Ironies Abound

Banning of our book on Amazon generates strange contradictions.

This morning I received several images and reports that were published on the internet in the wake of my Substack post that our book, The Courage to Face COVID-19: Preventing Hospitalization and Death While Battling the Bio-Pharmaceutical Complex, has been banned on Amazon.

The first was from a friend in Utah who frequently visits the Goodreads website for book lovers.

1). At the top of the heap is a book that dares question that prudence and morality of mutilating teenagers. Amazon claimed it was removed for violating its hate speech guideline. The book is still available for sale on barnesandnoble.com.

2). A paperback edition of the second banned book is for sale once again on Amazon.

3). A hardcover edition of the book by Ezra Pound, Oswald Mosley et al. is once again for sale on Amazon.

4). Hitler’s Mein Kampf is indeed NOT for sale on Amazon, though many books about Mein Kampf are for sale on Amazon. Interesting enough, given the notoriety of the author, it’s a dull book about young Hitler’s “struggle” as a down and out aspiring painter in Vienna and his resentment and hatred of innumerable institutions and groups. If it were for sale, I doubt it would convert many hearts and minds to his worldview.

5). The fourth on the list—ranked neck and neck with Hitler’s boring account of his wasted youth—is my book (with Dr. Peter McCullough) about the suppression of repurposed, FDA-approved drugs for the early, ambulatory treatment of COVID-19 in order to prevent people from going to hospital and dying.

For a long time I lived across the street from the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts and the State Opera—the two institutions that Hitler most longed to be a part of and from which he was rejected because he didn’t have a high school diploma. How strange that we are now both banned authors on Amazon.

Shortly after I received the link to the Goodreads report, a friend in Australia sent me these images.

I like the Oscar Wilde quote about shame, though I believe that the following quote by the British publishing magnate, Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe, is more apt:

“News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising.”

Regarding the hypocrisy of our censorious overlords, a professional musician friend sent me the link to a CD for sale on Amazon— a 2019 music album titled “When We All Fall Asleep,” by the teen singer, Billie Eilish.

The album’s track “Bad Guy” won a Grammy for Song of the Year and the album won a Grammy for Album of the Year.

In “Bad Guy,” the teenage girl sing’s of her superior toughness and resiliency to that of her “Bad Guy” boyfriend, who beats her up. In the video, the bad guy is depicted as a much older man. The opening verse is as follows.

White shirt now red, my bloody nose
Sleepin', you're on your tippy toes
Creepin' around like no one knows
Think you're so criminal
Bruises on both my knees for you
Don't say thank you or please
I do what I want when I'm wanting to
My soul? So cynical.

In other words, the Grammy-winning Song of the Year celebrates the cynical corruption of a sexually and physically abused minor. Here we are definitely getting into Satanic territory—something the video hints at with the strange and demonic effects it imposes on the girl’s appearance.

However, it seems to me that even such demonic artifacts should not be banned. Instead they should be regarded as cautionary models of degradation. Teenagers who are raised properly and given a good education will instantly recognize such artifacts for what they are—that is, ridiculous trash.

Many witty and wise people have written about the folly of censorship, but I believe the most intriguing reflections on the subject were penned by John Milton and published in his pamphlet, Areopagitica; A speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc'd Printing, to the Parlament of England in 1644.

As Milton saw it, since the Fall of Man, it is our lot to contend with error. We cannot arrive at the truth unless we are free to examine and evaluate what is erroneous. Thus, at no point in time can any individual man or committee of men claim to already be in possession of the absolute truth about anything.