Volume 80, no. 10 October 2024
Physicians are held accountable for every code, every prescription, every referral, every entry in the electronic medical record—and increasingly for public or private statements challenging the approved narrative. Punishments include bankruptcy, loss of livelihood, and even prison.
Under new FinCEN rules (see p3), every small business must submit up-to-date personal information on all “beneficial owners,” with a two-year prison term for noncompliance.
“No one is above the law,” we are told, but government agencies or contractors are not subjected to accountability laws or enforcement equivalent to those applied to private persons. See, for example, the experiences of a whistleblower, the late Theresa Burr, with Medicare contractors (tinyurl.com/bdfechxx), for which the threshold of fraud investigations was said to be $200 million (tinyurl.com/3wssz94a) vs. $0.50 for doctors.
The U.S. Defense Department has failed its sixth straight audit (https://tinyurl.com/4tmbas23). Going back to 1998, some report that trillions of dollars are not accurately accounted for—likely not all are simply the result of “failure to correct system deficiencies” (https://tinyurl.com/3yjjjmbe). Senate Democrats defeated a bill calling for an independent Ukraine auditing office (https://tinyurl.com/mp9sypzy).
Looting of COVID relief plans was called the “biggest fraud in a generation.” As much as $80 billion of the $800 billion handed out in the Paycheck Protection Program, or PPP, may have been stolen, on top of $90 billion to $400 billion from the $900 billion COVID unemployment relief program—at least half taken by international fraudsters (https://tinyurl.com/4beh6uw7). As of April 2024, only $1.4 billion had been recovered (https://tinyurl.com/5xuzrwv). What about accountability for programs releasing funds with no security checks? What about enforcement tactics used on physicians (tinyurl.com/4kuun39w)?
More important than financial malfeasance, how is government accountable for actions that cost lives?
COVID-19 Pandemic Debacle
Hundreds of scientists have worked on research applicable either to biowarfare or biodefense. The natural emergence of a zoonotic virus versus the accidental or deliberate release from a laboratory has been a heated controversy—mostly centered on the U.S. and collaboration with the Wuhan Institute of Virology. There is, however, a German-Chinese virology lab in the center of the initial cluster of cases, much closer than the WIV. At the center of the German-Dutch research nexus is the creator of the hypersensitive and unreliable COVID-19 PCR test that was the basis of the declaration of a pandemic (tinyurl.com/bdey9h4f).
This complicates further the Gordian knot of assigning blame for the origin, which is blocking action on the solvable problem of accountability for the tyrannical response (tinyurl.com/4vpw9n4z), often based on misuse of a flawed test.
As Christine Anderson, German member of the European Parliament, said, “This pandemic is not over until every single politician…responsible for these draconian restrictions…has been held accountable” (https://tinyurl.com/t8jb2xtn). In fact, the errors are not generally acknowledged, and with the honorable exception of Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo, M.D., public health officials and medical associations are still recommending, in year 4, updated “boosters” of the shots that were supposed to have ended the pandemic in 2021.
The pretext for the lockdowns was the assertion that there was no effective treatment. How many deaths were caused by withholding early treatment, and who will be held accountable? As Dr. David Gortler writes: “Trump’s 63 Million Doses of Hydroxychloroquine Could Have Been Great for America” (https://tinyurl.com/bdrvxm55). What happened? Dr. Robert Malone (ibid.) identifies key players Dr. Rick Bright (then director of BARDA) and Dr. Janet Woodcock (ex-acting director of the FDA), as AAPS also did in our lawsuit against FDA (AAPS News, June 2020). But who or what drove the globally coordinated smear campaign that attacked Trump, Navarro, Raoult, and anyone who advocated for early treatment, and who deployed the PsyWar toolkit against HCQ? Dr. Malone calls it a clear-cut and shocking case of globalized Deep/Administrative State and academic corruption, including the CIA and MI5/6. How does one hold the sovereign’s agents accountable?
Basis for Accountability: Positive vs. Natural Law
Accountability requires law and an enforcer. Natural law theory dominated Western legal education from the 12th through the 18th century, but it is seldom included in today’s handbooks of law and legal theory. Liberalism doubts that there are “any true principles of right conduct that are rationally discoverable.” So, the ambition to codify universally known moral truths “smacks of vain authoritarianism.” Thus, we have human-made or positive law based on “human rights”—“the work of a caste, the global legal literati,” writes Sean Coyle in Natural Law and Modern Society. Natural law theory in contrast, defends the idea of a core morality, while giving great latitude for reason-based laws (https://tinyurl.com/5h7uvk6e).
Without a core morality, to what are tyrants, like those violating natural rights under the pretext of pandemic, climate change, or newly enacted “transgender” rights, accountable?
NIH Approves, Hides Risky Mpox Research
In 2015 a scientist at Anthony Fauci’s agency proposed combining two mpox (formerly monkeypox) strains to create a virus with a 15% fatality rate and a reproduction rate of 2.4, which would make it very much “pandemic potential.” The National Institute of Health (NIH) Institutional Review Board approved it.
In 2022, it came to attention in an article in Science. When the House Committee on Energy and Commerce began a 17-month investigation, NIH misrepresented and deceived the Committee by repeatedly denying that the potentially dangerous experiment was proposed and approved. Now it claims the experiment was never done but can’t point to a single email or memo to show it was stopped. The original approval has only recently been reversed.
Funding agencies like the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) have primary oversight responsibility for Gain-of-Function Research of Concern. “In almost any other scientific field or industry, this arrangement would be immediately recognized as a conflict of interest, necessitating independent review” (https://tinyurl.com/3n3abtb4).
The E&C Committee concluded: “In order to start rebuilding trust in our government health agency guidance, agencies like the NIH must be honest and transparent with Congress and the American people. This report demonstrates a disturbing lack of judgment and accountability from HHS, the NIH, and particularly, NIAID. It is unacceptable and demonstrates the clear need for reform” (https://tinyurl.com/2nff3mzn).
Medical Board Member Fired for Opinion
Republican Governor Mark Gordon removed radiologist Eric Cubin, M.D., from the Wyoming Board of Medicine. Dr. Cubin had written to the state house of representatives in support of “Chloe’s Law,” which forbids mutilating transgender surgeries and the prescription of puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones for minors. Violators could see their professional licenses suspended or revoked. The Wyoming Medical Society opposed the law. Liberty Justice Center (LJC) announced that it is representing Dr. Eric Cubin in his lawsuit against the state for violating his First Amendment rights.
“People who serve in government positions do not lose their right to speak out on important issues, stated LJC senior counsel Buck Dougherty. “We look forward to holding the Governor accountable for his actions in court” (tinyurl.com/bddru66s).
‘Sensitivity’ Editing
The new book burning is more subtle than in Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. The “firemen” (arsonists) are torching classic works by Agatha Christie, Ian Fleming, and Road Dahl, in the name of diversity and inclusion, writes Pedro Gonzalez (https://tinyurl.com/59p699cr). Whole paragraphs may be edited or excised. Keep the printed copies of your old books.
“Our First Amendment stands as a major block to the ability to be able to hammer [disinformation] out of existence. What we need is to win…the right to govern by hopefully winning enough votes that you’re free to be able to implement change.” — John Kerry
Officers and Directors Elected at Annual Meeting
At our San Antonio meeting, the Nominating Committee slate (AAPS News, August 2024) was elected by acclamation. Erika LeBaron, D.O., was installed as president.
Flashback: New Deal Led to Jan. 6 Prosecutions
In The New Deal’s War on the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR’s Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance, David T. Beito exposes FDR’s venal and covert attempts to erode or cancel the constitutional protections of free speech and other elements of the Bill of Rights. While legal education focuses on court decisions, what happens in legislatures has even more impact. Senator Hugo L. Black, who was rewarded by being appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court, where he ironically became a hero to civil libertarians, headed the committee that claimed vast power to monitor communications, and with the cooperation of the IRS, the tax returns of the Administration’s enemies. The Black committee, with the likely covert support (and probably aid) from the White House, enthusiastically smeared administration opponents with charges of racism and anti-Semitism. Using administrative agencies such as the Federal Radio Commission (FRC), FDR was able to censor critics “in the public interest.” Zealous prosecutors, in an effort to silence FDR’s wartime critics, employed dubious means to tar opponents with sedition (tinyurl.com/3ch2zn6k)—just like Jan 6, 2021, protesters.
The Hidden Abortion Calamity
Richard Maybury writes that he finds the abortion question terrifying. The answer, he thinks, will eventually come through constitutional amendment. And whether it is pro or con, the answer, while important, will not be half as important as the method of arriving at it—through political means.
Already, residents of Kansas, Ohio, and Michigan voted in referendums to keep or add abortion protections in their constitutions. A right-to-life question will be decided by majority vote, and 14 centuries of Common Law reasoning will be swept away. Echoing Common Law, the Declaration of Independence says that all human beings are endowed “by their Creator” with their right to their lives. But not any more. Now your right to your life comes from the voters, 43 million of whom cannot even read. And the voters can change their minds (Early Warning Report, September 2024).
AAPS Calendar
Jan 13, 2025. Board meeting (Zoom)
Sep 11-13, 2025. 82nd Annual Meeting
ACTION OF THE MONTH
A free non-partisan voter-registration flyer with a QR code to help smartphone users check their registration status or register can be downloaded at: https://aaps.pub/usavotes. It can be distributed in your office, churches, farmers’ markets, school or athletic events, fairs, and outside grocery stores or post offices.
AAPS Challenges FinCEN
AAPS, member Steven Hotze, M.D., and others have filed a complaint against the U.S. Treasury in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas over the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) and the Rule issued by the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) (Case 2:24-cv-00210-Z). We ask for a Declaratory Judgment that the CTA is unconstitutional and an injunction against its enforcement.
The CTA was tucked into the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act, comprising about 21 of the nearly 1,500 total pages in this rushed, end-of-the-year annual appropriation. CTA requires, under threat of incarceration, that millions of ordinary, law-abiding Americans who establish everyday small entities under state law, report private, personal information about themselves to FinCEN by Jan 1, 2025. “The CTA thereby converts nearly every American into a potential federal criminal merely for engaging in local activities in the exercise of their constitutional rights. The CTA punishes the least sophisticated of these law-abiding citizens with a gotcha-style, counterintuitive reporting requirement,” states the complaint (https://tinyurl.com/mssbbm9x).
“The federal government has sharply limited authority under the Constitution, and none of its enumerated powers can be plausibly stretched so far as to support the CTA and its implementing
Rule,” the complaint states. “Nearly everyone who speaks out, particularly when it is in criticism of the federal government, could then plausibly fear the use of a weaponized federal government for politically motivated prosecution based on innocuous deficiencies in reporting to the federal government, about activities in which there is no legitimate federal interest or authority.”
“FinCEN may share the private information it collects, without any finding of probable cause of wrongdoing, with virtually any other federal agency that it so chooses.”
“While the CTA purports to maintain confidentiality by imposing criminal penalties on unauthorized disclosures, leaks to the media by federal government officials and their contractors are commonplace, nearly impossible to trace, and rarely prosecuted.”
The CTA violates the First, Fourth, Fifth, and Tenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, the Complaint contends, as well as the Administrative Procedure Act.
CTA shows the startling and growing efforts to subjugate citizens to increasingly untouchable rulers.
State AGs Investigate AAP for TG Deception
More than 20 Republican Attorneys General have written a letter to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) concerning their recommendations for “transgender” care. “When it comes to treating children diagnosed with gender dysphoria, the AAP has abandoned its commitment to sound medical judgment,” the letter states. “It tells physicians, the public, and parents and their children that puberty blockers…are ‘reversible.’ That claim is scientifically unsupported and contradicts what is medically known. And because that claim raises questions under most state consumer protection laws, it has the undersigned alarmed.” The letter notes that the majority of children who are diagnosed with “gender dysphoria” eventually grow out of it. “It is abusive to treat a child with biologically altering drugs that have an unknown physiological trajectory and end point. It is also inhumane to endorse such experimentation without a confident safety profile, especially if more times than not, it proves to be medically unnecessary” (https://tinyurl.com/4uky6wuh).
The Legal System v. Free Speech
Prison. Russian-American political analyst and TV talk show host Dimitri Simes, age 76, has been charged by the U.S. Dept. of Justice with offenses carrying a potential 60-year prison sentence. This is purportedly not because of his expressing opinions critical of the U.S. regime. He is accused of participating in schemes to “violate U.S. sanctions” and to “launder funds obtained as a result of this scheme.” He states that he was depositing his paycheck from Channel One, which had to go through a third bank to get into an American bank, owing to sanctions, so as to pay his American taxes. The New York Times wrote these charges were “part of a broader government effort to thwart Russian attempts to influence American politics in the run-up to November’s presidential election.” Simes notes that Channel One does not broadcast in the U.S., and programs are in Russian. He cannot pay his taxes because his accounts are frozen. American journalists have responded with “sepulchral silence.” Simes, in Russia since October 2022, is disinclined to return to the U.S. to answer the charges (https://tinyurl.com/c8rvmpzy).
Hate Speech. The Berlin Appellate Court overturned the trial court’s acquittal of CJ Hopkins, so he is officially a “hate-speech” criminal. He compared the New Normal Germany to Nazi Germany in the cover art on his book The Rise of the New Normal Reich. He had also posted two Tweets challenging the official COVID narrative and comparing the new, nascent form of totalitarianism it has brought into being to Nazi Germany (https://tinyurl.com/bhzxx62v).
Not Exactly Free. Because he “pled guilty of journalism,” after years of incarceration, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was released. He gave a talk to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) urging European lawmakers to act against rising “transnational repression” of journalism by great powers. Of his plea agreement, he states: “I eventually chose freedom over unrealizable justice, after being detained for years and facing a 175-year sentence with no effective remedy. Justice for me is now precluded, as the U.S. government insisted in writing into its plea agreement that I cannot file a case at the European Court of Human Rights or even a Freedom of Information Act request over what it did to me as a result of its extradition request” (https://tinyurl.com/4kmu5862).
Tip of the Month: The Wall Street Journal reported (Sep 23) that there is a growing backlash among physicians against private equity buying up practices, clinics, hospitals, and every other aspect of medicine. A poll earlier this year showed that 61% of physicians dislike private equity, while fewer than 11% view it in a positive way. Private equity, which consists of funds managed without public disclosures and sometimes with harmful tax-loophole incentives, has spent nearly a trillion dollars since 2012 buying up healthcare entities while often stripping out their assets to take as profits. Some hospitals have gone bankrupt due to this process, while many physicians have lost their autonomy and professional independence. Beware the allure of short-term gain that causes long-term misery.
Correspondence
Fourth Amendment. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled geofence warrants, the modern equivalent of general warrants, to be unconstitutional (U.S. v. Smith, https://tinyurl.com/mr3vfbbe). This is a warrant applying to everyone who was in a certain location during a given period of time. Google has been the primary recipient of geofence warrants because of its extensive Location History database, known as the “Sensorvault.” Requests for such warrants have increased rapidly; Google received 11,500 requests in 2020. The Court recognized the alarming potential for “permeating police surveillance.” Nevertheless, under the “good faith exception,” it upheld the convictions based on evidence so obtained. Defendants were sentenced to more than 10 years for a $60,000 robbery apparently without severe bodily injury. The prison sentences seem to keep getting longer and longer.
Lawrence R. Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D., Lake View, NY
Democracy Dies…in Secret Service Headquarters. His security detail is telling the leader of the opposition party in the U.S. that he can’t campaign in the critical state of Wisconsin because the world’s most lavishly funded protection service can’t protect him. It appears that the Secret Service has spent the summer as enablers of wannabe assassins. Now the ruling party is cancelling the campaign events of its only opposition on “security grounds.” It appears that the word for “security” is “shut up.”
Mark Steyn, https://tinyurl.com/nhf63bda
Stochastic Terrorism. Academics define stochastic terrorism as the idea that “influential individuals may demonise target groups or individuals, inspiring unknown actors to take up terroristic violence against them… [It] not only demonises but dehumanises its targets.” Commentators who call for “ending the right’s reign of stochastic terror” suggest replacing the 1969 Brandenburg v. Ohio decision and “modernizing” the First Amendment. Brandenburg held that that government cannot punish inflammatory speech unless that speech is “directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action.”
When will the Experts on extremism and violence advocate the arrest of those calling for the assassination of Donald Trump or for civilian murder and shootings? Two of many examples: “Donald Trump is a genuine threat to this nation…literally a threat to everything America stands for” [@JoeBiden]. “If I was Biden, I’d hurry up and have Trump murdered on the basis that he is a threat to America’s security” [@DAaronovitch].
William Briggs, Ph.D., wmbriggs.com/post/52441/
An Incantation. Kamala Harris frequently says, “to see what can be, unburdened by what has been,” with a hand gesture: right hand up, left hand down, like Baphomet’s. It is not goofy nonsense. People who know, know. It’s coded, and Gnostic, and the principle she’s articulating is Luciferian/Hermetic, a la Marx.
James Lindsay, https://tinyurl.com/48y54umt
Hegemony. As Antonio Gramsci used it, the term “hegemony” is a set of economic incentives, structures, and habits that, like gravity, bend thoughts and culture to conform with dominant power structures in society. Hegemony was in full force during COVID. Nearly the entire political left was consumed by it and came out as neofascists. We now face the worst ruling class in human history. It is systematically stealing all wealth and genociding the population with vaccines. That’s the human story —the struggle between what’s dominant versus what’s true, between succumbing to the dark versus seeking the light, between fitting in versus standing up for what’s right. And our challenge during the Age of the Iatrogenocide is to see and name the operations of hegemony and dismantle them.
Toby Rogers, https://tinyurl.com/4e6deaf3
Inverted Totalitarianism. This system operates through the integration of economic with political power to control the levers of government. It does not require a dictator or a single-party state. It thrives on the undue influence of corporations, financial institutions, the censorship-industrial complex, and the military-industrial complex while maintaining the facade of a democratic process. Digital surveillance, surveillance capitalism, social media, and a globalized economy based on the fusion of corporatism with socialism (i.e., 21st-century Fascism) entrench the U.S. into a managed democracy. Democratic processes have become mere formalities in the face of overwhelming globalist power.
Once realizing that the U.S. had been captured by this system, President Trump devised a partial solution, codified in an executive order signed shortly before his departure from the White House and rescinded very quickly by Biden. The “Schedule F” executive order would have allowed agencies to reclassify senior managers as “at-will employees”—just like the rest of us. Federal government employees would no longer have jobs for life regardless of their actions or competency. They would become accountable for their actions as federal employees. Trump has said he would reinstate that order if elected. Congress needs to codify Schedule F into legislation, making such changes to the federal workforce permanent.
Robert Malone, M.D., https://tinyurl.com/28z2ykks
