The U.S. Department of Energy confirmed earlier this week that the COVID-19 lab leak theory likely was the actual cause of the pandemic (no, DUH!). But, Glenn says, there’s one part to this entire story that’s far more disturbing that China’s culpability in it all. In this clip, Glenn explains how the far-left’s demonization of those who originally believed the lab leak theory to be true AND the acceptance of some Americans to happily move on from the story now both are truly dangerous to our nation’s future: ‘Right now, our government is in control of you. Not the other way around.’
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GLENN: So something disturbing happened yesterday. And it is not what we learned from the Department of Energy. Now, the Department of Energy, which is where the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory is. And the department of sciences, dating back to World War II. That's why they're involved in this. And they confirmed yesterday, the Wuhan lab leak theory was, in fact, not a theory, but with some degree of confidence, probably a fact. The Wuhan virus, the one that killed millions of Americans. And tens of millions worldwide, most likely came from a lab, in China, per the DOD. That's the most likely source.
Now, I say, duh.
We've known this.
But here's what was disturbing:
And still continues right now to be disturbing. Nobody in the media is taking note really, nobody in the media has come out and said, wow. We were really wrong. And what have we done?
But more importantly, no one in the media is saying, wait a minute. What about Fauci and all of the stuff Fauci was doing in the Wuhan lab, that he was trying to cover up and say it wasn't gain of function?
We know our money was there. You can't demonize China without also demonizing us. But we're doing it.
The other thing that's really disturbing is the -- the acceptance by the American people. When -- when will this break?
When will we stop having what were previously conspiracy theories, later confirmed -- when will we stop just moving on, as if it's okay?
Well, see, I told you. That wasn't a conspiracy. Oh, right again!
It's as if those reporters and journalists and commentators, that were derided and vilified at the time for being nuts, no, not nuts.
A danger to our, quote, democracy. That -- that just -- you know, they don't exist. They -- you know, those people that have been destroyed. They didn't get it right. I mean, it's just -- we're just learning some new facts here. I want you to think back a little. Okay?
I want you to think back a little, and this is so important. George Washington said that government is like fire. If you are in control of it, it does great things. But if it is in control of you, it will burn down everything.
Right now, our government is in control of you. Not the other way around. So let me ask you: Did the Iraqis actually have weapons of mass destruction?
Did the government, not experiment with LSD on black and Hispanic Florida prisoners and homeless in the 1960s?
Did the US not smuggle hundreds of Nazis into the US after Germany fell?
Did the US government not slaughter thousands upon thousands of cattle and pigs to prop up milk, beef, and pork prices, during the Great Depression?
Did the government mix deadly poisons into whiskey, to help catch or prevent drinking in the problems era. Does he even know that one?
The answer to all of these is yes. All of these things happen. And we, in a way, hid it from ourselves. Dismissed as a conspiracy theory. They all happened.
And it was a complicit press, eager for access to government sources, for other articles that they were happy to do the bidding on.
The freedom of information act is probably one of the most important things that we have ever enacted in the history of our country. It was passed in 1967.
Why? Because of the JFK assassination. We wanted access to the truth. We knew something wasn't right.
Hmm. But we didn't get access to it. We still don't have access to it.
And it was this year, that we found out, the CIA employed Lee Harvey Oswald. They knew who he was. They were using him as an asset. We still don't know, to what extent. They won't open those doors.
So the government, its relationship with you and me, it's the same as it always has been. But we have got to fight for it.
And the media, shame on you.
I'm telling you right now, what we do and do not do every day, will be recorded. It is going to be recorded in the royal courts of life. You do not want to be on the side of oppression and death. So for the past two years, if I even suggested that COVID-19 came from a Chinese lab, you were branded a conspiracy theorist. You were laughed at.
You were dismissed, you were demonetized. Demonized.
And now, the US national lab at the DOD, same place that developed the atomic bomb and still manages our nuclear arsenal.
Is that what the report is saying? Yeah. It's probably the most likely scenario.
So what are we doing? Are we waiting for an apology letter that will never come? Chris Martenson is waiting for one. Ben Shapiro. Daniel Horowitz. Russell Brand. Dr. John Campbell. Steve Deace. Hundreds of people that sounded the alarm, and were dismissed as crackpots or dangerous. I don't want you to misunderstand.
We are humans. All of us are humans. And we will get it wrong from time to time.
And if we are in this business, we live on the edge. But we live on the edge, on purpose.
We are here to find the truth, as people are kicking dirt over their tracks. Given the abundance of secrecy and lying that we get from our own government, and the accommodating press, is it means we have to live on this edge.
We have to operate on this thin line of truth, versus theory. Every day. But we do it for ourselves, we do it for our families. And we do it for yours as well.
If we don't have access to the truth, you don't have access to freedom. Now, the people in power, the Davos World Economic Forum crowd, they don't believe that. They believe society is better off, when the general public is duped. Stupefied by award shows, comedy films, video games, sensational news stories. Anything that will keep the masses eating cake.
But I believe Thomas Jefferson was right. Count on the American people. Not the government. Count on the people.
We are all individuals and unique entities. God gave you and me and everyone else, a brain, a heart, a spirit.
And those things are ours, and nobody else's.
They are coming into our brains. They're coming into our hearts. They are coming into our souls with technology soon.
There is a physical and obvious reality. There is a truth, that is self-evident. Does anybody finally get that phrase?
We hold these truths to be self-evident. We're not a committee. We're individuals.
Who sometimes choose to cooperate and sometimes choose to compete.
That's reality. Is it too messy for you?
Well, go back to the Soviet Union. Go to China. They don't have that messiness.
But it's true and obvious.
And it means, in the course of our discourse, our interaction. And resulting governance. Must recognize and accept the reality. We call that a democratic republic, governed by a Constitution.
The government holds no authority, over the truth. Let me say it again. The government holds no authority, over the truth.
That's your job. You're responsible. I'm responsible.
And if we don't look for the truth, it's our fault. Why we don't have a warrant or a church commission on what has happened with COVID-19 alone, is beyond me. Are we sheep, or are we Americans?
It should be demanded. We need to hear from Fauci and Birx and the head of Pfizer and Moderna and Johnson & Johnson.
We need to know what happened to us. You know, not every conspiracy theory turns out to be true. Some are just what they say. Theories.
But enough of them, have become fact, that I don't think we should dismiss them anymore.
And when they do become fact, we should hold the people, who claimed they were just theories, responsible.
And if they say, look, it was just my opinion. Fine. But if you were dismissing, and destroying, and demonetizing, and part of an effort to shut those people up, because they're dangerous. Then you should answer for your actions. COVID-19 transformed our society.
More than any other event since 9/11. All I want is the truth. That's all I want.
I don't want vengeance. I don't even -- I don't want to be right. Gosh.
If I'm right about stuff. Oh, my gosh.
I don't want to be right.
I just want to know what the truth is. Because once we know the truth, then we can say, let's never let that happen again. The worse thing about this is: We're just accepting it again. Oh, yeah. Another conspiracy theory. Turns out to be true.
I told you so. That gets our children nowhere. Except bondage, in the future.
