A friend and a reader writes about the dust-up between two members of the health freedom community, Robert Malone and Peter Breggin:
I understand your desire to be above the fray. I’m not a scholar or researcher but am having a very hard time holding Peter Breggin in one hand, who to me has spent his whole life/career in a search for that which raises up humanity — and on the other hand Robert Malone who has taken quite a bit of flak but is suing Peter Breggin for $25 MILLION when the crux of the issue between these seemingly well-meaning men is I think semantics - and could be resolved over a shared meal.
I just don’t get it.
Malone has not helped me understand how $25 million, which will destroy Breggin, is justified.
Is there no one skilled in Non-Violent Communication who will step forward and help these two men resolve their conflict?
- A Reader
It might be you, dear reader.
We are in a 4th turning event.
That means the regular folks of yesterday become the ones who step into the fray and become the ones about whom history is written.
I am especially led to say, dear reader, it is you who are well placed to do this — with the Lord putting that idea on your heart, but not putting it on my heart or on another of our friend’s hearts.
While you are at it, Dr Simone Gold is one of the most effective activists I’ve worked with since 2020. I have seen her do some tremendous things that she will never get credit for and that she did not do for credit. If you can also get that fight at her organization to stop and empower her again with the full force of her organization, while smoothing out the dozen or so egos involved, I know that it would be doing the world a favor.
Everyone is so busy and this very thought that you shared here was again, put on your heart, Ellie. Please do not take that lightly.
If I did not have such a view from the past on some of that activism and organizing that I witnessed being done by AFLDS, I would not be able to say how toxic it is for Simone Gold not to be fighting the bad guys but to have to be fighting the good guys. Everyone thinks they are right in the situation (that’s normal in many conflicts) but what is needed is for someone to help step in and help a bunch of people who think they are right to just stop fighting, even if they think they might be right, especially if they think they may be right.
Being right just isn’t enough. And sometimes when we are stuck in that way of thinking, sometimes the most unlikely folks can come along and help us out of that. Sometimes the more unlikely, the more helpful of a pattern break it can be.
This type of stuck thinking and this type of conflict among peers that can become so destructive happens to many movements — the infighting cripples the movement. It has long been the approach of some bad dudes as a way to destabilize good people. It is a reliable method used by the FBI in cointelpro operations as an example, and used by many counter-operations in many places: foment infighting, encourage everyone to take sides, turn up the heat on everyone, sit back and laugh.
Dear reader, if you can help create peace in these two conversations happening among leaders in the health freedom movement you will have done a great service for many of us, a service that will reach far beyond anyone that any of us know, a service that will ripple out into the world.
Everyone in the situation likely knows they are right, dear reader. And by extension we each have people we feel some allegiance to in the various matters. That is not the point, though. The point is, can people who mostly agree stop their infighting about who is right, put that aside, and work together in more important efforts.
The window of opportunity is very short and is being squandered.
I hope you will not take lightly that this was put upon your heart, dear reader. My daily Bible reading group that I organize at 55hours.org just finished the book of Esther and has just moved on to Job.
Before you make any hasty decisions, I would like to ask you, dear reader, if you would take 20 or 30 minutes this weekend to re-read the story or Esther and to see if you too perhaps come into this complicated situation placed for a time such as this.
She had every reason in the world to not become involved, yet Esther became involved in a situation that it made almost no sense for her to get involved in. It was her willingness to serve that meant so much.
And you may have no NVC experience. Your willingness may be enough. It was enough for Gideon. And Joshua. And Elisha. And Isaiah. And my goodness don’t forget the stuttering murderer Moses living out in the wilderness, who could have come up with a less likely candidate for a man who would lead a people and who would stand against the most powerful man on earth. Sometimes your willingness, your contrite heart, makes you the perfect servant to respond to such a call in your life.
Please do not pass up lightly the opportunity you are in and this situation that has been put upon your heart, dear reader.
Allan
Malone is just trying to get a nut to invest before his reputation sinks below the tides of public opinion.