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Why Short Term Rental Regulations are Unlawful: An Analysis from The Perspective of Natural Law

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Something I’ve been saying for many years, has been that governments may not make short term rental regulations or restrictions. I’m sure some people have thought I was silly to be saying this, since in the last 15 years since Airbnb arose, we’ve seen short term rental regulations multiplying in every city, state, and nation around the world. It’s become almost de rigeur for every jurisdiction to have short term rental regulations.

But as I’ve repeated in several articles, the mere fact that a government is doing something, doesn’t make that action lawful. This is something that the “rule followers” among us have a very hard time understanding. However, this is a VERY important point for people to understand, and not enough people are able to see this.

Any number of very simple thought experiments can demonstrate this point. Think to yourself: would you be fine with a government that, for instance, passed a law stating that no one can use their own car to leave their city without getting a “permit” from the local government, perhaps justifying this on the basis of “climate change” threats caused by people driving cars? How about a law stating that no one can buy more than a certain amount of meat at the grocery store each month, or maybe even, no one can buy ANY meat, because the government now stands for ethical treatment of animals and determines that slaughter of animals for food is no longer permissible? A law mandating everyone go on a vegetarian diet?

You may think these kinds of things are ridiculous, that governments would never do such things. However, consider that 100 years ago, people would have likewise considered it ridiculous that a government would pass “rent control” laws and begun to prohibit property owners from raising the rent more than an allowed amount, or terminating a rental contract, if they did not have a specific permitted reason to do so. Yet here we are, existing under such obscenely unlawful “laws”, and people have just accepted this, because, “well the government did it, so it must be legal.” No. Just no. What has essentially happened over the last many decades, even a couple centuries, is that people have gradually been made into “prisoners” of a corrupt, criminal government, without even realizing it. They have been fed propaganda and lies by this corrupt government, propaganda intended to cause them to adapt to an increasing encroachment upon their God given rights, and a great many have indeed accommodated themselves to what amounts to a state of imprisonment by their government.

Simply put, in order to be able to have any perspective on whether a government actions are lawful and just, one has to have a well-founded understanding of the limitations of government, which issues out of an understanding of the natural law and common law origins of all governments, as well as the US Consitution. This understanding is needed in order to have some type of “measuring stick” to be able to assess whether any given government action is lawful or not.

So in this article, I want to explain both why short term rental (STR for short) regulations and restrictions are unlawful, and also why, in spite of that, we’ve seen them enormously proliferating.

Natural Law: What It Is and Why It’s Important

The first step in this explanation, is to bring up the topic of natural law, and explain why it’s so very important to our discussion.

Let’s consider the question of where law comes from and where do our rights come from. A great many people in the United States, believe that our rights come from the Bill of Rights and the Constitution. They would be completely wrong.

We see that in the 1776 Declaration of Independence, it is stated clearly that our rights come from “the laws of Nature and Nature’s God.” This is a very clear reference to natural law. https://billofrightsinstitute.org/essays/the-tradition-of-rights

This is the preamble of the Declaration of Independence: https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript

In Congress, July 4, 1776

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed

It is clearly known by our Founders, in other words, that our rights come from God, and natural law, and not from government. Government exists, actually, only to secure these natural rights that we already have.

As also explained in this video by KrisAnne Hall, Constitutional Attorney, our rights are NOT given to us by our governments.

Another way in which we can intuitively understand that our rights are not simply granted to us by our government, when we realize that communities of people existed long before there were “governments”. So, if rights come from governments, does that mean that before there were governments, people had no rights? Of course not. We can also intuitively understand, that people did not come together to create governments, in order that they would have fewer rights.

But perhaps more important to our thinking process about this, is to understand where law comes from in the first place. What many do not realize, is that our foundation of law in the United States, comes from the English common law tradition, which in turn is based on the wider European tradition of common law, which in turn is based on the ancient system of natural law. See these articles which help explain in depth, what natural law and common law are about.

Natural law: https://commonlawamerica.wordpress.com/2023/07/24/the-constitution-is-not-enough-our-foundation-in-natural-law/

Common law:
https://commonlawamerica.wordpress.com/2023/07/25/what-is-common-law-and-where-does-it-come-from/

In essence, natural law, as described in this Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_law

This summarizes natural law from the Wiki article:

Natural law[1] (Latin: ius naturale, lex naturalis) is a philosophical and legal theory that posits the existence of a set of inherent laws derived from nature and universal moral principles, which are discoverable through reason. In ethics, natural law theory[2] asserts that certain rights and moral values are inherent in human nature and can be understood universally, independent of enacted laws or societal norms. In jurisprudence, natural law—sometimes referred to as iusnaturalism[3] or jusnaturalism,[4] but not to be confused with what is called simply naturalism in legal philosophy[5][6]—holds that there are objective legal standards based on morality that underlie and inform the creation, interpretation, and application of human-made laws. This contrasts with positive law (as in legal positivism),[7] which emphasizes that laws are rules created by human authorities and are not necessarily connected to moral principles. Natural law can refer to “theories of ethics, theories of politics, theories of civil law, and theories of religious morality“,[8] depending on the context in which naturally-grounded practical principles are claimed to exist.

In Western tradition, natural law was anticipated by the pre-Socratics, for example, in their search for principles that governed the cosmos and human beings. The concept of natural law was documented in ancient Greek philosophy, including Aristotle,[9] and was mentioned in ancient Roman philosophy by Cicero. References to it are also found in the Old and New Testaments of the Bible, and were later expounded upon in the Middle Ages by Christian philosophers such as Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas. The School of Salamanca made notable contributions during the Renaissance.

Although the central ideas of natural law had been part of Christian thought since the Roman Empire, its foundation as a consistent system was laid by Aquinas, who synthesized and condensed his predecessors’ ideas into his Lex Naturalis (lit. ’natural law’).[10] Aquinas argues that because human beings have reason, and because reason is a spark of the divine, all human lives are sacred and of infinite value compared to any other created object, meaning everyone is fundamentally equal and bestowed with an intrinsic basic set of rights that no one can remove.

So in essence, what I am saying about our system of law here, is that it is entirely based upon common law, which in turn is based upon natural law, which is essentially a system of reasonable moral principles. This means that in order to have any validity, all law must be in harmony with natural law. This is stated in this document https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/148692719.pdf on page 13 of the document (shown as pg 22) where it is said, “all power to frame human law must be derived from natural law. A law which is not in conformity with the natural law, is no law at all. “The first rule of reason is the law of nature, . . . consequently every human law has just as much of the nature of law, as it is derived from the law of nature.”

The Wiki article also quotes of Sir Matthew Hale as saying that “he viewed natural law as antecedent, preparatory, and subsequent to civil government,[111] and stated that human law “cannot forbid what the Law of Nature injoins, nor Command what the Law of Nature prohibits.”


Natural law is not merely based on morality, but also, even more so, upon reason and “natural principles” which can be understood by human reason. So this means that simply by reflecting upon our human situation, we can make certain reasonable deductions. For our purposes in this article, one of those deductions is that human beings have a need for self-preservation, and for sustaining themselves and providing for themselves. The way that people have done this since time beyond memory, moved from the hunting and gathering cultures of early humanity, gradually over time to the modern arrangements of engaging themselves in different types of work or business, which enabled them to obtain resources to then purchase what they needed to sustain themselves.

Because providing for oneself is necessary for one’s survival, we can readily see that doing so must be viewed as a natural right under natural law, which means, a right that we have from God, not something that any government can take away.

Moving on from having established that, we move to the question of whether government can legitimately regulate any business. We can also use reason to realize that yes, since natural law is not only about individual’s own interests, but is also oriented to the common good, governments would have to be able to regulate business to some extent, because we can readily understand that some types of business would negatively impact the common good, whether by way of hoarding resources, negatively affecting a community through noise, or pollution, or other dangers to community, or by creating a monopoly that could put many others out of business. So we can appreciate that individual rights are not unlimited, but have to be balanced with the common good, when individuals are doing things that can have a potentially negative effect upon others. In his writings on natural law, St Thomas Aquinas wrote at length about natural law and the common good.

Yet we can also understand, that in the absence of any negative impact upon the common good, governments would be forbidden from intruding upon our natural rights, such as our right to do business.

First Deduction: If Self-Preservation and Sustaining Oneself is a God-Given Natural Right Issuing out of Need, Governments are Forbidden from Requiring “Permits” to Do Business

It’s ubiquitous these days, in every municipality, that governments require everyone to get a permit or license to do any type of business, and pay business taxes on one’s business income. However, this blanket licensure requirement, everywhere that it occurs, is a significant violation of natural law. Because it implies that we have no natural right to do business and freely contract with others, but have to obtain that right from our government by way of a “license” that it issues to us.

The freedom to do business, is essentially the freedom of two people to contract with one another. One offers a product or service, and the other offers some compensation for that product or service. See freedom to contract under Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_contract



This subject also ties in with the natural right to do business, something discussed by many writers on natural law, as summed up in this AI overview:

So the first deduction we can make, is that governments absolutely MAY NOT require every person operating any type of business, or engaging in contracts with others, to obtain its permission by way of licenses or permits. Doing business and freely contracting with others are natural rights we have, not rights we derive from government. Thus, the only case in which governments may regulate business, would be in cases where a business significantly impacts a community, or has potential detrimental effects upon a community, such as because the business is quite large and could have certain impacts, could involve hoarding of resources, creating a monopoly, or pollution or noise, or some other such undesirable impact.

So this allows us to determine that when governments impose requirements for business licenses, and punish people with fines for “operating a business without a license”, such governments are in violation of natural law, are enforcing laws that are on their face unlawful, and such governments could even be viewed as engaging in criminal acts.

Since every single type of “short term rental regulation” at the very least requires people “register” with the local government, often requires obtaining a “permit”, and usually requires payment of a fee to operate, those regulations are all entirely unlawful. No one has to obtain government permission or pay the government in order to engage in something that they have a God given right to do, which is theirs to do by virtue of natural law.

Arguments Given by Governments Justifying Short Term Rental Regulations Are Not Reasonable

The next topic to discuss, is that apart from their unlawful requirements that individuals obtain government permission to engage in their God-given rights to do business, is to look at what justifications governments are giving for their STR regulations. Across states, and nations, the arguments made by governments are very similar: they revolve around two ideas primarily. The first is the notion that short term rentals pose some unique type of nuisance to the community, which the government acting on behalf of the common good, is required to act to protect. The second is the argument that short term rentals deplete the housing supply, or harm the “traditional character” of a given community.

These are both specious and disingenous arguments, which in most cases I believe are made by people who understand quite clearly that they are telling lies.

In the first instance, it is true that there have been a number of disruptive parties associated with short term rentals, but as those are noise disruptions, the appropriate approach by governments would be to address noise disruptions as noise disruptions, with ordinances about noise and public disturbances. This is just so obvious, that it leads one to suspect that governments are engaged in a covert agenda to undermine people’s ability to do short term rentals, by claiming not only that they uniquely are associated with excessive noise, but also that somehow governments cannot address noise concerns with ordinances about noise, but instead have to ban or restrict STR operators. This line of argument strains credulity and its stupidity exposes a covert agenda.


For we all know that there are noise issues and public disturbances associated with all types of residences, both long term rentals, as well as owner occupied properties.

Ditto with concerns about trash or parking. If the concern is about trash, deal with it with garbage ordinances. If about parking, use parking ordinances. Again, the fact that governments can’t figure this out, is very suspicious and to me it exposes their hidden anti-STR agenda.

As regards the government’s arguments that “we have to protect the traditional character of this community”, or, “we have to protect the housing supply”, again these are non-arguments, which issue out of what I call “concept creep” as regards the government’s duty to protect the common good. Yes, governments do have an obligation to protect the common good, but over the last many decades, they have continued to unlawfully expand their powers and authority, by claiming that an ever increasing number of areas of society, must be regulated for the common good. This ever-greater expansion of ideas of the “common good” are not legitimate. In particular, this expansion of regulations ostensibly for “the common good” has been accompanied by a proliferation of regulation that restricts or even eliminates certain property rights.

And we can readily see, for instance, that although many governments side with renters and claim they are acting to restrict the rights of property owners, in order to protect “the housing supply”, they have profoundly misrepresented the situation by claiming that the only or primary “common good” involved is the situation of renters, and not that of property owners. They have (in my opinion intentionally) engaged in a kind of propaganda effort, where in a situation of two social concerns — that of renters’ ability to find affordable housing, and property owner’s rights to do with their property as they please — they seem to invariably view one of these as the only, or certainly the greater, “common good”. They have also misrepresented the situation in presenting it as a false dichotomy, as if it’s only a choice between supply of housing for renters, and rights of property owners. But once we realize that the supply of housing is not at all meaningfully impacted by what property owners do with their properties, but instead is a result of government regulations, we begin to see the lies that governments are ubiquitously involved in.

In fact, as natural law, common law and Constitutional law all emphasize, property rights are very foundational rights — perhaps the foundation of all other rights. And so in any circumstance where we are trying to balance something like availability of housing for renters versus property rights, property rights must always be preferred. Because property rights are a natural right everyone has under natural law, whereas the ability of a renter to find housing in any given area, in one’s price range, is not a natural right that anyone has. It’s in essence a “fake” right, created by a government intend on leveraging this fake right in order to decimate the rights of property owners.

Certainly governments can work with communities to help create sufficient housing, but this is never legitimately done by destroying other’s property rights. Renter’s “rights” to housing where they want it and in the price range they want it, is a fake “right” that emerges from a government that first of all, has itself worked hard in so many ways (from the foundation of the Federal Reserve system and all the consequences of this, as well as the imposition of totally unlawful taxes like income tax, property tax) to create the very housing problems it aims to solve. It has worked to make housing less available and more expensive, and secondly, has set itself up to offer the “solution” for the problem that it itself has created. It has fraudulently and criminally revisioned itself as founded with a basically “DEI” social engineering mission, a mission consisting of socialist (and likely eventually communist) destruction of rights in order to allow government seizure of property and then a claim of authority to equitable redistribution of goods. That kind of communist vision of government has nothing to do with what our Founders intended, nor is it anywhere reflected in the centuries of development of our system of law, and the development of all systems of law in the world.

In no area has this dynamic of (criminal) expansionist government been combined with restriction of private property rights, as clearly as with the topic of housing supply. In this article I wrote several years ago https://globalhostingblogs.com/2015/12/18/airbnb-and-the-housing-crisis/ I examine this issue in depth, and demonstrate why “the housing crisis” and any issues related to inadequate housing supply, have little to nothing to do with short term rentals, and instead have to do with government actions and government regulations.

So in essence, governments themselves have created a shortage of housing in some areas (or, shortage of affordable housing) but they are, in my opinion, intentionally scapegoating short term rental operators for this problem, in order to justify unlawful regulations and restrictions on short term rental operators.

Property Rights are Connected to Natural Rights to do Business with One’s Property

This article is a very good one, which explores the topic of property rights.

https://www.cato.org/cato-handbook-policymakers/cato-handbook-policy-makers-8th-edition-2017/property-rights-constitution

It’s stated in the article that “America’s Founders understood clearly that private property is the foundation not only of prosperity but of freedom itself. Thus, through the common law, state law, and the Constitution, they protected property rights — the rights of people to acquire, use, and dispose of property freely.”

As well, the article points out that the common law upon which our system of law was founded, emphasized free use. “Given our modern permitting regime, however, the point to be noticed here is that the presumption of the common law was ordinarily on the side of free use. People were not required to obtain a permit before using their property, that is, just as people today are not required to obtain a permit before speaking. Rather, the burden was on those who objected to a given use to show how it violated a right of theirs. That amounts to having to show that their neighbor’s use takes something they own free and clear. If they failed in that, the use could continue.“

This demonstrates how the status quo that we all experience in our bloated and overreaching, unlawful, in fact criminal government system, is precisely backwards. Governments everywhere are acting against people’s natural and common law rights to free use of their residential property — which means renting as a residential rental it in any way that they please, whether as a long term or short term rental — without requiring those objecting to such use, to make an adequate showing of how a neighbor’s STR use would “take something that they own free and clear.” And if you think about it, there really is virtually no possible way that one person renting out their property as a short term rental, could “take away” something owned by another person. This is just an elaborate fiction created by a government system intent on depriving us of our rights.

One way that these local governments deceitfully and dishonestly make their case, is by claiming that a property owner engaged in short term rentals is engaged in a “commerical use” of residential property, which is prohibited if a property is not located in a “commercial zone.” However, renting a property as a short term rental is NOT a commerical use of it. It’s a residential use. Some courts have clarified that. People are renting it to reside there, not to run a storefront retail business from the home.

Our Constitution was designed to help protect our God-given natural rights, and we see property rights protected in part under the 5th and 14th Amendments. As stated in the Cato Institute article:

The Constitution protects property rights through the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments’ Due Process Clauses and, more directly, through the Fifth Amendment’s Takings Clause: “nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation.” There are two basic ways government can take property: (1) outright, by condemning the property and taking title; and (2) through regulations that take uses, leaving the title with the owner — so-called regulatory takings. In the first case, the title is all too often taken not for a public but for a private use; and rarely is the compensation received by the owner just. In the second case, the owner is often not compensated at all for his losses; and when he is, the compensation is again inadequate.

All short term rental regulations and restrictions, amount to “regulatory takings” of private property, and are thus unlawful as viewed by the Constitution, in addition to simply being clear violations of natural law.

Why Has the Government So Clearly Violated Our God Given Rights in This Regard?

The obvious question resulting from the discussion thus far, would be, if it’s so patently clear as I am presenting the case, that the government has been acting unlawfully in trying to regulate or restrict short term rental businesses, why would governments absolutely everywhere be doing this? Wouldn’t it be obvious to many that these kinds of measures are unlawful?

This article well explains why governments everywhere are doing this: https://commonlawamerica.wordpress.com/2023/10/05/the-cabal-wants-to-steal-your-real-property-case-example-of-the-criminal-system/

In essence, we live under a criminal government system. This is not happening in just a handful of areas, it is happening nationwide. And it is not just happening nationwide, it is happening worldwide. In essence, as is described in the linked article, there has been a coordinated effort, among governments around the world, to deprive us of our God-given rights, as well as to gradually condition us to accept more and more government overreach. This has all been coordinated by a Deep State, eg a global crime syndicate, towards the ultimate goal of establishing a One World totalitarian government.

In the big picture, short term rental regulations and restrictions, are one of the smaller crimes perpetrated by this Deep State. There are much more serious crimes that it has perpetrated through legislative acts. Such as the proliferation of “rent control” laws and ordinances in countless cities. Such as the creation of the Federal Reserve, a wholly unlawful and criminal action. Such as the creation of a vast, wholly unlawful fourth branch of government which we call the administrative state.

On the surface of it, this may sound absurd and ridiculous to many, who would view this more as a theme from a Hollywood movie, and not something that would ever happen in reality. However, all of us have seen that when Donald Trump first ran for president in 2016, he ran on the promise that the government that had been taken away from them by Washington bureaucrats, would be returned to the people. And since 2016, he has spoken more and more overtly and directly about how he is out to dismantle the Deep State. And the Deep State is just another term for the global crime syndicate. Listen to what he says here:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/o7vViJ1c7xs

He also speaks to that same topic here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5qxdGZf4Fw

In fact, President Trump is the public face of the operation to dismantle the global crime syndicate, aka the Deep State, aka the Cabal.

Over the last 4 months in particular, we’ve seen an increasing amount of exposure of evidence that clearly reveals some elements in government conspiring in crimes against the American people. This week, we also saw the start of more public revelations of a massive crime that many of us knew about over 4 years ago: how the 2020 Presidential election was stolen. A crime of this magnitude cannot occur without significant and widespread criminal infiltration into our government. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/alleged-chinese-scheme-influence-2020-election-biden-being-probed-fbi-senate-judiciary-committee

So, because there has been a long-standing plan to dismantle the Cabal, and because this is now occurring, one deduction we can draw from this, is that there is no area in the process of restoration of our Republic which the Deep State will win, and the good guys lose. This is why we have seen and can continue to expect to see, President Trump and the Trump Administration win in all of their efforts to remove criminality and restore constitutional law to our nation. It will be unmitigated winning for the rule of law that we see henceforth.

With the Dismantling of the Deep State, Constitutional Law Will Return to Our Nation

So this brings us to the conclusion of this article, and the question many doubtless will have, about what the heck can we do, if government everywhere is developing short term rental regulations that are not lawful.

Consider that this particular area, is but one of countless examples of government that has unlawfully overreached and deprived us of the very God-given rights, that government was instituted among men, in order to protect. With so much having been unlawfully taken from us, if we had to undo all of this bit by bit, law by law, at every level of government, this process would take many decades. The volume of unconstitutional laws, regulations, ordinances and other rules and policies, is just too vast, to be undone quickly in the same manner it was put in place.


This is why I believe that it is unlikely that all of this government criminality is going to be undone bit by bit, law by law, for decades to come. To some extent we will see a process of moving some key items through courts, but in general, I believe that there will be a process undertaken, which disposes of rather large volumes of unconstitutional legislation, comparatively quickly. I do not know just how this will occur, but common sense dictates that Trump’s promises of a Golden Age, great prosperity for all, a government returned to the people, were not made in order to point to things that may only materialize, 20 or 30 years from now. As well, President Trump and his team have set up a year-long 250th annniversary celebration for our nation, which began May 25 2025. I submit that few of us are in any mood to celebrate, as long as our criminal and out of control government is still everywhere unlawfully regulating and restricting our businesses, and stealing from us 6 ways from Sunday. Thus, it stands to reason, that our liberation from all this government criminality, is rather immanent, and shall not be long delayed.

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The Oddness of being an Airbnb Host in this Strange Matrix Time That We Live In

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We live in strange times. It’s a time, I believe, unlike any before. What makes this time especially strange, is that it’s a “divided” world that to my knowledge is unique in history.

At the present time, we not only have had increasing divisiveness between (primarily) two different groups of people, but there is a sense that this division is so deep, that our perception is that we are actually living in parallel universes. The worldviews of those I will refer to as lefties, “normies”, or the “woke” and those I would call “the awakened”, are so distinct, their perception of reality so completely different, that as many have found, it’s become nearly impossible to talk to those on the other side. These two groups of people really see almost everything in the world and current events, entirely differently.

This situation recalls that found in the Matrix movie, where it’s discovered by the character Neo, that he’s living in a kind of simulation world run by machines, where with the help of the character Morpheus, Neo and Trinity rebel against the machines in order to free humanity.

Background Contest: The Lead-Up to the Matrix Time

During the time I came of age, in the 1980s and 1990s, to be liberal meant to in a sense be a “rebel”, be critical and questioning about government and institutions, the status quo. It meant to stand for “the little man” against the machine of faceless bureaucracy and heartless corporations.

However, over time, and in particular with the rise of identity politics, Critical Race Theory and DEI, certain worldviews and ideologies associated with the political left, went mainstream. These ideologies, which we call “woke” ideologies, began in and then took over universities, then government, then corporations, as well as the media and entertainment industries. All these ideologies focused on attending to the needs of allegedly greatly oppressed minorities, and oriented around what has come to be called the “trans agenda”, or “trans insanity”, often through DEI or non-discrimination policies, as well as focused on the alleged problem of “white supremacy”, had gone mainstream. There was an inordinate focus on “hate groups”, which in practice meant, people with views that would be characterized as middle/center or conservative. Ironically, the left would demonstrate quite a bit of hate, but in their minds, they were allowed to hate, while the other side wasn’t. The entire edifice of identity politics and Critical Race Theory is built on such hypocrisy and really a set of two entirely different sets of rules: one for whites, the other for minorities. This two-tier justice system eventually worked its way into all institutions, even showing up in the DOJ and FBI, and certainly all mainstream media, which had all been weaponized by the woke.

Kamala Harris, in her usual nincompoop hyena-cackling style, encouraged everyone to “stay woke.”

Yet the irony was lost on the many woke folk, that the very fact that their own worldviews and values had been incorporated, reflected and put into policy across government and institutions around the nation and world, meant that they were no longer “the resistance” as they claimed. They were the status quo. They were the privileged ones, the ones with the control of the levers of hiring and firing, deleting posts and terminating accounts, deciding who was unlawfully “hateful” and whose hate was good, even to the point of the woke-weaponized FBI labelling as “domestic terrorists” parents who spoke out at school board meetings, against the trans agenda in elementary schools.

One may well wonder how such bad ideology as the woke nonsense could spread over the entire nation. And that’s where we come to the main theme of the Matrix movie. Because in my opinion, this didn’t happen organically. It was done intentionally, coordinated by a shadow organization that we call a global crime syndicate or Cabal.

Now I never used to believe in what to me sounded like conspiracy theories about a shadow government or New World Order bent on world takeover and the imposition of a totalitarian One World Rule. I had not been much interested in politics, I voted Democrat, and considered myself mainly an artist and nature photographer. When I would hear people say things like “9-11 was an inside job” or “the moon landing wasn’t real”, I wouldn’t dismiss them — because, after all, who knows — but I had little to no interest in exploring such theories. I just pursued my passions in life and like everyone else, struggled to make a living and pay the bills.

All that changed in 2020, which I regard as the year when we decisively “entered the Matrix”.

This began with the Covid pandemic. When this started in March 2020, I thought we were in for another black plague. I expected to see people dropping dead in the streets. At the time, I had mostly longer-stay Airbnb guests, which has always been my preference. I had a couple students staying for a few months to complete some work at the local university. Upon the start of the pandemic, these immediately cancelled their stay and returned home to Europe. Eventually, the university itself shut down to in person classes. Face mask mandates went into effect, various businesses were shut down. I was puzzled because while these drastic government and institutional responses were going into effect all over the nation and world, I could see very little impact on the public from Covid itself. Statistics continued to show that very few people were getting seriously impacted or dying from Covid. I personally knew not a single person who’d “had Covid”. Government statistics revealed the death rate from Covid to be extremely low except in the elderly population, which as we know is more at risk of death from ordinary flu as well. In essence, Covid was just a bad flu, yet there was this quite dramatic, vast and heavy, as well as overreaching, government response to it.

I began to be concerned when the face masks mandates went beyond 2 weeks, then beyond 2 or 3 months. I began doing research into the legality of these mandates, and discovered that governments, institutions or businesses are not allowed to require people to use a medical device, which a face mask is. I also observed that churches were being shut down in some areas,https://nclalegal.org/covid-closure-of-churches/ and https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/12/us/pastor-macarthur-church-california large gatherings being prohibited by government, “social distancing” being imposed, many stores were forced closed by heavy handed government Covid policies, and there were even ridiculous things happening like police arresting people on a beach in Santa Cruz or Long Beach, claiming that people had no right to be in these public places due to some Covid related risk. In fact some I realized that none of these things that government was doing, were lawful, and that a very vast unlawful overreach of government was taking place around the nation, and around the world.

Around this time is when I began to see the huge divide grow between two groups of people. On the one side, were people who simply believed whatever their governments told them, and who seemed to never question if the actions of government during the pandemic were lawful or not. They seemed to be motivated primarily by fear: if the government could make them fearful, could point to alleged grave dangers to public health and safety, these people apparently saw no limit to what government was permitted to do, to attend to an “emergency.” They apparently never thought of the possibility that the government had created the “emergency” precisely to be able to use it to justify their unlawful overreach and expansion of power and control, and deprivation of people’s rights.

On the other side, were people who stood for freedom and our rights under law, and viewed the government’s response during the Covid pandemic as unlawful, tyrannical and even totalitarian. In particular, people in this group were deeply concerned, and indeed outraged, when the Covid vaxxes were finally developed, and began to be pushed on people through various “vaxx requirements” in businesses, institutions and government. Never in my life had I seen a campaign for vaccination like the massive campaign for Covid vaxxes. Remember when people were offered donuts or hamburgers for getting vaxxed? Remember the disturbing “Vax-Scene” skit on the Colbert show?

I wondered why there weren’t more people who were concerned about the massive propaganda push to get vaxxed, when Covid was doing so little harm, at most showing up as a bad flu. Why would people be so heavily pressured to get vaxxed?? Especially since the vaxxes were not authorized by the FDA, were only experimental, and if you opened a box of a Covid vaccine to see the ingredients listed on the insert inside it, you found nothing but a completely a blank page.


Unlike those in the first group, who obediently got their vaxxes and boosters and went like lambs to a slaughter, the rebels in the 2nd group did their research and realized these vaxxes were only experimental and had not been authorized by the FDA. For that reason, as well as the fact that no one in government or business may ever impose medical interventions on any person, it was prohibited for any government or institution to impose vaxx mandates on anyone.

But if the difference between the two groups had only been as regards government response to the pandemic, the divide would not have grown to the staggering abyss that it is today. What happened after people began receiving Covid vaxxes greatly deepened the abyss of the divide. Because many people began being injured or even dying from the Covid vaxxes. Many MANY people began to be injured or die. This was clear not only from first-person testimonies, and many videos and stories that appeared online, but also from the government’s own data on their VAERS site for vaccine adverse events reporting. https://vaers.hhs.gov/data.html

There were thousands upon thousands of adverse events reported in response to the Covid vaxxes, including many deaths. Yet quite strangely, and very concerningly, none of this was reported on any of the mainstream news sites. In the times of the swine flu, in 1976, the swine flu vaccination program was halted in 9 states over just 3 deaths following vaccination, as reported here: https://www.nytimes.com/1976/10/13/archives/swine-flu-prograrm-is-halted-in-9-states-as-3-die-after-shots.html

As well, 450 people came down with Gullain-Barre syndrome after receiving the swine flu vaccine, which led to the end of the swine flu vaccine. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/long-shadow-1976-swine-flu-vaccine-fiasco-180961994/

The whole swine flu vaccine affair was a debacle of large scale proportions. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200918-the-fiasco-of-the-us-swine-flu-affair-of-1976

Yet for the debacle that it was, the number of reports of people injured or killed by the swine flu vaccine was less than 500. Yet those numbers were made public and widely viewed as totally unacceptable. By contrast, now in 2020 and 2021 and beyond, their own data on the VAERS site showed that the Covid vaxx had injured or killed many thousands of people, and there was not a word about these injuries or deaths showing up anywhere on the news. This was extraordinarily suspcious and very deeply concerning.

Not only was there complete silence about all these vaxx injuries on the mainstream media, but I saw or heard reports from many in my circle, that they had attempted to post about the risks or dangers of the Covid vaxx somewhere online — on Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok– and had their posted removed by the platform. In some cases their entire account was banned. Their posting of actual stories of vaxx injuries to people they personally knew, or their reporting of actual vaccine injuries from the government VAERS site itself, was being censored and deleted by all these platforms as “medical misinformation.”!! Not only that, but some nurses, doctors and other medical professionals and scientists, ended up fired, because they spoke the truth they were seeing about the lack of science behind the mask mandates, the social distancing requirements, or the dangers of the Covid vaxxes.

So with this widespread censorship of the truth, and very important truth at that, things turned from very concerning, to clearly nefarious. This vast level of suppression of truth, across all the media, across virtually all social media (except for alternative social media like Telegram, Rumble and Bitchute) pointed to only one possibility: that there was a nefarious shadow government operating, with the intent of killing people with the Covid vaccine. And also, that this nefarious shadow government, in essence a crime syndicate, was also controlling the whole mainstream media and virtually all the social media platforms, to ensure that the truth could not get out, at least not on a large enough scale to be taken seriously. It could be reined into smaller areas and dismissed through a coordinated propaganda campaign, as “conspiracy theory.”

As people on the woke left marched like a herd of sheep to line up to get their vaxxes, and dutifully wore their masks everywhere like the latest fashion in virtue signalling, they were slavishly showing their obedience to a crime syndicate that was carrying out plans for genocide. At the same time, those who we came to refer to as the “awake” (in contrast to woke) were forming “health freedom groups” and working to support awareness of what was actually happening in our nation.

NEW YORK – CIRCA NOVEMBER 2020: Crowd of Sheeple- people walking street wearing masks during covid19 coronavirus pandemic

So you can see that wtih this development of events, the divide between the primary two groups of people, grew much larger. It was no longer just a difference of opinion as regards government response to the pandemic. Rather it was, on the one hand, a group of what I began to call “Sheeple-people” who were sleepwalking through life, simply accepting whatever they were told by government or the “boob tube”, and on the other hand, people who had begun to realize that the only way to interpret the data points they were seeing, was that our government had been hijacked by a global crime syndicate intent on genocide of a large number of the public, and aimed at the gradual elimination of our rights under law. Clearly, the Covid vaccine had not been developed for the pandemic. Rather, it became clear that the pandemic had been created, for the Covid vaccine.

But if this massive divide were not enough, along came November 2020 and the Presidential election. Although to this point in time I had always voted Democrat, including for Hillary Clinton in 2016 (to my embarrassment at present), once I perceived what was going on in our nation, how in essence we were experiencing a “silent genocide” that at least half the nation was oblivious to as it was happening, I voted for Donald Trump in 2020. I began to realize that what distinguished him from everyone else in politics, was not that he was a racist or bigot or narcissist or massively egotistical, which were the accusations made by the woke. Rather, what distinguished him, and caused an incredible amount of propaganda to be directed at him, was that our nation was being controlled by a global crime syndicate, a Deep State, and Donald Trump was the only one standing up to this.

I also saw in 2020, the enormous amount of support Trump was getting. Hence, I was quite shocked when on November 4 2020, the day after the Presidential election, it was declared that Joe Biden had won. I very much doubted this had occurred. I began to go on Twitter looking for information. What I found, were many posts and videos, which gave evidence of widespread and large scale election fraud in the 2020 election. There were videos of “missing suitcases of ballots” mysteriously discovered. There were videos showing people putting two dozen or more ballots into a ballot drop box. There were videos showing that Republican poll observers were unlawfully kept out of certain areas where they were required by law to be given access. There were even videos showing that the number of votes for Trump had gone DOWN in a particular area. Eg at one point in time, the news reported that there were 238,000 votes for Trump in a certain region, and a few minutes later, that number was shown as 160,000. That isn’t possible. It was indicative of fraud.

Simply put, the events of 2020-2021, the pandemic and the deadly Covid vaxxes, the 2020 election fraud, very greatly deepened the divide between the two main groups of people in the nation, and the world. It was no longer that two groups of people just had different political views, different views on things like the economy, the environment, government spending, immigration and housing, and short term rental regulations. It was now that literally one group of people entirely believed and naively trusted the “mainstream narrative” as put out by their government and mainstream media, while the other group, realized that nefarious criminals had infiltrated and were running our nation, and aimed not only to gradually deprive us of rights while unlawfully expanding their powers through completely contrived emergencies, but also aimed to perpetrate genocide on the American people, and the world.

When seen thus, the absolutely stark and irreconcilable contrast of the viewpoints of these two groups of people is unmistakable. And as I will go on to explain, this made for unique challenges as an Airbnb host.

Airbnb Hosting in a Matrix World

Again, I use the term “Matrix World” because there is hardly a better way or better symbolism to describe this time. We are literally living in a “simulated world”, a world where all the information provided by the “mainstream” government, industry, universities, media, education system, entertainment system, medical system and so on, is propaganda and lies, narratives introduced to intentionally decieve people. And a great many people have been taken in by these lies. Why wouldn’t we be? Who would ever have suspected such a bizarre and massive crime to take place on earth, as a global crime syndicate gradually infiltrating governments around the planet, with a long term plan to set up a totalitiarian One World Government? The very idea sounds patently ridiculous, insane.

It’s only by perceiving the “cracks in the edifice” and seeing things that just don’t make sense or seem seriously wrong, that we can begin to realize that there indeed is something very, very seriously wrong with our world. Once you begin to see this, you naturally want to tell other people, and awaken them to. The ones we call sleepers, sheeple people, normies, or the woke. But this is the kind of thing that you can’t “tell” people, because, again, if people have not seen things with their own eyes and ears that concern them, they will not be open to you saying things that sound like whackadoodle conspiracy theories.

Thus the plight of an awakened Airbnb host, who is mostly hosting the “normies” of the world. People who do not realize what is actually happening in the world around them. Unfortunately, it is just a truism that conformity and “following the herd” is a common behavior in humanity, as this 2012 study revealed: https://watchers.news/2012/01/19/study-proves-95-of-people-really-are-sheeple/

We’ve obviously all been sheep in certain ways. Those of us in the “awake” camp were not always awake. We had to go through a process, often a painful one, to realize that the world was not as we thought it had been. Thus, we can have empathy for others who have not yet awakened. In a very real sense, we are the adults in the room, while the others, the normies, the sheeple, are still children. And a parent-child relationship is an affectionate one. So, even though these normies are not literally our children, in a metaphorical sense we can view them as children and have empathy for them.

This translates well to hosting, as a considerable part of the nature of hosting is hospitality.

Hosting in a Matrix time involves the very odd situation that if you are an awake host, you have some people staying in your house (not all, but certainly some), who quite literally live in a parallel universe. There’s almost nothing about how they perceive the geopolitical world, that is true. Their worldviews about geopolitics, have been entirely based upon lies and propaganda.

Fortunately, this vast abyss between your geopolitical worldviews and theirs, can rather easily be navigated with a certain hosting skillset. One bit of advice I would give to all hosts, whichever of the two groups of people they are in, is to avoid talking about politics and world events with your guests, except insofar as referencing situations (preferably from a neutral angle) that could impact their stay or travel plans.

If guests initiate a conversation about geopolitics with you, my advice is to reply politely and supportively. If you keep uppermost in mind that you are a host, and that you want to offer hospitality and be accommodating to guests, that translates to being accommodating to whatever their worldviews are, no matter what you privately think about these things. It’s more of your task as a host to be hospitable to them, and their views, than for them to be hospitable to and support your views. It does not take much effort and is a mark of maturity to be open and generally supportive of someone sharing their views, without at all needing to agree to those views or see things the same way. Actually this is part of the process of Non-Violent Communication, https://www.cnvc.org/ which I wrote about in another article earlier.
You can find the guide to Non-Violent Communication here https://www.schooltransformation.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Kendrick_NVC_Materials.pdf
Or here below.

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In these divisive times, actually Non-Violent Communication skills as described in this guide and taught by various NVC organizations, are highly valuable. These are skills as well that are taught in various workshops on communication skills, and are also things that psychotherapists learn in their training, because so much of their work involves listening to other people with attention and care and without judgment.

If you are awakened, you will realize that quite ironically, the “woke” crowd which is the group that wants to do the most scolding and lecturing of other people, the group that arrogantly believes it has the most moral authority to tell others not only what to do but also what to think, is actually the most deluded of all. These people have “drunk the koolaid” to a greater extent than anyone else, and in essence have become “useful idiots” for the global crime syndicate, as they readily do its bidding and propagate its propaganda.

But as a host, if you have any of these woke as guests, you’d want to do your best to keep your private views of these and their level of delusion to yourself, and instead be kind and empathetic towards them, be hospitable. With these in particular you’d want to avoid discussing geopolitics even more assiduously, not only because they are overly sensitive to someone with a difference of opinion (actually many have been taught in Marxist universities, that some people’s very opinions are a lethal danger) but also because they delusionally believe that it’s the business of Airbnb to censor people with the “wrong opinion” on things.

So for instance, oblivious to the reality that if President Trump was elected, this means over half the nation voted for him, the woke may call up Airbnb to complain that you are a domestic terrorist, white nationalist, white supremacist, member of a hate group, or dangerous conspiracy theorist, if they find out you voted for Trump, or even if you just express neutrality about him. This is the arrogance and delusionality of the woke: their longing for a bold totalitarian future is demonstrated by their belief that over half the nation should be censored, prohibited from Airbnb hosting, and perhaps even denied employment in all sectors because of their political views.

So to summarize: if you are an awakened host, who is hosting one of the more woke, you not only want to be hospitable and empathetic to them, you also need to be self-protective of yourself, as these are the people most likely to lay traps for others, and try to use Airbnb as a bully to force their ideology upon you. Because forcing their ideologies on everyone is really the essence of what woke is about. And unforunately, given the extent to which Airbnb has in fact “gone woke”, these woke bully guests may have some success, even if their retaliation at you based on your worldviews, is entirely unethical and also unlawful.

If by contrast you are what I’d call a “normie” host, well to be honest I would be surprised you had made it this far in reading my article, because most of the normitudes, even if they are not exactly of the “woke” crowd, do not have much tolerance for views they consider delusional conspiracy theories. They are not yet aware that what they call “conspiracy theories” are the truth, while their own views are based on lies and propaganda.

But if you have made it this far, as a normie host, I’m here to say that you are quite fortunate compared to the awakened host, because world circumstances and Airbnb culture being what these have been, are much more conducive to supporting your values, than those of the awakened host.

As well, unlike the woke, who arrogantly and delusionally believe in the supremacy and of their own worldviews, the awakened are used to being censored, dismissed as irrelevant or as nutty conspiracy theorists, or demonized or vilified even by family and close friends. As a result, not only will they be unlikely to think it’s their task to educate you about what is going on in the world, it’s quite likely they will not even bring up geopolitical topics in conversation. So you’ll most likely have little difficulties with these as guests.

Psychological Difficulties of Hosting in a Matrix World

Although it is certainly very do-able to host from the flip side of the guest in the abyss-like divide that our nation has been in, this doesn’t mean that doing so is without psychological difficulties. It is a stressful situation to be in. Because you are literally going out nearly every day, living in an upside down world. This is all the more true if you happen to be an awakened person living in one of the most brainwashed areas of the country, a deep blue Democrat run city. You are literally going out into a world where you may be the only one amongst those you encounter, who is actually living in reality. The rest are living in a fantasy world or simulated reality. You are in an upside-down world, and many an encounter or overheard conversation will reveal this to you, every day and all day long.

It takes a lot of inner strength to navigate these Matrix times as an awakened person. It will help if you realize that you are “ahead of the curve” in a quite significant way, and even though you’ve been treated with contempt and dismissed, you are a leader among humanity at this point in time. You’ve had courage to see what so many are in denial about, even though for the last 5 years, there has been so much that has been right in everyone’s face, which should have led them to wonder what the heck was going on, that so many strange or wrong things were happening all around them. Yet they kept their heads firmly wedged up their behinds.

It’s a stressful time, it’s a lonely time. You may want more interaction with guests than you are able to have, given the enormous divide in our nation and indications you have picked up on, that at least some of your guests do not really have any inkling as to what is really going on “out there.”

So all that can be done is to wait, be patient, turn to like minded souls for support during this time, and make peace with the odd sort of loneliness and isolation experienced now.

A Reconciled and Harmonized World Will Come

Though the times have been stressful during these Matrix years, there is good news about the future. The extreme divisiveness and phenomenon of living in parallel universes, will come to an end at some point and actually rather soon. In fact, I believe we are in the “end game” of the Cabal’s reign of lies and propaganda.

We are just now seeing the demolishing of the Democrat’s lies, that there have only been peaceful protests in Los Angeles, or Governor Nuisance’s lies that the National Guard and Marines are the ones who “chose to escalate.” Most of America sees through such lies. They understand that rather it’s the illegal immigrant who burned a Waymo car and then stood on the burned out hulk waving a Mexican flag, who “chose to escalate.”

The lies of leaders in government have been quite enough.
We see you, Governor Nuisance, and we see your lies.

As more and more people realize the lies and corruption of so many of those in government, especially of Democrats in government, more will awaken. Additionally, I believe there are many other things happening that are moving us away from an essentially fake government run by a criminal Cabal, to a legitimate Constitutional Republic.

As these changes occur, the “strangeness” of hosting in a Matrix time will diminish, and more people will be able to talk to each other and find common ground, once most of the world has awakened to understand the truth about geopolitical and current events.

Summary

In closing, it’s not so much that people have very different worldviews and belief systems that cause the great division we see now, it’s because many people literally are living in a simulated reality. They are not living in the real world. Most of what they believe in terms of geopolitics, is based on falsehood: on lies and propaganda seeded by a global crime syndicate. We who have awakened, can be empathetic to these brainwashed people living in a state of delusion, because we’ve all to some extent been taken in by this propaganda. We empathize because we’ve been through it ourselves and have had the experience of realizing how very wrong or blind we were, and waking up.

Maintaining this empathetic view during this strange “Matrix” time, will help us not only as Airbnb hosts, but also in relationships with family and friends, as we await the transformation of the whole world in the Great Awakening.