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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. —Toymaker Mattel, the producers
of the Barbie and Ken dolls, has reportedly scheduled a meeting to enter
into talks with two homosexual men who want the company to create
same-sex “wedding” dolls in order to be inclusive of children who have
homosexual family members.
Matt Jacobi tagged Mattel in a recent Instagram post
outlining that he plans to “wed” a man in May, and wanted to buy a gift
for his niece to mark the occasion. He said that because Mattel doesn’t
make a Barbie wedding set with two grooms, he “had to get creative” and
buy another Ken to replace the Barbie in the box. “We had a difficult time finding a same sex wedding set to give to my
niece for her 8th birthday. She and her little sister are flower girls
in our upcoming May wedding. We thought it would be special to give her
something with a little meaning behind it. What a bummer you don’t make
one with two grooms,” Jacobi wrote. “Anyway, we had to get creative and make a couple purchases. I hope
our custom gift inspires you to make a #GayWedding set!” he said.
According to Jacobi, Mattel reached out to Jacobi, and has now set up
a meeting in Los Angeles next month to discuss with the design team the
makings of a same-sex “wedding” set.
“We just want every family to be reflected within the toys,” Jacobi’s partner, Nick Caprio, told reporters.
“They’re a big part of our culture, and it’s something that if kids are
always exposed to this and they can see their own family, it gets rid
of the question of ‘what is this,’ and this explanation and long story
you have to go through, because it’s something that will just be what it
is, and it’s just people that are in love.”
Reaction to the news has been mixed.
“Yeeees! I totally love this! I’m a gay man too, and Barbie was my
favorite toy! I always made Ken [expletive meaning to have sex] with
Action Man,” one commenter wrote. “It’s [a] sad thing that we waited
almost 30 years for a Merman Ken. I hope that we won’t have to wait
another 30 to have same-sex coupled dolls.”
Another commenter vowed, “I will never purchase Mattel again. Why
push this adult decision on children? The world is confusing enough. God
is not pleased with us. I pray your revenues show this.”
As previously reported, the Bible teaches that all men are born with
the Adamic sin nature and are “by nature the children of wrath”
(Ephesians 2:3), having various inherent inclinations that are contrary
to the law of God and being utterly incapable of changing themselves. It
is why Jesus outlined in John 3:5-7 that men must be regenerated by the
second birth, or they cannot see the kingdom of Heaven.
“Jesus answered and said unto him, ‘Verily, verily, I say unto thee,
except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.’ Nicodemus
saith unto him, ‘How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter the
second time into his mother’s womb, and be born?’ Jesus answered,
‘Verily, verily, I say unto thee, except a man be born of water and of
the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born
of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Marvel not that I said unto thee, ‘Ye must be born again.’”
The late preacher A.W. Pink described it this way: “Why does the
sinner choose a life of sinful indulgence? Because he prefers it. Man
chooses that which is according to his nature, and therefore, before he
will ever choose or prefer that which is divine or spiritual, a new
nature must be imparted to him. In other words, he must be born again.”
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“When you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks” — Qur’an 47:4
“Scandinavian women found dead with neck injuries in Morocco,” Sky News, December 17, 2018 (thanks to Paul):
A Danish woman and another from Norway were found in an isolated mountainous region with cuts to their necks. The bodies of two Scandinavian women with neck injuries “caused by a
cutting device” have been found in the High Atlas mountains in Morocco. A Danish woman and another from Norway were found in an isolated
mountainous area six miles (10kms) from the village of Imlil, the
Moroccan interior ministry said. According to Morocco World News, they had knife wounds. A man, who asked to not to be named, told the new website that the pair were tourists who were “allegedly found decapitated”…. Morocco’s interior ministry said in a statement that their bodies
were found with “signs of violence on their necks” that had been “caused
by a cutting device”….
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Jihad Watch brought you this story on Tuesday;
here are more details. Note that Morten Bøås of the Norwegian
Department of Foreign Affairs “thought the group of men may have been
inspired by ISIS or radicalised through the web.” Yes, of course. “Radicalised through the web.” What else could
possibly have happened? Morten Bøås is sure that there couldn’t possibly
be any jihadists in Morocco. Islam is a religion of peace! If any
happened to be there, it’s because they were radicalized on the
Internet! And this dope is in the Norwegian Department of Foreign Affairs. In any case, Louisa Jespersen and Maren Ueland are more casualties of
the Left’s fantasy world. What were they doing, two young women alone,
camping in Morocco? They no doubt learned in today’s universities, which are saturated
with moral relativism and contemptuous of absolutes, that there is no
dispute between people that can’t be settled by mutually respectful
“dialogue,” and that the troubles in the world today are primarily the
fault of the U.S. and Israel. So why should two girls from Scandinavia
have anything to worry about in Morocco? They no doubt learned that
Islam is a religion of peace, and that only racist, bigoted
“Islamophobes” think otherwise. So why should they have had any reason
to be concerned about hiking in Morocco?
Those who might have warned them of the risk are subject to furious
and concerted demonization. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) — and
the establishment media that treats the SPLC as if it were a reliable
source — sees only one group of genuinely evil people in the world.
Those who recognize that there are evil forces in the world that are set
against the United States, and who want to protect Americans against
Islamic jihadists, criminal migrants, and more, are the only evil ones.
Jespersen and Ueland almost certainly had nothing but contempt for such
“intolerance” and “hate” manifested by foes of jihad terror and
unrestricted illegal immigration.
“Backpackers killed in Morocco by ‘ISIS terrorists’ with one filmed being beheaded,” by Andrew Koubaridis, News.com,au, December 20, 2018:
Two Scandinavian backpackers were hacked to death and one
beheaded in what is believed to have been a terrorist attack in
Morocco. Louisa Vesterager Jespersen, 24, from Denmark, and Maren Ueland, 28,
from Norway, were knifed and beheaded on camera while camping in the
Atlas Mountains. Their bodies were found on Monday morning.
Footage of the horrifying attack has been shared on social media and
has caused outrage in Morocco. The footage shows a blonde woman
screaming while a man cuts her neck with what appears to be a sharp
kitchen knife.
One of the women was decapitated and the other was found dead with a
severe neck wound. One body was found inside a tent by French hikers and
the other just outside.
“It was horrible. They were broken,” one of the French hikers said.
“We warned everyone we saw in Imlil not to go up there. I did not want
more to see what we had seen…It was a big shock, we’re thinking about it
all day. It makes you think about what’s important in life.”
A Norwegian newspaper is reporting four suspects had links to ISIS and had sworn allegiance to the terrorist group.
Police tonight announced three men had been arrested. A fourth man was taken into custody on Tuesday. In a video circulating on social media a man is heard saying in French: “This is for Syria, here are the heads of your Gods.”
The bodies were found in a remote mountainous region, 10 kilometers
from the village of Imlil – often the starting point for treks to Mount
Toubkal, North Africa’s highest peak.
Ms Jespersen and Ms Ueland were on a month-long trip in Morocco.
Hotel workers in the Moroccan capital claimed Ms Jespersen and Ms
Ueland were staying with three other girls and were spotted with local
men before they set off on their mountain trek.
Locals told media before the arrests three “homeless” men had been seen in the area.
One hotelier said: “Three homeless men came from Marrakech and
pitched a tent right next to the girls’ tent. The men were not from
round here.”
Morten Bøås at the Norwegian Department of Foreign Affairs has said
that the killings lack the professionalism of more established terrorist
groups.
He told local media that the group of men may have been inspired by IS or radicalised through the web.
“Much now indicates that the killings could be politically motivated
and thus a terrorist act,” Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen
said at a news conference on Thursday.
Morocco’s general prosecutor said on Wednesday that a suspect
arrested in main tourist hub Marrakech was a member of a militant group,
but did not name the organisation.
The Danish intelligence service said in a statement Islamic State could be responsible.
Morten Bøås at the Norwegian Department of Foreign Affairs said the
killings were unlikely to be the work of more established terrorist
groups.
He told aftenposten.no that he thought the group of men may have been inspired by ISIS or radicalised through the web….
Morocco’s public TV channel 2M said on its website that
investigations showed that the slaying of the two tourists was related
to local militants.
Morocco is generally considered safe for tourists but has battled for
years with Islamic extremism for years, and thousands of Moroccans
joined the Islamic State group….
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“Except that it obviously did not even occur to them that what they
thought they knew about Morocco’s religion and culture might be
inaccurate and designed to whitewash Islam, leaving them ill-informed
about a threat that they actually did end up facing.
Louisa Jespersen and Maren Ueland no doubt learned in whatever
Scandinavian universities they attended, since those universities were
no doubt as saturated as universities everywhere else in the Western
world with moral relativism and contemptuous of absolutes, that there is
no dispute between people that can’t be settled by mutually respectful
“dialogue,” and that the troubles in the world today are primarily the
fault of the U.S. and Israel. So why should two girls from Scandinavia
have anything to worry about in Morocco?
Jespersen and Ueland no doubt also learned that Islam is a religion
of peace, and that only racist, bigoted “Islamophobes” think otherwise.
So why should they have had any reason to be concerned about hiking in a
Muslim country such as Morocco?
If they heard any dissenting views regarding Islam, there is no doubt
also that those views were subjected to furious and concerted
demonization. They were likely taught, if they heard anything at all
about people who do not believe that Islam is a religion of peace, that
such people were “bigots,” “racists,” and “Islamophobes,” and should be
regarded with disgust and contempt.”
“Jespersen and Ueland almost certainly had nothing but disdain for
such “intolerance” and “hate” manifested by foes of jihad terror and
unrestricted illegal immigration. The educators who taught in the
schools they attended most likely conveyed the impression that anyone
who thought that two young Scandinavian women might be at risk when
camping alone in Morocco was simply a “racist.”
Now they are dead, murdered in a gruesome fashion, and second only to
the horror and tragedy of their murders is the great pity of the fact
that no one among their peers is likely to learn the true lesson of
their deaths. And some among them are certain to repeat their mistake.
The Islamic State will be waiting, and can thank the Left for providing
its jihadis with a continual supply of victims.”
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Franklin Graham, the son of the late Billy Graham, tweeted that Allah
and the Christian God are “not the same.” Following the recent jihad
attack in Strasbourg, Graham warned that “radical Islam continues to be a
major global threat,” an obvious point that nevertheless makes one an
“Islamophobe” for stating it. Graham disagrees with the Pope:
Referring to the Pope’s comments that Islamic attacks do
not constitute a “war of religion,” Graham posted on Facebook that “I
disagree that it’s not a war of religion. It is most certainly a war of
religion”…. In his reproach of the pope’s interpretation of Islamic
terror, Rev. Graham said that religion “is behind the violence and jihad
we’re seeing in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and here in this
country.”
No one has been indicting all Muslims, but there are those who are
quick to call truth-tellers “racists” and “Islamophobes.” Until those
who pretend to care about human rights acknowledge the abuses that are
being committed worldwide in the name of Islam, there will be no moving
forward in the war against the global jihad (stealth and violent), and
no reprieve for its countless victims. Three months ago, the Muslim Council of Britain,
an umbrella organization for hundreds of Muslim groups, demanded that
Franklin Graham be banned from the country for criticizing Islam.
“Franklin Graham: Allah and the Christian God ‘Not the Same,’” by Thomas D. Williams, Breitbart, December 13, 2018:
Celebrated evangelical pastor Franklin Graham reacted
strongly to a recent Islamic terror attack in Strasbourg, France,
warning that radical Islam continues to be a major global threat.
In a two-part tweet Saturday, Rev. Graham, the son of the prominent
Christian leader Billy Graham, reminded citizens that Islamic extremism
has not ceased to be a menace to the world and that, contrary to popular
opinion, the Muslim idea of God is very different from the God
worshiped by Christians.
In the past, Rev. Graham has said that
bloody jihadist attacks should not surprise anyone, since hatred and
violence against nonbelievers are central to the teachings of Islam.
“Why does Islam hate so much?” Graham asked in a 2016 Facebook post. “It’s because the Quran teaches its followers to hate.”
“Jews, Christians and others are to be subdued so that Islam may
‘prevail over all religions,’” he added. “It’s all in the final chapter
of the Quran—‘Kill or be killed in battle, and paradise awaits,’” he
said.
Graham has been an ongoing critic of theories that would equate Islam to Christianity.
In August, 2016, Graham challenged Pope Francis for his remarks suggesting that Islamic terrorism is not religiously motivated.
Referring to the Pope’s comments that Islamic attacks do not
constitute a “war of religion,” Graham posted on Facebook that “I
disagree that it’s not a war of religion. It is most certainly a war of
religion.”
The pope has frequently declared that all religions seek peace, and
that religious beliefs cannot be the force driving Islamic terrorism.
Rather than religious belief, poverty and misguided politics are the
force behind jihadism, he has stated.
In his reproach of the pope’s interpretation of Islamic terror, Rev.
Graham said that religion “is behind the violence and jihad we’re seeing
in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and here in this country.”
“It’s a religion that calls for the extermination of ‘infidels’
outside their faith, specifically Jews and Christians,” Graham said.
Alluding to the murder of Catholic priest Jacques Hamel in northern
France by two jihadists, Graham stressed the explicit religious belief
that moves Islamic terrorists to perpetrate their crimes…..
ABOVE: GOVERNOR WOLF OF PA & MAYOR PEDUTO OF PITTSBURGH
ABOVE: ERIKA STRASSBURGER, PITTSBURGH CITY COUNCIL
ABOVE: COREY O’CONNOR, PITTSBURGH CITY COUNCIL
So-Called ‘Common sense’ gun safety legislation unveiled in Pittsburgh includes assault weapons ban
Governor Wolf Announces Gun “Safety” Bills
Alongside Pittsburgh City Leaders
Governor Tom Wolf joined Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto, city leaders and
advocates in announcing a package of common sense gun safety measures
that will be introduced to Pittsburgh City Council.
PITTSBURGH MAYOR DECLARES INTENT TO BAN GUNS IN VIOLATION OF STATE LAW
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Fairfax, VA –-(Ammoland.com)- Last week, we reported that it was likely that sweeping gun control measures would be proposed in Pittsburgh. Today, December 14, 2018, Pittsburgh Mayor William Peduto held
a press conference to propose a trio of anti-gun city ordinances that,
if enacted, would constitute a direct violation of Pennsylvania’s state
firearms preemption law and Pennsylvania Supreme Court precedent. At the event, Peduto was joined by Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf, who benefitted from $500,000 in spending from Michael Bloomberg’s Everytown for Gun Safety during his 2018 re-election bid, and City Council members Corey O’Connor and Erika Strassburger. Not
content to spearhead his own city’s violation of state law, Peduto
called for municipalities throughout the country to ignore state
statutes duly enacted by their residents’ elected representatives. A press release from the mayor’s office chronicling the conference explained, “Mayor
Peduto has asked cities around the country to support Pittsburgh’s
measures and/or introduce similar legislation to create nationwide
momentum behind the critically needed gun changes.” Councilmember O’Connor, who purportedly authored the anti-gun proposals, took a similar tack, stating that Pittsburgh “must
seize the opportunity to make a real difference by partnering with
other municipalities in the Commonwealth and cities across America to
enact” gun restrictions. Councilmember Strassburger also encouraged the municipal lawlessness, stating, “I hope more cities across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the entire nation will join Pittsburgh in this critical effort.” The three legislative proposals are a total ban on commonly-owned semi-automatic firearms, a total ban on several types of common firearms accessories and standard capacity magazines, and the development of a procedure to confiscate an individual’s firearms without due process of law. Under
the proposed semi-automatic ban, it would be “unlawful to manufacture,
sell, purchase, transport, carry, store, or otherwise hold in one’s
possession” a firearm defined as an “assault weapon.” The
legislation defines “assault weapon” by listing several models of
commonly owned semi-automatic firearms, including the Colt AR-15 and
certain configurations of the Ruger Mini-14. Moreover, the legislation
goes on to add to the definition of “assault weapon” semi-automatic
rifles, pistols, and shotguns that meet a certain set of criteria. The prohibition criteria for rifles is the following:
a. The firearm is a semiautomatic rifle that has an ability to accept a detachable magazine and has at least two of the following: i. A folding or telescoping stock; ii. A pistol grip that protrudes conspicuously beneath the action of the weapon; iii. A bayonet mount; iv. A flash suppressor or threaded barrel designed to accommodate a flash suppressor; and v. A grenade launcher;
Pistols would be judged under the following criteria: b. The firearm is a semiautomatic pistol that has an ability to accept a detachable magazine and has at least two of the following: i. An ammunition magazine that attaches to the pistol outside of the pistol grip; ii. A threaded barrel capable of accepting a barrel extender, flash suppressor, forward handgrip or silencer; iii. A shroud that is attached to, or partially or completely encircles, the barrel and that permits the shooter to hold the firearm with the non-trigger hand without being burned; iv. A manufactured weight of 50 ounces or more when the pistol is unloaded; and v. A semiautomatic version of an automatic firearm;
The following shotguns would banned: c. The firearm is a semiautomatic shotgun that has at least two of the following: i. A folding or telescoping stock; ii. A pistol grip that protrudes conspicuously beneath the action of the weapon; iii. A fixed magazine capacity in excess of five rounds; and iv. An ability to accept a detachable magazine;
The legislation would also prohibit the possession of machine guns lawfully registered under the National Firearms Act.
The
legislative proposal targeting common firearms accessories would ban
the possession of firearms magazines “that [have] the capacity of, or
can be readily restored or converted to accept, more than 10 rounds of
ammunition.” The ordinance would also ban any semi-automatic centerfire
rifle that can accept a detachable magazine and is equipped with either a
pistol grip, thumbhole stock, folding or telescoping stock, or a
forward pistol grip (among other items). Both pieces of
legislation impose severe penalties on those who refuse to submit to the
city’s unlawful mandates. Those who do not comply “shall be fined
$1,000 and costs for each offense, and in default of payment thereof,
may be imprisoned for not more than 90 days.” Moreover, the proposals
provide that “[e]ach day of a continuing violation of or failure to
comply… shall constitute and separate and distinct offense.” Meaning
that otherwise law-abiding individuals who fail to comply with the
ordinances would face potential financial ruin.
The final proposal would empower law enforcement to search for and confiscate an individual’s firearms without due process.
Acting
on merely a petition offered by a law enforcement official or family or
household member a court could issue an order for an individual’s
firearms to be seized. The individual would have no opportunity to speak
or present evidence on their own behalf prior to confiscation. The
Pennsylvania General Assembly has made clear that firearms laws are a
state matter and that it is unlawful for the state’s political
subdivisions to regulate firearms. 18 Pa.C.S.A. § 6120, concerning the
“Limitation on the regulation of firearms and ammunition,” states,
No
county, municipality or township may in any manner regulate the lawful
ownership, possession, transfer or transportation of firearms,
ammunition or ammunition components when carried or transported for
purposes not prohibited by the laws of this Commonwealth.
The language of the statute is crystal clear. Municipalities like Pittsburgh may not pass their own firearms regulations. However, the simple statute wasn’t simple enough for the reading challenged lawmakers of Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. In the 1996 case Ortiz v. Pennsylvania,
the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania settled the question as to whether
Pittsburgh and Philadelphia could restrict commonly-owned semi-automatic
firearms. In finding that they could not, the court stated,
Because
the ownership of firearms is constitutionally protected, its regulation
is a matter of statewide concern. The constitution does not provide
that the right to bear arms shall not be questioned in any part of the
commonwealth except Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, where it may be
abridged at will, but that it shall not be questioned in any part of the
commonwealth. Thus, regulation of firearms is a matter of concern in
all of Pennsylvania, not merely in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, and the
General Assembly, not city councils, is the proper forum for the
imposition of such regulation.
Another portion of the opinion described Pittsburgh’s position as “frivolous.”
In the 2009 case National Rifle Association v. Philadelphia,
the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania came to the same conclusion
after Philadelphia ignored the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania’s 1996
ruling and enacted a ban on commonly-owned firearms and a lost or stolen
reporting ordinance. Citing Pennsylvania’s firearms preemption statute
and the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania’s decision in Ortiz, the
Commonwealth Court struck down the local firearms ordinances.
Philadelphia appealed the case to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania and
was denied.
In pursuing their local gun control ordinances, Peduto
and his anti-gun allies have demonstrated an extraordinary indifference
to state law, judicial precedents, and the taxpaying constituents who
will foot the bill for this political grandstanding. NRA stands ready to
use all available legal avenues to ensure that the residents of
Pittsburgh are never subject to these unconstitutional and unlawful
proposals.
About:
Established in 1975, the Institute for Legislative Action (ILA) is the
“lobbying” arm of the National Rifle Association of America. ILA is
responsible for preserving the right of all law-abiding individuals in
the legislative, political, and legal arenas, to purchase, possess and
use firearms for legitimate purposes as guaranteed by the Second
Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Visit: www.nra.org
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ASHLAND, Ky. — A Virginia man who was found guilty
in 2016 of aiding in international parental kidnapping and conspiracy
for driving a woman to New York, where she then fled the country with
her daughter—as she wanted to avoid an impending court order that would
mandate that she hand over her child to her former lesbian partner—has
reported to prison to begin serving his three-year sentence.
An update on a fundraising page for Philip Zodhiates outlines that
the Virginia business man reported to prison in Ashland, Kentucky on
Dec. 5. “The Bible talks about in the latter days when [men] call good evil
and evil good, and that’s exactly what’s happening here,” Zodhiates said
during an interview with Sam Bushman of Liberty Roundtable just days
prior. “This is a poster case of over-criminalization. They’re using it to
basically push a political agenda, and it’s a sad commentary on our
justice system,” he remarked.
As previously reported,
Zodhiates was placed on trial after being indicted on accusations that
he drove Lisa Miller and her young daughter to Buffalo, New York, where
the mother and child then took a taxi the rest of the way and crossed
Niagara Falls’ Rainbow Bridge into Canada. Miller and her daughter
boarded a plane to Nicaragua after reaching Canada. (See the indictment here.) Zodhiates says that he didn’t know what Miller’s plans were—that she
was going to flee the country with her child. He states that he just
agreed to give her a ride to New York.
“The story that got told to the jury was that I’m homophobic and that
I hate homosexuals, and that’s why I did what I did,” he stated. “I
love anybody in the name of Christ. I don’t hate homosexuals; that’s a
lie. They refused allow any evidence in court that would allude to the
fact that I did this just to help somebody. They wanted to portray it as
an act of hatred, and that was absolutely not the case.”
Zodhiates outlined that he used to have a lesbian employee for a
number of years, whom he viewed as a friend, and doesn’t believe that he
had a fair trial, as he was falsely portrayed as the “ringleader” of a
kidnapping operation. He says that he was offered a plea bargain, but
refused to plead guilty as he believes he didn’t break any laws.
Zodhiates is the son of the late Dr. Spiros Zodhiates, a Greek-born
Bible scholar who founded the missions and relief ministry Advancing the
Ministries of the Gospel International (AMG). His father also published
the Hebrew-Greek KeyWord Study Bible and was a radio and television
host, teaching on the New Testament from its original Greek meaning.
Zodhiates and his wife have six children, all adopted. Attorney
Robert Hemley, who represented the Virginia businessman in court,
described him as a “unique and special individual” who seeks to help
others.
“Lisa’s secrecy and deception should not rub off on Philip,” Hemley stated. “There is no such thing as guilt by association.”
During the trial, the prosecution presented numerous witnesses,
including Miller’s own father, Terry Miller, who painted a strained
relationship with his daughter, calling her “hard-headed,” “introverted”
and “very much secretive.” He testified that she asked him to call
Zodhiates to provide the location of the Walmart where she was waiting
to be picked up, but said he did not know why and did not ask.
Zodhiates made similar statements about his motivations before he was
sentenced, outlining that he believes “we’re put on earth to make a
difference,” and that was all he sought to do—to help a woman who said
she was in need. He said it was not his objective to keep the
ex-lesbian’s former partner away from the child.
As previously reported,
Miller had previously been married to Kirk McConchie, her college
sweetheart, but the marriage was very brief. The Washington Post
reported in 2007 that Miller struggled with being intimate with her
husband due to a physically and emotionally abusive childhood, which
adversely affected their marriage.
“I tried [to secretly date men],” Lisa told the outlet at the that
time, advising that her mother, who she described as “mentally ill,”
forbid her from having relationships with men. “She would always find
out. ‘All men are evil.’ That’s what I grew up with. ‘They only want one
thing.’”
She said that she turned to alcohol in an attempt to deal with her
problems, and soon ended up in AA, where she met lesbian Janet Jenkins
and entered into a relationship with her, although “I did not feel
sexually attracted to women.”
In 2000, Miller joined in a civil union with Jenkins in the state of
Vermont, one of the few states that allowed homosexual arrangements at
the time. Following an artificial insemination procedure from a male
sperm donor, Miller gave birth to a daughter, named Isabella, in 2002.
But Miller said that she had concern even then.
“There were numerous incidents of Janet going to [the Internet] and
putting up naked women on the screen saver, and I would ask her to
please change it,” Lisa later told the court, according to the
Washington Post.
“I don’t have clean hands, either. Previously, before … the baby was
born, [pornography] was used in our relationship,” she said. “When we
moved to Vermont, Isabella was 4 months old, and I said this stuff has
to go … There’s a baby in this house now. I don’t want that.”
In 2003, Miller and Jenkins split over continued tension in their
relationship, part of which involved the miscarriage of Miller’s second
pregnancy, and Miller moved to Virginia. She renounced her involvement
in homosexuality and reportedly turned to Jesus Christ to be born again.
“It wasn’t a struggle,” she recalled of walking away from the homosexual lifestyle. “I felt peace.”
When the civil union between Miller and Jenkins was officially
dissolved, the court gave custody to Miller, while also granting
visitation rights to Jenkins.
Miller and IsabellaWhile
Miller did allow Isabella to spend time with Jenkins for a while, she
reportedly became concerned at the information that her daughter was
providing to her following the visitations.
Later, Miller wrote in affidavits that the visits were causing great
trauma to Isabella. She claimed that at six years old, the girl was
forced to take baths together with Jenkins, and that the girl was openly
touching herself inappropriately. She also stated that Isabella was
withdrawn and talked about suicide at times.
“Isabella came home and said, ‘Mommy, will you please tell Janet that
I don’t have to take a bath anymore at her house,’” Miller told reporters in
2008. “I asked her what happened. She said, ‘Janet took a bath with
me.’ I asked her if she had a bathing suit on. ‘No, Mommy.’ She had no
clothes on and it totally scared Isabella. She had never seen this woman
except once in 2 ½ years and she takes a bath with her.”
“Last year, Isabella put a comb up to her neck and said she wanted to
kill herself after one of the visits,” she outlined. “She took a comb
and pressed it into her neck and said, ‘I want to kill myself.’ I don’t
know where she got that. It was immediately after a visit. Other people
have seen huge changes.”
Miller then filed for exclusive custody of Isabella, and the court
agreed. She told the Washington Post, “I don’t see Janet as a parent,
first and foremost. Secondly, I don’t want to expose Isabella to Janet’s
lifestyle. It goes against all my beliefs. I am raising Isabella to
pattern herself after Christ. That’s my job as a Christian mom.
Homosexuality is a sin.”
However, Jenkins fought the ruling all the way up to the Virginia
Supreme Court, which in 2008, ruled in favor of granting Miller’s former
lesbian partner visitation rights. Miller refused.
The following year, family court judge Richard Cohen warned Miller
that she must allow Isabella to visit Jenkins and threatened that if she
did not do so, he would transfer full custody to Jenkins. In November
2009, Cohen followed through with his threats and ordered Miller to hand
the child over to Jenkins.
However, Miller had fled the country with Isabella before he issued
the transfer order, and for some time, none knew the whereabouts of the
two. It was later discovered that they had fled to Nicaragua via the
help of a number of Christians and their contacts, although to this day,
it is not known exactly where Miller and her daughter are located.
Three individuals, including Zodhiates, were indicted in the matter.
It was mentioned on at least one occasion that Jenkins had never sought
to adopt the child—and declined to do so twice—and therefore, she cannot
be considered the legal parent.
Jenkins testified against Zodhiates in court in 2016, stating that
she is determined to do “anything and everything” to get Isabella back.
The girl is now 15. Jenkins has since “married” another woman, and they
raise a three-year-old together. She has filed a civil suit against
Miller, Zodhiates and his daughter, Miller’s attorney at Liberty
Counsel, and others over the situation.
Miller is quoted as stating just two months before fleeing the
country, “This battle is not only about Isabella and me; it is about
parents’ rights everywhere in the nation. … Isabella is a political
hostage and is being used by the gay agenda to push their agenda of gay
marriage. They say, and have said in the past, in regard to gay marriage
that it will not hurt anyone. Well, they are wrong; a little
seven-year-old girl is being hurt, and they want to rip her away from
her biological mom (me) and give her to a legal stranger.”
“We are still a Christian nation, and I believe that it is a
Christian’s duty to stand for what is right in God’s eyes. I still put
my trust in God and am blessed that He has been and still is with me
every step of the way…”
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The U.S. government has pledged $4.8 billion in aid to
Mexico, and another $5.8 billion for “strengthening economic
development” in Central America, according to the Associated Press.
Amid an intense political battle on Capitol Hill over funding for a U.S. border wall (for which no solution has been offered), the federal government has apparently decided that aid to other countries takes precedent over securing its southern border.
“In sum I think this is good news, very good news for Mexico,” said Mexican Foreign Relations Secretary Marcelo Ebrard on Tuesday.
“The commitments established here signify more than doubling foreign investment in southern Mexico starting in 2019.”
The Trump administration initially stated it would work with Congress to provide $5 billion to fund a southern border wall, but appeared to walk back that commitment on Tuesday.
“At
the end of the day we don’t want to shut down the government, we want
to shut down the border,” Sanders said. “There are certainly a number of
different funding sources that we’ve identified that we can use, that
we can couple with money that would be given through congressional
appropriations that would help us get to that $5 billion that the
president needs in order to protect our border.”
The development
comes a day after President Trump lambasted Democrats for failing to
deliver a secure border to the American people.
“Anytime you hear a
Democrat saying that you can have good Border Security without a Wall,
write them off as just another politician following the party line. Time
for us to save billions of dollars a year and have, at the same time,
far greater safety and control!” he tweeted.
Anytime you hear a Democrat saying that you can have good Border Security without a Wall, write them off as just another politician following the party line. Time for us to save billions of dollars a year and have, at the same time, far greater safety and control!
Brother Rachid grew up as a Muslim in Morocco. His father was an Imam in the local mosque. Little did he know that his life would be changed forever when he heard a Christian radio program and started corresponding with them, asking his questions about the Bible. Once his family started to become suspicious that Rachid had become a Christian, there was a confrontation. Rachid was forced to flee his home and was homeless as a 16-year old in Morocco. Watch his compelling testimony.
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In the latest triumph of transgenderism, a school district in
southern England will begin teaching grade-schoolers that “all genders”
can have menstrual periods. “Trans boys and men and non-binary people may have periods,” reads the advice
to teachers from the Brighton and Hove City Council. In other words,
females who deny their biological sex will nevertheless experience
physical symptoms of being female as they mature.
Such sentiments, however, cannot be expressed directly, particularly
in bastions of extreme progressivism such as Brighton, so they are
couched in the language of transgenderism, and students are then
indoctrinated into believing that males can have periods.
And indoctrination it is. The report calls on schools to ensure that
“language and learning about periods is inclusive of all genders,
cultures, faiths and sexual orientations. For example; ‘girls and women
and others who have periods.’” Such teaching is to begin at age eight
“within a planned program of relationships and sex education,” and not
just in health class. “There is a cross-curricular approach to learning
about periods, particularly in science and [Personal, Social, and Health
Education] but also in media studies, [physical education], maths,
graphics, and textiles.”
The council’s advice is allegedly aimed at preventing “period
poverty,” the notion that students miss school because they cannot
afford products to help manage their periods. To that end, it instructs
schools to provide “period products” to all students who need them and
place bins for disposing of used products “in all toilets” for students
aged seven or older.
“By encouraging effective education on menstruation and puberty, we
hope to reduce stigma and ensure no child or young person feels shame in
asking for period products inside or outside of school if they need
them,” the council said in a statement to the Telegraph.
“We believe that it’s important for all genders to be able to learn
and talk about menstruation together… Our approach recognizes the fact
that some people who have periods are trans or non-binary.”
That may be true, but the number of “trans or non-binary” students
ought to be minuscule, and those students could be handled discreetly,
on a case-by-case basis.
Not so in Brighton, where the transgender ideology is in full swing, to the extent that four-year-olds have been asked to choose their own “gender identity” before starting school. In October, the council issued
a “Trans Inclusion Schools Toolkit.” Among other things, that document
instructs schools to validate students’ chosen gender identities, noting
that failure to refer to a student by his chosen name or pronoun could
constitute harassment; to dismiss all parental concerns about trans
students’ sharing restrooms or locker rooms with members of the opposite
sex; and possibly even to report to social services those parents who
refuse their own children’s demands to “transition” to another gender.
Not surprisingly, this has encouraged students to go trans, to the point
that “a state secondary in Brighton has 40 pupils who ‘do not identify
as [the] gender presented at birth,’” according to the Daily Mail.
The latest guidelines on menstruation are “insanity,” Conservative Member of Parliament David Davies told the Mail.
“Learning about periods is already a difficult subject for children
that age, so to throw in the idea girls who believe they are boys also
have periods will leave them completely confused,” he added.
Stephanie Davies-Arai, founder of Transgender Trend, which combats
the transgender movement, said, “Girls going through puberty are already
having a difficult time. What they should be given is clear language to
be able to talk about their bodies and their female biological
functions without couching it in politically correct terms.”
And feminist Julie Bindel declared, “To tell impressionable children
that boys can also menstruate sidelines girls who should be getting
support when they start their periods.”
Of course, the entire transgender campaign is about sidelining normal
boys and girls in deference to a few who are uncomfortable in their own
skin — the Brighton council says normal students who are skittish about
sharing changing rooms with trans students should be given
“alternative” arrangements to avoid stigmatizing trans students — and
growing the ranks of transgenders so they can exert even more influence.
Such insanity needs to come to a full stop, period.
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Boys Have Periods, Too!-
by Martina Markota of Rebel Media
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Martina Markota of TheRebel.media reports: No, it’s not a joke. School
children in Brighton and Hove in England will be taught that all genders
can have periods. It’s a part of new progressive sex education classes
and it’s being hailed as a victory by transgender rights campaigners.
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ST. PAUL, Minn. — A student at Luther Seminary in
Minnesota, which is stated to be the largest seminary of the apostate
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), recently performed in
drag in the Olson Campus Center chapel as part of the annual “Lip Sync Battle”
held at the location. The video of the performance has generated both applause
and sorrow from viewers.
Anders Nelson, who is in his final year of studies and desires to enter into the ministry, posted a video of his performance
as “Rhonda F’Plause” to social media on Dec. 10, writing, “Here’s
Rhonda F’Plause’s debut performance at Luther’s Annual Lip Sync Battle! I
think she did Dolly proud!”
Nelson, wearing a long blonde wig and a very short pink dress, danced to the song “Baby, I’m Burnin’” by Dolly Parton.
“Your eyes reflect love and desire/I see that you need me/I need you
to please me/You touch me and set me on fire,” the lyrics state. “I
cannot resist you/Each time I kiss you/Then everything goes up in
flames.”
During the second verse of the song, Nelson grabbed a fan reflect the
song’s “burning” theme, gyrating his hips, which drew laughter from the
crowd. After kicking his legs up into the air, he later made his way
down through the pews to entertain some of those present up-close. One
man in the front began to clap along as others laughed.
The audience cheered at the end of the performance.
“[N]eedless to say, I had fun getting into drag for Luther Seminary’s annual Lip Sync Battle!” Nelson wrote. “Rhonda F’Plause made her debut and I took home the trophy!”
While some commented under Nelson’s video that the performance was
“awesome,” “amazing” and “a powerful witness to God’s goodness,
abundance and joy,” others expressed sorrow over the condition of the
ELCA.
“Lord, have mercy. Call all those in the ELCA to repentance and draw
them back to you. For they have swayed from your Word of truth and
followed their flesh and own wills. Maranatha! Lord, come quickly,” one
viewer wrote.
Nelson responded with the assertion that “commenting on strangers’ posts … doesn’t seem to reflect on God’s love too highly.”
“I can assure you that the Triune God is present here at Luther
Seminary,” he wrote. “I can also assure you that amateur drag
performances aren’t the only thing happening here; we witness to the
abundant grace and love of God through our studies and service.”
One Lutheran pastor, R. Daniel Carlson, then replied to Nelson with
exhortation, pointing to Deuteronomy 22:5, which states that it is an
abomination to the Lord for a man to wear a woman’s garment.
“Do you presume to know more than God? Do you think the Lord has
changed His mind?” he asked. “Be holy! Humble yourself before the Lord
and do not insult Him by answering the liar’s question ‘Did God really
say …’ with ‘No He didn’t, or at least He didn’t mean it.’ Pursue
holiness and godliness, and do not follow the patterns of this world.”
RyleIn
his message “Profit and Loss,” the late Anglican preacher J.C. Ryle
declared, “It is written, ‘Be holy, for I am holy.’ ‘Without holiness no
man shall see the Lord.’ What do you know of this holiness? Can you say
that God the Holy Spirit has actually begun the blessed and never-dying
work of sanctification within you?”
“… Do you strive not to be conformed to this world? Do you profess to
regulate every thought and word and action by the Holy Scriptures? Do
you hunger and thirst after a complete mortification of sin, and look
forward with longing to the time when Satan shall be bound, and there
shall be no more struggle between the flesh and the spirit?”
“… Is your Bible your daily food, a light to your feet and a lantern
to your path? Are you above the fear of men, and can you think lightly
of their praise in comparison with that which is of God? Do you count
all things but loss, if you can but win Christ? Do you count the life
that now is, as nothing compared with that which is to come? Oh! If you
know not something, however little, of these things, tremble for
yourself and repent!”
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New Jersey––(Ammoland.com)-New Jersey citizens are told to trust the police to keep them safe, but what if the state itself doesn’t even trust them enough to carry more than ten rounds in their magazines?
This paradox is the question that the people of the Garden State have been asking themselves for the past week.
Last Monday a ban went into effect making it illegal to own any magazines that hold more than ten rounds making millions of residents guilty of a class-four felony. Anyone caught with one of the now banned magazines in their possession faces up to 18 months in prison and up to $10,000 in fines or both for each magazine found.
Gov. Murphy wants citizens to trust in the police to protect them, but the law does not exempt off-duty officers from carrying more than 10 rounds in their magazines. Depending on the department police in the State carry between 15 to 17 rounds in their duty weapon magazines.
It doesn’t make sense why an off-duty officer is limited to 10 rounds when they carry much more while on duty. This artificial limitation severely hampers their ability to respond to a threat when off duty.
When Ian David Long walked into a crowded bar in Thousand Oaks California and opened fire with his .45 caliber Glock 21, the 28-year old killed 12 people. In that bar were six unarmed cops that were disarmed by their department policies. If even one of those officers were armed, then lives could have been saved.
A similar situation could play out in New Jersey due to the new magazine size restrictions placed on all citizens including off-duty police. Police respond to crimes after they happen. These off-duty officers are out blended into the public. The chances are strong that these officers have a better chance of stopping a crime progress then the uniformed officers on duty.
Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo sent out a memo to his officers clarifying that the law does apply to them when they are off duty even when they are in an on-call status. The memo was leaked on Twitter by Former NYPD Commissioner Bernard Kerik, the Tweet reads:
“NJ Governor @GovMurphy is endangering the life of every off duty NJ cop! Gang bangers, drug thugs and really bad guys don’t give a damn about magazine capacity… So he takes the good guy’s ammunition, and the bad guys are loaded for bear! @FoxNews @CNN @newsmax @DLoesch @ABC”
On FoxNews Kerik went even farther by calling the law ‘insane’ and by saying that the law is ‘just crazy’ for taking away round that police might need in a gun battle. He pointed out that criminals do not follow the law and the Governor is giving the criminals the upper hand.
Kerik is not alone in is condemnation for the law. Willes Lee, President of the National Federation of Republican Assemblies (NFRA) and NRA board member was also shocked by the law.
“New Jersey liberal politicians don’t trust citizens. Now, they again demonstrate that Democrats hate law enforcement,” Lee told AmmoLand. “New Jersey police unions still support Democrats? Law enforcement and first responders lives are in danger when liberal politicians ban their ability to defend themselves. New Jersey just got more dangerous, even to their own law enforcement officers.”
Legislation has been introduced to amend the law to exempt cops from the magazine ban, but with the left-leaning legislature, there is no guarantee that the bill will pass. Democrats are known for being anti-gun and anti-police.
These anti-police moves are not the first time New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal has been at odds with the cops. Earlier this month the former Bergen County Prosecutor told nj.com that police use of force cases should ‘be analyzed in hundreds of ways’ to make sure there was not abuse. He also has instructed departments to implement early warning systems to identify cops that might go rogue by analyzing their behaviors akin to the ‘Pre-Crime’ system used in the “Minority Report” movie.
It remains uncertain if legislation exempting cops from the law will pass the New Jersey legislature for Gov. Murphy to sign, but as of now, New Jersey is less safe than ever because of Gov. Murphy’s anti-gun law.
About John Crump
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of any parents who have sent, or are considering sending, their kids to college today.What "assault" on gender? It's not the one you might think, the one by
militant homofascists and "transgender" activists. Instead, the AAUP's
idea of an assault on gender is from those who seek a return to sanity
by codifying in law the correct definition of the sexes as biological
male and female (as if that should ever need defining). The
statement's writers complain about Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor
Orbán's decree that no "gender studies" courses can be taught in
universities, and they also whine about the U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services' plan to correctly define sex for Title IX purposes.
Here's a stunner from the first paragraph of the statement:
Both the Trump and the Orbán administrations insist upon a biological
basis for gender that has been thoroughly discredited by over fifty
years of feminist, trans, queer, and critical race research and by lived
experience. These two administrations are not the only ones attacking
so-called gender ideology. In Poland, Brazil, and Bulgaria, there have
also been attempts to refute the scholarly consensus that gender
identity is variable and mutable.
Again, this is a group of university professors who are teaching America’s kids this nonsense! According to the AAUP’s “about” page,
they have chapters on over 500 college campuses across the nation.
That gem above wasn’t the worst of what they wrote. In response to the
Hungarian Prime Minister’s deputy saying that gender studies have no
place in universities, because they’re an ideology, not a science, the
AAUP basically said, “I know you are, but what am I?!”:
The [AAUP]…strongly [condemns] these efforts to restrict the legal
meaning of gender to what are said to be its natural, immutable
forms…. Biologists, anthropologists, historians, and psychologists
have repeatedly shown that definitions of sex and sexuality have varied
over time…. Politicians and religious fundamentalists are neither
scientists nor scholars. Their motives are ideological. It is they who
are offering “gender ideology” by attempting to override the insights of
serious scholars. By substituting their ideology for years of
assiduous research, they impose their will in the name of a “science”
that is without factual support. This is a cynical invocation of
science for purely political ends. [Emphasis mine]
How do we even respond to such foolish statements, which are so horribly
divorced from truth and reason? The unchanging fact is that people are
all made by God either male or female, period, and the passing of time
and varying cultures do not alter that truth. If someone believes he is
the opposite sex, then he needs help to align his mind with reality, to
overcome his mental sickness and spiritual rebellion.
By saying, “Politicians and religious fundamentalists are neither
scientists nor scholars,” they’re attempting to stifle debate against
their assertions. Putting aside that such a statement is silly, since
they have no informed way of making that broad claim, it remains that no
one needs to be an “official” scholar or scientist to know and speak
the truth. This is a common rhetorical tactic of the
scientifically-challenged left to silence their critics, to claim that
we’re not “qualified” to speak against their contentions. Whether it’s
“global warming,” now “climate change,” or the homofascist movement,
real, honest science is not its foundation. It’s an inconvenience they
discard (and replace with pseudo-science) when it contradicts their
political agenda.
Regardless, this is what we’re facing in our nation today. Other countries, including Canada
and those in Europe, are farther down the road to homofascist
despotism, and unless we somehow stop the madness, we will be there,
too. “Hate speech” crimes will be a punitive, everyday reality, much
more so than they already are. Christians are already losing their jobs
here in the United States for refusing to play along with the
“transgender” charade. Christian business owners are being targeted and
sued by homosexual activists for not lending their work and support to
same-sex “marriage.”
This only gets worse and worse if we don’t stand firmly against it, and
that’s a mighty tall order when our nation’s kids are being
indoctrinated in the public schools and universities with
pro-homosexual, pro-“transgender” propaganda. If the communists running
our schools continue to own the minds of the younger generations, then
we will eventually go the way of Canada and Europe to an ever-darker,
despotic place where freedom of speech and conscience are just distant
memories.
‘As a Quaker who believes in our shared humanity…We´re calling on the
US to respect the rights of migrants,’ said Joyce Ajlouny, general
secretary of the American Friends Service Committee, which has run a
week of actions to back migrants
More than 400 people, many leaders of churches, mosques, synagogues and
indigenous communities, took part in the protest at San Diego´s Border
Field State Park, which borders Tijuana, Mexico, according to the AFSC
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After a tense standoff with officials at the U.S.-Mexico border on
Monday (Dec. 10), at least 30 American clergy were taken into custody
over the objections of demonstrators, who had come to protest the
treatment of Central American asylum-seekers and to decry the extension
of a border wall and the militarization of the border.
Priests, pastors, imams and rabbis knelt at the border south of San
Diego in front of a row of U.S. Border Patrol agents clad in riot gear.
Organizers said 30 faith leaders were arrested, but a U.S. Customs and
Border Protection official put the number at 32.
CBP said most were charged with failing to comply with directions
from federal officials and then released, but one was charged with
assaulting or resisting an agent — a charge the protesters already
dispute.
The “Love Knows No Borders” demonstration was organized by the
American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker group that assembled
religious leaders from across the faith spectrum for the event.
Participants said it was meant to express frustration about several
border-related issues at once.
“It was about the militarization of the border, about the border wall
itself and about calling for the rights of the migrant — particularly
the migrant caravan,” said Lucy Duncan, an organizer and outreach
director for the AFSC who was at the protest and was among those
arrested.
“There were people there from all across the country from all faith
traditions risking arrest and making a statement, saying this is not
what our country stands for, this is not what our sacred traditions
teach,” said the Rev. Liz Theoharis, co-chair of the progressive,
faith-rooted activist group the Poor People’s Campaign. Theoharis
participated in the demonstration but was not detained.
Duncan said AFSC had the idea for the protest after learning that
authorities planned to close Friendship Park, a well-guarded stretch of
the border where friends and family members on both sides commonly
gather to talk through the fence and where religious groups often hold joint worship services.
In addition to Theoharis and Duncan, participants included United
Methodist Bishop Minerva G. Carcaño; the Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray, head
of the Unitarian Universalist Association; the Rev. Traci Blackmon, a
pastor in Ferguson, Mo., and head of the United Church of Christ’s
Justice and Local Church Ministries; the Rev. Bruce Reyes-Chow, former
moderator of the Presbyterian Church (USA); Omar Suleiman, an imam and
adjunct professor at Southern Methodist University in Dallas; and Rabbi
Brant Rosen, who serves on the rabbinical council of Jewish Voice for
Peace. It could not be determined immediately whether they were among
those arrested.
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[World Magazine] Two major evangelical organizations have formally
endorsed principles that would add sexual orientation and gender
identity (SOGI) to federal nondiscrimination law.
The boards of the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities
(CCCU) and the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) quietly passed
similar motions in recent months, advancing a multiyear effort they say
is necessary to preserve religious freedom.
“As Christian higher educators, we are increasingly persuaded that
the most viable political strategy is for comprehensive religious
freedom protections to be combined with explicit support for basic human
rights for members of the LGBT community,” Houghton College President
Shirley Mullen—one of several people who sit on both boards—wrote in a
position paper provided to NAE board members.
CCCU President Shirley Hoogstra announced her board’s vote to member
presidents in August, but did not publicly announce the move.
The NAE motion—obtained by WORLD—unanimously
passed in October. It’s titled “Fairness for All” and calls on Congress
to consider federal legislation consistent with three principles:
• We believe that God created
human beings in his image as male or female and that sexual relations be
reserved for the marriage of one man and one woman. • We support long-standing civil rights laws and First Amendment guarantees that protect free religious exercise. • No one should face violence, harassment, or unjust discrimination on the basis of sex, sexual orientation, or gender identity.
“Fairness for All” is a concept based on the “Utah Compromise”—a SOGI
law with religious exemptions. The 2015 legislation remains the only
statewide SOGI law enacted over the last seven years.
Tim Keller is a Marxist That should come as no surprise to anyone who has the vaguest
understanding of the economic and political philosophy or with the
vaguest grasp of Keller’s body of work. This is not conspiratorial, this
is an assessment of Keller’s own very explicit words and his extremely
evident worldview. As a Marxist, Keller eschews nationalism, which is
the bulwark and champion of personal freedom, civil rights, and
individual liberties.
Globalism, as it is most commonly defined, is a rejection of the
nation-state, or at the least, the subjection of the nation-state to
international law and international governing bodies. Globalism is an
aspiration of Marxism, which seeks to dismantle personal freedom as
supported by national governments in the name of communitarian
utilitarianism.
Tim Keller did an interview with the Gospel Coalition, the audio of which you can find here. The grotesquely liberal Relevant Magazine lauded Keller’s words and called it a “takedown of Nationalism.”
Nationalism, although liberals have sought to redefine it over the
course of the last two years, refers to the traditional belief in
Western Civilization that personal individual liberty is best preserved
by nation-states who have a vested interest in the freedom of their
Citizenry. Far from representing some kind of latent ethnocentricty or
racism, Nationalism simply recognizes that civil liberties must be
protected by localized – and not international – governments. Anyone who
cares about the rights, liberties, and equality of minorities should be
a nationalist. Anyone who cares about individual religious liberty or
freedom of speech, assembly, or petition should be a Nationalist.
For Keller, however, Nationalism is evil. The world must operate
internationally, not nationally. For Keller, the world’s geopolitical
design must undergo significant renovation.
Citing his new book, The Prodigal Prophet: Jonah and the Mystery of God’s Mercy, Keller claimed that “border security” isn’t wrong per se (he is against border walls), but claimed that there must be “balance.”
I do think most thoughtful,
balanced Christians should feel somewhat uncomfortable in either
political party. Christians need to recognize the danger of what they
call xenophobia. I’m afraid of Christians getting too radicalized on
either side.
Keller no doubt feels uncomfortable in either political party because
he’s a social conservative (barely), at least acknowledging the
sinfulness of abortion, but a Marxist on economic and cultural issues.
In April of 2018, Keller met with a Marxist political braintrust at Wheaton College to
discuss ways to keep evangelicals from voting Republican. In order for
Keller’s Democrat friends with their New York values to win their
political battles, they don’t need evangelicals to vote Democrat. They
just need us not to vote.
“Jonah was putting his national
interest over the spiritual good of the people of Ninevah. God cares
about all races and all people, and in the end, His church will consist
of people from every tribe, people and nation. We can’t lift up one
nation over other nations.”
Of course, the story of Jonah is not about border security. It’s not
about Nationalism or Globalism. This is just part of the Social Gospel
that is repeatedly eisegeted into every text that Keller handles.
In regards to missiology, Jonah stands out as the rare prophet who
evangelized outside both the Northern or Southern Kingdom. He went to them. After all, that’s what missions is really about.
We would encourage evangelicals to be like Jonah when it comes to
missions, and take the Gospel into Mexico and Central America. We would
also encourage evangelicals to be like Nehemiah when it comes to border
security, and build a wall.
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[LifeNews] A project where women brag about aborting their unborn
babies is gaining momentum once again with publicity surrounding its new
book, “Shout Your Abortion.”
Bonow told the Seattle Times that
their goal is “humanizing, normalizing and de-stigmatizing” abortion.
She said their new book has almost 100 stories of people from age 19 to
85 who have had abortions. Sharing about aborting her own unborn baby, she wrote:
I’m telling you my story plainly,
proudly, flippantly even, because we have all been brainwashed to
believe that the absence of negative emotions around having an abortion
is the mark of an emotionally bankrupt person. It’s not. I have a good
heart and my abortion made me happy.
After sharing her story in 2015, the campaign took off. According to the report:
Her friend, the Seattle writer
Lindy West, read the piece and added the hashtag — #ShoutYourAbortion —
that was retweeted over 150,000 times.
Stories started pouring in
from all corners of the country. From older women and younger,
established professionals and students just starting out. They came from
victims of incest and rape, people of different genders and political
and religious backgrounds. Some were trapped in abusive relationships,
or weren’t medically able to carry a wanted pregnancy.
The stories
serve to combat anti-choice rhetoric that Bonow and West believe keep
people in secrecy, shame, poverty, toxic and abusive relationships and
devalue their ambitions.
… In the time since, Bonow has created a
Seattle nonprofit, traveled the country and over the last year, and with
the help of West and editor Emily Nokes, turned some of the essays into
a book that she called “a physical manifestation of a movement.”
The pro-abortion news site Rewire claimed the
revived “Shout Your Abortion” campaign is needed now more than ever as
pro-life leaders work tirelessly to end abortion or, as the site phrased
it, “the legislative and judicial attacks on reproductive rights” in
America.
[Editor’s Note: This article was written by Micaiah Bilger and originally published at LifeNews] _________________________________________________________
Oprah Magazine Supports Shout Your Abortion
In July’s issue of Oprah’s O magazine, the media mogul highlighted
Amelia Bonow and her activism for the pro-choice movement with the
disturbing hashtag #ShoutYourAbortion.
LATEST:
‘Shout Your Abortion’ Founder Talks to Children About Abortion, Claims ‘It’s All Part of God’s Plan’
“This is terrible,” one viewer wrote. “She’s a reckless adult who
didn’t want to accept the consequences of her reckless behavior, she has
zero remorse, and she’s trying to promote her reckless and immoral
behavior to kids as being normal and okay.”
“I could not finish watching this. It broke my heart,” another
lamented. “These children were used as pawns to promote an agenda. As
many … have said, let’s also have a conversation with someone who
regrets their abortion. I know from personal experience that most women
do regret their choice.”
“Far as I’m concerned, this is brainwashing our young. Since they are
led to believing her, they should see what happens when a baby is
aborted or perhaps listen to a person who survived an abortion,” a third
opined.
“Sick,” another wrote. “I was in the sitting room watching this. My
little sister—she’s 11—sat across from me. I looked up and saw her in
tears, after having overheard the video. She goes, ‘So, did she really
have the abortion?’ And broke down. It is so obvious that this is wrong.
A child can see it, but these people can’t. Choice? It’s despicable.”
1 Timothy 4:2 states that in the last days, there will be those who
have “their conscience seared with a hot iron.” Proverbs 6:17 also
declares that God “hates hands that shed innocent blood.” _________________________________________________________
“Earlier this year, Bonow and others embarked on a “Bible Belt Abortion Storytelling Hour” tour
to contend that “abortion is normal” and to urge mothers who ended
their children’s lives to tell their abortion story. The tour included
stops in Atlanta, Georgia; Asheville, North Carolina; and New Orleans,
Louisiana.
The book has been endorsed by actress Martha Plimpton, abortionist
Willie Parker, and former Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards.”
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Skyla Rose Loesch, who describes herself on Facebook as a “20 years
old, mother to two babies and two angels,” made a post to her baby,
expressing her love to the child she just paid a surgical hitman to
murder.
The two “angels” to whom she is a mother are two children she’s murdered.
Posting an ultrasound photo of the baby, Loesch spoke to the now-dead child explaining why her child needed to be exterminated.
According to the mother, she loved the baby (who she acknowledges is a
baby) with “all of [her] heart,” and her siblings would have loved
them, but they had to be murdered because they deserved to be loved more.
Within hours, the mother posted on Facebook that she was excited to go out and drink.
Her over-flowing love for the newly dead baby has flown seamlessly
into her enthusiasm to legally drink on her birthday. Let’s pray the
mother-of-the-year has a designated driver.
This woman is not a ‘victim’ of the abortion industry. She is the
victimizer. The only difference between this woman and Casey Anthony is
their timing.
Skyla Rose Loesch
Since her post to her dead child, Loesch has since posted a meme –
not fit to publish on this news site – of a graphic sexual position with
the caption, “Has pregnancy scare…says will never have sex again…two
days later…”
Let’s pray that Loesch figures out how babies are made so she can stop killing them.
Loesch received some criticism, but many positive responses. She was emboldened and posted the following…
Of course, Loesch didn’t write a Facebook post to her body, as though
she were saying goodbye to her elbow or eyebrows. She was saying
goodbye to another person, her baby, who is not – in fact – her body.
Some begged Loesch to let them adopt her baby the next time she got
pregnant and decided there wasn’t enough love to go around. This was her
response.
Loesch reminds us that mothers who abort their children are often not
victims, and should not be treated as victims by the pro-life lobby.
They are murderers who intentionally pay people to snuff out their
babys’ lives for no reason but their own selfishness. Abortion should be
criminalized, and those who commit it once made illegal, should be
punished to the fullest extent of the law.
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Watch: Mom Sings Creepy Lullaby at Clinic “Blessing” Claiming Baby Wrote Song Before She Aborted Her
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[Life News] A pro-life group has released an unbelievable video of a
mother singing a creepy lullaby that her baby “gave” her before she
killed her baby in an abortion. The woman sang the song recently at a “blessing” of a local abortion clinic in Ohio by pro-abortion clergy.
In Columbus, Ohio, that image of a mother soothing her child through
song was flipped on its head at a shocking pro-abortion rally. One
mother at the rally recounted her abortion by singing a lullaby she said
her baby sent to her while she was in the waiting room preparing to
kill the child. The mother was one of several speakers at the so-called “blessing” of Your Choice Healthcare, a non-surgical abortion facility in Columbus, OH. The blasphemous event included
not only women talking about their abortions but also clergy members
calling on God to bless murder of babies and praising those who kill
them. Before singing the “lullaby”—actually a Beatles song—the mother in
the video explains she had visions and conversations with the baby in
her womb before the abortion. These visions, according to the mother,
culminated in the baby sending her a lullaby moments before she was
killed to tell her mom, “It’s okay.”
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[Lifesite News] CHARLOTTE, North Carolina, December 14, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Profits from the sacrilegious rosary
promoted by LGBT-affirming Father James Martin last week will fund
groups supportive of abortion and other causes in conflict with Catholic
teaching.
Some of the proceeds from “Rosary of Modern Sorrows” will go to Sister Simone Campbell’s NETWORK, a social justice lobbying group of U.S. Catholic nuns cited as problematic by
the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF). Other groups
receiving the proceeds include Women for Women International,
which promotes contraception and “reproductive health” and has partnered with Planned Parenthood and leftist groups such as Southern Poverty Law Center.
The rosary is the product of social justice group Contemplative
Rebellion and has decades comprised of social justice intentions, with
the fifth decade consisting of rainbow beads. The suggested prayer for the decade petitions for the “full acceptance” of LGBT couples. Its Charities We Support page
lists a numer of problematic partners. The company says it gives 20
percent to 100 percent of its profits to the listed charities.
Martin had promoted the rosary on Twitter and Facebook, as reported by LifeSiteNews last week.
In 2012 the Vatican’s CDF had censured the
Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR), the association of the
leaders of congregations of Catholic women religious in the United
States representing more than 80 percent of the 57,000 women religious
(nuns) in the country, for its positions on pro-life issues, women’s
ordination and homosexuality, also naming NETWORK in the process.
NETWORK had worked to undermine the US Bishops’ opposition to Obamacare because of abortion funding.
Campbell herself undermined the Bishops’ efforts to ensure pro-life
protections in Obamacare by pushing for a bill the Bishops opposed and
then supporting a bill that would put more federal funding into Planned Parenthood and mandate abortion coverage in state medical assistance programs. Both Planned Parenthood and NARAL also backed the bill.
Campbell pushed for swift passage of Obamacare; despite concerns it
meant the largest expansion of abortion since Roe v. Wade, which she
dismissed as “insignificant details,”
In addition to supporting NETWORK, the rainbow-rosary making group funds other non-profits that support abortion, including the radical Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).
[Editor’s Note: This article was written by Lisa
Bourne and first published at LifeSite News, title changed by P&P.
This re-post is not an endorsement of the theology of Lifesite News] _________________________________________________________
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PHILADELPHIA — A Pennsylvania preacher who
identifies himself as a “chief apostle,” and has traveled as a
participant in crusades held by prosperity preacher Morris Cerullo, has
teamed with the world’s largest secular entertainment group and others
to allow the building that he uses for Sunday services to be renovated
and utilized as a lavish concert and comedy venue. The location, known
as the Philadelphia Metropolitan Opera House, or “The Met,” features 25
bars and appearances by some of the largest names in secular music, such
as Bob Dylan, Sarah Brightman and Boys II Men.
According to reports, Mark Hatcher, who leads Holy Ghost Headquarters
Revival Center, had purchased the building in the 1990’s to save it
from being demolished as it sat vacant for some time. Hatcher says that
he used to attend religious services that were held at The Met in the
1950’s.
He spent $5 million on renovating the former opera house, which is
listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Hatcher had hosted
what he called “camp meetings” in the building in years past, which
included appearances by Paula White, Rod Parsley, Steve Munsey and Paul
Morton. Hatcher parked his Cadillac Escalade outside of the building,
which is located in one of the poorer areas of the city.
Hatcher states on his website that his mission is to “restore the old
landmark where God’s presence manifests to teach men of every creed of
the Holy Spirit and that they are equipped to go out and compel fallen
mankind to repentance, being established unto God and ever abounding in
the knowledge of Jesus Christ.”
In recent years, Hatcher entered into a partnership with local
developer Eric Blumenfeld of EB Realty Management to restore the
property. Blumenfeld had also worked on the Divine Lorraine Hotel, which
previously belonged to a cult leader who went by “Father Divine,” who
claimed to be God and asserted that his second wife, known as “Mother
Divine,” was the reincarnation of his deceased first wife.
The entertainment group Live Nation—which dubs itself as the “largest
producer of live music concerts”—also came into the picture, entering
into talks with Hatcher about using the building for concerts and other
shows, while Hatcher would continue to host church services at the
location.
The extravagant building project, with 3,500 seating capacity and 25
bars, cost $56 million for renovations. Bob Dylan was the first artist
to perform at The Met, which officially opened this month, with John
Legend and Weezer shows days later.
Other acts scheduled to perform as booked by Live Nation, which
manages the facility, include Pentatonix, Sarah Brightman, comedian Jim
Gaffigan, Ringo Starr, and Boys II Men.
The site Amplify reports that prior to the Dylan concert, an official
ribbon cutting ceremony was held, with Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney,
City Council President Darrell Clarke, Live Nation Regional President
Geoff Gordon, and the aforementioned Blumenfeld and Hatcher taking part
in the occasion.
Architect rendering of The Met“This
is the building that nobody thought would be saved. God put certain
people in place to make it happen, and it did,” Clarke stated, according
to The Morning Call.
Last Sunday, Hatcher held his grand re-opening church service
featuring fellow prosperity preacher Morris Cerullo, who he refers to as
his spiritual father. Cerullo’s website includes posts such as “How You
Can Make Prosperity Easy,” “Confess the Promise Out” and “A Transfer of
Wealth From God to You.” A gathering with megachurch leader Noel Jones
was also held on Dec. 6.
“I am really excited about tonight. Tonight is the beginning of
something brand new, spiritually, in our city, something that is going
to shake our city,” Hatcher said during the Jones event, according to
the Philadelphia Tribune.
“This is the first night getting back in the building and the devil’s
real scared right now. He’s real nervous,” he stated. “I haven’t slept
in weeks, and when I thought I was going to lay down last night and get a
couple hours of rest, the Lord began to download some stuff. He said,
‘What I’m about to do is not another level, but another dimension.’ The
city has been in a drought, but he said, ‘Tell my people what I’ve done
here on Broad Street is what I’m about to do in your spirit.’”
2 Corinthians 6:14-18 teaches, “Be ye not unequally yoked together
with unbelievers, for what fellowship hath righteousness with
unrighteousness, and what communion hath light with darkness? And what
concord hath Christ with Belial? Or what part hath he that believeth
with an infidel? And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols?”
“For ye are the temple of the living God, as God hath said, I will
dwell in them, and walk in them, and I will be their God, and they shall
be My people. Wherefore come out from among them and be ye separate,
saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing, and I will receive
you. And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and
daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.”
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A new booklet for daycare workers that claims to help identify “Nazi
parents” suggests looking out for girls with braided hair and athletic
boys.
The 60-page booklet, entitled Ene, Mene, Muh – And You’re Out!
was designed by the far-left “anti-hate” Amadeu Antonio Foundation
,which is headed by former Stasi informant Annette Kahane and based in
Berlin with the foreword being written by Social Democrat (SPD) Family
Minister Franziska Giffey, Berliner Kurierreports. Ms Kahane made headlines in 2015 after the German government recruited her and the foundation to scour social media for “xenophobic posts” during the height of the migrant crisis.
Vice-Chairman of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic
Union (CDU) parliamentary group Nadine Schön slammed the booklet saying
the case studies and suggestions were “absurd.” “If educators should become overseers and correctors of parental convictions, that [crosses a line],” Schön said. Labelling the practice “parenting espionage” — or spying on parents —
the CDU politician criticised the aspects of the booklet that
identifies the way children dress or how much physical activity they
participate in as being potential signs their parents might be Nazis.
saying it does not fit with democracy.
The Amadeu Antonio Foundation defended the booklet claiming that the
case studies were based on real-life cases they had witnessed including a
girl with braided hair whose parents turned out to be far-right
extremists. They also admitted that since the release of the booklet
their phones had been slammed with complaints. The case studies echo research presented by Antifa groups in 2016,
which claimed that “Volkisch families,” those who believe in countryside
living and traditional German culture and values, posed a threat to Germany. Antifascist Action group member Olaf Meyer warned of “young couples
[who] buy farms and restore them together with their relatives and
friends.”
The Amadeu Antonio Foundation has been roundly criticised in the
past, not just for Kahane’s former Stasi ties but also for their methods
which have been likened to the old East German secret police.
In 2016, the organisation was protested by the anti-mass migration youth activist Identitarian Movement which put up Stasi-logo stickers
on the foundation’s Berlin office along with another sticker saying,
“enter the surveillance state.” Kahane and the foundation later
threatened to take the Identitarians to court over the incident.
Communist political oppression academic and Stasi expert Dr Hubertus Knabe also came out against Kahane
in 2016, saying that it was “incomprehensible” to allow her the ability
to have control over what people say online given her past.
The booklet has also sparked a petition
on Change.org to cut the funding the foundation receives from German
taxpayers, with over 5,500 signatures at the time of publication. The
petition singles out the booklet saying, “The Amadeu Antonio Foundation,
under the guise of fighting Hate Speech, is calling on citizens to
denounce, report or criminalise other citizens.”
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Beyond the immediate medical, living and housing costs for economic
migrants who are flowing into Canada illegally over the Quebec border,
Canadian taxpayers are also doling out significant amounts of cash for
an unexpected expense:
Quebecers living by the Canada-United States border where
thousands of migrants have crossed irregularly into the country since
2017 will be eligible for payments of up to $25,000, the federal
government….Life along the previously sleepy Roxham Road — the main
entry point for migrants entering the country on foot — has been
disturbed, and residents deserve to be compensated, Border Security
Minister Bill Blair said.
Trudeau has a history of extravagance. He has tried to buy the media
with a 600-million-dollar bailout package that has been described by
many as “headline buying” or “media management.”
Now he’s trying to pacify residents or border areas whose lives have
been disrupted by the migrant crossings that should have been stopped
immediately after they began.
The Toronto Sun reported during the summer months, when migrants were pouring in by the hundreds each day:
Roxham Road, a narrow paved road lined by horse farms and
marshes, has served as a path recently for Palestinians, Colombians,
Ghanaians, Nigerians, Haitians, Zimbabweans and Pakistanis, among
others.
Who is going to pay for the traumatized guests of the Radisson Toronto East hotel,
where about 400 refugees from Africa occupied all but two floors of the
hotel, turning the Radisson into a squalid migrant camp? We also hope
that no one has forgotten Trudeau’s welcome of anyone and everyone,
including Islamic State jihadis,
into the country, with Canadians given no say in the matter. Trudeau
thinks that Islamic State jihadis can be a “powerful voice” for
deradicalization. He also thinks that questions about his mismanagement
of Canada’s borders are “Islamophobic.”
Canadians can expect to dole out much more money, particularly in the upcoming election year, and given the unpopular UN Migration Pact.
The simplest questions about the Pact, which is claimed to be
non-binding, must be asked: why is such a Pact even needed? Has Canada
now fully subscribed to the globalist vision of open borders? Who is
footing the bill for the migrant influx and the integration and
assimilation of the migrants? Canada is already at a four-decade low in
its employment rate, and it’s likely only to get worse.
“Residents near U.S. border in Quebec to be paid up to $25,000 for asylum seeker disruption: Bill Blair,” by Mylene Crete, Canadian Press, December 12, 2018:
OTTAWA — Quebecers living by the Canada-United States
border where thousands of migrants have crossed irregularly into the
country since 2017 will be eligible for payments of up to $25,000, the
federal government announced Wednesday.
Life along the previously sleepy Roxham Road — the main entry point
for migrants entering the country on foot — has been disturbed, and
residents deserve to be compensated, Border Security Minister Bill Blair
said.
“I’ve been there. I’ve spoken to the residents. I’ve seen the level
of activity of the RCMP, the (Canada Border Services Agency) and other
officials that has impacted what is otherwise a quiet, rural road,”
Blair told reporters.
Roughly 96 per cent of all migrants who have crossed illegally into Canada since 2017 have done so at Roxham Road.
The federal Immigration Department says 16,000 people crossed the
Canada-U.S. border illegally into Quebec through the end of October this
year, and about 19,000 did last year. Bureaucrats divided the Roxham Road area into three zones based on
proximity to the border. People living in the closest zone are eligible
to receive up to $25,000, those in the next closest $10,000, and those
in the third zone $2,500….
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Not a friend. Not an ally. Turkey should be removed from NATO, and
our international alliances reconfigured in light of the realities of
the global jihad.
“Syrian Kurdish-led fighters take Hajin, last town held by ISIS,” by Bassem Mroue, Associated Press, December 14, 2018:
BEIRUT — U.S.-backed, Kurdish-led fighters captured the
last town held by the Islamic State group on Friday, after three months
of ferocious battles in the militants’ single remaining enclave in
eastern Syria, activists and Kurdish officials said….
The Syrian Democratic Council, the political wing of the SDF,
denounced Turkey’s threat of a military operation against the YPG and
called on Syrians of all ethnic and religious groups to unite ahead of a
possible Turkish attack.
Meanwhile, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan intensified his
criticism of U.S. support for the Syrian Kurdish fighters, saying Friday
that Turkey would clear the key northern town of Manbij. Over the
summer, the two NATO allies had struck a “road map” to Manbij of the
YPG, which Turkey considers a terror organization linked to an
insurgency within its own borders.
The Turkish presidency released a statement Friday saying Erdogan
spoke with U.S. President Donald Trump and they agreed on the “need for
more effective coordination” in Syria. Erdogan reiterated “Turkey’s
legitimate security concerns” regarding the YPG.
Erdogan argued the U.S. has not kept its promises to push the YPG east of the Euphrates River.
“If you don’t take them out, we will also enter Manbij,” he said.
American troops are stationed in Manbij, which was cleared of ISIS in
2016, and Washington and Ankara recently started joint patrols around
the town….
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Amazon has banned Jihad Watch from Amazon Smile and Amazon
Associates, but its aid to jihadis has not led to its being accorded any
breaks by its Muslim workers. “Amazon says it has offered accommodations such as providing prayer
mats for workers, converting a conference room into prayer space during
the Muslim holy month of Ramadan and approving shift transfers for
fasting workers.” But it isn’t enough. “The workers, many of whom are practicing Muslims, say the required
productivity rate is too high, the company is unconcerned about worker
injuries and that the conditions don’t allow practicing Muslims to pray
as they otherwise would.” The idea is to reinforce the principle, already established in other
cases, that Muslims must always have special privileges and
accommodations that others do not have. This is true now at Amazon
unless non-Muslim workers get time off work equal to the prayer breaks
that Muslims are given. Islamic law denies non-Muslims basic rights;
only Muslims enjoy full rights in an Islamic society. To establish a
similar situation in the U.S. is the ultimate goal here.
“Somali-American Amazon workers demand better conditions,” by Kerem Yucel and Nova Safo, AFP, December 15, 2018 (thanks to Mark):
A group of Amazon workers in Minnesota who are Somali
refugees resettled in the Midwestern US state demanded better working
conditions Friday during a protest outside one of the retailer’s
warehouses. Hundreds braved frigid temperatures to demonstrate outside of the
Amazon warehouse in the Minneapolis suburb of Shakopee—home to a sizable
Somali immigrant population from which Amazon has heavily recruited…. “We don’t have rights in the company,” worker Abdulkadir Ahmad, 30, told AFP.
The workers, many of whom are practicing Muslims, say the required
productivity rate is too high, the company is unconcerned about worker
injuries and that the conditions don’t allow practicing Muslims to pray
as they otherwise would.
“We do not have enough time to pray. There is a lot of pressure. They say your rate is too low,” Ahmad said.
The workers timed their protest during the busy holiday shopping season, hoping to force the online retailer to make changes.
Amazon’s accommodations
They already have had some success. Amazon says it has offered
accommodations such as providing prayer mats for workers, converting a
conference room into prayer space during the Muslim holy month of
Ramadan and approving shift transfers for fasting workers.
“Additionally, we’ve continued to hire and develop East African
employees. We’re a leader in this space and we feel really good about
our record here,” Amazon spokeswoman Shevaun Brown told AFP via email….
But workers say Amazon’s efforts so far have fallen short.
“We are appreciative they’ve sat down and talked with us, but we are not seeing real action,” activist Abdi Muse said.
Muse is the executive director of the Awood Center, a union-backed
non-profit that organized the protest and helps East African workers in
the state….
“When workers leave Amazon, they still live with the back pain,
chronic illness, and hurt and harm caused during their employment,” said
Ahmed Anshur, the imam at the Al-Ihsan Islamic Center in the nearby
state capital of Saint Paul.
Protesters said they want the multibillion-dollar company to give
back to the struggling community that has been a major source of its
workforce in the Minneapolis area by giving money to a community fund to
help struggling immigrant families.
“It’s not a handout or a donation,” said Mohamed Omar, imam at another Minneapolis suburban mosque….
“They need to fix this quickly,” said Dr. Jerry A. Johnson during a
panel discussion on the reported silencing of “unpopular voices” at the
Reboot 2018 conference in San Francisco on Friday. “And what I’m saying
is: if they don’t do this – by December 31, mind you – we are going to
ask Congress to take a look at 230,” he added, saying NRB would ask for
“very careful, thoughtful” hearings.
Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act was inserted in the
1996 Telecommunications Act in part to facilitate “Good Samaritan”
blocking of offensive content without exposing web companies to lawsuits
based on content that their efforts may have missed. But Johnson suggested Friday that Big Tech companies no longer need
“an extra layer of protection,” stating that Section 230 “came in when
it was a new day.” “It’s time to leave the ‘incubator,’” Johnson said. “Why do they need that now?”
NRB President Highlights Internet Freedom Watch at First Amendment Lunch, 2018
60-MILLION-STRONG CHRISTIAN GROUP TARGETS BIG TECH OVER CENSORSHIP
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The National Religious Broadcasters group has sent out a
final ultimatum to Apple, Facebook, Google and Twitter warning that if
they don’t stop censoring Christian and conservative viewpoints, the NRB
will lead its organization of 60 million members into a campaign to
remove their Section 230 legal protections.
NRB President Jerry Johnson disputed claims by those tech companies
which suggest they’re not actively burying Christian and conservative
viewpoints. “We have documented over many years that they are consistently
censoring political debate between conservatives and liberals, religious
and philosophical debate between Christians and non-Chirstians, on
issues like life, marriage, and Islamic terrorism,” Johnson told PJ Media on Monday.
Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act protects web sites from
legal liability for third-party content, but only if the sites act as a
platform and not as a publisher. However, censorship of content is a role more associated with that of
a publisher, which is why Big Tech is running a risk of losing their
Section 230 protections. You can read NRB’s letter below:
NRB RENEWS CALL FOR SILICON VALLEY EXECS TO PROTECT FREE SPEECH
Will Ask Congress to Review ‘Good Samaritan’ Protection If They Fail to Act
WASHINGTON (NRB) – National Religious Broadcasters
has renewed its request to Silicon Valley executives to implement their
own free speech charter governing their content moderation or the
evangelical organization will ask Congress to review the “Good
Samaritan” protection the social media giants enjoy.
In December 6 letters to the CEOs of Facebook, Google, Twitter, and Apple,
Dr. Jerry A. Johnson, president & CEO of NRB, warns that time is
running out for the companies to act as evidence grows of censorship of
Christian and conservative viewpoints at the social media companies.
If the companies “do not take concrete action against censorship of
Christian and conservative viewpoints by the end of this calendar year,
then NRB will be calling for new hearings” Johnson said. “Specifically,
we will call for a review of the ‘Good Samaritan’ section of Section 230
of the Communications Decency Act.”
The provision not only protects internet companies from liability for
what users post on their platforms, it also includes a section
facilitating their “Good Samaritan” blocking of offensive content by
defending them from lawsuits based on content their moderation efforts
may have missed. Echoing a statement he first raised in September
during remarks at
a tech conference in San Francisco, Johnson suggested it may be time to
remove or suspend this “extra layer of government-granted content
moderation protection for ubiquitous platforms suspected of acting in
bad faith.”
While calling for this “reluctantly” and noting such a review should
be “very cautious,” Johnson said, “if major tech corporations continue
to effectively ignore substantiated cries of viewpoint suppression –
intentional or not, algorithmic or human – then I believe it’s time for a
remedy.” Reconsideration of Section 230 is preferable to other
“possibly heavy-handed government interventions,” he said.
The letters come one year after NRB launched Internet Freedom Watch,
a new initiative to draw greater attention to viewpoint censorship on
the internet, expanding NRB’s longtime focus on the subject. With the
launch of the initiative, NRB sent letters to the same companies. To
date, none of the companies has formally responded to the 2017 letters,
although some have engaged NRB in various ways.
In the intervening year, the concerns about censorship of Christian
and conservative viewpoints has only grown, and so has NRB’s timelinedocumenting examples of such censorship – now with more than 40 documented cases.
“This timeline does not include every verifiable example of viewpoint
suppression, and we believe it is actually only ‘the tip of the
iceberg’ with many more instances of censorship going unreported by
people who feel they have no recourse,” Johnson said.
While some continue to claim concerns about censorship are a “hoax”
or “conservative fantasy,” Johnson commended President Donald Trump, FCC
Chairman Ajit Pai, and Members of Congress who have become “powerfully
vocal” about the growing problem.
In launching Internet Freedom Watch, NRB called for Silicon Valley
leaders to adopt a free speech charter that “utilizes the wisdom of the
U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment,” noting that those freedoms have
been “refined by centuries of jurisprudence” and would still permit
these platforms to “combat obscenity, incitements to violence, and the
like, without unduly burdening free expression with an array of
confusing and haphazardly applied speech codes.”
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
Illustrating the growing problem of viewpoint censorship on the
internet, NRB has compiled a timeline with representative examples of
suppression of Christian and conservative views on the internet.
Although private corporations, such as those in this timeline, are not
constrained by the First Amendment, most claim to affirm and even
celebrate freedom of speech. NRB has called on these tech giants to
afford their users nothing less than the free speech and free exercise
of religion rights embodied in the First Amendment as interpreted by the
U.S. Supreme Court. The following timeline is not exhaustive, but
merely representative, and some instances of censorship may have been
later corrected in some manner. To view, click the image below or scroll
through the timeline below. For a PDF of a vertical version of the
timelines, click here.
November 2018
Radio talk show host and former congressional candidate Jesse Kelly banned from Twitter without any explanation.
Instagram deletes an image by Founders Ministries, “Only Men Can Be Pastors,” claiming the post was “hate speech.”
October 2018
U.S. Senate candidate from Tennessee Marsha Blackburn’s ad, “Stop The Mob,” rejected by Google Ads as “shocking content.”
Facebook rejects pro-life ads by Susan B. Anthony List about babies born prematurely.
August 2018
PragerU announces that it is being “heavily censored” on Facebook after
videos were blocked as “hate speech.” Facebook later apologized and
restored the content.
Because it “related to politics or an issue of national importance,”
Facebook denies an ad that Steven Solomon, a pastor and Army veteran,
wished to use to promote his radio program that said, “Speak the truth,
Love God, Defend America.”
Facebook suspends popular blogger Elizabeth Johnston (“The Activist
Mommy”) for unspecified “hate speech.” Facebook later apologized and
restored content it had removed.
July 2018
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) confirms that he filed an FEC complaint against
Twitter due to an apparent shadow ban of his account. Reps. Jim Jordan
(R-Ohio), Mark Meadows (N.C.), and Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) were
reportedly also so treated by Twitter.
June 2018
Facebook blocks Dr. Robert Gagnon, previously on the faculty of
Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, for criticizing a Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation video that promoted homosexuality and nudity to young
children.
May 2018
Amazon denies Alliance Defending Freedom access to its charitable
AmazonSmile program based on a categorization of the controversial
Southern Poverty Law Center.
April 2018
Just prior to Easter, Facebook rejects an ad from Franciscan University
of Steubenville featuring the historic San Damiano Cross because it was
deemed “shocking, sensational, or excessively violent.”
January 2018
Google’s YouTube flags and deletes the live stream of NRBTV for an
unspecified Community Guidelines violation. YouTube also inflicts a
three-month strike on NRBTV’s account.
November 2017
Twitter informs radio talk show host Erick Erickson that his tweet
related to the debate about transgenderism “has been flagged for
possible violations” of its “hateful conduct policy and/or German laws.”
October 2017
Twitter blocks a political ad Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) attempted
to promote because it deemed her reference to Planned Parenthood’s
documented “sale of baby body parts” to be “inflammatory.”
August 2017
Google’s YouTube demonetizes hundreds of videos produced by Dr. Michael
Brown, host of Line of Fire radio show, and targets “controversial
religious” content.
July 2017
Twitter blocks tweets and retweets of AT&T’s public policy blog
expressing an opinion contrary to its own during a “Day of Action”
supporting “common carrier” Title II federal regulation over internet
service providers.
Facebook temporarily blocks more than 20 pages of Catholic organizations and individuals followed by millions worldwide.
May 2017
Twitter makes Live Action, a pro-life organization, ineligible to
advertise on its platform until removal of “offensive” content.
March 2017
Citing disagreement with views expressed in four videos by Pure Passion
TV on sexuality, Vimeo removes all 850 videos of the ministry and closes
its account.
January 2017
Amazon denies D. James Kennedy Ministries access to its charitable
AmazonSmile program based on a categorization of the controversial
Southern Poverty Law Center.
October 2016
Prager University announces that Google’s YouTube is censoring many of
its educational videos by placing them in “restricted mode,” which flags
and prevents them from being accessed freely.
July 2016
Google’s YouTube temporarily blocks a Center for Security Policy video
critical of the Muslim Brotherhood, jihad, and Sharia law.
May 2016
Gizmodo, a technology blog, reports evidence of Facebook workers
censoring conservative content off of and injecting preferred articles
into its influential trending news feed.
November 2015
Facebook blocks postings by Vanderbilt University professor, Dr. Carol
Swain, for over 26 hours after liberal student activists organized
complaints about her religious and moral viewpoints.
Google’s YouTube terminates account of Olive Tree Ministries after
the ministry posted an interview about persecution of Christians in the
Middle East. YouTube reinstated the account 3 days later after media
inquiries.
August 2015
Facebook temporarily blocks user postings about a report on illegal immigration by the Center for Immigration Studies.
April 2015
Responding to pressure from complaints, GoFundMe deletes fundraising
campaigns for Sweet Cakes by Melissa and Arlene’s Flowers — companies
that had declined to provide services for same-sex weddings — and then
changed its terms of service to support its decision.
October 2014
Twitter blocks users from linking to a petition supporting the Houston
pastors whose sermons were subpoenaed by the city because the pastors
supported a referendum against a gender-neutral restrooms ordinance.
April 2014
Citing a violation of its Community Standards, Facebook removes
satirical post about immigration and Nevada rancher standoff by FOX’s
Todd Starnes.
March 2014
Facebook temporarily bans evangelist Ray Comfort after he posts a photo
of Westboro Baptist Church signs in an article in which Comfort
encourages Christians to distance themselves from Westboro.
December 2013
Twitter blocks users from posting a link to a petition drive supporting
Phil Robertson who had been suspended from the Duck Dynasty show by
A&E after voicing his biblically-based views on homosexuality.
August 2013
Citing a violation of Community Standards regarding religion, Facebook
temporarily blocks administrators of the Military with PTSD page.
Summer 2013
Citing a violation of its Community Standards, Facebook puts a 12-hour
suspension on the page of a UNC-Wilmington professor making arguments
against same-sex marriage.
July 2013
Citing a violation of its Community Standards because of a post which
favorably mentioned the NRA, Chick-fil-A, Paula Deen, Cracker Barrel,
the Gaithers, and the Gideon Bible, Facebook removes the post and
temporarily blocks access to the account of Todd Starnes, host of FOX
News & Commentary.
June 2013
Citing its policy against “excessively objectionable or crude content,”
Apple removes from its App Store a Setting Captives Free app that
promotes freedom from homosexuality.
March 2013
Citing “security concerns,” Facebook temporarily closes the page of an
Israeli journalist after he posted criticism of the Palestinian
Authority, restores the page 24 hours later, but deletes the article in
question.
January 2013
Citing a violation of its Statement of Rights and Responsibilities,
Facebook removes a post by Chicks on the Right that was critical of the
White House press secretary.
Facebook threatens content control by issuing warnings or temporarily
suspending bloggers’ accounts for alleged “spam” when bloggers simply
shared content on multiple like-minded pages.
October 2012
Facebook removes a post critical of President Obama’s handling of the
Benghazi attack and puts a 24-hour block on the account of Special
Operations Speaks PAC.
July 2012
Facebook temporarily removes Gov. Mike Huckabee’s post in support of Chick-fil-A.
May 2012
Google’s YouTube pulls video of a youth minister who warned of the same-sex marriage movement in America.
November 2010
Apple removes Chuck Colson’s Manhattan Declaration from its iTunes App Store.
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Americans who value the right to keep and bear arms are largely
complacent about that right, content that the Second Amendment rather
clearly protects a citizen’s right. After all, they smugly tell
themselves, did not the Supreme Court specifically, a few years ago in
the Heller decision, confirm that the Second Amendment protects the right as an individual right?
That is all true, yet the words of Congressman John Randolph, a
cousin of Thomas Jefferson, are quite applicable to today, when he said
the Constitution of the United States is “just parchment” — just words —
unless we are prepared to make sure government officials follow that
document.
Resting right now in the House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations is a very dangerous bill,
— H.R. 5717, the Jake Laird Act of 2018 — that threatens every
American’s right to keep and bear arms, despite the clear wording of the
Second Amendment. It is a bipartisan bill. It even has a Republican sponsor, Susan Brooks of Indiana,
lest one think that the threat to the Second Amendment rests only with
Democrats. In fact, the bill has 15 co-sponsors, and only six are
Democrats. Nine co-sponsors are Republicans.
The Brooks bill proposes to authorize the attorney general of the
United States “to make grants to States that have in place laws that
authorize the seizure of firearms from dangerous individuals, and for
other purposes.”
This is a method that has been used frequently to get states to bend
the knee to the federal government, basically bribing them with
“federal” money. Several decades ago, when the federal government
decreed the states should lower their speed limits to 55 miles an hour
or face the loss of federal highway funds, all 50 states meekly
complied. Brooks’ bill provides for $50 million to implement the bill.
So, don’t smugly think that your state would not comply. And don’t
look to the White House for a presidential veto, were this bill to pass
Congress. President Donald Trump has already indicated that he would be
open to a law that takes guns away from “dangerous” Americans, and worry
about “due process” later.
But exactly who is a “dangerous” individual? Is it someone who has
been convicted of a crime, or even arrested and charged with a crime?
Not under Brooks’ bill.
Under the Brooks bill, a “dangerous” person is defined as an
individual who presents an imminent risk of injuring himself or herself,
or another individual; or one who may present a risk of injuring
himself or herself, or another individual, and has a mental illness that
may be controlled by medication, but has demonstrated a pattern of not
voluntarily and consistently taking such medication, except under
supervision; or is the subject of documented evidence that would give
rise to a reasonable belief that the individual has a propensity for
violent or emotionally unstable conduct; or poses a significant danger
of personal injury to himself or herself, or another individual, by
possessing a firearm.
All of this is very subjective. Who could make the decision that this
wording applies to a particular individual? A court of competent
jurisdiction may issue a warrant authorizing a law-enforcement officer
to seize a firearm from a person that the court determines there is
probable cause to believe is dangerous and in possession of a firearm.
The affidavit to obtain such a warrant must be submitted with facts
supporting the law-enforcement officer’s probable cause to believe that
the individual is dangerous and in possession of a firearm, including a
description of the law-enforcement officer’s interaction with the
individual, or with another individual who provided information relating
to the individual against whom the warrant is sought, and whom the
law-enforcement officer determines is credible and reliable.
In blunt language, a judge may issue a warrant to take away the
firearm of a law-abiding citizen even though that person has committed
no crime. If a law-enforcement officer believes that individual is
dangerous — maybe when merely relying on the word of an enemy of the
individual — it’s enough While there is a subsequent hearing before a
court, in which the burden of proof is supposedly upon the government, a
person can be deprived of his property without having committed any
crime.
Not only that, the name of a person so judged to be “dangerous” will
then be entered into the National Instant Criminal Background Check
System. Despite not having been convicted, or even charged with any
crime at all, he is now considered a criminal!
In addition to the person losing his firearm, or firearms, he also is
stripped of any license to carry a firearm, if he has one, and the
judge can order the person not obtain a firearm in the future.
While this bill obviously does violence to the Second Amendment, it
also violates the Fourth and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. The
Fourth Amendment protects the right of the people “to be secure in their
person, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and
seizures.” The Fifth Amendment stipulates that no person shall be
“deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law.”
With the Brooks bill, government can take your property, despite your
not having ever been charged, much less convicted of a crime.
This is yet another reason not to hold a convention, under Article V
of the Constitution, to consider amendments to our Constitution. The
very fact that such a bill could even be contemplated should cause us to
ask this sobering question: Do we want such a convention made up of
delegates elected by the same electorate that elected Congressman Brooks
and her co-sponsors? Would it not be better to just stick to the
Constitution crafted in 1787 by James Madison and his fellow delegates?
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Opinion
Over one million New Jersey Gun owners defy Governor
Murphy's gun magazine ban & turn in demands of what some estimate is
easily more than ten million now illegal standard capacity gun mags.
New Jersey ––(Ammoland.com)-
New Jersey’s standard capacity magazine ban is now in effect making New
Jersey’s one million gun owners criminals in the eyes of the state. But
in an act of mass definace, New Jersey residents refuse to comply. Any
magazine holding more than ten rounds is now illegal in the Garden
State. The standard magazine for an AR-15 holds 30 rounds. Glock 19s,
which is the most popular pistol in the United States, holds 15 rounds.
Anyone who is possession of larger magazine is committing a
fourth-degree felony.
Anyone caught with one of the now banned
magazines in their possession faces up to 18 months in prison and up to
$10,000 in fines or both for each magazine found.
The bill was
signed into law last June by Gov. Phil Murphy (D). Residents had until
December 11th, 2018, to turn over magazines to police or sell or store
them out of state.
Pro-gun groups sued New Jersey to try to
prevent the law from going into effect. Their attempt on blocking the
law failed in a federal appeals court. The three-judge panel ruled
that a law limiting the number of rounds a magazine holds did not
violate the US Constitution and did not put an undue burden on New
Jersey gun owners.
“New Jersey’s law reasonably fits
the State’s interest in public safety and does not unconstitutionally
burden the Second Amendment’s right to self-defense in the home,” the
court wrote in their decision. “The law also does not violate the Fifth
Amendment’s Takings Clause because it does not require gun owners to
surrender their magazines but instead allows them to retain modified
magazines or register firearms that have magazines that cannot be
modified.”
AG Gurbir Grewal applauded the ruling on Twitter
stating: “This just in: for months, individuals have been challenging
NJ’s limits on large capacity magazines—a sensible law to address mass
shootings. Today, the court of appeals upheld the law. Big win for
public safety and law enforcement safety!”
Residents
of New Jersey on various message boards have called the magazine ban
unenforceable. Some were going as far as laughing at Gov. Murphy and his
attempt at regulating magazine size.
New Jersey is not saying how
they plan to enforce the ban on standard capacity magazines. Gov.
Murphy’s office referred AmmoLand to the New Jersey Attorney General’s
office. The AG’s office refused to comment.
Sharon
Lauchaire, Director of Communications for the Office the Attorney
General told AmmoLand: “We do not discuss law enforcement strategies.”
AmmoLand’s
sources within the New Jersey State Police that spoke on a condition of
anonymity stated that they had not received any guidance on how to
enforce the ban from the AG’s office. They said that there is currently
no plan to investigate gun owners suspected of having the now banned
magazines.
According to the source, the plan that has been
discussed among officers is only to file charges against people who are
guilty of other crimes. This plan might change once superiors give
guidance on how to enforce the ban.
AmmoLand reached out to
several local police departments in New Jersey to see how they plan on
enforcing the ban and what the turn in numbers have been? Much like the
New Jersey State Police, none of these departments have a concrete plan
on how to proactively enforce the ban and none had a single report of
magazines turned over.
From all Reports, NO Mags Turned In, Governor Murphy & His Law are Joke
AmmoLand
also asked the Governor’s office what Gov. Murphy thinks of users on
the internet saying that the ban is unenforceable and laughing at the
Governor’s attempt at regulating magazine sizes.
Gov. Murphy and his office refused to comment on these gun owner’s opinions.
AmmoLand
also asked Gov. Murphy’s office about the number of magazines turned in
by New Jersey residents. Once again AmmoLand was referred to the New
Jersey Attorney General’s office.
In this case, Lauchaire would
not offer a comment and referred AmmoLand to the New Jersey State
Police. Lauchaire stated she was aware of AmmoLand’s previous inquire to
the State Police on the number of magazines turned in meaning that
State Police contacted the AG’s office about our request for
information.
The New Jersey State Police have not officially
responded to our request on the number of magazines that were turned
over by citizens.
Two sources from within the State Police, who
spoke to AmmoLand on condition of anonymity, told AmmoLand News that
they both do not know of any magazines turned over to their agency and
doubted that any were turned in. They also stated that the State Police
also engaged the AG’s office for guidance on how to respond to inquiries
such as ours. They were unaware if the Attorney General has returned to
their request for guidance.
All the local police departments that AmmoLand contacted stated that they have not had any magazines turned into them.
AmmoLand
has filed a Freedom of Information Act request with The New Jersey
State Police to get an official count of the number of magazines turned
in by New Jersey citizens. We will update the story if our FOIA request
is fulfilled. About John Crump
John
is a NRA instructor and a constitutional activist. He is the former CEO
of Veritas Firearms, LLC and is the co-host of The Patriot News Podcast
which can be found at www.blogtalkradio.com/patriotnews.
John has written extensively on the patriot movement including 3%’ers,
Oath Keepers, and Militias. In addition to the Patriot movement, John
has written about firearms, interviewed people of all walks of life, and
on the Constitution. John lives in Northern Virginia with his wife and
sons and is currently working on a book on leftist deplatforming methods and can be followed on Twitter at @crumpyss, on Facebook at realjohncrump, or at www.crumpy.com.
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Facing mounting legal costs from defending itself against lawsuits and
massive decline in membership, the Boy Scouts is considering filing for
Chapter 11 protection, The Wall Street Journal is reporting.
The BSA has reportedly hired the Sidley Austin LLP law firm and released
a statement on Wednesday saying that it was “working with experts to
explore all options available to ensure that the local and national
programming of the Boy Scouts of America continues uninterrupted.” SEE:http://the-trumpet-online.com/boy-scouts-lose-425000-members-dropping-boy/
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