Hello, Friends of Freedom,

Let’s continue this week on our observance of what makes “GOOD GOVERNMENT.” Last week we discussed the foundation of all good government is TRUTH. This week, let’s look at another issue in line with truth. MORALY IN LEGISLATION.

To broach the subject of morality in today’s culture is to avail oneself of an on-slot of vitriolic speech. However, the whims of culture can never change the Laws of the universe that God has set in place for the profitability of humanity. Nature teaches us the moral code of right and wrong. It is ingrained in our psychological makeup that there is right and wrong. The scriptures do declare in numerous passages the state of human kind devoid of God’s place in their conscience. One great example is Paul’s letter to the Romans. Let’s look at chapter one of Romans verses 18-24, Here it reads:

“ For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. For what can be known about God is plain to them because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. For although they knew God, the did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.

Therefore God gave them up to the lust of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, because the exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.”

Paul goes on to describe a culture given to practices that are neither God-honoring nor things that would advance mankind. The list of morality issues he brings out are as old as mankind. What is happening in America by government legislation is that we are advancing the lowest level of human activity to become the normal way of life. I am sure you remember the court cases in the 1970s where pornography was on trial as to its legality. A phrase was adopted that, at the time, allowed the SCOTUS to sidestep the issue rather than make it illegal to anyone other than minors. That phrase was, “You can’t legislate morality,” spoken by Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, this phrase became the pass the legislature needed to continue to allow moral corruption spawned by pornography and to allow it to be protected by law as long as consenting adults are involved.

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However, there has perhaps never been a more misguided phrase.

The truth, however, is that every law and regulation we accept to govern us has in it some inherent idea of the good it will produce for us, and others who argue against the law being passed often try to show how detrimental the law being passed can be to the well begin of the populace. There is no way that any government seeking to uphold the betterment of its people could ever say that morality is neutral. No law is morally neutral. It (the law) advances the ideas and wishes of those who are seeking to implement its execution on the population.

So, let us not be deceived, government is never neutral, indeed it cannot be. If there is not a direct purpose of good stated with laws then there is certainly an applied purpose. That purpose may be moral or immoral; however, it is never neutral.

Micah Watson, Associate Professor of Political Science at Calvin University, has an excellent article entitled, “WHY WE CAN’T BUT HELP LEGiSLATE MORALITY.” Look it up on the web.

He states that” all legislation is moral.” That is the travesty of the current climate we are facing where we are using the legalese to allow innocent children to be subjected to life altering drugs and surgical proceeders that will never make them the opposite sex but will forever make them incapable physically of being the sex they were created by God to be.

It is not good government to continue on this path of the destruction of the next generation. It is morally repugnant to destroy a child in such a manner. Yet here we are and I cannot help but hear the Apostles words of worshiping the creature, the creation apart from its creator.

I will close with one thought, well a few actually…

When you buy a product from the store as you open it there are explicit instructions on how to operate it or to assemble it, etc.,. if by any chance things are not working out you have an address and phone number too contact the manufacturer, i.e. the designer, and creator of the product. Why would you do that? Because they envisioned the product before it was created and also oversaw the actual creation of it. They know how it was DESIGNED to work. So, looking at humanity we realize that we have a creator, the facts of this are everywhere if we are willing to look honestly. We also have numerous scriptures that detail for us the design of the Creator. Two passage are: one, in the book of Jeremiah chapter one where God says I designed you in the womb to be a voice to the nations, and secondly, Psalms 39 where King David says,. you formed me in secret in my mothers womb. You fashioned me to be what you wanted me to be.

We all know that children fantasize about all sort so things, have imaginary friends, and have deep feelings as their minds are developing. What a travesty that we are not honoring the Creator in this arena. He made them male and female. Perhaps some kids are having trouble with their feelings (not their bodies?). So why not counsel and love them through the moments they are going through. Instead we are creating government agencies, spending millions of dollars on drugs and surgeries, passing destructive legislation to harm families, and ultimately impairing the beautiful way God made them to be. This is NOT GOOD GOVERNMENT!

And in closing if we have folks in government who insist on promoting the destruction of a child in this way perhaps we could lend a hand (a vote) in allowing them to return to civil life instead of legislating what they perceive as a morality that is dangerous and completely irreversible in the future life of that child.

Till Next Week….

Allen

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The beauty of a blatantly biased government-funded project like NewsGuard is that we can measure how much we can trust any news source they’ve audited by reversing what the scores mean.  The closer you get to zero, the more likely the content is not controlled by or at least aping the uniparty line.

As we near 100, the scope of their collaboration – deliberate or accidental becomes as clear as Vodka.

“…organizations that receive a perfect 100 from NewsGuard include The New York Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Politico, The New Yorker, TIME, Yahoo! News, The Guardian, The Economist and USA Today — all rated Lean Left or Left by AllSides.”

Every one of them has been fingered in numerous acts of journalistic fraud long before the COVID lies began, and that’s the keystone. If you fail to toe the Medical Industrial Complex narrative on SARS CoV2- even today, NewsGuard will doc you on their ratings. The higher your score, the more often you spread government, UN, CDC, FDA, and WHO lies about masks, distancing, lockdowns, early treatment, why affordable drugs were blacklisted or prohibited (as in some states), or – the big one, the “vaccines.”

NewsGuard has provided us with an easy filter for unbalanced reporting that favored what amounted to State-sanctioned medical misinformation and disinformation—a canary in a coal mine.

So, NewsGuard is good for something.

GraniteGrok got a 37.5, which is not the lowest possible score, but it’s close. We got some credit for disclosing ownership, handling the differences between news and opinion responsibly, clearly labeling advertising, ensuring readers know about potential conflicts of interest, and including names and bios of authors. We got dinged for spreading misinformation (about vaccines and COVID, believe it or not), and they didn’t like how we addressed errors in articles.

We do issue corrections when necessary, but that’s unusually rare. If you’re talking about opinions, well, explain how you got your own opinion wrong, to which our response is – we let everyone work it out in comments. NewsGuard didn’t like that, but why would they? Many in the media stopped allowing comments because they can’t afford a moderator, and now they are firing everyone else. Staff are being let loose across the information landscape from papers to magazines to television.

Could it be because of their ridiculously high NewsGuard ratings? And that’s your homework assignment. If you can find NewsGuard ratings on local media, share them with us so we can educate the public on who is working at working toward the truth, no matter how messy that can be, and who is pandering to the political messaging of the uniparty.

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Shane Sirois, a rep from the lovely red town of New Ipswich, emailed me, identifying himself as a member of the Vax Injury Caucus.  He was putting out an all-hands-on-deck call for action because SB 319 had a hearing in the Senate HHS committee on 1/10/24.  Like I’ve said before, Nashua owes red towns its gratitude for serving us unserved folks in the House.

Furthermore, Nashua is dependent on New Ipswich for senate representation, so of course, I answered the call.  Plus, I support(ed) the bill.

This bill, as you can see by clicking on the link, bans government purchasing and distribution of vaccines with insufficient human trial data, to use my own words.  I rallied up the troops in my own spheres of influence and the hearing can be viewed in this link.

SB 319 is between 4h05 and 5h22min.

Dr. Chan and his colleague appeared for this bill and must have used the word “robust” more than Humphrey Bogart said, “here’s looking at you, kid” in Casablanca.  Dr Chan also lied into the mic while answering questions, but that’s another story that you can talk to Nurse Terese about sometime.

This was my first hearing chaired by Senator Regina Birdsell, and it went smoothly for the most part, but she did voice her objection to speakers criticizing other speakers.  I’ve become somewhat seasoned at pushing the envelope when it comes to decorum, so I expressed my disdain for Dr. Chan without saying his name the moment I took a seat at the mic and referred to Jeb and Regina as “the swing votes.” (at 4h50min)  And those two “swung” the wrong way!

So it was no surprise that the committee recommendation, 4-1 with my senator dissenting, was a referral to interim study.  We all know this is the quiet way to euthanize a bill.  Suzanne Prentiss from the enemy camp presented the recommendation to the whole senate yesterday, and it was no surprise that the man with the gavel “shepherded the senate sheeple” into adopting the recommendation.

“But wait, there’s more”(on Regina), as those late-night UHF TV infomercials say.

Today, I was combing through next week’s hearing calendar in search of another bill in the same committee.  I found it scheduled for Wednesday, 2/14, along with a few others.

That was when I stumbled upon SB 402 with its lone sponsor, the committee chair, allowing pharmacists to administer The Jab.

Naturally, this piqued my interest.  And it also brought back the memory of seeing the sponsor muzzled in the senate chamber on 1/26/23.  I don’t easily forget such minutia, and I decided to look into Follow the Money dot org.

Now, it has been pointed out that taking pharma money is not uncommon on both sides of the aisle, but how much do you, dear reader, think is the maximum amount acceptable?  And what about the taker’s voting record following the donation?  It is, after all, called “follow the money” dot org, but I encourage people to also look elsewhere for confirmation.  Some suggestions would be open secrets dot org or even the Secretary of State’s office.  Do the due diligence you see fit, especially if you vote in District 19.

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