Governments Work Overtime to Sicken and Kill Us to Advance Transhumanism

The extent to which mad scientists and other social engineers, most of whose experiments have been funded, if not conducted, by the government of the United States of America in the past one hundred ten years or so is staggering.

The government of the United States of America has engaged in lies and subterfuge through its history, including its undermining of Catholicism in Our Lady’s country, Mexico, with the introduce of Masonry there in 1821 by the American Ambassador to Mexico, Joel Poinsett. Lies and all manner of moral outrages were committed in the forcible exile of American Indians from Georgia and Florida to the “Indian Territory,” which became the State of Oklahoma in 1912, during the Trail of Tears. Lies were told during the Mexican-American War, the War between the States, the Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Cold War, the Persian Gulf War and the “Global War against Terrorism” (the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq). For present purposes, however, it is important to note that the so-called health officers of the United States of America have lied repeatedly about the safety of vaccines dating back to the smallpox vaccine scandals of the second and third decades of the Twentieth Century and to the epidemic of polio by the Salk vaccines in the 1950s.

Mrs. Randy Engel completed her five part study of Covid 19 and the Art of Brainwashing in 2021 (see Covid-19 and the Art of Brainwashing – Part I | AKA Catholic, Covid-19 and the Art of Brainwashing – Part II, Part III, Part IV, and Part V) by focusing on the late Dr. Herbert Ratner’s definitive documentation of the deaths caused by the Salk polio vaccine. This information is being provided to the readers of this website to help them to understand that one should not be surprised that lies are being told today and that, quite indeed, it is scandalously irresponsible to pretend as though the representations made about the gene therapy treatments being marketed as “vaccines” are in any way “safe” or can provide any protection against the CCP/Wuhan/Red Chinese/Covid-19/Coronavirus.

Herewith are passages from Dr. Herbert Ratner’s study as quoted by Mrs. Engel in Part V of “Covid 19 and the Art of Brainwashing.”

When an influential voluntary health organization in the U.S. launches a new vaccine in a highly touted national vaccine program, approved by government, backed by organized medicine, abetted by vaccine manufacturers, supported by legions of organized and enthusiastic volunteers, sought after by anxiety-ridden parents – and it turns out to be seriously flawed – a decision on what to do next has to be made. If it is believed that reputations and even the preservation of the organization are at stake, the pressure, and the temptation to cover up could be intense.

In the specific case of the inadequately developed and faulty 1954 Salk vaccine and the prematurely launched 1955 national Salk vaccine program of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis (NF) just such a decision was faced, and deception and self-deception took over and ruled. In collusion were federal agencies, particularly the Center for Disease Control – the epidemiologic arm of the United States Public Health Service – and subservient state health departments.

It would be less consequential if the employment of skullduggery to give failure the appearance of success, were a transitory event in the history of science and medicine. Unfortunately, it was a turning point that gave birth to rationalization, cynicism and even dishonesty in subsequent generations of physicians associated with voluntary and governmental health agencies and programs (emphasis added). To mention a few instances, such behavior was evident in government vaccination programs against the Asiatic (1957) and Swine (1976) influenza and the rubella (1969) vaccine programs. … The number of persons who view the medical scene with sophistication and skepticism, who do not servilely accept health programs generated by voluntary and governmental agencies, and who do not permit ends to justify means are rare.

To be realistic, the success of national health agencies, and the tenure of their top administration, depends heavily on the talent of their public relations divisions and, for the most part, is measured by the amount of funds garnered from the public, or in the case of government agencies from Congress. Unfortunately national health agencies are more like business enterprises than professional organizations. Appearance, with or without substance, frequently prevails, and activism, good or bad, premature or otherwise, becomes habitual.

In the NF program, numerous reputations were at stake: those of the NF; the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (now Health and Human Services); the United States Public Health Service; and those of many prominent scientists and others associated with the NF’s vaccination program.

The public finds it difficult to believe that agencies dedicated to health and life would ever knowingly jeopardize the lives of individuals, especially those of children. To the public, the notion of health as a good is sacrosanct and precludes any action by a health agency that would endanger health. The defense of the country, however, is also a sacrosanct good, yet no one has blind trust in the Pentagon: nor do many have confidence in the assurances and reassurances of safety given by atomic commissions and other regulatory agencies that deal with the environment. Integrity is a scarce commodity. Few organizations and not many scientists or administrators have immunity from the human habit of rationalizing errors to cover up mistakes. … Our purpose, here, is to unfold the untold story of the NF’s Salk vaccination program of the late fifties as experienced and documented by one health officer [Dr. Herbert Ratner] who, in discharging his duties and obligations became engulfed in a controversy of great magnitude that in fact was only the tip of the iceberg.

The hope is that it will help correct the records of a flagrantly distorted episode in the history of modern medicine; and will help the reader become less innocent and more sophisticated in regard to the trustworthiness of mass programs sponsored and supported by national health agencies, the alleged guardians of our health.[3]

In a later segment of An Untold Vaccine Story, Dr. Ratner added another rather prophetic warning to the medical profession whom he charged were being converted into “slave technicians.”[4] He explained that another important goal of his series on the Salk vaccine was:

… to awaken physicians in national health agencies to the danger of becoming mere dutiful instruments of high echelon establishment thinking.

… and to help physicians protect their patients, to whom they have a primary obligation, from the blandishments of national voluntary and governmental health agencies and drug companies and from the bandwagon enthusiasm of the mass media.[5]

Ratner continues:

The crass manipulation of the public by establishment professionals in 1955 was a turning point in the history of modern medicine. It was a time when activism was substituted for a reexamination of assumptions, and when expediency superseded courage and truth. It requires courage and honesty to discontinue a highly publicized program once started. Not to do so however, may have long range deleterious consequences and set a corruptive example for generations.[6]

This is illustrated by the Asian Flu vaccine program of 1957 when the United States Public Health Service (USPHS) foisted off on doctors and the public 50 million doses of poor potency vaccine to combat a mild epidemic which had almost run its course. The promotion’s main purpose seemed to have been to protect the financial interest of the vaccine manufacturers.[7]

The lack of courage to correct an earlier decision is also illustrated by the Swine Flu vaccine program of 1976. Here a widely promoted and widespread immunization program was still continued for months even after it had become evident that a Swine Flu epidemic would not materialize. The vaccine subsequently resulted in paralytic side effects in significant numbers of recipients.[8]

None of the forgoing suggests that the USPHS and the NF were interested in being candid with the public, which was being injected, nor with physicians who were doing the injections. On the contrary, it is not too harsh to say that the attitude of the USPHS was callus and was characterized by an elitist and rationalized disregard for the principle of informed consent.[9]

Monkey Viruses and the Salk Vaccine

Lest we forget, a final note here on Simian Virus 40 (SV40) which was injected in various amounts into millions of homo sapiens from 1954 until 1961-62, when the presence of the live SV40 was established thanks to Dr. Bernice Eddy, and when measures were taken to eliminate the SV40 virus from the Salk vaccine, although we know today, that a slower growing ‘archetypal’ strain of SV40 may have evaded the manufactures’ screening procedure for years, and continued to infect Salk vaccine recipients after 1962.[10]

As Ratner states in his last full commentary on the Salk vaccine in Child and Family in 1988:

This historic iatrogenic [medically-induced] massive transmission of viruses from one animal species to another transgressed a species barrier – one of nature’s great built-in protective biologic mechanism against the inter-species spread on disease.[11]

SV40 was first discovered in monkeys in 1958. By 1960 it was concluded that SV40 was a “common and essentially ubiquitous [omnipresent] contaminant of rhesus monkey kidney cell cultures in which it developed high titers,” that it was present in attenuated and in inactivated polio vaccines,[12] and that it was capable of infecting man. In May of 1961, it was reported that monkey kidney tissue extracts injected into hamsters induced cancerous tumors.[13] In 1962 the oncogenic agent in the extract was identified as SV40.[14]

That SV40 was found in the Salk vaccine came as a surprise because the Salk vaccine was thought to be a killed virus vaccine. It turned out, however, that SV40 was more resistant than poliovirus to inactivation by formaldehyde (emphasis added).[15]

According to Ratner, the NF and the USPHS, were “well aware how upset parents would be to discover that Salk anti-polio vaccinators, like a horde of hungry mosquitoes, had descended on their children with African monkey viruses,” and they attempted to suppress or minimize the discovery of Bernice Eddy. Dr. Joseph Smadel, Chief of the Laboratory of Virology and Rickettsiology attempted to silence Eddy in 1960, but in the end, she was, once again, investigated and exonerated by a Congressional Committee in the spring of 1962.[16]

That same year, 1962, the National Cancer Institute of the National Institute of Health (NCI/NIH) avoided giving the matter any publicity to avoid “the possibility of creating a real wave of popular hysteria.”[17]

But as Ratner concluded in 1988, “Today the NCI now knows or should know that Salk vaccine containing SV40 is associated with cancer in human beings.[18]

The Covid-19 Plandemic – “New Lies for Old”

The term [strategic disinformation] means a systematic effort to disseminate false information and to distort or withhold information so as to misrepresent the real situation… and confuse, deceive and influence…[19]

The Salk Vaccine cover-up by federal health officials that took place more than 65 years ago was a prelude to the current “Operation Warp Speed” Plandemic’s disinformation campaign, which is, at its root, a universal war against humanity.

Everything Dr. Ratner described and warned against in this series has come to pass, in spades. Most major pronouncement that government public health officials and the mass public media have made concerning Covid-19 has proven to be a lie:

Original name of Covid-19 virus was Wuhan coronavirus. Among the first “big lies” of the 2020s was that the virus came from bats in a Wuhan (China) marketplace and scientists claimed that it couldn’t possibly have been created in a lab.[20] Later Americans learned that not only was the virus developed at the Wuhan Virology Lab, but that the gain-of-function research was funded with American tax-dollars.[21]
Government agents, marketing engineers for Big Pharma, and the mass media have spread endless disinformation, confusion, fear, and other means of “brainwashing” on the American people. Truth speakers and seekers have been silenced and persecuted. The thinking man or woman has become a criminal.
The Covid-19 “vaccines,” Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna and Johnson and Johnson/Janssen have been mislabeled. They contain no vaccine at all and cannot be labeled a vaccine, unless one changes the definition of the term, which some proponents of the Covid-19 “vaccines” have already done.[22] Calling the shot a ”genetic bioweapon” is closer to the mark.[23]
The exact content of these genetic packages of messenger RNA injected directly into the human blood stream remains unknown to the general public, but the Center for Disease Control (CDC) has been forced to reveal more and more of the toxic content of these “vaccines.”
Contrary to the mass media’s disinformation campaign, the Pfizer-BioNTech has not been formally approved by the Food and Drug Administration, but remains an Emergency Use Authorization entity, free from all liability. The FDA has approved the manufacture of Pfizer’s step-sister “vaccine,” Comirety, which as of September 2021 does not as yet exist.
Physicians and public health officials, by and large, have become mere technicians and slaves of the State with faceless government bureaucrats and hospital administrators and owners dictating the who, what, where, when, and how of Covid-19 patient care.
Effective treatment programs for Covid using such safe and relatively inexpensive drugs as hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin have been suppressed and openly attacked by federal and state public health officials including Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the Chief Medical Advisor to the President since 2021. Instead, the NIH, and the CDC are pressing hospitals to use the obscenely expensive and dangerous drug Remdesivir. Unfortunately for bureaucrats like Fauci, they don’t seem to be able to burn or otherwise erase their earlier endorsement of the drugs they are now denouncing.[24]
Government administrators, public health officials, and most physicians have failed to inform the public of the advantages of known nutritional protocols to build resistance to Covid-19 and boost natural immunity.
While the mass media hype continues to proclaim the “safety and effectiveness” of these Covid-19 “vaccines,” as it did with the Salk vaccine in 1954-1955, the CDC’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS),[25] which claims to be at least three months behind in its reporting, lists 650,077 reported adverse effects; 14,327 life-threatening events; 56,912 hospitalizations; and 13,911 deaths connected to the Covid-19 “vaccines” for the period of December 2020 to August 27, 2021. Note that the number of deaths associated with the Covid-19 “vaccines” are greater than the number of deaths associated with ALL other vaccines combined since 1990.
The critical role that natural immunity to Covid-19 plays has been entirely ignored in favor of “the jab.” Yet the immunity that one gets from previous infection is robust, complete, and long-lived.

These are but a few incidences of official government lies and fear-mongering.

Perhaps, Dr. Vladimir Zelenko[26] best summed up the essence of the nature of the battle for humanity we are currently facing when he observed:

Prolonged fear and anxiety, coupled together with human isolation, psychologically decompensates the individual, that they have a breakdown and are not capable anymore of rational thought. There’s a global psychosis going on. People will gravitate towards any false promise that will reduce the emotional pain that they’re in because of the fear. So, you can dangle a false vaccine in front of them and they’ll believe it just because they don’t want to feel the pain anymore. You challenge that narrative, they become belligerent because what you’re really doing is bringing them back into that emotional pain state that they don’t want to be in. They’ve lost their minds, literally.”[27]

Thankfully there are many more doctors like Dr. Zelenco today fighting the Covid-19 Plandemic than there were in Dr. Ratner’s time when he was fighting the Salk vaccine with the support of only a hand-full of his colleagues.

There is also good news to be found in the fact that LOST MINDS CAN BE FOUND, although prevention is still to be preferred to the usually more difficult and painful “cure.”

How then can we build up our defenses of mind, body, and soul to resist the growing Totalitarian State with its legions of faceless bureaucrats and technocrats? Although no American can know for sure how he or she will behave when the choice is given beneath a standing tree to which a noose has been attached to either sign on to the New World Order of the Anti-Christ or suffer death by hanging or worse, we can meditate daily on those virtues, personal qualities, thoughts and actions, many taken from Dr. Joost Meerloo’s 1956 classic The Rape of the Mind, that will enable us to make the right choices when that time comes:

Man is not a machine, an isolated automaton.[28] God created man as a whole – body, mind, and soul. Man is never totally alone. God is always with him.
Man is born into a family. It is one of the greatest and glorious moments in human history that God took on flesh and was born into a family. Amid the rumors circulated by the enemy that “the family is dead,” the family has always survived to bury its undertakers. Little wonder that the Leviathan State always seeks to destroy the family.
Christianity and Western Civilization has built a special breed of men[29] with real concrete beliefs, well-formed consciences, high personal moral standards, and an innate love of freedom – the bane of every tyrant and tyrannical government seeking to enslave mankind. The “deplorables” of this world with their deep-rooted religious beliefs, who are so abhorred by Hillary and Francis, are more capable of surviving attempts at brainwashing by the thought police than are their liberal, intellectual counterparts.[30] Such men are not afraid to die for what they believe and to protect and defend God, his country and the family he loves.
The Importance of the Cardinal Virtue of Fortitude – Fortitude (Courage) comes from inside oneself. It is the moral virtue that ensures firmness in difficulties and constancy in the pursuit of the good. It strengthens the resolve to resist temptations and to overcome obstacles in the moral life. The virtue of fortitude enables one to conquer fear, even fear of death, and to face trials and persecutions. It disposes one even to renounce and sacrifice his life in defense of a just cause.[31] Pray to the Holy Ghost for this virtue and gift.
Brainwashing, menticide, thought control – These are all forms of mental coercion and intrusion. However, not all these techniques are easily recognizable. One of the best ways to strengthen the mind and the will against these propaganda attacks and indoctrination is to know the enemy, his mission and his end game which is always the mental disintegration, demoralization, and depersonalization of the target population to insure passivity and compliance. Learn to understand the mechanics of thought control and the nature of propaganda.[32] Above all, know God and know yourself.
Verbocracy Creates Semantic Fog[33] – Words are Weapons. We think and we speak in terms of words. That’s why the mass media’s control of words and the Government’s redefining of key terms like “vaccine,” and the mantra “safe and effective,” has been so deadly effective, so hypnotic. Watch your language. Avoid verbal confusion. Speak plainly and honestly. For example, replace “vaccine” with “bioweapon,” or “poison-death shot,” or “the clot shot,” etc. Above all, Americans need to understand and defuse mass media as an instrument of mass destruction.
Time + Fear + Pressure = Enslavement and Submission[34] – Remember the saying, “Man is like a rabbit – he is ‘caught’ by the ears.” Deny the enemy access to your mind by retraining yourself and your family to become more technologically independent. Withdrawing oneself from constant technological stimulation permits a man to reflect, to think, to pray, and to better communicate and help his neighbor.
Never Underestimate the Value of Love – Remember that even Pavlov’s dog broke ranks when his beloved master entered the room.[35]
And finally, don’t worry if you find that the world is against you. If the world were for you, you would have cause for worry.

The End

[1] New Lies for Old is the classic book on Communist deception and disinformation by Soviet defector Anatoliy Golitsyn. Written in 1984, the book is available free as a PDF at www.doomedsoldiers.com/pdfs/new_lies_for_old_golitsyn.pdf.

[2] Dr. Herbert Ratner was Director of the Public Health Department of the Village of Oak Park, Illinois, a bedroom community of 60000 people, when the Salk vaccine arrived on his doorstep in April 1955. The NF vaccine was to be distributed to first and second graders. Ratner decided to delay the vaccinations until May 2, 1955, to benefit from the experience of others. In the interim, Ratner held eleven query sessions from April 25-29 to answer parents’ questions in light of the Francis media circus of April12 which declared the vaccine to be safe, effective, and potent. A hornet’s nest erupted with angry parents upset with the delay and questioning of the vaccine. On April 27, with the first national reporting of the Salk vaccine-induced paralytic case, the vaccinations were again postponed to May 9. On May 5, the Oak Park weekly campaigned to have Ratner fired, but two days later the Surgeon General halted the distribution of the vaccine and Ratner’s job was saved. Ratner’s department was the only public health center in the U.S. that had not distributed the dangerous Salk vaccine.

On May 26, 1960, a panel of experts on various aspects of the polio vaccines came together to discuss “The Present Status of Polio Vaccines, 1960.” The presentation was made before the Section on Preventative Medicine and Public Health at the 120th annual meeting of the Illinois State Medical Society in Chicago. Much of the information found in Ratner’s series is based on the transcription of this panel discussion which featured Dr. Herald R. Cox, Professor Bernard G. Greenberg, Dr. Herman Kleinman, Professor Paul Meier, and Dr. Herbert Ratner. Dr. Herbert Ratner was vindicated. (The Salk Vaccine and Covid-19 -- Lessons never learned, Part V.)

What happened seventy years ago convinced so-called “public health” officials that they could continue to lie with impunity and dismiss all critics as “anti-science” alarmists and “conspiracy theorists.” The methods of intimidation, marginalization, and isolation of those who criticize the agenda of the “gene therapy” treatments have grown more sophisticated because “public health” officials are more arrogantly confident in their ability to use a disease that, though serious and can make even healthy people very sick to the point of death if they do not receive proper medical treatment, which is what is happening in most cases today as patients with the virus are treated with protocols that exacerbate the virus’s symptoms, weakens the patients and causes them to do die, is not in se deadly as a means to inspire fear in the masses to win compliance from them in their schemes to impose a Red Chinese Communist dictatorship upon the country in the name of “public health.”

Even though there is some progress being made to expose the rot and stop the abuses in the so-called “public health community” under the watch of United States Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert Francis Kennedy, Jr., the harm done by the “emergency use” jabs to supposedly protect against and/or mitigate the effects of the Wuhan Virus continues to make itself manifest.

Here are some recent examples:

A former baseball prospect who says he was coerced into receiving the COVID-19 vaccines by the Chicago White Sox in 2021 is suing his former team, alleging the vaccine caused him to develop a career-ending injury.

Isaiah Carranza, a former pitcher for teams in the White Sox’ minor league system, accused the White Sox of discrimination and negligence. He said team officials threatened to blacklist him by keeping him locked into his contract and relegating him to the minor leagues with no opportunity for career advancement if he didn’t get the vaccine.

Those threats compelled him to get the first dose of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine in 2021. The vaccine caused “extreme dizziness, nausea, near-fainting, and wildly fluctuating heart rate,” he said.

Carranza was diagnosed with postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS), a chronic nervous system disorder characterized by a rapidly increasing heart rate upon standing. POTS is a commonly reported adverse event linked to COVID-19 vaccines.

The lawsuit, filed in September 2025 and amended in December 2025, names the White Sox and Major League Baseball (MLB) as defendants.

Attorney John M. Liston, co-counsel for Carranza, told The Defender that the vaccine mandate Carranza was subject to was an “employer-imposed mandate” that “applied to minor league players — not those in the major league.”

This distinction created “two different tiers of employees without any valid justification,” Liston said. Major league players are unionized, but minor league players are not. As a result, minor league players enjoy fewer workplace protections.

The complaint alleges that the defendants violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Carranza claims team officials downplayed his injuries and failed to provide sufficient medical care or accommodations required under the ADA. His injuries forced him to end his baseball career prematurely.

According to Liston, Carranza “continues to struggle to perform regular daily activities.”

The Highwire reported that Carranza’s future medical expenses will surpass $557,000 and that his lost wages range between $3.4 million and $19.9 million. The lawsuit seeks compensatory and punitive damages, legal costs and an injunction forcing the defendants to cease their discriminatory practices under the ADA.

A White Sox team official told The Defender the team cannot comment on active litigation. The MLB did not respond to a request for comment.

White Sox suggested stress, not COVID shots, caused player’s injuries

In a statement last month, the Peter Law Group, one of the legal firms representing Carranza, said the case is “about what happens when powerful institutions impose rigid policies on individuals with little leverage, then refuse to take responsibility when those policies cause real and permanent harm.”

In a statement, attorney Arnold Peter said the lawsuit “addresses the legal and medical consequences of a workplace mandate that left Isaiah Carranza with no meaningful choice.”

These consequences include the onset of POTS. According to the complaint, cardiologist Dr. Peter McCullough, who examined Carranza, “definitely diagnosed Plaintiff with vaccine-induced POTS, supported by abnormal diagnostic results and persistently elevated spike protein levels.”

“The timeline of symptom onset — beginning within days of vaccination — is strongly indicative of causation,” the complaint states.

The complaint rejects the team’s alternative hypothesis, that Carranza’s condition was the result of psychological stress.

“MLB and the White Sox had several opportunities to prevent or address this issue and repeatedly failed to believe Mr. Carranza or address his concerns,” Liston said.

Will lawsuit face obstacles due to PREP Act’s liability shield?

Under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act (PREP Act), anyone injured by a COVID-19 vaccine can’t sue the vaccine manufacturer or the person who administered the vaccine.

However, people injured by vaccines can file a claim with the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP), which was established under the PREP Act.

The Highwire suggested Carranza’s lawsuit could bypass the PREP Act’s liability shield.

“The lawsuit against the Chicago White Sox is an opportunity for a citizen who alleges he was harmed by a pharmaceutical product to obtain compensation outside the PREP Act” The Highwire reported.

Attorney Ray Flores, senior outside counsel for Children’s Health Defense (CHD), who is not connected to this lawsuit, suggested Carranza’s complaint may face obstacles related to the PREP Act.

One of those obstacles is that the PREP Act protects employers who mandated the COVID-19 vaccines.

“Since the complaint doesn’t allege that a CICP application was filed with HRSA [the Health Resources & Services Administration, which administers CICP] and a case alleging willful misconduct wasn’t filed in D.C. District Court, recovery is barred on a variety of levels,” Flores said.

The CICP has been beset with delays and is known for its rejection of most claims filed with the program.

As of Feb. 1, of 14,102 COVID-19-related claims filed with CICP, 6,649 rulings have been made — out of which only 93 claims were found to be eligible for compensation. Only 44 claims were compensated as of that date.

An ongoing lawsuit, filed last year with the support of CHD, alleges that CICP’s high barriers for approval, which leave claimants with no realistic legal remedy for their injuries, violate the Constitution’s due process and equal protection provisions.

An investigation in August 2025 by Flores and The Defender found that over 1.5 million people who reported COVID-19 injuries to the U.S. government’s compensation program were shut out from applying for compensation — because their injuries didn’t meet the threshold for being considered “serious.”

Carranza’s lawsuit comes as the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, which advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on vaccine policies and recommendations, is set to discuss COVID-19 vaccine injuries at its upcoming meeting, scheduled for March 18-19.

A national survey conducted in November 2025 found that 1 in 10 U.S. adults suffered a “major” side effect following COVID-19 vaccination.

There are over 16,450 peer-reviewed papers on PubMed documenting COVID-19 adverse effects, according to an analysis by Ronald N. Kostoff, Ph.D., a researcher at Georgia Institute of Technology.

The studies revealed “eleven major categories of adverse effects, with cardiovascular, neurological, and autoimmune complications receiving the most research attention,” Kostoff wrote in a TrialSite News op-ed about his analysis.

Last month, a poll commissioned by the Health Freedom Defense Fund and the Brownstone Institute and conducted by Zogby Strategies found that 80.4% of respondents agree that adults should have the right to refuse vaccines, while 70.6% agreed that personal medical/vaccine decisions should never lead to employment denial.

Liston said he hopes this case will help ensure that “everyone has their rights respected and [has] safe access to healthcare.” (He Had His Eye on the Major Leagues — Until a COVID Vaccine Injury Tanked His Career.)

The Chicago White Sox, Robert Francis Prevost/Leo XIV’s lifelong favorite baseball team, were as committed to promoting the poisoned jabs as was the late Jorge Mario Bergoglio himself and that the then “Bishop” Prevost was in Argentina, and just as the White Sox can admit of no corporate responsibility for the injuries the jab did to one of their star prospects, so is it the case that Prevost/Leo, who clings to the disproved anti-population, anti-family “climate change” ideology yet at this late date, does not admit that the “emergency use vaccines” were (a) immoral of their nation because most of them used stem cell lines from aborted babies; and (b) have caused and are still causing major side effects in one in ten jabbed American adults”

One in every 10 U.S adults who received the COVID-19 vaccine experienced “major” side effects, and over a third (36%) suffered “minor” side effects, according to a national survey conducted this month.

Based on a U.S. adult population of 258 million in 2020, the results mean that about 17 million adults who got the COVID-19 vaccine experienced major health effects, and roughly 63 million had minor side effects, said Rasmussen Reports, which conducted the survey.

The survey, which included 1,292 adults and had a margin sampling error of +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% confidence level, also revealed that 46% of both vaccinated and unvaccinated adults think it’s likely that COVID-19 vaccines have caused a significant number of unexplained deaths.

The numbers come as no surprise to Christopher Dreisbach, legal affairs director of React19, whose mission is to support the COVID-19 vaccine-injured. He told The Defender:

“Any surprise regarding the frequency and severity of these adverse reactions is simply the result of years of government and platform-level censorship that kept the injured’s experiences out of public view.”

Dreisbach was diagnosed with a debilitating and painful neurological disorder after getting Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine.

Kristi Dobbs, who was also seriously injured when she took her first and only Pfizer COVID-19 shot on Jan. 18, 2021, said the U.S. government has yet to ensure that this kind of massive vaccine injury won’t happen again in the future.

With the exceptions of U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), who have been outspoken on COVID-19 vaccine injuries, most government officials are “hoping we will just be silenced and forgotten about,” Dobbs said.

She said she and others have been “shouting from the rooftops” since February 2021, when a group of them warned the National Institutes of Health that the shots were causing massive harm.

Since then, Dobbs has personally contacted the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Stanford University and the Mayo Clinic.

“My cries have fallen on deaf ears for years,” she said. “The vaccine-injured are still hurting, dying and being discarded as trash.”

Nikki Holland, REACT19’s community outreach officer, who was injured by a COVID-19 vaccine, said, “This is happening to real people in every community, not rare statistics. If we refuse to honestly recognize and investigate these injuries, we undermine the very principles that keep medicine evolving and patients safe.”

As of Aug. 29, 2025, there have been 1,666,646 COVID-19 vaccine injury reports filed in the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), according to OpenVAERS. Of those, over 220,000 were serious enough to warrant hospitalization, and nearly 39,000 were reports of death. Historically, VAERS has been shown to report only 1% of actual vaccine adverse events.

Adding to the underreporting of COVID-19 vaccine injuries, last month, an investigation by The Defender revealed that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, or OSHA — the government agency that oversees workplace safety — directed healthcare employers not to report injuries related to COVID-19 vaccines, which were mandated for the workers.

Less than 0.3% of COVID injury claims compensated

An investigation in August by attorney Ray Flores and The Defender found that over 1.5 million people who reported COVID-19 injuries to the U.S. government’s compensation program were shut out from applying for compensation.

That’s because the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP) — which processes COVID-19 injury claims — won’t accept applications from people who experience the most common, non-severe injuries.

Of those who can submit a claim, the odds are slim that they will be compensated quickly, sufficiently, or at all. As of June 1, CICP had received 13,836 COVID-19 vaccine injury claims and had compensated only 39 — less than 0.3%.

In June, Kennedy said in an interview with Tucker Carlson that he plans to beef up the government’s compensation efforts for the COVID-19 vaccine-injured, possibly by bringing COVID-19 vaccines under the federal vaccine injury compensation program that processes injury claims related to the other vaccines listed on the CDC schedule — not COVID-19 vaccines, which are still classified as a pandemic countermeasure, covered under the CICP.

“We just brought a guy in this week who is going to be revolutionizing the [National] Vaccine Injury Compensation program,” Kennedy told Carlson. “We’re looking at ways to enlarge the program so that COVID vaccine-injured people can be compensated.”

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services didn’t immediately respond when asked what steps Kennedy has taken since then.

Sen. Johnson ‘black-sheeped’ for spotlighting COVID vaccine injury

It may be increasingly difficult to overlook those injured by the COVID-19 vaccine, as there’s evidence their numbers are growing.

Dr. Joseph Varon, president and chief medical officer of the Independent Medical Alliance (IMA), noted in a Substack post about the Rasmussen survey that IMA doctors are now reporting a “marked rise in heart inflammation, unusual cancers, and other concerning conditions” among COVID-19 mRNA vaccine recipients.

The IMA, formerly the FLCCC or Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance, is a nonprofit created to “save lives and promote long-term wellness through science-based, patient-centered care.”

“We are still only beginning to understand how mRNA interacts with the body,” Varon wrote. “This is why the COVID mandate period was so troubling for healthcare.”

Cardiologist Dr. Peter McCullough said he manages a “never-ending stream of patients with new diseases that have developed after COVID-19 vaccination.”

Dobbs said she was grateful that Johnson, who chairs the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, in May held a hearing on the cover-up of COVID-19 vaccine risks. “But Johnson has been black-sheeped over the years, too,” she added.

Nearly five years of fighting to be heard has taken its toll, she said. “We have lost many to suicide and cancers.”

Still, Dobbs said she’s going to keep fighting to make things better for future generations. “We will be seen, heard and believed.” (1 in 10 Adults Seriously Injured by a COVID Vaccine, New Survey Says.)

The case of Kristi Dobbs, mentioned in the article cited just above, is typical of the sort of damage that the “emergency use” jabs developed under President Donald John Trump’s very warped “Operation Warp Speed” six years ago:

Kristi Dobbs, a 40-year-old dental hygienist from Missouri, said she can no longer work after being injured by Pfizer’s COVID vaccine. She has spent the past nine months pleading with U.S. health agencies to research the neurological injuries she and others are experiencing in hopes of finding a treatment.

Since getting the vaccine, Dobbs has seen 16 different medical providers. She’s been on 22 different medications to address more than 20 different symptoms — none of which she had prior to getting the vaccine.

Dobbs said she and others who developed neurological injuries after getting a COVID vaccine shared their experiences with a reporter, in hope of raising awareness about their experiences.

But the story never ran because, according to the reporter, a “higher up” at Pfizer pressured the news agency to drop it.

Dobbs got her first and only dose of Pfizer’s vaccine on Jan. 18. She immediately experienced an adverse reaction on-site at the hospital clinic where her vaccine was administered.

“I had barely sat down in the monitoring area after the inoculation and felt an odd tingling sensation running down my left arm, where I had just received the jab,” Dobbs wrote. “I immediately had a pre-syncope episode, where I thought I was going to pass out, heart palpitations, increased pulse, increased respirations and a blood pressure spike that was within a stroke-worthy reading.”

Dobbs was monitored for an additional 45 minutes. When her blood pressure dropped to a manageable range, she was released.

Dobbs said the people monitoring her brushed off her symptoms as a panic attack or hot flash. But she had never been afraid of vaccines, blood draws or needles. “I gave injections in the mouth as a hygienist, so it was no big deal to me,” Dobbs said.

Three days later, Dobbs woke up in the middle of the night and thought her whole bed was shaking, but her husband said he didn’t feel it. She also noticed shaking and trembling in her left hand, but thought maybe it was due to having coffee.

The next day, Dobbs felt a stabbing pain in her left scapula, and shaking and trembling sensations in both hands. As each day progressed, her symptoms worsened. “By day 10, I was in excruciating pain,” Dobbs said.

On Jan. 28, Dobbs went to a chiropractor in St. Louis to see what was causing the stabbing pain in her scapula and the radiating pain and tremors in both arms. The chiropractor thought she had a rib out, so he adjusted her.

The next morning Dobbs woke up with extreme pain and tremors throughout her entire body.

Dobbs wrote:

“On January 30, I’m in urgent care with stabbing pain in my left scapula regions, full body tremors, paresthesias from head to toe, swollen lymph nodes, tinnitus, dizziness, headache and an odd internal vibrating sensation.

“Urgent care doctor thinks I am having muscle spasms, and thinks I am stressed because of my mother in law [who was battling cancer] and traveling so much, so he [prescribed] Flexeril and Medrol dose pack.”

On Feb. 1, Dobbs visited a local chiropractor to see if she could help with the symptoms. As they were catching up, the chiropractor noticed Dobb’s tremors, body shakes and “super high” blood pressure.

Dobbs wrote:

“At this point I am having problems regulating my BP, and she knows that this is out of character for me. She asks me what I have done differently since I saw her last and I can’t think of anything, except the Pfizer vaccine.

“BINGO … That’s it, she says! She immediately stops and tells me that I need to get in to see my primary care provider.”

On Feb. 2, when Dobbs saw her primary care provider, she had visible tremors and whole body paresthesia. “[My care provider] had no clue if this could be vaccine-related, but didn’t dismiss the fact,” Dobbs said. “It was too new to tell, and she had no knowledge of any reactions.”

The doctor recommended anti-anxiety medication, ran labs, did a physical exam and sent her on her way. Shortly after, Dobbs experienced issues with heavy legs, and trouble walking and getting up stairs to the point she couldn’t feel pin pricks on her legs.

On Feb. 5, Dobbs went to the ER because she said she felt like she was dying.

She said:

“I had full-body paresthesia, internal tremors/vibrations, essential tremors in my hands, tremors in my arms and legs, fatigue, brain fog, muscle pain and weakness, pelvic pain, irregular menstrual cycles that included heavy bleeding and thick clotting, skin rashes, tinnitus, temperature regulation issues, swollen lymph nodes, loss of appetite, weight loss, dizziness/balance issues, blood pressure regulation issues, neck pain, headaches, heart palpitations, convulsions or pseudo seizure at night and insomnia.”

Like many others who have experienced neurological reactions to COVID vaccines, Dobbs had a CT scan and the results were normal. No other tests were performed.

“Doctors did not dismiss that this was vaccine-related, but they had no clue what to do or how to treat it if it was,” Dobbs said. “I was given another anti-anxiety medication, which did nothing for me, and was referred to a neurologist. In the meantime my vibrations, brain fog and other symptoms intensified.”

Dobbs saw a neurologist on Feb. 12, when the nurse practitioner ordered tests, an MRI and blood work. The MRI was normal, and Dobbs was prescribed another medication. Dobbs began searching for answers on her own.

She said:

“I was searching for answers on my own, and I came across an article in Neurology Today with a comment at the bottom of the article from a retired gastroenterologist who had been injured by the vaccine, and she left her email address. That was the day I knew I was not alone in this vaccine injury journey. I had found Dr. Danice Hertz. She was in contact with a few others injured as well.”

Dobbs said she and others started a private social media group to collaborate because their local doctors did not know what to do and “elite doctors” either don’t know what to do or “were unwilling to help us.”

Dobbs said the vaccine injury group grew by 400% in two days and, in under a year, thousands of injured people had found each other. “Soon we all knew we were not alone, yet no one had answers yet,” she said.

“Danice [Hertz] emailed doctors every day for help,” Dobbs said, “and it wasn’t until March 9 she got through to Dr. Avindra Nath at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and I was able to call them and get a telehealth appointment with Dr. Farinaz Safavi.”

Dobbs said Safavi was aware of these neurological vaccine reactions — as the NIH was already seeing patients for injuries like these — and recommended a “whole host of new tests run by my hometown doctor, as well as certain procedures she thought could potentially cure me.”

The NIH requested blood samples, a complete medical release for history and test results that had already been completed. “I sent all of it,” Dobbs said. “We had very good conversations for the next several weeks, and then by early May … nothing. Still to date I have heard nothing from them.”

Dobbs said, “Supposedly she [Dr. Safavi] called the neurologist, but the neurologist said she never called her for recommendations. The immunology allergist never received a call either.”

When Dobbs reached out to Safavi again in May, her tune changed. “It’s like they went from ‘we know it’s the vaccine’ to ‘we’re trying to figure it out.’”

Dobbs explained:

“It’s like as soon as they got what they needed, we were just cut off. Even some of the ladies that went to the NIH for treatment — once they were done with treatment with these same doctors — they were essentially cut off when they weren’t getting better.

“Their exact verbiage to us was ‘you need early and swift intervention after a vaccine reaction.’ But here we are months after an adverse reaction and our hometown doctors have no clue what to do.”

Safavi, in an email to Dobbs on May 24, said she believed Dobbs was experiencing an immune-mediated inflammatory response or some other immune-mediated small fiber neuropathy.

Dobbs said, “Supposedly she [Dr. Safavi] called the neurologist, but the neurologist said she never called her for recommendations. The immunology allergist never received a call either.”

When Dobbs reached out to Safavi again in May, her tune changed. “It’s like they went from ‘we know it’s the vaccine’ to ‘we’re trying to figure it out.’”

Dobbs explained:

Safavi, in an email to Dobbs on May 24, said she believed Dobbs was experiencing an immune-mediated inflammatory response or some other immune-mediated small fiber neuropathy.

Dobbs wants government acknowledgment and accountability for vaccine injuries

Dobbs still has many of her symptoms, is not well enough to return to work and has a difficult time caring for her family.

“I was never a conspiracy theorist or anti-medicine, but it should not be this hard to get the truth out in 2021,” Dobbs said. “I am not saying the vaccine needs to be stopped, but it’s not as safe or effective as they’re portraying it is.”

Dobbs said she would do anything to make sure others are protected from the same “personal hell” she’s gone through the past nine months, or to save children like Maddie de Garay — a 12-year-old who was paralyzed by Pfizer’s vaccine during the clinical trial.

Dobbs was told specifically not to vaccinate any of her children, which puts her in a tough spot with vaccine mandates. “I believe it would kill me if I got another COVID vaccination and I would never put my children through this … ever,” she said.

However, this also means they’re in the category of people who are discriminated against because they cannot get vaccinated.

Dobbs said:

“The moral of the story is that we’ve been injured by the vaccine, we’ve been searching for months for answers and we are unable to get help. We have reached out to the best doctors in the world and they cannot help us.

“So if you can’t get help from the top doctors in the U.S., how can our hometown doctors help us? We never wanted to start this, we only wanted help, and after not getting help you start to get a little angry. When your body fails, you want to know why.

“We have some researchers willing to help us but they are hindered by a lack of information they need to conduct their research, and there are no adverse reaction clinics where we can go to get treated.”

Dobbs said these reactions need to be investigated and observed. “Then they need to be researched and education needs to be presented. Action needs to be taken for the correct measures to be issued to protect and compensate those of us who have been affected by the COVID vaccines under clinical trials, and under Emergency Use Authorization. Treatment protocols must be implemented in our medical community to give early and proper treatment to those affected,” she added.

Dobbs said she doesn’t want to create vaccine hesitancy, she wants accountability from governing agencies, big pharma and institutes that regulate and roll out vaccines. “The fear-mongering, cancel-culture and misinformation days of those truly injured must stop,” she said.

“I have nothing to gain by giving my testimony of truth to my vaccine injury from the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine,” Dobbs wrote in an email to The Defender. “I was just a small-town country girl raising my family, and enjoying my life as a family caretaker, mother and wife. But I was completely uprooted from my beautiful, normal, happy life. But, my voice matters! My story matters!” (Exclusive: Woman Injured by COVID Vaccine Pleads With Health Agencies for Help, as Local News Agency Kills Story After Pressure From Pfizer.)

Yes, thousands upon thousands of people worldwide have been injured or killed by the “vaccines” by “Big Pharma” at the behest of and in conjunction with the government of the United States of America, under whose authority United States Attorney General Pamela “Insult Artist” Bondi is working to prevent states from impeding Donald John Trump's Genocide:

The Trump administration is asking another court to dismiss another state’s challenge to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) relaxation of abortion pill rules, this time in Missouri.

Missouri, Kansas, and Idaho are among the states suing the federal government over its Biden-era removal of the requirement that abortion drugs be dispensed in-person. The change, which opened the pills to being prescribed over the internet and distributed by mail, drastically expanded their usage, encroached on state law, and put women at risk, according to the lawsuits.

Last Friday, the Trump Department of Justice filed a motion seeking either a stay or dismissal of Missouri et al v. FDA. The filing argues that the “FDA has concluded that the best path forward is for the agency to undertake its review based on all the evidence before the agency,” and the states’ challenge “threaten[s] to short-circuit the agency’s orderly review […] Moreover, awarding relief to these Plaintiffs could easily prompt other plaintiffs to seek a conflicting injunction that would sow administrative and judicial chaos.”

“To prevent that disruption, the Court should exercise its inherent authority to stay this litigation pending the outcome of FDA’s review,” the Justice Department argues. “FDA’s review will necessarily result in a new agency decision that could supersede the agency actions that Intervenor Plaintiffs challenge, obviating any need to consider the merits of Intervenor Plaintiffs’ arguments. Any party adversely affected by the new agency decision on mifepristone may seek judicial review at that time. And in the event FDA determines a REMS modification is needed, adherence to FDA’s normal process will create far less disruption than the judicially imposed changes sought by Intervenor Plaintiffs.”

The motion also claims the states lack standing and “suffer no sovereign injury because they remain free to make and enforce their pro-life policies.” The administration’s arguments are largely the same as those made in January, when it filed a motion seeking the same outcome in Louisiana’s lawsuit.

“Once again, the Trump-Vance Justice Department is taking the side of abortion drug dealers and the radical Left against women and children, public health and safety, and the overwhelmingly pro-life GOP base,” responded SBA Pro-Life America President Marjorie Dannenfelser. “Burying this shameful move in a Friday evening news dump underscores how indefensible it is. On top of this, in a federal court hearing less than two weeks ago, the administration admitted it has NO details on the timeline for Commissioner Makary’s promised safety study of mifepristone – if indeed it has really begun.”

Many pro-lifers are losing patience waiting for the FDA’s review, which was promised last May but has received no conclusions or significant follow-up since.

Last month, a group of senators held a private meeting with FDA Commissioner Marty Makary, after which Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) went so far as to declare, “I just don’t think that that review is even underway.” The FDA claims it is merely taking the time to process and review all the data carefully.

Mail-order abortion pills have become arguably the abortion lobby’s most important tool for perpetuating abortion-on-demand and undermining pro-life laws, as it makes chemical abortions even in pro-life states extremely difficult to prevent.

Planned Parenthood Federation of America’s most recent annual report revealed that, almost two years (as of April 2024) after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and allowed direct abortion bans to be enforced for the first time in half a century, the nation’s largest abortion chain still operated almost 600 facilities nationwide, through which it committed 392,715 in the most recent reporting period. According to the Lozier Institute’s Prof. Michael New, that is a “record number of abortions for the organization and represents approximately 40 percent of the abortions performed in the United States.” (Trump DOJ asks court to dismiss other states' lawsuit against FDA abortion pill rules.)

Once again, of course, your “pro-life” president and his administration are hard at work to assure that innocent human beings may be killed in their mothers’ wombs by means of the abortion pill without individual states getting in the way of this genocide participation. So much for Federalism. So much for states’ rights. So much for the lie of being “pro-life, Pamela Bondi, when you are making possible the deaths of thousands of preborn children.

Bondi shouted, “Shame on you!” at one point during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on the Jeffrey Epstein files, about which I choose not to cover as the material is so salaciously sick and depraved that I do not believe is fit inclusion in a Catholic publication, but the shame is on Pamela Bondi for enabling in the American genocide of the innocent preborn.

This genocide continues unabated in the “blue states,” including Oregon, where state legislators who belong to the organized crime family of the naturalist “left” blocked legislation to protect babies who survive surgically efforts to kill them in the sanctuaries of their mothers’ wombs:

SALEM, Oregon (LifeSiteNews) — For the second time in less than a month, Oregon Democrats have blocked consideration of a bill that would have guaranteed basic medical care to infants delivered alive after botched abortions.

“Pro-abortion lawmakers in the Oregon Senate voted against bringing a bill to the Senate floor Thursday that would require Oregon medical professionals to provide the same standards of care to babies born alive during failed abortions as newborns delivered under usual circumstances,” noted Oregon Right to Life’s Communication Director Ashley Sadler.

All 18 Senate Democrats voted against SB 1554, the “Born Alive Infants Protection Act,” while all 12 Republicans voted in favor.

“Just as their counterparts in the Oregon House did last month, pro-abortion Senators stood with the extreme abortion lobby and rejected a common-sense piece of legislation to simply ensure that babies who survive abortion attempts are treated with the same standard of care as any other newborn,” said Oregon Right to Life Executive Director Lois Anderson. “Defining required standards of care for abortion survivors should be a common ground position for all reasonable people.”

“This is not a radical proposal. No matter their stance on abortion, 80% of Oregonians support these basic safeguards,” Anderson continued. “It is well past time to enshrine basic protections for abortion survivors here in Oregon, and it’s a shame that pro-abortion lawmakers have once again failed to do so when given the opportunity.”

In late February, Democrat members of the Oregon House voted against a similar bill, HB 4087, which would have required that “When a child is born alive and requires lifesaving treatment to survive, regardless of whether the child’s birth occurred by natural or induced labor, cesarean section or induced abortion, any health care practitioner who is present at the time the child is born alive shall” provide the “same degree of professional skill, care and diligence to preserve the life and health of the child that a reasonably diligent and conscientious health care practitioner would render to any other child born alive at the same gestational age,” including transportation to a hospital if born elsewhere.

The abortion lobby has long attempted to paint infanticide as an imaginary problem, but the facts show it is very real. “Although the United States fails to record reliable data on abortion survivors, we have estimated, through Canadian government extrapolations, that 1,734 infants are born alive after a failed abortion procedure every year in the United States,” the Abortion Network says. “In other words, about two out of every 1,000 abortions result in a live birth. After 49.5 years of Roe v Wade, 85,817 babies lived through an abortion procedure.”

As of September 2024, only 18 states have laws requiring medical care for infants delivered alive after attempted abortions, according to FRC, leaving abortionists free to commit infanticide in a majority of the country.

The state of Oregon boasts that abortion is legal up to birth within its borders, with minors as young as 15 not even needing parental consent. Last year, state Democrats launched a “working group” with Planned Parenthood to protect abortion “access” from potential federal encroachment and allocated $7.5 million to Planned Parenthood to make up the difference of Medicaid reimbursements the abortion giant lost from the federal government. (Oregon Democrats block bill requiring medical care for babies born alive after abortions.)

I suppose this is what Donald John Trump would call an example of the "The Mutable Will of the People" in action.

It was a little before surgical baby-killing became decriminalized in California and Hawaii in 1967 that the Federal government began funding experiments to weaponize ticks by developing Lyme disease and then infecting the ticks before letting them loose to infect ordinary American citizens.

Although Dr. Robert Malone, the inventor of the mRNA vaccine technology who later came to oppose the Wuhan Virus jabs, recently published his expose on the subject (see Declassified Documents Link U.S. Bioweapons Program to Lyme Disease Outbreak), I had published similar information five years ago in Modernity's Religion of the Brave New World Has No Room for Dissenters.

Consider, for example, the case of the following documentation showing how Lyme disease was engineered on Plum Island, New York, in a project sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation and the United States Department of Agriculture that was conducted, at least in part, with the help of a former Nazi scientist, Eric Straub, in the 1950s. What follows is a detailed summary of audio presentations discussing the immoral work that was done on Plum Island, New York:

In the mid-1970’s Lyme Disease broke out in Connecticut and it has since spread through much of the United States. This program examines the possibility that Lyme Disease may have spread as a result of clandestine experimentation on biological warfare on Plum Island—a Department of Agriculture facility that doubled as an Army BW research facility. Dedicated to the study of animal diseases, Plum Island appears to have been the site of experiments with disease-infected ticks conducted by Nazi scientists brought into the United States under Project Paperclip. One of the Nazi scientists who appears to have been involved with Plum Island was Dr. Erich Traub, who was in charge of the Third Reich’s virological and bacteriological warfare program in World War II. Was Traub involved with experiments that led to the spread of Lyme Disease?

Program Highlights Include: Examination of Traub’s studies in the US prior to World War II; Traub’s pro-Nazi activities inside the US before the war; John Loftus’ discovery of references in the National Archives to Nazi scientists experimenting with diseased ticks on Plum Island; Lyme Disease activist Steven Nostrum’s discovery of Loftus’ findings and his work investigating Plum Island; Details of Traub’s involvement with Plum Island; files about Tick Research and Erich Traub that have been purged; Scientific American’s dismissal of the Plum Island/Traub/Paperclip/Lyme Disease link; the Nazi heritage of the Von Holtzbrinck firm—which owns Scientific American; Plum Island experimentation with the disease-carrying “Lone Star Tick”; the fact that the Lone Star Tick—native to Texas—has somehow spread to New York, New Jersey and Connecticut!

1. In order to understand how Erich Traub came to the United States, it is important to understand Project PAPERCLIP. The program begins with a synoptic account of that project and how its prosecution led to Traub’s entry to the United States and his involvement with Plum Island: “Nearing the end of World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union raced to recruit German scientists for postwar purposes. Under a top-secret program code-named Project PAPERCLIP, the U.S. military pursued Nazi scientific talent ‘like forbidden fruit,’ bringing them to America under employment contracts and offering them full U.S. citizenship. The recruits were supposed to be nominal participants in Nazi activities. But the zealous military recruited more than two thousand scientists, many of whom had dark Nazi party pasts.”
(Lab 257: the Disturbing Story of the Government’s Secret Plum Island Germ Laboratory; by Michael Christopher Carroll; Copyright 2004 by Michael Christopher Carroll; HarperCollins [HC]; p. 7.)

2. “American scientists viewed these Germans as peers, and quickly forgot they were on opposite sides of a ghastly global war in which millions perished. Fearing brutal retaliation from the Soviets for the Nazis’ vicious treatment of them, some scientists cooperated with the Americans to earn amnesty. Others played the two nations off each other to get the best financial deal in exchange for their services. Dr. Erich Traub was troubling on the Soviet side of the Iron Curtain after the war, and ordered to research germ warfare viruses for the Russians. He pulled off a daring escape with his family to West Berlin in 1949. Applying for Project Paperclip employment, Traub affirmed he wanted to ‘do scientific work in the U.S.A., become an American citizen, and be protected from Russian reprisals.’” (Idem.)

3. The program sets forth Traub’s work for the Third Reich: “As lab chief of Insel Riems—a secret Nazi biological warfare laboratory on a crescent-shaped island nestled in the Baltic Sea—Traub worked directly for Adolf Hitler’s second-in-charge, SS Reichsfuehrer Heinrich Himmler, on live germ trials. . . .” (Ibid.; pp. 7–8.)

4. Traub had studied in the United States before the war (at the Rockefeller Institute) and had been involved in Nazi activities inside the U.S. prior to 1939 (the outbreak of World War II). “ . . . Traub also listed his 1930’s membership in Amerika-Deutscher Volksbund, a German-American ‘club’ also known as Camp Sigfriend. Just thirty miles west of Plum Island in Yaphank, Long Island, Camp Sigfried was the national headquarters of the American Nazi movement. . . .Ironically, Traub spent the prewar period of his scientific career on a fellowship at the Rockefeller Institute in Princeton, New Jersey, perfecting his skills in viruses and bacteria under the tutelage of American experts before returning to Nazi Germany on the eve of war. Despite Traub’s troubling war record, the U.S. Navy recruited him for its scientific designs, and stationed him at the Naval Medical Research Institute in Bethesda, Maryland.” (Ibid.; p. 8.)

5. Nominally under the jurisdiction of the USDA (Department of Agriculture), Plum Island was also used for military biological warfare research on animal diseases. In that regard, it was involved with Fort Dietrick, the Army’s top chemical and biological warfare facility. Note that Traub was at the foundation of the Plum Island/biological warfare nexus. “Just months into his PAPERCLIP contract, the germ warriors of Fort Detrick, the Army’s biological warfare headquarters, in Frederick, Maryland, and CIA operatives invited Traub in for a talk, later reported in a declassified top-secret summary: Dr. Traub is a noted authority on viruses and diseases in Germany and Europe. This interrogation revealed much information of value to the animal disease program from a Biological Warfare point of view. Dr. Traub discussed work done at a German animal disease station during World War II and subsequent to the war when the station was under Russian control.’ Traub’s detailed explanation of the secret operation on Insel Riems, and his activities there during the war and for the Soviets, laid the ground work for Fort Detrick’s offshore germ warfare animal diseased lab on Plum Island. Traub was a founding father. . . .” (Ibid.; pp. 8–9.)

6. It is interesting to note that the Third Reich’s biological warfare program had the cover name of “Cancer Research Program.” (In RFA#16—available from Spitfire—as well as FTR#’s 16, 73, we look at the National Cancer Institute’s Special Viral Cancer Research Program and the evidence suggesting that the project was actually a front for the continuation of biological warfare research. Erich Traub appears to have been involved with the projects related to the SVCRP.) “ . . . Everybody seemed willing to forget about Erich Traub’s dirty past—that he played a crucial role in the Nazis’ ‘Cancer Research Program,’ the cover name for their biological warfare program, and that he worked directly under SS Reichsfuhrer Heinrich Himmler. They seemed willing to overlook that Traub in the 1930’s faithfully attended Camp Sigfried. In fact, the USDA liked him so much, it glossed over his dubious past and offered him the top scientist job at the new Plum Island Laboratory—not once, but twice. Just months after the 1952 public hearings on selecting Plum Island, Doc Shahan dialed Dr. Traub at the naval laboratory to discuss plans for establishing the germ laboratory and a position on Plum Island.” (Ibid.; p. 10.)

7. More about how Traub came to be in a significant position at Plum Island. “Six years later—and only two years after Traub squirmed in his seat at the Plum Island dedication ceremonies—senior scientist Dr. Jacob Traum retired. The USDA needed someone of ‘outstanding caliber, with a long established reputation, internationally as well as nationally,’ to fill Dr. Traum’s shoes. But somehow it couldn’t find a suitable American. ‘As a last resort it is now proposed that a foreigner be employed.’ The aggies’ choice? Erich Traub, who was in their view ‘the most desirable candidate from any source.’ The 1958 secret USDA memorandum ‘Justification for Employment of Dr. Erich Traub’ conveniently omitted his World War II activities; but it did emphasize that ‘his originality, scientific abilities, and general competence as an investigator’ were developed at the Rockefeller Institute in New Jersey in the 1930’s.” (Idem.)

8. The push to employ Traub as the director of Plum Island involved professional recommendations that omitted his work for the Third Reich: “The letters supporting Traub to lead Plum Island came in from fellow Plum Island founders. ‘I hope that every effort will be made to get him. He has had long and productive experience in both prewar and postwar Germany,’ said Dr. William Hagan, dean of the Cornell University veterinary school, carefully dispensing with his wartime activities. The final word came from his dear American friend and old Rockefeller Institute boss Dr. Richard Shope, who described Traub as ‘careful, skill, productive and very original’ and ‘one of this world’s most outstanding virologists.’ Shope’s sole reference to Traub at war: ‘During the war he was in Germany serving in the German Army.’” (Idem.)

9. Traub declined the offer to lead the lab. There is considerable evidence that he was involved with biological warfare research at Plum Island. “Declining the USDA’s offer, Traub continued his directorship of the Tubingen laboratory in West Germany, though he visited Plum Island frequently. In 1960, he was forced to resign as Tubingen’s director under a dark cloud of financial embezzlement. Traub continued sporadic lab research for another three years, and then left Tubingen for good–a scandalous end to a checkered career. In the late 1970’s, the esteemed virologist Dr. Robert Shope, on business in Munich, paid his father Richard’s old Rockefeller Institute disciple a visit. The germ warrior had been in early retirement for about a decade by then. ‘I had dinner with Traub one day—out of old time’s sake—and he was a pretty defeated man by then.’ On May 18, 1985, the Nazis’ virus warrior Dr. Erich Traub died unexpectedly in his sleep in West Germany. He was seventy-eight years old.” (Ibid.; pp. 10–11.)

10. “A biological warfare mercenary who worked under three flags—Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, and the United States—Traub was never investigated for war crimes. He escaped any inquiry into his wartime past. The full extent of his sordid endeavors went with him to his grave. While America brought a handful of Nazi war criminals to justice, it safeguarded many others in exchange for verses to the new state religion—modern science and espionage. Records detailing a fraction of Eric Traub’s activities are now available to the public, but most are withheld by Army intelligence and the CIA on grounds of national security. But there’s enough of a glimpse to draw quite a sketch.” (Ibid.; p. 11.)

11. An important chapter in the story of how the inquiry into the possible link between Plum Island, Erich Traub’s work on behalf of the US and the spread of Lyme Disease concerns the work of former Justice Department prosecutor John Loftus. In his book The Belarus Secret, Loftus referred to work done on Plum Island in the early 1950’s in which Nazi scientists were experimenting on diseased ticks. Might that have referred to Traub?! “ . . . Attorney John Loftus was hired in 1979 by the Office of Special Investigations, a unit set up by the Justice Department to expose Nazi war crimes and unearth Nazis hiding in the United States. Given top-secret clearance to review files that had been sealed for thirty-five years, Loftus found a treasure trove of information on America’s postwar Nazi recruiting. In 1982, publicly challenging the government’s complacency with the wrongdoing, he told 60 Minutes that top Nazi officers had been protected and harbored in America by the CIA and the State Department. ‘They got the Emmy Award,’ Loftus wrote. ‘My family got the death threats.’” (Ibid.; p. 13.)

12. “Old spies reached out to him after the publication of his book, The Belarus Secret, encouraged that he—unlike other authors—submitted his manuscript to the government, agreeing to censor portions to protect national security. The spooks gave him copies of secret documents and told him stories of clandestine operations. From these leads, Loftus ferreted out the dubious Nazi past of Austrian president and U.N. secretary general Kurt Waldheim. Loftus revealed that during World War II, Waldheim had been an officer in a German Army unit that committed atrocities in Yugoslavia. A disgraced Kurt Waldheim faded from the international scene soon thereafter.” (Idem.)

13. “In the preface of The Belarus Secret, Loftus laid out a striking piece of information gleaned from his spy network: ‘Even more disturbing are the records of the Nazi germ warfare scientists who came to America. They experimented with poison ticks dropped from planes to spread rare diseases. I have received some information suggesting that the U.S. tested some of these poison ticks on the Plum Island artillery range off the coast of Connecticut during the early 1950’s. . . .Most of the germ warfare records have been shredded, but there is a top secret U.S. document confirming that ‘clandestine attacks on crops and animals’ took place at this time.” (Idem.)

14. More pieces of evidence on the tantalizing trail of evidence pointing to a possible Plum Island/Traub/Lyme disease link: “Erich Traub had been working for the American biological warfare program from his 1949 Soviet escape until 1953. We know he consulted with Fort Dietrick scientists and CIA operatives; that he worked for the USDA for a brief stint; and that he spoke regularly with Plum Island director Doc Shahan in 1952. Traub can be physically placed on Plum Island at least three times—on dedication day in 1956 and two visits, once in 1957 and again in the spring of 1958. Shahan, who enforced an ultrastrict policy against outside visitors, each time received special clearance from the State Department to allow Traub on Plum Island soil.” (Ibid.; p. 14.)

15. If in fact Traub was involved with research on Plum Island, this development would have been consistent with programs being conducted at that time involving experimentation on unwitting American citizens with biological and chemical warfare research agents: “Research unearthed three USDA files from the vault of the National Archives—two were labeled TICK RESEARCH and a third E.TRAUB. All three folders were empty. The caked-on dust confirms the file boxes hadn’t been open since the moment before they were taped shut in the 1950’s. Preposterous as it sounds, clandestine outdoor germ warfare trials were almost routine during this period. In 1952, the Joint Chiefs of Staff called for a ‘vigorous, well-planned, large-scale [biological warfare] test to the secretary of defense later that year stated, ‘Steps should be take to make certain of adequate facilities are available, including those at Fort Detrick, Dugway Proving Ground, Fort Terry (Plum Island) and an island field testing area.’ Was Plum Island the island field testing area? Indeed, when the Army first scouted Plum Island for its Cold War designs, they charted wind speeds and direction and found that, much to their liking, the prevailing winds blew out to sea.” (Idem.)

16. “One of the participating ‘interested agencies’ was the USDA, which admittedly set up large plots of land throughout the Midwest for airborne anticrop germ spray tests. Fort Detrick’s Special Operations Division ran ‘vulnerability tests’ in which operatives walked around Washington, D.C., and San Francisco with suitcases holding Serratia marcescens—a bacteria recommended to Fort Detrick by Traub’s nominal supervisor, Nazi germ czar and Nuremberg defendant Dr. Kurt Blome. Tiny perforations allowed the germs’ release so they could trace the flow of the germs through airports and bus terminals. Shortly thereafter, eleven elderly men and women checked into hospitals with never-before-seen Serratia marcescens infections. One patient died. Decades later when the germ tests were disclosed, the Army denied responsibility. . . . In the summer of 1966, Special Operations men walked into three New York City subway stations and tossed lightbulbs filled Bacillus subtilis, a benign bacteria, onto the tracks. The subway trains pushed the germs through the entire system and theoretically killed over a million passengers.” (Idem.)

17. “Tests were also run with live, virulent, anti-animal germ agents. Two hog-cholera bombs were exploded at an altitude of 1,500 feet over pigpens set up at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida. And turkey feathers laced with Newcastle disease virus were dropped on animals grazing on a University of Wisconsin farm.” (Ibid.; p. 15.)

18. “The Army never fully withdrew its germ warfare efforts against food animals. Two years after the Army gave Plum Island to the USDA—and three years after it told President Eisenhower it had ended all biological warfare against food animals—the Joint Chiefs advised that ‘research on anti-animal agent-munition combinations should’ continue, as well as ‘field testing of anti-food agent munition combinations. . . .’ In November 1957, military intelligence examined the elimination of the food supply of the Sino-Soviet Bloc, right down to the calories required for victory: ‘In order to have a crippling effect on the economy of the USSR, the food and animal crop resources of the USSR would have to be damaged within a single growing season to the extent necessary to reduce the present average daily caloric intake from 2,800 calories to 1,400 calories; i.e., the starvation level. Reduction of food resources to this level, if maintained for twelve months, would produce 20 percent fatalities, and would decrease manual labor performance by 95 percent and clerical and light labor performance by 80 percent.’ At least six outdoor stockyard tests occurred in 1964–65. Simulants were sprayed into stockyards in Fort Worth, Kansas City, St. Paul, Sioux Falls, and Omaha in tests determining how much foot-and-mouth disease virus would be required to destroy the food supply.” (Idem.)

19. “Had the Army commandeered Plum Island for an outdoor trial? Maybe the USDA lent a hand with the trial, as it had done out west by furnishing the large test fields. After all, the Plum Island agreement between the Army and the USDA allowed the Army to borrow the island from the USDA when necessary and in the national interest.” (Idem.)

20. A former employee at Plum Island in the 1950’s has personal recollection of a “Nazi scientist” releasing ticks outdoors on Plum Island. “Traub might have monitored the tests. A source who worked on Plum Island in the 1950’s recalls that animal handlers and a scientist released ticks outdoors on the island. ‘They called him the Nazi scientist, when they came in, in 1951—they were inoculating these ticks,’ and a picture he once saw ‘shows the animal handler pointing to the area on Plum where they released the ticks.’ Dr. Traub’s World War II handiwork consisted of aerial virus sprays developed on Insel Riems and tested over occupied Russia, and of field work for Heinrich Himmler in Turkey. Indeed, his colleagues conducted bug trials by dropping live beetles from planes. An outdoor tick trial would have been de rigueur for Erich Traub.” (Ibid.; pp. 15–16.)

21. Next, the program sets forth the case of Steve Nostrum—an early Lyme Disease victim whose reading of Loftus’ book spurred him to begin inquiring about the Plum Island/Traub connection. “Somebody gave Steve Nostrum a copy of John Loftus’s The Belarus Secret at one of his support group meetings. Steve had long suspected that Plum Island played a role in the evolution of Lyme disease, given the nature of its business and its proximity to Old Lyme, Connecticut. But he never publicly voiced the hunch, fearing a loss of credibility; hard facts and statistics earned him a reputation as a leader in the Lyme disease field. Now in his hands, he had a book written by a Justice Department attorney who not only had appeared on 60 Minutes but also had brought down the secretary general of the United Nations. Nostrum disclosed the possible Plum-Lyme connection on his own television show. He invited local news reporter and Plum Island ombudsman Karl Grossman to help him explore the possibilities in light of the island’s biological mishaps. Asked why he wrote about Loftus’s book in his weekly newspaper column, Grossman says, ‘To let the theory rise or fall. To let the public consider it. And it seemed to me that the author was a Nazi hunter and a reputable attorney—this was not trivial information provided [and it was provided] by some reliable person.’” (Idem.)

22. “In October 1995, Nostrum, fresh off nursing duty (having earned an RN degree to help Lyme disease patients), rushed to a rare public meeting held by the USDA. In a white nurse’s coat, stethoscope still around his neck, Nostrum rose. Trembling, his blond beard now streaked with gray, he clutched his copy of The Belarus Secret as he read the damning passage out loud for the USDA and the public to hear. ‘I don’t know whether this is true,’ he said, looking at the dais. ‘If it is true, there must be an investigation—if it’s not true, then John Loftus needs to be prosecuted.’ People in the audience clapped, and some were astonished. A few gawked, thinking he was nuts. How did the official USDA officials react? ‘If stares could kill, I would have been dead,’ remembers Nostrum.” (Idem.)

23. “Hiding behind the same aloof veil of secrecy they had employed for decades, the USDA brazenly cut him off. ‘There are those who think that little green men are hiding out there,’ the officials responded to Nostrum. ‘But trust us when we say there are no space aliens and no five-legged cows.’ A few laughs erupted in the crowd. ‘It did nothing but detract from what I was saying,’ says Nostrum. ‘But I said it, and I had the documentation to support it.’” (Idem.)

24. The author speculates about the deer and birds that visited Plum Island, and the possibility that some of the infected ticks may well have traveled to the mainland from the island on those vectors. (Carroll explains that white-tailed deer regularly swim the two miles to the island to forage and migrating birds stop on Plum Island on their way North and South during their annual migrations.) “ . . . If Dr. Traub continued his outdoor germ experiments with the Army and experimented with ticks outdoors, the ticks would have made contact with mice, deer, and more than 140 species of wild birds known to frequent and nest on Plum Island. The birds spread their toxic cargo to resting and nesting perches atop the great elms and oaks of Old Lyme and elsewhere, just like they spread the West Nile virus throughout the United States.” (Ibid.; p. 21.)

25. After noting that allegations of the discovery of Bb (the bacterium that causes Lyme Disease) in the late 1940’s coincides with Traub’s arrival on the island, the broadcast sets forth the denials by a USDA spokesperson that there was any BW/Traub/Plum Island link to the spread of the Lyme infection. Note that Scientific American dismissed the possibility of a “Nazi scientist” link to Plum Island. In FTR#240—part of the long FTR series about “German Corporate Control over American Media”–it was noted that the Von Holtzbrinck firm controls that magazine. Like its larger competitor Bertelsmann, the Von Holtzbrinck firm is rooted firmly in the Third Reich. In FTR#226, we examined the Nazi heritage of Von Holtzbrinck and the possibility that they may employed the notorious SS officer and Goebbels protégé Werner Naumann. The possibility that the Von Holtzbrinck/Scientific American link may have had something to do with the magazine’s casual dismissal of the Traub/Plum/Lyme link is not one to be too readily dismissed. “Researchers trying to prove that Lyme disease existed before 1975 claim to have isolated Bb [the bacterium that causes the infection] in ticks collected on nearby Shelter Island and Long Island in the late 1940’s. That timing coincides with both Erich Traub’s arrival in the United States on Project PAPERCLIP and the Army’s selection of Plum Island as its offshore biological warfare laboratory. The USDA’s spokesperson, Sandy Miller Hays, is unconvinced about the possibility of a link between Lyme disease and Plum Island: . . . A PR expert, Hays had Scientific American eating out of her hand in June 2000, when they reported her as saying, ‘ ‘We still get asked about the Nazi scientists,’ . . . [with] the slightest trace of weariness creeping into her voice.’ In their feature story on Plum Island, the prestigious magazine dubbed the intrigue surrounding the island as a ‘fanciful fictional tapestry.’” (Ibid.; pp. 21–22.)

26. The program concludes with examination of Plum Island’s work with the “Lone Star Tick”—native to Texas. The focal point of experimentation on Plum Island in the 1970’s, the Lone Star tick—like Lyme Disease–is now spread throughout New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. How did that happen? “ . . . The lab chief [Dr. Charles Mebus] failed to mention that Plum Island also worked on ‘hard ticks,’ a crucial distinction. A long overlooked document, obtained from the files of an investigation by the office of former Long Island Congressman Thomas Downey, sheds new light on the second, more damning connection to Lyme disease. A USDA 1978 internal research document titled ‘African Swine Fever’ notes that in 1975 and 1976, contemporaneous with the strange outbreak in Old Lyme, Connecticut, ‘the adult and nymphal stages of Abylomma americanum and Abylomma cajunense were found to be incapable of harboring and transmitting African swine fever virus.’ In laymen’s terms, Plum Island was experimenting with the Lone Star tick and the Cayenne tick—feeding them on viruses and testing them on pigs—during the ground zero year of Lyme disease. They did not transmit African swine fever to pigs, said the document, but they might have transmitted Bb to researchers or to the island’s vectors. The Lone Star tick, named after the white star on the back of the female, is a hard tick; along with its cousin, the deer tick, it is a culprit in the spread of Lyme disease. Interestingly, at that time, the Lone Star tick’s habitat was confined to Texas. Today, however, it is endemic throughout New York, Connecticut, and New Jersey. And no one can really explain how it migrated all the way from Texas. . . .” (Ibid.; pp. 24–25.) (Plum Island the the Erich Traub File.)

We are only witnessing the more technologically advanced version of what was done fifty-six years ago, which itself was a more advanced effort of eugenics that had been tried by the American and British scientists at the turn of the Twentieth Century and by German eugenicists during the Weimar Republic (1919-1933) and the Third Reich of Adolph Hitler. Such diabolical social experiments that have metamorphosized into the Gnostic and Chardinian goal of transhumanism, and this is all the sort of chastisements that are to be found in Saint John the Evangelist’s Book of the Apocalypse.

As Catholics, of course, we understand that everything occurs within the Providence of God, who means to bring good of the evil actions of men by emboldening believing Catholics into praying for the restoration of right order in the world and of a true and legitimate Successor of Saint Peter so that the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary will be made manifest by the vanquishing of all those responsible for promoting the grave evils that have been promoted during our lifetimes.

The mad scientists, bureaucrats, financiers, and others in and out of the government are, despite their native intelligence, as stupid as the Jews of Our Lord’s time in not recognizing that the Divine Messias and His omnipotence was being set before their very eyes.

Moreover, these madmen who are drunk with their own supposed “power” and “intelligence” have worked hard to supplant the authority of parents over their own children as well as the duties grown children owe to their parents by means of their utilitarian schemes to replace the family with the false freedoms that come from a generalized licentiousness that convince fallen man he is beholden to no one except to them, the high priests and priestesses of popular culture.

A sermon from Saint Jerome found in the readings for Matins in today’s Divine Office explains how we are to view the world through the eyes of the true Faith, starting in the domestic cell of the Church that is the family:

The stupidity of the Pharisees and Scribes is something extraordinary. They rebuke the Son of God because He doth not observe the traditions and commandments of men for they wash not their hands when they eat bread. It behoveth us to cleanse, not the hands of the body, but the hands of the soul, namely, our works, that we may do the commandments of God. But He answered and said unto them Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition? He meeteth here their false accusation by a true. “How,” saith He, “do ye, who pass over the commandments of God, in order to keep to the traditions of men, hold that My disciples are to be rebuked, because they deem the tradition of the elders of little moment in comparison with the doing of what they know to be the Laws of God?”

Now God commanded, saying: Honour thy father and mother; and: He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death. But ye say: Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother: It is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; and honour not his father or his mother, he shall be free. The word ‘honour’ is used in Scripture, not so much in the sense of paying salutations and services, as in that of giving alms and gifts. Honour widows, saith the Apostle, which are widows indeed. 1 Tim. v. 3. And here ‘honour’ signifieth support. So again, 17, 18: Let the Priests that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine. For the Scripture saith: “Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn” and “The labourer is worthy of his reward.

The Lord being mindful of the helplessness, or age, or poverty of parents, had commanded their children to honour them even by giving them the necessaries of life. The Scribes and Pharisees, scrupling not to make of none effect this most benign law, and bringing in ungodliness under the very form of godliness, taught, for the benefit of unnatural children, that if any one vowed to God, Who is our very Father in heaven, whatsoever he was bound to give to his parents, the duty of discharging his debt to his heavenly Father ought to come before that which he owed to his earthly father; or, at least, that parents in such case incurred the guilt of sacrilege by taking for themselves what they knew had been made a gift to God. And so parents were left unsuccoured, and the offerings of such children, under pretence of being given to God and His temple, became the gain of the Priests. (A homily of Saint Jerome, Matins, the Divine Office, Wednesday of the Third Week of Lent.)

This season of Lent gives us a great opportunity to make penance for our sins and as well as for those of the whole world, especially by praying as many Rosaries each day as our state-in-life permits, and thus we pray that these days of Lenten prayer, sacrifice, fasting, and almsgiving will make it possible for us to recognize the truth for what it is and to persevere in it no matter what it might cost us in human terms.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Joseph, pray for us.

Saints Peter and Paul, pray for us.

Saint John the Baptist, pray for us.

Saint John the Evangelist, pray for us.

Saint Mark the Evangelist, pray for us.

Saint Michael the Archangel, pray for us.

Saint Gabriel the Archangel, pray for us.

Saint Raphael the Archangel, pray for us.

Saints Joachim and Anne, pray for us.

Saints Caspar, Melchior, and Balthasar, pray for us.

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