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“PRO-REFUGEE” PARIS NOW HAS 300,000 ILLEGAL MIGRANTS CRAMMED INTO ONE NEIGHBORHOOD
SEINE-ST. DENIS, PARIS
When you come into a country legally with the intent of assimilating into that culture and becoming a productive, active member of that society, that’s immigration. When you barge across someone else’s borders, snub their culture and tell them to screw off because you’ve decided to take over their space, that’s invasion.
The United Nations is being criticized around the world once again for providing yet another example of what critics have described as its “war on journalism.” While various UN bigwigs seek to have newspapers shut down and journalists thrown into prison for their journalism, UN security officials in New York City were caught on camera violently removing a high-profile journalist, known for exposing UN corruption, from the UN building. Now, as the latest UN attack on press freedom makes headlines worldwide and attracts criticism from human-rights groups, the UN is trying to justify its scheming. The journalist, meanwhile, just wants journalists to be allowed to do their job without being targeted and harassed.
On June 22, longtime journalist Matthew Lee of Inner City Presswas trying to report as the UN Secretary-General and Socialist Party operative António Guterres gave a speech. For reasons that remain unclear, Lee was manhandled and ordered to leave by armed UN security guards. When he asked senior UN officials in the vicinity, including UN Under-Secretary General Catherine Pollard, to intervene or explain, they refused. The guards, meanwhile, refused to identify themselves, and refused to explain whose orders they were supposedly following in evicting Lee from the premises. They also refused to let him get his computer, interfering with his important work reporting on the UN.
Incredibly, the scandal took a turn for the worse the day before U.S. Independence Day. While covering a UN committee meeting on the “peacekeeping” budget on July 3, Lee was violently evicted from the UN compound by UN security yet again. Again, after having been repeatedly harassed by the UN, Lee was physically removed from the UN building in New York City without being given a reason why. During the forced removal, UN security guards ripped Lee’s shirt, damaged his laptop, twisted his arm, and forcibly threw him out on the street. The whole episode was caught on video and has been viewed almost 20,000 times on YouTube. It has also been reported to police.
When Lee tried to enter the UN again, he was informed that he was now banned from the premises, apparently in retaliation for filing a complaint against the guards. Now, there is supposedly a “review” into Lee and his accreditation underway by the UN. But as of now, there has been no announcement of any investigation or review into what critics said was the outrageous treatment of a journalist. Some advocates called for the security guards involved to be suspended pending a review into the violent treatment they inflicted on a harmless journalist in the process of doing his job.
Lee, of course, is a widely read and widely respected sleuth who has probably exposed more UN corruption and wrongdoing than the rest of the resident UN “press pool” combined — literally — since he was first accredited more than a decade ago. Among the huge stories that Lee has worked on are articles exposing sexual abuses and even child rape by UN “peace” troops, the UN’s role in bringing cholera to Haiti, massive corruption among top UN officials and hangers-on, war crimes in various countries in which the UN was involved, and much more. And so, UN bigwigs do not like him. Neither do some of his fellow “journalists” at the UN, many of whom work for autocratic UN member governments.
This is not Lee’s first dust-up with the UN. As The New American reported in 2016, the muckraking journalist was unceremoniously evicted from his office at UN headquarters as if he were some sort of crime boss. UN officials ripped off his UN media badge and even seized his personal phone. Adding insult to injury, Lee was not even given access to his own files or his coat before being forcibly ejected from the building by a phalanx of eight UN security guards. “You are a trespasser on UN property,” one of the UN guards barked at Lee as he was being ordered off the premises shortly after receiving his expulsion notice. They even searched his office and threw his laptop on the ground. After that, he was eventually downgraded from a resident correspondent to a non-resident correspondent, making his life and his job much more difficult while paving the way for the current scandal.
In an e-mail to The New American, Lee said the reason why the UN was trying to keep him out was obvious. “Up to the level of Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, they don’t like the coverage: of UN corruption (now the China Energy Fund Committee UN bribery case), UN sexual abuse, Guterres inaction on slaughter in Cameroon, etc.,” he explained. “When I first got to the UN there were several other critical reporters on these topics. Now, much less so. So to them, the solution was to rough me up and ban me.”
And despite trying to portray itself as a guardian of press freedom and human rights, the UN is neither, Lee opined. Speaking of its treatment of journalists in particular, Lee highlighted the physical violence and lawless banning of a “critical journalist.” Separately, the UN does not have an equivalent to the Freedom of Information Act. And there are no content-neutral accreditation rules, Lee explained. “It is a set up for what happened,” he said, noting that a UN spokesman had vowed to make things worse for him after watching a video Lee made. “I get roughed up, banned, no due process, no end in sight.”
In a statement to Fox News, UN boss Guterres’ spokesman Farhan Haq tried to justify the treatment meted out to Lee. Haq claimed Lee had been in violation of the rules for non-resident correspondents, the status to which he was downgraded in 2016 after exposing widespread UN corruption at the highest echelons. “On the evening of 3 July, U.N. Security was alerted to a violation in the use of an access card, in which a person was using his access card to enter an off-limits area,” Haq claimed, saying Lee was not allowed to “roam around the UN compound at that hour” and that “he would be required to leave the premises.”
“At that point, Mr. Lee became loud and belligerent, and resisted the instructions of UN security officers. He was then escorted outside the building, along with his laptop and backpack,” Haq continued. “Based on his unacceptable behavior, and the fact that he was a repeat offender, having been similarly removed from the building on 22 June 2018, Matthew Lee has been temporarily barred from the premises pending a full review of this incident.”
Watchdogs, however, spoke out about the case and suggested something was seriously wrong at the UN. “This most recent incident is the latest in a long history of harassment directed at a journalist who has been critical of UN management and operations over the years,” explained Senior International Policy Analyst Beatrice Edwards with the non-profit Government Accountability Project (GAP), pointing to the investigative reporting and the crucial stories Lee has broken. “In short, as a journalist, Mr. Lee has been doing his job at the UN by keeping the English-speaking public informed about both achievements and misconduct there. It should be noted that, in the course of performing his duties, Mr. Lee has always been observant of UN protocols and respectful in his interactions with UN officials.”
The Government Accountability Project is “deeply concerned about the mistreatment of Matthew Lee” for two primary reasons, continued Edwards, who is known for her work defending whistleblowers. “First, he has covered UN whistleblower cases accurately and in detail, and we regard the mistreatment of him as retaliatory,” she said. “Secondly, his exclusion from the UN premises because of capricious, unannounced and unknown decisions of senior managers bodes ill for the treatment of journalists in UN Member States. It is important to note the privileged ability of UN managers to execute maneuvers of this sort in order to protect themselves from unbiased coverage.”
As such, Edwards and the Government Accountability Project urged member states of the UN to help combat the “silencing of a journalist” by “taking action at the offices of the self-appointed guardian of free speech.” GAP said Lee should be reinstated as a resident correspondent with appropriate access to facilities and events, and that the UN should issue a public apology for the improper expulsion. In a follow-up piece after the harassment of Lee intensified, Edwards also highlighted the broader problem that the UN itself gets to decide who is allowed to report on the UN — an obvious conflict of interest that extends into a broad range of UN functions and seriously harms efforts at oversight and investigation.
Speaking to The New American, Lee said the UN should “immediately” let him back in and restore him to the office from which he was evicted in 2016 after pursuing the highly significant story of communist bribery at the UN involving former UN General Assembly boss John Ashe. “The UN should also institute content neutral accreditation and access rules, and due process, for all journalists,” Lee added, saying he has been asking top UN officials to do this since they took office “without any response except now being roughed up twice and banned for four weeks and counting.” He also blasted the UN’s immunity. “I would like to sue the UN to vindicate journalists’ and We the Peoples’ rights,” he said. And finally, Lee asked people to sign a petition to restore his access and to contact the UN to demand that Inner City Press be allowed back to its office.
The irony of having the world’s self-styled guardian of press freedom terrorizing and banning journalists is hard to ignore. But unfortunately, it is a problem that has become not just common, but pervasive at the institution widely dubbed by critics as the “dictators club.” Lee said the current UN leadership is as corrupt as he has ever seen — and that is really saying something. With U.S. taxpayers being the largest financiers of this farce, it is time for Americans to declare that enough is enough. Congress and the Trump administration should act.
Two UN Guards Pull Inner City Press Away From Budget, Tear Shirt as Guterres ASG Approves
As UN Barred Inner City Press From Covering $6.7B Budget, ASG Saunders Cheered Arm Twist
LEE FILES POLICE REPORT
By Matthew Russell Lee, Video, Petition, Q&A, 2d Video
UNITED NATIONS, July 5 – Inner City Press this morning was banned from entering the UN, the day after it filed a criminal complaint against UN Security for physically removing it from covering the meeting about the UN’s $6.7 billion peacekeeping budget, as witnessed and essentially cheered on by senior UN official Christian Saunders, tearing its reporter’s shirt, painfully and intentionally twisting his arm and slamming shut and damaging his laptop. Secretary General Antonio Guterres was informed on June 25 by Inner City Press of the escalating targeting by his UN Security Lieutenant Ronald E. Dobbins. In fact, Guterres deputy spokesman Farhan Haq on July 3 essentially gave the green light for that evening’s Security violence. On July 5, Guterres’ lead spokesman Stephane Dujarric refused to answer press questions about the ouster before “his” noon briefing. Afterward, when Saunders sauntered out of the UN in black sunglasses and was informed that Inner City Press was now banned, his response was to complain about some of the written coverage of him. Video here. So is that why he cheered on the twisting of the Press’ arm? Will this obviously biased official be witness in the “full review of the incident” pending which Inner City Press is indefinitely banned? Brenden Varma the Spokesperson for the President of the General Assembly Miroslav Lajcak (whose chief of staff and under-staffer were also informed of the Press ban) said, as his office summarized, “This afternoon at 3:00, the General Assembly’s Fifth Committee, which handles administrative and budgetary matters, will formally take action on all outstanding issues, including United Nations peacekeeping budgets and the Secretary-General’s management reform and peace and security architecture reform proposals.
It will then close the second part of its resumed session.
Following that, the General Assembly plenary will meet to consider the report of the Fifth Committee.” Inner City Press was banned from this meeting and vote. While the UN has told Inner City Press nothing, Guterres spokesman Farhan Haq told FOX News’ Adam Shaw that “security followed up, they found Matthew Lee to be in the building past 9 p.m., well after the hours for a non-resident correspondent, and they informed him that he was not allowed to roam around the UN compound at that hour. They informed him that he would be required to leave the premises. At that point, Mr. Lee became loud and belligerent, and resisted the instructions of UN security officers. He was then escorted outside the building, along with his laptop and backpack. Based on his unacceptable behavior, and the fact that he was a repeat offender, having been similarly removed from the building on 22 June 2018, Matthew Lee has been temporarily barred from the premises pending a full review of this incident.” But Inner City Press has not been contacted for any review, which would have to include UN Security twisting its reporter’s arm before any volume, and the MALU rule permitted coverage of meetings after 7 pm, and for an hour after then end. This was pure targeting, and Guterres and his team are responsible. Eleven days after UN Security officers led by UN Lieutenant Ronald E. Dobbin and four others who refused to give their names pushed Inner City Press’ reporter out of the UN during a speech by Secretary General Antonio Guterres, on July 3 just after Inner City Press interviewed the chairman of the UN Budget Committee, Dobbins and another UN Security officer even more physically removed Inner City Press from the UN. Video here, tweeted here. Hours later as diplomats and Guterres officials who witnessed it left the UN, Inner City Press asked Guterres’ Under Secretary General for Field Support Atul Khare about the process. He admitted, contrary to Guterres’ spokesman, that the Support Account was still not agreed. Shown the shirt that UN Security officers Dobbins and his thus far UNnamed partner tore, he said, “I’ll talk to DPI.” While appreciated, Inner City Press already six times wrote to DPI’s Alison Smale – with no response….
Anna Taylor, The founder and CEO of gun holster company Dene Adams, has garnered attention online for her concealed carry corsets, which allow her to carry up to four guns and a knife at any one time.
Now she has revealed how she, her husband, and her seven children, ages five to 16, remain “situationally aware” and fully educated in marksmanship.
Anna, 35, told Barcroft TV: “I know that evil exists and I certainly don’t live in fear. But it is a reality, and I am the first line of defense for my children and my family.
“I’ve heard it said ‘I carry a gun because a cop’s too big to fit in my purse.’ Well that’s so true.”
Living on several acres of private Kansas land with her husband, Jason and their blended family of seven children, Anna regularly takes the family shooting on their home range.
The group, from five-year-old Savanna, to 16-year-old Samie, all enjoy shooting, though Savanna is in a “dry-fire” stage where she uses unloaded guns.
Seven-year-old Addi says his favorite gun is a rifle, while eight-year-old Dylan prefers a pistol.
Now Anna has ambitions to build her business into the number-one holster company in the world. But she had to overcome some harrowing experiences to get where she is today.
Between the ages of 13 and 18, she says she was raped on three separate occasions by different people.
“Growing up in Topeka, Kansas, I was very quiet and closed off. It’s the quiet, reserved and unsure girls that are targeted by predators.
“What I realized, with the knowledge I have now, it was the victim mentality that I had.”
In her 20s, Anna moved to a rough part of Kansas City with her two children, and recalls how vulnerable she felt after a neighbor was gunned down.
“One day, just down the block from us, three guys kicked in the front door and shot and killed the homeowner,” she explained.
“I remember going on walks with the kids through the neighborhood when they were rolling up the bloody carpet to tear out of that house. It was such a vulnerable place to be.
“I thought that if somebody was to bust down my door and intrude at night, I would be very defenseless against them. So I really wanted to get my concealed carry permit.”
With a fourth child on the way, Anna finally decided to buy her first gun, before going on to become a USCCA training counselor and an NRA certified instructor.
At home, Anna now has an impressive collection of guns including a Desert Eagle that is fully plated in 24-karat gold.
“I have a Glock 19 and an extra 31 round Glock Magazine,” she explained. “I have a Walther CCP, all 9 millimetres. I have a North-American Arms mini revolver, and a Sig Sauer P238, which is a micro 380.
“I’ve got guns in all kinds of colors.”
After failing to find a workable concealed carry solution for these weapons, Anna resorted to sewing a mouse pad to her postpartum wrap.
Pleased with her makeshift design, in 2013 the young entrepreneur founded Dene Adams – named after her grandad – and started producing concealed carry corsets based on her mouse pad prototype.
Husband, Jason said: “I am extremely proud of Anna. She never ceases to amaze me. Just the way Anna is able to maintain composure and is always striving to learn and create and challenge herself.”
That ability to maintain composure plays into what Anna says are the most important aspects of refusing to be a victim: “being aware, prepared, and knowing how to avoid conflict.”
And it’s not just Anna who remains aware of these principles. Her children have also been equipped with all the skills necessary to make sure they know how a firearm works.
Anna says the firearm education she provides to her kids is part of keeping them safe around guns and preventing accidents, and that she’s not concerned about their exposure to weapons.
“I’ve carried since some of the kids were little,” she explained. “My second-youngest, she was still nursing and I would carry my gun around my waist so since they’ve been little they’ve been up against a firearm or seen it, or felt it, or known that it was there.
“And it’s a tremendous responsibility and you have to be willing to take on that responsibility. If you neglect to teach them safety and respect. and teach them bad habits then that’s 100 percent on you.
“So from day one I have taught them and taught them how it works.
“Removing the mystery, teaching them how it works, as well as respect for life, and that a gun can be dangerous if misused is what I teach them.”
Asked whether she sees any problem with guns in the US more generally, she explained how she views personal responsibility as the major factor in the debate.
“The US has a personal responsibility problem. The US has a parenting problem. I don’t even know how many guns there are in America, but I know it’s a lot.
“When someone does not have personal responsibility or care for the life of others, it doesn’t matter what tool they get their hands on.
“If someone has ill intent and they don’t have respect for human life, they will find a way to cause harm to others. Definitely not a gun problem.”
The One Mom Army Carrying An Arsenal In Her Corset
A MOTHER-OF-SEVEN and gun expert has spoken out about teaching her family marksmanship fundamentals and overcoming the “victim mentality”. Anna Taylor, The founder and CEO of gun holster company Dene Adams, has garnered attention online for her concealed carry corsets, which allow her to carry up to four guns and a knife at any one time. Now she has revealed how she, her husband, and her seven children, ages five to 16, remain “situationally aware” and fully educated in marksmanship.
If confronted with the threat of great bodily harm or death of myself or a loved one, would God want me to use deadly force? In this video Anna Taylor shares how she feels on the topic of self defense and God. Anna Taylor CEO of Dene Adams has been a born again Christian since the age of 5.
MICHELLE MALKIN SAYS DEMOCRATS WANT TO “ABOLISH EVERY LAST FOUNDING PRINCIPLE”
As seen on Hannity
CRTV host and author Michelle Malkin said she is proud that President Trump continues to fulfill promises he made to “forgotten” Americans, especially on border security and immigration.
THEY AGREE WITH TRUMP THAT GOVERNMENT MAY HAVE TO BE SHUT DOWN TO GET NEW BORDER PROTECTION & IMMIGRATION LAWS
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COLUMBIA, S.C. —The sexually-centered abortion and contraception giant Planned Parenthood has filed a lawsuit against the State of South Carolina for ending Medicaid funding to entities that provide abortions.
“The executive order has forced PPSAT (Planned Parenthood South Atlantic) to stop providing basic preventative health services to the Medicaid patients who rely on us each year for family planning and other preventive health care. Every day that this continues, both PPSAT and our patients are irreparably harmed,” the organization said in a statement.
“We recognized it was critical to seek legal action to ensure that our patients who use Medicaid as their primary form of insurance can continue to seek care at Planned Parenthood, their trusted health care provider,” it remarked.
On July 13, Gov. Henry McMaster issued an order directing the South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (DDHS) to deem abortion facilities as being “unqualified to provide family planning services” and to cancel their enrollment in the state Medicaid program.
“[T]he payment of taxpayer funds to abortion clinics, for any purpose, results in the subsidy of abortion and the denial of the right to life,” the order reads. “[A]bortion clinics’ primary focus on denying the right to life is contrary to and conflicts with the State’s obligation to preserve and protect that right.”
It notes that last August, McMaster likewise directed DDHS to take steps to obtain a waiver from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in order to exclude abortion facilities from the program.
However, as negotiations are ongoing and CMS has not yet approved the waiver, McMaster vetoed the 2018-2019 family planning appropriation in the DDHS budget and rather directed the organization to expend the funds in a manner that only reimburses family planning entities that do not perform abortions.
“Taxpayer dollars must not directly or indirectly subsidize abortion providers like Planned Parenthood,” he said in his veto explanation. “There are a variety of agencies, clinics, and medical entities in South Carolina that receive taxpayer funding to offer important women’s health and family planning services without performing abortions.”
Last August, McMaster also ordered DDHS to create a publicly available list of women’s health and family planning offices operating within 25 miles of any abortion facility. There are three abortion facilities in the state, one of which is run by Planned Parenthood.
Planned Parenthood South Atlantic consequently sued the State last week, along with one of its patrons, arguing that federal law prohibits the government from obstructing a person on Medicaid from using the provider of their choice.
The organization’s social media pages feature a number of sexually-related posts, including one posted on July 25 that reads, “Masturbating is totally healthy and normal. There are tons of myths out there meant to scare you into thinking masturbation is wrong or bad. But the truth is, solo sex is perfectly safe. In fact, it’s actually the safest way to experience sexual pleasure—there’s no risk of pregnancy or STDs. #selflove #feelinmyself #facts #health”
It also posted a graphic on June 13 that asserts, “Trans women are women.”
McMaster has vowed to fight the Planned Parenthood lawsuit “with everything he has.”
“Like millions of South Carolinians, [McMaster] believes in the fundamental right to life for unborn children and does not believe tax dollars should go to organizations that perform elective abortions,” spokesman Brian Symmes told the outlet The State.
“It is utterly laughable that Planned Parenthood claims poor women have nowhere else to turn for health services,” also opined Holly Gatling, executive director of South Carolina Citizens for Life. “There are numerous health clinics throughout South Carolina that offer high quality, comprehensive health care to women of childbearing age without peddling abortion as just another means of birth control.” ______________________________________________________________
SC Governor Vetoes Heath Care Money to Prevent Planned Parenthood Funding
According to a report in Spanish newspaper El Mundo, North Africa is becoming a “pressure cooker,” with at least 50,000 African migrants desperate to cross into the European country via the Strait of Gibraltar.
If young adults are America’s future, then they better get their act together.
Today, over 30 percent of 18 to 34-year-olds live with their parents or other family members. Meanwhile, marriage rates and fertility rates in the United States have both hit record lows in recent years. Instead of coddling these self-absorbed Millennial narcissists well into their adult years, we need to be kicking them out of the nest and encouraging them to learn to fend for themselves. In many instances, if they do not learn how to act like adults by the time they are 35, they never will. It is time for parents all over America to exercise some tough love, because we are facing a major national crisis.
If you go all the way back to the mid-1970s, well over half of all 18 to 34-year-olds were already married and lived with their new spouse in their new households.
In 1975, when the oldest Boomers were 29, 57% of 18 to 34- year-olds lived with a spouse in their own household. Even as late as 1990, almost half lived with a partner. But in 2016, 31% were living in their parents’ home, making it the new, most common living arrangement for young adults, according to Census data.
Yes, I know that life is rough and housing is expensive and good jobs are hard to find.
But that is what being an adult is all about – overcoming the tough times and learning to stand on your own. And because our young people are not getting out on their own, a lot fewer of them are getting married and having children. Here are some more numbers from Axios…
In 2017, 57% of millennials were never married. In 1985 — when boomers were around the same age — only a third had never been married, Pew Research’s Richard Fry told Axios. Even accounting for unmarried living partners does not make up the difference, he said.
Having fewer children: When Boomers were in their 20s, the fertility rate was 2.48, well beyond the replacement level of 2.1. Today, it is just 1.76.
When a recent survey asked why they were having fewer kids, most young adults said “child care is too expensive.”
Sadly, a lot of parents actively encourage their children to put off marriage and children. I have actually listened to many of these conversations personally. The young people are told that they cannot be “tied down” while they are getting an “education”, and that “pursuing a career” must come first.
“Suicide rates in the United States have risen nearly 30 percent since 1999, and mental health conditions are one of several factors contributing to suicide,” the CDC researchers wrote in their report.
“From 1999 to 2015, suicide rates increased among both sexes, all racial/ethnic groups, and all urbanization levels.”
We are not a happy country, and it is time for a change.
Unfortunately, it is not going to be easy to turn things around because the process begins very early. Our young people are not prepared for life as adults because the education system in this nation is a complete joke.
Let me say it again so that you understand me perfectly.
The education system in this nation is a complete joke.
I know, because I spent 20 years in the system. I graduated from public high school and then I went on to spend an additional 8 years at public universities.
We are witnessing the systematic “dumbing down” of America, and our schools are producing an endless stream of brain-dead zombies. One study that was conducted not too long ago found that one-third of all high schools in the city of Baltimore did not have a single student that was proficient in math…
An alarming discovery coming out of City Schools. Project Baltimore analyzed 2017 state testing data and found one-third of High Schools in Baltimore, last year, had zero students proficient in math.
You would figure that every school would have at least a few nerdy kids that were good with numbers, but apparently that is not the case in Baltimore.
After leading the world for decades in 25-34-year-olds with university degrees, the U.S. is now in 12th place. The World Economic Forum ranked the U.S. at 52nd among 139 nations in the quality of its university math and science instruction in 2010.
According to the 2009 National Assessment of Educational Progress,68% of public school children in the U.S. do not read proficiently by the time they finish third grade. And the U.S. News & World reported that barely 50% of students are ready for college-level reading when they graduate…
And in case you are tempted to think that last number is exaggerated, PBS has reported that in one recent year more than 200 colleges had to place “more than half of incoming students in at least one remedial course”…
Data from 911 two- and four-year colleges revealed that 96 percent of schools enrolled students who required remediation in the 2014-15 academic year, the most comprehensive recent numbers. At least 209 schools placed more than half of incoming students in at least one remedial course.
It isn’t as though most college courses are very challenging either. The truth is that the family dog could have passed most of the courses that I ever had to sit through.
And instead of teaching our kids useful skills that can be used in the marketplace, many of these courses are all about indoctrinating them to see the world in a particular way…
Colleges nationwide are teaching students about tacos, hooking up and country music’s “homophobic and racist” message — but those are just a few examples, as classes such as “Queer Religion” and “Racial Capitalism” become the new norm.
If we want America to have any sort of a positive future, we need to completely change our approach to education, and then we need to kick our kids out of the nest when they reach a certain age so that they can learn to be adults.
Because right now what we are doing is not working, and as a result we have a giant mess on our hands.
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This will be more Left-wing bias, and more censorship of views that dissent from the Left’s agenda, since it is certain that the “experts in Islam” that Twitter has hired are apologists who insist it is a religion of peace, not people who actually know and are willing to state what is in the Qur’an and Sunnah.
“Twitter hires experts in Islam and right-wing populism to banish ‘intolerant discourse,’” by Jasper Hamill, Metro, July 30, 2018:
Twitter has launched a new scheme to clamp down on ‘abuse, harassment and other types of behaviours that can detract or distort from the public conversation’.
It has selected two teams of academics to begin a project aimed at silencing the wrong type of speech on the social network.
The researchers have expertise in a wide range of subject areas including Islam, diversity and the spread of right-wing populism.
They will work to measure the effect of echo chambers and hate speech on Twitter, with the data used to guide the tech giant’s future strategy.
‘Earlier this year, as part of our global health initiative, we committed to serving the public conversation and working to increase the collective health, openness, and civility of the dialogue on our service,’ wrote Vijaya Gadde, who works as legal, policy and trust and safety lead at Twitter.
‘We want everyone’s experience on Twitter to be free of abuse, harassment and other types of behaviours that can detract or distort from the public conversation….
Dr. Rebekah Tromble, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Leiden University, is leader of a scheme called ‘examining echo chambers and uncivil discourse’.
She has a PhD in political science with a minor in ‘transnational Islam’ and wrote her dissertation called: ‘Who Framed the Prophet? Media, Stakeholders, and the Debate over the Danish Cartoon Controversy.’
Tromble will work with several scientists including Dr. Michael Meffert, who also works at Leiden University and has written several papers on the right-wing.
‘In the context of growing political polarization, the spread of misinformation, and increases in incivility and intolerance, it is clear that if we are going to effectively evaluate and address some of the most difficult challenges arising on social media, academic researchers and tech companies will need to work together much more closely,’ Tromble said….
It will also attempt to develop algorithms which hunt out ‘intolerant discourse’ and automatically recognise hate speech, racism or xenophobia.
Shanahan’s lawyer said: “We presented voluminous evidence of the unreliability and lack of veracity of the complainant. This case should never have been brought. It’s my opinion the authorities, particularly the New York City Police Department, took the path of least resistance and they arrested the law-abiding, hard-working, tax-paying landlord because the tenant was playing the race/ethnicity card, and she alleged she was being victimized by the landlord because she’s a Muslim. Nothing could have been further from the truth. The only victim here was Ms. Shanahan.”
Muslim victimhood is a big business. Islamic advocacy groups such as the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) get so much mileage out of claims of “Islamophobia” that “anti-Muslim hate crimes” are all too often faked by Muslims themselves.
“Criminal charges against ex-Conservative Party chair tossed in Muslim tenant’s eviction,” by Frank Donnelly, SILive.com, July 30, 2018:
Mary Lou Shanahan, 55, was arrested on Oct. 4, 2015, and charged with illegally removing everything from Hasna Jalal’s apartment, including TVs, furniture, sofas, a bed, kitchen appliances and other personal items three days earlier. She was also accused of changing the apartment’s locks.
Jalal was living on the third floor of Shanahan’s home.
In her civil suit, Jalal alleged Shanahan had disparaged her when she heard Jalal speaking on the phone with Moroccan relatives in her native tongue, called her offensive names and threatened her.
Shanahan was charged in the criminal case with felony counts of grand larceny and stolen-property possession. She was also accused of misdemeanor counts of criminal trespass, unlawful eviction, petit larceny and stolen-property possession….
Shanahan was elected chairwoman of the borough’s Conservative Party in September 1998 and served a two-year term, according to Advance reports….
The felony charges were subsequently dismissed, but the misdemeanor charges remained.
The misdemeanor counts were tossed Monday at a proceeding in Criminal Court, said Joseph Sorrentino, Shanahan’s criminal defense lawyer.
“We presented voluminous evidence of the unreliability and lack of veracity of the complainant,” Sorrentino said.
“This case should never have been brought,” said Sorrentino. “It’s my opinion the authorities, particularly the New York City Police Department, took the path of least resistance and they arrested the law-abiding, hard-working, tax-paying landlord because the tenant was playing the race/ethnicity card, and she alleged she was being victimized by the landlord because she’s a Muslim. Nothing could have been further from the truth. The only victim here was Ms. Shanahan.”
A spokesman for the Brooklyn district attorney’s office confirmed the criminal charges were dismissed but declined further comment.
Jalal contended in the $1.2 million suit that neighbors told her Shanahan and her landscaping employees took a $35,000 Hermes bag, a $35,000 Rolex watch, a $15,000 24-karat gold necklace, $6,000 worth of flat screen televisions, and an $8,000 Louis Vuitton luggage set from her apartment.
A Brooklyn federal court jury was not convinced and in February voted in Shanahan’s favor.
Besides rejecting Jalal’s claim, the panel awarded Shanahan $16,570 on her counterclaims of fraudulent inducement, slander and property damage, online federal court records show….
VIDEO ABOVE: TOMMY REFUSES TO SPEAK TO FAKE NEWS REPORTERS TOMMY ROBINSON FREED FROM JAIL LOOKING GAUNT~SUPPORTERS CELEBRATE COURT VICTORY~COURT ADMITS UNREASONABLE SENTENCING, ANOTHER HEARING POSSIBLE
BRITISH PATRIOT, MUSLIM RAPE GANG EXPOSER, SPENT 2 MONTHS IN JAIL & SOLITARY CONFINEMENT
Tommy Robinson FREED in a Victory
for Nationalist Populism!!!
Report by Dr. Steve Turley
Canada’s “Rebel Media” report by Ezra Levant
Ezra Levant vs. Antifa as Tommy Robinson
WINS appeal!
Tommy Robinson WINS:
Ezra Levant reads lawyers’ statement
TOMMY ROBINSON SHOCKING PRISON TREATMENT
Tommy Robinson greets Ezra Levant
after his release from prison
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Tommy Robinson tells Ezra Levant about prison treatment
NEW YORK TIMES SLAMS, MALIGNS TOMMY FROM JIHAD WATCH BY ROBERT SPENCER
“On Wednesday, the Court of Appeal ordered his release, pending a new hearing in his case. The court questioned the speed with which he had been tried and convicted, noting that it took five hours from the time of his arrest to a conviction.”
It was only just to free Tommy Robinson, and lessens the impression that Britain is becoming a police state in which it is illegal to criticize Islam and mass Muslim migration in Britain today. Britain is still on that road, but apparently in this case the May government was feeling too much pressure to keep Tommy in prison.
Meanwhile, note the contempt and the vicious bias of this New York Times piece. This is Leftist propaganda disguised as a news story. Tommy is “anti-Muslim,” the universal label applied to those who oppose jihad terror and Sharia oppression of women, gays, etc. Was opposing the Nazis “anti-German”?
Tommy is also a “far-right activist.” Anyone, no matter how socially liberal and how committed to the principles of secular, republican rule, is “far-right” for opposing jihad terror and Sharia oppression. There is no substance to the term other than to try to equate such opposition with Nazism.
The the Times semaphores to its dwindling Leftist readership, if the point weren’t clear enough already, that Tommy is not to have their support, for he is supported by “former Trump aide Stephen K. Bannon but reviled by others who call him a violent purveyor of hate.” Who calls him a “violent purveyor of hate”? Hope Not Hate, a Leftist smear group akin to the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Then there is the open libel that Robinson’s “divisive, anti-Muslim rhetoric has resulted in acts of violence,” he added, the most extreme of which occurred when a man, inspired by Mr. Robinson, rammed a van into a congregation of Muslims leaving a mosque in north London in January.”
In reality, there was no “inspiration” from Robinson, who never called for any attacks on mosques. The Times makes this connection based on a mass email that the perpetrator received, which itself did not call for or justify any violence. The Times rushes to connect Robinson to this incident, while it can never quite see the connection between Muslims screaming “Allahu akbar” while killing people and the violent passages of the Qur’an.
“Tommy Robinson, Anti-Muslim Activist, Is Freed on Bail in U.K.,” by Palko Karasz, New York Times, August 1, 2018:
LONDON — Tommy Robinson, the jailed British far-right activist backed by the former Trump aide Stephen K. Bannon but reviled by others who call him a violent purveyor of hate, was ordered to be freed on bail Wednesday, after challenging his conviction for contempt of court.
Mr. Robinson was arrested in May after he live-streamed a video from outside a criminal trial in Leeds, England, which had a news media blackout, revealing the defendants’ identities. He was sentenced to 13 months in prison for contempt of court, provoking an international outcry in far-right circles.
On Wednesday, the Court of Appeal ordered his release, pending a new hearing in his case. The court questioned the speed with which he had been tried and convicted, noting that it took five hours from the time of his arrest to a conviction.
Who is Tommy Robinson? Anti-Muslim activist
Mr. Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon, is the founder of the English Defense League, an anti-Islam and anti-immigration movement, known for violent street protests.
Born and raised in Luton, north of London, he worked at the town’s international airport but lost that job for assaulting an off-duty police officer. He was also arrested after being accused of inciting soccer violence, as a supporter of the Luton soccer club.
“Wherever he has gone in his career he organized demonstrations that have resulted in extreme violence,” said Joe Mulhall, a senior researcher at Hope Not Hate, a London-based organization that researches hate groups.
“His divisive, anti-Muslim rhetoric has resulted in acts of violence,” he added, the most extreme of which occurred when a man, inspired by Mr. Robinson, rammed a van into a congregation of Muslims leaving a mosque in north London in January….
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP’S “MAGA” RALLY IN TAMPA, FLORIDA
Trump EXPOSES Democrats Registering
Illegal Aliens to Vote, Demands Voter ID
Signs MAJOR Technical Education Bill
into Law in Tampa
Introduced by beautiful Ivanka Trump, President Trump delivers AMAZING Remarks on Workforce Development and signs Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act at Tampa Bay High school in Florida
MIKE GENDRON INTERVIEWED: COMMON BONDS BETWEEN CATHOLICISM & ISLAM
With the rise of globalism we have seen a push toward a system of global government as well as a one world religion. Mike Gendron joins us to talk about this as well as the common bonds between Catholicism and Islam.
Three of the five lawsuits against Jones are being brought by Houston Attorney Mark Bankston, who is representing three families of the victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting. The suits claim that Jones both pedaled and endorsed conspiracy theories that claimed the Sandy Hook massacre was a staged government event designed to impact the gun-control debate. Jones denies the charges and claims he was acting as a “devil’s advocate” during discussions on the Sandy Hook tragedy and the resulting conspiracy theories around it.
On Wednesday, Bankston and Jones’ attorney Mark Enoch will be in court to argue whether one case, brought by Sandy Hook victim Noah Pozner’s family, should be thrown out owing to the Texas Citizens Participation Act, a law that passed unanimously and was signed by Governor Rick Perry in 2011. The law is designed to protect Texas citizens’ free-speech rights against meritless claims designed merely to silence their speech.
“Plaintiffs suffered a horrible tragedy. Alex Jones and his InfoWars are not responsible for that tragedy,” the motion to dismiss stated. “To punish them for First Amendment protected speech on this matter of public concern will not bring back the lives lost. To stifle the press by making them liable for merely interviewing people who have strange theories will simply turn this human tragedy into a constitutional issue.”
Should the case go to trial, it’ll be less about young Noah Pozner’s death and his grieving family than it will be about the blurry line between free speech and libel. It will become a televised free-for-all pitting free speech against so-called fake news.
“The purpose of this lawsuit is to create new Texas law that opens citizens of the state to civil liability should they openly question the government and/or craft any type of ‘conspiracy theory’ or differing view to that which is reported by the mainstream media,” Enoch said.
Besides the Pozner case and the four other Texas cases against him, Jones faces another defamation suit in Connecticut over his Sandy Hook conspiracy reporting. Jones is also the defendant in a Virginia defamation suit brought by a witness to the Charlottesville unrest, Brennan Gilmore, who claims that Jones smeared him as a “shill for the deep state.” In addition, Jones is being sued over his coverage of the Parkland, Florida, school shooting.
Jones appears confident in his ultimate victory in these lawsuits, letting his lawyers do most of his talking for him. In all, Jones has been sued more than a dozen times in the past year, settling one of the suits against Idaho-based yogurt maker Chobani. Jones was forced to apologize for making statements about Chobani importing “migrant rapists” to work for them.
The host of Infowars seems much more intent on challenging the powers behind the social-media bans and mainstream media smear campaigns against him. Jones has frequently gone up against globalist groups such as the Bohemian Grove, the Bilderbergers, and the Council on Foreign Relations, accusing them of conspiring to create a one-world socialist government and imposing a caste system of sorts, with the elites at the top and the rest of us in servitude to them.
Is it any wonder that the globalists want to shut him up?
“The establishment is making its move against free speech here in America,” Jones told his audience Monday. “These aren’t journalists. These are killers of free speech; these are corporate mercenaries making their move ahead of the 2018 mid-terms.”
For globalists and denizens of the Deep State, the First Amendment to the Constitution is a problem. How can they impose a one-world-system and a socialist “utopia” with all of these conservatives, advocates of freedom, and yes, even conspiracy theorists out there speaking their minds? Love him or hate him, give Alex Jones credit. His swagger and bombastic actions are calling attention to something that the globalists hoped they could keep under the radar: their attempt to slowly erode our freedoms without us noticing. _________________________________________________________________
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — An appeals court in Pennsylvania has declined to give a en banc review of a ruling upholding a lower court decision in favor of a school district’s policy that permitted a girl who identifies as a boy to use the boys’ locker room, and a boy who identifies as a girl to use the girls’ restroom.
The 12 judges of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals voted 8-4 not to revisit the decision issued last month by a smaller three-judge panel. The four that dissented said that while they agreed that the court should not issue an injunction against the Boyertown School District’s policy, they believed the court should have avoided “wading into fraught waters” by interpreting what Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 requires in regard to those with gender dysphoria.
“To say or imply that there is only one legally defensible policy decision that a school district can reach is not only unsupported; it is unsupportable,” they wrote. “[W]e should confine ourselves to resolving the specific matters before us, not some bigger issue we might like to address.”
The three-judge panel issued a revised ruling that still denied the injunction but toned down its language as it pertains to Title IX.
“Forcing transgender students to use bathrooms or locker rooms that do not match their gender identity is particularly harmful. It causes ‘severe psychological distress often leading to attempted suicide.’ The result is that those students ‘avoid going to the bathroom by fasting, dehydrating, or otherwise forcing themselves not to use the restroom throughout the day.’ This behavior can lead to medical problems and decreases in academic learning,” the panel wrote in both the June and revised versions.
It said that while there have been other students who have likewise limited their fluid intake to “minimize or avoid encountering transgender students,” the court does “not view the level of stress that cisgender students may experience because of appellees’ bathroom and locker room policy as comparable to the plight of transgender students who are not allowed to use facilities consistent with their gender identity.”
“Given the majority of the testimony here and the district court’s well-supported findings, those situations are simply not analogous,” the panel claimed.
It said that if any student—on either side of the issue—is uncomfortable with the locker room arrangement, they may utilize other areas to change.
“Any student who is uncomfortable changing around their peers in private spaces, whether transgender or cisgender, may change in a bathroom stall, single-user bathroom, or the private team rooms,” the court outlined. “The appellants seemingly admit that these accommodations ‘resolve all privacy concerns.’ Yet they insist that the policy should be changed to require that transgender students use individual bathrooms if they do not wish to use the communal facilities that align with their birth-determined sex.”
“Not only would forcing transgender students to use single-user facilities or those that correspond to their birth sex not serve the compelling interest that the school district has identified here, it would significantly undermine it,” it argued.
As previously reported, the legal challenge, filed against the Boyertown School District near Reading, began in early 2017 when a male student and his parents felt that their voice was not being heard in regard to a girl who was allowed to change in the boys’ locker room at Boyertown Senior High School.
According to the lawsuit, and an online video released by Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF)-affiliated attorney Randall Wenger, in October 2016, as the student was changing in the boys’ locker room for gym class, he noticed a girl standing just feet away from him also in a state of partial undress.
“While he was partially undressed, he looked behind him and noticed a girl standing there wearing nothing above her waist other than a bra,” Wenger explained.
Immediately concerned about the situation—as he was standing in nothing but his underwear, the teen hurriedly put his clothes on and left.
“He was naturally upset, so he went after class with a group of friends to go see the [assistant] principal to find out what was going on,” Wenger outlined. “And the [assistant] principal told him, ‘I’ve got no other options for you. I’m going to ask you to tolerate this and make it as natural as you possibly can.’”
The boy’s parents then sought themselves to meet with the assistant principal, Wayne Foley, but were allegedly advised that “the school district is ‘all-inclusive’ and that if [the boy] had a problem changing or using restrooms with people of the opposite sex, he would get him permission to go to the nurse’s office to change.”
Unsatisfied with Foley’s answer, the teen’s parents then met with Principal Brett Cooper, but he reiterated that the boy could use the nurse’s office if he was uncomfortable changing his clothes in front of the girl.
They soon also met with district Superintendent Richard Faidley, but he too held his ground, stating that if the boy did not want to change in the presence of the girl, and if he did not wish to use the nurse’s office, his parents could take him out of school and homeschool him.
The student sued the school district in March 2017, and since then, four other students have come aboard as plaintiffs, including Alexis Lightcap, who similarly went to Principal Foley after finding a male in the girls’ restroom.
“[Plaintiff] has a fundamental right to bodily privacy that, at a minimum, includes protection from intimate exposure of his body and intimate activities to a person of the opposite sex. It also includes the corollary protection from intimate exposure to a female’s body or intimate activities,” the legal challenge outlined.
A federal judge declined to grant the injunction in August, stating that the students had failed to show that they were being injured by the district’s allowance. An appeal was filed with the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, but the injunction was again denied. On Thursday, the court declined to rehear the case en banc, or before the full 12-judge court of appeals.
It is not yet known whether the plaintiffs will appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The judges who dissented in Thursday’s ruling were Kent Jordan, Michael Chagares, Thomas Hardiman and Stephanos Bibas.
Pope Attempts to Reverse the Reformation in Geneva with the World Council of Churches
BY MIKE GENDRON
SEE: www.proclaimingthegospel.org; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
In an ecumenical pilgrimage to Geneva Pope Francis said, “Not only God, but today’s broken, divided world is begging for unity among Christians.” He said, “Our differences must not be excuses because as Christ’s disciples, Christians can still pray together, evangelize and serve others.” The pope spent several hours with Christian leaders at the headquarters of the World Council of Churches, a fellowship of 350 ecclesial communities. The pope came to help celebrate the 70th anniversary of the founding of what is the largest and broadest ecumenical fellowship in the world.
In his speech, the pope said, “Our lack of unity” is not only contrary to God’s will, it is “also a scandal to the world.” Pope Francis, the third pope to visit the WCC, said he wanted to come as “a pilgrim in quest of unity and peace.” He thanked God for having found “brothers and sisters already making this same journey.” He said it was critical that Christians come together for “the credibility of the Gospel,” which is “put to the test by the way Christians respond” to those suffering in the world today. Read more.
Mike’s Comment: How ironic that the pope would call for unity among Christians in the city of Geneva, where God used the Reformers to expose and renounce the corrupt, apostate religion of Roman Catholicism. The pope is unaware that there can never be unity between born again Christians and Roman Catholics, because we are divided on the essentials of the Gospel, how one is born again, how one is justified, how one is purified of sin, who mediates between God and man, and the necessity, sufficiency and exclusivity of Jesus Christ. The unity God desires is only among those He has called out of the world and given as a gift to His Son. Unity can only be in truth among those who have kept God’s Word (John 17:6, 9). Jesus did not pray for unity with unbelievers but for unity among those who believe in Him through the Word, that they may be sanctified by the truth (John 17:20-23).
SEE: www.proclaimingthegospel.org; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
The most terrifying words a professing Christian could ever hear would be Jesus saying, “I never knew you; depart from Me, you workers of lawlessness” (Matt. 7:21-23). The Lord Jesus will declare those horrifying words to many, not a few, who will boast in the many works they did in His Name. They called Him Lord but did not obey His first command to “Repent and believe the Gospel” (Mark 1:15).
Who are the “many” who will be turned away on Judgment Day? They are those who thought they could merit eternal life by the works they were doing instead of trusting in the work Christ had done. They also never turned from their sin to follow Jesus Christ in faith. Since they never obeyed the Gospel of Christ, they will pay the penalty of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord (2 Thess. 1:9). Tragically, when Jesus declares to them, “Depart from Me,” there will be no second chance, no excuses, and no blaming the false teachers who deceived them.
The Lord Jesus also referred to the “many” when He spoke of the two paths to eternity. Many will travel the broad road to destruction instead of the narrow road to eternal life (Matt. 7:13-14). Rather than striving to enter the narrow gate by testing every man’s teaching, they foolishly follow false teachers, who are wolves disguised in sheep’s clothing (Luke 13:24; Matt. 7:15).
It is a sobering thought to realize that83% of Americans profess faith in Christ, but only a few of them show evidence of being born again as new creatures in Christ. According to the research, many of them cannot even communicate the Gospel that has the power to save souls. Part of the blame must be placed on man-centered methods of evangelism such as making a decision to “accept” Christ, or repeating a sinner’s prayer, or asking Jesus into your heart, or coming forward for salvation. None of these methods are found in the Bible. The only saving response to the Gospel of Grace is to repent and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ (Mark 1:15; Acts 16:31). Part of the blame can also be placed on those who compromise the Gospel to make it more inclusive and less offensive (Gal. 1:6-10).
With so many false converts, the church has become a mission field. Many professors of Christ are not really possessors of Christ! They are strangers to the new birth. They have never passed from death unto life. They remain condemned because they have not been justified. They remain enemies of God, even though they profess to be His friends! They remain enslaved to sin because they have never been set free. They profess the Savior with their lips, but their hearts are far from Him. They deceive other people with their external righteousness, but they cannot deceive God! They are unaware of their pending peril because they have never examined themselves to see if their faith is genuine (2 Cor. 13:5).
The best way we can prove our faith is genuine is to examine it through the lens of Scripture. The apostle John wrote his first epistle so that those who believe in the Lord Jesus may know that they have eternal life (1 John 5:13). We also see many characteristics of false converts in God’s Word. Some of them are listed below:
You think you are a good person (Romans 3:12).
You have a zeal for God without knowledge (Rom. 10:1-4).
You have knowledge of God without obedience (Titus 1:16).
You do not pursue sanctification (Heb. 12:14; 1 Thess. 4:3).
You are self-righteous without repentance (Luke 18:9-14).
You seek to establish your own righteousness (Rom. 10:3).
You think you can merit or earn eternal life (Titus 3:5).
You are unwilling to forgive others (Mat. 6:15).
You have no desire to follow Jesus (Luke 9:23).
You call Jesus ‘Lord’ but do not do what He says (Luke 6:46).
You do not love other Christians (1 John 4:20-21).
You love your sin (John 3:19).
You have not departed from iniquity (2 Timothy 2:19).
You condone or promote things God hates (Prov. 6:16-19).
You are a mere hearer of the Word, not a doer (James 1:22).
You are full of pride with no humility (James 4:6).
You walk in darkness (1 John 1:6).
You live according to your sinful nature (Romans 8:5).
You do not love the truth (2 Thess. 2:10-12).
You take Jesus as Savior but not as Lord (Romans 10:9).
You desire Jesus as a priest to pardon sin, but not as a prophet to instruct you or a king to rule over you.
Please know the assurance that we are truly saved is not based on a past decision but on a present reality. So what if we are unsure about our faith and our salvation? We find the answer in God’s Word:
Abide in God’s Word – then you will know the truth that will set you free from religious deception (John 8:31-32).
Repent – with godly sorrow for your sins and cry out to God for mercy (Luke 18:13; 2 Cor. 7:10).
Believe the Gospel – follow the Lord Jesus Christ in faith (Rom. 10:9-10).
Love God – with all your heart, soul and mind (Mat. 22:37; 1 Cor. 16:22).
What should we do if we know someone who may be a false convert? Ask them to share the events surrounding their conversion. If their conversion testimony does not line up with Scripture, ask them more questions. Speak the truth in love. Give them our Gospel tract True Faith or False Hope – How Can I Be Sure? to encourage them. Give them a link to the message I preached by the same title, that can be heard here. Let them know eternity is forever! We can be wrong about a lot of things in this life and still survive, but if we are wrong about our faith, we will pay for that mistake forever and ever.
