Fr. Emmanuel Charles McCarthy As you know, back on March 12, 2020, I said in a lengthy podcast on Catholics Against Militarism that this Convid19 pandemic was “a grand deceit” aimed at altering economic and political reality on a a planetary scale in favor of a high-tech, dystopian dictatorial surveillance and control atmosphere that would make life better for the few but worse for the many. Everything that has happened since validates my original perception and analysis, with one exception. I no longer name what is happening “a grand deceit.” I now call it “a grand murderous deceit.” Murder is the intentional unjust desruction of a human being. Murder does not become anything less that murder because it is mass murder by intentioanal and unjustly destroying 100,00 human beings. Of course long ago the Noviolent Jesus revealed the connection between murder and deceit: