Showing posts with label Protection. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Protection. Show all posts

Thursday, August 28, 2025

Set It Down




Set It Down

The Creator Writings

Through Jennifer Farley

Post on August 28, 2025


Today, it is time to look at the baggage you carry. Some of you carry it with dignity – like a badge of honor, some with disdain and still others with hurt and shame. 

Some of it was given to you or you may have picked it up of your own free will. You may even carry it with you as a form of protection. 

It is time to set it down now, my love. You may even unpack it, examining each piece to decide whether you will keep it or not. The choice is yours. 

But, The Universe is here to tell you it is no longer necessary for your existence. Let it go! The lightness of being you will gain far outweighs the benefits of continuing to carry it.

The Creator
 
Jennifer Farley  

Thursday, July 24, 2025

Transparency


Transparency

The Creator Writings

Through Jennifer Farley

Posted on July 23, 2025



Today you are being invited to embrace your authenticity and transparency. In the coming months, these two things will become very important in ways you have not realized yet. 

Allowing the world and those around you to see who you really are without masks, pretenses or acting may very well determine your learning and growth over the next few months. 

This does not mean you will be having TMI moments every day, however, it does mean releasing the need to hide behind other things for protection. Your vulnerability is becoming an asset. 

As you step into your new self, always know you are safe, protected and loved. 

The Creator
 
Jennifer Farley  


Saturday, April 26, 2025

Protection Meditation for Innocents

Protection Meditation for Innocents

By The Source Creator

Channel: Victoria Cochrane

Posted on January 26, 2025





The world we live in is one of creation, through our belief systems, our thoughts and actions, and the consequences that are created through our choices. Every scenario that plays out in our lives is a consequence of actions and behaviours we executed through our thoughts and what we believed to be true. Along the way, we may get hooked into threads of outside belief systems that may sway us into a different way of thinking and behaving that has its own set of consequences. Let’s call these systems ‘webs.’

Webs that are created through collaboration with others and fed by a large group of smaller webs become very strong; so much so that they create a momentum that sweeps anyone in its path up into it until it is self-perpetuating and extremely persuasive in its consciousness. We can call this a ‘matrix’, and those who are innocently caught within can find themselves a victim really quickly, despite all attempts to fight against it. Herd mentality within a matrix is exploited and manipulated by those powerful enough to have influence over it, and even good people with the best intentions can find themselves making decisions that serve those with evil intent. How can this be allowed to happen, and what, if anything, can those with a higher consciousness, who are aware of what is happening, intervene to protect the innocents?

In the world today, so many children and families are currently caught up in systems that are supposedly there to help them but which, in fact, are throwing them back to the wolves. In some cases, children are taken from the protective parent because the web of lies is so strong it has created its own matrix. Those watching it happen feel helpless in the face of it, and the steps taken to silence them are blatantly unjust and totally unfair, but continue anyway.

Matrixes feed off fear and negativity, and the consequences of the decisions made by those in power only create more fear, negativity, anger and angst until it is like a self-perpetuating cyclone keeping everyone trapped within its raging energy. To break it, one needs hope and positivity, which usually must come from without the matrix, but those with strong consciousness connected to Source can find and provide it also. With such dense energies trapped within any belief web or matrix, the only way out is with love and strong, positive belief systems that justice can be served and people can be free. No mean feat indeed.

We provide here a meditation to protect those who find themselves or loved ones ensnared within systems that have betrayed their trust. We urge that, should you do this meditation with someone in mind, work diligently to have unswerving faith that your prayers will be answered. The most important thing is that you do not invest in the fear and negativity surrounding your situation, so engaging in other, high frequency spiritual activities is also recommended. Remember, like attracts like, so the higher your consciousness when performing this crystal meditation, the more positive and powerful the effect will be. Allow at least two weeks before any change is apparent.

MEDITATION

Prepare a quiet, sacred place that is yours alone. Centre your energy within your heart space and breathe slowly until you are relaxed and grounded. Hold the intention that this meditation be in the energy of oneness with the Source of Creation and of the highest vibration. Also intend that it is for your and the person you are protecting highest and best. Note that any healing intervention must be with the person’s permission. In the event that the person is a child under the age of 8, permission from their higher self and asking for the healing by the Law of Grace will protect you from inadvertent karma.

Envision the person you wish to send protection and healing to in your mind’s eye. Call upon the person’s archangel guide, as well as yours, to assist you and ask that the person’s energy be raised to the 5th dimension in the highest and best way. See, feel or imagine the energy around the person change, while intending that they are placed upon a white lotus flower with 1000 petals. It is now intended that the right crystals to keep them safe and protected from harm inflicted by decisions that are not in their best interest now be placed in their energy fields, in their chakras and aura or around them as Creator deems best, and see, feel or imagine that happening.

Invoke the Violet Flame of Transmutation and intend that all negative and harmful emotions from the person be transmuted to love. As the Violet Flame engulfs the person’s aura and bodies, also intend that any psychic hooks, attacks, belief webs or matrixes from other people or systems that are not for the person’s highest and best and that are against the person’s free will, now be dissolved and sent to the Creator’s light.  (This part cannot be done if the person’s will has not been intervened upon.)

Ask now that the crystals be activated to provide spiritual and energetic protection for the person until the situation at hand has been fully resolved. See, feel or imagine this happening, then ask the Archangels present to seal the person’s aura and to keep guard against lower interventions for as long as needed.

Now send love and light – not just to the person, but to all people involved, and thank the Universe for the situation being resolved for the person you are protecting in the highest and best way in the highest and best timing. Give thanks to the Archangels and then bring up the Violet Flame again. As it all transmutes to love, break ties with the person and bring your awareness back to the room. Ground your energy and let go of all expectation – it is done.

I Am the Creator of All That Is.

Victoria Cochrane


About Victoria Cochrane
In 2019 I was honoured to be named the Tasmanian Psychic Expos’ Psychic of the Year!
Story
My spiritual journey began only six years ago when I began to smell smoke all around me, even though neither my husband nor I smoke! I worked out that it must be my maternal grandfather, who had died 26 years ago of emphysema. After visiting two psychics, I finally received his message, which was about salary sacrificing. That made sense, as he was a chartered accountant. He then began to teach me how to channel, answering my thoughts with his own.

Monday, March 10, 2025

Archangel Michael: Ask Me Anything

Archangel Michael: Ask Me Anything

By Steve Beckow

Posted on March 10, 2025

This conversation started out as a look at a financial topic, but it quickly became a look at protection. The passage which is of key importance here is:

“That does not mean that you are not on the radar. Of course you are.” (1)

Of course we are on the radar and, because of that, we’ve been asked, as you’ll see below, to keep a somewhat low profile – while speaking out courageously!   (To figure that one out, I need a bigger brain! Just kidding!)

I’ve used the question-and-answer format for ease of compilation.

Please read this conversation as if you yourself were having it with Michael.  The whole purpose of Michael and I working together is to illustrate the ins and outs of sacred, co-creative partnership between humans and the Company of Heaven. (2)


Michael, what are my instructions?

Archangel Michael: This is the time to be courageous. And yes, dear heart, rather outspoken.

do feel courageous and outspoken.

AAM: You most certainly are. And we come to say be fearless, because you are protected. (3)

Am I protected and are my loved ones also protected from such things as being kidnapped, held for ransom?

AAM: Yes. (4)

AAM: My friend, if I cannot protect you, nobody can. …

Of course you are safe. What you don’t want is to be bothered. (5)

AAM: It is not our intention or our plan to allow you to be cannon fodder for the cause because that would defeat the purpose. (6)

AAM: You have not incarnated to be removed, either by inflicted or imagined or created [forces]. [You’re not] in physicality [for] anything less than perfection. (7)

I’m not afraid of dying.

AAM: The dying piece is neither here nor there. You know that I would lift you up very rapidly and take you home, joyously. (8)

Are we on anyone’s radar?

AAM: It is not so much, my friend, that you are being targeted. That does not mean that you are not on the radar. Of course you are. And as you step forward to create peace on Earth, it will be even more so.

But you are also mightily protected, and you have created and built your energy field. They cannot and will not be permitted to harm you. (9)

We’re doing this together, right?

AAM: When I say we are in sacred partnership, I am not just being eloquent. (10)

AAM: We step forward in the fulfilment, you on Earth, on this beloved planet called Gaia, I as your wing man, quite literally. (11)

AAM: Never hesitate to ask me anything. Not in the form of a question or in the form of assistance. I am more than prepared to help in whatever way I can. It is not only my duty; it is my joy. It is who I am. …

And it is important for everyone to know that. … No job is too big or too small. And you know I have some helpers I can call on. (12)

Would you be saying this to anyone, Lord? About being in partnership?

AAM: Are we [archangels] in partnership with every being on the planet? Yes. But it is difficult when you are in a partnership and the other person does not realize it. So we are working with those who realize we are in partnership. And so that is why we are having these conversations. (13)


We’re all angels, Michael tells us. (14)  And he’s speaking to all of us. You can get a sense of the tenor of his response –  loving, enjoying humor, affectionate.

But, even more than that, do you get “protection”? How we’re not here this generation to be cannon fodder? How we could afford to speak out bravely and truthfully because we’re protected?

But speaking out not as an attack, open or hidden. Speaking as a clarifier and a contribution to a win/win, us-and-them solution.

Footnotes

(1) Archangel Michael in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, Feb. 18, 2011. (Hereafter AAM.)

(2) See:

(3) AAM, Feb. 18, 2011.

(4) AAM, Aug. 22, 2014.

(5) AAM, Sept. 2, 2016.

(6) AAM, Nov. 21, 2014.

(7) AAM, Feb. 5, 2016.

(8) AAM, Aug. 1, 2014.

(9) AAM, Feb. 18, 2011.

(10) Loc. cit.

(11) AAM, March 10, 2017.

(12) AAM, Oct. 1, 2011.

(13) “Archangel Michael: A Global Reset of Values, Part 2/2, ” channeled by Linda Dillon, September 16, 2013, at http://goldenageofgaia.com/2013/09/archangel-michael-a-global-reset-of-values-part-22/.

(14) See An Explosion in the Meaning of Humanness at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/An-Explosion-in-the-Meaning-of-Humanness-13.pdf

Steve Beckow

Wednesday, November 13, 2024

The Artist

The Artist

A Message from Mother Earth

Channel: Pamela Kribbe 

Translation by Maria Baes and Frank Tehan

Posted on November 13, 2024

 


Dear people,

I am the voice of Earth. I greet you with all my warmth and love. Feel me flow through you; I am in every cell of your body. I want to be there for you and to join with you, which is why I reach out to you.

In the joining I make with you through your body, I give something to you. Yes, you heard that right – I give something to you. I give you security, protection, health, vitality. I want to nourish you with the life energies that are part of life on me, Earth: the rhythms of the seasons, of the moon and sun, of day and night. I want to make you part of my world and in that way provide you with everything you need. This is what I want to give to you, from my heart and soul, so receive it from me. Dare to rely on the reality of what I am and feel sustained by me. This is what I want to give to you.

But at the same time, I receive something from you. By my being present in the physical matter of your body, I take on your consciousness and it radiates through me. It renews me and allows something fresh to shine through me. And through this interaction between us, my consciousness is enriched; it becomes vaster and deeper, and I become an angel in my consciousness. I, too, am going through a process of growth, a movement toward a greater awareness, and this is done by and through you. We are on a path together.

Today, you have talked about the intention of your soul to express itself on the Earth and how you give earthly form to your soul, although you sometimes have trouble doing that. However, your mission is to manifest your divine soul energy in earthly form; to join your soul with the Earth. That is your bridge to the Earth and, in this way, you join with all other life forms when you take on form in flesh and blood.

For me, the movement is the other way round; I am already “flesh and blood”. I am already living, physical matter, but it is through you that I experience my highest level of expression. When you express yourself through earthly forms, I express myself through you. When you are deeply joined with me, you let matter become enlivened. For example, consider an artist who creates a sculpture from a lump of clay. What that person is doing by working with the clay is adding consciousness to matter. That matter, the clay they have in their hands, becomes imbued with consciousness and meaning.

It is not only the consciousness of the artist that expresses itself through matter – it is more than that. It is a universal light that is given form on the Earth, and that light is of benefit to me. I, matter, the consciousness in the clay, begin to dance, grow, and flourish when I am met in this way with your consciousness, respect, and imagination. You see how, as an artist, you are making a movement from your soul toward the Earth. But equally, there is a movement from me toward you, the artist. You have need of me, but I have need of you for my inner process of growth. It is like a dance that we enter into together.

This dance can only be performed when you dare to give and dare to receive, but you have become blocked in both directions. When you try to let your soul flow out onto Earth, and into earthly form, you are often inhibited by fears and self-doubt which you experienced today when you wanted to be an open channel from your soul to Earth. However, you were able to do that by allowing some part of what moves you most deeply to become visible.

At the same time, you have also seen and experienced that there are inhibiting energies in you. Above all, it is fear that plays tricks on you. Where that fear has lodged, your physical being is not fully imbued by your soul. Your soul hovers somewhat higher and does not fully participate in earthly life. And when your soul is not able to do that, and I cannot quite reach your soul, then the interplay between your soul and me cannot appear in its full glory and flourish.

When you dare to give of yourself, dare to show who you are, and dare to speak and be from your heart, your energy flows through to the Earth, and in doing so, washes through me. I then receive you, and your consciousness helps me to become a more powerful angel – it lets me bloom. You are my god; you bring something to me that elevates me, and although you are not aware of that happening, yet it is so. When you allow your own divinity to show, and when you dare to express your originality, your star-light, in this world, I can give so much to you in return. Then, there is a bridge between us so I can fully reach you. What you need in an earthly sense, what you desire, I can give to you, because you are then rooted and present on this Earth.

I want to now do a little exercise with you to show you how, in your life, the interplay between Earth and soul, between above and below, is happening. We begin with your body. Become very aware of your body by moving away from your head, and experience your body as part of me, Earth. Just as the plants and the animals are part of me, so your body is part of my world, with my laws, my rhythms, and my nature. Feel the strength of that union for a moment and ask yourself: “What do I need, what would be of especial benefit for me right here, at this moment?” Your body is nourished in many ways, physically by food, but just as much by the energies of feeling, which are spiritual energies.

Let your attention descend into your body’s awareness, completely feeling your physical self. Your muscles, your nervous system, your organs, naturally seek for harmony and a balanced rhythm, because they are part of my nature. There is a movement in the body toward health and harmony, so the body can repair itself using many things. Observe your body’s awareness objectively and with the knowledge that your body is a part of me, the Earth. Ask your body: “What do you need? How can I take care of you? Name one thing that I can do to make you feel better.” Imagine that you will receive what your body says you need. Allow that “something” to enter your energy field and see what it does for you.

When you descend with your soul, your highest consciousness, into your body, you can feel what you need, what it takes for you to be connected and joyfully present. To descend with your soul’s consciousness is an act of giving to your body that allows me, as Earth, to then respond to you by providing you with what you need.

Now look at the field of your work, the area of your life in which you creatively manifest on Earth. Here, I again ask you to fully descend with your soul’s consciousness into your body. Fill your chest and abdomen, your arms and hands, your hips, legs, and feet with your soul’s consciousness. Connect completely and be present. Feel then what it is that wants to flow from your heart out into this world. That is the energy you want to give; that is your “job”. Dare to feel it, because doing that can make you aware of, and open to, how much light and gentleness, how many beautiful things, you have to give. You are an angel. Descend with the energy you have to give and connect that with the Earth.

You fear the hurt of being rejected and made to feel unworthy. But go ahead and feel that fear, and take that fear by the hand the way you would a child. Imagine that you are holding this anxious child with one hand and with your other hand you hold on to an angel who is next to you, who is somewhat larger in stature than you are. That angel tells you to trust and to allow the light to flow through you. In this way, you receive both the light of the angel and the admiration of the child who sees your light and your beauty, and who feels your strength and feels secure with you. It is your task to have compassion for the frightened child in you. It is allowed to be there, but it should not block the bridge between you and Earth. Take the child with you; take it by the hand when you cross the bridge.

Dare to shine in this world and become wholly visible to me, and when you do, I can come toward you across the bridge. I can take in your energy, and by experiencing what you truly are and need, I can come to you with opportunities in many areas. And this process will increase your energy and let it to manifest even more.

Trust that when you take that first step – that choice to be truly present – the Earth answers and the world answers: “You belong, there is a Home for you here.” You then begin to live from a stream of opportunities and possibilities which have not been created by your own hand, but which are extended to you as a gift from me. Dare to go into that flow that is the dance between your soul and Earth. In that dance, I can give to you everything you desire, while you give to me the highest of yourself: your star-light, your soul. Trust me; I will not let you down.

Thank you for your presence here today.

Pamela Kribbe


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Friday, July 19, 2024

When the Outer Doesn’t Provide a Sure Foundation

When the Outer Doesn’t Provide a Sure Foundation

By Steve Beckow

Posted on July 19, 2024

Part 1

In the storm of chaos….



What does one do when the outside world doesn’t provide an adequate focus, a sure enough foundation to help us know how to respond to events?

What does one do when one’s emotions are so rattled by all that’s occurring that all ties, predictions, and obligations are suspended and one feels the need to simply take care of themselves? Even when one forgets about the divine protection all around us, where does one then turn? (1)

In a situation like that, I turn to my foundational principles. These in turn generate my primary values.

A human being has the capacity to reason and put values ahead of all other considerations. Why else would Socrates drink the hemlock than to show his valuing of non-attachment and equanimity more than anything else?

Why else would the Spartan 300 face the entire Persian army at Thermopylae than their value of courage more than life?

And so here as well. If a train were bearing down on us, each of us would get in touch with our foundational principles and primary values very quickly. And these would make our action clear.
***

We can prepare for that kind of testing situation – which, or a scaled-down version of which, some of us may encounter – ahead of time by taking a look and seeing what our basic principles and values are.

I feel awkward giving my own because they’re influenced by having had both a heart opening and an out-of-body experience. Both of these make my choices easier and clearer. But they may not help you if you haven’t had them. Again, I don’t know.

Still, it must have been planned this way.
***

First of all, I share with all lightworkers a spiritual outlook on life. That means that I value the spiritual over the physical. So jot that one down.

Secondly, as I said, I had a fourth-chakra heart opening in 2015 which introduced me to that which changes everything – higher-dimensional love.

In my view, the heart is a portal to the higher dimensions. As Emerson said, and I paraphrase, who can ever forget the touch of that upon them which was the birth of all art and poetry? (2) That touch is love like we never imagined it to be. (3) Love is the most fundamental principle of all life and what I value most.

Thirdly, I’ve had an out-of-body experience, which shows me that I need merely step out of this rented costume at the moment of death and be on my way. Next assignment.

So I don’t fear death.

(Concluded in Part 2 below.)


 

(1) And I will look at the divine protection available to us, but in a separate article.

(2) “No man ever forgot the visitations of that power to his heart and brain, which created all things new; which was the dawn in him of music, poetry, and art.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays. First Series. London: Routledge and Sons, 1898; c1841, 166.)

(3) See Love Like we Never Imagined It to Be at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Love-Like-We-Never-Imagined-It-to-Be-R22.pdf

Saturday, June 8, 2024

A Walking Billboard for Co-creative Partnership

A Walking Billboard for Co-creative Partnership

By Steve Beckow

Posted on June 8, 2024


Emblem of Michaelangelo & Partners

Typically those who oppose an evil regime in its early years, like the opponents of Hitler, are pilloried and run out of society, as many whistleblowers have been. They find themselves operating underground to a greater or lesser degree.

Later, in those increasingly-evil days of WW2, critics were thrown into concentration camps and executed. Or simply killed on the spot.

But in a supposedly free society, I can surf the Internet and express myself without sanction (unless I harm another).

What has become the deep state since the days of Hitler can hide its secrets from me but there’s strength in digital-warrior numbers. Many researchers uncovering a few facts and posting them makes up for any one researcher trying to find the carefully-concealed (and, now, often redacted) truth.

Michael says I’ll be safe.  And it’s really our co-creative partnership that I wanted to talk about.

***

I’m a walking billboard for co-creative partnership with the archangels. (1) Allow me please to turn from the deep state to discuss it.

I once asked Michael how I could prevent corruption in the Michaelangelo Fund. His humorous response is noteworthy:

Steve: How do I guarantee that corruption won’t set in [in the Michaelanglo Fund]?

Archangel Michael: First of all (laughing), who do you think you are working with, dear heart?

Steve: I know. But I just need to hear the words. I need the reassurance! (2)

A few months later:

AAM: Do you think that I do not know what I’m doing?

Steve: Yes, who am I speaking to? I know, I know. (3)

So I do know who I’m speaking to. And I mean that not just as intellectual knowing but as experiential knowing. (It’s  not up to realized knowing yet.) (4)

The number of miracles he’s created (5) leaves me in a place where I don’t need “reminders” any more. I get the message. I see who I’m working for and with.

So my co-creative partner (and he can be yours as well), who keeps me safe, tells me that what I want to avoid is not as much danger as being bothered. That discussion is worth hearing:

Archangel Michael: You are … creating a platform that is more visible, more present, should we say? The goal is to reach everybody. And as such, you become a target. (6)

AAM: I say this knowing you are fully protected: we want you flying under the radar. (7)

AAM: Of course you are safe. What you don’t want is to be bothered. (8)

Oooohhhh-kay!  Flying at tree-top level, here I go!

***

Apparently, the mainstream media will be taken offline during the emergency broadcasts and the Internet, transferred to Starlink. I believe that, when it comes back online, it will have been cleansed of evil and criminality.

Michael told me years ago that the mainstream media would disappear and that the lightworker press would mature and assume its role. Hence his statement: “The goal is to reach everybody.”

We might note what’s happening at the Washington Post as an indicator of what the MSM is facing.  WaPo CEO and Publisher Will Lewis told his staff:

“We are losing large amounts of money. Your audience has halved in recent years. People are not reading your stuff. I can’t sugarcoat it any more.”  (9)

No assumption of responsibility for that failure from management of the Mockingbird press. (10)

In my view, social Darwinism (might is right) and empirical materialism (only what we can see, hear, touch is real) have reached the end of their utility.  Social institutions like the media who choose to stay within those boxes will not be able to interpret future events to their readers and listeners.

Galactic visitors? Ascension? Interdimensionality?

Where in a Darwinist/empiricist world could the mainstream media say:

Archangel Michael: Our undertaking is the tracking of spiritual evolution to a higher realm of consciousness and that is the focus that we must always return to. (11)

And yet that is our undertaking.

No one is pushing a party line on us (and some have tried). I don’t watch circulation figures.  We’re free of all of those worries and concerns.

And we’re not selling anything.  How’s that for “off the grid”? We don’t need to be a part of the current broken economic model. Instead we rely on your support alone for our bread and butter.

Free to envision and plan out what comes next. Free to dream of how to serve the world when the Reval hits. Free to express the longing for more and deeper experiences and realization…. And greatly sped along in our work by co-creative partnership and your support.

Footnotes

(1) See Grandeur Beyond Grandeur: 
Toward a Cross-Cultural Spirituality Vol. 6: Our Enlightenment and Co-Creative Partnership at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Grandeur-Beyond-Grandeur-Enlightenment-and-Co-Creative-Partnership-6-3.pdf

(2) Archangel Michael in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, April 24, 2015.

(3) AAM, July 8, 2015.

(4) I’m referring to the three levels of knowledge: intellectual, experiential, and realizational.

(5) A saucepan with flames reaching to the ceiling instantly extinguished, two pieces of heavy concrete made weightless, a fatal electric shock “rerouted,” to name a few.

(6) AAM, Nov. 30, 2011.

(7) AAM, Aug. 2, 2017.

(8) AAM, Sept. 2, 2016. Not a bad boss to work for, huh? Open to anyone! Inclusive club, not exclusive. Oh, and no fees, ever.

(9) Charlotte Klein, ““I Can’t Sugarcoat It Anymore”: Will Lewis Bluntly Defends Washington Post Shake-Up,” Vanity Fair, June 3, 2024 at https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/washington-post-shakeup

(10) The CIA took over most of the American press under Operation Mockingbird in the 1950s, I believe. Nowadays. I’m told, the CIA issues a morning directive on what stories to report and what to say.

(11) Archangel Michael in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, May 13, 2020.


Steve Beckow


Saturday, April 6, 2024

The government wants to play god

The Government Wants to Play God. What Does That Mean for Our Freedoms?

By John W. Whitehead

Posted on April 5, 2024



The government wants to play god.

It wants the power to decide who lives or dies and whose rights are worthy of protection.

Abortion may still be front and center in the power struggle between the Left and the Right over who has the right to decide—the government or the individual—when it comes to bodily autonomy, the right to privacy, sexual freedom, the rights of the unborn, and property interests in one’s body, but there’s so much more at play.

In the 50-plus years since the U.S. Supreme Court issued its landmark ruling in Roe v. Wade, the government has come to believe that it not only has the power to determine who is deserving of constitutional rights in the eyes of the law but it also has the authority to deny those rights to an American citizen.

This is how the abortion debate has played into the police state’s hands: by laying the groundwork for discussions about who else may or may not be deserving of rights.

Despite the Supreme Court having overturned its earlier rulings recognizing abortion as a constitutional right under the Fourteenth Amendment, the government continues to play fast and loose with the lives of the citizenry all along the spectrum of life.

Take a good, hard look at the many ways in which Americans are being denied their rights under the Constitution.

American families who have their dogs shot, their homes trashed and their children terrorized or, worse, killed by errant SWAT team raids in the middle of the night are being denied their rights under the Constitution.

Disabled individuals who are being strip searched, handcuffed, arrested and “diagnosed” by police as dangerous or mentally unstable merely because they stutter and walk unevenly are being denied their rights under the Constitution.

School-aged children as young as 4-years-old who are leg shackled, handcuffed and strip searched for violating school zero tolerance policies by chewing a Pop Tart into the shape of a gun and playing an imaginary game of cops and robbers, or engaging in childish behavior such as crying or jumping are being denied their rights under the Constitution.

Unarmed citizens who are tasered or shot by police for daring to hesitate, stutter, move a muscle, flee or disagree in any way with a police order are being denied their rights under the Constitution.

Likewise, Americans—young and old alike—who are shot by police because they pointed a garden hose at a police officer, reached for their registration in their glove box, relied upon a cane to steady themselves, or were seen playing with air rifles or BB guns are being denied their rights under the Constitution.

Female motorists who are unlucky enough to be pulled over for a questionable traffic infraction only to be subjected by police to cavity searches by the side of the road are being denied their rights under the Constitution.

Male pedestrians and motorists alike who are being subjected to roadside strip searches and rectal probes by police based largely on the color of their skin are being denied their rights under the Constitution.

American citizens subjected to government surveillance whereby their phone calls are being listened in on, their mail and text messages read, their movements tracked and their transactions monitored are being denied their rights under the Constitution.

Homeowners who are being fined and arrested for raising chickens in their backyard, allowing the grass in their front yards to grow too long, and holding Bible studies in their homes are being denied their rights under the Constitution.

Decorated military veterans who are being arrested for criticizing the government on social media such as Facebook are being denied their rights under the Constitution.

Homeless individuals who are being harassed, arrested and run out of towns by laws that criminalize homelessness are being denied their rights under the Constitution.

Individuals whose DNA has been forcibly collected and entered into federal and state law enforcement databases whether or not they have been convicted of any crime are being denied their rights under the Constitution.

Drivers whose license plates are being scanned, uploaded to a police database and used to map their movements, whether or not they are suspected of any crime, are being denied their rights under the Constitution. The same goes for drivers who are being ticketed for running afoul of red light cameras without any real opportunity to defend themselves against such a charge are being denied their rights under the Constitution.

Protesters and activists who are being labeled domestic terrorists and extremists and accused of hate crimes for speaking freely are being denied their rights under the Constitution. Likewise, American citizens who being targeted for assassination by drone strikes abroad without having been charged, tried and convicted of treason are being denied their rights under the Constitution.

Hard-working Americans whose bank accounts, homes, cars electronics and cash are seized by police (operating according to asset forfeiture schemes that provide profit incentives for highway robbery) are being denied their rights under the Constitution.

So, what is the common denominator here?

These are all American citizens—endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, rights that no person or government can take away from them, among these the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness—and they are all being oppressed in one way or another by a government that has grown drunk on power, money and its own authority.

If the government—be it the President, Congress, the courts or any federal, state or local agent or agency—can decide that any person has no rights, then that person becomes less than a citizen, less than human, less than deserving of respect, dignity, civility and bodily integrity. He or she becomes an “it,” a faceless number that can be tallied and tracked, a quantifiable mass of cells that can be discarded without conscience, an expendable cost that can be written off without a second thought, or an animal that can be bought, sold, branded, chained, caged, bred, neutered and euthanized at will.

It’s a slippery slope that justifies all manner of violations in the name of national security, the interest of the state and the so-called greater good.

Yet those who founded this country believed that what we conceive of as our rights were given to us by God—we are created equal, according to the nation’s founding document, the Declaration of Independence—and that government cannot create, nor can it extinguish our God-given rights. To do so would be to anoint the government with god-like powers and elevate it above the citizenry.

Unfortunately, we have been dancing with this particular devil for quite some time now.

If we continue to wait for the government to restore our freedoms, respect our rights, rein in its abuses and restrain its agents from riding roughshod over our lives, our liberty and our happiness, then we will be waiting forever.

The highly politicized tug-of-war over abortion will not resolve the problem of a culture that values life based on a sliding scale.  Nor will it help us navigate the moral, ethical and scientific minefields that await us as technology and humanity move ever closer to a point of singularity.

Humanity is being propelled at warp speed into a whole new frontier when it comes to privacy, bodily autonomy, and what it means to be a human being. As such, we haven’t even begun to wrap our heads around how present-day legal debates over bodily autonomy, privacy, vaccine mandates, the death penalty, and abortion play into future discussions about singularity, artificial intelligence, cloning, and the privacy rights of the individual in the face of increasingly invasive, intrusive and unavoidable government technologies.

Yet here is what I know.

Life is an inalienable right.

By allowing the government to decide who or what is deserving of rights, it shifts the entire discussion from one in which we are “endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights” (that of life, liberty property and the pursuit of happiness) to one in which only those favored by the government get to enjoy such rights.

If all people are created equal, then all lives should be equally worthy of protection.

Likewise, as I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People and in its fictional counterpart The Erik Blair Diaries, all freedoms hang together.

We must never stop working to protect life, preserve our freedoms and maintain some semblance of our humanity.

Freedom cannot be a piece-meal venture.

John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead