The most alarming part of the recent development in his story is how they did not just go after Dr. Mercola, or even just his family — which alone would be egregious. These malicious tyrants went after his co-workers, and their families, even freezing the bank accounts of their children.

We are truly in unprecedented times of the US empire, and it is important that people take stock of where we truly are, lest we miss the forest for the trees, and lose ourselves in the partisan division designed to keep us at each other's throats while the true culprits (the government, all sides of it) stoke that division and laugh all the way to the bank, or today, more appropriately, the biobank.