A new poll from the University of New Hampshire (UNH) has Trump-endorsed candidate Don Bolduc 21 points ahead of Chuck Morse in New Hampshire’s Republican Senate primary.
Bolduc, a retired brigadier general, and an Afghanistan veteran claims former President Donald Trump won the election in 2020. Trump has yet to endorse Bolduc, but the former president has praised the Senate hopeful for his criticisms of Gen. Mark Milley, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
The poll, conducted online between Aug. 25 and 29, surveyed 1,993 individuals with a 3.3% margin of error.
Trump-endorsed candidates have seen success in the primary season, with 92% of Trump-endorsed candidates winning their races, according to Ballotpedia.
“Donald Trump is still extremely popular. That’s important to note, but also, what those candidates are doing, whether they’re endorsed by President Trump or not, they’re embracing the America first policies that really improved the lives of all Americans, regardless of race, religion, color, or creed,” former Trump spokesman Hogan Gidley told the Daily Caller News Foundation in August.
Are you fed up? Are you worried that America in rapidly sliding into a neo-Marxist state by the radical left in control of Washington with historically narrow majorities in the U.S. House and Senate and an Executive controlled by unnamed far leftists in place of a clinically incompetent President Biden? They are desperate to keep power and complete their radical progressive agenda that will change America and our liberty forever.
Americans just witnessed the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 without one Republican vote in the U.S. Senate and House (just as Obamacare was passed in 2010). The IRS will be hiring 87,000 new agents, many armed, to terrorize American taxpayers.
Americans witnessed the FBI raid at the Trump Mar-A-Lago home and property of President Trump, truly a first in all of American history. We know what that is about.
It is undeniable that the Democrat Party and the administrative state (the executive branches of the DOJ, FBI, IRS, et al) are clear and present dangers to our Republic and our liberty as they increasingly veer further away from the rule of law and the Constitution. What is the solution? At this critical juncture, there is only one action we can all take.
The only viable and timely solution at this critical point is to vote – yes, vote correctly and smartly to retake the U.S. House and Senate on November 8th and to prepare the way to retake the White House in two years. Vote and help everyone you know to vote. Please click the TAKE ACTION link below – we must vote correctly and in great numbers to be sure our votes are counted to diminish the potential for the left to rig and steal the midterms and the 2024 elections as they are clearly intending to do after their success in 2020.
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As if the FBI’s reputation were not already in tatters, we have yet another bombshell, courtesy of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, about FBI malfeasance during the 2020 election.
It turns out that the FBI used its previously concocted Russia hoax as an excuse to pressure Facebook to censor the factually correct Hunter Biden laptop story, which the New York Post broke.
In an appearance Thursday on “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast, Zuckerberg admitted that Facebook suppressed news of the laptop and its contents in the weeks preceding the 2020 presidential election, after FBI agents requested to meet with Zuckerberg’s staff to deliver dire warnings of a supposed dump of Russian election “misinformation.”
Although Zuckerberg said he couldn’t recall whether the FBI agents specifically mentioned the Hunter Biden laptop story in their warning, he said the story “fit the pattern” that concerned the FBI, so he sprang into action and suppressed the story.
Zuckerberg was oddly proud of distinguishing the mere throttling of the laptop story by Facebook (now Meta) from the outright ban of the story by Twitter.
When pressed by Rogan, Zuckerberg wouldn’t admit to the scale of his company’s censorship of the laptop story, other than to say: “Fewer people saw it than otherwise.” Given Facebook’s gargantuan influence, “fewer than otherwise” likely is many millions—and possibly enough to have flipped the election to Donald Trump rather than Joe Biden had the story been allowed to gain steam.
Americans should listen to this episode of ”The Joe Rogan Experience” without forgetting the context in which Facebook took such drastic censorship action. Back in October 2020, Facebook claimed its suppression of the Hunter Biden story was “part of our standard process to reduce misinformation.” Note no mention of the FBI’s involvement.
Either Facebook’s spokesman, Andy Stone, was lying at the time, or the FBI’s involvement was part of Facebook’s “standard process” all along.
This same FBI had access to the abandoned Biden laptop since 2019, well before Zuckerberg and his team received warnings of impending Russian “misinformation” from the FBI. Once Facebook and others moved to squelch the laptop story, why didn’t the FBI go back to them and say that the Constitution protects freedom of the press and free speech, and that agents never intended the suppression of true stories?
Given how hyperpartisan and anti-Trump the FBI has become in recent years, is it possible that the FBI actually had the damning contents of Hunter’s laptop in mind when the agents approached Facebook with their request that the social media giant suppress political speech?
Recall that 51 left-wing former intelligence officials, with no evidence whatsoever, signed a public letter labeling the Hunter Biden laptop story as “classic Russian disinformation” just days before the first presidential debate.
Perhaps it was the FBI that asked its spy friends on the outside to publish the letter, to give the FBI cover for its pressure campaign on companies such as Facebook. Much like the FBI’s selective leaking of the utterly fake “Steele dossier” to justify its deeper involvement in the Russia hoax, we’ve seen this movie before.
The American people, as has become standard, have been kept in the dark. Why in the world didn’t Facebook disclose its cooperation with the FBI in the suppression of speech? Why didn’t the FBI disclose it?
Lawmakers at the federal and state level should establish standards of transparency and conduct for internet platforms and law enforcement agencies that govern the political discourse that influences elections.
Network security expert and hacker Peiter “Mudge” Zatko’s recent whistleblower complaint against Twitter is relevant here too. Zatko revealed the true extent to which at least one massive internet platform fails to protect private data or responsibly moderate the content users see.
Maybe Facebook has more responsible internal controls than Twitter. But, on the other hand, perhaps it has the same questionable routines to which Twitter has fallen victim: not only being subject to foreign influence, but allowing employees unrestricted access to edit users’ content.
Again, Americans don’t know, because our laws have left the people blind to understanding how unaccountable tech oligarchs govern platforms so central to daily life.
There is a need for baseline standard operating procedures for how digital platforms adjudicate their content decisions. And with these minimum standards should come absolute transparency, available in real-time.
No private right of action exists to get the 2020 election back. Voters in Ohio and Pennsylvania can’t recast their ballots, nor seek damages for how Facebook manipulated the truth in October 2020. The rule of law cannot preserve Americans’ fast-eroding trust in the institutions that keep our civil society stable.
No recourse exists for such critical, timely issues of political speech in the digital age. The people’s representatives should establish and enforce rules of the road that prevent another instance in which Big Tech secretly takes the initiative to influence American elections at the behest of the FBI.
Both Big Tech and Big Surveillance (i.e. the FBI) need to be brought to heel.
The most damning sound bite from Zuckerberg’s interview came after Rogan asked whether he regretted blocking the truth.
Zuckerberg responded: “It sucks … I think in the same way that having to go through a criminal trial but being proven innocent in the end sucks … in the end, you’re free.”
This faux apology entirely misses the point. Yes, the truth came out eventually, but only after the FBI’s and Big Tech’s election meddling was done.
This commentary was modified shortly after publication to specify that Zuckerberg told Rogan that he couldn’t recall whether the FBI specifically mentioned the Hunter Biden laptop story in warning Facebook about imminent Russian “misinformation.”
Are you fed up? Are you worried that America in rapidly sliding into a neo-Marxist state by the radical left in control of Washington with historically narrow majorities in the U.S. House and Senate and an Executive controlled by unnamed far leftists in place of a clinically incompetent President Biden? They are desperate to keep power and complete their radical progressive agenda that will change America and our liberty forever.
Americans just witnessed the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 without one Republican vote in the U.S. Senate and House (just as Obamacare was passed in 2010). The IRS will be hiring 87,000 new agents, many armed, to terrorize American taxpayers.
Americans witnessed the FBI raid at the Trump Mar-A-Lago home and property of President Trump, truly a first in all of American history. We know what that is about.
It is undeniable that the Democrat Party and the administrative state (the executive branches of the DOJ, FBI, IRS, et al) are clear and present dangers to our Republic and our liberty as they increasingly veer further away from the rule of law and the Constitution. What is the solution? At this critical juncture, there is only one action we can all take.
The only viable and timely solution at this critical point is to vote – yes, vote correctly and smartly to retake the U.S. House and Senate on November 8th and to prepare the way to retake the White House in two years. Vote and help everyone you know to vote. Please click the TAKE ACTION link below – we must vote correctly and in great numbers to be sure our votes are counted to diminish the potential for the left to rig and steal the midterms and the 2024 elections as they are clearly intending to do after their success in 2020.
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The tight race for Arizona governor is within the margin of error, according to a new survey from Scott Rasmussen’s RMG Research, and incumbent U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly, D-AZ, holds a 7-point lead over Republican challenger Blake Masters. On hot-button issues such as the economy, Arizonans took positions Rasmussen believes could further benefit the pair of Republicans.
Asked to name the top issue that would most influence their vote, 47% selected inflation and the economy – far and away the dominant concern. The next nine issues combined accounted for the remaining 53%.
“When people’s pockets are getting pummeled, that hurts the party holding the White House,” Rasmussen said. “This poll reveals Republicans could exploit that advantage and several other issues.”
The survey of 750 likely voters was conducted from August 16-22 and has a margin of error of +/- 3.6 percentage points.
In the gubernatorial showdown, it shows Republican Kari Lake leading Democrat Katie Hobbs, 46% to 44%, with a combined 9% unsure or supporting another candidate. Kelly leads Masters, 50% to 43% in the U.S. Senate race.
Abortion was the top election concern selected by 12% of poll respondents, good for third place but still far behind economic worries. Democrats have been hoping to use abortion as a wedge issue following the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v Wade this summer. The poll indicates this could be a challenge in Arizona.
Asked their position regarding a candidate who “voted to make abortion legal up until the moment of birth,” 48% said they would be less likely to vote for such a person, while 41% said they would be more likely to support that candidate.
Mark Kelly voted for an unsuccessful U.S. Senate proposal that would have created a federal abortion law even more permissive than the “abortion on demand” standard of the Roe decision. The bill would have voided even some state-level abortion restrictions that had still been compliant with Roe. Abortion opponents announced they would use this vote in an advertising blitz criticizing Kelly for “voting in favor of abortion-on-demand, up until birth…”
Regarding the biggest issue, 63% believe the economy is in a recession and 48% reported their finances were getting worse. And a clear majority were pessimistic about the future: 59% said the overall economy is getting worse, and 36% selected the “much worse” characterization.
Rasmussen said responses to at least three other poll questions tipped the scales toward traditional Republican positions.
Regarding general policy preferences, 52% combined said they preferred a candidate who either supported Donald Trump’s policies or those of a “more traditional Republican.” This was compared with 44% who said they preferred either a traditional Democrat or one aligned with the views of U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT).
The building of a border wall between Arizona and Mexico was favored by 62%. “Immigration and border security” was listed by 13% of poll respondents as their top election issue, good for second place, just ahead of abortion.
Requiring voters to show photo identification before casting a ballot was also popular. Asked about a candidate who opposed such a measure, 57% reported they would be less likely to support that politician. This appears to be another issue where Kelly’s Senate votes and Arizona opinion are on different sides.
Asked if they would be more or less likely to vote for a candidate who increased federal taxes by $430 billion, 57% said they would be less likely to vote for that person, versus 29% more likely.
In August, Kelly voted in favor of the so-called Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), a Democratic proposal that a Reuters report described as “$430 billion in new spending along with raising more than $740 billion in new revenues.”
But the IRA might also include a bright spot for Democrats such as Kelly, as 51% said they would be more likely to vote for a candidate who voted for “$300 billion in new government spending on clean energy projects.” The IRA provides $300 billion in spending on so-called “clean energy” projects, including subsidies for weather-restricted wind and solar power systems.
Are you fed up? Are you worried that America in rapidly sliding into a neo-Marxist state by the radical left in control of Washington with historically narrow majorities in the U.S. House and Senate and an Executive controlled by unnamed far leftists in place of a clinically incompetent President Biden? They are desperate to keep power and complete their radical progressive agenda that will change America and our liberty forever.
Americans just witnessed the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 without one Republican vote in the U.S. Senate and House (just as Obamacare was passed in 2010). The IRS will be hiring 87,000 new agents, many armed, to terrorize American taxpayers.
Americans witnessed the FBI raid at the Trump Mar-A-Lago home and property of President Trump, truly a first in all of American history. We know what that is about.
It is undeniable that the Democrat Party and the administrative state (the executive branches of the DOJ, FBI, IRS, et al) are clear and present dangers to our Republic and our liberty as they increasingly veer further away from the rule of law and the Constitution. What is the solution? At this critical juncture, there is only one action we can all take.
The only viable and timely solution at this critical point is to vote – yes, vote correctly and smartly to retake the U.S. House and Senate on November 8th and to prepare the way to retake the White House in two years. Vote and help everyone you know to vote. Please click the TAKE ACTION link below – we must vote correctly and in great numbers to be sure our votes are counted to diminish the potential for the left to rig and steal the midterms and the 2024 elections as they are clearly intending to do after their success in 2020.
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There is an active revolt going on against District Attorneys who once elected decide to take the law into their own hands and apply laws at their personal whim.This has caused havoc and uproar across our nation highlighted recently by the charges against a bodega worker in New York City (later dropped) for killing a criminal who physically attacked him.These scofflaw DAs are not the only ones trying to make nonsensical wholesale changes to our justice system.
In 1994, the residents of California voted overwhelmingly (72%) to establish a three-strikes law.We had been in a period of increased crime (including violent crimes) and people were fed up with the light sentences handed out to repeat criminals.They created a statute stating if you are convicted of three nonconcurrent felonies you could be sentenced on the third violent or serious felony to a term of 25 years to life.
There is now a movement to restructure this law (originally enacted by initiative).I agree that laws should be reviewed regularly to see if they need adjustment.A perfect example was reviewing NAFTA and making updates for changes in the economies of the three countries in the deal and updating the law for an evolving world.
What about three-strikes? Let us first look at the law itself.Let’s say someone commits a felony.All those reading this column, raise your hand if you have committed a felony.Just as I thought, virtually no one. Raise your hand if you personally know someone who committed a felony.Again, maybe a few.We are fair people regardless.Even if someone did commit a felony and was convicted, we could see them turning their lives around and never committing such a serious crime again.It happens all the time.
Then a person commits a second felony.You begin to look at them differently.They may have a lengthy list of other crimes that were not charged as felonies.You begin to doubt that they can be anything other than a career criminal.You now have committed two serious or violent felonies as delineated in the penal code.Not every felony is on this list.Then they commit a third felony which is by law considered either violent or serious.What is the question here?Only a fool or someone with an alternative agenda would say anything other than lock him up and throw away the key.
Sorry, there is no room for compassion here.Not one thing has changed in the 28 years since the law was passed.Anyone committing three felonies is a career criminal — the same as 28 years ago, today and in the future.Many would say two is enough.
Despite that Governor Newsom appointed five people (now four) and two members of the California Legislature to the Committee on Revision of the Penal Code.The Committee has recommended that the three-strikes law be repealed.Then they stated, “we appreciate that this is a difficult goal, the Committee offers the following.” They suggest other changes to dilute the law that currently exists.Beware, the committee’s recommendations will find their way into legislation and may hit the Governor’s desk on the basis that “experts” studied the issue.
Before we look any further let us look at their rationale.“The Three Strikes law has been applied inconsistently and disproportionately against people of color, and the crime-prevention effects the law aimed to achieve have not been realized.”
First, they cite inconsistencies.They show that different counties within California apply the law differently.Instead of recommending changes to the application of the law to eliminate inconsistencies they offer other changes to water the law down.The law is clear; therefore, why is it being applied inconsistently between counties?This is the same logic that is used against the death penalty.“It is not applied evenly so let’s junk the entire thing.”Can you see what is going on here?There are officials who do not like three-strikes; thus, they apply it unevenly instead of applying the law properly.Then their ideological allies on the commission argue to junk the law instead of correcting the deviant law enforcement officials.
We then arrive at their real reason to junk three strikes – the law is “racist.”I read the statute and did not see a word about race.The commission states 80% of the people sentenced under the law are “people of color.”They do not say the law is inappropriately applied against people of color.It just states they are “people of color” and thus something is wrong.
I do not know about you, but I do not think the typical Californian cares about the race, sex, or creed of a career criminal.If someone is a career criminal, we want them off the streets.We know they are going to commit more crimes.And these “people of color” are most frequently committing crimes against other “people of color.”
The question then is who are the racists?In my view, it is the members of the committee.Though the committee covers all the proper sub-groups that any good Democrat would appoint — blacks, Asians, Hispanics, and women.There is a token white male on the panel.They will argue how can the committee be racist if they have the Democrats’ stereotypical milkshake of people. If someone has more sympathy for the criminals committing crimes against innocent blacks and Hispanics, you can draw your own conclusions.
The last suggestion from these people for wholesale changes in our criminal laws was Proposition 47.That changed the law for theft from a felony to a misdemeanor from $400 to $950 worth of goods.It has been argued that it did not make these thefts legal, but they have barely been prosecuted.Gangs have been rampaging through stores in open daylight knowing the police have no ability to stop them and the stores have instructed their personnel not to intervene.Sometimes the lead criminal has been observed with a calculator making sure no one exceeds the $950 limit.
This ridiculous law should be reversed.Three-strikes should not be touched.Anyone trying to touch it should be booted from office.The citizens of this country should make it known that we have no sympathy for career criminals and are perfectly happy paying for them to be locked up for a long, long time.One sure way to eliminate crimes is to eliminate additional opportunities given to those career criminals.
Are you fed up? Are you worried that America in rapidly sliding into a neo-Marxist state by the radical left in control of Washington with historically narrow majorities in the U.S. House and Senate and an Executive controlled by unnamed far leftists in place of a clinically incompetent President Biden? They are desperate to keep power and complete their radical progressive agenda that will change America and our liberty forever.
Americans just witnessed the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 without one Republican vote in the U.S. Senate and House (just as Obamacare was passed in 2010). The IRS will be hiring 87,000 new agents, many armed, to terrorize American taxpayers.
Americans witnessed the FBI raid at the Trump Mar-A-Lago home and property of President Trump, truly a first in all of American history. We know what that is about.
It is undeniable that the Democrat Party and the administrative state (the executive branches of the DOJ, FBI, IRS, et al) are clear and present dangers to our Republic and our liberty as they increasingly veer further away from the rule of law and the Constitution. What is the solution? At this critical juncture, there is only one action we can all take.
The only viable and timely solution at this critical point is to vote – yes, vote correctly and smartly to retake the U.S. House and Senate on November 8th and to prepare the way to retake the White House in two years. Vote and help everyone you know to vote. Please click the TAKE ACTION link below – we must vote correctly and in great numbers to be sure our votes are counted to diminish the potential for the left to rig and steal the midterms and the 2024 elections as they are clearly intending to do after their success in 2020.
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Well, as of last week, it’s official. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has dissolved (at least for now) its “disinformation board.” Some critics have called this the “Ministry of Truth,” as in George Orwell’s classic novel about a dystopian, totalitarian future, 1984.
The agency was to be engaged in “countering disinformation that threatens the homeland, and providing the public with accurate information in response.”
Jarrett Stepman of the Heritage Foundation wrote in May: “It was bad enough that the Biden administration seemingly took George Orwell’s book ‘1984’ as a guide, rather than as a warning.”
Stepman noted that even some on the left were concerned about this board: “HBO’s ‘Real Time’ host Bill Maher said the Disinformation Governance Board had a ‘creepy name’ and noted that the opaque mission of the agency was ‘even creepier.’” Said Maher: “Yes, they’re right to compare this to Orwell and the ‘Ministry of Truth.’ That’s exactly what it sounds like.”
Over the summer, I re-read 1984 for the fourth time. It’s a harrowing read, reflecting a society in which all moral and spiritual realities have been upended, and it has helped introduce important concepts into the lexicon, such as “Big Brother,” “thoughtcrime,” and “Thought Police.”
How bad were things going to be in the years ahead as described in Orwell’s novel? “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever.”
In the totalitarian regime of the future where the novel takes place, words are used to hide reality. Thus, the state declares:
WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
The government authorities seek to control all aspects of life, even seeking to control thought itself, lest one commit a “thought crime.” As the novel declares: “Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters inside your skull.”
One of the key aspects of life under Party Rule in 1984 is that the past was constantly being rewritten in order to conform to the prevailing ideas of the Party (as in the ascendant Communist Party of Orwell’s era).
The novel notes: “Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date.”
In the novel, Orwell states: “Thus, history is continuously rewritten. This day-to-day falsification of the past, carried out by the Ministry of Truth, is as necessary to the stability of the regime as the work of repression and espionage carried out by the Ministry of Love [a torture chamber] ….The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon…the past is whatever the Party chooses to make it.”
If one were to incur the wrath of the state (not a difficult thing to do) one might be voided, becoming “an unperson.” The book describes one such man: “He did not exist; he had never existed.” As the Party slogan declares: “Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”
In this totalitarian vision, the past had to be re-written to serve the future. This reminds me of the ongoing attempt to rewrite America’s past—to erase God from it, and to exaggerate the shortcomings and failings of those who founded America.
Rabbi Daniel Lapin gave me an interview on America’s Christian roots, for my Providence Forum film series, “The Foundation of American Liberty.”
He said that bad things come when we have “isolated people from their background and from their history.” And what happens in American public education? Says Lapin, “We teach children only everything that is rotten and bad that they can find about Americans’ past, isolating children from everything that is glorious and good and noble about the founding of this country.”
The founders of America said that our rights come from God. They are not granted by the state, but by the Creator. The totalitarians, like Stalin and Big Brother in 1984, act as if the state is god on earth. That’s why Communist countries, based on atheism, impose nightmares on virtually everybody. Political and religious censorship is just the tip of the iceberg.
The idea of a federal board that would decide which ideas should be censored in America is frightening to the conservative and the Christian. Christianity is politically incorrect. It always has been. It always will be.
I saw a T-shirt recently that said, “Make ‘1984’ Fiction Again.” That’s a worthy goal. It’s good to hear of the dissolution of the “disinformation board,” which could have put into reality one aspect of what Orwell had written about. That dissolution is a step in the right direction.
Well, well. Joe Biden is on the midterm campaign trail and he held a rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania on Thursday, August 30th, 2022.
The theme of the rally was a “Safer America.”
Interesting in that this comes after the FBI raid on a former president’s home in Mar-a-Lago, Florida and the U.S. Marshals armed raid on organic Amish farmer Amos Miller in Bird-in-Hand, Pennsylvania.
QUESTION: Safer for who, exactly?
BTW, I guess someone forgot to send out invitations to his event because hardly anyone showed up. I guess there aren’t many Biden supporting Democrats in Pennsylvania?
Here’s a Fox News video of the Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania rally:
Good on FOX for the wide shot showing the gathering 😂
Notice how few people showed up. I’ve seen bus stops with more people than this. It seems that Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. just doesn’t have the power to draw in the crowds that his predecessor did.
I wonder why? Was it gas prices are so high that people decided that they couldn’t afford to drive to Wilkes-Barre?
Maybe it was the cost to enter the event? Did Joe’s people charge for this event to make up for the massive spending to pay for the salaries of 87,000 new armed IRS agents or maybe the cost estimated to be between $469 billion to $519 billion to pay off student loans over the next ten years? Just saying.
Maybe it was the U.S. Marshals raiding an organic farm owned by Amos Miller who’s Amish in Bird-in-Hand, Pennsylvania? Maybe the Amish are boycotting Uncle Joe?
Maybe it was because Biden fearlessly defended the FBI, that he sent to ransack his political opponent’s home in Mar-a-Lago, Florida?
Or maybe it was because at the rally Biden pledged to take away every Americans right to keep and bear arms stating, “We beat the NRA. We took on them and beat the NRA straight up. They have no idea how intimidating they are to elected officials.We don’t stop here. I am determined to ban assault weapons in this country! Certainly. I’ve done it before. And I will do it again.”
Exactly, Biden clearly understands that an armed citizenry is a direct threat to each and every tyrannical elected official—like Biden.
Maybe its about defunding the police because that what his base, i.e. Black Lives matter wants. But wait Biden stated, “It’s disgusting to see the new attacks on the FBI threatening the lives of law enforcement agencies and their families for simply executing the law and doing their job.I am against defunding the police; I am also opposed to defunding the FBI.”
So Biden doesn’t want to defund his private police force—the FBI. Now I get it.
Since the armed raid on Mar-a-Lago the FBI has been held accountable and is under fire by many American for their actions. It now appears that the FBI is nothing more than the enforcement arm, of and for, the Democrat Party, much like the Nazis Gestapo, East German Staci and Russian KGB.
Wait a minute. I don’t know anyone who has threatened any FBI agent or his family, do you? But we do know that the Florida Seminole County GOP office was vandalized over the weekend with the words “eat s*** Fascists” smeared on the windows.
QUESTION: Was this attack in Seminole County directly because Biden called Republicans “semi-fascists?”
On August 25th, Aljazeera reported, “Biden spoke on the need to save the country from the ‘semi-fascism’ of Donald Trump’s Republicans and prevent those ‘extremist’ Republicans from taking control of Congress in the November 8 vote.”
As Florida Governor Ron DeSantis noted in an email, “It’s no coincidence that this vandalism comes after Joe Biden called conservatives ‘semi-fascists.’”
Rhetoric kills. Just ask the Jews in Nazi Germany and those anti-Stalinists in the former Soviet Union. Using language like this leads inextricably to violence.
BTW, the media reported that 500 people showed up for Biden’s Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania rally. Looking at the above video it appears to be less than 100 people.
Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, is dead at 91. He failed to overcome communism’s inherent economic and dictatorial flaws. Why does it matter? Because transgender activists, the “trained Marxists” of Black Lives Matter, and others want to bring communism to America. If you think communism is cute, let’s start with the hundred million corpses it has produced in the last hundred years, and we’ll go from there, OK?
Gorbachev’s programs were called perestroika and glasnost. They were both big flops. Perestroika was his attempt to restructure the Soviet economy to rescue it from the lunacy of top-down Soviet central planning. I have an anticommunism speakers bureau. One of my speakers spent his professional life for U.S. AID and other trying to fix the ravaged economies of Eastern Bloc countries after the fall of the Soviet Union. One of the stories he tells about Soviet central planning was the factory that added 10-pound plates to irons so the factory could make the tonnage quota set by central planners in Moscow. How can you iron a shirt with that? Pointing out the folly of central planning is important because our current crop of leaders in Washington are hell-bent on forcing us to transition to green energy, no matter what problems it causes. Just ask Germans and Brits how happy they are with green energy at the moment. It’s been a disaster for them, and it’s going to get worse this winter. Oh, and California just passed a law allowing the government to set wages for fast food workers. Central planning, here we come. Perestroika is the wrong direction for the United States, and everywhere else, for that matter.
Glasnost was Gorbachev’s attempt to reconcile the internal contradictions of the Soviet power structure. It meant more consultative government and more freedom of expression.
But the communist party lost control after media outlets pushed the boundaries of glasnost and started telling the truth about Soviet communism for the first time. Gorbachev became head of state in 1988. The Soviet Union went kaput three years later. So you see, communism was inevitable until it wasn’t. The part about freedom of expression is important because every day, now, new stories come to light about tech companies stifling free expression in America, sometimes in coordination with the government, which isn’t supposed to happen. Facebook just censored my commentary yesterday. Pravda has spoken.
American socialists dismiss the Soviet disaster completely with a wave of the hand and tell you the Soviet Union didn’t ‘do communism right’. So much for the Red Terror where Lenin killed his own people by the tens of thousands, the Great Terror where Stalin killed and imprisoned Russians by the millions, and the Holodomor famine where the Soviets took the grain out of Ukraine to finance their own industrialization, starving 7 to 10 million Ukrainians to death in the process.
So who does communism right? Red China, according to the New York Times’ Thomas Friedman. So, let’s take a look, shall we?
Mao starved at least 35 million – some say 65 million – Chinese in his engineered famine of the Great Leap Forward. My Anticommunism Action Team recently held a webinar about what life in China is really like. The webinar started with a victim of China’s religious persecution and forced labor camps talking about how the Chinese communists nailed people inside their homes during the COVID lockdown in Shanghai earlier this year, where some couldn’t get food and others couldn’t get the medical treatment they needed. Swell folks, these communists. The webinar went on to describe life in China without the Rule of Law, what it’s like to live under total surveillance and a social credit system, where freedom of expression is not allowed – no glasnost here, and people are killed on demand for their organs because the state can. That’s what ‘doing communism right’ means, Thomas Friedman, you ignorant fool.
China’s communist system is producing a younger generation known for ‘lying flat’ – no higher education, no spouse, no children, no career. They refuse to participate in such an inhumane system any longer. Chinese communism has also produced 400 million people who have quit the Chinese Communist Party.
Hate to break it to you Leftists, but all these problems are inherent in Marxist theory. You can’t escape them. So the more you do communism right, the worse the economy is going to get and the more people are going to die. What else would you expect from a system that starts out with the dictatorship of the proletariat and, somehow, never manages to move beyond it in the real world? And you Leftists know it. You can prattle on about social justice all you want, you just want power – wealth and power for a tiny elite. Marxist theory is the best excuse for tyranny ever invented, and that’s the horse you want to ride all the way to the bank and to the halls of power. But I got news for you. Read your own history. The revolution always devours its own. You might think you will be among the last wave of revolutionary leaders standing, but you will either end up like Trotsky with an axe in your head, or like Robespierre with no head at all. You might want to reconsider. Your revolutionary co-leaders you call your friends today will be your executioners tomorrow. Think about that the next time they’re looking at you funny. Communism kills, and it will end up killing you.
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Apparently, No law enforcement agencies in Polk County, Florida have taken any action concerning pornographic/age inappropriate books currently available in Polk County Public School Media Centers. It is difficult for me to explain their seemingly lack of concern about this issue by refusing to even conduct an investigation nor even to openly support an Opt-In option for parents.
We owe our appreciation to Polk County Citizens Defending Freedom (CCDF) and Polk Executive Director Robert Goodman for having the courage and integrity to take this action which 42 Winter Haven 912ers and 48+ County Citizens Defending Freedom members participated in. It seems very reasonable to ask for an OPT-IN policy which will require parents to actually approve access of these books to their children. We are hopeful the State DOE or other agency will weigh in on this issue.
As stated below, Lisa Miller, Sarah Fortney, Sara Beth Wyatt and Kay Fields opposed Superintendent Heid’s initial plan for an Opt-In, Opt-Out policy and convinced him to change it to only an Opt-Out policy which few parents will even know about. In evidence of this, the Aug deadline has already passed with only 42 parents of over 100,000 PCPS students completing the Opt-Out form online. So much for supporting Parent’s Rights.
Lisa Miller expressed concern below about a law suit and that the left would come after the Bible which are both faux reasons in my opinion.
Remember this when voting in General Election in Nov. and vote for Jill Sessions to replace Lisa Miller in the SB run off.
Goodman filed reports with Lake Alfred, Winter Haven, Haines City and the Mulberry substation of the Sheriff’s Office as well as its main office to inform law enforcement of the board policy. As of Tuesday, he had not visited the Lakeland or Bartow police departments.
When none of the law enforcement agencies took action, he cast a wider net, writing an email to Gov. Ron DeSantis, Attorney General Ashley Moody, State Attorney Brian Haas of the 10th Judicial Circuit based in Bartow, members of the Florida legislature, county commissioners and the Polk School Board.
Goodman said Tuesday he had received a reply from at least one of the state officials but would not say who it was. None of the state officials contacted by The Ledger responded to requests for comment.
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Scott S. Powell, has been an entrepreneur for 30+ years, founding two companies. He has been a fellow at the Hoover Institution and is currently senior fellow at Discovery Institute. Having been a frequent guest on national radio and TV, he has also published in the Wall Street Journal, Barron’s Financial, New York Post, Philadelphia Inquirer, Washington Times, Chicago Tribune, Houston Chronicle, Dallas Morning News, San Francisco Chronicle, USA Today and many others. He has been called on twice to provide expert witness testimony for the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. His new book, Rediscovering America, has been #1 Amazon New Release in the history genre for eight weeks.
TOPIC: World War III Is Here and It’s an Ongoing Psyops to Break America
CHRIS CHMIELENSKI
Chris Chmielenski is the Vice President, Deputy Director for NumbersUSA, he’s been with NumbersUSA since 2008. Among his duties Chris has been tasked with mobilizing NumbersUSA grassroots activists in all 50 states. He graduated from Syracuse University in 1996 with a B.A. in Political Science and Journalism.
TOPIC: AFGE move to ‘abolish’ labor union for ICE officers spurs call for probe
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When George Orwell was writing his “1984” he had the Soviet Union or Russia as a model before him in the 1930-1940s. The brilliant book will live forever, warning you to watch “Big Brother” and “Ministry of Truth.” It was the time of Stalinist “Iron Curtain,” a time of vast secrecy upon the formation of Stalinist Soviet Socialism, a totalitarian system with weaponized security apparatus. Orwell couldn’t learn the secret terms of the Police State then. “1984” was a literary masterpiece of a real history for humanity.
Fifty years later, my colleague, a famous Russian defense attorney Arcady Waksberg published his book “The Soviet Mafia”, a masterpiece about authoritarian Soviet Socialism and its bureaucracy as an instrument of control and power—The Soviet Mafia. The book can be the current addition and political explanation of Orwell’s warning. Published by St. Martin Press in 1991, it discusses the character of the Soviet leaders, their criminal activities and also predicts instability and destruction in the world.
There are three main concepts in the book:
The Evil Empire may be dead, but not the evil that drove it—the Soviet Mafia.
The book gives us a new definition of political forces and their leaders, previously known as Communists, the KGB, and the Soviets—a new collective identity—the Soviet Mafia.
The Soviet Mafia is a multinational political force and has no particular ethnicity, nationality, religion, or race.
“Vaksberg redefines the old terms of Soviet history and points to a new collective identity, the Soviet Mafia, the nucleus of an organized criminal enterprise. He notes that while the former Soviet republics, the so-called New Independent States, have different cultures and religions and speak different languages, all their governments participate in the Soviet Mafia.“ The Soviet mafia, St. Martin Press, p. 53
Knowledge of the written above definition of the Soviet Mafia is imperative to grasp the global predicament in 2022. After the Collapse of the Soviet Union, Vladimir Putin and his Oligarchs-friends have created and implemented Crony-Capitalism in Russia. The changes were not substantial as the process, administration and management of the country had been left in the same hands of the Soviet Mafia. The class of Socialist apparatchiks continue to exercise Socialist modus operandi and the Russian Federation has institutionalized the policy of the Soviet Mafia, where the KGB’s Mafia/Army was the tool to proliferate it globally. The Soviet Mafia had reached and infiltrated several foreign countries, you know them by the Soviet style centralized system of government they had installed.
The Soviet Mafia had reached and infiltrated the American government as well with the election of Bill Clinton in 1992. His right hand, George Stephanopoulos helped him to corrupt and transform our social Media. The infiltration has been multiplied by Bush, Obama, and Biden. The source of all America’s problems in 2022 is the same—The Soviet Mafia, we don’t know! The American people don’t know Russia and her Intelligence Apparatus. They don’t know our foremost enemy that has been destroying us for decades. The attacks on 9/11, ISIS, Al-Qaeda, and many other terrorists groups had been organized, managed, and supervised by the Soviet Mafia and KGB.
The Russian Federation and the Soviet Mafia
The Russian government and the Soviet mafia are following the common Socialist modus operandi: lies, deceit, fabrication, and fraud—the quintessential techniques of the Russian “Disinformation”. Remember Vladimir Putin’s connection to the KGB’s Mafia/Army for decades. They are tied for life and Putin’s enemy # 1 is Donald J. Trump and America. If you remember the last seven years, please, also remember that the entire cascade of Which Hunts against Trump has been manufactured by the Russian “Disinformation” under supervision of Vladimir Putin. In fact, it was a war against American Capitalism.
The FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago was unexpected and unprecedented. However it reminded me of the previous Hoaxes and Which Hunts. Then I heard the alarming buzz-words of suspicious activities. The government threatens us with a grave matter of national security, nuclear weapon secrets, and espionage. All of that created a sense of the urgency and danger identical to the activities of the Soviet mafia in Russia, shaped by the Socialist apparatchiks. The Biden “semi-fascism” remark put everything in a proper place: we have been dealing with the Democrat Party run by the Soviet Mafia for decades. Hold your horses!
It is not a “good faith error.” Political connection is the law in a totalitarian state. I have been dealing with the FBI and writing about it for years. In my opinion, the FBI is infiltrated by foreign powers and failed to protect us and the country for many years. To have a probable course to ban my writing, the FBI submitted my name to the FISA Court and the Court made me a foreign agent in 2002. If you go to the list of cases rendered by the FISA Court, you will find my name in the year 2002. Hence, the FBI has prevented you from learning the truth since 2002…
How do I know that the FBI is infiltrated? Very simple. Americans do not know the values of my writings. They are unaware that Communists don’t want the truth to come out to the light. They don’t want you to know the Soviet Mafia and other important information about them to be published. Put the logic of those two events together and you will see the foreigner within the FBI: he or she has grasped the danger of my writings to ban it. Moreover, the FBI intentionally misled Zuckerberg with false data to suppress and hide the info about Hunter Biden, days prior to the election 2020, using a Russian concept of “Disinformation.” How do they learn the techniques? The answer is: The Russian operatives of the Soviet Mafia, the KGB Mafia/Army, or Socialist Charlatans helped. We are totally infiltrated by them.
We definitely have serious national security problems. Suppressing information by the FBI prior the days to the election 2020 requires an additional investigation. Besides, the CIA event, when 51experts wrote a letter to defend Hunter Biden should be investigated as well. Spies who lie: 51 ‘intelligence’ experts refuse to apologize for discrediting true Hunter Biden story, NY Post, August 28, 2022. In my opinion all 51 expert inept if not dangerous for the American CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC. I don’t trust the FBI and any of those experts. The information about the Soviet Mafia will be absolutely needed to determine the truth before the midterm election.
Stalinism and the Soviet Mafia are Inseparable
Don’t be surprised by the surge of violence and recent assassinations. The Japanese leader Shinzo Abe was assassinated in July 2022. In August, writer Salman Rushdie was assassinated and there is a preparation to assassinate the Republican Mike Pompeo by Iran. We had recently other two assassinations of the Republicans in car accident: a Congresswoman Indiana Congresswoman Jackie Walorski and her deputy. For those who know the Soviet Mafia and its KGB’s Mafia/Army it was the assassinations of two Republicans from the US Congress. The explanation is Chapter 7 WWIII: Recruitments and Drags, Infiltrations and Assassinations. What is Happening to America? Part III. The Hidden Truth of Global Destruction.
The Soviet Mafia has been running the Democrat Party since the presidency of Bill Clinton. Pay attention to the Dems’ unity in fighting the Republicans and Trump for years. Count the corrupt departments, agencies, Colleges, and Universities involved. They have achieved a profound and international transformation of the American cultural values with impunity. Mike Pompeo is right, Russia will infiltrate our midterm, but even he doesn’t know the deep, broad way Russia will collaborate with the Dems leaders, to defeat Republicans. The main location is Biden’s White House, the crux of the matter of collaboration with Russia. Biden and his staff had been cooperating with Putin in suffocating young Ukrainian democracy since 2013-2014. This connection has never been stopped, with the Biden election it was emplaced in the White House, despite Biden’s mental decline.
It is not “the battlefield of love” we are at war and the Dems joined the enemy against the Republicans. I was warning you over thirty years about the war and a lot of Evil action produced by the Dems against Republicans and the American Constitutional republic. Analyze Biden’s actions during his short presidency and you wouldn’t find any steps in favor of the USA. Why does it happen? I have already given you my opinion: Biden is a sick man unable to run the country. His old staff runs the White House and it has links to the past connections with the Soviet Mafia. Some members of the staff don’t know the American law and we have experienced constant violations of the rules, law and order of the American republic.
Biden’s team has spent $trillions not to the favor of the capitalist economy but to bankrupt it with dirty tricks according to Socialist modus operandi and the Soviet Mafia. There is another example connected to the January 6th events. Do you remember the Kidnaping Plot? Several FBI members were there. It is the same model designed by the FBI and planned to execute on January 6, 2021: to do violent acts and to blame the Republicans later. The maneuver-ploy is very familiar to me—it is the usual plotting of the Soviet Mafia against the target. I see Stalinist ploy, imitating the Russian Socialist Revolution with the same strategy and tactics: Biden’s team uses the Russian ploy of “Disinformation” in the 2022 America.
The Biden remark on fascism is evidence that the Biden team read my columns and used the information to save the Dems’ skin. I am the only writer who is debating two terms: Soviet Socialism or Soviet fascism. This is the quintessential subject of my entire writings over forty years. Show me another writer who is discussing those two terms from first-hand experiences? You won’t find any. Biden’s team uses the major Stalinist postulate—“Never admit crime committed, instead accuse your opponent of that exact crime.” Biden’s team in cooperation with Putin and his Soviet mafia do just that. It is the repetition of the same Trump/Russia collusion, the same target and the same accusers—a Stalinist ploy, the typical cover-up of the crime the Dems themselves had committed…
If you analyze the foreign policy of the Biden team, you will be stunned by it. Biden’s team spent $billions, helping Ukraine to defeat Russia. At the same time Biden’s team is working with Iranian Nuclear Deal under Russian supervision: the terrorist state of Russia is supervised America in the Deal! Incredible! By that, Biden’s team confirmed my statement: Putin runs America! Another incredible event: the Democrats are targeting people known to us as honest people. Trump made America First in reality. Rudy Giuliani saved a suffocating and dying under crime New York City. Who are the Democrats to fight them?
We have another Stalinist ploy–$billions spent by Biden’s team to help Ukraine. The motivation is clear to use Ukraine to cover-up the crime the Democrats had committed by long-term collusion with Russian Intelligence, while accusing Republicans. Their collusion had been described by me in my books and columns for years. Please, recall seven hundred riots, killings and destruction brought by the Democrat states in 2020. In the best traditions of Stalinism, some of the Democrats are departing Biden before the midterm election to divert you attention from the crimes they had committed for decades. Don’t believe them! They are Socialist Charlatans. Every Democrat should be tied to Biden’s team to become accountable for his or her actions against the American Constitutional republic…
I have several questions for the leading and publicly speaking Democrats: Juan Williams, Jaime Harrison, and Herald Ford from Fox News.
What do you know about the Soviet Mafia?
What do you know about the Soviet/Russian law of 1955, waging a Global Revolutionary War and its narcotic sub-components against American Capitalism?
What do you know about Mexican Cartels? For you information, they are not Mexican. Those are Russian Cartels in Mexico. They were established by the Russian Intelligence in the 1950-1960 to fight the Global War. All of that and many other nefarious events are the legacy of Stalinism, you regrettably are unfamiliar with and missing the Truth…
My fellow Americans!
We are at a pivotal time in America and we can’t fail. Our children and grandchildren will never forgive us!
Educating yourself, knowledge, courage and perseverance can save the American Constitutional republic.
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However, according to a report from The Hill, a Google spokesperson said in a statement on Tuesday that the platform lacks the “effective” content moderation needed to meet Google Play’s terms of service.
“On August 19 we notified Truth Social of several violations of standard policies in their current app submission and reiterated that having effective systems for moderating user-generated content is a condition of our terms of service for any app to go live on Google Play,” the spokesperson said.
The report says that Google is specifically “concerned” about “policies prohibiting content with physical threats and incitements to violence.”
The Google spokesperson said that they contacted Truth Social and that they are addressing the issues to meet the big tech giant’s conditions for getting in the store.
Appearing on Real America’s Voice on Friday, Nunes said that they are waiting on the company to approve them.
“When are we going to be available on Android?” Nunes said. “Well, look, that’s up to the Google Play Store. I mean, we’re waiting on them to approve us, and I don’t know what’s taking so long.”
The president launched Truth Social after being barred from nearly every major social media platform following the protest at the Capitol on January 6.
“On August 19 we notified Truth Social of several violations of standard policies in their current app submission and reiterated that having effective systems for moderating user-generated content is a condition of our terms of service for any app to go live on Google Play,” the spokesperson said.
The report says that Google is specifically “concerned” about “policies prohibiting content with physical threats and incitements to violence.”
The platform reportedly has over a half a million daily active users, including Trump.
According to their website, Truth Social “is America’s ‘Big Tent’ social media platform that encourages an open, free, and honest global conversation without discriminating on the basis of political ideology.”
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Ashley Blazer Biden is an American social worker, activist, philanthropist, and fashion designer.
She is the daughter of Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. and Jill Biden.
Ashley Biden served as the executive director of the pro diversity, equity, equality Delaware Center for Justice from 2014 to 2019.
It is important to note that halfway house resident Ashely Biden “left her diary behind” when she checked out of the facility. The next resident of Ashley’s room found the diary “under the bed.”
Therefore, just like Ashley’s brother Hunter Biden left his laptop in an Apple computer repair store Ashley did exactly the same thing!
Abandoning one’s personal property is the fault of that person, in this case Ashley.
Those who found these abandoned items committed no crimes. Turning over Ashley’s diary to another person or selling the diary to any journalist is not a crime.
What is a crime is when those who found these “abandoned items” are persecuted and prosecuted by the media, politicians and federal agencies.
Anyone who reported, stated or wrote that Ashley’s diary was stolen is lying. That’s called deformation and disinformation.
What is a crime is pedophilia no matter who does it. Pedophilia is perverted and must be punished as no one is above the law.
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Esmeralda Upton apparently had too much to drink and accosted a group of Indian American women in the parking lot of a restaurant in Plano, Texas.
This was captured on cell phone video, with Upton saying, “I hate Indians. Go back to India. We don’t want you here.” She also pushed the women, slapped their cell phones, and threatened to shoot them.
Police were called, but did not arrest her since they had not witnessed the incident. Upton was driven home by a friend after she refused to take a breath analyzer test. She is now facing charges of assault and making terrorist threats, with possible hate crime enhancements.
Although the Indian women say that they were scared, they were clearly defiant, continued to engage, and knew exactly what they were doing, and were video recording their attacker the entire time.
If you have ever seen someone drunk and blowing it, you know how cringeworthy that is. But unless that person is a celebrity or a public official, it isn’t really news, and is cruel to subject a private person to this kind of publicity.
Nevertheless, TV stations simply can not resist this kind of observational cinema, especially when there is the possibility of hate crime charges pending.
Esmeralda Upton represents no one and nothing but herself.
However, this newscast tries to imply she is part of a rising tide of violence and hate against Indian-Americans.
But the FBI website says that white people receive the most hate crimes after blacks. Jews are number 3.
I don’t even see a category for Indian-American. And anti-Hindu is near the bottom, at 31st place.
Furthermore, if one looks at what constitutes a hate crime, listed in order there is:
Intimidation – 4,381
Destruction/Damage/Vandalism of Property – 2,433
Simple Assault – 2,197
Aggravated Assault – 1,407
All Other Larceny – 222
All of this is bad, and should be prevented by law. But it is not evidence of some kind of crisis in society. The sum total of these hate crimes listed on the FBI site, 10,640, is 0.003% of the U.S. population of 330 million.
If the station were responsible, it would have said that hate crimes against Indian-Americans are rare.
Even if there were a rising tide of some sort, Esmeralda Upton is not part of it. She doesn’t belong to any hate group or movement. Unlike some of the groups who trying to make a federal case out of this.
The stations tells us the video is “shocking.” But it is not. It is banal.
What is shocking is that the stations include the Executive Director of the Council on American Islamic Relations Dallas/Fort Worth area, Faizan Syed, on their broadcasts. See here, here, here, here, and here.
Despite this incident having nothing to do with Muslims or Islam, Faizan Syed is calling for Upton to be charged with a hate crime. Reports say the police are investigating the parking lot incident as a hate crime. That means they are considering Faizan Syed’s input.
And he says this incident has impact upon the entire South Asian community. So he has pretensions to being the spokesman for the South Asian community now? He already works for CAIR, which pretends to represent the nation’s Muslim community. Additionally, CAIR purports to represent blacks, Asians, and American-Indians, as well as Muslims. They need to stay in their lane.
OpIndia stated: “CAIR that came in support of the victims made it about the ‘South Asian Community’ which the assault was clearly about being the woman ‘Indian’. The propaganda to shift the paradigm to call it ‘South Asia’ and not ‘Indian sub-continent’ has been active for many years now. The left eco-system and the western mainstream media have been trying to stop using the word ‘Indian’ or ‘Indian sub-continent’ while mentioning the region and using ‘South Asia’ instead.”
This is the same Faizan Syed who is campaigning to free Lady al-Qaeda, Aafia Siddiqui, from prison. He has organized rallies on her behalf in partnership with the Aaafia Foundation, a pro-Taliban group of people who wrote a prayer for Anas Haqqani, a leader in the Haqqani Network, which is part of the Taliban and allies with al Qaeda.
All the available evidence strongly suggests that Syed’s activities inspired Malik Akram to take hostages at a synagogue in Colleyville, Texas last January.
Who is Faizan Syed to point fingers at anyone?
Esmeralda Upton is CAIR’s third victim of the month, and the 23rd of the year.
CAIR attacks individual working-class Americans on TV at a rate greater than twice a month. And it has been going on for over five and a half years now.
And we are already at 23 for the year with Esmeralda Upton being the latest.
CAIR had ABC affiliate WSB defame a sitting judge to influence a legal decision.
There are several examples of CAIR turning an entire town against one person.
CAIR turned the town of Dearborn against Bill Larion for using the word “camels” in a Facebook post. ABC affiliate WXYZ was a willing participant in Larion’s persecution.
CAIR turned the town of Toms River, New Jersey against Dan Leonard for mocking and scoffing at Ilhan Omar, Rachida Tlaib, and Sharia law. CAIR did nothing to calm the situation down after Leonard’s daughter received rape threats.
CAIR used a rumor on social media to get on TV four times and call for a teacher’s termination while she was under police protection.
This is more than just news. It is a scandal.
Because 99% of the people CAIR attacks on TV are white.
Does CAIR hate white people? It’s not an absurd question. They have given the subject a great deal of thought and discuss it at length on their YouTube channel.
Here is the CAIR-Los Angeles Executive Director reducing America to a caricature of “white nationalism” – https://youtu.be/S0AeItOnV5M?t=1036
CAIR uses very expensive media databases to hunt for white people to attack.
CAIR is the hate criminal. And a national security risk.
There is your “shocking” news story.
CAIR and local TV newscasters are working together to persecute Americans with a clear pattern of bias.
The media won’t report this, but it doesn’t matter. The public is discovering it on their own. After all, they are the targets of CAIR’s hate campaign. If this isn’t stopped, CAIR will succeed in inspiring some nut case to physically attack one of their targets. In fact, it already happened in Colleyville. The only difference is that next time, an innocent person could get killed.
Finally, it is very disheartening to see that TV station KTVT is in Dallas/Ft Worth.
Colleyville is right there!
Colleyville “is situated in the Mid-Cities suburban region between Dallas and Fort Worth.” It is just 21 minutes away from Fort Worth. But, KTVT, and all the rest of the newscasters covering this story are already a million miles away from what happened there last January.
What happened in Colleyville was a hate crime. The Plano incident is a tawdry news story with a gratuitous inclusion of CAIR.
They let CAIR get away with Colleyville.
Then they bring Syed on for a story he has nothing to do with.
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What if Honest Reporting hadn’t revealed anything about Soliman Hijjy? Would he still be working for the Times? Sure. They’re only concerned about this kind of behavior when they get caught.
After the New York Timesterminated its relationship with a Gaza-based journalist who said he favored killing and burning Jews “like Hitler did,” the newspaper is looking into additional reported instances of its journalists praising Hitler on social media.
The same watchdog group, HonestReporting, that unearthed the post by Fady Hanona also dug up a 2012 Facebook post by a Times videographer, Soliman Hijjy, who HonestReporting said wrote “How great are you, Hitler.” Hijjy also shared variants of the post again in 2018 and 2020, HonestReporting said.
HonestReporting also expressed concern about social media posts made between 2011 and 2018 by Hosam Salem, a freelance photographer whose work has appeared in the Times.
The Times told HonestReporting it reviewed the concerns and took “appropriate action.”…
And, at least in Hijjy’s case, a video he created for the Times, “Gaza’s Deadly Night: How Israeli Airstrikes Killed 44 People,” was denounced when it came out as a “shocking” “hatchet job.” So the issue isn’t just the social media posts, it’s the nexus between the social media posts and the hate-filled agenda that filters through into the New York Times journalism….
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Jeremy Boland, who serves as Cos Cob Elementary School’s Assistant Principal, was recorded bragging about how he oversees the hiring of teachers who will disseminate “progressive” political ideas in the classrooms.
Here are some of the highlights from today’s video:
Jeremy Boland, Assistant Principal of Cos Cob Elementary School: “Believe it or not, the open-minded, more progressive teachers are actually more savvy about delivering a Democratic message without really ever having to mention politics.”
Boland: “So, it’s subtle. They [teachers I hire] will never say, ‘Oh, this is [a] liberal or a Democratic way of doing this.’ They’ll just make that the norm — and this is how we handle things, it’s subtle…That’s how you get away with it.”
Boland: “The conservative [teacher], who is stuck in her ways. I’ll never be able to fire her, and I’ll never be able to change her. So, I make an impact with the next teacher I hire.”
Boland: “Protestants in this area [of Connecticut] are probably the most liberal. But if they’re Catholic — conservative…You don’t hire them.”
Boland: “If someone is raised hardcore Catholic, it’s like, they’re brainwashed — you can never change their mindset.”
Boland: “For one position, I think we had 30 applicants. So out of all those applicants, I don’t think I interviewed anybody over the [age] of 30…the older you get, the more set in your ways — the more conservative you get.”
Connecticut Law, Section 46A-60B1, specifically bars discriminatory employment practices. A violation occurs if anyone refuses to hire or employ people “because of the individual’s race, color, religious creed, age, sex, gender identity or expression.”
On Friday, the Department of Justice (DOJ) released the affidavit supporting the FBI’s warrant application to raid former President Donald Trump’s Florida residence.
Nearly the entire 38-page affidavit released was redacted, with few lines offering insight into the FBI’s unprecedented raid of a former president. The document outlining the justifications to redact the redactions was itself also nearly entirely redacted.
The few sentences made public in the affidavit, however, show the FBI was motivated to comb through Trump’s 128-room living quarters because of a CBS News article that a truck was present at Mar-a-Lago in the final days of his presidency.
“Boxes Containing Documents Were Transported from the White House to Mar-a-Lago,” read a subject head. “According to a CBS Miami article titled ‘Moving Trucks Spotted At Mar-a-Lago,’ published Monday, January 18, 2021, at least two moving trucks were observed at the PREMISES on January 18, 2021.”
The affidavit also showcased the raid as a dramatic escalation of federal law enforcement targeting political opponents driven by a disgruntled employee at the National Archives.
The search, ultimately culminating in the confiscation of 15 boxes from Mar-a-Lago, was demanded by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) to reclaim presidential documents under government possession.
The NARA referral stated that according to NARA’s White House Liason Division Director, a preliminary review of the FIFTEEN BOXES indicated that they contained ‘newspapers, magazines, printed news articles, photos, miscellaneous print-outs, notes, presidential correspondence, personal and post-presidential records, and ‘a lot of classified records.’
Following criticism of the raid earlier this month, Attorney General Merrick Garland held a press conference where the nation’s chief law enforcement official admitted to personally signing off on the raid of the president whose inauguration nullified Garland’s Supreme Court nomination in 2017.
“First, I personally approved the decision to seek a search warrant in this matter,” Garland said, adding that the warrant was “narrowly scope[d].”
“The department does not take such a decision lightly. Where possible, it is standard practice to seek less intrusive means as an alternative to a search, and to narrowly scope any search that is undertaken,” Garland added.
Examination of the search warrant, however, shows the roughly 30 plainclothes agents were granted authority to seize any and all documents Trump came in contact with as president.
Are you fed up? Are you worried that America in rapidly sliding into a neo-Marxist state by the radical left in control of Washington with historically narrow majorities in the U.S. House and Senate and an Executive controlled by unnamed far leftists in place of a clinically incompetent President Biden? They are desperate to keep power and complete their radical progressive agenda that will change America and our liberty forever.
Americans just witnessed the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 without one Republican vote in the U.S. Senate and House (just as Obamacare was passed in 2010). The IRS will be hiring 87,000 new agents, many armed, to terrorize American taxpayers.
Americans witnessed the FBI raid at the Trump Mar-A-Lago home and property of President Trump, truly a first in all of American history. We know what that is about.
It is undeniable that the Democrat Party and the administrative state (the executive branches of the DOJ, FBI, IRS, et al) are clear and present dangers to our Republic and our liberty as they increasingly veer further away from the rule of law and the Constitution. What is the solution? At this critical juncture, there is only one action we can all take.
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Samuel Gregg, in his article on the French economist, Jacques Rueff, provides a timely reminder that inflation is much more than merely an economic phenomenon. It also has profound social effects. This, of course, was recognized by Keynes himself in the book that made him famous, The Economic Consequences of the Peace. He recognized that inflation functioned as a transfer of wealth from creditors to debtors, thus upsetting the previous social equilibrium; and he also quoted Lenin to the effect that the debasement of the currency was a sovereign method of producing revolutionary change.
Not all inflation is equally dramatic, of course. The grandfather of a German friend of mine once owned a portfolio of mortgages on valuable properties and soon found himself in possession of pieces of paper of less value than yesterday’s newspaper. Apparently, he took this loss philosophically and never turned to political extremism; he was later sent to Buchenwald. Not everyone in these circumstances stayed sane or decent, however.
But even less catastrophic levels of inflation have profound psychological, or perhaps I should say characterological, consequences. For one thing, inflation destroys the very idea of enough, because no one can have any confidence that a monetary income that at present is adequate will not be whittled down to very little in a matter of a few years. Not everyone desires to be rich, but most people desire not to be poor, especially in old age. Unfortunately, when there is inflation, the only way to insure against poverty in old age is either to be in possession of a government-guaranteed index-linked pension (which, however, is a social injustice in itself, and may one day be undermined by statistical manipulation by a government under the force of economic circumstances, partly brought about by the very existence of such pensions), or to become much richer than one would otherwise aim or desire to be. And the latter turns financial speculation from a minority into a mass pursuit, either directly or, more usually, by proxy: for not to speculate, but rather to place one’s trust in the value of money at a given modest return, is to risk impoverishment. I saw this with my own father: once prosperous, he fell by his aversion to speculation into comparative penury.
When inflation rises to a certain level, it is prudent to turn one’s money into something tangible as soon as it comes to hand, for tomorrow, as the song goes, will be too late. Everything becomes now or never.
With the concept of enough go those of modesty and humility. They are replaced by triumph and failure, the latter certain almost by definition to be the more frequent. The humble person becomes someone not laudable but careless of his future, possibly someone who will be a drain on others insofar as he has failed to make adequate provision for himself – even if, given his circumstances, it would have been impossible for him to have done so. For notwithstanding technical progress, automation, and robotics, we shall need people of humble and comparatively ill-paid employment for the foreseeable future.
Inflation plays havoc with the virtue of prudence, for what is prudence among the shifting sands of inflation? When inflation rises to a certain level, it is prudent to turn one’s money into something tangible as soon as it comes to hand, for tomorrow, as the song goes, will be too late. Everything becomes now or never. Traditional prudence becomes imprudence, or naivety, and vice versa.
Inflation comes in more than one form. For quite a number of years, it took the form of asset inflation, while the prices of consumables remained relatively constant or actually fell. This, in western societies, was the result, it seems to me, of a concatenation of at least two factors: the expansion of money while keeping interest rates low, and globalization that allowed everything to be produced as cheaply as possible. The former allowed governments to run on deficits without apparent consequences for years at a time, while the latter allowed the less well-off to think that they were living in times of little or no inflation.
Asset inflation, though, has certain social and psychological consequences. First, it puts the meaningful accumulation of assets for those who do not already possess them out of reach. (I speak, of course, in generalities; there are always exceptions). This in turn has the effect of transforming a society divided by permeable classes into a fixed caste society. There have always been advantages to being born in a well-off household, but asset inflation encourages them to become hard-wired, so to speak, into the social fabric.
Asset inflation fosters delusions in those who benefit from it. I sit in my house and grow richer, though of course, the house remains the same, with the same number of square feet (beside which, I have to live somewhere). I look at the value of my investments and hug myself, though in fact, their value has no relation to their yield, which overall remains much the same. I am richer only if I sell them – and then, what do I do with the money?
Nevertheless, I am richer on paper, and for some dizzy people this feeling of wealth encourages sumptuary expenditure, often on credit. Why not take out a loan when interest rates are low and asset prices rising? At one time in the not terribly distant past, my bank offered me $40,000 to pay for a holiday of a lifetime. Why not, when my house was increasing by far more than that every year? Luckily, I have lived (and live) a life of sufficient satisfaction that the concept of a “holiday of a lifetime” has no meaning for me: I cannot even imagine what it would be.
The inability of people at a lower level in the social scale to make any meaningful provision for themselves from savings, as well as the fact that so much is taken out of their hands by the state, means that their income is, in effect, pocket money of the kind that a child receives from its parents. They spend up to the hilt and even beyond, and remain economic minors. Gone in my lifetime is the idea that debt is to be avoided, that it is discreditable to live entirely on credit, and shameful not to repay. If you have no assets worth speaking of, the bailiffs have nothing to seize, and creditors can whistle for their money.
We have entered a more ‘traditional’ phase of inflation. No one knows how long it will last, or how serious it will be. But the very unpredictability creates anxiety even among those who have no real need to feel it – or rather, whom events will show to have had no need to feel it.
Inflation has not merely economic or social consequences, but moral and psychological ones too.
Are you fed up? Are you worried that America in rapidly sliding into a neo-Marxist state by the radical left in control of Washington with historically narrow majorities in the U.S. House and Senate and an Executive controlled by unnamed far leftists in place of a clinically incompetent President Biden? They are desperate to keep power and complete their radical progressive agenda that will change America and our liberty forever.
Americans just witnessed the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 without one Republican vote in the U.S. Senate and House (just as Obamacare was passed in 2010). The IRS will be hiring 87,000 new agents, many armed, to terrorize American taxpayers.
Americans witnessed the FBI raid at the Trump Mar-A-Lago home and property of President Trump, truly a first in all of American history. We know what that is about.
It is undeniable that the Democrat Party and the administrative state (the executive branches of the DOJ, FBI, IRS, et al) are clear and present dangers to our Republic and our liberty as they increasingly veer further away from the rule of law and the Constitution. What is the solution? At this critical juncture, there is only one action we can all take.
The only viable and timely solution at this critical point is to vote – yes, vote correctly and smartly to retake the U.S. House and Senate on November 8th and to prepare the way to retake the White House in two years. Vote and help everyone you know to vote. Please click the TAKE ACTION link below – we must vote correctly and in great numbers to be sure our votes are counted to diminish the potential for the left to rig and steal the midterms and the 2024 elections as they are clearly intending to do after their success in 2020.
“The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either—but right through every human heart.” – Alexander Solzhenitsyn
There is a lot of celebratory football-spiking going on in COVID response-skeptic social media circles.
When two groups of people are diametrically opposed to one another on a singular issue, and the beliefs of one of those groups is validated by events, the other group may just wish to slink away and “put everything behind them.”
I think this is happening with the COVID-19 pandemic. After years of misleading, politically-driven information campaigns designed to increase vaccine uptake, the CDC has finally admitted something that everyone knew, but most couldn’t say: that SARS-CoV-2 infection-acquired immunity protects against severe disease upon reinfection just as well or even better than vaccination.
The problem wasn’t just the messaging on protective immunity. From pushing damaging and unsustainable lockdowns to contriving a false consensus on masks to massively inflating risks of COVID-19 in children and schools, the CDC’s record has been utterly dismal.
After the reality-mugging of the last two and a half years, I’m sure many people in the CDC and other government agencies would like to quietly move on, much as the rest of the world already has.
But that can’t happen just yet. Some very tough and pointed questions need to be asked about the decisions that led to shutdowns and mandates and who made, influenced, and benefited from those decisions. The pandemic exposed a dysfunctional, politicized and risk-averse health bureaucracy with little incentive to act beyond its own naked self-interests. A bright and continuous spotlight on the systemic failures of government agencies is only the first step to meaningful reform. But it has to happen.
The temptation to place the blame for these failures on a single person or a small, yet powerful group of people will be irresistible. The concept of an evil mastermind or a sinister cabal of deep-state Illuminati pulling all the strings to shut down the world, hurt working-class people, and keep poor children out of school has been a reflexive way for many people to make sense of the messy world we’ve lived in since March 2020.
There are some problems with this way of thinking. The fact that most Western governments acted in a very similar manner—initially trying to reassure the public, then panicking and issuing lockdowns and other damaging policies and blaming the people when they didn’t work—raises an important question. How could a single person or group of people orchestrate all that so quickly?
When people are angry about so much needless destruction and waste, they want to put a face to that anger, to identify a target. They need someone to blame, someone to put on trial, condemn and cancel. It’s much more difficult to put institutions, systems, or culture on trial, and much less satisfying.
There were certainly many people who took advantage of pandemic chaos in rather dubious ways. They stockpiled masks or drugs to resell at huge profits, were compromised by ties to pharmaceutical companies, or gained notoriety by feeding the media’s insatiable appetite for sensationalized predictions of doom. Those representing special interests lined up to use the crisis to their advantage, and when they were successful, lobbied for more. This misbehavior should certainly not be ignored.
Yet if all the blame for the disastrous pandemic response is successfully put on one person or a group of people, it ensures there will be a scapegoat and only that. They might be put on trial, demonized, and canceled, a process that many of us would enjoy watching. But the systems and culture that incentivized them to behave badly will remain in place.
The CDC has already started the process of rebranding itself in light of its admitted failures. Predictably, it involves some cosmetic reorganization yet otherwise increases institutional power and reach. With these superficial changes, the ossified, dysfunctional culture will continue to balloon and lumber on, consuming more and more resources with an ever-decreasing net benefit, waiting to be exposed again by another crisis. Rinse and repeat.
Accepting the CDC’s faux contrition and bogus pledge of reform would be a mistake. The organization is in need of a serious overhaul. The conflict of interest that results when government organizations make policy recommendations and fund research to support those recommendations needs to be removed by separating both functions. Positions should not be guaranteed for life, but subject to periodic renewal, and easier to terminate. The power of permanent bureaucrats to micromanage national health policy should be minimized as much as possible.
Most skeptical readers will read the above and say, “Yeah, right. Not gonna happen,” and I would tend to agree with that. In fact, I think the problem is even more intractable than just institutional reform. After all, as many people in the CDC and other government agencies liked to remind us during the pandemic, they only make recommendations. They didn’t force the federal government, states, and cities to implement and enforce mandates. All of those places did so on their own, unfortunately with great energy and enthusiasm. For many aspiring totalitarians, CDC recommendations were merely a convenient foil for increasing their own power and influence.
Perhaps the most important question is, where would leaders get the idea that all of this behavior was, not only acceptable but commendable?
The answer is—they got the idea from us. The public long ago accepted that government organizations like the CDC have assumed responsibility for their well-being, during normal times and in times of crisis. If the CDC can’t protect us and provide the absolute certainty we demand during times of crisis, then what are they good for? An excellent question.
The pandemic has shown that government agencies cannot, in fact, do those things very well at all. Even if they could protect people and provide them with absolute certainty, they wouldn’t be incentivized to do so. Instead, in a crisis government agencies will follow the path of least resistance, in this case providing an illusion of safety, security, and control for politicians and the public. All one had to do was believe the illusion. Because of the absolute terror of the unknown and complete ignorance of the risks of severe disease and death, most people were more than willing to take comfort in CDC recommendations and subsequent government mandates without the slightest hint of skepticism or protest. A pervasive safety-at-all costs culture enabled all of it.
By all means, we need to take a very long and hard look at the leaders and bureaucrats that took the easiest, yet the most damaging path of lockdowns and mandates. We need to expose all of their corruption, incompetence, and hypocrisy. It’s going to be a huge task that will take a considerable amount of time, and it has to happen.
Yet ultimately, when looking for someone to blame for the disastrous pandemic response, the most important place we need to look is in the mirror.
Steve Templeton is Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at Indiana University School of Medicine – Terre Haute. Formerly CDC/NIOSH. Immunology of Infectious Disease.
Are you fed up? Are you worried that America in rapidly sliding into a neo-Marxist state by the radical left in control of Washington with historically narrow majorities in the U.S. House and Senate and an Executive controlled by unnamed far leftists in place of a clinically incompetent President Biden? They are desperate to keep power and complete their radical progressive agenda that will change America and our liberty forever.
Americans just witnessed the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 without one Republican vote in the U.S. Senate and House (just as Obamacare was passed in 2010). The IRS will be hiring 87,000 new agents, many armed, to terrorize American taxpayers.
Americans witnessed the FBI raid at the Trump Mar-A-Lago home and property of President Trump, truly a first in all of American history. We know what that is about.
It is undeniable that the Democrat Party and the administrative state (the executive branches of the DOJ, FBI, IRS, et al) are clear and present dangers to our Republic and our liberty as they increasingly veer further away from the rule of law and the Constitution. What is the solution? At this critical juncture, there is only one action we can all take.
The only viable and timely solution at this critical point is to vote – yes, vote correctly and smartly to retake the U.S. House and Senate on November 8th and to prepare the way to retake the White House in two years. Vote and help everyone you know to vote. Please click the TAKE ACTION link below – we must vote correctly and in great numbers to be sure our votes are counted to diminish the potential for the left to rig and steal the midterms and the 2024 elections as they are clearly intending to do after their success in 2020.
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During this year’s edition of FreedomFest in Las Vegas, Nevada, Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe sat down with C-SPAN’s Peter Slen to discuss the current state of American media.
James talked about the core themes of his latest book, “American Muckraker,” and why it is a true guide for those who aspire to become investigative journalists in the modern age.
You can watch the highlights of his interview on C-SPAN2
TRANSCRIPT
Peter Slen, C-SPAN:Is it okay to deceive a subject you’re investigating?
James O’Keefe, Project Veritas:Your question is an interesting one, because it’s a question of relative deception. Because either you deceive your subject that you’re investigating to tell the truth to your audience, or you don’t deceive your subject and you tell untruths to your audience. In other words, if you just take what your subject is saying at face value, you’ll be disseminating perhaps falsehoods to millions of people. So, there’s an ethicist named Lewis Hodges who argues in a thesis paper: you have a moral imperative to deceive your subject if your mission is to tell the truth to your audience. This is also written about in a book called, ‘The Journalist and The Murderer,’ which is a famous book in the 1990s. Janet Malcolm, who is a legendary journalist, wrote that a journalist always deceives their subject. It’s a confidence game that you must play if your intention is to do investigative reporting. If your intention is to read off teleprompters, to play a stenographer, and to tell the public what the two-star general wants you to know, well, I would argue that’s a worse deception. You must choose between these two types of “deceptions,” but it’s paramount that you tell the truth to your audience. That’s what a journalist is supposed to do. There has always been a tension in journalism between what I call in this book [American Muckraker], access and autonomy. There’s always a tension there, because some people need to get really close to their sources and sometimes need to aggressively, and adversarially investigate their sources. So, you have to strike that balance just perfectly. But these days in journalism — its become too out of balance in the early 21st century. I think in the mid 20th century, investigative reporting was — you had the Chicago Sun Times doing these investigations where they’re posing as bartenders, you had, you know, most famously Upton Sinclair. Upton Sinclair was [celebrated] by journalists in New York for what he did. You don’t really see that anymore, right? You don’t on cable news. People just sort of sit up there and opine and talk about what they think. You know, none of these journalists on cable have really broken big aggressive stories. Most of the stories are broken through people like me. For example, The Washington Post won a Pulitzer surprise for investigating me — not corruption in the government. So, you need to have the spirit of investigative reporting, and citizens need to do it. You kind of have a [need for a] Renaissance and go back to what was done decades ago.
Slen:Has there ever been a moment in your career where you said, “I just can’t do this again.” I mean, this is really hard. This is really uncomfortable.
O’Keefe:Yes. In the first chapter of this book, American Muckraker, which is a journalism textbook, it’s about suffering. You might say, why would you write a chapter in a journalism book about such a theme like that? Because I think there’s a lot of trauma that has occurred in my life and in the lives of the people that work for me. Whether you’re being a whistleblower and you’re violating your nondisclosure agreement, you’re, you know, you’re fired from your job. I was arrested in 2010 by the FBI, eventually exonerated from what they accused me of. I was — we [Project Veritas] were raided by the FBI in November. These are federal agents taking journalists’ work product, rifling through anonymous sources in order to find out if you’ve committed crimes. These are traumatizing things that shake the foundation of what it means to be a journalist, what it means to be an American.
Slen:Do you think it’s because of some of the topics that you’re addressing that were ignored, edited, or ridiculed by the mainstream media?
O’Keefe:I don’t know if it’s so much politics as it is power. There is, you know, as Noam Chomsky wrote about, which I refer to in American Muckraker — he wrote a book called Manufacturing Consent. There is a symbiotic relationship between people in power and the media due to kind of a reciprocity of interest. For example, CNN, one of their main advertisers is Pfizer pharmaceutical in the commercial break. You actually hear it. You know, it’s become a cliche, “Brought to you by Pfizer.” So, we kind of take that for granted on the commercials, but if you are literally paid by a billion-dollar corporation, can you investigate that corporation? Of course not. We take this for granted growing up in America. We grow up seeing the media operate the way it does, but these are not right-wing arguments. I mean, Noam Chomsky is not a right-winger. Glenn Greenwald is not a right-winger. You begin to realize there’s more of us than there are of them in the sense that there’s more people that believe in truth and transparency than believe in darkness and corruption. There’s a place in the world for people like that. Without people like that, investigative journalists can’t do their jobs. It’s the bread and butter of what it means to be an American and the right to report [news]. What someone tells you is being fundamentally — fundamentally is in jeopardy right now. In our case with the FBI, they’re trying to take that right away from us right here. I had ACLU lawyers in my office last month telling me, by the way, they’re defending us. The ACLU is writing to the judge, trying to unseal the warrants against me. They said this has never happened before in American history. “James O’Keefe what’s happened to you has never happened before to any journalist.” Now they’re starting to point guns at us and take our reporters’ notebooks. That’s never happened before. So, I do admire people like Ed Snowden. I admire Julian Assange. I admire Dan Ellsberg. I admire Mike Wallace. I don’t know what’s happened. I don’t know why the billion-dollar [media] corporations aren’t doing the job — it’s left to scrappy, broke, entrepreneurial, enterprising people. But so be it.
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