CENTER FOR MEDICAL PROGRESS RELEASES TWO NEW PLANNED PARENTHOOD SECRET VIDEOS

CENTER FOR MEDICAL PROGRESS RELEASES TWO NEW PLANNED PARENTHOOD 
SECRET VIDEOS

FULL FOOTAGE: Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast
CEO Melaney Linton

Published on Feb 2, 2016
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

PLANNED PARENTHOOD HOUSTON ADMITS ACCOUNTING GIMMICKS HIDE BABY PARTS SALES, INVOICES TO UTMB CHARGE THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS
Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast Director of Research Melissa Farrell Explains Abortion Group “Worded” Fetal Specimen Line Item as “Patient Consent” to Skirt Law, Agrees to Financial Profit from Sales: “We Definitely Want to Do That”

Contact: Peter Robbio, probbio@crcpublicrelations.com, 703.683.5004

HOUSTON, Feb. 3–A new video at Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast and newly-released documents from a Texas Public Information Act request show how Planned Parenthood used accounting gimmicks to hide its illegal sale of fetal tissue.

The video highlights previously overlooked footage from the April 9, 2015 site visit of investigative journalists David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt from The Center for Medical Progress to Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast’s abortion center in Houston. The site visit took place with PPGC Director of Research Melissa Farrell, who has overseen the organization’s fetal tissue supply program since 2006.

“We had two levels of invoicing for them. We had it worded as ‘per consent,’” explains Farrell as she describes a previous fetal tissue deal that took place at PPGC. Farrell indicates that “per consent” is the phrase used in PPGC budgeting in place of “per specimen” for fetal tissue.

Farrell is aware that while a patient may consent to supply fetal tissue, the specimen itself may not be useable for experimentation: “There’s probably some situations where somebody would consent and then just not, we didn’t get a sample, or she changed her mind, or something happened to the specimen.”

Addressing this dilemma, Daleiden says: “Now obviously, we don’t want to end up paying for material that we can’t use,” and suggests that there be a line item fee of “something else that represents the specimens.” “Obviously,” Farrell agrees, “Yep. Yeah.”

“I just don’t want it to turn into a situation that is not financially beneficial for you,” says Merritt. “Yeah, yeah. And we’ll, I’ll take you up on that. I’ll take you up on that. I’ll take you up on that,” Farrell repeats three times, laughing, and continues, “We definitely want to do that, because that’s what staff and management need to see.”

The video also includes footage of Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast CEO Melaney Linton advising that Farrell will “work on all of that with you” when it comes to “remuneration” and “compensation” for fetal tissue. Farrell told Daleiden and Merritt during lunch that her department “contributes so much to the bottom line of our organization here.”

The system of accounting gimmicks and dual invoicing for “consent” payments in place of fetal specimens that Melissa Farrell describes in the video bears a striking resemblance to invoices submitted by Farrell on behalf of PPGC to the University of Texas Medical Branch in 2010 and 2011. In these documents, obtained through a Public Information Act request, two PPGC invoices for the exact same billing period charge $25 per “Consents obtained,” with a total quantity of 32, and in the same time period charges $150 per “Consent payment” for a smaller quantity of 25. This is consistent with a scheme where Planned Parenthood charged $25 to consent abortion patients to supply fetal tissue, and then charged another $150 for each usable fetal specimen that UTMB could procure.

The total billing from Planned Parenthood for this tissue procurement was over $8,000. The sale, offer to sell, or transfer of human fetal tissue for valuable consideration is a crime under Texas Penal Code 48.02. Planned Parenthood is currently under investigation by the Texas Attorney General’s Office, the Texas Department of Health, and the U.S. Congress for violations relating to its treatment of aborted infants and aborted body parts sales.

“The evidence that Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast charged exorbitant amounts of taxpayer money in exchange for fetal specimens that it provided at nearly zero cost is overwhelming,” notes David Daleiden, CMP Project Lead. “Governor Abbott and Attorney General Paxton need to send a strong message that Houston’s children are not for sale, and they must immediately appoint a special prosecutor to hold Planned Parenthood accountable to the law.”

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Watch the new video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4U9mZ…

To learn more about The Center for Medical Progress, visit CMP.org

Planned Parenthood Houston Admits
Accounting Gimmicks Hide Baby Parts Sales,
Invoices $8,000

Published on Feb 2, 2016
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

PLANNED PARENTHOOD HOUSTON ADMITS ACCOUNTING GIMMICKS HIDE BABY PARTS SALES, INVOICES TO UTMB CHARGE THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS
Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast Director of Research Melissa Farrell Explains Abortion Group “Worded” Fetal Specimen Line Item as “Patient Consent” to Skirt Law, Agrees to Financial Profit from Sales: “We Definitely Want to Do That”

Contact: Peter Robbio, probbio@crcpublicrelations.com, 703.683.5004

HOUSTON, Feb. 3–A new video at Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast and newly-released documents from a Texas Public Information Act request show how Planned Parenthood used accounting gimmicks to hide its illegal sale of fetal tissue.

The video highlights previously overlooked footage from the April 9, 2015 site visit of investigative journalists David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt from The Center for Medical Progress to Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast’s abortion center in Houston. The site visit took place with PPGC Director of Research Melissa Farrell, who has overseen the organization’s fetal tissue supply program since 2006.

“We had two levels of invoicing for them. We had it worded as ‘per consent,’” explains Farrell as she describes a previous fetal tissue deal that took place at PPGC. Farrell indicates that “per consent” is the phrase used in PPGC budgeting in place of “per specimen” for fetal tissue.

Farrell is aware that while a patient may consent to supply fetal tissue, the specimen itself may not be useable for experimentation: “There’s probably some situations where somebody would consent and then just not, we didn’t get a sample, or she changed her mind, or something happened to the specimen.”

Addressing this dilemma, Daleiden says: “Now obviously, we don’t want to end up paying for material that we can’t use,” and suggests that there be a line item fee of “something else that represents the specimens.” “Obviously,” Farrell agrees, “Yep. Yeah.”

“I just don’t want it to turn into a situation that is not financially beneficial for you,” says Merritt. “Yeah, yeah. And we’ll, I’ll take you up on that. I’ll take you up on that. I’ll take you up on that,” Farrell repeats three times, laughing, and continues, “We definitely want to do that, because that’s what staff and management need to see.”

The video also includes footage of Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast CEO Melaney Linton advising that Farrell will “work on all of that with you” when it comes to “remuneration” and “compensation” for fetal tissue. Farrell told Daleiden and Merritt during lunch that her department “contributes so much to the bottom line of our organization here.”

The system of accounting gimmicks and dual invoicing for “consent” payments in place of fetal specimens that Melissa Farrell describes in the video bears a striking resemblance to invoices submitted by Farrell on behalf of PPGC to the University of Texas Medical Branch in 2010 and 2011. In these documents, obtained through a Public Information Act request, two PPGC invoices for the exact same billing period charge $25 per “Consents obtained,” with a total quantity of 32, and in the same time period charges $150 per “Consent payment” for a smaller quantity of 25. This is consistent with a scheme where Planned Parenthood charged $25 to consent abortion patients to supply fetal tissue, and then charged another $150 for each usable fetal specimen that UTMB could procure.

The total billing from Planned Parenthood for this tissue procurement was over $8,000. The sale, offer to sell, or transfer of human fetal tissue for valuable consideration is a crime under Texas Penal Code 48.02. Planned Parenthood is currently under investigation by the Texas Attorney General’s Office, the Texas Department of Health, and the U.S. Congress for violations relating to its treatment of aborted infants and aborted body parts sales.

“The evidence that Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast charged exorbitant amounts of taxpayer money in exchange for fetal specimens that it provided at nearly zero cost is overwhelming,” notes David Daleiden, CMP Project Lead. “Governor Abbott and Attorney General Paxton need to send a strong message that Houston’s children are not for sale, and they must immediately appoint a special prosecutor to hold Planned Parenthood accountable to the law.”

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Watch the new video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4U9mZ…

To learn more about The Center for Medical Progress, visit CMP.org


PASTOR CONVICTED OF HELPING EX-LESBIAN FLEE COUNTRY WITH DAUGHTER ORDERED TO REPORT TO PRISON

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PASTOR CONVICTED OF HELPING EX-LESBIAN FLEE COUNTRY WITH DAUGHTER ORDERED TO REPORT TO PRISON 
BY HEATHER CLARK
SEE: http://christiannews.net/2016/02/03/pastor-convicted-of-helping-ex-lesbian-flee-country-with-daughter-ordered-to-report-to-prison/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
BURLINGTON, Vt. — A Mennonite pastor who was convicted of providing assistance to an ex-lesbian who fled the country with her daughter has been ordered to report to prison next month after losing his appeal.
As previously reported, Kenneth Miller of Stuarts Draft, Virginia was convicted in August 2012 for helping Lisa Miller (no relation) and her young daughter Isabella travel to Buffalo, New York, where they crossed the border into Canada and then escaped to Nicaragua.
The situation began in 2000, when Lisa Miller, then a homosexual, joined in a civil union with lesbian Janet Jenkins in the state of Vermont. Following an artificial insemination procedure, Miller gave birth to baby Isabella in 2002.
In 2003, Miller and Jenkins split, and Miller moved to Virginia. She renounced homosexuality and reportedly turned to Jesus Christ for salvation. When the civil union was officially dissolved, the court gave custody to Miller, while also granting visitation rights to Jenkins.
While Miller did allow Isabella to spend time with Jenkins for awhile, she reportedly became very concerned at the information that her daughter was providing to her following the visitations.
Miller and Isabella
Miller and Isabella

Miller and Isabella

Later, Miller testified to the court 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. 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.
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. Information later turned up that Miller and Isabella had taken refuge in Nicaragua. It was also alleged that Pastor Kenneth Miller had a part helping Miller flee the country.
“It was in very painful circumstances that Lisa came to the Anabaptists in Virginia for help, which as a follower of Jesus, Ken could not ignore,” Miller’s website, MillerCase.org explains. “Ken supported Lisa’s desire to remove herself and Isabella from former relationships which were not in accord with Jesus’ standard. However, he felt only love and compassion for Lisa’s former partner and others involved.”
In 2013, months after Miller had been convicted of aiding in international kidnapping in federal court, Judge William Sessions gave Miller the maximum sentence of 27 months behind bars as requested by prosecutor Christina Nolan, plus one year of supervised federal probation.
Miller had already been incarcerated for a month for refusing to testify in the case of another man who is also facing charges for his participation in the matter.
However, because a “substantial question” existed over whether the case should have been heard in Miller’s home state of Virginia rather than in Vermont, Sessions stayed the sentence until an appeal is heard over the issue. He then set Miller free.
Last month, the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Sessions’ ruling, and on Tuesday, Sessions ordered Miller to report to prison on March 22nd to begin serving his sentence. The date had initially been set for March 1, but was moved at Miller’s request.
“Ken and the government have come to the agreement that Ken will not pursue further appeals, and the government will not pursue additional charges,” Miller’s website outlines. “Pray for us as family and church work to send him off well and prepare for his absence.”
Philip Zodhiates, the second man facing charges in the matter, is expected to go on trial in September in Buffalo, New York.

U.S. HOUSE FAILS TO OVERRIDE OBAMA’S VETO OF BILL DEFUNDING PLANNED PARENTHOOD

U.S. HOUSE FAILS TO OVERRIDE OBAMA’S VETO OF BILL DEFUNDING PLANNED PARENTHOOD
BY HEATHER CLARK
SEE: http://christiannews.net/2016/02/03/u-s-house-fails-to-override-obamas-veto-of-bill-defunding-planned-parenthood/;  republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
WASHINGTON — The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives has failed to override Barack Obama’s veto of a bill that would have defunded the abortion giant Planned Parenthood for one year.
Although the House obtained a majority on Tuesday, it fell short of the necessary two-thirds vote to override the veto. The final tally was 241-186.
Rep. Robert Pittinger, R-N.C., told reporters that while many in Congress knew the bill would likely fail, it sent more of a statement than anything to show where the president stands on the side of the unborn contrasted with the stance of Congress.
“We want to make it very clear to the American people where we stand and where the president stands. That’s why we put this on his desk,” he said. “We want them to know that we are standing for righteousness. We’re standing for truth. We’re standing for the lives of the unborn.”
“The president is the only person standing in the way of what the American people want, so our job now is to stand up for them, to demonstrate for them who is on their side,” also stated Budget Committee Chairman Tom Price, R-Ga.
As previously reported, the House voted 240-181 in favor of the legislation last month, and the Senate voted 52 to 47 in favor in December. In addition to defunding Planned Parenthood, the measure likewise sought to repeal key parts of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.
Democrats such as Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., opposed the effort, pointing to the recent indictments leveled against two pro-life Americans who were indicted after conducting an undercover investigation into the abortion giant. He contended that the Republican Party “apparently wants to ignore the facts that we learned from the Texas grand jury.”
But Republicans such as Rep. Glenn Grothman, R-Wi, pointed to the dark ideologies that founded Planned Parenthood in the first place.
“Margaret Sanger is connected to some of the ugliest segments in our history,” he declared.
As previously reported, Planned Parenthood was founded in 1921 by Sanger, and was originally known as the American Birth Control League. She later changed the name as some found it offensive.
“Birth control appeals to the advanced radical because it is calculated to undermine the authority of the Christian churches,” she wrote in a 1920’s newsletter. “I look forward to seeing humanity free someday of the tyranny of Christianity, no less than capitalism.”
Sanger, who was a staunch advocate of eugenics, also wrote in “The Pivot of Civilization,” “Constructive eugenics … shows us that we are paying for and even submitting to the dictates of an ever increasing, unceasingly spawning class of human beings who never should have been born at all—that the wealth of individuals and of states is being diverted from the development and the progress of human expression and civilization.”
Planned Parenthood outlined in its annual report released at the end of December that the organization performed 323,999 abortions nationwide during the 2014-2015 fiscal year.
It received $553 million in taxpayer funding/grants in 2014, up from $528 million the year prior, which equated to 43 percent of its total income. $48 million of Planned Parenthood’s income was used for sex education, and $39 million was used for public policy, or to influence state and federal law, up from $33 million in 2013. Despite its expenditures, it still garnered a $61 million dollar profit.

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE TO SPEND $100 MILLION TO DESTROY TEA PARTY

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CHAMBER OF COMMERCE TO SPEND $100 MILLION TO DESTROY TEA PARTY 
SEE: http://the-trumpet-online.com/report-chamber-of-commerce-to-spend-100-million-to-destroy-tea-party/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
Breitbart.com
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce will literally double down in its efforts to crush the Tea Party to get legislation–like a comprehensive amnesty bill and the re-authorization of the Export-Import Bank–that it covets.
After budgeting $50 million to elect establishment-friendly candidates in the 2014 election cycle, the chamber will reportedly spend as much as $100 million in the 2016 election cycle to crush conservatives. According to a Roll Call report, some of the group’s “top targets in 2016 will be right-wing, tea party candidates” who have opposed amnesty for illegal immigrants, Obamatrade, and reauthorizing the Export-Import Bank.
The Chamber of Commerce’s ultimate goal is to reportedly win back “the soul of the Republican Party” by electing more establishment Republicans “in contested primaries to strengthen their hand during policy debates on the Hill.”
Scott Reed, the group’s top strategist, told Roll Call that “the gang that wants to shut down the government, that’s a clear contrast to what the business community agrees is best for economic growth.” He added that the “the chamber is now operating in a 24-month cycle” and “this the earliest we’ve ever spent money.”
As Roll Call acknowledged, news of the chamber’s plans came days after House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) announced that he would resign from Congress, which has made “conservatives believe they have new wind at their backs now after scoring a major win.” The Chamber will also be playing in an election environment in which anti-establishment and non-politician candidates are getting the majority of the votes in nearly every state and national presidential poll by running against the permanent political class whose interests align with the chamber’s.
No other issue represents the divide between the permanent political class and Main Street than comprehensive amnesty legislation. And Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Tom Donohue has made it clear in no uncertain terms that his group covets a comprehensive amnesty bill. Donahue openly revealed in 2014 that he hoped that Congress could pass a massive bipartisan amnesty bill as the final act of the lame-duck Congress and even semi-seriously declared that Republicans should not even bother to try to win the White House in 2016 without having passed amnesty legislation.
“If the Republicans don’t do it [pass immigration reform], they shouldn’t bother to run a candidate in 2016,” Donohue said.
During the 2014 election cycle, the Chamber of Commerce, which often supports things like Common Core that conservatives loathe, helped establishment Republican Senators like Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY)44% and Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS)33%
fend off primary challengers, which led CNN to declare that the group “has planted itself firmly on the front line of the GOP establishment’s push to extinguish tea party ideologues wherever they threaten business-backed candidates.”
The Chamber of Commerce and establishment Republicans know that Tea Party conservatives are their biggest obstacles to ramming through legislation like a comprehensive amnesty bill. During the 2014 election cycle, Donohue declared that he wanted the Tea Party to “feel the heat,” and all indications point to the chamber trying to turn up the heat even more on conservative insurgents during an election cycle in which the Washington establishment is losing momentum.

“AUTOMATIC” WEAPONS & THE ALLEGED “GUN SHOW LOOPHOLE” BOTH DEBUNKED~OBAMA & ANTI SECOND AMENDMENT LIBERAL POLITICIANS ARE LIARS

OBAMA & LIBERAL POLITICIANS 
SHOWN TO BE LIARS
“AUTOMATIC” WEAPONS & THE ALLEGED “GUN SHOW LOOPHOLE” BOTH DEBUNKED

UNDERCOVER VIDEO: COMEDIAN DEBUNKS GUN SHOW ‘LOOPHOLE’

Every single vendor demands criminal background check

BY ADAN SALAZAR
SEE: http://www.infowars.com/undercover-video-comedian-debunks-gun-show-loophole/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
Despite claims that gun shows facilitate easy access to guns, it’s impossible to purchase a firearm at a gun show or gun store without a background check, comedian and political commentator Steven Crowder proved in a recent stunt.
In an undercover video compilation produced for his web series Louder with Crowder, the prankster visited multiple gun stores and inquired about purchasing “automatic weapons,” which the media and politicians such as President Obama regularly confuse for semi-automatics.
“Fully automatic? Oh, no. I don’t have a class three license,” one gun store vendor tells Crowder.
Another vendor says he doesn’t sell automatic weapons because doing so would require a “super crazy license.”
When Crowder does find a vendor selling Title II weapons, the dealer tells him ATF regulations require “paperwork signed off by your chief local law enforcement officer,” as well as proper identification and a host of other documentation.
“You could come in with a million dollars cash and I still wouldn’t give it to you,” the vendor says.
Crowder also approaches several firearms dealers at various gun shows and stores inquiring about purchasing a gun without having to undergo an FBI National Instant Criminal Background check, to which all vendors refuse.
“I was told that I could go to a gun show and there would be no background check,” Crowder tells a vendor who proceeds to laugh at him.
“I was told by the president that I could go here,” Crowder tells the vendor.
“You believe him?” the man asks.
The stunt shows how politicians blatantly misconstrue the facts to manipulate the American public into supporting legislation and executive actions that will only make it harder for law-abiding citizens to obtain firearms.
“We’ve already covered how the gun show loophole was a giant myth and a distraction, but this really puts it into perspective,”notes Crowder. “Guns are not easy to buy. Guns are so difficult to buy, we nearly got arrested for trying to buy guns the way Obama says people by guns. Which means, Obama is, as we already knew, a giant liar. He hates your Second Amendment rights almost as much as he hates people who work for a living.”


OBAMA HAS NOT PROSECUTED A SINGLE PALESTINIAN TERRORIST WHO KILLED AMERICANS

Attorney General Loretta Lynch
LORETTA LYNCH, ATTORNEY GENERAL
OBAMA HAS NOT PROSECUTED A SINGLE PALESTINIAN TERRORIST WHO KILLED AMERICANS 
Congress questions Justice Department’s commitment to prosecuting terrorists
BY ADAM KREDO
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes



The Obama administration has not prosecuted a single Palestinian terrorist responsible for killing Americans abroad, despite a congressional mandate ordering the Justice Department to take action against these individuals, according to disclosures made by lawmakers on Tuesday.



Palestinian terrorists have murdered at least 64 Americans, including two unborn children, since 1993. Yet the U.S. government has failed to take legal action against those who committed the crimes, lawmakers disclosed during a Tuesday hearing on the Justice Department’s failure to live up to its mandate to bring these terrorists to justice.



Many of the terrorists continue to roam free across the Middle East, with one hosting a Hamas-affiliated television show in Jordan.



With criticism mounting from Congress and U.S. victims of terrorism, Justice Department officials say they are working to initiate cases, but warn that this could take “many years” to play out.



The Justice Department has repeatedly declined to comment when faced with questions from Congress about the lack of prosecutions, according to Rep. Ron DeSantis (R., Fla.), chair of the House Oversight Subcommittee on National Security.



The Justice Department “has not been able to cite one example for this committee of even a single terrorist who has been prosecuted in the U.S. for any of the 64 attacks against Americans in Israel,” DeSantis said. “Indeed, many of these terrorists roam free as the result of prisoner exchanges or evasion.”



“This is not what Congress intended” when it created the DOJ’s Office of Justice for Victims of Overseas Terrorism in 2005, DeSantis added. “This is not what the American people want, and this does not provide justice to the victims’ families that has been so tragically elusive.”



The Justice Department has sought to evade questions about its failure to prosecute known terrorists responsible for the murder of U.S. citizens.



This includes its failure to level charges against Ahlam Tamimi, the Palestinian woman responsible for blowing up a Jerusalem pizza shop in 2001. The attacks killed 15, including a pregnant American woman. Tamimi currently resides in Jordan and hosts a television show on the Hamas-owned Al Quds station.



“When the [oversight] committee questioned the DOJ about this case, the department declined to comment,” DeSantis said. “If in fact bringing to justice the perpetrators of terrorism against Americans in Israel is a high priority for the DOJ, then surely people of this nature should be prosecuted for their crimes.”



Justice Department officials who testified maintain that they are aggressively working behind the scenes to make cases against foreign terrorists who have killed and injured Americans.



Brad Wiegmann, the deputy assistant attorney general in the Justice Department’s national security division, maintained that there are a number of “open investigations,” though he declined to provide further information.



“While I cannot discuss these investigations today or the facts of specific cases, it’s important to note the absence of public charges associated with a particular overseas attack does not mean that there are no charges, or that no such charges will be brought,” Weigmann said, noting that a prosecution could take place “many years” after an attack.



“I can certainly understand the frustration of some of the families that the Department of Justice has not prosecuted more cases involving terrorist attacks against Americans in Israel,” Wiegmann said, noting that the Obama administration has pursued some cases against terrorists affiliated with al Qaeda and ISIS.



Yet most of “these cases do not involve any of the recent attacks within Israel,” Weigmann admitted.



American victims of terrorist acts abroad who testified at the hearing offered sharp criticism of the Justice Department for failing to take on terrorists in the U.S. courts.



Sari Singer, who was injured in a 2003 Palestinian terror attack on a bus in Jerusalem, said that she has lost faith in the government.



“The government’s track record in extraditing or even seeking extradition of Palestinian terrorists who have murdered American citizens is nonexistent,” Singer said. “I grew up believing that my country would be there for me and protect me no matter where I was in the world. These last years have left me feeling let down.”



Peter Schwartz, whose nephew Ezra was shot in the head by a Palestinian terrorist in November 2015, said that the Obama administration has not been forthcoming about any potential investigations into the incident.



“We are not aware of what if any U.S. actions have been undertaken to investigate this case, and we still have many unanswered questions about the attack that claimed Ezra’s life and what role our government can play in answering them,” Schwartz told the committee.



The Obama administration was criticized in August when it sought to limit the restitution American victims of terrorism could receive. The administration argued in a legal briefing issued to the court that a large cash award to these victims could complicate the administration’s efforts to foster peace between Israel and the Palestinians.



			

		

		
		

			
							

		


	

		
	

		
		
PETE SANTILLI: RUTHERFORD INSTITUTE WARNS AGAINST GOVERNMENT ATTEMPTS TO INTIMIDATE JOURNALISTS
		
		
 

	
		
		
					

			
		

						

PETE SANTILLI, JOURNALIST







SEE: 








Rutherford Institute Warns Against Government Attempts to Intimidate Journalists





by Prosecuting Radio Shock Jock Pete Santilli Over Oregon Standoff





BY JOHN WHITEHEAD



SEE: http://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/on_the_front_lines/rutherford_institute_warns_against_government_attempts_to_intimidate_journa; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:







February 02, 2016





PORTLAND, Oregon — Warning against attempts by the government to intimidate journalists whose reporting portrays the government in a negative light or encourages citizens to challenge government injustice and wrongdoing, attorneys for The Rutherford Institute have weighed in on the government’s arrest and ongoing prosecution of radio shock jock Pete Santilli. Santilli, a new media journalist who broadcasts his news reports over YouTube and streaming internet radio, was arrested and has been charged along with seven other individuals connected to the recent occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Burns, Oregon. Santilli is the only journalist among those who have been charged with conspiracy to impede federal officers from discharging their duties by use of force, intimidation, or threats. In advising the public defender about the First Amendment principles at play in Santilli’s case, Rutherford Institute attorneys took issue with the government’s case against Santilli as laid out in its Criminal Complaint, which makes clear that Santilli is being charged solely as a reporter of information and not as an accomplice to any criminal activity.



The Rutherford Institute’s memorandum on the First Amendment rights of journalists and the government’s complaint regarding Santilli are available at www.rutherford.org.



“The FBI’s prosecution of this radio shock jock is consistent with the government’s ongoing attempts to intimidate members of the press who portray the government in a less than favorable light,” said constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead, president of The Rutherford Institute and author of Battlefield America: The War on the American People. “This is not a new tactic. During the protests in Ferguson, Missouri, and Baltimore, Maryland, numerous journalists were arrested while covering the regions’ civil unrest and the conditions that spawned that unrest. These attempts to muzzle the press were clearly concerted, top-down efforts to restrict the fundamental First Amendment rights of the public and the press. Not only does this tactic silence individual journalists, but it has a chilling effect on the press as a whole, signaling that they will become the target of the government if they provide reporting on these events with a perspective that casts the government in a bad light.”



In early January 2016, a group of armed activists, reportedly protesting the federal government’s management of federal lands and its prosecution of two local ranchers convicted of arson, staged an act of civil disobedience by occupying the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Burns, Oregon. Broadcaster Pete Santilli, who has covered such protests in the past, including the April 2014 standoff in Nevada between the Bundy ranching family and the federal government over grazing rights, described himself as an embedded journalist reporting on the occupation in Burns. Santilli did not participate in the takeover of the refuge, nor did he reside on the grounds of the refuge. However, as a self-described “shock jock” who uses “colorful language,” Santilli was vocal about his commitment to exercising his First Amendment rights in a nonviolent, peaceful fashion and the need for others to do so as well. When asked to clarify his role in relation to the occupation, Santilli declared, “My role is the same here that it was at the Bundy ranch. To talk about the constitutional implications of what is going on here. The Constitution cannot be negotiated.” Santilli also took pains to emphasize during his broadcasts that the only weapon he is using is the First Amendment: “I’m not armed. I am armed with my mouth. I’m armed with my live stream. I’m armed with a coalition of like-minded individuals who sit at home and on YouTube watch this.” In the wake of a roadblock that resulted in the arrests of several key leaders of the occupation and the killing of another, Santilli was arrested separately on a charge of conspiracy to impede federal officers. Santilli is being held at the Multnomah County Jail in Portland, Oregon. A U.S. magistrate judge ordered Santilli to remain in custody, pending trial. That ruling is being appealed.







			

		

		
		

			
							

		


	

		
	

		
		
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FROM APPEALING TO SEATTLE’S 



LIBERAL 20 YEAR OLD 



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TO A MORE MATURE GNOSTIC, BUT STILL HERETICAL, APOSTATE AUDIENCE



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THE NEW APOSTOLIC REFORMATION, DOMINIONIST 



“TRINITY CHURCH” 



PHOENIX, ARIZONA



LED BY GNOSTIC 



“ANOINTED ELDERS/APOSTLES” 



WHO ARE WISER THAN YOU



WILL THERE BE BEER PARTIES, 

FOUL MOUTHED PREACHING, 

& “THROWING PEOPLE UNDER THE BUS” AGAIN? 



BUT, FINANCES WILL STILL BE KEPT SECRET 



BY WARREN THROCKMORTON



SEE: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/warrenthrockmorton/2016/02/01/mark-driscoll-announces-launch-of-the-trinity-church/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:







Mark Driscoll Announces Launch of The Trinity Church (UPDATED)





In an email to supporters and a You Tube video, Mark and Grace Driscoll have announced the formation of The Trinity Church. I reported late last year that Driscoll had formed the legal corporation along with Jimmy Evans and Randall Taylor.  At the time, I asked rhetorically if the launch would be in January. I was close.



Watch:



                                           



The website is TheTrinityChurch.com. The church is named after Grace Driscoll’s home church in the Seattle area. So far, the church is a P.O. Box (see some pics here).



In what appears to be comparable to Mars Hill Church’s Board of Advisors and Accountability, Driscoll lists four pastors as providing “wise counsel”: Larry Osbourne, Randal Taylor, Jimmy Evans, and Robert Morris. These pastors have “apostolic gifting.”





Mark and Grace Driscoll have pastors with apostolic gifting who love them, know them, and are invested in them.



We learn from, respect, honor and seek wise counsel from the following leaders, their families, churches and ministries. We also appreciate those ministry leaders praying for and supporting our church plant.





Josh McDowell and Wayne Grudem are on the prayer team. UPDATE: Without note, Wayne Grudem’s name has been removed from the list of prayer supporters.



Andy Girton and Brandon Andersen are listed as associate pastors. Apparently, it is forbidden to mention Mars Hill Church.



Although the incorporation papers say the church won’t have members, The Trinity Church website says the following about membership:





Once the church is established, a class and process for spiritual church membership will be offered.





Sounds similar to Mars Hill in that spiritual members didn’t vote. Legally, they weren’t members for the purpose of being involved in the business of the church.



The board of directors from the Arizona state corporation website is below:



The Trinity Church Directors







Click the following links for the posts covering The Trinity Church, Mars Hill Church, and Mark Driscoll.



UPDATE: After the post was published, I noticed another video on Driscoll’s You Tube page, published today. Watch:







Becky Garrison: Mark Driscoll’s New Church 



in a P.O. Box



BY WARREN THROCKMORTON



SEE: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/warrenthrockmorton/2016/01/18/mark-driscolls-new-church-in-a-p-o-box/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:









Recently, writer Becky Garrison spent some time in Phoenix, AZ and looked for Mark Driscoll’s new project, The Trinity Church. In this report, Garrison summarizes Driscoll’s recent moves complete with photos of his church in a P.O. box.





Mark Driscoll’s Ministry Resurfaces in Phoenix



By Becky Garrison



After Mark Driscoll resigned as founder and leader of the multi-campus Seattle based Mars Hill Church, he registered the name Learning for Living before relocating the Driscoll family to Phoenix.



As reported by Warren Throckmorton on the Patheos blog, Mark Driscoll registered Mark Driscoll Ministries and the Trinity Church. Both are located at 21001 North Tatum Blvd., Phoenix, AZ 85050. Marks Driscoll’s Ministries is listed as Ste. 1630-527 while the Trinity Church’s address is recorded as Ste. 1630-434.



As noted by the photographs below, these ministries are housed inside a UPS Store situated inside Desert Ridge Marketplace, a sprawling mall locate in Phoenix billed as an interactive shopping, dining and entertainment experience in a vibrant, high-energy outdoor setting. According to Lindsay Struck, Business Partnerships & Partnerships, for the charity watchdog organization Guidestar, “It is not uncommon for charities to have a P.O. box (or UPS mailbox) designated specifically for donations. This set-up is often because the charity’s donation processing is managed off-premise.”



However, one does have to wonder why a minister needs an online ministry established to disseminating his podcasts, sermons and other media, as well as a church especially as according to the articles of incorporation, Trinity Church won’t have any members. Mark Driscoll, Randall Taylor and Jimmy Evans are listed as directors of this church with Steven Goodspeed, a lawyer with the Church Law Group, who handled the incorporation of these two Phoenix ministries. (Note: Goodspeed also handled the registration of Driscoll’s Learning for Living and the sale of Mars Hill Church’s Resurgence LLC assets to Driscoll. Church. Emails to Mark Driscoll Ministries and Evan’s church, Trinity Fellowship in Texas, inquiring about attending this “church” have yet to be returned. However, Driscoll preached preached on January 3, 2016 at North Valley Community Church which is located in the same vicinity as Driscoll’s “church.”



Also, Driscoll was of the keynote preachers at Trinity Fellowship’s Zion 2016 event held from January 3-6, 2016. When Jimmy Witcher, pastor with Trinity Fellowship, introduced Driscoll, he spun the downfall of Mars Hill as the result of “some internal things that were going on there” which were misreported by the media who only “get about the third of the information right.”  Then he elevated Driscoll as “an amazing man of God” citing his appearance at the Texas based Gateway Conference in October 2014 as a sign this New Calvinist preacher could be finding a new audience among the followers within the more Pentecostal and charismatic influenced New Apostolic Reformation.



Moving north to Driscoll’s former stomping ground, according to the Washington Secretary of State’s website, two of Driscoll’s personal LLCs OMCRU Investments and On Mission LLC expired on December 31, 2015 but Driscoll’s MGD Legacy incorporated in Colorado remains in good standing. Even though Mars Hill Church formally dissolved on January 1, 2015, the documents for this church didn’t expired until December 31, 2015. However, the documents for Mars Hill Foundation for Planting Churches remain active until October 31, 2016 with Driscoll and Mars Hill Church executive elder Dave Bruskas listed as officers.



So what is the future for Mark Driscoll and Mars Hill Church’s assets? God only knows.





Regarding Mars Hill’s assets, the only people who know aren’t talking. Kerry Dodd is the most recent president but has not answered emails or other requests for information. Dave Bruskas is listed as an officer but he tells me he has had no communication with anyone on Mars Hill matters since he left. Apparently, the documents online haven’t been updated.



As promised, here is Driscoll’s new church in a box.



The UPS store at 21001 North Tatum Blvd:



OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA



Used by permission of Becky Garrison





The P.O. box:



The Trinity Church. Used by permission of Becky Garrison



The Trinity Church.
Used by permission of Becky Garrison



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SEE OUR PREVIOUS POSTS ABOUT THE NEW APOSTOLIC REFORMATION (DOMINIONISM)



http://ratherexposethem.blogspot.com/search/label/New%20Apostolic%20Reformation%2FDominionism




















MARK DRISCOLL AND CERVESAS: NOW YOU SEE THE BEER; NOW YOU DON’T
















A leader we should not follow









A review by Pastor Tommy Mann (Student Pastor) of Philippi Baptist Church:





Profane preachers contribute to killing the conscience








Mark Driscoll: Flesh Peddler
































			

		

		
		

			
							

		


	

		
	

		
		
JOE BIDEN, DELAWARE’S JACKASS, CALLS REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL LINEUP “GIFT FROM THE LORD”
		
		
 

	
		
		
					

			
		

						





“GOOD CATHOLIC” JOE BIDEN DOESN’T EVEN KNOW THE LORD 



OR THE BIBLE, OR ELSE HE WOULDN’T BE PRO ABORTION, GAY RIGHTS




Biden Calls Republican Presidential Field 



‘Gift From the Lord’ to Democrats



“Biden, a Roman Catholic, is also an abortion advocate 



in addition to being supportive of homosexuality and transgenderism.”



BY HEATHER CLARK



SEE: http://christiannews.net/2016/01/30/biden-calls-republican-presidential-field-gift-from-the-lord-to-democrats/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:









BALTIMORE, Md. — Vice President Joe Biden called the selection of Republican candidates for the presidency a gift from God to Democrats this week during a talk in Maryland.



Biden was speaking to House Democrats at their annual retreat in Baltimore.



“We may be given a gift from the Lord in the presidential race here,” he stated. “I don’t know who to root for more: [Sen. Ted] Cruz or, uh, what’s that guy’s name? He’s having a fundraiser for veterans tonight, I’m told.”



Biden was referring to billionaire business mogul Donald Trump, who skipped Thursday’s Republican debate out of objection that it was being hosted by Fox News’ Megyn Kelly.



“[A]ll kidding aside folks, it’s been a tough last couple of [election] cycles,” Biden said. “But we should get up, man. There’s a real shot here.”



“I’m confident we’ll win back the Senate. I think we can make great inroads and maybe win back the House, when no one expects it now,” he stated.



Biden also made jabs regarding new Speaker of the House Paul Ryan.



“We shouldn’t apologize for what we are for, and we should point out what they are for,” he said. “Paul Ryan is a lovely guy. He gave us such a gift. He passed the Ryan budget.”



Those present began to laugh.



“No, no, no, no, no,” he said. “I am being deadly earnest. You guys don’t have to make anything up.”



Attendees laughed even louder.



As previously reported, Biden used the Lord’s name in vain last year at an event for the homosexual advocacy group Human Rights Campaign (HRC) as he spoke against comments made by Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson. Carson had suggested that some men may become involved with homosexuality while in prison.



“Every ridiculous assertion from Dr. Carson on—I mean, ridiculous. I mean, J****, G**,” Biden said. “Oh G**. I mean, it’s kind of hard to fathom, isn’t it?”



Biden, a Roman Catholic, is also an abortion advocate in addition to being supportive of homosexuality and transgenderism.



			

		

		
		

			
							

		


	

		
	

		
		
TYRANNY: OREGON PLANNED AMBUSH & ASSASSINATION OF LAVOY FINICUM BY CRIMINAL GOVERNMENT AGENTS~JUDGE DECREES ONLY SELECT PEOPLE CAN ATTEND PUBLIC MEETINGS
		
		
 

	
		
		
					

			
		

						

THE OREGON DISTRACTION



The imprisonment of the Hammond’s, the arrest of peaceful patriots, of Pete Santilli for reporting, the attack on liberty; it is unacceptable. 



FINICUM KILLED IN COLD BLOOD WITHOUT PROBABLE CAUSE 











Today is the Edge of Revolution!







TYRANNY IN OREGON



JUDGE DECREES PUBLIC MEETINGS CAN ONLY BE ATTENDED BY SELECT PEOPLE WITH 



TICKETS



                                     Sheriff David Ward With                                      “Judge”/Commissioner Steven Grasty







Published on Jan 22, 2016





01/22/16 – Just in from Oregon. County officials have DECREED that the public meetings will now be restricted to SELECT people. No guns, security checkpoints, no outsiders, NO CONSTIUTION!





GAVIN SEIM’S VIDEO:















Freemason ‘Judge’ Steve Grasty Changes All 



Public Town Hall Meetings To ‘Invitation Only,’ 



Bans Guns:





republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes




Liberty Fight by Martin Hill





“The very word “secrecy” is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings.” John F. Kennedy, shortly before his assassination.





LibertyFight.com broke the story last week, that Harney County, Oregon Commissioner Steve Grasty, who claims he is charging the militia $75,000 per day while they occupy the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, is an admitted Freemason.  



Local TV news pointed out the fact that Grasty is not even a real ‘judge;’ the title of ‘judge’ is merely the term that some rural areas use for county commissioner.



Earlier this month Nasty Grasty ‘admonished’ Oregon State Representative Dallas Heard for daring to visit and speak with the folks at the refuge. Rep. Heard also brought several other unnamed elected officials from other states with him. (As if Grasty, a disgusting low-level county hack, has any authority to dictate what an elected representative can do. This simply further reveals the twisted mindset of Nasty Grasty, the freemason occultist.)



Grasty made an absurd and desperate proclamation on Jan. 22nd declaring that only those people he approves of will be allowed at public town hall meetings. He will also check ID and do a background check on each ticket holder, ‘verifying their residency.’ Ironically, he added that he “respects the rule of law.” He also gave a second emotional rant, pleading “those of us who live and work here, are not the unsophisticated rubes that are being portrayed in national media reports.” Here is the text of both those announcements:





FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Steve Grasty
January 22, 2016
541-573-3071
Harney County Community Meeting Change in Venue and Format for January 25 Burns 



 Harney County Judge Steve Grasty announced a change in venue and format for the weekly Harney County community meeting scheduled for Monday, January 25. ‘We started the weekly community meeting so that Harney County residents would have an opportunity to ask questions and voice their concerns in a safe and civil manner,’ said Judge Grasty. ‘The meeting last week did not fulfill that purpose.’ Harney County has been notified by the school district that school facilities will no longer be available for these community meetings due to the number of firearms that were present, in violation of school district policy. The meeting on January 25 will be held at the Harney County Senior Center at 5:00 p.m. Doors will open at 4:30. The Senior Center also has a ‘no firearm’ policy that will be strictly enforced. Please arrive early in order to get through security in a timely manner. The format for this meeting will also be special. ‘Residents of Harney County have been given a unique opportunity to be heard statewide,’ said Judge Grasty, explaining that Oregon Public Broadcasting’s Think Out Loud public affairs program will moderate and record the meeting on Monday. The host of Think Out Loud, Dave Miller, will ask questions of those in attendance. This episode of Think Out Loud will air on Tuesday, January 26. ‘I can’t think of a better way to give Oregon a taste of the real Harney County,’ continued Grasty. Due to space limitations at the Senior Center and the unique format, entrance to this meeting will be limited only to those Harney County residents who have a ticket. Tickets will be available starting at 10 a.m. Monday morning. Here is what you need to know:




    

  • Pick up tickets at the Harney County Courthouse, Clerk’s Office, on Monday starting at 10 a.m. or by calling 541-573-6641 starting at 10 a.m.
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  • Tickets will be released on a first-come, first-served basis.
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  • Everyone who gets a ticket will need to show picture I.D. and residency will be verified.
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  • Picture I.D. will also be required to enter the Senior Center with your ticket.
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  • Each person may pick up only two tickets.
    • 

  • There will be 150 tickets available. Thirty tickets have been set aside for invited guests. Any of those tickets that are unused will be available for others to use.
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  • Anyone who is not able to get a ticket for this meeting, will be wait-listed for this meeting and put at the front of the list for future meetings, should it be necessary to continue with this ticketing format. Any questions related to ticket distribution should be directed to 541-573-6641.
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[LINK.]



Grasty also incuded a youtube video, ‘Video Trailer-Community Support Foundation of Harney County’ The video currently has 2,345 views, no likes, and not surprisingly, comments are disabled. In the video description, they beg for money.



Here is Grasty’s second press release:





January 22, 2016



Statement by Harney County Judge Steve Grasty 



 Oregon’s governor said it best when she said this spectacle is ripping out the heart of our community. And to that I will add this: the real Harney County community respects the rule of law. Many of us are frustrated by state and federal regulation of land use. Some here are mightily angry about our economy which we cannot control. Most of all, many of us are appalled by those who were neither invited nor welcomed, but who purport to speak for our county’s residents.There are many of us in Harney County who are incredulous about the federal government’s fear of taking action against the lawlessness that we are witnessing on a daily basis. It is time to stop the madness. We want our county back. Citizens of Harney County, those of us who live and work here, are not the unsophisticated rubes that are being portrayed in national media reports. We are hard working. We are proud and strong. We support our schools. We are patriotic. We take care of our neighbors. And we want our county back! As County Judge, I have never before experienced a situation like what we face now. I am proud that our Sheriff, Dave Ward, has been a voice of reason under the most trying of circumstances. I am proud that our fellow county residents have resisted any temptation to ‘engage’ those who attempt to exploit us. Never before have I been more proud of Harney County and its citizens. I continue to ask those who occupy our public lands in Harney County to leave, to leave peacefully, and to leave now.



[LINK.]



A full list of Steve ‘Nasty’ Grasty’s press releases can be found HERE.




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NASTY GRASTY 



Heated Exchange Over Freeing the Hammonds / Ammon Bundy Oregon Standoff

Published on Jan 21, 2016





Harney County Oregon's "Judge" Steve Grasty strutted like a peacock in front of constituents, but not all of them were impressed. Nasty Grasty is a Henchman for the BLM and a Tool of the Empire.

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Hear Ye Hear Ye Harney County "Judge" Grasty has called a Meeting in Burns Oregon

Published on Jan 24, 2016





Hear ye, Hear ye, Hear ye to all subjects of Harney County who serve at the will of the Glorious Judge Steve Grasty, a Meeting has been called and Notice has been given, let it be written, let it be passed down to all subjects, a first born Child will be required to keep this Land that you now bow down upon. Here ye, here ye, here ye !















Burns Oregon--Attorney KrisAnne Hall Discusses Killing of LaVoy Finicum 
& On Site Report


































			

		

		
		

			
							

		


	

		
	

		
		
CHARLES COUNTY MARYLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT SUED OVER “ALLEGED ISLAMIC INDOCTRINATION” AT LA PLATA HIGH SCHOOL
		
		
 

	
		
		
					

			
		

						





ABOVE: FORMER MARINE BANNED FROM SCHOOL PROPERTY FOR SPITE





VICE PRINCIPAL SHANNON MORRIS

smmorris@ccboe.com

Shannon Morris

PRINCIPAL DOUGLASS DOLAN

ddolan@ccboe.com 

Douglass Dolan

LA PLATA HIGH SCHOOL

6035 Radio Station Road
La Plata, MD 20646
Main phone: (301) 934-1100
Alternate phone: (301) 753-1754
Fax number: (301) 934-5657

___________________________

SUPERINTENDENT KIMBERLY HILL

khill@ccboe.com



CHARLES COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT

Jesse L. Starkey Administration Building
5980 Radio Station Road
La Plata, MD 20646
Phone:
301-932-6610
301-870-3814



CHARLES COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS



Maryland School District Sued Over Alleged 



‘Islamic Indoctrination’



BY HEATHER CLARK



SEE: http://christiannews.net/2016/01/30/maryland-school-district-sued-over-alleged-islamic-indoctrination/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:









LA PLATA, Md. — A school district in Maryland has been sued by a former Marine and his wife for allegedly promoting Islam in student assignments.



In 2014, John Kevin Wood expressed objections to the assignments given to his daughter in her 11th grade world history class at La Plata High School, which included writing out the Islamic Shahada and memorizing the five pillars of Islam.



“There is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is the messenger of Allah,” the Shahada reads.











The Woods state that the study materials told students that “[m]ost Muslim’s faith is stronger than the average Christian,” that Islam is “peaceful” and that “[t]o Muslims, Allah is the same God that is worshiped in Christianity and Judaism.”



The lawsuit filed this week in federal court further alleged that the Woods’ daughter and her classmates were “instructed that the Islamic religion is a fact while Christianity and Judaism are just beliefs.”



“Qur’an is the word of Allah as revealed to Muhammad in the same way that Jews and Christians believe the Torah and the Gospels were revealed to Moses and the New Testament writers,” one reading stated.



The couple says that while Islam was studied for two weeks, the class only spent one day studying Christianity.



Kevin Wood called the school to object to the assignments, and requested that his daughter be provided with an alternative. According to the Woods, Vice Principal Shannon Morris denied the request and stated that if their daughter did not complete the assignments, she would receive zeros.



“Wood informed Defendant Morris that [his daughter] would not be completing the assignments that promoted Islam and that he was dissatisfied with Defendants’ treatment of [his daughter] and refusal to provide [his daughter] with an alternative assignment,” the lawsuit states.



Wood also told Morris that if she “wished to retaliate” against his daughter for her objection to Islam, that he would pursue recourse through an attorney and the media. As a result, the following day, the high school resource officer called Wood to advise that Morris had filed a complaint against him and that a “no trespass” order was in place, meaning that he was prohibited from setting foot on school property.



Wood says that that the order kept him from attending any school events or appearing at any parent/teacher conferences. He also states that his daughter was indeed given zeros for the incomplete assignments and sent to the school library following his complaint.



The Wood’s lawsuit seeks an injunction against any further promotion of Islam over other religions and seeks to lift the trespassing ban issued by Morris.



“Parents must be ever vigilant to the Islamic indoctrination of their children under the guise of teaching history and multiculturalism,” said Richard Thompson, president of the Thomas More Law Center, in a statement. “This is happening in public schools across the country. And they must take action to stop it.”



A response has not yet been provided to the lawsuit by Charles County Public Schools.



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SEE ALSO: 



Marine Dad Takes Stand After Daughter Gets ‘F’ for Refusing Islamic Indoctrination





John Wood is taking on the administrators of his daughter’s school because they refused to let her opt out of Islamic indoctrination. (Thomas More Law Center)



The Thomas More Law Center (TMLC) today announced its representation of John Kevin Wood, and his wife, Melissa, in their battle with La Plata High School in Maryland over the Islamic indoctrination of their 11th-grade daughter in her World History class. Their daughter was required to complete assignments where she had to affirm that “There is no god but Allah” and the other Five Pillars of Islam. 



The case gained national attention when the school banned John Wood from entering school property after he objected to the religion of Islam being taught in his daughter’s history class and demanded that she be given an alternative assignment. The school refused.



Wood, a former Marine who served in Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm and lost friends in that action, saw firsthand the destruction caused in the name of Allah and that Islam is not “a religion of peace;” and he would not budge from his position. 



The Thomas More Law Center is a national public-interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. TMLC Senior Trial Counsel, Erin Mersino, and Maryland attorney, Michael F. Smith of The Smith Appellate Law Firm, represent the Wood family. Yesterday they filed a request for records relating to the case under Maryland’s Public Information Act.



On Oct. 22, 2014, John Wood discovered that his daughter was being forced to repeat religious tenets of Islam as a part of her World History class assignment. She was required to write how the prophet Muhammad was visited by the angel Gabriel and preached that there is only one true god, who is Allah. The assignment made her write that Mohammad is the messenger of Allah and that the Quran is holy text.



The assignment required her to affirm that “Allah is the same god that is worshipped in Christianity and Judaism” and that the “Quran is the word of Allah revealed to Mohammad in the same way that Jews and Christians believe the Torah and the Gospels were revealed to Moses and the New Testament writers.” The assignment also forced young women such as the Woods’ daughter, to fill in the following sentences: “Men are the managers of the affairs of women” and “Righteous women are therefore obedient.”



When John Wood discovered the Islamic propaganda and indoctrination, he was rightfully outraged, and that evening unsuccessfully tried to contact the school by phone to voice his objections. Wood witnessed firsthand the destruction caused in the name of Allah and knows Islam is not “a religion of peace.” He served in Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm, and lost friends in that action. On 9-11, Wood responded as a firefighter to the smoldering Pentagon. He refused to allow La Plata High School to subject his daughter to Islamic indoctrination despite the threatened academic consequences. 



The next day, Oct. 23, Wood had a phone conversation with a La Plata vice principal where he again reiterated his objections to his daughter being indoctrinated into the religion of Islam. The vice principal indicated that his daughter, a high school junior with college hopes, would receive zeros on her assignments on Islam if she did not complete them. He asked how the religion of Islam could be taught when schools are prohibited from teaching the religion of Christianity. 



The following day, Oct. 24, John Wood again spoke with the vice principal. She again refused to allow an alternative assignment.



Commenting on the case, Richard Thompson, TMLC’s President and Chief Counsel stated: “Adding insult to injury, in an arrogant and unnecessary display of power, La Plata’s principal issued a written “No Trespass” notice, which denied this former Marine who stood in harm’s way defending our country—which included the principal and her staff—any access to school grounds. The school’s actions not only dishonored John Wood’s service, but the service of all men and women in our Armed Forces who defended our nation from Islamic violence. True to his Marine training, John Wood stood his ground. He did not retreat. Yes, his daughter has received a failing grade in her World History Class. But the story is not yet over.”

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SEE: https://www.thomasmore.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Thomas-More-Law-Center-Files-Lawsuit-On-Behalf-of-Marine-Dad-Banned-from-Schoo-After-He-Objected-to-Islamic-Indoctrination-Complaint-Time-Stamped.pdf











			

		

		
		

			
							

		


	

		
	

		
		
SHOULD HILLARY BE IN PRISON?-DON BOYS’ OPINION
		
		
 

	
		
		
					

			
		

						

Should Hillary be in Prison? Don Boys, Ph.D.











SEE: http://the-trumpet-online.com/should-hillary-be-in-prison-don-boys-ph-d/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:









Hillary Rodham Clinton




 Yes, Hillary Clinton should be in prison. And when she is there, she will probably run for the presidency from her prison cell! Another question is: will her retirement checks be sent to Sing Sing or Leavenworth Prison? I don’t care.



 With Hillary’s unsavory, unlawful, and unethical history she shows incredible gall to put herself up as a candidate for the President of the United States of America! In light of her past, I should think she would skulk back to her cabin on White River, assuming they did what they wanted others to do: purchase land on the river and build a vacation home. Clinton’s shady business partners, James and Susan McDougal, were jailed for fraud and Bill Clinton’s successor, Governor Jim Tucker, was jailed for fraud along with municipal judges David Hale and Eugene Fitzhugh who worked with James McDougal. The Clintons walked away from that scandal battered, bruised, and bloodied but not bowed. They survived the scheme again.



 Hillary decided to try her hand at cattle futures and turned $1,000 into $6,300 overnight and within ten months she had $100,000! The financial service that handled her trade paid the largest fine in exchange history and was suspended for three years. She had some help from a lawyer who was outside counsel to Tyson Foods, the largest employer in Arkansas at the time, but he advised her because of “friendship” rather than to secure political favors from Governor Clinton. Hillary said that she was able to negotiate the complex futures trading by reading the Wall Street Journal! Hey, I was trained and licensed to sell stock along with insurance policies in the 1960s but I wouldn’t know where to start with futures trading. Hillary learned from reading a newspaper! Again, she walked away unscathed, unashamed, and unshackled.



 She failed in her effort to establish a new health care system but then her training was not in the health field. Her specialty was law. So Bill asked her to find a female attorney general. Her first two recommendations had been indiscreet so they withdrew their names. Hillary then went to Florida and came back with Janet Reno. Janet led the charge at Waco against the Branch Davidian sect (weird, cultic followers of David Koresh) resulting in the battering, blasting, and burning of 82 innocent people (including 22 children!) accused of gun violations which turned out to be false. Bill later opined that Reno was his “worst mistake.” One of many, it turned out.



When the Clintons left the White House in 2000 she was required to return about $200,000 in items she and her lowlife comrades had stolen.



Hillary was dragged, kicking and screaming, before the Starr investigation and repeated, “I do not recall” or its equivalent 56 times. Her loss of memory kept her out of prison.



On September 11, 2012, about 150 terrorists whose trucks bore the Al Qaeda logo attacked the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. It was widely reported that the U.S. Ambassador was tortured, sodomized, and dragged through the streets followed by the deaths of three other Americans; however, those reports have been angrily denied. Whatever the case, the harried, hapless, and helpless Americans repeatedly requested military help but help was denied from Washington. Hillary lied about many requests that had come to her to reinforce security at the consulate and lied about the attack being prompted by a video ridiculing Mohammed. Four Americans died and Hillary lied. The subsequent cover-up has caused a stench that has gagged decent people around the globe.



 It is a fact that during the attack Hillary told the President of Libya and the Egyptian Prime Minister that there was a terrorist attack, not a reaction to a third-class video telling the truth about Mohammed. She also told members of her family that fact. But it gets worse: two days later she was at Andrews Air Force Base when the coffin of Tyrone Woods arrived and she lied to his family telling them America would get the person who made the video and prosecute him to the fullest.



 Then it was discovered that Hillary used her personal email account to conduct government business, contrary to federal law. A former federal prosecutor declared on the “Laura Ingraham Show” on Jan. 5 that “she’s going to have to be charged with a crime.” Joseph DiGenova said that the FBI has found 1,200 classified emails from her private account and expect to find more. While Hillary is a high exposure person that the judicial system doesn’t like dealing with, her crimes are so egregious they must do so or there will be a revolt among the FBI.



 Rudy Giuliani, Former Mayor of New York City (and former prosecutor) told Fox News, “[There are] 13 violations of federal law that she arguably committed. It is about as clear as it gets. It is a crime to negligently handle top secret material.” Count on Hillary being arrested–finally.



 The Clinton Foundation is hip deep into scandal that would have already put others in prison. It seems their “non-profit” company has accepted millions of dollars from nations and people who had business before the Secretary of State’s office. That’s conflict of interest.



If there is any justice in this nation, maybe she will finally discover “what difference it makes?” And as for sending her retirement checks, I would revoke them and pay her .25 an hour to work in the prison laundry. After all, she’s spent her life washing Bill’s dirty laundry.



 No, since she’s a former first lady, I would pay her .50 an hour but that’s more than she is worth.



 Hillary said in the Democrat debate that no bank was “too big to fail,” but would she agree that no Clinton is too big for jail?



 Boys’ new book, The God Haters was published by Barbwire Books; to get your copy of The God Haters click here . An eBook edition is also available.)



(Dr. Don Boys is a former member of the Indiana House of Representatives; ran a large Christian school in Indianapolis, wrote columns for USA Today for eight years; authored 15 books and hundreds of columns and articles for Internet and print media publications; defended his beliefs on hundreds of talk shows. These columns go to newspapers, magazines, television, and radio stations and may be used without change from title through the end tag. His web sites are www.cstnews.com and www.Muslimfact.com and www.thegodhaters.com. Contact Don for an interview or talk show.)



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Trump supports legalized baby murder-when the child’s father is a rapist



SEE: http://the-trumpet-online.com/trump-supports-legalized-baby-murder-when-the-childs-father-is-a-rapist/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:







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http://christiannews.net/2016/01/29/trump-says-his-presidency-would-affirm-abortion-exceptions-of-rape-incest-life-of-mother/



As have the last several Republicans to hold the office of the president, Republican presidential front runner Donald Trump has announced that he supports the murder of children through abortion in cases of rape, incest and the life of the mother.



“Let me be clear — I am pro-life,” Trump wrote in an op-ed published in the Washington Examiner on Saturday. “I support that position with exceptions allowed for rape, incest or the life of the mother being at risk.”



During a press conference on Tuesday, he further told reporters that his views on abortion have changed, remarking that he “never gave it much thought” in the past.



“When it comes to pro-life I’ve evolved,” he said.



However, Trump did not wish to discuss the matter further when asked how he would criminalize abortion or if he believes the morning-after pill is an abortifacient.



“All I can tell you is this I’m pro-life and I’ve been pro-life a long time,” he stated.
As previously reported, in 1999, during an interview with the late Tim Russert on “Meet the Press,” Trump stated that he “hated” abortion but that he would not ban the procedure as president, including partial birth abortion.



“I’m very pro-choice,” Trump said. “And again, it may be a little bit of a New York background because there is some different attitude in different parts of the country, and you know, I was raised in New York—grew up and worked and everything else in New York City.”



“But you would not ban it (partial birth abortion)?” Russert asked.



“No,” Trump replied. “I am pro-choice in every respect and as far as it goes, but I just hate it (abortion).”



In his op-ed on Saturday, Trump said that he “did not always hold [his current] position,” but, without explanation conveyed that he “had a significant personal experience that brought the precious gift of life into perspective for me.” Trump stated that he now sees that Roe v. Wade has resulted in the deaths of millions of Americans.



“Over time, our culture of life in this country has started sliding toward a culture of death,” he wrote. “Perhaps the most significant piece of evidence to support this assertion is that since Roe v. Wade was decided by the Supreme Count 43 years ago, over 50 million Americans never had the chance to enjoy the opportunities offered by this country.”



Roe v. Wade, however, centered on a Texas woman named Norma McCorvey who sought an abortion over an alleged rape, which Trump states that he would allow for an exception. McCorvey later admitted that she had lied, as she was never raped. She also never obtained an abortion, but placed her child up for adoption and became a vocal pro-life advocate.



Trump’s statements allowing for exceptions are similar to those made by other recent Republican presidents, including George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush.



“My own position on abortion is well-known and remains unchanged. I oppose abortion in all cases except rape or incest, or where the life of the mother is at stake,” George H.W. Bush said in 1992.



”My position has always been three exceptions: rape, incest and the life of the mother,” George W. Bush likewise outlined in 2006.



The current Hyde Amendment also bans the funding of abortion with the exceptions of rape, incest and the life of the mother.



Last August, Trump said that while he opposes the abortions committed by Planned Parenthood, he believes “[t]hey do good things.”



“There’s two Planned Parenthoods, in a way. You have it as an abortion clinic. Now that’s actually a fairly small part of what they do, but it’s a brutal part and I’m totally against it,” Trump said. “They also, however, service women. … A lot of women are helped. So we have to look at the positives for Planned Parenthood.”



Planned Parenthood applauded his remarks, stating “Donald Trump seems to have realized that banning all abortions, shutting down the government, and defunding Planned Parenthood are extreme positions that are way too far outside the mainstream for even him to take.”



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RANCHER LAVOY FINICUM 



SHOT DEAD BY POLICE 



BY WILLIAM F. JASPER



republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes





LaVoy Finicum (shown) was shot to death by law enforcement officers Tuesday, January 26 at around 4:30 p.m. (Pacific Standard Time). Was he “murdered” while his hands were extended in the air, as one eyewitness has claimed? Or was he “charging” the police, as another witness claims. There are still many unanswered questions and conflicting stories concerning many details of the shooting. The New American has been interviewing people who have been involved in various capacities in the standoff at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, which began on January 2nd, in protest over the sentencing of Oregon ranchers Dwight and Steven Hammond to five years in prison. The Hammonds were prosecuted as “terrorists” for starting controlled burns that spread to a small area of federal Bureau of Land Management land.



We have not, at this point, interviewed any eyewitnesses to the shooting, but have talked with people who were standing vigil on the perimeter near the roadblock where the shooting occurred. According to the information available at this time, Lavoy Finicum, an Arizona rancher who had served as a spokesman for the protesters that are occupying the Wildlife Refuge in eastern Oregon, was driving his pickup truck with four passengers, including two women, to the town of John Day, Oregon, for a meeting there with the sheriff and area ranchers. Another vehicle driven by Mark McConnell included Ammon Bundy (son of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy) and Brian Cavalier, both considered leaders of the occupation.



Although various news accounts have referred to the shooting as a “gunfight,” according to the eyewitness testimony of Victoria Sharp, an 18-year-old woman who was in the back seat of Finicum’s truck when the shooting occurred, no occupants of the vehicles fired any weapons; the only shooting that occurred was on the part of the police and FBI. Miss Sharp’s audio account of the shooting has been posted on a number of websites and social media. After being arrested with the other survivors of the shooting and taken to Burns, Oregon, for questioning, she was released.



The two vehicles were stopped at a police/FBI roadblock on U.S. 395 outside of Burns. They were ordered to put their hands out of the windows, Sharp says, and also claims that Finicum put his hands out of the car window and asked the police to allow the women to leave the car. (Another woman, Shawna Cox, was in the vehicle, along with Ryan Bundy and Ryan Payne.)



“They shot at him, but they missed him,” said Sharp, adding that Finicum then said, “They mean business; they’re going to shoot us.” He then attempted to drive away in the truck, while taking fire from the police, but crashed into a snowbank. According to Sharp, the police “were riddling the car with bullets.”



“When we crashed and stopped for a second, he got out of the car, he had his hands in the air, he’s like ‘just shoot me then’ ... and they did, they shot him dead,” said Sharp.



“He was just walking, with his hands in the air,” said Sharp. “I saw it, I swear to God, he was just walking with his hands in the air. And they shot him dead and after he was down on the ground, shot him three more times.”  Then, she says, they “bombarded the vehicle with bullets” and tear gas, as she and the other passengers laid on the floorboards praying and screaming for them to stop.



She says they tried to “find something white” so they could hold up a white flag to show they were trying to surrender.



Ryan Bundy (another son of Cliven Bundy) was, apparently, the only passenger to be wounded in the barrage.



Miss Sharp, along with her mother and seven siblings comprise the Sharp Family Singers, a family choir from Kansas that is becoming well-known in patriot circles for singing Gospel, patriotic and country songs at various events. A video of the family singing at the Bundy ranch in Nevada during the 2014 standoff with federal authorities can be seen below.







According to people who know the family, the Sharps were in Oregon to support the embattled ranchers. However, Victoria was the only one to be included in the trip for the meeting in John Day.



Dueling Witnesses



A different “eyewitness” account of the shooting conflicts sharply with that of Miss Sharp. We put eyewitness in quotes because even though he has been referred to as an eyewitness in media and social media accounts, he was about a mile away when the shooting occurred, having already been stopped by the police roadblock. In his video posted on Facebook, McConnell disputes Victoria Sharp’s testimony, claiming Finicum was “charging” police when he was shot down. This is based, he says, on accounts he got from Ryan Payne and Shawna Cox, apparently either in jail or on the way to jail. However, McConnell’s testimony is merely third-party hearsay, and as some critics point out, from a suspect source at that. Individuals who have been close to the occupation – but who asked not to be identified at this time — note that:



1) McConnell was the only participant (other than Miss Sharp) to be released, and, unlike Sharp, he has been an active, armed participant in the occupation, and was the driver of the vehicle carrying Ammon Bundy;



2) McConnell was very hasty, after his release, to put up a video on his Facebook page backing up the story being given to the media by the federal authorities who had just carried out the “murder” of a suspect who is alleged to have had his hands in the air.



Both of these facts, say the McConnell critics, point to one of two probable explanations: Either he is a police informant/agent provocateur who was assigned to infiltrate the occupation, or; he was sufficiently leaned on by prosecutors and FBI, with threats of life imprisonment, if he didn’t “cooperate” — with one of his first tasks being to come out with a statement that would support the official FBI narrative and neutralize the eyewitness testimony of Victoria Sharp.



Who Was Lavoy Finicum?



Much will be written about Lavoy Finicum in the days and months ahead. The 54-year-old Arizona rancher and his wife of 23 years, Jeanette, have 11 children and 19 grandchildren. Like his friend, Cliven Bundy, he has had his share of troubles with the Bureau of Land Management.



Over the past couple of years, Finicum has posted a number of videos on YouTube explaining the illegal actions and harassment by the BLM, aimed, he says, at driving him off his ranch. He was a plainspoken but articulate and intelligent spokesman for many of the farmers and ranchers that are engaged in constant fights with federal agencies.



In the video below, Finicum recounts how BLM employees “stole” his water, leaving his 100,000 gallon tank — which he needs for cattle to survive — empty. Other water tanks and water lines were sabotaged.







In the same video, he insists that he is not “anti-government” or even “anti-federal government.” We need the federal government, he says, for national defense, trade relations between the states and foreign countries, border control, and other limited functions delineated in the Constitution. However, he charges, the federal government is now out of control and regularly violates the law.







In another video (above) posted on September 23, 2015, Lavoy Finicum again insists he wants to avoid any kind of violence, saying, “I’ve never pointed guns at anyone, and don’t intend to. But let’s get some of the history straight. Because they (the feds) have pointed guns at me — and have promised to shoot me, so let’s get the history straight.... There’s only one side that has pointed guns when it comes to me, and it hasn’t been me.” He also tells of his meeting with the Mojave County Sheriff Jim McCabe, whom he describes as a man of integrity. In other videos he details his meetings, which he says were very cordial, with state, county, and federal elected and appointed officials. Over and over again, he presents the picture of a reasonable, law-abiding citizen who is trying to work through the legal system to obtain redress of grievances against an increasingly hostile federal leviathan.



What pushed Lavoy Finicum to take the desperate and misguided course that has now ended in his death? Many of the people we have interviewed who are friends and admirers of Finicum say they tried to convince him and Ammon Bundy that the occupation of the wildlife refuge — or any other similar confrontational action — would end up badly (in either death or prison) and would, ultimately, be counterproductive.



There are still many questions to be answered in the case of Lavoy Finicum’s death. And there is still the larger issue of the federal government’s strangling grasp on so much of the land and lifeblood of the western states, that is driving hardworking — and otherwise law-abiding — citizens to ruin and desperation.



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War Veterans Take On Oregon Standoff


Published on Jan 27, 2016





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HIS CRIME: “PROVIDING MATERIAL SUPPORT TO A DESIGNATED TERRORIST ORGANIZATION” 



BUT WILL HE BE FINED OR JAILED FOR 20 YEARS?








OBAMA BUILDS UP SYRIAN AIR BASE WITH BANNED COMMUNIST GROUP



BY ALEX NEWMAN



republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes





Under the guise of fighting the Islamic State, or ISIS, the Obama administration has put American boots on the ground in Syria to work with local communist-linked militants on an air base in the war-ravaged nation's northeastern region, according to satellite images and Syrian military and security sources cited in media reports. The estimated 100 U.S. “experts” and Special Forces troops on the ground there, deployed unilaterally by Obama without a declaration of war or even congressional approval, have reportedly been building up and expanding the air base for several months. Before deploying U.S. forces to Syria in October, Obama had pledged repeatedly not to do so. Now American involvement is deepening.



Meanwhile, in apparent violation of federal terror laws, U.S. forces are reported by multiple sources to have been working with heavily armed militants affiliated with communist Kurdish forces officially designated as terrorists by the U.S. State Department — a major crime with serious consequences, even if perpetrated by government officials. According to French news agency AFP, citing a Syrian military source, the American personnel are widening and refurbishing an old agricultural air field “alongside forces from the anti-IS Kurdish People's Protection Units.” It is not the first time in recent memory that the Obama administration has ordered American troops to work with the proscribed organization.



The self-styled Kurdish People's Protection Units, known as Yekîneyên Parastina Gel (YPG — shown) in Kurdish, are essentially the military wing of the Partiya Yekîtiya Demokrat (PYD). The PYD is basically the Syrian affiliate of the communist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), an often times ruthless outfit that was officially designated as a terrorist group by the U.S. government in 1997 for myriad bombings and attacks targeting civilians. Since then, the group, formed with backing from the Soviet Union, has continued to slaughter civilians in its quest for a Marxist-Leninist regime to lord over Kurdish communities in the region.



In short, the Obama administration has U.S. troops in Syria providing material support to a designated terrorist organization — a crime that would land an everyday citizen in federal prison. “Whoever knowingly provides material support or resources to a foreign terrorist organization, or attempts or conspires to do so, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both, and, if the death of any person results, shall be imprisoned for any term of years or for life,” reads the relevant statute, 18 U.S. Code § 2339B. Myriad deaths have resulted, including at least one U.S. soldier who has died since being deployed by Obama to Syria.       



Of course, the Obama administration's material support for communist forces officially designated as terrorists by the U.S. government is being offered under the guise of battling another designated terrorist group, the so-called Islamic State that now controls wide swaths of Iraq and Syria — also thanks to previous U.S. intervention. As The New American reported last year in an article exposing Obama's support for the PKK and its affiliates, Secretary of State John Kerry claimed it would have been “morally very difficult to turn your back on a community fighting ISIL.” Among other aid, U.S. forces reportedly air dropped weapons and supplies, in addition to various forms of supposed “anti-ISIS” cooperation in battle.



ISIS, though, as even top U.S. officials have admitted publicly, was largely the creation of governments that are part of Obama's “anti-ISIS” coalition. Vice President Joe Biden and U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Martin Dempsey, for example, have both confirmed in public that members of Obama's “anti-ISIS” coalition funded, armed, and/or trained ISIS. “All of a sudden everybody’s awakened because this outfit called ISIL, which was Al Qaeda in Iraq, which when they were essentially thrown out of Iraq, found open space in territory in eastern Syria, work with Al Nusra who we declared a terrorist group early on, and we could not convince our colleagues to stop supplying them,” Biden said in a revealing speech at Harvard contradicting Obama's entire bogus narrative on Syria.



More recently, a declassified 2012 U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) document was released that exposed even more — including the fact that the Obama administration knew exactly what it was doing by supporting jihad terrorism in Syria. Among other bombshells, the document revealed that Western powers, Sunni dictators, and the government of Turkey knew al-Qaeda and other jihadists were leading the Syrian uprising, but supported the “revolution” anyway. The report also exposed those same powers supporting the establishment of an Islamic State in Eastern Syria to destabilize the regime of dictator Bashar al-Assad. Senior U.S. military officials have attempted to distance themselves from the pro-jihad policy, saying Obama officials were warned of the consequences but acted anyway.       



In essence, then, the Obama administration is unlawfully supporting a designated terrorist group under the guise of fighting another designated terrorist group that it previously unlawfully aided under the guise of unlawfully overthrowing the Syrian dictatorship. Numerous federal laws appear to have been violated. So far, though, Congress and the courts have shown little appetite for holding the White House accountable for its publicly admitted wave of serious criminal activity. More than a few senior U.S. military and intelligence officials have even concluded that the Obama administration “switched sides” in the terror war, putting U.S. national security at risk, fueling the genocide of Middle East Christians, and leaving the region in flames.  



News of the military air base being worked on by U.S. forces first appeared late last week. The Pentagon would not initially confirm reports that it was taking over and expanding an airfield in Syria, though it did offer a comment downplaying its importance and emphasizing that Obama had not deployed additional forces. “There has been no change to the size of mission of the U.S. presence in Syria,” U.S. Central Command spokesman Colonel Pat Ryder was quoted as saying in media reports. “That being said, U.S. forces in Syria are consistently looking at ways to increase efficiency for logistics and personnel recovery support.” The previous head of U.S. Central Command, disgraced General David Petraeus, proposed a U.S. alliance with al-Qaeda in Syria — seriously.  



The new Syrian air base, located in Rmeilan, in Hasakeh province, can be seen in satellite images, which appear to confirm information provided by various Syrian sources quoted in media reports. A spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Defense quoted by the British government-funded BBC claimed that American forces in Syria needed “occasional logistical support.” Analysts said the size of the landing strip, though — close to a mile long — would make it suitable for large U.S. military aircraft. But U.S. troops unconstitutionally deployed in Syria may not be the only ones receiving “logistical support” from the facility.



In fact, the area in which the landing strip is located makes it likely that it will be used to support the communist Kurdish militants that have received backing from the Obama administration despite U.S. terror laws. It is close to the Iraqi city of Mosul, currently controlled by ISIS, and is strategically located in the region that militant Kurds — including the PKK and its allies — hope to turn in to “Kurdistan” someday. The increasingly Islamist Turkish government, a NATO member long targeted by communist Kurdish terrorists, vehemently opposes those ambitions, and has used the terrorist group as a pretext to ruthlessly crack down on Kurds generally.



Unless and until Congress declares war as the Constitution requires, the Obama administration has no business meddling in Syria's civil war — much less supporting designated terrorist groups, whether of the communist or Islamist variety. In fact, Congress and the courts have a duty to hold the administration accountable for its lawless and bloody interventionism, not just in Syria, but in Libya, Iraq, Yemen, all across Africa, and beyond. The fruits of that intervention are now clear: genocide, mass-murder, civil war, persecution of Christians, terrorism, millions of refugees, and a region in turmoil soaked in blood. It is time for those responsible to be held accountable.        



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BERNIE SANDERS’ PLAN WOULD RAISE TAXES BY $13.6 TRILLION OVER NEXT DECADE 



Proposed plan would reduce GDP by 9.5 percent, lower wages, eliminate 6 million jobs



BY ALI MEYER



SEE: http://freebeacon.com/politics/bernie-sanders-plan-would-raise-taxes-by-13-6-trillion-over-next-decade/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:







Presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I., Vt.) proposed tax plan would raise taxes by $13.6 trillion over the next decade and reduce the economy’s size by 9.5 percent, according to an analysis by the Tax Foundation.



While on the campaign trail, the senator has proposed $18 trillion in spending over the next decade. His plan includes $15 trillion for a government-run single-payer health care plan and trillions more for Social Security, roads and bridges, higher education, paid family and medical leave, and private pension funds, to name just a few.



Sanders’ proposed tax plan will increase marginal tax rates and the cost of capital, a move that will significantly reduce GDP, lower wages, and eliminate jobs.



According to the Tax Foundation, Sanders aims most of his tax provisions at high-income households, creating four new income tax brackets with rates of 37 percent, 43 percent, 48 percent, and 52 percent. Additionally, Sanders would tax capital gains and dividends for households with income over $250,000 and create a 2.2 percent income-based health care premium.



However, as Sanders has admitted, his plan also includes tax increases on the middle class. “We will raise taxes. Yes, we will,” Sanders said at the CNN town hall last weekend.



“A majority of the revenue raised by Sanders plan would come from a new 6.2 percent employer-side payroll tax, a new 2.2 percent broad-based income tax and the elimination of tax expenditures relating to healthcare,” the analysis explains.



According to a recent report from the Congressional Budget Office, even without Sanders’ tax plan the nation’s economy is projected to expand at a rate much lower than in recent decades. Sanders’ plan would lower the growth rate further, as its proposed marginal tax rate increases on labor and capital would reduce GDP by 9.5 percent in the long term.



“At the center of my campaign is how we’re going to raise wages,” Sanders said at the first Democratic debate. “Yes, of course, raise the minimum wage, but we have to do so much more, including finding ways so that companies share profits with the workers who helped to make them. And then we have to figure out how we’re going to make the tax system a fairer one.”



“And in my view what we need to do is create millions of jobs by rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure; raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour; pay equity for women workers; and our disastrous trade policies, which have cost us millions of jobs; and make every public college and university in this country tuition-free,” he said.



After accounting for reductions in economic growth, Sanders’ plan would lead to 12.84 percent lower after-tax incomes for all taxpayers, 6 million fewer full-time jobs, and an 18.6 percent smaller capital stock.



“Both Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton have proposed tax plans that will usher in a new era of even bigger government,” said James Hewitt, a Republican National Committee spokesman. “The fact that Hillary Clinton is still trying to run to the left of a candidate who is proposing a $13 trillion tax increase shows just how far to the left the Democrat Party has gone.”



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Obama Administration Orders Labeling of Israeli Goods



Memo directs ‘trade community’ to label Jewish goods



BY ADAM KREDO



SEE: http://freebeacon.com/national-security/obama-administration-orders-labeling-of-israeli-goods/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:









A memo issued earlier this month by the Obama administration directs the U.S. “trade community” and government partner agencies to explicitly label Israeli-made goods that have been produced in the West Bank.



The Jan. 23 directive states that it is “not acceptable” to label goods coming from Israeli companies in the West Bank and Gaza Strip as having been produced in “Israel.”



The order comes amid an effort by the European Union to label Israeli-made goods, a move the Israeli government called anti-Israel and that prominent anti-Semitism watchdog groups have condemned as among the worst incidents of anti-Semitism in 2015.



This is a shift from the administration’s previous position. A State Department spokesman told reporters in November that such labeling could be perceived as “a step on the way to a boycott” and said boycotts would be opposed by the administration.



But earlier this month, senior Obama administration officials defended the EU’s move and reaffirmed its position against “Israeli settlement activity.”



The new guidance references a decades-old administrative directive that sought to promote the import of Palestinian goods produced in the West Bank. The Obama administration is facing criticism for reinterpreting it and enforcing it to punish Israeli businesses.



The new memo, issued by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, is meant to “provide guidance to the trade community regarding the country of origin marking requirements for goods that are manufactured in the West Bank.”



Good produced in these areas are not to be labeled “with the words ‘Israel,’” according to the memo, which warns that inappropriate labeling will subject the products to “enforcement action” by Customs and Border Protection.



“Goods produced in the West Bank or Gaza Strip shall be marked as originating from ‘West Bank,’ ‘Gaza,’ ‘Gaza Strip,’ ‘West Bank/Gaza,’ ‘West Bank/Gaza Strip,’ ‘West Bank and Gaza,’ or ‘West Bank and Gaza Strip,’” according to the directive.



“It is not acceptable to mark the aforementioned goods with the words ‘Israel,’’ ‘Made in Israel,’ ‘Occupied Territories-Israel,’ or any variation thereof,” it states.



Goods that are erroneously marked as products of Israel will be subject to an enforcement action carried out by U.S. Customs and Border Protection,” the memo states. “Goods entering the United States must conform to the U.S. marking statute and regulations promulgated thereunder.”



Pro-Israel organizations have taken a firm stand against the explicit labeling of Jewish goods, with some viewing the latest memo as part of a larger effort to economically isolate Israel.



“This is an administration that slaps labels on Jewish goods on a Saturday and has the president give a Holocaust Remembrance speech the next Wednesday,” said Omri Ceren, a managing director at The Israel Project, an organization that promotes stronger U.S.-Israeli ties.



“It’s worse than incoherent. It needlessly alienates Israel at a time when the Middle East is falling apart and U.S. allies are looking for signals about whose side the administration is on,” he said.



A State Department official who spoke to the Washington Free Beacon on Thursday said that the department is aware of the new memo but does not view it as a shift in longstanding policy.



“We are aware that the U.S. Customs and Border Protection re-issued guidance on their marking requirements,” the official said. “There has been no change in policy or in our approach to enforcement of marking requirements.”



The latest guidance stands as a “restatement of previous requirements,” the official added. “CBP has made clear that it in no way supersedes prior rulings or regulations, nor does it impose additional requirements with respect to merchandise imported from the West Bank, Gaza Strip, or Israel.”



“Longstanding U.S. guidelines, dating to 1995, on country of origin product marking requires that products produced in the West Bank be marked as products of the West Bank, and products of Israel be marked as products of Israel,” the official explained.



Custom and Border Protection did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the memo.

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OBAMA’S MEMO:






FROM: http://apps.cbp.gov/csms/viewmssg.asp?Recid=21420&page=1&srch_argv=&srchtype=&btype=abi&sortby=&sby




The purpose of this message is to provide guidance to the trade community regarding the country 
of origin marking requirements for goods that are manufactured in the West Bank. 
 
Per Treasury Decisions 95-25 and 97-16 (see attachments), unless excepted by statute (19 U.S.C. §1304) or regulation (19 C.F.R. §134), goods produced in the West Bank or Gaza Strip shall be marked as originating from ‘‘West Bank,’’ ‘‘Gaza,’’ ‘‘Gaza Strip,’’ ‘‘West Bank/Gaza,’’ ‘‘West Bank/Gaza Strip,’’ ‘‘West Bank and Gaza,’’ or ‘‘West Bank and Gaza Strip.’’  It is not acceptable to mark the aforementioned goods with the words ‘‘Israel,’’ ‘‘Made in Israel,’’ ‘‘Occupied Territories-Israel,’’ or any variation thereof.  Goods that are erroneously marked as products of Israel will be subject to an enforcement action carried out by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.  Goods entering the United States must conform to the U.S. marking statute and regulations promulgated thereunder. 
 
This message in no way supersedes prior rulings or regulations, nor does it impose additional requirements with respect to merchandise imported from the West Bank, Gaza Strip, or Israel.  





			

		

		
		

			
							

		


	

		
	

		
		
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Piper-compressed



University President on Why Trump Not Invited: ‘I Refuse to Let Desire to Win Trump Moral Compass’



BY HEATHER CLARK



SEE: http://christiannews.net/2016/01/28/university-president-on-why-trump-not-invited-i-refuse-to-let-desire-to-win-trump-moral-compass/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:









BARTLESVILLE, Okla. — The president of a university in Oklahoma has released a post about why he will not be the next professing Christian university president to invite Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to address students.



Dr. Everett Piper of Oklahoma Wesleyan University expressed his thoughts this week on the university website in response to local media inquiring whether he, like Liberty University President Jerry Falwell, Jr., would welcome Trump to have the podium.



“My answer has been simple and brief. No, I will not,” he wrote.































































































Piper said that at his university, unless the event is a debate, speakers need to align with biblical principles and be in step with the school’s mission.



“In selecting speakers for Oklahoma Wesleyan, party affiliation and political positions do not matter. Personal conduct, public statements, theological integrity and moral consistency do,” he explained, stating that he believes he owes it to students and faculty to screen prospective speakers in such a manner.



“In short, unless it is an open debate where different sides of the issue will be presented, we choose speakers who generally promote our university’s mission and who do not stand in opposition, either in word or deed, to what we claim to hold dear as a Christian community,” Piper outlined.



Piper said that he does not believe that Trump meets that qualification, and discounted pragmatic assertions that one must support Trump out of a desire to keep Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders out of the White House. He remarked that while others assert that Christians shouldn’t criticize those on “our side,” he disagrees that Trump is in step with Christianity.



“Anyone who calls women ‘pigs,’ ‘ugly,’ ‘fat’ and ‘pieces of [expletive]’ is not on my side,” Piper said. “Anyone who has been on the cover of Playboy and proud of it, who brags of his sexual history with multiple women and who owns strip clubs in his casinos is not on my side.”



“Anyone who believes the government can wrest control of the definition of marriage from the church is not on my side,” he continued. “Anyone who ignores the separation of powers and boasts of making the executive branch even more imperial is not on my side.”



The university president then contrasted Trump’s beliefs with his own.



“I believe in conserving the dignity of life. I believe in conserving respect for women. I believe in conserving the Constitution. I believe in conserving private property, religious liberty and human freedom,” Piper wrote. “I believe in morality more than I do in money. I hold to principles more than I yearn for power. I trust my Creator more than I do human character.”



“I refuse to let my desire to win ‘trump’ my moral compass,” he continued. “I will not sell my soul or my university’s to a political process that values victory more than virtue. No, Donald Trump will not be speaking at Oklahoma Wesleyan University.”



Piper likewise made headlines last month over a separate blog post entitled “This Is Not a Daycare. It’s a University,” which he penned after a student complained that a sermon during the chapel service on 1 Corinthians 13 made him feel bad because it convicted him about not loving others as Scripture commands.



“I have a message for this young man and all others who care to listen. That feeling of discomfort you have after listening to a sermon is called a conscience,” Piper wrote. “The goal of many a good sermon is to get you to confess your sins—not coddle you in your selfishness.”



“Oklahoma Wesleyan is .. a place to learn: to learn that life isn’t about you, but about others; that the bad feeling you have while listening to a sermon is called guilt; that the way to address it is to repent of everything that’s wrong with you rather than blame others for everything that’s wrong with them,” he said. “This is a place where you will quickly learn that you need to grow up.”











			

		

		
		

			
							

		


	

		
	

		
		
ISLAM’S LAW OF DHIMMI: “PROTECTED PERSONS” AS LONG AS THEY SUBMIT TO ISLAM & PAY PENALTY TAXES
		
		
 

	
		
		
					

			
		

						

ISLAM’S LAW OF DHIMMI 



BY DAVID CLOUD



SEE: 



republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes





The following is excerpted from THE BIBLE AND ISLAM. In light of today’s news events, we do well to ask what the Bible says about Islam. Islam controls a large part of the world and is on a jihadic rampage that hasn’t been seen in hundreds of years. This far-reaching book describes Islam’s beginning and history, the doctrine of Allah, the Quran, Islam and salvation, the three stages of jihad, the Koran’s doctrine of abrogation, Islam and Judaism, Islam and Christianity, Sharia law, jihad and world conquest, Islam and the slave trade, Islam as a judgment on apostate Christianity and apostate Israel, Islam’s divisions and internecine hatred (Sunni vs. Shiite, etc.), Islam as a preparation for the Antichrist, the Antichrist and the Middle East problem, and Muslim nations in prophecy. The book explains what is happening in the Middle East, and where these events will ultimately lead. 160 pages. Available in print and as a free eBook from www.wayoflife.org.________________


The Bible and Islam

Under Muslim rule, non-Muslims are called dhimmis and are treated differently than Muslims. Dhimmi means “protected person,” but the protection is dubious, to say the least. 
According to the Quran, dhimmi especially applies to “People of the Book,” referring to Jews and Christians, who were treated somewhat differently than idolaters. 

A dhimmi is allowed to live in Muslim territory in exchange for submission and payment of a heavy jizya tax. The Quran says: “Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued” (Quran 9:29). 

Exercise of the dhimmi law has varied from place to place and time to time, both in history and at the present. For example, in the late ninth century, Tariqu al-Hakim, the sixth Fatimid caliph in Egypt, required all Christians to wear a four-pound cross around their necks and Jews to wear a four-pound carving of a calf (for having worshiped the golden calf) (Rodney Stark, God’s Battalions, p. 90).

Sometimes Christian dhimmis have been allowed to keep their churches (but not build new ones or repair old ones), but they have always been forbidden to evangelize. For a Muslim to declare faith in Christ is apostasy, which is an unforgivable sin and punishable by death under sharia law.




After the Muslims conquered Syria in the seventh century, the dhimmis had to wear special identifying clothing and clip the fronts of their hair. They were not allowed to own weapons, ride on saddles, display crosses or Bibles, or hold public religious ceremonies. They had to take in any Muslim traveler and give him three days’ food and lodging (Trifkovic, The Sword of the Prophet, p. 105). 

Even the most minor infraction of the dhimmi rules “left the door open for the resumption of jihad.” 

In practice, dhimmis have been treated in whatever way the ruling Muslims see fit, and they have had no judicial recourse. They are at the “mercy” of their masters, but history tells us that more often than not, the Muslim masters were like the Babylonians, of whom Jeremiah said, “they are cruel, and have no mercy” (Jer. 6:23).

The dhimmi law is enforced with great rigor today by the Islamic State. The following is a description of what is happening under Islamic State rule in Syria, as told by Christian refugees who fled to Jordan. “Their village was occupied by rebel forces, who proceeded to announce that they were now under an Islamic emirate and were subject to sharia law. The Christian residents were offered four choices: (1) renounce the ‘idolatry’ of Christianity and convert to Islam; (2) pay a heavy tribute (jizya) to the Muslims for the privilege of keeping their heads and their Christian faith; (3) be killed; (4) flee for their lives, leaving all their belongings behind. Some Christians were killed, some fled, some tried to pay the jizya and found it too heavy a burden to bear after the rebels kept increasing the amount they had to pay, and some were unable to flee or pay, so they converted to Islam to save themselves. The scenario reported by Syrian refugees is a re-enactment of the historic fate of Christians across the Middle East” (“A Conversation with Christian Syrian Refugees,” Religious Freedom Coalition, June 1, 2013).__



			

		

		
		

			
							

		


	

		
	
		
	

		
		
FORCED VACCINATION BILL IN VIRGINIA MOVING FAST~WILL ELIMINATE RELIGIOUS EXEMPTIONS
		
		
 

	
		
		
					

			
		

						

FORCED VACCINATION BILL IN VIRGINIA MOVING FAST~WILL ELIMINATE RELIGIOUS EXEMPTIONS 



“If the state can tag, track down and force individuals



to be injected with biologicals of known



 and unknown toxicity today, then there



 will be no limit on which individual freedoms 



the state can take away



                                       in the name of the greater good tomorrow.” 







                                        – Barbara Loe Fisher



BY BARBARA LOE FISHER



SEE: www.nvic.org; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:







Breaking News: A public hearing on this bill (HB1342) has been just scheduled by the House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee (Subcommittee #2) for tomorrow, Jan. 28, 2016 at 8:30 a.m. to about noon in the State Capitol General Assembly Building, Room D, (1000 Bank St, entrance at North 9th St. & East Broad St.  – 1st floor) Richmond, VA. Public testimony (3 minutes) is allowed.



 



The most oppressive forced vaccination bill introduced in any state is being sponsored by an attorney and co-sponsored by an obstetrician for the purpose of eliminating the religious belief vaccine exemption for all children attending daycare and schools in the state, including homeschooled children. The bill (HB1342) would additionally prohibit state licensed doctors and nurse practitioners from exercising professional judgment and delaying administration of or granting a child a medical exemption that does not conform with narrow federal vaccine contraindication guidelines.



 



31 Doses of 12 Federally Recommended Vaccines, No Exemptions



 



Current Virginia law requires minor children attending public or private day care centers or schools, as well as homeschooled children, to receive up to 31 doses of 12 federally recommended vaccines administered according to the CDC childhood vaccine schedule unless parents submit (1) a statement from a state licensed physician or nurse practitioner that one or more required vaccines would be detrimental to the health of the child or (2) a signed affidavit from the parent that one or more of the required vaccines conflicts with religious tenets or practices.



 



In order to grant a child a medical vaccine exemption, HB1342 would force doctors and nurse practitioners to adhere to narrow federal vaccine contraindications that exclude 99.99 percent of children from vaccine exemptions, and it would force parents to violate their conscience by denying a religious belief vaccine exemption, including in cases where a child has already suffered a vaccine reaction, has been disabled or has a sibling who has been injured or died after being vaccinated.



 



Only 1 percent of VA Children Have Vaccine Exemptions Now



 



The Bill of Rights of the Virginia Constitution, as well the Virginia 1786 Act for Religious Freedom, the Virginia 2007 Religious Freedom Act and the Virginia 2013 Parental Rights Act contain strong language protecting the exercise of freedom of conscience, religious beliefs and parental rights. According to the CDC, Virginia ranks in the top third of states with high kindergarten vaccination rates for DTaP, MMR and varicella zoster shots and only 1.1% of children have medical or religious vaccine exemptions.



 



Bill Could Become Law Within Six Weeks



 



The bill was introduced on Jan. 21 and was immediately referred to the Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee. It could become law within six weeks. If you are a Virginia resident and want to protect vaccine exemptions, immediately go to the NVIC Advocacy Portal and become a registered Portal user and read the full Virginia Action Alert on HB1342, and find out how to take action today. You will also be able to stay up to date on the bill’s status and what you can do each step of the way. The Portal will put you in immediate electronic contact with your own Virginia state legislators and the Governor so you can make your voice heard.



 



   Read and download a referenced NVIC Briefing Paper on Virginia HB 1342 and make comment here.

















			

		

		
		

			
							

		


	

		
	

		
		
SENATOR CHRISTOPHER MURPHY SAYS PRESIDENT CAN DECLARE INTERNATIONAL MARTIAL LAW  UNDER NEW AUMF~COMPLETE RE-WRITE OF CONSTITUTIONAL WAR CLAUSE
		
		
 

	
		
		
					

			
		

						

OUTRAGE FOISTED ON AMERICANS:
OBAMA TO RECEIVE AUTHORIZATION FOR THE USE OF MILITARY FORCE (BASED ON PERCEIVED THREATS, NOT JUST PRESENCE OF ENEMIES)
COMPLETE RE-WRITE OF CONSTITUTIONAL WAR CLAUSE STRIPS CONGRESS OF ITS AUTHORITY
SENATOR CHRISTOPHER MURPHY SAYS PRESIDENT CAN DECLARE INTERNATIONAL MARTIAL LAW 
UNDER NEW AUMF.







OBAMA USURPS U.S. WAR POWERS









Senator Warns Of Martial Law Bill Introduced!



Published on Jan 27, 2016





A new bill making its way through Congress contains “dangerous and unprecedented” language that could be considered a “declaration of international martial law,” a US senator warned last Thursday. http://www.infowars.com/senator-warns…















Red Alert! Martial Law 2016







VIDEO: SENATOR WARNS AUMF BILL IS “DECLARATION OF INTERNATIONAL MARTIAL LAW”



“This resolution is a total rewrite of the War Powers clause of the Constitution”



BY ADAN SALAZAR



SEE: http://www.infowars.com/video-senator-warns-aumf-bill-is-declaration-of-international-martial-law/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:







A new bill making its way through Congress contains “dangerous and unprecedented” language that could be considered a “declaration of international martial law,” a US senator warned last Thursday.







“This resolution is a total rewrite of the War Powers clause of the Constitution. Let’s be clear about that,” Democrat Senator Chris Murphy said on the Senate floor last week in regards to S.J. Res. 29, a bill purporting to give the sitting US president the power to declare war on ISIS.










“It is essentially a declaration of international martial law,” Murphy said.










Speaking out against the fast-track authorization for the use of military force bill proposed by Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Murphy explained the resolution would permanently hand over war-making authority to the office of the president.










“A sweeping transfer of military power to the president that will allow him or her to send US troops almost anywhere in the world for any reason with absolutely no limitations,” Sen. Murphy described, adding that Article I, Section 8, Clause 11 of the Constitution “vests in Congress the responsibility to declare war.”











“While the ink is still wet on this resolution… it’s safe to say that this resolution is the wrong way to authorize war against ISIS,” Murphy said. “The language of this resolution is dangerous and it is unprecedented.”



“[The American people] certainly don’t want Congress to hand over the power to the president to send our troops into any country anywhere in the world for almost any reason. And that’s what this resolution would do.”



Murphy went on: “It gives the power to the president without consulting Congress to deploy US forces in anyone of the 61 countries where ISIS has a single sympathizer.”



The Senator from Connecticut also warned the bill could possibly give the president the power to deploy troops on US soil:



“Well as we’ve seen here in the United States, the threat of ISIS is present in virtually every corner in the world. Thus this resolution would give the president total absolute carte blanche to send our young soldiers to any corner of the world without consulting Congress.”



Senator Murphy’s comments were echoed on Sunday by former Congressman Ron Paul, who said the new resolution would make the “Iraq War authorization of 2002 look like a walk in the park.”



“Let’s be clear: If Senate Majority Leader McConnell succeeds in passing this open-ended war authorization, the US Constitution will be all but a dead letter,” Dr. Paul wrote.



The bill currently has four co-sponsors, Sen. Daniel Coats, Sen. Joni Ernst, Sen. Lindsey Graham and Sen Orrin Hatch.

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Republicans Want To Give Obama Martial Law Powers



Published on Jan 29, 2016





“This resolution is a total rewrite of the War Powers clause of the Constitution. Let’s be clear about that,” Democrat Senator Chris Murphy said on the Senate floor last week in regards to S.J. Res. 29, a bill purporting to give the sitting US president the power to declare war on ISIS.


“It is essentially a declaration of international martial law,” Murphy said. http://www.infowars.com/video-senator…





















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POPE FRANCIS MEETS IRAN’S PRESIDENT AT VATICAN TO “BOOST” NUKE DEAL & MIDEAST PEACE~PERSECUTION, TORTURE OF SAEED ABEDINI, CHRISTIANS & OTHERS IGNORED
		
		
 

	
		
		
					

			
		

						

IRAN: 



“ROGUE REGIME WITH GENOCIDAL ASPIRATIONS”; 



NO HINDRANCE FOR POPE WHO OPERATES IN FEAR, COWARDICE & APPEASEMENT



FRANCIS & ROUHANI PLAY UP TO EACH OTHER;



POPE GREETS IRAN’S ROUHANI WHO PRETENDS HE’S A REASONABLE, MODERATE LEADER IN SPITE OF JIHADIST PERSECUTION OF CHRISTIANS & OTHER RELIGIOUS MINORITIES








ARE THEY JUST INTERFAITH BROTHERS WITH MANY COMMONALITIES?







POPE FRANCIS MEETS IRAN’S PRESIDENT TO “BOOST” NUKE DEAL & MIDEAST PEACE 



BY ROBERT SPENCER



SEE: http://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/01/pope-francis-meets-irans-president-to-boost-nuke-deal-mideast-peace; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:







“If we want peace in the Middle East, Iran and Iranian Islam have a vital role to play,” said the Rev. Bernardo Cervellera. Good to see the Pope giving his blessing to a rogue regime with genocidal aspirations. It is a wise move and perfectly in line with the Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarch’s robust defense of Islam in the face of Muslim persecution of Christians. Cowardice, appeasement and fear are the hallmarks of the contemporary Catholic Church, and apparently requirements for the clergy. Jump on board and cower.



“Pope Francis meets Iran’s president to boost nuke deal, Mideast peace,” by Rosie Scammell, Religion News Service, January 26, 2016 (thanks to Steve):





VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani met for talks on Tuesday (Jan. 26) — the first such encounter since 1999 — in a private meeting in which the pontiff pressed Rouhani on fostering Middle East peace and countering terrorism and arms trafficking.



The 39-minute meeting in the apostolic palace also touched on the landmark deal on Iran’s nuclear capacity that has been praised by the pontiff, and the two leaders discussed the situation of the church in Iran and inter-religious dialogue.



“I ask you to pray for me. It’s been a pleasure and I wish you well in your work,” Rouhani said at the end of their talks, addressing the pope in Farsi through a female translator.



“I thank you for this visit and I hope for peace,” Francis said in Italian, aided throughout the appointment by a Farsi-speaking translator.



In a statement issued after the meeting, the Vatican described the talks as “cordial” and said “common spiritual values emerged” in the discussions.



The Vatican said Francis and Rouhani discussed religious freedom and “the important role that Iran is called upon to fulfill, along with other countries in the region, to promote suitable political solutions to the problems afflicting the Middle East, (and) to counter the spread of terrorism and arms trafficking.”



The Vatican visit was a key stop on a four-day visit to Italy and France by Rouhani that had been postponed after the November terror attack in Paris. The tour is seen as part of the effort by Rouhani and Iranian moderates to revive relations with the West and open Iran to business opportunities.



Francis can help promote the “thaw in diplomatic relations between Iran and other countries,” much as he did with Cuba and the U.S., the Rev. Bernardo Cervellera, editor of the Rome-based Asia News, told The Wall Street Journal. “If we want peace in the Middle East, Iran and Iranian Islam have a vital role to play.”



Estimates on the number of Christians in Iran vary between 100,000 and 300,000, and the number of Catholics is pegged at about 20,000.



Christians are a recognized religious minority and have certain rights, but they face strict limitations as well.



The release this month of an Iranian-American evangelical Christian pastor, Saeed Abedini, after more than three years in jail in Iran, allegedly for trying to set up house churches, underscored the religious freedom and human rights problems that have been flagged by the U.S. State Department.



Rouhani was joined at the Vatican on Tuesday by his foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, along with two representatives from the Iranian Embassy to the Holy See. The Vatican’s secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, and Foreign Minister Paul Gallagher were also present.



In an exchange of gifts, Francis presented his guest with a medallion of St. Martin of Tours, a fourth-century French bishop depicted giving his cloak to a beggar. The pope told Rouhani it was a symbol of brotherhood.



Francis also gave him an English-language copy of his landmark 2015 encyclical on the environment, “Laudato Si’.” Noting that the papal letter had not been translated into Farsi, the pontiff also offered Rouhani a copy in Arabic.



The president in turn gave his host a rug hand-woven in Qom, a Shiite holy city in Iran, and a large book by artist Mahmoud Farshchian.



Rouhani arrived at the Vatican late in the morning for the one-on-one with the pope, a day after arriving in the Italian capital for high-level diplomatic and business talks.



The impetus for the European tour was the historic agreement signed last year by Tehran and six world powers, including the U.S., that requires it to curtail its nuclear program in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions.



Francis cited the deal as one of the key achievements of 2015 “which give solid hope for the future,” along with the Paris climate change deal.



“I think first of the so-called Iran nuclear deal, which I hope will contribute to creating a climate of detente in the region,” the pope told the Holy See diplomatic corps earlier this month….




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VISIT OF ROUHANI TO VATICAN ONE DAY BEFORE HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY


SEE: http://www.timesofisrael.com/rome-jewish-community-pans-rouhani-visit/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:



Pope Francis (2nd R) poses during his meeting with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani (3rd R) flanked by Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif (R) on January 26, 2016, at the Vatican (AFP / POOL / ANDREW MEDICHINI)Rome Jewish community pans Rouhani visit; 



Leaders say Iranian president unwelcome, citing ‘constant calls for the destruction of Israel’



Rome’s Jewish community sharply criticized a visit by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, particularly as the timing came just ahead of the January 27 International Holocaust Remembrance Day. In a statement, the Jewish community leadership underscored Rouhani’s positions of a clear “Holocaust denial and revisionist nature.”





It cited the “constant calls for the destruction of Israel” and manifestations such as Tehran’s “contest for anti-Semitic and Holocaust revisionist cartoons.”



These, it said, as well as his government’s “lack of respect for civil rights, constant increase of the death penalty, restrictions on freedom of the press” made Rouhani’s official visit to Rome “unwelcome.”



Rouhani is on a four-day visit to Italy and France to bolster its international role following the implementation of the accord with the United States and five other states to curb its nuclear activities and end economic sanctions.



On Tuesday, Rouhani met with Pope Francis in the Vatican.



A Vatican statement said that at the 40-minute audience at the Vatican Tuesday “common spiritual values emerged and reference was made to the good state of relations between the Holy See and the Islamic Republic of Iran, the life of the Church in the country and the action of the Holy See to favor the promotion of the dignity of the human person and religious freedom.”



It said the two discussed “the conclusion and application of the Nuclear Accord and the important role that Iran is called upon to fulfill, along with other countries in the region, to promote suitable political solutions to the problems afflicting the Middle East, to counter the spread of terrorism and arms trafficking.”



The statement also said the two leaders “highlighted the importance of inter-religious dialogue and the responsibility of religious communities in promoting reconciliation, tolerance and peace.”













At a meeting with Italian and Iranian business leaders, Rouhani said his county had “no intention of attacking or invading any other country” and “no intention of interfering in the affairs of any other country.” He added, “A lack of development creates the conditions for extremism, unemployment recruits soldiers for terrorism.”





Iranian President Hassan Rouhani leafs through a book he gave to Pope Francis as a gift, during their private audience at the Vatican,Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2016. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, Pool)



Iranian President Hassan Rouhani leafs through a book he gave to Pope Francis as a gift, during their private audience at the Vatican,Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2016. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, Pool)















 

































			

		

		
		

			
							

		


	

		
	

		
		
TEXAS GRAND JURY INDICTS MAN WHO RECORDED SECRET VIDEOS OF PLANNED PARENTHOOD’S SALE OF BABY PARTS
		
		
 

	
		
		
					

			
		

						

Daleiden-compressed



Texas Grand Jury Indicts Man Who Recorded Planned Parenthood Baby Body Parts Videos





republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes





AUSTIN, Texas (Associated Press) — A Houston grand jury investigating undercover footage of Planned Parenthood found no wrongdoing Monday by the abortion provider and instead indicted anti-abortion activists involved in making the videos that provoked outrage among Republican leaders nationwide.



David Daleiden, founder of the Center for Medical Progress, was indicted on a felony charge of tampering with a governmental record and a misdemeanor count related to purchasing human organs. Another activist, Sandra Merritt, was also indicted on a charge of tampering with a governmental record. It’s the first time anyone in the group has been charged criminally since the videos started surfacing last year.



In a statement announcing the indictment, Harris County District Attorney Devon Anderson didn’t provide details on the charges, including what record or records were allegedly tampered with and why Daleiden faces a charge related to buying human organs. Anderson’s office said it could not provide details until the documents charging Daleiden and Merritt were formally made public, which was expected later Monday.






SHOCK: Indictments in Planned Parenthood Investigation

Published on Jan 26, 2016





A Harris County grand jury investigating allegations that a Planned Parenthood clinic in Houston illegally sold the tissue of aborted fetuses has cleared the organization of wrongdoing and instead indicted two anti-abortion activists behind the undercover videos that sparked the probe.











Government, Defying All Logic, Ignores Baby Butchers – Goes after Those Who Expose Them



SEE: http://the-trumpet-online.com/government-defying-all-logic-ignores-baby-butchers-goes-after-those-who-expose-them/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:



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The lead attorney for one of the undercover pro-life reporters indicted this week in the aftermath of last year’s exposing of Planned Parenthood says prosecutors are pursuing bogus charges, Planned Parenthood officials are the obvious criminals and America is reaching a “scary” point where politics determine the outcome of the justice system.



On Monday, a Harris County, Texas, grand jury elected not to indict Planned Parenthood for allegedly selling organs and other body parts of aborted babies. Instead, the members returned a felony indictment of tampering with a government record against Center for Medical Progress President David Daleiden and his colleague, Sandra S. Merritt. If convicted, they could each spend as much as 20 years in prison.



“These two individuals will be exonerated. There’s no question about that,” said Liberty Counsel Chairman Mathew Staver, who is lead counsel for Merritt. “They’ll have their day in court. We look forward to that.”



Since news of the indictment began to spread, pro-life supporters launched the Twitter hashtag #IStandWithDavid to show their support.



Daleiden was charged with an additional misdemeanor of trying to purchase organs from aborted babies.



According to the indictment, the felony tampering charge accuses Daleiden and Merritt of fabricating California driver’s licenses to gain entry to the Houston Planned Parenthood facility.



Staver said the statute is being badly misapplied in this case.



“They were using journalistic tactics like lots of journalists do,” Staver said. “It’s not just David and Sandra. This is something that has been done by journalists for a long time.”











In addition, he said there is an explicit exception to the law.



“If you take a driver’s license and you tamper with it and make it look like it’s valid for you because you have had your driver’s license revoked for a DUI or whatever, and you then present that as your driver’s license to the police officer knowing that you really have no driver’s license, that is what’s covered by this situation,” he explained.



As a result, Staver is supremely confident both defendants will be cleared.



“This indictment really goes beyond what the statute words say, and certainly the intent of the statute,” he said. “That’s why I think this will be thrown out at the end of the day.”



Staver said the misdemeanor charge against Daleiden may be even more bogus.



“That’s even more outrageous because he’s purchasing what from whom, and the seller doesn’t get anything to that effect? If someone’s going to purchase something, you have to have a seller selling something, and it’s illegal to sell body parts,” Staver said.



He said Daleiden has even stronger ground in that he had no intent to actually buy any body parts from aborted babies. He said no one would videotape their activities and then disseminate it far and wide if they believed it was criminal.



Staver believes the absence of charges against Planned Parenthood is the greatest travesty of all in this case.



“It’s obvious what they’re doing. They’re on video. It’s multiple times, multiple people, high-ranking Planned Parenthood individuals. They’re talking callously about aborting baby body parts. They’re talking about preserving certain fetal organs intact because they can get higher prices for them. Then they’re talking about selling these body parts, so it’s pretty obvious,” Staver said.



He continued, “Planned Parenthood is the one that has committed criminal acts here. They’re the ones that should be indicted and having to reveal to the rest of the public the inner workings of Planned Parenthood, this brutal, barbarous kind of activity that Planned Parenthood is doing and being funded by state and federal tax dollars in the process.”



So how did this happen? Staver sees two potential issues, beginning with the grand jury process itself.



“[A grand jury] is basically giving one side of a story without the other side represented,” he said. “Certainly we need to respect the grand jury’s process, but I do know there are situations where grand juries don’t get all the information, and they are going on information that is being presented to them, which is a very narrow slice of the pie. That’s why prosecutors need to be so ethically above board.”



That last point leads to Staver’s second major concern. While Harris County District Attorney Davon Anderson is a Republican who calls herself pro-life, one of her assistant prosecutors most certainly is not.



LifeNews revealed that Lauren Reeder, a prosecutor in Anderson’s office, is listed as an unpaid director for the Houston Planned Parenthood clinic in question on the facility’s most recent 990 tax form from 2014.



“The district attorney or the assistant district attorney has a lot of power in either giving evidence to give one side or withholding evidence to not give the other side,” Staver said.



In the big picture, Staver fears America is entering a “very scary” phase in which politics and ideology matter more than the law in resolving hot-button cases.



“When you get into two different particular areas, abortion and the issue of homosexuality and same-sex marriage, it seems all the common sense, all the logic, all the rules of procedure, frankly, the rule of law just gets tossed to the side and you have these outrageous, shocking situations,” he said.



“What’s driving it? It’s not the rule of law. It’s ideology and it’s politics and it should have nothing to do with judicial proceedings. When you ultimately mix ideology and politics with the judiciary, you’re really messing up the system that the founders envisioned. All of us should be concerned about that because [we] all lose our liberty,” said Staver, noting that those who cheer today’s decisions could find the winds blowing against them soon.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2016/01/attorney-for-indicted-pro-life-reporter-its-outrageous/#SXogbrUVYilWDl26.99

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Planned Parenthood Board Member Works in Office of D.A. Who Prosecuted Pro-Life Investigator



BY HEATHER CLARK





republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes





HOUSTON, Texas — A member of the board of Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast works in the office of the district attorney who pursued the prosecution of a pro-life investigator before a grand jury, while the abortion giant went free.



David Daleiden of the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) was indicted on Monday by a grand jury in Houston on a felony charge of “tampering with a governmental record” for creating a fake driver’s license in conducting his undercover investigation, as well as a misdemeanor count related to the purchasing of human tissue.



Daleiden, 27, had posed as a representative of a fetal tissue procurement company in order to engage in discussions with Planned Parenthood officials as a potential buyer of bodily organs. He recorded the interactions, conducted at various locations across the country, as part of his “human capital” investigative series that was released in July.







Sandra Merritt, 62, was also charged with tampering with a governmental record for likewise printing the license, which was used to obtain access to Planned Parenthood gathering in Houston.



While Daleiden and Merritt were charged for seeking to buy fetal tissue, Planned Parenthood was not charged for agreeing to obtain compensation for the body parts of aborted babies, nor outlining that it had been doing so with other scientific companies nationwide. Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards announced after several of the videos were released that the organization would cease accepting compensation for fetal organs following outrage over the matter.



“The Center for Medical Progress uses the same undercover techniques that investigative journalists have used for decades in exercising our First Amendment rights to freedom of speech and of the press, and follows all applicable laws,” Daleiden said in a statement.



“We respect the processes of the Harris County district attorney, and note that buying fetal tissue requires a seller as well,” he noted. “Planned Parenthood still cannot deny the admissions from their leadership about fetal organ sales captured on video for all the world to see.”



There have also been concerns following the discovery that a prosecutor in the Harris County district attorney’s Division of Criminal Family Law also serves as a director on the board of Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast.



According to reports, Lauren Reeder told District Attorney Devon Anderson earlier this year about her work with the abortion giant in order to be “transparent.” However, she also said that she didn’t see a conflict of interest in the situation.



“I don’t think there’s any conflict in my dual roles in two separate organizations,” Reeder told reporters.



Anderson said that Reeder would not be involved with the case.



“She will not be involved in any manner in this investigation,” she told the Houston Chronicle. “If at any time in the future, reliable and credible information is brought to my attention that would question our ability to continue to perform a fair, thorough and independent investigation of this matter due to her board membership, I will revisit the issue of seeking the appointment of an independent prosecutor and act accordingly.”



Some still find the situation to be ironic.



“Daleiden is being charged with the very crime he was exposing? Seriously?” writes Tim Brown with Freedom Outpost. “He can play the part, just like police do when they engage in drug busts, but have only the intention of exposing the crime and yet, he is the one charged with what these devils are engaged in?”



“Why are the company executives shown in the videos not also being indicted for being willing to make the sale? If it’s wrong to make a purchase of baby parts, surely it is wrong to be selling them,” he said. “The double standard of the DA’s office is right out in the open for all to see! This is an injustice!”

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OBAMA LET THIS CHRISTIAN ROT IN IRANIAN JAIL~”THEY BEAT ME VERY BADLY”: AMERICAN PASTOR SAEED ABEDINI SPEAKS OF HIS IMPRISONMENT IN IRAN
		
		
 

	
		
		
					

			
		

						

“THEY BEAT ME VERY BADLY”: 



AMERICAN PASTOR SAEED ABEDINI 



SPEAKS OF HIS IMPRISONMENT IN IRAN 



BY HEATHER CLARK



republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes




Abedini Screenshot-compressed



ASHEVILLE, North Carolina — An American pastor who was imprisoned in Iran for over three years is now speaking about his time behind bars, acknowledging that he and others were beaten by Iranian authorities.



“In interrogation, once they beat me very badly,” Saeed Abedini told Fox’s Greta Van Susteren on Monday, “because they wanted me to write something [to admit guilt], which I didn’t do that.”



“It actually was in a courtroom where the judge closed the door and the interrogators started beating me, which in that time, I had stomach bleeding,” he said.



“They beat you with their fist?” Van Susteren asked.



“Yes,” Abedini replied.



He said that he was soon threatened that he was going to be placed with other prisoners who would “beat him to death.” Abedini stated he was indeed beaten badly by his cellmates, but “God saved me over there.” At one point, he was even beaten in the head with a heavy iron chair, the pastor shared.



Abedini said that Iranian authorities adiditionally tried to intimidate him by stating that they would track him after he is released.



“They said, ‘When you finish your sentence, and you go to the U.S., we always follow you, and if you continue the thing that you did, we’re going to kill you,'” he explained, noting that Iran had killed another pastor.



Abedini said that when he was first arrested and brought before the judge, he was accused of conspiring to take down the Iranian government with Christianity. He tried to explain that he was not seeking to do so, but was merely helping orphaned children and sharing the gospel, but his response was not received.



“The judge said, ‘You know why you are here,’ and I said, ‘Yeah, I’m here because of my Christian faith and starting house churches all over Iran,” Abedini recalled. “And the judge said, ‘No, you are not here for this. You are here because you want to use Christianity to remove government.'”



“And it was like, ‘No, I don’t want to do that. I just came here to start [an] orphanage, loving people and [to] share the gospel with people and just that,'” Abedini recalled. “And he said, ‘No, you guys are using Christianity to remove the government.'”



When he said the would pray for the magistrate, the judge began yelling. He spent two months in solitary confinement, part of the time with his eyes covered, before being moved to more dangerous locations.



Abedini told Van Susteren that he witnessed others being beaten behind bars and observed the guards taking prisoners to be hanged each Wednesday.



“They were scared, and so the soldiers would take their hands, their feet [and] grab them like when they take a lamb for the slaughtering,” he remembered. “It was very graphic things, what I saw when they took people for execution.”



As previously reported, Abedini, a former Iranian Muslim turned Christian, left Iran in 2005 and moved to the United States with his wife and two children to find religious freedom after facing conflict with authorities for planting house churches in the county. In 2012, he traveled back to Iran to build an orphanage and visit his parents when he was taken into custody.



He was sentenced to eight years in Iran’s notorious Evin Prison, but was transferred to to Rajai Shahr Prison in 2013, where he remained until two weeks ago when he was set free in a prisoner swap between the U.S. and Iran.











			

		

		
		

			
							

		


	


			  

					
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