I want to do everything possible to not buy from fascist retailers like Amazon. Any help you can offer is appreciated. There has got to be another retailer or retailers who can compete. McCullough is among the true heroes and we need to help him and others like him before we lose all of our freedom.
I just purchased 3 hard copies directly even though I already read and previously purchased your paperback last year. One will be donated to my local library. Everyone. Please purchase at least one copy to donate to your local library and get your community and friends to borrow this book so it stays in circulation.
I've got probably 50 books on my "to-buy" list at Amazon. Because I think we need to have hard copies of important works, I think I will try to buy all of these now, rather than waiting for "when I have time to read them," because even if I do not read them all (and I never will) I will make them available to family and friends.
We absolutely need to buy hard copies of every single book like this and pass them to every generation that comes after us. One of the greatest inheritance we can leave to the next generations are these books. This way, our children and grandchildren will know that trusting the government and health authorities is very risky. I believe it's one of the best way we can protect them against those that were supposed to protect us. What a strange world we live in. But nothing last forever. And this nightmare will also come to an end one day.
I have a vision impairment and so can't read most printed material. Buying books in Kindle form and reading using a magnifier app/functions on my desktop computer has been my default option. I am beginning to wonder if there a free speech option for buying and accessing most e-books? If anyone out there has experience like mine and suggestions, please reply to this message!
I own the book on Kindle and it is still there, so presumably the publisher could put it out directly. When you have a Kindle you get an email address you can send content to (in various formats), and it shows up on your list.
The stores linked to from the Skyhorse site that have it don’t list an ebook version, but sometimes ebooks come later. Don’t know if there was ever a Kindle version. I’d say check the public library, but those are also woke.
That is so creepy. Guess Amazon wasn’t included in the free speech lawsuit so Biden’s attention has gone there. Banning a book that RFKJ wrote the intro to could be election interference.
From the book 1984 by George Orwell. We should all be wearing them. We have similar shirts fromAwaken with JP “make 1984 fiction again”, “I will it not comply”, “certified awake”, “awake but not woke”. They certainly make people talk......lol
I will write a letter. I bought the book when it came out. I had no idea it was banned. Ridiculous we know. I believe in action now- not talk. I hope we can send thousands of letters to Amazon. Your providing the address is BIG. Thanks.
Please know that this prompts me to purchase several copies from another seller (to circulate).
It greatly consternates me to read this news, however as writers, as readers, and as publishers, to the degree that we rely on amazon, we are also vulnerable to its diktaks. I would wager this ban on your book is the work of an outside agency, as you say, but big monopsonies like this always do stupid shale just because big bureaucracies always do stupid shale.
Back in the day, we had a US DOJ that would break up such noxious concentrations of power under the anti-trust laws. Would that that could come back.
Unfortunately the writers organizations that would have stood up for free speech are all -- as far as I can ascertain-- someone prove me wrong, please-- lead by multiply-jabbed Kool-Aid gluggers whose idea of standing for free speech is to get all bristly about Trump-voter parents who want to keep the u-no-whut out of childrens' public school libraries.
It occurs to me that, apart from the hopes I have for the ruling on Missouri v. Biden, the public stance here needs to be taken in the Congress and the Senate-- and it isn't just about free speech (though that is crucial) but about excessive accumulation of market power (monopoly and monopsony).
P.S. For those of you who don't know someone to whom you can give the book, a few suggestions:
Leave a copy in
-your local public library (on the front table, on a chair, on a ledge)
-your local free little library
-in a hospital waiting room
-on the seat where you had your coffee in a cafe
-on the bus
-on the train
-in the taxi
-on the plane
(Basically anyplace that's out of the wind and rain and where someone will pick it up-- maybe the janitor, maybe the next patron, maybe someone who throws it in the trash, maybe someone who takes it home and reads it and it changes their life.)
Transcriber B - last time I flew, I had Edward Dowd's book, Cause Unknown in my lap. Then I asked my seat mate if they could see if the QR codes in the book worked on their phones. I did this on both legs of my flight and both of my seatmates were awake to the truth. I truly believe the great awakening is in progress.
PS I'll be posting a transcript of an excerpt from your interview with Dr. Joe in the next few days. I'm slow, but I get there. Thank you for all you are doing.
PS I get it about the Lesser Magistrates. And speaking of magistrates, I'm sure you have seen this historic rally speech already, but perhaps some readers here have not:
TRICIA LINDSAY: I want everyone to understand, and as much as that was a little out of protocol what this young man just said a little while ago, I appreciate his enthusiasm and his passion–
[cheers]
MAN'S VOICE: Come on!
TRICIA LINDSAY: — because we need to leave this place empowered.
WOMAN'S VOICE: Yes!
TRICIA LINDSAY: You understand? It's not good enough to just come here, and listen to speeches, and go back home, and get comfortable again.
[cheers]
MALE VOICE: Right!
TRICIA LINDSAY: We are at war. We are at war for our family, our children, our lives.
MALE VOICE: You're right!
TRICIA LINDSAY: The Fourteenth amendment* gives us due process. It guarantees us equal protection under the law.
MAN IN BEANIE HAT: That's right!
TRICIA LINDSAY: So why in the world are the unvaccinated being treated differently than the vaccinated?
[cheers, whistles]
It is the new segregation. It is the new discrimination.
MAN'S VOICE: Right!
TRICIA LINDSAY: And we have to stop it. Government for the people, by the people will not be destroyed!
MALE VOICES: Yeah!!
[cheers, whistle, drums]
MAN'S VOICE: Come on! Come on!
TRICIA LINDSAY: We have to recognize our power.
MAN'S VOICE: Yes!
TRICIA LINDSAY: We are magistrates. What is happening here today, what is happening around our state and in our city, is people are invoking the Doctrine of the Lesser Magistrates. And most of you probably don't even understand what that is, and don't even understand what I'm talking about.
MAN'S VOICE: Come on!
TRICIA LINDSAY: Well the Doctrine of the Lesser Magistrates is the doctrine upon which this country was founded.
MAN'S VOICE: That's right.
TRICIA LINDSAY: It is the basis of the Tenth Amendment,** which says that any authority that is not given to the federal government is reserved to the states. And if our local leaders fail to protect its citizens, and fails to step between a tyrannical federal government and its citizens, fails to protect the rights of its citizens, then those rights and authority is extended and given to the people.
[cheers, applause, drums]
MAN IN BEANIE HAT: That's right, that's right.
TRICIA LINDSAY: We the people is how the Constitution starts. A magistrate is a person that operates under authority. They have power. There are higher magistrates and there are lesser magistrates. The founding fathers of this country understood that there's going to come a point in time where the federal government will need to be checked.
MAN IN NEWSBOY HAT AND MAN IN BEANIE HAT: Yes!
TRICIA LINDSAY: If not, they will become tyrants.
VOICES IN CROWD: Yes!
TRICIA LINDAY: And that is what's happening now. So the Declaration of Independence says that everyone, by virtue of being a human being, has the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
WOMAN'S VOICE: Woooo!
TRICIA LINDSAY: The federal government, too, the federal government their purpose is to protect the rights of those citizens, the rights of us to our life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness.
[cheers]
MAN IN NEWSBOY HAT AND MAN IN BEANIE HAT: Yes.
TRICIA LINDSAY: The third point of that document is, if they fail to protect its citizens, and enforce those rights, the citizens have a right to revolt!
[cheers]
MAN IN BEANIE HAT: Yes, yes.
TRICIA LINDSAY: Do you understand?
[cheers, applause]
We have a right to resist!
MAN'S VOICE: Yes!
TRICIA LINDSAY: And we have an obligation and a duty to do so.
MAN'S VOICE: Right!
TRICIA LINDSAY: Do you understand? Do you understand when it says a duty to step between a tyrannical government and its laws? They are coming for our children!
MAN'S VOICE: Right!
TRICIA LINDSAY: We cannot sit down!
VOICES IN CROWD: No! No!
TRICIA LINDSAY: Every great leader knows, every one of them, even the bad ones know, that if you want to affect the country, you go for its children.
MAN'S VOICE: Yes!
TRICIA LINDSAY: When in the world do we start using children as bulletproof vests for us? When in the world do we start testing things on children?
MAN'S VOICE: Bah!
TRICIA LINDSAY: It comes to us first.
MALE VOICE: Right!
TRICIA LINDSAY: And when you come for our children, you have started a war.
[cheers, drumming]
VOICES IN CROWD: Yes!
WOMAN'S VOICE: Wooooo!
TRICIA LINDSAY: And they have declared war and we are answering to that war.
[applause, cheers]
WOMAN'S VOICE: Wooooo!
MANY VOICES: Yes! Yes!
TRICIA LINDSAY: We are magistrates. And I need you, each one, reach one, and teach one.
MALE VOICE: Yes!
TRICIA LINDSAY: Do you understand?
VOICES: Yes!
TRICIA LINDSAY: As a magistrate in this country, the United States government, our government, our local leaders, have to answer to us. The Ninth Amendment*** says that any rights that are not enumerated in the Constitution are reserved for the people. So I don't want to hear the mandates are not enumerated in the Constitution, because for the fact that it's not enumerated means that that authority and those rights goes to us.
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Section 2
Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice-President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.
Section 3
No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
Section 4
The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.
Section 5
The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.
** The Tenth Amendment to the US Constitution, see:
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
*** The Ninth Amendment to the US Constitution, see:
Also try donating a copy to your local Friends of the Library for their next book sale -- although some FOLs are so woke that they might discard the book instead of putting it on the sale table.
Good idea. And I would also suggest, as yet another item on the menu, that if you find one in such a sale (and therefore can get a copy cheap), buy it and then give it to someone or simply "forget" it somewhere where someone else can come upon it.
The thing with books is, by their nature, and the nature of our human minds, we don't know what effect they have. They travel across physical space and arrow through time in opaque ways. Nonetheless, they are, generally speaking, capable of sparking great change in the world.
I cannot help but think RFK's introduction/foreword is behind the reason for it being banned suddenly when it had been ok until now. . .the possibility that some people have such power to sabotage the election is disturbing. Hope I'm wrong, but clearly, this book does not need to be banned.
No author that has a deal with Amazon, or any other publisher wants have a reversal on that deal, especially when no decent or credible reason is given. So Amazon has now joined the company of those without much or any decency and principles. In reality, this a crowning award that you should cherish. It tells us all a lot about Amazon.
This cannot be tolerated. Amazon looked like trouble from the moment I heard of its existence. I’d like nothing more than to see them have to legally defend their actions
Re: the banning of McCullough’s book, I just sent this email to everyone I know:
I want to do everything possible to not buy from fascist retailers like Amazon. Any help you can offer is appreciated. There has got to be another retailer or retailers who can compete. McCullough is among the true heroes and we need to help him and others like him before we lose all of our freedom.
I think you really meant to say "not buy". This says exactly the opposite of what you wished to say. I hope the error is in this Substack and not in the letter you sent to Amazon and your friends.
Yes, I do know. I merely cited the most famous event, at which it was proffered as an excuse for egregiously atrocious behaviors, and the 1st at which it was called as the BS it is.
John, We would all like to know...what are YOU and Peter doing about this besides telling the Republican Women? What can be done? Lawsuit? Broad public exposure? You might see if Jeffrey Tucker at Brownstone would pick this up -- it is significant enough to show there I think. We would all like to help if you tell us how.
Incidentally, for all of you, this is available at Barnes and Noble (bn.com) so you can go there to get your copy in a day. I buy most books there.
Good advice. Amazon has a big impact because it is there that I learned of the book when it first came out. Skyhorse has become a major name to many of us.
"the most egregious act of arbitrary censorship in the history of American publishing."
That statement contains the how and why the book was censored. A people and nation that truly values free speech would never have to make a distinction between acceptable censorship and egregious arbitrary censorship.
The US was once that nation. I'm old enough to remember the US v Larry Flynt. Hustler smut peddler. Had the right to peddle smut most Americans were repulsed by, considered acceptable censorship. Until the courts said our Constitution protected it. And I'm old enough to remember Jewish lawyers with the ACLU fighting for the free speech rights of KKK members.
The moment we accepted censorship of unacceptable Alex Jones, Nick Fuentes and others believing they deserved it, it was justified for them, those bad people, was the moment censoring your book, and many, many others like it became acceptable.
"First they came for...I said nothing...when they came for me there was nobody left to speak." Slippery slope. Camel's nose under tent. When we nodded our heads in agreement and said those others censored were understandable we lost our right to say, "but censoring me, my ideas was the most egregious act of arbitrary censorship in history."
We failed the caution,
"Principiis obsta and Finem respice."
"Resist the beginnings and Consider the ends."
Your story is not unique or the most egregious. The first act of censorship we tolerated of ideas we found distasteful was.
I'm like a broken record but this is important: totalitarianism begins in censorship. Remember that. Remember that we were told the lie that it begins with the mechanistic thinking of the population.
We know, beyond a doubt, that shadowy elite conspirators-- yes, there is a conspiracy-- are working behind the scenes to snuff out the truth so that their own sick and irrational narrative will capture the minds of the population. This capturing leads to "mass formation." See how we were swindled? We were told not to look at the conspirators-- they don't really exist, so we were told-- but to look at we, the people, for the origin of totalitarianism.
The censorship is just ramping despite the supposed injunction on several govt agencies & the WH. I suspect this is part of the organized campaign to turn Dr. McCullough into a non-entity in terms of public influence and to essentially destroy him professionally. I'll be sure to get a copy of the book upon hearing this news.
Totalitarianism begins in censorship. This is why we must fight censorship and why fighting censorship is the core fight. It's also why we were told that totalitarianism begins with mass formation: so that we'd be distracted.
The proper relationship is: censorship leads to totalitarianism, and 'mass formation' is part-and-parcel of totalitarianism once it arises.
Just ordered the book, John. It's a shame the shipping to Canada is the same as the price of the Book. On Amazon, it was free shipping for orders over $35. Nevertheless, it's all for the good cause.
Just remember that they tried banning the Bible too, in the 1500's. In the short term, there was some success, but in the long term, it miserably failed.
By the way, wait until the payment processors get into the act. When you can't offer payments through VISA or PayPal or Square, etc. That's what happened to Gab.
I think with Gab, even some banks refused to deal with them. Recently Nigel Farage in England had the banks close his accounts. There has been recent progress that promises to address this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39f96Nl1eO0
I found out, after the fact, that I could have ordered the book from Indigo.ca (for Canada). It was priced a bit higher ($44 cdn for the Hardcover), but apparently there is free shipping for orders over $35.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren tried to get Dr Mercola's book on Covid (also with a fwd by RFK Jr) banned from Amazon. I just checked and it is still there. So far.
I just emailed my wife and staff this:
I want to do everything possible to not buy from fascist retailers like Amazon. Any help you can offer is appreciated. There has got to be another retailer or retailers who can compete. McCullough is among the true heroes and we need to help him and others like him before we lose all of our freedom.
FYI, I just purchased this book directly.
I haven’t bought from Amazon in 2 years.. I despise them
The lockdowns seemed tailor made for Walmart and Amazon, didn't they.
I ordered 1 thing from Amazon 10 years ago and only because I couldn't find it elsewhere on short notice. Never again!
I just purchased 3 hard copies directly even though I already read and previously purchased your paperback last year. One will be donated to my local library. Everyone. Please purchase at least one copy to donate to your local library and get your community and friends to borrow this book so it stays in circulation.
This is a company I buy books from and his book is in stock: https://www.thriftbooks.com/browse/?b.search=The%20Courage%20to%20Face%20COVID-19%3A%20Preventing%20Hospitalization%20and%20Death%20While%20Battling%20the%20Bio-Pharmaceutical%20Complex#b.s=mostPopular-desc&b.p=1&b.pp=30&b.oos&b.tile
I'd forgotten about them. Thank you.
I've got probably 50 books on my "to-buy" list at Amazon. Because I think we need to have hard copies of important works, I think I will try to buy all of these now, rather than waiting for "when I have time to read them," because even if I do not read them all (and I never will) I will make them available to family and friends.
We absolutely need to buy hard copies of every single book like this and pass them to every generation that comes after us. One of the greatest inheritance we can leave to the next generations are these books. This way, our children and grandchildren will know that trusting the government and health authorities is very risky. I believe it's one of the best way we can protect them against those that were supposed to protect us. What a strange world we live in. But nothing last forever. And this nightmare will also come to an end one day.
I did the same. I buy each one as a hard copy just to have them before they're unavailable and to support the authors doing important work.
I completely agree. I always buy hard copies even if it takes me a while to get to them all.
I just tried to order the book, but it says temporarily unavailable 😞
Oh sorry to hear that, but it must mean people went out and ordered them after I posted it. Hopefully it will be in stock soon.
I have a vision impairment and so can't read most printed material. Buying books in Kindle form and reading using a magnifier app/functions on my desktop computer has been my default option. I am beginning to wonder if there a free speech option for buying and accessing most e-books? If anyone out there has experience like mine and suggestions, please reply to this message!
Duncan~ Archive.org has a FREE program for those with vision needs. They carry a lot of “banned” books too
Thank you -- I didn't know about this resource.
MSN WILL NOT ALLOW IT TO COME UP!
Maybe try the Brave search engine? It came up just fine.
I own the book on Kindle and it is still there, so presumably the publisher could put it out directly. When you have a Kindle you get an email address you can send content to (in various formats), and it shows up on your list.
The stores linked to from the Skyhorse site that have it don’t list an ebook version, but sometimes ebooks come later. Don’t know if there was ever a Kindle version. I’d say check the public library, but those are also woke.
It’s back on Amazon. I just purchased from Amazon
That is so creepy. Guess Amazon wasn’t included in the free speech lawsuit so Biden’s attention has gone there. Banning a book that RFKJ wrote the intro to could be election interference.
From the book 1984 by George Orwell. We should all be wearing them. We have similar shirts fromAwaken with JP “make 1984 fiction again”, “I will it not comply”, “certified awake”, “awake but not woke”. They certainly make people talk......lol
This is the email address for the Amazon CEO Andy Jassy ajassy@amazon.com
See this pdf for contact info of CEO and Senior Vice President
https://www.abetterbalance.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/January-10-2022-A-Better-Balance-Letter-to-Amazon-1.pdf
Good Luck!
There’s also jeff@amazon.com and tweeting at Elon as maybe he’d retweet and Amazon would be exposed.
I will write a letter. I bought the book when it came out. I had no idea it was banned. Ridiculous we know. I believe in action now- not talk. I hope we can send thousands of letters to Amazon. Your providing the address is BIG. Thanks.
Let's all send a letter to Amazon and letting them know how we feel about their decision.
Good
See my two other posts. Thank you for the address.
Please know that this prompts me to purchase several copies from another seller (to circulate).
It greatly consternates me to read this news, however as writers, as readers, and as publishers, to the degree that we rely on amazon, we are also vulnerable to its diktaks. I would wager this ban on your book is the work of an outside agency, as you say, but big monopsonies like this always do stupid shale just because big bureaucracies always do stupid shale.
Back in the day, we had a US DOJ that would break up such noxious concentrations of power under the anti-trust laws. Would that that could come back.
Unfortunately the writers organizations that would have stood up for free speech are all -- as far as I can ascertain-- someone prove me wrong, please-- lead by multiply-jabbed Kool-Aid gluggers whose idea of standing for free speech is to get all bristly about Trump-voter parents who want to keep the u-no-whut out of childrens' public school libraries.
It occurs to me that, apart from the hopes I have for the ruling on Missouri v. Biden, the public stance here needs to be taken in the Congress and the Senate-- and it isn't just about free speech (though that is crucial) but about excessive accumulation of market power (monopoly and monopsony).
P.S. For those of you who don't know someone to whom you can give the book, a few suggestions:
Leave a copy in
-your local public library (on the front table, on a chair, on a ledge)
-your local free little library
-in a hospital waiting room
-on the seat where you had your coffee in a cafe
-on the bus
-on the train
-in the taxi
-on the plane
(Basically anyplace that's out of the wind and rain and where someone will pick it up-- maybe the janitor, maybe the next patron, maybe someone who throws it in the trash, maybe someone who takes it home and reads it and it changes their life.)
Transcriber B - last time I flew, I had Edward Dowd's book, Cause Unknown in my lap. Then I asked my seat mate if they could see if the QR codes in the book worked on their phones. I did this on both legs of my flight and both of my seatmates were awake to the truth. I truly believe the great awakening is in progress.
Wonderful to hear this.
PS I'll be posting a transcript of an excerpt from your interview with Dr. Joe in the next few days. I'm slow, but I get there. Thank you for all you are doing.
PS I get it about the Lesser Magistrates. And speaking of magistrates, I'm sure you have seen this historic rally speech already, but perhaps some readers here have not:
Revolution In The Streets
Posted January 19, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y64uFPKqEbQ&t=7s
[Note: a slightly shorter video of this same speech filmed by different camera, is at Tricia Lindsay's YouTube page:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlHZ7KbUOYM&t=72s]
TRANSCRIPT - EXCERPT
TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE: Tricia Lindsay is a civil rights attorney. Her webpage is
https://tricialindsaylaw.com/
TRICIA LINDSAY: How you doing out there?
[cheering]
VOICES: Good!
TRICIA LINDSAY: Uncomfortable yet? Good!
WOMAN'S VOICE: I can't feel my feet.
TRICIA LINDSAY: I want everyone to understand, and as much as that was a little out of protocol what this young man just said a little while ago, I appreciate his enthusiasm and his passion–
[cheers]
MAN'S VOICE: Come on!
TRICIA LINDSAY: — because we need to leave this place empowered.
WOMAN'S VOICE: Yes!
TRICIA LINDSAY: You understand? It's not good enough to just come here, and listen to speeches, and go back home, and get comfortable again.
[cheers]
MALE VOICE: Right!
TRICIA LINDSAY: We are at war. We are at war for our family, our children, our lives.
MALE VOICE: You're right!
TRICIA LINDSAY: The Fourteenth amendment* gives us due process. It guarantees us equal protection under the law.
MAN IN BEANIE HAT: That's right!
TRICIA LINDSAY: So why in the world are the unvaccinated being treated differently than the vaccinated?
[cheers, whistles]
It is the new segregation. It is the new discrimination.
MAN'S VOICE: Right!
TRICIA LINDSAY: And we have to stop it. Government for the people, by the people will not be destroyed!
MALE VOICES: Yeah!!
[cheers, whistle, drums]
MAN'S VOICE: Come on! Come on!
TRICIA LINDSAY: We have to recognize our power.
MAN'S VOICE: Yes!
TRICIA LINDSAY: We are magistrates. What is happening here today, what is happening around our state and in our city, is people are invoking the Doctrine of the Lesser Magistrates. And most of you probably don't even understand what that is, and don't even understand what I'm talking about.
MAN'S VOICE: Come on!
TRICIA LINDSAY: Well the Doctrine of the Lesser Magistrates is the doctrine upon which this country was founded.
MAN'S VOICE: That's right.
TRICIA LINDSAY: It is the basis of the Tenth Amendment,** which says that any authority that is not given to the federal government is reserved to the states. And if our local leaders fail to protect its citizens, and fails to step between a tyrannical federal government and its citizens, fails to protect the rights of its citizens, then those rights and authority is extended and given to the people.
[cheers, applause, drums]
MAN IN BEANIE HAT: That's right, that's right.
TRICIA LINDSAY: We the people is how the Constitution starts. A magistrate is a person that operates under authority. They have power. There are higher magistrates and there are lesser magistrates. The founding fathers of this country understood that there's going to come a point in time where the federal government will need to be checked.
MAN IN NEWSBOY HAT AND MAN IN BEANIE HAT: Yes!
TRICIA LINDSAY: If not, they will become tyrants.
VOICES IN CROWD: Yes!
TRICIA LINDAY: And that is what's happening now. So the Declaration of Independence says that everyone, by virtue of being a human being, has the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
WOMAN'S VOICE: Woooo!
TRICIA LINDSAY: The federal government, too, the federal government their purpose is to protect the rights of those citizens, the rights of us to our life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness.
[cheers]
MAN IN NEWSBOY HAT AND MAN IN BEANIE HAT: Yes.
TRICIA LINDSAY: The third point of that document is, if they fail to protect its citizens, and enforce those rights, the citizens have a right to revolt!
[cheers]
MAN IN BEANIE HAT: Yes, yes.
TRICIA LINDSAY: Do you understand?
[cheers, applause]
We have a right to resist!
MAN'S VOICE: Yes!
TRICIA LINDSAY: And we have an obligation and a duty to do so.
MAN'S VOICE: Right!
TRICIA LINDSAY: Do you understand? Do you understand when it says a duty to step between a tyrannical government and its laws? They are coming for our children!
MAN'S VOICE: Right!
TRICIA LINDSAY: We cannot sit down!
VOICES IN CROWD: No! No!
TRICIA LINDSAY: Every great leader knows, every one of them, even the bad ones know, that if you want to affect the country, you go for its children.
MAN'S VOICE: Yes!
TRICIA LINDSAY: When in the world do we start using children as bulletproof vests for us? When in the world do we start testing things on children?
MAN'S VOICE: Bah!
TRICIA LINDSAY: It comes to us first.
MALE VOICE: Right!
TRICIA LINDSAY: And when you come for our children, you have started a war.
[cheers, drumming]
VOICES IN CROWD: Yes!
WOMAN'S VOICE: Wooooo!
TRICIA LINDSAY: And they have declared war and we are answering to that war.
[applause, cheers]
WOMAN'S VOICE: Wooooo!
MANY VOICES: Yes! Yes!
TRICIA LINDSAY: We are magistrates. And I need you, each one, reach one, and teach one.
MALE VOICE: Yes!
TRICIA LINDSAY: Do you understand?
VOICES: Yes!
TRICIA LINDSAY: As a magistrate in this country, the United States government, our government, our local leaders, have to answer to us. The Ninth Amendment*** says that any rights that are not enumerated in the Constitution are reserved for the people. So I don't want to hear the mandates are not enumerated in the Constitution, because for the fact that it's not enumerated means that that authority and those rights goes to us.
[applause, cheers]
[END OF EXCERPT]
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Oh yes - Tricia Lindsay was so inspiring!
NOTES:
*The Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution, see:
https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-14/
Fourteenth Amendment
Section 1
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Section 2
Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice-President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.
Section 3
No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
Section 4
The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.
Section 5
The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.
** The Tenth Amendment to the US Constitution, see:
https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-10/
Tenth Amendment
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
*** The Ninth Amendment to the US Constitution, see:
https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-9/
Ninth Amendment
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
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I did this with Breggin's book. I will get copies and put one in the library at a major Army infantry base.
Yes. This is one way to fight censorship. The focus of our fight should be against censorship.
Also try donating a copy to your local Friends of the Library for their next book sale -- although some FOLs are so woke that they might discard the book instead of putting it on the sale table.
Good idea. And I would also suggest, as yet another item on the menu, that if you find one in such a sale (and therefore can get a copy cheap), buy it and then give it to someone or simply "forget" it somewhere where someone else can come upon it.
The thing with books is, by their nature, and the nature of our human minds, we don't know what effect they have. They travel across physical space and arrow through time in opaque ways. Nonetheless, they are, generally speaking, capable of sparking great change in the world.
I cannot help but think RFK's introduction/foreword is behind the reason for it being banned suddenly when it had been ok until now. . .the possibility that some people have such power to sabotage the election is disturbing. Hope I'm wrong, but clearly, this book does not need to be banned.
My thought too :)
The question is will amazon now pull Kennedy's books?
They are still selling several Kennedy books, so this is about McCullough.
That's the counter, isn't it. If it was because of Kennedy, his books should be gone.
Yet books authored by RFK Junior are not banned from Amazon.
No book needs to be banned, however despicable the ideas within may be.
No author that has a deal with Amazon, or any other publisher wants have a reversal on that deal, especially when no decent or credible reason is given. So Amazon has now joined the company of those without much or any decency and principles. In reality, this a crowning award that you should cherish. It tells us all a lot about Amazon.
Amazon never had any decency or principles.
This cannot be tolerated. Amazon looked like trouble from the moment I heard of its existence. I’d like nothing more than to see them have to legally defend their actions
... which Jeff Bezos' Washington Post will surely do its utmost best to objectively report on...
But seriously, I agree with you, Gaye, oh, how I agree with you.
Welcome to the club! Looks like Amazon is going the way of YouTube. I am a KDP author also and I find this very disturbing.
Thanks to TalkNET here, I just sent this to ajassy@amazon.com
Mr. Jassy,
Re: the banning of McCullough’s book, I just sent this email to everyone I know:
I want to do everything possible to not buy from fascist retailers like Amazon. Any help you can offer is appreciated. There has got to be another retailer or retailers who can compete. McCullough is among the true heroes and we need to help him and others like him before we lose all of our freedom.
FYI, I just purchased this book directly.
I think you really meant to say "not buy". This says exactly the opposite of what you wished to say. I hope the error is in this Substack and not in the letter you sent to Amazon and your friends.
Corrected. It's late!
It's that last clause in their definition that covers their excuse " anything THEY (emphasis mine) deem inappropriate or offensive".
THEY are the government who have clearly intervened yet again.
Amazon? Not hardly. They're not even close to who's really running out, and every other gov't on Earth. They're "just following orders".
That’s what I meant. “Just following orders” now where have I heard that before?
Nuremberg , Germany fall of 1945.
It still goes on - all over- military, medicine businesses. I know you know this but I have seen see kiss asses everywhere.
Yes, I do know. I merely cited the most famous event, at which it was proffered as an excuse for egregiously atrocious behaviors, and the 1st at which it was called as the BS it is.
John, We would all like to know...what are YOU and Peter doing about this besides telling the Republican Women? What can be done? Lawsuit? Broad public exposure? You might see if Jeffrey Tucker at Brownstone would pick this up -- it is significant enough to show there I think. We would all like to help if you tell us how.
Incidentally, for all of you, this is available at Barnes and Noble (bn.com) so you can go there to get your copy in a day. I buy most books there.
Good advice. Amazon has a big impact because it is there that I learned of the book when it first came out. Skyhorse has become a major name to many of us.
"the most egregious act of arbitrary censorship in the history of American publishing."
That statement contains the how and why the book was censored. A people and nation that truly values free speech would never have to make a distinction between acceptable censorship and egregious arbitrary censorship.
The US was once that nation. I'm old enough to remember the US v Larry Flynt. Hustler smut peddler. Had the right to peddle smut most Americans were repulsed by, considered acceptable censorship. Until the courts said our Constitution protected it. And I'm old enough to remember Jewish lawyers with the ACLU fighting for the free speech rights of KKK members.
The moment we accepted censorship of unacceptable Alex Jones, Nick Fuentes and others believing they deserved it, it was justified for them, those bad people, was the moment censoring your book, and many, many others like it became acceptable.
"First they came for...I said nothing...when they came for me there was nobody left to speak." Slippery slope. Camel's nose under tent. When we nodded our heads in agreement and said those others censored were understandable we lost our right to say, "but censoring me, my ideas was the most egregious act of arbitrary censorship in history."
We failed the caution,
"Principiis obsta and Finem respice."
"Resist the beginnings and Consider the ends."
Your story is not unique or the most egregious. The first act of censorship we tolerated of ideas we found distasteful was.
I'm like a broken record but this is important: totalitarianism begins in censorship. Remember that. Remember that we were told the lie that it begins with the mechanistic thinking of the population.
We know, beyond a doubt, that shadowy elite conspirators-- yes, there is a conspiracy-- are working behind the scenes to snuff out the truth so that their own sick and irrational narrative will capture the minds of the population. This capturing leads to "mass formation." See how we were swindled? We were told not to look at the conspirators-- they don't really exist, so we were told-- but to look at we, the people, for the origin of totalitarianism.
This is what really happened.
The censorship is just ramping despite the supposed injunction on several govt agencies & the WH. I suspect this is part of the organized campaign to turn Dr. McCullough into a non-entity in terms of public influence and to essentially destroy him professionally. I'll be sure to get a copy of the book upon hearing this news.
Totalitarianism begins in censorship. This is why we must fight censorship and why fighting censorship is the core fight. It's also why we were told that totalitarianism begins with mass formation: so that we'd be distracted.
The proper relationship is: censorship leads to totalitarianism, and 'mass formation' is part-and-parcel of totalitarianism once it arises.
Just ordered the book, John. It's a shame the shipping to Canada is the same as the price of the Book. On Amazon, it was free shipping for orders over $35. Nevertheless, it's all for the good cause.
Just remember that they tried banning the Bible too, in the 1500's. In the short term, there was some success, but in the long term, it miserably failed.
By the way, wait until the payment processors get into the act. When you can't offer payments through VISA or PayPal or Square, etc. That's what happened to Gab.
Do people use checks anymore? I do -all the time.
I think with Gab, even some banks refused to deal with them. Recently Nigel Farage in England had the banks close his accounts. There has been recent progress that promises to address this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39f96Nl1eO0
I use checks too whenever I can. I will continue to use them until they pass a law making them illegal.
I found out, after the fact, that I could have ordered the book from Indigo.ca (for Canada). It was priced a bit higher ($44 cdn for the Hardcover), but apparently there is free shipping for orders over $35.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren tried to get Dr Mercola's book on Covid (also with a fwd by RFK Jr) banned from Amazon. I just checked and it is still there. So far.
That's when I dropped her for any consideration for Prez.
THAT is when you dropped her? Not before due to ten thousand other fascist-like qualities she has shone on herself over decades?
Well, delighted to have you with us, Hugh.
TIME TO SUE AMAZON!!!