The Joys of Freelancing

 When you tell people you are a freelance writer, you usually get one of two responses. 

"Oh, yeah, I do that sometimes." These people call themselves freelancers (and they are), but they don't freelance for a living. It's a side gig that they either haven't put the effort into building or they just use it in their spare time. 

Then, there is the starry-eyed response as if freelancing is a dreamy job. There are a lot of people who self-publish, and I imagine they do have that starry-eyed job of writing what they want, when they want. They might not have money, but they certainly are pursuing their dreams. That is not me.

I have writing dreams, but I also have a family to feed. That means I don't get to always write what I want to write or edit what I want to edit. (Don't get me wrong, I refuse any jobs that I find ethically wrong and jobs that I find morally wrong--although some savvy employers have managed to pull the wool over my eyes a few times.) 

The starry-eyed responders don't realize that when I am editing someone else's story--it can be quite rough. Once or twice it was borderline unreadable. I also get those Master's theses on the (to me) rather unexciting topics of computer data analysis or teaching theory. I get to write reports comparing international banking practices, or talking about high-end, international real estate sectors. 

Don't get me wrong: I get to write about interesting things, too. (My favorite was Zombie Skin Care.) But, if you want to make money, you have to do things that aren't necessarily appealing to you. 

Picking up the Pieces

 So, I had a rough past few years. I was horribly censored, despite using extensive citations in everything I wrote. My book, Hitler's Big Lie, still cannot be accessed, edited, or updated, but I am planning to try again, soon. 

My long journey of censorship and attacks--regardless of how much scientific evidence I had supporting my statements--is hopefully ending. I have started working on social media again--where threats and having my account stifled made me stop.

I have been kicked out of Court not because I did anything wrong, but rather because the issue was "moot" (after the court sat on it for a year without doing anything) or the judge said I wrote incoherently--you, dear reader, can be the judge of that--or, perhaps most painfully, because I was a pro se litigant and had the audacity to file more than one lawsuit. For the record, I tried to get a lawyer. Only two returned my calls--one said the government could do whatever it wanted during an "emergency" so I didn't have a case. The other one said I had a good case, but their practice had some big clients who wouldn't be happy with them suing me. I had video evidence.

Kicking people out of court, permanently ("with prejudice") because their complaint "fails to state a claim" is great for courts--they can stifle anyone they want permanently without "wasting" resources on a trial. However, when the judge says "this is an ADA claim" and then goes on to say the complaint was incomprehensible; or when in a preliminary meeting, the judge tells the defendants I have a good case and they need to work with me, but a few months later, after the defendants tell the judge I have filed more than one pro se lawsuit--the judge suddenly decides I don't have a case and have, that's right, "failed to state a claim." 

I tried to appeal, but I never was notified in the case of the last decision, and once you get to the Supreme Court, there is little chance that they will see your case. They have, in fact, prohibited pro se litigants from coming before them unrepresented. They are supposed to assign you a lawyer if they agree to hear the case, but this requires resources, and there is a question of who is going to pay for that lawyer. Further muddying the situation is that the U.S. government was on the other side of one of those lawsuits. Many people don't realize it, but the Dept. of Justice advises the Supreme Court on which cases to hear. I was going against a brief written by 14 government and other lawyers from some of the top firms in America. 

I think I probably spent about $10,000. I went into it never expecting to win (although I was very hopeful with the last one.) I just knew if I could get my evidence and complaints into the system, maybe other lawyers would look at them and use those arguments better than I did. (Or since they were lawyers, they would at least be able to get to a trial of the evidence.) I had to stop freelancing because it took so much of my time to follow everything. I knew even if I won as a pro se litigant, I could not recover money for time lost. 

Now, we are "getting on with our lives post-pandemic," but little has been done to address all the rights violations that the Courts ignored and allowed to happen. I, too, am returning to freelancing. But I can't forget that American government and Courts violated so many areas of the Constitution and did not think twice about doing it--refused to listen to reason, to science, and even to statistics. People need to be careful. The government agents--Republican and Democrat--who are now in power only care about that power and not our rights. 

The West Should Be Ashamed of Itself

I am editing and reposting this rant. I usually have a separate blog for politics. However, having my writing censored even though I cite the CDC and FDA and other peer-reviewed scientific works, has lead me to be extraordinarily cynical about our current society.

For two years now, the West has inflicted Middle-Ages-revived methods of public health on its citizens--rejecting modern scientific methods of controlling disease transmission. I wrote about this in my book "Hitler's Big Lie," and that is when I discovered the evil went deeper than that. For two years, Western governments have locked us down, damaged our economies, forced us to wear masks that have developmentally delayed our children, kicked our kids out of schools and into the arms of gangs and teenage pregnancies and ignorance, forced "vaccines" on us that are not weakened or dead COVID-19 and that have never been used before because in two decades of research they have NEVER worked. They continue to push these "vaccines" while admitting the do not stop disease transmission and they have serious, deadly side effects for the takers. They continue to push COVID-19 vaccines on people even though we had fewer deaths from COVID-19 in 2020 before there were vaccines than we have had in any year since (when 70%+ of the population is "vaccinated"). 

They have stifled our voices in Fascist, Nazi ways through businesses such as Amazon and Google. Our governments are supposed to protect our rights and not use these corporations to violate American's 4th, 5th, and 11th Amendments and the rights of people worldwide. They have called in Hitleresque "Emergency Powers" on innocent protestors or those in third world countries just trying to go to work. They have claimed "epidemiologists" who have never taken a single course in medicine and who sit behind their computers creating models until they come out how they want and then call these models  "science" and claim they are spreading truth. They closed our hospitals, denied us early preventative care for cancers and heart diseases--and when we died of those because they prevented us from seeking care--they were labeled as "COVID deaths." They then told our relatives we died of "COVID-related heart problems" or whatever it was that could have been prevented. After all the good doctors and nurses quit, the bad, ignorant ones, only in it for money, shoved respirators down our loved ones' throats, introducing bacteria and other germs into their lungs unnecessarily, so they could get more money from governments that had shut down as "unnecessary" the medical world's cash cows like non-emergency outpatient surgeries. All the while, our elected officials were getting fatter, getting haircuts, going on vacations where they didn't have to worry about us peasants being under foot since we were locked in our homes, and investing in all the measures they were mandating so they could earn even more money. Meanwhile, we got poorer and starved. Yet, these governments continue to think they have the right to say they are "defending" democracy?

NATO, which has invaded more than 70 countries since its creation--deposed elected presidents in exchange for non-elected puppets in Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Libya, Iraq, Mali, etc. all the while training terrorists to help their own militaries. NATO was supposed to "protect" NATO countries but instead, it invades countries with false claims they "might" pose a NATO threat, and it spends more of our hard earned money making war each year just to keep itself alive and arms makers well-funded in the name of "democracy." NATO is a back door so congresses, such as the one in the U.S., can claim they did not "authorize" wars or bombing innocent civilians, such as in Serbia in the 1990s, but they do authorize it by funding it just as they are funding Ukraine to fight with Russia. And these governments think they have the right to say they are "defending" democracy?

And now [in 2022 when this was first written], while Putin pleads with Ukrainians to lay down their arms and stop letting the NATO-instated drug addicts, like Hunter Biden, or their Nazi military, like the Azov Battalion, use civilian grandmothers and children as shields, the West in its disgusting manner encourages its own untrained citizens to go to Ukraine and fight-because they apparently did not kill enough people with their bad medical practices during COVID-19. The West uses pictures from the 2.5 million-large refugee camps inside Russia's borders--refugees they have ignored since 2014 to whine about the refugees "Russia" is creating?!?! And these governments think they have the right to say they are "defending" democracy?

I have been censored throughout my protests against the unscientific methods they have been using for COVID-19. I have never been able to edit Hitler's Big Lie; I cannot post large print or cheaper black and white versions. I currently can't even find the Kindle version listed. I can no longer comment on Facebook or send Facebook messages to my friends--and Facebook ignores my requests for technical help just as Amazon did. [I have finally been able to access Facebook again--although my following is still nonexistent at this point.] Few, if any, see my feeds. I could not make a comment on an ABC YouTube channel yesterday. I was blocked by Google from searching for whether Congress approved Vietnam [This, thankfully, was temporary, and I found out they did not approve our invasion as they were supposed to do "officially" but they continued funding it] and from trying to figure out if Zelenskyy is using a blue screen in a television studio to make his "messages." "Free speech" is gone--replaced with mis- and dis-information and propaganda just as real scientific studies with significant results were replaced by "pre-prints" and "modeling" studies. Do Western citizens even have a vote anymore? Our leaders-in their cookie-cutter, money-making, political parties--are certainly not afraid of losing their jobs. And these governments think they have the right to say they are "defending" democracy?

Don't believe this War is anything more than a distraction- like the movie Wag the Dog on steroids--where they really incite another country to join the war. Russia is not the bad guy in all this: We are. Anything Russia tries to say in its defense or even things it said prior to entering Ukraine's territory--such as that Ukraine threatened them with obtaining nuclear weapons--we ignore and our media stifles it as "fake" news while spewing out TikTok videos and Instagram images as "truth." If Ukraine is doing so great in all this and Russia is lost and out of gas, why did Ukraine encourage its citizens to make Molotov cocktails and release all its prisoners to fight? [Notably, Russia is still going 2 years later, but still we get news stories that Ukraine is winning.] Again, Ukraine is trying to increase civilian deaths--as if the 14,000 that have been murdered under the Western installed regime since 2014 are not enough. We, the people of the West, keep looking the other way as our governments through NATO and sanctions have taken away freedom in third world countries and in rising economies and now our own freedoms. While they flood the media with war they are encouraging, they drop COVID "restrictions" and slip "home test kits" into our stores for "free" (because these kits won't be reported) to make it look like numbers are dropping, and there archaic methods and un-science were successful, when in reality numbers have grown astronomically with each "restriction" (or rather rights violation) they enacted and will grow again in April, July/August, and November-January as they have EVERY YEAR.

Some time, if we ever get through this censorship, I hope to be back to blogging regularly about our lives, writing, and freelancing. Until then, it will probably be a long time before I post again, just as it was a long time between my last post and this one. It is hard to put your heart and research into something only to see it barred from publication and your audience.