 Since when are automatic weapons required to settle such cases?  In 1949, this definition of "terrorism" could be found on page 1346 of Funk & Wagnall's Standard Dictionary of the English Language.  Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, 1970, page 911. This page is written for the benefit of people who have absolute faith and trust in the government. Perhaps you know people who believe the government can do no wrong. People who believe that the government never lies. People who believe that every good and perfect thing comes from the federal government. One fellow I know comes to mind. When the government declares it illegal to inhale, he will be the first person in town to turn blue. And he will probably be the first person in town with a bar code on his forehead. He will take the government's side in any argument, because the government is his god. To him, and others like him, the situation shown in the photo above is perfectly normal. Here is some of the evidence that the federal government and some state governments have too much power and too little restraint. In fact, much of this web site is devoted to the never-ending task of spotlighting abusive government and bad ideas. Tyranny is defined as cruel and oppressive government, and that is exactly what is described in some of the news items shown below. Subsections: The Road to Tyranny is All Downhill From Here Abuse of Power by Ordinary Cops The War on Little Kids with Lemonade Stands Videotaping the police Money Down the Drain Domestic surveillance Abusive and Invasive Searches at the Airport Snitch on Your Neighbor The TIPS program Know Your Customer Obama's "snitch on your neighbor" program: The 2013 version. Government Hostility Toward the Right Wing Incompetence and Absurd Application of the Law Uncle Sam loses stuff — especially guns and laptop computers. Uncle Sam is afraid to say what he means The Steven Hatfill / Anthrax Investigation Threats to the Constitution The Bill of Rights is Taking a Beating The Prosecution of the Duke Lacrosse Team Civil Disobedience Related to Same-Sex Marriage Laws Property Rights and Property Seizures ... including commentary about the Supreme Court's Kelo decision. Invasion of Privacy (includes numerous subtopics) The Government's Role as Overprotective Nanny ... including The Smoking Section ... and Governor Perry's Vaccination Mandate The use of Traffic Signals as Fundraisers ... as well as seat belt laws and speed traps. The use and abuse of Tasers The use of the IRS as a weapon, ... and The loss of Lois Lerner's most important emails at the most convenient moment. Taxes in general, specifically, Cigarette taxes and The Proposed "Odometer Tax" The Americans with Disabilities Act The Endangered Species Act The USA Patriot Act Waco Waco II Ruby Ridge FEMA — the Federal Emergency Management Agency Other Items of Interest Additional pages on similar subjects:
The incident at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021 Featured articles: Note: There is a new page about the January 6 incident at the US Capitol, located here Obviously feds: Who Are the Real Insurrectionists? [Scroll down] Former Obama Administration Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and CIA Director John Brennan both lied under oath — without legal consequences — to the Congress. The FBI itself has descended into a sort of revolutionary police force rather than a disinterested investigative body focusing mostly on intrastate and federal crimes. The fired former Director James Comey feigned amnesia or ignorance 245 times in his responses under oath to a House committee. The subsequent interim director Andrew McCabe admittedly lied three times to federal investigators and likely discussed wearing a wire to entrap the president of the United States. He was never charged with any federal crime. An FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith altered a federal affidavit to warp a FISA court hearing. Former FBI Director Robert Mueller claimed under oath that he had no idea what the Steele dossier or Fusion GPS was, even though, arguably, they were the goads that prompted his own 22-month-long investigation. Tyranny
through Complexity. Consider how the government's tyranny through complexity makes answering even the simplest
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Seattle Police Justify The "Defund the Police" Movement by Arresting a Preacher for Reading His Bible Too Close to a Gay Pride Event. I'm going to return to a theme that I've harped on in the past. Too many conservatives have bought into the "back the blue" nonsense in response to the "defund the police" movement and BLM rioting. This is misguided. Police aren't guarantors of freedom; they are the enforcers of the administrative state. Police unions and cliques of senior police officers are one of the major forces against gun rights. Time and again, you find the police cheerfully enforcing the most shameful regulations. During the "pandemic," police in (at least) New York and New Jersey broke up funerals and gatherings in private homes. They arrested people in empty parks and on deserted beaches. They arrested people for not wearing masks. Their record on protecting the First Amendment rights of Christians is similarly checkered. Dearborn, Michigan, had to pay a substantial settlement because the police arrested Christian preachers outside the venue of a Muslim street fair. Biden: 'I Don't Count Drunk Driving as a Felony' for Illegal Immigrants. A recently rediscovered video shows Joe Biden as a 2020 presidential candidate inexplicably declaring, "I don't count drunk driving as a felony," to the astonishment of his stunned interviewers. To put his statement in context, Biden's baffling declaration of the insignificance of DUI for illegal immigrants came during a VICE news town hall on minority issues. He was asked about his stance on illegal immigration and deportation of immigrants who have been convicted or charged with felony law-breaking while in the United States. The Democratic candidate promised listeners that if he was elected to the White House in 2020, he would waste no time issuing an executive order (EO) that would prohibit U.S. Immigration and Customs (ICE) agents from deporting any illegal immigrant who had not committed a felony. In essence, Biden said he would decide the seriousness of a crime, not law enforcement. The Mighty Gorsuch vs. the Administrative State: Quotes from West Virginia vs. EPA. Dealing with this problem absolutely requires that we get back to fundamentals on what kind of society we want and what is the role of government. These issues are newly alive, and have come up with a Supreme Court decision in West Virginia vs. Environmental Protection Agency. The EPA had long imposed an expansive view of its discretion under the Clean Air Act. The court said no: the EPA has been acting illegally all along. This decision echoes a similar federal court decision in Florida concerning the CDC's mask mandate. The court said the CDC is acting illegally. Just because the EPA is tasked with certain acts of administration doesn't mean it can do whatever it wants in service of the goal. "We would not expect the Department of Homeland Security to make trade or foreign policy even though doing so could decrease illegal immigration," said the main opinion. Clearly we have a problem that cries out for a mighty rethinking of everything. Just such a statement has been made in the concurring opinion of Justice Neil Gorsuch. Biden Has Weaponized the FBI and DOJ Against His Political Opponents — The GOP Needs To End It. On June 23, federal agents stormed the Virginia home of former Department of Justice official and legal scholar Jeffrey Clark in the early morning hours, searching his house and seizing multiple electronic devices in the process. And on June 27, news broke of the FBI executing a search warrant on June 22 against legal scholar and professor John Eastman for his role in advising the Trump administration on legally contesting the 2020 presidential elections. (Eastman has filed a motion for return of property, claiming that the federal agent refused to show him their search warrant before seizing his cell phone, as required by the law.) Clark and Eastman, like tens of millions of other Americans, wanted to determine if voter irregularities may have played a role in the 2020 presidential election. Clark, as a member of the Justice Department, and Eastman as a Trump advisor, explored legal remedies that involved fielding alternate electors in states with contested elections. That they should or should not have done this is open to opinion, but it was not at all illegal. The Invisible Power Controlling the US Government. I have written extensively on inverted totalitarianism, that being the once nascent, now entrenched form of government that truly controls the levers of federal power in the United States. This behemoth has turned the USA into a "managed democracy"; a bureaucracy which cannot be held accountable by the elected representatives of the people. Sometimes called the 4th estate, this monster is also referred to as the "deep state" the civil service, or the administrative state. Inverted totalitarianism does not have an authoritarian leader, but instead is run by a non-transparent group of bureaucrats. This unelected, invisible ruling class runs the country from within. They are easily influenced by corporate interests due to both the lure of powerful jobs after federal employment and the capture of our legislative bodies by the lobbyists serving concealed corporate interests. The Astonishing Implications of Schedule F. The administrative state for the better part of a century, and really dating back to the Pendleton Act of 1883, has designed policy, made policy, structured policy, implemented policy, and interpreted policy while operating outside the control of Congress, the president, and the judiciary. [...] From 2020 and onward, the American people got to know this administrative state well. They ordered us to wear masks. They deployed their influence to close small businesses and churches. They limited how many people we could have in our homes. They festooned our businesses with plexiglass and told everyone to stay six-feet apart. They demanded two weeks of quarantine when crossing state borders. They decided which medical procedures were elective and non-elective. And they finally demanded compliance with vaccine mandates at the penalty of job loss. None of this was ordered by legislation. It was all invented on the spot by the permanent staff of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. We had no idea they had such power. But they do. And that same power which allowed those egregious attacks on rights and liberties also belongs to the Food and Drug Administration, the Department of Labor, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Homeland Security, and all the rest. FBI Raids Target Democrats' Political Foes Instead Of True Criminals. The only apparent criterion the FBI needs to raid the homes of American citizens is that those citizens have ever supported former President Donald Trump. Here are the names of some of the political leaders on the right that the FBI has targeted: Roger Stone, Rudy Giuliani, James O'Keefe, and Jeff Clark. The FBI is now also engaging in raids on private homes of elderly Americans who peacefully attended the Capitol protest on Jan. 6, 2020. Compare this treatment to that of actual criminals affiliated with Democrats, such as Hunter Biden, Andy McCabe, Peter Strzok, and Michael Sussmann. The latter have seen no personal visit from the FBI since their crimes were committed or exposed. Supreme Court Decides Suing the Feds is Mission: Impossible. The Supreme Court recently gave the cold shoulder to an American assaulted by a Border Patrol agent. No matter what party or ideology you ascribe to, this should set off alarm bells. Too often, conversations about U.S. border policy are swept up into culture war rhetoric and stick firmly to partisan lines. This pattern plays directly into the hands of bureaucrats who wish to centralize power, shred the Constitution, and build an apparatus that can ultimately inflict more harm on American citizens than on those attempting to cross the border. The recent Supreme Court 6-3 ruling in Egbert v. Boule is yet another example of this, as it strikes a blow to U.S. citizens seeking recourse when federal agents behave badly. While law enforcement officials deserve recognition for choosing a job that can put their life on the line, it is also true that the vast majority of Americans favor recourse for citizens wronged when those officials are negligent in their duties to protect and serve. A mass exodus from the Democrats' America. As the Washington Examiner reported this week, the end of the COVID-19 pandemic has done nothing to arrest the trend of people fleeing large cities in liberal coastal states for more pleasant and orderly locales, particularly in the Mountain West and the Sun Belt. A mixture of unreasonable pandemic restrictions, rising crime, lawlessness, and hostility toward employers has forced this continued urban exodus. [...] It is hardly a coincidence that all 15 of the 15 fastest-growing cities and towns between July 2020 and July 2021 are in states that Republicans govern: Arizona, Texas, Florida, Tennessee, and Idaho. And 14 out of the 15 fastest-declining cities during the same period were in states that Democrats governed at the time. What towns and cities gaining population generally have in common both before and during COVID-19 is that they live under laws made by Republicans. What towns and cities losing population have in common is that they live under laws made by Democrats. Not all Democratic states and cities are equally anti-business, but COVID-19 helped bring out the totalitarian side of many state and city governments, driving away and keeping away many former and prospective residents. The Pentagon Announces It Will Refuse to Follow Any State Laws Restricting Abortion Access. The Pentagon has made the announcement that it will refuse to recognize any abortion laws springing from the Supreme Court's decision that there is no guaranteed right to abortion in the U.S. Constitution. Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III issued a statement on on Friday regarding the Supreme Court's ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization. "Nothing is more important to me or to this Department than the health and well-being of our Service members, the civilian workforce and DOD families," the Pentagon chief announced. "I am committed to taking care of our people and ensuring the readiness and resilience of our Force. The Department is examining this decision closely and evaluating our policies to ensure we continue to provide seamless access to reproductive health care as permitted by federal law." Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin Makes Ridiculous Pledge in Response to Roe Ruling. It comes as no surprise that Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has issued a statement all but condemning Friday's overturn of Roe — by pledging that the United States military "be all that it can be" [sarcasm] and will do all it can in support of "seamless access to reproductive health care [on-demand abortion]." What is a bit of a surprise — Austin's apparent ignorance of federal law — is laughable. In a statement posted on the Department of Defense website, Austin pledged the U.S. military's "readiness and resilience" to, in effect, "continue to provide access" to abortion. Lloyd Austin needs to resign as Secretary of Defense. Since the announcement of the decision in Dobbs on Friday, elected officials and media personalities across the board have been weighing in with their own takes as you would expect. But one of the last people I would have expected to dive into the public debate was Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin. And yet he somehow made the decision to wade into the Roe v Wade issue up to his hips. This turned out to be a very poor decision for several reasons, as we'll see in a moment, but the question here goes far beyond one retired military officer's personal views. The spectacle Austin created was simply damaging and Lloyd Austin needs to either resign or be fired, not that Joe Biden will make any such move. The Editor says... Finding our Way Through a Wilderness of Mirrors. [Scroll down] Attorney General Merrick Garland has diverted FBI resources from fighting organized crime and protecting domestic security to the surveillance of parents who are protesting school boards' choice of school curriculum that promotes Critical Race Theory indoctrination and inappropriate sex and transgender education — a priority that makes no sense and likely violates state and individual constitutional rights. Five Reasons to Impeach Joe Biden. [#4] Biden is directing the enforcement branches of the federal government against his political enemies. Biden believes that "domestic political extremism" is "the most urgent terrorism threat" facing the U.S. "The Biden administration declared that the 'most lethal elements' of today's domestic terror threat are political conservatives," said Tucker Carlson. Biden has compared Americans who disagree with him — at least half the country — to racists and terrorists. Consequently, Biden is empowering the DoJ and FBI to go after Republicans. "The FBI is now an organization solely focused on destroying the domestic enemies of the Democratic Party," said talk show host Jesse Kelly. Biden is also enlisting the media in his war against political opponents. "What Joe Biden is telling media companies to do today is to censor their content so it doesn't contradict his decrees," said Tucker Carlson. "[Biden is calling for] censorship of political opinions. What you're seeing here is far more dangerous than the domestic terror threat they've been bloviating about. It contravenes the First Amendment." Queens DA Melinda Katz uses security detail 'as her personal car service': sources. Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz used members of her taxpayer-funded security detail to help her move to her new million-dollar digs — potentially running afoul of ethics rules, The [New York] Post has learned. The borough's top prosecutor was spotted wearing her gold DA's badge on her hip last week as she carried four boxes of belongings to a black Ford Expedition parked outside the Forest Hills house where she's been temporarily living since selling her former childhood home for $1.05 million in February. She then climbed into the official vehicle and was driven about 1.2 miles by a pair of plainclothes NYPD cops to her new three-bedroom, 2-1/2 bathroom Colonial-style house, which city records show she bought late last month for $1.1 million. The trip was one of four that The Post saw Katz, 56, and her detail make between her old and new homes Tuesday morning. Biden May Declare 'National Public Health Emergency' If Roe v Wade Is Overturned. Joe Biden is considering announcing a "national public health emergency" if Roe v Wade is overturned by the US Supreme Court in the coming days. This authoritarian move by the Biden regime would allegedly help women in red states obtain abortions despite the court ruling and the laws of the state. [...] Since a draft opinion was leaked last month indicating that the Supreme Court was prepared to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade decision — an action that would prompt at least 20 states to prohibit or severely curtail access to abortion — abortion rights advocates have been lobbying the White House to take extraordinary steps to mitigate the effect. 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. Biden threatens oil companies with 'emergency powers' if they don't increase their supply while they've 'tripled' profits. Joe Biden is calling on seven of the top oil companies to do something to help quell surging gas prices after accusing them of intentionally exacerbating the strain on Americans' pocketbooks after the average price per gallon surpassed $5.00. The president is sending letters Wednesday to Marathon Petroleum Corp., Valero Energy Corp., ExxonMobil, Phillips 66, Chevron, BP, and Shell to demand action on lowering gas prices at the corporate level and account for the surge. In a letter to Exxon obtained by Axios, Biden wrote that the difference 'of more than 15% at the pump is the result of the historically high profit margins for refining oil into gasoline, diesel and other refined products.' Biden Is Threatening Oil Companies With Use of Emergency Powers Against Them. Joe Biden has tried to blame everyone but himself for inflation and skyrocketing gas prices. His most common excuse for the rise in gas prices has been that it is "Putin's price hike" because of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. But the gas prices were going up long before Putin invaded in February 2022 — they've been going up ever since Joe Biden came into office. They've doubled since Biden took office and J.P. Morgan analysts are predicting gas may be $6.00 a gallon by August. It's over $5.00 now and the experts are predicting that it will continue to be a problem. It's not hard to understand why, given Biden's attack on the fossil fuel industry. When he ran, he promised that he would push the country to do away with fossil fuels. [Video clip] But now, Biden is trying to place the blame on another source — the oil companies. The Subordinate Citizen. We have developed entire classes of American elite citizens who are not subject to the enforcement of the law — at least as it is applied to others either less influential or ideologically incorrect. Federal prosecutors sought to jail Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn for six months for not telling the truth to federal agents. They put another Trump subordinate, George Papadopoulos, in jail for two weeks for lying to federal prosecutors. Recently the FBI stormed into an airport to arrest former Trump adviser Peter Navarro for contempt of a congressional subpoena. OK, defying federal law has consequences. Or does it? Former Obama administration Attorney General Eric Holder brazenly defied congressional subpoenas and was found in contempt — a historic first. Did the FBI ever arrest Holder, much less as he boarded an airplane? James Clapper, former director of national intelligence, confessed he flat-out lied under oath to a congressional committee. So did former Central Intelligence Agency chief John Brennan — twice! Andrew McCabe repeatedly lied to federal investigators as acting director of the FBI. Were any of them arrested or tried in the manner of Flynn, Papadopoulos, or Navarro? If not, what then is left of the foundation of U.S. citizenship — universal equal treatment under the law? Disinformation Panels, Corrupt FBI Activity, Govt Control over Speech in Social Media, The J6 Propaganda Effort, it is One Long Continuum. The people who created the Fourth Branch of Government used every tool in their arsenal to outlast and remove Donald Trump; then they turned to the one cognitively challenged candidate who would not be a threat to the construct, Joe Biden, and installed him through fraud and mail-in ballots. Everything is downstream from this construct. [...] Washington DC created the modern national security apparatus immediately and hurriedly after 9/11/01. DHS came along in 2002 and within the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 the ODNI was formed. When Barack Obama and Eric Holder arrived a few years later, those newly formed institutions were viewed as opportunities to create a very specific national security apparatus that would focus almost exclusively against their political opposition. The preexisting Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Dept of Justice (DOJ) were then repurposed to become two of the four pillars of the domestic national security apparatus. However, this new construct would have a targeting mechanism based on political ideology. Homeland Security Issues Another Security Bulletin to Drive Narrative. Are the threats facing America changing that rapidly, or is the administration using the bulletin as a tool for some other purpose? Timing is everything in life and especially in Washington, D.C. To help answer this question about why so many Biden administration advisory bulletins coming out of the Department of Homeland Security, one need only look at what else has been happening the past few weeks as we begin the summer, when the left needs voters energized to vote in the November midterms. Given the very selective threats and priorities included in the bulletin, set against known and suspected terrorists entering the U.S. through the southern border, numerous mass shootings, and violent pro-abortion supporters firebombing pregnancy centers and protesting at conservative Supreme Court justices' homes and churches, the answer clearly appears to be that the Biden administration is using the terrorism bulletin to advance its chosen narrative: White supremacy is everywhere (the administration chooses to focus). Gov Of New York Just Announced A New Bill That Would Make 'Hate Speech' Illegal, Whatever That Means. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a package of gun reform legislation on Monday [6/6/2022] that will increase the age to buy a rifle to 21, restrict the sale of body armor to specific professions, and revise the state's red flag law. The gun reforms come less than a month after an 18-year-old gunman allegedly used an AR-15 style rifle to murder 10 people at a Buffalo supermarket in what officials called a racist attack. "In New York, we are taking bold, strong action. We're tightening the red flag laws to keep guns away from dangerous people," Hochul said a press conference on Monday. [Video clip] Progressive America is the Twilight Zone. Thanks to our scheming, corrupt elites, we can no longer take what any federal government department or agency says at face value. Ask Peter Navarro about the gross injustice of Biden's Justice Department. Michael Sussman walked free from a D.C. court presided over by a Democrat-appointed judge (who cut the defendant slack via admissibility of evidence) and a D.C. jury populated with Democrats, including some Hillary Clinton contributors and one or two with casual connections to the defendant. The nation's leadership class has destroyed trust in government, and when trust vanishes, we're playing a dangerously unpredictable game loaded with wild cards. Biden's G-men go rogue. The Biden Justice Department, led by Attorney General Merrick Garland, will not be prosecuting lawbreakers within its ranks. The Inspector General (IG) for the Department of Justice (DOJ) released its semiannual report to Congress of cases for which the IG recommends prosecutions. But in case after case, the DOJ is declining to prosecute its own. The one notable exception is Bureau of Prisons (BOP) personnel, who still have reason to fear repercussions if they break the law. But if you are in the FBI or DEA, you can be virtually assured you will not be prosecuted, based on the long list of cases DOJ has declined to prosecute. Apparently, if you work for the right agency, anything goes. Biden Administration Declare National Emergency for Clean Energy Production. Joe Biden shut down domestic energy development, cancelled pipelines, cancelled leases, retracted the ability to drill in ANWAR (Alaska), and triggered massive new regulatory approaches from the Commerce, Interior and Energy departments. The resulting increases in oil, natural gas, gasoline, electricity and energy costs overall — which became fuel on the furnace of inflation, have now created the energy crisis that Joe Biden is declaring a national emergency to solve. Biden himself has no idea what is happening; he is simply following the instructions of the policy operators who are in control of the administration. It is the people in the circles of Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders and the climate change activists within the DC bureaucracy that are executing the nuts-and-bolts shifts. They tell Biden what to do, and he cluelessly does it. We are the people who end up paying the price for their effort. Be aware of major attacks on free speech from Democrats. Democrats own Washington D.C. and should be in hog heaven. But as Shakespeare wrote, "uneasy lies the head that wears a crown." Certainly, the Democrats know that, as the country and the world lurch from bad to worse under their aegis, their hold on the country is weakening. What especially worries them is conservative media's popularity. Now, Dan Pfeiffer, a former "senior advisor" to Obama, has said it out loud: Alternative viewpoints are a "problem for democracy." Expect the Democrats to act to counter that "problem." Here are three representative news stories showing the Democrats' collapsing control over the political narrative: [...] Biden [is] finally taking executive action to up domestic energy production — of solar energy. Whether it be his continued efforts to "deter" Russian President Vladimir Putin after the invasion of Ukraine had already begun or responding to the baby formula shortage after shelves had gone bare, President Joe Biden's reactionary leadership has been putting America last for nearly a year and a half now, and his latest move to ramp up domestic energy production is sure to do the same. On Monday [6/6/2022], the White House announced that the president will be invoking the Defense Production Act (DPA) along with other executive actions to try to combat the overwhelming reality that the Democratic policy initiatives are crippling the American economy. With the average price for a gallon of gas more than double since Biden was inaugurated and experts warning of rolling blackouts throughout the summer because the energy grid is not suited to meet the expected demand, the president has decided to double down. The news broke late Sunday that he would be pushing solar projects stalled by a Commerce Department tariff probe and promoting other clean energy projects. The Sovietization of American Life. Entire professions have now nearly been lost to radical progressive ideology. Do we remember those stellar economists who swore at a time of Biden's vast government borrowing, increases in the monetary supply, incentivizing labor non-participation, and supply chain interruptions that there was no threat of inflation? Were they adherents of ideological "modern monetary theory"? Did they ignore their own training and experience in fealty to progressive creeds? What about the Stanford doctors who signed a groupthink letter attacking their former colleague, Dr. Scott Atlas, because he questioned the orthodoxies of Dr. Anthony Fauci and the state bureaucracies — who we now know hid their own involvement with channeling funding to deadly gain-of-function research in Wuhan? Did they reject his views on empirical grounds and welcome a give-and-take shared inquiry — or simply wish to silence an ideological outlier and advisor to a despised counterrevolutionary? Or how about the 50 retired intelligence "experts" who swore that Hunter Biden's laptop was not genuine but likely Russian disinformation? Did they really rely on hundreds of years of collective expertise to adjudicate the laptop or did they simply wish to be rewarded with something comparable to a "Hero of Woke America" award? Dismantle the D.C. Company Town. The real issue here is something I have been harping on for the last couple of years: the issue of the decaying legitimacy of our institutions. Increasingly, once-respected institutions like the FBI, Congress, the Justice Department, to say nothing of the educational establishment and corporate culture, have lost their claim on the people's allegiance. That allegiance is not something that can be repaired by diktat. It is part of the largely unspoken compact that all social institutions require if they are to remain vital. The decay of that allegiance, and, consequently, the decay of institutional legitimacy has been evolving since at least since "the Sixties," understanding that term more as an existential than a chronological marker. The neo-puritanism of political correctness and other manifestations of "woke" intolerance hastened that process. And it is a curious contingency that the advent of Donald Trump as a political force stripped the camouflaging veils off the process. FBI opened multiple investigations into protesting parents, GOP lawmakers say. The FBI has opened multiple investigations into parents protesting education policies, including a father who was upset over mask mandates, according to new whistleblower revelations. The FBI's activities were publicly revealed in a letter Wednesday from Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee to Attorney General Merrick Garland. The specifics of the FBI's investigations were disclosed to lawmakers by whistleblowers. Garland directed the FBI and the Department of Justice to form a joint task force in October 2021 to investigate threats against school board members after the National School Boards Association asked the Biden administration in a September 2021 letter to investigate parents protesting at school board meetings as domestic terrorists under the Patriot Act. Garland issued the memo forming the task force a week after the NSBA sent its letter. After public outcry, the association apologized for sending the letter and withdrew it as numerous state school board associations announced they were disassociating with the national organization. One Way Government. Whenever the Left consolidates power and creates a new agency, it is immediately staffed with diehard progressive bureaucrats. In many cases, it is literally required by law that experts be placed in key positions of authority, who are all but guaranteed to be leftwing zealots. And the vast majority of this staff does not rotate out or get laid off when a Republican administration or legislature comes to power. Protected by their status as credentialed experts, the ideological foot soldiers of the bureaucracy stay firmly entrenched in the deep state. That's why things always seem to sprint left when progressives are in charge and at best grind to a halt when the GOP has its turn at the wheel. The Mafia Tactic that Brought Down CNN. [Scroll down] The right thing to do is always what the State is promoting at the current moment, even when radically incompatible with what the State promoted a day earlier. So one moment, every American is bound to stay home and Save Lives! The next moment, Americans are not only permitted, but practically obliged to protest in large numbers against Racial Injustice! Protesting for any other cause, however, rendered one a depraved "freedumb person." But "freedom" recovers its status as a foundational moral value (and its traditional spelling) in the context of promoting Ukrainian Freedom! And so it goes. Deeper in the Coverup, Early 2018 Andrew Weissmann Instructed Everyone on Special Counsel Team to Wipe Their Cell Phones. In the aftermath of the late summer 2017 Page/Strzok cell phone text messages, which started to identify the DOJ and FBI targeting operation against Donald Trump, the DOJ Office of the Inspector General (OIG) decided he better look at the communications inside the rest of the Mueller-Weissmann team. Early in 2018 IG Horowitz asked for all of the special counsel cell phones. Andrew Weissmann knew there would be trouble, the special counsel operation was at a critical juncture so he instructed the team to wipe them clean, quickly. Eventually records were released in 2020 showing how the Weissmann/Mueller special counsel team "accidentally" wiped 15 iPhones of all data early in 2018 after the phones were requested by the OIG office for review. Mueller's lead investigator Andrew Weissmann said he "accidentally" wiped two phones himself; through a lengthy process of entering the wrong passcode several times over a period of three hours; removing data to show his activity during the special counsel. Biden is trampling on separation of powers — courts should rein him in. Even as a federal appeals court was ruling that the executive branch may not take the place of an independent judiciary, President Joe Biden was trying to rig the game the other way. He is playing a dangerous anti-democracy game that must be stopped. On May 18, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in the case of Jarkesy v. Securities and Exchange Commission. George Jarkesy was accused by the SEC of securities fraud, an SEC administrative law judge, not a real judge but a bureaucrat, found him guilty, and the SEC commissioners affirmed the decision. Jarkesy was never allowed to present his defense in an actual court of law. The 5th Circuit ruled that this arrangement violated Jarkesy's right to trial by jury, among other constitutional deficiencies in the system. And the 5th Circuit is right. In a speech seven years ago this month, former SEC Chairman Christopher Cox cogently and comprehensively explained why the agency's administrative law system is suspect. Again, this is a former chairman of the SEC who was saying the agency's powers had grown too great. "We've seen the development of administrative actions that take the place of trials," Cox said. "These proceedings bear little resemblance to civil courts and their accustomed rules of civil procedure." Illinois Gas Station Owners Sue Over Having to Post Democrat Propaganda. Gas prices are high everywhere. They've risen so much that several states have suspended their gas tax, while others are considering doing so. And then there's Illinois. The Democrat-dominated legislature in Illinois is so magnanimous that they're not suspending their gas tax, but they're delaying increasing it until the end of the year. [...] Not only that but the Democrats also required gas stations to post signs that are "clearly visible" — four by eight inches or larger, with a bold font — reading "As of July 1, 2022, the State of Illinois has suspended the inflation adjustment to the motor fuel tax through December 31, 2022." No big deal, right? Well, if a station refuses, the owner faces a fine of $500 a day. And the signs are clearly meant to be propaganda that screams, "LOOK AT WHAT DEMOCRATS ARE DOING FOR YOU PEONS!" A Cabinency of Dunces. In the days before the recent Virginia election, grassroots parent groups challenged critical race theory taught in the schools. In reaction and under prompts from teachers' unions, Attorney General Merrick Garland directed both the FBI and the Justice Department to establish a special task force apparently to "investigate threats" from parents against school board members. The FBI recently has been knee-deep in political controversies. It illegally doctored a FISA application to entrap an American citizen. Its former directors, under oath before Congress, either claimed faulty memory or admitted lying to federal investigators. The last thing a scandal-plagued FBI needed was to go undercover at school board meetings to investigate parents worried over their children's education. Drain The Swamp. The bureaucratic mire in DC is full of predatory beasts, noxious insects, and other unseen hazards. Directives from the White House are apt to be ignored because there is no one translating those directives into marching orders for the lower floors of government-owned buildings. This leaves the denizens of departments to their own devices, none of whom are the slightest bit concerned with anything beyond the office water cooler. [...] If the Secretary of Department X decides to go full MAGA, little or nothing will actually happen, since most of his underlings frankly don't [care]. They are protected by Civil Service rules and can't be fired short of the next millennium. In other words, it's hopeless. Yes, I know, Donald Trump claims to know what he did wrong and will do things differently next time. It all sounds good, but so do all the claims from every politician. After all, they're "fighting for you!" But actually, they're mostly trying to baffle you [...] so you'll vote for them again. 5th Circuit Slaps Down Joe Biden's SEC, Liberals Promptly Lose Their Minds. "Everything I don't like is a threat to democracy" has become the new slogan of the Democrat Party, and it was put on display again this week after the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals slapped down Joe Biden's SEC. In a ruling that restored constitutional protections and left Democrats screaming bloody murder, the court found that the SEC does not have the power to internally decide to seize assets from those they feel have committed a crime. [Tweet] Some might be asking how the SEC ever gained such power in the first place, where an internal, administrative judge can unilaterally steal people's property. After all, doesn't the Seventh Amendment guarantee the right to a jury trial? National School Boards Association Admits to Colluding with Biden Administration on 'Domestic Terrorism' Letter. The National School Boards Association (NSBA) admitted Friday [5/20/2022] to colluding with senior White House officials to develop a letter asking the federal government to investigate concerned parents speaking at school board meetings as "domestic terrorists." The admission comes after an internal review, which was prompted by significant backlash to the letter that led Attorney General Merrick Garland to sic the FBI on parents and use "counterterrorism tools" to investigate them. NBC National Security Analyst: Hey, Everybody, Trump Supporters Are Just Like 'Violent Jihadists'. The establishment Left seems determined to tar its opponents as "terrorists." There's the Jan. 6 Committee, which continues to investigate what the Democrats insist was an "insurrection," despite a complete lack of evidence. There's the repeated claim (that Biden, Garland, and Christopher Wray, among others, have repeated) that "white supremacists," by which is meant "Trump supporters," are the nation's biggest terror threat. And now a former FBI counterintelligence official has gone the whole way and likened Trump supporters to "violent jihadists." Frank Figliuzzi is a national security analyst for NBC News, and would seem to have a fine resume for the job, having served as the assistant FBI director for counterintelligence for nearly a year and a half during the Obama administration. But like so many Obama/Biden appointees, he seems more interested in playing partisan politics and smearing the administration's opposition as terrorists than in assessing actual threats to national security. Supreme Court's 9-0 flag-flying decision startles, dismays wokesters in Vermont public schools. National outrage over George Floyd's death was particularly virulent in super-progressive ("woke") Vermont, where schools widely displayed the BLM flag beside the American flag. Unconcerned that this was a blatantly illegal government endorsement of an overtly partisan organization, proponents donned the "hear no evil from constitutionalists" earmuffs and prided themselves on agitating their neighbors by violating the Constitution. Many Vermonters have complained publicly that this is obvious abuse by government, but school officials have stonewalled, gaslighted, and suppressed all efforts to assert this axiomatic constitutional truth. The state's capital city of Montpelier shamelessly painted BLM on the road in front of the Vermont State House and condemned as racist an effort to display "Liberty and Justice For All" beside it. This is a cohesive, deliberate drive to eliminate basic constitutional guarantees to be replaced with an anti-constitutional ideology: the BLM flag is elevated as a superior symbol. '42 National Emergencies': How The WHO And Globalists Are Gaining Control. [Video clip only.] Scottsdale parents who discovered secret dossier compiled to silence their speech announce lawsuit. Three parents in the Scottsdale Unified School District (SUSD) sued the district, former SUSD governing board President Jann-Michael Greenburg, his father and his father's wife over the maintenance of a "dossier" allegedly aimed at intimidating them into silence after they had criticized Greenburg. The parents — Amanda Wray, Kimberly Stafford, and Edmond Richard — allege in the Marciopa County Superior Court complaint that the Greenburgs and the district conspired "to silence and punish dissenting voices and frighten away other potential speakers who might dare express an opposing point of view." Greenburg and his father reportedly kept a dossier on 47 parents who dared to speak out against his policies at school board meetings — a dossier complete with Social Security numbers, background checks, a divorce paper, mortgage documents, trade certifications, and screenshots of Facebook posts. The lawsuit claims that the defendants "misused District resources and what should have been private, protected parent communications to the District to retaliate against Plaintiffs for their protected speech." The United States Has Committed Numerous Acts of War Against Russia. The United States has committed numerous Acts of War against Russia this year. This is not a value judgment. I make no claim here about whether the United States has acted wisely, or has acted with justification. I simply note it. And the world may now be tumbling into an interlocking cycle of escalation beyond control and foreseeable consequences, just as it did in 1914. That the United States has committed Acts of War in no way justifies Russia's actions; neither is it to say therefore that World War III and nuclear war have become inevitable, though Russian state media are openly speculating about the real risk of these. Countries often commit Acts of War against other countries, and no war breaks out when the offended party chooses for whatever reason not to respond. But they can respond, and that is the point here. Congressman says watchdog found police entered his office for 'criminal' probe, not open door. Texas Republican Rep. Troy Nehls says a forthcoming Inspector General report will show he was "under criminal investigation" when Capitol Police officers entered his Capitol Hill office and began taking photos in November 2021. In February, Nehls publicly disclosed that Capitol Police had told him he was not the subject to an investigation after the Nov. 20 and 22 incidents in which officers entering his office. Nehls said Friday [5/6/2022] on the John Solomon Reports podcast that a "full report" from the Capitol Police Inspector General's Office on the matter will be released to him next week after having recently received an "executive summary" of the report. He alleges that on Nov. 20, a Capitol Police officer entered his office without his knowledge and photographed "confidential legislative products protected by the Speech and Debate clause" of the Constitution," purportedly on a whiteboard. Why is the White House Bragging About Conducting Military Operations in Ukraine to Kill Russians? Does Joe Biden intend to take the U.S. into a direct war with Russia? Perhaps because the only historic way out of a deep economic recession is a war or housing starts? Perhaps, because they need a bigger distraction from the political impact of their own policies? Those questions need to be asked and answered quickly, because the White House is about to flip the switch from a "proxy war" into an actual hot war between the United States and Russia. How do we know? Because the Biden administration is openly bragging about their specific military operations inside Ukraine that are killing Russians. Intelligence Community Claims Responsibility for Killing Russian Generals Because It Didn't Happen Unless You Know They Did It. Over the weekend, an intriguing rumor bubbled up from several sources that Russia's top military officer, General Valery Gerasimov, had been wounded in a Ukrainian artillery strike on a Russian command post in the Izium salient west of Kharkiv. Gerasimov was at a frontline command post because Russian President Vladimir Putin had shaken up the command structure of his invasion of Ukraine and made Gerasimov the field commander. There have been contradictory reports on whether Gerasimov was wounded or if he was even in the command post during the artillery strike, but Gerasimov has not been seen in public since the reports. Is
the left agitating for war with Russia so it can cement domestic tyranny? It has been odd and alarming watching
the powers-that-be relentlessly escalate the proxy war our government is waging against Russia. It's not just that
we're sending billions of dollars of weapons into Ukraine, are calling Vladimir Putin a war criminal and issuing other
fightin' words, are training Ukrainian troops, and are trying to effect Moscow's economic destruction. It's also that,
senior American officials have now revealed, via intelligence aid, the U.S. has helped to:
Biden's climate advisor threatens airlines they better comply or 'they're gonna be outta here!'. White House National Climate Adviser Gina McCarthy openly threatened airlines in true "Godfather" fashion on Friday during a forum at Tufts University, warning that they will no longer exist if they don't follow President Joe Biden's Green New Deal-style rules. "Who woulda thunk that [airlines would] be all in?" McCarthy remarked. "But they better be or they're gonna be out of here." The White House is promoting exceedingly unrealistic policies that claim to increase sustainable jet fuel by three billion gallons and reduce aviation emissions by 20 percent by 2030. McCarthy boasted that the Biden administration will be issuing over 100 new rules this year to regulate appliances. The CDC Spied on Americans by Purchasing Location Data for Tens of Millions of Phones. "I always feel like somebody's watching me," sang Rockwell in his catchy '80s hit. If you feel the same way, you're probably right. A Vice Motherboard report published Tuesday claims that the Centers For Disease Control (CDC) bought cell phone data for tens of millions of phones owned by Americans to track compliance with COVID lockdown orders and vaccination efforts. You know things have jumped the shark when a government organization ostensibly set up to control disease resorts to spying on Americans. Dick Durbin Mocks Americans, While Schumer Threatens the Supreme Court. The meltdowns of the Democrats were something to behold on Tuesday over the leaked draft opinion, suggesting that the Supreme Court was going to overturn Roe v. Wade. But they were also stoking anger against the Court, threatening and trying to intimidate the justices, and undermine another branch of the government. Never let Democrats ever argue they're "preserving norms" — all they ever are trying to do is preserve their power, and they don't care what they have to do to hold onto that power. 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. Fauci's worst soundbite of the pandemic. Ed flagged this earlier but I want to give it more exposure. It's an amazing insight into how authoritarian the public health bureaucracy has become during the pandemic. One could dismiss Fauci's reasoning here by saying, "Look, he's a doctor, not a lawyer. He's not supposed to know the ins-and-outs of how policy is made." Okay, well, he's been the head of a federal agency for nearly 40 years. One would hope that he's picked up a passing acquaintance with the niceties of the process during that time. Besides, you don't need legal training to grasp the problem with the idea that courts shouldn't have power to review the lawfulness of federal policy provided that it's endorsed by scientists. All you need is a third-grade-level civics education. If you made it to the day in class where the teacher explained the three branches of government, congratulations, you're equipped to spot the problem here. [Tweet] Americans Don't Like Being Told What to Do. When we say emphatically, "All men are created equal," there is no boilerplate fine print for us down below qualifying, "Except for corrupt politicians, noble leftovers from the days of medieval feudalism, corporate oligarchs, or communist dictators, all of whom are obviously superior to and entitled to rule over the rest of us in perpetuity." No siree! We have about as much use for a permanent ruling class as Dr. Fauci has for an introductory ethics textbook — that is to say, none at all! Ever since COVID-1984 mania was unleashed (intentionally or unintentionally — maybe time will tell) upon the world, the hypnotic drumbeat emanating from the Davos Druids has been steady: trust the experts. Obey. Mandates will set you free. None in the media dare call it "reprogramming," but that's clearly what it has been. US congressman reveals seats on committees are 'literally' bought. In a video that circulated online on Friday, Alabama Representative Mo Brooks told supporters that an entrenched system of corruption prevents Congress from passing legislation that would benefit the average American. Brooks said that both parties charge their members $1 million and beyond for chairmanships of committees, and that only those taking donations from lobbyists can afford these seats. "Special interest groups run Washington, and I don't mean that metaphorically. I mean literally," Brooks told supporters at an event in March, video footage of which was shared on Friday by conservative pundit Lauren Windsor. [Tweet] According to Brooks, lawmakers who want to be chairman of a major committee "have to purchase it." Either the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) or Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) will charge members of Congress a fee to chair a committee for two years. The fee varies depending on how important the committee is, but bidding for a top-tier chairmanship starts at $1 million, Brooks claimed. The
judge in a January 6 case should be disbarred. One of the most visible signs of our federal government's
corruption is the treatment being meted out to the January 6 prisoners, who have been deprived of their express and inherent
rights under the Constitution, one of which is the right to an impartial judge. [...] The Bill of Rights describes rights
inherent in the individual; they are not "gifts" from the government. All Americans enjoy them automatically and the
government may override these rights only by showing an overwhelming need to do so. When it comes to the January 6
martyrs, however, the federal government under Biden and Attorney General Merrick Garland has deprived these martyrs of
multiple rights. Specifically:
Michigan's AG Refuses to Enforce Laws She Doesn't Like. In anticipation of a possible U.S. Supreme Court reversal of Roe v. Wade, Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer and the state's radical attorney general, Democrat Dana Nessel, have launched a pre-emptive two-pronged attack on the existing state law that criminalizes most abortions. Last Thursday, Whitmer filed a lawsuit demanding judicial recognition of abortion as a protected right under the Michigan constitution. The same day, Planned Parenthood filed a lawsuit to block enforcement of the 1931 law, naming Nessel, in her capacity as attorney general, as defendant. In transparent coordination with Whitmer and Planned Parenthood, Nessel, the same day, announced in an "impromptu" press conference her refusal to defend against Planned Parenthood's lawsuit. In a move described as "highly unusual," she also said "she will not even set up a conflict wall in her office to defend the case, not unless or until she is ordered by a court." One Industry Insider Suggests The U.S. Government Plays A HUGE Role In Twitter. There aren't a lot of new insights I come across where I sit dumbfounded, but this was one of them. A huge kudos to Sundance over at Conservative Treehouse for shedding some light on the mostly-unknown world of Big Tech. As bad as Twitter and the entire tech oligarchy is, it would appear that the situation is worse than even imagned. Shadow banning of conservatives isn't fair — or legal, if Twitter is indeed the new public square — but things are about to really heat up if Sundance's insights and Elon's recent actions prove meaningful. In short, Musk either intentionally or unintentionally stumbled upon the fact that Twitter's servers might be, or probably are, owned by several world governments and almost assuredly our own. The next time you consider the fact that the sitting President of the United States was banned, just imagine THOSE ramifications. If It Feels Like You're Being Manipulated, It's Because You Are. If you've got a gut feeling that your rulers are working to control your perception of the war in Ukraine, it is safe to trust that feeling. If you feel like there's been a concerted effort from the most powerful government and media institutions in the western world to manipulate your understanding of what's going on with this war, it's because that's exactly what has been happening. If you can't recall ever seeing such intense mass media spin about a war before, it's because you haven't. If you get the distinct impression that this may be the most aggressively perception-managed and psyop-intensive war in human history, it's because it is. If it looks like Silicon Valley platforms are controlling the content that people see to give them a perspective on this war that is wildly biased in favor of the US narrative, it's because that is indeed the case. A
regime based on fraud and media collusion. The unmasking of Dr. Anthony Fauci is the straw that I think
will break the back of the camel of an evil cabal. Everyone in the United States was directly and personally affected
by the fraud and cover-up that obscured the origins of COVID-19 in the laboratory of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, imposed
unnecessary lockdowns, and denied effective therapies to those infected with the virus. It brought home to Americans
the untrustworthiness of the ruling class and its media servants that have covered up numerous frauds in recent years:
Illinois Dems' Outrageous Strong Arming Of Small Businesses. Late on Friday night, when most of us were either sound asleep or out kicking off the weekend with some partying, Democrats at the Illinois statehouse in Springfield were busy trying to save their jobs by bullying owners of gas stations. In the wee hours of Saturday morning, lawmakers in the Land of Lincoln put forth and passed a controversial and probably unconstitutional bill requiring gas stations to post stickers on their gasoline pumps. The stickers will laud the efforts of the Democrat-controlled legislature by stating the following; [...] Texas Land Office eyes Big Tech ad buy on public dime as agency head George P. Bush seeks AG nod. The Texas General Land Office (GLO) is seeking to use taxpayer money to buy Twitter and Facebook ads touting its work just weeks before Land Commissioner George P. Bush squares off in a primary runoff for state attorney general. The timing raises questions about whether the ad push is politically motivated and meant to boost Bush's campaign for attorney general on the taxpayers' dime. Last month, the GLO sought to purchase ads on Twitter and Facebook to promote the agency's activities. According to the notices of intent for the bids, the purpose is for Twitter and Facebook "to provide strategically placed advertisements for the Texas General Land Office on [their] social media platforms. These advertisements shall focus on the Texas General Land Office's initiatives and missions. These advertisements will also have a strategic focus on serving the citizens of the State of Texas by promoting the GLO's programs." Deep State Operatives Are Lying To Americans And The Press About Intelligence Because They Can. U.S. deep-state operatives are lying about the legitimacy of sensitive national security intelligence to secure political outcomes. Under President Joe Biden's direction, intelligence officials have begun a declassifying spree that leverages information "even when the confidence in the accuracy of the information wasn't high" to influence foreign and domestic policy. The Biden administration is using "rarely definitive" intelligence to deal with foreign threats such as Russia and China. "The administration has done so even when the intelligence wasn't rock solid, officials said, to keep Russian President Vladimir Putin off balance," argues an article penned by Ken Dilanian, NBC's intelligence and national security correspondent, and others. The Constitution Creates a Republic, not a Democracy. Leading Democrats advocate rule by their President through executive order without resort to Congress. They favor elimination of the electoral college as "anti-democratic." They favor adding to the number of justices on the Supreme Court those preferred by Democrats until they dilute the conservative majority and render the Court reflective of the will of Congress and no longer independent. They support speech codes on college campuses to eliminate dissenting conservative views. They support cancel culture and Big Tech censorship as a means of ensuring that voices dissenting from their orthodoxies are suppressed. They support expansion of administrative state regulation to circumvent Congress so that climate change and social engineering initiatives may proceed at the will of the executive branch beyond the extent palatable to the American people. In short in the struggle between state power and individual liberty, they favor biased application of state power (supporting it in violation of rights whenever they favor the ends, and opposing it whenever they oppose the ends). The DOJ is a swamp. [Thread reader] Under Obama, the DOJ was fundamentally pushed to the left by Attorney General Eric Holder and then by his successor, Loretta Lynch. Sally Yates rounded out the Obama appointed DOJ leadership. Holder came up w/process for doling out settlements from the financial crisis to activist groups. Holder presided over unlawful investigation of certain members of media. Under Holder's control, DOJ secretly obtained two months of telephone records of AP reporters & editors. DOJ also monitored the personal email and phone of Fox News reporter James Rosen. And it was Holder who refused to prosecute anyone in the IRS targeting of 426 conservative groups during the Obama Administration. The FBI found Hillary Clinton guilty of essentially every act they investigated. Despite these findings, Comey cleared Clinton by making a statement that "no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case". This allowed Loretta Lynch at DOJ to announce the matter closed. A concerned mother who questioned NY Mayor Adams on toddler mask mandate fired from city job. A few days ago the New York Post reported that a New York City mom, Daniela Jampel, who works for the New York City Law Department was fired from her job mere hours after she questioned Mayor Eric Adams about his decision not to unmask toddlers. Jampel worked for the law department for years as assistant corporation counsel. It all began when Jampel attended a press conference in the City Hall building in Lower Manhattan. [...] Jampel did not personally or physically attack the mayor, and neither did she use foul language. She did not interrupt the Mayor's remarks. She spoke only when questions were allowed. Any mother overcome with concern for the wellbeing of their child will understandably be emotional and that Jampel was. She did not profit in any way owing to her office, she did not misuse or abuse her power, and she did not reveal any confidential information. All she did is question authority. How many saw it coming? The new elites seem incapable of rules-based debating. They abide with their possessions and positions and influence and power and pass or cheerlead the issuance of executive orders, passage of law after law, and sign or cheer the signing of resolutions and edicts that disregard the voices of the people[.] The newest platforms and small media outlets may not be enough to overcome the continuing strong hands of the elite keeping more and more voices of ordinary people hushed or silent, intimidated by the potential to be punished if they step out of line. Many people owe their employment or receipt of subsidies to not stepping out of line and can see the risk of being put at the end of the line. Many communities have long waiting lists for subsidized housing. More and more programs claim to help all but cannot or do not. The left-leaning subsidy administrators seem to thrive on maintaining a critical mass of the left out. And the left out cannot imagine that their left-out status is a political tool. Tucker Carlson reports spying allegations in Congress. Fox News host Tucker Carlson reported that two members of Congress are being "spied on" by the U.S. intelligence apparatus. The top-rated cable news personality, who accused the National Security Agency of spying on him last year, made the comment during an interview Friday with Utah GOP Rep. Chris Stewart. The congressman has introduced legislation to better protect U.S. citizens from domestic surveillance activities. Carlson said he's "spoken directly to two sitting members of Congress" tasked with overseeing the intelligence community, and he heard they "were being spied on by the intel agencies, and they didn't do anything about it." The New Authoritarians. The TV production of Margaret Atwood's novel The Handmaid's Tale premiered on April 26, 2017, and was widely touted in liberal media outlets as a "prescient" "mirror" of the country under Trump. Journalists warned that the United States was on the precipice of becoming a Gilead-like dystopia where human rights would be nonexistent. Yet based on the domineering COVID-era behavior of the show's own target audience, The Handmaid's Tale appears to have been less of a warning to viewers and more of a handbook. Forced and coercive medical procedures, adoption of mandatory new garbs, censorship, and frozen bank accounts were central to the totalitarian state depicted in the novel and the show. In the end, this program found its real-world parallel not in autocratic moves from the right, but in liberal-approved measures like vaccine mandates, mask requirements of dubious medical value, restrictions on speech, and seizure of protesters' financial assets — all of which were vocally supported by the affluent laptop class. What the Forever Crises Are Really About. Thomas Hobbes wrote that people are willing to surrender their liberties to government out of fear. Fear is what compels us to flee to the foot "of the mortal god" that is the state for the promises of protection and security. Free us from the danger of harm is the impetus of the slow growth of authoritarian government that becomes totalitarian government over the course of time: government's totalizing control over all aspects of our lives. And what has the century of perpetual crisis revealed? Precisely this. If we consent to the government solution in all these crises, we will be free from the danger and harm that threatens our lives. So we are inundated by the media and the rhetoric of our politicians with the constant threats which rely on a sense of fear to surrender our liberties. If we do not, then they employ the fear of social and moral shaming: how dare you not have compassion for your neighbor or grandma! The COVID Hall of Shame — So Far. Not long ago, we trusted our doctors to advise us in our best interest. They took the Hippocratic Oath. They worked for us, the patients. No longer. Most are now employed by large corporations funded by the government and answer to them, or it. They are beholden to the powers that issue their paychecks and licenses. Their convictions are not their own. They told us COVID-19 is fatal, even to children, knowing it is 98% survivable overall, and dangerous in proportion to age and comorbidities. They touted mask mandates, knowing they were of little or no value. They supported wholesale shutdown of schools, small businesses, churches, and community activities, well aware the dangers to mental health and economic well-being were great, and the risk small. They advocated coerced administration of untried and dangerous vaccines that have shown disastrous consequences: blood clots, heart attacks and strokes among the young and healthy, miscarriages, and an unprecedented number of outright deaths. The ill-effects will multiply in the future. The Democrats' radical, undemocratic agenda. For all their talk about protecting democracy, Democrats sure are proving quick to abandon it by sidelining Congress and pushing President Joe Biden to enact a far-left agenda unilaterally through executive action. Last week, the Congressional Progressive Caucus released "Recommendations for Executive Action," a six-page document outlining policies that left-wing Democrats failed to persuade even a Democratic-controlled Congress to pass. They now want Biden to use presidential power alone to implement what has been rejected by the representatives of the wider public. Can there be a more crystalline example of elitism over equality? Will the real US President please stand up? Presidential Impersonator Biden does not have the authority either to choose a question or to answer it without a script. Jen Psaki does have both of those authorities. So it is obvious that Psaki is above Biden in the non Biden white house administration. It is equally obvious the Joe Biden is not the true President of the US. It is apparent, from his many senior moments, that he does not have the intellectual capacity to be the commander in chief of the US armed forces. If he cannot fend off a question from a journalist, then neither can he repel a military adversary. This is the most obvious democratic fraud I have seen in my life and nobody treats it as such. I am not talking about the vote rigging fraud of the 2020 US election. I am talking about a hidden president who did not get one vote. The true President of the United States, whoever he or she is, is the most obvious electoral fraud in the history of democracy. From 15 Days to Two Years. In March 2020, once-free citizens around the world surrendered their liberty and livelihoods in a futile attempt to "stop" a virus. The most technologically advanced civilization in the history of mankind quickly adopted medieval fixes that bordered on quackery, sold by snake oil salesmen in the credentialied class and news media, codified through executive fiat by elected leaders of both parties. "Just 15 days," we were told on March 16, 2020, "to slow the spread." Do your part to promote the "common good" — the historical rallying cry of every wannabe despot — or be branded a heartless heretic. And it worked, far better than the original architects probably anticipated. For Whom the Horns Honk. [Scroll down] During the two and a half weeks before our dispersal, there was a campaign of fear to dissuade new arrivals and the broadcast of threats to persuade truckers to leave. [...] A list of 92,000 donors to the convoy was published in which names, email addresses, and postal codes were circulated online and amplified through the state press. [...] Two crowdfunding platforms were sanctioned, withholding millions of dollars, under the terrorist financing rules. Canada's financial intelligence agency FinTRAC was given new permanent powers in monitoring online donations. The personal bank accounts of organizers and donors were frozen; some are still unable to access their funds. A class action lawsuit was filed seeking CAD $306 million in damages. The Ottawa Police, with the help of a crisis management firm called Navigator Limited, began issuing menacing statements over their Twitter page, citing their ability to use cellphone location services, drone surveillance, and facial recognition software to identify protestors for "months to come" with the guarantee of criminal and financial charges. Parents were warned about the imminent removal of their children by child protection services. The police apprehended supporters caught furnishing supplies. Several organizers were arrested, some released without charge, while others continue to be detained for petty infractions. Every scare tactic failed. Most backfired. It is unlikely that Canadian financial institutions will recover anytime soon — reputationally, anyway — because the de-banking of political activists is a new market risk that had previously never existed. States sue Biden admin over FBI surveillance of parents protesting school boards. Thirteen states have signed on to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeking Biden administration records on any FBI surveillance of parents protesting school boards. Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita, a former member of Congress, has taken the lead in the lawsuit against President Biden, Attorney General Merrick Garland and Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, citing a failure of U.S. officials to honor FOIA requests. The Indiana attorney general previously demanded all communications and records relating to the FBI's decision to investigate violent threats against local education officials. "We just want the facts," Rokita told Fox News Digital. A School District Spied on Parents and Reported Social Media Activity to Their Employers. Apparently, we have a school district that spied on parents, compiled a dossier of their social media activity, and reported such activity to the employers of these problematic parents. And by 'problematic', I mean, they were politically conservative. This little spy game was conducted by Rochester Schools, which is located outside Detroit. Elena Dinverno, a parent, filed a lawsuit in 2021. The Center Square has more, but this operation is straight-up insane. Dinverno alleges that the school district's harassment led to her employment being terminated. Rochester Schools collect dossier, call employers on critical parents. Rochester Community School (RCS) officials were sued for compiling a dossier on parents who commented negatively on the school's virtual learning policy. One official even called a parent's employer, which possibly resulted in the parent's termination. Parent Elena Dinverno sued the district in 2021, claiming school officials called her place of work in the fall of 2020, and told her employer Dinverno was part of a group threatening the school district. She was fired in December 2020. The Detroit News first reported the story. A lawsuit filed on May 3, 2021, claims Dinverno advocated on two separate Facebook groups to reopen schools in-person: "RCS Parents for In-Person Education" and "Conservative Parents for Rochester." Dinverno asked other parents for video testimony of how virtual school was hurting kids. Wash. Gov. Jay Inslee Won't Give Up Authoritarian COVID Emergency Powers Because ... Trump. The Governor of Washington refuses to give up the COVID-19 emergency powers he's clung to for two years despite several appeals by Republicans and, lately, Democrats. And the reason he refuses to relinquish that extraordinary power is that Donald Trump is living rent-free in his mind. Republicans and others have demanded he give up his emergency powers and resume regular order with old-fashioned checks and balances. Even though Democrats dominate both houses, Inslee has refused. Everything Is Fine. Some Americans may look north and worry, but they should be reassured. That can and will never happen here... and it isn't even that bad up there. Order must be maintained, after all. No one has a right to block the streets or disrupt traffic. What might have happened had the trucks prevented emergency vehicles from getting to the scene of some crime or accident? Granted, that didn't happen, but it might have. Pointing out the fact that the protesters would likely have just moved — one Canadian police chief called them the most cooperative and reasonable protesters he'd ever encountered — well, that's excusing insurrection. And pointing out the fact that no one raised this concern about BLM is "whataboutism," which is a rightwing trope. More to the point, BLM and Antifa have every right to block streets (and to stand cheek-by-jowl in the middle of a pandemic when everyone else is in lockdown) because their cause is noble. As Mitt Romney helpfully explained, when Antifa beats people and burns cities, that is good, because they are fighting Nazis. Besides, it's hypocritical to be against BLM looting and burning cities but in favor of truckers blocking streets. What are you, a hypocrite? The Plague You Should Be Freaking Out About Is Government Abuse Of Power. For anyone still naïve, stubborn, or fanatical enough to believe the Covid tyranny we've been suffocating under for the past two years is about a virus, let the events unfolding in Canada disabuse you of that illusion. Invoking the Emergencies Act to freeze bank accounts, conduct mass arrests of peaceful demonstrators and protest organizers, target reporters and photographers, and establish "red zones" and checkpoints, all in response to a mobilized citizenry that is weary of ineffective, illiberal, and discriminatory Covid restrictions — this all smacks of dictatorship, not democracy. It certainly has nothing to do with public health. [...] Meanwhile, jurisdictions around the world are hastily rolling back Covid edicts, lamely pointing to the usual fake science. Behind the scenes, governments understand what their counterparts in places like Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and France seem determined to ignore: the people are no longer buying their narrative. Did Justin Trudeau Just Destroy "Social Credit System" Logic? [I]t seems that both working class as well as high net worth people really do not like the threat of having their money stolen or frozen by government bureaucrats on a political crusade. Who would have guessed? So, what to do when what you previously thought was a safe harbor turns out to be plagued by arbitrary and capricious currents? Get out of there, pronto. Are Canadian Banks About to be Massively Sued? Here's a segment from one of Viva Frei's recent livestreams. Cutting to the chase, a curious question has arisen: The Emergencies Act never legally came into effect. It was being debated by the Canadian Senate when Dear Leader revoked it. So, before the Act ever came into effect, Canadian banks reportedly took it upon themselves to investigate the bank accounts of private Canadians citizens and then eventually freeze some of them. [Video clip] Under what legal legislation did employees at these banks do what they did? Given that the forthcoming Emergencies Act invocation, which they believed was coming into effect, but never did, have they not, in fact, committed egregious illegal actions punishable by severe fines and possibly prison sentences? We won't soon forget Trudeau's affair with totalitarianism. What in the world is going on in Canada? Just last night, P.M. Trudeau revoked the Emergencies Act that he'd been using since last Monday to crack down on protesters. But the Parliament had approved those "emergency" measures, as we saw in news reports. ["]The Emergencies Act was approved in parliament by 185 to 151, with the minority Liberal government getting support from left-leaning New Democrats. The special measures, announced by Trudeau a week ago, have been deemed unnecessary and an abuse of power by some opposition politicians.["] Am I the only person who thinks it's insane to do something this large on a purely party vote? Furthermore, the precedent set is dangerous by allowing authorities to declare certain areas as "no-go zones," allowing police to freeze truckers' personal and corporate bank accounts, and compelling tow truck companies to haul away vehicles. Also, some of the leaders were denied bail. Leftists Want To Control Your Money So They Can Control You. Last week, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the suspension of Canadians' rights last week in his invocation of the Emergencies Act to stop the Freedom Convoy protests in Ottawa and elsewhere. [...] According to news reports, "credit card processors and fund-raising services will be required to report any blockade-related campaigns to Canada's anti-money laundering agency." Canadian banks quickly fell in line with the decrees, with Toronto-Dominion Bank freezing two personal bank accounts containing C$1.4 million ($1.1 million) they said was intended to support the truckers. It bears a striking resemblance to the Biden administration's recent efforts to intensely monitor what goes in and out of Americans' bank accounts. The president's expected announcement this week of an executive order to explore greater regulation of cryptocurrency is likewise an attempt to stick the state's nose ever deeper into the average citizen's business. Canada's new dictator condemns authoritarianism. Canada just demonstrated that, in a technologically sophisticated Western country, it's very easy to become a dictator. [...] On Valentine's Day, Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act, giving himself complete power because truckers were honking their horns in Ottawa. At his orders, the entire financial system was used punitively against not just the truckers but against anybody who dared to support them — and mind you, this included making donations to the truckers when there was nothing illegal about doing so. In addition, Trudeau unleashed police on the truckers and their supporters. The police reacted enthusiastically, beating peaceful people, trampling an old woman under a horse (and laughing about it), and bullying people whenever and wherever they could. Then, two days ago, despite the police having brutally stopped the truckers' protest, Canada's leftist-controlled Parliament voted to extend Trudeau's unlimited powers. They voted mindlessly along straight party lines. The Gathering Storm in the West. Liberal Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau last week invoked martial law to arrest and financially destroy truckers on the charge that their largely peaceful protests are "dismantling the Canadian economy" that had already been dismantled for two years under some of the most draconian lockdowns in the world. The trucker "sect," Trudeau added, is guilty of felonious "unacceptable views." But his rhetoric still cannot square the circle of demonizing vital workers while conceding he cannot run his country without them. He has invoked the Emergencies Act for the first time in the law's 34-year history, even as the highly infectious Omicron variant wanes after spreading natural immunity and yet proving relatively mild in its effects. Trudeau has neither science nor good governance on his side, especially given how civil the protests have been. The truckers, who more or less work in solitary cabs, are better informed about the "science" and are themselves mostly vaccinated. Whether by accident or intent, the truckers have now become iconic of far larger issues. Their resistance to government vaccination mandates transcends them. Decorated Canadian Veteran And Pastor: Trudeau Has Declared War On His Own People. [Scroll down] The convoy began when the Canadian government started enforcing vaccine passports on truckers and others at its border with the United States. "We prayed to hold those who have done bad, who need to repent and take account for wrongdoing, that they be held accountable for their sins and receive the mercy of God," [Harold] Ristau told The Federalist. "We prayed that there be no injuries, that no one here would have a hateful thought in our hearts, that our hearts would be filled with love." Ristau noted that before police closed in on the protesters, the demonstration had a sort of market fair attitude, with bouncy castles for children, soup kitchens for the hungry, and organized cleanups of public property. When there were complaints about the truckers' noise and local disruptions, they stopped making noise after 6 p.m., local news accounts confirm. He also witnessed that the truckers kept emergency lanes open during their protest to protect locals. For his peaceful participation in this public assembly, Ristau has faced criticism and threats from fellow pastors, fellow citizens, the government-run Canadian media, and the government itself. On Feb. 14, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act, which he claims allows the Canadian government to seize the children and property of anyone who attended the protest, without a court order or even proceeding. Bitcoin Companies' Response to Canada's Request to Freeze Protester Accounts Is Pure Gold. We've seen a lot of troubling civil liberties questions regarding the Freedom Convoy, particularly after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act. Among the most concerning: banning of protests at the whim of the government, conscripted labor — the government telling tow truck workers that they would be forced to work for the government against the Convoy — and even the freezing of bank accounts for the grievous sin of being involved in a protest against government mandates. As we reported, you even had Trudeau's deputy prime minister, Chrystia Freeland laughing about seizing accounts. She is asked not just about the protesters' accounts being seized but about the accounts of the people who donated to the protesters. She doesn't give a clear answer about whether the donors' accounts would also be affected. 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!
More Leftist Insanity: About That Trampling Horse In Ottawa... Don't Worry, The Horse Is OK. There has been no series of events more indicative of government tyranny in the name of COVID than what we've seen with the protest by truckers in Canada over the past several weeks. Truck drivers who spend the vast majority of their workdays isolated in their vehicles were mandated to receive the controversial COVID vaccines, and they objected. Since then, the movement has increased in intensity and participants are no longer limited to merely truckdrivers. Arrests have been made, livelihoods have been lost, and bank accounts have been seized. And for what purpose? To force folks to receive a vaccination that doesn't stop the spread of an endemic virus. Never mind that government authoritarians in Canada appear to be succeeding in destroying basic human freedoms of their citizens. Pay no attention to the legitimate concerns folks may have about receiving the vaccine, it's what the government believes that matters. And forget about the permanent damage that's been inflicted on so many of our neighbors, there are more important things to worry about. Like whether or not a horse was injured during a police crackdown last week. Decision to put Pelosi's metal fence back up ahead of Biden SOTU prompts hilarious scrutiny. U.S. Capitol Police (USCP) announced that fencing will once again be installed around the Capitol building ahead of President Biden's first State of the Union address, leaving many wondering, "who cares?" The USCP released a statement on Friday describing how they are working closely with "local, state and federal law enforcement agencies" like the United States Secret Service and D.C. National Guard and they "are aware of plans for a series of truck convoys arriving in Washington, DC around the time" of Biden's address. Though the Friday statement said that a decision had not been made for the "temporary inner-perimeter fence," Fox News confirmed Sunday that it would be installed. Despite the suggestion that an American trucker convoy is on its way, the question remains if anyone is interested in the speech. Capitol perimeter fence erected after January 6 riot will be reinstalled ahead of Biden's State of the Union address on March 1. The fencing that surrounded the Capitol complex for much of 2021 will be reinstalled next week as Congress prepares to host President Joe Biden for his first State of the Union address on March 1. U.S. Capitol Police are preparing for truckers protesting the mask and vaccine mandates as the 'Freedom Convoy' heads to Washington, D.C. after demonstrating in Canada for weeks and causing major blockades. The protesters were able to block the Ambassador Bridge border crossing between Windsor and Detroit as they expressed their distaste with COVID-19 mandates related to mask wearing and compulsory vaccinations. Another Day Another Canadian Jackboot Thug Trampling A Peaceful Protester With His Horse. Just another day in baby Fidel's Canada. Watch as this woman, whose only crime is holding a sign, gets run over by a cop on a horse in Ottawa. Rebel News got a hold of text messages between Ottawa police and they clearly show great joy and enthusiasm towards abusing peaceful protesters. In the chat, RCMP Musical Ride member, Andrew Nixon sends a picture of a pint of beer hoping for his chance to abuse protesters: "Don't kick all of them out until next weeks group gets our turn" [Video clip] Biden Declares 'National Emergency' Ahead of Freedom Convoy Heading Towards Washington D.C.. Joe Biden is extending the declaration of a Covid "national emergency" ahead of an expected People's Convoy heading towards Washington D.C. The move echoes beleaguered Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's invocation of the Emergencies Act to carry out a police crackdown on Freedom Convoy protesters under the color of martial law. [...] The declaration of national emergency comes amid Justin Trudeau's brutal authoritarian crackdown on the peaceful Freedom Convoy protests in Ottawa, the capitol of Canada. Police in riot gear with no nametag or unit identification violently suppressed the protest, and arrested over a 100 of the protesters. Canadian Prime Minister has given the greenlight for the Ottawa Police to compile an "enemies list" to target anyone who was standing up for their basic human rights in the Freedom Convoy protests. Ottawa: The Charge of the Woke Brigade. There's a reason why heads of state like the Kaiser and Joe Stalin and Mao Zedong — and even Prime Minister Winston Churchill during WWII — like to dress up in military uniforms. You'll have noticed that male members of the British Royal Family do the same. It's because. So think of poor Justin Trudeau, whose only encounter with warpaint is that blackface photo that we've all sneered about. What if he could send the Canadian cavalry charging into a crowd of rebels and insurrectionists with sabers drawn and sharpened? Why, then he could really stand with the great and powerful Oz. Unfortunately, in another proof of God's existence, all that the fierce masked Canadian Flashmen could manage — I assume they wore traditional cavalry mustaches under their masks — was to knock over a little old lady on a mobility scooter — now identified as an indigenous elder. Oh dear. Canada really is turning into a police state before our eyes. One of the hallmarks of liberty is a reliable legal system. In totalitarian countries, one of the ways you control people is to keep them perpetually off-balance. The law and its application are utterly unpredictable. People become paralyzed and dare not do anything that might offend the regime, lest they get destroyed. And that's what we're seeing in Canada, where the newly dictatorial government is making no pretense of abiding by the rule of law. A very specific aspect of the rule of law is that new laws are not applied retroactively. In a free country, one with a safe, reliable legal system, if it was legal for you to buy a croissant on Monday, the fact that the law changed on Tuesday to make croissants illegal does not mean that the police can come and arrest you for that Monday croissant. In a police state, of course, the police can arrest you at any time for anything, including engaging in conduct that was legal when you engaged in it. The Gathering Storm in the West. Canada is now governed by absurdism, and it is symptomatic of an ailing Western elite. Liberal Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau last week invoked martial law to arrest and financially destroy truckers on the charge that their largely peaceful protests are "dismantling the Canadian economy" that had already been dismantled for two years under some of the most draconian lockdowns in the world. The trucker "sect," Trudeau added, is guilty of felonious "unacceptable views." But his rhetoric still cannot square the circle of demonizing vital workers while conceding he cannot run his country without them. He has invoked the Emergencies Act for the first time in the law's 34-year history, even as the highly infectious Omicron variant wanes after spreading natural immunity and yet proving relatively mild in its effects. Trudeau has neither science nor good governance on his side, especially given how civil the protests have been. The truckers, who more or less work in solitary cabs, are better informed about the "science" and are themselves mostly vaccinated. Member of the European Parliament Gives Amazing Speech Against Trudeau and For Freedom. Justin Trudeau has a highly inflated opinion of himself, without cause. But he's about to get ripped apart on Monday in the vote on the Emergencies Act, and over the horrible actions of both his government and the actions of police in Ottawa [elsew]here. The evisceration which is coming will all be richly and justifiably deserved. Trudeau has falsely attacked and demonized the Freedom Convoy, in much the same way that Joe Biden has demonized the unvaccinated. Then with triggering of the Emergencies Act, Trudeau has even taken away their ability to peacefully object to his tyrannical mandates, and penalized them for daring to do so by going after their bank accounts. But someone who comes from a country that knows something about Communist dictatorships, Romanian Member of the European Parliament Cristian Terhes, had a few things to say about Trudeau and his crackdown on the Freedom Convoy. Ottawa Police Get Grilled About 'Bicycle' They Claimed Was Thrown. We reported the story about the man and a woman on a mobility scooter, who were run over by the police with their horses in Ottawa. The police complained about "misinformation" going out about the incident, including people spreading the rumor that the woman had died. [Video clip] So, now the police say they're going to "monitor" journalists and media reports. And decide what is misinformation? Just a little more fascism there. But, while media certainly shouldn't be claiming someone died if they haven't confirmed it, you know what else is true? Police shouldn't be lying about a bicycle being thrown at a horse, suggesting it precipitated the incident. Or claiming that no protesters had been hurt, particularly after not only the horse incident, but multiple videos came out of them beating people. Here's More on the Ottawa Freedom Convoy Woman Run Over by Police With Their Horses. We brought you the story of the woman who was run over by the police on their horses at the Freedom Convoy protest in Ottawa. We wanted to update readers on what happened to her because there had been false rumors about her death, and false statements from the police about the incident that it involved someone throwing a bicycle at the horse. We saw videos — starting from the moment that they approached the crowd to the woman being knocked to the ground — no bicycle was thrown. As we noted earlier, the police weren't even able to back up that claim when asked by the CBC about it, even as they decried other reports about the incident being "misinformation." [Video clip] Crackdown Sparks Even More Massive Protests Across Canada, Crisis for Trudeau. The protesters in Ottawa are hoping to make it through the weekend until the Senate convenes. They want to make it to Monday because the Emergencies Act has to be approved by the Parliament within seven days of it being called for, which was on February 14. So it has to be approved by tomorrow. They are hoping that the legislators will not approve it, the police will back off, and the Parliament will address their concerns. There were still hundreds of protesters out Saturday [2/19/2022] in Ottawa, more even than there were earlier when there was a lot of police action against them. And some of them may even be the people who were "arrested" earlier. [Tweets] The Power of the Powerless Is Real. Does anyone think the perverse and heavy-handed responses by the American government to the January 6 election protesters is a sign of strength? [...] Western governments are terrified of their people today. They are terrified of what their people believe, or else they wouldn't feel compelled to criminalize thoughts as "hateful." They are scared to death of what their people might say to each other, or else they wouldn't engage in mass surveillance and blatant censorship. They are fearful of free and fair elections, or else they wouldn't work so hard to manipulate and undermine them. And they are absolutely petrified of a future where cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies free their citizens from the consolidated control imposed by central banks and spendthrift treasuries. Ottawa's Police Chief Makes a Big Tactical Error. Things are escalating in Ottawa as the Freedom Convoy protesters continue to fight against Canada's draconian COVID-19 measures. But while the focus started on the message, it is now firmly on the behavior of the Ottawa Police Department. As RedState has chronicled, numerous videos of mistreatment and violence perpetrated by police on peaceful protesters have emerged. Perhaps the most stunning example was the trampling of a disabled woman by officers on horseback. In response, the police lied, claiming a bike had been thrown at the horses. That was quickly debunked, showing how valuable it is that people are videoing what's happening. On Saturday [2/19/2022], Ottawa's chief of police gave a press conference where he dutifully played the role authoritarians assigned to him. [...] When Fascism Comes To America, It Will Look Like Justin Trudeau's Canada. If Justin Trudeau had merely removed trucks from blocking a bridge in protest of vaccine mandates, it would be no big deal. Protesters for various causes routinely get removed from blocking traffic. But that's not all Justin Trudeau did. He suspended civil liberties in Canada, targeting peaceful protesters and anyone who supports them. Not because those supporters committed a crime, but because they supported the political opposition to Trudeau's government. Trudeau ordered all financial institutions to freeze the assets of his political opposition without court order and with full immunity from liability, and no financial asset was spared. "The names of both individuals and entities as well as crypto wallets have been shared by the RCMP with financial institutions and accounts have been frozen and more accounts will be frozen." Time for Trudeau to Concede: The Truckers Have Won. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has embarrassed himself and his government with his response to the Freedom Convoy, and however it ends now, there's no way for him to save face. From the start, Trudeau has dismissed the truckers' concerns and tried to discredit them by claiming they're a fringe minority with "unacceptable views." Yet, a recent poll suggested that 46% of Canadians have some sympathy with the truckers, even if most disapprove of their methods. That's higher than Trudeau's own approval rating. Rather than meeting with the truckers or even considering some concession or compromise, Trudeau fled Parliament Hill and dug his heels in. Protecting himself from a peaceful democratic protest while doubling down on mandates and restrictions paints a fitting image of the virtue signaling that has characterized his COVID-19 response. Trudeau should have realized that, regardless of whether he meets the protestors' demands before or after they disband (or are disbanded), their demands will be met in the near future. Video Evidence So We Never Forget What Happened To The Canadian Truckers. [Threat reader] Here is a thread of footage of Tyrant Trudeau's crackdown on the peaceful Freedom Convoy in Ottawa today: [Numerous video clips.] 'Freedom Convoy' Exposes Canada's Hollow Liberal Universalism. Canada has seen its third week of so-called trucker protests that mostly have centered on downtown Ottawa, adjacent to Parliament. Last weekend, authorities ended the blocking of traffic on the Ambassador Bridge connecting Ontario and Michigan. And now Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the government will use the tools of its Emergencies Act to end truckers' "Freedom Convoy," or so it hopes. This effort involves dragooning private parties to assist the government in removing trucks, seizing property and accounts without a court order, and using state coercion beyond the formal channels of due process. This entire situation, obviously, is a rapidly moving one and it could turn against the key players, depending on how events emerge. Canadian lawmakers created the Emergencies Act for truly harrowing situations of national security, and it seems ill-fitting to what is a large and peaceful protest in the streets of Ottawa. Why are the police we revere doing the tyrants' bidding? The outrageous mismanagement of COVID as an instrument of population control will go down as the second worst political crime against the American people in U.S. history. The first is the Hillary Clinton-conceived Russia hoax. She and her cohorts belong in prison as do Fauci, Collins, Birx, and all those who pushed unsafe, ineffective injections on the millions of people who believed their lies about COVID. Each of those bureaucrats abused his position of power over the people and has blood on his hands. [...] So how do we explain the fact that in countries around the world, Australia, the U.K., the U.S., France, Belgium, Austria, and Canada, the police, those who were not fired for refusing the vaccine, have taken the opportunity to act like tyranny's handmaidens rather than protectors of the people, their essential charge, the reason they signed up for the job? In Canada, a few have sided with the truck drivers' cause, but the rest seem to enjoy the opportunity to roust good, law-abiding, non-violent protesters. Justin Cracks Down. The blockades by Canadian truckers that had completely shut down the U.S.-Canada border crossing at Detroit have been cleared by reopening the Ambassador Bridge, and as of Friday, Ottawa police have begun moving against truckers occupying central Ottawa. Despite these actions on the part of the Canadian government, the truckers comprising the "Freedom Convoy" hold their ground in defiance of threats of a police crackdown as they continue to disrupt other trade routes and cities, occupying the country's capital for a third week. The members of the Freedom Convoy appear unyielding despite days of warnings from police and the government — risking arrest and having their rigs seized and bank accounts frozen. Unfortunately for the truckers, the government crackdown began early in the week of February 13th, when the Canadian Prime Minister invoked Canada's Emergencies Act, enabling law enforcement agencies to declare the blockades illegal, tow away their trucks, arrest the drivers and suspend their licenses. Police horses trample demonstrators at Freedom Convoy protest in Ottawa. Turns out the lasting image of the Freedom Convoy protest at Parliament Hill will not be bouncy castles but that of a woman with a walker being trampled by a police horse. The violence the Prime Minister has expressed concern about during the three-week protest in Ottawa didn't unfold until Justin Trudeau's Emergencies Act police army was sent in to disperse the crowd. The three major incidents Friday, under a form of martial law, were grotesque. Video of Toronto Police Mounted Unit officers charging into the crowd and at least one horse trampling multiple people — including an elderly woman with a walker — was disturbing. [Video clip] Woman Trampled By Horse in Canada, and Police Have Gall to Say At Least Nobody Died or Was 'Seriously Injured'. Each new development from what Canada has become as its government tries to stop peaceful demonstrators who are part of the "Freedom Convoy" protesting COVID restrictions is scarier than before. In this digital age, there's footage to provide proof, too. This was the case in the instance of a woman being knocked over and trampled by a police horse on Friday night. The image and video clip below may be upsetting to some and the video clip contains strong language. Images also show another man having been trampled, who appears to have been trying to help the woman. Cryptocurrency expert says US should watch what Canadian government is doing to protesters: 'No one is safe'. A cryptocurrency expert is sounding the alarm on how the Canadian government is freezing the crypto wallets of Freedom Convoy protesters and said that it's something that can "very realistically" happen in the United States. In an effort to take action against participants of the Freedom Convoy protests in Canada, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act on Monday, giving the government power to clear protests by towing vehicles and even more direct measures like freezing personal bank accounts. Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland said during a press conference on Thursday that crypto wallets have been frozen. Trudeau government to start abducting truckers' pets. Evil has a new face. It is the face of an entitled pajama boy and wannabe dictator. It is a face that once was painted black as part of a costume for an "Arabian Nights" party. It is the face of Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau. Trudeau recently invoked the Emergencies Act, the first time it has ever been utilized, to indiscriminately punish the truckers who constitute the Freedom Convoy. (In 1988, Canada's existing "War Measures Act" was repealed and replaced by the Emergencies Act, which was to be invoked only during similar security emergencies.) The act will allow Trudeau to direct that truckers be arrested, their trucks seized, and their bank accounts frozen... all without a warrant. If a protester is detained for more than eight days, that person's dog or other pet could be taken from him. The same fate could befall those individuals who could no longer care for their pets because they had their bank accounts frozen due to the Trudeau government's tyrannical and unconstitutional actions. California Prosecutors Attempt To Ban Exculpatory Evidence From Pro-Life Journalist's Criminal Trial. California prosecutors in the upcoming criminal trial of David Daleiden, who could face jail time for recording conversations with Planned Parenthood employees about baby body part trafficking, filed a pretrial motion requesting specific evidence be barred from the trial. Friday afternoon, Daleiden and his legal team filed a response to that motion, arguing that prosecutors are attempting to ban exculpatory evidence that proves his undercover videos were indeed legal. Attorney General Rob Bonta's office is prosecuting Daleiden as if the charges against him include violating National Abortion Federation (NAF) policies when he recorded conversations at their convention. Daleiden's counsel argues that NAF's policies and procedures are irrelevant because he was seeking evidence of criminal activity, in accordance with California law. Watch As Trudeau's Jack Boot Thugs Beat A Freedom Convoy Protester With The Butt Of A Rifle. A disturbing video shared on social media shows a protester behind a police line repeatedly being smashed with an officer's rifle. Convoy organizer Benjamin Dichter also told the Toronto Sun "one of drivers had his truck windows smashed by Ottawa Police (with) guns drawn and (he was) dragged out of his vehicle by force." [Video clip] Cowardly Canadian Police Target Senior Citizens to Arrest in Freedom Convoy Protests. As if these police listening to their wannabe dictator can't look anymore pathetic, watch as they throw down senior citizens, including war vets, into the snow while arresting peaceful protesters. This is tyranny. This is what life in communist nations look like. [Video clip] Canada Goes Tyrannical. This week, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, the lightweight, unpopular elected leader of a country with a 93% vaccination rate for those over 60 and a total vaccination rate of 84%, announced that he would invoke the Emergencies Act in order to crack down on the Freedom Convoy — a group of protesters opposed to government vaccination mandates for truckers. Trudeau breathily announced that invocation of the law was in fact "reasonable and proportionate." His public safety minister, Marco Mendicino, said that the actions were required thanks to "intimidation, harassment, and expressions of hate." Why the government would need to invoke emergency powers in order to move some trucks remains beyond understanding; after all, the police had just removed trucks from the Ambassador Bridge, reopening that trade artery with the United States. Meanwhile, provinces across Canada have already begun alleviating their COVID-19 restrictions, from vaccine passports to masking. Seven of Canada's 10 provinces now oppose Trudeau's Emergencies Act declaration. Seven Canadian provinces now oppose an Emergencies Act declaration made Monday by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who claims it is needed to stop the peaceful Freedom Convoy protesters in Ottawa. The Premiers of Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Quebec were the first to oppose the extreme measures made by Trudeau. Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe said Monday that his government does "not support the Trudeau government invoking the Emergencies Act." Alberta Premier Jason Kenney said Monday that he told "Prime Minister Trudeau that Alberta's Government is opposed to the invocation of the federal Emergencies Act." Manitoba Premier Heather Stefanson said Trudeau's declaration of the Emergencies Act was an "unnecessary" thing to do. 'A new low!' Ottawa police reamed for warning dissenters what will happen to their pets. Ottawa, Ontario, authorities, who already have warned peaceful, anti-COVID-mandate Freedom Convoy protesters to leave the downtown area or face severe penalties, appear to be threatening to hold the dissidents' dogs hostage and then schedule them for a fast-track adoption. Or maybe something worse. [...] For supporters of anti-mandate demonstrations, which includes many truckers and others who are fully COVID vaccinated, these developments suggest that authoritarian regimes have vitiated police-community relations in the context of civil liberties during the pandemic era. Canada, Australia, Hong Kong, and various European cities are unfortunate examples. Doxing Day in Canada. 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. In Canada, the doxing has already begun. Canada Police to Send Names of Trucker Protesters to Financial Institutions. Canadian banks will receive the names of people involved in "Freedom Convoy" protests that have descended on the nation's capital, a first step in a promised financial crackdown on demonstrators being instituted by the far-left government of Justin Trudeau. Bloomberg reports the Canadian Bankers Association confirmed the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) has alerted banks to a list of names and made it available. The institutions are reportedly still seeking clarity from law enforcement on how to handle the alleged protesters' accounts, according to people familiar with the matter. But Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland said some accounts have already been frozen, the news outlet reported. Canadian Martial Law: Trudeau Redux. [Scroll down] It's rich that the ethically challenged Justin Trudeau has warned the truckers and their supporters that they were breaking the law and would be punished accordingly. Early on he asked the army to clear the convoy out but at least for now they have refused to do so. Of course, they were breaking the law, a law based on emergency powers that had particularly been promulgated to target, control and punish them. So too had Gandhi and his followers been breaking the law when they went to the sea to make salt. So too had the legendary freedom riders of the American civil rights movement broken the law when they refused to sit in the back of the bus and insisted on being served at lunch counters. That's what civil disobedience is all about, breaking unjust Jim Crow type laws, but breaking them in a non-violent, peaceful manner. As it turns out, recent polls show that the truckers have more support among Canadians than does Trudeau's Liberal Party. Trudeau Dreams Of Being A Dictator On Camera — This Is The Last Video Trudeau Wants You To See After He Invoked The Emergencies Act. Justin Trudeau (who is definitely not Fidel Castro's son!) cannot explain the legal basis for invoking the Emergencies Act, but he's got his finance minister out there announcing that banks can freeze your account without a court order anyway if you donate to the truckers. After Trudeau authorized the Canadian government's use of the Emergencies Act, giving the government much broader powers to deal with anti-vaccine mandate protests in his country, it might be useful to recall that in 2013, asked what country he most admired besides Canada, he selected communist China, even while admitting they had a "basic dictatorship." Trudeau Authorizes Bank Accounts Frozen for Social Media Posts in Support of Freedom Protests. The triggering of an official invocation of the Canadian Emergency Measures Act to eliminate protests is stunning. Using the Emergency Act to target individual citizens in Canada, and their bank accounts, is yet again another level of astonishing. [...] I am carefully reviewing the details of the authorization because according to the public statements by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, they have authorized banks, financial institutions and insurance carriers to suspend the accounts of Canadian citizens based on their social media postings. Canada Begins Using Military and Armored Police Cars against Seniors to Stop them from Peacefully Protesting for Freedom. The Canadian government controlled by leftists are doing all they can to stop the peaceful protests from happening. The same government that allowed BLM to destroy cities across the country due to something that happened in a completely different country is suddenly concerned about protests. Look as military members and heavily armed police using military vehicles roll in and arrest senior citizens who dared to help the protesters. [Video clip] Trudeau Goes Nuclear: Invokes Never-Before-Used Emergencies Act to Crush Freedom Convoy. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, in an unprecedented action, announced on Monday [2/14/2022] that he is invoking the never-before-used Emergencies Act to try and put a stop to the Freedom Convoys that have shut down traffic — and much of the commerce — in Canada. The truckers, protesting vaccine mandates, have clogged roads, leading to chaos on both sides of the Canada-U.S. border. Among other actions, the Canadian government will freeze the assets of truck owners participating in the protests and suspend their insurance policies. In addition, the prime minister said that, under the Emergencies Act, the government will have the power to "compel" tow-truck drivers to remove rigs blocking roads, which sounds an awful lot like forced labor, i.e. slavery. [...] The protests were prompted by a requirement that all truckers be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, or quarantine for 14 days, after crossing into Canada from the U.S. Pelosi's Watergate. There has been much written lately about the similarity of Watergate and Special Counsel John Durham's revelations about the Clinton campaign and others spying on Donald Trump, both as a candidate and a sitting president. There is also the entry into the offices of Rep. Troy Nehls by the Capitol Police. They are under the control of Nancy Pelosi, of whom Rep. Nehls has been critical regarding her so-called J-6 investigation. The Capitol Police allegedly entered the congressman's office without his knowledge or permission and photographed sensitive documents. They then allegedly returned a few days later dressed as construction workers and began grilling a staffer about the contents of the illegally photographed documents. This, of course, rivals Watergate, but it may also open the door for a means of bringing these Gestapo tactics before the public where they belong. The actions of the Capitol Police may well have violated the rights protected under the provisions of 42 U.S.C. §1983. It is also conceivable that the civil provisions of the RICO Act could have been triggered. 1984 is Somewhat Here, The Left Has Just Cleverly Disguised Government Control as Private Actors. Conservatives have sat in paralysis for a good part of the past 25 years now not knowing how to address the left's radical transformation of society that is canceling conservatives and forcing the left's rules on everyone. Amazon bans our books and only a few people who are ridiculed compare it to George Orwell's 1984. It's because we think the takeover is being done by private corporations and actors in a free society, so we don't know how to react. Most of us aren't ready to call it communism or socialism; it doesn't seem to violate the Constitution. The reality is, while on the surface the new situation may appear to involve private actors, the truth is much more sinister. And it's been done deliberately this way, in order to sneak it past the scrutiny of half of society that believes in a free society and the Constitution. We're basically being ruled by a hybrid oligarchy of government and large corporations. The ruling elites of the western nations are now heading for political suicide. They seized upon the unknown consequences of the new and fast-spreading Wuhan virus for political gain. They used it to exceed their constitutional powers — locked down their citizens and demanded compliance with various vaccine mandates and treatment protocols and then clung on to those powers long after the deleterious effect of those mandates exceeded the virus's harm. Never, to my knowledge, has any country before this quarantined the healthy along with the sick. Never. (And I remind you that while locking down the young, the robust, and the otherwise healthy New Yorkers, Governor Andrew Cuomo went so far as to quarantine the stricken with the healthy but most vulnerable elderly — the result was thousands of deaths of oldsters otherwise far less likely to have become infected.) Never to my knowledge has the public health establishment so ruined its own credibility. Doubt me? Look to our own country for a prime and early example: The CDC endorsing lockdowns while cheering on the BLM protests. The Surveillance and Political Spying Operations Highlighted by John Durham are the Tip of the Iceberg. 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. Together they recalibrated the domestic surveillance capabilities, the internal spying systems, so that only their political opposition would be targeted. This point is where many people understandably get confused. 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. What Barack Obama and Eric Holder did with that new construct was refine the internal targeting mechanisms so that only their ideological opposition became the target of the new national security system. The Great International Convoy Fiasco. [Scroll down] Now that the "Freedom Convoy" is inspiring similar protests not just in the United States but in France, Belgium, Australia, New Zealand, and other places, it's clear every Western leader from Biden to Emmanuel Macron on down wants Trudeau, rather than any of them, to take the political hit that would ensue from any use-of-force resolution to this crisis. All of these leaders seem equally to be laboring under the delusion that a decisive enough [defeat] in the Great White North will make this all go away. Until then, there seems to be no plan in any country that doesn't involve tear gas, truncheons, or getting Facebook to blame troll farms in Bangladesh for stirring up the "discord": [Video clip] French Riot Police Resort to Gas Attacks, Smashing Windows and Random Beatings of 'Freedom Convoy' Protesters. Here is a 5 minute compilation Vidmax has put together in order to show France riot police acting like Hitler's goons, the crime you ask? They dare hold a freedom convoy that is protesting the vaccine mandates as tyrannical overreach of government. The Macron governments response to that? Act like Communist China and brutally crackdown on the protesters so they become more irate against the riot police. [Video clip] Oligarchy's Response to the Freedom Convoy Bodes Ill for Them. As I write, Canadian police, many dressed in military garb and supported by armored vehicles and snipers(!), are moving in to enforce several court orders and demands of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Ontario Premier Doug Ford, and others that the "Freedom Convoy" of Canadian truckers stop blocking the Ambassador Bridge, the major artery between the United States and Canada, and disperse. Some of the protestors are leaving while many others are standing their ground. Will the heavy hand of the state succeed in crushing the protest? In the short term, perhaps. [...] But impotence comes in long-term and short-term varieties. Long-term, I think [Tucker] Carlson is right. Officialdom's response to the Freedom Convey is a desperate effort to put the genie of liberty back in the bottle. Ultimately, it will not work. But on the way to that failure there will be plenty of opportunities for the coercive power of the state to manifest itself. We Are All Truckers Now. As momentum from the Freedom Convoy in Canada mounts and works its way into the US, and similar convoys spring up in Europe, Australia, and New Zealand, people are collectively standing up to two years of COVID restrictions, lies, misery, and abuse at the hands of our government masters. And we owe it all to Canada's truckers. [...] And what's the reaction of the officials both in Canada and the US? To pressure GoFundMe to cancel the $10 million raised for the Freedom Convoy; freeze out truckers and their children by having police remove their fuel cans in sub-freezing weather; arrest an old man for honking his horn; and starve out truckers and their families by threatening to arrest people who bring them food and drink. Meanwhile, the Biden administration and Pete Buttigieg plot to find alternate routes around bridges facing long delays because of the truck convoy and the state of Michigan brandishes the possibility of forcibly removing the big rigs and their supporters from the Ambassador Bridge. They're Coming For You. You Know That, Right? [Scroll down] But the Democrats' destructive war on the country isn't simply limited to COVID. Last month they tried to take over the way we conduct elections from the states while threatening some of their own party who wouldn't go along. George Soros-funded Democrat district attorneys refuse to prosecute theft and violence in major American cities. Homicides are through the roof. Retail and auto theft is through the roof. Homeless, drug-addicted zombies lay waste to city streets. Worse, the Democrats who run these cities have gone to war with and called to defund and strip authority from the police officers that remain the single thin, blue line between anarchy and their residents. Joe Biden's Department of Justice has conspired to frame Americans for wild, politically motivated schemes. They currently hold many in federal custody without formal charges related to undefined law breaking on January 6th, 2021. Two Republican members of Congress have accused the DOJ of going through their constituent mail and interrogating their staff. They've threatened to deploy resources to school board meetings to keep an eye on parents who get too uppity. Democrats want a peek into your bank accounts if you have $600 bucks or more. Is This Proof Capitol Police Lied About Why They Entered Rep. Nehls's Office? Earlier this week, U.S. Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger released a statement in response to a complaint from Rep. Troy Nehls (R-Texas), who says the USCP illegally entered his office, took photos, and later interrogated his staff. According to Manger, "The weekend before Thanksgiving, one of our vigilant officers spotted the Congressman's door was wide open." As such, Manger said it is the responsibility of the USCP to document the incident and secure the office. There's just one problem with this explanation: [Video clip] As the video above makes clear, the door to Nehls' congressional office suite has an automatic closer on it. Is it possible the door was propped open by Nehl or his staff? This is unlikely, as the sign on the door states it is not for public use, but for the member and his staff only. The United States Government Is "Desperate to Hide the Truth". How are Americans going to respond when Washington D.C, the Fourth Branch of the security and surveillance state, and all the institutions of the United States government, officially declare that Donald John Trump will not be permitted to run for office? If you have not thought about that question, we had better hurry up and get that conversation front and center. It's about to happen, and President Trump knows it. Inspector General Opens Investigation Into U.S. Capitol Police Following Allegations Of Spying On Members Of Congress, Staff. The inspector general for the U.S. Capitol Police (USCP) has opened a formal investigation into whether the law enforcement agency tasked with securing the Capitol has been inappropriately surveilling elected members of Congress, their staff, and visitors to their offices, The Federalist has learned. The opening of the investigation follows news reports and accusations from lawmakers that USCP has overstepped its bounds as it tries to recover from the January 6 riots that tarnished both the Capitol and the reputation of the law enforcement agency that was supposed to keep it safe. USCP Chief J. Thomas Manger confirmed the opening of the inspector general investigation in his response to congressional inquiries about USCP police tactics, reported in a January 24 article published by Politico, including surveilling and compiling intelligence dossiers on members of Congress, their staff, and visitors. Capitol Police Issue an Unbelievable Statement After Accusations of Spying on Congress. We have previously reported on the troubling stories of the Capitol Police surveilling Republican members of Congress, their staff, and even people with whom they are meeting. Republicans are now calling on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Chairwoman on House Administration Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) to investigate, noting that this raises serious constitutional concerns. [...] Now, unfortunately, asking Pelosi to look into this is probably not the best idea, because not only can't you believe anything she says, but one has to ask why the Capitol Police were doing this, to begin with — and who might be behind it. The Capitol Police didn't deny it, they just tried to justify it in a statement as necessary for security reasons. "The more public information we have, the better we can understand what kind and how much security is necessary," the statement said. Uh, yeah, no. None of what they are allegedly doing sounds justifiable by trying to ensure security. Fuming GOP rep accuses Capitol Police of 'illegally' investigating his office, says staffer 'caught them in the act'. Rep. Troy Nehls (R-TX) claimed Tuesday [2/8/2022] that the United States Capitol Police "illegally" entered his office twice during Thanksgiving week while conducting an alleged investigation and one of his staffers caught them in the act. While the officers were there they reportedly photographed sensitive legislative items according to The Daily Caller. Nehl characterized the entries as "illegally" executed and unconstitutional. "Upon discovering a member of my staff, special agents dressed like construction workers began to question him as to the contents of a photograph taken illegally two days earlier," he asserted, adding that Capitol Police "never informed myself or senior-level staff of their investigation." Fed Scandal Bigger Than Watergate? Fed Chair Powell — who is supposed to serve in the public interest and avoid even the appearance of conflicts — traded millions in personal stocks and bonds while obstructing required public disclosures about those trades for years. Yet, the information that has slipped out is [bad]. It shows Powell made trades during the restricted blackout period for pivotal Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meetings. This is a shocking revelation and constitutes grave and inexcusable misconduct by a high-ranking U.S. government official. Moreover, Powell directed policy decisions that directly advantaged his personal bond holdings despite longstanding federal conflicts of interest law, 18 U.S.C. § 208. And then he apparently told a brazen lie about it to the press by suggesting the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) said his holdings posed no conflict. FOIA requests confirm that OGE provided no such guidance in writing. Capitol Police Surveillance Operation Is Really a Full-Blown Spy Operation. In January, we discussed how the Capitol Police were going to do background checks on certain visitors who visited Congress. It's the post-January 6 regime. Is it spying? They claim that they will only use public information. The punchline was that they likened these reviews to journalists doing background research. They may not call it spying, but almost everyone will feel like their privacy has been violated. It's meant to chill constituents meeting with their elected leaders. Period. Now, we find out that this little operation may go way beyond just a simple social media review. GOP Congressman Troy Nehls (R-TX) had a lengthy Twitter thread about how his office was illegally spied on by the Capitol Police. They accessed his office when Congress was in recess last year and took photographs of confidential legislative documents illegally. Days later, Capitol Police officers dressed as construction workers tried to enter his office again but were caught by a member of his staff. Neither Congressman Nehls nor his senior staff was informed that they were the subjects of an investigation. Capitol Police Caught Spying in Republican Congressional Office, Investigation Launched. In late January, news broke of multiple instances of the Capitol Police appearing to spy on Republican congressional members. Those actions followed the rank politicization of the force that took place after January 6th, including the expansion of its intelligence-gathering mission in areas that are, at best, questionable. [...] While vetting of contacts is not necessarily nefarious, it is supposed to be done out in the open and in conjunction with lawmakers. Instead, the Capitol Police have instituted a system that remains in shadows, conveniently only seeming to target Republicans. Another disturbing example of that has emerged via The Federalist, this time involving Rep. Troy Nehls (R-TX). According to a police report filed by a USCP officer, Nehls' office was entered without permission and his work materials were photographed because they appeared "suspicious." Inspector General Opens Investigation Into U.S. Capitol Police Following Allegations Of Spying On Members Of Congress, Staff. The inspector general for the U.S. Capitol Police (USCP) has opened a formal investigation into whether the law enforcement agency tasked with securing the Capitol has been inappropriately surveilling elected members of Congress, their staff, and visitors to their offices, The Federalist has learned. The opening of the investigation follows news reports and accusations from lawmakers that USCP has overstepped its bounds as it tries to recover from the January 6 riots that tarnished both the Capitol and the reputation of the law enforcement agency that was supposed to keep it safe. USCP Chief J. Thomas Manger confirmed the opening of the inspector general investigation in his response to congressional inquiries about USCP police tactics, reported in a January 24 article published by Politico, including surveilling and compiling intelligence dossiers on members of Congress, their staff, and visitors. Pelosi's Capitol Cops Tried to Sneak Into GOP Congressman's Office Dressed as Construction Workers, Illegally Took Photos of Legislative Documents. Speaker Nancy Pelosi's Capitol Police are alleged to have illegally entered the office of Congressman Troy Nehls (R-TX), photographing confidential legislative products and grilling staff, according to reports. The police — now under formal investigation — stand accused of dressing up as construction workers and attempting another entry just two days later. The stunning, Watergate-style scandal comes after almost a year of warnings that Speaker Pelosi and Democrats in Congress were politicizing the Capitol Police, using them as a Stasi-style enforcement unit against GOP opponents. Reports suggest Capitol Police have built intelligence dossiers on those illegally investigated. The documents photographed, says Nehls, are "protected by the Speech and Debate clause enshrined in the Constitution, Article 1 Section 6". Justin goes Castro on Canada's truck protestors. For a while there, the far-left Canadian government contented itself with deplatforming and defunding the striking Canadian truckers who are in Ottawa protesting the country's vaccine mandate. That didn't work, so now they've gotten worse. [...] Peaceful protests? Freedom of assembly? Canada must have some version of these but not with this kind of talk. Someone taking sides here? It calls to mind that the bulk of the strike is centered in Ottawa, the Canadian capital, and Canada's prime minister has disappeared, supposedly after a diagnosis of COVID, (a disease which didn't seem to pay much attention to his triple-vaxxing), but has put out hateful dispatches insulting the overwhelmingly peaceful protestors bringing their petitions to the capital as "fringe" and "extremist" and unrepresentative of Canada. Bannon Accuses the Feds of Snooping on One of His Lawyers in Explosive Court Filing. Former Breitbart head and Trump advisor Steve Bannon is under investigation by the feds and it looks like his already unenviable situation might be even worse than it looks on its face. Now, according to a recently filed court document, the very feds that are charging him are also attacking his ability to defend himself by snooping on one of his lawyers. That document, a motion to compel discovery on the issue of whether his lawyer is, in fact, being spied upon by the government includes numerous shocking claims, which, if true, shine a light on just how far Team Brandon will go to attack political dissidents. Do You Trust the U.S. Government? o you trust the U.S. government? I don't recommend it. Consider what John Kirby, a spokesman for the Pentagon, said a couple of days ago at a press briefing. "We believe," Kirby said, that Russia is planning to stage a fake attack by Ukrainian military or intelligence forces against Russian sovereign territory, or against Russian speaking people," in order to justify an invasion of Ukraine. Kirby had lots of details: "We believe that Russia would produce a very graphic propaganda video, which would include corpses and actors that would be depicting mourners, and images of destroyed locations, as well as military equipment, at the hands of Ukraine or the West." [...] Should we be worried? Yes. But not necessarily for the reasons that Kirby and his puppet masters want you to be worried. The United States is sending troops and arms to aid Ukraine, so of course there needs to be an emergency to justify that action. John Kirby just outlined a scary scenario. But inquiring minds want to know: What's his evidence for this dramatic claim? That was the burden of the remarkable exchange between State Department spokesman (and former CIA operative) Ned Price and veteran AP reporter Matt Lee. Victory for Freedom in Some Areas in Canada, but Ottawa Official Has Ominous Words for Truckers. [Scroll down] Unfortunately, Justin Trudeau is not one of those with common sense, and some of the officials in Ottawa are — in a word — insane. The Ottawa city council police board met today. The chair of the board, Diane Deans, was completely out to lunch, calling it a "threat to democracy" and "nationwide insurrection." She said it "must end," and she wanted more police force brought to bear, which would not end well. Is the Coronavirus the Greatest Crime Against Humanity? China hid the outbreak of Covid-19 from the world for months. [...] Possibly as a reward for their efforts to conceal the true origin of SARS-CoV-2, the scientists who shaped the "natural origins" narrative received over $50 million in NIAD funding in 2020 - 2021. Remarkably, one of the scientists had told the group of scientists who participated in Fauci's teleconference, "I just can't figure out how this gets accomplished in nature." He recently admitted that he had been advised not to mention the possibility of a lab origin. As we enter the third year of the pandemic, a cover-up seems more and more certain. It is entirely plausible that American taxpayers ended up funding a dangerous gain-of-function project in conjunction with the CCP. In the words of Reiner Füllmich, founder of the German Corona Investigative Committee that's suing the CDC, WHO and the World Economic Forum for violating the Nuremberg Code, the corona scandal is "the greatest crime against humanity ever committed." Justin Trudeau Shows How Manipulative and Pathetic the Global Elites Are. When thousands of truckers drove toward Ottawa in protest against the vaccine mandates, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau described them as "the small fringe minority" holding "unacceptable views." As the movement gained momentum and the truckers were joined and cheered on by scores of their compatriots objecting to Canada's regime of Covid oppression, Trudeau implied that they were racists and Nazis. This he added on top of his earlier characterization of those who object to his policies as misogynists, science deniers, purveyors of misinformation, and conspiracy theorists. By doing this he followed the standard line of the woke elites when dealing with those who do not want to go along with their dehumanizing and exploitative agendas. Rather than meeting the other side in rational discussion, they simply hurl insults that are void of any substance. "Racist," "Nazi," "conspiracy theorist," and "misogynist" are their slurs of choice. It does not matter to them that such characterizations are baseless. Their wanton abuse of language and truth shows just how pathetic and detached from reality the elitists really are. Quebec City Canada Officially Proclaims, The Peasants are Revolting. It really does seem like something out of a modern-day Monty Python skit. Officials in the city of Quebec City, Canada were fearful the pesky unwashed peasants might make their way to the parliament buildings, so they blocked the passages and sent guards to ensure no one could traverse the ramparts. Good grief, if the politicians only had a drawbridge, you could be sure they would have pulled it up to keep the peasants away and survive the siege. In an effort to retain their tenuous grip on power, Canadian officials have become a modern parody of medieval times. Symbols of Shame. [Scroll down] What our government and the sycophantic corporations are asking of us is not only dangerous but totally silly. It's not like we don't know that these drastic measures do nothing to combat the disease. It's not like this is still an emergency; emergencies are sudden, require instant, often uninformed decisions. But it's been two years. There has never been a two-year emergency — a two-year recovery period, sure, but the predicament is, should be, short-lived and any government worthy of being called a government shouldn't take this long to figure things out. It's time we called foul on this one. 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. The Greatest Government Failure in American History. The tally for how much the federal government spent to combat COVID-19 is now estimated to be $5 trillion. It is more than the combined costs of World Wars I and II. The left is celebrating that politicians in Washington saved us. Really? From what exactly? Two years later, it is time for an honest assessment. Could things have worsened for the country if the government had spent nothing and done nothing? What would have happened if we had not shut down our businesses? Our churches, schools and restaurants. Our parks, basketball courts and playgrounds. Would the public have made worse decisions regarding protecting its health and the health of its families and its employees than the politicians have made? Meet the Capitol Police's New Spy Chief. When most Americans hear the term "Capitol Police," they likely conjure visions of uniformed officers manning metal detectors at the numerous congressional buildings or helping tourists navigate the sprawling Capitol grounds: a D.C. version of a mall cop. That imagery, however, is in stark contrast to reality as Democrats have weaponized yet another federal agency to target their political enemies on the Right. After January 6, 2021, Capitol Police officials announced plans to expand beyond the legislatively authorized purview of the agency and open offices in Florida and California, as well as in other states. Congress overwhelmingly supported a bill last year to fork over $2.1 billion in new funding to the Capitol Police. Now flush with cash and immune from any serious public oversight, the agency is returning the favor by spying on dissidents of the Biden regime. According to Politico, Capitol Police investigators are preparing secret dossiers on lawmakers, congressional staff, donors, and even constituents who visit their representatives in public or in private. Department of Homeland Security Warns That Domestic Terrorists With Hammers and Power Saws Are Plotting to Destroy the Power Grid. [The] Department of Homeland Security is a joke. It exists solely as a jobs program for paranoids specializing in manufacturing [specious] threats while ignoring real ones. [...] According to the FBI toad, domestic violent extremists have two things in common. They are driven by racial hate... and they are Donald Trump supporters. These alerts exist for one purpose. They create a patina of proof for the fear-and-smear campaign the Biden junta is carrying out on its domestic opponents. Relentlessly tying real people and real patriots who are concerned about the erosion of civil liberties under the illegal and unnecessary Wuhan virus regulations to potential terrorist acts is not only dishonest, it sets a predicate for treating them like terrorists and incarcerating them for long periods of time without any real intention of trying them for a crime... sort of like the January 6 political prisoners. 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. My Time in the Tank. With Paul Manafort's explosive new book, Political Prisoner, we finally have a full and honest detailed account of how the U.S. government, the not-so-special Special Counsel Robert Mueller, and particularly the FBI treated anyone and everyone connected to Donald Trump. The plain truth is they were after him — and would stop at nothing in their quest of subversion. I would know, because I, too, was in their sights. Detained at Boston's Logan Airport, the FBI grilled me about the 2016 campaign, specific persons involved, Wikileaks, Roger Stone, Nigel Farage, and Russia. It was evident that while they had a very thick file on me, and two warrants to confiscate my iPhone and laptop — which meant they had been surveilling me for some time — they knew I knew nothing of real value. This was an act of intimidation of a patriotic U.S. citizen, one with a former Top Secret and Codeword security clearance, who had held senior positions in the government and served informally and without payment on the Trump presidential election campaign. Second Democrat, Rep. Jamaal Bowman, Arrested within a Day for Speaking Out Against Joe Biden's Failures. Two Democrats have been arrested within a day of speaking out against wannabe Dictator Joe Biden. This time black NY Democrat Rep. Jamaal Bowman. Bownman was one of the dozen or so leftists Democrats who are staging a hunger strike outfront of the White House against Joe Biden after Biden once again failed to get a bill Democrats need to pass to steal elections indefinitely. [Video clip] FBI raid jeopardizes Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar's reelection bid. House Republicans are spying a surprise opportunity to flip another Democratic-held district after the Laredo, Texas, home and campaign office of Texas Rep. Henry Cuellar were raided by the Federal Bureau of Investigation Wednesday. Cuellar, 66, a centrist and frequent target of Republicans and the Left, has been impossible to dislodge since winning a seat in Congress in 2004. But Cuellar could be unexpectedly vulnerable beginning March 1, when he stands for renomination against a liberal challenger in the Democratic primary — or this fall, against a Republican, if it turns out the congressman is the target of a federal investigation and the inquiry extends deep into the election year. Prominent Democrat, Publicly Critical of Joe Biden Border Policy, Gets a Visit from FBI Jackboots. The political motives behind this FBI effort are, yet again, brutally transparent. The FBI are for Joe Biden what the Russian FSB is for Vladimir Putin. That's what they are. That's all they are. That's what they do. How many dozens of examples does it take before people realize the FBI are criminal enforcers targeting any voices who rise in opposition to the DC system? Seriously, when is enough, enough? This should be a bipartisan issue. Democrat Representative Henry Cuellar represents Texas' 28th Congressional District, which extends to the U.S.- Mexico border, and has been in Congress since 2005. Cuellar has been very public and very critical of how Joe Biden has collapsed the U.S-Mexico border enforcement. Suddenly, Cuellar becomes the target of the FBI. The FBI goes after a Democrat who opposes Biden's border policies. Ask any Democrat or other leftist whether the FBI was corrupt under J. Edgar Hoover and he or she will eagerly agree. Hoover, an ardent Republican, not only used the agency to capture genuine criminals, but he also turned it into a spy agency tracking anyone he thought might be a communist. Now, though, it appears that the FBI, with help from the DOJ, is going Hoover one better, and using all the old powers plus modern technology to investigate and arrest people who fail to support the Biden administration. The FBI's latest target is Texas Representative Henry Cuellar, a Democrat, who spoke out against Biden's illegal acts erasing America's southern border. It's likely that most Americans, and especially most conservative Americans, had no idea who Henry Cuellar was before Biden entered the White House. However, things changed when Biden issued a series of orders that effectively erased the southern border. Biden's FBI Gestapo Raid the Home of a Fellow Democrat Days After he Turned on Biden's Border Policies. More than two dozen FBI agents descended on Democrat Rep. Henry Cuellar's Laredo, Texas home on Wednesday, just a day after he spoke out against Biden's border policy failures. [...] Democrats are quickly realizing that fellow Democrats care less about them once they're in power and will do absolutely anything to ensure they stay subservient, even if it means having the FBI raid your house to keep you quiet. [Video clip] The authoritarians must be stopped. Since time immemorial, The Left has been about one thing and one thing only: power. To wit: does anybody truly believe those that want to ostracize the unvaccinated, tax them, fine them, take away their livelihoods, and confine them to "camps" really wish to do so out of concern for the unvaccinated? Or for anybody — or anything — else but their own power? Is this why people in need of life-saving organ transplants are being sent away if they haven't acquiesced to the jab? Is this why those that so loudly profess deep concern for their fellow man so often make comments about those with whom they disagree like, "let them die?" Democrats and "progressives," and authoritarians of all stripes, have imposed their will on the rest of us for two years now, in the form of mask and vaccine mandates. At times they have told us we can't go to work or leave our homes, have our family over for Christmas, attend church, go to weddings, visit dying relatives, or even allow more than a handful of people to grieve with us at their funerals. After COVID, Never Again. Two years ago, how many people would have predicted that tennis's number one ranked player would be banned from competing in Australia and France for refusing to allow their governments to decide what is injected into his body? How many people would have predicted the construction of internment camps to house citizens who similarly refuse to comply? How many would have predicted that national leaders of "democratic" countries would demand censorship of dissenting points of view? How many would have predicted that tech and media companies would eagerly jump at those calls for censorship by actively deleting from the public square any voices contrary to the official narratives sanctioned by those in power? Whatever threat to human health the China Virus poses, it has been dwarfed by the threats to peace, stability, and freedom caused by two years of government tyranny run amok. [...] All of this leads to a [condemnatory] question: why have so few people with power stood up during these last two years to call out this COVID-1984 madness for what it is — the greatest and most organized attack on human freedom in nearly a century? Covid:
A Collision of Historical and Scientific Illiteracy. [Scroll down] How has the public's willful ignorance been
established so easily? The Covid crimes were carefully practiced beforehand through a series of exercises conducted by governments
and corporations since 9/11. And the operation builds upon elements utilized in all the previous government crimes against humanity.
Here are three primary components.
Judge fines cancer patient, 72, for overgrown lawn: 'I'd give jail time if I could'. A hardline judge has fined and ridiculed a 72-year-old Michigan man with lymphoma, ruling that he "should be ashamed" of being too weak to mow his overgrown lawn. Burhan Chowdhury of Hamtramck, a community about six miles north of Detroit, admittedly fell behind in yard maintenance after he was diagnosed with cancer of the lymph nodes in 2019. His overgrown property prompted local officials to subpoena Chowdhury. In now-viral footage of the Zoom court hearing on Jan. 10, Chowdhury's breathing appeared labored as Judge Alexis G. Krot of the 31st District Court berated him. "You should be ashamed of yourself," says Krot, in a video shared Jan. 12 on social media, and viewed more than 37,500 times as of Thursday morning. "If I could give you jail time on this, I would." The FBI's Broken Relationship with Us. All large organizations suffer from the occasional presence of bad actors. The FBI is no exception. But it managed to retain a good relationship with the public in spite of its flaws, because it was still solving rather than creating crimes. But something fundamentally changed in the last five years. [...] This would have been the thinking of lunatic conspiracy theorists just a few years ago. With the targeting of protesting parents and Trump-supporters we've seen in recent years, it is entirely plausible. The FBI will cease being the "plumbers" (the nickname for Nixon's henchmen) for the Democrats and become the enemy of both parties. Then either it or America will die. A free people cannot coexist with a secret police force, using investigations for purposes other than law enforcement. The contest will be epic. Wrongly Imprisoned Real Estate Broker Demands Investigation of Ohio Prosecutors. The Obama administration targeted sole proprietors and small businesses in the real estate industry after the crash of 2008, while letting the big banks off the hook with bailouts. One of most horrific cases involved Republican real estate broker Tony Viola, who served nine and a half years in prison as a juicy target of Ohio Democratic prosecutor Dan Kasaris. He was convicted of supposedly tricking banks into offering mortgages with no money down. But in reality, the banks were knowingly offering those loans — evidence the prosecution withheld from him. Viola only got out of prison due to an employee of the prosecution, Dawn Pasela, becoming so disgusted with the suppression of evidence showing the banks weren't tricked and other corruption such as missing computers full of evidence that she changed sides, helping Viola conduct a successful appeal pro se from prison. The Federal Government Has Become Pablo Escobar. In reflecting upon the crises collectivists and globalists have unleashed on civilization, Brandon Smith over at Alt-Market asks an important question: "Is there a way to prevent psychopaths from getting into positions of power?" He rightly sees free societies as being under sustained attack by a collection of narcissists, sociopaths, and psychopaths who have effectively taken over government and today conspire for "mutual gain" at the expense of those governed, "much like a pack of wolves" hunting and tearing apart their prey. He sagely notes that our current situation is ironic because the construction of democratic institutions over the last three centuries was intended, among other things, to liberate populations living under daily threats of death and turmoil brought by the rule of royal dynasties genetically predisposed to psychopathy and self-grandeur. Democratic institutions, in contrast, were supposed to provide strong mechanisms for "weed[ing] out aberrant individuals" through transparent elections. Looking around today at who runs for office and holds power, though, it would seem that having an "aberrant" personality is more of a requirement than a disqualification. The real insurrection began on Jan. 5 ... 2017. Merriam-Webster defines "insurrection" as "an act or instance of revolting against civil authority or an established government." This being so, the one real insurrection within anyone's memory was hatched on Jan. 5, 2017. The conspirators met in the White House on that day to plot a quiet coup against President-elect Donald Trump. Presiding was President Barack Obama. Joining him was his national security team including all the usual suspects: the FBI's Jim Comey, the CIA's John Brennan, Vice President Joe Biden, National Security Adviser Susan Rice, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and Acting Attorney General Sally Yates. Following the meeting, Obama asked Yates and Comey to stick around along with Rice, his trusted scribe and factotum. Obama had a reason for singling out Comey and Yates. Unlike the others, they were staying on in their jobs. The FTC's rebellion against the judiciary. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) must be held accountable for its open defiance of the Supreme Court's directives. For decades, the FTC relied on a statute authorizing "permanent injunctions" to obtain monetary fines. That always seemed strange. After all, neighboring sections of the law allow the commission to seek limited monetary penalties, while injunctions normally only prevent future action and do not entail an award of any damages. Yet "disgorgement" awards — the return payment of supposedly illegal gains — became so pervasive that in 2019, for example, courts ordered that $723.2 million be paid to the government in such awards. The Supreme Court seemingly put that practice to an end in April, in AMG Capital Management, LLC v. FTC, when it unanimously held that the statute never allowed the "Commission to seek, and a court to award, equitable monetary relief such as restitution or disgorgement." Disgorgement was just an illegal power grab. Pastor Artur Pawlowski and his Brother Dawid [have been] Arrested after Peaceful Protest. Artur Pawlowski, the Pastor of the Cave of Adullam Church in Calgary, Alberta, Canada was swarmed by police and arrested in May 2021 after holding an "illegal" church service on that Saturday. You may remember Pawlowski was the brave Canadian Christian Pastor who shouted down police officers who interrupted his church service during Holy Week. Pentagon Issues Guidelines to Crack Down on Domestic and Patriotic "Extremism" Within Military Ranks. As our nation's greatest enemies build their military might and actively threaten to launch attacks, US Military and Defense leaders are focusing on the important things — mainly, purging the ranks of all dissenters and pushing the Left's radical ideology. On Monday [12/20/2021], as over 28,000 world-class men and women await their dishonorable discharge for refusing to take the experimental vaccine, the Pentagon issued detailed new guidelines that prohibit service members from engaging in a wide range of activities, citing concerns of increased "domestic violent extremism" within the military over the past few months. Tapper Calls Out Pelosi's Opposition to Making Congress More Ethical. Subverting the expectations of some of his critics and going back to how he used to do things, CNN's Jake Tapper spent over eight minutes on Thursday's edition of The Lead going after Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) for her opposition to measures that would make Congress more ethical and crackdown on insider trading. He even brought on the former director of the Office of Government Ethics, Walter Shaub to take her to task. Immediately after returning from a commercial break, Tapper announced it was time for a "conflict of interest watch." He then likely made her fan base unhappy by warning that "Ethics experts" were "sounding the alarm today after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she would not support a ban on members of Congress and their spouses from trading stocks while in office." Chief congressional correspondent Manu Raju joined him and noted the Business Insider investigation that found "found that 49 Members of Congress and 182 senior-level congressional staffers" were in direct violation of the 2012 STOCK Act that was passed in an attempt to keep insider trading from occurring. America Is Much More than Its Government. An honest politician, as if any existed, would tell you politicians are in the business of creating problems where none exists, so that they can solve them, declare victory, and parade around as heroes. While they are fast to proclaim poverty, their vocation is entirely about pecuniary gain. They engage in the kind of insider trading and quid pro quo that would send anybody else in America straight to prison. Many of them enter office with lint in their pockets, and many retire as millionaires. Taxpayers, in effect, pay criminals to represent their interests, and to nobody's surprise, the criminals fleece the taxpayers silly and drop new problems at their doorsteps along the way. It's all grift and gripe for personal glory. The Rule of Law Has Been Replaced by One Set of Rules for the Left and Another for the Right. One of the founding ideals of the United States was that the same system of laws would apply to everyone equally. Two people convicted of the same or similar offense, all things being equal, should receive approximately the same punishment. It doesn't always work that way; wealth and fame do have a way of making crimes, like murder, go away, but those instances are anomalies. Over the last four years, though, things have started to come unglued. The courts willingly cooperated with the obscene persecution of Michael Flynn. Department of Justice functionary Andrew Weissmann was able to weaponize the judicial apparatus to carry out his personal vendetta against Paul Manafort and President Trump. Since the summer of 2020, though, it has become blatantly obvious that we have a two-tiered justice system in this country, and your personal politics determines how the courts treat you. Nancy Pelosi defends members of Congress trading stocks after report said 49 have violated conflict of interest law. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi continues to face blowback for her comments defending lawmakers who trade in stocks even while having access to potentially market-moving information. 'We are a free-market economy. They should be able to participate in that,' Pelosi responded Wednesday when asked whether Members of Congress and their spouses should be banned from trading individual stocks. She was responding to questions about a Business Insider report on dozens of lawmakers who have failed to meet requirements of the STOCK Act by failing turn in timely reports on their asset sales and purchases. Why Nancy Pelosi is wrong about lawmakers trading in stocks. A few days back, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that lawmakers should not be prevented from trading stocks. "We are a free market economy. They should be able to participate in that," Pelosi said. Her remarks are probably owing to the fact that Pelosi's husband holds stocks and options worth tens of millions of dollars. [...] Pelosi insisted that she had no involvement or prior knowledge of her husband's stock investments. She also stated that she had no stock on her name. However, the fact that Pelosi's husband made millions from various big tech firms that she is supposed to regulate, at the very least is a huge conflict of interest. But Pelosi is not the only one. Back in April, a study by the Campaign Legal Center discovered that both Republican and Democratic lawmakers bought and sold stocks hundreds of times throughout the coronavirus pandemic. Many lawmakers had invested in industries whose importance and relevance were elevated owing to the COVID-19 pandemic. They also sold their stocks from the hospitality industry, restaurants, and other sectors that were adversely affected by the pandemic. Pelosi On Why Congress Should Be Allowed To Trade Stock After Dozens Broke Law: We 'Should Be Able To'. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi brushed off questions on Wednesday about why Members of Congress should be allowed to trade stock when a recent report found that dozens allegedly broke insider trading laws. "Madam Speaker, Insider just completed a five-month investigation finding that 49 Members of Congress and 182 senior Congressional staffers have violated the STOCK Act, the insider trading law," a reporter said. "I'm wondering if you have any reaction to that." [...] "Why shouldn't they be banned?" the reporter asked. "Because this is a free market and people — we are a free market economy," Pelosi responded. "They should be able to participate in that." Pelosi's husband, investor Paul Pelosi, reportedly trades large volumes of stocks on a regular basis, according to Business Insider. Pelosi has a net worth of nearly $50 million, according to a separate report from Business Insider. Congress and top Capitol Hill staff have violated the STOCK Act hundreds of times. But the consequences are minimal. Congress has a spotty and inconsistent method for collecting fines from members and top staffers who break a federal law designed to stop insider trading and conflicts of interest, an Insider investigation found. Insider's investigation of financial disclosures found that 49 members of Congress and at least 182 of the highest-paid Capitol Hill staffers were late in filing their stock trades during 2020 and 2021. Lawmakers and senior congressional staffers who blow past the deadlines established by the 2012 Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act are supposed to pay a late fee of $200 the first time. Increasingly higher fines follow if they continue to be late — potentially costing tens of thousands of dollars in extreme cases. But accountability and transparency are decidedly lacking. Do Not Doubt Me.
[Scroll down] So remember: if you heard it from the head of one of our Deep State alphabet bureaucracies it is most likely
not true. The primary reason these agencies exist anymore is to propagate the Left's Big Lies. e.g.
The Account That Posted The Viral Patriot Front Video Yesterday Was Fake Created Days Ago. This viral video of the Patriot Front marchers from the now-suspended "@SherylLewellen" account, which was created just days ago, had over 1 million views! [Video clip] Now, if you saw this video earlier on Twitter, the account might have looked a little different. And that's because the profile photo used to be of an attractive blonde woman whose bio claimed she was a digital/print journo with a love of avocados: [Tweets] "Patriot Front" FEDS Dressed As A "Radical White Supremacy" Group March On Washington DC — Police Helps Them To Get Into Their U-Hauls And Illegally Drive Away. Raws Alerts, "a fast and accurate nonprofit news outlet" with 31,000 followers, is reporting that a group of 150 to 200 people calling themselves the Patriot Front are currently marching on the National Mall on their way to the US Capitol. [Tweet with video clip] A group of alleged white supremacists stormed through downtown Washington, D.C. on Saturday evening, bearing American flags and mildly menacing plastic shields while marching to the beat of a snare drum down the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. But after chanting aggressively about their plans to "reclaim America," their intended show of force stalled spectacularly when they lost their ride. While the group had marched through the city with threatening chants about their plan to "reclaim America," by the end of the night it was not even clear how they intended to reclaim their U-Haul. [...] However more videos surfaced and people accused the alleged hate group of being full of undercover federal agents: [More tweets] Watch DC Police direct traffic around a Uhaul so that definitely not Feds the "Patriot Front" can load 30 deep and then totally-not-illegally drive away. Apparently, this happened with multiple U-Hauls. A 'Right-Wing' Group Marches on the Capitol — and Leaves a Lot of Questions. Last night, videos began to circulate of a largely unheard of "right-wing" group called the "Patriot Front" marching in costume toward the US Capitol Building. Reports put their numbers at around 100-200 people. [...] The entire thing was just weird. Typically, when these white supremacist groups demonstrate, they make a big deal about it, advertise it, etc. because the entire point is to put eyes on their grotesque ideology. They also don't typically hide their identities. In this case, a group of masked individuals show up to march with fake shields and then quickly retreat to box trucks? It's actually illegal to ride in the back of a truck like that in DC. Why didn't the USCP give out tickets? Or arrest anyone? The Editor says... 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. Consequences Needed for Rittenhouse Prosecutors. Prosecutors, especially those with political ambitions, will latch on to socially popular issues such as fear of witches in the seventeenth century or sex crimes and racially-charged controversies today. [Examples omitted for brevity.] If they can do this to Rittenhouse, the Amiraults, Grant Snowden, the Duke Lacrosse players, and countless others, then they can do it to you and me. This is why there needs to be social consequences for prosecutorial overreach even if the overreach does not violate the ABA's Rules of Professional Conduct. How Judicial Misbehavior Skates in America. We have a serious problem within the federal Judiciary in how it protects itself from malfeasance issues when people file judicial misconduct complaints against judges. The Judicial Conduct and Disability Act allows "[a]ny person alleging that a judge has engaged in conduct prejudicial to the effective and expeditious administration of the business of the courts" to file a complaint against the judge. And then when a complaint is filed, everything simply goes out the window in terms of transparency and accountability — and yes, even the ultimate goal of justice, due to built-in rules designed to muzzle the public and prevent an actual meaningful proceeding. First, there is a law dictating that with a few exceptions, all papers, documents, and records of proceedings relating to judicial misconduct complaints shall be confidential and shall not be disclosed by any person in any proceeding. In other words, when a person has information about judicial corruption done by a federal judge, once that person files a complaint against that judge, that person cannot make any public statements about the judicial malfeasance. Lawsuits challenge agency courts that issue ruinous fines, flout separation of powers. an the U.S. compel a business to pay more than half a million dollars in fines just because a government agency says so? A lawsuit on behalf of a New Jersey family farm aims to whittle down the powers of administrative courts, whose judges are employed by federal agencies and answer to their leaders, and force the feds to prove their case "in a real court." Joe and Russell Marino lost five years of challenges before Labor Department employees who acted as "prosecutor, judge and jury," according to the Institute for Justice (IJ), which is representing the brothers and their Sun Valley Orchards. Trial and appellate administrative law judges (ALJs) upheld $550,000 in fines, most of that based on a "single paperwork violation." Just $10,000 concerned "actual working conditions," mostly from workers driving farm vehicles without U.S. driver's licenses, IJ said. The agency classified $200,000 as a penalty and $350,000 as "back wages" that are not actually owed to employees but largely stem from the farm's failure to disclose its "meal plan" on its H-2A visa program application in 2015, when it first sought migrant workers. Republicans point to number of times Garland has politicized the Justice Department. Attorney General Merrick Garland is under fire from Republican lawmakers for allegedly politicizing the Justice Department. [...] Garland said the department continues to stand by the findings of the DOJ watchdog that concluded fired FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe lied under oath to investigators during a leak investigation — despite Garland reversing his firing and settling McCabe's lawsuit against the DOJ with a payout. DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz's report in 2018 detailed multiple instances in which McCabe "lacked candor" with FBI Director James Comey, FBI investigators, and inspector general investigators about his authorization to leak sensitive information to the media. Yet, Garland allowed McCabe to win back his full pension last month as part of the settlement in his wrongful termination lawsuit. The agreement allowed McCabe to retire and receive an estimated $200,000 in missed pension payments and $539,000 in attorney's fees for his lawyers. Alan Dershowitz's stark warning: Justice system becoming infected by critical race theory. lan Dershowitz, the famed law scholar and appellate lawyer, has a stark warning for judges, prosecutors and defense lawyers: America's justice system is being corrupted by identity politics and critical race theory. In an interview with Just the News, Dershowitz deplored the growing trend in recent criminal cases toward political agendas supplanting the neutral consideration of evidence and law that has been the lifeblood of U.S. jurisprudence for more than two centuries. "It's becoming much more responsive, unfortunately, to critical race theory, basically, everything's about race," Dershowitz told the John Solomon Reports podcast in an interview aired this week. "Everything's about race or politics.["] California School Presses Kidnapping, Burglary Charges Against a Mom Who Legally Signed Her Child Out of School. Brittany Sheehan escaped an abusive relationship and played by the rules regarding custody of her daughter and for protection against domestic violence and abuse. For that, she's being rewarded with criminal charges for kidnapping and burglary after signing her daughter out of school. Onward Into Darkness. [Scroll down] Next was the FBI's invasion of Project Veritas chief James O'Keefe's home in a case involving "Joe Biden's" daughter Ashley Biden's personal diary, which Project Veritas was alleged to be holding, and which supposedly contained some entries about sketchy father-and-daughter showers together. Bad optics for a floundering president already suspected of being a bit free with his touch, shall we say, around the little ones (not to mention the florid pornographic exploits self-documented by son Hunter). Instead of defending Mr. O'Keefe's first amendment rights, the legacy news media piled on him as "not a real journalist." More to the point, though, within hours of the FBI confiscating Mr. O'Keefe's cell phones and other devices, Mr. O'Keefe's private communications with his attorneys turned up in the hands of The New York Times, which published some of the material. Of course, James O'Keefe is in the middle of a defamation lawsuit against The New York Times. And wasn't it a fortuitous coincidence that the newspaper came into possession of their adversary's privileged information? The thing is (of course), that the info could have only been provided to The Times by one possible source: the FBI, investigative arm of the DOJ. Days later, Judge Analisa Torres from the Southern District of New York ordered the FBI to stop extracting data from the phones — as if they hadn't already downloaded every last shred and made a zillion copies. Where is the DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz? Where is the DOJ's ethics office? Why has the leaker not been outed and arraigned? Police arrest two moms opposing mask mandates at Georgia school board meeting. Two mothers who oppose school mask mandates and the teaching of Critical Race Theory to children have been arrested by police at a school board meeting after one failed to wear a mask and the other was found in possession of a pair of scissors. The arrests took place Thursday [11/18/2021] at the Gwinnett County Public Schools district headquarters near Atlanta, Georgia, as the two moms were passing through a security checkpoint with metal detectors. Americans are enduring a Biden reign of terror. Prisoners with no criminal history are being held without bail or due process in the D.C. jail where they are regularly abused by guards. Parents who show up at school board meetings to address their concerns about COVID mandates or the CRT curriculum are being tagged as domestic terrorists. Moms who have become active in election integrity campaigns have had their front doors broken down with battering rams by an FBI SWAT team, their homes searched, their electronics confiscated, all without an explanation or civil attempt to contact their legal representation. Journalist James O'Keefe of Project Veritas had his home raided by the FBI, his home searched for hours, his personal property confiscated and leaked to the NYT. Many people who were merely present at the January 6 rally in DC have endured police state tactics. School Board Calls Police Over Lawyer's Maskless Lollipop Eating. The Lodi School District official who asked police to respond to an orderly school board meeting earlier this month said police presence would make a board member "feel better." "We would like to have a Lodi officer up at the district office," Maureen Palmer, administrative assistant to District Administrator Vince Breunig says in a 911 call November 8 to the Columbia County Sheriff's Department. The audio was obtained by Empower Wisconsin. "He does not have to come lights and sirens, we just want to have him present at our board meeting the way it's going," Palmer says. "Is it becoming disorderly? Do you feel like it might?" the dispatcher asks. It wasn't, but district officials felt like it could, according to Palmer. "We would just like his presence here, just come and be present for a while," Palmer added. How Did Ordinary American People Become Domestic Terrorists in The Eyes of The Deep State. Barack Obama and Eric Holder did not create a weaponized DOJ and FBI; the institutions were already weaponized by the Patriot Act. Instead, what Obama and Holder did was to take the preexisting system and retool it so the weapons of government only targeted one side of the political continuum. [...] What Barack Obama and Eric Holder did with that new construct was refine the internal targeting mechanisms so that only their ideological opposition became the target of the new national security system. This is very important to understand as you dig deeper into this research outline. Washington DC created the modern national security apparatus immediately and hurriedly after 9/11/01. DHS came along in 2002, and within the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 the ODNI was formed. When Barack Obama and Eric Holder arrived a few years later, those newly formed institutions were viewed as opportunities to create a very specific national security apparatus that would focus almost exclusively against their political opposition. Rand Paul Urges Whistleblowers to Expose Biden Administration Abuses of Civil Liberties. Sen. Rand Paul sharply criticized the "politicized" FBI and the Department of Justice, calling for more whistleblowers to expose government trampling of American liberties. "I think anytime someone is breaking the law in government, it's a good idea to hear about it," the Kentucky Republican said in a Thursday interview with The Daily Signal. "And so, frankly, yes, I think it is a good idea for people to reveal when the government's breaking the rules." Paul's remarks follow news that the head of the FBI's Criminal and Counterterrorism divisions reportedly ordered agents Oct. 20 to identify threats against school board members and teachers with a "threat tag" — although Attorney General Merrick Garland told lawmakers the next day that the FBI was not using counterintelligence tools to target parents. 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 Rittenhouse trial: Our corporate media and big tech are truly sinister. Under the radar, several of our law-enforcement and other institutions, like the IRS, were weaponized during the Obama administration. Obama used the DOJ, the FBI, the CIA, the IRS, the Departments of Education and Agriculture, the FEC and the rest of our alphabet bureaus to torment his administration's opposition in various ways. Duly weaponized, those institutions took their cues from Obama and Hillary Clinton, a veteran of vicious political opposition, and doubled down to destroy President Trump using the dirtiest tricks in their kit bags. And now that the wretched Joe Biden is their front man, the snakes who make their nests in those alphabet syndicates no longer feel any need to conduct their shady operations in secret. Now they carry out their Stalinist machinations right out in the open. Parents who show up to speak at school board meetings? Domestic terrorists. Question the 2020 election results? Crazed conspiracy theorist. Be a known Trump supporter in DC on January 6? Lock them up and throw away the key. How is it possible that these agencies entrusted to enforce the law and uphold the Constitution are getting away with all this thuggery? Merrick Garland Must Go. A new memo shows that Attorney General Merrick Garland lied to Congress about the FBI snooping on parent groups upset with local school boards for their use of Critical Race Theory in the classroom. If so, it doesn't warrant a slap on the hand, but swift removal from office. Presidents deserve to have the people they nominate serve their entire term. But that's not the case when that person lies under oath to Congress and, by extension, the American people. That's a criminal offense. This allegation comes from an official letter sent to the Justice Department by Rep. Jim Jordan, ranking GOP member of the House Judiciary Committee, in response to an email from a whistleblower. If you'll recall, on Oct. 21, Garland appeared before Congress and said he couldn't "imagine any circumstances in which the Patriot Act would be used in the circumstances of parents complaining about their children, nor ... a circumstance where they would be labeled as domestic terrorists." He went on to say, "I do not think that parents getting angry at school boards for whatever reason constitute domestic terrorism. It's not even a close question." The only problem is, neither statement is true. DOJ Inspector General Says Department Must Address Concerns About Politicization. The Department of Justice (DOJ) must address deepening concerns that it's not insulated from political influence, the agency's watchdog stated in a new report. The DOJ failed to follow policies and procedures designed to protect it from accusations that it's politicized or partially applying the law in a number of cases, including while investigating Donald Trump's campaign during the 2016 election and in leaks to the media, Inspector General Michael Horowitz noted. "Numerous national events in the past year have crystalized the urgency for the department to address this challenge in a meaningful way," he wrote, including the discovery that the DOJ under the Trump administration obtained communications to and from members of Congress and accusations that protesters were cleared from Lafayette Square in Washington on June 1, 2020, for political purposes. Such events "have all raised questions about the department's objectivity and impartiality" and "negatively impacted the perception of the department as a fair administrator of justice," Horowitz said. FBI's Damage Control on Investigation of Parents Makes Things Even Worse. We reported yesterday that an FBI whistleblower had leaked some disturbing information to Congress. The information was an email showing that, contrary to Attorney General Merrick Garland's testimony before Congress that the DOJ/FBI wasn't treating parents objecting to school board actions as "domestic terrorists," their Counterterrorism unit was in fact involved in looking into the issue, and putting "threat tags" on all "investigations and assessments of threats specifically directed against school board administrations, board members, teachers, and staff." Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) demanded that Garland answer why this was different from Garland's prior testimony, and asked that he come back before Congress to explain all this. Whistleblower revealed FBI used counter-terrorism tactics to investigate parents complaining about CRT. House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy slammed Joe Biden's Justice Department for an 'egregious abuse of power' on Tuesday and demanded Attorney General Merrick Garland testify before Congress about the counterterrorism tactics the FBI is using to investigate parents. 'In an egregious abuse of power with the potential to unfairly track Americans' activities, President Biden's Department of Justice is using FBI criminal and counterterrorism resources to target parents,' McCarthy said in a statement. 'Attorney General Garland must return to Congress to address, under oath, in detail, the discrepancies regarding the directives he issued involving investigating America's parents,' he demanded. Whistleblower Delivers Documents Showing AG Merrick Garland Lied to Congress. Rarely does anything in the news surprise me anymore, but consider today's happenings an exception. In an explosive development, a whistleblower has delivered an email to Congress proving that Attorney General Merrick Garland lied under oath while testifying on Capitol Hill some weeks ago. As RedState reported at the time, Garland's statements surrounding the targeting of parents as "domestic terrorists" simply did not add up, with his mix of denialism and unwillingness to address the issue only adding to the suspicion that the DOJ had and continued to act improperly. Now, these new documents deliver a decisive blow to Garland's previous assertion that the DOJ/FBI was not using the counterterrorism apparatus to target parents. In fact, they show the opposite, i.e. that the counterterrorism division was not only involved (and presumably still is) but that it was being used to "tag" parents as potential threats. FBI Whistleblower Claims DOJ Used Counterterrorism Tools against Parents in Response to School-Board Memo. Citing an internal email provided by an FBI whistleblower, Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee revealed Tuesday [11/16/2021] that the Bureau has created a system to track threats against school board officials and administrators, and accused Attorney General Merrick Garland of misleading lawmakers when he was asked about the subject during his previous testimony before the committee. The FBI's "Counterterrorism and Criminal Divisions created a threat tag, EDUOFFICIALS, to track instances of related threats," according to the email. "The purpose of the threat tag is to help scope this threat on a national level and provide an opportunity for comprehensive analysis of the threat picture for effective engagement with law enforcement." The email was signed by Counterterrorism Division assistant director Timothy Langan, and former Criminal Division assistant director Calvin Shivers, who retired earlier this month. FBI counterterrorism officials set up a special 'threat tag' to track school boards threats. In October a group called the National School Board Association (NSBA) sent a letter to President Biden suggesting that parents were becoming such a threat to school boards that the FBI needed to get involved and might even need to treat some of them as domestic terrorists under the Patriot Act. Just days after the White House received this letter, AG Merrick Garland sent out a memo ordering the FBI to communicate with every school board in the country over the following 30 days to assess the threat. GOP Blasts AG Garland After FBI Whistleblower Exposes 'Counterterrorism Tools' Used Against Parents: 'Disgrace'. Following a whistleblower's revelation that the FBI is utilizing counterterrorism tactics to investigate parents considered to be potential "domestic terrorists" for voicing concerns about education in their local school districts, Republicans blasted the "disgrace[ful]" move as well as Attorney General Merrick Garland, with many calling for his immediate resignation. The alarming allegations, which state the FBI is adding "threat tags" to parents, appear to contradict Garland's testimony on October 21 during a House Judiciary Committee hearing in which he claimed the Department of Justice and the FBI were not using counterterrorism tools to investigate parents at school board meetings. House Judiciary Committee Receives Whistleblower Documents Showing DOJ and FBI are Using Domestic Terrorism Taskforce to Monitor Parents. Despite the obvious instructions to the FBI, Attorney General Merrick Garland previously gave testimony before congress denying that parents who attended school board meetings were being targeted by an FBI Counterterrorism task force. However, today the House Judiciary Committee has received a 'whistleblower complaint' showing the FBI is indeed using the Counterterrorism Division as the tool to target parents. The day before AG Merrick Garland testified to congress, the FBI instructed all national heads of the Counterterrorism Division to begin using internal tags to create a notification list containing the names of parents they considered to be domestic extremists. Rep. Jim Jordan: Email Shows FBI Using 'Counterterrorism Tools' Against 'Concerned Parents'. The top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee is asking Attorney General Merrick Garland about his October testimony to that same committee, citing a document unearthed by a whistleblower that shows the FBI started using a specific tag to track threats related to schools. "We are now in receipt of a protected disclosure from a [Justice] Department whistleblower showing that the FBI's counterterrorism division is compiling and categorizing threat assessments related to parents, including a document directing FBI personnel to use a specific 'threat tag' to track potential investigations," writes Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, in a Nov. 16 letter to Garland. "This disclosure provides specific evidence that federal law enforcement operationalized counterterrorism tools at the behest of a left-wing special-interest group against concerned parents," Jordan adds, referring to the National School Boards Association. DOJ says it will 'vigorously defend' Biden OSHA COVID-19 vaccine mandate in court. The Department of Justice (DOJ) says it will "vigorously defend" the guidelines laid out by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), which seek to enforce vaccine requirements on all businesses with 100 employees or more by Jan. 4, 2022. Following the Friday [11/12/2021] decision by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to uphold a stay on the OSHA order a DOJ spokesperson said the Biden administration would fight back. "This decision is just the beginning of the process for review of this important OSHA standard," a spokesperson told Fox News. "The Department will continue to vigorously defend the standard and looks forward to obtaining a definitive resolution following consolidation of all of the pending cases for further review." Fifth Circuit Slams Zhou Regime's Mandate. While much of the attention of the nation remains on the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, there is good news from the frontline of the battle against the Covid Regime. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has reaffirmed it's stay on the Mandate. Such stays are issued when it appears that the petitioners are likely to succeed on the merits of their case. In the 21 page opinion — which you can read [elsew]here — the Court explains exactly why they think the petitioners will succeed. What I've done below is provide excerpts from the opinion, basically from the introduction to the detailed legal analysis. In this limited selection an overall picture of the reasoning to come is sketched out. I've deleted most citations for the sake of readability. I've retained the footnotes (sans citations) on one page because they're substantive to the argument. The rest of the editing should be pretty obvious pagination. What's notable, and gratifying, about this opinion is that to my eyes it is dripping with contempt for this regime and its figurehead who fronts for it. The Court is clearly highly offended at the openly proclaimed intent of the regime to find a "work-around" for, basically, the rule of law as we know it. Seen in this light — as it should be — this case is fundamentally important to the preservation of a free nation under law. School Board Memo Reveals Timeline of White House 'Domestic Terrorism' Letter. Newly publicized documents revealed more details about how the National School Boards Association (NSBA) communicated with the White House before sending out a letter likening concerned parents to domestic terrorists. In the widely criticized Sept. 29 letter to President Joe Biden, the NSBA characterized disruptions at school board meetings across the nation as "a form of domestic terrorism and hate crime." It also urged the federal government to invoke counter-terrorism laws to handle "angry mobs" of parents seeking to hold school officials accountable for teaching the Marxist-inspired critical race theory and for imposing COVID-19 restrictions such as mask mandates on their children. Just five days later, Attorney General Merrick Garland issued a memo directing federal law enforcement to help address the alleged "disturbing spike in harassment, intimidation, and threats of violence" against teachers and school leaders. Garland's rather swift response has raised suspicions among some Republican members of Congress, who are looking into the role the Biden administration played in the crafting and release of the NSBA letter. More comes out about role White House played in NSBA 'domestic terror' letter. A memo made public Thursday by Parents Defending Education raises new questions about whether or not the White House ordered Attorney General Merrick Garland to have the FBI investigate reported confrontations and incidents at local school board meetings across the country — directly contradicting what the AG previously told Congress. The National School Boards Association memo from NSBA President Viola Garcia on October 12 proves that the White House was working with the NSBA before it sent its now-infamous letter to the Biden administration requesting federal law enforcement to investigate parents who have been vocal at local meetings, alleging that their actions may constitute "a form of domestic terrorism." NSBA coordinated with White House, DOJ before sending notorious 'domestic terrorists' letter: emails. Newly released internal emails reveal that the National School Boards Association coordinated with the White House and the Department of Justice before sending President Biden the notorious letter that compared concerned parents to domestic terrorists. Emails provided to Fox News show that NSBA had coordinated with the White House for weeks beforehand. Viola Garcia, the NSBA president whom the Department of Education later named to a federal board, sent a memo to NSBA members on Oct. 11 (but dated Oct. 12), providing a timeline of the NSBA's interaction with the White House ahead of the letter to Biden, which the NSBA sent on Sept. 29. Five days later, on Oct. 4, the DOJ issued a memo directing law enforcement to investigate threats to school boards. On Oct. 22, the NSBA issued an apology for the letter. Arizona School Board Officials Kept Secret Dossier on Dissident Parents and Employed a Private Investigator to Gather Oppo Research on Them. Over the last six months or so, it has become more and more common to read stories about school boards that have essentially gone to war with the parents of the children in the school system they oversee. Ground zero of the war zone was Loudoun County, Virginia. Loudoun County is one of those Virginia counties that used to be reliably Republican but now has been overrun by leftist scum working for federal contractors and the federal government and has turned hard left. I hope Ron DeSantis and Greg Abbott keep this in mind when trying to entice Silicon Valley and Wall Street companies to relocate to their states. The flashpoint was the efforts by the Loudoun County school board, without any debate or input from parents, to mainstream transgenderism. Along with this dangerous nonsense, the school board adopted outright racism tarted up in pseudo-academic language, obscured from view as "critical race theory," and imposed by "diversity, inclusion, and equity" mandates, the standard operating philosophy for the county schools. Arizona school board member had 'dossier' of private information on 'wacko' parents. The president of the Scottsdale, Arizona, school board had a Google Drive full of private information, including Social Security numbers, of parents who had expressed their opposition to school mask mandates. The drive, which the Washington Examiner reviewed, contains numerous financial records from several of the parents involved in the group, including mortgage statements, bankruptcy filings, and divorce filings. Included on those forms are portions of Social Security numbers, addresses, and phone numbers of parents who had expressed opposition to school mask mandates and critical race theory. Scottsdale Unified Assures Parents Of Privacy In Aftermath Of Secret Dossier Discovery, Parents Call For Greenburg Resignation. The Scottsdale Unified School District's administration is scrambling to do damage control after a group of mothers discovered Governing Board President Jann-Michael Greenburg had access to a Google Drive full of personal information, documents, and photos of about 47 people, including children. An email sent out Wednesday evening by the SUSD's Communications Office sought to assure families that their personal and educational data is safe. However, the district also solely blamed the discovered digital dossier* site on Mark Greenburg, the father of Jann-Michael Greenburg. The damage control appears to be too little too late for many parents in the Scottsdale Unified School District, including Amy Carney, a mother of six, who is among those calling for Greenburg to step down. The Rittenhouse case highlights tyrannical prosecutors. America is suffering from a rash of prosecutors who are petty tyrants bent on fundamentally changing America by nullifying our duly enacted laws. That is as unconstitutional at the county and state level as it is at the federal level. Nothing illustrates this more clearly than the conduct of the prosecutors in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial. Prosecutors are part of the executive branch and it is their sworn duty to uphold all laws. They have no power to nullify laws they don't like, whether it be bail, property crimes, or the laws governing illegal aliens and immigration. A particularly damaging example of this is occurring in Wisconsin, where the fundamental right to keep and bear arms in self-defense is under attack by an outrageously abusive district attorney's office. With help from the DOJ, the National Archives enters the political fray. The Select Committee investigating the events on January 6, when Donald Trump was still president, is asking the White House to produce documents relating to that day. Trump has filed a motion asking the court to issue a preliminary injunction on the ground that these documents are both private and privileged and should not be produced. Then, on October 30, 2021, something peculiar happened: the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), acting through the DOJ, filed a brief opposing Trump's motion. NARA should never have done this, and the court should rightfully ignore it. "Non-partisan" government entities should not be writing and submitting opposition briefs in politically fraught lawsuits. Doing so only leads to the further politicization of every aspect of our government. [...] To clarify, NARA has one job: to be the custodian of records. Simply put, the statute does not give it any other function. Purposeful Crisis Keeps Unfolding as Biden's Irrelevant Polling Keeps Collapsing. We are witnessing a very specific type of electoral frustration caused by officials within a system attempting to stop a communist style fundamental change by taking action within the same system simultaneously collapsing through the actions of the communists. [...] The Obama plan to use Biden as a disposable figure was designed for one specific four year term of maximum damage. The polling is irrelevant. Evidence of this purpose is found in the White House telling businesses to continue operating as if the vaccine mandate is legally authorized, despite a court ordered injunction against it. We are in a post-constitutional system now where the traditional checks and balances are ignored. This is a very Machiavellian approach being deployed against the American people. Merrick Garland Abuses His Authority to Suppress Dissent. Why did Attorney General Merrick Garland form a law enforcement task force and threaten to use the FBI and several other divisions of the Department of Justice against parents protesting COVID-19 mandates and racist indoctrination in public schools? At a recent Senate oversight hearing, Garland insisted it was news reports of violence at school board meetings — and not simply a letter from two officials at the National School Boards Association — that prompted him to do it. The letter smeared protesting parents as potential domestic terrorists. And yes, Garland said he would use his National Security Division — the unit within the Department of Justice that goes after jihadists — to crack down on parents. But where are the news reports supposedly supporting the terrorism accusation? Surprisingly, the Justice Department didn't produce them. The Pentagon investigates itself, finds no crime. Fresh off their recent success in fleeing Afghanistan with their tails between their legs, leaving hundreds of Americans and billions of dollars in arms and munitions behind, the Pentagon was in a celebratory mood and decided to drone some ISIS-K terrorists. [...] So, the best and brightest among us decided to rain hellfire on a car in Kabul, reducing the occupants to greasy spots and causing the world to sit up and take notice of America's righteous wrath. General Mark Milley, the beribboned chairman on the Joint Chiefs, declared the attack a "righteous strike" that probably saved U.S. troops from another terrorist attack. Like the one at Kabul airport that Milley and his pals in "intelligence" failed to stop. Sadly, it turns out Gen. Milley and his drone operators were too busy worrying about climate change and white supremacists in the military to properly verify their target. He and his boys had in fact obliterated a car containing Afghan aid workers and seven children. One Minute Before Midnight. No one gets to tell you what your job is worth. No one gets to tell you what you must allow into your body. No one gets to tell you that you have no right to interfere with what they wish to "teach" your kids. Period. The Founders would alternately laugh and cry at this madness. No one should be allowed to abridge your right to free speech, to defend yourself, or to believe and worship as you wish, and your conscience dictates. No faceless, unelected bureaucrat should be allowed to essentially make laws that seriously impact your life. And no one in power should be able to ignore, overturn or otherwise negate your vote. (Those who preposterously pretend that there was absolutely no malfeasance in the 2020 presidential election are either complicit, ignorant, hiding behind a wall of deception, or insane.) Who Eventually Won the Cold War? Pause for a minute to recall the recent past: Did the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff unlawfully intervene in the chain of command to reroute decisions of nuclear weapon readiness through himself? Did he really contact his Chinese Communist counterpart to promise him that China would be warned of possible U.S. aggression? Did the lead medical authority on America's COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Anthony Fauci, deny under oath the fact that he routed U.S. aid money, through a third party, to the ground-zero Wuhan virology lab to enhance gain-of-function viral research? Did Attorney General Merrick Garland sic the FBI on parents complaining about critical race theory — on the concocted accusation from a school board group, in part cooked up with White House staffer help, that the parents were likely "domestic terrorists"? Did we really spend 22 months and $40 million chasing the "Russian collusion" hoax, a myth ginned up by the left-wing media and its enablers in the FBI and CIA? Does the public really believe our current ministry of information that the "border is closed"? Or that high gas prices are good? Or that empty shelves reflect strong demand and will result in a more mature public no longer needing to buy superfluous goods? Or that spiraling inflation is proof of a strong economy? Or that the road to the Kabul airport was open to anyone with a U.S. passport who wished to leave? Or that the accidental U.S. drone killing of a family in Kabul was a "righteous strike"? AG Merrick Garland's outrageous Senate testimony sparked ringing denunciations from GOP senators. Attorney General Merrick Garland yesterday demonstrated that he is unfit for office as the nation's chief law enforcement officer, much less as a justice of the Supreme Court. Whatever reservations you may have about Mitch McConnell, be grateful that he kept this hack off the Supreme Court. Garland basically stonewalled on all the difficult questions he faced. He defended his now notorious memo to the FBI, written in response (in four days!) to a letter from the National School Boards Association, even as GOP senators repeatedly pointed out that the NSBA now has apologized for it. No apologies were forthcoming from Garland. Nor were yes or no answers to questions posed to him by Republicans who wanted them. A number of times, he used the "I can't remember" or "I didn't know" dodge. Biden and the Democrats are Undermining the Rule of Law. An intriguing and distressing feature of the Biden administration and congressional Democrats is both having a propensity for law breaking and lawmaking. They're different sides of the same coin. [...] Now let's take a quick look at Democrats' lawbreaking. It accelerated in 2016 with Hillary Clinton's collusion with the DoJ, FBI, and CIA, principally, in trying to smear Donald Trump and derail his presidential campaign. This criminal effort continued and doubled down during Trump's presidency — an effort replete with a special counsel (led by Robert Mueller), relentless harassment, and culminating in two unwarranted impeachments. Whereas blue America may take smug satisfaction from their politicians conspiring with top federal appointees and bureaucrats to try to destroy a duly elected president, half or better of America took notes. If the system can be weaponized to attempt to down a blameless president, what says that the feds can't waylay ordinary citizens — like parents whose "crime" is objecting to curriculum at local school board meetings? Aren't those folk domestic terrorists, Merrick Garland? Governments Love Inflation, and They Won't Do Anything to Stop It. No government looking to massively expand its size in the economy and monetize a soaring deficit is going to act against rising prices, despite claiming the opposite. One of the things that surprises citizens in Argentina or Turkey is that their populist governments always talk about the middle classes and helping the poor, yet inflation still soars, making everyone poorer. Inflation is the gradual erosion of the purchasing power of the currency. Governments will always use different excuses to justify inflation: soaring demand, "supply chain disruptions," or evil corporations' greed. However, most of the times these are excuses. Inflation is always a monetary phenomenon. Prices soar because money supply rises massively above real output and real money demand. Meet Ray Epps: The Fed-Protected Provocateur Who Appears To Have Led The Very First 1/6 Attack On The U.S. Capitol. In a House hearing on Thursday [10/21/2021], Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) questioned AG Merrick Garland about a mysterious man, Ray Epps, instructing protesters to enter the US Capitol building on January 5, and who later shepherded crowds towards the Capitol on January 6. [Tweet with video clip] The story of the mystery man, Ray Epps, featured in Rep. Massie's video above is in fact far more shocking than even the good Congressman implies in the hearing. It's a story so strange, and so scandalous at every turn, that it threatens to shatter the entire official narrative of the "Capitol Breach" and expose yet another dimension of proactive federal involvement in the so-called "insurrection" of January 6th. If Revolver News's previous reporting points to a proactive role of the federal government in relation to the conspiracy cases against Oath Keepers and Proud Boys, the Ray Epps story that follows suggests a similar, yet more egregious, explicit, direct and immediate degree of federal involvement in the breach of the Capitol itself. Fed Chair Jerome Powell sold up to $5 million worth of stock options just before Dow Jones tanked last year. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell sold between $1 million and $5 million worth of stock options that he owned just before the stock market tanked last year because the government failed to pass a stimulus measure, it has been reported. Powell's stock sale was reported just weeks after two top officials with the central bank resigned and a third came under fire for making multi-million dollar stock trades during the COVID-19 pandemic. He made the stock sales on October 1, 2020 — just as talks between Congress and the Trump White House over a new stimulus package broke down while COVID case counts, deaths, and hospitalizations were spiking, according to Prospect. Yes, Virginia, There is a Deep State. Six or seven years ago, "Deep State" was a term you would only see in left-leaning media. Bill Moyers explored the theme on his site from time to time, and when The Nation asked Edward Snowden about it, he said, "There's definitely a deep state. Trust me, I've been there." The "deep state" was on the liberal left's front burner then because a spate of horrendously ugly revelations put it there. We learned via Snowden that the NSA was collecting the communications of people all around the world in secret (Carollo might want to mark down that congress wasn't informed) in a program the U.S. Court of Appeals just last year declared illegal. We found out top intelligence officials like CIA chief John Brennan and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper lied to congress, among other things about the warrantless surveillance program, and got away without perjury charges despite a furious outcry from legislators (another useful factoid for [Ben] Carollo, on the oversight front). We learned about the CIA's systematic use of torture techniques, ranging from anal feeding to threatening to rape and murder relatives to induced hypothermia, another fun set of pastimes the agency decided not to burden congress with knowledge of. The EPA head shows who's really in charge in America. When our Founders drafted the Constitution, they were excessively concerned lest one branch of government gain disproportionate power, turning into a tyranny. The Constitution, therefore, spreads out power among othe Executive, the Legislative, and the Judicial Branches, with each institution checking the power of the two others. However, in the ensuing 240 years, America gained something the Founders never imagined: an administrative state that, while ostensibly part of the Executive Branch, has also taken on the legislative powers of a lazy Congress that is big on showboating and small on doing the hard work of actually governing. Most of the rules that burden Americans, whether individually or through their businesses, come from the uncontrolled, permanent, hard-left regulatory state. The Traits of the Authoritarians Among Us. There are two irrefutable and intertwined realities of authoritarianism that the citizens of any democratic nation must recognize and understand. First, any political party that espouses ever greater power for the central government, socialist-centric economic policies and continual erosion of individual freedom is an existential threat to the nation. Second, the leaders of these political parties and their disciples will lie incessantly and, under no circumstances, will they alter their policies or tactics, as they can never be wrong in their pursuit of unbridled political power. Perhaps nothing better defines this mindset of infallibility and pathological lying than the deliberate mismanagement of the Chinese Coronavirus pandemic. Since March of 2020, the governing/professional class and its accomplices in the medical establishment have regurgitated innumerable falsehoods and have been responsible for a variety of catastrophic mistakes. Not only has there been no acknowledgment that errors were made but they were compounded by abject refusals to change course. Keywords: Police state, jackboots, gunpoint, nose rape. The Rise of Weak Men is Killing American Innovation and Prosperity. The Competitive Enterprise Institute estimates that federal regulation alone costs the US almost $2 trillion per year in lost productivity. [...] And it's directly related to regulation. The Code of Federal Regulations contains every law and rule of the federal government. In 1938 it was 18,193 pages. After dropping down to 9,745 pages in 1950 it shot up to 56,720 pages in 1972 and by 2019 it stood at 185,984 pages. On every one of those pages are rules that govern Americans' lives. From what goes into their food to the employment conditions of every person who manufactured or transported or sold every single product they buy. From reporting rules for companies to bank deposit info to what's printed on the side of a can of corn or a box of cereal. Then there's who you can or must rent your home to, how much energy your computer monitor uses, what you pay for gas and, now, what you have to put into your body. Officials in all three branches of government [have been] implicated in breaking stock laws. The Fed revelations caught the attention of Senators Elizabeth Warren and Sherrod Brown, who separately called for a ban on Fed officials from owning individual stocks. Brown's call came with the promise of new legislation which, while not yet published, will presumably focus on the Fed, a quasi-private institution in the federal government that governs US monetary policy, including setting interest rates and managing the money supply. Senator Warren insisted the Fed take direct action to bar its senior officials from making those kinds of trades. But history suggests she has much more ambitious reforms in mind. In the wake of allegations of potential COVID-19 related insider trading by several Senators from both parties, including Richard Burr from North Carolina and Diane Feinstein from California, Warren reintroduced a bill, the Anti-Corruption and Public Integrity Act, to capitalize on the political fallout. 'Arrest Me!': Mom Challenges Attorney General's Call for Probing Threats to School Boards. Rhode Island mom Nicole Solas says she is just one of many parents "with legitimate concerns about our kids' education." Solas drew national attention earlier this year when her local school board in South Kingstown, Rhode Island, threatened to sue her over public record requests she made to learn what her local school district was teaching students. The school board ultimately opted against taking legal action against her. But Solas made headlines again in August when a teachers union, the National Education Association Rhode Island, filed a lawsuit against her over the records requests. Solas made the requests to determine whether her child would be taught about gender identity and critical race theory ideology, two controversial issues that have led to an increase in parental attendance at school board meetings across the country this year. American fascism? [A] broad working definition of fascism can be found by going to the source — Benito Mussolini, the father of 20th-century fascism. Mussolini said: "Fascism should more appropriately be called corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power." Looking out over the American landscape, isn't this almost exactly what we see today, an unholy marriage between the state and big business? To understand the scope of this, understand that the state is far more than just elected officials. It also includes the massive unelected and mostly unaccountable government bureaucracies which are permanently in place. As for corporations, it includes the mainstream media which could properly be called the corporate media. In the U.S. today, six media behemoths control a whopping 90% of what Americans read, watch, and listen to. They are GE, News-Corp, Disney, Viacom, Timer-Warner, and CBS. Other corporate players include the tech companies, the big banks, and international corporations which are too numerous to mention. Tucker Carlson Outlines How the DOJ-NSD Has Morphed Into a Political Targeting Operation. Some CTH readers may remember how the DOJ-NSD refused to accept inspector general oversight as led by AG Eric Holder and DAG Sally Yates. More readers will remember the DOJ-NSD is the epicenter of FISA abuses. It is the DOJ-NSD where Main Justice can operate in the shadows, because they use the shield of national security; a key strategy of the Fourth Branch of government. The DOJ-NSD is the targeting center of Main Justice where folks like John Carlin, Mary McCord, Bruce Ohr, Andrew Weissmann, David Laufmann, George Toscas (and later Dana Boente) were operating against the incoming Trump administration and later the Trump presidency. The DOJ-NSD is where selective Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA) violations are used against political enemies like Michael Flynn, while people like the Podesta brothers are ignored. How is Tucker Carlson still alive? Let's look at some very recent history. How about Seth Rich, Vince Foster, and Jeffrey Epstein? How about the five-year coup against President Trump, from his candidacy through his last days in office? How about treasonous General Milley telling China he would give them a heads-up if an attack were coming? How about the bugging and wire-tapping of Trump Tower when Trump was president-elect? How about the Supreme Court's refusal to hear any 2020 election cases — just plain refused to hear anything? How about the J-6 MAGA protesters still in jail, in solitary confinement, for trespassing? What of a China COVID virus that Washington, D.C. unexplainably refuses to say came from China? What of a vaccine, which really isn't a vaccine, but more of a therapeutic? How about vaccine mandates that are clearly unconstitutional? What about the Biden cabal completely leaving open our borders, which violates the U.S. Constitution? [...] Patriots remember how Fox treated President Trump on Election Night and then the next day. Patriots still do not trust Fox and thus have not returned to Fox. But the exception on Fox is Tucker. Without Tucker Carlson, FOX would look a lot like CNN lite. The Government Is Not Your Friend, No Matter What Politicians Tell You. The dirty little secret about government is that its purpose is not really to make the lives of citizens better but, rather, to accumulate power at the expense of citizens. Not sure about that? Ask yourself, how many government agencies have put themselves out of a job because they succeeded? There're a few that technology left behind, like the Steamboat Inspection Service; others that served their purpose, like the Defense Homes Corporation; while others were merged into other agencies like the General Land Office, subsumed into the Department of Interior. In our history, there have been fewer than 100 federal agencies that have actually been shuttered, and most of those existed in the early 20th century to deal with the Depression or the two world wars. The COVID Caste System. [Scroll down] Nowhere, however, is the new American caste system more evident than with COVID-19. Did you see Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) at the Met Gala? The publicity focused on her "Tax the Rich" dress, but just as notable was the video, released by Vogue magazine, of AOC in full Cinderella mode, flanked by multiple attendants, straightening her hair, fixing her dress, holding up the long train, adjusting her heels. They were all masked; she was not. This was hardly an isolated case. Shortly before the Met Gala, the Obamas held a massive party to celebrate Barack Obama's 60th birthday. Again, the guests that included political leaders, business moguls, and Hollywood celebrities were all unmasked. The chefs, the servers, the valets, and the other staff were all masked. An upper caste and a lower caste, both playing their roles in Obama's large tent. Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, also just had a birthday, and video showed a small, unventilated room in which Jayapal and her maskless friends all partied together. It was the same story with San Francisco Mayor London Breed, who violated her own mask mandate while partying at a club. The Emmys, too, featured clip after clip of unmasked actors, producers, and directors walking the press photo line, and only when they crossed over to the other side could you see all the staff and attendants, masked, of course, taking them back to their seats. 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. FNC's Melugin: New FAA Rule Keeps Us from Filming Del Rio Situation with Drone, We've Used It at Border for Seven Months Without Issue. On Thursday's [9/16/2021] broadcast of the Fox News Channel's "Tucker Carlson Tonight," Fox News National Correspondent Bill Melugin reported that the FAA has imposed a temporary flight restriction for the area around the bridge where thousands of migrants are congregating near Del Rio, TX, and as a result, Fox can't use its drone to capture aerial footage of the situation around the bridge. Melugin also said they've used the drone around the border for seven months and it hasn't been a problem until now. Melugin said, "We've been using our drone to show everybody these remarkable pictures. ... We just learned that the FAA has put out a temporary flight restriction, a TFR, in the area immediately around the port of entry where that bridge is. What does that mean? It means our drone can no longer fly and show those images. [...]" No Fly Zone: FAA Shuts Down Fox News Drone Exposing Border Crisis. In an apparent attempt to cover up the border crisis, the Biden administration has shut down Fox News's ability to fly their drone over the U.S.-Mexico border to report on the border crisis, which swelled in August and again in the last 24 hours. On Thursday's [9/16/2021] Special Report, national correspondent Bill Melugin showed the over 9,000-person crowd of illegals under the international bridge. But on Tucker Carlson Tonight, two hours later, he was forced to report that the FAA had issued a temporary flight restriction or TFR over the entire area. "Stunning footage out of Del Rio, Texas on Thursday. As our Fox Flight Team drone shows thousands of migrants crammed under the international bridge waiting to be processed after crossing illegally into the United States," he reported on Special Report. Members of Congress [are] exempt from Biden's vaccine mandate, [but] average Americans [are] expected to comply. There is one sure way to get around President Joe Biden's vaccine mandate: Be part of either the legislative or judicial branches of the federal government. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has said the mandate does not apply to members of the House, according to Newsweek. "She's saying she cannot force Members to be vaccinated, which is true," a statement from Pelosi's office said. The New York Times reported that the vaccine edict issued by Biden does not apply to the federal court system either. The vaccine mandate has triggered howls of protest. Republican Rep. Nicole Malliotakis of New York said Biden exceeded his executive authority with the mandate, which relies upon a liberal interpretation of the rule-making powers of the Department of Labor. Tyrannizing The Common Good. President Biden has lost patience. After months of telling Americans that vaccine mandates aren't necessary, Biden announced on Thursday a federal vaccination mandate affecting 100 million Americans. Not only did he not bother to provide citizens with a coherent rationale, but the rationale he did provide seemed to suggest that the mandate was necessary because vaccinated people need to be protected from unvaccinated people — a rationale that implies that the vaccine being mandated doesn't work! Biden's patience has worn too thin. Rather than make a clear case for the necessity of a mandate with his legitimate executive power, constrained by law, Biden has chosen to utilize ideologically aligned corporate power and OSHA safety regulations as political "work-arounds" to achieve by executive dictat that which had proved too difficult: to demonstrate that the mandate is reasonable, legal, and necessary. As with his remarks this summer on his novel use of the CDC to place a moratorium on evictions — "maybe it's illegal, but it's worth it" — the key to Mr. Biden's political strategy seems to be rooted neither in reason nor justice, but in the sheer will to power in the name of "the common good," immediately revealing how the very notion of the common good can be abused. Some red-state attorneys general have announced that they intend to use their own powers to resist federal overreach. Are they then against the common good? Partisans will answer that question differently. Open Letter to the Tyrant. Some of the people may have voted for Joe Biden. No one voted for mandatory vaccines. No representative of the people so voted. It was never put up for a vote. It was ordered. That is not America, anymore. Americans are thus relieved of any obligation to obey. The time has come to resist. Not with violence. With something more powerful. Refusal. We will not submit to this. It is not negotiable. You have neither the authority nor the right to order people to submit to any medical procedure, to take any drug. To force people to submit their children for medical procedures and to take drugs of dubious palliative value that are known to cause harm. We are not livestock, to be ear-tagged and injected at your pleasure. And America is not a hospital. The tyrant who now occupies the White House believes he can force his will upon you by threatening to remove your livelihood, using threats of financial ruin applied to employers by his regulatory apparat. Biden Declares Himself Medical Dictator, Threatens to Nullify States' Rights and Coerce the Entire Population into Taking Deadly Vaccine Jabs Against Their Will. We should be celebrating this moment of clarity, for Biden's audacious actions have just turned half of America into a powerful new vaccine resistance movement. As the following map shows, state leaders in about half the states have openly declared their resistance against Biden's authoritarian power grab. Many states have announced their intent to file lawsuits, and Texas Governor Abbott has already issued an executive order protecting medical choice for Texans. [...] As part of his dictatorial decree, fake president Joe Biden declared that he would remove governors from power if they don't comply with his vaccine mandates. This is, of course, an act of treason and war against the United States of America, and it opens the window for the white hats in the US military to remove Biden from office and declare his "rule" to be an unconstitutional occupation. From Biden: "If they'll not help — if these governors won't help us beat the pandemic, I'll use my power as President to get them out of the way." Of course, "get them out of the way" means Biden plans to try to arrest and remove the governors, then rule of America as a dictatorial tyrant. Travis County DA Garza, Austin Acting Police Chief Accused of Retaliation in High-Profile Shooting Case. Retaliation. Witness tampering. Felony criminal conduct. These charges are being aimed at the man Travis County, Texas, voters elected to prosecute criminals in November 2020. And the charges stem from one of José Garza's highest-profile and most controversial cases. Fauci's
entire dishonest house of cards just collapsed. [Scroll down] Assuming America survives as a democratic republic operating under
our Constitution, Americans must take stock of everything they've assumed since the Cold War's end. Here are some of those lessons:
Biden Weaponizes Dept. of Education to Become the COVID Mask Gestapo. They get creepier by the hour. Seriously, these people need to be rounded up and put in some sort of leper colony for fascists. They will be free to keep the masks on their enraged faces all they want. They're empowered by a government that is now in the hands of people who are all too casual about using its might against any citizens who don't agree with them. I'm not talking about criminals, I'm talking about law-abiding Americans who are merely running afoul of the liberal narrative du jour. We saw it happen when Barack Obama was president and he sent the IRS after conservative tea party groups. Now, President Sniffsakid has directed the Dept. of Education — the most useless of all the Cabinet agencies — to legally harass the states that aren't trying to suffocate school children with masks. Democrats' Jan. 6 subpoena-palooza sets dangerous precedent. "We have quite an exhaustive list of people. I won't tell you who they are." With those words, House Select Committee Chair Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) confirmed that a subpoena storm was about to be unleashed in the investigation of the Jan. 6 riot in Congress. The targets would include Republican members, including House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), who have already been told to preserve their phone records to be surrendered to the committee. The Democrats are reportedly trying to prove their prior claims that Republicans conspired or assisted "insurrectionists," even though the FBI reportedly found no evidence of a planned insurrection. The Democrats' move to investigate members of the opposing party is a dangerous precedent in an institution that has always protected the privacy and confidentiality of phone and office records. FBI show up at mans property over Facebook group. [Three video clips] 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. Cook County judge strips mother of parental rights over vaccination status. A Chicago mother says a Cook County judge has taken away her parental rights after learning that she is not vaccinated against COVID-19. In what all parties agree is a very unusual and perhaps unprecedented step, a judge at Chicago's Daley Center has stripped Rebecca Firlit of custody because she refuses to get a vaccination shot. Representative Madison Cawthorn Warned by House Chair Not To Insult Dear Leader. Representative Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) delivered a very strong speech on the House floor against Joe Biden's Afghanistan withdrawal and the subsequent crisis he has created. After his remarks, Mr. Cawthorn was warned by the House Chair, not to insult Dear Leader. [Video clip] Boosters? I Don't Want Your Stinkin' Boosters! Our government — the current administration and its president — is now announcing those who took COVID-19 vaccines must take a booster. But who can trust the opinion of our government — any part of it, all those self-perpetuating enclaves of moribund bureaucrats — given what's going on in Afghanistan? It's laughable. It's not just the "gang who couldn't shoot straight." It's the "gang that shoots its own people" and leaves millions of women to suffer the most brutal oppression on the planet. Trust them? That this booster announcement was made now, in the face of the monstrous Afghanistan debacle, is an all-too-transparent attempt to say don't look there, look here — here being, as always, COVID, the ever-ready pandemic that has been used to manipulate and prevent the American people from living anything close to normal lives for going on two years. The U.S. Government Lied For Two Decades About Afghanistan. "The Taliban regime is coming to an end," announced President George W. Bush at the National Museum of Women in the Arts on December 12, 2001 — almost twenty years ago today. Five months later, Bush vowed: "In the United States of America, the terrorists have chosen a foe unlike they have faced before. ... We will stay until the mission is done." Four years after that, in August of 2006, Bush announced: "Al Qaeda and the Taliban lost a coveted base in Afghanistan and they know they will never reclaim it when democracy succeeds. ... The days of the Taliban are over. The future of Afghanistan belongs to the people of Afghanistan." For two decades, the message Americans heard from their political and military leaders about the country's longest war was the same. America is winning. The Taliban is on the verge of permanent obliteration. The U.S. is fortifying the Afghan security forces, which are close to being able to stand on their own and defend the government and the country. [...] Similar assurances have been given by the U.S. Government and military leadership to the American people since the start of the war. Is the federal government torturing Brian Kolfage? Brian Kolfage, an airman who survived losing both legs and an arm in Iraq, started a fundraiser to build a wall on our Southern border. The project took off, a lot of money flowed in, and the federal government promptly went after Kolfage, accusing him of defrauding those who donated money. This post is not about Kolfage's guilt or innocence on the charges against him. It is, instead, about allegations that the government is effectively torturing him by denying him access to a medicine that controls the nerve pain resulting from his leg amputations. We know that the government has been exceptionally vicious in its prosecution against Kolfage. It started when based federal agents operating out of the Southern District of New York arrested this family man, who lives in a Florida home with his wife and two young children. On August 20, 2020, the United States Postal Inspection Service sent 15 people to arrest Kolfage. Think about that for a moment: This is a triple amputee in a wheelchair, and they sent 15 armed officers to take him down. They then dragged Kolfage into a car that was not ADA compliant, leaving behind his wheelchair and his prosthetic limbs. Family Court Corruption Scandal Explodes in Hollywood. [Scroll down] How long can this injustice continue to be completely ignored by the elected bodies whose job it is to check the overreaching power of the judiciary? Instead of a system of checks and balances, the legislatures have abdicated their checking power to panels of other judges and lawyers, who are all members of the same club of bar associations, and tasked them with the vital job of balancing our government. It's the definition of the fox guarding the henhouse. On DOJ's Election-Integrity-Suppression Efforts. The DOJ would appear to be seeking to dissuade states from doing more audits like Arizona's. Recent actions rare positively goonish: threatening states if they do independent audits? Treating the petition of government for redress of grievance (by rallying in support of audits, for example) might be prosecuted as voter intimidation? That's nuts. Time to impeach Biden. After having appointed a special counsel, or in place of it, under 5 U.S. Code §1212 — Powers and functions of the Office of Special Counsel, specifically under (a) (aB), (a3), Congress must act to impeach this president for high crimes and misdemeanors, gross mismanagement, violating the nation's laws, and endangering the public health and safety of citizens. [...] Congress must begin impeachment proceedings against President Joe Biden, V.P. Kamala Harris, Attorney General Merrick B. Garland, and his deputies, who likely have knowledge of the events that squashed investigations into the nation's murderous governors. The investigations should include the governors, secretaries of state, and attorneys general of New York and Michigan. Charges include, but are not limited to, obstruction of justice, abuse of authority, abuse of power, abuse of office, covering up criminal activity, conspiracy, and criminal self-dealing. Considering allegations of potential collusion among these individuals and associates to cover up crimes that resulted in the deaths of citizens, provisions of the RICO Act for fraud and conspiracy to commit fraud shall be attached. Investigative subpoenas to the staffs of these politicians must be prepared immediately to protect the integrity of the nation's justice and political systems, primarily its national security to protect America's citizens from harm. America R.I.P.. In my days as a Wall Street Journal editor, I reviewed a book by a historian who said the sack of Rome by barbarians occurred because the Roman citizens feared the terrors of the barbarians less than they feared the terrors of their own government and opened the gates of the city to the barbarians. With all its talk of domestic terrorists, this seems what Washington fears. Patriots see Washington as the enemy and are now the danger that Washington faces. New York Democrats have confiscated Rudy Giuliani's law license because he defended President Trump and presented signed affidavits of electoral fraud in the 2020 election. New York Democrats are framing Donald Trump by building a false case against Trump's business manager, which will be dropped when Trump's business manager turns false witness against Trump. 535 Trump supporters are rotting in jail despite habeas corpus awaiting their frame ups for being "Trump insurrectionists" and entering Congress under the tutelage of FBI agents pretending to be "insurrectionists." What real American can support a government this corrupt? If the moronic zionist neoconservatives who populate the illegitimate Biden Regime get us into a war with Russia or China or even Iran, we are done for. Texas Rangers May Be Investigating Witness Tampering Allegation Against Travis County's DA in Austin Protest Shooting Case. On Wednesday, after PJ Media exclusively reported that Austin police detective David Fugitt accused Travis County District Attorney Jose Garza's office of felony witness tampering in the Sgt. Daniel Perry case, a hearing was held in the 147th Criminal District Court. Fugitt made the allegation in a sworn affidavit. Sgt. Perry's defense attorneys filed a motion to hold a hearing on Garza's conduct as alleged in Fugitt's affidavit. In that filing, Perry's defense attorneys say Det. Fugitt found that Perry shot Foster on the night of July 25, 2020, in self-defense and that Foster "was a criminal killed in commission of a crime." District Attorney Garza nevertheless took the case to an Austin grand jury, which indicted Perry. Perry is an Army sergeant serving at Ft. Hood. Austin is a Democrat stronghold. A Ministry of Fear Rules America. In just a few short months since the mysterious elevation of Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., inexplicably elected the 46th president of the United States, our country has undergone a stunning rapid devolution from a confident, economic powerhouse to a shabby debtor nation afraid of its own shadow. The American Ministry of Fear, however, is not located in the Chancellery of the National Socialist German Workers Party in Berlin, but in every petty federal, state, and local bureaucracy, doctor's office, TV news station, big-city newspaper, college and university in the country. From the start of the COVID-19 manufactured panic, these agents of influence have waged a relentless war on the American psyche. And now, despite their miniscule majorities in Congress, they rule with an iron fist that brooks no demurral. Aussie Government Sends Military Helicopter To Chase Away Kids Playing Basketball. Whenever you think it can't get any worse, it gets much worse. Australia has deployed hundreds of soldiers to Sydney to help enforce a Covid lockdown. This is on top of hundreds of police in vehicles and paddy wagons that were filmed Friday getting ready to arrest those Aussies who dare venture outside of their homes or [...] stop and visit each other for a coffee. [Video clip] Senate Votes to Advance Unwritten Infrastructure Bill as Biden Hints HR-3684 Will Include Amnesty in Reconciliation Process. As the nation is distracted by various COVID-centered discussion and media debate amid headlines of forced vaccinations, mask mandates and various other COVID compliance fiats, there is something rather troubling happening in congress. Earlier today [7/30/2021], the UniParty Senate (Democrats and Republicans) voted to approve cloture on HR-3684 the Senate version of the House infrastructure bill. The cloture vote now means the bill will be debated and opens the Senate floor for amendments to the bill. However, this cloture vote is odd because the [...] Senate bill isn't even written yet! The Military Plays No Part in the Constitution's 'Checks and Balances'. Recent reports demonstrate a frightening willingness by Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley and other high-ranking generals to undermine President Trump during the final year of his administration. These efforts began with some grumbling about the use of the military to enforce law and order during the Black Lives Matter riots of last summer. They reached a fever pitch during the uncertain period between the election of 2020 and the inauguration of Joe Biden. Milley expressed contempt for protesters supporting President Trump, comparing them to "Brownshirts" and "Nazis." He described Trump's challenges to election results as a "Reichstag moment." He even tried to say something profound: "Everything's going to be OK. We're going to have a peaceful transfer of power. We're going to land this plane safely. This is America. It's strong. The institutions are bending, but it won't break." It is apparent top military officers conceive of the military as a critical part of the Constitution's checks and balances, with a duty to review, rank, or resist the president's orders as they deem appropriate. [...] While Milley and others wrap their power grab in the rhetoric of upholding constitutional principles, a cursory review of the Constitution and the founders' writings shows that this is just a pose. Nancy Pelosi Orders the Arrest of Those Without Masks and the Capitol Police Play Along. Throughout the "back the blue" craze of the Trump era, one thing became abundantly clear that largely quelled it — police follow orders. That includes orders that are patently absurd and violate the basic freedoms of individuals. Yes, law enforcement officers generally do good work and are to be respected for that, but if you are expecting them to stand up to their authorities to protect the rights of individuals, they are almost always going to disappoint you. Take that revelation and do with it what you will. [...] Another example of that has emerged within the Capitol of the United States. Nancy Pelosi has ordered the Capitol Police to arrest people who aren't wearing masks. [Tweet] If the USCP weren't such a ridiculously politicized department, they'd scoff at the notion of using manpower to arrest people for not wearing masks, especially when the edict is coming from a purely political place. There is no science behind the idea of further mask-mandates anywhere. That's especially true regarding the Capitol Building, where almost every person in attendance is vaccinated and has lasting protection from the effects of COVID. Pelosi put this mask-mandate back into place for one reason — to poke at Republicans. No data exists to actually supports the mandating of masks, much less in the Capitol. Complaint Filed Against Gretchen Whitmer Over Charter Jet Trip to Florida Last March. The 49th Governor of the State of Michigan, Gretchen Whitmer, had to know this was coming. You can't try to sneak away on a chartered jet during a pandemic that you are crying wolf about and expect no one to notice. [...] Now comes word that a group by the name of Michigan Rising Action has filed a complaint with the Michigan Bureau of Elections for a violation of campaign finance laws. How Intelligent Is Our Intelligence Community, Really? The Conservative Treehouse began a series on "The Fourth Branch of Government, the Intelligence Community." That series, along with Tucker Carlson's revelation that the NSA possibly spied on him and at the very least illegally unmasked him, has brought the Intelligence Community center stage. I usually do not think too much about the various security and intelligence functions of the government, other than to marvel that they have managed to prevent a second 9/11. In doing a bit of research, however, I have come to realize that the security function of our country is a tangled web of bureaucracy. Is that really what it takes to protect U.S. citizens, or is this a turf-building and protection operation? House Republicans accuse Joe Biden of behaving like a 'Cuban dictator' with efforts to control social media spread of public health 'misinformation'. Joe Biden has been accused of acting like 'a Cuban dictator' in a letter signed by 190 House Republicans, after his administration moved to force tech companies to clamp down on coronavirus misinformation. A letter to the president was written on Thursday by Cathy McMorris Rodgers, the top Republican on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and the three top Republicans in the House — Leader Kevin McCarthy, Whip Steve Scalise and Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik. 'The federal government's ongoing efforts to pressure private companies to censor speech that it disagrees with is alarming and an affront to the First Amendment,' they wrote, in a letter obtained by Fox News. Baltimore's attorney attempts, and fails, to get FCC to silence and censor local Fox radio station. Blacklists are back and the Democrats got 'em! On May 5, 2021 the office of Baltimore's state attorney, Democrat Marilyn Mosby, filed a formal complaint with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) against a local Fox news station, demanding that the FCC censor and shut down the station because it has repeatedly published stories that were critical of Mosby and her policies. [...] The blatent oppressive nature of this demand — in utter violation of the first amendment of the Constitution and all that America has stood for during its first two hundred plus years — should be somewhat shocking, but sadly it has become so common from Democratic Party politicians and many of their supporters in the past five years that it hardly made the news when it happened in early May. Think about it however. The office of an elected state's attorney for Baltimore wishes to use the power of government to silence a specific news outlet because that attorney does not like the outlet's news reporting. Only dictators like Stalin, Hitler, and Mussolini would celebrate such actions. And Americans once in mass would have been horrified, and risen up to get Mosby removed from office immediately. No more. Her office's actions barely made the news, which is why I post this story again. White House Communications Director Admits They're Trying to Censor Conservative News Sites. During an interview with CNN this week, White House Communications Director Kate Bedingfield admitted the Biden administration's censorship efforts are specifically targeting conservative news sites for publishing "misinformation." "You've heard the president speak very aggressively about this. He understands this is an important piece of the ecosystem but its also the other thing, the president has pointed out and spoke to when he was asked about this yesterday, it is also the responsibility of the people creating the content and again I would go back to, there are conservative news outlets who are creating irresponsible content that's sharing misinformation about the virus," Bedingfield said. Hunter Biden's Prosecutor Rejected Legal Actions That Would've Revealed Investigation During Election. Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss decided against taking certain legal actions — like issuing search warrants and grand jury subpoenas — that would have alerted the American public to the fact that then-Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden, was under federal criminal investigation during the 2020 presidential election campaign. Politico reports that the investigation reached a point last summer, months before Election Day, where investigators could have made moves that would have ultimately alerted the public to the fact that Joe Biden's son was under criminal investigation, but Weiss decided against that. Anaheim officials have a very peculiar notion about free speech. Anaheim, California, home to Disneyland, has an ugly, fantasy view of the First Amendment. How else can one explain why Anaheim, after boasting about its respect for free speech, canceled an America First rally at which Marjorie Taylor Greene and Matt Gaetz were appearing because of the town's "duty" to oppose speech it doesn't like? To date, Southern California has been hostile to America First. On July 9, an American First rally set for an event center in Laguna Hills, at which Gaetz and Greene were to appear, had been canceled. The news reported that the hotel's general manager wanted to avoid any controversies. Hunter Biden prosecutor paused investigation before election: report. The top federal prosecutor in Delaware decided to pause a criminal investigation of Hunter Biden months before the 2020 election to prevent the public from learning about it, according to a report. US Attorney David Weiss, appointed by former President Donald Trump, decided not to seek search warrants or issue grand jury subpoenas so as not to "alert the public to the existence of the case in the middle of a presidential election," Politico reports. The prosecutor's office reportedly was torn over whether to continue its probe or pause it due to the election, and Weiss, who remains in his job leading the case, sided with those who wanted to wait. "To his credit, he listened," an unnamed source told the publication. Federal Prosecutor Deliberately Delayed Hunter Biden Probe To Shield 2020 Election. U.S. Department of Justice officials deliberately delayed an investigation into Hunter Biden's potential tax law violations and sketchy overseas business dealings because of the effect it could have on the presidential election, according to a Politico report. Delaware's U.S. Attorney David Weiss allegedly postponed allowing prosecutors to obtain search warrants and issue grand jury subpoenas last summer, after facing pressure from other officials who feared the investigation's influence on the 2020 presidential election and now-President Joe Biden's campaign. Michigan Attorney General is Now Using State Police to Go After Those Who Allege Election Fraud in 2020. Michigan's Attorney General Dana Nessel is once again finding herself at the center of an abuse of power controversy. Gretchen Whitmer's right-hand woman is deploying the Michigan State Police to assist with finding those who are asserting election fraud in the 2020 election. "The Michigan Attorney General's office said Thursday it will investigate allegations that people are profiting off of false claims that the November 2020 presidential election was stolen," News Channel 3 reported. The draconian persecution of political dissidents comes at the behest of the Republican majority state senate, according to the office's announcement. Georgia SOS Raffensperger Investigating All Key 2020 Election Whistle Blowers. For the past several months the office of Georgia Secretary of State (SOS) Brad Raffensperger has been quietly investigating whistle blowers who believe they detected potential fraud in the November 2020 election. That's right. The Raffensperger's Inspector General office has an active investigation into the key witnesses who testified before the Georgia General Assembly and signed affidavits for the exhibits of the Fulton County ballot inspection lawsuit! These witnesses swore they detected potentially counterfeit ballots in the Fulton County hand count audit that occurred on November 14th and 15th. They also observed a variety of other anomalies. The November 2020 election was certified by December 11th and Raffensperger told the Wall Street Journal on December 12th, 2020 that: "November's election was the most secure in history. In Georgia, there is no evidence of widespread voter fraud and no significant issues with absentee ballots." Of course, none of that is true. Reports of many counterfeit mail-in ballots, thousands of missing test ballots, several Dominion voting system malfunctions, numerous missing chain of custody forms, major hand count audit errors and even foreign interference into Georgia county election servers have dominated the news. Nobody Ever Expects Authoritarian Imposition! Consider how our D.C. despots, with their stern expressions of disapproval and general sense of entitlement, have responded to 75 million Trump voters who insist on auditing the 2020 election. Have they done so with transparency, calm reason, compassion for those governed, and steadfast respect for the rule of law? Nope. They've decided to defend tyranny in the name of liberty and protect self-government by denying the people their chance to consent. They've embraced Monty Python levels of absurdity by pretending free people can be free only if the authorities say so. Questioning the legitimacy of an election is treason! (fear) To "protect democracy," some people must be imprisoned for their political beliefs! (surprise) In order to protect freedom, the Intelligence Community must work with Silicon Valley to label defenders of the Bill of Rights as "domestic extremists"! (ruthless efficiency) Patriotic Americans are enemies of the state because Antifa and BLM say so! (fanatical devotion to the woke) 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. The NSA Leaked Details of Their Tucker Carlson Surveillance to Allied Deep State Media. This is a great example of how the Intelligence Branch of the U.S. government now operates. Not only did the NSA conduct surveillance of Tucker Carlson's electronic communication, but the NSA also leaked Carlson's emails to allied intelligence media (Axios, CNN, New York Times, Washington Post) who operate as PR firms on behalf of the Intelligence Branch. [Video clip] Durkan administration rejected requests to pay for improving Seattle's handling, archiving of officials' texts. At least twice in recent years, Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan's administration rejected budget proposals to improve the city's handling and preservation of text messages, shooting down detailed plans that staff said could help employees comply with state law and save the city from costly penalties for destroying public records. Now the mayor and other high-ranking officials are embroiled in controversy over months' worth of texts that have been deleted, including messages exchanged during the tumultuous weeks last June when Seattle police tear-gassed racial justice demonstrators and abandoned the city's East Precinct station. For Seattle's 2019 and 2020 budgets, Durkan's budget office rejected proposals by the city's Finance and Administrative Services and IT departments to fund text-archiving projects, budget records show. Rudy Giuliani's Law License in Washington Suspended. A U.S. appeals court ruled on July 7 that Rudy Giuliani can't practice law in Washington, a move that follows the suspension of Giuliani's New York law license two weeks ago. The order from the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals comes after Giuliani, who served as the personal attorney for former President Donald Trump, had his law license revoked for making what the New York Supreme Court described as "false and misleading" statements following the Nov. 3 presidential election. Giuliani is "suspended from the practice of law in the District of Columbia pending final disposition of this proceeding, effective on the date of entry of this order," the July 7 order states. The filing cites the suspension of Giuliani's New York law license and says that his Washington license is revoked pending the result of disciplinary proceedings in New York. After a False Abuse Allegation, Child Services Took This Mom's 3 Children Away. Patti Krueger is a stay-at-home mom in Decatur, Illinois. Her husband is a house painter. The couple's second son, Wyatt, was born in 2017 with severe breathing difficulties. "He was blue," says Krueger. Wyatt spent nine days in neonatal intensive care. Over the next two years his breathing problems necessitated oxygen treatments, tubes in his ears, and four surgeries, according to Krueger. Some of his treatments were at a nearby hospital in Peoria. Many hospitals today have a Child Abuse Pediatrician (CAP), a doctor on contract with child protective services. Their job is to be on the lookout for child abuse, including abuse other doctors may have missed. While the CAP at this hospital never met Krueger or worked directly with Wyatt, she reviewed his file and accused the mother of Munchausen syndrome by proxy — in other words, causing or faking a child's illness to get attention. This CAP's report was all it took for Illinois' Department of Child and Family Services to put into place a "safety plan" to remove the Kruegers' kids. These plans do not require any kind of court order because ostensibly the family "agrees" to it, on pain of potentially having no say over what happens next to their kids. Noem: Biden Refused to Issue Mount Rushmore Fireworks Permits, Provided no Explanation Why. During a Thursday [7/1/2021] interview on FNC's "Fox & Friends," South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) revealed that President Joe Biden refused to issue the permits this year for the Mount Rushmore Fourth of July celebration. Noem said the celebration was brought back by President Donald Trump after President Barack Obama took it away for environmental concerns, and now Biden is canceling it again without providing an explanation. The Fourth Branch of Government, The Intelligence Branch. Factually, the modern intelligence apparatus uses checks and balances in their favor. The checks create silos of proprietary information that works around oversight issues. That's part of the problem. Ironically the Office of the Director of National Intelligence was created in the aftermath of 9/11/01 expressly to eliminate the silos of information which they felt led to a domestic terrorist attack that could have been prevented. The ODNI was created specifically upon the recommendation of the 9/11 commission. The intent was to create a central hub of intelligence information, inside the executive branch, where the CIA, NSA, DoD, DoS, and DIA could deposit their unique intelligence products and a repository would be created so that domestic intelligence operations, like the DOJ and FBI could access them when needed to analyze threats to the U.S. This, they hoped, would ensure the obvious flags missed in the 9/11 attacks would not be missed again. The DNI office created a problem for those who operate in the shadows of proprietary information. The War on Reality. On March 13, 2020, the public school district where I teach announced that all classrooms and buildings would be closed for two weeks. Then two weeks turned into two months, and two months turned into over a full year without in-person instruction. [...] "Public health" and "the safety of our children" came to mean students Zooming from homeless encampments, experiencing severe abuse, regressing academically, falling into depression, going hungry, struggling through catastrophic learning loss, and, in the saddest cases, not making it through the year alive. Despite consistent evidence that schools were not sites of high transmission for COVID-19, many teachers failed to put aside baseless fears about classroom superspreading and rampant infection. As a result, many of the most vulnerable children in our society suffered outrageous hardships, while their affluent peers attended private schools in person. We've all been told that school closures and lockdowns were mandated by science, but what if these mandates were immoral? What if they were based on a series of lies? In fact, what if the entire rationale for most restrictions was actually rotten to the core? Are US Spy Services Monitoring the Opposition's Communications? Fox News host Tucker Carlson has reported during the last week about a whistleblower who told him that the National Security Agency (NSA) has been monitoring his electronic communications with the intention of leaking them to get his show taken off the air. While most of the prestige press has dismissed Carlson's claims, the whistleblower may have struck just the tip of the iceberg — it's possible that along with Carlson much of the leadership of the American opposition movement is also under surveillance. The NSA denied that Carlson is "an intelligence target of the Agency." It explained on its Twitter account that the "NSA has a foreign intelligence mission. We target foreign powers to generate insights on foreign activities that may harm the United States. With limited exceptions ... NSA may not target US citizens without a court order that explicitly authorizes the targeting." As absurd as it sounds, it's not hard to imagine U.S. officials presenting phony evidence to a secret court to try to show that an American TV star is actually a foreign spy. They did it when the former host of "Celebrity Apprentice" ran for president in 2016. Capitol, symbol of democracy, off-limits on Independence Day. As it has been for nearly 16 months, longer than any time in the nation's history, the U.S. Capitol is closed to most public visitors. The one-two punch of the coronavirus pandemic that shuttered the Capitol's doors in the spring of 2020 and the deadly insurrection by then-President Donald Trump's supporters on Jan. 6 has left the icon of American democracy unopen to all but a select few. The Power and Paranoia of the Left. As of June 2021, the DOJ has charged more than 450 people with taking part in the 01/06/21 Capitol riot. In D.C., 1,500 inmates have been confined to prison cells 22 hours a day for months. Most have been placed in maximum security conditions. Many have not been tried in court. Biden's repression of the political opposition is unprecedented (with one exception) in American history, as is the Biden regime's systematic contravention of due process and constitutional rights. [...] Neo-Marxist American political culture has used media and social media to neutralize and destroy political opposition in a more effective, flexible manner than could have been achieved solely by the "legal power" of the Deep State and now the federal government. Police state tactics like FBI home invasions have been widely reported. The DOJ and FBI publicize these grotesque constitutional violations for the desired effect: general fear and political intimidation. Cy Vance's Trump case is straight from a banana republic — punish your political enemies. Donald Trump has long claimed that investigations of him are a partisan "witch hunt." Manhattan DA Cy Vance seems determined to make Trump's point for him by indicting the Trump Organization along with its chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg. The 15-count indictment throws a kitchen sink of charges, including grand larceny, conspiracy, scheme to defraud,and tax fraud. But the whole thing comes down to paying perks to Weisselberg — such as his parking garage fees, tuition for family members and reimbursement of holiday gratuities — and not reporting them as taxable income, or reporting that the wrong Trump entity paid them. For this they slapped Weisselberg in handcuffs Thursday and paraded him in front of the media — a stage-managed political show trial. Giuliani's Suspension: Questionable Statements, But Not by Him. On motion by an Attorney Grievance Committee, a New York Appellate Court suspended Rudy Giuliani, a member of President Donald Trump's personal legal team, from the practice of law for making supposedly false claims about the 2020 U.S. presidential election. Most of the public will read headlines and short articles about the foregoing and assume that Giuliani was proven to a court's satisfaction to have knowingly lied. But upon closer examination of the ruling by the New York appellate court, we see clearly questionable statements — not by Giuliani, but about him. What was bizarre about this ruling, especially to any experienced lawyer, is that Giuliani was suspended before it was even determined preliminarily that an investigation of him should be opened. The court disqualified Giuliani on an emergency ad hoc basis, implicating Trump's Sixth Amendment right to counsel and Giuliani's First Amendment right to free speech. Gov. Lujan Grisham killed 40% of New Mexico small businesses with her lockdowns. According to the "Economic Recovery Dashboard" on the New Mexico Tourism Department website, embattled Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham's harsh lockdown during the pandemic resulted in an economic catastrophe, including the closure of 40% of New Mexico's small businesses, a devastating figure. The figures show that in the food service and accommodations industry, nearly 60% of small businesses in that sector have been killed by Lujan Grisham's lockdowns. Trump tears into 'radical left New York prosecutors' who have 'Failed' to find a crime against him and wasted 'millions in taxpayer funds'. Donald Trump won't be personally charged in the Manhattan district attorney's case against the former president's business organization when the first indictment comes down, his attorney claimed. Trump, in a lengthy and rambling statement issued on Monday, called the DA's investigation 'a continuation of the greatest Witch Hunt of all time' and claimed prosecutors 'failed' to find a crime even as 'millions of dollars of taxpayer funds wasted.' His words came as an indictment against the business that made his fame and fortune, The Trump Organization, grows closer. 'They Leak, They Lie': Trump Says Opponents Are Committing 'Prosecutorial Misconduct' At 'Levels Rarely Seen Before'. Former President Donald Trump slammed New York state and city prosecutors in a statement Monday, alleging that prosecutors are "in search of a crime" to charge him with. Trump made the claim as Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance and New York State Attorney General Leticia James continue to weigh criminal charges against top executives from the Trump Organization. A grand jury was convened in May by Vance's office as part of their criminal probe into the Trump Organization. Tucker Carlson Announces Whistleblower Confirmed the NSA is Plotting to Leak Info and Get His Show Pulled Off Air. Tucker Carlson has revealed that a whistleblower told his show that the National Security Agency is spying on him and plotting to leak information in an effort to have him pulled off the air. Carlson announced the shocking news on Monday evening's episode of Tucker Carlson Tonight. "The NSA is monitoring our electronic communications and is planning to leak them in an attempt to take this show off air," Carlson said, admitting that it is a shocking claim and normally he would be skeptical of it, as it is illegal for the NSA to spy on American citizens. However, Carlson explained that the whistleblower even provided details about a story that the show was working on, which someone would only know from looking at his personal texts and emails. Justice Department's Lawsuit Against Georgia Is Completely Partisan. The Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, headed by new, radical Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke, filed a lawsuit on June 25 against Georgia. The Justice Department claimed the state's recently enacted election reform law, SB 202, violates the 1965 Voting Rights Act because it discriminates against black Georgia voters. The complaint reads like a press release drafted by the Democratic National Committee instead of a serious lawsuit by an apolitical Justice Department. Clarke claims the new law has a discriminatory effect and that Georgia legislators "intended to deny or abridge the right of black Georgians to vote." These claims are without merit and appear to be driven by the Biden administration's disagreements with Georgia's policy choices. The law does not discriminate under the Voting Rights Act. For example, contrary to the Justice Department's claim, there is nothing remotely discriminatory about requiring individuals to request an absentee ballot at least 11 days before Election Day instead of the prior deadline of only four days. Politics by other means? Giuliani suspension should worry all lawyers. This week, New York's Supreme Court took the extraordinary step of suspending Rudy Giuliani, former federal prosecutor and counsel to former President Trump, from practicing law. [...] However, the fluid standard applied in Giuliani's case raises serious concerns over how and when such suspensions will be imposed against lawyers in public controversies. Indeed, the Giuliani standard would seem to implicate a wide array of attorneys who straddle the line of legal and political advocacy. The 33-page opinion is [...] deeply concerning in its heavy reliance on Giuliani's statements out of court. While lawyers have been disciplined for out-of-court statements in some cases, this suspension seems primarily a judgment on Giuliani's public advocacy. The court states that when he uses "his large megaphone, the harm is magnified. ... One only has to look at the ongoing present public discord over the 2020 election, which erupted into violence, insurrection and death on January 6, 2021, at the U.S. Capitol, to understand the extent of the damage that can be done when the public is misled by false information about the elections. [...]" Loudoun County School Board Meeting Goes Full Fascist When Over 200 Parents Confront Them Over Critical Race Theory. The embattled school board of Virginia's Loudoun County cut off public comment during a fiery meeting Tuesday as residents traded barbs over new transgender policy proposals Tuesday following weeks of protests from district parents opposed to some of the measures, which they have criticized as potential left-wing indoctrination and a violation of parental rights. The policies affect transgender student rights, privacy and restroom accommodations and would require Loudoun County Public Schools employees to use students' preferred names or pronouns. An official school board vote on the proposal is not expected until at least Aug. 10. [Video clip] 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. Democrats Are Turning 'Homeland Security' Into A Political Weapon. When a former FBI assistant director for counterintelligence says directly into a camera that fighting terror may now mean arresting members of Congress, the blood sport of politics has been taken to a new and more dangerous level. Speaking on MSNBC recently, Frank Figliuzzi opined to Chuck Todd that: "Arresting low-level operatives is merely a speed bump, not a road block. In order to really tackle terrorism ... and this time domestically ... you've got to attack and dismantle the command-and-control element of the terrorist group, and unfortunately, and I know this is painful to hear ... that may mean people sitting in Congress right now, people in and around the former president." Malibu Man Fined $4.2 Million Over Disputed Beachfront Gate. When Warren and Henny Lent bought their Malibu beach house in 2002, it was the realization of a lifelong goal. [...] It was "a dream come true which lasted about two months," Lent says. That was when the Lents learned, via a casual conversation with a neighbor, that their house had a five-foot-wide public access easement along its eastern side that people could use to get down to the water. These easements aren't uncommon, and at first, the Lents didn't think much about the fact that their home had one too. [...] Nevertheless, this easement put the Lents on a collision course with one of the most powerful agencies in the state, and one with a history of antagonizing property owners: the California Coastal Commission (CCC). Never Ever "Cooperate" With a Federal Law Enforcement Agent. I have said it before and I will say it again. You never, ever "cooperate" (talk) to any Federal or state law enforcement agent, period. You also do not cooperate with any but benign and obvious local police requests, on the order of kids breaking into cars in the driveways of your neighborhood. You may think you are being a good citizen and, maybe, their questions are legitimate and for a worthy purpose. Maybe. But you do not know that. That professional agent may be a good, patriotic American doing noble work, like catching Chinese spies. Maybe. But you do not know that. I have been involved in two extremely serious "investigations" at the Federal level. I had done nothing at all wrong but one was politically driven (from the White House) and one was driven by ambitious bureaucrats. In the first instance I got (expensive) legal help before I hanged myself. If I had not, I would have lost my job at the very least. In the second my wife and I were being set up for a totally false obstruction of justice charge. White House encourages July 4 celebrations, except at Mount Rushmore. South Dakota Republican Gov. Kristi Noem tweeted out a letter Tuesday from the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs which read in part: "Thanks to the Biden administration's whole of government pandemic response, the United States has made incredible progress in vaccinating Americans and getting our country back on track [...] On July 4, because of our strong response, America will mark independence from the virus by celebrating with events across the country ...," the letter continued. "We welcome you to join us by hosting your own events to honor our freedom, salute those who have been serving on the frontlines, and celebrate our progress in fighting this pandemic." "What a hypocrite," Noem tweeted. "President @JoeBiden wants 'a summer of freedom' where we 'mark independence from the virus by celebrating with events across the country.' Translation: fireworks are fine at the White House, but not at Mount Rushmore." Joe Biden's Most Terrifying Move Is One No One Is Talking About. Elected officials are often just weak quasi-celebrities with little ability to propagate any real change. Meanwhile, a determined group of bureaucrats can make regulations, target their political enemies with state power, and generally enact massive societal change — and you won't even know their names. The Founders never intended for such a corrupt system to become the country's standard procedure, but here we are, and Democrats are keen to take advantage of it. We saw what the often-called "deep state" was capable of during the Donald Trump era. Now, Biden is looking to super-size that effort, and it should terrify you. The Tradition of Lamentable Attorneys General Worsens. What is it about the office of Attorney General of the United States that makes otherwise intelligent occupants of that position behave in unsettling, or worse, manners? For some years our AG's have been an instrument of political bias and/or political blunders in a country that supposedly prides itself on the "rule of law." Who can forget Eric Holder — who described himself as Obama's "wingman," speaking of bias (extreme division) — being held in contempt of Congress, including by 17 Democrats, for his bungling prevarications regarding the "Fast and Furious" affair? Other attorney's general of recent years weren't much better. What was Loretta Lynch doing meeting, putatively ad hoc, on an airfield with Bill Clinton in the midst of the (still completely unresolved) Hillary Clinton email affair? Why did Jeff Sessions so quickly recuse himself from the likely treasonous Russiagate/Spygate calumny that was so obviously fake from the outset? Even Alberto Gonzales has run into trouble. And that's just an abbreviated list. Gov. Newsom won't lift virus 'state of emergency'. While California will end most of its coronavirus restrictions on June 15, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Friday he will not lift the statewide "state of emergency" that gives him broad powers to either suspend or declare new rules and regulations. California has been under a state of emergency since March 4, 2020. Since then, Newsom has authorized billions of dollars in emergency spending and issued at least 47 executive orders to alter or suspend 200 state laws and regulations because of the virus, according to a resolution authored by Republican state senators. Is a "Climate Lockdown" on the horizon? If and when the powers-that-be decide to move on from their pandemic narrative, lockdowns won't be going anywhere. Instead it looks like they'll be rebranded as "climate lockdowns", and either enforced or simply held threateningly over the public's head. At least, according to an article written by an employee of the WHO, and published by a mega-coporate think-tank. The report, titled "Avoiding a climate lockdown", was written by Mariana Mazzucato, a professor of economics at University College London, and head of something called the Council on the Economics of Health for All, a division of the World Health Organization. It was first published in October 2020 by Project Syndicate, a non-profit media organization that is (predictably) funded through grants from the Open society Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and many, many others. Emergency!. The Covid war is over, but Minnesota Governor Tim Walz carries on the fight. Tomorrow he will continue his one-man rule of the state by declaring another "emergency." He will accordingly extend his emergency powers for another 30 days. Doing the arithmetic, Alpha News reports that this makes it the fifteenth month in a row that Governor Walz has ruled with emergency powers. The relevant statute limits the circumstances under which the governor is delegated the power to declare an emergency: "A peacetime declaration of emergency may be declared only when an act of nature, a technological failure or malfunction, a terrorist incident, an industrial accident, a hazardous materials accident, or a civil disturbance endangers life and property and local government resources are inadequate to handle the situation." The circumstances that might justify the declaration of an emergency have not obtained for a long time, if ever. The continued "emergency" is utterly lawless. Braun Questions Why DNI Identified 'Abortion-Related Violent Extremists' As Principal Threat, But Not BLM And Antifa. Republican Indiana Sen. Mike Braun suggested to Attorney General Merrick Garland Wednesday that a report on domestic violence extremism placed disproportionate interest on the pro-life movement in a "wild attack" that identified "abortion-related violent extremists" as a principal threat. Garland testified before a Senate subcommittee Wednesday where Braun brought up a declassified intelligence report on domestic violence extremism released by the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) in March. That report, Braun said, identified abortion-related violent extremists as a principal threat. When the State Comes for Your Kids. [Scroll down] Here, for instance, are the powers granted to a 13-year-old child by the state of Washington. Minors age 13 and up are entitled to admit themselves for inpatient and outpatient mental health treatment without parental consent. Health insurers are forbidden from disclosing to the insured parents' sensitive medical information of minor children — such as that regarding "gender dysphoria [and] gender affirming care." Minors aged 13 to 18 can withhold mental health records from parents for "sensitive" conditions, which include both "gender dysphoria" and "gender-affirming care." Insurers in Washington must cover a wide array of "gender-affirming treatments" from tracheal shaves to double mastectomies. Put these together, and a seventh grader could be entitled to embark on "gender affirming care" — which may include anything from a provider using the child's name and pronouns to the kid preparing to receive a course of hormones — without her parents' permission, against her parents' wishes, covered by her parents' insurance, and with the parents kept in the dark by insurance companies and medical providers. Lest you wonder whether there is some madcap elixir polluting the groundwater of Washington State alone, in 2015, Oregon passed a law permitting minors 15 and older to obtain puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries at taxpayers' expense — all without parental consent. Why Are All the Experts Such Dopes? We normals are now expected to defer and submit to the commands of unelected functionaries bossing us around for our own good, though this is only good for those said experts and their fellow travelers in the ruling class. Over about 250 years, America has gone from its leaders being selected on the basis of the divine right of kings to its leaders being selected by on the basis of the divine right of nerds with advanced degrees from Yale. Are our federal intelligence agencies compromised? A lot of people have been wondering why, suddenly, the leftist establishment is embracing the idea that COVID came from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (which is tied to the Chinese military) after denying the possibility for so long. The answer may lie in the fact that the Defense Intelligence Agency has for months been debriefing a high-level Chinese Communist Party defector — but withheld the information from other agencies until recently because of fears that those agencies are compromised. In other words, it's a twofer: China did create and release the virus, and our federal government cannot be trusted. The New Domestic War on Terror Has Already Begun — Even Without the New Laws Biden Wants. The Department of Homeland Security on Friday [5/28/2021] issued a new warning bulletin, alerting Americans that domestic extremists may well use violence on the 100th Anniversary of the Tulsa race massacre. This was at least the fourth such bulletin issued this year by Homeland Security (DHS) warning of the same danger and, thus far, none of the fears it is trying to instill into the American population has materialized. [...] Just like the first War on Terror, these threats are issued with virtually no specificity. They are just generalized warnings designed to put people in fear about their fellow citizens and to justify aggressive deployment of military and law enforcement officers in Washington, D.C. and throughout the country. The New Secession Crisis: The Democrats have already left the Union. The Democrats have already seceded from America's historic conception of nationhood in many respects: [...] THEY have used instruments of the state such as the IRS (under Lois Lerner) the FBI (Russiagate) and the Department of Defense (attacking Tucker Carlson) and numerous other agencies to attack political opponents. Political allies of President Trump were investigated and prosecuted by the government in ways that were transparently focused on taking down the duly elected president. Time for a Coalition of Free American States. Although America's constitutional form of limited government was designed specifically to maximize the liberty of citizens and maximize the power of states at the expense of the federal government, the accumulation of power has flowed only in one direction — away from individual states and individual citizens and toward the national government in D.C. This phenomenon is so natural throughout history that it was a chief concern of the Founding Fathers themselves. Thomas Jefferson, a shrewd student of human nature, was blunt: "Experience hath shewn [sic], that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny." Let's be honest: the federal government hasn't looked in tip-top shape for a long time, and now it's a train wreck waiting to happen. It's made up of millions of petty bureaucrats who couldn't care less about "serving the public." Child Welfare Caught Stealing Social Security Checks From Disabled and Orphaned Foster Kids. NPR has done an in-depth investigative series exposing a child-welfare money-making scheme that targets children receiving Social Security benefits for the enrichment of social services. This is a pattern that I've seen repeat during my years investigating CPS/DSS and other child-welfare offices around the country. [...] Not only do they target children who are receiving benefits but in some of the cases I've covered, the employees of the county encouraged the parent to sign up for the benefits while pretending to "help" the family. Once the benefits are secured, the child welfare agency takes the children — and the Social Security checks — with trumped-up charges like "Munchausen syndrome by proxy" or nebulous charges of "neglect." This exact scenario happened to a mom in Colorado who must remain anonymous because of pending litigation. Michigan Prosecutors Determined to Destroy Young Conservative's Entire Life After Posting a "Snowflake" Joke in Private Snapchat Group. Lucas Gerhard is a 21-year-old man. Instead of celebrating his graduation from Lake Superior State University in Sault St. Marie, MI, in the criminal justice field and looking for a job in law enforcement, Lucas is locked down in his father's home, wearing an ankle bracelet. [...] The story we are about to tell you is truly one of the most remarkable cases of injustice you will ever read. It's a story of how easily two intolerant, liberal students, with the help of the police, school administrators, and an overly zealous prosecutor, can cancel the life of a young man, all while trampling on his First and Second Amendment Rights. What Trump Meant to Millions. I loved President Trump because he stood up for the ordinary people of America, those who for so long had been kept in cultural servitude by the political elite. Trump endowed ordinary Americans with a sense of possibilities by returning manufacturing jobs to America, restoring our sovereignty as a nation free of global institutions, and, above all, ending the atmosphere of political correctness that had choked free expression for decades. Then, when the elite saw everyday Americans rising above their station, it decided to put them back in their servitude by depriving Trump of a second term, by whatever means necessary. Now the high-paying jobs are disappearing, we are bowing to the UN, IPCC, and WHO once again, and every word that comes out of the White House has to do with "social and racial justice." The Capitol riot of Jan. 6 gave them an excuse, and now ordinary Americans are back on the cultural plantation. Scott Atlas: Lockdowns Not Only a 'Heinous Abuse' of Power, They Also Failed to Protect the Elderly. The lockdowns implemented to curb the transmission of COVID-19 in the United States and across the globe have not only been a "heinous abuse of power," but they have also failed to protect the elderly and vulnerable, according to former White House COVID-19 adviser Dr. Scott Atlas. In an interview for Epoch TV's "American Thought Leaders," Atlas, a public health policy expert, suggested that the consequences of lockdowns, which he believes have been largely fear-driven, will be felt in the country for decades to come. "We will have a massive price to pay for what was done in the United States," said Atlas. "The consequences of the lockdowns have been enormously harmful and they will last for decades after this pandemic is completely finished." 12 Lessons Learned from Covid-19. [#6] The government will use any crisis to disregard the Constitution. Freedom of religion, speech, press, or assembly anyone? How about depriving citizens of life, liberty, or property without due process of law? [#7] Politicians will use crises to spend money on things that have nothing to do with the instigating event, rewarding their campaign contributors in the process. Very little of the trillions spent on the Covid "stimulus" packages has went to individuals or Covid-related medical costs. The vast majority went to big business "bailouts." [#8] Government should be kept as far away as possible from our health care system as possible. Have you ever seen such incompetence in simply distributing personal protection equipment and test kits? Do you think anyone in the private sector could have done it more cheaply and efficiently? Half the Covid official deaths are related to incompetent governor mandates related to nursing homes. Biden's Department of Homeland Security Posts $500,000 Grant for Company to Hunt Down 'Extremists' in Law Enforcement. The Biden administration is posting a reward for anyone who can tell it how to find violent extremists in law enforcement. The Department of Homeland Security has put $500,000 on the table to fund research projects aimed at determining how violent extremists are infiltrating the police. "The goal of this solicitation is to contribute to a comprehensive and extensive understanding of insider threats facing domestic law enforcement agencies," the request for proposals posted on grants.gov reads. California overkill. The F-15C Eagle, a jet fighter of the U.S. Air Force, can hit speeds of 1,875 mph (Mach 2.4) and boasts a range of 3,450 miles. With its M-16AI cannon and Sidewinder missiles, the Eagle is designed for air-to-air combat. But somebody thought the fighter might prove more versatile. According to the Los Angeles Times, the California National Guard put an F-15C fighter on standby to "buzz" any crowds daring to resist stay-at-home orders at the outset of the pandemic last year. Four National Guard members, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told the Times the orders were allegedly handed down orally or through text messages rather than in the official manner. "We do not use our planes to frighten or intimidate civilians," National Guard Lt. Col. Jonathan Shiroma told the Times, but there was more to the story. How a confederate flag painted on a rock could cost a mom her kid. A New York mom is caught between a rock and an appellate court. The upstate woman has been told she needs to ditch a driveway decoration painted with a confederate flag or risk losing custody of her mixed race child — even though a family court judge didn't consider it to be an issue when it was raised during trial. "Given that the child is of mixed race, it would seem apparent that the presence of the flag is not in the child's best interests, as the mother must encourage and teach the child to embrace her mixed race identity, rather than thrust her into a world that only makes sense through the tortured lens of cognitive dissonance," judges with the Appellate Division's Third Department in Albany wrote in a ruling released Thursday. Governor Gretchen Whitmer Reportedly Borrowed A Private Jet For Secret Florida Trip During Lockdown. A spokesman for Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer confirmed in April that Whitmer flew to Florida while instructing Michiganders to stay home while under COVID-19 lockdown orders. Now, a new report indicates Whitmer contacted wealthy Detroit businessmen to lend a private plane. Spokesman Bobby Leddy said the governor traveled on three occasions to Florida to visit her elderly father. The governor's office claimed taxpayer money was not used for travel. Deadline Detroit reports Whitmer avoided a private plane fee in the range of $10,000 to $20,000 by asking billionaires to provide a charter. The jet she took would have allegedly ran her a fee of $40,000, an estimated 25 percent of Whitmer's salary before taxes. Michigan Gov Sneaked off to Florida in a Billionaires' Jet and No One Seems to Care. [Michigan] is lagging behind almost all other states around us in the Great Lakes region in how we have been dealing with the COVID-19 situation. [...] Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, for over a year, has beseeched the citizens of the Mitten State to follow the rules she has laid out, and together we will defeat this. If we just wear our masks and social distance and wear our masks in a car alone, we will whip this thing. Really, this is based on science — or something that they still will not release. Oh and don't travel to one of those southern states that her good pal Joe Biden said had "Neanderthal thinking" for deciding to open up their states and ditching the fear-driven drivel of despair. Unless, of course, it is the Governor going on a secret visit to see her Dad. In Florida. On a gaggle of billionaires' jet. Without alerting Florida authorities as a courtesy to let them know one of the 50 state governors was visiting in case something happened while she was there. Without having had one of the COVID-19 "vaccine" shots given to her. Parents Have Had Enough — South Salt Lake City School Board Shuts Down Parents During Meeting. School boards are where mini-dictators are grown. Thus the latest exhibit comes from South Salt Lake, Utah and the Granite School District Board of Education meeting. The board was going to hear proposals of removing the mask mandate for K-12 students. However, they would only allow one parent to speak during "citizen participation time", a control method for keeping the pesky proles from expressing their opinion of board policy. After the board allowed a mask advocate from the state to speak, the School board said that's it, no more discussion. Parents became infuriated, things got ugly. The board ended the meeting and escaped out the back-door of the building. [Video clip] Whitmer Mooches Billionaires' Plane As Father Makes Miraculous Recovery. When Gov. Gretchen Whitmer was outed last month for a secretive trip to Florida in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, her office claimed Michigan taxpayers did not foot the bill. What they did not tell us, however, is that Whitmer asked a group of wealthy Detroit businessmen to provide a private plane they share. Those businessmen have major dealings in and with the state of Michigan. "We wondered why she reached out to us instead of booking a private charter," said one of the plane's owners, who exchanged his candor for confidentiality. "You can't tell a governor no. Who needs that kind of trouble?" Oligarchy, and Remedies. What are hundreds of America's biggest corporations doing as they browbeat the public to abolish the requirement of identification for voting? What are Twitter, Facebook, et al. doing when they prohibit people from sharing facts that are inconvenient to government policy or (and) the Democratic Party? What did banks do when they turned over to the FBI the records of persons who happened to have traveled to D.C. near January 6? And what about all those big retail stores — you know, the ones that the government designated "essential," the ones that thrived under the lockdowns — what are they doing when they continue to demand that you wear masks on their property regardless of vaccination? What are colleges and universities, even K-12 schools doing when they deprive of opportunities young people who do not fit woke profiles? And what do all of them do when they dismiss complaints that they are violating your Constitutional rights by telling you that they are exercising their own private rights? Are they simply fronting for the government or, specifically, for the Democratic Party? Our Quasi-Soviet States of America. The federal Department of Justice and state-level law enforcement in jurisdictions taken over by the left are lenient with common criminals but savagely oppressive against political protesters when an excuse can be found, or manufactured, to charge them with a crime. That fate fell on many allies of Trump. Rudy Giuliani was visited by a gang of FBI agents at 6 A.M. equipped with dubious search warrants. Vote-stealing activities during the last election were ignored and not even investigated because they helped the left. In San Francisco, thefts of less than $950 are not prosecuted, giving criminals a free pass to terrorize small businesses and respectable people. [...] Abolishing or neutering the police allows the dregs of society to form political enforcement gangs to terrorize individuals considered political enemies. These gangs are instruments of the regime but officially are low-level criminals not under the control of the regime. The Never-ending Hunt for a Trump Crime. Was this an off-the-book operation by rogue agents? I mean, if these people feel free to constantly leak to the press sensitive material, how far off the reservation have FBI agents gone? Or was this shoved under the carpet as a national security matter and the DNI was responsible and kept Barr in the dark? A mystery of significant importance. Did they have a FISA warrant to do this? If so, ever more reason to scrap this monstrosity. If you are not yet concerned about the FBI's counterintelligence operations, its incompetency and KGB-type operations, you just aren't paying attention. The Real Reasons Behind the Rudy Giuliani Raid. Expectations that the FBI was investigating possible crimes documented on Hunter Biden's laptop were laid to rest earlier this week when agents raided the home and office of Rudolph Giuliani, the man who made news of the laptop public. According to reports, federal investigators are looking for evidence that the former Mayor of New York City violated the foreign agents registration act (FARA) by illegally lobbying on behalf of Ukrainian officials. But that's just a pretext to search his communications and records to find something with which to take revenge against a man who helped uncover the corruption of America's first family. The compromising photos, emails, and texts found on Hunter's laptop include accounts of financial arrangements with a Chinese businessman he called the "spy chief of China." The documents, confirmed by a former Biden associate, implicate other members of the Biden clan, including it seems the president. And so to hunt Giuliani, the commander-in-chief has deployed federal law enforcement authorities, which have their own reason to retaliate against one of the Department of Justice's most famous former prosecutors. Giuliani helped thwart the FBI and DOJ's plot to topple an American president. FBI raid on innocent couple shows lawlessness at Department of Justice. Wednesday's rogue FBI raid on an innocent couple in Homer is an example of what happens when a lawless and completely illegitimate political party and administration come to power. The Democrats are utilizing the proven techniques of communism and fascism, and weaponizing federal law enforcement for political purposes. They are now reaping the fruits of the November's fake election. Its aftermath spells the end of freedom in America. It is no longer a threat. It is here, and none of us are safe. Paul and Marilyn Hueper went to DC on Jan. 6 to listen to Donald Trump's speech. Like other Alaskans, they were at the very foot of the stage and in front of a million people in the Washington Mall, but when they were dismissed by Trump to "Peacefully and patriotically protest", they suddenly found themselves at the back of a very long line. They got lost, they bought a hot dog, they started up the steps, but they never got within a hundred yards of entering the capitol building. DOJ Targets Journalist Investigating Biden Family Ukraine Scandals. As part of an investigation into former President Donald Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, the Biden Justice Department is seizing communications between the former mayor and a journalist investigating President Joe Biden's business dealings with Ukraine. Agents from the Manhattan U.S. attorney's office and the FBI raided the New York residence of Giuliani early Wednesday morning. The investigation stems from at least a two-year-old probe into potential crimes of federal lobbying laws. Federal investigators seized Giuliani's electronic devices. The warrant presented, however, according to Giuliani's lawyer, Robert Costello, raises questions surrounding the scope and motivation behind the investigation, where prosecutors began issuing subpoenas around the same time of Trump's first impeachment inquiry launched by Democrats centered on conduct in Ukraine in 2019. Biden's DOJ Plotted Political Stunt Courthouse Arrest of George Floyd Cop. The Obama DOJ is back and that means pushing black supremacist politics and going after the police. But even by Obama standards, a political stunt like a courthouse arrest of the cop who was on the scene when George Floyd died of a drug overdose is really something. [...] Arresting Chauvin at the courthouse was a publicity stunt. Chauvin wasn't going to fly to Brazil even if he were exonerated. But you just know the Obama DOJ people plotting this had been coordinating with CNN to have the cameras running on the scene. Not a single person of honor or integrity can survive inside the DC institutions. [Thread reader] I still held the belief there were three branches of government, and there were "checks and balances", and there had to be some way for a good person to expose corruption. He quickly dispatched those beliefs (with examples). He explained the "checks and balances" I spoke of did exist at a time when there were three branches of government. However, that time has long passed. There is only one overarching DC eco-system now. The three branch concept is gone. Doesn't exist. As he explained, the levers of power are all controlled by the same system, and behind that system are positions — not people. "Positions." People are evaluated based on their ability to support and protect the system. Their skill level is what moves them into position. Position. Evaluation. Next Position. Evaluation. Etc. The system more like an institution. Within the institution there are divisions. The divisions are what we used to call "branches". The divisions (branches) are not independent from the institution of DC. The divisions are operated by people in power who hold positions. He identified the timeline of this institutional creation as a slow build (over decades), but most visibly increasing in publicity after 9/11/01 and the patriot act. Once the patriot act made the government responsible for total safety; the previously embedded bad actors took full control. One office of particular note was the creation of the ODNI. As he noted the amassing of surveillance power. [O]nce that Rubicon was crossed, everything after was downstream and unstoppable. The institution of the total intelligence apparatus now had full control... Giuliani claims materials seized by FBI are 'exculpatory' evidence. Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani said Thursday he "never ever represented any foreign national" after the FBI raided his apartment and seized his electronic devices earlier this week. Giuliani, who served as former President Donald Trump's personal attorney, has reportedly been eyed by federal authorities over whether he illegally lobbied the previous administration in 2019 on behalf of Ukrainian officials and oligarchs while searching for damaging information on Trump's political rivals, including President Joe Biden, then the leading candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination. He told Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Thursday that seven FBI agents knocked on his door at 6 a.m. on Wednesday serving a warrant for electronics, adding he told federal agents: "This is extraordinary because I've offered to give these to the government and talk it over them for two years." "I could have destroyed the evidence years ago," Giuliani said, but he claimed that he didn't because the evidence is "exculpatory" and proves himself, Trump, and "all of us are innocent." Rudy Giuliani responds to FBI search warrant raid and goes on the offensive. The highly publicized early morning raid on the apartment and office of Rudy Giuliani, the personal lawyer of the 45th President of the United States, was an outrage. Thanks to a 10+ minute interview last night on Tucker Carlson Tonight, the nation's highest-rated cable news program, we have a better grasp of the dimensions of the scandalous behavior of the Department of Justice. [Video clip] I urge readers to view the entire interview if they did not see it on the broadcast. It is embedded below. Keep in mind that before he was Mayor of New York, he was the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, the very office that is now conducting the investigation targeting him. He therefore knows the ins and outs of all aspects of federal prosecution, including the execution of search warrants. The dark night of fascism has finally landed in the United States. On Wednesday [4/28/2021], Federal agents flashing open-ended warrants conducted a 6 a.m. raid on former New York mayor current Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani to seize his electronics. The ostensible reason was that Giuliani violated a law requiring Americans who represent foreign nationals to register as foreign agents. This is a law that is enforced only against Republicans close to Trump — and Giuliani is adamant that he's never represented foreign nationals. The agents ostentatiously refused to seize copies of Hunter Biden's hard drives, which Giuliani possessed, even though they were obvious electronic devices. Giuliani contends that the hard drives' contents establish not only that Hunter and Joe Biden acted as unregistered foreign agents, but also that Joe Biden and his family took millions in bribes over the years and that Hunter Biden was engaged in child pornography. Since Giuliani still has the hard drives, perhaps he should make all the information on the drives public. [...] On the evidence available, what's happening to Giuliani looks like typical fascism: an incoming regime uses unequally applied law and a complete absence of due process to purge all political opposition. Feds search Giuliani apartment in Ukraine investigation: report. Federal investigators have executed a search warrant on former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani, seizing electronic devices, sources confirmed to Fox News. The raid on Giuliani, which was first reported by the New York Times, comes as federal authorities were investigating whether he violated the law by lobbying the Trump administration on behalf of Ukrainian officials in 2019. Giuliani has served as former President Donald Trump's personal attorney on a number of high-profile matters. According to Giuliani's attorney Robert Costello, seven FBI agents arrived at the apartment at 6 a.m. on Wednesday, and remained for roughly two hours. The agents seized several electronic devices including laptops and cell phones. Federal agents raid Rudy Giuliani's NYC apartment. The moves were tied to an investigation into Giuliani's dealings in Ukraine, according to reports. A resident of Giuliani's Upper East Side building on East 66th Street said the doorman described greeting the agents at 6 a.m. and letting them pass when they displayed a search warrant. The raid marked an escalation in the feds' probe of the former mayor, who is being investigated over whether he illegally lobbied former President Donald Trump on behalf of officials and oligarchs in Ukraine, according to the New York Times. The Ukrainian officials were also reportedly helping Giuliani dig up dirt on Trump's political rivals, including then-Democratic candidate Joe Biden and his son Hunter. Furious Andrew Giuliani slams DOJ's 'political' raids on his father's NYC home and office as part of Ukraine probe. Rudy Giuliani's son Andrew has accused the Department of Justice of raiding his father's New York apartment and office for political reasons — and claims agents didn't want to take allegedly incriminating evidence involving Hunter Biden. 'Any American, whether you are red or blue, should be extremely disturbed by what happened here today, by the continued politicization,' furious Andrew, 35, told reporters in the Upper East Side on Wednesday [4/28/2021]. 'The only piece of evidence that they did not take up there today was the only piece of incriminating evidence that is in there — and it does not belong to my father, it belongs to the current president's son,' he added. Rudy Giuliani responds to the feds raiding his NYC apartment. Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani on Wednesday accused federal agents of ignoring copies of Hunter Biden's computer hard drives when they raided his apartment — and blamed the investigation into his dealings in Ukraine on "Trump Derangement Syndrome." In a statement released by his lawyer, Giuliani said the FBI "steadfastly declined" to take the hard drives when he "offered them on several occasions." "Keep in mind that the agents could not read the physical hard drives without plugging them in, but they took Mr. Giuliani's word that the hard drives were copies of Hunter Biden's hard drive and did not contain anything pertaining to Mr. Giuliani," the statement said. "Their reliance on Mr. Giuliani's credibility tells you everything you need to know about this case." FBI Abused Secretive Surveillance Program, Court Finds. The FBI continued abusing the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act program, including searching for information on people who had gone to the bureau to report they were victims of a crime, a newly declassified document shows. One FBI information specialist between April 11, 2019, and July 8, 2019, conducted approximately 124 queries of information obtained through secretive methods under the act, or FISA, which permits warrantless surveillance of foreigners outside of the United States. The surveillance can and has been used to ultimately obtain information on Americans. The searches included looking at information for people who had requested to participate in a bureau-run citizens academy, a program for local leaders designed to foster greater understanding of the role of law enforcement, and people who needed to enter the field office the FBI worker was based in to conduct work, such as a repair, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court reported in the newly released document. In other cases, people who entered the field office, which was not named, to report they were victims of the crime were subjected to the background search. The Editor says... The FISA Court is Compromised — Presiding Judge James Boasberg Hires Former DOJ-NSD Head, Mary McCord, as Amici Curiae to Advise The Court. I hate to write this, but there is just no good way to look at this. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, specifically Presiding Judge James Boasberg, has hired former DOJ National Security Division head, Mary McCord, as amici curiae advisor to the court. The placement was first noted by an announcement from Georgetown Law ICAP. Presiding Judge James Boasberg, is the decision-maker in the appointment of Amici Curiae to the FISA court. There is no way, NO WAY, Judge Boasberg does not know Mary McCord was at the epicenter of the fraudulent FISA application used against Carter Page. Agency underground. Since last year, the department tasked with overseeing foster care and child welfare in New Mexico has been encrypting and routinely deleting its communications, making much of its work essentially untraceable. The leadership of the Children, Youth and Families Department (CYFD) has directed staff to use Signal, a secure communication app, and has set chats to automatically delete. In contrast to standard text messages or emails — which could be accessed by attorneys, reporters and members of the public under the state's open records laws — messages sent via Signal are all but impossible to retrieve. Once deleted, virtually no trace of a Signal conversation remains, even on the company's server. Attorneys and child advocates say the practice likely violates state open-records laws and could hamper any investigation into the department, which has been subject to lawsuits and massive criticism for its management of the foster-care system. Biden's 100-Day Rampage. Not since 1932, when Franklin Delano Roosevelt's first 100 days as president set a benchmark for presidential performance, has any president done so much so quickly as Joe Biden. In fact, Biden is surpassing Roosevelt significantly in imposing massive damaging changes on America that may not be reversible. Unlike Roosevelt, Biden isn't only relying on Congress to pass legislation. Biden is achieving his goals by making international agreements, imposing executive orders and policy decisions, and working hard to undo everything his predecessor did. Biden will brag about his accomplishments later this week in a speech to a joint session of Congress. We can expect to hear about his rejoining the Paris Climate Accord and his promise last week to cut U.S. carbon emissions by 50 percent by 2030. [...] If we analyze what these "successes" mean to us, our national security, and our economy, it's quite clear that Biden defines success in terms of his ability to diminish our economy and national security. Gretchen Whitmer and Other Michigan Lunatics Tell 2-Year-Olds To Mask Up. Starting today across the state of Michigan, two-year-olds at daycare facilities will be required to mask up, thanks to an order from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services. Kids from ages 2 [to] 4 will now be subjected to mask requirements just like the rest of Michigan citizens, according to MDHHS representative Bob Wheaton, who told MLive.com that two-year-olds will be required to wear a mask at a park just like 18-year-old senior in high school. The new rules will require daycare workers to keep masks on two-year-olds. One daycare worker told Mid-Michigan Now that she's concerned for the two-year-olds who are learning from teacher facial expressions and expressions from classmates. "Something might be super exciting and fun, but they can't see that so they don't know how to react," Nicole Bellanger from Lady Di Daycare told the news channel. Bellanger added that three-year-olds at the facility are speaking less since they started wearing face masks. Biden Threatens To Cancel 4th Of July If Americans Don't Get "The Jab". Whoever is writing Joe Biden's material doesn't appear to have a working knowledge of why it is that Americans celebrate the Fourth Of July, or as it is otherwise known Independence Day. On Wednesday [4/21/2021], the nation's 46th president reiterated his tired threat: If people don't march down to their local vaccination site and roll up their sleeves, that they would not be able to celebrate July 4th. Even to get together in "small gatherings" to commemorate the day when our forefathers broke free of the tyranny of a king. Biden's mass vaccination push has gotten stuck in the mud now that those who were eager to take "the jab" have done so. That leaves tens of millions of Americans who are understandably wary of being injected with vaccines that were rushed into distribution under emergency use approval. Without the standard years of clinical and animal trials that show safety and effectiveness long-term. Roger Stone: Why Am I Being Treated Differently than Hunter Biden and the Rev. Al Sharpton? Call it Witch Hunt 3.0 The civil suit for $2 Million (!) in back taxes announced by the Biden Department of Justice against me and my wife when we have neither under-reported income nor hidden any assets and they know we have no assets. This is a politically motivated harassment fueled by the partisan prosecutors' fury and liberal hysteria over the fact that President Trump saw the clear corruption of my trial and had the strength and the courage to correct this injustice by issuing me a grant of clemency and a full and unconditional pardon. Now, Robert Mueller, I am not a convicted felon nor did you have any evidence against me as you were forced to admit by the court in the long-hidden sections of your report. That was Witch Hunt 1.0. Please recognize the Justice Department filed their civil suit at 6 PM on a Friday with no notice whatsoever to my tax attorneys with whom they have been in regular contact. This demonstrates the political motivation of these highly contrived charges. In fact, months of ongoing good-faith negotiations between my tax attorney and the IRS to settle this debt went silent the day after the Inauguration of Joe Biden and after we submitted a MOUNTAIN of updated financial information in ongoing settlement negotiations. The claim in the lawsuit that the IRS terminated my settlement agreement is false and a fraud upon the Court. My tax attorney formally informed them when I was simply unable to pay. Americans Exiled within America. [Scroll down] A corrupt voting process has deprived millions of meaningful participation within their republic. Meanwhile, integrity of citizenship itself is imperiled by the erasure of the nation's boundaries and the granting of privileges to non-citizens. Second, Americans have been deprived of their property, which has essentially been confiscated by the State in the interest of public "health." Businesses have been shut down and, when partly opened, managed by bureaucrats who dictate how a business such as a restaurant may be run. [...] But most importantly, like individuals who are removed from their country, exiled Americans have experienced loss of community and communication. The forced isolation of Americans and the shutdown of nearly all institutions have deprived Americans of supportive communities. Churches, schools, museums, concert halls, political groups, and even family gatherings such as funerals and weddings have become tightly regulated. Many communities have either disappeared altogether or retreated into cyberspace. Meet Kimberly Gardner, the Rogue Prosecutor Whose Policies Are Wreaking Havoc in St. Louis. Kimberly Gardner, the beleaguered rogue prosecutor (called the "circuit attorney") for the city of St. Louis, Missouri, has made a national name for herself. Unfortunately, as we demonstrate below, her national reputation comes from her radical pro-criminal, anti-victim policies and a series of high-profile missteps she has made. Like many other rogue prosecutors around the country, she was swept into office by winning her 2016 election with a wave of money from George Soros and tech billionaire-funded entities, who again contributed heavily to help her win reelection in 2020. Who Is Freer These Days? Putin has his enemies jailed, but that's now official policy in America. In the case of Putin, he does not relish in the torment of his opponents. There is some hint of shame there. In America, members of the regime take pleasure in tormenting those who speak out against them. Take, for example, the case of Alexey Navalny, the CIA-sponsored critic of Putin who is now in jail. He claims poor treatment at the hands of the government, but he is able to speak to the media about it. In contrast, there are an unknown number of people in jail right now over the January protests. One was beaten by guards to the point where he lost sight in one eye. Unlike with Alexey Navalny, The New York Times and The Washington Post are not demanding Ronald Sandlin be set free. The great and the good are not calling him a political prisoner, despite the fact he is literally in jail for politics. The folks who tell us "democracy dies in darkness" are happy that Ronald Sandlin now lives in darkness at the hands of the state. The political prisoners being held by the Biden regime envy Alexey Navalny. Due process is no more in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota. [Scroll down] Due process is the underpinning of the rule of law: Those in power cannot treat people in an arbitrary and capricious manner. Instead, there are rules for dealing with problematic situations, whether criminal accusations or workplace wrongdoing, especially in the context of government employment. Due process is a double-sided shield that, in addition to protecting Americans from those in power, also protects them from the passions of the mob[.] A man like this, who can stand for the rule of law when the mob is baying for blood, is a treasure and should be cherished. In a fraught situation, he placed profoundly important principles ahead of any personal feelings he might have had regarding the events that just put his city on the map. It turned out that the City Council would have liked to cherish him but the members were too frightened to do so. Immediately after the conference, the Council convened in an emergency session and promptly fired [City Manager Curt] Boganey. As one council member stated explicitly, the council's decision was made entirely to appease the mob. Daunte Wright shooting: Brooklyn Center city manager fired after call for due process for police officer. Brooklyn Center City Manager Curt Boganey was fired on Monday evening, hours after he publicly disagreed with Mayor Mike Elliott's assertion that the police officer who fatally shot a Black man in the Minneapolis suburb should be immediately fired in response to the incident. "Effective immediately our city manager has been relieved of his duties, and the deputy city manager will be assuming his duties moving forward," Elliott wrote on Twitter. "I will continue to work my hardest to ensure good leadership at all levels of our city government." California city erects fence outside COVID mandate-defying restaurant. A California city erected a fence outside a restaurant that has repeatedly flouted coronavirus health orders, a report said. The fencing was put up Saturday outside Tinhorn Flats Saloon & Grill in Burbank after a court ordered the establishment's electricity be shut off, according to an NBC Los Angeles report. The eatery has racked up nearly $50,000 in fines since the start of the pandemic for violating public health orders, allowing outdoor dining at a time when the practice was banned by the county, according to the Los Angeles Times. A judge on Friday ruled the restaurant cannot reopen without new permits. The city had previously placed sandbags outside the business in a bid to keep it closed. January 6 Is the New Russiagate Lie. The manufactured deception about the events of January 6 quickly is approaching Russiagate levels. The formula is familiar: Find a catchy phrase — in this case it's "insurrection" instead of "collusion" — then fertilize the information ecosystem with the term and watch it grow like a weed. Get political leaders including former presidents and top lawmakers of both parties to use the description, giving it immediate legitimacy. Issue dire warnings about the "threat to democracy" and "rule of law." Identify the villain — Donald Trump, of course — and make solemn pledges to hunt down every perpetrator until justice is done. Sympathy-inducing optics are helpful but not always necessary. Critical cogs in this sort of performative outrage are government authorities who use their offices to convince the public the whole thing is on the square. This is precisely what happened with the now discredited trope that five people died as a result of the chaos on January 6. A brief report issued Wednesday by the office of the D.C. medical examiner confirmed only one person, Ashli Babbitt, was killed that day. John Ratcliffe Discusses Severe Political Compromise Within U.S. Intelligence Community. Former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe appears with Maria Bartiromo [4/11/2021] to discuss the issues with Hunter Biden's laptop and the severity of political compromise within the U.S. intelligence apparatus. Ratcliffe notes how politicized the intelligence community and national security have become specifically in defense of lies being perpetrated by those behind the Biden administration. Misinformation and disinformation is rampant as the Nat Sec community and Intel Community use their political ideology to advance false assertions. [Video clip] Letting Hunter Biden Off Is A Message To Us Peasants. [Scroll down] It has a deeper and more cynical purpose — to show us that our overlords are unaccountable and that the law is now merely another implement in the regime's toolkit of oppression. They are telling us that they and their scumbag progeny can do whatever they want, but that we can't. In the short term, this is infuriating. In the long term, it could bring down the system our garbage ruling caste inherited. They are throwing it in our faces, thinking it's a good plan to force us to submit. Right now, hundreds of Americans are being prosecuted for trespassing inside their own Capitol building, and eager agents of the American Stasi are salivating at the idea of charging them with "sedition" for doing exactly what hordes of leftist dirtbags did in the past. Of course, none of the leftist dirtbags were shot dead while unarmed by some cop whose name we still don't know. That's another message. The FBI / DOJ is MIA on Hunter Biden, Seth Rich, Anthony Weiner laptops. The FBI and DOJ have been missing in action for years. Failing in disclosing and acting on the information in the Hunter Biden, Seth Rich, and Anthony Weiner laptops. The two-tiered system of American justice has never been more hypocritical on display. Democrats and the deep state lie, cover-up and protect the likes of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Hunter Biden, and the Biden crime family. Yet the full weight and power of the government are brought against any Republican connected to Donald Trump. The story of the Hunter Biden, Seth Rich, and Anthony Weiner laptops is a tale of just how debased and corrupt our Government institutions and modern media have become. Police Officers Pay Visit to Home of Anti-War Activist Over Harmless Tweet Criticizing AOC. Two plainclothes California police officers showed up to the home of an anti-war activist over a harmless tweet criticizing Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The police officers were sent to the Los Angeles home of Ryan Wentz, an anti-war activist on April 8 on behalf of the Capitol Police. AOC denies any involvement, however many are asking who initiated the phone call to the Capitol Police. 9 Things You Need to Know About Biden's 'Infrastructure' Spending Plan. [#6] $700 billion in corporate welfare and tax credits. While the stated top-line goal of the spending plan is "jobs," an alternate way of describing it would be "some jobs are more equal than others." The broad corporate tax hike would necessarily shrink the private sector relative to what it would otherwise be. In a classic "take with one hand, give with the other" maneuver, the spending plan would shower hundreds of billions of dollars on favored sectors, including "green" energy, politically selected manufacturing, and thinly disguised slush funds. Rather than learning from Obama administration failures like the Solyndra scandal, the Biden administration seems determined to repeat the same mistakes on a larger scale. D.C. Statehood?
How About A Declaration Of Independence From Washington Instead. The Democrats are agitating for a 51st state that would be the District of Columbia,
not for reasons of fairness but to build their party into an unchallengeable political power. America would be better off declaring its independence from the
capital. As it says in this nation's founding document, the Declaration of Independence, we believe our Creator endowed us with certain unalienable rights:
life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. But the ruling class in Washington does not believe as we do. [...]
New York Prosecutors Subpoena the Personal Bank Records of Trump Organization Chief Financial Officer. Let's be clear about the motives of a fully weaponized DOJ here. The DOJ is looking for any way to destroy Donald J Trump. As long as he exists in the sphere of political influence, he represents a risk to their objectives. Direct targeting of Donald Trump has not succeeded. Direct attacks against Donald Trump and his organization and personal finances have not succeeded. The DOJ is not getting the results they need. So now they need a backdoor, some leverage, from somewhere, anywhere, where they can use that leverage to destroy their enemy. THAT is what's going on. The 10 Radical New Rules That Are Changing America. There are 10 new ideas that are changing America, maybe permanently. [#1] Money is a construct. It can be created from thin air. Annual deficits and aggregate national debt no longer matter much. Prior presidents ran up huge annual deficits, but at least there were some concessions that the money was real and had to be paid back. Not now. As we near $30 trillion in national debt and 110 percent of annual GDP, our elites either believe permanent zero interest rates make the cascading obligation irrelevant, or the larger the debt, the more likely we will be forced to address needed income redistribution. Let's Celebrate the Federal Government on April Fools' Day. Let's celebrate the federal government every April Fools' Day. How fitting a holiday to toast a byzantine, irresponsible, and largely untouchable system of red-tape rule-makers and above-the-law actors who do little for the American people other than overpromise, underperform, and charge a hundred times more than they're worth for the service. This is a bureaucratic leviathan so corrupt that it requires a cottage industry of lobbyists to enrich the "public servants," so unserious in its missions that it can't finish one war before starting the next, so anti-American in its sentiments that it routinely proclaims its citizens the most villainous racists and rubes on Earth, and so incompetent in executing its long-term strategies that its reckless spending of borrowed monies has pushed the dollar to the brink of collapse. Nick Searcy's Viral Video Shows City of Burbank Padlocking Tinhorn Flats Restaurant: "This Is What Totalitarianism Looks Like". Actor-Director-Producer Nick Searcy is at Tinhorn Flats Burbank videoing the fascistic actions by Los Angeles County and the City of Burbank against this family-owned business. Searcy posted to Twitter his viral video of a locksmith padlocking the doors of Tinhorn Flats in Burbank, California. Two police officers stand to the side watching the locksmith and looking around. According to Searcy, they are here to arrest owner Lucas Lepejian because he continues to operate his family restaurant despite temporary restraining orders issued by the Superior Court of Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Department of Health pulling the restaurant's health permit, and the City of Burbank revoking its conditional-use permit, while cutting off the building's electricity. Lepejian has been operating with generators supplied by patrons and supporters, and has kept the business open, despite the City's insistence on shutting it down. Pelosi-Backed Push to Steal Iowa House Seat Fails, and the Reason Why Should Be Heeded by the GOP. The dispute in Congress over Iowa's 2nd Congressional District race is now officially over. Democrat nominee Rita Hart, who took her case to the Democrat-controlled House in December, instead of the courts, after losing the election by 6 votes to her Republican opponent, Mariannette Miller-Meeks, released a statement on Twitter just minutes ago declaring that she was withdrawing her petition to the House Administration Committee because she couldn't effectively combat the wave of negative PR she and her fellow Democrats brought on themselves over the issue. An FBI so corrupt it lets mass shooters rampage needs to go. [Scroll down] While the FBI has been failing to stop terrorist attacks by known threats like these, it has conducted numerous political operations on behalf of Democrats. The ones we know about include Crossfire Hurricane's use of federal spy power to affect election outcomes and prevent effective governance by elected Republicans. That operation included spying on Fox News. In 2020, the FBI sent 15 agents to investigate a rope tied in a loop that hysterical people alleged was a "noose" after a black NASCAR driver was assigned a garage with the rope as its door pull. The FBI investigation determined the rope had been in the same shape and spot since at least 2019. In 2019, the FBI executed operation "Varsity Blues" to shame rich people who attempted to buy their children entry into ruling class universities by means other than gobsmackingly expensive prep schools and SAT tutors. The FBI also appears to have entrapped people into a ridiculous plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020, by inserting agents into their social group who presented the plan and got them to appear to go along, at least on FBI recordings. The same appears to be happening with Democrats using the Jan. 6 riot to have the FBI investigate and prosecute their political opponents among the hoi polloi. The Dawn of a New Age of Tyranny Is Upon Us. If you're bewildered by the breakneck pace of "change" since the inauguration of Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., back on Jan. 20, you're not alone. Average Americans have been puzzled and, in many case, chagrined by the flurry of executive orders, ukases, policy prescriptions, social proscriptions, vengeful rollbacks, and other government meddling in the lives of our citizens. Conservatives, meanwhile, understand that all this activity has one overarching purpose: to punish the bad Orange Man and the country that voted for him. And make sure he never happens again. To that end, the string of top-down bossiness has been designed to look, and be, punitive. Every major Donald Trump initiative or accomplishment must be negated and anathematized. His supporters who unwisely marched on the Capitol on Jan. 6 — what did they hope to accomplish? — should not just be deplored but hunted down by the FBI for "sedition"; there's even a tip line for junior Stasis-in-training to rat out their friends and neighbors. Joe Biden's Rule By Decree: How Far Can He Go? President Joe Biden's candidacy was built on the idea that he was an old, experienced, centrist in Washington, someone who could bring two sides together. So far, with his penchant for issuing "executive orders" to fundamentally change America, he's governing precisely as a socialist dictator would. Is that what Americans voted for? [...] He has power, and he plans to use it. He's already issued more than 50 executive orders, including 22 reversals of previous Trump policies. Even his aides have gotten in on the imperious act: Last weekend one of Biden's public relations people physically interfered with Texas Sen. Ted Cruz's efforts to film the conditions of migrants at the U.S. border. Is this the Soviet Union? Biden's ready to do more — a lot more. The vaccine passport idiocy. [Thread reader] [F]or the past year, Justice Roberts has allowed the fed courts to turn away hundreds of Constitutional & legal challenges to COVID government overreach in the name of emergency powers. This is the civil right crisis of our time. In the last year, I appeared before federal judges in several states from HI to CA to VA to NJ. One after the other they gaveled down challenges to the blocking of prayer, protect, small business, schools, outdoor sports — even beaches! — despite the dearth of science to back it. At @Liberty_Ctr my year and that of many other attorneys was an extended triage to determine which of thousands of civil rights violations was the worst. Was it the violations of the constitutional requirements for how we make voting laws? Or was it governors telling hundreds of millions they could only pray by video conference, forget about getting married baptized or burying your loved ones? Was it telling poor and disabled children, "no school for you — the teacher's union said it's unsafe"? Was it praising a 100,000-person BLM march in Los Angeles while telling 100 anti-shutdown protestors in Sacramento they would be arrested if they exercised their First Amendment rights peacefully and safely? No Storm, No Reckoning, No Nothing. For years we have been hearing about a coming storm. It was to be biblical and would bring pain to members of the deep state ruling class who, after exposure, would not be able to walk down the streets. The storm was to begin with spygate, a coordinated effort among top officials in the nation's justice and intelligence agencies, to prevent Donald Trump's election; then after failing, to undermine his transition, cripple his presidency, then stop his reelection, the latter goals achieved. Then there were crimes against humanity: child abuse, trafficking, and the like, all to be exposed via the Anthony Weiner laptop or the Jeffrey Epstein cabal. Both seem distant memories now. In fact, we are now going in the opposite direction with the Biden administration suspending FBI background checks for migrant children caregivers. We have lived in the "calm before the storm" for years and to this day it remains calm. There are no storm clouds building, nothing on the horizon. States are trying to get Biden to enforce the 'public charge rule'. Under the Constitution, Congress passes the laws, which reside in the United States Code, and it's the President's job to oversee their enforcement. Federal agencies, which are the vehicles by which the president enforces the laws that Congress enacts, can create rules describing the details of enforcing the laws. These rules are published in the Code of Federal Regulations or CFR. The CFR is an obscenely huge document (as of 2014, it had 175,268 [pages]) that exists as a trap for the unwary. In theory, the CFR is merely a how-to manual for enforcing the laws. It's the laws behind the manual that matter. Unfortunately, in reality, Congressional laziness has resulted in barebones laws, with regulatory agencies filling in the blanks. As often as not, regulations that have nothing to do with Congress, have the force of law. That's not quite the issue here, but every American should understand that most of the "laws" that control them are in fact regulations of dubious constitutional validity. Can the GOP stop Democrats from trashing the country? After having brazenly installed a feeble, geriatric president through a dubious (at best) election process, and almost three months after that mostly peaceful demonstration on January 6, the Democrats still surround the Capitol grounds with thousands of troops and razor wire fencing. Are those props — befitting the palace grounds of a tinpot dictatorship — evidence of the Democrats' insecurity, of their need to reinforce the notion that they are in charge? President Trump Asks a Question. [Scroll down] The staff of the legislative bodies have/had no intent to actually facilitate any sunlight upon the FISA, DOJ-FBI corruption that took place over three years. How do I know that? Well, first having sat in a room with the legislative staff, top people who actually write the briefs and inform both congressional representatives on House Committees and Senate Committees, including the chiefs-of-staff for the chairs, it was clear they did not even know the information from within their own research when spread over time. Accepting this reality leads one to a natural conclusion... they don't know, because they choose not to know... & they choose not to know, because everything is a pantomime for public display. The system of DC is based on a series of unwritten rules: "You don't out me, and I will not out you... and that will protect us both." These rules cross over both parties to the extent they usually have a common enemy, us. The staff of Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, Homeland Security Chair Ron Johnson and even the staff of House Oversight Ranking Member Jim Jordan are purposefully and willfully blind. They choose not to know things; or at least they claim not to know and do an exceptional job of purposeful pretend. The U.S. Intelligence Community, Flouting Laws, is Increasingly Involving Itself in Domestic Politics. A report declassified last Wednesday [3/17/2021(?)] by the Department of Homeland Security is raising serious concerns about the possibly illegal involvement by the intelligence community in U.S. domestic political affairs. Entitled "Domestic Violent Extremism Poses Heightened Threat in 2021," the March 1 Report from the Director of National Intelligence states that it was prepared "in consultation with the Attorney General and Secretary of Homeland Security — and was drafted by the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and Department of Homeland Security (DHS), with contributions from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)." Its primary point is this: "The IC [intelligence community] assesses that domestic violent extremists (DVEs) who are motivated by a range of ideologies and galvanized by recent political and societal events in the United States pose an elevated threat to the Homeland in 2021." Marine Corps Officer Warns Congress Against Classifying Christians in Military as 'Religious Extremists'. A slide used in a Department of Defense (DOD) training manual identifies Catholics and evangelical Christians as "religious extremists," along with members of the Ku Klux Klan, al-Qaeda, and Hamas, according to a Marine Corps officer. "First Liberty also obtained a screenshot of an unclassified slide from a U.S. Army training manual. The slide is entitled 'Religious Extremism' and it purports to identify religious extremists," Michael Berry told the House Armed Services Committee, during a hearing on March 24 titled "Extremism in the Military." Berry is general counsel to the First Liberty Institute (FLI), a Plano, Texas-based public interest law firm that specializes in First Amendment and religious freedom cases. Berry is also an officer in the Marine Corps Reserves, although he presented his testimony in his capacity as a civilian. The Iowa steal: To Democrats, 'democracy' means unbridled majority power. Democratic candidate Rita Hart is trying to steal a U.S. House seat in Iowa. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is helping her do it. Pelosi wants to overturn Republican Mariannette Miller-Meeks's very narrow win in Iowa's 2nd Congressional District. Her efforts are so blatantly partisan, dishonest, and anti-democratic that a few members of Pelosi's own party caucus have come out against her. "Losing a House election by six votes is painful for Democrats," wrote Minnesota Rep. Dean Phillips, the first congressional Democrat to voice firm opposition to this scheme. "But overturning it in the House would be even more painful for America. Just because a majority can, does not mean a majority should." The Social Cost of Carbon and Climate Sensitivity Is Model Manipulation at Its Finest. The "social cost of carbon" is a calculation that the Biden administration is looking to use to justify stringent regulation of carbon dioxide emissions. Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt — joined by Arkansas, Arizona, Indiana, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Utah — have now filed a lawsuit, arguing that the use of this metric in policy would constitute an overreach of government power. Carbon dioxide is an odorless gas that is the basis for almost all plant life on earth. Of course, carbon dioxide emissions have slightly warmed the surface temperature of the planet, but on the other hand, access to plentiful energy has been accompanied by a doubling of life expectancy in the developed world and an elevenfold growth in personal wealth, as noted in the 2016 book "Lukewarming." The Editor says... Read the Shocking Pentagon Training Materials Targeting Conservatives in the Military. I have obtained a copy of all the materials regarding the sudden new threat of "Extremism" used for training in the United States military. Throughout the services, service members have been shocked at the Biden blitz to root out ideas and people who stand in the way of the administration's transformative agenda. One individual in the training told me, "The military is one of the last institutions left that hasn't been radicalized by the progressives. That's why it is being targeted now." All personnel are being subjected to a PowerPoint presentation packed with progressive ideology and misstatements of the Constitution. Designated officers are conducting the training on bases, stations, and ships at sea. The slides contain misstatements of the law and warped characterizations of fellow citizens who believe in constitutional principles. Dem lawmaker breaks from Pelosi, voices concern over possible bid to steal Iowa GOP seat. A moderate California Democrat and member of the shrinking "Blue Dog Coalition" has broken with his party and is expressing concerns over a review by the House Administration Committee of a very close Iowa election won by a GOP candidate and certified by state officials. Rep. Lou Correa, a member of the House Judiciary Committee, has said he wants to "look at the facts" regarding Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks' six-vote win in Iowa's 2nd Congressional District, though a majority of his party is supportive of the panel's investigation. Correa's concerns center on "what motivates Congress to look at something that should be a state issue," CNN reported on Thursday [3/18/2021]. Biden giving media 'zero access' to border operations: photojournalist. Award-winning photojournalist John Moore blasted the Biden administration for giving "zero access" to the media to observe Customs and Border Protection operations at the southern border. Moore took to Twitter to lament the lack of transparency as a surge of migrants trying to enter the country has put a strain on resources. "I respectfully ask US Customs and Border Protection to stop blocking media access to their border operations," Moore tweeted Friday. "I have photographed CBP under Bush, Obama and Trump but now - zero access is granted to media. These long lens images taken from the Mexican side." Moore, a Getty Images correspondent, won the World Press Photo Foundation's 2019 photo of the year for his image of a Honduran toddler crying while her mother is detained by Border Patrol agents. The Battle of Burbank. Tinhorn Flats is a family-operated bar and restaurant in Burbank. Burbank has had a death rate from the Wuhan virus of 2.8 percent of which 80 percent were of those over 65 who had, on average three co-morbidities. Despite this, and disregarding the substantial sums restaurant and bar owners had shelled out to keep outdoor patrons safe, on December 6 the city council ordered all restaurants closed. Tinhorn refused and continued to serve patrons outdoors. Six days later their health permit was revoked. Tinhorn continued its outdoor service, ignoring the city's revocation of its permit. In response, the L.A. County Department of Health cited the restaurant 13 times for operating without a permit. Tinhorn stayed open. The L.A. County Attorney filed a cease and desist order. Tinhorn stayed open. After a few more legal forays the Burbank City Council filed suit against the restaurant and obtained a temporary restraining order. Tinhorn stayed open. The city cut power to the restaurant and patrons and fans donated generators and equipment so the restaurant could continue operations. The city council padlocked the front doors. Tinhorn removed the doors and stayed open. When the padlocked doors were somehow reinstalled, the restaurant posted on Facebook a picture showing a side door open. Tinhorn stayed open. Another L.A. County judge required the county to prove that the ban on outdoor dining was necessary. The county failed to do so, but inexplicably the judge refused to lift the ban. Since the cops in New York have nothing else to do... Who Is Our Military's Enemy? The U.S. military has now turned its wrath inward on Fox News host Tucker Carlson. The new secretary of defense relayed his "revulsion" for Carlson's questioning the role of women in combat — a position that had been the military's centuries-long orthodoxy until about seven years ago. Pentagon spokesman John Kirby even compared Carlson to the Communist Chinese military: "What we absolutely won't do is take personnel advice from a talk show host, or the Chinese military." The now-cocky Department of Defense website further boasted, "Press Secretary Smites Fox Host." So what was the biblically "smitten" Carlson's crime? He objected to the military's fixation on race and gender in high-profile appointments — and questioned whether standards were relaxed to permit women in combat units. He objected to the military's fixation on race and gender in high-profile appointments — and questioned whether standards were relaxed to permit women in combat units. Carlson objected that the Capitol is currently domestically militarized. More troops are on guard against purported American "insurrectionists" than are currently serving in war zones in Afghanistan. Tucker Carlson-Military Spat Shows Left's Long March Reaching Dangerous Apex. Is the military more focused on winning wars, or Wokeism? Americans should not have to ask this question. But on account of doings of the Biden-led Department of Defense (DoD), Fox News' Tucker Carlson was rightly compelled to proffer it. That he received any DoD response — and no less an almost parodic scolding, rather than an assurance that the military is singularly focused on crushing our enemies — demonstrates an existential problem for our country. It shows that the progressives' Long March through our institutions is reaching its dangerous apex. 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. The Dangers of Direct Checks From the Government. Over the past year, the U.S. government has sent out three waves of direct checks to the vast majority of Americans. So far, most Americans (89 percent of adults according to the Tax Foundation) will have received up to $3,200 in "free money" from Uncle Sam. There are many reasons this could be very dangerous to the future of the republic. First, it's akin to buying votes. Now that the precedent has been set and Americans realize that politicians are willing and able to send them money, we're almost assured that in the future politicians will run on the promise of "free money." In fact, we're already seeing this take place. Many on the far left are calling for recurring direct checks. The Editor says... Why Did The Guam National Guard Visit Marjorie Taylor Greene's Office At The Capitol Yesterday? I can't understand how anyone involved in this thought it was a good idea but it's not the first time lately that the military has bent the rules against service members playing politics while in uniform in order to embarrass a populist Republican. The Marine Corps had to apologize for unprofessional behavior a few days ago when one of its social-media accounts started snarking at Tucker Carlson for wondering why pregnant women are allowed to serve. The Pentagon went so far as to issue a press release responding to Carlson with the clickbait-y headline, "Press Secretary Smites Fox Host That Dissed Diversity in U.S. Military." A Twitter pal recently observed that the U.S. military has received withering criticism in the post-9/11 age about life-and-death matters like the occupation of Iraq and counterterrorist drone strikes in remote lands and they've endured it (mostly) in silence, which is proper in a country where civilians are in charge. Cross certain lines of wokeness, though, and it turns out that even the Marines have their breaking point. When did owning the cons become part of the defense department's mission? Friendly 'diplomacy' or intimidation? Guam Nat'l guard visits MTG's office after calling them foreign. At the Conservative Political Action Conference, Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene mistakenly referred to Guam, which is a U.S. territory, as a foreign land and that earned her a visit from the Guam National Guard, replete with cookies. "I'm a regular person. And I wanted to take my regular-person, normal, everyday American values, which is, we love our country. We believe our hard-earned tax dollars should just go for America, not for what? China, Russia, the Middle East, Guam, whatever, wherever," Greene stated in February at CPAC. "If we want to build roads, if we want to put money into schools, if we want to build border walls, we want it right here at home. This is easy to me; it's easy to us, but it's not easy to Washington." In response, Guam Rep. Michael San Nicolas and a whole contingent of the Guam National Guard were recorded traipsing towards Greene's office on Monday where, unfortunately for them, she was not in attendance. That did not stop them from leaving cookies as a reminder that they are part of the U.S. They called it "cookie diplomacy." US Military: Social Justice Warriors. I still struggle to process the meaning of the Pentagon's propaganda blitzkrieg against Tucker Carlson. Even if you think Carlson is wrong in his criticism of the woke military (see here for some of it), the fact that the Defense Department has reacted so aggressively is extraordinarily troubling. I would have been troubled by it had the DoD hit out at left-wing media critics like this. But to my knowledge, they never have. They reserved this kind of response for a conservative media figure who questioned the military's new wokeness. This tells us something. A politicized US military should horrify all Americans. We expect politicians with partisan agendas to spar with journalists. Not so much members of the armed forces speaking in their official capacity, which is what happened last week after Tucker Carlson of Fox News dared to comment about the role of women in the military. The Second Marine Expeditionary Force responded with a snotty, childish tweet, telling Carlson: "Come back when you've served and been pregnant." Generals, other currently serving officers and the Pentagon's press secretary joined in the ensuing sortie. The implication was clear: Civilians who dare to criticize military policy should expect to be harshly rebuked, not by their fellow citizens or even by elected politicians, but by members of the armed forces in their official capacity. Understanding the military's attack on Tucker Carlson. There are limits to how far leftward our elites can push this country without buy-in, or at least acquiescence, from the military. And the military is limited in this regard by the extent to which those who fill its ranks buy in or at at least acquiesce. The woke left can never firmly control America if there is a disconnect between its agenda and that of the military. It can never confidently control America if there is a disconnect between its agenda and the views and attitudes of the military rank-and-file. Hence, the imperative that the rank-and-file be made woke through indoctrination and, if necessary, purging. Hence, the indoctrination. Democrat congressman marches National Guard troops to GOP representative's office. Democrat Congressman San Nicolas, of Guam, marched National Guard troops from his home territory through the halls of Congress, leading them straight to the office door of an opposing party congressperson. [Quoting tweet:] ["]Interesting timing, considering all weekend we were talking about the politicization of the military. They don't [care] how it looks.["] Rep. Nicolas stopped his 20 or so troops to office door of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. As majestic music plays, since this was all done with pride on the part of Rep. Nicolas, he stands in the hallway outside Rep. Greene's office with a gift basket, flanked by troops in camo fatigues. Nicolas approached the door, and an aide knocks briefly before entering the office unannounced. The Editor says... The Sovereign Crime of Industrial Scale Vote Fraud. [Scroll down] Sovereign crime means your government was a participant, active or passive, enabling vote fraud. Governors and secretaries of state refusing to cleanse voter rolls, refusing to check signatures for mail-in ballots — even during recounts, changing the voting rules weeks before an election, qualifies as your government messing with your vote. The national government refusing to investigate the most egregious examples of voter fraud like hundreds of thousands of more ballots than voters in several states, that is a pretty good indicator that they are passive participants in industrial level vote fraud. The refusal of the FBI to fully investigate Jesse Morgan's truck with the hundreds of thousands of ballots going from New York to Pennsylvania — yet dispatching agents to a NASCAR location to investigate a garage pull-down they hoped was a noose — well, that's a good indicator, too. Wait, we're not done here. The United States Postal Service managers telling employees to backdate ballots so they could be counted illegally. Does that sound like your government — sovereign government — participating in vote fraud? The U.S. Military Just Became A Political Attack Machine Against Joe Biden's Opponents. Last week, Fox cable host Tucker Carlson called out DoD for introducing a flight suit for visibly pregnant women. Flight suits are worn by pilots to wage our nation's wars. It seemed incongruous that the military would issue flight suits to pregnant women, who most assuredly do not fight our nation's wars. When the unit I served with in Iraq learned that two of our female soldiers were pregnant, the U.S. military put them on the highest priority to be evacuated back to the United States. Within 24 hours, they were sent home. They wanted to stay — God bless them! — but the DoD would not hear of having pregnant women in a war zone. Whether Carlson was right or wrong or presented his views in a strident manner is immaterial. He had an absolute right to say it. The Department of Defense's leaders disagreed. What should have been a one-line refutation in a run-of-the-mill daily press briefing became an all-hands public affairs campaign to destroy Carlson. Did Biden Establish the Military's First 'Virtue Signal' Corps? [Scroll down] The social media airstrikes on [Tucker] Carlson over the past several days disturbed me quite a bit. It was public affairs that initiated the attack on Tucker Carlson, straight from the Pentagon. That's the top of command information on the public-facing side. [...] What we saw over the weekend appears to represent a new species of the military: the volunteer Virtue Signal Corps. It combines SigInt with command information, both trained on U.S. citizens. This is not a positive development in my opinion, having served in the command information component of the United States Air Force. 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. The Official Outrage Over Tucker Carlson's Critique of Joe Biden's Military Shows Just How Lost Our Military Is. Friday [3/12/2021], Tucker Carlson kicked off a firestorm. His monologue focused n the barking shambles that Joe Biden has made of the Department of Defense in less than two months. His theme was the degree to which the Biden bunch is focusing on making the military a test bed for woke orthodoxy and putting combat readiness, particularly readiness to confront Joe Biden's paymasters in Beijing, in its rearview mirror. He took, as a point of departure, Biden's mumblings on the occasion of "International Women's Day." Carlson's strongest point was directed at Biden's decision to appoint a secretary of defense who is not only beholden to the defense industry but a rabid partisan[.] Now Tucker Carlson Has Angered the U.S. Space Command. [A]t this point I barely pay attention to the outrage du jour Tucker has kicked up. That's his job, and there's nobody better. Making libs mad is his business, and business is good. But this latest one is flabbergasting. Now he's actually got Democrats defending... the military? [...] So far, this has been just another phony outrage. But here's where my eyebrows went up: a uniformed Space Command guy just called out Tucker. Ladies and gentlemen: U.S. Marine Corps Master Gunnery Sergeant Scott H. Stalker. [Video clip] [...] And doesn't the military have regulations about uniformed personnel making political statements? Isn't that one of the things you give up when you join? Isn't that the whole point of having civilian oversight of the military? Sen. Cruz: US Military 'Launching Political Attacks' Against Tucker Carlson, Requests Meeting. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said he requested a meeting with the head of the U.S. Marine Corps after one of its units tweeted statements insulting Tucker Carlson, along with unusually bellicose comments about the Fox News host. "Under Biden, the military is launching political attacks to intimidate Tucker Carlson & other civilians who criticize their policy decisions," Cruz wrote on Twitter, saying he requested a meeting with the commandant of the Marines. "Officials in uniform are being used for the campaign. I've demanded a meeting with the Commandant of the USMC to put a stop to it." Over the weekend, a U.S. Marine Corps unit's Twitter account — the II Marine Expeditionary Force Information Group — stated it "messed up" in its comments when responding to Carlson after the Fox host said the military should be focused more on adversaries like China rather than social issues. Varieties of Legal Corruption. PJ Media's Megan Fox has a very disturbing six-part series on alleged judicial corruption in St. Louis, Missouri. The first five detail how family court guardians and psychologists are misusing their positions to siphon off money from parents in custody disputes while the St. Louis judges ignore the fraud and collude with them, by, for example, ordering children's visits with sexual molesters and/or otherwise abusive parents in order to compel the other parent to keep paying lawyers to appeal the decisions and change the arrangements. One might expect that bar examiners, judicial conduct boards, the state attorney general, the Department of Justice, the FBI, the IRS would register some interest in what appears to be appalling legal violations by officers of the court and the judges , but I don't see anything happening yet to check these outrages. In many ways this alleged corruption is as bad if not worse than the case a few years ago of two Pennsylvania judges, Mark Ciavarella and Michael T. Conahan, who routinely sent poor kids who had committed minor offenses to private detention centers in return for kickbacks from the owners of those jails. They were finally sentenced for their kids for cash scheme. More evidence that Obama is in charge again: Pelosi Hit With Lawsuit Over Phone Call To General Trying To Prevent Trump From Accessing Nuclear Codes. Government watchdog group Judicial Watch announced a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit for access to a telephone call between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and General Mark Milley shortly after the Capitol riots. The call was revealed in a letter from Pelosi to Democrat lawmakers in which she described an attempt to prevent an "unhinged" President Trump from accessing the nuclear codes at the time. Judicial Watch alleges that the Department of Defense has not provided any response to their FOIA request, which was filed on January 11th. Regarding Democrats Stealing the House Seat in Iowa — It's Not Like the Democrats Haven't Stolen An Election This Same Way Before. [Scroll down] The Democrat challenger, Rita Hart, made a deliberate decision after the recount of ballots to NOT file any election contest in the Iowa courts as was authorized by Iowa law. Instead, she filed the petition with the House that is now pending to have the "winning" candidate — as identified by Iowa election officials — Mariannette Miller-Meeks, disqualified from holding the seat on the basis that she did not receive a greater number of votes than Hart received. The House has the final say under the Constitution with respect to the qualifications of any individual to serve as a member. Under the statute authorizing the petition filed by Hart, the Committee conducts an investigation. It can hear from witnesses, accept documentary evidence, conduct interviews in Iowa, and even conduct a recount of all the ballots on its own to come up with its own final vote tally. Remarkably, if the Committee chooses to recount the ballots itself, the standards for what constitutes a "valid" ballot under Iowa law do not apply to such a recount by the House. Democrats who have majority control of the committee can fashion their own standards as to what should be deemed a "valid" vote, and may freely choose to ignore any limitations on the process established by Iowa law and court precedent. Pelosi: House could unseat Iowa Republican who narrowly won race. Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the House could ultimately vote to unseat Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, who won Iowa's 2nd Congressional District seat by just six votes out of more than 394,000 cast. Pelosi told reporters that the Democratic-led House Administration Committee "is following the law," in its review of the election, and it could ultimately result in a move to force out the first-term Iowa Republican. "We will see where that takes us, but there could be a scenario to that extent," Pelosi said. Democratic candidate Rita Hart has contested her narrow loss to Miller-Meeks, leaving the House Administration Committee to decide her case. Hart believes 22 ballots were wrongfully discarded, and if they were counted, she would have a nine-vote victory. House Administration Republicans want Democrats to dismiss Hart's case, but the committee voted Wednesday [3/10/2021] to table a motion to dismiss Hart's claim. Rule by Left-Wing Lunatics. A governing principle of the Democratic Party is to ask, "Who is in the dock?" before deciding whether to enforce the law. As we have seen throughout the last year of antifa/BLM riots, in blue states, it's now legal to commit arson, attempted murder, assault on a law enforcement officer and destruction of property — provided the perp is antifa or antifa-friendly. Andy Ngo's smash bestseller "Unmasked" gives chapter and verse on antifa's shocking violence untouched by criminal penalty. On the other hand, if you're a conservative, don't commit a misdemeanor in a blue state. Proud Boys, Capitol Hill protesters, police and other presumed Trump supporters are getting more prison time than actual murderers for minor infractions. Even a couple of personal injury lawyers (liberals) are being criminally prosecuted in St. Louis for brandishing guns at violent looters coming toward their home. The rioters, you see, were BLM protesters. In all these cases, local Democratic officials gleefully announce that they are locking up "white supremacists." Masks Are Just Part of the Socialists' Uniform. [Scroll down] In a sense, mask mandates have become nothing more than dress code loyalty oaths to the same state and local governments that have claimed for themselves the extraconstitutional powers to restrict free speech, religious liberty, personal commerce, and voluntary movement beyond the home in the name of a virus. They represent Americans' symbolic acquiescence to government's mass lockdowns and economic shutdowns and their tacit acceptance that government's unconstitutional power grabs are somehow legitimate. This symbolism, not the statistically insignificant decrease in infection and death rates in areas with strict mask mandates, is what actually animates those Americans who insist on controlling what covers other Americans' faces. An American who refuses to participate in virus virtue-signaling is an American who refuses to believe that the economic, educational, and social carnage of the last year was justified. And that repudiation is just too much for proponents of bigger and more intrusive government to take in stride. The #BlueAnon Dossier: The Conspiracies Promoted by the Conspiracy-Hating Press. This past Thursday, on March 4, Washington was paralyzed. The National Guard troops were placed on high-alert with their unloaded weapons, the security fencing surrounding the Capitol was fortified, and Congress suspended its daily schedule. This was all done in preparation for a renewed assault on our nation's capital and our democracy. The reason? The devotees of Qanon — that amorphous and overhyped cabal of political zealotry — were supposedly claiming that is the true inaugural date and that a failure of a Trump swearing-in ceremony would lead to renewed violence. [...] This non-episode reveals two details on the whole Qanon issue. One is that the press is intent to use this group as a political tool to attack conservatives, presenting their crackpot theories as mainstream thought within the movement. This attempt however exposes the other issue. In order to wield this weapon, the media needs to both pay close attention to Q theories, and then they need to broadcast them. What takes place then is the press taking these conspiracies far more seriously than anyone on the right; almost anytime I have heard of a Q talking point it is being promoted by someone in the press[.]
Jill Biden, the Meghan Markle in the WH, is egregiously guilty of elder abuse. [Scroll down] And what of the ridiculous transformation of our Capitol? DC now resembles the Green Zone the Americans built in Iraq to keep out terrorists. Nancy Pelosi feels no qualms about abusing all those patriotic National Guard troops who are being fed virtually inedible food and are being asked to stand around and freeze as props for her farcical fear of "right-wing extremists" like QAnon, a shadowy online "group" of two or three people that no conservative ever took seriously. So invested in that inane conspiracy theory she and her fellow fearmongers have made even bigger fools of themselves. Retired Purple Heart Veteran in Arizona Who Dove In Dumpster and Found Shredded Ballots Is Now Being Threatened. A retired Purple Heart veteran who took a dive in a dumpster on Saturday and found illegally shredded ballots in Maricopa County is now reportedly a wanted man. Yesterday [3/7/2021] it was reported that a man by the name of Earl S, who found shredded ballots in a dumpster backed up to the loading dock outside of the Maricopa County Tabulation Center, is now a wanted man. Gaslighting, Unending Lockdowns And Climate Change. [Video clip] The Imaginary Government. We have long been in a post-constitutional democracy, one that recognizes no individual rights, but simply who has the most votes, or, more accurately, the most ballots. It is as destructive to the United States as it was to France, minus the guillotines, for now. Driving home the fact of the stolen election is pointless. Everyone knows it was stolen, especially those who benefitted from the steal. They also understand the value of keeping up the illusion of legitimacy. Equal to that value is the importance of never conceding that point. The larger question, the most important question, is how do we expose the fraud in a real way? Recognizing it is good, pushing back on the legitimacy narrative is good, but it's just filed away as two competing political voices urging the middle to move their way. Lost is the importance of the stolen election. The inability of the federal government to faithfully prosecute a free and fair election destroys its authority. They gloss over this fact, because it suits both political parties to pretend that the election was legitimate, knowing that if it was not. They no longer hold authority until a free and fair election can be held. In essence, they are actors on a stage and as long as the people suspend disbelief, they can continue in that role. [...] A government that no longer needs the actual votes of the people is free to unleash all manner of unlawful assaults upon them. Angry at Trump, Liberals Propose Unconstitutional Bill to Punish Him. Democrats have twice impeached Donald Trump in the House and twice failed to convict him in the Senate. They're angry about failing, and double angry about failing twice. That's understandable. Nobody likes to fail. But they've now fallen into the trap of letting their anger get the better of their reason and their oaths to uphold the Constitution. The result is a legislative temper tantrum in a bill dubbed the No Glory for Hate Act. The act is petty and petulant, and it inspires a strong temptation to laugh and mock. It is, however, an unconstitutional abuse of power, and that transforms an amusing little fit into a worrisome precedent. The bill targets "any former President that has been twice impeached" — excuse me while I take a moment to figure out all the presidents that it applies to — and says that no federal funds may be used to commemorate all those presidents. 10 Big Warning Signs Biden is the 'Missing' President. [#6] Biden is an executive order-signing machine: President Biden entered office and immediately issued a record-setting flurry of executive orders, which he signed as if he were a human auto-pen. Those orders were reportedly drafted and fast-tracked with the aid of a DOJ office under the supervision of former Attorney General William Barr, according to former Trump adviser Peter Navarro. "Trump's last Attorney General actually also turns out to be Joe Biden's first Attorney General," Navarro said. "Because here is what was happening. We had over 30 executive orders queued after election day, ready to go. But we kept running into all of these roadblocks and roadblocks and hurdles. It turns out that Bill Barr's office of legal counsel was fast-tracking all of these Biden EOs." [Video clip] Of course, President Biden could not have had all of these executive orders ready to go by himself on day one. They were drafted for him and merely handed to him to sign. Left
toasts Merrick Garland, the Swamp elitist who served as Bloody Janet Reno's henchman. At his Senate confirmation hearing on
Feb. 22, Joe Biden's choice to be attorney general transparently sought to equate former President Donald Trump and his America First
movement with Timothy McVeigh and the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing: [...] Unstated yet readily apparent is the salute to a return to Janet
Reno, the bloodstained Bill Clinton attorney general who presided over a Justice Department that covered up the FBI murders of a young
mother holding a baby in her arms and a 14-year-old boy at Ruby Ridge, Idaho in 1992 and actively slaughtered 76 Branch Davidians at Waco
one year later. It is rather astonishing that given Garland's public vow to aggressively treat Trump supporters as domestic terrorists
more attention isn't given to his prominent role serving Reno. Garland was Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General to Jamie Gorelick,
Reno's Deputy AG. Reno referred to Gorelick as her Justice Department's "chief operating officer" and Gorelick has described Garland
as her "wingman." So that would make it:
The Progressives are the extremists. The Progressives, in their extreme denial of the First Amendment's freedom of religion clause, shut down churches, synagogues, and choirs. And if not totally shut down, they limited church attendance in most of these. Totalitarian governments do not like large groups of people assembled together, whether it is at church or at a Trump MAGA rally. Hypocritically, they did not have any problems with Antifa nor Black Lives Matter riots. House Democrats' Attempt to Pressure TV Carriers Could Trigger Lawsuit: Dershowitz. The attempt by several House Democrats to pressure television carriers to deplatform certain news organizations could trigger a lawsuit, law professor Alan Dershowitz said Saturday [2/27/2021]. "When the First Amendment says Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech, it's been interpreted to mean, take no action, it doesn't have to be law. The First Amendment applies to presidents to governors to mayors to anybody who can abridge the freedom of speech. And I think these letters abridge the freedom of speech," Dershowitz said during an appearance on Newsmax TV. Reps. Jerry McNerney (D-Calif.) and Anna G. Eshoo (D-Calif.) sent a dozen letters to 12 different carriers this week urging them to deplatform or otherwise take action against Fox News, Newsmax, and One America News for allegedly spreading misleading information about the Jan. 6 Capitol breach and the COVID-19 pandemic. They pointedly asked the carriers if they were planning on carrying the networks "both now and beyond any contract renewal date." "That's not a question. That's a threat," Dershowitz said. The Biden administration is systematically erasing Trump. Biden is undoing every single executive order Trump signed, regardless of whether a given order made sense or not. The goal isn't to benefit America or Americans, it's to destroy any vestige of Trump in the American government (and, as a pleasant byproduct, to replace the American population which a more malleable one). The Victory Girls blog caught up with the seven executive orders that Biden signed on Wednesday [2/24/2021]. What's noteworthy is how innocuous or pro-American the Trump executive orders were. It's clear that, for the Democrats now in power, the substance of Trump's executive orders is irrelevant. The only thing that matters is getting rid of them. This is the executive order equivalent of fumigation. Or to put Biden's conduct in its proper historical context, we are witnessing the American version of the damnatio memoriae — or condemnation of memory. It's how a successor government erases the predecessor from every official record. It's a very primitive action, as well as being one that totalitarians embrace. (Stalin was famous for it.) You may draw your own conclusions about the Biden administration's motives. The Lies Aren't Secret. Secrecy is the ultimateentitlement program for the Deep State. The federal government is creating trillions of pages of new secrets every year. The more documents bureaucrats classify, the more lies politicians and government officials can tell. In Washington, deniability is prized far more than truth. At the end of the Trump era, the Deep State is triumphant at home and abroad. Trump's epic clashes with federal intelligence and law enforcement agencies helped cripple his administration, and they illustrate the continued danger of Deep State secrecy. If all of the FBI's shenanigans on Russiagate came to light, it would be far more difficult for the FBI to manipulate American politics and presidents in the future. If CIA records on Syrian rebels were exposed, the Biden administration would have far more difficulty dragging America back into the Syrian civil war. But both seem unlikely. Recent court rulings make clear how badly Trump failed to drain the swamp. A short primer on the importance of our Second Amendment rights. Without the Second Amendment, there is no Bill of Rights. As we're learning, the Bill of Rights is a leash on the government and has meaning only if the government accepts that leash. If it throws off the leash and flexes its police power, the only recourse is to yield or fight — and you can't fight without weapons. Incidentally, let me be clear: We have not reached the physical fighting point. Thankfully, we are still a civil society with multiple civil, legal, and non-violent means for asserting our rights. Resisting now through these lawful mechanisms will ensure continued peace in America. Still, an armed society is a society respected by its own government. More than 35% of US Dollars Ever Printed [were] Made in 2020. The Federal Reserve system printed more than 35% of the dollars ever printed in the year 2020 alone. A graphic from the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve reveals the severe increase in printing, with dollar printed dramatically exceeding the number produced in previous years. The increase in printing and spending was spurred by the coronavirus, with the federal government moving to deliver two financial stimulus packages in the year which relieved the American taxpayer. Leaders of both political parties agreed the stimulus spending was necessary, with the virus spurring an unprecedented recession. However, the inflationary effects on the dollar from the print and spend approach are unavoidable. The volume of US dollars circulating throughout the economy went from just over $15 trillion to over $19 trillion in one year alone. Democrats take first steps to censor conservative TV channels OANN, Newsmax and Fox News. In a shocking development in the ongoing censorship debate, two influential Democrat members of the House of Representatives have taken the first steps to challenge the continued availability of conservative channels Newsmax, OANN, and Fox News on mainstream cable, satellite, and streaming television platforms. [...] Among other things, the letter to the companies by [Rep. Anna] Eshoo and [Rep. Jerry] McNerney attacked the three conservative news channels as "misinformation rumor mills and conspiracy theory hotbeds that produce content that leads to real harm." House Democrats are Going After Cable Providers and Streaming Services for Hosting Channels Like Fox News and OANN. When going after advertisers wasn't enough to sink channels that hold conservative opinions, Democrats began shifting their attention to other methods of fascistically silencing their ideological opposition. According to The Hill, Democrats are now going after streaming services and cable providers for playing host to what they call "misinformation" and for breeding "radicalized individuals." The companies they're going after include Comcast and Verizon, as well as streaming companies like Hulu and Roku to question their "ethical principles". Donations 'Requested' by Newsom Exploded as His Emergency Powers Ballooned. In 2020, California Gov. Gavin Newsom's office reported that individuals or organizations made $226 million in private donations to organizations at Newsom's request. These "behested payments" were a record-setting haul eclipsing all prior donations on record by nearly $100 million. While most donations supported COVID-19 relief efforts, a closer look suggests Newsom's fundraising was supercharged not just by the pandemic, but also by the broad emergency powers the Democratic governor has assumed because of it. Behested payments are a unique feature of California politics. State law defines a behested payment as a donation to a government program or charity made "at the request, suggestion, or solicitation of, or made in cooperation, consultation, coordination or concert" with a public official. While payments of $5,000 or more are disclosed to the public, they remain an overlooked portion of politicians' finances, even though contributions often come from businesses with interests in the state government. Last year, Newsom raised a combined $45 million from insurance giants Blue Shield of California and Kaiser Permanente for Project Homekey, his housing initiative. Newsom had selected Blue Shield CEO Paul Markovich to co-chair California's task force on COVID-19 testing. In January, the governor again tapped Blue Shield, with assistance from Kaiser Permanente, to manage vaccine distribution across the state. How to Push Back Against a Bully. Did a Minneapolis policeman's decision to sit on the neck of George Floyd on May 25 really "cause" the summer of violence, namely the one that Antifa, BLM, and their Democratic sponsors unleashed in every major American city? Did a single killing in Minneapolis cause organized wars against "systemic racism" here and in Canada and then in Western Europe, with accompanying looting and burning? Were people cancelled and fired, statues toppled, streets and buildings renamed according to quickly ratcheted-up standards of political correctness all because of an event in Minneapolis last spring? The obvious answer is no. Crises are generated when those in power decide to generate them. The media can throw oil on the flames whenever they decide it is in their interest to do so. Universities and other "institutions of learning" will then join the fray, together with their comrades in the deep state, who are always eager to fight "prejudice." The fact is, we are dealing with a power complex that can turn even minor incidents into violent demonstrations and calls for government action to end "discrimination" and to ferret out and punish "white supremacists." 2020 made it really hard to take Washington seriously. One is hard pressed to imagine how a former president can be impeached. The term doesn't even make sense, as the whole idea of impeachment is to remove a president from office. If said president isn't even in office, there's no squaring the circle. The notion seems to be to close any avenue Donald Trump may use to re-establish himself in national politics. Not a thing constitutional about it. That Pelosi & Company fear Trump even out of office is beyond dispute. He is a threat to their crooked lives because America is no longer blind to the extraordinary criminality that has Washington by the throat. The hope that was America for centuries was predicated on sincere efforts to hamstring the corruption that otherwise ran rampant across the world. Now the whole world has seen that not even America can stand honestly in the sunshine. Power Crazed: Inspector Dances with Glee While Shutting Down Los Angeles County Brewery Restaurant. Moments after shutting down the Bravery Brewing Company for allowing customers to pick up prior to the Super Bowl rather than delivering, the LA County Health Inspector does a little happy dance. Surveillance footage shows Los Angeles County inspector Jatinder Chhabra entering the building just over half an hour after they opened. They had to shut down right now, she informed the employee, who was ringing up two customers at that moment. Why? No food truck. [Video clip] The Grand Illusion. The federal government is illegitimate. I can unwind that all you want, but it's a fact. It's a fact to such an extent that they have put up a twelve-foot-high fence around the capitol with razor wire crowning the structure. They've posted twenty-thousand troops near at hand in case too many of us figure it out. They are afraid of us and they should be. If I had defied the will of the people and installed a mentally deficient old man instead of the people's choice, I'd be worried about the anger of the American people, too. A Freedom-Loving People Needs to Call the Bluff of Those Instilling Fear. While it took the combined elements of the New Deal and American mobilization during World War II, the land of the free and the home of the brave eventually reasserted itself and America won through to victory — over straitened economic circumstances and the combined military might of National Socialist Germany and Imperial Japan. What followed was two decades of prosperity, social harmony, and relative peace. Today, that country has nearly vanished into history, defeated by a combination of "progressive" assaults on the nation-as-founded, and a concomitant loss of self-confidence and even legitimacy. Worst of all, the fear that FDR warned of has now inculcated itself as the new American default mode: everything terrifies us, and sends us scurrying for the imagined security of "safe spaces." Which are, of course, really prisons for a people no longer capable of governing themselves. Exhibit A is COVID-19, China's gift to the world, the overreaction to which has elevated "civil servants" to the status of dictators, abrogated the Constitution, destroyed the economy, and encouraged the citizenry to shun their fellow men as if they were radioactive. It has terrified a country grown ever more effeminate in its mannerisms and speech patterns, and fearful of engagement with everyday life. It has created the absurd spectacle of once-free citizens habitually masked and shuffling along like the captive residents of a communist country, tethered to their iPhones, bombarded daily with government and Google propaganda, and accepting the notion that this is somehow the New Normal — and ought to be. Free Thy Mind. The federal government is a body of dictators. They recognize no higher authority than themselves. It isn't much better at the state, county or city levels. The stolen election was just one more way to sideline the people, take them out of the equation for anything other than tax assets. That's why a lot of Republicans failed to seek an audit of the election, or even individual state elections. They didn't want to upset the process of removing your voice from future elections as well. They have a nifty little game going on up there and they don't want principle to stand in the way of their power. That power is to operate a money-laundering scheme wherein contributors to their "re-election" provide the slush fund from which the individual candidate is allowed to draw and return that cash to their donors through favorable legislation with a crumb or two aimed at the citizens. This was most obviously the case with every "Covid relief" bill they have or will pass. A few pennies to the people, a few billion to their global partners. Lee Smith Nails It, The Elites "Want Us To Know" They Hold all Power and Control. Adam Townsend had a great podcast interview with journalist Lee Smith last week, and for the first time Smith eloquently hit on something CTH has discussed for several years. The "elites" writ large are so open in their current proclamations of being beyond reach, because they want us to know their power removes them from any accountability. Often we see people ask 'why are they so openly admitting to their wrongdoing'? Within the answer I have written frequently 'they simply do not care'... It is not a sense of boundless hypocrisy that drives them to showcase their disconnect, the disconnect is purposefully part of the ideological advancement of their goal. How Your Government Really Works. [Scroll down] It is almost impossible for prominent people to conceal their behavior. The late Senator John McCain's wife Cindy claimed, "Epstein was hiding in plain sight. We all knew about him. We all knew what he was doing, but we had no one that was — no legal aspect that would go after him. They were afraid of him. For whatever reason, they were afraid of him." The important part of this statement is: "We all knew about him." Jeffrey Epstein was prostituting young girls and Cindy McCain knew about it. She did not report it. What was she afraid of? Vladimir Bukovsky pointed out one of the problems with exposing people: "The movers and shakers of today have little interest in digging for the truth. Who knows what one may come up with? You may start out with the communists and end up with yourself." ABC Now Looks to State and Federal Prosecutors to Get Trump in Court. Only after former President Trump was acquitted for the second time in an impeachment trial did ABC finally give any form of credence to the Republican argument that the Senate was not the right place to hold a former president accountable. And during Valentine's Day Sunday, Good Morning America was trying to count the ways and charges Trump could face and the federal and state levels to bar him from running for office ever again. "In his speech after the vote to acquit, after he, in fact, voted to acquit, [Minority Leader] Mitch McConnell [R-KY] said, Trump, and I'm quoting here, 'didn't get away with anything, yet,'" co-anchor Dan Harris noted to legal analyst Dan Abrams. "So, what legal consequences could Trump still face? Could there be state charges, federal charges? What do you think?" According to Abrams, federal prosecutors would be too intimidated by the "political imagery" to prosecute Trump for inciting the Capitol insurrection. So, he looked to the states: [...] Trump Acquittal Shows Congress Is Not Exempt From The Constitution. House impeachment managers argued Saturday, as throughout former President Donald Trump's impeachment trial, that Congress is exempt from the Constitution. Lead manager Rep. Raskin (D-MD) said that because this was not a criminal trial, the legal requirements for "incitement" did not apply, the right to due process did not apply, and even the cherished First Amendment did not apply. In effect, Raskin argued, Congress was exempt from following constitutional principles. [...] Raskin, Schiff, and the Democrats told the Senate that they should ignore the principles of the Bill of Rights. As Trump's lawyers noted in their rebuttal Friday, the House managers were effectively asking the Senators to violate their own oaths of office. That may or may not have been the reason the Senate ultimately acquitted Trump, both times. Worshipping At The Altar Of Power. On Wednesday, January 6th, a mob of aggrieved voters from across the political spectrum stormed the Capitol, [...] But more important than the unfortunate event itself was the way our political and cultural leaders described it. Both former First Lady Michelle Obama and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, among others, described the storming of the capitol as a desecration, meaning that that mob had defiled a sacred place. Obama and Pelosi, it is assumed, believe that the capitol building is hallowed ground; that it is a sacred representation of our democracy. While we might agree that it represents our democracy, it would be foolish and dangerous to consider it sacred. Yes, our country was founded on sacred principles and transcendent truths, but these truths are not to be found in the seat of power, but rather where the founding fathers knew they resided, in our Creator. Our Leadership class does not believe in the God of our founders. They do not fear God the Creator nor kneel for his forgiveness and blessing. Instead, they kneel and bow their heads for BLM or, rather, they supplicate themselves to the power it represents. Power is what they crave, strive for, and worship. Public Servants or Parasites? When did politicians and federal employees start calling themselves "public servants"? Even more importantly, why are we letting them? It's almost as if they're trying to claim the mantle of nobility for making a sacrifice in the public interest. But I don't understand what that sacrifice is. They're paid better and have better benefits than most private-sector employees. They're rarely held accountable for their performance. Why do we treat them as if they're serving a higher calling than any other profession in the country? Why are Democrats Pushing Impeachment? Nancy Pelosi is one of the snidest and most petty representatives in Congress. I have personally heard from several Democratic representatives their beliefs that Pelosi held up critical immigration and COVID legislation that they privately supported, for no other reason than that it might help Trump look good. They supported the holdups because they feared retribution from Pelosi. If you want to hear Pelosi's partisanship, listen for yourself to her opening comments during the beginning of the House debate on Arizona's electoral votes. Pelosi is sufficiently petty to demand impeachment as a final boot out the door. This is my personally favored reason and stands as a testament to the characters of Chuck Schumer, Adam Kinzinger, Liz Cheney and others who have joined them. While several junior Democrats may have done so out of fear, Democratic leaders and Republicans had no good excuses. But there could be another reason; one that fits well with Democrats' recent militarization of D.C. and gross violations of our 1st Amendment rights to speech and to assemble and the redress of grievances. [...] Lawyers Are Facing Reprisal for Representing Trump. This Is Un-American. "So... you represented Trump?" That question is unfairly haunting a number of the former president's lawyers. Because of his legal counsel to former President Donald Trump, constitutional scholar and law professor John Eastman — the former dean of the law school no less — was pushed out of Chapman University, where he spent his entire, very distinguished academic career. The same thing happened to Cleta Mitchell, a well-known and highly respected Washington, D.C. lawyer who had practiced with Foley and Lardner for decades. Now, Michigan lawyers Greg Rohl, Scott Hagerstrom, and Stefanie Junttila, who represented the Trump campaign in election litigation in the state, are being unfairly and unjustly targeted for disbarment by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and state Attorney General Dana Nessel. Biden's Banana Republic.
[Scroll down] [Under the Biden] administration, this country is shaping up as a banana republic. Think about:
The FBI's Campaign Against Some Rightwing Groups Looks Exactly Like J. Edgar Hoover's COINTELPRO Scandal. [Scroll down] For the past four years, we've been appalled by the FBI and the Intelligence Community working hand-in-glove to insert informers into a presidential campaign and transition team. We saw an obviously faked dossier laundered by the CIA and FBI through press leaks to create the pretext for a special counsel. Over the past month, I've posted about the alarming pattern of "militia" and "extremist" arrests with a common thread. A group meets. Someone in the group brings up the bright idea to commit a federal felony. Discussion ensues. An outsider with the means to carry out the felony is introduced to the group. Some inciting act is taken, like purchasing an illegal device, and the FBI descends on the group. There is a press conference and indictments and much blathering about the enemy within and the danger of extremists. [...] You have groups opposed in some fundamental way to the direction the elites want the nation to go. They are targeted for no other reason than their dissent. From there, it is a short jump to creating facts that enable law enforcement to suppress that dissent. [...] If federal law enforcement continues to push informants and provocateurs into otherwise peaceful organizations and engage in what a layperson would characterize as entrapment, then they build a case for having entire groups labeled as violent extremists. As we saw in the aftermath of the Capitol riot, that kind of labeling can be used to prevent people from traveling (the 'no-fly" list). It can keep them from renting housing (AirBNB canceling reservations). It can get financial institutions to make it impossible to use a credit card or other payment system. And on and on. Slowing Killing The American Frog. [Scroll down] By harassing President Trump from the start of his term, Democrats kept him, and us, just enough off balance to keep on moving the pieces into place. A big part of that was forcing us to accept, incrementally, things we knew to be wrong. We knew to be untrue the Russian and Ukrainian plots Trump supposedly perpetrated. By contrast, we had irrefutable proof that Biden plotted with Ukraine, but our institutions ignored that. We were force-fed a 'new reality.' Watching General Flynn, Carter Page and Roger Stone (among others) accused as criminals and destroyed financially added to the unease. None of the accusations were credible. A 5 a.m. raid on Stone with a SWAT team and a TV crew was chilling. Why was it done? To undermine our belief in reality! We had to swallow each indignity. We never knew what or who might be sacrificed next. We thought the Democrat actors in Congress were evil fools but watched in horror as they got away with every outrageous ploy. We will never see indictments for the plotters. 10 Years in Prison for a Meme? The Department of Justice is showing that it has become a political weapon in the earliest days of the Biden Presidency. The F.B.I. has arrested a pro-Trump meme maker (artist), who now faces a 10-year sentence for posting a comical image four years earlier. They are outright beginning to arrest people for political speech. [Video clip] After Vetting 25,000 Guardsmen, No Extremists Were Found. In the wake of the storming of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, an unprecedented step was taken: placing 25,000 National Guardsmen to protect the Capitol. Democratic Rep. Steve Cohen expressed concerned that with so many white Trump voters in the guard, there could be violent extremists among them. Politico shared these concerns in a piece arguing the military has a hate-group problem. The piece used entirely anecdotal evidence, so is there any real data? It turns out that thanks to concerns from people like Cohen, the National Guard and the FBI vetted the 25,000 grunts from across the nation to assure no extremists were among them. It was widely reported that 12 guardsmen were removed from the force as a result of the vetting. But now, The Federalist's Jordan Davidson has gotten clarification from the National Guard about these 12 people. According to the Guard: [...] None of these individuals were flagged for extremist, criminal or threat association. [...] Thus far, Cohen has not apologized for besmirching the honor and morals of so many military service members, nor has the media done any kind of about-face on the nature of the threat. This is because the idea that Trump-supporting boogiemen are lurking in our ranks serves their political purposes. Unite and Heal With Show Trials and Fascist Purges. When asked how he defines unity, Joe Biden, with the help of three teleprompters and a small staff communicating with him through his earpiece and a series of frantic signals and hoots, explained that, "If you pass a piece of legislation that breaks down on party lines but it get passed, it doesn't means there wasn't unity — it just means it wasn't bipartisan." [...] 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. [...] The show trial of President Trump and the city full of soldiers is just the opening act to the Great Purge of a domestic terrorism crackdown on anyone who ever retweeted the wrong meme. Understanding the Institutional Protection Racket Via Congress, Main Justice DOJ, FBI and FISA Court. Many people are now becoming aware of the severity of self-serving corruption in/around the institutions that frame our government. Considering that Sundance has a target on his back; and considering that it is only a matter of time before that targeting gets ugly; let me remind everyone of just how severe the issues are confronting our nation. [...] The staff of Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, Homeland Security Chair Ron Johnson and even the staff of House Oversight Ranking Member Jim Jordan are purposefully and willfully blind. They choose not to know things; or at least they claim not to know and do an exceptional job of purposeful pretend. The investigative information that makes up the news cycles amid the investigative right-side of the spectrum is generally compartmented or silo'd. Within DC all branches and people within them keep information isolated from each-other in order to create and retain plausible deniability. This permits their leadership to talk a good game on television while nothing is actually accomplished. It is all part of the game. Funny how the party that claims to be for the little guy always supports the billionaires. [Scroll down] I have never seen anyone as dangerous in the White House as Joe Biden in his first nine days as he signs executive order after executive order, some 40 now at last count. He has stacked his cabinet with radical leftists pushing the green agenda to destroy America. He sends out John Kerry, with multiple mansions, a yacht and a private jet, to tell the public that is good for them that he is destroying their jobs. After all, he drove a Tesla from Massachusetts to D.C. On Fox News, I heard left-wing Juan Williams say he didn't really care about Kerry's or anyone else's lifestyle, even as they are dictating how all of us should live our lives. [...] And no matter how often all these supposedly smart cabinet members, as well as Biden himself, his vice president, Kamala Harris, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and others repeat that we have to get rid of oil and coal to control temperatures and the climate, not one sock puppet at the Washington Post or any other journalist, including at Fox, ask for scientific evidence to support their theory and destructive policies. There is no scientific evidence, so they never ask. They just go along. Thermonuclear Option: The Explicit Danger in Eliminating the Filibuster. As Americans send a 50-50 Senate and 221-211 House to Washington, many of our friends on the Left are pushing for dramatic policy swings reflective of the dramatic march leftward of the Democratic party every year since Obama's departure from office. [...] The very thing we can not afford as a nation is for dramatic and one-sided federal action on the issues we've been divided over for so many years. Lowering the degree of consensus necessary for dramatic swings in policy, enacting them absent broad national support, will raise the political stakes beyond comprehension and make the fervor of the 2020 election an unremarkable footnote. A big reason that the Affordable Care Act was so embittered, caused such rancor, was because the president at the time chose to pass the legislation without having first established a national consensus for it. That lack of support was evidenced in polls, the organic movements that rose up against it, and the need for Democrats to resort to budget reconciliation to pass it. "80 Million Votes". [Commentary on the sparsely-attended Biden inauguration ceremony.] [Video clip]
I Watched Biden's Inauguration First-Hand: Haunted and numb in a horribly sanitized city. As I grabbed some coffee before heading to the Capitol Building to watch the 46th President of the United States of America take his title, the lovely lady behind the counter told me she had never seen anything like this in D.C. in her life. And all I can say as I stand here now in the freezing cold with a handful of others is that I hope America never has to see anything like this again. Nothing is as it seems. It is just horrible, in every sense. There is no one here. And I am not saying that in the weird competitive way people talk about crowd sizes as a measure of popularity. Remember the endless quarrel over the size of Trump's inauguration crowd versus Obama's? What I mean is that there is literally no one here. Even pressed up to the gates within sight of the Capitol Building there is barely a handful of Biden supporters — alongside a small gaggle of media, scratching about, trying to find something to film. The Trial Of Citizen Trump Would Raise Serious Constitutional Questions. With the second impeachment of President Donald Trump, the Congress is set for one of the most bizarre moments in constitutional history: the removal of someone who has already left office. The retroactive removal would be a testament to the timeliness of rage. While it is not without precedent, it is without logic. [...] Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats have stated that their primary interest is in the possible disqualification of Trump from holding future federal office. Disqualification however is an optional penalty that follows a conviction and removal. It may be added to the primary purpose of removal referenced in the Constitution. The Trump trial would convert this supplemental punishment into the primary purpose of the trial. DPS Abruptly Closes Texas State Capitol Out Of An Abundance Of Caution, Threats Of Violence. It was just a few days ago that the Texas State Capitol opened up for the new session of the Texas legislature. The top concern at that time was protecting lawmakers, staff, and visitors from the coronavirus. Now the capitol building and grounds have been closed and it has nothing to do with COVID-19. Threats of violent protests that have come into all 50 states, including Texas, caused the Texas Department of Public Safety to abruptly close the capitol Friday night. The building and the Capitol grounds were closed due to new intelligence coming in that intensified safety concerns, causing DPS to tighten security. The building and grounds were closed due to the pandemic and also due to damage done by protesters last May and June during the Summer of Love. The closures begin today and last through Wednesday. The Texas legislature gaveled in on Tuesday to begin its work. The Texas legislature meets every two years, not annually. This is the first week of the 87th Legislature. Goya Foods CEO Robert Unanue: The Left 'Weaponized' Pandemic To 'Shutdown Economy' For 'Political Gain'. Goya Foods CEO Robert Unanue came out swinging at the political Left during a Friday interview on Fox News, saying that the political Left "weaponized" the pandemic to shutdown the economy for political reasons. [...] "The worst thing we can do is shutdown our economy, kill our spirit," Unanue continued. "You know, we need a reason to get up in the morning: God, family, work. And they're taking away our spirit. They're taking away our ability to work. They essentially declared martial law, I believe, in this country, shutting everything down. It's the worst thing we could have done just for political gain. I think it's criminal. I think it's immoral. To shutdown this economy for this basically political reasons and, you know, we're one nation under God. We're not one nation under Twitter. We're not one nation under big media, or under central government." An L.A. councilman lied to the FBI. Probation officials say he deserves no jail time. It was the first blockbuster case to surface in the federal corruption probe of Los Angeles City Hall — a multi-count indictment accusing former Councilman Mitchell Englander of taking envelopes of cash, lying to the FBI about that money and obstructing its investigation. Englander, while serving in office, made false statements to FBI agents during three separate interviews, prosecutors said, providing untrue information about his dealings with a businessman who gave him $15,000 in two casino bathrooms. The case was resolved quickly, with Englander pleading guilty to a single count of scheming to falsify material facts. But now, prosecutors are voicing objections to the sentence recommended by federal probation officials: three years' probation, a $9,500 fine and no jail time or community service. The U.S. Government is Hopelessly Corrupt. [Scroll down] Today, in addition to maximizing profits, the oligarchy wants to control what you read, what you think and what you are permitted to express. There is an unholy and dangerous alliance combining the media and Big Tech with the national security state, that is, the intelligence services, the military-industrial complex and law enforcement. It is, quite literally, an effort to abrogate the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and eliminate free speech. The United States government has gone beyond authoritarianism towards the Chinese Communist Party model of state capitalism and totalitarianism. And what better candidate to carry that model forward than Joe Biden, who is already compromised by his close connections with the Chinese government? Make no mistake, Donald Trump won the 2020 Presidential election. It was stolen, not only from him, but, more importantly, it was stolen from the American people by the well-organized and well-financed application of massive electoral fraud. We Desperately Need SOME Institution to Execute as Constitutionally Designed. Trump supporters' frustration is predicated in large part upon decades' worth of America's institutions not doing what they are Constitutionally mandated to do. Our government is supposed to be limited — and subservient to We the People. It's been more than a century since any of that was true. The examples of this ever-worsening situation are more numerous than the stars in the sky. But generally speaking, the Executive Branch and all its very many agencies don't do what they're supposed to do — and do all sorts of things they are not supposed to do. The Legislative Branch doesn't do what the Legislative Branch is supposed to do — and does all sorts of things it is not supposed to do. And the Judicial Branch doesn't do what the Judicial Branch is supposed to do — and does all sorts of things it is not supposed to do. Waving Goodbye to the America We All Knew and Loved. The worst shortcoming of our government is its failure to maintain election integrity. [...] The 2020 presidential election has brought us even lower on the ladder. We have more than a thousand sworn affidavits attesting to massive voter fraud: suspension of signature verification, violation of state election rules, non-verification of mail-in ballots, backdating of ballots, double-voting, dead people voting, hiding ballots under the table, refusal to allow poll-watching, and vote-switching by machine systems. "People are going on the record under oath and risking being canceled, doxed, and even accosted, to tell what they have seen about this election process," said Rep. Michael Cloud. "The apparent lack of action from the Justice Department regarding a number of anomalies, statistical improbabilities, and sworn accusations of fraud is troubling." It may be troubling, but it is consistent with partisan activities of the DOJ, the FBI, and the IRS. FBI Director James Comey's refusal to indict Hillary Clinton, Obama's weaponization of the IRS against conservative groups, and inaction from the Durham investigation have destroyed the public's confidence in our justice system. We Were Laughed Out of Court because the Courts Have Become Ridiculous. Conservatives who object to election fraud have found that liberals' favorite retort is "your claims have been laughed out of court." This argument is authoritarian in its reasoning. It defers to a juridical priesthood and allows one guild, the attorneys, to override what average people can see in front of them. Such an argument should not stagger wise conservatives. [...] People who have been granted juridical authority can indeed err en masse by an enormous margin, for long periods of time, on matters that should be obvious. [...] It was bad enough that the United States courts rejected civil rights cases from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century out of hand. By the twenty-first century, American courts were on course to affirm some of the most preposterous claims about sex and gender ever asserted in all human history. The erosion of commonsense language that arguably began with Roe v. Wade moved quickly in forty-two years to the insanity of Obergefell v. Hodges and even to the madness of the supposedly conservative-dominated Supreme Court in 2020's Bostock and Henderson v. Box. 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. A Call to Arms for All Patriots to Come to the Aid of Their Country. Nov. 3, 2020, a new day of infamy, a devious covert attack shook the United States of America to its core. This attack was worse than Pearl Harbor or 9/11. The perpetrators were our elitist aristocracy and political class that reject the concept of self-governing by We the People. Complicit were our unelected administrative state, the Deep State, the mainstream media (MSM), Big Tech, The New World Order (Globalists — The Great Reset), and hostile foreign governments, specifically China. This evil coalition seeks to subvert the People's will by undermining our core beliefs, sovereignty, and overthrowing our government as created by our founders. [...] This action was yet another coup to conceal the many past criminal acts of these perpetrators, e.g., treason, misprision of treason, rebellion or insurrection, and advocating the government's overthrow. Including violating the People's civil rights under the First, Second, Fourth, and Fifth Amendments and many other serious federal felonies that so far have gone unpunished. Steadfast Doesn't Mean When It's Easy. [Scroll down] It was during one of those briefing trips to DC when I recognized a serious disconnect between what the people within those institutions of government viewed as their role, and what We The People expected of them. It was also the first time when I realized that internal corrective action was unlikely to succeed because the scale of corrupt activity was not simply based on intent, but also present because the absence of morality was metastatic throughout the system. I'm certain there are good people in DC, but the systems surrounding them have lost their originating purpose. The central function of U.S. government is now so corrupt the institutions regard 'We The People' as the problem the people within the system must protect themselves from. I quickly recognized the solutions to our national issues were never going to come from our requests to those who operate within the institutions. However, even worse was the impact we were having on each other due to our national frustration. It was evident within our frustration — as a nation we are losing a sense of identity, unity and fellowship. The "Republican Democratic party" defines corruption: They stole our money and gave it back to us. The latest Republican democratic party garbage bill is just that, GARBAGE. I started reading it yesterday, and by 7 am this morning I had a strange urge to pick up a pitchfork and drive to DC. I expected it to be bad, but not this bad. The first question I have for grifters on Capital Hill is "How can you give us money that's already ours? Sure, it's our tax money so you can say it's already ours, but that's not what I mean. What I'm saying is that they stole our money and gave it back to us. How? If you have paying close attention you would know that we have $450 billion left over from the first round of stimulus checks and the CARES ACT. The money had already been approved and is already ours. We didn't have to wait for a new round of funding to be approved. It was just a simple matter of distribution. What they did was steal our money, our 450 billion, called it "repurpose", and gave it back to us, as if it was theirs to give. The Abominable 'America Last' Porkulus Bill. This country is not governed by a "Republican Party" and a "Democratic Party." It is governed by an establishment "uniparty" that betrays our citizens at every turn. Exhibit A: The joint annual ritual of fiscal vulgarity known as the omnibus spending bill. [...] The juxtaposition of measly COVID-19 relief for U.S. citizens against the backdrop of lavish aid for illegal immigrants, the military-industrial complex, Big Pharma, overseas social justice warriors, nongovernmental organizations and foreign countries is just too brazen to ignore. Americans will receive $600 COVID-19 relief checks and $300 unemployment payments as part of the consolidated federal government funding package. The $900 billion in COVID-related aid is folded into the massive, 5,600-page legislation encompassing 12 fiscal 2021 spending bills worth $1.4 trillion. [...] We've had enough. A manufactured public health crisis, post-George Floyd anarchotyranny, and the wholesale hijacking of our election system are pushing citizens to the brink of revolt. Yet another Democrat leader tells people to stay home for Christmas, then announces she will travel to visit her relatives. Democrat leaders like Governors Gavin Newsom, Andrew CVuomo, Gretchen Whitmer, and J.B. Pritzker, Mayors Lauri [sic] Lightfoot and London Breed, and now Mecklenburg (Charlotte), North Carolina County Executive Dena Diorio, have all exposed themselves as outright hypocrites and elitists by telling ordinary people to obey restrictions on their personal freedoms while flaunting those same limitations themselves. It is as if some madness has gripped Democrat elected officials, compelling them to flaunt their contempt for those they are supposed to lead and their belief that they alone are capable of making rational decisions about which risks to take, while the ignorant sheep must be told what to do and contrained. Yesterday [12/23/2020], in a virtual news conference, County Executive Dena Diorio made a fool of herself by telling county residents to stay home for Christmas, and then under questioning admitting that she would be traveling by car to Durham (142 miles) to spend Christmas with her family. Weissmann Lashes Out at Trump Over Manafort, Stone Pardons — Cooks Up New Plot to Prosecute Them for Perjury and Obstruction. President Trump on Wednesday evening [12/23/2020] asserted his authority and announced 26 new Christmas pardons including ones to Paul Manafort and Roger Stone. Trump's 2016 campaign manager Paul Manafort was hunted down by Mueller's goons after he helped President Trump win the 2016 election. Manafort was sentenced to 7 years in prison for tax evasion and other crimes stemming from his Ukrainian lobbying. Andrew Weissmann, the real prosecutor in charge of Mueller's witch hunt lashed out at President Trump on Wednesday night following his pardon of Manafort and Stone. Stimulus Bill Stimulates Congress's Lust for Power. And so once again the mountain has labored mightily and brought forth a mouse. Our dysfunctional Congress has just passed another "stimulus" bill designed to stimulate nothing but their own lust for power and determination to hang on to their seats at all costs — in this case, some $900 billion of our money, of which they have just doled out to the peons the grand sum of six hundred simoleons to help ease the pain of the Dreaded Corona Virus and their devastation of our livelihoods. Thanks, Mitch McConnell (78) and Nancy Pelosi (80). Fat-cat elderly millionaires both, these lifetime swamp creatures and selfless public servants have just pulled off an astounding feet of federal beneficence: sending pittances to many Americans to "ameliorate" the effects of the CCP virus panic that they themselves — and "servants" at every level of government — have caused. 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. The Left Redefines Resistance as 'Sedition'. It was inevitable that the Democrats would overreact to legal challenges by President Trump and other Republicans to corrupt election practices in swing states, but some responses have been unhinged even by their standards. One recurring refrain is particularly disturbing — that lawyers, members of Congress, and state attorneys general who supported post-election litigation are guilty of sedition. At least one Democratic congressman insists that attorneys representing the president in such challenges should be disbarred and that House members who supported Texas v. Pennsylvania in the Supreme Court shouldn't be seated in Congress. One of the defendants in that ill-fated lawsuit described it as a "seditious abuse of the judicial process." This dangerous view of dissent has a long, sordid history among progressives. Democratic President Woodrow Wilson, for example, was the driving force behind the notorious Sedition Act of 1918, passed by his fellow Democrats at a time when they controlled both houses of Congress. This anti-democratic outrage made it a felony crime to criticize the government and, by extension, Wilson himself. Joe Biden's niece Caroline gets no jail time after DUI guilty plea. Another Biden walks free. Joe Biden's niece Caroline Biden pleaded guilty to DUI on Dec. 3 — and was sentenced to 20 days to six months of "confinement," Pennsylvania court records said. But the small print shows Biden, 33, won't see a day behind bars after she negotiated a plea deal with the Montgomery County district attorney. Instead of jail, she got five-plus months of probation, with 20 days of rehab in January counted toward her sentence. The walk-free plea continues a long Biden family tradition of avoiding jail time. A [New York] Post investigation in July found at least eight other busts of Bidens resulted in wrist slaps. Rhode Island Governor Tells Citizens To 'Stay Home' Before Heading To Wine Bar. Democratic Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo was seen drinking at a wine bar just four days after reminding citizens to comply with coronavirus restrictions and stay home except for essential activities. Photos published by Turtleboy Sports and the libertarian group Liberty Rhode Island reportedly show Raimondo sitting in a local restaurant for a "wine and paint" night without a mask. The photo was taken by Erica Oliveras, who said she was also at the event at Barnaby's Public House in Providence, Rhode Island, according to ABC 6 News. Democratic governor tells people to 'stay home except for essential activities,' then is spotted at a wine bar without a mask. Democratic politicians have been caught openly disobeying their own COVID-19 lockdown orders for months: The latest hypocritical offender is the governor of Rhode Island. Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo, a Democrat, was reportedly photographed at a wine bar. The photo shows Raimondo, who is not wearing a face mask, enjoying a glass of wine at Barnaby's Public House in Providence. The photo was taken during a "wine and paint" event last Friday [12/11/2020], according to Erica Oliveras, who took the photo. However, only days earlier, Raimondo instructed her constituents to "stay home except for essential activities." Rogue US Attorneys Coming to a City Near You? Rachael Rollins, the rogue prosecutor in Boston, may want to be the United States attorney for the District of Massachusetts. According to news reports, Rollins says people working on the Biden transition team have approached her about the position. It is irrelevant whether she is just playing the "look at me, I'm important" political game or is serious about wanting the job. She could be the nation's first rogue U.S. attorney. The more disturbing thought is the possibility that we might end up with several rogue U.S. attorneys in key areas around the country. If you thought things were bad in cities with elected rogue prosecutors — and they are — just imagine how crime rates will explode across the country if a President Joe Biden nominates, and the Senate confirms, rogue U.S. attorneys. Republicans, Learn How to Fight Dirty or Keep Being Losers. As long as Republicans allow unreciprocated decency to stand in the way of victory, they will be losers forever. And, right now, the leader of the losers is Attorney General William Barr. In the weeks before Election Day, Barr reportedly instructed prosecutors and senior colleagues to prevent the Department of Justice's (DoJ) investigation into Hunter Biden's brand of corruption and crony capitalism from leaking to the public. His goal was to "keep the Justice Department out of campaign politics," although Biden's transgressions are directly relevant to a presidential election featuring his father. Ultimately, Barr sat silent as the left-leaning mainstream media disregarded the Hunter story and labeled Trump supporters as kooks, while social media's "woke" elites censored it. Even as President-elect Joe Biden lied to defend his son, Barr refused to speak up. Supreme Court sides with Colorado church over COVID attendance caps. The Supreme Court on Tuesday [12/15/2020] sided with a Colorado church challenging the state's capacity restrictions on houses of worship during the coronavirus pandemic, the latest order from the high court, now with a 6-3 conservative majority, in favor of churches and synagogues seeking to hold worship services during the ongoing crisis. In an order with three dissents, the high court tossed out an August decision from the federal district court in Colorado that kept the attendance limits in place and sent the dispute back to the lower courts for further consideration in light of its November order barring New York from enforcing capacity restrictions at houses of worship. Now we know for sure that our judges and justices are abject cowards. The vote fraud that took place in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Georgia, Arizona and Nevada was monstrous and long planned. Election laws were surreptitiously weakened by secret consent decrees (GA), mass mail-in ballots, Dominion vote machines programmed to flip votes, the creation of tens of thousands of fake ballots, illegal alien voting, illegal drop boxes, get-out-the-vote campaigns in Democrat-heavy districts paid for by the execrable Zuckerberg of Facebook infamy, the refusal to allow GOP observers, ballots trucked from one state to another. The judges dismissed lawsuits in every court where one was filed by the Trump campaign or other plaintiffs, seemingly without even considering the details. The Supreme Court justices surely all know what took place; they can't have missed all the hearings at which witnesses to fraud testified and signed affidavits as to the truth of what they observed. But the judges and justices were afraid. Now that the left seems to have successfully stolen the election, they will certainly do it again. They have the permission of the SCOTUS. Defense attorney in Floyd case says prosecutors shared disorganized, duplicate evidence. A defense attorney for the ex-Minneapolis police officer charged with murder in the death of George Floyd accused prosecutors of mishandling how they share evidence with the defense — including burying important information in between irrelevant material, providing duplicates of the same item and turning over thousands of pages of unrelated documents. Eric Nelson, who represents Derek Chauvin, filed a motion and affidavit Monday [12/14/2020] accusing Attorney General Keith Ellison's office of delaying his progress in Chauvin's case. "With every single round of discovery that has been disclosed there have been numerous problems and issues involving the manner in which the state disclosed it," Nelson wrote. "...Substantive evidence is often 'hay stacked' between other information." Also posted under obstructionism. Cuomo releasing private personnel documents of the woman who accused him of sexual harassment. [Thread reader] This is the man who opened a corruption commission then closed it when the evidence led to him, he has a lot hide. Cuomo is a man who renamed a bridge after his father with the intent to use it as a campaign boost with his name, even as his own CNN host brother told the world he shouldn't because his dad would have hated it. Cuomo is a man who is sitting on billions in funds meant for our starving public schools, ignoring a court order to distribute it to schools while handing tax cuts to his Trump donors. Even COVID didn't change his mind. When Trump decided not to provide PPE, Cuomo chose twitter and CNN cameras in a tough guy act and got nothing while other governors worked quietly to create a buyers coalition and cornered the market to purchase PPE from under Trump successfully. The 'kraken' is the sleeping giant now awakened within the GOP. [Scroll down] We're censored by big tech, smeared in the media, mocked in popular culture, and endure malicious political prosecution, as in the cases of Michael Flynn and Kyle Rittenhouse. On the other side, Hillary Clinton destroyed 30,000 emails, federal bureaucrats broke countless laws in the Russian Collusion hoax, leftist radicals burned cities and attacked police, Obama weaponized the IRS against Republicans, and illegally imposed DACA. The rules are clear: Democrats can break the law whenever they want. [...] Can you imagine a country where Democrats can commit blatantly unconstitutional actions to enable voter fraud while simultaneously using the same Constitution to insist Republicans have no legal grounds to challenge them? This is the America we're living in. Courts to Voters: Democrat Election Fraud Is 'Too Big to Fail'. The courts have spoken, one after another. Some 74 million Americans have been denied our day in court. The Democrats' crime of stealing a presidential election is too big to fail. Our play-it-safe judges don't want to venture into these enormous seas, full of sharks, without precedent. They want to say in the safe spaces of the familiar. Stealing an election for city council is familiar enough to be overturned by law. Stealing a presidential election by wholesale fraud is above the law. One might think that somehow our laws are written too narrowly to catch the whale of Democrat fraud in the election, but for one thing: the declarations from the bench that it is unthinkable to "upend an election." Our judges tell us that ruling fraudulent ballots invalid would "disenfranchise" millions of voters. These are political statements. They are pusillanimous statements. They are not legal statements. Bill Barr directly intervened to keep the Hunter Biden probe secret before the election. Attorney General Bill Barr used the force of his office to instruct prosecutors investigating Hunter Biden not to take any steps that might cause the probe to be publicly revealed in the run-up to the election. The directive, reported in the Wall Street Journal, was in keeping with existing Justice Department policy against taking investigatory steps close to an election that might interfere with it. Barr and his team took steps to 'insulate' the investigations, according to the report, even as President Donald Trump repeatedly demanded a probe of his political rival's son. Report: Bill Barr Knew of Criminal Investigations into Biden Family in Spring and Worked to Keep It Quiet. A report within the Wall Street Journal does not necessarily come as a surprise; however, it also does little to provide solace for the lack of action by Attorney General Bill "Bondo" Barr. According to the article AG Barr has known about at least two investigations related to the Biden family since early spring 2020, and he worked to keep them quiet. The Honor of the Legal Profession. [Scroll down] Anyone who reads the complaint filed by Texas (and rejected by the Supreme Court) must conclude that there are serious reasons to believe that this election was characterized by massive fraud in certain swing states and that this fraud was prepared and executed by partisan party operatives who used litigation to erode mechanisms of ballot security and control of the counting to consummate the win. Note that I do not claim that the evidence is conclusive, though I personally think it overwhelming. I use the softer "reason to believe", which means only that it needs investigation. A legal establishment dedicated to upholding process values would regard itself as honor-bound to demand an investigation of these charges. [...] This is not the reaction of the real legal establishment, which is demanding not just that the charges not be investigated, but that any lawyer who represents the president be damned. AG William Barr reportedly hid two federal probes into Hunter Biden for months. Attorney General William Barr knew about two contemporaneous federal investigations into Hunter Biden for months — and worked to keep them from the public ahead of the election, according to a new report. The nation's top law enforcement official avoided providing information about the probes to Republicans in Congress without explanation, a person familiar with the matter told the Wall Street Journal. One of the investigations was made public this week, when the 50-year-old son of President-elect Joe Biden disclosed on Wednesday that he was being probed for possible tax fraud. Congressional Republicans Are Furious With Bill Barr, and They Are Right to Be. A new report is out detailing just how furious Congressional Republicans are over Bill Barr hiding the Hunter Biden investigation. According to The Daily Caller, Barr knew about the investigation months ago (which also leaves the question open as to why he didn't know years ago). Instead of allowing the voters to be made aware of such a monumental development prior to the election, the DOJ paused the investigation and refused to confirm it existed. [...] Barr knew about this in the spring but didn't tell the President, nor any members of Congress that would usually be kept abreast of such a high profile investigation into the son of a presidential candidate. Further, Barr allowed the investigation to cease during the election season despite the fact that such steps were not taken for the Hillary Clinton, nor Donald Trump investigations during 2016. Why did Joe Biden deserve this kind of protection? And how was it fair to the electorate to not give them all the facts? Confirmed: Barr kept Hunter Biden probe a secret until after Election Day. Someone on Twitter said last night that this is the most ethical thing Barr has done as Attorney General and he's probably going to get fired for it. Which would make this administration two for two in dispatching AGs for the crime of behaving ethically. I'll be a little surprised if he survives the day. Trump was already thinking of firing him. Now he has confirmation from the WSJ that Barr could have revealed that Hunter Biden was under federal investigation at any time before the election — and chose not to. The Governmental Accounting Standards Board: Fraud Hidden in Plain Sight. All 50 states are experiencing revenue shortfalls due to declines in sales taxes, gas taxes, and licensing fees, not to mention the myriad other ways the government gleans revenue on a daily basis. For many states, actual revenue will fall short of revenue projections, which were made before the pandemic. In fact, 22 states will end the current year with deficits exceeding 10 percent of total revenue. However, despite these alarming figures, many states are claiming they will end the year with a budget surplus. A budget surplus in a year when almost every American not named Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk has had to tighten their belts more than a starving artist. How is this possible? The answer is in plain sight but clouded by a dense fog of fuzzy math. It is called the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) and is the single worst display of accounting practices since the Enron debacle. As Lockdowns Kill Businesses in California and New York the Politicians Ensure that Hollywood Is Thriving. Recently entertainer Seth MacFarlane made a quiet announcement that his sci-fi space satire television show "The Orville" was going back into production. This is a somewhat unsettling announcement for a couple of reasons. For one, over the past months Seth had been a loud proponent of shutdowns, quarantines, and basically any limitations done in the name of safety. We can guess that the virus has been scientifically shown to avoid television productions. The other issue is that as Seth's show ramps back up California's Governor Gavin Newsom has imposed tougher lockdown standards on citizens and businesses, as well as instilling a curfew. However, for this new round of clamps placed on the public, Newsom has seen fit to grant Hollywood an exemption from his lockdown, declaring that industry as "essential." It becomes another example of politicians freeing up the studios from restrictions; one class of elites favoring another class of elites. When Whistleblowers Are Treated Like Criminals. [Bradley] Birkenfeld is a whistleblower, someone who exposes corruption in either government or the business world that cost taxpayers a fortune. Through information from Birkenfeld, a former wealth manager at UBS in Switzerland, the federal government was able to recover "$780 million dollars in civil fines and penalties paid by UBS bank, and over $25 billion dollars in collections from U.S. taxpayers who had illegally held 'undeclared" offshore accounts in Switzerland and other countries," according to the National Whistleblower Center. That's a lot of money, so you'd think the federal government would've been very grateful to Mr. Birkenfeld. Biden: The China Candidate. There's a buzz going round about a lecture delivered by a Chinese economics professor, Di Dongsheng, at Renmin University in Beijing. Tucker Carlson did a monologue with some clips from a video of Professor Di's presentation. [Followed by (apparently) the complete transcript of the Professor's speech.] Video Of Chinese Economics Prof With Ties To Gov Explains Why They Had To Get Rid Of Trump, Chinese Media Deleted Video! Tucker Carlson just blew the lid off of the disturbing ties between top levels of the US government, Wall Street, and China. Excerpts of remarks by Di Dongsheng, associate dean, School of International Relations at Renmin University of China on Nov 28, 2020 in Shanghai on the television program "The Answers." The topic for a panel discussion was "Will China's Opening Up in the Financial Sector Attract Wall Street Wolves?" The Chinese government deleted the video but not before Inconvenient Truths by Jennifer Zeng was able to capture it. [Video clip] Tucker Carlson's Monologue on a Chinese Professor's Recent Speech Should Terrify You. In case you missed it, Tucker Carlson opened his show last night [12/7/2020] with a shocking video showing a Chinese professor of economics giving a speech about the country's decades-old activities in the United States. He followed up with commentary from China expert Gordon Chang and current Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe. The complete segment on Tucker Carlson tonight is about eight minutes long, but it is well worth a watch. [...] According to Carlson, the talk included references to a Chinese agent working as a vice president in a top Wall Street firm that was not named for fear of creating political trouble. The professor also went on at length about an American who now has dual citizenship in China. The professor asserts this agent helped the CCP with a propaganda operation in Washington, D.C., in 2015. Justin Amash Says Members Of Congress Have 'No Idea' Who Is Writing Legislation. Outgoing Michigan Rep. Justin Amash claimed on Sunday evening that members of Congress are not aware of who is writing the legislation that they vote on. "Legislation used to be crafted by legislators, not 'negotiators,'" he tweeted. "The public needs to know that members of Congress have no idea who the hell is writing our legislation. It's certainly not us." Oregon OSHA Can't Prove Salon Owner Is an Employer, Proceeds With $14k Fine Anyway. In an exclusive interview with PJ Media, salon owner Lindsey Graham, of Salem, Ore., said that she had a hearing with Oregon's Occupational Safety and Health Agency (OSHA) in her ongoing fight against fines for reopening Glamour Salon. OSHA fined her $14,000 for creating an unsafe work environment, despite being unable to prove that she has employees. As a salon owner, she leases stations to hairdressers who qualify as independent contractors. Despite having no proof, OSHA said they would fine her anyway. Government officials' coronavirus hypocrisy has created another public crisis. Multiple reports in just the past week have revealed blatant acts of hypocrisy committed by leaders who would like to live by a different set of rules than their constituents. In California, for example, Gov. Gavin Newsom was caught attending an indoor birthday party at a fancy French restaurant in the Bay Area after discouraging Californians from gathering with groups of more than 10 people. A few days later, it was reported that San Francisco Mayor London Breed attended a similar event at the same restaurant, even though she had urged city residents not to mingle with people outside their immediate household. And, perhaps worst of all, Steve Adler, the mayor of Austin, Texas, posted a video last month urging residents to "stay home if you can" to prevent the spread of the virus. He conveniently failed to mention that he filmed the video from his timeshare in Cabo, Mexico, where he was vacationing with several members of his immediate and extended family — having traveled there with a large group on a private jet. Trump campaign charges 'not a single' witness interviewed by DOJ. President Donald Trump's campaign on Dec. 1 fired back at Attorney General William Barr after the nation's top law enforcement official reportedly claimed that officials haven't seen evidence of widespread election fraud. "With all due respect to the Attorney General, there hasn't been any semblance of a Department of Justice investigation," Rudy Giuliani, a Trump lawyer, and Jenna Ellis, a Trump campaign attorney, said in a joint statement. "We have gathered ample evidence of illegal voting in at least six states, which they have not examined. We have many witnesses swearing under oath they saw crimes being committed in connection with voter fraud. "As far as we know, not a single one has been interviewed by the DOJ. The Justice Department also hasn't audited any voting machines or used their subpoena powers to determine the truth. Democrat hypocrites are undermining COVID with 'Do as I say, not as I do' attitude. As the nation tires of quarantines, boredom and loneliness, the same politicians who find glee in slapping wrists and dooming small businesses regularly break the rules, in letter and in spirit, when they want to. California Gov. Gavin Newsom dining maskless and indoors with lobbyists at the tony French Laundry restaurant the same week he warned against Thanksgiving gatherings. Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot having her hair done and joining in a riotous Joe Biden victory celebration in violation of her own restrictions — then having the gall to call her actions "essential activities." House Speaker Nancy Pelosi unmasked at a hair salon that wasn't even supposed to be open, even as she decried President Trump's reluctance to wear a mask — then claiming she'd been entrapped. Rules for thee not for me: Chicago mayor's security team gets traffic fines dismissed. We already knew Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot doesn't like her own rules. She was one of the first elected officials to fall victim to lockdown hypocrisy after getting her hair done shortly after she recorded a PSA urging Chicagoans to follow Illinois' restrictions on nonessential businesses, including not getting their hair done. [...] It turns out it's not just lockdown rules she thinks are worth breaking, either. According to a Monday report in the Chicago Tribune, Lightfoot's security detail got a pass on multiple traffic violations, with city officials dismissing them. Lightfoot became mayor of Chicago in May 2019. Since then, her security detail has been issued 13 citations. Ten of those tickets, all involving speed and red-light camera infractions, were dismissed by city officials. L.A. Supervisor Sheila Kuehl Dines at Outdoor Restaurant After Voting to Ban Outdoor Dining. Los Angeles County Suprevisor Sheila Kuehl reportedly dined at an outdoor restaurant in Santa Monica, hours after casting a decisive vote to ban outdoor dining in the county. [...] Los Angeles County has shut down outdoor dining for three weeks, effective Nov. 25. The county, and the state, are experiencing a coronavirus spike. Fellow supervisor Janice Hahn, who voted against the outdoor dining ban, told KTTV's Elex Michaelson that the danger of public officials doing what they have told constituents not to do means that they are "beginning to lose the trust of the public." She said there was not sufficient scientific evidence to support the ban on outdoor dining, given the economic cost before the holidays. The Editor says... Hypocritical dining-out LA County supervisor Sheila Kuehl is also part of federal corruption investigation. By now, you probably are familiar with the hypocrisy of Los Angeles County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl, who went out for a meal at her favorite restaurant hours after voting to ban outdoor dining at restaurants, after stating that outdoor dining is: "...a most dangerous situation" over what she described as a risk of tables of unmasked patrons potentially exposing their servers to the coronavirus. "This is a serious health emergency and we must take it seriously," Kuehl said. [...] Obviously, she doesn't really believe she was exposing herself or anyone else to danger. Supervisor Kuehl is 78 years old and obese, placing herself at high risk for Covid 19, so if "appropriate precautions" are good enough to allow her to dine outside at a restaurant, why shouldn't the vast majority of the population at less risk than she be allowed to do so? But to get a sense of the character of Supervisor Kuehl, take a brief look at another scandal, currently under federal investigation, in which she played an apparently central role. Another Democrat is caught violating the rules she imposes on others. Every closed restaurant represents several people's lives going down the drain. The owner who sank all of his money in the restaurant, the employees who worked there, the suppliers who were dependent on its custom, and the surrounding stores who counted on the foot traffic it brought — all of it's gone. And I might add, there's no reason to believe that these horrific losses made a damned bit of difference to the course of a virus that is relentlessly working its way through the population. While the people have suffered, the politicians imposing this suffering, like European royalty of old, have flaunted their special status. Denver's mayor, Michael Hancock, flew to his family within 30 minutes of telling Denver citizens to stay home for Thanksgiving. Andrew Cuomo, having reinstated the lockdown across New York, boasted about his family coming home for Thanksgiving. Illinois's Governor J.B. Pritzker, another Democrat millionaire, was happy to see his family travel during the height of the spring lockdown. Pennsylvania's health secretary, "Rachel" Levine, who leftists pretend is not a mentally ill man telling people he's a woman, forced sick people into nursing homes in May, even as he secretly removed his own mother. Fellow Republicans file articles of impeachment against Ohio governor. Several GOP state lawmakers have filed 12 articles of impeachment against Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, over their fellow Republican's handling of the coronavirus pandemic. The articles, which were filed by Rep. John Becker, accuse Mr. DeWine of numerous abuses of power in the past several months, including threats to veto a bill to limit the governor's emergency powers. "Governor DeWine's mismanagement, malfeasance, misfeasance, abuse of power, and other crimes include, but are not limited to, meddling in the conduct of a presidential primary election, arbitrarily closing and placing curfews on certain businesses, while allowing other businesses to remain open. He weaponized the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation to bully and harass businesses and the people; to enforce a statewide mask mandate and other controversial measures of dubious 'value,' making Ohio a hostile work environment," Mr. Becker said in a statement reported by WTVG-13, the Toledo ABC affiliate. 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." 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. Yesterday [11/25/2020], Stacey wrote about the latest egregious overreach: New York Mayor Bill de Blasio is placing law-enforcement COVID checkpoints around the city, giving it a Cold War East Berlin feeling just in time for the holidays. Here in Arizona, we haven't been subjected to a third job-killing, pointless lockdown... yet. For that I am most grateful. Go
Ahead and Celebrate Thanksgiving. Minnesota is one of a number of states that are living under what amounts to
martial law. Our proto-fascist dictator Tim Walz, in his latest edict, purports to ban traditional Thanksgiving
get-togethers: I am having a nightmare, and I can't wake up. There is some good news today, but the nightmarish dimensions of the problems facing the American Republic are also coming into horrifying focus. [...] The most important United States attorney is the one heading the Washington, D.C. district. That important post is currently occupied by an acting U.S. attorney named Michael R. Sherwin, not confirmed by the Senate. And he is declining to investigate an outrageous, murderous attack on a sitting United States senator. What's Our 'Stamp Act'? When Will It Be Enough? What is it going to be for us? Which right is the one that finally becomes intolerable for us? What will we finally take a stand to protect? Is it the right to self-defense? Is it the right to raise our own children? To choose our own medical care? To own our own homes? What will our Stamp Act be? Black Female Police Chief in Virginia Fired After Aggressively Investigating and Prosecuting Mob Violence. This story out of Virginia is really quite something. If I'm understanding it correctly, it very much appears as though the city's (Black, female) police chief was placed on administrative leave and then fired as retaliation for her investigation and attempted prosecution of criminal activity related to "Black Lives Matter" protests in the wake of George Floyd's killing. The only attempt at a justification for the firing I've found is that perhaps she was overzealous in the charges she pursued, and even that critique is disputable. There is also "an unspecified conflict of interest" that has not been established or expounded upon. Her real supposed transgression, it would appear, is that she sought to hold prominent people accountable for illegal acts — resulting in punishment for her because said prominent people believe, apparently correctly, that they're above the law. 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. The Right to Worship Even in a Pandemic. New York's dictatorial governor, Andrew Cuomo, may have met his match. The Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn is asking the Supreme Court of the United States to strike down Cuomo's Oct. 6 executive order shutting down "houses of worship" in areas of Brooklyn and Queens, while allowing "essential" businesses, like pet stores, groceries and big-box stores to stay open. Cuomo insists he's battling COVID-19. The Diocese says Cuomo's making a value judgment that going to Target is "essential" but taking communion isn't. Truth is, for devout communicants who are already suffering social isolation during the pandemic, finding the church doors closed can be soul crushing. Before Cuomo's executive order, churches were already following safety precautions including roping off every other pew, requiring masks and urging social distancing. The executive order disregarded that and capped attendance at 10 people — even for large churches with a capacity of 1,200. Sounds arbitrary. Where's the science here? Have too many people over for Thanksgiving in Oregon go to jail, but no sweat if you riot. Some lawmakers are criticizing Oregon's limits on group activities so close to the Thanksgiving holiday while proponents of the measures stay quiet on the nightly riots in Portland involving hundreds of people. Gov. Kate Brown, a Democrat, ordered a two-week freeze that includes limiting indoor and outdoor gatherings to no more than six people from no more than two households in an effort to curb the spread of the coronavirus. "For the last eight months I have been asking Oregonians to follow the letter and the spirit of the law and we have not chosen to engage law enforcement," Brown said Friday. "At this point in time, unfortunately, we have no other option." Black Virginia police chief fired for charging prominent BLM vandals and public officials. Back on June 10th in Portsmouth, Virginia, a large group of protesters decided to tear down and destroy a Confederate monument located in that city. An investigation was launched, led by Portsmouth Police Chief Angela Greene. After collecting video from the event and conducting interviews for two months, Greene announced in August that charges were being filed against 19 people who had been involved in the destruction. [...] You might think that would be pretty much the end of the story, but it wasn't. Among those arrested was State Sen. Louise Lucas, several leaders of the local Black Lives Matter movement, officials from the NAACP, and a member of the local school board. Since several crimes had obviously been committed, you might think that Chief Greene (who is Black, by the way) would be lauded for holding all citizens, regardless of their status accountable. You would be wrong, however. Howls of protest emerged not only from the community but from elected officials. Yesterday the situation came to a head and Chief Greene was unceremoniously fired. Virginia Police Chief Fired After Charging Democrat Leaders with Felonies!. Portsmouth Police Chief Angela Greene was fired Monday morning after being suspended from her position as Police Chief two months ago. Chief Green was suspended on September 4th by the former city manager just weeks after she brought felony charges against Democrat State Senator Louise Lucas and others in relation to protests and monument destruction that occurred June 8th. Senator Lucas was caught on video instructing Portsmouth Police officers to stand down during the protests. Pennsylvania Democrat AG sparks outrage for saying Trump may have already lost [...] before the votes have even been counted. The Attorney General of Pennsylvania Josh Shapiro, who is a Democrat, has sparked outrage after suggesting on Twitter that President Trump may have lost the ability to win the crucial swing state, with 20 electoral votes, more than 24 hours before the polls even close. 'If all the votes are added up in PA, Trump is going to lose,' Shapiro wrote on Twitter on Monday evening. 'That's why he's working overtime to subtract as many votes as possible from this process.' 'For the record, he's 0-6 against us in court,' the attorney general continued. 'We've protected voting rights. Now, ignore the noise — vote!' The Bidens: A Delaware mafia. [Scroll down] Hunter was a principal in pay-to-play on a global scale. Recent electronic and documented evidence confirms years of scuttlebutt that suggested that Hunter Biden, and Uncle Jim, were trading and profiting on the name and office of the "big guy." Throughout, Joe claims he knew nothing of any family pay-to-play hustles in Oman, Luxembourg, Romania, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Russia, Guatemala, and China. The ignorance defense is an instant replay of Clinton family tactics; deny, deny, deny, and when denials are no longer plausible, depend on Deep State Democrat Party Beltway hacks to cover or come to the rescue. [...] Withal, the Biden exposé is, by any metric, a day late and a billion dollars short — at best a pyrrhic victory for critics. The Justice Department and the FBI have had the goods on Biden for some time, yet official Washington is still mute and inert. Inertia at justice is a symptom of a much larger problem: institutionalized federal double standards. A Republican might be indicted by an ambiguous phone call while Democrats, like the Clintons and Bidens, get a pass on obvious felonies. Why Democrats must be kept out of power for at least a generation. California governor Gavin Newsom's recent ridiculous Thanksgiving edicts call for gatherings to be restricted to only three households and held outside. Masks are to be worn before and after eating and between bites. No singing or chanting is allowed and the meal is to last no longer than two hours. These are just a few of the restrictions dreamed up to slow the spread of the Wuhan virus. What these arbitrary proclamations illustrate is the mind of a power-hungry dictator. Under the pretense of keeping people safe, governors like Newsom, Andrew Cuomo, J.B. Pritzker, Jay Inslee, Kate Brown, Gretchen Whitmer, and Tom Wolf have curtailed the freedoms of Americans — and not just Americans, but the voters who elected these hack politicians in good faith to serve the people. Democrat governors and mayors have taken the Wuhan virus, along with the rioting and looting, and leveraged it into power that they will not easily relinquish if their behavior up to now is any indication. They are long past fooling people with their faux compassion. You can pull the wool over Americans' eyes for only so long before they become wise to you. Keith Ellison Wields Power to Restrict Freedom of Assembly of Political Opponents at Minnesota Trump Rally. The venue for President Donald Trump's political rally in Minnesota scheduled for Friday will be restricted to only 250 people after Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison put pressure on the business owners of multiple locations. The rally was initially planned at the Rochester airport, but Ellison's office demanded a "COVID preparedness plan" from officials from the City of Rochester, Olmsted County, and the Rochester airport, as well as the Republican National Committee to ensure the event was safe. President Trump Blasts Minnesota Governor and AG for Blocking Rally and Undermining First Amendment. President Trump blasted Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and State AG Keith Ellison for their transparent political scheme to block his campaign event. The same state officials who allowed Black Lives Matter to organize and march without restrictions under the guise of political protest, are the same officials now limiting attendance to 250 people at Trump's rally in the state. Meanwhile just outside the venue thousands of supporters defied the arbitrary state rule and gathered together near the entrance. So President Trump stopped to talk to the media, blast the state officials, and then went to talk to the assembled crowd that could not attend the rally. [Three video clips] Even so, that's ten times the size of a Biden crowd. Meet Larry Krasner, the Rogue Prosecutor Wreaking Havoc in Philadelphia. "F--- the FOP [the Fraternal Order of Police]" and "No good cops in a racist system!" Those are the sayings that supporters of Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner chanted at his election-night victory party two years ago. Did he tell them to stop? No. Instead, he smiled approvingly. Krasner, a career criminal defense and civil rights attorney, who had sued the Philadelphia Police Department dozens of times over the decades, ran to be Philadelphia's district attorney and received almost $1.45 million in campaign spending from George Soros in the process. Unfortunately, Krasner is one of many elected rogue prosecutors around the country who have usurped the legislative power by refusing to prosecute large categories of crimes. By refusing to hold criminals to account, Krasner and his ilk abuse the power of their offices and harm victims and their communities as a result. L.A. County Sends Health Department Workers To Fine Church That Sued Newsom. A Catholic church in Los Angeles County is alleging that the local government dispatched two health department officials to harass them in retaliation for their priest suing Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom and other state officials. On Oct. 15, two health officials showed up at Our Lady of the Angels Church in Arcadia, California, a congregation affiliated with the dissident Society of St. Pius X. The officials watched approximately 11 parishioners leave the building from the sidewalk and then cited them for holding indoor worship services in violation of COVID-19 restrictions, according to a copy of the citation forwarded to The Daily Wire. The citation carried with it a $1,000 fine. School Threatens 12-Year-Old With Arrest for Allegedly Missing 90 Minutes of Zoom Class. The parents of a seventh-grade boy received a letter from his school in Lafayette, California, warning of possible truancy charges if he missed any more virtual class sessions. "Out of the blue, we got this letter," Mark Mastrov, the boy's father, told the East Bay Times. "It said my son had missed classes and at the bottom, it referenced a state law which said truants can go to jail for missing 90 minutes of class." Mastrov assumed the school had been sent in error, so he called the school. He was shocked to learn that the authorities meant business: The law says any kid who misses three full days of school or is tardy for a 30-minute class period on three separate occasions can face jail time. 'Banana Republic of America'. We are living in times in which our leaders have intentionally cast doubt on the court. Members of Congress have managed to earn the doubt of nearly 90% of America simply through childish partisan behavior. They have intentionally cast doubt on the presidency through the abuse of the impeachment process. Elected officials and the media have both cast doubt on law enforcement. It seems nearly everyone even tangentially involved in politics now says or does whatever they think can win the moment regardless of the long-term consequences. Bureaucrats in the state of Virginia have decided to ignore the law on the books regarding ballot postmarks. The state legislature didn't change the law. No. Virginia administrative officials have simply made the choice to do something different. On whose authority? No one has that authority under the law, yet they insist anyway. [...] Stability no longer exists. The rules change day to day. The laws only apply sometimes and only to certain people. Election results, the courts, the police and elected officials themselves are under a constant shadow of doubt. Governor Gretchen Whitmer: If You're Tired of Masks And Wish You Could Go Back to Church, Vote for Biden. Are you sick of watching family-owned stores and businesses in your neighborhood fold because of reopening restrictions? Are you saddened as you watch your favorite watering holes and restaurants close their doors for good, as unconstitutional lockdowns drag past the 200-day mark of "15 days to slow the spread"? Have you had to move your family out of your state just to find a school your child can attend? Do you find yourself wondering just when all this madness will end, and how? Well, look no further. There's a solution on the horizon and it's a mere 15 days away. If you want COVID and the ensuing restrictions to disappear forever, all you have to do is... Vote for Biden/Harris 2020. Don't shoot the messenger. This logic came straight from the horse's mouth this past Sunday [10/18/2020] on "Meet the Press" — the horse being Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, and the mouth being one adorned with bright red lipstick and frothing with Trump Derangement Syndrome. Is this another reason the FBI hid the Hunter Biden Laptop? It didn't surprise the informed, and understandably a bit cynical, to hear that the FBI sat on Hunter Biden's laptop instead of seeking justice. The bureau was previously involved in an illegal plot to take down Donald Trump, after all, and its Deep State elements would assuredly love to see Joe Biden succeed him in January. So why would they reveal damning information on their establishment hope? Yet suppressing Huntergate perhaps provided a secondary benefit: The information could be used against Biden once he was in office. This wouldn't be anything new. It's believed that longtime, legendary FBI director J. Edgar Hoover used "dirt files" on politicians for leverage; for one thing, it's said, this enabled him to remain bureau head for as long as he wished. The Gordian Knot Protecting Obamagate Secrets. Donald Trump and Republicans are furious that U.S. Attorney John Durham has not brought indictments against senior people who spied on the president's campaign, lied repeatedly to judges in order to do it, and based their intrusions on specious evidence, which they knew to be false — and had been commissioned by the opposition political party. We know the broad outlines of this coordinated operation, but we still don't know its full extent, all those involved, and what precise roles they played. Attorney General William Barr promised major developments in this probe by late spring, then mid-summer, then Labor Day, and now sometime after the election. If, as Republicans say (and the evidence seems to show), there was a systematic effort to weaponize federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies for political purposes, the public has a compelling right to know. This need-to-know is urgent because the Democrats' presidential nominee, Joe Biden, served as the second-highest ranking member of the administration that conducted these acts. Tyranny in Texas. Some people go to jail because they break the law. Sylvia Gonzalez landed in a Texas slammer because she criticized her local government. Now the 74-year-old retiree is fighting back, trying to bring accountability to a system that too often lets public officials off the hook when they violate people's civil rights. Gonzalez's ordeal started with a simple desire to help her community by serving on the Castle Hills City Council near San Antonio. She knocked on doors and talked to more than 500 neighbors during her campaign, and what she heard strengthened her resolve to make a difference. "They complained bitterly about the city," Gonzalez says. After winning her 2019 election and becoming the first Hispanic councilwoman in city history, Gonzalez went to work. Her first act in office was to champion a nonbinding citizens petition calling for the city manager's removal. Rather than taking notice of the public discontent, however, the mayor and other political insiders attacked the messenger. They had Gonzalez arrested, handcuffed, and jailed as part of a prolonged intimidation campaign. 9 Warning Signs of Democrat Radicalization. If you threaten strangers and destroy property in the name of Black Lives Matter or Antifa, then local Democrat prosecutors will make sure you never answer for your crimes. If you exercise your Second Amendment right to protect the lives of your family and secure your property, those same Democrat prosecutors will threaten your liberty and future. If you riot in the name of "justice," then you are performing a public service. If you seek spiritual salvation by attending church or synagogue, then you are a public health threat. When Democrats are in office, there are two tiers of justice in America, one for protecting Democrats and one for harassing Republicans. Former attorney general Eric Holder aptly articulated this reality when he argued that the fight against Republicans is "not about principle" but about the "acquisition and use of power." Russiagate Hoax Mastermind Must Be Exposed. In the bureaucratic struggle to declassify Russiagate-related documents before the Nov. 3 elections and help ensure they aren't buried forever, some valuable nuggets have just been partially unearthed by the Director of National Intelligence, John Ratcliffe. Like handwritten notes by then-CIA Director John Brennan. During the summer of 2016, he briefed President Obama and top advisers that the agency learned of startling intelligence about the Clinton campaign and Russia. [...] Yet many questions remain — such as who was the Russiagate Hoax Mastermind alluded to by Brennan? Americans need to know. The smear campaign wasn't just a political dirty trick. Nor was it proportionate to combat Trump supporters chanting "lock her up." No, the malicious lie was the acorn from which the mighty oak grew — one that launched the crime wave of the century. Unprecedented and wrongful surveillance of a presidential campaign. Then a prolonged stealth coup to overturn the election. President Trump and over 50 associates were subjected to seemingly limitless investigations, Privacy Act violations, criminal leaks, defamation and ruthlessly pursued by overzealous prosecutors, including numerous Obama and Clinton political donors. State Dept. officials [were] told they broke [the] law by monitoring Americans during [the] Ukraine scandal. State Department officials were explicitly ordered in spring 2019 to stop tracking 13 prominent Americans' social media accounts for information about the Joe Biden-Ukraine scandal because the monitoring violated federal law, according to emails that were originally redacted to hide the concerns from the American public. "We are barred by law from actively monitoring the accounts of American citizens in aggregate — and particularly from identifying and monitoring individual, selected accounts," a State Department official wrote in an April 1, 2019 email to officials in Washington and the U.S. embassy in Kiev[.] The unredacted emails, obtained by Just the News, raise new questions about the accuracy of State Department officials' testimony during President Trump's impeachment proceedings. They also provide a window into how the department used redactions in a Freedom of Information Act case to hide the potentially explosive information just weeks before Election Day 2020. Yet Another Grand Jury Defies the Fake News Narrative. The rules of a grand jury are not like those of a regular courtroom. Only the prosecutor is allowed to put on a case. No defense attorney is allowed in the room. One witness after another is brought in and grilled by the prosecutor in front of the jury. There is no judge to protect the witness from being abused. The witness has nowhere to turn for legal assistance. The prosecutor pummels him or her with tough questions, sometimes insults and nasty remarks. The only brakes that prevent even worse abuse is that the experienced prosecutor knows the limits, that if he or she gets too vicious then the grand jury may shift its sympathies to the battered witness. So the prosecutor plays the grand jury, using tricks of the trade, ploys and psychological maneuvers that never would be allowed in open court. But, again, there is no judge in the room to rein in the prosecutor. As day after day ensues, the prosecutor becomes increasingly chummy with the members of the grand jury. Tish James' endless anti-Trump suits betray the AG's mission. As the chief legal officers of our states, attorneys general possess a tremendous power to shape public opinion and make official decisions that can affect the outcomes of cases. Regardless of party affiliation, when it comes to exercising the prosecutorial function of our offices, there are certain rules that every attorney general agrees to — and certain lines that should never be crossed. We should never weaponize our office for political gain, regardless of the situation, even when the sitting president of the United States is a citizen of the state we serve. Unfortunately, some of my colleagues across the aisle have done just that. During her campaign, New York Attorney General Letitia James threw out numerous vague and baseless allegations, promising to harass and investigate President Trump's family and businesses that "may be engaged in illegal conduct." Although Trump was duly elected, she claims he is an illegitimate president. This is nothing less than a gross abuse of her office. Catherine Engelbrect and the Prestigious True The Vote Organization Release Powerful Warning on the Marxist Coup in 2020. Catherine Engelbrecht is the Founder and President of True The Vote the nation's largest voters' rights group. [...] The voter rights organization was so successful that True the Vote and its founder Catherine Engelbrecht, were targeted by top federal government agencies including the IRS, DOJ, FBI, ATF, OSHA. Under the Obama Administration, those agencies launched 23 audits, investigations, and inquiries, persistently attacking the patriotic group. Engelbrecht and her organization were harassed by the Obama IRS for months. The Obama IRS wanted to know Facebook posts, tweets and where Catherine intended to speak. Pelosi doesn't rule out using impeachment as option to stop Trump Supreme Court pick. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday would not rule out impeachment as an option to stop President Trump's U.S. Supreme Court pick from being confirmed to the bench, saying Democrats will "use every arrow in our quiver" to block the eventual nominee. Just hours after it was announced that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had passed away on Friday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., vowed that a Trump nominee to the Supreme Court to fill her vacancy "will receive a vote on the floor of the United States Senate." Politicians on the Take? Politicians shut down businesses because of COVID-19. But the rules don't apply to everyone. In San Francisco, gyms were forced to close, but government gyms stayed open. In my new video, we see a Dallas woman being jailed for keeping her salon open and a New Jersey man getting arrested after working out indoors. Ordinary people who break the rules get punished. But not House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Politicians are special. Now, politicians have allowed more businesses to open. Dallas relaxed its rules for most businesses a few months ago. But not for Dale Davenport's car wash. Dallas won't allow Dale to reopen because, shortly before the epidemic, they decreed his car wash a "hub for drug sales and crime." His car wash is indeed in the middle of a high-crime neighborhood, and many cities have laws that let them close a business if the owners conceal crime. Michigan residents get enough signatures to repeal Governor Whitmer's emergency powers, if certified. More than 400,000 Michigan residents have signed a petition that would trigger a statewide referendum on lockdown-loving Democrat Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's draconian emergency powers provided that state authorities determine that at least 340,000 of the signatures turn out to be legitimate. During the pandemic, Gov. Whitmer has relied on a 1945 law to enforce open-ended COVID-related restrictions, and the referendum outcome could mean the repeal of that mandate. The left isn't fighting against fascism, they are fighting FOR authoritarianism. [Thread reader] 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. Senate Intel Committee Refuses to Give GOP Senators Documents From Russia Investigation. Of all the tells that have surfaced in the past four years, this is the biggest. This is the one that reveals just how corrupt and duplicitous the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence really is. Do not pass over this information without pausing and evaluating just how explosive this refusal is amid the largest, most corrupt scheme in political history. The republican led Senate Intelligence Committee (SSCI) is refusing to provide documents to republican senators from their Russia investigation. Citing archaic justification within senate parliamentary rules current Chairman Marco Rubio (R) and Vice-Chairman Mark Warner are refusing to allow Senator Johnson and Senator Grassley to review the evidence the SSCI assembled to create their report on Russian election interference. The reason and motives for the denial are simple, yet the majority of Americans have no idea. The SSCI was the legislative entity, both republicans and democrats, who participated in the unlawful effort to remove President Trump from office. The risk of exposure is exactly why Mitch McConnell put Senator Marco Rubio on the committee as chairman to replace Richard Burr. The Senate was participating in the soft-coup. The CDC blatantly violates a Trump order regarding Critical Race Theory. At the beginning of September, the director of the Office of Management and Budget announced that, at President Trump's direction, all federal agencies would be banned from imposing Critical Race Theory (CRT) on their employees. This was the right thing to do. CRT is pure racism. While the KKK was obsessed with blacks and the Nazis were obsessed with Jews, CRT is obsessed with white people. Teaching it at federal agencies is a shocking violation of the Constitution and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Despite its unconstitutionality and the president's order, though, the CDC is planning to continue CRT training. Christopher Rufo, who has become the point man for all of these stories about CRT training in the federal government, discovered what he aptly called a "Bombshell." The CDC is going ahead with its plan — paid for with your money — to impose a thirteen-week-long CRT training program on its employees. This an important story because it is a nexus of the issues that brought Trump into the White House in 2016. It's the story of an out-of-control federal agency that feels that no one — and certainly not the constitutional executive of the United States — has any authority over it. You Will Be Re-Educated. On September 4, 2020, Russell Vought, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, sent a brief memo to the heads of the executive departments and agencies of the federal government. Its purpose was straightforward: to end the practice by any federal government agency of using training materials that promote "critical race theory" or "white privilege" or that "teaches or suggests either (1) that the United States is either an inherently evil or racist country or (2) that any race or ethnicity is inherently racist or evil." The memo advised that further guidance would be forthcoming but for the time being, agencies should cease spending taxpayer dollars on such "propaganda training sessions." They have a difficult challenge ahead of them. Critical race theory, often under the guise of bland "diversity training," has led to such taxpayer-sponsored efforts as the U.S. Treasury Department's June 2020 training seminar "Difficult Conversations About Race in Troubling Times." Attendees learned that "virtually all White people contribute to racism," and those who were white were told they needed to acknowledge their "unconscious bias, White privilege, and White fragility." At Sandia National Laboratories, one of the nation's premier nuclear-research facilities, the federal government paid a company called White Men as Full Diversity Partners to "train" white male employees at Sandia in the damaging effects of "white male culture." Border-wall critic Gretchen Whitmer builds electrified fence around governor's mansion, hands taxpayers $1.1 million bill. Controversial Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, once considered a frontrunner to become Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden's running mate, has authorized construction of a large fence around the governor's mansion in Lansing as part of a $1.1 million security upgrade. The 8-foot-tall electrified fence is especially galling to Whitmer critics because she has routinely criticized President Donald Trump's construction of a border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border as a way to help reduce illegal immigration and human trafficking. She has also questioned the effectiveness of security walls but is nevertheless billing taxpayers for the expensive upgrade that will include electrified fencing because, according to local media, Whitmer is fearful of threats. Michigan Supreme Court justice pushes back on Whitmer's emergency powers. A justice of the Michigan Supreme Court raised pointed and repeated questions Wednesday [9/9/2020] about whether the 1945 emergency law relied on by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer was ever intended to deal with a health pandemic. Justice David Viviano pressed the issue during oral arguments, pointing out that the Emergency Powers of Governor Act was enacted in the wake of Detroit's 1943 race riot, as it is known, and was referenced in news reports at the time as providing the governor with the police powers needed to respond to such events without having to declare martial law. The 1945 law says it is intended to "invest the governor with sufficiently broad power of action in the exercise of the police power of the state." 'This Investigation is a Sham': Judicial Watch President Slams John Durham for Going Easy on the Deep State. Trump supporters are waiting with baited [sic] breath for U.S. Attorney John Durham to come out with his explosive findings in regards to his investigation into the origins of the Russian collusion probe against President Trump. Fitton said that he is inclined to believe disgraced former CIA Director John Brennan when he says that he is not a person of interest in Durham's investigation. "I don't see grand juries operating. I don't see a bunch of witnesses coming in. I don't see lawyers complaining about their clients being brought in before Durham," Fitton said. He said that the Mueller investigation was run much more thoroughly than Durham's so-called investigation, the goal of which appears to be protecting the deep state. Growing numbers of district attorneys are out to undermine the law. One reason for the surging, often protracted violence in US cities is the rise of a host of progressive prosecutors who actually tilt against law and order. The trend is most glaring in places known for their kooky left-wing politics, like Portland and San Francisco, but extreme leftists have also taken over as district attorneys in cities like Chicago and Boston. Many owe big thanks for their elections to funding from far-left fatcat George Soros. In Portland, violent "protests" have dragged on for months, thanks to the idiocy of Mayor Ted Wheeler, who let hoodlums drive him out of his own condo — but also to Multnomah County DA Mike Schmidt, who dropped charges against hundreds of people arrested for offenses like interfering with cops, disorderly conduct, criminal trespass and rioting. Schmidt also made it harder to prosecute assaults on cops. Macomb County's Hackel, a Democrat, backs petition to limit Whitmer's emergency power. Macomb County Executive Mark Hackel, the top Democrat in Michigan's third largest county, says he supports repealing the 1945 law that gives Gov. Gretchen Whitmer the ability to declare a state of emergency and keep the declaration in place without input from the GOP-controlled Legislature. The 1945 Emergency Powers of Governor Act gives one person, the governor, "endless ability to create law," Hackel said in a Wednesday night interview. He said he was surprised there wasn't more resistance to the Democratic governor's use of the 75-yer-old law to declare emergencies, which give her the ability act unilaterally to shutter businesses or require masks be worn. 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
Portland Police, FBI and U.S. DOJ Refuse to Arrest Antifa Murder Suspect Because He Supports Joe Biden and Black Lives Matter. It's time to be brutally honest and face the enemy as a united nation. Trump supporter Aaron "Jay" Danielson was murdered on the streets of Portland Oregon. Danielson's murder was caught on camera, and everyone, including thousands of people who watch social media, know exactly who killed him, [...]. However, despite everyone knowing exactly who carried out a politically motivated assassination, [the suspect] has not been arrested. The Portland police, the FBI and the United States Department of Justice have not arrested him; and the only logical conclusion to be gained from that reluctance is that [the] Antifa supporter [...] is also a supporter of Black Lives Matter and Joe Biden. Therefore no-one does anything. When you accept this reality, it is only then that we can start to fathom just how seriously screwed up the U.S. system of justice has become. If you support Trump you are a disposable statistic; however, if you support the mob all efforts will be undertaken to protect you from the consequences of your own violent action. 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." 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. When are Local and State Governments Illegitimate? This descent into hell is enabled by so-called progressive Democrats in the aforesaid cities and Minneapolis, Chicago, New York, and wherever next. The progressives have names: Ted Wheeler, Jenny Durkan, and Jacob Frey — all mayors — along with numerous council members. And governors, Kate Brown, Jay Inslee, and Tim Walz. Add Lori Lightfoot, J.B. Pritzker, Bill de Blasio, and Andrew Cuomo to the roster. All — all — have taken oaths of office to uphold the law and attend to the public safety. They are glaringly derelict in their duties. These elected leaders aren't simply craven, they're complicit in the violence and destruction that bedevils their cities. They see the mobs in the streets. They witness the destruction. They are apprised of the violence. They know innocents are being harmed. They know citizens cower behind locked doors. [...] Yet they permit the mayhem. They let the mobs roam. They fiddle as their cities burn. These elected leaders are, in fact, aiding and abetting insurrections. This New York Diner's Response to Snitches and the Overzealous Health Department Will Make Your Day. The effects of coronavirus mandates on small businesses, and especially restaurants, have been catastrophic. New York, outside of New York City, went into "Phase 3" in July, and restaurants were able to open back up under severe restrictions, including reduced capacity. Very few of them are doing well under this arrangement. [...] One diner in Seneca County, N.Y., has had enough and took to social media to tell the public what the county is doing to them. The trouble started when a snitch ate a meal at A.J.'s Family Diner and then called the health department to report too many people in the establishment. This prompted the restaurant to post a notice telling people who are uncomfortable and living in fear to stay out of their business. But the harassment had only just begun. The snitch prompted a full-scale inspection by the health department that sent an inspector to rearrange all the tables and threaten a fine of $1000. Arizona Child Welfare Workers Caught Wearing 'Professional Kidnapper' T-Shirts. The Prescott Arizona Department of Child Safety (DCS) is down to only one child-abuse investigator after having to fire at least eight others for wearing t-shirts that say "Professional Kidnapper" on them and posting the photos on Facebook. The terminated child-welfare employees had these shirts made up with the phrase "Do you know where your children are?" in bright pink as a "joke" that no one who has battled DCS for custody of their children thought was funny. New DA in Portland admits he is 'old buddies' with an Antifa militant. Newly-elected District Attorney Mike Schmidt, who refuses to prosecute Portland rioters, admits he is "old buddies" with an Antifa militant campaigning to defund the police, abolish prisons, and demand reparations. [...] The hour-long July 21 interview with Schmidt is a first in the series of "social justice leaders" features conducted by a self-described "Anti-Fascist" and "old time buddy" of Schmidt's, social media personality Awkword. Awkword leads the Ten Demands for Justice movement, "a roadmap for the defunding and then full abolition of police and prisons." Despite Constant Libel of Trump, I Trust the People. Ms. Harris has many critics among the 98% of Democrats who did not support her candidacy for president. The Left is displeased with her performance as San Francisco's district attorney and as attorney general of California: she always called for maximum sentences and condoned the widespread American practice of prosecutors extorting or suborning inculpatory false evidence by threats of indictment if that evidence is not forthcoming, and promises of immunity from prosecution for perjury if it is. Loyola law professor Lara Bazelon recently accused Ms. Harris in the New York Times of having "fought tooth and nail to uphold wrongful convictions that had been secured through official misconduct that included evidence tampering, false testimony, and the suppression of crucial information." President Trump has made serious efforts at penal reform and sentence reduction for nonviolent offenders. By contrast, Ms. Harris sent over 1,000 marijuana users to prison but acknowledged having tried it herself. Ms. Harris's performance as a prosecutor clashes with the general current Democratic enthusiasm for defunding and discouraging the police and turning a blind eye to urban vandalism, arson, and looting. No Need for a Conspiracy Theory. [Scroll down] There are two types of lobbyists. The first group are often lawyers who act as "hired guns" for corporations. Their incomes depend on doing what the corporation wants, and they have become rather good at it: Steven Brill made their activities one of his principal concerns in Tailspin. "Retired" bureaucrats often find high-paying jobs in this sector. The second group includes lobbies established to promote "causes": they have to set up an organization, get the word out, and raise funds. Once that's done, the insiders have a vested interest in maintaining the organization; the organization may die if its supporters conclude that its mission has been accomplished, so they can't ever admit that has happened. Exhibit A for this process on race: Al Sharpton. The self-serving triangle is completed by members of Congress, who depend on these issues to garner votes. Russia Hoax: Are We All Being Played? Put Up or Shut Up. [Scroll down] I never realized how terrible the deterioration inside the system had become until four years ago when I stumbled onto what was happening inside the FBI. Those concerns were brought to my attention by former and current FBI agents, as well as numerous U.S. intelligence officials aware of the failures inside their own agencies. But it never occurred to me when I first started looking into fired FBI Director James Comey and his former side kick Deputy Director Andrew McCabe that the cultural corruption of these once trusted American institutions was so vast. I've watched as Washington D.C. elites make promises to get to the bottom of it and bring people to justice. They appear to make promises to the American people they never intended to keep. Who will be held accountable for one of the most egregious abuses of power by bureaucrats in modern American political history? Now I fear those who perpetuated this culture of corruption won't ever really be held accountable. These elite bureaucrats will, however, throw the American people a bone. It's how they operate. They expect us to accept it and then move on. Selective enforcement: Outrage as Manhattan's district attorney drops the felony charge against BLM leader. The Manhattan District Attorney has dropped felony charges against the Black Lives Matter leader who was accused of assaulting a police officer, after an angry crowd chased off an NYPD team sent to arrest the man. DA Cyrus Vance personally ordered the charges against Derrick Ingram, 28, dropped from felony assault in the second degree to misdemeanor assault, a law enforcement source told the New York Post. Ingram is accused of injuring a female cop by shouting directly in her ear with a bullhorn on June 14, resulting in the officer being hospitalized with temporary hearing damage. Trump urges churches to reopen, despite Dems who 'want to put churches out of business'. President Trump urged governors to reopen churches and schools, saying they're "essential" services and should not remain shut down indefinitely. "I think they should open the churches. It's up to the governors. But I'm recommending it, you open the churches," Trump told the Catholic Telegraph. The President said churches can safely reopen as long as attendees wear masks and social-distance. Trump said it's unfair to Christians that they're banned from going to church, but Black Lives Matter protesters and left-wing rioters can gather by the tens of thousands — and Democrats say nothing about the public-health dangers they pose. 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. Who deserves a funeral? No one would argue that Rep. John Lewis doesn't deserve a proper memorial. He was a civil rights icon and a long-serving member of Congress who was beloved by his colleagues. In the middle of a pandemic, however, how do we decide who gets the pomp and circumstance of a traditional burial and who has to watch their loved one go six feet under via Zoom call? Funerals are important: they acknowledge the sanctity of life and allow friends and family to come together to grieve their loss. [...] Yet politicians have decided that celebrity affords them the right to override the onerous restrictions on funerals that so many average Americans have been forced to accept. Yes, Georgia is unique in that it allows anyone to have a funeral. However, the governor's executive order prohibits gatherings of more than 50 people if social distancing cannot be maintained. Photos of Lewis's funeral in Atlanta showed that many more than 50 people attended and that social distancing was not maintained in parts of the church, nor during the burial outside. Four Months of Unprecedented Government Malfeasance. Over the last four months, Americans have lived through what is arguably the most consequential period of government malfeasance in U.S. history. Public officials' overreaction to the novel coronavirus put American cities into a coma; those same officials' passivity in the face of widespread rioting threatens to deliver the coup de grâce. Together, these back-to-back governmental failures will transform the American polity and cripple urban life for decades. Before store windows started shattering in the name of racial justice, urban existence was already on life support, thanks to the coronavirus lockdowns. No Holds Barred at the House Lynch
Session. [Scroll down] Most Americans do not know this, but by law a congressional representative is
permitted to say anything at a hearing, no matter how false, no matter how defamatory, and they cannot be sued for
perjury or defamation. It is like when former Sen. Harry Reid stood in the U.S. Senate chamber during the height
of the 2012 presidential race and falsely accused Mitt Romney of tax evasion. It was a lie, a slander — and
Reid knew it. But Reid also knew that, as long as he spoke his slander within the Senate chamber, he never could be
sued for the defamation. This unique protection is called the "Legislative Privilege," rooted in the Speech and Debate
Clause of the United States Constitution Partisan politics permeates AG Maura Healey's office. Attorney General Maura Healey has turned her office into a virtual nonstop onslaught against President Trump, in the process elevating her own political aspirations on the backs of taxpayers. Partisan politics has permeated the office of the state's top cop to an unprecedented level — whether it's the scores of lawsuits she's filed against Trump or the pro-Democrat tweets put out by her press aides. Healey has dropped any illusion of being fair and objective to the point of whether it's unclear she'd be an effective advocate for a Republican looking for legal protections. Voters look at Healey now not as a tough prosecutor against white collar crime but as an aspirant for higher office who can spout off Democratic talking points. St. Louis prosecutor Kim Gardner is engaged in a political prosecution. [Thread reader] The right to defend one's person, family, home and property has deep roots in Missouri law. Self-defense is the central component of the right to keep & bear arms, which receives the highest protection from the MO Constitution. MO statutes specifically authorize citizens to use firearms to deter assailants & protect themselves, their families & homes from threatening or violent intruders. A highly publicized criminal prosecution of citizens for exercising these fundamental freedoms threatens to intimidate & deter law-abiding citizens from exercising their constitutional right of self defense. My job as AG is to protect the fundamental rights of all Missourians, including the right to keep & bear arm in self defense of one's person and home. This case casts an ominous shadow over those fundamental rights. The prosecution sends a powerful message to all Missourians that they exercise their fundamental right to self defense at their peril. Missourians should not fear exposure to criminal prosecution, even prison time, when they use firearms to defend themselves and their homes. St Louis prosecutor tampered with evidence to charge Mrs. McCloskey. St. Louis homeowners Mark and Patricia McCloskey were charged with felony misuse of a firearm and a misdemeanor assault charge after waving guns at an unruly mob of 'protesters' who stormed through their private community. The couple said they were frightened and feared for their safety. Assistant Circuit Attorney Chris Hinckley stated in charging documents that the gun was "readily capable of lethal use," referencing Mrs. McCloskey's handgun. However, her handgun was NOT "readily capable of lethal use" at the time she used it to discourage the protesters. It was disabled by the couple so it could be used as a prop. The corrupt prosecutor had it fixed so Mrs. McCloskey could be charged. Seriously, that's what they did. 'Equal Justice': The Politicization of Prosecution. As she announced felony charges against the McCloskeys, St. Louis prosecutor Kim Gardner noted something that most people missed: that she was elected to pursue "equal justice." What exactly is "equal justice," and how is it distinguished from justice? "Equal justice" is a term used by neoleftist politicians to alert their base of racial disparities in the criminal justice system, with the implication that "racial equity" must be actively pursued. It is most commonly used by Soros-sponsored wolves in prosecutors' clothing. It is a political movement to interject a race consideration component into the criminal justice system. There is even an Equal Justice Initiative organization, a Soros-sponsored group that advertises itself as "committed to ending mass incarceration and excessive punishment in the United States, to challenging racial and economic injustice, and to protecting basic human rights for the most vulnerable people in American society." But what does race and "ending mass incarceration" have to do with charging a White suburban couple, the McCloskeys? Why was the term "equal justice" relevant in this particular prosecution? Democrat Prosecutor Charges McCloskeys With Felonies After Using Guns To Defend Private Property. St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner, a Democrat, announced on Monday [7/20/2020] that she is charging the St. Louis couple who defended their private property using firearms last month with felony unlawful use of a weapon. The couple is also reportedly facing a fourth-degree misdemeanor assault charge. "Mark and Patricia McCloskey each are facing a single felony count of unlawful use of a weapon — exhibiting," The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. "Charging documents say he pointed an AR-15 rifle at protesters and she wielded a semiautomatic handgun, placing those protesters in fear of injury." The Editor says... Missouri AG Files To Dismiss Charges Against McCloskeys: 'I Won't Stand By While Missouri Law Is Being Ignored'. On Monday, following the news that St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner, the city's top prosecutor, announced that Mark and Patricia McCloskey, the couple who pointed guns at a crowd in front of their home, would be charged with felony unlawful use of a weapon, Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt filed a brief that would dismiss the charges. The brief stated that Schmitt "respectfully requests that the Court dismiss this case at the earlier possible opportunity." "The right to keep and bear arms is given the highest level of protection in our constitution and our laws, including the Castle Doctrine, which provides broad rights to Missourians who are protecting their property and lives from those who wish to do them harm," Schmitt told Fox News, adding, "Despite this, Circuit Attorney Gardner filed suit against the McCloskeys, who, according to published reports, were defending their property and safety. As Missouri's Chief law enforcement officer, I won't stand by while Missouri law is being ignored." 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. Hawley calls for civil rights probe of prosecutor investigating gun-wielding St. Louis couple. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) called on the Justice Department to launch a civil rights investigation into St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kimberly Gardner and her office after Gardner announced an investigation into a white couple who were seen on video threatening Black Lives Matter protesters at gunpoint. In a letter to the Justice Department obtained by The Washington Post, Hawley said that Gardner had established "a pattern of politically motivated prosecutorial decisions" during her time as St. Louis's top city prosecutor. "The Second Amendment is not a second-class right. No family should face the threat of harassment or malicious prosecution for exercising that right," he wrote to Attorney General William Barr. De Blasio Says BLM Protests Can Continue While Canceling All Other Large Events. New York City's Mayor Bill de Blasio made some stunning remarks on CNN, declaring protests in the streets were perfectly acceptable while canceling other large events through September. De Blasio joined CNN's Wolf Blitzer on Thursday evening [7/9/2020], discussing the evolving pandemic and policy response by City Hall to mitigate the spread in the city. He said social justice warriors were too important after months of protests have yet produced an outbreak in cases. "This is a historic moment of change. We have to respect that but also say to people the kinds of gatherings we're used to, the parades, the fairs — we just can't have that while we're focusing on health right now," de Blasio told Blitzer. Blitzer then asks: What about protests? De Blasio responds: "This is a historic moment. We have to respect that." Missouri AG calls out St. Louis prosecutor, reveals history of politically motivated decisions. Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt suggested Friday that St. Louis attorneys Mark and Patricia McCloskey, the couple who went viral for defending their property from an encroaching mob, are being politically targeted. On Friday, law enforcement executed a warrant against the McCloskeys and confiscated their firearms. Speaking on Fox News, Schmitt alleged that St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner, the prosecutor handling the case, has a history of making politically motivated decisions. "Under Missouri law, under the Castle Doctrine, an individual has really expansive authority to protect their own lives, their home, and their property. I think the story here to watch here is the local prosecutor, Kim Gardner," Schmitt said. Tyranny Without a Tyrant: The Deep State's Divide-and-Conquer Strategy Is Working. It must be said: the Black Lives Matter protests have not helped. Inadvertently or intentionally, these protests — tinged with mob violence, rampant incivility, intolerance, and an arrogant disdain for how an open marketplace of ideas can advance freedom — have politicized what should never have been politicized: police brutality and the government's ongoing assaults on our freedoms. [...] We may be worse off now than we were before. Suddenly, no one seems to be talking about any of the egregious 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, bureaucrats that keep the Deep State in power. George Soros-backed DA Charges Couple with 'Hate Crime' for Painting Over 'Black Lives Matter'. Contra Costa County, California, District Attorney Diana Becton, who was backed by left-wing billionaire George Soros in 2018, has charged a couple with a "hate crime" for painting over a "Black Lives Matter" mural on the road. In a press release Tuesday afternoon, Becton's office announced that Martinez, California, residents Nichole Anderson and David Nelson were being charged with three misdemeanors for their actions, including "violation of civil rights." Opposing Black Lives Matter Now Means Hate Crime Charges. America is going to a bad totalitarian place at an incredible speed. ["]A California duo was charged with a hate crime for defacing a newly painted Black Lives Matter mural outside of a courthouse, officials announced Tuesday.["] Painting over a political message you oppose is not a hate crime. Authorities who support that message using hate crime regulations to suppress protests are blatantly using the law to enforce their political affiliation. [...] This might at most be vandalism. It's not a hate crime. There's no expression of hatred or hostility for black people. There is a rejection of Black Lives Matter, a political movement. Conflating the political movement with black people and then treating hostility to BLM as a hate crime makes opposition to a political movement into a crime. Treating it as one, while members of the racist Black Lives Matter movement tear down statues and terrorize people, is enlisting local authorities in that same campaign of political terror, punishing people for the political content of the vandalism, rather than for the act itself. California duo charged with hate crime for defacing Black Lives Matter mural. A California duo was charged with a hate crime for defacing a newly painted Black Lives Matter mural outside of a courthouse, officials announced Tuesday [7/7/2020]. Nichole Anderson, 42, was filmed using a roller to cover part of the yellow letters with black paint on Saturday as her cohort, 53-year-old David Nelson, stood guard near the Wakefield Taylor Courthouse in Martinez, the Contra Costa District Attorney's said. As Anderson painted within the lines, allowing the letters "B" and "L" to remain visible, Nelson told onlookers: "we're sick of this narrative." "The narrative of police brutality, the narrative of oppression, the narrative of racism," Nelson declared. "It's a lie." "I said no one wants Black Lives Matter here!" he added. "That's what I said. All Lives Matter, you punk." The temporary mural, which a Martinez resident received a permit for, was completed the same day the alleged vandals struck, authorities said. The Editor says... Gov Newsom orders closing of Calif restaurants, wineries — but HIS remains open. In what is seen as a major rollback, Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom has ordered the closures of numerous businesses across 19 counties in California to counter a surge in coronavirus cases. The order will be enforced for at least three weeks, and includes restaurants, wineries and tasting rooms, movie theaters, family entertainment centers, zoos and museums, cardrooms, and bars, Fox 26 reported. While a number of Central Valley counties are included, Napa County, where Gov. Newsom owns a winery and tasting room is not among the counties affected and the business remains open as of the July 1, 2020 order, according to the Fox affiliate. The Huge Law Enforcement Scandal that Cries Out for Justice. In the American Thinker (June 30), Jack Cashill offers an eloquent plea for an Atticus Finch to take up the cause of George Zimmerman in suing those responsible for perpetrating the Trayvon Hoax. There is another case, also in Florida, awaiting its Atticus Finch, the product of an earlier moral panic, the now largely forgotten "mass sex abuse in daycare" hysteria. These cases, replete with lurid charges the media mindlessly and breathlessly disseminated in the 1980s and '90s, are today widely recognized as a modern version of the Salem witch trials of the 1690s, down to allegations of Satanic rituals by caregivers. Despite this, one victim remains incarcerated. Frank Fuster has now served thirty-five years in prison for a crime not only that he did not commit, but that never happened. His first parole hearing is scheduled an unbelievable 114 years from now — in March 2134. Soros Funded St. Louis Circuit Attorney Threatens Legal Action Against Property Owners Who Defended Themselves Against Rampaging Mob. This is a great example why law-abiding citizens need to be very involved in local elections. The husband and wife who defended themselves and protected their property from looters/protestors are now being threatened by a Soros funded STL Circuit Attorney. Ms. Kimberly M Gardner is an activist within the legal profession who has an expressed purpose to destroy property rights, advance the cause of a socialist society, and collapse the legal system that allows citizens to protect themselves from the rampaging mob. In Re: Michael T. Flynn, Petitioner. For five decades as a courtroom lawyer, I have devoted an inordinate amount of time to humbling myself and stroking the egos of federal and state judges while catering to their every whim and belief, no matter how mistaken, unfounded, or unjustified. It's part of the job. The more successful you are at sucking up to the robed potentates on the bench, the better it is for your clients. Although many times I have been tempted to tell a judge to shove it, my duty to my client has held me back. While on occasion I have been held in contempt, fined, and — most memorably — placed under arrest for speaking the truth, for the most part and my clients' welfare, I have kept my mouth shut. It's never a fair fight. The judge holds the power and knows that lawyer and client are at his mercy. In my experience, the more egocentric and mediocre the judge, the more inclined he is to be the courtroom bully and to arbitrarily exercise his power free from the constraints of the substantive law and established procedure. And when one of these mediocrities arrives at a patently illegal result, he will dismiss your pleas and objections with an impatient wave of the hand or bang of the gavel. New York Governor Threatens Reopening Rollback over Street Drinking. New York's governor threatened to roll back phased reopening plans Sunday after large crowds gathered outside bars in New York City in violation of coronavirus lockdown guidelines. Andrew Cuomo said his office had received 25,000 complaints of reopening violations by businesses as New Yorkers flocked to streets to enjoy a weekend of late spring sunshine. Liberals Still Think Obama Was the 'Best President Ever,' Here Are 14 Reasons Why That's Ridiculous. [#1] Unprecedented abuse of power. Amazingly, liberals still pretend the IRS didn't improperly target conservative and tea party groups, even though Lois Lerner, the former director of the IRS Exempt Organizations division at the time, admitted it happened! Not only were tea party groups improperly targeted, according to documents obtained by Judicial Watch, but the whole scheme was orchestrated out of Washington, D.C. There was also evidence of White House involvement. IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman was at the White House at least 157 times while the IRS was targeting tea party groups. Even Obama's cabinet members didn't visit the White House that often. Some IRS employees even claimed that Obama himself requested the crackdown on tea party groups. There was certainly ample reason to suspect coordination with the White House. The IRS was also exchanging confidential taxpayer information with the White House the year Obama and Biden were reelected. According to a scholarly study conducted by the American Enterprise Institute, suppression of the Tea Party movement by Obama's IRS helped him get reelected. Gathering Is Essential — Unless You're Republican. Gov. Whitmer's tune on the right to assemble has transformed, too. She was appalled to see people without masks and parents "handing things to children, bare-handed" six weeks ago. The horror. "This kind of activity flies in the face of all of the best science," she scoffed, threatening to punish the protesting plebeians with a shutdown extension. She expected their obedience. The supposed science took a back seat last week when Whitmer kneeled in the street, shoulder to shoulder with activists, in violation of her own rules. But that's nothing new. Her husband can non-essentially travel to their second home, and name-drop his wife to try to cut to the front of the line and get their boat launched before Memorial Day weekend. The Democratic mayor of Chicago can get a haircut, but you can't — you're not on TV. The Democratic governor of Virginia can go to the beach without his mask, not even painted on. It's "dangerous" to protest, Nancy Pelosi says, until she joins in. Democrats, Not Republicans, Protect Dirty Cops. Abuse and inequality — at the hands of American law enforcement — comes in all forms. [...] Calls for police reform and accountability are happening on a bipartisan basis. That has not been the case, however, when it comes to Obamagate. Democrats, led by the forked-tongue Schiff, have spent the past three years defending, even justifying, unprecedented abuses by the nation's top law enforcement chiefs related to their targeting of Donald Trump, his associates, and his family members. The Trump-related victims of James Comey's FBI may not be black, they were unfairly targeted nevertheless. It was not race that motivated their persecutors, nor was it any actual suspected wrongdoing. They were targeted because of their political views. In the History of Congress, the House Democrats' New Proxy Voting Is Radical. Much of Congress' work takes place off the House or Senate floor. Committees even hold field hearings around the country, and members spend time in their states or districts. But since the House and Senate were established in 1789, their members have shown up to take official votes. No crisis ever has changed that commitment. Not when the Capitol was burned to the ground during the War of 1812, not the Civil War, not the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918, or even the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Nonetheless, on May 15, the House voted 217-189 to adopt House Resolution 965, which authorizes the speaker to designate a period during which one member may cast a vote for, and even "record the presence of," up to 10 other members. Stopping Petty Tyrannies Is How We Beat the Serious Ones. [Scroll down] Americans are unlikely to tolerate, for long, nonsensical rules or enforcement policies that impede their day-to-day lives. It was, after all, a long chain of large and small abuses by governmental authorities that led to the creation of this country. And given the Constitution and remarkable political system created from it, we have a great deal of power to end abusive laws quickly. Certainly, some of the coronavirus lockdown measures have had more serious implications for civil liberties than simple park closures. While our federal system gives broad power to states and local authorities to act in the way that best serves their communities, it is still essential that Americans be wary of violations of the Constitution and their fundamental rights. This important point was made by U.S. Attorney General William Barr, who directed U.S. attorneys in late April to be on the lookout for violations of civil liberties by state and local governments. Gretchen Whitmer slips state money to leftist political operatives to spy on Michiganders, then lies about it. It's pretty amazing how many negative activities gather around Michigan's hard-faced and ambitious Democratic governor, Gretchen Whitmer. Besides her outrageous performance on the coronavirus crisis — banning sales of garden seeds, seeding nursing homes with COVID-19 patients, forcing private dam operators to overfill their reservoir for greenie purposes, causing two of them to burst — she's also a liar. We saw that clearly enough when her husband tried to put himself at the front of the boating queue by citing his marriage to her — cronyism at its worst — and she claimed that it was a joke. It was a story so egregiously bad that the only reason we didn't comment about it here at American Thinker earlier is that we mistakenly thought the story was fake. Now there's the matter of Whitmer's political corruption — succoring her political cronies at state expense to spy on Michiganders to beef up the Democratic Party operation, which she's also lying about. Comrade Crazy — Governor Gretchen Whitmer Claims She is Being Victimized By Citizens of Michigan. Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer addressed the issue of her husband attempting to use his position to get their personal boat prepped and in the water prior to Memorial day so they could enjoy the holiday. The Michigan governor said her husband was joking when he told the boat storage operator he was the husband of the governor and asked if that would move him up in the line of requests. Additionally Governor Whitmer highlights how the citizens of Michigan are victimizing her; including scary men who have surrounded her home while carrying "automatic weapons." Whitmer says the COVID-19 virus has created an undue hardship on her and her family, and she is burdened by hurt feelings and wounded sensibilities. Whitmer personifies what happens when left-wing moonbats are allowed to gain political power. Whitmer says husband's boat launch request was 'failed attempt at humor'. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer confirmed her husband made "a failed attempt at humor" over the weekend after a comment he made to a docking company drew criticism from conservatives. In a now-deleted Facebook post, Tad Dowker, owner of NorthShore Dock LLC, said a man called the company a few days before Memorial Day weekend asking if he could put his boat in the water. According to Dowker's post, when office staff said the company started working three weeks late so that was not going to happen, staff told him the caller said, "I am the husband to the governor, will this make a difference?" The post said they were moved to the back of the waiting list. The Editor says... A Plague of Monsters. Criminal terrorists attacked us on 9/11, and nations of the world united to treat us all like criminals and turn the fun and exciting world of air travel into an experience redolent of herding livestock to market. Nineteen years later, a virus outbreak happens, and governments of the world — upon advice of the experts — treat us like infected patients, demanding we quarantine ourselves and cease all economic and social activities. Is this the first time democratic governments have quarantined people who were not sick? I Am Criminal. Okay, what we really need to do and more of us should recognize it, is to put an end to this nonsense. This government has bankrupted us by their inability to set and abide by a budget. They have ensnared us in rules and regulations that bind us and has built a governmental structure that had they passed the $3 Trillion dollar monstrosity that the Democrats called a "Stimulus bill" that passed out of the House, ostensibly to provide relief from the coronavirus lockdown, the combined governments would have been bigger than all of the private sector. Think about that for just one second. I had the occasion to meet an Eastern European who had no bones about it, he proclaimed proudly "I am criminal." What he meant was that he was willing to endure the penalty of disobedience to outlandish and often irrational laws. One must recognize that under rule of an outlaw government, one willing to use terrorist tactics on its own people, tactics that create fear for a political gain, disobedience is the ultimate declaration of freedom. Gov. Gretchen 'Karen' Whitmer in Hot Water Over Husband's Vacation Hypocrisy. Michigan's Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has epitomized the political, draconian response to coronavirus imposed by some states. Just recently, she extended the stay at home for Michigan until June 12th, forcing businesses to remain closed and people to not travel. This wasn't in response to any scientific data, but appeared to just be retaliatory against recent protests of her actions. But now, she's in a bit of hot water after it was revealed that not only was her husband looking to get their boat in the water for Memorial Day, but that he asked for special treatment in the process. It's Over. The Resistance Has Won. [Scroll down] But ah! — conservatives exclaim: OBAMAGATE! Perjury traps. Withheld evidence. Oval Office conspiracy meetings. Unmasking. Edited 302s. Leaks, lies and more lies. And John Durham poised to blow things open and indict everyone in sight. Any day now. Really. Get real. The deck is so stacked for The Resistance that Bill Barr still can't even get the demonstrably wronged Michael Flynn off the hook. There's a reason no one's heard from Durham yet: corruption cases are hard to make, and harder to win. Ask insufferable James Comey, insolent Andy McCabe and smug Peter Stzrok — all indictment-free amid Everests of evidence. Tara Reade? Three words: Not. Going. Anywhere. Listen carefully: nothing — nada, nix, zilch, zero, zip — will turn the tide on the "scandal" front between now and November. The wheels of injustice grind too slowly. Obamagate: Of Course It Comes Back to Obama's Narcissism. For three years, the Trump administration attempted to find their sea legs while actively being harassed and harried by Obama holdovers and self-dealing Republicans in the House and Senate. None of this could have happened so easily had Congress provided oversight. Why would they want oversight, though? It would expose themselves. It wasn't just Joe Biden's crackhead kid in Ukraine, after all. Sens. John Kerry, John McCain, and, yes, Lindsey Graham, also had strange relationships there, too. It's like Ukraine was one big money laundering scheme for political insiders. A lot of pols have a lot to hide, and that's why this fiasco has gone on as long as it has. [...] The American system isn't equipped to handle this level of injustice. Those who wait on justice likely wait in futility. It Won't Matter What Obama Knew (or When He Knew It). Even if we uncovered irrefutable evidence that Obama personally hatched the conspiracy to undermine either the Trump campaign or his presidency, Obama will not be held to account. From the perspective of justice, what Obama knew and when he knew it is totally irrelevant because nothing will be done about it. The reason nothing will be done is that the elites of our society have decided how Obama must be understood. His presidency has unique importance due to his status as the first nonwhite person to attain the office. Symbolically, then, Obama is supposed to represent the decency of the American people and the moral progress that we have made since the abolition of Jim Crow. Clear and absent danger: why proxy voting violates the American system. When House Democrats passed their $3 trillion coronavirus 'relief' package late last week, they also jammed through a rules change on proxy voting that fundamentally transforms the nature of the House of Representatives and junks centuries of tradition. Because of a change to House rules, members will now be able to submit their votes from afar. They will not have to travel back to DC to vote: they can instead send their 'yea' or 'nay' to a colleague, who will submit it on their behalf. One member can submit up to 10 votes at a time, meaning that the will of the House, which normally takes 218 members in the chamber, could be determined with only 21 members physically present. The new rule allows this distance voting for up to 45 days for any coronavirus-related emergency. It can be extended. Now that the precedent has been set, expect it to be trotted out repeatedly as the House finds other reasons for members to execute their constitutional responsibilities from their couches. Brooklyn Park Paints Circles on Grass to Force Public Into Social Distancing. I don't know if this is worse than the pool noodle hats that a restaurant in Germany is asking people to wear, but it's close. A park in Brooklyn has painted what looks like parking spots for humans on the grass six feet apart from one another to force the public to behave. And they're doing it. [...] If this is the "new normal" I want nothing to do with it. I've adopted Ron Swanson's attitude. I'll do what I want. And if the government tries to stop me, I'm calling my lawyer. This is out of control. Are you going to sit in a little circle on the grass like a good social distancing sheep? Forget About Seeing Any Justice For Obamagate. Allow me to disabuse you of your naïve delusion that we still live in a country with a justice system and break it to you that no one is going to jail for what was done to Flynn, or for the unmasking business, or for the Russia hoax or, for that matter, for any of the corrupt Dem/foreigner collaborations exemplified by the payoffs received by stripperphile and Bolivian folk medicine enthusiast Hoover Biden. No one. Well, maybe Mike Flynn himself will. Since his judge is now making up the law as he goes along [...] Requests for N.J. public records rejected during coronavirus crisis as Murphy administration uses little-known law. In 2005, New Jersey enacted a sweeping law called the Emergency Health Powers Act, giving the governor greater authority to take actions to protect Garden State residents during a health crisis. Gov. Phil Murphy has cited the statute frequently the last two months as he's issued a series of orders to place the state in near-lockdown to fight the coronavirus pandemic. But in an unexpected development, some government agencies in Murphy's administration have also cited the law to reject requests from media outlets seeking public records related to how the state has responded to an outbreak that has killed more than 10,000 residents and caused widespread unemployment. The ability to obtain records is one of the key tools journalists, advocates, and everyday citizens wield to examine the inner workings of government and discover how your taxpayer dollars are being spent (or misspent). News Flash: DOJ Targeted Other Conservatives. A friend emailed me recently to say that on May 1st, in his opening monologue, Tucker Carlson made the statement, "You don't want to live in a society where the most powerful agency in government imprisons people it doesn't like. That is horrifying." Our friend lamented that he wishes there is someone who could "get Steve's story to Tucker" because what happened to Flynn is so similar to what happened to Steve, my husband — former pit bull Republican congressman from Texas. Numerous reports verify that Rep. Stockman was quite a fierce critic of and whistle-blower on the Obama administration. As a result, he was pursued for four years by the Public Integrity Section of the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the nonprofit division of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) — the very same corrupted team that went after Tea Party and other conservative nonprofit organizations around 2012. The DOD took their story before four grand juries before they were even able to obtain an indictment. Liberals always lie. As covered in this blog earlier this week the Mayor of Chicago thinks the coronavirus is so incredibly dangerous that people in her city should be locked in their homes against their will and businesses ordered closed. In announcing her restrictions she actually cited haircuts as something she would not allow Chicagoans to do because they might get the virus and die. Of course, we all know the mayor herself went out and got her hair cut and then lashed out at her citizens for pointing out her hypocrisy. The main point here is she knew she wouldn't actually get coronavirus if she got her haircut. That's just a BS story she told the people. Illinois governor J. B. Pritzker has also taken heat for his own family heading off to Florida while he has ordinary citizens in his state locked in their homes. He knew it wasn't dangerous for his family to leave the house or he wouldn't have let them, presuming he loves his wife and children. That's just a lie to control everyone else. Don't Expect Losers of Shutdown to Sit Idly by Forever. Obedience to the law is bottomed on one of three motives. First, people believe that the law is proper and just, and therefore it is their civic duty to follow its dictates. Second, people expect that obedience to the law will provide them benefits that they cannot otherwise enjoy. Third, people fear that disobedience to the law will impose costs upon them that they can avoid if they follow the rules. These three motives often reinforce one another. [...] Far and away, the most important motive for obedience to the law is a conviction that it is just, or at least the regime that promulgated it is just. This is what makes the law, for the most part, self-enforcing. It keeps the government from having to impose draconian restrictions upon violations, as well as creating a massive police state to monitor public behavior. This is one of the main differences between the United States and communist dictatorships. I Helped Write FISA. Let's Destroy It. Circa March 2016, as it appeared that Donald Trump would be the Republican Party's presidential nominee in the forthcoming election, someone with White House authority — we do not yet know who or through what channel — directed the National Security Agency electronically to surveil communications in and out of Trump's campaign headquarters in New York's Trump Tower. At the same time, the CIA and FBI were vectoring longstanding CIA assets, including Stefan Halper in Britain and Joseph Mifsud in Italy as well as Australia's Alexander Downer not so much to gather information about low-level Trump advisers' contacts with the Russians, but to provide pretexts for further surveillance of Trump and, above all, for press stories implicating Trump with Russia. By July 2016, the FBI and CIA had encompassed the Trump campaign in formal counterintelligence and criminal investigations, while shopping suggestive allegations to the press. The so-called Steele dossier, alleging a host of details, some lurid, all false, was part of this classic political agitprop. This effort was the product of a homogeneous mixture of persons official and officious, including John Brennan and James Comey, directors of the CIA and FBI, respectively, James Clapper, director of National Intelligence, along with some of the highest officials of these agencies, of the Department of Justice and of State. These people are related to one another socially, politically, financially, professionally, maritally and extra-maritally. They served Democratic President Barack Obama while furthering the election of his chosen Democrat successor, Hillary Clinton. The notion that they acted without at least his tacit approval is not worth a second thought. Legally Conflicted Senate Intel Committee Presents Another Defense of Intelligence Corruption. Foolishness and betrayal of our country have served to reveal dangers within our present condition. Misplaced corrective action, regardless of intent, is neither safe nor wise. The intelligence apparatus was weaponized against our candidate by those who controlled the levers of government. That said, today's SSCI defense of political corruption is infuriating. Pennsylvania Business Owner Says They Are Being 'Unconstitutionally Closed Down'. A business owner attending the protest at the Pennsylvania State Capitol on Monday [4/20/2020] told Breitbart News that businesses are "unjustifiably" and "unconstitutionally" closed down as a result of the drastic measures taken by local officials to combat the Chinese coronavirus. Pennsylvania resident Chris Miller, owner of the Scranton Golf Center, told Breitbart News on Monday that his business has been closed for four weeks as a result of the shutdown. [Video clip] Easter wouldn't do it but... Why Politicians
Focus on Trivia in the Midst of Disaster. You've probably heard:
The Governors' Mutiny. [Scroll down] Mr. Trump and all other officers and legislators and judges of the federal and state governments are bound by oath to the Constitution. Yet that same parchment absolutely forbids the states, without the consent of Congress, from entering into "any agreement or compact with another state[.]" That is American bedrock. It's right up there with the prohibition on states granting titles of nobility, say, or keeping ships of war in time of peace. One doesn't have to be a Civil War buff to see that states forming compacts or agreements with other states smacks of a challenge to federal authority, no matter how un-total a president's authority might be. Yet a bloom of stories in the press suggests states have begun doing just what the Constitution says they can't. A populace kept fearful is ripe for abuse. Along the way, the Protectors of our Well-Being began to give edicts more feverishly and more randomly. "Wear a seat belt!" "Quit eating so much grain!" "Don't use those light bulbs!" "Never drink from the hose!" "Get a safer gas can (at an exorbitant government-inflicted price)." "Stay out of the sun!" "Don't eat butter!" "Eat butter!" On and on, the contradictory government edicts have been handed down from above. And we dutifully fell in line. [...] Out of fear for personal safety, we bow down to their random and often senseless edicts. Maybe by doing so, we will add a few more days to our lives? Maybe. I suppose it is possible. But those few more days will also be government-controlled, highly taxed days. The FISA Scandal Is about Corruption, Not 'Sloppiness'. Consider this scenario: A federal lawyer is filling out applications requesting FISA warrants to spy on American citizens who work for a major presidential campaign to determine whether the campaign staffers are collaborating with a foreign power to steal the presidency of the United States. They must know that such a conspiracy, should it be exposed, would be the most explosive in the history of the nation — towering over the piddling criminality of Watergate or the Teapot Dome scandal. And any genuine effort to ferret out criminality and sedition within one of the nation's major parties — perhaps going a high as the future president himself — would be supported by unimpeachable underlying evidence and undertaken with abundant care and meticulous oversight. So what are the chances that a good-faith investigation would botch nearly every request to spy on the campaign when the FISA court is already signing off on over 99 percent of applications? Ohio uses smoke and mirrors on voters. The primary election in OH was set for March 10, 2020. Then someone in Columbus, without explanation, changed the date to March 17, St. Patrick's Day. The cynical among us believe that the hope was that fewer voters would turn out that day, with the Cleveland parade and all, which of course was cancelled for the first time in 178 years. Except that lifelong politician and Governor Mike DeWine cancelled elections at 3:30 a.m. on the 17th itself. He had gone to court earlier that day to try to stop the primary. DeWine said he would go along with the judge's decision. The judge said "no" and all of a sudden the judge's decision was unimportant. It took DeWine's cronies until 3:30 a.m. to get four Ohio Supreme Court judges to agree by phone to call off voting. (Was that even legal?) DeWine set the new date as June 2. Then on March 25, the General Assembly passed H.B. 197, resetting the date to April 28, 2020. Why Does 'Sunscreen' Appear 49 Times In The $2 Trillion Coronavirus Relief Package? The $2 trillion coronavirus relief package passed by Congress and signed by President Donald Trump mentions the word sunscreen 49 times, but why is that? How could that help fight the coronavirus as the deadly disease continues to spread throughout the U.S.? The Treatment of Sunscreen Innovation Act, which benefits large manufacturers in Kentucky — where Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is up for re-election in November — was placed into the coronavirus stimulus package. Empire State Building Debuts Dystopian Red "Siren" Light. The Empire State Building debuted what appeared to be a spinning red 'siren' light atop the iconic structure in what many observers saw as a dystopian sign of the times. Turning the Empire State Building into a massive flashing siren. The top of the Empire State Building in New York City was lit up tonight to look like an emergency flashing siren, in honor of healthcare workers and first responders risking their lives in the new epicenter of the Chinese Corona Virus. The Editor says... New Yorkers baffled over 'unsettling' Empire State Building siren display. New Yorkers were left spooked Monday night by a glaring Empire State Building light display intended to honor emergency workers fighting coronavirus. The iconic Midtown skyscraper announced the debut of a display that began at 9 p.m. Monday [3/30/2020], and will continue on through the course of the ongoing pandemic. "Starting tonight through the COVID-19 battle, our signature white lights will be replaced by the heartbeat of America with a white and red siren in the mast for heroic emergency workers on the front line of the fight," read a tweet from the building's official Twitter account. But to some, in addition to solidarity, the siren induced anxiety, as it spun for the first time surrounded by low clouds. [Video clip] The Editor says... Kelly Loeffler Among Corrupt Senate Virus Profiteers. If you ever wondered how public servants get so rich serving the public, or why the Senate and House are filled with so many millionaires, part of the answer is that they are often privy to knowledge not available to the rest of us. Knowledge is power and it can also be very profitable if you are among the legislators who can take advantage of it before any of us common folk hear about it. Just ask Sen. Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga., who exploited knowledge provided in a private briefing about the Wuhan virus and its possible impact and along with her husband sold stock worth millions just before the Chinese Wuhan virus spread worldwide and tanked global markets. Insider Trading Scandal Is Just Latest Reason Burr Should Be Removed As Intel Chair. Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr is being criticized by liberals and conservatives due to the news he sold up to $1.6 million in stock after receiving private briefings about the coronavirus but before the stock market began its sharp decline. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., tweeted of the North Carolina Republican: "Burr knew how bad it would be. He told the truth to his wealthy donors, while assuring the public that we were fine. THEN he sold off $1.6 million in stock before the fall. He needs to resign." Tucker Carlson told his audience Burr needs to resign and await prosecution if he's unable to explain his actions. He said if the allegations are true, that Burr has betrayed his country in a time of crisis. Senators Must Be Investigated: Dumping Stocks After COVID-19 Classified Briefing Is Insider Trading. Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr, along with three other Senate colleagues, should be ashamed and investigated for insider trading if reports alleging they dumped their stock after receiving a classified briefing on coronavirus Jan. 24 are true. If it is true, which it appears to be, Burr should also be removed as the Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. According to reports he sold $1.6 million of his stock after receiving the closed door briefing. Even if legal, politicians profiting off inside information amid coronavirus crisis is outrageous. As the novel coronavirus works it way through the United States, many Americans have seen their savings dwindle as the stock market continues its unprecedented free fall. But for a handful US senators, the crisis was cause for a windfall. That's because Richard Burr and Kelly Loeffler, both of whom were briefed for weeks as the coronavirus approached America, decided it was a good idea to use their inside information to dump over a million dollar in stocks. Sens. Diane Feinstein and Jim Inhofe also sold significant amounts of stock. To make matters worse for Burr, at the same time that he was shedding doomed paper, he was assuring the American people that our nation was "better prepared than ever for coronavirus." Oh? Really? So is that why Burr engaged in dozens of transactions to protect his own portfolio while his fellow citizens lost billions? Dianne Feinstein, 3 more senators accused of dumping major holdings before stock market plunge. Sen. Dianne Feinstein is reportedly part of a small group of senators who sold off millions of dollars worth of personal stock days before the market crashed due to the coronavirus crisis. The California Democrat and three of her Senate colleagues sold major holdings in February just before the stock market plunge, according to U.S. Senate disclosure records. For Jeff Sessions, inside-trading stock scandal is his golden moment. Jeff Sessions, President Trump's former Attorney General, who went out with rancor from Trump for opening the gates to the Mueller investigation and impeachment, is now running for his old Senate seat in Alabama. President Trump has endorsed his GOP rival. Sessions, with admirable restraint, has stated over and over that he nevertheless supports Trump and his agenda — which is perfectly credible, given that he was Trump's earliest high-profile supporter. All the same, it's pretty impressive, given Trump's refusal to forgive. While that issue may be understandable on both sides — fundamentally, Sessions wanted to be ethical, but, unlike Trump, he misunderstood the nature of the enemy he was appeasing, the new insider-trading stock scandal in the news, apparently involving Senators Richard Burr, Kelly Loeffler, and now Dianne Feinstein, gives his campaign some powerful impetus. In the Face of Pandemic, the U.S. Senate Sells Stocks and Plays Politics With Our Lives. On Thursday night [3/19/2020], news broke of two Republican Senators, Richard Burr of North Carolina and Kelly Loeffler of Georgia, dropping some serious stock after an all-Senators meeting where they received a briefing on the Wuhan coronavirus. We're talking stock sales in the millions. It's an egregious abuse of power, if this is a case of insider trading, and there are calls from all over for both of them to resign. Tucker Carlson even lit Burr up on his show and demanded he resign. It's a bi-partisan thing right now, because we're in the middle of a pandemic and American citizens are terrified. What do these two do when they catch wind of how bad it's going to be? They get rich off of the crisis. For Loeffler's part, she says the transactions were made by a third party broker, and she was not aware of the sale until weeks after. Richard Burr, Kelly Loeffler urged to resign for selling stocks after coronavirus briefing. Two more senators made hefty stock sales before the coronavirus pandemic tanked global markets, records revealed as two other lawmakers who dumped millions in shares faced mounting calls to resign. Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Jim Inhofe sold as much as $6.4 million worth of stock in the weeks before panic about the coronavirus sparked a worldwide selloff, according to disclosure filings first reported by the New York Times. The additional revelations came amid widespread outrage toward GOP Sens. Richard Burr and Kelly Loeffler, who reportedly sold shares after getting briefings on the coronavirus threat. Senator Kelly Loeffler dumped $3.1m in stock and Senate Intel chairman Richard Burr sold $1.5m while getting classified briefings on coronavirus. Four senators dumped millions of dollars worth of stock while Capitol Hill was being briefed on the threat of coronavirus but before the markets tanked as infections soared, disclosure records have revealed. Republicans Richard Burr, Kelly Loeffler and James Inhofe and Democrat Dianne Feinstein collectively offloaded up to $11 million in stock between late January and early February, according to records seen by The Daily Beast and New York Times. Burr, chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee that was directly briefed on coronavirus, sold up to $1.7 million in stock including in hotels; Feinstein, a member of the same committee, sold up to $6 million in stock including in a biotech firm. Senators Loeffler And Burr Caught Dumping Their Stocks After Private Meeting On Coronavirus Impact. Two Republican senators were caught selling off millions of dollars worth of stocks shortly after a closed-door Senate-only meeting forecasting the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, the Daily Beast reported Thursday [3/19/2020]. Republican Georgia Senator Kelly Loeffler sold roughly $3.1 million in stocks she jointly held with her husband between January 24 and February 14, just before the disease put the stock market into freefall. Her colleague and fellow Republican North Carolina Senator Richard Burr sold off roughly $1.5 million of his own stocks in February as well, shortly before hosting a private meeting with wealthy constituents where he detailed to them the potential impacts of the virus, according to NPR. On the other hand... Sources: Lindsey Graham Uses China's Disease Crisis to Deliver Green Cards to Wealthy Chinese. Sen. Lindsey Graham is using the coronavirus recovery bills to dramatically expand the award of EB-5 green cards to wealthy Chinese if they lend money to U.S. real estate investors and other companies, according to several activists and Politico magazine. "How can people pushing this not see how politically explosive this is?" said Mark Krikorian, director of the Center for Immigration Studies. "An EB-5 increase would almost exclusively benefit Chinese: It is hard to imagine what they are thinking." House Lawyers for Adam Schiff Assert Privilege over Schiff Subpoenas of Impeachment Phone Records. Judicial Watch announced today [3/19/2020] that Representative Adam Schiff (D-CA) and the U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence asked the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to dismiss the lawsuit against them for the controversial impeachment-related subpoenas for phone records, including those of Rudy Giuliani, President Trump's lawyer. Schiff and the Committee are being represented by the Office of General Counsel for the House of Representatives. The phone records led to the publication of the private phone records of Giuliani, Congressman Devon Nunes, journalist John Solomon, Trump attorney Jay Sekulow, attorney Victoria Toensing, and other American citizens. The FISA States of America. The Justice Department brazenly disregards the Constitution when it comes to spying. Does FISA help prevent terrorism? As I noted here, the government obtained more than 1,000 warrants in a one-year timeframe to spy on Americans. That's a lot of spying on a lot of Americans. The Justice Department's lying to obtain these warrants has become so brazen that the court now questions whether it can trust any of the affidavits the FBI submits to justify its domestic surveillance. The fact that none of these lies are ever criminally punished further reinforces a cycle of dishonesty within the process. Will Elizabeth Warren Release Her Own NDA's? NDA's are back in the news, at least when those NDA's concern Mike Bloomberg. But what about Elizabeth Warren's NDAs? Oh she may not have one for herself, but her colleagues do, there are over 250 of them! What if I told you that Congressmen settled over 250 sexual harassment lawsuits using taxpayer money, and there was no way to find out who these Congressmen were? Would you believe me? The truth is that the situation is as described in the question. For decades members of Congress would use your taxpayer dollars to buy their way out of bad publicity. When a member of Congress was accused of sexual harassment, the case went to a secret court known as the Office of Compliance. Hidden from public view, Congress's Office of Compliance paid out over $17 million for 264 settlements involving misconduct and sexual harassment. Wisconsin parents suing school district for letting students switch genders without notice. Parents are suing a Wisconsin school district for adopting a policy that allows students of any age to transition to a different gender and use a different name while at school without parental notice or consent. The policy, according to the religious-liberty law firm Alliance Defending Freedom, prevents school officials from communicating about the child's choice to transition with parents if the student does not consent. The parents charge that the school's policy violates their parental rights, usurping the upbringing of their children under Wisconsin law. Revealed: How the government keeps its UFO information secret. [Scroll down] Essentially, the DIA's UFO program was set up to circumvent FOIA requests and avoid having to discuss UFOs publicly. Let that sink in for a moment. This was a massive program that almost no one knew anything about and it was explicitly crafted in a way that would allow them to keep all of the information from the public. And it worked. Constitutional law expert reacts to Trump impeachment: The legislative branch can abuse its power. On this week's episode of "Life, Liberty & Levin," Constitutional law expert Randy Barnett told host Mark Levin that the president is not the only elected official who can abuse their power. Barnett, the director of the Georgetown Center for the Constitution, said the House of Representatives "misbehaved" in its inquiry and ensuing vote to impeach President Trump last year. "The legislature can abuse power," Barnett said. "That is one of the reasons we have judicial review — is to ensure that the legislature has not exceeded its proper powers — as it did, for example, when it passed the Affordable Care Act pursuant to its Commerce Clause power." It's time for Trump to fight fire with fire. We should all recoil in horror that the Intelligence Community and the DoJ could be weaponized against a sitting president. Spying, planting informants, the use of purely partisan Democrats' oppo research to create a fake criminal narrative; how could decent Americans allow the rule of law to be bent in such an unlawful fashion? And these plotters used scorched-earth tactics; surprising Trump supporters with unannounced interviews to create perjury traps, threatening their children with jail time, sending SWAT teams to kick in their doors at 3 a.m., raiding his lawyers' offices to search for dirt, and placing a defendant for a nonviolent white-collar crime in solitary confinement. How could this happen in the Land of the Free? How Democrats' Get-Trump Crusade Has Irreparably Damaged The Nation. For more than three years, Democrats, Never Trump Republicans, and the left-leaning media proved themselves willing to destroy the country to destroy one man: Donald J. Trump. From foreign affairs to counterintelligence to law enforcement, from domestic governance to congressional oversight to separation of powers, Trump's enemies manipulated and misused our government powers because Americans dared to elect the wrong leader. The Senate's acquittal yesterday [2/5/2020] of the president on the two spurious articles of impeachment concluded (for now) the years-long coordinated efforts at a coup. But while Trump escaped the onslaught, the damage inflicted on our country will not be easily abated. Preventing Another 'Crossfire Hurricane'. Sometime this year, the U.S. Attorney for Connecticut, John Durham, will probably have a grand jury issue indictments of some of the "Crossfire Hurricane" leaders. Among them will likely be former FBI agent Peter Strzok, former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe, and former FBI director James Comey. He may also indict some of the CIA's current and former leaders including Obama's CIA director John Brennan and current CIA Director Gina Haspel (Brennan's protégé) who ran the overseas elements of "Crossfire Hurricane." However many of the "Crossfire Hurricane" team are indicted, and whether or not they are convicted, their indictment will shake the FBI (and, we hope, the CIA) to their cores. The indictments will have the effect of dissuading further secret investigations of presidential campaigns but even that effect will not be permanent, nor will they prevent another "Crossfire Hurricane" from ever happening again. Why the Senate Passed on Witnesses. [Reason #2] In the House, a pathological liar like Adam Schiff actually could end up chairing the Intelligence Committee. A Schiff and a Nadler actually could be hand-picked to run a sloppy and minor-league Grade C impeachment. They could ram through votes as they like, hold secret sessions barred to the public, deny the President basic rules of due process. They could run a kangaroo court and decide not to bother subpoenaing witnesses they want to hear, leaving it instead to Schiff to fill in any blanks with lies, fabricated phone conversations, assertions about "whistleblowers" that are not actually whistleblowers. They can get away with it because they have just enough clowns and barkers in the arena to make it a circus, if they like. With an assemblage of Lying Adam Schiff, Doddering Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Waters, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and a whole tent-full of such cartoon characters, there is no holding them back when they have the majority. Impeach Pelosi/Schiff/Nadler for Abuse of Power. For three years, Democrats accused the president of having stolen the 2016 election. Now, they maintain, he is trying to steal the 2020 election. In reality, it was Hillary and members of the Obama administration (and probably Obama himself) who tried to steal the 2016 election and it is Pelosi, Schiff, and Nadler who are trying to steal 2020. Pelosi, Schiff, and Nadler are using the power of their offices to erase the 2016 election, steal the 2020 Presidential Election, and damage Republican senators in purple states enough to flip the upper chamber to Democratic Party control. Running on the issues against the successful Trump administration does not appeal to them. Instead, they are using impeachment as the means to rig the election to get control of the presidency and the Senate. Fake Investigations — Designed To Fool You. Many government officials with long entrenched power are unwilling to give up any of that power. [...] Most of the big 'investigations' in the news in recent years have not been at all what they pretended to be. The sham investigations of Hillary's email, or the Clinton Foundation, or Weiner's laptop, or Uranium One, or Mueller's witch hunt, or Huber's big nothing, or the IG's whitewash, or the Schiff-Pelosi charades, have all been premeditated deceptions. There are three types of investigations that call for different deceptions by the Deep State. The first type is the rare honest investigation. Examples would be the attempt to find the truth about Fast and Furious (Obama's gunrunning operation), or the IRS scandal (Obama's weaponizing of government). In response to real investigations, the criminals do two things: lie and hide evidence. Key evidence, even if it is under subpoena, just disappears. In the IRS case, Lois Lerner's relevant email and the email of 6 others involved in the scheme was just "lost". The IRS "worked tirelessly" to find the email, but hard drives had been destroyed and back-up drives were missing, so the subpoenaed evidence could not be provided. For the Deep State, hiding and destroying evidence of guilt is standard operating procedure. They simply report a "glitch" that destroyed the key evidence and that's the end of it. Or, they simply redact the portions of the record that would expose the truth. To my memory, no one ever suffers any consequences for this. When public business is done behind closed doors. Nothing puts a journalistr's [sic] antenna up faster than when it appears some public official is trying to hide something. That's exactly what was going on last winter, when the Connecticut Port Authority, we now know, was hatching a grand plan, in secret, to drastically remake the historic port of New London, filling in seven acres of the river between the two existing piers, one a stone 19th Century structure on the National Register of Historic Places. The extensive $93 million project, to be done at the behest of Danish wind power giant Orsted and Connecticut utility Eversource, with the state contributing $35 million, would potentially close the port to traditional cargo for the better part of a generation. Torquemada Reborn: The Swamp's Dept. of Labor Inquisitions. During the turbulent tenure of former Secretary Alex Acosta, a Jeffrey Epstein apologist and Billionaire Democratic Party donor enabler, the Department of Labor (DOL), through the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP), acted to further the Obama Administration's socialist agenda by harassing and vexing businesses engaged in federal contracting. Astoundingly, even though Acosta's resigned amid the Epstein scandal and the Trump Administration is pushing to expand economic growth via streamlined labor laws, the OFCCP remains the feared torturer of American Industry. Before resigning, Acosta acted like an Obama holdover in the Trump Administration. Bizarrely, Acosta's replacement, erstwhile conservative Eugene Scalia, son of the revered conservative jurist Antonin Scalia, effectively perpetuates the Deep State Liberal hijacking of the DOL by failing to halt the OFCCP Obama Labor Inquisitions. Unequal Justice And The Persecution Of Steve Stockman, Proud Boys, Andy Ngo. If the hallmark of a Third World country is arbitrary law enforcement, we are already there. Former Congressman Steve Stockman, an immigration patriot and a stalwart of the conservative movement, is serving a ten-year sentence for fundraising crimes, that, even if committed, would typically be punished by far less. The extensive investigation was spearheaded by the same people Stockman exposed for weaponizing the IRS against conservative organizations. In contrast, Democratic officials accused of crimes receive kid gloves treatment — even with the supposedly "authoritarian" Trump in the White House. The Trump Administration's Department of Justice is being slammed for supposedly being "far-Right," but it's not even upholding equal justice against Leftist Deep State bureaucrats. Stockman has been a thorn in the side of the Republican Establishment but a hero to many grassroots conservatives for years. Watchdog Group Suing Adam Schiff Over Release Of Private Phone Records. The conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch announced Wednesday [1/8/2020] that it has filed a lawsuit against Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and the House Intelligence Committee for information relating to the acquirement and release of the phone records from Rudy Giuliani, Devin Nunes, and others. "We are seeking records about [Schiff's] controversial subpoenas that led to his publishing the private phone records of President Trump's lawyers and other innocent Americans including: President Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani, Congressman Devin Nunes, and journalist John Solomon," the group said in a video announcing the lawsuit. "The lawsuit seeks all subpoenas by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence to telephone providers, including, but not limited to, AT&T." The Schiff Effect. [Scroll down] As [Trey] Gowdy noted, time after time after time, Schiff and other House Democrats leaked — in partisan fashion — confidential information that should never have been slipped to their buddies in the media. All targeted to attack the president. And in so doing, what could be called "the Schiff Effect" created for the Democrats in both the House and Senate a seriously bad reputation for not being trustworthy with the handling of confidential information. It is, as D'Souza was alluding, almost the same as leaking the information directly to the Iranians themselves. Add to this image the rabid Trump Derangement Syndrome among Democrats, which has them literally siding with the murderous Iranian regime over the president. Financing Big Government with the Printing Press. Back in January, I wrote about the $42 trillion price tag of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal. To pay for this massive expansion in the burden of government spending, some advocates have embraced "Modern Monetary Theory," which basically assumes the Federal Reserve can finance new boondoggles by printing money. [...] Wow, this Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) reminds me of the old joke about "I can't be out of money. I still have checks in my checkbook." The FISA Court Is Just As Guilty, Knew About Lies and Omissions Years Ago. In the wake of the IG report, most of the blame for the Carter Page FISA abuse has rightly landed at the feet of the FBI and its leadership. There is no doubt they actively chose to lie to the court in order to target someone they had insufficient evidence to target. As part of the unfolding of the saga in the wake of Horowitz's report, the FISA court itself released a denunciation of FBI procedures and asked for an audit of other warrant request to see if the problems were systematic. The tone of the letter was indignant but also smacked of trying to pass the buck. No one held a gun to the head of these FISA judges and forced them to approve 99% of warrants placed before them, including the woefully lacking Page warrant. In fact, it's now clear that the FISA court itself knew about these lies and omissions years ago and chose to essentially do nothing about them, perhaps even actively covering them up. Against all Odds — Three FBI Officials Quietly Working to Reveal the Truth. I'm not sure exactly who they are, and there's a possibility they might just be one person; however, it appears there are three distinct FBI officials engaged in an overall investigative capacity, attempting to break the truth through the corrupt machinery. Each individual is noted within a specific event or outcome. Hopefully AG Bill Barr has tasked his deputy James Rosen to hold an honest 'climate assessment' discussion with these individuals. The first honorable FBI Agent is the FBI official who enhanced the DOJ sentencing memo for James Wolfe. The DOJ prosecution, namely DC U.S. Attorney Jessie K Liu — possibly following instructions from Rod Rosenstein — was trying to cover-up the classified intelligence leak of SSCI Security Director James Wolfe in order to protect powerful Senators. Blind man's bluff: The curse of secret investigation. The FBI had pursued an investigation of a presidential campaign on the basis of a dossier bought and paid for by the rival candidate with incalculable results: "This is the FBI's darkest hour." The most disquieting aspect of the whole affair was pointed out by the NY Post editorial board. Could more abuses have been committed against the general public? If the FBI could fabricate pretexts against prominent individuals who could afford the best lawyers, how safe were ordinary individuals from the secret inquisitors? Two Possibilities in Trump Wiretapping, and Neither Is Good. The report of the I.G.'s findings on the use of FISA in the FBI Crossfire Hurricane investigation is an outrage. As a 22 year FBI Agent, I have personally conducted multiple investigations using both Title III "wiretaps" and FISA authorized intercepts. From this perspective, I can only see two possible interpretations of the actions of the FBI and DOJ. Either scenario should anger and frighten every fair minded citizen who takes the time to read the report and understand its implications. If The FBI's Contempt For The Law Is Not Reined In, Its Abuses Will Get Worse. In 2018, the U.S. government filed 1,117 final applications to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court for authority for the FBI to conduct electronic surveillance and physical searches. One application was withdrawn. One other was denied. The remaining 1,115 were granted. [...] The legitimacy of the FBI is in free fall. But not its terrifying power. The biggest lie about the latest Office of Inspector General report is that it reveals "mistakes" made by the FBI. These weren't mistakes. The FISA court used more accurate terminology, like "misconduct." FBI is investigating former Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin who issued more than 400 pardons in the weeks after he lost his reelection bid. The FBI is investigating former Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin who controversially issued more than 400 pardons in the weeks after he lost his reelection bid. Among those who were granted clemency after Bevin lost his seat on November 5 was murderer Patrick Baker, who had served two years of a 19-year sentence for killing a man during a home invasion. Bevin also pardoned Micah Schoettle who was sentenced in 2018 to 23 years in prison for multiple sexual offences involving children. The only guilty party during impeachment is Adam Schiff. [Scroll down] But to Mr. Schiff, California Democrat, and the Democratic leadership, President Trump had to be impeached by Christmas — at all costs. Laws and the foregoing principles fairness of that interfere with this edict must be cut down. Why? The Articles of Impeachment charge: (1) obstruction of Congress; and (2) abuse of power. But Mr. Schiff has so biased and twisted the impeachment proceedings that, in the height of irony, he stands condemned by his own mouth of the same transgressions for which he will prosecute the president. On this record it is Mr. Schiff, who has obstructed Congress and abused his power — not the president. Former AG Mike Mukasey: Adam Schiff Broke the Law in Subpeonaeing Phone Records from Verizon and AT&T. [Scroll down] [Quoting Mr. Mukasey:] ["]That is the stunner, not just that he had them, but where he got them, from the phone company providing the service. There are statutes, part of the criminal code that restrict the ability of anybody to get those records and they list who can get them under what circumstances and that doesn't include Congress. It is for law enforcement, for law enforcement purposes, or if the company wants to disclose them to save somebody's life or prevent serious injury they can do that. Those are the only circumstances. A Congressional committee, as far as I know, has no authority to subpoena that information.["] Judicial Watch Files a Lawsuit Against Adam Schiff and the House Intelligence Committee Over Phone Records. Government watchdog group Judicial Watch on Friday filed a lawsuit against Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and the House Intelligence Committee for failing to respond to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. Specifically, Judicial Watch wanted information about private phone records that were released as part of the Democrats' partisan impeachment push against President Donald Trump. The revelation came about on page 153 of the House Intelligence Committee's report on its investigation into Ukraine. Adam Schiff: Psychopath, or guilty conscience? Fresh from his impeachment stunt, House Intelligence committee chairman Adam Schiff comes off as an amazing creep in the aftermath. Asked about the recent Horowitz report's findings on Carter Page, a young Trump advisor who was illegally spied upon, Schiff said he had no sympathy. [...] What happened to Page was an outrage, an unmistakeably grave abuse of government power as mendacious FISA warrants were enacted to spy on innocent and cooperative person. Even people who dislike President Trump can pretty naturally recognize that Page's constitutional rights on unreasonable searches and seizures was violated. Not Schiff, though. All he could emit was stone heartlessness for the man whose good name was ruined by abuses of government power, revealing an utter absence of empathy. Corrupt Democrats Pushing America toward the Abyss. The rabid rogues who spat out this incomplete impeachment effort are corrupt to the core, all sense of sanity and restraint long gone. The roots of this outrage were planted in 2008, when Democrats achieved near absolute power with the election of President Barack Obama. For the first two years of Obama's administration, Democrats controlled Congress, to include having enough seats in the Senate to override a filibuster. Democrats and their supporters ultimately had control of the Executive Branch, Congress, the vast majority of the federal courts, the media, academia, the entertainment industry, the federal bureaucracy, and the babbling women of The View. They had a stranglehold on almost every lever of power and influence the likes of which had not been seen in generations. Not only were Democrats not shy about using these levers, but under President Obama, they turned them into weapons. They believed themselves to be ascendant, and they expected it to last forever. DOJ's High Crimes and Misdemeanors. Conservative talk show hosts frequently say corruption in federal law enforcement is "just at the top; we're not talking about the rank and file of these agencies." But Representative Adam Schiff, Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, was a low level a federal prosecutor in the late 80s and early 90s. Robert Mueller was with DOJ during the same period. Peter Strozk joined the FBI in the 90s. Do we really believe members of the law enforcement community arrive at the top and then become corrupt? No. Skills of tampering with evidence to hide or alter it, fabricating false narratives, and controlling what information comes out in trials — or House hearings — are well-honed at lower levels of these agencies. Schiff May Have Broken the Law with His Subpoena of Nunes' Phone Records. Former Attorney General Michael Mukasey has questioned the legality of Rep. Adam Schiff's (D-Calif.) recent acquisition of phone records for five individuals, one of whom is House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.). Schiff is already facing criticism of his actions as Democratic members of Congress pursue the impeachment of President Donald Trump. But, in what's being called a "stunning abuse of congressional power," Schiff divulged the phone records of Nunes, attorney Rudy Guiliani, and others during a recent session of the impeachment inquiry. IG report suggests FBI might cheat on all its FISA wiretap requests. Former FBI Director James Comey initially portrayed last week's damning report on the bureau's probe of Russiagate as a vindication. This week, Comey admitted that Inspector General Michael Horowitz discovered "real sloppiness," which is "concerning." That characterization does not begin to cover the problems described by Horowitz, which this week prompted a highly unusual public rebuke from the court that reviews secret warrant applications under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). The FISA court called the FBI's conduct "antithetical to the heightened duty of candor" that applies in such cases. Comey may take comfort in the fact that Horowitz didn't find political bias. The rest of us can hardly be reassured by the implication that the FBI is inept rather than corrupt. Devin Nunes: The FISA Court and FBI "Dirty Cops" are Working Together to Harm Americans. As you listen to this please keep in mind that Devin Nunes is the Ranking Member, former Chairman, of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Devin Nunes is increasing his warning tone and signals to Americans. All nuance, pretense and subtlety is now being dropped. Rep. Nunes is openly stating that FBI officials and FISA judges are working together with the *intent* to conspire against the American people. [Video clip] Exxon's big court win exposes major malpractice in the New York Attorney General's Office. Exxon's win Tuesday against New York state's climate-change lawsuit couldn't have been more complete: Not only did the judge find the Attorney General's Office failed to prove fraud, he also blasted the case as "hyperbolic" — and praised Exxon. State Supreme Court Judge Barry Ostrager said the state's lawyers failed to show the company ever "made any material misstatements or omissions" that could mislead any "reasonable" observer. The AG's Office had claimed Exxon defrauded investors in violation of the Martin Act and other laws. But Ostrager flagged the "politically motivated statements by former New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman," who launched the Exxon probe — which show that the litigation was political from the start. Rand Paul to reporters: Why aren't you making a bigger deal about Schiff's "immoral, unfair" seizure of phone records? The seizure of phone records by Adam Schiff might have angered some Republicans even more than the impeachment process it was supposed to advance. GOP members in both the House and Senate have been expressing outrage for days over Schiff's actions, perhaps none more than Sen. Rand Paul. He wrote a blistering op-ed over Schiff's actions on Friday [12/6/2019], calling the seizure of records from fellow members of Congress and journalists "brazen and shameful." Schiff's release of phone records is absolutely outrageous. Sometimes the hypocrisy in Washington is so bad it is almost laughable. The House impeachment witch hunt reached that level this week with the revelations that Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., had acquired and published personal phone records of Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., (the ranking member on the Intelligence Committee), two of President Trump's personal attorneys, and an investigative journalist Schiff doesn't like. This act was brazen and shameful. While it may not have been illegal (because Congress writes its own rules on investigations) it certainly was wrong. It certainly tramples on rights normally held dear by the left. But most of all what it did was expose that Schiff, for all of his pompous bluster, is doing exactly what he has accused President Trump of doing: using his power to investigate his political opponents. Adam Schiff Better Have a Warrant. As chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, U.S. Representative Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) is supposed to be the lawmaker in charge of protecting Americans from the government snooping on our phone records. He's not supposed to be using his position to snoop around in the phone records of Americans. We have no oversight committee to protect Americans from Schiff's spying. But, in his recent report on the inquiry into President Trump's interactions with the Ukrainian government, Schiff disclosed that he has indeed been spying on Americans. The Shakespearean Grandeur of Trump Derangement Syndrome. [Scroll down] To put it into even simpler language, the impeachment of the president, for the Framers, was not conceived of as a tool for easy removal of that official whenever Congress may have political or policy differences with him. It was to be reserved for occasions when there was a clear, convincing, and undeniable mistake made by those who selected the president when the president turned out to be something other than represented. Impeachment, in other words, is not a game of "Gotcha!" It is not about finding one or two things that can be spun to be self-serving acts, it is not about whether this president may have sought to use another country in ferreting out corruption in that country or at home, and may have used the powers of the presidency to seek to do just that. Adam Schiff Has Jumped the Shark. Many Americans remain nonplussed over revelations in the House Intelligence Committee's Impeachment Inquiry Report that its chairman, Adam Schiff, not only secretly subpoenaed telephone records from President Trump's attorney, Rudy Giuliani, but also obtained responses that detailed dates and lengths of phone calls to Trump attorney Jay Sekulow, ranking committee member Devin Nunes, and Hill reporter John Solomon. That Schiff self-disclosed this action as a rightful part of his committee's information gathering is equally stunning. Every bit as bad, it appears that national telephone carriers AT&T and Verizon, who so tout their corporate concerns about subscriber privacy, responded to such obviously politicized demands without a whimper. Schiff's actions, and indeed those of everyone involved in secretly demanding and producing these phone records, while perhaps not outright illegal, are simply beyond the pale and reminiscent of Big Brother, from George Orwell's 1984. Hold the Phone, Call Records Released by Adam Schiff. It was bad enough for House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) to subpoena the phone records of businessman Lev Parnas and President Donald Trump's attorney Rudy Giuliani and other political opponents, but when he released them in his impeachment report it was a stunning abuse of power. In the view of columnist Kimberly Strassel, Schiff's move "trampled law and responsibility... it was a disgraceful breach of ethical and legal propriety." Not surprisingly, Trump hating members of the news media trumpeted the release of the call records as a major step toward the President's impeachment. Their desire to destroy the President is so all-consuming that they missed the bigger picture. Instead, journalists should have been outraged by this invasion of privacy and misuse of power. These records should have never been released to Schiff or any politician and should have never been included in his impeachment report. Why Is Our Society Degrading So Badly, So Fast? In Washington, the Democrats are attempting to subvert the will of the majority of the American people, as expressed by the election results in 2016, by executing and plotting orchestrated campaigns to remove President Trump from office before the next election. These efforts range from the recently unsuccessfully perpetrated Russia collusion hoax, which is now being followed up by an illegitimate impeachment drive by the House. These operations also revealed the mostly clandestine activities of a permanent and extensive Deep State, also labeled "the swamp," actively working with the Democrats to subvert President Trump. A broken environment exists in Washington that contributes to the perception that too many of our elected officials feel free to participate in and to tolerate corruption without being held accountable for their actions. It is highly discouraging for many Americans that up to this point, there have been no legal consequences or viable restraints in place to curb these types of actions that are so fundamentally dangerous to the very foundations of our country. What Impeachment Tells Us A Democrat-Controlled America Would Look Like. That Democrats would seek to impeach President Trump was apparently foreordained, but the Democrats' attempts to invent justifications for what can only be described as a coup have told us much more about them, than they have revealed about Donald Trump's alleged misdeeds. What we have learned most recently is that a Democrat Congress can conduct secret warrantless searches against private citizens, against journalists and against attorneys in a completely extra-judicial attempt to pierce the attorney-client privilege. But that should really not have surprised us — it is merely an extension of what Democrats did during the Obama years when they surveilled journalist Sharyl Attkisson and others, and used the NSA to sweep up the phone calls of an unknown number of Americans who may or may not have been associated with the Trump campaign. Obtaining phone logs of political rivals is a stunning abuse of congressional power. Fanatics can justify any action, and House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff this week demonstrated where that mindset leads. In his rush to paint Donald Trump as a lawbreaker, Mr. Schiff has himself trampled law and responsibility. That's the bottom line in Mr. Schiff's stunning decision to subpoena the phone records of Rudy Giuliani and others. Mr. Schiff divulged the phone logs this week in his Ukraine report, thereby revealing details about the communications of Trump attorneys Jay Sekulow and Mr. Giuliani, [...] WSJ Columnist: Adam Schiff's Secret Subpoena Adventure Could End with Legal Buckshot in His Face. This isn't about the Constitution, or the framers, or the rule of law. It's not about upholding the integrity of our institutions; Democrats have already perverted those with their deep state antics against this administration. It's about the Democratic Party's inability to grasp that it lost the 2016 election. Democrats wanted to boot Trump since day one of his presidency. The ironic twist is that their impeachment fetish could very well be what secures him a second term. This is not popular in swing states. No one cares. And the liberal media has been so wrong, so stupid, and so corrupt in their coverage of this White House, even Democrats in these states cannot believe what they hear. [...] In the crusade to impeach Trump, [Adam] Schiff also appears to have abused his power — and it's all in plain sight. It's meant to be that way. It's to show off that he can get away with it. Devin Nunes Discusses Impeachment and Schiff's New Found Authority — Congressional Subpoenas for Private Phone Records. Devin Nunes appeared on Tucker Carlson to discuss the impeachment events of the day. However, thankfully they also discussed the revelation that HPSCI Chairman Adam Schiff randomly started issuing subpoenas for telephone information. That's the part I find very troubling. Notice how the media simply ignores it? This is a pretty big [...] deal. Under what authority can congress arbitrarily send subpoenas for the private phone records of citizens, journalists, and fellow politicians? Can Nunes now start sending subpoenas for the phone records of Michael Isikoff around the time of the Flynn phone call leak? [A]nd can congress publish those call records as a part of some possibly inquiry into the leak[,] and we can cross reference to identify the FBI leaker? Adam Schiff Abused His Power to Dig up Dirt on Opponents. House Intelligence Committee chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) has done almost exactly what he and fellow Democrats accuse President Donald Trump (falsely) of doing: he abused his power to ask an outside entity to investigate political opponents. Schiff subpoenaed phone records from AT&T that he then used to claim his Republican counterpart, Ranking Member Rep. Devin Nunes (D-CA), was part of a plot to smear a U.S. ambassador. Strassel, Attkisson would like to know when Schiff will be held accountable by media for 'snooping' on free press. With all eyes on the latest on Democrats' impeachment circus show, it seems that attention turned away from House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff "snooping" on members of the press. The California Democrat came under fire after the release of the House Intelligence Committee's impeachment inquiry report which included phone records for Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani and others, including the committee's ranking member, Rep. Devin Nunes and members of the press like John Solomon. Nunes Not Aware of Any Previous Time HPSCI Subpoenaed Phone Records; Calls it a 'Gross Abuse of Power'. Rep Devin Nunes (R-CA) explained on Fox News Wednesday night how House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) obtained the phone records of President Trump's attorney Rudy Giuliani. Nunes told host Tucker Carlson that as far as he knew, the action the Democrats took to spy on the president's allies was unprecedented and that he was considering "legal remedies" to protect his civil rights. Democrats obtained the phone records as part of their impeachment inquiry and according to critics, in possible violation of basic civil liberties. About those phone records. Contrary to the RedState post on which John relied [elsew]here, it does not appear that the Democrats obtained the phone records of Ranking Member Nunes or journalist John Solomon (or of Nunes staff member Derek Harvey). Rather, the Democrats appear to have obtained the AT&T cell phone records of Rudy Giuliani (including Giuliani Partners) and the recently indicted Lev Parnas. [...] Schiff is a lout and a liar. This particular aspect of Schiff's efforts appears to have no purpose other than to smear and/or sideline Nunes, who has established himself as the Republicans' most valuable player in deconstructing Schiff shows past and present. 'Dirty cops': FBI leaves trail of lies, leaks, lapses in Trump era. The FBI already has amassed a record of misconduct by top officials leading up to Monday, when the Justice Department inspector general is scheduled to release conclusions on whether agents also abused the bureau's intrusive wiretapping powers. To date, four inspector general reports and internal Justice Department documents have found senior FBI officials guilty of lying, insubordination, security violations, mishandling confidential material and personal biases against President Trump. Rep. Devin Nunes, the California Republican who discovered that the FBI had used a Democratic Party-financed dossier as evidence, often refers to bureau leaders as "dirty cops." Lisa Page, a former FBI senior counsel and one of those singled out, portrayed herself this week as an innocent victim of FBI betrayal. Meanwhile, news media stories have downplayed the significance of the upcoming inspector general's report on how the FBI spied on the Trump campaign through the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and other means. The New Nihilists: Political Nihilism and the Progressive Movement in America. The rise of progressivism had a lasting effect on the nation, as president after president followed Teddy's lead and sought to expand the power and scope of the federal government. Wilson, who advocated a Darwinian approach to the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, gave us the progressive income and estate tax. FDR instituted the New Deal, and LBJ advanced the Great Society, waged the War on Poverty, and launched Medicare. Not to be outdone, Bill Clinton signed the job-killing North American Free Trade Agreement; Richard Nixon established the EPA and OSHA; Jimmy Carter developed the Departments of Education and Energy; and George W. Bush created Homeland Security, the Transportation Safety Administration, and No Child Left Behind. FBI Diagnosed With CIA Disease. The Justice Department's inspector general this month reprimanded the FBI for the manner in which it recruits and supervises its "confidential human sources." To the layman, this seems about technicalities. In fact, it shows that one of the CIA's deadliest dysfunctions now infects the FBI as well. This disease consists of choosing and rejecting sources for the purpose of indulging the agencies' and their leaders' private agendas rather than to further intelligence work on the public's behalf. WhiskeyWarrior556 falls victim to New York's red flag laws. On Friday [11/22/2019], police showed up to a young man's workplace and tried to arrest him over social media posts reported to them by an old army buddy of the 28-year-old Afghanistan veteran. This man, known as Alex and popular on Instagram under the handle of WhiskeyWarrior556, slipped out of the back door, hurried home to check on his family where he found out police had already forced themselves into his home and confiscated his legal firearms after threatening his wife with calling child protective services to remove her newborn child. [...] If the current legal landscape allows for citizens to have their Second Amendment rights stripped from them without any legal opportunity to dissent, what are the next rights to be taken? On Government-Run Opposition Research: The Damage the Church Committee Revealed and Caused. An earlier essay on today's dueling accusations of government-sponsored opposition research described past examples of the practice, including how members of the Watergate Special Prosecution Force (WSPF) had assembled investigatory files on all potential GOP presidential candidates going into the 1976 election: John Connally, Gerald Ford, Nelson Rockefeller, Robert Dole, and even Ronald Reagan. I concluded by asking if such abuse of process stretched back even further. Today's essay answers that question by citing a multitude of examples from the 1960s, each lovingly documented by FBI testimony before the Church Committee. 'Crossfire Hurricane' and the FISA Court: An expert's view. "Operation Crossfire Hurricane," the FBI's code name for its investigation into Donald Trump's campaign and Russia, blew through the United States in 2016 and did more damage to our national security institutions than any real hurricane could. The upcoming report from the Department of Justice's Inspector General may well conclude that high-level Obama Justice Department and FBI officials knowingly lied to obtain top-secret surveillance warrants that were originally designed to target foreign spies and terrorists, and used them to monitor a U.S. citizen whose only crime appears to have been acting as an adviser to the Trump campaign. While lying to a federal court is a crime, lying in the context of using our nation's most secret — and most constitutionally intrusive — counter-intelligence assets as part of a false narrative to oppose a political candidate is downright dangerous and should strike fear in the average citizen who now is left to wonder what protects them from such seemingly unchecked power of the state. Enough Calm, Where's the Storm? Former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe, deep within the seditious coup, fired by then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions, supposedly under investigation, got a nice gig as a CNN contributor. Despite McCabe being one of the point men in spying on the Trump campaign, the Department of Justice has, "No immediate plans to prosecute former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe." Compare McCabe's treatment by the Justice Department to that of a Trump campaign advisor. "Republican operative Roger Stone was found guilty Friday [11/15/2019] of all seven counts against him, including witness tampering and making false statements." According to the Department of Justice Office of Inspector General, McCabe gave, "False testimony under oath to the FBI Office of Professional Responsibility." Stone make false statements to the FBI and faces 20 years in prison. McCabe makes false statements to the FBI and becomes a cable news talking head. Some storm. It's a promotion for McCabe, and prison for Stone. Conviction of Roger Stone is the "tipping point for tyranny" as Americans realize the whole system is rigged. Yes, while the dirtiest, most corrupt, most treasonous criminals in America go free, Roger Stone is going to be sentenced to essentially life in prison for the non-crime of mis-remembering something while talking to federal prosecutors. This is called a "process crime," and it's the same kind of non-crime that federal prosecutors routinely use when they want to criminalize someone who hasn't committed any real crime. But real crimes are exactly what the deep state spy machine committed against President Trump and his allies as an effort to carry out a coordinated political coup against the United States of America. Yet to this day, not a single treasonous criminal has been arrested or indicted. 10 reasons why this impeachment 'inquiry' is really a coup. [#3] First-term impeachment: The Clinton and Nixon inquiries were directed at second-term presidencies, when there were no more electoral remedies for alleged wrongdoing. By contrast, Trump is up for election in less than a year. Impeachment, then, seems a partisan exercise in either circumventing a referendum election or in damaging a president seeking re-election. [...] [#10] Precedent: The indiscriminate efforts to remove Trump over the past three years, when coupled with the latest impeachment gambit, have now set a precedent in which the out party can use impeachment as a tool to embarrass, threaten or seek to remove a sitting president and reverse an election. We are witnessing constitutional government dissipating before our eyes. Why Should We Keep Our Guns? The right to bear arms shall not be infringed, according to the Second Amendment. All winning candidates, as well as all appointees to office, must affirm under oath that they will support and defend the Constitution. Nevertheless, many officials have demonstrated their disdain for that oath, for aspects of the Constitution, for unalienable rights, and for the lawful limits of their delegated power. They have reneged on their solemn promise to support the Constitution. They have betrayed the people, deceiving them upon taking the oath with no intention of fulfilling it; or else have decided to violate the oath after having taken it. In either case, the failure to keep the oath renders them ineligible to hold office. The tendency to fail to keep the oath of office is so commonplace, with virtually no consequences occurring as a result of that crime, that some candidates for public office now campaign for office on the basis of promises to violate the oath of office. Our Elites Don't See What's Coming. [Scroll down] This all leads us to a serious problem that we as a country are facing: we've been losing trust in our institutions for quite some time. All that the last few years have done is to reinforce that kind of thinking. Seriously. Ask yourself: Do you really trust the FBI? I don't. With the recent reports from Michael Flynn's attorney, Sidney Powell, apparently senior FBI agents tampered with 302s, falsifying information to get the results they wanted which had nothing to do with the truth. This was the FBI — supposedly the world's greatest law enforcement agency. I don't think so. Until those senior officials go to jail for their abuse of power my distrust of the FBI will continue. Do you really trust the Justice Department? Maybe. I'll see what Attorney General Barr and John Durham pursue and actually accomplish. I can assure you, however, if there are not prosecutions with jail time, scratch that institution off the list. The CIA? Forget about it. Congress? You mean the inept worthless institution that sits on its hands and has ceded massive control of the lawmaking function of government to the administrative state? I have to tell you: is there really a point to Congress in its current form? Kimberley Strassel's Home Run. [Scroll down] As she notes, the very term "the Resistance" is associated throughout history with movements designed to fight "occupying powers" as, say, the French Resistance came to life to fight the forces of the occupying Nazi Germany. And once one goes down that road, as has the Trump-hating Resistance, the Resisters "view themselves as justified in taking any action necessary to get rid of the occupier." Set loose the Department of Justice and the FBI to spy on a presidential campaign? No problem. Ambush a Supreme Court nominee "with uncorroborated sexual assault allegations"? No problem. Use "the impeachment process for political retribution"? No big deal. This, says Strassel, "has been the behavior of the Resistance leaders, and it has already caused harm to vital institutions." Yes indeed. And none more prominent than the self-inflicted massive damage the Justice Department, the FBI, and the "mainstream media" have done to their own credibility. Who Can Stop Trump Now? [Scroll down] The rules of the impeachment process legalized by the House of Representatives turned out to be even worse than all assumptions. Firstly, this is the first investigation of the current president in U.S. history, sanctioned by members of only one party: the opposition. Secondly, the new rules of impeachment legalize the de facto dictatorship of one person: chairman of the Intelligence Committee Adam Schiff. Schiff gained almost unlimited power. Now it is Schiff alone who decides who will be called in as a witness, what questions can be asked to the witness, and who exactly will get the right to ask questions. Schiff obtained the right to terminate the hearing if his version of the events is disputed by some intractable witness. Republicans were [...] given the right to be able to ask Schiff to call a defense witness, and then only Schiff would be able to decide to admit such a witness. Only Schiff decides whether the hearing will be open or closed and whether a transcript of the committee's meetings will be made public. Orwellian Fear Reigns in Vermont. George Orwell explained in 1984 how Big Brother employed constant fear to pacify the masses (the "proles"), with vague foreign "threats" that were purely fictitious. In the Cold War, it was nuclear extinction; in the Iraq War (and still), it was "threat levels." After 9/11, Americans were cautioned with "threats to the homeland." Orwell warned not just of Soviet socialism, but of any monolithic government that sought dominance. Steve Scalise: Pelosi Using Impeachment Probe to Influence 2020 Presidential Election. While briefing reporters in the wake of the House Democrat's approval, along party lines, of the impeachment inquiry resolution, Scalise declared: ["]If you look at where we are at right now, we're at an important point in history. Clearly, there are people that we serve with that don't like the results of the 2016 election — that's their prerogative — but the country next year will be deciding who our president is going to be. It should not be Nancy Pelosi and a small group of people that she selects that get to determine who's going to be our president.["] He went on to say that Democrats are not interested in getting to the bottom of the allegations that triggered the impeachment effort. Instead, their focus is solely on removing President Donald Trump from office and overturning the results of the 2016 elections, Scalise indicated. Trick or Trick. The nation is beginning to see the ugliness of the establishment, people who believe they have a divine right (if they believed in the divine) to run the federal government. If that right is ever challenged, that's when the long knives come out. Secret testimonies, barring Republicans from calling their own witnesses or cross-examining the ones Democrats have subpoenaed, and now a federal judge's ruling that secret grand jury records from Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation must be turned over to House Democrats — this is how the establishment fights back. A Wall Street Journal editorial called it "political damage control" when Democrats criticized a decision by the Justice Department to open a criminal investigation into the genesis of the Russian "collusion" with the 2016 Trump campaign. How America's justice system is beginning to crumble. We Americans have long prided ourselves on the fairness of our system of justice. It remains the best in the world. But, just like a strong and magnificent bridge across a wide river, corrosion can set in. If not monitored and repaired, the bridge can suddenly collapse. Likewise, if we ignore the warning signs, if we do not address the inequities in our justice system, the public will reach a point when there is so little respect for the law that its enforcement will cease to be effective. The danger is that we might become a lawless society, and that will lead to becoming a failed state. Chaos and disintegration could follow. Hyperbole? Here are seven warning signs, present today, that we ignore at great peril. [...] GOP Has A Choice: Fight Anti-Trump Coup Effort Or Surrender Government To Democrats. What we are facing now is not partisan warfare, it's not a mystery novel, it's not politics-as-usual. We are facing an attempt to tear down the foundations of our republic by corrupt, unelected bureaucrats who have decided the will of voters is subordinate to their will to power. It represents a fatal threat to our system of government, and if this coup succeeds — whether through impeachment proceedings, or through an election that (if the last three years are any indication) the other side is clearly willing to steal by hook or by crook — the nation will cease to be a constitutional, democratic republic. This isn't about Trump, or Republicans, or conservatives. It is about Washington needing to learn that political differences have to be settled at the ballot box lest they instead be settled with an undermining of our constitutional norms and institutions. Steve Scalise: '75% of the Entire Congress' Not Allowed to Enter Schiff's Secret Impeachment Chamber. [Quoting House Minority Whip Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA)]: Our members are really angry about this and want to highlight what's going on. They want to stop this Soviet-style process. If they are going to impeach the president, do it in clear view. Everybody ought to be held accountable. Don't hide behind one guy, Adam Schiff, and all these other members who want to have a justification for impeaching the president because they don't like results of the 2016 election, are going to fall back on that in secret. We're all elected members of Congress. We get held accountable every two years for what we do. The things we do are done in public, not in secret. That's got to stop, and we need to continue to highlight it. People back home know, too. One of the good things yesterday is that the press actually paid attention for the first time to how bad a hijacked Soviet-style process this is. The Real Coup. Starting in the 1930s, politicians began stealthily transferring power from themselves, the elected representatives of we the people, to unelected bureaucrats and judges. We the people can't get rid of bureaucrats or judges via elections, so they can operate without our consent with impunity. To get rid of them requires a significant majority of honest politicians in Congress, which hasn't been manifest for quite some time. The politicians say the depredations of the administrators and the dishonest judges are not their, the politicians', fault, so they mislead voters into re-electing the very politicians who refuse to punish administrators and judges who violate their oath of office. Much has been written about the rise of the administrative state, but the simple reality is that most of the rules and edicts from Washington that we the people have to follow aren't voted on or approved by the people we elect. Rather, they're ushered in by nameless and faceless government employees. O'Rourke's America. With apologies to Margaret Atwood and a thousand other dystopian novelists, we do not have to theorize about what an American police state would look like, because we know what it looks like: the airport, that familiar totalitarian environment where Americans are disarmed, stripped of their privacy, divested of their freedom of speech, herded around like livestock, and bullied by bovine agents of "security" in a theatrical process that has an 85 percent failure rate because it isn't designed as a security-screening protocol at all but as a jobs program for otherwise unemployable morons. Nothing Constitutional About An Impeachment Process With Secret Evidence And Secret Witnesses. The forceful and thorough rebuke that White House Counsel Pat Cipollone delivered to the "impeachment inquiry" will go down in history as the definitive document defeating an attempted coup. Over the course of eight scathing pages in a letter last week, Cipollone thoroughly deconstructed the absurd "Ukrainegate" narrative that House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (Calif.) has tried to construct. Democrats using impeachment to consolidate power. The Democrats are clearly planning something with the illegitimate and ever changing impeachment operation. While they may think they're clever and strategic, their modus operandi has never been more obvious. The impeachment inquiry has never been about shady White House leakers or fabricated whistleblowers. It is entirely about a Legislative Branch under the control and used at the discretion of the Democratic Party. The end goal is to abolish the separation of powers, or checks and balances, as outlined in the Constitution. Tlaib: Dems Have Discussed Arresting White House Officials Who Refuse to Comply With Subpoenas. Freshman Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (D-MN) told the Deadline Detroit that House Democrats have talked about arresting and detaining members of President Donald Trump's administration who fail to comply with congressional subpoenas. While this is something Democrats are contemplating, Tlaib said this is "uncharted territory." "If they were to detain someone, where would they go and have them detained so that they can comply with the subpoenas?" Tlaib said. "There have been actual serious conversations about what the logistics would look like ... if we did have to force someone through a court order to come before the Congressional committee," she explained. "This is pretty uncharted territory for many of us and even for Congress." The Editor says... Democrats'
Treatment of Trump During "Impeachment" Is How They'd Like to Treat Each of Us in Court. I want you to
think about how the Pelosi-Schiff impeachment process is being conducted. Imagine a criminal trial or civil
action during which the "Democrat Prosecution" — the prosecutors — conduct themselves as follows:
Will We Ever Prosecute? Imagine that the local cops know that a gang member, named William, broke into the pawn shop and stole guns, jewelry, and money. William's fingerprints, film image, and DNA add to the hard evidence log. The owner knows it; the prosecutor knows it; William's gang associates know it. But he is not arrested. Nearby shopkeepers and neighborhood mothers are asking why he is walking the street. No one explains it; mum's the word. Could it be there is a grand plan to take out the gang's leaders? No one knows; mum's the word. Shopkeepers and residents are about to give up and start moving away from the area, and no one asks them to stay the course. Fast-forward to today's still vocal Obama gang. Why no indictments? Mum's the word. Can anyone hold to the faith in American justice? Those who support the rule of law feel like Charlie Brown trying to kick a football. So Who Went To Jail? If you or I did something like this we'd be rotting in a prison cell right now. They're not. The reason why not is obvious. Police chief ordered ticket quotas to raise revenue, N.J. cops say in whistleblower suit. Six police officers in Mercer County have filed a whistleblower lawsuit against Lawrence Township and its police chief claiming they were ordered to write more tickets and impound as many cars as possible to meet an illegal quota. The suit, filed Monday [10/7/2019] in Mercer County Superior Court, claims Lawrence police administrators ordered officers to write tickets and impound cars "every time they are eligible and without discretion." The reason was that revenue was down, according to the suit. More about radar traps. The Ukraine Hoax is About Protecting the Side Hustle. What? There is no 28th Amendment you say? Well, this one isn't actually written down or ratified but it's very real. It explains how much of Washington actually works. If it were reduced to writing, it might read, "Thou shalt not mess with another swamp creature's side-hustle." The 28th amendment might have originated after the 1978 ABSCAM scandal in which one senator and six congressmen accepted or solicited bribes from undercover FBI agents. What a bunch of amateurs! Everyone in Washington knows that you don't act as your own bag man when selling favors! Corruption in modern D.C. is shaped like a triangle. A person or entity seeking a favor doesn't hand the money directly to the politician or public official. Instead, the money goes to a trusted family relation under a vague "consulting" or "speaking" arrangement. This golden triangle of corruption appears over and over again in the Russia collusion hoax. DNI Declassifies FISA Judge James Boasberg 2018 Ruling — FBI Conducted "Tens of Thousands" of Unauthorized NSA Database Queries. Background: In April 2017 the DNI released a FISA report written by Presiding Judge Rosemary Collery that showed massive abuse, via unauthorized searches of the NSA database, in the period of November 2015 through May 2016. Judge Collyer's report specifically identified search query increases tied to the 2016 presidential primary. Two years of research identified this process as the DOJ/FBI and IC using the NSA database to query information related to political candidates, specifically Donald Trump. Team Trump: We'll sue Minneapolis over $530,000 shakedown by liberal mayor. As of now, Donald Trump is scheduled to appear at the Target Center in Minneapolis on Thursday [10/10/2019], part of his plan to flip Minnesota to the GOP in 2020. The city wants to make sure he pays for the privilege — through the nose, apparently. The city sent a $530,000 security bill to the venue for Trump's rally, which then passed it along to Team Trump, which then promptly threatened to sue the city over its "outrageous abuse of power." Minneapolis' liberal mayor trying to 'bully' President Trump out of Minnesota, says head of police union. The mayor of Minneapolis, a Democrat, is trying to "antagonize" and "bully" President Trump to discourage him from coming to the historically blue state, a police union leader said Tuesday. Lieutenant Bob Kroll, president of the Police Officers Federation of Minneapolis, said on "Fox & Friends" that Mayor Jacob Frey is discriminating against Trump ahead of his upcoming rally at the Target Center on Thursday [10/3/2019]. Kroll's claims are in line with Trump's campaign manager, Brad Parscale, who accused Frey of "abuse of power" over a proposed $530,000 security fee to use the arena. Report Shows FBI Official Received Sports Tickets From CNN Reporter And Lied About It To Investigators. The FBI's top press officer during the Hillary Clinton and Trump-Russia investigations accepted tickets to a Washington Nationals game from a CNN correspondent and lied about it repeatedly during interviews with the Justice Department's inspector general, according to a report obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. Michael Kortan, who served as assistant director of public affairs, displayed a "lack of candor" during multiple interviews under oath with the DOJ watchdog about how he obtained the tickets, who he went with, and whether he reimbursed the CNN journalist, according to the report. President Trump Is Absolutely Right To Assume Federal Agencies Are Against Him. Federal employees are anything but neutral administrators of the law. Fully 95 percent of donations from those working for agencies went to Hillary Clinton in 2016. And a web of civil service laws built over the past century effectively inures them to the consequences of defying the elected and appointed officials tasked by our political process with captaining the ship of state. It takes up to two years to fire a federal worker, even those convicted of felonies while on the job. Four different appeal routes and a flowchart's worth of avenues prevent most managers from even trying to rid themselves of incompetent or outright insubordinate employees. "At the DOJ, we can't really get fired," a career employee chuckles over coffee in an undercover video from Project Veritas, while outlining how she uses her position to undermine the administration. As early as the winter of the president's inauguration, federal employees were already publicly trading tips on how to "#resist" from within. Mike Pompeo: Democrats Violated the Rules: Told State Dept. Officials "Not to Contact" Legal Counsel before Testimony. [Quoting Secretary of State Mike Pompeo:] ["]Back to first principles. The predicate of your final question about objecting to what the folks on Capitol Hill have asked. It's fundamentally not true. What we objected to was the demands that were put that deeply violate the fundamental principle of separation of powers. They contacted State Department employees directly. They told them NOT to contact legal counsel at the State Department. That's been reported to us. They said the the State Department wouldn't be able to be present. [..."] Stand. We watched the passage of Obamacare at 1:38 am on the day before Christmas Eve in 2009. We watched the Senate, then the House attempt passing Amnesty in 2014. We know exactly how it passed, and we know exactly why it passed. We don't need to stand around talking about it. We know what lies hidden behind "cloture" and the UniParty schemes. We watched the 2009 $900+ billion Stimulus Bill being spent each year, every year, for seven consecutive years. Omnibus, Porkulous, QE1, QE2, Bailouts, Crony-Capitalism. We know exactly how this works, and we know exactly why this ruse is maintained. Rep. Ratcliffe: Democrats Trying to 'Undo One Election and... Influence the Next One'. Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-Texas) on Monday [9/30/2019] called the Democrats' three-year drive for impeachment "outrageous." "I mean, there are now more versions of Democratic impeachment than there are Microsoft Window versions," Ratcliffe told Fox News's Mario Bartiromo. He said Democrats are trying to "undo one election and at the same time influence the next one." Senate GOP Should Give Democrats A Dose Of Their Own Medicine. Democrats are searching, desperately, for anything to validate their push for impeachment. They're only missing any evidence to justify the foregone conclusion they're gearing everything toward. It's amazing what a political party will do when they lack a candidate with charisma and an agenda with support. With that in mind, Democrats have embraced the ancient art of "making [stuff] up." Hearings with no questions asked to elicit any information, just political speeches delivered one soundbite at a time. Flat-out lies and fantasy portrayed as "parody" broadcast across the country with no "journalistic" pushback. No One Noticed When Clinton and Obama Abused Whistleblowers. Here are two unfortunate realities: the first is that whistleblowing becomes virtuous only when a Republican is the one being whistled on; the second is that deep state Democrats have a habit of manipulating whistleblower laws when it suits their purposes. I could write a book — I've written several, in fact — on whistleblowers the major media chose to ignore. The two examples that follow, one regarding Bill Clinton, the other Barack Obama, should give a sense of how the worms in Washington turn. Ruling Class vs. 'The Others'. Should any of us violate the laws, we can expect to have the book thrown at us. But for them, it's more a slap on the wrist, if anything at all. We see this in the behavior of the Clintons, deep state actors, and even the Bidens. No one seriously thinks that Hunter Biden's Ukrainian and Chinese business "activities" are above board. But even more troubling, consider that a sitting vice president of the United States was potentially involved in pay-to-play with foreign nations. The ruling class apparently believes the law is whatever it says it is. It is whatever is convenient for them. 30 of The Biggest Lies & Hoaxes Perpetrated on The American People. [Scroll down] There are so many hoaxes, illusions, and lies that have been perpetrated not just on America, but across the Globe, for eons. We could go on and on and do an entire dissertation on the Federal Reserve alone. We could get into manufactured wars, technology suppression, patent interference, the space program and outer space, or medical cures that would surely drain them of their power and endless streams of cash. Or, we could go down the rabbit hole on the Red Cross, or the creepy rituals performed by some of these "elite," or their illuminati symbolism. But, you get the idea. They are about power, control, money, children, AI, transhumanism, and a one world governance, and they don't care who they harm along the way. Donor who gave $45K to elect sheriff got coveted gun permit from her office. A manager for a prominent private security firm that provides bodyguards to Silicon Valley executives received a concealed-gun permit from the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office months after he made a $45,000 contribution to an independent committee supporting Sheriff Laurie Smith's 2018 re-election, newly disclosed records show. The campaign contribution is one focus of an investigation by the Santa Clara County district attorney's office into whether the sheriff gave out the coveted gun permits in exchange for campaign support, sources familiar with the probe have told The [San Francisco] Chronicle. Hearings Expose How Kamala Harris Used Prosecutorial Power To Benefit Abortion Businesses That Support Her Campaigns. More than four years ago, former California attorney general Kamala Harris launched an investigation into the work of citizen journalists and abortion activists David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt, who discovered Planned Parenthood's trafficking of aborted baby body parts. [...] Not only was the district attorney's office unable to produce evidence of probable cause, however, it instead became increasingly clear that the charges were not brought forth based on a real case but as part of a political prosecution on behalf of Planned Parenthood. Cross examination of witnesses, abortionists, and investigators revealed not just admissions of the violent crimes Daleiden set out to expose with his undercover videos in question, but that this is a textbook example of corporate donors and corrupt politicians ignoring civil liberties and using their power to prey upon political opponents. The Truth about Huey Long. [Scroll down] He was among the earliest American politicians advocating for redistribution of wealth, insisting that true equality would only be achieved when big corporations — in his case, Standard Oil — were forced to pay higher taxes to fund a more robust welfare state. In public, Huey P. Long boasted of his populist policy bona fides, hiding his well-to-do upbringing to convince Louisiana's poor and working class that he understood their plight. But in private, Long lived lavishly at taxpayer expense. In speeches, he condemned J. P. Morgan Jr. for owning 100 suits, which Long said he stole off the backs of working people. Meanwhile, Long used state funds to outfit a luxurious wardrobe of as many suits or more. Deciding that the existing governor's mansion wasn't grand enough for him, Long demanded that a new one be constructed. When the legislature wouldn't approve the funds for the project, Long simply ordered construction to begin, and it did. President Obama Weaponized Government — Phase Two Was Positioned to Monetize Government. President Obama's team used the DOJ, CIA, FBI and IRS to target their opposition. The intelligence apparatus was weaponized; one small example that scratches the surface is the FBI/NSA database exploitation. Black files on DC politicians, private sector groups and individuals facilitating leverage, and we are still seeing the ramifications. [...] Big multinational interests, Big Pharma, Big Ag, Big Global Banking interests, etc, were exclusively supporting both President Obama and candidate Clinton. The domestic politics of the U.S. were/are tools toward an end; and, so long as the person occupying the oval office did not interfere with Big Club objectives, they too would benefit financially. It is also obvious the opposition to President Trump, those who are really coordinating and manipulating the grassroots sheeple opposition, are these same multinational interests. The suicide of the House is complete. Over time, the House has had one major constitutional duty: the budget. All spending and taxation bills must originate in the House. But in all likelihood, the decline of the House started in 1995, when the newly elected Republican Congress under Newt Gingrich caved in to media pressure to give Bill Clinton his bloated budget. Since then, no House has even attempted to control the deficits or the debt. For eight years under George W. Bush, the rationale was to fund the War on Terror. Then, under Barack Obama, the Democrat House had no intention of dealing with the deficits or the debt. For eight years, under both Democrats and Republicans, nothing was done to recapture the budget process. Continuing resolutions were the rule of the day. Enter Nancy Pelosi, whose Congress openly and energetically vowed to do utterly nothing in the way of actual legislation, but instead to investigate and otherwise obstruct President Donald Trump. This marked the final transition of the House into irrelevance. Are American Voters Helpless? Many Americans know what the problems are, but they are helpless in solving them alone. Why? Because we are a representative republic and expect our elected representatives to know the problems and solve them. [...] Aren't these people elected to keep America safe? Don't these elected officials work for their constituents? Haven't they sworn that they "will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic" and that they "will bear true faith and allegiance to the same?" They did, they promised and they lied. So, now what? We, the People, elect our leaders, and must hold them accountable. So, what happens when they refuse to stand by their oath of office and defend the Constitution? Fire them, you might say!! That's one way. How can we be sure the next guy isn't any better or different than the former? The reality is, We the People live in a fantasy world and are under the assumption that everything will be all right. But it won't be. Slaying the imperial dragon. The administrative state, sometimes called the Deep State, undermines the country. D.C. is the hub of concentrated power used to control the country down to the most basic level. If citizens allow D.C. to determine the size of their commodes, they will allow most any kind of centralized control. In effect, D.C. is an Imperial City ruling by edict. This is supported by the fact that the richest five counties in the country are located around DC. These areas are where the imperial elite live — highly paid bureaucrats in lifetime jobs, lobbyists, think-tankers and the good friends of lobbyists in Congress along with mainstream media enablers. Congress is broken and has no intention of revoking the Imperial City now or in the foreseeable future. The Deep State Will Face Justice Soon! Right? [Scroll down] Then we have that pathetic excuse for a human being, James Comey, gloating over the I.G. report that issued a verbal slap on the wrist for his infractions. Comey: "And to all those who've spent two years talking about me 'going to jail' or being a 'liar and a leaker' — ask yourselves why you still trust people who gave you bad info for so long, including the president." But no worries: Comey will pay when the FISA abuse report comes out. Or not: Washington insiders are now foreshadowing immunity for the entire cabal, saying that, "sadly," these lawbreakers probably won't be prosecuted. That's not sad; it's terrifying. If we can't indict and prosecute these clowns who have conspired to overthrow our government, who have committed the most egregious political crime in history, then stick a fork in our Republic. We're done. But what can we do? Actually, this whole strung out Spygate nightmare is an exercise to ensure we do nothing. Washington isn't a swamp; it's a sewer, and the rats that inhabit it are never going to allow their comrades to be indicted. Cosmic Injustice. Mayor Michael Bloomberg used to sermonize to the nation about gun-control, global warming, the perils of super-sized soft drinks, smoking, and fatty-foods in his efforts to virtue signal his moral fides — even as his New York was nearly paralyzed by the 2010 blizzard that trapped millions of his city's residents in their homes due to inept and incompetent city efforts to remove snow. [...] New Yorkers in 2011 were worried more about the piles of snow on the sidewalks than they felt threatened by 32-ounce Cokes — while realizing that no snow blocked either the Bloomberg official or private residence. The Bogus Story That Launched a 'Collusion' Probe. The George Papadopoulos Origin Story has never added up. It has been portrayed as the Big Bang, the Magic Moment that started the FBI's investigation of "collusion" — a suspected election-theft conspiracy between Donald Trump's campaign and Vladimir Putin's regime. But if the young energy-sector analyst had actually emerged in early 2016 as the key to proving Trump-Russia espionage, you would think the FBI might have gotten around to interviewing him before January 27, 2017 — i.e., a week after President Trump had been inaugurated, and six months after the Bureau formally opened its "Crossfire Hurricane" probe. 14 FBI Officials Leaked to the Media, Only Four Were Fired, Judicial Watch Reveals. On Tuesday, Judicial Watch announced it had received records showing that the FBI referred 14 employees to the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) for leaking sensitive or classified information. Of those 14 employees, only four were fired. "No wonder the FBI was leaking so profusely. Collectively, these documents show a show lenient treatment for evident criminal activity. Only four of the 14 employees found to have made an unauthorized disclosure were dismissed from the FBI," Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in a statement. "And even though Andrew McCabe was fired and referred for a criminal investigation for his leak, no prosecution has taken place." Mayor de Blasio ordered NYPD Executive Protection Unit to move his daughter out of a Brooklyn apartment, sources say. Mayor de Blasio has his own moving company - the NYPD. Hizzoner ordered members of his troubled NYPD security detail to move his daughter out of an apartment in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, multiple sources told the Daily News. The move happened roughly one year ago under cover of night, the sources said. Chiara de Blasio lived in the apartment at 4th Ave. and 56th St. for roughly two years, according to a source close to de Blasio's Executive Protection Unit. The move was an abuse of city resources, that source said. Democrat Jerry Nadler Used Government Resources to Try and Deport American Citizen Sebastian Gorka. Since telling American citizens who immigrated to the United States to "go back" to their original countries is in the news, it's important to remind everyone about despicable behavior from elected Democrat officials on the issue. When President Trump tapped Hungarian-American immigrant Sebastian Gorka to serve in the White House, Nadler called for an investigation into how he became an American citizen and used government resources to get him deported. Government Regulations: The Princess and Pea. In "The Princess and the Pea," an old queen proves that a midnight traveler is a true princess by hiding a pea under an almost unbelievable number of mattresses and down bedclothes. Because she is indeed a real princess, she feels the pea and the prince marries her. It is an awful story, one I don't suggest telling your kids — unless you change the old queen to the old bureaucrat, the prince to the politician, the visiting princess to an entrepreneur, and the ending to a riot from the entrepreneurs after they figure out the pea was put there on purpose. Then, although it is still an unpleasant tale, it will at least teach your kids a lesson about the way government works. They manufacture a problem, and then they create a regulation to "solve" the problem. In California, don't call them 'public servants,' call them 'the government gang'. As a Californian of more than three decades, I have watched the highways deteriorate, with no new construction of freeways (or reservoirs for that matter) while the population soared. I have watched the schools go from bad to horrendous. Meanwhile, taxes have soared to levels that are driving out middle class taxpayers in very large numbers. The rest of us who are not members of the government gang watch as the gang members get rich. Is America Still the Land of the Free? Although the number is disputed by some, even President Ronald Reagan once noted that there are roughly 20,000 laws regarding gun control alone, and that's just the federal illegitimate "laws." So many other "laws" exist that it's been estimated that the average American commits approximately three felonies each day. This makes the authorities' task simple if for any reason they wish to victimize you. Just ask the Bundy Family, Hammond Father and Son, LaVoy Finicum's Family, Lt. General Michael Flynn, and Michael Cohen and a few others. The Dems' 2020 Election Strategy. [Scroll down] The Swamp, we now know, cannot be drained because it is not a marsh or everglade but an ocean of sludge filled with plastic straws, unrecyclable paper, Strzok-Page love notes, and 33,000 bleached messages about yoga and wedding dresses. The System betrays all. Half of us vote for a liberal like Clinton, only to be presented with an end to Welfare, a tough crime bill, and a dry-cleaning bill for a dress stain. At least he delivered Midnight Basketball. The other half of us, deep-rooted patriotic conservatives, vote for Republicans and end up with Justices like David Souter and Harry Blackmun, with wage and price controls, and with international "free-trade" agreements that all-but-destroy our steel and aluminum industries, while decimating our manufacturing. FBI Appears to Have Defrauded the Court in the Manafort Case. The FBI appears to have regularly ignored factual material and used planted newspaper articles as secondary sources, even when they knew the documents were probably fake. This was the FBI under Jim Comey and Andrew McCabe. If true, it's especially ironic since they are so arrogant, self-righteous, and denigrating of others who they dislike. A new exposé by John Solomon points to evidence that the investigation against Paul Manafort, Donald Trump's short-lived campaign manager, was based on evidence they knew was false. How municipalities in St. Louis County, Mo., profit from poverty. [Scroll down] Some of the towns in St. Louis County can derive 40 percent or more of their annual revenue from the petty fines and fees collected by their municipal courts. A majority of these fines are for traffic offenses, but they can also include fines for fare-hopping on MetroLink (St. Louis's light rail system), loud music and other noise ordinance violations, zoning violations for uncut grass or unkempt property, violations of occupancy permit restrictions, trespassing, wearing "saggy pants," business license violations and vague infractions such as "disturbing the peace" or "affray" that give police officers a great deal of discretion to look for other violations. The Orwellian Attack on Section 101. [Scroll down] Let's be absolutely clear: this bill, and the coalition of leeches pushing it, is anti-American garbage. It is impossible to sustain the rule of law surrounding intellectual property in a world where almost everything can not only be patented, but also be the subject of contradictory, overlapping patents, with the only way to tell which of those patents is legitimate being a legal war of all against all. And while the patent bloodsuckers like to wrap their policies in the mantle of property rights, a world where those property rights are the subject of endless haggling is one where the concept of property rights will come to be seen as useless, when properly applied, it should be the fruit of innovation. The Selective Prosecution of Kellyanne Conway. [Scroll down] What utter garbage! What member of any administration since any of us have been alive could not be accused of making political comments while in the White House, overtly or covertly? At least when they're doing it overtly we can see what they're up to. Kudos to Kellyanne for that. So why Conway and why now? Well, first we might want to know the names of those behind this smear. Feds gone wild: DOJ's stunning inability to prosecute its own bad actors. One was caught red-handed engaged in nepotism. Another, a lawyer no less, admitted to shoplifting at a Marine barracks store. A third leaked sealed court information to the news media. And a fourth engaged in fraud by turning a government garage into a personal repair shop. Four cases, all solved in the past month, with suspects who cost taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars and significant breaches of public trust. But these weren't your everyday perps. All were U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) employees who are supposed to catch other criminals while working for the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and U.S. attorneys' offices. Instead, they broke the law or violated the rules. And all managed to escape prosecution, despite their proven transgressions. Free Steve Stockman. My husband, former Congressman Steve Stockman who twice served southeast Texas districts in the U.S. House of Representatives, was a bold, outspoken opponent of the Clinton and Obama administrations during his two terms in office. Now he sits in jail after being prosecuted by the U.S. Department of Justice. [...] Steve Stockman has spent most of his adult life working in one way or another to aggressively fight the political left's agenda to transform America into a socialist country. Yet I watched as he was led away to prison as a common criminal when we both knew he was innocent of all the trumped up, vague, and highly confusing charges. An obvious violation of the Eighth Amendment: Legal experts stunned by DA's 'barbaric' move to send Manafort to Rikers Island. The decision to send one of the highest-profile Trump campaign members prosecuted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller to New York CIty's infamous Rikers Island jail has stunned many in the legal community — and even some Democrats not normally sympathetic toward Mueller targets. Fox News reported earlier this week that Paul Manafort, who served as President Trump's campaign chairman, is being transferred from a federal prison to New York City's Rikers Island, notorious for gang violence and housing some of the most infamous violent offenders. A state judge ordered the transfer at the request of New York City District Attorney Cy Vance, Jr., who is pursuing a case against Manafort involving alleged residential mortgage fraud, falsified business records and more. Criminal defense attorneys swiftly slammed the decision. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Paul Manafort "should be released" from "torture" of solitary confinement. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Wednesday knocked reports that President Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort was going to be moved into solitary confinement in her district, calling the punishment "torture." "Paul Manafort is being sent to solitary confinement in my district — Rikers Island. A prison sentence is not a license for gov torture and human rights violations. That's what solitary confinement is. Manafort should be released, along with all people being held in solitary," the New York Democrat tweeted. Ms. Ocasio-Cortez has been a vocal critic of prisons' use of solitary confinement. Deep State: First, the attempted coup. Now, the political prisoner. What we are all looking at is how criminal Deep State is, demonstrating how it can use the levers of power to turn a first-world country into a banana republic. We aren't seeing normal things from these people, we are seeing some incredible abuses of power. Manafort was convicted earlier and is doing time in Pennsylvania for white collar crimes around taxable income and foreign agent registration. These are crimes few are ever prosecuted for, but they were real enough. Now he's a wedge player in a new and very dirty deep-state political game. Update: The Editor says... Manhattan prosecutors cave in on Manafort Rikers scheme after DoJ note. Maybe we really do have a Department of Justice that's serious about reforming itself. Attorney General William Barr deserves applause for this one. [...] Now, Manafort is not a guy anyone needs to feel much sympathy for for being in a federal prison, given that he committed crimes on his tax reportage that most of us would never think of doing. But the Deep State has shown itself to be far, far more vile than Manafort ever was. Getting the Word Out on our Failed Ruling Class. The problem for Britain's old working class, as for our U.S. white working class dying of despair, is that the glorious mechanical apparatus of progressive administration has no soul. As Chris Arnade of Back Row America says, the lower class interface with the welfare state is with "sterile institutions that chew them up and then spit them out." We are talking about the courts, the prisons, welfare offices, "rehab clinics and detox centers, law offices". The fact is all government institutions are like that, including armies, which are expressly designed to suck up young men and send them out to fight the regime's wars. In the process millions of young men get chewed up, and the lucky ones get spat out. Hello liberals! It doesn't matter what government program we are talking about, whether evil colonialist militarism, or domestic activist colonialism; in the end it comes down to chew-up-ology and spit-out-ology. Because government is not compassion; it is force. Maxine Waters Let Obama's Cat Out of the Bag in 2013. Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), one of the left wing's most prominent and vocal figures, has a 30-year history of ill advised, frothing rhetoric. "Auntie Maxine" is atop no one's list of vise-lipped confidantes, yet because of her prominence, she is clued in on much of the darker machinations of the Democratic Party and its backers. Occasionally, she reveals more than intended. February 2013 was one of those times. Tyrannical Government Hunts Down Parents Of 3-Year-Old, Forces Child To Undergo Chemo, Then Strips Parents Of Their Custody. When there is clearly neglect of a child, someone must step in and do something to ensure that the child is protected, but many times, I have become aware that the state quite often violates its jurisdiction and inserts itself into something it has no knowledge of nor business being involved in. This is the situation involving 3-year-old Noah McAdams and his parents, Taylor and Josh. Not only were the parents reported by Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital to authorities, but the government forced them to reluctantly submit their little boy to chemotherapy and later would strip them of their parental rights and custody of their son. However, surprise! The media failed to report the entire story and made the parents out to look like criminals. 3 Times Media Falsely Claimed Russiagate Transparency Would End The Republic. As the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence prepared to release information about abuse of the secret court that permit the government to spy on American citizens, the Justice Department released a letter to the press saying the action was "extraordinarily reckless," would be "damaging" to "national security," and would risk "damage to our intelligence community or the important work it does in safeguarding the American people." [...] Justice and the FBI also have a pattern of redacting huge swaths of reports and letters to and from Congress as part of their oversight investigation into the spying on the Trump campaign. When the redactions are lessened, they reveal not sensitive information that affects national security so much as embarrassing details about how Justice and FBI have conducted business. Investigation Finds Thousands of Regulations Issued By Career Bureaucrats In Violation of the Constitution. [Scroll down] Recognizing that career bureaucrats signing off on rules is Constitutionally problematic, PLF investigated the rule-making process at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Looking at all rules issued by HHS from 2001 to 2017, we found that 71 percent of the 2,952 rules we reviewed were unconstitutional. The worst offender within HHS is FDA, where 98 percent of rules are unconstitutional. Many of these are highly technical rules that govern scientific drug and food development; others are significant regulations that carry huge costs and have a substantive impact felt by businesses and consumers. But in virtually all cases, these rules were enacted by government employees who lacked the proper Constitutional authority to do so. What this practice represents is an erosion of government accountability, which paves the way to an erosion of liberty and, ultimately, government abuse. Sharyl Attkisson: How Obama "Surveilled" aka Spied On Me. Sharyl Attkisson has a shocking story to tell about how she was spied on by our government. She discovered shocking things that had been done in order to surveil her activities on because she did government watchdog reporting. She goes into detail below about the measures that were taken to spy on her just like James Rosen of Fox News was spied on: [Video clip] Patriot Act enabled Russia collusion hoax and further Deep State treachery. In October of 2001, and following 9/11, President George W. Bush told the nation that the Patriot Act would "give intelligence and law enforcement officials important new tools to fight a present danger." It was assumed — foolishly — that the threat was from terrorism. But when and as reauthorized, the Patriot Act during the administration of President Barack Obama, Obama claimed that tweaks to the act would allow US law enforcement to better target homegrown "lone wolves." Again, the assumption — a foolish one — assumed that the targets would largely be self-motivated terrorists. Terrorists like Boston Marathon bombers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev. But leave it to official Washington to stretch any legal definitions beyond their original, intended scope. What Does It Mean To Be Moral In the Public Area? We're at a time in our country when most of our elected officials apparently have forgotten their responsibilities. In truth, U.S. politicians in their capacity as politicians have one moral imperative: to promote, protect, and advance the interests of the American people they represent. Everything else is secondary. To do anything other than promote the interests of the American people — or worse, to promote behavior that is detrimental to the interests of Americans — is, in fact, immoral. So what does it mean, then, to be a moral public official? [...] The first concern of any elected official in the United States should be for the freedom, safety, and welfare of the American people before all others, not the personal morality of their lives. U.S. Intelligence [Agencies are] Institutionally Politicized Toward Democrats. The CIA and other U.S. intelligence agencies have become bastions of political liberals and the pro-Democratic Party views of intelligence personnel have increased under President Donald Trump, according to a journal article by a former CIA analyst. John Gentry, who spent 12 years as a CIA analyst, criticized former senior intelligence leaders, including CIA Director John Brenan, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and former deputy CIA director Michael Morell, along with former analyst Paul Pillar, for breaking decades-long prohibitions of publicly airing their liberal political views in attacking Trump. Why Democrats Freaked Out When Barr Said The Trump Campaign Was Spied On. There are two reasons the political media establishment is growing increasingly hostile towards Attorney General William Barr: First, he serves under President Donald Trump. Second, he is not only the messenger of the demise of the Russiagate conspiracy theory that the Deep State and its aiders, abettors, and enablers in the political media establishment worked so hard to perpetuate, but he could also be the source of the demise of the establishment itself, if he ends up exposing their whole sordid affair. Should Barr conduct a thorough investigation of the Russiagate investigators, and the associated leakers and colluders, and dispense justice to the fullest extent of the law, it would drive a stake through the heart of the establishment writ large by demolishing the unjust system of double standards from which it has benefited, while punishing its foes. The
Corruption and Influence of Jessie K Liu. What do the following four points have in common? Government 'Oversight' Is a Very Bad Joke. [Scroll down] The 67-page audit of [the California] DMV found a "reactive culture that has adversely impacted the field office customer experience," outdated management structures, a third of customer-service windows closed even as people waited in lines that went around the DMV field offices — and pretty much everything else that anyone who has visited a California DMV office would know. The audit suggested changes, but the agency reacted in normal fashion and requested more money. DMV offices, which I've described as a cross between bus stations and Soviet bread lines, have been like this since time immemorial (although they're better in some states) and will always be this way. We must deal with the agency if we want to drive. There are no customers that must be satisfied because we have no other choice. Nebraska Flooding: When the Government Cares More about Birds than People. [Scroll down] Until 2004, the government kept its end of the bargain, and flooding, while still a danger, was dramatically lessened in frequency and severity by the prudent operation of the dam system and the mechanical restructuring of the river itself. That last paragraph, while perfectly reasonable to normal folks, is cause for outrage and seething anger among the increasingly radical environmentalist left, which is enamored of a dream of "rewilding" vast sections of North America via the "recovery" of river basins. One might ask, "Recovery from what?" In a word, the answer is "man." Environmental groups like the Sierra Club and American Rivers advocate the wholesale removal of dams, even if it requires the forced relocation of millions of people and their businesses. They seek a continent with untamed rivers, devoid of human interference with the perceived "natural processes" of ebb and flood. At this level of green-think, it is more religion than science, with devotion measured in antipathy for the needs of mankind whenever there is conflict with nature. Social Justice Prosecutors. [Scroll down] Individuals from this new class of legal eagles have advanced in all branches of government and at all levels — local, state, and federal. They have attended notable law schools, they are African-American, and they are hellbent on ushering in an era of seeking what today's liberal law schools are pouring into their students by the bucket full — not "justice" but "social justice." Now finding themselves in positions of power, these social justice warriors have a deep-rooted belief in the fundamental unfairness of America in general, and our judicial system in particular. They believe that crimes for which underprivileged groups, namely blacks and Latinos, have higher rates of sentencing and incarceration, are the product of an at best a biased, and at worst a racist system; a system which they are a part of and can find ways to affect. One example is when the Obama/Holder DOJ released 6,000 people from federal prisons and reduced the sentences of as many as 46,000 others as a part of their sentencing-reform efforts in 2015. Nadler must be stopped from weaponizing the House Judiciary Committee for political gain. New York Democratic Congressman Jerry Nadler is the Chairman of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee. His conduct in that role should greatly trouble every American who cares about the rule of law and fairness in our government. The committee's website posts a lengthy bio of Chairman Nadler, portraying him above all else as a defender of civil liberties and the equal application of the rule of law for all people. That picture might well have been accurate sometime in the past. I lived in his District for a while and I was proud to have him as my Congressman precisely because of his reputation as a civil libertarian. Chicago Isn't The Only Town With A Problem In The Office Of Its Chief Prosecutor. [Scroll down] This is about the office of St. Louis Circuit Attorney, Kim Gardner. You may recall that Gardner's office was the driving force behind the prosecution (subsequently dropped) of former (now resigned) Missouri Governor Eric Greitens over his alleged photographing of his mistress in a state of undress prior to taking office. Even at the time, Gardner's actions were questioned and criticized. Since then, a grand jury probe has been opened into Gardner's handling of that matter and, in particular, her hiring of ex-FBI agent William Tisaby as an investigator and his purported perjury in that matter. And it's not been a good look for Gardner. You're A Sucker For Not Believing That The System Is Rigged. America has changed. There used to be one standard, one set of laws, one set of rules. Now, there are two. The one set of rules for normal people is designed to jam us up, to keep us down, to ensure that the power of the powerful never gets challenged. And the one set of rules for the elite can be summed up like this: There are no rules. Will Trump's DOJ Do Anything About The Obama-Era Hacking Of Sharyl Attkisson? A federal court ruled 2-1 last week against allowing Sharyl Attkisson to revive her suit over the Obama administration's alleged efforts to hack her personal devices. The ruling spells doom for Americans victimized by government hackers in the future. The ruling from the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court's dismissal of her case against President's Obama Attorney General Eric Holder, "six unknown agents" and others. Forensic investigators working for Attkisson — a former reporter for CBS — found that proprietary government software was used to hack her home and business computers, but the court denied her any right to pursue further evidence. House Democrats Are Relentlessly Harassing the President with Abusive Investigations. [Scroll down] In October of 2018, Koppel got under the skin of CNN's Brian Stelter when he said that the network's ratings would be in the toilet if it weren't for Donald Trump, despite the anti-Trump bias that oozes from the television set. It's all part of a rather funny dynamic. The media hates Trump, but they get rating boosts when they broadcast his rallies, which in turn could help him win re-election in 2020. Wisconsin Democratic Judge Says Duly Elected Republicans Can't Pass Laws. Recently, Democrats have come out in favor of abolishing the Electoral College, packing the Supreme Court (gotta get that social justice agenda passed somehow), and allowing non-citizens to vote. It's almost like they don't like living in the United States very much, although you'd hurt their feelings if you gently suggest that if they don't like where they're living, they should depart for friendlier climes. Now a judge in Wisconsin has issued an injunction against laws legally passed by the legislature by legally elected representatives of the people. How did he do that? By declaring that the legally passed laws by the legally elected representatives of the people weren't "legal" at all. What happens after no one goes to jail? Many of us have learned from past experience how to see. For example, we soon realized there was no serious inquiry into Benghazi. Same for the Clinton Foundation, as well as for all the nefarious deeds related to the nation's premier power couple. We shrug — it is what it is — what can we do about it? The FISA Court, created in the wake of 911, has become the means to conduct secret, unsubstantiated, investigations against political adversaries. Hi ho. NSA vacuuming up of a kazillion phone calls is, we're told, for our protection and well-being. Sure it is. Unmasking of persons, led by the Obama administration's U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. and the Queen of Unmasking, Samantha Powers, was, well, it must have been justified, right? Part of keeping us safe. The joy
of Left Privilege. Karl Marx was right: When you run the schools and the organs of propaganda you can do
anything. [...] Here's only a partial list of Left-Privileged demagogues in today's America: The long, odd history of Pasco County politicians behaving badly. Port Richey's mayor, Dale Massad, was arrested last month by a SWAT team after deputies say he shot at them as they entered his home to take him into custody on charges of practicing medicine without a license. Then his replacement, acting mayor Terrence Rowe, was arrested after authorities said he conspired with Massad to intimidate a Port Richey police officer. They hatched the plan, officials said, while talking over a jail phone that is recorded — and that inmates are informed is recorded. Both have been suspended by Gov. Ron DeSantis. Report: Clintons' DOJ Deal With FBI Exposed. While the Establishment Media attempts to distract with story after story of a college admissions scandal, or a shooting tragedy across the globe, the real news breaking in the U.S. this week involves some serious Deep State shenanigans whereby ruling class members like the Clintons and Obamas are allowed to do what they want when they want without fear of repercussions. 18 Real Attacks on the 'Rule of Law'. [#7] The Michael Flynn set-up: Flynn is a retired United States Army lieutenant general who served for 33 years until his retirement in 2014. In January 2017, two FBI agents surprised Flynn with an interview about a legal and routine conversation he had with the Russian ambassador in his capacity as an incoming administration official. On December 1, 2017, Flynn pleaded guilty to what his interrogators considered unintentional misremembering of the facts. Flynn's interrogators did not actually think he was lying on purpose. News reports speculated that the special counsel threatened to prosecute Flynn's son and Flynn was otherwise financially ruined by the prosecution, leaving him little choice but to admit to "lying" about not remembering details of a conversation. A Failed State. The United States of America takes the Academy Award for officially becoming a Failed State. We must admit that Venezuela gave the USA a run for its money; and speaking of money, we recently reached the failure-milestone of $22 trillion dollars in debt. But, the coup de grâce came when former FBI Agent Andrew McCabe went on National television telling the world that he and a small group of co-conspirators had attempted a coup to remove the President of the United States thereby committing the act of treason. And, the very fact that he and his known collaborators were not immediately arrested and charged, has put the USA in hands down first place for their failure of a state and have made a complete mockery of our founding documents and the rule of law. To get Trump, FBI and Justice Department officials trampled the Constitution. Justice Department and FBI officials spied on U.S. citizens with false warrants, gave a pass to one presidential campaign with a predetermined investigation, investigated another political campaign on the basis of no verified evidence, and illegally leaked information on investigations. They discussed wiretapping and using the 25th Amendment to the Constitution to remove President Trump, and appointed a special counsel as a retaliatory move for Comey's firing. It is now crystal clear that the highest echelons of the Justice Department and FBI had morphed from the world's most professional law enforcement organization into a Third World rump group. They had the hubris to believe that they — not the American people or their duly elected representatives — should decide who governs and how. Alan Dershowitz: Ousting Trump via 25th Amendment is 'clearly an attempt at a coup d'etat'. Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz on Thursday said the Department of Justice's discussions to employ the 25th Amendment to oust President Trump — if true — amounted to an attempted coup. Dershowitz appeared on Fox News' "Tucker Carlson Tonight," to give his take on former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe's descriptions of Justice Department meetings where he said officials discussed ousting the president. "If [McCabe's comments are] true, it is clearly an attempt at a coup d'état," Dershowitz said. Evoking the 25th Amendment, Dershowitz added, would be a fundamental misuse of its original purpose. He said it was originally "about Woodrow Wilson having a stroke. It's about a president being shot and not being able to perform his office." Congratulations, new AG Barr — now get to work investigating and prosecuting the coup plotters. William Barr had no obvious reason to want to become the nation's chief law enforcement officer — again. He already has that office on his résumé and no doubt has been making millions every year as a high-powered partner at one of the nation's highest-powered law firms, Kirkland & Ellis, in the lucrative specialty of advising big corporations on law enforcement and regulatory issues. [...] If he succeeds in getting to the bottom of what looks like the biggest political scandal in the nation's history, he will enter the history books as a great hero of the Republic, the man who uncovered and prosecuted the villains who sought to overturn a presidential election in what is could be termed a coup, perhaps prosecutable under the sedition statute. I'm Suing the Government. It Has a Problem With That. A federal appeals court recently heard oral arguments in my lawsuit against former Attorney General Eric Holder, unnamed "John Doe" federal agents at the FBI and Justice Department, and others. At issue are the intrusions into my computers while I worked as an investigative reporter for CBS News, revealed by multiple forensic investigations showing use of proprietary government surveillance programs. It was clear early on that the Justice Department was not interested in investigating or prosecuting its own. So I began the search to find the facts about the invasion into my computers and life. That morphed into a lawsuit for damages, because that's what the law sets out as the legal remedy. Another Inspector General Investigation Outlines FBI Corruption — Another DOJ "Declined Prosecution". The Office of Inspector General (OIG) completes another investigation of an FBI Supervisory Special Agent finding unlawful and unethical conduct. Unfortunately, despite the findings, the DOJ again declines prosecution. Worth noting: Robert Mueller and Andrew Weissmann prosecuted Michael Cohen for fraudulent mortgage documents; the exact same activity the DOJ has declined prosecution for against this FBI Supervisory Special Agent: Two-tiered justice. If it was the intention of FBI Director Christopher Wray and/or AAG Matt Whitaker to eliminate corrupt behavior within the leadership ranks of the DOJ/FBI; and if it was their intention to rebuild public confidence, this would not be the approach. The Corrupt DoJ vs. the People. This used to be the land of the free. Thanks to the politicized justice system that was set in motion more than 20 years ago and reinforced during eight fateful years of the Obama administration, the quaint notion that we benefit from due process has evaporated, along with Cinderella's ball gown and fancy coach. A former federal prosecutor by the name of Sidney Powell has blown the whistle. [...] Powell, author of Licensed to Lie: Exposing Corruption in the Department of Justice, described a system consisting of out-of-control prosecutors who will do anything to get a conviction. The Potomac two-step: Will no one stand up to the corruption in the FBI, DOJ, and CIA? For nearly ten years now, Americans who have been paying attention have known that our government has become corrupt, that its premier institutions were weaponized by the Obama administration to the point that we have become something of a police state or banana republic. This is not to say there was no corruption previous to Obama. As Sidney Powell addresses in her book License to Lie, the current special counsel, Robert Mueller, and his amoral, ruthless right-hand man, Andrew Weismann, had already been practicing their prosecutions of personal destruction for decades. In the 1980s, Mueller sent four men to prison who he knew were innocent. He did it to protect a confidential informant. Two of them died in prison. The lawsuits filed cost taxpayers $100M. That trial was connected to the murderous mafia hit man Whitey Bulger, who was finally caught after sixteen years. He died in prison in 2018. Was he murdered to protect Mueller? Roger Stone's Arrest: What's Scandalous, and What Isn't. [Scroll down] Now, for what is truly scandalous about Roger Stone's arrest: the manner in which it was carried out. The arrest was preserved on video because someone — presumably either the FBI or Mueller's team — tipped off CNN, and CNN had cameras stationed in front of Stone's residence at 5:00 in the morning. The video shows a dozen heavily armed FBI agents carrying out what can fairly be described as a paramilitary operation against Stone's home. Why? Was there some reason to think Stone was so dangerous that it required a pre-dawn raid by a dozen agents with AR-15s to take him into custody? No such claim has been made, nor would it be plausible. The show that Mueller and the FBI put on for the cameras of their political ally, CNN, was a disgrace. The FBI Drops In. Federal Law enforcement appears to be adopting methods more suitable for the KGB or Stasi. CNN's exclusive news coverage of Roger Stone's arrest was a big mistake. It reminded sentient people of the Ruby Ridge, Waco, and Elian Gonzalez raids. [...] Stone should consider himself very fortunate. Many predawn raids do not end well. Ruby Ridge resulted in the death of Vicki Weaver, who was shot in the head by sharpshooter Lon Horiuchi while she was holding her 10-month-old daughter, and the 14-year-old Sammy Weaver. In an effort to "save the children," the Waco standoff rvesulted in twenty-one children under the age of 16 being burned alive. Elian Gonzalez was not shot or burned. He vwas simply deported back to Cuba. Of course, those were the days when people were not so concerned about children. All these incidents illustrate that the Deep State is still in charge. It appears that our elected President is not in control. He keeps appointing Deep State apparatchiks like Wray and Barr. The real criminals will never go to jail. It's time to blow up the bureaucracy that's killing America. For decades now, Americans have slogged through a rising tide of idiocies. Getting a permit to do something useful, say, open a restaurant or fix a bridge, can take years. Small businesses get nicked for noncompliance of rules they didn't know. Teachers are told not to put an arm around a crying child. Doctors and nurses spend up to half the day filling out forms no one reads. Employers no longer give job references. And, in the land of the First Amendment, political incorrectness can get you fired. We'd all be better off without these daily frustrations. So why can't we use our common sense and start fixing things? Where's the Investigation into Senator Feinstein's Chinese Spy? Let's look at a case study in Justice Department and news media bias: the treatment of President Trump compared with the treatment of Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein. The media's glee over news that a group of anti-Trump bureaucrats took it upon themselves to investigate President Trump as a traitor when he fired their friend Jim Comey in May 2017 has only served to clarify the establishment and media hostility toward the President. With no evidence — save some absurd and unsubstantiated opposition research paid for by the Clinton campaign and the Democrats — Obama-era FBI officials decided to covertly investigate the newly-elected president for treason. This inquisition was apparently in addition to the counterintelligence investigation over supposed (and undefined) collusion between Trump's campaign and Russia. 35 Times the FBI "Deviated from Standard Practice" or Committed Crimes in Effort to Exonerate Hilary and Indict Trump. The FBI leadership under the Obama Administration took many actions that deviated from standard practice [i.e. were corrupt and criminal] in their efforts to exonerate Hillary from her crimes and then spy and frame candidate and then President Trump. Today current members of the FBI are embarrassed to even turn on their TV's as a result. Time magazine of all places reported recently about the many efforts the FBI took related to Hillary exoneration and then the Trump framing. These corrupt and criminal actions have taken a desperate toll on the current members of the FBI[.] The FBI Targeting the President is a Coup. Now we have a black and white admission that the FBI went after President Trump for a nonsensical conspiracy theory put out by the Clinton campaign after he fired Comey. This is a huge problem. Forget the whole D and R thing for a moment. Start thinking about Rome instead and the Praetorian Guard. We have elected officials for a reason. They're not immune to criminal charges. But there's a huge difference between a Federal law enforcement agency investigating a crime. And a Federal law enforcement agency deciding to launch an investigation of the President of the United States specifically after he fired their boss. Is the entire FBI tainted? Not in this regard. The FBI suffered from politicized leadership. It still does. But it also suffers from political entanglements and a good deal of institutional arrogance. When Did It Become the FBI's Job to Act as a Check and Balance to the President? The proximate cause of the FBI investigation, if the [New York] Times reporting is correct, wasn't any new information about Russia's activity. It was Trump acting entirely within his powers to fire his FBI director. This might be the first time that a FBI counterintelligence investigation was triggered by a lawful domestic action. This is crazy. Perhaps you believe that Trump's firing of Comey was ill-intentioned and abusive. That's a reasonable view, but it is Congress's job to take this up, not the job of a subordinate law-enforcement agency within the executive branch. Rosenstein, DOJ exploring ways to more easily spy on journalists. For months now, the Department of Justice (DOJ) quietly has been working on a revision to its guidelines governing how, when and why prosecutors can obtain the records of journalists, particularly in leak cases. The work has been supervised by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein's office, especially since former Attorney General Jeff Sessions departed, but is not wrapped up. The effort has the potential to touch off a First Amendment debate with a press corps that already has high degrees of distrust of and disfunction with the Trump administration. The FBI is the security threat. The Washington Post ran a column, "The FBI can't neutralize a security threat if the president is the threat." The President of the United States is never a threat to national security. He is national security. We elect him commander in chief. The FBI works at his command. Jimmy the Geek Comey and his crew committed mutiny when they began an investigation into Our President. Their actions are treasonous and in violation of their oaths to defend the Constitution. On What Grounds Can the FBI Investigate the President as a Counterintelligence Threat? The New York Times reported on Jan. 11 that the FBI "began investigating whether President Trump had been working on behalf of Russia against American interests" soon after Trump fired FBI Director James Comey in May 2017. In other words, the FBI opened a counterintelligence investigation on the president. The Times reports that my friend and former colleague, former FBI General Counsel James Baker, said during testimony to House investigators in October 2018 that "Not only would [firing Comey] be an issue of obstructing an investigation, but the obstruction itself would hurt our ability to figure out what the Russians had done, and that is what would be the threat to national security." [...] If the story is accurate, then what the FBI did was unprecedented and possibly — I emphasize possibly, since many relevant facts are not included in the Times reporting — an overstep, or at least imprudent. The reason the FBI step might have been imprudent is that it was premised on an inversion of the normal assumptions of Article II of the Constitution. Why Did The FBI Launch An Unapproved Investigation Of President Trump? There was a rather disturbing story in Friday's New York Times. The headline is F.B.I. Opened Inquiry Into Whether Trump Was Secretly Working on Behalf of Russia. The story is not disturbing for the reason the New York Times is flogging it, it is disturbing because it illustrates the extent to which senior law enforcement officials can use their power to attack political figures they perceive to be their enemies. Sharyl Attkisson Previews Her Case Against Eric Holder's DOJ. Former CBS News reporter Sharyl Attkisson is preparing for her oral arguments in her case against the Department of Justice and the FBI. Attkisson claims her computer was compromised by DOJ agents in late 2012 while she was reporting on the Benghazi attacks, Fast and Furious and Obamacare. She first sued the Obama administration over the unwanted surveillance in January 2015. She gave her "layperson's explanation" of the upcoming case in a recent video, first by identifying her team's targets. Attkisson noted they are suing specific government officials like former Attorney General Eric Holder. The government, she explained, is arguing they enjoy "broad immunity" for their supervisory actions while in office. Her team will push back on that notion and argue that Holder "would have had to do more than just supervise these intrusions into my computer based on forensics" and therefore "immunity does not apply in this case." Hiding Evidence: The Continuing Cover-Up. Look at the big picture. Those in power regularly hide evidence of their crimes and get away with it. From Lois Lerner to Hillary Clinton to Strzok and Page, the dreaded "glitch" eats the most important evidence. From "Fast and Furious" to Benghazi to Comey's fake investigation of Hillary to Rosenstein's stonewalling to Mueller's "insurance policy" cover-up, hiding the facts is the primary goal. Joseph Stalin is quoted as saying, "The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything." It is also true that the actual evidence decides nothing. The people who control the evidence decide everything. Democrats get away with a much worse crime than Watergate. Since Watergate, the Washington wisdom has always held that it's not the crime, it's the coverup that sinks a politician. But that's only the case when the coverup fails. But what if the coverup succeeds? It's horribly simple. The crimes are never uncovered and the perpetrators are never brought to justice no matter how serious their crimes may be. That is precisely what has happened because of the FBI and Justice Department's coverup of their abuses of power and illegal actions during the 2016 election. In this case, the FBI and the Justice Department have succeeded in the most significant coverup in American political history. The abuses of power and crimes they have succeeded in covering up are not only against the law: they are crimes against our system of law and government. They were perpetrated by employees of the government, under color of law, with the intention of affecting the outcome of an election. Mueller Won't Let Defendants See the Evidence in Russian Troll Case. Special Counsel Robert Mueller indicted 12 Russian nationals and firms for interference in the 2016 election after they placed ads and established profiles on social media. Mueller was taken by surprise when one of those firms, Concord Management and Consulting, hired U.S. lawyers to fight it in court. The thinnest of evidence makes up Mueller's case. The judge issued a protective order for the 'sensitive' documents. Only lawyers can see these documents. Lawyers for the defendants asked the court to allow them to share protective order documents with their client so they can provide a proper defense. What's Next in FBI Oversight. Tax and criminal-justice reform and judicial appointments are all hugely important. But House and Senate investigators get pride of place for unraveling one of the greatest dirty tricks of our political times, in which a Democratic administration, party and presidential campaign either co-opted or fooled the FBI into investigating the Republican campaign. Lawmakers got to the bottom of this despite partisan attacks and institutional obstruction. Congress has taken that probe about as far as was ever going to be possible. The next steps are up to the White House. Comey's anti-Trump and pro-Hillary bias in 2016 clear from new developments — Why was the Russia probe begun? [I]n the massive news coverage of all sorts of unproven allegations against President Trump — many arising out of the investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller of alleged cooperation between the Trump presidential campaign and Russia — the FBI's pursuit of political targets has received far too little notice. After Watergate and the Hoover's 48-year reign at the FBI, leaders of law enforcement agencies should have learned some important lessons: Don't be used as the servants of people in power. Stay out of politics. And don't investigate political campaigns, because it's not your job to influence the outcome of elections. Dictatorships politicize their law enforcement agencies. In America, we want the FBI and police to be nonpartisan, and we expect them to give equal treatment to people of all political parties and persuasions. New York AG Announces Plans to Weaponize Office to Target Political Opposition. Did you get your yellow vest yet? The recently elected New York Attorney General, Letitia James, makes a public declaration that she intends to fully weaponize her office to target the Trump family. On the bright side, democrats can no longer claim their preferred approach of weaponizing their offices for direct targeting of their political opposition as a "right-wing conspiracy theory"; they are specifically outlining their intent to do exactly that. Jerome Corsi Challenges Robert Mueller. Misconduct by the once-great Department of Justice is all too common. The unethical prosecution of former Alaska Senator Ted Stevens stole a U.S. Senate election from the Republicans in 2008. That earned a tongue-lashing from Judge Emmet G. Sullivan in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on April 7, 2009. But left-wing embeds within the DoJ took the wrong lessons from the Stevens fiasco. They took it as a dry run, practice for stealing the presidential election in 2016. What is the DoJ claiming now? That Jerry Corsi and Roger Stone must have been the conduit for a Russian conspiracy because they "knew" — after it was widely reported in the news media — that Wikileaks would release stolen documents that Wikileaks told the entire world way in advance it was going to release. Grassley Questions Horowitz About FBI Raid on Whistleblower. Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley has always worked earnestly to protect whistleblowers; it is a subject near and dear to his heart. Against the backdrop of an unexpected raid on the home of an approved and protected whistleblower named Dennis Nathan Cain, Senator Grassley writes to Inspector General Horowitz: [...] Grassley Questions Director Wray About FBI Raid on Clinton Foundation, Uranium One Whistleblower. Outgoing Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) questioned FBI Director Christopher Wray about the raid of the home of a Clinton Foundation, Uranium One whistleblower in a letter this weekend. [...] When the agents showed up to Cain's home, he informed them that he was a protected whistleblower under the Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protection and that Horowitz officially recognized his status as a whistleblower. The FBI agents intimidated the whistleblower and rummaged through his home — Grassley is right to question FBI Director Wray's potential involvement and knowledge of this raid that appears to have violated the whistleblower's rights. The super-secret pay hike for state legislators. The state Legislature would really prefer that no one say anything about, or even notice, the quiet drive to hike its members' pay until it's a done deal. [...] Created this year by one of those "three men in a room" deals, the New York State Compensation Committee will announce its pay-hike recommendation early next month — and it'll become law unless the Legislature rushes back to Albany for a special session to vote it down. Sharyl Attkisson, Veteran Journalist and Government-Fighter, Opens Up. Stonewalled is the title of investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson's first book — and stonewalling is what the Department of Justice is doing to her now. Determined to receive justice, she has a landmark lawsuit against the DOJ for electronically surveilling her computers. Multiple forensics exams have revealed the government-related remote efforts to monitor her. Government agents most likely did it because she had the "audacity" to dig into facts regarding wasteful green energy spending, as well as the Fast and Furious and Benghazi scandals. Besides hitting a brick wall with those in the government who want to see the lawsuit eliminated, Attkisson also has to battle the enormous cost in terms of time and money. The word 'Russia' eliminates all rational thought in journalists. After two long years of the most expensive and wide-ranging independent counsel investigation in a generation, we should be close to nabbing those dastardly secret agents from Russia who supposedly hacked our presidential election. Are we? No, we're not. Robert Mueller's prosecutors are instead threatening elderly men with life in prison for petty crimes. Crimes that have nothing to do with spying or Russia or anything else that threatens America. The whole thing is a grotesque joke. But you'd never know that from watching cable television. For the crime of forgetting, Jerome Corsi is facing bankruptcy and imprisonment. Jerome Corsi is 72-years-old. He has a Ph.D. in political science from Harvard. He has written two New York Times bestsellers about politics. He is the kind of person who could, and probably should be happily retired by now. Instead, he's facing felony charges from Robert Mueller. How did this happen? The Escalating Assault on Citizen Journalism. This past week, the progressive establishment attempted to silence two more independents. In the first case, Twitter and Facebook conspired to deny the audacious 25-year-old journalist Laura Loomer her rapidly growing audience. In the second, Special Counsel Robert Mueller lowered the boom on Jerome Corsi, a 72-year-old Harvard Ph.D. An all too typical headline this week from ABC News — "Conspiracy theorist becomes key figure as Mueller builds case" — delegitimizes Corsi even before the article begins. Corsi is not a journalist; he is a "conspiracy theorist." The media are not opposed to conspiracy theorizing in general — Michael Moore did win an Oscar — but rather to theorizing that has the potential to harm the progressive establishment. WaPo: Jerome Corsi in Negotiations With Mueller for Plea Deal. Jerome Corsi is famous for his research, analysis and theories surrounding the life story of President Obama. In most mainstream media circles Corsi was labeled a 'conspiracy theorist'. Then again, some conspiracies are not theory; and seeing the Washington Post take lead against Corsi only cements Mueller's deep state allies are feeding the info. As word spreads about Robert Mueller snaring Corsi inside his investigative quicksand, don't be surprised to find people wondering if Corsi's work into the background of Obama isn't the real motive behind snare deployment. If You Want The Government To Hand Over Documents, You Might Want To Retain A Lawyer. Fifty years after the passage of the Freedom of Information Act, the letter of the law lives on but its spirit has been crushed. While it's definitely preferable to having no opportunity to demand government agencies hand over requested documents, it's not the significant improvement it was promised to be. As was noted here four years ago, the government has pretty much adopted a presumption of opacity that necessitates the filing of lawsuits. This contradicts the law's intentions, as well as proclamations made by President Obama, who declared his administration the "most transparent." This assertion fell flat when government agencies engaged in FOIA business as usual and Obama did nothing to hold them accountable. Falsehood shames Clapper, Brennan and pledge to protect whistleblowers. In the summer of 2014, then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper sent a letter assuring Sens. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) that enhanced monitoring of Intelligence Community workers was designed to find leakers and insider threats, and was not intended to thwart lawful whistleblowing. Specifically, America's top spy told the two senators that if any protected whistleblowing was intercepted by the Obama administration's new monitoring, it wouldn't be used to tip off spy agency leaders. [...] It turns out that entire pledge was false and disingenuous. And it took us four years and a new presidential administration to get the truth. Just four months before Clapper penned that letter, the CIA intercepted one or more whistleblowers' disclosures, legally submitted and intended to go to Congress through the Intelligence Community's official whistleblowing office. And the intercepts were briefed to CIA leadership, contrary to Clapper's assurance. Sessions vows 'emergency' Supreme Court battles amid 'outrageous' discovery rulings by federal judges. Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Monday lit into federal judges for what he called a dramatic uptick in "outrageous" decisions threatening to interfere with the separation of powers by exposing internal White House deliberations. In a fiery speech to the conservative Heritage Foundation in Washington, Sessions warned that "once we go down this road in American government, there is no turning back." [...] Sessions specifically singled out New York district court judge Jesse M. Furman, who ruled that Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross could be questioned in an ongoing lawsuit concerning the legality of the Trump administration's decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census. The Road to Waco. The case of Frank Fuster has been back in the news thanks in part to this magazine's efforts at reminding the public of the injustice of his situation. [...] Fuster is certainly a criminal (he served time for homicide, and there is no question as to his guilt in that matter), and he may even be a child molester, but it is almost certain that he did not commit the crimes for which he was convicted, because it is almost certain that those crimes did not occur at all. Law Enforcement for Rent. This paper details an extensive and elaborate campaign using elective law enforcement offices, in coordination with major donors and activist pressure groups, to attain a policy agenda that failed through the democratic process. The plan is revealed in emails and other public records obtained during two and a half years of requests under state open records laws. Most are being released now for the first time. Many were obtained only by court order in the face of a determined and coordinated resistance that one deputy attorney general foresaw, expressing early concerns over "an affirmative obligation to always litigate" requests looking into the effort. The paper details how donor-financed governance has expanded into dangerous and likely unconstitutional territory: state attorney general (AG) offices. The plan traces back to 2012 when activists agreed to seek "a single sympathetic attorney general" to assist their cause. AGs began subpoenaing private parties' records in service of a campaign of litigation against opponents of their climate policy agenda. Credibility Is the Currency: How to Defeat Propaganda. The U.S. government has a number of messaging authorities assigned, in part, with countering propaganda — from the communications offices of elected political leaders and military public affairs officers to State Department public diplomacy and the routine statements put out by federal agencies every day. The government does a lot of messaging aimed at setting the record straight. Though it does little to align its messaging effectively across these agencies, and could do better, that is not the key problem. The problem is trust. Americans don't trust the government to tell them the truth. The government has invited the people's mistrust. False messages from politicians are a well-known feature of politics, whether they come from Twitter or from the media and public policy "echo chambers" or they were set up by the previous administration. Framing Ted Stevens In 2008 Was The Deep State's Trial Run For Framing Trump. According to the government's theory of the case, Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens underpaid for renovations on his cabin in a scheme to accept a non-cash bribe from a foreman for his contractor named Rocky Williams. During the mock cross-examination, the prosecution became alarmed when Williams was easily led into adopting the defense's theory of the case. Both the prosecution and the defense had Williams under subpoena. This would not do. So the prosecution filed an affidavit before Judge Emmet Sullivan claiming that the witness would be too sick to testify. Instead of campaigning for his re-election in Alaska, then, Stevens defended himself in a rigged felony trial in Washington D.C., not knowing that the government had hid evidence and spirited away an exculpatory witness. Stevens lost the trial in what some might consider the Deep State's trial run for 2016. The Rule of Law Is a Sick Joke. Sure, the rule of law is terrific in concept, and it would sure be nice to give it another whirl here in America, but we aren't blind or stupid. We see what the "law" is and how it's applied — there's one law for the elite (that's the one that never gets applied) and one for us Normals that's designed to keep us in line with our mouths shut. Today, the "law" is a weapon wielded by the establishment to cement its grip on its power and position. That's why Democrats are so eager to repeal Citizens United and pass all sorts of new laws restricting election campaigning. They know they will be able to violate those laws with impunity while using them to jam up their conservative opponents. FBI Pushes Back On GOP Rep's Claim That FBI Uses Leaks To Get FISAs. The FBI is disputing a claim that an FBI analyst told Congress that the bureau uses information leaked to the press to obtain surveillance warrants against American citizens. On Monday [8/27/2018], North Carolina Rep. Mark Meadows tweeted that Congress had "learned NEW information suggesting our suspicions are true: FBI/DOJ have previously leaked info to the press, and then used those same press stories as a separate source to justify FISA's. Unreal." A congressional source told The Daily News Foundation that Meadows was referring to information provided during a congressional interview on Friday [8/24/2018] with Jonathan Moffa, an FBI analyst who worked on the Hillary Clinton email investigation. Just Another Word for Nothing Left to Lose. The notion that people should be free to pursue their own lives, with only minimal interference and subsidy from the government, is never on the table. The assumption, in the Legislature, among policymakers and in local government, is that private actors would leave a path of death and destruction if the government didn't try to manage everything. That the government itself always leaves destruction in its wake — not only within its own bureaucracies but within the industries it controls — simply is more evidence that government needs even more power. In This Corner: Against Political Trials. A "political trial" is any trial in which the prosecution is unusually severe because the defendant participates in the political process, or because the defendant has a friend, associate or family member who participates in the political process. The extra severity may be that the person is prosecuted at all, or prosecuted under an unusual or newly created theory. It may be that the defendant is pursued by especially aggressive prosecutorial attack squads or is threatened with a far greater punishment than for the same crime without a political link. In a political trial, the defendant's nexus to the greater political system leads to harsher justice than for an average citizen who stays in the foxhole of private life and leaves control of politics and government to others. No Sympathy for Elected Devils. The congressman and his wife will have their day in court. Perhaps the jury won't believe the charges or will accept some explanation from the defendants. But right now, the indictment seems like a sterling example of why members of Congress need to be subjected to such relentless scrutiny and constant skepticism. Yes, it probably feels unfair, but elected officials are given a pretty sweet deal — certainly a better arrangement than what most of their constituents will ever know — and some of them just can't resist the urge to take even more. Why is the Lafayette library having Drag Queen Story Time? The reaction has been mixed after the Lafayette Public Library announced plans for its first Drag Queen Story Time. Members of the Delta Lambda Phi social fraternity will lead the event, scheduled for 2 p.m. Oct. 6 at the library's main branch. Library Director Teresa Elberson said the fraternity approached the library about the program. After a lengthy discussion, library officials decided to move forward. The event is expected to include fraternity members dressed in drag who will read to children and participate in activities with them and their families. De Blasio lets security haul away [a] Post reporter for asking [a] question. Mayor de Blasio is a such a big believer in the free press that he let two bodyguards physically remove a credentialed Post reporter who had the temerity to ask him a question in public on Sunday [8/12/2018]. [...] Instead of answering or even declining to answer the question, the mayor watched as two members of his NYPD security detail approached the reporter — who was wearing a police-issued press pass around his neck — with one grabbing his shoulder and leading him away from the mayor. The Police Were Not Policed. In sum, many within the FBI, the CIA, the DOJ, the NSC, and the State Department may have been involved in the greatest scandal in American electoral history, by directing agents, informants, and employees to help one campaign to harm another — and then, even after the election, to work to undermine a sitting president. In addition, these rogue agencies spent two years fighting congressional requests to release incriminating information. And then, when they were forced against their will to cough up some documents, they redacted them so heavily that they're almost undecipherable. Nashville Government Employees Tasked With Impounding Dockless E-Scooters Caught Riding Them Instead. Government workers tasked with taking prohibited e-scooters off Nashville's streets have been caught riding them instead. Nashville's NBC affiliate WSMV aired surveillance footage yesterday of employees from the city and county's shared Metro Public Works department having a grand old time riding confiscated e-scooters in a Metro-owned parking lot while on duty. Now, it's certainly hard to fault anyone for enjoying themselves on these e-scooters, which are owned by scooter company Bird. They're a breeze to ride. But Metro employees doing so is a bit awkward given the agency's aggressive crackdown on these same vehicles. City Council President Wants Tougher Enforcement of Airbnb. Oh, He's Also President of the State's Hotel Lobby. For several years, lobbyists for the hotel industry have been engaged in efforts to get local and state governments to make life more difficult for short-term rental and home-sharing platforms like Airbnb and VRBO. But what happens when the lobbyists literally are the government? We soon might get to find out, thanks to Kenny Glavan. He's the city council president in Biloxi, Mississippi, and he recently pushed the city to step up enforcement of tax and licensing requirements for short-term rentals. But Glavan also happens to be the president of the Mississippi Hotel and Lodging Association, the state arm of a national organization that's been on the forefront of legal and regulatory battles with Airbnb in New York City, Nashville, Washington, D.C., and elsewhere. Here Are 410 Movies Made Under The Direct Influence And Supervision Of The Pentagon. A year ago we featured a detailed report by authors Tom Secker and Matthew Alford exposing just how vast the Pentagon and CIA programs for partnering with Hollywood actually are, based on some 4,000 new pages of formerly classified archived documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. The report noted at the time that "These documents for the first time demonstrate that the US government has worked behind the scenes on over 800 major movies and more than 1,000 TV titles." Dinesh D'Souza's FBI File Was 'Red-Flagged' as "Right-Wing Conservative'. Dinesh D'Souza said that Rep Devin Nunes told him what is in his FBI file and it should concern every American. D'Souza said on C-SPAN's "Washington Journal" that DeSantis called him after the lawmaker received a redacted version of the FBI file through a congressional inquiry. "Finally they gave the congressional committee the redacted file, and a congressman who saw that file called me," D'Souza said. "And he goes, 'No. 1, your case is a $20,000 violation, but the FBI immediately assigned $100,000 to investigate your case.' He said that's extremely abnormal." DeSantis had looked into the file because he was concerned the prosecution of D'Souza was politically motivated. The Police State Abolishes the Trial. Several years ago, the police entered the office of a young professor at a reputable university and arrested him for an online crime. They took the professor away, booked him, and then offered him a deal: admit guilt and get off easy. The professor said to the few people to whom he was permitted to speak that this was crazy because he was innocent. His lawyer warned him: fight this and you could get life; admit guilt and you will get a suspended sentence. He took the deal. It was a trick. Now he languishes in jail, his life wrecked as far into the future as he can see. This doesn't happen in America, does it? Yes, it does. Not only that, it is increasingly the norm. SCOTUS Panic Shows Gov't Has Too Much Power. Democrats loved it when President Barack "I've got a pen and I've got a phone" Obama utilized executive orders to achieve policy objectives they wanted, like Obama's DACA order on immigration. But faced with President Trump's ability to exercise that same power (even if just to undo Obama's orders), they scream "Fascism!" The problem isn't Obama or Trump per se; it is an executive branch that increasingly exceeds the constitutional limits of its power, and usurps that of Congress. Rudy Giuliani: Mueller investigation the 'most corrupt investigation I have ever seen'. Rudy Giuliani, one of President Trump's lawyers, lambasted special counsel Robert Mueller's probe, calling it the "most corrupt investigation" he's ever seen. "This is the most corrupt investigation I have ever seen that the Justice Department is allowing to go forward," Giuliani told ABC News on Sunday. "I've never seen an investigation with texts from FBI agents, now seven of them, that have such extraordinary bias." The former New York City mayor was referencing messages exchanged by FBI employees that were hostile to Trump. The messages were revealed in a report from the Justice Department's inspector general last month. The Gangster State. Consider what we are watching with our government. News brings word that the US Attorney is dropping charges against the terrorists, who went on a rampage during the inauguration last year. They announced this in a holiday week, so it would get the least amount of news coverage. Now, they certainly could have looked into who financed the riot, who helped organize it and then went after the shot callers, but they never bothered to do that. Instead, they sat on it until people forgot about it and then dropped the case. Now, we have mountains of laws for dealing with self-defined criminal groups. The Feds could go after a Lacy MacAuley, who details her activities on-line, in order to figure out who pays her rent. Then they could go after that person or group. This is basic police work. At the very minimum, the people financing these terrorists would know they have some exposure, but that never happens. You see, everyone knows who finances Antifa and other terrorists operations and they have friends in high places. De Blasio used a $3M counterterrorism plane to zip home from vacation. The NYPD used a $3 million counterterrorism plane to shuttle Mayor Bill de Blasio back and forth from his Canada vacation to the Big Apple for an event Thursday [7/5/2018], The [New York] Post has learned. Hizzoner, who is in Quebec on a weeklong respite, briefly flew back to the Bronx for a memorial for slain Detective Miosotis Familia. "NYPD is transporting him in their plane," de Blasio spokesman Eric Phillips told The Post. "Their plane" is a Cessna 208 Caravan that cost roughly $3 million and was picked up by the department in 2017, sources said. FBI may have modified witness reports, misled DOJ watchdog with 'false information,' GOP Rep says. The FBI may have "edited and changed" key witness reports in the Hillary Clinton and Russia investigations, a top House Republican charged in a hearing into FBI and Justice Department misconduct Tuesday [6/26/2018]. Freedom Caucus Chair Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C, also raised the possibility that the FBI misled the DOJ watchdog in an attempt to hide the identities of FBI employees who were caught sending anti-Trump messages. Imprisoned by the Deep State. Paul Manafort does not appear to be a nice man. But he deserves equal treatment under the law. If certain members of The Deep State are not being jailed before their crimes are assessed, then he should at least be free on bond. McCain Flunky Weaponized the IRS, Is Now In Control of All Internal Probes. The revelation two nights ago that John McCain's Staff Director urged the IRS and Lois Lerner to target the tea party until its "financially ruinous" is bad enough. However, it gets worse. It must be noted that he is now in charge of all internal investigations in the government and he is in control of whistleblowers. In his past positions, he was in investigative control during Fast & Furious, Benghazi, and other probes. The man weaponized the IRS. His goal was to target conservatives through the IRS. Why is he in one of the most powerful positions in government, internally investigating a corrupt DoJ/FBI when he appears corrupt himself? How Immigration Officials Cooked the Books and Fooled Congress for Years. A recent Justice Department report on U.S. immigration courts provides a rare glimpse into the difficulties faced by the Trump administration as it repairs the damages inflicted on these tribunals over the last 20 years. But give credit to the courts' new executive, James McHenry. Early on, he identified the need for transparency and has made accurate disclosure of court business one of his agency's highest priorities. Candor, if not reform, demands no less. It's a good start for an executive whose predecessors often avoided — and sometimes denied — the truth about the courts' troubling dynamics. Yet the courts limped along, their annual reports masking a systemic dysfunction never shared with Congress. While transparency won't cure the dysfunction, it should identify obvious areas for reform — among them failures to appear in court. The IG Report: They're Guilty, but It's Okay. First we were told that Comey was a straight shooter whom we could trust. Then we were told the same about Mueller, Rosenstein, and now the IG. Yet in every case we've discovered that they are biased political actors who put the interests of the Deep State and the Democratic Party ahead of their sworn duty to uphold the law. It's time for all conservatives to acknowledge that there are few if any honest people at the top levels of the FBI or the DoJ. Sex, lies and betrayal at the FBI. If Jeff Sessions and Christopher Wray want to clean house at the FBI, they'll be well advised to pack a good lunch. Cleaning this house will be an all-day job. The agency under James B. Comey has been more corrupt than we thought. The long-awaited findings of the inspector general at the Justice Department were finally released Thursday, and it reveals clearly that officials high up in the food chain were out to protect Hillary Clinton by any means necessary. Pardoned Sailor Files Lawsuit Against Obama, Comey for Unequal Prosecution of Clinton Email Case. Former Navy seaman Kristian Saucier, who was sentenced to one year in federal prison for taking pictures aboard a nuclear submarine in 2009, is suing former President Barack Obama and former FBI Director James Comey for unequal protection under the law. Saucier alleges he was unfairly punished while former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was left to walk for her unauthorized use of a private email server, the Washington Times reports. President Donald Trump pardoned Saucier in March this year. Saucier's attorney says the lawsuit now plans to highlight the political nature of his client's prosecution compared to Clinton's. In 2016, when Saucier's case was being litigated, prosecutors rejected any comparison to the Clinton case. The Papadopoulos Case Needs a Closer Look. Congress should be taking a very hard look at the prosecution of George Papadopoulos. To these eyes, the harder one looks, the more the Papadopoulos case appears to be much ado about nothing. That is no small thing: The "much ado" here is a purported Trump-Russia conspiracy to subvert a presidential election. There has always been something fishy about the charge filed by Special Counsel Robert Mueller against Papadopoulos, who was a green-as-grass 28-year-old when he made the big primary-season move from Ben Carson-campaign novice to Trump-campaign novice. On the other hand... Carter Page: The FBI ruined my life. FBI surveillance of former Trump campaign advisor Carter Page cost him business, income and even his girlfriend. Page tells The Post that during the media barrage he faced in late 2016, he visited his girlfriend at her London flat, where she was "freaking out with the fake news about me." "Talking with her later in the evening after dinner, she told me that she didn't want me staying there anymore, and that our relationship was over. "So late that night," Page continued, "I booked a last-minute hotel reservation as part of this early chapter of the redefinition of my life." Trump says Mueller probe has 'destroyed' people's lives. President Trump said "young and beautiful lives" have been destroyed by special counsel Robert Mueller's "Witch Hunt" investigation into Russian interference during the election and any collusion on the part of Trump campaign staffers. "Who's going to give back the young and beautiful lives (and others) that have been devastated and destroyed by the phony Russia Collusion Witch Hunt?," Trump said in a tweet on Sunday. "They journeyed down to Washington, D.C., with stars in their eyes and wanting to help our nation ... They went back home in tatters!" 'An Abuse of Power': Rep. Biggs Says Mueller Is Investigating a Person, Not a Crime. Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) is one of several Republican lawmakers calling for a second special counsel to probe alleged abuses by the FBI and Justice Department. On "Happening Now" on Wednesday, Biggs said the only way to get to the bottom of apparent "improprieties" in the Russia and Hillary Clinton email probes is to investigate the investigators. "We can't rely on them to investigate themselves. So we need to get a special counsel outside of them to get in there and investigate," Biggs explained. Levin: Mueller's appointment was unconstitutional. Kicking off the week on the radio Monday, LevinTV host Mark Levin raised a crucial point about the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller that no one is currently discussing — it was unconstitutional. "The appointment of Robert Mueller violates the United States Constitution," Levin said. "And every subpoena, indictment, and plea agreement should be null and void." Can We Hope To Keep Our Republic When One Of The Parties Supports Tyranny? Think about this — a significant portion of our country, including a majority of its elite, thinks that it's A-OK for a Democrat administration to spy on a Republican candidate. Think hard about that. And think about whether or not we can ever put the pieces of our shattered republic back together again if we can't even agree that using government power against our political enemies is a bad thing. But the terrifying truth is that liberals and their Never Trump enablers actually think this kind of tyranny is a good thing. You see, they think Normal Americans are so transcendently awful (and, even more importantly, that the elite's power so precious) that all is fair in order to stifle their opponents' collective voice. Junk science locks up innocent people. The TV show "Cold Case Files" covered the trial of Alfred Swinton. He was convicted of murder because a bite-mark expert said his teeth matched a bite on the victim. "A perfect match!" said Dr. Gus Karazulas, the "forensic odontologist" whose testimony clinched the conviction. Karazulas sounded impartial and objective. "A forensic scientist is not on the side of the prosecutor or defense," he said on "Cold Case Files." "We look at the evidence." But Swinton was innocent. Lawyer Chris Fabricant helped get him released from jail by doing a DNA test, a much more reliable, less subjective form of science. Fabricant scoffs at bite-mark testimony: "The doctor was just wrong. It's an unreliable technique." Government corruption and the destruction of a great man. It is easy to corrupt the greedy man. It is another to corrupt a heroic man. Yet within each of us lurks a dark corner that, unless we implore God to shine His light into it, can corrupt us. If anyone doubts this, consider the tragic story of Randall "Duke" Cunningham. We Need to Know What Brennan, Clapper, Comey, Rice, Power and the Rest of Them Did. The Mueller investigation has, oddly enough, revealed that the greatest perpetrator against the American people in the 2016 election was the federal government. The greatest perpetrator against the American people was the federal government, was the leadership in the FBI, the CIA, the national intelligence director, etc. We cannot allow this to happen again. We saw our federal government used by the prior administration, by the head of the CIA, by the head of the FBI, by the head of national intelligence and many, many others used to try and destroy the candidate of the opposition party. These Obama intelligence officials tried to destroy Donald Trump and the electoral process. An administration interfering in elections is something we've never seen anything before in American history. Spies Like Obama? With the flood of new evidence from recent days, it is becoming increasingly difficult to deny that President Obama — undeniably the most pro-Russian president in American history — and his men abused the powers of their offices not only to spy on then-candidate Donald Trump but also to undermine and lay the foundation for the overthrow of Trump's administration. Former Trump Campaign Advisor Claims The FBI Detained Him And Took His Phone During Interrogation. A former Trump campaign adviser told Fox News' Tucker Carlson Tuesday the FBI detained him and took his phone when the agency questioned him earlier this year. Theodore Malloch, a former Trump campaign advisor, was stopped at Logan Airport in Boston, "taken into a room and ask questions by the FBI," and had his "phone under a warrant seized," with no lawyer present. Malloch said the FBI had him wait for about 20 minutes, divided him from his wife and searched his belongings and "took me to a separate building to introduce me to two different FBI agents who asked me a series of questions." 10 Key Takeaways From The New York Times' Error-Ridden Defense Of FBI Spying On Trump Campaign. [#1] FBI Officials Admit They Spied On [the] Trump Campaign: The New York Times' story, headlined "Code Name Crossfire Hurricane: The Secret Origins of the Trump Investigation," is a dry and gentle account of the FBI's launch of extensive surveillance of affiliates of the Trump campaign. Whereas FBI officials and media enablers had previously downplayed claims that the Trump campaign had been surveiled, in this story we learn that it was more widespread than previously acknowledged: [...] This is a stunning admission for those Americans worried that federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies might use their powers to surveil, leak against, and target Americans simply for their political views or affiliations. Mueller Year One: The Real Heroes in Journalism. The reality is that there are only a handful of reporters bravely bucking the media's status quo and conducting real investigative journalism to expose what, quite possibly, is the biggest political scandal in U.S. history: How top officials in an outgoing administration colluded with a presidential candidate's campaign and a major political party for the purpose of discrediting the rival presidential candidate and then stage a soft coup against him after he won. Out of thousands of reporters in the United States, fewer than a dozen journalists have dared to cover the ways in which the world's most powerful law enforcement and intelligence apparatus leveraged its authority to try and destroy Trump's candidacy, then his presidency. Louisiana Protects Customers From The 'Danger' of Unlicensed Florists. Flowers are a classic gift. Beautiful bouquets are available everywhere, but customers in Louisiana are unique in that their florists must obtain licenses to practice their profession. After a bill that would have repealed the licensing requirement was defeated in the State Senate Agriculture Committee by a 6 to 1 vote, licensing will remain the case for the immediate future. Louisiana should remove this licensing requirement for florists. It would create more opportunities for would-be florists, and lower prices for people looking for flower arrangements, regardless of the occasion. Waco Biker Trials Update: More Dismissals. It's hard to think of such a high-profile modern criminal prosecution, following an incident in which so many people dead, where the prosecution of the case was so badly bungled. The Process is the Punishment (As Always). There have been exciting developments in the "Russia investigation". There always are, because that is the nature of open-ended money-no-object investigations. But, to me, the most interesting development was the testimony of Michael Caputo, who appeared just before me on Tucker Carlson's show last night. Mr Caputo was, briefly, a very minor Trump campaign aide — and so his life has been destroyed. Of the bureaucracy, by the bureaucracy, and for the bureaucracy. Bullies who abuse their power like Bungling Bob Mueller and Jim Shady Comey co-opted the national press decades ago. Using leaks to take out critics — indeed President Nixon — the FBI created this illusion that it is an independent agency that is some unelected guardian angel of our republic. Comey shattered that image when his agents smashed to smithereens the evidence of Hillary's breaches of national security in an effort to get her elected so Comey could continue his job. The press ignored this story. Dershowitz on Cohen Wiretap: 'We Are Moving Closer and Closer to the Surveillance State'. Thursday on MSNBC, Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz stated that President Donald Trump's longtime personal lawyer Michael Cohen being wiretapped by federal investigators meant America was "moving closer and closer to the surveillance state." [...] Remember that when you wiretap a lawyer, you are wiretapping his clients and you wiretapping conversations between a lawyer and the client and you are searching for emails. Where is the American Civil Liberties Union on this? Where are civil libertarians? We live in such a partisan atmosphere, get Trump at any cost that we are prepared to give up our basic civil liberties in exchange for getting Trump." Does equal justice under the law exist in America today? Having two sets of laws — one for the political class and one for everyone else — accelerated under the administration of President Obama, beginning with Obama's pick for Treasury secretary. Timothy Geithner was delinquent on his taxes to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars, but became Treasury secretary in charge of the IRS. He paid no price for that behavior. The Daily Caller discovered from an inspector general's report in 2015 that 1,580 employees of the IRS were found to have not paid taxes over a 10-year period and 61 percent were not fired, but were given suspensions, reprimands or counseling. Would you or I be treated in the same way? Revelations coming from House and Senate Intelligence committee investigations have shown how the Obama administration politically weaponized the National Security Agency, State Department, FBI and the Department of Justice. A Prosecution for McCabe? Fired FBI deputy director and discredited Democrat hack Andrew McCabe may soon be prosecuted for authorizing the leaking of sensitive information to the media and then lying over and over again to investigators about it, according to reports. The news comes after House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) told Fox News on Sunday [4/22/2018] that "there was no official intelligence that was used to start this investigation" of Trump's aides. If Nunes is right, this means an official investigation was launched against a presidential campaign even though there was no official information supporting it. This is a naked abuse of power, the stuff of banana republics, something Trump defenders have been saying for some time. Mueller's harassment of Hannity may be criminal. Bobby the Mule Mueller used the power of his office to harass Sean Hannity, a critic of Mueller's witch hunt. Using judge shopping to get a warrant, Mueller raided Michael Cohen's office not to get the goods on President Trump — he's clean — but to do opposition research on one of the few commentators willing to take on Mueller and the vast power of the state he controls. The Mule has leaked — likely through third parties — confidential information about Hannity including his ownership of 870 dwellings which he rents. Cohen arranged this. My guess is Mueller's activity was criminal. Deep State or Democrat State? The real climax of the Hillary investigation came when immunity agreements were handed out to her associates like candy in exchange for their "cooperation". When Hillary and her people lied to the FBI, it wasn't a crime. Not only wasn't it a crime, but the whole point of the exercise was immunizing her people from prosecution so that a Trump administration would have little leverage against them. The investigations are also crimes. And they not only abuse government power to suppress political opponents, but also work to suppress any counter-investigation of the crime being committing. While Trump and Cohen had their attorney-client privilege shattered, Cheryl Mills inappropriately claimed attorney-client privilege in her relationship with Hillary Clinton, even though she had been a government employee, and not only did the FBI respect the claim, but she got an immunity agreement. What do these three cover-ups have in common? All three abused law enforcement resources to protect Democrat political assets. Privatize 911 Services And Hold Your Providers Accountable For Negligence. A recent story highlights the dangers of a government being entrusted with personal care of individuals. A 911 dispatcher intentionally hung up on thousands of callers in need of emergency help. She remained employed without anyone noticing. For a year and a half this went on, and no one noticed. Homicides, robberies, medical emergencies, etc. All ignored. But the individuals harmed by her cannot bring personal actions against their government. Because the government has something called governmental immunity. This law is troubling for advocates of limited government. Basically, irrespective of whether you pay taxes and abide by the law, you are not entitled to 911 services. Unless, you are imprisoned or otherwise in government custody. Then you are entitled to these services. Troubling, yes. The courts have held consistently that the governments have no duty to provide care to you. That means you can't sue for damages. So no matter how wronged you were by 911 response negligence, you can't sue. Trump and the attorney-client privilege. Investigators are usually looking to trap an unwary potential defendant into lying to them — a crime in that environment, even though the potential defendant is not under oath — or unwittingly admitting to them an allegation for which they need proof. The potential defendant often believes — foolishly, as history has shown — he can actually talk the investigators out of indicting him. How Comey Lied About Spying on Trump Tower. Jim Comey deserves a special place in the annals of sanctimonious frauds in Washington, D.C. He leaked, lied, bent rules, treated FBI material as his own personal property, violated confidential conversations, and generally acted like a government unto himself. But now he has the gall to write it all up in the sonorous nonsense language of "constitutional crisis." His forthcoming memoir amounts to nothing more than the sour grapes of a self-serving operator over a wholly justified sacking. [...] Comey's wounded ego is not a constitutional crisis. The scandal is not that he lost his exalted job but that such a pompous creep once held it. Raid on Trump lawyer crossed the line into special prosecutorial abuse. We're supposed to be reassured that the FBI agents who raided the offices and home of Donald Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, were, in Cohen's words, "courteous" and "respectful." The president's attorney was understandably grateful that the agents didn't replicate the FBI's tactics at the home of Paul Manafort, Trump's onetime campaign manager. Busting in before dawn, guns drawn, with a "no knock" warrant while Manafort and his wife were in bed, the agents frisked Mrs. Manafort while she was still in her nightclothes. Perhaps Cohen thinks if he sounds reasonable, he can appease Robert Mueller, the special prosecutor who ordered Manafort's arrest, or his other federal prosecutors behind this raid. Or maybe Cohen simply developed the quickest case of Stockholm syndrome in history. Whatever his reasons, a line has been violated. The government is going after lawyers now, as part of an investigation that feels as though policy differences and partisan politics have been criminalized. The Real Investigation. President Trump now has real legal peril. The potential jeopardy stems from the investigation that came to light this week when the FBI conducted raids on the office and residences of his lawyer and self-professed "fixer," Michael Cohen. I've never thought "collusion with Russia" posed jeopardy. If there had been anything criminal to that storyline, the politicized anti-Trump factions in the intelligence and law-enforcement agencies would have leaked it. And, notwithstanding Trump's nauseating nods to Putin, the administration has taken enough aggressive steps against Russia that it is past time for the Kremlin to broadcast the big kompromat file if it exists. American Greatness and its Enemies. There may have been much more involved, but it is significant that many in the media saw in this raid — a raid that honest analysts such as Alan Dershowitz pointed out undermined attorney-client privilege and would never have been tolerated by the ACLU if the target was a liberal — an attempt to uncover evidence of a purported campaign violation that wrongly sought to aid the President. This was, of all odd things, the payment of $130,000 to porn[ ]star Stormy Daniels to buy her silence regarding an asserted brief affair with Mr. Trump. One would have thought that this non-disclosure agreement (NDA), dealing as it does with a matter of private reputation would have been something that liberals would have thought did not belong in the public square, given their attitude toward President Clinton's escapades that Democrats believed ought never to have been a part of impeachment proceedings. Never trust a Never Trumper. We have a rogue prosecutor. He has sent agents to raid the homes and offices of the president's former campaign manager and his personal lawyer. This outrage has liberals gloating, be they on the left or be they on the right of your television screens. Decades of chatter about civil rights turn out to be a facade. They no more care about the Constitution than a Canada goose does. And the Never Trump wimps once again side with the Big Government Deep State. Piers Morgan: Left Can't Prove Trump-Russia Collusion, So They're 'Moving the Goalposts'. Piers Morgan said the left has been unable to find solid evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, so Democrats are "moving the goalposts" and going after President Trump's personal life. "They want to prove to the world that Donald Trump collaborated with Russians to fix the election [and] that's why he won," Morgan said on "Hannity" on Thursday [4/12/2018]. "So far, they have singularly failed to establish that." He said that's why they're moving on to lurid allegations about the president's private life, such as his purported 2006 affair with adult film star Stormy Daniels. 'This Is Third World Stuff': Former DOJ Attorney Suggests Legal Process Being Used to 'Terrorize' Trump. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein should have been fired months ago, former Justice Department attorney J. Christian Adams argued, saying Rosenstein let Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation "get completely out of control." Rosenstein met with President Trump on Thursday, amid recent calls for Rosenstein's ouster over his role in the Russia probe. Adams explained on "The Story" on Thursday [4/12/2018] that Mueller originally was supposed to investigate possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, but the probe has expanded far beyond that. Rand Paul: Mueller abused authority; 'every American citizen' could be next. Senator Rand Paul, R-Ky., says that special counsel Robert Mueller has abused his authority by referring President Trump's personal attorney, Michael Cohen, to the FBI, which raided Cohen's office Monday morning, seizing business records, emails, and other documentation, including a record of a payment to porn star Stormy Daniels. Paul said the special counsel is no longer looking at Russian collusion in the 2016 election. "Going after someone's personal attorney is a great overstep, I think, in the authority of the prosecutor," Paul said. Tom Fitton: DOJ Is 'Out of Control,' Mueller 'Ought to Be Shut Down'. Conservative watchdog Judicial Watch official Tom Fitton on Monday night [4/9/2018] blasted the Department of Justice as "out of control," and suggested special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation "ought to be shut down." The blast came during Lou Dobb's nightly program on Fox Business, where both Dobbs and Fox News Channel political and legal analyst Gregg Jarrett blasted the Mueller investigation in general — and the raid on President Donald Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, in particular. In his remarks, Fitton called on President Donald Trump himself "to intervene and save the Justice Department and FBI from themselves." Guess Whose House Wasn't Raided by the FBI. Can't find any collusion between Trump and Russia? Hey, why not look for collusion between Cohen and professional whore and porn star Stormy Daniels? Was she paid to go away with campaign funds? Even so, that's an FEC violation punishable by a fine and something that does not require a SWAT team. It certainly does not compare with money funneled by Team Hillary and the DNC though a law firm to Fusion GPS and British foreign agent Christopher Steele to put together a fake dossier on Trump using Russian sources. But where were the raids on the offices of the DNC, the Hillary Clinton campaign, and Fusion GPS? This is the FBI of Andrew McCabe, Lisa Page, and Peter Strzok, whose mission was to keep Hillary Clinton out of prison and Donald Trump out of the White House. They never raided the home and office of Cheryl Mills, did they? They never raided Hillary's house or seized the acid-washed server, did they? But Michael Cohen is a threat to our democracy warranting brute force? Yes, rogue prosecutors do try to take out elected leaders; one of them may face jail. As we watch the drama escalate in the effort to undo the 2016 presidential election, consider the case of another chief executive elected at the same time, Missouri Governor Eric Greitens. A Republican, Governor Greitens was indicted in February for felony invasion of privacy by allegedly photographing his former lover, "K.S.," without her knowledge or permission. The indictment was sought and is being prosecuted by Circuit Attorney (the Missouri name for a district attorney) Kim Gardner, a Democrat who was elected as the first black Circuit Attorney in St. Louis. Since then, the case has fallen apart, with no photograph produced, and with the revelation yesterday that the accuser K.S. has admitted under oath that she may have dreamed the incident. That's right, a sitting governor prosecuted by a Democrat on the basis of something that was literally dreamed up by the purported victim of the alleged crime. The Firestarter: What Happens When the Government Lies About You in Court? In 1963, the Supreme Court affirmed in Brady v. Maryland that exculpatory evidence withheld from the defense by the prosecution violates constitutional protections. Ever since then "Brady violations" have resulted in sanctions against prosecutors and police, as well as overturned criminal convictions. But what happens when the government withholds exculpatory evidence during the prosecution of a civil lawsuit against an individual or company? Nothing, apparently. With Brady deemed to apply only to criminal cases, no specific case law punishes a government lawyer for failing to disclose evidence that would've been helpful to a civil defendant. Police can't charge 'exhorbitant' fees for Vegas massacre info, judge rules. The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department has every right to try and recoup costs for providing the media with body camera videos, 911 records and written reports in connection with the city's Oct. 1 massacre, a judge has decided. But police cannot charge "exhorbitant fees," such as the range of $233,750 to $458,159 the department has estimated for making such data available, Clark County District Judge Richard Scotti ruled Friday [3/9/2018]. A Member Of Congress Explains Why The Corruption In Congress Is Much Worse Than You Think. What would you say if I told you that committee chairs were for sale in Congress? And what would you say if I told you that many members of Congress spend far more time on the telephone raising money than on the jobs that the people of their states actually elected them to do? There is a reason why so many Americans absolutely hate Congress. At this moment, Congress has an approval rating of just 15 percent, and approval ratings for Congress have been at extremely low levels for a very long time. We all know that Congress has become completely corrupt, that it is completely unresponsive to the American people and that it has become all about the money. What good are police? Police solve less than two-thirds of all murders committed, and in some cities (New Orleans, for instance) the murder clearance rate is only 30 percent. There is only a 1 in 5 chance that property stolen from you will be recovered. So what good are police? Police power props up the state and provides cover for all its nefarious activities. For police, the motto "To protect and serve," is really all about protecting government and their own gang and serving the state as revenue collectors and enforcers, not protecting the people. They cannot and do not protect us, but they are all too willing to abuse us. When the left and right embrace and submit to them in their current form, they are advocating for their own slavery. DA Retaliates After Cops Expose Her For Letting Criminals Go. Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg cut off police access to a database that is essential to criminal investigations after they criticized her actions. The Houston Police Department lambasted Ogg after she said police were being too hard on illegal immigrants and criminals. In response, the Democrat attorney issued a memo stating assistant district attorneys would no longer allow police to access the investigative database regarding court cases. Members of the Houston Police Officer's Union slammed Ogg's office and said she is jeopardizing their ability to protect the people of Texas by denying them access to essential information. Florida emergency medical teams frustrated over 'delay' in Parkland school shooting response. Three high-ranking Florida officials close to the law enforcement response at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School tell Fox News there was a delay in Emergency Medical Service getting into the school in the critical moments after [the shooter] opened fire, killing 17 people and wounding at least 14 others. Two separate sources told Fox News some of the EMS teams who requested to enter the school were told they could not. One source said it was the Broward County Sheriff's Office — which was the commanding office — that ordered some of the EMS crews not to go into the school when they requested to enter. Laura Ingraham: Broward County Deputies Told Not to Enter School. This seriously changes everything. We may have finally gotten to the bottom of why the Florida school shooter was able to take the life of 17 of his fellow students. Previously, we reported that on-duty police officers at the site of the shooting neglected to enter the building while the shooting was ongoing, which could have cost an untold number of lives. Then the Broward County Sheriff attempted to defend his department, despite the clear cowardice displayed by his officers. Now we just received shocking news that the on-duty deputies were ordered not to engage with the shooter or enter the building. The Editor says... Doctor Hamburger Diagnoses a Malignant Administrative State. The ominous nature of the administrative state (think IRS, EPA, DOJ, DEA, Interior, FCC, SEC) transforms our government originally designed as limited and by the consent of the governed. Emblematic of the administrative state problem is the slow-rolling special counsel coup being orchestrated by intelligence and law enforcement agencies intent on overturning a presidential election, energized and perpetrated by human creatures in the embedded federal bureaucracy that occupies a wide swath of swampland on the Potomac River. New York's AG Uses Below-The-Belt-Measures On Pro-Lifers So He'd Win His Case. New York's attorney general oversaw and facilitated secret surveillance on pro-life counselors outside an abortion clinic as well as the creation of a fake identity in an attempt to win an ongoing case, according to a witness's testimony. Testimony in People v. Griepp et al — New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman against pro-life advocates counseling women outside of Choices Women's Medical Center in Jamaica-Queens, N.Y. — illustrated Schneiderman used a witness to spy on pro-lifers via creating a fake Facebook account to access their information. The witness testified she had used someone else's photo, listed her occupation as a bank teller, created a fake residency — even posting about the weather there to gain credibility — and went under the guise of "Shelly Walker." The witness also allegedly accessed hundreds of pro-life activists' personal information around the country — she gave the data to Schneiderman's office, according to The Thomas More Law Center (TMLC). We Should Care About What Happened to Carter Page. The former Trump aide's reputation has been ruined — not by a conviction, not by any charges, but by a warrant that was supposed to be secret. The Ruling Class Hates You. Truth is, they really don't like the rest of us. No problem, we have our own lives and families. But it's only not a problem until such disdain is combined with a sense of political entitlement and the coercive power of government. Which brings us to the political and cultural union of the Democratic Party and the permanent political class called the deep state, that forms the unelected, unaccountable fourth branch of government that wields so much power up to and including the police power of the FBI. When Federal Prosecutors Go Bad. [Sidney] Powell and [Harvey] Silverglate write about the horror faced by regular, even prominent citizens whom the FBI and DOJ destroyed, or tried to destroy, using their unlimited resources and the trust of the courts and the public. From the very beginning of the prosecution when the affidavits for charges are submitted to the court, the honesty and fairness of the prosecutors is tested, and all too often, ambitious and aggressive prosecutors betray that trust. Most of all, these books warn that the character and virtue of prosecutors are the critical factor in the proper conduct of a prosecution, the choice of target, the charge made, and the conduct of the discovery and the trial. Prosecutors have all the cards, and if they don't conduct an honest and fair prosecution, innocent people are harmed, destroyed by their striving for conviction at any cost, even by cheating or by abuse of the process. Bad People Lied to a Kangaroo Court. The only people who think that the government in a non-adversarial, secret, non-reviewable judicial proceeding will produce "all material and relevant facts," including "information potentially favorable to the target of the FISA application," are those pathetically deluded souls who believe that when rules, regulations, and laws are promulgated everyone complies, including the government that promulgated them. They're always shocked when reality proves otherwise. The rest of us might want to consider what it took for this exposure of potential government wrongdoing before the FISC. The House Intelligence Committee (HIC) pressed for months and was forced to threaten subpoenas before the Department of Justice and the FBI turned over the evidence upon which its memorandum is based. If this wasn't such a high-profile partisan battle, impinging on the presidency, that effort never would have been made. Had Hillary Clinton been elected or Democrats controlled Congress, none of this would have seen the light of day. The intelligence agencies and the FBI can rest assured, it will be business as usual before the FISC: non-adversarial, secret, non-reviewable proceedings in which they can allege, unchallenged, pretty much anything they want, their surveillance requests rubber-stamped by the court (historically it's approved over 99 percent of all requests). Worse Than Watergate. The FISA Abuse Memo is out and now we know why the Democrats were desperate to keep its contents hidden from the public: it confirms the worst fears not just of President Trump's supporters but of everyone concerned about the abuse of police power, government corruption, and the sanctity of our elections. The memo shows interference in the 2016 presidential election by hostile elements within a United States intelligence agency. It wasn't the Russians we had to worry about — it was rogue actors at the highest levels of the FBI and Department of Justice. Left unanswered is to what extent the West Wing knew about or was complicit in this gross abuse of power. Democracy's Highest Crime and Misdemeanor. Is there sufficient decency and courage in the midst of Washington's swamp to compel the pursuit of justice wherever in the Ruling Class it leads and then to prosecute the lawbreakers — whomever they are? First, it's vital to understand that when you give a pass — or worse you give multiple successive passes — to lawbreakers, you not only protect those who violated the law, but you empower and encourage would-be lawbreakers to do the same or worse. Second, when laws are not enforced they cease to have meaning. And that's when your nation finds itself on a slippery slope of arbitrary and subjective rule and cronyism, which ends in ruin... such as no borders, the hollowing out of protections in the Bill of Rights, and the politicization of government agencies, to name a few. Why aren't the Democrats horrified by the corruption at the FBI and DOJ? It is becoming clearer by the day, after over a year of investigations, that the Obama administration did indeed weaponize the DOJ, the FBI, the CIA, the ATF, the IRS and the NSA. Over those eight years, each of the above agencies was transformed into an arm of the Democratic Party tasked with crippling the opposition and abrogating the Constitution. Since all of the mainstream media already were arms of the DNC, it is well and truly a miracle that Donald Trump prevailed throughout his campaign to win the election, as the entire DC bureaucracy and media were aligned against him. Most of them still are. Those law enforcement institutions in which Americans have put their trust and faith for many decades have been thoroughly compromised by a group of bad actors at the top, self-appointed arbiters of electoral politics. Real Americans vs. Our Effete Elites. The revealed corruption of the FBI and DOJ is tragic and largely the responsibility of the Clintons and Obama. Obama built upon, took his cues from the Clintons, the most corrupt family ever to wield political power in America. Astonishingly, no one of the left seems to care about how criminal the Obama administration was or how unscrupulous the Clintons have always been. [...] No one on the left seems to care about the horrific abuse of power that occurred under Obama. He effectively turned our law enforcement agencies into a Stasi that spies on its own citizens. Deborah Jordahl: Wisconsin's Comey-over. What do a former attorney general, two former judges, two licensed attorneys and a former state legislator have in common? They presided over the Wisconsin Ethics Commission when it opened its doors on July 1, 2016. This agency and the Wisconsin Elections Commission were created to replace Wisconsin's Government Accountability Board (GAB) following its participation in an unconstitutional John Doe investigation into Republican Governor Scott Walker, his aides and allies. As a longtime conservative strategist and consultant, I had a front row seat to what the Wisconsin Supreme Court called "a perfect storm of wrongs," visited upon people who are "wholly innocent of any wrongdoing." Constitution is no longer the law of the land. Now the law is whatever a federal judge says it is. A federal judge on the 9th Circuit Court — William Alsup — ruled that President Donald Trump's executive action phasing out the Obama-era DACA amnesty program is illegal and ordered the government to resume granting DACA waivers. Trump announced the phase-out weeks ago, claiming the program established by his predecessor via executive order was illegal. In doing so Trump sought to throw creation of immigration law back into the laps of the lawmakers — Congress. Alsup, a Bill Clinton appointee, ruled the program legal. In his ruling, Alsup concluded that without a nationwide injunction, DACA recipients would likely suffer irreparable harm, leading to harmful ripple effects on the nation's economy and healthcare system. California Homeowners Association Forces Residents to Keep Garage Doors Open to Deter Squatters. While the purpose behind an HOA — to keep the neighborhoods neat and orderly — sounds great, it's important to remember that HOA membership basically means that your neighbors get a say in what you do with your property. It's not enough to have federal, state, and local governments issuing rules over what you can and can't do. No, we had to create these petty tyrannies to stick their noses in as well. Different HOAs have different rules, to be sure, but they all focus on the mundane, trivial stuff. That's because the people who are attracted to rules like HOA boards and elected offices are people who are often attracted to power in general. Louisiana Teacher Handcuffed at School Board Meeting After She Questions Administrator Pay Raise. An English language-arts teacher in Louisiana's Vermilion Parish School District was removed from a school board meeting and handcuffed Monday night after asking questions about administrator pay, video of the event shows. Deyshia Hargrave asked why board members were planning to give the superintendent a raise when teachers had not been rewarded a pay raise in years, the Washington Post reported. Teacher handcuff video leads to death threats, investigation. A Louisiana school board's office was temporarily locked down after members received death threats when a video emerged Tuesday showing a teacher screaming while being handcuffed at a board meeting. Vermilion Parish School Board President Anthony Fontana told The Advertiser the threats came from as far away as South America, Australia and England, as well as other U.S. states. He said the threats have been reported to local police and the FBI. The threats came less than a day after middle school English teacher Deyshia Hargrave was forcibly removed from Monday night's meeting. She was handcuffed and jailed after questioning pay policies — specifically a proposed raise for the superintendent — during a public comment period. A Ludicrous Ruling That Trump Can't End DACA. Yesterday [1/9/2018], Judge William Alsup ordered the Trump administration to keep its predecessor's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program in place. This remarkable 49-page order has all the aesthetics of a judicial decision but is, at heart, an amateur act of punditry. Judge Alsup paints the picture of a divided White House, wherein "the Chief Executive publicly favors the very program [his Administration] has ended." Citing a "presidential tweet," the court suggests that DACA's recision "was contrived to give the administration a bargaining chip to demand funding for a border wall in exchange for reviving DACA." These talking points could have been plagiarized from the MSNBC chyron. Such rhetoric in a judicial decision would have been unthinkable barely a year ago. But now it passes for the new normal. Once again, the judiciary has attempted to shackle President Trump from making his own judgments about how to exercise his own power. The Supreme Court has reversed Judge Alsup's outlandish rulings on DACA before. And it will do so again. Trump and Sessions must tell this amnesty judge to shove it. Not in [Alexander] Hamilton's wildest imaginings could he ever have envisioned a time when a lowly district judge can force a president to make denizens of aliens, contrary to the most foundational sovereignty statutes. Even King George couldn't do what Obama did on immigration without the consent of Parliament, according to the Library of Congress. In that sense, the power of lower court judges has been elevated to a higher status than that of a king, much less a president. Remember when Hamilton said even the Supreme Court would have "neither force nor will" on political issues even governing American citizens? Those were good days. It's not worth delving into the details of the ruling from this Antifa-style judge in San Francisco who declared last night that Trump must continue renewing work permits, visas, and Social Security cards for people who, pursuant to law, must be deported. After all, Judge William Alsup is merely continuing "the resistance," with the power of supremacy that even conservative legal eagles have bestowed upon the judicial robes. Let's put aside the fact that it is a settled, uninterrupted stream of case law that illegal aliens are considered as if they are outside the country and do not have standing to sue in court. This is why we have administrative immigration judges, given that aliens have no access to Article III courts. The Judicial Rebellion. We are witnessing a treasonous rebellion by leftist judges who are declaring the last election null and void. At the core of these traitors' arguments is the belief that the people do not have the right to express their views through the electoral process. Essentially, these courts are declaring that President Trump doesn't have the same authority as his predecessor and that the powers of the executive branch are constrained by what the judiciary thinks is good policy. These judges assert that President Trump can't overrule the executive orders of his predecessor with his own executive orders. If that were the case, elections would be meaningless, since one president could effectively prevent the people from rejecting his position by voting for a candidate who disagreed with him. We see this in the judge's ruling on DACA. Ignoring for a moment the fact that DACA was an unconstitutional usurpation of power by Obama, there is still a huge problem with a court effectively declaring that one president, Obama, can make edicts that other presidents can't change. Judicial Anarchy Over DACA. A federal judge, U.S. District Judge William Alsup, took it upon himself to order that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA), put in place by former President Obama's executive order and wound down towards ultimate termination by President Trump's own executive order last September, must stay in place at least for the time being. The judge issued a preliminary injunction against ending DACA while lawsuits over President Trump's decision go forward. The effect of Judge Alsup's order is to throw out a temporary lifeline to the illegal immigrant "Dreamers" who have or have had DACA protection to be able to continue staying and working in the country while they apply for renewals. Needless to say, President Trump was not happy with this latest example of judicial overreach. Judge rules DACA legal, blocks Trump's decision to end program. A federal judge in California blocked President Trump's planned phaseout of the Obama-era DACA deportation amnesty in a ruling late Tuesday [1/9/2018] that could upend the negotiations on Capitol Hill over "Dreamers" future. Judge William Alsup, a Clinton appointee to the bench, ruled the DACA program legal — the first court to do so — and said the administration illegally cut corners in canceling it. He ordered the administration to allow illegal immigrants to renew their DACA applications just as they would have under President Obama. Judge blocks Trump administration plan to roll back DACA. A federal judge in California late Tuesday [1/9/2018] temporarily blocked the Trump administration's efforts to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. Judge William Alsup also said the administration must resume receiving DACA renewal applications. But the ruling is limited — the administration does not need to process applications for those who have never before received DACA protections, he said. Case Against Bundys Dismissed: Obama's FBI And DOJ Are The Real Criminals. Judge Navarro's ruling was based on the egregious misconduct of the FBI and Justice Department lawyers handling the case, that led her to conclude that a new trial would not be sufficient to address the problems in the case and would provide the prosecution with an unfair advantage going forward. The judge criticized both the prosecution and the FBI for not providing evidence to the defense as required under court rules. "The court finds that the universal sense of justice has been violated," Navarro said according to reporting by Robert Anglen for the Reno Gazette Journal. Navarro said it was clear the FBI was involved in the prosecution of the case, and that it was not a coincidence that most of the withheld evidence came from the FBI. Is there a single Democrat anywhere who [cares] about America? We now have ironclad evidence that the Obama administration mounted at least two distinct and extraordinary efforts to weaponize government against its political opponents. It used the instrumentalities of government to target members of the opposite party and — worse still — to influence the outcome of a presidential election. Dangers of Government Control. The Federal Reserve Board controls our money supply. Its governors are appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate and serve 14-year staggered terms. They have the power to cripple an economy, as they did during the late 1920s and early 1930s. Their inept monetary policy threw the economy into the Great Depression, during which real output in the United States fell nearly 30 percent and the unemployment rate soared as high as nearly 25 percent. The most often stated cause of the Great Depression is the October 1929 stock market crash. Little is further from the truth. The Great Depression was caused by a massive government failure led by the Federal Reserve's rapid 25 percent contraction of the money supply. The next government failure was the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, which increased U.S. tariffs by more than 50 percent. Those failures were compounded by President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal legislation. Jail Hillary and Huma, Not Kristian Saucier. Most Americans are not familiar with the name of Kristian Saucier, but they should be. He is the U.S. Navy sailor sentenced to prison for taking pictures inside the nuclear submarine he served in. He was not a spy for a foreign power. He had no intent, to coin a phrase, to do anything with these photos except keep them as personal memories of his proud and honorable service. [...] No doubt Saucier watched with bitterly ironic interest as the email scandals involving former secretary of state Hillary Clinton and aide Huma Abedin unfolded with tales of private servers, mishandled classified emails, smashed devices, and scrubbed hard drives. After all that, despite laying out a case for Hillary's indictment and incarceration, FBI director James Comey, who was writing her exoneration memo before even conducting a sham of an investigation, said no prosecutor worth his salt would bring a case because Hillary lacked "intent" even though the law regarding mishandling of classified information does not require intent. Unsealed Court Docs Show How Prosecutors Tried To Rig Bundy Trial. Unsealed court documents detail how the team of prosecutors tasked with convicting Cliven Bundy and his sons of crimes relating to a 2014 armed standoff failed to turn over potential exculpatory evidence to the court, The Oregonian reports. The Bundys' case ended in a mistrial Dec. 20 after Judge Gloria Navarro ruled that prosecutors violated the civil rights of the defendants by withholding evidence supporting the Bundys' case. Navarro is considering dismissing the case "with prejudice" and blocking prosecutors from retrying the case. Her decision will come Jan. 8, according to The New York Times. FBI Chapter of Hillary Clinton Fan Club Probes President Trump. Recent weeks have revealed the chilling extent to which special counsel Robert Mueller, a former FBI chief, has surrounded himself with pro-Hillary acolytes who scorn Trump and even his voters. At worst, this is judicial corruption, rooted in bottomless affection for the subject of one inquiry and boundless disdain for the target of a different probe. At best, this creates the appearance of corruption, whereby Mueller's team and their FBI and DOJ colleagues seem so pro-Hillary and so anti-Trump that even their totally even-handed and perfectly honest conclusions would be attacked as either a phony exoneration of Hillary, a fake prosecution of Trump, or an over-reaction to criticism that prompted the opposite results. With Drano-like efficiency, these outcomes would corrode confidence in federal law-enforcement agencies and the rule of law. The Wrong Man. In the fall of 2001, a nation reeling from the horror of 9/11 was rocked by a series of deadly anthrax attacks. As the pressure to find a culprit mounted, the FBI, abetted by the media, found one. The wrong one. This is the story of how federal authorities blew the biggest anti-terror investigation of the past decade — and nearly destroyed an innocent man. Here, for the first time, the falsely accused, Dr. Steven J. Hatfill, speaks out about his ordeal. The State Government Agency That Spied on Citizens. The 88-page report by Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel details the notorious "John Doe" investigations that went after almost every conservative, nonprofit organization in Wisconsin (the state chapter of Club for Growth among them) for supposed violations of campaign finance laws. Except that there were not any actual violations of the law, according to the Wisconsin Supreme Court. The court shut down the prosecutions in 2015, calling the legal theory under which the prosecutors were pursuing the case "unsupported in either reason or law." The state's highest court used the word "amazing" in describing the "breadth" of documents seized by prosecutors through numerous, wide-ranging subpoenas and search warrants. This included "virtually every document possessed by the [targets] relating to every aspect of their lives, both personal and professional, over a five-year span." The report from Schimel, a Republican, has an unbelievable list of 218 subpoenas and search warrants issued in the investigation — and this is only a "partial" list. Stuck in the Middle with the Circumlocution Office. Charles Dickens' Little Dorrit is not among his finest novels [...] but it deserves its place in the literary pantheon not only for its depiction of life in the Marshalsea debtor's prison (something with which Dickens had personal experience) but for its invention of the Circumlocution Office. Fittingly, Dickens calls this chapter, "Containing the whole Science of Government." It's the ultimate revenge of the bureaucrats on the masses of suffering humanity who pay their inflated salaries and expect something in return: [...] Another word for such an entity is, of course, a racket, a criminal or quasi-criminal enterprise designed to enrich the barnacles while at the same time absolving them of all responsibility, including having to work for a living. In America, we call it the federal government. Letter of Notice From Trump Transition To Congress Outlining Illegal Search and Seizure by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. It is my belief, based on mounting evidence, a specific cast of characters within the Mueller "Russia Election Interference" probe were placed there to protect people behind the FBI's initial false claims. Those claims formed the basis for the counterintelligence operation against 2016 presidential candidate Donald Trump. Woman faces criminal charges for rescuing starving dog. A dog rescued in Scioto County was so emaciated, an official said it lost half of its body weight. That official, Rhonda Rose from the Scioto Area Humane Society, said she rescued the dog at the last minute, only to be charged with two crimes. Rose works as the Treasurer of the Humane Society. She has been charged with criminal trespass and petty theft after rescuing the dog. Whistleblower Says CFPB Falsified Documents to Fine Payday Lender. A former employee of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is calling for an investigation after accusing managers of falsifying documents to impose fines on a payday lender. Cassandra Jackson, a former CFPB examiner in the southeast division, sent a letter last week to Attorney General Jeff Sessions also accusing managers of "widespread racism and gender discrimination." Jackson said her superiors at the CFPB asked her to falsify documents during her investigation into a Texas-based payday lending company, Ace Cash Express. "During the course of this examination, I was asked to change, remove, and otherwise falsify documents connected with this examination," Jackson said. Jackson said she was asked to remove document evidence proving Ace Cash Express was complying with CFPB rules and to write a report including findings she knew to be "false and fabricated." One Mueller-Investigation Coincidence Too Many. Something has gone terribly wrong with the Mueller investigation. The investigation is venturing well beyond the original mandate of rooting out evidence of Russian collusion. Indeed, the word "collusion" is now rarely invoked at all. It has given way to its successor, "obstruction." The latter likely will soon beget yet another catchphrase to justify the next iteration of the investigations. There seems far less special investigatory concern with the far more likely Russian collusion in the matters of the origins and dissemination of the Fusion GPS/Steele dossier, and its possible role in the Obama-administration gambit of improper or illegal surveilling, unmasking, and leaking of the names of American citizens. The Swamp against the People. [Scroll down] These facts support two conclusions: [#1] The United States Congress is the only constitutional body with sufficient political power to declare the current Mueller witch hunt null and void. If President Trump or the DOJ exercises its constitutional rights to do so, the acting party will inevitably be attacked by the corrupt media and the left. [#2] The office of the "special counsel" is inherently a corrupt and partisan, cancerous growth on the U.S. Constitution. That made up office must be abolished, and if existing constitutional prohibitions against arbitrary witch hunts are not sufficiently clear, a new amendment to the US Constitution should be passed on an urgent basis to make it clear beyond any doubt at all. How the FBI Criminalized Trump's Transition. What do you call a system of government that cannot tolerate a transition of power without corrupt machinations by those unwilling to cede control? Banana Republic is a term that comes to mind. The Special Counsel was appointed to determine whether Russia colluded with Trump to steal the election. Michael Flynn was indicted for a conversation he had with the Russian ambassador on December 28, 2016, seven weeks after the election. That was the day after the outgoing president expelled 35 Russian diplomats — including gardeners and chauffeurs — for interfering in the election. Yes, that really happened. The Obama administration had wiretapped Flynn's conversation with the ambassador, hoping to find him saying something they could use to support their wild story about collusion. The outrage, for some reason, is not that an outgoing administration was using wiretaps to listen in on a successor's transition. It is that Flynn might have signaled to the Russians that the Trump administration would have a different approach to foreign policy. Head of House intelligence panel finds evidence of abuse in US government surveillance. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., told Fox News on Friday [12/8/2017] that his investigators have already uncovered evidence of "abuse" in the U.S. government's surveillance practices. "I believe there's evidence that abuses have occurred," Nunes said in his first interview since the House Ethics Committee dismissed allegations he had wrongly released classified information as part of the panel's Russia investigation. "We have had an ongoing investigation into DOJ [Department of Justice] and FBI since mid-summer for both FISA [Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court] abuse and other matters that we can't get into too much. But it is very concerning." [...] "I hate to use the word corrupt, but they become so dirty that, who is watching the watchmen? Who is investigating these people? There is no one." Stunning Report: Left-Wing Prosecutorial Crusaders Spied on Wisconsin Republicans, Defied Court Orders. If you aren't familiar with the "John Doe" investigation that rocked Wisconsin politics a few years ago, or are hazy on the details, go back and read my coverage of how the Left engaged in gross abuses of criminal law to intimidate, harass and silence conservatives in the state. The specifics were chilling — from pre-dawn raids on political activists' homes, to stifling gag orders preventing them from saying a peep about what was happening to them, all in pursuit of criminalizing and punishing the Badger State conservative movement. Eventually, one target violated his gag order and blew the whistle on the whole operation, eventually leading to investigations of the investigations, and multiple courts shutting down the witch hunts with extreme prejudice. It was a black mark on the state's politics, and it signaled just how ruthless the Left had become in its efforts to exact personal and legal vengeance on the political forces that had defeated them in a series of major electoral and policy battles in Madison. The Fish and Wildlife Service is out of control and we should all be concerned. The Obama era tradition of bureaucratic overreach is alive and well in the Fish and Wildlife Service. Using an endangered frog, the Fish and Wildlife Service is attempting to dictate how private landowners use their land. The saga of the dusky gopher frog is lengthy, but one perfectly illustrative of federal government overreach into the rights of the private citizenry. Protecting endangered species is part of the function of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, but a recent string of court decisions, based on a classic sue-and-settle case, has given the agency virtually unlimited power. And it's all thanks to a frog. Don't Register Anything. Like too many jurisdictions, Hawaii requires gun owners to register their firearms. Also like an excess of other control-freaky places, the state requires medical marijuana users to register themselves with the state Department of Health. As it turns out, those who dutifully abide by both requirements find themselves in trouble. Hawaii may allow the use of marijuana for medicinal uses, and even require registration of its users, but the state continues to regard the practice as a violation of federal law. Nothing About Collusion. There is a basic lesson here for anyone who enters government service: do not ever talk to the FBI unless your lawyer is present. Just ask Scooter Libby, who was punished for making allegedly false statements to FBI investigators. In the Flynn affair, there was no need for the FBI to ask any questions about the telephone chats, since the transcripts were available from the get-go. It is said that a skilled prosecutor can indict a ham sandwich, and a special counsel has even greater powers. Furthermore, prosecutors' motives are not limited to the pursuit of the truth. The "accomplishments" of aggressive prosecutors often have very little to do with the facts, but rather with the number of scalps they can hang on their war belts. Rare is the person who can insist on his innocence — of anything — if a special prosecutor is out to get him. The prosecutor can catch you giving an incorrect or confused answer to questions ... about anything. NSA wanted to use the Espionage Act to prosecute a journalist for using FOIA. Declassified documents in the Central Intelligence Agency's archives show that while the CIA was looking to include the Freedom Of Information Act in its war on leaks, the National Security Agency was seriously considering using the Espionage Act to target target Puzzle Palace author James Bamford for using FOIA. While Bamford has briefly discussed this on a handful of occasions, the declassified memos and briefings from NSA confirm that this was more than just an intimidation tactic or a passing thought — the NSA had truly wanted to jail a journalist for his use of public records. When the Agency determined that this was unlikely to happen, they moved on to exploring other legal avenues which could be used to punish Bamford for his FOIA work. Meet The Very Shady Prosecutor Robert Mueller Has Hired For The Russia Investigation. Long before Donald Trump ran for president or most people had heard of Paul Manafort, fabled Judge Alex Kozinski proclaimed a veritable epidemic of prosecutorial misconduct. The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times and even The New York Times joined the Kozinski chorus. Abuses of power by prosecutors have changed the balance of power in the United States Senate and sent countless innocent people to prison. Prosecutors have unbridled discretion. With the stroke of a pen, they can indict and ruin anyone, while they enjoy immunity from suit and are rarely even rebuked. Now, those close to the president have crossed the scope of a squad of prosecutors highly trained and experienced in abuses of that power — especially Andrew Weissmann, who just indicted Manafort and Richard Gates. When Clinton Donors Prosecute And Judge Trump Associates. In May, U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson dismissed a lawsuit by the families of the victims of Benghazi against Hillary Clinton. Judge Jackson decided that the families couldn't sue Hillary either for wrongful death or for defamation. That isn't too surprising as Jackson is a former Clinton donor who had been appointed by Obama. And a Clinton donor should never have been ruling on a Clinton case. But now Judge Jackson will be presiding over the Paul Manafort case. Presiding over Manafort's indictment is Judge Deborah A. Robinson. Judge Robinson's most prominent previous case was the Berger trial. Sandy Berger, Bill Clinton's former National Security Adviser, stole classified documents about the terror failures of the Clinton administration, hid documents under a construction trailer, lied about taking them and destroyed some of them. The Runaway Prosecutor. [T]he Constitution provides legislative, executive and judicial branches but makes no mention of a hazy, indeterminate branch of government called special prosecutors. Because ours is a system of checks and balances, not one in which roving prosecutors are given free rein to go after targets of opportunity even if that means making law instead of following it. And the opposition can be expected to respond in kind. Just as the investigation of Watergate led to the investigation of Iran-Contra. And now the investigation of this president's aides will lead to the next scandal. Because independent prosecutors seem to have as their motto Keep Busy — and tend to build little Justice Departments of their own that morph into legal empires. Now is the time to short-circuit this pernicious process and return to simple law and order. FBI agents manhandled Manafort and his wife during pre-dawn raid in intimidation effort. Just how rough special counsel Robert Mueller is playing with Paul Manafort goes back before this week's indictment — to the FBI's no-knock raid in July. It has been reported that the agents checked Mr. Manafort and wife Kathleen for guns as they broke into the Alexandria condo pre-dawn by picking the lock. A source familiar with the case told The Washington Times the search was even more intrusive: An agent patted down Mrs. Manafort before she was allowed to get out of bed. Lawsplainer: The George Papadopoulos Guilty Plea. The complaint shows that the FBI used a search warrant to get emails that contradicted Papadopoulos. The timeline isn't explicit, but it's possible — in fact, probable — that they had the emails or other evidence before they even interviewed him, and knew he was lying at the time. To convict on a Section 1001 charge for lying to the government, the government doesn't have to prove that you successfully lied or that the lie delayed or impeded them. They only have to prove that the lie was on a subject of the sort that could be relevant to the investigation. That's why interviewing subjects and targets hoping they will lie to you and thus make a case for you is a common tactic in federal investigations. If Papadopoulos had shut up and refused to talk to the FBI — the smart thing to do — he almost certainly would not be charged with anything yet, and could have escaped any charges ever. He had to plead to a federal felony because he talked to the FBI and lied, and then foolishly tried to destroy evidence. That is a feature, not a bug, of federal investigations. Robert Mueller's well-timed indictment. Special Counsel Robert Mueller plans to indict someone this week, we are told. Nobody knows whom or for what, but I know why. People suspect that a Trump ally will be indicted for something vaguely related to colluding with the Russian Government. We do not know any more details than that because we just cannot find any crime there. So why is there such a hurry to indict a Republican now? The key is that the indictment comes in late October. Right before a November election. There is pattern of October indictments against Republicans. FBI Informant's Lawyer — Obama Admin 'Threatened' My Client And His Career. A former FBI informant who blew the whistle on a high-profile bribery case involving a Russian energy company was intimidated by Obama administration lawyers into dropping a civil suit against the government last year, his attorney says. Victoria Toensing, the lawyer for the informant, told The Daily Caller's Vince Coglianese that Obama Justice Department lawyers told her client that "his reputation and liberty [was] in jeopardy" if he did not drop a lawsuit against the government. On Wednesday [10/25/2017], the Trump Justice Department released the informant from a confidentiality agreement, clearing the way for him to testify before several congressional committees about his undercover work at Uranium One, a Canada-based energy company that has ties to Bill and Hillary Clinton and their family foundation. Lawyer: Obama Admin Threatened FBI Informant's 'Reputation And Liberty' If He Talked During Election. The lawyer for the confidential FBI informant who exposed that Russian nuclear officials engaged in bribery, kickbacks, money laundering, and extortion in their attempts to corner the U.S. uranium market under the Obama administration revealed the threats her client received from the Obama administration if he didn't keep quiet during the 2016 presidential election. Victoria Toensing, the informant's attorney, told WMAL DC's "Mornings On The Mall" host Vince Coglianese on Thursday that under the Obama administration, lawyers from Loretta Lynch's Department of Justice (DOJ) coerced her client into dropping a lawsuit against the government last year. Federal judge rules illegal-immigrant minor has right to abortion. Illegal-immigrant minors in the U.S. have an unfettered constitutional right to obtain an abortion, a federal judge ruled Wednesday [10/18/2017], ordering both the Trump administration and Texas officials to back off and allow a 17-year-old girl being held in a government-run shelter to be taken to a clinic. District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan, who was appointed by President Obama, said during a hearing she was "astounded" that the administration was trying to hinder the girl, identified in court papers only as "J.D." "Despite the fact that she's in this country illegally, she still has constitutional rights," the judge said. The Editor says... Why is rebuilding after storms the federal government's responsibility? The hurricane devastation is severe. What should the federal government do? Give us lots of money, say many in the wounded states. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) demanded "about $150 billion" — just for Texas. So far, Congress has agreed to $15 billion in hurricane relief. But more will come. Few Americans will object. The House vote for the first $7.9 billion was 419-3. But let's take a breath. Why is rebuilding the federal government's responsibility? Nothing Makes Liberals Angrier Than Us Normals Insisting On Our Rights. I don't agree with liberals often, because I'm not an idiot and because I love America, but when they once again say, "We must have a conversation about guns!" I still couldn't agree more. [...] But we really don't need to have a conversation about our rights to keep and bear arms. They're rights. There's nothing to talk about. This goes for all our rights that the left hates, like the rights to speak and write freely, to practice our religion as we see fit, and to not be railroaded by liberal authority without due process. Leftists hate our rights because they hat |
