Liberty Liberally - Vol II Issue III - March 2022

From the Journal of Joshua Fryfogle

Liberty, Liberally Volume II - Issue III

March 2022

Ed. Note: The People’s Paper, and Make A Scene Magazine, are celebrating 15 years in print in May of this year. It’s entirely written by local people like you.

Josh Fryfogle owns the People’s Paper, and last year began publishing Liberty, Liberally as an insert.

By Joshua Fryfogle When I see a stack of pages, perfectly cut and bound, And know that knowledge lies within, waiting to be found All those symbols stacked in lines of letters written down Written for the willing soul that’s seeking the profound

Over the years I’ve endured a few attempts to polarize the People’s Paper. My sincere effort to defend free expression and to facilitate it with free access to a free press for the past 15 years has been pressured from both sides of the partisan divide.

If I’m being honest with myself, it’s been mostly from the left, but never from liberals.

I’m inspired by the effort someone had to make And how they were not wary of the time that it would take Writing what they had to say, for our futures’ sake Risking ridicule and rancor, knowing what’s at stake

(Liberal literally means to believe in liberty. Liberty has the same root word as Liberal. If you’ve read my writing recently, you know that I’ve written about this misuse of language many times. If you’ve studied our nation’s founding you already knew before I wrote about it. I clarify here it here in case someone new is reading.)

The liberals on the left have not complained about the public access platform, because how could they?

They are liberal. It has been those on the left who often refer to themselves as “progressive” who have regressed into attempting to silence their neighbors’ in the People’s Paper.

In those paper pieces pieced together for this time Blessed are we with knowledge now of their paradigm Philosophy to be reasoned, poetry to rhyme Timeless wisdom hidden there, subtle and sublime

I’ve also had a couple of incidents from people on the Right, but not the ones who truly love Liberty and Justice for all. These folks on the right have been largely ideologues who believe fervently in their beliefs, zealots for their cause, and they are usually on the right as a result of religion. However, there are clearly people on the Right who do not expect me to safeguard their sacred cows from sacrilege. The silent majority are, of course, less expressive.

On both the left and the right, there are those who do not believe in freedom of the Press - not really. These are the same people who think that ‘The Press’ is a reference to a group of powerful corporations that are supposed to tell us ‘The Truth (TM)’. Those same corporations are divided, conveniently, into two sides, reflecting the partisan rhetoric of the Republicans and Democrats. Those who are the few, but true believers in the leftright paradigm are the loud minority though.

Most people, no matter which way they lean, understand that freedom of the press shouldn’t be neatly divided into an A/B decision, but that it should allow each individual the ability to affect

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the American experiment in their own, small way. This is how a consensus is gauged, in a free (or liberal) society.

I’ve had more than a few confrontations with passionate partisans, ideologues and activists, who think that I shouldn’t print certain content. However, I’m of the opinion that burying a seed is how you get more of the same. Instead, let those seeds remain above ground, don’t stomp them down. Let them be seen for what they are: nearly nothing. Bad ideas when allowed to be will always wither away, but when virulently opposed they become emboldened. This is the wisdom of free expression - that talking about a heinous thing is preferable to doing that thing. Writing about why a dangerous thing isn’t dangerous is better than letting everyone’s particular, partisan perspectives slowly erode our liberty.

The truth is, the silent majority is grateful for my evenhanded stewardship of the People’s Paper over the last 15 years. I hear from them, calmly and in passing, on a regular basis. The vast majority of people, they don’t complain because they’re not bothered by freedom.

It’s the few, true blue believers and the red-in-the-face rhetoricians that seek to amplify their voice above others, not only in their attempt to silence others, but in their own untempered selfexpression.

This is a good thing, too. I’m glad that they use their self-expression to attempt to silence that of others. In fact, those ideas of ideologues, and progressive programming, are both allowed in the People’s Paper, too. Of course they are.

It hasn’t been easy, to be honest. If it weren’t for the constant encouragement that comes from liberty-minded (liberal) people in the community, I might be overwhelmed by it. Corporations don’t actually exist in the community, so they are always overwhelmed by it.

We, the People, have a right to the printing press, and every other form of media, too. This is what we do at my company these last 15 years. Unlike our corporate counterparts, we’ve never sought out a story, so we never have the chance to sensationalize anything. We’ve never paid for an article to be written, so we haven’t had the opportunity to further polarize some partisan problem.

Our mission is to allow more than two opinions, to cultivate culture and allow the community to communicate in a healthy, open way.

First Amendment freedoms belong to each individual, as do the pages of The People’s Paper.

You can respond to what you’ve read, or write what matters to you.

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they get, even when it doesn’t make any sense at all. For example, Rittenhouse didn’t shoot any black people, and Smollett wasn’t attacked by white people. In both instances, the corporate media, in lockstep mind you, pushed a perception on the populace. Think about just how damn disingenuous you’d have to be to lie about something like that!

Think how shameless and sociopathic you’d have to be to insist on something that is patently untrue, even ignoring the evidence to the contrary!

All while claiming the mantle of objective journalism!

By Joshua Fryfogle If I could go back and do things differently I would Not because it’s the smart thing to do, but because of regret We all look back at the past and wish that we could Redo what we did and then see what we get But who is to say that any other way would be good Never has anyone successfully changed the past We’d all like to think that we’d have done what we should Revisiting those decisions that happened so fast

I’ve written elsewhere that so-called self-proclaimed “progressives” are exploiting racism to push their agenda, and that they need to keep racism alive, like a workhorse to pull their stage coach of staged hate crimes. These people don’t care about racism. In fact, you’d have to be pretty damn racist to exploit racism falsely. You’d have to really look down on other races to insist that racism exists every time your political goals are at stake. You’d have to be a damned racist to think that white progressives are the “white saviors” of the “noble savages”. (Look up those terms if you’re unfamiliar.)

I loathe writing about Rittenhouse of Smollett. They were both used as divisive distractions, and even those exposing the falsehoods and fraud of those two cases only contributed to the distraction. I only write about them here, after the corporate media has lost interest, to point to the real story.

The fact that White Supremacy is trotted out every time it benefits the corporate masters, and the way it’s shoved into the narrative so sloppily, in spite of the plot holes, shows real contempt for the people. It’s like a bad movie, with all these bad actors.

Because it’s the human condition, a falsehood No one is smart enough to always make the right call We’ve all always had this condition since childhood Reliving our mistakes, since the fruit and the fall

They do this, over and over, and all in one voice. They collude.

Are we to believe that in the Smollett and Rittenhouse stories, a jury could see what every corporate media outlet, every politically active celebrity and every progressive politician couldn’t?

From Smollett to Rittenhouse They need white supremacy to be a real threat. Look at the Rittenhouse debacle. The corporate media and even the President are going to pay dearly for their lies about that kid. Seriously, he’s going to sue them all and be very rich as a result. All of their lies were exposed, proving that Rittenhouse has zero connection to white supremacists.

Then consider the Jussie Smollett hoax.

Smollett, too, needed white supremacy to be the boogey man. Still, when the evidence was shown to a jury, white supremacy was but an apparition that disappeared when the lights came on.

Now, I should pause to say that white supremacy is not fake. It exists.

White supremacy as an ideology is alive and well in America’s prison system, where segregation along racial lines is

distinct and undeniable. In our prison systems, white supremacy is kept on life support. But the idea that it is widespread and common in our communities in a fable, and the fabulists have been exposed twice in the last few months.

Why, then, do these corporate media outlets and progressive politicians continue to terrorize our otherwise peaceful society with lies? Why do they perpetuate the perception that white supremacy is still a vital threat in our nation? I would venture to say that there is nothing more derided in our society today than white supremacy, with the exception of pedophilia. In our culture, as it is today, Hitler is synonymous with evil itself.

But they need that boogey man.

It’s a shame that these corporate shills throughout our institutions are willing to exploit these historical fears of our people, all to bring about political change, but that’s certainly what they’ve done. They exploit racism every chance

It’s such an absurd premise to think that the media corporations, with all their investigative might, couldn’t have figured out what a jury of Smollett’s peers clearly did. It’s irrational to think that Rittenhouse - who was under their media microscope for a long time - was not exonerated by the evidence that the media should have uncovered. Instead, they reinforced it with constant coverage of their raggedy, rickshaw sideshow.

In both cases, the truth was uncovered by the People themselves, even made a mockery by comics of the highest caliber, lampooned on late night shows, long before the corporate media was proven to be wrong.

And where were the riots? BLM even threw their support for Smollett after he was exposed as a fraudster in court which everyone already knew. Still, that organization couldn’t rally the support of the community, and without the community at large, how could Antifa thugs infiltrate and instigate chaos? So what does that tell us? It tells us what we already know: that we already know. All of us, we’ve figured out the nonsense, that these (mostly) white “progressives” have been making a mockery of racism to advance their agenda. It’s disingenuous and forced.

And there were no riots after the Rittenhouse verdict, either. Zilch, nada. But not for lack of trying. The media wanted the riots, they needed the riots, and their desperation against the backdrop of the accurate public perception was made more apparent.

I write about Rittenhouse and Smollett, not to add to the distraction, but to take stock now that the distractions are

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done. I want my readers to understand that I publish these letters in this ‘Liberty, Liberally’ publication, out of love. Love of Liberty is love of the Individual. My love for Self itself, something each individual has in common, is what drives me to do this.

And liberty, as a topic of discussion, is first and foremost a philosophical topic.

It began as philosophy, and against all odds, served as the guiding light of a new kind of government, one that we’ve yet to fully command.

Freedom is the ship of state, and we are passengers, in this together. And there are those who, for millennia, have owned us all. Whether slave or serf, all through history monarchs, masters, and more recently totalitarian tyrants, have used the old model of power and control, to manipulate the masses into submission.

We are just now, as a species, beginning to fully command Liberty and captain our own lives. Time will tell if we’re ready, and in time we’ll be made ready.

The odds are against it, but the odds were against the serfs of the British monarch when they rose up in revolution in the American colonies.

There’s nothing new about lying to the people. Kings and tyrants do that.

Kingdoms, totalitarian superstates, they all putrefy with time. Their rot shows in the faces of their people.

Liberty of the individual completely contradicts white supremacy.

The idea that every individual has the responsibility and the right to exist as an individual is simple and perfect.

It nullifies collectivism - or, as the founders referred to it, congresses and was to be protected from collective action. This they called Justice.

You know where white supremacy got it’s start? Alongside it’s fellow totalitarian tribes of fascism, communism, Maoism, Marxism, Nazism, et al. White supremacy is the child of that system, which is completely the opposite of our own Liberal society.

Totalitarianism is about controlling large groups of people. It’s a science, you might say. The systems of control must be stealthy and strong, if the tyrant or monarch would like to keep from being mobbed by the masses.

White supremacy falls apart in a liberal society like ours. We are all activated in our freedom, serving as a solvent, dissolving ideas like that one. Over time, we’ve seen exactly that. Our eroding of these old edifices has all but disintegrated those ancient orders of power and control, so much so that constant, corporate-controlled media manipulations are necessary to keep the specter of White Supremacy in our view.

The truth is, we are the Vanguard and Victory of Liberty. Even now, as we’ve been filled with foolish, fascist tendencies, our foundation is Liberty.

We can simply take it back, each one of us, by removing from them what’s left of the public trust. The fact that they exploit racism, when race is not an issue, shows us that they do not actually care about racism. They know that racism, in reality, is universally rejected in our society, otherwise it wouldn’t be a good whipping stick. If racism were as widely practiced as they suggest, calling someone a racist would lose all power.

Still, they invoke racism whenever they want to push some agenda item, because it’s effective. It’s effective, because no one wants to be called a racist. No one wants to be called a racist because we have culturally rejected racism.

The specter of White Supremacy today is nothing more than a contrived controversy, depending on the dark and distant past.

We must turn on the light of Liberty in each of our lives to make these imaginary monsters disappear.

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