In constitutional law, “the Supreme Court has declared guilt by association ‘alien to the traditions of a free society and the First Amendment itself’. It violates both the Fifth Amendment, which requires that guilt must be personal, and the First Amendment, which guarantees the right of association.”
“In other words, the Fifth Amendment forbids holding a moral innocent culpable for the acts of others.”
Source: David Cole, Professor of Law Georgetown University Law Cente, Terror Financing, Guilt by Association and the Paradigm of Prevention in the ‘War on Terror’ in COUNTERTERRORISM: DEMOCRACY’S CHALLENGE (Bianchi & Keller eds., Hart Pub. 2008)
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In logic and argumentation, guilt by association is considered to be a fallacy known as the association fallacy or simply as an ad hominem attack.
Very simply, guilt by association happens when a person is viewed negatively because of his or her association with an individual or group viewed negatively. The “guilty” party has not actually committed any transgression, but is declared guilty simply through some, often loose, association.
Example: A photograph recently surfaced showing former President Barack Obama in the company of Louis Farrakhan.
Louis Farrakhan expresses anti-semitic views. Therefore, Barack Obama must hold anti-semitic views.
Example: Linguist, philosopher and social critic Noam Chomsky has been interviewed by conservative talk show host Stefan Molyneux. Molyneux is known as an anti-feminist and is classified by some as alt-right. Therefore, Noam Chomsky is alt-right and should be condemned and shunned.
In an article written for the Muslim Times, Zia H. Shah discusses how the accusation of guilt by association may be used against moderate Muslims: “In a post 9/11world especially, moderate Muslims have been subject to unfortunate associations due to the acts of fundamentalists and Jihadists.” (Individual Responsibility or Guilt by Association? January 11, 2015)
Historically, guilt by association may be more than a matter of a smear on a person’s reputation–it could result in criminal conviction and punishment. In the book Family Punishment in Nazi Germany: Sippenhaft, Terror and Myth By Robert Loeffel, Sippenhaft is described as family liability for the crime of a relative. The crime committed was often simply being declared an actor against the state or a resistor. Punishment ranged from property confiscation to imprisonment to execution. Children of the resistors could be placed in camps, sometimes put up for adoption if their parents were put to death.
In modern times, North Korean defectors report that guilt by association continues to be practiced today:
Screenshot of Professor Naima Lowe courtesy YouTube.
Naima Lowe, former Media professor at Evergreen College, (an exit agreement with Evergreen awarded her $240,000) has broken her silence after more than a year by writing about her feelings toward the campus unrest in the late spring of 2017.
A video of Lowe, widely circulated on the Internet, drew much attention as she admonished her white colleagues (Lowe is black), accused them of white racism, and eventually called them motherfuckers who couldn’t see their way out of their own asses as they stood silently listening to her abrasive lecture.
Firstly, the circulation of this footage resulted in vile, frightening, graphic and racist messages, emails and voicemails directed at Lowe. There is never, under any circumstance, a world in which this is okay. That part of Lowe’s story is valid and must be condemned by all.
The videotaping continues and a few minutes later in the video (after Lowe’s speech), professors are shown inquiring about whether if they enter the by now occupied library to listen to student demands, they will be allowed to leave. They are told that George (the president of the university) will not be allowed to leave, but that they will allow others to leave. However, if they do leave, it will be interpreted as harmful to the environment.
In her essay, Lowe continually refers to the incident as a “protest,” which is simply not true. Already, while lecturing her colleagues, the “protest” has become an illegal fiasco, far from a protest as defined by the constitution.
For a reminder on protesting, visit ACLU’s Know Your Rights, which carefully lays out your constitutional rights as an American citizen and as an American student. In the video, you can detect that students have piled up furniture against the entries and exits of the library, and will hold President George against his will. In fact, when he says he has to pee, they tell him to hold it. Then they offer to escort him to the bathroom as his only other option. This could result in a felony unlawful imprisonment charge if the law were liberally applied.
Testimony to the board from Bret Weinstein and others described incidences of assaults and batteries; hunting, stalking and impeding; harassment and doxxing; physically blocking police and pressure to not report crimes to police.
Despite these witness reports, Lowe, in her essay, uses the word “protest” in one form or another in excess of twenty times (twenty-two if I counted correctly).
Campus Argument Goes Viral As Evergreen State Is Caught In Racial Turmoil (HBO) published by Vice News on YouTube gives a nice little 7-minute summary of the disagreements:
Lowe titles the article, “I fought academia’s cult of civility and all I got was this lousy PTSD diagnosis.” She displays a quote, taken from the WSJ, which reads:
Media professor Naima Lowe urged one of Mr. Weinstein’s defenders to read about how calls for civility are “often used to silence and/or dismiss concerns about racism.” She also said that the “white people making changes in their white supremacist attitudes and behaviors” were those “who do not immediately balk and become defensive,” instead acknowledging that “white supremacy is literally ingrained in everything.” In other words, merely defending oneself against the accusation of “white supremacy” is evidence of guilt.
Clearly, Lowe is very passionate about racial equity, but says that “when faced with the crisis of confronting racism head on, the white liberal tendency (is) to dismiss patterns of structural inequality in favor of avoiding conflict and hard feelings.”
Lowe plays the victim card pretty unashamedly. Examples:
“This is what happens when black women speak up about being harmed within white dominated liberal spaces.”
“I thought that if I could find a way to temper my fear and anger, someone might take me seriously enough to respond to the threats to my life. By the time I finished I’d broken out into hives and spent the night vomiting and sobbing.”
“Authorities dismiss the danger of the threats, and the school does nothing until it isn’t just black people being threatened.”
“At no point did anyone offer me on-campus safety escorts, and if the threats to my life were investigated by the campus or county police, I never heard a word about it.”
“…then being thrown under the bus by white liberal complacency. I was dismissed, disbelieved, and ultimately treated as though my anger in responding to racism was on par with the racism itself that I was trying to address.”
“I spoke out about being tokenized as a black woman… about being repeatedly bullied and targeted on an all-campus email list for speaking out about racism… and about having my tenure case unfairly challenged despite years of glowing reviews by peers, students, and administrators.”
“I received a $240,000 settlement for my trouble, the majority of which I used to pay off the student loans I’d acquired getting the advanced degrees required to be an academic.”
She also notes that during her speech to her colleagues she was “alone, wearing gym clothes, holding my 8 lb. service dog, being black and pissed off.”
She also speaks of a panic attack and the title of the piece indicates she now suffers from PTSD. At the end of her story, she cries to her parents and they comfort her with love and reassurance.
Lowe is extremely critical of the concept of civility because she insists it can be weaponized to stifle speech:
“The dominant discussion about campus speech vilifies and punishes black people for speaking stridently about our experiences of racism and then hides this disdain for our right to free speech and assembly beneath the guise of civility.”
Also, “Civility hasn’t stopped the oncoming train of far right white nationalism in this country, and it doesn’t solve racism on college campuses. The concept is totally subjective, based on the values of those in power, and is consistently weaponized against women, people of color, young people, queers and others marginalized within public discourse.”
Interestingly, Lowe refers to earlier instances where others seem to find her tone abrasive and difficult, even prior to the Evergreen disturbances.
“Various (mostly white) faculty colleagues and members of the administration approached me over my last year at Evergreen to let me know that they were concerned about whether I was being constructive enough in my approach to addressing these issues. They told me that I was alienating people, that I was doing a disservice to my own cause, and that I was making people feel uncomfortable and unwelcome in discussions. They told me to temper my anger so that they could hear what I had to say.”
So is civility really a weapon against the oppressed? I don’t think so and here’s why. As a former teacher, I embraced social justice and racially and culturally diverse lessons. One of my resources was Teaching Tolerance, a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center.
“Teaching Tolerance provides free resources to educators—teachers, administrators, counselors and other practitioners—who work with children from kindergarten through high school. Educators use our materials to supplement the curriculum, to inform their practices, and to create civil and inclusive school communities where children are respected, valued and welcome participants.”
Teaching Tolerance’s sample lesson plans on how to teach civility are among hundreds of lesson plans to lead children to an ability to respect others, to have conversations, to avoid polarization or bullying, and to be prepared to function in society. If we value this enough to teach civility to our children, why would we not expect the same from our adults?
In the end, Lowe does not agree. She ends her comments on this topic with the following sentiment: “Fuck your civility.”
An article titled “Secular Humanist Values Don’t Accommodate Predatory Sex” written by James A. Haught was published on the Patheos Blog on October 17, 2018.
Haught writes: “We agnostic-doubter-atheist-freethinkers are free from religion’s Puritanical sex taboos, but most of us have empathetic decency. We respect the feelings of others. We don’t force ourselves selfishly onto those who aren’t interested. Secular humanism strives to make life better for everyone – and young women’s lives are hurt by crass abuses by domineering men. It’s disgusting. Women deserve complete equality. Their wishes carry the same weight as men’s.”
Which is all fine and good, but in his article Haught proceeds to detail alleged predatory behavior of Michael Shermer, Editor of Skeptic Magazine and Columnist for Scientific American; Lawrence Krauss, Physicist, Professor and Author; David Silverman, Former President of American Atheists and Author; and Richard Carrier, Author, Speaker and Historian.
As Haught describes the allegations against the four men, he does make some factual errors or fails to detail the accused’s side of the story. Instead, he just goes with this: “All the accused skeptics deny misconduct, but their rebuttals are questioned.” Let’s take a look:
Michael Shermer: Haught says there have been “years of dispute over whether Dr. Michael Shermer – founder of Skeptic magazine and a Scientific American columnist – took advantage of a tipsy young woman at an atheist convention.”
Shermer has repeatedly defended himself against allegations of sexual misconduct, to the point that he kept an ongoing personal statement refuting accusations up on his website. However, when I checked, this statement is currently not available.
In a recent incident that occurred regarding a speaking engagement Shermer had scheduled at Santa Barbara City College, these allegations surfaced again when, according to Inside Higher Ed, “Raeanne Napoleon, chair of chemistry, shared a four-year old BuzzFeed article with the campus, detailing sexual misconduct allegations against Shermer.
“Shermer is someone who has been accused of sexual harassment and sexual assault (rape) by multiple women,” Napoleon wrote, linking to BuzzFeed.
“Although the police did not bring formal charges against him, there have been many witnesses that have publicly corroborated the stories of the victims.”
Napoleon wrote that while Shermer “still has the right to free speech,” she wanted “to warn the women attending the talk that they should be careful not to be alone with him or hang around late on campus after the talk is over. I am also using this platform to highlight this information to faculty and staff so that you can choose whether or not you will support this event.”
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In fact, the Buzzfeed article specifically denies these are rape allegations: “Two more women agreed to go on the record, by name, with their Shermer stories. (Neither accused him of rape, and neither was in a position to corroborate Smith’s story.)” The original accuser, Alison Smith, describes a situation in which she says she was too drunk to consent to a sexual encounter. Smith’s story was shared by a blogger five years after the event.
Also, “multiple witnesses” seems to be a stretch as the two other apparently anonymous women in the Buzzfeed piece cannot confirm Smith’s story.
Here is an excerpt from an email sent to SBCC by Shermer in response to Napoleon’s accusations.:
“After the event I was informed that earlier in the day an assistant professor at SBCC named Raeanne Napoleon sent out an email on a campus-wide email server that defamed me by suggesting that I am a rapist and sexual assaulter. She added to the defamation by implying that any students who do attend should not be alone with me, especially if it is dark, as if I were a rapist hiding in the bushes. This is a disgusting, repulsive, defamatory lie. I am no such thing and never have been and never would be and I will not stand by and allow my name and reputation to be so denigrated. Dr. Napoleon doesn’t know me and doesn’t know anything about me. And yet she feels no compunction whatsoever to publicly hurl such calumnies against me in an act of wonton irresponsibility.
Further, Dr. Napoleon willfully and intentionally left out of her email my public response to the libelous BuzzFeed article, clearly and unmistakably posted in the article itself. So Dr. Napoleon either didn’t read the article she is relying on to defame me, or she did and knowingly and willfully left out my response so as to convince you all to boycott my talk and form an unopposed opinion of me as a rapist and sexual assaulter. Either way, it is a form of fraud, in addition to libel and defamation.
As well, in her email Dr. Napoleon implies that the police were called to investigate me but “did not bring formal charges against him.” This is another defamatory lie. Dr. Napoleon has no evidence whatsoever about anything the police did or did not do because there never were any police ever involved in relation to me about anything I have ever done. I have never once spoken to a law-enforcement officer or anyone in any capacity about the lies told about me in the BuzzFeed article. The only motive for Dr. Napoleon to include this lie in her group email to you all was to defame me. That is illegal.
Lawrence Krauss: According to Haught, “Physicist Lawrence Krauss, a brilliant hero of the freethought movement, fell into disgrace because several young women accused him of unwanted sexual advances, crude gropings and molestations.”
Haught adds, “Backlashes can be fierce. For example, Dr. Krauss was banned from Arizona State University’s campus pending an investigation. He also was banned from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland and the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Ontario.”
Krauss’s response to these allegations may be found here:
Arizona State University has investigated a complaint regarding allegations that Krauss touched the breast of a woman attending a conference in Australia in 2016. ASU ruled the incident is a violation of the university’s sexual harrassment policy. On page 2 of the review, there is a note that the woman involved in the incident had not wanted to make a report and did not feel the incident merited losing one’s job. However, witnesses felt the incident was reportable. The full letter and review is here:
An update on my situation at ASU. I have chosen to retire from ASU in May, 2019, when I turn 65. Onward and hopefully upward to new and different challenges. Details below. Thanks for the support and encouragement from so many of you. pic.twitter.com/7PSh0i4NnU
David Silverman: Haught writes, “Next, David Silverman was fired as president of American Atheists after he was accused of forcing himself onto unwilling women in hotel rooms during the group’s meetings.”
However, this is not the reason David Silverman was fired, and in an interview given with the Washington Post, Silverman states these interactions were consensual. (If consensual, they likely would have been considered inappropriate and unprofessional conduct, but this was never adjudicated.)
Alleged sexual misconduct was not a subject of the investigation that led to the firing of Silverman. According to Pamela Whissel, Editor in Chief of the American Atheists Magazine, “the first complaint alleged violations of American Atheists’ policies, including allegations of undisclosed conflicts of interest, as well as breaches of confidentiality and staff management guidelines. It’s important to know that the first complaint was received before the two individuals brought their allegations to the board.”
And finally, Haught addresses the case of Richard Carrier. I know little to nothing about this case and it is ongoing, but Carrier himself writes about it frequently on his own blog. Carrier is actually asking for support to bring a defamation suit against FreethoughtBlogs Network et al.
ROSEANNE BARR AND RABBI SHMULEY BOTEACH STATEMENT ON ROSEANNE CANCELLATION AND CONNNERS PREMIERE
NEW YORK, NY; October 17, 2018 – Roseanne Barr and her longtime Rabbi and friend, World Values Network Founder Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, have issued the following statement regarding the cancellation of Roseanne and the premiere of The Conners:
“While we wish the very best for the cast and production crew of The Conners, all of whom are deeply dedicated to their craft and were Roseanne’s cherished colleagues, we regret that ABC chose to cancel Roseanne by killing off the Roseanne Conner character. That it was done through an opioid overdose lent an unnecessary grim and morbid dimension to an otherwise happy family show.
“This was a choice the network did not have to make. Roseanne was the only show on television that directly addressed the deep divisions threatening the very fabric of our society. Specifically, the show promoted the message that love and respect for one another’s personhood should transcend differences in background and ideological discord. The show brought together characters of different political persuasions and ethnic backgrounds in one, unified family, a rarity in modern American entertainment. Above all else, the show celebrated a strong, matriarchal woman in a leading role, something we need more of in our country.
“Through humor and a universally relatable main character, the show represented a weekly teaching moment for our nation. Yet it is often following an inexcusable — but not unforgivable — mistake that we can discover the most important lesson of all: Forgiveness. After repeated and heartfelt apologies, the network was unwilling to look past a regrettable mistake, thereby denying the twin American values of both repentance and forgiveness. In a hyper-partisan climate, people will sometimes make the mistake of speaking with words that do not truly reflect who they are. However, it is the power of forgiveness that defines our humanity.
“Our society needs to heal on many levels. What better way for healing than a shared moment, once a week, where we could have all enjoyed a compelling storyline featuring a witty character – a woman – who America connected with, not in spite of her flaws, but because of them. The cancellation of Roseanne is an opportunity squandered due in equal parts to fear, hubris, and a refusal to forgive.”
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An NPC stands for Non-Player Character in a video game.
Courtesy Urban Dictionary:
NPC
A play on video games “non-player character” mixed with a play on The SimulationHypothesis.
An NPC is seemingly a human that is unable to think objectively.
We exist in a simulated reality and some humans take on the role of NPCs, spouting “opinions” they are programmed to spout and repeating in a cult-like manner.
Liberal: (Yelling) Fuck Trump! Ban guns!
Conservative: (Yelling) Fuck Hillary! Ban immigrants!Friend: Bro, I’m sick of all these people just repeating shit…
Me: Its hard to move forward with all these NPCs.
Apparently cooked up on 4 Chan, a user suggested that social justice extremists exhibited characteristics of a non-player character. The idea caught on and the meme war began.
Examples:
Many people seemed to find the memes offensive and dehumanizing. This only made the mememakers work harder.
Meanwhile, bot activity under the #NPC hashtag began to spike. (Presumably Russian disinformation bots.)
Folks who monitor this kind of activity on Twitter began reporting and suspending the accounts.
So while the bots seem to be anti-Resistance, they then point to a brand new website called the National Progressive Coalition.
But the new National Progressive Coalition is pro-Resistance–and this is what is called DISINFORMATION.
Statement of A. Wess Mitchell, Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, U.S. Strategy Towards the Russian Federation
Tuesday, August 21, 2018
“It’s important to state clearly what these (disinformation) campaigns are and are not about.
“What they’re not about is any particular attachment to specific U.S. domestic political causes. They are not about right or left or American political philosophy. The threat from Russian influence operations existed long before our 2016 presidential election and will continue long after this election cycle, or the next, or the next. As the recent Facebook purges reveal, the Russian state has promoted fringe voices on the political left, not just the right, including groups who advocate violence, the storming of federal buildings and the overthrow of the U.S. government. Russia foments and funds controversial causes – and then foments and funds the causes opposed to those causes.”
Carol Miller, Ph.D., of the Portland Ungendering Research Initiative, doesn’t exist. The Portland Ungendering Research Initiative doesn’t exist. Carol Miller and her ungendering initiative are both the products of the imagination of James Lindsay, a male academic and author. Lindsay is part of a team that includes Helen Pluckrose and Peter Boghossian, who recently revealed they were participants in a massive academic hoax critiquing what they term “grievance studies.” A full summary of the year-long project is detailed here:
Lindsay, channeling Carol Miller, wrote (in under 6 hours) a piece titled “Moon Meetings and the Meaning of Sisterhood: A Poetic Portrayal of Lived Feminist Spirituality.” The paper “explores feminist spirituality as a center of sisterhood.” “Moon Meetings” was accepted by the Journal of Poetry Therapy without any requested revisions. Sponsored by the National Association for Poetry Therapy, the Journal of Poetry Therapy,
is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal committed to the publication of original articles concerned with the use of the language arts in therapeutic, educational, and community-building capacities. Research (qualitative and quantitative), practice (clinical and education), theoretical, and literary studies are emphasized. The intended audience for JPT includes those in the allied helping professions; as well as those in literary/artistic fields with a concern for the healing/therapeutic aspects of the language, symbol, and story.
“Moon Meetings” tells the story of Carol Miller, Ph.D., who is reflecting on a broken marriage, subsequent divorce, and the unfailing support of her sisters, a group of eleven women who have supported her throughout this ordeal. Interspersed with the narrative are poems, written by Lindsay with the assistance of a teen-angst poetry generator.
But it’s not the poetry I found interesting–it is substandard drivel at best. What I loved about this piece were the characters and the rituals performed at each monthly meeting.
The Characters
(“We aren’t nice women. We’re fierce and free.”)
Carol Miller, our author.
Claire, whose husband Chad doesn’t appreciate her.
Mary, who provides the home for the monthly meetings.
Kahren and Freedom, who both brew beer.
Zolli, Fern and Raven, who make wine.
Roonie, a crone (woman over the “sacred” age of 56) who distills her own shine and is well versed in Hoo-Doo.
Sara, who mixes the ritualistic Blood Wine.
The Setting
The Womb Room, quaint and candlelit.
The Vulva Shrine, constructed inside the Womb Room and “covered in carven ornaments depicting or evocative of the site of womanhood.”
Monthly Moon Meeting Activities
Writing poetry and reading it out loud.
Dancing.
Laughing.
Crying.
Accessing female energy.
Commiserating about unworthy men, emotional frustrations and being controlled.
Celebrating womanhood, including menstruation and other bodily events.
Drinking “deep and long to our bleeding pussies before raising a second toast to the crones who bleed no more.”
Chanting to Freya, to Isis and to Diana, goddess of the moon.
Rituals, sometimes Wiccan, sometimes inspired by Ronnie’s Hoo-Doo. “They’re metaphors and symbols reflecting ancient wisdom and worldviews, celebrating the power of woman.”
Crone ceremonies held “in that liminal time just after Halloween but just before it’s really winter (Eller, 1995).”
A sample invitation to a Moon Meeting I created based on the scenario created by Carol Miller:
And best of all:
Improving the Vulva Shrine
“Presently, we have thirty-three and a half vulvas on our shrine, these mostly being made or found objects resembling or fashioned to resemble that most powerful center of feminine magic. The vulva is that which is lusted after and thus a blossom of power and intrigue, and it is that which opens to bring new life into the world, which is the deepest magic of human existence. It moistens to allow entry to the worthy who can arouse it and desiccates itself to prevent access for the unworthy who wish to. It also bleeds, almost like clockwork, month after month marking the end of every moon cycle that did not produce an offspring, making it an object of (male, thus cultural) abjection, horror, and disgust.
“The half a vulva on our shrine represents the newest addition, the unfinished thirty-fourth.”
In a climactic scene, so to speak, Mary brings a new vulva to add to the shrine:
“It was a found piece of split rosewood which Nature had contoured to a nearly perfect likeness of a gently sprawling pussy opened in awakened desire.
“Mary works wood in her spare time, though, and carved at it, accentuating its shape, fashioning clearer folds, fashioning a clitoris, carving wider the cleft evoking an opening to the worthy. She has it nearly complete, and this week she brought it for our help in finishing. One by one, ritualistically, we took our turns rubbing it smoother with fine-grit sandpaper, inside and out. We all took our turns touching it like the men in our lives won’t touch us or can’t.
“She plans to add a dribbling drop of art resin lovingly between the carven folds and running down. The sheen of her dew. A holy nectar.”
Filmmaker Mike Nayna is documenting this adventure:
I had only one arm but then i got the jilly Juice and i regrew that arm but also I grew ANOTHER LEG AND NOW I HAVE 3 LEGS!!!
So disappointed in it, I have to buy 2 pairs of shoes now for my third leg.
-1/5 would not drink again.
I also pooped out my liver.
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Jilly Juice is a recipe developed by a woman from Ohio named Jillian Mai Thi Epperly. The juice is a combination of cabbage or kale, water and salt. It is then fermented and used as a type of body detox which Epperly claims will increase the body’s own immune system and may heal cancer, autism, homosexuality, aging (you may now live up to 400) and aging related diseases, and may eventually regenerate organs or even regrow limbs.
The Better Business Bureau offers the following information on Jilly Juice:
Alert
BBB has received multiple scamtracker reports from consumers that Jillian Burke-Epperly is marketing Jilly Juice on the website jillyjuice.com as an anti-inflammatory diet. The reports to BBB indicate severe side effects which required hospitalization and/or death from extreme dehydration and salt poisoning. The website states Jilly Juice will reverse all health conditions A-Z including: autism, cancer, HIV, Downs syndrome and homosexuality. The “juice” is made up of fermented cabbage and salt and claims to detoxify the body. Members are required to pay $30 per year for a subscription to the website and additional fees up to $75 for private consultations.
The BBB advises consumers to consult a physician before beginning any plan to treat medical conditions.
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Epperly was invited to appear on the Dr. Phil Show in May of 2018. The episode was titled “Jilly Juice: Claims to Cure Cancer, Regrow Missing Limbs and Reverse Aging: Is This a Dangerous Scam?” In this episode, Dr. Phil invites Jillian Epperly, two guests who believe they have been helped by the juice, two guests who both say they had strokes after following the protocol, and Jeff Holiday, pseudoscience debunker and YouTuber who discusses the potential of sodium poisoning and violent diarrhea. Stroke risks and dangers of acute diarrhea are confirmed by guest physician Doctor Adrienne Youdim, an Internist specializing in clinical nutrition and obesity medicine and an associate professor at both Cedars Sinai Medical Center and at UCLA.
The Ohio Attorney General’s Office opened an investigation into Jilly’s Juice to which Epperly responded in June of 2018. I have excerpted her answers to each question. The full document is available in PDF format on Epperly’s website:
Response to Ohio Attorney General Michael Dewine Investigative Docket # 548642 dated June 21, 2018.
Substantiation that following the “protocol” you promote will “possibly reverse all cancer, disease and chronic illness from A-Z”
As outlined in Chapter 3, the salt provides additional trace elements that the body requires and also combines with the water to create electrical energy, an energizing force that allows the building blocks of nutrition to heal and seal the gut and promote cell regeneration.
The electrical components found in this combination of mineral salt and water provide a massive amount of electrolytes. This proactively induces the body to purge or “waterfall”, and in the process, carry out the accumulation of toxins in impacted fecal matter, foreign objects, parasites, fungus, and antigens that promote, cancer, disease, chronic illness.
Since all cancer, disease, and chronic illness stem from the human body, it stands to reason that Newton’s Law would apply. “For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction”.
Substantiation that the fermented drink you promote produces probiotics
A sample of my protocol was recently tested by a reputable, independent laboratory. According to their results, a 3-day ferment (standard) recipe provided a probiotic count level that was initially described as “too numerous to count”. The official certificate with exact results, 13 million CLU, is attached to this document.
Substantiation the fermented drink you promote complies with “Kosher Laws”
This “claim” was originally taken out of context. Originally on my Facebook group, the mothers who were feeding their babies with appropriate amounts of diluted juice recipe were actually following Kosher Law, which includes the ability to be able to feed their children foods that were lawful if challenged in a court of law. There is nothing unlawful with cabbage, water and salt. Additional research also supports that the recipe itself can reasonably be considered
Kosher since the juice recipe is only a slightly modified sauerkraut recipe.
Substantiation that following your “protocol” offers the “possibility that maybe you can reverse the aging process”
When you regenerate your cells faster than you degrade them, that is called life. The opposite of life is death.
Aging is primarily a result of an overabundance of heavy metals and other elements that are low on the elemental composition of the human body. These toxins are ingested and allowed to accumulate in the body over time.
Substantiation that your fermented drink “recipe” is what humanity needs to regenerate cells at a very expeditious rate”
The population is exposed to increasing levels of toxins and people are falling ill or dying at a faster rate. I’m observing my friends and family dying at a very expeditious rate.
I also considered my own health and obesity issues as an example of what the death process looks and feels like for women over 40 or plagued with autoimmune disorders early on in life.
In researching the different forces that keep the body alive, I found a solution based on maintaining the balance of basic elements that make up the human body.
In a close examination of mainstream health practices, I also discovered that, both vaccines supported by the allopathic industry and detoxes promoted by the holistic industry attack the Innate and Adaptive Immune Systems because of their heavy metal, antibiotic ingredients and law violation of the human body in regard to injections.
The body has a natural process known as autophagy.
By activating your body’s autophagy process, you mitigate inflammation, slow down the aging process by purging out the dysfunctional cells, and allow room for the new cells to regenerate.
Substantiation of your “symptom healing management program”
People can be mutated and managing an illness and still be in homeostasis as the body adapts and seeks a normal from whatever elements it is exposed to.
The key difference is however, is that you can die from a toxin but not a massive amount of good nutrition, even if it does “shock” the system initially.
Perhaps the most significant healing symptom associated with the protocol is referred to as “waterfalls”. Although the process of waterfalls is similar to diarrhea in outward appearance, the cause and effects of the two are very different. Diarrhea is the body’s natural process to quickly expel an overabundance of an unwanted element or toxin. Waterfalls is a proactive mechanism that is initiated by drinking the protocols juice recipe and fueled by its components.
This actually induces the body to purge or “waterfall”, and in the process, carry out the toxins, foreign objects, parasites, fungus, and antigens that promote, cancer, disease, chronic illness.
One could try to make the argument that dehydration could occur from a larger than normal amount of salt intake provided in the juice recipe. Here is when common sense should prevail. If you are thirsty, drink water.
Water, used as a carrier, is the driving force that purges out the impacted toxic fecal matter that may be blocking the intestines, causing re-infection.
As part of the knowledge and understanding process, we need to accept that pain is a natural and necessary part of the healing process. The expression of symptoms can be sometimes painful but pain is an indicator of life and healing. When a person feels pain, it is the Innate Immune System trying very hard to regenerate cells that were damaged.
Substantiation of your claim that using your “protocol” has the potential to “regrow limbs and regrow organs, even if one was born without them, reverse autism and Down’s Syndrome”
Autophagy is the organized destruction of cells that disassemble the unnecessary dysfunctional components of that cell.
Now that we understand autophagy and that short term fasting promotes cognitive performance and health span, we can safely make the correlation to the possibility of reversing related diseases such and Down’s Syndrome, Autism, and other diseases.
Considering that it is already possible for the human body to regenerate cells in the form of digits, skin and certain simple organs, all that is needed to regrow more complex organs and limbs is accelerated cell regeneration.
Unfortunately, those who practice mainstream eastern or western medicine do not acknowledge the ability for human to regrow or regenerate limbs.
Substantiate that your “concepts are sound”
As a full-time researcher, I utilize this information and data to form conclusions from a purely objective standpoint, not subject to any limiting beliefs that may be inherited through formal industry training and education. I also rely on my personal experience as a participant of the protocol with measurable results as I have used it to reverse my own outstanding medical issues.
Substantiation that an LGBT lifestyle is a “possible mutation of the reproductive system that sends mixed signals to the brain” and that in following your protocol “the body will figure out what it’s supposed to be based upon the original design of the human being”
Studies completed by National Geographic suggest that male birds overexposed to the element Mercury show homosexual characteristics.
This revelation provides a needed “proof of concept” that overexposure of certain elements can affect gender preference.
As further proof, A 2012 study of humans proposed that epigenetic changes, or alterations in marks on DNA that turn certain genes on and off, may play a role in homosexuality.
A related study from biologists at UC Berkeley shows that the use of pesticide, Atrazine, is proven to cause havoc with the sex lives of adult male frogs, “emasculating three-quarters of them and turning one in 10 into females, according to a new study by University of California, Berkeley, biologists. The 75 percent that are chemically castrated are essentially “dead” because of their inability to reproduce in the wild, reports UC Berkeley’s Tyrone B. Hayes, professor of integrative biology.
The elemental make up of Atrazine that changed the sex of exposed frogs could potentially have the same effect on humans exposed to the same levels relative to body size.
Substantiation of any and all medical training and education you have had.
Admittedly, I do not have any formal medical training and education. I consider that a benefit. With all due respect to the researchers and experts that offer research, studies, data, and information, the concepts that I support may have been previously overlooked due to compartmentalization or a variety of other factors.
Since I do not believe humans should ever die unless they get hit by a car, my research and protocol is worth studying and understanding from an academic point of view.
Epperly has a Facebook page titled “Exposing the Lies Candida: Weaponized Fungus Mainstreaming Mutancy.” She also maintains her personal FB page as Jillian MaiThi Epperly. She frequently posts videos elaborating on her claims.
There are at least 2 active petition sites attempting to have Epperly banned from Facebook and other social media, particularly because, according to this petition, “Ban Jillian Mai Thi Epperly from Facebook and All Other Social Media,” “Epperly has also recommended that her juice be given to newborn babies in lieu of breastmilk or formula, children, and animals. Multiple photographs and accounts have surfaced of parents forcing their children to consume Jilly Juice, either through syringes, enemas, or mental trickery.”
Excerpted from Epperly’s Book:
Babies, Plants and Animals
Babies, Mothers Who Cannot Breastfeed Infants, Dosages and the Role of Genetic Disorders
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Starting with birth, the human body has the innate will to live and will always find a way to promote life and survive unless it gets completely
overwhelmed. The design of a human being is to optimize the potential of the 12 different systems for maximum production and protections. When a baby is born in the womb of a mother who is toxic full of Candida, virus microbes, and parasites, the baby is also compromised. That is why you see children inheriting the same kind of disease as their family members. Those genetic traits are passed down and inherently mutating that child’s body systems. I have proposed some pretty controversial subject matter of course and it’s even more controversial when I suggest that breast milk itself, regardless of where it comes from, may not the best thing for a baby unless the mother has done my protocol or in the process of doing my protocol. That way, both the mother and baby have a chance to rebuild and purge. Baby formula is full of chemicals that can be detrimental to the Endocrine System because formula contains so many chemicals and additives that will destroy the baby’s micro biome and disrupt their hormones.
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Epperly responded with a counter-petition hoping to sue the author of the above petition for slandering/defaming her.
On October 4, 2018, Epperly shared page one of a letter she says is from the FTC, and stated the following:
“my book and Facebook and social media is my venue to speak and have a platform and the website was never to advertise it was just a supportive place for people who needed to gather without any flak from the General Public
So on my website I cannot advertise any claims that I prefaced on the welcome page so people knew exactly what they were trying to do the juice for. So I took the Ohio attorney general substantiation questions and turn them into possibilities of the protocol and so I cannot say on my website that I could possibly reverse cancer disease and chronic illness reverse the aging process and regrow organs and limbs and even the science on the website isn’t good enough for the FTC when it comes to health and wellness because if you’re going to sell any type of product or protocol regardless if it’s a recipe or if it’s an actual product that you’re selling if the government does not get any money from it like from a pill powder or supplement then you can’t make a claim however if you have a book to sell which is not listed out as anything in question then the only thing that you can do is buy the book and that book is your ticket into the discussion forum where you can talk freely without anybody targeting you or harassing you which was originally my plan to begin with. However my first book that I wrote which is now retired was delayed due to my last publisher and her unprofessional antics and so it took me longer than I anticipated to get any book out to the public and then all the whiners ha that didn’t want me to sell the information wanted me to give it out for free which was fine but the government does not want anything for free that has a huge Market behind it because they want their cut it’s all about the money baby. so I will continue to be what I am going to be on Facebook I will continue to talk about the possibilities on Facebook but my website and even in the discussion forum I’m not going to be talking about anything regarding the possibility you guys will come up with your testimonies and what you have experience on your own knowing the possibility because you have my book
Attached to this post is the first page of two pages of the letter from the FTC so nobody can misinform people and say that my book is on the line as well as Facebook as well as my free speech”
