( -1979 ) They're Calling Everyone NAZI's and Oligarchs...But THEY WILL BE Unburdened by the Truth...

( -1979 ) They're Calling Everyone Nazi's and Oligarchs...But Is It Possible They Need To Be Unburdened by the Truth...They WILL BE.

The location in the first part of the video, is officially described this way:

is the Sanders Institute at that location

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The Sanders Institute - Overview, News & Similar companies

Home - The Sanders Institute

The Sanders Institute is located at 131 Church Street, Burlington, Vermont 05401. This is the primary and headquarters location listed for the organization. The Institute was founded in Burlington, VT, and this address is consistently cited as its main office location. (see linkedin)

is it in a Masonic building

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Yes, the Sanders Institute’s office in Burlington, Vermont is located in a building that formerly housed the Masonic Temple. This historic Masonic Temple is located at 1 Church Street at Pearl Street in Burlington and was built in 1897-98 as the state headquarters of the Grand Lodge of Vermont, Free and Accepted Masons. The building is recognized as a significant historic property and is now used for various office and retail spaces, including the Sanders Institute offices. (See Wikipedia)

Bernie Sanders and Ron Paul (and perhaps Rand Paul) Freemasons?

What is Bernie's "rape fantasy" editorial or essay?

AI Answer (At least NPR covers for it this way):

Bernie Sanders wrote a controversial essay in 1972 titled "Man-and-Woman," published in the Vermont Freeman, an alternative newspaper. The essay, written in a stream-of-consciousness style, explores gender roles and sexual fantasies, including provocative and graphic descriptions such as a woman fantasizing about being raped by three men simultaneously. Sanders used these shocking lines as a way to critique and question societal norms and gender stereotypes prevalent at the time.

The essay was intended as dark satire aimed at exposing and challenging traditional gender roles and the way they influence male and female sexuality. Sanders's campaign later described the essay as a "dumb attempt at dark satire" that does not reflect his views or record on women. They emphasized that it was meant to attack gender stereotypes of the 1970s but acknowledged that it looks misguided when viewed with contemporary perspective.

The essay sparked controversy during Sanders's presidential campaign, with critics using the content to question his attitudes toward women, while supporters and some commentators pointed out his longstanding advocacy for women's rights and protection against violence.

In summary, the "rape fantasy" editorial was a provocative, satirical piece written by Sanders early in his career to challenge societal norms about gender and sexuality, but it has been widely criticized and disavowed by Sanders and his campaign as poorly executed and not reflective of his actual views.

This video contains one of the all time best Covid-19 Pandemic Narrative BS compilations - by ORF (It's a Pandemic of the Unvaccinated). Full credit to Orf.
(also a deserved ode and tribute to "the unvaccinated")

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Erected in 1906.
Chippen County Trash Company.
What the fuck is happening?
Bernie has a suite here.
What?
Bernie.
Valida.
Look at this fucking wall.
See, this is like--
I see that shit, dude.
No, this is-- like, what is this all about?
Fucking Grand Compound.
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Let's get this with Trump upside down.
What the fuck?
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Yo, look at this picture in Bernie's office.
That's Trump upside down with Bernie.
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What the fuck?
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What's he doing in there?
What is that fucking room?
Dude, there's like a map for praying and shit?
All right, so this is Bernie's office.
Dude, there's like a map for praying
with like a marble floor.
What does this mean, dude?
Is he praying to this?
What the fuck?
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Dude, this is just whole fucking--
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Watch down there.
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It's a fucking shower, dude.
What the fuck?
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No entry unless authorized.
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Where is everybody?
They're supposed to be here for a meeting.
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I wonder what we've got here.
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What the fuck?
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Kosher Spears.
Take them out of here.
Look.
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Wow.
That's some VIP shit.
Look at that whole fucking building.
So I thoroughly believe that there's--
this used to be Spear and Earl's, and I went in there one time,
and all these-- they all looked to me funny.
Look at this fucking floor.
It's a coffee shop.
The buildings are fucking sketch.
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Well, this goes straight down to the basement.
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What if we could get in from the--
from the parking garage?
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Look at that.
That goes right down to the basement.
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Up there from here.
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Wow.
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Or did it down there?
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It goes lower, dude.
Huh?
It goes lower.
There's stairs going down.
There's not another level to this garage, is there?
No, go-- look, dude.
Check that plate.
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This one's open.
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I want to see if it goes down.
What's P2?
Parking two--
So here we are.
We're in the basement.
We're on P3.
Here's P2.
Won't go on.
Here's P1.
Won't go on.
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We're at P3.
What's up with P1 and P2?
Now, check this out.
Check this shit out.
Try it in that one.
Go in that one real quick.
Check this out.
All right, so we're in the basement.
This is a parking garage of that building up there.
I just want to show you.
We're down low.
We're down-- like, you can't get any further down.
You see here?
Stairs literally going down, OK?
How can you go down any further than this?
We got P1 and P2.
This is P3.
So P1 and P2 go down even further.
How do you even access those?
Huh?
You need a key to go down when it says P3.
Back?
Yeah.
We are at P3.
Oh, you need a key to go in this one?
You need to call the bottom button.
The note's out.
You need to call the key to call it.
So this button is for this elevator.
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I listen to an NPR report.
And I've got the transcript right here of them endorsing
Bernie, writing an essay for a newspaper about how he dreams
of women bound and tied up being raped.
And then Avenatti says on The View and on other shows,
I dream of women in handcuffs.
All of my sexual fantasies involve handcuffs.
Oh.
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These people aren't liberals.
They're psychotic control freaks.
I'm a father of three daughters and a son.
And I've never seen conservatives or patriots
or Christians attacking women like this.
But I see the left ally with radical Islam
that literally attacks female rights at its core.
But I get it.
If you're going to attack the goddess in the archetype,
you've got to claim you are the protector of it.
And think about how sick that is.
Here is the NPR article with the production, the show they did,
that you've got to listen to, man.
Them trying to defend this is incredible.
The Bernie Sanders rape fantasy essay explained.
When I saw this earlier today, I saw Owen Shroyer on the show.
I saw Owen Shroyer on air covering it.
I saw it.
Is that a joke?
He goes, no, here's the NPR article.
I went and listened to it.
I'm overwhelmed right now.
He fantasizes about tying women up and raping them.
And he's got every Islamic and every liberal woman just bowing down.
It's like the pimping.
It's true.
You treat women great.
You empower them like America did.
America sucks.
You're a dirty communist that talks about all these freak days.
I'm going to rape you.
And the women love it.
It's sick.
But most women don't love it.
Folks, you've got to go read these quotes.
You've got to go listen to it yourself.
We'll post this and put links under it.
I'm not going to play the clips here.
A man goes home and masturbates.
His typical fantasy, a woman on her knees, a woman tied up, a woman abused.
Funny, Bernie, I never had that fantasy.
I thought about a woman loving me and wanting to embrace me and jumping on me
and loving me and us enjoying each other and like together.
I never thought about her tied up on her knees, man.
I never read that.
I didn't know that sold so well, Bernie.
I don't know what bookstores you go to.
I don't know how you do it up there in Soviet Russia where you honeymoon,
but here in America, we put our women on a pedestal and we don't rape them.
But I get it.
You're all about raping freedom and raping America and raping colleges you take over
and just con on.
You have this satanic belief you're going to rule us, Sanders.
You're not.
You're going to fail miserably, Sanders.
Who cares about the Congress?
Who cares about the separation of powers?
Who cares about the Constitution of the President?
I'm the President of the United States.
I have all of the power.
So here's your God, Sanders supporters.
Dreaming about raping women, it goes on and on.
And then Biden's like French kissing his nieces and acting like a psychotic goblin.
I mean, the tolerance of good people, of evil, has brought us to this point.
And so, like they say in Viva Vendetta, if you want to know who's behind all this,
just look in the mirror.
There are those that are more responsible than they will be dealt with.
But if you want to know who's behind all this, just look in the mirror.
I want a clean break with you people.
Who's to blame?
Well, certainly there are those who are more responsible than others.
They will be held accountable.
But again, truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror.
I know why you did it.
I know you were afraid.
Who wouldn't be?
War, terror, disease.
There were a myriad of problems which conspired to corrupt your reason
and rob you of your common sense.
Fear got the best of you.
And in your panic, you turned to the now high chancellor, Adam Suttler.
He promised you order.
He promised you peace.
And all he demanded in return was your silent, obedient consent.
I go to these Democrat events, these Bernie Sanders events,
and I see how dehumanized and how destroyed they are.
It just depresses me.
I don't feel powerful at how devoid and divorced from humanity they are.
I look at the head of the Unturned's sink and how he like worships and praises raping animals.
And it's just like, and the left's like, raping animals is good.
It's a freedom we have.
And then they endorse NAMBLA, they endorse bestiality.
I'm like...
If I were the benevolent dictator of the world,
I would legalize bestiality where you are giving,
where you are pleasuring the animal.
Have we lost our soul?
Do we not have our humanity anymore?
Can we not say no to this?
And then I see MPFIL wars that was right about the coronavirus being manmade
and right about Trump was going to win and right about vaccines being dangerous
and right about fluoride being bad.
And I see how we're censored.
And it's not that I'm mad that we're censored.
I'm mad that more people out there put up with this than those that fight back against it
when clearly the pro-human initiative is strong and has a good vision.
And our inclination as humans is to be upwardly mobile and do incredible things.
But we give ourselves over to the power of the media and the corporate system
that intimidates us and threatens us if we don't serve it.
The threat is submitting to it.
The great battle, the great empowerment is fighting it.
And the fight lives at MPFILwars.com.
We fight for humanity.
We fight for justice.
We fight for life.
We fight for a pro-human future.
We fight.
I'm the president of the United States.
I have all of the power.
Joy, we have something here for our special visitors.
Would you like to have it?
Thank you.
Thanks a lot.
Sure.
You ever been in a cockpit before?
No, sir.
I've never been up in a plane before.
You ever seen a grown man naked?
Who said they like coke?
Me.
You tell me about that.
I like Coca-Cola.
Oh, Coca-Cola.
All right.
But who knows about cocaine?
Anyone ever seen cocaine?
Yes.
I used it in my cereal.
Hold it, one at a time.
What about cocaine?
Good thing, bad thing, what?
Joy, do you ever hang around at gymnasium?
Who here smokes?
Uh...
Let me hear it.
Come on, raise your hand.
Well, other than your parents, who smokes?
Me.
You got your smoke ready?
I have seen a lot of kids who were 12 and 11 smoking.
I don't smoke.
All right.
I don't smoke because I'm a little kid.
I'm only five years old.
Joy, do you like movies about gladiators?
When I was a child, I was brought into a basement to be violated.
While I was being raped, a man was dragged downstairs and was told to rape a boy that
was bent over in front of him or they would kill the man and his family, who were lined
up along a wall where there was also a man behind a camera on a tripod.
Someone else came up to him and told him, "If you don't do it, they will kill your family,
and nothing can undo that.
But if you do it, it'll be fine, because that boy is used to it and no one has to die."
To date, that's the hardest I've ever seen a grown man cry.
That man is currently sitting in Congress.
There is a system of bribery and blackmail controlling the upper echelons of society.
The question is if someone did the deed, with a smile on their face because they knew their
fortunes would improve, or if they did it with a tear in their eye because they didn't
want to hurt the child.
The only way we'll be able to expose it is if the blackmailed and the children come together
to name those who forced us.
And it went crazy.
As soon as people saw this, I mean, you can see right here, Jennifer's tweet was upwards
of almost two million.
Or wait, where was that?
It was...
1.4 million.
There it is.
Yes, I was looking in the wrong place.
Yes, like 1.5 million people saw this.
So this got more attention than even the original tweets that James had posted and the person
that he was retweeting.
And so Jennifer goes in the comments and it just blows up.
There's over 600 comments, 3.3 thousand people shared it, about 1500 people over bookmarked
it, and tons of comments and people just asking about it.
And so this senator, or this congress member, I should say, do you want to reveal who it
was?
Because you did in the comments below.
Yeah, that was Senator Bernie Sanders.
This great country of ours is moving very rapidly in the direction of oligarchy.
The United States of America today is increasingly becoming an oligarchy.
More and more moving toward an oligarchy.
We are moving in the direction of oligarchy.
We will move even more rapidly in the direction of an oligarchy.
This great country is evolving into an oligarchic society.
It is called oligarchy and that is the system we are rapidly moving toward.
This is a budget that moves our country rapidly into the direction of oligarchy.
A handful of billionaires are moving this entire planet toward an oligarchic society.
We start off with the bad news, which is pretty bad, and that is that under Donald Trump, this
country is hurtling rapidly toward oligarchy.
The rhetoric that's being used by Donald Trump, the rhetoric that's being used by some of
the mega extremists, is rhetoric that was used in the 1930s in Germany.
That the Nazis in Germany in the 30s tore down a constitutional republic in just 53
days, it does not take much, frankly, and we have a president who seems hell bent on
doing just that.
We have a very prominent figure who is very closely associated with the president.
Standing up at a presidential rally and giving two Nazi salutes in a row.
Literally 20 million Americans risk losing their health care just in the next few months.
They continue to do, despite what they may be doing, to attack, again, working families
across our state.
The extremists on the Supreme Court have made an abhorrent decision.
I do not invoke the specter of Nazis lightly, but I know the history intimately.
But every day eroded your rights.
And everything that he has done has been tearing down constitutional democracy.
And that's what happened in Nazi Germany.
When you're talking about Trump being a Nazi.
Those words never came out of my mouth.
That is not true what you just said.
I really think people need to wake up to what's happening in Washington.
And I felt like based on my own experience, I led the building of a Holocaust museum.
I worked with Holocaust survivors for a decade to open that museum.
I know what happened day by day almost that led to the Holocaust.
I know that there are transgender children right now looking out at this world
and wondering if anyone is going to stand up for them and for their simple right to exist.
There is an awful lot of fear and uncertainty right now for parents, for children, and for all of you.
Donald Trump is a convicted felon, an adjudicated rapist, and a congenital liar.
He's a racist, sexist, misogynistic narcissist who wants to use the levers of power
to enrich himself and punish anyone who...
When you're talking about Trump being a Nazi.
Those words never came out of my mouth.
That is not true what you just said.
It's time for people to mobilize.
The dangers that we saw in Nazi Germany, especially in the earliest days of Nazi Germany,
are the dangers that we need to react to now.
If we don't, things will get much, much worse.
These Republicans cannot build a moment of peace in this environment in which people's rights are under attack.
So let me be clear, we're in a perilous moment in this country.
We've lost our civil rights taken away, and it's only been a hundred days.
He's the kind of bully that...
Our democracy is on the line.
Donald Trump is a convicted felon, an adjudicated rapist, and a congenital liar.
I have bad news for everyone here.
Public safety is under attack by the Trump administration.
President Trump and his bootlickers...
You're talking about Trump being a Nazi.
Those words never came out of my mouth.
That is not true what you just said.
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Let me cut to the chase.
The billionaires have already spent $19 million to try to defeat Zeran Mabdani, the mayor of New York.
In this last week, they're going to spend a hell of a lot more.
Our job is to do everything that we can to bring out the vote.
Let's get our moms and our dads and our coworkers, our uncles, our aunts, everybody else to the polls.
If we do that, we're going to make history and elect Zeran Mabdani, the next mayor of New York.
Thank you.
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It's worse every day.
I feel like we're in a dystopian nightmare and no one is doing anything about it.
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I just had the worst fucking shift at work.
I'm in a horrible fucking mood.
I want to scream so loud that the back of my throat starts fucking bleeding, but I can't.
I have to keep together.
So I'm going to come on here and take it out on you if you're watching this and you voted for Donald J. Trump.
I hate you with every fiber of my fucking being.
The holidays are coming up.
The holidays are coming up and everybody's losing their fucking SNAP benefits.
People who have subsidized food cannot eat in the month of November.
Literally Thanksgiving.
And for those of you that are self-proclaimed fake ass fucking disgusting piece of shit Christians,
I hope you burn in hell for all eternity.
I hope hell is real just so you can fucking burn because you're taking joy in people starving during the holiday season or at all.
You're laughing at them.
You're eating burnt toast from 1492 making videos about how happy you are about lazy people losing their SNAP benefits.
I hope you fucking rot.
I hope you live the most miserable fucking existence imaginable.
I'm not the tolerant left.
I'm a fucking cunt and I hate you.
Okay.
Hope that clears that up.
Awesome.
I don't understand how he's able to get away with the things he gets away with breaking the law, the emoluments clause, taking bribes, blackmailing people.
He's a criminal con man.
And if you grew up in New York as I did, you knew this your whole life.
We watched his planes get repossessed off the runway at LaGuardia.
We watched him try to sell stakes and cologne and a fake.
Recently with Charlie Kirk being assassinated, they...
Charlie Kirk is a piece of garbage.
Of course we were mean.
I am so tired of people saying, oh, but you know, it's a terrible thing.
No, Hitler is dead.
I'm glad Hitler's dead.
Something that I've heard in interviewing Republicans is that they're concerned with the health care going to undocumented immigrants.
What would you say about that?
I don't know that it's true.
Everybody deserves health care and we can certainly afford it in this country.
So again, they're just, you know, they're pointing to things and saying it's our fault, we're too liberal.
Why?
It's really depressing.
I don't know how anybody your age even thinks of having children.
OK?
OK, millions of Democrats did not vote.
Whose fault is that?
We need to get ourselves together.
And we might even need to be a little bit meaner because the Republicans don't mind being mean.
And by mean, what do you mean?
Do you mean protesting?
Do you mean?
Maybe we have to, I don't know, stop being so nice.
You seem like a pretty nice lady.
I'm a pretty nice lady, but I can be pretty mean too.
OK, and I have to ask this because people on the other side are going to say that they feel like the Democrat Party has been mean recently with Charlie Kirk being assassinated.
Charlie Kirk is a piece of garbage.
Of course we were mean.
I am so tired of people saying, oh, but you know, it's a terrible thing.
No, Hitler is dead.
I'm glad Hitler's dead.
Evil people have no place in my world.
He was a hateful human being.
It was disgusting the things that he said and did.
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I have, you know, I don't have time for that. I'm sorry. I have to put my energy in other directions.
Steal money from charities that his family can't even have a charity anymore in New York City, in the New York State, because they had stolen money from kids' cancer charities.
There's no way you can look at the facts about this man and believe in him still. You have to have willful blindness.
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Must we stand out in the rain?
Shouldn't be long now. Tony's really late.
Still struggling to sleep?
True does not.
I'd like to focus on the rain. It simplifies the mind. Helps me sleep like a baby.
Davie Rosina Joss, a sleeping baby.
A figure of speech.
I get what you're saying. But simplifying your mind, it isn't always simple.
It's so beautiful.
I know I'm one of the youngest. I'm probably ignorant for saying this.
But it's proof, you know, that the God up there, they used to pray to.
It's just us all along. Mankind's greatest creation was itself.
He'll find a place for me.
It's got a purpose for us all.
I hope you're right.
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Who are you going to kill?
Nazis.
What do you mean, it's pretty...
In this context, who's a Nazi?
Stephen Miller's a Nazi.
So you're going to kill Stephen Miller?
If I had the chance, yeah I would.
I don't know if that's something I'd say on camera, bro.
I do not have to show you a warrant. They are covered by a federal warrant.
When they arrest someone on the street, they don't have to show you anything.
They don't have to give you a badge number. They don't have to give you their name.
They are federal agents.
They are totally different to your state enforcement, your local enforcement.
The only time ICE requires a warrant is to enter a private residence unless there is probable cause.
If they think someone is illegal in that house, they must request from a judge a written warrant.
Now, if they see an illegal run into a house, they do not require a warrant.
They can bust straight in.
Now I'm Australian and I know this to be true.
So fuck heads.
Like whoever I'm giving this video to, learn constitutional law and shut the fuck up.
Are you kidding me? Drop it! Drop the gun!
Give me that! Hey! Let go!
What is wrong with you?
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What the fuck?
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There's a deer in the yard.
What the? It's hitting everything.
No, no, no, not the witch. Oh, it's gone.
Look at this mess.
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Six years ago, shortly after I announced I was running for assembly, a well-meaning Muslim uncle pulled me aside.
He looked at me with care. In a quiet voice, he told me I did not have to tell people I was Muslim.
His eyes kind, his beard proud, and his face heavy with the implication of the unsaid.
I had not learned the lesson that he had been taught time and again.
It is the lesson that safety could only be found in the shadows of our city.
That it is in those shadows alone where Muslims could embrace the fullness of our own identities.
And that if we are to emerge from them, then it is in those shadows where we must leave our faith.
These are lessons that so many Muslim New Yorkers have been taught again and again.
And over these last few days, these are the lessons that have become the closing message of Andrew Cuomo, Curtis Sliwa, and Eric Adams.
Yesterday, Andrew Cuomo laughed and agreed when a radio show host said that I would cheer another 9/11.
Yesterday, Eric Adams said that we can't let our city become Europe.
He compared me to violent extremists.
And he lied when he said that our movement seeks to burn churches and destroy communities.
The day before that, Curtis Sliwa slandered me from a debate stage when he claimed that I supported global jihad.
And every day, Super PAC ads imply that I am a terrorist or mock the way I eat.
Push polls that ask New Yorkers questions like whether they support invented proposals to make halal mandatory.
Or political cartoons that represent my candidacy as an airplane hurtling towards the World Trade Center.
But I do not want to use this moment to speak to them any further.
I want to use this moment to speak to the Muslims of the city.
I want to speak to the memory of my aunt who stopped taking the subway after September 11th because she did not feel safe in her hijab.
I want to speak to the Muslim city worker, whether they teach in our schools or walk the beat for the NYPD.
New Yorkers who all make daily sacrifices on behalf of the city only to see their leaders spit in their face.
I want to speak to every child who grows up in New York marked as the other, who is randomly selected in a way that rarely feels random.
Who feels that they carry a stain that can never quite be cleaned.
Growing up in the shadow of 9/11, I have known what it means to live with an undercurrent of suspicion.
I will always remember the disdain I faced, the way my name could immediately become Mohammed.
And how I could return to my city only to be asked in a double mirrored room at the airport if I had any plan of attacking it.
And since I was very young, I have known that I was spared the worst of it.
I was never pressured to be an informant like a classmate of mine.
I have never had the word "terrorist" spray painted on my garage as one of my staff had to endure.
My mosque has never been set on fire.
To be Muslim in New York is to expect indignity.
But indignity does not make us distinct.
There are many New Yorkers who face it.
It is the tolerance of that indignity that does.
Since I announced my candidacy for mayor one year ago yesterday, I have sought to be the candidate fighting for everyday New Yorkers, not simply the Muslim candidate.
I have carried these indignities with me each moment of this race, doing so all the while, as the first major Muslim candidate for mayor in New York City history.
I thought that if I could build a campaign of universality, I could define myself as the leader I aspire to be.
One representing every New Yorker, no matter their skin color or religion.
I thought if I worked hard enough, it would allow me to be that leader.
And I felt that if I behaved well enough, or bit my tongue enough in the face of racist, baseless attacks, while returning back to my central message,
it would allow me to be more than just my faith.
I was wrong.
No amount of redirection is ever enough.
In doing this, I have told the wide-eyed young boy in Jackson Heights, or the first-time voter in Parkchester, that they too should remain in the shadows.
I am becoming that same uncle who took me aside.
No more.
The dream of every Muslim is simply to be treated the same as any other New Yorker.
And yet for too long we have been told to ask for less than that.
And to be satisfied with whatever little we receive.
No more.
For as long as we have lived, we have known that no matter what anyone says, there are still certain forms of hate acceptable in this city today.
Islamophobia is not seen as inexcusable.
One can incite violence against our mosques and know that condemnation will never come.
Elected officials in this city can sell T-shirts calling for my deportation without fear of any accountability.
The consequences are stark.
More than one million Muslim New Yorkers exist in this city only to be made to feel as if guests in our own home.
No more.
We stand on the precipice of an election, but that is not what today is about.
We know that in less than two weeks we will say goodbye to a disgraced former governor and our current indicted mayor.
The bigger question is whether we are willing to say goodbye to something much larger.
It is whether we are willing to say goodbye to anti-Muslim sentiment that has grown so endemic in our city that when we hear it,
we know not whether the words were said by a Republican or by a Democrat.
We know only that it was spoken in the language of the politics of this city.
In an era of ever diminishing bipartisanship, Islamophobia has emerged as one of the few areas of agreement.
And while I appreciate all who have rushed to my defense over the past two days,
I think of those Muslims in this city who do not have the luxury of being the Democratic nominee,
who do not have the luxury of being deemed worthy of solidarity.
While my opponents in this race have brought this hatred to the forefront,
this is just a glimpse into what so many Muslims have had to endure every day across the five boroughs that we call home.
And while it would be easy to say that this is not who we are as a city, we know the truth.
This is who we have allowed ourselves to become.
A question lies before each of us.
Will we continue to accept a narrow definition of what it means to be a New Yorker
that makes smaller the number of those guaranteed a life of dignity?
Will we remain in the shadows or will we together step into the light?
There are 11 days remaining until Election Day.
I will be a Muslim man in New York City each of those 11 days and every day that follows after that.
I will not change who I am. I will not change how I eat.
I will not change the faith that I am proud to belong to.
But there is one thing I will change. I will no longer look for myself in the shadows.
I will find myself in the light. Thank you.
I want to use this moment to speak to the Muslims of New York City.
I want to speak to the memory of my aunt
who stopped taking the subway after September 11th because she did not feel safe in her hijab.
Well, perhaps there is a simple answer. Not an easy answer, but simple.
If you and I have the courage to tell our elected officials
that we want our national policy based on what we know in our hearts is morally right,
we will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of men on earth
or we will sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness.
Every time that I look in the mirror
all these lies in my face getting clearer
The past is gone
It went back like dust to dawn
Isn't that the way everybody's got to do?
Isn't that the way?
I know nobody knows where it comes and where it goes
I know everybody says you've got to lose your own world
Half my life's in books written in ages
Living, learning, fools, I'm from sages
You know it's true
All of these come back to you
Sing for the human, sing for the here, sing for the now, sing for the dear
Sing a winner just once again, live it tomorrow, the good Lord will take you away
Dream on, dream on, dream on, dream until the day you come to
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Sing a winner just once again, live it tomorrow, the good Lord will take you away
As long as the American people hold in their hearts deep and devoted love of country
then there is nothing that this nation cannot achieve. The best is yet to come.
Kamala Harris showing a little bit more of that leftist hatred for the right
and also her ability to laugh at anything.
I went home one day and I said, well what's, why are conservatives bad mommy?
Because I thought we were supposed to conserve things.
I couldn't reconcile it, now I can.
Isn't she funny talking about how she hates people who disagree with her?
Dear Lord, here's the thing about Kamala Harris, if she was able somehow, if she was a genius
she would solve every problem on the earth and bring Middle East together and solve every energy crisis.
It wouldn't matter because the laugh kills it anyway.
The laugh is the biggest destructive negative force probably ever unleashed in American politics.
No one's voting for the laugh.
The largest investment ever to take on the climate crisis, roughly a trillion dollars with a T.
I had to.
Do you think you just fell out of a coconut tree?
You exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you.
One of the things I love are Venn diagrams.
I love Venn diagrams.
You need to get to go and need to be able to get where you need to go to do the work and get home.
The significance of the passage of time, right, the significance of the passage of time.
So when you think about it, there is great significance to the passage of time.
More parents are seeing the value of educators when they had to bring their kids and say we're not paying them nearly enough.
It is time for us to do what we have been doing and that time is every day.
Every day it is time for us to agree.
We all believe that when we talk about the children of the community, they are the children of the community.
So Ukraine is a country in Europe. It exists next to another country called Russia.
Russia is a bigger country. Russia is a powerful country.
Russia decided to invade a smaller country called Ukraine. So basically that's wrong.
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So the United States shares a very important relationship,
which is an alliance with the Republic of North Korea.
And it is an alliance that is strong and enduring.
But they're really criticizing science, because I represent science.
If you're vaccinated, you really don't need to worry about getting it in a way that's serious or transmitting.
That is true. That is correct, Chris.
It will lead to protect you completely against infection.
And the chances are very likely that you'll not be able to transmit it to other people.
The risk is extremely low of transmitting it to anybody else.
Vaccinated people are clearly capable of transmitting the infection.
When you're in the middle of an outbreak, wearing a mask might make people feel a little bit better.
If people are not wearing masks, then maybe we should be mandating it.
I often myself wear two masks.
And I'm quoting you now, "At the population level, masks work at the margins maybe 10 percent."
And to hear that they only work at the margins maybe 10 percent would make a lot of people ask, "Okay, then why was I wearing a mask?"
You're really attacking not only Dr. Anthony Fauci, you're attacking science.
When you say that this is going to go away tomorrow like magic, when you know that there's no chance it's going to just disappear.
We hope this just goes away, burns itself out.
So my question is, why weren't you straight with the American people about this to begin with?
So the bottom line is, it's a guesstimate. I gave a range.
It seemed in that quote to suggest that you were basing your recommendation on polling and what people could accept. Is that not what you meant?
No, I mean it's a bit of that.
We're seeing all of these school closures around the country. Is that the right move for children and families?
Yeah, I think what's going on right now is generally an appropriate approach.
You want to start doing something to socially distance yourself.
How dramatic that is, closing schools and doing other things should be proportionate.
It went too far that particularly for kids who couldn't go to school except remotely, that it's forever damaged them.
Well, I don't think it's forever irreparably damaged anyone.
The U.S. Surgeon General has called it an "urgent public health crisis," a devastating decline in the mental health of kids across the country.
According to the CDC, the rates of suicide, self-harm, anxiety, and depression are up among adolescents.
And the record will show, Neil, that we didn't recommend shutting everything down.
First of all, I didn't recommend locking anything down.
I recommended to the president that we shut the country down.
And that was a very difficult decision because I knew it would have serious economic consequences, which it did.
Yeah. Because if you look at the people that are politicizing me, they're somebody that's all the way over on one level.
But there are a lot of other people who look upon me the way they should as a non-political person that I am.
They're not doing it because they say they don't want to do it. They're Republicans. They don't like to be told what to do.
And we've got to break that. But now is the time to do what you're told.
Where did this virus come from, do you think, today? Did it come from a lab? Was it man-made?
When you have the animal-human interface and you have animals that come out of the wild that are sold at these open, what they call them, wet markets.
Place of origin was not within the market itself.
No, I don't think you could say that.
The intelligence arm of the U.S. government, this is inside our energy department, has joined the FBI in concluding that COVID began with a lab leak in China.
That the NIH has not ever and does not now fund gain-of-function research in the Wuhan Institute.
We know that a bat coronavirus was enhanced in a lab. The National Institutes of Health acknowledged that it funded research of a virus that was studied at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
The experiment, unexpectedly, we're told, made a bat coronavirus more contagious than the original, naturally occurring one.
Take an animal virus and you increase its visibility to humans, you're saying that's not gain-of-function?
That is correct and Senator Paul, you do not know what you are talking about, quite frankly, and I want to say that officially. You do not know what you are talking about.
They took animal viruses that only occur in animals and they increased their transmissibility to humans. How you can say that is not gain-of-function?
What we're talking about now is the gain-of-function research in studies that increase predominantly the transmissibility as well as pathogenesis and alteration of host range of the virus.
Nobody's lying here, Senator, it is you. I'd have to laugh at that. I should be prosecuted.
As we continue to wait and hope that more and more people wake up every single day, some that took the bait are now starting to realize that we, the COVID unvaccinated, weren't all wrong.
This is that message to you, the unvaccinated.
Even if I were pollinated and fully vaccinated, I would admire the unvaccinated for withstanding the greatest pressure I've ever seen from partners, parents, children, friends, colleagues, and even doctors.
COVID vaccines are now available for children five years and older.
Just get vaccinated. Get the vaccine. Just get the vaccine.
People who are capable of such personality, courage, and critical ability are undoubtedly the best part of humanity.
There are many thousands of physicians who have been silenced from telling the American people the good news about the situation, that we can manage the virus.
They are everywhere, in all ages, levels of education, states, and ideas.
They are of a special kind. They are the soldiers that every army of light wants to have in its ranks.
They are the parent that every child wants to have and the children that every parent dreams of having.
A North Carolina teenager needs a new kidney in order to save her life, but her doctors say no COVID vaccine, no transplant.
Vaccinated person having a heart attack? Yes, come right on in. We'll take care of you. Unvaccinated guy who gobbled horse goo? Rest in peace, Weezy.
We want to make sure that people can discern the truth from the misinformation, and we want to make sure that everyone understands that no one's safe till everyone's safe.
No one is safe. No one is safe. No one is safe. No one is safe.
This is a post-9/11 axiom. Safer, but not yet safe.
No one is safe. No one is safe. No one is safe. No one is safe from COVID-19 until everyone is safe.
If the whole world isn't safe, none of us are safe. No one is safe. No one is safe. No one is safe. Until we're all safe.
Health experts have been saying nobody is safe. Nobody is safe until everybody is safe. No one is safe. Science is clear. No one is safe. There is no safety.
No one is safe. No one is safe. No one is safe until everyone is safe. No one is safe. Nobody is safe. Nobody is safe. No one is safe. No one is safe. Until we're all safe. We are never going to be safe.
99.5% of people are safe and will survive COVID-19.
The only positive thing out of this is we should be able to manufacture a lot of vaccines.
Nobody will be safe if not everybody is vaccinated. You don't have a choice.
If everybody is vaccinated, nobody will be safe.
Normalcy only returns when we largely vaccinated the entire global population.
Get the fucking vaccinated! You need to get vaccinated and if you don't, you are going to die.
I know you're vaccinated. You're the smart ones. But you know there's people out there who aren't listening to God and what God wants. You know who they are.
The unvaccinated people. My message to unvaccinated Americans is this.
If you are the unvaccinated, you are the problem. You're the fucking problem.
You condemn them, shame them, blame them. The only people that you can blame are the unvaccinated.
Frankly, we can't trust the unvaccinated. They should not be part of a polite society.
F*ck them lunatics who won't take COVID vaccines. Walking around warfully unvaccinated. That's psychotic.
If you're willing to walk among us unvaccinated, you are an enemy. You have no right not to be vaccinated.
You don't have the right to contaminate someone else. You can't go around pointing a gun in somebody's face, which is what it is when people are unvaccinated.
They're all idiots and losers.
This is a real movement in this country against the unvaccinated.
Jennifer Aniston is cutting non-vaccinated people out of her life. Unrepentant, unvaccinated.
They should be removed from the hospital. Those who refuse to be vaccinated should be denied healthcare.
Vaccinated person having a heart attack? Yes, come right on in. We'll take care of you. Unvaccinated guy, rest in peace, Weezy.
Some doctors are saying they'll refuse treatment for people who choose not to get the shot.
Why are hospital and ICU resources going to them? Morons who will not get the shot.
The unvaccinated clowns. Idiots who think that they can do their own research.
Don't do any of your own research. Doing your own research is associated with conspiracy theory circles.
This going alone approach, doing your own research, can have serious consequences.
You should get prison time for even questioning the vaccines.
Can we all stop saying, "I need to do my own research"?
Do your own research. Four words, four little words that are hurting America.
Doing your own research hurts America.
Everybody has a supercomputer in their hand that empowers them to do their own research.
And that's the problem. You must not do your own research.
I need to do my own research. I don't even understand what that means.
I'm doing my own research. You can't do your own research unless you're a scientist.
Do your own research.
Maybe you've told yourself you're playing it safe, you just want to wait and see since this is a new vaccine.
No.
Roll the f*** up and get the vaccine.
Unvaccinated people spread the virus.
Get the vaccine you dope.
Don't be a f***.
Get yourself vaccinated. That's just all there is to it.
There's no excuse. No excuse for being unvaccinated.
There's no rational and no emotional argument that adds up against getting your damn shot. There just isn't.
But you have made a conscious decision not to get the vaccine.
I also have natural immunity. So for me, personally, this vaccine poses a greater risk than a benefit.
I'm also not a risk to any of you. Let's look at the science.
So we see that the natural infection is given greater protection or slightly greater protection than vaccination.
This is a vaccine that was created to prevent severity of disease and to prevent hospitalizations.
But the vaccine does not prevent you from getting COVID and does not prevent you from transmitting COVID.
Oh my goodness.
Oh come on. You've been at Fox TV too long.
I really don't think that we should allow this kind of misinformation.
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The virus stops with every vaccinated person.
Do it so you stop spreading terrible disease.
The vaccine, our key goal is to stop the transmission so that you get almost no, almost no infection going on whatsoever.
Expectation for vaccines is not to get infected.
A vaccinated person gets exposed to the virus. The virus does not infect them.
When the virus gets to you, you stop it.
You're not going to catch it. You're not going to get sick. You're not going to transmit it.
The vaccine is absolutely bulletproof.
The vaccines block you from getting and giving the virus.
100% effective at preventing COVID.
The vaccine prevents you from getting infected.
It is to keep you from getting it and then spreading it.
We have the ability to stop COVID in its tracks.
You're not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations.
Quaidan tests positive for COVID-19.
When people are vaccinated, they can feel safe that they are not going to get infected.
Dr. Fauci tests positive for COVID-19.
Vaccinated people do not carry the virus, don't get sick.
CDC director tests positive for COVID-19.
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Pfizer CEO tests positive for COVID.
Pfizer CEO tests positive for COVID again.
CDC director tests positive for COVID again.
Fauci tests positive for COVID again.
Joe Biden tests positive for COVID again.
Cases up 258%.
The majority of these cases are among the vaccinated.
And this area is the most vaccinated part of Massachusetts.
So many fully vaccinated people are testing positive.
So people here are a bit angry.
We are all really concerned about what this means long term.
We are vaccinated and I got COVID.
And almost everyone we know with vaccinations had at least one bout of it.
Our vaccines work better than we could have possibly hoped they would work.
We are not the problem.
The problem are the unvaccinated.
The unvaccinated threat.
Unvaccinated people are a threat, a direct threat.
The threat to all of us.
The unvaccinated are a risk to all of us.
People have a right to be protected from the unvaccinated.
Maybe there should be laws that allow them to be kept out of the building.
So at least thankfully they're not breathing the same air.
Their freedom to breathe will diminish.
Start firing the unvaccinated.
If you don't vaccinate, you'll be fired.
Time to come down on the unvaccinated.
They should be banned from the VA, banned from restaurants, banned from other businesses and colleges.
Companies should not treat us as equals.
Placed unvaccinated people under arrest.
Who is the unvaccinated that has put America in the place that it is?
We are losing freedom because people are unvaccinated.
We are towards the unvaccinated.
I'm furious at the unvaccinated.
Frustrated with Americans, still not vaccinated.
Not to be vaccinated seems criminal.
Suspects face years behind bars for coughing on police officers.
For them.
They have no individual rights when it comes to the vaccine.
Really, you're killing other people.
You're being attacked by unvaccinated.
Unvaccinated who aren't wearing masks is the unvaccinated who aren't social distancing.
It's the unvaccinated going to crowded indoor events.
As an American citizen to catch and transmit a potentially fatal infection.
So screw your freedom.
We can coerce you.
You're not going to be able to travel to see your family.
If someone in your family isn't vaccinated, should you ask them not to show up?
Yes, you really shouldn't have anyone unvaccinated come to dinner.
That's just a huge risk.
If you want to come out into public, if you want to live your life, you need to get the vaccination.
It's time for people to see vaccination as literally necessary.
You should have to show that you're vaccinated in order to go places.
Unvaccinated citizens still can't travel to the U.S.
If you're not vaccinated, you're not welcome.
Our patience is wearing thin.
Why hasn't the president focused more on scolding the unvaccinated?
The refusal has cost all of us.
Continued damage the unvaccinated are doing to themselves and the country.
How come migrants are allowed to come into this country unvaccinated?
The world-class tennis players are not.
You know.
And back to our lead story.
The pandemic of the unvaccinated.
The fact is this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated.
Experts call it a pandemic of the unvaccinated.
Still a pandemic of the unvaccinated.
The disease of the unvaccinated.
It is the unvaccinated who are the problem period and the story.
The unvaccinated also put our economy at risk.
This is a tyranny of the unvaccinated right now.
The unvaccinated, not the vaccinated.
The unvaccinated, that's the problem.
That's the pandemic of the unvaccinated.
The pandemic of the unvaccinated.
The only pandemic we have is the unvaccinated.
The pandemic of the unvaccinated.
When you get the vaccine, you will not die.
That's right. That's right.
This is simple, basic proposition.
If you're vaccinated, you are not going to die.
If you're vaccinated, you don't have a risk.
It's as simple as black and white.
You are not going to die if you are vaccinated.
That's it. Full stop.
You're unvaccinated, you're at risk.
You're vaccinated, you're safe.
A majority of Americans dying from coronavirus are vaccinated.
COVID-19 isn't a pandemic of the unvaccinated anymore.
We didn't really understand the fatality rate.
We didn't understand that it's a fairly low fatality rate
and that it's a disease mainly of the elderly, kind of like fluism.
Although a bit different.
We have two Americas, an unvaccinated, at-risk America and a vaccinated America.
I wear my vaccinated necklace all the time to say I'm vaccinated.
You, the vaccinated, are the last best hope to overcome the unvaccinated minority.
I need you to be my apostles. I need you to go out and talk about it.
We are seeking to enlist you in a benevolent conspiracy to join in the unfinished war against us.
The sins of the unvaccinated.
It's a war. A forever war. The war against COVID-19.
The vaccine hesitancy on Earth too has the potential to compromise all of the hard fought progress that we've made.
Here on Earth one.
This is the greatest threat to life that we have ever faced.
Metropolitan areas are now banning all private gatherings.
This bar owner arrested for reopening illegally.
Unvaccinated, we are looking at a winner of severe illness and death.
For yourselves, your families.
If the unvaccinated are not to blame, who is?
If only we had a vaccine against BS.
We, the COVID unvaccinated, weren't all wrong.
You need to evaluate the risk factor in the COVID vaccine.
They are the essence of the people who have built all cultures and conquered horizons.
They are there next to you. They look normal, but they are superheroes.
They did what others could not.
They were the tree that withstood the hurricane of insults, discrimination and social exclusion.
That's what really stands out about white anti-vaxxers in particular is that they act like their freedom has been taken.
It has nothing to do with freedom.
Screw your freedom.
You don't have the freedom and the liberty to put other people in jeopardy.
Ban from their families' tables at Christmas. They never saw anything so cruel.
If someone in your family isn't vaccinated, should you ask them not to show up?
Yes, I would do that.
If you are not fully vaxxed, stay home.
And from police to teachers to firefighters must comply or they will face penalties.
They lost their jobs, let their careers sink, had no more money.
They suffered immeasurable discrimination, denunciation, betrayal and humiliation, but they kept on going.
Never before in humanity has there been such a casting.
Now we all know who are the best on the planet Earth.
Men, women, young, old, rich, poor of all races or religions, the unvaccinated, the chosen of the invisible arc, the only ones who managed to resist when everything collapsed.
That's you. You passed an unimaginable test that many of the toughest marines, commandos, green berets, astronauts and even geniuses could not withstand.
You are made of the stuff of the greatest who ever lived.
Those heroes born among ordinary men who glow in the dark.
Remember, you're the voice. It's time to make it count.
A vital part of preparing for hurricane season is to get vaccinated now.
Everything is more complicated if you're not vaccinated in a hurricane.
Viene una tormenta!
What did he just say?
He said there's a storm coming in.
I know.
The unvaccinated also put our economy at risk.
This is a tyranny of the unvaccinated right now.
The unvaccinated, not the vaccinated. The unvaccinated. That's the problem.
That's the pandemic.
That's the problem.
That's the pandemic.
That's the pandemic.
That's the pandemic.
That's the pandemic.
Mr. Chairman, I ask for unanimous consent to enter into the meeting.
Mr. Chairman, I ask for unanimous consent to enter into the record statements of support from my bill,
Risky Research Review Act from the scientific community and various stakeholder groups.
Thank you.
Without objection, so ordered.
I will now turn over the gavel to Ranking Member Paul who will share the end of the meeting and bring us to a close.
So with that, Ranking Member Paul, you now have the gavel.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Dr. Wolinets, during your tenure of working for Francis Collins, he sent an email to Anthony Fauci.
And in the email he said that he directed Anthony Fauci to orchestrate a takedown, a takedown of Drs. Coldorf and Bhattacharya.
Were you aware of that email at the time?
I don't specifically recall it.
I want to remind the panel that you all continue to be under oath and it is a crime to lie to Congress.
Were you directed by Francis Collins to participate in a takedown, malignment, disparagement of either Drs. Coldorf or Bhattacharya?
No.
Were you able to contact any articles or discuss with anyone in the media articles that disparaged Dr. Coldorf or Bhattacharya or their positions?
No.
In Dr. Fauci's response to this email, he responds by saying, don't worry, this is a paraphrase, don't worry Dr. Collins, I'm on it.
I got a story planned and wired and I think another lay publication, but he was actively doing Dr. Collins' bidding.
I would emphasize that as the Chief of Staff you had no awareness that there was a policy of taking down these scientists.
Dr. Parker, you've had long distinguished careers. Have you ever directed any of your employees to take down fellow scientists who you disagreed with?
No.
Dr. Redfield, you've had a long and distinguished career. Have you ever directed any of your employees to take down scientists who you had a disagreement with?
No.
Dr. Esvelt, same question?
No.
In your ten years in government, did you attend the gain of function dual use research of concern meetings during your tenure in government?
Yes.
Were you considered to be a member?
A member of what specific group, Senator?
I don't know, is there a group called that? Is it a meeting? Who gets to go?
Yes. So I participated in many groups inside government in which biosecurity management of dual use research.
This is a very specific meeting though. It's called in this email weekly dual use research of concern gain of function meeting. Did you attend those routinely?
I don't recall a meeting called that, although it's quite possible I was involved. That name doesn't ring a bell.
Was there a meeting to discuss things that might be gain of function? Did you attend those meetings?
No, not if they were meetings at the level of an individual NIH institute to review research. I was not at all involved in that process.
This is an email from Teresa Haugwell. It's to Irene Glawinski, Dennis Dixon, Linda Lambert, David Spiro. Are you familiar with those names?
I believe those are all employees of NIAID.
Okay. So you think this meeting may have occurred within NIAID and you might not have participated in it?
Yes, that's correct.
Are you surprised that when I ask for the debate over what is and what is not, because there's a debate over what is the definition of gain of function,
that the NIH still refuses to give me minutes of these meetings or any of the discussion concerning what is gain of function and what is not gain of function?
I can't speak to NIH's decision.
Do you think that's an appropriate policy for the NIH to refuse to give members of Congress the debate over whether something is or is not gain of function?
My general philosophy at NIH was to always be as cooperative with members of Congress as humanly possible.
Your boss not so much. He was for that when he wasn't busy taking down fellow scientific colleagues.
Dr. Parker, do you think it's appropriate for the NIH to refuse to give Congress the minutes or deliberations over what is or what is not gain of function, particularly concerning research that was done in Wuhan?
Inappropriate.
Dr. Redfield, do you think the NIH should release, do you think it's inappropriate that they won't release and should they release the information concerning the deliberations over gain of function?
Yeah, I think it's inappropriate that they don't share that information.
Dr. Esfell, do you think it's inappropriate that the NIH continues to refuse to reveal information considering the deliberations over gain of function?
I think transparency is essential to public trust in science and I think NIH has a duty to uphold public trust in science insofar as possible.
The public needs to realize that I only know of this meeting existing because of a Freedom of Information Act.
The Senate, groups of senators, the ranking member of a committee, they will not reveal they even have the meeting, much less the minutes of the meeting.
I can get more information from the CIA than the NIH.
Dr. Redfield, do you think that damages science when the science are acting like the CIA and not revealing information? Does it damage our trust in science?
I think it's going to be very hard for public trust to be regained at NIH, CDC, FDA from what we experienced in the COVID pandemic.
Dr. Redfield, do you th