For many of us, the past 18 months have been among the hardest of our lives. The isolation, the shunning, and the sense of betrayal as our loved ones lose themselves to this mass hysteria and as our right to think and speak freely is smothered by righteous busybodies. There is a grey filthy fog that has descended over everything.

But the human spirit does not tolerate being chained for long – it will always find new ways to carve out pockets of freedom. Sadness must give way to smiles. Isolation must give way to new beginnings. Silence must give way to the chatter of fresh voices and to the uncensored laughter that renews the soul.

So, it’s time to revive the speakeasy, updated for the digital age.

In the 1920s, speakeasies reached their heyday as a way of pushing back against Prohibition-era busybodies intent on controlling individual choices. Alcohol was the forbidden fruit. And speakeasies became a kind of social laboratory, planting seeds for a new cultural era that has, for the better part of a century, revolved around enjoying that forbidden fruit.

Today it is free speech that has become the forbidden fruit. Today it is free speech that needs to be put in a cultural laboratory to give it fresh wings for a new century of free-wheeling thought. Today we each need to find that private hole-in-the-wall where we can wrestle with half-formed ideas, where judgement is suspended, where we can think the unthinkable, where debate is conducted with honor between friends, and where friendly faces light up when they see you enter the room.

We cannot undo the past. But we can find ways to create light and color and sunshine in our lives to drive back this grey filthy fog by strengthening connections to the few who have stood by us and by taking the risk of reaching out to strangers who, like all of us, have been left standing so very alone.

Every darkness is followed by a fresh dawn. It starts with the smallest of flames. A skype account, an internet connection, and the willingness to invite a stranger to come in from the darkness. A whisper repeated a million times can shake the Earth to its core.

Speak easy! Unburden your soul!

Today Nick Hudson (https://www.pandata.org/), Kate Wand (https://very-opinionated.com/), and Julius Ruechel (www.julius.ruechel.com) are opening a window into our speakeasy in the hope that you will hang with us for a short while and enrich our conversations with your thoughts and comments.

Welcome to our first episode of Speakeasy: The Inmates Are Running the Asylum, a conversation about whether there is a man behind the curtain pulling the levers that have tipped our world into madness.

The video will also be cross-posted to both Kate's YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCR9kGfLP_dGp0KCDTNiUjow) and on Julius' YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC98CS1lXw-DSwFHtsaXZL_w)

And make sure you also head over to see more of Nick's work on the Pandata YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDdN8LSNc3onvOyCd_UR5wg

We've fallen down some kind of rabbit hole into a hellish nonsensical Lockdown Wonderland where the Mad Hatter, the March Hare, and the Queen of Hearts are making the rules.

We can argue at length about why this nightmare began and who nudged the ball to get the panic rolling. But the more important question is: Who's in charge now, today? Who has the authority to make this nightmare stop?

To answer those questions, I'm going to take you on a little tour down the rabbit hole to show you the tangled web of rule makers, power brokers, and influencers that are propping up this never-ending Hellscape. As the layers peel away, the more bizarre the story gets. And the answers that emerge are going to make your head spin. Nothing in this Wonderland is quite as it seems.

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You can read the full article accompanying this video on my blog: https://www.juliusruechel.com/2021/04/whos-in-charge-rule-makers-power.html

Full report: https://www.juliusruechel.com/2021/05/the-lies-exposed-by-numbers-fear.html

In my recent fully referenced investigative report I provided a guided tour of the pandemic using the government's own official numbers, presented with the context that the government has denied the public during the chaos of the past 15 months. What emerged was a shocking story of scientific misconduct and breach of trust, which revealed the horrifying - and deadly - consequences of stripping data of context and allowing the government to evade transparency.

Detailed Timecode:
00:00 Intro:
00:58 Dr. Bonnie Henry tells a lie: how dangerous is Covid to children.
01:13 Covid vs Influenza & Pneumonia Deaths.
02:32 The Outbreak Data Set.
02:52 Outbreak-linked deaths by source of infection: institutional versus community settings.
04:18 Risk to the elderly living inside vs outside institutional settings.
05:06 Why are there no outbreaks associated with travel?
05:52 Not all outbreaks are created equal – assessing your personal risk.
06:18 75% of all deaths in Canada are from infections caught behind institutional walls.
07:23 The 2019 WHO Pandemic Planning Guidelines – the way the pandemic should have been managed.
08:11 Year-over-year mortality – where is the pandemic?
08:28 Covid, cancer, and heart attacks – not all people who die WITH Covid died as a result of Covid.
09:15 11 years of weekly deaths from all causes – was it just another bad flu season?
09:55 Coronavirus seasonality
10:59 Dr. Tam takes credit for the Sun rising in the East.
11:30 The fantasy of “flattening the curve.”
11:58 How to turn a 6-to-8-week wave into 15 months of Lockdown Hell.
12:18 Why lockdowns rob the vulnerable of the last precious months of their life.
13:11 Why lockdowns are responsible for much of the dying in the 2nd wave.
14:07 Our Charter of Rights and Freedoms – why health officials did not have the right to make public health measures mandatory.
15:26 Government caught using fear as a strategy to manipulate public behaviour.
16:04 Preventable deaths in nursing homes caused by frightening the public.
16:33 Dr. Tam warns of an epidemic of fear.
16:47 Recommending face masks without scientific evidence.
18:18 The myth of using HEPA filters to stop the spread of a respiratory virus.
18:47 The lethal crime of transferring Covid-infected patients INTO nursing.
19:30 How to protect the vulnerable in nursing homes.
19:55 Instead of protecting the vulnerable, government focused on terrorizing the public.
20:19 The right to peaceful protest is an essential tool of last resort in a democracy.
20:31 Focused protection.
21:08 The deadly price of waiting 15 months for a vaccine.
21:45 Unknown risks of vaccination
22:14 If the vulnerable can get the jab, they don’t need to worry about the vaccine status of their neighbors.
22:46 Vaccine coercion.
23:07 Nuremberg Code and informed consent.
24:29 Known risks of vaccination – understanding your personal risks.
25:34 It is unethical to vaccinate those who have no risk to offset.
26:34 Vaccinating those with almost zero statistical risk from the virus.
27:23 Overriding the concept of parental guardianship to vaccinate kids.
28:09 Eroding the fabric of liberal democracy to get jabs into arms (vaccine passports).
28:54 Ignoring all other treatments to promote the vax (the Ivermectin story).
29:40 The legality of the Emergency-Use Authorization.
30:05 Conclusion
30:42 A failure of science and democracy.
31:56 A tyranny exercised for the good of its victims.

Len Faul is a retired former Inspector with the Toronto Police. He agreed to sit down with me for an interview to talk about how he and a group of active and former police officers are working to stop these unconstitutional public health measures and how we can work together to push back against what our politicians and health authorities are doing to us.

A big thank you to Len Faul and his colleagues at Police On Guard For Thee for meeting with me and letting me ask all these questions, and most of all for the enormous effort they are making on our behalf! I know it’s a volunteer effort so it means the world to me that they are doing this on all our behalf.

00:00 Intro
01:17 1. POLICE ON GUARD'S MISSION AND COURT CASE
02:56 public health - look at the evidence
04:04 “it’s not a policing issue” - mandatory laws vs asking nicely
05:16 the police oath
07:48 the court case
08:58 risk of reprisals
09:56 examples of police standing for the public
10:38 educating citizens & frontline police officers
12:41 2. PRESSURE COOKER: the toll on citizens & police
14:57 legal risks to police officers
16:05 Crimes Against Humanity - government accountability
16:58 police officers in danger
18:39 destroying community support for police
21:13 3. CAN POLICE STOP UNCONSTITUTIONAL LAWS?
22:00 how policing works in Canada
22:07 Police Service Boards
23:28 churches, business closures & protests
26:58 4. STOP ENFORCEMENT - courts, police associations & police service boards
29:54 what if an individual police officer refuses?
31.20 “They must obey a lawful order, they must not obey an unlawful order”
32:52 what if an entire department refuses?
36:59 courts have surrendered to health authorities
42:54 5. KNOW YOUR RIGHTS - petitions, masks, overzealous officers
44:26 Know your rights - tips and tricks from Police On Guard
44:41 disarming overzealous officers
45:06 mask laws
46:22 6. GUIDE TO GETTING YOUR VOICES HEARD
48:16 the failure of the media
49:18 writing letters to your local police department
51:10 guide to protesting during COVID
53:09 organizing protests
54:20 government hypocrisy and overreach
58:22 civil injunctions, business closures, etc.
1:00:01 what to do if you get a ticket
1:01:11 overwhelming the courts - it will never get to a trial
1:01:38 Malicious Prosecution - message to the public and police officers
1:03:21 we cannot stop because we must not let this happen again
1:05:36 7. HOLDING GOVERNMENT TO ACCOUNT
1:06:24 Forcing the government’s hand - lessons from Italy and color revolutions
1:09:12 Inquiries and trials
1:09:46 8. CHECKS AND BALANCES to prevent this ever happening again
1:12:06 government propaganda, opposition parties, debate, and freedom of speech
1:17:40 Len’s message to police officers and the public.

You can find Police On Guard For Thee here:
Website: https://policeonguard.ca/
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YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoiTeP2OWsbT4nD7Diyj_3Q

Do you remember the grade school moral dilemma called the "Bystander at the Switch"? COVID lockdowns pose the identical dilemma, only this time it's not a game and it's played with real lives. When humanity invented universal human rights, they were meant to stop us from pulling the switch.

This is the video version of my article: https://www.juliusruechel.com/2021/01/bystander-at-switch-moral-case-against.html