90 Miles From Tyranny

Wednesday, November 17, 2021

The 90 Miles Mystery Box: Episode #1540

You have come across a mystery box. But what is inside?

It could be literally anything from the serene to the horrific,

from the beautiful to the repugnant,

from the mysterious to the familiar.

If you decide to open it, you could be disappointed,

you could be inspired, you could be appalled.

This is not for the faint of heart or the easily offended.

You have been warned.

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Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #65

Chinese Dissident Ai Weiwei Warns Americans: ‘You’re Already In The Authoritarian State. You Just Don’t Know It’

Former political prisoner and authoritarian regimes expert Ai Weiwei appeared on PBS Friday, warning Americans that authoritarianism has already invaded the country.

PBS host Margaret Hoover asked Weiwei if he believes Donald Trump is an authoritarian. “If you are authoritarian, you have to have a system supporting you,” replied Weiwei. “You cannot just be an authoritarian by yourself. But certainly, in the United States, with today’s condition, you can easily have an authoritarian. In many ways, you’re already in the authoritarian state. You just don’t know it.” (RELATED: ZHAO: The Current American Upheaval Echoes China’s Cultural Revolution)

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Weiwei went on to explain that many aspects of the U.S. today are similar to the Cultural Revolution in China. He mentioned political correctness as an example, calling it “very dangerous.”

Xi Van Fleet, a Virginia mom who escaped communism in China, gave a speech at the Loudoun County school board in June in which she compared Critical Race Theory (CRT) to China’s Communist Revolution.

“What is going on in our schools and in our country is really a replay of the cultural revolution in China, and I want people to see the similarities and similarities are terrifying. They use the same ideology and same methodology, even the same vocabulary, and reach the same goal,” Fleet said.

China’s Cultural Revolution occurred between 1966 and 1976 with the explicit goal of punishing supporters of capitalism that Mao Zedong claimed had...

Why you cannot trust US Covid data

In Connecticut, fully vaccinated people are rising from the dead

Unlike England, or Scotland, or Israel, or Germany, or many other countries that have semi-functioning governments, the United States has no nationally reliable source of Covid or Covid vaccine data.

Our famed Centers for Disease Control has turned out to be less famed than infamous. It has failed in every conceivable way since February 2020. Some inconceivable ways too. Worse, in the months since Joe Biden staggered into the White House, the CDC has slipped from mere incompetence into actively twisting science for its new political masters. It has become a true Dept. of Pandemia. (More on this to come.)

In place of centralized national data, we have state health department reports. The states are probably about as competent as the CDC overall, but a bit less political. Maybe.

They also run their own immunization registries and also closer to the local hospital systems and coroners that report Covid deaths. So their five o’clock folly body count reports go through a little less truth destruction.

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A note to younger readers: Body count doesn’t mean what you think it means.

During the Vietnam War, the United States military regularly reported its “body counts” - the number of Vietcong guerillas or North Vietnamese soldiers it had killed. These figures became infamous as the ultimate example of the way bureaucracies could release seemingly precise statistics that had no relation to reality. Reporters began to call the press briefings where they were disclosed the “five o’clock follies.”

(A note to older readers: the young ‘uns use “body count” to refer to the number of sexual partners they’ve had. Cute, huh?)

You may also know that Saigon is now called Ho Chi Minh City. The reason it’s now called Ho Chi Minh City is that the United States lost the Vietnam War despite our incredibly advanced technology, which we insisted for years was enabling us to win the war. Do I need to extend this analogy further? The enemy gets a vote, whether that enemy is human or viral.

But I digress. (Not really. The Vietnam stuff is kinda important, since the Vietnam War was the last time our government messed up anything nearly as badly as it has messed up Covid, and for some of the same reasons - as was obvious basically from the start.)

The difference is that this time around the vast majority of the media and academia have happily lined up to join the truth gangrape, which makes stopping it much harder.

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So we are stuck with the state numbers. And the state numbers are all over the place, both literally and figuratively. Some states update their numbers weekly and are reasonably transparent. Others, not so much.

For example, on Nov. 11, Connecticut reported that “one hundred seventy fifty” vaccinated people had died of Covid since February. Beyond the fact that “one hundred seventy fifty” is not a number, the state had reported a week before that 226 vaccinated people had died since February. Which seems to imply that about 50 Connecticutians (?) were resurrected last week:

Jan. 6 Political Prisoners Chemically Attacked By Prison Guards: Court Filing

Multiple Jan. 6 political prisoners were taken out of their cells on stretchers at the District of Columbia jail on Nov. 11, indicated a court filing.

The situation began when after a defendant refused to wear a mask, a family member of Kelly Meggs, who is being held in the D.C. jail, told Meggs’s lawyer. Prison guards then sprayed a chemical substance at the defendant described as “some kind of mace or pepper spray,” according to a filing in federal court.
“They sprayed mace or some type of gas at an inmate and kept missing so it went into an intake that fed into other cells, and the lady with the key left because she didn’t like the gas, so the inmates in the cells who were being fed the gas from that intake were locked in for like 15 minutes while it was going into their rooms and they couldn’t see or breathe,” the family told Jonathon Moseley, the lawyer.

Multiple Jan 6. defendants were taken out of the cells on stretchers following the incident.

The news was first broken by reporter Julie Kelly on November 11th.

Rumors of the treatment of January 6th defendants currently awaiting federal trial & prosecution have indicated that there is likely cruel treatment of the inmates occurring, much of it behind closed doors. These rumors appear to have at least some truth to them, with a defendant released from pretrial custody just last week due to an order from a U.S. District Court. Judge Royce Lamberth cited the failure of the jail to provide proper medical care as his chief reasoning for the release.

The U.S. Marshals Service also took action to tour the prisons at an unannounced date in mid-October. Officials deemed that prison conditions for the Jan. 6 detainees were suitable but found other parts of the same prison that “do not meet the minimum standards of confinement.”

Lamont Ruffin, the acting U.S. Marshal for Washington DC, told Quincy Booth, director of the D.C. Department of Corrections, in a letter that he himself went to the jail and saw “evidence of systemic failures.”

Prison guards were said to routinely shut off water to cells as punishment, and many cells had “large amounts of standing human sewage (urine and feces) in the...