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Media Tries to Report on Salman Rushdie Stabbing Without Mentioning ‘Islam’

By Jihad Watch

Author Salman Rushdie, who was forced to spend a chunk of his life in hiding because his book, The Satanic Verses, offended Islamic religious authorities in Iran who imposed a murder fatwa on him, was stabbed in the neck and had to be airlifted to a hospital when he was attacked on stage.

 Author Salman Rushdie, being stabbed at an event in New York State on Friday, suffered “10 to 15” blows in the attack, eyewitnesses said. One of them said she thought it was “a stunt” at first.

“This guy ran on to platform and started pounding on Mr Rushdie,” said Rabbi Charles Savenor, who was in the audience for the lecture at Chautauqua Institution, about 100 km from the city.

A reporter from AP said the attacker “punched or stabbed Mr Rushdie 10 to 15 times”.

“At first you’re like, ‘What’s going on?’ And then it became abundantly clear in a few seconds that he was being beaten,” Mr Savenor told the news agency. He said the attack lasted about 20 seconds.

The media, at least in this country, has wrapped itself in knots to avoid using the “I” word.

Back when Rushdie wrote The Satanic Verses, it was controversial. Today, any kind of criticism of Mohammed is considered hate speech and censored to such a degree that the media would not even report what an Indian elected official said about Mohammed’s pedophilic tendencies, only to denounce it as hurtful and hateful to Muslims.

Today, a new author could never publish something like that. And the media is uncomfortable even discussing what it is that Rushdie wrote.

The various condemnations likewise don’t mention Islam, Islamic terrorism or any beyond generic concepts like “freedom of expression.”

Long before this attack, the sharia censorship that Iran wanted to impose on Americans had already been achieved.

AUTHOR

DANIEL GREENFIELD

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JK Rowling Gets Islamic DEATH THREAT Warning Her ‘You Are Next’ After Rushdie Is Stabbed and Mutilated

By The Geller Report

And still the media and the information police censors, protects the motive – Islam.

The would-be killer posts to Twitter while I am banned.

They’ve won.

  • British author JK Rowling has received a death threat from an Islamist based in Pakistan
  • Harry Potter writer said on Twitter: ‘Horrifying news. Feeling very sick right now. Let him be ok’
  • She received the chilling reply from Pakistani extremist: ‘Don’t worry you are next’
  • Rowling, 57, has been pilloried in public ever since she objected to the term ‘people who menstruate’
  • Sir Salman, 75, is on a ventilator after he was stabbed multiple times by ‘Iran sympathiser’

By Jack Wright For Mailonline, 13 August 2022:

British author JK Rowling has received a vile death threat from an Iran-backing Islamist extremist who appears to have praised Salman Rushdie’s attacker, repeatedly expressed support for Tehran’s theocratic dictator, and branded Israel, Ukraine and India ‘terrorist states’.

The Harry Potter writer and free speech campaigner – who has been pilloried by trans activists for her beliefs on gender – had expressed her horror at the sickening attempt on Rushdie’s life in upstate New York when she was issued the chilling threat on Twitter.

Meer Asif Aziz, who describes himself on Twitter as a ‘student, social activist, political activist and research activist’ based in Karachi, has made tasteless ‘jokes’ about how to destroy Israel and branded it and Putin-savaged Ukraine – as well as Pakistan’s chief geopolitical rival India – ‘terrorist states’.

Aziz also appears to support the Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who frequently rants about Israel in deranged, genocidal tweets. In one of Khamenei’s posts about the ‘oppressive Yazidis’, for instance, Aziz responded with a heart emoji.

And responding to another tweet from the Iranian dictator, Aziz gushed : ‘Dear leader your struggle for Islamic world will not be wasted until we young generation are with you’.

Rowling, 57, had posted last night about Rushdie’s stabbing: ‘Horrifying news. Feeling very sick right now. Let him be ok’.

Aziz, who had described Rushdie’s attacker Hadi Matar, 24, as a ‘revolutionary Shia fighter’, then threatened: ‘Don’t worry you are next’.

In a bid to get Aziz booted off Twitter, Rowling this afternoon posted: ‘@TwitterSupport any chance of some support?’. Critics have accused the social media giant of ‘double standards’ over which accounts it chooses to kick off the site. Twitter dramatically chose to shut down Donald Trump’s account after the invasion of the US Capitol by a mob wearing MAGA caps following the 2020 election – dubbed January 6 – but still allows Khamenei to make threats against Israel.

Rowling also confirmed that police are involved, telling her followers: ‘To all sending supportive messages: thank you. Police are involved (were already involved on other threats).’

MailOnline has contacted Twitter for comment.

Rowling and horror writer Stephen King are among the authors and notable faces voicing their disbelief after Rushdie, 75, was stabbed up to 15 times – including once in the neck – in upstate New York at a lecture about free speech.

The Indian-born British author, whose writing led to unprecedented death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was to deliver a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution when the incident occurred, leaving him with an apparent stab wound to the neck.

It comes as:

US law enforcement charged Rushdie’s attacker with attempted murder in the second degree. He has been transported to Chautauqua County Jail and will be arraigned later today. American officials have said that initial enquiries suggested the suspected knifeman was sympathetic to the Iranian regime;

Rushdie’s agent said that the author would likely lose one eye and has suffered damage to nerves in one of his arms and his liver;

Iranian state media gleefully praised Sir Salman’s attacker and branded the author an ‘apostate’ and ‘heretic-writer’;

Boris Johnson and Emmanuel Macron led condemnation of the attack, with the French President branding it an assault on liberty and saying: ‘His fight is our fight’.

EDITORS NOTE: This Geller Report is republished with permission. ©All rights reserved.

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VIDEO: Biden Responsible for FBI Raid on Trump Home–Was It Illegal?

By Judicial Watch

DOJ Unseals Mar-a-Lago Search Warrant

The warrant that authorized the search of former President Donald Trump’s residence at Mar-a-Lago was released today following our court filing seeking release of all FBI warrant materials.

We’re pleased that our legal pressure forced the partial release of warrant materials about the Biden administration’s political raid on the home of former President Trump. We expect and demand the underlying warrant affidavit and other materials be immediately disclosed.

On August 9, we filed a motion asking the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida to unseal as soon as possible the search warrant materials used by the FBI to raid the Florida home (U.S. v. Sealed Search Warrant (No. 9:22-mj-08332)).

The Justice Department agreed that the warrant should be released in its filing:

The government hereby requests that the Court unseal the Notice of Filing and its attachment (Docket Entry 17), absent objection by former President Trump. The attachment to that Notice consists of:

  • The search warrant signed and approved by the Court on August 5, 2022, including Attachments A and B; and
  • The redacted Property Receipt listing items seized pursuant to the search, filed with the Court on August 11, 2022

The press and the public enjoy a qualified right of access to criminal and judicial proceedings and the judicial records filed therein.

Our legal pressure forced an important first step by the Biden Justice Department to disclose Attorney General Garland’s role in the abusive Trump raid.

Initially, the Albany Times Union and the New York Times joined us in filing for the unsealing of the warrant by filing an amicus letter and motion respectively. Other interests later joined in the effort.

Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart had ordered the U.S. Department of Justice to file a response to Judicial Watch’s Motion to Unseal the warrant and supporting materials behind the FBI raid of President Donald Trump’s home in Mar-a-Lago by 5p.m. on August 15, 2022.

Due to multiple organizations filing to unseal the warrant, Judge Reinhart ordered that, “To avoid the need for individualized orders on any future motion(s) to unseal, it is ORDERED that the Government shall file an omnibus response to all motions to unseal …”

Yesterday, President Trump issued a public statement “ENCOURAGING the immediate release of those documents.”

Our August 9 motion stated:

Judicial Watch is investigating the potential politicization of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Department of Justice and whether the FBI and the Justice Department are abusing their law enforcement powers to harass a likely future political opponent of President Biden.

[ … ]

The public has an urgent and substantial interest in understanding the predicate for the execution of the unprecedented search warrant of the private residence of a former president and likely future political opponent…. [N]o official explanation or information has been released about the search. As of the filing of this motion, the public record consists solely of speculation and inuendo. In short, the historical presumption of access to warrant materials vastly outweighs any interest the government may have in keeping the materials under seal.

[ … ]

Given the political context, and the highly unusual action of executing a search warrant at the residence of a former President and likely future political opponent, it is essential that the public understands as soon as possible the basis for the government’s action. Any government interest in securing the identities of witnesses and confidential sources, if any, may be addressed by appropriate redactions from the search warrant affidavit.

The U.S. Constitution and federal law give unreviewable authority to President Trump to take whatever records he wishes at the end of his presidency. The Biden administration’s dishonest depiction of personal records of President Trump it illicitly seized during the raid as “classified” is further demonstration that the raid was a brazen act of raw political abuse.

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Donald J. Trump: American Hero, Martyr, Crusader for Truth, Justice and The American People

By Dr. Rich Swier

“What truly matters is not which party controls our government, but whether our government is controlled by the people. January 20th, 2017 will be remembered as the day the people became the rulers of this nation again. The forgotten men and women of our country, will be forgotten no longer. Everyone is listening to you now.” — President Donald J. Trump, Inaugural Address, January 20, 2017 in Washington, D.C.


It is ironic that August 15th, 2022 is the 926th anniversary of the 1st Crusade. It is ironic because for the first time in American history one man, and his family, have been relentlessly targeted by so many because of his absolute belief that power must rest in the hands of the people rather than in government. A man who believes in equal justice under the law. A man who believes that America has a legacy and destiny to be the beacon of freedom and liberty globally. That the American working class is much more worthy than members of the political and bureaucrat classes. A man who believes that God not government is supreme.

The proof of the danger of his beliefs to the political and bureaucrat ruling classes culminated in a direct attack on his home by the FBI on August 8th, 2022.

Instead of the FBI raiding the offices of the Department of Justice and retrieving Ghislaine Maxwell’s black book, Hunter Biden’s laptop and Hillary Clinton’s e-mails they went instead to Mar-a-Lago on orders from the White House. The DOJ  and FBI ignore over 570 BLM and Antifa riots, fentanyl coming across our Southern border, Chinese spying and the growing threat of drug cartels taking over entire communities.

This FBI raid is a classic case of political deflection, used when politicians come under fire for failing to deliver what they promised or enforcing the rule of law. Political deflection is a way of taking attention away from the growing number of failed policies of the political and bureaucratic elites since January 20th, 2021.

August 8th, 2022 will be remembered as the day government became the enemy of we the people.

This no longer is about one party versus another party. This is about a fight between tyranny and patriots. It is a Second American Revolution and its leader is Donald J. Trump and those who stand with him to keep the light upon the hill lit bright.

Time to Enforce The American Declaration of Independence

The American Declaration of Independence states,

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

The federal government has become destructive. Therefore it is the duty of lawabiding Americans to alter or to abolish it.

There are two ways to do this. The first is at the ballot box. However, the American people are now understanding that even the ballot box is untrustworthy and subject to fraud and manipulation. A recent report exposed that Democratic operatives are now in control of the voter rolls in 31 states.

If the American people see that their votes are being manipulated, not recorded or ballot boxes stuffed as they were in the 2020 election, e.g. 2000 Mules, then option two may come into play.

Option two is to go to the streets and begin the process of taking back the government from the bureaucrats. In others words massive but peaceful protests, like J6-21 redux, not only in Washington, D.C. but all across America.

The Corrupt Federal Autocracy

During the 2016 presidential election cycle to today we have seen the corrupt “federal autocracy” as the keys to taking down those who pose a threat to their power.

To understand watch Mark Levin’s reaction to the Trump raid ‘cover-up’ search warrant.

It began with Russiagate lead by the FBI and paid for by Clinton campaign. Then it became efforts to impeach President Trump using false documents created with the help of foreign entities and the Clintons to discredit the election. This morphed into a four year onslaught against President Trump and his policies. The fake quid-pro-quo allegations lead to further investigations and efforts to impeach Donald J. Trump.

After the tainted results of the 2020 presidential election it wasn’t enough to go after President Trump, the focus shifted to those who support him and all those who speak truth to power. From parents who raised questions about what their children are being taught is public schools at board meeting being designated as “domestic terrorists” buy the DOJ to the persecution of those who attended the January 6th D.C. rally to even those who support finding out the truth of what happened to Ashley Babbitt. The attacks have become constant and relentless. So relentless that Governor Ron DeSantis labeling what happened after the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago as a actions reminiscent of a “banana republic.”

America is at a tipping point. Our Constitutional Republic is under siege by the federal autocracy.

As English historian Lord Acton in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton wrote, “Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

We have reached the point where the federal autocracy had now gained nearly absolute power.

The only man who stands in the way of the federal autocracy is President Donald J. Trump.

President Trump is not the kind of man to take this sitting down. He has and will continue to put himself out in the public square. He will continue to be a beacon of power to the people.

Donald J. Trump truly is an American hero, martyr, Crusader for truth, justice and the American people.

If the federal autocracy is successful in its efforts to discredit him and we the people then we the people are next in line for purging.

This reminded us of the events of August 12th, 1952 Night of the Murdered Poets by Joseph Stalin. Lawrence W. Reed, Foundation for Economic Education President Emeritus and Humphreys Family Senior Fellow, reported,

Beginning in 1948, JAC [Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee] leaders and activists were targeted for arrest, and worse. Mikhoels was killed in a hit-and-run car “accident” on Stalin’s orders, Soviet archives revealed years later. The others were subjected to torture and brutal interrogations and ultimately charged with “counterrevolutionary crimes.” This went on for years before 15 survivors were hauled into court in May and June 1952.

The so-called “trial” lasted six weeks. It was a farce from the start, its outcome pre-determined. Authors Rubenstein, Naumov and Wolfson in their book, Stalin’s Secret Pogrom, described it as “nothing less than terror masquerading as law.” The Jewish defendants—most of whom were poets and literary figures for whom the JAC was a cause, not a full-time profession—were denied defense attorneys. Even the presiding military judge, Alexander Cheptsov, complained about the dearth of evidence but he was overruled by the higher-ups in the Communist power structure. All were found guilty. The rule of law was trampled by the law of the ruler.

During the night of August 12-13, 1952, thirteen of the prisoners were executed in Moscow’s notorious Lubyanka Prison. Another escaped death only because he collapsed, fell into a coma, and died months later. The 15th, a noted biochemist named Lina Stern, was regarded as too vital “to the State” so she got off with just 3-1/2 years in prison followed by five years in exile in Kazakhstan.

Today Trump and his followers are the new anti-Fascists. It’s Trump followers who are being held in prisons and tried on charges of treason and insurrection. They are the new patriot leaders speaking truth to the power of the federal autocracy. They are the new martyrs who have been persecuted for years now. History is repeating itself. The federal autocracy is no different than Stalin’s KGB or the East German Stasi.

The 2022 midterm elections will become the straw that could very well break the proverbial camel’s back. If Congress remains in the hands of those in the federal autocracy and its allies then Katie bar the door.

Gird your loins. It’s going to be a rough ride.

Dr. Rich Swier. All rights reserved.

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President Trump denies possession of nuclear documents, suggests FBI planted Washington Post story

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NUCLEAR HOAX: President Trump denies possession of nuclear documents, suggests FBI planted Washington Post story

By The Geller Report

Add another hoax, lies, smear et al to the rogue regime’s litany of political persecution of one of America’s greatest president.

Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America pic.twitter.com/eoM5Qbh3B5

— RSBN 🇺🇸 (@RSBNetwork) August 12, 2022

Trump denies possession of nuclear documents, suggests FBI planted Washington Post story

In a Friday morning Truth Social post, Trump denied reports that there was any classified information pertaining to nuclear weapons at Mar-a-Lago.

By: Just The News, August 12, 2022:

Former President Donald Trump on Friday pointedly denied still possessing classified documents about nuclear weapons after a Washington Post article suggested that was what FBI agents were searching for in his home. He compared the article to leaks during the 2016 election of the now-discredited Steele dossier.

Trump wrote on his social media app Truth Social, “Nuclear weapons issue is a Hoax, just like Russia, Russia, Russia was a Hoax, two Impeachments were a Hoax, the Mueller investigation was a Hoax, and much more.”

“Same sleazy people involved,” he added, referring to some of the top appointees at the DOJ and FBI. “Why wouldn’t the FBI allow the inspection of areas at Mar-a-Lago with our lawyer’s [sic], or others present. Made them wait outside in the heat, wouldn’t let them get even close — said ‘ABSOLUTELY NOT.’”

Trump further suggested that information may have been leaked to the media in order to portray him in a negative light following the raid.

“Planting information anyone? Reminds me of a Christofer [sic] Steele Dossier!” wrote Trump, referring to the debunked opposition research report that alleged collusion between Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and the Russian government.

On Thursday evening, the Washington Post reported that the FBI descended on Mar-a-Lago and rifled through the Trump’s private home for hours to find documents potentially pertaining to nuclear weapons. Sources did not tell the Post “what type of information the agents were seeking,” nor if any documents were recovered.

Also on Thursday, Attorney General Merrick Garland delivered a short statement, in which he confirmed that he had personally approved the search warrant of the Trump property and is currently working to unseal the warrant.

AUTHOR

Pamela Geller

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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis: FBI Raid on Mar-a-Lago like that of a ‘Banana Republic’

By Royal A. Brown III

Governor Ron DeSantis sent out the following statement on the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago:

The FBI’s raid of Mar-a-Lago is yet another escalation in the weaponization of federal agencies against the Regime’s political opponents, while people like Hunter Biden get treated with kid gloves. Why didn’t the FBI ever raid Hillary Clinton’s house after she laundered classified information through a private server and then deleted 30,000 emails that were under subpoena?

The federal Regime is targeting those it dislikes for disfavored treatment. They are demanding we get in line or face the consequences.

Now, the Regime is getting another 87,000 IRS agents to wield against its adversaries. With this addition, the agency is now larger than the Pentagon, State Department, FBI, and Border Patrol combined, and BILLIONS of dollars are now being directed to fund these new hires. Democrats are not simply expanding an agency. They are growing their army of Biden Regime soldiers standing ready to execute any order by the D.C. Swamp.

The fact that the Left is turning taxpayer-funded government agencies into extensions of the Democrat Machine to do their political bidding right before our eyes should be alarming to every American. These are not actions indicative of leaders in a free republic. This mirrors a Banana Republic.

As your Governor, I have always been clear that the power belongs to the People — not politicians. This blatant overreach by the federal government is an attack on our democracy and the American people.

It is past time that elected representatives in Washington, D.C. stand up against this abuse of power by using the constitutional power of Congress to hold these agencies accountable. For too long these agencies have been on autopilot with no accountability. Let’s make sure they stand up for our rights. No excuses! – Stand with me

Sincerely,

Ron DeSantis

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Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America pic.twitter.com/eoM5Qbh3B5

— RSBN 🇺🇸 (@RSBNetwork) August 12, 2022

The raid of MAL is another escalation in the weaponization of federal agencies against the Regime’s political opponents, while people like Hunter Biden get treated with kid gloves. Now the Regime is getting another 87k IRS agents to wield against its adversaries? Banana Republic.

— Ron DeSantis (@RonDeSantisFL) August 9, 2022

After todays raid on Mar A Lago what do you think the left plans to use those 87,000 new IRS agents for?

— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) August 9, 2022

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Everything ‘Demolition Man’ Got Right about the 21st Century—so Far

By Foundation for Economic Education (FEE)

The 1993 film Demolition Man saw some parts of our future clearly—and reminds us there are many shades of dystopia.


I haven’t thought about the movie Demolition Man in a long time, but this changed recently when it was brought to my attention that the film is now nearly 30 years old.

Made by filmmaker Marco Brambilla in his directorial debut, Demolition Man is one of those movies that manages to be simultaneously campy and ingenious. Featuring a star-studded lineup that included Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes, and Sandra Bullock—not to mention up-and-comers like Denis Leary and Benjamin Bratt, as well as stage actor Nigel Hawthorne and the guy who played the warden in Shawshank Redemption (Bob Gunton)—the movie was a hit, raking in $159 million worldwide.

The movie has a delicious if ludicrous plot. Stallone plays John Spartan, a Dirty Harry-style police officer whose life takes a sudden turn when his attempt to rescue a bunch of hostages goes awry. When all the hostages are found dead following an explosion, Spartan, along with the criminal he was trying to stop, Simon Phoenix (Snipes), is sentenced to be cryogenically frozen.

Both Spartan and Phoenix are unthawed in 2032—36 years after being frozen—in a world that looks much different.

I had to rewatch Demolition Man after the release of an Out of Frame short that explored all the ways Demolition Man predicted the future. The movie was even campier than I remembered, but I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t also impressed by just how much of our future Demolition Man got right.

Self-driving electric cars? Check.

Humans using computers to increase their self esteem? Check.

Zoom meetings? Check.

Arnold Schwarzenegger’s entry into politics? Check.

Attention spans the length of goldfish? Check.

Voice-activated search in homes? Check.

Digital currency? Check.

Tablets? Check.

Portable phones that access the internet? Check.

Anti-smoking laws, language police, germaphobia, and gun control? Check. Check. Check. Check.

This list is by no means exhaustive, mind you. And as impressive as it is, the list doesn’t include what is in my opinion the most prophetic (and best) part of Demolition Man: Edgard Friendly’s soliloquy on why he’s living as a criminal underground (literally in the ground) rather than on the surface.

Friendly (portrayed by Leary), explains to Spartan why he’s viewed as the enemy by Dr. Raymond Cocteau, one of the creators of the CryoPrison and an architect of the paternalistic society.

See, according to Cocteau’s plan, I’m the enemy. Cause I like to think, I like to read. I’m into freedom of speech and freedom of choice. I’m the kind of guy who wants to sit in a greasy spoon and think, “Gee, should I have the T-bone steak or the jumbo rack of barbecued ribs with the side order of gravy fries?” I want high cholesterol. I want to eat bacon, butter and buckets of cheese, okay? I want to smoke a Cuban cigar the size of Cincinnati in a non-smoking section. I wanna run through the streets naked with green Jell-O all over my body reading Playboy magazine. Why? Because I suddenly might feel the need to. Okay, pal? I’ve seen the future, you know what it is? It’s a 47-year-old virgin sittin’ around in his beige pajamas, drinking a banana-broccoli shake singing “I’m an Oscar-Meyer Wiener”.

Friendly, Spartan discovers, isn’t a master criminal. He just wants to think for himself, live as he wishes, and be left alone—and that’s something he can’t do on the surface.

“You wanna live on top, you gotta live Cocteau’s way. What he wants, when he wants, how he wants,” he explains. “Your other choice: come down here, maybe starve to death.”

Friendly’s speech invites an important question: If dystopia arrives, what will it look like?

Oftentimes dystopia is depicted as malevolent and totalitarian, like in Orwell’s Nineteen-Eighty Four. Sometimes it’s a desolate wasteland of violence, like in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road or Mad Max. But sometimes, like in Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World, on which Demolition Man is very loosely based, dystopia is soft, prosperous, and caring—but just as sinister.

The Christian philosopher C.S. Lewis once wrote that of all the tyrannies on earth, none was as oppressive as that which was exercised for the benefit of its victims.

“It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies,” Lewis observed. “The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”

This was the tyranny Edgard Friendly couldn’t stomach. It wasn’t Big Brother that drove Edgar Friendly underground, it was something closer to the Nanny State.

And if we’re being honest, many of Friendly’s grievances speak to our world today. When he says he’s the kind of guy “who wants to sit in a greasy spoon and think, ‘Gee, should I have the T-bone steak or the jumbo rack of barbecued ribs,’” I don’t think he was referring to the synthetic beef Bill Gates wants to shift the world to to save the planet.

When Friendly talks about free speech, it’s hard not to think about the growing hostility to free expression on social media, university campuses, and in corporate workplaces. When he says he’s into freedom of choice, the last two years of the pandemic loom large, as the Cocteaus in our world made decisions for billions of people. Wear the mask. Stay home. Get the shot. And do not complain or protest; because we’re all in this together.

Demolition Man is a reminder that there are many shades of dystopia. It’s not always about the stuff you have or don’t have. It’s much more about freedom. And if, like Edgard Friendly, you’re living in a place that wants to use coercion to control what you say, think, and eat, you might be living in a dystopia without even knowing it.

AUTHOR

Jon Miltimore

Jonathan Miltimore is the Managing Editor of FEE.org. His writing/reporting has been the subject of articles in TIME magazine, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Forbes, Fox News, and the Star Tribune. Bylines: Newsweek, The Washington Times, MSN.com, The Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller, The Federalist, the Epoch Times.

EDITORS NOTE: This FEE column is republished with permission. ©All rights reserved.

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Judge Orders DOJ to Respond to Judicial Watch’s Motion to Unseal Mar-a-Lago Search Warrant Materials by 5p.m. EST on August 15

By Judicial Watch

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart has ordered the U.S. Department of Justice to file a response to Judicial Watch’s Motion to Unseal the warrant and supporting materials behind the FBI raid of President Donald Trump’s home in Mar-a-Lago by 5p.m. on August 15, 2022.

The order notes that, “The response may be filed ex parte and under seal as necessary to avoid disclosing matters already under seal. In that event, the Government shall file a redacted Response in the public record.”

On August 9, Judicial Watch filed its motion asking the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida to unseal as soon as possible the search warrant materials used by the FBI to raid President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in Florida (U.S. v. Sealed Search Warrant (Case No. 9:22-mj-08332)).

The Albany Times Union and the New York Times have joined Judicial Watch in filing for the unsealing of the warrant by filing an amicus letter and motion respectively.

Due to multiple organizations filing to unseal the warrant, Judge Reinhart further ordered that, “To avoid the need for individualized orders on any future motion(s) to unseal, it is ORDERED that the Government shall file an omnibus response to all motions to unseal on or before 5:00 p.m. Eastern time on August 15, 2022.”

According to media reports, the warrant relates to an alleged dispute over the Presidential Records Act.

In its motion Judicial Watch states:

Judicial Watch is investigating the potential politicization of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Department of Justice and whether the FBI and the Justice Department are abusing their law enforcement powers to harass a likely future political opponent of President Biden.

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The public has an urgent and substantial interest in understanding the predicate for the execution of the unprecedented search warrant of the private residence of a former president and likely future political opponent…. [N]o official explanation or information has been released about the search. As of the filing of this motion, the public record consists solely of speculation and inuendo. In short, the historical presumption of access to warrant materials vastly outweighs any interest the government may have in keeping the materials under seal.

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Given the political context, and the highly unusual action of executing a search warrant at the residence of a former President and likely future political opponent, it is essential that the public understands as soon as possible the basis for the government’s action. Any government interest in securing the identities of witnesses and confidential sources, if any, may be addressed by appropriate redactions from the search warrant affidavit.

As Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said when the motion was filed, “The Biden administration’s raid on President Trump’s home is an outrageous, reckless and unprecedented abuse of power. And the American people have an urgent right to know how it happened and who is responsible.”

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‘You know a nation is in trouble when its security services are raiding the residence of a former president’

By Judicial Watch

Banana Republic U.S.A.

The Mar-a-Lago raid is a dangerous moment for America

by Tom Slater, Spiked, August 11, 2022

You know a nation is in trouble when its security services are raiding the residence of a former president. Doubly so when said nation’s supposedly liberal intelligentsia seem tickled pink about this unprecedented development, without a whiff of concern or scepticism about what the feds are up to. That’s where the United States is at the moment, in the wake of the FBI’s search of former president Donald Trump ’s Mar-a-Lago home in Florida on Monday, reportedly over a dispute about missing official documents.

There’s still much we don’t know about this bizarrely explosive dispute between Trump and the National Archives. But what we do know is puzzling, to put it lightly. According to the New York Times, officials had been after Trump for months over official and potentially classified materials he still had in his possession. After archivists retrieved 15 boxes of documents, including some sensitive material, the US Department of Justice was called in. A grand jury was convened. Federal investigators, including counterintelligence officers, were deployed. And, unsatisfied with what had been retrieved, officers then secured a search warrant.

Why this couldn’t have been handled in a somewhat more discrete fashion, without armed agents and everything, is not yet clear. Think back to Hillary Clinton’s notorious email server and you see allegations like this are not unprecedented, but this raid certainly is. Former spooks on liberal cable-news networks have reassured Americans that everything must have been on the up and up, because the raid would have required the sign-off of a judge, FBI head Christopher Wray and attorney general Merrick Garland. ‘They wouldn’t do this unless they had the goods’ is the line being trotted out across corporate media.

To at least half of America, of course, this is about as reassuring as Joe Biden insisting he remembers where he parked the car. As left-wing journalist Matt Taibbi notes, similar reassurances were offered over and over again during the ludicrous Russiagate scandal, to justify official investigations, insane claims and even the surveillance of Trump advisers. In the end, of course, the idea that Trump was Putin’s puppet turned out to be an elite conspiracy theory. Still, the FBI and its newfound liberal cheerleaders are now hoping to rely on a level of blind public trust that no longer exists, if it ever existed at all….

AUTHOR

ROBERT SPENCER

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For the rule of law to reign, the Bureau must be destroyed

By Center For Security Policy

The FBI cannot be saved. It must be rendered into component parts and distributed to the four winds.


From the time I was 7-years-old until I was about 20, I was in love with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. In second grade, while other kids wanted to be firemen, I wanted to be a special agent (and I could have told you what one was, what they did, and what the requirements were to become one). In the early 1990s, my favorite show was “FBI: The Untold Stories,” and if we were not home from Cub Scouts in time for it to air, there was a tantrum on the way. I did a book report on a J. Edgar Hoover biography in middle school.

My zeal mellowed as I grew older but never entirely disappeared. As I began my career looking at counterterrorism policy, I meticulously studied the FBI’s extensive investigation of the Holy Land Foundation, the largest Islamic charity in the country, which was successfully convicted of financing the terror group Hamas after more than a decade of FBI investigation (I’ve written two short monographs about aspects of the case).

Later I had the pleasure of providing a three-hour briefing on the ideology of Islamist terrorists for an FBI-led group of Joint Terrorism Task Forces (JTTF) agents, which included one of the agents who worked the Holy Land Foundation case. Several of my colleagues have signed certifications from the FBI in recognition of their work in counterterrorism education.

I say all this to establish that I am not some dyed-in-the-wool civil libertarian who has always had it in for federal law enforcement. I have spent most of my adult life trying to educate people about the serious national security threats this country faces. The United States has very real enemies, both foreign and domestic, and it requires defending.

Nevertheless, the FBI must be abolished.

The solution to the abuses we now endure is not just to subject the FBI to another fruitless inspector general investigation but to dismantle it completely. The bureau cannot be the focus of yet another congressional hearing. FBI Director Christopher Wray, like his predecessors, is more than happy to sit smirking while a handful of grandstanding congressmen and senators pound the table and yell on C-SPAN. Then he’ll jet off for a holiday vacation on a taxpayer-funded private jet while the same congressmen vote to increase his budget. Again.

No, the FBI must be rendered into component parts and distributed to the four winds.

The bureau has always had its problems and its detractors. Since the days of J. Edgar Hoover keeping his own “private” files on elected politicians and famous persons, the FBI has had a political streak. As an agency it has always been savvy about its reputation, bureaucratically out-dueling federal departments that sought to infringe on the bureau’s perceived preeminence in the fields of federal law enforcement and counterintelligence. But most of the FBI’s politicization had to do with maintaining its own administrative superiority and independence, not serving as muscle for a particular political party.

That’s no longer the case.

The FBI’s actions over the past six years make perfectly clear that the FBI is more than willing to serve as the enforcement arm of the Democratic Party. It serves as its patron’s shield in matters large and small. It exonerated Hillary Clinton for her illicit server. It raided James O’Keefe and Project Veritas when Joe Biden’s daughter lost her diary. It eliminated investigation into Black Lives Matter and other black identity extremists because those pursuits annoyed the Democrats’ Congressional Black Caucus. It refuses even to utter the word “Antifa” while churches and pregnancy centers are fire-bombed. It continues to cover up for Hunter Biden’s corrupt dealings with enemy nations, along with his indulgence in criminal prostitution and drug abuse.

But the FBI has also served as the Democrats’ sword as well. It knowingly laundered the Russian collusion hoax, lying in order to secure FISA warrants. It ambushed the president’s sitting national security advisor in a nonsense perjury trap. The FBI hunts down January 6 protesters while dodging congressional inquiries about the role of federal agents in provoking the incident. The FBI ginned up a fake kidnapping plot in Michigan to instill fear of right-wing terrorism, manhandled the former president’s lawyer, and shackled one of his former high-level aides.

And it has now raided the former president’s home under a mere pretext, while the Democrats openly crow on cable news about using a political prosecution to prevent Trump from ever again being able to serve in office.

Other attempts to rein in the FBI short of its abolition have failed. The FBI shows nothing but contempt for those authorized to oversee it. It routinely ignores inspector general investigations. It fails to prosecute or punish those who overtly violate established policies. It refuses to answer legitimate questions from Republican committee members. It doesn’t even respond to congressional letters of inquiry. It punishes FBI whistleblowers and seeks to purge from its midst those agents who aren’t in lockstep with its new praetorian guard role.

Break It Up Responsibly

Assuming the political will existed to do so, how might the FBI be dismembered in a way that would not expose the country to unnecessary security risks?

Begin by separating out the FBI’s component parts. The FBI’s crime lab, statistical services, and National Crime Information Center service could be pulled out and left as independent agencies with the sole job of supporting other federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies with their scientific and data capabilities.

Parcel out the FBI’s criminal justice division and its tasks to the various state-level bureaus of investigation. Provide direct federal funding to compensate for the extra workload. Let them primarily make state-level cases, in state court, for the crimes committed within the physical boundaries of their states. It’s not as though kidnapping, bank robbery, drug dealing, or racketeering went unpunished before the FBI came along. White collar, financial, and cybercrimes can be handled by the U.S. Secret Service. Federal crimes whose perpetrators directly cross state lines can be given to the U.S. Marshals Service to track down. Unlike the FBI, the U.S. Marshals are largely scandal-free, and have a long history of cooperating successfully with state and local law enforcement.

For the disgraced national security division, divide up the FBI’s counterterrorism portfolio among the remaining federal law enforcement and homeland security agencies with a role to play, and the various state and regional JTTFs.

Who Has the Stomach for This Work?

The FBI’s stranglehold on counterintelligence is perhaps the most important to break. It is within this division that the FBI spied on the Trump campaign at the behest of the Democratic Party.

Even before it willingly embraced the role of partisan opposition researcher, FBI counterintelligence had few memorable successes (Anna Chapman and Operation Ghost Stories being a recent one) but multiple crushing failures, the most notable of which was Robert Hanssen. The struggle to conduct professional counterintelligence has always been driven by a tension between the FBI’s responsibility as a law enforcement agency with the intent and the authority to jail citizens for crimes, and the practice of counterintelligence, a discipline that requires strategic patience and analysis.

The FBI’s responsibility for counterintelligence should be taken away and vested in the National Counterintelligence Executive (NCIX). Its mandate should not be targeting American citizens (especially elected officials!), but rather policing the intelligence services themselves, rooting out evidence of foreign penetration within their ranks, exploiting and manipulating foreign intelligence services for American national security interests. They do not need law enforcement powers or wide-ranging FISA Court warrants for this job.

Admittedly, a GOP-majority Congress may not have the stomach for even the lightest pushback against the bureau. Expect even the promise of ineffectual hearings to fade as soon as the midterm elections are over. After all, few congressmen are as popular with their voters as Donald Trump is with his base, and if the FBI can slander and investigate a sitting president, what couldn’t it do to a freshman congressman?

But imagine how the walls of the deep state might begin to show cracks were Congress to hold fast and declare at the outset, one way or the other, the FBI is finished, with no quarter given. Then you might see bureaucrats looking for soft landings, crawling out of the woodwork with tales about FBI bad behavior and who to hold responsible. You might have a few good apples stand up and speak out if they knew with certainty that their superiors would no longer hold the keys to some future employment. Indeed, there may be any number of agents in far-flung field offices across the country who might rejoice to see themselves rehired by another law enforcement agency that actually cares about enforcing the law. But the FBI itself, as an institution, cannot be saved.

To save the rule of law, the bureau must be destroyed.

Originally published by American Greatness

AUTHOR

Kyle Shideler

Director and Senior Analyst for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism.

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Republicans Are Violent and I’m the Tooth Fairy

By The Daily Skirmish – Liberato.US

“Social media platforms lit up with right-wing speculation, militant rhetoric and political fundraising after former President Donald Trump announced that his Mar-a-Lago home had been searched by the FBI.”  This is how NPR frames the issue and is conditioning you to think about the raid on Mar-a-Lago.  And their evidence for such a grand conclusion?

Subjective conclusory declarations, like this one: “It’s been a lot of very hot talk and sometimes quite violent sounding.”

Then an immediate change of subject, a detour to social media posts after the 2020 elections.

Then an assertion “elected officials and high-profile media personalities” are using civil war language without giving a single piece of documentation.

Then resort to mischaracterizing reaction to the raid as conspiracy theory and false narrative.  But what are people looking for a reason for the raid supposed to do when the FBI and Justice Department refuse to explain themselves and won’t release the warrant?

Then it’s back to “increasingly violent rhetoric from prominent figures” without a shred of documentation.  Not a single example of violence cited in NPR’s story, not one.

Not much evidence, and this is what passes for news on NPR.  I can’t tell if this was deliberate propaganda or these people live in a bubble and don’t know any Republicans.  Either way, an unfortunate pattern is developing.  Here, NPR is trying to make you afraid of everyone on the Right, calling them violent without any evidence.  This fits a recent pattern in the liberal media and broader Left’s coverage of election integrity issues. There, Republicans and election integrity activists are being painted as conspiracy theorists and violent provocateurs.  The Washington Post had a story about proposed legislation to “increase protection of election workers and officials against harassment and violence.”  The left-wing group the Scrutineers is training its people that GOP poll workers are saboteurs and violent.  “The same people who pushed The Big Lie about the 2020 election are threatening to disrupt the midterms,” their July 26th mailing said.  The left-wing Brennan Center proclaims Republican conspiracy theorists make elections officials feel unsafe. Merrick Garland’s left-wing Justice Department has started a task force to “address threats of violence against election workers.”   That’s not all.  I’ve seen countless stories, now, discrediting people working for fair and honest elections as racist conspiracy nuts, or far-right kooks who are chasing unicorns – never mind that voter ID laws get upheld by just about every court that looks at them.

Telling members that outsiders are violent and not to be trusted is a cult technique.  To make this believable, cult leaders control the information environment and disparage outside sources of information as fascistic, reactionary, and not credible.  I’ve even had a Leftist tell me the Wall Street Journal is not a credible source of information.  Poppycock!  Cult leaders shut off contrary information and give their members slogans to chant instead, like ‘Republicans are violent’ and that chant is growing louder even though it’s pure malarkey.

It’s all psychological manipulation.  This is what cults do.  The NPR story is a good example of cult techniques in action.

Left-wing media outlets like NPR smear because they don’t want you to know the real issues at stake.  Real reporting on Mar-a-Lago would have covered Donald Trump’s extensive previous cooperation with the FBI and Justice Department about White House records over many months. [more here]  Real reporters would have asked whether the judge who granted the warrant was informed of that history.  Real journalism would have reported the fact that a watchdog group has now sued to make public the warrant.   Doesn’t sound violent to me unless, of course, you think the Democrats calling the raid an abuse of power are violent, too.

NPR got one part of the story right. Trump is raising record amounts of money off the raid.  That doesn’t sound violent to me, either.  ‘Republicans are violent’ – what a bunch of horse hockey.  Once again, I remind you of Wright’s Law: everything that comes out of the mouth of the Left can be deconstructed because everything that comes out of the mouth of the Left is garbage.

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FBI searched Melania’s wardrobe, spent hours in Trump’s private office during Mar-a-Lago raid

By The Geller Report

No lawyers to observe, refused access. Illegal search and seizure. G-d knows what they may have planted.

FBI searched Melania’s wardrobe, spent hours in Trump’s private office during Mar-a-Lago raid

By: NY Post, August 9, 2022:

FBI agents scoured Melania Trump’s wardrobe and spent several hours combing through Donald Trump’s private office, breaking open his safe and rifling through drawers when they raided the former First Family’s Mar-a-Lago home in Florida Monday morning.

The Post has learned that the search warrant used by the FBI to enter the palatial Palm Beach property focused solely on presidential records and evidence of classified information being stored there.

A source close to the former president expressed concern that FBI agents or DOJ lawyers conducting the search could have “planted stuff” because they would not allow Trump’s attorneys inside the 128-room building to observe the operation, which lasted more than nine hours.

The raid by over 30 plain clothes agents from the Southern District of Florida and the FBI’s Washington Field Office extended through the Trump family’s entire 3,000-square-foot private quarters, as well as to a separate office and safe, and a locked basement storage room in which 15 cardboard boxes of material from the White House were stored.

Feds arrived at 9 a.m. and didn’t leave until 6:30 p.m.

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In June, Corcoran granted access into Mar-a-Lago’s windowless storage room to FBI agents who spent several hours searching through the boxes. Trump stopped by the basement to say hello at one point, says someone who was there.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com …

AUTHOR

Pamela Geller

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Judicial Watch Sues DOJ for ‘Russia Hoax’ Records Declassified and Ordered Released by President Trump

By Judicial Watch

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that it has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) for records ordered declassified and released by President Trump the day before he left office.  The records relate to “Crossfire Hurricane,” the controversial spy operation against President Trump, his 2016 presidential campaign, and other Trump associates, and have yet to be made public by the Biden administration (Judicial Watch, Inc. v U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:22-cv-02264)).

The lawsuit was filed after the DOJ failed to respond to a February 17, 2022, FOIA request for:

All records regarding the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Crossfire Hurricane investigation that were provided to the White House by the Department of Justice on or about December 30, 2020. For purposes of clarification, the records sought are those described in a January 19, 2021 Presidential Memorandum (see https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/presidential-actions/memorandum-declassification-certain-materials-related-fbis-crossfire-hurricane-investigation/ ).

All records of communication between any official or employee of the Department of Justice and any official or employee of any other branch, department, agency, or office of the federal government regarding the declassification and release of the records described in part one of this request.

Trump’s memo authorized the declassification and release of the records:

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, I hereby direct the following:

Section 1.  Declassification and Release.    At my request, on December 30, 2020, the Department of Justice provided the White House with a binder of materials related to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Crossfire Hurricane investigation.  Portions of the documents in the binder have remained classified and have not been released to the Congress or the public.  I requested the documents so that a declassification review could be performed and so I could determine to what extent materials in the binder should be released in unclassified form.

I determined that the materials in that binder should be declassified to the maximum extent possible.  In response, and as part of the iterative process of the declassification review, under a cover letter dated January 17, 2021, the Federal Bureau of Investigation noted its continuing objection to any further declassification of the materials in the binder and also, on the basis of a review that included Intelligence Community equities, identified the passages that it believed it was most crucial to keep from public disclosure.  I have determined to accept the redactions proposed for continued classification by the FBI in that January 17 submission.

I hereby declassify the remaining materials in the binder.  This is my final determination under the declassification review and I have directed the Attorney General to implement the redactions proposed in the FBI’s January 17 submission and return to the White House an appropriately redacted copy.

My decision to declassify materials within the binder is subject to the limits identified above and does not extend to materials that must be protected from disclosure pursuant to orders of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and does not require the disclosure of certain personally identifiable information or any other materials that must be protected from disclosure under applicable law. Accordingly, at my direction, the Attorney General has conducted an appropriate review to ensure that materials provided in the binder may be disclosed by the White House in accordance with applicable law.

Just the News report details that the documents include “transcripts of intercepts made by the FBI of Trump aides, a declassified copy of the final FISA warrant approved by an intelligence court, and the tasking orders and debriefings of the two main confidential human sources, Christopher Steele and Stefan Halper, the bureau used to investigate whether Trump had colluded with Russia to steal the 2016 election.”

“The Obama-Biden Administration and Deep State spying on Trump and his associates is the worst government corruption scandal in American history,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “And to make matters worse, the Biden DOJ simply refuses to release smoking gun documents about this corruption that the American people have an absolute right to see!”

Judicial Watch has taken a leading role in uncovering the Obama/Deep State spying and other abuses targeting Trump world.

In May 2020, Judicial Watch litigation uncovered the “electronic communication” (EC) that officially launched the counterintelligence investigation, termed “Crossfire Hurricane,” of President Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. The document was written by Strzok.

In March 2019 Judicial Watch released heavily redacted records from the DOJ that reveal Bruce Ohr remained in regular contact with former British spy and Fusion GPS contractor Christopher Steele after Steele was terminated by the FBI in November 2016 for revealing to the media his position as an FBI confidential informant.

In August 2019, Judicial Watch uncovered “302” report material from FBI interviews with Bruce Ohr, showing that in November 2016, Ohr said that “reporting on Trump’s ties to Russia were going to the Clinton Campaign” and “Jon Winer at the U.S. State Department and the FBI.” The documents also showed that Ohr knew that Fusion GPS’s Glenn Simpson and others were “talking to Victoria Nuland at the U.S. State Department.” (A Form 302 is used by FBI agents to summarize the interviews that they conduct and contains information from the notes taken during the interview.)

In August 2018, the Justice Department (DOJ) admitted in a court filing that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court held no hearings on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) spy warrant applications targeting Carter Page, a former Trump campaign part-time advisor who was the subject of four controversial FISA warrants. Judicial Watch litigation also uncovered the secret FISA warrants that confirmed the FBI and DOJ misled the courts in withholding the material information that Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the DNC were behind the “intelligence” used to persuade the courts to approve the FISA warrants that targeted the Trump team.

Also, in August of that year, Judicial Watch discovered FBI records about Christopher Steele, the former British spy, hired with Clinton campaign and Democratic National Committee funds, who authored the infamous dossier targeting President Trump during the presidential campaign. The documents show that Steele was cut off as a “Confidential Human Source” (CHS) after he disclosed his relationship with the FBI to a third party. The documents show at least 11 FBI payments to Steele in 2016 and document that he was admonished for unspecified reasons in February 2016.

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VIDEO REACTIONS: Mar-a-Lago is a Despotic State Attack on an American Family

By Dr. Rich Swier

“Always remember, they are coming after me because I’m fighting for you.” — President Donald J. Trump

“All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed, they must rely exclusively on force.” — George Orwell, 1984


What Americans witnessed in Mar-a-Lago is an unprecedented attack on our Republic by the federal government. The home invasion of a former President of these United States have never ever happened before.

We are witnessing the abuse of power in the U.S. like that seen in the 57 dictatorships across the world in Russia, Venezuela, in communist regimes like North Korea, China, Cuba and in Islamic supremist nations like Iran, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan.

We can now add America under Biden and the Democrat Party as the 58th dictatorship. 

We are a truly nation in decline.

Former president Trump posted a 3min campaign ad style video on Truth Social — giving the latest hint that an announcement of a 2024 run is imminent

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— Mona Salama (@MonaSalama_) August 9, 2022

Below are members of the Trump family and other commentators expressing both outrage and a dire warning on what Biden and the Democrats have done—taken away equal justice under the law and replaced it with social justice empowered bureaucrats who seek total power and control over we the people from the school house to the White House.

It’s time to drain the swamp of these bolshevist bureaucrats and their leaders.

Jim Jordan put it best.

Only President Trump could handle this level of harassment from the government and media.

The toughest guy in American politics!

— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) August 9, 2022

Watch, listen and understand

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Bongino: ‘This Is Some Third World Bulls*&% Right Here’

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What you are seeing is an abuse of power: Gregg Jarrett

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McCarthy Vows Full Investigation Into AG Garland and Trump Raid

By Discover The Networks

House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) promised on Monday to launch a full investigation into Attorney General Merrick Garland and the FBI’s raid on former President Trump’s Florida home, Mar-A-Lago.

McCarthy tweeted, “I’ve seen enough. The Department of Justice has reached an intolerable state of weaponized politicization. When Republicans take back the House, we will conduct immediate oversight of this department, follow the facts, and leave no stone unturned. Attorney General Garland, preserve your documents and clear your calendar,” he warned.

Indeed, , Should Republicans take back the House at the 2022 congressional midterms, they will acquire the ability to launch subpoenas into the raid. The House Judiciary Committee and the House Oversight and Reform Committee can focus on the events and decision-making process that led to the search warrant against Trump.

The House Judiciary Republicans wrote, “This is what happens in third world countries. Not the United States. Doesn’t the FBI have better things to do than harass the former PRESIDENT?”

Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel wrote, “Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Countless times we have examples of Democrats flaunting the law and abusing power with no recourse, including Hunter Biden. Democrats continually weaponize the bureaucracy against Republicans. This raid is outrageous.”

“These are dark times for our Nation, as my beautiful home, Mar- A-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, is currently under siege, raided, and occupied by a large group of FBI agents,” Trump wrote in a statement. “Nothing like this has ever happened to a President of the United States before.”


Merrick Garland

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Garland Says “Domestic Terrorism” by “White Supremacists” Are Among America’s Leading Problems

On June 15, 2021, Garland announced the unveiling of the Biden administration’s new “First National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism,” an initiative designed to combat what Garland viewed as one of America’s most serious problems: “domestic terrorism” carried out mostly by conservative adherents to a doctrine of “white supremacism.” Below are some of Garland’s remarks from that day, remarks in which he: (a) cast the Trump supporters who had breached the U.S. Capitol on January 6 as uniquely evil; (b) warned of the allegedly enormous threat posed by violent white supremacists; (c) likened such people to genocidal Islamic terrorists; and (d) gave anecdotal examples of past terrorist incidents that had been perpetrated exclusively by whites…

To learn more about Merrick Garland, click here.

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The Power of the Powerless

By The Catholic Thing

Francis X. Maier: The U.S. is not a despotic state. . .but we are closer to it than ever before. Consider: hostility to religion; disregard for law; expansion of administrative power, and the rise of a biomedical security state. Can it end well? 


I started this column hoping to focus on Václav Havel’s great 1978 essay, “The Power of the Powerless,” collected here.  I’ll get to that.  But in the meantime, the FBI raided former President Donald Trump’s home in Florida, an action unprecedented in U.S. history.  So adjustments must be made.

Just four weeks ago in this space, I suggested that

The threat of impending “Fascism! Right around the corner!” – a treasured anxiety of the Trump Dark Ages – might oddly come true.  Just not from the direction you thought. Mr. Trump, with his vulgar style and legion of faults, nonetheless had the effect of a sun lamp or disagreeable medicine on a nasty boil: He drew all the hysteria, fanaticism, and arrogance of hardcore progressive thought to the skin’s surface, where the boil and its poison popped.

A ”fascist” in the vocabulary of today’s enlightened classes, includes just about anybody who questions the collapse of our border security, transgender rights, or unfettered access to abortion.  And this isn’t new.  Barack Obama let the rat out the bag with extraordinary condescension in 2008 when he complained about underclass voters who cling, stubbornly, to their “guns and religion.”

Enter Donald Trump, who admittedly has a surplus of negative qualities.  But he did, and still does, trigger in a revealing way, the dormant rage virus, the mental herpes simplex, in our nation’s preening elites.  Thanks to the fury directed at him – and through him, at all those who, for whatever reason, voted for him – Mr. Trump proves that hate clearly does “have a home here.”  It’s embedded in our patrician class and its wannabes.

But don’t take my word for it.  Read Christopher Lasch, distinguished historian and always a man of the populist left.  In The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy, Lasch notes (in 1995) that

The new [national and global] elites, which include not only corporate managers but all those professions that produce and manipulate information – the lifeblood of the global market – are far more cosmopolitan, or at least more restless and migratory, than their predecessors. . . .Theirs is essentially a tourist’s view of the world – not a perspective likely to encourage a passionate devotion to democracy.

Lasch argues that in our time, the chief threat to the civilizing traditions of Western culture comes “from those at the top of the social hierarchy, not the masses.”  And he notes that the “course of recent history no longer favors the leveling of social distinctions, but runs more and more in the direction of a two-class society in which the favored few monopolize the advantages of money, education and power.”  He adds, finally, that

In the United States, “Middle America” – a term that has both geographical and social implications – has come to symbolize everything that stands in the way of progress: “family values,” mindless patriotism, religious fundamentalism, racism, homophobia, [and] retrograde views of women.  Middle Americans, as they appear to the makers of educated opinion, are hopelessly shabby, unfashionable, and provincial. . .at once absurd and vaguely menacing.

What Lasch correctly describes is the arrogance of America’s leadership class.  This has fully ripened and congealed in the Democratic Party since his 1995 book.  And along with it goes an elitist derision and fear toward America’s underclass.  Trump read this reality like a cheat sheet and used it like a judo master.  The very people who loathe Donald Trump helped to ensure his 2016 election, and their continuing, vindictive hysteria makes him vigorous in the popular imagination. Our nominally Catholic President and Speaker of the House deserve at least a thank-you note from the former president for keeping his looming shadow alive. . .though given his track record, Mr. Trump may be cool to such niceties.

But let’s get back to Václav Havel.

Havel wrote “The Power of the Powerless” in Czechoslovakia during the postwar years of East Bloc repression.  Like Alexander Solzhenitsyn and other dissidents, Havel was a forceful voice for truth in a Soviet-style, Marxist-Leninist political system built on deceit, fear, and repression.

In such a system, Havel writes, government by bureaucracy is called popular government.  The working class is enslaved in the name of the working class.  The complete degradation of the individual is presented as his or her own ultimate liberation.  Depriving people of information is called making it available.  The use of power to manipulate is called the public control of power.  The arbitrary abuse of power is called observing the legal code.  The repression of culture is called its development.  The lack of free expression becomes the highest form of freedom.

Farcical elections become the highest form of democracy.  And banning independent thought becomes the most scientific of world views.  In Havel’s words, “Because the regime is captive to its own lies, it must falsify everything.  It falsifies the past.  It falsifies the present, and it falsifies the future.  It falsifies statistics. . .[and it] pretends to pretend nothing.”

Given such a system, open political resistance in Havel’s day was impossible.  The “power of the powerless” resided instead in those citizens who simply refused to cooperate with the lies; citizens who insisted on speaking and living the truth, no matter the cost.  Over the decades, this gradually eroded the system’s credibility and led to a national reawakening.  But it required two virtues: courage and perseverance.

The United States is a long way from 1978 Czechoslovakia. . .but not so far as it was four decades ago.  The growing hostility to religion in this country, the disregard for law and its enforcement, the expansion of federal administrative power, the rise of what author Aaron Kheriaty, M.D., calls “the biomedical security state.”  These things don’t end well.  And the only way we change them, the only “power of the powerless,” is by refusing to cooperate with the lies.

To live instead in the truth, despite the cost.

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AUTHOR

Francis X. Maier

Francis X. Maier is a senior fellow in Catholic studies at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.

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VIDEO REACTIONS: Mar-a-Lago is a Despotic State Attack on an American First Family

By Dr. Rich Swier

“All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed, they must rely exclusively on force.” — George Orwell, 1984


What Americans witnessed in Mar-a-Lago is an unprecedented attack on our Republic by the federal government. The home invasion of a former President of these United States have never ever happened before.

We are witnessing the abuse of power in the U.S. like that seen in the 57 dictatorships across the world in Russia, Venezuela, in communist regimes like North Korea, China, Cuba and in Islamic supremist nations like Iran, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan.

We can now add America under Biden and the Democrat Party as the 58th dictatorship. 

Below are members of the Trump family and other commentators expressing both outrage and a dire warning on what Biden and the Democrats have done—taken away equal justice under the law and replaced it with social justice empowered bureaucrats who seek total power and control over we the people from the school house to the White House.

It’s time to drain the swamp of these bolshevist bureaucrats and their leaders.

Jim Jordan put it best.

Only President Trump could handle this level of harassment from the government and media.

The toughest guy in American politics!

— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) August 9, 2022

Watch, listen and understand

Eric Trump: No family in American history has taken ‘more arrows in the back’ than mine

Lara Trump: Trump raid should shock Americans ‘to their core’

TRUMP AT CPAC: ‘Drain the Swamp Once and For All’

LEVIN ON MAR-A-LAGO RAID: “This is the worst attack on this Republic in Modern History”

Bongino: ‘This Is Some Third World Bulls*&% Right Here’

Sen. Rick Scott: FBI Mar-A-Lago Raid ‘Makes You Mad; We Need Answers’

Newt Gingrich: FBI’s Mar-A-Lago Raid ‘Is a Very Scary Step Towards a Police State

What you are seeing is an abuse of power: Gregg Jarrett

©Dr. Rich Swier. All rights reserved.

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Tea Party Patriots Action Calls for Biden Impeachment After Raid of Trump Residence

By Dr. Rich Swier

The raid of MAL is another escalation in the weaponization of federal agencies against the Regime’s political opponents, while people like Hunter Biden get treated with kid gloves. Now the Regime is getting another 87k IRS agents to wield against its adversaries? Banana Republic.

— Ron DeSantis (@RonDeSantisFL) August 9, 2022

If they can do it to a former President, imagine what they can do to you.

— House Judiciary GOP (@JudiciaryGOP) August 8, 2022

Attorney General Garland: preserve your documents and clear your calendar. pic.twitter.com/dStAjnwbAT

— Kevin McCarthy (@GOPLeader) August 9, 2022

In an email Jenny Beth Martin the Honorary Chairman, Tea Party Patriots Action issued the following statement:

Joe Biden must be impeached. The raid on President Trump’s home should have never happened. It is beyond wrong. It is obviously part of the ongoing witch hunt that began before President Trump ever took office, and which continues to this day.

President Obama’s IRS unlawfully targeted citizen groups that dared to oppose Obama policies. Now President Biden’s FBI and DOJ have continued the tradition of politicizing federal agencies and have upped the ante by attacking a former president.

We are supposed to be a constitutional republic not a banana republic. This madness must be stopped.

Anyone and everyone who cares about the future of our constitutional republic must get out to vote in record numbers in the fall elections. We must elect a Congress that will use its constitutional oversight and power of the purse to rein in an out-of-control executive and return power to the people.

In liberty,

Jenny Beth Martin

Honorary Chairman, Tea Party Patriots Action

President Donald J. Trump issued the following statement on the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago:

These are dark times for our Nation, as my beautiful home, Mar-A-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, is currently under siege, raided, and occupied by a large group of FBI agents. Nothing like this has ever happened to a President of the United States before. After I working and cooperating with the relevant Government agencies, this unannounced raid on my home was not necessary or appropriate. It is prosecutorial misconduct, the weaponization of the Justice System, and an attack by Radical Left Democrats who desperately don’t want me to run for President in 2024, especially based on recent polls, and who will likewise do anything to stop Republicans and Conservatives in the upcoming Midterm Elections. Such an assault could only take place in broken, Third-World Countries. Sadly, America has now become one of those Countries, corrupt at a level not seen before. They even broke into my safe! What is the difference between this and Watergate, where operatives broke into the Democrat National Committee? Here, in reverse, Democrats broke into the home of the 45th President of the United States.

“The political persecution of President Donald J. Trump has been going on for years, with the now fully debunked Russia, Russia, Russia Scam, Impeachment Hoax 11, Impeachment Hoax #2, and so much more, it just never ends, it is political targeting at the highest level!

Hillary Clinton was allowed to delete and acid wash 33,000 E-mails AFTER they were subpoenaed by Congress. Absolutely nothing has happened to hold her accountable. She even took antique furniture, and other items from the White House.

I stood up to America’s bureaucratic corruption, I restored power to the people, and truly delivered for our Country, like we have never seen before. The establishment hated it. Now, as they watch my endorsed candidates win big victories, and see my dominance in all polls, they are trying to stop me, and the Republican Party, once more. The lawlessness, political persecution, and Witch Hunt must be exposed and stopped.

I will continue to fight for the Great American People!

©Dr. Rich Swier. All rights reserved.

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Whose Government Is It?

By Bud Hancock

At what point does a government, such as that of the United States, which has been called a government “of the people, by the people and for the people”, become something other than that which it was intended to be? Should we all be concerned that our own government is no longer what the Founders of the United States of America created it to be?

U.S. Government

We supposedly have a “representative government” wherein those who write the laws have been duly elected, from among the people, by the people and supposedly for the benefit of the people in their various geographical areas of representation. Those “elected representatives” are then sent to the Congress of the United States  in Washington D.C., at great public expense, for the sole purpose of “representing their  constituents”, meaning they should be representing the views of that particular group of “citizens” and not one single view of one single person who is NOT a true citizen.

If those 535 people would actually listen to their constituents….no,  even if they would do more to reach out and involve them all in the process that gave them the title “Congressional representatives, instead of sitting on their butts in DC for months on end and then visiting those who only long to be “represented’ when reelection time draws near and they need to reassure them that their voices are being heard. What a load of bull plop.

I deplore the title of “lawmakers” granted to those 535 people.  Dear God, there must come a time when we all realize that we need no additional laws, rather we need those who are purported to be “lawmakers” to actually become “law abiders”, followers of God’s law and models for those who voted for them. If we actually modeled our lives on those 535 ‘representatives most of US would be in prison in short order, based on the actions those 535 people take.

All the actions of all 535 of these United States Congressional “representatives” are to be based on the rule of law which in this nation is the United States Constitution, whether or not their actions coincide with the views of their constituents. If those views are contradictory to the Constitution, they should NOT ever be debated by those 535 representatives. Why? Because to do so would be UN-Constitutional, making such debates improper and ‘illegal’.

So what happens when the daily actions of those 535 “representatives” include the introduction of bills containing, NOT necessarily their constituents views, but instead their OWN views or worse, the views of their particular political party, and even MUCH worse, the views and demands of the grand puppeteers who pull the master strings of all Politicians?

Would this not be a violation of the oaths of office they took before God, with their hands placed on HIS word, swearing to uphold the U.S. Constitution? In those cases, do we still have a “representative government? Or do we then have a government “of the politicians, by the politicians and for the politicians?” Or worse yet, a government “of the party, by the party and for the party, and yes, even MUCH worse, a government of the puppeteers, by the puppeteers and FOR the puppeteers?”

Respect

Respect is one of the most important components in any relationship and respect is built upon a consistency in the actions of everyone in that relationship. That respect begins with knowing the other party and working toward building a mutually respectful relationship .

As a small child, I had to get to know my parents, starting with learning and understanding their first words to me. Before my earliest memories at around age four, I have no recollection of them or their words. However, I will surmise that whatever words they had previously spoken to me, they were ‘consistent’.  I remember that I had respect for them and their words, even though I did not always agree with them, especially as I grew older and developed my own personality based on my own personal experiences. I knew their intent in all cases was to benefit me and not to cause me harm, and upon that knowledge was my respect for them based.

Respect Has Disappeared

But what happens when there is such a lack of consistency that forming a relationship based on mutual respect is all but impossible? Observe that the only consistency to be found in all of the US Congress is in the amount and depth of evil in the lies emanating from there. If that formerly glorious body (175 years ago) could be made to be self-monitoring so that only truth and facts reach the citizens, then possibly there could be some hope that respect could return to those Halls.

By now, everyone with an IQ higher than room temperature is fully aware that no such action will ever be taken by those 535 politicians; after all, that would be tantamount to killing the goose that lays the golden eggs, which eggs usually end up in the politicians pockets. Right, it ain’t gonna happen.

With the knowledge that, in all of Congress, there is now no respect for 1) the U.S. Constitution, 2) the true citizens of the United States, and 3) themselves, it becomes painfully obvious that the government now sitting in the U.S. Senate, the U.S. House of Representatives, the Supreme Court and MOST lower courts, as well as the White House, has become a government of, by and for the Politicians and their parties (both of them). This totally eliminates any place for the representation of We, The People, and places us all in a very precarious position. The common man or woman is now placed in the position of living in fear of the U.S. government when it should be the other way around.

The U.S. government gave up any pretense of being a true representative form of government many years ago, but, because of the skill with which they were able to keep the citizens deceived about their true allegiances, the public has just recently begun recognizing that fact.

Citizen/Voter Sentiment

The past two and one half years have made more and more citizens, supporters of both major political parties, aware that the government they trusted at one time, no longer has any trustworthiness and the most recent polls have exposed that fact.

The approval rating of the entire Congress has slipped to a level never seen before and an increasing number of registered voters are expressing their distrust of anything “governmental” and especially anything “congressional”. Many of those are questioning whether voting even matters any longer. If the information regarding voter fraud in the US election system is even close to being accurate, those questioning the integrity of our elections are right; until something changes to bring integrity back to our election process, it may not matter.

If voter passivity becomes a part of our culture, it will signal the beginning of the end of our Great American Experiment.

Conclusion

This essay began with a question: “At what point does a government like that of the United States, which has been called a “government of the people, by the people and for the people”, become something other than that which it was intended to be?” 

This is a question demanding to be answered by each American citizen, at least those who truly care about what was once a Great Republic. The only way the status of this nation will stop its decline into the trash bin of history is with enough of her people realizing just how far that decline has gone and seeking their answer to that burning question.

I do not equate the United States with any of the great empires of history mainly because those empires began as mostly dictatorial states and then degenerated into democracies which have never lasted long while this nation began as a true republic and due to overwhelming apathy and a is quickly heading toward dictatorial state.  If enough of her people are satisfied with that kind of existence, then nothing need be done, and in an advancing state of apathy, nothing WILL be done, and the Great American Experiment will most definitely be over.

Only if those who truly love liberty and freedom rather than living as slaves to a totalitarian state realize that, no matter what kind of United States they desire to be a part of, until they get serious enough and realize that repentance and an invitation for  Almighty God to return to the USA with His wisdom and His Spirit as our guide, that decision of whether they live as free citizens of a free country will have already been made for them.

When a nation’s ‘leaders’ have lost all respect for its people and only consider them assets to be used to keep them in the lavish lifestyle most US politicians enjoy, while the slaves toil without just recompense for their labors, you can be sure the nation is circling the drain.

To answer the original question in this essay, the current U.S. Government is NO LONGER a government of the people, by the people and  for the people. It has become a wholly owned business whose business model is “Take everything, give nothing back”. Unless God is allowed to return and guide this nation back to any form of its former ‘greatness’, the government will never again be considered to be “OURS”.

Time is very short for any changes needed to be implemented. Only the actions of a God-led, God-empowered citizenry can stop the political madness and give us our government back.

Blessings!

budaroo@twc.com

©Bud Hancock. All rights reserved.

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The Great Reset’s Luciferian Minions

By Kelleigh Nelson

“When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing — When you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors — When you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you — When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice — You may know that your society is doomed.” — Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged 1957

“All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed, they must rely exclusively on force.” —  George Orwell

“If I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible what was the main cause of the ruinous revolution that swallowed up some 60 million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: ‘Men had forgotten God; that is why all this has happened.’” —  Alexandre Solzhenitsyn


The founders of this country were brilliant men of letters and statesmen whose greatest desire was to endow the inhabitants of this glorious land with our God given freedoms.  As such, we the people, were to be guardians of our rights so that they would never become privileges.

Benjamin Franklin is thought of as “The First American.”  He was a member of the Continental Congress and helped to draft the Declaration of Independence.  Franklin was there as a member of the Constitutional Convention in 1787 and helped to draft our magnificent Constitution.  He was an inventor, an author and founder of the University of Pennsylvania along with America’s first hospital and public library.  He even identified lead poisoning and the charting of ocean currents.

Franklin stated, “Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God,” and proposed it for the motto of the Great Seal of the United States.  He seemed to see into the future when he said, “Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government; when this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved, and tyranny is erected on its ruins. Republics…derive their strength and vigor from a popular examination into the action of the magistrates.”

Founding Father Franklin hoped that the love of liberty would spread throughout the world, but today we see a different future for our America, a future that is anything but bright and promising.  His love of liberty has certainly not spread worldwide despite the lives of our soldiers being sacrificed on foreign battlefields for freedom.

“The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the Republican model of Government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.” – George Washington

Totalitarianism

On page 245 of The Origins of Totalitarianism, Holocaust survivor Hannah Arendt wrote the following words:

One of the most glaring differences between the old-fashioned rule by bureaucracy and the up-to-date totalitarian brand is that Russia’s and Austria’s pre-war rulers were content with an idle radiance of power and, satisfied to control its outward destinies, left the whole inner life of the soul intact.  Totalitarian bureaucracy, with a more complete understanding of the meaning of absolute power, intruded upon the private individual and his inner life with equal brutality.  The result of this radical efficiency has been that the inner spontaneity of people under its rule was killed along with their social and political activities, so that the merely political sterility under the older bureaucracies was followed by total sterility under totalitarian rule.

We are fast approaching the total sterility of totalitarian rule that Ms. Arendt spoke of 72 years ago.  Total enslavement is the despotic goal.

Over 157 years ago, a watershed event torpedoed the nation in a direction opposite of that which our founders intended.  What we’re living through today, is a massive disintegration of society, culture, human decency and liberty, leading us into feudalistic tyranny.

Collectivism/Marxism

Collectivism, i.e., communism is the subject matter of The Turning of the Tides, by former Congressman Paul W. Shafer and John Howland Snow.  It tells of how America’s teachers were indoctrinated with collectivism/Marxism, and through teachers’ unions, were taught to condition our children subtly and secretly toward a socialist America.

Listed on Page 145 are the rules of the collectivists: “does it serve our purpose?”  It will sound only too familiar, but was written in the 1940s.

“The Global State will at first finance itself by appropriating your earnings under the guise of taxes.  It will appropriate your savings by inflation—which is a progressive capital levy on all.  It will continue to shatter the value of those savings to ‘pay’ for its crusade—inflation’s sole and unique cause.

“Thus, financed into being, The Global State will substitute its collective love and wisdom for your own.

“The State will now ‘revalue’ its currency, and from this point it can permanently finance itself.  This it will do by fiat control of money.  It will take over every form of wealth—and substitute its collective ownership for your own.

“Unless the policy called internationalism is stopped, this is its course.  By no other means can the new internationalism perpetuate itself.

“And this reversion to feudalism is being called ‘social reconstruction’—as taught in the Nation’s schools.”

Our children are reared in the public schools and brought up according to the dictates of social scientists who are global in their sphere. They are experimenting on our youngsters to rid them of individuality, discipline, character, independence and other honorable qualities of a free and mature nature.  And what happens to the people and the wealth of the Nation?  It declines.  It is regressivism, i.e., collectivism and Marxism on a grand scale, and we are seeing the results in today’s youth.  Discipline in the classroom has so declined that teachers are afraid of their students.

All of this was planned over a century ago, and Klaus Schwab and his minions are just the latest generation in the effort to bring their final goals to fruition.  The left’s outcries of racism are simply a deflection of their true nature. They psychologically project on their enemies what their true goals entail. Enslavement!

Minions of the Great Reset

The latest so-called leader of this nightmare from hell is Klaus Schwab, but we know he is just another puppet, another player along the road of turning America into a communist nation.  Collectivism, regionalism, governance, public/private partnerships, the New World Order, the Great Reset, and ultimately United Nations Agenda 21/30 are all the same.  Changing the names is just part of the game.

Klaus Schwab was born in Ravensburg, Germany in 1938, but like many front men, his life has been white washed or silenced from public scrutiny.  No one knows if he has any religious beliefs but presume he is an atheist.

Let’s clear one thing up…Schwab is NOT related to the Rothschilds despite internet stories claiming otherwise.  The Rothschilds have referred this story to their defamation counsel in Basel. There are some wonderful members of this family who are generous philanthropists who do not agree with other factions of the family. Don’t bother to email me scurrilous anti-Semitic accounts of this wealthy banking family.

Johnny Vedmore’s article, Schwab Family Values contains what appears to be valid documentation of Klaus Schwab’s family being Nazi collaborators.  I can neither prove nor disprove Vedmore’s claims, but his research sounds plausible to me.

Schwab has sent his new Communist 3.0 Manifesto to every world leader and every governor/premier of every state and province around the world. His game is tyranny and enslavement.

Maurice Strong, father of global warming and United Nations Agenda 21, arguably the most significant and most secretive plan for global transformation, was Klaus Schwab’s friend and mentor.

He was an advocate of Global Governance via the United Nations, and Spiritual Governance via the cultish Temple of Understanding, which blends all religions, (in New York City next to UN) and Environmental-governance via The Earth Charter and the Ark of the Gaia Covenant.  When he left “Mother Earth” in 2015, Strong passed his sustainability mantel to none other than Klaus Schwab.

“I am deeply saddened that Maurice Strong passed away yesterday at the age of 86.”-Schwab, Nov. 29, 2015. “He was one of the most extraordinary personalities I ever met.

“He deeply incorporated the World Economic Forum’s mission of improving the state of the world into everything he did. He was a great visionary, always ahead of our times in his thinking. He was my mentor since the creation of the Forum: a great friend; an indispensable advisor; and, for many years, a member of our Foundation Board. Without him, the Forum would not have achieved its present significance.”

Strong’s intent for America was clear when he stated, “Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class…involving high meat intake, consumption of large amounts of frozen and convenience foods, ownership of motor vehicles, golf courses, small electric appliances, home and work place air-conditioning, and suburban housing are not sustainable… Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn’t it our responsibility to bring this about?”

Not only will these elite control our food, but the World Economic Forum agenda (WEF) is calling for the end of private car ownership in the name of saving the world from climate change by reducing the need for green tech resources.  “We need a clean energy revolution, and we need it now,” the WEF begins its article.

One hundred years of gasoline vehicles hasn’t changed the environment, but the elite are hellbent on eliminating vehicles.  Bike trails and sidewalks are now the rage throughout “smart growth” America.  THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM A Partner in Shaping History, 1971 to 2020.

In 2009, George Kent wrote an article for the UN entitled, The Benefits of World Hunger.  When it went viral after several years, it was removed, but the Wayback Machine caught it.

The United Nations has also declared war on “Dangerous” Conspiracy Theories: ‘The World is Not Secretly Manipulated by Global Elite.’  More censorship and an attack on those who spread the truth.

While their friend and partner, Bill Gates, busies himself with developing a vaccine that spreads like a virus to inoculate everyone, Schwab is advocating that no one should buy or sell without a digital health certificate, and he advocates trans-humanism while insisting on lockdowns of even religion.

Henry Kissinger was another of Klaus Schwab’s mentors. German born, Kissinger served as Secretary of State under President Richard Nixon and National Security Advisor for President Gerald Ford.  He is a long-time member of the globalist Council on Foreign Relations.  Schwab met Kissinger over 50 years ago when he was at Harvard and Kissinger was a faculty member.  In 1980, Kissinger attended Davos for the first time and he was an invited guest speaker at the WEF in 2022.

Kissinger never could speak without mentioning the New World Order several times.  He was a devout promoter of the “Great Reset” along with his friend Nelson Rockefeller who became Vice President under Gerald Ford.  He was also very close to David Rockefeller and penned a love letter to the man at his death.  From Rockefellers to Kissinger to Schwab, all are depopulation proponents via United Nations Agenda 21/30.

The Rockefellers and the United Nations are joined together at the hip.

The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research was established in New York in 1902 and by 1928 had received from John D. Rockefeller $65 million in endowment funds.

In contrast, as late as 1938, as little as $2.8 million in federal funding was budgeted for the entire U.S. Public Health Service.  Yet there was enough for the ungodly and evil Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment from 1932 to 1972.

In 2020, Kissinger joined with eugenicist and fellow depopulation promoter, Bill Gates in pushing mandatory vaccines, extended lockdowns and of course, “global governance.”

It is easy to see that the Rockefeller family investment in health science research predated, and far surpassed, even the federal governments. More than the New Deal, WWII created the greatest boom in federal government and private industry support for medical research.

Our POWs and MIAs were left behind in Vietnam because of Kissinger; he turned his back on a deal that would have brought them home.  Kiss the Boys Goodbye, How the United States Betrayed its Own POWS in Vietnam by Monika and William Stevenson, exposes the betrayal of our soldiers by the American government via Kissinger.

On page 42-43 of Henry Kissinger, Soviet Agent, author Frank Capell tells of Henry’s love of the communists.  The growth of China as a world power can be laid at the feet of Kissinger when he convinced President Nixon to open the door to China and visit Mao.  He made sure the communists stayed in power when he heard of a planned coup by the military to eliminate Mao Tse-tung and Chou En-lai in order to affect a military takeover of Red China.  Kissinger flew to China and his visit resulted in the execution of a group of top Chinese military men and a blackout of news from Red China.

On Page 21 of the same book, Henry Paolucci of St. John’s University, wrote a study about Kissinger which appeared in the Congressional Record of August 4, 1971, a portion of which states: “Henry Kissinger, too, expressed as recently as 1965 the conviction that the time was at hand for a surrender of nationhood because ‘institutions based on present concepts of national sovereignty are not enough.’  The goal of a supra-nationalist world community ‘will not come quickly; many intermediate stages must be traversed before it can be reached.  It is not too early, however, to prepare ourselves for this step beyond the nation-state.’”

These few men and others are the ones who, in our lifetimes, have planned the destruction of humanity, freedom and liberty.

Conclusion

At the center of this evil lies the United Nations and their promotion of depopulation, vaccines, world governments, and ultimately the arrival of the evil one.

We live in dark times.  Tyrannical despots seek total control.

In King David’s imprecatory psalms, he pleads with the Lord for help in destroying his enemies.  “Plead my cause, O Lord, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me.” Psalm 35:1.  We need the Lord’s help!

Ben Franklin reminded us long ago that, “Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.”

We have failed to guard and preserve those God given freedoms from encroaching tyranny. It’s now or never to take a stand!

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