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The Amicable Anarchist, Springfield, IL (2026)

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05/14/2020

Yesterday I saw that Memorial Hospital had set up a free hotline for those who are experiencing stress or anxiety over the Covid-19 virus, I saw it on a bus, and I saw it on a billboard.

Not a hotline for if you or a loved one have it, no, it's advertised for those who are theoretically sitting at home worried about it.

Really?

Really?

I'm just trying to wrap my head around what this indicates of the bulk of the citizens of this nation. Can I truly be such an outlier? Is this really where "America" is at now?

Because I seem to remember that our forebears conquered an entire continent. And built the most advanced and powerful civilization on Earth. And kicked the crap out of incredibly powerful empires, in over 100 wars and 2 World Wars.

And, oh yeah, went to the moon.

This is where we're at now? I was born at what was arguably near America's peak, 1968, when our best - and some might even say "last" - major accomplishment was one year in the future. That moon landing.

And now I must spend the remainder of my life, easily another thirty years, with....what? The knowledge that I'm some how the odd man out, that this new touchy-feely namby-pamby stuff that I figured years back was some passing trend is now apparently the new rule, the new way of life?

You all know that 100 years ago, this wouldn't have even been noticed, back when "pandemic" wasn't used for a virus with a 98.5% survivability rate? You all know that if it had happened in 1950 we'd have had a real and hard-core quarantine enforced by the military for one hellish month then been back on track like nothing had happened?

This is what America's made of now? A haphazzard meaningless pretend quarantine that does no good at all, a populace that meekly accepts loss of jobs and the freedom to worship, and takes as solace a one time check worth less than a fast food worker might reasonably have expected to see?

And the men of the nation, huddle in their homes, content to stay locked down so long as unemployment has a boost to it and the net still works? With emotional support numbers for they to call and share their feelings about Covid as they peer out their windows past their "Hearts for Healthcare workers" signs?

I suppose their act of courage was in risking those twenty steps into their yard to put that sign up.

I am genuinely at a loss here. I knew I was different in my outlooks, but this is making me realize that I am apparently far different in my outlook than I had even thought.

Is there an "emotional support hotline" for those with senses of proportion, with common sense, with a familiarity with history, with testicles and cerebellum in working order?

I'll gladly call that hotline. Meanwhile I'm continuing my work delivering food to those who literally have the virus, ministering to those who's lifestyles put them highly at risk for the virus, and attending guerilla churches. Yeah, in groups of more than ten.

And without any damn mask. Not like most of you are even wearing yours properly anyway.

God have mercy on what used to be America.

05/11/2020

It kills me that those in favor of the lockdown imagine they are "pro-science". Of course, it also kills me that those against the lock down think they're "pro-science".

Anyone remember when science was thinking about it yourself, and not just quoting soundbytes from the political side you like best?

Pro-lockdown stance: The meeting of large groups of people in grocery stores, hardware stores, gas stations, pharmacies, prisons, fire stations, pot dispensaries, police stations and newsrooms does no harm, because of hit or miss voluntary social distancing and improperly worn masks.

Also pro-lockdown stance: For those same groups to meet in restaurants, hair salons, churches or their old jobs would kill grandma.

There is no science at all in those two contradictory positions.

Perhaps at the beginning everything should have been closed no matter what, masks should have been mandatory and of the type that actually do good, and social distancing should have been enforced by a guardsman's gun.

But that ship has sailed, and the virus has spread about unchecked - literally this whole time.

If it's a real danger, then it's one we failed to confront properly, and there is nothing further to do now that the proverbial horse is well clear of the barn.

If it wasn't a real danger, then there is nothing further to do.

Notice that either way, there is nothing further to do?

Anything less than a total lockdown/quarantine is, and has always been, a farce, and needs to end now.

05/09/2020

The virus is real, and it is more deadly than some. Though with a 98.5% survivability rate it's a lot less deadly than others.

But as we have never had a full quarantine, as we've never had a coordinated nation-wide effort, it's too late now.

The virus has spread. As wide and far as if we'd done nothing. And it will continue to spread. No matter what we do now.

Social distancing, facemasks and closed industries are not saving America, they are destroying it.

The compensation isn't a kind and charitable gift, its a "a few dollars for many, far less than they need" and "more dollars for some few, far more than they need".

And the $1,200 was never charity - when the government takes things from you against your will, not only are they supposed to pay you, but they are supposed to pay fair market value.

Any one figure their job and house were only worth $1,200?

But all this is for saving grandma's life? Yeah, sorry. Grandma's still going to catch it eventually anyway. But odds are, she'd have survived anyway.

Does that make it a conspiracy? No, but that word is used to dismiss any who question the official narrative. Truth is, the virus was probably not a conspiracy, though history has shown us stranger things than that.

But the response designed so well for a massive wealth transfer, but so poorly for doing any real good?

Yeah, sure, that was a "conspiracy" in the simple sense that obviously several different interest groups had to come together to get this terrible response whipped up.

As to which interest groups, well, the only two things you could know such groups have in common is that one, they're awfully wealthy.

And two, they ain't you.

05/04/2020

Without being upset with any particular church, and granting the "good intentions" of all involved, I still must disagree with the ease with which the vast majority of Churches in America shut down at the eye brow raise of the government.

It is a misconception that they were shut "by law". Truth is, there can't be any law that supercedes the First Amendment, which itself starts, "Congress shall make no law..."

It doesn't say, "except in cases of pandemic".

Also, as our government is full well aware of that, they are claiming to not have closed the churches, "just" that they want no more than ten people in there. Hardware stores can have sixty. Ponder how the virus knows the difference between a large building of shelves versus a large building of pews.

Yet in spite of this, and as said, the vast majority of churches - most all - promptly closed.

I hear the ways of glossing this over as no big deal. "We didn't close, the church is the people not the building!" or "We were sent out to preach the word!"

Hmm.

It is true the "church" is not the building, but that building was where Christians met. And e-worship or online for facewhatever is NOT the same. No communion or sacrament, for one. And no "two or three gathered in His name" for two,

I have noted - and am glad to note - that as we go into May, some Catholic leaders and Protestant leaders, admittedly on the fringes, have started to cautiously express doubt about the wisdom of their various churches choice in going this route. I hope that continues and grows

The Church - no matter which one - is supposed to be the Bride of Christ. And it is a sorry bride indeed that leaves her husband at the request of another, no matter how good the reason gave. Short of Jesus commanding it, then while it pains me to say it, the bride left precipitously.

And needs to return at once.

I also take task with these arrogant ones who seemingly quite content with the lockdown act like they're on the side of Science and Truth. And for I or others to call for an end to this farce makes us Luddite Double Digit IQ fools.

I knew a literal rocket scientist once, and in college he referred to me as "the smartest man in the room". I am that saddest of all things, the "child prodigy" who at 51 clearly is never going to "fulfill my potential" in spite of the best efforts of parents, teachers and more guidance counselors that you could shake a stick at.

I've forgot more science than most of the fools on line are ever going to know. And I particularly find annoying those who with some minor title of "nurse" or "EMT" or even just "works at a hospital" to think that they are some how paragons of scientific insight, when any casual conversation with any of them smoking out back would disabuse the most gullible of us of that in a hurry.

The virus is little worse than the new flus that come out each year.

The virus is going to spread no matter what we do now.

Any quarantine between "total" and "none" is worthless.

Most "covid related deaths" involve the above eighty with various other conditions, including of course, the "Oh, yeah, they're over eighty."

Those are facts, and no bed pan changer, orderly or ambulance driver is qualified to change the nature of that reality.

But why, Dean? Why would so many say it's real? Oh, heavens. A famous Russian philosopher, author and all around cynic once said, "Never bother to examine a folly, only ask yourself what it accomplishes."

True enough. And this has accomplished the biggest wealth transfer since the last made up "crisis" of the housing bubble burst of '08.

Attend carefully - you are losing your jobs, seeing the economy wrecked, seeing your kids further sold into debt slavery and denying Jesus on Earth so that the rich can get richer. It's as simple and cynical as that.

The churches need to open. And I thank the good Lord that some rare few have stayed open, for some of us sinners - me - really, really need to go to church. It's why before this I went to so many. And why I've really been jonesing since every door has been locked.

Every weekend before this, was my busiest time. From Seventh-day to LDS to Methodist to Disciples of Christ, to Catholic masses, I'd be in a pew, listening to the word, and communing with other believers. And I assure you that every church on Earth has what I think of as "true Christians".

And even the worst most bigoted ones had open doors. Literally any could attend. None, and I mean NONE, were turned away.

Do you even know how terrible this is, for church doors to be locked? Well, few online know science, and fewer still know history.

This is a shameful moment in collective church history, and the sooner it's over, the sooner we can all try and forget how cheaply and easily we collectively rolled over.

Meanwhile, I will continue to worship in the places brave enough to stay open, and I'll be with roughly the same number of people you might find in the unclosed liquor stores. Not as a thumb to the nose against my government, but because it is my right, and my need, to attend.

And some of you who have spent a life loudly proclaiming, "I'd have stopped the Romans, I'd have carried His cross!" Really? I supsect the Romans would have simply said, "He's a terrorist" and you'd have found reason enough to have gone home.

If any out there care to attend next week, you may meet me at my house next Sunday and I'll take you. But regrettably we're "that nation" now, so I will not publicly say which Brides are staying with their Husband, as those toll free snitch lines get enough business already.

04/23/2020

I used to see this a lot during the Black Lives Matter movement. Some would block a road, an ambulance would be delayed, and then some hick conservative would say something like, "They should just run 'em over!" or "I hope one of them needs an ambulance, and the driver refuses to take them!"

Or other such dumb comment that implies that what or how a person protests is worthy of murder if it is at odds with the person viewing it.

All the odder in that the original anger is supposed to be over a threat to human life. Which makes suggesting the cure of "more death, but this time certain", kind of bizarre.

Now I get to see it from the liberal side while a class of people most known for having great pay and benefits (nurses) were apparently being impacted by a protest by those most well known for having little pay and no benefits.

Seems that some of those who lost their incomes and livelihoods, and now are losing their cars and houses are getting a might frustrated at their perception that this Covid thing is crap.

They are - go figure - seeing movie stars and politicians and the 1% go anywhere they like any time they like, while they are told to "shelter at home".

And they see an incredible variety of folks from a broad diviersity of professions getting to still work and not all those jobs - like liquor store clerk, hospital HR admin, cab driver - seem all that "essential" to them.

But funny, the truth of falsity of the protester's position is actually not relevant. They are right, if you care to know, but it doesn't matter. It never has.

Take the BLM. They were a group not liked by the Right anyway - being black - and they were going after a group the Conservatives do like - cops. So the merits of BLM mattered not.

And for this time around the Left doesn't like regular Joe workingmen as a general rule, so now that such are going after a group the Liberals do like - college educated professionals - the merits now also matter not.

I'm now telling the Left that which they applauded me for when I told the Right: Don't wish death on protesters. And, while we're at it, expect protests to be inconvenient, they'd not get noticed if they weren't.

Of course, the same Liberals who previously applauded me are now more up for insulting me and throwing e-bricks at me. Comments and such as to how I must want everyone to die of the plague and how Nurses are the Heroes of the Age and who am I to speak less than reverently of them?

I'm sure some even feel I've betrayed them, as I more usually find things on the Right to criticize. But I've betrayed nothing and no one. My position is unchanged.

"Governments are at best an expedient", as Thoreau said, and as I believe. And as he went on to explain, they are always far more likely to be inexpedient. And that I also believe.

I also am a firm believer in that the right to assemble and the right to free speech must necessitate some inconvenience - or even hardship - to the rest of us, whether we agree with the positions or not.

I find it funny that no amount of interference in people's lives from the government is ever thought "too much", but a half hour delay to work by "We the People" is always and ever just WAYYYY out of line.

And finally, and I should have thought obviously, cutesie comments that are really veiled threats about murder are really not appropriate in any vaguely free society or from any halfway civilized person.

Are the nurses now the "heroes of the day"? Well, before that were the cops that the BLM protested and before that "First Responders", and ever and always veterans. Heroes come and go, and when you see that the tag "hero" is for what job they chose - as opposed to what specific thing they did - know that they really are NOT heroes.

And even if such were, it confers no extra rights. No right to be excused from protests or the fall out of such. No veteran, however noble, had a right to expect the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to "march elsewhere" so as to not inconvenience the vet.

And no nurse - however heroically the temps are being took and the IVs checked - has a right to expect the jobless and disenfranchised to "respect her authoritay". Her - or his - "heroism" is simply in being part of a well oiled machine geared to save lives, the role of the nurse is no more or less essential than that of the janitor or admin.

All play their parts, none could do it without the others.

To suggest that such nurses should fail to do their jobs if it is a protester sick...well, that sounds far more "petty" than "professional" to me. And if actually followed up on, sounds far more "hell bound" than "heroic".

04/22/2020

What the idiots of this nation don't realize when it comes to closing churches is that it doesn't matter whether that would help or not. The First Amendment said, "Congress shall make NO law", not "Congress shall only make such laws if it's an emergency".

And upon that one example, the entire farce of having such a thing as a "limited government" falls.

Setting that obvious fact aside, then we have all the other reasons for why Churches should not be closed - like the fact that liquor stores and hardware stores are open, each having more than ten people in them.

And prisons still have more than ten in them.

And police stations.

And the post offices.

And - duh - the hospitals.

And the drug houses. I delivered food to four different drug houses just yesterday, two for crack, one for he**in and the other for ice. I counted more than ten in each. Laughably, several of them were wearing masks. That they'd only take down briefly to smoke a hit, then back up with the mask.

Shall we examine the absurdity of face masks that are not air tight? Or worn consistently?

Shall we examine the absurdity of the six foot thing, that neglects wind and sneezings?

Shall we examine the farce of "churches have you sitting together", while buses and trains still run?

Must we review, as if for children, that any quarantine between "none" and "total" is farcical and pointless?

We are being robbed in a massive transfer of wealth from "the people" to the "one percent" in which we are distracted with some paltry $1,200 to make up for a months long work dislocation.

04/14/2020

In utter defiance of the Constitution of the United States, most all Churches of all faiths are closed for the emergency. Because to have more than ten people under the same roof would be dangerous.

Meanwhile, you can still have ten or more people at grocery stores. And before you say, "they're essential", are the hardware stores also? And the liquor stores with their single aisle of "chips" and "jerky"?

Because Covid 19 is sentient, isn't it? It knows to kill in Churches and your work place, but it knows not to kill in grocery and liquor stores? Right? That's how it works?

Many can't go to work, because we can't have ten or more in a building. But the police station still can. And before you say they're essential, is the Fish and Game? The Post Office?

And who tells us these shifting and senseless commands, but groups of ten or more government folk up near a podium being filmed by ten or more newsmen?

But is this just the art of the possible? No. Everyone could have been locked down at once. Cops in hazmat suits could have made sure the roads were empty save for police cars and ambulances and hearses.

National Guard trucks could have delivered MREs and water barrels to each neighborhood.

All jobs could have been stopped. All but doctors and enforcers in full biohazard gear could have been told to stay home.

That would have stopped the virus at once.

As it is, what we've done has hardly even slowed it. Nor will it. The rules are illogical and arbitrary. The rules are full of exceptions. And the rules are ignored at whim with little danger of any trouble.

I go out all the time. Some would say, "But Mr. Amicable Anarchist, you deliver food to the needy! That's essential!"

Yeah, so essential they forgot to list that one. But as I know I am, I just do it anyway. I think they maybe got around to putting volunteer food deliverers on the list, but I haven't cared to check. Because I'm not letting someone go hungry while waiting for some bureaucrat in Chicago or DC to remember to list me.

I also go about to all three sober living homes I run. Because that's essential, too. And I know that one is NOT on any list. And what would I do if they caught me? The same, as they won't take anyone to jail save for the most heinous of crimes, letting the quarantine be violated for any good or bad reason and the disease continue to spread.

Should I stop? I would. If it was a total quarantine. But not when your dad is bored and goes down to Ace Hardware to browse about contaminating every surface there for the next guy who had no reason to be there either. Before both go back to their families.

Not while the grocery gal is ostentatiously disinfecting cart handles - without mask or gloves on.

Not while police can't be bothered to wear masks or stop the clearly non-essential drug traffic at houses that they know to be drug houses. (Because if I know, why couldn't they be as smart as me in spotting such? They're hardly secret - any teen can find them, or we'd hardly have teen drug use would we?!)

Not while the government still meets at their work to tell us we can't meet at our work.

Not while banks pass linen/paper money to us instead of the sensible switch to cash cards.

Not while the parks are still full of folks who think that "six feet" is magic, that somehow the Covid virus knows to die or be inert after two meters. As opposed to the reality that it has to do with air temp, wind, pressure and such, and also that some will be hardier and longer lasting than others.

Yeah, that's right. Of 100 Covid 19 viruses travelling from one person to another six feet away, some will fail before four feet - and some will last after eight feet! You think those viruses carry tape measures?

And any virus that would die after six feet - if it has a wind behind it, it could fail to die till sixty feet! So much for the grocery stores being appropriate to have open. Look up, next time - yeah, those are air vents, ducts and industrial fans.

The entire quarantine is not worthy of the name. We should call it what it is - a "work interruption", an "economy destabilizer" and of course, in the final and inevitable post virus analysis to come, an "income redistributer".

And the same 1.5% that would have died without any measures? Will literally still die with these measures. The virus is even now only spreading more. By me for good reasons, by the police for good reasons, by the doctors, nurses, postal workers, cashiers and clerks who still go out and to work each day.

Because the Covid virus doesn't know that they're "good" and "essential", so they - while telling you to stay home - spread it about for you.

And because all the under the table jobs are still going strong - stronger than ever. From undocumented migrant works to drug dealers to prostitutes to construction workers to lawn care to the homeless guy holding the sign on the coner, all of them are catching and spreading the virus.

Each of you know someone who goes from your house and comes back to your house. And that person helps spread it. Be he going out for drugs or groceries or to nurse others, he or she is aiding in spreading it.

But celebrities will meanwhile get good guy/gal publicity telling you to "save lives, stay at home", and most, having no thought of ever bucking the system will stay in as long as the internet and tv - both essential industries, of course - still keep them entertained with messages of how brave they are.

You are not surviving a catastrophe. You are participating in a farce that is being played upon you by those who are robbing you.

03/21/2020

Could it ever be okay to imagine that there should be limits to government authority? Or to ask why Covid-19 is worthy of depriving citizens of their jobs - and thus their houses and everything else - while AIDS and such was not?

It may be said, “But this time for sure, it really is real, so we must sacrifice the livelihood (and lives) of some few for the greater good”. Yet were that even true, exactly where in the Federal or State constitution did the people cede that authority to “their” government?

Do any realize then that we are assuming that those who we all mock and resent everyday (politicians) are the ones we are now believing are smart enough and good enough to unilaterally decide when to grossly exceed their authority?

Yes, I’m sure all those In power who sold stock short just before hyping this could in no way be doubted on the necessity of these measures.

And to those who think I'm not being smart, that this somehow is real, well, please know, it may well be. But know this - if it is real, then what sense does it make to stop people from congregating at work when you still let them congregate at grocery stores and gas stations and pharmacies?

If it truly is so dangerous, then we should stay home from those places to. Yet that would force the government to then place a moratorium on house payments and rent, and force them to direct the National Guard to provide food for everyone and hey, they just don't feel it's emergency enough to spend that much money on us!

So we can all suffer and live with it.

But take heart, no politician, no government worker, and certainly no one percenter will be harmed in the implementing of these policies. Nor miss a single bit of pay, nor have to depend upon the laughable - and still only hypothetical - $1,000 to cover an indeterminate amount of unemployment.

02/18/2020

Scrolling and clicking about the interwebs, I see a poll in which 64% of voters in New Hampshire would prefer a giant meteor to hit Earth and destroy all of humankind than Trump be elected again.

Elsewhere I see the same stuff most of you do - an unceasing barrage of praise for Trump from Conservatives and an unceasing barrage of contempt for Trump from Liberals.

He is the absolute best and absolute worst President in the history of ever, and he is the Savior and the Devil that will lead America to New Zion and the depths of Hell itself.

I'm here to suggest that both sides are equally wrong, and need to take a very deep breath and a giant step back.

As an anarchist, I can certainly judge that the man is a fool and a poser, power mad and narcissistic. He has no couth. No finesse. He is the type that you can't watch without feeling embarrassed on his behalf.

However, it's not like we haven't had such before, though admittedly he does seem a rather extreme case. But certainly George W., LBJ, and U.S. Grant are all strong and much overlooked contenders for that "honor".

But the hate is still as foolish as the love. I've heard Trump propose quite excellent ideas, like purchasing Greenland or starting a Space Force. And yeah, they both so happen to be great ideas, but as he said them, half the population of America is against them while the other half would have been for them even if he proposed using marshmallows to buy Greenland and graham crackers for space weapons.

I'd like each side to understand the crucial mistake they are both making.

We've deified the President. And it's not only stupid, but it's a form of idolatry.

The levels of reverence and fear, of adoration and contempt, are at emotional levels that historically have been more properly reserved for Gods and Demons.

Which prompts my very concerned question of, "Just why is any President of any nation at any time so important to you?"

Oh, yes, I know, some of his disparate policies will affect disparate groups in disparate ways, including ways that I don't like. Which is nothing more than I could say for any other President from George Washington on up.

Yet everyone of you puts your pants or dresses on each day, and each of you goes to work or watches Maury each day, each of you lives and loves and laughs - or dies and hates and cries - each day, whether he's in office, or whether unbeknownst to you Pence is running things while Trump undergoes surgery.

Or have we forgot that sometimes Presidents cede power temporarily without telling the public till years later, like W. did with Cheney?

The point isn't, by the way, whether Trump has ever been temporarily not President, the point is who cares? Both sides are just making WAY to big a deal about it.

When Trump came to office, he tried to do quite a few things, mostly sucky, and was promptly stopped by dozens of different sources from judges, to Congress to bureaucracies to powers that be.

And the first time the House could change hands, it did, as is usual in such cases. The Senate probably won't be far behind, especially if Trump wins again. America has a long history of making sure the Executive and Legislative branches are in opposite hands.

We are a nation of 330,000,000 people and frankly, one man just can't do that much good or bad. He's going to now muck about for another year - or five - and the Republic will still stand afterward.

Yes, the worship that I have literally watched some Conservatives give him is disgustingly sinful and foolish. But the hate and vitriol I've also watched Liberals give him is just as idolatrous and foolish.

He is neither God nor Satan. He is not an Angel or a Fallen Angel. He is not Christ or the Anti-Christ. And no, it is very, very doubtful that either side - God or Satan - is recruiting him to carry out anything good or bad.

He is a man. And be he brilliant or brainless, those are each attributes of a man.

We're going to have an election now. Probably a pretty contentious one. But whether he wins or loses, it is not worth any tears of joy or grief. It is not worth a voice raised in rapturous praise or angry jeering.

He is just a man. And if your life and happiness stands or falls on his winning or losing, then the problem lies in you, not him. Guys like him have built things up or mucked them up from the dawn of time. It's what you're about that should be the biggest factor in your life.

And if you still think it's a huge problem? Then try and realize that the problem is not the particular man, but a system that lets any man become so falsely important to so many.

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