Digging the Coffee House Scene No More

Cafe Trieste - photo from MessyNessyChic.com

I’m calling on all the cool cats and hip chicks of the Beat Generation to give us a hand. Those of you that hung out at the coffee houses in San Francisco and Berkeley, reciting poetry, sipping java, smoking cigs, playing guitars, and giving the finger to the man.

Caffe Trieste in the city, along with Caffe Med across the bay in Berkeley were among your favored hangouts. Caffe Med is now gone, but you still have Peet’s.

You flocked to the original Peet’s Coffee in Berkeley when it opened in 1965, just as beatniks had begun to morph into hippies. Different names, but with many shared values. Drop by any day and you’d find Mr. Peet talking coffee and brewing cups for a variety of question-the-government hipsters and university professors alike. Personal freedom figured high on your list of priorities in life.

So where are all of you now? Possibly gone from this world, but I would have thought that some of your ideology had been retained. Regrettably, I fear it has all been lost to sheer panic over a false medical emergency.

The other day I dropped by the original Peet’s on Walnut and Vine to pick up my beans. And this is what I found on the door:   

The citizens of Berkeley, the original Stand up to Government Overreach city, are now required to show papers to purchase coffee. And they obediently follow orders. It is only a matter of time before one will not be allowed into supermarkets. (To their credit, no one at Peet’s demanded my papers.)                                                   

This is what happened in apartheid South Africa and the Bay Area locals protested against it. Much later, they protested against the marginalization of those with HIV/AIDS. Yet now it is completely normal to ostracize people who refuse to fall in line with masks and vaxxes.

According to the Rules of Berkeley, the un-vaxxed are now second class citizens. As far as I can tell, the only venues that do not require a vax card are supermarkets and possibly libraries.

In a city with, according to public records, only 55 dead from the virus since the beginning, Vax or be damned is the mandate. Even the Vaxxed-Clean, aged two and above, are  still required to wear masks indoors, and most wear them when outside. 

The poets of the coffe houses are long gone, along with all common sense. They have all lost their way. 

Dystopian Nightmare

Big Bird getting Vaxxed...as sick as it gets   *filmMagic photo

That dystopian novel I was never going to write is playing out right before my eyes here in the Golden State. They have been harming the children for over twenty months and no one seems to care.

Close schools. Close playgrounds. Mask all children over two. Lock them indoors. Take away their education. Take away their friends. Take away their grandparents. Instill fear to the point that they believe a virus, which has nearly zero percent chance of causing any harm, is more frightening than any monster under the bed.

Require masks in all educational settings, pre-school through high school, both indoors and out. Force them to eat lunch outside in the cold weather. Require that they do not see each other’s faces. Insure that they believe close contact is dangerous. Scare these young minds so relentlessly that the most terrifying thing in the world is an un-masked face.

Children now walk down the street willingly masked, sealing themselves off from humanity. They do not see smiles. They do not see danger. They do not see life. The young ones have never learned to read facial cues. The older ones have forgotten.

Brainwash the populace into believing that children can kill their grandparents with a single breath. This is as far from the truth as one can get. But even if it were true, since when does a society sacrifice children for the sake of the elderly and infirm? When did this become acceptable?

Every hour of every day, all forms of media continually blast vaccine propaganda. Little children are used in advertisements claiming they are heroes for taking the emergency-use shot so that they can “protect their community”. It is the community’s responsibility to protect the children, not the other way around.

The State of California has now mandated the experimental vaccine for all students, K-12, for in-person learning effective January 2022. Regrettably, the parents of California seem to be all in on this.

There are reports stating that between 60% – 90% of all children over the age of twelve have already been vaccinated. When they recently opened up the 5-11 year old vax sites, all available appointments were quickly snapped up. The parents here cannot wait to get their little ones injected so that they can “get back to normal.”

Except that there will never be a “normal”. Masks are now officially required in schools until June 2022, vaxxed or not. They are still required indoors in most places, vaxxed or not. No matter how many masks and how many injections the public submits to, there will never be a “normal”.

And so the onslaught of the false narrative continues, targeting the country’s most precious resource, its children. Government agencies and school districts keep touting the “Safe and Effective Vaccine.” They know it is neither. They know it is totally unnecessary for not only kids, but most healthy young people to submit to their experiment.    

The testimonials of parents whose children have either been severely harmed or killed by the “vaccine” are heartbreaking. I want to scream, “Why didn’t you know? The information is, and has been, out there since before they issued the first shot.”  But they didn’t know because they have been lied to, trusted the government, and had no reason to believe they were being played. When these distraught parents make pleas to warn others, the powers that be do their best to suppress the message.

I try to not think about the devastation to come from this brutal, global experiment. Possibly I am completely wrong and all the vaxxed people will live  long and healthy lives. There is nothing more in the world that I would like than to be proven wrong. 

 

Yes, the USA has Political Prisoners

Never in my life could I have imagined that the United States would hold political prisoners in solitary confinement, in deplorable conditions, and stripped of their civil liberties. I grew up with tales of such unwarranted detentions in the USSR, and in South America. I met former government prisoners while living in Brazil. These types of extrajudicial tactics happen every day throughout the world. But in America? How is that possible?

It began on January 6, 2021. As live events unfolded at the capitol, many immediately spotted the agitators among the peaceful protesters. Anyone involved in protests of the 1960’s could easily recognize the culprits. ( Agent Provocateur ) Anyone who had read the reporting on non-mainstream media knew there was great risk of violence that day. Antifa, and others with an agenda to sow discourse, had vowed to show up for the rally. And anyone with half a brain should have been alarmed that there appeared to be little, if any, extra security that day. Something was most certainly amiss.  

The video available from January 6 clearly shows that the majority who went into the capitol were not there to do any damage. They carried nothing other than flags and banners. It is also evident that the ones breaking windows and egging people on were instigators. And above all, the only one who was killed that day inside the capitol was Ashley Babbitt, an unarmed veteran.

Arrests were made on January 6, but the majority came days and months later. While the DOJ ramped up their efforts to track down anyone who had been within a few miles of the capitol, they encouraged neighbors to turn in their friends. Those are Soviet tactics, not American, yet people happily complied.

In April of this year the government established the CEWG – Countering Extremism Working Group. That should have sent chills up the spines of every decent American. Suddenly, the most powerful arm of our government began to hunt down “White Supremacists and Domestic Terrorists.”   

Not Antifa, not Black Lives Matter, whose organizations were responsible for over two billion dollars’ worth of destruction in 2020 alone. The CEWG happily ignored those that beat up countless people, killed police officers, looted entire city blocks, and burned down small businesses with impunity.

Instead, they have gone after people who walked into the capitol, through open doors, and often escorted by police officers. These same citizens are now being held in pre-trial detention, in horrid conditions, in a deplorable jail in Washington DC, denied even the most basic of rights. None has been charged with terrorism. Most charges are misdemeanors such as “parading” in the capitol. Yet they are treated worse than gulag inmates.

That the majority of the American people do not seem to realize, or care about, what is going on is distressing. There are people reporting the truth and uncovering the lies about January 6. Darren Beattie at Revolver News, Julie Kelly at American Greatness, and  Tucker Carlson  are among them. Although I am not surprised by anything they uncover, I appreciate all the work they are doing to document the wrongs being perpetrated against American citizens, and their efforts to get the word out. All that I have seen since the beginning, they have proved. 

In contrast, the mainstream media and, apparently, the majority in the Senate and House, do not seem to be bothered by the unconstitutionality of charges being pursued against the Jan 6 defendants now rotting in jail. They have fallen for the belief that if it is the Justice Department instituting such measures, they must be right.   

It is disturbing to hear the glowing terms now associated with the FBI and the DOJ in their pursuit of all the supposed White Supremacists and Domestic Terrorists. Nary a negative comment can be found. Suddenly, these agencies are the most respected, trustworthy government organizations in the United States, along with the CIA and NSA. If they say Domestic Terrorism and White Supremacy constitute the greatest threat to national security, we are to believe it at face value.  

Could it be that the country is suffering from mass amnesia and forgotten about the ill deeds perpetrated by said government organizations? It is not as if any of this is ancient history. Not that long ago the subversive activities of the FBI and CIA were common knowledge.  

Even the name J. Edgar Hoover, still gives me the shivers. The original track-the-public and keep-secret-files guy. Hoover, the first director of the FBI, kept enough dirt on political opponents that they let him get away with some really nasty stuff. Secret files on Martin Luther King Jr, Mohammed Ali, and anyone else he did not agree with. Wiretaps on anyone he chose to go after. Infiltration into left leaning groups, with or without any real evidence, just to try and prove they were a threat. These were, and are, methods and tactics one would associate with the KGB.

I won't go into what the CIA has engaged in overseas.

My writings are not loud enough to give the country a good shake. All I can really do is thank those who are spreading the word and hope that their exposure of the wrongs is enough to get our fellow Americans out of their current hell.

And, by the way, I have assumed since the 60’s that my phone is tapped, and so should everyone.