Escape From Tyranny to Freedom

There's a growing exodus of people from western countries to places like Mexico to escape from tge increasing encroachments on personal freedom in those parts of the world. Since I've wanted to know a lot more about Mexico because I now have family who have escaped there, I keep listening to the videos of this couple the Lechmans who went there less than a year ago but are full of information about the processes involved and the experiences of being there. It's been a source of reassurance for me as I'd heard so many horror stories about Americans encountering dangerous situations in Mexico and little else. I've probably watched some thirty or forty of their videos by now. tHERE ARE OTHER PEOPLE DOING VIDEOS OF a similar nature, quite a few as a matter of fact, but this couple have the particular focus I've particularly needed to hear.

This one focuses on the fear of what's happening in the world as the reaosn for the exodus. they also applaud those who choose to stay and fight it. ""

Too Many People LIKE Government Control, That's What Makes Saving Freedom So Difficult These Days

It's been nice finding out so many attractive things about Mexico since I never knew much about the country, and this couple from Saskatoon in Canada are good guides for that purpose. They chose Mexico to move to out of quite a few other possibilities, did research on each that made up their minds for Mexico. Their first concern was climate, to avoid cold and snow like that where they came from, and extreme heat and humidity. That was an important reason they chose a place in a mountainous area.

But as they've been there for a while they are finding they're happiest with the cultural elements of Mexico, specifically the lack of overregulation which is certainly a problem in the US and Canada. As I've listened to them I've realized how much I also dislike this situation in America, how much I've disliked the mentality that sues a company for coffee that is too hot, that rewquires expensive licensing for anyone who just wants to sell something. In Mexico this couple bought tamales from a woman who made them in her kitchen and sold them on the street in front of her home. Try that here.

I even started thinking how this overregulation is part of the whole problem that is making people want to move. It can perhaps be thought of as the first stage of Communism, which is all about controlling people. So it isn't as if the current government overreach is anything new, it just got intolerable after being tolerated for decades. Of course it also has to be acknowledged that it's not quite the same thing since this is all based on lies.

The overregulation is impsed, it actually contradicts the American concept of freedom but it's managed to grow into a great choking weed by small increments that can sound reasonable in their limited context. Pushing back this current stranglehold by government is really a bigger task than it may first appear. There are decades of destruction of the American idea that make the current threat to freedom from the global level seem reasonable to at least half the country as long as they aren't exposed to the real meaning of it, which the global powers have managed to suppress only too efectively.
Ameica is certainly worth saving, but I mean the original concept of America that has been buried in so many decades of alien influences making saving it a bigger task than you might at first think.

The forces at work today are global and immensely powerful. Countries that so far have escaped their influence may not be able to for much longer. No way to know for sure, but if we are in the last days when we know the entire world is going to come under the control of the Antichrist any attempt at escape is going to be short-lived.

Anyway, this video by the Canadian couple is interesting as it shows a person who is not happy in Mexico for all the same reasons they are happy:

Escaping the West as It Is Going Under

UPDATE Oct 28
Besides the video below I've now watched quite a few of this couple's videos aimed at people wanting to move out of their increasingly restrictive and punishing countries to someplace like Mexico. They do a good job of showing how attractive Mexico is in many ways. I love the Spanish Colonial architecture and that is the style of most (?) living places. Wroght iron gates and decorative bars over some windows, arched door and window frames, high ceilings, borders of pretty Mexican tiles even in the cheapest little apartment. Sometimes a courtyard, a papaya tree growing in the one where they live.

Then there's the wonderful looking produce at their local mercado, most of it for pennies.

It might be hard for a westerner to adjust to their laid-back idea of time, showing up as much as days late for an agreed upon maintenance appointment being typical, and that seems to go with a general disregard for rules of all sorts. I've read enough by now to think I'd like their lack of government nanny busybodyness. that also seems to be part of the same mentality. You might fall out of a twelfth story window because they don't protect you from everthing there the way we do here, you mighrt fall out of the back of a pickup truck because that's allowed there te way it used to be here, you might fall into an open manhole because they don't put up Caution signs, nobody is going to be suing MacDonald's for coffee they spilled on their lap. Some of it is uUnnerving at first but the more I've heard about such things the more I like the general idea. There's a freedom in all that that we've lost. There's probably a happy medium to be sought butfor now I'm enjoying the picture I'm getting of their way of doing things\

We get a lot of negative ideas about Mexico, all the crime, the cartels, the extreme poverty, that it's kind of a shock to see how much beauty and thriving life there is in a city like Mexico City. A beautiful huge park, gigantic marketplaces teeming with people. If I were thirty or forty years younger I'd now want to spend some time in Mexico. It's a very attractive place. Yes it wounds like you have to learn how to avoid the dangerous elements but you have to learn to do that here too.

Funny to think they have so much less government interference in their lives than our Constitutional Reputlic which is supposed to have been founded on that ideal. Again there's probably a happy medium to be sought, there are alwaysw downsides, but I can see why people are choosing to move there, feeling hounded and even enslaved in our supposedly free nations of the west.
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Here's where they first spell it out that their REAL reason for being in Mexico is to escape the insane restrictions on people in the western countries. As I mention below I'd rather people didn't keep implying that the restrictions on freedom have anything to do with any real threat from COVID that is out of control as the governmental agencies keep insisting. There are plenty of ways to stop this disease in its tracks that they are suppressing. That is a crime in more than one way, and it's also a totally unjustifiable infringmenet on our basic rights, which rational measures to control a threat for which there are no real cures would not be. These are a couple of canadians. It's all come down harder and faster there and in Australia than so far in the US, but it certainly looks like it's coming here too.

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8 I guess you could ask why aren't they staying and fighting rather than escaping. Fair enough question but they've chosen to escape. Once your own family has escaped it makes you feel so alone you want to join them, that's another impetus. I have a feeling I won't be up to joining them anyway so I'll just have to be here and they there.

Anyway, it appears that there are quite a few westerners escaping to Mexico. It does seem like an unlikely choice if you're looking for freedom, but the fact that they don't have the resources to track every individual, as western countries do, may be the reason, or part of it.

I have to admit I don't really get the freedom emphasis. Or put it this way, I get it now that it has become an issue but in the terms it is usually presented I don't get it. That is, if they were telling the truth about the dangers of this virus it would make sense to do even some rather drastic things to keep it from spreading and killing people. But they aren't telling the truth. There is no public health problem as they keep saying there is. And to a large extent what problem there is has been manufactorued and could be easily done away with if they weren't withholding the simple measures that woult completely wipe out the virus.

Such as hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin. they let the death toll keep mounting as if we didn't have these easily available cures. That's what makes the mandates a matter of personal freedom. the lies.

Think I'll post here a recent talk by Harvey Risch, head of the Yale School of Pulbic Health, who has been arguing for hydroxychloroquine for a year and a half now.

Strong Faith is Needed For This Time

Isaiah 40:31 But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

Daniel 11:32b The people that do know their God shall be strong and do exploits

This is a message for us right now, who are facing threats from powerful corrupt authorities even in what used to be a free country. And not just the USA but other traditionally free countries of the west, Austrailia and Canada. Daniel is at least prophesying the exploits done by the Maccabees when Antiochus Epiphanes desecrated the Jewish temple a couple hundred years before Christ, but the prophecy also extends into the future end times context where we are today, and we should take it as a promise that God will enable us to defeat our enemies as we put all our trust in Him.

Oh wow. While writing this I've been listening off and on to Jan Markell's latest Understanding the Times program, just went back to it to hear her guest saying exactly what I just said above about Daniel 11:32, and I have to report this because otherwise it will seem like I got it from him, but I didn't, we both had the same thought. A nice reinformcement at least. (Sure I often do take inspiration from her radio show or other sources but it's clear when I do and in this case I didn't) I think I'll put up her show at the bottom of this post.

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As I mention in my previous post I think Cicely Tyson was a genuine Christian. She also played Christian characters, particularly in "A Trip to Bountiful" and "A Woman Called Moses" about Harriet Tubman. In our current cultueral context we often don't hear about the Christian identify of celebrities. I didn't know much about Tubman except that she is known for helping slaves escape to freedom in the North in the nineteenth century, and for all I knhew she could have done it as an atheist inspired by the sort of thinkinhg we know today as Marxism. But as she is portrayed in the movie we see her as powerfully motivated by her faith in Jesus Christ who called her to the work of leading slaves to freedom. The couple of scenes of her hearing from God I thought were very believably done by Cicely Tyson. I did a little reading up on Tubman and it seems the movie was fairly accurate.

Yes Tubman was black and a woman and she is celebrated as a heroine of both identities, but I want to celebrate her as a Christian above all. Her story is as Christian in its essence as the stories of, say, Brother Andrew who smuggled Bibles into Communist countries, or Corrie Ten Boom whose family hid Jews from the Nazis and ended up in a concentration camp for it. Both those stories are about people primarily motived by faith in Christ, and so was Harriet Tubman. These are people who knew God and did exploits. She "never lost a passenger" she said, she faced some harrowing close calls but was never caught. I don't know of course but if she'd been motivated by her own desires and not by the calling of God and her faith, I'd guess she wouldn't have had such a perfect record of success.

She was illiterate but would have heard the Bible at church. In the movie she quotes something the "spirits" said to her and it was a Bible passage _(2 Peter 4-7 about the characteristics a Christian should cultivate) although it was not identified as a Bible passage. Since I haven't read her biography I don't know how true the movie was to the book but "spirits" doesn't suggest anything biblical, so I was surpised that the quote was straight from the Bible. Later when she is shown praying for guidance it is a soundly biblical expression of repentance and faith. She gives herself to what she experiences as God's call to lead the slaves out of bondage.

I just happen to have seen the movie and it happens to be a good example of a Christian who put all her trust in God, what we need above all right now.

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Here's the Understanding the Timjes show with guest David FiorazoL: When Government Must be God:

Sometimes I Think About Who I'll See in Heaven

I used to be able to use my other blogs for messages that don't really belong here but Blogger/Google messed that up for me because I'm too low-tech to know how to navigate whatever they did to my blogs. Anyway here's another oddball topic I would have put somewhere else but have to put here:

I discovered two actors recently I expect to see in heaven, which considering the way things are going on this miserable planet could be very soon, and I just feel like noting the discovering. One of them is highly unexpected.

These are Cicely Tyson and Steve McQueen.

Start with McQueen since he's the unexpected one. I was never a fan of his, a macho actor typ-e I didn't pay much attention to, and I never heard anything about his having any Christian beliefs before he died. But then recently I happened to flip my radio dial to the FM Fox Channel when the local AM conservative KOH was doing something boring, where it happened they were doing "our Americaqn Story" about McQueen. I like that program when I get to hear it. It was almost at the end of his story and the narrator talked about how McQueen had visited a church and respobnded to a call to give his life to Christ, then some time later grilled the pastor about questioned he had. The pastor wanted to know if he was born again and McQueen assured him that he was, and it sounds like he was just from the fact that he was dedicated to making things right with people. He died of cancer not long afterward at the young age of 50.

Steve McQueen in heaven? How unlikely? But I think I'll see him there.

The idea that Cicely tyson would be in heaven is not such a big surprise but of course you never know about someone until you know. I was impressed by her tears and singing along with the performance of "Blessed Assurance" at the Kennedy Center's honoring of her life at the age of ninety. Since she'd sung that hymn herself in the Broadway production of "The Trip to Bountiful: just a few years earlier, her response could have been mostly sentimentality, but it didn't feel that way. It felt like genuine Christian faith, and happiness to hear such a true gospel song at such an event.

Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine,
Oh what a foretaste of glory divine.
Heir of salvation, purchase of God,
Born of His spirit, washed in His blood.


That's a hyman that packs the whole gospel message into very few words. (by the way you can see her in the movie version of "A Trip to Bountiful" on Amazon, maybe other places but I saw it at Amazon.

Then as I did my usual thing of tracking down interviews with her since I didn't know much about her, eventually I ran across her speech at the memorial service for Maya Angelou which she opened with the line from another solid gospel hymn: "My hope is built on nothing less than Jesus' blodd and righteousness." So here's the first verse of that one:

My hope is built on nothing less
Than Jesus' blood and righteousness.
I dare not trust the sweetest frame
Bur wholly lean on Jesus' name.

On Christ the solid Rock I stand
All other ground is sinking sand.
All other ground is sinking sand.


She was a member of the Abysinnian Church of Harlem until her death this last January at the age of 96. I have the strong impression that she inhabits the gospel message of both those hymns. I'll be happy to see her in Jesus' prsence.

Rome and the Vaccines

Chris Pinto is among the very few Christians these days who are up on the role of the Vatican and especially the Jesuits in wrecking America and promoting the globalist agenda. I've quoted John Adams a number of times in my posts about how of all people they deserve Hell. Today there is also Ronald Cooke and he has sermons at Sermon Audio though I've only heard one of them so far. Richard Bennett who died a couple years ago has plenty of information at his website on Rome in general and the Jesuits. The nefarious work of the Jesuits used to be pretty well known among Christians but over the last century they've acquired a positive public image and are able to work without being called out on it.

Pinto's radio show rambles around quite a bit but it's worth hearing to the end: We need to know that the Vatican, the Jesuits inj particular, are pushing worldwide vaccination on us.

Noise of Thunder Radio, Jesuits and the Vaccines

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Taking Down the Propaganda Against Ivermectin: Rogan vs. Gupta, BBC's Zero Evidence, Its Use in India Brings Down their COVID Death Rate

__ It's become popular on the Left these days to characterize Ivermectin as "horse dewormer," in their neverending effort to keep people away from it, for what reason we still can't say for sure. But here's a clip that includes Joe Rogan calling out Dr. Sanjay Gupta for not condemning CNN's misreprentation of Rogsn's use of Ivermectin by that same term, although Rogan was taking a prescription for him as a human being. It's always nice to see propaganda confronted, but unfortunately half the country isn't going to see the confrtonation and will just go on believing the lies of CNN and the other leftist outlets. Anyway here's the clip:

Rogan Takes Down Sanjay Gupta

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ADDED BY EDIT A COUPLE HOURS LATER: Got off the computer and turned on the radio to find Dan Bongino talking about this very incident between Rogan and Gupta. He went on to mention that after agreeing with Rogan that CNN shouldn't have said he was talking horse dewormer, later on CNN he said that Rogan was wrong,m that Ivermectin IS horse dewormer, a if that exconerated CNN's use of the term

But of course it doesn't. Ivermectin has many uses and its veterinary use was not its original use. Its discoverers got a Nobel prize for it, and not for its use as a horse dewormer. It wiped out the parasite that made the men in parts of Africa blind by the age of forty. That is, it's FIRST use was for human beings, not animals.

I started hearing about people using the veterinary form of it a few weeks or months ago, and the reasons for that was the unconscionable restriction of its availability for human use by this same concerted propaganda against it. Because it was, and still is, so difficult to get, people were buying the veterinary paste version of it which was readily available, and using it according to the guidelines based on body weight that are put out by various medical sources. This is of course based on the assuption that it's exactly the same chemical, and all I know about that is that the people who use it say so.

As I reported a few posts ago, there are now stories of Ivermectin overdose cases overloading hospital services --Rachel Maddow seems to have been the one to spread this claim -- at least one of them in Oklahoma later denying it in a letter to the press. My own guess is that a case of one overdose was magnified into many and disseminated through local newspapters all owned by one company, making it seem like a sudden vast upsurge in Ivermectin overdoses in the communities served by those particular newspapers (and as far as I know ONLY those which is suspcious in itself). I hope someone does an expose on this. In any case people are using the veterinary form of Ivermectin because the Powers That Be have made the people kind hard to get, and most of them without negative effects.

And while I'm at it I'll just add a note on the validity of its use against COVID. In the interview of Dr. Pierre Kory and Bret Weinstein by Joe Rogan that I'[ve mentioned a few times now (it's on Spotify, Episoe 1671) Kory said its antiviral properties were original discovered in the labl and when tried with patients proved to be even more effective than expected from such a lab experiment. Bret Weinstein in that same interview gave the opinion, which he said was eventually confirmed by Dr. Robert Malone who had at first disagreed with him, that Ivermectin if used properly could drive COVID to extinction. Zev Zelenko, who was the first to bring the efficacy of Hydroxychloroquine to public attention, believes that either of these "repurposed" drugs that have antiviral properties could have saved 85% of those who have died of COVID. There are many others who have used both HCQ and Ivermectin with huge success and saved thousands upon thousands of their own patients. /EDIT
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Here are a couple of discussions of the COVID sitaution by Dr. John Campbell. I don't know anything about him excpet that I run across him at You tube from time to time and he has an appealingly objective way of dealing with information. He's in favor of the vaccines and I haven't found a video of him discussing them yet but I'll post it if I do.

Meanwhile these two are interesting I think. In the first he presents information about how India brought down their death rate from COVID. They distributed home care kits to people who tested positive, which included among other aids vitamins C and D, Ivermectin, Doxyclycline and Zinc.

How India Reducedd Their COVID Death Rate

The second video is about the BBC's debunking of Ivermectin, and Campbell's analysis of the studies they based it on, which amounts to their having no evidence whatever to base it on.

BBC Article Debunking Ivermectin