It’s Not Over. It’s Just Begun

Guest Post by Naomi Wolf

For the last two days I’ve felt an uneasy sense of grief, or of a heavy pressure on my heart. At first I could not figure out the cause of it.

Nothing unusual was wrong in my personal life. My loved ones were safe and well, thank God. The battle for liberty was ongoing, as it has been for over two years, but I was used to the rigors and stresses of that. What was the matter?

I was just driving with Brian over Taconic foothills, and through the vast early-Spring expanses of the beautiful Hudson Valley. The sun was shining. Daffodils, creamy-white and bright yellow, displayed their trumpets shyly in shadowy recesses under old ash trees with wide-spreading boughs. The lighter-yellow forsythia dotted the roadsides in a riot of buzzy color.

We’d just been talking to a realtor acquaintance who described how the area had changed when the city people fled their Brooklyn apartments at the start of the pandemic, to sit out the crisis in the gracious, creaky old farmhouses that they could purchase for a relative song.

We’d driven through reopened businesses flush with newly transplanted money. An old railroad car diner had been revamped and now offered curated organic-beef hash, and tasty, if ironic, egg creams.

We drove past little 1960s ranch houses with some land around them, now being redone with costly cedar shingles and white trim, for the farmhouse look that the ex-Brooklynites liked. Sotheby’s signs were out on the lawns already, in preparation for the lucrative flipping.

On driveway after driveway of the ex-Brooklynites, of the former weekend people — (and I confess that I too was once a weekend person, but something has happened to me in the last two years that has changed me even more than my change of home address) there were now Ukrainian flags. Not American flags. No one cared or even asked about the town halls being closed for the past two years. Tyranny overseas was more pressing than the rights that had been suspended just up the road.

Otherwise most things were almost back to normal! Almost pre-2020 normal!

The masks had recently come off. Hudson, New York, and Great Barrington, Massachusetts, the two cities nearest us, and also, by chance, both left-leaning, had also been two of the maskiest and most coercive of places when it came to pandemic policies and pandemic cultures. Now businesses were being allowed to reopen.

(I’d been fired from my Great Barrington synagogue because I’d dared to invite people over to my house at the depth of the pandemic — if they had wanted, as adults, affirmatively, to join me — to watch the Zoom Friday Evening Shabbat service together. Shocking behavior on my part, I know.)

As if a switch had been flicked, now the cruel moral judgments, the two-tier society, the mandates, the coercions, the nasty looks, the desperate masked children with their laboring breath, the loneliness, the desolate centrally-planned economies — had evaporated and were no more.

A memo from a political consultancy had gone out to the DNC, warning about how these policies spelled defeat in the midterms, and Pouf! — a whole retinue of “mandates” messaged as if they had been matters of life and death, a raft of Board of Health demands, a plethora of social strictures, and baroque instructions on how and when to discriminate against one’s fellow Americans — vanished, like the smoke from an unwelcome cigarette on a breezy veranda. An MSNBC commentator said, in a logical non sequitur, that now that vaccines were available for kids, in-person office life would resume.

Overnight, a new concern, a new moral signifier, was presented, wholly formed: and it involved a conflict area half a world away. Now, war is always bad and invasions are always cruel; but I could not help noticing that there are wars, refugees, invasions and conflict areas around the world, and that only this one — this one one — demanded the attentions of my irksomely cultish and uncritical former tribe.

I could not help noticing that the dozens of devastated conflict areas and war zones being totally ignored by the ex-Brooklynites — from Ethiopia, where there have been 50,000 deaths since September, to Sri Lanka, with its catastrophic food shortages, to Mexico’s drug war, which has led to 300,000 deaths, to Afghanistan, where women are being rounded up and people are being shot in the street — do not involve white people who look like the ex-Brooklynites; and for various other reasons, are not attracting a lot of television cameras.

You’d think the ex-Brooklynites, with their expensive educations, would bear those complexities in mind.

But no; the ex-Brooklynites are so easily led, when it comes to anyone invoking their particular moral high ground.

When they are directed to pay attention to one conflict out of dozens, and ignore the rest, no matter how dire the rest may be, they do so. Just like, when they were instructed to present their bodies uncritically to an untried MRNA injection and to offer up the bodies of their minor children, they did so. When they were asked to shun and to discriminate against their blameless neighbors, they did so.

So the great apparatus of messaging about COVID was switched off, almost overnight, as the politics clearly soured and as Republicans consolidated an increasingly popular, multiracially inclusive, transpartisan-ly appealing freedom message; and the comms apparatus simply replaced the COVID drama with a new, equally gripping European-conflict drama.

These dramas are real, of course, but there are also highly messaged; a fact about politics that adults such as these are, would do well to understand at last.

But — when politics required it — Look over there!

So now — as I was driving through the sunny valley that looked and felt like it was becoming America again, with freedom coursing through the towns and rural areas like blood slowly returning to a limb that had been asleep — I started to realize what my sense of sorrow really was.

People who had joined school boards that had masked ten year olds — their lives were back to normal! People who had told family members that they were unwelcome at Thanksgiving dinner — their lives were back to normal!

Huzzah.

On MSNBC that morning, Dr Anthony Fauci, that entangled mass of compromised spiritual matter, who had presided over the intentional wastelands of the pandemic; who had for two years delivered in his nasal Brooklyn cadences its lie-based soundbites with their dearth of scientific studies, that wrecked livelihoods, destroyed kids’ educations, and that drove whole communities into destitution — had declared, as if he were God Himself, that the pandemic was over.

Well — okay then!

I realized as we drove that my grief was not actually grief. As any pop psychologist will tell you, just beneath depression is rage.

I realized — I was furious. 

Brian and I had been fighting, side by side, relentlessly, for over two years, in a bitter, exhausting war to return America to — simply to normal; to its historic status as a great, free society, in which people could enjoy their Constitutional liberties.

We were part of a loose community —a movement, say — of people braver and more dedicated than we; we were part of what you might call a liberty movement. But these heroes and heroines alongside whom we fought, were all pitiably few in number. There were maybe hundreds; maybe a few thousand. Many more perhaps were in sympathy with us, but our energies were still spread very thin. As I have written before, these heroes and heroines risked medical licenses, risked livelihoods. They were smeared and mocked by their peers. They were stripped of credentials. They staked their savings and lost them as they had their incomes taken away.

But they burned, as the rebels in 1775 had burned, to defend our way of life and our institutions. They would not let the dream of America die.

They were the miserably few real doctors and real reporters, real activists and real lawyers. They were the truck drivers; they were teachers and cops and firefighters.

They were patriots.

They did not have easy lives.

You know who had easier lives over the past two years? The damn quislings.

The people who stayed at the cocktail parties and who mocked the unvaccinated. The doctors who were silent about vaccine harms when teens presented with heart damage, because they might lose their licenses if they breathed a word of what they knew. The ex-Brooklynites who were supposed to be journalists but who smeared and attacked the medical freedom movement instead of reporting on Pfizer’s internal documents showing massive undisclosed medical catastrophes, in what is turning out to be one of the great corporate coverups of our generation.

I realized the source of my rage: the labor and nightmares and isolation and persecution and money worries and — well — awful battles waged by us few hundreds, few thousands, had helped these quislings and collaborators have back what — what we had wanted them to have back; indeed, what we had wanted us all to have back; our America.

The fight was not over — it would not be over til open-ended emergency law was made impossible by new legislation, and until every last criminal was charged and tried; but hey, the folks who had gone along with it all, they were getting their America back, in many ways.

I thought of the Biblical phrase —that the rain falls on the just and the unjust alike.

But I wanted — justice.

I wanted, I blurted out to Brian, some kind of closure. Some kind of Nuremberg Trials, of course. Some kind of Truth and Reconciliation Commission — the South African kind, not the CCP kind. I wanted people to face what they had been, what they had done.

“It’s like the partisans after the end of the war — or the revolutionaries after the fall of the Bastille; I want to shave people’s heads and march them through the town square,” I said to Brian, uncharitably.

I am not proud of that — but there is a reason societies display their collaborators and quislings and traitors. There is a reason treason is a capital offense. There is a reason fraud and coercion, battery and child abuse, unlawful detainment and theft and child endangerment, all of which crimes were committed against us “in the pandemic”, are criminal offenses.

To be healing, there has to be justice.

To have a free society we have to have a history, and in this major historical moment, we had a massive betrayal of the social contract — a betrayal committed by millions. The social contract cannot be re-knit without public accountability, confrontations, and even condemnation.

Let the school board members who masked the children be sued in civil court. Let them do community service in bright orange vests and pick up garbage along the sides of the roads.

Let the members of the Boards of Health who shut down their neighbors’ businesses for no reason, face civil charges. Let their names be published in the newspapers.

Let the ones who shunned the unvaccinated and disinvited them from their galas and dinner parties, experience for themselves what that feels like and face the fact that they were hateful and engaged in hate.

Let the deans who took millions of dollars from nonprofits to adopt policies to mandate vaccines for healthy young college students — vaccines that disrupted the cycles and damaged the hearts of perfectly healthy young women and men in their charge — face trials for racketeering and reckless endangerment and coercion. Let the Pharma executives and the heads of the FDA be tried for fraud and battery. Let the trials begin.

For people to be part of a healthy society they need to face themselves; and these quislings and collaborators should confront what they did. If they committed crimes, they should be tried and convicted.

Will I let it go? Will I forget? Will I forgive? On another morning, maybe, I pray that I will.

But not yet. Not this morning.

Amos [KJV 5:24] promised: “Let judgment run down as waters and righteousness as a mighty stream.” Jesus said, Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth; I did not come to bring peace but a sword [NKJV: Matthew 10:34-39].

Maybe they meant that there are times to make amends, but there are other times to overturn the tables of the corrupt.

I am angry that beautiful America is mostly back, mostly free again, overnight, just because a shameless creature who should never have had the power to suspend our liberties in the first place –  said so; just because the whiny-voiced evildoers of the last two years, now that evidence of their fraud and coercion emerges irrevocably to light, want to tiptoe away from the scenes of their massive crimes.

I say: Not so fast.

Freedom is not free, as many veterans have said, and I never really understood what that meant except superficially.

But you don’t get freedom back so easily if you yourself committed massive crimes.

Freedom is not free. You don’t get to take away the freedom of others and enjoy it, without penalty, for yourselves.

The people you harmed, the parents of the children you harmed – they are coming. Not violently; not vengefully; but with the righteous sword of justice; with the law in hand.

Don’t rest too easy, leaders who did wrong, in this bright American sunlight. You don’t get America back as if nothing happened.

The Statue of Liberty holds up a torch. Crimes must be illuminated.

You cannot yet know that it’s really over — just because you said so.

You can’t know yet that you will never be unmasked; never revealed to all, in the bright sun of the town square.

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Heywood Jablomi
Heywood Jablomi

Red River D
Red River D

You don’t say.

Anthony Aaron
Anthony Aaron

You need to get your hearing and/or vision checked … 

😉

scott henson
scott henson

I’m pretty the Fauci’s of this world will NOT be held accountable. Fckrs!

Trapped in Portlandia
Trapped in Portlandia

Great article, but I must disagree with Naomi’s characterization of Dr Anthony Fauci as: “that entangled mass of compromised spiritual matter.” I believe a more accurate description would be: “that entangled mass of compromised dog shit.”

Casey
Casey

Demonic is also spiritual…

Anthony Aaron
Anthony Aaron

Thankfully, the wheels of Karma turn and turn and turn … maybe not in this lifetime … but, don’t worry — what goes around comes around …

Anonymous
Anonymous

Brilliant. As I have been trying to tell the truckers and others. The fight for freedom should have always been a fight for truth and justice. Can a Liberty Conservative become a truth and justice conservative? Naomi is correct. Societies have justice rituals in order to heal and advance.

BTW, we have an equally significant culprit from whom we also need justice. The Rainbow terrorists. Their gig is also up.

Oldtoad of Green Acres
Oldtoad of Green Acres

Well, clutch my pearls in outrage!
The jig is up, collapse and the 4th Turning is on tap.
Turdeau is doing his part https://www.rebelnews.com/liberals_quietly_impose_new_firearms_law_including_backdoor_gun_registry

Ghost
Ghost

My husband and I have a new saying we use when some particularly loathesome government toadie or elected slimeball comes into our point of view:

The question is “Would you take the shot?”

Meaning? If that treasonous bastard or bitch came into the crosshairs of your scope, would you save the country and take the shot at risk of your own life and/or imprisonment?

Just one of those things we do out here in the suburbs of the sticks when confronted with the devastating truth of our federal government’s treachery.

The answer depends upon whether you think that particular bastard or bitch’s untimely demise might indeed make a difference.

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Misty morning musings.

Do you see what I see?

I see crosstrails aka chemtrails over Bea Attitude’s house to the southeast of me way out yonder in Kentucky!!!

Svarga Loka
Svarga Loka

No.

Ghost
Ghost

Could be real airplane contrails over Cairo, Illinois, I suppose. Too far east to be Memphis.

X marks the spot in the image. I was just trying to get BL’s attention.

I’m taking that enormous rabbit to that guy near Paducah soon and hope to take him a big bag or two of dried rabbit poop.

RiNS

Hey ghost!

That is a lovely picture. Well, except for the chemtrails. Not long ago, any talk of that was, you see, much ado about nothing. Not anymore! Still, and lucky for me, it doesn’t seem to be a problem right here and right now on the Northumberland shore.

It was not always this way. In the past the skies have, on many a day, been cross-crossed with lines going here and there as seen in your photo above. Lately though, the problem has been solved, for the most part, by looking up at the sky, when the sun is down and the moon is half full.

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And still yet, there is a need, for me to have a better camera indeed. For my picture above does not do justice to the scene. The resolution is again lost in translation, much like my memories of a day, thirty years ago.

Kenneth
Kenneth

There are ceremonious show trials of justice, but for the most, just look at the 20th Century, people have no idea what happened. Life goes on best when you ignore the rest.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Spoken like a TRUE Jew, spreading the Gospel as instructed. Thank You Ma’am

Anthony Aaron
Anthony Aaron

(((Tribal))) affiliation aside … the message is still a valid one … remember to separate the wheat from the chaff …

Anonymous
Anonymous

Chaff compared to wheat is much better than the parasite that is the jew.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Jesus was a jew

Warren
Warren

Justice is coming to the petty tyrants and pro injection Karens in the form of self replicating nanobots coursing through their veins doing all sorts of horrific things to them. Also in the Spike Proteins causing irreparably harmed right ventricle heart dieses. Of lipid nanoparticles pushing into their brains causing CJD brain wasting disease. From the trillions of particles of graphene Oxides slowly slicing up their internal organs.

Unfortunately the same thing is happening to a couple of hundred million of their victims as well.

capndiesalot

uh, yeah…I “took the shot…” why not? I thought Trump was right. Well, he probably wasn’t. Side effects? yeah, for a day or so…impact? none, so far. Have I had Wuhan virus? Yeah, Omnicron…or some such thing…has my heart been hurt? I don’t think so…I do everything I did before…I’m considered almost a “senior citizen,” to which I say, Fuck you! I’m in better physical condition than men half my age, I look better, too.

Did I trust government before all of this? No. Do I trust government even LESS now? Absolutely. Have I lost “faith” in Trump? No…because I NEVER had faith in Trump, I have FAITH in the American Way…MAGA was HERE WAY BEFORE TRUMP…will I ever TRUST the FDA or NIH or FEMA or Homeland (in)Security? or ANY of the others? Hell, I’m heavily REGULATED by the SEC…and I HATE ALL OF THEM…I’ll NEVER trust them, again. As far as I’m concerned…I’m going to die in this Civil War…their day is coming.

Chud Bently
Chud Bently

The government overreach and infringements upon liberty since 2001 has been nothing short of breathtaking. The illegal surveillance state, MIC spending, unsustainable welfare system, and endless war has continued, unabated for the past 20 years of my adult life under both parties.

There is no going back without bloodshed at this point. What kicks off the party? When will middle-Americans finally have had enough? I don’t know. Until then, I prepare like a lot of you folks. When the system finally breaks—and I think the reactor is at critical mass—you’ll only own what you can defend. Develop friendships with likeminded people and create alternative economies based on goods and services, not paper money. Posse up. Most importantly, know the Lord and settle your eternal account with him beforehand. The next 2.5 years will be very telling.

Eyes Wide Shut
Eyes Wide Shut

Good luck with any true justice for the tyrannical, treasonous progs who did this to us short of Jesus second coming or Russian nukes on D.C. with Congress in full session.
Swamps don’t drain themselves. It takes a giant shovel and a bulldozer to do it the right way.

Anonymous
Anonymous

“I wanted, I blurted out to Brian, some kind of closure. Some kind of Nuremberg Trials, of course. Some kind of Truth and Reconciliation Commission — the South African kind, not the CCP kind. ”

Stereotypes are real.

Stucky

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The text under this ad says she is from the same exact town as me!! Wow and awesome. What a hottie. Look at those arms! Look at that curvy Kardashian-like ass! Tits that don’t sag!!

How can I get a hold of her? Really, I don’t know. How can I remain Master Of My Domain? Damn you Burning Platform ads!!!!

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Undeniable
Undeniable

You must be gettin’ old, Stuck!

Retief
Retief

What ads?? I use Brave Browser, dont see no stinkin’ ads! Get with the 21st century Stucky!

Trapped in Portlandia
Trapped in Portlandia

Looking on the bright side, the craziness of the last few years has changed rational liberals like Naomi Wolf, James Kunstler, Bill Maher, Tulsi Gabbard, and many others into freedom-loving, red-pill taking, reality-based people calling bullshit the their former allies.

That has been fun to watch.

overthecliff
overthecliff

Don’t kid yourself. Those people are still the enemy.

Stucky

Naomi could have used a lot fewer words to make her point. What was her point anyway?

She wrote this;

“I am angry that beautiful America is mostly back, mostly free again, overnight, …”

Mostly back? Mostly free again?? Overnight??? Sumvabitch, had no idea!

Ghost
Ghost

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I would probably have to take the shot, just to get the damn show on the road.

Harrington Richardson
Harrington Richardson

It would only slow things down to the extent which the string pullers were inconvenienced by a state funeral.

Ghost
Ghost

But there would be opportunities at that state funeral, eh, to do the country some real good; perhaps the world.

hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer

Ex-Brooklynites.

Duly noted.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Many of whom are now proud new citizens of New Jersey.
Like rats off a sinking ship, not truly realizing it’s a temporary respite until the new scow founders.

A. R. Wasem
A. R. Wasem

Fauci et al have directly murdered, at a minimum, millions. Indirectly the figure is in the tens of millions. Their “Crimes Against Humanity” will continue to demand an accounting until the judgments of Death are rendered and carried out.

Anthony Aaron
Anthony Aaron

Don’t forget — Fauci’s crimes against humanity began in the early-’80s with the whole hiv/aids ‘pan(dem)ic’ of that era … this is not his first rodeo in bringing death to countless individuals … 

Incredulous Observer
Incredulous Observer

At least 60% of heritage Americans have gotten the shit shot. Most, if not all, will be dead within 2 to 5 years, if they do not take stringent measures every day to mitigate the damage from the shit shot. That total will be 60% of about 180 million.

Somewhere, Stalin and his crew of fellow Bolsheviki are staring at Fauchi, Gates, and helpers, while shaking their heads and grinning in silent admiration.

Anthony Aaron
Anthony Aaron

To Naomi Wolf: as I read your heartfelt words — and felt your anger and frustration over the theft of 2+ years from the lives of every one of US — one thought came to me from a song I heard so long ago … by The Byrds :

To everything (turn, turn, turn)
There is a season (turn, turn, turn)
And a time to every purpose, under heaven

That’s all I have to offer … somehow it calmed down my own weary soul … hopefully it will do likewise for you and yours …

Phil Camp
Phil Camp

What else is not over are death & damage from the long term effects of the clot shot. Deaths for all causes are way up; for people in the 25-34 age excess deaths were 2200 total for the year halfway thru 2021-2600 extra. This gives a cleaner signal because their normal death rate is so low. by 30 Nov it was 39000; by 31 Dec it was 69000. It was doubling every 5 weeks. That’s one decade of age, so multiply by 6 or 7 for the total. That would be 12,000,000 by 30 June. It will probably start leveling off by then, but exponential growth is very scary.
A Nobel Prize winning viroligist in Germany said about two months ago, “If you’ve had all 3 shots, get tested for AIDS. Then sue your government.” He was dead in a week.
Children who had been born after the lockdown / masking were tested for IQ using a test for very young children. The average score was 78.
The WHO asked for bids for Covid 19 test kits in 2015.
The genetic sequence in the spike protein that mimics AIDS was patented by Moderna in 2013.
There is an abundance of smoking guns; the trick is to find some authority who isn’t in on it.
The remedy is straightforward & time tested:
“Their blood is upon them. Thus shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of thee.”

Common Cents
Common Cents

Consequences? Retribution? Apologies? Are you kidding?

Those people are your enemies and they are still fighting. Tooth & Nail. They hate you with a burning passion. This isn’t over by a long shot. Not even close.

Two examples:

There is a player on the Boston Red Sox, Chris Sale, who declined to get the jab as a matter of personal choice and personal judgment. Turns out, he was absolutely right. Everybody knows that by now, Right? Wrong! Turns out the Toronto Blue Jays STILL won’t let players into Canada who have not been jabbed. Sale has been out injured with a bad elbow and a rib injury, so he wouldn’t be able to play in those games anyway, but despite that, he has been relentlessly ridiculed and bullied by the Boston Globe and in particular one left wing lunatic writer, Dan Shaughnessy. He claims that Sale is selfish and a bad teammate. This asshole, Shaughnessy, has attacked Sale with such intensity, you would think that Sale had personally killed one of Shaughnessy’s children. The level of personal blind hatred is off the charts. The Liberal Lunatics who comment on the Globe articles are in complete agreement with Shaughnessy. It’s unbelievable until you actually see it.

The second example is much shorter, but equally disturbing. I had a doctor’s appointment at a local hospital and they are still requiring masks. So, they don’t care anything about the fact that masks don’t work and that even Fauci has been forced to admit it. They have the power and they are NOT giving it up.

If you think that there will not be another “pandemic,” more forced lockdowns, more forced masking and more “vaccines,” you are truly lost. It worked too well and they know they can get away with it, so they will do it again. But next time, they will be more organized and more thorough. It will be bigger & better.

Anonymous
Anonymous

As you requested, the 5th wave is on the way.

Colorado Artist
Colorado Artist

Any and all involved with this mass murder must be held to account.
Judicially or extra.
I don’t care as long as they pay for what they did.

Coalclinker
Coalclinker

There is no justice in America anymore. If you think there will be, you are wrong and a fool.

On the other hand, it looks like death is waiting at the door. People who took their 3 shots, and the rest of us living during the onset of an economic collapse complicated by an escalating war, may well be facing it. We will be tested. Some will live, some will die; some will save others, while others become monsters.

Either way, what you see right now will be remembered as the good times, and the future will likely be a surreal hell. There really isn’t much good to say about anything.

RiNS

If Wolf somehow believes there will be justice eventually, then she is a fool indeed.

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