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I've just started watching the podcast and stopped after the intro to quickly post a comment. Why? I just wanted to tell Liam that his authenticity and lovely character brings good vibes to viewers like myself - thank you! I don't care about the technical difficulties BC I know a quality presentation on the way. Thank you Mathew for allowing us to listen to so many interesting people.

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One of the perks of this job is that interesting people come teach me stuff. It's a darn nice perk as perks go.

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I'm responding to this quote from the preceding article: "It is not clear if we're operating in an environment with solid rule of law anymore."

On that point, the book https://www.amazon.com/Plot-Kill-King-Behind-Assassination/dp/1536682195 (William Pepper Esq atorney for the King family, established in civil court a government conspiracy to assassinate Dr. King)

In a nutshell, that book shows an incredibly baroque plot employing at least 4 different armed state organizations with plots and subplots and twists and turns that Shakespeare could never keep track of.

So perhaps the "rulers of lawyers" system we're in has had some problems for quite some time.

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The truth is, it was always an illusion, or a hologram, whose veracity and solidity was dependent on the angle from which one was looking at it. That is the nature of man made laws.

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King died. Not a hologram.

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Very interesting discussion. I really had no idea about any of this. I don't think Leigh Dundas is disinformation. I think she is a mama bear and has been around California activism for at least since 2017 that I know. Living in California has been a nightmare since 2015. I was very involved politically, went to a lot of house parties for candidates where there were speeches about "what I'll do when I get in office, what we need to do" grass roots type things. The word vaccine NEVER came up, never. Then all of a sudden we had lost philosophical exemption, religious exemption, and then medical exemption. The phrase 2021 and 2030 appeared like sky writing. It's hard to not become a monster while fighting monsters. I find myself wanting the most obvious people to just die. Even though, I can't say for sure who these people are, what this is about. They say it is the banksters, but this time its more than bailouts and bonuses, it's the biggest deal ever, whatever that may mean. It's definitely about medical tyranny. Some of us can see it and others can't so that is the echo chamber or the micro group thing. A lot of people still believe in the covid shot--yes, it did its thing, and it was good. Amazing. And they are masked up, too, and catching the flu, not covid.

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Maybe she's just a momma bear who houdini'ed her way out of getting arrested for fomenting violence at the Capitol and during speaking tours?

Maybe.

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Leigh Dundas is a Scientologist

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Do you have a reference you can pass on for this?

She's certainly harsh. And she doesn't play well with local activist groups.

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checkout @co_appleseed on TG

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I'm checking it. Thanks.

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Unfortunately, we have no choice, but to go to Sacramento and plead. Work locally, huh. Painful as it is I have worked locally. I was on city commissions, I helped create the local trail system, I served on three boards at once, I drove downtown to talk in front of the County Board of Supervisors. I basically knew the local scene. Yet when covid came and the lock downs, I was completely shunned due to vaccine status. I couldn't go into the library that I had helped create. I couldn't enter our local City Hall. People say, don't be partisan, that this is another one of those artificial divisions. Well, Republicans care about civil liberties and Democrats have "wedge issues", which is another way of saying they are bought. Like "What do you want?" anything... how about a ride in a luxury SUV if you will give me what I want, etc. So, I don't work locally but I still have go to Sacramento. I have to hold onto hope.

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So.. this is my personal experience. The State of California decided to take away medical exemption for vaccines in the schools--one of their arbitrary actions that they can do because they have a super majority of Democrats who never deviate from the dictates of whomever it is in power. Leigh Dundas called a meeting to organize--very pathetic, that is why I think she is genuine. We drove down to a warehouse in downtown L.A., supposedly convenient. Almost zero people showed up, it was really depressing. We were all somehow to get to Sacramento in a few days--I had to rent a room and fly up to make it. Other people must have heard about it because the lines for testimony stretched around the block. About 800 people testified against the bill, which passed. We lined the hallways, we passed out letters to all the legislators offices, etc. Dismal failure--they listened and then passed the bill. No more medical exemptions in the state of California. Anyway, my upclose and personal encounter with Leigh was as an hysterically upset mother who was desperate to not get her daughter vaccinated. She may be other things, too, because I don't know her. But at least she is a mama bear.

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This is one of two activst movements that taught me not to waste my energy by going to plead in Sacramento. Work locally, on the ground.

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Excellent information, thanks so much!

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Thank you!!

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Maybe your criticism is valid, but you undermine it by making assertions without supporting evidence. On this occassion, you dismiss that fact that public policy is tough to cover completely in a bit over an hour.

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