65 Years Destroying Credibility
Segment # 032
I am writing this after reading this morning a completely unsubstantiated article by the Wall Street Journal on Ivermectin. I will cite reference below. This will be a bit autobiographical but there is a point. My folks divorced in 1954 and we moved back to Providence with Mother. I used to return to Dallas for the summer to spend time with Dad. One summer I got a job selling encyclopedias.. I believe Colliers. During one of my initial training calls, it became apparent to even a fifteen year old that the pitch was deceptive and the company was trying to guilt the buyer in spending beyond their means to ensure a better life for their kids. My reaction was typical for a young man of my vast experience.. I told my Dad I was going to sue or at the very least go to the newspaper and give an interview (Dad worked for the Dallas Times Herald). Dad felt the first step was to go to Colliers and have a meeting where they successfully bribed my father … ending it there. I never saw the money but I discovered a lack of reverence for authority that would both hinder and help my future careers. It did successfully end my naval aviation career which was a blessing in that I have never been any good at compartmentalizing which this shortcoming probably would have gotten me killed as a pilot. In my generation there were many young men and women that questioned main stream thinking. In my mind the 60’s were the beginning of the U.S. Government destroying their credibility with their citizens. Gone was my parents generation that respected everything that represented authority regardless of whether it was a cop’s uniform, a priest’s robe, or a doctor’s coat. That was World War II thinking where everyone was in it to survive.
Over the past several years there have been significant efforts by the Media, big Pharm, big Tech, and the government to discredit with some success any contrary opinions. And there is less and less real debate every day. The power behind this movement towards totalitarianism is not to be taken lightly and those that decide to swim upstream pay a price. Good honest people that are trying to just deal with their own daily problems find it easier to just accept rather than question. What happens, however, when this silent majority and their families begin to suffer both economic pain and pain from all the associated consequences from pandemic …more and more people are beginning to ask questions. It’s a bit different when grandma dies in a NY nursing home, or lockdowns cause your business to go under… or maybe your family falls apart under the pandemic pressure. Doctors that have been practicing medicines for decades are now questioning and analytically concluding that the medical reality based on the CDC and the FDA led them to giving their patients the wrong advice.
But lets look at the basics. A very close friend and doctor posed a question to me that really focuses on the question of the credibility of the federal government. “After entering the second half-century of being a licensed physician this month, I remain astounded at how the politicization of healthcare has developed into such a frenzied online cacophony of diatribes against conventional medical knowledge.” This is a fair and very important question that concisely addresses the very essence of the distrust more and more Americans have for their government. The answer is simple, provable, and quite logical. The deliberate efforts of the USA government to avoid accountability for terrible mistakes have from the at least as early as the 1960’s destroyed their credibility. From the early 60’s on everything has become political and the government has squandered their credibility by not only lying but then not being accountable once caught.
Historical Events That Have Slowly Destroyed Credibility and Trust in Our Private and Public Voices of Authority
Pentagon Papers
he Pentagon Papers revealed that senior officials asserted in the 1960s that the Viet Cong were dying in record numbers, enemy leadership was decapitated and there was “light at the end of the tunnel.” Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and his commanders, who knew the reality, continuously called for even more force from 1961 to 1969.
Watergate
In May 1972, five men broke into the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C. to bug office phones and steal confidential documents. A month later, the spies were arrested when they were caught breaking in again. Authorities later discovered that the men worked for President Richard Nixon’s reelection campaign. Despite the country’s raised suspicions, Nixon was re-elected to serve a second term after denying his involvement in the scandal. But Nixon’s lies and deception weren’t enough to keep the truth from coming out.
Afghanistan
I have mention the pullout from Afghanistan that singly was one of the most embarrassing moments in history for the US military. We are being told that it was one of the great successes.
Big Tobacco
Joe Camel: For about a decade beginning in 1987, Camel started to market its products using a mascot called “Old Joe.” Joe would often appear looking suave or cool in various brightly colored situations - as cool as a man with a camel face can look. The cartoonish nature of the advertisements drew criticism for subconsciously appealing to children. The Journal of the American Medical Association published a study in 1991 showing that at the age of six, almost as many children could correctly associate Old Joe with Camel as they could Mickey Mouse with Disney. The industry that makes money from obfuscating the truth has been recently forced to fess up. A U.S. District Judge ordered four major tobacco companies to publish admission statements making clear that they had lied in the past and present the recognitions of guilt in both newspapers and television networks. The advertisement campaign is set to begin after the companies’ appeals are over.This moment has been in the making for a long time, as tobacco companies have perpetuated fraudulent claims about their products for nearly as long as the products themselves have been on the shelves.
Tuskegee Syphilis Study
in which 400 sharecroppers were denied treatment for syphilis over 40 years. In 1932, U.S. Public Health Service employees recruited hundreds of poor, uneducated African American men with syphilis and watched them die avoidable deaths over time, even after a cure was found. The discovery of the experiment made front-page news in 1972. The study participants won a $10 million class-action settlement in 1975 and an apology from President Bill Clinton in 1997.
MMR vaccine and Autism
CDC still maintains that there is no link however the head of the CDC at the time went on to work for Merk who made the vaccine and the CDC whistleblower William Thompson still has not been deposed. Regular citizens and parents ask why if the argument is compelling they don’t release the testimony. The documentary is worth seeing. There has long been a debate about the link between vaccinations and autism, beginning with a now widely discredited study from British medical researcher Andrew Wakefield. Now, a new documentary from TruthInMedia.com alleges that not only is there a link, but that the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC) covered it up.
In 2014, CDC doctor William Thompson sent Congress paperwork that he said was proof that the agency withheld data that suggested that Black boys who received the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine before the age of 36 months were at increased risk of developing autism. The CDC maintains that there was not enough data to draw race-based conclusions, and Snopes.com has an extensive post meant to debunk Thompson’s claims. So why not ask questions and expect answers? If your child is autistic, you deserve answers and some respect.
Oxycontin
Purdue Pharma began making and marketing OxyContin in the early 1990s. They combined oxycodone with a time-release ingredient, making OxyContin the only opiate that promised multiple hours of pain relief. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved this formula in 1995. While it provided extended relief for some, it created greater problems for others. The drug was not as effective as hoped, leaving some in pain and others struggling with new substance abuse and addiction problems. November 9, 2021 - From Executive Producer Danny Strong and starring and executive produced by Michael Keaton, “Dopesick” examines how one company triggered the worst drug epidemic in American history. The series takes viewers to the epicenter of America’s struggle with opioid addiction, from the boardrooms ... The recent settlement kept the Perdue family out of prison but it broke up the company and levied a 6 billion dollar restitution fine. This went on for over 30 years.
Hunter Biden Laptop
And even now 18 months after 51 “leaders” from the US intelligence community professed with certainty that the laptop was a Russian intelligence operation meant to hurt Biden and help Trump none of these experts had the courage or character to admit they were wrong.. In the past week the NY Times admitted they were wrong and yes “The Laptop From Hell” really exists and is for real.
Joe Biden is Corrupt
If the laptop is for real then our President is or ar the very least has been on the take.
NY State Nursing Home Scandal
ALBANY, N.Y. (WWNY) - More than 15,000 residents of nursing homes and related facilities in New York died of COVID-19, according to data released this week by the state Department of Health. The number is far higher than what the Cuomo administration was reporting, about 9,000. Legislators and journalists have fought for months to get complete nursing home data from the Cuomo administration. And that was just one of the developments Thursday in the controversy over nursing home deaths and COVID 19. Cuomo’s critics claim he covered up the true toll of the virus in nursing homes for months because his administration’s policy last spring allowed the virus to spread, causing thousands of needless nursing home deaths. Cuomo and his top aides deny the policy did what his critics claim; moreover, they say there is proof the virus spread because of infected nursing home employees, not patients.
Lockdowns
Johns Hopkins did a study proving lockdowns did not contribute to the control of the pandemic and in fact lockdowns in minority community multi generational households contributed to higher deathrates. Fauci continually changed his positions and was continually found wrong when he did. Our leaders did not follow their own rules and regulations. I have been talking for over a year about masks, early treatment, vaccine data and none of this is probably more important than to this date CDC has not released all the data collected on the pandemic and the FDA has not released the data from Pfizer they used to grant the emergency use authorization.
All these various unrelated issues come together in the ordinary citizen’s mind as a me against them mentality. You remember Reagan’s famous quip. “I am from the government and I am here to help you.” Whether your son dies in what many perceived to be a ridiculous war in Vietnam or your West Virginia cousin dies of a fentanyl dose that was smuggled across the Mexican border, it all results in mandate hesitancy. As it should. Our leaders don’t get to tell us when to shut down our business or when to take a vaccine, unless they tell us why and show us the data. That is what a free society is all about.
There are, unfortunately, far more examples but you get the point. I hope this answers the question.. because none of the above is a “conspiracy theory”. All this happened or is happening. In my mind there is no rationale for believing the government ….they certainly have not earned this trust. In this society you either move towards accountability or some form of totalitarianism. Many of our elites on both sides of the aisle view repressed notion of free will as the globalism of the future. It is at best naive considering China, Russia, North Korea and Iran would probably nuke Davos before relinquishing control.
'Intelligence' experts refuse to apologize for smearing Hunter Biden story
The 51 former “intelligence” officials who cast doubt on The Post’s Hunter Biden laptop stories in a public letter really were just desperate to get Joe Biden elected president.
nypost.com
Researchers who tested repurposed drugs against Covid-19 found that ivermectin, which has received attention from celebrities including Joe Rogan, didn’t reduce hospital admissions in the largest trial to date.
https://rumble.com/vwpi0x-ivermectin-more-evidence-dr.-john-campbell.html
It has been fascinating for me personally to witness my evolving political philosophies from college student to an art appraiser in my seventh decade. I have been a 1. Republican (Mother was secretary to a Republican governor, 2. a Foreign policy conservative and a Domestic policy liberal (my JFK and Adlai Stevenson period), 3. A conservative who always voted republican (Ronald Regan) 4. Republican moderate (George Bush the 1st), and finally what I believe to be my last evolution 5. a Populist. My primary filter for all policies is America First which in my mind is clearly the responsibility of every elected official. I understand our responsibilities in the world but if it is not good for America, I am really not interested.
