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I'm in Cincinnati to speak tomorrow at the Young Americans for Liberty National Convention at Xavier University, and I'm just catching up with the news -- given how much I wrote about the Covid fiasco, it would be strange if I didn't comment on Anthony Fauci's appearance before Rand Paul's Senate hearing today.
You probably know by now that Fauci refused to answer any questions, citing the Fifth Amendment.
The legal question is whether, once you have received a pardon, you can invoke Fifth Amendment protection -- what are you protecting yourself from?
Senator Paul, who chaired the hearing, had to order security to remove one of Fauci's attorneys (he had a whole team of them) from the proceedings for being disruptive.
Senator Bernie Moreno gave some context:
"Let me tell you who David Schertler is for the audience, because he was ejected by the chairman. He's a high-profile criminal attorney. He's represented some really great people, like Senator Bob Menendez. Maybe that's somebody who my Democrat colleagues may remember, who took gold bars as bribes from the Egyptians.
"And there's an article here in the Washington Free Beacon that talks about why you would hire a guy like David Schertler. And the comment is, if you're in deep sh**, that's who you call. Do you feel like you're in deep sh**?"
Maybe you think that's juvenile, though I don't. But here's a sample of how the rest of the Moreno questioning went:
Clearly, what you think today is that somehow you're above reproach. Somehow you feel like you don't need to be treated like a normal American. Can you do me a favor in the audience and stand up, if during the time of the Covid pandemic, you were called a racist for calling the virus a Wuhan virus or the China virus? If you thought the six-foot rule was total crap, if you thought the vaccine wasn't something that you should take, if you thought it was outrageous the way the mask policy was rolled out, if you were fired from your job for not taking that vaccine, including members of the military, if you thought closing schools was catastrophically stupid, and you thought that during these times, saying these things made you somehow a lesser human being?
Doctor, just turn around and look at the people behind you. You're not willing to do that? Is that a question? It's not a question to your lawyer. It's not a question. It's a request. All you have to do is look up from your lawyers and look at the people who were absolutely shamed for saying what we know now to be the truth. You can't even look at them. That's a question. Are you able to look at them?
Rand Paul knows more detail about the Covid matter than anyone in that room, and he gave a very detailed opening statement and asked very precise questions, to which he received no answer.
Rand closed by addressing those who ordered us to shut up and obey, who said it would undermine trust in our institutions and officials:
They have it backwards. It is secrecy that destroys trust. It is arrogance that destroys trust. It is censorship that destroys trust. It is the refusal to admit error that destroys trust. That loss of trust may be your most damaging legacy. Trust can't be ordered. It has to be earned. No scientist is above scrutiny, no government official is beyond accountability, and no public servant has the right to treat the suffering of millions of Americans as a footnote to his preferred version of history.
People will say: none of it matters because nothing is going to happen to him. Ninety percent of me agrees with that.
The other ten percent says: there is only so much a senator can do, but Rand is doing pretty much all of it, and a hearing like this is important for the sake of history. It's important for people who in the future will try to piece together what went on during these years, that the record of this hearing exists, that there's another piece of evidence that there were serious arguments to be raised against how Fauci handled Covid, and that it wasn't a matter of a brilliant scientist being harassed by dumb yokels who hate science.
I'm sure you saw, or at least heard about, Fauci's diary that Senator Paul recently made public. There's plenty for historians to mine from it for sure.
I will say, however, that I'm somewhat partial to my own diary, which I shared with you all as I was writing it, as opposed to deceptively saying one thing in public and another in my diary, as Fauci seems to have done.
Mine is different from Fauci's, because mine records the experiences of a normal person enduring the madness and the contradictions and the absurdities and the restrictions that accomplished nothing.
Mine contained evidence that nothing they were doing, all of which was doing tremendous damage to society, was generating any results.
I recorded the moralizing: when Covid numbers would spike in a red state, that was stupid people getting what was coming to them for not complying. When they’d spike in a blue state, well, that was just one of those things.
Because the material is presented in diary form, it preserves some of the crucial day-to-day details that other chronicles have forgotten. It’s those little details of the bizarre behavior of those years that, presented together, preserve for the reader the full horror of the madness of those dark days.
It's Diary of a Psychosis: How Public Health Disgraced Itself During COVID Mania, and I decided I would need to narrate the audiobook version myself. Then I could be sure the bad guys would get just that combination of sarcasm and contempt they deserved.
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