How to get Falsehoods, Fictions, Fabrications, and Fibs accepted as Factual Fact: “You do realize I have a gun, right?”

John Shortell, out of Australia, has a post being shared around the world. It is a black box filled with white text that says:

“Questioning and doubting what’s going on these days does not make you ‘anti’ anything. Nor does it make you a conspiracy theorist. Actually, questioning is, and should be, the place of reason. The fact that questioning has become taboo should send a chill up everyone’s spine.”

Mr. Shortell is both right and wrong.

He is right that questioning is and should be the place of reason. He is wrong, though, when he says that questioning and doubting does not make you “anti” anything.

When one questions and doubts one is anti falsehoods, fictions, fabrications, and fibs. But, more importantly, when one questions and doubts one is actually in favor of truth.

I shared Mr. Shortell’s post after a friend of mine (one I know in real life) had shared it and it showed up on my feed. Then another friend of mine that I know in real life, Jay S., commented on that and said:

“Questioning is good. Very good. But using opinion to disparage facts is never good, unless that opinion is backed up with solid facts and research.”

I don’t think Jay understood what he wrote.

Put another way, what Jay said was: No you can’t, but yes you can. When I read that, my mind began to spin. Did he not understand that true facts are not opinion? What the heck? Examples of fact and opinion:

It is a fact gravity exists and has force over everything. Little kids learn this early when they sit in their high chairs and drop their sippy cup over and over only to watch how gravity works. Of course we know that Mother’s opinion about that dropping will effect the child’s behaviour and stop the dropping, but even Mother’s opinion about why the dropping should stop has nothing to do with explaining gravity.

Everybody has an opinion about gravity. See, the kid may believe that their merely letting go of the cup makes the cup drop to the floor. Mothers may attempt to stop the results of it. Some scientists believe that the floor is closer to a gravitational field produced by the spinning of Earth’s magma core that naturally attracts any object that is not being artificially held in place. The kid, mothers, and the scientists are all correct from their narrow experience. None of those opinions truly explains the workings of gravity itself. Therefore, scientists continue to question their theories.

I say that the Creator, Almighty God, is one smart fellow and is enjoying watching us try to figure it all out. Anyway, back to Jay. I like Jay. He’s is also one smart and well-respected fellow, in his field, but his field is not defense of freedom. I replied to Jay, but I doubt he will understand what I wrote, so I wrote it for any others who might read it, too.

Here begins what I wrote to Jay:

Jay, opinions are like noses (that’s the polite version, I could’ve said a******s!)…everyone has one. Having that opinion backed by force to make another accept an opinion? Now that is the problem.

Castro had an opinion. Stalin, too. Pol Pot. Hitler. Idi Amin. Saddam Hussein. Kim Jong-Un. Benito Mussolini. Bashar al-Assad. Nicolás Maduro. And the list goes on and on and on. In all cases, force was (and even [here in the US] is being) used to control populations from daring to question opinion trotted out as facts.

I’ve always had a problem when someone tells me I “must” do as they say “or else”. When I was robbed at gunpoint (twice) their “opinion” [That money is mine] was backed by force and I gave them the money. The second time I was robbed, the robber, pointing that gun right at my heart, said, “Don’t move or I’ll kill you.”

I did not move. Then he said, “Get me the money!”

While this second robber’s opinion mattered to him, at least through calmly speaking I took a lot of the danger out of the situation. I said, “Okay. But you told me not to move. Do I have your permission to now move?”

He stared at me, gave it some thought, and made an executive decision. “Yes!” I said, never moving a muscle, “Okay. But…just to be on the safe side, before I move could you point that gun up at the ceiling?”

Again he stared, gave it some more thought. “Okay.” And he pointed the gun at the ceiling. I got up. Pulled the money from the drawer, gave it go him, and out he went, threw the money in the car and jumped in the back seat, whereupon the getaway driver, who had one job, careened out of the parking lot right in front of a police car.

But the first time I was robbed, the robber demanded I go to a back room in the convenience store where he was going to tie me up. You see, his “opinion” of what I should accept as “fact” went beyond what I was willing to do and I told him I wasn’t going to go.

He stopped dead in his tracks and said, and I quote, “You realize I have a gun, right?” And it was pointed at me yet again.

At which point I said, and I quote, “Yes. But you will tie me up, rape me, and then kill me, and I will not allow that. If you’re going to kill me, you better do it here where somebody can see, but I’m not going back there. So, you got the money. Leave.” And I pointed to the door of the convenience store in which I worked. Twice more he insisted I go. Twice more I declined.

Then a customer walked in who had no clue what was happening (he had eyes only for the beer cooler) and the robber put his gun into his front waistband and said, “You have no idea how lucky you are.”

I looked at him and said, “Yes. I do.” (He came back a few weeks later to stare at the woman who said no to him. He paid for his stuff and stared and stared. I took his money, bagged his goods, and said, “I know who you are. You can leave now.” He couldn’t believe it and left, dazed and confused.)

Throughout mankind’s history politicians, military leaders, and others who have set themselves up as the arbiter of fact, along with their devoted power-seeking acolytes and unsuspecting dupes, have used force — at the point of a weapon — claiming they have the right to make their OPINION primary. They are like that robber, taking what does not belong to them because their opinion mattered more to them than my FREEDOM.

Their opinion is that Might Makes Right. See? Opinion masquerading as fact. That is happening now, and not just with The Jab. Before that was The Lockdowns and after that The Masks. And then the Evictions Moratorium.

By the way, these things are not new methods but all are designed to keep under control any who would take away their power. Power they seek to enrich themselves, their relatives, their friends. But they have no compunctions against punishing, jailing — hell, killing! — their relatives and friends if those don’t support “agree” that their opinion is supported by “their facts”.

Thus ends above what I wrote to Jay.

Accepting opinion as fact allows for modern-day segregation and discrimination.

Another real-life friend posted that Medical Status OPINION is being used to separate people by pushing modern-day segregation and discrimination. He shared some thoughts from someone else. Here is what she said, in part:

• The same media and people who spent 2020 protesting and advocating for black and minority rights are demanding separation and segregation based on medical status, many of whom are black and minority.
• That same media and people are saying The Unjabbed shouldn’t be allowed into grocery stores, businesses, gyms, or social functions.
• If an activity helps you survive or brings you joy, you can’t do it unless you comply [that compliance means getting The Jab]. Until you comply, you must remain locked in your home.
• Businesses across the U.S. are also attempting to mandate: Get The Jab or Lose The Job.

The woman goes on to say:

• How is it that the way our immune systems and natural immunity works has all of a sudden become a conspiracy theory? [Good question.]
• Your health is your responsibility and your choice. [Good point.]
• Coercion is not consent. [Right on, sister.]
• The Jab isn’t about freedom, it isn’t even about health. It is about control. [Preach!]
• How have so many forgotten what freedom means? [Good question, to which I say…]

“Leave ’em staring, dazed, and confused.”

It takes diligence and courage to do this. It isn’t easy. Just as the mighty ocean tears at the shoreline and is only stopped by many strong boulders standing their ground, terrorists, communists, dictators, and bullies of every variety are only stopped when many someone’s repeatedly say “No. No further.”

We should leave politicians and their acolytes and volunteering self-righteous do-gooders like that first robber was left when I told him no. Yes, we should leave them dazed and confused. Staring at the citizen like they cannot believe what they just saw.

What? A citizen that dares to stand up for their rights in defense of freedom so that the city, town, county, state, and country in which they live does not become a damn police state?

Yes, exactly like that.

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