In all the 20 years of writing and publishing The Daily Jot, it never has been censored, even though many controversial topics have been covered from a biblical worldview. Through the entire COVID episode of unconstitutional lockdowns and mandates, quarantining of healthy people, coercing the public through fear, and leveraging an unholy alliance of business, media and government to take an experimental shot that didn’t work as advertised and is known now to have many side effects, The Daily Jot was not censored. I was able to cover both sides, or all sides, of the many heated debates with clear documentation. Last week, however, that track record was broken. The Daily Jot was censored.

The column “Stupidocrisy: Biden targets Senior Citizens” was published on Wednesday, November 23 through all the normal channels. The column quoted word for word the White House fact sheet on:

• how it planned to launch a nearly half-a-billion-dollar marketing campaign to get people to take the COVID shot.
• word for word on how the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services was going to issue new regulations to police senior centers and nursing homes to hold them accountable for the proper “education” of residents to take the booster shot.
• that “nursing homes with low vaccination rates will be referred to state survey agencies for close scrutiny
• that facilities that do not comply with the requirement to offer and educate on the benefit of lifesaving COVID-19 vaccinations will face enforcement actions.

The column also quoted from several peer-reviewed studies from reputable sources about the risks and effectiveness of the COVID shot. Documented sources included MIT, the International Journal of Vaccine Theory, Practice and Research, the New England Journal of Medicine, the UK government Vaccine Surveillance report, and the VAERs reporting system.

Yet when the column was posted to Twitter and Facebook, crickets. Nothing. Two days go by, and nothing. Usually, these posts appear immediately. I decided to try to post again but edited out the obvious statement about how the Biden Administration was conducting this campaign despite widespread studies questioning the shot’s efficacy and safety.

When I reposted the edited version to Facebook, it posted but with immediate warnings:

• “Missing context Independent fact-checkers say this information could mislead people”; “Visit the COVID-19 Information Center for vaccine resources”;
• “Fact Check: CDC’s VAERS ‘Reports’ Are NOT Solid Proof of Vaccine Injuries Or Deaths — Just Starting Point for CDC, FDA Investigators,” and this directed readers to a website called leadstories.com.

Had I not edited the content and reposted, the column would not have been read on Facebook or on Twitter. And when it was reposted, Facebook put warnings all over it to make it look like it was not credible. This is how truth is censored. It is how science is censored. And it is how people are deceived by agenda-programmed censor machines.

Christ said in Matthew 24:4, “Take heed that no man deceive you.”

We all have to be on guard 24-7 because we don’t know who fact-checks the fact-checkers.

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A friend of mine who is long passed on was very wise. He was once a Democrat but finished his life as a Republican. He achieved much in his lifetime. Some of the things he wrote and said ring true today, just the same as they were back in his time. For example, he said,

“This is the issue of this election: Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capitol can plan our lives for us better than we can ourselves.”

Obviously, he was against big government, but more importantly, he was against controlling government, overreaching government. Such things lead to corruption and tyranny.

He said,

“You and I are told increasingly [that] we have to choose between a left or right. Well, I’d like to suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There’s only an up or down: up – man’s old-aged dream, the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with law and order, or down – to the ant heap of totalitarianism. And regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would trade our freedom for security have embarked on this downward course.”

We have seen this in how the Democratic Party has consistently defunded the police to no good end, with crime rapidly rising in all those cities. We also see how the same party has taken our freedoms “for the good of the masses” during COVID.

He said,

“Well, I, for one, resent it when a representative of the people refers to you and me, the free men and women of this country, as “the masses.” This is a term we haven’t applied to ourselves in America. But beyond that, “the full power of centralized government” – this was the very thing the Founding Fathers sought to minimize. They knew that governments don’t control things. A government can’t control the economy without controlling people. And they know when a government sets out to do that, it must use force and coercion to achieve its purpose. They also knew, those Founding Fathers, that outside of its legitimate functions, government does nothing as well or as economically as the private sector of the economy.”

We now see the results of what a powerful team of government, media, and the private sector are when it comes to controlling people and an economy. When these three horses pull together, we have lockdowns, censorship, deadly mandates, sexual deviants preying on our children in schools, and out-of-control inflation.

The things my friend said in a speech titled “A Time for Choosing,” aired on national television October 27, 1964, ring true today. My friend, Ronald Reagan, was ahead of his time in predicting what happens when Democrat socialists get in power. Some 58 years ago, he saw today’s America coming if people didn’t stand up and choose.

Ecclesiastes 3:7 says there is “A time to keep silence, and a time to speak.” It is most definitely time to speak, time to choose, and time to act. It’s time.

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