The truth? The TRUTH? Can we even handle the truth?
This is without doubt the longest and most controversial column I have ever written. I’m praying that you will share it with others; that you will print it out, reread it, and verify my facts. Hopefully, it starts great conversations.
As I wrote last week in The Butter Dish, I like to write in a way that expresses reality with as little distortion and as little omission as possible. I do this because it’s through my connection to you that we both learn, we both grow, and we both see new perspectives. It is my hope that this writing brings both of us closer to God and his Truth.
A little over a week ago, I was invited to sit down with local beloved Brenhamite Clover Carroll. We met at his studio, tucked behind one of his B & Bs in a converted garage. Clover told me I was sitting in the very chair where the world-famous cardiologist Dr. Peter McCullough had sat just the week prior. Clover produced a documentary with him titled Do No Harm[1] which I will get to. But first, meet Clover.
Clover, now 51, married to Rachel and the father of four, was wearing a black t-shirt with the meme, “Death Not Welcome Here” on the day we met. A devout Christian, one of the first things he said to me was, “I want to live as Ephesians 4:1 states, ‘Walking worthy to the calling you’ve been called.’”
And what is his calling?
Clover Carroll’s calling is to fight tyranny.
Here is how it began. Clover told me before the pandemic he ran a successful media marketing agency for small to medium businesses both locally and in Houston. When the government mandated non-essential businesses to close, he lost most of his clients. Clover said, "The CEO of our largest project took the Johnson and Johnson vaccine, had a stroke, lost his ability to speak walk properly, was forced into early retirement, and had to sell the business. We lost the contract and I was forced to layoff my staff." That was the first blow.
Then his mother became ill.
She went to the emergency room where she was diagnosed with COVID. She never recovered.
Clover’s mom died alone.
Clover said, "On August 1, 2021 my mother was taken from me by medical malfeasance. We fought the hospital in court to treat her with proven therapeutics, but we lost and she was denied help. Instead, she was placed on a ventilator, sedated, and paralyzed. Like so many she died alone and afraid. We never got to say goodbye."
He continued, “Baylor, Scott and White medically murdered my mom by denying her the ‘Right to Try.’ They refused her early therapeutics that were showing to be beneficial and would not allow us to take her out of the hospital or even visit her.”
If you haven’t heard, the Right to Try Act allows people who are diagnosed with a life-threatening condition to use drugs that the FDA has not yet approved for commercial use but are being investigated. In Clover’s mom’s case, Clover’s family was begging the doctors to give her Ivermectin, but were told no.
In the court case against Baylor, Scott, and White, Clover's attorney argued that Ivermectin was a proven therapeutic. Clover said, "We argued, "The Right To Try" but were denied. The prosecutors called ivermectin a 'horse de-wormer.'"
It was the death of his mother that led Clover to meet Dr. Peter McCullough, the world’s most published author on cardiology. Dr. McCullough has been a sharp critic of the FDA and CDC for their regulatory actions, including publicly tweeting that Ivermectin was a horse de-wormer.
The thought that Ivermectin is nothing more than a horse de-wormer is categorically false. Ivermectin was discovered by a Japanese scientist at a golf course of all places in Japan in the mid-1970s. It has been labeled a “wonder drug,” and the scientist who discovered it, Dr. Satoshi Ōmura of Kitasato University, received the Nobel Peace Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2015.
While it does prevent dog and horse diseases such as heart worms in dogs, it has been revolutionary in treating River Blindness and Elephantiasis. Over 250,000,000 people have taken this drug and been saved from these hideous diseases that blind and disfigure the poorest people on our planet. The picture below shows a man's foot swollen from elephantiasis. This is a mild case compared to many images found on Google. Ivermectin cures this!
In his Nobel lecture presentation given on December 7, 2015, Dr. Omura, said, “The origin of one of the world’s foremost, revolutionary, versatile yet relatively unknown drugs lies in Japanese soil—literally and metaphorically. Ivermectin, a multipurpose drug derived from a single microscopic organism discovered in Japanese soil, is being taken free of charge annually by over 250 million people—twice as many people as the entire Japanese population. Its impact on improving the overall health and welfare of hundreds of millions of men, women and children, mostly in poor and impoverished communities, remains unmatched. It continues to defy many preconceived concepts, with no drug resistance developing in humans despite years of extensive monotherapy. This has led to it being included on the World Health Organization’s “List of Essential Medicines,” a compilation of the most important medications needed in any basic health system.”[2]
Furthermore, the www.FLCCC.org, the COVID treatment website founded by prominent physicians, such as Dr. Paul Marik states, “Once the FDA approves a prescription medication, federal laws allow any U.S. physician to prescribe the duly approved drug for any reason. [1] In fact, 30 percent of all prescriptions are for off-label uses, written by American doctors exercising their medical judgment. Many states — including Nebraska, Tennessee, and Missouri — have asserted the right of physicians to prescribe, and pharmacists to dispense, off-label drugs such as ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine for the treatment of COVID-19. For example, Nebraska’s Attorney General, Doug Peterson, released a legal opinion in October 2021 saying he did not see data to justify legal action against healthcare professionals who prescribe ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine. [2] In May 2022, Tennessee approved a standing order allowing ivermectin to be dispensed over the counter.” [3]
I will wrap up this part of my column with this thought: while the FDA has still not approved Ivermectin for the treatment of COVID 19, it hasn’t forbidden it either. In other words, Clover is right. The doctors could have administered this drug. I know this also from personal experience. Both my husband and I had COVID six months apart. Our doctor prescribed Hydroxychloroquine for Sybren and Ivermectin for me. We both recovered quickly. I feel certain that had I not taken Ivermectin, I would not be writing this column. Surely, one of these medicines was worth trying to save Mrs. Carroll. If Ivermectin was known to have saved 250,000,000 poor people from River Blindness and the horrible body swelling of Elephantiasis, what was the harm?
So, after 2022 when the COVID mandates were easing, Clover was at a crossroads in his life. He said, “There was no way I could go back to work in downtown Houston after the pandemic -- to brand companies, shoot videos, after all that I experienced and witnessed: the stolen election, the government overreach, the medical tyranny, the deficit of leadership in our country, and the loss of my mother due to that tyranny.”
But he didn’t know what to do. “No one was doing anything about it,” he said. “There was a void of leadership. The subliminal message was just go back to work, but my spirit said ‘No!’"
Clover was also concerned at the quiescence of his church. He experienced disappointment with how the Church in general handled the pandemic, and even with how the local church community responded to the medical murder of his mother. He had hoped for a more vocal stance against the “church-is-not-essential” mandate and for the Church to push back, stay connected and engaged. However, the response from many pastors across the country was cautious, aiming to avoid conflict and maintain peace.
This experience led Clover to conclude, “The Church has not responded well to the tyranny produced by the pandemic, government overreach and medical tyranny and control. It would only speak enough truth as the freedom of the age would allow. They would cite Romans 13 and say, ‘just obey the government.’”
He continued, “What would have happened if our founding fathers ‘just obeyed the government?’ This is what the majority of German churches did as well. They just obeyed the government. Remember it was legal to put the Jews in concentration camps. The Germans considered them Untermensch (the Under-men or Sub-human) and ‘life unworthy of life.’ German doctors were just obeying the law. They murdered the physically disabled, blind, alcoholics, mentally retarded, and even wounded German soldiers through the Action T4 program.”
Searching for answers, Clover asked, “Where is the Bonhoeffer of this age?”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German pastor who denounced Adolf Hitler, the persecution and genocide of the Jews, and called for the Church to stand against Nazism. Hitler ordered his arrest, tortured him and held him in prison, ultimately executing him only seven days before the end of World War II.
Clover found his first answer in Dr. Peter McCollough. Together they produced a documentary titled Do No Harm: The Clifton Dawley Story. In the movie, Dr. McCullough states, “There was something unique about the SARS Covid 19 outbreak, the COVID 19 crisis by which the hospitals almost exclusively were the venue of death.”
You can watch it here (28 minutes) https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/powerful-documentary-do-no-harm-the
This movie tells the story of a highly respected microbiologist named Clifton Dawley who like Mrs. Carroll contracted COVID 19 and found himself in the hospital on the same hospital protocol. Although he was well versed in medical literature and COVID research, like Mrs. Carroll, he was denied the “Right to Try” or “Compassionate Care” treatments and died. His son also called it “medical murder.”
While this project brought Clover some satisfaction to expose medical tyranny, he was not through.
He was still searching for another outlet to exercise his talents. Clover said to me, “We have a Godly mandate to fight against any government or law that is outside the law of God.”
By this time in his walk to be worthy of the Lord, (Colossians 1:10), Clover was reading and studying the writings of another German pastor named Martin Niemoller.
In 1934, Pastor Niemoller preached these prophetic words at his church.
“We have all of us—the whole Church and the whole community—we’ve been thrown into the Tempter’s sieve, and he is shaking, and the wind is blowing, and it must now become manifest whether we are wheat or chaff! Verily, a time of sifting has come upon us, and even the most indolent and peaceful among us must see that
“the calm of a meditative Christianity is at an end…
“It is now springtime for the hopeful and expectant Christian Church—it is testing time, and God is giving Satan a free hand, so he may shake us up and so that it may be seen what manner of men we are…
“Satan swings his sieve and Christianity is thrown hither and thither; and he who is not ready to suffer, he who called himself a Christian only because he thereby hoped to gain something good for his race and his nation is blown away like chaff by the wind of time.”
What is the alternative to the “calm of a meditative Christianity?” What are Christians expected to do in a “testing time?” Niemoller raises fundamental questions that beg us to be thoughtful, yet also to be determined and brave, to stand up and to speak up, and to sacrifice whatever it takes to preserve the message of Christ. And that message is the promise of eternal life for those who accept Christ as their savior.
The Bible speaks to the preciousness of God-created human life. God went to great lengths to create a universe and to create us. Then he gave us rules to live by. He didn’t give Moses “the ten suggestions” to guide us on how to get along. He gave us the ten commandments, one of which says, “Thou shalt not murder.”
The Psalmist in 139:13-14, writes, “For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful; I know that full well.”
This message of Niemoller moved Clover Carroll greatly and caused him to long for the return of Bonhoeffer.
Side note: in two prior columns, I’ve explained that 1933-1934 was a pivotal year in Germany. As it marked the beginning of Hitler’s rise to power, I explained how Eric Metaxas contended in “A Letter to the American Church” that there was a window of opportunity for the German church to challenge Hitler, his Nazi supporters, and their blasphemous claim that Hitler was Germany’s savior. As Christians, our savior is Jesus Christ, not any human being.
History is open to interpretation, however. Its usefulness lies in how we apply its lessons to our own situation and to our understanding of human nature. Are we about to fall off the cliff like Germany in 1933 or not? If you believe that we are, then Niemoller matters. His words should cause the hair on our heads to stand straight. If not, then how do we account for what we are experiencing?
Clover’s search led him to Seth Gruber, the founder and CEO of the White Rose Resistance. Listening to Seth speak, Clover found himself in the story that Seth was telling.
What is the White Rose Resistance?
In Clover’s words, “The White Rose Resistance is a movement dedicated to breaking the silence of the American Church on abortion. Our mission is to educate and inspire action. By revealing the truth and countering opposition, we empower individuals and the church to fulfill their spiritual duty to combat the greatest injustice of our time.”
The name, The White Rose, is a historical reference to the story of Sophie Scholl, a young German girl who bravely resisted Nazism. Here’s her story as told on The White Rose Resistance website (www.WhiteRose.life)[4]: “Among the lesser known heroes from Nazi Germany, the White Rose Resistance was a small collective of Christian students who secretly wrote, printed, and distributed literature all around Germany, criticizing the Nazis and inspiring many others to resist them. At a mere 21 years old, with dreams of becoming a teacher, Sophie joined the Resistance. She didn’t believe this was a brave or exceptional act. It was simply Christianity lived out, or, as Sophie put it, “We are Christian, and we are German. Therefore, we are responsible for Germany.”
“On February 18th, 1943, during class time, Sophie and her brother walked the halls at the University of Munich, placing hundreds of their illegal leaflets in the open. Just before the bell rang, Sophie shoved an entire stack of leaflets from the third-floor balcony down to the atrium below.
“Unfortunately, the janitor caught her in the act and Sophie and her brother were arrested and sentenced to death by guillotine. Due to their untimely arrest, Sophie and Hans would miss a meeting they had scheduled that next week for purposes of growing Christian resistance against the Third Reich. That meeting was with Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
“Sophie’s courage and calm disturbed even her captors, who were so moved that they relaxed the rules to allow Hans and Sophie to meet with their parents one last time before their execution. “Remember Jesus, Sophie,” were her mother’s final words to her doomed daughter. “Yes, but you too, Mama,” Sophie replied.
“On the eve of her beheading, February 22, 1943, Sophie spoke some of her final words and as the blade prepared to fall, Sophie said, “The sun still shines!”
So, from Covid to business loss, from medical tyranny to the writings of Niemoller, Clover’s walk landed him at the threshold of the White Rose movement. For the past year, Clover has served as Director of the Resistance.
During our conversation, he played the movie trailer for their brand-new documentary just released this month called The 1916 Project. The title is a play on words, of course, for the controversial 1619 Project, the New York Times’s attempt “to re-imagine” the starting point of American history.
The 1916 film, however, is about a historical woman in actual American history named Margaret Sanger, the founder of the first birth control organization we know as Planned Parenthood. She led the eugenics movement. She wrote about the benefits of birth control for society, especially in reducing the population of Black people, of the mentally ill, and the disabled and other “undesirables.” The movie exposes her racist views, her antipathies, and the horrendous effect of the abortion “option” upon American society; the genocide it has led to within the Black population, the promiscuous culture, and the enervated Christian Church.
However, the White Rose Resistance is not a church. It is an unapologetic Protestant movement created, as Seth Gruber says, “to prick the conscience of the church and awaken it to action.”
Clover explained that the White Rose is a 501c3. It works with all faiths—Catholics, Orthodox, and Protestants, even atheists. It works with anyone who is for life. With this documentary, they hope to open conversations and educate people about the true goals of the abortion movement.
Clover says that the organization is the fastest growing pro-life movement in the country and unlike other pro-life movements has attracted as many men as women to its cause. They also are unique in helping women who have been hurt by abortion. Local chapters are springing all over the country.
The movie will not be shown in the general theater in Brenham until November, but any church or organization can host a showing now by going to www.The1916Project.com[5] and complete an online request form. The movie is free, although donations are welcome.
There will be a special showing of the film for pastors on August 26 from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. in College Station. For more information, please reach out to Clover himself. His email is in the endnotes at the end of this article. The venue can host only 60 pastors so please indicate your interest as soon as possible by contacting him.[6]
The White Rose also welcomes new allies, donors, and volunteers. By being an ally, you can join online calls and talk directly with Seth Gruber and various guests he interviews on his program.
On October 9, there will be a fundraising dinner for the White Rose in Chappell Hill. If you would like an invite, please contact Clover at the email below.[6]
Seth says, “What Christians don’t often understand in the culture wars and in the fight for life is that abortion is just one issue among many. Abortion is almost the lynch pin upon which the liberal establishments swings. What happens when you pull out the lynch pin?
“The door falls off.”[7]
What does the Bible have to say about this? In I and II Kings, the author writes about many bad kings and only a few good ones. One of the defining characteristics of a good king was he discouraged worship of pagan gods, such as Moloch. Moloch had the shape of a man but the head of a bull. He was particularly heinous and forbidden because he demanded infant sacrifices. I have always thought that our modern picture of a Demon with horns was based upon the head of Moloch.
Another pagan deity who turned the Israelites away from God was Asherah, sometimes referred to as Astarte. She was the goddess of fertility and sex.
The Bible frequently recounts how Israelites often ignored the first and second commandments. “I am the Lord your God. Bow down to no other gods before me.” Too many times, the Israelites were tempted. In Exodus 34:13, Moses writes about Moloch and Asherah, “Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones and cut down their Asherah poles.” Deuteronomy 16:21 states, “Do not set up any Asherah [pole] beside the altar you build to the LORD your God.” Yet, the Israelites disobeyed God.
The Israelite men married local women who worshipped Moloch and other gods. Their wives persuaded them to abandon the God of Abraham and worship their gods, especially Moloch and Asherah. Asherah poles were set up “in the high places” in other words on top of the hills, fully visible to the entire community. Even the good Kings of Israel who succeeded in combatting idol worship could not convince Israelites to tear down the Asherah poles. Only Josiah, an Israelite boy king, successfully cut down those poles.
Why does this matter? The worship of sex and the sacrifice of children, including the pre-born, go hand in hand. God warned the Israelites through Moses and the prophets that promiscuity and the subsequent child sacrifice produced a destructive culture that would not last.
We are in danger today of the same evils that plagued the Israelites. In this country, this issue has been going on for more than a hundred years.
It began with the eugenics movement of which Margaret Sanger was one of the principal leaders. To the White Rose Resistance, it’s time to tear down the modern Asherah poles and restore traditional virtues. The preborn are persons and deserve protection not just for their sake, but for the sake of the principle of life. If one side is going to push that abortions need to be available until the moment of birth, people who support life must be equally uncompromising that the pre-born are persons worthy of protection. Otherwise, their principles collapse.
A hundred years ago, G. K. Chesterton, a prolific writer and Christian apologist who inspired C. S. Lewis, authored a book titled, Eugenics and Other Evils.
He wrote, “The business of progressives is to keep on making mistakes. The business of conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected. Even when the revolutionist himself repents his revolution, the traditionalist is already defending that as part of his tradition.”
He continues, “Thus we have two great types. The advanced person who rushes us into ruin, and the retrospective person who admires the ruined.”
He also wrote that the Sangers of this world and eugenicists combine “the softening of the head with the hardening of the heart. If Darwinism was the doctrine of the survival of the fittest, then Eugenics was the doctrine of the nastiest.”
The history of this movement is what Clover and Seth Gruber exposed in The 1916 Project.
So, when Clover asked, “Where is the Bonhoeffer of this age?”
One is right here in Brenham, Texas. Thank you, Clover Carroll for your voice and your courage.
Questions and comments? Write to Kathryn@TexasHeritage.net.
Endnotes
[2] https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2018/06/omura-lecture.pdf You can also see the slides as well as the biography.
[3] https://covid19criticalcare.com/about-the-flccc/our-physicians/ This is a valuable resource for those who are suffering from long Covid as well.
[5] https://the1916project.com/ (Note: Be sure to type it in exactly as written. Otherwise, the search engine goes to the 1619 project.)
[6] You can reach Clover Carroll by writing clover@thewhiterose.life
[7] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h33jlto4CJ4 Seth Gruber delivers the message at Godspeak Calvary Church in April 2024. He talked about G. K. Chesterton.