“With usura hath no man a house of good stone”

– Ezra Pound, Canto XLV

By Richard Hugus — Sept 26, 2026

The opposition which formed in 2020 in response to covid-19 restrictions and mandates — the so-called health freedom movement — ran into serious challenges to its credibility from the end of 2023 to now, the end of 2026. On October 7, 2023, a Palestinian rebellion against longstanding Zionist oppression took place in Gaza. It was met by what looks like a pre-planned genocide against all of Palestine by the Zionist entity. As this genocide became clear to the rest of the world, a central organization in the health freedom movement — Children’s Health Defense — had nothing to say about the health, much less murder, of thousands of children in Gaza. With carnage mounting from daily Israeli bombing and home demolitions, Children’s Health Defense founder, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., came out in support of the Zionist entity, saying this vicious century-long oppressor of Palestine’s indigenous population had a right to defend itself, and calling Palestinians a “pampered people.”

Del Bigtree, producer of the documentary Vaxxed and the covid skeptic program The Highwire, signed on as campaign manager for Kennedy when Kennedy announced his candidacy for President. Genocide in Palestine got no attention on The Highwire either. Rebel News in Canada, which had admirably covered the huge Canadian truckers strike against covid restrictions, suddenly came out in support of “Israel”, led by its Zionist founder, Ezra Levant, who went on to co-opt trucker convoy heroine, Tamara Lich, with a paid gig at Rebel News. “Healthy American” Peggy Hall supported “Israel.” Editors at The Conservative Woman supported “Israel.” Across the board, conservatives who had been strong critics of covid totalitarianism turned out to support of the world’s most totalitarian society as it began its final push for the genocide of Palestine. Conservatives said that they and “Israel” had “shared values.”

Many who rebelled against the clearly long-planned fake pandemic also found themselves betrayed by the left. The World Socialist website was fully on board with government and pharmaceutical corporations. They were highly critical of the idea that individual freedom had any standing in the face of the health of the collective. Communists viewed the covid operation as a non-event and went on fighting capitalism and imperialism with “masks required, no exceptions” written in bold on their event postings. Communists and socialists both were only concerned that “marginalized people” and “under-served communities” have equal access to the vaccine program. Caitlin Johnstone, who built her reputation on the examination of narrative control as a means of social manipulation, found the covid era “boring” (her word) and of no particular interest . . . in the face of a massive, massive narrative control operation. She was annoyed that people kept bothering her about it.

Having no place in either the left or the right, we then went on to witness the co-optation of health professionals who didn’t identify themselves either way. Politically neutral, supposedly objective doctors and scientists proved beyond doubt that the covid vaccines were harming and killing people in large numbers worldwide. Some claimed that this harm and killing was so obvious, and so obviously ignored, that it had to be intentional. They gained the trust of an anxious public . . . and then just ran out the clock on us. “Frontline doctors” Peter McCullough, Pierre Kory, and Paul Marik went into business with The Wellness Company, selling supplements. Zev Zelenko marketed his Z-Paks. Conferences and forums were organized for them. As for the Department of Defense/National Security Council/Globalist plan to cull the world’s population — it was as if the idea had never been mentioned.

The coup de grâce was Trump and Robert Kennedy’s “Make America Healthy Again” which turned our attention completely away from an apparent democide to the need for Americans to eat healthy food and the need to restore their trust in vaccines. From Operation Warp Speed to MAHA, Trump was always a shameless tool – only his base was fooled — but Robert Kennedy was a betrayer of the highest order. He gained the trust of covid dissidents and then became a clearly compromised self-imploding Health and Human Services bureaucrat, defending vaccines, defending the use of glyphosate, and doing nothing about the massive corruption of the US public health establishment. The leader of Children’s Health Defense went from marching for “Israel” with Rabbi Schmuley Boteach during the genocide of the children of Gaza, to later standing prominently at a White House award ceremony for Pfizer’s criminal CEO, Albert Bourla.

Kennedy’s association with Rabbi Schmuley Boteach was connected with his presidential ambitions and the need for support from what James Petras once called the “Jewish power configuration.” In July 2023, Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz accused Kennedy of anti-semitism for allegedly saying that “the corona virus was bioengineered to target Caucasians and Black people, but spare Ashkenazi Jews.” Rabbi Schmuley quickly came to Kennedy’s defense. He hosted a public, recorded event called “Conversation with RFK”. At the event, Robert Kennedy Junior sits back and says nothing as Rabbi Schmuley falsely asserts: “Robert Kennedy Senior. . . . was gunned down by Palestinian domestic terrorist Sirhan Sirhan and murdered because of his support for Israel.” Kennedy continues to sit back and say nothing when a woman in the audience is pulled out of the room for responding, “Excuse me sir, why are you lying? Sirhan Sirhan was not the murderer.” Kennedy knew quite well this was true — he had said so more than once in the past. He did nothing.

The “Conversation with RFK” was a humiliation which Kennedy underwent because he wanted power. But it wasn’t just Kennedy who was being humiliated; it was all the people who were misled by his false leadership of the health freedom movement. America was humiliated – what the “Conversation with RFK” said to Americans was, “Look at what ‘Israel’ loyalists have done with a member of one of your most prominent families — this is our power.” Kennedy ended up dropping out of the presidential race in August 2024 and then endorsed Donald Trump, the man who facilitated the covid operation four years earlier. Another amazing betrayal.

Jewish power was prominent in the left and the right as well as in the pharmaceutical industry, in academia, in government, in the media, in the so-called opposition. Trump and Kennedy were and are shameless agents of that power, Trump going on to do all he could as President to support Zionist genocide in Gaza, and Kennedy, now Secretary Kennedy, allowing covid vaccines, and all the other poison shots, to continue as usual, while also supporting “Israel.” Both Kennedy and Trump have allied with adherents of Chabad, a major Jewish faction that wishes to unite the world under what they call the Noahide laws. Schmuley is Chabad. So are Kushner, Witcoff, and Lutnik; perhaps Trump himself.

The brave “frontline doctors” like Simone Gold and assorted covid experts also left us behind, as if finding that your government was trying to kill you is something one just gets over. They went back to their practices and consultancies. Some, like expert-with-no credentials Bret Weinstein, are even promoting the new mRNA technology that made its debut with the covid-19 clot shots.

When he wrote The Art of War in the 5^th century BC, Sun Tzu probably couldn’t have imagined anyone needing such elementary counsel, but if he were alive today Sun Tzu might have told the health freedom movement early on: “When engaged in battle, do not accept the leadership of your enemy.” Why did anyone listen to Robert Malone, the so-called inventor of mRNA technology, about the dangers of that same technology? Why did we listen to people who made big money in the pharmaceutical industry, like Michael Yeadon, who came on as a prim scientist with experience in the pharmaceutical industry (Pfizer VP) and ended up a celebrity with major opinions about everything. As Sage Hana points out, Yeadon warned us about a super dangerous virus carrying big spike proteins, only to tell us later that there is actually no such thing as a virus. Why was anyone listening to people like Steve Kirsch, who showed the statistical proof of disability and death from the shots, but absolutely denied that our government would intentionally allow such a thing. It was the same with all the “experts” – modest MDs or PhDs who knew things about biology and genetics and medicine that most people knew nothing about, and who could give maybe an hour-long presentation about what they knew, suddenly turned into the Oracle(s) of Delphi: big exposure, hero status, huge pronouncements about world affairs. They were being promoted. It looked engineered.

Why was there an initiative for “health freedom”when what we were looking for was not to be genocided? Was this a movement that just wanted to make sure people had “informed consent” regardless of the consequences? Was World Economic Forum lackey Justin Trudeau and his pro-vaccine dictatorship just a leadup to the horrifying Medical Assistance In Dying program now in place in Canada? If outspoken critics like Dr. David Martin were right about a criminal conspiracy to injure and kill lots of people, why was “health freedom” all we were asking for? What about the Nuremberg 2.0 trials that covid legal investigators were calling for? Was the idea so insignificant that simply framing up and putting Reiner Fuellmich in jail would completely close the subject? The insubstantialness and fakery are manifest.

In September 2023, David Martin lectured his audience at the European Parliament in Brussels about the history of corona virus research from its patenting to its development as a biological weapon to be used for “premeditated domestic terrorism.” He called SARS coronavirus “a weapon designed to take out humanity” and “an act of biological and chemical warfare perpetrated on the human race.” “Did you hear what I just said?” he asked the Parliament on two occasions, like a parent talking to his children. We heard you David. What did you do about that mass murder? Where are you now?

What did any of the prominent pandemic critics actually do? They made people believe that there was a virus, and that this virus caused a global pandemic. Beneath everything else they said, they assumed there was a pandemic, and so we assumed it too. Mission accomplished. There may have been localized biowarfare attacks to get people frightened, but there was no pandemic, defined as a worldwide contagious disease. The injury and death was caused by the so-called “countermeasures” – the lockdowns and emergency protocols and the poisons that were injected into the arms of billions of people around the world.

This was an operation that attacked the world polity which took as much care in planning that attack as in making sure the opposition was taken in from the beginning and led deliberately into a dead end.

We were duped.