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FEATURES
FROM THE EDITOR | COVER STORY 1
Why Your World Is Changing So Suddenly

The Communist Attack on Parents 2
It’s in the Communist Manifesto, Folks 4
What Are Your Children Reading? 7

A Weapon to Transform America 8

Lurch Toward Tyranny 11

Weaponizing Environmentalism 14
The Global Warming Scam 16

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Climate Change: A Bigger Picture 18

Our Last Hope for
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What Happens When
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A World-class Military—Overnight 24

What Does the Key of David Unlock? 26

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WORLDWATCH 28

SOCIETYWATCH 31

PRINCIPLES OF LIVING 33
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DISCUSSION BOARD 34

COMMENTARY 35
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FROM THE EDITOR
GERALD FLURRY

Why Your World Is Changing So Suddenly
Our societies are fundamentally transforming. When you know why, you can know what to do.

O
        ur world has never changed so dramatically so                    you must then ask some important questions, which almost
        rapidly. Leaders in politics, business, education and            nobody is doing.
        media are ignoring the law, violating freedoms, and                Here is the most important question: Why would God
enforcing radical policies on unwilling people. They are                 allow this? God has power over Satan; the devil can do noth-
turning coronavirus, the environment, race and other issues              ing God doesn’t allow. Why is God giving him such free rein?
into weapons for forcing through their agenda. This is already             These problems have a cause: our own sins!
affecting all of us—but believe it or not, much worse is coming.           America, Britain, the other nations of Israel and the whole
   In this process, the true agenda of the radical elites is being       world are experiencing curses for disbelieving and disobeying
unmasked. This is not incompetence. This is not a good-faith             God! We have denied God’s authority over us. We have rejected
attempt to improve people’s lives. This is an intentional agenda         God, His law, even His very existence! And He has allowed us to
from an evil motive to deliberately destroy what little good is          experience the results of our choices.
left in our societies. Many of our leaders hate the principles             And because we have left Him no other way to get through
that many of us cherish: free and fair elections; rule of law;           to us, He has punished us to get our attention and, ultimately,
honoring law enforcement; schools respecting parents and                 to save us from squandering our lives in selfishness, suffering
protecting the innocence of children; harmony among races;               and rejecting our own eternal future. He is trying to help us
marriage and family; individual liberty; human dignity; free-            recognize our error and turn back to Him (Ezekiel 33:11).
dom of thought, speech and religion.                                       The revolutionary changes we are living through are bewilder-
   You need to recognize the unseen reason why this is happening.        ing only if you fail to see God in the picture. But when you know
   Our societies are steeped in evolution and deny the existence         the prophecies of the Bible, you recognize that in spite of our
of anything beyond matter and energy. But there is clearly               sins, God is still accomplishing His master plan! (Request The
more to the human mind and to the existence of good and evil.            United States and Britain in Prophecy, by Herbert W. Armstrong.)
As you may have noticed, even some mainstream voices in the                The elites are destroying our societies so they can trigger a
news are beginning to recognize this.                                   “great reset” and “build back better.” But they want to rebuild to
   The spirit world is real. God is real. And so is the devil! Those     some kind of perverse socialist or Communist utopia. They are
who remain ignorant of this reality are vulnerable to his attacks        woefully misguided. While they hypocritically enjoy freedoms
(e.g. 2 Corinthians 2:11; 10:3-5; 1 Peter 5:8). Not only is the devil    and powers they deny to everyone else, they oppress and tyran-
real, but he rules the attitudes of the whole world! In fact, in         nize. They act as if they can build a better world as they plunge
this end time he and his demons have been cast down and are              the world into nuclear World War iii!
confined to the Earth! (2 Corinthians 4:4; Revelation 12:9-12).            Jesus Christ Himself prophesied that, just as we and our
   These evil spirits are exerting terrible and growing influence        governments erupt in destroying the entire human race, He
today, and much of this is by manipulating our human leaders.            will return to put down human rebellion by force, abolish all
You can recognize the devil’s presence in the breezy deceit              human governments, and set up a literal government that will
and brazen lies. You see it in the way the elites are trampling          rule all of mankind: the Kingdom of God. That is our greatest
people’s freedoms and rights, yet remain utterly untroubled by           and only hope!
the catastrophic effects of their edicts.                                  Recognize the glaring lesson of our time. Human beings,
   Yet the devil is a master at presenting himself and his ideas         including yourself, do not and cannot know the difference
and policies as good and noble, while rejecting law and bending          between good and evil. We cannot resist the devil by ourselves.
people to his will. We cannot judge by the words of these lead-          Like little children, we desperately need to humble ourselves,
ers—we must judge by the fruits of what they are doing. Then             repent, submit, and trust and obey our Father! Most people
the truth becomes inescapably clear. (Request your free copy of          would rather be like the “god of this world,” reject God’s law,
America Under Attack.) The fruits are terrible, but these elites         judge for themselves what is right and wrong, and hold on to
refuse to admit it. They continue pushing their disastrous ideas         the devil’s self-is-right attitude to the bitter end. But you can be
that much harder—just like the devil himself does. Their arro-           part of the truly revolutionary solution to human government
gance makes them extremely vulnerable to the devil’s influence.          and human nature. And you can live your life now, no matter
   Now, it is one thing to recognize what is happening. But              what happens, with blazing, brilliant hope!                       n
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A
R A D I CAL C H ANGE FAMILY                                                        few school years ago,
                                                                                  if you said things like

THE COMMUNIST
                                                                                 “family is under attack,”

ATTACK ON
                                                                                 “parents are under attack,”
                                                                                  or “there is a conspiracy
                                                                                  a ga i n s t f ath e rh o o d ,”
                                                                 most people ignored you. The Trumpet

PARENTS
                                                                 knows, because those are exactly the
                                                                 warnings we have trumpeted for 30 years.
                                                                 We have warned that many of the nation’s
                                                                 problems that people recognize stem
                                                                 from a cause they don’t recognize: weak
                                                                 families. An entire generation has passed,
                                                                 and society has ignored that warning.
The culture war that Herbert Armstrong prophesied is now here.     Now it’s unmistakable, and people
BY STEPHEN FLURRY                                                are waking up to reality: Family is under
                                                                 attack.
                                                                   One vivid example has been the all-
                                                                 out culture war on parents at recent
                                                                 American school board meetings.

                                                                                People are now realizing that
                                                                             schools have been forcing into
                                                                    children’s minds a flow of radical, athe-
                                                                 istic ideas about God, men and women,
                                                                 marriage, America, history and virtue.
                                                                 Parents and grandparents of today’s
                                                                 students were themselves schooled in
                                                                 this way to one degree or another. But
                                                                 this agenda has rapidly grown far more
                                                                 radical, and now children are being
                                                                 force-fed the orthodoxy of full-on cul-
                                                                 tural Marxism: Gender is fluid, gender is
                                                                 a spectrum, socialism is good, personal
                                                                 responsibility is evil, police are racist,
                                                                 math is racist, America is racist, law is
                                                                 bad, rebellion is good, sexual perversion
                                                                 is healthy, absolute truth does not exist,
                                                                 and the only thing that is wrong is believ-
                                                                 ing in right and wrong. All these lies are
                                                                 literally in the curriculum, complete with
                                                                 children’s books, colorful illustrations,
                                                                 slideshows, videos, special speakers,
                                                                 demonstrations, homework, testing and
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                                                                 punishments for “getting it wrong.”
                                                                    The subversive radicalization of tens
                                                                 of millions of American children has
                                                                 parents alarmed, and they are finally
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speaking out. At school board meetings,               what happened quiet and let adminis-           prosecute parents for domestic terrorism
administrators are responding by argu-                trators handle it internally. He erupted       and hate crimes. Biden’s Justice Depart-
ing with parents, berating them, ignor-               in anger, and the school administrators        ment said it would grant the request,
ing them, cutting off their microphones,              called the police to come and confront         claiming that there is “a disturbing spike
shutting down meetings—and continu-                   him (not the rapist). That night, Smith        in harassment, intimidation and threats
ing to indoctrinate their children. In                took his daughter to a hospital, which         of violence” against people in the school
their view, parents should have no say.               confirmed that she had been raped.             system.
  This is not something merely to shake               Then they went to the police. Smith              American school boards have been fail-
your head at. We told you family is under             says he was again told by prosecutors,         ing to give your children a good academic
attack; now we are telling you that this              lawyers and others to remain quiet in          education (let alone moral education) for
attack will literally destroy this nation.            order to get “justice” for his daughter.       more than a generation. Now they are
This is what the Bible prophesies.                    He reluctantly complied.                       indoctrinating them with atheistic Marx-
                                                        The school continued to cover up the         ist ideology to the point of endangering
Child Sacrifice                                       rape and continued to push Policy 8040.        them—and punishing you with fbi
One of the most powerful examples of                    Three weeks later, Smith attended a          agents and prosecutors accusing you of
the turmoil in American schools is recent             school board meeting. He didn’t sign up       “hate crime” or domestic terrorism” if you
events in Loudoun County, Virginia.                   to speak, but as he sat in the audience,       say something at a school board meeting
  V i r g i n i a i s t h e l a n d o f G e o r ge    he heard a board member literally say,         that they classify as “harassment.”
Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James                  “Our students do not need to be pro-              Yes, you live in a country where the
Madison and other great American                      tected, and they are not in danger. Do we      National School Boards Association
founders. It provided the “Virginia Plan”             have assaults in our bathrooms or locker       and the Biden regime are invoking the
that led to the Constitution. It ceded                rooms regularly?” He heard the superin-        (unconstitutional) Patriot Act, a law
hundreds of thousands of square miles                 tendent say, “To my knowledge, we don’t        that grants the government sweeping
of land to help create the Northwest                  have any record of assaults occurring in       powers to stop Islamist terrorists from
Ordinance and the greatest educational                our restrooms,” and then, “The predator        committing another 9/11. It is using it to
endowment in human history: $3 tril-                  transgender student or person simply           intimidate, prosecute and punish par-
lion in land dedicated specifically to                does not exist.”                               ents who come to school board meetings
schooling, because “[r]eligion, morality                 Smith didn’t speak to the school            to complain about teachers telling their
and knowledge, being necessary to                     board, but a pro-transgender woman             daughter things like “girls are not real.”
good government and the happiness                     in the audience began berating him.               Progressive educators are not doing
of mankind, schools and the means of                  He argued back, police were called in,         this to protect teachers from violence.
education shall forever be encouraged.”               and they tackled him and hauled him            They are doing it to shut parents up.
   Now Virginia is the land of post-birth-            away. He never had the chance to tell             Everything about this story is unfath-
abortion advocate Ralph Northam,                      the board and the audience that his            omably sickening! It is so disgusting
keep-parents-out-of-education advocate                daughter had just been raped in the girls’     and bizarre that it’s impossible to make
Terry McAuliffe, and Loudoun County                   bathroom by a boy in a skirt.                  sense of—unless you realize that this is a
Public Schools. Loudoun is part of met-                  School administrators still did noth-       core part of an intentional strategy. The
ropolitan Washington, D.C. Its motto                  ing about the rapist except transfer him       strategy, as stated by Barack Obama, is
is “I Byde My Time.” About a dozen                    from Stone Bridge High School to Broad        “fundamentally transforming the United
generations of students on from George                Run High School. There, on Oct. 6, 2021,       States of America.”
Washington, its school board members                  the same boy forced a girl into an empty
are among the many who want to be                     classroom and sexually assaulted her.         ‘Heartless Monster’
considered enlightened, tolerant and                    With such terrible results from such a       The education of American children
progressive. And they are indoctrinating              terrible policy, you would think liberals      was central to the election battle over
schoolchildren into a Marxist revolution.             would show some contrition, or at least       Virginia’s next governor. In a Sept. 28,
  An important part of the Loudoun                    try to avoid the subject. Yet they quickly,    2021, campaign debate, Democratic
County School Board’s agenda is Policy                boldly, defiantly used the incident to fur-    candidate Terry McAuliffe flatly stated,
8040. This policy forces administrators               ther attack parents! They used photos of      “I don’t think parents should be telling
and teachers to allow boys who say they               Smith to paint him and other parents as        schools what they should teach.” This is
feel like girls to play girls’ sports and             deranged, right-wing bigots. In a letter       the leftists’ view—stated plainly. Soon,
use girls’ bathrooms, and vice versa. As              to Joe Biden, the National School Boards       that quote was everywhere. At that point,
they were pushing through this policy, a             Association cited this father of a rape         the tide began to turn against the Dem-
15-year-old “gender fluid” boy wearing                victim as a good reason for the federal        ocrats. But rather than backing off, the
a skirt walked into a school bathroom,                government not only to get involved but        Democrats doubled down on promoting
restrained a 14-year-old girl, and com-               to use Department of Homeland Secu-            Marxist education and, by extension,
mitted horrible sexual acts on her.                   rity agents, Secret Service agents and         blocking out parents. Over the next
  The girl’s father, Scott Smith, said he             Federal Bureau of Investigation national       month, in came Joe Biden, Kamala Har-
was called to the school and told to keep             security and counterterrorism agents to        ris and Stacey Abrams to back McAuliffe.
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And in came Barack Obama. Obama              would be afraid of how radicals—so               throughout his campaign and presidency,
 came to Virginia to support the man            quick to invent grievances to advance            and used it to his great advantage. Even
 who said, “I don’t think parents should        their agenda—are now sacrificing our             some conservatives were and are afraid
 be telling schools what they should            children to their godless ideology.              to criticize him for fear of being called
 teach,” because he believes the same             Radical leftists love to wave signs with       racist. But now, many people are finally
 thing. Criticizing the opposing nominee        hearts, peace symbols and rainbows               recognizing that Obama is still pushing
 and conservatives in general, he said,         while they chant slogans like “Love              his agenda, this time through Joe Biden—
“We don’t have time to be wasting on            trumps hate.” But toward a child who is          weaponizing race, maiming the economy,
 these phony, trumped-up culture wars,          victimized and raped by their horren-            expanding federal power, and destroying
 this fake outrage that right-wing media        dous social-engineering project, they            what America has been—particularly
 pedals to juice their ratings ….”              are heartless.                                   those aspects of our culture that trace
   What is the “phony, trumped-up” fak-           Barack Obama, leader of radicals who           back to the family, and especially those
 ery that Obama was setting us straight         have elevated grievance and complain-            principles that trace back to the Bible.
 on? The outrage of Virginians and peo-         ing to a bizarre religion, says that if you
 ple across the country at a school board       are upset about this, your outrage is            Throughout the Land
 that covered for a student rapist!            “phony.” He is not a normal person. He is         Promiscuity destroys the very concept
    For this, Fox News commentator              a heartless monster.                             of fatherhood and leaves many children
 Tucker Carlson condemned Obama as                Obama’s concern, like that of the              with no choice but to depend on the
 a “heartless monster.” Carlson is more         school board, is only for the rape’s             government for education and even
 right than he realizes.                        effect on his agenda. His goal is to push        food. This is a primary reason why so
   A normal person would be horrified at        fornication, adultery, polygamy, homo-           many Marxist educators endorse forni-
 a school hiding the rape of a 14-year-old      sexuality, transgenderism and other              cation, adultery, polygamy, homosexu-
 girl to protect its pet transgender policy.    sexual perversions until the institution         ality and transgenderism. These sexual
A normal person would hate everything           of family is destroyed and America is            sins destroy the family—and empower
 about this story. A normal person would        fundamentally transformed. He isn’t              the state.
 be heartbroken for that girl. A normal         going to let a little inconvenience like            One parent in Loudoun County
 person would be shocked and afraid for         the rape of a child stand in his way.            atte m pte d to read f ro m a s c h o o l
 how horrid, unjust, vain, deceitful and          But the tide might be turning. Obama           library book to the school board. She
 wicked our nation is. A normal person          enjoyed adulation from the press                 was escorted out for reading explicit

IT’S IN THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO,
K
       arl Marx and Frederick Engels           collectivist mindset,” Mark Tapson wrote.         belong to their families, and recognize
       rejected the religious truth that       “It is the environment in which we are            that kids belong to whole communities’”
       the family was established by           first civilized and molded, ideally, into         (Doc Emet Productions, Sept. 30, 2021).
mankind’s Creator. They believed early         productive citizens who value our indi-              Frederick Engels summarized Com-
human societies practiced polygamy,            vidualism but embrace our role in the             munist ideals in his 1847 work “The
group marriage, promiscuity and                larger society. As Edmund Burke wrote             Principles of Communism.” He wrote
other sexual relationships like bonobo         in 1790, the family ‘is the first link in the     that communism “does away with
monkeys. Engels argued in 1884 that            series by which we proceed towards a              private property and educates children
the family started when human males            love to our country, and to mankind.’ The         on a communal basis, and in this way
stopped breeding indiscriminately with         all-powerful state to which Communists            removes the two bases of traditional
every female in the group and directed         demand allegiance is not a link in that           marriage—the dependence rooted in
their reproductive energy toward a             chain, and thus the family is an obstacle         private property, of the woman on the
small group of females. Therefore,             that must be dismantled. This is not a            man, and of the children on the parents.”
virtues like monogamy are relics of a          conspiracy theory; it is explicitly stated           Marxists argue that family is a prod-
patriarchal system that started evolving       in Communist and feminist theory. …               uct of a privileged lifestyle brought about
when men “took command in the home”               “ T h i s M a r x i s t i m p e rat ive — to   by private property ownership, and both
and women became “a mere instrument            decouple children from their parents              must be abolished in order for the state
for the production of children.”               and absorb them into the collective—              to seize and retain absolute control.
   Karl Marx explicitly called for “the        directly echoes a statement from                     Marx and Engels thought the workers
abolition of the family” as a pillar of        contemporary progressive Melissa Har-             of the world would embrace the ideals of
the Communist agenda. Why? “As the             ris-Perry, an msnbc host who … declared           communism. They didn’t. Those who did
most fundamental bond of humanity,             in a 2013 network promo, ‘We have to              have helped kill more than 100 million
[family] is the most resistant bulwark         break through our kind of private idea            people to date. As the Communist revo-
against totalitarian state control and a       that kids belong to their parents or kids         lutions and the killing were just getting
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material. Angry parents tried to create        administrators “accused the female              KARL MARX
                                    a commercial alerting the public to the        student of filing a false report and sus-
                                    pornographic material their kids are           pended her.” When students found out,
                                    being taught at school. The Ad Council         they were so upset by the administrators’
                                    blocked it because it was too graphic.         decision they staged a walkout! Once the
                                    But teachers are showing the material          police got involved and an investigation
                                    itself to their children.                      was conducted, the boy was arrested and
                                       During a homecoming event at Haz-           now faces charges for sexual battery.
                                    ard High School in Kentucky in October,          In Kansas, one school asked students
                                    teachers and administrators laughed as         to label where they were in the stages of
                                    students paraded around the gymna-            “gender identity.” At a Florida school, a
                                    sium in their underpants and as a male         teacher took students on a field trip to
                                    student performed sexual dances while          a homosexual bar. These types of stories
                                    wearing women’s underwear.                     are popping up every day.                      We are not just dealing
                                       During halftime at a high school              Facing mask and vaccine mandates,            with a few creepy
                                    football game in Vermont, 30 students          restrictions and school closures, overtly      school boards. We are
                                    and faculty members performed a “drag          racist curricula and even the cover-up
                                    ball” runway show. Boys put on make-up,        of rapes, parents are finally taking           facing pure cultural
                                    wigs and dresses. Girls donned suits and       notice and trying to fight back. Marxist       Marxism on the attack.
                                    pinned their hair back to support the          educators are retaliating with Barack
                                    school’s Gender Sexuality Alliance.            Obama’s and Joe Biden’s fbi to prosecute
                                       In North Carolina, school officials         them and carry on with their children’s      need to help “the older generation that
                                    at Hawthorne Academy High School               indoctrination into the politics of Karl     got us into this mess see that we all have
                                    suspended a girl for telling them about a      Marx and the morals of Sigmund Freud.        an obligation to dig ourselves out of it.
                                    boy who routinely followed her into the                                                     And if those older folks won’t listen, they
                                    bathroom to molest her. You read that         Culture War                                   need to get out of the way.”
                                    right: The school suspended the girl for      Why are school boards and the propa-            “While you’re at it, you need to help
                                    reporting that she was being sexually         gandists in the media defending rapists       educate your parents and grandparents,
                                    abused. Local news reports said school        and attacking parents? Because abolish-       your uncles and aunts, your teachers,
                                                                                  ing family is essential to their agenda.      your employers,” Obama said, “because
                                                                                  The family is not collateral damage. It is    while a dangerously warming planet

FOLKS                                                                             the primary target!
                                                                                     Many parents don’t realize the pos-
                                                                                  itive power they can and should have
                                                                                                                                is a reality that a lot of you have grown
                                                                                                                                up with as young people, you’ve studied
                                                                                                                                it in school, you’ve read about, it’s been
                                    started, Antonio Gramsci, a Marxist,          over their own children. But Marxists         part of the backdrop of your childhood,
                                    realized that socialism would triumph         do. They know they must undercut              members of the older generation don’t
                                    not through street battles and wars but       parental authority to achieve state con-      have that same frame of reference.”
                                    “via infiltration of schools, universities,   trol over children’s minds and futures,          Do you believe Obama’s goal is to clean
                                    churches and the media by transform-          and over society (sidebar, “It’s in the       up pollution, and separation of families
                                    ing the consciousness of society.” He         Communist Manifesto, Folks”). We are          is an unfortunate byproduct? No—his
                                    advocated what was later described as a       not just dealing with a few creepy school     agenda is exactly the same as it is with
                                    “long march through the institutions.”        boards. We are facing pure cultural           education. The goal isn’t to save the
                                    The family, as Don Feder from the World       Marxism on the attack.                        trees or to tolerate “gender fluidity.” The
                                    Congress of Families notes, would have           Yes, we are in a massive culture war.      goal is to get parents out of the way.
                                    to be destroyed before communism              And yes, Marxist Barack Obama knows              In “The Left Is Locked in a Life-and-
                                    conquered the world, not after.               it. And yes, he is boldly telling you that    Death Struggle With the Family,” Don
                                      This is exactly what leftists, including    there is no such thing.                       Feder from the World Congress of Fam-
                                    the Marxists driving the Biden adminis-          One sign that Obama knows what he is       ilies wrote, “For Marxists, killing the
                                    tration’s agenda, want to accomplish.         doing is the aggressiveness with which he     family is the key to everything. The war
                                      Americans have feared that the Com-         appeals to young people. His campaign         on the family isn’t peripheral; it’s central
                                    munist attack would come in a nuclear         was popular among youths. He appeared         to the revolution” (Front Page Magazine,
                                    strike or deadly espionage or armed           at various entertainment venues. He sup-      Oct. 21, 2021).
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                                    conflict with the Soviets or some other       ported youths against their parents’ gen-       “For the left, the central purpose
                                    nation. We did not understand that it         eration in the “March for Our Lives.” He      of public schools isn’t education but
                                    has been going on in our classrooms.          signed a Netflix deal for tens of millions.   indoctrination,” Feder continued. “Pub-
                                    We still do not realize how much we              Most recently, at the cop26 climate        lic education has failed miserably at the
                                    ourselves have been affected by it!           summit in November in Glasgow, Scot-          former (as may be seen by plummeting
                                                             STEPHEN FLURRY       land, he told young people that they          standardized test scores) but succeeded
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spectacularly at the latter (as may be              Parents are trying to resist the atheis-     Party in the United States was making
 seen in the leftward drift of the elec-          tic Marxist tide. “Parents Matter” rallies      great headway,” Mr. Armstrong wrote.
 torate—especially younger voters). The           have occurred across the nation as             “They began infiltrating the colleges and
 objective is to take children away from          fathers and mothers realize that radical        universities. If they could not ‘convert’
 parental values and align them with the          school board officials and politicians lit-     professors, they worked on students
 worldview of the Democratic Party. The           erally think they do not matter. Marxists       who would become teachers later. Thus
 cutting edge is crt [critical race theory]       want the state to control all levels of edu-    they were recruiting teachers to teach
 and the sexualization of students,               cation from cradle to grave, and to refer       their doctrine all over the United States”
 seen most recently in the enthusiastic           any parents who get in their way to the         (Plain Truth, April 1980).
 embrace of transgenderism.”
   Just one year ago, these Marxist tenets            We must face the fact that our children are not
 were proudly proclaimed by the far-left             learning about truth, morality, God and God’s law
 Black Lives Matter group. One of blm’s
 founders bragged that she was a trained               at school or at home. And we must recognize
 Marxist. One of the group’s stated goals                    how disastrous are the results.
 (now deleted from its website) was to
“disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear           Department of Justice to be prosecuted           “We are not fighting a single nation in
 family structure requirement by sup-             like al Qaeda terrorists.                      a military war, but a gigantic worldwide,
 porting each other as extended families             Yes, there is an attack on family.          plain-clothes army, masquerading as a
 and ‘villages’ that collectively care for                                                       political party, seeking to conquer the
 one another, especially our children ….”         This Was Prophesied                            world with an entirely new kind of war-
   Facing pushback for bringing Marx-             “A solid family structure is the very          fare!” Mr. Armstrong wrote way back
 ism into the open, Democrats have had             foundation of any stable and permanent        in 1956. “It’s a kind of warfare we don’t
 to rebrand Black Lives Matter and crit-           society,” Plain Truth founder Herbert         understand, or know how to cope with.
 ical race theory. But don’t be deceived.          W. Armstrong wrote. “But today in the         It uses every diabolical means to weaken
 This movement is not going away.                  affluent countries a conspiracy is devel-     us from within, sapping our strength,
   Many school boards are announcing               oping which seeks to destroy marriage         perverting our morals, sabotaging our
 that they do not teach critical race the-         as an institution, as well as the family.”    educational system, wrecking our social
 ory. Technically, school curricula do not         He further elaborated with this shock-        structure, destroying our spiritual and
 explicitly instruct teachers to teach crt.        ing revelation: “The conspiracy consists      religious life, weakening our industrial
 Instead, they hide it with nice-sounding          of a two-pronged attack: 1) a well-or-        and economic power, demoralizing our
 descriptions like “antiracism” education.         ganized movement to subtly influence          armed forces, and finally, after such
 After all, who could oppose that?                 college students to prefer alternatives to    infiltration, overthrowing our govern-
   Meanwhile, white children as young              marriage, and 2) an attempt to influence      ment by force and violence! All this,
 as six years old are asking their parents         the general public by newspaper and           cleverly disguised as a harmless political
 why they were born evil.                          magazine articles, television programs,       party! Communism is worldwide psy-
                                                   the lecture platform, the women’s lib         chological warfare!”
                                                   movement, and student or former stu-             How right Herbert Armstrong was!
                                                   dent rebels of the ‘New Left.’ How much          But how can Americans win or even
                                                   of all this propaganda has been planted       survive the war? “Parents Matter” rallies
                                                   in the minds of the psychologists, pro-       are not enough. New laws are not enough.
                                                   fessors, writers, publishers, women’s         Getting back to traditions is not enough.
                                                   lib crusaders and others by trained           Even a revival of mainstream traditional
                                                   Communist propagandists can only be           American religion is not enough. Winning
                                                   estimated” (Plain Truth, July 1976).          an election or even rooting out decades of
                                                      Forty-five years have passed since         Communist ideas in our school system
                                                   Mr. Armstrong wrote those words, and          will not make these problems go away.
                                                   the conspiracy against family is now an       The festering mortal wound America
                                                   open culture war. Many “trained Com-          is suffering from is lawlessness and sin.

         HOW CAN YOU                               munist propagandists” are switching
                                                   from subtle influence to open domi-
                                                                                                 When educators in America are teaching
                                                                                                 children to defy their parents, to break
         FIGHT BACK?                               nance. Americans have rejected God and        the rules, to hate law and government,
    Physical weapons are powerless against         tolerated, accepted and embraced evo-         and to reject individual responsibility,
      your enemy. But you can search and           lution, atheism and the Satan-inspired        they are not just rejecting time-honored
    destroy its influence in your life. See how    philosophy of Karl Marx. This is why          traditions or the American way. They are
     with Mystery of the Ages, by Herbert          they are suffering an orchestrated attack     violating God’s law.
     W. Armstrong. Request your free copy.         against the very minds of children.              At the core of the Communist infiltra-
                                                     “Before World War ii the Communist          tion is atheism and lawlessness. What
6    THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET
What happens when Queen Elizabeth dies? - theTrumpet.com
WHAT
                      we are experiencing as a result was
                      prophesied in your Bible to occur in our

                                                                      ARE YOUR
                      nations and at this time. Isaiah 59:4 fore-
                      tells, “None calleth for justice, nor any
                      pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity,

                                                                      CHILDREN
                      and speak lies; they conceive mischief,
                      and bring forth iniquity.” Recent events

                                                                      READING?
                      bring this scripture right into the 21st
                      century! Heinous crimes against chil-
                      dren are being covered up by the officials
                      responsible for protecting children!
                         Upset though we may be at the brain-
                      washing and coordinated pollution of
                      our own children’s minds and bodies, we
                      must face the fact that they are not learn-
                      ing about truth, morality, God and God’s

                                                                      R
                      law at school or at home. And we must                  adical liberals understand the          their kids to grow up in a space that is
                      recognize how disastrous are the results.              value of influencing children’s         unapologetic about activism, environ-
                      As the Apostle Paul wrote in Romans                    minds. This is why they have led        mental justice, civil rights, lgbtq rights,
                      1:28-32: “And even as they did not like to      crusades against authors like Roald            and everything else that activists believe
                      retain God in their knowledge, God gave         Dahl, Dr. Seuss and others, and are            in and fight for.” If these are too radical,
                      them over to a reprobate mind, to do            advancing and enforcing changes to             you can begin instead with Barack
                      those things which are not convenient;          children’s magazines, bookstores, public       Obama: Son of Promise. Child of Hope;
                      Being filled with all unrighteousness,          libraries and school libraries—aggres-         Joey: The Story of Joe Biden and Kamala
                      fornication, wickedness, covetousness,          sively pushed books of their own.              Harris: Rooted in Justice.
                      maliciousness; full of envy, murder,               You don’t have to look far to see col-         City Journal cited book recommen-
                      debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,          orful, nicely illustrated books attacking      dations from the American Booksellers
                      Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful,          traditional family, introducing all kinds      Association that include a young
                      proud, boasters, inventors of evil things,      of sexuality, and focusing on perceived        athlete who fights “discrimination” to
                      disobedient to parents, Without under-          social injustices and discrimination.          change genders and compete against
                      standing, covenant breakers, without            Some titles you might find at your             the opposite gender, a lesbian joining
                      natural affection, implacable, unmerci-         local Barnes & Noble bookstore in the          a male football team, a homosexual
                      ful: Who knowing the judgment of God,           children’s section (ages 3 to 5) include       whose pansexual and nonbinary friends
                      that they which commit such things are          Pride: The Story of Harvey Milk and            attack her “white privilege,” a “tale of
                      worthy of death, not only do the same,          the Rainbow Flag; The Stonewall Riots:         self-discovery” about a bisexual love
                      but have pleasure in them that do them.”        Coming Out in the Streets and Bling            triangle, Wyatt the transgender witch,
                         Paul prophesied, “This know also,            Blaine: Throw Glitter, Not Shade. Other        a “fabulously joyful” novel about “drag,
                      that in the last days perilous times shall      “woke” children’s books you might find         prom and embracing your inner queen”
                      come,” and he specifically said that “evil      there or at other stores or libraries          featuring a “fat, openly gay boy stuck in
                      men and seducers shall wax worse and            include Daddy & Dada; Daddy, Papa &            a small West Texas town,” and a young-
                      worse, deceiving, and being deceived”           Me; Mommy, Mama & Me; Two Grooms               adult novel about gender fluidity by a
                      (2 Timothy 3:1, 13). We are living that         on a Cake: The Story of America’s First        non-binary writer who is the mother of a
                      prophecy. If your eyes are open, you            G ay We d d i n g ; LG BT Fa m il ies a n d    transgender child.” Books like these are
                      must admit that our society is getting          others, many of which do not indicate          found in school libraries, as is Gender
                     “worse and worse.”                               their content in their titles, and all of      Queer, a graphic novel containing actual
                         The mass breakdown of family life            which mix the lesbian, gay, bisexual,          illustrated pornography of homosexual
                      is not an accident. It’s not even mainly        transgender agenda with positive-ap-           teenage boys.
                      a human-devised agenda. The reason              pearing text and images. Some of these            These and other less-radical means of
                      human beings are destroying things that         are designed for children as young as          influencing youth have paved the way for
                      are clearly good for them, like family, is      3 months old.                                  what we are seeing today. A 2021 Gallup
                      that this crucial institution is the main          A Is for Activist, Antiracist Baby, Woke    poll found that “lgbt identification has
                      target of the devil. He exists, he is active,   Baby and other books focus on radi-            been increasing over time” because
                      and he is influencing people to reject          calizing children as young as toddlers         “younger generations are far more likely
                      God’s law, God’s very existence, God’s roles    through indoctrination using hap-              to consider themselves to be something
EMMA MOORE/TRUMPET

                      for family, and God’s use of the nations        py-sounding rhymes and bright colors.          other than heterosexual.” The war effort
                      that descended from ancient Israel.             They are “for all the littlest progressives,   by cultural Marxists to reshape society
                         Yes, you are in a culture war. Start         waking up to seize a new day of justice        by radicalizing the next generation is
                      fighting!                                n     and activism” and for “families who want       succeeding.             RUFARO MANYEPA
                                                                                                                                                  JANUARY 2022 7
What happens when Queen Elizabeth dies? - theTrumpet.com
H
                ere’s a hypothetical:
                Let’s say your agenda is
                to tear down and rebuild
                the greatest nation in the
                world. How do you accom-
                plish that? How do you
break down that much military might,
economic power, institutional strength,
societal cohesion and cultural heritage?
You can’t destroy the aircraft carriers or
the legislatures or the banks or the police
or the courts or the churches. The people
have too many rights, too much power.
And you are really at a loss when they
elect a leader with the courage to stand
up to your agenda.
   But you—and many other business,
technology and governing elites—deeply
believe in tearing down this nation. If           R A DICAL CH AN GE COVI D

                                                  A WEAPON TO
you can use something to infect their
minds and attitudes, you can destroy

                                                  TRANSFORM AM
the rights of people and break the
bonds within families, between groups,
between races, within institutions, even
inside the military. But you’re going to
need a strong virus to do it. That virus
will need to weaken the principles and
                                                  The coronavirus has been used as a catalyst for extreme social engineeri
the relationships of families, of small
business owners, of local officials, of
election administrators, of military
officers and enlisted troops.                 Communist Party. Why? Because they           let that stop them from using the virus
   Sometime before Sept. 12, 2019,            were furiously trying to cover up the fact   and the radicals’ manipulation of it to
someone or something left the premises        that they had bio-engineered a virulent      advance the Marxist agenda.
of the Wuhan Institute of Virology in         coronavirus even as it rapidly spread           How can we solve the threat posed
Communist China. On it or inside it was       around the world.                            by the virus? Surprise: The solution,
an unnaturally powerful virus. It would         Meanwhile, whether it was intention-       according to socialists and Communists,
soon infect its first victim in Wuhan         ally designed to advance the radicals’       is to force through what socialists and
before spreading to enough people             agenda or not, that is exactly what they     Communists have been demanding
worldwide to be classified a pandemic.        used it for. A collection of amino acids     for decades. With help from the U.S.
  And some people have manipulated it         from the other side of the world that had    National Institute of Allergy and Infec-
to create the catalyst needed to disman-      nothing to do with America, the Consti-      tious Diseases, EcoHealth Alliance and
tle a superpower. It’s increasingly clear     tution, your business, your family or        the University of North Carolina, these
that was their agenda—not hypotheti-          your liberties suddenly has everything       leftists bio-engineered a virus that Dem-
cally but literally.                          to do with them.                             ocrats are using to shut people in their
                                                Liberal elites have spent more than a      homes, keep people from their work,
Gain of Function                              year ignoring, downplaying, scoffing at or   smother economic activity, impoverish
In September 2019, almost nobody had          censoring the belief that covid-19 leaked    200,000 small businesses, wildly enrich
heard of covid-19. The closest most had       from Wuhan and was created there. Yet        the technology and pharmaceutical
known were the comparatively small            an extensively researched report com-        industries, steal a presidential election,
outbreaks of sars, swine flu, avian flu       piled by the Minority Staff of the House     build a surveillance state, and confuse
and the seasonal influenza in humans.         Foreign Affairs Committee cites multiple     and frighten millions of Americans into
But Chinese Communist Party scientists        pieces of evidence supporting these con-     surrendering their rights.
in Wuhan knew all about covid-19. So          clusions. Outlets like cnn, msnbc, abc          Yes, the plan is underway to dismantle
did United States National Institutes of      News, nbc News and cbs News failed to        the strength of the United States of
                                                                                                                                        JULIA GODDARD/TRUMPET

Health Director Anthony Fauci. So did         cover this report because it was authored    America and what remains of its biblical
Dr. Peter Daszak, high-ranking officials      by Republicans, but many Democrats           and constitutional foundations and
in the World Health Organization and          now admit that the evidence shows the        to reassemble its components into an
high-ranking officials in the Chinese         lab-leak theory is true. But they don’t      authoritarian technocracy.
8 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET
The lockdowns dissolved roughly                 Stealing America’s Presidency
                                                  200,000 American small businesses.                In addition to fundamentally transform-
                                                  Those that have survived are now being            ing America’s economy, covid-19 also
                                                  pulverized by supply-chain crisis. In             fundamentally transformed America’s
                                                  The War on Small Business: How the Gov-           elections. This seems counterintuitive,
                                                  ernment Used the Pandemic to Crush the            unless you realize that one American
                                                  Backbone of America, author Carol Roth            political party is dedicated to “funda-
                                                  writes that the federal government and            mentally transforming the United States
                                                  the Federal Reserve are actually working          of America,” as Barack Obama put it
                                                  together “to oversee the largest wealth           during his campaign.
                                                  transfer in history, from Main Street to             Most developed countries take the
                                                  Wall Street.”                                     obvious step of banning mail-in voting to
                                                    Government-imposed lockdowns                    prevent fraud. Yet before the 2020 pres-
                                                  are making it impossible to continue              idential election, 37 U.S. states changed
                                                  operating small businesses, while gov-            their mail-in voting procedures to make
                                                  ernment-approved stimulus packages                it easier for people to vote from home, on
                                                  prop up mega-corporations. “When                  the pretext of avoiding the virus. Some
                                                  historians look back on the decisions             or many of these changes were illegal
                                                  made beginning in March 2020 and still            according to state constitutions. Just
                                                  going strong, this period will be remem-          two months before the election, Attorney
                                                  bered as the ‘Great Consolidation’—the            General Bill Barr told cnn’s Wolf Blitzer

 ERICA
                                                  acceleration of a historic wealth transfer        that “people are playing with fire” when
                                                  and power concentra-                                               it comes to widespread
                                                  tion out of the hands                                              mail-in voting, because
                                                  of the middle class and
                                                  into those with political         The Elites
                                                                                   So far during the pandemic,
                                                                                                                     the potential for fraud
                                                                                                                     was so great. Yet the gov-
                                                  power and connections,”                                            ernment still mailed 100
ing. BY ANDREW MIILLER                                                                    America’s 614
                                                  Roth wrote for News-                                               million ballots around
                                                  week. “The ‘connected’              billionaires became            the nation.
                                                  form a powerful bloc                 62 percent richer;               This couldn’t have
      Dissolving America’s Foundation             comprised of big gov-             8 million people were            happened if covid-19
      The U.S. government took the unprece-       ernment, big business              pushed into poverty.            hadn’t been engineered,
      dented and un-American step of locking      and big special interests”                                         leaked from a lab,
                                                                                         Seven Big Tech
      down its own economy in March 2020.         (Oct. 24, 2021).                                                   spread worldwide, and
                                                                                    companies added $3.4
      It settled Americans’ attitudes by prom-      S h e f u rth e r w rote                                         ceaselessly amplified by
                                                                                     trillion to their value;
      ising it would take 15 days of mandatory    that these big political                                           an unprecedented polit-
                                                                                        40 million people
      sacrifice to slow the spread of covid-19    and financial powers                                               ical and media scare
                                                                                           were laid off.
      and return to their regular lives and       are controlled by a                                                campaign.
      their constitutional rights. We are now     small number of pow-              The three big vaccine               Dr. Peter Navarro, a
      far past 600 days to slow the spread.       erful elites who derive          makers split $40 billion          former trade adviser to
      Months of lockdowns have, predictably,      benefits at the expense              in vaccine profits;           the White House, has
      caused the worst downturn since the         of everyday Americans.                 200,000 small               documented how the
      Great Depression.                           The aftermath has                   businesses closed.             Democrats used a two-
         Economists have estimated the pan-       exposed the ugly fact                                              pronged strategy to steal
      demic’s cost to the U.S. economy at a       that politicians from                                              the 2020 presidential
      staggering $16 trillion, and the brunt of   both parties love mega-corporations               election. First, increase the number of
      these costs has been borne by ordinary      that they can work with to increase               absentee and mail-in ballots. Second,
      individuals and small businesses. This is   their personal wealth and their control           decrease the level of scrutiny of such bal-
      not a byproduct of a good-faith attempt     over the economy. This is why salons,             lots to flood states with unverified votes.
      to contain a virus. This is a deliberate    for example, were shut down “for your             This strategy worked amazingly well
      plan. Small-business owners and             protection,” while big retailers like             in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada,
      workers are more independent from           PetSmart were decreed “essential”                 Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, where
      the government than those who work          during the pandemic and continued                 the number of potentially illegal votes
      for the government or corporate elites.     to perform “essential” operations like            exceeded Joe Biden’s “victory” margin
      There are just too many of them to con-     grooming pet hair. It’s not about safety          by an order of magnitude. So, it is no
      trol. So they needed to be systematically   or health or even the economy. It’s about         exaggeration to say that Biden would not
      destroyed and reincorporated into a         centralizing power in the hands of the            be advancing the radical agenda from
      corporate structure.                        government!                                       the White House today if it were not for
                                                                                                                                 JANUARY 2022 9
the lengths that Dr. Fauci, Dr. Daszak           for identification before voting. This is            In July 2021, PayPal announced a part-
 and the Communist Party went to in               not about public health. This is about            nership with the Southern Poverty Law
 covering up the true origins of covid-19.        political power.                                  Center to investigate the role of “white
   Eve n T i m e m a g a z i n e a d m i tt e d     B i g c o m pa n ie s l i ke D i s n ey a n d   supremacists” and “anti-government”
“covid-19 changed everything about the            Walmart are already requiring their               agitators in the January 6 protest at the
 2020 election” and “forced many states           employees to get vaccinated, so gov-              U.S. Capitol and also that information
 to rapidly change how people get and             ernment coercion is probably not far              collected by PayPal will be shared with
 submit their ballots, with unpredict-            away. New York Mayor Bill de Blasio               other financial firms and politicians.
 able and potentially disastrous results”         announced that vaccine passports would            Anyone labeled an extremist could be
 (Aug. 6, 2020).                                  be phased in over several weeks. Joe              banned from using PayPal and similar
   But instead of admitting that mail-in          Biden announced that he would use the             services. “The potential scope of the soft
 ballots open the door to fraud and return-       Occupational Safety and Health Adminis-           social credit system under construction
 ing to secure elections, radical Democrats       tration to force private-sector employers         is enormous,” reported the Hill. “The
                                                                                                    same companies that can track your
                                                                                                    activities and give you corporate
 Americans today are not living in the nation of their                                              rewards for compliant behavior could
 Founding Fathers or even of their own fathers. The                                                 utilize their powers to block transac-
                                                                                                    tions, add surcharges or restrict your
 government is mutating away from a constitutional                                                  use of products. At what point does free
    republic into an authoritarian technocracy.                                                     speech—be it against biological males
                                                                                                    playing in girls’ sports, questioning vac-
                                                                                                    cine side effects, or advocating for gun
are scrambling to pass one of the most            to compel their workers to get vaccinated,        rights—make someone a target in this
extreme and lawless voter reform bills in         to submit to weekly testing, or get fired.        new system? When does your debit card
history. The H.R. 1 bill, which Democrats         This is aimed at coercing 100 million             get canceled over old tweets, your home
call “For the People Act,” would essen-           unvaccinated Americans to get jabbed.             loan denied for homeschooling your
tially legalize the fraud committed during           Such authoritarian mandates are not            kids, or your eBay account invalidated
the 2020 presidential election, making            a means of protecting public health.              because a friend flagged you for posting
it possible for Democrats to steal every          Scientists at Pfizer, a pharmaceutical            a Gadsden flag?” (Aug. 3, 2021).
future American election. The bill man-           mega-corporation that manufactures                   It would not take much to link such a
dates that convicted felons be allowed to         a covid vaccine, have been recorded               social credit system to vaccine passports
vote. It prohibits states from even trying        admitting in private that natural covid           and start barring people from restau-
to purge voter rolls of foreign nationals,        immunity is far more effective than vac-          rants because they are unvaccinated or
who are ineligible to vote according to           cination. And two thirds of epidemiolo-           because they made an online political
the Constitution. It mandates same-day            gists warn that mutations could render            post about the election steal. Again, the
voter registration, mandatory early               current covid vaccines ineffective in a           American people would normally never
voting, nationwide availability of mail-in        year or less. Vaccine mandates and covid          consider such measures, but the per-
ballots, and unlimited ballot harvesting.         passports are largely ineffective for con-        ceived threat of covid-19 has frightened
Normally, the American people would               taining a virus—but extremely useful for          millions into surrendering their consti-
never consider such measures, so the              establishing a Communist-style surveil-           tutional rights to public health officials!
radical Democrats had to use covid-19             lance state in the United States.
as the pretext. Not only was it the                  Since February 2020, Chinese citizens          Blotting Out the Name of Israel
means to steal the presidency and many            have had to use digital “health codes” on         Americans today are not living in the
congressional seats, but now that they            platforms such as WeChat and AliPay to            nation of their Founding Fathers or
control the levers of power, they are             access public transport, restaurants and          even of their own fathers. The nation’s
using it to try to enshrine their lawless         malls. Yet these “health codes” are more          government is mutating away from a
electoral practices with a veneer of law.         than just admission passes for the vacci-         constitutional republic into an authori-
                                                  nated. WeChat and AliPay work closely             tarian technocracy.
Establishing a Surveillance State                 with the Chinese government to collect              Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry
 Now that corporate oligarchs control             data on Chinese citizens that can be              explained in “Who Is the Modern-Day
 the economy and radical Democrats                used to assign them a social credit score.        Jeroboam?” (theTrumpet.com/14642)
 control the government, U.S. leaders are         If a citizen refuses vaccination, makes           that Donald Trump is a type of the Isra-
 preparing everyday Americans to accept           an online political post without a permit,        elite King Jeroboam ii. Anciently, under
 the fact that they will be forced to obtain      or questions a government decision, his           Jeroboam’s rule, Israel expanded its
“vaccine passports” to enter restaurants,         social credit goes down and the police            borders and took control of trade routes
 stores, gyms and other indoor estab-             may show up at his door. Now a similar            connecting Assyria and Egypt. Yet while
 lishments. These are the same leaders            authoritarian system could be coming to           he warred, a new class of elites grew rich
 who claim it is racist to ask someone            the United States.                                                   WEAPON PAGE 36 u
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actively enticing businesses to take this
                                                                                                                   “opportunity.” Businesses that bar the
                                                                                                                    unvaccinated will be able to forgo costly
                                                                                                                    social-distancing measures. Could the
                                                                                                                    unvaccinated soon be unable to buy
                                                                                                                    basic necessities?
                                                                                                                      Why is Europe moving so quickly to
                                                                                                                    such draconian measures?

                                                                                                                   Never Let a Crisis Go to Waste
                                                                                                                   The covid pandemic has exposed the
                                                                                                                   radical authoritarian tendencies of lead-
                                                                                                                   ers around the world. Those who want
                                                                                                                   to grab more power have been helping
                                                                                                                   themselves.
                        RAD I CA L C H ANGE EUROP E                                                                   Wherever they are implemented,
                                                                                                                   these passports represent a massive

                        LURCH TOWARD
                                                                                                                   power grab and a fundamental shift in

                        TYRANNY
                                                                                                                   governing philosophy. You hold your
                                                                                                                   job, earn an income, even buy food by
                                                                                                                   the gracious permission of govern-
                                                                                                                   ment elites. That permission could be
                                                                                                                   removed if you do something that dis-
                                                                                                                   pleases them. Today, that includes refus-
                                                                                                                   ing the jab. But tomorrow, it could be
                        It fulfills biblical prophecy. BY RICHARD PALMER
                                                                                                                   something else. If the same liberal elites
                                                                                                                   who proclaimed my body, my choice
                                                                                                                   can now say, Your body, my choice, then

                        N
                                                                                                                   nothing will stop them from decreeing
                                                                                                                   your rights, my choice in other areas of
                                        o jab: no life. That’s the   but you would lose your pay. That way,        your life and the lives of your children.
                                        latest from Austria. The     the unvaccinated cannot claim unem-              Most vaccine pass systems run on
                                        unvaccinated can only        ployment benefits. Workers must show          smartphones. Even if governments are
                                        leave home to buy essen-     their “green pass” to come into work, go      scrupulously honest about what data
                                        tials, to work, or to get    to a restaurant, see a movie, or be able      they track and how they use it (which
                                        the jab.                     to travel long distance. Only those who       would be a first), these passes are still
                          Millions in Europe are faced with a        are vaccinated, have recovered from           needed to check in at many venues. Any
                        horrifying decision: Comply with the         covid-19 in the prior six months, or have     time you go out to eat, go to work, or
                        government’s covid vaccine require-          a negative test result can receive the        buy food, the government would know
                        ment or lose the ability to feed their       pass. The tests are a significant handicap.   exactly where you are.
                        family. Several places in Europe have the    Unvaccinated workers must take them              Some countries have even banned the
                        toughest restrictions of any democracy.      every 48 hours, and pay for the privilege.    unvaccinated from gathering in private
                          France was one of the pioneers of            In November, Austria brought in the         homes. This raises the prospect of
                        vaccine passports in the free world.         toughest restrictions yet, effectively        police entering your home to check your
                        Beginning in August 2021, only adults        putting 2 million unvaccinated under          vaccine status and those of your guests.
                        who were fully vaccinated or had a           house arrest. Police now patrol the              The European Union is also using
                        negative test in the last 72 hours could     streets, demanding to see the individu-       the vaccine passports to centralize the
                        enter “nonessential” places like restau-     als’ vaccination status.                      information it has on its citizens. It has
                        rants, entertainment venues or airports.       Germany is quickly moving to where          set up a system allowing one country
                        France recently extended its vaccine         even a negative test is not an option.        to verify the vaccine status of a citizen
                        passport laws to the summer of 2022.         The German state of Hesse passed a            from elsewhere in the EU.
                        Soon, it will require everyone over 65       law allowing all businesses, including           Not even the Soviet Union was able
                        to take a third vaccine injection before     supermarkets, to bar the unvaccinated         to track its citizens’ movements in real
                        they can legally hold a vaccine passport.    from their premises. These shops can          time. Such a system could be misused in
JULIA GODDARD/TRUMPET

                          In October, Italy became the first         choose to allow in only those who have        many ways. Once a government builds
                        country in the world to require vaccine      had the vaccine or who can prove that         it, it could use the same infrastructure
                        passports for its entire workforce.          they have recovered from covid in the         to track, check and exclude people for
                        Refuse it, and you wouldn’t lose your job,   last six months. The government is            any reason. A big red X could show up
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