I am happy to announce that beginning sometime later this year I will no longer be posting my writings via email and through my blog site. Instead, I will begin sharing entirely through a print-only publication, that I will either hand-deliver or mail to you, depending upon your location and proximity to me.

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Looking forward to meeting you again in an analog world filled with sunshine and real life!

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~Francis

Media-Free in 2023.

Tech & Media No More in 2024.

Living Simple, Quiet Lives in 2025.

May the truth that you follow, bring you abiding peace. 

May the love that you profess, heal you of every disease.

Another beautiful person damaged by these so-called vaccines. Help us get these things shelved permanently, and get help for people who have been hurt by them.

Sutton Hohensee, 16 yrs old

First Dose of Pfizer on 06/2021

Second Dose of Pfizer in 07/2021

Booster Dose of Pfizer in 01/2022 Lot #330258D

Texas

16 yrs old

Q: What was your life like before you got the vaccine?

Honors high school student and varsity tennis player.

Q: Would you like to share your reason(s) for getting the vaccine?

I was thinking of others.

Q: What was your reaction, symptoms, & timeline?

January 2, 2022, I received the Pfizer booster. Didn’t think anything of it, because I received 2 shots in June, July ‘21 and had no side effects except a sore arm.

January 5, ‘22, I began to have a sore throat and thought I might be getting strep. I went and got strep, flu and COVID tested, and they were all negative, but my symptoms kept getting worse.

Monday, January 10, I went to school not feeling well. On the tennis courts was when my body shut down. I was served a ball and in a second, my body wouldn’t “go”. I had a sharp pain in my chest, and my breathing changed. I took my rescue inhaler, thinking it might be my exercise-induced asthma, and finished my match. By the end of the match, I was hyperventilating, had a sharp chest pain and my vision was blurry. My parents came and picked me up, got me home and from there my symptoms spiraled. I was checked for myocarditis and labs were drawn. My Dr. dismissed my symptoms and sent me home. I never went back to school, and new symptoms kept coming. The head pain became unbearable, orthostatic hypotension made my body want to pass out constantly. On January 23, I woke up and could not hold my head up. My mom took me me Texas Children’s. I was admitted under the care of a neurologist. MRI, lumbar puncture, migraine cocktail, labs, 8 rounds of DHE thinking I had a migraine, seeing the eye Dr. in the hospital, possibly getting a blood patch thinking I had a CFS leak. I just wanted to go home, and I did. I left Texas Children’s just the way I went in, nothing changed.

Since then, I have seen 23 different Drs., every MD you can imagine, had numerous blood draws, nerve blocks, myelogram, a second MRI with and without contrast, ketamine. I am refractory to all medications, the list is long, that I have tried for head pain and brain fog. I do have one I take to keep my blood pressure and heart rate under control. I have worked with a virologist and my local Dr., in hopes of some symptom improvement with specialized medication, but nothing has changed. Not one symptom, some are even worse. I am currently in the process of getting approved for IVIG. I have labs showing elevated auto antigens, high VEGF and SCD40L.

I never went back to school after January 10. I finished and graduated with online courses Dec. ‘22. College and work are both on hold. My symptom list is lengthy…chronic, all day 10/10 head pain and it gets worse with any stimulation, awful brain fog, I’m not even sure I can attend college class, malaise, I’m tired before I even get out of bed, orthostatic hypotension, bradycardia, tachycardia, tinnitus, blurriness/my vision cuts out often, dizziness, body temp dis-regulation, vasodilatation, GI issues, neuropathy in hands and feet, my breathing has never been the same since my episode on the tennis court.

I’m not sure what the future holds, my mom is my biggest advocate always researching what’s next, talking to Drs., taking me to appointments. I stay positive, knowing this is happening to me for a greater cause. I want to encourage and help other people through this…you are not alone. Stay strong!

Q: Tell us about any tests, diagnoses, and/or Medical Care received:

Refractory to all migraine medications, also medications to help brain fog, lumbar puncture, 2 different MRIs with and without contrast, myelogram, ketamine infusions for pain, occipital, ganglion and nose nerve blocks, vestibular physical therapy, labs ran by neurologist, oncologist, rheumatologist, endocrinologist, immunologist, cardiologist. All labs come back “normal”. Cytokine labs by virologist, Cunningham panel auto antigen test. I have also tried acupuncture and seen a chiropractor.

Neurologist has my diagnosis as chronic, daily persistent head pain (undiagnosed type) Dysautonomia/POTS, autonomic nervous system disorder, orthostatic hypotension.

Q: Where has your reaction been reported, and what was the response?

CICP, and VAERS no response.

Local Dr., neurologist, urologist, immunologist ongoing patient appointments.

Q: Have you had Covid before?

I had COVID for the first time Feb. ‘23. It was a mild case.

Q: What do you wish others knew?

Vaccine injury is real, be a voice, keep talking about it and searching for answers. Healthcare has not even scratched the surface of how to help us. Keep putting your symptoms in front of them, and eventually there will be research and treatment.

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~FS

This article is hard to swallow. For many of us, our desires are simple, we don’t need great wealth, nor lots of stuff, nor things to impress the neighbors. We simply need clean water to drink, unadulterated vegetables, fruits and meats, and the freedom to seek and have relationship with our God. These simplest things are under attack. Let food be our medicine; but how can we, if it has been genetically manipulated by psychopaths?:

Are Foods Being Turned Into Bioweapons?

Just as medicine is being hijacked by the biotech industry, so is our food supply. President Biden recently signed an executive order that makes biotechnology a key focus of every federal agency, including the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

By 

Dr. Joseph Mercola

Story at a glance:

• Dr. Peter Lurie, president of the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), and Beth Ellikidis, vice president of agriculture and environment at the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO), argue for the genetic engineering of food. Both are connected to Bill Gates and other Great Resetters that are pushing to replace all-natural foods with patentable, genetically modified foods.
• BIO, the world’s largest GMO (genetically modified organism) trade organization, represents more than 1,000 pesticide, pharmaceutical, and biotech companies in more than 30 countries. BIO claims genetic engineering is the solution to heal, fuel and feed the world, and to that end, it lobbies 15 different policy areas, including food, agriculture, and healthcare policy.
• In 2004, BIO launched BIO Ventures for Global Health (BVGH), a nonprofit organization that “develops and manages programs across the for-profit and non-profit sectors to accelerate research and development for poverty-related diseases.” BVGH was launched with a $1 million start-up grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
• In 2018, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation spun off a nonprofit subsidiary to the foundation called the Bill & Melinda Gates Medical Research Institute (Gates MRI), which develops biotechnologies to address health problems in poor countries.
• BIO is partnered with the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD), and the DOD specifically funds and provides technology transfers for the diseases that Gates MRI and BVGH are focused on: malaria, tuberculosis and Ebola.

In an April 17, opinion piece in STAT News, Dr. Peter Lurie and Beth Ellikidis argue for the genetic engineering of food, claiming “newer technologies can make highly targeted changes at the base-pair level — one specific rung on the DNA ladder — enhancing precision and reducing the likelihood of ‘off-target effects’ in which the base pairs are unintentionally added to or deleted from the genome.”

While targeted genetic engineering is indeed possible, and modern technology lowers the likelihood of unintentional additions or deletions, this precision does not guarantee there won’t be adverse effects.

One of the reasons for this is that many genes are multifunctional and can have multiple downstream effects.

By altering a single gene, you can inadvertently affect the expression of hundreds of others. What’s more, the multifunctionality of genes is rarely intuitive.

So, while it may seem convenient to genetically engineer cows without horns to prevent injury to other cows and farmhands, as suggested by Lurie and Ellikidis, there’s no telling what that tweak might do to internal organs or biological pathways.

In turn, there’s no guarantee that cascading effects will not alter the nutrition of the meat or dairy that comes from that cow. Maybe it’ll be fine, maybe it won’t. The problem is that, oftentimes with genetically engineered foods, safety testing is minimal or absent.

Who do Lurie and Ellikidis answer to?

When assessing the trustworthiness of people, it can be worthwhile to look at their funding and various partnerships.

In the case of Lurie and Ellikidis, both are in league with Bill Gates and other “great resetters” that are pushing to replace all-natural foods with patentable, genetically modified foods.

Lurie — a former U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) associate commissioner — is the president of the Center for Science in the Public Interest. In the summer of 2020, Lurie launched a comprehensive campaign to put Mercola.com out of business by sending the FDA and the Federal Trade Commission after us based on bogus charges.

CSPI is funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, the Rockefeller Family Fund, Bloomberg Philanthropies and other billionaire-owned foundations. It’s also partnered with the Cornell Alliance for Science, a “global communications initiative” whose primary funding comes from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Greg Jaffe, who heads up CSPI’s Biotechnology Project, is also the associate director of legal affairs at Alliance for Science.

Considering those ties, the CSPI’s long history of promoting industry science and propaganda is not surprising in the least. They supported artificial sweeteners, trans fats, GMOs, fake meat and the low-fat myth. They’ve also actively undermined transparency in labeling efforts.

Ellikidis, meanwhile, is the vice president of agriculture and environment at the BIO. She’s leading the “policy and market access strategies for BIO’s Agriculture and Environment section, which includes member companies developing and producing breakthrough technologies in food and agriculture.”

BIO, the world’s largest GMO trade organization, represents more than 1,000 pesticide, pharmaceutical and biotech companies in more than 30 countries, as well as industry groups, academic institutions, state biotechnology centers and other related organizations.

According to BIO, genetic engineering is the solution to heal, fuel and feed the world. To that end, it has lobbying committees dedicated to influencing 15 different policy areas, including food, agriculture, healthcare policy, technology transfer and finance.

According to Open Secrets, BIO spent $13,250,000 on “pharmaceutical and health products” lobbying in 2022. For reference, only Pfizer and the lobbying group Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America spent more.

How Gates sets himself up for success

In 2004, BIO launched BVGH, a nonprofit organization that “strategically develops and manages programs across the for-profit and non-profit sectors to accelerate research and development (R&D) for poverty-related diseases.”

BVGH was launched with a $1 million start-up grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

In 2005, the BVGH received another $5.4 million to expand the biotech industry’s role in the fight against neglected diseases. The Rockefeller Foundation is also funding the group.

Fast-forward to 2018, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation spun off a nonprofit subsidiary to the foundation called Gates MRI.

Gates MRI, funded with a $273 million, four-year grant from the Gates Foundation, is focused on developing biotechnologies to address health problems in poor countries.

It’s a convenient setup to say the least.

On the one hand, Gates is funding the R&D of biotech products through Gates MRI, and on the other, he’s funding the acceleration, coordination and management of private-public biotech programs through BVGH.

One key area where the BVGH is being inserted to manage private-public programs is the “Cancer Moonshot” program, launched in 2016 by then-Vice President Joe Biden.

Biden “reignited” and highlighted the program in 2022.

As reported in a White House fact sheet:

“Working with African Access Initiative (AAI) partners, BIO Ventures for Global Health (BVGH) will implement cancer research projects that are determined and led by African oncologists and conducted in collaboration with U.S. cancer experts.

“Through its African Consortium for Cancer Clinical Trials (AC3T) program, BVGH will facilitate five research projects, build capacity to conduct rigorous clinical research at 50 African sites, promote African primary investigator’s research interests on the AC3T platform, and coordinate the implementation of observational clinical studies.

“In addition to building AC3T sites’ research capacity, BVGH will map the regulatory pathway in five AAI countries. All clinical studies involving cancer drugs will include development of market access pathways by BVGH.”

Gates MRI, in turn, intends to “apply new understanding of the human immune system learned from cancer research to prevent infectious disease.”

Conveniently, he’s got the inside track to all of that through the BVGH.

Biowarfare partners

As it so happens, BIO is also partnered with the DOD, and the DOD specifically funds and provides technology transfers for the diseases that Gates MRI and BVGH are focused on: malaria, tuberculosis and Ebola.

Not surprisingly, the DOD is also seeking to develop and adopt more mRNA-based therapeutics against other emerging biological threats — products that can be manufactured and deployed quickly.

One of the obvious hazards of public-private partnerships becoming more and more intertwined, as we see now, is that the government becomes less and less inclined to ensure the safety of these co-developed, co-owned products.

In a June 2022 BIO webinar, Ian Watson, deputy assistant secretary of defense for chemical and biological defense, specified that the agency will “safeguard” its industrial partners from various threats, including “foreign economic aggression and inherent marketplace vulnerability that are specific to biotechnology and biopharmaceuticals.”

Does “market vulnerability” also include legal action by people injured by biopharmaceuticals that have been brought to market at warp speed?

Judging by what we’ve seen during the COVID-19 pandemic, it sure seems the U.S. government is doing everything it can to hide and suppress evidence of harm, so why would we expect any different in the future?

Are foods being turned into bioweapons?

Getting back to the issue of food, just as medicine is being hijacked by the biotech industry, so is our food supply. Indeed, President Biden recently signed an executive order that makes biotechnology a key focus of every federal agency, including the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

The transhumanist agenda is clear for everyone to see, and it’s being pushed on us from every angle, through food, medicine and national security.

It recently came to light that the swine industry in the U.S. and Canada has been using customizable mRNA “vaccines” on herds since 2018, and to this day, there’s no research to prove the meat is safe for consumption in the long term and won’t affect the genetics of those who eat it.

Based on our experiences with the mRNA COVID-19 shots, which more and more experts are starting to refer to as bioweapons, it’s not farfetched to wonder whether the use of mRNA in livestock might be a form of biowarfare against the public as well, this time through the food supply.

As reported by Dr. Peter McCullough, Chinese researchers have demonstrated that food can indeed be turned into a vaccine (or a bioweapon, depending on the antigen):

“The nation’s food supply can be manipulated by public health agencies to influence population outcomes … Now an oral route of administration is being considered specifically for COVID-19 vaccination using mRNA in cow’s milk.

“Zhang and colleagues have demonstrated that a shortened mRNA code of 675 base pairs could be loaded into phospholipid packets called exosomes derived from milk and then using that same milk, be fed to mice.

“The mice gastrointestinal tract absorbed the exosomes and the mRNA must have made it into the bloodstream and lymphatic tissue because antibodies were produced in fed mice against SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein (receptor binding domain) …

“Given the damage mRNA vaccines have generated in terms of injuries, disabilities, and deaths, these data raise considerable ethical issues. The COVID States project has shown that 25% of Americans were successful in remaining unvaccinated. This group would have strong objections to mRNA in the food supply, particularly if it was done surreptitiously or with minimal labelling/warnings …

“These observations lead me to conclude that mRNA technology has just entered a whole new, much darker phase of development. Expect more research on and resistance to mRNA in our food supply. The Chinese have just taken the first of what will probably be many more dangerous steps for the world.”

Say no to mRNA in your food

Moving forward, it’s going to be extremely important to stay on top of what’s happening to our food supply. Many of us were surprised to realize mRNA shots have been used in swine for several years already.

Soon, cattle may get these customizable mRNA shots as well, which could affect both beef and dairy products.

For now, I strongly recommend avoiding pork products. In addition to the uncertainty surrounding these untested mRNA “vaccines,” pork is also very high in linoleic acid, a harmful omega-6 fat that drives chronic disease.

Hopefully, cattle ranchers will realize the danger this mRNA platform poses to their bottom line and reject it. If they don’t, finding beef and dairy that has not been “gene therapied” could become quite the challenge.

Ultimately, if we want to be free, and if we want food safety and food security, we must focus our efforts on building a decentralized system that connects communities with farmers who grow real food in sustainable ways and distribute that food locally.

Legislative efforts are also needed. Bills that would be helpful in steering us in the right direction include the following:

• The Processing Revival and Intrastate Meat Exemption (PRIME) Act — This bill was introduced in 2017 and hasn’t moved since its introduction in the House. The PRIME Act would allow farmers to sell meat processed at smaller slaughtering facilities and allow states to set their own meat processing standards.

Because small slaughterhouses do not have an inspector on staff — a requirement that only large facilities can easily fulfill — they’re banned from selling their meat. The PRIME Act would lift this regulation without sacrificing safety, as random USDA inspections could still occur.

• The Interstate Milk Freedom Act of 2021 — This bill was introduced at the end of July 2021 as an amendment to the 2018 Farm Bill.
• Missouri House Bill 1169, which would require labeling of products, including food, that might “impact, alter or introduce genetic material or a genetic change” into the consumer.

Originally published by Mercola.

~FS

We all want to believe our doctors; what other choice do we have? And we need hope. But we also need truth and honesty. And the truth is that our doctors lied to us, and the whole medical establishment that we want to trust is corrupted, and now preys upon our misfortunes, and profits from them.

Pray for this man, injured by the mRNA vaccines, and for his family who trusted our medical ‘experts’ and are now paying a heavy price for that misplaced trust.

My thought is, go to a naturopathic doctor instead, if at all possible, and avoid hospitals and conventional pharmaceutical interventions that are likely to cause you more injury and more problems than you went in with. Let food be your medicine. And when needed, turn to herbal and traditional time-tested remedies. They may not work, but they also might; and they likely won’t create new problems for you.

Pete Muratore

First Dose of Pfizer on 02/26/2021

Second Dose of Pfizer on 03/19/2021

Long Island, New York

47 yrs old

Told with the help of his wife Kari Maratore

Q: What was your life like before you got the vaccine?

Battled cancer in 2018/19, made a full recovery, and continued to be an independent mobile, active father of two young energetic boys, very positive person and always willing to help anyone in need. Loved to cook, play sports with my children and travel for their hockey and lacrosse games.

Q: Would you like to share your reason(s) for getting the vaccine?

According to doctors, Pete was high risk and needed to be vaccinated!

Q: What was your reaction, symptoms, & timeline?

This is Pete’s story. On February 26, 2021, we never realized that this was the end of life as we knew it. Pete received his first Pfizer vaccination on this date with a follow up on March 19, 2021. Now, I am not going to lie and tell you, Pete was a “healthy” man. He had battled cancer previously, and he was overweight, but other than that he was a healthy individual. He was an independent mobile, active father. Pete would wake up early every morning, jump out of bed, make the kids breakfast, go to work, put in a full day, come home, make dinner, and drive the kids to their various sporting events. This all began to change after his vaccination.

In April, Pete’s foot began to swell. He went to numerous doctors and was told its probably gout. Come to find out, it was not gout. Then doctors thought he needed major back surgery to have steel rods placed in his back, another wrong diagnosis. Months of physical therapy with no progress followed, and Pete’s symptoms began to progress. Slowly, Pete began to start losing feeling in his feet, which progressed up his legs and to his waist. He was no longer able to walk or stand without assistance. Pete ended up having numerous pulmonary embolisms and dvts, which needed emergency surgery to save his life. Now, it is beginning to affect his arms, hands, and other parts of his body.

As soon as the symptoms started to appear, Pete went to the doctor, NOT one doctor but multiple doctors and specialists! We traveled into the city, we spent a month at the Mayo clinic looking for answers, and we spend countless hours in doctors’ offices, searching for that one doctor that may be able to help. We are praying someone would be able to help us.

Pete received various diagnosis; transverse myelitis, inflammation in the spine, CIDP and many doctors had no explanation. They could tell us he had inflammation stemming from his spinal nerves but could not figure out what was causing it. They tried various treatments, nothing was working, and still nothing is working! We are no closer to finding answers.

Pete, always an optimistic, full of life, cheer you on type of guy, is becoming depressed and hopeless. Imagine not being able to do the things you used to do. Imagine worrying that you could fall at any point or have an accident while talking to a business associate or in the middle of a hockey game that your child is playing. Imagine feeling like you are just waiting for this “disease” to just take over your body and kill you. He is becoming despondent, hopeless, and desperate. Almost two years later (3/8/23), we found out that his symptoms are indeed in response to the vaccine that he received. While we are happy to know where this illness originated (deep down we knew, but got validation from the latest doctor appointment), we are devastated to know this could have been prevented.

I am sharing Pete’s story, because it needs to be heard. We are hoping that if more people share their reactions to these shots, that maybe it will help doctors find a cure or at the very least help stop the progression of this “disease”. We are devastated that this is our new journey and one we did not choose, but one we will continue as we have no other choice. We will fight and continue to seek answers, but we also need to tell the truth and let people know what this vaccine did to change Pete’s life forever. Help us help Pete and others who have been forever changed by because of the COVID shots.

Q: Tell us about any tests, diagnoses, and/or Medical Care received:

Numerous MRIs, cat scans, ultrasounds, PET scans, X-rays, spinal taps, lab work, EMGs, hospital stays, infusions, biopsies, and still no answers. Diagnoses: TM, inflammation in spine, CIDP, neuropathy in extremities, spike proteins in spinal fluid, loss of bowel and bladder control, renal cancer, vision worsening, DVT’s and pulmonary embolisms.

Q: Where has your reaction been reported, and what was the response?

Reported to VAERS, attempted national vaccine injury compensation but wasn’t aware of this program until 2 years after vax injury, and there’s a one year time limit

Q: Are there any treatments that have helped or hurt your health?

IVIG, Steroids (oral and IV), numerous cleanses, diet change, eliquis for excessive clotting, ivermectin. Nothing is helping.

Q: What do you wish others knew?

Pete may never be the same again, but we all need to continue to fight for the answers we deserve!

CLICK HERE for Pete’s Fundraiser

~FS

When I see you on the cross, Lord Jesus, I am ashamed. I feel convicted in the depths of my being. What sacrifice have I made for others? What would I have done were I in your position; if the powers of this world confronted me? I am not satisfied with myself; I do not accept my response. If I were silent in the face of this world’s anger and depravity, as I very well might be, how could I live with myself after that silence? If I failed to stand for the weak, the righteous, and the truth that is found in You, how then could I stand for anything? If I protected my own personal interests at that terrible moment of decision, and shrank away from advocating for the interests of goodness and mercy, and for what is right in your sight—this would be like planting seeds of ugliness within my own soul, which in time, would grow into something I greatly despise. I think I would grow to hate my very life, which I had saved through my fear for self-preservation. I know that it would be far better for me, to hang with you on the cross, my Lord, than it is to enjoy the fruits of my fears. Yet, I am held captive by my fears; and I am ashamed to admit it.

Jesus, this world is not your friend. You’ve said it yourself; and it is clear that this is true. But I desire to be your friend. Yet, I am both at odds with this world, and with you. My insincerity is the cause of much anguish within me; although my falsehood helps me get along well with others. When one speaks your truth, the power of this world doesn’t like it; it doesn’t want any competition, and it doesn’t want to be exposed as a fraud. So, I haven’t wanted to hurt any feelings; I acquiesce. I tone it down. “Perhaps I’m wrong.” “It all depends on how you look at it.” There’s some truth in their argument. Maybe I don’t have all of the facts. Maybe they aren’t killing babies in the womb; maybe fetuses aren’t people. Maybe they aren’t harvesting organs in China; maybe I got that wrong. Maybe all these drugs really are good for us. And all of the additives they put in our food aren’t making us fat, sick and diseased. Maybe the politicians that are destroying us aren’t as ignorant and arrogant as they appear to be; maybe they really do know what’s best for us. Maybe our doctors aren’t bought off by other interests, and maybe they really do care about our health, and not how to maximize profits.

Jesus, did you question yourself, like I do? “Maybe the Pharisee’s are right, maybe I’m not the son of God?” Maybe I really shouldn’t have eaten that grain on the Sabbath? Perhaps I should tone it down a little? I could have waited a day, and healed some of those folks on Sunday instead of Saturday, what’s the hurry anyway? That might not have pushed so many buttons. Maybe we can have a conference, and iron out all these disagreements; I’m sure it’s just a misunderstanding. I might not have all the facts. Besides, they’re just trying to keep the country together, and look out for the citizens; its tough being a Pharisee, I should lighten up on them. I should be a better neighbor to them; I’m not being a very nice Christian right now…

These are theoretical musings, but when it becomes real, it isn’t so humorous. Lives are in the balance, and there can be a genuine price to pay. You died on a cross. That is not a pleasant death. I am not so enamored by sacrifice when it becomes real; I assert it more readily, and with greater conviction, when I am simply ruminating about it. Our world is changing now, and I’m seeing more people faced with the real choice to either sacrifice themselves in the fight against destructive worldly powers, or to hide in the shadows and hope for the best. I’m not sure what to do; this troubles me. I have spent time planning many escape routes but none seem satisfactory. Neither do I like the prospect of opening my mouth and facing the consequences. But the idea of keeping silent in the face of deception and evil, is intolerable. I’d like to pretend this isn’t real; perhaps I have got the facts wrong. But the walls appear to be closing in on us all, and real choices will have to be made someday in the future. They are already being made by some of us. Will I muster the courage to take up my cross, when my time comes?

~FS