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Dems PANIC as Trump Indictment Meeting CANCELLED!!!~Marjorie Taylor Greene Raises The Stakes; Calls for Arrest of Alvin Bragg~Rand Paul Says Alvin Bragg Should Be ‘Put in Jail’
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Marjorie Taylor Greene Raises The Stakes; Calls for Arrest of Alvin Bragg
Rand Paul Says Alvin Bragg Should Be ‘Put in Jail’; The Senator may be onto something
BY MICHAEL LETTS
SEE: https://www.frontpagemag.com/rand-paul-says-alvin-bragg-should-be-put-in-jail/;
Republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, & research purposes.
There’s been a lot of talk about Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg reportedly considering criminal charges against former President Donald Trump over his campaign payout to keep his (alleged) affair with former porn star Stormy Daniels under wraps. Now, I’ve already discussed at great length why I don’t believe such charges would stick – especially since what some call a “payoff” is far from illegal. But Senator Rand Paul recently suggested another action for Bragg’s consideration of action.
Recently, Paul suggested on Twitter that it’s not Trump who should be an order of arrest, but rather Bragg himself. “A Trump indictment would be a disgusting abuse of power,” he said. “The DA should be put in jail.”
Now, ever since Senator Paul tweeted out the message, he’s been met with a great deal of criticism. People have responded to him noting how he’s “off base,” and some even suggested that he doesn’t “deserve your high office.” But is this suggestion by Paul really that far “off base”? Let’s take a closer look at the bigger picture.
President Joe Biden and his administration have been after Trump for the longest time ever since he departed office a couple of years ago. You may recall last year, when the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) led a baseless “raid” on his Mar-a-Lago compound, in an effort to find what they deemed “classified documents.”
If that wasn’t enough, Trump has been the target of attacks left and right, with the Democrats and Biden’s administration threatening to chip away at his credibility. Now, we have Bragg, who, according to Trump’s post on Truth Social, is targeting for arrest. Though one did not take place on Tuesday as predicted, some believe it’s only a matter of time.
Still not convinced? Let’s take an even closer look at what happened with Biden. His son, Hunter, has been bringing all sorts of attention to himself surrounding his infamous laptop. And yet, have any charges been filed his way? Nope. Absolutely none. And this is despite the many reports indicating what he’s been doing with this laptop, or, rather, who he’s been doing it with.
Not to mention the number of claims made against Biden’s justice departments, particularly the FBI. Several whistleblowers have come forward talking about how the Bureau has monitored innocent parents who made online claims, as well as potential targets based on their religion (in this case, Christianity). Of course, FBI director Christopher Wray has brushed off the claims, but we’ve been seeing more and more proof stack up.
So, in spite of so many people thinking that Paul isn’t fit for office, he may just be on to something. His reported plans to press criminal charges against Trump for something that’s not even considered criminal is absolutely heinous.
What’s more, if these charges actually come to light, he’s going to force hard-working police officers to act on said orders, putting the cuffs on Trump and bringing him in on these ridiculous charges. That’s not just a slap to the face of Lady Liberty, but also the police officers themselves. And, honestly, haven’t they been through enough over the past couple of years between what’s happened with their budgets and the fallout from those nightmarish “defund the police” campaigns? Enough is enough already.
To sum up, yes, I do believe the officers that are given the arrest order shouldn’t follow through, based solely on the rules of “not delivering justice.” I think this should be given a much closer look before Bragg issues his charges based upon what Biden, his administration, and justice departments want to do. In doing so, I believe we’ll uncover just what kind of injustice is being done here, and the cuffs can go on someone far more deserving. And if that means Bragg, so be it.
Something has to be done. Because the wings of liberty are likely to wither to the bone if a miscarriage of justice on this level takes place. Call Paul crazy all you want, but what he’s tweeting isn’t nonsense in the least.
Michael Letts is the Founder, President, and CEO of InVest USA, a national grassroots non-profit organization that is helping hundreds of communities provide thousands of bulletproof vests for their police forces through educational, public relations, sponsorship, and fundraising programs. He also has over 30 years of law enforcement experience under his belt, hence his pro-police stance for his brothers and sisters in blue. Those interested in learning more about Letts can visit his official website here.
Biden’s handlers accused of planning to train, equip and deploy Palestinian terrorists in Judea and Samaria
BY CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS
Republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, & research purposes.
The Biden administration is either dangerously naive or worse. It is presenting this plan under the pretext of helping to curb terrorism in Judea and Samaria, yet ZOA says this “unconscionable and illegal plan” would aid Palestinian jihadists. Meanwhile, another report has exposed the U.S. State Department’s funding of an anti-Netanyahu Leftist group that is behind the chaotic protests in Israel. What exactly is the motivation of the Biden administration?
A news article by Tablet Magazine stated America’s most recent plan:
Incredibly, the U.S. is now proposing to take advantage of its ally’s political weakness by standing up a potential 5,000-man Palestinian terror army that would ostensibly fight terrorism in the West Bank in place of the IDF.
Washington, D.C.’s latest bout of Mideast pyromania began with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s visit to Ramallah at the end of January, right after a Palestinian terrorist shot dead seven Israelis outside a synagogue in Neve Yaakov.
The key words are “ostensibly fight terrorism in the West Bank in place of the IDF,” which puts a different spin on America’s possible intent from that of the ZOA below. But what would make the Biden administration actually think its plan could possibly work to bring Palestinians to “fight terrorism”? Given the administration’s consistent anti-Israel stance, does it really believe that arming, training, and deploying Palestinians could be a trusted strategy to “fight terrorism,” rather than help perpetuate it?
In reality, such a plan would greatly empower the Palestinian “resistance.” History bears out the fact that the Palestinians do now want and never wanted peace. They aim to obliterate Israel from the River to the Sea, as is stated in the founding Charters of all the major Palestinian organizations, and they’re watching closely as America further positions itself as their ally rather than the ally of Israel.
Surely America should know that Israel cannot allow such a plan. The IDF, in fact, beefed up troops in Samaria last month in response to the escalating violence.
“ZOA: Stop Biden/Blinken/Amr Unconscionable Plan to Establish Army of 5,000 Palestinian-Arab Terrorists plus U.S./Foreign Forces,” Zionist Organization of America, March 17, 2023:
The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) denounces, in the strongest possible terms, the Biden Administration’s unconscionable, illegal plan to provide commando training in Jordan to 5,000 Palestinian-Arab army of terrorists or future terrorists; and to then equip and deploy this Palestinian-Arab commando army in Judea/Samaria, along with foreign and U.S. forces.
The administration’s horrific, frightening, dangerous plan also requires Israel “to sharply curtail IDF counterterror operations.” U.S. security coordinator Lieutenant General (LTG) Michael Fenzel, who is currently responsible for training Palestinian Authority (PA) police in Judea and Samaria, proposed training the new 5,000-strong commando army, and deploying foreign forces, including U.S. military forces, on the ground.
Thus, under the Biden administration’s plan, Israel would be restricted from defending innocent Israelis from terrorists; and much of Judea/Samaria would become a “safe haven” for terrorists to retreat to and be celebrated after perpetrating murderous terror attacks in Israel, with no consequences.
Moreover, American and other foreign forces on the ground would become sitting ducks, subject to Palestinian-Arab terror attacks. American and foreign soldiers would also become human shields, who block Israel from going after the terrorists, lest foreign forces be caught in the crossfire. Further, the PA will want foreign forces to include Iranians, thereby introducing even more terror into the region…..
Arresting Trump America sinks deeper into Banana Republic status.
BY ROBERT SPENCER
SEE: https://www.frontpagemag.com/arresting-trump/;
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America’s descent to banana republic status, with the ruling regime having its principal opponent arrested on bogus charges, looks as if it is going to happen this week. The New York City Police Department (NYPD) was busy on Monday setting up steel barriers outside the Manhattan Criminal Court as if it fully expects (and may even be hoping for) patriots to come out in force to protest against the destruction of our free republic and the weaponization of our justice system as a tool of partisan politics. No one seems to be backing away from the brink.
Soros-funded Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg seems determined to make history by arresting Trump, but House Republicans on Monday were standing athwart history, shouting “Stop!” and demanding that Bragg give them all the documents related to his investigation of Trump. Will they be able to stop the arrest? The republic itself could hang in the balance.
Meanwhile, preparations are proceeding apace. Robert Costa of CBS News on Monday tweeted three videos of “Steel barricades arriving outside Manhattan Criminal Court.” This comes after NBC News reported on Friday that “local, state and federal law enforcement and security agencies are preparing for the possibility” of Trump’s arrest, with the NYPD, the Secret Service, and even the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) all involved.
In Washington, the Capitol Police are gearing up for riots as well. According to Politico: “The Capitol Police are girding for the possibility of protests ahead of the potential indictment of former President Donald Trump, according to two people familiar with the situation. Their security posture will be elevated starting Tuesday morning, the people said, and bicycle rack-type fencing could also be deployed.”
The JTTF’s involvement immediately calls to mind Old Joe Biden’s statement from his infamous red-and-black speech from last Sept. 1: “Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic.”
That’s the closest an American president has ever come in the history of the United States to declare that his primary opponent and his supporters were criminals who were outside the bounds of acceptable political discourse, and now the ruling elites seem ready to take the next step, not only of arresting Trump but of behaving as if his supporters were terrorists. After all, Biden, Gestapo chief Merrick Garland, and the FBI have all told us that “white supremacists” constitute the greatest terror threat the nation faces today. The only thing lacking in their scenario is actual white supremacist terrorists.
That’s where Trump’s supporters come in; Leftists are rubbing their hands with glee at the prospect of protests against Trump’s arrest that they can weaponize the way they did on Jan. 6, so as to continue their efforts to criminalize political dissent in the United States.
Trying to put the brakes on this effort and save the concept of the loyal opposition in the country formerly known as the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave are House Judiciary Committee chairman Jim Jordan, House Oversight Committee chairman James Comer, and House Administration Committee chairman Bryan Steil. According to a Monday report in the Daily Caller, they’re asking Bragg to “provide all documents and communications involving his investigation into Trump, as well as sit for a transcribed interview.”
In a letter to Bragg, Jordan, Comer, and Steil don’t mince words: “You are reportedly about to engage in an unprecedented abuse of prosecutorial authority: the indictment of a former President of the United States and currently declared candidate for that office. This indictment comes after years of your office searching for a basis—any basis—on which to bring charges, ultimately settling on a novel legal theory untested anywhere in the country and one that federal authorities declined to pursue.”
They charged that Bragg was pursuing a “politically motivated prosecution,” which is certainly true, and point out that “even the Washington Post quoted ‘legal experts’ as calling your actions ‘unusual’ because ‘prosecutors have repeatedly examined the long-established details but decided not to pursue charges.’”
Will Bragg comply with their requests and hand over the relevant documents? The New York City authorities are acting as if they believe that even if he does, nothing is going to stand in the way of their determination to give their rabid Leftist base what it has been slavering for: photos of a handcuffed Trump doing the perp walk, being fingerprinted, maybe even (oh glorious day!) behind bars.
This is not the way the Constitutional republic that the Founding Fathers bequeathed to us was ever supposed to work. The Democrats, having spent decades hollowing out our Constitutional protections, are now planning on doing a victory dance upon their empty shell and casting any people who dare to protest in their next Reichstag Fire production, as we all descend merrily on our way to becoming a one-party state. Can the House Republicans stop them? We can hope.
Judge Jeanine: This is an outrage~’The Five’ co-hosts discuss Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s history of not prosecuting felonies and misdemeanors.
Shining Light On The Globalist’s Plan To Control Your Bank Account
The controlled takedown of America has been a plan for a long time. If you control the money you control the people. It’s the destruction of capitalism using socialism so they can usher in globalism with no freedom of any kind.
Media Ignore Bank Records: “Biden Has Been Bought Off by the Chinese Communist Party”
BY SELWYN DUKE
Republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, & research purposes.
Barack Obama once reportedly said of Joe Biden, the man he worked with for eight years, “Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to f*** things up.”
We can only imagine how much Biden could mess things up were he compromised via foreign cash payments. But we perhaps don’t have to imagine how much he has messed himself up in taking those payments — because he left a recently uncovered bank-record paper trail a mile long.
The evidence is so profound, mind you, that commentator Thomas Lifson writes, “Joe Biden has been bought off by the Chinese Communist Party.” This doesn’t mean the mainstream media will report on it, though.
In fact, in time most odd, the story about the Biden bank records was followed the very next day by the revelation that Donald Trump might be arrested for an apparently legal non-disclosure-agreement payment. Why, a cynic could almost think that the latter is meant to distract from the former.
Lifson reports on the Biden story:
Thanks to the efforts of [Representative] James Comer [R-Ky.], we already have bank records of $1 million flowing to Biden family members through a cutout named Rob Walker, shortly after Biden left office as VP.
There is no indication of any particular services performed for this treasure, nor is there any expertise among the recipients, who include the current POTUS’s son Hunter, his brother James, Hunter’s mistress-at-the time Hallie Biden (who is also his brother’s widow and Biden’s daughter-in-law) and an entity simply named “Biden.”
Rep. Comer, appearing on Maria Bartiromo’s Sunday Morning Futures program on Fox News, said that this is “only the beginning.” There are “as many as 11 other deals” that are being examined by his committee.
“We’re gonna follow the money. We knew there was a money trail; we’ve spoken to enough people that were involved in the shady business games all around the world,” Comer also told Bartiromo. “Everything that we’ve subpoenaed thus far was accurate from what our whistleblowers were telling us, and we have a whole lot more information.”
The Washington Examiner provides more detail, writing:
The first deal refers to a report released by House Oversight showing Hallie Biden … received $35,000 from accounts tied to Hunter Biden’s associate Rob Walker, including $25,000 that appears to have originated from a Chinese company. The report cited bank records from Walker that were subpoenaed by the committee earlier this year.
The committee’s report showed the Chinese company State Energy HK Limited transferred $3 million to Robinson Walker LLC, an account belonging to Walker, two months after Joe Biden left the White House as vice president in 2017.
Hallie Biden received an initial payment of $10,000 from Walker’s account on Feb. 13, 2017, and another $25,000 on March 20, 2017, according to the report. Lawmakers wrote in the report that “Biden family members and their companies began receiving incremental payments over a period of approximately three months” following the initial payments.
“We don’t know what the Biden’s did in return for this money,” Comer said. “The lawyer said that it was a seed capital for business. We haven’t been able to find a business.”
Lifson points out that a “key moment” came six and a half minutes into Comer’s interview:
“The White House hasn’t been truthful about this from Day One. I don’t think the White House ever dreamed we would get bank records,” the congressman said. “I’ve got bad news for the White House: This is just the beginning. We’re gonna get a lot more bank records and they’re going to have to continue to backpedal and come up with some kind of reason why the Biden family has received millions and millions of dollars from our adversaries.” (Video below.)
Stating the obvious, Lifson also mentions that if a Republican officeholder — and especially President Trump — had been found to have taken oodles of cash from a geopolitical adversary he has been pandering to, it would be front-page news, and the word “treason” would figure prominently in it. Why, the Trump/Russia/collusion hoax was a media obsession for years, and an innocuous 2019 phone call Trump made to Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy was thought impeachment-worthy.
If personal gain was the motivator, it’s not surprising that Biden might “mess things up” by boasting of his coercion, as self-exaltation is his wont.
Remember, though, that Biden’s son, Hunter, was paid $83,333 a month by Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings despite having no expertise whatsoever in that business. This brings us to why all these matters:
Is Joe Biden compromised by way of these foreign payments? Does Beijing have dirt on him that it uses to leverage favorable policy? Could he possibly be a Manchurian president?
And what of Ukraine? Could Biden’s total commitment to the nation’s war effort against Russia be influenced by dirt the Ukrainians might have on his family?
Perhaps this is unlikely; these are just thoughts. But this is why having a media that actually does its job — and exposes corrupt candidates so they’re not elected — matters.
Say what you will about Trump, but he lost money while in office and owing to his entry into politics in general. In contrast, Biden has parlayed political power into riches — even as our country gets poorer.
Of Course Donald Trump Could Be Charged at Any Moment by an Unethical, Spiteful Prosecutor
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DA Prosecuting Trump Received Funding From Soros
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SEE: https://thenewamerican.com/da-prosecuting-trump-received-funding-from-soros/;
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As the world anticipates seeing former President Donald J. Trump being handcuffed, forced into a “perp walk,” and booked into a Manhattan police station, there is evidence that District Attorney Alvin Bragg is the recipient of money from a political action committee funded by George Soros.
As reported by The New York Post:
Former NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton said Sunday that Manhattan’s new district attorney Alvin Bragg is “handcuffing the police” and blamed his election on George Soros, claiming the billionaire has “effectively destroyed the criminal justice system in America.”
Bratton then cited the $1 million donation that Hungarian-born philanthropist Soros gave to the Color of Change political action committee, which supported Bragg.
“If you look at every city in America that has violent crime increases and disorder increases … what is the one common denominator?” Bratton said. “District attorneys, almost all of whom are funded phenomenally by George Soros.”
“Soros and his people have figured out how to basically gerrymander the system,” Bratton claimed, saying he has “effectively destroyed the criminal justice system in America.”
Color of Change expressly endorsed Bragg:
Alvin Bragg (D) is an experienced attorney and a former chief deputy attorney general of New York. For over twenty years, Bragg has committed himself to defending the rights of New Yorkers without status or power. He is running to become the next Manhattan District Attorney to bring his professional and lived experiences to the forefront of criminal justice reform.
If elected, Bragg would become the first Black District Attorney to lead the Manhattan DA’s office.
As a lifelong Harlem resident and the only Black man in this race, Alvin Bragg has had direct encounters with the criminal legal system that have shaped his understanding of injustices and informed his policy positions.
On its website, Color of Change explained:
We design campaigns powerful enough to end practices that unfairly hold Black people back, and champion solutions that move us all forward. Until justice is real.
Color Of Change helps people respond effectively to injustice in the world around us. As a national online force driven by 7 million members, we move decision makers in corporations and government to create a more human and less hostile world for Black people, and all people. Until justice is real.
Lest anyone believe that this is simply another conspiracy theory, here’s what George Soros himself wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed published last July:
Americans desperately need a more thoughtful discussion about our response to crime. People have had enough of the demagoguery and divisive partisan attacks that dominate the debate and obscure the issues.
Some politicians and pundits have tried to blame recent spikes in crime on the policies of reform-minded prosecutors. The research I’ve seen says otherwise. The most rigorous academic study, analyzing data across 35 jurisdictions, shows no connection between the election of reform-minded prosecutors and local crime rates.
According to a story published by Fox News, Soros “attempted to make the case that policies implemented by prosecutors he has donated millions of dollars to, including New York City District Attorney Alvin Bragg” have been “popular” and “effective.”
According to the Daily Mail, the allegation was “made by an unnamed woman” via text message.
As for Bragg’s office’s persecution and prosecution of former President Trump, The New York Times reported that Bragg issued a controversial memo that revealed that his office “would cease to seek jail and prison time for all but the most serious crimes.” Additionally, two prosecutors in his office resigned when the Trump investigation initially did not go forward, according to a story published in The New York Times.
In an interview with CBS News in November 2020, Bragg said that the “staggering” number of cases “swirling” around then-President Trump meant that Trump was “charge ready.”
Trump attacked Bragg’s actions in a statement posted on Truth Social, Trump’s own social-media platform:
Now illegal leaks from a corrupt & highly political Manhattan district attorneys office, which has allowed new records to be set in violent crime & whose leader is funded by George Soros, indicate that, with no crime being able to be proven & based on an old & fully debunked (by numerous other prosecutors!) fairytale, the far & away leading Republican candidate and former president of the United States of America, will be arrested on Tuesday of next week. Protest, take our nation back!
As for the latest developments, Politico reports that “law enforcement officials from the NYPD and U.S. Secret Service, along with other court officials, met this afternoon at NYPD headquarters to game plan for the politically charged indictment.”
Once again, Democratic politicians are dancing to a tune played by George Soros.
Mark Levin SHREDS ‘Soros Prosecutor’ Alvin Bragg Over Possible Trump Indictment
BY MATT MARGOLIS
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Mark Levin, a renowned conservative radio host, and Fox News anchor launched a fiery defense of Donald Trump and criticized Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, describing the potential indictment and arrest of the former president for a “hush-money” payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels, calling it an assault on civil society and its moral foundations.
“Let me tell you something. When the people lose faith in the law, the country’s done,” Levin told the hosts of Fox and Friends Sunday. “And the people are losing faith in the law because the Democrat Party, Democrat prosecutors in Manhattan, a Soros prosecutor, wants them to lose faith in the law. Their whole goal is to destroy civil society and the morality that undergirds it. That is the mission of the Democrat Party.”
“How many times have they gone after this man, Donald Trump?” Levin continued. “What exactly has he done to deserve this? Why are they studying his life like they are studying an archaeological site? Why are they looking for novel legal theories to go after the man? Why are they trying to turn a law upside down — which is what they are trying to do — where they have to jump through the hoops in Manhattan?”
Levin then explained that the statute of limits has already expired and that the U.S. Attorney’s office has already said there’s no federal crime here. He also disputed the use of the phrase “hush money” in this case.
“Let me put this in plain English so everybody can understand what’s going on here. It is not hush money. These are non-disclosure agreements,” he explained. “Companies, individuals, divorce parties enter into non-disclosure agreements, 10,000 a day, probably, all across this country,” he continued. “How much do you want to bet the Manhattan DA’s office has entered into non-disclosure agreements? How much do you want to bet the Department of Justice, the FBI, and the U.S. Attorneys, have entered into non-disclosure agreements?”
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“How much you want to bet these news operations covering it, like MSNBC, NBC, and the rest, have entered into non-disclosure agreements?” Levin asked. “Now we call it ‘hush money’”?
Levin pointed out that non-disclosure agreements are legal contracts.
“This thing isn’t a crime, from the process, from the substance, in state law, in federal law,” he stated. “What’s happening here is they are using the law the way they used the Constitution, to try and destroy the law and destroy the Constitution. What would you expect from a radical left-wing legal bomb-thrower who was inserted into this position by George Soros?”
Levin then concluded by pointing out that these corrupt prosecutors are all in partisan jurisdictions.
“Notice, they are all Democrat investigators. And they’re all Democrat jurisdictions: New York City, Atlanta, Washington, D.C.,” Levin said. “I mean, this is outrageous!”
Mark Levin’s scathing critique of Alvin Bragg highlights a pervasive issue in the American criminal justice system: partisan prosecutors. It underscores the urgent need for reform to ensure prosecutors remain impartial and committed to upholding the rule of law.
‘Unconstitutional’: In Massachusetts, Leftists Want to Give Islam Privileged Status
BY ROBERT SPENCER
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Just in case you’re not celebrating diversity enthusiastically enough yet, here is more reason to start waving those diversity pom-poms: a new bill in Massachusetts would give Muslims privileged status. Here we see it yet again: “diversity, equity and inclusion” efforts are inherently and in always and every case a gateway to the preferential treatment of the Left’s favored groups.
“Islam must dominate, and not be dominated,” said Hassan al-Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, and the old jihadi would be mighty pleased with these recent developments in Massachusetts. In line with the fact that Islamic texts and teachings frequently exhort Muslims to subjugate Infidels (who must be made to “pay the jizya with willing submission and feel subdued,” according to Qur’an 9:29), and never envisions the two living as equals under secular law, some Muslims in the Bay State are working with their Leftist allies toward achieving a privileged position that other groups do not enjoy.
Focus On Western Islamism (FWI) reported Wednesday that “the Massachusetts state legislature is considering a bill that would promote and privilege the participation of Muslims in state politics.” That seems innocuous enough on its face, but actually, this bill would require the state to do for Muslims what it does for no other group. The bill, which is entitled “An Act promoting the civil rights and inclusion of American Muslims in the commonwealth,” would “establish a commission charged with promoting the participation of Muslims in the governance of the state.” Yes, Muslims are specifically named.
This commission would “identify and recommend qualified American Muslims for appointive positions at all levels of government, including boards and commissions, as the commission considers necessary and appropriate.” No such commissions exist for Jews, Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, atheists, or anyone else. Hassan al-Banna would be delighted.
FWI notes that the executive director of the Massachusetts chapter of the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Tahirah Amatul-Wadud, “posted a celebratory tweet about the introduction of the bill.” It shows Amatul-Wadud standing next to one of the sponsors of the bill, Massachusetts State Senator James B. Eldridge (D-Islamopandering), despite the fact Amatul-Wadud has served as the lawyer for Muslims of America (MOA), “which has sent its members to Pakistan for extremist indoctrination and military training.” Nothing to be concerned about in that, right?
Amatul-Wadud has also “promoted the conspiracy theories put forth by MOA’s founder, Pakistani cleric Mubarak Ali Gilani,” retweeting an article that “claims that the terror group ISIS (and indeed, Wahhabism itself) is a creation of British intelligence, that 9/11 was an inside job, that WTC-7 was destroyed by controlled demolition, and that America was manipulated into fighting Nazi Germany and Saddam Hussein for the benefit of the Jews.” Of course! In such circles, Islamic antisemitism is never far beneath the surface.
Steve Resnicoff, director of DePaul College of Law Center for Jewish Law and Judaic Studies, stated the obvious when he called the Massachusetts bill “an unprecedented and unconstitutional effort to promote one religion, Islam, over all others,” and said that “it would clearly violate the principle of separation of church and state,” as it “calls for the creation of a government entity that would broadly endeavor to benefit the interests of Muslims.”
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Massachusetts attorney Karen Hurvitz agrees with Resnicoff: “The proposed legislation seeking to aid Islam is unconstitutional on its face… Perhaps the proponents of this legislation are unaware of the First Amendment or its history. Perhaps they are used to the 26 countries where Islam is the official religion and where the practice of other religions is not permitted. That is not the United States.”
Not yet, anyway. But there will be more bills of this kind as the Left’s passion for diversity increasingly reveals itself as a way to get special favors and privileged status for its in-groups.
That initiative coincides neatly with the supremacist imperative of traditional Islam, which some Muslims in the West are only too happy to collaborate with Leftists in order to further. And given the fact that Islam, with its monarchical Allah exercising sole and absolute, unquestionable power, lends itself to authoritarian government.
That’s another reason why Leftists, whose taste for authoritarianism is increasingly obvious, are only too happy to introduce bills of this kind and promote Islam above and beyond all other religions. In the authoritarian state toward which the Left is working, the more people who believe they have a religious obligation to obey the ruler, the better. Muhammad commands just that in the famous hadith: “You should listen to and obey your ruler even if he was an Ethiopian (black) slave whose head looks like a raisin.” (Bukhari 9.93.7142) Perfect.
Illegal Immigration Costs U.S. Taxpayers & Healthcare System Over $23 Billion Annually
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Illegal immigration costs the U.S. healthcare system, taxpayers, and hospitals more than $23 billion per year, a new report from the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) has found. These costs come from uncompensated hospital expenditures, Medicaid births, improper Medicaid payments, and Medicaid for U.S.-born children of illegal aliens.
Cops Arrest Boyd Family and Handcuff Child for Walking With a Cross in Montana
In March 2021, during the pandemic, the Boyd family started their journey walking across the United States looking for opportunities to share the good news of the gospel. While traveling through Montana, they were aggressively harassed by a local resident who then lied to law enforcement about how the altercation unraveled. With no supporting evidence, the officers sided with the resident and then arrested and charged the Boyds with felony assault. Each family member was also slapped with a $50,000 bail and placed in ankle monitors. Twelve-year-old Josiah was handcuffed and taken to Child Protective Services. The Boyd children, Josiah and Bethany, speak out about their terrifying experiences and why Americans must stand up to domestic religious persecution.
TAKEAWAYS
This family had served extensively as missionaries overseas for two decades before the Covid pandemic grounded their ability to travel
The Boyds never experienced mistreatment from law enforcement in more than 40 foreign countries, only kindness and respect
The Boyds started walking with a cross from the North Carolina coast in 2021, covering more than 5,000 miles before the Montana mayhem occurred
The urgent message the Boyd family is sharing while on their long trek across the U.S. is that America must repent and turn back to God
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DR. STEVE TURLEY REPORTS
Post COVID Vaccine Heart-Related Deaths Sharply Increase, Especially in Young Males
BY CAROLYN HENDLER, JD
Republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, & research purposes.
According to a recent study by Cedars Sinai, there was a nearly 30 percent increase in deaths from heart attacks in adults 25 to 44 years old during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic.1 In the first year of the pandemic, the number of deaths due to heart attacks increased by 14 percent from the previous year. However, this number skyrocketed to a 29.9 percent increase by the end of 2021.2 Marty Makary, MD, professor at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and oncology surgeon believes the sharp rise in heart attack deaths in the second year of the pandemic is due to widespread use of COVID shots and not solely caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus itself.3
Dr. Makary said:
We did not see the uptake before the vaccine was rolled out, but, young people were primarily affected around that same time as well. The state of Florida did their own study, looking at heart attacks after the vaccine in particular, and found that there was an 81 percent increase in sudden death from heart attacks in the months following the vaccine compared to baseline rates. So many people do believe that the vaccine is one of the causes of heart problems in young people.4
Florida Department of Health Warns Young Men About COVID-19 Shot Risks
In October 2022, the Florida Health Department released an analysis of the COVID shots, showing that there was an 84 percent increased risk of cardiac-related deaths in men 18 to 39 years old, particularly within 28 days of getting vaccinated. The Florida Health Department amended its guidelines as follows:
Based on currently available data, patients should be informed of the possible cardiac complications that can arise after receiving a mRNA COVID-19 vaccine. With a high level of global immunity to COVID-19, the benefit of vaccination is likely outweighed by this abnormally high risk of cardiac related death among men in this age group.5
Dr. Makary agrees with the Florida Health Department stating that healthy young adults, especially males, should not receive the COVID shots due to their link to myocarditis (inflammation of the heart), especially in young adults after the second shot. He maintains the data supports the theory that myocarditis is more common after the vaccine than after a SARS-CoV-2 infection.
Dr. Makary points out that young men are 28 times more likely to suffer from myocarditis after the shot compared to after having the viral infection, and that young men are nine times more likely to get myocarditis than young women. The long-term effects of myocarditis brought on by the COVID shots are not yet known.6
Dr. Makary explained why young adults should avoid the vaccine…
They have the lowest benefit from a vaccine because they are the lowest risk of any COVID complications. We still don’t know if any young, healthy person has ever died of COVID in the United States. The CDC won’t tell us, and they’ve never broken the data down by young people who are healthy versus had a comorbidity like leukemia or an immunosuppression condition.7
CDC Still Recommends COVID-19 Shots Despite the Risks
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) cites that between December 2020 through August 2021, there have been 52.4 cases of myocarditis per one million after the second dose of Pfizer/BioNtech’s Comirnaty messenger RNA (mRNA) COVID biologic and 56.3 cases of myocarditis per million after Moderna/NIAID’s Spikevax mRNA COVID biologic. The CDC also reports that, as of Mar. 2, 2023, there have been 1,059 reports of myocarditis or pericarditis in young people under 18 years old made to the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS).8 Despite the risk of myocarditis and pericarditis, the CDC still recommends the shots to everyone over the age of six months old.9
The actual number of heart-related adverse reactions to the mRNA COVID-19 vaccine may be much higher. VAERS, which was established by Congress as part of the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (NCVIA) of 1986, has been found to significantly underrepresent the true number of vaccine injuries. A 2011 Harvard Pilgrim Health Care report showed that fewer than one percent of all adverse vaccine reactions are reported.10 Consequently, the true number of young adults suffering from heart inflammation and heart attacks after the COVID shots may also be vastly underrepresented in VAERS and by federal health officials at the FDA and CDC., who are responsible for the operation of VAERS.
To search the VAERS database, go to MedAlerts.org, a user-friendly search engine sponsored by the charitable National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) that makes the details of adverse event reports made to VAERS easily accessible.
Previous Studies Reveal Risk of Myocarditis in Young Males Post COVID-19 Shots
Several studies have demonstrated a link between COVID shots and heart inflammation. A March 2022 review of 14 studies showed that myocarditis occurred in 25-82 per million males 18 through 39 years old after the second Comirnaty (Pfizer) shot. Researchers speculate that the rates of myocarditis are higher after the second Spikevax (Moderna) shot as it has a larger amount of spike protein than Comirnaty. More than 90 percent of myocarditis occurring after the COVID shots were reported in men between 20 and 29 years old.11
A 2021 Hong Kong population cohort study looking at the occurrence of myocarditis after COVID vaccination in adolescents showed that in an almost three-month period in 2021, 33 Chinese adolescents suffered from myocarditis/pericarditis post-vaccination. Twenty-nine (87.8 percent) were male and four (12.12 percent) were female, with a median age of 15.25 years. Twenty-seven adolescents (81.8 percent) were diagnosed with myocarditis or pericarditis after getting the COVID second shot in the series, while six (18.1 percent) suffered heart inflammation after the first shot.
The rate of myocarditis/pericarditis was 18.5 percent per 100,000 vaccinated individuals. The authors concluded that there is a significant risk of developing myocarditis/pericarditis after receiving a COVID shot.12
A May 2022 Israeli study showed that there was a 25 percent increase in cardiovascular-related emergency calls made by young COVID-19-vaccinated adults between 16 to 39 years old from 2019 to 2021. Researchers did not find a similar increase in cardiovascular-related emergency calls in young adults who had recovered from a SARS-CoV-2 infection. Contrary to other studies, this study found an increase in cardiac events for females, as well as males, after COVID-19 shots in this age group.13
References:
1 Wilson G. COVID Vaccine Brings Higher Heart Risk, Little Benefit To Young Men, Medical Expert Warns. The Daily Wire Feb. 17, 2023.
2 COVID-19 Surges Linked to Spike in Heart Attacks. Ceders-Sinai Oct. 24, 2022.
3 Wilson G. COVID Vaccine Brings Higher Heart Risk, Little Benefit To Young Men, Medical Expert Warns. The Daily Wire Feb. 17, 2023.
4 Ibid.
5 Khaled F. Top Florida Doctor Warns Young Men COVID Vaccines Pose ‘High Risk’ of Death. Newsweek Oct. 8, 2022.
6 Wilson G. COVID Vaccine Brings Higher Heart Risk, Little Benefit To Young Men, Medical Expert Warns. The Daily Wire Feb. 17, 2023.
7 Ibid.
8 U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Reported Adverse Events. Mar. 7, 2023.
9 CDC. Myocarditis and Pericarditis. Sept. 27, 2022.
10 TVR Staff. Only One Percent of Vaccine Reactions Reported to VAERS. The Vaccine Reaction Jan. 9, 2020.
11 Thomas L. Myocarditis and pericarditis in COVID-19 vaccine recipients. News-Medical.net Mar. 8, 2023.
12 Chua GT, Wah Kwan MY, Chui CSL. Epidemiology of Acute Myocarditis/Pericarditis in Hong Kong Adolescents Following Comirnaty Vaccination. Clinical Infectious Diseases Nov. 28, 2021.
13 Rabinovitz Y. New study links COVID vaccines to 25% increase in cardiac arrest for both males & females. Israeli National News May 31, 2022.
Mad Maxine Waters Says Trump Is ‘Attempting to Organize His Domestic Terrorists’
BY ROBERT SPENCER
Republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, & research purposes.
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Rage, Race-Hate, and Insanity) is enraged over the fact that Donald Trump has called upon his supporters to protest when he is arrested. According to Mad Maxine, Trump was employing one of those “dog whistles” that Leftists so often like to accuse patriots of using. She claimed that what the former president and 2024 front-runner was really doing was “attempting to organize his domestic terrorists.”
This is balderdash, but Waters feels free to say it on MSNBC because it’s fully consistent with what Leftists have been claiming for years now and is a centerpiece of the Left’s overall strategy: to paint Trump and his supporters as terrorists and the entire America-First perspective as one that must be allowed no place in the public square because it leads to criminal and terrorist activity.
Yes, this is the same Maxine Waters who, back in 2018, exhorted her followers to confront and menace Trump administration officials: “If you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them, and you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere.”
This is also the same Maxine Waters who raged in June 2022 after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, “They ain’t seen nothin’ yet. Women are going to control their bodies, no matter how they try to stop us. The hell with the Supreme Court. We will defy them. Women will be in control of their bodies, and if they think black women are intimidated or afraid, they got another thought comin’. Black women will be out in droves. We will be out by the thousands. We will be out by the millions. We are going to make sure that we fight for the right to control our own bodies.” Apparently, as far as Waters was concerned, that fight involved illegal defiance of the Dobbs v. Jackson decision. What’s the word for that sort of thing? Oh, yeah: insurrection.
But Maxine Waters is a Leftist, and that means that she never has to say she’s sorry. And so on MSNBC’s The Saturday Show with Jonathan Capehart, Capehart lobbed Waters a softball about their common villain’s egregious statement over being subject to an unjust arrest, banana republic style: “You had been warning everybody since the beginning of the Trump presidency about who he is,” Capehart reminded Waters as if she might have forgotten the focus of her rage and hate for the last six or seven years. “Your reaction to the breaking news this morning from the former president who says on his own social media platform that he will be arrested, he says this, on Tuesday?”
Waters responded: “Well, let me just say this, Jonathan. Constantly, as I travel around the country, people are asking me, when is he going to be arrested and indicted? Is he above the law, hasn’t done enough so that the American people can have faith and confidence that the law applies to him also?”
No, she didn’t mean Hunter Biden, much less Old Joe, and she said nothing about Nancy Pelosi’s insider trading or Hillary Clinton’s entire career. If anyone is above the law in America today, it is the Leftist elites, not Trump, who has been the object of more investigations than any other president in American history.
Related: Trump Calls for Protests Over His Arrest
Nonetheless, Waters plowed on with hysterical and baseless charges, claiming that Trump “has disrespected the Constitution of the United States of America.” How? She added that he “has lied” and “has tried to organize domestic terrorists. And some believe that he did organize them as they attacked our Capitol on January 6.” Even after the Jan. 6 “insurrection” narrative has exploded, Mad Max is still pushing it. She knows that her rabid-Left base will cling to it no matter how much information comes out showing that it was a hoax.
Waters went on to claim risibly that “the charges that he’s being indicted on are minimal, as opposed to the charges that I believe he could have been indicted on,” as if Democrats haven’t been trying to hang anything they could on Trump for eight years. She repeated that Trump is “attempting to organize his domestic terrorists to show up and to resist him being arrested… perhaps he was trying to organize domestic terrorists, to protest his arrest.”
That’s one of the main reasons why the arrest is in the offing: to provoke protests that Leftists can use to further their “insurrection” narrative and impose more of their authoritarian agenda among the American people. Waters on MSNBC Saturday was laying the groundwork for claims on Tuesday that Trump’s followers engaged in terrorist acts and that the FBI is therefore justified in treating support for Trump as terrorism. The hook has been baited.
Enough Already: Oregon ‘Health Teacher’ Makes Students Write About Their Sexual Fantasies
Controversial 'sexual fantasy' assignment in health class at Eugene high school
BY ROBERT SPENCER
Republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, & research purposes.
The facts, in this case, are even more revolting than the usual run of stories coming out of the schools in this age of absurdity: a teacher at Winston Churchill (Who Must Be Turning In His Grave) High School in Eugene, Ore., forced his students to write about their sexual fantasies and had earlier required them to identify the classmates with whom they would like to like to have sexual relations. It sounds as if this teacher is using the students as a tool to indulge his own sexual fantasies. Has he or she been fired yet? Of course not.
The Left insists that its introduction of sexual delusions and perversions into public school curricula at the earliest levels is all a matter of mental health: if children aren’t allowed to pretend they’re of the opposite sex and indulge a smorgasbord of other fantasies, you see, the poor dears will be driven to suicide. This is ridiculous on its face, as generations of schoolchildren who actually went to school to learn to read, write, and cipher instead of to learn about LGBTQ and the rainbow flag didn’t end up offing themselves in large numbers, but nevertheless, that’s the way this whole rancid package has been sold.
And so Winston Churchill (Who Would Demand His Name Be Taken Off the Building) High School students were told, according to a Tuesday report in the Washington Free Beacon, to write a “Fantasy Story.” Oh, like science fiction, maybe a journey to Mars or a fictional world featuring cute little furry creatures doing heroic things, a la Lord of the Rings? Nope: this isn’t the 1970s anymore, man! This assignment was designed to “show that you can show and receive loving physical affection without having sex.”
Well, at first glance that doesn’t seem so bad in itself, or at least not as bad as it could have been. It could even be construed as an exhortation to the students to be sexually responsible and not promiscuous, but it was already skirting the edge of propriety and decency to direct the students to write in detail about expressing “loving physical affection.” And it gets worse, as these things invariably do.
Springfield, Oregon’s KEZI reported that the assignment directed students: “You will choose 3 items (romantic music, candles, massage oil, feather, feather boa, flavored syrup, etc.) to use in the story.” What? Feather boas and flavored syrup? Massage oil? Clearly, the teacher intended the story to be erotic, even as he or she or xe specified that it must include “NO penetration of any kind or oral sex (no way of passing an STI),” or sexually transmitted illness.
After this assignment came to light (a courageous parent posted it on Facebook; has Merrick Garland’s FBI opened a terror investigation yet?), it also came to light that in February, students in the same class had to play a game, “With Whom Would You Do It?” The Free Beacon explains that “during the game, a spinning wheel labeled with sexual acts, including anal penetration and oral sex, was projected in the classroom. When the wheel stopped on a category, students were supposed to mark the initials of a male and female student with whom they would want to perform the act.”
One parent recounted: “My daughter was very, very, very uncomfortable in the classroom.” Well, sure. But it’s all about “health,” doncha know. The Free Beacon noted that “both sexually explicit assignments are part of a health curriculum adopted by the Eugene School Board in 2016. While the district has agreed to drop the curriculum following parent outcry, the teacher, who is also a football coach, has not been disciplined.” And why should he have been? This teacher was just getting his students to engage in worship according to the favored religion of the day.
The Left has made a new religion out of unbridled sexual libertinism and the glorification of perversion and delusion. People who completely lack the capacity for self-control have to be restrained by an all-powerful state. People who have given themselves over to unrestrained sexual excess or to fantasies that have to be aided by mutilation and a lifetime of pharmaceuticals have neither the ability nor the will to stand up to that all-encroaching state. People who have no interest in or capacity for ordinary relationships and conventional families will have no loyalties that will compete with loyalty to the omnipresent state. So this Oregon class is really no surprise. Expect more like it.
NATO Looking to Send 300,000 Troops to the Russian Border
BY RICK MORAN
Republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, & research purposes.
NATO military planners want to designate an additional 300,000 troops to be positioned along the eastern edge of the alliance on the border with Russia in order to forestall any thought by Moscow of expanding the war in Ukraine.
There’s only one small problem; they don’t know where they’re going to get the weapons and ammunition.
“The current rate of consumption compared to the current rate of production of ammunition,” NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said in early March, “is not sustainable.”
But the problem isn’t just manufacturing bullets and shells. It’s a problem of figuring out how much every NATO nation has to give in men, money, and material. And that has proved difficult in the past.
“If there’s not somebody hosting the potluck and telling everybody what to bring, then everyone would bring potato chips because potato chips are cheap, easy to get,” said James J. Townsend Jr., a former U.S. deputy assistant secretary of defense for European and NATO policy.
“Nations,” he added, “would rather bring potato chips.”
When the NATO alliance went to war in Afghanistan, it was amusing to see many of the countries eagerly volunteering for duty at the Kabul airport. They all wanted to contribute “potato chips” to the war effort. How will this latest effort at demonstrating NATO solidarity work?
But the process could get tricky. Why? Because moving so quickly, even given a month, requires lots of people, equipment and training — and lots of money.
Some militaries will have to up their recruitment efforts. Many allies will have to increase defense spending. And everyone will have to buy more weapons, ammunition and equipment.
Ben Hodges, former commander of U.S. Army Europe, said that “readiness” is “basically, do you have all the stuff you’re supposed to have to do the mission assigned to a unit of a particular size?”
“An artillery battalion needs to shoot X number of rounds per year for planning purposes in order to maintain its level of proficiency,” he said. A tank battalion needs to hit targets, react to different situations and “demonstrate proficiency on the move, day and night, hitting targets that are moving.”
From what we saw of NATO in Afghanistan, I am not confident that this plan to augment forces on the Russian border will amount to much. NATO countries will find ways to avoid their responsibilities rather than fulfill their obligations.
And that includes meeting the critical need for more ammunition.
“We have tended to try to stockpile munitions on the cheap … it’s just grossly inadequate,” said Stacie Pettyjohn, director of the defense program at the Center for a New American Security. “I think the problems that our allies have in NATO are even more acute because many of them often rely on the U.S. as sort of the backstop.”
Sound familiar? Any NATO plan for more troops and equipment ultimately means more U.S. troops and more U.S. equipment.
Once NATO’s military plans are done, capitals will be asked to weigh in — and eventually make available troops, planes, ships and tanks for different parts of the blueprints.
A test for NATO will come this summer when leaders of the alliance’s 30 member countries meet in Lithuania.
“We are asking the nations — based on the findings we have out of our three regional plans — what we need to make these plans … executable,” said the senior NATO military official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive planning.
“I think the most difficult thing,” the official added, “is the procurement.”
As always, the devil is in the details. But NATO — aside from some frontline nations like Poland and the Baltic States — is not likely to get serious about defense against Russia until Russian tanks are rolling into NATO territory.
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Massachusetts bill ‘an unprecedented and unconstitutional effort to promote one religion, Islam, over all others’
DID CATHOLIC MASSACHUSETTS BOW TO THE POPE'S MANDATE?
BY ROBERT SPENCER
Republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, & research purposes.
“Diversity, equity, and inclusion” is inherently and in always and every case a gateway to the preferential treatment of the Left’s favored groups.
“Massachusetts Bill Privileges Muslims in State Government,” by Dexter Van Zile, Focus On Western Islamism, March 15, 2023:
The Massachusetts state legislature is considering a bill that would promote and privilege the participation of Muslims in state politics. The bill (“An Act promoting the civil rights and inclusion of American Muslims in the commonwealth”), put forth by lawmakers from central and north Massachusetts in January, would establish a commission charged with promoting the participation of Muslims in the governance of the state. In particular, the commission would “identify and recommend qualified American Muslims for appointive positions at all levels of government, including boards and commissions, as the commission considers necessary and appropriate.”
The bill is “an unprecedented and unconstitutional effort to promote one religion, Islam, over all others,” said Steve Resnicoff, director of DePaul College of Law Center for Jewish Law and Judaic Studies. “It would clearly violate the principle of separation of church and state.”
It would be one thing if the proposed commission were intended to combat discrimination against Muslims, Resnicoff said, but that’s not the case with this bill. “Instead, it calls for the creation of a government entity that would broadly endeavor to benefit the interests of Muslims,” he said.
In addition to identifying and recommending Muslims to serve in appointive positions in the state government, the commission would also advocate for the community. Such advocacy would target leaders in the fields of business, education, health care and state and local governments. It would also “serve as a liaison between government and private interest groups” on matters of interest to the state’s Muslim community.
Members of the commission — who would serve three-year terms — would be appointed by officials including the state governor, the attorney general, and members of the state legislature. In addition to state funding, the 11-member commission would be authorized to solicit donations to cover the cost of its operations, which would include the hiring of a paid executive director, staffers, and volunteers.
A sheet promoting the bill’s passage says a commission is necessary because the perspective and experiences of American Muslims “are often absent in policy conversations on issues that directly impact the community.”
The proponents of the bill, Senator James B. Eldridge (D-Middlesex and Worcester) and Representative Vanna Howard (D-17th Middlesex), have not responded to repeated requests for comment — including a personal visit to the Statehouse — but it appears the bill was filed with input from the Massachusetts chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).
In February, Tahirah Amatul-Wadud, CAIR-MA’s executive director and chief legal officer, posted a celebratory tweet about the introduction of the bill. It shows Eldridge standing alongside Amatul-Wadud, an astonishing scene, given Amatul-Wadud’s professional background.
Writing in The American Spectator in 2017, Orwin Litwin reported that Amatul-Wadud, was “deeply enmeshed in one of the most dangerous extremist groups in the United States.” In addition to serving as a lawyer for the group in question, Muslims of America (MOA), which has sent its members to Pakistan for extremist indoctrination and military training, Amatul-Wadud has promoted the conspiracy theories put forth by MOA’s founder, Pakistani cleric Mubarak Ali Gilani. Litwin reports that in 2015, Amatul-Wadud “shared a Facebook post “from MOA of a long and unhinged 2014 article by Sheikh Gilani himself.”
Litwin reports that in the article Amatul-Wadud retweeted, “Gilani claims that the terror group ISIS (and indeed, Wahhabism itself) is a creation of British intelligence, that 9/11 was an inside job, that WTC-7 was destroyed by controlled demolition, and that America was manipulated into fighting Nazi Germany and Saddam Hussein for the benefit of the Jews.”
The article Amatul-Wadud promoted on Facebook declares, among other things, that “there was no need for America to go to war against Hitler. Hitler was not the enemy of America or the American people. There was a mutual animosity between Hitler and the Jews. So, the American people paid a very heavy price for fighting someone else’s war.”
CAIR-MA has not responded to repeated requests for comment on the bill from FWI.
“The proposed legislation seeking to aid Islam is unconstitutional on its face,” said Karen Hurvitz, a Massachusetts attorney who serves as legal counsel for Education Without Indoctrination, a group that fights against anti-American and anti-Israel propaganda in K-12 schools. In particular, it flies in the face of 1947 Supreme Court ruling, Everson v. Bd. Of Education which states, “The ‘establishment of religion’ clause in the First Amendment means at least this: Neither a state nor the Federal Government can … pass laws which aid one religion, aid all religions, or prefer one religion over another.”…
Efforts to elicit a response from the American Civil Liberties Union, which regularly inveighs against the influence of conservative Christians on government policy in the United States, were unsuccessful.
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Watchdog Group to Investigate Biden’s “Woke Army”
BY DAVID KELLY
SEE: https://thenewamerican.com/watchdog-group-to-investigate-bidens-woke-army/;
Republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, & research purposes.
The Foundation for Government Accountability (FGA) announced Thursday they were launching an investigation into President Biden’s recent executive order (EO) that requires each major federal agency to assemble an “Agency Equity Team” — basically a permanent “woke army” — to “coordinate the implementation of equity initiatives and ensure that their respective agencies are delivering equitable outcomes for the American people.”
Calling Biden’s egalitarian EO an “unprecedented scheme,” the FGA stated in a press release that they were “filing Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests targeting the 23 agencies addressed in the Equity EO, including the Departments of State, Justice, Defense, Labor, Transportation, Social Security, Education, … and Health and Human Services. FGA will share the information gathered with Congress, the states, and the American people.”
All of the equity teams will report to an EO-established “White House Steering Committee on Equity,” chaired by the assistant to the president for domestic policy (currently Susan Rice). The Steering Committee members will be hand-picked, unelected, senior officials representing policy councils and offices within the Executive Office of the President.
The FGA press release declared:
“These equity teams are a Trojan horse planted in the heart of every federal agency to fundamentally change decision-making across the bureaucracy. Their goal is to continuously and permanently embed Left-wing ideology into every agency action,” said Tarren Bragdon, FGA President and CEO. “We cannot allow this new ‘woke army’ to force un-American philosophy into all corners of our federal government. They will degrade our nation’s capabilities and effectiveness, while undermining our liberty and security.”
“We’ve seen the economic devastation over the first two years of the Biden presidency. If radical ideology is ingrained into every policy and regulatory decision at all agencies, the impact on the American people and economy will be widespread, devastating, and impossible to reverse,” Tarren Bragdon added.
The FGA claimed the Biden administration will implement the EO using as a guide a left-wing activist group’s plan that is “designed to circumvent the normal, democratic process and instead force their ideology onto Americans using ‘government equity leaders and practitioners’ from within the government itself.”
In Thomas Sowell’s 2001 article titled The Dangers of Egalitarianism, he explained quite well how Biden has been able to enforce his woke agenda:
To create even the semblance of “equality” [of results] requires a concentration of power in the hands of political leaders…. And, as the history of the 20th century has shown repeatedly and tragically, in countries around the world, once concentrated power is put into the hands of political leaders, they can use it for whatever purpose they have in mind — regardless of what others had in mind when they granted them that power.
Becoming the pawns of politicians is a high price to pay for letting demagogues stir up our envy and beguile us with promises to equalize.
Thankfully, the FGA has drawn a line in the sand and is taking action to hopefully force the Biden administration to disband their “woke army” before they destroy what few liberties we have left. The FGA knows what’s at stake, and is ready for the battle ahead, stating:
“The clock is ticking on President Biden’s term. And the radical forces inside his administration and their partners on the outside know they have limited time to embed their ‘leaders and practitioners’ into every federal agency before they lose power. If successful, this ‘woke army’ will outlast the Biden presidency and become a permanent fixture deeply entrenched in our government,” said Stewart Whitson, FGA legal director.
“Through this investigation, FGA is fighting to expose this attempted ideological takeover of our federal agencies, and we won’t stop until we’ve uncovered the truth. We will share the information we uncover with Congress, the states, and the American people so that, together, we can help stop this unconstitutional effort before it’s too late.”
Comer: ‘6 or 7 Bidens’ Ride the Family Gravy Train~The Biden Family Influence-Peddling Scandal Just Got Much, Much Worse
BY KEVIN DOWNEY, JR
Republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, & research purposes.
House Oversight Committee master-blaster Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), who is digging — successfully — into the Biden family’s alleged influence peddling, believes there may be more than half a dozen Bidens leeching cheddar from the tens of millions of dollars sent to family members by people with ties to the Chinese commies.
FACT-O-RAMA! Communist China — which is spying on us with balloons, maintains secret police stations in North America, and is currently seeking ways to disarm our military satellites — is considered our biggest enemy and the greatest threat to our nation. Yet it has funneled tens of millions of dollars to the Biden family. Coincidentally, Joe Biden has taken criticism for being soft on China with regard to the origins of COVID-19 and the billion-dollar industry of Chinese fentanyl pouring over our southern border, which leaves 80,000-plus Americans dead from overdoses every year.
“At the end of this, I think we’re gonna see there are probably six or seven Biden family members who were involved in various business schemes around the world,” Comer revealed to Fox News’s Laura Ingraham.
A Family Tradition
Comer did not name names, but he recently mentioned that a “new Biden” had dipped his or her beak — for the first time — into a $3 million payment sent to Hunter Biden lackey John “Rob” Walker. Walker received this payment from two people with ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). He then distributed the cheddar to three members of the Biden family.
Comer further stated that, though he had bank records in hand via subpoena, he had no idea what the $3 million payment was for.
He wasn’t done spilling Biden family secrets, either. He further told Ingraham:
So this just shows how deep the Biden family was involved in this influence-peddling scheme.
It looks to me like these people, who are closely aligned with the Chinese Communist Party, sent $3 million to a shell corporation, then they turned around and split it three ways with a third going to the Biden family – three different family members for no apparent reason.
They didn’t invest it in a business. They just, it appears, stuck it in their pocket.
La Famiglia
The Bidens are starting to look more like a New York Mafia family than a political dynasty. Here are the big players we know about thus far in the Biden la Cosa Nostra family:
- Joe “the Big Guy” Biden, head of the Biden crime syndicate.
- Jim “Consigliere” Biden, Joe’s brother. Remains close to Joe. Though Jim stays out of the press, the FBI has a bushel of evidence pointing to years of his shenanigans.
- Hunter “Fredo” Biden, Joe’s son. Ukrainian bagman, known for videotaping himself smoking crack and plowing hookers.
- Frank “Frankie the Magician” Biden, Joe’s brother. Takes high-paying jobs with fledgling companies, and suddenly those businesses start landing lucrative government contracts.
So who is the “new Biden” found scooping cash from the family slush fund? Comer hasn’t told us, but we have some suspects:
- Sara Biden, wife of Jim Biden.
- Dr. Howard Krein, husband of Joe Biden’s daughter, Ashley, with whom Joe is believed to have taken “not appropriate” showers when she was a child.
- Valerie Biden Owens, Joe’s sister. She ran all of his Senate campaigns as well as his failed 1988 and 2008 presidential runs.
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FACT-O-RAMA! While vice president, Joe Biden was Obama’s point man for Ukraine and Costa Rica. During that time, the Biden family landed tasty contracts in numerous fields, despite a lack of experience in any of those fields, in both countries as well as Iraq, Mozambique, and the United States.
Rep. Comer’s Oversight Committee is a thorn in the side of the Biden family, but what can we expect to happen? Democrat fat cats — like the Clintons — always seem to walk away unscathed from allegations of wrongdoing.
But this Oversight Committee investigation might be different. As per Comer, up to seven members — thus far — of the Biden family might be involved in the alleged influence-peddling scheme. And with the known links between the Bidens and tens of millions of commie dollars that Comer claims he has found, this might become too big to hide.
On the other hand, does the nation really want to see the inauguration of President Harris?
One thing we do know is that the Biden family is finally against the ropes. When—not if—they fall, the world will see the Bidens’ ties to the Chinese commies who are trying to conquer us. I think the word for that is treason.
According to my history books, commies don’t go down easily. As their walls close in on them at this historical point in our nation’s existence, we can only expect the bolshies to roll up their sleeves and fight their hardest. And that’s what We the People must do as well.
You, patriot, have been doing a great job fighting for our values and our liberties. Thank you. Let’s hoist a bourbon and then get back to the battle. Is there more work to be done to sustain our freedoms and liberties? Plenty.
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What Did the Failed Silicon Valley Bank Get for the $70 MILLION It Gave to BLM and Similar Groups?
BY ROBERT SPENCER
Republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, & research purposes.
Maybe if the people who ran Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) had not been so profligate, the bank wouldn’t have failed. As Catherine Salgado reported Tuesday, according to the Claremont Institute, SVB gave a staggering $70,650,000 to Black Lives Matter (BLM) and like-minded entities, and according to a report in The Daily Beast, BLM’s leadership took the largesse it had received from guilty corporations hoping to avoid charges of racism and squandered much of it on “high-end real estate, familiar consultants, ambitious grants, and more.” For the BLM leadership, it was time to let the good times roll.
It wasn’t just BLM, either. Just The News reported Friday that SVB had promised to fork over no less than $5 billion to various organizations in order to help companies that were endeavoring to assist with “the transition to a sustainable, low carbon, net zero emissions economy.” Then, after the bank collapsed, it was criticized for “prioritizing eco-conscious environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing over sound investment principles while also focusing on diversity and social justice in hiring over strict merit.” And not just in hiring, as the massive payout to BLM indicates.
But for all the money it gave to Black Lives Matter, did Silicon Valley Bank get diversity and social justice? Not quite. The Daily Beast’s May 2022 report notes that BLM co-founder and former sole voting director Patrisse Cullors “authorized a six-figure payout to be given to her child’s father for various services, paid $1.8 million to companies owned by her relatives, and ensured that her brother, Paul Cullors, was one of the highest-paid employees of BLM.”
Even worse, “tax documents not only proved that Cullors lied about misusing some of the funds (such as hosting a birthday party for her son and throwing a private Biden inauguration celebration in the multimillion-dollar property intended for activists and creators), but that she did so repeatedly.” Ah, racial justice at last!
What did you expect? Patrisse Cullors herself said in 2015: “We are trained Marxists. We are super-versed on, sort of, ideological theories.” In practice, Marxism doesn’t mean actually spreading wealth around. It means that the wealth of those who have no political power is confiscated for the benefit of those who do have political power. That’s the way Leftists always rule.
In the old Soviet Union, while all the rhetoric was about how the workers had thrown off their oppressors and were now in charge, the common people were actually more impoverished than ever, as well as more powerless. Those who really had the political power, and were supposedly running this “dictatorship of the proletariat,” meanwhile, lived it up in sumptuous dachas and feasted on gourmet meals served on the finest china. They deserved reward, after all, for all their efforts for The People, and so does Black Lives Matter today.
Related: Woke Silicon Valley Bank Gave $73.45 Million to BLM and Related Entities
SVB was, of course, by no means alone in financing the luxury lifestyle of Patrisse Cullors and other Marxist BLM leaders. Just The News reports that “other big-name corporations listed in the BLM donor database included: CitiGroup and Facebook, which each gave over $1 billion, Amazon (almost $170 million), Apple ($100 million), and American Express ($50 million), among dozens of others.”
What did they all get for their money? In a certain sense, it was akin to the protection money that the Mafia would collect from small businesses: you got a really nice picture window here in your shop. It would be a shame if it were broken. For $100 a week, I can make sure that doesn’t happen. After Antifa and BLM rioted all over the country in the summer of 2020, the point was made to the big corporations: demonstrate your commitment to “social justice,” or else.
When asked about the donations bonanza it received and the possible connection of SVB’s failure to its massive donation to BLM, the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation (you guessed it) charged racism: “Associating a multi-billion dollar bank failure to supposed donations made to Black organizations is quite literally the definition of white supremacy — especially when it’s a bank that has been and continues to be largely run by white people.” It added in a sly pitch for Marxism: “We need to be demanding real accountability both from the private sector and the government, which leads to immediate policy change, including public banking options. Until we stop protecting the interests of tech executives, shareholders, and billionaires and start protecting Black people from their gruesome exploitation, then we will, unfortunately, witness many more big bank bailouts.”
As everyone should know by now, “real accountability” doesn’t really mean that everyone should be held accountable. It just means that the people who are left unaccountable should change. But the BLM leadership is already in that category.
New Student-Led Red Guard Installed in Maine School District Causes Fury at Board Meeting
BY MEGAN FOX
Republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, & research purposes.
If you’re unfamiliar with the Red Guard instituted by Chairman Mao in China, get ready to understand it better than you ever wanted to. Critics of the sweeping transgender ideology infecting the school and medical systems have likened the ideology’s proponents to China’s Red Guard, a group of students trained to turn against their parents and other adults to usher in a brutal dictatorship. The Red Guard famously tortured its own teachers and parents in the name of the Communist cultural revolution. It was a dark and dangerous time in China for anyone who would not bow to the demands of tyrants.
A school system in Maine has instituted its own burgeoning Red Guard called the “Civil Rights Team.” This benign-sounding organization of kids is supposed to ensure that student rights are upheld. What has happened instead led to parents sounding off at the latest school board meeting to complain that the Civil Rights Team is just a bullying organization with an agenda. The Maine Wire covered the story:
Kristen Day said students affiliated with one of RSU 14’s Civil Rights Teams harassed her daughter. When her daughter refused to speak about her sexuality, two students affiliated with the club began to bully her and call her homophobic.
“They insisted she was gay because she dressed gay and listened to gay music,” Day said of her daughter, who was a 7th grader at the time of the alleged harassment.
“She was then called homophobic because she wasn’t at least bi,” Day said.
“She’s not political, but she does not want to talk about her sexuality in school,” she said.
Day went on to describe how the CRT (Is it a coincidence that their acronym mirrors Critical Race Theory?) founded by the Maine Attorney General’s office, pressured the kids into wearing pronoun pins.
Civil Rights Teams (CRTs) operate in Maine schools as a project of the Maine Attorney General’s Office, and the nominal goal of the student organizations is to reduce “bias-motivated” bullying and harassment in schools.
Day said her daughter was harassed about her sexuality by students affiliated with the school’s CRT under the pretext of opening a discussion about student sexuality.
CRT members also created surveys for their peers to take with questions about sexuality and gender, and they pressured them to don “pronoun” pins, Day said.
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Windham Superintendent Christopher Howell, instead of investigating the allegations, wrote an email denying it ever happened.
“In short, the focus of [Civil Rights] teams is on helping to create a safe school environment for all,” said Howell.
“We are not aware of the Civil Rights Team being involved in the situation you’re referring to,” he said.
Using students to pressure other students into “group-think” is right out of the Commie playbook. It is not only disturbing that the Attorney General of Maine is complicit in doing this, but it should be a shocking wake-up call to parents nationwide. This threat of Communism is real. It is happening right now in this country. The question is, what are you going to do about it? If left unchecked this only ends one way: the same way it ended in China. NPR reported the sad reality in China as a result of the cultural revolution.
Students beating up their teachers was a shocking reversal in the Confucian society, where educators were once held in the highest esteem.
Now, the teachers who were victimized in the Cultural Revolution are mostly in their 70s and 80s, and the Red Guards have said they wanted to apologize while they still have the chance.
Last October, Chen met with his former classmates and teachers and apologized for the violence he presided over.
“Looking back on it, I believe their human rights and dignity were trampled upon,” says Chen, shown here in the courtyard of his Beijing residence.
“Teachers were made to stand onstage, bow their heads and confess their crimes,” he says. “Looking back on it, I believe their human rights and dignity were trampled upon.”
In fact, Chen says, the entire Cultural Revolution was illegal because it violated China’s Constitution — though he acknowledges that criticizing the movement as unconstitutional is a way to make his point without being silenced by the authorities.
It’s hard to apologize when the atrocities meted out by the Red Guard left family members without even the face of a loved one beaten to death by the enraged student army.
Related: Arizona Christian University Files Federal Civil Rights Lawsuit Against Bigoted School Board
Meanwhile, in January, another Red Guard leader, Song Binbin, apologized and bowed before a statue of her school’s vice principal, Bian Zhongyun, who was beaten to death. Song is the daughter of Song Renqiong, another leading revolutionary.
Song Binbin did not admit to taking part in the beating. And she did not invite Bian’s widower, 92-year-old Wang Jingyao, to hear the apology.
So I went to Wang’s home and asked him for his reaction.
Wang recalls that Bian was beaten so badly that her corpse’s face was completely black from the injuries.
“The Red Guards were simply executioners,” he said. “Their current apologies are to absolve them of responsibility for their crimes.”
Maine schools are playing with fire and should disband the Civil Rights Teams immediately. Students should be in charge of nothing. They’re too young, too impressionable, and too immature to be given any power over their peers or teachers. Yet the trans ideology gives a massive amount of power to untrained, emotionally stunted children who are bound to wield it unfairly as history shows.
Children are not adults and should not be treated as such or given that responsibility. They don’t know what’s best for them or anyone else around them. They need our help and guidance. It is the sickest philosophy that demands that we follow the lead of our children. Children will brutalize one another if not properly supervised and guided. Anyone who has read Lord of the Flies (or has more than one child) knows this to be true.
People who believe the “children will lead the way” have no grasp of history, no concept of evil or of reality. They need to be kept far from the reins of power, starting with Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan — who may be lacking a brainstem.