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Mr. Bobs Will Not Go To WashedUp, DeCeit
On Wednesday, RFK Jr. filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission to run for president as a Democrat in 2024. The founder of an anti-vaccine organization called Children’s Health Defense, Kennedy Jr. has promoted the disproven claim that vaccines cause autism in children — and nearly led a presidential commission on the nonexistent connection in the early Trump years. When the pandemic hit, RFK Jr. hit the useless COVID treatments hard, promoting horse dewormers and anti-malarial pills that don’t work. In 2021, he wrote a book called The Real Anthony Fauci, claiming that the former NIAID head pulled off “a historic coup d’état against Western democracy.” At an anti-vaccine rally in Washington, D.C., last year, he compared the COVID-vaccine push — tied together with 5G and satellite surveillance — to the Holocaust. “Even in Hitler’s Germany, you could hide in the attic like Anne Frank did,” he said. Aside from vaccine conspiracy theories, he also promoted a baseless conspiracy theory that George W. Bush stole the 2004 election. editorials
From NY Rag-a-zine, the Intelligencer, in RFK,Jr Wants to Make America Unvaccinated Again
When I, as an activist rookie, blasted upon the scene in 2005, in Crawford Tx, there was one thing that confused me more than other things: why did demanding world peace make me an “anti-Semite?”
Was everyone in the toady media and conservative movement really meaning that anti-semitism was actually being against the apartheid, Zionist state of Israel, and not actually the Palestinians who are also semitic peoples? The answer turned out to be “yes.”
Was this slur (most Israeli Jews aren’t even semitic) equating Zionism with being solely “pro-war?” The answer turned out to be “yes.” (I didn’t know at the time and was shocked and dismayed to find out with the rest of you that Bobs is an “uber-Zionist and has been tragically wrong about the Israel/Palestine issue).
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So, establishing that the slur “anti-Semite,” is used to marginalize (the word today is, “cancel,” boys, and girls) anyone seeking peace, and attacking the messenger, not her message, I observe today, that “anti-vaxxer,” is now the Slur du Jour.
Instead of being able to examine the dozens of vaccines and their harmful effects, along with any potential good they may do, if one even DARES QUESTION EXPERIMENTAL INJECTIONS, one is the new “anti-Semite.” We are anti-vaxxers. With the real-world meaning of both slurs, I claim them to myself. I am against the apartheid Zionist state of Israel (but not Judaism, or Jews, in general) AND I am against using HARMA-ceuticals without intense investigation, scrutiny, and consultation with a medical professional who does not receive industry kickbacks. If that makes me crazy in the eyes of some, or “misleader’ in the eyes of others, then, like I always say, “F#ck that sh!t,” I can’t help what people think, and I kind of believe most people don’t think, anyways. I was this way before C19 and the lies of the establishment served only to reinforce my principles.
One of my main heroes throughout the past three-years has been Robert Kennedy, Jr and his Children’s Health Defense organization. I even traveled down to Los Angeles late last year to speak to the L.A. chapter about my journey from Peace Mom to dedicated “anti-vaxxer.” RFK, Jr has done incredible work with his resources, legal acumen, and dedication to the truth, wherever it leads him, there is no doubt in my mind about that. (On the campaign trail, I have observed that Bobs rarely talks about vaccines or medical freedom.)
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However, being someone who has run for political office three times, myself, and having the process turn me into a virtual anarchist, I think this decision is problematic for Kennedy.
First of all, THE SYSTEM IS RIGGED—notice how the “Intelligencer” has ridiculed Bobby Kennedy for questioning the validity of the 2004 elections, as if that time, or any other time, were elections valid. 2000, with the actual freaking Supreme Court of the USA, shutting down the recount in Florida, which was the right of the people to have a fair count; and then VP Albert (“I love big oil, but you need to buy an electric car”) Gore refused to pursue the recount, to have all of his votes properly counted. Not that I think Mr. Gore (Carbon credit billionare) would have been better, but every vote should count, or, none should count. Even the most jaded Democrap should recognize that US elections have a dirty credibility problem.
Secondly, RFK, Jr is running as a Democrap. So will all of his Republican supporters re-register in the party of slavery, fascism, and war? Saying this, I don’t support the other party of fascism and war, but I do know that most people have flexible loyalties and principles, which is fine—you do you. Here in California, for POTUS elections, you can only vote for a person who is declared in your political party (unlike the rest of the elections, we have a “jungle” primary for those—top two). As it stands for me, I left the party of slavery, fascism, and war years ago because that party NO LONGER conformed to my values, and looking back, it never did. I don’t care how much I respect RFK, Jr as our hero-activist against medical tyranny and harmful vaccines, I can’t think of anybody that I would abandon my principles for and rejoin the Democraptic party. Period. Besides, contrary to what the Electoral Industrial Complex wants you to believe, your vote doesn’t count, and probably won’t even be counted. Elections for we the people are only another opportunity for the petrified ruling-class to sew divisions among workers, and other voters, to enable them to rob more from us. In these times, I read that to mount a legitimate PRIMARY challenge, each candidate MUST raise TWO-BILLION DOLLARS!! Follow the money, it will lead to nowhere good. Does participating in an evil system make us evil? Not if we go with eyes wide open. (The DNC recently met on Sept 14 to reaffirm its commitment to anti-democratic standards—it seems Bobs was recently very surprised-Bobby Finally Wakes up to Democratic fuckery- that the party he loves is so corrupt.
The only problem I had with RFK, Jr’s book about Anthony Fauci was the seeming devotion he still has to the US political process. I understand that he comes from a political dynasty, which is one of the closest things we have to royalty here, but he has made so much progress into recognizing there are deep issues—if he hadn’t, he wouldn’t be primarying Biden, but it seems his rabbit hole is still a little shallow.
Looking at all of the predictable “coverage” of this, so far, RFK, Jr will not get a fair shot and most Democraps that would have jumped for joy over another Kennedy, have already made up their minds that he is a “kook.” He needs those Democrap votes to be victorious. Once Kennedy is defeated in the primaries, in most cases, it is impossible to switch parties, or run as an Indy in general elections. So, he’s done, and then, to whom will his voters turn? The fascist Biden? The self-proclaimed “Father of the Covax?” A third party candidate who will probably not be as bad as the D or the R, but again, will have no chance in the Electoral College, winner-take-all, cyst-em? I’d rather see people donate to the good work of CHD that has made a difference, so far, than dump it into the money-pit of this bullshit.
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Also, looking at the joy this announcement has caused among his supporters, I wonder, “when will you ever learn?”
Elections, especially Federal elections are a mind-fuck, energy drainers, money-pits, and, ultimately, useless. Remember Dennis Kucinich, (who became the campaign manager for Bobs) who is also a mostly good-guy, and Bernie Sanders? I mean both candidates garnered a lot of passionate support, but after they inevitably failed in the primaries, their response to all the negativity and hanky-panky aimed at their campaigns, was always, ”Vote for the war criminal that I spent months telling you why you should NOT vote for that war criminal.“ A few voters become disillusioned, but most go, “Okay, gotta beat the Repuke!” And it’s that meme about Lucy van Pelt talking Charlie Brown into kicking the football, time after time, after time, after time: “This time will be different, Lucy won’t pull the football back at the last second, and the ruling-class won’t pull their historical bullshit,” but I can guaran-damn-tee you, they will.
I love where RFK, Jr is, right now. Humanity needs him, even the dopes who disparage him. As I said, he is doing heroic work with his team at CHD, and, I worry about his “health” if he goes this route. Even if he did win, would he be a tyrant just like the rest of them? Or would he respect the office and the Constitution, thus, not getting anything positive done: I don’t call it WashedUp, DeCeit, for nothing. It’s a den of vipers, and, even though RJK, Jr is a courageous force for good, he will get eaten alive by the system. So far, he has resisted the demonization campaign, because he is a Kennedy and he has the resources to plug away, but, Jesus, he needs to re-think this, in my opinion. (This is what happened EXACTLY when Mr. Bobs went to DC to testify at a congressional hearing where his Democrap “friends” beat the crap out of him and anyone with eyes could see that he was hurt)
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If I truly believed that we had a chance to put a good person in the White House and, if I thought, the media would give our voices a fair hearing, I would not be so pessimistic about this. I have been around the block too many times to get excited about another interminable POTUS campaign, or to believe that the system deserves my principled participation. It. Does. Not. Period.
Anyway, in spite of my experiential pessimism, I wish RFK, Jr the highest success, and continued health.
We need him, but this blighted Empire does not deserve him. (After five months of a “campaign” my thoughts have shifted on this—he is closer to the establishment that I thought).
Cindy Lee Sheehan is an American anti-war activist, whose son, U.S. Army Specialist Casey Sheehan, was killed by enemy action during the Iraq War. She attracted national and international media attention in August 2005 for her extended antiwar protest at a makeshift camp outside President George W. Bush’s Texas ranch—a stand that drew both passionate support and criticism. Sheehan ran unsuccessfully for Congress in 2008. She was a vocal critic of President Barack Obama’s foreign policy. Her memoir, Peace Mom: A Mother’s Journey Through Heartache to Activism, was published in 2006. In an interview with The Daily Beast in 2017, Sheehan continued to hold her critical views towards George W. Bush, while also criticizing the militarism of Donald Trump.
Ms.Sheehan was the 2012 vice-presidential nominee of the Peace and Freedom Party, and received 1.2% of the statewide vote in the 2014 California gubernatorial election.
The author graciously has granted this website permission to reprint selected essays.
This essay appeared originally at Substack.
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