this page on our sister site, Defending Utah! While the exact pretended laws are different, the principles remain the same.