I found this letter to the editor I wrote from April of 1994, 28 years ago. It sounds like I could have written it yesterday. I haven’t changed much since then, but clearly the overt evil in the world has become more bold and prolific with each passing year.
The one thing we can be certain of is this: that the entropy of this world is towards evil, continually. It takes an effort to withstand it. Our politicians have adopted evil practices in every sphere of life and we are overwhelmed by the decline as they boldly proliferate the trans nonsense and the sexual grooming of children, the authoritarian Covid policies now in place, crippling national financial debt, and the restrictions on speech and ideas, just to name a few. The old saying holds true, that “the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
I recently watched the 8-part docu-drama series from 2021 called Dopesick, which tells the story of the American opioid crisis and the role of the Sackler Family and Purdue Pharma to purposely destroy families through addiction and death for profit. I’ve watched quite a few documentaries over the past several years on this topic, but this is the first one that really dove deep into how a malevolent pharmaceutical company operated to maximize profits with little to no concern for who they hurt.
While this story starts in the early 1990’s, it recently concluded with the Sackler family having to pay more than $8 billion in fines of their $14 billion family fortune; not nearly enough for what they knowingly did and the human carnage they caused. Today, America is still caught in the grip of an ever-growing opioid addiction epidemic which now claims over 100,000 lives per year from overdose. The absolute evil of Big Pharma and the tragedy of this cannot be overstated.
Being able to look back on the actions of Purdue while still in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, it’s hard to miss the striking similarities. To wit: when the effectiveness of Oxycontin, the opioid-based painkiller of Purdue Pharma, started to wane, they had to come up with a solution to stem the loss of sales. They invented a new term called “breakthrough pain” and got a few doctors on board to buy in, write papers and articles, and promote this new concept to others. When the medication lost its effectiveness (as the repeated use of almost all drugs tends to do), and the patient’s pain started to increase, they were told this was “breakthrough pain,” but thankfully there was a “cure.” And yes, you guessed it: higher doses of Oxycontin; the same drug that was failing to combat their current levels of pain. And thus began the cycle of addiction.
In the same way, Pfizer and Moderna ran this exact playbook. When people were still catching Covid-19 after having one or two, and now even three or four, doses of their mRNA vaccines, they called this phenomenon, “breakthrough cases” of Covid-19, with the solution being, of course, more boosters of the same failed vaccine! More boosters, more profits. And sadly, more cases of Covid-19 and deaths.
Big Pharma and the members of the medical community they have paid off to push their snake oil in its varying forms, are observably evil as they destroy the lives of millions for the sake of their bottom lines. It is only a matter of time before the fraud of these mRNA “vaccines” is exposed and the level of lying and deceit in the medical community, those entrusted to protect us and our health, is shown for what it is. Already we are seeing ballooning rates of all cause mortality of between 25%-40% in the heavily vaccinated nations. The vaccines will end up killing far more than Covid-19 ever did. And this evil will lie at the feet of Big Pharma, the medical community who shirked their responsibility to protect us, and the government officials who knowingly promoted the lie through mass vaccination and mandates.
Heroin use has exploded in the US and Canada and greater than 55% of all users came to it from Oxycontin painkillers. They were people looking to their doctors for help, yet were given a prescription for something that eventually led to their death. People are slowly killing themselves in back alley’s because of what one pharmaceutical company did to people in order to enrich themselves. Pfizer and Moderna are no different. They did it for profit with willing accomplices; not out of some benevolent care for mankind. They made their money and care not one whit to the pile of corpses left in their wake.
This series is really well done and a must watch in a time when we are again trusting pharmaceutical companies to save us, when in reality they are selling us the gun with which to kill ourselves. I’m not sure what will finally wake people up to the reality that these companies, and the governments we pay to protect us, don’t really care about our health and well-being at all.
As our election looms, and the Canadian govt is on the verge of implementing vaccine passports, I do not know when I will travel again, as I will not comply with the evil demands of our leaders. And I mean that with the full force of the word: leaders who would force vaccines on their citizens, against their will and personal choice, in exchange for their God-given freedoms, are evil. I am not against vaccines for people who want them. I am against mandates and government force.
The mistake that people make is in thinking their government cares about them. Our cities are littered with addicts and the homeless, and they do nothing. This isn’t about health. They do not care. They have lied to us since the beginning of this pandemic and everything they have demanded of us has failed. A person’s freedom should not be taken from them because another is fearful. Never in history have we demanded such.
One has to suffer historical amnesia to not remember where this type of oppression leads. It always comes from the left. Our leaders let us fight over worthless concepts like made up pronouns, privilege, and insignificant racist tropes, while they continue to encroach upon our freedoms. We have been distracted by petty offences, as the things that once made our nation great, are slowly removed.
Only evil people make the case for mandating vaccines; and I do not apologize for saying this. Our govt has destroyed the lives, savings, and businesses of millions of people with their ineffective lockdowns and we have yet to feel the full effects of what they have financially done to the country. The real pain has yet to be felt.
There is so much beauty left to see in the world, yet so much evil to overcome.
Cromwell’s admonition was succinct: “Put your trust in God, but keep your powder dry.” It’s a simple maxim to remember and encourage us as the vileness of the world weighs on us.
Too many people are weak and cowardly and turn a blind eye to the objective evils in our midst and fail to speak out boldly against them for fear of being “cancelled,” or shunned, or mocked. We should not fear from standing up for those things that are good, beautiful, and true. Cromwell echoed the message of Proverbs 21:31 (“The horse is made ready for the day of battle, but victory rests with the Lord”), in that God will ultimately prevail, but we are to actively fight and oppose those things that are vile and corrupt. From abortion to the trans movement; from sex-trafficking to porn; from the racist BLM campaign, to ineffective government shutdowns. There is so much evil in this world and as the saying by Edmund Burke goes, “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
I encourage you to read Blacker’s poem linked above. It opens thusly:
The night is gathering gloomily, the day is closing fast—
The tempest flaps his raven wings in loud and angry blast;
The thunder clouds are driving athwart the lurid sky—
But, “put your trust in God, my boys, and keep your powder dry.”
Listen to this 3 minute audio clip. It is called Evil by Barry Michels (with the backing music by Buckethead).
Here is the poem referenced by William Butler Yeats called The Second Coming.
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
Yeats wrote this at the end of WWI during the Spanish Flu pandemic in which his pregnant wife was taken gravely ill. He lamented the world he saw around him, as many of us do today, and the evil that pervades so much of it. Look at how things have changed so rapidly over the past year or two and how evil has flourished:
We have a Chinese Virus pandemic, unleashed on the world, that has people living in crippling fear while the government closes down businesses and causes mass unemployment; making people more reliant on the State for their wellbeing. We have the race hustlers and domestic terrorist group, Black Lives Matter, running rampant through streets burning down businesses, beating and killing people, and spreading lies that the gullible and unintelligent help spread. We have progressives trying to ‘cancel’ people for ‘thought crimes’ when they do not share their wretched view of the world.
You are no longer allowed to have a different opinion. They will come for you. They will come for anyone who does not believe the way they do. They are the fascists and we are watching the tyranny of the left wash over the Western world; the same tyranny that made the 20th century the most bloody in human history. Evil takes many forms, but none more heinous than those forms which seek to dehumanize others. Evil is on the march, and is approaching ever so quickly.
We have a finite time here. Stand up to evil; do not fear it. Abhor those who seek to control you and your thoughts. Turn off the media. Don’t allow your mind to be taken captive. Don’t fall for things like ‘climate change’, ‘pandemics’, ‘racism’, or a host of other shams that seek to control peoples’ lives on a massive scale. The purveyors of these schemes are evil. As Michels says at the end, “We must learn to respond to evil, without becoming evil.” It’s also been said, ‘See that you walk prudently through this life, not as fools but as wise, redeeming the time, for the days are evil.’ Seek to be the light in a dark place; walk prudently, yet firmly; and do not compromise with evil.
Aboard a recent flight I watched the current Oscar Winner for Best Picture, Darkest Hour, about Winston Churchill’s role in World War II and the defence of the British Empire. While there are many things from the film that can be written about, I was struck by the difference in resolve between those that did not want to fight and negotiate peace and Churchill’s unwavering conviction that there could be no appeasement with evil as it approached them.
Politicians, for the most part, are weak men, and seek power out of lust and greed. Neville Chamberlain and Viscount Halifax wanted to sit down and make a deal with Hitler and the Germans that would have assured the subservience of the British people for generations, and their own well-being. With 300,000 British troops trapped on the beach at Dunkirk and the Germans bearing down on their position, Churchill ordered civilian boats to do what they could to rescue as many men as possible. Almost all were saved.
We live in a world full of evil and I think that if any of us truly knew the depths to which the heart of man can stoop most would be shocked. From the open sex trafficking in Asia and other parts of the world to the Muslim grooming and rape gangs in Rotherham, to the suppression of thoughts and beliefs and religious freedoms, to the carnage of disposed baby parts at every abortion clinic across so-called civilized nations, evil is abundant and prolific. Good men know that evil must not be negotiated with, for that is the domain of the weak.
Strong men and strong leaders will punch back twice as hard as they are hit, and that is the type of men we need in this day to fight against the rot and decay of a modern society.
I recently watched the 8-part docu-drama series from 2021 called 
We have a Chinese Virus pandemic, unleashed on the world, that has people living in crippling fear while the government closes down businesses and causes mass unemployment; making people more reliant on the State for their wellbeing. We have the race hustlers and domestic terrorist group, Black Lives Matter, running rampant through streets burning down businesses, beating and killing people, and spreading lies that the gullible and unintelligent help spread. We have progressives trying to ‘cancel’ people for ‘thought crimes’ when they do not share their wretched view of the world.