You don't need me to tell you that the federal government was originally designed to be much smaller and much less powerful than it is today.  (Well... maybe some of you do.)  Certainly the founding fathers intended it to be far less intrusive and costly.  But today we have arrived at a point where the federal government micro-manages numerous little details, including a law — the Comprehensive Energy Policy Act of 1994 — requiring that new toilets use only 1.6 gallons per flush.  (As long as swimming pools are legal and golf courses are irrigated with drinking water, 1.6 gallon toilets should not be mandatory.)  Very gradually, more and more laws and regulatory agencies are being created, and one day even the most gullible citizen will wake up and realize that he is ruled by tyrants.

Subtopics on this or other pages:

Abuse of Power by Ordinary Cops
The Disinformation Governance Board, also known as the Ministry of Truth
The incident at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021
USA Patriot Act
The 2020 Coronavirus
Operation Choke Point and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Obamacare opens the door to tyranny
The Invasion of the Food Police
Domestic surveillance
Obama's use of HUD to forcibly integrate wealthy neighborhoods
Operation Jade Helm 15
Operation Choke Point and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
The Dodd-Frank Financial Reform Act
Obama vs Gibson Guitar

Subsection about the Disinformation Governance Board, also known as the Ministry of Truth

A Recipe for Biden Authoritarianism.  [Scroll down]  Biden on Saturday signed what some call the most significant gun control measure in decades, a bipartisan compromise that includes a provision to help states put in place red flag laws making it easier for authorities to confiscate weapons from those adjudged as dangerous.  Despite the Supreme Court's ruling Friday upholding the Second Amendment, we know that the Biden administration will unfairly use anything and everything at its disposal to drive its narrative and silence political opponents.  That's part of the reason the Department of Homeland Security's short-lived "disinformation" board received such deserved pushback from many Americans.  Although DHS officially paused its Disinformation Governance Board, let's not be so naïve as to believe the board was the be-all, end-all of the Biden administration's thought control efforts.

Under Biden's DHS, all dissenters are now 'domestic extremists'.  The problem with fundamentally transforming a great, freedom-loving nation into something else is that not everyone is in favor of the idea.  Building support for your position with a better argument than your detractors can be a slow, frustrating process.  The faster, more Machiavellian route is to declare your critics to be enemies of the state, deserving of both marginalization from decent society and denial of their basic rights as citizens.  In its goal to make America more amenable to a ubiquitous, Big Brother-like federal government and its corresponding illiberal policies, the current occupants of White House and its tentacle agencies have borrowed the tactics of some of history's most oppressive despots.  The result will be a chilling effect on free speech and the airing of legitimate grievances against our government.

Neil Oliver:  The Great Resetters are Intent on Retaining Post-Pandemic Power and Control Through Fear and Finance.  Neil Oliver uses language to hack the great red pill vending machine and feed the masses.  In his weekly monologue today, Oliver notes the great resetters, the alliance of multinational corporations and government leaders, are intent on using fear and finance to build the post-covid control mechanisms over the people within western society.  Create massive costs, destabilize the people, manipulate the crisis and leave the common family left trying to figure out what is happening.  Government and bankers using fear and finance respectively; both leveraged against the people, while drumbeating the continued nonsense of climate change and the need to 'save the planet'.  [Video clip]

The Citizenry's Willingness to Surrender their Freedoms Risks a Potential Dissolution or Civil War.  Over the past two decades, far too many citizens of the United States have willingly surrendered their rights and freedoms and now they are on the cusp of being unrestorable.  This erosion and voluntary forfeiture have empowered the ruling elites/radical left.  Ominous societal conditions have been created that risk national dissolution or a civil war.  Three events in the past twenty-one years have been the primary catalysts that have accelerated and exacerbated this seemingly irreversible outcome.  The first: the reaction to the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001; the second: the election of Barack Obama; and the third: the lockdown and medical tyranny of the Chinese Coronavirus Pandemic.  After the events of September 11, 2001, Congress, with no outcry from the populace and near unanimous agreement from both political parties, passed the Patriot Act and other legislation.  These laws expanded the definition of terrorism and the government's ability to define, at their whim, what "terrorism" is.  Further, the government was granted near unlimited power to combat whatever was defined as "terrorism."  Within less than ten years that power was turned against the American people and new catch phrases began to be used by the ruling class: "white supremacy" and "domestic terrorism".  A new era was spawned which allowed the government to use its newly acquired powers to spy on and intimidate innocent Americans at home and abroad.

Team of Fools:  Biden's Cabinet Picks Prove He is Unfit to Lead.  [Scroll down]  Attorney General Merrick Garland is Biden's henchman for the administration's 1984 agenda.  Garland has made it clear that parents protesting the woke indoctrination of their children are domestic terrorists.  He has directed the FBI and U.S. attorney offices to crack down on parents by characterizing their protests, which are completely legal, as crimes.  "Attorney General Garland is weaponizing the DOJ," said Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, "by using the FBI to pursue concerned parents and silence them through intimidation."  Garland has referred to January 6th as an "invasion."  He said it was the most dangerous threat to American democracy ever.  According to Steve McCann in American Thinker, Garland identified the protestors as "domestic extremists," which has become a euphemism for Republicans.  "He wants you to believe and wants history to record," said Tucker Carlson, "that January 6th was an attempted insurrection by white supremacist revolutionaries bent on taking over this country.  Because of January 6th, we must now use law enforcement and military force to arrest, imprison, and otherwise crush anyone who leads opposition to Joe Biden's government.  That's their position," said Carlson.  "They say it out loud."

The Left Is Already Proving How Dangerous Red Flag Laws Are.  A "red flag law" is something that, on the surface, seems like a common-sense idea.  How often have we wondered why authorities hadn't taken weapons away from someone who had clearly indicated that they were dangerous and intent on doing harm.  Uvalde, Parkland, and Buffalo are just a few examples of mass shootings that could have been prevented if action had been taken against an individual clearly signaling their disturbed minds to those around them.  However, once you start to notice the talk around red flag laws, you start to see the holes and flaws in the idea.  It's important to remember that a red flag law is effectively a societal nod to strip someone of their 2nd Amendment right, not because they committed a crime, but because you think they might.

I am going to post a note here I received this morning from a January Sixther.  [Thread reader]  I am a husband and father who has zero criminal history... And I am looking at years in prison AFTER I took a plea.  You may ask why would people take a plea if they are innocent?  Innocent has nothing to do with this as my lawyer has told over and over again.  This is payback.  There are only a handful of representatives in DC that care about us.  The vast majority couldn't care less.  They secretly despise Trump and anyone on the 6th as well.  The DOJ knows this.  There will be no reform of this government.  There will be no going back.  All there is now is the path ahead.  But that path will never lead back to the country we once were.  I watched for 4 years as our government that I pay taxes for, try to impeach and even oust our president with sheer impunity.  Hillary's smearing stunt morphed into a coup that lasted Trumps entire term.  Then I watched the election get stolen from the American people.  So I went to DC to support the way I thought best.  I wasn't violent, I didn't break anything, I didn't steal anything and that doesn't matter.  I lost my 6 figure income, friends, and my family is a wreck.  I had the FBI in my home, I was brought before a judge in shackles.  And I am a lucky one.  I got to remain free till sentencing.  So this is the country that I now live in.  Where the powerful few can attack an elected president attempting to removing him for 4 years and where elections no longer matter.

If You're Reading This Message, You're Ready to Resist Tyranny.  All around us the government Leviathan is feeding and growing.  Center for Disease Control bureaucrats are already defending their unconstitutional pandemic powers as necessary tools that should be permanently "institutionalized."  The U.S. government openly targets citizens for engaging in "unacceptable" speech or holding "unapproved" political views.  Stricter gun laws are barreling toward us.  The national security surveillance state is pervasive.  Treasury and finance ministers are working with their central banks to devise digital currencies for the public that will eventually allow them to sequester citizens' accounts in ways just as bereft of due process as those utilized by the "rules-based international order" to seize Russia's foreign currency reserves as punishment for invading Ukraine.  The Davos Death Cult is using the pretense of a "climate emergency" to justify tracking every individual's personal carbon consumption (i.e., surveilling and cataloguing all human movements, sources of income, associations, and experiences).  Biden's Commie House of Horrors is intentionally unleashing runaway inflation, so that citizens become entirely dependent upon government for personal survival.  Even a cursory glance at humanity's chess board, then, reveals that those with wealth and power are racing to corral the rest of us before we appreciate what's at stake.

The Real Reason the Government Wants to Give the Poor 'Affordable Internet'.  The Biden administration recently signed off on a generous $65 billion in public money for "more accessible and affordable internet" to "close the digital divide": [...] "Health" and "safety" are almost always the excuses for installing digital dystopian surveillance, censorship, and social control systems because public policy think tanks (aided by behavioral psychologists) have determined that these are the most tactical selling points to gain compliance.  COVID-19 is the currently favored justification for universal internet access.  Global connection, for example, is necessary for the effective rollout of "COVID-19 public alert systems," which will function like weather forecasts to determine when digital plantation slaves will be allowed to congregate with one another based on a computer-produced risk assessment:  "The COVID-19 Enforcement and Intervention Team (CEIT) has developed a comprehensive public messaging campaign...  Municipalities, particularly those in higher-risk categories, are strongly encouraged to utilize their public alert systems to keep residents up-to-date and to reinforce public health messages that will mitigate the spread of the virus in their communities."  Your smartphone — and, later on, your implanted digital web interface — will now determine when you're permitted to leave your home.

Our government's executive branch is deliberately destroying liberty.  We live in a bewildering time, not because events are unclear or cause and effect uncertain, but because the status quo is so jarring that we can hardly bring ourselves to face it:  The executive branch of the United States government is waging war on the American nation.  And I mean that quite literally.  The executive branch is seeking to destroy the nation so the national elite can slip a slave collar around the neck of the American survivors, thus clearing the way for the international elite (Schwab, Gates, Xi, Soros, etc.) to slip a slave collar around the neck of the planet.

Canada plans to follow in the path of the world's worst dictators.  Canada's government, headed by its prime minister, Justin Trudeau, has introduced drastic anti-gun legislation that, if passed, will mean (in Trudeau's words) that "it will no longer be possible to buy, sell, transfer, or import handguns anywhere in Canada."  This is one more step in Canada's mostly relentless push (only slightly alleviated during the Stephen Harper administration) to bring all weapons under government control.  This never ends well for a nation's people.

PM Trudeau:  "It Will No Longer Be Possible To Buy, Sell, Transfer, Or Import Handguns Anywhere In Canada".  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks with reporters in Ottawa following his government's tabling of new legislation on gun control.  He is joined by federal ministers Marco Mendicino (public safety), David Lametti (justice), Marci Ien (women and gender equality and youth), and Bill Blair (emergency preparedness), as well as several victims of gun violence.  Among the measures proposed in Bill C-21 are the implementation of a national freeze on the importing, buying, selling, and transferring of handguns; the revoking of firearms licenses of those involved in acts of domestic violence or criminal harassment; and the imposing of increased criminal penalties for gun smuggling and trafficking.

Revealed: Government's secret plans for apocalyptic events included total takeover or shut down of citizens' communication networks.  Newly disclosed documents have revealed the United States government's plans in the event of a potential apocalypses — which include putting the kibosh on all civilian communications during wartime.  The previously classified files, obtained by the NYU nonpartisan nonprofit the Brennan Center for Justice, detail wartime powers the president can enact in the case of a national emergency — such as a nuclear attack.  The center obtained the 500 pages files through a Freedom of Information Act request.  A further 6,000 pages were kept classified.  Several of the files, which were all penned during the administration of George W. Bush, detail a law that permits the president to take over or shut down communications networks in wartime.  The policy, called the Communications Act, asserts that 'during the continuance of a war in which the United States is engaged, the President is authorized, if he finds it necessary for the national defense and security,' to nix civilians' means of communication.

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That only works if everyone obeys the rules.  Does anyone with a CB radio care about FCC rules?

Really Big Brother:  WHO Pandemic Treaty Readies Global Vaccine Passport System.  In the biggest story few are talking about, the World Health Organization has announced plans for an international pandemic treaty that may involve a digital passport and digital ID system.  The treaty would also grant the WHO new governing authority over all 194 UN member states.  The World Health Organization, who totally botched COVID and failed to get tough on China, wants more power to make more decisions over more territories than ever before.  How's that sound?  Members of the House Freedom Caucus, led by Republican Reps.  Scott Perry (R-PA) and Jim Jordan (R-OH), have written a letter to President Joe Biden demanding he oppose the global pandemic treaty or "at the very least, push serious reforms."

The Elites Have Every Intention Of Controlling Our Lives.  From the world's largest gathering of hypocrites at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, we have learned that a personal carbon footprint tracker is in the works.  In the wrong hands, it would be the equivalent of the ankle monitors used to ensure that criminal offenders don't escape their house arrest.  "We're developing, through technology, an ability for consumers to measure their whole carbon footprint," J. Michael Evans, president of Alibaba Group USA, said Tuesday while on a panel discussion on responsible consumption.  "What does that mean?  Where they are traveling.  How they are traveling.  What are they eating.  What they are consuming on the platform."  This will excite the virtue signalers who will be happy to post their carbon footprint scores on social media.  But for the rest of us, those still wishing to live freely, who don't want elites establishing the limits of "responsible consumption," it's deeply troubling.

Defending Sovereignty: The Fight of our Lifetime.  [Scroll down]  And one hard truth learned by the first Trump administration is that the executive branch lacks the power and authority required to replace the entrenched bureaucrats that have become the ruling lords and ladies of the new inverted Totalitarian reality which is the entrenched Federal bureaucracy.  In this new Federal reality, where the culture of government institutions and agencies is damaged beyond repair, real change cannot occur by replacing one figurehead for another.  Corrupted policy can't be easily replaced with good policy.  The ideology, the rule of law, the subverted corporatist regulations are baked in.  The system is rigged.  The unknown (or known) bureaucrats controlling the levers aren't going to let go of that easily.

Proposed Safety Rules Would Give Feds More Control Over Your Car.  Federal regulators are considering new vehicle safety features and requesting public comments about the immediate changes, but it's the agency's future proposals under development that could give pause to consumers who are concerned about privacy.  The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) regulates the auto industry in numerous ways, including the New Car Assessment Program (NCAP), which provides consumer information on the safety performance of new vehicles through a star rating system found on the manufacturer's window sticker.  The new features under consideration for NCAP include blind spot detection, blind spot intervention, lane-keeping support, and pedestrian automatic emergency braking.  NHTSA is accepting public comments about the changes through June 8.  But in the supplemental material included in the public comment document, NHTSA also revealed several smart technology features that the agency is developing for future NCAP updates.

Is the COVID Pandemic about to Get Ugly?  For a pandemic to be brought under control, a sufficient part of the population needs to acquire sterilizing immunity so that transmission among individuals can be minimized and herd immunity of the whole population can be achieved.  COVID mass vaccinations have been a medical disaster in the U.S. and many other countries because the vaccines allow high levels of transmission of the virus and block our innate and naturally acquired immunity.  As a result of this high level of COVID infection spread, the current lull in virulence (severe outcomes and deaths) will soon skyrocket to levels far higher than 2020.  This warning that the pandemic is "far from over" comes from Geert Vanden Bossche, a well known vaccinologist based in Belgium who has been ringing alarm bells for over a year.  Geert is not alone in coming to this conclusion, but he is one of the few prominent researchers speaking out.

The True Evil of the World Economic Forum.  Whenever I listen to Klaus Schwab and his Davos Death Cult buddies openly discuss their plans for world domination, I always think, "Are we really going to let another power-hungry German walk us into global conflagration?" For a while there, I believed that Western allies had endured enough death and slaughter from the first two world wars to forge an informal understanding among themselves that uncontrolled German megalomania invariably leads to malignant outcomes for all.  Then came German reunification, and the nation's inevitable economic dominance over all of Europe assured its status as the most powerful member of the European Union. [...] Still, the Americans, Canadians, and Brits would never sit idly by while German powerbrokers remake the world in their image, right?  Wrong!  Just listen to Joe Biden, Justin Trudeau, and Boris Johnson all parroting that same Build Back Better Boobery in unison, as if they operated under the influence of some nefarious hive mind.  At first, hearing world leaders squawk identical World Economic Forum talking points was disconcerting.  Then it was nauseating.  Now it just makes them sound like walking, talking robots all under the WEF's control.

Democrats Are Attempting To Jam Through A New Patriot Act That Will Target American Conservatives.  Democrats never let a good crisis go to waste.  After the tragic shooting in Buffalo that left ten dead and three injured, they are renewing calls to pass a bill that will expand the FBI and Department of Homeland Security's powers to investigate domestic terrorism.  Some Republicans were initially supportive of the bill, but after Democrats made a last-minute change to the definition of domestic terrorism that makes it extremely vague, most came out in opposition to it.  RINO warmonger Adam Kinzinger (R-Il.) was the sole Republican to vote in favor of the bill in the House.

Automobile 'kill switch' law [will be] to spy on and control Americans.  The "kill switch law" would potentially allow law enforcement to shut one's car off remotely, and also to track the car's metrics, location, and possibly even passenger load.  The mandate was included under the pretext of helping to cut down on drunk driving while also preventing high-speed chases from occurring.  Such backdoor kill switches work through cars being continuously connected to wireless networks.  Many, if not most, new cars (and virtually all electric cars) already come standard with wireless capability.  Indeed, General Motors pioneered in-car (internet) connectivity more than a decade ago.  It is possible that the law could be challenged or repealed by a future federal government, as privacy issues with the mandate are glaring and obvious.

Tucker Carlson Warns America That Biden is About to Hand the WHO Immense Power Over Our Lives.  Fox News host Tucker Carlson is warning Americans about an ominous 'pandemic treaty' that would hand the World Health Organization immense power over Americans' lives.  [Video clip]  "So what will this operational control mean?" Carlson said.  "Let's be specific right off the bat.  The treaty demands, quote, 'national and global coordinated actions to address the misinformation, disinformation and stigmatization that undermine public health.'  Oh, here we go.  Right to censorship."

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul Announces Police Unit to Combat 'Hate Speech'.  New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) on Wednesday announced plans to create a police unit designed to, in part, combat "hate speech" in the wake of the tragic shooting in Buffalo, promising to "confront this epidemic head-on."  "We're proposing a comprehensive plan to combat domestic terrorism, strengthen state gun laws, & investigate social media platforms promoting violent extremism," Hochul announced Wednesday.

House Passes Domestic Terrorism Bill to Use the FBI to Silence Conservatives Who Disagree With Them.  House Democrats on Wednesday [5/18/2022] passed a Domestic terrorism bill to silence conservatives and those Americans who disagree with them.  Democrats used the mass shooting by a lunatic on Saturday in Buffalo, New York to justify the legislation that will allow the FBI to continue to spy on and harass conservatives and critics of their radical agenda.  The new law is nothing new, throughout history brutal regimes have suppressed criticism from their detractors.  And the Biden regime has been cracking down on conservatives who attended the January 6 protests in Washington DC. Dozens of Trump supporters still languish in prison and many of the political prisoners did not participate in any violence.  Many did not even enter the US Capitol that day.

When Attorney General Merrick Garland's goon squad came for parents.  Last fall, Attorney General Merrick Garland testified before the House Judiciary Committee that the Federal Bureau of Investigation was not using counterterrorism statutes to investigate parents who were exercising their First Amendment rights at local school board meetings.  Last week, the House Judiciary Committee produced evidence that Garland's FBI was doing just that.  [Video clip]

Joe Biden vs.  We the People.  The Biden Administration last June unveiled its "National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism."  Despite its anodyne-sounding name, the "national strategy" was anything but anodyne.  The pamphlet represented the logical culmination of the Left's cynical use of the January 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot as a means of ginning up large-scale, nationwide anti-Republican/anti-Trump voter sentiment.  The result, evinced again by Attorney General Merrick Garland's disgraceful October 2021 memo directing the FBI to intrude on local school board meetings and crack down on anti-critical race theory parental revolts, has been a roiling cold war waged by the ruling class against us "deplorables" and our political "wrong-think."  Now, seven months after Garland's infamous October 4 memo, the better question to ask is not whether Joe Biden is engaged in a cold war merely against the "deplorables."  We know the answer to that is yes.  Instead, the more relevant question is whether the Biden Administration is now engaged in a cold war against a broader target:  the entire American citizenry.

Biden's 'Kill Switch' For Every Car Threatens Our Freedom Of Movement.  The federal gov't and silicon valley are looking to clamp down on your freedom of movement.  Your ability to move about as you please does not fit with their goals for the future of our world.  Automotive-related freedoms, including access to fuel, allow us to be free to move without the permission of silicon valley and the federal government.  Automotive freedoms are not only hobby related; they are essential to preventing yet another step along the road to serfdom at the hands of woke corporations and federal bureaucrats.  Biden recently signed into law a requirement that all vehicles produced after 2026 be fitted with a remote kill switch.  Electric vehicles are already equipped with this capability via internet-connected "superchargers."  These corporations can sell you a product for tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars, then prevent you from using them.  Worse yet, if the law is not challenged or repealed, these kill switches will have a "back door" that allows government agencies to shut your vehicle off remotely as well.

Exposing the Left's Destructive Education Agenda:  They're 'Coming for Your Children'.  Beginning with the 2021 gubernatorial election in Virginia — in which Democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe for all practical purposes vowed to keep parents out of the classroom, saying, "I don't think parents should be telling schools what they should teach" — parents began to realize the Democratic Party wanted to leave them behind.  President Joe Biden echoed that sentiment April 27 while speaking to a group of Teachers of the Year, when he told them:  "They're all our children. ... They're not somebody else's children.  They're like yours when they're in the classroom."  Politics aside, the issue at hand is protecting our children from radical ideologies and preserving a parent's right to be a parent.  But the left wants to have a stranglehold on education, to keep parents on the sidelines, and to force them to co-parent with the government, while driving a wedge between parent and child.

Whistleblowers Allege FBI Investigated Parents Opposed to School COVID-19 Policies.  Whistleblowers have alleged that the FBI conducted dozens of investigations into American parents who expressed opposition to schools' COVID-19 mandates, and labeled them with a "threat tag," House Judiciary Committee Republicans claimed in a letter on Wednesday [5/11/2022].  Reps.  Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Mike Johnson (R-La.) wrote in a letter to the Justice Department that the "brave whistleblowers" from the FBI had informed them that the agency had reportedly created an internal threat tag called "EDUOFFICIALS" in October 2021 to track alleged threats against school boards, following an Oct. 4 directive from Attorney General Merrick Garland.  That directive came in response to a request from the National School Boards Association asking that the federal government use counterterrorism tools, including the Patriot Act, to target parents at school board meetings, the representatives wrote.

Psaki proclaims the White House controls 'all branches of government'.  Outgoing White House press secretary Jen Psaki has frequently been pressed into action to do damage control over her boss's embarrassing gaffes and, in what may be her final effort to spin away President Joe Biden's mental misfires, she only made matters worse.  On Tuesday [5/10/2022], the "leader" of the free world spoke to the media where he once again sought to duck the blame for the economic woes that Americans are suffering including record gas prices, the worst inflation in four decades, and most recently, a national baby formula shortage which he blamed on COVID and Russian leader Vladimir Putin in more of the same malarkey.

Disinformation Panels, Control over Social Media Content and Now DOJ Environmental Justice.  Barack Obama and Eric Holder did not create a weaponized DOJ and FBI; instead, what they did was take the preexisting system and retool it, so the weapons only targeted one side of the political continuum.  This point is where many people get confused.  Prior to 9/11/01 the greatest threat to government was considered to be from outside the U.S, vis-a-vis terrorism.  After 9/11/01 the greatest threat was redefined, Americans were now considered the threat, the enemy tracking radar was turned around to look inside America.  In the era shortly after 9/11, the DC national security apparatus was constructed to preserve continuity of government and simultaneously view all Americans as potential threats.  The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) were created specifically for this purpose.  DHS and ODNI were created because Americans were now the threat to government.  Stop.  Pause.  Think.  You are taking off your shoes at the airports because YOU are the threat.  You pass through body scanners because YOU are the threat.  Stop.  Pause.  Think.  How does that define your relationship with government?

Do We Draw the Line at a US Ministry of Truth?  The whole farce of setting up an all-powerful Department of Disinformation (whose only purpose will be to spread disinformation) would be downright comical if we were given a moment's rest to laugh in between the Biden regime's outrageous daily attacks on what's left of the Constitution.  The First Amendment — right at the top, so no future tyrants could miss it — is obviously meaningless if government censors must first approve acceptable speech.  By far and without equivocation, the most important speech deserving of protection from the treachery of government overreach is that speech which the government decries as disinformation!  The First Amendment isn't there for the protection of cookie recipes and weather reports (although those are protected, too).  It's there to make sure that when officials in the federal government betray their oaths and seize illegitimate power for themselves, there are opposing voices that can beat those usurpers down with words before violence becomes inevitable.

'They are all our children': Biden sparks fury from parents by telling teachers that kids are 'yours when they're in the classroom'.  President Joe Biden has reignited the fire among already outraged parents after claiming their children don't belong to them 'when they're in the classroom.'  'They're all our children,' he said Wednesday, addressing educators at the 2022 Teacher of the Year ceremony hosted by the White House.  'They are not somebody's else children.  They're like yours when they're in the classroom.'  Biden also took aim at parents and Republican legislators who have spearheaded efforts to ban books and bar sexually explicit or overly politically correct curriculum.

Jack's Magic Coffee Shop Reports 2nd Quarter Financials, Net Operating Loss of $128 Million.  [Scroll down]  After the Patriot Act was triggered, not coincidentally only six weeks after 9/11, a slow and dangerous fuse was lit that ends with the intelligence apparatus being granted a massive amount of power.  The problem with assembled power is always what happens when a Machiavellian network takes control over that power and begins the process to weaponize the tools for their own malicious benefit.  That is exactly what Barack Obama was all about.  The Obama network took pre-assembled intelligence weapons we should never have allowed to be created, and turned those weapons into tools for his radical and fundamental change.  The target was the essential fabric of our nation.  Ultimately, this corrupt political process gave power to create the Fourth Branch of Government, the Intelligence Branch.  From that perspective the fundamental change was successful.

Prepping the Mind.  Many see the troubles coming.  The economics are unsustainable, the energy (with their successful plan) is unsustainable, the culture that made America great is being eaten alive by massive waves of illegal immigration from the southern border; a farming capacity that's been systematically dismantled, an oil industry that's under constant assault to either production or distribution and you have a world where one must prepare for the worst, part of that is prepping the mind.  Discussions on this blog of the communist infiltration into all sectors of government is meant to do just that.  These people are not the county clerks and state employees of the 1950s television shows and movies.  They aren't just petty little tyrants with the power to make one knuckle under, they're enemy combatants inside the lines.  Nothing should have made that more apparent than the past year of lockdowns where some unelected "health official" systematically destroyed capitalism and small business in America with the stroke of a pen or the breath of a command.

Under Attack By Spectre — This Is No Drill.  Their scheme has many names;  The New World Order (NWO), Agenda 21, Agenda 2030, The Great Reset.  The cabal is determined to return the planet to medieval serfdom, except without sovereign nations.  They will establish world government, and a universal religion, deciding what you are to believe.  The world population will be kept below 500 million or 'in balance' as the globalists say.  Genetics will be controlled and regulated.  The current population is around 7.9 billion... what to do, what to do.  They will merge digital, physical, and biological systems (gene modification/eugenics injections aka COVID shots), and rely on technological surveillance rather than the rule of law to make people compliant.  Without much thought, over half the population of the United States have agreed to become the first test subjects.  Insurance companies are alarmed that excess deaths are up by 40%, associated with COVID-19 directly or indirectly.  Their goal is simple, the billionaires (gentry) get to keep what they own, everyone else, the commoners/peasants/serfs, surrender their property, and privacy (everyone will be tagged) for the good of the planet, of course.  They insist you will own nothing and be happy.  All accomplished by 2030.  So they say.

America [is] Moving From A Permission Society To A Repressive Regime.  Last month, the Energy Department announced it was taking public comments on efficiency standards for residential air conditioners and pool heaters that are intended to "to help consumers save on their utility bills."  The "savings" angle, though, feels more like cover for the department's deeper agenda, which is its "commitment to reaching net zero carbon emissions."  The Democrats who for now dominate policy making in Washington believe there is nothing so private that they cannot regulate, nothing so personal that it can't be intruded upon.  The only question is the pace of the arrogation of our freedoms.  They have to be taken down in increments, so that the country won't notice the slippery slope toward tyranny.  In many cases, often regarding energy and conservation policies, restrictions are even celebrated by the loudest factions to help numb the public to the constant attacks on liberty.

Biden Wants to Regulate Everything — Even Your Air Conditioning.  President Joe Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi want to regulate any gadget or appliance with an electric switch that turns on in your house or your driveway.  New Department of Energy rules will dictate the amount of water that comes out of your showerhead, how much warm air comes out of your heater and how much cool air comes out of air conditioners.  There is even talk about gadgets monitoring your home's temperature in the winter and summer months.  How is any of this the government's business?

Reporters call for White House to 'simply ignore' Supreme Court decisions.  Some reporters are calling on President Biden to ignore Supreme Court decisions that they believe are politically motivated.  On Wednesday, the Supreme Court temporarily reinstated a Trump-era that limits the power of the states to block energy projects that can potentially pollute rivers, streams and other waterways.  In a split 5-4 decision, the justices overturned a lower court judge's order to throw out the rule until the Biden administration can implement a new rule which is expected in spring 2023.

In Vermont, a Raw Attack on Free Speech.  Vermont's social justice legislators have launched a transparent and illegal assault against free speech liberties.  Vermont's Senate has amended the state's assault statute mightily.  S.265 seeks to heighten penalties for threatening with the ["]intent to terrify, intimidate, or unlawfully influence the conduct of a candidate for public office, public servant, election official, or public employee in any decision, opinion, recommendation, vote, or other exercise of discretion taken in capacity as a candidate for public office, public servant, election official, or public employee, or with the intent to retaliate against a candidate for public office, public servant, election official, or public employee for any previous action taken in capacity as a candidate for public office, public servant, election official, or public employee, shall be imprisoned not more than two years or fined not more than $2,000.00, or both.["]  In other words, Vermont seeks to send citizens to jail for threatening political leaders for twice as long as if they physically assaulted them!

The New Authoritarians.  [Scroll down]  During lockdowns and vaccine mandates, tech and pharmaceutical companies made astronomical profits and were aided and abetted at every turn by their pajama-class foot soldiers.  While lockdowns plunged millions of Americans into conditions of unemployment, despair, and hunger, it gave professionals a luxury:  a time to rest at home and be free from stressors like commuting.  As billionaires saw their wealth surge, the upper-middle class stayed silent or complicit. [...] This silencing had serious repercussions.  It is now commonly acknowledged, for example, that school closures were a mistake, but those who spoke up early lost friends, jobs, and opportunities.  What is dismissed as cancel culture is actually central to the authoritarian project.  A new idea ("flatten the curve," "save Grandma," "two weeks to stop the spread") can be introduced at any moment, and if it's framed as morally necessary and unquestionable, it will receive resounding support from the most well-educated class.

Neil Oliver Emphasizes — Once You See the Weaponized Political Corruption, You Cannot Unsee It.  In his weekly monologue, Neil Oliver takes the stories we have outlined on these pages over the past week and weaves them into a comprehensive context.  Once you see the manipulation and lies from government, you can never unsee them.  However, the opposite is also true; once you see the truth, you can never not see it — and that sets up a very specific situation.  Once you know the truth about a series of events or issues, you can easily see the people who pretend not to know it.  I think the reason I like Oliver is because he uses metaphors and analogies in his monologues to connect issues to a picture of what they really mean.  I try to do the same in writing.  Oliver takes the recent information and shows how it is all connected.  From COVID madness to the western govt lies, that drive us toward war with Russia, it's all connected; and we can see it.  [Video clip]

Digital Money and Liberty.  One thing learned from the COVID-19 medical tyranny was there were a couple of libertarians in Congress, but there were no Constitutional conservatives anywhere in Washington, D.C.  Further, the 2020 election highlighted that one of the two major political parties has abandoned classical liberalism in lieu of progressivism.  Progressivism having no limits, progressives have devolved into fascists.  This fascism embraces socialism with government control of nominally private businesses by means of regulations and taxes.  Also, by its nature, progressive fascism is intolerant of political opponents and free speech.

The Real 'Reset' Is Coming.  President Joe Biden believes the Ukraine war will mark the start of a "new world order."  In the middle of the COVID global pandemic, Klaus Schwab and global elites likewise announced a "great reset."  Accordingly, the nations of the world would have to surrender their sovereignty to an international body of experts.  They would enlighten us on taxes, diversity and green policies.  When former President Donald Trump got elected in 2016, marquee journalists announced partisan reporting would have to displace the old, supposedly disinterested approach to the news.  There is a common theme here.  In normal times progressives worry that they do not have public support for their policies.  Only in crises do they feel that the political Left and media can merge to use apocalyptic times to ram through usually unpopular approaches to foreign and domestic problems.

First, They Came For Our Cars ....  If government authorities can shut down an economy and rob Americans of their freedom with lockdowns and mask and vaccine mandates over a virus, then they can, and will, do the same for a crisis, either real or manufactured, in the future.  This was a common warning over the last two years that was of course considered misinformation, disinformation, and just plain nonsense by what has become known as the laptop class. [...] The International Energy Agency has introduced a 10-point plan "to ease strains and price pain" brought on by low oil supply due to the war in Ukraine.  The Paris-based organization that is reliably on the left, as it isn't explicitly right-wing, suggests "Car-free Sundays in cities," "Alternate private car access to roads in large cities," and "reinforcement" of "the adoption of electric and more efficient vehicles."  The IEA also wants lower speed limits, less business travel, and more public transportation.  The plan, says Climate Depot's Marc Morano, "sounds an awful lot like an energy version of COVID lockdowns."

More Than 100 People [in Germany] Have Their Homes Raided by Police After Insulting Politicians Online.  Tuesday [3/22/2022], German officials searched and questioned more than a hundred individuals for hate speech on social media during election campaigns of 2021.  More than 600 statements were analyzed and checked for criminal contents, according to police chief Holger Muench, The Local reported.  "Freedom of expression reaches its limits as soon as it comes to defamation, insults and threats," Muench said.  With Tuesday's action, he said officials are making it clear that "anyone who posts hate speech must expect the police to show up at their door," he said.

We Will Delete You.  Before beating a hasty retreat, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau went where no world leader has gone before.  Last month, he became the first Western leader to wield the financial system as a push-button weapon of government enforcement against opinions and behaviors that he found politically distasteful or inconvenient.  This is an entirely new form of power, which much of the world has not even begun to reckon with — but which may well define our politics in the years to come.  The unification of finance and technology has allowed for new forms of trade, commerce, and business.  The ability to make purchases worldwide, bank from home, do taxes on your couch, and get faster approval for financial instruments like mortgages makes our lives easier.  But all of this comes with a catch:  The same technology that delivers instant banking and worldwide access to things we like also creates the possibility for abuse of power the likes of which we have never seen.

Man Told by an Officer That He Could Enter the Capitol on Jan. 6 Now Faces 20 Years in Prison.  On Jan. 6, 2021, a protestor, 40-year-old Brady Knowlton, says that an officer at the Capitol told "You can go in, as long as you don't break anything."  At 2:35 p.m., Knowlton did, entering through the Upper West Terrace doors.  He looked around inside the building, walked through the Rotunda, lobby, and Senate chamber gallery, obeyed the officer's injunction not to break anything, and left the building at 2:53 p.m.  For that, Knowlton now faces twenty years in prison in Old Joe Biden's vengeful banana republic.

The Three Cs Preventing Total State Control.  If you were a time-traveling supervillain intent on world domination, how might you change the past in order to seize total control of the present?  I'd get rid of the personal automobile, unsupervised cash transactions, and uncontrolled mass communication.  If you take away freedom of movement, freedom of commerce, and freedom of speech, then you can keep people isolated, dependent on government welfare, and ignorant of any ideas that might threaten the power of the State.  Cars, cash, and communication are tools for promoting and protecting freedom, so if your goal is total State control over the individual, the three big Cs must go.  Is it a coincidence, then, that Western governments today seem committed to following that very playbook?

Conformity and 'Community': Fertile Ground for Tyranny.  Many were shocked to witness the Canadian government's brutal suppression of the truckers' protest against vaccine mandates.  Previously, draconian lockdowns oppressed many more Canadians, resulting in the arrest of pastors for holding church services. [...] These days unthinking conformity is on the rise.  In Canada and elsewhere, the Orwellian euphemism often used to promote a type of enforced, top-down conformity is "community."  It really does not denote any real community but rather the mass of people who submit meekly to high-handed authoritarian decrees.  Consequently, they are rewarded with official and social approval.  The rest can be ostracized as selfish misfits and troublemakers.

First, Do Some Harm.  Until now, the people in full control of the minds of our youth have been the army of 31-year-old TikTok-and-Adderall addicts with multiple piercings and furry fetishes and baroque multisyllabic pronouns who seem to work at every preschool and elementary school in the country.  I don't know where these weirdos come from, but I want to thank the China-owned TikTok app for giving them a platform on which to expose themselves. [...] But don't get too comfortable.  A new, even more powerful enemy has entered the game: the pediatric industrial complex.  This battle is going to be more difficult.  Why?  Because if your school is bad, at least you can switch schools or homeschool.  But unless you went to med school and can write prescriptions, stitch a wound, and reset a dislocated shoulder, you can't home-doctor.  Teaching multiplication is one thing, diagnosing pediatric cancer is quite another.

Texas Congressman Warns Of Biden's Illegal Federal Gun Registry.  Representative Michael Cloud (R-TX) is raising awareness on a growing problem within America:  The State's violation of God-given, natural rights to protect life, liberty, and property.  Representative Cloud made a recent appearance on NTD's Capitol Report and shared some alarming news about the encroachment of the federal government to monitor, track, record, and potentially act upon knowledge of gun sales and purchases.  It seems obvious that in the wrong hands, information about gun ownership could quickly turn into a bloody mess.  Would guns be outrageously taxed?  Confiscated?  To what end would they pursue goals of civilian disarmament?

Bedford: We Gave Away Our Freedoms 2 Years Ago, And The GOP Won't Get Them Back.  "It wasn't a virus which is not going to go away; it was the human action, the things we've surrendered," Federalist Senior Editor Christopher Bedford told Tucker Carlson on Fox News.  "And all across the entire Western world, our relationships with our own teachers, our relationships with our politicians, with our media, with our police, with our priests, even with our children and our parents have been fundamentally altered in a way that was largely chosen by our elites.  Forced upon us in a completely hypocritical fashion."  [Video clip]

Whose Democracy Is This, Anyway?  Democrats have been insisting that "our democracy is under attack" ever since Donald Trump's upset election in 2016. [...] It's the official position of the Biden administration that January 6 conclusively proves questioning the election outcome or any other talk that "sow[s] discord or undermine[s] public trust in U.S. government institutions" guarantees more right-wing "[m]ass casualty attacks."  This is their pretext to justify police-state tactics against any political opponent they choose. [...] Neither the Left nor their lapdog media can endure hoi polloi challenging their official narratives.  This is why so many Joe Biden speeches feature scripted outbursts of faux rage that he's "sick of this stuff" and his "patience is wearing thin."  But the Left has worn the people's patience even thinner — by unleashing a hundred official narratives that have, virtually every one, been exposed as cynical hoaxes.  They've picked the wrong time to break ground for their dreamed-of Ministry of Truth.

Does Anyone Recognize This Country Anymore?  The left, especially its progressive wing of radicals that is taking over the Democratic Party, wants America to be just another country, yet one in which a loud, power-hungry, elitist mob, with the support of an army of useful idiots, rules over everyone else.  The current remaking of America differs from the 1960s upheaval in a number of ways.  The most prominent, though, would be today's war on the First Amendment.  The desire to control speech, and eventually thought, has created a dynamic in which Big Tech acts as a government agent to censor speech unapproved by the ruling class.  "A growing number of governments are asserting their authority over tech firms, often forcing the businesses to comply with online censorship and surveillance," reports Freedom House.  "These developments have contributed to an unprecedented assault on free expression online, causing global internet freedom to decline for an 11th consecutive year."

New Rules on Extremism — DHS Will Target Anyone Who Believes Election Was Stolen or Who Challenged Fauci's Everchanging COVID Narrative.  In Joe Biden's first year in office over 2 million illegal aliens from dozens of countries walked into the United States across the southern border.  The numbers this year look even greater.  Joe Biden and DHS Secretary Mayorkas immediately opened up the US southern border after they came into office.  Biden also set another record.  Only 59,011 illegals were deported his first year in office.  This was the lowest number since 1995.

The Real Reason Why Biden Wants to Spend Billions on Pre-K.  During his State of the Union Address, President Biden rebranded the failed Build Back Better bill as his bill that would cut inflation, grow the economy, lower costs, and lower deficits.  Then he added that his plan would include universal — free — "Pre-K for every 3- and 4-year-old."  This is appealing to families struggling with high daycare costs so they can work.  Others wrongly believe that children need to be in formal school as early as possible.  Few Americans realize that government control over the rearing and education of young children is a key communist goal for turning our nation toward totalitarianism.

If You Thought The COVID Thought Police Were Bad, You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet.  The COVID pandemic unleashed Big Tech censors in a big way.  Day after day, a handful of 20-something Silicon Valley leftists tweaked their algorithms to block, demonetize, and de-platform anyone who dared say anything that wasn't in sync with government talking points, on the grounds that such "misinformation" posed a serious threat to public health. [...] Already, Big Tech is sharpening its algorithms to go after the next target — imposing speech codes regarding "climate science."  A new report from a United Nations global warming "working group" complains that "misinformation" spread on social media poses a dire threat to humans because it's contributing to "delayed action."  "Rhetoric and misinformation on climate change and the deliberate undermining of science have contributed to misperceptions of the scientific consensus, uncertainty, disregarded risk and urgency, and dissent," the report says, and "has sowed uncertainty, and impeded recognition of risk."

In Wisconsin, a fight over whether children belong to the state or the parents.  In 1991, the European release of Zero Wing, a Sega video game, contained a now-classic badly translated phrase:  "All your base are belong to us."  In the massive battle shaping up across America, public school districts are metaphorically carrying a banner saying "All your children are belong to us" in their battle against parents over children's gender (not to mention racial issues).  What's happening in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, exemplifies this battle and can be summed up in a sentence from a staff training session:  "[P]arents are not entitled to know their kids' [gender] identities.  That knowledge must be earned."  That arrogant message came from a "professional development facilitator guide" that was used in the school district at a staff development session: [...]

Researchers Working On Algorithm To Diagnose You With Mental Illness Based On Internet Posts.  Researchers at liberal Dartmouth College have created an artificial intelligence model that identifies mental illnesses based on Reddit discussions, the college announced.  Critics of the AI modelling claim its another step on the path to introducing a social credit score, like China, in which citizens are controlled.  Others claim the AI model will pave the way for citizens and internet users to be imprisoned in "cyber Gulags" for daring to disagree with mainstream media narratives.

Google, Apple cut off access to ordinary Russians, meaning they can do the same to Americans at any time.  In another ominous sign that the big tech behemoths have way too much power and control over the lives of ordinary people, Apple and Google have now cut off Russians from their payment platforms, which is already causing mayhem in their country.  As noted by Irish journalist Jason Corcoran in a tweeted image, commuters at Moscow's Metro Station had difficulty paying for their ride after they discovered the platforms no longer functioned.  "Apple Pay and Google Pay no longer work on Moscow's metro system, leading to long queues as people fumble about for cash," tweeted Corcoran.

Surgeon General Asks Social Media Companies for Target List of COVID Skeptics and Influencers.  Dr. Vivek H. Murthy, Vice Admiral, U.S. Public Health Service Surgeon General of the United States, is married to a woman named Dr. Alice Tu Chen.  If you look into the past of the surgeon general's wife, you will discover Alice Chen is essentially a ghost — from the perspective of: who were her parents, where is her family?  The lack of early childhood, parental and familial history is a key characteristic of CCP plants in the U.S.  When the U.S. Dept of Justice recently announced they were dropping the Chinese spy initiative, a program to review how CCP officials had been working for years to seed the U.S. with Chinese operatives, indications are the DOJ motive was connected to serious internal discoveries surrounding the wife of the U.S. Surgeon General, Alice Chen.  I do not say this lightly.  Unfortunately, a tangential outcome from eliminating the FBI "China Initiative', is recognizing we now have a completely compromised U.S. Surgeon General who is a controlled mechanism for the Fourth Branch of Government to leverage.

Rebellion To Tyrants Is Obedience To God.  As repugnant as Western governments' responses have been to COVID, traditional friends of freedom have been equally disheartening.  Civil rights groups have remained silent while the Bill of Rights is trampled, or worse, they have encouraged the government's abusive tyranny as in the best interests of the "common good."  Journalists have continued to prove their worthlessness in keeping government institutions in check by refusing to question, let alone investigate, the "facts" health agencies assert or the effectiveness of blunt force government-imposed "solutions."  The Globe and Mail has gone so far as to demonize the "ugly side of freedom" embraced by those who simply want the State to leave them alone.  And perhaps most disappointing of all, church leaders have, with few exceptions, abandoned their flocks by submitting to lockdowns and other unconstitutional bars against religious gatherings in the misguided belief that civil authorities must be unquestionably obeyed.

Things Are Getting Worse, Not Better.  Easily distracted by wall-to-wall news coverage of the latest crisis and conveniently diverted by news cycles that change every few days, Americans remain oblivious to the many governmental abuses that are still wreaking havoc on our freedoms: police shootings of unarmed individuals, invasive surveillance, roadside blood draws, roadside strip searches, SWAT team raids gone awry, the military industrial complex's costly wars, pork barrel spending, pre-crime laws, civil asset forfeiture, fusion centers, militarization, armed drones, smart policing carried out by AI robots, courts that march in lockstep with the police state, schools that function as indoctrination centers, and bureaucrats that keep the Deep State in power.  These are dangerous times for America and the world.

Walling Off Washington From the Great Unwashed.  Recently, after meeting with congressional Democrats, the United States Capitol Police initiated "extra security" precautions for Tuesday's State of the Union address.  The USCP is coordinating with the District of Columbia Metropolitan Police, the United States Park Police, the Secret Service and the National Guard.  Included in their preparations is the construction of a 7-foot fence around the Capitol building and the deployment of 50 tactical military vehicles.  The purported need for all this security involves "The People's Convoy," a procession of truckers crossing the country to protest the ongoing use of COVID-19 as a pretext for restricting American civil liberties.  Never mind that the convoy's press release says it won't arrive in the Beltway area until days after the SOTU is delivered, and that it won't enter the District of Columbia, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is monitoring the situation "very closely."

GOP Senators Object To Proposal To Label Mask Objectors 'Terrorists'.  More than half a dozen Republican senators penned a letter last week demanding the Department of Justice (DOJ) reject a request to stamp those who protest airplane mask mandates as "terrorists."  Earlier this month, Delta Air Lines' CEO Ed Bastian asked the DOJ to add travelers convicted of "unruly" conduct to a new "no-fly" list barring access to commercial air transport.  Such conduct warranting the same expulsion granted to suspected terrorists include those who've resisted compliance with mask requirements, which made up nearly three-quarters of airplane disputes last year, according to data from the Federal Aviation Administration published by CNBC.  "Like other airlines, Delta maintains its own no-fly list for anyone who disrupts onboard safety or refuses to comply with crew instructions," Bastian wrote in a Washington Post op-ed Tuesday doubling down on his request.

Saying You're 'Colorblind' About Race Is Now Considered Racist By The Federal Government.  A race-based training program used by federal agencies claims, among other things, that saying one is "colorblind" to race is itself racist.  The training is part of a newly revealed federal diversity program that greatly expands on previously critical race theory trainings within the federal government, the Washington Examiner reported.  Part of the expansion comes in the form of opposing "microaggressions," or words and actions by one person that unintentionally upset another.  As the Examiner noted, training provided to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau says that offering a black student a basketball is considered offensive.  "Not only are federal workers urged to consider what they say, but also how their comments are received.  In one chart, a white male is shown saying he is 'colorblind.'  The black woman shown beside, however, takes as an insult that the white is denying her 'racial/cultural being,'" the Examiner reported.  "And, it advised men, don't interrupt a woman speaking because they hear, 'Women's ideas are not valued.'"

The State's Monopoly on Violence.  [Scroll down]  I live in downtown Toronto and everywhere I go I see police cars blocking of intersections, impeding or actually stopping traffic.  There are so many of them that even the vehicles of parking constables and court agents have been commandeered into use.  They haven't recruited the dog catchers yet — at least not in Toronto but in Ottawa they have indeed started impounding the truckers' pets under the pretense that the truckers are unable to take care of them.  There is no truckers convoy here in Toronto.  For some months now there have been entirely peaceful marches, first protesting vaccine mandates and then demanding freedom in general, that have ended up in front of the provincial legislature.  These police cars are a warning:  don't start up because if you do, we are ready for you with the entire force of the state.  What they say is that the state has a monopoly on violence and will do everything it can to preserve it.

Cops, convoys, conservatives, and tyranny.  [Scroll down]  The behavior of the Canadian cops against the truckers and their supporters is shameful and alarming.  And I fear that we'll see the same thing in the U.S.  We've already seen examples of it, like parents being manhandled and branded as domestic terrorists for daring to criticize school boards.  What's all the more shameful and alarming, not to mention ironic, is that the ordinary citizens being targeted by police are the very people who supported the police when they were being ambushed and murdered and police stations were being burned; [...] If a law were to pass tomorrow making it illegal to be left-handed, I fear that SWAT teams would be knocking down doors and dragging out anyone suspected of being, or harboring, a southpaw.  Tyranny is difficult to impose without heavy-handed enforcement.  What we've seen in Canada, and what I fear we'll see even more of in the U.S., causes one to no longer wonder where a tyrannical regime manages to find its Gestapo, its Stasi, its jackbooted thugs; they're already in place, uniformed, armed and well-regimented.

Canada Isn't Alone in Using Debanking As a Weapon Against Political Opponents.  Canada may be the future for many Americans.  The Canadian government is freezing the bank accounts of truckers involved in the freedom protest.  But on Thursday, they went even further, freezing the bank accounts and blocking credit cards and crypto wallets for people and institutions in Canada who donated to support the truckers.  Without credit cards or checks and no access to financial institutions, people better hope that they have lots of cash at home.  This is being done even without court orders.  It is bad enough that financial institutions freeze donors' accounts.  Still, to get an idea of how extreme this is, they are punishing people who donated to the truckers even before the Trudeau government condemned the truckers' actions.  But this isn't just something that happens in our neighbor Canada.  Indeed, Biden is using all the regulatory tools at his disposal to "debank" those industries he doesn't like.

America Has Two Major Political Parties:  The Republicans And The Authoritarians.  Yearning to breathe free has become an offense in Canada punishable by arrest.  The extreme measures taken by boy Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in breaking up the truckers' protest should appall every person in this country.  But one group of Americans overwhelmingly approves of Trudeau's jackbooted crackdown.  In another time they'd be called the agents of tyranny, but for now they're still known as Democrats.  Rather than sitting down with the truckers demonstrating in Ottawa to civilly discuss their grievances and seek a peaceful end to their takeover of the capital's downtown, Trudeau instead launched "an unprecedented violation of civil rights."  A "giant security force" was "amassed to quell the demonstration," writes Canadian Laura Koot, managing editor of The National, which covers the Middle East.  She went "from feeling great pride for my home country to being filled with shame and horror" in the course of a week.

France Deactivates 4 Million Vaccine Passports.  This past week, the French Government began deactivating the vaccine passports of nearly four million double-vaxxed citizens because they still have not taken the booster, according to France News 24.  Individuals who have had their passes taken away will effectively be relegated to unvaxxed status and no longer be able to engage in most aspects of society.  Although some are willing to take the booster, most were caught completely off guard when they checked their app and found their privileges had been revoked.

Tyranny: Canadian Parliament Votes for Emergencies Act Motion.  The Canadian Parliament voted Monday night to approve Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's motion to invoke the Emergencies Act by a vote of 185 for and 151 against.  Trudeau invoked the Act, an unprecedented move, last week claiming it necessary to dispel peaceful protests linked to the Freedom Convoy movement, which is demanding an end to civil rights violations by the Trudeau government allegedly necessary to fight the Chinese coronavirus.  At press time on Monday, no active Freedom Convoy protests exist anywhere in Canada.  The motion to uphold the invocation of emergency powers by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau passed in a vote in the Canadian House of Commons on Monday, with the Liberal Party and the NDP and other allies garnering 181 votes for the motion.

The Permanent Emergency.  In Ottawa, the Totalitarian Mammy-Singer continues his trashing of Canadian norms and institutions.  During Friday afternoon's Clubland Q&A, we heard that our colleague and sometime guest-host Andrew Lawton had been pepper-sprayed by the shameful Ottawa coppers.  He had to go to emergency, and was eventually discharged from hospital just before dawn on Saturday.  Andrew being Andrew, he got straight back to work reporting what was happening on the streets around Parliament — and promptly caught a second hit from the peelers.  He is now boasting that he has strong "natural immunity" to pepper.  It isn't really funny, though, is it?  As officers of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police put it in a leaked "group chat", "Time for the protestors to hear our jackboots on the ground."  These and other remarks by constables purporting to enjoy the equine trampling of an elderly woman are now being "investigated" by the RCMP.  But there doesn't really seem to be a lot to "investigate", does there?  Police brutality is out in the open — because two percent of those who see it are outraged, and everyone else just gets the message and figures, "Whoa, better keep my head down till the storm passes..."  It won't.

Canadian Communists and Socialists Unite to Declare Support for Emergency War Declaration Against Canadian Citizens, Parliament Approves Emergency Act 185 to 151.  The Communists (NDP) and the Socialists (LPC) united in the Canadian House of Parliament today [2/21/2022] to vote their support for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's deployment of the Emergency War Measures Act.  The vote was 185 in support and 151 against, as the Canadian government now officially declares war against citizens who protested against government.  The parliamentary support of the Emergency War Measures Act now gives the government the authority to hunt down their political opposition, arrest any dissident member who may have petitioned their government with grievances against the covid mandates, and begin seizing the financial assets of anyone who might still challenge the government mandates of Justin Trudeau.

Canadian Parliament Votes to Extend Emergencies Act for 30 Days.  The Canadian House of Commons voted Monday night to approve a 30-day extension of the Emergencies Act, which Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently invoked for the first time since its passage in 1988 to quash the trucker blockade in Ottawa protesting the cross-border vaccine mandate.  After hours of debate, the vote on the "motion for confirmation of the declaration of emergency" passed along partisan lines, with 185 members voting "yay" and 151 members voting "nay."  The vast majority of Liberal and New Democratic Leader party members voted to extend the law, and the vast majority of Conservatives and the Bloc Québécois voted to suspend it.

The Fall of Canada, The Danger in the US: Understanding Martial Law.  [Scroll down]  Parliamentarians in Canada do not seem to understand that now their former colleague, Justin Trudeau, can arrest not just truckers, whose lawful protest has been declared illegal, but also the Parliamentarians themselves.  This is, sadly, the next step in this kind of drama, historically.  It is an extraordinarily dangerous sign that Parliament is not seated.  When the Australian Parliament was suspended, by the time they reconvened, their powers had been dramatically curtailed.  Tyrants seek to normalize the convening of Parliaments as "optional" or to suspend normal Parliamentary processes long enough to hollow out a legislative body's deliberative powers, and to ensure that when and if a Parliament (or a Congress, for that matter) meets again, it will be merely a ceremonial assembly.  Parliamentarians in Canada also do not seem to understand that "dictator" is no longer rhetorical.  A member of Parliament was shushed when he cried out this epithet, but the fact is that this is not a slur at this point.  Justin Trudeau is by definition now in fact a dictator.

Is Canada Becoming Cuba?  Last week, for only the second time in Canadian history other than wartime — the first time was under Justin Trudeau's father, Pierre Trudeau, the other Marxist to govern Canada — Justin Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act.  This statute enables a Canadian prime minister to suspend fundamental human rights and rule as a dictator.  The CBC described in detail how Trudeau is using the Emergencies Act to destroy the lives of Canadian dissidents.  This should be read carefully.  Such policies have never been enacted by a Western country against its own citizens (with the extremely rare exceptions of those actively engaged in terrorism):  "Using powers granted under the Emergencies Act, the federal government has directed banks and other financial institutions to stop doing business with people associated with the anti-vaccine mandate convoy occupying the nation's capital.  The government's new directive, called the 'emergency economic measures order,' goes beyond asking banks to simply stop transferring funds to protest organizers.  The government wants banks to stop doing business with some people altogether.["]

Poll: Majority Of Democrats Back Trudeau's Crackdown, Freezing Bank Accounts Of Truckers.  A majority of likely Democratic voters support Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's use of emergency powers to crack down on Freedom Convoy protesters last week.  A new poll from Trafalgar Group and Convention of States Action and provided exclusively to The Daily Wire shows that 55% of likely general election voters disapprove of Trudeau's handling of the protesters.  Thirty-five percent approve of Trudeau's heavy-handed tactics and 10% said they were unaware of what was happening north of the U.S. border.  Trafalgar Group surveyed 1080 likely general election voters from February 18-20 after Trudeau brought federal, provincial, and local law enforcement into Ottawa to forcibly clear out hundreds of protesters and dozens of vehicles from Parliament Hill and surrounding areas.  The poll's margin of error is 3%.

The Democrats Are Turning America into the New Venezuela.  The Bill of Rights is very clear and does not have any stipulations pertaining to the Second Amendment.  There are no conditions attached to the Second Amendment, such as the type of firearm, number of bullets in the magazine, caliber size, manufacturer, or how many firearms you can have on you or in your home.  The Second Amendment clearly states that the citizens of the United States have the right to keep and bear arms.  It's that simple.  Nothing more.  Nothing less.  The Democrats use every opportunity, no matter how minuscule the connection might be, to oppose the right to keep and bear arms for law-abiding citizens. [...] All dictatorships start this way: take control away from the people, make them defenseless, own them.  It's modern-day slavery.  It's not slavery as in a private master and slave.  It's the state owning its people.  Gun control is people control and the taxpayers pay for it.  This is the truth and it's up to you what you do with it but demand your God-given right to keep and bear arms and to freedom of speech.

Requiem for a Nation.  It may seem hard to believe that America's neighbor to the north is now a full-fledged, up-and-running police state.  Heavily-armed police are arresting and, in some cases, roughing up, severely beating, and trampling with horses members of the truckers' Freedom Convoy in Ottawa as well as bystanders.  The country has gone off the rails.  Justin Trudeau's ineffable Justice Minister David Lametti is on record threatening those who hold the wrong political views that they are liable to have their bank accounts seized.  "If you are a member of a pro-Trump movement who is donating hundreds of thousands of dollars, and millions of dollars to this kind of thing," he said, "then you ought to be worried."  The assumption that Trump has something to do with Canadian trucker donations seems particularly unhinged.  Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, who sits on the board of Klaus Schwab's World Economic Forum — an obvious conflict of interest — has moved to freeze the bank accounts and other financial instruments of the "protesters" and private citizens who have donated to the trucker fund.

UN Planes In Ontario, North Bay - Shocked Canadians Believe They Carry The "Green Shirt" Officers In Ottawa.  Who would have thought that Canada would ever be a spark plug for a freedom movement against tyranny?  Everything started when Ottawa's police chief was ousted amid criticism of his inaction against the trucker protests that have paralyzed Canada's capital for over two weeks, while the number of blockades maintained by demonstrators at the U.S. border dropped to just one.  The twin developments came a day after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked Canada's Emergencies Act and threatened to take tough legal and financial measures to end the unrest in Ottawa and beyond by protesters decrying the country's COVID-19 restrictions and Trudeau's government.  Ottawa Police Chief Peter Sloly lost his job after failing to move decisively against the bumper-to-bumper demonstration by hundreds of truck drivers according to the mainstream media.  Local sources alleged that he just didn't want to follow orders that would require stomping on Canada's democracy!

The Reason for the Police Violence in Ottawa is Not What You Think.  The black clad army of mercenaries and police brutalizing a peaceful protest in Ottawa this weekend has been planned for years.  It is overkill for a reason.  It is theatre.  It is an othering, a willful flagrant statement on the future of the working class everywhere.  It instructs them:  you will die.  If not now, then sometime in the next ten years.  Your towns will be gutted, your jobs will evaporate, you will scramble for pennies until you fall over dead and your children will have nothing to look forward to.  You are Tutsi, you are Jew, you are Kulak, you are compromador, you are Othered.  You are headed for the slagheap of history.  Fight back and you will be deemed domestic terrorists and encamped indefinitely.  This week, Canada's intelligentsia unmasked themselves as fully on side of this demonic enterprise, competing to hate on the truckers.

A Social Credit System Arrives in Canada.  For the past three weeks, thousands of truckers have gathered in Ottawa and along the Canada-America border in protest of Covid restrictions and mandates.  Rather than engage with them or listen to their concerns, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau first denounced them as having "unacceptable views."  Then he demonized them as white supremacists, racists, and "swastika wavers."  On Monday, the rhetoric turned to action when Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act.  This heretofore-unused 1988 law gives the government virtually unlimited power for 30 days to deal with a crisis.  Invoking the law under the present circumstance would require the threat or use of "serious violence," yet the vast majority of protesters have been entirely peaceful — playing "We Are the World" and waving Maple Leaf flags.  Indeed, the government has made little attempt to justify the need for emergency powers beyond Trudeau's frequent bemoaning of the truckers' alleged "hateful rhetoric."  His public safety minister Marco Mendocino stated that such extraordinary measures were necessary due to "intimidation, harassment, and expressions of hate."  Perhaps he doesn't realize that none of these are listed in the law as valid reasons to invoke it.  Trudeau escalated things further on Tuesday night, when he issued a new directive called the Emergency Economic Measures Order.

Canadian MP says single mom on minimum wage has had her bank account frozen for donating $50 to Freedom Convoy.  A Canadian MP says the bank account of a single mom with a minimum wage job has been frozen after she donated $50 to Freedom Convoy.  Conservative lawmaker Mark Strahl says the mom, named only as Briane, has had her life ruined for donating the small sum to the anti-vaccine mandates protest.  Strahl shared Brianne's story as concerns grow that scores of ordinary people will no longer be able to pay for food and basics after their accounts were frozen for donating to a group of protesters.

The Left Goes Full Orwell.  "Freedom," warned the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, which is funded by the Trudeau government, is a word that has "become common among far-right groups."  To prove its point, the CBC quoted Elisabeth Anker, a George Washington University prof, who claimed that freedom is a "slippery concept" and that those on the right want "violent" freedoms that reject being "bound by norms of equality" or "norms to remedy inequality." [...] In George Orwell's 1984, the Ministry of Truth is decorated with party slogans that include, "Freedom is Slavery" and "Ignorance is Strength." The organization was based on the actual British Ministry of Information which Orwell had a great deal of experience with while working for the wartime BBC even while his wife worked for the Ministry's censorship division.  Orwell would not have been in the least surprised by state media trotting out an academic who regularly appears on state media (including that of totalitarian nations such as Qatar) to explain that freedom is really a very naughty thing even as the state crushes a "Freedom Convoy" using emergency powers that were meant to deal with wartime emergencies, not peaceful protests.  But "Freedom is Slavery" propaganda has become extremely ubiquitous on the Left.

MSNBC Reporter Admits Democratic Base Doesn't Want to Go Back to 'Normal'.  This is really a remarkable admission from MSNBC reporter Alex Seitz-Wald, who gave a grim assessment of the Democrats' challenge in lifting COVID-19 restrictions across the board and returning the United States to some sense of "normal."  A recent poll showed a whopping 65% of Democrats who believe it "too early to rescind mask mandates" as opposed to just 20% of Republicans who think that way.  How does that mesh with Democratic governors who are in the process of lifting mask mandates in their states?

With media targeting truckers' donors, say goodbye to anonymous free speech.  In Canada, first the doxing, then the struggle session.  This week, one of the most popular small-donor fundraising sites for the Canadian truckers protesting the COVID vaccine mandates, GiveSendGo, was hacked.  The names of donors were shared with the public.  We know about this mostly because erstwhile news organizations, such as Reuters, have showered attention on the breach as if they were providing a public service.  Indeed, many of the same outlets that refused to report specifics about the Hunter Biden email scoop in 2020 (though the story was obtained in a completely ethical journalistic manner) or share specifics from the Democratic National Committee email hacks in 2016 (illegally obtained, but with high news value) have no compunction highlighting a site that takes aim at ordinary people who have done nothing but engage in political dissent.

The Power of the Powerless Is Real.  The growing tyranny in the West has not happened overnight.  It did not suddenly arrive at our doorsteps with the Chinese Flu.  It has been a nightmare decades in the making.  The difference today is that previously slumbering citizens once sublimely content in the normal humdrum of their lives are waking up to realize that the enemies from our past have returned with a vengeance.  Free speech is treated as dangerous.  Western governments, corporations, and social media platforms engage in rampant censorship.  Race and sexual identity are used as the defining attributes of a person to the exclusion of talent, character, and achievement.  Teachers' unions openly demand the right to indoctrinate children according to the interests of the State.  Parents are threatened for believing that their children belong to them.  The criminal justice system is used as a place to punish political opponents and to protect political friends.  Religious expression is outlawed.  Leftists' "secularized religion" is imposed.  Freedom is disparaged as "right-wing."  Coercion has replaced consent.  Victimhood has replaced virtue.  Conformity has replaced individuality.  "Correct" thinking has replaced freethinking.  "Social justice" has replaced real justice.  And the protection of government has become more important than the protection of human rights.

The Democracy Disconnect in Canada Highlights a Big Mistake Conservatives Make.  Somewhere there is a radical called Saul Alinsky, the trainer of modern revolutionary communists and political leftists — who dedicated his training manual to Lucifer, smiling as he watches the results of his teachings.  Unfortunately, we have not yet seen the worst of what is to come from this.  Allow me to highlight the point with two easily referenced examples from Canadian media (infiltrated with ideological stenographers) and contemplate the larger message against government saying we must "defend our democracy" while removing political protest.  Notice the evolution of the collective narrative in just a few days.  The word "freedom" is extremist (Feb 13) ... Conservatives are "extremist" (Feb 18)  [Tweets]  When "freedom and liberty" are defined as extremism, conservatives become defined as extremists.  See how that works?  Yes, linguistic judo and ideological training provided by Saul Alinsky, in his rules for radicals.  In essence, Alinsky taught the budding communists to define the opposition, isolate them, ridicule them and marginalize them.

The Message to Canadian Truckdrivers from Archbishop Vigano is Even More Important Today.  "If we do not limit ourselves to consider what happened in individual nations, but broaden our gaze to what has happened everywhere, your protest, dear Canadian truck-driver friends, joins a worldwide chorus that wants to oppose the establishment of the new world order on the rubble of nation states, through the Great Reset, designed by the World Economic Forum and by the United Nations under the name of Agenda 2030.  And we know that many heads of government have participated in Klaus Schwab's School for Young Leaders, the so-called Global Leaders for Tomorrow."  [Video clip]

Ottawa Police Chief "It is now unlawful to protest against government, 100 checkpoints have been established".  The interim police chief of Ottawa, Comrade Steve Bell, made it clear today that he and the residents of Ottawa are "sick" of the protesters.  Therefore, effective immediately, no Canadian citizen will be permitted to access, enter or walk lawfully in the downtown Ottawa area.  "100 police checkpoints have been established" Bell said, and citizens are being questioned about the reason for their travel.  Additionally, within his current authority as the regional guard for government, he has been authorized to offer "safe passage" out of the area for any current protestor or dissident supporter.  However, if people do not exit the area within this current window of amnesty, the safety of the remaining citizens cannot be guaranteed as heavily armed tactical operations begin.

Police in Ottawa make mass arrests, beat protesters as Trudeau's crackdown continues.  In the wake of the Trudeau administration invoking emergency powers that allow the police to act outside of their normal scope, authorities are moving in on downtown Ottawa on Friday, making arrests and, in some cases, being physically violent with protestors.  Ottawa police have reported that at least 70 people have been arrested thus far.  In the video, police can be seen treating a protestor brutally.  At one point, an officer rams his knee into the man's torso repeatedly, causing him to collapse eventually.  [Video clip]

Justin Trudeau:  Fidel Castro's Son.  The rumors have been circulating for years:  it's easy to find side-by-side photographic comparisons of Fidel Castro and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, showing the strong physical resemblance between the two.  This rattles the establishment media to the extent that they "debunk" it regularly.  Last Saturday, the New York Times ran a piece entitled:  "An old falsehood resurfaces:  that Justin Trudeau is Fidel Castro's son."  On Tuesday, the Daily Beast chimed in with "Truckers Resurrect Bananas Theory About Trudeau's Real Dad."  True to form for the establishment media, neither addressed the points journalist Karen Leibowitcz made in favor of the claim in 2020, but while the question is interesting, what is far more important is that whatever the true story of his parentage may be, in bringing authoritarian rule to Canada, Justin Trudeau has now shown himself to be the ideological son of Fidel Castro.  No one should be surprised by this.  Trudeau has a long record of affinity for authoritarian governments.

Have At 'Em, Antifa!  The New Free Speech.  [Scroll down]  have long maintained that the left never truly cared about free speech.  They merely pretended to in order to protect the people they actually supported:  communists and pornographers.  That was the sort of "speech" that used to get banned.  But today, the speech that gets banned includes statements like:  There are only two genders; Maybe we shouldn't defund the police; Affirmative action is unjust; Masks don't work — No they work!  No, they don't work! Also, apparently, speech asserting that mass immigration has not been an unalloyed good for our country, contributing to our prosperity, cohesiveness and happiness.  One of Justice William Brennan's hallowed quotes is:  "[T]he government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable."  Those stirring words were in defense of flag-burning.  And here's a famous one from Justice William O. Douglas:  "Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions.  It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us."  That was about communists.  But ever since conservative speech became the target of censors, liberals adore governmental suppression of speech.

If We Had a Real President, Here's How He (or She) Would React to Trudeau's War on Canadians' Freedom.  [Scroll down]  This fictional president would remind Trudeau that the entire Anglo-American political tradition going back to the Magna Carta in 1215 has been a trajectory of the recognition of the rights of the individual, as well as limitations on the powers of government as a guard against tyrannical rulers making questionable use of vaguely worded laws in order to crush their opponents and preserve themselves in power.  He would scold the Canadian for trampling upon that tradition, and quote some ringing words from Ronald Reagan or Alexander Solzhenitsyn about how tyranny crushes the human spirit and must be resisted.  Then the real president would get down to business.  He would issue a warning:  if Trudeau seizes the truckers' bank accounts, Canadian assets in the United States will likewise be frozen until the Canadian government returns the funds to the truckers.

Trudeau Officially Enacts Autocratic 'Emergency Powers,' Gives Surreal Press Conference.  As RedState reported earlier, Justin Trudeau announced on Monday plans to enact so-called "emergency powers" under Canada's Emergency Act to target the Freedom Convoy.  For their part, the truckers have pledged to "hold the line" in the face of government aggression.  Now, Trudeau has officially followed through, giving an insane press conference detailing the measures that are going to be used.  [Tweets] [...] It's not an overstatement to call this move communistic and Orwellian.  I'm confident in saying that if this were a non-Western country, there'd be an international outcry and calls for sanctions.  Think about it.  Canada is literally labeling peaceful protesters as terrorists and enacting emergency powers to smash dissent via imprisonment.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Expected to Invoke Emergency War Measures Act to Break up Freedom Protests.  Rather than remove any of the Canadian government restrictions and rules surrounding COVID-19 mandates, media are reporting that at 4:30pm today Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will instead invoke the Emergency Act, formerly the War Measures Act, to take emergency action to quell the 'Freedom Protests' taking place in Canada.  This is a rather remarkable development highlighting the severity of the totalitarian mindset behind the governing Liberal party in Canada.  The current Emergency Act has never before been used.

Newton, the Third Law of Motion, and Canadian Truckers.  Governments in Canada, New Zealand, and Australia have been three of the worst offenders when it comes to attacking citizens' basic liberties.  To be sure, while most countries in the world have experienced varied degrees of restrictions, Canada has created one of the more potent cocktails of lockdowns, mask requirements, social distancing requirements, vaccine mandates, vaccine passport mandates, travel restrictions, contact tracing, quarantining, surveillance and policing.  Canada, notoriously has become one of the first to take steps towards building COVID camps.  The Canadian government announced last summer that it was funding the construction of four "isolation sites" where "people who have COVID-19 — or have been exposed to it — access safe isolation accommodations to keep themselves and their community safe."  Translation:  The government is building camps where people who test positive can be coerced into "voluntarily" leaving their own homes and placed in sites under lock-and-key until they check after being deemed by the government no longer a threat to public health and safety.

Trudeau Channels His Inner Daddy, Fidel Castro.  Last week, two memes started in response to Justin Trudeau's authoritarianism.  Let's Go Brandeau! is a thing now.  It's a brilliant frozen-north variation of Let's Go Brandon.  The second was the tongue-in-cheek claim that Justin Trudeau is the illegitimate love-child of Fidel Castro.  AP and The New York Times refuted this claim.  I don't know which is funnier, the meme or the fact-checking clowns at AP and NYT.  In any event, on Monday, Trudeau channeled his inner Castro and invoked emergency powers.  He's shutting down protests that don't align with his autocratic, authoritarian mandates.

Canada and the tyranny of emergencies.  Monday [2/14/2022], Prime Minister Justin Trudeau declared a "state of emergency" against his own citizens in what has become the latest fashionable trend to crush dissent and demand obedience to the state. [...] Such a declaration sets a dangerous precedent, whereby Charter Rights, the Canadian version of the U.S.'s Bill of Rights, can now be sidestepped at the whim of a single individual.  Is there any historical proposition more dangerous than a powerful apparatchik revoking your rights under the pretense of necessity?

Canadian State Media Declare Freedom is Racist.  The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), a media entity funded by the Canadian government, announces today that "freedom" is a word used by extremist "far-right" groups.  These are the same labeled groups the Canadian government has called racist and worse.  Yes, the official position from the Canadian state media is that freedom is racist.

Maryland Legislature Considers Creating 'Advisory Council' to Collect Data on Homeschoolers.  If we have learned anything about left-wing cultural revolutionaries over the past few years and decades, it's that they insist that all conform to their view of "diversity."  All are welcome, except for those who disagree.  That's why it's so troubling to see government authorities rope in, and attempt to control, people attempting to maintain their independence.  Maryland Delegate Sheila Ruth, a Baltimore County Democrat, recently proposed legislation in the Maryland House of Delegates that would create a deeply worrisome "advisory council" to watch over and gather data on homeschool families.  The 16-seat council would be staffed by four political appointees, four government officials, and eight members of the homeschool community.  It would "gather information on the needs of homeschool parents and homeschool umbrella schools," and would effectively sweep homeschool parents under the wing of a government agency.

Our Greatest Domestic Threat:  Pro-Government Extremists.  Though alarming and depressing, we can no longer avoid recognizing that America's greatest domestic threat is from pro-government extremists.  We rue that pro-government extremists caused immense destruction during their less-than-"peaceful protests" in 2020; and we witness the continuing damage caused by their neurotic, totalitarian response to a plethora of problems, such as the COVID-19 pandemic.  Indeed, what makes the pro-government extremists so dangerous is their far greater numbers than their anti-government extremist counterparts.  Their noxious ideology that the citizen is subordinate to the omnipotent state is incessantly "normalized" and propagandized by their corporate media comrades.  Worse, their pro-government extremism is being indoctrinated throughout American public and private institutions, including K-12 education, higher education, and the military.

The soft, sweet voices of tyranny.  In 2020, after George Floyd's drug usage saw him die while in police custody, the trend I noticed was that women, especially White leftist women, were at the leading edge of hysterical craziness when it came to matters of race.  Now, in 2022, it's occurred to me that women are also at the leading edge of something else:  They're the soft, sweet voices of despotic policing.  The first time I saw it, although I didn't note it very strongly, was in April 2021, when Pastor Pawlowski, in Canada, kicked out the police who were trying to shut down his Passover service before Easter.  As you can see, while the male police officers are hanging back, they've put a woman in front to let Pastor Padlowski know that the police are going to get him:  [Video clip]  We saw it again when customers in Corduroy Restaurant, a Vancouver restaurant, kicked out health inspectors. [...] I know that there are other, similar, videos out there.  My point is that this is tyranny with a smile, a soft, feminine smile.

New Homeland Security Terrorism Bulletin Targets Freedom of Speech in America.  [W]ith rare exceptions (think George Washington declining to seek a third term as President), the tendency of those in power is always to seek as much of it as possible, especially when it's combined with the ever-present totalitarian temptation of the Left.  A generation later, James Madison warned that greater dangers to liberty are found in the quiet and gradual expanse of government power:  "There are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations."  The response of the federal and many state governments to the COVID-19 pandemic illustrates this reality in multiple ways.  President Joe Biden cannot let go of mask mandates supported by scant scientific evidence, and his administration continues urging Big Tech to silence anybody on social media who says anything remotely critical of the CDC.  This has produced a situation in which the national Democratic leadership has succumbed to temptation and indeed has become addicted.

Canada is slipping further down the slope to tyranny.  On last night's [2/11/2022] episode of The Ezra Levant Show, Ezra discussed Canada's authoritarian ways as of late, and how the country is currently at a point of slipping even further down the slope toward all-out tyranny.  Here's one recent example:  A police officer, with a uniform and a badge and a gun, going unannounced and unprompted to a private citizen's house to "talk to them" about a peaceful protest they were going to attend. [...] So the police are going door to door surprising people by letting them know they're being spied on.  That's what that was.

Trudeau is getting dangerous but the truckers still have options.  Tucker Carlson had a somewhat ebullient segment about the fact that the Canadian truckers represent the rise of the ordinary people, while the response from Canada's leadership class bespeaks fear and helplessness.  I'm sorry to say that I believe Tucker is wrong and that things are getting very dangerous for the truckers.  They still have options but, whenever you have to depend on the goodwill of a tyrant, his police state, and his military, things aren't going well.  That's especially true of Canada because, on May 1, 2020, Canadians gave up their guns.

Americans who question government now 'threat actors,' DHS Says.  A new federal terror advisory contains a threat assessment that characterizes Americans who "mislead" others into questioning government-approved messages as being on par with terrorists.  That is as anti-American messaging as could be imagined.  America was founded on questioning governments, foreign and domestic.  And that has been her saving grace, the reason for her unique success.  The assessment specifically identifies those who engage in "the proliferation of false or misleading narratives, which sow discord or undermine public trust in U.S. government institutions" as "threat actors."  It also cites "widespread online proliferation of false or misleading narratives regarding unsubstantiated widespread election fraud and COVID-19" as having a deleterious effect on government institutions.  Actually, it's the actions of government institutions that often have a deleterious effect on (people's views of) government institutions... and on the people.  But, no matter, our First Amendment rights are out the window.  1984 is here.  "Wrong-thought" has been criminalized.

They're Coming For You.  You Know That, Right?  A chilling Rasmussen survey taken only last month found fifty-five percent of Democrats surveyed supported fines for those who wouldn't get the COVID shot.  Fifty-nine percent of Democrats said citizens who wouldn't take the shot should be confined at home.  Worse still, forty-five percent of Democrats favor designated detention facilities for those who won't take the shot while forty-seven percent believe government should permanently track said "offenders."  Most disturbing, nearly half of Democrats think government should imprison those who publicly QUESTION the efficacy of the shot through traditional broadcast and social media. [...] It's not just anti-shot celebrities the left wants to crush.  Doctors who proscribe off-label use drugs are losing their jobs and reputations.

'White supremacy' is the left's hammer, and you're the nail.  [Scroll down]  In the meantime, they perfected their systems of perpetrating election fraud by 2020.  The fix was in.  The perpetually nasty Biden was installed by a cabal who knew well that he was suffering from dementia but thought they could manage him as they moved ahead with the Obama agenda:  destroy America as founded. [...] Along the way, though, far too many of the American people refused to go along with their carefully crafted plans.  Millions never believed the Russia hoax or any of the other invented tales of suspect criminality with which the left tried to malign President Trump.  They knew better, in part because common sense still prevails in some quarters outside the D.C. swamp and both coasts.  What to do about those Trump people?  Easy:  Accuse them all of being white supremacists.  That will stick.  So the talking points were distributed, and in the blink of an eye, all Trump-supporters were and are white supremacists.

Canadian Army Major Blows the Whistle on the Treason of the Canadian Government Officials.  WhistleBlower Canadian Army Major Stephen Chledowski is ready to fight for the freedom of Canadians back home after serving in Afghanistan.  'These governments are now focused on our Children' he says as he explains that the governments throughout Canada are doing everything they can to harm the children while silencing anyone who points out the truth about the death jabs.  He then calls on other Canadian military members to stand up to the tyranny imposed by the tyrants running the nation.  Listen to his full speech.  'We cannot let freedom die with this generation'.  [Video clip]

DHS Says COVID Misinformation Is Inspiring Terrorism, But It Won't Provide Any Evidence.  The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) refused to provide evidence to support its claims that COVID-19 "misinformation" and "false or misleading narratives" inspired violent terrorism during 2021.  DHS issued a terrorism advisory bulletin Monday [2/7/2022] warning that of the dangers of online misinformation, which the agency said has been exploited by "threat actors" and to inspire acts of terrorism.  "The United States remains in a heightened threat environment fueled by several factors, including an online environment filled with false or misleading narratives and conspiracy theories, and other forms of mis- dis- and mal-information (MDM) introduced and/or amplified by foreign and domestic threat actors," DHS said in the bulletin.  "These threat actors seek to exacerbate societal friction to sow discord and undermine public trust in government institutions to encourage unrest, which could potentially inspire acts of violence."

DHS: American Thought Police.  The Department of Homeland Security, which under the Biden Administration routinely lets watch-listed terrorists cross the southern border unmolested, and which approved entry to the United States for Colleyville Synagogue hostage-taker Malik Faisal Akram despite his being known to British authorities as a terror risk, has taken upon its broad bureaucratic shoulders an even more challenging job.  Stopping the flow of MDM.  MDM isn't the latest flavor of fentanyl, produced by the Communist Chinese regime for sale to Mexican drug cartels, and now the leading cause of death for Americans between the ages of 18 to 45.  No, MDM stands for mis- dis- and mal-information, the latest government acronym from which you must be protected.

Trump Warns Biden Backed DHS Is Calling "Conspiracy Theorists" Terrorists.  What's the difference between a conspiracy theory and the truth?  Usually, just a time span of six months.  All throughout the pandemic, information that was labeled as misinformation and conspiracy theories ended up being true.  Just to name a few, the Wuhan Lab Leak Theory, Natural Immunity being more protective than Covid-19 vaccines, cloth masks being ineffective, and more.  Well, Trump knows that "conspiracy theorists" most of the time are people who don't buy into the corporate media's narrative, and called out the Biden administration for calling conspiracy theorists domestic terrorists.  In a Bulletin sent by the Department of Defense through their National Terrorism Advisory System, the DHS declared that anyone who spreads misinformation or disinformation is a threat to America's security.  The Bulletin by the DHS would go on to say that anyone who spreads disinformation regarding voter fraud is also a threat to the United States Democracy and could cause an uprising that could destroy American institutions.

Time to worry: the Biden government is redefining core principles.  [Scroll down]  The terrorists are no longer radical student groups seeking to blow up the government (groups such as the Weathermen, which Obama's mentor, Bill Ayers, founded) or Islamic fundamentalist groups seeking a new caliphate bathed in American blood.  The new terrorist threat is... you.  It's now official government policy that "misinformation" — which means disagreeing with the Biden administration, the media, and tech tyrants — is proto-terrorism. [...] As Thomas Lifson wrote yesterday, this "sounds precisely like a prelude to a totalitarian crackdown on political dissent...."  Regarding COVID, as Democrats are finally turning on masks (except for masking students, who are least at risk), we can confidently say that every single bit of "information" that the Biden administration pushed out was, in fact, misinformation:  The administration (and its holdovers from the Trump presidency) were wrong about the virus's origins (or lied about them), about therapeutics, about masks, about lockdowns, and about the vaccines' efficacy.  Everything they said was wrong.  But if you doubted or still doubt them, you are a terror threat.

'There's No Law': Physician Experienced in Investigating Biological Warfare Challenges Medical Board's Misinformation Allegation.  Though Dr. Meryl Nass, a board-certified internal medicine physician, has been untangling narratives of dis- and misinformation long before COVID-19, it wasn't until recently that her license was temporarily suspended under the allegation that she is now spreading it.  Her research has brought her before Congress and state legislatures to give testimonies on bioterrorism, Gulf War syndrome, and vaccine safety.  Throughout her career, she's consulted for international health and intelligence agencies regarding prevention, investigation, and mitigation of chemical and biological warfare and pandemics.  She spent three years investigating what had been deemed a naturally occurring anthrax outbreak during Rhodesia's civil war.  Nass was able to prove that it was due to biological warfare, with her findings published in a 1992 paper that marked a new achievement in scientific research.

Biden Dept of Homeland Security Identifies the First Amendment as Biggest U.S. Terrorist Threat.  Dissent is a risk to the totalitarian state; that's also why communists always ban religion.  Totalitarianism needs total control.  Free speech is antithetical to that control.  The natural evolution of any totalitarian state is to use the justification of security as a method for that control; hence, the U.S. received The Patriot Act, and all of the longer-term slippery slope consequences that are never fully discussed at the outset.  I digress.  So, here we are today — facing a U.S. Dept of Homeland Security (DHS), under the current control of the far left, stating that free speech is now the biggest domestic threat for terrorism.  Whereby the voices to target are those voices who might: "sow discord and undermine public trust in government institutions to encourage unrest, which could potentially inspire acts of violence."  Undermine trust in government, as defined by anyone who does not blindly trust the policies from Biden administration, and you are now subject to be labeled a terrorist.

Group targets DHS threat bulletin citing false, misleading narratives in domestic terror warning.  A watchdog group is pressing the Department of Homeland Security to disclose its methods behind a new domestic terrorism threat bulletin that warns of "the proliferation of false or misleading narratives" as a cause of undermining public trust in the federal government.  The Center to Advance Security in America (CASA) said it will file a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request seeking the basis for the DHS bulletin.  The group said the Biden administration's policy involves "the use of the domestic security state to potentially target political opponents, squash free speech and deliver federal dollars to special interest allies."

DHS issues heightened terror threat citing 'mis- dis- and mal-information' on election fraud and COVID-19.  The Department of Homeland Security issued a Bulletin on Tuesday that sounds precisely like a prelude to a totalitarian crackdown on political dissent from the preferred narratives of the Biden regime and the deep state.  Read the opening of the summary:  ["]The United States remains in a heightened threat environment fueled by several factors, including an online environment filled with false or misleading narratives and conspiracy theories, and other forms of mis- dis- and mal-information (MDM) introduced and/or amplified by foreign and domestic threat actors.  These threat actors seek to exacerbate societal friction to sow discord and undermine public trust in government institutions to encourage unrest, which could potentially inspire acts of violence.["]  Translation:  criticize us and you are encouraging terrorism.  The obvious corollary is that you, who dare disagree with the regime, are a terroristic threat.

Insider Leak, Canadian Federal Police Likely to Begin Mass Arrests in Ottawa Very Soon.  The Ottawa Freedom Convoy protests are exposing too many hypocrisies of the leftist Canadian government and their faux conservative opposition.  It is only a matter of time before both wings of the Federal UniParty vulture known as Parliament sanction an aggressive federal response.  An insider within the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), essentially the Canadian federal police force, has leaked some of the details.  The leaked plan as outlined in this video warning {Direct Rumble Link} does seem to be authentic and aligns with the statements from federal ministers inside the administration of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Ottawa Police Issuing a Tyrannical Edict Which May End the Freedom Convoy.  There's bad news for the Freedom Convoy in Ottawa Sunday [2/6/2022].  The government has been trying to figure out how to do in the Freedom Convoy movement.  They've tried to go after their support, by getting GoFundMe to pull their ability to raise money.  While they headed off GoFundMe, which went along with the government's tyrannical aims, the truckers were able to get another fundraiser started with a different site, GiveSendGo.  Plus they're receiving all kinds of donations from food to gas, personally, right on the front line in Ottawa.  Now, the police are trying to go after those donations of gas and propane that have been sustaining them to run their trucks and help cook their food in the freezing cold.

Washington State Governor's Plot to Criminalize Election Fraud Complaints Moves Forward.  In 2020, Democrat governors and their underlings used COVID-19 as the excuse to change election laws, many times using emergency powers sans legislature, expand mail-in balloting, and remove what few security measures remained, such as signature matching.  Recently, a state court ruled that Pennsylvania election changes by fiat were illegal under the state constitution.  These aren't lies.  They happened.  They may have changed the results of the election.  The take over of local elections offices by Mark Zuckerberg's "Zuck Bucks" also continues to fuel complaints.  But Washington's Gov. Inslee believes people seeking or holding elective office who complain about election chicanery should be punished for holding those wrong-thoughts.  They should be silenced and maybe even jailed for up to a year.  In Inslee's bill, loudly complaining about election fraud that accused complainers knew was bogus, as adjudged by a "jury" according to the governor, could lead to violence.  The person who uttered the words should go to jail, he reasons.  Inslee has never said these words in response to the Antifa and BLM riots during the election of 2016 and 2017 to depose the democratically elected Donald Trump.

From 1984 to 2022.  [Scroll down]  In 2022, embattled Americans are beginning to understand the parallels.  America's liberty and prosperity have drawn immigrants from around the world.  When liberty and prosperity were thriving as never before, Governor Andrew Cuomo countered that America was "never that great," but for the political class there was more to it.  From the start, they contend, America was nothing more than a bastion of racist oppression, founded to preserve and expand slavery.  Like the Party's take on capitalism, America had never produced anything of value.  So down came the statues, inscriptions and "anything that might throw light on the past."  As in 1984, America's founding documents are pure crimethink.  Teacher unions now force feed this propaganda in the schools and when parents object, the Department of Justice calls them domestic terrorists.  The January 6 protesters are held without bail and without trial.  Embattled Americans now face shortages of basic goods, surging energy prices, and rampant inflation.

This Is Not America, Part II.  A little more than a year ago, about nine months into the pandemic, we expressed concern about what had become of our country.  Had it become a nation of elitists vs. the rest?  A culture that had given up on itself?  A land of censorship?  A nation in which policies and political orientation are not merely matters of disagreement but causes of internal and irreconcilable turmoil? [...] The pandemic turned out to be the ideal opportunity for the authoritarians and smug self-appointed superiors among us to continue to split us apart, accrue more power unto themselves, marginalize dissenters, force compliance with a narrative of the deranged, crack down on speech, and use fear as a means of control.  No longer does the U.S. reflect the founders' vision of a nation of free people.  It more closely resembles a junior high school, where status is craved, and the unpopular kids are bullied and cast aside.

Pam Popper: How to Win the War Against Tyranny.  Pam Popper is the president of Wellness Forum Health and cofounder of Make Americans Free Again, which plays a significant role in the fight to help preserve American freedoms.  An important part of that task is building a powerful community and, as noted by Popper, "COVID has brought some people together who probably should know each other better," and that includes us.  Popper and I are aligned with respect to our desire to educate the public about fundamental health principles, including foundational basics for preventing and treating COVID-19.  We are also in agreement that the COVID pandemic is a cover for something else entirely — a global takeover by powerful and profit-hungry interests.

RFK, Jr. — Crackpot or Cassandra?  [Scroll down]  Kennedy simply states the obvious:  it is increasingly difficult to evade or escape a malign government or to even have our own thoughts about government diktats, when tracking and surveillance technologies allow governments to quash dissent in ways that were not technologically achievable for past fascist regimes.  If you didn't know it was RFK, Jr. speaking, you'd think the words that follow are from Rand Paul or Josh Hawley:  [Quote omitted for brevity]  I have never been a fan of RFK, Jr. and I don't agree with his stance on vaccines in general and against the pharmaceutical companies in toto.  However, public pushback against the mandates and restrictions for over two years has exposed grave flaws in our public health policies and regulatory checks and balances, calling into question the trustworthiness of the NIH, CDC, NIAID, and the FDA.  We have seen firsthand the harm they can do when fully shrouded from legal responsibility and are tempted by billions.

Consent of the governed.  Dependence on government and all its "free stuff" has superseded the ability of people to take care of themselves.  Without the benevolent largesse of government, the people cannot survive.  This could be said of any government anywhere.  Canada, our ally and friend to the north, knowingly or not, is engaged in a reckoning.  Have the people become so corrupted as to need despotic government being incapable of any other, or not?  One side, the Freedom Convoy, is saying they are capable of taking care of themselves.  They don't need government micromanagement.  More importantly, they are reminding themselves and their government, that government governs only with and by the consent of the people. [...] The leader of Canada is saying over a million citizens are a fringe minority.  Worse, the fringe minority's views are unacceptable to the government.  Worst of all, the unacceptable views and actions of the fringe minority are harming other citizens, and imperiling everyone's freedom, rights and values.

Government Expands List of Unvaccinated, Now Tracking Both Medical and Religious Exemptions.  The Commerce Department is going to keep a record of all employees seeking a medical exemption from President Joe Biden's COVID-19 vaccine mandate, under a proposed regulation.  The new rule, placed on the Federal Register on Tuesday, will be the subject of public comment until March 28.  The proposal comes as the Biden administration considers keeping a list of workers who apply for religious exemptions to the vaccine mandate for federal employees.  The Commerce Department has about 47,000 employees and an $11.4 billion annual budget.  The new rule would undermine the personal freedom of federal employees, Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., a critic of federal COVID-19 policies, said.  "As I have said repeatedly, these pointless vaccine mandates are a direct violation of the personal freedom of Americans," Johnson told The Daily Signal in a written statement.  "Treating COVID-19 medical exemptions as 'disability accommodations' shows how little the Biden administration and the COVID gods value liberty and informed consent."

The Capitol Police Are Spying on Members of Congress, and the Details Are Incredibly Disturbing.  The events of January 6th have been used as a pretense by partisans for all kinds of insanity over the last year.  From playing fortification theater with the Capitol Building to the government constantly pretending "domestic extremists" are the nation's biggest threat, the game is simple:  To make Republicans who had nothing to do with that day feel political pain.  Another move that caused concern when it occurred was Nancy Pelosi's elevation of the United States Capitol Police to some kind of personal, partisan defense force, including funding offices all over the country used to gather data on those that just so happen to be political opponents.  Now, we are learning just how far that operation goes, and the details are incredibly disturbing.

Is the second American Civil War nearing its conclusion?  Leftists, through a combination of brilliant projectionist strategy and callously evil use of their political opponents' naïvité, decency, and tolerance, have transformed America's institutions.  They have weaponized them and used them against their less aggressive fellow citizens. [...] They are attempting a final push now, one in which they intend to grant the District of Columbia (meaning themselves) two senators, eliminate the filibuster (meaning the ability of the minority party to have any say in governance), pack the Supreme Court (meaning they are chagrinned that this is the one body that they don't fully control at present), and nationalize elections by banning the requirement of identification in every state (meaning they can steal every election going forward... in perpetuity).

"Select Committee on January 6th" Is Above the Law and Beyond Review.  [Scroll down]  Americans assume that if the government wants something from you in your home a search warrant will issue after a judge has reviewed and approved it.  Or, if the government wants your records through a third party via subpoena, the government will issue that subpoena to a third party and the citizen will get a copy.  Only under exigent circumstance (imminent threat) will the person not be notified.  Usually, a citizen may then object via judicial review.  But the J6 committee it has declared that there is no authority above it, that it is beyond judicial scrutiny.  In short, it has the power of an inquisition and its members are inquisitors.  Take the case of Taylor Budowich.  He was connected to Trump's reelection campaign.  He held no government position.  He submitted to the committee's questions and produced requested documents.  He thought, he had nothing to hide.  He was not involved in the J6 riot.  He appeared before the committee lawyers and gave testimony.  At the same time and without his knowledge the committee had subpoenaed his JP Morgan bank records.  He wasn't informed until it was too late and JP Morgan, with counsel from Loretta Lynch (yes that Loretta Lynch) told Budowich it was producing his documents notwithstanding his objections.  The production date was clearly a set-up — December 24th, a date that the court was closed.

Is An Iron Curtain Closing Around America?  Did you think you'd ever live to see the day when America would side with Communist Cuba over freedom-fighters who finally stood up to their authoritarian government?  We saw that in 2021.  Given the noble anti-Communist history of these United States, that's a heartbreaking moment.  More heart-breaking if that's possible is that there are those who still can't see it.  They have bought into the notion that ideas are dangerous and must be stifled.  It is not coincidental that the same people have been desensitized to somehow accept violence and civil unrest as forms of "free expression."  Nothing could be further from the truth.

Congress's 1/6 Committee Claims Absolute Power as it Investigates Citizens With No Judicial Limits.  In its ongoing attempt to investigate and gather information about private U.S. citizens, the Congressional 1/6 Committee is claiming virtually absolute powers that not even the FBI or other law enforcement agencies enjoy.  Indeed, lawyers for the committee have been explicitly arguing that nothing proscribes or limits their authority to obtain data regarding whichever citizens they target and, even more radically, that the checks imposed on the FBI (such as the requirement to obtain judicial authorization for secret subpoenas) do not apply to the committee.  As we have previously reported and as civil liberties groups have warned, there are serious constitutional doubts about the existence of the committee itself.  Under the Constitution and McCarthy-era Supreme Court cases interpreting it, the power to investigate crimes lies with the executive branch, supervised by the judiciary, and not with Congress.  Congress does have the power to conduct investigations, but that power is limited to two narrow categories:  1) when doing so is designed to assist in its law-making duties (e.g., directing executives of oil companies to testify when considering new environmental laws) and 2) in order to exert oversight over the executive branch.  What Congress is barred from doing, as two McCarthy-era Supreme Court cases ruled, is exactly what the 1/6 committee is now doing: conducting a separate, parallel criminal investigation in order to uncover political crimes committed by private citizens. [...] This abuse of power is not merely abstract.  The Congressional 1/6 Committee has been secretly obtaining private information about American citizens en masse:  telephone records, email logs, internet and browsing history, and banking transactions.  And it has done so without any limitations or safeguards:  no judicial oversight, no need for warrants, no legal limitations of any kind.

DOJ Calls Parents "Domestic Terrorists".  Parents who are standing up against the masking of their children at school board meetings are being threatened.  Attorney General Merrick Garland admits he took the word of the National School Boards Administration that parents voicing concerns at their local school board meetings should be targeted as "domestic terrorists."  Citing an increase in harassment, intimidation and threats of violence against school board members, teachers and workers in our nation's government run schools, AG Garland met with federal, state, Tribal, territorial and local law enforcement leaders to discuss strategies for addressing this "disturbing trend."  What?  Parents concerned for their children is a "disturbing trend?"  However, when Garland was questioned by Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), not one citing of intimidation or violence could be shown by parents across the USA against any school board members.

CNN Asks if Government Should Take Over Food and Gas Prices.  History may not always repeat, but it rhymes.  As seen in just about every situation where socialism and government intervention in the market economy of any nation is triggered, eventually you get to the point where government solutions to their created crisis take center stage.  We have seen this exact scenario repeated in the former Soviet Union, Poland, Europe, Cuba and more recently Venezuela.  The triggers are the same, and the outcomes are identical.  Now, as unbelievable as it may seem, Joe Biden's socialist policies have triggered the discussion in the United States.  CTH warned this was going to become a narrative; and we saw the first signs of it at the White House podium on January 12th.

Michigan Democrats tell parents they are NOT 'clients' of public schools, that children should be taught 'what society needs them to know'.  Michigan Democrats were heavily criticized over the weekend for telling parents that they are not 'clients' of public schools and that public education teaches kids what society 'needs them to know.'  A Facebook post on Saturday shared by the state's Democrats on their official page blasted the idea that parents should be involved in what public school teach their children.  The post was taken down on Monday morning following heavy disapproval.  'Not sure where this "parents-should-control-what-is-taught-in-schools-because-they-are-our-kids" is originating, but parents do have the option to send their kids to a hand-selected private school at their own expense if this is what they desire,' the post read.

Salt Lake Tribune editorial board calls for deploying National Guard to keep unvaxxed in their homes.  The entire Salt Lake Tribune Editorial Board got together and published an op-ed Saturday that has many wondering if we are still living in America.  According to the Board — the whole Board, mind you — Salt Lake City is no longer a "truly civilized place."  If it were, the Board contends, Utah Governor Spencer Cox would find a way to enlist the National Guard in the battle against the COVID-19 pandemic.  "Were Utah a truly civilized place, the governor's next move would be to find a way to mandate the kind of mass vaccination campaign we should have launched a year ago, going as far as to deploy the National Guard to ensure that people without proof of vaccination would not be allowed, well, anywhere," the board wrote.  "But it may be too late for that, politically and medically."  Apparently, the editorial board at the Salt Lake Tribune is frustrated by their government officials — "mostly but not exclusively Republicans" the Board notes with disdain — and their obsession with the Constitution.

Google Executive in Charge of 'Tackling Disinformation' Becomes DHS Senior Leader.  A past senior aide to former President Barack Obama, who became a Google executive in charge of "tackling disinformation", has joined the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as a senior leader from this week.  Kristie Canegallo, who was vice president of Trust and Safety in Google beginning March 2018, was appointed chief of staff in DHS on Monday.  "I am excited to share with you that Kristie Canegallo will join our Department as our new Chief of Staff on January 10, 2022," DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in a statement.  "I have worked closely with Kristie in the past and know firsthand that she will be a great colleague and of tremendous support to us all," Mayorkas said.

Brilliant Agitprop Appears in Washington DC.  Some brilliant, soviet era inspired agitprop showed up in Washington DC overnight highlighting the agenda of the current Joe Biden administration.  No one knows who the artist is.

The Extreme Left Has Finally Admitted Their End Game for Your Children.  The radical left of the United States is also a tyrannical force with a draconian will, and it too has a goal of bringing your children under their control.  They've been attempting to do so without your knowledge for some time, but now, at least one of them is openly admitting that your children should belong to them.  According to Joe Mathews at the VCStar, despite California Governor Gavin Newsom's "equity" promise that big tech has signed onto, parents are still in the way.  According to Mathews, parents with more privilege tend to hand that privilege down to their children who then compound it and turn it into more wealth, establishing haves amidst others that remain have nots after not having been born into privilege.  His solution?  Illegalize parenting.

Turning the Tables on Our Tyrants.  [Scroll down]  The government's substantial success in forcing society to obey its demands has stemmed from its strategically patient yet endlessly advancing agenda to replace freedom with tyranny.  Mandates did not come all at once; they came bit by bit.  It's just a couple weeks in lockdown.  It's just a mask.  It's just a couple months of remote learning. [...] Likewise, instead of forcing people into compliance all at once, mandates have targeted small subparts of the larger population, while the majority not affected by those orders have remained relatively silent.  One age group at a time has been pushed toward accepting mRNA treatment — from the very oldest in society to the workers to the schoolchildren, and now finally to the newborns.  One profession at a time has been coerced into submitting to the government's demands — from the military to federal workers to health care workers to third-party federal contractors to public unions to private unions to companies with over a hundred workers and, of course, one day soon, to all workers generally.  The exceptions to this "long march" through the professions have only served to show which workers still hold enough political clout to buck (at least temporarily) the authoritarians' demands.  Our armed forces, it turns out, have so little leverage that no exceptions have been made for their conscientious objections.  Postal workers, public school teachers (the same ones hypocritically clamoring for their young students to be injected with mRNA treatments), and other traditional interest group voting blocs for the Democrat party have fared much better.

Why Are They Building A Wall Around The White House?  The last year has seen a lot of construction making its way around the White House, and after the fountain on the South Lawn was renovated a month or two ago we had a bit of a break.  That ended today though as the construction crews moved into the North Lawn and surrounded the fountain with barriers and hoarding in preparation for some new construction at the White House.  Construction like this has been ongoing for over a year at the White House, but they generally move in small bits.  [Video clip]

Army will conduct a two-week 'guerilla [sic] war' training exercise in the woods of North Carolina to teach Special Forces how to overthrow an 'illegitimate government'.  Young Army soldiers will be battling 'seasoned freedom fighters' across two dozen North Carolina counties in a two-week 'guerrilla warfare exercise' where they attempt to overthrow an 'illegitimate government'.  News of the training exercise comes just days after the anniversary of the Capitol riot and as the Justice Department announces the creation of a new 'domestic terrorism' unit to tackle what officials said is an 'elevated threat from domestic violent extremists'.  Some questioned the close timing of the events, while others went further with fears that the Biden administration is 'preparing for American Uprising'.  'Biden's military wargames fighting and killing American "Freedom Fighters" in guerilla (sic) warfare,' one Twitter user posted in reaction to news of the guerilla warfare training on US soil.

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To put it another way, the military will decide if the government is illegitimate.  Sounds like Central America.

The Real Battle Over Education.  When Democrat Terry McAuliffe said he didn't want parents to have influence over their children's education, it wasn't a gaffe; he meant it.  The new totalitarians cannot abide by freedom, especially freedom of education which ensures parents have influence over their children's education and, therefore, future.  The allies of the new totalitarians, however, agree with McAuliffe and other Bolsheviks.  The real reason is because education shapes and molds people; if the educational juggernaut has complete control over education, they have complete control over the next generation, and, therefore, complete control over the future of American society.  Education, as envisioned by leftists, is about control.  It's about power.  It's about propaganda.  It's about ensuring their vision of remaking society is safe and secure.

Biden Administration Making Lists of Religious Vaccine Objectors.  A tiny administrative agency in the District of Columbia announced a new policy Tuesday that will likely serve as a model for a whole-of-government push to assemble lists of Americans who object on religious grounds to a COVID-19 vaccine.  The Pretrial Services Agency for the District of Columbia — a federal independent entity that assists officers in the District of Columbia courts in formulating release recommendations and providing supervision and services to defendants awaiting trial — announced a new records system that will store the names and "personal religious information" of all employees who make "religious accommodation requests for religious exception from the federally mandated vaccination requirement."  The announcement does not explain why the agency needs to create this list except to say that it will "assist the Agency in the collecting, storing, dissemination, and disposal of employee religious exemption request information collected and maintained by the Agency."  In other words, the list will help the agency make a list.  The announcement also does not say what the agency will do with this information after it has decided an employee's religious accommodation request.

Biden administration planning lists of employees seeking 'religious' vaccine exemptions.  An obscure federal agency has proposed creating a database capturing the names and "personal religious information" of government employees who submit "religious accommodation requests" to be exempted from the Biden administration's COVID-19 vaccine mandate.  At least seven other federal agencies, including five Cabinet departments, are apparently setting up similar "personal religious information" databases, according to an analyst at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank in the District.  The federal Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency for the District of Columbia, or CSOSA, published a "notice of a new system of records" in the Federal Register on Tuesday [1/11/2022].  The agency, which supervises defendants awaiting trial as well as parolees, aims to "reduce recidivism" and "integrate offenders into the community by connecting them with resources and interventions."

Biden's Education Secretary Solicited the Infamous Letter Likening Angry Parents to Domestic Terrorists.  The facts of this shameful case are generally well known: the National School Boards Association (NSBA) wrote to the FBI, asking it to investigate as "domestic terrorism"protests at school board meetings against the introduction of Critical Race Theory into public school curricula.  That was bad enough, but now the story has gotten even worse.  On Tuesday, Fox News revealed that "Education Secretary Miguel Cardona solicited the much-criticized letter from the National School Boards Association that compared protesting parents to domestic terrorists," according to an email exchange it had reviewed.

Bill Filed In Washington Would Authorize 'Strike Force' To 'Involuntarily Detain' Unvaccinated Families.  The Washington State Board of Health may soon amend state law to authorize the involuntary detainment of residents as young as 5 years old in Covid-19 "internment camps" for failing to comply with the state's experimental vaccine mandate.  WAC 246-100-040, a proposed revision to include Covid protocol under the state's Communicable and Certain Other Diseases act, outlines "Procedures for isolation or quarantine."  The measure would allow local health officers "at his or her sole discretion" to "issue an emergency detention order causing a person or group of persons to be immediately detained for purposes of isolation or quarantine."

CDC Website Reveals Police Power Will be Used at Quarantine Stations for the "Benefit of Society".  The CDC stated on its website (last reviewed Sept. 2021) that to control the spread of disease within their borders, states have laws to enforce the use of isolation and quarantine.  The law also includes the use of police power functions in their quarantine stations.  "In addition to serving as medical functions, isolation and quarantine also are "police power" functions, derived from the right of the state to take action affecting individuals for the benefit of society," CDC stated on their website.

Will the COVID Pandemic Cause a Big Government 'Ratchet Effect'?  In his classic book, Crisis and Leviathan, economic historian Robert Higgs introduced a key concept that he called "the ratchet effect."  Higgs noted that the power of government grows during times of crisis, such as war or national depression, but that once the crisis passes, the newly acquired power of the State doesn't recede back to its original level. [...] The COVID pandemic appears to supply yet another pretext for the move towards bigger and more authoritarian government.  The toll on personal and economic liberty has been great and the deleterious effects may linger far longer than the virus.

Democratic Governor Calls For Criminalizing "Lying" About Election Results.  For years, I have lamented how the Democratic party has embraced censorship and the criminalization of speech.  I come from a liberal Democratic family in Chicago and the Democratic Party once championed free speech as the defining value of the party.  Democratic politicians now lead calls for censorship to silence their opponents and corporate regulations to protect citizens from dangerous choices in reading material.  The same concerns were raised this week after Washington Gov. Jay Inslee called for the criminalization of "lies" about election results.  Inslee wants to convict people who raise election challenges or allegations.  Such a law would threaten political speech and create a chilling effect for those who want to raise such concerns in contested elections.  Inslee made his comments as part of the Jan. 6th anniversary.  It appears to follow Speaker Nancy Pelosi's directive for Democrats to "preserve the narrative" of that day.

Gov. Inslee proposes bill making it illegal for elected leaders, candidates to spread election fraud lies.  Gov. Jay Inslee proposed new legislation on Thursday [1/6/2022], which would make it a misdemeanor for elected leaders or candidates to spread unfounded allegations of voter fraud.  Speaking on the one-year anniversary of the now-infamous U.S. Capitol riot, Inslee opined that "the threat to our democracy is just as dangerous on January 6, 2022, as it was a year ago."  "I think we do need to do much more than commemorate this day of infamy," he said as part of the Associated Press' 2022 legislative preview.  "I think we need to realize that this is a continuing effort to continue the 'big lie,' to cast doubt on the fundamental workings of our democracy — we simply have to realize the nature of this challenge."

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The candidates and officials will still be able to "spread unfounded allegations" (lie) about anything else, but questioning an obviously stolen election will be strictly forbidden.  This sounds like the easiest way to commit voting fraud:  Cheat all you like, then prohibit any dissent.

Gates, Fauci, and Daszak charged with Genocide in Court Filing.  [Scroll down]  Klaus Schwab, a wickedly intelligent, perhaps diabolical German with double doctorate degrees in Economics and Engineering, is the founder of the World Economic Forum, a club for the wealthiest percentile of the world's corporate and political elite.  He is a power broker who has groomed many presidents, prime ministers, and tech CEOs who now view him with reverence and unswerving loyalty.  Schwab, an economist, and technocrat has befriended many nations, most significantly China's Xi Jinping, who delivered a key speech at Davos.  He praised his vision of a New World Order.  On January 25, 2021, Klaus Schwab vowed his support for Xi Jinping with these words, "Mr. President (Xi Jinping) I believe this is the best time to reset our policies and to work, jointly, for a peaceful and prosperous world.  We all welcome now, his excellency, Xi Jinping, President of the People's Republic of China."

Australia Has Fallen! What the Leftist in Control Say and What they Do are Two Separate Things.  Australia has officiall fallen.  The nation is now a certified police state, citizens are being rounded up and thrown into concentration camps simply because they don't want to put a deadly jab into their body that has resulted in MILLIONS of health issues and deaths across the globe.  Listen to the statements made by just one of the madmen currently in control of the country down under and look at the visuals, what he says he cares about and what he's orchestrating are completely conflicting.  These globalists think they can rule with an iron fist and that the militaries and police units around the world will fall in and comply, based on the fact police and military members are fleeing in droves, looks like they're wrong and the backlash is already happening.  [Video clip]

What The Climate Scare And Pandemic Fearmongering Have In Common.  [Scroll down]  We're not fully convinced the lockdowns were conspiratorial dry runs to accustom the world to future restrictions handed down under the guise of "fighting" global warming.  But as we said when the lockdowns were still relatively new, "observant and cunning politicians have gone to school" and were thinking over the possibility they could "use the pretext of a climate emergency to control Americans and break the back of capitalism."  The ingredients are all present.  A teen activist whose name isn't Greta Thunberg has put down on paper what many are thinking when she wrote "if we can shut the world down to stop a virus, that also means it is possible to do the same for climate change."  It's the sort of superficial statement that earns her points from a puerile media, ever-mugging politicians, and the adults among us who haven't outgrown their insecure high school aspirations to be popular.  And an idea many will run with.  The chilling fact there is much to be afraid of — not of a falling sky or a virus that we hope is on the wane, but of those eager to stir up dread and anxiety so they exercise the raw power they covet.

New Law Will Install Kill Switches In All New Cars.  According to an article written by former U.S. Representative Bob Barr, hidden away in the recently passed infrastructure bill, the very one I warned before would negatively impact drivers across the country if it were to pass, is a measure to install vehicle kill switches into every new car, truck, and SUV sold in this country.  The regulation likely won't be enforced for five years, so maybe there's time to do something about this.  As we've seen both in this country and others recently, what constitutes "law-abiding" can change drastically overnight.  For example, in September a car was pulled over in New Zealand and the occupants arrested when police discovered the trunk was full of Kentucky Fried Chicken meals.  They were smuggling the fast food to customers in locked-down Auckland, against quarantine measures.  Yet not too long before, delivering restaurant orders to people was considered a reputable, legal activity.

The Vaccine Passport Pathway to a Social Credit System.  Simply put the vaccine programs are really population control programs, because by pushing vaccines the elites are pushing vaccine passports which are the first step to creating digital ID numbers on a software platform where every subject's personal information will eventually end up.  Control of information means control of the subjects.  The real-life model for this is the Chinese social credit system.  This system is, through the totalitarian perspective, a brilliant combination of national digital identification numbers combined with high surveillance technology all controlled by advanced artificial intelligence.  Each Chinese subject is branded with a digital number and the surveillance state can follow his employment, medical, criminal and schooling records, his online browsing records, his voiced political views, and even the places he visits through GPS positioning technology. If the subject so much as jaywalks across a street, it will likely be picked up by one of the millions of surveillance cameras installed in Chinese cities and run through face recognition software.

Police State?  Genocide?  Could It Happen Here?  There are many examples in recent years of individuals losing their jobs, having their businesses boycotted, and getting their social media accounts cancelled or suspended because they promoted conservative ideas, supported Biblical standards, or refused to bow down to the demands of the woke culture.  The dehumanization process of conservatives and traditional Christians as "others" and "enemies" is rapidly increasing.  The more it continues to happen, the more many in the media insist that it isn't happening.  A friend of mine recently stated that this can't go on much longer, that millions of Americans are going to stand up against the cancel culture, censorship, and the marginalization of traditional values.  I nodded my head when she said it, but I don't think I really believed it.  When you have a society that is already in the process of banning words, burning Bibles, and allowing four-year-olds to choose their gender, you have a society that has pretty much already jumped the shark.  When you have millions who have sunk so far down the rabbit hole that they actually believe this is "progress," you realize Rome has been burning for a while now.

Tyranny in the Name of Climate Change.  A recent paper published by Cambridge University Press titled "Political Legitimacy, Authoritarianism, and Climate Change" is raising serious and worrisome questions about the role of academia in our national political debate on climate change.  The paper was written by Ross Mittiga, who self-describes as an "assistant professor of political theory at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, specializing in climate ethics." He also labels himself an "environmentalist, vegan, and occasional gadfly."  Mittiga's paper explicitly argues society must prioritize climate action over democratic principles and adopt an authoritarian government if society fails to politically act on climate change.  Or, in the words of the political left:  "my way or the highway."  This is disturbing because it completely ignores the will of the people to self-govern, favoring a totalitarian approach in order to tackle what Mittiag deems a "climate crisis."

Constitutional Peril in Defense Secretary's Straw Man on Extremism in Military.  You'd be forgiven for thinking there's a pandemic of extremism among our military members after watching our military leaders testify on the issue or listening to the mainstream media.  When all the smoke clears, an objective assessment doesn't support that conclusion, and no report to date has delivered any data to indicate otherwise.  Indeed, the secretary's own spokesperson reported that prohibited extremist activity amounted to "fewer than 100 incidents" over the past year.  That's in a force of more than 2 million men and women.  Moreover, responding to a request in 2018 from then-Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., the Department of Defense reported only 27 incidents of extremist activity over the previous five years.  The Pentagon's vigorous response to these underwhelming numbers includes actions to consider changes to the Uniform Code of Military Justice, better information sharing with law enforcement, screening of service members, and increased training and education.

Biden Says He Is Ready to Trigger Mandatory Vaccine Requirement for Air Travel as Soon as Fauci Tells Him.  If you listen to most champagne socialists, they will tell you they believe airline travel has become too affordable and just about anyone is able to fly now.  For a few decades this has been a source of consternation amid the Democrat cocktail party class, whenever the subject is approached.  It stands to reason the people behind Joe Biden will eventually concede the issue of mandatory vaccine passports for domestic air travel to the administrative state and their donors amid the Branch Covidians.  They're in the same group circles where Anthony Fauci is venerated and appreciated.  However, I doubt it will happen until after the U.S. universal passport system, the vaccination ID, is put into place — because currently, the airline companies would stand to lose too much revenue.

The Absurdity Continues:  A Test For All Seasons.  The current administration just announced that they are going to provide 500 million test kits for Covid.  These kits will be distributed to the general public somehow and will test for something in some way associated with Covid.  Pardon my skepticism, but I have to wonder just what they will be testing, and what will they do with the results. [...] For starters, which kind of test will be distributed?  Will the tests detect current, active infections, or will they only report that someone might have a current infection, or they might have recovered from one in the past?  If they don't detect an active infection, the only useful result they can provide is to indicate what fraction of the population has recovered and is now immune — in other words, where do we stand on herd immunity.  If the tests are the sort to detect an active case, and samples have to be sent to a lab for processing, I would expect that there would be a significant period between the time the samples were collected, and the labs worked through a massive backlog of tests.  It would, at that point, be likely that someone infected would have already recovered, or died.  Again, what would be the point of the test?

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This sounds like an easy way for the government to collect DNA samples from everybody.  Thee bureaucrats really don't care if you have a virus or not.  If you're sick, there's nothing the federal government can do about it.  Wholesale DNA collection is the simplest and most logical explanation for the "home testing" scam.

The Establishment Wants to Crush You Uppity Peasants.  [Scroll down]  And it's even less tolerable because "Let's Go, Brandon" is a manifestation of the class warfare that increasingly characterizes American society.  It's the cry of the working class, bold and joyous, utterly uncontrollable.  It has energy and cheer, while the pathetic moaning of the ruling caste's spokescreatures is rote, boring, and bereft of any power.  The regime-approved memes our elite's minions repeat on cable and in social media are the chant of serfs.  So, the garbage regime and it's ridiculous legacy media minions must try to stifle this rebellion.  They especially hate that this in no Astroturf meme passed around on some media server list after being decreed from on high.  LGB is infinitely more dangerous.  It's an organic response that is not pushed or guided, but that evolved totally outside the approved channels.  They hate it because it is not theirs, and because they cannot direct it or tame it.  So they try to squelch it.  But it will come back even stronger.  And worse, we'll be laughing at them as we repeat it.

Fauci Is Just a Bureaucrat.  Franz Kafka's stories are described as surreal or dreamlike.  In fact the chief distinguishing characteristic is perpetual instability:  The narrator in a Kafka story accepts whatever new situation he faces with unquestioning compliance. [...] Bureaucracy is a permanent decoupling of activity from morality.  A bureaucrat isn't paid to understand the rules he enforces or the forms he is required to have you fill out.  There is no "why" involved in his life, and so he allows no common sense or flexibility to inform his actions.  Bureaucracy is there for its own sake; it is its own justification.  Bureaucrats are often called civil servants, but in reality they provide no service at all:  It is you, the individual citizen, who must come to serve them, to follow their instructions, to bend the knee and do exactly what they say, as a token of submission to the powers that be.  Otherwise no license, no permit, no job.

Defining 'insurrection' down.  An Oregon father of four cheerfully told President Joe Biden, "Merry Christmas, and let's go Brandon!"  This may not be our country's proudest moment, but it is not exactly a threat to the republic either.  Still, it has some in the liberal media freaking out beyond anything rational.  When Jared Schmeck called into the NORAD Santa Tracker on Christmas Eve, as he does every year with his children, he was not expecting to be connected directly to the president nor did he know his call was being livestreamed by the White House.  At the end of the brief conversation, however, after, Biden told him his children had to be in bed by 9 or Santa wouldn't come, Schmeck said, "Merry Christmas, and let's go Brandon!"  The latter half of that sentence, of course, is a popular and amusing catchphrase disparaging Biden.  Was the statement juvenile?  Yes.  Uncivil?  Sure.  But was it an act of violence?  Well, The Atlantic's Ron Brownstein seems to think so.  Asked about the call on CNN, Brownstein said, "I don't think it is about incivility.  I think it is fundamentally about insurrection."

Dad Who Pranked Joe Biden Says It's Important to 'Voice Disapproval'.  We've done a fair amount of coverage on the story of Jared Schmeck — how he managed to troll Joe Biden during a NORAD Santa-tracking call that he and his kids had with Joe and Jill Biden on Christmas Eve by slipping in a "Let's go, Brandon" at the end of the call.  This caused a meltdown from folks on the left claiming it was somehow so offensive, with many of these folks being the very same folks who, for years, had called President Donald Trump every name under the sun and uttered all types of calumny against him.  They weren't disturbed by "Let's go, Brandon." They were more disturbed that Biden repeated it and agreed with it, showing how completely out of it he was.  For the sin of revealing how broken Joe Biden was, folks on the left then resolved to doxx the man and destroy his life.  He's received threats and people have been trying to hurt his family's business.

Biden's comments about air travel create massive instability in America.  If Democrats aren't intentionally trying to destroy America, they're certainly doing a good job by accident. [...] COVID has jettisoned the deliberation and stability that the Founders envisioned for a constitutional American republic.  Instead, we have a gerontocracy:  government by old people scared of a virus, desperate for power, disdainful of ordinary Americans, and deeply corrupt, whether morally or financially.

The White House's Vaccine Threats Aren't To Keep You Safe.  They're To Keep You In Line.  By now, you've likely seen or heard the latest coronavirus messaging from the White House, which President Joe Biden is scheduled to talk about again later on Tuesday.  The president gave the first doomsday message for the unvaxxed, COVID response chief Jeff Zients repeated it, and chief of staff Ron Klain doubled down on it, so the comments were no slip of the tongue.  This is the administration's official line.  "We are intent on not letting omicron disrupt work and school for the vaccinated.  You've done the right thing, and we will get through this.  For the unvaccinated, you're looking at a winter of severe illness and death for yourselves, your families, and the hospitals you may soon overwhelm," Zients said, one day after Biden made nearly identical comments.  This messaging is problematic for a multitude of reasons, not the least of which is its remarkable ability to further harden 50 percent of the country against the so-called "unity" president, who has shaped up to be leagues more divisive than his predecessor.  But buried under the latest "dark winter" threat is an admission from the Biden White House that its detractors have been right about its aims all along.  The contrast between the in-group and the out-group isn't that one is rid of the virus while the other isn't.  The difference is that one has "done the right thing."

Liking a Facebook Post Could Get Service Members Punished Under Pentagon 'Extremism' Policy.  Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby announced a new "extremism" policy being rolled out by the Pentagon under President Biden and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Monday [12/20/2021] that the Department of Defense says provides "increased clarity" on what amounts to "extremist activities" or "prohibited activity" by service members.  While Kirby "emphasized" that "the Department is focused on prohibited activity, not on a particular ideology, thought or political orientation," the new guidelines create a broad definition for "active participation."

Concentration Camps for the unvaccinated are coming to New York State.  The National Pulse In the next legislative session beginning January 5th, 2022, the New York Senate and Assembly could vote on a bill that would grant permissions to remove and detain cases, contacts, carriers, or anyone suspected of presenting a "significant threat to public health" and remove them from public life on an indefinite basis.  Bill A416 presents a serious risk to the basic liberties of all Americans in the state of New York, including their right to choose whether or not to receive medical treatment and vaccinations related to thus far undetermined contagious diseases.  The bill gives the Governor of New York, his or her delegates — including but not limited to the commissioner and heads of local health departments — the right to remove and detain any individuals or groups of people through issuing a single order.  The orders only have to include the individual's name(s) or "reasonably specific descriptions of the individuals or groups."

New York Legislation Provides for [the] Indefinite Detention of [the] Unvaccinated at [the] Governor's Whim.  In the next legislative session beginning January 5th, 2022, the New York Senate and Assembly could vote on a bill that would grant permissions to remove and detain cases, contacts, carriers, or anyone suspected of presenting a "significant threat to public health" and remove them from public life on an indefinite basis.  Bill A416 presents a serious risk to the basic liberties of all Americans in the state of New York, including their right to choose whether or not to receive medical treatment and vaccinations related to thus far undetermined contagious diseases.  The bill gives the Governor of New York, his or her delegates — including but not limited to the commissioner and heads of local health departments — the right to remove and detain any individuals or groups of people through issuing a single order.  The orders only have to include the individual's name(s) or "reasonably specific descriptions of the individuals or groups."

The New York legislature is poised to hand massive power to the governor.  In roughly three weeks, the New York state legislature will vote on Bill A416, which will give the New York governor (in this case, the power-mad Kathy Hochul), as well as the governor's delegates (i.e., New York's administrative state) the power to indefinitely detain anyone the governor or her agencies deem a "significant threat to public health."  Despite the broad power states have, this violates the Constitution.  At a practical level, it should scare the pants off every American.  There is absolutely no doubt that, under our Constitution, the states have powers that the federal government lacks.  The federal government is explicitly a creature of very limited powers, while the Tenth Amendment makes it clear that those limited powers not reserved to the federal government belong to the state "or to the people."  The Tenth Amendment, however, does not mean that states can play the dictator.  Indeed, since the Civil War, states have been subject to the same constraints as the federal government when it comes to using its police power over the people within its borders.  Thus, the second sentence in the Fourteenth Amendment states explicitly that ["]No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.["]

New York State Assembly Advancing Legislation to Create Involuntary COVID Quarantine Camps.  There are a lot of really good people in upstate New York and outside the boundaries of that crazy city they are best known for.  The New York state assembly passing a bill to set up involuntary COVID quarantine camps needs to be stopped right now.  This is nuts.  The bill is obtuse in the extreme, and grants the state permission to remove and detain someone defined as "a significant threat to public health."  Those of you who have watched the creation of Quarantine Camps in Australia, and those who noted the ongoing activity in Australia seems designed to be a beta test for the USA, will quickly see the common thread with this proposal in New York.

The Great Reset Crowd's Overreach Will Come Back to Bite Them.  So-called "democracies" around the world have proven during these last two years of COVID-1984 just how authoritarian their leaders really are.  They censor, compel, threaten, intimidate, and dole out physical and emotional punishments in as arbitrary and terrifying a manner as any mad king. [...] No matter how absurd the State's "politically correct" declarations, disagreement is now routinely labeled fascist.  If you disagree with the lie that boys can be girls, you're a fascist!  If you think killing the economy to change the weather is insane, you're a fascist!  Paradoxically, the only way not to be a fascist is to abide by everything the State decrees.  Only by believing and repeating everything our Western "elites" say are you then rewarded with their permission to be "free."  All they do is lie, call it truth, and wait for applause.  It's sickening stuff and the kind of shameless rhetorical tripe that only politicians can stomach.  However, this "Great Reset" planned takeover of the world through the subterfuge of a "health emergency" is beginning to sever the globalists' hypnotic control over the people, and those in power seem blind to what's surely coming next.

You Can No Longer Buy Gasoline In Australia Without Scanning A QR Code So The Gov Knows Exactly What You're Doing At All Times.  Just when you thought Australia could not get anymore dystopian, or Chinese, along comes the QR code checking scheme.  Watch as this guy is denied the ability to pay for his gas at a BP station with his credit card unless he first scans the QR code.  The owner of the station refuses him the ability to pay unless he tells the government where he is, what he's buying and how much.  Australia passed the mandatory QR code check-ins for businesses, used to aid COVID-19 contact tracing efforts but many question the massive privacy issues that come with such a program.  [Video clip]

Nine German Jackboot Thug Cops Bully And Take Away 80 Year Old Granny For Not Identifying Herself.  The optics of 9 giant cops putting a finger in the face of an 80-year-old granny while gripping her wrist is beyond these thugs.  This video has gone viral over Twitter and Facebook showing a gang of cops surrounding this elderly woman because she refused to give them her ID.  A police van is seen towards the end of the video pulling up to the curb and grandma is taken away as if she was a common street thug.  [Video clip]

The Opposite of Tyranny Is Not Democracy.  A big part of the "Great Reset" is its orchestrated campaign to condition people into believing they have no natural rights separate from and paramount to the mandates of government.  Most neoliberal nations no longer talk about the global ideological struggle once pitting "free" and "controlled" states against each other.  Why?  Because that distinction makes little sense when Australia is hunting down citizens for fleeing its quarantine concentration camps and Finland is putting Christianity on trial. [...] Sure, you can practice your faith, engage in commerce to make a living, and associate with like-minded citizens to protest the policies of your government.  Except during a pandemic.  Then all bets are off.  You didn't know that super-secret carve-out to your rights?  It's for your own good.  We're trying to save lives here! [...] Our priests inform us that there are new pandemics of uncontrollable racism and unpredictable weather heading our way, and you've figured out what happens during government-declared pandemics, right?  That's correct — all your rights get put back into storage for use at a later time.  So sorry.

This Is a Test You Need to Fail.  [Scroll down]  COVID-19 is a vital part of the project.  It remains the most monstrous human experiment in history, against every law, from every civilized country, including the Nuremberg Code.  After reading reports from several top COVID-19 experts, who are not afraid to speak, the reason for COVID-19 was the vaccine, not the other way around.  COVID-19 and the vaccine were used to introduce spike protein, a contrived, dangerous toxin, to kill off billions of people without anyone noticing it.  Now we have an engineered virus and a mandated vaccine.  The exposure to spike protein (the virus, vaccines, boosters) causes death within days for some (mandated to not be blamed on the vaccine until after 14 days), months and probably years for others.  But the cause and when the death took place is so diverse as to hide the culprit.  If people died immediately after the jab, people would know why.  Although few autopsies have been given after a COVID death, of the ones they did, the find was remarkable... spike protein was in every organ of the body.  The spike protein exacerbates every weakness in the body, so some die of heart attack, some cancer, some pneumonia, diabetes, any number of illnesses.  So, the death cannot be blamed on COVID or the vaccine.

Australia Has Fallen.  Is Our Nation Next?  Regular readers of world events have long since understood this fact — that Australia has turned into a fascist state reminiscent of The Children of Men.  Throughout the course of the past two years, we've witnessed the death of free speech in what was once a (relatively) free nation.  We've seen pregnant women arrested in front of their screaming children for Facebook posts which organized ACTUAL peaceful anti-slavery protests.  Police entered her home, told her she had broken the law for doing so, and took her away an hour before she had her ultrasound.  You can see the video of it below.  Your blood will boil.  [Video clip]

European Union Debates Reconstituting Nazi Medical Policy With Mandatory Medical Procedures and Abolishing Nuremberg Code.  European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has taken the leading elements of a dark time in history and now openly advocates for their repetition.  Can these people not hear themselves?  This is madness.  Mrs. von der Leyen's husband is Heiko von der Leyen, the Director of the US biotech company Orgenesis which specializes in medical research to include cell and gene therapies.  Mr. Heiko von der Leyen organizes the scientific experiments, and then his wife Ursula advocates for forced vaccinations for all citizens within the European Union; and the removal of the prohibitive Nuremberg Code.  This would be a twisted and sick plot within a science fiction movie; however, it is very real.  Austria has already announced compulsory COVID vaccinations which will be enforced starting in February of 2022.  Greece has recently decided to fine all unvaccinated citizens €100 (£85) a month for their non compliance, and Germany announced Thursday a nationwide lockdown for the unvaccinated, as its leaders backed plans for mandatory vaccinations in the coming months.  Germany's incoming Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, said he supports compulsory vaccinations beginning in March 2022.  These European leaders are insane.

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Escape:  How to Evade Trackers and Tracking Dogs.  I wanted to share with you a few tips on evasion and how to avoid enemy capture when you are being searched for by canines and professional trackers.  As a kid, I used to track deer through the swamp.  Little did I know that what I was doing was preparing myself to be a human tracker as an adult. [...] A dog can be a great friend but it can also be used against you.  Dogs can be trained to track you for lengthy distances.  This is why evasion tactics are covered in the SERE training.  In the field application, tracker dogs are used while the trainees employ the survival skills of navigation, and how to get water, food, and warmth as they track their way through the wilderness.  Proper timing is also a key factor since it's not just about survival but also about evasion.  Beating dogs in their tracking is not an easy task unlike what you might have seen in Hollywood films.  The dogs don't bark; they only run as they sniff and the only time the canines bark is when you are on sight.  At this point, evading is quite tricky since your hideout is already revealed.

The Frogs Have Begun Fleeing the Government's Boiling Pot.  The federal government spies on every email, text, and call you make.  It uses your phone's location services to pinpoint where you are at all times.  It knows which I.P. addresses are associated with online comments that have been deemed "politically incorrect."  Its partnerships with Amazon and Walmart let it know what you're reading and buying.  Its partnerships with Google and Facebook let it know what you're thinking.  Its partnerships with Twitter and Hollywood allow it to censor unapproved messages before too many brains have the opportunity to consider new thoughts.  Its alliance with credit card companies allows it to track all your financial transactions and thereby understand your habits, preferences, choices, and addictions.  Its alliance with cellular companies allows it to monitor all your movements, contacts, and associations.  And all of these consumer comforts that are used by the "national security" surveillance state to watch everyone in real time constantly measure every American's potential for subversiveness, even when that American is engaged in the most mundane things during the course of an ordinary day.

Build Back Bummer:  Biden's Spending Spree Includes a Kill Switch for Your Car.  Remember the good ol' days of the Affordable Care Act?  Remember when Nancy Pelosi said we had to pass the bill to learn what was in it?  Yeah, that was great, wasn't it?  Good times.  Well, hold on to your seatbelts, sports fans.  Biden's infrastructure bill promises to be an even bigger piñata filled with objects usually found in your cat's litterbox.  According to an op-ed by former Georgia Representative Bob Barr, the package contains a well-hidden item:  kill switches in cars.  Ostensibly, the device, whatever it is, will passively monitor the driver for indications of impaired operation and turn the car off if it decides there is a problem.  If that isn't enough overreach for you, get a load of this:  The system can be accessed by third parties.

Build Back Bummer:  Biden's Spending Spree Includes a Kill Switch for Your Car.  Remember the good ol' days of the Affordable Care Act?  Remember when Nancy Pelosi said we had to pass the bill to learn what was in it?  Yeah, that was great, wasn't it?  Good times.  Well, hold on to your seatbelts, sports fans.  Biden's infrastructure bill promises to be an even bigger piñata filled with objects usually found in your cat's litterbox.  According to an op-ed by former Georgia Representative Bob Barr, the package contains a well-hidden item:  kill switches in cars.  Ostensibly, the device, whatever it is, will passively monitor the driver for indications of impaired operation and turn the car off if it decides there is a problem.  If that isn't enough overreach for you, get a load of this:  The system can be accessed by third parties.

DOJ Prosecutors Using Grand Jury to Subpoena Financial Records of 2020 Election Audit Groups.  The Washington Post is writing a story today [11/30/2021] about federal prosecutors using grand juries to subpoena the financial records of individuals and groups who were associated with the 2020 election audit efforts.  The motives here are very predictable. [...] The specifics of this first report surround attorney Sidney Powell and her 'Defend The Republic' organization, one of several individuals and groups who were raising money to support 2020 election audits.  The Sidney Powell, Mike Flynn, and Patrick Byrne network are under review.  As you review the article it is important to note few key elements:  (1) The subpoena document's were leaked to the Washington Post by someone inside the investigation; that speaks toward the larger motive of the DOJ/FBI effort itself.  (2) The specific DOJ prosecutors are the same ones working hand-in-glove with the J6 committee.

CDC orders all US airlines to turn over names of passengers who've been in eight African countries facing travel restrictions due to the Omicron variant.  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is ordering all airlines to turn over the names and other information of passengers who arrived in the U.S. from eight countries that are facing travel restrictions[.]  The directive, first reported on Wednesday by Reuters, has been issued in an effort to quickly identify and stop the spread of the Omicron variant.  The countries include Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe.

CNBC Pundit Calls Unvaxxed People "Psychotic", Demands U.S. Military Hunt Them Down, Force Vaccine or Force Quarantine.  This is one of the people inside the inner circle of Nancy Pelosi, a good personal friend.  As you watch this short video segment ask yourself about the mental stability of a person who would advocate publicly for American citizens to be hunted down by the U.S. military, vaccinated against their will or forcibly quarantined.  This was actually broadcast to the CNBC audience.  In a twisted display of irony, financial pundit Jim Cramer calls unvaccinated people "psychotic"?  [Video clip]

Domestic Travel Ban for Unvaccinated 'Not Off the Table' Says Psaki.  Even though Biden suspended his vaccine mandate for federal workers to save himself a few approval points, he's nevertheless looking for alternative ways to "force" people to get vaccinated, and a domestic travel ban is one such possibility. [...] However, like his vaccine mandate, a ban on domestic travel is also unconstitutional, as it is guaranteed under the Fourteenth Amendment.  Unfortunately, the Biden administration doesn't even consider the Constitution as a guideline, let alone a set of rules.

Why Do People Willingly Sacrifice Their Freedom?  In the video above, Mattias Desmet, professor of clinical psychology at Ghent University in Belgium, reviews the societal conditions under which a population ends up willingly sacrificing their freedom.  Desmet, who also has a master's degree in statistics, discovered peculiar anomalies in statistical analyses done during the COVID pandemic, which made him realize our global society is starting to enter a "mass formation" state, a type of "collective hypnosis" required for the rise of a totalitarian regime.  In this Aubrey Marcus podcast interview, Desmet reviews the step-by-step formula that results in this collective hypnosis, and how this formula has been deployed on the global population over the past two years.

Armed agents in Texas school district arrest concerned parents in their own homes.  The Round Rock Independent School District (RRISD) in Texas is using its own armed agents to arrest parents who speak out against the school board's policies, according to Christopher Rufo in the City Journal.  Rufo, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, said:  "The battle lines are clear:  on one side, the Biden administration, public school bureaucrats, and their armed agents; on the other, parents and families who oppose school closures, mask mandates, critical race theory and corruption.  Public school officials have demonstrated a willingness to use police power to silence and intimidate their opponents."

On The Use Of Fear As A Government Tactic.  Perhaps a public debate on governmental lying and manipulation through the purveying of fear is about to begin.  God willing, it will.  I raise this hope because of a remarkable article that appeared in the Daily Telegraph (UK).  Excerpts follow.  No comment seems required, except the obvious:  This has been a Global phenomenon.  Which means:  coordinated.

Use of fear to control behaviour in Covid crisis was 'totalitarian', admit scientists.  Scientists on a committee that encouraged the use of fear to control people's behaviour during the Covid pandemic have admitted its work was "unethical" and "totalitarian".  Members of the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behaviour (SPI-B) expressed regret about the tactics in a new book about the role of psychology in the Government's Covid-19 response.  SPI-B warned in March last year that ministers needed to increase "the perceived level of personal threat" from Covid-19 because "a substantial number of people still do not feel sufficiently personally threatened".  Gavin Morgan, a psychologist on the team, said:  "Clearly, using fear as a means of control is not ethical.  Using fear smacks of totalitarianism.  It's not an ethical stance for any modern government.  By nature I am an optimistic person, but all this has given me a more pessimistic view of people."

Republicans Sound Alarm:  Claim ATF Moving Toward Gun Registry.  More than 50 Republican House members are warning the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, (ATF) may be quietly working behind the scenes to put a gun registry in place.  FOX News reports Rep. Mike Cloud (R-TX) and 50 of his colleagues sent a letter to ATF Director Marvin Richardson earlier this week, and used the letter to sound the alarm on a possible registry.  The Republicans warned that a proposed ATF rule change would put in place a requirement that Federal Firearm License holders (FFLs) preserve firearm transaction records that are beyond 20 years old.  McCloud warns that no such requirement currently exists, and instituting one effectively creates a de facto registry based off gun sales.

Destroying Democracy by 'Saving Democracy'.  Following the September 11 Attacks, it was common to hear liberals and Democrats bemoan the erasure of civil liberties by the federal government as the War on Terror ratcheted up.  The CIA, FBI, and other apparatuses of the security-surveillance state were assailed for their abuses of Constitutional civil liberties.  Now, however, these same people — sans a few — are mostly quiet.  In fact, they're not merely quiet anymore, many openly endorse letting loose the hounds of the security state on fellow Americans whom they deem their enemies. [...] They claim to be "saving democracy."  They claim to support "multiculturalism."  They claim to defend "diverse opinions." Except they don't.  They only democracy they care about is their propagandistic democracy; by forcing the majority of Americans to comply with their views they claim the democratic spirit lives on.

Too many religious institutions failed the COVID test.  What's been so disheartening during the past 20 months is the willingness with which religious institutions have gone along with the states' mandates.  In Canada, Rev. Artur Pawlowski has fought back, but no representatives from major religions have supported his efforts.  He embarrasses, rather than inspires, them.  The virtue of COVID is that it has separated the wheat from the chaff.  To the leftists, the people who are chaff are those who refuse to wear masks and get shots.  However, in the grander scheme of things, the chaff is those people who have used the virus as an opportunity for despotism and those people — including men and women of God — who have happily gone along with it.

California County Issues Mask Mandate for Private Homes Ahead of Thanksgiving.  Santa Cruz County in California issued a mask mandate for all indoor settings, including private homes, ahead of the holiday season.  The mandate went into effect at 11:59 p.m. on November 21 and requires "all individuals to wear a face covering when indoors regardless of vaccination status."  "Unfortunately, a potential winter surge appears to be a significant threat to the health and safety of our community," said Santa Cruz County Health Officer Dr. Gail Newel in the announcement.

The Editor says...
They're telling you what you can do inside your house because of a "potential winter surge" of a disease that's so terrible, many people don't even know they have it.  If you're going to live in fear of a "potential winter surge," you should at least be afraid of something that is likely to happen, and much more likely to affect us all.  Like a winter surge in the price of gasoline.

Unvax Tax:  Expert Proposes Monthly Fines for the Unvaccinated.  Vice President of the Lower Austrian Medical Association Gerrit Loibl has suggested that the government should levy a monthly fine of up to €100 to anyone unvaccinated.  Loibl has suggested that those who have not been vaccinated should pay between €90 and €100 (£78-£84/$90-$113) per month to the government, claiming that the amount is based on the current tax on tobacco products.

The Editor says...
It's only a hundred dollars.  In Austria, you could spend that much on a tank of gas.  And this tax will never increase, right?

Leaked HHS Memo Reveals Biden Admin Seeks to Strip Americans of Religious Protections.  A leaked memo from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) reveals plans by the Biden administration to make changes to Americans' First Amendment rights and other religious liberty protections.  The internal memo describes plans to "sign delegation of authority on the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) and religion clause of the First Amendment" to the Office for Civil Rights (OCR).  It's a move that Oklahoma Republican Sen. James Lankford believes will undo religious liberty protections and disregard the First Amendment.

My Hippie Vietnam War Professor Was Right About the Dangers of the Patriot Act.  [Scroll down]  Currently, the federal government is isolating and targeting very different enemies of the state than it was in 2001, to say the least.  Among these are soccer moms who don't like their sons being taught that their sex and skin color makes them guilty of some ancestral sin that justifies their having become the victims of perpetual discrimination in applying to college or a job.  They are fathers who don't like the idea that a 16-year-old boy who is pretending that he's a girl can share a shower with his 16-year-old daughter after volleyball practice.  They are parents who don't like that their elementary schoolchildren are being told that they may truly be something other than a boy or a girl, or that they should sexually experiment upon themselves.  They are racial minorities who don't like that their sons and daughters are being taught that they're perpetual victims in America, or that phantom impediments to success are oppressing them.  And many among all of those parents take issue with their children being taught that their race is anything more than an immutable trait that is profoundly unimportant relative to kindness, intelligence, work ethic, and what Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. referred to as "character" when relating his famous dream to the American people.  Today, the federal enforcement mechanisms meant to combat terrorism, including those of the Patriot Act, are being used against all of those Americans with whom a clear majority ideologically and politically agree.

How do you teach millions of people to obey the State?  [Scroll down]  I would ask those people who do not yet see clearly what is going on in the United States to ask themselves whether they have less or more freedom than they did two years ago and, if they're old enough, whether they have less or more freedom than they did before the national security surveillance state came into existence after 9/11.  And then I would ask one more question:  in the last century of the U.S. government claiming new powers for itself during some "emergency crisis" sold to the American people as a temporary expedience, has any of those "emergency powers" over the people ever been relinquished?  Governments, by their nature, will illegitimately accrue power until the people they insist on ruling have had enough and begin pushing back.  That, too, is an unequivocal yet painful lesson remembered and relinquished by man through the centuries.  Again, that is where we are today.

FBI Used Unnecessary Brute Force On America's Mom Founder.  Sherronna Bishop tells of horrific FBI harassment during a raid on her home, and abuse of her children.  [Video clip]

Mother Describes FBI Raiding Her Home For Speaking Out Against Election Fraud & Radical School Boards.  A Colorado mother explained a harrowing account of the FBI raiding her home for speaking out against far-left officials on her local city council.  Sherronna Bishop, founder of activist group America's Mom, joined Steve Bannon's War Room on Saturday to describe how a SWAT team rammed down her door and terrorized her children as they handcuffed her and dragged her away on Tuesday.  "I have always been available, and yet they chose to come to my home in this way: break down my door, terrorize my family, and put me in cuffs," Bishop said.

Showdown! Will the Cops and Military Go Along With This?  [Of course they will!]  [Video clip]

First Mom Raided By FBI Since October 4th DOJ Memorandum?  An FBI SWAT team raided the home of an activist mother of three in Colorado on Tuesday, Nov. 16, knocking down her door, bursting into the house and handcuffing her while she was homeschooling her children.  This is the first known case of the federal government making good on its promise to not only intimidate but actually carry out a raid on a mom who was involved in her local school board politics, said Brannon Howse, who interviewed Sheronna Bishop on his live broadcast at Lindell TV Wednesday night. [...] The U.S. Department of Justice and Attorney General Merrick Garland issued an Oct. 4 memorandum directing federal, state and local law enforcement to look for parents to prosecute nationwide who may have made "threats" and made "harassing" phone calls to school board members nationwide, equating such parents to domestic terrorists.  Now a mother, Sheronna Bishop of Grand Junction, Colorado, has felt the brute force of the FBI's heavily armed SWAT unit used against her family.

The Ten Stages of Genocide Are Hitting a Little Too Close to Home.  [Stage 7] Preparation:  The victims of future mass killing are identified, separated, and forced to wear distinguishing symbols.  You didn't think the Biden regime was collecting information on gun-owners in order to fight crime, did you?  You didn't think using the Post Office to spy on Americans' social media accounts was for their own good, right?  Why are Democrats pushing so hard to expand the IRS's snooping powers into every American's checking account?  The U.S. government is busy making its list and deciding right now whether you've been naughty or nice.  [Stage 8] Persecution:  Governments begin forcing members of victim groups into special camps.  If Australia's or Canada's efforts to build internment camps for the "unvaccinated" seem like foreign news, perhaps the state of Washington's efforts to do the same thing should pique Americans' interest.  How does one distinguish among quarantine, internment, and concentration camps anyway?

The Continued American Awakening of The FBI as an Official Enforcement Mechanism of The Fourth Branch of Government.  The FBI is a U.S. version of the Russian "State Police"; and the FBI is deployed — almost exclusively — to attack domestic enemies of those who control government; while they protect the interests of the U.S. Fourth Branch of Government.  That is the clear and accurate domestic prism to contextualize their perceived mission: "domestic violent extremists pose the greatest threat" to their objective.  Put another way, "We The People", who fight against government abuse and usurpation, are the FBI's actual and literal enemy.  Let me be very clear with another brutally obvious example.  Antifa could not exist as an organization; capable to organize and carry out violent attacks against their targets; without the full support of the FBI.  If the FBI wanted to arrest members of Antifa, who are actually conducting violence, they could do it easily — with little effort.  It is the absence of any action by the FBI toward Antifa, that tells us the FBI is enabling that violent extremist behavior to continue.  Once you accept that transparent point of truth; then, you realize the FBI definition of domestic violent extremism is something else entirely.  The FBI is not a law enforcement or investigative division of the U.S. Department of Justice.  The FBI is a political weapon of a larger institution that is now focused almost entirely toward supporting a radical communist agenda to destroy civil society in the United States.

Yes, Austria will lock down all of the unvaccinated... permanently?  It appears that Austria and Australia will soon have more in common than most of the letters in their names.  We previously learned that unvaccinated Australians will be looking at being essentially confined to their homes for the foreseeable future following sweeping new government mandates.  But now the government of Austria is preparing to follow suit.  Austrian Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg made the unofficial announcement on Friday [11/12/2021], with an official order expected in the next few days.  After seeing another surge in new COVID cases, Austria's government had already put a number of restrictions in place, but under the new order, there won't be any wiggle room left.  Also, the number of people under mandatory vaccination orders is being expanded.  The lockdown order initially only covers two regions, but on Sunday they plan to take it nationwide.

Six Details That Reveal [the] Long Reach of Biden's Vaccine Mandate.  President Joe Biden's vaccine mandate for private employers often is described as requiring employees of large companies either to be vaccinated or be tested weekly.  But when you dig into the details, the mandate is far more invasive than that.  Nonvaccinated employees must wear masks, even if they are being tested weekly.  Employers must maintain records of employees' vaccination status.  Employees who lie to their employers about their vaccination status could face up to five years imprisonment, while employers who do not comply with the mandate face fines of $13,653 per violation.  The Biden administration is trying to make noncompliance with the federal government's legally dubious vaccine mandate a dangerous proposition for employers and employees.  "We've been patient, but our patience is wearing thin," Biden said in a Sept. 9 speech in which he announced the coming vaccine mandate.  The Labor Department then issued an emergency rule that requires businesses and other organizations with 100 or more employees to get a shot of the COVID-19 vaccine.  The mandate is intended to supersede state laws.

What Is an America that Holds Prisoners Indefinitely without Charging Them?  The U.S. is facing a serious constitutional crisis over the handling of the cases of defendants in the Jan. 6 so-called "insurrection" in Washington, D.C. to protest the presidential election modus operandi and the results.  Those being held for many months without a trial are being denied their habeas corpus rights under the U.S. Constitution and even dating back to English law hundreds of years before our Constitution was implemented.  Not only are they being incarcerated without having had a trial, but there is some evidence that they are being mistreated or are being held 23 hours a day in solitary confinement, which is a punishment accorded only the most dangerous criminals, such as serial killers and terrorists.  What are habeas corpus rights?  According to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), "[h]abeas corpus is a fundamental right in the Constitution that protects against unlawful and indefinite imprisonment.  Translated from Latin it means 'show me the body.'  Habeas corpus has historically been an important instrument to safeguard individual freedom against arbitrary executive power."  A citizen must be charged and cannot be held indefinitely.  A charge requires a trial, and, if found guilty in a trial, there is a sentence for a specific amount of time.

Australians Beg The World For Help.  Australia, as we once knew it, no longer exists.  Australians are no longer 'young and free.'  Instead, Australians are discriminated against, pitted against each other, blackmailed, pressured, beaten, and stripped of their rights.  It has become a country where you can no longer move and speak freely.  Protesting is prohibited, police officers must enforce controversial measures to keep their jobs, and police shoot protesters in the back as they run away.  Doctors and nurses who speak out lose their license to practice medicine, and others lose their jobs if they refuse "the jab."  More and more children are isolated and attempting suicide.

How did we get here?  Can this mess be fixed?  We have entered a dark age.  Truth, not always abundantly obvious, has been increasingly shrouded thanks to the growing cynicism and polarization of our day.  The condition is getting worse by the day. [...] The president of the United States, unable to persuade half the nation of his "truth" about the only solution to the threat of COVID, has resorted to force.  You will wear a mask.  You will distance yourself from other human beings.  You will be injected with an experimental drug despite its adverse effects on health in the short term and utterly unknown and unknowable effects in the long term.  End of discussion.  How far has this thinking been extended?  In previous diktats from on high, there have been exceptions allowed for conscience and religious beliefs.  Not on Joe Biden's watch.  The path was cleared for this tyranny by the medical establishment, media, Big Tech, and corporate America suppressing all dissenting views.  Freedom of speech has morphed into freedom to agree.

Vaccine Mandates — What's the End Game?  Vaccine passports and QR codes are already balkanizing the world, creating a new group of socio-economic pariahs, blocking the unalienable rights of many for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.  Other countries are taking an even more extreme approach.  Unvaccinated Australians will remain in virtual prison until at least 2023, their key freedoms eliminated.  Similar restrictions are in place in Germany, and America is following suit.  Will this all be temporary or permanent?  Eventually herd immunity will be reached via natural infection and vaccinations and such draconian restrictions will no longer be necessary.  Or will they?  Power is addictive, an aphrodisiac to those charged with representing their people.  Now it's vaccines, but what next?  Once a population is compliant, beaten down by fear and shame, they are less likely to resist present and future controls, regardless of founding documents or natural law.  Law enforcement and the military can squash any pockets of rebellion, as we know from history, whether Hitler's Germany, Stalin's USSR, or Mao's China.  The courts may temporarily halt the mandates, but there will be appeals, likely all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court and there is no way of predicting how that will end.  Do mandates even matter if companies are taking it upon themselves to enforce vaccinations with the noncompliant being fired?

The Biden Regime Will Turn the Military on the People Unless We Push Back.  "The coldest of all cold monsters." That is what the modern state is.  Nietzsche's devastating analysis in Thus Spoke Zarathustra hit the nail on the head:  the state is an engine of death.  It wages war on the people, its agents are "annihilators" who seek the destruction of everything vital and potent.  All who witnessed the last 18 months of the COVID regime and the biomedical tyranny imposed by Joe Biden and his handlers implicitly understand what Nietzsche meant.  The bureaucrats who make up the arm of the state, who serve this cold monster, hate the people.  They make their lives miserable.  Lockdowns, vax mandates, mask orders, critical race theory in schools, transgender bathrooms ... the list goes on and on.  Ritual humiliation is the point.  The agents of state power see themselves as the rightful masters of the people.  To these creatures of the institutions, citizens are nothing but human resources to be bent to their malformed will.  This perverse view extends even to the American military.  The time is coming, soon, in which the armed forces will be turned openly against the people.  The Biden inauguration lockdown in D.C. — replete with checkpoints, thousands of national guardsmen, and the full weight of the nation's security apparatus — was only a taste of things to come.

One Minute Before Midnight.  The clock shows one minute before midnight.  This is it.  No exaggeration.  But that clock isn't illustrating the time Earth has left until it is consumed by man-caused climate change.  Instead, it is telling us how little time remains before the United States, erstwhile land of the free and home of the brave, becomes just another sterile authoritarian state.  Before it is too late to reign in a tyrannical government that has made a mockery of the Founders' vision of limited government of, by, and for the people.  A government that is now openly of, by, and for itself.  A government that is rapidly becoming as opaque, dishonest and abusive as those it used to challenge and even fight.

Second-Class Citizens in Biden's America.  A definition of a second-class citizen is a person belonging to a social, economic, or political group whose rights and opportunities are inferior to those of the dominant group in society.  We are witnessing the societal standing of a large segment of the American people being increasingly diminished by the policies of the Biden administration and numerous current events.  Consequently, the collective standing of today's so-called deplorables is being increasingly relegated by our political system to expendables.  Big Government aligned with left-leaning Big Business, the permanent Administrative State, the mainstream media, Big Tech and social media, the entertainment world, and our educational and academic establishments is in the process of radically transforming our way of government and ultimately the nature of our society.  The parties mentioned above collectively are often referred to as the elites, the Establishment, or the Deep State.  On the other hand, the deplorables constitute a large segment of all middle- and working-class Americans.

Rise of the Vaccine Bullies.  [Scroll down]  Fast-forward to 2021, and the positional bullies unite behind a propaganda success: the "pandemic."  As bullies are wont to do, they bark orders that hurt people, destroy lives.  School districts close schools, rob kids of a normal childhood, take away once-in-a-lifetime occasions like proms and graduations, inflict long-term damage to kids' education and future earnings.  Governors order states shut down for weeks, months.  On reopening, they parcel out freedom, just certain businesses and partial openings.  This reign of terror closed 200,000 businesses for good — not just storefronts, but real people, real incomes stolen, real lives destroyed.  However, those tyrannical crackdowns were just a prelude to the big push, the real exercise of control over the people, the vaccine.  They started out asking nicely, but then orders started to fly.  Federal workers, military, have to take the jab.  Then corporatism (economic fascism) rears its ugly head when companies team up with government to issue ultimatums.  You want to eat, you want your kids to have a home and clothes, you want health insurance for your family, then you will take the jab.  No excuses, no exceptions.

How Much Would You Like to Be a Serf?  While the idea of "lords and ladies" may seem like ancient history, the fact is that the reactionary thinking of the court intelligentsia is still very much with us.  The leaders of today's Democrat party view themselves as more intelligent and entitled than the mass of deplorables whom they were born to govern.  Not just that:  The intelligentsia is determined to eliminate the middle class, whose values and political interests are so much opposed to their own insistence on centralized control.  To this end, today's progressives are doing all they can to block the path to the middle class — a path that expanded dramatically under President Trump.  It is not in the left's interest to have a broad, inquisitive, educated, assertive middle class demanding the right to govern themselves.

The Danger for Mankind Is Not the Climate, but Toleration of a Devious Policy that Uses Climate To Destroy Us!  All the symptoms of a collapsing system are right before our eyes, if we care to see them:  an economic system in which the balance between cost and benefit is totally out of balance, an accelerating hyperinflation that devours our earnings, a good healthcare system that only the rich can afford, an education system that teaches neither excellence nor moral values, an out-of-control woke culture that turns people against each other, a disastrous geopolitical confrontation policy against alleged rivals — and the list could go on and on!  All these manifestations of crisis have a common cause:  We in the West are living under the dictatorship of a financial oligarchy, for which the common good is nonexistent, and whose sole interest is to maximize its own privileges.  An oligarchy that needs "endless wars" to generate income for its military-industrial complex, and promotes the production and distribution of mind-destroying drugs, both illegal and legalized, the latter because the financial system would have collapsed long ago without the input of laundered drug money.  And given that this system is now hopelessly bankrupt, the entire economic and financial system is now supposed to be converted to so-called green technologies in a final great coup — the Great Reset.  Under the pretext of climate protection, the motto for this conversion is "Shifting the Trillions."  And it's happening now!

Obama's Police State Dream Is Coming True.  The U.S. Capitol Police have been authorized to open field offices in two states, Florida and California, ostensibly to investigate threats against members of Congress.  A Capitol Police spokesperson said additional field offices will be opening, prompting fears of a massive federal law enforcement overreach:  the nightmare scenario of a police state.  I predict the Capitol Police expansion is a move toward abolishing all state and local law enforcement agencies, and replacing them with a nationwide federal law enforcement presence.  Why?  Because according to Democrats, state and local police departments are racist institutions that keep the boot of white supremacy on the neck of black America.

New Hampshire and Pennsylvania Join Ohio, Missouri and Withdraw from the National School Boards Association.  Four states have decided to terminate their National School Boards Association membership over a letter comparing the parents to domestic terrorists.  The Gateway Pundit previously reported that Ohio and Missouri School Board Associations terminated their membership with the NSBA.  The New Hampshire School Boards Association is the latest to leave the NSBA after it sent a letter to Biden that begs him to use federal law enforcement agencies against parents and investigate them for "domestic terrorism and hate crime threats."  The National School Board was so outraged that parents were speaking out in defense of their children that they shamelessly urged the DOJ to use the Patriot Act, among other "enforceable actions" against them.

Montana Memo Revealed:  DOJ Blueprint to Persecute and Intimidate Parents.  During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday [10/27/2021], Attorney General Merrick Garland stated that he does not intend to retract an October 4 Department of Justice directive vowing to target parents at school board meetings.  The DOJ directive was based fully on a September 29 letter signed by Viola M. Garcia, EdD and Chip Slaven, Esq. from the National School Board Association (NSBA).  After much pushback, the NSBA stated on October 22 that they "regret and apologize for the letter."  Despite the NSBA apology, Attorney General Merrick Garland is doubling down on his quest to persecute and intimidate parents.  Garland also denied knowing about a memo originating in Montana from the Acting United States Attorney's office.

Virginia mother says feds, helicopter showed up at school board meeting and she's received 'daily threats'.  A mother of six in Fairfax County, Virginia said Wednesday that federal agents, including unmarked vehicles and a helicopter, were present at a recent local school board meeting.  "This is something that is incredible in America and it's ridiculously un-American," said Stacy Langton during an appearance on "Fox & Friends."  Langton shared a photo on Twitter of a Department of Homeland Security vehicle as well as several "ghost cars," which could have been either unmarked local or federal vehicles.  In addition, Langton said a helicopter flew overhead, shining its spotlight down on the event.

Will Governments Survive the Coming Peasant Revolt?  Let's talk big picture here.  Why has the world been turned on its head these last few years?  Why does it seem as if everything true is labeled false and everything false is labeled true? [...] Let's start with three premises:
  [#1]   All governing systems (political, financial, technocratic) operate to preserve and expand their power.
  [#2]   Catastrophic governing failure leads to complete loss of power for those in charge.
  [#3]   Governing systems in the process of failing compensate by eliminating competition and increasing overall control.
In other words, even the most free and dynamic social systems degrade over time as the people who govern those systems distort them in pursuit of greater personal wealth and power.  Corrupted systems eventually lead to breakdown and collapse.  As collapse nears, social systems become so vulnerable to unsanctioned actions and ideas that they close themselves off.  Freedom is replaced with tyranny.  This is by design.

MSNBC host agrees:  Unvaccinated should be denied access to basic goods and services.  MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan supports segregating those who are unvaccinated against the coronavirus and denying them access to basic goods and services.  Remember, folks:  It's about public health.  It's definitely not a new-age religious cult whose most zealous adherents believe the path to salvation is through punishing the wicked "unbelievers."  Hasan's comments in support of isolating the unvaccinated came this week in reference to public remarks made by left-wing luminary Noam Chomsky (he's still alive, by the way).  Chomsky said this week during an interview with Curt Jaimunga that the issue of vaccine mandates — that is, forcing the unvaccinated to accept vaccines or face a specific set of consequences — is a "mixed story."  He suggested there must be some compromise struck between individual liberties and public health, adding that society itself should form a sort of "social convention" wherein the unvaccinated are pushed into isolation.

Our Phoney War.  A blitzkrieg was launched against us in 2020, beginning with a virus, progressing to censorship of medical information, loss of livelihoods, coerced inoculation, and now threatening control of our lives by electronic passports.  The "vaccines" must be universally accepted, against medical contraindications, moral objections, and whether or not they cause death and debilitating injuries.  We gamely agreed to two weeks to flatten the curve, and now it's been two years, with no signs of retreat.  Evil is a tapeworm; it never gets enough.  If American institutions and agencies are deliberately deceiving and manipulating us, that's not poor judgment; that's evil.  If the pandemic was planned, if the virus was lab-engineered, if news of effective treatments was silenced to create conditions into which a lucrative vaccine could be introduced, and if that vaccine causes more damage than good while being forced on the population... that's evil on a grand scale.  It is utterly futile to hope that it will go away on its own and allow us to have our "normality" back. [...] War has been declared, not by a foreign enemy, but by the very domestic institutions we have trusted in the past.

Are Parents a National Security Threat?  In case you've not heard, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) has mobilized against a new and unprecedented "threat" of "criminal conduct" facing the nation.  So grave is this menace that the FBI has marshaled the National Threat Operations Center (NTOC), the DOJ's Criminal Division, National Security Division, Civil Rights Division, the Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys, the FBI, the Community Relations Service, and the Office of Justice Programs.  What's provoked such a massive federal response?  Is it the mass infiltration of our southern borders, Cartel criminal enterprises, child-sex traffickers, Antifa-inspired riots in our inner cities, or the biggest jump in American homicide rates in 60 years?  Sorry, but none of these actual woes are considered sufficiently serious for such sweeping federal action.  It's taken something far more ominous:  parents of school-aged children.  Specifically, the DOJ is worried about vocal parents at school board meetings upset over critical race theory (CRT) indoctrination being imposed on their kids in public schools.

Chomsky: Starve The Unvaxxed Into Submission.  Leftist intellectual Noam Chomsky in a recent interview endorsed segregating the unvaccinated from society and denying them food in a neo-Bolshevik Holodomor 2.0 strategy to starve them into submission.  "Such people have to be — they should have the decency to remove themselves from the community, if they refuse to do that, then measures have to be taken to safeguard the community from them," Chomsky told the Primo Radical YouTube show over the weekend.  "Then comes the practical question that you asked:  How can we get food to them?  Well, that's actually their problem."   "Of course, if they really become destitute then yes you have to move in with some measure to secure their survival, just as you do with people in jail," Chomsky said.

No matter what the public wants, crises typically leave the state more powerful.  Americans who notice an increase in the size and intrusiveness of government since COVID-19 first appeared in headlines may wonder whether this will be a permanent condition.  The short answer:  probably.  History suggests that we're unlikely to see government fully return to its preexisting constraints even after everybody agrees the pandemic has passed along with whatever debatable need there might have been for officials to expand their reach.  But that lingering inflation of state power will continue over the objections of a public that has lost its taste for an activist state. [...] In 2020, as politicians warned that we faced death by this new disease unless we shuttered businesses, sheltered indoors, and avoided one another, a rare majority of 54 percent thought government should take on a more active role.  The only other time Gallup has registered a popular preference for bigger government was 20 years ago, which is a hint at the dynamic that's at play. [...] That surge in trust in government resulted in the Patriot Act and the Transportation Security Administration.  Which is to say, the public was quickly disabused of the notion that the state was worthy of such trust.

The Pandemic in Perpetuity.  [Scroll down]  But in the context of the pandemic, many of the justifications for lockdowns and mandates contain the seeds of something darker.  Rather than a coherent vision of the scope and purpose of political freedom, the invocations of everything from "civil liberties" to "public health" often read more like ideological window dressing for the raw assertion of power.  We have learned many things about ourselves, and one another, in the course of the past year and a half.  The coronavirus has taught us that at least some portion of our country — although it is difficult to discern exactly how much — is now distinctly uncomfortable with the kind of freedoms that Americans enjoyed before March 2020.

National School Board Association Apologizes for Its Part in Attorney General's 'Domestic Terrorist' Letter.  In this week's Congressional Oversight hearings, Attorney General Merrick Garland was asked about the infamous letter which labeled parents who express opposition to a school board's agenda as "domestic terrorists." [...] After much fallout from the letter and the testimony pointing to NSBA coordinating with the White House, the organization has issued [...] an apology. [...] While it's commendable that they reinforce the importance of a parent's role in their child's education and their right to be part of the decisions about said education, this full-throated support of parents should have been issued by NSBA months ago, especially after the mess in Loudoun County, instead of the condemnation they sent.  This is a self-inflicted wound, and something they should have been smart enough to avoid.

Where's the apology from the Attorney General?
National School Boards Association Apologizes for Letter Comparing Parents to Terrorists.  The National School Boards Association has apologized for a letter that called on the Biden administration to investigate whether alleged threats against school-board members constituted domestic terrorism.  The NSBA Board of Directors apologized in a memorandum to members on Friday.  The initial letter, sent on September 29, asked the administration to investigate whether alleged threats to school-board members, over masking policies and "propaganda purporting the false inclusion of critical race theory" in lessons, necessitated federal investigation.

The DOJ Targets Domestic Terrorists — AKA Angry Americans.  Merrick Garland is taking political weaponization of the DoJ to a whole new level.  It started with the National Association of School Boards (NASB) asking the DoJ for protection against protesting parents.  You know, those parents who have objections to making gender fluid racists out of their children.  They should know that what schools choose to teach their kids is none of their business — just ask Terry McAuliffe.  Luckily, the NASB's union backers have been paying for influence for many years.  Now they're cashing in their chits for a little consideration.  The NASB has asked that the DoJ treat misbehaving parents as domestic terrorists, with the full capabilities of the Patriot Act brought to bear.

AG Garland's testimony only begs more questions.  Why is DOJ monitoring parents?  The Attorney General insists there was nothing to be worried about because the FBI would simply be monitoring what these parents say or do at school meetings.  Promises of such "unobtrusive" investigations or operations ignore the obvious: any national enforcement or monitoring effort is, by definition, obtrusive — particularly when it comes to free speech.  Garland's testimony came after the Justice Department announced that it would initiate a national effort to "address threats against school administrators, board members, teachers, and staff," including "open dedicated lines of communication for threat reporting, assessment, and response."

Deleted Government Report Celebrates How Public Loves to "Conform".  A deleted government report exploring how to make the public alter its behavior to accept the new 'green economy' reveals how COVID-19 restrictions have created a population with a "deep set reverence" for authority and a "powerful tendency to conform."  The report was inadvertently published by the British government before being hastily pulled down, but numerous journalists were able to retrieve its contents.  The document explored how to weaponize behavioral psychology to 'nudge' the public into supporting measures and adopting behavior without them explicitly knowing they're being manipulated.  The investigation found that the same techniques the government used to force people into accepting lockdown could be used to make them change their lifestyles in the name of preventing climate change.

Democrats aim to make anyone who disagrees with them an enemy of the state.  Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-The Moon) made the Democratic position clear Thursday:  If you're not with us, you're terrorists.  During his opening statement for the Attorney General Merrick Garland hearing, Nadler said there was no difference between the rioters who stormed the Capitol on January 6 and parents who are angry about what is being taught in schools.  "This growth in extremist ideology is echoed in an epidemic of violence and intimidation directed at our health care professionals, teachers, essential workers, school board members and election workers," Nadler said.  Nadler, a partisan loon who spent the past four years stirring up every conspiracy theory against President Trump, claimed there was a "broader pattern" here, including "the growing threats of violence against public servants."

White House Knew About Letter That Compared Parents to Domestic Terrorists.  The country's largest school board association collaborated with the Biden White House before sending a controversial letter calling on the FBI to investigate parents as potential domestic terrorists, according to previously unreported emails.  The emails, obtained by Parents Defending Education through public records requests and reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon, reveal that the National School Board Association's president and CEO sent the letter to Biden on Sept. 29 without approval from the organization's board.  The letter said that the acts of some parents at school board meetings across the country could be considered "a form of domestic terrorism and hate crimes."  The emails also show that the White House asked the association for examples of threats against school board members days before Attorney General Merrick Garland created a task force of officials from the FBI and the Justice Department to determine how to prosecute alleged crimes at school board meetings.

The Specter of One World Government Looms Large.  The U.N.'s Agenda 2030 is still in place, and the clock is ticking toward its empowerment — only eight years and two-plus months to go.  This Agenda is for a new world government, which will implement the policies of the Agenda.  This new government on our horizon explains many of the failures in policies in these first months of the Biden administration.  The failures are based not so much on mistakes as on deliberate sabotage to weaken our country, dilute the power that undergirds our sovereignty, and prepare us to accept one world government.  The seed ideas for Agenda 2030 began with Pres.  Woodrow Wilson's League of Nations in his Fourteen Points at the end of WWI. [...] With the benefit of 20-20 hindsight, all right-thinking persons can see that Woodrow Wilson's first giant step toward globalism was rightly rejected.  The League was a complete failure in terms of bringing peace to the world.  To the German Nazi government, the League was a joke.

Chicago Mayor says police union is trying to 'induce an insurrection'.  Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot recently said the Chicago Fraternal Order of Police were trying to "induce an insurrection" by pushing back against vaccine mandates.  Au contraire.  It is Mayor Lightfoot that is trying to subvert the Constitution, take away personal autonomy and — ironically — institute a police state.  Tyrannical Democrats — and there don't appear to be many that don't fit that description today — are now accusing any group of people standing up for their inherent rights of fomenting an "insurrection."  A few hundred people walking through the Capitol wearing MAGA hats or Viking horns?  Insurrection!  A handful of parents vociferously disagreeing with a school board's attempt to shamelessly indoctrinate their kids?  Insurrection!  A union of public safety officers publicly stating that they own their own bodies?  Insurrection!  Forget to put your car license tabs on by the expiration date?  Insurrection!  For the same reasons, Democrats and their media sycophants now label anything with which they disagree "misinformation."  This is the most dangerous time in American history since the Civil War.

Judge says Chicago police union not allowed to discourage members from getting vaccinated for covid.  Cook County Circuit Judge Cecilia A. Horan has ordered Chicago Fraternal Order of Police President John Catanzara to stop discouraging the city's police force from taking the Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) "vaccine."  In Horan's opinion, Catanzara does not have any First Amendment rights when it comes to telling his police officers that getting injected might not be in their best interests.  On Oct. 15 following a lengthy emergency hearing on a request for injunctive relief that was filed by the city early in the day, Horan proclaimed that Catanzara must immediately stop trying to help police officers avoid the deadly clot shot, which stands a good chance of killing them.  Last week, Catanzara urged Chicago police officers to not comply with the city's mandate requiring them to tell the government whether or not they got injected with one of Donald "father of the vaccine" Trump's "Operation Warp Speed" injections.

'Australia going full CCP': Aussies look to crack down on bikers, require tattoos to be covered.  Western Australia, an Australian state that comprises 32.9 percent of the continent, is being compared to Nazi Germany or Communist China over a controversial new proposal to ban biker gang members from showing off their tattoos or hanging out together in public.  Set to be voted on by the Parliament of Western Australia sometime soon, the Unlawful Consorting and Prohibited Insignia Bill explicitly stipulates that biker gang members are "banned from wearing their patches and associating with one another in public."  The Sydney Morning Herald notes that a "patch" includes any type of "insignia, including tattoos."

Parents aren't Terrorists, Mr. President.  They're Americans with Something to Say.  [Scroll down]  They are not insurrectionists.  They are not terrorists.  They are parents.  All of this, CRT and its offshoots, the sheer racism of it, the arrogance of the educrats and the White House putting the federal squeeze on dissenting parents, would have been unthinkable just a few years ago.  If you had prophesized the things I'm writing about now, you'd have been considered a madman with a tin-foil hat.  But all this is certainly thinkable now, isn't it?  Because it's happening now.  And there is an effort by legacy, corporate media — which tells itself it speaks truth to power but serves as the thought guardians of the regime — to downplay what's going on at school boards.

US Civil Rights Commissioners Ask Blistering Questions About Garland Labeling Parents as 'Domestic Terrorists'.  The more I see Attorney General Merrick Garland in action the more I count America's lucky stars that the then-Senate Majority Leader kept this guy [...] away from the United States Supreme Court — which no doubt still angers the chief law enforcement official of our country.  Shudder the thought.  Before we continue, let's get one thing straight.  While the Attorney General serves at the pleasure of the president of the United States and is the chief legal counsel of the President, the Attorney General is not the president's personal lawyer nor that of the president's party; the Attorney General is the federal government's chief lawyer.  That applied to Jeff Sessions and Bill Barr under Trump — much to Trump's chagrin — and it applies to Merrick Garland, as he has admitted.  The problem being Garland is not practicing what he preaches.  And now "the rest of the story." [...]

Democrats face growing storm over IRS reporting provision.  Democrats are facing a firestorm of criticism over a proposal to increase the amount of bank account information reported to the IRS, posing a challenge as they craft their wide-ranging social spending bill.  The proposal is a top priority of the Biden administration, which argues it will help the IRS go after wealthy tax cheats.  But it has come under a barrage of attacks from banks and Republicans, who say it raises significant privacy concerns.  Financial institutions have been mobilizing their customers to speak out against the proposal to lawmakers.

School Boards and Idiots.  We were puzzled by Garland's preposterous memorandum ordering the FBI to investigate angry parents showing up at school board meetings as "domestic terrorists," but AFL, in a letter to Inspector General Michael Horowitz, makes a credible series of factual assertions about the genesis of this outrageous order.  The AFL correctly reminds that the "Supreme Court has repeatedly recognized "parents' right to control and direct the education of their own children." They note the large, ongoing protests by parents against Critical Race Theory indoctrination, "anti-religious and anti-family gender ideology," and forced masking and online education mandates.  The genesis of the Garland memorandum in AFL's telling was an effort of Biden-supporting outfits, including the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers, to intimidate dissenting parents. [...] Inside the Department of Justice, staff raised concerns about legal and constitutional authority to interfere with parent protests.  The outside group chosen to provide a colorable nexus for interfering with those rights was the National School Boards Association, which wrote to Garland citing the Patriot Act and demanding federal aid.  Within days, on October 4, Garland made public his memorandum.

Bill Ayers, a Familiar Face in the Birth of Critical Race Theory.  After Attorney General Merrick Garland sicced the FBI on unruly parents protesting Critical Race Theory (CRT) at school board meetings, it came to light that Garland had a dog in the fight.  That dog is son-in-law Xan Tanner, co-founder of Panorama Education, a leading distributor of CRT materials.  Among the materials Panorama has recommended for educators is an essay by terrorist emeritus and Obama pal Bill Ayers. [...] What Ayers thinks would matter less were it not for his outsized influence on the educational philosophy of former president Barack Obama.  Were Obama merely a former president, his thinking would not matter much, either.  But Obama may be more than that.  Even Tucker Carlson has openly speculated that Obama is the guy running the show at the White House.  What seems clear is that Joe Biden is not.

State votes to withdraw from National School Boards Assoc. over 'domestic terror' letter.  The Pennsylvania School Boards Association is one of 11 state school boards that are officially disavowing the National School Boards Association for asking the FBI to label parents protesting educational policies at school board meetings as "domestic terrorists."  In a statement following a vote to cancel membership in the National School Boards Association, the PSBA noted that the recent letter to President Joe Biden that seemed to suggest concerned parents could be considered "domestic terrorists" was the "final straw" in the decision to exit the national school board group.

Schools Group That Urged Attorney General's Anti-Parent Initiative Has Ties to Democrats, Unions.  The National School Boards Association, which urged the Biden administration to use federal law enforcement to investigate parents who speak out on local education matters as potential domestic terrorists, has political ties to the Democratic Party and labor unions.  The national association represents members of locally elected school boards, which usually are officially nonpartisan, and is a federation of state school board associations.  Although most funding for the National School Boards Association comes from state school boards, the National Education Association — the nation's largest teachers union and a major donor to Democrat candidates — contributed in the past two years.  The teachers union contributed $68,000 to the national association in 2020 and $50,000 in 2019, according to union reports to the Labor Department.

We can't sit this out: we're dealing with a 'criminal conspiracy' to usher in global socialism.  Jeremy Isaacs' The World at War includes an interview in which Hitler's personal secretary, Traudl Junge, reports that the Führer, in his last days, replied to a question about the future of Germany as follows:  "I believe there will not any more be a National Socialist Party; the idea will die with me.  But maybe in a hundred years or so there will arise another National Socialist idea, like a religion."  It has not yet been a hundred years, but I begin to see what Hitler meant.  From the South Pacific to the North Atlantic, even democratic countries such as Australia and Canada are rapidly going full Nazi.  We've been living for eighteen months now under a "health emergency" in which rule by fiat has replaced the rule of law.  In Australia, rubber bullets are flying to suppress resistance to this perpetual state of exception.

Democrats warn of 'threat to democracy' to deceive public into accepting their tyranny.  Ever since Donald Trump announced he was running for president, Democrats have crafted the narrative that our country's democracy was under attack.  Obviously, this was meant to do nothing but emotionally trigger voters, either through fear or anger.  Yet, while they peddle this message to the public, they are doing everything they can to silence dissent — a core American value.  The most recent example of this is the Justice Department weaponizing the FBI to go after parents who have challenged school boards over what their children are learning in schools.  Attorney General Merrick Garland has ordered the FBI to work with each U.S. attorney and "convene meetings with federal, state, local, Tribal, and territorial leaders in each federal judicial district within 30 days of the issuance of this memorandum" to develop strategies to "address threats against school administrators, board members, teachers, and staff."

Congress' Access to Individuals' Private Communications:  The Jan. 6 Committee's Troubling Precedent.  In late August, the special House committee charged with investigating the Jan. 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol took the first steps toward subpoenaing the communications records of private citizens involved in rallies to protest certification of the election, as well as Republican lawmakers whose role in the events of Jan. 6th has come into question.  The committee asked the companies to preserve these records for now.  House minority leader Kevin McCarthy reacted with outrage, tweeting:  "If these companies comply with the Democrat order to turn over private information, they are in violation of federal law and subject to losing their ability to operate in the United States."  He warned ominously that "a Republican majority will not forget."  Progressive commentators were quick to point out that McCarthy himself, by threatening reprisal against companies that cooperate with the requests, might be violating the law against obstructing congressional investigations.  But underlying McCarthy's shameful attempt to bully the companies into noncompliance is a legitimate question about the scope of Congress's authority to obtain private information.

The police and sheriffs protect us.  Or do they?  Will they?  Ostensibly democratic governments around the world have reacted shamefully to the spread of COVID, with law enforcement personnel helping them abuse their power.  What has happened in New Zealand and parts of Australia is truly frightening.  Those two formerly free and democratic nations have seen the exercise of cruel totalitarianism in the past months.  Despite the fact that lockdowns have not mitigated the spread of COVID anywhere in the world, despite the failure of mask mandates to affect the number of cases when compared to regions without mask mandates, some states in Australia and all of N.Z. have continued the most rigid restrictions, and their citizens are suffering the consequences.

Australia Building Quarantine Camps for 'Ongoing Operations'.  Despite some states tentatively beginning to lift lockdown restrictions, Australian authorities are building quarantine camps that won't be completed until next year in order to prepare for "ongoing operations" and to house those "who have not had access to vaccination."  According to ABC Australia, one such 1,000-bed quarantine facility at Wellcamp Airport outside Toowoomba will be fully completed by the end of March 2022.  "At this stage, the cabins will be used by domestic travellers returning from COVID hotspots," states the report.  However, it also makes clear that the camp will be used for "ongoing operations" and will be a source of employment for the local area.

Parents Aren't Domestic Terrorists.  It is probably an understatement to say that when one group designates another as a terrorist organization, diplomatic relations between the two become strained. [...] So it's not surprising that parent groups around the country have reacted strongly to the National School Board Association's September 29 letter to Joe Biden invoking the PATRIOT Act to combat the "domestic terrorism" of concerned parents speaking out at school board meetings. and Attorney General Merrick Garland's response.  After reading the Department of Justice letter, Asra Nomani, vice president of investigations and strategy at Parents Defending Education tweeted:  "US Attorney General issued a declaration of war on parents."  It has come to this.  There has been a declaration of war on parents.  The reason?  Parents are complaining about an education system that seems like it has declared war on their children and on the American way of life.

Large Canadian Town Bars Unvaccinated Couples From Getting Married.  After Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberal Government imposed one of the most restrictive vaccine mandates in the developed world, one Canadian town has taken medical tyranny to the next level by refusing to grant marriage licenses to couples that aren't fully vaccinated.  The Town of Oakville, Ontario, a small city with more than 200,000 residents, will not allow a couple to apply for a marriage license unless they both show proof of full vaccination.

Revolt of the masses:  The left has overplayed its hand.  I think the left is realizing it has a tiger by the tail.  The people are getting uppity.  Parents are assailing school boards over critical race theory and transgender madness.  So much so that the Biden Justice Department is sending out the FBI to investigate whether, as the National School Boards Association bombastically charges, some parents are guilty of "domestic terrorism and hate crimes."  Boy, it's lucky for those BLM/Antifa rioters in 2020 that they refrained from badmouthing teachers and school officials while torching the cities.  Their "peaceful protests" might have been investigated.  Meanwhile, former Democratic Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, the Clinton bag man who is running again for his old job, stated, "I'm not going to let parents come into schools and actually take books out and make their own decisions."  He added, "I don't think parents should be telling schools what they should teach."  This stuff ticks off parents, and GOP candidate Glenn Youngkin is taking full advantage.  He is running ads accurately depicting Mr. McAuliffe as an authoritarian, anti-parent elitist.

Loudoun County schools are worse even than you imagined.  We've written before about the madness in the Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS), most recently when it comes to parents protesting LGBTQ pornography in the school system's libraries.  There've also been newsworthy moments when parents spoke out about Critical Race Theory in the school district.  One of the most explosive moments occurred when the school board, tired of having angry parents (i.e., voters) yell at them, called the cops, with several arrests, including that of one man getting physically dragged out.  It now turns out that the man was protesting the fact that the school's policies led to a boy in a skirt sexually assaulting his daughter in a girl's bathroom. [...] On June 22, Scott Smith, a White plumber was filmed as the police arrested him and dragged him out of an LCPS board meeting.  It was his arrest, writes Rosiak, that the National School Boards Association cited when it sought the federal help that AG Merrick Garland so willingly gave, referred to as a possible form of "domestic terrorism."

Timeline of The Great Reset, Remaking the World Into a 1984 Dystopia.  There is an excellent timeline of The Great Reset at The Sociables.  It's very informative, complete with videos and links.  The following is simply a brief overview of the timeline.  It is worthwhile to look at the full article which traces it from The Great Reset's foundation in 2014 on, until its present incarnation.  It's 2014 and a technocrat Nazi has an idea for a great reset of the world economy.  It will work if the entire planet is in on it, Tim Hinchliffe, editor of The Sociables writes.  A pandemic could make it happen.  "The pandemic represents a rare but narrow window of opportunity to reflect, reimagine, and reset our world to create a healthier, more equitable, and more prosperous future," Klaus Schwab, President of the World Economic Forum (WEF) said.  It took Schwab and the Davos elite about six years to watch their great reset ideology grow from a tiny Swiss seed in 2014 to a European super-flower pollinating the entire globe in 2020.

AG Merrick Garland is at war with American families.  Only a fool pokes a mama bear, but that's Merrick Garland for you.  The attorney general thought to be such a moderate that 20 Republicans confirmed his nomination turns out to be a radical ideologue hellbent on targeting President Biden's political foes.  He is injecting himself into the front lines of every culture war, from pregnant "people" to school board meetings.  But Garland's ominous memo last week directing the FBI to investigate parents as domestic terror threats was a big mistake.  He cited no evidence for what he claims is a "disturbing spike in harassment, intimidation, and threats of violence" against school boards.  His memo was a shocking abuse of his office on behalf of left-wing activists who have been using schools as brainwashing factories for future social justice warriors.  It was designed to intimidate parents and stop them advocating for their children.

Threatening Memo From Attorney General Merrick Garland to Parents Comes With Serious Conflict of Interest.  Attorney General Merrick Garland issued a threatening memo on Monday calling on the FBI to address "violent threats against school officials and teachers."  It was an obvious shot at parents who oppose schools and school boards that promote woke ideology and critical race theory in classrooms that exploded this year.  Somehow, the story gets even worse.  [Video clip]  Fox News reported that Garland's son-in-law is the co-founder of Panorama Education, a company that works with school boards to promote "culturally responsive training" and other ideas associated with critical race theory.  According to Parents Defending Education, a nonprofit education watchdog group, Panorama received a $1.8 million contract to conduct "social and emotional learning" monitoring in Fairfax County Public Schools that collected data on students.  Asra Nomani, vice president of investigations and strategy at Parents Defending Education, tweeted out more details about the Garland connection.  [Tweet]

Victoria Police Show Up To Home To Question Man About Facebook Photo Of Him At Protest 6 Months Ago.  The lunacy never ends in Victoria.  These 2 coppers showed up at this guy's house to ask if he's the individual in the Facebook photo from a protest over months ago.  You can hear how exacerbated the man is over the absurd questioning.  The man is not accused of being violent, just the fact he might have been there half a year ago is justification enough for these cops to interrogate him.  [Video clip]

New South Wales Australia Officially Celebrates Their First Day of Apartheid with The Introduction of Two Classes of Citizens.  According to almost all Australian media today [10/10/2021] the birds are singing louder, the sun is warmer, the skies have parted and angelic music resounds from the heavens and proclaims — "Freedom Day is here".  Yes, after months of government mandated, police enforced, hibernation and strict COVID isolation, millions of formerly free citizens can open their windows and doors for the first time.  However, they step out of their homes while crossing a new threshold that can never be reversed.  They enter a new era of apartheid, as only vaccinated individuals are permitted to engage in this "Freedom Day" society.  Every venue in New South Wales is under strict legal mandate and government forced compliance to ban all non-vaccinated persons from their facilities.

Garland Just Tipped Over the Dominos.  A couple of years ago, an interview in The Nation with a radical feminist explained that if you "want to dismantle capitalism" then you have to "abolish the family."  It is worth keeping that in mind as the little drama of Merrick Garland versus the parents of America unfolds.  I wrote about the attorney general's absurd but troubling memorandum shortly after it was released on October 4.  As all the world knows (but only some precincts of the world admit), Garland threatened to mobilize the entire police power of the state against parents.  Why?  Because parents across the country have suddenly woken up to the wokeness haunting their schools and poisoning the minds of their children.  The school boards, many of which are staffed by leftists, are pushing the Marxist ideology of critical race theory, virtue-signaling mask mandates, and forcing noisome gender identity politics on primary and secondary school students.

Merrick Garland's problems with his son-in-law just got worse.  Over the last few months, as COVID brought classrooms into American homes, parents learned that their children are being taught Critical Race Theory (i.e., Whites are evil; Blacks are pathetic) and magical thinking about gender, as well as being forced to wear masks that don't protect against disease, but do interfere with children's health, learning, and socialization.  Their vigorous complaints saw the National School Board Association suggest they're "domestic terrorists" and Merrick Garland answer the call.  We learned, too, that Merrick Garland's son-in-law, through his company, Panorama Education, sells CRT materials to public schools.  And yesterday, it turned out that Panorama is also spreading material calling Trump and his supporters "white supremacists."  Alexander "Xan" Tanner, a very White man, is married to Merrick Garland's daughter.  Tanner co-founded Panorama Education, which purports to provide a data platform that delves into students' psychosocial issues in order to help schools intervene in problems and improve the school climate.  In a word, it's creepy.

Education firm founded by AG Merrick Garland's son-in-law issued 'resource' for teachers that claims supporters of Donald Trump are white supremacists.  An education firm that was co-founded by the son-in-law of US Attorney General and former Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland is under fire for issuing resources that claims former President Trump's supporters are white supremacists.  Alexander 'Xan' Tanner, 30, is a founder and the president of Panorama Education, an analytical software and services company in Boston.  He married Attorney General Garland's daughter Rebecca in 2018.  Panorama recently put out a workshop which deals with systemic racism.

The True Merrick Garland.  Conservatives generally don't respect Mitch McConnell and for good reason, but he sure did this country a favor blocking Merrick Garland's Supreme Court nomination.  It turns out, the soft-spoken Attorney General carries a huge stick labeled "domestic terrorists" that he isn't afraid to wield against average Americans to deprive them of a slew of civil rights. [...] [I]nstead of fidelity to the Constitution, Garland's fidelity is to the power accorded him as America's chief law enforcement officer.  He comports himself as a rank partisan, places targets on his political enemies, and uses the full power of his office to track them down and lock them up.  His June 2021 National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism provided his DOJ with a roadmap for cracking down on constitutionally-protected speech and assembly, and the legitimate airing of grievances from a handful of individuals who rioted for a few hours on January 6th.

Exposing the Left's Border Scam Is Now a 'Hate Crime'.  Like Prohibition-era bootleggers unloading barrels of whiskey in broad daylight, the anti-borders Left has been flouting the law in public for decades as it enables a vast and profitable human trafficking operation through south Texas.  In today's gaslit, no-accountability culture, the problem isn't finding the crime, but in naming the perpetrators and exposing their motives.  Financial gain is obviously a big incentive in the immigration scam against America.  Numerous beneficiaries include the cartels that traffic the people, "charities" that get a piece of the action for moving the human cargo throughout the country, and stateside businesses that reap the benefit of cheap foreign labor.  These parties seem largely indifferent to being called out for their roles in the scam.  It comes from a confidence in knowing that, regardless of who knows what, the operation will roll on without so much as a speed bump.

DOJ Attack On Parent Protest Movement Was Pre-Arranged Ambush, Says Letter Seeking Inspector General Investigation.  If you haven't figured it out by now, the Department of Justice at the highest level up to and including Attorney General Merrick Garland, is using its enormous police power to intimidate opponents of the Biden administration by branding such opponents as domestic terrorists.  We covered Garland's intimidation tactics on July 16, 2021, and again on October 5, 2021.  That latter post concerned Garland's October 4 memo targeting parents protesting at school board meetings. [...] Garland issued a memo bringing together a law enforcement coalition to go after supposed threats to school boards from parents protesting Critical Race Theory teaching and Covid mask and vaccine mandates.  Where is the evidence of widespread or coordinated violence such that a federal and state joint national effort is needed?  In fact, where is the evidence of violence at all?  If there are isolated instances, local law enforcement is equipped and appropriate to deal with it.

Critics question Garland's school board crackdown after son-in-law revealed as social justice education kingpin.  Attorney General Merrick Garland, who earlier this week injected the FBI into the nationwide debate over far-left local school curriculums, has a son-in-law whose company has gotten rich peddling K-12 educational materials obsessed with "systemic racism," "intersectionality," and white supremacy.  Alexander "Xan" Tanner, who married Garland's daughter Rebecca in 2018, is the co-founder and president of Panorama Education, a major player in the teacher training and curriculum industry.  Panorama pushes race-focused surveys and conducts trainings on systemic oppression, white supremacy, unconscious bias, and intersectionality — all under the rubric of "Social-Emotional Learning."

Rand Paul's Warning to Americans: 'Be Afraid of Your Government'.  In the wake of Attorney General Merrick Garland's announcement that he plans to sic the FBI on concerned parents who speak out at school board meetings against critical race theory and COVID restrictions, Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) blasted the Biden administration and said Americans should "be afraid of your government."  "Moms at school boards are being told that they're criminals, potential domestic terrorists, for the crime of dissent, and I think criminalizing dissent is something that we should all be appalled with," Paul told Fox News.  Garland claimed that there has been a "disturbing trend" of teachers being threatened or harassed.  PJ Media's Megan Fox looked into these allegations and concluded they're mostly bunk.  When asked what he would tell Americans concerned that they'll end up on some government list if they "say the wrong thing" at their local school board meeting, Paul didn't mince words.  "I would say be afraid.  Be afraid of your government," he responded.

Democrats/Media Deploy Same "Eliminationist Narrative" Against School Parents As They Did Against Tea Party.  Merrick Garland disgracefully weaponized DOJ/FBI and national law enforcement against parents protesting Critical Race teaching and mask mandates.  This pure political intimidation.  The mainsteam media also is running with the false claim pushed by the National School Boards Association that the protests are the "equivalent to a form of domestic terrorism and hate crimes."  In Rhode Island, the statewide school committee association is gathering information about protests and promising to coordinate with the FBI.  We have seen this movie before.  It's the "eliminationist narrative" used against the Tea Party and Trump supporters.  We covered the Tea Party false accusations at the time, where the media blamed every act of violence on Tea Party supporters even though such claims never had evidence and turned out to be false.

Across America, Parents Refuse To Be Intimidated By Biden's Attorney General Labeling Them Domestic Terrorists.  Local mother Stacy Langton stood before the Fairfax County School Board in a suburb of the nation's capital two weeks ago, boldly exposing explicit examples of child porn and pedophilia in library books in area schools, available to children as young as 12 years old.  Langton's witness ended in mayhem because the school board failed to do something very simple:  listen to the stakeholders — and taxpayers — who are parents.  Board members rudely interrupted Langton during her two minutes of allotted speaking time and called a hasty recess, a board member later incorrectly claiming that he faced two "exorcisms" by parents praying during the meeting.  "Shame!  Shame!  Shame!" shouted parents, horrified at the cowardice of the board members.  Now, however, instead of recognizing Langton for the hero that she is for protecting children, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland has issued a declaration of war on America's parents.

"Militia Violent Extremists" Added To A Growing List Of 9 Violent Domestic Extremists Groups.  The absurdity of Homeland Security's creation of another 'domestic extremist group' is countered only by the mass media's pandering of anything terror related.  The FBI describes how they allegedly investigate terrorism in America by mentioning domestic extremism 5 times on their website.  "The Bureau works closely with its partners to neutralize terrorist cells and operatives here in the United States, to help dismantle extremist networks worldwide, and to cut off financing and other forms of support provided to foreign terrorist organizations."  The word extremist, according to the Cambridge Dictionary, means "someone who has beliefs that most people think are unreasonable and unacceptable."  Merriam Webster defines extremist as a "belief in and support for ideas that are very far from what most people consider correct or reasonable."  This fits in nicely with the FBI's term "Black Identity Extremism" which they used until the BLM protests of 2020, when they were forced to appear to be politically correct and change their terminology.

DeSantis Throws Down the Gauntlet:  Confronts Garland on Troubling FBI Announcement.  Attorney General Merrick Garland made a stunning announcement about having the FBI and U.S. Attorneys' Offices coordinate with federal, state, and local law enforcement to deal with "threats" of violence against school boards and people working in schools.  This immediately prompted cries from critics that Garland was trying to suppress people objecting to pandemic restrictions and CRT — two of the hot button issues that have caused many people to come out and object at school board meetings.  While Garland spoke about "threats," he didn't identify any threats or concerns which would qualify as federal criminal action requiring such interference in the parents' rights to express themselves.  Indeed, the announcement seemed like an effort to basically chill their rights to speak.  Normally, if there was any actual "threat," it would come within the purview of local law enforcement.

White House Weaponizes DOJ Against Parents.  Attorney General Merrick Garland has issued a memorandum instructing the FBI and U.S. attorney's offices "to convene meetings with federal, state, local, Tribal, and territorial leaders in each federal judicial district" in order to discuss "threats against school administrators, board members, teachers, and staff."  What threats?  Well, that isn't clear.  Garland's creepy memo makes a vague reference to "a disturbing spike in harassment, intimidation, and threats of violence" that seem to have occurred primarily in the fevered imagination of Viola M. Garcia, president of the NSBA and author of a bizarre 6-page letter written to our president requesting a joint review by no fewer than five federal agencies: [...] Oddly, considering its length, this missive cites a surprisingly small number of minor incidents that few reasonable people would consider sinister enough to justify an intervention by the Department of Justice.  In reality, most of the abusive behavior in school board meetings is directed at parents.  School boards routinely mute parent microphones during public meetings and abruptly halt meetings to prevent parents from speaking.  In one case, an entire school board had to resign after mocking parents during a virtual meeting.  This notion that parents are getting above themselves by speaking out at school board meetings is, not coincidentally, all too similar to the position adopted by the big teachers' unions.

AG Merrick Garland's Daughter [is] Married to [the] Co-Founder of [a] Company Selling Critical Race Theory Resource Material to School Districts.  U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland recently instructed the FBI to begin investigating parents who confront school board administrators over Critical Race Theory indoctrination material.  The U.S. Department of Justice issued a memorandum to the FBI instructing them to initiate investigations of any parent attending a local school board meeting who might be viewed as confrontational, intimidating or harassing.  Attorney General Merrick Garland's daughter is Rebecca Garland.  In 2018 Rebecca Garland married Xan Tanner.  Mr. Xan Tanner is the current co-founder of a controversial education service company called Panorama Education.  Panorama Education is the "social learning" resource material provider to school districts and teachers that teach Critical Race Theory.

DOJ creates task force to silence parents critical of public school boards.  The Department of Justice announced a directive to potentially influence the ability of parents to exercise their First Amendment rights.  Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the DOJ's new order in a statement on Monday [10/4/2021].  The agency cited an alleged increase in harassment, intimidation and threats of violence made against school board members and teachers by parents in public schools nationwide.  This comes after the National School Boards Association claimed in a letter to the White House public schools and their staff were in "immediate danger."  "Threats against public servants are not only illegal, they run counter to our nation's core values," Garland expressed in the released statement.  "Those who dedicate their time and energy to ensuring that our children receive a proper education in a safe environment deserve to be able to do their work without fear for their safety."

'This is what a domestic terrorist looks like?' Parents slam FBI in CRT-foe crackdown.  Parents and politicians are slamming the Department of Justice's decision to bring in the FBI to investigate a spike in "threats against school administrators, board members, teachers, and staff," saying the Biden administration is likening their protests of "woke" policies such as Critical Race Theory — as well as mandatory mask wearing — to "domestic terrorism."  "Dear @TheJusticeDept Merrick Garland and @FBI Director Christopher Wray," Asra Nomani, vice president of investigations and strategy at Parents Defending Education, posted on Twitter.  "This is what a domestic terrorist looks like?  You are criminalizing parenting, and you owe the people of America a swift apology."  She sarcastically signed the missive, "'Domestic Terrorist,' Asra Nomani."  Nomani's group has been researching how school boards across the US implement "woke" ideas into curricula, such as critical race theory.  In recent months, dozens of parents have taken a stand in school board meetings against the teaching of Critical Race Theory in classrooms and to protest mask mandates, causing some to wonder what the FBI and DOJ are actually investigating.

Merrick Garland threatens America's parents.  Anyone who still doubts that "moderate" Merrick Garland's Justice Department is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the far left should check out the news that Garland has threatened to investigate and prosecute parents who vigorously protest against school boards and teachers intent on indoctrinating school children in the racist, anti-American teachings of Critical Race Theory.  Garland did so through this memorandum.  Garland claims that free-speech principles must yield when they represent "efforts to intimidate individuals based on their views."  Andy McCarthy notes an implicit exception if the individuals happen to be Sen. Sinema or Sen. Manchin.  The implicit exception is broader.  It extends to Republican officials, whom Maxine Waters urged her followers to intimidate in public.  And it extends to conservative college students and the speakers they invite to campus only to be shouted down and sometimes physically attacked.  (Garland's memo cites no evidence of physical attacks on school board members, much less a pattern of such attacks.)

How left-wing protesters are justified, but angry moms are 'domestic terrorists'.  When is a protester "angry and justified" and when are they a "domestic terrorist"?  It all depends on how far left they are.  This week, activists stalked Sen. Krysten Simena into a women's restroom at Arizona State University, where the senator teaches a class.  Angry that she won't vote for the Democrat's unprecedented $3.5 trillion reconciliation mega-bill, the protesters filmed her walking into a bathroom stall.  The same liberal commentators and politicians who were wringing their hands over "civility" in politics under Donald Trump suddenly had an array of justifications. [...] Which brings us to Attorney General Merrick Garland's unconscionable directive to the FBI and U.S. Attorneys' Offices to investigate parents who are protesting school boards over critical race theory and mask mandates.  The National School Boards Association had asked for federal assistance for recent threats against educators, likening it to "domestic terrorism."  If parents are threatening school board members with violence, then absolutely the police should be called.  But it's not a federal case.

Attorney General Garland Abuses Power He Doesn't Have to Threaten Parents.  Attorney General Merrick Garland issued a memo on Monday directing the Department of Justice and the FBI to "launch a series of additional efforts in the coming days designed to address the rise in criminal conduct directed toward school personnel."  The Garland memo looks like an effort to use the FBI to threaten and silence parents who are outspoken opponents of critical race theory in schools.  That alone would be a stunning partisan abuse of power.  What Garland has done, however, is even more disgraceful.  Maybe Garland doesn't actually intend to use the FBI to go after parents — maybe he knows that he doesn't have that power.  In that case, he's trying to trick parents into thinking that he does.  This tactic, he hopes, will suppress parents' free speech, and throw a bone to a powerful ally of his political party.  Even a few FBI agents questioning parents may be enough to convince others that standing up for their values is not worth the risk.

The FBI Somehow Manages to Become an Even Bigger Joke.  Yesterday, RedState reported on the disturbing announcement by the DOJ that the FBI would now be effectively treating school board protests as domestic terror threats.  The insanity of that can't be overstated.  To the extent that there's been unruliness at some local meetings, I'm unaware of a single serious threat, and even if there has been a physical altercation or two in this massive country of 330 million people, that hardly qualifies as a terrorist threat.  But the suppression of speech through intimidation is the point, and it's something we've seen repeatedly from Democrat presidents. [...] Yet, today [10/5/2021] the FBI managed to make an even bigger joke of itself.  During a hearing, Rep. Nancy Mace pressed an official who admitted that they do not even track Antifa violence.  Yet, he knew exactly how many cases involving "militias" there were.  [Tweet with video clip]  Antifa is by far the most visible domestic terrorist threat in the nation.  They run the streets of Portland and have committed overt acts of violence in cities across the country, including murder.  Yet, the FBI doesn't even see them as worthy of keeping up with?  That's an incredibly [bad] admission that confirms what a lot of us have suspected.  Namely, that the FBI seems to only care about domestic terrorism when it fits a certain mold, specifically a right-wing one.

The U.S Attorney General is siccing the FBI on disgruntled parents.  George Floyd's drug overdose while under police restraint gave the leftists populating American schools license to put their Critical Race Theory and transgender agendas on overdrive in American schools.  Parents have responded with protests at school board meetings ([Links to examples]).  In turn, school boards want to silence parents.  They've put limitations on their speech, cut their mics, and arrested them.  I'm certain that some parents have sent nasty letters or left angry phone messages. [...] But when parents are horrified by what public schools are teaching their children — Whites are inferior, kids can magically change sex, and masks forever — that's a different story.

AG Merrick Garland Orders FBI to Combat 'Threats of Violence' Against Public School Officials.  Days after a national organization representing school board officials lamented to the Biden administration about "hate groups" intimidating education officials, Attorney General Merrick Garland has directed the FBI to combat "threats of violence" against administrators.  Without citing specific cases, in a memorandum issued on Monday [10/4/2021], Merrick Garland expressed concern about a "disturbing spike in harassment, intimidation, and threats of violence against school administrators, board members, teachers, and staff who participate in the vital work of running our nation's public schools."

Biden's Justice Department Announces It Considers School Board Protests to Be Threats and Promises Action.  The struggle of parents to prevent school boards from sanctioning racial discrimination and stereotyping and imposing profoundly stupid Wuhan virus mitigation measures, like masking elementary school kids, has led to school board meetings becoming something of a battleground in the culture wars.  School board members and educrats do not like being challenged or held to account by the rubes who elected them, and so they are claiming the mantle of victimhood.  Yesterday, I posted about a letter written by the president of the National School Boards Association... yes, there is such a thing... demanding that Joe Biden use the full force of the federal government to stop parents from speaking out.

Biden's militarized executive agencies.  The Obama-Biden administration stockpiled an arsenal of high-powered weapons in the Executive Branch based on the vision of a civilian national security force.  The stockpile can outfit an army.  The Biden regime controls the trigger to the arsenal.  "We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we've set.  We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded," Obama said on July 2, 2008.  Non-profit OpentheBooks released a comprehensive oversight report earlier this year titled "The Militarization of The U.S. Executive Agencies".  The report estimated "that there are now more federal officers with firearm authority (200,000+) than U.S. Marines (186,000)."  It's the fulfillment of Obama's well-funded prophecy.

The Militarization of The U.S. Executive Agencies.  Over the past couple of decades, the size, scope, and power of the federal government has dramatically grown.  For example, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) owns 600 guns.  There are 458 'Special Office of Inspector General Agents' within Health and Human Services (HHS) armed with sophisticated weaponry and trained by military Special Forces contractors.  The special agents at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) are equipped with machine guns and AR15s.  Even the Smithsonian Institution now employs 620-armed 'special agents,' up from zero officers (2008).  But these security forces pale in comparison to the Department of Homeland Security.  DHS owns 259,891 guns (not including the Transportation Security Administration which doesn't offer disclosure).  Why does the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) need 4,500 guns and five million rounds of ammunition?  Why did HHS purchase four million rounds over the last eight years and stockpile five submachine guns?  And what about the 800,000 rounds purchased by the Social Security Administration (SSA)?  Conservatives argue that it is hypocritical for political leaders to criticize private gun-ownership while simultaneously equipping non-military agencies with hollow-point bullets and military style equipment.  Progressives, on the other hand, have raised concerns about militarizing police agencies with tank-like vehicles and heavy weapons.  Our organization, at OpenTheBooks.com, is dedicated to bringing this information into the public square, so We The People can become a more informed electorate.

Anthony Fauci on Forced Vaccines:  "You Have to Give Up Your Individual Rights for The Greater Good of Society".  It's always right there, just below the surface.  Wait long enough and you will see it.  Obama's,"You didn't build that", is one recent example.  Hillary Clinton's, "It takes a village" is another.  Today, Anthony Fauci says you do not have "individual rights", you have collective rights and responsibilities to the greater good of society.  This vile little worm with a thirst for power is nothing more than a Fabian Socialist.

American Liberty Must Not Become Coronavirus Casualty.  When announcing his nationwide vaccine mandate, President Joe Biden declared, "This is not about freedom." But for Americans who live outside the Beltway, it is absolutely about freedom, because America is about freedom.  Yes, the coronavirus is still with us.  Yes, it is still potentially dangerous, particularly to vulnerable Americans.  But the need long since has passed for extraordinary measures such as lockdowns, mask mandates, and other restrictions on American liberty.  In a country with competent leaders, all such measures — most especially the forced vaccinations for COVID-19 recently ordered by Biden — would be repealed, and Americans would be allowed to return to their normal lives.

Biden must reject using the PATRIOT Act to suppress angry parents' opinions.  [Scroll down]  The abandonment of in-person instruction by teachers unions was very revealing.  It showed that unions are powerful organizations with no concern at all for children's education.  The learning loss they have caused has harmed schoolchildren.  On the other hand, though, a forced increase of involvement in their children's day-to-day education experience has also helped parents wake up to the inanities that certain far-left school boards are forcing upon their children.  The school boards are not happy about the scrutiny.  They have in some cases tried to keep parents out of public meetings.  They are so out of touch and so entitled that they resent being held accountable by irate parents who have started showing up at these meetings.  Parents are unhappy at having their children indoctrinated with toxic racialist ideologies such as critical race theory, which attempts to make children feel bad about the color of their skin.  They have raised the problem of pornographic materials and even child pornography that has been made available in some school libraries, supposedly in the name of tolerance for alternate lifestyles.  Some parents have also come to meetings upset about school mask mandates that have little or no scientific basis.

Australia in chaos amid corruption charges and lockdowns.  One of the more common questions that's been making the rounds lately, particularly in terms of how various countries are handling their pandemic responses, is "what [...] is happening to Australia?"  The most heavily populated states in the country have been imposing some of the harshest lockdowns and COVID restrictions in the world, with videos emerging showing police firing rubber bullets into crowds, macing elderly women, and beating people down in the streets, all for the crime of being outdoors without permission.  But now even more chaos down under is making headlines.  The main focus seems to be on the state of New South Wales, home to Sydney, the country's largest city.  Premier Gladys Berejiklian has been the author of some of the harshest COVID lockdowns and mandates anywhere and large protests have been common.  But in just the past couple of days, the NSW government has undergone a complete upheaval and it's not being driven solely by opposition to the state's COVID policies.

They Can't Win if We Won't Surrender.  The pandemic was the alarm that wakes us up before the building burns down around us.  It gave us a glimpse of a future without liberty.
  •   Autocratic orders
  •   Draconian restrictions
  •   Unequal treatment under the law
  •   Fraudulent elections
  •   Blatant disregard of the Constitution
Thankfully, COVID gave us a taste of tyranny on the cheap.  America didn't become a Cuba or Venezuela to experience it.  The pandemic has shown us how important and fragile liberty is.  I'll never take it for granted again.  I suspect a great number of patriots feel the same way.  We're seeing an awakening all across America.

Australia: Police Want No Fly Zones Over Massive Anti-Government Protests.  Police in Australia are pushing for the government to declare no-fly zones over the sites of mass protests to discourage more people from rising up and joining those already on the streets raging against the medical tyranny being imposed upon the country.  Gideon Rozner, the Director of Policy at the Institute of Public Affairs in Melbourne, documented the details to Tucker Carlson.  "The fact is the coronavirus has completely changed the relationship between government and citizenship in this country.  It has overwhelmed every check and balance in our system," Rozner urged.  "This is a radically new era we've seen in Australia," he continued, adding "The police in my home state of Victoria asked the Federal Civil Aviation Authority to declare a no-fly zone over Melbourne so commercial media outlets couldn't film the protests in case people saw how big they were and went down and joined in."

Now There are Whispers in D.C. That Biden is About to Issue Vaccine Passport Mandate for Interstate Travel.  The Biden administration is poised to make its next unconstitutional power grab in the former of a 'vaccine mandate' for interstate travel within the United States, according to reports on Capitol Hill.  Congressional Republican lawmakers are attempting to get ahead of the forthcoming expected decree by introducing legislation to block an executive order or directive.  "In a Wednesday speech on the Senate floor, Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), joined by Sens. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and Mike Lee (R-Utah), introduced legislation that would bar the Biden administration from implementing vaccine passports requirements for interstate travel," the Epoch Times reported.

Sen. Rick Scott Introduces Bill to Ban Vax Passports for Interstate Travel.  In a Wednesday [9/29/2021] speech on the Senate floor, Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), joined by Sens. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and Mike Lee (R-Utah), introduced legislation that would bar the Biden administration from implementing vaccine passports requirements for interstate travel.  Scott began by praising the Trump administration for its quick development of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus vaccine, which he noted has been very successful.  But, he continued, "government should not issue [mandates]" as President Joe Biden has done.  As localities and states join the federal government in issuing various vaccine mandates and vaccine passport requirements, Scott said that "Americans are sick and tired of the government telling them what to do.  And the American people are more than capable of making the right decision to protect them, their family, and their neighbors."

COVID-19 Detention Camps:  Are Government Round-Ups of Resistors in Our Future?  This is what we know:  the government has the means, the muscle and the motivation to detain individuals who resist its orders and do not comply with its mandates in a vast array of prisons, detention centers, and FEMA concentration camps paid for with taxpayer dollars.  It's just a matter of time.  It no longer matters what the hot-button issue might be (vaccine mandates, immigration, gun rights, abortion, same-sex marriage, healthcare, criticizing the government, protesting election results, etc.) or which party is wielding its power like a hammer.  The groundwork has already been laid.  Under the indefinite detention provision of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the President and the military can detain and imprison American citizens with no access to friends, family or the courts if the government believes them to be a terrorist.  So it should come as no surprise that merely criticizing the government or objecting to a COVID-19 vaccine could get you labeled as a terrorist.  After all, it doesn't take much to be considered a terrorist anymore, especially given that the government likes to use the words "anti-government," "extremist" and "terrorist" interchangeably.

House Democrats Quietly Insert a Ten-Fold Increase in OSHA [Fines] into 3.5 Trillion Human Infrastructure Reconciliation Bill.  Nancy Pelosi and the House Democrats are attempting to change the OSHA fines within the section of labor law that applies directly to the mandatory COVID vaccine.  The scale of the fines is massive against any business that does not comply with the anticipated OSHA rule which is yet unannounced; and they are attempting to slip the OSHA change into the massive $3.5 trillion infrastructure bill.  If this OSHA change becomes law, the Biden administration will force American businesses to choose between vaccinating their employees, testing them weekly for Covid-19, or going bankrupt under crippling OSHA fines.

After a Murder Over Mask-Wearing, Authorities Are Cracking Down on COVID Skeptics on Telegram.  After a gas station cashier was killed following an argument over mask wearing, the German government started pressuring social media platforms to censor groups over what has become known as "corona misinformation."  The State of Thüringen's Interior Minister George Mair specifically called for the urgent regulation and classification of Telegram as a social network in order to foist new rules on the platform.  Currently the "Netzwerdurchsetzungsgesetz" law in Germany requires social media platforms to delete whatever the government deems as "criminal" content, and even to report them to the Federal Criminal Policy Agency (Bundeskriminalamt).  Platforms such as Telegram, however, have typically been excluded as they are not classified as social networks but as messaging platforms.  Telegram has also been under pressure in the US, for what globalist policy makers call the spread of "misinformation" and for "coordinating" the January 6 "insurrection".

Australian Man Films Massive Battalion Of Stormtroopers Marching Through The Streets For The Media, Tackle A Man For No Reason, Then Go After Him For Filming.  The dystopian nightmare gets turned up another notch in the penal colony known as Australia as this citizen filmed a large battalion of uniformed stormtroopers, complete with an armored vehicled, storm through a street for no apparent reason other than for the media.  There was no protest in this area at all so the cops must have wanted some good clips for the evening news.  They even tackled and arrested a man on the sidewalk before rushing the man filming.  The live video goes out just as they tackled him.

We're coming up on the bad part of the 'cycle of democracy'.  The cycle of democracy is attributed to Scottish economist Alexander Tytler:  ["]A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government.  It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury.  From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.["]  With the restoration of Gavin Newsom to his California governorship through the failing 2021 recall process, the state cements its trajectory of collapse.

Watch As Australian Jackboot Thugs Surround And Terrorize Two Grannies Sitting On A Bench.  Dramatic footage has captured a bizarre stand-off between five police officers and two elderly women sitting on a Melbourne park bench.  The video posted to YouTube on Sunday showed the officers surrounding the two women as one of them said firmly:  "No, I'm not standing up".  [Video clip]

The Editor says...
I guess Australia has completely given up on their tourism industry.  Even if the Covid insanity ends tomorrow, who would want to visit a country where the rulers are so heavy-handed and the police are ruthless and completely devoid of common sense?  the worst tyrants in history only needed a few dozen goons like these guys to set up a miserable situation for everyone.

Australian Brown Shirts Disgracefully Arrest Couple For Not Wearing Masks, Wife Screams And Cries In Terror.  Police arrest a couple for not wearing a mask while they walked down the beach.  This was part of the protest held along St Kilda Beach.  It appears that 16 cops performed the NO MASK arrest in Victoria Australia.  Watch how the Non-masked Media photographers are left alone.  [Video clip]

FBI Director:  Ban Encryption to Counter Domestic Extremism.  FBI Director Christopher Wray said on Sept. 21 that restrictions on encrypted chat services are needed to combat domestic terrorism — a claim that has been disputed by a wide array of tech companies, industry associations, and privacy groups, as well as other government agencies.  Wray made the remarks during the Senate Committee on Homeland Security's counterterrorism hearing.  "I can't overstate the impact of default encryption and the role it's playing, including on terrorism," Wray said in response to a question from Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) about what tools Congress can give law enforcement to counter domestic extremism.  "The information that will allow us to separate the wheat from the chaff, in terms of social media, is being able to — with lawful process — get access to those communications, where most of the meaningful discussions of the violence is occurring."

The Editor says...
[#1] If all the FBI wants to do is combat bona fide terrorists and anarchists, especially Islamic terrorists, I wish them all the best.  But recent history shows they're much more interested in right-wing rednecks than suicidal Muslims.  The FBI is mainly interested in protecting the government, not the citizens.  There's a big difference.  [#2] Just wait til you see the government's new definition of "encryption."  No, I haven't heard anything, but it's obvious that if the government bans encryption, that ban will be expanded (by changing the dictionary) to include everything from ROT13 to Base64 to the Morse Code.  U.S. citizens have the right "to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures," and sometimes my "papers and effects" include email, and sometimes my email is cryptic, if not encrypted.  Keeping my personal communications from prying eyes is the difference between a first-class letter and a postcard.  See "If you really think somebody is reading your email" on this page.  Also read the page about domestic surveillance.

More about the FBI.

For The Public Health.  [Video clips]

FDA Employee Caught on Tape Advocating for Nazi-Like Registry for Unvaccinated, and Shooting Blacks With COVID Blow Darts.  A U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) employee was caught on tape advocating for a Nazi-like response to the COVID-19 pandemic, with forced vaccinations, and a registry for all unvaccinated Americans.  In Part Two of Project Veritas' COVID vaccine investigative series, FDA economist Taylor Lee literally called for the United States government to emulate Nazi Germany to force the COVID injections on vaccine skeptics.  "Census goes door-to-door if you don't respond.  So, we have the infrastructure to do it [forced COVID vaccinations].  I mean, it'll cost a ton of money.  But I think, at that point, I think there needs to be a registry of people who aren't vaccinated.  Although that's sounding very Germany," Lee admitted.

They Intend to Destroy America.  Perhaps the best thing about Barack Obama being elected President and serving two terms, along with Democrats' deranged reaction to Donald Trump's election is the radicals are no longer in hiding.  They are now saying out loud, in public and in broad daylight, things that nobody in Bill Clinton's administration would ever have said or admitted.  Now, we can clearly identify the enemy in plain sight, who is not just inside the gate but entrenched throughout our vital national institutions.  These radicals are not slowing down, they are "pedal to the metal" and accelerating.  Time is critical.  We must resist them at every opportunity, locally and nationally, and let them know we will not shirk our duty to stand for Freedom.

Freedom today in the US is an illusion.  [Thread reader]  We live in fear not liberty.  We self-censor/hide/give up our rights & stopped fighting because we think we won't win.  When we lose faith in our govt/elections/law enforcement/media/institutions — that's what they want.  It's easier for them.  Easier to burn it all to the ground & implement whatever is planned.  No Church?  No police?  No freedom of speech?  No choice on vaccines or anything else?  No diversity of thought?  No critical thinking?  No right to question anything deemed a "violation of community standards"?  They are counting on us to do the job for them.  That's why it's good to be disillusioned — recognizing where we are is the first step to not being deceived.  The truth is the only thing that counts.  It cannot be altered.  If we start there smarter people than me will figure it out.  But there's no white knight, no magic pill.  No one coming to save us.  No one screaming about Americans in solitary confinement who've not been convicted of a crime.  No one stopping the banks closing accounts, no one closing the border or even talking about national security.

DHS Touts Counter-Domestic Extremism Plan, But Rights Groups Fear Threats to Civil Liberties.  Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is touting a raft of new programs aimed to combat domestic extremism — many of which are raising red flags among interest groups across the political spectrum.  The new DHS plans follow a March intelligence community report that deems white supremacy and violent domestic extremism as the most dangerous terror threat to the homeland.  Mayorkas made similar statements at a Sept. 21 Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing on counterterrorism.  "Today, U.S.-based lone actors and small groups, including homegrown violent extremists and domestic violent extremists — who are inspired by a broad range of ideological motivations — pose the most significant and persistent terrorism-related threat to our country," he said.  These "broad range of ideological motivations" include "racial bias, perceived government overreach, conspiracy theories promoting violence, and false narratives about unsubstantiated fraud in the 2020 presidential election[.]"

The Editor says...
Questioning the legitimacy of the 2020 election and expressing concern about government overreach have nothing to do with white supremacy.  The secretary is conflating several unrelated and irrelevant groups of people in order to crack down on our right to petition the government for a redress of grievances, among other things.  Contesting the outcome of a very fishy election is not a crime.

Trouble in Vegas — Clark County Commission Declares COVID Misinformation A Public Health Emergency.  In reality, "misinformation" and "disinformation" doesn't exist — there is just information you accept, and information you do not accept.  You were not born with the requirement to believe everything you are told.  Rather, you were born with a brain that allows you to process the information you receive.  That said, the Clark County commission in Nevada voted today to establish "COVID misinformation" as a public health emergency, clearing the way for the largest (and most notoriously corrupt) county in Nevada to create ordinances blocking any form of speech they consider adverse to their approved narrative.

The Great Reset and COVID.  The global elites' response to the pandemic and climate change is the same:  the Great Reset (GR).  Those pushing the GR are attempting to impose socialism worldwide, especially on energy production and use. [...] The government response to the pandemic was a test case in the effort to impose the GR whole cloth.  The elites tested how much freedom they could seize before people began to push back.  Instead of tracing the virus and isolating those with COVID-19, as had been done to great effect during past pandemics, the government locked down people who weren't sick "for the good of all."  As one anti-lockdown activist told Fox News, "Quarantine is when you restrict movement of sick people.  Tyranny is when you restrict the movement of healthy people."  If the GR comes to pass, it will be too late for people to do anything about it.  Any resistance will be castigated by sheeple on social media and in the mainstream media.  Social media will shut down the accounts of any who object and silence their voices.

The Melbourne Tinderbox and Why Americans Should Pay Attention.  An inflection point has been reached in Australia with the government COVID-19 lockdowns, forced vaccinations and now, vaccine passports. [...] Things recently came to a head when the Premier of Victoria, Daniel Andrews, began outlining the rules and regulations for opening society back up after almost a year of total lockdown.  The always futile attempt to block the COVID-19 virus through a policy known as "COVID-ZERO" was abandoned.  The new approach is to open up society and the economy by forcing everyone to take the vaccine, and then allowing only the vaccinated to participate in the economy as varying percentages of the population are double-vaxxed, and admittedly, later, booster-vaxxed.  Vaccination passports will be required to work, shop, attend events and essentially live in the New World Order Premier Andrews has created for the citizens of Victoria.  The day after Andrews outlined the new rules — the working class, who have been locked down and compliant to this point, finally had enough.

Fauci:  Vaccine Mandates for Domestic Travel 'on the Table and Under Consideration'.  Fauci:  "I am not going to get ahead of the President.  I told others when they asked, and I will repeat it for you, that it is on the table and under consideration.  There are going to be a lot of factors going into that.  I have expressed that I would be in favor of that if the President decides to do that and if the individuals involved in advising him are in favor of doing that, I would be in favor of doing that."  [Video clip]

They Intend to Destroy America.  Nearly every network evening news and local news broadcast begins with a "COVID-19 Update" and another sales pitch to get the vaccine or to scare and shame the unvaccinated.  Government health agencies and bureaucracies focus only on vaccines of waning effectiveness, and that is killing people.  Still, they insist we must get vaccinated or we'll get lockdowns, masks, and every other mandated measure they can think of.  The installed administration is now exerting top-down control of preventative medicines and is aggressively seizing monoclonal antibody treatments from states that use them to distribute "equitably" to states that don't.  It's all meant to make us do as we are told, and it proves the long-held assertions among conservatives that socialized medicine equals rationing of medicine and care, and lets the government decide who lives or dies.  Resist.

Is America Heading Towards Authoritarianism?  The occupant of the White House is possibly senile and certainly incompetent.  He cluelessly wades from one crisis to another.  It began with the illegal immigration crisis on the Southern border where there was a mass influx of illegal immigrants.  They were then surreptitiously transferred to other states. [...] COVID-19 is being used as an excuse to infringe upon civil liberties, restrict movement, mandate masks, and mandate vaccines.  Employees in government and beyond being compelled to be vaccinated to retain employment.  School children are compelled to wear masks.  Landlords were prevented from the eviction of tenants during the pandemic. [...] There are civilians in jail for the Jan. 6 demonstrations on Capitol Hill with reports that they are in Gitmo-like conditions. [...] To summarize, the governing class now believes that they are the ruling class who own the power.  They look at the public as subjects who need to be permanently controlled.  They see freedom as a luxury they grant to obedient citizens rather than the right of every citizen.  They look at their opposition among the citizenry with disdain as pests who need to be crushed.

Our 'Boy Who Cried Wolf' Government.  A 74-year-old woman lies on her back, writhing in pain and clearly in distress on a blacktop road in Melbourne, Australia.  Two police officers stand over her.  Are they coming to her rescue and bringing her to her feet?  No, they're dousing her with two separate streams of pepper-spray while keeping their free hands on military batons in case the tortured septuagenarian somehow springs up in attack mode to wrestle down the pair of twenty-something jackboots "just following orders."  The woman had been participating in a freedom march against Australia's COVID-1984 insanity, but the government proved that Grandma was no match for goon squad brute force.  Forget chivalry and common sense. [...] You can't scare schoolchildren into wearing face masks for the next ten years in order to "save Granny" while getting caught clubbing and macing Granny in the street.  That contradiction just won't do.  Yet contradictions abound, and normal people are opening their eyes long enough to notice.  That's no good for the powers that be. [...] An avalanche of mendacity and treachery landing on them all at once, and the narrative engineers have real problems on their hands.  You knock Granny on the pavement and nearly kill her for "her own good," however, and the jig is up.

CDC covid camps have no plans to allow healthy people to leave.  There is a very clear pattern beginning to form with the American government's Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) agenda.  We have seen this pattern before, perhaps most recently with World War II and the infamous concentration camps where the "unclean" were sent to be "sanitized."  This time around, a scary virus from China (or Fort Detrick?) is the excuse for hauling off the "dangerous" to internment facilities where they can be "cleansed" of the virus and released back into society — or will they?  The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has introduced a "Green Zone" plan that involves "shielding" certain people in "humanitarian settings" in order to protect against Chinese Virus infection.  Reading between the lines, though, reveals that there is absolutely nothing humanitarian about any of it.  The "interim" plan from the CDC, as we reported, involves relocating and isolating individuals to supposedly "stop the spread" of the Fauci Flu.  This sounds eerily similar to the Nazi propaganda back in the 1930s.

We Are in a War for America's Soul.  [Scroll down]  Ideological subversion has four stages and follows the Hegelian dialectic, a tactic long exploited by Marxists and Fascists to control people.
  •   Stage 1: Demoralization.  This is the destruction of faith in the government and society.  Believing that society is broken, systems are failing, and patriotism is evil are three key beliefs that are promoted to create guilt.  This leads to the acceptance of radical new ideas because the current structure is believed to be harmful.  Traditional Judeo-Christian morality, classical education, and American patriotism are discarded.
  •   Stage 2: Destabilization.  With the decision-making ability of Americans negatively affected through demoralization, the next step takes a foothold — destabilization of the nation's foundations.  Destabilization causes citizens to believe the worst of what they hear about their nation and form of government.  Supporters of traditional values and foundational structures in the nation are ostracized and even demonized.
  •   Stage 3: Crisis.  The altered values of Americans cut to the root of the current systems.  Upheaval presents opportunities for change.  Once a society is destabilized, it begins to collapse into chaos.  At this point, citizens want the government to provide stability.  We saw this recently as a demoralized and destabilized society responded with fear and panic when a "pandemic" faced our nation.  Americans are willingly trading civil rights and freedoms for authoritarianism and overreach that they believe will keep them safe.  Messaging in all of this is key.  The mainstream media and their tell-a-vision programming play a key role in framing the prescribed narrative as truth.
  •   Stage 4: Normalization.  The "new normal" is a term we have heard constantly lately, and it's an accurate description of what the normalization stage is all about.  When the government and societal structures have changed to restrict liberty, citizens are told the radical transformation is "the way it has to be."  Ironically, it's described as normal when it's not normal at all.  Normalization creates a new baseline for what a nation will accept, value, and promote.  The cycle is complete.
These steps are repeated over and over, bringing a greater result with each cycle until there's a controlled collapse.  America could be on the verge of collapse right now unless we collectively wake up to reality and take a stand to stop tyranny.

How States And Communities Can Fight Back Against Biden's Covid Tyranny.  A war is coming.  I have heard it argued that this war must be avoided; that it is "exactly what the establishment wants." I disagree.  I think globalists like those at the World Economic Forum certainly want enough chaos to provide cover for the implementation of their global "Reset" agenda, but they don't want a full blown rebellion.  They only want events in which the outcome is controllable or predictable — They do not want a massive organized resistance that might surprise them.  Ultimately it doesn't matter because the war is already at our doorstep.  A person has two choices:  Fight or be enslaved.  There is no third option.  There is no walking away.  There is no hiding from it and there is no passive solution to it.  Joe Biden's recent declaration of a federal level nationwide vaccine mandate has all but ensured that conflict is inevitable.  Why?  Because it is the first major step towards a two-tier society in which the unvaxxed are cut out of the economy.  The next step?  Forced vaccinations under threat of fines and imprisonment, the threat of confiscation of one's children, or vaccination at the barrel of a gun.

Today's blacklisted Americans:  Any tenant not vaccinated in Florida apartment complex.  They're coming for you next:  A Florida landlord is now demanding that any future tenant show proof of vaccination against COVID-19 or they will be turned away, and any present unvaccinated tenant move when their lease expires.  ["]If you're not vaccinated for COVID-19, you can forget about moving into any of eight apartment complexes in Broward and Miami-Dade counties owned by Santiago A. Alvarez and his family.  And if you're still unvaccinated when it comes time to renew your lease, you'll have to find someplace else to live.["]

It's Time to Fight.  Using four of our own civilian airliners against us, the 9/11 hijackers were able to cause us great, but temporary harm.  Our response to those attacks — I'm speaking here of the so-called PATRIOT Act, forever wars, and our own intel agencies, weaponized against us — have hurt us far more than any hijacker ever could.  All that was just in the first ten years.  Since then, social media giants have gained a stranglehold on internet traffic — and which voices will be allowed to be heard.  Worse, Big Tech is working hand-in-hand with Washington to foster neverending COVID panic.  Their goal is to make the American people willing to accept a permanent curtailment of our liberties.

Something Else [is] Missing.  On September 9th, President Joe Biden made the announcement that all employers with more than 100 employees would be required to enforce a worker vaccine mandate. [...] Almost a week later, and that's the sum total of everything about the biggest economic and workforce disruption in the history of the nation.  That one paragraph posted on September 10th.  Why is this important?  Well, the U.S. Department of Labor website has ZERO mentions of this national mandate.  ZERO, nothing, nada, zilch.  Looking at the OSHA COVID information portal, used by employers and legal execs, will show you the exact same result.  Nothing.  Notice there's no date for DoL or OSHA delivery of any employer guidance or details.  Nothing.  Think about this.  This is the largest nationwide change to employment eligibility requirement in U.S. history.  Nothing else is even close; and yet, if you didn't watch the Biden announcement or read the media discussion about the Biden announcement, you wouldn't be able to find a single detail about it — anywhere.  This is not normal; not even close to normal, even for the federal government.

The Masking of the Servant Class:  Ugly COVID Images From the Met Gala Are Now Commonplace.  From the start of the pandemic, political elites have been repeatedly caught exempting themselves from the restrictive rules they impose on the lives of those over whom they rule.  Governors, mayors, ministers and Speakers of the House have been filmed violating their own COVID protocols in order to dine with their closest lobbyist-friends, enjoy a coddled hair styling in chic salons, or unwind after signing new lockdown and quarantine orders by sneaking away for a weekend getaway with the family. [...] But as is so often the case, the most disturbing aspects of elite behavior are found not in what they have prohibited but rather in what they have decided is permissible.  When it comes to mask mandates, it is now commonplace to see two distinct classes of people:  those who remain maskless as they are served, and those they employ as their servants who must have their faces covered at all times.  Prior to the COVID pandemic, it was difficult to imagine how the enormous chasm between the lives of cultural and political elites and everyone else could be made any larger, yet the pandemic generated a new form of crude cultural segregation:  a series of protocols which ensure that maskless elites need not ever cast eyes upon the faces of their servant class.

The Supreme Court Needs To Stop Unelected Bureaucrats From Making Up Laws.  A new Supreme Court brings new hope to reeling in unchecked federal power.  For the last few decades, the Supreme Court has allowed Congress to delegate unchecked power to unelected agency officials, who are mainly part of the executive branch.  The executive branch has thus legislated through unelected officials and latched onto powers not granted to them via the Constitution.  The most recent example is President Joe Biden's mandate that large employers require their workers to be vaccinated or test for the virus weekly.  The executive branch plays a far more significant role in our everyday lives than the Founding Fathers intended.  Article 1, Section 1 of the Constitution prescribes that all legislative power lies with Congress.  Why then, has the executive played such a significant role in creating law in recent history?  For example, Biden announced he will look into having the Department of Education, an executive agency, mandate masks for all school children, despite kids facing almost zero risk from Covid-19.

I See Free Speech Disappearing Before Our Very Eyes.  [Scroll down]  But now we have a new and devilish threat:  To understand it, we must know that the USA's founding document is the Constitution.  It is a uniquely perfect document, allowing for the maximum of self-government and self-discipline in a world of confusing and aggressive men and women who do not always agree, often function with hatred in their hearts, and sometimes do not wish well for our nation.  But the Constitution, especially the Bill of Rights, allows us to function anyway, even with all of these shortcomings and dangers.  If the citizenry can be allowed to self-govern, the nation can work.  If the rights of Americans to speak freely, to worship, to petition for a redress of grievances, can be preserved, the nation will survive and flourish.  It was to demolish that framework towards which Al Qaeda worked.  Again, Al Qaeda did not succeed.  But now we have an alliance between the almighty Big Tech Internet companies of this country and the Democrat regime of this country.  Together, they have done the unthinkable: they have hit the citizens with overwhelmingly potent restrictions on free speech.  They have taken away free speech from a man whom they hate — Donald Trump — and preserved it for the most wicked terrorists on the planet:  Al Qaeda, the Taliban, and their friends.

When it comes to vaccine mandates, Biden is counting on OSHA.  On his first day as in the White House, Joe Biden signed an executive order giving OSHA broad power to regulate health and safety in the workplace, particularly regarding COVID-19.  At the time, it was thought that OSHA would enforce face coverings in the workplace.  On Thursday, President Biden announced that companies with more than 100 employees are required to make certain that all employees are vaccinated or have a weekly negative COVID test.  This broad power may indeed be unconstitutional, but OSHA is ideally suited to try to enforce the mandate.  Most people know that OSHA creates detailed rules governing workplaces.  These rules have been enforced using intrusively detailed onsite inspections.  A COVID vaccination rule under this model would be quite difficult to enforce in person.  However, the way OSHA enforces rules has changed.  OSHA now relies on detailed reports from employers rather than onsite inspections.

MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart calls Trump supporters 'more worrisome' than the Taliban or ISIS.  On the eve of the 20th anniversary of 9/11, MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart announced that he believed that Trump supporters are more of a threat than the Taliban or ISIS.  Capehart called out 'MAGA and the domestic threat', which he said was far 'more worrisome than any foreign threat', during an appearance at PBS NewsHour on Friday [9/10/2021].  The Washington Post columnist and news host went on to describe the last several years as 'one giant step forward, and then two giant steps back.'

Lara Logan drops dynamite Fox News segment on Biden's sweeping vaccine mandates.  On Thursday, "President" Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. broke another of his promises by requiring vaccine mandates on most, but not all, American citizens.  The next day, Fox News aired a terrific seven-minute segment by Lara Logan titled "Mandate Nation," and it's really worth watching.  Ms. Logan began the show reporting on new directives to OSHA not to report on COVID vaccine side-effects.  She then segued into recent reports from the U.K. and Israel that report on serious problems with the vaccines.  One feature of the segment that conservatives will appreciate is the montages from other channels, like MSNBC and CNN.  Their "commentators" are so crazed that it's surreal.  These un-American fools actually think Biden "didn't go far enough."  The Biden Mandates are a civil rights issue, and they should appall lovers of freedom.  [Video clip]

Do Your Duty as an American and Do Not Comply.  We live in a time where politicians seem to believe that they are the ultimate authority in the United States and that with a wave of their hand and a scratch of their pen, they can enact unassailable dictates that you have to follow.  This is so far from the truth that you could fit a solar system between them.  There are many laws in the land, with different states containing different laws to follow.  But, the supreme laws are the ones enshrined in the Constitution.  If any laws are issued that conflict with this supreme law of the land, then those laws are invalid and do not have to be followed.  This isn't just the opinion of a freedom-loving American with a penchant for bucking authority, it's also the opinion of the Supreme Court.

Whom Do We Trust?  [Scroll down]  America was founded by those who lost trust in their mother country.  Our Constitution was unique in that it mistrusted the very institutions of governing, with checks and balances codified for the citizens' protection.  It would be wonderful if we could trust the people we charge with our care, but experience reminds us that we can't. [...] The politicians currently in power seek to dismantle the Constitution for America's own good.  They ask us to trust them while most things they do smack of dishonesty.  Their "Noble Lies" are justifiable as a means of achieving their endgame, but their lust for power is the only truth we recognize as true.

Where Are They Trying to Take Us?  [Scroll down]  Think about the larger Green New Deal (goals and objectives), and then contrast those objectives while aligning an overlay map of how federal COVID mitigation rules can be applied as a back door to the EXACT SAME objective.  Far beyond masks and even vaccines:  workspaces being forced to be redesigned.  New rules on labor density.  New rules on labor/manufacturing and office proximity.  New rules on uniforms.  New rules on hand-washing stations.  New rules on sick pay, shift hours, time-off when a COVID infection is detected in the workplace.  Think about everything from rules on surfaces, to rules on packaging, to rules on ALL business operations as an outcome of federal regulatory policy under the guise of CVOID-19 mitigation.  OSHA, Labor, Agriculture, Transportation, Energy, Education, Housing, Health and Human Services, and even federal building permits:  the entire regulatory system and compliance network.  Think about Housing and Urban Development (HUD) having new rules about dwellings and complexes for housing grants.  Population density; the need to move into the suburbs and the confiscation of private property to "ensure the common safety" of the citizens.

Turley says Ron Klain's vaccine retweet is legal issue for Biden: 'Breathtakingly daft'.  Constitutional scholar Jonathan Turley called White House chief of staff Ron Klain's recent retweet appearing to praise the Biden administration for executing the "ultimate work-around" for President Biden's recent vaccine mandate "breathtakingly daft."  "The retweet was breathtakingly daft on the eve of litigation over the order.  It is reminiscent of President Biden admitting that his own White House counsel and their preferred legal experts all said that the eviction moratorium extension was likely unconstitutional," Turley told Fox News on Friday [9/10/2021].  "Courts will now be asked to ignore the admission and uphold a self-admitted evasion of constitutional limits," Turley added.  The "problem is that the thing being 'worked around' is the Constitution."

Against Biden's Mandates.  We oppose President Biden's lawless and authoritarian new mandates announced yesterday.  We also denounce his divisive rhetoric toward unvaccinated Americans, his reckless antipathy for federalism, and his threats to usurp state governors.  Contra Mr. Biden, this is entirely about freedom and personal choice.  His proposed executive orders represent nothing less than centralized tyranny, whereby the federal government operates under no legal constraints.  This is government anarchy.  The announced policies — including mandated vaccines for private employers of a certain size, mandated vaccines for all healthcare workers, and mandated vaccines for federal employees — are wildly extraconstitutional and far beyond any executive power imagined in the Constitution.  Of course, the same is true for OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration), which (since its magical creation in 1971) laughably claims jurisdiction over working conditions across millions of private US businesses operating on private property.  OSHA is the bludgeon Mr. Biden intends to use against business owners to dictate their arrangements with employees by requiring covid vaccines.

One Line From Biden's Vaccine Mandate Speech Should Make 'Free People' Very Uncomfortable.  During his speech announcing expansive new vaccine mandates on Thursday, President Biden took aim at Republican governors who have continued to value freedom in their responses to Covid-19, threatening to use his "powers" to "get them out."  After blasting the nearly 80 million Americans who have not gotten vaccinated, the president turned his ire to GOP governors, particularly Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott.  "To make matters worse, there are elected officials actively working to undermine the fight against COVID-19," he said.  "Instead of encouraging people to get vaccinated and mask up, they're ordering mobile morgues for the unvaccinated dying from COVID in their communities.

Biden's Vaccine Mandate Has Nothing To Do With Fighting COVID.  A mandate to fight COVID-19, protests erupted.  And rightly so.  But the real reason Biden chose now to announce it is so he could claim credit for what is already happening with COVID.  In what is almost certainly a vast overreach of his executive authority, Biden declared that he'd develop "an emergency rule to require all employers with 100 or more employees, that together employ over 80 million workers, to ensure their work forces are fully vaccinated or show a negative test at least once a week."  Of course, this mandate will raise constitutional challenges.  Which is no doubt what Biden wants.  After all, if such a move is constitutional — and there are [sic] no shortage of "experts" who say that it is — then [we're in trouble].  Because that would open the door to federal intervention into our daily lives on an unprecedented scale.  All that would be needed is to declare something, anything an "emergency."

Joe Biden Threatens the Unvaccinated and Announces His Unconstitutional Vaccine Mandate in Disturbing, Dictatorial Speech.  Today [9/9/2021], Joe Biden took to the podium and officially announced a vaccine mandate from the federal level hitting all private businesses with over 100 employees.  In making that announcement, he trashed the unvaccinated, threatened them, and generally stoked the flames of division in such a way that should worry everyone.  He also asserted himself as a dictatorial figure, able to push governors "out the way" who push back on his tyrannical orders.  I'll go ahead and say it before we get into the clips:  This is the most disturbing speech I've ever heard from a president.  [Video clip]  Here's the president trashing the unvaccinated in a way that sounds like he's trying to foment a civil war, and no, I'm not kidding.  It's that bad, with him repeatedly talking about anger toward the unvaccinated and blaming them for all of society's ills.  [Video clip]  Later in the speech, he went at the unvaccinated again in threatening fashion.  I was almost in disbelief at his tone and word choice.

Are We Supposed to Not Care When a Senator Wants to Ban Books?  Because the Press Does Not See a Problem.  If you were to make a proposal that a politician should go about calling to take down published works, the initial reaction from many would be to recoil and issue a rebuke.  The concept of the government seeking to silence select individuals runs contrary to our core beliefs.  Yet we have a politician currently calling to take that very action, and the response is so vacant that you have to wonder how far we as a nation have drifted.

National Archives Slaps 'Harmful Content' Warning On Constitution, All Other Founding Documents.  The National Archives Records Administration placed a "harmful content" warning on the Constitution, labeling the governing document of the United States as "harmful or difficult to view."  The warning applies to all documents across the Archives' cataloged website, including the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence.  "NARA's records span the history of the United States, and it is our charge to preserve and make available these historical records," the administration said in a statement.  "As a result, some of the materials presented here may reflect outdated, biased, offensive, and possibly violent views and opinions.  In addition, some of the materials may relate to violent or graphic events and are preserved for their historical significance."

How to Tell What the Government Fears Most.  Every interaction between government and citizen today tests how far individual liberty may be diminished before the public pushes back.  Should authorities have had the power to close businesses and prohibit public gatherings in the name of health?  What if the risk to the public's health is less than one percent?  What if the risk is merely one hundredth of one percent?  If government can interfere with liberty whenever there is any degree of risk, can there be any degree of liberty?  If government can make you afraid of something — imaginary or not — may it then control your life completely in order to guarantee FDR's "freedom from fear"?  Does depending on government to ensure "freedom from fear" not incentivize government to invent new fears that only additional government powers can vanquish?  Does this not subsidize fear with taxpayer dollars and guarantee that government will always strive to make citizens afraid?  Can it really be true that individual liberty should be "allowed" to exist only when there is nothing that can hurt us?

Left Doesn't Just Want to Censor You on Social Media.  It Also Wants to Close Your Bank Accounts.  It is becoming increasingly clear that political leaders on the left and Big Tech are joining arms to not just deplatform dissident voices from social media, but to bar them from the digital space entirely, including from having the ability to make and receive payments online.  In the latest example, Chase Bank reportedly planned to close the credit card account of former national security adviser Michael Flynn on Sept. 18, stating that "continuing the relationship creates possible reputational risk to our company."  While as of Aug. 31, a Chase spokesperson said that they had "made an error and apologized for any inconvenience caused," the initial gesture can't be ignored.  This comes just a couple months after Wells Fargo made the "business decision" to close 2020 Republican Delaware Senate candidate Lauren Witzke's account.  Two of the more prominent digital payment services, PayPal and Stripe, have also become active cancel culture participants.

Reading between the lines in Australia.  [Video clip]

South Australia Directorate Releases New Cell Phone COVID App to Monitor Quarantine Compliance.  People wonder why they should be paying attention to what happens in Australia.  Well, quite simply, if you can identify where the test facility is for technology to merge with totalitarian objectives, it becomes valuable to follow what they do — and then predict what the future might look like for you.  Australia and New Zealand are testing the parameters of merging the objectives of the control state with technology and citizen compliance.  A year ago, the leftists in U.S. media were cheering the COVID responsibility of Kiwis and Aussies.  However, things are starting to take a very dark turn now.  Even the ultra-far-left Atlantic Magazine is starting to become aware, and what they are seeing is becoming worrisome.

Australian state begins use of app that dispatches police if you don't prove your location with selfie within 15 minutes of random check.  Australia has transformed itself from a free society to a police state, using the Covid epidemic [as] an excuse.  Already, the country has all but forbidden international travel, blocking not just the arrival of foreigners (and Australian citizens), but the departure of any of its citizens.  Since it is an island continent, no Berlin Wall has been necessary, but that would presumably not be out of the question where the geography otherwise.

The Masked Ball of Cowardice.  [Scroll down]  Likewise, in October 2020, the WHO's peer-reviewed bulletin showed COVID-19's overall IFR across all age groups to be about 0.23%.  John Ioannidis, the world's most-cited physician, believes the IFR (infection fatality rate) to be lower and published his own peer-reviewed study showing the overall IFR to be about 0.15%.  But in a poll conducted by the Menzies Research Centre, by June 2021 Australians on average estimated their chance of dying if they contracted the virus to be 38%, an overestimation of more than 160-fold.  For the public to be so egregiously misinformed about their actual risk from COVID-19 renders democratic accountability for lockdown measures impossible.  Even more so because, as a study by Cardiff University demonstrated, the primary factor by which citizens judge the threat of COVID-19 is their own government's decision to employ drastic lockdown measures.  "We found that people judge the severity of the COVID-19 threat based on the fact the government imposed a lockdown — in other words, they thought, 'it must be bad if government's taking such drastic measures.'  We also found that the more they judged the risk in this way, the more they supported lockdown."  The policies thus create a feedback loop in which the measures themselves sow the fear that makes citizens to believe their risk of dying from COVID-19 is hundreds of times greater than it really is, which in turn causes them to support more lockdown measures.

Beyond Orwell:  CDC Releases 'Guiding Principles for Inclusive Communication'.  The Centers for Disease Control is once again involving itself in an aspect of American life which is absolutely none of its business.  We have watched as the CDC inserted itself in everything from the eviction moratorium to the Superbowl.  Now they want to control your language.  They just released an exhaustive list of words you shouldn't use, in the name of health equity, whatever that is.  Topics include drug abuse, healthcare, homelessness, economic status, immigration, race, sexual orientation, and more.

We hate our government.  A $35K fine for sixty people who gathered in an "illegal" church worship in Sydney.  A group of rescue dogs that were shot by a local council so that rescue center staff would not travel to pick them up under the guise of Covid restrictions.  Police firing rubber bullets at lockdown protestors.  Despotic state premiers refusing the prime minister's call to reopen once 80% vaccination rates are achieved.  Homes of Covid sufferers in South Australia to be marked so that their neighbors can rat them out to police if they breach tyrannical stay at home orders.  Celebrities offered cash payments by government to promote the pro-vaccine propaganda line.  The military ordered onto Sydney streets.  Why are we surprised?  Did anyone think during a plague crisis, real or imagined, that our government would react in any way other than the most stupid, ineffective and damaging?  Look at their prior form over the last sixty years.  At all levels of government, from the federal to the state and to local councils, the results speak for themselves.  A consistent rate of public failure.  And underneath all, a foundation of endemic corruption.

More than a thousand anti-vaxxers march on New York City streets to protest de Blasio's vaccine mandate.  Over 1,000 people flooded New York City streets again to protest the COVID-19 vaccine mandate and then gathered in Columbus Circle where speakers fired up the crowd.  One woman said, 'This is a war call.  This is a fight.  Leave here and do something ... Fight for your rights.'  While the demonstration unfolded Saturday afternoon, Mayor Bill di Blasio's tweeted pictures from Harlem and praised the faith community Hope of Harlem's work at COVID-19 community outreach.  The protest is in reaction to the new requirement for people ages 12 and older to show proof they've received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine to get into restaurants or bars, gyms and indoor entertainment such as movies and theaters.  The new mandate — dubbed 'Key to NYC' — went into effect August 17.

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"Key to NYC" implies that you're locked out of the city without the key.  That's not what one should expect to find in a free country.

Woke Soldier Eager to Shoot Americans.  Immediately upon taking his position, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin proclaimed a military stand-down for an ideological purge of those who may not be on board with the authoritarian left's fundamental transformation of America.  The purpose was to finish the work begun by Obama's purge of the officer corps.  If Democrats succeed, the only people left in the military will sound like this sergeant:  [Tweet]  Democrats openly push an agenda likely to lead to another civil war (e.g., seizing unconstitutional federal control of elections to reduce them to farces, packing the Supreme Court).  They do this because they expect to win, since they control the military and have been systematically subverting it.  A victory would allow them to move directly to a postconstitutional Marxist system of government, with those deemed likely to resist incarcerated in gulags.  The humiliating defeat in Afghanistan has taught them nothing about asymmetrical warfare.

'Woke' US soldier threatens Americans, says they 'become the enemy' if they don't obey under martial law.  A video clip of a female U.S. Army soldier who appeared to threaten to shoot American citizens if martial law is ever declared and they refuse to comply with orders has gone viral on social media and triggered widespread backlash.  The clip went viral thanks to Jeremy Darling, a black conservative who posted a snippet of the larger clip to his own TikTok and added his own commentary, warning that the soldier's words "should be cause for concern."  The soldier's words were as follows:  "Understand that if active-duty military actually get deployed within the United States, that weapon is not just pointed at other people, other countries.  It's pointed at you.  If you do not get in your house when I tell you to, you become the enemy.  Martial law."  It's like that, huh?  [Video clip]  Who is this woman?  An investigation revealed that she's a 35-year-old self-identified "lesbian" who goes by the pronouns "she/her."

Active Duty and Retired Navy Members Are Being Told They Cannot "Disrespect" Biden Over Afghanistan Debacle.  Communications from top leadership at the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) shows them instructing active duty and retired service members that they are forbidden from criticizing Joe Biden for his utter incompetence that led to the crisis in Afghanistan.  In an email that was uncovered by the Daily Wire, the Naval Intelligence Chief of staff, Captain Scott Chesbrough, gave current and former members of the Navy a reminder to follow the uniform code that prohibits them from disrespecting senior government leadership, especially if it comes to feeble Ol'-Joe.

An Awfully Convenient Ruse for an Inconvenient Truth.  Imagine being told not to worry about a future without savings because a government-created welfare system would provide retirement funds for all.  Imagine being conned into believing that Social Security is a personal investment that a worker is individually contributing for his own future, only to learn that most workers will never get back what they gave into the system.  Imagine that health care costs have skyrocketed for half a century because a largely unnecessary system of health insurance artificially raised the cost of medical care until only those with insurance could afford care at all.  Imagine being told once again not to worry because the government will interject itself into the doctor-patient relationship permanently by regulating the practice of medicine, subsidizing government-preferred outcomes, rationing treatments, and using tax dollars to pay for now much more expensive health care for anyone in need.

Nancy Pelosi, Bennie Thompson and J6 Committee Start Fishing Expedition — Seeking All Communication From Political Opposition.  Anyone who has followed politics for any amount of time knows the Nancy Pelosi "January 6th Committee" is an opposition research effort under the guise of a House investigation.  The goal is to frame an extremist narrative favorable for the Democrats in the 2022 mid-term election.  That is the entire goal.  What the Mueller probe was to President Trump, the J6 Committee is to the MAGA movement.  Everyone [...] in Washington DC knew Robert Mueller was appointed as special counsel for one reason, to target President Trump, weaken his administration and ultimately remove him from office.  Not a single entity in DC did not know that was the goal.  The same is true here.  Everyone in DC knows Nancy Pelosi's J6 committee is intended to target Democrat political opposition.  That is the goal.  That is ONLY the goal.  Not a single entity in DC does not know that is the goal.

Question the Narrative of the Ruling Party.  This incompetent regime couldn't execute a war and withdrawal against real terrorists in Afghanistan, handing over billions of dollars in weapons to them.  But it thinks that people who question arbitrary mask mandates, potential vaccine passports, and have legitimate questions about the 2020 elections are the real terrorists.  The latest Department of Homeland Security bulletin is a prime example of how this administration twists the thoughts and fears of half of the U.S. population into a warning of potential violence.  Conveniently, they neglected to mention any heightened threats of violence as a result of actions taken by organizations like Black Lives Matter and Antifa.  No, the real threat is people who are tired of wearing masks and question the legitimacy of an extremely suspect presidential election.  The last line in the DHS bulletin warns readers:  "Such threats are also exacerbated by impacts of the ongoing global pandemic, including grievances over public health safety measures and perceived government restrictions."  Let's be clear:  the DHS bulletin wasn't a bulletin; it was a threat, as in a read-between-the-lines threat.

George W. Bush's CIA Director Gen. Michael Hayden calls Trump supporters 'our Taliban'.  A retired top US military general and former CIA chief sparked outrage over the weekend by comparing supporters of former President Donald Trump to the Taliban and calling a suggestion to send 'the MAGA wearing unvaxxed' to Afghanistan a 'good idea.'  Retired four-star Air Force General Michael Hayden on Thursday [8/19/2021] retweeted a split image of armed militants in a caravan of white pickup trucks with the caption 'Their Taliban.' Under that was a picture of cars adorned with Trump 2020 and American flags along a highway.  The second image was captioned 'Our Taliban.'  On Sunday morning Hayden took another swing at the former president's fans.

Massive Unrest as Australia Adopts China's Authoritarian 'COVID-Zero' Approach.  The emergence of SARS-CoV-2 and the resulting illness, COVID-19, has caused mass hysteria on a global scale.  Perhaps no response is as shocking as what we see in Australia.  The country is included in the group of western democracies globally and among the Five Eyes intelligence community members.  Yet, the nation's response to the pandemic can only be described as authoritarian. [...] Roadblocks began in Sydney on August 15 with the military assisting.  Residents planned anti-lockdown protests in several large cities for the weekend of August 21.  When this came to the attention of law enforcement, David Elliot, Minister for Police and Emergency Services, told the public:  "If you have a loved one you believe is going to protest this weekend, you are obliged to talk them out of it.  If you know someone who attends an illegal gathering this weekend, you must call crime stoppers."  This warning did not deter the protests as thousands of Australians in Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane clashed with police.  Reuters reports the arrest of hundreds of protestors and seven police officers sustained injuries.  In Melbourne, protesters broke the police lines.

Guns, Germs, and Feelz.  [Scroll down]  How fast do things go south when ordinary citizens have no effective means of defending themselves from government psychosis?  Just look at New Zealand and Australia, "free" nations with strict gun control that are currently using their militaries to enforce lockdown orders that have essentially placed everyone under house arrest "for his own good."  If people can be stripped of their liberties to live and work as they see fit for a virus that is almost entirely harmless for most people in good health, exactly what potential threat can a well armed government not use to justify enslavement?

Tyranny has Arrived In Australia.  It's getting very expensive to be a human in the former prison colony, now again a prison colony, Australia.  [Video clip]

Something shifted after the election of Barack H Obama in 2008.  [Thread reader]  Something subtle that was quietly taking place in the background that surfaced just slow enough so that most people didn't notice.  But before getting to that, let's first just look at the DHS announcement as presented in their words.  Look at this small sentence and the worldview it expresses:  "Such threats are also exacerbated by impacts of the ongoing global pandemic, including grievances over public health safety measures and perceived government restrictions."  Notice the word "perceived"?  The government imposed mandates, mask and vaccination requirements are only "perceived government restrictions."  In essence, the chains that bind your expressions of liberty and freedom are merely figments of your imagination.  The needle being forced into the arm of federal workers by the Federal Government is only the perception of a forced medical treatment.  Your perception of what they are doing is the problem.  You must therefore correct your wrong-thoughts to eliminate the wrong perception.  Yes, Dear Leader appreciates your compliance.  Your reluctance to change your perception is what identifies you as an extremist.

DHS List of Terror 'Threats' Should Raise All Kinds of Eyebrows.  Joe Biden's Department of Homeland Security just issued a terror threat advisory which is raising some eyebrows.  Listen, as Lester Holt and Pete Williams describe how the "terror threat advisory" isn't based on any actual threats or plots, but just a lot of "anti-government rhetoric" that includes things like "opposition to COVID measures" like masks and vaccine measures.  [Video clip] [...] So, if there aren't any actual plots or threats, what they're really doing is demonizing free speech, as Tim Young observes, or criticism of government action.  That's a dangerous route to go down.  It also suggests that the DHS is surveilling people to some degree on this subject, another troubling thought, and definitely a slippery slope to go down.  They're also continuing to demonize Trump supporters again, by including them in the advisory that isn't based on any actual threats, with "claims of election fraud, belief Trump can be reinstated."

Fauci: Unvaccinated Need to 'Put Aside' Concerns of Personal Liberty.  Chief White House medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci said Sunday [8/15/2021] on CBS's "Face the Nation" that the vaccine-hesitant should "put aside" their concerns about personal liberty and recognize the "common enemy" is the COVID-19 pandemic.  [Video clip]

Naomi Wolf:  Mandatory Vaccine Passport Could Lead To The End Of Human Liberty In The West.  Author of "The End Of America" Naomi Wolf joined FOX News Channel's Steve Hilton on "The Next Revolution" to warn about "Orwellian" outcomes of the Coronavirus pandemic.  [Transcript:] "Vaccine passport" sounds like a fine thing if you don't understand what these platforms can do.  I'm the CEO of a tech company, I understand what this platform does.  It is not about the vaccine or the virus, it is about your data.  What people need to understand is that any other functionality can be loaded onto that platform with no problem at all.  What that means is that can be merged with your Paypal account, digital currency, Microsoft is talking about merging it with payment plans, your networks can be sucked up, it geolocates you wherever you go.  All of your medical history can be included — this has already happened in Israel.

A Brief History of the Assault on Conservatives as 'Violent Extremists'.  The assault on conservative Americans began several decades ago with attacks on traditional principles and values.  Belief in individual liberty and responsibility, free enterprise, and the rule of law was willfully conflated with "right-wing extremism."  Pride in America, a desire to protect our borders, and opposition to illegal immigration was branded as xenophobic.  Championing the constitutional right to bear arms was decried as gun-crazed zealotry.  Belief in religion, natural law, and the sanctity of human life was maligned as backward and anachronistic.  This vilification of conservatives has coincided with a deliberate shift from the real threats:  radical Islamic and leftist groups.  Islamic terrorist attacks have been declared as having "nothing to do with Islam" or excused by spurious claims that the perpetrators were mentally ill or misunderstood religious doctrine.  When a military psychiatrist massacred 13 people in Fort Hood yelling 'Allahu akbar', it was dismissed as "workplace violence."  And the violence, arson, destruction of public property, and killing of citizens and police officers unleashed by Antifa and Black Lives Matter (BLM) during the 'Summer of Love' are described as "mostly peaceful protests."

Official U.S. Government Announcement:  If You Question Govt COVID Response You are Considered A Domestic Violent Extremist.  The United States Department of Homeland Security made a quiet and alarming announcement yesterday [8/13/2021], creating the official position of the United States Government under the Joe Biden regime.  According to the statement, if you question the orthodoxy, mandates, or COVID-19 response from the U.S. government, you are now considered a "terrorist", specifically a "Domestic Violent Extremist" (DVE).  This is quite a remarkable development and seems to underpin the tenuous, unstable and fragile disposition of the current regime.  The Department of Homeland Security seems rather paranoid in their need to label anyone who would question the COVID-19 response.  More than half the country would now be defined as dissidents and domestic terrorists within their our homeland.

Socialism Is Modern Fascism.  [Scroll down]  Often, we can no longer even engage in a rational debate with a radical leftist without the latter spraying spittle into our face, flying into an apoplectic rage, and/or attempting to ruin our lives because we dare to disagree.  Biden's task is easy.  He simply has to throw his weight around to muzzle free speech and influence society's cancelation of anyone who dares to speak out and disavow ideas such as critical race theory, defund the police, or vaccine mandates.  You see it in academia, business, sports, pop culture, media.  You see it in your social and family life.  We are no longer allowed to speak our minds.  There is currently no legal ramification, though we are not far from this eventuality.  But the consequences to one's career, one's social status, one's ability to live as a free individual are just as debilitating, if not more so.  We are significantly closer to an ideologically totalitarian state than most are willing to admit.

The Agenda for Serfdom in the Land of the Free.  Agenda 21 was introduced at the U.N. Earth Summit in 1992, along with the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), as the "comprehensive blueprint for the reorganization of human society." Together, they toll the death knell for wealth creation and economic and personal liberty, based on the fallacious assumption that development will lead to the extinction of life on Earth.  With top-down controls, they aim to end local power and vest it in a global governance system.  Environment protection is the excuse and weapon for this draconian program to fundamentally transform human lives, force citizens to surrender their liberties, and enforce socialist global control.  The agenda is political.

Mask bullies don't want to persuade you — but to humiliate and rule you.  Law professor Ann Althouse recently reproduced two memes she saw on Facebook.  One read:  "It took 'click it or ticket' to get people to wear a seatbelt.  I wonder if 'mask it or casket' might work." The other said:  "It's a face mask, not a Star of David or pink triangle, you whiny, privileged dolt.  You're not being shoved into a cattle car and taken to camp.  You're going to Walmart for twinkies and Diet Coke.  Grow up."  They're both poor efforts at persuasion, of course:  Generally, calling people names, threatening them and saying they're stupid are ineffective ways of winning them over.  Yet we're seeing more and more of this sort of thing. (And note the casual classism of invoking Walmart, Twinkies and Diet Coke.  Poor white people aren't, in fact, the least-vaccinated group — that would actually be blacks and Hispanics — but bashing working-class whites is considered perfectly decent, almost mandatory.)  Maybe the mask fanatics are just poor persuaders.  But it seems just as likely that they are engaging in poor persuasion because they aren't trying to persuade.  As with so much that goes on in today's society, and especially on social media, this sort of thing isn't aimed at convincing those who disagree, but rather at garnering high-fives from people who agree and, ultimately, creating an ideological veneer for unquestioned elite rule.

The coming Delta lockdown is DESIGNED to invoke nationwide protests so they can be exploited as a backdrop for false flag event.  Within the next 12 days, multiple sources have told us, the pretender-in-chief Joe Biden will announce a nationwide lockdown, fraudulently blaming the "delta" variant and "anti-vaxxers" for the overzealous action.  The lockdown will have no specific end date, and it is likely to be strongly resisted by red states, while blue states will effectively be turned into medical police states with brutal enforcement of the lockdown measures.  Most importantly, the new lockdown will be perceived as so overreaching and totalitarian that nationwide protests will soon commence.  This is actually all part of the plan.  The lockdown push is being engineered to invoke a backlash, even among Leftists who will join conservatives in taking to the streets to protest the medical tyranny.  This backdrop of nationwide protests is the setting needed by the deep state to stage a violent false flag event that I'm told will most likely target a medical facility or medical group of some kind.  The FBI will of course be running this just like they ran the Whitmer "kidnapping" in Michigan as well as the Jan. 6th "capitol siege" false flag operation.

Homeland Insecurity for Conservatives.  The Department of Homeland Security was created in the wake of the 9/11 attacks for the purpose of protecting America against terrorist groups such as al-Qaeda.  It was not intended to spy on ordinary Americans or track their political affiliations.  But now DHS seems to be spending as much time tracking and prosecuting "domestic terrorism" as it does foreign terrorists and actual criminals, including those gang members who are crossing our southern border every day.  That's the same border that Kamala Harris is in charge of.  An official at DHS stated in May 2021 that "domestic violent extremism poses the most lethal, persistent terrorism-related threat to our homeland today" — that in connection with a new program of monitoring extremism on public social media.  DHS is going to be collecting and analyzing social media data in an effort to identify possible threats.  That seems straightforward enough, except that one often discovers what one is looking for, and recent history suggests that government is tracking conservatives more closely than radical groups like Antifa.

Show Your Papers, New York City Announces Vaccination Passport Needed to Eat at Restaurants or Engage in Private Businesses.  Comrade rebels, effective September 13th, anyone living or visiting New York City who has not been vaccinated will be blocked from entering any private venue, restaurant or indoor facility.  Businesses will be required to operate security checkpoints, where people without proof of vaccinated status will be denied entry.  Your engagement with the system of commerce will now be controlled by the New York Ministry of COVID Compliance.

The Biden Military Witch-hunt.  A manufactured panic over the January 6 rally has provided Biden and his flunkies with an excuse to attack the U.S. military.  The Biden administration has implemented an effort to root out political "extremism" in the military in order to work toward a military with more 'diversity, equity, and inclusion', despite little evidence of any such extremists actually operating within the ranks: [...] The DoD's definition of extremism is so broad and imprecise that some retired officers and military analysts fear it could inadvertently include traditional Catholics, Republicans, and people who aren't racist or violent but simply choose conservative, pro-life politics.  For example, DoD considers "'patriot' extremism" to include any non-extreme position, such as conservative views, religious teachings such as those against abortion or LGBTQ lifestyles, and failure to actively support gay right demonstrations or mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations.  They are therefore legitimate targets for the CEWG [Countering Extremism Working Group].

Amid Union Pushback, Biden's COVID-19 Vaccine Rules Face Legal Challenge Over Coercion.  President Joe Biden touts the support of the business community for his COVID-19 vaccine policy, but leaders of organized labor, which the president identifies as his political base, aren't happy.  Requirements that both federal employees and the employees of federal contractors "attest" to their vaccination status and regularly submit to testing if not vaccinated could face a court challenge, based on the Biden administration's own employment guidelines.  The U.S. government includes about 2.1 million employees and is assisted by more than 4 million contract employees.  Larry Cosme, president of the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association, said in a formal statement:  "Forcing people to undertake a medical procedure is not the American way and is a clear civil rights violation no matter how proponents may seek to justify it."  The American Postal Workers Union also issued a statement, saying "it is not the role of the federal government to mandate vaccinations for the employees we represent."

Australia uses helicopters and the army to enforce its 'Zero Covid' lockdown as thousands of police flood Sydney to enforce the rules.  Australia today [7/31/2021] used helicopters and the army to enforce its 'Zero Covid' lockdown, as thousands of police flooded Sydney city centre to enforce the rules and hand out $500 fines for those not wearing a mask.  Sirens blared across the city and a draconian message was broadcast from the skies, as millions were told:  'This is public health order — do not break rules — you will be found and fines issued.'  Ministers had tried to eliminate all cases through isolation and closed borders, but just 17% of adults have been vaccinated and concerns are now growing over the virus' growing prevalence across the country.

Biden on Vaccine Mandates:  "It's Still a Question Whether the Federal Government Can Mandate the Whole Country... I Don't Know That Yet".  Joe Biden on Thursday delivered remarks on his administration's Covid-19 vaccination efforts.  Biden was asked about vaccine mandates in the private sector.  Joe Biden said he supports vaccine mandates in the private sector then said he isn't sure if the government can implement mandates on a federal level.  "I would like to see them continue to move in that direction... it's still a question whether the Federal government can mandate the whole country.  I don't know that yet," Biden said.

Joe Biden Just Opened the Door for Federally Mandated Vaccinations for Everyone.  One of Joe Biden's handlers should really reign him in.  He made a series of remarks today that ranged from head-scratching to anger-inducing.  At one point, Fox News' Peter Doocy pinned him down on his previous statements on vaccinations and masks, noting that the president is now saying the opposite.  That led to a flailing claim that he didn't say what he said while insisting the science on masks has changed when it simply hasn't.  But one comment involving the vaccines may be Biden's most ill-advised yet.  After being asked about businesses and local communities mandating vaccines, the president opened the door for federally ordered, mandatory vaccinations, not just for government employees, but for all Americans.  He noted that he's not sure if he can do it, though.  [Tweet]

Capitol Police to arrest bare-faced visitors.  "The People's House"?  Not so much.  That was so old-school, so yesterday, so in keeping with the spirit and intent of the Founders.  United States Capitol Police Chief Thomas Manger recently announced that Capitol Police will start potentially arresting congressional aides and visitors to the House side of the Capitol if they have the audacity to appear there unmasked. [...] Though the same mandate technically applies to members of Congress, the same strict enforcement will not.  Of course.  Capitol Police, at least those who aren't then giving tearful testimony about how the January 6th protest was worse than Armageddon, will simply be asked to report bare-faced lawmakers to supervising officers "who will, in turn, refer the matter to the House Sergeant at Arms."

Another Scheme To Enlarge An Already Bloated Federal Government.  If Democrats have their way, America will eventually form a Civilian Climate Corps that will hire and train people to save Earth from overheating.  It's exactly what we've come to expect from the party that is obsessed with being an unchallengeable ruling class rather than a participant in our republican style of government. [...] As usual, the Democrats are having a mind-racing fever dream.  In this one they are consumed by visions of spending billions of dollars that aren't theirs, and sending out swarms of climate zealots to harass, lecture, and hector Americans over their use of fossil fuels.  They're likely seeing themselves solidifying a voter bloc so grateful for the party's largess, and so indoctrinated by its growing socialist ideology, that it will help elect Democrats for generations.  Never underestimate how power hungry the party is, nor how determined the progressive wing that's driving its agenda is to transform the U.S. by perpetually adding layers of government control.

The Many Guises Of The Totalitarian Impulse.  Wouldn't it be nice and fair and simple if all the voting systems across the country were the same?  Wouldn't it be nice and fair and simple if every school in the nation were equally as good?  Wouldn't it be nice and fair and simple if everyone had access to robust and identical health care programs? [...] For each of the above notions — among countless others — have something important in common:  The need for centralization; that is, the need for a centralized power to determine and then enforce exactly what equal means.  And that requires people to wield that power.

Sounds like forcible abduction.  Just like you might see in China or North Korea.
Andrew Cuomo:  We Must Knock on Doors, Put People in Cars, 'Drive them and Get that Vaccine in Their Arm'.  Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) on Monday [7/26/2021] said it is the community's mission to get more people vaccinated, previewing his administration's desire to knock on doors, put unvaccinated people in cars, and drive them to "get that vaccine in their arm."  "I wear a mask because I care about you.  I get a vaccine because I care about you," Cuomo said, framing compliance to various methods of government coercion as an expression of selflessness.

Biden DOJ Declares COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates Legal.  The Biden DOJ ruled that federal law doesn't prohibit public agencies, private business from requiring vaccines for employees[.]  It was only a few months ago that Kamala Harris said she would NEVER take the Trump endorsed vaccine.

The Duplicitous Ruling Elites Have Awakened the American People.  Over the past three decades a sizable majority of the ruling elites have been preoccupied with self-aggrandizement and cohabitation with the Communist Chinese, ignoring the gradual and now complete domination of many of the nation's institutions, and most importantly the Democrat party, by American Marxists.  After a premeditated fraudulent election underwritten by the same credulous elites, and with a witless marionette in the White House, these collectivists have been de facto governing the nation since January 20, 2021.  The past six months have revealed that thanks to these Marxists' mindless allegiance to failed ideology and breathtaking ignorance of the American experience and citizenry combined with the now unmasked duplicity of the ruling elites, there is a massive awakening bubbling to the surface.  This cabal has for the past five years marginalized, physically confronted and repeatedly accused not only the 75+ million Americans who voted for Donald Trump but any American not in lockstep with them of being racists, fascists and white supremacists as well as homophobic, xenophobic and among the vilest people on the face of the earth.

What Vaccines Say about the Precarious State of Our Freedom.  As purportedly "free" countries all over the world get their tyrannical freak on by insisting that every citizen be jabbed with an experimental pharmaceutical cocktail or face the wrath of the Leviathan, I am reminded of a letter from Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Adams, in which he remarked:  "The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive."  Jefferson's point was that ordinary citizens represent a necessary check on the natural abuses of government and the last line of defense against corruption and political tyranny.  Make no mistake:  the writer of the Declaration of Independence saw government as not a benefactor of man's freedom, but rather its adversary.  "The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground," Jefferson warned in another letter to Edward Carrington, a distinguished soldier and Virginia statesman.  Free people don't stay free by blindly trusting everything government officials say and do; free people stay free by treating government with great apprehension and even greater suspicion.

A Foretaste of Fascism.  How can we make sense of the Biden administration's project to establish a shadow state in which the federal government achieves its unconstitutional objectives — mask mandates, forced vaccines, suppression of religious freedom and free speech — by recruiting private corporations to do its bidding?  What is the official name for this public-private partnership in opposition to our liberties?  Before I answer this question, let's zoom in on precisely what the administration seeks to do.  It recognizes, of course, that any attempt to impose a nationwide mask mandate or to force Americans to take the vaccine would run into serious constitutional problems.  Where does the Constitution give the federal government the power to require such things?  Nowhere.  Moreover, there are practical obstacles.  How exactly would the federal government go about enforcing such mandates?  It would take a nationwide reporting system of unimaginable complexity to ensure full compliance with a mask mandate.  No less than a national vaccine database would be needed to ensure that all citizens took their compulsory vaccine.  In either case, it's unclear what penalties could be imposed on those who refused.

Big Tech 'Counterterrorism' Org Shifts Focus from Islamic Extremism to 'Far Right'.  Big Tech companies including Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter, Reddit, Verizon, Airbnb, and Mailchimp will expand a project of collusion on "counterterrorism" efforts that target domestic right-wing organizations.  The organization, which initially focused on building a database on content shared by Islamic extremists linked to Al Qaeda, ISIS, and the Taliban, will now shift focus to right-wing groups including the Proud Boys.

So the vaccinated are "running out of patience," eh?  It seems as if every day we see another slew of headlines about the Delta variant and "resurgence" of the virus in this or that place.  In reality, even some of these surges involve a number of new positive tests that are still vastly lower than during the height of the pandemic last winter.  Still, there are cities that are bringing back mask mandates and complaining loudly about the slow vaccination rates.  These complaints are being picked up in the liberal media, with the vast majority of the blame being cast at a predictable group:  white, Republican Trump voters.

America Isn't Dead Yet.  The Biden administration is indeed colluding with Big Tech to crush dissent.  But like all previous Democratic attempts to suppress free speech, such as the Sedition Act of 1918, they will ultimately fail.  SCOTUS moves at an excruciatingly glacial pace.  Yet the Roberts Court, for all its faults, has issued an impressive series of rulings that have bolstered the First Amendment.  Republicans in Congress and the state legislatures have been dilatory in responding to the threat, but they are taking action.  Moreover, the Biden administration's collaboration with Big Tech has been so inept that it has itself already doomed that unholy alliance.  When White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki admitted, "We're flagging problematic posts for Facebook that spread disinformation," she discredited the specious argument that social media platforms aren't bound by the First Amendment because they are private corporations.  Their cooperation with the Biden administration to censor inconvenient viewpoints places them squarely in the category of "state actors" and thus subject to the same First Amendment restraints that bind the government.

Glenn Greenwald:  The Biden Administration Is Launching A "Second War On Terror" Against American Citizens.  Glenn Greenwald discusses reporting that FBI agents were involved more closely in an alleged 2020 plot to kidnap the governor of Michigan than they previously admitted.  [Video clip, transcript]

Sounds Stalinist?  Liberal Media Demands Trump Supporters Undergo Deprogramming.  They can't stand other opinions.  They can't.  They cannot be allowed to live.  The people who hold them must be targeted and smeared.  All must bow before the unholy altar of American progressivism.  If you can't convince them, destroy them, or deprogram them.  That's what The Washington Post's Eugene Robinson and Nikole Hannah-Jones wanted yesterday.  Grabien's Tom Elliott clipped the madness.  People who support Trump are mentally defective, so they must be deprogrammed.  What does that mean?  Sounds Stalinist in the extreme.  It also reeks of Chinese Cultural Revolution underpinnings.  Those who do not believe what we believe are off to the camps.  It's nothing new.  It only exposes the illiberal nature of the progressive Left.  There can be no deviations.  ALL must bow to the narrative.  You must take this position on this issue or risk annihilation.  Ever wonder why so many liberal policies are intrusive and mandatory?  They don't want to bother convincing you anymore, partially because most voters can see on its face that most of what liberal America offers is trash.  That's why you're forced to do things with a gun to your head.

Conservatism Is Over:  A New Vocabulary for a New Right.  [Scroll down]  Surveying American life and government in 2021, the failure of American conservatives cannot be denied.  What we lost was precisely the vision of American governance and virtues that Benjamin Franklin warned us would be a struggle to maintain.  Equality under the law?  Despite successes in recognizing the humanity of previously oppressed minority groups, the free market has enabled a crass commodification of legal representation that ensures many Americans must routinely settle for inferior counsel.  Another sign of bias in the legal institutions is that informed citizens who aren't lawyers can reliably predict the outcome of key cases merely by learning the number of the circuit court before which they will be argued.  But the betrayal of equality under the law isn't only evident in formal court proceedings — it can be seen in things like the increasingly discriminatory affirmative action policies in higher education, or the Biden Administration's overt racial favoritism in allocating COVID relief funds.

To Exert Complete Control, Communist Dictatorships Always Crush Religious Freedom.  Over the last couple of weeks, widespread protests have broken out across the island, with citizens rallying in opposition to the communist regime that's held power for over six decades.  While some explained the demonstrations were primarily due to rising COVID cases and lack of vaccines, it seems there's something deeper driving Cubans to the streets — evident by the fact that many of them are clearly heard shouting "Libertad!" (liberty) and waving the American flag to symbolize their search for freedom.  For Americans, there's an important lesson we must learn from the situation unfolding just ninety miles south of our shores.  That is, a sobering reminder that communist regimes such as the one in Cuba all begin in a similar way:  By crushing and stripping away the religious liberty of its citizens.  Because once a dictatorial, ruling elite succeed at destroying religious freedom and subjugating houses of worship to their power, it's only a matter of time until other fundamental freedoms — economic, political and social — are ripped away as well.  Make no mistake, the unrest we see in Cuba today is the result of religious suppression and a denial of fundamental human freedoms.  It's the outcome of what happens when our freedoms are decided by the government, as opposed to the eternal truth that our rights come from God.

COVID-19: A Weapon to Fundamentally Transform America.  While Americans have been asleep at the wheel, the power brokers were manipulating us into constant societal unrest, with dwindling individual liberties and growing dependency on the government and big corporations.  COVID-19 has been a handy justification for left-leaning politicians to promote and solidify their ideology.  What many Americans were led to believe was well-intentioned concern for our safety and health has turned into a morass of ever-changing rules designed not for our health, but to accustom us to government control of our lives.

Dissent Is the Highest Form of Patriotism... but Not Online.  "Dissent is the highest form of patriotism."  It's a phrase that was credited to Thomas Jefferson, but there's no real evidence that he ever said or wrote this popular phrase used quite often by people on the left — when they feel the need to justify their often ludicrous actions against anyone in charge with an "R" next to their name.  The phrase (likely actually born in the '60s) is one that I never truly agreed with.  I don't think dissent is a high form of patriotism, but it is a key element in a free society.  The highest form of patriotism remains to serve, and possibly die for your country.  Any leftist who used the phrase automatically made me think of them as a little high on their own supply.  They aren't that noble.  Funny enough, this cliché of a phrase used to pardon even the most bloody of protests seems to go from virtue to vice in the blink of an eye... when the Democrats are in charge.  Now, all that dissent they were cheerleading a moment ago borders on treason.

The Rank Shame of the FBI's Rank and File.  The FBI's rank and file recently banged down the door of a Florida pastor and his son.  Neither were accused of violent crimes, but the rank and file arrested both of them, taking the pastor's son into custody in front of his three-year-old daughter.  The rank and file terrorized a Lakeland, Florida community by shouting through loudspeakers and using flashbang devices in its pre-dawn raid on the home of three January 6 suspects.  The rank and file arrested a 69-year-old California woman accused of taking photos in the Capitol building for 30 minutes, after members of the rank and file questioned her without an attorney present.  She thought she was helping the rank and file catch the "real" bad guys, only to learn that the rank and file had targeted her as the bad guy for her half-hour of photography.  These types of boorish, melodramatic arrests of by-and-large ordinary Americans have been carried out by the rank and file for more than six months.  The manner of the arrests themselves is clearly punitive, meant to send a clear message: the federal government is powerful, and if you are deemed its enemy, you will feel its wrath. [...] No members of the rank and file FBI, as far as we know, have acknowledged the immorality of what they are being ordered to do — terrorize and embarrass the political opponents of their own bosses.  Not one member of the rank and file FBI has said to himself, "This just isn't right," and turned in his badge and gun in protest.

Goodbye, America:  We no longer have a Constitution.  For months now, we had known that the tech powers were watching us and suppressing any dissident speech against the current administration.  I have seen it up close and personal.  But what was argued was that the First Amendment to the Constitution protected us only against Congress and the executive branch suppressing free speech.  It did not protect us from private enterprises, even very large private enterprises like Amazon or Google or Facebook, keeping tabs on citizens and shutting them out of the internet-sphere if they expressed views contradicting the views and policies of the Biden-Harris-Big Tech Party.  True, there was one big case involving a large steel company suppressing free speech by its workers, and the Supreme Court ruled that such a big company suppressing free speech on its company properties was indeed a violation of the First Amendment.  But that was rare indeed.  Now, in the year 2021, the iron curtain has come down hard.  With Big Internet Tech and the White House now admittedly colluding to identify and suppress dissidents, even completely nonviolent dissidents, we no longer have a Constitution.

Who's Next?  [Scroll down]  Oh yes: they know that parents and school boards across the country are standing up to drive their nasty racialist creed out of local schools.  They know, and they intend to put a stop to it.  It is a hallmark of authoritarian regimes to define political action by the opposition as inherently violent and morally unconscionable.  When one side can riot, loot, and murder with official sanction, while the other cannot so much as organize without risking a summary imprisonment of indefinite duration, there are not really two sides anymore at all.  These are developments which need attention, and vigorous opposition, now.  Tomorrow is too late; today is already getting there.  That is why we are focusing attention on this Strategy, and why we have invited a number of contributors to describe the threat and what can be done about it.

Zombie chimps from heck.  The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff testifies that "white supremacism" is the biggest current threat to national security.  But the death toll from white supremacist terror acts in the last 50 years is a number approaching zero, whereas Islamic terror victims in America number somewhere around 4,000, including dozens of military victims.  And all of the burning, looting, street violence, and political attacks of recent years have been from Antifa- and Black Lives Matters — aligned agitators.  Furthermore, Blacks are approximately 27 times more likely to commit interracial violence than whites are, so blaming "white supremacy" for anything is insanely irrational.  Yet the military chiefs are openly zeroing their weapons in on the heartland.

The New Orthodoxy: Jurisdiction over your Thoughts.  [Scroll down]  Their problem is that the truth is an ever-fixed mark.  While they cannot transform the truth — the truth, by its very nature, is unchanging — they circumvent this limitation by exercising power over what can be said.  This gives the impression that what can be said is what is supposed to be said, and that what is prohibited must certainly be false.  Not by the merits of the claim but whether the claim is allowed to be communicated or researched or even debated.  This is how falsehoods win over the truth, and how politics corrupts it all.  Reporting on studies of vaccine effectiveness — even by the inventor of the mRNA technology used in some COVID vaccines — are banned from YouTube.  Medical experts and scientists who present evidence and arguments contrary to government-approved thoughts are silenced.  It seems the only authorized information on these platforms is that which is approved by "the CDC, FDA and other local health authorities."  White House press secretary Jen Psaki, expressing the position of the Biden Administration, called for Americans to be banned from all social media platforms if they dare think for themselves and disagree with "science."

The Biden Regime Has Made Us All Enemies of the State.  There's no way to go halfsies on totalitarianism.  Once the government decides it may declare who has rights and who has none, it is a short walk for the government to decide who has life and who has none.  Over 63 million babies have been killed since Roe v Wade, after all, and once you teach a population that a baby is only as alive as a woman chooses, it's not difficult to teach those same people that political opponents are not worthy of life at all.  When individual liberty and private ownership are ridiculed in the name of the "common good," taking life for the "greater good" is never far behind.

Biden's Door to Door Plan to Inoculate Americans.  As if the conflict between American parents, their public school districts, and CDC requirements were not already enough to create a firestorm of unpredictable proportions, President Joe Biden has dramatically increased the stakes by announcing a door-to-door policy to inoculate millions of Americans.  The prospect of a national at-your-front-door vaccination program represents a massive Fourth Amendment assault that threatens the future of the country's Constitutional republic.  As appears to have been the case since Covid was first identified, politics more than the science continues to guide public health decisions rather.  Reputable scientists have connected what has been identified as spike protein bioweapon with what is more commonly referred to as Covid 19; which is not a scientific vaccine yet is still classified by the FDA as an untested Emergency Use Authorization in order to facilitate public usage.  As if Biden's announcement was not enough to cause great clanging alarm bells, WH press secretary Jan Psaki removed any doubt as to the government's true agenda.  Her follow-up to Biden's announcement included reference to the creation of 'strike forces' which removed any benign appearance from what may be shaping up to be the implementation of a nation-wide militarized deployment.

The Rise Of a Secret Unaccountable Police Force in America.  Our founders knew that concentrating too much power in any one federal agency — especially a law enforcement agency — could lead to a tyrannical police state.  It was one of their greatest fears.  After all, they knew a thing or two about tyranny, and it was something they wanted to avoid at all costs. [...] To be clear:
  •   The U.S. Capitol Police operates in secret.
  •   The U.S. Capitol Police is not accountable to the public.
  •   The U.S. Capitol Police has little oversight, given its "personal relationship" with Congress.
  •   The U.S. Capitol Police has a history of operating outside of its scope — such as making drug arrests off capitol grounds.
  •   The U.S. Capitol Police will soon be operating in many states with a mandate that's nebulous at best.
If you add all of these factors together, you end up with a secret police force that is ripe for abuse — a team of modern-day witch hunters willing to do whatever the politicians in charge desire.  It all comes down to whom they consider a threat.  We all know what the Biden/Harris administration and Democratic congressional leaders think of gun owners.  Once you disagree with their gun-confiscation plans you're labeled a "violent extremist."  Are we now going to become the subject of secret police investigations?

The Rise Of a Secret Unaccountable Police Force in America.  There is no doubt that our founders never envisioned a police state that we are faced with today and indeed, it is a police state that is growing.  On top of that, having corrupt politicians, who are out to pad their own wallets, continu[e] to maintain power in the name of serving the people and generally ignore the Constitution and restraints on government, it is not surprising that there is a growing secret, unaccountable police force in America, but really they are not so secretive, just their agenda is secret for the most part.  You know them as the United States Capitol Police (USCP).

Caution:  This article is replete with left-wing bias and government propaganda.
Majority of Covid misinformation came from 12 people, report finds.  The vast majority of Covid-19 anti-vaccine misinformation and conspiracy theories originated from just 12 people, a report by the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) cited by the White House this week found.  CCDH, a UK/US non-profit and non-governmental organization, found in March that these 12 online personalities they dubbed the "disinformation dozen" have a combined following of 59 million people across multiple social media platforms, with Facebook having the largest impact.  CCDH analyzed 812,000 Facebook posts and tweets and found 65% came from the disinformation dozen.  Vivek Murthy, US surgeon general, and Joe Biden focused on misinformation around vaccines this week as a driving force of the virus spreading.  On Facebook alone, the dozen are responsible for 73% of all anti-vaccine content, though the vaccines have been deemed safe and effective by the US government and its regulatory agencies.  And 95% of the Covid misinformation reported on these platforms were not removed.

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The government makes rash and highly dubious pronouncements about Covid-19, and then uses it power to silence all dissent.  That's un-American.

Core Constitutional Rights Under Threat From 'Quasi-Totalitarian Movement': Constitutional Scholar.  Rob Natelson, a Senior Fellow in Constitutional Jurisprudence at the Independence Institute in Denver, warned of a "quasi-totalitarian movement" that is threatening the core rights enshrined in the Constitution, from the right to be locally governed to freedom of fair and honest elections.  A leading constitutional scholar whose work has been repeatedly cited in the U.S. Supreme Court cases, Natelson told The Epoch Times that the U.S. Consitution created a federal system in which people could govern themselves in their own states and their own families.  As the federal government became increasingly centralized, however, Americans have lost control of their ability to govern themselves.  "In a federal system, if someone is unhappy with a policy of his state, he can move to another state.  But if the government is unitary, then it's the same everywhere, and that reduces human freedom," he said, noting that the recently defeated election bill H.R.1, also known as the For The People Act, would have threatened the states' freedom to self-govern.

Regime Spokesperson Very Defensive About Americans Knowing the White House is Reviewing Their Social Media.  The Biden regime is becoming increasingly unstable as they attempt to keep control over the American people.  During a terse exchange today, spokesperson Jen Psaki attempts to justify the White House surveillance of American speech saying the Facebook platform users should be "more concerned" with people dying from COVID than having their community speech monitored by the federal government.  When questioned about the U.S. Federal Government now openly admitting Big Brother is watching you, the regime defender responds: "They are more concerned about that, than people dying across the country because of a pandemic where misinformation is traveling on social media platforms?"  Continuing with, "That feels unlikely to me, if you have the data to back that up I'm happy to discuss it."  Fox News journalist Peter [Doocy] asked the regime to name the 12 people on Facebook the White House has identified as problematic for the interests of the state; however, the spokesperson refused to name them, obviously and transparently fearing a lawsuit.

Sebelius: Unvaccinated Americans Should Not Be Allowed to Work, Have Access to Children.  Former Obama administration Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Tuesday on CNN's "OutFront" that Americans who have not received a coronavirus vaccine should not be allowed to work or have access to children and be limited on where they are allowed to go.  Sebelius said, "We're in a situation where we have a wildly effective vaccine, multiple choices, lots available, free of charge, and we have folks who are just saying I won't do it.  I think that it's time to say to those folks, it's fine if you don't choose to get vaccinated.  You may not come to work.  You may not have access to a situation where you're going to put my grandchildren in jeopardy.  Where you might kill them, or you might put them in a situation where they're going to carry the virus to someone in a high-risk position."

Geraldo Rivera calls for crackdown on the unvaccinated: 'No work, no school, no in-person shopping'.  One of Fox News Channel's top personalities called for mandatory vaccination against COVID-19, upon threat of forced home isolation.  Geraldo Rivera made the demand Tuesday reacting to a story in the New York Post that nearly one-third of New York's nursing-home workers hadn't been vaccinated.  Mr. Rivera agreed on Twitter that this situation was "absolutely insane" and issued the crackdown demand.

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When the government nags you about getting vaccinations and wearing face masks, that's just an annoying nanny state.  When the government threatens your freedom of association, your ability to buy and sell, your ability to live with your family, and your freedom to move about the country as you please — all because of an overblown illness that you wouldn't have noticed without the help of television news — that's outright tyranny.

State Police Assisting in Hunt for Individuals Making 'False Claims' About 2020 Election.  Michigan residents who make what state officials say are false claims about the 2020 election could end up getting a visit from state troopers.  State Attorney General Dana Nessel and the Michigan State Police are going to investigate claims that some people making fraud allegations about the 2020 election are profiting from those allegations, Bridge Michigan reported Thursday [7/8/2021].  The Republican-led Senate Oversight Committee recently issued a report saying that it did not find systemic fraud in the November election.

Democrats Move to Take Over Your Credit Score and Go Full 'Woke' — Just Like Communist China.  Leftist Democrats, but I repeat myself, are making no secret of their plans to become more like their comrades in China.  They support vaccine passports for COVID mRNA shots in order for people to receive certain social rewards such as going to school or attending a Major League Baseball game, just like the social credit score system in the People's Republic.  Now, Democrats and Congresswoman Maxine Waters, the chair of the House Financial Services Committee, want your FICO score to go full "woke."  They're not even trying to hide it.  USA Today reports that in testimony before Waters's committee on June 29, the counsel for a group called the National Consumer Law Center, Chi Chi Wu, a product of Harvard and Johns Hopkins, gave away the game on how her law-fare grifting group and people like them want to change FICO credit scores.  Wu and her fellow travelers got a warm reception at the three-hour-plus hearing.

Government document instructs vaccine "strike force" teams how to clear buildings, violate trespass laws and flag anti-vaxxers for forced quarantines.  A government document that has recently surfaced offers horrifying details on how door-to-door "strike force" vaccine enforcement teams plan to operate.  Labeled, "Community Health Ambassador Outreach Door Knocking Project," a now-public document published by the government of Lake County, Illinois, instructs "ambassadors" to:
  •   Violate "no soliciting" restrictions and illegally trespass onto private property.
  •   Impersonate Health Dept. officials and attempt to intimidate building managers into consenting to allowing entry for the strike force teams.
  •   Lie to the public and falsely claim covid vaccines are safe by withholding information about serious vaccine side effects, including hospitalizations and deaths.
  •   Clear buildings in military fashion, going floor by floor, wing by wing, knocking on doors and intimidating residents of apartment buildings and residential units.
  •   Recording the locations (address, room number) of anti-vaxxers in order to feed this information into a government database for further action — most likely forced quarantine removal (medical kidnapping).
White House spokesperson Jen Psaki announced last week that the Biden regime would activate door-to-door "strike forces" to coerce more people into getting vaccinated:  [Video clip] [...] Note that these teams are instructed to lie to the public and imply that these are "approved vaccines" which are completely safe.  In truth, none of the covid vaccines are FDA approved, and all of them have been linked to hospitalizations, deaths and a long list of side effects including myocarditis (heart inflammation), heart attacks, strokes, blood clots, muscle tremors, neurological problems and more.

You are Now in the Totalitarian Zone.  In a press release, the Capitol Police, a largely patronage operation designed to protect the Capitol, just received a large boost in its already substantial budget to build regional offices in California and Florida and then in other regions "to investigate threats to members of Congress.  Reason shares my concern about yet another spying operation:  ["]The department does not need to become yet another unaccountable intelligence agency involved in the dubious and often nakedly political project of conducting widespread surveillance on the American people.  Opening field agencies and monitoring "threats to members of Congress" are actions that dilute the Capitol Police's very clear mandate to guard the Capitol building.  The FBI, National Security Agency (NSA), Department of Homeland Security, and CIA are already empowered to investigate threats to political leaders; the federal government does not need to hire additional spymasters for this purpose, especially given that the agencies burdened with doing so have tended to violate the rights of innocent Americans.  But make no mistake:  The Capitol Police has every intention of becoming just like the FBI and the NSA.["]  Even worse, as the Capitol Police force is considered part of Congress, it is not covered by the Freedom of Information Act which means its operations are not transparent or accountable.  That's what has so far kept it from having to divulge the name of the officer who shot Ashli Babbitt.  Neither the Capitol Police nor the FBI has made publicly available the thousands of hours of videos of the January 6 Capitol riot which by now only the most deranged, ill-informed, or partisan continue to claim was an "armed insurrection" or one that resulted in the death of an officer.

The Capitol Police Will Open Offices in the States To 'Investigate Threats to Members of Congress'.  The January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol thrust its police force into a sympathetic national spotlight; like any other government agency, the U.S. Capitol Police has seized this opportunity to expand its mission and acquire additional funding.  Now the Capitol Police plans to build regional field offices in the states:  California and Florida, for starters.  "The Department is also in the process of opening Regional Field Offices in California and Florida with additional regions in the near future to investigate threats to Members of Congress," notes the department in a press release. [...] This development should be vigorously opposed by all civil libertarians.  Unfortunately, funding for the Capitol Police is tied into a larger, fraught political narrative about right-wing threats to law and order.  For many on the right, Trump and his unhinged supporters are the good guys, which makes the Capitol Police the bad guys.  For liberals, it's the reverse.  This has hopelessly scrambled what should have been a clear consensus that the U.S. does not need another domestic spy agency.

Nationalizing the Capitol Police.  Do we really want a nationwide federal police force accountable solely to a small number of legislators, not subject to FOIA and other citizen protections applicable to the executive branch?  The Acting Chief of the U.S. Capitol Police has recently announced the expansion of their federal force into Florida and California.  Two new field offices will be opening in Tampa and San Francisco, due to claims from Acting Chief Yogananda Pittman that the number of threats against sitting Congressmen has doubled in the last year.  However, this isn't D.C.'s first effort to implement a new national police force.  Just last June, House Democrats voted to pass H.R. 7120, an attempt to nationalize state and local police departments across the entire country, disguised as legislation for defunding the police.

That Troubling Expansion of Capitol Police Gets Even Worse With Tech They Plan to Use.  We previously reported on the troubling expansion of satellite offices of the Capitol Police being planned across the country.  Unlike other federal government-related police which are subject to FOIA and part of the executive branch, the Capitol Police are under the control of Congress and not subject to FOIA. So, basically you have a police force controlled by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi spreading out across the country. [...] Not only will they be setting up across the country, starting first with offices in California and Florida, but they will have military surveillance equipment as they become "an intelligence based protective agency," according to the Washington Times. [...] What's the justification for that, all of the sudden?  All of this because of a three-hour riot?  Why does this not sound like it's just to deal with present threats against members of Congress?  And can we talk about the problems of using such things to spy on Americans — and all the constitutional questions that might raise?

Capitol Police to use Army surveillance system on Americans to 'identify emerging threat'.  The U.S. Capitol Police will begin fielding military surveillance equipment as part of sweeping security upgrades as the police force pivots towards becoming "an intelligence-based protective agency" following the Jan. 6 attack.  Defense Secretary Loyd Austin recently approved the Capitol Police's request for eight Persistent Surveillance Systems Ground - Medium (PSSG-M) units.  The system provides high-definition surveillance video and is enabled with night vision.  The system does not include facial recognition capabilities, according to the Pentagon.  "This technology will be integrated with existing USCP camera infrastructure, providing greater high definition surveillance capacity to meet steady-state mission requirements and help identify emerging threats," the Pentagon said.

Biden Does Not Need A Domestic "Terrorism" Agenda Unless He Is About To Violate American Rights.  The federal government is a kind of self perpetuating blob; a cannibalistic creature that must continue to feed on the public and the systems around it in order to survive, but it also must create reasons for its existence so that it may go on feeding uninterrupted. [...] There are only two real mandates for the government, only two reasons for its existence in our republic:  To secure America's borders from invasion and to protect the freedoms of the citizenry.  That's it.  It is not the job of the government to compel you to take an experimental and questionable covid vaccine over a virus that 99.7% of people will easily survive.  It is not the job of the government to create artificial "social equity" by favoring one group or ethnicity over another.  It is not the job of the government to spy on millions of Americans because they do not agree with the leftist ideology.  It is not the job of government to make war on the very people it is mandated to protect.  Yet, this is exactly what the government is doing today while its totalitarianism is disguised as "humanitarianism".  In other words, they are essentially arguing that they must make war on the people in order to protect the people from themselves.

A Vacuous and Potentially Dangerous Response to Domestic Terrorism.  On June 15, the White House issued a "Fact Sheet:  National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism."  This fact sheet is strangely devoid of facts and is vacuous in the extreme, but it communicates that the present administration sees a connection between defeating terrorism and having a government-controlled economy.  Is it not true that vacuous thoughts presented as though they were serious and careful are almost always dangerous?  Based upon this principle of understanding, the "national strategy" is one of the most dangerous documents I have read in my lifelong study of U.S. history.  The shift from domestic terrorism to much greater control by the federal government of our economy on the last page of the document is the product of a sleight of hand or a verbal shell game.  The reader thinks he is reading about one thing but finds that the Fact Sheet finishes with conclusions about matters not even remotely implied by the title of the report.

Huge, Troubling Expansion of the Capitol Police Coming, Across the Country.  The Capitol is still locked down, still closed to Americans.  One has to ask why.  The Democrats are going to try to use the 'investigation' of the three-hour Capitol riot by a select committee to continue an effort to connect Republicans to the event and bash them going into 2022.  All that is troubling.  But now there's something that perhaps is even more troubling because of the clear potential for abuse.  [Tweet]  According to the New York Times, the U.S. Capitol Police have announced they are now planning to expand operations outside Washington "beginning with the opening of field offices in California and Florida" but the plan is to open "several additional regional offices."  Their spokesman says they need to monitor and quickly investigate threats against lawmakers.

Nancy Pelosi Directs Capitol Hill Security Police Units to Regional Offices in California and Florida, Future Locations Coming.  In a remarkable display of how committed the Democrat party is to utilizing the narrative of domestic extremism for their own benefit, Nancy Pelosi is placing satellite field offices for the DC Capitol Police in key regions around the country.  When we consider the FBI has field offices all over the country, you might ask:  why does the Capitol Hill police need to expand beyond Washington DC?  Essentially, what Nancy Pelosi is doing is expanding the federal law enforcement mechanism of the legislative branch into specific areas where they can investigate political opposition armed with legal authority.  This is a concerning shift in events; however, there is a likelihood such a move is connected to the larger political goal of enhanced federal enforcement to quell any rebellion, while working in concert with the DOJ.

The Biden Administration's domestic terrorism strategy threatens to criminalize conservative speech and thought.  [Scroll down]  To help depict the events of January 6 as terrorism, Democrats and their anti-Trump media allies have repeatedly promoted the misimpression that the perpetrators killed somebody.  The New York Times reported on January 8 that Capitol officer Brian Sicknick died in the melee from getting "struck with a fire extinguisher."  This account of his death was then cited in House Democrats' February trial memorandum to impeach former President Trump.  Throughout the impeachment, Trump's political enemies — from CNN to MSNBC, to the Lincoln Project, to Nancy Pelosi — emphasized that the January 6 attack on the Capitol was a terrorist incident that killed Officer Sicknick.  Even after the official medical examiner concluded in April that Sicknick died from natural causes, President Biden, MSNBC, and CNN have continued to promote the politically self-serving fiction that he was killed in a terrorist attack.  Side with the medical examiner and you are branded a January 6 "truther."

Did You Miss The Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff Labeling Trump Voters Enemies Of The State?  For years, I admired Gen. Mark Milley and defended him in conversations when others attacked him as being too political.  No more.  The breaking point was Milley's recent testimony before Congress.  Others have pointed out much of what was wrong with his testimony.  But the worst part has gone unnoticed and unremarked.  It was not his statement that "thousands of people" assaulted the U.S. Capitol building.  Nor was it his fabrication of "white rage" as the cause for the January 6 riot at the capitol.  It was not even his false equivalency of officers who have studied Mao Zedong in order to understand their enemies with the current exhortations to read unabashed race-baiters and other charlatans, not to understand our enemies, but because many in the government, including in the military, are promoting their propaganda.  No, the most dangerous aspect of this testimony by the highest-ranking officer in the U.S. military was validating the use of military personnel and lethal military force against political opponents of the administration.

What if anti-vaxxers decide to 'identify' as being inoculated?  We have surrendered our individual responsibilities to medical "experts" (?) who still debate whether the vaccines are safe or effective.  Why have only about half of the employees at the NIH and CDC accepted the vaccination?  For more than a year, we've relinquished our daily freedoms to the faux security of masks. [...] It's highly likely that denying unvaccinated college students admission to "in person" classes is just the tip of a massive social engineering iceberg.  Visualize, or should I say "identify" as, someone who, in the future, is denied access to public events, city council meetings, restaurants, churches, banks, airline terminals, public transportation, and even walking on sidewalks, because you are deemed irresponsible, uncooperative, and labeled a "contagious threat" to yourself and others.  With one phone call, your doctor, neighbor, co-worker, or government official could put you on a "no-fly," "no-social-events," "no-outdoor-activity," or "no-ballot" list.  Brace yourself, folks, because a vaccination "passport," microchip, or barcode on the forehead could be just around the corner.

Are We Nazi Germany?  Like a lot of Americans, I always assumed that America was safe from the kind of tyranny the German people experienced under the heavy hand of the Third Reich.  There is no way our federal, state, and local governments could restrain and control the American people the way Hitler and his Nazis dominated the German population, I thought.  Yet, for the past eighteen months, that's exactly what has happened in America.  A nation that always prided itself on its independence and individuality was suddenly locked down.  Travel was restricted, schools and businesses were shuttered, we were commanded to wear face masks, voting laws were altered, isolation and quarantines were mandated, and speech was censored by social and mainstream media if Big Tech oligarchs judged what was said or written as "misinformation."  It didn't stop there.  A public health emergency was declared, borders were closed, and large gatherings were forbidden — including church attendance, funerals, and weddings.

What Happened to Honor Among America's Military Leaders?  America's top military leaders have thrust themselves into the national spotlight by their overt politization and cowardly acquiescence to the radicalized Democrat Party.  The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Milley, in Congressional testimony, defended the teaching and promotion of Marxist based Critical Race Theory throughout the military.  He also linked what he categorized as rampant "White Rage" to the 75+million supporters of President Trump.  The Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Gilday, defended the Navy-wide dissemination of an anti-White virulently racist screed.  Further, the Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, ordered a purge throughout the military of those he considers "extremists" (i.e., the supporters of President Trump) while tacitly agreeing with Joe Biden that the most lethal threat to America is domestic violent extremism, in other words, the untold millions of "White" people that supposedly advocate nearly non-existent "white supremacy".

The lockdown fanatics are moving on to climate change.  Sir David King is a former UK chief scientific adviser to successive New Labour governments, and the founder of Independent SAGE, the self-appointed group of experts offering scientific advice to the UK government and the public on how to handle Covid.  He has now announced he is to convene a new Indie SAGE-like group, this time tackling climate — the Climate Crisis Advisory Group (CCAG).  According to the Guardian, CCAG 'will emulate the impact of Independent SAGE' on Covid policymaking and 'advise, warn and criticise global policymakers about the climate and nature crises'.  No doubt, this means that CCAG will attempt to do for climate change what Indie SAGE has done for Covid — that is, drive an alarmist opinion into mainstream public discussion.

Merrick Garland Good and Fully Jumps the Shark With Admission on DOJ Targeting Red States.  The DOJ is completely compromised by partisanship at this point.  That was the conclusion drawn by multiple RedState writers yesterday, who opined about AG Merrick Garland's announced lawsuit against Georgia for their recent election reform law.  The lawsuit itself reads like it was written by a Harvard diversity studies professor.  It makes all sorts of unsubstantiated claims, while presuming that things like the racial makeup of those who voted for the law somehow play into its legality.

How I Got Classified as an Anti-Government Domestic Extremist.  The Biden Administration recently released its National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism.  After reading the fact sheet, which was a bit disconcerting, I downloaded the full National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism document.  By the time I finished reading, I was shocked.  Evidently, President Biden thinks I am an anti-government domestic extremist.  But that's not all.  Almost all of my friends and most of the people in the small Southern community where I live are anti-government domestic extremists, too. [...] The reality is there isn't that much politically motivated domestic extremist violence happening in United States.  Sure, there are countless FBI-manufactured plots and Homeland Security fever dreams of internet chatter to scare the public.  But if one excludes Black Lives Matter and Antifa, actual political violence incidents, in a country of 330 million people, are a statistical anomaly.  The extremely rare occurrences — the report mentions six over a 26-year period (including a Black Lives Matter activist misidentified as an anti-government extremist — does not make a domestic terrorism pandemic.

Rudy Giuliani's suspended law license is a warning to Conservatives: the Left's coming for you.  The fact that Rudy Giuliani had his law license suspended in the state of New York should be a warning to us all:  If you believe the 2020 Presidential Election was stolen, the Left is coming for you.  Rudy Giuliani was President Donald Trump's lead attorney in handling the aftermath of the 2020 Election.  While there is debate as to whether he was the most effective in regards to their attempt to expose the stolen election, he is a true patriot who loves this country and did his job furthering the legal recourse his client, the President of the United States, hired him to follow through on.  The Left, however, do not care about reality or the rule of law.  Instead, they care about power.  With the impending Arizona Audit results going to be released soon, it's no wonder that they are doing anything they can to discredit Conservatives and Trump supporters.  What we have to realize about this, as tragic as it is for Rudy, this is a warning shot to the rest of us.  If we continue to hold the line and fight for election integrity, we face similar pressure from the powers-that-be.

Rudy Fires Back at New York Over Suspended Law License.  Rudy Giuliani fired back at the partisan judges who retaliated against him for election fraud claims he made while representing his client Donald Trump after the contested 2020 election.  Giuliani made the comments to Newsmax in an interview with Greg Kelly on Thursday night [6/24/2021]. "This is a Democrat decision by five judges who should be themselves investigated, because they're destroying fairness," Giuliani remarked.  [Video clip]

Lead Georgia Election Critic Condemns New York Supreme Court on Giuliani.  I had already scheduled an interview with Garland Favorito, founder of Voter GA, to discuss the latest judicial decisions in his group's ongoing investigation of possible voter fraud in Georgia during the recent presidential election, when news broke the New York Supreme Court had suspended Rudolph Giuliani's license to practice law in the state.  The written decision — more like a political tract than a legal brief — referenced the Georgia audit.  So, before anything else, I asked Favorito about it, wondering if he had something to say about what happened to the man we used to call "America's mayor."  Did he ever.  At first Favorito simply said, "The New York Supreme Court made false assumptions about Georgia on it and used them improperly against Giuliani."  Then he added:  "The State Farm Arena video they showed, I'm sorry, showed clear violations of Georgia law committed by election officials."

N.Y. Court Revokes Giuliani's Law License For Exposing Election Fraud.  Rudy Giuliani, the former personal lawyer to President Trump, criticized a New York state appeals court decision to suspend his law license.  On Thursday, a the court ruled Giuliani has made "false and misleading statements" regarding voter fraud while defending the 45th president in several swing states after the 2020 election.  While speaking to reporters, Giuliani questioned how the court asserted he lied if he has yet to receive an official hearing.  "If you wanna say I said something irresponsible, you gotta give me a chance to defend myself," he stated.  "I can more than defend myself.  I can show that everything I said was based on a witness.  They have never bothered to check that."

What is Behind Gen. Mark Milley's Righteous Race Sermon?  Look to the New Domestic War on Terror.  The post-WW2 military posture of the U.S. has been endless war.  To enable that, there must always be an existential threat, a new and fresh enemy that can scare a large enough portion of the population with sufficient intensity to make them accept, even plead for, greater military spending, surveillance powers, and continuation of permanent war footing.  Starring in that war-justifying role of villain have been the Communists, Al Qaeda, ISIS, Russia, and an assortment of other fleeting foreign threats.  According to the Pentagon, the U.S. intelligence community, and President Joe Biden, none of those is the greatest national security threat to the United States any longer.  Instead, they all say explicitly and in unison, the gravest menace to American national security is now domestic in nature.  Specifically, it is "domestic extremists" in general — and far-right white supremacist groups in particular — that now pose the greatest threat to the safety of the homeland and to the people who reside in it.  In other words, to justify the current domestic War on Terror that has already provoked billions more in military spending and intensified domestic surveillance, the Pentagon must ratify the narrative that those they are fighting in order to defend the homeland are white supremacist domestic terrorists.  That will not work if white supremacists are small in number or weak and isolated in their organizing capabilities.  To serve the war machine's agenda, they must pose a grave, pervasive and systemic threat.

Charlie Kirk:  Tyrants Want to Overturn Our Constitutional Rights but People Hold Political Power.  The constitutional rights of Americans are under assault from politically biased tyrants who want to use their power to restrict freedom of speech, according to Charlie Kirk, founder and president of conservative student group Turning Point USA[.]  Whether it's from Big Tech and big government working together on censorship, lockdowns restricting church services, or a slew of policies whittling away other freedoms written in the Bill of Rights, the rights of Americans are under assault from nearly all directions.  In an interview with EpochTV's "Crossroads" program, Kirk said the so-called tyrants — including private corporations — will continue to use their power to restrict the constitutional rights of Americans unless people use their political power to" actually check their power and to protect natural rights and freedoms."

Biden tries to turn domestic security into partisan witch hunt.  The day after 9/11, everything changed.  Realizing the nation needed a more integrated, holistic approach to domestic security, Congress created the Department of Homeland Security.  Combating terrorism became job No. 1.  All this came with a caveat.  From the start, Americans remained understandably concerned.  Under the wrong leaders, these powerful instruments of public safety could be turned into weapons for partisan action:  suppressing free speech, invading privacy, denying the right to assemble peacefully, and persecuting political opponents.  Isn't that exactly what the Biden administration is now doing?  The warning signs are certainly all there.  Consider how this administration is politicizing the threat of domestic terrorism.

Biden to gun owners:  If you want to take on the U.S. government, you'd better have F-15s and nukes.  "This isn't the first time Biden's warned the gov't would use every weapon in its arsenal against Americans," quipped Tom Elliott, remembering how Biden said something like this at a rally early last year.  Maybe the Second Amendment should be extended to include F-15s.  Seriously, though, this dumb gun-control talking point is deathless even though it's never been clearer how untrue it is. [...] There are many lessons to be learned from America's adventure in Afghanistan but an easy one is that a crudely equipped force using guerrilla tactics is fully capable of prevailing over one with superior firepower.  That lesson should have been clear already from Vietnam but our experience fighting jihadis in the Middle East leaves no doubt.

Concerned Parents Protesting CRT Arrested After Virginia School Board Meeting Declared Unlawful Assembly.  Parents were arrested while protesting against Critical Race Theory (CRT) and a transgender policy at a Virginia school board meeting Tuesday [6/22/2021].  The meeting in Loudoun County, Virginia abruptly ended after the crowd became too rowdy and was later declared an unlawful assembly, footage posted to Twitter showed.  Two arrests were reportedly made for trespassing after some parents refused to leave.  [Video clip]

Things Explode at School Board Meeting Over CRT, Arrests Are Made.  Things are popping off in Loudon County, VA tonight as the debates over critical race theory and transgender issues in schools heat up.  Over 200 parents signed up to give public comments at a local school board meeting, and things just got crazier from there.  Eventually, an unlawful assembly was declared and several arrests were made. [...] All the crowd did was clap in support of someone's comment.  That's literally the extent of their "eruption," but that was enough for the little tyrants on the school board to shut down the meeting and get the cops involved.

Judge Charges 3 U.S. Marshals After Deputy Marshal Refused To Say If She Was Vaccinated.  A federal judge in South Dakota brought criminal charges of contempt of court and conspiracy to obstruct justice against three U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) officials on Monday in connection with a deputy marshal's refusal to reveal her vaccination status to his court.  In March, U.S. District Judge Charles Kornmann tried to require all courthouse employees to be vaccinated, the Associated Press reported.  But U.S. Marshal Daniel Mosteller, who heads up the agency in South Dakota, told Kornmann that wouldn't work because USMS was not requiring its marshals to be vaccinated.

Justice Department domestic terror document could ensnare Biden critics, professor tells Tucker.  A Justice Department dossier called the "National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism" was released this week with much fanfare by Attorney General Merrick B. Garland, but one political scientist warns the actual text proves even the most casual critic of the Biden administration could be ensnared in its definition, and therefore face punishment.  On "Tucker Carlson Tonight," Nicholas Giordano — whom host Tucker Carlson described as a government document expert — and who is also a professor at Suffolk Community College in Selden, N.Y., warned that Garland's document is "one of the most concerning" he has ever studied.  "When you look at it, it is clear the [legal] analysts in the field didn't write this document, it was the political appointees trying to push an agenda.  They list three factors to drive domestic terrorism:  the first is racism," he said.  Extrapolating from the fact the term "racism" is never formally defined in the document outside of the idea of White supremacy, Giordano noted that the Biden administration and its political allies include people who believe racism is "inherent" from birth.

If Biden Wants to Paint Trump Supporters as 'Domestic Terrorists,' Ich Bin Ein Inländischer Terroristischen.  Since 20 January 2021, the Hologram's administration has been moving inexorably to curtail the freedoms and liberties of Trump supporters and American patriots in ways that are eerily similar to the pressures exerted by the Soviets on the Allies and German people after World War II:
  •   Just one day after the 6 January occupation of Capitol Hill by rioters, The Hologram himself declared those people to be "domestic terrorists" prior to the completion of any investigation into the matter and set the tone for the persecution that was to come:  [Tweet]
  •   On his very first day in office, The Hologram "directed his national security team to lead a 100-day comprehensive review of U.S. Government efforts to address domestic terrorism."
  •   The 6 January riot at the Capitol was labeled by the Democrat-media complex as an "armed insurrection" despite the FBI's eventual admission that no guns were found among the protestors.
  •   The Democrat-controlled House rushed to impeach President Trump for "inciting the 6 January insurrection" (thankfully, cooler heads prevailed in the US Senate).
  •   DOJ and the FBI launched one of the "largest investigations in American history" to examine the events of 6 January.  Some of 6 January rioters have been incarcerated in the equivalent of solitary confinement while awaiting charges and disposition of their cases. These unfortunate people are uniformly labeled as "domestic terrorists" by leftists on social media.
  •   A purge of "white nationalists and white supremacists" is underway in the US military.  The definitions are elastic.
  •   A Stasi-like committee has been formed in DoD to "investigate" extremist infiltration of the military.  Surely the new deputy inspector general for Diversity and Inclusion and Extremism in the Military (DIEM) will be objective in investigating extremism and include BLM and Antifa in their definition?  I think not, given that the investigating committee is comprised of left-wing activists and anti-American extremists.
  •   On Tuesday [6/15/2021] the White House "released a report that designates the Jan. 6 Capitol riot a 'domestic terrorist attack' and endorses an internet purge of 'extremist' content."

Enough With the 'White Boy Domestic Terror Threat' Fiction.  [Scroll down]  Now, what happened at the Capitol was inexcusable.  It was not, however, an insurrection.  It was a riot.  The Democrats and the MSM had just spent six months avoiding that word at all costs, so perhaps they'd simply forgotten what it means.  I'll play fair here:  If they want to call the January 6 rioting "terrorism," then we have to brand Antifa and Black Lives Matter as terrorist organizations too.  Given the extent and cost in property and lives of the havoc they've been wreaking since last May, both groups are far and away the more significant terror threats facing us right now.  Sadly, rather than be serious about keeping the country safe, President Puppet wants to play a game of semantics in order to purge more than 74 million Americans from the national political conversation. [...] The biggest threat to freedom right now is a government that's being run by rabid, un-American ideologues who are using an isolated incident to wage a protracted war against anyone who disagrees with them.

Alberta Pastor Jailed Again After Police Helicopter Finds Secret Church Gathering.  A Baptist pastor in Calgary, Alberta, was arrested a second time Monday after a police helicopter discovered where his church had been secretly gathering since authorities locked their building.  Pastor Tim Stephens of Fairview Baptist Church also debated the legal and theological grounds of Alberta's public health orders with the arresting officer, who quoted Jesus twice before driving the pastor to jail while his young children wept.  According to exclusive footage of the incident recorded by Rebel News (video below), officers showed up at Stephens' home to arrest him for allegedly violating a court order by leading an outdoor church service with hundreds of other Christians on June 6.

Biden's Domestic Terror Agenda Confirms Conservatives' Worst Fears.  On Tuesday [6/15/2021], President Joe Biden released a blueprint for his New War on Terror.  In the "National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism," the Biden White House pledges that the administration will combat domestic terrorism "while vigilantly safeguarding peaceful expression of a wide range of views and freedom of political association."  Yet the administration's biases give conservatives good reason to doubt this pledge.  The White House claims that the "two most lethal elements" of domestic terrorism are "racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists who advocate for the superiority of the white race" and "anti-government or anti-authority violent extremists, such as militia violent extremists."

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Joe Biden (or whoever wrote this "blueprint") wants to crack down on the Oath Keepers and the John Birch Society while letting the Islamic terrorists and Mexican gangs do as they please.

Joe Biden Declares War on 'Misinformation' to Prevent Domestic Terrorism.  The White House on Tuesday [6/15/2021] announced an effort to fight "misinformation," arguing it was responsible for radicalizing domestic terrorists in the United States.  "We must work to root out the hatreds that can too often drive violence," President Joe Biden said in a statement expressing the need to take "short-term steps to counter the very real threats of today."  Biden and his administration plan to "counter the polarization often fueled by disinformation, misinformation, and dangerous conspiracy theories online" as part of "supporting an information environment that fosters healthy democratic discourse," according to a fact sheet released to reporters.

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[#1] Who decides when information is mis-information?  [#2] Biden wants "an information environment that fosters healthy democratic discourse," which means he wants to eliminate libertarian and conservative discourse.  [#3] How many domestic terrorists are "radicalized" by what they read on the internet?  I'm guessing the answer is approximately zero.  Certainly not enough cases to justify a government takeover of the internet.

Briefly Noted:  Lockdowns All The Way Down?  ZeroHedge is republishing an interesting piece from Off-Guardian.  The idea is that our Globalist masters, having succeeded with the Covid lockdown — confirmed to their satisfaction that the public can be gaslighted into compliance with almost any restrictions on freedom — are now considering rebranding the Covid lockdown as a Climate lockdown: [...] There's little to no actual science behind any of it, as we've seen for years of one fomented panic after another.

Former Biden Coronavirus Adviser:  Pandemic Was Worse Because Americans Didn't Sacrifice Enough.  Andy Slavitt was Joe Biden's senior adviser to the COVID response team.  He just stepped down from the position last week and now has a new book he's hawking on all the networks, [...] What a coincidence, I'm sure that his leaving isn't at all timed to coincide with the book coming out.  Did it factor into his joining the administration?  This is just wrong to try to profit off the pandemic with a book.  Yes, he's no longer with the Biden team but that doesn't make it any less scummy.  But on top of that all, he's now trying to hype the book by lying about President Donald Trump and actually disparaging the American people.

FBI warns QAnon conspiracy theorists may engage in 'real world violence'.  The FBI has warned that more QAnon conspiracy theorists may be driven to violence and even feel obligated to attack Democrats they believe to be members of a purported cabal of satanic child traffickers.  The predictions appear in an unclassified, two-page threat assessment on QAnon prepared by the FBI and U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Office of Intelligence and Analysis that became public Monday [6/14/2021].  The assessment, dated June 4, said the involvement of QAnon adherents in the storming of the U.S. Capitol "will continue to act as a catalyst for some to begin accepting the legitimacy of violent action."

FBI Triggers Politically Strategic Narrative, Highlights Q-Anon Supporters as Domestic Violent Extremists.  The left-wing extremist Saul Alinsky famously instructed his radical followers on the best way to attack their political opposition.  Alinsky told his communist crew to "Isolate, Ridicule and Marginalize" their opponents.  In the decades since those first Rules for Radicals were published the instructions have been used and adapted on a continual basis by a growing faction inside the Democrat apparatus.  President Barack Obama then brought an entire cabinet of people who followed those instructions into the federal government and they spread out like fertilizer over the seeded embeds within every institution.  After twelve years of the Obama-led operatives purging a replacing people within government with like-minded followers the cancer of left-wing radicalism metastasized.

An Explanation of Tactics to Fundamentally Transform America.  [Brannon] Howse's documentary contemporizes [Yuri] Bezmenov's warning.  It sets out the twelve-step process of brainwashing aimed at effecting a Marxist revolution in America and illustrates it using events from the coronavirus pandemic.  The twelve steps are:  1) removing principled leadership;  2) encouraging the questioning of values, convictions, and the American worldview;  3) presenting a revisionist history that portrays the free market system as oppressive;  4) propagating moral relativity to cloud the distinction between right and wrong;  5) extolling consensus and collectivism while declaring individualism dangerous;  6) focusing on emotions over facts, reason, and context;  7) fostering anxiety, confusion, social turbulence;  8) concealing the ultimate agenda;  9) using trusted individuals and institutions to enhance credibility;  10) using informants to zero in on those who don't comply;  11) rewarding compliance and punishing dissent; and  12) winning public trust by manufacturing chaos to lay the groundwork for a benevolent-seeming rescue.  With the advent of the Chinese-origin coronavirus, many of those steps were played out as if from a manual — all in the name of "flattening the curve" and ensuring that hospitals are not "overwhelmed."

The DOD's 'Extremism' Working Group Confirms Fears of a Free-Speech Crackdown.  On Wednesday [6/9/2021], First Liberty Institute General Counsel Mike Berry participated in the Department of Defense's (DOD) Countering Extremism Working Group (CEWG).  Berry, a former active-duty Marine Corps officer, told PJ Media that the meeting confirmed some of the fears he had expressed in March, specifically about how the military's crackdown on "extremism" threatens service members' free speech.

Our Government Is Evolving into Something Horrifying.  Overall, the key objectives of the current Democratic Party and the Biden administration, with the assistance of these elitist groups, is to undermine the foundations of our country as founded.  They are actively working to replace our political system with one that imposes upon the American people a government empowered to be involved in our lives to a degree that will eventually include dictating our personal thoughts and daily activities.  These groups work vigorously on an ongoing basis and in a coordinated fashion, attacking and devaluing our history, our democratic practices, and our traditions to place us behind a new American version of an Iron Curtain.

The New Domestic War on Terror Has Already Begun — Even Without the New Laws Biden Wants.  Pending Domestic War on Terror legislation favored by the White House — sponsored by Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) — would simply amend the old War on Terror laws, which permitted a wide range of powers to fight foreign terrorist organizations, so as to now allow the U.S. government to also use those powers against groups designated as domestic terror organizations.  Just as was true of the first War on Terror, this second one would thus vest the government with new, wide-ranging powers of surveillance, detention, prosecution and imprisonment, though this time for use against U.S. citizens on U.S. soil.  Even while that legislation is pending, the U.S. government is already waging an aggressive new domestic war on terror that has largely flown under the radar.  Grave warnings from DHS are now just as common, vague and unreliable — but also fear-inducing — as they were in the days of Tom Ridge.  Domestic surveillance is also on the rise.

Joe Biden: 'Terrorism from White Supremacy' the 'Most Lethal Threat to the Homeland'.  President Joe Biden asserted Tuesday that terrorism from white supremacy was "the most lethal threat" facing the United States.  Biden spoke about the threat of white supremacy during a speech in Tulsa marking the 100th anniversary of the 1921 race massacre in the Greenwood neighborhood.  "According to the intelligence community, terrorism from white supremacy is the most lethal threat to the homeland today," Biden said.  "Not ISIS.  Not Al Qaeda.  White supremacists."

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How many white supremacists have you ever met?  I'm guessing the answer is zero.  Joe Biden says they're the country's most lethal threat, so there must be a bunch of them.  Where do they meet?  Somewhere on the internet, there must be a long list of places they've attacked and the names of all the non-whites they've killed.  There would also be a web site where additional white supremacists could sign up.  For a group that's so-o-o-o-o dangerous, they sure keep a low profile.

Feds say employers can require workers to get COVID vaccine.  Employers are allowed under federal law to require workers to get a COVID-19 vaccine before they can physically return to the workplace, according to updated guidance issued by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Friday [5/28/2021].  But they must provide "reasonable accommodations" for workers who refuse the shots because of a disability — including pregnancy — or for religious reasons, the agency said.  The decision may mean unvaccinated employees could be required to wear masks, or to work remotely.  The EEOC's rules also gave the green light to companies offering incentives as a means of encouraging staffers to get vaccinated, as long as the perks are "not so substantial as to be coercive."

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If they can require a Covid-19 vaccine, they could also require you to get a flu shot, or take pills, or submit to any number of other medical treatments.

Get vaccine or be fired? Federal agency affirms companies can force employees to get vaccinated.  The federal government says businesses can mandate that employees get vaccinated against COVID-19 to enter their workplace, and offer incentives for receiving the vaccine.  Meanwhile, legal experts affirmed that being fired for refusing the vaccine is generally legal.  The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission released updated guidance Friday explaining that vaccine mandates do not generally violate equal employment regulations.  "The federal EEO laws do not prevent an employer from requiring all employees physically entering the workplace to be vaccinated for COVID-19, subject to the reasonable accommodation provisions of Title VII and the ADA and other EEO considerations discussed below," the agency said.  "These principles apply if an employee gets the vaccine in the community or from the employer."

Time for a Coalition of Free American States.  [Scroll down]  Have no fear.  We have an Intelligence Community in America that is keeping everyone safe by reading all of our emails and text messages, spying on our phone calls, and generally making sure that any American objecting to the State-enforced political correctness struggle sessions of the day be added to the government's growing list of "extremists."  The same bunch of propagandists who could be counted on to push the Russia hoax for Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, and who will now make sure that the origins of the Wuhan Virus get covered up for the political benefit of Joe Biden, are the wizards who regularly engage in national disinformation campaigns against the American people for their own good.  Was the CIA lying about Russian bounties being paid for the killing of American soldiers in Afghanistan in order to manipulate White House policy?  Sure.  Is military intelligence pushing UFO sightings today to distract the American people from emerging crises on the horizon?  Maybe.  Is there any check whatsoever on the powers of the Intelligence Community?  Not likely.  Does anyone in Congress seem to care?  Nope.

'Dangerous' New Wave of Censorship Culminating in the US: Dershowitz.  The removal of Lt. Col. Matthew Lohmeier from the U.S. Space Force this month after he publicly stated his opposition to Marxism and critical race theory is part of a broader, more dangerous new wave of censorship that is culminating in the United States, says constitutional expert Alan Dershowitz.  In an interview with Epoch TV's "Crossroads," Dershowitz, a former Harvard Law School professor, expressed concern over Lohmeier's dismissal, as well as other incidents such as the removal of former President Donald Trump from Twitter, Facebook, and other Big Tech platforms in January following the Jan. 6 Capitol breach.  The Space Force on May 19 relieved Lohmeier from the 11th Space Warning Squadron over allegations that he was "politically partisan" when he denounced the spread of Marxism in the military during an interview.

Ontario is now handing out tickets for shaking hands.  As a Michigander, I live pretty [...] close to the new totalitarian nightmare that is Canada.  Having lived under Queen Gretchen's thumb for the past year, one of the only positives has been looking across the Detroit river and feeling sorry for the citizens of Ontario.  If you're wondering just how far our neighbors to the north have descended into lunacy, they are now issuing tickets for shaking hands.

HSBC Bank_Your DNA Will Be Your Data.  [Video clip]

HSBC [is] openly promoting biometric identification.  This ties directly into the Bill Gates & UN's ID2020 program.  This will be used in the new digital financial system that We have been warned about!

Bloomberg Columnist:  We May Have To Force People To Get Vaccinated.  So much for "my body, my choice."  The authoritarianism of Michael Bloomberg and his flunkies is on full display in a new column at the anti-gun billionaire's personal news network, where columnist Clara Ferreira Marques argues that personal choice and responsibility should take a back seat to government coercion and brute force when it comes to vaccines.  Sticking a needle in people's arms against their will may be "unpalatable," says Marques, but that doesn't mean it shouldn't happen if large numbers of Americans refuse to get a COVID-19 vaccine on their own.

House passes $1.9 billion Capitol security measure creating permanent National Guard force.  The House on Thursday narrowly passed a nearly $2 billion spending package to bolster security in the Capitol in the wake of the destructive and deadly Jan. 6 riot.  Most Republicans opposed the measure, which passed 213-212, with three Democratic members voting "present" and three opposing the bill.  GOP lawmakers cited duplicative spending and objected to a provision that adds the National Guard to the Capitol security force.  It passed a day after Democrats and 35 Republicans voted to create a commission to investigate the Jan. 6 riot.

It's Not About The Masks:  It's About The Power.  Masks are just another form of power.  The forms of power are unlimited.  Being able to tell you to recycle, to check your privilege, to check this box on this questionnaire are all forms of power.  There are legitimate policy issues that are important for their own sake, but it's also important to recognize a larger trend in which manufacturing compliance and getting people to do anything is itself the point.  A lot of the things that the Left wants people to do really don't matter in and of themselves.  They matter because they can get people to do it.  Compliance is a pattern.  Totalitarian societies drift that way because people become used to obeying.  They don't ask questions.  And they learn to resent those who do.

12 Lessons Learned from Covid-19.  [#1]  Government will use any crisis to take away your rights and give themselves more control, and once you relinquish those rights, you don't get them back.  We are [more than a year] into "15 days to slow the spread" and we still have lockdowns, business restrictions, empty sports stadiums, mask mandates, and other arbitrary, anti-common sense rules that aren't backed by results or science data.  Mask mandates have been in place in nearly every state for months, yet we haven't seen any significant correlational infection rate reduction, certainly not enough to offset the negative health & psychological effects of masks, not to mention their ability to ruin the enjoyment of almost any activity.  Are we going to be forced to wear masks the rest of our lives if we don't find an effective vaccine?  The "new normal" is code for "you're never getting your rights back."

Understanding and Embracing the Role of the 21St-Century American Dissident.  There is a need for the realization that, regardless of our numbers, we are no longer on equal footing with those in control.  We are now dissidents!  We do not have the same voice as our ever-strengthening oppressors, and we do not have the same rights that they enjoy.  As to our being cast in the role of dissidents, we have no choice.  How we conduct ourselves in that role will be the difference between having a chance over the long term to ultimately prevail or having to spend a century or more under the totalitarian's thumb.  We need to understand the role we are in, the most effective course of action we can take, and above all, we must understand and accept our limitations.  A failure to understand and accept limitations will only deepen and prolong our subjugation. [...] People forget that in the early days of Soviet Russia, the country was considered to be a utopian model for many in the West.  The efforts of dissidents like these told the world a different story.  More importantly, it taught their countrymen how to resist and join the fight for freedom over time.

Court Permanently Stops Gavin Newsom From Locking Down Churches.  Today, a California District Court entered an order approving Liberty Counsel's settlement of the lawsuit on behalf of Harvest Rock Church and Harvest International Ministry against California Gov. Gavin Newsom.  The full and final settlement was approved today the District Court and thus is the first state-wide permanent injunction in the country against COVID restrictions on churches and places of worship.  Once entered by the District Court, this full settlement will be the first state-wide permanent injunction in the country against COVID restrictions on churches and places of worship.  Under the agreed state-wide permanent injunction, all California churches may hold worship without discriminatory restrictions.  Under the settlement, California may no longer impose discriminatory restrictions upon houses of worship.  The governor must also pay Liberty Counsel $1,350,000 to reimburse attorney's fees and costs.

Vaccine passports blasted as 'stealth move to tyranny'.  The chief of a Minnesota-based health freedom organization is warning about those coming COVID vaccine passports.  They're already commonly being promoted as a fast way for people to gain access to public facilities, airlines and more — with the "passport" confirmation they've taken one of the emergency-use COVID vaccines.  Some states, however, have preemptively acted, creating bans on the public display of private health information.

Jailed Alberta Pastor Released On Bail; Recounts Harsh Imprisonment And Blasts 'Evil' Canadian Politicians.  Pastor Artur Pawlowski, whose arrest for holding church services in defiance of Alberta's Public Health Act drew international attention, recounted his harrowing experience in jail and reiterated his warning to Canadians about growing state tyranny.  Pawlowski, who was released on bail earlier this week, detailed to Rebel News how he was allegedly mistreated by some of the police and prison guards, who he claims physically abused him, mocked his Christian faith, and kept him from talking to his lawyer.

Vaccination is required for participation in a public school activity:
New York School District Says Students Must Show Proof of Vaccination or Negative COVID Test to Attend Prom and Graduation.  Massena Central High School in New York is requiring students to show proof of vaccination or negative COVID tests in order to attend prom or graduation.  The school's principal, Alan C. Oliver, has given seniors a deadline for getting the vaccine in order to be clear to attend.  "The prom is scheduled for June 12.  Graduation has been scheduled for June 25, with a rain date of June 26.  Anyone attending those events must show proof of vaccination or negative COVID-19 testing," NNY360 reports.

Dad Facing Jail Time, Banned From Kids' School For Refusing Mask Outside:  If I Have To Sue, I Will.  As reported by The Daily Wire, Rochester, New York father Chad Hummel was arrested last week and charged with criminal trespassing at his son's high school baseball game after he refused to put on a mask, even though the game was outdoors and he was far outside the recommended six-feet social distancing guidance.  Hummel spoke to The Daily Wire on Thursday [5/13/2021] and offered context to the arrest, arguing that he has been specifically targeted by the school due to his past pushback against arbitrary COVID guidance and critical race theory curricula affecting his children.

Tucker Carlson Torches Biden's Mask 'Ultimatum'.  President Joe Biden's declaration Thursday that the unvaccinated would have to continue wearing masks didn't sit well with Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who made it abundantly clear that such an "ultimatum" was not "within his powers to demand."  Biden, responding to the Centers for Disease Control's announcement Thursday that vaccinated individuals would no longer need to mask up even in indoor settings, tweeted what he considered a "simple" choice for Americans.  "The rule is now simple:  get vaccinated or wear a mask until you do," Biden (or whoever handles his social media account) wrote.  "The choice is yours."

Semper Tyrannus — Always a Tyrant.  In the information security business, there is a saying that security by obscurity is no security at all — meaning hiding from hackers is not a winning security strategy.  The parallel to this in politics is anonymity is freedom.  In other words, I am free as long as the tyrant doesn't know I exist.  The reality, however, is one can never get small enough or anonymous enough to be free from evil when evil rules the land.  Freedom through anonymity is not real freedom — it's merely an illusion.  Illusions are the bread and butter of the tyrant — for if the masses knew the truth they would be ungovernable and the tyrant's life would be, in Hobbesian terms, a nasty, brutish, and short affair.  Because of this, the tyrant strives to keep the necessary illusions alive in the minds of the common people.  One of the biggest illusions traditional America clings to right now is that it still retains constitutional rights recognized and respected by its government in Washington, D.C.

Oregon Police Officer Under Investigation For Extremist Views — Infraction:  He Carried 'Molon Labe' Key Chain.  The attacks against police; and the attacks against patriotism that connects the social fabric to respecting law and order; are reaching new levels.  The tools and techniques being deployed by Marxist BLM activists are increasingly infiltrating the police units.  The leftists are creating new and ridiculous definitions of what constitutes "extremism" and/or "far right" extremist expression.  This latest example is a case study in using Alinsky weaponizing methods to attack language.

Halt Vaccine Passports!  It is very important that people understand what is happening here.  The intention is to introduce vaccine passports everywhere.  But this is a disguise.  It's a world's first digital common-format, globally-interoperable ID system with an editable health flag (vaccinated Y or N).  It makes no one safer.  If you're vaccinated, you're protected & are not made safer by knowing others immune status.  As in Israel, you will be compelled to present a valid VaxPass in order to access defined facilities or access services.  No VaxPass, you're denied.  This system only needs 50%+ of the adult population to start up because of its huge, coercive power on the unvaccinated.  It's illegal, medical apartheid.

Dramatic Video Shows SWAT Team Arresting Pastor for 'Inciting' People to Attend Church.  It's not getting much play right now, but Canada is an absolute mess.  In some parts of the country, the tyrannical mitigation measures put in place by the government to supposedly combat COVID-19 are so bad that they'd make New York blush.  A dramatic new video has just been released by independent, conservative journalist Ezra Levant of Rebel News showing the arrest of a Christian pastor for "inciting" people to go to church.  Apparently, a SWAT team was used to arrest him after he left his church service.  The churchgoers had initially expelled the police from the church building, but they returned in force.  That led to this dramatic encounter, on what looks like a highway, where Pastor Artur Pawlowski and his brother were taken into custody.  [Video clip]

Calgary police finally got their revenge against Pastor Pawlowski.  Pastor Artur Pawlowski, a resident of Calgary, Canada, has been a thorn in the flesh of Alberta Health Services (which is the equivalent of an American state's health services) since the Covid pandemic began.  Pastor Pawlowski had the temerity to believe that the Canadian Constitution meant it when it said that everyone has a fundamental freedom of conscience, religion, and peaceful assembly.  When the government tried to shut him down over a virus with an average 98% survival rate, he vociferously resisted.  The government got its revenge yesterday [5/8/2021].  Canada has been extraordinarily aggressive in policing its citizens over a virus that has a 98% survival rate.  People who have traveled overseas must stay in designated hotels, where they get abysmal service, for prices that would keep someone comfortably at the Ritz in New York, back in pre-Covid days.

Canada's War on Christians: Police Arrest Pastor for Opening Church; Mosques Operating.  Pastor Artur Pawlowski gained international attention last month for expelling officials from his church in a viral video.  A Canadian Pastor who escaped communism in Poland has been arrested for holding church services during a coronavirus lockdown in Calgary, Canada.  Earlier this month, the Muslim mayor of Calgary Naheed Nenshi called for ramping up punishments for "flagrant" coronavirus lockdown measures.  "You know, these real flagrant violators — Pastor Coates sat in jail for a month — so what do we have to do to make sure we are going after these real flagrant violators?," he asked.  [Video clip]

Man Is Detained And Children Taken Away After He Films Cops Shutting Down Mass In Ireland.  A man named Pat Sweeney, who video recorded the Irish police (Gardai) storming a church in Athlone, Ireland last week has had a police raid at his home at 3.30 am on May 2nd.  A Twitter user, Philip Dwyer, who have posted the series of the events that have happened with the man who recorded the church video said:  ["]Just been contacted by Pat Sweeney, the man who videoed the Gardai in a church in Athlone last week that went viral.  The Gardai have taken his two children from him last night at 3.30 am.  If you are near Longford please head to the Garda station to support him.  Please share this.["]  [Video clip]

Irish Police Break Into Man's Home and Remove His Children at 3 AM After He Films Police Barging In and Shutting Down a Catholic Mass.  The local Garda or Irish police, barged into a Catholic Mass in Athlone, Ireland last weekend and shut down the service.  As you can see from the video, the congregation was sitting rows apart, and even by crazy Dr. Fauci's standards were likely not in danger of infecting others in the church.  One man in the congregation, later identified as Pat Sweeney, decided to film the assault on this Catholic service by the state.  A couple of nights later local Garda stormed the man's home at 3 in the morning and took his children away.

Who Gets To Define What's Patriotic?  ast week, President Joe Biden said it's the patriotic duty of Americans to wear masks while outside.  Years ago, while campaigning as Barack Obama's running mate, he said it was patriotic to pay higher taxes.  It's hard to decide if these statements are more akin to the ramblings of a child or are uncomfortably similar to Third World despots who demand obedience from their subordinated citizens.  Frankly, they're both.  Making a distinction is virtually impossible.

DC Mayor Bans 'Dancing' at Indoor and Outdoor Weddings in Washington.  DC Mayor Muriel Bowser issued new guidelines for residents living in the nation's capital Monday; saying wedding parties can proceed at 25% capacity but guests should remain seated and cannot dance.  "It's insane, it's been an absolute roller coaster," says Stephanie Sadowski, a D.C. wedding planner and owner of SRS Events.  "They want to have a party.  Planning their wedding, they've made concessions along the way, they've reduced, reduced and reduced their guest count in Washington, D.C," she says.

The COVID Passport:  Fascism at Hand.  Naomi Wolf is perfectly accurate warning that the COVID Passport is an unassuming, mild, reasonable-sounding concept that will lead to untold catastrophic civic consequences.  She is way out front, and we should all pay attention to her.  The COVID Passport is the doorway to fascism in your lifetime, on your doorstep, and there may be no turning back once it happens.  Her thesis is this: the COVID Passport creates the platform on which to add all kinds of different data types (information from social media, credit card purchases, whom you were with from your geo location info on the phone) to profile every citizen and then take action against all of them.  Do not think this is far-fetched.  It has begun, and my team was at Ground Zero as it did.  [Video clip]

How Do You Like the Thought of Being Deprogrammed?  Their normal human sympathies have atrophied.  They live in the desert of their own inhuman politics.  They are cold and apparently lack a spiritual life.  Desperate to look down on other people, they take fatuity to a new level.  David Atkins, recently elected as a California member of the Democratic National Committee, mused on Twitter (Nov. 21, 2020):  "How do you deprogram 75 million people who would literally die to stick it to the domestic enemies the teevee and youtube conspiracy vids told them to hate?  No, seriously... how DO you deprogram 75 million people?  Where do you start?  Fox?  Facebook?  We have to start thinking in terms of post-WWII Germany or Japan.  Or the failures of Reconstruction in the South." [...] Katie Couric, famous TV person, reacted viscerally to this "larger question" when chatting with Bill Maher on his Real Time show (Jan. 19, 2020).  Katie confided her contempt for those who don't agree with her.  She was particularly upset with GOP congressmen.  "It's really bizarre, isn't it, when you think about how AWOL so many of these members of Congress have gotten? ... And the question is, how are we going to really almost deprogram these people who have signed up for the cult of Trump?"

Deep state or police state.  [Scroll down]  Glenn McDonald of Seeker.com warns to "look for these 10 clues when deciding if your government is repressive."  His historically researched list, written in 2013, includes:
  •   Abusing human rights;
  •   Arresting and imprisoning political dissidents;
  •   Censoring access to online content or platforms;
  •   Forbidding citizens from revealing the plight of their state-sanctioned detention;
  •   Leaders who have been in power for decades;
  •   Outlawing or curtailing political representation (read: voting);
  •   Restricting freedom of the press;
  •   Spying and reporting on neighbors to curry favor with the government;
  •   Using electronic surveillance on private citizens or businesses; and,
  •   Using internet companies to gather intelligence about individuals. When Mr. McDonald wrote his article, it was in response to leaks about the NSA spying on Americans.  Still, it's hard to imagine that a mere eight years ago, only two of his examples were explicitly about the United States.  In looking at the list today, nine readily describe the aggressive behaviors of turncoats at all levels of the American government.  Perhaps, all ten are accurate descriptors, and the evidence simply hasn't yet come to light.

Canada has an eerie 'police state' feel lately.  Canada lacks the miracle that is the United States Constitution.  Still, as befits a nation the once-free British founded, it is a country that has traditionally had a few of what we consider to be core English freedoms — freedom of speech, worship, assembly, etc.  Those concepts seem far away now, as Justin Trudeau and the various provincial and municipal governments use COVID as an excuse to crack down on those liberties.  I've written before about Canada's draconian and expensive hotel rule for people returning by air from overseas travel.  It's gotten so bad that people are flying into the U.S. and driving to their home country to avoid the hotel restriction.

How Much Worse Can it Get?  The Democrats under the "Biden" administration have shed any last vestiges of pretense surrounding their desire to utterly remake the United States into some idealized version of their socialistic, utopian land where all the inhabitants' lives are totally controlled and orchestrated by an all-knowing, benevolent government — for the supposed good of the individual, of course. [...] Here's the progressive wish list:
  [#1]   Control the media and thus manipulate the exact message you want the voting public to receive.
  [#2]   Continue to have elections, to maintain the appearance of national self-determination.
  [#3]   Rig those elections in your favor and howl with protest when you're caught doing so.  The media will cover for you and forestall any serious fraud inquires, preserving your stolen elections.  Mountains of bona fide fraud evidence will be ignored and not acted upon.
  [#4]   Admit unrestricted numbers of illegal aliens, all of whom will become your voters, permanently shifting the voter demographic in your favor.
  [#5]   Admit D.C. and Puerto Rico as states, collecting four additional progressive senators in the process.
  [#6]   Eliminate the filibuster, making a simple Senate majority sufficient for passing any initiative, so you can "eliminate debate," as one of your leading voices said so memorably.
Progressives are trying hard to do all of this, right now.  If they should achieve total control, what do they want to impose on the country?  What is their ultimate aim?

Tucker Carlson — Are US Citizens Who Attended the January 6 Protests Now on the "No Fly List"?  [Scroll down]  According to other tweets in [Nicholas J.] Fuentes' timeline, he was at O'Hare Airport earlier today [4/28/2021], attempting to board a flight on United Airlines.  When he was denied boarding, he attempted to board a flight on American Airlines — and was denied boarding there as well.  He then went to Midway Airport and tried — unsuccessfully — to board a Southwest Airlines flight.  He states that he was unable to book a flight or obtain a boarding pass at the kiosk, and was directed by an electronic message to see a Customer Service Representative for the airline.  He claims that he eventually learned that the airlines contacted TSA, and they were advised that he could not board a flight.  According to another Tweet on Fuentes' timeline, he had an encounter with an airline for not wearing what the airline considered a proper mask on December 4, 2020.  But Fuentes claimed that he took eight flights between December 4 and January 7, suggesting that the December 4 episode did not seem to hinder his travel prior to the January 6 protests.

Watch As California Official Forcibly Vaccinate Mentally Challenged People With 'Operation Homebound' Program.  In a video that will disturb most, California officials hold down mentally handicapped patients at an undisclosed home.  Those being forced to vaccinate are seen crying and even trying to escape those administering the shots, who are dressed in ironically paramilitary garb.  One young girl is seen held down on a woman's lap and forcefully injected.  [Video clip]

Dems' domestic-terror bills set their sights on peaceful right-wingers.  Top congressional Democrats, including Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, are pushing new laws to stamp out "domestic terrorism."  But they're targeting only right-wing organizations.  If rioters are looting and setting fires for a leftist cause, that's OK.  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has a better approach.  He signed a law Monday that guarantees violent protesters who destroy property or attack cops land in jail.  Regardless of how virtuous their cause.  Unfortunately, Democrats aren't interested in ensuring the public has peace and safety.  Instead, their goal is to label even peaceful right-leaning groups domestic terrorists and put them out of business.  That's un-American.

A Rigged System Can't Last.  You can't win, but that's all part of the plan.  Reason, rules, processes — these are the foundations of a free society, which is why the cultural left is so dead set against them.  A citizen needs to be able to rely on clear rules and fixed processes to vindicate his rights in order to have any rights.  But the rights of free citizens — your rights — are an obstacle to the Lil' Stalins who yearn to rule over us.  If the liberal establishment can create a society where you can't appeal to facts, evidence, or law, then — until the peasants' revolt — its poobahs can wield undisputed, undiluted authority.  That's their dream, a country where you live in terror of them because you can never be sure that what you are doing or failing to do is suddenly going to be criminalized.

Gretchen Whitmer's Crumbling Kingdom.  Last Christmas, Governor Gretchen Whitmer released one of the wildest, most mind-warping videos I've ever seen.  It begins with her shouting, "Thank you for joining us!!" over a Zoom call, before introducing none other than Santa Claus.  Several scripted and possibly terrified children then prompt Santa to talk about how he wears a mask at the North Pole and uses hand sanitizer before eating cookies, all while Whitmer hovers imperiously in the corner like some yuletide Big Brother.  The video ends with her gently informing the tykes that this year they won't be able to visit their grandparents for the holidays.  Watching that, I kept expecting the Soviet national anthem to start playing or Whitmer's eyes to turn into rotating swirls.

The government has to make an example of somebody, to make the rest of us get in line and submit.
Albert Lea wine bar owner, wanted in alleged COVID violations, says she will turn herself in if conditions are met.  Lisa Hanson, an Albert Lea wine bar owner charged with violating COVID-related restrictions, said from an undisclosed location Friday [4/23/2021] that she had no plans to turn herself in until authorities agree to several conditions.  Among those conditions, she said, is getting served by the sheriff with "the proper summons with the charges."  She added that "jurisdiction must be established by the court."  But Freeborn County Sheriff Kurt Freitag said Hanson "is in no position to be making conditions," and called her description of a phone conversation she had with him "lunacy."  Hanson's defiance has caused a small uproar in Albert Lea, a city of 17,400 near the Iowa border where her Interchange Wine and Coffee Bistro is located.  She faces nine misdemeanor criminal counts, each carrying penalties of up to 90 days in jail and a $1,000 fine.

Ontario attempts to go full police state, with police authorized to question and potentially detain you if you leave your house.  Nothing to see here, just our friends to the north trying to suspend liberty and turn the entire province of Ontario into the world's biggest, if most polite, prison camp. [...] In order to effectuate the order, authorities are hoping to turn their police force into a kind of hybrid of prison guards and parole officers.

The marks of the beasts.  The Mark of the Beast from Christian theology is a widely known concept.  This mysterious mark and the symbolism in the book of Revelation have even made their way into popular culture and entertainment.  Many things have been suspected as this mark including Social Security numbers, UPC bar codes, QR codes, and Real ID.  The scary risks of a government placing a mandatory mark on people is not a far-fetched idea.  Throughout history, tyrants and totalitarians have marked people for exclusion and inclusion.  It is easy to imagine a government that would require a marked population to participate in commerce while excluding the unmarked.  It has been done before. [...] We find ourselves in a time in which there are multiple new candidates for government marking.  At the forefront is the proposed Vaccine Passport.  In the most controlling scenario, to fully participate in society, we will need to show our passport as proof that we have been vaccinated against COVID-19.  Those without the mark would be excluded.  In an interesting mix of competing potential marks, implementation would use QR codes on our phones.

H.R. 1 Is the Pillow Over the Face of Federalism.  Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton rightly notes the bill would "federalize state elections."  He observes that the founders, "intentionally excluded Congress and gave state legislatures the authority to run state elections....  The Act opens elections in every state to widespread fraud, mixed messaging, Constitutional violations, and shuttering of speech."  I regret to inform Paxton — along with governors and other officials in many red states who object to the bill — that, in key respects, this fight was already lost more than 100 years ago, with the passage of the 17th Amendment.  That amendment provided for the direct election of senators by popular vote, replacing the founders' plan for having state legislatures choose members of the U.S. Senate.  The system prior to the direct election of senators certainly had its problems. [...] Nevertheless, far more was lost than was gained by cutting the state governments out of the process altogether.  It is not too much to say that direct election of senators — ratified in 1913 — mortally wounded federalism.

Ontario Canada Goes into Full-Blown Police State to Lockdown Over COVID, Complete With Admitted Stasi.  Comrades, the Canadian Ministry of COVID compliance has initiated a complete and total lockdown of Ontario.  Premier Doug Ford alerts comrade citizens they will be stopped, questioned and searched if they are out of their home.  The lockdown is absolute and complete with checkpoints, suspension of civil rights laws and the implementation of a provincial Stasi authority for police to act as enforcement officers for the state.  Do not be alarmed Canadian comrades.  Currently the Ontario enforcement units are not allowed to use deadly force for violations by non-compliant citizens.  The state will determine your economic and social freedom based on your compliance.  The Ontario COVID ministry appreciates your compliance in avoiding the dangerous virus freedom zones; and is thankful for compliant citizens who do not question the complex data analysis that goes into regional scientific tracking systems.

Globalists Will Need Another Crisis In America As Their Reset Agenda Fails.  It might sound like "US exceptionalism" to point this out, but even if the globalist Reset is successful in every other nation on Earth, the globalists are still failures if they can't secure and subjugate the American people.  As I've noted many times in the past, most of the world has been sufficiently disarmed, and even though we are seeing resistance in multiple European nations against forced vaccination legislation and medical tyranny, it is unlikely that they will have the ability to actually repel a full on march into totalitarianism.  Most of Asia, India and Australia are already well under control.  Africa is almost an afterthought, considering Africa is where many suspect vaccines are tested.  America represents the only significant obstacle to the agenda. [...] There are people on this planet that are not satisfied to merely live their lives, take care of their families and make their mark peacefully.  They crave power over all else.  They desperately want control over you, over me, over everything, and they will use any means at their disposal to get it.

'Vaccine Passports': A Trojan Horse To Further Shrink Your Rights?  By far, the worst idea for a post-COVID-19 "reset" is the vaccine passport.  The idea is that anyone who wants to travel, attend a concert or sports event, go to the theater, hold a family gathering, or perhaps even eat in a restaurant will need a "passport" proving they're COVID-19 Clean.  Who knew that authoritarianism would show up wearing a white medical smock?  Don't worry.  They'll tell you that it's all for your safety.  The bogey-man, er, virus, is ready to spring at you again from the dark.  But you really must be able to prove that you're worthy of the privileges of open society before you can take part.  That means vaccine passports.  And, yes, it's being considered, despite White House claims to the contrary.

Our Lost Liberties.  If one can say the pandemic has had any positive side effect, it has been to help us focus on what the loss of liberties looks like.  Such losses do not occur immediately but erode over time as people become increasingly comfortable with government claiming to know what is best for us.  The Biden administration is proceeding on a downward spiral that has ended in lost liberties in nations of the past by seizing increasing amounts of power for itself through a slew of executive orders, without the consent of the people, or Congress.  When announcing his gun control executive orders last week, President Joe Biden referenced the Second Amendment and the right to keep and bear arms.  He claimed his orders do not infringe on that right, but added, "No amendment is absolute."  That is concerning.  He also announced the appointment of a Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court.  A White House press release sought to obscure its real goal — court-packing.

Defense Department's 'extremists' happen to look exactly like Trump voters.  The Biden administration is on the offensive against extremism.  However, it is having trouble defining the term.  The newly installed defense secretary, Lloyd Austin, has signed a memo ordering several "immediate actions," including military-wide "stand downs," to weed out "extremism" in the ranks of the military.  Actions also included a review of and update to the DoD's definition of extremism and a review and standardization of the screening questionnaire — "[t]o solicit specific information about current or previous extremist behavior, and to clarify that any demonstrably false answers provided in response could form the basis for punitive action for fraudulent enlistment."  Defense officials said the Pentagon is reversing Trump-era policies that banned transgender people from serving in the military.  The Pentagon will also issue new rules that will broaden transgender people's access to medical care and cosmetic surgery to imitate members of the opposite sex.  Opposition to these policies may be considered extremist.

50 Armed Police Raid Rebel News Reporters Airbnb, Arrest Them for 'Illegal Gathering'.  Approximately fifty heavily armed police raided the hotel where Rebel News reporters were staying in Montreal on Saturday [4/10/2021].  Rebel News reporters Keean Bexte and David Menzies have been detained.  The Canadian conservative outlet said in a statement that "police have sealed off the AirBnb we were staying in with police tape — they say it's a 'crime scene.'"  "Of course it's not.  In fact, when we asked them what the 'crime' was, all they could come up with was that our staying in the hotel was an illegal 'gathering,' contrary to Quebec's lockdown laws," the statement continued.

A Rebel With a Cause, The Battle of Tinhorn Flats.  Tinhorn Flats is the oldest bar in Burbank.  In March of 2020 they shut down in compliance with state guidelines.  They reopened in November 2020, and when the second lockdown was announced their defiance began.  Burbank authorities first cited and fined Tinhorn Flats.  Lucas refused to pay and stayed open.  Burbank authorities cut their utilities.  Lucas brought in generators and stayed open.  Burbank authorities Red tagged his restaurant and locked the doors.  Lucas cut the locks and reopened.  Burbank authorities boarded up the doors and 'red tagged' again as unsafe.  Lucas sawed off the boards and reopened his business.  Burbank police then arrested Lucas.  Lucas made bail and was released.  Regular protests then began to support Lucas.

Pentagon Orders Updated Screening of Military to Identify "Extremist" Outlooks.  Let me be clear:  I fully expect to see the standing U.S. military deployed against any state who stands up against unconstitutional federal demands.  I have made this assertion since the jaw-dropping revelations about the Pentagon during the first impeachment effort in August 2019 and the lack of leadership from the military in removing Lt. Col Alexander Vindman from his compromised position. [...] The majority of the U.S. military rank and file are patriots; America-first nationalists with a patriotic outlook toward the United States as a constitutional republic.  The majority of the military also come from red states.  This is an identified risk to the Obama objective of fundamental change.  Additionally, thanks in large part to a purge during the Obama era, the majority of the flag officers are not in alignment with the rank and file.  This sets the stage for a problem.

How Will the Pentagon Define 'Extremism'?  Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is determined to root out "extremism" from the ranks of the military. [...] But Austin has a huge problem.  He has to be able to define "extremism" in such a way as to safeguard our constitutional liberties while rooting out the skinheads, the Klan members, the gangbangers, and violent revolutionaries that make up a small but significant fraction of the armed forces.  What is "extremism"?  What is "extremist ideology"?  Who can be considered "an extremist"?  Is there any definition of "extremism" that isn't subjective?  What criteria will be used to determine who is "extreme"?  Anti-abortion?  Anti-gay marriage?  Devout Christianity?

The missing mandate behind Biden's grandiose plans.  If you are a political leader who wishes to effect "fundamental change" during your lifetime, there are only two ways to achieve that goal: receiving a massive electoral mandate or, failing that, using the government's military force against those citizens who resist fundamental change.  The Democrats, with their grandiose plans for gun control, court-packing, erasing America's sovereign border, and adding new states, are acting as if they have that mandate.  As their desperation to end the filibuster shows, they don't.  That leaves only force.

Joe Biden Said The Bill of Rights is NOT "Absolute".  Earlier today Joe Biden raised some eyebrows when he said "no amendment to the constitution is absolute."  The first ten amendments to the constitution are commonly known as "The Bill of Rights."  The occupant of the oval office, and head of the executive branch, saying the Bill of Rights is not absolute, should be challenged immediately to qualify that statement.

Biden Declares Second Amendment Not 'Absolute'.  In a press conference Thursday, President Biden unveiled the proposed executive orders on gun control.  "Nothing I'm about to recommend in any way impinges on the Second Amendment" Biden declared.  Addressing potential opposition, Biden added, "they're phone arguments suggesting that these are Second Amendment rights in what we're talking about."  In an immediate contradiction, Biden then stated his position that "no amendment to the Constitution is absolute."  How can you not impinge upon something that is not absolute?  Biden attempted to give an example by saying "you can't yell 'fire' in a crowded movie theater and call it freedom of speech."  As his example pertains to the Second Amendment, he said, "from the very beginning of the Second Amendment existed, certain people weren't allowed to have weapons."  Biden's administration announced six gun control initiatives.

Bill Gates, George Soros Team Up To Form Organization to Combat 'Disinformation'.  The American ruling class is now trying to fight what they are calling "misinformation" and "disinformation" on social media.  A report from NewsBusters reveals that the Aspen Institute Commission on Information is being funded by left-wing billionaires Bill Gates and George Soros, among others, to "fight 'mis- and disinformation.'" [...] It's clear that the ruling class wants to prevent Donald Trump from being the leading face of the Republican Party.  One could also argue that they want to prevent the rise of another Donald Trump.

Cops Swarm Another Canadian Church for COVID Defiance and the Woke Crowd Cheers.  It's hard to know what's more disheartening, cops shutting down a church for daring to meet or the fear-mongering scolds cheering it on.  Worse, this is the second time in mere days that Canadian cops have attempted to intimidate a church for daring to meet with social distancing.  At dawn on Wednesday morning [4/7/2021] in Edmonton, Alberta — in an area that looks like it's the middle of a prairie — Alberta Health Services police and cops with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) swarmed the GraceLife Church to cut off the building from its parishioners.  Police and crews arrived at oh-dark-30 to erect fencing around the church property to send a message that the church would not be able to worship on site until the government gave permission.

How not to cower before the COVID police.  Visually, the video is simple but compelling.  The church is on the second story of a building with a stairway leading directly from the front door up to the place where the congregation assembles.  A masked female spokeswoman has climbed all the stairs.  Behind her are seven police officers, in uniform, and all heavily armed with guns, cuffs, safety vests, and the ubiquitous and useless cheap paper masks.  The woman is trying to speak but there is a voice from behind the camera that thunders "Get out!" No matter what she says, he tells her some variation of "Out!  And don't come back unless you have a warrant." [...]   [Video clip] [...] As for the rest of us, the window of time within which we can act with courage and integrity (and, you'll note, without violence or threats) is closing fast.  If we wait too long, all action will be illegal.

London Has Fallen As Boris'Jackboot Thugs Declare Good Friday Mass As Unlawful.  This lunatic Boris is hell-bent on turning the entire country into a police state in the name of COVID, using cops to take away all human and civil rights of freedom to move, worship etc.  We may have hit the bottom here as London cops barge into Good Friday service and declare it an UNLAWFUL event.  [Video clip]

8 Ways Public Schools Could Further Radicalize When They Finally Re-open.  I think we can infer eight negative outcomes down the pike after a long period of politicized school closures that were never justified by medical science.  I imagine our ruling elites will be happy with such outcomes.  We should be prepared for the following.  [#1] Even More Peer Pressure to Conform:  Our famine of social connection will likely spark a greater tolerance for blind conformity.  There has been a mass starvation for peer connection among students.  Many have been numbed by the drudgery of online learning with no outlets through sports and clubs, no human contact with teachers and peers.  Parents are also starving for a place their kids can engage with others during the workday.  So might they now be willing to swallow anything for some relief?  There's a phrase attributed to Lenin:  "The worse, the better," which means that the more misery people feel, the better it is for the success of communism (or perhaps the "great reset").  The longer people suffer in isolation, the higher the toll and more susceptible they are to depression and self-harm.  So after a long period of social deprivation, they may become far more willing to conform under the slightest of social pressures, no matter what's asked of them.

Ministry of Truth?  Gates/Soros-Funded Org Starts Leftist 'Information Disorder' Commission.  An organization backed with millions of dollars from liberal billionaires Bill Gates and George Soros has launched a commission led by radical liberals to fight "mis- and disinformation."  The commission, dubbed the Aspen Institute Commission on Information Disorder, is co-chaired by leftist Katie Couric Media founder Katie Couric.  Couric recently suggested during a segment with HBO host Bill Maher that "we" should "deprogram" people within former President Donald Trump's "cult."  The commission is also chaired by leftist Rashad Robinson, who leads the Soros-funded and racially charged Color of Change group.  Color of Change was recently behind an effort to defund police foundations.  The last co-chair, former Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Director Chris Krebs, had claimed that the 2020 election was "the most secure in history."  Krebs' comment earned him backlash from a senior Department of Homeland Security official, according to Fox News.

Some U.S. Military Leaders Think Some Extremism Is Better Than Others.  The Pentagon has a problem.  Troops throughout the armed forces aren't going along quietly with programming designed to educate them about "extremist" views and activities.  The problem, says military leadership, is that too many enlisted personnel are wondering why last year's violence fueled by Black Lives Matter isn't viewed by their superiors as negatively as the riot at the U.S. Capitol earlier this year.  "This is coming from every echelon that we're talking to," said Senior Enlisted Advisor to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Ramón Colón-López.  "Some people may think that, 'all right, so the events of 6 January happened.  How come you're not looking at the situation that was going on in Seattle prior to that?'"  Colón-López presumably means the Nakamura Federal Courthouse in Seattle, Washington.  Last summer, protestors broke into the building, burned an American flag, and graffitied the interior and exterior.  Though there were many similar cases across the country by Black Lives Matter agitators, the most important task is ensuring "military members understand the difference between Seattle and Washington, DC," Colón-López said.

The Commonalities Between the Rise of the Nazis and the Tactics of the American Left Cannot be Ignored.  [Scroll down]  Sixth, in January 1933, Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany.  Within four weeks a mysterious fire broke out in the Reichstag (Congress) Building which they blamed on communist agitators and that this was the opening salvo in a violent coup.  Using this pretext, the Nazis were able to force through the Reichstag The Enabling Act of 1933 in March of the same year.  This law embedded the Nazis as the sole dominant political party and ensured that only the Nazis could win future elections, if any were held.  They were the first modern proponents of never letting a crisis, real or manufactured, to go to waste.  The left and the Democrat party seized upon the disturbances at the Capitol on January 6, 2021 to proclaim that it was an "armed insurrection" and the opening salvo in a violent coup attempt by white supremacists.  To further reinforce this false narrative, they theatrically brought in 20,000 National Guard troops and built fortifications around the Capitol building.  Further following in the footsteps of the Nazi Party, the Democrats almost immediately pushed to pass H.R. 1 (euphemistically entitled The For The People Act) which would overturn virtually all existing voter laws, embed the Democrats as the sole dominant political party and ensure that only the Democrats could win future elections.

Our apathy is Why We are in the Situation We are in Now.  We will never be stronger than we are right now at this point in history.  Every day now they are chipping away at our freedoms and taking more control.  The left, this deep state enemy, they are united while our side can't agree on the simplest of things.  It does us no good to fight among ourselves while facing an united enemy.  Our only real disagreements seem to be about strategy.  Most people on our side don't think it is time to go hot, but they also recognize that the odds of getting out of this peacefully are shrinking by the day.

DHS Preparing to Use Private Contractors to "Scour Public Data and Social Media" To Compile Dissident Citizens for Watch and No Fly Lists.  The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is now getting ready to hire public companies, individual contractors outside government, to scour public data and social media in order to provide information for the new "domestic terror watch lists."  From the description it appears DHS is going to pay "big tech" (Google, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, SnapChat, Twitter, etc.), via contracts, to hire and organize internal monitoring teams to assist the government by sending information on citizens they deem "dangerous."

A Time to Choose.  Americans sit paralyzed, watching the fabric of a representative republic unravel before their eyes, ignoring this chain reaction while happily checking the bank account to see the latest stimulus check's arrival is but one example of national paralysis. [...] Examining the idea of traditional American values shows that they are under attack.  These values are besieged by a hostile legacy media that mocks them.  They are undermined by legislative agendas that seek to outlaw their practice.  They are belittled by popular shows in a popular culture looking to boost ratings from quick jabs at the leaders elected by traditional-minded Americans.  Just last week, a New York judge removed a child from her mother's custody because the mother — a physician — was not masked while dropping her child off at school.  The most American of traditional values — rugged individualism — wobbles on the ropes from the pummeling onslaught it receives under a carefully coordinated attack by progressives — who, of course, know best how others should behave in all circumstances.

Dem Rep. Schakowsky: 'We're Going to Regulate' Tech Companies, and There Must Be 'Limitations' on User Content.  On Thursday's [3/25/2021] broadcast of MSNBC's "All In," House Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chairwoman Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) discussed the subcommittee's hearing with the CEOs of Facebook, Google, and Twitter and said that the hearing's purpose was to send the message to tech companies "That we're going to regulate.  We're going to legislate."  And that there "have to be some limitations, not just on advertising."  Schakowsky said of the hearing, "So, the purpose really was, from my point of view, to make sure that the tech companies understood that the day of self-regulation has really ended.  And that, now, it is time for us to regulate, and that we intend to.  That we're going to regulate.  We're going to legislate."

9th Circuit Rules That There Is No Right to Carry a Weapon.  If this is accepted for review by the Supreme Court — and the Supreme Court has shown itself to be extraordinarily cowardly in ducking ruling on big-ticket items — we will find out if we really have a "conservative" court, or if the lawyers recommended by the Professional Class Karens of the Federalist Society are just from the Corporate Wing of the Uniparty.  I suspect the latter.

Report: Team Biden Weighs Declaring Gun Violence a Public Health Emergency.  President Joe Biden's administration is weighing the idea of declaring gun violence as a public health emergency, in order to take dramatic executive action to tackle gun rights.  Biden officials and gun control activists discussed the idea, according to the New York Times, as well as other executive actions that could tackle gun rights nationwide.  If Biden declared a public health emergency, he could shift more funding to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives to increase their inspections of gun dealerships.  It would also loosen up available funds for community gun violence programs.

Who's Actually Running This Thing?  [Scroll down]  And what can the individual citizen do?  Simple.  He can make fun of the Biden Administration.  He can tease it, mock it relentlessly, refuse to take it seriously.  This is what the Left fears most.  They cannot tolerate being laughed at.  This is why Mayor de Blasio asked just last week for New Yorkers to report "hateful" or "very hurtful" comments, so he could send the police to peoples' homes to intimidate them:  "I assure, you if an NYPD officer calls you or shows up at your door to ask about something that you did, it makes people think twice."  This is why Orwell used to say that fascism and the goose-step would never work in Britain:  because people would laugh.  Well, they've stopped laughing in Britain and Canada, where one actually can be imprisoned for expressing politically unsound views.

Biden Administration Urges Supreme Court To Let Cops Enter Homes And Seize Guns Without A Warrant.  The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday [3/24/2021] will hear oral argument in Caniglia v.  Strom, a case that could have sweeping consequences for policing, due process, and mental health, with the Biden Administration and attorneys general from nine states urging the High Court to uphold warrantless gun confiscation.  But what would ultimately become a major Fourth Amendment case began with an elderly couple's spat over a coffee mug.

The Feds' Bogus Violent Extremists.  In her first official act as Director of National Intelligence, Avril Haines issued a flashing red alert to the country.  Jihadi-like Americans, especially those on the political Right, lurk among us and are plotting to commit vicious crimes such as kidnapping and assasinations.  These "US-based actors" allegedly will be moved to violence based on "narratives of fraud in the recent general election, the emboldening impact of the violent breach of the US Capitol, conditions related to the COVID-19 pandemic, and conspiracy theories," the March 1, 2021 document claims.  Haines divides "domestic violent extremists," or DVEs, into three categories; a graphic of the U.S. Capitol building sits atop the category entitled "anti-government/anti-authority violent extremists."  That particular brand of terrorist, according to the report, is driven by their "opposition to perceived economic, social, or racial hierarchies or perceived government overreach, negligence, or illegitimacy."  (Perceived?)

Making Americans Your Enemies.  The narrative is here, and it doesn't like you very much.  In recent remarks before members of the U.S. House Homeland Security Committee, the chief of the D.C. Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency claimed that domestic extremism has become "part of the cultural mainstream."  Former DHS official and USA Today contributor Elizabeth Neumann agrees:  "Far-Right Extremists went mainstream under Trump."  "Extremists have gone mainstream," echoes journalist Zahra Ahmad.  "Lawyers, realtors and every-day folks make up their ranks."  Ahmad cites a figure suggesting a quarter of Americans hold "ideas incubated by white nationalists."  Not to be left out, NPR warns that white extremism "seeps" into the mainstream.  The Atlantic says the mainstream has gone extremist too.  A study by the Chicago Project on Security and Threats warns that most January 6 "insurrectionists" were mainstream to the extreme: ["]They work as CEOs, shop owners, doctors, lawyers, IT specialists, and accountants.  Strikingly, court documents indicate that only 9 percent are unemployed.  Of the earlier far-right extremist suspects we studied, 61 percent were under 35, 25 percent were unemployed, and almost none worked in white-collar occupations.["]

Dept. of Homeland Security flirting with totalitarianism.  Now that the Department of Justice and FBI are using the 1/6/21 Capitol incursion to demonize all who attended the massive rally that day, imputing "insurrection," "white supremacy," and "extremism" to them, massive political repression may be coming. [...] The No Fly List is an arbitrary means of denying the right to travel long distances quickly to anyone.  While it can be challenged in court, be prepared to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars in attorneys' fees and wait years for the appeals process to work.  In the meantime, forget about organizing a national political movement, starting a new business, attending distant weddings or funerals, or otherwise living life to its fullest in "the land of the free."  Who is a "domestic extremist"?  Plenty of Democrats think anyone who expresses support for Trump or even Rick DeSantis qualifies, especially if they are Caucasian.  DHS bureaucrats get to apply that label to anyone they want.

The Great Reset Is Just a MacGuffin for Total State Control.  The United States has always presented a roadblock to the ambitions of globalist oligarchs through its one-two punch of a Constitution that clearly constrains the powers of government while empowering the people and an American culture that prides itself on representing the last, best hope for freedom on the planet.  So how do you "reset" America so that it becomes just another socialist country controlled by an elite few?  You undermine America's freedoms by undermining her foundations.  You go to war with the American people.  "White supremacy" is the socialists' "yellowcake uranium."  It's really that simple.  You can't start a war against society without an excuse, and you can't engage in perpetual war unless the excuse chosen is so vague and illusory that it can't possibly be vanquished.  This has always been a particular talent of power-hungry socialists.  They know how to engage their troops in endless battles by choosing inexhaustible targets:  bourgeois materialism, carbon dioxide, hate, whiteness.

Climate change is the perfect tool to justify complete control.  Replacing internal combustion-powered automobiles with E.V.s is policy.  Eventually, they will acknowledge the inherent pollution in battery manufacture, the production of the electricity needed to charge the batteries, and eventual battery disposal.  The goal is to eliminate private transportation in its entirety.  In major cities, roadwork now entails reducing on-street parking while narrowing thoroughfares to increase traffic.  This is a prelude to charging a yearly fee for the privilege of city parking.  Several thousand dollars a year should modify behavior and increase revenues.  The implementation of license fees (also several thousand dollars per annum) for car ownership will come to fruition.  Limiting the right to own a car for people who allow their "social credit score" to decline by saying something untoward about government or authorities on social media, or in public, will also be a tactic.  Next will be restricted usage and a fee per mile driven with driving limited to odd and even days for portions of the population.  Social scores will dictate who is allowed to fly on commercial airliners, with ticket prices including a "carbon fee" commensurate to the seat's percentage of the flight's total carbon cost.  In addition to forcing the price of gasoline to $20 a gallon, the "price of all energy will necessarily have to skyrocket" (Barack Obama).  They will triple or quadruple the price of all energy, whether it be electricity, natural gas, or home heating oil.

Stunning DOJ Hubris — Prosecutor Claims Charges of Sedition Possible in January 6th Protest.  The DOJ and FBI appear to be maintaining an aggressive posture against their political opposition on behalf of the ongoing 'domestic extremist' narrative.  In a remarkable statement prosecutor Michael Sherwin claims that charges of sedition are possible for those who attended the January 6th protest in DC against the outcome of the 2020 election.  Conducting political surveillance, abusing the NSA database by extracting personal information in violation of the fourth amendment, lying to a FISA court to get a title-1 surveillance warrant against Donald Trump's campaign, fabricating a false Trump-Russia conspiracy theory, pushing knowingly false information to the media to support a fraudulent investigation, initiating a special counsel to hide the trail of wrongdoing; and the FBI conducting political operations against the Trump administration, was apparently no big deal.  However, attend a protest against the corrupt interests of the deep state in DC and you are guilty of "sedition."

The American Police State Is Now Forming.  The image of the new wall or fence with razor wire on top that now surrounds the Capitol has been floating across the screen of my mind since it was erected.  Was it erected merely as a response to the horrible events of Jan. 6, and the fear of a right-wing uprising against the anti-Trump Democrats?  Recently, this writer had a breakthrough and understood that this wall is actually an austere reminder that we have entered into a new phase of American history:  the American police state.  The bombast against Trump-supporters now nicknamed "domestic terrorists"; the marching of Guam national Guardsmen to the office of Marjory Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) as a demonstration of the legitimacy of Guam as a U.S. entity; the rapid overturning of and de-legitimizing of all Trump policies both domestic and foreign; the emplacement of a transsexual as a higher up in the Health and Human Services Department; the encouragement of a "re-imagining" of police work in our major cities; the non-enforcement of federal laws pertaining to border security and legal entry into the USA; and the racial messages about statues, American history, the teaching of American history, and the need to overturn American society and its traditions are not merely challenges and upheavals to be dealt with.

Stolen elections have consequences.
H.R. 1 is Nothing But a Massive Democrat Power Grab.  Not content with the rigging and manipulation of the 2020 election, or the "fortifying" of it as some leftists have described it, the Democrats are prepared to codify, and are aggressively pushing to codify, the corruption we saw play out in 2020 through H.R. 1.  Now, mind you, this is House Resolution 1 because the very first bill that Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) offered in the new session was this attempt at election rigging.  Just so we're absolutely clear:  her biggest priority in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis is not helping Americans or small businesses, but making sure to codify corruption.  She even gave it the Orwellian title of the "For the People Act."  What it should be titled is "How to Effect One-Party Rule in America."  To put it mildly, it is a mind-blowing, brazen attempt by Pelosi and the Democrats to annihilate free and fair elections and place the Republican Party in permanent minority status.

Father Arrested, Jailed For Contempt After Referring To His Daughter As 'She'.  On Tuesday, the father of a biological girl who believes she is a boy turned himself into a Canadian court and was subsequently taken to jail after the Attorney General of British Columbia issued an arrest warrant for contempt after the father had insisted on referring to his daughter as his "daughter" and used the pronouns "she" and "her."  Robert Hoogland, from Surrey, British Columbia, has a 14-year-old daughter.  In February 2019, the Supreme Court of British Columbia, Canada ordered that the girl receive testosterone injections without obtaining parental consent.  "The court also declared that if either of her parents referred to her using female pronouns or addressed her by her birth name, they would be considered guilty of family violence," The Federalist noted.

Capitol Investigation Seeks to Criminalize Political Dissent.  In the early hours of March 12, FBI agents in southwestern Florida barricaded a neighborhood to prepare to raid the home of one resident.  Christopher Worrell of Cape Coral was arrested and charged with several counts related to the January 6 Capitol melee.  Even though Worrell had been cooperating with the FBI for two months, the agency nonetheless unleashed a massive, and no doubt costly, display of force to take him into custody. [...] Worrell's arrest is the latest in what the U.S. Department of Justice warned would be an "unprecedented" investigation leading to sedition charges filed against American citizens.  Attorney General Merrick Garland pledged to make the Capitol Breach manhunt his top priority; on his first day in office, he received an update on the investigation from FBI Director Christopher Wray.  Garland has compared January 6 to the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 people, including 15 children.  Roughly 300 people have been arrested so far, many of them transported to Washington, D.C. to await trial and dozens denied bail after federal prosecutors argued the defendants, including a high school senior from Georgia, pose a threat to the nation.  The Capitol Breach probe, the department's official title, is a flagrant political prosecution targeting Trump supporters.  Every display — from heavy-handed FBI raids to a militarized Washington, D.C. — is designed to portray the President Trump's allies as domestic terrorists.

Criminalizing Protest at the Capitol.  Now, our duly re-elected President Trump has been ousted from the office of president by a criminal conspiracy to install Joseph Biden, an usurper, in his place.  To do this, a combination of voter fraud, election fraud, dereliction of duty in the courts, and suppression of conservative speech was employed.  One of the more perfidious examples of the new intolerance for all things connected to an honest assessment of the 2020 election are the mass arrests of people who attended the January 6th rally in Washington D.C.  Two events took place on that day, each initiated by different groups of people on opposite sides of the election integrity issue.  On one side, Trump supporters gathered on the Ellipse to hear the president speak on the subject of election fraud and to show their support.  On the other side, Antifa-led groups met at the Capitol for the purpose of gaining unlawful entry to the building, vandalizing it, and blaming Trump supporters for their actions.  As proof of their goals, they broadcast messages on social media that exposed their plans in enough detail to leave no doubt regarding their intentions.  The Antifa members, all of whom attended the Capitol riot for the purpose of defaming President Trump, wore pro-Trump merchandise to disguise themselves as Trump supporters.  This is well-documented.

Until Lambs Become Lions.  [Scroll down]  We arrived in our current situation because our ruling elites painstakingly prepared the battleground in advance.  In 2012, they amended the 1948 Smith-Mundt Act to permit the domestic dissemination of government propaganda into American newsfeeds.  In 2015, they passed the Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) Act, which created a cottage industry of government-funded, progressive-leaning CVE consultants and think tanks dedicated to pushing the myth of right-wing "domestic extremism" and "white supremacy."  Employing teachers, healthcare professionals, first responders, and community leaders, the Obama-era CVE mania built a federally controlled and funded local surveillance and intelligence collection apparatus that spans from grade schools to the workplace to the doctor's office.  An apparatus that still uses debunked pseudoscience to classify ordinary Americans' constitutionally protected speech and activities as "pre-terrorism indicators."  Under the pretext of keeping us safe, they passed multiple counterterrorism laws such as the 2001 USA Patriot Act, the 2015 USA Freedom Act, and the various FISA Amendment Acts (2008, 2017, 2018, 2020), which, taken together, authorize warrantless mass surveillance of all American's communications, activities, associations, and business transactions.  In addition to these legislative actions, Americans became apathetic and lost the will to hold their government leaders accountable.  The multi-tier justice system under which we now suffer has been years in the making.

Will [the] Left's Violent Tendencies Lead To U.S. Breakup Or Dictatorship?  [Scroll down]  Now that you've gotten used to being told what to do during the pandemic, the left will test other means of domination.  At some point, our rageful leftist betters will try violence.  As the last year shows, it's probably inevitable.  There's a reason why Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has kept 10,000 National Guard troops ringing the Capitol after the Jan. 6 political demonstrations.  Again, it's not about fear, it's about political control and physical intimidation, the threat of violence.  Last year, the U.S. was wracked by riots and other wanton political destruction by Antifa, Black Lives Matter and other like-minded left-wing extremist groups.  The media largely ignored the hate-driven violence.  Indeed, one famous screen shot that made the rounds on the internet showed a CNN correspondent standing in front of a burning building while blithely describing the protest as "not, generally speaking, unruly."  That echoes how the media routinely described last year's rampages as "mostly peaceful."  It was a lie, pure and simple, the equivalent of a doctor telling a terminal patient's family that the patient is "mostly cancer-free."

Ingraham still searching for 'all rights are suspended during a pandemic' clause in the Constitution.  Fox News host Laura Ingraham laced President Joe Biden and Dr. Anthony Fauci during her Friday [3/12/2021] opening monologue for their continued reliance on COVID-19 restrictions even though they have proven to be failures.  "Every day we wake up, and it seems like another constitutional right is under threat," Ingraham began.  "The First Amendment, the Second Amendment, even the Fourth Amendment."  She went on to say that many Americans are self-censoring "because they're afraid of the consequences" of speaking out and sharing their own opinions that may run counter to government narratives and cultural groupthink regarding the pandemic and other issues.

World financial leaders want to adopt China's nefarious system to determine credit using a person's internet history.  In a blog post on its website, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) proposed a system of social credit scoring similar to the kind already in use in Communist China that would determine people's credit eligibility based on internet history, leading to concerns that such a system could be turned against anyone who opposes the will of financial and globalist leaders.  The concepts that the IMF proposes are already being quietly promoted and practiced, notably in China, but also in the U.K., where trials are underway involving widespread covert internet surveillance and data recording.

Will FBI 'Chats' Send Conservatives to Prison?  Across the nation, FBI agents are swooping down upon conservative activists, Trump supporters, and anyone suspected of any tie to the January 6 clash at the Capitol.  Conservative author Candace Owens tweeted on March 3:  "About 10 of my friends who attended Trump's speech but DID NOT go to Capitol building thereafter have had the FBI turn up at their door to ask them why they went to D.C. ... Our FBI is trying to scare conservatives against ever gathering in the future."  Actually, the potential problem is far worse for people targeted by the feds.  FBI chief Christopher Wray, who is scrambling to deliver the indictments that will please his congressional overlords, says the agency is conducting 2,000 domestic terrorism investigations.  Few Americans recognize how badly the legal playing field is tilted against them.  When FBI agents knock on their doors, many Americans won't hesitate to open up because they assume "those who have nothing to hide have nothing to fear."  But along with Bureau procedures that are a travesty of due process, the FBI is exploiting a sweeping law that criminalizes casual comments.  Federal agents have the right to lie to you and to put you in prison if you lie to them.  Any citizen who makes even a single-word ("no" or "yes") false utterance to a federal agent faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

Are We Still Free?  Possibly the strongest belief I had going into last year and the one I was saddest to lose when I realized it simply wasn't true anymore, was the belief that we were still a free country.  Biden's teleprompter speech Thursday evening paraded his non-belief in the Constitution.  While claiming to be a unity president, not only did he give President Trump and his team zero credit for getting the vaccine fast-tracked and the country supplied with at least 100 million doses, he, Emperor No-Clothes, pronounced that he has decided we might be able to get outside with our close family members for the 4th of July, only if we are good boys and girls.  If the new normal means the Democrats-in-charge will have the power to dictate the nature of small outdoor family gatherings two full months after his goal of getting every willing person vaccinated, then Biden doesn't understand the meaning of Independence Day.

It's time for Red States to start nullifying federal law.  As we all know, the last election was a "tipping point" election on many different levels.  An election won with the use of illegal last-minute changes to state election laws has led to a rogue regime that threatens the very foundations of America.  This is being achieved through highly questionable executive orders, the decimation of the concept of national sovereignty and an attack on fossil fuels, the lifeblood of our economy.  Moreover, Biden is converting our military into a social justice agency and transforming our intelligence services into witch-hunters for conservatives who dared to protest a stolen election.  More alarming is the left's goal to make its political power permanent by granting amnesty to 20-30 million illegal aliens, granting statehood to D.C. and Puerto Rico, expanding the Supreme Court, and normalizing the censorship of conservatives, not to mention the institutionalizing of election fraud, especially in key swing states.

A Generation Conditioned to Give Up Their Freedom.  As I scrolled through some news articles on Thursday [3/11/2021], one particular article caught my attention.  CNN ran the article and it was talking about a new generation that is being referred to as Gen C or Generation COVID.  The concept is that the global pandemic which has struck our world is creating changes among a generation of kids that are growing and developing through all the craziness.  Throughout the article, several examples were shared of how this pandemic is affecting this 'Gen C' in ways that others may have not experienced in the past.  It spoke of canceled birthday parties, the inability to see family, and more.  Images filled the page showing kids that were in masks, in contact with other people behind glass doors, and images of a child where the parent was creating a TikTok video explaining how the child had yet to know what a playdate was really about.

What Could Go Wrong?  Dallas Launches Database for Businesses Still Requiring Masks.  In my piece on Nevada's Democrat Socialists of America takeover of the Democrat Party in the State, I gave this warning about Texas:  "With the full opening of the state and the lifting of any mask mandates, Texas businesses who are choosing to not maintain mask requirements for their establishments will now become the focus of harassment."  Now the City of Dallas thinks that this is a good idea.

Tucker Carlson RIPS Joe Biden's Speech:  "How Dare you Tell Us Who We Can Spend the Fourth of July With".  Joe Biden delivered his very first address as US President on the anniversary of the COVID lockdowns.  Virtually no one tuned in to the White House's YouTube channel to watch dementia Joe speak gibberish for 20 minutes.  Joe Biden's doom and gloom speech was not inspiring at all.  He lied about Trump and threatened Americans with indefinite lockdowns if we don't wear masks and maintain social distancing.  Biden actually believes he has the authority to tell Americans who we can spend the Fourth of July with.

Biden's scary, boring, and bizarre address to the nation.  [Scroll down]  The main thrust of the speech was that everyone must get the vaccine (the wonderful Biden vaccine).  However, Biden conceded that even with the vaccine, masks and social distancing must continue.  Even with everyone vaccinated, by July 4, maybe we can gather with small groups outdoors.  In other words, even as we're all pumped full of a vaccine, nothing will change.  But we should trust Biden and remember that we're all in this together.  Here's the scariest thing Biden said, although he slipped it in so quickly many may not have noticed (emphasis mine):  "Fourth, in the coming weeks, we will issue further guidance on what you can and cannot do once fully vaccinated to lessen the confusion, to keep people safe, and encourage more people to get vaccinated."  The vaccine, rather than freeing us, will bring us even more tightly under government control as the federal government mandates what [we] can and cannot do.

A Storm Over the American Republic.  [Scroll down]  The right to challenge and criticize, which is an integral part of the freedom of speech guaranteed by the First Amendment, appears seriously threatened.  The right to defend oneself against charges also appears threatened, and the legal profession dangerous to practice.  Calls for political purges continue.  The leftist organization MoveOn.org has launched a campaign against what it calls the "Treason Caucus" and the expulsion from Congress of Senators described as "complicit in Trump's deadly insurrection."  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi — apparently trying to create an equivalence between the worst terrorist attack suffered by the United States on 9/11/2001 and the events of January 6, and seemingly trying to position the government to suppress free speech — has announced that Congress will move to establish a 9/11-type commission.  A member of the Democratic National Committee, David O. Atkins, suggested , "how *do* you deprogram 75 million people?  Where do you start?" and "We have to start thinking in terms of post-WWII Germany or Japan."  "White supremacists," President Biden announced, "are the greatest domestic terror threat in the US.  It's complex, it's wide-ranging and it's real."

H.R. 1 Is a Partisan Assault on American Democracy.  Late Wednesday night [3/3/2021], the House passed H.R. 1, the "For the People Act."  It passed by ten votes, with every Republican voting against it, as well as Mississippi Democrat Bennie Thompson, who fears that the bill will abolish majority-black districts like his in the Deep South. [...] It would be an understatement to describe H.R. 1 as a radical assault on American democracy, federalism, and free speech.  It is actually several radical left-wing wish lists stuffed into a single 791-page sausage casing.  It would override hundreds of state laws governing the orderly conduct of elections, federalize control of voting and elections to a degree without precedent in American history, end two centuries of state power to draw congressional districts, turn the Federal Elections Commission into a partisan weapon, and massively burden political speech against the government while offering government handouts to congressional campaigns and campus activists.

Masks Are Just Part of the Socialists' Uniform.  [Scroll down]  Mask mandates reflect the American government's descent toward socialism:  Mask mandates are also an illustration of the sharp philosophical divide straining Americans into two camps guided by conflicting worldviews.  In the one are true democrats who believe that all legitimate government power is derived from individual consent, and in the other are true socialists who sanctify the exercise of government power in pursuit of collectivist goals at the expense of individual liberty. [...] For Americans who believe that society should operate freely from government as much as possible and that government action should be reserved to handle only those problems that a cooperative society cannot accomplish on its own, relatively useless government dictates are absolute poison.

Why Election Integrity Matters.  [Scroll down]  Incredibly, while the Founders knew nothing about cars, televisions, mobile phones, or the Internet, the mechanisms they put in place largely survived Time's march.  But for all of their familiarity with the dark sides of man's nature, even the Founding Fathers, possibly the greatest assembly of men to ever come together in history, couldn't foresee the darkness that lay ahead with the Democrat party of the 21st century.  Today, America sits and watches as Democrats essentially send the Constitution through the shredder.  Emboldened by a pusillanimous Supreme Court, Democrats with H.R. 1, seek to undermine the Constitution's very foundation:  Voting integrity by the governed.  They seek to codify arrangements that, by their very nature, are intended to eviscerate the notion of vote integrity.
  •   Voter ID:  Eliminated.
  •   Mail-in voting:  Mandated.
  •   Maintenance of accurate voter rolls:  Outlawed.
  •   Same-day registration:  Required.
  •   Ballot harvesting:  Allowed.
These anti-integrity initiatives, and many more, will be codified under H.R. 1, with the goal of giving Democrats end-to-end control over voting in the United States.  Once they achieve this, they will control every branch and every element of the federal government in perpetuity.  And given that they back a regulatory state that never met a freedom it didn't want to regulate, they will control every aspect of the lives of formerly free Americans.

There is no First Amendment protection in Canada.
Police entered a church to take pictures of congregants illegally gathering ... in Canada.  When you hear of police entering a church gathering to collect information on citizens breaking the law, what country comes to mind?  Perhaps China or North Korea?  Perhaps Yemen or Afghanistan?  Well get ready to redefine your understanding of worldwide persecution, because such a thing just happened in Calgary in Alberta, Canada.

ANYBODY can gather without masks, First Amendment says.
Fully vaccinated people can gather without masks, CDC says.  Fully vaccinated Americans can gather with other vaccinated people indoors without wearing a mask or social distancing, according to long-awaited guidance from federal health officials.  The recommendations also say that vaccinated people can come together in the same way — in a single household — with people considered at low-risk for severe disease, such as in the case of vaccinated grandparents visiting healthy children and grandchildren.  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced the guidance Monday [3/8/2021].

Immunity Passports Bring Back Racial Segregation.  Vaccine passports aren't coming: they're already here.  And while discriminating against people based on their vaccination status is bad enough: the implications are even worse.  A vaccine passport transforms all of society into a two-tier system, but the basis for it isn't a needle, it's a set of government guidelines that were based on identity politics or 'equity'.  From the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices to various state equity initiatives, some even worse than the CDC's push to prioritize people by race, the vaccine rollout was designed to put minorities at the head of the line.  These prioritizations were meant to be invisible, using disparate impact to advance groups with the right demographic skew.  The government using race to prioritize medical treatment is horrifying enough, but vaccine passports take the biased vaccine system and embed that bias into everyday areas of life.  The end result is a horrifying cross between China's social credit system and the racial segregation of the South.  Call it the equity credit system based on racial and sexual identity.

Dems' 'Election Reforms' Would End American Democracy As We Know It.  Yes, elections have consequences, and terrible bills like this certainly prove that.  Anyone who voted for the Democrats in 2020 hoping for a "turn to the center" should by now be feeling mighty foolish.  H.R. 1 is but one example.  So far, Democrats have passed a near $2 trillion spending splurge that has next to nothing to do with COVID-19, created a new crisis on our border, alienated our strongest ally in the Mideast, convinced a bullying China that we're weak and vulnerable, and, instead of doing the people's business as they're supposed to, are now "investigating" the Jan. 6 riot in Washington, D.C.  Some 5,000 National Guard troops, totally unnecessary right now, remain camped in the nation's barbed-wire encased capital, despite the fact that the FBI testified last week that no arms were seized by them nor were any shots fired by demonstrators during the supposed "insurrection."  Democrats hope to use the distraction of troops in D.C. and a probe of the events of Jan. 6 to pursue the most radical congressional agenda in history.

The Department of Health and Human Services is Hiring Coronavirus Quarantine Enforcement Officers.
  •   These positions are subject to permanent reassignment to another CDC Quarantine Station or duty station as the needs of the service warrant.
  •   These positions are subject to temporary assignment at any location in the United States and its territories or possessions, in foreign countries, or at sea.
  •   Selectee will be required to sign a Geographic Mobility Agreement.
  •   These positions are subject to shift work, weekend work, irregular work schedule and evening hours.  On call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, independent of shift work assignments.
  •   The incumbents will be required to wear a uniform.
  •   The incumbent must be able to qualify for unrestricted access to secure areas at U.S. ports.
  •   The incumbent must be able to obtain an official U.S. passport.
  •   The incumbent must have a valid State government-issued driver's license.
  •   The incumbent is required to be current in his/her immunizations per ACIP guidelines.  Must undergo baseline and periodic health screening procedures such as respiratory fit testing and PPD tests for tuberculosis exposure.  May be required to wear an N-95 respirator.
  •   The incumbent must be physically fit enough to work long hours and frequently travel on foot to remote gate areas in a short period of time.

The Editor says...
"Remote gate areas" — perhaps at a FEMA camp?

Another black swan in America's future?  In chronological order, the black swans we've experienced in just the past five years are:
  [#1]   the surprise election of Donald J. Trump in 2016,
  [#2]   the Chinese-induced pandemic and the anti-science response of most government officials to it,
  [#3]   the acquiescence to and even open encouragement of the Antifa and BLM riots in the summer of 2020 by large segments of the Democrat party, and
  [#4]   the boldness and success of the election coup of 2020.
Each of these in its own way permanently changed the country.  Of these four, only the first one — the election of Donald Trump — had a positive effect.  The other three left America seriously damaged. [...] Financially, America is in a Bizarro World in which deficits and debt don't matter, real interest rates are negative, yet the stock market climbs to record heights.  A financial day of reckoning is due.  It can happen at any time.  It could take the form of the dollar losing its position as the world's reserve currency, it could be a massive stock market crash, or it could be runaway inflation or a depression.  Any one of these would be a major black swan event catching a large majority of people by surprise.  Given the polarized state of the country and the lack of trust in government and other institutions, anything can happen then.  Anything.

A New Zealander's 9 'Starter Steps' to Save America From Socialism.  Though I'm a New Zealander, I know America and its people well.  I've travelled to every state in the Lower 48 and have addressed more than 500 audiences across this amazing nation.  My message has always been the same:  The United States is heading toward a brutally tyrannical socialist revolution — and if America goes down, every free country follows.  Well, now it's here, people, unfolding before our very eyes.  So, what can be done?  Can the Republic be saved?  Honestly, I don't know.  However, I can suggest some steps that would at least give this country a fighting chance. [...]

Judge blocks bills limiting Beshear's emergency powers.  Gov. Andy Beshear won a court order Wednesday [3/3/2021] temporarily blocking bills passed by the Kentucky General Assembly that threatened to invalidate a series of his executive orders aimed at preventing the spread of COVID-19.  The Democratic governor's administration made a "strong case" that the Republican-backed bills are likely to "undermine, or even cripple," public health measures needed to protect Kentuckians from the pandemic, Franklin County Circuit Judge Phillip Shepherd said in his ruling.

The Editor says...
The judge appears to be in favor of concentrating all power in the hands of the Governor, rather than the elected legislature.  That's a move in the wrong direction.

While Republicans Slept, Democrats Stole the 2020 Election — Like Communists, They Are Working to Lock In Their Lawless Third World Voting Rules.  This is so serious and Republicans and Big Media do and say nothing.  Now the Democrats are taking their lead from the communist playbook, elections in America will soon be over if they get away with this.  A select few members of the Democrat Party will decide who wins each and every election going forward.  This was why it was imperative to fight for integrity in results in the 2020 election.  We knew if the Democrats got away with stealing President Trump's landslide election they would never relinquish control.  Rush Limbaugh warned America this fall that Democrats were done with elections.  They were tired of having to try and convince Americans of the benefits of higher taxes, open borders, weak defense, anti-American — pro-China trade deals, etc.

ICE locks Twitter account that alerted public of illegal immigrants freed by sanctuary cities.  ICE has locked down a Twitter account that was used to alert the public to illegal immigrants released by sanctuary cities.  @ICEAlerts is now "protected," meaning only those who had already been following the account can see the target names.  Users also can't retweet the old posts, said Jon Feere, a former senior employee at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement under President Trump.  ICE did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the change, but Mr. Feere said the Biden administration doesn't want people to know what kinds of criminals it's no longer actively seeking to deport.

The Editor says...
This part is news to me:  I didn't know the government had direct and immediate control of Twitter.

[Nearly vertical] "Slippery Slope" - Vaccine Passports Are A Technical & Ethical Minefield.  Vaccine passports are essentially certificates that link proof of vaccination to the identity of the holder, a potential silver bullet to return to our pre-Covid-19 lives.  Before the pandemic, the EU was working on plans for cross-border electronic certificates to replace the paper booklets that many travellers carry.  At this week's EU summit some leaders pressed for further steps towards coronavirus passports.  A recent Royal Society report that I led came up with 12 different criteria that would need to be satisfied to make such passports feasible.  This is a complex ecosystem that requires an understanding of everything from immunity and infection to technology, ethics and behavioural factors.  But the underlying question must be: what would a vaccine passport be used for?

There's something happening here.  "There's something happening here; what it is ain't exactly clear," warned a rock band called Buffalo Springfield in 1967 in a song called For What It's Worth.  The song had a hypnotic and ominous melody critical of Uncle Sam and the Pentagon.  That song suddenly seems relevant again. [...] There is a lot of "ain't exactly clear" going on in 2021.  Many question the fairness and outcome of the 2020 election.  Many look at the COVID-19 pandemic and wonder if it was actually a biological attack from China aimed to destabilize the West and unseat China's biggest critic, Donald Trump.  Many wonder and worry about local governments' heavy-handed restrictions in the name of combatting the pandemic. [...] Questioning the government was very fashionable in 1967.  Questioning the government in 2021 or the recent election is called sedition.  We were a lot freer in 1967 than we are now.

Democrats Declare War on Conservative Media.  Henry Ford famously quipped, "Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black."  The Democrats take a similar view about what the public should be permitted to see on broadcast and cable networks.  A Wednesday [2/24/2021] hearing conducted by the House Subcommittee on Communications and Technology made it abundantly clear that they believe we should be free to view anything we like so long as it fits the Democratic version of the "facts."

FBI Continues Searching for January 6th DC Protestors.  Giving the Chinese, Iranian and Russian state police a run for their money:  Apparently the Federal Bureau of Investigation, ie. the U.S. version of "State Police" enforcement units, have found a cause they are really committed to: finding every person who attended the Capitol Hill protests on January 6, 2021.  In a scene straight out of Orwell's 1984 warning, the FBI is literally calling their effort the hunt for "America's Most Wanted."  To achieve their goal, the FBI has been asking for help from their ideological comrades in the state run media apparatus, and achieving a great deal of success.

The Attacks on the Second Amendment Became Attacks on the First Amendment.  Conservatives had long predicted that the attacks on the Second Amendment would eventually turn into attacks on the First Amendment.  Liberals used to ridicule that until they turned leftward and joined the attack.  The premise of the attacks on the First Amendment are familiar.  Speech is dangerous.  Not everyone ought to be able to exercise it without proper supervision.  Surely the Framers hadn't anticipated the internet and would have agreed that disinformation needs to be restrained because it leads to conspiracy theories and insurrections.  And there's no better way to defang conspiracy theories than by ruthlessly suppressing them.  That has never led to an insurrection or deep paranoia about the government in the history of mankind.  The old parodies of Second Amendment attacks have been wholly embraced by the Democrat establishment.  A contingent of the Left, led by Glenn Greenwald, have gone on the attack, because they don't trust a Democrat establishment with full power over speech not to use that power to crush enemies to the Left.

Symbiotic Relationships.  The relationship of government to the people [supposedly] began where the government servants were for the benefit of the people.  Now that relationship has flipped.  You had better do what you're told or else.  Or else what?  We will raise the price of your medication, control the medical attention you can receive, force you to pay for our medical insurance, regulate your business [or shut it down all together, because, you know, COVID], take your guns, brainwash your children and tell you that you better be damn happy while we're doing it.  No, wait, they're already doing that.  Are you enjoying the symbiotic relationship you have with your government?  Federal or local?  Is it a give and take situation that benefits both parties or have you become a slave to 'the man'?  Add to that mixture the current state of big tech and the media.

The Authoritarian Left Is on the March.  This week, Democratic Reps.  Anna Eshoo, D-Calif., and Jerry McNerny, D-N.J., sent out a series of letters to America's largest communications corporations:  AT&T, Alphabet Inc., Cox Communications, Dish Network, Comcast, Apple, Amazon and others.  Their letters demanded answers from these corporations on one simple topic:  Why would these platforms continue to allow the dissemination of "misinformation" from conservative outlets? [...] The overt move by members of the government to cudgel private corporations into silencing unpopular viewpoints was clearly violative of First Amendment principles.  The Constitution clearly provides that Congress shall make no law abridging freedom of speech or the press; Democrats have now hit upon a convenient workaround where they bully private actors into doing their censorious bidding.

Capitol Hill hearing targets Fox News and lays the groundwork for government censorship.  One of the most chilling examples in modern times of the accelerating full-spectrum assault on free speech and the First Amendment took place yesterday on Capitol Hill, courtesy of a subcommittee of the Democrat-controlled House Committee on Energy and Commerce.  For over three hours on Wednesday afternoon, the subcommittee held a virtual hearing titled Fanning the Flames:  Disinformation and Extremism in the Media.  The target was conservative media in general and Fox News in particular.  Conservatives who have bought into the fake meme that Fox News has "gone left" might want to take note of how the authoritarian leftists who have taken control of the Democrat party and their allies in big media have now openly embarked on a carefully crafted and well-orchestrated propaganda campaign to destroy Fox News.  The Democrats are also targeting FNC's two competitors, Newsmax TV and OANN.

Rep. Bill Johnson:  Democrat Efforts to Censor Dissident Media 'Eerily Similar' to Communist China.  Rep. Bill Johnson (R-OH) said that Democrat efforts to censor dissident media are "eerily similar" to communist China's on Wednesday [2/24/2021] during the House Committee hearing on "Fanning the Flames:  Disinformation and Extremism in the Media."  "Just two weeks ago, China's national radio and television administration banned BBC World News from broadcasting in China, because it found BBC's reports, I quote, 'seriously violate' broadcast guidelines, including, and I quote again, 'the requirement that news should be truthful, and fair, and not harm China's national interests,'" said Johnson during the hearing on Wednesday [2/24/2021].

The Government Censors Are Here.  Congressional Democrats are demanding to know what communications giants such as Comcast and AT&T are going to do about "the spread of dangerous misinformation."  How quickly this country is descending into an authoritarian regime where the government controls speech and the flow of information.  Ahead of a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing Wednesday [2/24/2021], California Democratic Reps.  Anna G. Eshoo and Jerry McNerney wrote a letter to Comcast, AT&T, Spectrum, Dish, Verizon, Cox, Altice, Roku, Amazon, Apple, Google, and Hulu.  According to the New York Times, which says it has reviewed the correspondence, the pair is not pleased that "the cable, satellite and over-the-top companies that disseminate these media outlets" — likely referring to Fox News, One America News Network, and Newsmax — "have done nothing in response to the misinformation aired by these outlets."

The Editor says...
Late-night TV "comedians" spread "dangerous misinformation" and nobody's trying to silence them.  John Kerry says we only have nine years left to avoid a climate catastrophe.  That's dangerous misinformation, too.  CNN is a fountain of misinformation.  Several other "mainstream" news outlets are, also.

Congressional Dems Trying to Deplatform Fox News May Have Violated First Amendment.  "Congressional Dems sent a letter to Comcast, Amazon, Google, ATT & others, demanding to know what they plan to do about the 'the spread of dangerous misinformation' from Fox News, OAN and Newsmax — including whether they will continue to carry them," notes Rachel Abrams of the New York Times.  Legal scholars criticized this congressional demand, made by Reps.  Anna Eshoo (D-CA) and Jerry McNerney (D-CA), on First Amendment grounds.  Law professor Gus Hurwitz said, "These letters are chilling, in both the [First Amendment] sense and that of the feeling in my bones when I read them.  Effectively demanding distributors impose government-mandated speech codes for content."  Congressional Democrats only object to misinformation on these conservative channels — not progressive ones.

Democrats Move to Silence Non-Liberal Speech.  [Scroll down]  We have seen this in the moves against conservatives and other independent voices by Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Go Fund Me and other tech titans.  While these companies are no doubt motivated in part by ideology in putting their thumbs on the scale of public discourse, the truth is more sinister than that.  The major tech platforms are monopolies with obvious antitrust vulnerabilities, as we saw when the Trump administration brought an enforcement action against Facebook that seeks the divestiture of Instagram.  The Democrats have not only urged tech platforms to silence conservatives, they are at least implicitly (God knows what is said in private) holding out the prospect of immunity from antitrust enforcement, which means many billions more in profits.  This is the ultimate in 21st-century corruption.  But it gets worse:  the Democrats are also trying to drive independent voices off the more traditional broadcast and cable platforms.

House Dems to cable operators:  You're not still carrying Fox, OANN, Newsmax, are you?  Two House Democrats didn't waste much time in attempting to bully these distributors into deplatforming conservative media outlets.  Reps.  Anna Eshloo and Jerry McNerney sent letters to the CEOs of Comcast, AT&T, Verizon, Roku, and others demanding to know whether they planned to renew contracts with Fox News, OANN, and Newsmax after "incendiary reports" over the past year — and why they would carry them in the future.

Leftist Naomi Wolf comes out swinging... in favor of the Constitution.  Naomi Wolf became well known over the years as a third-wave feminist, a member of the Clinton camp, an adviser to Al Gore during his 2000 presidential campaign, and a reliable leftist on most issues.  On Monday, though, she surprised the heck out of Tucker Carlson and, probably, most of his audience, when she turned out to be a fierce defender of individual liberty.  A mesmerized Tucker listened as Wolf fluently expounded on principles of liberty and tagged the Biden government as creating "a totalitarian state before our eyes."

All Peaceful Means.  Some say China wants a weakened United States so that it will be easier to conquer.  If China can get the people of the United States to wage war against each other, recognizing that the use of nuclear arms would be out of the question, they achieve the greatest Sun Tzu victory of not having to wage war at all, but to swoop in and commandeer the rubble left behind.  Some say that internal communists are trying to manipulate the right into action, in order to secure a weaponless society that ensures that whoever survives will be subject to any and all draconian sanctions and even make white genocide feasible.  I would not normally delve into these subjects had I not seen the proposals for such actions clearly spoken about by those in Congress; recognized there exists a Trump Voter List held by those in Congress; seen the rogue's gallery of the dogmatically anti-white, anti-constitution cabinet being assembled by Joe Biden, (the beneficiary of vote fraud perpetrated on the nation) and seen the complete capitulation of law to a virus, basically the flu, that has a 99.93% survivable rate, or a .07% mortality rate. [...] Forces are gathering in the capitol to unleash salvos of unconstitutionality on the people of every state.  The desire is to create a nation of susceptible individuals, unarmed and defanged so that they might be compelled to commit any uncivil act at the behest of a totalitarian government official.

No Longer Consenting, Carlsbad California Restaurant Owners Defy Order and Open for Indoor Dining.  The power of government comes from the people; or as we say in the U.S. "from the consent of the governed."  When people lead, the politicians are forced to follow.  Without implied consent the municipal or state government has no power.  None.  The power of the local, regional or state authority comes from the expressed consent of the people.  As soon as the majority of people deny that consent, those officials and state authoritarians lose all of their power.  Yes, it really is that simple.  [Video clip]

"Break Their Will".  When a dog curls its lip and bares its teeth, you know what sort of dog you're dealing with.  One such dog curled its lip in Massachusetts recently.  His name is David Ismay — possibly related to the Bruce Ismay of Titanic fame, but hold that thought.  This Ismay wants to "break the will" — his words — of people who rely on gasoline to power their cars and oil and natural gas to heat their homes, in order to "combat climate change."  And he was in a position to do just that, being until just recently a government worker and having lots of armed government workers available to enforce whatever he decreed as the Undersecretary for Climate Change — yes, such an office exists — of the state of Massachusetts.  A state nominally under the governorship of a Republican — Charlie Barker — it bears pointing out. [...] Ismay — who made $130,000 annually as a government worker, roughly twice as much as the average American family earns — was eventually forced to resign, which is good.

Inoculating Against the Wrong Attitudes.  In an article posted on its homepage, NBC News has already rushed forward to whet appetites over the possibility of inoculating against violent extremism.  Not all extremism, mind you, just the variety that is the latter-day sobriquet for white supremacy, which since January 6 has become a noose for social media to tighten around the neck of Trump supporters and conservatives en masse.  Accompanied by photographs of a "pro-Trump mob" waving Don't Tread on Me flags inside the Capitol building, the article gushes over Biden's plans to turn DHS into an offensive line against those who might carry out Capitol-like insurgencies.  The pre-planned uprising on January 6 has given the left a tailor-made excuse to reset public opinion on what is and what is not violent extremism.  In its opening salvo, the Biden administration has ordered DHS to fund research that will offer the means and method to "take actions to prevent violence before it occurs."

Democrats Work on Plan For Big Tech to Shut Down Dissent.  An interesting article within Reuters points out how the Democrats in congress are working with the White House to craft legislation to make "social media companies accountable for the spread of disinformation."  Or put another way, the Democrats are attempting to eliminate any ability of those who disagree with them; or worse yet, would outline their corrupt endeavors.  Ultimately this level of control is a reaction to fear.  So the logical question is:  what exactly are they fearful of?  Perhaps the answer is in alignment with the reason Democrats have surrounded the capital with military guards, fence and barbed-wire.

Kafka Comes to Scotland, and Free Speech Goes Missing.  You do not defend free speech by demanding it for yourself but by demanding it for others, especially when you reprehend the use to which they put it or what they say.  Freedom to agree with yourself is no freedom at all and inevitably ends in tyranny.  But increasingly a tyranny of self-proclaimed virtue seems to be the aim of university-trained intellectuals who, in the name of their own beneficence, seek to silence those whose opinions they find objectionable.

Where Is All of the Ammo Purchased by the Obama Administration?  That is a serious question.  Looking at recent images of our nation's capital gives me the feeling that the federal government is afraid of something.  Just maybe, a government that wasn't popular with the people, would need to use a bit of force to stay in power.  That got me thinking about all of the arms and ammunition that was purchased by the last administration run by the democrats.  They weren't just buying it for the military.  All kinds of agencies that you wouldn't think needed bullets were getting them.  This was all happening circa 2014.

Biden's Domestic War On Terrorism May Seek To Criminalize Political Dissent.  If domestic terrorist groups are proliferating in sufficient, size, strength, and number to merit a robust new government response, on the scale of the Global War on Terror — as some are telegraphing — the authorities have not demonstrated it.  The administration's hyping of such threats, and the conversion of Capitol Hill to a warzone, without specific evidence of danger, should only increase our skepticism.  It appears politics is trumping the truth.  One can argue that the rush to declare a war on "domestic violent extremism" is one of several logical conclusions of an effort that goes back to the beginning of the Obama presidency, to fear-monger over the threat of "right-wing extremism" and marginalize non-leftists.  The resistance fever dream of Trump-as-Führer with his tens of millions of supporters as Brownshirts was seamlessly incorporated into this information operation.  With Trump toppled, the riot among non-leftists provided the catalyst for completing the total war on the true objects of the ruling class's ire: dissenting Americans.  It has concocted a narrative:  There is a growing "insurgency" among "domestic violent extremists."  The riot was their 9/11.

Woke Politics: The Democrats' Plan for a Permanent Majority.  The Democrats are pursuing a multi-prong strategy to cement a permanent majority.  To accomplish the goal requires upending the constitutional design.  Until the scope of this effort is seen in its entirety, it can proceed in the shadows.  It has six astonishing elements:
  [#1]   Enable Congress to determine who can run for President,
  [#2]   Eliminate the Electoral College without amending the Constitution,
  [#3]   Override the states' constitutionally mandated authority to determine presidential election rules,
  [#4]   Grant statehood to the District of Columbia by statute,
  [#5]   Rewrite the First Amendment to limit political speech, and
  [#6]   Enable open border immigration through executive agreement instead of Congressional action.
Taken together, the program represents a comprehensive challenge to representative democracy.  It deserves to be understood and debated front and center.

Deceptively Titled 'Equality Act' Would Be Giant Step to Destroying Religious Freedom.  [Scroll down]  There are two keys to understanding why this proposal is such a threat to the First Amendment's guarantee of religious assembly and practice without interference from Congress.  First, as with so much else that appears under the rubric of "social justice," this proposal absolutizes the concept of equality into a battering ram against the rights of unfavored groups.  That's precisely the outcome the Founders hoped to prevent.  Here's how that works:  If the secular progressive understanding of equality as equal outcomes — rather than equal opportunities — is combined with moral relativity — the idea that "truth" is whatever any individual decides it is for them — then every other societal value must be totally subordinated, including freedom of political expression and religious freedom, the two bulwarks of American liberty.  That is why the "social justice" movement is the source of the Cancel Culture that is steadily suffocating creativity, individuality, privacy, and everything and everybody else refusing to conform.

Biden Takes 'Death to America' Terrorists Off Terror List, Replaces Them With Republicans.  Democrats say Muslim terrorists aren't terrorists, but their political opponents are.  The Biden administration responded to protests against its stolen election by embedding a domestic extremism office into the National Security Council.  The man in charge of making it happen, Joshua Geltzer, had previously denied that Black Lives Matter was a terrorist threat and had attacked the Trump administration's response to Antifa and BLM violence in Portland.  That means that the only domestic extremists the NSC will be fighting are Republicans.  Even while the Biden administration is preparing to double down on Obama's abuse of the national security state to target his political opponents, it's also giving real terrorists a pass.

An Oppressive Boot on the Neck of Free Speech.  Freedom of speech [...] is under assault today from many quarters as evidenced by speech codes and the cancel culture ready to pounce on any words, spoken or written, not approved by the left.  Colorado State University, several years ago, prepared a draft "Inclusive Language Guide."  This is a modern-day version of George Orwell's "Newspeak," the official language of ficti[ti]ous Oceania, words designed to be politically correct without a hint of rebellion or opposition to the establishment.  Although the CSU guide is a few years old, it is worth revisiting as the cancel culture is in overdrive these days, invigorated by their supposed landslide electoral victory last November.  Those with conservative views are being erased from the corporate world and academia simply because terms like "free expression, tolerance, and diversity" only flow in one direction, to the left.

You have less than a year.  Ladies and gentlemen, you've just witnessed a coup. [...] It certainly wasn't a revolution.  Revolutions are usually more violent or come with force to some extent.  The Democrat Party didn't do that.  They planned, many years in advance, a fraud to gain full control.  It was no accident that mail-in votes and harvested ballots gave Biden, now president for (the remainder of his) life, the presidency.  The vote, in general terms, has been diluted for many years.  You should have seen this coming — but nobody did.  It's not a coincidence that the DNC, wherever possible, wanted no ID checks and more ways to vote.  Not because voter ID is racist, but because more people can vote the 'right' way.  They have fought with success to give everybody they need a vote.  Including dead people.  The trick worked.  Suddenly the bombshell exploded.  Now it is too late.

Pete Buttigieg Says DOT Studying Requiring COVID Tests for Domestic Airline Travel.  Transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg made a rather stunning statement during an Axios interview today [2/9/2021].  When discussing domestic travel and transportation as it related to COVID-19, the transportation secretary said: "there is an active conversation within the CDC now" about requiring COVID tests prior to air travel inside the United States.  This ridiculous position was unfortunately one of the issues CTH predicted might happen.  COVID is not a virus inasmuch as it is an opportunity to achieve social-change goals advocated by the far-left.  Remember, one key element within the Green New Deal was to ban airplanes altogether.  The kindergarten class of tree-shouting, algae-cake-eating, everything must be sustainable and stupid, i.e., leftist moonbats, are the ones offering actual policy suggestions.

The Supreme Court Decision Vacating California's Church Attendance Regulations Is Not a Victory and Should Terrify Us.  [Scroll down]  Ever since this pandemic crisis was imposed upon us, I have argued that the regulations imposed upon an initially supine but now restive America had little to nothing to do with public health and everything do with arrogating power to bureaucrats (not the "government"), creating administrative carveout to the Bill of Rights.  If a "public health emergency" brought on by a virus that is not terribly dangerous to anyone who is not already sick or suffering from conditions that would qualify as comorbidities trumps the black-letter right to assemble and to worship, then the First Amendment and Second Amendment have effectively ceased to exist.  At least two state governors have declared "racism" to be a "public health emergency[.]"  Inevitably, gun violence will also attain that status.  It doesn't take a particularly inventive person to see how the ability to declare anything you don't like a "public health emergency" is going to be weaponized to suppress any kind of dissent.

How to create a surveillance state.  Thanks to the technology in our smartphones, each one of us has the capability to contribute, and many on the left seem to revel in the power.  The rest of us must weigh every action we take, every word we say.  If we say or do the "wrong" thing, we may no longer have the right to earn a living.  If our vigilant self-censorship fails, an idle thoughtcrime might occur publicly.  All it takes is a few ill advised words or actions, caught on video, to ruin us.  Censorship is swift, aggressive, and irrational, without regard to either facts or effects. [...] The news reported that a San Jose gym that stayed open got dozens of complaints from "the public"' and was fined $500K. People are turning into self-righteous tattletales, and those in charge of the companies and social media platforms that created the means for recording and for tattling automatically side with the tattler, without any thought to due process.  We no longer have the right to make our own decisions.

You Knew It Was Coming:  AOC, Bernie, and Earl Introduce Bill to Declare National Emergency on Climate.  President Trump declared a national emergency over the novel coronavirus on March 13, 2020.  As the crisis evolved throughout 2020, many governors took that football and ran it as far down the field as they could, implementing ever more severe restrictions on their states as they declared their own state emergencies.  As COVID-19 lockdowns spread across the states, they began to take on an appearance of permanence, despite questionable results in slowing the pandemic's spread.  The populace, often scared into submission, mostly complied out of a fear of the unknown.  This gave those governors a taste of power heretofore resisted by the American public, and many of them found the sensation intoxicating.  Even more intoxicating was the willingness to accept the new normal.  As more despotic governors declare more states of emergency without legislative approval or oversight, or even a light at the end of the tunnel, it seemed the light bulb went on for the far left.  We could finally rid the United States of that pesky republican form of government once and for all and install direct democracy.  This led me to believe that these permanent temporary lockdowns would soon become a dry run for national emergency after national emergency — like climate change — that would create fun new normals ad infinitum.

Here Come the 'Climate Lockdowns'.  PJM's Jeff Reynolds reported on the proposed "climate emergency" legislation that would declare climate change a "national emergency."  If passed, it would give Biden sweeping powers and unlock billions in spending.  Since there is no "climate emergency" at the moment, the radical greens have to create one.  And the more dire and frightening they can make it, the more powerful they will become.  AOC and her cohorts in Congress will do their best but it's likely that the worst of the "Green New Deal" will never be enacted even with the declaration that climate change is a national emergency.  But suppose President Biden and other western leaders were to declare a "climate lockdown"?  In a climate lockdown, "governments would limit private-vehicle use, ban the consumption of red meat, and impose extreme energy-saving measures, while fossil-fuel companies would have to stop drilling."

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Even the most ardent Democrat — the most rabid baby-killing abortionist, the most heavy-handed union goon, the queerest LGBTQWERTY+ transvestite — must surely wonder if he or she really voted for this assortment of draconian foolishness.  Does anyone really believe that "consumption of red meat" changes the weather so much that the U.S. economy must be strangled to fix it?  Does anyone really believe that if U.S. oil drilling stops, there won't be any oil exploration anywhere in the world (like the Middle East)?  Did any voter (living or dead) in November 2020 think he or she was voting for "extreme energy-saving measures" — whatever that may mean?

The Military Is Targeting the Wrong Groups & Using Non-Existent Threats in an Attempt to Deprive Americans of Their Rights.  Our military leadership has gone completely around the bend.  It is flat out refusing to focus on building and maintaining the most lethal force in the world, able to deploy at a moment's notice by direction of the National Command Authority and in defense of the national interests of these United States. [...] That brings us to the recent, apparent effort to purge Trump supporters from the military.  If the Left had as its desire, to (re)involve these United States in needless conflicts, I'm pretty sure there would be absolutely no reason to get rid of any military members based on political affiliation.  The culture of our military is generally that when called to the colors, you go and you fight.  Done.  Then there is the other half of the equation.  Note that the target of this stand-down is focused on a statistically non-existent issue, rather than the infiltration of ANTIFA, BLM, and Critical Race Theory into our military's senior leader decision-making process.  What is so egregious about this, is that the leftists are using a flat out lie, as the basis for destroying our institutions.

Was the Allentown teacher suspended after attending 'Stop the Steal' rally within his rights?  Raub Middle School teacher Jason Moorehead's social media posts from the Jan. 6 rally for former President Donald Trump in Washington, D.C., began circulating in Allentown on the afternoon when the world watched in horror as protesters stormed the U.S. Capitol.  The reaction fell on both sides, some saying it was his First Amendment right to attend a rally, others saying being a teacher usurped that right.  The uproar was enough for Allentown School District to suspend him with pay while it investigated his involvement in the day's events.  "Being a teacher means he is a role model and because of his profession, his personal life is public," wrote one Facebook user.  "We as a community cannot accept nor tolerate this negative behavior."  "What is he doing wrong?" another asked.  "He took a few photos showing he was there.  Thousands of people are there, and only a few are doing the rioting and destruction.  Not everyone there is a rioter."

The War on Disinformation Is a War on Dissent.  The terms "misinformation" and "disinformation" have dominated the political lexicon in recent years.  Whereas misinformation merely refers to inaccurate or misleading information, the label of disinformation implies an intent to deceive.  Both have served as the source of much consternation and hand-wringing from media figures and politicians alike, with countless articles, press segments, academic papers, and political speeches devoted to solving the problem posed by intentionally false or misleading information and "fake news." For its part, the Biden administration has characterized disinformation as a "threat to our democracy," going as far as to lay out a road map for how to combat it.  While our inability as a society to agree on basic facts is certainly a problem, what should be self-evident is that misinformation and disinformation naturally abound when there is very little trust in sense-making institutions.  If the information sources that are deemed "authoritative" are so often wrong or misleading, and inspire little public confidence, is it any wonder that people turn to alternatives?  Misinformation and disinformation are natural consequences of our public institutions' inconsistency and incompetence.

The Left Is Calling the Capitol Riot An 'Insurrection' and a 'Coup Attempt' for a Reason.  The left has been longing for a narrative-furthering event like this for decades, and they got it all in one fell swoop — a mostly-white group of right-wingers misbehaving on a massive scale on the biggest stage of all.  It was too perfect, and now they're using it, as they have COVID-19 and virtually every other 'crisis' that comes, to further their evil ends. [...] If they can paint the right as insurrectionists and coup plotters, they can then justify any method to stop and/or punish the insurrection and coup plotting.

Biden's Banana Republic.  A New York Times reporter has suggested the president appoint a "reality czar," who would lead "a cross-agency task force to tackle disinformation and domestic extremism."  Please tell us, comrade, when the show trials begin.  We don't want to miss them.  The author of this idea is Times technology reporter Kevin Roose, who was writing about "how the Biden administration can help solve our reality crisis."  His is not a lone recommendation on how the ruling class should re-educate, curb, and cancel the unruly masses to the right of center.  Others want the Biden White House to establish various versions of George Orwell's Ministry of Truth, which was itself a ministry of propaganda.  The Democrats and allied activists are itching to shut down speech they don't agree with, but do it under the cover of preserving and honoring "truth." [...] A country and a culture are in trouble when those in authority allow only one voice to be heard, when they decide what is acceptable speech and what isn't, when the controversial and the unpopular are treated as crimes to be punished.

Bank Of America Goes Through Record Of Customers To Flag Anyone Who Went To Trump Event In DC, Hands Over To FBI.  "Tucker Carlson Tonight" has exclusively obtained evidence that Bank of America, the second-largest bank in the country with more than 60 million customers, is actively but secretly engaged in the hunt for extremists in cooperation with the government.  Bank of America is, without the knowledge or the consent of its customers, sharing private information with federal law enforcement agencies.  Bank of America effectively is acting as an intelligence agency, but they're not telling you about it.  [Video clip]

Bank of America handed over customer data to feds following Capitol riot.  There has been an enormous amount of talk — not just this week, but over the last month — about violent extremism and the people who embrace it.  Those people, we're told, are domestic terrorists who must be put down by force.  The war on terror has moved stateside.  Extremists are inside our country, and we must hunt them down.  We're hearing those words nonstop, not just on cable news, but from elected officials, including some Republicans.  We're hearing it from the leaders of federal law enforcement agencies and the intelligence agencies.  We're hearing it from the Pentagon.  Just this week, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin ordered the entire U.S. military to "stand down" while investigators cleanse the ranks of political extremists.  And, of course, we're hearing it from the business establishment, from Wall Street and the tech monopolies, from the massive multinational corporations that increasingly control the contours of American life.  All of them are now on the hunt for political extremists.

Bank of America is working with the FBI to hunt down Trump supporters.  What we've witnessed in the last twenty or so years is a fusion between big corporations, from big tech on down, and the federal government.  Both institutions have complete fealty to a Democrat-run state and will do all in their power to preserve it. [...] Silly little things like the Fourth Amendment don't matter if the Democrat party is threatened.

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Biden needs 'reality czar,' 'truth commission' to combat domestic extremists, experts tell NYT.  Academics and technology experts want President Biden to appoint a "reality czar" and a "truth commission" to mitigate the threat of domestic extremists and the spread of conspiracy theories.  A piece by The New York Times titled "How the Biden Administration Can Help Solve Our Reality Crisis" includes experts from Harvard University, Stanford, the University of Maryland, and other organizations with their take on how best to handle "hoaxes, lies and collective delusions." Technology columnist Kevin Roose's piece specifically focuses on QAnon group chats, claims of widespread election fraud leading to Mr. Biden's election, and news disseminated from staunchly conservative media outlets.

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In other words, the Democrats and their appointees will decide what's true and what's not, and suppress any unapproved discussions of things like stolen elections, irrational face mask mandates, skepticism of global warming, the gruesome details of what really happens in an abortion, any misgivings about the Patriot Act, any qualms about the side-effects of vaccines, any doubts at all about the Kennedy assassination, collapse of WTC 7, the Oklahoma City bombing, the crash of TWA 800, or the suspicious deaths of Vince Foster, Jeffrey Epstein, Andrew Breitbart, Dorothy Kilgallen, Karen Silkwood, and several others who knew too much.  When the Ministry of Truth takes over the internet, you won't be allowed to say that a man who wears a wig and a dress is still a man, or that the news media lies constantly, or that the government spends too much money.  You won't be permitted to say that the combustion of coal at a power plant is a net benefit to everyone.  You won't be allowed to say that plastic straws, DDT, Freon, oil pipelines, styrofoam, "light pollution" and "urban sprawl" never hurt anybody.  The Ministry of Truth will protect you from those so-called friends of yours whose opinions are so harmful.  The internet thrives because it allows ordinary citizens to bypass the mainstream media.  The internet allows the free flow of (sometimes dubious) opinions from hundreds of sources.  Ordinary citizens — at least the ones who didn't attend public schools in the last 30 years — are capable of sifting through the noise and determining for themselves what's probably true and what's probably not.

Symptoms, Causes, and Cures.  We as conservatives are experiencing painful symptoms as we enter 2021: Just a short list includes Trump's fraudulent defeat, Biden's many executive orders, calls for obedient unity, Obama administration retreads, a farcical second impeachment, Kamala Harris's tie-breaking vote in the Senate, government purges, big tech suppression of speech, subordinating our economy and security to China, etc.  Additionally, we've been told that further "symptoms" await us.  Again, the short list includes no filibuster, an expanded Supreme Court, additional states, new illegal immigrants bringing in disease, a crashing stock market, reentry into the Paris Climate Accord and the Iran Deal, totalitarian rule — and the list of potential symptoms goes on.

The political storm ahead.  It looks to me as if we are about to enter a very dark and dangerous political storm such as our nation has not seen.  The sunlight of a free exchange of ideas, of thought-provoking discussion, of attending church, of tolerating a simple different point of view appears close to being extinguished.  History is being rewritten and even statues of Lincoln are being brought down.  One must wonder, how long it will be until we are no longer allowed to have cities, counties, colleges, or streets named Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Jackson or Roosevelt.  Is Darkness now falling in America?  The cabal of Big Tech, the Deep State, and the progressive/socialist party is for all practical purposes ignoring and curtailing the Bill of Rights.  At this time, the Thought Police appear to be winning. [...] Since the controversial Election of 2020, The left has "disappeared" citizens, outlawed free association, cancelled books, had people fired or made them unemployable because they thought or voted in a different way.  This new regime has actually discussed publicly, re-education camps.  Publishers are being threatened.

Democrats' Climate Agenda Will Mimic Their COVID Tyranny.  If you've enjoyed the last 10 months of foolish, science-denying lockdowns and mask mandates, the widespread destruction of businesses and economies, and the government telling you what jobs are "essential" and how you are to conduct yourself in your own home, then you must absolutely love the Democrats' climate agenda.  For decades, the climate cultists from the "New Religion of First World Elites" have attempted to use fear — the destruction of the planet — and a fake cause — saving the planet — to convince Americans to vote for Democrats and enact the perverse science-denying climate agenda of the modern left.  For a primer on how this would work, look no farther than 2020.

People Pretending To Do Journalism Are Mounting Pressure Campaigns To Silence Conservative Media.  Using the wreckage of the Jan. 6 Capitol riots as leverage, corporate media and the pundit class postured themselves as the de facto arbiters of public opinion, and promptly set their sights on conservative media.  They took almost no time to pounce.  Within hours of the riots, corporate media reporters and pundits pointed to the presence of Proud Boys at the Capitol riots and organizing on social media.  They implied or outright called for more censorship and encouraged the White House to enact new domestic surveillance powers.  Naturally, deplatforming media companies that do not adhere to the dominant liberal orthodoxy became a subject of serious discussion.  Facebook's former chief security officer Alex Stamos alleged during a Jan. 17 segment of CNN's "Reliable Sources" that conservative influencers and media outlets have "abused" press freedom, and advocated deplatforming conservatives from both traditional and social media.

Slowing Killing The American Frog.  If you grant credence to the contention that the election was at least manipulated, methodically, toward the end achieved, it is only a small step to seeing the rest of the story unfold.  The election was one crucial part of a much larger and longer-term plot.  Our coup d'état started long ago, certainly well before the 2016 election. [...]

Crossing the Digital Rubicon.  The authoritarian liberal-left monoculture has crossed the Rubicon.  Behold the Progressive Praetorian Guard — all carefully vetted for loyalty — and their Potemkin Village President now seated in power, whose pitiful popularity is quietly disguised.  Do not be fooled: the barbed wire and boots are a threat to those who dare dissent.  The smearing of Trump supporters as 'terrorists' is justification for a new Secret Police, while Democrats demand wholesale purges from government, evoking the words and associations forbidden by other paranoid Parties.  Merely questioning the Biden ascendance to power is 'sedition,' ignoring the insidious hand of Big-Tech tilting the scales.  This is only the beginning as the CEO of Twitter brazenly declared to his employees as to how 'it' will go on far beyond the inauguration.  Blacklisting and banning for the monoculture is apparently not enough.  The anti-social justice Michael Recetenwald observed: "the means by which a police state is being set up is the demonization of Trump supporters and the likely use of medical passports to institute the effective equivalent of social credit scores."

Here it is — The Bill to Destroy Gun Ownership.  Here we have it.  They are going after EVERYONE who has a gun or ammunition.  They are deeply concerned about a revolution and they want to know every person who has a gun or ammunition.  The object of this bill will be to identify every person who has a gun.  They will be able to revoke a license and confiscate the gun under rules to be created by the Attorney General.  Biden swore he would end the NRA.  He was not joking.  Like a diverse license, once they create this federal license, they effectively limit the Second Amendment claiming if you obey all their regulations which they can change at any time, then you have that right.  But all such rights are eliminated whenever they say so.

Biden's a New Ball Game:  Army Chaplain is Under Investigation After Calling Transgenders 'Mentally Unfit' to Serve.  As noted by The Daily Wire, a religious cleric serving in the United States Army is getting probed for something he recently posted to Facebook.  According to NBC News, Maj. Andrew Calvert went onto a military newspaper's social media page to ask a question.  His query:  "How is rejecting reality (biology) not evidence that a person is mentally unfit (ill), and thus making that person unqualified to serve?"

A Tsunami of Hate.  All politics is divisive.  That's the healthy basis of our constitutional order: the freedom to disagree.  To suppress disagreement, to outlaw it — as many Democrats and their Big Tech and media allies — are demanding these days, is to end democracy as we know it.  The problem is not that we disagree.  We are not suffering as a nation from healthy disagreement.  We are suffering from a Tsunami of Hate emanating from the Democrat Party that seeks to demonize, criminalize and extinguish dissent from the 75 million supporters of Donald Trump.  It is now official Washington dogma that to question an election result — something the congressional Democrats have done in the face of every Republican presidential victory since 2000 — is now "insurrection" and "domestic terrorism," or the incitement thereto, and needs to be prosecuted and suppressed.

Democrats get ready to unleash the IRS for selective enforcement on political opponents.  Democrats have an amazing array of third-world dictator tricks targeting their Republican opponents.  Item A is their bid to use the IRS to cut off Republican freedom of assembly. [...] They're so concerned about superspreader events, they want to permanently shut down conservative groups themselves for thier events so that conservatives can't assemble at all.  Sounds pretty convenient for their purposes.  Not only do they want to take away our freedom of speech, freedom of press, and freedom of religion, they'd also like to take away freedom of assembly.  Just like they did during the Obama presidency when conservative groups such as the Tea Party were targeted by the IRS with long delays for approval and long intrusive questionaires about distant relatives.  That targeting, according to some accounts, actually swung the election to the low-popularity President Obama in 2012.  Now they're back up to their dirty tricks, trying to use COVID as an excuse to shut conservative groups down and deprive them of their constitutionally guaranteed right to assembly.  Instead of fining groups for violations or whatever is normally done, their plan is to shut the groups down.

Senator on Panel that Oversees IRS asks Tax Agency to Strip Conservative Group of Nonprofit Status Over COVID-19 "Superspreader" Events.  Reminiscent of the Obama Internal Revenue Service's (IRS) witch hunt of conservative groups, a U.S. Senator who sits on the committee that oversees the tax agency is pushing it to revoke a student charity's nonprofit status.  The veteran lawmaker, Rhode Island Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse, says the conservative student organization, Turning Point USA, should lose its nonprofit rating because it held large events that could help spread COVID-19.  In a letter to IRS Commissioner Charles P. Rettig the senator describes the gatherings as "superspreader" events.  He specifically mentions a Palm Beach, Florida winter gala at the Mar-a-Lago Club famously owned by former President Donald Trump.  "According to press reports and social media posts, many participants gathered and mingled indoors without wearing masks, in violation of Palm Beach County's COVID-19 regulations," Whitehouse, a member of the Senate Finance Committee, writes to the IRS chief.  The powerful chamber has oversight over the IRS, among many other government agencies.  "In holding these 'superspreader' events, Turning Point USA knowingly exposed hundreds of young people and staff working at the events to serious risk of infection," the letter continues.  The legislator asks the IRS to review whether the group, which has more than 250,000 student members, should continue to enjoy its tax-exempt nonprofit status.

King Biden? Schumer Wants Biden To Invoke 'Climate Emergency', Use Sweeping Powers.  After years of accusing those of us who want LESS red tape, and LESS centralized government power, of being somehow 'authoritarian', what do we see in the very first week of the Democrats getting their ambitious little hands on the levers of power?  We see their big tech and media accomplices (who helped drag his carcass over the finish line with almost no help from the candidate's part) singling out examples of Orwellian wrongthink for public disavowal, public denunciation (2 minutes of hate) and anyone who refuses to accept their speech codes get unceremoniously thrown off the internet.  That was before Biden even took office.

America's 2020 Election and the 'China Way'.  For non-Americans [...] watching the oath-taking ceremony of Joe Biden as America's 46th president, which I did as a Canadian, became an exercise in distinguishing between what's real and what's fake.  America's Capitol was turned into a caged arena of fences, barbed wire, and armed soldiers while being mostly empty of people, who should have been there to celebrate the peaceful transfer of power that Americans have taken pride in since the making of their republic.  Two weeks earlier, Washington was swirling with an estimated crowd of more than half a million American patriots and supporters of Trump demonstrating against the ratification in Congress of an election, seen as rigged and stolen, and the declaration of Biden as president-elect.  Non-Americans have seen the celebration of the peaceful transfer of power from one president to another as a touchstone of freedom and democracy.

What TSA Did With A Trump Supporter Will Make Your Blood Boil.  You know those First Amendment freedoms, about peaceable assembly?  Trump wasn't the only one our government was ready to play fast and loose with.  At present, while the Capitol is swarming with National Guards, we're seeing some really odd surveillance of citizens who have not been charged with having committed any crimes.  If the details of a story Jack Prosobiec shared are accurate, America is in worse shape than we thought.  A few pundits, like Dennis Prager, who have been concerned that the events on January 6th could be leveraged the very same way a certain group of 1930s German politicians leveraged the Reichstag Fire to eliminate their political competition are increasingly looking like they might be onto something.  We will include the text of the alleged incident which — for lack of any identifying information — we can neither confirm nor disprove.  The credibility of the story, and whether anyone else claims to have had similar experiences, we will leave to those who have more direct knowledge of the events.

Man and daughter detained, questioned at airports for being at the DC Trump rally.  [Scroll down]  I arrived in Newark NJ last night and proceeded to passport control, as I have done numerous times in the past with absolutely no issues, and was stopped at immigration and told I needed to follow them into the back room and be interviewed/interrogated.  At this point I am beyond upset (I'm a tax paying law abiding American with absolutely no record) and asked curtly what is going on???  (They also took my adult daughter in for questioning.)  The officer informed me that due to facial recognition I have been flagged as a participant in the DC domestic terrorist attack on the capitol and they needed to question me!!!  I was shocked.  I told them I did travel to DC on Jan 6th to attend the rally and to listen to the President BUT I was absolutely no where near where the incident occurred and how is it possible for me to be associated at all with the few radicals that went into the capitol when the majority of the people at the rally were peaceful and respectful?  Are we as Americans no longer allowed the right to assemble?  Thankfully the officer was very nice and after my initial shock I was able to answer his questions calmly and we were let go.  Only on my way home did I realize the reality of what had just happened.

Unite and Heal With Show Trials and Fascist Purges.  How do you unify?  The same way every great democratic people's regime did from France to Russia to China to San Francisco — with show trials and purges of the enemies of the people.  Nothing says unity like a city full of barbed wire and soldiers.  Not to mention a one-party system that is obsessed with criminalizing its political opposition using a fake state of emergency. [...] Biden will embed a domestic terrorism office in the NSC, making the NSC's former abuses under Obama routine as a system meant to track foreign enemies is instead used to surveil domestic political opponents.  Heading the effort will be Joshua Geltzman who had formerly falsely claimed, "No, Black Lives Matter is not a terrorist organization."  Inside of a month, Democrats had redefined riots and election challenges from the highest form of patriotism to an attack on democracy.  And by "democracy", they mean the Democrat Party.  Popular leaders don't take their false oaths of office in a deserted city surrounded by barbed wire and military checkpoints manned by 25,000 troops.  Nor do they engage in show trials of their predecessors or unroll massive efforts to surveil, arrest, and silence their opponents.  That's not the stuff of healing, but it is how you unite a country at gunpoint under your rule.

Democrats' Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act Shields Jihadists.  How interesting that the familiar array of Islamist-apologist and left-wing groups, notoriously opposed to U.S. counterterrorism efforts, has lined up in support of congressional Democrats' latest push for a "Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act."  Could it be because the proposed legislation goes out of its way to shield domestic terrorists who are catalyzed by foreign jihadist organizations?  You needn't read far into the bill to hear the alarm bells.  Section 2 provides a definition for "domestic terrorism."  Sounds sensible ... until you remember that federal law already has a definition of domestic terrorism.  The term is codified by Section 2331(5) of the criminal code.  It's been there for a long time, and it's perfectly fine.  So why would we need another one?

What Is the Hill for Trump Voters to Die On?  The far-left Democrats in charge of our government are the true extremists who pose the greatest threat to our nation, not Trump voters.  Our side has the facts, the truth, and the moral high ground, and we are not handing over our freedom.  The Biden/Harris edicts last week include weaponizing government against an undefined group of "right-wing extremists" along with a sweeping abortion law that will solidify their financial power base, expand censorship, and exert extreme control over every aspect of American's lives.  In tandem, these pronouncements are death sentences for the nation.  It is no coincidence these poisonous moves were made on the 48th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the most divisive, anti-American, anti-constitutional sham foisted on the American public since the Dred Scott decision.  Along with Doe v. Bolton, the framework was set for a weaponized government against its governed, starting with the voiceless and then moving on to the rest of us.

Are facial recognition programs being used against Trump supporters?  For four years, leftists have been on a maddened rampage of threats, anger, hatred, and actual violence.  Conservatives abided by the law.  However, since taking power in Washington, D.C., the Democrat party has a mission:  It is redefining all 75-80 million Trump supporters as white supremacists and domestic terrorists.  One person's Facebook post suggests that merely attending the Trump rally — and having no connection with the preplanned violence at the Capitol — is enough to get you on a government list. [...] Of that huge number of people, a small fraction went to the Capitol, an even smaller fraction entered the Capitol, and an even smaller fraction engaged in violent behavior.  And it's that last small fraction that gave Democrats the handle they needed to claim that every Trump supporter is a terrorist. [...] The Democrats actually intend to criminalize half the country.  This cannot end well.  The Democrats need to pull back from this behavior.

Rand Paul's Great Speech on the Unconstitutional Impeachment Sham.  [Scroll down]  If I had to make a point, if I had to try to find a way to convince people of one thing, it's that the Democrats are never gonna have to convince you of anything.  They're just going to do it.  If you disagree with them having a 13-seat Supreme Court, too bad.  They're just going to do it.  They're gonna have the votes, and they're gonna do it.  They're not gonna persuade you.  This is what we're missing.  This is not retail politics as it's always been.  The Democrats aren't gonna have to persuade anybody.  Once they get states in Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C. — they're gonna have to persuade people now because they've only got 50 seats in the Senate power sharing with Mitch McConnell and so forth.  But their long-term plan is to not need to persuade anybody.  Do not doubt me.  That is the core of their belief.  That is the core of their agenda.  To no longer have to persuade anybody, that they will have such vote power, such majority power, they won't have to persuade [anyone] of anything.

YouTube removes actual Senate videos of doctors testifying about early treatments of COVID.  Senator Ron Johnson tweeted last night [1/27/2021] that YouTube, which is owned by Google, removed two official videos from his Senate hearing last year with doctors testifying about early treatments of COVID: [...] Google and our other big tech overlords have decided that we can't talk about HCQ and how well it works at getting rid of the virus for people.  There were COUNTLESS stories about it working, but because President Trump was pushing it, the media hated it and are trying to rid it from existence as a COVID treatment.  We are at a very dangerous place in our country.  As I've said before we aren't just at a tipping point, we are beyond that now.  We are in the age of information oppression and censorship.  If you don't agree with everyone, then your voice must be silenced.  Pretty soon they will be deleting videos and banning accounts of people disagreeing with Climate Change.  This is where we are now.

One week in, Biden administration shows its exquisite cruelty.  [Scroll down]  How's that for the end of our democratic republic?  And DHS is about to surveil all conservatives as potential domestic terrorists.  They've done this without a shred of evidence or threat.  It is clear that they hope to incite a few militia types to make their case for eavesdropping on us all.  Within one week, this new and illegitimate administration has revealed itself to be the most fascist, the most illiberal in U.S. history.  These people intend to continue to use COVID as a weapon, the vaccine as a weapon, a second faux impeachment as a weapon.  Where is the mass press conference attended by every Republican in Congress?  Why are they not on every cable news program decrying what the left is doing?  We must be grateful for Cruz, Hawley, Johnson, Jordan, Gaetz, et al., who are the precious few doing what each and every one of them should be doing:  fighting back as if our lives depended upon their fighting back.

Acting DC Chief of Police Wants Permanent Fencing Around Capitol.  The reality of DC elites demanding walls to protect them from the common American is a stunning shift in outlook from when the U.S. Capitol used to be considered "the people's house."  Alas the voices are now asking for exactly that:  a permanent fence to keep the American people away from those who run government.

You may "petition the Government for a redress of grievances" from outside the fence.
DC Officials Announce Plans to Erect Permanent Security Fence Around US Capitol — In Same Week Democrats Ended Construction of Border Security Fence.  Joe Biden signed an executive order to stop the building of the border wall immediately after his virtual unattended inauguration.  Walls don't work.  They're immoral.  And racist.  But Washington DC officials announced this week they will erect a permanent security fence around the US Capitol because walls work in DC!

The Maoist Roots of Deprogramming.  The Catholic League has lauded Trump's policies on religious liberty.  We will continue to do so.  But we know that our critics are not content to disagree — they would like to deprogram us, if they could.  Though calls for deprogramming are now routine, they began last summer.  At that time, failed White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci said those on the left should view Trump supporters, and especially those who worked in the administration, as candidates for deprogramming.  A few days later, CNN's Don Lemon targeted all of those who voted for Trump in 2016.  "And I think a lot of people need to be deprogrammed, right now, before they cast their next ballots."  Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich showed his fondness for Stalinist tactics a few weeks before the election.  "When this nightmare is over," he tweeted, "we need a Truth and Reconciliation Commission.  It would erase Trump's lies, comfort those who have been harmed by his hatefulness, and name every official, politician, executive and media mogul whose greed and cowardice enabled this catastrophe."  After the election, the totalitarians went into high gear, zeroing in on Trump voters.

The Justice Department's Ridiculous Voter 'Disinformation' Prosecution.  On Wednesday [1/27/2021], the FBI arrested a man in Florida on a conspiracy charge, punishable by up to ten years' imprisonment, for the "crime" of peddling disinformation about voting on social-media platforms.  It's a three-fer:  the prosecutorial creation of a crime Congress has not prescribed, the trivialization of civil-rights law, and the intrusion of government as a monitor of political speech.  The charge is based on a complaint filed by the U.S. attorney's office in Brooklyn (the Eastern District of New York).  In conjunction with EDNY and the Bureau, the prosecution was announced by DOJ's acting Criminal Division chief Nicholas McQuaid, a former associate White House counsel in the Obama administration who was installed in his new post when President Biden was inaugurated on January 20.

Pro-Trump Meme Maker "Ricky Vaughn" Indicted For Using Twitter to 'Spread Election Disinformation' to Hillary Clinton Voters in 2016.  A pro-Trump meme maker and Twitter troll was indicted Wednesday by the feds for using the social media platform to 'spread election disinformation' to Hillary Clinton voters in 2016.  "Ricky Vaughn" AKA, Douglass Mackey, used Twitter to post memes and troll Hillary Clinton during the 2016 presidential election cycle.  31-year-old Mackey was arrested in West Palm Beach on one charge of conspiracy against rights and faces up to 10 years in prison.  According to the unsealed indictment, Mackey conspired with others on Twitter to encourage black people to cast their votes via text message.

Alt-right Twitter troll 'Ricky Vaughn' busted for voter disinformation.  The man behind pro-Trump Twitter troll account "Ricky Vaughn" was busted in Florida on Wednesday for spreading disinformation during the 2016 presidential election in a scheme to limit black turnout, officials said.  Douglass Mackey, 31, was arrested in West Palm Beach on one charge of conspiracy against rights, for which he faces up to 10 years in prison.  Between September and November 2016, Mackey allegedly conspired with others to use social media messaging to encourage blacks to cast their votes via text message so their ballots wouldn't count, according to Brooklyn federal prosecutors.

A Democrat Was Exposed Committing Same Election Fraud Scheme That Trump Supporter Was Just Arrested For — No Action Is Being Taken Against Her.  News broke yesterday that the Feds arrested and indicted a Trump supporter for using the social media platform Twitter to 'spread election disinformation' to Hillary Clinton voters in 2016.  31-year-old Douglass Mackey, who went by "Ricky Vaughn", was arrested in West Palm Beach on one charge of conspiracy against rights and faces up to 10 years in prison.  He was charged due to memes he posted to Twitter trolling Hillary supporters to stay home and text their votes in.  But, guess what.  Democrats were just caught doing the exact same thing.  And she's still walking around, scot-free.  Could it be that the new Administration has a double standard for "voter fraud"?  Far-left activist and "comedian" Kristina Wong posted the same fake voting meme on Twitter in 2016 — but she targeted Trump supporters!

They weren't very concerned about politically motivated violence last summer.
U.S. terrorism alert warns of politically motivated violence.  The Department of Homeland Security warned law enforcement agencies Wednesday [1/27/2021] to remain on high alert in coming months for more violence from domestic extremists emboldened by the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol that former President Donald Trump incited this month.  In a bulletin distributed to police departments across the country, Homeland Security Department officials said the threat of more political violence should be considered "heightened" at least through April 30.  "Information suggests that some ideologically motivated violent extremists with objections to the exercise of governmental authority and the presidential transition, as well as other perceived grievances fueled by false narratives, could continue to mobilize to incite or commit violence," the notice says.

JoeBama Administration Homeland Security Issues Terror Threat Alert Warning of Domestic Violent Extremists.  Comrades, the United States Department of Homeland Security is asking for the public's help in identifying subversives who carry thoughts against the interests of the JoeBama regime.  In a proclamation today DHS officials have elevated the national security alert against U.S. citizens who may engage in wrong-think.  Each good citizen has a responsibility to support the objectives the new Biden regime and report any friends, neighbors or community members who may need to be placed on the subversive watch list.  The FBI is awaiting your contact and information:  [Bulletin]  According to the command and control authority, the greatest threat against the interests of the new state comes from citizens who are questioning the results of the 2020 election and making inquiries into whether manipulation of ballots took place.  These thoughts are enough to warrant good citizens to report subversive activity.  The warning, and enhanced intervention by the control authority, extends from today through April 30, 2021.

John Brennan's Dark Fantasies Become a Homeland Security Bulletin.  In a shocking moment of honesty and clarity, Obama CIA Director John Brennan gave the rest of America keen insight into The Washington DC Establishment's plans and actions for the Trumpsters and other "Deplorables" populating the land.  In an interview, Brennan lies and exaggerates to the public about a supposed domestic terrorist insurgency across the country that is gaining strength and threatening the republic. [...] How do libertarians and authoritarians fit in the same rhetorical political basket?  Very tough to reconcile those positions, unless you really do not care about the "logic" of your assertion.  Why did Brennan leave out communists?  Brennan reportedly voted for Communist Party presidential candidate Gus Hall in 1976, while a student at Fordham University.  What about Islamic supremacists?  Why did Brennan leave them out of the "unholy alliance?"  Answer:  Because it STILL is really all about Trump, Trumpism, and Trumpsters, and destroying any remnant of the MAGA movement.  Anyone outside the Uniparty is suspect.

Rule by Decree:  Joe Biden Sets Record for Executive Orders in First Week.  President Joe Biden has issued more executive orders in his first week in office — not yet complete, as of this writing — than any of his 45 predecessors.  As of January 25, 2021, Biden has "issued 33 executive orders, actions, proclamations, memoranda and agency directives," according to CNN.  Twenty-one of these, according to the White House website, are executive orders.

Tulsi Gabbard:  Brennans, Schiffs, and Big Tech Oligarchs More Dangerous than Mob that Stormed Capitol.  Former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard blasted former CIA Director John Brennan, House Intelligence Committee chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), and big tech "oligarchs" seeking to censor fellow Americans after the January 6 Capitol riot.  Gabbard shared a video statement online where she criticized them for trying to take away Americans' constitutionally protected rights. [...] The video included a clip of Brennan's remarks in a January 20 interview with MSNBC, where he said that the Biden team is "now moving in laser-like fashion" to uncover "what looks very similar to insurgency movements" that include libertarians.

Milking the Capitol Melee for All It's Worth.  Not surprisingly, leftists are milking the January 6 Capitol melee for all its worth.  There is a simple reason for that:  they wish to use it to introduce a new wave of domestic tyranny into America, just as Republicans did after the 9/11 attacks.  In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if they start referring to the melee as simply 1/6.  That's why they continue to describe the melee as an insurrection, revolution, rebellion, sedition, terrorism, invasion, and a grave attempt to destroy our democratic system and overthrow the government.  It's clear, according to leftists, that the intent of the "invaders" was to take control over the reins of the federal government and make Donald Trump king.  I wouldn't even be surprised if they determine that Russia was behind the "invasion."  Thus, don't be surprised to see a new version of the USA PATRIOT Act.  Anyway, the original one is getting a bit old in the tooth.  And don't be surprised to see a renewed and reinvigorated "war on terrorism," albeit here in the United States, with increased secret surveillance, suppression of speech, indefinite incarceration, torture, and even perhaps assassination (a power that the Supreme Court has upheld with respect to both foreigners and Americans).

Gabbard Sounds the Alarm:  Leftists Are Plotting 'KGB-Style Surveillance' of Conservatives.  On Tuesday, former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) issued another important warning about the Democrats like former CIA Director John Brennan who appear to have seized on the Capitol riot as an excuse to crack down on dissent from the Left's orthodoxy.  Democrats seem to be mulling a new domestic "War on Terror" complete with surveillance of American "insurgents" like... Libertarians.  In a short video posted on Twitter, Gabbard began by condemning the mob that stormed the Capitol but went on to issue an important warning about the budding new "War on Terror."

Anti-Trump Scholar: 'Nearly Impossible' to 'Deprogram' Millions of Trump Supporters.  On Monday [1/25/2021], the Washington Post published an op-ed by columnist Brian Klaas whereby he expresses the near futility of attempting to "deprogram" millions of Trump supporters, claiming that many have "gone far enough down the rabbit hole of conspiratorial thinking."  The essay, titled "'Why is it so hard to deprogram Trumpian conspiracy theorists?" depicts millions of Trump supporters as so devoted to "dangerous lunacy" that nearly all hope is lost of bringing them "back to reality."  Referring to President Trump as "a conspiracy theorist in chief" who "injected the toxin of baseless conspiratorial thinking straight into America's political bloodstream," the essay claims that while only hundreds stormed the Capitol, "there are millions of Americans who share their views."

How to Prepare for the Coming Crackdown.  [Scroll down]  As we witnessed with Parler, no platform or app should be considered private — not Signal, not ProtonMail, despite them being advertised as encrypted.  Again, if there's something you need to say that you don't want a public record of, you should not be using any means of technology to communicate it.  Also, if we haven't learned it by now, our smartphones, their cameras and microphones, are windows into our most private spaces, into our very personal lives.  While I personally believe my posts, my pictures and videos should be my data, even when posted in a public facing forum, that's obviously not the case.  If I take a picture and hold it up in the middle of a city, that picture in my hand is still my personal property.  I believe the same should hold true in our online forums, but that's not the case.  If your computer, or Smart TV, occupies a central part of your house where you have honest and potentially controversial conversations, you may look at moving it to a more remote location.  If you don't have a RFID or Faraday box for your phones when you have conversations around the dinner table, you might consider getting one, and practice using it now.  If you don't have a small RFID or Faraday case for your smartphone, for when you're driving around and shopping, you might consider getting one.

The Left Wants to Transform and Nationalize Our Election System.  Democrats intend to save "democracy" by putting themselves in charge of elections.  As absurd as that sounds, it really is a part of the inappropriately named "For the People Act of 2019," or H.R. 1, moving through the House of Representatives.

Democrats Move To Ban Trump Supporters From Federal Jobs Or Joining The Military.  Cancel culture has arrived in Congress in a big way.  Well, to be fair, it's been there for a while now, but Florida Democratic congresswoman Stephanie Murphy is really upping her game in this regard.  New proposed legislation from Murphy would prevent anyone who participated in the January protests and riot on Capitol Hill from being eligible for a security clearance.  Further, she would impose a similar ban on anyone who participated in any "stop the steal" rally or anyone who knowingly engaged with Q-anon.  Given that a security clearance check is required for virtually every person applying for a federal job (and many state or municipal jobs) or enlistment in the military, Murphy would be banning an entire class of people from public service even if they never engaged in any violent activities.

The Police State Is Coming For "Religious Extremists", "Evangelical Christians", "Pro-Life" Activists And "Libertarians".  If you cherish faith, family and freedom, you might want to keep a low profile for a while.  The Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act of 2021 has been unveiled in Congress, and it has bipartisan support.  It is essentially "the Patriot Act on steroids", and we are being told that it is almost certain that some version of the legislation will make it to Biden's desk for him to sign.  Personally, I am very much against all forms of domestic terrorism, and a law which could help to prevent terror attacks from happening is going to sound like a good thing to a lot of people.  Unfortunately, it appears that this bill is meant to specifically target certain groups, and as you read this article you may discover that you are a member of one or more of those groups.

Democrats Have Released a Roadmap to One-Party Rule.  The Democrats appear intent on instituting one-party rule in the United States.  They're trying to use the U.S. Capitol riots as an excuse to criminalize dissent and banish conservative voices from the public sphere, and at the same time they're hoping to use their temporary, razor-thin majority in Congress to rewrite the rules governing our elections in a way designed to keep the Democratic Party entrenched in power for decades to come.

The Conservative Purge is Just Getting Cranked Up.  Not quite two weeks ago we noted that Big Tech was settling the family business with its suspensions, bans, and deletions of then-President Donald Trump and as many of his supporters as it could pull into its dragnet.  It was only a start.  The left wants to wipe the right from the political map as quickly and effectively as possible.  Playing the role this week of Michael Corleone, who in the first of "The Godfather" installments eliminated his families' enemies, is the Democratic Party.  Congressional Democrats are going forward, with the blessing of the new president, whose plea for unity is clearly a sham, with a domestic terrorism bill in both chambers of Congress.  The public is being told the legislation is needed to thwart "the potential threat of more terrorist attacks in Washington and around the country," says Rep. Brad Schneider, an Illinois Democrat and co-sponsor of the House version.  Among other co-sponsors is Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., who in July denied that Antifa, which was wrecking Portland at the time, even existed.

Tulsi Gabbard on Dems' Terror Law: 'We Don't Have to Guess About Where This Goes or How This Ends'.  Former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) raised the alarm about the Democrats' disturbing crackdown on "domestic terrorism" in the wake of the Capitol riot on January 6.  She warned that the domestic terror bill that House Democrats have proposed would "undermine our constitutional rights and freedoms," and lead to law enforcement targeting "almost half of the country."  "We don't have to guess about where this goes or how this ends," Gabbard said, ominously, in an interview with Fox News on Friday [1/22/2021].  "When you have people like former CIA Director John Brennan openly talking about how he's spoken with or heard from appointees and nominees in the Biden administration who are already starting to look across our country for these types of movements similar to the insurgencies they've seen overseas, that in his words, he says make up this 'unholy alliance' of religious extremists, racists, bigots, he lists a few others and at the end, even libertarians," the former congresswoman noted.

Tulsi Gabbard sounds alarm:  Biden MUST denounce Schiff and Brennan, dangerous domestic terror push!  Former Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, a Democrat, has an ultimatum for President Joe Biden.  Speaking on Fox News' "Fox News Primetime" this Friday [1/22/2021], she told host Brian Kilmeade that if Biden truly desires "unity," he must denounce the left's growing radicalism.  More specifically, Biden must denounce House Intelligence Committee chair Adam Schiff and disgraced former CIA Director John Brennan's call for new domestic terror laws to be instituted and then applied against ostensible "domestic terrorists."

Why Post-Inauguration Reminds Me of Post-9-11.  Recent events have broken not buildings and a few thousand lives, but the last weak remnants of the institutions that our founders left us.  We have passed, in the course of a couple months, from a world in which some grudging impulse toward fairness usually prevailed into a world in which raw power is being wielded without the slightest principle. [...] I am a small fish.  But the trawler that is now coming for us has a fine net and, if history teaches us anything, a big appetite.  Our lives are nothing to its operators.  Their grand vision does not include us.  There will always be enough maids to clean their houses and enough workers to assemble their Teslas.  The Chinese, who at least find us useful as a body of consumers, may actually care about us more than many of our own politicians.  If Chuck Schumer or Nancy Pelosi could thin the ranks of American conservatives by eighty million at the touch of a button, I suspect they'd break a finger in their enthusiasm.

Ken Cuccinelli Claims Pelosi Asked For 'Crew-Manned Machine Guns' In Washington.  Acting Deputy Homeland Security Secretary Ken Cuccinelli told Fox News' "The Story" Tuesday [1/19/2021] that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi asked for "crew-manned machine guns" to be a part of security forces in Washington, D.C., ahead of President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration.  Cuccinelli and anchor Martha MacCallum were discussing the presence of 25,000 National Guard troops in the nation's capital after pro-Trump rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol building Jan. 6.  "A division," Cuccinelli said, responding to MacCallum's assertion that the number of troops is greater than the number in Afghanistan and Iraq.  "You have a division.  The last up of thousands of these troops was requested by the speaker through the Capitol Police.  She even wanted crew-manned machine guns in Washington.  That was rejected because there's simply no use for that in a security arrangement for a civilian undertaking.  Just — so some of this has gone beyond any legitimate security need."

The Editor says...
Nancy Pelosi doesn't like guns — especially machine guns — unless her people are pointing them at us.

Acting DHS Deputy Secretary:  Pelosi Wanted 'Crew-Manned Machine Guns in Washington — That Was Rejected'.  Acting DHS Deputy Secretary Ken Cuccinelli told Fox News's "The Story with Martha MacCallum" on Tuesday that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi requested more National Guards be sent to Washington, D.C., even requesting "crew-manned machine guns" — a sharp contrast between how she reacted when President Donald Trump wanted to use the military to deal with the violence from nationwide Black Lives Matter protests.  "Violence has no place and violence must be addressed," Pelosi told National Public Radio's (NPR) "All Things Considered" in June 2020.  "But there is no reason for the U.S. military to be called out for this."  MacCallum noted that 12 members of the National Guard were pulled from their duty in D.C. for what was described as inappropriate texts or social media.

Obey, America, for Your Own Good!  [Scroll down]  If you refuse to swallow the official state narrative on the 2020 presidential election and instead question the deluge of voting irregularities in battleground states, you will be ridiculed as a nutjob, deprived of your free speech, and threatened with financial and professional harm.  If you gather together with millions of Americans who feel the same way, then you will be branded a terrorist, deprived of your freedom of association, and targeted by the FBI and local district attorneys for crimes you did not commit.  We are herded like dumb animals, whipped and cursed until we learn to accept the politically correct truths fabricated from one day to the next.  Bureaucrats and elected officials entrusted with safeguarding American freedoms instead bully Americans into silence and compliance.  Private companies eagerly join in the persecution parties by throwing people with incorrect thoughts on no-fly lists and banning them from commercial services and common courtesies.  And an army of belligerent tattletales spend their days enforcing every new government edict upon the populace by shaming and threatening thought offenders through the weaponization of anonymous online hate mobs.

The New Domestic War on Terror is Coming.  The last two weeks have ushered in a wave of new domestic police powers and rhetoric in the name of fighting "terrorism" that are carbon copies of many of the worst excesses of the first War on Terror that began nearly twenty years ago.  This trend shows no sign of receding as we move farther from the January 6 Capitol riot.  The opposite is true: it is intensifying.  We have witnessed an orgy of censorship from Silicon Valley monopolies with calls for far more aggressive speech policing, a visibly militarized Washington, D.C. featuring a non-ironically named "Green Zone," vows from the incoming president and his key allies for a new anti-domestic terrorism bill, and frequent accusations of "sedition," "treason," and "terrorism" against members of Congress and citizens.  This is all driven by a radical expansion of the meaning of "incitement to violence."  It is accompanied by viral-on-social-media pleas that one work with the FBI to turn in one's fellow citizens (See Something, Say Something!) and demands for a new system of domestic surveillance.  Underlying all of this are immediate insinuations that anyone questioning any of this must, by virtue of these doubts, harbor sympathy for the Terrorists and their neo-Nazi, white supremacist ideology.

White House requesting threat assessment on 'domestic violent extremism'.  The White House is requesting a "comprehensive threat assessment" on the risks posed by domestic violent extremism in the wake of the Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol by a pro-Trump mob.  "The rise of domestic violent extremism is a serious and growing national security threat," White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Friday [1/22/2021].  Ms. Psaki said President Biden is tasking Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines, in concert with the FBI and homeland security, with developing a threat assessment on domestic violent extremism.

As social media purge continues, FCC now warns of ham radio crackdown.  After contriving to deplatform conservatives from every tech service and app they could manage, the purge boldly marches on to ham radio.  ["]The US government is warning that groups could rely on radio equipment as an alternative to social media to plan future criminal activities.  In a stark warning Sunday, the Federal Communications Commission's enforcement bureau said people coordinating or conducting criminal activity over radio waves are breaking the law.["]

Blocked from social media, extremists discuss turning to radios to plan attacks, FCC warns.  The laws governing airwaves apply to amateurs broadcasting with personal ham radios, which can reach long distances.  But they also apply to people using Citizens Band (CB) radios commonly used for communication between truckers — or even walkie-talkies.  In the wake of the January 6 Capitol riots, Facebook (FB), Twitter (TWTR) and other mainstream social networks have become more vigilant about policing people who use their platforms to plan or incite attacks.  They have booted off several high-profile radicals and thousands of groups and users who the platforms say engage in harmful conspiracy theories and other violence or hate speech.

More than 100 Civil Rights Groups Agree:  We Don't Need New Domestic Terrorism Laws.  Civil rights groups across the country are urging President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, as well as Congressional Democrats, not to pass new laws to address any potential threats from white nationalists emboldened by and loyal to former President Donald Trump.  In a letter dated Tuesday, 135 civil rights organizations — ranging from religious groups, immigration advocates, and LGBT organizations to the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People — expressed their concerns about calls to pass new criminal laws in the wake of the riot and temporary invasion of the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters.

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Yes, an invasion of the Capitol by Trump supporters — along with an unknown but substantial percentage of left-wing infiltrators and agitators.

What Biden's War On 'White Supremacy' Is Really About.  Last night's Tucker [Carlson] monologue, as usual, was on fire but also very important[,] as he breaks down what exactly the Biden agenda is when during his inaugural speech he talked about going to war against 'white supremacy.'  It has nothing to do with going after actual white supremacy which is a scourge, but about targeting anyone who doesn't conform to the liberal agenda.  [Video clip]

Hail To The Thief.  Through world wars and wars on terror, Washington D.C. has remained a national capital where the hundreds of millions of taxpayers who labor to pay for its grand edifices, free museums, and lavish lifestyles could briefly come to enjoy a little of the life lived by the ruling class in the Imperial City.  Now the ruling class has made it clear that it doesn't want peasants entering D.C.  Even as Biden's team prepped the executive orders that would end the national emergency at the border and shut down construction of the wall, new walls topped by razor wire were rising across the imperial city.  The new Fortress of Government sealed off two miles of the National Mall and parts of downtown D.C. and filled it with more soldiers than are deployed in Iraq.  The Secret Service designated green and red zones.  Some 25,000 National Guard members were dispatched from Vermont, Maine, Louisiana, Wisconsin, Ohio, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Arkansas, Missouri, South Carolina, Rhode Island, Virginia, and Colorado to prepare for a fake invasion that never came.  But the armored vehicles and heavy weaponry did come.

YouTube extended Donald Trump's ban for at least 7 more days amid fears of violence at Biden's inauguration.  YouTube has extended its ban preventing outgoing US President Donald Trump from uploading videos, ahead of Joe Biden's inauguration.  The Google-owned site suspended Trump's account for seven days after removing a video that the company said incited violence in the wake of the storming of the US Capitol, which left five people dead.  On Tuesday [1/19/2021], the firm said it would extend the suspension "in light of concerns about the ongoing potential for violence" for at least another week as Washington braced for President-elect Biden's highly unusual inauguration, Reuters reported.

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What is the purpose of this seven day extension of an already bizarre military occupation?  Biden's inauguration is already over!  If there was any reason for the National Guard to occupy Washington, other than optics, that reason should have already expired.  This seven-day extension might slip under the radar except for one thing:  Last year's Covid-19 lockdowns were only supposed to last a couple of weeks, but they were extended and extended, and now appear to be permanent in some places.  Is the National Guard now a permanent feature in Washington, DC?

Fascist Democrats are Using a Manufactured Emergency to Create a One-Party State.  Fascist theater is now as common an occupation for the D.C. elite as upscale cocktail bars.  Pelosi's fascist state and its crackdown on enemies is here with a militarized occupation of D.C. by 25,000 troops whose politics had to be cleared by the political commissars at the FBI, a ban on protests, and political opponents being silenced, fired, and banned by corporate monopolies.  Scenes that Americans would have once associated with banana republics and fascist dictatorships are now playing out daily as media propaganda broadcasts warn of a grave threat that requires a military occupation of Washington D.C. and the total repression of the opposition.  The wave of censorship that began with Facebook and Twitter banning President Trump has escalated to a takedown of Parler, a conservative alternative, to media campaigns urging crackdowns on a variety of alternative apps and services like Signal, Telegram, MeWe, and Zello, and a push by CNN to have AT&T and Comcast ban conservative cable networks.  There's even an FCC crackdown on conservatives using ham radios to communicate.  Proposals are percolating through the media and its national security commentariat to transform the FBI from a law enforcement agency to a "domestic spy agency" monitoring Americans.

Democrats Are Framing Americans As Domestic Terrorists So They Can Do To Us What They Did To Trump In Spygate.  Democrats have moved swiftly to use the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol mayhem to push for a frightening expansion of federal surveillance and police powers under their sole control for two years, smearing anyone who voted for Donald Trump as a potential terrorist.  Joe Biden himself called the Capitol protesters "domestic terrorists" and "insurrectionists" and said his administration will prioritize legislation to increase federal crackdowns on what Democrats consider to be "domestic terrorists."  The main problem with that is that Democrats openly link Republican Party affiliation and mainstream conservative ideas to "domestic terrorism," "extremism," "white supremacy," and other evils.  To the left vanguard of the party that Biden's administration is marching behind in both personnel and policy, simply supporting lower taxes and believing that "hard work can help you get ahead" is enough to mark you a "racist" and "white supremacist."  These redefined "racists" and "white supremacists" now face increased FBI surveillance, discrimination in military and other careers, suspension of their right to own guns lawfully based only on another person complaining they are a "threat," public harassment and smears, government and business pressure campaigns and investigations, and more.

What If You Held A Riot And Nobody Came?  It appears that is exactly what happened to the leftists attempting to burn the country down and blame the right for the fires.  The State Capital Rallies — well attended by military, police (yes, the same police that the left wanted to defund last summer) and BLM/Antifa wasn't able to lure many of their arch-enemies (us) into their trap this time.

For the first time in our lives, free speech is about to be criminalized.  We never thought this day would arrive in America.  Last year, we learned that they can shout "COVID" as an emergency, and our life, liberty, and property disappear.  They can shout "racism," and our inalienable right to self-defense disappears.  The last thing we had was the freedom to criticize what is happening, even if there was nothing we can do about it.  Now they can shout "right-wing terrorism" or "right-wing conspiracy" and say that freedom of speech no longer applies.  Leftists in this country claim that their violence is speech and our speech is violence.  That is why they glorified riots last year that burned down numerous cities, caused thousands of injuries, cost billions of dollars, and elevated their cause as the most urgent grievance in need of redress.  At the same time, they are pushing to criminalize not just the violent acts and actors at the Capitol on January 6, but any view or speech or assembly predicated on views that are held by those people.  This is why they seem to be taking direct shots at the First Amendment's guarantee of freedom of speech for Americans, even as they plan to grant amnesty to those whose entire presence in this country is illegal.

Preemptively banning a book before it is written:
Hundreds of writers and book agents sign joint letter demanding publishing industry bans Trump memoir.  Editors, publishing agents and authors have signed-up to a letter in the hundreds, demanding the industry deny Donald Trump the publication of any post-presidential memoir.  The letter, titled "No Book Deals for Traitors," was signed by more than 250 editors, authors and publishing agents last week.  Together, they oppose any Trump administration official from publishing a future book — including the outgoing president, who is rumoured to be considering a memoir.  Barry Lyga, a novelist who organised the letter, wrote that "As members of the writing and publishing community of the United States, we affirm that participation in the administration of Donald Trump must be considered a uniquely mitigating criterion for publishing houses when considering book deals."

Are Pelosi and Hillary Clinton Laying the Groundwork for a New War on Terror?  This week, Hillary Clinton and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) called for a "9/11-type commission" into the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol following a pro-Trump rally.  This may suggest the Democrats are mulling a new War on Terror — against domestic enemies.  Both Clinton and Pelosi also returned to the Trump-Russia collusion conspiracy theory, suggesting Russian President Vladimir Putin played a role in the Capitol riot.

Tucker Carlson:  Democratic Party is planning a war on half of America.  'Tucker Carlson Tonight' host accuses Democrats of 'plotting revenge' against the party they just defeated.  [Video clip]

The Great Healing Forward.  [Jack Posobiec on Twitter - Thread reader] WH source:  The NRA, Turning Point USA & Patriot Guard Riders are three of many non-militia groups on the list CID / FBI are using to cross reference in vetting for potential "extremists"  "YAF also on the list"  "They're looking at various TPUSA chapters in almost every university and high school where there is one (for example high school members who are in the future soldier program, which is Army's version of Delayed Entry Program) + college age soldiers obviously already in."  "Investigators also looking for the following in pictures:  MAGA / KAG apparel, Gadsden flag, Confederate Flag, NRA gear, Q stuff"  "Soldiers facebooks, twitters, instagrams, tik-toks and snapchats also being checked, units from deep red states such as Texas being thoroughly examined."  "Left wing, anarchist groups also listed but not a top priority, in fact zero have been investigated as of this evening.  Leaders in both Army + FBI have directed to focus attention on groups with "strong conservative sentiments"  "NCIS, AFOSI, CGIS also expecting to receive that directive from senior DoD officials in the coming days, this goes way beyond the inauguration.  It won't magically stop after tomorrow."

Big Brother has a bullhorn:
Eerie video shows Capitol warning message tested in desolate DC streets.  Eerie video footage shows emergency warnings being tested out before Inauguration Day in almost empty streets around the US Capitol.  A short clip recorded Saturday afternoon shows the usually bustling streets near the Capitol building in Washington, DC, almost completely empty after the district put up a ring of steel amid ongoing threats of violence.  Adding to the unsettling scenes, a loudspeaker repeatedly states, "This is a test of the US Capitol Police audible emergency notification system."

The painful symbolism of the 26,000 National Guard Troops in D.C..  Those of you who are reading this post are the type of people who pay attention to things.  That's why you already know that 26,000 National Guard troops drawn from all over America and from Puerto Rico, have assembled in Washington, D.C., in advance of Joe Biden's inauguration on Wednesday.  (That's about three divisions worth of troops.)  But have you given serious thought to what the troops' presence means?  I've heard from some optimistic people who believe that the troops are the last phase in a Trumpian plan to reclaim America and maintain it as a true constitutional republic, rather than the socialist tyranny the Democrats seem to have planned. [...] What's even more disturbing about the military presence is that, as Tucker [Carlson] points out, it appears that the Pentagon has thrown its weight entirely to the Democrat party.  Certainly, it is following the ludicrous "insurrection" narrative.  We see clearly that the one institution in America that was entirely non-partisan, at least at the upper levels, has become just another part of the Deep State.

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Usually the National Guard is called out AFTER a riot or a hurricane.  This is the only occasion I can remember where the troops came out in a show of force several days before they were needed.  And the impending event is an unknown threat that — whatever it is — surely doesn't require this amount of muscle.  It all looks very Venezuelan.  But then, so did the election.

Stop the Steal.  Using the Capitol breach as a pretense to censure all Trump supporters as insurgents, social media outlets are suspending or canceling the accounts of conservatives.  Deplatformed users are given anemic justifications that ironically overlook the existing accounts of the world's most brutal regimes and thousands of their propaganda posts.  Rebooting a plot line from Revenge of the Nerds, the CEOs and their algorithm wizards at Facebook and Twitter are hard at work giving online wedgies to anyone who dares to question a Biden presidential victory.  Alternative blogging sites, such as Parler and Gab, are demonized as havens for right-wing miscreants and Amazon Web Services has shown a willingness to sever connections to sites that offer sanctuary to such views.  Gone is all debate over partisan perceptions of hate speech.

The Political Theater of the National Guard's D.C. Occupation.  Lackadaisical security check-ins have become common since more than 25,000 guardsmen descended on D.C. last week.  I've heard reports of Capitol Hill workers breezing through security lanes and mantilla-draped church ladies rolling through Chinatown roadblocks uninhibited.  In the most dramatic instance, an office worker near the White House convinced two guardsmen to move a Humvee so he could park his car in a locked-down garage.  Pedestrians wishing to enter The Zone may also do so without much hassle.  The gates hanging off the seven-foot, non-scalable fence encircling the city's core are almost always left open and unguarded.  Inside, concrete barriers designed to prevent crowds from forming are easily stepped over.  National Guardsmen stand on nearly every street corner, holding unloaded guns and chatting amongst themselves.  Many are bused in daily from the Virginia suburbs, where they spend their evenings eating pizza and playing video games.  They're generally pretty friendly people.  This isn't their day job, after all.  They can afford to breathe a little.  But what a bizarre show they're putting on.  When I first visited The Zone, I was expecting an experience reminiscent of Soviet Russia, like something in a Tarkovsky film.

Former Facebook Executive Advocates for Reeducation and Deprogramming to Protect The U.S. Totalitarian State.  They are no longer hiding it any more.  The leftists are publicly demanding that government intervene using the same tactics deployed against ISIS propaganda to target wrong-think by conservative American citizens.  [Video clip]

AOC proposes funding to deprogram white supremacists.  The federal government needs to fund the de-programming of white supremacists and conspiracy theorists, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Friday night [1/15/2021].  "The White supremacist cause is futile, it's nihilist," AOC, a Democrat who represents parts of The Bronx and Queens, said during a virtual town hall meeting Friday night.  "Their world will never exist.  That's why we're seeing violence right now.," she said, speaking in the wake of the violent siege on the US Capitol by radical supporters of President Trump.  "We have to pick up those pieces."  Ocasio-Cortez said the House subcommittee on civil rights she serves on has held hearings over the prior two years on white supremacy and said there are programs to "de-radicalize" brain-washed adherents.

What's going on in Washington, D.C.?  [Scroll down]  Now, I am seeing pictures of Washington DC preparing to inaugurate Biden to the Presidency, while 25,000 armed troops are parading around, dividing the city into zones, barricading it, and walling it.  Guns bristling from Coast Guard ships in the Potomac.  It's chilling!  I also saw pictures of a mass of armed SWAT guarding Governor Newsom's home in Sacramento.  Against what, exactly?  What don't I know here?  I feel just a tad queasy, worried because this response is so far out of character for our country, and so over-the-top compared to anything that has happened — the incursion into the Capitol was small beer compared to the riots in many other cities all last summer.  There's also been virtually no coverage of who was involved in the January 6th events, other than seeing some BLM/Antifa types that were indeed involved freed without bail.

More U.S. Military Troops Needed To Install Joe Biden Than We Have in Afghanistan.  [There are] 25,000 troops needed at the U.S. Capitol to install the Biden administration.  How many armed soldiers do you need at the inauguration of the "most popular Presidential candidate in American history after the most secure election in history?" [...] The scale of the usurpation of the United States government is staggering to contemplate.  We have less troops in Afghanistan assisting with the implementation of democracy amid a failed foreign nation, than we do in the United States center of democracy.  The effort needed to install the Biden administration is staggering.  The images in Washington DC to pull-off that installation are stunning and heartbreaking.

'Walls don't work' update: 8-foot non-scalable fence around U.S. Capitol replaced by 12-footer.  The fence that was put up around the U.S. Capitol (that is expected to remain in place until at least next month) was replaced with an even higher fence this week:  [Video clip]  For those who spent the entirety of the Trump presidency hearing "walls don't work" it was interesting to find out that apparently they do work.

Biden Inaugural Like Baghdad:  Green Zone, Red Zone, Military Checkpoints to Enter and Leave Downtown D.C., Bridges Into City to Be Closed.  In the days leading up to the Biden inaugural, the nation's capital has been turned into an occupied military zone like Baghdad.  Armed troops authorized to use lethal force are manning checkpoints to enter and leave downtown Washington, D.C.  Green Zone and and Red Zone perimeters have been established.  Several bridges into the city from neighboring Virginia are scheduled to be closed next week for the inaugural.  Sean Spicer, President Trump's first press secretary and current Newsmax TV host, posted video apparently taken Friday night that shows a military checkpoint to leave D.C. near the Lincoln Memorial.  The video also shows cars on 16th Street near K Street parked in rows blockading the roadway.

A Startling Thread on the National Guard Presence in Washington, D.C., for Inauguration Day.  The timeline and nature of events on January 6th at the Capitol continue to unfold.  However, because of what happened that day and what federal law enforcement sees as credible threats, the security around Inauguration Day is taking on an ominous tone with at least 20,000 National Guard troops deployed. [...] To put it bluntly, members of our military have been deployed on American soil in what appears to be a temporary occupation around the area of the inauguration.  The Secret Service has established a "Green Zone" in the heart of the city, and bridges leading into Washington, D.C., will be closed beginning Tuesday.  Virginia State Police and the National Guard will be checking reasons for entry.  Murphy also notes that National Guard members are in full uniform, including ballistic helmets, and are armed.  This is not typical when the Guard is deployed because there are genuine concerns about the optics of the U.S. military being deployed against Americans on U.S. soil.

Apple's Tim Cook Just Comes Right Out and Says It About Canceling Parler: 'We Don't Consider That Free Speech'.  What, in a word, did Parler do, to first be removed from Apple and Google app stores, and ultimately kicked off Amazon servers in a blatant effort to eliminate Parler?  In a clip released Friday of an interview on this week's "Fox News Sunday" with host Chris Wallace [of course; safe space], Cook [said,] "We looked at the incitement to violence that was on there, and we, we don't consider that free speech and incitement to violence has an, has an intersection." [...] Want some more elitist arrogance from Cook?  He reminded Wallace that Apple has only "suspended" Parler, and if they "get their 'moderation' together, they would be back on there."  So who moderates the moderators, Tim?  You?  Dorsey?  The mayor of Zuckerville?  Who bestowed that responsibility on you?

About the resemblance of Biden's DC with Hunger Games and payback.  Biden and the Democrat majority, on the heels of the Covid-induced locked-down, shut down America, have quickly transformed the Capitol into a punitive, heavily guarded power center.  The Democrats scorned the wall on our southern border, erected to bolster America's sovereignty.  Now they have the gall to erect 12-foot walls around a swath of D.C.  What do they fear?  The Democrats who scream "racist" when logical, honest citizens advocate for voter ID, are now demanding identification checks and documentation to enter the city for Inauguration.  The Democrats, who falsely decried Trump's lack of transparency, have induced hotel chains to cancel all reservations for dates surrounding the inauguration, and are drowning out opposing dialog.  The Democrats, who falsely claimed Trump was a rabble-rousing propagandist, have ignited a war against all Trump supporters, elected and citizen.  The Democrats, whose battle cry has been "defund the police," now have twenty to twenty-five thousand National Guard forces protecting DC.

A ban on body armor?  Seriously?  Given the number of incredibly stupid ideas that get cooked up in the New York State legislature, it can be tough to point to any of them that truly stand head and shoulders above the rest in terms of idiocy.  But with a recent measure introduced a couple of weeks ago, we may have a candidate.  Democratic Assemblyman Jonathan G. Jacobson of Poughkeepsie has penned legislation that would ban the ownership of body armor for anyone except police officers in the state.  On top of that, Jacobson goes one step further and not only fails to grandfather any body armor purchased before the ban goes into effect, but commands that all currently owned vests be turned over to the police within two weeks or the owners would face fines and/or imprisonment.

Conservatives accuse liberals and Big Tech of using Capitol assault as pretext for censorship.  Conservatives say Big Tech companies, pressured by liberals, are using the Capitol attack to justify the unfair censorship of Republicans and the removal of platforms like Parler.  Nathan Leamer, former adviser to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai, said there was a "cabal of reporters, writers, influencers, who generally work at places like MSNBC, the New York Times, and such" who get to decide what is or isn't allowed on social media and who is or is not censored.  "Through their influence, they have a direct line to those in charge of the moderation practices of Twitter," said Leamer, who is now a vice president at the Republican strategy firm Targeted Victory.  Since last week's Capitol riots, almost all major social media platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, have announced bans, in some form, of President Trump's accounts, justified by arguing that they fear he will incite further violence.

Re-Open Cal Now, Day 2: Sheriffs John D'Agostini and Scott Jones — Constitutionality of the Lockdown Orders and the Rule of Law.  The necessary element of a "Police State" is cooperation from law enforcement to do just that:  "enforce" the orders given, no matter how burdensome, unreasonable, and more importantly, unconstitutional.  Thankfully, there are Sheriffs in certain California Counties who take seriously their oath to the Constitution, the rule of law, and their commitment to serve the people over and above a Governor's or unelected bureaucrat's executive orders or restrictions. [...] Then he laid out simpler questions that even a 6th grader could understand:
  •   What amount of force is appropriate to enforce health orders?
  •   If someone is resisting compliance to health orders, what sort of force is appropriate for us to use against that person?
  •   Are we supposed to cite someone or release them if they are violating health orders or are we supposed to book them in jail?
  •   What if we see a public official violating health orders?  As we've seen on the news, are we supposed to issue a warrant for that public official?
People in the audience actually yelled, "Yes!" to the last question, then everyone dissolved in laughter and applause.  Newsom's French Laundry debacle looms large in our legend.

AOC Says Congress may form commission to "rein' in media after Capital Riot.  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez revealed that Congress is looking into creating an investigative commission to "rein in" the media in the wake of the US Capitol siege.  During a lengthy Instagram Live on Tuesday evening where she revealed that she feared for her life during the siege, the "Squad" member accused the mainstream media of "spewing disinformation" ahead of the deadly riot in which five people died.  "There's absolutely a commission that's being discussed but it seems to be more investigating in style rather than truth and reconciliation," she said.  "I do think that several members of Congress in some of my discussions have brought up media literacy because that is part of what happened here," Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) went on.

The left closes in.  The left is, apparently, attempting to impose the complete destruction of First Amendment rights of roughly half of America's citizens.  In cases large and small, massive multinational corporations with no particular allegiance to the United States are colluding with members of the media and Democratic politicians to permanently silence dissent and cement their own power.

What Now?  Indeed, as scary as the situation may be right now, one thing's for certain:  worse is on its way.  The Democrats now control both houses of Congress and are about to be handed the executive branch.  The totalitarian-minded elements in that party are on the ascent, backed up by Silicon Valley, the legacy media, and much of corporate America.  And they're about to party like it's 1793.  In Paris.  The sky's the limit.  And therein lies our hope, long-term though it may well be.  Without doubt, these people will overreach.  Their lists will grow so long, their cancelations so widespread, that, as happened with the Reign of Terror, everyone who isn't clinically insane will finally realize that things have gone too far and will, in one way or another, put an end to the madness.  But how far will things have to go before that happens?

Patriot Act 2 is on the way, from the same author behind the smash-hit original.  Soon-to-be-President Joe Biden promised a new "domestic terrorism bill" back in November, according to the Wall Street Journal.  That is why you're seeing so much usage of the phrase "domestic terrorism" in the last couple of days.  It's the meme-phrase.  The primary talking point for this whole exercise.  It was underlined in all the memos sent out to all the media outlets.  That's why Joe Biden went to such lengths to distinguish "domestic terrorists" from "protesters" in his speech following the riots.  That's why the Council on Foreign Relations had an interview with a "counter-terrorism and national security expert" published within 24 hours of the incident, in which he spends 4 paragraphs arguing that the people who "stormed the capitol" were domestic terrorists.  That's why the Washington Post has got an article dedicated to "lawmakers and experts" arguing that the Capitol Hill protest was an act of "domestic terrorism".  And so have Vox.  And Mother Jones.  That's why ABC had an article about how "domestic terrorism and hate crimes" were a growing problem in America, a week before the riot took place.

The Conservative Purge Won't Stop With Big Tech.  Thousands of Trump supporters were purged on Twitter over the weekend, though the company claims the action was part of a routine audit to remove bots. [...] What should be of even greater concern, however, is the Democrats and their propagandists in the Mainstream Media who are encouraging what has become a political cleansing.  They want to punish anyone who supported President Trump.  It's not about reconciliation, it's about retribution.

Big Corporate Uses Capitol Riots To Push Communist-Style Social Credit System On Americans.  We appear to be at the beginning of a massive crackdown on people who have supported Donald Trump, led by big tech and big media.  These entities are making Trump into an example of their power to frighten the half of America that supported him in November.  We cannot allow them to intimidate us.  But they sure are trying, and on some, they will succeed.  They are using the excuse of an unrepresentative group of fools criminally ransacking U.S. Capitol offices with a lighter touch than many of this summer's often unpunished Black Lives Matter and Antifa rioters.  Remember:  Some of those rioters got away with murder, attacking public buildings including in state capitols, arson, and stopping ambulances from bringing wounded police into hospitals for treatment.  They were bailed out with the help of the incoming Democrat vice president.

Big Tech alums flow into Biden administration amid crackdown on Trump allies.  Senior employees of tech giants such as Facebook, Google and Twitter are preparing to join President-elect Joe Biden's administration amid a digital crackdown on President Trump's supporters.  The companies are purging their platforms after Wednesday's Capitol riot and break-in by Trump supporters, in the name of preventing more violence.  But skeptics fear potential government-sanctioned censorship and surveillance akin to the post-9/11 Patriot Act, which federal authorities secretly interpreted as allowing for the dragnet collection of domestic call records.

Biden-Big Tech-Big Media Dictatorship Begins.  Make no mistake, this is flat out fascism.  And it has been brewing in the precincts of the American Left for several years.  Arguably the opening round was in 2009 with efforts by Left-wing church elites to silence Rush Limbaugh.  They started a "So We Might See" campaign to get the FCC to silence Rush.  The campaign failed, backfiring when the rank and file of the churches saw my reveal of the campaign in The American Spectator, realizing it was their offering money that was being used to finance the silence-Rush campaign and even indoctrinate school children with leftist propaganda.  Also targeted was Lou Dobbs, then at CNN, Fox's Bill O'Reilly and Glenn Beck.  Three years later another campaign was launched to silence Rush, this time by targeting his advertisers.  That failed as well as Rush's listeners rallied to him.  Next, the focus shifted to Fox — specifically Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham, with attacks on their advertisers.  Now, in the era of social media, Silicon Valley tech elites have combined with Democrats and Big Media to target any and every conservative outlet, personality or show they don't like.  Free speech, the lifeblood of the American Republic, is being shut down.

Fascism Strikes in Pro-Trump County as School Superintendent Moves to Fire Teachers and Employees Who Attended Trump Rally.  On Wednesday, a crowd of American citizens estimated to exceed 100,000 gathered in Washington, DC, to peacefully assemble and listen to a speech from the President of the United States.  All but a handful of the attendees dispersed peacefully.  Nothing done by the people who carried the demonstration into the US Capitol takes away from the legality and propriety of attending a political rally headlined by the president.  But if you were a teacher in Jefferson County, WV, you just found out that it doesn't matter if the voters in the county voted overwhelmingly to reelect President Trump, all it takes to put your livelihood in jeopardy is to have a fascistic school superintendent who is totally unacquainted with the US Constitution, and your job is in jeopardy.

New California COVID Orders: Residents Can Travel No More Than 120 Miles From Their Homes.  Despite insanely restrictive lockdowns for 10 months, travel restrictions, quarantine requirements, business closures, mask mandates and school closures, California has some of the worst COVID numbers in the nation.  The state currently has a total of just over 3,800 COVID fatalities.  Of course, in a state of 40 million that is .0095% of the population, but we're really not allowed to put perspective on COVID-19 numbers these days.  That little tidbit was for the curious.  In a state like this one, there is no such thing as policy failure.  If a policy isn't working, we just get more of it.  On Wednesday, the California Department of Public Health announced new "guidance" for people in California who have the nerve to want to wander around their free country.  CDPH wants Californians to stay within 120 miles of their residences except for "essential" travel.

The Boot Is Coming Down Hard And Fast.  A lot's been happening really fast.  It's a white noise saturation day and it's impossible to keep track of everything going on, so I'm just going to post my thoughts on a few of the things that have happened.  Biden has announced plans to roll out new domestic terrorism laws in the wake of the Capitol Hill riot. [...] Did you know that Biden has often boasted about being the original author of the US Patriot Act?  The first draft of the civil rights-eroding USA PATRIOT Act was magically introduced one week after the 9/11 attacks.  Legislators later admitted that they hadn't even had time to read through the hundreds of pages of the history-shaping bill before passing it the next month, yet somehow its authors were able to gather all the necessary information and write the whole entire thing in a week.  This was because most of the work had already been done.

Trump-hating Lincoln Project announces it's assembling a blacklist.  Remember the Trump-hating Lincoln Project?  That was the big-dollar NeverTrump group that included among its luminaries George Conway, the unhinged Trump-hating husband of the unfortunate Kellyanne Conway.  They included many Dubya Bush administration operatives who'd been left out of the Trump administration and wanted revenge. [...] They're now back to their old tricks in the post-election, with a new game to please Democrats:  creating blacklists.  They've announced they've compiled a databasee of all Republicans who worked for President Donald Trump with the aim of ensuring they never land jobs in the private sector.

Liberal Reporter: 'The New... Authoritarian Liberal-left... Is Going to be Absolutely Ruthless'.  Liberal reporter Michael Tracey probably saw this event coming from miles away.  Months ago, he probably predicted it.  Actually, he did — sort of.  He said that Twitter's glorifying violence protocol is arbitrary and can never be fairly enforced.  This was the first wave of the social media giant censoring tweets from the president during the Minneapolis riots.  Last night, Twitter finally followed through on something they've probably have been waiting to do for months: ban Donald Trump.  After flagging and censoring his tweets, the storming of the Capitol Building was probably the last straw.  Trump is done on Twitter.  Yet, Tracey is not popping champagne.  If this company can do this to Trump, they can do it to anyone.  For those who are cheering this, you have no leg to stand on when these tech giants start coming after you.  Give it time.  It'll happen.  Tracey went on a lengthy series of tweets calling out liberals for celebrating this event, while also warning of an increasingly authoritarian future to come.

Silence Will Be the Next Hate Crime.  Attacking so-called "hate speech" has proven an effective Trojan horse technique by BLM and Antifa social justice warriors, who have incorporated Critical Race Theory (CRT) into their pernicious plans to dismantle the Constitution. [...] CRT does not hide its plans.  Quoting Audre Lorde, BLM brazenly declares:  ["]For the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.  They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change.["]  Note that "genuine change" means attacking good police, burning black businesses, and physically assaulting people whose ideas you don't wish to hear.  Actions speak louder than words:  "genuine change" means destruction, not healing; hate, not love; dictatorship.

Why I Am Joining The Jan. 6 DC March For Trump.  I am angry.  It's not a passing emotion brought on by a single circumstance.  This anger is a deep, painful, abiding anger created by a mix of frustration, despair, hopelessness, and injustice. [...] I'm angry because I've been playing by the "rules":  paying my taxes, being civil and tolerant of my neighbor, accepting without protest the election of past presidents I didn't support, and never threatening physical violence, using name-calling, canceling careers, using government goons to unlawfully spy to invent reasons for impeachment, or using media to misreport, misrepresent or otherwise create dissension and anger.  Yet the other side has carte blanche to do all this and more without condemnation, conviction, or retribution of any kind.

Waving Goodbye to the America We All Knew and Loved.  There is no doubt that our government does not run the way it was intended.  Congress seems incapable of doing the country's business.  What has it accomplished in the last four years aside from the ridiculous impeachment of the president and sending our tax money to countries that call us names?  Using the coronavirus as an excuse, government is trying to insinuate itself into every facet of our lives.  As we allow the government to tell us when we can leave our homes, when we can go to work, and under what circumstances we can run our businesses, we relinquish more and more of our independence.

NY State Pushes to Detain Infected — What is the Bigger Picture?  Let's set the stage with New York's fourth iteration of a bill.  It's a bill they are desperately hoping to pass that could change human rights and life as we know it.  I am going to paint a picture for you — one that ties multiple actions together — all operating under the same agenda, moving toward the same goal, and choreographed by the same united front.  It begins in New York, where a bill awaits a calendar date for a vote to allow the "removal of cases, contacts, and carriers of communicable diseases which are potentially dangerous to the public health."  The keyword here is "removal," but where to?  "A person who is detained in a medical facility, or other appropriate facility or premises, shall not conduct himself or herself in a disorderly manner, and shall not leave or attempt to leave such facility or premises until he or she is discharged pursuant to this section."  Discharged?  Oh yes, there are legal ramifications throughout this bill, including court orders if they need to hold you longer than a 3 or 5-day period, and especially if they need to exceed a 60-day hold.

New York Democrat's bill allowing governor to detain individuals dangerous to 'public health' sparks backlash.  A New York Democrat's bill that would allow the governor or his surrogates to detain individuals who pose a threat to public health "by a single order ... in a medical facility or other appropriate facility" sparked fierce backlash online.  New York State Assemblyman N. Nick Perry is sponsoring Bill A416, which will be referred to the Assembly's Health Committee on Wednesday [1/6/2021].  "So disturbing.  NY bill allows for the *removal and detention* of anyone who 'may be a danger to public health.'  Yes, that's purposely undefined," conservative podcast host Allie Beth Stuckey wrote on Twitter.  "Yes, it will be used, at least one day, to forcibly remove you or your children from your home for whatever reason the state sees fit."

Nationwide Action Alert:  Horns of Jericho — Sound At NOON ET Wednesday.  Many people cannot attend the Washington DC rally to support President Trump.  However, several groups have organized to share an action message that all patriots can take at noon Eastern on Wednesday January 6th. [...] The objective is for people coast to coast, regardless of their location at Noon ET on Wednesday, to blow their car horn in support of President Trump and the rally taking place in Washington DC.  Let the sound of our patriotic message carry with the same intensity as the Horns of Jericho.

It is now ILLEGAL to leave the house in Scotland.  Leaving the house in Scotland is now illegal after the country was thrown back into lockdown this morning after fears over the pandemic eclipsed those of last year.  The hardline crackdown, announced by Nicola Sturgeon, includes the legally enforceable stay-at-home rule.  It came after she described the current pandemic situation as the most concerning since March last year.  And this morning her deputy John Swinney confirmed police will take enforcement action on those breaking the rules.

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Now it is becoming clearer what FEMA camps are for.  [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

Losing Our Freedoms Without A Fight.  A Mask.  Wearing one isn't about loss of Freedom — it is about saving lives.  Stop the spread of the dread Covid-19!  Besides, it's just a piece of cloth.  You choose not to wear the mask; people vilify you.  Get with the program — put the cloth on... NOW!  In such a short period of time, so many Americans have blindly obeyed.  No one openly points out the 99% survival rate.  Or the fact getting the flu is far more dangerous to our population.  Yet, we act like sheep and go along with the mandate.  Rarely does anyone question a Freedom lost.  It appears Americans have no backbones.  I studied history as a minor in college and remember discussing what happened in WWII Germany could not occur here.  Their citizens mindlessly followed the government.  But now I see how a freedom can so easily be taken away with very little opposition.

2021: The Left Is Serious Now.  [Scroll down]  COVID may have been accidental (I say "may"), but Democrats sure picked up the ball and ran with it, destroying our economy and people's lives for no nobler a reason than to kill Trump's re-election chances.  Leftists do not care about us and are no longer trying to even maintain the pretense that they do. [...] They were ecstatic when China deliberately infected the world with its virus.  The only problem was, it killed only old people with comorbidities and those who were already sick. [...] They had to sell it — so they went wild with the pandemic porn.  They joined with media and Big Tech in overstating the danger, classifying almost every death as COVID to hype the number of cases and increase the panic.  They then used the contrived fear to seize power and destroy the economy. [...] Yet there is only so much our erstwhile kings can do to impoverish their subjects before they begin to realize the danger is not quite as dangerous as was claimed and these kings do not have their people's best interests at heart.  When the sky does not fall, subjects tend to notice that the sky is not falling.  Then you get rebellion.

Los Angeles Superspreader Task Force Detains at Least 900 at NYE Parties.  The Los Angeles County Superspreader Task Force detained at least 900 people after shutting down five New Year's Eve parties.  The task force also arrested or issued 90 citations and recovered at least six guns at the parties, three of them being in downtown Los Angeles, Malibu, and Pomona, KTTV reported.  The Malibu party was held at an upscale home after it had been promoted on Instagram.  The sheriff's department showed up in the middle of the party, warning the crowd via loudspeaker, "This is the LA County Sheriff's Department.  This superspreader party is now over.  Anybody who refuses to leave will be subject to arrest."  Hundreds of people were ordered to leave immediately or face arrest or citation.

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The right of the people peaceably to assemble is guaranteed by the First Amendment.

Let's Start Jailing Lawmakers Who Violate Their Own COVID Restrictions.  [Scroll down]  My commie Democrat mayor is something of an anomaly these days:  she hasn't been caught flouting the COVID restrictions handed down by the government.  Yet.  As we are all now well aware, there are more than a few who have.  California Gov. Gavin Newsom's mask-free mini-superspreader event at the pricey French Laundry is the most infamous of these recent transgressions.  In New York, Gov. Andrew "Fredo the Elder" Cuomo told the good citizens of his state to avoid traveling to see their families for Thanksgiving or having their families travel to see them.  After a few days of his finger-wagging, it was discovered that he was going to bring in his 89-year-old mother for Turkey Day.  Mrs. Cuomo is one of the few elderly people in New York who wasn't sent by her son to die in a nursing home.  It pays to be connected.

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No, don't jail the officials who violate their own restrictions.  Instead nullify and void any restrictions imposed by that official.

How to Steal an Election in Four Steps.  [Scroll down]  Alternately, if the coup succeeds and the Biden presidency is upheld the America we know is deceased.  Fill in the second date on the headstone.  There is no 2024. If Trump cannot beat the deep state as the incumbent, what challenger will ever displace them?  The USA will become another EU, a puppet democracy with fixed elections, making laws irrespective of the consent of the governed, intentionally hobbling itself via immigration policy, speech restrictions, and legislation that punishes non-pc groups.  By instituting polices that antagonize a would-be peaceful society and blaming it on freedom, leftist governments incentivize the people to want intervention, until a Soviet Union or a China is gradually achieved, leaving the people wondering what happened to their rights, while the puppeteers smirk.  Since the Civil War, this coup-dressed-as-election-fraud may be the most dire threat to America's survival as a free country.

COVID "Mutation" Stories Show That The Lockdowns Are Designed To Last Forever.  For many months now I have been warning that the design behind the pandemic lockdowns is a perpetual one; meaning, the lockdowns are MEANT to last forever.  We can see this in the very commentary of the establishment elites that are pushing for the mandates; their most frequent argument being that the pandemic restrictions are the "new normal". This assertion is outlined by globalists like Gideon Lichfield of MIT in his article 'We're Not Going Back To Normal'. [...] The so-called "great reset" and "Fourth Industrial Revolution" has been in development since at least 2014 when the terms were first being injected into the mainstream economic media.  The ideas of a cashless society, the "sharing economy", biometric mass surveillance, social credit scores, etc, have all been part of the globalist agenda for decades.  The coronavirus is merely a useful crisis for them to exploit as a rationale for the draconian measures they have always wanted.

Give Me Liberty or Give Me a Face Diaper.  We were going to enjoy our unmasked walk no matter how many compliant sheep we had to pass.  Lone bikers, near no one, were masked.  Lone joggers were masked.  One jogger would pull up her mask when she passed someone and then pull it down after passing.  Little kids were masked.  Mothers, fathers, teens on dates, and young guys were all masked.  I couldn't help but think how government school indoctrination had worked wonders on these obedient serfs.  Have years of helicopter parenting created such a pathetic generation of infant like rule followers?  Are they so willfully ignorant they can't do the basic research to realize masks don't work, based on CDC studies and the actual case rates in states and cities with mandatory masking and lockdowns?  Based on my observations, at least 60% of these people, out getting exercise and fresh air (not too fresh with a filthy diaper on their faces), were obeying their tyrannical politicians and bureaucrats, or entrapped in fear by a flu with a 99.7% survival rate.

Silent Obedient Consent.  I am saddened by how easily the totalitarians have been able to use fear, propaganda, lies and misinformation to turn the vast majority of Americans into compliant sheep.  It is so clear to me that this engineered flu panic is nothing more than another chapter in the scheme to enslave global populations under the thumb of global elitist billionaires who want to control us and enrich themselves.

Salon Owner Files Lawsuit Over Oregon Governor Threatening to Have CPS Take Her Kids for Defying Lockdown.  An Oregon salon owner has filed a $100,000 lawsuit against Gov. Kate Brown for threatening to have Child Protective Services take her children away.  The lawsuit also outlines damages she sustained due to extended closures and excessive fines issued against her.  Glamour Salon owner Lindsey Graham says that the governor began "terrorizing" her after she defied lockdown orders and reopened her salon in May.  She was fined $14,000 for the defiance.  "As soon as I tried to open my doors against the governor's mandate back in May, she came at me with the full weight of the state," Graham told Fox News during an interview with The Ingraham Angle on Monday [12/28/2020].

Without Our Constitution, We're Under Occupation.  I don't know if fed up Americans will rise up in the near future and defend their liberties against an ever more abusive and oppressive system of government, but I do know that 2020 has revealed vividly the post-constitutional wilderness the nation has entered.  Not since the days of slavery or internment have federal and local governments attacked the natural rights and freedoms of individual Americans so concertedly as they have this past year.  Arbitrary house arrests; the denial of religious freedoms; the closing of private businesses without any equitable measures of compensation; the intentional disregard for the destruction of private property while anarchists are given general grants of immunity; and the absolute refusal by governors, secretaries of state, attorneys general, and judges to provide for and ensure free and fair elections have combined to produce a lawless year in the United States.

Get Ready for the "Climate Emergency"?  It has been widely noted that many of our government leaders seem to like the air of crisis and the exertion of emergency power that the COVID pandemic has enabled.  And there has been open support among the climatistas applying the kinds of strictures used to battle COVID to climate change as well.  The superficiality of this parallel will be lost on lots of people — after all, how well are the lockdowns and mark-wearing mandates working?  Thus we are starting to hear calls for proto-President Biden to declare climate change to be a national emergency when he takes office.

You're It.  I have a sinking, terrible feeling that the inauguration of Joe Biden will go off uncontested and Americans will have swallowed another helping of humiliation for the sake of peace, in order not to be labeled a cultist for Donald Trump, white supremacists or right-wing extremist.  It's a sobering moment in American history. [...] Once Joe Biden (actually Kamala Harris or some other Obama lackey in the cabinet) takes power over the military, federal law enforcement and commands the higher ground of government authority, it will be too late.  Like many, I would prefer the legal system and the constitution be the answer to a stolen election, but the evidence is there, open and voluminous, but no judge will hear it, no court will review it.  Truth itself is not a weapon, acting as a result of truth is.  The courts don't want to act, because they know the patriot is a civil being, honoring life and liberty and they are not the threat that motivated and protected activists like BLM and Antifa are a threat.  This is one of those times in American history when the peaceful are forced to violence out of the refusal of government to simply follow the law.  They think electing Joe Biden will put the nation back on the path of traditional governance, as corrupt as it is, it's known.  Following the law and revealing the corruption leads them into the unknown.  They seek normalcy, it's sometimes more powerful and reliable than corruption.

Holiday in Handcuffs?  Our state is governed by a petty tyrant.  We've had a mask mandate since June and because he has unchecked power and was just reelected, he extends mandates in perpetuity.  He has done his best to suck joy out of everything.  Unlike Cuomo, our southern king issues edicts in secret.  He actively avoids the press and has deputized a legion of Karens to help with enforcement.  Unfortunately, we ran into one at church.  We arrived to Mass early and sat in our usual pew.  As we have done since the church reopened in May, we went maskless.  I've learned to ignore the stares and no one has ever said anything.

Are We Really Going to Build Back Better After a Dark Winter?  The globalist elites, along with the Deep State and social media tyrants of Silicon Valley are rich, influential, and arrogant.  They have stepped out from the shadows and are now blatantly flaunting their capture of our government, electoral systems, financial systems, mainstream media, social media, and medical complex.  They have gauged the intellectual, ethical, and mathematical aptitude of the masses and found them wanting.  They have no fear of significant pushback as they commit treason by stealing a presidential election, trashing the Constitution, destroying small business owners, impoverishing what remains of the middle class, and imposing totalitarian restrictions upon a compliant obedient populace.  A nation once populated by independent minded, self-reliant, frontiersmen has rotted from within, as the country is now populated by millions of weak minded, submissive, docile sheep, allowing themselves to be bullied and propagandized into paralysis, while texting, tweeting and facebooking their every mindless thought to their followers.  Unless the Trump forces can prove fraud on a multi-state basis or are willing to take the drastic step of utilizing the September 12, 2018 Executive Order regarding foreign interference in elections as justification for using the Insurrection Act in overturning the fraudulent outcome of the election, the end of the nation as we know it will have arrived.  Losing the two Senate runoff elections in Georgia would greatly accelerate the decline.

2nd Circuit Court Takes On 'Essential' Discrimination.  After practically a year of this, the courts are finally tackling some of the basic lockdown questions.  One of the most basic of these is the entire premise that some businesses are essential while other businesses are non-essential.  And that these decisions about which business is essential and which business is non-essential can be made by political leaders.

"I'm Not Crazy!" — This American Has Had Enough.  As [2020] comes to an end, public outcries against various officials' authoritarian orders grow louder in the face of an increasing body of scientific studies exposing the lies (that Fauci just admitted to).  As more and more 'members of the public' educate themselves on the reality of the virus — its contagiousness, its deadliness, the ineffectiveness of mitigation techniques, and the fallacies of COVID test results — at least one American has "had enough", in her own words, "I'm not crazy... I'm done!"

Top Pandemic Scientist Admits Emulating Communist Chinese Model To Strip Civil Liberties Away.  Professor Neil Ferguson, an epidemiologist who played a key role in convincing the British government to adopt lockdowns, revealed that the country's lockdowns were meant to emulate those carried out by the Chinese Communist Party — modeled to strip civil liberties and exert authoritarian control over citizens.  In Ferguson's recent interview with The Times, he revealed that lockdowns he championed as part of Britain's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) Board, were rooted in those carried out by the Chinese Communist Party.  Dubbed "Professor Lockdown" by many for his contributions to swaying the British government to adopt stringent lockdown measures, Ferguson ultimately stepped down from the SAGE board after he violated his own lockdown protocols.

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Covid-19 is not about public health.  Maybe it was at first, but now it's about authoritarianism and control.

California Bar Owner Reaches Desperation Point — Blocks COVID Health Dept Enforcer, Confronts Police.  Carlos Roman is the owner of a Bread & Barley restaurant in Covina, California, who reached his breaking point with health inspectors and COVID compliance officers when a public health dept. official ordered his restaurant to shut down.  Mr. Roman decided if he was going to lose everything; if his employees were going to lose their livelihoods; if the system was going to destroy them under the weight of unilateral decrees and fiats; then he was going to block the health inspector from doing his job.  The police were called-in to deal with Carlos Roman's act of defiance.

Rep.-elect Victoria Spartz, raised in Soviet country, says it's 'crazy' for Americans to want socialism here.  Rep.-elect Victoria Spartz grew up in Soviet-controlled Ukraine and saw the "misery" that occurs when socialism fails.  So the incoming GOP representative is alarmed by how the left, especially young people, have embraced socialism here in America as a solution.  She left Ukraine at the age of 21 for America for the promise of love and new opportunities.  Yet 21 years later, Spartz says her journey has come "full circle" as socialism is again at her doorstep.  "[I'm] going full circle in my 42 years of life.  It's unbelievable for me," Spartz, R-Ind., told Fox News in a recent interview in Washington.  "Of all of the countries in the world, our country put so much against this utopic socialistic idea that it's crazy for me to see how quickly we made the turn to the left."

5 Armed Police Disgracefully Shuts Down California Hair Salon!  Without warning, Wednesday, uniformed officers with the California Department of Consumer Affairs entered the Pomp Salon in North Stockton's upscale Lincoln Center.  "About five armed state police officers burst into our salon shouting drop everything you're doing.  Stop, you're being shut down," said Vicki Kirk, salon co-owner.  [Video clip]

Restaurant Owner Gives The Speech Of A Lifetime For Freedom.  Not sure who this gentleman is or which business he owns but his speech about a revolution that needs to be had is one for the ages.  This man is correct, there will never be a return to normal, now that the dark forces have discovered what control America's overlords can have over the people, bypassing the Constitution in the name of a so-called pandemic.  [Indeed], they were even to steal an election in broad daylight while using COVID as a battering ram.  [Video clip]

UNITE, Now is The Time — If Not Now, When?  Now is the time to unite, resist and push back against the unilateral decrees of local and state officials who have weaponized COVID compliance to destroy our nation.  An impassioned plea directly into the heart of patriots from coast to coast. [...] Those who construct the systems of control need to weaponize fear.  Fear of arrest; fear of losing a business; fear of losing liberty or financial security.  Local, regional and state officials rely on fear.  As soon as the people are no longer fearful, the control ends.  The overwhelming majority of dictates around COVID-19 mitigation are not laws.  There was no debate; no input from representative government; and no option for the public to weigh-in on the decisions.

If you want to travel next year, you may need a vaccine passport.  Now that coronavirus vaccines are starting to roll out in the US and abroad, many people may be dreaming of the day when they can travel, shop and go to the movies again.  But in order to do those activities, you may eventually need something in addition to the vaccine: a vaccine passport application.  Several companies and technology groups have begun developing smartphone apps or systems for individuals to upload details of their Covid-19 tests and vaccinations, creating digital credentials that could be shown in order to enter concert venues, stadiums, movie theaters, offices, or even countries.

Rand Paul:  Americans Should Never Have Allowed Governors to Become 'Dictators' Over COVID.  Sen. Rand Paul [M.D.] is sounding the alarm again over our continuing loss of liberty in the age of the coronavirus, and he's certainly not wrong.  In particular, the Kentucky Republican says Americans should really be pushing back — hard — on governors who have become "dictators" with their lockdowns, restrictions, and mandates, none of which, at this point, have anything at all to do with 'the science.'  "You know, nobody ever intended that governors would be sort of czars or dictators in charge of the economy," said Paul in a Christmas morning interview with Newsmax.

Marc Morano:  We Will Go From COVID Lockdowns To "Climate Lockdowns" Under Biden.  Climate Depot publisher Marc Morano warned Biden and Democrats are using the COVID lockdown model to prepare for "climate lockdowns" in an interview Monday night with FOX News host Tucker Carlson.  "The CEO of Harris Polling lamented that climate went from a top-tier issue in his poll, to second to last of all issues in the past year," Morano said.  "So they're freaked out that no one is talking and no one cares about climate among the public." "What they're trying to do, you saw Biden elude to it there with 'Build Back Better.'  They're trying to essentially use the COVID lockdown model for the climate emergency model.  And they are going to go from COVID lockdowns to climate lockdowns," Morano said.  "Senator Merkley (D-OR) came out today and is urging a President Joe Biden to declare a national climate emergency which would give him emergency powers that he could bypass democracy, much in the same way that blue-state governors have already done with the COVID lockdowns," Morano said.  [Video clip]

Will we go quietly into the night?  We've watched the rise of totalitarianism in disbelief as it has taken hold in the form of lockdowns, riots, censorship, and election fraud.  We have, for the most part, been obedient as a handful of "experts" told us what we can and cannot do after the coronavirus swept in.  We've tolerated demands to close our businesses, schools, and churches, not leave our house or have contact with aging loved ones, among other demonic edicts.  We've stood silently by as a "reimagined" police force issued citations, forcibly removed people from public spaces, padlocked doors, and made arrests because someone dared to live as a free American.  We've even been physically attacked while expressing support for the police, as the police stood by and did nothing.  On the heels of coronavirus lockdowns, came riots across the country as law enforcement was told to stand down.  And they obeyed.  Then the left pulled a poison arrow from their quiver and stole the election in their final coup attempt to deny a duly elected President his second term.  And nary a soul went to jail for any of it.  We're living in a world gone mad.  Lawlessness and criminal behavior has become a norm and no one does a thing to stop it.

PA restaurant owner opens in defiance of shutdown orders.  Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf has continued to shut down or severely limit the operations of restaurants and bars around his state as part of his COVID response plan.  While this isn't unique in terms of what other states have done, the constant cycle of closing and opening has put a lot of owners on the brink of extinction and kept tens of thousands of workers in the food service industry on the unemployment lines.  But out in Washington County, Pennsylvania, just south of Pittsburgh, one owner of a popular eatery decided this week that enough was enough.  Michael Passalacqua, the owner of Angelo's Restaurant, announced earlier this week that his restaurant would be reopening on Friday with the usual social distancing protocols in place and the public was invited to come down for a meal.  And what will he do when Governor Wolf sends in the troops to bring him to heel?  He says he'll deal with it.

Legislators must reclaim power over health and elections or risk being sidelined.  In the Missouri state House, we represent the people.  Because of state legislators' small districts, we are more accountable to the electorate than either federal representatives or the governor.  The governor is not the "legislators' boss."  Rather, the branches are separate and equal.  It's time to remind legislators in every state of not only our power but also our obligations.  In 2020, when state legislators across the country faced massive executive overreach due to the pandemic and a deeply contentious election, it's more important than ever that we step up to defend our constitutional role as the mouthpiece of the voters.  This year, executive overreach has been more contagious than COVID-19.  Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer issued 192 executive orders with far-reaching consequences, making would-be laws on everything from school closures to turning Michiganders into criminals for operating their businesses — or even boating on the lake.

Dem doc: re-educate Trump voters, purge social conservatives from government.  Congressional Democrats back "Secular America," a group that has sent a 28-page document to the Biden transition team advising him to strip First Amendment rights from Christians who advocate traditional biblical positions on the sanctity of life, marriage, education, and the nuclear family, Harbinger's Daily reports.  The letter was titled, "Restoring Constitutional Secularism and Patriotic Pluralism in the White House:  Prepared exclusively by Secular Democrats of America PAC for President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris Transition Team."  The document, presented by Reps Jamie Raskin, D-Md., and Jared Huffman, D-Calif., and endorsed by Rep. Jerry McNerney, D-Calif., states that an incoming Biden administration must "educate the American public," particularly those identified as the "religious right," on the need to keep their "religious dogma" to themselves.  The document calls for a purge of social conservatives from all levels of government, labeling them as "white nationalist" and "conspiracy theorists."

Mob Law:  Time 'to Put the Foot Down Firmly'.  Government will collapse, Lincoln warned, when good men who obey the laws become so disgusted with a government that no longer protects them, that they feel they have nothing to lose.  We're getting there.  Today, we've seen the "vicious portion" of our population loot, burn buildings, and beat innocent people "at pleasure" and — shockingly — "with impunity."  They do it in plain sight, repeatedly, and are applauded by political vultures as peaceful protesters.  It's made the legs of government a bit wobbly.  But the street mobs are small beans compared to America's most dangerous hordes:  High-level, white-collar mobs who work like maniacs to uproot the philosophical underpinnings of the American Revolution and the Judeo-Christian ethic.  They are politicians, judges, rogue intel alums, media, activist organizations, celebrities, leftist billionaires, tech companies, and educators who butcher our history, defy our laws, and give moral and financial support to the thugs who loot and burn things to enforce white-collar mob law.

What's happening in Minnesota bodes ill for Democrats.  Across America, the Wuhan virus has allowed Democrats to implement some of their long desired plans for "reforming" America in a properly Marxist mold.  One of the most hallowed plans, which academia promotes, is "de-incarceration" (i.e., ending prisons).  The other one, although it's kept hush-hush, is to end that pesky, morality-driven, hardworking, freedom-loving middle class.  Minnesota's Governor Tim Walz is working on both issues, with disastrous results for good people.  That's why this arrogant societal manipulation could soon prove to be the Democrats' downfall. [...] For the crime of feeding her family, Walz, through the Minnesota attorney general's office, is filing documents to imprison [Larvita] McFarquhar for trying to stay afloat.

Do you see the difference?  In casinos, theaters, and bowling alleys people don't talk to each other.
Michigan extends indoor dining ban but allows casinos, cinemas, bowling alleys to reopen.  Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and state officials have extended a ban on in-person dining at restaurants through Jan. 15, while reopening casinos, bowling alleys and stadiums as well as allowing for in-person learning at Michigan high schools.  The casinos, cinemas, bowling alleys and stadiums are allowed to reopen on Monday [12/21/2020] with restrictions, according to a Department of Health and Human Services document obtained by The Detroit News.  Their capacity will be capped at 100 people, food and drink concessions must remain closed and social distancing must be observed.  "These past few weeks, Michiganders across the state stepped up and did their part to slow the spread of COVID-19, and because of our collective hard work, we are now able to begin the steps to carefully lift some of the protocols we have in place," Whitmer said.  "I am encouraged by the progress we have made since early November, and will continue to monitor the data closely during and after the holidays."

A Christmas Message for Dr. Fauci.  No one can be this clueless.  Not even Democrats.  Not even moronic Democratic governors.  Not even nanny-state government bureaucrats like Dr. Anthony Fauci.  Fauci just asked Americans to cancel Christmas.  He said, "...it's just one of those things you're going to have to accept."  He reported he would not even allow his own three daughters to come home for Christmas this year.  He wants all Americans to "painfully" isolate.  He says he and his wife will be spending the holiday alone.  I have a message for Dr Fauci: "[...] This is America.  This is a free country.  If we want to celebrate Christmas, we will.  If we want to go to church, we will.  If we want to spend the holidays with our children, we will.  We're adults.  We make our own decisions.  This isn't a nanny state.  It's not the Soviet Union.  It's not Nazi Germany.  We don't need government bureaucrats telling us what to do, how to live our lives or how to spend the holidays.

Robert Kennedy Jr Warns of COVID Compliance Creating The Dystopian End Game.  There are many issues where we may disagree with Robert Kennedy Jr., the weaponization of COVID fear is not one of them.  In this short video Robert Kennedy Jr, a passionate advocate against forced vaccinations of all types, talks about how professional politicians will lie to create the underlying source of their power, dependency.  [Video clip]

Top Ranking Catholic Cardinal Says COVID-19 Used To Advance 'Godless And Murderous Agenda', Usher In 'Great Reset'.  In early November, an Italian archbishop and Pope Francis foe, Carlo Maria Vigano, launched an attack against those behind pandemic lockdowns across the globe, warning President Trump in a letter of the coming "Great Reset" whose architects are "a global élite that wants to subdue all of humanity, imposing coercive measures with which to drastically limit individual freedoms and those of entire populations."

COVID Hysteria Serves Desire for Power.  We finally reached peak COVID-19 madness last week, when a family was ejected from a United Airlines flight because their two-year-old girl could not tolerate a muzzle.  So, on the apparent theory that you can't be too safe or too careful, even from a two-year-old, the airline enforced its zero-tolerance policy and booted the girl and her family from the plane.  "The health and safety of our employees and customers is our highest priority ... everyone onboard two and older wears a mask," said the airline.  "These procedures are not only backed by guidance from the CDC and our partners at the Cleveland Clinic, but they're also consistent across every major airline." In case you're unaware, doctors, immunologists, and epidemiologists are now the highest authorities in the land.  Under their very own mini-Mussolini, Dr. Anthony Fauci, they can override our constitutional liberties, such as freedom of assembly and religion, severely constrict our freedom of speech, limit our movements, commandeer our businesses, and eliminate our livelihoods with complete impunity.

When 2-Year-Olds Are Thrown Off Airplanes, You Know America Has Changed.  You may have seen the video of the family thrown off a United Airlines airplane because the 2-year-old daughter would not wear a mask.  Though the family wore masks and the father promised to cover his daughter's face with a mask that he placed on her face, it made no difference.  Though the child was completely asymptomatic, and though it is exceedingly rare for a child to transmit COVID-19 to an adult — that is why Sweden kept its schools open all spring and summer, with its students not wearing masks — the airline had its orders, and the flight attendant duly obeyed them.

Illegitimate Government and Control Mechanisms Require The Elimination of Communication.  It is not coincidental that bars and taverns have been targeted for closure and control under the auspices of 2020's COVID-19 fear and mitigation.  It is not coincidental that churches and fellowship gatherings have been targeted for closure and control under the auspices of COVID-19 fear and mitigation.  Both of these assembly points and gathering places have a deep history within the American rebellion. [...] Fast forward 250 years later and the modern rebellion against leftist authoritarianism is now facing an identical issue.  Individual members of the rebel alliance are having to use covert methods just to meet and discuss issues, grievances and concerns about liberty.  Additionally, modern social media communication has been intentionally throttled.  As seen in the recent actions by Google/YouTube any challenge to the command and control authority will not be permitted.  Any voices who raise questions about the legitimacy of our government will be silenced.  The effort to block communication is happening in real places (bars and taverns) and in the digital space (the internet).

Angry California Restaurant Owner Confronts Inspectors:  Why Are You Fining Me For Trying To Keep My Business Open?  Via the Daily Caller, which happened to be on the scene interviewing business owner Anton Van Happen when two California health inspectors showed up.  That sounds like an incredible coincidence but it isn't.  He's been trying to organize a little commercial rebellion against the new regional stay-at-home order, which I assume is why the Caller — and the inspectors — wanted to talk to him.

Time To Heel — Or Fight.  I'm infuriated every time I see an Applebees, Wal-Mart, or Amazon commercial touting their bravery and fortitude during these troubled times.  These mega-corporations, with powerful lobbying departments and unlimited financial resources, have reaped tremendous profits and seen their stock prices soar to all-time highs, while hundreds of thousands of small restaurants and retailers have closed for good.  Somewhere between one-third and one-half of all small businesses in America have closed or will close permanently.  The [disingenuous] slogan "We are all in this together" has been beaten to death by the propaganda media, while our wealthy elite overlords work remotely in their multi-million-dollar mansions, doing their daily Peleton workouts, sending their kids to expensive private schools and dining on white truffles and caviar at the French Laundry for $1,200.  We are not in this together.  It's us and THEM.  You know who THEY are.

N.J. Gym Owner Fined $1 Million for Refusing to Close Has a Message for Gov. Phil Murphy.  Atlas Gym has been continuously harassed by the government of New Jersey for refusing to shut its doors or impose mask mandates on its clients.  Owner Ian Smith has made headlines for staying open despite orders from the state to close up shop.  But now he's back with a viral video message he made for Governor Phil Murphy.  I don't think the state's sanctions on him are working, do you?  Filming in a full gym, Smith stands defiant against government interference with his right to work and feed his family.  I wish every business owner in America was this courageous.  That's all it would take to end the unfair targeting of small businesses while huge corporations are allowed to turn profits without fines.  Resist!

The Social Tyranny that Threatens Thoughtful Americans.  What we are witnessing today on our streets, in our businesses, in our schools where we play, and even in our homes is not tyranny by Big Brother, but a social tyranny.  John Stewart Mill's classic political philosophy treaties On Liberty warned not only against tyranny by government but what he called "social tyranny."  Social tyranny, Mill writes, is when we are told what is socially acceptable to think, say, and do.  An influential group in society, not the actual government, makes us do things at first we normally would not do, then over time they make us do things without thinking, to making us do things that are, well, unthinkable!  While Mill warned against a social tyranny by a majority that was promulgating what is customary, today we see social tyranny played out by a small, but growing group of citizens that has a chilling effect on the lives of the majority of Americans.  Do what the street mob wants or risk ridicule, be ostracized, suffer economic ruin, or be labeled a racist; and if this is not enough, we risk bodily harm.

Put on the handcuffs, hide under the bed and stay there.  We've never seen anything like it, have we — some state governments not just advising people on how to spend Thanksgiving with their families, but dictating how they do it or whether they do it at all?  Here was totalitarianism unknown in American history, cops just maybe arresting you if there were too many people at the table, and it did not stop there.  Some states have also dictated how many people can go to church despite precautions being taken.  And, yes, it is totally proper to give advice, to say lives could be at stake from COVID-19 if large numbers were gathering in close proximity, and, to go further, to say this isn't just about you but about the harm you can do to others through transmission.  But here's the thing.  If government travels an autocratic, unprecedented route with the pandemic, what's going to happen to liberty generally and with other matters, such as climate change?

COVID-19 And The Great Reset:  Global Effort "to revamp all aspects of our societies and economies".  Quite a few people today appear to have opted to give up a great deal of their liberty for what they perceive as safety, yet few of them are starving or especially threatened.  What they seem to want is absolute safety or something close to it, as so many people's reaction to COVID has demonstrated.  The COVID pandemic was a big test of an approach called The Great Reset, and the reaction to the rules promulgated in response to the disease has led The Great Reset's leftist boosters to feel that they can go ahead without too much objection.  The Great Reset is no shadowy conspiracy theory, either; its basic outline is right out there in the open.

As COVID-1984 Accelerates, Bill Gates Blames "Freedom" For Spread of the Virus.  Recently, Bill Gates gave an interview to the Rothschild partially owned Economist.  In this interview, Gates was asked about how he views the U.S. response to the outbreak.  His reply was:  ["]Aside from the high 'risk money' the US ponied up for vaccine research and development, he think the U.S. is doing a poor job overall.["]  Gates proceeded to directly blame the poor response on lack of preparation, but also freedom.  Yes, Bill Gates blamed our freedoms for the spread of the virus.  Bill Gates then went on to praise China's authoritarian response and said, despite the fact that people's rights were violated, China's response was really amazing!  This is right out of the 2010 Rockefeller Lock Step document that laid out a scenario for a world of tighter top-down government control and more authoritarian leadership.

Canadian Restaurant Owner Charged With 'Trespassing' [on his own property] After Reopening in Defiance of Lockdown Orders.  At 11:00 a.m. on Tuesday, November 24, Adam Skelly opened his BBQ restaurant in Toronto and began serving customers.  Under ordinary circumstances, this would have been unremarkable.  But on that day, it was an act of political defiance, because a recent lockdown order prohibited restaurants like his from providing indoor and outdoor dining services.  Skelly, a 33-year-old husband and father of two, was specifically ordered to close by Toronto Public Health later that day, but he opened again on Wednesday and made it clear that he would continue operating as normal.  Then, early Thursday morning the police changed the locks on the restaurant to bar his access, and when Skelly showed up later that morning he was met by a significant police presence.  Police allowed him into a back part of the building behind the restaurant, but then he and his employees secretly broke into the restaurant from the back and kicked down the newly locked front door.

The Constitution is immune to coronavirus power-grabs.  In a matter of 244 years, we have gone from the understanding that "governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed" to "shut up, mask up, and obey your governors."  Amid the reams of debate written on the data, science, math, and policies undergirding the unprecedented governmental response to coronavirus, there is shockingly very little discussion about the legality of crushing the most foundational rights imaginable.  Can executive officials merely tout "COVID" in a sentence at a press conference and rule over our lives in any way they want for as long as they want?  This is the discussion that was needed eight months ago, but there's no time like the present to embark on it.

Cops raid home of fired Florida data analyst Rebekah Jones who accused state of misleading citizens on COVID.  Florida state police raided the home of a former data analyst for the Florida Department of Health on Friday, who claims Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) "sent the gestapo" to get her to "shut up."  Rebekah Jones was fired from her position in the DeSantis administration in May for allegedly modifying the state's COVID-19 dashboard unilaterally without authorization.  She claims the state was misleading citizens on the coronavirus numbers, and now she runs her own COVID-19 tracking sites from her house.  Jones tweeted Friday that state police served a warrant at her home that morning and seized property, claiming that officers "pointed a gun in [her] face" and "pointed guns at [her] kids."  She posted accompanying video showing the purported scene from inside her home as police entered.  Armed officers can be seen walking through the hallway, and pointing their firearms upward as they called for Jones' husband to come down the stairs.  Neither Jones' husband nor the couples' children are seen in the footage.

Cops raid home of Rebekah Jones, who said she was fired for not doctoring COVID-19 data.  Florida police on Monday [12/7/2020] raided the home of a former state data scientist who claimed she was fired from the Department of Health for refusing to doctor coronavirus figures.  Rebekah Jones posted video on Twitter showing officers with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement drawing their guns as they entered her house in Tallahassee.  "They pointed a gun in my face.  They pointed guns at my kids," she wrote.  Jones — who has been a vocal critic of Gov. Ron DeSantis' handling of the pandemic since she was canned in May — said agents seized her phone and computer.  "They claimed it was about a security breach.  This was DeSantis.  He sent the gestapo," she wrote.  [Video clip]

What Leftists Don't Get about Evil and the Law.  [Scroll down]  Churches have been meeting together for prayer and fellowship since before Pentecost.  During the early days, when the Roman Empire declared Christianity an outlaw religion, Christians were forced to meet secretly in caves and basements to avoid arrest, imprisonment, and death by torture, crucifixion, or lions.  Today, we're seeing a return to that same mentality among the secular left.  Governors and mayors around the country have used the excuse of the Wuhan virus to crack down on religious services, particularly of the Jewish and Christian variety (I dare say they're being somewhat more circumspect in their dealings with Muslim gatherings.)  Churches met regularly for services during the Black Plague in Europe (1346-1353) and every other pandemic or disease outbreak before and since.  Individuals were understood to have the capacity to make their own rational decisions about what was best for them and their families without being forced to obey a one-size-fits-none government mandate.

Democrat governors are the new royalty.  Power is intoxicating.  Until the COVID lockdowns I was unaware of the fact that so many Democrat governors and mayors want to destroy the small entrepreneurs — especially restaurant owners — who give our cities so much of their energy and vigor.  Who knew?  Well, now we know.  People are fighting back. [...]

Dehumanizing Americans.  As was the case in the USSR, powerful entities such as the media, academia and radicals in seats of power, visible and invisible, are openly hostile to the majority of American citizens.  Covid-19 regulations have psychologically strip searched every citizen.  Nearly the entire populace has been under the equivalent of house arrest. [...] Isn't it apparent that millions of Americans are enduring the equivalent of solitary confinement as the lockdowns continue indefinitely?  Isn't it clear the universal masking of the human face and the forced distancing from one another has distorted all relationships?  How many millions search for a human glance from individuals rendered featureless?

The Plot Against the Small Businesses.  As we near a year of lockdowns and sheltering in place, the long-term effects of pandemic policy on the economy are becoming clearer.  Almost every piece of legislation ostensibly designed to curb the spread of the coronavirus and protect workers has wreaked devastation on small businesses — while benefiting the largest corporations.  Roughly 100,000 small businesses have permanently closed due to COVID-19, while big-box retailers, tech giants, and pharmaceutical manufacturers have seen record profits.  America's small businesses currently face an attack on all fronts.  First, there are the more visible policies (e.g., lockdowns, mask mandates, and social distancing requirements) that strongly discourage people from patronizing brick-and-mortar retailers and restaurants.  These policies impact small businesses more than large chains and corporations.

The Great Reset and Klaus Schwab.  [Scroll down]  Instead, the Great Reset will remake the world — in Schwab's words, "to create a more inclusive, resilient and sustainable world going forward," all the platitudes neatly packed into one sentence.  Private property deforms the natural relations between human beings and must be abolished.  Private transportation will not be allowed.  "Contrary content" in the printing or production of materials will not be permitted, at the cost of access to social media and Internet domains.  Fossil fuels will be replaced wholesale by Green technologies.  Home gardens will be outlawed.  The Christian faith will be gradually suppressed (as is happening today).  Vaccines will become mandatory.  Society will become "cashless" and all standard monetary transactions replaced by digital currency and governed by electronic means, which can be cancelled by reigning authority at the slightest provocation.  Debts will be forgiven and creditors will face the prospect of bankruptcy.  The middle class and small entrepreneurs will be wiped out.  Commerce will become progressively "contact-less."

The Deep State and Democratic Party join hands against America.  Voters who imagine that they control what the government does are mistaken.  Our federal government is really at the mercy of the huge unelected bureaucracy, the Deep State, that represents the "big" in our bloated federal government.  Everybody who lives within 15 miles of Washington is part of it, or so it seems.  Of all the ways in which the Left is attempting to redefine America, its support for an enormous bureaucracy has been the most successful.  The people we elect — the president and Congress — are merely a front for the Deep State.  The federal government has become separated from the American public that it is supposed to serve.  Deep State power has reached the point where it is beyond the reach of constitutional safeguards.  "As the administrative state grows," says Mark Levin in Ameritopia, "the vote is less effective and the individual is increasingly disenfranchised."

'Because I Said So' Government Is a Disaster.  If any lesson has been driven home during the last year, it is that the public must stop thinking for itself and let the government do its thinking for it.  Questioning the wearing of masks is called "unpatriotic."  Questioning the authority of local politicians to ban family and church gatherings is called "selfish."  Questioning the legitimacy of the presidential election is called "dangerous."  In the United States, however, the government is not meant to be separate from the people. [...] There is nothing consensual about "because I said so" governing.  That's "rule by authority," a whole other monster that Americans have fought on global battlefields since the country's founding.  It's way past time for Republicans and Democrats holding elected offices to understand that millions of Americans find the wide proliferation of "because I said so" government as dangerous as any virus or any foreign attack.  Representative government in the United States is hanging by a thread, and there's nothing wrong with saying that out loud.

Garcetti issues stronger warning to Angelenos: 'Hunker down ... cancel everything'.  Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti is again asking Angelenos to cancel all non-essential activities and "hunker down" as the city experiences a dangerous surge in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations.  The city revised its "Targeted Safer at Home Order" late Wednesday [12/2/2020]. While the new restrictions and allowable activities mirror those issued by Los Angeles County last week, the language and messaging is far stronger than before.  "Subject only to the exceptions outlined in this Order, all persons living within the City of Los Angeles are hereby ordered to remain in their homes," the mayor's order states.

What is the difference between this and martial law?
Los Angeles Orders Residents to 'Remain in Their Homes' or Face Fines, Jail Time.  Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti on Wednesday ordered residents to stay in their homes, with some exceptions, or face fines and jail time.  "Subject only to the exceptions outlined in this Order, all persons living within the City of Los Angeles are hereby ordered to remain in their homes," Garcetti, a Democrat, said in a public health order.  All public and private gatherings of any number of people from more than one household are prohibited, except for outdoor faith-based services and outdoor protests.  All travel, including travel on foot, bicycle, and scooter, is prohibited.  Only people participating in so-called essential activities are exempt from the order.  Those activities include all health care operations, grocery stores, and all media outlets.

Enough Already: 'Governor, May I?' Must End.  Where do these governors get the nerve to run point on a massive election fraud scheme?  Actually, we the people are giving them this power.  Though our Founders created a government by the people, we are allowing others to usurp that power, to take that power from us.  Enter the "pandemic," where state officials openly reject the Constitution and make government the ruling authority.  We've allowed their tyranny, and now we're trapped in a sick game of "Governor May I" where we need the governor's permission for every move we make.

Webster's New World College Dictionary, Third Edition, 1997, page 92.

The Georgia Runoffs and Our Embattled Constitution.  If Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff win Georgia's Jan. 5 Senate runoffs, Democrats will control both houses of Congress as well as the presidency.  The Republican Party, which won nearly half the national vote, will have no check on the Democrats, aside from the Senate's filibuster rule.  Although that rule requires a supermajority to pass some legislation and appointments, it can be abolished by a simple majority when the new Senate convenes.  Preventing one-party rule is one of the strongest arguments advanced by Republican incumbent Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue.  They are reminding voters of the threat posed by Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer, who proudly announced:  "Now we take Georgia, then we change the world."  That might be a winning line for national fundraising, but it's more problematic for the Georgia electorate.  Not many voters there want to "change the world," so Warnock and Ossoff are downplaying it.

Poll watcher witness says feds showed up at door, made her feel like a criminal after fraud testimony.  Amid all the inquiries into where Attorney General Bill Barr has been in the face of voter fraud allegations, there has been a sighting of federal agents — the question is, what were they investigating?  Leah Hoopes, a Republican poll watcher on Election Day in the state of Pennsylvania, dropped what's being reported as a "bombshell," which is that special agents from the Justice Department paid her a visit at home after she testified before the Senate last week.  Hoopes testified that massive voter fraud may have taken place in Delaware County, Pa., and she appeared on Steve Bannon's podcast "War Room:  Pandemic" on Monday to talk about "special agents from the Attorney General's office showing up at my front door just for speaking the truth."

Conservatives must stop quitting before the battle is over!  [Scroll down]  The overall message is to surrender.  But we don't need to stand down, America; we need to step up.  We have to start with these drunk-on-power governors.  They have no right to issue, much less enforce unconstitutional orders.  And we don't need to wait on courts to set us free.  It's already done with the Constitution and ruled on by the Supreme Court.  Norton vs. Shelby County, 118 US 425, 442:  "An unconstitutional act is not law; it confers no rights; it imposes no duties; it affords no protection; it creates no office; it is in legal contemplation, as inoperative as though it had never been passed."

Thankful for the Rights That Democrats Want to Take Away.  This ungodly Chinese Bat Flu has brought out the worst in a lot of people, most of them Democrat elected officials.  There have been some Republican transgressors as well, but the majority of the bad actors have been liberal leaders in traditionally liberal states and cities.  Basic rights have been getting trampled upon in the name of public health. [...] The plague has amplified leftist assaults on the First Amendment.  We know that if a Democrat returns to the White House the Second Amendment will be under assault.  Democrats hate due process.  So many things in the Constitution that we have enjoyed and taken for granted for so long are being assailed by people who purport to be freedom-loving Americans, many of whom hold some of the highest positions in government.

NYC Will Have Covid Checkpoints at Key Bridges and Crossings.  New York City will have vehicle checkpoints at key bridges and crossings, and will strictly enforce the travel quarantine, Sheriff Joseph Fucito said.  The sheriff's office will conduct spot checks when out-of-state buses drop riders off at the curb.  Test and tracing teams will be on the ground to direct individuals to testing sites and provide education on quarantine, Fucito said.  The 14-day quarantine mandates that travelers quarantine or test out.  Violations of self-quarantine will be enforced, and may carry fines of $1,000 to $2,000, according to the mayor's office.

Fighting Words.  Democrats are not democrats; they are totalitarians.  They have declared war on the First Amendment, the Second Amendment, the Electoral College, the Senate, the Supreme Court, the election system, and the idea of civil order.  They have called for the Republican President of the United States to be de-platformed and jailed.  Their obvious goal is a one-party state that criminalizes dissent.  To them, support for such basic necessities as borders and law enforcement are racist.  If you oppose their efforts to legalize infanticide, they will condemn you as enemies of women, and if you make videos of their confessions to selling body parts of murdered infants, they will — like Kamala Harris — throw you in jail.  Progressives are not progressive; they are reactionaries.  They are out to abolish liberal value systems and create a status hierarchy where race, gender, and sexual orientation define and confine you to an unalterable place in their new social order.  If you are white or male or heterosexual or religious — Justice Kavanaugh was all four — you are guilty before the fact.

New Mexico governor shuts down grocery stores for two weeks.  A dozen grocery stores around the state have been forced to close for two weeks because of a public health order issued by Gov.  Michelle Lujan Grisham at a time when the state's residents are suffering from record high unemployment and food insecurity, critics say.  The order requires businesses with four or more rapid responses of COVID-19 cases reported within in a 14-day period to close for two weeks.  More than 25 essential businesses were shut down as of Monday afternoon, including a number of grocery stores and major retailers.  The closures include two Walmarts in Albuquerque and one in Santa Fe, an Albertson's in Roswell, a Smiths Food & Drug Center in Albuquerque and New Mexico Food Distribution Center in Albuquerque.

New Mexico governor shuts down grocery stores with new public health order.  Just when we thought that liquor sales restrictions in Pennsylvania by Governor Wolf were arbitrary and, frankly, stupid, along comes Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham in New Mexico with a "hold my beer" response.  She has shut down a dozen grocery stores across the state.  Why would a governor make such a draconian move?  A public health order from the governor's office shut down more than 25 essential businesses Monday [11/23/2020] with four or more rapid responses of COVID-19 cases reported within a 14-day period.  The order requires the businesses to close for two weeks.  That's right, any business that reports four or more positive COVID-19 tests in a two week period must then shut down for two weeks, essential business or not.

Will Thanksgiving Mark The Beginning Of The Lockdown Resistance?  A country that's about to observe a holiday in which we express appreciation for our unique American blessings appears ready to shrug off the chains of petty tyrants.  For that, we give thanks.  Governors in, most infamously, California, New York, Oregon, and Minnesota, but also other states, have told constituents to limit their celebrations and travel.  They might not in every case have specifically cited Thanksgiving.  But it's obvious that the nagging has accelerated because of the holiday.  It's just as obvious that, after more than eight months of various lockdowns, some Americans have had enough.  In an unmistakable rebuke to Andrew Cuomo, sheriffs in New York have said they won't be enforcing the governor's 10-person limit at private gatherings.  Saratoga County Sheriff Michael Zurlo, for instance, said he didn't "see how devoting our resources to counting cars in citizens' driveways or investigating how much turkey and dressing they've purchased is for the public good." Erie County Sheriff Tim Howard has promised he will do what the busybody governor refuses to do and that is "respect the sanctity of your home."

7 Things That Used to Be "Crazy Conspiracy Theories" Until 2020 Happened.  [#7] Re-education camps:  Remember how we all used to joke about being put into FEMA camps? [...] Finally, for those of us who believed these conspiracy theories were conspiracy facts all along — oh — and for Trump voters — there's the discussion about how to re-educate us so we can rejoin society.  In a Twitter thread run amok, we saw the dark side of some "well-educated" Democrats who were sincerely trying to figure out how to redeem those of us who did not vote for Joe Biden.

From Ruling Class to Oligarchy.  [Scroll down]  And then Election Night.  As predicted, election officials in places controlled by the Left stopped counting until it was clear how many ballots it would take for Trump to be defeated.  The requisite number came, filled out by no one knows who.  And then... who wouldn't have predicted it?  The call came from all of society's commanding heights:  Trump's defeat had been declared.  By whom?  By the folks on these varied heights — certainly not by the authorities designated by the Constitution to decide who wins and loses.  But the more instances of fraud the Trump campaign sought to investigate, the louder and from more sources sounded the judgment that there was nothing to investigate.  It had been decided.  You peons shut up and obey.  That is how oligarchies work.

Time for a New Declaration?  [Scroll down]  Americans worked within the system for change, and the system changed the rules under the pretext of a health emergency.  When those Americans protest, their voices are censored, and their livelihoods are threatened.  There is a presumption among Obama Democrats and Big Government Republicans that Americans who take their freedoms seriously will simply roll over and obey if they are increasingly attacked, punished, and ignored.  If "taxation without representation" was enough to boil the blood of American patriots two hundred and fifty years ago, I have my doubts that "socialism without representation" will fare much better with their descendants.

Governors Cancelling Thanksgiving in Favor of Misery.  [Scroll down]  It started with "15 days to slow the spread" back in March.  Americans dutifully stayed home and washed our hands, as government experts told us.  Did we slow the spread or exacerbate it?  A recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine found that draconian quarantine measures with strict social distancing and constant mask wearing did not stop the spread of COVID in their study population of Marine recruits.  These measures may have actually exacerbated the spread of COVID as the control group of non-participants had almost half the rate of COVID positivity at the end of the study compared to those under strict rules.  But our governors and health experts know better.  Safety measures they imposed on us for months worked so well that nine months into the pandemic, COVID is still not under control.  Or at least positive tests are not. [...] Most of America suffers COVID fatigue and now we are being told to get used to our new normal.

"How Do You Deprogram 75 Million People?" — California Democrat Calls For "Post WWII" Reeducation For Trump Supporters.  California Democrat David Atkins this week called for Trump supporters to be "deprogrammed" in "post WWII" type reeducation camps. [...] Atkins called the 75+ million people who voted for President Trump a "belligerent death cult against reality."  After taking heat for his tweets, David Atkins gaslighted by claiming he doesn't really mean "re-education camps" (he does).

Michigan Republicans Introduce Resolution To Impeach Gov. Whitmer.  Three GOP House members in Michigan have introduced House Resolution 324, which call for the impeachment of their tyrannical governor, Gretchen Whitmer, a woman who has made it clear she will usurp power from the constituents she's supposed to serve and use it to oppress them with reckless abandon.  Folks, this is exactly why our system of government works the way it does.  We have the right to decide who governs over us, and if they go against our wishes and violate our God-given rights, it's our duty to toss these folks out on the street.

Dems Using COVID to Gain Power, Reset US to Tyranny.  Democrats used the pandemic as an excuse to change the manner of voting in 2020 — and to possibly steal the election.  Now, it's being used to fundamentally change our society, our very beliefs, and traditions.  As President Trump was winding up what was arguably the most successful 4-year presidential term in American history, Democratic politicians latched onto the COVID-19 crisis as an excuse to enact universal mail-in voting.  Although they didn't quite get what they wanted, a sufficient number of states promoted vote-by-mail that, when added to other irregularities, a significant number of voters lost confidence in the election results.  Now, they're focused on using the pandemic to finish what the previous administration promised — to fundamentally transform the United States, as well as to answer the call of the Senate minority leader — to change the world.

Coronavirus Ushers in an Unconstitutional Hell for America.  Thanks to the dreaded Covid-19, it's good-bye Thanksgiving and, soon enough, farewell Christmas.  And after that, who knows?  Having discovered that Americans have lost their spines and are now easily penned inside their homes like two-legged sheep, the petty potentates who rule — not govern, rule — far too many states and municipalities have concluded that we will never fight back, never resist, and never reject their latest whimsical edicts.  For proof, look no farther than California, where 41 of the state's 58 counties have just been returned to most-restricted status, and a statewide curfew is now being bruited in Sacramento. [...] There are vague promises that things might begin to open again next year, but don't hold your breath.  "Two weeks to slow the spread" and "fifteen days to flatten the curve" have long since morphed into a semi-permanent nanny state in which the very act of slowing and flattening ensures that the virus will go on indefinitely by guaranteeing a continuous stream of new "cases" with which to frighten the public and increase government power.

Flashback: Biden Transition Leader Says He Wants To Restrict Free Speech.  President-elect Joe Biden's transition leader for U.S.-owned media outlets, Richard Stengel, supports restricting free speech and creating new guidelines that would make "hate speech" a crime.  In a Washington Post op-ed published last year, Stengel, who served as President Barack Obama's Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, suggested the government should make "statutes to penalize speech" that is offensive.  "Hate speech has a less violent, but nearly as damaging, impact in another way:  it diminishes tolerance," Stengel wrote.  "Why shouldn't the states experiment with their own version of hate speech statutes to penalize speech that deliberately insults people based on religion, race, ethnicity and sexual orientation?"

Roman Catholic diocese seeks Supreme Court emergency relief over Cuomo coronavirus restrictions.  The Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn is turning to the Supreme Court over coronavirus restrictions that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo imposed that include limits on how many congregants can gather for religious services.  The emergency court filing, submitted Thursday [11/12/2020], compares the prohibitions houses of worship face with the relative freedom afforded to many businesses under an order that Cuomo issued in October, in which he designated color-coded zones with varying degrees of limitations.  "While this Executive Order effectively closes churches and other houses of worship, all businesses deemed 'essential' by the Governor — including everything from supermarkets to pet stores, huge hardware stores to brokers' offices — are permitted to remain open without any capacity limitations whatsoever, even in the most restrictive 'red' zones.  In 'orange' zones, even the vast majority of nonessential businesses, including department stores, can remain open without limitation — yet churches cannot," the filing said.

Dr. Anthony Fauci Says It Is Time for Americans to Shut [...] up and Do What Their Betters Tell Them to Do.  Today [11/13/2020] in an interview, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases told an audience his solution for stopping the dread Chinese Lung AIDS epidemic dead in its tracks:  ["]I was talking with my UK colleagues who are saying the UK is similar to where we are now, because each of our countries have that independent spirit, I can understand that, but now is the time to do what you're told.["]  Bingo.  [Shut up] and do what you are told.  This is and has always been the agenda.  From the earliest day of this Wuhan pandemic, I've contended that the primary goal of all the "public health" types is not to save your life or keep you healthy because they [don't care] whether you live or die.  The real game is to create a "public health" carve-out to the First Amendment that gives unelected bureaucrats and elected officials the right to rule by fiat.  Early in this self-generated crisis, the first target was church attendance.  Now we're seeing the same nasty little fascists who locked down entire states, while sending patients still infected with Wuhan virus into nursing homes in what appears like a conscious effort to slaughter the elderly and infirm.

He's just now saying this?  Where was he in May and June?
Alito: COVID Has Highlighted 'Disturbing' Trend of 'Lawmaking by Executive Fiat' and 'Rule by Experts'.  During a speech before the Federalist Society on Thursday, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito said that the coronavirus pandemic has "highlighted disturbing trends" in the law such as "dominance of lawmaking by executive fiat, rather than legislation."  Which he characterized as "the movement toward rule by experts."  Alito began by cautioning that, aside from specific references to any Supreme Court cases, he isn't commenting on the legality of coronavirus restrictions and isn't making any statements as to whether the restrictions constitute good policy.

Justice Alito:  Pandemic Has 'Resulted in Previously Unimaginable Restrictions on Individual Liberty'.  Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Thursday said the coronavirus pandemic has "resulted in previously unimaginable restrictions on individual liberty" and warned that religious liberty is "in danger of becoming a second class right."  Alito's comments came during his virtual keynote speech to a conference of the conservative Federalist Society, in which the 70-year-old justice warned that the U.S. can't allow the restrictions on personal liberty to continue after the pandemic has ended, noting that houses of worship have been treated particularly unfairly.

Pennsylvania Court Rules Secretary of State Improperly Changed Deadline 2 Days Before Election Day.  A Pennsylvania judge ruled in favor of President Donald Trump's campaign on Thursday, saying Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar overstepped her authority to change an election deadline two days before Election Day last week.  "The Court concludes that Respondent Kathy Boockvar, in her official capacity as Secretary of the Commonwealth, lacked statutory authority to issue the November 1, 2020, guidance to Respondents County Boards of Elections insofar as that guidance purported to change the deadline ... for certain electors to verify proof of identification," Judge Mary Hannah Leavitt wrote in her order on Thursday afternoon [11/12/2020].  Boockvar, a Democrat, submitted guidance saying proof of identification could be provided to vote up until Nov. 12.  State law stipulates that voters have until Nov. 9 to deal with problems regarding a lack of proof of identification.  Boockvar, the top election official in the state, issued the guidance after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled mail-in ballots could be accepted three days following Nov. 3.  Boockvar issued the new guidance on Nov. 1, two days before Election Day.  Trump's lawyers had argued that the secretary had no power to unilaterally change the date.

Democratic blacklists and other odious hypocrisies.  In 2019, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez complained that she and leftist allies were being placed on a blacklist by Democratic Party regulars.  It turns out that this was not a principled objection, for now, she wants to be the one making the list.  Disturbingly, this seems also to be the view of a wide range of Democrats, which is ironic because four years ago, they were accusing President Trump, baselessly, of course, of trying to take office and then arrest his political opponents.  Now, Democrats and Republican grifters allied to them in the poseur "resistance" are calling for the personal and professional destruction of everyone who has stood by or "enabled" Trump, including even the attorneys now assisting him in various state legal battles.  Their vindictive attitude is absurd and disgraceful on so many levels that it is hard to know where to begin.

AOC & Co.'s loathsome plan to keep lists of pro-Trumpies.  In Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Mikado," a man named Ko-Ko appointed to the job of Lord High Executioner tries to figure out whom he should have killed.  "There will be," he says, "no difficulty in finding plenty of people whose loss will be a distinct gain to society at large."  And then he reveals that he has "a little list" — a list "of society offenders ... who never would be missed!"  Ko-Ko's example is being followed exactly by a group of petty and loathsome enforcers of pious attitudinal orthodoxy who have appointed themselves to the collective post of Lord High Career Executioner in post-Trump America.  They literally talk about the "lists" they are making of people who have committed the grievous evil of working for the administration they hated, with the stated goal of ensuring such people don't find employment afterward.  Last week, there arose something that calls itself the Trump Accountability Project. [...]

Leftist Back Down on Plans to Create Lists to Block Trump Backers From Jobs.  The Trump Accountability Project, which targets supporters of President Donald Trump by adding them to a list and "holding them accountable" after the election, has announced that it is "no longer active."  The announcement was made on the project's website, which has been promoted by former Pete Buttigieg staffer Hari Sevugan.

Organization That Made Public Blacklist of Trump Supporters Shuts Down After Massive Backlash.  The "Trump Accountability Project" was created shortly after media outlets declared Democratic nominee Joe Biden the winner in the presidential election, with its mission being to list those who worked in President Trump's administration to hold them "accountable."  Attention was first brought to the Trump Accountability Project after Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) asked if there was such a list being created since Trump did not do everything Democrats perceive as being wrong.

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Did they shut down due to backlash, or did they realize that Biden may not have won the election after all?

Leftist cabal's sleazy plan to blacklist Trump-supporters blows up in their faces.  It looks as though the Trump Accountability Project, a vile, literally fascist scheme to hound and persecute former Trump supporters big and small in the presumed post-Trump era, is shutting down.  It had been touted by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and former Pete Buttigieg spokesman Hari Sevugan as the next order of action. [...] Among other things, the "Trump Accountability Project" didn't jibe well with Joe Biden's call for "unity," making the so-called "president-elect" look like a sleazy, lying, hypocrite.  It may well be that someone from Camp Biden got to whoever these creeps are (which would tell you that they know who they are) and told them to cut it out.  After all, with Biden presumably in on a weak mandate, it was a public relations liability.

Dem activists urge violence, repressions against Trump voters.  Democrat party activists are calling for political retribution against supporters of President Trump and other Republicans.  According to reports on Tuesday [11/10/2020], many Democrats took to Twitter with calls to fire, shame and deny future employment to republicans.

Biden Plans To Create An Army Of 100,000 'Culturally Competent' Contact Tracers.  As if lockdowns and forced mask mandates aren't enough, there is another chilling detail of the hellish authoritarian state that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will preside over if he is installed into the White House.  Get ready for the creation of an army of political enforcers who will be imbued with the power of the federal government to act as "contact tracers" to keep tabs on Americans under the pretense of fighting COVID. [...] Biden has already made it clear that he is going to threaten Republican governors in order to pressure them into lockdowns as well as forced mask mandates but the conscription of at least 100,000 "culturally competent" contact tracers is directly out of the playbooks of history's most oppressive totalitarian regimes.

Of Course The Party Of Moral Authoritarianism Would Cheat On Elections.  We and many others were warning months ago that the Democrats were going to try to steal the 2020 election.  When the counting, recounting, and lawsuits are done, they might well have succeeded.  It's simply in their nature to do whatever they believe is necessary to further their agenda.  The belief in one's own moral superiority eventually erases the conscience.  After all, if one is morally superior to others, then no conscience is needed.  All actions and behaviors are acceptable because they're done in an effort to make the world a better place. [...] Just a few of the many screeds, rants, and tweets that have been issued since Election Day are evidence that the Democrats and progressive left feed on their moral narcissism.  They are convinced that their ideas are so righteous, their judgment so impeccable, their understanding so deep that anyone who disagrees with them must be cast aside, redeemed only after being re-educated.  Their moral narcissism is to be imposed on the rest of us by a moral authoritarianism.

The Coming Purge if Trump Loses.  [Scroll down]  Imagine if Trump had "a list", threatening those who opposed him?  The reality is far from it, as those who certainly deserve a reckoning, think Spygate, remain free, writing books, teaching, and bloviating on cable news shows.  It's the Democrats making lists.  Is this far-fetched?  I'm not suggesting half the country will be sent to a gulag or shot.  A hundred years after Stalin there are now nonviolent ways of purging opposition.  The administrative state, weaponized, can be a figurative gulag.  Look at what the Obama administration did to Trump via spygate.  Weaponizing the intelligence and justice departments against Trump, essentially putting Trump and his presidency into a bureaucratic gulag for most of his first term.  How many Trump supporters would face IRS audits?

The Left Threatens GOP: 'We Have a List' and You'll Never Work Again if You Helped Trump.  Former President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden used the power of the office to spy on the media and political enemies, including, of course, Donald Trump.  Obama kept a disposition matrix, an assassination list.  And now the D.C. Left is trotting out a new list.  It goes something like this:  If you complain about potential voter fraud in the 2020 election, you'll never work in this town again and if you ever worked for Trump, you're through.

Your Name Might be on This Nazi-Like Democrat Website Collecting Lists of Trump Supporters.  Democrats have made a website dedicated to compiling lists of thousands of Donald Trump supporters who have donated to his presidency using fec.gov data.  The website claims the list is of "Americans that give money to support a racist".  An individual researcher had found that not only is the website compiling personal information of thousands of Trump supporters, but when accessing the website, it collects your browser data as well.

Dems Start 'Enemies List' to Go After People Who Supported Trump, Including Fed Judges He Appointed.  There are a lot of things to be concerned about if Joe Biden were to win the presidency. [...] Now that some on the left believe that the President has lost and Joe Biden has won, their true colors are coming out.  Not only do they want control information, they want to make you pay if you supported Trump.  Prominent leftists and media folks are talking about making an "enemies list" to go after people.  The Washington Post's Jennifer Rubin called for making sure that Trump supporters not be allowed to work or accepted into "polite society."

Ocasio-Cortez Touts Secret List Targeting Trump Supporters For Retaliation.  There is no denying that the American left has become fully totalitarian as a result of the Democratic party's embrace of radical socialists and anti-Semites.  A prime example of the vicious element that has been growing increasingly powerful is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the taco bar revolutionary who in a twisted modern version of the classic fairy tale Cinderella, has become arguable the most powerful member of the Democrat Congress.  Since she burst onto the political scene in the summer of 2018, AOC has shown that she is a petty, vindictive, vicious and cruel person who lies without consequence and has a formidable Twitter mob that will rip any Dems who dare to question her to shreds.

AOC and other Dems' vows of vengeance on Trump supporters ensure a fanatical fight to the bitter end.  Since antiquity, military commanders leading expeditions have burned their boats so that nobody would be tempted to desert the battles ahead and head for the safety of home.  Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, by calling for lists of Trump supporters to be compiled, has in effect burned the boats for those Republicans tempted to concede the presidential election and pledge their support to Biden, so that the media and Democrats (they imagine) will be kind to them. [...] While ominous, neither of these avengers specify what they have in mind for those who disagreed with them in a presidential election.  Others were not so shy.  Jennifer Rubin, who poses as a conservative op-ed writer for the Washington Post, wants a blacklist that would deny the opportunity to make a living to those who supported the incumbent Republican president.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Suggests 'Trump Sycophants' Should Be Held Accountable 'In The Future'.  Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez suggested Friday that "Trump sycophants" should be held accountable for their "complicity in the future."  The recently reelected congresswoman tweeted asking whether anyone was keeping track of comments made by "Trump sycophants."  She was likely referring to supporters of President Donald Trump who are alleging that voter fraud is causing the president to fall behind 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.  Trump has not provided evidence that voter fraud is costing him the election.  "Is anyone archiving these Trump sycophants for when they try to downplay or deny their complicity in the future," she asked.  "I foresee decent probability of many deleted Tweets, writings, photos in the future."

Representative Ocasio-Cortez Requests Immediate Enemies List for Targeting After Biden Takes Office.  New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has requested the immediate assembly of a political enemies list so the far-left can target Trump supporters for elimination.  Not surprisingly former President Obama's data-assembly lead, Michael Simon, affirms the list is already being assembled.  Historically, the elimination of political opposition is a consistent approach by far-leftists who prefer to use ostracization, internment and ultimately extermination to avoid any further impediments upon their quest for ultimate control.  A reference is the Tea Party targeting list used by President Obama through the IRS.  A more recent reference was the call to action by President Obama's campaign manager David Plouffe.

Restaurants must collect diners' data under latest Gretchen Whitmer order.  Meals at Michigan restaurants came with a new side dish Monday:  What's your name and phone number?  The latest order kicked in from Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's health department.  Restaurants must be able to contact customers if there's a virus case linked to the business.  Michigan's coronavirus cases have risen significantly, setting a new daily high Saturday at 3,792, the health department said.

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This means you can't anonymously buy a pizza, for example, with cash.  You must tell the State what you're doing and where you've been.

Desperate Minnesota Democrats Restrict Size Of Trump Rally.  In a clear sign that Democrats are starting to get nervous, Minnesota's top officials made a drastic move to interfere in the election by placing severe restrictions on the size of a planned rally by President Trump.  According to reports, the attendance for Trump's rally in Rochester has been downsized to a paltry 250 people after Democrat Governor Tim Walz and rabid socialist Attorney General Keith Ellison intervened.  Trump has made numerous trips to the battleground state hoping to capitalize on the public revulsion to the ransacking of Minneapolis this summer when the George Floyd video triggered a wave of violent riots and local Dems pushed to dismantle the police.  The rally was originally expected to draw up to 25,000 attendees before Walz and Ellison's power play which serves as another example of the exploitation of COVID-19 by authoritarian Democrats to abolish the right to free assembly.

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Overplaying the Covid card is even more tiresome than overplaying the race card.  There is no longer any doubt that Covid-19 is an all-purpose excuse for politically-motivated restrictions on the population as a whole, and Republicans in particular.

A New Round of COVID-19 Restrictions Drives Illinois Eateries to Rebellion.  With their survival on the line amidst a new round of government restrictions targeted at slowing the spread of COVID-19, many Illinois restaurants and bars are refusing to comply.  It's the sort of defiance that erupted during the early days of the pandemic, but more widespread and better organized by business owners who say they have nothing to lose, since their only other option is disaster.  This is a rebellion that could have been foreseen by anybody who understands how people necessarily respond when their backs are against the wall.  In fact, it was predicted, repeatedly.  That needs to be taken into account by government officials already imposing new lockdowns and poised to inflict yet more pain on a public growing increasingly unwilling to submit.  "Unless the state of Illinois takes a more reasonable approach to mitigation, thousands of restaurants are at risk of permanent closure," the Illinois Restaurant Association (IRA) warned last week.

California's Gavin Newsom goes bonkers issuing Thanksgiving COVID orders.  For someone whose previous career was in San Francisco's trendy restaurant industry, California's Gov. Gavin Newsom has some bizarre ideas about why people gather; what a comfortable dining experience is; and how people, as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says, will do what they do.  Nope, he's got some weird stuff up, motivated, he says, by a supposed new wave of COVID: [...] Anyone with a lick of common sense knows that neither he nor his constituents are going to observe these ridiculous diktats on the country's biggest family holiday from the comfort of their own homes.  The arbitrariness of these regulations is incredible.  Two hours together?  Why not one point five hours instead?  Thousands of lives could be saved!

I'm Ready to Be Reeducated, Mr. Reich.  I volunteer to be the first guinea pig for Robert Reich's Truth and Reconciliation Commission during the period after the election in which he assumes a Biden victory. [...] I have several reasons I think I would be ideal for this task that I will get to in a minute, but first, for those who don't know or those whose memory is sketchy — it's already more than a week since Reich made his proposal — the former Clinton Labor Secretary wrote the following on Twitter, Oct. 17: "When this nightmare is over, we need a Truth and Reconciliation Commission.  It would erase Trump's lies, comfort those who have been harmed by his hatefulness, and name every official, politician, executive, and media mogul whose greed and cowardice enabled this catastrophe."

The American 'Truth and Reconciliation Commission' Will Be Coming For You — If Trump Loses.  In South Africa, they called it a "Truth and Reconciliation Commission."  It was set up to deal with the horrific crimes of the Apartheid regime that countenanced murder, torture, and a denial of basic human rights. [...] Actually, the left itself has made a case against a Truth and Reconciliation Commission.  Nothing Trump or his supporters and enablers have done rises to the level where a special tribunal is necessary.

Too many Democrats are creepily suggesting Trump voters should be jailed.  Trump voters beware: your ballot could get you jailed after January 20, 2021.  If Joe Biden wins the presidency, and takes the oath of office with one hand on Abraham Lincoln's Bible (hopefully not Das Kapital or Kendi's How to Be an Antiracist), open season may be declared on any American morally obtuse enough to believe that 45 deserved four more years.  "Trump must be defeated ... and his enablers, and his supporters ... must be prosecuted and convicted and removed from our society," ranted the always hot-blooded Keith Olbermann.  The former MSNBC anchor traffics in caustic bombast, and this declaration was not very different from his usual huffy diatribes against Republicans.  But the notion of revenge is going mainstream.

Biden lectures us on character?  C'mon man!  There can no longer be any doubt that the Democrats put party before country, politics before ethics and virtue.  One only has to read Robert Reich or listen to his intellectual peer Keith Olbermann to know that the Democrat party has morphed into totalitarianism.  Democrats vow to punish their opponents if Biden is elected.  Reich recommends "truth and reconciliation" camps, taking his cue from South Africa.  How's that for tyranny?  It is well and truly frightening.  The left has been steering us in this direction for decades, and it must be stopped if America is to survive.

Dems Want a Day 1 Purge if Biden Wins.  Democrats accuse Republicans of the things they do themselves.  And then they use that to justify further abuses.  The Trump administration tolerated and incorporated quite a few Obama holdovers.  Those holdovers often responded by seeking to undermine, leak and sabotage the new administration and its policies.  Meanwhile the media waxed outraged over every attempt to root out the holdovers.  But now the Democrats think they're going to win and are happy to lay out plans for a purge of holdovers.

Michigan Barber Who Defied Shutdown Mandates Has Charges Dropped.  Karl Manke, a 78-year-old barber in Owosso, Michigan, who has been cutting hair for 59 years, can rest a little easier.  Charges for violating local health orders and defying Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer's COVID mandates were dropped last Friday [10/16/2020].  Manke gained national attention and notoriety as a "folk hero" among many who saw that Whitmer's edicts went far beyond the law.  When she shut down the state initially, Manke complied.  But after she unilaterally extended her mandates beyond April 30 without gaining approval from the legislature to do so, Manke reopened his barbershop, saying at the time, "I feel the governor is not my mother, never has been."  When reminded that he was violating Whitmer's mandates, Manke said, "I could care less.  If they want to put me in jail, put me in jail. ... I will be governed ... but not ruled.  This is a police state action."

Don't Believe Your Lying Eyes — or Joe Biden's Big Mouth.  The move by Facebook and Twitter to censor a New York Post story about Joe Biden was Silicon Valley's version of an October surprise.  Since publication of a story last week alleging that Hunter Biden was introducing foreign business colleagues to his father, Twitter has kept locked the account of the 200-year-old newspaper until it deletes its tweets about its Biden reporting.  By removing the story from news feeds, locking the accounts of the Trump campaign and White House spokesperson Kayleigh McEnany, and prohibiting editors of the newspaper from sharing the piece even from their own accounts — actions taken without evidence anything in the story was false — the tech oligarchy signaled it was throwing its weight behind what it believes to be the coming Democratic order in Washington.  It also provided Americans with an authentically shocking snapshot of the type of "managed" society that we now inhabit.  In the new American system, large Silicon Valley corporations use their government-sanctioned and immensely profitable monopoly status to routinely censor information and libel anyone they please at the behest of unelected partisan verticals that have colonized large segments of the federal bureaucracy and security agencies.  As each corrupted interest rubber stamps each other's actions, power is removed from public hands and public view.

As Australia Turns Into Police State, Owners of These Toy Guns Must Register or Surrender Them.  For Australians, the coronavirus pandemic has revealed an entirely new side of their government that is not too pleasant.  Severe lockdowns have been forced on the people, and protests against the strict measures have been met with an overwhelming and hostile police response.  With the pandemic far from over, it doesn't look like the police state down under will be going away anytime soon.  Unfortunately for citizens who want to fight back when this tyranny finally crosses the line, they're out of luck.  Australia passed the National Firearms Agreement after the Port Arthur massacre in 1996, a law which saw heavy restrictions placed on firearms.  Buybacks and voluntary surrenders of the newly illegal guns swept the nation as many rushed to hand over their weapons.

Democrats Don't Want to Build a Strong America They Can't Control.  When the government gets out of the way, the economy flourishes and real builders build.  That is what President Trump has been doing these past four years for businesses small and large — getting red tape and regulations out of their way so businesses can grow, hire more people, and pay them better wages.  He understands businesses and how to make them thrive.  The very opposite of what Democrats do and believe.  Democrats love to regulate.  It's what they live for.  They have never met a rule or regulation they didn't like.  They love taxes too.  They would like you to believe that the more taxes they impose on working people, rich people, and businesses, the better off everyone will be.  Unfortunately, that theory has been tried again and again throughout the history of the United States, and it has never worked — indeed, quite the opposite is true.  Higher taxes mean more unemployment, higher prices, and overall economic downturn.

More Melbourne Insanity:  Mom Arrested At Beach For Traveling "Outside Her Permitted 5km Radius".  We've previously detailed protests that have sprung up in various major cities across the Australian continent over authorities' ultra-restrictive coronavirus lockdown measures, which are especially stringent and far-reaching in the southeast state of Victoria.  There's been multiple instances caught on video of police cracking down on elderly people and even pregnant women for merely resting outside on park benches, supposedly in "violation" of coronavirus social distancing measures, even as case numbers have significantly dropped since August.  And now here's the latest incident to go viral as citizens flock to newly reopened beaches, after Victoria slightly relaxed some of its more severe lockdown restrictions: [...]

How Whitmer Plans to Circumvent MI Supreme Court's Lockdown Orders.  The Michigan State Supreme Court on Friday delivered a blow to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) and her Wuhan coronavirus lockdown orders.  Whitmer was relying on the 1945 Emergency Powers of the Governor Act to lock the state down without legislative approval.  The high court, however, voted 4-3 saying Whitmer's moves were unconstitutional.  A separate law, the 1976 Emergency Management Act, also prevented Whitmer from extending her original shutdown orders without legislative approval.  That means that the lockdown should have expired on Apr. 30th, unless the state legislature decided to extend it.  "Our decision leaves open many avenues for the governor and Legislature to work together to address this challenge, and we hope that this will take place," Justice Stephen Markman wrote in the majority opinion.

Dangerous Talk From Stupid People.  [Scroll down]  Remember, when someone says he wants you dead, he wants you dead.  And the people who want you dead here in the USA intend to use the people you currently rely upon to keep you safe and secure as the means to do it.  It's actually quite cunning — if they can keep the cops, agents and soldiers in line.  We've already seen lots of cops putting pensions over honor as they hassle citizens for mask crimes.  The high-ranking Obama officer corps has already sold its collective soul for a handful of stars, and lots of colonels and generals would gleefully set their forces on uppity citizens — not rioters, but people like you — to please their Democrat masters.  When the Biden administration orders the cops and agents, and maybe soldiers, to imprison or kill gun owners, the uniformed flinkies will be expected to spill blood if necessary, because when you send government officials with weapons to enforce a law, whether to bust a guy peddling loose Marlboros or to confiscate AR15s, you have to assume that a certain number of those encounters will end with dead citizens.

Pritzker Is Keeping Illinois Locked Down Not For Health But For A Federal Bailout.  Having moved past the initial shock and panic due to the frightening presence of an unknown virus, we've learned much about SARS-CoV-2 and have accustomed ourselves to new social practices.  Across the country, state governors are lifting restrictions and encouraging commerce.  We're returning to work, opening our storefronts, and sending our children to school.  Most Americans are, anyway.  In Illinois, unfortunately, life hasn't changed much since spring.  Although hospitalizations and deaths in the state have remained flat since mid-June, Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker refuses to fully reopen the state.  While much of the country returns to normal (more or less), he's reimposing and heightening restrictions.  Pritzker says his restrictions are based on science.  In reality, they're political calculations based on opportunism and election-year math.

Michigan Supreme Court rules against Whitmer on emergency powers.  The Michigan Supreme Court issued a split decision late Friday that ruled against Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in a battle over her power to extend emergency declarations used to mandate COVID-19 restrictions over the last five months.  The court's opinion throws into question dozens of orders issued by Whitmer related to the coronavirus pandemic, appearing to void them.  At the same time, however, since the decision came as a response to questions submitted to the court by a federal judge — and not as part of a state case before it — it wasn't immediately clear what would happen next or when it would take effect.  Whitmer issued a statement denouncing the decision.

Keywords: dictator, monarchy, tyrant.
October Surprise:  Michigan Governor Extends Her Executive Orders.  There has never been a person who has loved bypassing a State Legislature more than Governor Gretchen Whitmer.  I think she dreams of ways to bypass them and can't wait until the morning where she can excitedly run into her staffers with her crazy new idea.  On Tuesday [9/29/2020], Whitmer continued her odd balancing act of allowing the peasants to open stuff up while extending her overzealous control of the State and deciding that she and no one else should have a say in how the State is run. [...] Hopefully, the Michigan State Supreme Court will end this very soon.  They heard a case regarding the authority she is claiming she has in the Michigan Constitution to continuously do this on Sept 9th and a decision should be coming any day now.

People Are Arrested For Not Wearing A Mask During OUTDOOR Prayer Service In Moscow Idaho.  Three people have been arrested after an Idaho church held a psalm-singing event without masks in a city hall parking lot in violation of a town's mask order.  Christ Church pastor and event organizer Ben Zornes told the Moscow-Pullman Daily News that Wednesday's event in the community of Moscow was aimed at criticizing what he called a "largely groundless" mask order.  It was issued by the city council in an effort to slow the spread of the new coronavirus.  [Video clip]

Biden's Authoritarian America.  [Scroll down]  Under a Biden administration, we will see a colossal escalation in the scope and power of government, projected by authoritarian policies, many of which were put in place under President Obama. [...] Though Joe Biden presents himself as a moderate, his authoritarian policies betray a more radical, Progressive philosophy that is gradually undermining and replacing America's social, political, and economic fabric.  Biden's administration will have no limiting principle to restrain the growth of government power.  By further consolidating control, he will hasten the erosion of numerous constitutional rights, inching us closer to tyranny.

The canary in the constitutional mine is gasping.  Ten years ago, the Affordable Care Act tested the limits of federal powers.  The barely noticed federal takeover of student loans, the mandated purchase of health insurance from a limited list of insurers with a limited list of doctors were only the start.  The federally defined "essential" medical services were a road map for future government controls.  We are now living through the consequences of government deciding what activities are "essential" in the lives of normal, sentient human beings.  Some congresspersons and assorted social justice warriors are treating the Constitution like the COVID-susceptible residents of New York nursing homes:  expendable.  Or like the 26,000 dementia patients whose death was hastened by the isolation resulting from unscientific lockdowns. [...] COVID-19 provided a justification for abridging freedom of assembly and religious freedom.  Is openly professing one's faith not essential to our well-being?  Certainly, religious services where congregations can easily be instructed on safely participating in group worship presents less risk than sauntering through Walmart.

Will the Lockdowns Outlast the Coronavirus?  There is a popularly repeated regret that COVID-19 resulted in the shuttering of so many small businesses and in the loss by so many of jobs.  This rumor is false.  Coronavirus was not the disease that did such lasting damage to the economy of the United States; tyranny was.  Tyranny is a virus that once it develops in the body politic always spreads and infects all the members until the body is left lifeless or until the cure is deemed more traumatic than the disease itself.  After the arrival of the coronavirus, state legislators and governors across the union began issuing statutes and orders mandating that residents remain "quarantined" inside their homes and that businesses close up shop until the healthcare community could catch up to the predicted press of victims of the virus.  This was the so-called "flattening of the curve."  The curve was flattened, but the trajectory of tyranny was ever upward.

William Barr Speaks Truth to (Illegitimate) Power.  The attorney general, bucking the behavior of attorneys generally, displays all the emotion of a mortician, approaches an audience with the calm detachment of a psychiatrist, and speaks in the reading-room volume of a librarian.  His bearing rarely proves contagious.  "The person in the white coat is not the grand seer who can come up with the right decision for society.  A free people makes its decision through its elected representatives," Barr noted in a speech Wednesday [9/16/2020].  "Putting a national lockdown, stay at home orders, is like house arrest," Barr explained.  "Other than slavery, which was a different kind of restraint, this is the greatest intrusion on civil liberties in American history."  He continued, "Most of the governors ... treat free citizens as babies that can't take responsibility for themselves and others."

Judge rules enough charges against socialist Seattle city council member for recall efforts to proceed.  A Seattle judge has given the green light for a recall petition seeking to remove a self-proclaimed socialist member of the city council to proceed in court.  King County Superior Court Judge Jim Rogers ruled Tuesday [9/15/2020] that the process may move forward to remove Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant from office, according to The Seattle Times.  Four of the six charges brought against Sawant were determined by Rogers to have met the standard allowing the recall process to proceed.

Email Records Show Democrat Nashville Mayor Hid COVID-19 Data To Intentionally Inflict Economic Hardship on Bars and Restaurants.  While the background story of data manipulation to intentionally inflict economic damage is stunning, the severity of the position of Nashville Democrat Mayor John Cooper is actually not a surprise.  It must be remembered this is the same Nashville Mayor who created COVID-19 internment camps to forcibly detain people in a quarantine camp at a fairground.  When one person jumped the fence to escape the police hunted him down and Nashville authorities charged him with "escaping a penal institution."  COVID-19 was criminalized.  Two months after the internment camp incident a non-domiciled Nashville citizen named Joseph Bryant (61) was arrested for refusing to wear a face mask outside.  His bail was set at $500 and he was incarcerated for not wearing a face mask.  So it doesn't come as a complete surprise to discover the same officials hid data showing low COVID-19 infection rates in order to inflict the maximum amount of economic pain on business owners.

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The mayor appears to be making the virus threat look worse than it is, in order to give himself more power.

US District Judge Stickman Rules PA Governor Wolf's Coronavirus Restrictions Unconstitutional.  Governor Tom Wolf's (D-PA) COVID-19 restrictions have been ruled unconstitutional by a federal judge.  The complaint was filed back on May 7, arguing that the governor's orders, limiting the size of gatherings, the stay-at-home order, and the closure of non-life-sustaining businesses, were unconstitutional.  The original complainants in the suit were the counties of Washington, Butler, Greene, and Fayette, (although the judge dismissed the county governments from the case), Pennsylvania Rep. Mike Kelly, Republican State Rep. Daryl Metcalfe, and various businesses including hair salons, a farmer's market vendor, a horse trainer, and drive-in movie theaters.  US District Judge William Stickman IV, ruled on Monday [9/14/2020] in a 66-page opinion that the restrictions were overreaching, arbitrary, and violated citizens' constitutional rights.

Why are Casinos Treated More Favorably than Churches During a Pandemic?  [Scroll down]  Consider the recent decisions of the Supreme Court to deny emergency relief to churches that have been subjected by states to restrictions that are more onerous than to casinos and other secular institutions and businesses.  The churches sought emergency relief under their First Amendment right of the free exercise of religion.  The Supreme Court, in two 5-4 decisions, has denied that relief, with the swing vote being cast by the deeply religious and strongly conservative Chief Justice John Roberts, who joined the four liberal justices.  The other four conservative justices dissented in both cases.  The first amendment's approach to religion is anything but clear or simple.  It contains several relevant provisions:  it prohibits "an establishment of religion."  It also protects against laws "prohibiting the free exercise" of religion.  Finally, it guarantees "the right of the people peaceably to assemble," although that provision seems geared more to political than religious assemblies — a distinction that may be difficult to make in an age in which everything, including religion, is political.

AG William Barr:  Coronavirus Lockdowns 'Greatest Intrusion on Civil Liberties' Since Slavery.  Attorney General William Barr said Wednesday evening "other than slavery, which was a different kind of restraint," coronavirus lockdowns were the "greatest intrusion on civil liberties in American history."  Barr's comments came during a Constitution Day celebration at Hillsdale College, commemorating the date in 1789 when the Constitution was signed by the Framers in Philadelphia.  Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, Barr has expressed alarm at the restrictions imposed by state authorities on First Amendment rights, particularly the freedom of religion.  In April, Barr's Department of Justice (DOJ) issued a memorandum to all U.S. attorneys to "be on the lookout for state and local directives that could be violating the constitutional rights and civil liberties of individual citizens."  He explained that while there might be "reasonable and temporary restrictions" on some First Amendment rights for the sake of public health, they should not become an "overbearing infringement."

Biden says he may have authority to implement nat'l mask mandate.  Joe Biden has reiterated he will implement a national mask mandate if he's elected president this year.  During a news conference in Delaware, the Democrat presidential candidate said his legal team believes he has the authority to mandate mask wearing.  This came after he previously stated he's not sure whether that order would even be enforceable.  Biden claimed if he can't impose it, he will propose the mandate to every U.S. governor.  He added, "We must do it."

The Conservative Argument Against Mask Mandates is Stronger than the Media Pretends.  [Scroll down]  But it is not just the birth story of mask mandates which has created enormous distrust of them among a significant minority of the population.  There are several other substantive reasons for our resistance which have very little to do with just not wanting to deal with the hassle of wearing one.
  •   In order to justify the extraordinary step of the government forcing the universal use of a mask, the burden of proving that masks are so effective, and the emergency so dire, as to validate such an extreme action is very high.  Far higher, on both counts, than the data/evidence from this pandemic has so far substantiated.
  •   If the government can force you to wear a mask, under penalty of law, what exactly can't they, in this nation once founded on the concept of liberty from tyranny, make you do?
  •   What is the end date for this mandate?  If we are forced to wear them now when only slightly more are dying per day than at the height of flu season, why would this edict ever be lifted?
  •   Joe Biden's promise of a "federal mask mandate" if he is elected has been downplayed because it could not be technically enforced, but it would cause profound problems in large parts of the country.  Imagine being in a "red" state with no mandate but having the "federal mandate" hanging over everyone's head and giving every business, school, sporting event the moral authority to effectively make their own rules in a way which would likely cause chaos and division.

Federal Judge Rules Pennsylvania "Lock-Down Rules", and COVID Compliance Decrees, Unconstitutional.  A federal judge in the Western District of Pennsylvania had ruled that Governor Tom Wolfe's dictates, decrees and rules were/are unconstitutional restrictions on liberty.  U.S. District Judge William Stickman IV concluded the governor's stay at home orders, limits on gatherings and closure of "non life-sustaining" businesses violated citizens' Constitutional rights.  The judge was responding to a lawsuit brought by a group of Pennsylvania businesses.

Akron's Highland Tavern becomes first Ohio bar to have liquor license revoked for violating coronavirus health orders.  The Ohio Liquor Control Commission has revoked the liquor license of Akron's Highland Tavern in connection with three violations of the state's health orders to curb the spread of the coronavirus.  Highland Tavern, on West Market Street in the city's Highland Square neighborhood, has also received a fourth citation, for which the commission has not yet held a hearing.  The bar's liquor permit is set to be revoked effective at the close of business on Oct. 2, according to an order issued by the Liquor Control Commission.

Group tops 400K signatures to repeal Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's virus powers.  Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, faced with lawsuits challenging her use of emergency powers to fight the coronavirus, could continue to prevail in court.  But she may be unable to stop a Republican maneuver that would rescind a 75-year-old law that has enabled her to issue and lift COVID-19 restrictions unilaterally.  A ballot drive said Friday it was in the "home stretch" after collecting more than 400,000 signatures in just two months.  Its goal is 500,000.

John MacArthur banned from holding church services AGAIN.  Pastor John MacArthur and Grace Community Church have experienced yet another setback in their court case against the County of Los Angeles.  As most of you know, there's been a lot of back and forth between the government and GCC since JMac FINALLY decided to hold in-person church services after spending months calling on churches to submit to virtually any governmental official's stated declarations, per Romans 13.  Thankfully, Pastor MacArthur came around to take a stand and is now embroiled in a legal battle with the County of Los Angeles, which is attempting to strip churches of their Constitutional Right to worship God as they see fit without governmental interference.  On one hand, it's a positive sign to see a pietist like MacArthur now talking about defending our rights and liberty.  One the other hand, I wish that he would simply come out and explain how he came to this change in his theological understanding of Romans 13.

Judge Grants Injunction Barring Grace Community Church From Constitutional Right To Worship.  Judge Mitchell L. Beckloff of the Los Angeles Superior Court issued a preliminary injunction Thursday [9/10/2020] that prohibits Pastor John MacArthur and Grace Community Church from "conducting, participating in, or attending any indoor worship services."  The ban also extends to services held outside "unless onerous restrictions are followed."  Since the church first began meeting in-person and defying local lockdown orders in July, Los Angeles County officials have threatened fines, arrest, and even terminated the lease held between the church and the county for parking lot space claiming health and safety concerns.

School district suspends student for attempting to come to school.  Officials at William Floyd High School in New York recently hit Maverick Stow, a 17-year-old student, with a five-day suspension for coming to school on a Tuesday in early September, a "designated remote learning day" for Stow.  The school district said Stow believed he should attend school in person five days a week, not four.  That's right, Stow was suspended for not skipping school.  To make matters worse, the student-criminal returned to school on the Wednesday [9/9/2020] and Thursday following his suspension and was promptly arrested by the Suffolk County Police Department for unlawfully entering school grounds.  Though the district said it agrees with Stow's view that in-person instruction should take place five days a week, it also said it was required to follow state social distancing regulations and labeled his actions as "irresponsible and selfish behavior."  And a "publicity stunt."  Huh?  State social distancing regulations allow students to attend school "in person" four days a week but not five?  Do the powers that be think trimming the number of students allowed on campus by 20% makes all the difference?

What are the Stakes?  This is an election like no other.  To treat it otherwise would be a grievous and perhaps irreparable misstep. [...] Currently, the ruling classes mostly disenfranchise undesirables through social opprobrium, labeling them "deplorable" and letting their attack dogs in the media do the rest.  But in the Obama era, they began to belligerently "weaponize" the federal government, using the IRS and intelligence agencies to thwart their political opponents.  If granted control of the White House again, the lesson they will draw from defeating Trump is not only that they will not be held accountable for such tactics, but that such tactics work.  They will use government agencies to kneecap their enemies in every conceivable fashion.  Those are the stakes.

Anthony Fauci, the great 'humanist,' sets U.S. sailing on globalist, anti-freedom course.  National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Anthony Fauci, along with his agency colleague, the epidemiologist David Morens, warned in a report in the science journal Cell that if humans don't make significant changes in all activities, that more diseases — more terrible health issues like COVID-19 — will soon come.  Beware this report.  It's a globalist dream come true, a real treatise for elites to control nearly every facet of human activity, human life, human freedoms. [...] It's called "Emerging Pandemic Diseases:  How We Got to COVID-19," and it's presented as a scientific look at why we're where we are today with the coronavirus, and more importantly, what we can do to keep from facing such dramatic disease-tied devastations in the future.  But a better title might be, "How to Take Over the World, One Medical Fear At a Time."

The Coming Coup?  Democrats are laying the groundwork for revolution right in front of our eyes.  As if 2020 were not insane enough already, we now have Democrats and their ruling class masters openly talking about staging a coup.  You might have missed it, what with the riots, lockdowns and other daily mayhem we're forced to endure in this, the most wretched year of my lifetime.  But it's happening.  It started with the military brass quietly indicating that the troops should not follow a presidential order.  They were bolstered by many former generals — including President Trump's own first Secretary of Defense — who stated openly what the brass would only hint at.  Then, as nationwide riots really got rolling in early June, the sitting Secretary of Defense himself all but publicly told the president not to invoke the Insurrection Act.

COVID-19 Power Trips of Leftist Politicians, Teachers Unions Must Stop.  The COVID-19 pandemic has brought out political power trips like America has never seen before.  Governors and mayors have seized "emergency powers" that effectively shut down our economic engine and social culture.  Never before had Americans seen the day when they would be told they couldn't open for business, attend worship services, hold weddings or funerals, or send their children back to school.  Americans never anticipated they'd be forced to wear facial coverings if they so much as left their homes. [...] Many of these edicts are obvious political power grabs in order to keep people uncomfortable and inconvenienced, in hopes of affecting the November elections, but they will have destructive consequences we haven't yet fully realized and can't even anticipate.

NYC Restaurants File $2 Billion Suit Against Gov. Cuomo and Mayor Bill De Blasio.  New York City restaurants have had enough.  Even as restaurants across the state have reopened for limited indoor seating, the Big Apple remains limited to only patio dining.  Now, as fall approaches and cool weather returns to the city, restaurateurs are demanding action from Mayor Bill de Blasio and Gov. Andrew Cuomo.  A lawsuit filed last week in NYC lists Il Bacco Restaurant in Queens as the primary plaintiff in the suit that is seeking $2 billion in damages for their business and similarly affected businesses in NYC.  The lawsuit seeks repayment from Cuomo, de Blasio, the Office of the Attorney General of New York, and the city itself.  More than 350 NYC restaurants have signed on to the class-action suit.

Democrats Mistake Orwell's 'Animal Farm' for Instruction Manual.  [Scroll down]  However this worldwide hysteria was launched, its effects are now clearly observable all around us.  Just last night I was horrified to see a video of a young girl in Australia being choked by a police officer during her arrest for the crime of not wearing a mask in public.  We have all been treated for the past several months to the videos of police officers and sheriffs, or city employees sent by these Democratic politicians to
  [#1]   Arrest a solitary man jogging on a beach, or surfing in the ocean.
  [#2]   Arrest a mother pushing her child on a swing set in a park
  [#3]   Weld shut the gates of a park so no one could enter
  [#4]   Arrest hairdressers and other business owners who defied shut down orders.
None of these radical Democratic mayors and governors campaigned on engaging in this kind of behavior. [...] They all hid their true nature until they were established in office.  Had they revealed they would engage in this kind of tyrannical behavior while they were candidates, none of them would have been elected.

If the Vaccine Comes and You are Still Wearing a Face Mask, You're in for a World of Pain.  For twenty years, the average and above-average American alike have been laying in bed, ever since those planes hit the World Trade Center and government said "Go to your room.  We're in charge now."  It can be no surprise that some muscles have since atrophied.  The emergency they said they were handling never came to an end.  The terror alerts never stopped.  Some people never stopped talking about them.  To this day, I don't know what those terror alerts mean or why they matter, and not for the life of me do I care.  People have tried to explain it to me, perhaps not realizing that I stopped listening to them about twenty seconds before they started explaining, right around the moment where their tonality shifted away from the "I-am-telling-you-something-sincere-or-original" voice to the "I-am-now-delivering-a-preprogrammed-message" voice.  We still have alerts.  We still have security at airports that touch passengers' private parts "for the safety of all."

Charlie Baker should become a Democrat and stop kidding himself.  Why doesn't Gov. Charlie Baker just get it over with and switch parties and become a Democrat?  By the numbers, he's the worst governor in America.  Highest unemployment rate in the U.S.:  16.1%.  Third-highest death rate in the U.S.:  131 per 100,000.  Of the 8,791 deaths in Massachusetts, 5,781 have been in the nursing homes the governor is responsible for keeping safe.  And the nursing-home slaughter continues unabated — 26 of the last 36 deaths this week have occurred in those same death houses whose operators gave $52,000 to the governor Joe Biden calls "Charlie Parker."  Average age of Massachusetts decedents:  85.  Charlie Parker's prescription?  Pinball machines (but not casinos) shut down, no high-school athletics.  And now his latest overreach — mandatory flu shots for most children over the age of six months.  No hearings, no legislation, no expiration date — just another imperious, tyrannical order, to be enforced selectively against any parent who gets out of line and needs to be slapped down, like a gym owner who wants to reopen.

South Bay Baptist Pastor Fined for Violating Ban on Indoor Church Services.  A Santa Clara pastor posted a video this week after being slapped with $10,000 in fines for violating the health order.  "This is not a hot spot, we were told that thousands were going to die," said North Valley Baptist Church pastor Jack Trieber.  "There's not a pandemic here."  In the nine-minute video, Trieber uses the county's death rate to justify opening his doors to his congregation.  As of Thursday, the county reported 16,607 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 240 deaths.  Trieber was fined $5,000 twice over the weekend for holding indoor services and singing, which are both against the state's order.  According to the Mercury News, the pastor was fined another $5,000 on Wednesday for, once again, holding indoor services.

Having a party is a crime now?
TikTok celebrities criminally charged after LA house parties.  TikTok celebrities Bryce Hall and Blake Gray are facing criminal charges after they hosted recent parties in the Hollywood Hills despite the city's ban on large gatherings during the coronavirus pandemic, authorities said Friday [8/28/2020].  The Los Angeles city attorney's office filed misdemeanor charges Thursday against Hall and Gray.  The internet celebrities with millions of followers on TikTok share a home and allegedly held two parties less than a week apart.

America's Woke Red Guards Enforcing Goodthink by Harassing D.C. Restaurants Patrons.  I'm really excited about the new woke America and how everyone is pitching in to help bring truth, justice, and almost the American way to life.  Of course, if you don't pitch in to help, that's something of a problem.  But never fear, our very own version of the Chinese Red Guards are on the job and will ensure that those who are hesitant at giving their full support to the movement will be dealt with severely. [...] Goodthink is a state of mind.  And it's really not that hard to achieve.  Just sit down, shut up, cheer when you're told to cheer, boo when you're told to boo.  And most importantly, do what you're told.

Oregon Business Owner Says State Forces Him to Discriminate Against Certain Customers, Levies Huge Fine.  The only pharmacy in a sparsely populated Oregon county has come under scrutiny by the state's Occupational Safety and Health Agency (OSHA) for failing to enforce mask regulations on customers.  The owners are now speaking out, saying that the State of Oregon is requiring them to discriminate against the large number of customers they serve who also have disabilities.  In addition, OSHA has slapped them with $10,000 in fines.

Americans Must Oppose the Tyranny That Is Rapidly Spreading Across US.  As Adolf Hitler rose to power, he took control of churches, shut down businesses, encouraged neighbors to report each other, and created a public surveillance operation system.  If these actions sound familiar, they should.  Public officials and bureaucrats are now putting their own tyranny on full display, using the COVID-19 crisis to impose similar draconian tactics in the United States.  While Maryland officials keep the state in lockdown, they are encouraging citizens not only to snitch on one another for breaking "prevention guidelines," but they are allowed to do so anonymously!  The Maryland Emergency Management Agency, State Police, and Department of Health announced a "COVID Prevention Line" available 24 hours a day as well as an email address where citizens can "report situations of concern where prevention guidelines are being ignored and the potential for the spread of COVID-19 is high."  Reports will be followed up with a visit from the health department or law enforcement.  Since July 2, nearly 40 Anne Arundel County businesses and restaurants have received citations, including my church.  After an anonymous reporting on August 11, a female employee from the Anne Arundel County Department of Health showed up at our Sunday morning service.  The health official presented our associate pastor with a citation and an "Order for Immediate Compliance."

Governor Cuomo Bans Dancing.  Governor Cuomo has become Reverend Shaw Moore from the movie Footloose after issuing a new set of commands for New Yorkers that includes a ban on dancing.  This is not a joke. [...] ["]There is no dancing allowed in New York's bars and restaurants, even at a wedding reception, according to the New York State Liquor Authority.  To control the spread of the coronavirus, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's liquor authority has also specifically banned darts, pool, cornhole, karaoke and exotic dancing.["]  Bar owners are already struggling to stay open after being shut down for months.  The new rules are causing a lot of anxiety as business owners are being threatened with their licensing if they don't comply.

Utah Students Who Are Caught Without Masks In School May Be Hit With Criminal Charges, Even Kindergartners.  Students in Utah who are as young as being in kindergarten may be hit with criminal charges if they are caught not wearing a mask in school amidst the coronavirus pandemic.  The office of Republican Governor Gary Herbert reportedly confirmed the potential for K-12 students and staff getting misdemeanors for violating the mask mandate, according to The Salt Lake Tribune.  However, spokeswoman Anna Lehnardt added that it will be up to the schools whether to press charges, which are anticipated to be rarities.  "It's enforced on a district and superintendent level," she added.  "But we're not thinking, 'Let's slap a bunch of kids with misdemeanors.'"  This comes one month after Herbert issued a mask mandate for public schools.  Violators of the mandate can be punished with sentences of up to six months in jail and fines of up to $1,000, which is the same as a first offense for driving drunk.

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What exactly is the name of the law they are allegedly violating?  Disturbing the peace?  Disorderly conduct?  No matter what law the government chooses to criminally prosecute the refusal of a healthy person to wear a mask, it's bound to be thrown out on appeal.

Virginia Health Commissioner says he'll mandate a COVID-19 vaccine.  State Health Commissioner Dr. Norman Oliver told [WRIC] on Friday [8/21/2020] that he plans to mandate coronavirus vaccinations for Virginians once one is made available to the public.  Virginia state law gives the Commissioner of Health the authority to mandate immediate immunizations during a public health crisis if a vaccine is available.  Health officials say an immunization could be released as early as 2021.  Dr. Oliver says that, as long as he is still the Health Commissioner, he intends to mandate the coronavirus vaccine.

Democrats Have Proven They are Unworthy of Power.  If a person or entity has proven to be abusive or irresponsible with power, then it is the duty of the people, while freedom still prevails, to resist and to ensure that such a person or entity is never entrusted with such power ever again or, at least until they have regained the confidence of the people.  Such is the case with today's Democrat party. [...] In six months, with the pandemic and nationwide riots, Democrat leaders have revealed that their natural penchant is not for freedom, but tyranny.  The past six months have shown that we are long past the days of mere policy differences between the two political parties.  Now our battle is against Democrats, a party that has been usurped by the radical left, is literally for the preservation of America as founded.  This election is about whether America will remain a light of liberty or descend into the darkness of Soviet-style communism with elements of Nazism.  This is not hyperbole.

Child well-being check initiative withdrawn after uproar in Tennessee.  The Tennessee Department of Education has withdrawn a $1 million initiative to conduct well-being checks for all children in Tennessee from birth to age 18 after the program sparked uproar this week, with critics calling it a big-brother government overreach.  Gov. Bill Lee and Education Commissioner Dr. Penny Schwinn released the Child Wellbeing Check Toolkit during a news conference Tuesday.  As originally published, the initiative recommended well-being checks for all children in the state to verify well-being as school closures have left gaps for nutrition, health, and abuse reporting services amid the coronavirus pandemic.  Guidelines for the initiative were a collaborative effort of the 38-member Child Wellbeing Task Force, created by Lee in June in response to the pandemic.

Kamala Harris Is Far Worse Than Hillary Clinton.  Kamala Harris laughed uproariously at Joe Biden's suggestion that a president is constrained by the Constitution from ruling by executive fiat.  This clip ought to nauseate any constitutionalist:  Even Hillary Clinton would not have gone so far as to treat the Constitution as a joke.  Harris, moreover, has the most extreme position on abortion imaginable.  And when an undercover journalist, David Daleiden, made the abortion lobby look bad by accurately exposing the inner doings of Planned Parenthood executives, she brought the full force of the state down on his head, raiding his home and launching a vendetta that would result in nine felony charges against him.  Former Obama speechwriter and leftist pundit Jon Favreau calls it "hilarious" that anyone thinks Harris is a moderate because "she has one of the most liberal records in the U.S. Senate."

Wisconsin Forces Employees to Wear Masks at Home Alone During Zoom Meetings.  Wisconsin's state government is forcing government employees to wear masks while at home alone during Zoom meetings. [...] Even if you are in your own home alone (not that that should matter), the fascist Democrats who now run the Wisconsin state government are forcing employees to wear masks during online meetings.

Councilwoman Karen snaps, demands arrest of the unmasked.  A San Diego city councilmember heatedly criticized those not following social distancing mandates or wearing masks in Ocean Beach, urging authorities to arrest non-compliant people.  Covid is "the worst virus in the history of medicine," fumed Councilmember Jennifer Campbell in a press conference next to a popular beach park.  "The county sheriff should be here arresting people who are not wearing masks, who aren't distancing.  Behave or you're going to be in big trouble."

Los Angeles:  Why politicians' COVID bullying attacks will work.  Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti has learned how to govern like a third-world dictator.  His threat to shut down the water and power to large house parties that violate the city's coronavirus guidelines is right out of the totalitarian government handbook. [...] Starting on Friday [8/7/2020], Mayor Garcetti announced that the city would shut off the power and water to houses, businesses, and other venues that violated the strict corona virus safety guidelines.  This is in response to a large house party that police attempted to shut down.  It turns out these parties are cropping up because the bars and nightclubs are closed as the city institutes greater restrictions as reported cases increase. [...] And it will work.  In the Third World, which is what many of these cities have come to resemble, practical and authoritarian solutions prevail, especially when there is no one to enforce the rule of law.

East Village Bar That Criticized Cuomo's Food Mandate Has Liquor License Suspended.  Abby Ehmann, the owner of East Village dive bar Lucky, has had her liquor license suspended a week after she started a petition calling for Gov. Andrew Cuomo to reverse the state's new mandate that bars must serve substantial amounts of food with any alcohol purchase.  Ehmann says that two State Liquor Authority representatives visited the bar on Monday night at 8 p.m. to observe if the bar's eight customers had ordered food with their drinks.  After the visit, Ehmann received her first warning from the SLA on a piece of paper that did not list out the specific violations, she says.  Shortly afterward, and with no further warnings, Lucky's liquor license was suspended.  Neighborhood news site EV Grieve first reported on the suspension.

Federal Judge Rules Cuomo, De Blasio Exceeded Authority by Restricting Religious Services While Condoning Protests.  A federal judge on Friday [7/31/2020] ruled that New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and Governor Andrew Cuomo violated the Constitution by restricting religious services to stem the spread of the coronavirus while simultaneously condoning mass protests that took place across the state.  U.S. District Judge Gary Sharpe granted a preliminary injunction blocking New York from enforcing its stringent coronavirus restrictions on religious services.  The state's current restrictions require houses of worship to operate at 25 percent capacity and later at 33 percent capacity when New York enters Phase Four of its re-opening plan.

Mayor Eric Garcetti Says DWP Will Shut Off Water And Power At Homes That Throw Large Parties.  Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti on Wednesday [8/5/2020] announced the city was taking action against those who throw large parties.  He called recent gatherings of mostly young people in the Hollywood Hills and Calabasas "flagrant violations of health orders."  "While we have already closed all bars and nightclubs, these large house parties have essentially become nightclubs," said the mayor.  He then indicated he would hold them to similar scrutiny.  "The same thing we would do with businesses," said Garcetti.  If the LAPD responds to repeated complaints and verifies that there have been violations at a home, the city will within 48 hours have the DWP shut off service at that home.

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Who decides what a "large party" is?

NYC looks more like a terrorist country than a city in a free nation.  On Wednesday [8/5/2020], NYC Mayor Bill De Blasio announced travel checkpoints and fines for those who do not comply with NYC quarantine restrictions.  The new rules were on top of state restrictions on out of state travelers that visit New York.  Gov. Andrew Cuomo had expanded on the already vast restrictions applying to 35 states, Washington DC, and Puerto Rico.  If you fail to fill out the travel form that is required, you will be fined $2,000, just for landing in a NYC airport.  He announced random checkpoints to be established on the cities bridges and tunnels.  Suppose you break the rules, it is a $10,000 fine.  In his comments, De Blasio said this was not to punish people, but to help them understand the rules.  Just let that sink in a little bit.  Random checkpoints across NYC access points where they will determine if you are compliant or not.  Is this a free country?

States don't have the constitutional power to place travel bans on each other.  We are told that there is essentially nothing state officials can't do to our bodies and businesses in light of their "internal police powers" to somehow arrest an epidemic.  At the same time, those police powers seem to be missing in action as rioters loot, beat, vandalize, and block traffic with impunity.  Now, those internal police powers that seem so impotent and dormant are suddenly resurrected to regulate external affairs, such as interstate travel, with many states now placing travel bans or quarantine requirements on even healthy people from other states.  It's time to speak with one voice against this grossly unconstitutional trend.

A New Prohibition Is Silencing the Deplorables.  Due to the draconian responses to COVID-19, America has been seeing the temporary triumph of the new ax wielders.  A whole network of institutions that are the bedrock of neighborhoods are under attack, including shops, bars, pubs, restaurants, concert halls, movie theaters and churches.  Even some church choirs are silenced by a 'no singing' rule.  The smashers of neighborliness and camaraderie are, like Carrie Nation, doing so in the name of righteousness and the improvement of American's physical health — a principle that seems fair enough.  But if the health of Americans was truly the issue, there would not be so much arbitrariness and inconsistent application of rules and regulations.  The people who are under the laws of the new Prohibition can see the inconsistencies clearly.  It seems odd to them that COVID-19 virus is apparently far more active in churches, small businesses, and eateries, than it is in densely packed crowds of protestors whose righteous ideology apparently immunizes them from the virus's deleterious effects.

Democrats' Policies are Unfit for the Presidency.  The Constitution a president pledges to serve prescribes a government of strict limits, not the unlimited power to take what a person has earned and give it to other people for any desire under the sun.  One of the natural rights the Constitution is supposed to secure is to one's own property.  That's because what a person owns represents his life — his time and labor.  It can never be truly paid back after it is taken, because to take a person's property is to steal hours, days, weeks, years of his life that he will never get back.  It is to enslave him.  Democrats' entire plan for governance is a plan to abuse American citizens' natural rights to life, liberty, and property.  For health care or education or housing or any other material good to be a "right" requires that other people be forced into labor to supply such goods.  It is to proclaim a right to other people's work, which is to say their lives.  A right to control other people's lives is no right at all.  It is an abuse of power.  It is tyranny.  Pledges to accelerate tyranny, which equal treason against the Constitution, utterly disqualify a person and party from United States government.

The left isn't fighting against fascism.  Instead, they are fighting FOR authoritarianism.  [Thread reader]  They claim that their political message transcends the law; that it allows them to control cities; that it allows them to destroy property; that it justifies their designs on canceling heretics; that it permits them to block roads, create no-go zones for non-rioters, prosecute those who stand against them while themselves avoiding persecution.  Leftist-run cities have shown what happens when police and federal law enforcement are demonized and unsupported by elected leaders; when local leadership can seize "emergency powers" — then pick and choose who to punish:  rioters are exempt from lockdowns; you can sing in the streets but not in churches; masks are required, but not for them.  They can tell you what counts as a substantive meal, essentially holding businesses hostage to their arbitrary and incoherent edicts:  pot dispensaries and large warehouse stores can open; gyms and restaurants cannot.  They decide what hate is; what racism is; who is unclean; who is deserving of both punishment and reverence.  They presume to control and police every narrative, and in that way, control and police every person.

Police chiefs, sheriffs refuse to enforce mask mandates: 'You have the freedom to choose'.  Lang Holland, the chief of police in tiny Marshall, Arkansas, said he thinks the threat of the coronavirus has been overstated and only wears a face mask if he's inside a business that requires them.  He doesn't make his officers wear them either.

Michigan county treasurer rebuked for seizing retiree's home over $8 tax debt.  Officials in one Michigan county are demanding answers from their treasurer amid concerns that the county could be on the hook for millions of dollars in payments to former homeowners whose properties were seized under a tough forfeiture practice.  Oakland County commissioners sent an angry letter last week to Treasurer Andrew Meisner after the Michigan Supreme Court rebuked the county's decision to seize one homeowner's house after he underpaid his taxes by $8.41.  The commissioners said that they are forming a special investigative committee to look into the forfeiture practices and "make recommendations to protect the Oakland County taxpayers."

Roaming Mask Cops Writing Tickets for No Masks, Improper Wearing of Masks — 'We'll Arrest You Right Here'.  Another sad day for civil liberties in America — or what's left of it.  [Video clip]

Black Lives Matter v. Molon Labe.  Consider for a moment; we see mobs rampaging, demanding that white people take a knee in subservience and say "Black Lives Matter" to be "forgiven" for something in which they played no part — but this is not a thing that, once done, renders the supplicant absolved.  Those who prostrate themselves do not receive an "ally card" that indemnifies them from further humiliation.  George Orwell best described the never-ending nature of such demands:  ["]Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who's helpless.  If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face, forever.["]  And while the "boot stamping" is merely of the verbal variety right now, we have seen enough violence, intimidation, and even murder from these supposedly peaceful protesters to know that physical abuse is not too far away.

Chief Justice Roberts Votes Against Churches, Huckabee Calls On Him To Retire.  Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, a supposed conservative and constitutionalist, has seemingly forgotten his oath.  In a stunning decision on Friday the chief justice sided with liberals yet again in keeping Nevada's churches, synagogues and mosques more limited than its casinos and movie theaters, CNN reported.  The decision brought scorn and consternations from the likes of Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee who called on Roberts to repent and retire.

Outdoor religious gatherings draw warnings and rebukes from health officials.  [T]he evangelical worship event took place on the sand near Lifeguard Tower 20 for the fourth Friday in a row, despite warnings that it was violating public health orders and permitting rules, officials said.  Its organizers estimate as many as 1,800 people attended for nearly two hours of musical performances, baptisms and prayers.  Days earlier, minister and musician Sean Feucht urged his fellow Christians to join him under the Sundial Bridge in Redding for a night of worship.

Americans kept from funerals, work, church fume over jammed demonstrations allowed in city streets.  A growing number of Americans concerned about continued coronavirus restrictions are questioning the need for such policies like business closures and mask mandates as tens of thousands gather in the streets around the country to demonstrate and protest.  Video clips from such gatherings, often involving thousands of mostly mask-less people, are replete on social media, drawing ire from Americans who are pushing for COVID restrictions to be lifted so that businesses can fully reopen, along with schools, sporting and concert venues, and others.  "It turns out you can attend church services in America.  As long as it's the church of social justice," tweeted journalist Barrett Wilson on Friday [7/24/2020], along with a Daily Caller video featuring scores of people in a tightly-packed crowd singing and holding candles.

Supreme Court (by 5-4 Vote) Declines to Exempt Nevada Churches from Gathering Size Limits.  From Justice Alito's dissent:  ["]The Constitution guarantees the free exercise of religion.  It says nothing about the freedom to play craps or blackjack, to feed tokens into a slot machine, or to engage in any other game of chance.  But the Governor of Nevada apparently has different priorities.  Claiming virtually unbounded power to restrict constitutional rights during the COVID-19 pandemic, he has issued a directive that severely limits attendance at religious services.  A church, synagogue, or mosque, regardless of its size, may not admit more than 50 persons, but casinos and certain other favored facilities may admit 50% of their maximum occupancy — and in the case of gigantic Las Vegas casinos, this means that thousands of patrons are allowed.  That Nevada would discriminate in favor of the powerful gaming industry and its employees may not come as a surprise, but this Court's willingness to allow such discrimination is disappointing.  We have a duty to defend the Constitution, and even a public health emergency does not absolve us of that responsibility.["]

The Problem in Portland Isn't the Law — It's the Lawlessness.  Despite the occasional looting, chaos, property damage, trespassing, rioting, graffiti, assaults, arson, and general mayhem, the media consistently assure us that Antifa "protesters" are "largely peaceful." [...] As far as we know, cops haven't broken any laws in the streets of Portland.  The protesters who cover their faces have broken tons.  With this in mind, it's been instructive watching many of the same characters who cheer on governors who take undemocratic emergency powers and shut down houses of worship without the consent of the people — and who sometimes arrest Americans for playing whiffle ball, attending church, or cutting hair — act as if policing portends the end of democracy.  The same people who incessantly clamor to empower the federal government when it suits their purposes now act as if protecting a federal courthouse is the Reichstag fire.

The Prosecution Never Rests.  In our constitutional system of checks and balances, ambition counteracts ambition.  But what happens when prosecutors are the most ambitious of all? [...] Of course, there are many kinds of prosecutorial ambition.  Some might be ambitious for lucrative law-firm partnership seats, or judicial appointments; others might simply like sending a message to criminals that they are the toughest guy on the block.  And others — surely the vast majority — are simply ambitious to do the best possible job they can, using all the legal tools at their disposal.  But here is the problem: there are many tools — and few practical limits upon their use.  While a prosecutor can't put a defendant in jail without a judge, or a jury, or the defendant's own guilty plea, there remains much that he or she can do to secure such convictions or plea bargains, or at least to make the defendant feel the pain of the criminal process.

Here's what I saw in the first half of 2020.  You told us to shelter in place.  We sheltered in place.  You told us to wear masks and we wore masks.  You told us to practice social distancing so we did.  You blocked entrances to our grocery stores so we used the one that you left available to us.  Then you made rules about which way to point our carts down the grocery aisle so we complied with that.  Then you set up hotlines so that our neighbors could snitch on us if we didn't wear our masks, or if we got in our cars and headed somewhere that didn't look like "essential" work.  You got back total compliance.  Total.  The very few among us who protested mask-wearing or social-distance-practicing or any of your other weird stuff, were put into situations where someone else would force the correct behavior. [...] Herd immunity works.  Masks and social distancing don't work.  And you people who think you haven't been obeyed enough, have started a whole new epidemic.  You are scarier than the actual virus.  You're like straight out of a Twilight Zone episode.  One of the earlier ones, the cautionary tales about Cold War paranoia.  That's you.

Los Angeles mayor says city is 'on the brink' of declaring another stay-at-home order.  Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti told CNN's Jake Tapper Sunday [7/19/2020] that Los Angeles is "on the brink" of another stay-at-home order.  Los Angeles County has seen a surge of cases recently, with new record high hospitalizations and infections.  The city has more than 150,000 cases.  "A lot of things went wrong," Garcetti said.  He pointed out that cases haven't increased as quickly in LA as in some cities, but said there is "no national leadership" in efforts to slow or stop the pandemic.  "It was politicized when it should have been unified."

The COVID Coup.  Panicked by fears manufactured by the ruling class, the American people assented to being put essentially under house arrest until further notice, effectively suspending the habits, preferences, and liberties that had defined our way of life.  Most Americans have suffered economic damage.  Many who do not enjoy protected status have had careers ended and been reduced to penury.  Social strains and suicides multiplied.  Forcibly deferring all manner of medical care is sure to impose needless suffering and death.  In sum, the lockdowns' medical and economic dysfunctions make for multiples of the deaths and miseries of the COVID-19 virus itself.  Bad judgments and usurpations — the scam, not the germs — define this disaster's dimensions. [...] In short, COVID-19 is not America's plague.  It did not shake America.  The ruling class shook it.  They have not done it ignorantly or by mistake.  They have done it to extort the general public's compliance with their agendas.  Their claim to speak on behalf of "science" is an attempt to avoid being held accountable for the enormous harm they are doing.  They continue doing it because they want to hang on to the power the panic has brought them.

Ohio County Creates Hotline for Neighbors to Report Non-Mask Wearers.  Cuyahoga County, Ohio, has rolled out a hotline for residents to snitch on those of their neighbors who do not wear masks, in line with an executive order by Governor Mike DeWine, a Republican, mandating masks in public when "social distancing" is not possible.  County Executive Armond Budish made the announcement, telling the people of Cuyahoga that individuals who witness others not wearing a mask in public spaces should make complaints to the new hotline or file on a website titled "Mask Experience."  Once a complaint has been filed, county workers contact the subject of the complaint, whether it's an individual or business, to let them know.  The complaints are also forwarded to the Board of Health and the relevant village or city.  "This is not intended to be going out and finding people not wearing masks.  We want people to wear their masks....  We want people to do it voluntarily," Budish said.

Chicago threatens to bulldoze churches, lawyer says.  The lawyer representing two churches in Chicago fighting the city's coronavirus guidelines said he never thought he'd see the day when city leaders would threaten to bulldoze a church for allowing its congregation to worship.  That day has arrived.  Matt Staver, the founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel, said Wednesday that churches that he represents have received letters from the city's Board of Health that declared them "public nuisances."

Comrade Cuomo Announces Visitors into New York Must Show Papers and Register With State or Face $2,000 Fine.  Comrade citizens, those who travel in the Northeast zone should beware, Minister Cuomo is going all-in with the COVID compliance mandates.  All travelers into New York from "high-COVID" states, must provide their papers upon arrival or face a summons and $2,000 fine.

The Wrong Governors.  [Scroll down]  The decisions of Cuomo, Whitmer, Newsom, and Murphy regarding the movement of infected patients from hospitals to nursing homes and other long-term care facilities might be the worst and most consequential of the crisis.  Whitmer made odd and difficult-to-justify decisions, including banning the purchase of seeds, and her husband apparently "jokes" about being exempt from state orders.  California's coronavirus-testing programs stumbled right out of the gate.  Murphy violated his own order on large gatherings.  Very little of this has affected the job-approval ratings of these governors — in part because only some portions of the media world are interested in the flaws of the records of these governors.  The others prefer to stick to their preselected happy narrative.

Cops Raid Mansion Of St. Louis Couple Who Defended Home From Protesters, Confiscate AR-15.  St. Louis authorities confiscated an AR-15 used by Mark McCloskey, who made headlines with his wife Patricia last month when they defended their historic mansion from protesters who had broken down a gate to trespass on their private road.  Police executed a search warrant Friday evening at the McCloskey's home, seizing the rifle used in the June 28 incident, according to KSDK. The couple said their attorney was in possession of the pistol Patricia McCloskey brandished during the confrontation.  The raid comes two weeks after St. Louis circuit attorney Kimberly Gardner vowed to work with the St. Louis Police Department to conduct an investigation into the incident.  According to the report, there are no charges against the McCloskeys at this time, as the warrant was just for the guns.

Missouri couple who defended home have rifle seized during police search: report.  Authorities in St. Louis executed a search warrant Friday evening [7/10/2020] at the home of Mark and Patricia McCloskey, the couple who made headlines last month when they took up arms to defend their home from protesters.  During the search, police seized the rifle that Mark McCloskey was shown holding during the June 28 incident, KSDK-TV of St. Louis reported, citing information from a source.  The couple claimed the pistol that Patricia McCloskey held during the June confrontation was already in the possession of their attorney, the station reported.

It Would Appear NBC Buried Some Key Details About Their Medical Expert's 'Coronavirus Battle'.  The George Floyd riots killed the lockdowns.  After weeks of being told to stay inside, the officer-involved death of Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25 lead to the media forgetting about the virus.  Go out and protest was the message from liberal America, with the media excusing or defending the rioters.  For two weeks, not really a lot of COVID coverage and when the rioting began to subside, we needed to get back inside.  Yeah, not happening.  New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, one of the most insufferable clowns in office, issued an edict banning large crowd gatherings unless you're protesting in support of Black Lives Matter.  They don't even hide their hypocrisy anymore.  Well, over at NBC News, there was something they tried to hide as well regarding COVID, which is that one of their contributors who they peddled as having the virus... never had it.

Can We be Allowed to be Adults, Please?  We live in unprecedented times.  How often have you heard that phrase recently in the media or from the politicians?  So often, it's become cliché.  The problem is the media and the politicians have it all wrong.  We aren't living in unprecedented times because of the COVID-19 outbreak or even because of the rioting following the death of George Floyd.  We live in unprecedented times because the United States of America has never seen a time in its history where the people's basic rights and liberties have been taken from them so quickly and on a such a large scale without their consent or due process.  The really scary part?  We allowed it all to happen and to a large extent asked for it.  A large majority of the media is gleefully scaring [...] everyone with a daily death count and we eat it up.  Our states' Governors have decided that executive orders allow them to become little kings, in some cases little tyrants, in their respective states making law by fiat without the legislature's consent.  Worse, the legislatures have decided that is just fine with them and we complied without any resistance.  There seems to be no limit to the executive powers that governors can take for themselves.  All of this is done in the name of "protecting" us from a virus.

California's Governor Forbids Christians From Singing in Church Houses.  Golden State Christians have been ordered by California's governor to stop singing in church.  This is a direct assault on the First Amendment, [...] The new guidance for places of worship was issued on July 1.  "Discontinue singing (in rehearsals, services, etc.), chanting, and other practices and performances where there is increased likelihood for transmission from contaminated exhaled droplets.  Consider practicing these activities through alternative methods (such as internet streaming) that ensure individual congregation members perform these activities separately in their own homes," the 14-page order reads.  The previous guidelines only encouraged churches to "strongly consider" ending corporate worship, the Sacramento Bee reported.  The governor's office did not indicate how he intends to enforce the law.  Can you imagine the optics of National Guard troops storming into California church houses and arresting choir members for singing, "A Mighty Fortress is Our God"?

Newsom Bans Singing In Houses Of Worship After Downplaying Spread Of Coronavirus At Protests.  Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) has issued new restrictions limiting the reopening of the economy in nearly 20 counties across the Golden State.  One of the more controversial measures introduced Thursday will ban singing and chanting at houses of worships, which are already restricted to allowing 25% of guests or just 100 worshippers (whichever is lower). The Sacramento Bee reported that in late May, Newsom simply encouraged houses of worship to "strongly consider discontinuing singing, group recitation, and other practices and performances."

Anthony Fauci:  The Consummate Unelected, Unaccountable, Technocrat.  One would have thought that the legal lockdowns were sufficiently restrictive.  But once power has been tasted, the human tendency is to grab for ever greater control.  Soon, media pundits and politicians began to refer ominously to a less vibrant, prosperous, and free "new normal."  Flattening the curve quickly metamorphosed from a temporary measure to save hospitals into a permanent effort to prevent anyone from getting sick.  "Experts," such as the bioethicist Ezekiel Emanuel — a prime architect of the Affordable Care Act — told us with presumed authority, that we could not return to the way things were until a vaccine was developed, a time Emanuel estimated to be potentially as long as 18 months.  Justifying seizing greater control under the mantra, "if it saves just one life," some of our most influential experts began pounding the drum to make a future COVID-19 vaccine mandatory for everyone.  A committee of the New York Bar Association urged the organization to support legislation toward that end.  Harvard law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz went so far as to tell an interviewer that "the state has the power to literally take you to a doctor's office and plunge a needle into your arm."

Judge Nukes Ill.  Lockdown:  Pritzker 'Had No Authority' to Restrict Movement and Close Businesses.  Illinois Circuit Court Judge Mike McHaney ruled on Thursday that Governor J.B. Pritzker of Illinois had no lawful authority to declare endless disasters past the initial thirty days.  Ruling on a lawsuit filed by State House Rep. Darren Bailey (R-Ill.), Judge McHaney wrote, "The court declares that Defendant had no constitutional authority as Governor to restrict a citizen's movement or activities and/or forcibly close business premises in EO 32."  Bailey's lawsuit alleged that the governor had abused his powers and overstepped his authority by ordering Illinoisans to stay home and shutter their businesses because of COVID-19.

Third Reich Redux.  Major media, government agencies such as the Centers for Disease Control and the National Institutes of Health, and politicians have pressured Americans to follow onerous lockdown orders put out by governors, such as ones from Michigan that both "prohibit in-person work that is not necessary to sustain or protect life" yet allow liquor stores to remain open.  Michigan's Governor Gretchen Whitmer issued edicts seemingly as whims struck her: allowing hardware stores to open yet not allowing large department stores to sell hardware supplies, allowing kayaking while not allowing boating in motorized boats, and encouraging food delivery but not allowing furniture delivery.  For the most part, those on the ideological left have strongly supported the mandates — in words, at least, if not always in deeds — while those on the right supported precautions so that people could make up their own minds about how to respond to the disease and railed against mandatory lockdowns wherein government chose workplace winners and losers.

Want to Kill the Economy Again?  Keep Threatening More Lockdowns.  The first time governments imposed business closures in the name of fighting the spread of COVID-19, the job market imploded. [...] It remains to be seen if the country even began anything that could realistically be called a "recovery" in June.  After all, new unemployment claims were still at over a million new applicants according to the most recent data.  That's still off-the-charts bad.  Nonetheless, we continue to hear about how, any day now, we'll see evidence of a "V-shaped recovery" in which jobs and economic growth will come roaring back.  But now we're already seeing governments — by which I mean a small cadre of governors and unelected bureaucrats who currently rule by decree — announcing another round of business closures and ongoing government regulations that micromanage every aspect of a business's daily interactions with customers.

The Coming Collapse of the Republic.  [Scroll down]  Democrat presidential sock puppet Joe Biden, echoing the man whose name he couldn't recall a while back (because echoes are all he has left), not long ago said we had to "fundamentally" change America.  But that fundamental change has already occurred.  Does the 2020 U.S. even remotely resemble its few-generations-back former self?  So the question isn't what's coming, but this:  Will you be ready?  When leftists take full political control federally, they'll mercilessly impose their agenda as they always do.  If you have no idea what that agenda is, you're likely not reading this.  But do know that it will be effected no-holds-barred.  For not only is there the critical-mass factor, but Machiavellian leftists have convinced their useful idiots, projecting all the way, that conservatives constitute a hateful, "racist," fascistic, White Supremacist™ threat to civilization.  They thus have an ideal pretext for iron-fistedly crushing opponents.

Stop Making Sense.  [Scroll down]  It's not about making sense.  It never was.  It's about making you kneel.  If you look at everything that is going on, the one common denominator is that every action the woke insurgents take is designed to strip you of your ability to defend your interests, or property, or rights, or life.  The idea is to leave you utterly vulnerable, totally exposed, at which point they can do with you as they see fit.  The nicer ones will merely reeducate you then demand humiliating submission and tribute.  History (and their social media feed) teach that others will happily murder you.  Doubt me?  Just ask your local kulak.  Stripping you of defenses takes many forms.  One form is defunding and abolishing the police.  Oh, someone will be wielding force in society.  It just won't be people accountable to or inclined to protect you.  Another form is literally stripping you of your defenses.  Why is gun control such a fetish for these creeps?  Because you with a gun have the ability to not just say "no" but to exact a price from those who wish to compel a "yes."  So, of course, they want to eliminate your ability to have weapons, but they also want to eliminate, as a practical matter, your ability to use them to protect yourself.

Suburban NYC County Uses Subpoenas as People Resist Contact Tracing.  Officials in Rockland County, New York, say they will have no choice but to issue subpoenas to get people to talk to contact tracers trying to combat the spread of coronavirus.  Local NBC affiliate NYC Channel 4 reports that health officials are looking into at least eight COVID-19 cases in the county that likely are the result of a large party held earlier this month.  But the county is running into a problem: people are not cooperating with contact tracers.  In order to force people to speak to contact tracers, the county says it plans to issue subpoenas.  It won't be the first time, either.  Rockland County issued subpoenas during a measles outbreak several years ago.

Are Americans a Pride of Lions or a Herd of Cattle?  Democrats are using COVID19 to purposely turn Americans into a herd of cattle that can be easily controlled through fear and subtle intimidation tactics.  Governor Cooper just announced he is keeping the State in phase 2 lockdown and is still refusing to allow gyms and bars to reopen.  In addition he is trying to get all of us to wear masks outside if we cannot guarantee the 6 ft. recommended distancing.  Let us look at the facts about the virus. [...] The actual virus death rate nationally is about 5%.  In North Carolina the numbers are similar yet better.  There have confirmed approximately 56,500 people to have the disease.  Yet the Death rate is just over 1300 or a rate of about 2.3%.  In New Hanover County there are 611 confirmed cases with 5 deaths or a rate of .008%. [...] Kids need to go back to school or we will never end this virus lock up.

Mask Wars.  As states begin to reopen and America tries to recreate normalcy, masks have replaced social distancing as the new moral statement.  Just as adherence to lockdowns was framed by many as a sign of virtue — with some arguing that those who refused to abide by the lockdown orders should forfeit medical care for Covid-related indications — masks have become a face-borne signal of righteousness.  As a virologist, I find this perplexing, considering the limited evidence in favor of masks.  More than anything, the scientific rationale behind masks appears to be that wearing them does little harm. [...]The viral particles that spread Covid-19 are tiny bundles of proteins and nucleic acids, about 0.1 micron in size — or one hundred-thousandth of a centimeter.  The CDC generously describes the evidence in favor of cloth face masks' efficacy as "emerging," but by the standards we use to assess clinical interventions, the efficacy of masks, especially nonsurgical masks, is undetermined.

The Editor says...
Okay, for the moment, let us agree that wearing a mask "does little harm."  The harm comes from forcing or coercing people to wear masks when those people don't feel it is necessary.  My local grocery store won't let me in without a face mask now, so I shop in another county!  It's a 25 minute drive to my new grocery store.  But I won't wear a mask just because some downtown bureaucrat tells me to, because I am not sick, and I am not afraid.  Now that July is here, masks are not about protecting public health.  Now it's all about making everyone comply and conform to whatever mandate comes forth from the government.  If the little tyrants discover they can demand that you wear a face mask, and then you actually do it, the next step is mandatory vaccinations, followed by mandatory RFID chips, followed by the day (which, I assure you, will definitely arrive) when one can no longer buy or sell without the right credentials.  These incremental changes don't come and go.  They are irreversible.  You set a precedent by complying to the mask order, and you've lost a little more of your freedom.

Covid-19 pandemic is 'fire drill' for effects of climate crisis, says UN official.  The coronavirus pandemic is "just a fire drill" for what is likely to follow from the climate crisis, and the protests over racial injustice around the world show the need to tie together social equality, environmental sustainability and health, the UN's sustainable business chief has said.  "The overall problem is that we are not sustainable in the ways we are living and producing on the planet today," said Lise Kingo, the executive director of the UN Global Compact, under which businesses sign up to principles of environmental protection and social justice.  "The only way forward is to create a world that leaves no one behind."  She said there were "very, very clear connections" between the Covid-19 and climate crises, and the Black Lives Matter protests around the world, which she said had helped to reveal deep-seated inequalities and "endemic and structural racism".

The Editor says...
This pandemic, or the next big scare (whatever it may be) has nothing to do with global warming, racism, 5G cellphones, Civil War statues, polar bears, or same-sex wedding cakes.  It's all about control.

Wisconsin small-business owner denied coronavirus relief funds after attending lockdown protest.  A small business owner in Wisconsin was denied coronavirus relief funds from the local government after he participated in a rally protesting statewide stay-at-home measures to combat the pandemic.  Dimple and Denis Navratil have owned Dimple's Fine Imports LLC in Racine, Wisconsin, for more than 20 years.  They applied twice for some of the $900,000 the city allocated to small businesses to help offset the financial burden of the health crisis, according to an investigation conducted by the Journal Times and published Sunday [6/28/2020].  Upon receiving his second denial, Denis Navratil was told by the city's mayor that his attendance at a rally in Madison on April 24 protesting Democratic Gov. Tony Evers's "Safer at Home" measures was used as a basis for his rejection.

If We Don't Act, 2% of the People Are About To Control the Other 98%.  There is now a small group of passionate people working hard to destroy our American way of life.  Treason and treachery are rampant and our rule of law and those law enforcement professionals who uphold our laws are under the gun more than at any time in our nation's history.  These passionate 2 percent appear to be winning.  Despite there being countless good people trying to come to grips with everything else on their plates, our silent majority (the indifferent) can no longer be silent.

Federal judge:  Cuomo and de Blasio can't limit the size of outdoor religious services if they didn't care about limiting the size of protests.  The subtext of the ruling, wrote Peter Spiliakos, is that "the NY state and city governments were treating left-wing protest as a de facto state religion and were discriminating against other faiths."  Gotta treat all creeds equally under the law.

Judge: New York State wrong to restrict religious gatherings while allowing protests.  A federal judge ruled on Friday that New York State is violating the First Amendment by restricting religious gatherings during the coronavirus pandemic while simultaneously allowing both much larger protests sparked by the death of George Floyd and the opening of other activities and businesses.  Senior U.S. District Judge Gary L. Sharpe, who was appointed by President George W. Bush and sits in Albany, issued a preliminary injunction that voids parts of an executive order issued by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo three months ago that included a fine against anyone who gathered in excess of set limits.

Joe Biden:  I Will Force Americans to Wear Masks in Public.  Former Vice President Joe Biden said Thursday [6/25/2020] that he would compel Americans to wear masks in public if elected president.  In an interview with Pittsburgh CBS affiliate KDKA, Biden said that he would use federal power to "mandate" masks.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo:  Police May Stop Cars with Out-of-State Plates to Enforce Quarantine.  Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) warned Wednesday that some out-of-state travelers to New York might be pulled over by police if they have license plates from states with high levels of the coronavirus.  Cuomo said that in addition to law enforcement, he would expect individuals such as hotel clerks and businesses in New York to question travelers from select states.

Counsel of the Woke.  For the first two months following the coronavirus outbreak, public-health experts insisted that we "follow the science" and implement their recommendations, even if it meant millions of lost jobs and significant restrictions on constitutionally protected activities, such as church attendance and freedom of assembly. [...] In hindsight, it's astonishing how quickly Americans ceded political authority to the public-health apparatus.  This isn't only antithetical to self-rule; it also accords constitutional protection to elite causes — and only elite causes.  Attending a Black Lives Matter protest is permissible.  Attending a church service is not.  Left unchecked, the progressive-scientific alliance will penetrate additional domains of life.  Whether it's "housing is healthcare," "harm reduction saves lives," or "antiracism is public health," slogans abound for subsuming science into politics.

Appeals court judges threaten 'contact tracing' for religious services.  The shutdowns mandated by government to minimize the spread of coronavirus have affected schools, stores, government buildings, sports, concerns and much, much more, including churches.  The conflict between the constitutional right to assemble and worship in churches and health officials' demands that people not gather in groups has been stark in many cases.  Dozens of fights have erupted as churches insist they have a constitutional right to exercise their religion, and government bureaucrats say no.  One prominent war over the issue has been going on in Illinois, where Gov. Jay Pritzker ordered no churches could have services involving more than 10 people, an order he later made a recommendation.

Whitmer extends Michigan's state of emergency through July 16.  Gov. Gretchen Whitmer extended Michigan's state of emergency Thursday through July 16 as a federal judge asked the state Supreme Court to clarify the governor's emergency powers.  The declaration, which was set to expire Friday, allows the Democratic governor continued authority to issue the executive orders that have created the framework for the state's coronavirus-restricted activity in recent months.  Whitmer's response to the pandemic has so far included 122 executive orders.  "The aggressive measures we took at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic have worked to flatten the curve, but there is still more to be done to prevent a second wave," Whitmer said in a statement.

Federal judge asks Michigan Supreme Court to clarify Whitmer's emergency powers.  A federal judge asked the Michigan Supreme Court Thursday to clarify whether Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has the authority to continue issuing or renewing executive orders under either of the two state laws that govern her emergency powers.  The request came on the same day that Whitmer extended Michigan's state of emergency through July 16. [...] The federal and state lawsuits are seeking answers to whether state law allowed for the governor's emergency powers to continue after April 30, even without legislative approvals, and whether the emergency laws giving Whitmer virtually limitless authority violate the separation of powers between the governor and Legislature in Michigan's Constitution.

Americans Should Never Again Comply With Pandemic Lockdown Orders.  We're told a second wave of coronavirus infections is coming.  As businesses open back up and states relax lockdown orders, the number of new cases is ticking up in a handful of states.  We've heard warnings in recent days from the Centers for Disease Control and various public health experts and elected officials that a new series of lockdowns might be necessary.  What these experts and officials don't seem to realize is that Americans will never comply with their lockdown orders again.  They have burned their credibility to the ground, and they no longer have the moral authority to tell us what to do.  Simply put, the people in charge have shown themselves to be rank hypocrites who care more about politics than science.  For months, we were told that large gatherings were deadly because of the coronavirus, but when protests broke out in late May, large gatherings were suddenly okay.

Where are all the guns and ammo purchased under Obama?  During the last two years of the Obama administration, some unusual purchases were made.  Large quantities of ammunition were purchased, as were firearms, mostly for somewhat obscure agencies or agencies with no real need for such weaponry.  Estimates are that over 1 billion rounds of ammunition were ordered, which resulted in making ammunition scarce for the normal civilian market. [...] The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service spent $4.77 million purchasing shotguns, 7.62mm caliber rifles, night-vision goggles, propane cannons, liquid explosives, pyro supplies, buckshot, LP gas cannons, drones, remote-control helicopters, thermal cameras, military waterproof thermal infrared scopes and more.  The SBA loaded up their arsenals with Glock pistols.  The Fish folks spent approximately $410,000 on their Glocks and rifles and modified their Glocks with silencers.  The Department of Health and Human Services was outfitted with sophisticated weaponry normally carried by Special Forces, stored at an undisclosed location. [...] We now know that Obama and Holder set up selling guns to the Mexican drug cartels in what is known as Fast and Furious.  Perhaps it is high time that the president orders a detailed inventory and audit of these weapons and ammunition.  If anything is missing, where is it?  Also, has any of these weapons been used in any known crimes?

New York's 25,000 Lockdown Violations Give Me Hope for America.  If you are looking for hope in America, I give you Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) whining about "25,000 complaints of reopening violations" in his miserable, fascist state. [...] This is exactly what Americans all across the country should be doing, most especially in states like New York, New Jersey, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina — any state where the Democrat governor treats you like a second-class citizen and left-wing protesters, rioters, looters, and arsonists like first-class citizens.  It is nothing short of obscene for these Democrat governors to lock everyone down for no valid scientific or moral reason, to gleefully destroy the livelihoods and small businesses of millions of Americans, while at the exact same time they allow, legitimize, and, in some cases, join these massive protests that violate every social distancing rule known to man.  Beyond obscene, it is also un-American and un-Constitutional.

When Will We Stand Up To The Tyrants Of Woke Conformity?  Those who speak outside the narrative established by a hard-left mob that has marched through our institutions are blacklisted.  If we fail to mount a forceful resistance, there's a grim future awaiting us.  We've seen this coming.  The casualty list has been growing for years.  The purge is now white hot.  What was a non-controversial statement last week is grounds for a death sentence tomorrow.  It seems every day we see someone caving in with a groveling apology, declaring they suddenly have a lot to learn, swearing they're looking forward to the moment they can meet with their hostage-takers and work toward a resolution that will appease them.

The Federal Reserve Has Its Own Police and Is Part of a Vast Surveillance Center — Should You Worry?  Without any Congressional hearings on the matter, the USA Patriot Act in 2001 bestowed on the 12 regional Federal Reserve banks domestic policing powers.  While the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington, D.C. is deemed an "independent federal agency," with its Chair and Governors appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate, the 12 regional Fed banks are private corporations owned by the member banks in their region.  As settled law under John L. Lewis v.  United States confirms:  "Each Federal Reserve Bank is a separate corporation owned by commercial banks in its region."  In the case of the New York Fed, which is located in the Wall Street area of Manhattan, its largest shareowners are behemoth multinational banks, including JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.  So what the USA Patriot Act effectively did was to give multinational corporations domestic policing powers in New York City via the New York Fed.

Contact Tracing Is A Fiasco Rejected By Most Americans.  There were supposed to be armies.  Grand armies of contact tracers crisscrossing every county in the country on the hunt for the Chinese virus.  This was the key we were told to a safe reopening, they have been telling us this since back when they still told us not to wear masks.  Soldiers in this army would interview anyone who tested positive and track down the people they spent time with.  Supposedly serious people with TV shows and everything said with straight faces that we might need 100,000 contact tracers, maybe more, maybe everyone needs to be a contact tracer.  In New York, Michael Bloomberg stepped out of ubiquitous presidential ads (remember that?) right into being charged with leading the new public health Manhattan Project.  The result looks more like a middling 4th grade science fair entry.  Oregon reported last week that that the state has no idea how many contact tracers it has in the field.  In New York, several upstate counties are opting out of the program because their own local policies work better for them.  Meanwhile in Gotham, Mayor Bill de Blasio betrayed the deeply unserious nature of his tracing efforts by telling his tracers not to ask if people who test positive had been at a political protest.

The Left's Premature Revolution.  Over the previous three months the nation has been racked with the economic and societal fallout of a lockdown indiscriminately and oftentimes incoherently enforced by various Democrat, thus left-wing, governors and mayors.  All sectors of the citizenry have been adversely affected, but those living in red states have been extraordinarily victimized.  Thus, an ever-growing percentage of the populace is being made aware of not only the mindset of left-wing politicians but the true-life consequences of their guiding philosophy.  After experiencing the devastating economic and societal costs of the lockdown, the bulk of the citizenry is not reacting well to the demands of the left and their militant army as they fan the flames of destruction and beat the drum of obligatory Marxist based fundamental transformation as the only means of curing so-called systemic racism.

If it's OK to protest, how can you ban funerals?  This week, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot had big news — the city is opening up its iconic Lakefront Trail after months of closing it off as part of a COVID-19 lockdown.  That Lightfoot kept the trail closed even after Chicago had experienced large-scale Black Lives Matter marches — thousands just last weekend during the "Drag March for Change" — is one small instance of the flagrant social-distancing hypocrisy across the country in recent weeks.  If it's OK for throngs of people to pack the streets and shout and chant to protest the death of George Floyd, it also ought to be permissible for someone to ride a bike along the lakeside while keeping to himself or herself.

Police Search Home After Teachers See 11-Year-Old's BB Gun Hanging on Wall During Virtual Classroom.  After schools and businesses across the country shut down in February and March in an attempt to stop the spread of Wuhan coronavirus, millions of office workers, parents, students, and teachers were forced to quickly become familiar with virtual meeting technologies such as Zoom and Google hangouts as school districts transitioned to virtual learning environments. [...] In the world of virtual school, however, there's a very risky flip side to that window into someone else's home, as Baltimore mom Courtney Lancaster found out.  Lancaster's son, a 5th grader and Boy Scout who's conscientiously working toward the rank of Eagle Scout, has taken three levels of archery classes and le