 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 The FBI raid on Trump's home at Mar-A-Lago 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 also a page about the January 6 incident at the US Capitol, located here Joe Biden is claiming a 'plenary' pardon power even kings did not enjoy. It's one thing to do as Joe Biden did with Hunter's pardon; make all past crimes forgiven. That was broad and bad enough. But what's being discussed now wasn't ever even in the purview of kings!!! We decamped from England over King George III's tyranny but even his tyranny did not involve effectively immunizing his pals for all past and future crimes! Joe Biden is claiming a right even kings never enjoyed! [...] It's quite literally unheard of and completely unprecedented for Joe Biden to actually do what he is considering doing for his deep state allies and fellow conspirators against Donald Trump and, by extension, us, the American people. Yup,
the Never-Trump Crowd Is Insufferable. Democrats Barack Obama and Joe Biden, both
together and separately, have undeniable records as presidents acting in an authoritarian/fascistic
manner contrary to the U.S. Constitution, using the machinery of government to help their own
interests and their own political party (and its members) and to attack the Republican Party and
conservative interests. Here are just some examples:
The Editor says... The Biden Administration's Prosecution of Dr. Eithan Haim. For Eithan Haim, operating on patients provides a welcome break from the federal criminal indictment hanging over him. Haim, who is 34 years old, works as a general surgeon at a regional hospital in Texas, dealing with ruptured appendixes, gunshot wounds, and whatever else comes through the ER. "Whenever I go into an operating room, any stress is gone," he says. "It's a beautiful thing." Haim's alleged crime? That he violated HIPAA, a patient privacy law, when he revealed that Texas Children's Hospital was providing gender transition treatments to minors after it announced that such services had been "paused." The U.S. Department of Justice has charged him with four felonies, which could land Haim in prison for the next decade. The revenge of P'nut? The sad saga of P'nut the Squirrel is far from over. P'nut's owner, Mark Longo is threatening legal — or other — action: [...] In the meantime, merely seizing and killing P'nut and Fred the Raccoon apparently isn't enough for the brave bureaucrats of the New York Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC). During their five-hour search for the hapless animals, they reportedly found a "short barreled AR-15" and are considering felony charges against Longo. [...] Few law enforcement officers other than detectives ever apply for or execute search warrants. It's just not a daily part of their jobs. They don't have the training or access to the forms. It's unlikely DEC personnel have that kind of access, knowledge or training either. That likely means the warrant was deficient on probable cause, which means everything they did under that warrant was unlawful. And yes, judges sign unlawful warrants every day out of laziness, malice, or because they trust officials they shouldn't trust. [...] From all media accounts, the only things the DEC sought were P'nut and Fred, and once they were found — how hard could that be? How long could that take? — the search should have ended. Newly Unsealed Documents Show Top FDIC Officials Running Operation Choke Point. Last week brought new revelations regarding Operation Choke Point, the Obama administration's effort to freeze politically disfavored businesses out of the financial system. Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-Mo.), who helped lead a multi-year effort to shut the program down, highlighted some of theses newest findings and pointed out that stopping Operation Choke Point is not a partisan issue. Luetkemeyer's legislation to prevent a redo of Choke Point — The Financial Institution Customer Protection Act of 2017 — overwhelmingly passed the House, with only two nay votes. Operation Choke Point was an egregious affront to the rule of law, so it is good to see that so many lawmakers want to prevent a repeat. For those unfamiliar, Choke Point consisted of bureaucrats in several independent federal agencies taking it upon themselves to shut legal businesses — such as payday lenders and firearms dealers — out of the banking system. Given the nature of the U.S. regulatory framework, this operation was easy to pull off. The Debanking of America. [Scroll down] And the list of the debanked, including the famous and obscure, grows by the day. Former first lady Melania Trump alleges in her new memoir that both she and her son, Barron, were debanked. "I was shocked and dismayed to learn that my long-time bank decided to terminate my account and deny my son the opportunity to open a new one," she wrote. (Trump's email provider also declined to continue providing her service.) Being debanked is a family affair for the Trumps. This includes the former president, Donald Trump, who was shut out of a Florida bank account after the January 6, 2021 storming of the Capitol. So was a news app run by Donald Jr. So was MyPillow CEO (and Trump supporter) Mike Lindell. But it's not just Trump supporters. Also debanked have been a number of Christian charities, including Indigenous Advance Ministries, a Memphis-based charity that does philanthropic work for orphans in Uganda, and Family Council, a pro-life charity based in Arkansas. According to Democratic lawmakers, many Arab and South-Asian Americans — who are considered "high risk" because of being Muslim — have been debanked, too. So why didn't onetime crypto king Sam Bankman-Fried have any problems with 'debanking'? Is there more to the Sam Bankman-Fried story than we have learned about from court records? A couple days ago, Elon Musk pointed out that 30 Silicon Valley barons had been abruptly 'debanked' without warning, their access to the entire banking system blocked, leaving them reduced to just cash-based transactions. Many were involved in cryptocurrency. They hadn't committed any crime, and they had no recourse to appeal. [Tweet with video clip] That's interesting, because I searched around and found no evidence that former crypto bigshot Sam Bankman-Fried was ever debanked. Would that be the same Sam Bankman-Fried who was the Democrat party's biggest donor, a donor so big his donations topped those of the House of Soros? According to Reuters, citing the prosecutors who get him convicted of fraud, he donated $100 million to political campaigns in 2022, nearly all to Democrats, stealing the cash from his depositors for the purpose. Did that guy ever get debanked? His rivals did. As far as I could tell, he didn't. Funny how the topic didn't come up during the trial. What Part of Mandate Don't You Understand? You understand, of course, that the federal bureaucracy is a perverse reincarnation of the old 19th century "Spoils System," an entrenched, self-replicating matrix of parasites. Both parties have nourished it, but the Democrats have made it their extra-special pet since Mr. Obama was in charge of things. He and his AG Eric Holder arranged for the DOJ to target their political enemies and for the FBI to mutate into a US-KGB, and that behavior persisted for eight long years since Obama and Holder left the scene. The malice all flowed from those departments, since any opponent of the Party's agenda could get lawfared, financially drained, and put out of business. The party's sole agenda, really, was to just feed the bureaucratic parasite, and grow it ever-larger and more dependent on the party in order to increase its power. In Re Peanut: New York Family Moves to Sue State Over the Killing of Beloved Squirrel. Peanut the Squirrel is back ... at least in court. The rodent has achieved fame in the last couple of months, which few animals short of Rin Tin Tin have reached. He is certainly the most famous of his genus since Rocket "Rocky" J. Squirrel. After Mark Longo and Daniela Bittner posted cute pictures of Peanut on social media as their companion and friend, New York officials from the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) raided their home on Oct. 30 and seized both Peanut and a raccoon pet named Fred. They proceeded to euthanize both animals. Now the family is lawyering up. Owners of beloved Peanut the squirrel plan to sue New York state over seizure and killing by authorities. The owners of Peanut the squirrel, which took the internet by storm after his "illegal and improper killing," along with his raccoon pal Fred, by New York authorities, are planning to sue the state, accusing officials of government overreach and abuse. Mark Longo and Daniela Bittner filed a notice of claim against the state after both animals were taken from the couple's upstate home and animal sanctuary in rural Pine City, near the Pennsylvania border, during a raid by the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) on Oct. 30. The claim accuses authorities of violating the couple's rights by taking the animals, invasion of privacy and trespass, among other claims. A garbage case goes out with the garbage: Jack Smith drops his cases targeting Trump. Was there ever anything fouler, trashier, stinkier, smellier than the six or so lawfare cases directed at President Trump durin his campaign? I'd say 'no.' [...] All of these cases were coordinated by the White House, with each prosecution team making trips to that temple for instructions. The White House even seeded an operative in one of the New York offices. They all came at the same time, as if to suggest that suddenly President Trump had turned to a life of crime — right about when he decided to run for reelection. They all employed flamingly partisan judges, prosecutors, and juries. Several were plagued with conflicts of interests and even flaming corruption from both the prosecutorial and judicial side. Some of the lawfarists were absolute pigs of no recognizable professionalism. They all sought to interfere with President Trump's election run, through an artificially speeded up court calender, illegal gag orders, and court dates prohibiting travel for campaigning. That was what it was really about, wasn't it? Trialwise, they were rigged against the defense, and denied President Trump key witnesses. The charges were invented, never used on anyone in the past, and they even changed laws in order to make those charges. In several cases, they employed massive numbers of felony charges and institute massive unprecedented fines. The 2024 Presidential Election Landslide. The SWAT raid on P'Nut's house symbolizes an out-of-control totalitarian government. Elon Musk grasped this symbolism in his pithy posts on X. Thus, Elon Musk and Joe Rogan called P'Nut's killing "proof America is no longer the land of the free..." P'Nut may be gone, but, with the election over, we can look back at the statist behemoth that killed him, and that may finally be reaching its end, leaving room for the Founders' vision to bloom again. Biden's Stasi agents (DOJ, FBI, DHS, CIA, et al.) egregiously violated the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and used lawfare to abuse the rule of law and due process in politically targeted prosecutions (i.e., politically driven SWAT raids, illegally entrapping patriots at J6 and not arresting BLM and Antifa activists for inciting riots in 2020). FEMA politically discriminated against people in the recent Hurricane Helene disaster while failing in its prime mission of disaster recovery. The Secret Service failed not once but twice to protect former President Trump from assassination. The Editor says... Don't You Dare Forget What the Democrats Did to We the People. I think now is a good time to remember the bad times of the Biden administration, and how much worse it would have gotten if Trump hadn't survived the communists' attempt to bankrupt, imprison, and kill him, or if Kamala had somehow "won" the election. In the past four years, we watched the Biden-Harris administration lead various courts in four, orchestrated legal attacks against Trump the oozed Soviet-style "justice." Joe Biden's Stasi yobbos raided Trump's Mar a-Lago home and took doctored pictures of supposed "secret documents" — which he can legally possess — when they weren't busy bloodhounding their way through Melania Trump's broekies. The Operation Mockingbird media lickspittles were quick to suggest — citing "anonymous experts" — that Trump might be passing on nuclear secrets to the Saudis, despite no actual evidence. A Satlinista judge then fined Trump and his son Donald Jr. $455 million for a crime no one could prove happened. The sickest part of Biden's communist lawfare attacks against Trump is that so many Americans, those who lack critical thinking skills, cheered them on. Trump Should Immediately Stop Federal Agencies From Hiding Documents By Needlessly Marking Them Classified. According to Sens. Gary Peters, D-Mich., and John Cornyn, R-Texas, who introduced a bipartisan "Classification Reform for Transparency Act" last July, the U.S. government spends $18 billion every year classifying information. "Over-classification," they argue, "undermines national security by limiting information sharing between federal agencies," as in the notorious intelligence failures before 9/11. American taxpayers, we might add, fork over billions every year in order to help their government hide information from them. Like so many now-encrusted practices in Washington, the classification monster is of dubious constitutional provenance, born of the metastasizing of the U.S. security apparatus during the Cold War. Just as foreign military interventions denied taxpayers a genuine "peace dividend" after the fall of the USSR in 1991, the intelligence agencies created to oppose the Soviet threat, instead of disbanding after its disappearance, spread their tentacles ever wider. The President Needs Less Power. Decades ago, Congress unconstitutionally yielded its legislative power to federal agencies (the executive branch). Congress passes enabling statutes that create the agencies that then formulate their own regulations over the economy and our lives. The agencies are now the lawmakers. That DHS spent its budget on immigrants while leaving insufficient amounts for American hurricane victims in 2024 is but one example. Commentators could not agree on what money had been spent and on whom. Only painstaking investigation might reveal the truth, while the other agencies continue to burn out of control. It is hard to determine or agree upon even so basic an item as the total number of federal agencies that exist. This bloat is compounded by the recent trend of presidents to operate the federal government by executive order instead of through the legislative process. The unpopular electric vehicle mandates, with far-reaching consequences, constitute one such example. May the Force be With Us. The movement from an administrative state to the sort of republic the Founders envisioned, should be easier as a result of recent Supreme Court cases reining in an out-of-control unelected federal work force. This week even the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals weighed in on the issue in Marin Audubon Society v. FAA, in which it held that the Council on Environmental Quality lacked any authority to prescribe the content of environmental impact statements, something it had been doing since 1978. Think! For over four decades this agency has been deciding when such statements are necessary (each of which cost thousands and thousands of dollars to prepare) and what they must contain while acting with no legal authority to do so. With regard to all federal agency action, every project's organizers and their counsels have been complying without the Court's challenging by examining the National Environmental Policy Act to determine if the Council even had jurisdiction. Had they done so, they would have easily discovered the Council had appropriated to itself powers it did not have. The lie of DOJ independence. The election of Donald Trump has set off panic in the Harris/Biden government. Denizens of the FBI and DOJ, particularly upper-level apparatchiks, are reportedly seeking fast, pre-January 20, exits. Why would powerful, selfless public servants, people whose only concern is for the rule of law and equal justice under the law, people who honor their oaths to honor and defend the Constitution and who live to protect Americans from actual criminals and real threats to national security, flee as from a pestilence at the looming second term of Trump? Because a great many of them aren't selfless public servants. Far too many are political thugs who have dishonored the traditions of their agencies, abandoned the Constitution, abused their power, and committed innumerable violations of law as they willingly, gleefully pursued the political enemies of Democrats/socialists/communists (D/s/cs) and the Deep State. FBI raids home of Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan. The FBI on Wednesday morning raided the New York City apartment of Shayne Coplan, the founder and CEO of Polymarket, Axios has learned from multiple sources. [...] Polymarket is one of the most active prediction betting markets, gaining mainstream attention during the recent presidential election. [...] "This is obvious political retribution by the outgoing administration against Polymarket for providing a market that correctly called the 2024 presidential election," a Polymarket spokesperson tells Axios. "Polymarket is a fully transparent prediction market that helps everyday people better understand the events that matter most to them, including elections." FBI seizes Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan's phone and computer after he predicted Trump win. The FBI has seized the CEO of Polymarket's phone and electronics after the election-betting platform successfully forecast Donald Trump's win. Shayne Coplan, 26, was targeted at his Soho home during a dawn raid on Wednesday, sources told the New York Post. The insider blasted the seizure as 'grand political theater at its worst'. 'They could have asked his lawyer for any of these things. Instead, they staged a so-called raid so they can leak it to the media and use it for obvious political reasons,' the source said. Coplan was reportedly not arrested or given a reason for the raid, but it is thought to be linked to his accurate predictions which outsmarted traditional polls. The Editor says... Trump's 10-Part Plan to Dismantle the Deep State. President-elect Donald Trump announced his plans to completely dismantle the Deep State and return the power to the American people. Trump wasted no time between defeating failed Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris and getting to work on fulfilling his promises before he called for a crackdown on the district of corruption. In arguably one of the most critical first announcements Trump has made as president-elect, he vowed to immediately reissue the 2020 executive order to restore the president's authority to remove "rogue bureaucrats aggressively." Second, Trump said he would fire all of the corrupt individuals in the country's national security and intelligence organization so that bureaucrats would no longer be able to target and persecute conservatives and Christians. "The departments and agencies that have been weaponized will be completely overhauled," Trump declared. Third, the incoming 47th president said he would reform FISA courts, and fourth, to expose the abuses of power done so by the left. Unsolicited Advice for the Left. [Scroll down] To the people who authorized the raid on P'Nut the Squirrel: P'Nut did not die in vain! I'm telling you that the Big Government drones who assassinated poor P'Nut only made the Resistance grow stronger. If they could do it to a defenseless woodland creature, or a successful Manhattan billionaire, for that matter, they could do it to you. The electorate took note and voted accordingly. Judge Throws The Book At 69-Year-Old Tina Peters For Minor Infraction Because She Believes The 2020 Election Was Stolen. Tina Peters served as the elected county clerk for Mesa County, Colorado, where she oversaw that county's elections. She ardently believes President Donald Trump was the victim of election theft in 2020. In an effort to discover how this could have happened, Peters teamed up with individuals associated with MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, also a believer that Trump had the election stolen from him. Tina Peters' opponents falsely alleged she illegally colluded with Lindell's associate, Conan Hayes, to steal and misuse the ID badge of a Mesa County employee named Gerald Wood to access the county's election system and to save a copy of the hard drive before a new system was installed. Indeed, Democrat Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold and Democrat Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser colluded to bring a 10-count indictment against Peters. Griswold and Weiser are two highly partisan Democrat activists who led the failed effort to throw Trump off the Colorado ballot, leading to a ruling that got reversed 9-0 by the Supreme Court. The two seized the opportunity to up their own political profiles by deploying Robert Shapiro, first attorney general for Special Prosecutions, and Janet Drake, a senior assistant attorney general in the Special Prosecutions Unit, which reports directly to the Colorado attorney general, to spearhead the effort to overcharge and railroad Peters. Escape from Psychopathocracy. In my state of New York last week, the DEC authorities sent a swat team to seize a man and woman's pet squirrel and raccoon and then killed the animals. Why? Because they could. How is that different from the DOJ swatting and seizing a grandmother for walking through the US capitol building and then stuffing her in prison for the rest of her natural life on misdemeanor charges? It's not different. They are both demonstrations of deliberate cruelty — and that's why the squirrel story resonated so widely around the country. You know exactly what it says: we can take whatever is dear to you... your pets... your livelihood... your freedom... your life. Win It For Peanut and Fred. Some stories take on a life of their own, and Peanut the Squirrel's and Fred the Raccoon's certainly did that. [...] [W]e all understand that the government raiding a home to murder a squirrel is WRONG in so many ways. The event is the grain of sand around which the pearl of understanding grows. People get this story: a Karen who was jealous that a squirrel had more Instagram followers than she calls the authorities, the authorities use a technicality to raid an animal shelter/home (300 rescue animals are housed on the farm) funded by donations driven by Peanut the Squirrel videos, four judges and countless bureaucrats mobilize to turn a home upside down to kidnap the squirrel, and then they kill it. That's government abuse in a nutshell, as it were. [...] Peanut, for instance, lost his mom to a car that ran her over. He was rescued as a baby and raised by this family. He brought joy to them and to millions. He wasn't hurting anybody. He didn't have and never would get rabies. Yet the government officials, prompted by a vile, jealous woman, killed him. Why? Because they could. They didn't care that no actual good would be done by their actions. They had a rule on their side, and used it to do real harm. Biden-Harris DOJ Weaponizes Hundred-Year-Old Anti-KKK Law Against Conservatives. A law originally intended to protect black voters in the late 19th century is now a "powerful weapon" for the Biden administration to target its political opponents, one legal expert told the Caller. The law is often wielded by the Biden-Harris Department of Justice (DOJ) to target pro-lifers protesting abortion clinics, the Daily Caller first reported. Last year, the Conspiracy Against Rights charge was levied against Douglass Mackey for a 2016 social media post and former President Donald Trump over January 6. "I was not aware of the Biden-Harris DOJ's abuse of this harsh conspiracy against rights statute in these other contexts, but I am not surprised," Stephen Crampton, Senior Counsel with the Thomas More Society, told the Caller in a statement. Two Brave IRS Whistleblowers Reveal How Their Lives Changed After Exposing 2020 Election Interference. Catherine Herridge is one of the only fair former mainstream media journalists that exist today. The recently fired host from CBS News sat down with two IRS whistleblowers to discuss how the government agency used its power to influence the outcome of the 2020 election and how the whistleblowers are being punished for standing up to what many would call a government crime syndicate. The interview with Herridge, which first appeared on "X" and was re-tweeted by "X" owner Elon Musk, reveals documents proving how the IRS targets conservatives and helps to hide evidence for Democrats. In the first clip, Herridge shows a letter from the IRS thanking agents for their "commitment to the mission which culminated in a great conviction" after Hunter Biden's guilty plea. "What you're saying is that within the IRS, there's disparate treatment of American taxpayers?" Herridge asked two brave IRS whistleblowers seated in front of her during a recorded interview. King Biden and Queen Harris Overrule Supreme Court on Student Debt Forgiveness. Please recall that when Harris was asked what she would have done differently than Biden, she could not come up with a single thing. She supports Biden's energy policy to ban gasoline engines, Biden's immigration policy, the Inflation Reduction Act, Medicare for All, and student loan forgiveness. She lied about supporting fracking, backed off that, and now the lie is back on again. Pennsylvania GOP Committeewoman Taken Away in Handcuffs For Encouraging People to Stay in Line and Vote. Pennsylvania GOP Committeewoman and RNC delegate Val Biancaniello was taken away in handcuffs for telling voters at a polling place in Delaware County to stay in line and vote. It is unclear if Biancaniello was booked and charged. According to Val Biancaniello, the Democrats were discouraging voters from in-person voting on Monday in Delaware County so she encouraged voters to stay in line. "I was just taken away in handcuffs at the Delaware County, Pennsylvania Government Center for encouraging people to stay in line and vote," Val Biancaniello said. Watchdog Says Admin Broke Law With 'Entirely Political' Email To Medicare Recipients. A watchdog group on Friday issued a complaint with the U.S. Office of Special Counsel, saying an "entirely political" email from the Biden-Harris Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to Medicare recipients should be investigated as a Hatch Act violation. The complaint cites a report from The Daily Wire about a taxpayer-funded email blast that was sent in September from HHS and praised Vice President Kamala Harris. The email went to everyone signed up to receive updates on the government's Medicare program, which is used by 66 million people. It featured a letter from President Joe Biden highlighting the administration's "historic reforms" to the program, attributing the benefits to the work of Harris, the Democratic nominee for President. Our Third-World Future. The attempt, earlier this year, by activists in several states to strike Donald Trump from the ballot on the grounds that he was an insurrectionist — despite his never being tried for insurrection in criminal court — is a close parallel to what South Africa's ruling party tried to do to Jacob Zuma's party. Both of these failed attempts at ballot removal were legally groundless, and they got attempted at all only because of strong emotions about a particular person. Unfortunately, the Democrat party has gotten much farther in its criminal prosecutions of the former president. If one is looking for examples of the misrule of law, then Trump's conviction on 34 counts in the New York hush money trial can't be surpassed. Western governments despise their own citizens. Thank God our founders were much less tolerant than we are or the past 248 years would have been much different for everyone on earth. They refused to put up with what they considered an excessive tax on tea, and taxation without representation in general. We are yet putting up with the forced genital mutilation of our children, the denial of objective truths, the attack on Christianity and tradition, the massive influx of illegal aliens who are "granted" more rights than citizens are, and the attempted incarceration and assassinations of our current government's political enemies. Oh, and we also have taxation without representation, as most citizens are vehemently opposed to the aforementioned agenda and "policies." As conservatives, we have no logical alternative but to accept that our own governments detest us. Like many other truths, this is not an easy pill to swallow. But it is the truth, and it is therefore necessary that we do so. It's the Great Reversal, Not the Great Reset. Everyone senses that the open border policy of the Biden-Harris administration, best described by the U.N. term "replacement migration," has been driven by a kind of unprecedented anti-American wickedness directed at destabilizing the United States through overwhelming our health and education welfare system and bringing on potentially massive election irregularity from a spike in illegal immigrant voting. On top of that, we have become the number one country in the world in human and child trafficking, criminal gang activity, and seeding our territory for insurrection and direct terrorist attacks — the latter likely to happen leading up to election day or shortly after that. Then we have the backdrop, accomplished just a few months ago, that gave a veneer of legitimacy to what was, in fact, a coup of Kamala Harris removing and replacing Joe Biden without a single vote — primary or otherwise — being cast. Banana Republic 2.0. It's the Great Reversal, Not the Great Reset. Not only have we experienced unprecedented unconstitutional abuse of government power exercised in response to COVID-19, 2020 election irregularities, and January 6, which has left our country in a state that has more in common with a banana republic than the constitutional republic that has defined us previously for some 230 years. Recent developments suggest that this could be a prelude to worse to come. The Three Layers of Culpability. [Scroll down] [R]emember that the signal weakness of Julius Caesar was pardoning his enemies. Since Mr. Trump is best known as a deal-maker, I believe he will seek to make a deal with the blob. The deal will be for them to cooperate in the prosecution of certain key figures in exchange for not demolishing their agencies altogether. Some of these people — Garland, Mayorkas, Fauci, Brennan, and Wray, for examples — really do need to do some 'splainin' in front of juries. That may be sufficient to clarify for history some of the damage the Woke insanity did to our country. We can't pretend that nothing happened. Our Current Government Is No Longer Constitutional. In Washington Goes to War, David Brinkley details how the DC bureaucracy exploded during the war, aided in no small part by FDR's New Deal. Today, notwithstanding that the Constitution makes the federal government a republic and, in Article IV Section 4, guarantees that each of the 50 states is a republic, in all 51 jurisdictions, the republican form has been eclipsed by the administrative bureaucracy that dominates the federal and state governments. These administrative bureaucracies are, in effect, a fourth branch of the government in all 51 jurisdictions. These fourth branches are wholly unelected, hence nullifying self-government. These fourth branches enact more laws than their corresponding legislative branches and exercise their own powers of prosecution, adjudication, and sentencing. Because the personnel of these fourth branches are appointed by the corresponding executive branches and their superintendent deep states, these fourth branch personnel exhibit a distinct cyborg persona, which renders them adverse to the human citizens of the states. About
whom is Trump speaking when he references the enemy from within? The media is having
a collective cow over the fact that President Trump said he worries about the "enemies from within"
who will pay a price for what they've done to this great nation. [...] Here is a sample of people
who Trump refers to as the enemies from within:
Difficult Times Lie Ahead. 2020 was a year of a Presidential election and the powers that strove to regain control of America's political system kept up sustained attacks using the "Covid Crisis" as a weapon. The reality is that many actions were taken illegitimately. I remember early on in the "crisis" when orders were being issued almost daily about masks, social distancing, and lockdowns that I kept asking myself and others "Where is this power coming from?". The truth is that sweeping seizures of power were simply seized. It was not authorized, just claimed and asserted. Few people dared to just say NO and those that did suffered consequences. The deliberate heightening of our fear and desperation was a psychological method to justify authoritarian control. The "crisis mentality" provided the lever. We were completely failed by our leaders, our journalists, the judiciary, our politicians, and many others. The New Patriots. With the federal government having passed over 88,000 laws and rules just between 1995 and 2016, today, it's almost impossible for the average American to get through a single day, never mind a single year or life, without breaking the law. In his book Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent, civil liberties lawyer Harvey Silverglate suggests that Americans commit three federal felonies daily without even knowing it. And that doesn't include the countless state and local laws or other authoritarian fictions that tyrants create. From a different perspective, consider this: In 1880, 30,000 prisoners were jailed in the United States out of a population of 50 million, for an incarceration rate of .06%. Today, there are 1.6 million prisoners in a population of 350 million, for an incarceration rate of .45% — and if one counts the additional 3.4 million others in the system via probation and parole, which didn't exist in 1880 — you get a justice system control rate of 1.45%. Are Americans somehow 25 times more criminalized today than they were 140 years ago, or are there simply more crimes for which they can be convicted? As any conscious person knows, it's the latter. The Government Is Almost Certainly Hiding Hurricane Helene Deaths. [It has been] nearly three weeks. The death toll has remained relatively steady, with a few people added periodically, which is understandable as bodies are recovered. But after 19 days no one can say how many people are missing. This is very odd. [...] With perhaps over 10,000 missing people — We the People do not know the real number. We fear there is zero chance the death toll is truly so relatively low. We have seen the pictures. We know tens of thousands of people did not or could not evacuate. We know that search and rescue took far too long to reach people. And we know lots of remote areas were totally wiped out, under 15 feet or more of water. Correcting Many Usurpations. The government had it good for a long time. As long as the people weren't put out, either by an economic collapse, invasion or the fake pandemic, they didn't much mind being ruled by an elitist conglomerate. All the elitists had to do was stay in their lane, but the idea of control drove them mad and into the arms of the communists who had been waiting for a century to practice their black magic on the population. So, we have the combination of capitalistic exploitation and communism to cover it up, the worst of both worlds. This is a critical time, not just for politics, economics, culture and immigration, it's also a critical time for the military. This is how the world works in a nation solely focused on fueling the coffers of the richest people in the world, who have no particular interest in the American ideal other than to divert as much of the treasury as possible into their own pockets. The U.S. government [is] now effectively a criminal organization. [Scroll down] It is, however, nonetheless true. Government as mafia. Turns out, Uncle Sam is a capo, head of an unimaginably vast criminal racket. Criminal racket definition: an act of organized crime where one or multiple people or entities attempt to earn recurring gains illegally through a business or businesses. Big Pharma come to mind? It is the largest donor to Congress (both parties). And what is the relationship of the Democrat party to Big Media? Unions? [...] Think of 'Fast & Furious,' a criminal operation if there ever was one. Brought to you — and others — by the Obama administration. Or of the Steele dossier, or 51 top intelligence officials swearing that Hunter's laptop was a Russian PSYOP, or Biden's quid pro quo with Ukraine regarding a certain prosecutor looking into ... malfeasance on the part of the Bidens. And then, of course, there is election interference. Our Out-of-Control Federal Law Enforcement Agencies. In March of this year, Bryan Malinowski, the executive director of the Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport in Little Rock, Arkansas, was killed by agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) during a pre-dawn raid of his home. It was an unwarranted and indefensible killing of a kind that should never, ever happen in a free country like the United States. Because we have a media that no longer serves in its traditional role as a government watchdog, this incident was not widely reported. Because too many members of Congress no longer take seriously their responsibility to protect the rights of those who elect them, the ATF has suffered no repercussions. Could the Hurricane Response be Election Interference? Election 2024 is weeks away. Donald Trump still holds a 2-point lead nationally over Kamala Harris according to the latest Rasmussen Reports polling. J.D. Vance wiped the debate floor with Tim Walz, despite election interference by Vance's pant-suited debate opponents from CBS News. [...] Apparently, there is no money for hurricane victims, especially those in the red portion of western North Carolina. Would government resources be more readily available if the flooding was in the Research Triangle of far bluer Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill? Or some other Democrat stronghold? Rural western North Carolina is home to Hillary Clinton's "deplorables." Why else would they be left to struggle and die with little government effort? Is this the latest Democrat ploy at election interference, not stuffing the ballot box but changing the voter mix, increasing Democrat voters via illegal immigration, and decreasing Republican voters by letting them die? [...] What is the circumstantial evidence of hurricane election interference? It is beyond incompetence, instead a deliberate effort to hamper rescue efforts. Jack's
'October Surprise' is a Dud. On Oct. 2, prosecutor Jack Smith filed a 165-page
Motion against President Trump that contains nothing new. The document will be revered by the
MSNBC crowd, but those people already plan to vote for Kamala Harris. The rest of
America — MAGA and undecided voters — will see it as more evidence of a
corrupt DOJ. Before we delve into the details, consider this:
The Editor says... Is The Biden/Harris Regime Sending Blackhawks To Sabotage Relief Efforts In NC? The people running this country are criminals guilty of crimes against humanity. They know these areas hardest hit are pro-Trump so they want them to sit in the dark and suffer so they can't get out to vote. [Video clip] FAA and the Biden administration proves it is out to destroy SpaceX. In the past week the FAA proved unequivocally that it is abusing its regulatory powers for political reasons, imposing much harsher regulatory restrictions on SpaceX while allowing other companies much more free rein. That reality became most evident first with the FAA response to the serious failure of one of the strap-on solid-fueled boosters during the second test launch of ULA's Vulcan rocket on October 4, 2024. During that launch something went seriously wrong with that booster 38 seconds after launch, involving an explosion and what appeared to be ejection of that booster's nozzle. Though the launch succeeded in placing its payload into the correct orbit, it required the rocket's main engines to compensate aggressively. Despite this, the FAA decided no investigation by it was necessary. [...] Instead the FAA decided anything SpaceX launches that doesn't work perfectly poses a serious public safety threat, no matter where or how it happens, and thus has repeatedly grounded SpaceX launches. Devils Prey On Angels. The government, especially the federal government, is a bully. Their bluff and bluster is an illusion that only works on the peaceful and law-abiding, who are inclined to do the reasonable thing and would do so in the absence of any government at all. [...] That is, until they witness for themselves the hostility of their own government, the heartlessness of it, the outright contempt their paid servants exhibit. It gets worse as they watch, stunned, shamed by their actions. [T]hey see their fellow citizens martyred in the most horrific ways, stranded on rooftops, children wandering aimless crying out for missing parents, with all rescue flights grounded, as if to starve and dehydrate them out of existence. Rumors suggest the government wants them dead, to confiscate the land for lithium that abounds there and pure crystal; things needed for battery and chip manufacturing; things that help satisfy their zero-emission narratives required to enslave the people in a power-starved future. Are they really that evil, their neighbors, their teachers, their fellow citizens? The answer is in Western North Carolina and Eastern Tennessee, where they've exposed their hatreds and made unwilling martyrs of one's neighbors, friends and family members; treated them like debris to be bulldozed out of the way, with troops frozen on the ground, helicopters sitting idle and those who seek to help threatened and their supplies stolen. For what purpose, other than to deny life-saving supplies to the stranded? This is the level of hatred they have for those not willing to accept their version of "democracy" which is spelled "communism." Slow-Walking Aid to Hurricane-Ravaged Red America Is All Upside for Kamala. Most of the areas ravaged by Hurricane Helene are filled with Trump voters. Asheville, North Carolina is a notable exception, but we're four weeks and change away from a consequential presidential election and two weeks away from the start of early voting in these hurricane-hit states of Georgia (October 15), North Carolina (October 17), and Tennessee (October 16). Two of those states (Georgia and North Carolina) are swing states. So I ask you... [Advertisement] What incentive do Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have to get Trump voters back on their feet when getting them back on their feet means they will be able to go out and vote against Kamala? None. Oh, you might still be naïve and think: People are suffering. Kamala wouldn't withhold aid just to win a few votes! [The same advertisement again] What are you, an idiot? To win a few votes, Joe and Kamala threw the Southern border wide open to fentanyl, killing a record number of Americans and abetting the sex trafficking of countless little kids. To win a few votes, Joe and Kamala want to nuke the Senate filibuster to make baby-killing a "right." The Government's Failure to Help After Helene Goes Far Beyond What the Media Is Willing to Tell You. Another day, another batch of news coming from the people that demonstrates just how much the government has failed the people, especially the victims of Hurricane Helene. Amid the heartbreak and loss, we've been learning that FEMA has completely used up its budget to the point where there's little to no funds for disaster relief, reportedly because much of the budget was used up helping illegals at the border. This isn't exactly common knowledge because the media isn't being forthcoming with this information. In fact, every time I mention this on various accounts, a handful of leftists pop up and tell me I'm spreading lies and that I have no proof. If you've been watching RedState's coverage, the proof is there. The reason the media doesn't want to cover this is obvious. This is one of the biggest government scandals in modern history, and one that makes the Biden-Harris administration look horrific. This is right before people go to the polls to vote, no less. The vast majority of the news and updates we're getting come from people on the ground who are having to deal with the effort to help these people directly. Tuberville on Biden Hurricane Helene Response: 'People Should Be Going to Jail — This Is Treason'. Friday, during an interview that aired on Mobile, AL radio FM Talk 106.5, Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) blasted the Biden-Harris administration for its response to storm-ravaged areas impacted by Hurricane Helene. The Alabama U.S. Senator said it was criminal how the federal government had allegedly misused disaster relief money to compensate illegal immigrants. Weaponizing Hurricanes. The other lesson of Hurricane Helene is that a government that is organized to provide something is also organized to deny something. That's pervasive through all governments on every level. The difference in whether they provide something or deny it is in the ideology of the people at the top. Were this an illegal immigrant camp, the response would have been much different. What we see from federal government today is the concerted effort to ensure that those at the top of FEMA, or any other entity, is a communist, with a hatred for the American people and the structure of the United States in preserving their rights. The Architect of the Lawfare Against President Trump. Today we'd like to introduce you — or possibly re-introduce you — to a man named Norman Eisen. Eisen, a Brookings senior fellow, Obama's former White House Ethics Czar and Ambassador to Czechoslovakia during the "Velvet Revolution," has been behind the ongoing Lawfare that has targeted Trump throughout his presidency, through the Biden Regime and into the present date. Eisen, who was also the co-founder of Leftist non-profit CREW or Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, has been one of the key architects of the Lawfare attacks on President Trump and he continues to lead the behind-the-scenes efforts to push ongoing legal actions against Trump to this day. Eisen played a lead role in the pre- 2020 election war games which just happened to predict a remarkably accurate contested election scenario that ended unfavorably for Trump. Eisen is also the author of the highly influential color revolution manual, the Democracy Playbook and was one of the primary forces behind the first impeachment of Trump. Tulsi Gabbard tells Glenn Beck she's suing Biden admin for placing her on terror watch list. Former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard said she is filing a lawsuit over being placed on a terror watch list after she criticized Vice President Kamala Harris (D) as being unfit to serve as president. Gabbard revealed her litigious intent to Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck on his show Wednesday. "The Federal Marshal's whistleblowers came forward and exposed the truth and provided evidence about how one day after I criticized Kamala Harris on a televised national interview, talking about how dangerous the consequences would be if she were to serve as president and commander in chief, the very next day, I was placed on a domestic terror watch list called 'Quiet Skies,'" she said. Biden Admin Uses Taxpayer-Funded Email Blast To Praise Kamala Ahead Of Election. The Biden-Harris administration on Friday sent a taxpayer-funded email blast to likely millions of Americans that praised Vice President Kamala Harris. The email from the Department of Health and Human Services went to everyone signed up to receive updates on the government's Medicare program, which is used by 66 million people. It featured a letter from President Joe Biden highlighting the administration's "historic reforms" to the program, attributing the benefits to the work of Harris, the Democratic nominee for President. Biden's letter touts the administration "lowering health care costs" for seniors and "save[ing] money for American taxpayers," for example. It says it's all thanks to Harris, noting that she cast the tie-breaking vote to give Americans these supposed benefits, and that Biden and Harris believe health care should be "a right," a common Democrat talking point on the campaign trail. Big government is a bully, not a friend — and definitely not a daddy. And there is no bigger bully than big government. "Big Education?" The government funds it. "Big Pharma?" The government is in bed with it. "Big business?" The government taxes and regulates it. And is in bed with it, too, in this burgeoning fascist oligarchy birthed by allegedly democracy-loving Democrats (and more than a few establishment Republicans). "Big Media?" Nothing but pathetic pajama-boy cheerleaders for Team Democrat. Big government takes the place of parents. Takes the place of spouses, especially husbands. Takes the place of hard work. And takes the place of God. Government doesn't like any of the aforementioned, because it can't countenance competition ... that could prevent it from growing still larger. If parents take care of their children, spouses take care of each other, hard work will eventually pay off, and God can provide meaning, hope and sustenance ... why is a gigantic government necessary? Answer: it isn't. And actually gets in the way of a life well-lived. This is why Democrats and The Deep State hate Trump ... and those who would vote for him. He — and they — pose a threat to their power over you. Waging War Against Their Own. With Democrats and RINOs determined to make fraudulent elections a feature of the republic, it's time for Americans, true Americans, to push back hard. This is no longer a republic. The inaction on securing the vote has ensured that fact. This is not a democracy, either, for the same reason. They disdain the vote and both sides are desperate to remove the need for one, eliminating the people's voice from the process. The government, in effect, encourages voting fraud by registering to vote those ineligible to vote through intentional acts. An "intentional act" can be perceived as failing to adequately vet the eligibility of the voter prior to registering them to vote. In all cases, any county, state, local or federal official who takes part in such acts is acting under color of law. [...] In this case, the DMV in Texas and other places were allowing illegals to register to vote when they obtained driver's licenses, also illegal, without the appropriate documentation to do so. Many of these illegals, pushed into our states and cities by a rogue administration in Washington determined to allow them to vote to secure an election by illegal means, had abandoned their passports and other identifying documents to purposely enter the United States with an undetermined record of previous violations of law. An act for which, alone, should have denied admittance. Mad to the Max. If anything like civil war ignites in this country, the sides will not be the political Red and the Blue but the sane and the insane. Now it happens, unfortunately, that the insane are driving the engine of government. They have been at war with the people of this land for years, depriving them of livelihoods, stuffing them into prison, breaking the social contract, wrecking the country's relations with the rest of the world, and belaboring the peoples' minds with one insulting absurdity after another. They comprise a bizarre coalition of the permanent bureaucracy, the Democratic Party, and the news media. The permanent bureaucracy includes its own machine for making war on citizens: the intel blob, whose tentacles reach into other agencies: Homeland Security, the State Department, the so-called Justice Department, the Pentagon, the myriad Public Health offices, and the shadowy clique that stands-in for a disabled president in the White House. The Biden/Harris Legacy. Regarding the Biden/Harris presidential administration, what will history record? I suggest that it is likely that the Biden/Harris administration will be recorded as highly corrupt and incompetent. [...] This administration has a long and uninterrupted history of promoting unfounded hate and divisiveness among US Citizens and of targeting its political opponents via lawfare and every other means at its disposal. Wholesale weaponization of the whole of government against opponents, the likes of which have never been seen before in the USA. [...] And then there are the open border policies, failure to address CCP hostility, and the Fentanyl crisis. The weaponization of the Intelligence community and corporate media to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story right before the election. Which in itself constitutes election fraud and theft. And then there are the horrible energy policy decisions, edicts regarding electric vehicles (and long haul trucks), and failure to keep an eye on the ball and follow through with infrastructure rebuilding proposals. A Note to the Temporary Oppressors. [Scroll down] Let me be clear, anyone in government, or otherwise coerced by it, who seek to silence or punish free speech, free thought or free association are guilty of 18 U.S. Code 241 Conspiracy against rights, which states: [Text omitted for brevity.] This is what I think of when I see videos of a sheriff's deputy standing behind two federal agents at a person's door wanting to talk to them about a social media post. The very act of a police organization, federal, state or local inquiring about an exercise of free speech is by definition intimidation. Any social media site who censor's an act of free speech is likewise a conspirator. To me, the response should be to look at the deputy and inquire if he is part of the conspiracy or if he's going to take the offenders into custody as the crime was committed in his presence. Get names, badge numbers and be willing to file charges on the spot. Entrepreneur Humiliates FBI When They Come to Intimidate Him — 'Can See the Shame on Their Faces'. To tell the truth, I don't know a whole lot about Jeremey Kauffman, who is listed as "an American entrepreneur and political activist known for founding and leading the blockchain-based filesharing project LBRY. Kauffman is also known as a vocal supporter and activist within the Free State Project (FSP) and a former board member." Has he made some statements on Twitter that have upset the always-triggered class? A search would seem to indicate so, with some calling him a pedophile, although my reading of that interaction leads me to believe that he was just being outlandish in his comments. So I'll say this: I'm not endorsing the guy or his viewpoints, but what I can say is that he posted an epic video Monday that showed him absolutely humiliating FBI agents who came to his home to try to intimidate him over what he has to say. The shame and defeat on the agents' faces seemed to reveal that they knew they were engaging in the weaponization of our law enforcement institutions and not actually working to keep the American public safe. [Tweet with video clip] FBI shows up to intimidate resident, ends up leaving with tail tucked between their legs. The FBI showed up at Jeremy Kauffman's home to intimidate him over some post on social media that he made and Kauffman totally got the better of them. They never even got to really explain why they were there, no less allowing him to turn his camera off. Because he refused to talk to them without a full name and they wouldn't give it because he wouldn't turn his camera off. I'd call it a stalemate but it really wasn't. Kauffman totally won. [Tweet with video clip] Eight Primary Forces That Threaten America Today. [#1] Power and Incompetence of the Deep State: The enormous, growing overreach of government to control ordinary citizens and their legislators is the monster of a bloated federal establishment. Americans are steadily losing influence, and the ability to hold the bureaucracy and individual bureaucrats accountable. Former Navy Seal Shawn Ryan describes it this way: One of the biggest problems within the country is the distrust in the United States government... I have zero trust in any government agencies... We have a government that's not functioning right now. How are you going to gain the trust back of the American people within the government? [Video clip] Daddy Government Is Afraid of His Rebellious Children. Dictatorships, monarchies, and constitutional republics, it seems, all love to turn their rulers into daddy and mommy figures. Why wouldn't they? There is a great deal of perceived authority and omniscience ascribed to parents. Who else could get away with answering, "Why should I do that?" with this one-two punch: because I'm your mother, and I said so. That's the kind of power that governments adore. How come we have to change our doctors and embrace socialized medicine? Barack: because I said so. Why can't we talk about mail-in-ballot fraud and stolen elections? Pelosi's J6 committee: because we said so. Why can't we exercise free speech and engage in vigorous debate? Disinformation Governance Board: because we said so. Why can't we enforce existing immigration law and secure America's borders? D.C.'s Uniparty and corporate paymasters: because we said so. Why should we elect an unlikable and incompetent politician just because she's a woman? Hillary and Kamala: because we said so. Everyone Hates Fascism Except the Government. Governments invest in the illusion that their power is limitless and that the people have no other choice but to obey. Whenever common people recognize that they are the ones with inherent power, the government's illusion of control is shattered, the system is upended, and a new era with novel organizing principles arrives. Seen through this lens, it is easy to understand why governments have a vested interest in stirring up domestic conflict. A peaceful and well mannered society might engage in respectful debate and start asking serious questions, such as: why should private central banks be allowed to print money and devalue personal savings? Why should America be financially squeezed by a bunch of multinational corporations that use cheap labor overseas and bully small businesses into bankruptcy here at home? Why should foreign investment houses own so much land and property in America when fewer Americans than ever before can afford to own a home? When government authorities use outside companies to censor Americans' speech and spy on their private activities, do such workarounds really trump the Bill of Rights? Our Future. In the current presidential campaign the Democrats' main issue is that Trump is a dictator who will destroy democracy. This from a Democrat regime that has turned law into a weapon against political candidates such as Trump who is currently fighting four felony indictments and as many civil indictments in the midst of the presidential campaign. Clearly, the Democrat Department of Justice (sic) and the Democrat New York attorney general are using law to interfere in the election. All of this is underway while one of the Democrats' indictments of Trump is that he interfered in an election by the way he reported a business expense. The corrupt Democrat judge presiding over this farce intends to sentence Trump next month. The double standards are extraordinary and go far beyond mere mudslinging. We are watching the party in power use the police powers of the state in an effort to control the outcome of an election. As for the Democrats' commitment to democracy, how strong is this commitment when some of them are saying that they will not accept the election outcome if Trump wins? Doesn't this make them "January 6 insurrectionists"? The Secret, sleepy, Service. In A Secret Service agent's breastfeeding emergency took her away from guarding Trump, my colleague Andrea Widburg brilliantly exposed yet another case of Secret Service (SS) incompetence so egregious it leaves the SS wide open to the accusation they're purposely creating vulnerabilities that will inevitably lead to Donald Trump's assassination. She also wrote about a female SS agent having a psychotic break while guarding Kamala Harris — perhaps understandable — requiring other agents subdue, handcuff and disarm her. Apparently, that wasn't the first time that woman had behaved in an alarming manner, but equally apparently, nothing was done. Widburg also wrote about a female SS agent who taped over a security camera at a beauty salon near a Harris event, the better to hide the SS's breaking and entering of the salon. Secret Service hints it wasn't behind salon break-in during Kamala Harris campaign event. The U.S. Secret Service has hinted it was not involved in the break-in of a hair salon during a Kamala Harris campaign event in Massachusetts late last month. The allegations of Secret Service involvement arose after the salon's owner, Alicia Powers, alleged that agents put duct tape over her security cameras and broke into her building by picking the lock. Security camera footage shows an individual dressed like a Secret Service agent approaching the door with a roll of tape and observing the locked door and camera before grabbing a nearby chair to put tape over the camera. [Tweet with video clip] Kamala Harris Secret Service Detail Break into Business to Use Restroom, Disable Cameras to Hide Their Tracks. People should become familiar with the THIRD AMENDMENT to the United States Constitution. It is there for a very specific reason. ["]Amendment III — No ¹soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.["] ¹I would argue the armed person protecting the president or vice-president meets the general guidelines for a soldier in peacetime. The U.S. Secret Service, assigned to the detail of Vice-President Kamala Harris, broke into a private residence in order to avail themselves and their contingents to the bathroom facilities of an American citizen without permission. The USSS covered the camera with tape, then picked the lock. Owner says Secret Service on VP Harris's detail 'broke into' her salon, used bathroom and left without locking the door. Adding to the U.S. Secret Service's accountability issue, a salon owner offered video proof of the vice president's detail breaking into her business to use as their restroom. "He was telling me that it couldn't have been them; it's not what they do. They ask for permission." Days after becoming the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris headed to Pittsfield, Massachusetts for her first fundraising event on July 27. It was that day, two weeks after a Secret Service failure had nearly cost former President Donald Trump his life, that business owner Alicia Powers said the agency had initially denied covering up their alleged forced entry into her Four One Three Salon. "I'm the kind of person that would have set up coffee and doughnuts for them had they asked me for permission," she told The Berkshire Eagle. "Instead," the outlet reported, "they taped over a security camera on the back porch, broke into the salon, helped themselves to the bathroom, ate the mints on the counter and left without tidying up the bathroom or locking the back door on the way out." The Editor says... The State Is Not Your Friend! Big Brother does not care about your safety or security. Espionage agencies do not care if their shadowy schemes lead to your untimely death. Central bank gangsters do not care if you lose all your savings in one of their financial bubbles. Pharmaceutical companies making money hand over fist do not care if you get injured from one of their experimental "vaccines." (Their government friends gave them legal immunity, after all!) Defense industry executives selling weapons to both sides of every conflict do not care if you end up as collateral damage. Politicians who are eager to replace their own citizens with foreign nationals do not care if you are the next casualty of illegal immigration. A Fly in the Ointment. We are being abused right now. There is no Commander in Chief, there just isn't, unless a president can grow six inches overnight or change the shape of his face and ears, the color of his eyes, from what historical evidence exists. It's not all that important, when it comes down to it, because the lesson learned is that the whole of congress, Democrats and Republicans, the whole Executive branch is willing to go along with the ruse, because they have no respect or sense of duty to the people. Where that is true, there is no limit to the degradation and defilement they are willing to heap on the masses. We mean less to them than a group of ants on the periphery of one's lawn, but should that group of ants begin to invade the picnic, there's no hesitation to dump a load of gasoline on the anthill and incinerate them all. Tulsi Gabbard On Terrorist Watch List? The Regime Is Getting Jumpy. Former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard may be on the watchlist of a secret domestic surveillance program designed to sniff out potential terrorists. [Advertisement] And it may be related, in part, to her willingness to speak out about Vice President Kamala Harris's shortcomings as a leader. [Advertisement] Undercover DC is reporting that several Federal Air Marshal whistleblowers have come forward with information showing that Gabbard is enrolled in the TSA's Quiet Skies program which has its own compartmentalized watchlist of suspected terrorists. [Tweet] The whistleblowers shared the information with Sonya Labosco who is Executive Director of the Air Marshal National Council (AMNC) after Air Marshals were assigned to Gabbard on July 23, following critical remarks she made in an interview about Harris, Presiden Biden and the National Security State. [Tweet] Labosco said that the whistleblowers indicated that, since being placed on the watchlist, Gabbard has had two explosive detection canine teams, a transportation security explosives specialist, a plainclothes TSA supervisor, and three Federal Air Marshals on every flight she boards. Everybody Knows the Captain Lied. The dice have been loaded for decades. The war was over in 1963 when the CIA, on behalf of the Deep State, murdered John F. Kennedy. The American people (the good guys) lost, and the Deep State won. They got their war in Vietnam. They got their Welfare State. They got guns, butter, a currency unlinked from gold, and the green light to create debt to infinity. The Deep State has consolidated their power and control over every aspect of our lives in the six decades since they killed JFK. They have used every crisis they create to abscond with more of our liberties, freedoms, rights and wealth. In addition to the never-ending wars created around the globe to benefit their military industrial complex, their wars on poverty, drugs, terror, CO2, and covid have enriched them and their lackeys, while exacerbating the very things they declared war upon. None of these wars are meant to be won. Keeping the masses in fear and ignorance makes them easier to control. Kimberly Cheatle gets an F+. [Scroll down] As so many have done in congressional hearings over the past year, Cheatle successfully stonewalled every serious question, refusing to provide any details that would illuminate the source of the Secret Service's miscues and failures in Butler, Pa. No one would have expected anything different. Her answers came right out of the same playbook so many federal agency directors have used, consisting mostly of "I can't speak to the details of an ongoing investigation" and "I don't have the specifics here, but I'll be happy to get back with you on that." [...] What we have seen over the recent months is evidence of a growing contempt by federal bureaucrats for the congressional committees that are tasked with overseeing their activities. They refuse to comply or answer questions with impunity, and when they engage in their obvious stonewalling efforts, they do so confident in the knowledge that although they may be embarrassed for a short few hours by stinging questions and accusations in a committee hearing, once it's over, they will return to their plush offices, fat government salaries, and privileged lifestyles, with no consequences to their positions of power or their careers. Can We Let the Voters Decide — Not the FBI, CIA, DOJ, Lawyers, Prosecutors, and Judges? When Donald Trump seemed to have a lock on the 2016 Republican primary, the Democratic Party concluded that the people could not be counted on to do the "right thing" of electing the Democratic candidate in waiting Hillary Clinton. [Advertisement] What followed were eight long years of extralegal efforts to neuter candidate, then President, then ex-President, and then candidate again, Donald Trump. [Advertisement] The nonstop efforts were all justified as "saving democracy" — albeit by nearly destroying it. [Advertisement] In 2015-2016, the Hillary Clinton campaign fueled the lie that discredited ex-British spy Christopher Steele had discovered Donald Trump to be a veritable Russian agent. [Advertisement] Hillary did not disclose that she had paid Steele — with checks hidden through three paywalls. The FBI, under Director James Comey, also hired the fraudster. Yet almost nothing in his "Steele dossier" was true. The FBI doctored evidence submitted to a FISA court. Comey leaked to the press confidential documents about his private conversations with President Trump. [Advertisement] Four factions vying for control of America. [Scroll down] The intelligence agencies have lethal weapons at their disposal, and they operate with impunity when their self-interest is credibly threatened. It is no mere conspiracy theory to characterize them as the puppeteers of government. Make no mistake: the dark state will not tolerate any serious imposition on its power. None. What will it do? Simply, whatever it deems necessary. If it cannot influence the outcome of an election to serve its interests, it can prevent the election from taking place at all. To accomplish this, a national emergency can be contrived, whether it is a plague, a war, a spate of terrorist attacks, or any other devious method. Any Assassination Investigation That Includes Merrick Garland Or Chris Wray Is A Coverup. [Scroll down] This is just a cursory recounting of the DOJ's many eager efforts in the last decade to act on behalf of Democrats and against equal justice under U.S. law. Others include the weaponization of DOJ's inspector general office; repeated refusal to disclose information to Congress about the DOJ spying on Trump's campaign, and Americans in general; repeated lying to secret U.S. intelligence courts to obtain permission to spy on Trump; hiding evidence from Durham's investigation of Spygate; its failure to give defensive briefings to Trump's campaign; its unprosecuted illegal leaking in ways that always help Democrats' and its "dirtying up" and doxxing whistleblowers who report Biden and other Democrat corruption. Oh yes, and don't forget the DOJ sending people to jail for pro-Trump internet memes. Merrick Garland Doesn't Go to Prison But Steve Bannon Does. The Supreme Court rejected Steve Bannon's appeal, and he must report to prison on Monday. Merrick Garland committed the same crime with a legitimate congressional order that Bannon committed with a rigged, illegitimate J6 panel. Bannon believed he had executive privilege, but that only works for Democrats. He wanted it delayed while he appealed the conviction so he could continue campaigning for Donald Trump. [Tweet] The one-sentence order, which had no public dissents, keeps Monday's deadline for the former Trump strategist to report to prison in a medium security prison, rejecting Bannon's emergency effort to delay it. Cast Away Illusions and Prepare for Struggle. All across the Western world, regimes are converging on the same form of authoritarian managerial technocracy, treating popular sovereignty with disgust and brooking no dissent. New legislation in Canada proposes life in prison for "hate speech." Britain already arrests hundreds of people per year for holding the wrong opinions. Germany's interior minister says right-wingers who "mock the state" will be preemptively ejected from the financial system, have their business licenses revoked, and be banned from traveling. At the behest of the E.U., Poland's new "centrist" government has cast aside the rule of law in order to arrest political enemies and purge the Right from all institutions. Some of these countries have written constitutions, others don't — it hardly matters. What they all share, along with the United States, is a near-identical ruling class of transnational managerial elites who believe they alone possess History's mandate to reengineer society. It's not fascism when they do it. See, what you have to remember about your garden-variety leftist is that they don't have a problem with the government dictating what you can and can't do. It's only bad when someone other than them can do so. [...] Violence from the left is never a step toward fascism because their causes are good. Nor is their attempt to stifle free speech through restricting gun-related advertising and thus gun-related publications. Nor is their desire for hate speech restrictions that would inevitably morph into restrictions that go beyond mean words and racial slurs. The right is so authoritarian, oddly enough, that they want all law-abiding citizens to have the means to resist a tyrannical government, but the left seeks to disarm the populace and their defense is that you can't beat the US military in the first place, so why bother? And they don't think that sounds the least bit authoritarian. Because, in their mind, it's not. Politically selective prosecution. In reality, prosecutors use all kinds of criteria to determine who gets prosecuted and who doesn't. Sometimes, that's informed by the DA's politics. A conservative "tough on crime" type might prosecute someone that a more liberal DA would let walk, for example. But again, as long as the defendant's politics don't play into things, I don't have an issue with that. District attorneys are voted on, after all, and people deserve what they vote for. In Manhattan, however, DA Alvin Bragg isn't trying to be subtle. He's blatantly allowing his politics to expressly determine who gets prosecuted and who doesn't. For example, we all know about Trump's prosecution for a crime that makes absolutely no sense. Bragg distorted the law and likely only got a conviction because of an equally biased judge. The idea that an internal accounting error, at worst, is fraud was stupid beyond belief. Then there's the flip side, where now people feel betrayed by Bragg over who he didn't prosecute. Trump suggests CIA was behind push to stop him releasing JFK assassination files. Former President Donald Trump spoke about releasing the files surrounding the assassination of President John F Kennedy in a recent podcast appearance, suggesting the CIA had applied pressure to stop some information being released. Trump appeared on the All-In Podcast on Thursday, hosted by Silicon Valley technology investors, and spoke on an array of topics, from his political rival President Joe Biden and their upcoming debate to suggesting that foreign students should get green cards after they graduate US college. The former president was also questioned by venture capitalist and podcast host Chamath Palihapitiya over a promise he made during his presidency that he would release files pertaining to the assassination of Kennedy that occurred on November 22, 1963. [Video clip] Russia's KGB and Ours. [Scroll down] If the Deep State is in fact dominated by the Soviet KGB, now known as the FSB, that would explain a lot. It would also explain why the Russia-gate hoax against Trump was based on Russian disinformation. I have come to accept the view of spy catcher James Jesus Angleton, the former CIA counterintelligence chief, who concluded the CIA was hopelessly infiltrated by our enemies. It turns out so was the FBI, which employed Robert Hanssen as a counter-intelligence agent assigned to catch Soviet/Russian spies, when he was working for the Soviets and the Russians. When you understand how America's Deep State has become a branch of the KGB, your view of America and the world changes. You come to better understand the no-war wars of Joe Biden and the failure to back American allies and confront our enemies. You come to suspect that characters like Hunter Biden were protected for years by federal agencies like the FBI and the IRS because he (and his father) served the interests of American intelligence agencies. I have been around too long to buy the excuse that federal agencies are just incompetent. Near Half of Independents Say Biden Uses DOJ To Target Political Enemies. New polling data suggests a significant portion of the electorate believes the Biden government "...has actively used the Justice Department to investigate political enemies with little or no evidence of actual wrongdoing." The data is troubling for Joe Biden as it shows a sizeable portion of independent voters — 41 percent — agree that the Biden government has purposefully targeted its political enemies. Additionally, even one in ten Democrats agree. [...] A large number of independent voters in the Ipsos poll also signaled they believe major figures in the Democratic Party played a part in pushing Bragg to prosecute Trump. Nearly 40 percent of independent respondents said they believe New York Attorney General Letitia James was involved in pushing Bragg to prosecute. The Feds Are Itching to J6 Us Again. The U.S. federal government has done some awful things. However, intentionally framing American protesters (including grandparents on pensions and self-sacrificing military veterans) as members of some kind of terrorist cell attempting to overthrow the government in order to distract attention from 2020 election fraud is nothing less than evil. In the years since that staged operation, thousands of innocent Americans have been harassed or arrested for their political beliefs. Hundreds have been intimidated into accepting plea deals that include multi-year prison sentences. Families have been ripped apart and left in insurmountable debt. Too many defendants have taken their own lives to avoid the financial and emotional toll of the government's malicious persecution. It is atrocious that the U.S. government has inflicted such ruin upon so many Americans engaging in constitutionally protected free speech. Why is the corrupt "justice" system intent on destroying so many lives? J6 Inmate Sues DC Jail for Abuse. A Jan. 6 inmate has sued the Washington DC Department of Corrections after a guard pepper sprayed him for removing his face mask to take medication in a September 2022 incident. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in federal court, comes from Jan. 6 inmate Ronald Colton McAbee, who's serving a 70-month prison sentence for allegedly assaulting Capitol Police officers. McAbee admitted to one count of assault last September and pled not guilty to five others — but was convicted by a DC jury anyway last October. According to his lawsuit, McAbee was sitting his in his cell on Sept. 5, 2022, when DOC employee Crystal Lancaster allegedly pepper sprayed him for removing his face mask to take medication. Lancaster allegedly pepper sprayed him even though DC Jail policy required inmates like to remove any face mask while consuming such medication. Government Raid Seizes $90,000 of Healthy Food Grown by Nourish Cooperative. There is a lot of fearmongering circulating in mainstream media about the "Avian Influenza". In parallel to the fearmongering, there has been a large increase in the number of inspections and surveillance. Creating fear would certainly help better maintain control of the food system, wouldn't it? On Tuesday, May 28th, our farm co-op was randomly "inspected" (raided), and over $90,000 worth of product was put under "cease and desist" by the state of Michigan, including all raw dairy. As this is an evolving story, I will share what we know to be true thus far. Nourish Cooperative is a farm cooperative that my sister, Sarah, and I started with a few other first generation regenerative farmers in September 2023. After several years of a steadily increasing demand for our farm fresh products (such as our raw milk, sourdough, and "needle-free" grass fed and/or corn- and soy-free meat), we simply could not keep up with the demand ourselves, which led us to create a "cooperative" (co-op) of several small, local regenerative farms. Unequal Application Of The Law In America Today Isn't Hypocrisy, It's Hierarchy. Over the weekend, thousands of pro-Hamas protesters, many of them masked and some wearing green Hamas headbands, descended on Washington, D.C., surrounding the White House amid chants calling for a victory of "jihad or martyrdom." At one point, protesters with tents set up an encampment on the Ellipse, while others defaced and vandalized historic statues, including the Andrew Jackson and Marquis de Lafayette statues in Lafayette Square. At one point, protesters [...] chased U.S. Park Police and Secret Service out of the square after officers tried to arrest someone, after which the square was completely controlled by the protesters. No arrests were made. The day before, on the other side of the country, three teenagers in Spokane, Washington, were arrested on felony charges for driving their scooters over a painted "pride" crosswalk and leaving some tread marks on the mural. As tempting as it is to call out the hypocrisy here — teenagers hunted down and charged for defacing a pride mural, no punishment at all for a mob of left-wing protesters defacing national monuments — that would miss the point. This isn't hypocrisy on display, it's hierarchy. Massive Government Spending Equals Broken Elections. [Scroll down] From state legislators to congressmen to senators, money spent by outside interests now plays the dominant role in who represents us. And if our leaders are beholden to outside donors to get elected, they no longer fear getting voted out of office. The result is that our government spending is out of control, and much of it is fraudulent, corrupt, wasteful, or unnecessary. And our elected representatives who vote to choose this wasteful spending continue to be elected. Open Secrets reports re-election rates of 94.5% for House members and 100% for Senators in 2022! How can the interests of the taxpayers and voters be honored when the campaigns are financed by those interested in the spending? The Latest On The Federal War Against Internal Combustion Vehicles. I'm old enough to remember a time when there were serious environmental concerns with internal combustion engine vehicles. [...] But gradually that all got cleaned up. Today the bona fide serious environmental concerns about internal combustion engines are far in the past. But the war to eliminate them — supposedly on environmental grounds — is just ramping up. The Biden Administration is all in with the plan to get rid of the ICE car. Why? It seems to have something to do with the non-existent "climate crisis." Meanwhile, Congress has passed no legislation authorizing the executive agencies to force ICE vehicles off the market. Nor is the Administration honest enough to admit that they are engaged in outlawing the vehicles that 90+% of the people drive. Instead we get massive and thoroughly dishonest regulations effectively forcing the approaching end of the ICE vehicle without ever directly saying so. Rejecting the Status Quo Is the Only Way to Survive. Americans want the government out of their lives. They want a stable monetary currency free from central bank manipulation. They want to speak freely without being censored online. They want to build local businesses without forking over profits to regulatory agencies that specialize in producing red tape. They want to parent their children without worrying that public schools are warping their young minds with indoctrination from the State. They want the FBI and NSA to stop spying on their communications and financial transactions without warrants or probable cause. They want Biden to stop issuing "green" executive orders that make everything more expensive. They want Disney and other child-grooming corporations to stop abusing young kids with their perverse sexual agendas. They want prosecutors to punish violent criminals and to stop targeting political rivals. They want the United Nations, the World Health Organization, and the World Economic Forum to shut up about most things. They want a free press committed to challenging government and corporate orthodoxies every day — not a bunch of pretend journalists and progressive poodles who do their masters' bidding. Should Garland be charged with lying to Congress? Merrick Garland recently testified before the House Judiciary Committee, and among other things, was "battered" over his decision to keep the recorded interview tapes between Joe Biden and special counsel Robert Hur hidden from the public. Garland has the audacity to say that no one is above the law, and his Justice department never considers politics in its decisions, but those statements are demonstrably not true. [...] Alejandro Mayorkas has continually lied to Congress[,] and has never been charged. Anthony Fauci has continually lied to Congress[,] and has never been charged. Does anyone believe that "politics" aren't part of the decision-making process, as Garland has yet to charge Jim and Hunter Biden for lying to Congress? The Justice Department has never cared about the Biden family business of taking kickbacks. Why would they change now? Former FBI director James Comey listed all the crimes Hillary committed, but let her off so as not to get in the way of her presidential run. Comey and others continually lied to the FISA court to illegally spy on people surrounding President Trump, and were never charged. The FBI never charged drug-running terrorists, instead opting to let them off the hook, because Obama ordered them to stand down for the sake of his Iranian nuclear deal. That is purely a political decision. The FBI knowingly lied to social media companies, a scheme to censor the information about the "Laptop from Hell" from the public just a month before the November 2020 election, but none of those involved in this coverup were ever charged. Isn't this election interference? What about Garland himself? He clearly is above the law. He lied to Congress about his involvement with the White House and the National School Boards Association on a coordinated effort to target parents. America's Corrupt Political Class Should Be Prosecuted, Not Trump. [W]ith the Trump conviction in New York, we may well have just witnessed the nadir of abuse of prosecutorial discretion. It's not just that a former president — and the leading contender to be the next president — has been convicted of a felony on dubious and untested charges. For all of the demands that we respect "rule of law" in the wake of the Trump verdict, it has become patently obvious that prosecuting corruption is not bound by law or principle — it's about gatekeeping. Those favored by our entrenched institutions get away with it, those who threaten unaccountable power do not. The Washington establishment has kept its Sauron-like gaze fixed on Trump in the hopes that you won't notice that nearly our entire political class is corrupt in ways that threaten the country far more than paying off a mistress and classifying it as "legal services." To understand how distorted the system has become, it helps to understand how Trump's various court battles stack up next to his political peers. Hearts and Minds. The almost automatic faith the government enjoyed through the Depression, World War II, and the years that followed suffered its first big hit with the Kennedy assassination and the Warren Commission whitewash. The Vietnam War took its toll, exacerbated by the draft and the treatment of returning soldiers. Since Vietnam, the government and the ruling class have destroyed sentient Americans' belief in their probity and effectiveness. Watergate, abandonment of the gold standard, double-digit inflation, Iran-Contra, serial financial crises, the Clintons' scandals, the dot-com bust, 9/11 and the string of disastrous Middle East interventions it kicked off, the Patriot Act, the housing bust, too big to fail, Snowden's revelations, and the rancid legislative maneuvers used to sneak through Obamacare set the table for Trump in 2016. His election kicked the lose-hearts-and-minds project into overdrive. Good! The Editor says... Americans remain sour on electric vehicles. The out-of-touch elites who want us all to give up our gasoline-powered cars also carry a tendency to want to control how the rest of us live our lives. They want us to abide by their ridiculous edicts: Buy this type of car. Use this type of lightbulb. Eat this kind of food. Replace your household appliances with what we think you should have. Their penchant for micromanaging knows no bounds. I think they have gone too far. It is one thing to insist that someone use an LED lightbulb rather than an incandescent lightbulb. In the grand scheme, this is but a small inconvenience. However, it is quite concerning when those in positions of power demand that we stop driving gasoline-powered cars in favor of unproven, expensive, and unreliable EVs. Trump the Citizen. The world continues to be riveted by President Trump's legal cases. It is easy to sit back and watch it all, and think that this happens only in the gamesmanship of Washington politics. Unfortunately, what the nation is witnessing happens every day, in some way, all across the country, deliberately, by mistake or mismanagement, from local county circuit courts, all the way up to state supreme courts and beyond, in ways big and small. (Federal circuit judge Richard Posner, nominated by President Reagan, said he eventually resigned over the way many litigants were treated in the court system.) The legal machinery of our justice system, combined with detailed rules of procedure, generally keeps a lid on the corruption becoming absolute, or unable to be challenged and corrected. That's a good thing. But the dangerous part, as in all human institutions, comes from the people in that system and how the legal machinery can be "hijacked" or taken far off course simply by ideology. An
Out-of-Control Administrative State Turns a Parking Lot into a Mine.
[Scroll down] But before we get to how the Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health
Administration (MSHA) wrested jurisdiction over a parking lot and ludicrously holds on despite
legal reversals, let us run through some examples of arbitrary administrative overreach, an
enduring problem over the last few decades:
You Might Be Living In A Banana Republic. Welcome to the brave new world that is the Democrat Party's Divided States of America. Where the people in power politically weaponize the institutions so dear to the preservation and promotion of representative democracy to hunt down and imprison their political enemies. Where kangaroo courts led by highly partisan judges host show trials to convict blind justice. Where Big Tech and corporate media oligarchs tell you what — and what not — to believe about the accusers and the accused. 'Intentional Misfeasance' Makes Show Trial Conviction Ripe For Reversal, Legal Experts Say. Leftist District Attorney Alvin Bragg's show trial delivered the Democrat Party's dream: A felony conviction against their most hated political enemy. The prosecution and the trial also were also littered with legal landmines and "reversible error" that should make former President Donald Trump's looming appeal a slam dunk, legal experts say. [Advertisement] Historical and stunning but not surprising to many who have closely followed left-wing lawfare in recent years, the 12 angry Manhattan jurors after two days of deliberations found Trump guilty on all 34 trumped-up felony counts against him. Judge Juan Merchan has scheduled sentencing for July 11, just four days before the Republican National Convention is slated to begin in Milwaukee, where the GOP is poised to again nominate Trump as its presidential candidate. He will face President Joe Biden in the rematch of 2020's mess of an election. Trump also is facing the possibility of spending the rest of his life in prison, depending on the vindictiveness of a New York judicial system that has already proved to be quite vindictive. Tyranny Is Upon us: Law and Juries Are Weaponized. Keep in mind that these are 34 made-up felonies based on how an expense was recorded by accountants and attorneys. Trump did not record the expense.The expense was recorded according to accounting standards. Keep in mind that a single accounting reporting charge, a misdemeanor, was magically turned into 34 federal felonies of election violations, if memory serves, the argument being that Trump won the election by misreporting the expense. There are so many civil and criminal show trials going on against Trump that it is hard to keep track of all the absurdities. Keep in mind that it is a case without complainants, without harmed parties. It is a case brought by a prosecutor who can show no party harmed. What is frightening is that legally this is a case for which there are no legal grounds for bringing it. Yet, the bar associations, the law schools, the media said nothing. Getting Trump was so important that law was sacrificed for the purpose. Trump's demonization made a fair trial impossible, and few jurors can resist using their power against a rich person. Desperate, Lying Biden May Abuse AI To Pull The Ultimate Race Hoax. Consider, if you will (even those who have been so conditioned by threat of defamation suit never to speak of it), the possibility that the Biden presidency was built upon a major deception: an intentionally stolen election that relied upon illegal ballot-harvesting, manipulation of voting machines and a hodgepodge of factors involving a vast network of intricate moving pieces, each knowing just a small part in the larger script so as to ensure plausible deniability. Open your mind, furthermore, to the theoretical premise that Jan. 6 was a false-flag operation intended to derail and deflate the resistance — millions of liberty-loving Americans who witnessed the crime playing out in plain sight while being told their senses were deceiving them and that their own biases and bigotry were the real problem with democracy. Imagine that the entire lawfare campaign of more than 90 felony charges against former President Donald Trump was little more than a political construct with no legal basis whatsoever, and that those waging this stunning affront on American jurisprudence did so with full awareness of their offense and the implications it may have, but were willing to stake it for their own potential benefit. And lastly, recognize that everything sandwiched in between these massive conspiracies was a series of smaller lies designed to blunt American voters' sense of moral outrage and indignation as would China's notorious "death by a thousand cuts." Bearing Witness To The Downfall Of Our Constitutional Republic. My friends who believe either that what happened to Trump was not such a big deal or that the rule of law is not yet totally corrupted because Trump is likely to prevail on appeal miss the point. Anarchy at this level in America is outside of any of our experiences. [...] What is it about New York City and the Democrat party, in general, that's got it in for Trump so bad that a politician can run for office on the single pledge that he or she will put Trump in jail, and no one bats an eye? That's what a rogues gallery of politicians or political appointees espoused, including the New York state Attorney General, the Manhattan District Attorney, and the U.S. Justice Department's number three, who resigned and stepped down to prosecute Trump in New York. All of us bear stark witness to something never before seen in American political life — the successful use of lawfare in to nullify a political enemy. How else can you explain the wantonness of New York's attempt to silence its conservative enemies? The Trump Verdict: Guilty. The dirty work of Crossfire Hurricane and the Mueller investigation failed, the Fulton County prosecution is stayed pending appeal, and Special Counsel Jack Smith won't get his cases to trial before the November 2024 election. But they always had New York — the State has made Trump and his company and his family a political target — and District Attorney Alvin Bragg came through with the early indictment. The target might have been Trump, but the real goal was to influence the 2024 election, no matter the shaky facts and dubious legal theories of the case. Democracy must be saved even through unlawful and unethical means. The enemies of society must be hunted, the obstacles to progress must be destroyed. Even when they're innocent[.] Especially when they're innocent. The Merchan Scale. [Scroll down] I do want to ask some of the more sophisticated readers of this blog, how they can watch this travesty of justice, this blind hatred for a man so great that every civilized method of justice has been thrown to the winds and they can still believe that this is not a moment when American jurisprudence has been utterly deflated in the minds of the people. It is a crisis of the judicial system, a moment when the DOJ and the White House have taken part in the vilification of a political rival, who have orchestrated crimes against him in open court and without a single sense of modesty or restraint that the people would not see that as an assault against them personally? Because that's exactly what has happened. Judge Merchan's Instruction to the Jury Will Leave Your Jaw on the Floor. Fox's John Roberts has since issued an update to his original "smorgasbord" interpretation of Judge Merchan's instructions. He posted, "It is more nuanced than that. All 12 need unanimity that Trump committed a crime. But the underlying unlawful means is a smorgasbord they can pick from — and they don't all need to agree on what it was." [Advertisement] What this means is that there must still be a unanimous guilty verdict, but the jurors do not have to be unanimous about what the actual offense was. There are three to choose from, and all 12 jurors don't have to agree, just so long as there are 12 votes overall. I'm told that's New York law in these cases. Even with this correction, none of the underlying problems with the case against Trump have changed. There's still no crime that the prosecution has defined, there's still no magic math that lets two misdemeanors add up to a felony, and there's still no getting around Merchan allowing the prosecution to do almost anything while shackling Trump's defense. Judge In Trump Case Issues Unbelievable Jury Instructions. Legal minds are beside themselves at how the judge in the Trump 'hush money' case has instructed jurors to rule — first in what constitutional law professor Jonathan Turley called "the coup de grace instruction," Judge Juan Merchan said that there is no need to agree on what occurred — and can disagree on what the crime was among the charges. "Merchan just delivered the coup de grace instruction," Turley wrote on X. "He said that there is no need to agree on what occurred. They can disagree on what the crime was among the three choices. Thus, this means that they could split 4-4-4 and he will still treat them as unanimous..." If Biden Wrecks Trump's Presidential Immunity... Democrats and their friends on the left are hoping against hope that the Supreme Court rules that Donald J. Trump possesses only limited immunity for his presidential actions and is thus subject to prosecution by the Biden administration as well as local and state prosecutors. As the ancient adage proclaims, be careful what you wish for. [...] There used to be a "constitutional norm" that immunized ex-presidents from prosecution by their successors. However, Biden administration agencies, including the DOJ, FBI, and DHS, have decided to ignore this centuries-old constitutional norm and wage widespread and unfettered lawfare against former president Donald J. Trump and his supporters. In doing so, they have fundamentally changed the rules of political engagement in America. Justice Department investigated conservative 'Moms for Liberty' in same manner as KKK: Report. The Justice Department (DOJ) appeared to investigate a conservative parental rights group in the same manner that it investigated the Klu Klux Klan (KKK), according to a news report on Wednesday [5/29/2024]. The DOJ's Community Relations Service monitored the group Mom's for Liberty alongside certain racist emblems, like a noose, the Confederate flag, and a Swastika. The same tactic was used when monitoring the KKK and the Oath Keepers, according to internal emails obtained by the Daily Wire. The Community Relations Service says its role is "preventing and responding to community tensions and hate crimes, bias, bullying, and discrimination." One way it monitored Mom's for Liberty was through NexisLexis and Google alerts. Tyranny by Any Other Name Still Stinks. One of the peculiarities of our own time is that so many people remain blind to the totalitarianism growing and spreading around them. Western governments have seized the authority to tell us what is true and what must be censored as harmful "disinformation." They openly spy on our phone calls, read our emails, record every Internet search and keyboard click on our computers, and monitor our social media conversations. They tell us which "politically correct" words we must use and which words are outlawed for inciting "hate." They have criminalized reading from parts of the Bible or acting with religious conviction. They insist on manipulating the value of money and rigging markets in ways that confiscate the meager savings of the have-nots and further enrich the well-to-do. Corporations and government ministers work together to spread the same propaganda. Mainstream news media operate as compliant mouthpieces for the State. Banks discriminate against customers due to their personal beliefs. Companies fire employees for not being sufficiently "woke." Prosecutors contort statutes into weapons that can be used to punish innocent people for their political speech. Why do FBI agents so regularly abuse their power? It isn't just the FBI that abuses its power in what is now known to be the deep state. So does the DOJ. Merrick Garland is perhaps the most unscrupulous of all. He should be held in contempt for all sorts of abuses. As we can all see, the Democrats' use of lawfare to destroy Biden's opponent is obviously illegal and unconstitutional. Judges Kaplan, Engoran, and Merchan have shown themselves to be extreme partisans, not unbiased jurists. Whether or not they've each been bought, as in paid off, to blatantly expose their own abuses of power for all to see, the fact is that there has been no justice deployed when it comes to Trump. The explosion of lawfare that has been launched against Donald Trump has exposed the criminality of the deep state like no other era in U.S. history. Our
Federal Government Needs an Intervention. The federal government is also prone to
mission deviation. Like commercial organizations, it has also been designed with layered
accountability to keep it on course. Government functionaries are expected to watch each
other, and whistleblowers are protected by law. Inspectors general audit government
operations, and can make criminal referrals to the DoJ. The three branches of government hold each
other accountable via constitutional authority. Our elected leadership watches over all of
it, and voters watch the elected leadership. With all that accountability, how did our
government reach a point where:
What has Biden accomplished in his presidency? Devastation. Biden and his sycophants in the media sing his praises on a daily basis, pretending he has been an effective president. In fact, all he has accomplished is desecration on every level. [...] Despite the ruling by the SCOTUS, Biden continues to forgive billions of dollars in unpaid student loans, leaving it to the working people who did not go to college to pay for the deadbeats and wealthy upper middle class borrowers who did. Biden has no respect for any court that defies his unconstitutional agenda. The weaponization of the FBI and DOJ that began under Obama has escalated to the point they are tyrannous, third-world agencies of a corrupt regime. The lawfare they use to persecute Trump is reminiscent of Stalin, Venezuela's Chavez, or Brazil's Lula. They have mounted Maoist show trials, complete with struggle sessions. That is what the J6 persecutions and imprisonments are, Maoist. They mean to break those of us who oppose their anti-American communist goals. Laredo Journalist Arrested For Questioning Government Officials Turns to Supreme Court. After a series of court reversals, Laredo-based independent journalist Priscilla Villarreal is seeking to have her case heard before the U.S. Supreme Court following her arrest by Laredo law enforcement. According to the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression — which is representing Villarreal in her SCOTUS appeal — police hunted her into silence in April of 2017 because they opposed her journalism, which was often critical of local officials. FIRE also argued that police "dusted off" old statutes never before used against journalists to criminalize her work. After receiving tips from private citizens and asking a Laredo police officer to verify facts about a high-profile suicide and fatal car accident, two warrants were issued for her arrest. The statute, FIRE states, makes it a felony to ask government officials for nonpublic information if the requester would benefit from the information provided. Law enforcement argued that Villarreal would benefit by gaining popularity on social media for publishing the story. A Worthwhile Reminder When Anyone Talks About Trust in U.S. Government. This well assembled video is recirculating as a reminder of what took place during the media hype of the COVID-19 alarmism. It's easy to forget just how crazy and insane the lying and manipulation actually was; this video captures only a small element of the demanded narrative. When anyone asks a question about why so many Americans no longer trust institutions or U.S. government leadership, the issues within this video serve as a mic drop. [Video clip] These same media voices demanded everyone accept the fraud of the Trump-Russia narrative; then these same voices demanded we ignore the truth of the Hunter Biden laptop; then these same voices demanded again that we adhere to their untested vaccine position; and now they demand we pay attention to their narrative around the fraudulent Lawfare cases against President Trump. The Making of a Banana Republic. It is a presidential election year and a leading candidate for president of the United States, who also happens to be a former president of the United States, is currently a criminal defendant chained to a dingy courtroom four days of the week — time that he should be spending interacting with voters out on the campaign trail. That's terrible. But it's only the beginning. The daughter of the presiding judge is a professional political operative for the presidential candidate's opposition party, and the candidate himself is subject to an over-inclusive and unconstitutional gag order. The George Soros-funded district attorney, who campaigned on a platform of prosecuting that candidate, only pressed charges after his own left-wing predecessor opted not to do so due to the frivolous nature of the charges. One of the Soros-funded DA's subordinates curiously joined his team, just in time to prosecute the candidate, from a high-ranking perch in the Department of Justice that is headed by the candidate's chief political rival. Jack Smith's Lawfare Scheme Under Scrutiny. Those who understand the construct of Lawfare understand the purposes and intents. Lawfare is an outcome of a radical activist pivot point that happened during the Obama administration. Prior to the Obama-era the radicals tearing down government defended the transparently guilty, their allies and fellow traveling communists. Those who were arrested for violence the radicals supported, were defended, excused and their activity justified. After the election of Obama, as noted first by author Jack Cashill, something changed; the radicals reversed their position. Instead of defending the transparently guilty, the Obama aligned usurpers — now with actual power at their fingertips — began accusing the transparently innocent. In the "anger games" era of Barack Obama, the radicals began attacking the innocent and using their allies in media as part of the attack narrative. George Zimmerman, Darren Wilson, the Baltimore-six, etc. The list is long; we tracked them all with detailed research; however, the theme amid every story was the same. Isolate, ridicule and marginalize the transparently innocent target and make them appear guilty. Will the Supreme Court Let This Crisis Go to Waste? Has the Supreme Court noticed that we've crossed a legal Rubicon? The Constitution — that thing the Court is supposed to defend — is becoming less relevant by the day because the left has decided that our mutual pact of self-governance doesn't apply to leftists. They have weaponized our government against us — using it to surveil, silence, harass, and steal from us. Our own government is even arguing that the Constitution should not be a constraint on its operations — which is precisely what its purpose is. Are the Supreme Court Justices beginning to realize that we are in crisis? Two recent cases indicate that they are awakening to that reality. False-flag Nation. Recall when Trump started his rallies back in 2016. Many of them involved some kind of violent fight or violent demonstration, with the media dutifully reporting that these proved the violence inherent in Trump and his backers. The only problem was these were leftist agitprop actors, and that was clear to most non-Democrat observers even then. Violence at an Illinois rally prior to that primary had Ted Cruz accusing Donald Trump supporters (likely cementing his loss). To this day one of the consistent charges against Trump has been his intention to bring violence to our country. Jussie Smollett tried to add to this farce. It ended badly. The Whitmer kidnapping hoax showed the FBI goading and entrapping a few suckers to get involved in this charade. FBI plants invented the idea and pushed it to happen. This to once again prove Trump supporters were violent lawbreakers. The RussiaGate scam was a false flag set up by the Deep State. These silly charges against Trump were manufactured by his opponents to make him appear guilty. The Trump Ukraine phone call impeachment came straight from Biden-supporting Democrats. America: Goodbye my Country. According to all available scientific evidence to date, the "Covid vaccine" has killed and destroyed the health of more people than the Covid virus. The corrupt "authorities" have done their best to cover this up, but as I have reported the coverup has failed. Still nothing is being done about it. Nothing can be done as long as Congress is dependent on campaign contributions from corporations. "Our" representatives are really representatives of those interest groups that fund election campaigns. Congress reports to them, not to us. The idiot US Supreme Court actually ruled that corporations had a legitimate Constitutional right to purchase the US government. This ruling converted a government that represented the people into one that represented the political campaign contributors. Has Leftist Lawfare Created the Police State Yet? Could it be that the average non-leftist citizen now feels both powerless and terrified to object to any of these injustices? They see the brutal treatment meted out to President Trump, his associates, and his legal team, on the one hand, versus the reverence for a president whose family has inexplicably received millions of dollars from foreign sources and for violent protesters who have magically escaped jail time, or of crack-using, tax-dodging Biden family members. Consider the brazenness and audacity of this administration, including its DOJ, over the last several years. Their targeted victims have purposely included some of the most credentialed, accomplished, prominent, well-connected, and well-heeled Americans, people such as cabinet members, generals, journalists, and even attorneys of those same victims. Other victims have been ordinary folk, such as people's friends, family members, parents opposing sexualized curricula at their kids' schools, or peaceful men and women holding up signs near an abortion clinic. Military Brass Stripped Trump of His Power as Commander-in-Chief on J6. The Daily Mail reported yesterday that whistleblower Colonel Earl Matthews said army leaders stripped Trump of his authority as commander-in-chief on January 6. He further claimed that they plotted to block orders to deploy the National Guard to the Capitol. He said they ignored Donald Trump's authority. Colonel Matthews told the Daily Mail that Mark Milley, then-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and then-Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy plotted to disobey any orders handed down by Donald Trump. They unreasonably assumed that the president would break the law and use the National Guard to stop certification of the 2020 presidential election results. America's Jenga Tower of Power. A majority of Americans believe that mail-in ballot fraud tainted the 2020 election, but most state and federal officials continue to pretend the results were aboveboard. A majority of Americans wish to put an end to mass illegal immigration, but the Department of Homeland (in)Security continues to do nothing to protect our borders from foreign invasion. A majority of Americans are worried about rising inflation, but the federal government continues to print and spend money and issue costly regulations. A majority of Americans oppose widespread government surveillance programs that intrude upon their privacy, but elected officials continue to give the Intelligence Blob full access to Americans' most sensitive records and communications, in total disregard for the Constitution's protections against warrantless searches. A majority of Americans distrust mainstream news sources, but prominent news organizations continue to push ideological propaganda at the expense of truthful and objective reporting. Swing States Are Using Taxpayer Money To Turn Out Democrat-Leaning Young Voters. Democrat election officials in Arizona and Nevada are using taxpayer resources to register and turn out Democrat-favorable young voters ahead of the 2024 election. On Monday, Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes, a Democrat, announced that his office is partnering with the ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge to launch the "Arizona Campus Voting Challenge." According to an office press release, this allegedly "nonpartisan initiative" is designed to increase voter engagement among students attending accredited universities throughout the state. Young voters (18-29) broke for Democrat House candidates over Republican ones by a nearly 2-to-1 margin during the 2022 midterms, according to estimates by the Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning and Engagement at Tufts University. FTC passes a law. The Federal Trade Commission passed a law that makes it illegal for a person to agree with his employer not to compete against them when he leaves. Usually compensation is involved. These are called noncompete agreements — a contract between two private parties. Why this is any of the government's business is beyond my powers of comprehension. The constitutionality of this ban also escapes me. Congress should make law — not a group of befuddled bureaucrats and a panel of politically appointed pinheads. Spies are the foundation of the American police state. Why does any country — particularly a democratic one — require 18 different intelligence agencies? It doesn't, of course, unless these cells of fetid political surveillance are also working with the growing list of armed security forces in America to rob people of their democratic rights and freedoms. Nazi Germany only had two intel agencies: the Abwehr, which was the state's military intelligence arm and the notorious Sicherheitsdienst, or SD, which was the Nazi party's own intelligence agency attached to the SS and under the command of Reinhard Heydrich, one of the most evil and ambitious men in the Third Reich. Yet the U.S. actually brags about having so many intelligence groups that most Americans have lost count. Does the CIA Run America? We've all surely had dark thoughts that the CIA is really running the United States, including many media venues. Maybe that's been true for decades and we just didn't know it. If so, let's just say that it would explain a tremendous amount of what has otherwise been clouded in secrecy. How would this be possible? Knowledge is power while secret knowledge is full control. Even fake knowledge means power and control, such as we found out in the phony Russiagate investigation early in Trump's term. They hounded the new administration for years under a completely fake scenario in which Russia somehow got Donald Trump elected. Yes, that was an intelligence operation all along, one directly designed to overthrow an election, a "color revolution" on our own soil. How dare an agency not elected by the people, and evading oversight and public accountability, put itself ahead of the Constitution and the rule of law? It's been going on for many decades as the agencies have gained ever more power, even to the point of forcing a full lockdown of America and even the world under false pretense. Sharyl Attkisson Confirms Congress Controlled by Feds. Ever wonder why our supposed Representatives never actually represent us? Veteran journalist Sharyl Attkisson shares what she's been told about how members of Congress are bribed and blackmailed by federal agents, the same kind of people who plotted to put kiddie porn on her husband's computer when they were threatened by her reporting. [Video clip] No, the government is not to be trusted. Christopher Rufo's book: "America's Cultural Revolution," devotes a significant amount of discussion to how those who work in government, at all levels, "...fortify power and privilege while waging grievous harm which eventually becomes the pretext for domination." The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which Sen. Elizabeth "Pocahontas" Warren shoved down America's throat, expanded its demands and power far beyond the benign intent upon its claimed initial language. It went from a legislative squeak to an omnipotent roar[.] And what of the IRS, the FBI, the Department of Education, etc? I could go on and on as every one of these benign well-intended agencies have morphed into abusive ones, which at times, have threatened our freedoms and even our Bill of Rights. If you do not believe me, ask FISA judges how they were exploited by the FBI. No, if you're here from the government, you are not here to help me. Lamentably, you are not to be trusted. You can be terribly harmful and often are. The DMV as an Allegory of American Decadence. I suppose that nearly every adult (I'll come back to that "nearly") has his own DMV story. The endless lines, the surly clerks, the insufferable atmosphere of bureaucratic imperiousness. [...] I can think of plenty of people who are going to have trouble coming up with the requisite slate of verification when it comes time to review their driver's license. Do you know anyone over the age of about 20 who still has his Social Security card? So how about the stay-at-home mom who doesn't have her Social Security card and also doesn't have a W2 or 1009 form? What then? Another thing. While I was frittering away that summer morning at the DMV, I wondered about all those important people in Washington whom our tax dollars support. Do you suppose that Joe or Jill — er, Dr. Jill — Biden stands in line to get his or her license renewed? How about your congressman or senator? How about other members of the nomenklatura that run the country, that is, that run your life (which is not quite the same thing as running the country)? Do you suppose that a Supreme Court justice, say, or a cabinet member, or a senior aide to any member of the political elite, do you suppose any of them wait in line for hours and then find they are insufficiently credentialed to deserve a "verified" license? The Editor says... 'Conspiracy Theories' Aren't Theoretical Anymore. There is nothing demented or delusional about believing our government would willingly facilitate the murder of a political threat. The actions of the DoJ in conjunction with the legislation proposed by the Democrats makes that perfectly clear. The plot to place Donald Trump at the tender mercies of a prison's "genpop" is not the only evidence of government criminal conspiracy. The ATF really did traffic guns to Mexican drug cartels to promote gun-control legislation. One federal agent and countless civilians were killed with those guns. The DoJ sought to remove a duly elected President — even to the point of the Deputy Attorney General offering to "wear a wire" to record conversations with the President (with cabinet support). The FBI really did set up some useful idiots to advanced their domestic terrorist narrative (the Governor Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping). It was a classic entrapment scheme in which federal assets planned the crime, and hapless stooges stepped in the trap. All this is changing our worldview and is causing us to observe our government with a new level of skepticism. James O'Keefe to Drop Bombshell Undercover Video Exposing Intel Officials. James O'Keefe on Saturday said O'Keefe Media Group (OMG) will be publishing undercover video of intel officials. "If I publish the video @OKeefeMedia has of these intel guys, you all better have my back," James O'Keefe said on X. [Tweet] Earlier Saturday James O'Keefe said elected officials are "afraid" of the intel community because they can use personal stuff as blackmail. "It's time to expose the intel community on video," O'Keefe said. "Elected officials are afraid of them because they could use personal stuff as blackmail." "Do not run for office unless you're willing to lay down your life for your country. Do not run if fear is in your vocabulary," he added. [Tweet] Biden Weaponizes the Federal Government for His Own Reelection Campaign. President Joe Biden has taken every part of the federal government and transformed it into his personal reelection machine, creating a hyper-partisan election apparatus out of supposedly neutral federal agencies. And American taxpayers pay for all of it. [Advertisement] Just since the beginning of April, several explosive revelations have surfaced that show the extent to which Joe Biden has weaponized the federal government in election matters. This should come as no surprise, as the administration continues to unfairly weaponize the federal courts against January 6 defendants, and state and federal courts maliciously prosecute Donald Trump, his rival in the presidential election. [Advertisement] The plan is as brazen as it is comprehensive, proving the Biden administration doesn't want a fair election in 2024. [Advertisement] A non-governmental agency (NGO) that receives taxpayer money — and also lobbies the federal government — encourages illegal immigrants to vote for Biden once they get established in the United States. King Deep State Sits on a Stolen Throne. Our First Amendment forbids Congress from restricting an individual's free speech, but that hasn't stopped King Deep State from conspiring with Big Tech to silence every voice deemed offensive to the realm. Our Fourth Amendment forbids nosy officials from poking around in Americans' private records and communications without first securing particularized warrants establishing probable cause that a crime has been committed, but that hasn't stopped King Deep State from rummaging through our emails, text messages, and bank statements or eavesdropping on our intimate phone conversations in the name of "national security." Our Second Amendment forbids the government from infringing the people's right to keep and bear arms, but that hasn't stopped King Deep State from restricting gun purchases, tracking gun owners, and disarming those he doesn't like. Dysfunctional and Dangerous. The government wants control over the people, because the people would not allow them to do what they are doing right now. Some 70% of the people want to close the border. Some 60% believe the 2020 election was problematic. Another 70% believe that the government should be cutting spending to stave off inflation. If this were a democracy, those three issues would be the sole focus of the government. What is the focus of the U.S. Government? Funding for Ukraine, funding for Israel. Why? To secure their borders. Even while the whole government praises "democracy" they have no intention of doing anything democratic. NPR CEO: You Better Believe I Partnered With Gov't to Suppress 'Misinformation' About Pandemic, Elections. I think we've discovered the qualifications that got Katherine Maher hired to run Government Radio. [...] She acknowledges that COVID-19 was a "novel virus" (true), "which by definition means we know nothing about it in real time" (also true). Maher also admits that we were "trying to figure it out as the pandemic went along" (also very true). And in the midst of all this uncertainty and ignorance even in the so-called expert circles, Maher's first instinct was to suppress debate and discussion in favor of the government line. Not coincidentally, that was also the first instinct of Maher's predecessor at NPR, John Lansing. And it was the first instinct for almost all of the national media in the US, too — to act as an arm of government to suppress debate at the very time we needed it most. Maher, Lansing, and other media and Big Tech executives involved in this Big Brother syndicate essentially froze that ignorance in place rather than allow for debate and dissent to test the policies and declarations of bureaucrats. Maher and others of her ilk aren't trying to inform Americans. They're trying to trap them in ignorance and indoctrinate them in Bureauspeak. That's not free speech. That's fascism, definitionally, as a combine of government and centralized corporate power enforcing the whims of the ruling elite. The Intel Agencies of Government Are Fully Weaponized. 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. 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. [...] The DHS, ODNI, DOJ and FBI became the four pillars of this new institution. Atop these pillars is where you will find the Fourth Branch of Government. Can America Survive if the Guilty Are Left Unpunished? When I say a reckoning is necessary, I am not condoning violence. But history has shown us that if humans don't pay a price for their crimes, violence will likely become that last resort. I hope it never comes to that. We as a nation are well beyond asking questions like, "Why are MAGA grannies getting busted for a peaceful 10-minute walk in the Capitol, but Antifa and BLM were allowed to burn the nation with near impunity?" Then there was that whole censoring-Americans-on-social-media thing, when the CIA, FBI, and other governmental agencies convinced social media companies to shut down people who dared challenge the notion that COVID vaccines and masks made a difference. We sat still as eight Trump associates were sentenced to prison (not to mention the DOJ's maniacal efforts to send Trump as well). Yet, the Biden Crime Family still hasn't been charged despite the overwhelming evidence of bribery and influence peddling against them. [...] We sat still as eight Trump associates were sentenced to prison (not to mention the DOJ's maniacal efforts to send Trump as well). Yet, the Biden Crime Family still hasn't been charged despite the overwhelming evidence of bribery and influence peddling against them. Ex CIA/FBI Agent Caught On Undercover Cam Admitting They Set Up People Including Alex Jones To Take All His Money. Gavin O'Blennis worked for the FBI, followed by Homeland Security, and now works for the CIA. O'Blennis spoke to an undercover reporter about his employers' involvement with Alex Jones and his legal battles and that the FBI "did what [they] wanted" with him and "took his money away" and "chopped his legs off." He later clarified that the goal was to "pretty much" bankrupt him and that although the FBI was after him "hardcore" he is no longer on their radar because he is "broke." "We did what we wanted and took his money away. We shut him up for a while," O'Blennis said. [Video clip] Democrats Slip and Accidentally Confirm the Campaign Is All About Throwing Trump in Prison. Oops. Democrats just said the quiet part out loud about their lawfare campaign against Donald Trump, his lawyers, associates, and former aides leading to the 2024 presidential election. Since Democrats and their fellow travelers in the Department of "Justice" first pushed the cascade of questionable cases, the political left continues to maintain that Trump is just a bad guy who did bad things leading up to, during, and after the 2020 presidential election. All stories, comments, and the like assume that Donald Trump has done something horrible and should be thrown in jail. Orange Man bad. Sure, the forces going after Trump worked with the Biden Administration to coordinate at least some of these cases, but these cases had to take jerry-rigged convolutions to get us to where we are right now. Biden Admin Issues Rule To Thwart Trump Ability To Fire Biden Executive Branch Holdovers If He Wins. One of the things that frustrated me about Trump's (first?) term was his seeming complete indifference to #TheResistance that manifested before he even took office. Unelected bureaucrats working in the ridiculously invasive executive branch's many agencies, publicly declared war on him, and he ... well, he did nothing. Until the final year of his presidency when he seemed to finally take aim at the problem in his own branch of government — we can call it the deep state, the resistance, the entrenched bureaucrats who oversee far too much policy in America and who are, apparently, answerable to no one. Not the voter, not the president. So then-president Trump launched Schedule F in late October 2020, a new rule that would allow the sitting and duly-elected president to have a say in who ran and worked in his own (overly large, sprawling, and ridiculously intrusive) branch of the federal government. Chanel Rion on Ashley Biden Diary Investigation: The SDNY Is Biden's Personal Gestapo. The Department of Injustice is playing cleanup for the Biden family of perverts, and you are paying for it. Case in point, on April 3, 2024, the DOJ asked a Southern district of New York, Judge, to sentence a single mother of two, Aimee Harris, to 10 months in prison for having found first daughter, Ashley Biden's diary, in a Florida halfway house. Immediately after this announcement, I noticed something strange. The news media, dutifully parroted the DOJ's exact language from their press release, describing the situation and labeling the woman who found the diary as the Diary Thief, describing it as a "diary thief", referring to it as "a stolen diary." To be clear, this is not a story about some perverted diary of another drug addict Biden family member. This is a much bigger and more disturbing trend. The DOJ and the Southern District of New York have this habit of it, of going after the people who expose the crimes, not the people who commit them. Vectoring Dangerously. [Scroll down] While all that is churning things up, the next round of Trump trials are set to kick off in Alvin Bragg's New York and Fani Willis's Fulton County (Atlanta), GA. Both cases have publicly wrecked themselves. In the New York case, you have the daughter of Judge Juan Merchan, Loren Merchan, 37, a Democratic Party consultant who has multi-million-dollar contracts with Rep. Adam Schiff, the nation's leading RussiaGate hoaxer, and working partner of former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, a chief witness in the matter of a hush-money payment made to porn-star Stormy Daniels (hush money, you might note, not being illegal). Any political motivation to see in that cast of characters? And that is apart from the sheer bullshit nature of the case, as packaged for Mr. Bragg by US Attorney Matthew Colangelo, who was swapped out of the Main DOJ HQ in Blobville to the office of Soros-connected DA Bragg in Manhattan specifically to engineer a political prosecution. Emergencies: on the misuse of government powers. We find that the more advantages emergency constitutions confer to the executive, the higher the number of people killed as a consequence of a natural disaster, controlling for its severity. As this is an unexpected result, we discuss a number of potential explanations, the most plausible being that governments use natural disasters as a pretext to enhance their power. Furthermore, the easier it is to call a state of emergency, the larger the negative effects on basic human rights. Interestingly, presidential democracies are better able to cope with natural disasters than parliamentary ones in terms of lives saved, whereas autocracies do significantly worse in the sense that empowerment rights seriously suffer in the aftermath of a disaster. Partisan Intelligence Activism Will Reemerge in 2024. U.S. intelligence personnel likely will resume the activism they prominently displayed in 2016-2021 as the presidential campaign season deepens. They then were driven by ideology and special interests, which now are stronger. Many of the former senior intelligence officers then critical of Donald Trump have badly damaged their credibility, so new politicizers with new messages may emerge, especially after July, when Trump presumably will be formally renominated. The agencies themselves, as matters of policy, will not be activist. The culprits will be former intelligence officers with deeply partisan views, who have few restrictions on their public activities, and current employees who leak. Agency leaders do not directly control these activities, but some past and current leaders established policies that continue to strongly encourage tendencies toward political activism. DOJ engaged in conflicts of interest, helping Hunter Biden defense, whistleblower's attorney claims. An attorney for one of the two IRS whistleblowers who alleged a Justice Department cover-up in the tax investigation of Hunter Biden accused Attorney General Merrick Garland Thursday of allowing conflicts of interests that have led to alleged retaliation against his clients — and prosecutors aiding the president's son in criminal cases. In a letter obtained by The [New York] Post, Empower Oversight president Tristan Leavitt demanded Garland "put a stop" to any retaliation against the IRS agents and eliminate conflicts of interest related to cases involving the first son. "On issues related to the whistleblowers, Department attorneys and Hunter Biden's attorneys are simply not adversarial in these cases," Leavitt said. "They are acting as if they are on the same side." Blue-city prosecutors and their lynch mobs. This week, 47-year-old Kimberly Zapata learned that she may spend years in prison for exposing weaknesses in Wisconsin's election system. Zapata was the deputy director of the Milwaukee Election Commission, and she saw a major vulnerability in the system: anyone in Wisconsin could easily obtain military absentee ballots — real ones — simply by requesting them. And once people acquired those ballots, they could use them without satisfying the normal ID requirements. How easy was it to get military ballots? To get three nice new ones, Zapata merely went to the public website ("My Vote Wisconsin") and entered three phony names, three made-up Social Security numbers, and a phony mailing address. Zapata did not need to use any special passwords or equipment. It is obvious that Zapata wasn't trying to alter election results. Bureaucrats Control the Show. Bureaus and agencies administer the laws and regulations passed by Congress. They also administer executive orders issued by the President. They were created out of necessity. No one man or woman can effectively oversee the daily control necessary to ensure the laws and rules are carried out. The people that manage these departments are not elected. They have been hired based on experience or favoritism. They have been appointed based on nepotism or party affiliation. In most cases the actual controlling management have been on the job for a long period of time. They are skilled at managing and manipulating the established system as well as maintaining a protective shield against political climate change. They know which way the wind blows. As a result of the embedded bureaucratic structure, elected officials such as congressmen, governors, mayors, and even presidents are at the mercy of those who run and control these bureaus and agencies. The FBI's Otherwise Illegal Activity. [Scroll down] The U.S. government document is entitled "The Attorney General's Guidelines on Federal Bureau of Investigation Undercover Operations." Those guidelines importantly mention that FBI operations might involve local police or "local law enforcement agency working under the direction and control of the FBI." Additionally, the guidelines mention that the FBI is apparently allowed to secretly own and operate businesses and corporations, make "untrue representations" of other peoples' actions, and engage "in activity having a significant effect on or constituting a significant intrusion into the legitimate operation of a Federal, state, or local governmental entity." Does the FBI "engage in activity having a significant effect on" juries, U.S. Congress, the presidency, or the Supreme Court? Does the FBI engage "in activity having a significant effect on or constituting a significant intrusion into the legitimate" national and local elections? The FBI guidelines apparently also suggest employees and cooperators might "supply falsely sworn testimony or false documentation in any legal or administrative proceeding" and the FBI and others might commit "otherwise illegal activity," apparently including "violence or physical injury to individuals or a significant risk of financial loss." Those guidelines on FBI operations seem to imply that there are many people in cities throughout America employed as secret government operatives who present themselves as everyday citizens but might actually be participating in schemes or "mitigating opportunities." Trump's Third Act has begun. The gears of the machine have become visible. We can all see the FBI is rotten and the DOJ is weaponized. We know the border is open intentionally. We know the cartels are working with our government. We know our elections are DESIGNED to not be auditable and there's only one reason for it. We can see Biden is not in charge. We know the Ukraine war was always about its energy resources and who gets to own them. We know our rising debt is ruinous. We know our experts are liars. We know our pharma and food industries are poisoning us. We know our government is racist. We know the corporate media is essentially owned by Democrats who are controlled by intelligence entities and they are actively brainwashing the population. Fairness for Trump? Former President Donald Trump has just days to come up with a bond, a nearly half-billion-dollar bond, to ensure that he will pay the outrageously excessive judgment against him in the lawsuit filed by New York's Democratic attorney general, Letitia James. Nailing Trump has been a longtime goal for James — in her campaign for state attorney general, she pledged to "bring him down." Now, with the help of a compliant judge — in New York, Trump did not have the right to a jury trial — James is threatening to confiscate Trump's assets before he is even able to appeal the verdict against him. It's happening because under New York law, James can force Trump to put up the whole judgment, $454 million, before he can appeal. And if Trump doesn't produce the cash or secure a bond for the money, James can seize his assets and sell them off. That is all before an appeals court can review the highly questionable proceeding against Trump. What Was the CIA Doing at the January 6 Riot? It was like old home week for the alphabet agencies at their reunion at the U.S. Capitol riot on January 6, 2021. In addition to all kinds of feds, assets, narcs, PCs, informants, and other characters from the Department of Defense, FBI, Department of Homeland Security, ATF, and the Department of Justice, you can add CIA to the party. What were they doing there? What a fantastic question. Judicial Watch sued in federal court to uncover January 6 documents relating to "records and communications regarding shots being fired inside the U.S. Capitol, as well as requests for Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Special Response Team assistance on January 6, 2021." Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch wondered what the agency, which is not allowed to operate domestically, was doing there. ["]Why didn't the Pelosi January 6 commission, as corrupt as it was, not disclose the CIA involvement? What were they used for? Were they investigating foreign intelligence operations? Were they investigating American citizens? What else have they done related to January 6?["] Judicial Watch received ATF documents showing that the CIA had multiple operators there that day. Biden Now Publicly Engaging in Election Interference, 100 Percent Impossible to Deny. President Joe Biden can attempt to deny that he has now publicly engaged in election interference, but no thinking American voter is going to buy that argument. Of course, he was only following in the footsteps of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, who in a Senate floor speech on Thursday said that it was time for new elections in Israel. "As a lifelong supporter of Israel, it has become clear to me: The Netanyahu coalition no longer fits the needs of Israel after Oct. 7," Schumer said, referring to the attack by Hamas that targeted and killed hundred of Israeli civilians and took hundreds more captive, according to The Hill. "The world has changed — radically — since then, and the Israeli people are being stifled right now by a governing vision that is stuck in the past," he added. New America: Guilty Until Further Notice. Americans might wrongly think the law enforcement phrase "potential threat" or "risk to the public" only refers to the jihadist or gangster. Many are probably familiar with the House of Representatives discussing how the FBI uses FBI employees and cooperators as a weapon against Americans; this was described as the FBI's weaponization of law enforcement. What many might not know is who the FBI described as "potential" threats, or "potential domestic terrorists." The House of Representatives reported that: ["][T]he FBI singled out Americans who are pro-life, pro-family, and support the biological basis for sex and gender distinction as potential domestic terrorists.["] DOJ Keeps Plan Secret for Biden's Election Executive Order. The Biden Justice Department continues to claim presidential privilege to block release of its strategic plan to turn out the vote, although at least two other federal agencies have made their plans public. In defending a lawsuit under the Freedom of Information Act, the Justice Department is keeping under wraps its plans to implement President Joe Biden's 2021 executive order, under which most federal agencies are required to develop a strategic plan for increasing voter participation in elections. The plaintiff in that case, the Foundation for Government Accountability, contends that privilege claim is undermined by two federal agencies releasing their plans to implement Biden's Executive Order 14019, which he signed in March 2021. Notably, the U.S. Trade Representative, an agency that is part of the Executive Office of the President, made its plan public through a public records request, as The Daily Signal reported last week. Judge Rules Corporate Transparency Act Unconstitutional. Feds Enforce It Anyway. Show of hands: Does anyone have a small business that survived the COVID-19 lockdowns? How about the nation's crime spike? Inflation? For those of you who may still have your hands up, get ready for yet another piece of aggravating news that may or may not affect you. It may not, but it probably will. If you have an LLC, it most definitely will. Without much fanfare or even notice, on January 1, 2024, the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) went into effect. Depending on your business, you have until January 1, 2025, to file the pertinent data about your business in a Beneficial Ownership Information report with the Department of the Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, or FinCen. The report lets the government know who owns or controls your company. [...] Are you outraged? As the old saying goes, you ain't seen nothin' yet. A judge has ruled that the CTA is unconstitutional. Despite that, the government is going to go ahead and enforce it. The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy. A new book has been published entitled: "The Final Analysis: Forensic Analysis of the JFK Autopsy X-Rays Proves Two Headshots from the Right Front and One from the Rear" by David W. Mantik M.D., Ph.D and Jerome R. Corsi Ph.D. Dr. Mantik has a PhD in physics and is an radiation oncologist. At the heart of this book is a re-analysis of the original radiographs from JFK's autopsy. The re-evaluation of the original forensic evidence of President John F. Kennedy Assassination using modern pathologic techniques should send shock waves through the world. [...] This book exposes how our government had to have murdered a US president in cold blood (who else could have done it?), lied to the American people about the assassination and then the USG created a massive cover-up story, which included framing an innocent man for the murder and most likely ordered his execution. For over sixty years, our government has not only covered up this murder, they created an alternate reality of facts that have been presented as truth to the entire world. This may be the first concrete example of psywar on the American people. Being conducted by multiple agencies and may even be in collusion with one or more of the following US presidents. This is truly a rogue government. The Five FUBARs. [#3] A third FUBAR is the lawfare campaign of the Democratic Party and its regime in power against the citizens of this land. This folder includes overt and obvious political prosecutions by DA's and AG's who make election promises to "go after" individuals without such niceties as probable cause. It includes the gigantic new scaffold of inter-agency censorship and propaganda. It includes the psychopathic struggle sessions mandated by "diversity and inclusion" policy. It includes election-rigging directed by the likes of Marc Elias and Norm Eisen, getting states to fiddle laws on voter ID and mail-in ballots. It includes the political protection of rogue groups ranging from looter flash-mobs to Antifa anarchists who bust up things and people and burn buildings down. It includes state officials who peremptorily kick candidates off the ballot. It includes a nakedly biased judiciary, and especially the use of the DC federal district court to punish people extralegally, unjustly, extravagantly, and cruelly. In short, lawfare is the complete perversion of law, and we-the-people are entreated by reprobate officials such as Merrick Garland and Letitia James to accept it. Democrats Promise Fraud and Insurrection. [Scroll down] We all know the true fight happens when they try to delay the election, or they wind up losing the election, despite all of their efforts. If they lose, they have promised to settle it in the House of Representatives, refusing to certify the election. The very same thing they called an insurrection. The very mention of it should bring those charges. In fact, were I to offer counsel to anyone running for office, I would have them say to their opponent that "Your party has promised to engage in insurrection if Trump wins, that, by your own definition, is insurrection. It is a threat to democracy and so are you." Obama's Third Term — Going For Four. The United States of America has become the laughingstock of the world, with Joe Biden playing the role of our "president" in this macabre stage production put on by the Luciferian Globalists. [...] Anyone who truly thinks he won the 2020 election honestly and fairly is under the greatest of delusions. Prior to that election, Biden himself openly stated, "We have put together, I think, the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics." And he didn't even campaign. His "rallies" consisted of a dozen people, sitting alone in chairs placed in circles, six feet apart. Meanwhile, his opponent had tens of thousands of people, all eager to see and hear Trump speak, wherever he went. No — regardless of what the "fact checkers" will tell you, and regardless of our lawless "justice system," the 2020 election was absolutely and clearly rigged. A stolen election. And do you remember the recounts? Republican election observers were banned from those — sheets of cardboard covering the windows while the so-called "recounts" took place. It was all a tragic joke, yet allowed to happen... and now we have countless patriots in prison or dead because they simply took part in a "redress of grievances" on January 6... held for months and years without charges; forced into fake plea deals; driven to suicide by the unrelenting persecution of the Feds — just for being patriots who believe in the rule of law. Biden Regime Ratchets Up Its Authoritarianism With Arrest Of Blaze Investigative Reporter. Democrats' targeting of political opponents entered its next phase Friday, when the FBI arrested Blaze Media investigative reporter Steve Baker over covering the Jan. 6, 2021, demonstrations at the U.S. Capitol. "This is the most humiliated I've ever been in my life," Baker told independent reporter Breanna Morello following his release. My arrest "is for things I said. ... That's what they're after; they're [trying] to suppress our speech." As The Federalist reported, federal authorities informed Baker and his legal team on Tuesday of a signed warrant for his arrest and instructed him to self-surrender for "alleged J6 crimes" in Dallas, Texas, on Friday morning. Baker has been at the forefront of reporting on the more questionable aspects of the Jan. 6 demonstrations. While told he was being charged with "non-violent misdemeanors," federal authorities declined to disclose to Baker or his lawyers what specific crimes underlie the arrest. According to Blaze News, the feds refused to reveal the charges ahead of Friday's arrest because "they believe[d] Baker [would] post them on social media." The Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees individuals accused of a crime a right to "be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation." New York Opens a Back Door to Communism. During her campaign, New York attorney general Letitia James made the Lavrentiy Beria pledge to find a crime and "get Donald Trump." It turns out she's a woman of her word. James used a 1956 law (Section 63[12] of New York's Executive Law) to sue Donald Trump. The law was created to enable the state to sue companies for profiting from fraudulent business practices. Until now, it has never been used where there are no damages (i.e., nobody was hurt). But as we know, legal traditions are expendable if they get in the way of a leftist's objectives. [...] As businesses flee New York, will the standard of living in the state improve or decline? As the business climate deteriorates, will the appetite for the state taking of assets increase or be sated? As property and capital are diverted to government consumption rather than wealth generation, what will New York look like in 50 years? Fox News [is] rejecting WH pressure to change reporting on alleged Biden family corruption. Fox News is rejecting pressure from the White House to retract stories about alleged Biden family corruption in the aftermath of the FBI's arrest of a former informant. In a letter from Ian Sams, a spokesperson for the White House, the regime demanded that the conservative news network take down its reporting about Alexander Smirnov's allegations that then-Vice President Joe Biden was involved in a foreign bribery scheme with Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings which employed his son Hunter in a highly paid position despite his lack of industry experience. Smirnov, the source identified in the FD-1023 document that has been a component of House Republicans' probe into the president and his family, was indicted by special counsel David Weiss last month and has subsequently been arrested, a conveniently timed development that has led to Biden's allies claiming that the president has been cleared of wrongdoing. My Friend Steve Baker Was Arrested. As many of you know by now, The Blaze's journalist Steve Baker was arrested yesterday by the FBI, put in handcuffs, leg irons, and paraded before a magistrate who read off charges of ... wait for it ... four misdemeanors. Four [...] misdemeanors. Charges, not convictions, mind you. Nonetheless: Leg irons. Handcuffs. Hours in a jail cell. The message is clear: you dare go against the government narrative, this could be you. [...] He was ordered to show up in a tee shirt, shorts and flip-flops. Baker instead went FULL White Collar[.] [...] For the record, Baker was only hired by The Blaze months ago, yet has rapidly become the star of the platform due to his groundbreaking January 6-related reporting, and his striking command of the facts and meticulous on air persona. He was featured wall-to-wall on the network today. Glenn Beck even came out late in the afternoon, unusual for a Friday, to issue a scathing statement on the platform and social media in support of his new star quarterback. Is Trump's Mega-Fine Unconstitutional? Although the Eighth Amendment is not explicitly limited to criminal cases, its three subjects — bail, fines and punishments — all relate generally to criminal cases. Trump's fine was imposed in what was denominated a civil case. But it was not a traditional civil case between private parties, because no private parties were allegedly damaged by Trump. It was a case brought by the State of New York, which would receive the fine. Moreover, the fine was intended to deter the kind of conduct of which Trump was accused. These factors make the fine seem closer to the usual attributes of a public criminal case than of a private civil case. A functional analysis of the fine in this case could well conclude that it is really criminal in nature and should be covered by the Eighth Amendment. Trump's lawyers will certainly argue at this point, though they are unlikely to succeed on the initial appeal. They will then almost certainly seek certiorari, a review by the Supreme Court of the United States, by alleging a violation of the Eighth Amendment. The Pig Trap. [Scroll down] I can't help but think about the Founders, and what they would think about current events and the state of the republic they left to their heirs. [...] What would they think of the government reading, and oftentimes copying and warehousing, every single letter of their correspondence, their diaries, their conversations, their most private and intimate of communications? What would they think of government agents standing on rooftops and street corners, monitoring and documenting the comings and goings of every citizen every day of his life, whom they speak with and associate with, and what they purchase and from whom? What would they think about their government spying on journalists, town criers, and pamphleteers, and swearing out false oaths to judges to have them surveilled? What would they think about government tax agents given specific orders to harass, intimidate, penalize, and obstruct any person who speaks for peaceful, legislative reform of the government or is critical of the government, even demanding that they document the content of their prayers? With The Trump Verdict, Is New York City Bringing Down Its Financial House? I feel sorry for President Trump, his family, his colleagues and coworkers, and all who depend on his various enterprises for their livelihood. The seven-count New York City fraud lawsuit has been a years-long mess. But The City may well have brought about its own demise in its blinkered pursuit of one man. [...] I would hazard a guess that Attorney General Leticia James and Judge Arthur Engoron have done more to drive away investors, thus damaging NYC's reputation as one of the world's preeminent financial centers, than all the crooked businessmen in the City's history. They are obviously ignorant of Econ 101, which is that business draws business. Trump has been a mighty draw. His persecution is now an even mightier red flag. The City needs the Trump businesses. Unless this travesty can be righted, it is not apparent that Trump needs the City. Engoron's decision against Trump amounts to an unconstitutional bill of attainder. Unless the people I'm talking to are lawyers or professional historians, I've discovered that mentioning the words "bill of attainder" receives, at best, blank looks and, at worst, an irritated request for more information, typically of the form "what [...] is that?" Even lawyers often get a distant look as they struggle to remember the details of a concept that dates back to the 14th century. Yet so common was the bill of attainder in British history in pre-modern times that it was a fairly normal way of dealing with the rebellious — or, indeed, just those whom the authorities found uncongenial. And so much did the Founding Fathers dislike its use that they deemed it important enough to have its own mention in the Constitution, which expressly forbids it under Article I, Section 9, Clause 3: "No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed." But what is this strange creature? Politicized Prosecutions Are A Warning Shot Across The Bow For All Americans. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul knows she has spooked her state's business community. That's why she went on a talk show last week to calm their very legitimate fears that they would be next. If former President Donald Trump can be prosecuted and fined hundreds of millions of dollars for a common business practice, who is safe? Hochul said New Yorkers are generally "honest people, and they're not trying to hide their assets and they're following the rules... This judge determined that Donald Trump did not follow the rules." Hence the $355 million fine levied by the court. But the truth is Trump engaged in a common business practice for developers. As "Shark Tank" star Kevin O'Leary noted in a Fox News interview, "Forget about Trump, every single real estate developer everywhere on Earth does this. They always talk about their asset being worth a lot, and the bank says no. That's just the way it is." The broader effect of such politicized prosecutions is clear — Americans are increasingly convinced we live in a nation with a two-tiered justice system. If A President Can Have His Money And Property Snatched By His Political Opposition, This Isn't A Free Country. Voters in a few months are supposed to cast a ballot for their preferred presidential candidate. Meanwhile, we just watched one of our major political parties attempt to literally bankrupt the likely nominee of the other, and seize his property. Whatever you want to say of America anymore, it can't possibly be called free and our elections aren't anything close to fair. A Democrat judge linked up with a Democrat district attorney in New York last week, ruling that Donald Trump, who earned more votes in 2020 than any sitting president in history, pay the city about half a billion dollars in penalties and fines, plus forego his right to conduct business or borrow money in the entire state. The pretext for the obscenity is that Trump in his years as a real estate developer routinely defrauded lenders by inflating the value of his assets, a hideous crime that resulted in his victims' insolvency and buried by insurmountable debt. Wait, that's not right. Let me check my notes. Sorry, what actually happened is that the banks who took the risk of financing Trump's ventures raked in fistfulls of profits and continued chasing him to continue their lucrative partnerships. In other words, the parties "wronged" by Trump got richer. With each passing day, nearly $100,000 in interest is tacked onto the sentence and the D.A., Letitia "peek-a-boo" James (as Trump calls her for hilarious yet unknown reasons), has gone so far as to threaten state seizure of the former president's marquee real estate properties should he fail to pay the sum. Blue Laws for Red Citizens. There are eerie commonalities in all these five court cases involving plaintiff E. Jean Carroll, Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg, New York Attorney General Letitia James, federal special counsel Jack Smith, and Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis. One, they are either unapologetically left-wing or associated with liberal causes. They filed their legal writs in big-city, left-wing America — Atlanta, New York, Washington — where liberal judges and jury pools predominate in a manner not characteristic of the country at large. Two, they are overtly political. Bragg, James, and Willis have either campaigned for office or raised campaign funds by promising to get or even destroy Donald Trump. Carroll's suit was funded by left-wing billionaire Reid Hoffman. Smith sued to rush his court schedule in hopes of putting Trump on trial before the November election. Three, there would not be any of these cases had Donald Trump not run for the presidency or not been a conservative. USDA Colludes With Left-Wing Group to Turn Out Voters Under Biden Order, Documents Reveal. The U.S. Department of Agriculture is working with a left-wing advocacy group to boost voter turnout as part of President Joe Biden's executive order directing federal agencies to get involved in elections. The USDA worked directly with Demos, a New York-based group that helped draft Biden's Executive Order 14019, according to records obtained by The Heritage Foundation's Oversight Project. Biden signed his order on agencies and voter registration in March 2021. On Aug. 9, 2021, Demos' Adam Lioz emailed USDA officials, many in the office of Secretary Tom Vilsack, under the subject line: "Demos Meeting on Voting Rights EO." The Military Junta Called "The Democracy". On Saturday night I watched Tucker Carlson's interview with Michael Benz, the link sent to me by a reader, and found out that I have, like many others, been a warrior against a military junta that has taken over our government. [...] I have, for a long time, tried to make the distinction to my readers that being an American was different from being a citizen of the United States of America. The land is America, the governing body is the United States. The interview detailed a timeline of events that have led to a military coup waged by a specific group of actors in the intelligence community (IC) and the DOD, placing our destinies and the destiny of America in the hands of a greater international community including the WEF and the UN with sympathetic actors in the EU for assistance. When these compromised politicians speak of "the democracy" they are speaking of this cabal who through manipulation of social media are able to inspire or put down color revolutions in any nation in the world and after 2016, Trump's election, they began to utilize those same means of overthrowing governments here in the United States and have effectively altered the outcome of elections, both here and abroad. A lot of people had to know of this cabal or be threatened by it in order for NONE of the evidence of election interference to be heard in court, or given any credibility. Our Non-Representative Congress. The voting numbers of the Congress show that we no longer have a representative democracy. Nor are we Republicans and Democrats. We are Nationalists and Globalists. Based on their voting, the Globalist Party consists of 69 percent of the Senate and 65 percent of the House. Constituents, however, voted for 49 percent of the Senate and 51 percent of the House. Had their representatives voted as their constituents wanted, Biden policies would have been stopped. The fact that these policies have not been stopped has not only disappointed but angered an increasing number of legitimate voters. Why do these elected officials betray their constituents? The answer lies in money. Voters for senators and representatives all come from a particular state. However, on average, in-state contributions to House members amount to 60 percent of their totals and out-of-state contributions amount to 40 percent. In the Senate, on average, in-state contributions are 34 percent and out-of-state contributions are 66 percent. The End of Democracy: "What I'm Describing is Military Rule". If you wish to understand how democracy ended in the United States and the European Union, please watch this interview with Tucker Carlson and Mike Benz. It is full of the most stunning revelations that I have heard in a very long time. [...] Honestly, it is critical that this video be seen by as many people as possible. So, please share this video interview and transcript. [...] [W]hat Mike Benz is describing is functionally a silent coup by the US Military and the Deep State. And yes, Barack Obama's fingerprints are all over this. Federal Reserve records massive losses, makes up fictitious value called 'deferred assets' to compensate. Maybe the problem with all of the government can be summarized by what the Federal Reserve is doing. The Federal Reserve lost $114.3 billion in 2023 and doesn't seem to care. Maybe that is why the federal government has run up $34 trillion in debt, while they pretend government programs are paid for. They don't care. They can always print more money. So what does the Federal Reserve do on its books when it has this massive loss? It just books a fictitious asset and fictitious equity. It cooks the books. It has no justification to claim it has money coming but does it anyway. It just assumes it will make money in the future. It certainly is not based on generally accepted accounting principles. How many other fictitious assets are on the books at the Federal Reserve or other government agencies to intentionally mislead the public? If a company were to book a fictitious asset to pretend they had more equity than they do, they would be charged with fraud. What Trump's 'Retribution' Really Means. Joe Biden has presided over a blatant, unconstitutionally weaponized government. His former (and likely current) boss, Barack Hussein Obama, began this tactic of American politicking by allowing his FBI to spy on an incoming president, which Hillary Clinton and her campaign masterminded. Nancy Pelosi willfully failed to secure proper security measures in the lead up to January 6, prioritizing optics instead, which has led to the unconstitutional denial of due process for many Americans. This was followed by an obviously biased January 6th Select Committee, which was recently revealed to have operated in a less than ethical manner. When you consider all of this, and too much more to mention, it is no surprise that they are hammering the retribution talking point, trying to convince the America that any instance of them finally being held accountable for their own conduct would undoubtedly be a product of a dictatorial regime. The irony. The Corrupt Republican Democrat 'Uni-Party' is Implementing Cloward-Piven Communism. The intentional overload by the communists in regards to the social safety nets set up in the past by local, state and the federal government in states like New York and California is now inflicting catastrophic damage on these once prosperous free market economies. The rampant approved illegal drug use by local and state governments, the acceptance of laziness, free unconstitutional handouts to illegal immigrants using tax payer dollars and the economic destruction forced upon citizens who can no longer afford rent and the basic needs for day to day living is an intentional attack on our free market capitalist economy. The Communist Democrat/Republican Uni-Party are complying with the Cloward-Piven strategy to destroy our nation from within. [Video clip] They are Intentionally overloading the welfare system and inflicting economic pressure via out of control inflation which is pushing the middle class into poverty. These unconstitutional economic policies are forcing Americans onto government dependence which is an attempt to bankrupt our country. Joe Biden eyes emissions crackdowns, media warns he is 'ignoring industry warnings' of financial collapse. Today, Joe Biden is cracking down on manufacturing, but I bet he doesn't have the scientific data to give credibility to the new policies, but he doesn't care. He is bending over for the green pushers. [...] I bet they also can't come up with scientific data that shows that CO2, a clean, non-polluting gas, at 420 PPM in the atmosphere, is any more dangerous than it was in the late 1800s, at 280 PPM. It's what makes plants and trees grow, and that is good. Yet, we are spending massive amounts of money burying carbon. There certainly is no data that shows that the 50% rise in CO2 over the last 150 years has anything to do with temperatures since they have risen and fallen for periods of time while CO2 was rising. Last week he was cracking down on natural gas, which is a very clean form of energy. The push for electric cars will also not change the climate, but it will surely make the poor and middle classes poorer and more restricted. Something everyone should notice about all these regulations is that Biden never goes through Congress to inflict on America his radical agenda; the legislative process of the founding fathers is just too cumbersome for Biden. The executive branch is also trying to enact a new natural gas tax, even though the Constitution says only the legislative branch can impose taxes. CVFC: A Secret Illegal Immigrant Housing Operation to Populate The US. The United Nations has been funding and coordinating the complex international trafficking operation of millions of Illegal Immigrants arriving in South America, and traveling north thru the Darien Gap, then thru Mexico, and finally to the United States. Barrack Hussein Obama has been supporting the UN coordinated invasion of the US; the invasion has effectively eliminated the security of the US Constitutional Republic. Illegal Aliens invading the United States are replacing the 300,000 of America's youth murdered over the last three years by smuggled Communist Chinese Fentanyl from Mexico, and the 1.1 million Americans who have died from the Covid experimental shots. The Illegal Immigration Housing Plan is being coordinated by Barack Hussein Obama, and the communist Democrats. It is designed to "permanently" change the demographics of the United States forever. The Illegal Immigration Housing Plan is designed to eliminate the Patriotic character of the US Constitutional Republic in major cities and replace voting American Citizen in those cities with Illegal Aliens who have absolutely no loyalty to the United States; they in fact are hostile toward the United States and will be involved in the overthrow of the government of the United States. In 2023 Fiscal Year, over 3 million Illegal Aliens from 161 countries walked into the US and were released into the US interior. Customs and Border Protection stated that in the same Fiscal Year, 564 Terrorists listed on the FBI Terror Watch List were captured at both the Southern and Northern Borders. Hell Must Be Empty. Forget "two-tiered justice." This is just plain old evil disguised as politics. Only in a nation under attack from demonic forces would J6 political hostages be imprisoned for exercising their First Amendment rights at the U.S. Capitol when a congressional staffer can make gay porn videos in a Senate hearing room without any risk of ever being charged for a crime. Only in a nation suffering from the widespread proliferation of evil would the Department of (in)Justice seek decades-long prison sentences for peacefully protesting Americans who dare to speak out against abortion, while federal agents routinely look the other way as "unknown assailants" vandalize and firebomb the buildings of Christian churches, pro-life organizations, and politically conservative groups. Only in a nation whose government chooses to embrace evil and reject godliness could a Christian veteran be charged for the "hate crime" of destroying a demonic shrine celebrating Satan. When adherence to moral conscience is criminalized and the protection of flagrant sin becomes government's chief concern, there can be no doubt that evil has risen from the shadows and seized control of the State. Dr. David Martin: Yes, We Are Being Distracted By Design. I have appreciated quite a bit of the exposing that Dr. David Martin has done going behind the scenes during the CONvid-1984. In a recent interview, he brought up the subject of distractions and how they are keeping the people looking anywhere and everywhere except where the crime occurred. While I can see his point, the issue of 5G, for instance, comes up right off the bat and the difference that I see is that while the Department of Defense sold the frequency to others, the reality is that it was not used on the public. Yes, it's been around for a while, but never in a major rollout to consumers. Martin also points out that there have been a number of distractions, all by design, to keep us looking and not bringing forth justice. Oregon GOP state senators who staged walkout over abortion can't run for reelection, high court says. The Oregon Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that 10 Republican state senators are ineligible to run for reelection after they participated in a quorum-denying walkout for six weeks last year to stall legislation on abortion, transgender treatments and firearms. The high court decided in favor of Oregon Secretary of State LaVonne Griffin-Valade, who had disqualified the senators from running for office again after voters approved a measure in 2022 to amend the state constitution to ban lawmakers with more than 10 unexcused absences from running again. The measure to prevent walkouts passed after GOP lawmakers staged other walkouts from the Legislature in 2019, 2020 and 2021. Five of the 10 Republican state senators, Tim Knopp, Daniel Bonham, Suzanne Weber, Dennis Linthicum and Lynn Findle, had filed a lawsuit against the secretary of state over the decision. Oregon Supreme Court Blocks 10 Republicans From Running for Reelection. Ten Republican senators in Oregon cannot run for reelection, the state's top court ruled on Feb. 1. The court found that the senators are banned from running for reelection under a constitutional amendment approved in 2022. The amendment, Ballot Measure 113, states that lawmakers who miss at least 10 legislative days without an excuse cannot seek reelection. The ruling upheld a decision from Oregon Secretary of State LaVonne Griffin-Valade, a Democrat. Ms. Griffin-Valade said in 2023 that the senators, under the measure, could not try for another term. The Editor says... Does Quebec Have A Canadian Version Of The Bastille To House Justin Trudeau? Canada's Boy Prime Minister broke that country's highest law when he applied the Emergency Powers Act to crack down on truckers' Freedom Convoy to protest his authoritarian pandemic policies. He also committed grand larceny when he seized protestors' bank accounts. Why is he not on trial for criminal and civil offenses? In a "landmark" ruling last week, a federal court judge ruled that Justin Trudeau's "government unconstitutionally and unjustifiably invoked the Emergencies Act in response to ongoing Freedom Convoy blockades" two years ago, the National Post reports. Justice Richard Mosley also noted that the invoking of the act "does not bear the hallmarks of reasonableness — justification, transparency, and intelligibility." The FBI must be wiped clean, or wiped out, on Day One of the next Repubican administration. Should Donald Trump become president in 2024 and the acts to make major changes within the federal executive bureaucracy, cleaning house from top to bottom with major firings and layoffs (something he should have done in his first administration and failed to do), without question the first agency he must attack mercilessly is the FBI. There are numerous documented examples in the past decade where the FBI has been weaponized against conservatives and Republicans, investigating, harassing, and even arresting people because they held beliefs that opposed the agenda of the Democratic Party. In some cases the individuals attacked were simply religious Christians who opposed abortion. In other cases the victims were ordinary Americans who simply made public their support of Trump. Nor were just everyday Americans attacked. The FBI has arrested Republican candidates for office. Its officials have altered evidence to justify illegal seach warrants against Republicans. Its management also targeted and framed Trump officials it did not like. Officials there also abused the FISA court, submitting error-filled applications that were used to get warrants to spy on Americans. It redacted information to hide its misbehavior, claiming dishonestly that the redactions were for national security reasons. This list is only a very small selection of the many such stories reported in the past decade. Canada's elite colluded against the Freedom Convoy truckers. Last week, Federal Court Judge Richard Mosley found that the Canadian government overstepped legal bounds in going after the truckers, writing, "I conclude that there was no national emergency justifying the invocation of the Emergencies Act and the decision to do so was therefore unreasonable." It's worse than that. Recent independent journalism has demonstrated this "unreasonable" decision wasn't simply an honest mistake. It was the product of a deliberate campaign of deception and denigration the government organized with help from its media allies. Leaks, often misleading, characterized the truckers as extremists. Media reported these, and nonprofit groups repeated the message. The government-funded nongovernmental organization (got that?) the Canadian Anti-Hate Network identified the feds' opposition as extremists and possible terrorists, which the government then used as "independent" support for its actions. None of this should come as a surprise. Here in the United States we've seen a similar phenomenon. And European governments have been rolling out a similar script to deal with those who complain about unrestricted immigration and farmers' protests against "green" policies designed to shut them down. Breaking The Iron Triangle of Elite Hate. With the decision, handed down by a federal judge, that Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act illegally, to end the truckers' protest in Ottawa and at border crossings in Ontario and Alberta, Canada's ruling elite has given up. They cannot continue the fiction any longer. To illustrate how ridiculous Canada's public life is, the findings by the RCMP and government were entirely driven by a government-funded Non-Governmental Organization, the Canadian Anti-Hate Network, or CAHN. The group was used in a perfect illustration of the Iron Triangle of government and bureaucratic action. The government funds an anti-hate group, which immediately identifies opposition to the government, labels it as hate, feeds it to the police which proceeds to investigate. The astroturfed outfit accused a podcaster of being a "white supremacist" and an "accelerationist." The RCMP then provided CAHN's "evidence" to legislators who then fed it to the subsidized media. Why is no one wondering how the Trump trials have such idiotic jurors? [Scroll down] A jury consultant's job is to research, as closely as possible, each prospective juror by any means necessary so that the defense can select the persons who may be most disposed to find their client not guilty. Of course, prosecutors hire jury consultants as well to determine who among the pool will be likely to find the person on trial guilty. On its face, this seems to be an obviously unethical practice; depending on who got the most jurors of their choosing is likely to win. How can this be legal, one might ask. It probably should not be, but one thing is clear: Juries are rarely a "jury of one's peers" anymore. They are carefully and deceptively chosen. We can be certain that jury consultants were hired to select the people who would sit in judgment of President Trump for each of the numerous trials to which he has been so unfairly subjected. It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like 1776. After decades of unconstitutional encroachment on the Rights of both American citizens and individual states, this true Constitutional crisis has now come to a head at the Texas border; where the Biden administration is actively sabotaging the state of Texas' effort to protect its own border from an invasion sanctioned and facilitated by the federal government. The escalating conflict between Texas Governor Abbott and President Biden is a manifestation and microcosm of a larger war brewing between a lawless and unconstitutional federal government and the American people. The Biden regime, in particular, has been completely unaccountable. But their arrogance and underestimation of the will of the American people will hopefully lead to their downfall. With the aid of a symbiotic and propagandistic media machine, this Administration and the federal government at large commit crimes with impunity. Governor Abbott's battle is the American people's battle. His stance against the Biden Administration is cheered by tens of millions of Americans — and thus far a coalition of 24 Republican Governors who wish, and even demand, that the federal government be put in its place. All who support Texas Governor Abbott are hopeful the state of Texas and Abbott can do what they themselves have believed to be beyond their own powers: taking on the federal Government. You Can't Defend 'Democracy' And The Administrative State. The government shows up at your business and demands you pay the salaries of the regulators who lord over you. If you refuse, you'll be ruined. You have little recourse. You've never even voted on the policy because no law implementing it exists. Bureaucrats in D.C. cooked up the idea, and a political appointee signed off on it. That's what Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, a case brought by New England fishermen against Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, is all about. It may finally end or weaken Chevron deference, which refers to a 1984 decision that inadvertently empowered the administrative state to take wide-ranging, illiberal powers over American economic life. I mean, the case of the fishermen is basically a modern reenactment of "taxation without representation." Court Declares Justin Trudeau's Sweeping Actions To Suppress Trucker Protests Were Illegal. A federal court in Canada has ruled that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's use of the Emergencies Act against protesters in 2022 was unconstitutional, according to a judicial review released on Tuesday. Trudeau utilized the Emergencies Act to stop truckers from protesting against the Canadian government's COVID-19 lockdown restrictions and vaccine mandates. Trudeau's use of the act was not legal and "not justified," Federal Court Justice Richard Mosley wrote in the decision, according to the Canadian Constitutional Foundation (CCF). "I conclude there was no national emergency justifying the invocation of the Emergencies Act and the decision to do so was therefore unreasonable," Mosley wrote in his decision. "The decision to issue the Proclamation does not bear the hallmarks of reasonableness — justification, transparency and intelligibility — and was not justified in relation to the relevant factual and legal constraints that were required to be taken into consideration." Americans Are Fighting For Control Of Federal Powers That Shouldn't Exist. It's no secret that politics in the United States is growing increasingly acrimonious — to the point that a 2022 poll found 43% of Americans think a civil war is a least somewhat likely in the next decade. But here's what few people realize: The intensity of our division springs from a federal government operating far beyond the limits of the Constitution — fueling a fight for control over powers that were never supposed to exist at the national level. [...] To rattle off just a random fistful of the federal government's unauthorized undertakings and entities — brace yourself — there is zero constitutional authority for the Social Security, Medicare, federal drug prohibitions, the Small Business Administration, crop subsidies, the Department of Labor, automotive fuel efficiency standards, climate regulations, the Federal Reserve, union regulation, housing subsidies, the Department of Agriculture, workplace regulations, the Department of Education, federal student loans, the Food and Drug Administration, food stamps, unemployment insurance or light bulb regulations. An Amish Farmer's Food Rights Battle. The January 4th raid on Amish farmer Amos Miller's Pennsylvania establishment, reflects a growing tension between government regulation of food safety and liberty-minded individualists distrusting industrial food production. Pennsylvania State Police secured Miller's farming premises for search by the state's Department of Agriculture for "illegal raw milk and raw milk products, including eggnog," following reported cases of E. coli in New York and Michigan, allegedly linked to Miller's products. [...] [Attorney David] Berg argues that the right to purchase food directly from a farmer, sans mandatory government inspection, is a fundamental right. The federal government has failed to halt atrazine, glyphosate, neonicotinoids, and other chemicals, and subsidizes corn (and thus high-fructose corn syrup) and other questionable foods. More recently, public trust has been compromised by dubious claims about the "safety and effectiveness" of certain medications that proved to be neither. Ohio Official's Arrest After She Criticized Sheriff at Public Meeting a Free Speech Violation, Judge Orders Damages. On Wednesday, a federal judge ruled that the constitutional rights of an Ohio elected official were violated when she was arrested for criticizing the sheriff at a public meeting, AP reported. U.S. District Judge J. Philip Calabrese ruled that the arrest violated the First Amendment. Niki Frenchko, the sole Republican on the three-member Trumbull County Board of Commissioners, was arrested during a commissioners' meeting on July 7, 2022. She was charged under a contentious Ohio law that criminalizes actions or speech intended to "prevent or disrupt a lawful meeting." Momentum is destroying America, but that can be reversed with strategic leadership. Big Government momentum started with the New Deal, which began in 1933 and marks the beginning of the federal government avalanche affecting our lives from 'the cradle to the grave.' When World War Two occurred, the flag of patriotism was planted at the front of that avalanche, while the Korean War spawned the birth of the 'Military Industrial Complex.' America's "conservatives" were now in on the ride! The Johnson administration, recognizing that Democrat party was the more logical ally of Big Government, added to the avalanche in a massive way with the Great Society legislation enacted in 1964 and 1965. Even a so-called "conservative" president like Nixon sped up the avalanche with the creation of the EPA in 1970. Not to cede this catastrophe to the Republicans, Jimmy Carter created the DOE in 1979, thus ensuring future generations would be instructed in what to think! Who Are We? [Scroll down] Border patrol agents are complicit in this betrayal. They execute the lies put forth by the Biden Administration, pretending that invaders are refugees, accepting lies as the truth and extending the graces of the hard-working American people to them as if it's their money to give, their accommodations to provide. Maine recently built a housing development solely for these illegals, but they could not manage the same for our veterans. Ask yourselves, you Americans, who have worked hard and provided the blessings of this land, fought for it, lived on without the comfort of one or both parents due to war, famine or disease, why have these politicians not gone to the same extents for the veterans? Why are they so desperate to garner the favor of these invaders? The easy answer is for votes. These same politicians can make it possible for them to vote, to displace you not only from your land, but your voice. The Deepest Part of the Swamp [is] The FBI. Some say the FBI became political, but the FBI was always political, to a point. Every president tries to use the bureau for their political aims. After all, the Department of Justice serves at the pleasure of the president as part of the Executive Branch. Maybe not such a good idea. What is not well understood is that the FBI makes assumptions, and one of their principal assumptions is that the people, or the electorate, for the most part, will make the wisest possible choice as to who leads the country. It was a demonstration of trust in our representative republic. The elections of 2012, 2016, and 2020 changed everything. A Democratic Republic can only survive if the representatives and citizenry are moral and ethical. The DOJ has been weaponized to go after Trump by legal procedures and the impeachment proceedings against Trump were a Democrat charade. Biden has made many unconstitutional executive orders, and there is the possibility that he has used political privilege with family connections to enrich himself. It appears that not enough laws exist to quickly and ethically prosecute and convict executive branch corruption, or government corruption in general, and not enough elected officials willing to stand against it. Unfortunately, we have an imperfect Constitution, an imperfect legislative branch, an imperfect executive branch, and an imperfect judicial branch. Separation of powers of the three branches of government only work relatively well with moral or ethical leadership. Take away the moral or ethical part and the government quickly transforms into a political mess or chaos. Making a law governing every move made by government is mission impossible. The
FBI — the Dog That Turned on Its Master. [Scroll down] Now
we're witnessing firsthand what an out-of-control watchdog is capable of. Agents are
violating our rights by colluding with social media to censor our freedom of speech, targeting
Catholics for their religious observance, and investigating parents as domestic terrorists.
They're openly using police state intimidation tactics to conduct armed raids against the elderly
(Roger Stone), nonviolent defendants (Mark Hauck), and even journalists (James O'Keefe). There
are so many instances of bad behavior that it's impossible to cover all of them in the space of
this article. A partial list includes Ruby Ridge, Waco, the Atlanta Olympics bombing, the
Olympic gymnastics scandal, the Midyear review, Crossfire Hurricane, and on and on. In 2023,
Director Christopher Wray was called before Congress to account for his vicious pack of attack dogs
prowling the streets with impunity. Wray simply
'If You're a Hammer...' From 2009 to the end of 2022, federal agencies imposed a total of 49,315 rules and regulations on the American people, averaging 3,522 new rules per year! It's apparently not just the ATF or FBI that have run amok [...] Regardless of your political philosophy, that is far too many rules and regulations from government. The Founders established our nation based on free markets, individual liberty, and limited government — government today is clearly not limited, and both individual liberty and free markets are suffering because of it. As of December 2022, there were 2.95 million Americans working for the federal government. Understand, I'm not blaming them; they're just doing their jobs. If you're a bureaucrat, making rules is what you do. But a lot fewer federal employees would mean a lot less government encroachment on our lives. Enemies of the Administrative State. Amid allegations from conservative lawmakers and activists that Washington, D.C.'s most powerful agencies have been weaponized against their critics, one organization has not only played a key role in helping marshal evidence of such malfeasance, but found itself at the center of an emerging government targeting scandal that would seem to only further substantiate the claims of administrative state critics. That organization is Empower Oversight Whistleblowers & Research. It has represented whistleblowers at the heart of some of the most consequential and contentious congressional investigations in recent years, touching on matters ranging from the impeachment inquiry into President Biden, to alleged FBI inflation of the domestic terror threat. In a perhaps telling response to these efforts, the nonprofits' whistleblowing clients have faced not only alleged reprisals from their government employers but also condemnation from Democrats in Congress and skepticism from media outlets that have often uncritically supported whistleblowers. The Government's Use of Controlled Chaos to Maintain Power. For years now, the government has been pushing us to the brink of a national nervous breakdown. This breakdown — triggered by polarizing circus politics, media-fed mass hysteria, militarization and militainment (the selling of war and violence as entertainment), a sense of hopelessness and powerlessness in the face of growing corruption, the government's alienation from its populace, and an economy that has much of the population struggling to get by — has manifested itself in the polarized, manipulated mayhem, madness and tyranny that is life in the American police state today. Why is the Deep State engineering this societal madness? What's in it for the government? What is playing out before us is a chilling lesson in social engineering that keeps the populace fixated on circus politics and conveniently timed spectacles, distracted from focusing too closely on the government's power grabs, and incapable of standing united in defense of our freedoms. It's not conspiratorial. It's a power play. Use the Colorado Precedent. [Scroll down] The communists have already opened the door to it. Since Colorado took Trump's name off the ballot (I know that hasn't happened just yet) without a criminal conviction that has exhausted all appeals, who have twice tried to get him thrown out of office with flimsy accusations rather than evidence and since Joe Biden suffers from extraordinary evidence showing that he should be removed from office for bribery, treason and fraud, he should be removed from the ballot in every state that can use the Colorado precedent to remove a person from the ballot for suspicion of a crime. Politically, the purpose would not be to remove Biden from consideration, but to force the Supreme Court to rule in America's favor and let us vote for who we want. Secession Without Secession. [Scroll down] It's a trend that has been taking place in New York, San Francisco and any other "sanctuary cities" where they separate themselves from United States laws they don't like, even when they find their separation is a burden too difficult to bear and seek financial aid from the rest of us to make it bearable. This is the insanity that has gripped the United States after several internal coups against the rule of law and replace it with the rule of power that we see playing out everywhere in the US today. January 6th protesters are charged with insurrection, but leftist/communist/Muslims take over the capitol during session and a few arrests take place, but nothing like the dragnet set out by the FBI for J6ers. That's the rule of power. Any attempt to restore the rule of law, such as vacating the chair when McCarthy betrayed the whole Republican Party, is met with incredible pressure and the corruption of whoever is finally selected as the Speaker of the House. But that's just under Republican control. This never happens under Democrat control, because they are the ones behind the coups, who benefit from the rule of power. Obama Created The Intelligence Agencies' Leftist Agendas. During his first presidential campaign, Donald Trump faced more than Hillary Clinton. A book by a former CIA officer who also worked in other intelligence agencies reported that "leftist political policies implemented under former President Barack Obama" waged political warfare against then-candidate Donald Trump in the run-up to the 2016 election. The Washington Times covered the book, "Neutering the CIA: Why U.S. Intelligence Versus Trump Has Long-Term Consequences," published in July 2023. Former intelligence officer John Gentry reported how the leftist-trained intelligence agencies attempted to skew the election results toward Clinton and how that behavior was a danger to the future of the U.S. Gentry's claim should not be surprising as reports about intelligence agencies trying to trip up the Trump campaign even through his administration. Trump even claimed his campaign was being spied on by the Obama team. Of course, the mainstream media made fun of Trump's claim and refused to investigate, but those who took the time to investigate the claim found Trump was being truthful. Who's actually running the government? During Sen. Dianne Feinstein's incapacity, we learned that her office was running as usual. So was Sen. Fetterman's office. Staffers went on issuing press releases, taking positions and co-sponsoring bills on their behalf. ["]Senator Feinstein just introduced the Women's Health Protection Act of 2023 to mandate abortion nationwide while outlawing state restrictions on late-term abortion when babies can feel pain... but Feinstein isn't really introducing or sponsoring bills, her staffers, who announced her retirement without her knowing about it, are legislating in her name.["] This is routine. Our government isn't run by elected officials. And sometimes the elected officials aren't even there. The Empire Strikes Musk. The Establishment turned on Elon Musk in 2022. First, Musk started making noise about freedom of speech. Then Musk, a lifelong Democrat, announced that he would be voting Republican. Then he bought Twitter and revealed just how corrupt the social media companies were, and how deeply involved Western governments have been in suppressing speech. If you go back through the news over the past two years, you will see a steady stream of threats made by US and European government officials — elected and administrative — towards Musk. They made it very clear that he either gets on board with their agenda or the West's governments would destroy him. FISA Fast Forward. The Senate does not hold hearings to determine whether an appointee is qualified for the FISA court. SCOTUS operates in public, with rulings and opinions endlessly analyzed. FISA operates in secret, with no lawyers present to represent those being surveilled. And so on. The extension of warrantless surveillance under FISA greenlights more covert operations against Americans and empowers more felonies from FBI lawyers like Kevin Clinesmith, who even got his law license restored. Square that with the FBI motto of "Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity." The biggest booster of the FISA surge is the "intelligence community." Our Institutions Have Betrayed Our Trust. The assassination of John F. Kennedy is a moment burned into the memories of everyone over 65 who knows the answer to the question, "Where were you when Kennedy was shot?" The prestigious Warren Commission was set up when the "lone assassin" was killed as he was being transferred. All opposing views were universally dismissed as "conspiracy theories" for the next 60 years and records and evidence was sealed. Recently multiple new reports have emerged disputing the "single bullet theory," which opens the horrifying possibility that there was an organized conspiracy to kill the president of the United States. The modern-day question is "Where were you when you first heard of COVID-19?" Why Our Legal System is Collapsing. Thrasymachus observed that there is no justice, for it will always be defined as the self-interest of those in power. Just look at the people imprisoned for being escorted into the Capitol Building on January 6th. It was orchestrated and instigated by the Deep State so that they could try to use the 14th Amendment to prevent Trump from ever holding office again. They rigged the 2020 election, and that is something the CIA has done in other countries all the time, and the former head of the CIA has admitted doing so on FOX News. I was asked to invest $10 billion into Russia for the 2000 election to be rigged to take over Russia. Testimony before Congress shows 1984 is here, and Obama started it. Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger, two honest men who worked on the Twitter Files, exposing how the government collaborated with Twitter to affect the 2020 election, testified before the House today. What they said should terrify you. Beginning in January 2017, under then-president Obama's direction, the government instituted a social media manipulation system intended to game the 2020 election through censorship and controlled information (which, to my mind, amounts to misinformation). It was unconstitutional, but it worked. And now, using the vehicle of the corrupt criminal action against Trump, the government is bypassing manipulating information and is planning to target ordinary Americans. Dem AG Unveils Indictment Against Republican Election Officials Who Pushed For Hand-Counting Ballots. Arizona's Democratic attorney general announced today that a grand jury has decided to indict two election officials for conspiring to delay the certification of votes in their county over their desire to hand-count all election day and early ballots. Peggy Judd and Terry Crosby, Republican county supervisors from Cochise County, were indicted by the state of Arizona on Nov. 29 on counts of conspiracy and interference with an election. Judd and Crosby wanted to hand count ballots in their county, citing their distrust of voting machines, and delayed the certification of their county's election results over those concerns. Trad Catholic Family Dragged Out of Home at Gunpoint, Locked in Van After FBI 'Goaded' Teen to Post Offensive Memes, Dad Says. A traditional Catholic family was allegedly "dragged out of their home at gunpoint, handcuffed and locked in a van" earlier this year after the FBI "goaded" their 15-year-old son to post "offensive memes" online. The teen, a volunteer firefighter and altar boy, was then hospitalized on mental health pretenses, according to his father, Jeremiah Rufini. The FBI's aggressive "investigation" only resulted in a misdemeanor conviction against the boy for breach of peace, but financially devastated the family with substantial legal expenses. The FBI targeted the boy as part of a sting operation catfishing traditionalist Catholic teenagers with "extreme political content," Rufini explained in the family's GiveSendGo crowdfunding site. The FBI is really good at solving
problems that it caused, and capturing villains that it created. Where's America's Conor McGregor? Western governments around the globe, bastions of free speech and liberty, towers of diversity of thought and dedicated to truth have been compromised by a globalist sect determined to destroy the unification, the coalescing behind these values that has taken place over a couple of centuries. These governments that rose on the power of these simple principles have rejected the will of the people, first with their responses to the pandemic, which I contend were tests of how far they could go before encountering violence. Second, they allowed unrestricted immigration from third-world nations, mostly Islamic. Another test as to these nation's religious dedication, another fail. Third, they forced an untested, deadly vaccine on the populace through police-enforced mandates. Fourth, to thwart the expression of the people against such measures they rigged elections, not just in the U.S., but other nations as well. Why Governments Have Replaced God with Global Warming. An adept government will never solve a problem unless it has a new problem prepackaged and ready to mass-produce for the public. That's why Joe Biden didn't mind bungling America's exit from Afghanistan when he and other Obama administration alumni were already working on the next forever-war in Ukraine for the upcoming spring. That's why the CDC and other government scientists owned and operated by the pharmaceutical industry never batted an eye when their miracle elixir COVID "vaccines" proved to be neither safe nor effective — because there is always some new exotic disease ready to be released from a Chinese bio-lab tucked away in an abandoned California factory that will require billions in taxpayer funds, too. Any government worth its salt has an endless supply of boogeymen and a limited supply of expensive solutions that coincidentally require total citizen compliance. How the left infiltrates through government. Governments don't create; they govern. If not held in check, governments overpower. Every tyrant used his nation's government to come to power. There can be no greater argument for our constitutional republic, and every citizen thereof, to demand that our government adhere to the Constitution as written. Contrast this philosophy of destruction through control with America as she was conceived. The founders rebelled against the same type of overpowering tyranny that Marx, Hitler, Mao, Wilson, and Obama visualized: the British king. They created three documents to create a nation based on the premise of the sanctity of the individual. They saw a federal government as a necessary evil and proceeded to lay in restrictions on government power. It's called the Constitution. DOJ, FBI and Congress team up for legal mischief. Americans count on the Department of Justice and the FBI to uphold the law of the land. In this topsy-turvy era, though, the shifty behavior of these agencies is making it hard to tell the good guys from the bad. Recent news reports outline the depth of the misconduct. According to a Nov. 8 letter from Senate Republicans to Attorney General Merrick Garland, the Justice Department "engaged in a campaign of covert surveillance" targeting congressional staff members. Signed by Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas and Mike Lee of Utah, the missive cited a Freedom of Information Act request from Empower Oversight, a whistleblower support organization, that turned up evidence the department subpoenaed private phone and email records from House and Senate staff members who were attempting to unravel the 2018 Russian collusion hoax that dogged Donald Trump's presidency. 'In the Old America, This Would Provoke an Uprising'. No stranger to hypocrisy, Hillary Clinton set a breathtaking new standard with her denunciation of convicted meme jokester Douglass Mackey. [...] Mackey's crime was to pass along a meme he found online titled, "Save Time, Avoid the Line." This meme, said Hillary, who knows something about election subversion, "went from speech to action meant to subvert the election." Graced with a picture of a smiling Hillary, the meme then directed readers to text their vote to a given number. Try as hard as they might, prosecutors could not find not a single one of the "thousands of people" Hillary claimed to have been affected by this transparent joke. "He was one of the main people running memes against me in 2016," said Hillary. Mackey was no such thing. A 27-year-old Middlebury College grad living in New York City at the time, Mackey was an unconnected and unpaid Trump-supporter. He tweeted under the handle "Ricky Vaughn," the Charlie Sheen "Wild Thing" character in the baseball comedy Major League. Although Mackey did not take himself seriously, the Biden DOJ obviously did. Seven days after the 2021 inauguration, more than four years after the purported crime, ten law enforcement officers, four of them FBI, made an unannounced 7 A.M. visit at his residence and led Mackey away in handcuffs. It was not until his arraignment that he had the slightest idea what he was being accused of doing. Are the feds targeting Eric Adams because he criticized Joe Biden? Seizing Mayor Adams' phones and tablet on the street in public is the latest sign the feds aren't simply investigating him: They're out to inflict maximum embarrassment in a political vendetta, presumably in retribution for the noise he's made about President Biden's disastrous border policies. The mayor is easy to find, 24/7/365: What reason to ambush him publicly event except to humiliate him? And why else make sure his No. 1 press enemy, The New York Times, gets the story first? Mind you, this follows the opening raid in this investigation — which stormed the home of his top fund-raiser while Adams was in the air en route to Washington to press Biden on his failure to help the city bear the multibillion-dollar cost of caring for the illegal migrants the prez is waving into the country. That one leaked to the Times first, too. And sources told The Post that timing was also intentional; the feds denied it — but of course they would. Piercing the halo of the FBI special agent. FBI special agents risk their lives doing important national security work; praise them for that if you like. But it's also true that they follow orders from their superiors, just like other federal employees. They are not praiseworthy — and certainly don't get credit for "tremendous integrity and objectivity" — carrying out orders on, and knowing and keeping quiet about, so many FBI actions or inactions biased against conservatives such as the Trump-Russia collusion plot; suppression of Hunter Biden's laptop; targeting MAGA followers, attendees of the traditional Catholic Mass, and soccer moms protesting to the school board; and possible J6 incitement and entrapment. How Democrats steal our constitutional rights. If you're reading this post, I'm betting that you're aware of the Twitter files, which revealed that the Deep State was working closely with Big Tech to censor content about Russiagate, COVID, the vaccinations, and Biden family corruption. Therefore, I won't rehash that. However, if you haven't seen Tucker Carlson's most recent interview, this one with Douglass Mackey, you don't know that the administration is also using its police powers to silence political speech. Douglass Mackey is the man who posted a joke on Twitter telling people to text their votes for Hillary. It was a joke identical to posts that Democrats were putting up regarding voting for Trump. However, unlike the Democrats, Mackey was hunted down. Seven days into the Biden administration, he was on the receiving end of an FBI raid and staring at 11 years in prison for election interference. The fact that there was no evidence that anyone, even a Democrat, was stupid enough to take his joke seriously was irrelevant. Senate Republicans Launch Investigation Into Justice Department for Spying on Congressional Staffers. Every time we think we're done with the Justice Department's Spygate and Russia collusion controversy, it pulls us back in. It appears that at this point, we are the political versions of Michael Corleone, who can't seem to escape what is one of the most egregious scandals in American political history. Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee are reportedly delving deeper into allegations that the Justice Department conducted a number of covert surveillance operations on congressional staffers during the period when the agency was embroiled in the Trump-Russia investigation hoax. DOJ Spied on GOP Staffers Probing the Origins of the Russia Collusion Hoax. The Department of Justice (DOJ) obtained private communications and other personal records of multiple Republican House and Senate staffers who were investigating the department's role in the origins of the Russia collusion hoax, according to former senior Trump administration official Kash Patel. A recently-revealed subpoena shows that the DOJ sought the records for not only Patel when he was an investigator for then-Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), but also those of Jason Foster, who was at the time chief investigative counsel to then-Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (I-IA) and was also looking into the DOJ's role in the hoax. Consequences of American Communism. We have been witness to, and uncomprehendingly struggle to understand, how deeply communist the nation's government has become, but the evidence is there. It ignored a massively corrupted presidential election that installed someone who staffed the government, all with the aid of senators, with a treasonous bunch of radicals pursuing an agenda of national suicide. No one has enforced the laws, not during the election, not where immigration is concerned, not by enforcing the limitations of regulation and the power of bureaucracies. The United States truly was a nation of laws and when the laws were broken, it simply broke the nation rather than the law breakers. The Rise of Jacobin Justice. In this last decade, Jacobin justice has been unleashed on everyone from school board protesters to local police to a former president of the United States. Much of it flows directly from the DOJ, but state and local prosecutors have been keen to launch witch hunts of their own. In doing so, they have corrupted evidence, rigged juries, allowed fear to dictate outcomes, and abandoned all traditional notions of equality before the law. Americans Are Essential — Not Their Government. [Scroll down] The Fascist Bureau of Intimidation and Department of (in)Justice commit crimes against the American people but face no consequences. The Department of Homeland Security has no interest in securing the homeland. The federal bureaucracy's primary work product is disinformation, and its primary skill is accusing everyone outside of its Borg Collective of spreading disinformation. The same apparatchiks who take a knee in solidarity with Antifa and Black Lives Matter domestic terrorists have spent three years destroying families for protesting at the U.S. Capitol. The same conmen who framed Donald Trump as a Russian spy now frame the presumptive Republican nominee as a common criminal. The same misanthropes who have drowned this country in debt, drugs, illegal aliens, and violent crime pretend to care about Americans' health, security, and prosperity. They do not. They despise this country. They despise its foundations in liberty. They despise its history. They despise its heroes. They despise what its people have accomplished in the past and could so easily accomplish in the future, if only given the chance. It's almost like there's a conspiracy against Trump. The moment that Donald Trump won the 2016 election, the outlines of a conspiracy began. Obama, Biden, their staff, Democrat lifers in the DOJ, FBI, CIA, the Pentagon, the establishment media, woke billionaires and the Democrat party, foremost among them House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, shaped a plan to wreck his presidency and cheat to defeat him in 2020. [...] Dr. Anthony Fauci's Wuhan virus coincidently escaped the lab. Aware, and against Trump, the CCP permitted thousands of infected passengers to enter the U.S. where it created a pandemic. Anticipating it and seemingly prepared for it, the Democrat party exploited it to create a seismic, unprecedented distortion in public policies around economy-killing lockdowns, and in voting rules, increasing unverifiable ballots by previously unheard of multiples. It coordinated with its champions in social, print and network media to censor and suppress [embarrassing] information about its own candidate and his depraved family. Democrats' Campaign To Disbar John Eastman Is Designed To Criminalize Republican Election Challenges. After having his phone seized by the FBI, enduring harassment from House Democrats' J6 Committee, and getting indicted by a corrupt Fulton County district attorney, constitutional scholar John Eastman has once again found himself the target of Democrats' crusade to weaponize the legal system against their political opponents. Over the past several weeks, prosecutors representing the State Bar of California (SBC) have been working in state court to strip Eastman of his ability to practice law and, effectively, destroy his livelihood. In January, the SBC announced it was charging Eastman for advising former President Donald Trump over the latter's legal challenges to the 2020 election results. This announcement came nearly a year after the agency revealed it had been investigating Eastman for potential "violation[s] of California law and ethics rules governing attorneys." The Late Hour of Our Republic. The end of the United States has already been accomplished, it's just a matter now of how it unfolds. Those in the Executive branch of government have already committed the ultimate treason, the violation of the borders, the destruction of the nation's security. Our enemies have been gifted an open drawbridge to the castle and our enemies have stampeded in. The nation's people now must confront those enemies with the spears of their own soldiers at their backs. Every act of treason has been perpetrated upon the nation. Oaths of office have been disregarded in favor of financial consideration. The military has been left to languish in the arms of mocking social equity. The Treasury has been looted by debts racked up by mindless spending. Munitions have been discontinued. Military vehicles and armaments given to terrorists. If there is in the history of the world any more complete and comprehensive treason than this, I have not heard of it. Dinesh D'Souza's 'Police State' — You Will Not Look at Government the Same Way After Seeing This Film. My husband and I went to see this movie on Monday night. I was encouraged by the fact that almost every seat in the theatre was filled — more people to get the word out. D'Souza is joined in the general narration of the film by fellow conservative commentator Dan Bongino. As a former New York City police officer and later as a Secret Service agent during the Bush 43 and Obama administrations, Bongino's experience lends much credibility to the many examples of how government agencies, like the FBI, whose chief duties have traditionally been law enforcement, have now become heavily involved in domestic surveillance. The movie asks the essential question of how we got here, and maybe even more importantly, who is responsible for it? Dinesh D'Souza's Police State: I was literally shaking. It's a familiar trope: The agitated young "transgender" person claims that being "misgendered" left him or her "literally shaking." I've always seen that as a sign of a tragically weak human being. However, last night, while watching Dinesh D'Souza's Police State, I found myself literally shaking, too. Maybe I'm pathetically weak, or maybe that movie triggered such a strong "fight or flight" response in me that, sitting there in my seat, unable to react to either instinct, all I could do was tremble. Why is the movie so powerful? Because using a combination of reenactments, interviews, news footage, police body cams, and individuals' security cameras, D'Souza has compellingly put together things we already know about America in 2023 but don't want to admit: We have in place a government that is loyal, not to the people but to the government itself. The Police State Of America: Biden-Regime Imprisons Man For Meme Mocking Democrats. Rigging elections in the Police State of America ... you know, Zuckerbucks, false Russia-bounties story, "intelligence community" telling us Hunter's laptop is "Russia-disinformation" and Big-tech and the Regime-media then censoring the laptop, "ballot-harvesting," voting-by-mail, etc., etc., etc., is actually "fortifying" democracy. Mocking rigged elections, in contrast, is a crime against democracy. But just keep pretending America is the "greatest country on the face of the earth," that the GOP is ever going to do something about the two-tiered system of justice designed to maintain UniParty control, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. [Tweets] The Biden administration punishes speech and thought crimes. If our government does not respect the Constitution, we have no constitution. If the government refuses to stand behind the principles of free speech, the right to free assembly, the right to petition the government, the right to a speedy trial, etc., those rights don't exist. Instead, we simply have rule down the barrel of a gun: a gun held only in government hands. I thought of that when I read about Doug Mackey, sent to federal prison for seven months because he insulted Hillary voters, and Ryan Kelley, given an extra-long prison sentence on a misdemeanor because he didn't grovel sufficiently before his J6 hanging judge. Briefly, in the lead-up to the 2016 election, Douglas Mackey sent out some silly memes telling Hillary voters to vote by text. Only a moron would believe that. There's no evidence that his memes had any effect whatsoever, other than saying that he thought Hillary voters were morons. Moreover, what he did wasn't original. Others have done it, too, including leftists. Nevertheless, the moment Biden entered the White House, the DOJ came after Mackey. Government Gangsters: How the Deep State Imperils National Security. Like most Americans, Kash Patel grew up believing that the country was run as a democracy, with a government that honors the will of the people and is accountable to them. It was only much later, as an attorney and then as a senior advisor to former president Donald Trump, that he encountered — and confronted — what has come to be called the Deep State, people at the highest levels of government, business, and culture who subvert democracy to serve their own ends. In his recent book Government Gangsters: The Deep State, The Truth and the Battle for our Democracy, Patel describes the Deep State in broad terms as the politicization of core American institutions and the federal government. More specifically, this oligarchy includes elected leaders, journalists, business leaders, and NGOs with leftist ideologies. But its most entrenched and active arm comprises "members of the unelected federal bureaucracy who think they have the right to rule America, not Congress or the president." He's Going to Prison for Twitter Trolling. That's Not Justice. It took an FBI investigation, a three-week trial, and lots of taxpayer dollars, but the government finally got what it wanted this week: A Florida man is heading to federal prison for disseminating trollish memes during the 2016 election season that prosecutors alleged "deprive[d] people of their constitutional right to vote." In the months leading up to Election Day, Douglass Mackey, an erstwhile far-right social media influencer, posted a series of photos on his Twitter profile — which had about 58,000 followers under the name "Ricky Vaughn" — encouraging Hillary Clinton — supporters to cast their votes by phone. That obviously didn't go so well for the people who fell for it. But however you feel about Mackey's obnoxious brand of politics and feeble attempt at comedy, the case became about a lot more than him, raising questions about protected speech, overcriminalization, and a politicized Department of Justice. Close the Border. The American people, at least the reader, has to start getting tough. Those in the government are not your enemies, because they don't even give you the respect of being a human being. [...] They are doing nothing to guarantee the safety and effectiveness of medicine or food. They are doing nothing to secure the border. They are doing nothing to limit spending that has spun out of control to a point where another banking crisis is guaranteed, another depression, or worse, is inevitable. They are doing nothing to secure elections, probably the most important aspect of how the government is authorized to do anything. They are doing nothing to enforce the laws or to keep criminals off the streets. They are doing nothing to stop or limit the flow of fentanyl into our neighborhoods, costing up to 100,000 lives per year. The flow of illegals across the border is nothing less than a biological attack with all of the different diseases these people carry, diseases they are accustomed to, in some cases, but the people of North America are not. If it affects the American citizen, they refuse to do anything to make it better. An Old Man Looks at America. [Scroll down] Were the CIA, FBI, and Justice Dept. always this corrupt? Perhaps. (I'm a born cynic.) But at least, in the past, they tried to cover up their shenanigans by publicly apologizing, instituting reforms, and promising to do better. You could sleep at night and possibly dream that those agencies were on your side. Now, woe to him who offends the Deep State! Trump-supporters, the pro-lifers, Latin Mass-loving Catholics, those who question either the '20 election (see bad joke, voting) or the historically awful government response to COVID-19 — all are domestic terrorists spreading misinformation, committing stochastic violence, and the #1 threat to America, according to the FBI and the odious Merrick Garland, our height- and ethics-challenged attorney general. Worst of all, the above-named agencies don't even attempt to hide their treachery. They laugh in your face as they continue trying to destroy Donald Trump for nigh unto nine years now. They'll break down your door and jail you for trying to protect an unborn baby. They'll gladly sue or audit you to death if you have the wrong political views. Don't take my word for it; ask Mike Lindell. The Brink of Lexington. [Scroll down] In less than a month, weeks actually, the debt rose from $33 trillion to $33.5 trillion. Where did that $500 billion come from? Where was it hiding? In what corner of the building was it sequestered waiting for a chance to be acknowledged? That is astonishing, but it isn't the problem. Not knowing where it came from or why it was dumped into the debt out of nowhere is. No news networks mentioned it, no tweets went out to acknowledge it. Half a trillion dollars of debt just appeared on the ledger overnight. [...] As an example, since the debt ceiling deal went through, the deficit is now $1.5 trillion, but it was promised that it would not exceed $1 trillion. It's now on its way to $2 trillion and that or greater amounts will be sustained forever, because so much of the deal McCarthy made allowed for the creation of new programs and entitlements (like paying up to $4,400 per illegal immigrant family) that will never go away, not without a counter-revolution. We are here, because they already effected a revolution. To get away from this reckless spending, there will have to be a counter-revolution. None of this is reversible, no matter who is in office or what party they represent. Biden Evades The Constitution By Letting Failed Nominees Be De Facto Agency Heads. Biden's first failed nominee is Deputy Secretary of Labor Julie Su. Controversial from the beginning, Su proved too much so for confirmation to the Department of Labor's top spot. On Feb. 28, President Biden announced: "It is my honor to nominate Julie Su to be our country's next Secretary of Labor. Julie has spent her life fighting to make sure that everyone has a fair shot. ... I respectfully ask the Senate to take up this nomination quickly so that we can finish the job for America's workers." The Senate did, and then it said no — specifically Sen. Manchin, D-W.Va., and Sen. Sinema, I-Ariz., though there's no telling how many more would have joined them, because in July, the administration threw in the towel on Su's nomination, but they refuse to give up Su. So for over two months, Su has been in place as acting labor secretary. The administration shows no sign of nominating anyone else, regardless of her Senate rejection. So although Su got her "fair shot," the administration will plow ahead just the same. If We the People Were Actually in Charge. Perhaps no greater delusion stubbornly persists from one generation to the next than the idea that governments can be trusted. Sure, they conduct their affairs in secret, spy on their own people, and arm themselves to the teeth — but, by all means, trust them as you would a dear relative. Sure, they steal from productive citizens, manipulate markets, and swell their bureaucratic armies with ever-growing taxes — but, by all means, trust them as you would a close business associate. Sure, they impose their beliefs on our culture, ban the public expression of unfavored religions, and interpose their agents between parents and children — but, by all means, trust them as you might a pastor, rabbi, or priest. Even after the global wars, genocides, engineered famines, and kill squads that made the last century the most barbaric in human history, it is exceedingly common to hear Justin Trudeau, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and others from the Church of Big Government mock ordinary citizens for not putting absolute faith in government institutions. Jonathan Turley Says New York AG 'Hell Bent' On Destroying Trump's Companies. George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley said Friday that Democratic Attorney General Letitia James of New York was "hell bent" on destroying former President Donald Trump's business empire. New York Judge Arthur F. Engoron issued a ruling finding that Trump's business was guilty of committing fraud Sept. 26, ordering Trump's business licenses to be rescinded and seeking to dissolve Trump's businesses, but the dissolution was placed on hold by an appeals court judge Friday. Trump has spoken out against the trial, calling it a "sham" and calling for Engoron to be disbarred. [Video clip] "Those employees don't really have a representative in court for their interest and there is also this question of just overkill," Turley told "Ingraham Angle" guest host Kayleigh McEnany. "You know, there is evidence of overvaluing and undervaluing assets in this case. That has long been a problem in real estate." Biden Regime's SEC Sues Elon Musk in Their Baseless "Investigation" Over His Perfectly Lawful Purchase of X/Twitter. Is the Biden regime looking for a way to somehow reverse Elon Musk's perfectly lawful purchase of X (formerly Twitter)? Today's developing story reads as a fit of revenge. Jim Hoft previously reported, the SEC has been baselessly investigating Musk's purchase of X/Twitter since 2022. Now they are suing him and Musk is not happy. CNBC reported that the Regime's SEC has sued Musk because they subpoenaed him in September to show up in a San Francisco court and testify regarding his perfectly lawful purchase of X/Twitter. He did not show up likely assuming it was a trap. The Profit Incentives Driving the American Police State. While the overt and costly signs of the despotism exercised by the increasingly authoritarian regime that passes itself off as the United States government are all around us — warrantless surveillance of Americans' private phone and email conversations by the FBI, NSA, etc.; SWAT team raids of Americans' homes; shootings of unarmed citizens by police; harsh punishments meted out to schoolchildren in the name of zero tolerance; drones taking to the skies domestically; endless wars; out-of-control spending; militarized police; roadside strip searches; privatized prisons with a profit incentive for jailing Americans; fusion centers that collect and disseminate data on Americans' private transactions; and militarized agencies with stockpiles of ammunition, to name some of the most appalling — you rarely hear anything about them from the politicians, the corporations or the news media. So what's behind the blackout of real news? The Pentagon's Lack Of Loyalty To President Trump. During the Trump presidency, Pentagon officials refused to follow orders, substituting their own policies over the constitutionally ordained authority of their Commander in Chief. We know that officials lied about troop strength in Syria, attempted to undermine and kill the peace initiative with the Taliban in Afghanistan, and refused to call out the military to quell civil unrest during the George Floyd riots. This is gross insubordination. James Jeffrey, who was a deputy national security adviser to President George W. Bush, US ambassador to Iraq and Turkey under President Obama, and US special representative for Syria engagement under Trump, admitted to just some of the games the Pentagon was playing. After the 2020 election, he revealed that the Pentagon routinely misled President Trump into believing that the troop count in Syria was substantially lower than it was: [...] They Are That Evil. The border is not secure, despite the fact that the constitution promises us a republican form of government and protection against invasion. We have neither. The constitution provides for the president to faithfully execute the laws passed by congress. None of that is happening; he's making laws with Executive Orders, preventing laws from being enforced and even when the Supreme Court orders him to enforce the laws, he refuses. Biden presides over a rogue government as few of his secretaries are following their charters and in most cases are acting in opposition to their charters. The people know this, too. For what purpose is there a congress and a judicial branch if they can and are systematically thwarted by a president who refuses to accept any limitations on his power? Who flaunts the law and the legal means of holding him and his administration accountable? The only way this is possible is with a wealth of media outlets and former officials who provide the political cover for it, who treat these actions as normal and acceptable. COVID
vaccine mandates have severely damaged trust in US military leaders.
[Scroll down] Below are three of the most public examples of betrayal that led to the
current lack of trust and credibility.
Two-Punch. The people we elect to Congress don't want to be accountable for specifically authorizing spending on the blob's multitudinous pet projects. So, they depend on multi-thousand-page omnibus bills nobody can ever scrutinize, and continuing resolution dodges to postpone any necessarily painful action on a budget. Therefore, a dissenting coterie in the House proposes to play hard-ball over de-funding the blob, that is, a government shutdown of unknown duration, until gaslight is replaced by sunlight. The blob itself sends out a frantic S.O.S. Don't let these white supremacist, "far-right" MAGA nut-jobs drag us out of the comfortable warm, moist darkness we thrive in — perfect conditions for continued blob growth! Societal Looters. [Scroll down] The question then is, what is the greater wrong? Is it more wrong to act without all of the facts, without being absolutely sure in our hearts that we know the truth, if our actions intercede in child trafficking? What if our actions, even if arrived at through flawed reasoning, prevent the invasion of our nation; the rape of innocent women and children; the hundreds of thousands of drug deaths related to fentanyl? Is it more wrong to rid ourselves of this government if it leads to chaos and death if allowing it to continue only leads to chaos and death? At present there literally is no difference in outcome, but one path, the continued path of this corrupt and evil government can only lead to destruction while ridding ourselves of it holds the promise of renewal and order after a period of chaos and death. Their intent is known, demonstrated over and over. The purpose of the government as it is, is to put the burden of costs on the backs of the poorest, hardest-working and most miserable of us to provide jets and yachts to their selves and their cronies. They are, as I have stated many times, merely looting the treasury of our tax dollars. What can you do if the government declares you dead? This probably sounds like one of those "funny" stories that wind up in various skits, but it's something that actually happens and can have serious results. What happens to a U.S. citizen if the government declares them to be legally dead while they are still alive and well? The results can be incredibly damaging if the situation isn't corrected promptly. In the case of Madeline-Michelle Carthen of St. Louis, Missouri, she learned that making that correction can be daunting or perhaps impossible. In 2007, while preparing for an overseas internship, she learned that her social security number had been added to a federal database of deceased persons. Her life has essentially been a nightmare ever since, despite endless efforts to prove that she is, in fact, still alive. Slouching
Towards 1984. Sadly, in the U.S. both political parties have contributed to the
growth of the surveillance and controlling state. Here are some examples:
New York Judge Rules Without Trial, Jury or Verdict, That President Trump Must Dissolve All Business Interests in State. This is John Galt level government targeting. A New York State judge has arbitrarily ruled, no trial — no jury, that President Trump overvalued his real estate holdings in New York, which means he paid too much in taxes, in order to secure financing and loans. All the banks and lenders did their own due diligence on the financing. All operational loans and business loans were paid back. There were no defaults or banking interests adversely impacted. There are no victims of what the State calls "fraud," yet the judge is ruling the Trump organization must dissolve all business interests in the state and exit within 10 days. New York Attorney General Latisha James campaigned for office with promises to target the Trump Organization and Donald Trump himself. This is malicious lawfare in the extreme. Ken Paxton's salary was CUT OFF even though the law forbade it. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was acquitted by the Texas Senate on Saturday on 16 articles of impeachment, and Sara Gonzales is thrilled. "What a sight to behold, our elected attorney general sitting in his office with the sign behind him," Gonzales tells Paxton. While Paxton is thrilled to be back as well, he admits that it's been anything but easy — and his detractors were working overtime to make sure they got him while he was down. "I lost all my resources, I had no campaign money left, because we'd been through a moratorium during session. I spent all my money during the campaign to win, so they knew they had me at a disadvantage," he tells Gonzales. Did Soros 'Republicans' make it ILLEGAL for Texas AG Ken Paxton to prosecute voter fraud? Ken Paxton was acquitted by the Texas Senate on Saturday on 16 articles of impeachment, and some are not so happy about it. A recent Wall Street Journal opinion piece written by the outlet's entire editorial board states, "Mr. Paxton's defenders are spinning that he was saved by a populist national conservative groundswell to put an end to the 'Bush era' in Texas. What a joke." "The acquittal," the piece continues, "may not play out so well for Texas Republicans in the longer run. A federal investigation into Mr. Paxton is continuing amid reports that a grand jury has been impaneled." "I've been investigated ever since the day I walked into this office," Paxton tells Glenn Beck. "I have no doubt that the Biden administration would love to find some way — they've been working on it for years to get rid of me, and part of that process was the impeachment." Communism, Fascism, Globalism — What's the Difference? At the end of the day, we are talking about a system of government in which centralized power belongs to a small group of elites who use their control over economic, military, and intelligence-collecting institutions to rule over everyone else. Whether it is a government run by Mussolini, a king, the self-described "proletariat," or an international cabal of central banks and corporations — it is a dictatorship all the same. [...] Administrators, bureaucrats, and political leaders love to talk about "democracy" because doing so buttresses their pretense that the people are actually in control. Nothing could be farther from the truth. It is the "ruling class" that hoards power, and the more any elite member speaks of "democracy," the more certain you can be that the elites are actively betraying the overall will of the people. Biden Lays a Booby Trap for a Republican President. The Biden administration is setting a booby trap in case a Republican wins the presidency in 2024. On Friday, the White House unveiled a proposed rule that would make it even harder than in the past for an incoming Republican president to wrestle control of the left-leaning federal bureaucracy and actually implement the conservative policies promised to voters. Of the 2.2 million federal civil workers, only 4,000 are presidential appointees. The rest stay in their jobs, from one administration to the next, protected by rules that make it nearly impossible to discipline or replace them. They overwhelmingly favor the Left. A staggering 95% of unionized federal employees who donate to political candidates give to Democrats, according to Open Secrets. Only a tiny 5% support Republicans. Some federal workers in high positions slow-walk or even derail a Republican president's agenda — and get away with it. Why bother to vote if the left-leaning deep state stays in charge no matter who wins the presidency? The Biden administration wants to make it hard to fire career bureaucrats. The Democrat party's strength exists primarily in its control over the federal workforce, most of whom are Democrat party loyalists. Trump promised in 2016 to pare down the Deep State but failed. Instead, it pared him down. Now, Republican candidates are again promising to cut back on the federal workforce, with Vivek Ramaswamy believing that he can fire whole departments and agencies. Naturally, that mindset represents a huge threat to the Democrats, so it's being reported that the Biden administration is trying to create rules to prevent any future Republican from destroying the Deep State bureaucracy. Tony Buzbee Discusses Background of Sham Impeachment Effort Against AG Ken Paxton. Do not let it escape your notice that not a single professional Republican entity has stood up to show their support for Texas AG Ken Paxton or congratulate him on the clear and decisive impeachment victory against the corrupt UniParty system in the Lone Star state. Not a word from The Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA), or any other professional Republican group. Instead, only President Donald Trump and the overwhelming majority of the MAGA base have stood strong with Paxton — before, during and after the smear campaign to remove him. Keep this BIG UGLY data point in mind. On the federal side, with Obama-Biden flooding the border with illegal aliens, Ken Paxton was considered a threat from both the White House and the Texas Governor, Greg Abbott. [Video clip] American Pravda: The White House tells the newspapers what to publish and what to omit. From Trump On Down, Democrats Are Silencing The Opposition. We Americans must understand that the cabal can and will use mob rule, lawfare, and bureaucratic fiats to effect its agenda, even when doing so is clearly politically motivated, invalid and unconstitutional, with the process itself often intended to ensure that political opponents yield to the cabal's force. Nothing will stop them. If you are an outspoken journalist, the IRS will be sent to your home. If you are a concerned citizen who shows up to silently protest one of the cabal's pet missions, you will be arrested. If you speak up at a school board meeting because your daughter was sexually assaulted by a transgendered assailant, you might be tackled and cuffed. If a given school actually tries to remove damaging wokism from its system all together, the feds will investigate it for civil rights violations. If you produce effective conservative messaging for Google and YouTube (which together control some 90% of worldwide internet searches), the courts won't stop Google and YouTube from restricting or banning you entirely. Fulton County DA Accused of Burying Evidence That Could Derail Trump RICO Case. Sidney Powell's defense attorney in the Fulton County, Georgia, RICO case regarding an alleged effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in the state accused county prosecutors Thursday of withholding exculpatory evidence in violation of the law. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee also made a key ruling in the case severing Powell's and pro-Trump attorney Kenneth Chesebro's cases from those of former President Donald Trump and the 16 other defendants, CNN reported. Both Powell, a former Trump campaign attorney, and Chesebro sought a speedy trial, consistent with their Sixth Amendment right, while Trump and the other defendants want the case slowed down to better prepare their defenses. Now Biden Wants to Deny Your Consumer's Choice in Water Heaters. President Joe Biden's proposed energy efficiency standards for water heaters, released July 21 by the Energy Department, not only would raise the cost of water heaters for consumers but take certain products off the market. One popular tankless natural gas water heater, made by Rinnai in Griffin, Georgia, would have to be discontinued. The public has until Sept. 26 to file comments. Beginning in 2029, the Energy Department's proposed regulation would set government standards for all types of water heaters, including gas-fired, oil-fired, electric, and instantaneous tankless water heaters. The proposed rule would raise standards disproportionately for tankless, gas-fired water heaters to over 91% efficiency. Trouble is, achieving this level of efficiency with noncondensing technology is impossible to do. Likely! Not certainly, just likely? Levin: The Democrat Party's fetish for the 14th Amendment is a vile attack on our elections. The modern Democrat Party has an unhealthy fetish for the 14th Amendment, one of the three post-Civil War constitutional amendments. Democrats are constantly and relentlessly trying to rewrite it to accommodate their political ends. A few months ago, Joe Biden and his party insisted that Section 4 of the 14th Amendment granted the president power to unilaterally increase the debt ceiling, which would destroy Congress's sole power under Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution to tax, spend, and borrow. Of course, Section 4 of the 14th Amendment does no such thing, and there is nothing in the history of the amendment that supports such an interpretation. The Weaponized Left Is Completely Out of Control. In 2009 and 2010, conservatives and small-government Americans from across the country came together in protest of President Barack Obama's big spending projects and plan to upend the U.S. healthcare system through Obamacare. They were opposed to this fundamental transformation of the country and decided to exercise their First Amendment rights by peacefully organizing against it. The Tea Party was born. The Obama administration didn't like the opposition, especially ahead of the 2010 midterm elections, and used the IRS to silence everyday Americans with phone calls, harassment and threats of imprisonment. "The fact that officials at the IRS wielded their power to target certain Americans for their political views is both outrageous and contrary to our nation's values. Our government is supposed to work for all Americans, not for a particular partisan agenda. As a result of the IRS' targeting, conservative groups were singled out across the nation, resulting in lengthy paperwork requirements, overly burdensome information requests, and lengthy, unwarranted delays in their applications," House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte said in a 2013 statement when Republicans were investigating the matter. That was just the beginning. Fast forward to the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election, and the left has supercharged their efforts by criminalizing the contesting of elections. Not for Democrats but for Republicans, with the Department of Justice and local prosecutors leading the charge. Fani Willis Possesses Evidence Exonerating Georgia's Alternate Electors. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis possesses evidence that exonerates several Republicans she's targeting in her legal crusade against former President Donald Trump and other Republicans for their lawful contesting of Georgia's flawed 2020 election. In her Aug. 14 indictment, Willis alleged the existence of Republican electors for Trump constituted an unlawful "conspiracy" to overturn the Peach State's 2020 election results. Among those charged for partaking in this so-called "conspiracy" are David Shafer, one of Georgia's 2020 Republican electors, and Ray Smith, who served as one of Trump's lawyers at the time of the contest. Specifically, Willis claimed Shafer and the other alternate electors "unlawfully falsely held themselves out" as Georgia's "duly elected and qualified" presidential electors. She further insisted these electors — with Smith's assistance — intentionally attempted to "mislead" figures such as then-Vice President Mike Pence and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensberger "into believing that they actually were such officers." However, among the documents Willis obtained during her years-long investigation of Republicans was a meeting transcript refuting her allegations. 31 Years After Ruby Ridge, the FBI Is Still Killing Americans with Impunity. As Republicans and Democrats waste time and political capital focusing on how the FBI treats Donald Trump or Hunter Biden, four men in the last three weeks have been shot to death by the FBI, three of them in questionable pre-dawn raids. Two of the men were white and right-wing, one was an Arab, and another was a black suspected for a string of robberies. In a typical FBI related raid leading up to a shooting, federal agents make painstaking efforts to destroy any visible cameras on a targeted property, seldom wear body cameras, and refuse to inform family members why they felt they had to shoot their loved one or what they were suspected of. In some cases, the FBI will even refuse to confirm their involvement in a killing. In these controversial shoots, the Bureau has the laughable ability to investigate itself, which predictably, means that they rule every killing as justified. The FBI then cordons off the scene and bans the family from entering their own residence for days as staff is dispatched to collect evidence, providing them ample opportunity to tamper with or eliminate any evidence of malfeasance or error. In virtually every case, an agent who shoots a suspect in a contentious encounter is granted the informal right to forever remain anonymous by both the media and government officials — a perk not extended to local police officers in similar circumstances. If public outrage begins to grow, unrelated videos and information intended to characterize the person who was shot as a dangerous menace suddenly leaks to the press even as the FBI publicly keeps its lips sealed. The way these incidents unfold is akin to how death squads or assassins operate rather than a legitimate law enforcement agency subject to civilian oversight. The game is afoot. [Scroll down] But in all their scheming and plotting, they forgot one of the basic axioms of politics: avoid the boomerang. The boomerang in this case being there are not only blue states with double digit IQ fascists running things, there are also red states, where inner cities are not broken, where mayors allow their district attorneys to prosecute criminals and whose attorneys general actually know the law and follow it. They don't invent and project crimes on their opponents. They don't corrupt the federal government to imprison political opponents. And they don't cry RICO when the true RICO crime boss is one of their own — blatantly and shamelessly using his political position as president as a global piggy bank. Using the Dictator's — and the Mafia's — Playbook. There are two ways to best understand the current Democrat Party. The first way is to think of any dictatorship in the last 100 years (Cuba, Soviet Union, North Korea, China, Russia, and most Islamic countries are examples). The second way is to view the Dems as the organized criminal enterprise they have become. Biden, Hillary, Obama, et al. are totalitarians/authoritarians that operate as organized criminals raking in millions of dollars very much like the mafia dons and mafia families of the 1920s-1970s. First, think of the above listed dictators and how they operate. The mission of an authoritarian regime is to remain in power. To do so, they must control the institutions of power. In no particular order, because each is equally important, you must control the media and press, the legal system, law enforcement, the universities, and the bureaucracy. With control of those institutions, you rule any country. Save the Rule of Law By Destroying It? Americans ask themselves questions whose answers are never given. Why are all these Trump prosecutors leftwing or with Democratic connections? Would any of the 90 something indictments for "crimes" of years past have been lodged against a citizen Trump who had retired from politics? Why are these indictments of alleged wrongdoing of years ago now in summer 2023 suddenly both being synchronized in leftwing jurisdictions of New York, Washington, Miami, and Atlanta with the beginning of the 2024 election cycle? Are any of the indictments against Trump also applicable to others? Alvin Bragg's charge of campaign finance violations (Hillary Clinton, 2016)? Jack Smith's allegations of encouraging mass civil unrest (Kamala Harris, 2020)? Illegally removing and possessing classified federal documents (Joe Biden 2009-2022)? Letitia James's lawsuit alleging financial irregularities and fraud (Al Sharpton 2009-2014)? Fani Willis's claim that Trump was seeking to sabotage the constitutional duties of state electors (Martin Sheen, and an array of B-list Hollywood actors, 2016) and colluding to interfere with an election (Fani Willis 2003-4)? This Political Prosecution Scheme Is Going To Backfire Hard. Yuck it up, you morons who think it's cool to try to frame political opponents because your mug shots are coming soon enough. And maybe not just mugshots. You've genuinely screwed yourselves. You can't control what you have unleashed. And you're celebrating. You shouldn't. [...] And you ought to hope it's only mug shots. I hope it's only mug shots, not for your sake, but for my country's sake. You've screwed up my country, and it's not clear that the wounds you caused are not mortal. This is now a country where we lock up political opponents. I just want to get that out there again, and I want you to understand what has changed. This is now a country where we lock up political opponents. And it's inevitable that very soon, you're going to realize that you are some people's political opponents too. Steve Bannon Outlines National American Destiny as Attached to Trump Destiny. Steve Bannon did an excellent monologue today [8/25/2023] outlining how President Donald Trump is one of only three people who have the destiny of the nation attached to their own destiny. Together with President Abraham Lincoln and President George Washington, the destiny of our constitutional Republic as intrinsically tied to President Donald Trump. [Video clip] Emails Reveal Manipulated Biden Wikipedia Entries. A new report revealed Wikipedia's permissive role in the concerted effort to protect President Joe Biden by blocking Americans from reading politically-negative information tied to his embattled son. According to data entries reviewed by independent journalist Lee Fang, Wikipedia allowed special consultants "hired" by Hunter Biden to manipulate the "Hunter Biden" page with "stealth edits." Wikipedia, a site funded by leftist billionaire George Soros, seemingly stood idly by as entries tying Hunter to damning bribery scandals were edited "without any fingerprints." As reported by Fang, Hunter ordered FTI Consulting, a crisis management public relations firm, in 2014 to help him and his dad save face by keeping Americans from accessing the Bidens' ties to shady business dealings on Wikipedia. The Deliberate Destruction of Post-War Generations. This is the third in an August series about the loose association of monsters trying to affect one world government, or fascism with a smiley face. In this essay, I draw together the evidence that from the 60's on, their goal was to break the children of three generations, (ending with gender reassignment surgery), destroy their minds, stunt their futures, ruin their families, attempt to persuade them that having children was bad, and that growth, prosperity and self-government was impossible, even destructive. From the Kennedy assassination onwards, a series of horrifying events was engineered to destabilize American culture and confidence. From military and hospital laboratories all over the US and Canada, psychiatrists ran experiments and devised actions to set community groups against each other, deliberately destroying civic peace. The environmental movement was created in these labs and seminar rooms, as was second wave feminism. All of it was anti-human, meant to draw down the population, and ensure that the rest were docile to the point of submission. Operation Paperclip, Operation Bluebird, Operation Mockingbird, MKUltra were and continue to be real, heavily funded, and weaponized against us. The Democrats are Certain They Will Never be Held Accountable for the Trump Indictments and Biden Cover-Up. Never in the 235 years since the ratification of the Constitution has an administration premeditatively and blatantly prosecuted, on specious and conjecturable charges, the titular leader of the opposition party and leading candidate for president. And doing so while overtly flaunting their egregious actions to protect and cover-up for the incumbent president who has been exposed as potentially complicit in massive bribery and fraud. In any previous election cycle, these overt and unabashed actions would have been the death knell for the incumbent president's campaign and his party. Yet the Democrats are blatantly unconcerned, supremely confident that they will prevail in 2024 regardless of who they nominate. Biden Declares War On Your Appliances. President Biden's unelected bureaucrats were never going to stop at taking away your light bulbs. Your gas stove is next, followed by your dishwasher and your water heater — then finally your car. And it's not members of Congress who are doing this, so you can't vote them out of office. This isn't conjecture. This year the Department of Energy, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Transportation have announced proposed rules that would force you to give up your current appliances and cars. Additional regulations to pressure companies not to fund American energy have come from the Council on Environmental Quality, the Office of Comptroller of the Currency, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. The FDA can't be sued for providing false or dishonest information. The gist of a current court case that you've likely never heard of, is that three heroic doctors are suing the FDA about the loss of their jobs, about their careers being derailed, about the loss of their reputation — all because their professional, scientific opinion as to what was in the best interest of their patients, was different than the political agenda of the FDA. What is at stake here could not be more significant, and it applies across the board to EVERY federal agency. The question is: do federal agencies have the unsupervised right to replace Science with political science? Put another way: can they act dishonestly, incompetently, etc. with essentially no meaningful consequences? FDA Admits Guidance on Ivermectin was Illegal, Invokes 'Sovereign Immunity' for Misleading Statements. This Substack has chronicled the illegal war on PSYOP-19 early treatment therapies by the very perpetrators of the "pandemic," and their associated criminal mandates. It is no surprise that the most vilified early treatment repurposed drug Ivermectin has also been by far the most effective: [...] The reason that the captured FDA along with their partners-in-crime the CDC, WHO, UN, WEF, CFR, DoD, Pentagon, CIA, the illegitimate Federal government, Rockefeller and Gates "nonprofits," et al. have targeted Ivermectin is threefold: it is exceptionally effective as an early C-19 treatment, mass administration would have resulted in plummeting global (turbo) cancer rates, and this wonder drug attenuates and reverses the slow kill bioweapon DEATHVAX damage. A landmark lawsuit filed against the FDA by doctors Mary Talley Bowden, Paul Marik, and Robert Apter was heard in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday [8/8/2023]. Part of this lawsuit against the FDA was specific to fraudulent and illicit claims made by the agency against Ivermectin. Americans are Not Fooled: Two Thirds of Americans Believe 2020 Election was Rigged, The Feds Incited Jan 6, and the Bidens are a Crime Family. Two out of three Americans are awake and not woke. They see that truth behind the many lies from the Democrats and their corrupt media and Big Tech. In April, a poll at Rasmussen Reports reported that two-thirds of Americans suspect that the Feds incited the Jan 6 riots. This poll was before the former head of the Capitol Police spoke with Tucker Carlson and shared that Jan 6 was all a setup to get President Trump. In May, a poll by Rasmussen Reports found that 62% of Americans believed that the 2020 Election was stolen. This number has grown over time. Also in May, a super majority of Americans per a Rasmussen poll showed that they believed the Biden gang's crimes related to foreign influence peddling were a big deal. Introducing Contempt of Public. We have all heard about contempt of court and contempt of Congress. They are offenses for which one may be fined or jailed. But what about contempt of public? What's the penalty for that? I don't know that you will find contempt of public in the statute books. If not I offer up the phrase free and for nothing to the bureaucrats who look after such things. I think it should be added to our vocabulary if not to our code of laws. It names a grievous assault on the community. By making a travesty of the rules and institutions that undergird our social life, contempt of public threatens to undermine that essential if often hard-to-define societal lubricant: trust. The Weaponization of Justice. Jack Smith, with a long history of partisan conduct, is the prosecuting attorney in the case in the District of Columbia charging Trump with disinformation regarding the 2020 election, a confection of dubious legal basis. This week, the parties argued before District Court judge Tanya Chutkin the prosecution's right to muzzle Trump during his campaign as he and his team poison public opinion and a potential jury pool with leaks and accusations of wrongdoing. Judge Chutkin has a history of sentencing J6 defendants to longer sentences than even the prosecution requested. She warned counsel for Trump that politics had no place in her courtroom, but in at least one transcribed exchange with one of those defendants she tipped her hand, expressing her view that it was wrong that Trump was not yet jailed: [Transcript] Evil Never Takes a Holiday. There is a reason the permanent Deep State now resorts to sham trials, censorship, and political persecution: it no longer has the time to pretend to respect free speech or the rule of law. A century of slow but steady marching toward a Marxist technocratic super-state has given way to overt public harassment, coercion, and easily recognizable propaganda. The left's deceptive veil has been lifted, and tyranny now has a face in all those politicians who openly support punishing dissent and constructing a modern-day Ministry of (dis)Information. The petty totalitarians have moved from a marathon's pace to a sprint not because the finish line is just ahead, but because too many ordinary people have begun to figure out what is going on around them. Biden's crime family is all of DC. Joe Biden himself bragged five years ago about withholding aid to get the prosecutor fired. Here's the video. Republicans did nothing about Biden admitting to doing what RINOs and other Democrats falsely accused Trump of doing. Nothing has come out of Biden storing classified secrets in his garage. There is no way Joe will be impeached or Hunter will do any jail time because if they go down, all of Washington will go with them. Washington protects its own because they fear if one goes to jail, he will bring them all down. Hillary said she would bring DC down with her. Guess what? She never was indicted even though she forwarded state secrets via email to foreign donors to her fake charity when she was secretary of state. Federal Indictment of Donald Trump Is Weaponization of American Political System. The indictment of former President Donald Trump by special counsel Jack Smith — with the full approval of Attorney General Merrick Garland — is an attack on the American political system and fundamental rights protected by the First Amendment to freely discuss, debate, and contest serious election and political issues. It represents the ultimate weaponization of the Justice Department, a transformation started by President Barack Obama's attorney general, Eric Holder, and completed by Garland, to take out a viable political opponent of Garland's boss and political patron, President Joe Biden. Nothing more, nothing less. Trump is charged with four felony counts under three federal statutes — 18 U.S.C. §§ 371, 1512, and 241 — for supposedly conspiring to defraud the U.S., obstruct an official proceeding, and suppress the right of Americans to vote. Why? Because he "spread lies" questioning the outcome of the 2020 election by claiming "that he had actually won," according to the indictment, thus creating a "national atmosphere of mistrust and anger" and "erod[ing] public faith in the administration of the election." That's the kind of language you would normally see in an editorial from The New York Times, not in a criminal indictment. It is an opinion, not an actual rendition of facts. A Florida Trial and a D.C. Grand Jury for Trump. The elites may have to hold one of their show trials in Florida, but the grand jury had to be in D.C. ["]Judge Aileen Cannon on Monday asked the Justice Department to explain its use of an out-of-state grand jury in the Mar-a-Lago case. While the Mar-a-Lago case is being handled out of her Fort Pierce, Fla., courtroom, much of the grand jury work ahead of the indictment was conducted through a Washington, D.C., grand jury.["] A D.C. grand jury is an obvious rubber stamp for political prosecutors. A D.C. grand jury would indict a ham sandwich, as long as it was a Republican. That's why the real show is in Washington D.C. Going down to Florida is a bit inconvenient because it's one of those provinces of the empire. Was COVID response a coup by the intelligence community? Michael Senger wrote a piece this weekend arguing that the response to COVID-19 was devised by the intelligence community to perform what amounted to a coup. You can see his point. The IC has been deeply involved in both the censorship regime and the spread of sketchy information that was pushed out. It helped monitor the flow of information, the implementation of draconian policies that limited people's liberties, and infiltrated social media companies and search engines to manipulate public perception and acceptance of hitherto unheard-of policies that fundamentally altered Western Culture. Senger's thesis hinges on the notion that the Western response, after initially rejecting the absurd Chinese response to COVID that was only possible in a totalitarian society, reversed course in February/March 2020. The IC was deeply involved in the discussions regarding the response, and there clearly was a campaign to pretty up China's involvement in and response to COVID. Conservative groups sue Biden for new plan to forgive $39 billion in student loans. President Joe Biden has again been accused of abusing his power with his bid to wipe $39 billion in student loan debt. Conservative groups are suing the Biden administration and demanded a federal court block the new income-driven repayment plans. The White House had to draft new proposals to forgive student loan debts after the Supreme Court struck down his plan weeks ago. Democrats Are Dancing the Totalitarian Two-Step. [Scroll down] Matt Margolis provided a timeline suggesting that indictments are dropped against Biden's political opponent whenever Biden or his family are implicated in another scandal. This convenient distraction is actually election interference, what Trump is accused of in the most recent indictment. The party in power has arrested and wants to imprison its political opposition, banana republic-style. The same day that the FBI released bribery allegations against Joe Biden, Trump was indicted over supposed mishandling of classified documents. When Hunter Biden's plea deal fell apart, the next day Special Counsel Jack Smith added a superseding indictment in the classified documents case. Then right on schedule, the day after Devon Archer confirmed Hunter Biden's foreign influence-peddling with Father Joe's knowledge and participation, Smith indicted Trump for challenging the 2020 presidential election results, conspiracy to defraud the United States, obstruction of an official proceeding, and conspiracy against rights. What Biden's DOJ is doing is out of the totalitarianism playbook, eliminating political opposition, outlawing opposition to the state and pushing its claims through state-controlled media. Throw All the Bums Out. I don't think the federal government will exist in its current form much longer. The reason is simple: if Marxist globalists get their way, then sovereign U.S. powers will continue to be unlawfully delegated to the U.N., the WHO, and other international monstrosities until some Obama-type tyrant is ruling over us all from Turtle Bay or a stately castle outside Brussels. If freedom-minded people succeed in reining in the federal government and reimposing the Constitution's limited delegation of powers, then the monstrosity that is already with us will radically diminish or disappear. Either the current beast lording it over us will transform into something even more menacing, or it will be sapped of its blood-thirst for unconstitutional overreach and brought to heel. [...] If we were still abiding by the Constitution, then 99% of today's federal government would be chucked to the bottom of the Potomac. Biden Is Turning U.S. into Putin's Russia with Trump Indictments. Last week, the country's main opposition leader was hit with a new prosecution that could see him serve an effective life sentence in prison. The charges were vague, and political in nature. He was accused of inciting extremism and encouraging other people to break the law. He is being railroaded through a judicial system that is deferential to the government. He cannot appeal to public opinion in his own defense: the country's media are hostile to him, and he has been censored on most platforms in any case. The country in question was not the United States, but Russia. The opposition leader was not Donald Trump, but Aleksey Navalny. Yet increasingly, it is difficult to tell the difference between the two, at least when it comes to the administration of justice. Joe Biden's DOJ: Where Justice Goes to Die. The Department of Justice should be honest and call itself Biden Campaign Headquarters. As a fearsome whiff of East Germany wafts through its windows, this Cabinet agency persecutes Donald Trump, the president's chief political rival, and keeps the heat off of the Bidens. Regardless, temperatures are hotter than July. Special counsel Jack Smith's four-count indictment du jour, unveiled Tuesday, aims to jail Trump for using First Amendment-protected free speech to challenge the validity of the 2020 election. Never mind that Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff, Chuck Schumer, and countless other Democrats challenged the validity of the 2016 election. They called Trump illegitimate and, for three years, screamed the knowingly false claim that he won only with Vladimir Putin's help. When will Smith indict these Democrats? Never. A Country Descending into Madness. [Scroll down] Make no mistake: today's voluntarily enslaved press adores totalitarianism just as much as the totalitarians in office do. I do not like the current state of our nation. Our government spies on us without cause. The administrative bureaucracy enforces regulatory edicts without any constitutional authority or consent from the people. Heavily armed federal agencies intimidate Americans with the threat of physical violence. The corrupt Department of (in)Justice continues to wage legal warfare against the ruling regime's political enemies. These are all forms of tyranny that America's Founders risked their lives to reject. Such injustices will not stand. I am glad to be alive during this moment in history — when ordinary people have a chance to rectify past abuses and set America back upon a righteous course. Our adversaries talk about a "Great Reset" that will launch the United States and other Western nations into a new era of technocratic State control over citizens. Indicting Trump for 'knowingly false statements' about election sets US on dangerous path. Special counsel Jack Smith made history on Tuesday [8/1/2023]. It wasn't just the federal indictment of a former president. Smith already did that in June with the indictment of Donald Trump on charges that he mishandled classified documents. No, Smith and his team have made history in the worst way by attempting to fully criminalize disinformation by seeking the incarceration for a politician on false claims made during and after an election. The hatred for Trump is so all-encompassing that legal experts on the political left have ignored the chilling implications of this indictment. This complaint is based largely on statements that are protected under the First Amendment. It would eviscerate free speech and could allow the government to arrest those who are accused of spreading disinformation in elections. The Merging of Intent — Community Organizing and Main Justice. Until the era of Barack Obama and Eric Holder, the efforts of the community activists were to excuse and absolve the transparently guilty. It was only when Barack Obama and Eric Holder moved into office that things changed; the inflection point was achieved. What we now consider the weaponization of the DOJ is actually the outcome of Main Justice merging with community activism. Instead of the long-standing method of absolving the transparently guilty, the justice system was repurposed to accuse the transparently innocent. Only one voice noticed the changed activity as it was taking place and called my attention to it, that voice was author Jack Cashill. DOJ Indictment Of Trump Is A Declaration Of War Against American Voters. On Tuesday, President Joe Biden's Justice Department took the unprecedented step of indicting former President Donald Trump — Biden's chief rival in the upcoming 2024 election — for repeatedly expressing his opinion that the last election was stolen, rigged, and unfair. It's an opinion millions of Americans share, and to which they are unquestionably entitled thanks to the First Amendment. That includes Trump, who has said repeatedly (and recently) that the 2020 election was stolen. He'll probably keep saying it until his dying day, and he has every right to do so. The idea that our Justice Department can indict someone, especially the sitting president's main political rival, over speech that's protected by the First Amendment is simply insane. It puts us firmly into banana republic territory, where tinpot dictators jail their political opponents ahead of election day to ensure their "reelection." Simply put, this indictment is nothing more than a declaration of war against American voters and their constitutional right to free speech. The Trump Indictment Criminalizes Political Dissent. The serial indictments and investigations of former President Trump are meant to rig the 2024 presidential election, but the latest indictment is unique in rigging even its aftermath. Previous indictments of the former president had broken all sorts of new legal ground by turning misdemeanors into felonies and deciding that the statute of limitations is just a suggestion, but the Jan 6 indictment by Democrat special counsel Jack Smith criminalizes election challenges. Or at least election challenges against Democrats. And along with that, all political dissent. The Jan 6 indictment contends that Trump's election challenges were a crime. What does this latest indictment offer that the previous indictments did not? This one is designed to intimidate any Republicans who might seek to challenge the outcome of the 2024 presidential election. Nothing Says Guilt Quite Like These DOJ Cleanup Efforts. Nothing highlights a guilty intent quite like Main Justice backtracking to tell the judge their prior request was really, double dog swear, not intended to intimidate a congressional witness just a few hours before the testimony. [...] We all know what this is. The weaponization of the DOJ is the #1 topic of national discussion; even when they pretend not to notice the weaponization of the justice system is the #1 topic of national discussion. Main Justice, a network of affiliated Lawfare minds, runs in an echo-chamber of ideological group think. There's no one in the room to say, 'hey guys, um, hold up — this looks like weaponization, targeting and witness intimidation', because they really are weaponizing, targeting and intimidating witnesses. DOJ's Dirty Deeds. It has been a week of scandalous doings on Attorney General Merrick Garland's watch. Congress seems paralyzed to intervene with more than hearings, and so far, only federal district court Judge Maryellen Noreika has tried. As I explain, it's questionable whether her conduct will prevent the Justice Department from exonerating Hunter Biden from laundering what may be as much as $50 million in bribes from countries, including China, Ukraine, and Romania, into his family's pockets. Through Jack Smith it has corralled President Trump's valet and the Mar-a-Largo maintenance worker into the ridiculous documents case. Finally, it dropped another case against crypto scammer Sam Bankman-Fried, who contributed as much as $90 million dollars of ill-gotten funds almost entirely to Democratic candidates and their action committees. It's time to prosecute the prosecutors. The farther we drift from the constitutional rule in this country, the less shocking the shocking will become. [...] Imagine Ronald Reagan prosecuting Walter Mondale, or George H.W. Bush prosecuting Bill Clinton, or Bill Clinton prosecuting Bob Dole. The shocking thought of such foolishness would never have been tolerated by the American people. But no more. Once the shock value wears off, and once the wide gates of banana republicanism are thrown open, there's no turning back. How ironic that Putin-obsessed Democrats are acting just like him. Maskless churchgoer settles lawsuit over 2020 arrest, calls liberalism a 'modern-day cult'. Idaho resident Gabriel Rench was awarded a hefty settlement for his 2020 arrest during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Rench spoke out about his case Monday and argued his arrest was the result of liberalism and cancel culture. Rench was arrested in September 2020 along with two other churchgoers for not wearing masks to an outdoor worship service. The three brought the lawsuit forward the following year, alleging their First and Fourth Amendment rights were violated. The city of Moscow ultimately agreed to settle for $300,000. Professors urge Biden to defy 'mistaken' rulings by 'MAGA' Supreme Court justices. President Biden should find ways to defy the rulings of "MAGA justices" for their "gravely mistaken" constitutional interpretations, university professors urged in a letter on Wednesday. Harvard law professor Mark Tushnet and San Francisco State University political scientist Aaron Belkin penned "An Open Letter to the Biden Administration on Popular Constitutionalism" to respond to what Biden has called "not a normal court" following high-profile cases. "We urge President Biden to restrain MAGA justices immediately by announcing that if and when they issue rulings that are based on gravely mistaken interpretations of the Constitution that undermine our most fundamental commitments, the Administration will be guided by its own constitutional interpretations," they wrote. Hemingway: DOJ Playing With Fire Trying To "Literally Imprison" The President's Top Political Rival. "The Federalist" senior editor Mollie Hemingway, during an appearance Sunday on FNC's "Media Buzz, drives home the point that with the indictment of Donald Trump on federal charges over the January 6 riot, the Department of Justice is "working to literally imprison the top political opponent of the current president" over an issue of political speech. She said Trump not being allowed to "do what everybody else was always allowed to do, which is protest election results and challenge election results" is "very dangerous." "To criminalize that act, something the Democrats have done every single election since Reagan... The Department of Justice is acting in a very reckless fashion, and a competent media would be accurately talking about that, what a problem it poses to the very existence of our republic." Michigan Charges 16 People — Average Age 69 — for Believing Trump Won. Sixteen Republicans in Michigan — including former state co-chairwoman Meshawn Maddock — are being prosecuted by Democrat Attorney General Dana Nessel for putting themselves forward as alternative electors after the 2020 election results were contested. AG Nessel accuses the would-be electors — who average out at 69 years old between them — of having "undermined the public's faith in the integrity of our elections," and has hit each of them with eight felonies, among them forgery, conspiracy to commit forgery, and election law forgery. Several of the charges carry prison terms of up to 14 years. "Undoubtedly, there will be those who claim these charges are political in nature, but where there is overwhelming evidence of guilt in respect to multiple crimes, the most political act I could engage in as a prosecutor would be to take no action at all," the Democrat claimed. Boston mayor under fire after sending list of critics and protesters to police. Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, a Democrat, is facing criticism for "Nixonian tactics" after her administration admitted to creating a list of her most vocal critics and providing it to local authorities. "The list was made in response to a request from the Boston Police Department after the Mayor had been harassed and physically intimidated by individuals for several months outside her home, at city functions such as the annual neighborhood parks coffee hours, and at other public events," Wu spokesman Ricardo Patron said in a statement to the Boston Herald. The acknowledgment by the administration that it had compiled the document came after the list was uncovered in an email obtained through a public records request by Wu's opponents, the outlet noted. Biden Waves His Magic Wand and Makes $39 Billion in Student Loan Debt Disappear. With a disinterested flick of his magic wand, Biden has been able to make $39 billion in student loan debt disappear. How can he do this, you might ask? Like all magic tricks, it's a big secret. But we know how he didn't do it: He didn't ask Congress to pass a bill forgiving the debt. That sort of thing is only important to old fuddy-duddy conservatives who think when the Supreme Court says the president can't forgive $400 billion in student loan debt, they mean it. The Biden administration imposed a moratorium on the repayment of student loan debt in March 2021. But that doesn't mean that the borrowers weren't paying back the money. Biden used more magic to make all those monthly payments disappear. Veteran feds cry foul on White House cocaine probe: 'This is a cover-up'. The conclusion of an 11-day Secret Service probe that failed to find which White House staff member or visitor left cocaine in the West Wing looks like a whitewash, former federal investigators told The [New York] Post Thursday. "This is a cover-up. How can they say they have no leads?" one ex-agent said. "It is a restricted area and they have a log book, you don't have to be Columbo to figure out who was there. "Suppose it was anthrax," the same person raged. "Would they have the same answer?" "We have a tale of two countries," another former fed said. "They identified hundreds of people who were in the Capitol building on Jan. 6 after an extensive investigation, but they don't know who left something in an 8 x 10 room in the White House?" The Secret Service concluded its inquiry Thursday without identifying a suspect, citing "a lack of physical evidence" after FBI forensic testing yielded no fingerprints and insufficient DNA evidence. Secret Service sacrificing its reputation to protect drug offender in the White House. Another formerly revered federal agency joins in disgrace the politicized FBI, IRS, and Department of Justice. The Secret Service took just 11 days to close its investigation of the class A illegal drug, cocaine, found in the White House with a figurative shrug of the shoulders and a mumbled "I dunno." Following a classified briefing for members of Congress, the federal protective agency issued an official statement claiming: ["]There was no surveillance video footage found that provided investigative leads or any other means for investigators to identify who may have deposited the found substance in this area. Without physical evidence, the investigation will not be able to single out a person of interest from the hundreds of individuals who passed through the vestibule where the cocaine was discovered. At this time, the Secret Service's investigation is closed due to a lack of physical evidence.["] This does not pass the giggle test. Taking only 11 days to investigate a very serious matter like this and then closing the investigation without interrogating and drug testing the very limited number of people who could have left anything in the locker in question bespeaks a desire to avoid finding the culprit. Considering the vast ongoing effort to identify anyone who could have approached the Capitol on January 6, 2021, the lack of curiosity, paucity of resources employed, and the speed in wrapping up the investigation with no suspect, there is no other conclusion than a cover up is likely underway. Two-Tiered 'Justice' Intended to Incite Rebellion. The Department of (in)Justice and federal law enforcement routinely look the other way whenever Antifa and Black Lives Matter domestic terrorists rough up citizens and destroy small businesses. Then a bunch of patriotic Americans without criminal records show up at the U.S. Capitol to protest the fraudulent 2020 election, and the Stasi FBI immediately labels every grandparent and veteran within miles an "insurrectionist." While Soros-aligned prosecutors award the left's paramilitary brigades with accolades instead of incarcerations, the Feds have dragged J6 protesters through unfair criminal proceedings, inflicted unnecessary suffering, and forced political prisoners to languish without bail. When political prisoners finally do face trial, the government hides potentially exonerating video evidence and records under fabricated claims of "national security," prosecutors flippantly throw around terms like "treason" and "rebellion" in front of juries, and partisan judges are all too willing to hand down excessive sentences as an unconscionable form of political revenge. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Utopia. The Left craftily calculated that they could use our beloved institutions against us. In their view, all things are simply tools for the advancement of the agenda. Why not repurpose education for indoctrination, commerce for control, entertainment for reprogramming? Well, in all candor, our institutions, beloved or not, are nothing more than tools. Now they are broken tools, after being employed in a manner never intended. There are only two options for a broken tool, mend it or cast it away. DEI is quickly becoming a pariah term in the world of investing. The people have spoken, to Bud Light, to Target, to NASCAR, to the NFL, and others. We will see if they listen. Citizens are voting with their feet, loading up U-Hauls to flee California, Oregon, New York, and Illinois. The value of university degrees which aren't STEM-related is dissipating like the morning dew. Incensed parents are wearily retaking school boards, to shoulder a task thought safely in competent hands. The alphabet agencies are currently sprouting whistleblowers like flowers in spring, telling tales of the two tiers of "justice." Each institution will be reformed or written off, depending upon degree of damage and cost of repair. Mark Levin Goes Nuclear: 'We Must Break the Back of the DOJ!' In his weekly show on Fox, "Life, Liberty, and Levin," Mark Levin opened his show this Sunday [7/9/2023] breathing fire in his monologue. Levin started by calling the Department of Justice under President Joe Biden and Attorney General Merrick Garland a rogue operation, controlled by the Democrat party and the radical left. By the time he got to the first commercial break, one could almost see smoke wafting in the studio. Levin's anger at the weaponization of the federal government under Biden and Garland has clearly caused him grave concern for the future of the republic. "If we don't BREAK THE BACK of the Department of Justice," he declared, "it will destroy this country!" Grassley highlighted the numerous ways Delaware Assistant U.S. Attorney Lesley Wolf appeared to have obstructed the investigation into Hunter Biden's potentially criminal business activities. A Delaware assistant U.S. attorney was briefed in October 2020 that a confidential human source (CHS) had reported Hunter and Joe Biden each received $5 million in bribes, Sen. Chuck Grassley revealed Sunday in a letter to Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss. A source familiar with that briefing has now confirmed to The Federalist that the Pittsburgh office told the Delaware office the CHS's reporting appeared credible and merited further investigation. That added detail increases the significance of Grassley's Sunday letter and his question to Weiss about whether his deputy thwarted the investigation. "On October 23, 2020, Justice Department and FBI Special Agents from the Pittsburgh Field Office briefed Assistant U.S. Attorney Lesley Wolf, one of your top prosecutors, and FBI Special Agents from the Baltimore Field Office with respect to the contents of the FBI-generated FD-1023 alleging a criminal bribery scheme involving then-Vice President Biden and Hunter Biden," Grassley's letter said. "What steps have the Justice Department and FBI taken to investigate the allegations?" the Iowa senator asked before noting his concerns about Wolf's involvement. Comer Accuses DOJ of High Level 'Cover Up,' Vows Accountability. House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., vowed to hold the U.S. Department of Justice accountable in an alleged high-level cover-up that may have protected the Biden family from feeling the sting of equal justice. In an interview on Fox News, Comer spoke about IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley's allegation that his team was hindered from investigating Hunter Biden and that DOJ prosecutors directed them to avoid asking questions about the "Big Guy." Rep. Comer explained, "It's another example of the Department of Justice meddling to have a cover-up. This is a cover-up of public corruption at the highest level. And if you go back to when we bought the general counsel for the National Archives in for a transcribed interview in the House Oversight Committee, they said the DOJ told them to stand down." The Traitor Class. What America is up against is unlike anything we have ever encountered or experienced. It has the potential of being more bloody than the Civil War and more threatening than both world wars. But now we face an army of traitors... a traitor class, domestic enemies working behind the scenes in shadow. They are dividing our country, destroying our freedom, our democratic republic, our sovereignty, our Judeo Christian values, our morality, the family unit, our culture, even our monuments to American heroes. They are spending us into oblivion as Cloward and Piven envisioned. The traitors are accomplishing this because they are getting no opposition. A lot of people are confused. They think it is just politics. It is not just politics. The Left is planning to deliver The United States to the New World Order in the next very few years and they are on schedule. They are globalists, more loyal to their political party and to globalism than they are to their country. They number in the many hundreds, maybe thousands. They have taken over the Executive Branch, the Justice Department, certainly the FBI. Half of the Senate and half of the House. Almost the entire school system is teaching values contrary to our culture and religion A New America: Only After Liberals Break Everything. All of a sudden, I am reading a bunch of attacks on the administrative state. [Examples omitted for brevity.] Okay. so what is prompting this? The glorious failure of the administrative state during COVID, you think? [...] The only way that conservatives get a chance to fix things is after our present rulers actually break America. And there is another thing that I can mention, as an unashamed sexist, because I never expect to apply for a job again. It is Women. I noticed, from the start of the late COVID crisis, that women were all aboard masking and lockdowns and social distancing and vaccinations in a New York minute. Why? Because women expect to be protected, and when some manly government shows up and gins up a COVID Pandemic and announces: do what we say or everyone will die, women instinctively do what they are told, and are glad to do so. Because they expect to be protected. So I declare that nothing will change until America breaks, and not just for white working-class men as at present, but for women and especially educated liberal women. Then, and only then will we get regime change, and the chance to staff the bureaucracy with our own guys, and then write the history. Four Ways the Deep State Betrays Americans. Do you think it is an accident that the Deep State has worked so hard to protect the Biden family from prosecution when the Chinese bought Joe long ago? Do you think it is a coincidence that the Deep State is trying to put President Trump in prison for the rest of his days, when he has been the lone voice on the national stage calling for American independence from reliance upon foreign dictators? Could the Deep State make it any more obvious that it works against Americans' interests and for the interests of World Economic Forum scum such as Klaus Schwab, George Soros, Bill Gates, and all the other anti-American, Marxist globalists? For all intents and purposes, the Uniparty occupying D.C. is a wholly owned and operated corporate subsidiary of the communist Chinese. "Blatant Political Corruption": The Rot In America's Democracy Explained In Under 1000 Words. Over the last several weeks and months, a deluge of [embarrassing] breadcrumbs have been revealed by various whistleblowers, congressional investigators, and investigative reporters, the entirety of which has been a shotgun blast of information overload. When put together, they paint a picture of such shocking corruption, that one can only conclude that the period we've lived through, between the 2020 US election, the funding, origins, and coverup of the Covid-19 pandemic, and the overt corruption of the Biden family, one can only conclude that we're living through one of the worst, if not the worst, periods of political scandals and institutional rot in American history. The Left destroys people. Cancel culture, doxxing, deplatforming, and shadow banning are all synonyms for left-wing character destruction, an updated electronic form of Trostkyization and Lavrentiy Beria-style "show me the man and I'll show you the crime" persecutions. Anyone who strays — a Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a Matt Taibbi, or an Elon Musk — will be targeted by the woke bureaucracies, libeled in the media, and ostracized by the popular culture. The message is one of deterrence: stay properly left and you are accorded the James Comey/Andrew McCabe/James Clapper/John Brennan/Anthony Fauci/Hunter Biden/2020 rioters exemptions from legal accountability for lying under oath, rank profiteering, or abject violent rioting. Swerve improperly rightward, and you will be vaporized by the long arm of the politicized law. Why is the Clinton Special Counsel Delaying Start of Trump Trial? Usually trying to delay a trial is done to give your side more time to prepare. Jack Smith, the Clinton-linked special counsel targeting Trump, is strangely asking for a significant delay on behalf of Trump's people. [...] Why is Smith filing motions on behalf of the defense? If Trump's legal team wants to delay the case, they're capable of asking to do so. And Smith's arguments perhaps provide them with grounds for doing so. What's strange is the red team asking for a delay on behalf of the blue team. It's a safe bet that Smith's concerns that Trump's lawyers have the time they need are not the real story. Smith rushed to indict Trump, but now he wants to slow down. Pushing the trial to December will, along with inevitable further delays, will take the trial into the primary season[,] as it's intended to do. This isn't about winning the case, it's about, much as with Russiagate, keeping the case in the public eye. 'Someone's got to go to prison'. When will any of these low-down thugs who have a grip on our nation go to prison? Probably never. They lie with impunity and most of the Republicans in Congress are such squishes that the few that lobby for justice get nowhere when they try to make a Democrat pay for his or her crime. We do have a two-tiered system of justice, and everyone knows it. In this administration's view, patriots and good Samaritans must go to prison, not drug dealers, car-jackers, shoplifters, murderers or pedophiles. To our now far, far Marxist left, those folks are victims of white supremacy and must be spared the inconveniences of abiding by the rule of law. Sadly, there are too many Soros-seated judges who go along with the pro-criminal, anti-victim agenda of the left. Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud. Government heavy-handedness should never be mistaken as a demonstration of enduring strength, but rather as a telltale sign that the State is weakening. Central bank digital currencies, automated fact-checking, "vaccine" passports, social credit scores — these are the actions of governments in fear of losing their control. Healthy, respected, self-sustaining institutions do not construct digital prisons, treat citizens like cattle, or use heavily armed revenue agents as shock troops for intimidation. Like a star expanding into a red giant before finally shrinking into a white dwarf, dying political powers expand into totalitarian monstrosities before their despotic bluster wanes. In between monster and minion, it is normal citizens who drain the State's powers and reclaim them as their own. Resistance. It's obvious to a great many that the legislature exists only to funnel tax dollars into the pockets of their political allies for which they are endowed with great sums come election time. In this way they do not represent the people, but their donors and the whole of the government is corrupt. I don't expect this declaration or designation to mean very much to people while they can still go along to get along. This post is more to point the way, to establish the understanding of our situation once the banking failures take place, or the war is brought to our shores through their mismanagement of forces and budgets that have been designed for no other purpose than to provide generals with subsequent employment. It's a wholesale betrayal we're enduring: betrayal of our military leadership, of our legislative bodies, the medical profession, the teaching profession, but more specifically and more intentionally the economic system. Hunter Biden's plea deal is proof Democrats are 'The Untouchables' in Joe's America. Santa Claus is more real than the integrity of the FBI and Justice Department under Joe Biden. Friend and family discounts have never been so obvious — and odious. For the other side of the coin, see the FBI's tracking of parents who dared to criticize progressive school boards, and agents who were willing to carry out an armed visit to the home of an anti-abortion protester. Traditional Catholics also were singled out for undercover surveillance. Then there's the history-making takedown of Donald Trump, which gives rise to the most poignant phrase of the day — a two-tiered system of justice. That's another way of saying there is no justice system. For the word "justice" implies fairness and impartiality for all comers before the law. Those requirements are absent when the guilty son of the sitting president gets the equivalent of jaywalking citations for a life lived notoriously outside the law and the leader of the opposition party gets buried in a felony landslide. Rule by Decree: The Emergency State's Plot to Override the Constitution. We have become a nation in a permanent state of emergency. Power-hungry and lawless, the government has weaponized one national crisis after another in order to expand its powers and justify all manner of government tyranny in the so-called name of national security. COVID-19, for example, served as the driving force behind what Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch characterized as "the greatest intrusions on civil liberties in the peacetime history of this country." In a statement attached to the Supreme Court's ruling in Arizona v. Mayorkas, a case that challenged whether the government could continue to use it pandemic powers even after declaring the public health emergency over, Gorsuch provided a catalog of the many ways in which the government used COVID-19 to massively overreach its authority and suppress civil liberties: [...] Previous Target of DOJ's Trump Legal Hit Squad Alleges Witness Payoff Scheme. Justice Department Special Counsel Jack Smith is overseeing the current investigation into and indictment of Donald Trump. But as USA Today reported, Smith "built [his] reputation" in his previous role overseeing the prosecution of former Rep. Rick Renzi (R-Ariz.). And according to Renzi himself, in exclusive comments to PJ Media, there's evidence tying Smith to illegal wiretaps, jury influencing, payoffs for false testimony, and other highly questionable behavior. The newly published allegations led Donald Trump to call Smith "deranged." Beyond a Banana Republic. As radio personality Jesse Kelly remarks on Twitter, there are two ways to view what is happening with Donald Trump right now: ["]Either you see what's happening to Trump as being about Trump or you see it being about a weaponized government planning to make any opposition a crime. Only one of those views is correct. You don't have to be a Trump fan to see it's the latter.["] For most Americans who've paid the slightest bit of attention these past years, that's an obvious statement. But as George Orwell said of his own time, we've "sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men." That particular phrase derives from a 1939 review of the book Power: A Social Analysis (1938), by Bertrand Russell. What makes his observations interesting, and why it serves as another example of Orwell's prescience, is how precisely his commentary reflects what we are witnessing at this moment. Tearing Apart the Governing Consensus. We hear a lot about the loss of "institutional legitimacy" these days. One of the great ironies attendant on that loss is a revolution in sentiment among many — but by no means all — people who think of themselves as conservative. Hitherto, such people would have been staunch supporters of those institutions that, traditionally, had represented the rule of law, the continuity of our culture, etc. Nowadays, they look with a jaundiced eye upon once-respected institutions like the Department of Justice, the FBI, the CIA, and the rest of the national security/surveillance apparat. How could it be otherwise? Recent revelations that scores if not hundreds of figures from that world had insinuated themselves into media, social and otherwise, to push a partisan agenda must give us pause. The real reason the left is persecuting Trump. The number-one rule for understanding the fascist far left is that they will always accuse the pro-freedom right of what they are doing. And they take charges of hypocrisy as indications of success in this endeavor. [...] What better way of making people mad than continually going after the people from the pro-freedom right while they laud the far left? How many times do they have to repeat the cliché "no one is above the law" when anyone with common sense knows that doesn't apply to the anti-liberty left side of the aisle? Would it shock anyone to find out later that they were just saying that to provoke the pro-freedom right? The nation's socialist media spent a stunning 291 Minutes on Trump Indictment, 0 Seconds on Biden Burisma Bribery on June 8, demonstrating that they no longer care about objectivity, much less if Biden is "above the law." If that doesn't infuriate the fair-minded, nothing will. 6 Reasons DOJ's 'Get Trump' Documents Case Is Seriously Flawed. [#3] Walt Nauta and DOJ Misconduct: Far and away the most troubling side story to emerge from this saga so far are the allegations made by Trump aide and co-defendant Walt Nauta's lawyer last week. You may have missed it if you blinked. Not surprisingly, the corporate media have mostly buried this one. Nauta's lawyer, Stanley Woodward, alleged in a court filing that during a meeting with prosecutors about his client's case, the head of the Counterintelligence Section of DOJ's National Security Division Jay Bratt "suggested Woodward's judicial application [for a DC Superior Court judgeship] might be considered more favorably if he and his client cooperated against Trump." If true, and I find it hard to believe that Woodward just made the whole thing up, this is wild misconduct. Truly wild. It could undermine the entire case against both Trump and Nauta. It could end careers at DOJ if fairly investigated. Woodward is a highly accomplished lawyer. He spent a decade at Akin Gump, a top law firm, clerked on the D.C. Circuit, and has very substantial experience in government investigations. This is not some fly-by-night TV lawyer. He is a legal heavyweight, and he is leveling an extremely serious allegation of misconduct against a senior official at DOJ. Trump is Charged Under a Law Meant to Suppress Political Opposition. A year after the start of WWI, President Woodrow Wilson addressed his message to Congress and warned that the "gravest threats against our national peace and safety" did not come from "other governments", but from "within our own borders". "Citizens of the United States," Wilson continued, "born under other flags but welcomed under our generous naturalization laws to the full freedom and opportunity of America, who have poured the poison of disloyalty into the very arteries of our national life." Wilson, a notorious racist and a supporter of the KKK who had contempt for a wide variety of other peoples, likely had German immigrants, but not just them, in mind when he called for what would become the Espionage Act so that "we may be purged of their corrupt distempers." "I need not suggest the terms in which they may be dealt with," Wilson concluded. While there were indeed pro-German terrorist conspiracies in those days, including the Black Tom bombing which damaged the Statue of Liberty and a plot to infect the country's horses, the Espionage Act of 1917 went far beyond prosecuting criminal activities. Wilson had sought, but not received, the power to censor the press, he did get the power to censor the mail. Indict Walt Nauta? Why Not the Biggest Liars First? Walt Nauta is a 10-year-Navy veteran and served as an aide to former President Trump both in and out of office. Special Counsel Jack Smith has now indicted him for allegedly "making false statements in interviews with the FBI." The indictment's subtext is that Nauta refused to cooperate with, and turn state's evidence to, the special counsel in its efforts to convict the former president. But why stop the indictments with a man who loyally served and followed the orders of the former president of the United States, was a Navy veteran, and a hard-working immigrant from Guam? Are there not far bigger fish to fry to remind Americans that justice is blind? Biden, progressives and the perpetual-emergency presidency. Progressive lawmakers are once again calling on President Joe Biden to declare a climate emergency, which would give him sweeping new executive powers to do pretty much whatever he wants. It is just one more example of how progressives, who are constantly lecturing the country about the threats to democracy, are eager to ignore the democratically elected members of Congress — and the U.S. Constitution — in order to get their way. According to Bloomberg, "An emergency declaration by President Joe Biden would unlock sweeping executive powers, including blocking crude oil exports and placing other limits on fossil fuels." The catalyst for the latest climate-emergency demand was Canadian wildfire smoke that settled on much of the northeast, including New York City and Washington, D.C. But progressives don't really need a catalyst — they just use that to get more media attention. They have been calling on Biden to declare a climate emergency for at least a year. Biden admin turned American democracy into Pakistani fascism. With former President Donald Trump criminally indicted, America, once the beacon of democracy, has crossed the Rubicon. With the administration's weaponization of our now dual system of justice under President Biden, our nation is headed straight to Pakistani fascist hell. The parallels between former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan and Mr. Trump are indeed frightening. Like Mr. Trump, Mr. Khan ran as a populist economic nationalist. Victorious, Mr. Khan immediately came under attack from deep state elements in the Pakistani government, including a powerful military — and he was ousted in April 2022. Fearful Mr. Khan might rise again in the next election, Pakistan's equivalent of America's FBI arrested Mr. Khan on trumped-up charges. Even after being set free by Pakistan's Supreme Court, Mr. Khan is now "legally" forbidden to run for president — the same goal of the current Trump witch hunts. Former Head of FBI J6 Pipe Bomb Investigation Comes Clean With Stunning Admission: "I Don't Want Any Conspiracy Theories, Right?". We recently reported on the remarkable fact that former senior FBI official Steven D'Antuono voluntarily submitted himself before the judiciary committee and raised powerful objections to the Mar a Lago raid that serves as the basis of the sham indictment of President Trump. We reported that the most remarkable part of this story is not the objections themselves, but Steven D'Antuono's identity — indeed, D'Antuono has long been a subject of Revolver News' reporting as the man who oversaw the investigation into the infamous entrapment operation known as the Michigan Kidnapping plot and the equally bogus investigation into the so-called January 6 pipe bombs. Finally, we said that we haven't heard the last from Mr. D'Antuono. Now, we are in a position to reveal that Mar-a-Lago is not the only subject matter D'Antuono discussed with the committee, and that Revolver News' Darren Beattie worked with Congressman Thomas Massie to produce questions concerning the pipe bomb investigation for D'Antuono to answer. A letter recently published by Jim Jordan alludes to some of the stunning results of this interrogation. Steven D'Antuono: The FBI's Hatchet Man. Defense attorneys representing two men recently convicted for conspiring to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer in 2020 are seeking a new federal trial for their clients amid claims of jury and judicial misconduct. (The men, Adam Fox and Barry Croft were found guilty in August in a second trial; a jury in April failed to reach a verdict on them. Two co-defendants were acquitted after jurors concluded the men had been entrapped by the FBI.) A separate state trial for three other men accused of participating in the scheme is now underway in Jackson, Michigan. The ongoing legal drama is a reminder of the handiwork of Steven D'Antuono, former head of the Detroit FBI field office, which was primarily responsible for hatching and executing the Whitmer fednapping hoax. Supervising and undercover agents working out of that Detroit office and its satellite branches managed the day-to-day details of the wide-ranging operation such as handling the main FBI informant, Dan Chappel, who was compensated at least $60,000 in cash and personal items paid by the FBI for luring the men into the trap. The CIA Is Begging Congress to Please Keep Spying on U.S. Citizens Legal. High-level officials from the CIA, FBI, and NSA are testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee today, asking Congress to continue allowing the agency to spy on the communications of US citizens. They are urging Congress to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) — one of the nation's most hotly contested government surveillance programs. Intelligence agencies have long cited the powerful 2008 FISA provision as an invaluable tool to effectively combat global terrorism, but critics, including an increasing number of lawmakers from both parties, say those same agencies have morphed the provision into an unchecked, warrantless domestic spying tool. The provision is set to expire at the end of this year. Federal agents urged lawmakers to reauthorize 702 without adding new reforms that could potentially slow down or impair operators' access to intelligence. US Intel Is Stockpiling Dirt on All Its Citizens. Wired reports that the United States government has been secretly amassing a large amount of sensitive and intimate information on its own citizens. A group of senior advisers informed April Haines, the DNI, more than a year ago that they are accumulating data on the most minute details of Americans' lives. In late 2021 Haines told her advisers to untangle a web of secretive business arrangements between commercial data brokers and you, US intelligence community members, reports Wired. Report: Intelligence Agencies Buying 'Sensitive and Intimate' Data of American Citizens. Arecently-declassified report alleges that multiple U.S. intelligence agencies have been actively "flouting the law" by gathering massive collections of "sensitive and intimate" data on American citizens. According to the New York Post, the claims were made in a report to Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Avril Haines, which was only recently declassified and is now being amplified by watchdog groups and privacy advocates. The report details a loophole that has allowed intelligence agencies, including the FBI, DHS, and NSA, to simply buy large troves of cell phone data for tracking purposes without needing a warrant. If the information was paid for, the report notes, then it is technically considered "publicly available." The government only needs to ask for a warrant if they are asking to access a cell phone's location, and thus would raise Fourth Amendment concerns necessitating a judge's approval. When are enough Americans going to realize our government is a criminal enterprise? How corrupt is our Department of Justice? In order to take Trump off the board, they have indicted President Trump on a long list of made-up, fabricated crimes regarding the documents confiscated in that misguided, illegitimate raid on Mar-A-Lago. These charges are ludicrous, and a decent judge would and may well toss them. The thoroughly corrupt Jack Smith has chosen to ignore all the precedents that should apply. Tapes stored in Clinton's sock drawer? Legal. Sandy Berger stole docs from the National Archives? Slap on the wrist. Biden's many hundreds of documents and Pence's possession of "classified" docs? Ignored by the DOJ. Comey's disingenuous decision to give Hillary a pass for her oh-so-many and far more serious crimes got a pass. So terrified of the most pro-America president since Reagan, the left has gone to extreme and illegal lengths to destroy the best President since Reagan. Biden's two years in office have brought the US to the brink of an abyss. This indictment of Trump only proves the unfairness of our two-tiered system of justice. After The Last Seven Years, No One Believes The DOJ Is Acting In Good Faith. Mollie Hemingway: ["]The larger context here is so important. I do think people would have be enwilling to hear from the Department of Justice that they need to indict their top political opponent, and hear that in good faith, if we had not experienced what we have from the past six years from this Department of Justice. We have a Department of Justice that had Hillary Clinton, who was never president and will never be a president, mishandling classified information and they invented a new legal standard to simply to let her go. We have all the paperwork disputes with President Obama, and President Clinton, we have thefts of documents from the National Archives by a Clinton associate, and nothing has happened to those people. We have the Russia-gate collusion-hoax in which the Department of Justice invented and participated in a Democrat-invented conspiracy theory see to say Donald Trump was a traitor. This week, we learned that Joe Biden was credibly accused by a very serious whistleblower of a $ million bribery scheme and the FBI worked to cover it up.["] Mark Levin: Out Of Control DOJ Has "Destroyed The Next Election". By now, you've heard a lot about this. This is the indictment, the various charges against President Trump. It is 49 pages long. There are 38 charges, 37 involving President Trump, the one against Walt Nauta, who's a Navy vet, and an aide to President Trump is in here in order to try and pressure him to turn on Donald Trump. That's why they put it in here. Now, some people are very impressed by this. I'm very troubled by this. Thirty-seven counts against the former president and the leading Republican nominee right now for the Republican nomination for president, 31 having to deal with document retention. Why would you pile on 31 counts when it could be one count, or three counts or five counts? [Video clip] Mrs. Obama — we're looking for the Fast & Furious files. We've crossed two dangerous lines in the last year. First, the FBI showed up at Mr. Trump's home looking for files. Second, a Special Counsel followed up with an indictment about those files. Why hadn't this happened before? Maybe it's because the people who came before us were smart enough to know that political passions go both ways. [...] Before Trump, no one would have dared consider that. After Trump, anything can happen and probably will. This is why I believe that this indictment against President Trump is going to backfire. Yes, Trump, like Biden, made mistakes. However, an indictment is over the top. This is to going to blow up in their faces. The playbook is always the same for most of the media and other Democrats. They target political opponents they want to destroy, whether it is Sarah Palin, Justice Kavanaugh, Justice Thomas, Ron DeSantis, or Donald Trump. They relentlessly set out to destroy them, whatever they have to do. They will even create fictitious stories like Russian collusion, without evidence, and then repeat the fake stories for years and have endless investigations based on nothing. Destroying the target in the minds of the public is all they care about because their goal is to maintain power and infect the country with radical leftist policies to expand government power and control of the people. It also helps tremendously when so many government bureaucrats seek to destroy the same people. The endless investigations and criminal proceedings have nothing to do with applying laws equally. Instead, they weaponize the Justice Department, or IRS, or DHS, or CFPB, or EPA to destroy people whose policies they don't like. The truth is irrelevant when they set out to destroy someone. One Nation, Two Sets of Laws. When Barack Obama announced that he was unilaterally legalizing millions of illegal aliens while further opening the border, he described it as using "discretion about whom to prosecute". In the years since, pro-crime prosecutors have virtually dismantled the justice system in some jurisdictions by using their "discretion" not to prosecute thieves, drug dealers and violent criminals. Some prosecutors announced that they wouldn't prosecute rioters and looters, others that they would stop prosecuting prostitution, public urination or thefts of under $1,000. In the decade since Obama announced his exercise in prosecutorial discretion, the country has been overrun with criminals and illegal aliens who benefited from that "discretion". But prosecutorial discretion, like most leftist policies, works both ways. Presidential Power Is Surging And Making Congress Obsolete. Since President Washington issued the first executive order directing the heads of executive departments to submit reports about their operations, virtually every President has issued executive orders. The sheer number and wide-ranging scope of executive orders, however, has grown immensely under recent presidents and continues to expand with President Biden. They represent the "usurpations" of power that Madison feared. [James] Madison issued only a single executive order in eight years as president while modern presidents each have issued hundreds. Indeed, reflecting this presidential arrogance, then President Obama boldly declared, "We can't wait for an increasingly dysfunctional Congress to do its job. Where they won't act, I will." Executive orders are directives issued by the President with the force and effect of law. There is, however, no mention of executive orders in the Constitution. Rather, this presidential authority is implied from the Constitution, which vests executive power in the President, or as expressly or impliedly granted by Congress through statutes. Who's Destroying Civic Norms Again? Trump? [Scroll down] At this point, anybody not being attacked or politically persecuted should be presumed as secretly working for some shady enterprise hostile to the best interest of the United States. Yet somehow special counsel Jack Smith has the temerity to stand before the American people, announce the federal government's continuing crusade to keep President Trump from office, and shamelessly declare, "We have one set of laws in this country." Right. What he really means is, "The Deep State controls America, and if you mess with those gangsters, we'll lock you up and throw away the key." Jack Smith — like Robert Mueller, Andrew Weissmann, so many inspectors general who ignore crimes under their purview, and too many partisan political operatives posing as judges — is just another thug enforcer sent out to protect the ruling regime. Well done, Jack! Collect your thirty pieces of silver and career advancement as your reward! Dershowitz: Dems Who Opposed 'Dangerous' and 'Unconstitutional' Espionage Act Now 'Rooting for it to Be Applied Broadly'. On Friday's broadcast of Newsmax TV's "The Record," Harvard Law Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz commented on the indictment against former President Donald Trump and the Espionage Act charges contained in the indictment by saying that the Espionage Act "is one of the most dangerous and unconstitutional statutes ever passed" that was passed with the intent to jail dissidents. And that for several decades, "every liberal, every progressive, every Democrat I know was against this statute" but now they are "all rooting for it to be applied broadly to conduct that has nothing to do with espionage" and didn't put national security at risk. Biden's DOJ attempts to take out the GOP frontrunner. The inevitability has finally been realized (if reports are true): Donald Trump has been indicted by the Biden DOJ. [...] After years and years of prosecutorial and investigative abuses and crimes, the Department of Justice has finally indicted Trump. In doing so, the DOJ has inserted itself into the 2024 presidential election, again disenfranchising millions of voters. It's a sad day for the country and a sobering day for those who wish for the equal administration of justice. This story is still developing. The New York Times states there are seven counts; we expect these to concern various provisions of the Espionage Act (18 USC 793), such as the dissemination of national security information and the unauthorized retention of national security documents. We understand that the indictment has been filed in the Federal District Court in Miami. Quick analysis: this is a comparatively good venue for Trump, given the support he has in Florida and in the Miami community. It is much better than DC, where Trump would face unfavorable judges and a Democrat jury pool. Russiagate: The Scandal That Became Business as Usual. Special Counsel John Durham may have issued his final report last month, but the Russiagate scandal is far from over. This is not because there is no more to learn about the years-long effort by the Democratic Party, the FBI, CIA, and major news outlets to advance the conspiracy theory that Donald Trump teamed with Vladimir Putin to steal the 2016 election. Rather it's because Russiagate never ended. Unlike political scandals of the past — from the XYZ Affair to Watergate and Iran-Contra — it is not a discrete set of events with a beginning, middle, and end. Instead, it has become a form of governing in which the entrenched forces of the Washington bureaucracy punish their enemies, protect their friends and interfere in elections with impunity. A continuous thread connects the schemes to deny the results of the 2016 election, to cover up the Biden family's influence-peddling schemes during the 2020 election, and the ongoing effort to tar President Biden's opponents as extremists or racists. Ironically, all of this is especially dangerous because it is out in the open. The profound misdeeds are not hidden in the dark web; they are part of the public record. Biden's DOJ Tried to Bribe Attorney for Trump's Valet in Exchange for Testimony Against Trump. On Thursday The Guardian reported that Joe Biden's DOJ attempted to bribe the attorney for Trump valet driver in exchange for testimony against Donald Trump. Clearly, this is an illegal act and it should threaten the case against President Trump. The only criminal act in this entire case is the actions by the Biden DOJ! Hawley rips judicial nominee for arguing religious Americans more likely to spread COVID. Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri said he won't vote for one of President Joe Biden's judicial nominees Wednesday due to arguments she made that religious Americans were more likely to spread COVID-19. Loren AliKhan, Biden's nominee for United States District Judge for the District of Columbia, testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday [6/7/2023] but was confronted by Hawley about her previous arguments regarding religious discrimination. Hawley asked if AliKhan believed it was wrong to discriminate against religious communities and questioned her previous comments about the COVID-19 pandemic. "Do you think it's wrong to discriminate on the basis of religious faith?" Hawley asked. "Absolutely," AliKhan said. "Then why did you argue that religious services and religious people pose a greater risk of infection than people gathered to argue for defunding the police," Hawley replied. Churches MUST NOT criticize the government! Elections have been stolen. Our borders are wide open. Innocent Americans are in Gulags. Our bureaucracies have been weaponized. A show trial is underway for a former U.S President. Free speech has been silenced. Courts and prosecutors are corrupted. The age Orwell predicted is upon us. We face a new type of war. The FBI has signaled in the clearest possible manner it does not care what the people or their elected representatives think. It will do what it pleases, [the consequences notwithstanding.] The recently released Durham report paints a graphic picture of an agency out of control. The FBI did not blunder into an investigation of Donald Trump, his campaign, and his associates. The FBI undertook to deliberately destroy Trump and those around him including General Flynn. The FBI took unto itself the power to decide who could be President. The FBI no longer answers to the elected representatives of the American people, nor does it care what they think. It did not get sloppy. It did not make some errors in judgment. Its leaders decided that they were entitled to do whatever they chose and to ignore our laws, our traditions, and the judgment of the nation's citizens. What State Harassment and Institutional Terror in Woke America Looks Like. A federal court ruling likely to drop this month should provide a good indication as to whether America still has a fully functioning First World justice system. The case, involving an investigation from New York Attorney General Letitia James into the supposed mismanagement of controversial news outlet VDare.com, has received zero media coverage so far, despite it being as crude, brutish, and nakedly political as James' other lawfare campaigns (notably against former President Trump and the NRA). In fact, it's arguably worse, as it was clearly designed to dox VDare's writers and volunteers and bankrupt the tiny outlet out of existence. In a recent column about James' investigation, VDare founder and editor Peter Brimelow recounts with frustration the increasing difficulty his outlet has had in spreading its advocacy of "immigration patriotism" over the years. This includes being blocked by social media and payment processors, potential advertisers being subjected to Anti-Defamation League-style intimidation campaigns, and even lawyers and accountants being unwilling to help the group publicly. How Not to Become a Sociopath: The "Rest of America" and the Role of Joy. Since 2020, we have witnessed charming, well-educated, "civilized" people all around us — especially from what my husband calls (as others do) "the laptop class" — reveal, during 'lockdowns" and medical tyranny — a side that is, bare teeth and all, nakedly sadistic. Now, as our stunned society slowly tries to set itself upright from having wallowed for nearly three years in an irrational, animalistic seizure of hatred and cruelty — as it struggles to settle its hat and to brush the dust and mire of the gutter off of its suit, and to straighten its necktie — few indeed from that group want to glance back at the Lord of the Flies-type scenes of savagery that these "civilized" people cheered on. But we who were targeted know what happened and cannot forget it. We click, sometimes ruminatively, on compilations in social media of "respectable" politicians, comedians, talk show hosts, and thought leaders, avidly stating that they wished we would just die, that we should be denied medical care, that we should be locked indoors forever, lose our jobs, and so on. We — the targeted — must reckon with the traumatizing fact that we were on the receiving end of cruelty which the perpetrators seemed really to enjoy. Judge in Missouri v Biden ain't buying what the government's shoveling. The Missouri v Biden lawsuit sprang from underhanded censorship dealings the Biden administration began with the social media companies almost the second they ascended to the throne. Everyone from COVID lockdown, vax and masking critics to scientists who had conflicting data in their hands, and just wanted to present it to the public — such as the signers of the Great Barrington Declaration — were driven from view, pilloried from the public square, many times hounded out of their jobs and livelihoods their long established, spotless professional reputations were in tatters. All to promote the government's approved narrative, their chosen treatments, and favored pharmaceutical partners. There were no allowances made for First Amendment Rights in their dogged pursuit of complete control of the information flow. Posts, memes, papers and tweets that were contrary to that goal, even if correct were flagged as "disinformation," and smothered or completely removed, and the author blocked from whatever the site was after said "infraction" were theatrically deemed either enough or so serious action must be taken to protect the public. Time to abolish the FBI. That the FBI exists means you and I live in a post-constitutional America. The FBI has to be done away with. To find our way back to the republic of liberty the Founders gave us, we must dismantle the Leviathan headquartered in Washington, D.C. The FBI has corrupted our political system and our system of justice. The Department of Education has ruined American education — once a shining example to the world — and done so in a remarkably brief time. The CDC imposed a brutal COVID absolutism that violated our rights and destroyed countless small businesses. The list goes on and on. Every Progressive innovation brings ruin. Their fatal flaw: concentration of power by design. How corrupt is the DOJ? This corrupt. The Department of Justice under the Biden Administration has become nothing but a tool of the regime. Actually, the Justice Department under both Obama and Trump was already a corrupt organization, and by the regime, I don't mean the elected officials in office, but the permanent government that has come to be characterized as the "Deep State." The Deep State isn't a cabal, per se. They aren't gathering a (now marijuana) smoke-filled room plotting the downfall of America. Rather, they are a bunch of high-level bureaucrats who believe that they have the wisdom and the power to run the country, all the way down to what you are allowed and not allowed to say. They are America's nomenklatura. The Elite run things regardless of who is in power, although they work hard to make sure that Democrats are in power since that party is happier to expand the money and power the nomenklatura have. The DOJ is at the top of the heap because they control the levers of coercive power, although you may have noticed that even the IRS and EPA now have heavily armed agents to bully citizens. Rep. Jim Jordan: DHS Weaponizing Tax Dollars Is 'Really Scary,' But 'Frankly Consistent'. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) weighed in on an explosive MRC report on Fox Business, calling the MRC's discovery that the Department of Homeland Security funded anti-terrorism efforts targeting Americans "really scary," but "consistent." Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo brought up findings from a new Media Research Center report. "[MRC] obtained documents that show that the Department of Homeland Security is using a program meant to fight terrorists and they're likening groups like the Heritage Foundation, MAGA, Fox News, the RNC and they're comparing all of those to Nazis." Jordan responded saying that the revelation is "really scary," but "frankly, consistent," with the seemingly non-stop reports of government corruption and weaponization. "This is now this pattern, this mindset that I think exists in way too many of the top people in these federal agencies," he said. ATF: Amend or Abolish? The Biden administration's proposed budget for fiscal year 2024 increases funding for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) 7.4 percent, to $1.9 billion, in order to "expand multijurisdictional gun trafficking strike forces with additional personnel, increase regulation of the firearms industry, and implement the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act." Reading that, I'm reminded of James Madison's musings in The Federalist No. 46, regarding his disbelief that Americans would ever allow tyranny to take hold here, much less continue to fund it once it developed. The Left Has Pushed the Envelope. The Left is waging a full-fledged cultural revolution against traditional America. And the Maoist results are often as absurd as they are terrifying. Special-counsel John Durham just issued his final report on wrongdoing within the FBI, CIA, and the Department of Justice. The summary confirms that our premier investigatory and intelligence agencies interfered in the 2016 and 2020 presidential campaigns. Directors and high-ranking FBI officials lied under oath. They misled Congress. They altered court documents and deceived federal judges. The FBI hired a foreign national to gather dirt on Donald Trump's 2016 campaign — while he was being paid by the rival Hillary Clinton campaign. The FBI contracted Twitter to suppress news stories. It kept the Hunter Biden laptop under wraps, even as former intelligence officials flat out lied it was likely "Russian disinformation." That was a blatant effort to aid the 2020 Biden campaign. The IRS just conceded whistleblowers were correct and the agency fired its entire multi-year audit team responsible for investigating Hunter Biden's purported tax irregularities. The agency claimed it was ordered to do so by the Department of Justice, headed by Biden's appointee Merrick Garland. North Carolina's governor, who sent his own kid to private school, just issued a state of emergency over Republicans pushing school choice. This is an emergency! People with lower incomes in North Carolina, particularly people of color, may soon be able to enroll in private schools soon, ruining the party for the rich kids!! Democrat Gov. Roy Cooper seriously thinks this is an emergency[.] [Tweet] The North Carolina House just passed a school voucher bill that would more than double the funding for school vouchers, opening opportunities for kids to get out of failing public schools. School voucher programs give money to students instead of school systems and allow students who otherwise couldn't afford it access to private schools. Democrats, of course, oppose this because they want kids in government schools because they're Democrat propaganda machines and activist training grounds. They don't want poor kids to become less dependent on the government. North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper declares 'state of emergency' over school choice bill. Democratic North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper declared a "state of emergency" on Monday [5/22/2023] in an attempt to stop a school choice bill from passing the state legislature. Cooper released a video announcement where he declared a state of emergency, arguing that the state of public education is "no less important" than other emergencies. "It's time to declare a State of Emergency for public education in North Carolina. There's no Executive Order like with a hurricane or the pandemic, but it's no less important," Cooper stated. The Editor says... After Covid: Twelve Challenges for a Shattered World. [Scroll down] It is no longer possible to discern which is the hand and which is the glove: government or big business. This is true for every department in government, including the war machine which operates at the behest of the munitions manufacturers. The SEC is run by the securities industry. The Department of Labor is captured by the labor unions. HUD is captive of the housing developers. The Department of Agriculture rules at the behest of large agriculture interests while blocking access to markets for local farmers and ranchers. And so on. Have we yet come to terms with this on the left or right? Have libertarians grappled with this? I suspect not. This reality has massively reshuffled the political layout. We have completely left the clarity of the 1980s and entered into a new world of grave complexity and corruption at all levels. DOJ Opted Not to Prosecute Radical U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts Despite Inspector General's Referral. President Joe Biden's Department of Justice (DOJ) opted not to prosecute U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts Rachael Rollins after the Office of the Inspector General determined that she lied under oath and referred its allegation to the DOJ. The OIG released the results of an investigation into Rollins, who the Heritage Foundation notes was previously backed by left-wing billionaire George Soros, on multiple fronts on Wednesday, finding that she allegedly attempted to influence the Suffolk County District Attorney's race last year and subsequently lied under oath during an investigation into the matter. Although the watchdog referred their findings to the Department of Justice, it opted not to pursue prosecution. Supreme Court Justice Gorsuch says the use of emergency powers during COVID harmed civil liberties. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch called the emergency powers that were used during the COVID-19 pandemic a mass intrusion of civil liberties earlier this week. "Since March 2020, we may have experienced the greatest intrusions on civil liberties in the peacetime history of this country. Executive officials across the country issued emergency decrees on a breathtaking scale," Gorsuch wrote in a statement. The statement was attached to a case that the Supreme Court dismissed as moot earlier this week that sought to keep Title 42 in place. Title 42 allowed the U.S. to quickly deport asylum-seekers to contain the spread of COVID, but it was ended earlier this month. Gorsuch has been a frequent critic of how government officials during the pandemic used laws granting expanded executive authority during emergencies, arguing that COVID was unjustifiably being used as a pretext. Durham Report Is [Bad], So Where Are All The Indictments? Just for the record, this is far worse than Watergate. And that ended Richard Nixon's presidency, even though he neither planned nor approved of the break-ins against the Democratic Party offices in the famed Watergate Hotel. What will the perpetrators of this crime get? The FBI launched its now-infamous "Crossfire Hurricane" investigation of alleged Russian "influence" on the Trump campaign in July 2016. The premise for the investigation was a "dossier" of information from former British spy Christopher Steele that implicated Donald Trump and several of his supporters as being improperly influenced by Russia's government. The only problem: The dossier was found to be false, "misinformation" of the worst kind, but nonetheless reported as the "truth" by nearly all mainstream media outlets. The Union Is Not a Suicide Pact. Now that Mr. Durham has gotten around to confirming what most of us have known for nearly seven years — namely, that Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John Brennan, Jim Comey, James Clapper, and the State-aligned press corps doing the Intelligence Community's bidding all conspired to push the fraudulent Russian collusion narrative in an attempt to take down a duly elected president — there are quite a few people calling for the FBI to be either reformed or disbanded. Surprisingly, some of these people now calling for the FBI's demolition are even elected officials. My response is simple: that should be just the beginning. The federal government is rotten to its core. By the terms of the U.S. Constitution, it has accumulated powers and authorities far beyond anything enumerated and vested to it. It funds a massive administrative state that should not exist. How Corrupt Is Our Current Situation? It's Worse Than Most Can Fathom. Everything that preceded the 2020 federal election was a complex system of control by a network of ideologues, federal agencies, allies in the private sector, financial stakeholders and corrupt interests all working toward a common goal. There's no need to go through the background of how the election was manipulated and how the government and private sector, specifically social media, worked to influence the 2020 outcome because you have all seen it. Whether it was local election officials working to control outcomes, federal agencies working to support them (CISA, FBI, DHS), financial interests working to fund them (Zuckerberg et al), or social media platforms controlling the visible content and discussion (Twitter Files, Google, Facebook etc.), the objective was all the same. It was a massive one-sided operation against the freewill of the American voter. By The Standards Democrats Applied To Trump, Joe Biden Is A Traitor. The Biden administration is also ignoring South American drug cartels' highly profitable war on the U.S. border. That war is boosted by the same Chinese government whose officials also reportedly bought Biden family influence. Funny how foreign payouts seem to manifest everywhere the United States is bleeding out. It's farcical for Republicans to demand that the Biden-corrupted Department of Justice investigate the president of the party on whose behalf they've been repeatedly ignoring congressional oversight, protecting corrupt politicians, raiding opposition party leaders' homes, leaving opposition court justices' homes surrounded, and endlessly leaking lies to media outlets. It's the height of political wankery to complain for TV about rogue federal agencies Republicans ridiculously keep pretending have any legitimacy and agreeing to fund. [...] All I'm asking is for Republicans to apply to the Bidens the same alleged standards Democrats cynically brandished against Trump. It's not that complicated. Here are a few ideas in the right direction that could be refined by congressional lawyers: Tell Democrats no votes for any federal judicial nominees until the U.S. Department of "Justice" enforces federal law against the agitators menacing the homes of U.S. Supreme Court justices. Defunding every department, grant, and personnel member involved in suppressing Americans' speech as "misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation" is now a non-negotiable precondition for voting on any federal spending bill. Alvin Bragg didn't trust a grand jury to indict Daniel Penny for the death of Jordan Neely. In New York City, everybody but the richest few percent rides the subway, and they know how bad things have gotten in the wake Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg treating arrests as inequitable since African Americans are disproportionately arrested. Jordan Neely died in a hospital after being subdued by Marine Corps veteran Daniel Penny with the help of two other passengers (who have not been charged). Neely "avoid[ed] prison for allegedly slugging a 67-year-old woman in November 2021 during a psychotic episode" by agreeing to a plea deal. Despite a record of more than forty previous arrests, he was allowed to roam the streets, though he was to stay at Harbor House, where he could receive services. When he left there, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Ellen Biben signed a warrant for his arrest on February 23. Perhaps because police officers realize that arresting any black person can cause enormous career grief, Neely evaded arrest, even while riding subways and being visible on the streets. The justice system, in other words, completely failed to protect the public from a deranged, violent man. So, when riding the subway on May first and threatening passengers with violence, and assaulting some by throwing trash, it was only Daniel Penny who first took action to protect himself and fellow passengers. The Staggering Flaws of the Biden Family. Good government should be non-partisan, competent, and trustworthy. (It hasn't been for a long time.) Democrat partisans overwhelmingly populate the vast majority of government departments, and no Republican administration has been able to put a dent in that political slant. Constant leaks have become the story instead of relaying the accomplishments of Republican presidents. Democrats don't have to use overt bias to enforce a progressive liberal bureaucracy to do their bidding; instead, they step aside and watch a parade of bias and salacious leaks flow endlessly to a media too willing to use unnamed sources. President Trump faced an average of two leaks a day in his first 100 days, and to this day, virtually no one was punished in any government agency, including agency heads, for any leaks to reporters. Feds Started A Dangerous Game With Hunter Biden's Laptop, But GOP Lawmakers Can Finish It. The interim report of the House Intelligence Committee and Weaponization Subcommittee released Wednesday established extensive coordination between the Biden campaign and those behind the statement signed by 51 former intelligence officials that painted the Hunter Biden laptop as Russian disinformation. More explosive, however, is the fact, first reported on Tuesday by The Federalist, that a Central Intelligence Agency employee solicited a former CIA officer to sign the statement. Yet there is still much more to unravel to expose the breadth and depth of the info op painting the infamous laptop as Russian disinformation and the government actors involved. Here are five threads that will lead to the truth. [#1] Subpoena All 51 Signatories: As its title stated, the House's report focused on "How Senior Intelligence Community Officials and the Biden Campaign Worked to Mislead American Voters." While the October 2020 letter signed by the former intelligence officials is only part of the scandal, it's a solid entry point to learning the identity of many of those involved. Build Back Borderless, Bankrupt, and Broken. The federal government is a malicious enterprise that routinely treats Americans as second-class citizens. It prosecutes foreign wars in their name without their consent. It sends their jobs overseas, shutters their factory towns, and bankrupts their futures in exchange for cheap imported trinkets and shoulder-patting promises of "progress." It ignores the cries of Americans in pain and their desire for political change and instead locks up those who earnestly protest. Yet of all the ways the U.S. government betrays American citizens, its utter disregard for border security and decades-long criminal operation to flood the country with illegal aliens is the most contemptible because the same government saboteurs who aid and abet vile crimes then turn around to scold Americans who object to the resulting destruction as being "racist." For the federal government to intentionally harm Americans and then shame them for noticing is enough to make a sane person wonder who the real enemy is. FBI Used Congressional Staff as Confidential Informants and Human Assets to Build Case Against Congressman George Santos. Congressman George Santos was indicted on thirteen counts of wire fraud, money laundering, theft of public funds and lying on financial disclosure forms during his short period in Congress. He was taken into custody Wednesday in New York. By most accounts and even his own words, Santos is a generally sketchy person, and I doubt there will be too many defenders of his character or the issues at stake. However, [...] It was not that long ago when the EXECUTIVE branch, using confidential human sources to investigate the LEGISLATIVE branch, would have been a matter of incredible controversy reserved for only the most serious of criminal possibilities. An FBI informant penetrating the congressional office to relay information back to the FBI is quite remarkable. However, it appears we are in an era of justice administration where anything is just flippantly asserted inside the mechanisms of government. In the big picture, beyond the selfish issues of George Santos, when we consider the Fourth Branch of Government operating to protect itself against sunlight and scrutiny, this example of the FBI operating in the shadows of congress should start to make everyone uncomfortable. The Government Is Funding Trainings Intended to Target Conservative Americans. Today [5/8/2023], America First Legal (AFL) released documents obtained from a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security that reveal shocking internal documents from the Office of Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention (TVTP) regarding so-called domestic terrorism. An internal memo dated January 29, 2021, just eight days after Joe Biden was sworn in as President, reveals a "Choose Your Own Adventure" game-like memo for individuals to make "real-life decisions" based on "radicalization" scenarios with various fictitious characters. The scenarios describe political viewpoints like opinions on abortion and expanded government. American Despotism. Many neoliberals aspired to a global aristocracy, magnificent men and women flipping quarters to grateful peasants. Oligarchs brokered the outsourcing of U.S. industry in return for financial control under the dollar, even as they engineered technologies for a new information age. But today's globalist American empire is a kleptocracy filled with princelings of the political and corporate elite who inherited — and now drain — the wealthiest and most powerful empire in history. It consolidates market share and outsources its technologies to foreign companies for its private benefit. It despotically introduces a permanent state of exception to the law to rule in its own interests. In fear of the subjects off whom it feeds, it assigns legal identities to groups to determine their privileges. In this civil war between Western whites, the kleptocrats claim science's authority to subdue the populace, and they enlist an identity politics priesthood to stoke racial hatred against middle-class whites, who suffer indignities, humiliations, and loyalty tests. Biden Unleashes The Regulatory Kraken — And There's No Land In Sight. In the span of a few weeks, the Biden administration has proposed regulations that would effectively ban gas stoves, force a massive shift to electric cars, sharply raise the cost of dishwashers, increase loan costs for frugal borrowers, regulate puddles as "navigable waters," and limit hunting and fishing across the country. It will soon release a proposed rule targeting power plants with hugely expensive carbon capture mandates. This is just the tip of the spear. As the Competitive Enterprise Institute's Clyde Wayne Crews put it recently, "President Biden is leading an unprecedented expansion of the administrative state. In two years, his administration has imposed 517 regulatory actions with some $318 billion in total costs." The newest attack on freedom, Biden's dishwasher regulation, would require new machines to use 27% less power and 34% less water, making already barely functioning dishwashers virtually useless. The Hellscape of the Administrative State Functionary. Let's be clear here, they created that debt, for promising to solve problems and then not solving them. Everything they do fails. Their media is only working because they censor and subsidize, but every week, another propaganda outfit bites the dust. That's why they are miserable. [...] Our new class of monster reductionists, who get all their prestige and money from delimiting the lives of others, have been living under a tsunami of threat ever since Trump and Brexit, or as it is known, "the worst decisions ever made". This requires that all future elections be stolen. It is impressive how lockstep they remain. Is the Bureau of Land Management Breaking The Law Again? Since the federal government no longer operates as three separate branches with the legislative branch assigned to creating laws, the Executive Branch and unconstitutional administrative rulemaking process now create laws that Americans are subjected to without any congressional involvement. Quite notorious are rules that are written under the Department of Interior (DOI). Given that the federal government now operates in bed with corporations and non-government organizations (NGO), many of the rules are created for the benefit of those groups and not us. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and its buddy corporations and environmental groups have been busy creating a new "rule" that will economically benefit the BLM, serve the ideology of environmental groups, and help the corporate world advance renewable energy projects. Not only are the Executive Branch and DOI handing over "public" land to corporations for renewable energy projects, but with BLM's full participation, this proposed rule also advances the White House 30x30 agenda, a goal of conserving 30% of land by 2030. It is the rewriting of a regulatory framework that will put public land under the 30x30 classification for land conservation. 30x30 isn't even a federal law passed by Congress, it is a dictate from the White House that meets an International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) goal, a United Nations participant. That alone should negate any participation in 30x30, or through illegal rulings by the BLM. Biden DOJ 'Actively' Tried to 'Dissuade' Marshals From Enforcing the Law to Protect Supreme Court Justices, Senators Say. Republicans are accusing the Department of Justice of "actively" seeking to "dissuade" the U.S. Marshals Service from enforcing 18 USC 1507 to protect the Supreme Court justices. In a May 3 letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland, Sens. Katie Britt of Alabama, Tom Cotton of Iowa, Ted Cruz of Texas, and Mike Lee of Utah reveal that they have obtained "post orders" dated May 19, 2022, that claim "USMS is not in a position to enforce" federal and state law. "This is the exact kind of thing from the Biden DOJ that continues to cause people across Alabama and America to fear that there is a two-tiered system of justice in our country," Britt said in an emailed statement to The Daily Signal. "The simple fact of the matter is that the Administration agreed with the protestors' politics and willfully chose not to enforce the law." The U.S. Marshals Service should not engage protesters "unless they attempt to enter private property," the post orders said, according to the senators. Position Reversed Again — Nashville Police Refuse to Release Transgender Audrey Hale Christian Murder Manifesto. Long-time readers of CTH research will remember a very specific agency inside government, the Dept of Justice Community Relations Service (DOJ-CRS). This little-known, quasi legislatively authorized, Eric Holder weaponized, silo inside the justice system operates to control information that would be deemed 'adverse to the peace and tranquility interests of the nation.' In non-pretending terms, the DOJ-CRS controls any information in the criminal justice system that doesn't fit the agenda of the radical communists and left-wing activists within it. The CRS controlled the George Zimmerman case. The CRS controlled the Darren Wilson case (Ferguson). The CRS controlled the Baltimore-Six case. The CRS controlled the Stephen Paddock case (Las Vegas). There are many more. The CRS, also known colloquially as the "peacekeepers" can reach into any system of justice, local, state, federal, including courts, judges, trials and law enforcement agencies, and control the information that is at the center of their topic, charge or investigation. The CRS is an omnipotent smaller agency, with incredible power within the Dept of Justice, that has full control over anything they identify as needed to retain the "domestic tranquility," including instructions to federal and state judges. Almost no one knows about the CRS, and no one is permitted to talk about their true mission. Nashville Police Reverse Course on Releasing Shooter's Manifesto, Citing Pending Litigation. The Metropolitan Nashville Police Department (MNPD) has reversed course from a previous statement to The Epoch Times, when the agency said the so-called manifesto and writings of Nashville school shooter Audrey Hale would be released to the public soon. The department cited the advice of legal counsel amid litigation filed this week for those same documents to be released. The Epoch Times contacted MNPD on May 3, but officials would not comment, citing the pending litigation. The story regarding MNPD readying the documents for public release was published April 27. On May 1, the Tennessee Firearms Association (TFA) filed a lawsuit against MNPD over a previously denied public records request for the Hale documents to be released. Trans Massacre Manifesto [is] Still a Mystery. "The investigation has advanced to the point that writings from the Covenant shooter are now being reviewed for public release and that process is underway and will take a little time." That was a spokesman for the Metro Nashville Police Department speaking to the New York Post last Thursday. That day marked one month since Audrey Hale, a woman who thought she was a man, murdered Evelyn Dieckhaus, 9, Mike Hill, 61, William Kinney, 9, Katherine Koonce, 60, Cynthia Peak, 61, and Hallie Scruggs, 9, at the Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee. Nashville police "could not give a firm date when the writings would be released." Shortly after the murders, Nashville city councilman Robert Swope told reporters "the manifesto is going to be released. It's just a matter of when." In the meantime, the FBI is reportedly "processing" the material. "It's really not even a manifesto," according to Nashville city council member Courtney Johnson. "It's diaries of a mentally ill person." The councilwoman, a real-estate agent, did not explain how she was qualified to diagnose Audrey Hale, who carefully planned the attack for months. "What I was told is, her manifesto was a blueprint on total destruction, and it was so, so detailed at the level of what she had planned." The Crazy Contours of the Crazier 2024 Election. A Jacobin crowd, whose agenda does not poll 50 percent on any issue, is now running the country. Joe Biden is its ancient, happy-face emoji. It has managed in two years to wreck the border, destroy energy autonomy, fuel racial tensions, create an entirely new cause of the aggrieved "transgender community," tank the economy, spike crime, and put America into rapid decline abroad beneath the Biden façade — and call it all "progress." The wherewithal in lieu of popular support came from huge amounts of tech and corporate cash, and the fealty of most of our cultural institutions, from Silicon Valley and the media to the corporate boardroom, academia, K-12, professional sports, entertainment, and the weaponization of the federal bureaucracy including the FBI, Justice Department, Pentagon, CIA, and IRS. In other words, for the Left having no president at all certainly has its advantages. No one in the Oval Office is warning the socialists, "You guys are crazy and will cost me the election if you keep it up!" Instead, with no one in charge, everyone is in charge. Chairman Jim Jordan Subpoenas CDC and Other Agencies After Allegations of Government Censorship. Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) has issued subpoenas to officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the State Department's Global Engagement Center (GEC). The chairman hopes to obtain documents and communications related to the Committee's investigation into allegations of federal government coercion and collusion with private companies and third-party groups to censor speech. Recent public reporting, including The Twitter Files, has revealed the extent to which the federal government has exerted pressure and collaborated with Big Tech and other intermediaries to suppress certain viewpoints, a practice that violates the First Amendment principles. 'Too Big to Fail' Is Too Big Period. A recent Gallup poll found that public confidence in our institutions is collapsing. The only institutions that still garner majority confidence are the military and small businesses. Nearly three quarters of Americans have lost confidence in government, big business, academia, and the media (among others). The vast majority of our institutions are failing. They aren't failing to survive. They're failing to meet our expectations — which means they're failing to satisfy their reason for being. [...] Government hasn't lost our confidence because it isn't doing enough. It has lost our confidence because it's doing too much. Regulation, surveillance, oversight, and bureaucratic burden all work to restrict our freedoms. Matt Taibbi rips media silence after Dem threat: 'Can you imagine' if GOP threatened to jail CNN's Jim Acosta? Independent journalist Matt Taibbi, who was threatened with jail time by a top Democrat on Capitol Hill over testimony he gave about his reporting on the Twitter Files, feels the media would have lost its minds if Republicans did the same to CNN's Jim Acosta. "Can you imagine if something like this had happened in the Trump years? If Republicans had threatened someone like Jim Acosta with five years in prison over a minor error? That he didn't even make in testimony before Congress? You would have had every human rights organization on earth complaining about it but not a peep from my so-called colleagues in mainstream media," Taibbi said Monday on "FOX & Friends." "It doesn't matter what journalist it is, they should be upset about it because it could be them next," Taibbi added. Emerging Consensus On The Blinken Hoax? Yesterday I wrote that the real question regarding Deep State Mike Morrell's testimony that throws Little Tony Blinken under the bus — blames him for the patent hoax claim that the Hunter laptop is a Russian disinformation op — is whether Morrell spilled the beans with Deep State blessing. The letter that Morrell orchestrated was an obvious hoax. The only question was who perpetrated the hoax — was it independent action by the Deep State, or ... what? Morrell confirms that it was Deep State action at the direct behest of the Zhou campaign, through Blinken. The Marriage of the Media and the Security State. t is now all too obvious that the corporate media colluded with corrupt elements of the security state to alter the outcomes of two presidential elections. Their first foray into election interference failed because, in 2016, they underestimated the power of social media and allowed Donald Trump to speak directly to the voters. They fixed that problem in 2020 by convincing Facebook and Twitter to censor legitimate news stories while disseminating disinformation. And it is no coincidence that former Obama and current Biden administration officials were involved in both interference schemes. One such official, former acting CIA Director Michael Morell, testified before Congress last week that he facilitated the cover-up of the Hunter Biden laptop scandal at the request of then-Biden campaign advisor Antony Blinken. Biden, Blinken Orchestrated Letter to Undermine Hunter Biden Laptop Story Ahead of 2020 Election. President Joe Biden allegedly promoted a debunked letter from 51 former intelligence officials that was put into plan by Secretary of State Antony Blinken to falsely undermine a New York Post story about Hunter Biden's laptop as supposed Russian disinformation. [...] Earlier this week, former CIA Director Michael Morell testified that Blinken, a then a Biden campaign adviser, contacted a former CIA official and "set in motion" the false statement debunking the Post's story as "Russian disinformation." Weeks before the 2020 election, dozens of ex-national security officials signed a letter claiming that Hunter's laptop had "all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation." House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner (R-OH) sent a letter to Blinken on Thursday to notify him that the lawmakers are conducting oversight of the situation. Former Intel Officials Who Signed The Infamous Hunter Biden Laptop Letter Landed Jobs In The Biden Admin. After Biden campaign officials coordinated a letter signed by 51 former intelligence officers casting doubt about the authenticity of Hunter Biden's laptop before the 2020 presidential election, several signatories ended up with roles in the president's administration. Former Deputy Director of the CIA Michael Morrell testified to the House Judiciary Committee that then-Biden senior adviser and current Secretary of State Tony Blinken contacted him and "triggered" the creation of the letter. Former CIA chief of staff Jeremy Bash, who signed the letter, put Morrell in touch with Biden campaign Chairman Steve Richetti, who thanked him for orchestrating it; Biden later appointed Bash to the President's Intelligence Advisory Board in 2022. Getting Off the Roller Coaster to Bondage. It's not as if the ruling class's "cult of expertise" provides any comfort. We have a president who long ago lost his marbles, a vice president who succeeded in the political profession by excelling in the oldest one, a secretary of defense committed to promoting men in dresses, a health bureaucracy pumping citizens full of experimental drugs, a Treasury Department endlessly printing money, a Commerce Department prioritizing inflation-inducing "green" windmills over real economic growth, a homeland security chief dedicated to keeping the nation insecure, and a national police force that treats half the country as "domestic enemies." It's almost as if whoever installed these yahoos into the highest positions of authority wanted obvious "fall guys" for when everything, well, falls down. NYPD employee relations boss Lisa White drives workers away with 'crazy stuff': sources. The NYPD commissioner in charge of employee relations is having a difficult time — with her employee relations. More than 10 cops working under Deputy Commissioner Lisa White — who's in charge of officer morale in the 35,000 uniformed member force — have either transferred or asked to be transferred out of her office because of her off-the-wall shenanigans, including claiming there are ghosts in her office and that workers are bugging her phone, police sources told The [New York] Post. The final straw for one of them, a detective assigned to drive her in a department-assigned Ford SUV, came when White, 61, ordered the cop to turn on the lights and sirens because she was late for work. When the detective refused, White ordered her out, hopped into the driver's seat and took over, barreling from her Crown Heights apartment to One Police Plaza in lower Manhattan like a bat out of hell, the sources said. Did a 21-year-old air guardsman expose Biden's violation of the War Powers Act? Last week, the mainstream media gleefully reported the arrest of a low-ranking, 21-year-old Air National Guardsman from Massachusetts named Jack Teixeira, who apparently, on an internet chat site, divulged state secrets in violation of the Espionage Act and embarrassed the Biden administration. [...] Among the information spilled are revelations of the Biden administration spying on friends and foes alike. But bigger questions surround this case, hot-potato questions the media won't touch, with the hottest being this: Do the Teixeira revelations expose a violation of the War Powers Act by Biden? But most disturbing, are claims of United States Special Forces inside the red-hot Ukrainian war zone, months after Biden boasted there will be "no boots on the ground," a boast perhaps as credible as his blathering that "if you take the vax, you won't get COVID." If United States Special Forces advisors are on the ground, in the midst of a kinetic war, supporting Ukraine's military against Russia, not only do Americans have a right to know, as major wars have been ignited by the slightest of hair triggers, but a larger question must now be examined: Has Joe Biden violated the War Powers Act? Harriet Hageman Blasts Spy Letter Discrediting Hunter Biden Laptop Story: 'Coverup Was Starting'. Rep. Harriet Hageman (R-WY) told Breitbart News Saturday that the 2020 spy letter allegedly organized by the Biden campaign to discredit the Hunter Biden laptop story was the beginning of the coverup. "When this came out in October [of 2020], anybody with a lick of sense out in the rest of the United States knew number one, that the letter from the 51 so-called intelligence officials was wrong. We knew it," Hageman said. On Thursday, news broke that former Deputy CIA Director Michael Morell testified to Republican investigators that current Secretary of State Antony Blinken — formerly a Biden campaign official — had contacted Morell regarding the New York Post's Hunter laptop story, which "set in motion the events that led to the issuance of a public statement" by 51 former intelligence officials who discredited the story as Russian disinformation. Hunter Biden laptop letter was the real disinformation all along. The dishonor of our intelligence community, and most of the media, is now complete. It turns out the "51 intel experts" letter implying Hunter Biden's 100% authentic laptop was a Russian fake, and the ensuing efforts to kill Post reporting on it, were the actual disinfo operation. Veteran spook and former acting CIA Director Mike Morrell masterminded it, as he swore under oath, to "help Vice President Biden ... because I wanted him to win the election" — at the behest of campaign flunky (now Secretary of State) Antony Blinken. And Morell plainly also did it in hopes a victorious Biden would hand him the top CIA job. Not only was there no intricate Russian plot, there was never any evidence suggesting one — only a Biden campaign conspiracy to bury the truth under a tissue of lies. Spy letter about Hunter Biden shows how Dems are undermining democracy. In the closing address at last month's Summit for Democracy, Secretary of State Antony Blinken piously proclaimed, "As President Biden has said, democracy doesn't happen by accident. "It requires constant effort." Or in the case of the 2020 election, it required deceiving American voters. The House Judiciary Committee revealed that Blinken, then a top Biden adviser, orchestrated the letter from 51 top intelligence officials claiming that Hunter Biden's laptop was nothing but a Russian disinformation campaign. Blinken contacted former acting CIA chief Mike Morell, who swayed scores of other former top officials — including three ex-CIA chiefs — to sign that letter to debunk the biggest threat to the Biden presidential campaign. The Biden administration's attack on free speech. There are two things to remember. First, America is not at war with Russia. Congress has not declared war against Russia, nor has the Biden administration pretended that it has. Russia may be a geopolitical enemy, but it's not a wartime enemy. Second, as Tucker and Glenn Greenwald discussed, violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act have routinely been treated as minor problems, with fines as the primary punishment. For the government to go after penny-ante black socialist organizations that are saying exactly what others who oppose the war have been saying represents an escalation against speech unseen in modern America. It has the smell of a totalitarian political regime cracking down on speech that offends it. This is especially true when you consider the leeway the administration gives to Chinese control over speech, via TikTok. China, after all, is another geopolitical opponent. It's also revolting when you consider the information coming out about the Biden family's profiting from China, Ukraine, and other countries at America's expense. Two Top Republicans Say Blinken Should Be Impeached Over Biden Laptop Role, Good Luck Making That Happen. Former CIA Director Mike Morell has told the House Judiciary Committee that it was Secretary of State Antony (with no "h") Blinken who, while acting as a senior campaign adviser for Joe Biden, enlisted him to organize the letter from former intelligence officials labeling the material from Hunter Biden's laptop Russian dezinformatsiya. According to an exclusive in the New York Post, Morell had no intention of writing a letter or soliciting others to either write or sign a letter plainly lying about Hunter Biden's laptop until Blinken put the thought in his minds. [...] This is a significant revelation from several standpoints. First and foremost, it shows that the Biden campaign did not believe Hunter's laptop was a Russian plant. Second, it shows the people who signed the letter were bad-faith actors who knew the Russian disinformation story was bogus but set about to deceive the American people for political purposes. As an aside, the lack of qualms by any of the signers indicates that they were used to lying to America to push their own agenda; this is something the next GOP president should keep in mind. Most concerning is that the prime mover behind the story, Antony Blinken, was made Secretary of State. House Judiciary Committee Releases Evidence of U.S. Intelligence Community Conducting Domestic Political Disinformation Campaign. The House Judiciary Committee has released evidence, gained from a transcribed interview with former Acting CIA Director Mike Morell, showing a coordinated plan by former and current Intelligence Community officials (both parties) to work with the political campaign of Joe Biden in order to influence the 2020 election outcome. Within the transcribed interview, Mike Morell admits to receiving a phone call from current Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, with a request to create disinformation and protect Joe Biden from scrutiny over the Hunter Biden laptop revelations. Morell then coordinated with 50 intelligence officials to fabricate a claim that Russians had created the Biden laptop story as a disinformation campaign. The reality was that Morell organized the U.S. intelligence community to create disinformation on behalf of Joe Biden. Two key Republicans call for Secretary of State Blinken to resign over Hunter Biden revelations. Two high-profile Republicans who have probed the Biden family scandal are calling on Secretary of State Antony Blinken to resign or face impeachment over allegations he helped trigger an intelligence community letter during the 2020 election that falsely portrayed Hunter Biden's laptop contents as Russian disinformation. The rebukes of Blinken by Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) and Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) came after the release Thursday night of testimony from former CIA chief Michael Morell that Blinken had spurred him to organize the now-infamous October 2020 letter to benefit the Biden campaign. Morell testified he agreed to do so because Blinken reached out to him and he wanted to influence the election in Joe Biden's favor. "This, in my opinion, probably disqualifies him to serve as the Secretary of State," Biggs told Just the News in a wide-ranging interview Friday on the John Solomon Reports podcast. "And I know people keep saying, 'Andy, you want to impeach everybody?' Well, you know, Tony Blinken probably should be impeached, just like [Homeland Secretary Alejandro] Mayorkas should be impeached. 50 ways to protect our Joe? Remember that letter that hit the front pages about Russia disinformation and the Hunter Biden laptop? It was signed by 50 intelligence experts and now we are learning that it was a bit fishy. Could it be that the whole thing was set up to find 50 to protect the presidential candidate before the second debate? [...] The issue here is that a letter was signed giving credibility to Biden's message that the whole thing was disinformation. That smells bad and every one of the 50 should be brought before the Congress to explain their signature. State Department Dodges Questions on Blinken Discrediting Hunter Biden Laptop Story Ahead of 2020. The State Department refused to comment on whether Secretary of State Antony Blinken disputed Republicans' assertions that as a senior adviser to the 2020 Biden presidential campaign he was involved in recruiting former intelligence officials in an effort to discredit the Hunter Biden laptop story ahead of the election. When asked specifically if Blinken disputed the accuracy of the assertions and if he planned to comply with Republican lawmakers' request for more information, State Department Deputy Press Secretary Vedant Patel responded, "That is not a State Department issue, so I don't have a comment for you on that." Of Course Democrats Are Threatening to Imprison Matt Taibbi Over a Typo. The Twitter Files have been rankling a lot of feathers on the left since they began months ago. The revelations that have come from these releases have exposed all kinds of malfeasance on the part of Big Tech leaders and the government. It can be no surprise, then, that the authoritarian left would seek to punish those involved in the exposure of the government's efforts to suppress dissenting voices on the internet. This is why Democrats are threatening to use the power of the state to punish journalist Matt Taibbi, who was instrumental in distributing the information found behind the scenes at Twitter. Del. Stacey Plaskett (D-VI), a ranking member of the Weaponization subcommittee, has threatened to have Taibbi arrested and thrown in a cage for supposedly committing perjury. According to RedState's Nick Arama, Plaskett "sent a letter to Taibbi accusing him of committing perjury during his testimony because he supposedly made an error referring to the CISA (the government's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency) when he meant to refer to the CIS (the Center for Internet Security)." Top Dem Threatens Matt Taibbi With Jail in Despicable Move, Proving the Very Point He Was Making. During a Congressional hearing about the Twitter Files and the government's involvement in the censorship of speech on Twitter, Democrats were doing all they could to attack and try to smear the journalists who were involved in the reporting including an independent journalist, Matt Taibbi. Not only did they smear the Twitter Files reporters, but they also tried to find out their sources. So much for freedom of the press. Then Taibbi found out that on that same day, the IRS showed up on his doorstep. That's chilling when you have to have such concerns about the government being weaponized against you because the Democrats don't like that you're challenging their control or calling out their narrative. But that's not all. They're still trying to come after Taibbi — they're threatening him with jail time now because of his testimony before Congress. Del. Stacey Plaskett (D-VI) is the ranking member of the Weaponization Subcommittee. She was involved in the attack on Taibbi during the hearing; she tried to get his sources and smeared him as a "so-called journalist". Appeals Court Grants Bragg's Request to Temporarily Freeze House Subpeona. The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals on April 20 issued a temporary administrative hold on the return date of the House Judiciary Committee's congressional subpoena to Mark Pomerantz, a former prosecutor at Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office. Pomerantz investigated former President Donald Trump's finances before leaving Bragg's office in February 2022 in protest of Bragg's initial unwillingness to bring an indictment against Trump. Bragg then brought the indictment against Trump in late March, prompting Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), chair of the House Judiciary Committee, to initiate a probe into what Jordan calls a "politically motivated" prosecution against a former president. Jordan subpoenaed Pomerantz to seek his testimony. In response, Bragg sued the House Judiciary Committee and Pomerantz to prevent Pomerantz from testifying. The appeals court's April 20 order temporarily froze a lower court's ruling on April 19 that declined Bragg's request to block Pomerantz from testifying to Congress. Bragg's Obsession To Pin A Crime On Trump Deserves Disbarment And More. The consensus — even among Democrats who despise Donald Trump — is that Alvin Bragg has made a colossal mess of things. Recently, the Manhattan District Attorney compounded one legal blunder with another. This should surprise no one. Bragg is the kind of guy who could screw up a free lunch. Incompetence is his métier. In his brief tenure as DA, he has managed to increase the number of criminals terrorizing the streets of New York City by refusing to prosecute many of them or dropping serious felonies to petty misdemeanors. Innocent victims of the rampant crime fume and rage against Bragg, while prosecutors in his charge have abandoned ship. Like the crazed captain in Moby Dick, Bragg is obsessed with harpooning Trump, his white whale. In the DA's twisted mind, all evil in the world is personified by the former president. The Unfortunate Partisanship of the Prosecutor's Office. Prosecutors should not carry partisan labels. We didn't really need a Trump indictment to assert that point. There's never been any rationale to affix party labels to elections for any administrative or enforcement role. Whether it's secretary of state races, county clerk contests, or elections for local sheriffs or prosecutors, a person's party affiliation should have nothing to do with their application of the law. Moreover, when partisanship influences law enforcement, and the perception of it, it undermines faith in the criminal justice system — with unfortunate consequences. Indicting Trump brings this issue into stark relief. Whether or not one views the New York County attorney's indictment of Trump as being politically motivated apparently depends on the party affiliation of the person being asked. Judge Denies Bragg's Attempt to Stop Subpoena, Dealing Win to Jordan. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) will get to question a former prosecutor of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office after a judge ruled Wednesday that a subpoena Jordan issued to the prosecutor was enforceable. U.S. District Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil wrote that the subpoena, which Jordan sent to Mark Pomerantz two weeks ago, had a "valid legislative purpose." "It is not the role of the federal judiciary to dictate what legislation Congress may consider or how it should conduct its deliberations in that connection," Vyskocil wrote. "Mr. Pomerantz must appear for the congressional deposition. No one is above the law." The Editor says... IRS pays a visit to Matt Taibbi on same day he testifies before Congress on government abuses. [Scroll down] This is how police states work. Oh, sure, they will say it's just a coincidence that they sent an agent to Taibbi's home, but they'll have to explain themselves better than that. They've already gotten away with Lois Lerner and her shady tactics against Tea Party groups, they must have more agents just like her in that agency, willing to act on ideological motives to silence government critics. Who are they taking orders from? In the Lerner case, it was likely the White House. And why do they think they can get away with this, against an opposition-led Congress, no less? Is this what Joe Biden's $80 billion monster funding of the IRS has brought us? Is this what it was about? If I recall correctly, John Hinderaker at Power Line speculated that newly beefed up IRS, far from targeting billionaires as Biden promoted to win the bill's congressional passage, would use the new cash infusion to target conservatives and other inconvenient people. Looks like they did, and Hinderaker was right on the money. Fat, Stupid, and Diverse. [Alvin] Bragg — who badly wants to carve up Donald J. Trump, but won't — was boosted into office in November 2021 in yet another spasm of virtue signaling by the Rotted Apple's smart set, and whose campaign was lubed by dollars from George Soros to the aptly named "Color of Change PAC." Bragg is another swell diversity hire. They abound in America's deteriorating cities. And not incidentally — in fact, importantly — he's a Soros and establishment sock puppet. In going after Trump — and as of this writing, flailing conspicuously in his gambit — he's paying his dues to the Man. Diversity hire's only requirement is doing the Man's bidding. Alvin is trying. Bragg is a Happy Meal for the "diversity, inclusion, and equity" crowd. Nothing brings bigger smiles to their faces than foisting unintelligent, untalented, poorly skilled "of color" or gender box checks on mostly "of color" Democrat-ruined urban communities around the country. The FBI's Work in Mass Shootings Is Not Pretty. Former FBI director James Comey was in charge of finding what — and who — led up to some renowned, rather horrific mass shootings, which included Sandy Hook (2012), San Bernardino (2015), and Las Vegas (2017). [...] The FBI's continued failure to decipher key signals in mass shootings seems to point to a deliberate effort to cover for the billion-dollar behavioral health industry, which manages to obtain millions of dollars in state and federal funding after every single one of these mass murders. Critical evidence that most shooters have been found to be on a cocktail of psychiatric drugs magically disappears from the FBI investigations and findings. [...] The bottom line is that the FBI enjoys a level of secrecy on so many levels. With this level of power, the Bureau has the ability to conceal toxicology reports and mental health treatment records that are pertinent to finding the actual common denominator that drive these "mission-oriented killings." Why does the FBI not disclose each shooter's history of long-term mental health treatment? Is it because the public would question these treatments and possibly choose alternatives? Government Isn't the Victim; It's the Perpetrator. Around the country, almost every problem Americans endure is a result of Big Government action or inaction. Government overspending and central bank money-printing have crushed the value of ordinary Americans' income and savings. The Intelligence Community's use of the PATRIOT Act and other unconstitutional tools to violate Americans' Fourth Amendment rights against warrantless searches has not only eliminated privacy, but also made every citizen a suspect. The Biden administration's choice to leave America's borders wide open has exacerbated crime, drug addiction, and identity theft while breaking city budgets and local communities. Washington, D.C.'s endless bureaucratic rule-making touches every part of every American's life. What products can be bought and sold? What can a citizen do on or with his private property? What speech should be censored because the government judges its content "hateful" or unacceptably contrary to the bureaucracy's official point of view? While Congress never stops passing laws, agencies never stop exponentially compounding those laws with new standards, rules, and regulations that micromanage everything Americans do. This is an 'Us vs Them' Conflict — And There are More of Us Than Them. In many ways, We The People are in an abusive relationship with government. If you do not agree with the agenda as it is controlled by a small a powerful self-described elitist class, then we become the problem. The division is not determined by our definitions, the conniving and corrupt administrators of the system are the ones creating the division we are accused of perpetrating. However, there is no division in a social context as clear as the division between the working class and the investment class rulers who consider themselves above such arbitrary labels. When you peel the issues down to their essential core, what you will always find, always find, is the money of the thing. The created system of control is maintained through economics, and any America-First policy that threatens to close the divide between the 'haves and have-nots' is viewed against their interests. This is the essential core of the opposition we face. Trump could be in more danger than you think. One of the things I often have to remind people about, including lawyers who should know better, is that each state has its own unique laws and procedures. What is no big deal in most places may be a fiasco in another. For Donald Trump, the upcoming New York "falsifying business records" charge he may be facing would be laughed out of court almost everywhere, as no money was stolen and no harm to anyone seems to have been done. Unfortunately for him, he is stuck in the Empire State. And as unfair as it sounds, I think Mr. Trump is in some real trouble. The plan the Manhattan D.A. has is to convict him on a trivial offense, then hope a vindictive judge will throw the book at him. This happens all the time to suspected mafiosi in New York courts, and it may be what's going on here. It was not a mistake: A video reminding us to not allow a way out for the perpetrators. [Video clip] We will soon see institutions and governments admitting they were wrong about the vaccines and Covid measures. People will learn the truth by increments. Slowly, they will admit mistakes were made. Alongside the video above, we must not take those admissions as being a victory. The issue is not that those of us who reasoned that the vaxx was a bad idea and Covid was not as advertised, but that the governments had no right to do what they did EVEN IF THEY WERE RIGHT. So there must be no satisfaction in their admission that they were wrong and we skeptics are correct. Because this will just give permission to use the same illegal-now-legal methods for the next pseudo-crisis. 'They were wrong about the last thing but this time...'. In a way, from a certain point of view it would almost be better if we were wrong[,] because the state was STILL WRONG to take away all our rights no matter how things were. At least then we would be arguing the real issue. But we were right about it all. Yet we must remember the point. That the state must never have or take the power it did to do the things to us it did do. Donald Trump, Regime Foe. The funniest thing I have read in, well, at least the last several hours, comes from Manhattan's George Soros-funded affirmative-action district attorney, Alvin Bragg. Responding to the uproar that greeted Donald Trump's all-caps Truth Social warning that he would be "arrested" on Tuesday, Bragg sent 'round a memo to his staff informing them, and the world, that "This office is full of the finest public servants in the country." The comedy didn't end there, however. "I am committed to maintaining a safe work environment where everyone is able to continue to serve the public with the same diligence and professionalism [!] that make this institution so renowned. In the meantime, as with all of our investigations, we will continue to apply the law evenly and fairly ..." What a card! And, yes, that's my emphasis but his credulity-breaking bluster. "Evenly and fairly," forsooth. Everyone knows that Alvin Bragg does not apply the law at all evenly or fairly. Soros-Funded DA Alvin Bragg [was] Caught Hiding Nearly 600 Pages of Exculpatory Evidence from NY Grand Jury in Trump Case. Attorney Robert Costello, the former legal adviser to Michael Cohen, spoke to Tucker Carlson on Monday night after he testified to the Manhattan Grand Jury investigating President Donald Trump. Costello told the FOX News audience that he testified for two hours in front of Alvin Bragg's Manhattan Grand Jury. Robert Costello told Tucker Carlson, "I spoke to the jury for two hours... It was clear to me the Manhattan Grand Jury did not want to get to the truth." Manhattan DA Behind Trump Indictment Responds to GOP With the Self-awareness of a Brick. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, the Democrat attempting to arrest Donald Trump on charges related to the hush money he paid to Stormy Daniels, has responded to the GOP after Republicans began organizing a Judicial Committee hearing around the lawyer. According to Fox News, a spokesperson for Bragg spoke with Fox News Digital, saying that his office will not be intimidated by the GOP. Hilariously, the response from Bragg's office is about as hypocritical as it gets: [...] Bragg is currently attempting to turn what even other Democrats acknowledge is a misdemeanor into a felony. The likelihood of that happening is slim, and many Democrats fear that this weak attempt to arrest Trump will only strengthen his standing among Republican and Independent voters. Their fears are likely to come true. Stop the Administrative State by Using the Administrative Procedures Act. Where is the coordinated national-level Republican counterattack against Joe Biden's myriad leftwing executive orders and presidential memoranda? Where is the Republican National Committee? Where is the national Republican communication strategy, including daily press conferences, that exposes the unconstitutional actions being pursued by the Biden administration? As noted in the Federal Register, Joe Biden signed 77 executive orders in 2021 and 27 in 2022. He has also signed out 77 total presidential memoranda to date, as well as dozens of presidential determinations and administrative orders. Executive orders are official presidential directives that generally have the force of law. They are intended to direct actions within federal agencies (the "Executive Branch" of the federal government). All executive orders are supposed to identify whether the order is based on the constitutionally granted powers or those delegated to a president by Congress. They are subject to legal review, and federal courts can cancel those determined to be unconstitutional — or which violate existing federal law. Congress can also revoke an executive order through passage of superseding legislation. Presidential memoranda are similar in purpose and intent but are not required to be reported in the Federal Register nor are they required to include a justification of presidential authority, as noted [elsew]here. Alvin Bragg's End Run Around the Constitution. We've endured four years of Mueller's failed "Russiagate" hoax, two failed, politically-driven impeachment trials from radical House Democrats in Congress driven by Nancy Pelosi, not to mention the highly-partisan "January 6" Committee that failed to call a single witness adverse to their pre-cooked "it-was-an-insurrection" narrative, and a host of other Trump-related political prosecutions. But now, this weekend's announcement from President Trump that he expects to be indicted on Tuesday in Manhattan forecasts the most radical tactic yet that the Democrats will use to block Trump's return to power: lawfare with unfounded charges in the criminal courts. Let's be clear. The feds have already declined to prosecute anything surrounding Trump's civil settlement with Stormy Daniels. Perhaps that is because confidentiality clauses are part of millions of civil settlements in lawsuits around the country every day. I've seen hundreds in my own career as a civil litigator. In other words, nothing to see here. Turns Out all You Need is 38,000 Demons to Destroy the World. The brutalism of government during the last three years was anomalous in western democracies. First of all, it was irrational, it contravened common sense, which almost everyone possesses, and it destroyed millions of household economies and small businesses. It impoverished and starved a billion people in the developing world. It killed the old, brutally, refusing them affection in their last days. It divided us and is still dividing us. The virus was engineered by the government and paid for by the people it was unleashed upon. And then the fiends forced injections upon anyone with a job and a family to feed, via relentless propaganda, where it too contravened basic reason (acquired immunity, tiny effect on people under 70), and then the shot started to kill. And the deaths were ignored, records hidden, and the press was quiescent. Who did this? This wasn't normal government behavior. [...] Who drew up the plan, instituted it in every country, bullied every citizenry, devised the advertising, instituted the protocols? What operation has that level of power, of discipline? Who's Running America? Last week the Senate Democrat majority was hospitalized with Senator John Fetterman dispatched to a psych ward and Senator Dianne Feinstein, who doesn't seem to know where she is, hospitalized for shingles. [...] The New York Times claims that Senator Fetterman "runs his Senate operation" from a psych ward. Photos have been released of him vaguely looking at pieces of paper. No satirist could have come up with a bleaker metaphor for the country than that one of the Senate's deciding votes has been hospitalized in a psych ward for his own safety, but is still running everything. The paper tells us that, "since Mr. Fetterman checked in to the hospital, he has co-sponsored a bipartisan bill designed to help prevent future train derailment disasters, opened new district offices across Pennsylvania and hired four new staff members. On Wednesday, Mr. Fetterman sent a letter to the agriculture secretary." With productivity like that, maybe we should stick all of Congress in a mental institution. Fetterman was so badly off that couldn't feed himself in a city filled with eateries, but is now in a position to write legislation that will change the country. House Democrats anoint 'so-called' member of Congress to sabotage hearings, trash whistleblowers. Now that Democrats are in the minority in the House and unable to abuse their power as easily as they have for the last two years, they are resorting to shameless lies to sabotage oversight hearings and trash whistleblowers and other inconvenient witnesses. As queen of this disinformation operation, they have anointed a little-known Democrat named Stacey Plaskett, who is not even a full-fledged member of Congress. Plaskett's favorite adjective is "so-called," which is ironic since she is a so-called member of Congress. She does not have voting rights as the "at-large" delegate for the US Virgin Islands. Yet she is a ranking member of the Select Subcommittee on Weaponization of the Federal Government, the first time a nonvoting delegate has occupied such a lofty post. Mark Kelly Wastes No Time Revealing Himself to Be a Nightmare. I left California five years ago for a variety of reasons, the politics there being a big part of what made me cut out after more than two decades. [...] Nine months after I returned, Kyrsten Sinema was elected to the Senate. Arizona hadn't had a Democrat there in over 20 years. That was an adjustment. Things got worse when Mark "I'M AN ASTRONAUT!" Kelly was elected to fill the remainder of the late John McCain's term. I consoled myself with the fact that it was only for two years and that we could sweep him out of office during the 2022 midterms. Yeah, about that. Kelly was able to sneak into a full term by essentially hiding under Kyrsten Sinema's skirts for the first two years, doing nothing to call attention to himself. Conservatives here knew that there was a gun-grabbing nightmare just waiting to bust out if he was given six years. Well, his first move wasn't against the Second Amendment; it was even creepier. NOAA and BOEM; Ignorance is Bliss. For about twenty years the Natural Resources Defense Council [NRDC] engaged the US Navy in a legal battle over the effects of the Navy's use of Mid Frequency Sonar in training exercises and its impact on marine mammals and other creatures, with one case even reaching the US Supreme court. While there are many different aspects of NRDC's legal actions, the results of the litigation have produced an enormous amount of scientific data and research regarding the effects of underwater sound on marine creatures, with an emphasis on Sonar and marine mammals. They forced the Navy to admit that their use of sonar had resulted in the unintentional mass strandings of many different marine Mammals in a dozen different instances around the world, primarily involving Beaked whales, that are classified as being low to mid frequency cetaceans. These mammals communicate, navigate and feed using low to mid frequency sounds. Liberating Ourselves from Dystopia. I have no interest in this kind of future, but the first step to liberating ourselves from certain dystopia is understanding and accepting that the government is always lying. It does not consider telling the truth a civic or moral duty; rather, it believes in disseminating "narratives" that are most beneficial to its own grip on power. Those who advance farthest in government are not honest people, and their trickle-down dishonesty corrupts everyone around them. In politics and war, the lowest common denominator tends to win out. There is a race to the bottom in which ruthless violence and abject immorality succeed while honor and principle are rejected. [...] When President Kennedy urged Americans during his Inaugural Address to "ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country," he was "defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger." Today's politicians demand that Americans do what they say and have made government our maximum danger. The John Fetterman Situation Just Got Much Weirder. Despite a "recovery" from the stroke that is clearly going in the wrong direction, talk of Fetterman resigning has been dismissed as ableism. [...] The New York Times wrote a full spread actually suggesting that it is normal for a senator to co-sponsor legislation that he's not even aware of. That's the best defense they could come up with for a guy who not only can't perform the duties of his office, but can't even hold a conversation with someone. The entire point of electing a representative is that they make decisions in the interests of their constituents. In all my time covering politics, I have never once heard of a Senate staff co-sponsoring legislation for their boss without his or her knowledge. That's so insane and contrary to the electoral system as to be scandalous all on its own. We aren't supposed to be a government run by staff proxies. FBI May Have Used FISA To Spy On The Congressman Overseeing FISA, Whose Renewal Is 'Top Legislative Priority' For Biden. The FBI may have abused the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to spy on the very congressman tasked with overseeing FISA, according to revelations at a congressional hearing Thursday. Rep. Darin LaHood (R-IL), a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, said at a committee hearing that he has reason to believe that he is the unnamed congressman who, a recently declassified report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) admitted, FBI agents wrongfully conducted a search on. LaHood is leading a working group tasked with oversight and renewal of Section 702 of FISA, Fox News reported. Last month, President Joe Biden asked Congress to reauthorize FISA provisions, calling it a "top legislative priority." "I want to make clear the FBI's inappropriate querying of a duly elected member of Congress is egregious and a violation not only that degrades the trust in FISA, but is viewed as a threat to the separation of powers," LaHood said at the hearing, according to Fox. "I have had the opportunity to review the classified summary of this violation, and it is my opinion that the member of Congress that was wrongfully queried multiple times solely by his name was in fact me," he said. Prevent
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Shellenberger on Censorship: It's No Longer a Slippery Slope. Shellenberger: "Seeing this censorship industry go from, well, we're just fighting ISIS to well, we're just fighting Russian disinformation bots to well, now we need to fight domestic misinformation, which is just saying we need to fight against people who are saying things we disagree with online, that's all that means. And I — I mean, it's not a slippery slope. It's an immediate leap into a terrifying mechanism that I — we only see in totalitarian societies of attempting to gain control over what the social media platforms are allow — are allowing." [Video clip] Michael Shellenberger Outlines Deep State Psychological Operations Being Conducted Against Americans. After his review of the Twitter Files, Michael Shellenberger is beginning to take a big picture approach to each of the discoveries. Shellenberger, appears on Tucker Carlson tonight to discuss how in the big picture the U.S. government is conducting psychological warfare against domestic citizens through the auspices of Twitter and likely other social media platforms. He's not wrong, we've been calling it out in real time. [Video clip] Weaponized FTC Demands Twitter Hand Over Journalists' Work. The FTC, led by Democrats, sent twelve letters to Twitter and its lawyers since Mr. Musk took over on October 27. Mr. Musk told Twitter employees in November the company would do whatever it takes to follow both the letter and the spirit of the FTC order, the [Wall Street] Journal reported at the time. The FTC also seeks to depose Mr. Musk in connection with the probe. The Republican-led House Judiciary Committee obtained the so-called demand letters, which published excerpts of them Tuesday in a staff report about the FTC's investigation. According to the Journal, the letters indicate Twitter responded to the FTC but that the agency, as of late January, felt the company was engaging in a "troubling pattern of ongoing delay" that raises "serious concerns about its compliance." The Judiciary panel's report, the first by a new subcommittee examining what Republicans call the "weaponization" of federal agencies, accused the FTC of overstepping its authority at the urging of progressive groups unhappy with Mr. Musk's acquisition of the company. "There is no logical reason, for example, why the FTC needs to know the identities of journalists engaging with Twitter," the report said. Life Among the Ruins. Need we say anything about the lack of efficacy or morality of the Department of Justice, FBI, or CIA? Or rather is there anything the FBI will not do? Doctor court evidence? Hire Twitter to suppress the news? Monitor parents at school board meetings? Allow directors to lie under oath or "misremember" before Congress? Swiping clean subpoenaed phones? Hiring fakers to compile dirt on a presidential candidate — and then using that known smear to hoodwink a judge to allow spying on Americans? Suppressing evidence on a laptop to warp an election? Raiding an ex-president's home with a SWAT-like team? Spying on Catholics in mass? Storming a home full of children of a man accused of a politically incorrect misdemeanor? Americans need this Amendment more than ever right now. The need for America to re-affirm the First Amendment and its principles has once again been underscored by the recent findings coming out about the origins and impact of the coronavirus. The most important problem we have as a society is not misinformation but the suppression of non-conforming opinions that often (but not always) turn out to be true. Americans sense this already. They are concerned about what tech companies have been doing to censor content, with 61% of voters in a recent Harvard CAPS/Harris Poll believing that the government and tech companies worked together to enforce political censorship. Just how unjust is our system of justice? The CIA and FBI have turned away from investigating foreign threats (like China) and against law-abiding Americans, especially conservative and/or Christian Americans. Turns out the Church Committee did not effectively reform those institutions as promised. The FBI/DOJ/CIA/DNC complex robbed Trump of his 2020 victory because he was and remains a threat to their personal wealth and power. Now our blighted and corrupt administration is fighting a proxy war with Russia over the national security of their eastern border which is insignificant to America. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell says this is the most important issue on the planet? China is our most dangerous adversary, not Russia. Schumer Threatens Fox, Says He Has 'Right' To Tell Them 'What to Do'. We've seen that Democrats don't seem to understand some of the basic principles of the Constitution. Or perhaps, more accurately, don't seem to care about complying with it. We've also seen that they don't understand that Joe Biden isn't king. He doesn't get to declare, by unilateral fiat, the cancellation of student debt. That's not within his Constitutional power, no matter what Democratic politicians may think. But they wanted to do it to pay off their base for their votes. So, they threw a tantrum on the steps of the Supreme Court. All they understand is that they should get to do what they want to hold onto their control. We saw another serious Constitutional problem again — with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, as he spoke to CNN and MSNBC over the last day. Listen as Schumer tells CNN's John Berman that he thinks they have a "right" to tell Fox News what to do. [Tweet] Has Someone Taken Over Fetterman's Office Because He Can't Do What Was Just Announced. What is going on at Sen. John Fetterman's (D-PA) office? I ask because the senator, who hospitalized and under medical observation, is apparently joining legislative efforts and co-signing legislation. Someone the people of Pennsylvania didn't elect is acting in Fetterman's capacity. It's not shocking that Democrats are pushing a new framework to enhance train safety after the horrific derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, which could devolve into an environmental fiasco. What is eyebrow-raising is Fetterman saying he's joined this effort while being sidelined for possibly a month due to clinical depression. And if you ask his staff on Twitter about it, they reportedly block you. [...] Who is running the office and signing off on lawmaking efforts? Because it's not John right now. We have an unelected imposter serving the Keystone State, and that's a scandal. Fetterman Is Sponsoring Bills, Signing Legislation from a Psych Ward Now. No one knows how John Fetterman is, and the last report we had was from a conservative journalist John Cardillo who heard Mr. Fetterman is essentially brain-dead in the medical sense. We know that Sen. Fetterman is locked away in a psych ward for severe depression and other issues and couldn't be doing what they say he is doing. Somehow, he sponsors bills, writes letters, and conducts Senate business from his locked psych ward. So, we just let people run government policies and sponsor bills from psych wards now? He could be terminally brain-dead, and how would we know? Injustice of the Court. I was encouraged to look at sacrifice for my nation as the highest honor. I saluted the flag, got choked up at the sound of the national anthem. Now, I have to ask what purpose would my sacrifice serve? Would it be to keep Hunter's diary a secret? Would it be to hide all the crimes of pedophilia among our representatives, senators, presidents and judges? Would my sacrifice be to see drag queens in Kindergarten? Would it be to keep political prisoners of the current regime? Would it be to fund extortion and brutality of parents concerned about their children and the schools they go to? The problem that has been created is that as a patriotic son of the founding ideals, I would have to fight against all of that, against the crooked institutions of today. I could not, in good conscience fight to sustain this treason. It's a paradox created by their lies and deceit that I could not fight for the government of my nation, but am forced to try and bring it to heel, to bring it back under control. Twitter Coordinated with Intel Agencies. Over the course of some 15 "Twitter Files" exposés, independent journalists also revealed the tech giant worked closely with intelligence agencies, resulting in the censorship of more speech. As Matt Taibbi put it: ["]The files show the FBI acting as doorman to a vast program of social media surveillance and censorship, encompassing agencies across the federal government — from the State Department to the Pentagon to the CIA.["] "Requests poured in from FBI offices all over the country, day after day, hour after hour: Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Baltimore," Taibbi wrote, with Twitter "taking requests from every conceivable government agency, from state officials in Wyoming, Georgia, Minnesota, Connecticut, California, and others to the NSA, FBI, DHS, DOD, DOJ, and many others." And although Twitter's new owner, Elon Musk, could only share Twitter's internal communications, that material showed the CIA — referred to under the euphemism "Other Government Agencies" in the emails — "ended up sharing intelligence through the FBI and FITF [Foreign Influence Task Force] not just with Twitter, but with Yahoo!, Twitch, Cloudfare, LinkedIn, even Wikimedia." A Partisan Judge's Parting Rampage. Efforts to uncover election irregularities or lawfully object to the outcome are under criminal investigation resulting in the unprecedented weaponization of legal and judicial authority conducted by unaccountable prosecutors and judges. Enabling this farce in the nation's capital is Beryl Howell, the chief judge of the D.C. District Court. A former Democratic staffer on Capitol Hill, Howell was appointed to the bench by Barack Obama in 2010 and elevated to chief judge in 2016. Since then, Howell has steered the government's yearslong effort to put Trump in handcuffs. She managed the grand jury proceedings for Special Counsel Robert Mueller and is currently overseeing the Justice Department's latest iteration of its "Get Trump" campaign — a sweeping investigation into alleged attempts to "overturn" the 2020 election. Her latest broadside is aimed at Representative Scott Perry (R-Pa.). FBI agents, acting at the direction of the rogue Washington Field Office, stole Perry's cell phone on August 9, 2022, the day after the same office executed an armed raid at Mar-a-Lago. Perry was traveling with his family in New Jersey at the time when agents seized his phone, copied its contents, and returned the device. Biden Unites the Feds with DEI. How are we to understand the Biden administration's executive order to go full DEI for the whole federal government? I mean, if we need to purge the federal government from stem to stern of systemic racism and enforce diversity, equity, and inclusion, the federal government must be a veritable hornet's nest of racism, sexism, homophobia, and hate. Otherwise we wouldn't need a whole-of-government effort to stamp it out. And, of course, we are talking about Democrats. No Republican has had a shot at a Fed job for a generation. But how can this be? Our liberal friends have been running the federal government, man and boy — and now gender non-binary — for not less than 90 years, at least since FDR was inaugurated and cranked up the federal government to ramming speed with a ton of new liberal programs. Our liberal friends have run a race program — fighting systemic racism! — for the last 55 years, from quotas to Affirmative Action to Diversity to Reparations. And that's not enough? Five Lessons from Three Years of Authoritarianism. Three years ago few of us knew the impending storm that was brewing; one that would upend the very fabric of global democracy, destroy whole communities, businesses and families and cause a vast number of children and adolescents to become unmoored and disengage from society, among many other deleterious outcomes. Perhaps most chilling of all has been the sinister turn in those three years of what was once seemingly a force for good, "public health;" which changed into a punitive and authoritarian entity that wilfully engages in iatrogenesis and the disenfranchisement of those skeptical of the medical-industrial complex through widespread and draconian vaccine mandates. In retrospect, America in February of 2020 seems like a libertarian, innocent age compared to our current one. We did not live under the shadow of possible nuclear holocaust. Everyday life was devoid of the nanny-state elements of our current age. Many of us had gone through life never quite knowing what the destructive power of a government run amok looked like. Now we know. DoD politicization scandal expands: Files on two more House Republicans leaked to Dem oppo-research group. [Scroll down] This raises serious questions about politicization of the federal bureaucracy, and especially at the DoD, which is supposed to be scrupulously non-partisan. Even more generally, though, the use of confidential federal files in political campaigns calls into question the entire usefulness of civil-service status, which is supposed to keep the federal bureaucracy non-partisan. That almost seems quaint at this point, given the clear partisan tilt of the public employee unions that represent most of the 2 million-plus federal employees, but the exploitation of access to confidential materials for partisan electoral advantage utterly eviscerates the argument for the civil-service protections now in place that restrict accountability. How A Texas Lawsuit Over Proxy Voting Could Nuke Biden's Entire $1.7 Trillion Spending Spree. Joe Biden's Dec. 29 signing of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 was invalid because the House never actually passed the omnibus spending bill the president purportedly signed into law. At least, that's what Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton claims in a little-noticed lawsuit he filed last week against the Biden administration. If a court agrees, the taxpayer-funded $1.7 trillion federal spending spree — and every other aspect of that bill — could be rendered void. While the "if" in that sentence does some heavy lifting, it is not because Paxton's lawsuit is weak on either the facts or the law. On the contrary, his complaint in Paxton v. Department of Justice makes a seemingly unassailable case that the House of Representatives lacked the constitutionally mandated quorum to pass the appropriations act. Nonetheless, the enormity of a court striking an omnibus spending bill may leave the judicial branch shrinking from its constitutional duty. Biden decides to give the WHO authority over U.S. sovereignty. The World Health Organization, a subsidiary of the United Nations run by a team of bureaucrats in Geneva, soon could have the power to dictate lockdowns, vaccination mandates, social distancing and much more in the United States. Even surveillance of citizens. A new report from the Epoch Times explains Joe Biden is getting ready to sign the U.S. up to a "legally binding" deal that would give international politicians authority to make decisions for America during a pandemic. And he's maneuvering so it won't require approval by the U.S Senate. I've Been Down A Deep Rabbit Hole This Morning. [One piece of the puzzle:] Did you know the CDC, after 17 years, decided to update the profile of Vinyl Chloride? 11 Days before the train crash. [Another piece:] The Biden administration is preparing to sign up the United States to a "legally binding" accord with the World Health Organization (WHO) that would give this Geneva-based UN subsidiary the authority to dictate America's policies during a pandemic. Religious pro-lifers prevented from viewing Bill of Rights because National Archives forbids free speech. They're coming for you next: Students and parents and others who had just attended the January 20, 2023 March for Life event in Washington were told by numerous National Archives security officials that day that they must remove or cover any pro-life shirts, jackets, hats, or buttons or they would be ejected from the museum. [...] This same intolerance was also done to other pro-life individuals attempting to view the Bill of Rights, by numerous different security guards in different locations at the museum. All were threatened with eviction if they did not cover or remove the shirts, jackets, or hats that had pro-life statements on them. In one case a group of 30-40 students were ordered by several guards to remove their pro-life shirts[.] State Department Funded Foreign Think Tank Working To Censor Americans. The U.S. State Department funds and partners with a U.K.-based think tank that collaborates with online platforms to censor perceived mis- and disinformation. The Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) is a British nongovernmental organization that styles itself as a research group working in partnership with several online platforms to combat extremism, hate and disinformation. However, the organization frequently classifies typical conservative discourse and journalism as hate and/or disinformation and has received funding from the U.S. government. The State Department awarded the organization a grant in September 2021 to "advance the development of promising and innovative technologies against disinformation and propaganda" in Europe and the U.K. after it won the U.S.-Paris Tech Challenge. The event, which was held in collaboration with the "U.S. Embassy Paris, the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) [and] the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)," was also won by the Global Disinformation Index (GDI), an organization which reportedly seeks to demonetize conservative news sites. State Dept Operative and USAID Administrator Samantha Power is in Hungary, Seeding Another Color Revolution — Deep State Ukraine 2.0. Hungary has been in the crosshairs of the Biden/Obama administration ever since Prime Minister Viktor Orban refused to align with the WEF Western Democracies in their quest for regime change in Russia. As the NATO led western alliance assembled to use Ukraine as a proxy war against Russia, Hungarian Prime Minister Orban would not join. In early April 2022, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban was overwhelmingly reelected, despite the massive efforts against him by the European Union, western and euro-centric multinational globalists. As a result of the victory, Brussels was furious at the Hungarian people. The American Legal System Is Becoming An Instrument Of Injustice. America once was a nation of laws, real laws that protected life, liberty, and property. Now, though, the laws are immoral in both purpose and effect. For example: The DOJ enforces search warrants against political enemies with excessive but legal force. These personal enemies are arrested in the most publicly embarrassing manner possible. A pro-life activist is arrested in his home using massed, armed federal police and accused of violating a law that a state court concluded was not violated. The jury acquitted him. [...] The IRS uses financial force to coerce compliance just within the bounds of the law. And when politics call, the IRS will illegally punish opponents, as it did with Tea Party groups. The TSA and Homeland Security push the limits of legality with No-Fly lists and searches in the name of safety. The law is specifically designed to protect this plunder of liberty. [...] It never ends. The persecution of Masterpiece Bakery, gas stove bans, EV mandates, drag queen story hours, teaching CRT, ESG scores, creative ballot collection, and unenforced borders all stretch the bounds of legality under perverted law. The law that is supposed to protect life, liberty, and property is used to take them away. The persecution under the law pushes to the edge of legality and quite often past it. The elites designed the limits under which they operate. They chose the limits purposefully to use them to excess. [The] Secret Service [is being] accused of a 'cover-up'. The Secret Service has been accused of a 'cover-up' over its alleged involvement in a police investigation when Hunter Biden's lover dumped his gun in a trash can near a school in 2018. Judicial Watch, a justice watchdog nonprofit, announced on Friday that it received 487 pages of Secret Service (USSS) records over the incident, and says the documents cast further doubt over the agency's claims that it was not involved. Hunter's lover and brother's widow, Hallie Biden, left his .38 handgun at the top of a trash can at Jansens supermarket in Wilmington, Delaware in October 2018, sparking a police probe. The Stench of Fascism Is Suffocating our Democracy. ... but nobody wants to talk about it. We sanitize our language so that classified documents strewn over unsecured garages and centers of Chinese influence are talked about as though it's a matter of carelessness and not design. The indisputable brute fact is this: our commander-in-chief and his family have made themselves wealthy by taking bribes from foreign powers, chief among them our mortal enemy Communist China. Nobody seems to be asking, but how exactly were the inexplicable decisions to turn Afghanistan over to China and the Taliban made, and what American interest was served by this? In classic fascist fashion, the Biden administration has suborned the intelligence community and the Department of Justice to censor and harass its political opponents. These include school parents and Capitol trespassers whom it libels and imprisons as "domestic terrorists" and (unarmed) "insurrectionists." In typical fascist moves, it has suborned corporate America into spying on its political opponents with the goal of cancelling them and silencing their opinions. Just this week AT&T shut down the fastest growing and fourth largest cable news network, Newsmax TV, depriving 13 million viewers of access to its reporting. This attack on the First Amendment came on the heels of Twitter's exposure of the way the FBI had put its platform on the federal payroll and dictated its censorship of tweets that could have changed the results of the last presidential election. The same fascistic arrangement was made with other tech social media giants like Facebook. Will Jordan's Subcommittee Be Able to Achieve What the 'Church Committee' Couldn't? Important and laudable as it was at the time (1975), we must conclude that the Senate's vaunted "Church Committee," under Sen. Frank Church (D-Idaho), ultimately failed in its mission to reform the CIA, FBI, IRS, and the National Security Agency (NSA) anywhere near permanently. [...] I hesitate to use Wikipedia, given its reflexive bias, but its summary of what the Church group found seems accurate: "The most shocking revelations of the committee include Operation MKULTRA involving the drugging and torture of unwitting US citizens as part of human experimentation on mind control; COINTELPRO involving the surveillance and infiltration of American political and civil-rights organizations; Family Jewels, a CIA program to covertly assassinate foreign leaders; Operation Mockingbird as a systematic propaganda campaign with domestic and foreign journalists operating as CIA assets and dozens of US news organizations providing cover for CIA activity. "It also unearthed Project SHAMROCK, in which the major telecommunications companies shared their traffic with the NSA (while officially confirming the existence of this signals intelligence agency to the public for the first time)." Does any of this sound familiar? More exactly, what part of this doesn't sound familiar? Arizona Regime Is Investigating Kari Lake For Exposing Election Fraud. The newly selected regime heading up Arizona's top statewide offices is now targeting Kari Lake with potential felony charges for speaking out against the rigged election in Arizona. Questionably elected Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes, a former lawyer for Mexican drug cartels, sent out a new letter on Monday, asking questionably elected Attorney General Kris Mayes to "investigate and take appropriate enforcement action against Kari Lake" for sounding the alarm about the stolen 2022 Election. The CIA and Intelligence Community are Very Worried About the House Subcommittee on Federal Government Weaponization. The website Just Security, author former CIA operative Douglas Johnson, is very concerned about the House Subcommittee on Federal Government Weaponization. The concern is clouded under the auspices of fearing politicization by questioning the intelligence community about weaponized government. The article is a mainstream bureaucratic outlook where the professional intelligence apparatus views themselves as beyond being accountable to the elected public officials, specifically the House members of the committee. The permanent unelected officials have a self-perception above the reach of the elected officials. In essence, there is no public accountability model within their view of their operation. There can only be concealment, secret briefings, darkness and 'trust us' type reviews of their authorities. It's quite a remarkable thing to read. Who does Represtative Maria Salazar represent? When a citizen is elected to Congress, they are conferred the title of "representative," with each "representative" elected to a two-year term "serving the people of their specific congressional district." So it was disconcerting to hear Representative Maria Elvira Salazar, a Republican from Florida's 27th district, address the recently concluded World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, in her official congressional capacity and declare that she "represents" the millions of migrants presently inside the sovereign borders of this nation illegally. Speaking as part of a bipartisan panel discussing "the reshaped legislative landscape in the United States as it relates to domestic and foreign policy," the crux of her remarks to the attendees was that she wanted to give "dignity" to illegal migrants that are living inside the United States." Keywords: Slow walking, stonewalling, obstruction of Congress. Our lawsuit uncovers more shocking evidence Team Biden used Big Tech to censor. The First Amendment is the bedrock of American liberty. Our citizens have the right, if not civic duty, to engage in open, dynamic discourse, and no government has the right to limit, suppress, censor or otherwise control it. Yet as we dig deeper into discovery in our Big Tech censorship case — Missouri and Louisiana v. Biden — we uncover ever-more truly appalling abuses of power that President Joe Biden's director of digital strategy, Rob Flaherty, admitted come from "the highest (and I mean highest) levels of the" White House. Such evidence proves the Biden administration is leveraging its power to coerce social-media companies to suppress the speech of thousands, if not millions, of Americans who disagree with its political narratives. Naturally, the First Amendment prohibits censorship. Yet the Biden team has worked to circumvent this fundamental constitutional protection by inducing, threatening and colluding with private companies to suppress speech. It's illegal; but when Big Government enters into such a conspiracy with Big Business to violate your rights, it's also known by another name: fascism. To Save America, Repeal the 19th Amendment. With Jacinda Ardern's welcome exit from the ranks of world political leaders, leaving a shambles of constitutional freedom and human rights in her wake, now is perhaps an opportune time to reconsider the passage of the 19th amendment in American politics as part of our ongoing series of "To Save America" modest proposals advocating repeal of the most destructive tamperings with the original Constitution. [...] To take Ardern as an example, her reaction to a single case of the imaginary disease known as "Covid-19" was quintessentially female and maternal: she immediately shut down her entire country, then instituted a breathtaking regime of ruthless totalitarianism involving lockdowns and forcible "vaccinations." (She had previously displayed these same panicky instincts in the wake of the 2019 mosque shootings, when she almost instantly imposed a draconian anti-gun policy nationwide.) In other words, she acted according to stereotype, her policies not the product of calm thinking and reasoned judgment but of inflamed emotions absent any rational thought. After which she walked away from the chaos complaining of burnout. The American intelligence community has no accountability — so how can it keep us safe? The revelation that President Biden had stacks of classified documents stashed in his garage — alongside jugs of anti-freeze and piles of cleaning rags — comes as little surprise. For several years I have been working on a new book, "SpyFail," that examines the collapse of the country's counterintelligence and security operations. And by far, no administration has had a more disastrous record than those of Barack Obama and Biden. For years, insiders at the hyper-secret National Security Agency were able to walk out the door with more than half a billion pages of documents classified higher than top secret, some dealing with nuclear weapons and many of which ended up in Russia. And that was after the supposed crackdown following the million or so documents removed by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, also on Obama and Biden's watch. Still another NSA insider was able to steal nearly all of the agency's highly dangerous cyberweapons — the tech equivalent of loose nukes — and put them up for auction on the internet in 2016. Eventually, the weapons ended up in Russia and North Korea, where they were used to cause a worldwide cyber pandemic that shut down hospitals and medical facilities all over the world, including in the US, thus turning our own weapons against us. From student loans to masks, why does Biden want to keep us in a perpetual 'emergency'? We've made it to 2023, nearly three years since the pandemic hit the United States in full force. The virus is less deadly, we have effective vaccines and life is pretty much back to normal for most of us. If you're President Joe Biden, however, the COVID-19 "emergency" is still front and center. Don't get me wrong. I don't think Biden actually believes we are still in a state of emergency. He admitted as much in September when he declared the pandemic was "over." Yet the president and his administration have enjoyed the extra powers that have accompanied the national emergency declaration. And they are working hard to cling to this authority, which has granted the executive branch broader control over our lives. You Must Assume That All Information Put Out By Our Government Is Corrupt. Throughout the agencies of our federal government, an important function is to issue data and information about the state of the country. These data cover a vast array of topics such as population, demographics, income and poverty, the state of the economy, the GDP, employment and unemployment, activities of foreign adversaries, weather and climate, energy production and use, and much, much more. The Congress and states use this information in making important public policy decisions, and the people use it to make decisions for their everyday lives. Not the least of those decisions is how to vote. So is the information issued by the government basically honest and reliable for important decisions? Or, instead, is the output of official information cynically manipulated and corrupted by a government interested mainly in perpetuating and increasing its own power? And given that the federal bureaucracy is 90+% Democrat in political orientation, to what extent does that bureaucracy manipulate the information it issues to further the election of Democrats? The evidence of data manipulation in favor of Democrats is so pervasive that we have to assume that essentially all information put out by the government is corrupt. The Empress Wears No Clothes. Catherine E. Lhamon is the current Assistant Secretary at the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR). Despite the unassuming title, her position wields enormous power. The Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, at her sole discretion, can cut off federal funding (and has threatened to do so) from any recipient educational institution she deems unwoke or patriarchal. Lhamon once quipped about how she enjoys carrying the "big stick of the federal government" to further her agenda. Lhamon is best known for abusing her authority to create an illiberal ecosystem of administrative law during the Obama administration, eviscerating due-process protections for students accused of sexual harassment. Like Paul Revere, a Massachusetts Republican Sends Warning. [Scroll down] How do progressives govern? During the COVID debacle, we got a good look at progressive blue state governors and then a progressive president in action. They govern like absolute monarchs, decreeing mask mandates, vaccine mandates, and destructive lockdowns. They abusively utilize 'emergency powers' that have no end date. They impose unconstitutional executive orders that bypass legislative approval. Elon Musk has done the country a great service by releasing the 'Twitter Files'. We now know that the FBI, the CIA, and the DOJ (among other agencies) have been corrupted by installing progressive leadership. These agencies are now weaponized against conservatives. They are now used to defend progressives and their policies. They have co-opted all mainstream news media and big tech, preventing accurate information from getting to the people. They've worked to silence conservative voices, suppressing all opposition. Even the White House is in on it. America's Animal Farm. [Scroll down] It is not American for an unelected bureaucracy to create rules out of thin air and enforce them upon the people through agency prerogative and regulation. It is not American for presidents to legislate through executive order. It is not American for congresses to conduct show trials against American citizens or to demand that tech companies censor points of view. It is not American for courts to scribble over the Constitution whenever expedient. It is not American for the Department of (in)Justice to persecute citizens for their political beliefs or for the FBI to act as a lethal enforcer against the regime's political enemies. It is not American for there to be so many criminal statutes that no American could possibly know them all, let alone confidently act without fear of sanction. It is not American for there to be so many government agencies and divisions that no American could capably draw a diagram listing their roles and functions. It is not American for the government to champion its secular religion over the moral tenets of Americans' spiritual faiths. It is not American for the government to ignore the will of its citizens and subvert immigration law by leaving its borders unprotected and wide open. It is not American for an amorphous Intelligence Community to spy on American citizens with neither warrant nor probable cause. It is not American for the news media to be so co-opted by the State that they almost universally support the government's talking points — no matter how ludicrous and unsupported — while taking aim at dissenting citizens' debate. Over this weekend, a lot of very important legal happenings have occurred. [Thread reader] Last term, a case came before the US Supreme Court, where West Virginia sued the EPA for egregious changes to the clean air act that essentially rewrote the law with much tougher restrictions. This was done at the Biden admin's direction to directly target the WV Coal industry. In West Virginia v EPA, the crux of the matter was Exec Branch Agencies abusing Chevron Deference legal standard to exceed their regulatory authority to essentially rewrite laws for political reasons, by changing their regulatory definitions & rules. In deciding WV v EPA, SCOTUS ruled that EPA exceeded its authority & that chevron deference DOES NOT permit an agency to make rule changes that effectly modifies existing laws or would create new law. The Supreme Court ruled that in drastically changing the clean air act standards to punish coal & oil industries, the EPA was rewriting the law, which only congress can do. Liberal media is trying to protect the FBI from hard questions about illegal surveillance. Besides addressing the crisis at the southern border, there is no more urgent matter for the new Republican House majority to direct its attention to than the conversion of the federal government into a progressive cudgel against civil rights. And there is nothing less surprising than the media-Democrat complex's determination to strangle the probe in its cradle. In the left's playbook, everything is either about race or Donald Trump — if not both. So as night follows day, with House Republicans poised to establish a much needed Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, Democrats and their press accomplices are framing the panel as an adjunct of the 2024 Trump presidential campaign. They can't be allowed to get away with that. To make sure they don't, Republicans must take pains not to help. That means going about it carefully, methodically and in a way that makes clear the weaponization's victims are the American people, not a sinking pol who is unpopular with a solid majority of the American people. Let's Find Out What The Democrats Have Been Up To. The 15-round vote to finally elect a speaker of the House was, we were told by the political left, an embarrassment and evidence that the Republicans are untrustworthy. It was in reality our system in action and it produced at least two important outcomes, both of which will cause discomfort for the Democrats and their communications wing known as the mainstream media. Over the weekend, we learned that in order for Rep. Kevin McCarthy to earn their votes, the 20 holdout GOP lawmakers got a promise from the California moderate that two special investigative panels would be created. One would look into "the origins of the COVID-19 virus," the other at the "weaponization" of federal law enforcement agencies, such as the Justice Department and FBI, Just The News reported. The panels will be select subcommittees, one in the House Judiciary Committee, the other in the House Oversight Committee. As important as both of those subcommittees will be, there is great need for more probes. There are decades of Democratic corruption and malfeasance that need to be exposed to the public, untangled and then removed. Journalist Paul Sperry Has More to Say, as Adam Schiff Starts Acting Nervous. Journalist Paul Sperry is not going quietly into the night — as we reported, he's been calling out the effort by Rep. Adam Schiff's office to silence him, to get him suspended from Twitter as well as to shut down his reporting about things that Schiff didn't want to be exposed. [...] Then Sperry laid out the timeline of events that led to his suspension and you can see how even though they initially said "no," he was banned shortly after the Schiff people demanded it, and after they upped the game using Jan. 6 and potential "violence" as some sort of justification. [Tweet] This is every danger to freedom of speech right there and this is how they were misusing Jan. 6 to shut down speech that exposed them. That alone is shameful, but as we see from what Schiff has done in the past, he has no shame. Sperry has indicated that he is looking into what legal options he has regarding what happened and against Schiff. As we noted, if he does that, he could get all kinds of things in discovery that could open up what Schiff's office had been doing. But Congress also should be taking action against Schiff for what he did and now that the Republicans have taken over, they can. Nancy Mace Declares She Is a Purple Republican Who Is "On The Fence Right Now" About Supporting House Rule Changes. The true enemy of a constitutional republic are the Mitch McConnell's and Nancy Mace's of the professional political class who build systems to undermine the will of the people under the pretense of representing them. These are the abusers, the professional abusers, the psychologically Machiavellian and inherently evil people within the system of power who operate on false pretense. They are smiley-faced fascists and liars, period. Nancy Pelosi calls House Democrats 'The greatest collection of intellect, integrity, and imagination assembled. Just when one thinks one has heard everything, one is proven wrong. Outgoing speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi recently wrote her last "Dear Colleague" letter to her Democrat co-conspirators/comrades. In this missive, she stated, "During the 117th Congress, President Biden and Congressional Democrats have put forth a shining vision of justice for all. Together, we have worked tirelessly to infuse this value into our legislative efforts. We can all take immense pride in our achievements toward that goal, which is making a real difference in the lives of the American people." Justice? For all? Tell that to all those still rotting in prison, without conviction or charge, for strolling through the People's House on January 6, 2021. Tell that to those who were snatched from their homes in the wee hours of the morning by armed feds when a simple summons to appear would have sufficed. Tell that to all those whose jobs were considered unessential. Tell that to all those in the military who were discharged because they wouldn't accept an experimental substance into their bodies. Tell that to all those who have lost loved ones to violent crime, rates of which skyrocketed in the past two years due to Democrat policies — or to those who have lost loved ones to fentanyl because Democrats absolutely refuse to police our southern border. And tell it to America's rapidly dwindling middle class, beset by historic inflation, supply chain problems, and rising taxes. How Is The Uniparty Destroying America? Let Me Count The Ways. We are seeing the foundations laid for a revolution. Whether that revolution is peaceful or violent remains to be seen. In virtually every society, over time, a few elites accumulate most of the power. Those elites, in turn, run the nation as their personal fiefdom, where they utilize the machinery of the state to enrich themselves, accumulate more power, and use trifles to appease the exponentially larger population of serfs whom they rule. This reality applies to monarchies, Communist tyrannies, "democracies," theocracies, and even, as we're coming to discover, republics. It doesn't have anything to do with economics either, as it occurs in capitalist states, socialist states, Communist states, and mercantile states. The only difference is how long it takes for the structure to collapse. It took the Roman Republic 500 years to collapse, the French monarchy 1,000 years, the Soviet Union 70 years, and the EU is shaky after just 30 years. Closer to home, the American Republic finds itself on a precipice of collapse after less than 250 years. We're seeing it unfold right in front of us. Rebellion Against the People. While it's important to justify one's position, to provide proof and evidence of crimes, betrayals and treason, I believe we're past the discovery phase and need to move on to the resolution. What more do we need to know than the CIA has been involved in some of the most treacherous acts committed against the republic, that they've had their hands in the dirtiest of business? What more do we need to know than the FBI has worked with social media companies to install a worthless, feckless president, perpetrating a treasonous coup in the guise of an election? All of this, while recently verified, was information we had long since accepted as true. Such villainous acts were known in 1992 when Vicki Weaver was shot down by a government sniper while holding her infant at Ruby Ridge. Does that not speak of the inhumanity with which the government views all of us with dissenting views, those who will not simply obey every outrageous law or dictate? To domestic enemies, patriots are scum. This is a division between the people and those entrusted with power that cannot be ignored without the absolute destruction of the republic in all but name. That is the current state of the union and has been, I would venture, since 1963. CDC colluded with gun-grabbing groups to "cook the numbers" on defensive use of firearms. Let's face facts, shall we? It has become painfully clear that the American people can no longer trust a word that comes out of "official" Washington, DC. From the FBI to the CIA, the White House to the CDC, it's clear that whatever sewage emanates from the swamp must be taken with a giant grain of salt mixed with an even bigger dose of suspicion and skepticism. The latest example comes to us courtesy of the Daily Caller News Foundation (DCNF), which reported last month that the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), which we found during the COVID situation has as much credibility as the National Enquirer, "cooked the books" so to speak when it comes to defensive use of firearms. 2022, Perhaps the Apex Year for an Era of Pretending. History provides reference points, and prolonged pretending never ends up in a good place. So, there is room for optimism on a couple of points. First, there is more support than ever for the 'burn it all down' approach. Whereby we keep the basic U.S. Constitution in place and shred every other institution created that has nothing whatsoever to do with it. This includes both the DNC and RNC wings of the UniParty apparatus. I mean, really, at the core of it, what do we have to lose? Why not just get rid of the dysfunctional systems that abuse us. Second, in a weird way, we are in a rare space where we can feel the history around us. Normally we would have to look in retrospect at the events as they unfolded to recognize the inflection point historians would use — not now. We can look around us right now and have full confidence the most influential voice in the next two decades will be the man, woman or entity that starts openly and publicly calling out this ridiculous pretending. Government by Gimmick Won't Last. We are right now in an interim period that might best be called a kind of government by gimmick. Nothing our "leaders" say is bound by much truth. Three years of pandemic lockdowns, forced experimental injections, government-sanctioned censorship, and other unconstitutional COVID-1984 measures were moronically justified as necessary because government health bureaucrats and politicians were acting at the "speed of science." What kind of nonsense is that? When has real science ever been anything but methodical and slow? Yet that authoritarian policy directive has justified three years of reckless tyranny across the West, and too many minds squeezed by Marxism's weeds simply complied. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security habitually lies about America's borders being "secure," even though illegal immigration has never been worse, and so long as corporate media parrot government lies, reality is ridiculously distorted. Climate change, which is an immutable planetary phenomenon, has been transformed into irrefutable proof that centralized government authority must intervene in all economic activity — the exact policy objective, coincidentally enough, that forms the foundations of Marxist power. When Elon Musk's recent "Twitter Files" release confirmed that the FBI has been actively directing policies of censorship and speech punishment against the American people, the lawless law enforcement agency accused anybody with eyes and brain sufficient to comprehend the Bureau's constitutional betrayals of being "conspiracy theorists" pushing "misinformation." Why should federal police confess to crimes when only they, not the people, have the power to make arrests? Strange Deep State Bedfellows. Victor Davis Hanson's recent mordant comments about the degree to which the FBI will go to influence elections and its shameless defense of this interference caused me to think about the surveillance state's endgame. These somber thoughts came, not incidentally, after I had immersed myself in reading about the possible (perhaps likely) CIA involvement in the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy. As Jim Douglass shows in JFK and the Unspeakable, a work to which Tucker Carlson recently referred in discussing the unwillingness of the Biden Administration to release CIA documents related to the assassination, the Warren Report released in 1964 to explain the killing in Dallas was a cover-up. Kennedy, it seems, was concerned about the CIA's largely uncontrolled exercise of power and planned to rein it in or possibly even dismantle it. Plentiful hints lead to the conclusion that the agency knew of the planned assassination and then worked to cover up evidence about its origin and participants. The Globalist Uniparty Murdered the American Constitutional Republic. The U.S. government is a corrupt, one-party authoritarian state controlled by a Globalist Uniparty of Democrats and Republicans, who steal from the American people on behalf of rich and powerful multinational interests and use the federal bureaucracy, particularly the national security agencies, to suppress dissent and deny individual rights guaranteed under the Constitution. The American Constitutional Republic died in Arizona from yet another stolen election, the kill shot being administered by Maricopa County Super Court Judge Peter Thompson, who just dismissed gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake's lawsuit despite overwhelming evidence of election law violations and malicious intent. The Globalist Uniparty has been injecting lethal poison into the body politic of the American Constitutional Republic ever since the American people defied Globalist Uniparty dictates and practiced actual democracy by electing Donald Trump as President. Recognizing that democracy was a existential threat to its survival and its iron grip control of the U.S. government, the Globalist Uniparty did everything in its power, to not only undermine the Trump Presidency, but took measures to ensure that the American people would never again pose a threat to its absolute power. The Omnibus Spending Bill Scam. The Pew Research Center explains what's supposed to happen: Per the 1974 Congressional Budget Act, the Senate and House Budget bills are supposed to be voted on by April 15 each year. They are supposed to pass a series of separate bills funding various federal agencies/activities (e.g., for the past decade, the number of spending bills has been 12, one for each subcommittee of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees, such as Agriculture, Defense, Labor, et al). If those bills aren't passed by September 30 (end of fiscal year), then Congress uses Continuing Resolutions (CRs) to temporarily fund the government. If Congress followed its own process, they would avoid this annual "crisis" of having to vote on a bill that nobody has read except the handful of "leaders" like Schumer and his minions, or McConnell and his. But that's exactly the point, isn't it? This avoids the open debate needed for each of those appropriations bills, where each would have to stand or fail on its own merits, and our representatives would have to defend their votes to their constituents... you know, how it's supposed to be. Instead, all those bills are packed into an "omnibus spending bill" that is presented the week before Christmas, usually with only a day (or maybe just hours) for the members to read the bill. But a flurry of earmarks are doled out to senators and congressmen to secure the necessary votes, then the monstrosity of pork, waste, and woke madness is voted on. Omnibus Fraud. The nefarious $1.7 trillion Omnibus spending bill was passed by progressives in both parties. This bill funds bigger government for fiscal year 2023 through September. The bad news is that progressives seized on an initiative to eviscerate the incoming Republican House majority for half of their term. The good news is this bill should not stand because it is unconstitutional. The best news will be when something is done about that. The House has authority to initiate spending under the Origination Clause of our Constitution which is Article 1, Section 7, Clause 1. This clause gives power to the House of Representatives to originate revenue bills and supply government. Obviously, it is a power revolving in time, coincidental with terms of office. The House, being elected politicians closest to the people because of their short term of office, has authority and responsibility to tailor government spending to best match the will of voters. The 117th United States Congress has exceeded their authority past their term limit by usurping the authority of the 118th Congress. Once the 117th Congress has been succeeded in the New Year, they no longer meet, they no longer legislate, they are history. The same is true of their bills becoming laws. Constitutionally, this means appropriations bills can't extend past their time in office. Otherwise, they are legislating extra officium. Don't Buy What Democrats Are Selling as Reality. Under their new pseudo-reality, the Democrats would have us believe there is equal justice under the law, while the truth is that conservative Americans are regularly charged, convicted, and sentenced to maximum penalties. Conversely, Democrats like the great majority of BLM and Antifa rioters go scot-free after committing felonious crimes. Democrats like Hunter Biden are not prosecuted at all in the face of overwhelming evidence of significant criminal wrongdoing. There is no longer equal justice under the law in our country. It is now an unequal, two-tiered justice system. How the FBI Used Twitter to Lie to You. The FBI we know is a creation of Hollywood. From the beginning, J. Edgar Hoover sought to insert the bureau into movies and TV shows, to portray the agency as grounded in American values, and special agents as righteous competence personified. [...] This image of the FBI fails to highlight an important fact. The FBI is allowed to lie to you. They can lie to acquire information or encourage a confession. [...] But the most remarkable thing about the agency is that Theodore Roosevelt created the FBI via executive order after Congress refused his request to create a national police agency. Now that agency, born in defiance of congressmen who saw no constitutional place for a national police force, is staffed by people who think it's their right to use any means they can find or develop, to override the constitutional procedure for choosing our president. The pandemic is over, but laziness lasts a lifetime. From 'Free Speech' to Elon Musk. Today, as evident by the treatment of Elon Musk's recent disclosures at Twitter, we have seen the entire Left do a complete 180 regarding Free speech government secrecy and collusions with big business. Many people who may have been around back in the 60s and 70s, may be confused on this whole Elon Musk/Twitter kerfuffle. [...] What changes have we seen in such people, the ones who proclaimed to stand for integrity and an open governance since those turbulent days? They have in fact done a compete 180 having turned themselves into a Nixon on steroids like clone of secrecy, vengeance, and retribution. They have kept information from the public. They have used the FBI, CIA, and IRS as well as highly partisan congressional "investigations," to punish and go after their enemies. They have turned fair law into "lawfare." They told Facebook, Twitter, and Google what information was to be held from the American people. Those in charge within the high-tech Industry dutifully obeyed state orders and coordinated their efforts with the FBI. The Left was now revealing its true beliefs: the people have no right to such information, but only to the information approved by the government authorities who they now control. House GOP to Investigate Biden's Secretive Order on Voting. The House's new Republican majority is poised to investigate the Biden administration's secretive, all-of-government effort to get out the vote. President Joe Biden's executive order of March 2021 calls for every federal agency, in partnership with private organizations, to "consider ways to expand citizens' opportunities to register to vote and to obtain information about, and participate in, the electoral process." With some exceptions, most federal agencies haven't provided records on implementation of Biden's executive order after requests for public records were made by Congress, news organizations, and government watchdog groups. In October, the Justice Department invoked "presidential privilege" to shield related documents. "Our federal agencies should never be utilized for partisan, political purposes," Rep. Bryan Steil, R-Wis., a member of the House Administration Committee, told The Daily Signal in a statement. The Jan. 6 Committee's Referral Is Unconstitutional. The Jan. 6 Committee has voted to refer former President Donald Trump to the Justice Department for possible criminal prosecution. This referral violates both the letter and spirit of the Constitution for at least two reasons. First, Article 1 of the Constitution grants Congress "all legislative powers" and only "legislative powers." Under our system of separation of powers, the power to prosecute lies exclusively with the executive branch through the justice department. Congress has no authority to refer specific individuals for prosecution. It is beyond the scope of its constitutional authority. Second, Congress is specifically denied the power to pass any "bill of attainder." Prior to America's independence, the British parliament enacted such bills that prosecuted named individuals. Our Constitution prohibited Congress from prosecuting named individuals. The power of Congress is limited to passing laws of general application that can be applied to specific individuals only by the justice department and a grand jury. A congressional committee officially voting to refer a named individual for prosecution violates the spirit of the explicit prohibition against congressional bills of attainder. To Mitigate Risks to the DOJ and FBI Narrative, Special Counsel Lead Andrew Weissmann Snooped on Congress. In order to present an accurate record of events, it is important to remain focused on specifics. During the period from May, 2017, through April of 2019, Main Justice in Washington DC was split into two divisions. In one division there was the Special Counsel Robert Mueller team in control of everything related to DOJ and FBI activity around the 2016 election, with emphasis on the Trump-Russia headlines. This division handled 100% of everything that was sucking up the oxygen in Washington DC. Andrew Weissmann was in charge of this division. In the second division, there was everything else the DOJ was doing, which is to say not much. Attorney General Jeff Sessions was heading this division. Fifth Circuit rejects Biden admin's "nearly unlimited authority" claims, blocks vaccine mandate. Joe Biden's executive orders continue to die on the appellate-court vine, especially in the Fifth Circuit. Late yesterday, a 2-1 decision kept an injunction in place against Biden's order that all federal contractors get COVID vaccines to enter their workplaces. It's the latest pandemic mandate struck down by the courts, and a common theme runs through all of these decisions. Courts aren't buying an imperial presidency untethered from explicit congressional grants of authority: [...] By the way, the court never does get to one of the core issues in this mandate — the fact that the extant vaccines neither stop transmission nor uptake. They do have a demonstrated positive effect in minimizing acute and severe cases of COVID, but that's not the issue in workplace vaccine requirements. The only reason to impose such an order would be to stop transmission of an infectious disease, which none of the vaccines actually do. The only effect is personal and individual, and so the choice should be personal as well — just as with the tobacco analogy the Fifth Circuit wisely uses for demonstration. The administration is fighting a battle they will lose on multiple fronts, in other words. DOJ snooped on House Intelligence Committee investigators during Russia probe, subpoenas show. In an extraordinary intrusion on congressional oversight, the Justice Department used grand jury subpoenas to secretly obtain the personal email and phone data of at least two top House Intelligence Committee investigators back in November 2017 just as they and their boss, then-Chairman Devin Nunes, were assembling bombshell evidence of FBI abuses in the Russia collusion probe, Just the News has learned. The subpoenas, obtained by Just the News, show the DOJ demanded that Google turn over personal email and phone data from the two senior staffers on Nov. 20, 2017 and that responsive materials were to be returned to DOJ by Dec. 5, 2017. The subpoenas were delivered during a critical time frame in the committee's effort to expose the Donald Trump-Russia collusion investigation as having been driven by an uncorroborated political opposition dossier funded by Hillary Clinton. Nunes' committee was locked at the time in a bitter struggle to force the FBI and DOJ to turn over records to the committee. Why Just Mayorkas? Leave it to Republicans to fall short, either from nearsightedness, timidity, or both. Case in point, Homeland Security chief Alejandro Mayorkas. Twenty House conservatives, led by the quixotic speaker-aspirant Andy Biggs (R-AZ), are calling for Mayorkas' impeachment. Their intentions are good, but their call is a little like calling for the arrest of Bonnie Parker but letting Clyde Barrow and his gang run free. Bonnie was nothing without Clyde. [...] It's these elites who must stand accused in the court of public opinion of crimes against the American people... who lend not just their assent to the debauching of the southern border and, since January 2021, the ensuing deluge of an estimated 5.5 million illegals into the country, but whose voices, dollars, and institutional heft weigh heavily in this unprecedented assault on the nation's integrity, security, and welfare. But, of course, it's outside the scope of the soon-to-be House Republican majority to pursue that extra-governmental supporting cast. Has American Democracy Been a Hallucination for Nearly 60 Years? Call it a democracy, call it a democratic republic, call it a constitutional republic, call it anything you want — it doesn't really matter what America is if there is truth to what Tucker Carlson was reporting the other night via a source who had "direct knowledge" of still-hidden documents concerning the Kennedy assassination, implicating the CIA. If indeed the CIA was in any way involved in the assassination of JFK on Nov. 22, 1963, then anything that has happened in the public sphere in our country since that day has basically been a hallucination created by an intelligence agency far deeper than most of us — certainly me, since I was never much given to conspiracy theories — ever imagined. [...] That former CIA director Mike Pompeo declined to appear on Carlson's show to discuss this is not insignificant. We all know about 51 intelligence officials — John Brennan and others who fallaciously claimed two years ago the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation. They have to have known otherwise. Now this? 10 Steps to Save America. Americans distrust the "swamp," administrative state, or deep state. Call what you will, the Washington nexus of bureaucracies, media, and lobbyists has created a huge, unelected permanent army of auditors, regulators, investigators, and punishers, all mostly exempt from audit and accountability and without fear of their elected overseers. The easiest solution is to break up concentrations of power. Transfer out of Washington, in this age of zoom and telecommunications, major cabinet departments like Health and Human Services, Energy, or Agriculture into the hinterland. Restore the idea that lying to Congress, feigning amnesia, or pleading ignorance under oath to Congress or federal investigators or in depositions is a prosecutable felony with jail time. Biden-trafficked Minors Provide Child Labor to U.S. Factories. This isn't the first time PJ Media has reported on the sad fates of the human beings trafficked into our country by cynical globalist-socialists, and it won't be the last. Still, it's particularly disheartening when minor children, placed in peril by the Biden administration's extralegal immigration and national transformation machine, are taken advantage of. DHS Redacted Critical Details About 'Anti-Disinformation' Activities: Sens. Grassley, Hawley. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has neglected to provide in full certain disclosures requested by members of the U.S. Senate relating to the department's growing role in "counter-disinformation" activities, and this failure is particularly egregious in light of the co-equal roles of the executive and legislative branches of the government, two senators have charged in a Dec. 15 letter to DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, and Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) charge the DHS with ignoring or downplaying their "serious concerns" about the DHS's "growing counter-disinformation efforts" as conveyed previously in a letter of June 7, which formally requested "information necessary to inform our congressional oversight of DHS activities." Grassley, Hawley slam DHS for redactions of disinfo docs: 'The people's business ought to be public'. Two Republican senators this week slammed the Department of Homeland Security for what they said were overzealous redaction decisions pursuant to an oversight request made by the senators themselves. In their letter to DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley and Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley criticized the department for its response to a request for documentation the two lodged in June of this year. Of the two responses the senators received, they wrote, one "did not answer any of the ten questions" they originally posed, while the other consisted of "two documents already in the public domain" and "500 pages of material, approximately half of which are mostly or entirely redacted." "We remind you that the oversight letters we send to the Executive Branch are signed in our capacity as sitting members of Congress, a separate and co-equal branch of government," the senators wrote. Biden Justice Department's Vanita Gupta admits to targeting pro-lifers as payback for Supreme Court ruling on Roe. The Department of Justice's associate attorney general, Vanita Gupta, the number three offical at that agency, loudly vowed at her confirmation hearing to serve an an impartial, non-partisan official, following revelations of a string of vile tweets directed at Republicans. [...] One such example of her 26 scalps is the case of Mark Houck, a pro-life rosary-sayer who got into an altercation with a clinic "escort" in front of an abortion clinic, after the latter began shouting at and intimidating and violating the space of his 12 year-old son. It happened several years ago, and even Pennsylvania's woke prosecutors declined to prosecute the case because it was so flimsy. But Vanita Gupta, enraged at the decision on Roe, had a partisan agenda, and instead of prosecute the leftist clinic escort who got in the child's face (turns out he had quite a previous rap sheet), which also would have been applicable under the FACE act, she sent in the SWAT team with 15 squad cars to haul Houck away in front of his terrified kids. The Democrats' Slow Motion Insurrection. The Jan. 6 Capitol ruckus is not one of our country's greatest moments. But if the objective of a few of the protesters was to overthrow the federal government, they planned and executed poorly. The same can't be said of the Democrats. Their mostly bloodless coup to suspend constitutional limits and seize unchallenged power has been thoroughly calculated and expertly executed. For decades Democrats at all levels have been moving the U.S. from the civil society it was designed to be to the political (that is, coercive) society they want to be in control of. They have waged outright war on the first, second and 10th amendments to the Constitution; robbed us of our economic liberty through punitive taxation and strangling regulation; created environmental policies that have made innocent men criminals for making use of their own property and taken that property whenever possible; and destroyed independence by fostering more dependence on the state. They spend other people's money as if it were, well, other people's money and there is therefore no governor on their actions. "The Democrat Party has a long history of ignoring the Constitution when it impedes their government-expansionist objectives. Which is nigh constantly — as the Constitution is a government-limiting document," says Seton Motley, president of Less Government, who cites some of the more egregious examples in a Heartland Institute essay. The 'election interference' that Democrats favor. Our intelligence apparatus — or "the deep state," in former President Donald Trump's words — has meddled in two presidential elections acting on behalf of the Democratic Party. Instead of reporting on it, the mainstream media have served as willing pawns of these bureaucratic actors to amplify misinformation. Congress has done nothing about it. And no one in any federal agency has been held accountable. How can this happen in a country that prides itself on its "free and fair" elections? Elon Musk's "Twitter Files," which have been released by independent journalists in a series of tweets, shed light on how pervasively corrupt America's intelligence agencies are — especially when it comes to favoring one political party over another. DOJ Official Admits Targeting Pro-Lifers Is Response to Overturn of Roe. The Justice Department has been targeting pro-life activists through the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act as a response to the overturn of Roe v. Wade, according to Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta. Gupta delivered remarks at the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division's 65th Anniversary earlier this month. The associate attorney general described the overturn of Roe v. Wade as a "devastating blow to women throughout the country" that took away "the constitutional right to abortion" and increased "the urgency" of the DOJ's work — including the "enforcement of the FACE Act, to ensure continued lawful access to reproductive services." Controlling the Department of Justice. The unabashed political persecution and unconscionable years of pre-trial incarceration for some January 6th protestors in direct violation of the Sixth Amendment. The near-psychotic obsession to indict and convict Donald Trump of any specious federal crime. The admission by the FBI that they instructed social media companies prior to the 2020 election to censor stories unfavorable to Joe Biden. These actions, among many others over the years, have confirmed that the Department of Justice is teeming with politicized prosecutors and a federal police force that is allied with one political party and is browbeating the citizenry on their behalf. No Republican president or Congress will succeed in stopping this nation's relentless march toward one-party tyranny as long as the Department of Justice, which has been systematically weaponized since its formation in 1870, continues to exist as part of the Executive Branch. The Founders of this nation would never have agreed to the creation of the Department of Justice. They were extraordinarily skeptical of a large federal government and adamantly opposed to a federal law enforcement role. Except for treason, the concept of federal crimes was not even mentioned in the Constitution. The United States of Fascist America. [Scroll down] Take for example the recent Twitter File revelations. The federal government took control of big tech and social media giants to control free speech and dissent. It was more than simply the Biden campaign pressuring Twitter. The FBI had weekly meetings with social media corporations to warn them of "Russian interference" or "hack and leak operations," which they knew very well were nothing of the sort. And despite denials, Biden administration officials may still be meeting with media executives. Who is on President Biden's guest list during the many weeks he is at one of his Delaware vacation homes? The result was social media suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story, which would have likely altered the 2020 presidential election outcome. Specifically, "16% of Biden voters would have voted differently if Hunter Biden laptop story was not suppressed by media, big tech." In an election decided by about 50,000 votes in a few swing districts, this was obvious election interference. And it wasn't only the FBI, but also the Department of Homeland Security. McCarthy vows subpoenas for 51 intel-agents who signed letter saying Hunter laptop story was Russian collusion. House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy said that as Speaker of the House, he would issue subpoenas for the 51 intelligence officials who signed a letter weeks before the 2020 election claiming the Hunter Biden laptop story looked like Russian disinformation. During a Fox interview over the weekend, McCarthy - who will likely become the lower chamber's next leader - said Republicans, under his leadership, will 'bring the (the intelligence agents) before committee' and ask them 'why did they lie to the American public?' 'Those 51 intel agents that signed a letter that said the Hunter Biden information was all wrong - was Russia collusion - many of them have a security clearance,' he said. Sellin: If Corrupt Tyrants Intend to Govern Illegitimately, Then Stand Up Against the Tyrants. Despite clear maladministration, if not intentional voter suppression and fraud, the Maricopa County, Arizona Board of Supervisors is expected to soon certify the 2022 Election results. This will likely take place this morning. Corruption in government is a solvable problem, but not without free and fair elections. So, what do you do when rigged elections won't let citizens "vote out" a corrupt tyrannical political aristocracy? 2020: The Year the Ruling Class Took Control. Manipulation is the key word when it comes to the Democrats. Calls to pack the Supreme Court and the Senate, eliminate the filibuster, and change the way the Electoral College works all point to the fact the Democrats and the Left never rest in their nonstop efforts to manipulate the political and judicial systems to their advantage. In a way, they really are geniuses in identifying ways to manipulate the system. They're not always successful, but they're always trying, and for now they've succeeded in changing the way elections work in many states by making mail-in voting, ballot drop boxes, and ballot harvesting legal. Democrats can get away with these ongoing shenanigans, especially the coverup of the coverup of the Hunter Biden laptop story, is because nearly every major institution in the country is controlled by progressives in positions of authority at those institutions, most in the corporate mainstream media. WSJ: Musk's Twitter files shows real "disinformation" threat is America's former intel leaders. Point of order: Didn't we learn that in 2013 when James Clapper perjured himself before Congress? And didn't we learn that the American media enthusiastically facilitated that disinformation potential by hiring Clapper and former FBI executive Andrew McCabe after getting fired for lying to investigators? Among dozens of others? We did indeed, but the editors of the Wall Street Journal want to underscore that point in the release of Twitter's files on the Hunter Biden laptop story. They also note the media's complicity in promoting this "disinformation," even in the face of independent corroboration. Rogue Virginia ABC Sends Police to Enforce COVID Lockdown. Virginia has a famous Republican Governor, Glenn Youngkin, who has made his opposition to arbitrary COVID-19 mandates clear. But his predecessor, Democrat Governor Ralph Northam, although out of office for ten months, apparently still calls the shots at the Virginia Alcohol Beverage Control Board. He does so through board members he appointed. Indeed, every one of them, including Board Chair Maria J. K. Everett and Board CEO Travis Hill, are rogue agents bent on enforcing Northam's infamous Executive Order 72 even after it was withdrawn in May of 2021. For the current members of the Virginia ABC Board, elections appear to be irrelevant. So long as the Board members have the power to contradict one of Governor Youngkin's key policy positions, they appear intent on doing so. And so it is that in all their fulsome Democrat glory, they authorized a police raid the early morning of December 2 against an honest, hard-working veteran who owns one of Fredericksburg, Virginia's most popular restaurants, Gourmeltz. That owner, Matt Strickland, is a prominent Republican, a popular prospective candidate for the Virginia State Senate, and a party opponent of the Board members. Justin Trudeau praises China's anti-COVID lockdown protestors — but not Canada's truckers. How's this for hypocrisy? At a time when celebrities, tech barons, and the White House are laying low about the gargantuan anti-COVID lockdown protests spreading throughout China, Canada's prime minister, Justin Trudeau, is loudly virtue-signalling: [Tweet] Trudeau, recall, just last February employed pepper spray, tow trucks, bank account freezes, Bitcoin seizures, child removals from homes, and arrests of protest leaders to end a Canadian truck strike for the exact same group of causes — vaxx mandates and continuous lockdowns, through unprecedented tactics that could only rival what the ChiCom goons and their "big whites" beating protestors into "health" are doing now. London mayor to impose daily fines on motorists. Sadiq Khan, current Mayor of London and WEF member, is set to impose £12.50 daily fines to all motorists who enter or commute through the greater city of London. The Mayor has announced that the Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) will be expanded across all London boroughs from August 2023, as per the Greater London Authority website. London commuters and residents who drive 'non-compliant' vehicles will be dinged daily. Khan described the decision as "one of the toughest decisions" he's taken as mayor, but insisted millions from the bustling city will benefit from the cleaner air. The Ultra Low Emission Zone, or ULEZ for short, was introduced in 2019 as a means to ensure that vehicles meet emission standards set for the city, lest their drivers pay a daily surcharge. Though pollution levels have decreased since the introduction of ULEZ, Khan claims that there is still "far too much toxic air pollution permanently damaging the health of young Londoners and leading to thousands of early deaths every year." The Editor says... Ohio Cops Decide First Amendment Doesn't Exist, Arrest Newspaper Editor For Committing Journalism. Ohio cops just can't seem to get their head around First Amendment protections. A case hopefully en route to a Supreme Court review involves Parma, Ohio cops who decided it was completely legal to arrest a town resident for creating a clearly satirical Facebook page that suggested the Parma PD was offering free abortions in a roaming van and promoting a "pedophile reform" event. In another case, a cop temporarily managed to obtain an injunction forbidding people from publishing his name while he sued several Cincinnati residents for libel for suggesting he might be a racist. That cop's name is Ryan Olthaus and he has a long history of use of force complaints. And, in yet another case, a woman was arrested by Ohio cops for repeating a false rumor that a gun had been found at a school. She did not originate the rumor. She just repeated it. And for that, she was sentenced to 180 days in jail and stripped of access to social media sites for a year. Apple Turned Off Protest Communication Tool Right Before Anti-Lockdown Uprising in China. As it mulls kicking Elon Musk's Twitter off the app store, it has now been revealed that Apple restricted the use of AirDrop in China, a move that harmed the organizational efforts of demonstrators protesting against the CCP's lockdowns. Over the past week, multiple major cities across China have seen massive protests against lockdowns, with the normally compliant Chinese exploding into rage in response to their government's 'zero COVID' policy. Much of the unrest blew up in response to an incident in Xinjiang's capital Urumqi, where at least 10 people, some say up to 40, were killed during an apartment fire because lockdown rules stopped residents from fleeing the burning building. Most of the city's residents have been prevented from leaving their homes for over 100 days as a result of the draconian rules, which are still in place nearly three years after the pandemic began. With Beijing now trying to contain what some are calling the most serious mass uprising since Tiananmen Square, Apple is apparently helping them to crush dissent. The Bureaucracy's Democrat Majority Made America a One-Party Government. When former President Trump, Gov. DeSantis, and Senator Ted Cruz, among others, endorsed rolling back the power of bureaucrats and their administrative state, Democrats panicked. Senator Dianne Feinstein and Hillary's former running mate, Senator Tim Kaine, introduced a countermeasure which they called, "Preventing a Patronage System Act" according to Kaine, to "protect the merit-based hiring system for our federal workforce". Media editorialists claimed that making it easier to get rid of federal employees would bring back patronage or the spoils system. The problem is that patronage never left. We have spent generations living under a permanent patronage system. The spoils system, as bad as it was, kept one party from permanently packing its supporters into the government. Removing it just meant that the Democrats have permanently packed the federal bureaucracy. That's how America became a one-party government at the federal level in Washington D.C. Politicians of both parties come and go, but it's the Democrat bureaucrats who call the shots. Language warning! From a Time When Communism Was Taught Right. We have seen social media platforms ban freedom of speech. We have seen certain journalists excluded from press conferences in Arizona and then watched the journalists be herded off government property by deputy sheriffs. Later, these same journalists were tracked by flying drones like what we have seen the Chinese Communist Party employ against its COVID-19 dissidents. The American news media frequently slant or omit the true news of the day. The American viewer has been fed a steady diet of propaganda. We have seen false stories about "Russia, Russia, Russia"; the "Big Lie"; and "J6." Peaceful American citizens, including many veterans who fought to protect our rights, are being held in the District of Columbia jail in terrible conditions and without being formally charged. Over two years have passed, and many still have not had a speedy trial. Turns out Joe Biden was the shadowy hand behind Justin Trudeau's tyrannical acts against Canadian truckers. When Justin Trudeau shut down Canada's spectacular 3,000-strong convoy of "freedom" truckers opposed to Canada's COVID vaccine mandates, most were appalled at the tyrannical steps taken to stop it. After all, the country was Canada, not Cuba. Son-of-Castro invoked Canada's "Emergencies Act," on "Freedom Convoy 2022," on February 14, freezing trucker bank accounts, imprisoning their leaders, shutting down a GoFundMe account for truckers, banning travel to the protests, which had attracted 15,000 people, hauling off and termininating parental rights of truckers to their own children, and expropriating their trucks. All that, over a peaceful trucker protest over a vaccine mandate. We know it was outrageous. We know it was something Castro would do. But now as Trudeau is called to Canada's parliament to testify about what [...] he thought it was doing, word has gotten out about who was really calling the shots on this lunacy. Justin Trudeau and Chrystia Freeland have shown themselves to be petty dictators. Up until the Liberal politicians showed up, the Emergencies Act (EA) hearings were going quite well. I know, you are shocked to hear that when politicians show up things go awry. In the first few weeks, it was mainly participants of the Freedom Convoy and law enforcement officials who took the stand. As was expected, the participants were an earnest, albeit motley crew of normal Canucks who simply attested to their participation in the event based on the principles of personal liberty. For their part, the law enforcement officials were easy enough to listen to. Canadian police are well trained in keeping their cool, and they answered the questions they were asked with short replies, keeping things to a simple "yes" or "no" for the most part. But, as the Liberal Party hacks have entered the arena, we have now witnessed the insane mental gymnastics that seemingly constitute the "logic" that emanates from the top-brass. It has been revealing, however, especially after watching Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland and the prime minister himself, Justin Trudeau. Hard Truths and Radical Possibilities. As a treatise on constitutional government, The Federalist is and will always be a classic work of political science, with many enduring insights. But in terms of supplying a guide to how our federal government works, The Federalist has become the owner's manual to a car that no longer runs, or was stolen long ago. What Publius describes about the functions of the legislative, executive, and judicial branches — as well as the countervailing powers of the states — has almost no connection with current reality. Congress doesn't write, the executive does not enforce, and the judiciary does not interpret the laws. Power and wealth have become massively centralized in Washington, D.C. Federalism, judicial review, executive authority, the legislative process, appropriations — none of this remains operational in a way James Madison would recognize. And now, the country's most powerful corporations are in active collusion with the federal security apparatus to enforce the regime's authority. That's practically the definition of fascism. Are You Freer than You Were Two Years Ago? U.S. federal spending (excluding Social Security and Post Office expense) in 1901 was $588 million; it remained at approximately this level until 1917 and especially 1919, when the overhang of wartime spending drove it to $5.13 billion. Spending cooled under the Republican administrations of Harding and Coolidge but exploded under FDR to a height of $44 billion in 1945. One might expect that wartime number to decline, but by 1970, it was $159 billion. It first reached one trillion in 1995 and is $6.27 trillion in 2022. As these figure show, federal government spending has grown by a factor of nearly 11,000 over the past 120 years, and it continues growing exponentially. There is only one possible outcome: government consumption of nearly all income and control of nearly all economic and personal activity. That is the definition of what Jefferson called "despotism" and what, in our time, is called totalitarianism. Despotism can be reversed only by a concerted effort to cut government spending substantially at the federal and state levels, but this seems unlikely. Are You Freer than You Were Two Years Ago? Make no mistake: it is despotism that we face in Biden's proposal to double the size of the IRS; in the political weaponization of the FBI, CIA, and DOJ; in the amassing of information by technology giants; in the corporate surrender to woke ideologies; in the takeover of schools by progressive activists; in the proliferation of "hate speech" laws; in the self-censorship that so many Americans practice to appease political correctness; and in the influence of media on our thinking. We live in an age of fear and conformity, and those who are weak have become enslaved and have willingly relinquished their freedom to the powerful forces of government, media, "expert" opinion, and corporate venality. The practical effects of this despotism can be seen everywhere. Rising taxes are used to transfer more and more of an individual's earnings to government, where it is used with little accountability to enrich those who support ever greater government spending and who make campaign donations to ensure this happens. Fraudulent, Illegal, Unconstitutional, Unconscionable, And False: A Short Tour Of Government In Action. All governments are bad — always necessary, often useful, occasionally better than most, rarely genuinely helpful to all, but still bad. From Athens to Zaire, from commune to kingdom, from democracy to dictatorship, when people come together to form a society there will always be those who take advantage, who prey, who scheme, who profit from their position. Every government ever has violated its own laws, flouted its own rules, changed long-standing practices for immediate gain, side-stepped its foundational concepts and strictures, dismissed societal codes of conduct, and ignored the basic ethical standards of humanity. Here in the United States — which actually has one of the best governmental systems and surely the best foundational governmental theory — we are not immune to these issues. Free America: We're already dealing with a fascist regime. Republicans were talking about inflation, which is important, and the border, which is also important. But where were the Republicans calling attention to the fact that this is a fascist administration that's against our fundamental freedoms? This is an administration that is trying to foreclose on legitimate political discourse. This is an administration that is consciously aping the institution of authoritarian totalitarian regimes in recent historical memory. Yet no one even mentioned it. Nonetheless, it's very clear. They have sicced the FBI on parents protesting at school board meetings. They keep saying white supremacists are the biggest terror threat that the nation faces, despite the fact that we see very few incidents of white supremacist terror. What they mean is that MAGA Republicans are white supremacists, and they are going to take away the franchise from those white supremacists and destroy them utterly. The plan may not work. One of the reasons why we have had mass migration into the United States was because the Democrats assumed that Hispanics would be completely on board with them, and would give them a reliable voting majority for the foreseeable future. That has all fallen apart. And it will continue to fall apart. Ctrl+Alt+Delete the Totalitarian State. There are three government narratives pushed today that are not real: (1) fraud-free elections, (2) a looming climate apocalypse, and (3) a COVID health emergency requiring total government control. If you see through only one, then you're not looking hard enough. Or as Bill Engvall might say, "If you now believe COVID is mostly a hoax but are still terrified of global warming, here's your sign." Conversely, if you do see through them, you're likely being censored for expressing those points of view. Here's our impasse: when governments claim to have a monopoly on truth, then citizens are expected to accept preposterous fantasies, no matter how much opposing evidence they might see. The narrative is absolute. Dissent is forbidden. Total obedience is the objective. Last century, free Westerners understood these features as telltale signs of totalitarianism. Today, much less free Westerners have been taught to embrace — without scrutiny or wisdom — the government's fairy tales as part of our required, if not sacred, deference to the bureaucratic State's cult of expertise. Is Your Body the Legal Property of Big Pharma? [Video clip] In the video above, Glenn Beck interviews investigative journalist Whitney Webb about her book, "One Nation Under Blackmail: The Sordid Union Between Intelligence and Crime That Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein," Parts 1 and 2. These books provide the necessary framework to understand not just Jeffrey Epstein's geopolitical role and function, but also, more broadly, the deep connections between the U.S. intelligence community and organized crime. The political corruption we see today grew out of this unholy alliance, which has led to blackmail and bribery being two key strategies by which the wealthy self-described "elites" maintain power and influence from behind the scenes. [...] Epstein's pedophilia and sexual blackmail enterprise was a central cog in this network of corruption for decades. He was also involved in many other questionable and/or criminal enterprises, including financial crimes, but he wasn't necessarily at the top level in any of them. Webb describes him more as a middle-management-type of character, carrying out orders from higher-ups, including U.S. intelligence. Overall, these "higher-ups" are people who favor globalism and global governance, and who don't want the United States to have a monopoly on power. This is part of why the power of the U.S. is now being dismantled before our eyes, but the undermining and infiltration have been going on for decades. It's Time to Speak the Truth About Ukraine. Joe Biden, the military-industrial-congressional complex, State Department neocons, the War Party comprised of all Democrats and many corporate Republicans, and Western globalist elites have the United States and NATO in a Ukrainian proxy war against Russia. The warmongers are obsessed with destroying Russia. To achieve it, they are determined to fight to the last Ukrainian. In eight months, Congress has wasted $69 billion of American taxpayer money to fund their proxy war. That's about $8 billion more than Russia's entire annual military budget. And to the delight of the American arms industry, there is no end in sight. Biden is soon expected to request another $50 billion. Meanwhile, Biden and Congress have betrayed the American people — doing next to nothing to solve the crises of inflation, self-inflicted shortages of fuel and food, an invasion of five-and-a-half million illegal aliens, out-of-control violent crime, and a fentanyl epidemic imported from China and Mexico that is killing 100,000 Americans every year. Key
Takeaways from the FBI Whistleblowers Report. On November 4, 2022, the Republican staff of the House
Judiciary Committee published a report based primarily on whistleblower testimony, describing how the FBI and the
Justice Department have become politically weaponized against conservatives. [...] I think we can draw several obvious
conclusions from the report.
Humpty Dumpty's government of no consent. You may say we still have the U.S. Constitution and the consent of the governed through popular elections. Perhaps we do on the formal surface of things. Perhaps we do on parchment and paper. Yet, below the surface and between the lines, America's Humpty Dumpty elite sit on high and make the U.S. Constitution and the "consent of the governed" mean just what they choose it to mean — neither more nor less. I know I personally have never given my consent for most of what our supposed democracy does every day. I have never consented to most U.S. government programs (programs often conceived decades before my own conception), yet the government persists in charging me taxes for their administration. Even when the government doesn't break my bank directly through taxation, it takes out debts in my name and sees fit to counterfeit more and more currency by means of its monopoly on the production of money. Biden Says He's 'Making Sure' Trump Will Not Become President Again. Old Joe Biden, the ostensible president of the United States, on Wednesday held one of his Potemkin press conferences before the gathering of sycophants and propagandists known as the White House press corps. When a reporter said that Trump's movement was "still very strong," Biden laughed derisively and said, "Oh yeah?" He added, "Well, we just have to demonstrate that he will not take power by — if we — if he does run. I'm making sure he, under legitimate efforts of our Constitution, does not become the next President again." How can he make sure of that? He didn't say, and of course the sycophants didn't ask. Prepare for even more abuses of power. Joe Biden has been a serial power abuser. He has sent the FBI against his political opponents. He has, in the student loan forgiveness program, implemented a policy he acknowledges is unconstitutional, and he has used his power as head of the administrative state to threaten his political opponents. In his post-election news conference he explicitly put a target on the back of one of his political enemies: Elon Musk. When asked about whether Musk is a national security threat — an absurdity if there ever was one — Biden laughed and said it would be worth looking at. "There's a lot of ways." [Tweet] The Democrats Told Us Who They Were When They Locked Us Down. The Democrats and their media accomplices keep telling us the Republicans are the fascists and autocrats hungry for power. But just the opposite is true. The Democrats themselves made it clear during the pandemic that they are the party of authoritarianism. In the spring of 2020, this country went into a lockdown. As Jeffrey Tucker of the Brownstone Institute has noted, government officials canceled public worship services, segregated the large cities, abolished in-person education, foisted masks on all the kids, destroyed millions of businesses, and censored speech "so that we could barely discover facts." They shut down concerts, imposed limits on house parties, scrapped weddings and funerals, locked the elderly into their homes and blocked visitation, ended dentistry, and imposed travel restrictions across state borders, says Tucker. Some officials, however, saw that the rules were oppressive and restored liberty in their states. None of them are Democrats. House Republicans release a scathing report alleging politicization of the DOJ and the FBI. On Friday [11/4/2022], the Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee released 1050 page report detailing the claims made by myriad whistleblowers at the Federal Bureau of Investigation about the abuse of power and politicization of the nation's foremost law enforcement authority. They called it "the first comprehensive accounting of the FBI's problems to date, which undermine the FBI's fundamental law-enforcement mission." The following are the key details of the report. The report states that Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray are willing participants in the Biden Administration's weaponization and politicization of law enforcement[.] The whistleblowers describe the FBI's D.C. leadership as "rotted at its core," with a "systemic culture of unaccountability," and full of "rampant corruption, manipulation, and abuse" and that "the problem lies not with the majority of front-line agents who serve our country, but with the FBI's politicized bureaucracy." Democrats Declared War on Democracy Through COVID Tyranny. Some of us were sounding the alarms on COVID tyranny when it was first starting. Lockdown policies were never about saving lives but a test to see how many liberties and rights the government could take away without much pushback by the population. Fear is the main path tyrants take in trying to strip freedom from their citizens. Scare citizens enough and they will enslave themselves to whatever dictates the dear savior will come up with. This is replaying itself as we approach the November 8 election. Democrats destroyed entire families through their COVID lockdown policies which eliminated businesses, put stress on homes, and harmed the intellectual development of children. Those are years that will be hard to recover, if at all. COVID tyrants are hoping Americans forget their debacle in handling the pandemic and the tyranny that so many experienced because of it. Families were unable to visit loved ones. Churches were shut down, some never to reopen. Businesses, once staples and pillars of the community, suddenly vanished and are now vacant and rotting with overgrown weeds and mold. Using Emergency Alert System to Remind People to Vote is a Bad Idea. President Joe Biden and actor Jason Bateman debated the best way to encourage Americans to vote in the upcoming midterm elections. On the Wednesday edition of the SmartLess podcast, Biden sat down with hosts Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes, and Will Arnett to discuss his career and current state of the country. [...] The actor would clarify that the alert would not advocate for either party but serve as a helpful reminder ahead of Election Day. "Could I ask you to commit to consider over the next few days using your unique power as president to utilize the emergency alert system?" Bateman asked. Desperate Netflix Star Urges Biden to Activate Emergency Alert System to Encourage People to Vote Democrat. [Scroll down] First, Republican voters aren't a monolithic group of mindless people who universally believe the 2020 presidential election was "rigged" or "stolen." Moreover, I suspect a sizeable percentage of objective Republicans don't believe substantive proof has been presented to support the claim, but feel pressured to say they do, fearing retribution from "you know who" and his unchangeable loyalists. Second, Bateman's "This is what they're saying that their plan is" is a nonsensical [pack of lies]. Bateman did acknowledge the purpose of the Emergency Alert System, but then played the Democrats' go-to "existential threat" card: ["]It's usually for the weather or killers or kidnapping, whatever. But I don't think it's an exaggeration to categorize this as, as a light crisis, an existential threat.["] He then argued that a simple 20-second card flashing on the screen would be enough to encourage voters to "get out and let their voices be heard" (vote Democrat and save the Republic). The Editor says... How the government hid the truth behind Hunter Biden's laptop. The more we find out about the collusion that has been going on among the Biden administration, the security agencies and Big Tech, the more alarming it is — and the more unrepentant they are. The latest bombshell from the Intercept, based on communications unveiled in the federal lawsuit Missouri v. Biden, shows that the Department of Homeland Security has been having monthly meetings with Facebook and Twitter to pressure them to censor social media posts about topics such as the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, the origins of COVID-19, the efficacy of COVID vaccines, racial justice and US support for the war in Ukraine — in other words, anything that could be detrimental to public support for the Biden administration. We already know that the FBI was involved in efforts to censor and bury information that might have harmed Joe Biden's candidacy back in 2020, including The Post's exclusive about Hunter Biden's laptop in October 2020. That amounted to election interference, which prevented the American people from doing the necessary due diligence on one of the two candidates for president. So successful was the strategy that the Biden administration appears to have expanded it. RCMP top cop considered using military troops disguised as Mounties at Freedom Convoy. An ongoing inquiry into the merit of the Trudeau government invoking the Emergencies Act has now shown just how far the Trudeau government and certain allied elements are willing to go. Despite the Canadian government's insistence that the military would not be deployed during the Freedom Convoy protests, Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Commissioner Thomas Carrique and Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Commissioner Brenda Lucki discussed Lucki's clandestine plan to have military troops disguised as Mounties — an underhanded method to manage a protest that was peaceful to begin with. Trudeau was so mortified by the protests and desperate to shut them down that he lied about police requesting that he invoke the Emergency Measures Act. True the Vote founder Catherine Engelbrecht, former board member Arrested for not outing informant. True the Vote leaders Catherine Engelbrecht and Gregg Phillips were taken into custody by US Marshalls on Monday for refusing to identify a confidential informant to a judge. Federal Judge Kenneth Hoyt found both of them in contempt of court after they declined to out the informant, according to independent journalist Ivory Hecker. [...] The judge ordered that Engelbrecht and Phillips be held in custody for at least 24 hours or until they give up the informant, according to The Post Millennial. Catherine Englebrecht and Gregg Phillips [have been] Put in Jail for Refusing to Outline Sources Who Revealed Konnech U.S. Election Data Transfer to China. True the Vote founder Catherine Englebrecht and election data security analyst, Gregg Phillips, have been held in contempt of court and placed in jail for failing to outline the participants in a 2020 hotel discussion that revealed the Konnech election data compromise that was transmitted to Chinese networks. On October 4th, the CEO of Konnech — a company specializing in proprietary PollChief software to manage election workers — was arrested. Konnech Corporation Chief Executive Officer Eugene Yu was arrested for exploiting access to U.S. election data, including election worker information, and transferring the files to China. The information that led to Yu's arrest was the information given to the FBI and first revealed to Englebrecht and Phillips. However, the Konnech corporation filed a civil lawsuit against Englebrecht and Phillips claiming defamation. A Texas federal judge allowed the civil lawsuit to continue despite the arrest of Eugene Yu. The City of Charlottesville's new online speech restrictions for employees is likely unconstitutional. The City of Charlottesville passed a new policy for city workers that prohibits them from commenting, offline and online, about a wide range of topics. The policy is a potential violation of employees' First Amendment free speech rights. The policy was passed in response to how the city handled Allen Groat, an analyst for the fire and police department, for his involvement in the January 6 2021 riot at the US Capitol. Groat tweeted that he would engage in a "show of force," and posted a photo of himself and former head of the Proud Boys. [Tweet] Groat was investigated but was not criminally charged. Mayor Lloyd Snook said that Groat was not going to be fired because he had not been criminally charged. DOJ's election plan raises threat of 'selective enforcement' against red states, watchdog warns. The Justice Department this week outlined the steps it will take on Election Day to ensure a fair election process, but a government watchdog is warning that the plan leaves out critical details that open the door to selective enforcement against red states. The Foundation for Government Accountability (FGA) said the lack of detail in the DOJ announcement likely means "selective transparency and selective enforcement, something we've come to expect from the Biden administration's two-tiered approach to justice." The Justice Department released a summary of its "comprehensive" Election Day plan Wednesday and said it is aimed at ensuring that "all qualified voters have the opportunity to cast their ballots and have their votes counted free of discrimination, intimidation or fraud in the election process. North America Goes South: The Plan To Dismantle USA. People are starting to realize that the collapse of the American border is not an accident. It can't be. When the vice president of the United States says the border is "secure" at the same time that illegal border crossings have surged to more than a million a year, then one of two things must be true. [...] Unfortunately, there was no way to determine what the Biden administration was up to — until now. Two weeks ago, we learned that Biden's Secretary of State Antony Blinken is actively engaged in a campaign to break down all barriers between the United States and Mexico. In other words, the huge influx of Mexicans and other foreigners across the U.S. border is just the first stage in a globalist effort to blur the lines between not just the United States and Mexico, but also Canada. No longer a 'two-tiered' system, there is no justice in America. Now it is easy to see why people have come to believe that the once-vaunted justice system in the US became two-tiered; one for favored elites and one for those the elites loathe. There are countless examples of this: peaceful pro-life demonstrators have been raided and charged with serious crimes that they did not commit, while those who fire-bomb pregnancy centers are not even investigated, let alone charged. Among the hundreds of violent protesters who burned their own cities down in the wake of the George Floyd debacle, few were charged with the crimes they committed and most of those that were had the charges dropped. [...] Now we must face the fact that there is actually no justice to be had in America in 2022. Trump Derangement Syndrome has led inexorably to what we now see occurring daily in our once great nation: The proven guilty go free and the innocent have their homes raided by a pack of armed FBI agents who seem to delight in traumatizing law-abiding citizens. The Civilization That Knew Too Much. [Scroll down] A generation ago, public perception of the interior of institutions was low-resolution, almost pixellated. The average person could not know the details of what went on inside religious, law-enforcement, educational, corporate, or scientific organizations, he simply saw them through the lens of reputation. Reputation can be thought of as a kind of data compression process that reduces a vast and complex reality into what in some cases is a single number. People relying on indexes like the US News ranking of the Top Ten universities often need know nothing about an organization other than that it is Number X in a particular category. But it was enough for many. In that old world, people thought law enforcement mostly upright, churches mostly holy, educators largely trustworthy, journalists largely truthful and Washington occasionally honest, not because they knew the details, but because they accepted the Number. Former FBI Official Will Testify About White House Pressure to Inflate Domestic Extremism Numbers. Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee announced on Thursday that they would be calling a former top FBI official to testify before Congress to address claims that the Biden administration pressured agents to label cases as domestic extremism or a white supremacist threat even if they did not meet that criteria in order to match Joe Biden's rhetoric. Last month, current and former FBI agents came forward claiming the Biden administration has been deliberately exaggerating the danger posed by white supremacists. According to the whistleblowers, high-ranking FBI officials were pressuring field agents to fabricate domestic terrorism cases and label people as white supremacists in order to "meet internal metrics." "The demand for white supremacy" coming from FBI brass "vastly outstrips the supply of white supremacy," one agent told the Washington Times. "We have more people assigned to investigate white supremacists than we can actually find." Biden Pressured Democrat Border Mayor Not to Declare Emergency over Illegal Immigration. President Joe Biden's administration reportedly pressured El Paso, Texas, Mayor Oscar Leeser (D) not to declare a state of emergency over illegal immigration, even as thousands arrive in the small city every few days. According to an exclusive report from the New York Post, El Paso officials privately and publicly say the Biden administration urged Leeser to hold off on calling a state of emergency over the issue of illegal immigration, which has hit historic levels this year. DOJ Is Hiding How It's Complying with Biden's Voter Registration Drive, Rep. Norman Says. Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) is demanding answers from the Department of Justice (DOJ) after the agency refused to release all documents regarding how it intended to implement a 2021 executive order on expanding voter access. Republicans have opposed this order as an unlawful exercise of federal power over elections. In March 2021, President Joe Biden signed an executive order (EO 14019) directing the head of every federal agency, including the DOJ, to come up with a strategic plan on how to "promote voter registration and voter participation." Their plans should be submitted to Susan Rice, the president's domestic policy adviser. The executive order also mandates that these agencies work with "approved" third-party organizations to provide voter registration services on federal agency premises. Since then, Republican lawmakers have questioned whether the administration has the constitutional and statutory authority to enact such an order. FBI Whistleblower: Bureau Taking Steps to Ensure that 'Process is the Punishment'. According to Just The News, FBI Special Agent Steve Friend, who is based out of Florida, said that his security clearance was recently suspended as a result of his whistleblowing efforts, thus leaving him without any pay. In his formal whistleblower complaint filed to Congress, the U.S. Office of Special Counsel, and the Inspector General of the Department of Justice (DOJ), Friend claims that the FBI is systematically violating the 6th and 8th Amendment rights of all the prisoners who have been arrested for peacefully protesting at the U.S. Capitol on January 6th, 2021. He also accused the bureau of deliberately inflating the number of alleged acts of "domestic extremism" in the country, in order to make right-wing terrorism seem like a greater threat than it actually is. Christopher Wray certainly seems to be enjoying the FBI's private jet. FBI Director Christopher Wray certainly gets around. [...] But then again, he's in charge of the nation's largest federal law enforcement agency, so I'm sure he's got a lot on his plate. The question surrounding his activities this week, however, has less to do with how often he travels than it does with how he travels. It seems that Wray has been making very liberal use of the FBI's private jet when he needs to get away from the Beltway. On at least one occasion he used it to head to his family's vacation home in the Adirondack Mountains. And another series of trips to the Atlanta area is also under scrutiny. The problem is that Congress never authorized that jet for personal use. It's only supposed to be used for counterterrorism purposes. Eric Swalwell's Spending Report for First Nine Months of Year Is Raising a Lot of Questions. Rob Pyers is the Research Director for California Target Book, a group that provides information on congressional and state legislative election campaigns in California. Pyers posted some intriguing information about Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) on Twitter that our friends over at Twitchy picked up. [Tweets] "Dem Eric Swalwell, who has submitted the 2nd-highest number of 'I am unable to physically attend proceedings in the House Chamber due to the ongoing public health emergency' proxy letters, spent $250K+ on travel & car service in the 1st 9 months of the year," Pyers said. Let me explain to those who may not know what the "proxy letters" are. During the pandemic, the House started offering its members the opportunity to have other members vote for them because of the "ongoing public health emergency." That might have been understandable when people were freaked out initially in the early days of the pandemic, although I don't think they ever should have done it. But it's been more than two years now, kids. Joe Biden has declared the pandemic over. Why is this still on? It's an excuse for people not to show up to do their job and skip out if they have other things to do. Biden Regime Calls for North American Union. Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, also known by his initials AMLO, recently announced that US Secretary of State Tony Blinken proposed opening all borders between the US, Mexico, and Canada. President Obrador: "I think that Mr. Blinken spoke about consolidating the region of North America. And we agree on that." The plan would open up our borders permanently to the drug cartels running Mexico today. It is the latest insanity proposed by the Biden regime to permanently destroy the United States. Absolutely Shameful: Covid Dictators Still Unwilling To Let Go Of Power In Australia. More than two years of lockdown hell — especially in Melbourne — has taken its toll. Relationship breakdowns, suicides, drug and alcohol abuse, business collapse, and so on have been the result. Nobody wants to go through all that again: we are totally fed up with the Big State doing its best to emulate Big Brother. Thankfully it is more or less over — or so it seems. But just as a rapacious carnivore wants ever more after having acquired a taste for blood, so too our state leaders have loved the power and control they so easily were able to obtain over the past few years. They do not want to give it up. Indeed, they want more! Arizona AG asks FBI, IRS to investigate election integrity watchdog True the Vote. Republican Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich has asked the IRS and FBI to review the financials of the conservative nonprofit group True The Vote for allegedly raising money on false statements about widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election. In a letter obtained Friday by Fox News Digital, Chief Special Agent Reggie Grigsby of the Special Investigations Section for Brnovich's office accused True The Vote (TTV) of repeatedly failing to provide promised information about alleged ballot stuffing and voter fraud to his office while publicly asserting they did so in order to raise funds. The Democrat Party Is Crumbling. The Democrats thought they could steal our freedoms away under the guise of COVID-19. Actually, they did steal them. Embarrassingly, many Americans were only too happy to lock down, wear the useless Fauci face diaper, and stand on science-free stickers at the grocery store. You know, to save grandma. Remember, communism always comes disguised as virtue. Many of us caught on quickly and recognized that the Democrats were using the Hong Kong Fluey lockdown flapdoodle as a dress rehearsal for communism — and worse. The federal war on pro-life activists. The federal government is at war with pro-life activists. By that I don't mean that Democrat politicians are doing everything they can to extend the so-called "right" to abortion until birth. That is politics, and for better or worse in the United States political decisions about when life begins and constitutional protections for human beings is afforded to a fetus belong to the states. [...] The federal government is currently exercising powers that legitimately should belong to states, and doing so for the explicit political purpose of intimidating and punishing people for exercising their rights to freely assemble and peacefully protest in favor of saving lives. How Biden and IRS Unlawfully Expanded Obamacare. President Joe Biden announced Tuesday that his administration had expanded Obamacare. Congress didn't legislate the expansion. The Internal Revenue Service did. The IRS scrapped an Obama administration regulation that faithfully implemented the Obamacare statute, officially called the Affordable Care Act, which became law in 2010 on a party-line vote. At issue is whether dependents of a worker with an offer of employer-sponsored coverage can shun that coverage and claim premium tax subsidies for Obamacare policies instead. The statute and the Obama administration regulation were clear on this point. Such dependents qualify for tax-subsidized policies only if the cost of self-only employer-sponsored coverage exceeds 9.5% of the worker's household income. If not, neither the worker nor her dependents could receive Obamacare premium subsidies. Biden renews COVID "emergency" for another 90 days. Never let a crisis go to waste, Rahm Emanuel once advised. Add to that this new axiom: Never let your emergency powers expire. As incompetent as Joe Biden might otherwise be, he's proven adept at following both. [...] In his 60 Minutes interview with Scott Pelley less than four weeks ago, Biden walked around the Detroit auto show without a mask, and remarked about how normal it seemed, and how "everybody seems to be in pretty good shape": [Tweet] That was just three weeks ago. What makes this an "emergency" now? Even with the CDC still reporting correlative data rather than causative, ER visits with COVID diagnoses are near a year-long low and dropping. Reported cases are bottoming out as well, as are correlated deaths (still no breakout for causation), as are correlated hospital admissions. Even wastewater surveillance — which would take place regardless of emergency status — shows a decline in prevalence despite the addition of many new sites in the mix. So why is the pandemic over but not the emergency? For one thing, Biden still wants emergency cash from Congress. WSJ: 2,600+ Federal Officials Trade Stock in Companies Their Agencies Oversee — Especially Big Tech. More than 2,600 federal officials either own or have traded stock in companies their agencies oversee, according to a damning report by the Wall Street Journal. The report also found that officials frequently traded stock in companies shortly before their agencies announced enforcement actions that affected the price of those companies. At the Department of Defense for example, some officials held stock in Chinese companies that the U.S. was considering blacklisting. Wife Supremacy. Monica P. Medina is the new "Special Envoy for Biodiversity and Water Resources," the State Department recently announced, without noting that Medina is also the wife of Ron Klain, chief of staff to Joe Biden. The Washington Post story, headlined, "In a first, U.S. appoints a diplomat for plants and animals," also failed to note the Klain connection. This sort of nepotism, coupled with media malpractice, has surrounded Joe Biden for a long time. "Ambassador Cathy Russell has been a trusted and indispensable advisor to Jill and me for nearly 30 years," Biden announced last December, as the UN chose Russell to be executive director of UNICEF. As Biden proclaimed, Russell had served as "Assistant to the President and Director of the White House Office of Presidential Personnel. She sat on the Advisory Board of the Biden-Harris Transition Team and served as Vice Chair of the Biden-Harris Campaign." November Surprise? Case-in-point: the John Durham Special Counsel Investigation on the origin of the RussiaGate fraud. It now apparently terminates in the prosecution of the tiniest minnow (Igor Danchenko) in that vast inland sea of corruption. Some of the figures who carried out the perfidious seditions of RussiaGate are still employed in the Department of Justice and the FBI, and to this day are active in the continued cover-up of the crimes committed to overthrow President Trump, notably: Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco, Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta, DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz, FBI Director Christopher Wray, and others. Mr. Durham is supposedly among the highest officers of the federal courts charged with enforcing a very particular region of criminality. His staff must be marinated in evidence of the RussiaGate misdeeds — reams of which have been independently documented in the public record, ranging from (just for example) the nefarious activities of figures like Nellie Ohr, wife of DOJ higher-up Bruce Ohr, working as go-between with Christopher Steele and the FBI, to the spectacular failures of Judge James Boasberg and his FISA court, not to mention the well-known machinations of Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, Andrew McCabe, Rod Rosenstein, Dana Boente, James Baker, Andrew Weissmann, Jeannie Rhee, Aaron Zebley, Brandon Van Grack, Robert Mueller, and other top officials who worked sedulously against the public interest. All these remain apparently off-the-hook for their sketchy activities. A massive indictment of the Democrat party. The U.S. Constitution, by limiting federal power, is designed to protect the individual citizen from external coercion. [...] By supporting big government at the expense of the individual, Democrats threaten to transform America into a totalitarian nightmare. President Biden has declared that the "most lethal elements" in our society are political conservatives. In true Stalinist fashion, the DoJ, the FBI, and the media are being weaponized to go after Biden's political opponents. Armed FBI agents raided the homes of Roger Stone, James O'Keefe, Paul Manafort, and dozens of other Trump-supporters, to say nothing of the raid on Mar-a-Lago. "The FBI is now an organization solely focused on destroying the domestic enemies of the Democratic Party," said radio host Jesse Kelly. The implication is that if you distrust Biden's government, you are considered a terrorist and must be hunted down. Democrats will not hesitate to deprive you of your basic rights if it suits their purpose. In their war on free speech, Democrats have attempted to silence anyone who denies global warming, criticizes Islamic terrorism, advocates a stronger military, or questions the validity of the 2020 election. National Archives Scraps 'Transparency' Mission When It Comes to Trump Documents. The Biden administration has turned what should be the most transparent of government agencies, the National Archives and Records Administration, into one of the least transparent agencies — rivaling even the FBI. Established in 1934, the National Archives has a mission to identify, protect, preserve, and make publicly available all historically valuable records. But the National Archives has become politicized by the Biden administration and no longer provides transparency in public records. Jodi Foor, the National Archives' deputy Freedom of Information Act officer, would not answer a FOIA request from The Heritage Foundation's Oversight Project for records related to the FBI's raid on former President Donald Trump's Florida home within the statutory timeline. This inaction forced The Heritage Foundation to sue to get a response to our request. Outsourced censorship: Feds used private entity to target millions of social posts in 2020. A consortium of four private groups worked with the departments of Homeland Security (DHS) and State to censor massive numbers of social media posts they considered misinformation during the 2020 election, and its members then got rewarded with millions of federal dollars from the Biden administration afterwards, according to interviews and documents obtained by Just the News. The Election Integrity Partnership is back in action again for the 2022 midterm elections, raising concerns among civil libertarians that a chilling new form of public-private partnership to evade the First Amendment's prohibition of government censorship may be expanding. The consortium is comprised of four member organizations: Stanford Internet Observatory (SIO), the University of Washington's Center for an Informed Public, the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab, and social media analytics firm Graphika. It set up a concierge-like service in 2020 that allowed federal agencies like Homeland's Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and State's Global Engagement Center to file "tickets" requesting that online story links and social media posts be censored or flagged by Big Tech. How authorities are invoking crises to exercise unprecedented power. Days after the 2008 election, Rahm Emanuel famously issued what's known today as Rahm's rule. "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste," said Emanuel, then chief of staff to President-elect Barack Obama. "And what I mean by that is it's an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before." Emanuel argued the 2008 financial crisis afforded the Obama administration a window to promptly address problems that had previously been deferred indefinitely pending the long-term ripening of political consensus. Fourteen years later, Emanuel's now-famous phrase on crises has become standard practice in Washington, D.C., as officials in power regularly use what they deem "emergencies" — from viral pandemics to purported threats to democracy — to push controversial measures and restrictions on civil liberties that otherwise might fail due to pushback. This trend was recently highlighted by President Biden declaring the COVID-19 pandemic over while still maintaining the national emergency declaration on the pandemic as his administration used COVID-19 to justify major executive action. Liberty Wept. In Federalist 45, Madison noted that the powers delegated by the Constitution to the federal government were "few and defined." Those powers, he said, pertained mostly to "external objects" like war, peace, and foreign commerce. Somehow, neither climate change nor transgender bathrooms nor "unlawful acts of hate" — the latest wheeze from the executive branch — made the cut when Madison was enumerating the powers of the federal government. He did, however, have a lot to say about the powers delegated to the individual states. Those powers, he said, were "numerous and indefinite," extending to "all the objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the State." Is that still the case? DC Bar Does Democrats' Dirty Work By Tarring Opponents Right Before Midterms. In an unprecedented move, the D.C. Bar opened an investigation into a former top Justice Department lawyer for advice he gave former President Donald Trump, with documents indicating a Democrat senator prompted the probe. The timing of the procedures, and the complicity between elected officials and the bar, suggest a concerted attempt to create an October surprise. Even more troubling than this election interference, however, is how dangerous the threat of punishing executive-branch attorneys for providing a legal opinion is to the country. The Democrats' ploy also risks irreparably cementing America's partisan divide in the governance of our great country. Thanks for nothing, John Durham. [Scroll down] FBI directors Comey, Mueller, and Wray are all sitting down to a nice dinner about now, not a care in the world. Even though they tried mightily to take down a sitting, duly elected president. Proven liars and co-conspirators like Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok, and Lisa Page are probably smiling at this moment as they review their bank statements. Vile trolls like the CIA's John Brennan and James Clapper, although furiously promoting every rumor, falsehood, and slander under the sun against Pres. Trump, are no doubt busy scheduling their next high-paying TV gigs. Barry and Hillary, undoubtedly the prime movers of those seditious and anti-American plots, are surely relaxing in their luxe mansions at this very moment, contemplating their next lucrative podcast or appearance. All the Democrat pols, their billionaire donors, Big Tech, and our mendacious left-wing media, haven't a care in the world. They conspired to remove one of the most effective presidents in my lifetime, and they know they've gotten away with it. Radical DOJ Lawyer Kristen Clarke Targeted Pro-Life Dad and Other Conservatives. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), and Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) warned us about Kristen Clarke. Cruz called the radical lawyer "completely unfit to serve," but serve she does as the Biden Administration's chief of the civil rights division of the Department of Justice (DOJ). Her department is where equal justice now goes to die. Clarke considers her calling in Biden's Justice Department one of score-settling for past decisions, holding contemporaries responsible for historical injustices, and chasing ghosts of the past. She greenlit the federal case against Mark Houck, a Pennsylvania Catholic pro-life author, whose seven children screamed for mercy for their "best friend," their dad, as an estimated 20-25 FBI agents trained their rifles on him after beating on the family's door at seven in the morning last Friday. According to LifeSiteNews, Houck was already aware that the Feds were after him and had offered to come in and talk with them. But gun-toting agents dragged him out and took him to a federal facility. Inflation, Shutdowns, and Trending Authoritarianism — Yes, They Are Connected. Inflation has been summed up as "too much money chasing too few goods." Some contend that the recent uptick in price inflation is the result of an expansion of the money supply, and they date the start of that expansion back to the Spring of 2020. That's when the Federal Reserve began pumping trillions of newly-minted Fed dollars into the economy. The Fed's money printing continued into 2022. Our current inflation, it would then seem, might just be due to "too much money." If you recall, the reason for the Fed's massive money-printing was the government's response to the coronavirus pandemic. The trillions in new money were for the government shutdowns of the economy. Keep in mind that it was the states that shut down the economy, not the federal government. No government can deny people their ability to make a living without giving them the means to survive. Unlike the federal government, the states don't have a central bank that can create money. But with the $2.2 trillion Cares Act, Congress rode to the rescue and accommodated the states with the money to pay for their shutdowns. So, the states shut down their economies, Congress backstopped the states, and the Fed provided the money. Pritzker Suffocates Free Speech. Should any powerful elected official in America use his influence to have an opposition newspaper canceled? Is it allowable for a president or governor to have such a paper literally taken out of print? Well, it happened. In Illinois. At least temporarily. This sad episode in the heartland speaks to a larger dangerous trend in America. Increasingly, the permanent political class and corporate elites cooperate to suppress our rights of free speech and a free press. For example, the Biden White House directly intervened with Big Tech to censor voices like Alex Berenson. What was the online "crime" of this former New York Times reporter? Well, Berenson dared to document reasons for skepticism regarding the experimental vaccines produced by Big Pharma that were forced upon millions of Americans via government, employment, and educational mandates. Analysis: Nord Stream Pipelines Sabotaged, and Only One Country Benefits. Three deep-water explosions destroyed the Nord Stream pipelines under the Baltic Sea on Monday. While the MSM and governments reported "leaks" in the pipelines following sudden pressure drops to zero, Swedish seismologists knew better. [...] First, the US became the number one exporter of liquified natural gas to Europe once Russia cut off the flow. German dependence on US LNG is a carrot to keep German in the sanction alliance. With winter approaching and German unrest on the rise, the State Department would have been concerned the Germans would go wobbly, reduce sanctions, cut off arms to Ukraine, and beg Putin for energy. The loss of the Nord Stream pipelines eliminates that path to renewed gas imports to Germany. Second, the Biden family has long been tangled up in natural gas and Ukraine. Hunter Biden was on the board of Ukraine's largest natural gas company — a position that provided Ukrainian oligarchs with access to Joe Biden. Hunter, who has no experience in energy, made millions from the deal, and Ukraine got a bought-and-paid-for President of the United States. Third, the Democrat Biden needs to stanch the popularity bleeding that threatens to kill Democrat control of Congress come November. So, only the United States has a compelling reason to destroy Europe's energy lifeline from Russia. Only the United States has both the means and the motive. The Pandemic was a Grand Rehearsal for the Great Reset. Fear is the key to obtaining compliance. And by obtaining mass compliance during the pandemic, the global elite — operating through political leaders, international bodies, NGOs, and a vast network of "experts" and bureaucrats — audaciously tested ground for the Great Reset. "Populations have overwhelmingly shown a willingness to make sacrifices," said Klaus Schwab, founder of the World Economic Forum (WEF). "The changes we have seen in response to COVID-19 prove that a reset of our economic and social foundations is possible." In his new book The Great Reset: Global Elites and the Permanent Lockdown, Marc Morano lays bare how "15 days to slow the spread" was actually "15 days to begin your conditioning to accept a new level of tyranny." He shows how the agenda was set decades before the pandemic and was given momentum during the post-9/11 War on Terror. The signs of long preparation for the Great Reset are now quite evident. Why The FBI's Raid On A Christian Family Is Its Most Dangerous Abuse Yet. This isn't easy for conservatives to understand. Most of us, by disposition, respect hierarchy. A father at the head of the family, a boss at the head of a company, a president at the head of a country, a pope at the head of a church, and so on. So it's natural for us to imagine that everyone looks at the world this way. That's one reason why when we see some new left-wing front open up in the culture war, we try to find the hidden hand controlling it — the George Soros, or the Michael Bloomberg, or Joe Biden. But most of the time, the left doesn't think this way. More importantly, the left doesn't act this way. This phenomenon of ground-up left-wing governance can be seen all around us. It's happening in corporate America, where far from leading the charge, left-wing CEOs increasingly find themselves held captive to radical employees. It's true in the federal government, too. Is DeSantis next on the SWAT list? Democrat Bennie Thompson, chairman of the Homeland Security committee, sent a letter to the knucklehead Biden appointed as Secretary of Homeland Security, demanding that the department investigate Republican Governor Ron DeSantis over the deportation of illegal aliens to Martha's Vineyard. This is the latest effort by Democrats to use the Fascist Bureau of Intimidation to criminalize political dissent. They spied on Trump when he was a candidate. They turned a peaceful protest at the National Mall into a Fake Insurrection by opening the heavy Capitol doors to protesters. They confiscated the cellphones of dozens of Trump officials. They SWAT-ed a pro-lifer for a year-old local charge that was dismissed by the courts. And of course, they raided Mar-a-Lago over what amounts to an overdue library book that may not have been the library's to begin with. The excesses of the FBI should force Republicans to end its power to arrest, surveil or execute warrants because the FBI has abused each privilege. The constitutionality of this agency is at best vague. Thompson clearly wants the FBI to SWAT DeSantis. 'The most outrageous intimidation
effort in history': Mark Levin's electoral deep dive. In this video, Mark Levin broke down key details
that he described as the "most outrageous intimidation effort in history." Mark covered:
There is raw evil in the top levels of power in the USA, using federal agencies to terrify America's best citizens. [Scroll down] Many FBI, CIA, NSA, Homeland Security and other law enforcement and intelligence agents, other civil servants and military personnel — who still have a conscience, and we should assume most do — have to be encouraged to NEVER participate in any way in these on-going, unconstitutional, criminal actions against the people. We don't just need them to not obey these unjust orders: we need them to actively help us save the United States from those who are obviously committed to destroying it from within. All It Takes Is One Hero. [Scroll down] [M]illions of people are only now awakening to the mounting dangers around them and are left terrified by what they finally see. Why now? Perhaps it was the unprecedented COVID lockdowns and school closures that ruined livelihoods and educations. [...] Perhaps it was the ballooning recognition that State-funded schools indoctrinate young students with leftist curricula dipped in racism, sexual libertinism, and outright Marxism. Perhaps it was the growing disparity between how the IRS, EPA, DOJ, and FBI treat left-leaning political allies and how they treat their conservative opponents. Perhaps it was the abominable two-tiered criminal justice system giving Black Lives Matter and Antifa foot soldiers slaps on the wrist for years while hunting down J6 political protesters as "domestic terrorists" and abandoning them in due process — free purgatories without trial or prospect of bail. Perhaps it was the increasingly suffocating blanket of government-directed censorship stifling debate, subverting free speech, and justifying politically animated professional punishments and firings. New Details In The Biden DOJ Targeting Of Pro-Life Activist, Father Of Seven Mark Houck. New details are emerging in the Department of Justice targeting of a pro-life activist and Catholic father of seven who was arrested at his home in Pennsylvania on Friday. Some 25 armed FBI agents in 15 vehicles raided the residence of Mark Houck, who leads a nonprofit group that provides sidewalk counseling at abortion clinics in Philadelphia, over an incident last year involving his then-12-year-old son at a Planned Parenthood abortion facility, the family says. Houck protected his son from an aggressive Planned Parenthood escort harassing the 12-year-old, Pennsylvania pro-life activist Ashley Garecht told The Daily Wire, noting that the case was dismissed by a federal court in Philadelphia when the escort tried to press charges. The time has come to reform the FBI. Friday mornings are usually the cheeriest time of the week, just hours away from the weekend. Alas for pro-life advocate, Mark Houck, and his family, last Friday was anything but joyous. At 7 a.m., the father of seven was awakened by a SWAT team of heavily armed FBI agents. Mark's wife, Ryan-Marie, said she pleaded with the FBI agents to be calm, owing to the presence of the couple's seven young children. Alas, those pleas fell on deaf ears. [...] The FBI agents said they were there to arrest Mark. When Ryan-Marie asked for their warrant, "they said that they were going to take him whether they had a warrant or not." When Ryan-Marie protested, saying: "you can't just come to a person's house and kidnap them at gunpoint," the FBI agreed to get the warrant from one of their vehicles. Did the FBI Finally Go Too Far? On reading about the Saturday arrest of pro-life activist Mark Houck, I thought the author at this alternative site had to be exaggerating. It struck me as beyond belief that two dozen or so armed FBI agents would swarm the house of a Catholic father of seven, rifles drawn, and arrest him in front of his weeping children for anything short of murder. I have had to recalibrate my belief system. The "crime" fell quite a bit short of murder. On October 13, 2021, Houck brought his 12-year-old son with him for his weekly sidewalk counseling outside of a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic in Philadelphia. A volunteer escort at the abortion clinic reportedly called Houck's son a "fag" among other insults and threatened him. Houck pushed the man away from his son, and the man fell. Houck, the founder of an organization that promotes Christian virtue among men, was not charged with a crime. However petty the incident, U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, had Houck seized at gunpoint nearly a year later and bragged about the arrest. In raid on home with seven children, FBI again acts dangerously thuggish. If the FBI and the Justice Department want critics to stop portraying the bureau as a menace to society, maybe FBI leaders and agents should stop acting like menaces. Conservative social media is blowing up this weekend about a sickeningly abusive, armed FBI raid on the child-filled home of a pro-life activist in Pennsylvania. And with good reason. Once again, the FBI has gone dangerously overboard with an unnecessary show of force. When faced with orders to participate in such hugely unnecessary armed raids, individual agents should register official protests with their superiors. Democrats move to criminalize opposition. A hallmark of banana republics is that those who lose power are apt to wind up in prison, or on the wrong end of a firing squad. Even more advanced countries, like Israel, sometimes have a regrettable tendency to prosecute former political leaders. It is hard to think of anything more destructive to a democracy, and yet the Democrats are going down that path. It seems clear that they intend to bring criminal charges against President Trump over his keeping some White House documents at Mar-a-Lago — a trivial offense, as far as anyone knows. And that's not all. The Department of Justice has issued subpoenas to a large number of people who were associated in some way with the Trump campaign or administration. They generally seek information about efforts to challenge the reported election results in several states. [...] Nearly all of the documents relate to activities that are plainly lawful. Alleging or denying the existence of fraud in the 2020 election, offering evidence of such fraud or the absence of such fraud, planning to have someone serve as a Trump elector, arguing that the vice president has important constitutional powers in the context of certifying a presidential election, discussing strategies whereby Donald Trump might be found, legally, to have won the 2020 election — these are all legal activities that have long been engaged in by members of both parties. There are also requests relating to the funding of efforts to contest the 2020 election and for the rally that occurred on January 6, 2021. These, too, were perfectly legal activities. DOJ Harasses Citizens for Exercising Their First Amendment Rights. The Justice Department has hit the Eagle Forum of Alabama with a voluminous subpoena that violates the organization's First Amendment rights to speak freely, engage in the political process, and talk to their elected representatives. It's an intimidation tactic, pure and simple, and shows just how partisan the department has become. This out-of-control behavior should scare every citizen and volunteer organization, no matter where they stand on the political or social spectrum. Eagle Forum is a very small non-profit in Alabama. It only has one full-time employee and a second, part-time employee. Virtually all of its work on issues of interest to its members is done by volunteers. FBI hero paying the price for exposing unjust 'persecution' of conservative Americans. Bombshell allegations by FBI Special Agent Steve Friend contained in a whistleblower complaint filed late Wednesday with the Department of Justice inspector general reveal a politicized Washington, DC, FBI field office cooking the books to exaggerate the threat of domestic terrorism, and using an "overzealous" January 6 investigation to harass conservative Americans and violate their constitutional rights. Friend, 37, a respected 12-year veteran of the FBI and a SWAT team member, was suspended Monday, stripped of his gun and badge, and escorted out of the FBI field office in Daytona Beach, Fla., after complaining to his supervisors about the violations. He was declared absent without leave last month for refusing to participate in SWAT raids that he believed violated FBI policy and were a use of excessive force against Jan. 6 subjects accused of misdemeanor offenses. This American hero, the father of two small children, has blown up his "dream career" because he could not live with his conscience if he continued to be part of what he sees as the unjust persecution of conservative Americans. DOJ Internal Misconduct Shrouded in Veil of Secrecy. Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz was busy this week, releasing three separate reports on Monday alone. Each detailed misconduct by a different assistant United States attorney: One finds a federal lawyer trying to use his position to avoid a drunk driving charge; another finds a government attorney getting drunk and physically belligerent at a meeting with foreign officials; the third, and most disturbing, finds an assistant U.S. attorney exposing his genitals "in a public place," and sexually assaulting a "civilian" on a date. Who were these federal prosecutors? The summary reports don't say. A spokesperson for the Office of the Inspector General told RealClearPolitics that it could not release their names. RCP has filed a Freedom of Information Act request asking for their identities. The Justice Department doesn't hesitate to publicize the names of those it accuses of wrongdoing. At least when those accused do not work for Justice. Equal Justice, They Said. What once distinguished the United States from illiberal regimes following the Orwellian mantra "some are more equal than others" was the hallowed American idea of "equal justice under the law." The phrase is engraved above the entrance to the United States Supreme Court — an ideal that took centuries to achieve. Yet it is an ancient concept — what the Greeks called isonomia that distinguished classical democratic Athens from its anti-democratic rivals. Isonomia later became enshrined as the central criterion of all Western consensual governments. Does it still exist in Joe Biden's America? In many ways, no — due both to state and private vendettas as well as state efforts to destroy rather than merely defeat political opponents. Is the law equally applied at the border? Ask yourself whether you are more likely to be hounded by the federal government for not being vaccinated if you are a citizen in the U.S. military, or illegally violating federal immigration law as you storm the southern border? Who needs a passport to leave and enter the United States — a citizen or an illegal alien? Biden Demands White Supremacy. FBI whistleblowers — in this case, the term is probably warranted — have come forward to say that the Bureau is pressuring them to come up with "white supremacists" to investigate, in order to advance the Biden administration's agenda: [...] To the best of my knowledge, I have never met a white supremacist, so this doesn't surprise me. What ought to surprise all of us is that the FBI's politicized hierarchy is so willing to do the corrupt bidding of the Democratic Party. Why Is the DOJ Trying to Destroy Mike Lindell, the Pillow Guy? [Scroll down] [Mike] Lindell was tracked down by FBI agents, corralled at a Hardee's of all places, served a subpoena, and ordered to turn over his cell phone. [...] It's impossible to give Merrick Garland's Department of Justice even the slightest benefit of the doubt in this day and age, as they have subpoenaed virtually half the free world and raided former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate on a seemingly endless fishing expedition. Pillow Guy's story is equally murky; there are a lot of suspicions and dark insinuations thrown about by the FBI, but little in the way of facts that make you go, "oh man! Lindell really crossed the line on that one!" Without boring the heck out of you, I'll try to sum it up quickly: Lindell has been an outspoken critic of the 2020 presidential election and has regularly said he believes the outcome was fraudulent. This would appear to be his worst crime. But did he breach voting data machines? Biden Reportedly Pressuring FBI to 'Cook Up' White Supremacy Cases. The Biden administration has asserted one of the top security threats facing the nation comes from domestic extremists. Supporting such a claim, however, requires cases, but rank-and-file FBI agents are saying the threat is way overblown. According to The Washington Times, current and former FBI agents say the bureau is getting pressured to come up with domestic terror cases and find white supremacists in order to meet internal quotas. "The demand for White supremacy" coming from FBI headquarters "vastly outstrips the supply of White supremacy," said one agent, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. "We have more people assigned to investigate White supremacists than we can actually find." The claim comes as President Biden hosted a United We Stand summit at the White House on Thursday where he announced a new initiative on "hate-motivated violence." Facebook spied on private messages of Americans who questioned 2020 election. Facebook has been spying on the private messages and data of American users and reporting them to the FBI if they express anti-government or anti-authority sentiments — or question the 2020 election — according to sources within the Department of Justice. Under the FBI collaboration operation, somebody at Facebook red-flagged these supposedly subversive private messages over the past 19 months and transmitted them in redacted form to the domestic terrorism operational unit at FBI headquarters in Washington, DC, without a subpoena. "It was done outside the legal process and without probable cause," alleged one of the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity. "Facebook provides the FBI with private conversations which are protected by the First Amendment without any subpoena." A Time of Evil. What we have seen the last two years, and especially the last few months can only be explained in one word. Evil. For this is a time of evil. [...] Why would Biden refuse to protect our southern border? Why would Biden knowingly allow in fentanyl, human trafficking, cartels, and terrorists? Why would Biden allow child predators and unaccompanied minors to cross our borders? Why would Biden make it very clear to our enemies in China, Iran, and Russia that we will not fight for our borders and we are not a sovereign country? Why would the occupier of the White House display our weaknesses to friend and foe? Why would the placeholder of the White House purposely make America weaker militarily and economically? Why would Biden's FBI and Department of Justice cover up obvious felony crimes on Hunter Biden's laptop, yet search the bedroom of President Trump's teenage son? Why would the FBI and DoJ ignore the 4th and 5th Amendments in their illegal raid on President Trump's private home? Why would the FBI/CIA/NSA disregard all precedents, all laws, all tradition, the Constitution, and all common sense in their illegal attacks on President Trump since he came down the golden escalators? Why has the FBI/CIA/NSA abused and misused the Patriot Act in their attack on Biden's political enemies? And why has the ACLU remained totally silent and mute as these Third Reich tactics have been used on the American people? Why has Biden/FBI/Justice Department carried out Stasi police state raids on many of President Trump's closest supporters? Election Interference: DOJ/FBI Carpet-Bombed Subpoenas An Attempt To Freeze Political Opposition In Runup To Midterms. In recent days, the U.S. Department of Justice has served upwards of 40 subpoenas on people affiliated with Donald Trump's 2020 campaign, many of whom continue to associate with or support him. [...] Assume, for the sake of argument only, that such subpoenas were proper and necessary to investigate alleged crimes associated with the January 6, 2021, Capitol Hill riot. That's a big assumption, but it proves the point, which is why now, some 18 months later? If these subpoenas were so necessary to the investigation, why did DOJ/FBI wait a year and half until we are in the thick of the runup to the midterms? These subpoenas are a big freeze not only on Trumpworld, but conservative and Republican worlds. When people know that dozens are being subpoenaed by the feds regarding hundreds of people or entities, people stop talking to each other and engaging in perfectly lawful political activity out of fear that they will be next. Lawful political communication with the wrong person could find you on the receiving end of a DOJ subpoena and FBI home visit, or as just happend to Mike Lindell and others, being confronted on the street or in public by FBI agents. It's a way to shut down a political movement without having to arrest, indict, or prosecute anyone. The Biden Administration Isn't Interested In Governing But In Criminalizing The Opposition. It is going to be hard to forget the spectacle of President Joe Biden "celebrating" the passage of his woefully-named Inflation Reduction Act while the stock market plummeted in real time, dropping nearly 1,300 points Tuesday while Biden crowed about his great achievement. The cable news clips were surreal. There was old man Biden, shaking his fist and shouting at the sky, while in the corner of the screen the Wall Street tracker kept ticking down, stocks plunging in reaction to persistent and worsening inflation. Even CNN had to interrupt coverage of Biden's remarks to note that the stock market was tanking. [Tweet] It takes a special kind of hubris to throw a White House victory party (with boomer icon James Taylor performing "Fire and Rain," no less) for a bill allegedly meant to curb inflation amid the worst inflation in 40 years and the worst day for the stock market since Biden's presidency began. [...] None of it is real. It is pure theater — a farce. Student loans and the decline of Social Security. Last month, the Biden administration announced that it would wipe out an estimated $1 trillion owed to the county. No vote, nor authorization from Congress. The money simply appeared as if by magic. While the administration's decision is limited to student loans, the existence of magic money is apt to cause problems for the broader government. Specifically, it is likely going to be a problem for Social Security and those who depend upon the program. In the case of Social Security, the program's finances have deteriorated over decades primarily because Congress has been unable to build any consensus on a suitable mix of higher taxes and benefits reductions. As difficult as it has been to find that middle ground in the past, compromise will only become more elusive as voters seek to add more magic and less sacrifice. Attacking
the Rule of Law. One of the most hallowed traditions of the U.S. republic is a commitment to the ideal of
the Rule of Law. Therefore, one of the most dystopic aspects of our current politics is that this ideal is under
deliberate attack. The list of assaults is long and varied. Consider:
Whistleblower Reveals FBI Labeled Veteran-Led Organization as Domestic Terrorist Group. A whistleblower revealed the FBI labeled a veteran-led organization as a domestic terrorist group. Ranking member on the House Judiciary Committee Rep. Jim Jordan (OH) in a letter to FBI Director Wray said a whistleblower came forward and revealed a 'woke' analyst labeled American Contingency, a veteran-led group, a "domestic violent extremism" organization. The veteran-led group was already cleared by the FBI as a 'non-threat' in 2020, but the woke analyst decided to target the group again. Rep. Jordan's letter referenced Project Veritas' recent report on the FBI's 'domestic terrorism symbols guide' on 'militia violent extremists.' Mike Lindell Is Suing the FBI and the Government for Violating His Rights. Pay Attention. Mike Lindell wants more than just his phone back. Following the incident in Minnesota during which agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation blocked his vehicle at a Hardee's drive-through and seized his phone, Lindell made an appearance on Steve Bannon's War Room. He announced that he was filing a lawsuit against the FBI and the government. You can watch Lindell's conversation with Bannon posted by The Post Millennial below. [Video clip] CBP sparks privacy fears after it's revealed that 2,700 of its officers have warrantless access to travelers' confiscated phones. Thousands of US government officials have unlimited access to as many as 10,000 devices which are seized from travelers moving across the country. Electronic devices such as cellphones, iPads and laptops taken from those going through airports, seaports and border crossings are being mined for data. The leader of the Customs and Border Protection told congressional staff that the massive database can be accessed by 2,700 CBP officers without a warrant. During a briefing, which took place in the summer, officials also said that the data is maintained for 15 years. It has raised alarms in Congress about what the government is using the information or, with many of the devices taken from people not suspected of any criminal activity. Facebook Worked With FBI to Spy on Americans Who Questioned 2020 Election. According to Department of Justice sources, Facebook has been spying on the private messages and data of Americans who questioned the 2020 election results and reporting them to the FBI. Since the election, Facebook has worked in conjunction with the FBI to report on "subversive" private messages, sending them to the FBI's domestic terrorism operational unit, supposedly in redacted form, a direct violation of Americans' First and Fourth Amendment rights. "It was done outside the legal process and without probable cause," one of the sources told the New York Post. "Facebook provides the FBI with private conversations which are protected by the First Amendment without any subpoena." According to the Post, "These private messages then have been farmed out as 'leads' to FBI field offices around the country, which subsequently requested subpoenas from the partner US Attorney's Office in their district to officially obtain the private conversations that Facebook already had shown them." COVID Fascism Fizzles Out in New Zealand. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern (she/her) held such promise. In the spring of 2020, the then 39-year-old New Zealand prime minister emerged on the world stage as the COVID drama's anti-Trump. Ardern was calm, we were told, where Trump was capricious, compassionate where Trump was callous, and disciplined where Trump was improvisational. She was, in short, the modern major general of the emerging fascist new world order, and the media swooned. [...] After seven weeks into a three-day Lockdown, Ardern finally abandoned her increasingly futile zero-COVID policy, and the virus ran through New Zealand's population in 2021-2022 much as it had done the rest of the world a year earlier. Despite a vaccination rate of 77 percent and 18 months to prepare for an epidemic, more than one out of three New Zealanders contracted the disease, including Ardern herself. Nearly 2,000 died. As the cases mounted, the "swift and decisive" Ardern rotated her nation once more through the various levels of oppression. To Ardern's seeming surprise, the gratuitous restrictions and mandates caused a major public backlash. The Regime's 'Operation MAGA Fascist' Gains Ground. After nearly two years of lies related to the events of January 6, 2021, the regime finally has admitted the truth: The widening legal dragnet to scoop up Donald Trump, his associates, and his voters has nothing to do with the four-hour disturbance on Capitol Hill that afternoon. It is, rather, a thus-far successful crusade to criminalize wrongthink about the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. A barrage of subpoenas issued recently by the Department of Justice — U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Matthew Graves' office specifically — against Trump aides is not seeking information about the Capitol protest but personal communications discussing what happened with the election and plans to fight the results. [...] Of course, this is what the January 6 hysteria has always been about. As the chaos unfolded on January 6, Joe Biden and his apparatchiks immediately denounced believers of the so-called "Big Lie" — the claim the election had been rigged, if not stolen, by powerful interests who wanted nothing more than to defeat Trump — and vowed revenge would come swiftly. Why FBI Agents Jumped MyPillow's Mike Lindell at a Hardee's Drive-Thru. Do you sense that the Biden Department of Justice is getting desperate? The clock is winding down to getting something significant on any of their ludicrous investigations into Donald Trump and his inner circle. The FBI's August 8 raid adds more pressure to the charged climate since federal agents found nothing supporting the allegations of criminal intent regarding classified materials. No evidence backs any justification for the raid. All the documents the FBI seized aren't smoking guns, as the president of the United States has the indisputable authority to declassify any record. We're not talking about Hillary Clinton, who is guilty of mishandling classified information, transmitting it through an unapproved and unsecured email server, and deleting 33,000 emails under federal subpoena. With the special master ruling motion made by the Trump team granted by Judge Aileen Cannon and a Justice Department appeal filed — this Mar-a-Lago theater could last several months. This story has hit the sandbar, and it's beached until further notice. In the meantime, the Justice Department has issued at least 40 subpoenas relating to its January 6 investigation. 97 members of Congress or their families bought or sold stock that may have been a conflict of interest. Nearly 100 members of Congress bought or sold financial assets that intersected with the work of the committees they sit on, according to a New York Times report. Of the 435 House members, 183 traded stocks through themselves or their immediate family members from 2019 to 2021. At least 97 bought or sold stocks, bonds or other financial assets through themselves or their spouses that directly intersected with their congressional work. US lawmakers are not yet banned from making any stock trades, though insider trading is illegal for everyone. DOJ Conceals Records About Biden's Use Of Federal Agencies To Influence Elections. The Department of Justice (DOJ) is concealing key documents related to President Joe Biden's March 2021 order that directed executive agencies to develop plans for federal interference in state election administration. On Sept. 8, the Foundation for Government Accountability (FGA) was scheduled to receive a series of government records from the DOJ that detailed how the agency is complying with Executive Order 14019. That order mandated all federal departments to "consider ways to expand citizens' opportunities to register to vote and to obtain information about, and participate in, the electoral process." Among these included the DOJ's 15-page "strategic plan" on how the agency intends to comply with Biden's executive order. Instead of releasing the documents FGA requested pursuant to federal open records laws, however, the Biden DOJ released only a few records pertaining to the order, most of which were heavily redacted. Tucker Carlson warns that Biden is actively criminalizing political opposition. When I started watching Tucker Carlson, one of the things that made him enjoyable was that he always kept a little bit of an ironic distance from what he was covering. In recent months, though, that has changed. Tucker's angry, and righteously so. Monday night's monologue may have been his most fiery yet, because he focused on something we've all seen from the moment Biden swore an oath to "preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States": as all totalitarian regimes do, Biden is using the instruments of government to persecute his political opponents. We saw it when Biden and his armed bureaucrats characterized a large protest and an accompanying small riot at the United States Capitol (especially compared to past Democrat and BLM riots) as an "insurrection." We saw it when they imprisoned those people who had entered the Capitol (many under the impression that they were allowed to be there) and proceeded to hold them without bail, charges, or trial. Tucker Carlson Discusses the Continued DOJ Targeting of Joe Biden Political Opposition. During his opening monologue today [9/13/2022], Fox News host Tucker Carlson outlined the history of the Biden administration targeting the democrat political opposition by using the Dept of Justice and FBI. During one part of the lengthy segment, Carlson outlined the recent subpoenas to people within the MAGA movement. [Video clip] The technique most often deployed, is for the DOJ/FBI to claim an anonymous source has provided information against the subpoena target, and therefore the target must prove their innocence against the "sources" claims. Having received one of these DC subpoenas directly, my experience with the construct leads me to believe the DOJ is just making up the "anonymous sources." However, if you refuse to participate in the bizarre demand to prove your innocence, the lack of cooperation becomes the Lawfare angle used to entrap the target. The process is something like this: It is unlawful to rob banks. We were told you rob banks. Prove you do not rob banks or be subject to arrest for being unresponsive. Mainstream Media Finally Admits: DOJ Subpoenaed Over 40 Trump Associates, Seized Two Top Advisors' Phones. The Justice Department continues to ramp up its war with former President Donald Trump and his associates, issuing over 40 subpoenas to his associates over the last week and seizing the phones of at least two top advisors. Many outlets are reporting this as breaking news, but RedState's Nick Arama had already reported a lot of it going as back as far as Friday. [...] The newest revelation is that Federal agents took phones from Boris Epshteyn, an in-house counsel for Trump, and Mike Roman, a campaign strategist for the Trump campaign in 2020. This intensification of the Department of Justice's battle to get Trump would appear unrelated to the recent raid of the former president's residence, Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Florida, and the subsequent, ongoing legal battles regarding the materials seized there. The FBI's Apex Bureaucracy Is Dangerous. Here's a truth that tens of millions of Americans understand: if the sweeping criminal enforcement arm of the federal Leviathan disappeared tomorrow, life for the vast majority of citizens would go unchanged. It might even improve. We are spoon-fed this Big Government fallacy from kindergarten on up that absolute chaos lurks behind every corner if not for the protections provided from our beneficent bureaucratic masters who maintain order and peace. That's absurd propaganda meant to keep Americans conditioned into accepting total government control. The infantile dependence on government agents for security and survival is a recent phenomenon that does nothing but legitimize limitless State power. Never Forget the COVID Fascists. If ever the American government viewed its authority as "absolute," if even individual Americans were under the notion that they were "only to be conceived of in their relation to the State," it was shortly after COVID-19 entered the U.S. I submit to you that the COVID policies — shutdowns and lockdowns; "stay home, stay safe;" mandatory masking, social distancing, testing, and vaccines; and so on — perpetuated by the American left and those like-minded were the greatest demonstration of fascism the United States has ever known. In the nearly 250-year history of the U.S., never before has the American government exercised such power over its citizenry as it did in the name of "slowing the spread," "following the science," and the like. And never before in the history of the U.S. has the exercise of government power been so misinformed and misguided, with such disastrous results. The DoJ Argues that the Intelligence Community Overrides the Judiciary. At this point in time I have no regard for the probity or competence of the Intelligence Community and neither, apparently, does Judge Aileen Cannon, who earlier this week ordered the appointment of a Special Master to review those documents seized in the Mar-a-Lago raid, which it claims are classified. The Department of Justice appears to have been surprised that it has lost credibility and filed a motion seeking a stay on that portion of the order and a Notice of Appeal to the Eleventh Circuit indicating its intention to file an interlocutory appeal. I don't think the trial judge who issued a very well-considered order will grant the stay. I don't think the Eleventh Circuit will, either. I don't think the Eleventh Circuit will even grant an interlocutory appeal on this matter. I do think all of these pleadings reveal the weakness of the grounds for a search and seizure of materials at the home Donald J. Trump, the overreach of the warrant, and the expansive search itself. Worse for the DoJ and FBI, I believe their actions amount to a claim that under no circumstances does the judiciary have a right to question anything the Intelligence committee does as long as it makes a claim of "national security." Such a claim is scary and should be — and I think will be — denied. Sen. Hawley Shreds Biden for Criminalizing the Political Opposition. It wasn't just the DOJ and its attempts to boost Biden by raiding Trump that Hannity discussed on his show yesterday, though he did a good job discussing that with Trump's lawyer. He also had on Sen. Josh Hawley, who ripped into Biden for wielding law enforcement like a political club and attempting to intimidate the political opposition with it. Speaking on that, Hawley used examples of the criminal chaos spreading around the country to show that Team Biden and the other leftist hacks running things care not about law and order, but rather just about using LEOs to enforce their political agenda and wield power. New York AG Twists the Knife Into Steve Bannon. Steve Bannon was arrested on Thursday on money laundering and conspiracy charges stemming from a fundraising scheme to build a wall on the Southern border. Bannon, who is the self-proclaimed leader of the "MAGA grassroots movement," surrendered himself in New York City to prosecutors following the indictment. Apparently, New York AG Letecia James wasn't satisfied, though. Later in the day, after Bannon had turned himself in, he was put in chains and perp walked down a long line of prepositioned media for his arraignment. [Tweet] When Must a Good Citizen Become a Dissident? Is it when the FBI and other Deep State truth-twisters manufacture crises and manipulate elections? Is it when free speech comes under attack under the guise of State-labeled "misinformation"? Perhaps it is when the president-in-name-only reads carefully scripted messages (written by those who control his office from the shadows) attacking half the country's citizens as "fascists." Or when government and media "elites" falsely frame political protest as "insurrection" in order to justify criminal persecution and imprisonment of opponents of the ruling regime. Or maybe when the endless declaration of fake "emergencies" is used to justify the steady imposition of extraordinary State power over each citizen's livelihood. Maybe it's when the Intelligence Community operates a massive domestic surveillance network targeting Americans who have committed no crimes. Maybe it's when secretly collected information mined from supposedly independent social media conglomerates and too-big-to-fail private banks is used to track and trace unsuspecting citizens. Maybe it's when the value of the U.S. dollar is intentionally chipped away by central bank authorities enabling tax-and-spend legislators to expand institutional power at current and future Americans' expense. Perhaps it is when the same federal government that insists on fighting wars all over the world in defense of other nations' borders staunchly refuses to protect America's own borders from invasion. GOP Attorneys General Demand DOJ Reveal Federal Gov't's Communications With Social Media Giants. The man who may become Missouri's next GOP senator has targeted President Biden's Department of Justice, asking a court to force the DOJ to reveal communications between high-ranking Biden Administration officials and major social media companies. Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, the GOP senatorial candidate, joined Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry to file a Joint Statement on Discovery Disputes, to ask the Louisiana District Court to force the communications between officials in the White House and Department of State and major social media companies to be revealed. "Missouri and Louisiana filed a landmark lawsuit back in May that seeks to expose how top Biden Administration officials allegedly colluded with social media companies to censor freedom of speech on a number of topics, including COVID-19. We won in court in July, and the Court required the Biden Administration to turn over communications between federal officials and social media companies," Schmitt stated. These Back-Busting Americans Paid For College Themselves And Think You Should, Too. Upon news that Joe Biden had decided to completely ignore U.S. laws to attempt to force taxpayers to assume the debts of people who chose to attend college, I reached out to Federalist writers for stories of how other Americans paid their own way. Calling this particular pile of government handouts for the privileged "forgiveness" is just a way to try to hide the fact that it's fundamentally wrong and unfair. As the Bible says, he who doesn't work shouldn't eat. He who takes on obligations should pay them. Taking something without paying for it is stealing. Forcing other people to work so you can enjoy luxuries is called enslavement. Biden's Teetering House of Cards. Biden has abrogated numerous of our basic liberties guaranteed by the Bill of Rights, the First and Second Amendments to be sure; our speech is censored by big tech, he promises to take our guns. Migrants are installed in hotels and motels; this seems to violate the Third Amendment. The raid on Mar-a-Lago certainly violated the Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable searches and seizures. Judges selected for certain trials violate the Fifth Amendment. In the recent re-trial of the two remaining defendants in the FBI-concocted Whitmer kidnapping case, their defense lawyers were given a time limit and many of the facts that had been revealed in the first trial were not admitted by the judge, a clear violation of their rights. These two men, chosen by FBI operatives for their potential for manipulation, were found guilty. Well of course they were; that was the plan but they were set up by the FBI. Biden can't decide whether or not we're still in a pandemic. President Joe Biden made a campaign promise to "shut the virus down." He made this claim repeatedly because his advisers thought he had stumbled into a clever saying about not shutting down the country again. Now, almost two full years into his term, Biden is using presidential authority he believes he has under the 2003 HEROES Act to suspend student loan payments once again and, on top of that, attempt unilaterally to waive up to $20,000 in Pell Grant student loans or $10,000 in other loans. It was on March 13, 2020, that President Donald Trump declared a nationwide emergency pursuant to Sec. 501(b) of the Stafford Act, making the COVID-19 pandemic a national emergency. Biden, in abusing this power, is going against his own administration's legal arguments concerning the declaration from earlier this year. Three Signs We're in a Banana Republic. In the summer before the 2016 presidential election, FBI Director James Comey publicly articulated Hillary Clinton's criminal culpability for storing classified emails on a private, unsecured server kept in a spare bathroom before declaring imperiously that "no reasonable prosecutor" would bring a case against her. Obama's IRS got caught targeting conservatives for their political beliefs, but the president assured the nation that the obvious scandal revealed "not even a smidgeon of corruption" within his administration. Attorney General Eric Holder, Obama's self-anointed "wingman," was held in contempt of Congress for refusing to hand over documents relating to the Fast and Furious gun-running conspiracy, yet his Department of Justice unsurprisingly declined to pursue criminal charges. In contrast, Americans have watched for six years as President Trump and his associates (including Steve Bannon, who was recently convicted for the same crime Eric Holder effortlessly eluded) have been hounded by an irredeemably corrupt DOJ and FBI, malicious state prosecutors, and a petty, Machiavellian Congress running shameless show trials devoid of due process, impartiality, or fairness. Is Biden even able to bail out student loans? As almost everyone has heard, Biden announced his plan to spend $360 billion to forgive student loans for up to 43 million Americans. Groups estimate that the actual cost may be $440 to $600 billion, but who's counting? Legal experts have reported that although Biden may have some authority to postpone payments, he clearly doesn't have the power to cancel debts. [...] The reaction from many different sides to his plan has been overwhelmingly negative. People who have already paid off their student loans are angry because they did the right thing and kept to their obligations, and people who didn't get loans, or didn't go to college at all, are even angrier at the idea of paying more taxes to fund doctors, lawyers, and academics who should be able to pay what they owe. The inflationary aspects of the debt forgiveness mean that the $7,000 Americans are paying extra each year for Biden's high prices will continue to increase, with no end in sight — and this includes the people getting the cash in the first place. The Lawless Executive. Biden thinks he can get away with tossing three hundred billion dollars, more or less, on the taxpayer's tab with his "student loan" cancelation order. He's relying on a post-9/11 law which applies to times of national emergency and attempting to piggyback on the Covid one which was declared in 2020 along with the HEROES act — and of course that "emergency" has not been lifted. [...] I would expect that in any fair hearing this goes up in smoke in the courts. But — there's a problem: Standing to sue. You see, to bring a case before the courts you must have particularized injury. America Was a Better Place When the FBI Didn't Rig Elections. Well over a year ago, I wrote in the Briefing that Donald Trump's biggest failure was not doing a thorough housecleaning at the FBI. No doubt Trump agrees with me, given all that has been going on lately. Yesterday's news revealed a double-whammy that added more clarity to just how heavy the Bureau's thumb was on the 2020 presidential election scale, and all of it has to do with Joe Biden's sleazebag progeny, Hunter. It appears that the FBI was working overtime to make sure voters didn't have information about Hunter Biden's cocaine-and-hookers criminal antics. Zuckerberg Revelation Shows FBI Interfered for Biden in 2020 Election. Surprise, surprise. It wasn't the social media platforms alone that censored the Hunter Biden laptop story before the election. No, the FBI asked Facebook to censor the Hunter Biden laptop story before the 2020 election, calling it Russian disinformation. Indeed, FBI investigators knew the laptop and its disgusting contents were all too real because they'd held possession of the laptop since 2019. The laptop contained the disgusting details of Hunter's sex and drug life, business dealings, and evidence of big paydays from Ukraine and China — all of which presented a national security risk to the U.S. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg told podcaster Joe Rogan on Thursday that the FBI put Facebook "on high alert" to, wink, censor the Biden laptop story, wink, before the 2020 election. Biden [Claims] That the "Emergency" Powers He Has Due to Covid Allow Him to Act As a Tyrant, Apparently Forever. Note that Biden already declared an end to the covid emergency when he canceled Trump's Remain in Mexico policy, and his CDC just announced that we're effectively back to normal. But Biden won't formally say the "emergency" is over — so he can continue acting as tyrant when he finds it politically useful to do so. [...] [D]idn't this Republic used to require Congress to pass laws? Didn't NeverTrump used to caution about the "authoritarian" Trump assuming the powers of a tyrant? And yet... they're all supportive of this, or silent about it. How To Tame a Bureaucracy? Get Rid of It. Any serious effort to end the crisis must deal with the problem of the administrative state and the bureaucratic power thereof. Without that focus, no reform effort can get anywhere. That is surely a main takeaway from the trauma of our times. The solution has to be drastic and it has to work. The reason is simple: a free and functioning society cannot coexist with an undemocratic beast like this on the loose, making its own laws and running roughshod over rights and liberties with zero oversight from elected leaders. Until the administrative state is defanged and disempowered, there will be no representative government and no hope for change. Dems' war on ex-President Donald Trump is without precedent. When you cross the Rubicon, there is no going back. Democrats are getting very close to that fateful moment. Their dream to indict Donald Trump has turned into determination, putting them on a collision course with history. No president has ever been prosecuted after leaving office, with even Richard Nixon escaping that infamy after Watergate because of how it would tear America apart. Yet day by day, the evidence shows Dems have liberated themselves from such concerns and are resolved that this time will be different. The number and fervor of their army of prosecutors reveal a contagious fever, and it often appears they are competing to be the first to file charges. Will it be Attorney General Merrick Garland, who approved the raid on Mar-a-Lago and also has a separate investigation of Trump regarding events before and after Jan. 6? Or will the first shot come from Georgia, where the Fulton County district attorney is using a special-purpose grand jury to investigate "election interference" in the state by Trump and his associates after the 2020 election? The Parasites and the Have-Nots. In communist societies, people in power act to preserve their best interest and the interests those closest to them, which screws everybody else and gives rise to a bifurcated society of "haves" and "have-nots." This happens every time socialism/communism is implemented — without exception. [...] The purest form of this in the West today is the U.S. federal government. The higher the position, the more its occupant got there as a result of enabling his superiors, benefactors, and family to siphon off as much as they could from the public till. This has been the case since World War 2, which was the event that precipitated the metastatic expansion of our federal bureaucracy. After all, who could resist or object to something that was part of the "war effort," even if that something was completely outside the range of authority of the bureaucrat who thought it up? That's how it was done then and how it's still done today — just like the "temporary expedient" of employer tax withholding, which brings home the bacon and, therefore, has been with us ever since. Think the FBI Deserves the Benefit of the Doubt? The presence of Vice President Mike Pence and then-Sen. Kamala Harris at the U.S. Capitol has been the basis for nearly 800 people being charged with at least one count of violating 18 U.S. Code, section 1752, according to Kelly, which indicates that any building or complex hosting the vice president is a restricted area and therefore closed to the public. "But the Justice Department recently was forced to admit that Harris was not in the building for most of the day on January 6," Kelly reported, highlighting that Harris, at the time, remained a U.S. senator, not vice president. In the late morning, Harris was moved to the DNC headquarters where a pipe bomb had supposedly been planted. "Prosecutors have begun amending language in court filings to reflect the fact Harris was not inside the Capitol despite making the assertion in thousands of charging documents," Kelly wrote. The Justice System Has Gone Beria. The DOJ's and FBI's recent actions have opened my eyes. American justice isn't blind. The system is rigged, no longer along racial (or religious) lines but along political ideology. The DOJ has a two-tiered justice system — one system that targets and is onerously harsh on Republicans and conservatives while being lax and protective of Democrats and liberals. This unequal justice has been in place for at least 10 years but has gotten much worse since President Trump's arrival. A recent survey (last week) by the Trafalgar Group found that 79% of Americans believe we have two tiers of justice — one system for politicians and D.C. insiders and another system for everyone else. The belief in unequal justice holds true for Democrats (67%), Republicans (88%), and Independents (77%). Unequal justice is not just in law enforcement, it's everywhere — every major institution is aligned to empower, and keep in power, the Democrat regime. The entire federal bureaucracy, media, academia, business, Big Tech, Big Pharma, and the military are fully aligned to keep Democrats in power. The Rule of Law and a Vulnerable Former President. If by rule of law we mean a principle of governance in which legal standards are clear, are duly enforced by public officials, and are validated and maintained by an impartial and timely judicial system, leading to public trust in fair legal consistency and public order, then we can say that today the rule of law no longer applies, or applies only selectively, in a constitutional republic like the U.S. or a parliamentary democracy like Canada. [...] The U.S. under the Obama and Biden administrations is likely in worse shape than its northern neighbor. The rule of law has become a figment of the political imagination, a process that has been developing over many administrations but has now reached its nadir. Those who serve or are affiliated with the political Left, that is, the Democrat party and its outriders, need never fear retribution for crimes, felonies, misdemeanors, or breaches of the Constitution, for ignoring Congressional summonses or destroying potentially incriminating evidence. Its opponents, on the other hand, have no such immunity or legal redress from arbitrary government-inspired reprisals, vendettas, and raids carried out on the flimsiest of pretexts against its own citizens. Examples abound, and no savvy individual can be unaware of them. FBI Raid Warrant Demanded Seizure Of Literally Any Record Trump Ever Saw During 4-Year Presidential Term. The FBI search warrant authorizing a government raid of former President Donald Trump's Florida residence sought an exhaustive list of any White House records the president ever came in contact with, according to the document obtained by The Federalist. Outlining the "property to be seized" by the more than 30 agents who rummaged through the former president's Mar-a-Lago mansion, the warrant demanded confiscation of any document Trump ever saw, read, or created for the entirety of his four years as commander-in-chief. "All physical documents and records constituting evidence, contraband, fruits of crime, or other items illegally possessed in violation" of federal statutes governing records possession, the warrant reads, were to be seized. Records extended to "Any government and/or Presidential Records created between January 20, 2017, and January 20, 2021." In other words, had Trump written something down on a napkin, federal officials were authorized to raid the former president's home and capture it. The Attempt to Prosecute Donald Trump Is Unleashing More Than Our Political System Can Handle. With the recent FBI raid on Donald Trump's Florida home, the Democrats and the Biden administration have raised the political stakes to a level from which this country as we have known it may never return. All one can say to those that are demanding a criminal prosecution of the former president is: Be careful what you wish for; you just might get it. Although the raid ostensibly was to see if Trump took classified documents from the White House when he left in a chaotic move in January 2021, former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy believes the Biden administration was again attempting to find that proverbial "smoking gun" tying Trump to the January 6 Capitol riot. Whether or not Attorney General Merrick Garland is able to grab the brass ring and prosecute Trump after yet one more fishing expedition is another story, although I doubt that any president has seen as many resources used to investigate him as has Donald Trump, but the Department of Justice has not filed charges yet. Understand that anyone reading this article has committed a federal crime at some point, perhaps more than once. Pelosi-Biden's Inflation Bill Passed with 35 Percent of the House Voting Remotely and the CBO Not Finished Scoring Its Impact. It was a mad rush to pass Biden's "Inflation Reduction Act" and now we know why. This act from the corrupt and now communist left is named like other bills they manufacture in that it is the opposite of what it claims. This bill will not reduce inflation and will likely add to it. The funding will occur by taxing Americans of all classes and increasing the US debt. [...] According to Redstate around 35 percent of those voting, did so remotely. But the bill charged ahead. Now you have to wonder what's really in it. Abuse of the citizenry: Is it ending or expanding? It can be validly argued that the present trend toward self-rule was already well underway in 1776, but it never culminated, as would slavery almost ninety years later. Indeed, after 1865, the idea of self-rule began, in practice, to be reversed, as the powers of the several states gave way to the ever-increasing authority of the victorious central government in Washington, D.C. That authority is now poised, and this is no exaggeration, at the brink of totalitarian control. All of this helps to explain the present: the impending climax of that historic struggle is nigh upon us. The grand experiment in self-government is facing its greatest challenge since (metaphorically speaking) the Battle of Bunker Hill. As George Washington put it, "the time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves." Our Founders recognized this struggle, and resolved it — on paper, but their solution soon began to unravel during a series of crises, including the issue of slavery. FBI, R.I.P? The FBI interferes with and warps national elections. It hires complete frauds as informants who are far worse than its targets. It humiliates or exempts government and elected officials based on their politics. It violates the civil liberties of individual American citizens. The FBI's highest officials now routinely mislead Congress. They have erased or altered court and subpoenaed evidence. They illegally leak confidential material to the media. And they have lied under oath to federal investigators. The agency has become dangerous to Americans and an existential threat to their democracy and rule of law. The FBI should be dispersing its investigatory responsibilities to other government investigative agencies that have not yet lost the public's trust. The White House has declared war on its own citizens — and, shockingly, America has never been closer to a police state. America is spiraling out of control. From the unprecedented raid on Mar-a-Lago, to the seizure of a congressman's phone, to our doddering commander-in-chief, who increasingly seems like a man who doesn't have the sense or stamina to serve out his term. And now, America is on the edge of another political nightmare. We are less than 100 days away from the election of a new Congress to run the country — while the de facto leader of the Republican base delights in stoking his supporters' darkest suspicions under the shadow of a sincerely suspect investigation. Secret Service detail blocks off handicap parking for 20 minutes while Kamala Harris' husband Doug Emhoff shops at Whole Foods in Los Angeles. The Secret Service detail protecting Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff has been spotted blocking access to handicap-designated parking outside a Whole Foods in Los Angeles. Emhoff was running errands on Wednesday in the Westside neighborhood of Brentwood when his two-vehicle motorcade blocked the accessible parking for about 20 minutes, a witness told DailyMail.com. As Emhoff did some shopping at Whole Foods, the two black Chevrolet Suburbans bearing Department of Homeland Security plates parked diagonally across a parking space designated for people with disabilities, photos of the incident show. Stop Assuming the Legitimacy of the Corrupt Establishment's Actions. [Scroll down] This was an atrocity, a disgraceful, disgusting, and dangerous escalation of the War on the Normals by our enemies designed to frame Trump and send a message to his supporters that we are second class citizens. There's no hidden, secret Trump crime that the garbage FBI and the garbage DOJ are investigating. They spent the last six years trying to frame Donald Trump, but right — this time it's for realsies! It would only be too perfect if it really was over possessing classified info, which apparently is illegal again now. Here's the truth — it's all a lie designed to make sure President Trump can never be elected again and finish what he started. I know it. You know it. They know it. But some Republicans refuse to accept it. Instead, they still fall for this nonsense, pretending that there's no way a government agency could be politicized and weaponized. The Federal Government Refuses to Listen. A mere four years from the 250th anniversary of the thirteen colonies' Declaration of Independence from Great Britain, and much of America now sees history repeating again. A tyrannical system of government that rules imperiously from its royal city walls has become every bit a threat to human liberty today as it was two and a half centuries ago. A faceless, unelected, and unaccountable administrative army makes and enforces its own rules and uses its byzantine system of regulation and taxation to intimidate ordinary Americans into compliance and submission. A nefariously partisan DOJ and FBI hunt political opponents and citizen-dissenters as enemies of the state. An independent and obscure collection of intelligence agencies use their obscene powers not to keep the United States safe from foreign attacks, but rather to keep the American people under a constant state of surveillance. With every tool for silencing public debate at its disposal, the United States government seeks to make itself impervious to the will of America's voters. Schumer Warned In 2017 The FBI Would Have 'Six Ways' Of Getting Back At Trump. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer predicted in 2017 that the intelligence community would have "six ways" to get back at former President Donald Trump after Trump pushed back against allegations of Russian interference in the election. Trump had tweeted that an intelligence briefing over Russia's alleged interference into the 2016 election had been delayed because the agency needed more time "to build a case," according to The Hill. The tweet came after authorities said Russia tried to interfere in the election. "You take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you, so even for a practical, supposedly hard-nosed businessman, he's being really dumb to do this," Schumer said to Rachel Maddow while speaking on MSNBC. The FBI And DOJ Criminalizing Opposition To The Regime Is How The Republic Ends. This is the core danger of the administrative state: Its now open propensity to go rogue. It is apparently hellbent now on turning the United States into a banana republic. Democrats called Donald Trump a fascist, authoritarian, and wannabe dictator for chants at his rallies of "Lock her up," referring to his opponent Hillary Clinton. At the time, leftists pointed out that imprisoning, interrogating, investigating, and otherwise using government resources to harass and prosecute one's political opponents was the mark of tyrannical regimes such as Vladimir Putin's and Adolf Hitler. "Democracies don't lock up political opponents," the Washington Post editorial board told us in 2016. That is still true when the ones pushing the interrogations, investigations, entrapments into committing felonies, show trials in unusual venues with no cross-examination or due process, early morning home raids, excessive detainment, and asymmetrical punishments are Democrats. Democrats are trashing republican institutions, expectations, and guarantees for political purposes, most visibly now in their Jan. 6 effort to destroy the lives of protestors largely charged with misdemeanors and to expand Spygate tactics more broadly. Steve Bannon calls to Scrap the Federal Reserve saying it has 'Usurped' the power of the people. Former Trump strategist Steve Bannon demanded the end of the Federal Reserve in a rabble-rousing speech to conservatives on Friday night, saying fat cat bankers had taken too much power[.] Instead he demanded that control of the bank be handed back to the American people and slammed the way it had freely been printing money through the pandemic. 'We don't need to audit the Fed,' said. 'We need to end the Federal Reserve. 'The Federal Reserve has usurped its power and the power of the American people and our elected representatives.' He laid down a fiery call to arms at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Dallas, Texas. Lessons from Ruby Ridge. For those too young to remember, it was thirty years ago this month that the DOJ entrapped Randy Weaver for his Christian beliefs, issued a death warrant, killed his dog, son, and wife, and shot Weaver and his friend. Surely, the DOJ doesn't just execute innocent people. Yet, as we learned at trial: ["]He had no propensity to commit crimes. Never even had a traffic ticket. Never been charged with a crime of any kind and honorably served his country.["] While living in Iowa, Weaver learned it was illegal to homeschool his children independently, so he moved his family to a cabin in remote Idaho, Ruby Ridge. Weaver attended Aryan Nation meetings three times, meeting not far from Ruby Ridge, "to exchange ideas, talk to people, I usually ended up arguing." That's where Gus Magisano befriended Weaver and tried to involve him in illicit activity. Weaver refused. But after three years of coaxing, Weaver finally agreed to make two sawed-off shotguns. Magisano was a fed. Trust the Artificial Intelligence Part One. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic broke out, faith in institutions was at an all-time low — and falling. In 2022, trust in organized religion was more than four times higher than in Congress. No branch of government was trusted by more than 50% of the public except the military, not even the police. Yet this loss in institutional trust coincided with unprecedented demands by institutions for a vast increase in power. These included the power to regulate nearly anything in the name of stopping the climate from changing; the power to redefine society by proclaiming new 'Woke' values; and the power to control mass movement and require mandatory medication to control a pandemic. Finally, institutions demanded the power to 'check facts' in any speech and 'de-platform' anyone suspected of uttering misinformation, thus insulating themselves against criticism. A Corrupt and Rigged Government. Why have so many lost faith in our government to the point that armed rebellion is being considered? Double standards, that's why. Americans see them and they're rightfully furious. They see the despicable treatment afforded President Trump, whose term in office surely seems like the good old days when compared to the turmoil Democrats have unleashed in just a year and a half at the helm. They watched the press question Trump's mental fitness and acuity while staunchly supporting the corrupt, dried-up turnip currently occupying the Oval Office. They observed the media constantly demonizing Trump's family and then totally supporting "Dr." Jill and the hapless, hopeless Biden spawn. They've seen every aspect of the Donald's financial dealings examined with a fine-tooth comb, while the Big Guy (Hunter's nickname for Crusty Joe) gets half of his crack and sex-addled son's ill-gotten millions with impunity. Presidential emergency powers are a serious problem. News is coming out that the Occupier in Chief is planning to use emergency powers to promote abortion and to implement the "Build Back Bankrupt" agenda he cannot get through Congress. The reason both of these cannot pass Congress is because there are not enough stupid people in the Senate to vote for them. Further, implementation of the Build Back Bankrupt agenda will distress the country to such a point that chaos will ensue, much like what's happened in Sri Lanka over the past months. First, let's look at emergency powers in the United States. There are 123 statutory powers that might be available to a president when he declares a national emergency. An additional thirteen would require a declaration from Congress. The most recent emergency power law is the National Emergencies Act, enacted in 1976, which ended all previous national emergencies and formalized the powers of the president. Under this law, repealing an emergency power would take two thirds of both houses of Congress. Judge Grants Request for Discovery Phase in Social Media Collusion Lawsuit Against Biden Admin. A federal court has granted a request by Missouri and Louisiana officials to obtain information and documents from top-ranking officials in the Biden administration over its alleged collusion with social media giants in an effort to censor and suppress free speech. Eric Schmitt, Missouri's Republican attorney general, announced on social media on July 13 that Terry Doughty, a judge in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, had ruled in favor of the request for the discovery process. The ruling paves the way for the attorneys general to collect documents from top-ranking Biden administration officials and social media giants. In court documents shared by Schmitt, Doughty wrote that there is "good cause" for an expedited preliminary injunction discovery. Fighting back against COVID and Climate Change tyranny. The phrase "New World Order" ("NWO") is a loaded term. For starters, the people who are pushing for a single world government prefer to call it "The Great Reset." Additionally, NWO sounds like the ultimate conspiracy theory, complete with indivisible dots, imaginary lines, and tin foil hats. And yet there's no doubt that the self-anointed elites across the world have coalesced around a single vision that involves ending fossil fuel and achieving total control over individuals to "protect" them from COVID. Still, people across the globe are pushing back and one group has a global vision of what this pushback can look like. During COVID's first two years, we learned that most First World governments happily embraced tyranny. Even in the face of mountains of evidence that the lockdowns and mask and vaccine mandates did nothing to improve the situation, governments not only didn't stop, but they also dug in deeper, systematically taking away people's rights. The Transformed United States Government. The United States in the 1950s transformed into a non-constitutional form of government, where federal departments collectively hold more authority than elected officials. The transformation broadened in the 1960s and leveled off during the 1990s. The ability to transition back to three branches of government as defined in the U.S. Constitution is the intent of the growing citizen majority today. The increasing friction among all involved parties for restoring the constitutional form of government is heating to a flashpoint by way of strife. Dwight Eisenhower cautioned against this transformation during his farewell speech with his warning of the military-industrial complex growing beyond manageability. 'Intimidate, humiliate, and embarrass': Growing outcry against DOJ strong-arming of Biden critics. The FBI and the Justice Department are violating civil liberties and using brutish tactics during politically motivated and highly publicized raids and arrests targeting critics of the Biden administration, according to legal experts. These displays of force, which some observers have claimed are unnecessary and designed to humiliate those arrested and intimidate others, appear to have at least one thing in common: the person of interest supported former President Donald Trump. "Law enforcement seems to be using arrest tactics on Trump supporters that are generally reserved for violent and/or fleeing suspects," said Alan Dershowitz, professor emeritus at Harvard Law School. "They do not seem justified in many of these cases." The most recent case occurred late last month, when federal agents searched the Virginia home of former Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Clark, surprising the one-time Trump administration official in the morning. 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
questions quite difficult:
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, [...] 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... 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 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. 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!" 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. 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 — mainl |
