We can finally talk about COVID "vaccines"... so let me tell you about Kenneth Rogers

Before I share the ultimate point of this post, I want you to take a good hard look at this photograph.

This is Kenneth Rogers, MD.

From 2020 until late 2022 Kenneth Rogers was the director of the South Carolina Department of Mental Health.  He was my ultimate "boss" during much of the time when I was a peer support specialist with this area's mental health office.  Rogers was ostensibly charged with guiding the agency with wisdom and integrity.

That is the furthest thing from what Kenneth Rogers really was.  In truth he turned out to be a far-left activist who had no compunctions about enforcing his own agenda upon the thousands of hard-working and dedicated mental health workers working for the state.

Rogers saw South Carolina Department of Mental Health as his personal play toy.  He turned his position into a bully pulpit for his ideological beliefs.  He certainly had a captive audience.  Whenever I opened up a web browser on my office PC there was Kenneth Rogers's face - as you see in the photo above - with some decree he had made from on high.  And sometimes they had absolutely nothing to do with mental health.

Case in point: what Rogers posted following the George Floyd incident.  Rogers jumped on the bandwagon immediately, without any proper evidence, and blamed institutional racism for Floyd's death, never mind that the Floyd was a dead man walking with all the fentanyl in his system.  Floyd was going to die regardless of anything else that happened.

Rogers finished up with accusing practically all white people of harboring racism.

It was a dip into the political realm that was utterly disturbing.  No responsible leader of a state agency, no responsible person at all, would have stooped so low in using departmental resources toward furthering personal ideology.  I was disgusted by it and for several fleeting moments I considered writing to Rogers about it.  But I had my job to consider: I was just a peer support specialist, someone without a masters degree.  So I kept quiet.

(Obviously, six years later I am letting it all come out without fear.)

I decided then that Kenneth Rogers was a poor choice to be the head honcho of an agency whose purpose was to improve the lives of some of the most vulnerable of the people of South Carolina.

I watched Rogers do his thing, on and off.  I could not but shake my head in disbelief whenever he made his decrees.  And I continued to wonder what could I do that would arouse the attention of the people who had appointed Rogers to the job in the first place.

And then came COVID.  And Kenneth Rogers really let his inner leftist demagogue loose.

Rogers commanded that everyone in the department get the COVID vaccine.  Never mind that it was so very new and untested.  We each had to get it, or else lose our job.

Which would have been personally devastation to a lot of people and it certainly would have been to me.  Not only for the loss of income, but it would mean that I could no longer see my clients: people who I had come to care for tremendously.  Being in peer support meant relating to the people I served in ways that the more "qualified" counselors and doctors and nurses could not.  Not without themselves having a mental health condition.  Being a peer support person meant letting my bipolar disorder become something useful toward helping vulnerable people live richer and more fulfilling lives.  I came to love those "clients" (I could not call them "patients" because I didn't have a masters degree), every one of them.  Three and a half years after leaving the department and I still think of them.  I still pray for them.

Not getting the alleged "vaccine" would mean that I could no longer work with them or see them at all.

There was an out for people who were conscientious objectors.  I wrote a short essay explaining why I wanted to decline getting the shot.  All I know is that it was turned down.  Maybe it didn't help my case that I wasn't a member of any organized religious body, not even a small country church.  There was nobody to help me plead my case.

So it really was get the shot or lose my employment, and with that would come no longer getting to help my patients (well, that's who they were).

Kenneth Rogers continued in his demands that everyone get the shot.  As he put it in one screed, we were all "going to follow the law".

There was no "law" requiring involuntary inoculation.  The "law" Rogers cited was an order by President Joe Biden and Rogers automatically declared that this was to be as adhered to as any properly and rigorously argued and passed piece of legislation.

Long story short: Kenneth Rogers used his position to enforce a political position of liberals like those in the Democratic Party and especially of the Biden administration.

Well, I was stupid.  And I got the shot.  I got both of the initial course of inoculation.  After getting the second jab a blood vessel burst in my right eye.  And ever since then I've wondered if my breathing is as well as it used to be.

Kenneth Rogers posted a photo of himself getting the "COVID vaccine".  He was masked up and everything.  For all we know that wasn't the real vaccine at all.  It could have been saline water or something else innocuous.

I got the shot and I've felt dirty ever since.  It did something to me.  I feel now like it cost me my integrity, of too much of my soul even.  I should have done the hard thing and quit my job outright.  Except there were my patients and who would have been there for them like I had the unique position of being?

It's five years after getting the "vaccine".  If I knew then what I know now, I would have told Kenneth Rogers that he could take his precious shot and jab them [REDACTED].  He's an absolutely loathsome, disgusting and criminally negligent individual who does not deserve to be in any position of medical care and administration.

There are a lot of people who deserve scorn and ridicule stemming from the COVID vaccine propaganda.  Half of Democrats polled at the time wanted those who refused the "jab" to lose their employment, be fined, and even be incarcerated.  People were silenced on social media by giants like Facebook and Twitter, for the "crime" of questioning the efficacy of the "vaccines".  There were the businesses ruined and the churches vacated.

Nobody who was advocating the pro-vaccine agenda deserves to have any place at the American table.  They violated the people's trust.  They forced a medical experiment upon us and told us "tough" if we resisted.

I'm a peaceful man.  I try to follow my Lord's instruction to "love one another".  COVID however brought about a seething and quite righteous hatred toward certain people.  I only wish the worst upon them.

David Strom has written an ASTOUNDING article for Hot Air about how it has come to be that we can at last openly discuss the persecution that we suffered because of vaccine propaganda.  If you have been angry before, Strom's piece will reignite your fury.  If you have had blinders on until now, this well-researched essay laden with citations will hopefully open your eyes.

COVID became tyranny by leftists.  Maybe we will be much more the wiser the next time that they think they have an opportunity to control our lives.

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There is no possible contesting it: The IRS must be abolished

The Founding Fathers would "repent in Heaven" - as John Adams threatened those early Americans - if they could see the country they founded and what has come to light in the past few days.

If anybody can tender any argument whatsoever in defense of the Internal Revenue Service, I for one wish to hear what it is.

I am not a conspiracy theorist but hey, whaddya know: the conspiracy theorists were right all along.  The United States Federal Government really has been spying on the dissidents, the disaffected and those who want less intrusion into their private lives.  Add in how the government has also been found to have been spying on Associated Press journalists and then the whole mess about Benghazi (which cost lives, mind you) and only an idiot would deny that We The People are no longer in charge and that our own government has become a colossal, reprehensible beast.

Audits.  Threats.  Intimidation.  Favoritism toward political allies.  Cover-ups.  Seizing millions of private individuals' medical records.  Bullying a conservative education group to turn over the names of high school and college students.  Not even Billy Graham's ministry has proven safe from the IRS.

Our forefathers went to war with England for far, far less than this.  They bought our liberty with their blood.  Too many of them paid the price for a freedom they knew they would never know but wanted their children and their children's children to have.

We owe their memory better than this.

Yes, Mr. Adams.  The time has come to repent in Heaven.  The government which you and Jefferson and Franklin and Washington and Madison and Morris and Calhoun and the rest gave us, doesn't exist anymore.  We had a republic and we couldn't keep it.

And now we have a "government" of thugs with all the mentality of street hoodlums, or a Mafia family.  Barack Obama, Eric Holder, Janet Napolitano...

They may have been elected, but they are not leaders.  They aren't my leaders, anyway.  They are, at most, glorified gangsters.  Albeit gangsters with their very own Gestapo.  And lots and lots of bullets (which we still haven't been given an adequate explanation for).

The Founding Fathers never would have entertained the notion of a government agency empowered to intimidate and threaten and confiscate the property of the people of the United States... much less approved of one!

So here's how I see it as things stand tonight...

Either the Internal Revenue Service is abolished for good, obliterated totally and its entire structure laid waste.  Or, there can be no more confidence and trust that We The People can place with our own government.

This is our Runnymede, folks.  King Obama Lackland needs to be dragged kicking and screaming to the pasture and told in no uncertain terms "you've gone mad with power, John.  Now sign on the dotted line and get the hell out of our way."

Say what one will for all his faults, but at least King John had enough sense to comprehend what the barons were telling him.  But then again John didn't have mega-sized computer databases, airborne drones and a secret police at his beck and call.

Either the IRS goes, and with it all its power and authority (which there is considerable evidence it was never meant to have to begin with), or there is no longer any pretending that we are living in a free nation of the people, by the people, and for the people.  There will be only government for the sake of government.

That is not the country I want my children to grow up in.

And you shouldn't want it either.

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One reader's tale of incompetence at the Internal Revenue Service

Way, waaaaay back when this blog was just getting started, I posted an essay titled "People who should be shot when the revolution comes". It was a tongue-in-cheek (kinda) piece about who in our society should be the first ones to be thrown against the wall if and when the citizens of this country finally get their fill and overthrow those who have gotten too uppity for anyone's good.

That this particular post should come to mind more than seven years after writing it, might clue y'all in on the kind of rage that I feel when I read the e-mail that one of The Knight Shift's viewers sent me recently.

I can't put it any more plain than this: the income tax is a means of economic and personal slavery. Think about how much time and energy gets wasted by millions of honest people in this country every year. Seriously folks: ever think about about what could be done productively, if all those billions of aggregate man-hours that we spend preparing tax returns were done away with?

Then there is how decent people do their best to adhere to a mountain of burdensome legislation that not even the finest tax attorneys in the land can agree on what it's supposed to mean. It's just not possible. I guarantee that if the government wanted, that it could find grounds for criminal indictment against every single taxpayer in America... only because it's impossible to meet each and every single condition of a tax code that is ridiculously volumnious!

And then there are the heartless bastitches of the Internal Revenue Service. Heck, let's name some names here: like Robert W. Nordlander, the IRS "special agent" who prosecuted a cold and cruel vendetta against ultra-marathoner Charlie Engle. Click on that link and just see if that story doesn't get your blood boiling.

I bet what I'm about to share will resonate with too many good people as well. It's what one individual submitted and asked me to pass along to this site's readers...

Waiting for me when I arrived home this evening was an "important" message from the I.R.S., saying it was "important" that I return their call by close of business today (which surprisingly to me was 8 p.m.). I was also asked to reference a "case number" when I returned the call.

After confirming the number appeared to be legitimate from the IRS web site I returned the call, despite my concerns (who wants to get harassed by the IRS?) and suspicions (that this was a scam.)

I decided in advance that I WAS NOT going to give out any personal information, so I bypassed the prompt asking me to enter my Social Security Number. After a 10-minute wait, a "Mrs. C***, ID# [deleted]" answered the phone. She asks for my SSN, and I inform her I'm not giving out any personal information. "Well, we're not going to get very far," she replied. I told her the message I received instructed me to give a case number and that I would give that, which I did.

Little good giving the case number did though, as "Mrs. C***" said she couldn't give me any information unless I gave her my name and "verified" that she was talking to the right person. I told her why not give me the name of the person your trying to reach, and I'll verify if I'm that person or not. No good.

I then mention that I find it peculiar that the IRS would try to contact me by phone rather than mail about a tax issue. (Let me say here that I've been contacted about errors on my federal tax returns before, and each of those few occasions, I was contacted by mail.)

Her explanation was that the IRS does try to make initial contact with individuals by mail based on the address that's on file with their tax return. Only afterwards, do they try to contact an individual by phone.

So I mention that the address they have for me is good because I haven't moved since I filed my taxes. And since since I haven't received a letter prior to this phone call, I must not be the person they're trying to reach. She says, "No! What did I say?"

I responded, "You said that the IRS tries to first contact individuals by mail based on the address filed with their tax return if there are issues. Then you try to contact them by phone." She says that's correct.

So, I ask again, since I HAVE NOT received anything in the mail from the IRS, may I deduce I'm not the individual this case number involves?

"Mrs C***" tells me no, that she can't give me any information unless I give her my personal info, accuses me of arguing with her, says she has other calls she needs to take and that I need to go my local tax office for information.

I could see this wasn't getting anywhere (and wasn't going to) so I ended the call. This drives me crazy and makes me mad on so many levels I gave them the case number they referenced on the message. That's all they asked me to give, and that's all I was going to give. I've "rendered unto Caesar" and filed my taxes on time every year.

Perhaps what made me the most angry was "Mrs. C***'s" comment that she "had other calls to take." Last time I checked, the federal taxes I pay (and we all pay) pay "Mrs. C***'s" salary. The least she could do was do the job I help pay her to do and be a little more helpful.

This is the kind of bureaucratic crap that was symptomatic of the Soviet Union. And the late Roman Empire.

I defy anyone to tell me that the above example is something that should be tolerated by a free people who enjoy the liberty that God has given us and that so many fought... and died... so that we might continue to have.

And I was woefully shortsighted when I came up with that list in 2004. Perhaps we should make room for soulless cretins like Mrs. C*** and Robert Nordlander. I can hear it now...

"But we were only following orders! We were ONLY FOLLOWING ORDERS!!"

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"Meet the new boss, same as the old boss..."

President Obama plans to uphold the power that George W. Bush asserted in regards to spying on Americans without a warrant.

So much for not sacrificing our ideals for safety that Obama kept talking about this past week after he got sworn into office.

I hate to say "I told you so" but... many people, including myself, were screaming as loud as we could during the past several years that the horrible precedents that Bush was setting, would likely come back to haunt us. For almost eight years, Bush got away with violating the Constitution - in both rule and spirit - and his cheerleaders kept assuring us that Bush "had no choice" but to do these things to keep us secure.

Now those same powers have gone to a man that many of these same people have not been able to hide their sheer hatred toward. And however it is that Obama might choose to exercise those powers, these same people have no moral or logical grounds to oppose him.

Consider whatever else I might have otherwise posted about this, as an exercise for the reader.

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