One hot, early August, 1973 Sunday afternoon, I was walking alongside my big brother outside the third-base side of Shea Stadium before a major league baseball game.
Many of the collaborators (at least in the working classes) are now suffering terribly from adverse reactions to the injections they took to be “Good Germans”. Some have even died prematurely.
Sadly, the truly guilty in the ruling laptop class (who exempted themselves from mandates) remain, for the most part, unscathed. My only hope is they will get their justice in the next life.
The few who resisted, unless they were already independently wealthy to begin with, will never recover economically from loss of their livelihoods because of lockdowns and mandates. They will, however, be able to live with a clear conscience and, in their dotage, die at peace knowing they did what was right even though they suffered for it.
Better men and women have done the same throughout history.
Well, this essay was a swift kick in the pants, Mark. I was still (partially) living in the ‘justice will be done’ mode. Thanks for fixing that! As a retired person, I was far less affected than those who had terrible decisions forced upon them. But, I resisted everything and was cursed, tossed out of medical and retail, lost all my friends, got nasty letters from council members…I did not go quietly, though I am normally an introvert. My actions changed nothing against the granite wall of lies, but I can look in the mirror without shame.
Your archives and transcripts focus only on brave people who weren't wimps.
One day, when junior high students ask their grandparents "why did everyone go along with this madness and all these lies," the grandmother can answer honestly, "Everyone didn't."
And then, for proof, direct her grandchild to your website, which hopefully will still be accessible somewhere.
You are a woman of integrity and strength. I know your pain. Thank you for maintaining your beliefs and pushing back - if none of us had, can you imagine where we would be now? I believe your actions did change something - I have to. And the mirror part… invaluable - my now grown children can look at me and their father/step father and see integrity modelled. They can also see the cost (small island community) but can know what it means to stand firmly in your belief system. I think that too is priceless and changed something each time. We never know the impact we are having on another. Hugs
OMG! This is so good Mark. You really, (to use a tired cliché) hit it out of the park.
"the food is bad and the neighbors unfriendly" 🤣🤣🤣
I open you first for the honesty and clarity with which you write, but I revel in the phrases you turn. I am happy that you are one writer who still causes us to reflect on the damages and all who allowed it all to occur.
Your personal life experiences helped you learn cold hard facts about this earthly life enabling you to see the futility of expectations of real time justice. I never thought I’d be grateful for growing up on the south side of Chicago. But it taught me as much about how things work in the real world. Baretta and Starsky and Hutch and Dirty Harry are not coming to save us.
The imperialist cabal mafia intelligence even put out new shows like House and ER etc so this generation was preconditioned to accept a pandemic and the jabs.
The conditioning to accept pandemics and jabs started much earlier. I like film noir and sat down to watch the 1950 movie “The Killer that stalked New York”. Imagine my surprise when i found out that the “killer” was a small pox epidemic. And of course prominently placed in the scenes in the hospital were posters to get vaccinated😦.
Dad, 88, lined up too. Never been sick in his life except maybe for a cold. Never had the flu. Now sick every time the wind changes! Flu, cold, infections, gout, you name it.
And movies like "Contagion", "Outbreak", and "Ultra-Violet". Lots of predictive programming out there if one is paying attention. Perhaps none more despicable than children's cartoons. Just look at synopses of "Super Friends" episodes from the 1970's for example. Stay frosty my friends!
all (most) of the films and TV shows condition people to obey and trust. This is by plan. I suppose even when something happens, your apartment gets burglarized, cop comes by and takes a report, asks if you have home owner insurance and nothing happens. Or your car gets crashed into while parked, does extensive damage, you know or suspect the perp, cop comes by, takes a report. Nothing happens.
You probably just say to yourself, the system works, just not for me. but still the system is good.
I grew up thinking cops were on the lookout 24/7 to prevent criminals from committing crimes and stop them in the act. If they arrived too late they would hunt down the criminals and arrest them. In my 60 years I have learned they avoid real crime at all costs and only if necessary they will quickly fill out some paperwork after the fact.
They are afraid of real criminals and dangerous people, they only act tough when dealing with law abiding citizens.
Wow Mark. That about sums it up nicely. Although, I hold out hope for some small number of investigations, arrests, and prosecutions. Call me a dreamer.
Yes, I read a book a few years ago, that stated the Russians were quite well off under his rule. That in fact, the people were mislead by the 'revolutionaries' and as you know, once a mob forms, more and more people seem to get infected. I think the book was Juri Lina, Sign of the scorpion. There was a film too, but I have been unable to watch, so gruesome.
The PREP Act ensures that the worst criminals will not face justice. This compounded by sellout judges and politicians ensures this fleecing of the sheep continues.
It is not really getting rid of it, I read, but at least he does something. He and Marjorie are about the only ones speaking up. Rand Paul seems to be afraid to do so - one wishes his dad was still in the govt. How I wish that man had made it to president. But I could not yet vote at the time LOL.
Ron Paul was the only politician I ever supported. When he ran in 2012 I wore his Ron Paul World tour t-shirt in Australia. I was amazed at the number of people who knew who he was and supported his campaign. One Aussie cafe owner sat down at the table with me and said,"Ron Paul is the last hope of this world.
My one and only foray into politics, I somehow was precinct chair in my small area for the 2012 republican primary. we voted 75% for Ron Paul. Of course romney was selected.
Yes, it was all predetermined, but I had no idea of these things back then. I do remember that at some point Fox news was discovered having dropped Dr Paul's name from a broadcast on the candidates' standings.
I was a volunteer for Ron Paul's 1988 campaign for president when I was in college. His son is a typically lesser man than the father who made an easy life for him.
If a few perpetrators face justice (and I expect that will happen to some limited extent, just to provide a distraction and pacify the public), nothing will change. The most powerful weapon we have is mass non-compliance, which means continuing education. Far more people understand what's being done to us than they did just a few years ago. Far fewer people are taking the jabs.
More of us need to grasp that what was done to us was planned and deliberate.
I think it's important for us to understand all of the legal shenanigans (PrepAct, EUA) that put all of this in motion.
All true, and that has ever been thus. I read once that some small number (10% or so)
of the American colonists supported freedom from the king. If the freedom fighters had focussed on them it would have been a waste of their time and energy.
Not everyone will wake up. And yes there are many who went along to get along. Until and unless they wake up, these people are irrelevant to any process of change.
But that doesn't change the fact that vaccine compliance is way down. That doesn't change the fact that more and more of us are questioning the whole practice of medicine in this country.
that alone is IMO a big step forward. This means people that don't want real vengeance, are questioning the narrative that has lured so many to go for more and more jabs. There will always be jab-happy people I guess. I got 2 of those among my friends, and several that don't take the COVID anymore but still go for flu, shingles, you name it. (one told me she waits until a nurse she knows, tells her when to go? maybe when it is salt water? LOL)
I remember reading that only 5% actually took the field in the American revolution, another 10% were auxiliary/support and 5% were sympathizers who might jump in on the patriot side if there was little or no risk to themselves. Some larger percentage were fence sitters, ready to jump in on the winning side. And the rest of course tories, king and country.
In 1989 I didn't question a single vaccination recommended for my newborn son. After the last five years, I hope young families question every vaccination doctors say their child needs. That's not the only lesson learned from the Scamdemic. The biggest is that we all need to think critically and fight for our human rights.
Thank you for this B. I think more and more of us are of a similar mind. And of course you are right, critical thinking and standing up for our human rights are most important.
Unfortunately, you are right. I was waiting on a lady at the jewelry counter the other day at the department store where I work. She was saying how she had a $15,000 balance on our store credit card but that she had paid it off. I was like Wow! How did you pay off such a big balance.
She said that during covid she was at her job (I think she said ophthalmologist office) and she got her full time salary plus 75 dollars per hour from the government for entering badge ID numbers or something. I guess because this was the added incentive for showing up for work during the deadly pandemic.
I think people should be mad about the financial part of the scamdemic too. It was a money grab at the top AND at the bottom. It is outrageous. Our elected leaders spend other people's money and are paid by tax dollars too. They need to be switched to a 401k program like everyone else was forced to do. And they can watch it be halved like we did a few months ago before it bounced back. What a way to live. Let's all write our representatives.
And there are knowledgeable people like Catherine Austin Fits who claims that the entire point of the covid con was to cull the herd. If you're dead you won't want any of your money that the gov't has been holding onto for you.
My only request was no masking, and no one complained.
I simply wanted to hear what everyone had to say, (based on their almost entirely liberal bias with plenty of quotes from CNN/MSNBC/NPR/CBC-you know, their go-to sources of mis/dis/malinformation.)
I just questioned PCR, & excessive amplifications, as well as EUA.
No one understood my questions, or cared for that matter.
Scary thought: 10s of millions of Americans read the column above, scratch head and mumble: What? Prosecute? But the govt. saved lives? You wanna send 'em to jail?
If this is the case, and it sure seems like it is, then I think it would be wise to figure out what we could/should be doing to better prepare our families, friends, neighbors and communities for the next assault on our liberties and freedom that are certain to come next.
When the bad actors get away with it they are never satiated enough to fade into the background. When CBDC's, social credit systems are here and the population is tempted, lured into them for convenience, then as more adopt it, comply voluntarily the screws begin to tighten and then before we know it it's mandated, it will be too late.
The masks and vaccines started off voluntary. When adoption hit critical mass was when they were mandated. Same trajectory lies ahead for all of the "nudged" behavior 'modifications the social engineers want.
Seems to me we should think about what we need to be doing to preemptively dissuade our circles of influence from being seduced by the "convenience" 'nudges.' If we aren't able to prevent critical masses from forming our freedom-loving gooses are cooked.
A lot of what we write is about looking back. Which we must do to learn from it. All that learning will be for naught unless we apply the lessons learned in better, more effective ways than our dissident efforts of 2020-2021 ended up being. How do we sell inconvenient freedom as preferable to convenient slavery?
I am still angry and want accountability. I don't care where it comes from.
I lost my beloved sister to turbo cancer. I don't want to believe that TPTB will get away with it.
My very smart husband (retired LE) told me a long time ago, those people (those who think they get away with it) are miserable every single day and will never be happy - you just don't see it. This satisfies me some.
I don't think they're all miserable. Self-delusion is widespread. Though I think your husband is right that many who bought the Scam live in perpetual fear.
A fair number of them are psychopaths, and many more are high on the psychopathic scale. Psychopaths tend to actually enjoy inflicting pain. They love having and using the power to hurt others. None of them feel the least bit bad about it. It's unfortunate many, like Debbie's husband, misunderstand these people so totally.
Many of the collaborators (at least in the working classes) are now suffering terribly from adverse reactions to the injections they took to be “Good Germans”. Some have even died prematurely.
Sadly, the truly guilty in the ruling laptop class (who exempted themselves from mandates) remain, for the most part, unscathed. My only hope is they will get their justice in the next life.
The few who resisted, unless they were already independently wealthy to begin with, will never recover economically from loss of their livelihoods because of lockdowns and mandates. They will, however, be able to live with a clear conscience and, in their dotage, die at peace knowing they did what was right even though they suffered for it.
Better men and women have done the same throughout history.
We are in good company.
Exactly.
"Associate yourself with men of good quality, if you esteem your own reputation, for 'tis better to be alone than in poor company."
George Washington
Obviously, he was excluding the DC Swamp.
“Don’t judge people by what they say. Watch what they ignore. What doesn’t makes them pause. That’s where their conscience lives or dies.”
- unknown provenance
By the time I was five, my Mom told me, "Actions speak louder than words."
I knew then that she was right.
Well, this essay was a swift kick in the pants, Mark. I was still (partially) living in the ‘justice will be done’ mode. Thanks for fixing that! As a retired person, I was far less affected than those who had terrible decisions forced upon them. But, I resisted everything and was cursed, tossed out of medical and retail, lost all my friends, got nasty letters from council members…I did not go quietly, though I am normally an introvert. My actions changed nothing against the granite wall of lies, but I can look in the mirror without shame.
Teresa,
Thanks for resisting. If more had done what you did, the whole thing wouldn't have gotten traction.
I also lost many friends. But have made new, smarter ones.
Teresa D.— Thank you for standing for freedom. Sadly, it seems almost everyone who did lost all or a good many of their friends.
Being a dissident isn't for wimps is it?
Your archives and transcripts focus only on brave people who weren't wimps.
One day, when junior high students ask their grandparents "why did everyone go along with this madness and all these lies," the grandmother can answer honestly, "Everyone didn't."
And then, for proof, direct her grandchild to your website, which hopefully will still be accessible somewhere.
Thanks, Bill, that is a cheering throught!
You are a woman of integrity and strength. I know your pain. Thank you for maintaining your beliefs and pushing back - if none of us had, can you imagine where we would be now? I believe your actions did change something - I have to. And the mirror part… invaluable - my now grown children can look at me and their father/step father and see integrity modelled. They can also see the cost (small island community) but can know what it means to stand firmly in your belief system. I think that too is priceless and changed something each time. We never know the impact we are having on another. Hugs
And, FWIW, you are on the "right side of history."
Good on you for that.
OMG! This is so good Mark. You really, (to use a tired cliché) hit it out of the park.
"the food is bad and the neighbors unfriendly" 🤣🤣🤣
I open you first for the honesty and clarity with which you write, but I revel in the phrases you turn. I am happy that you are one writer who still causes us to reflect on the damages and all who allowed it all to occur.
Thanks, AnnMarie. The process of writing makes the writer confront his ideas and edit what s/he's wrote until it seems true.
I didn't want to write the truth about retribution b/c I strongly wish for it. But I've been wishing for stuff for the past 5.3 years.
Between Mark and Eugyppius, the truth is revealed and in a meme-like way ! We laugh, and in the meantime know what is going on.
I'd be worried about the "friendly" neighbors as well....
😱
Your personal life experiences helped you learn cold hard facts about this earthly life enabling you to see the futility of expectations of real time justice. I never thought I’d be grateful for growing up on the south side of Chicago. But it taught me as much about how things work in the real world. Baretta and Starsky and Hutch and Dirty Harry are not coming to save us.
The imperialist cabal mafia intelligence even put out new shows like House and ER etc so this generation was preconditioned to accept a pandemic and the jabs.
The conditioning to accept pandemics and jabs started much earlier. I like film noir and sat down to watch the 1950 movie “The Killer that stalked New York”. Imagine my surprise when i found out that the “killer” was a small pox epidemic. And of course prominently placed in the scenes in the hospital were posters to get vaccinated😦.
Interesting. I don't watch many movies. Apparently, there have been several in the last few decades about contagions.
As I said last week, some people look for things to be scared of. That's pathetic, but if they're going to do that, leave the rest of us alone.
Oh my! This scheme is even worse than I thought. Does explain why some of 70 year olds line up for jabs.
Actually i am 70 years old and the covid scamdemic woke me up. No more vaccines for me. My PCP does not even ask anymore.
Dad, 88, lined up too. Never been sick in his life except maybe for a cold. Never had the flu. Now sick every time the wind changes! Flu, cold, infections, gout, you name it.
just like some episodes of the Simpsons, that some people stumbled upon - and some are on the tube (see you later vaxxinator).
And movies like "Contagion", "Outbreak", and "Ultra-Violet". Lots of predictive programming out there if one is paying attention. Perhaps none more despicable than children's cartoons. Just look at synopses of "Super Friends" episodes from the 1970's for example. Stay frosty my friends!
And stay angry, my friends.
But not all day.
Yes, and it is ongoing. The Pitt, for example.
all (most) of the films and TV shows condition people to obey and trust. This is by plan. I suppose even when something happens, your apartment gets burglarized, cop comes by and takes a report, asks if you have home owner insurance and nothing happens. Or your car gets crashed into while parked, does extensive damage, you know or suspect the perp, cop comes by, takes a report. Nothing happens.
You probably just say to yourself, the system works, just not for me. but still the system is good.
I grew up thinking cops were on the lookout 24/7 to prevent criminals from committing crimes and stop them in the act. If they arrived too late they would hunt down the criminals and arrest them. In my 60 years I have learned they avoid real crime at all costs and only if necessary they will quickly fill out some paperwork after the fact.
They are afraid of real criminals and dangerous people, they only act tough when dealing with law abiding citizens.
Wow Mark. That about sums it up nicely. Although, I hold out hope for some small number of investigations, arrests, and prosecutions. Call me a dreamer.
Thanks, Lawdog.
Sometimes, as here, I'd like to be wrong.
Great stuff. Not sure about the inclusion of Tsar Nicholas, though, as that whole "revolution" was fishy...
Agreed.
Tsar Nicholas was a victim of a certain class that continues to cull the goy.
Yes, I read a book a few years ago, that stated the Russians were quite well off under his rule. That in fact, the people were mislead by the 'revolutionaries' and as you know, once a mob forms, more and more people seem to get infected. I think the book was Juri Lina, Sign of the scorpion. There was a film too, but I have been unable to watch, so gruesome.
The PREP Act ensures that the worst criminals will not face justice. This compounded by sellout judges and politicians ensures this fleecing of the sheep continues.
Yup.
Massie of Kentucky just intro'd a Bill to get rid of the PREP Act, but I doubt Team Guv'mint will allow it to pass.
It is not really getting rid of it, I read, but at least he does something. He and Marjorie are about the only ones speaking up. Rand Paul seems to be afraid to do so - one wishes his dad was still in the govt. How I wish that man had made it to president. But I could not yet vote at the time LOL.
they crushed Ron Paul just like they did the Tea Party.
Ron Paul was the only politician I ever supported. When he ran in 2012 I wore his Ron Paul World tour t-shirt in Australia. I was amazed at the number of people who knew who he was and supported his campaign. One Aussie cafe owner sat down at the table with me and said,"Ron Paul is the last hope of this world.
My one and only foray into politics, I somehow was precinct chair in my small area for the 2012 republican primary. we voted 75% for Ron Paul. Of course romney was selected.
Yes, it was all predetermined, but I had no idea of these things back then. I do remember that at some point Fox news was discovered having dropped Dr Paul's name from a broadcast on the candidates' standings.
I was a volunteer for Ron Paul's 1988 campaign for president when I was in college. His son is a typically lesser man than the father who made an easy life for him.
Trump is going All-in to defeat Massie. He doesn’t support that bill.
Trump has done a lot wrong, esp. re: CV and the shots.
of course trump doesn't support the bill. and I am a loser because epstein shouldn't be forgotten.
I think Massie is the only politician I would support right now. Marjorie has good ideas, but also some flagrant missers.
At least people awakening
If a few perpetrators face justice (and I expect that will happen to some limited extent, just to provide a distraction and pacify the public), nothing will change. The most powerful weapon we have is mass non-compliance, which means continuing education. Far more people understand what's being done to us than they did just a few years ago. Far fewer people are taking the jabs.
More of us need to grasp that what was done to us was planned and deliberate.
I think it's important for us to understand all of the legal shenanigans (PrepAct, EUA) that put all of this in motion.
True that it's important to understand the legal context/set-up.
But most people still don't know the first things about the Scam. It was so easy to fool them.
And many knew it was a Scam but played along b/c doing so benefitted them.
All true, and that has ever been thus. I read once that some small number (10% or so)
of the American colonists supported freedom from the king. If the freedom fighters had focussed on them it would have been a waste of their time and energy.
Not everyone will wake up. And yes there are many who went along to get along. Until and unless they wake up, these people are irrelevant to any process of change.
But that doesn't change the fact that vaccine compliance is way down. That doesn't change the fact that more and more of us are questioning the whole practice of medicine in this country.
that alone is IMO a big step forward. This means people that don't want real vengeance, are questioning the narrative that has lured so many to go for more and more jabs. There will always be jab-happy people I guess. I got 2 of those among my friends, and several that don't take the COVID anymore but still go for flu, shingles, you name it. (one told me she waits until a nurse she knows, tells her when to go? maybe when it is salt water? LOL)
I remember reading that only 5% actually took the field in the American revolution, another 10% were auxiliary/support and 5% were sympathizers who might jump in on the patriot side if there was little or no risk to themselves. Some larger percentage were fence sitters, ready to jump in on the winning side. And the rest of course tories, king and country.
Thank you wilson, it's great to have more information about how much and what kind of support existed at the time.
Katherine Watt has a good substack about all the legal shebang.
I think the govt will wait till the worst are dead (Fauci must be in his mid-eighties)
Yes! she has done outstanding work. Thank you.
Yes. The Covid Dossier by Sasha Latypova, Debbie Lerman and Katherine Watt. Tells the whole truth. Military Operation… was never about public health.
In 1989 I didn't question a single vaccination recommended for my newborn son. After the last five years, I hope young families question every vaccination doctors say their child needs. That's not the only lesson learned from the Scamdemic. The biggest is that we all need to think critically and fight for our human rights.
Thank you for this B. I think more and more of us are of a similar mind. And of course you are right, critical thinking and standing up for our human rights are most important.
Unfortunately, you are right. I was waiting on a lady at the jewelry counter the other day at the department store where I work. She was saying how she had a $15,000 balance on our store credit card but that she had paid it off. I was like Wow! How did you pay off such a big balance.
She said that during covid she was at her job (I think she said ophthalmologist office) and she got her full time salary plus 75 dollars per hour from the government for entering badge ID numbers or something. I guess because this was the added incentive for showing up for work during the deadly pandemic.
I think people should be mad about the financial part of the scamdemic too. It was a money grab at the top AND at the bottom. It is outrageous. Our elected leaders spend other people's money and are paid by tax dollars too. They need to be switched to a 401k program like everyone else was forced to do. And they can watch it be halved like we did a few months ago before it bounced back. What a way to live. Let's all write our representatives.
The money grab was def a central element of the whole thing. Those effects are permanent.
It turns out that you can't print trillions of dollars without stratifying wealth and causing record inflation.
And there are knowledgeable people like Catherine Austin Fits who claims that the entire point of the covid con was to cull the herd. If you're dead you won't want any of your money that the gov't has been holding onto for you.
Excellent post!
My favorite line was "we shoulda gone swimming."
I remember too well, back on New Year's Eve, 2021, wife & I did a open house, you know, 2:00-6:00 in the afternoon, for neighbour's & friends;
About 25 showed up, various times, and ALL were vaccinated save for me.
I listened, and served food & drink, but never interrupted the diarrhea I heard.
Kinda eye-opening experience...
Thanks, Indrek.
I wish I had been at your party. I woulda wore my anti-mask/vaxx shirt. A fight would have broken out.
And I could have written a post about the comments and the scuffle.
I would really like to know what they said.
I get it.
My only request was no masking, and no one complained.
I simply wanted to hear what everyone had to say, (based on their almost entirely liberal bias with plenty of quotes from CNN/MSNBC/NPR/CBC-you know, their go-to sources of mis/dis/malinformation.)
I just questioned PCR, & excessive amplifications, as well as EUA.
No one understood my questions, or cared for that matter.
New Year's Eve fact-finder.
By and large, they're all sheep...
I asked an m.d. friend, why would you take an E.U.A. injection anyway? the reply was something like I saw people dying in the streets.
He meant on TV?
How phony!
It was so ridiculous that I didn't question it. I just said we should leave this subject. So we did.
This applies to everything the Government does to we the people!! Poison food, water, air and pharmaceuticals and keep getting away with it!
Scary thought: 10s of millions of Americans read the column above, scratch head and mumble: What? Prosecute? But the govt. saved lives? You wanna send 'em to jail?
Yes, I acknowldged that.
People have been so badly misled that they'll never understand what happened,
Spot on, Mark. Unfortunately the lack of prosecutions will serve to reinforce the belief among the sheeple that nothing wrong was done
If this is the case, and it sure seems like it is, then I think it would be wise to figure out what we could/should be doing to better prepare our families, friends, neighbors and communities for the next assault on our liberties and freedom that are certain to come next.
When the bad actors get away with it they are never satiated enough to fade into the background. When CBDC's, social credit systems are here and the population is tempted, lured into them for convenience, then as more adopt it, comply voluntarily the screws begin to tighten and then before we know it it's mandated, it will be too late.
The masks and vaccines started off voluntary. When adoption hit critical mass was when they were mandated. Same trajectory lies ahead for all of the "nudged" behavior 'modifications the social engineers want.
Seems to me we should think about what we need to be doing to preemptively dissuade our circles of influence from being seduced by the "convenience" 'nudges.' If we aren't able to prevent critical masses from forming our freedom-loving gooses are cooked.
A lot of what we write is about looking back. Which we must do to learn from it. All that learning will be for naught unless we apply the lessons learned in better, more effective ways than our dissident efforts of 2020-2021 ended up being. How do we sell inconvenient freedom as preferable to convenient slavery?
"Vengeance is mine saith the Lord"
I am still angry and want accountability. I don't care where it comes from.
I lost my beloved sister to turbo cancer. I don't want to believe that TPTB will get away with it.
My very smart husband (retired LE) told me a long time ago, those people (those who think they get away with it) are miserable every single day and will never be happy - you just don't see it. This satisfies me some.
Thanks, Debbie.
I don't think they're all miserable. Self-delusion is widespread. Though I think your husband is right that many who bought the Scam live in perpetual fear.
A fair number of them are psychopaths, and many more are high on the psychopathic scale. Psychopaths tend to actually enjoy inflicting pain. They love having and using the power to hurt others. None of them feel the least bit bad about it. It's unfortunate many, like Debbie's husband, misunderstand these people so totally.