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Free Speech in The West on Life Support

June 28, 2017/in Commentary, Culture War, Policy, Politics, Religion, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by Ruth Roman

America and Europe are under full frontal assault, but it’s a silent war; attacking every vestige of Free Speech. MSM news outlets have been eerily silent; because they’re supplying the ammunition through their promotion of political correctness.

Americans have, for too long, taken their liberties and the right of freedom of speech for granted. The First Amendment in the Bill of Rights was created by our founding Fathers for the purpose of equipping its populace with all of the freedoms that had been deprived of themselves; that they fought and died for.

Our European counterparts, unfortunately were never granted the same rights and opportunities as delineated in our Bill of Rights, therefore attacks on freedom of speech under the guise of ‘hate speech’ have reached a tipping point.

Recently, German police raided 36 homes over ‘hateful’ Face book posts. The NYT reports that the raid comes as the country debates a new social media law, cracking down on ‘hate speech.’ Prime Minister, Merkel, had previously met with Face book’s Zuckerberg to discuss cracking down on the criticism of Islam on social media and now citizens are being fined for their ‘hateful rhetoric.’ In Europe, at the present, has become illegal to criticize the migrants or Islam, resulting in fines or detainment.

The U.N., Organization of Islamic Conference, a group of 57 Muslim states has been attempting to enforce global blasphemy laws, as delineated in The Istanbul Process, has been working for over 15 years to prevent or limit criticism of Islam and the Prophet.

Now the enforcement of ‘blasphemy laws’ are closer than we would have imagined. Canada, recently detained a Christian, conservative author, lecturer, social media blogger, and Tea Party Patriot, ‘Wild Bill for America;’ and confiscated his I-pad upon arrival at their airport. Wild Bill was on his way to speak at an anti-Islam conference. He was arrested and detained for seven hours, the authorities read his I-Pad, retreated behind closed doors and concluded that he was ‘smuggling hate speech on his I-Pad!’ Therefore, he was arrested for hate speech that he never spoke. His I-Pad was being sent to Ottawa for forensic examination and possible tariff violation. The actions of the Canadian officers clearly were supporting Sharia Law, where there can be no criticism of Islam. Furthermore, their actions set a very dangerous precedent for their citizens and foreigners travelling to Canada. Will their laptops, books and briefcases be confiscated because of their religious or political beliefs based upon suspicion or notoriety?

America has been under censorship for ‘hate speech’ just like our counterparts, but to a lesser degree Face book and Twitter has blocked, shut down or taken posts down when the blogger’s rhetoric was interpreted as being hateful, especially toward Islam. On our universities conservative speakers have been boycotted and shut down by anarchy groups such as Antifa, BLM and Muslim Brotherhood front groups, SJP and MSA. Universities have even created ‘Free Speech Zones’ designed to regulate freedom of speech or expression.

The regulation of Free Speech through legislation is perhaps the most dangerous of all. In April, 2017, the US Senate passed Senate Resolution 118, “Condemning hate crime and any other form of racism, religious, or ethnic bias, discrimination, incitement to violence or animus targeting a minority in the US.” What is disconcerting about this legislation is that it was drafted by a Muslim organization, EmagageUSA, formerly EmergeUSA, and the Muslim Public Affairs Council, MPAC.

Most recently, the House has introduced a bill, H Res. 257, “condemning hate crime and any other form of racism, religious or ethnic bias, discrimination, incitement to violence or animus targeting a minority in the U.S. This bill urges that the DOJ, FBI, Sate Dept. become involved in these efforts, therefore, law enforcement could enforce an alleged criminal act. Could this bill be a precursor to ‘Blasphemy Laws,’ where criticism of Islam could be punishable?

Americans must oppose any legislation that will result in the punishment of Free Speech.

Democrats Play Dog Whistle Politics, Too. Just Ask Bill Cosby.

June 28, 2017/in Commentary, Elections, Politics/by Raynard Jackson

Two weeks ago, entertainer extraordinaire Bill Cosby was handed a hung jury in his sexual assault trial in Norristown, Pa., a suburb of Philadelphia.

Regardless of what you think of Cosby and the allegations made against him, a jury of his peers spoke and they concluded that they couldn’t reach unanimous agreement on any of the three charges, thus a hung jury.

That should have been the end of the case and the end of the story. It should have been time for everyone to move on with their lives; it should have been a time for Cosby to get back on stage and do what he does best—to entertain and challenge America; especially Black America.

But that is not what happened on June 17th. Within minutes of Judge Steven T. O’Neill’s declaration of a mistrial, Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele vehemently asserted that he would retry Cosby as soon as possible. By law, they have up to four months to make a final decision to retry.

Steele said, “We will reevaluate and review our case and will retry it and move as soon as possible.”

He went on to declare: “[Cosby’s accuser Andrea Constand] is entitled to a verdict in this case.”

Please allow me to interpret this for you. Steele means she is entitled to a verdict that “he” agrees with.

Constand was not entitled to a verdict; Cosby was entitled to a trial by a jury of her “peers,” nothing more, nothing less.

Those who follow my writings know that I rarely, if ever, invoke race into my arguments, but I would be remiss not to point out the issue of race in this particular case.

In 2015, Steele defeated former Republican Montgomery County District Attorney Bruce Castor in a very heated race. Steele made the veiled promise of a conviction of legendary entertainer Bill Cosby, the central issue in the election. In 2005, when Castor was the district attorney, he declined to prosecute Cosby in the rape allegation brought forward by Constand, because “there was insufficient evidence.”

So, Steele comes along in 2015 and says if you elect me, I will re-open the case against Cosby that was dropped nearly ten years ago.

According to the 2010 census, the county is 79 percent White non-Hispanic, 8.7 percent Black or African American, 6.4 percent Asian, and 4.3 percent Hispanic or Latino.

Republicans have a well-earned reputation for using race to scare White folks into voting for them and are rightfully called out on this practice, but I find it amazing when White, liberal Democrats use the same tactic, liberals, especially Black ones, get laryngitis.

So, Steele used a caricature of the world famous Black comedian to convince White voters in Montgomery County that he would save them from thuggish predators like Cosby, a blind philanthropist, who was once called “America’s Dad.”

Dog whistle rhetoric

Aren’t these the same dog whistles that Democrats accuse Republicans of using?

Look at the 2015 campaign TV commercial Steele ran against Castor using the allegations against Cosby. When I saw this ad two years ago, I was immediately transported back to 1990 when segregationist Republican Senator Jesse Helms ran his infamous “hands ad.”

In 1990, Harvey Gantt, mayor of Charlotte, N.C. was leading Helms in his reelection bid for the U.S. Senate. Gantt would have become the first Black senator in North Carolina’s history. As soon as Helms aired the hands ad, the race was, for all practical purposes, over.

There is absolutely no doubt that Helms’ ad was racist and meant to scare White folks to turnout for his reelection. Likewise, Steele did the same thing, but since he is a liberal, White Democrat, there was no public outcry.

Some political insiders have suggested that Steele’s ultimate goal is to run for governor of Pennsylvania; a conviction in the Cosby trial was critical stepping-stone to the governor’s mansion.

It’s all or nothing for Steele. Cosby, and by extension Blacks in Pennsylvania, are simply pawns in the game that the district attorney is playing to get what he wants politically.

The Congressional Black Caucus raised holy hell in 1990 denouncing the Helms’ TV ad; Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton were both all over TV screaming racism; the NAACP and Urban League were sending out massive amounts of mail coming out against Helms and Republicans.

These folks and groups all “claim” to be for justice and equality for all, but I guess you have to add, “if” they agree with your politics. It is public knowledge that Cosby has opened his wallet to many civil rights groups lending his celebrity to various social causes for decades.

So, to all the Blacks who are running away from Cosby, like the plague, and have suddenly come down with a severe case of laryngitis, I say that today Bill Cosby has been tried and convicted in the White liberal court of public opinion, but ask yourself, who will stand up for you when it’s your turn?

EDITORS NOTE: This column originally appeared in Black Press USA.

Republican U.S. Senate Candidate Brinson brings the words of Jesus to a Mosque

June 28, 2017/in Commentary, Elections, Policy, Politics, Religion/by Dr. Rich Swier

BIRMINGHAM, Ala./PRNewswire/ — After receiving threats and negative blowback from an AL.com article by Cameron Smith entitled “A few Baptists and a GOP candidate walk into an Alabama mosque…” which mentions his recent speech at an Alabama mosque, Dr. Randy Brinson, physician, lay minister and candidate for the Republican Senate seat formerly held by Jeff Sessions, spoke today about his recent visit to the Hoover Crescent Islamic Center.

Brinson’s Statement:

“I had been asked by several Birmingham doctors to visit the medical clinic on the same property as the Islamic Center. They’d heard about my plans for health care reform and wanted to speak with me about that, and my other campaign positions. After we’d spoken about this, I was invited to an Interfaith meeting that was being held that evening with members of Shades Mountain Baptist Church. Until they asked me to participate, I had no idea that the Interfaith meeting was going on.”

“God opened this door for me, and I used the opportunity He’d given me to extend an olive branch and share my faith in the love and mercy of Jesus Christ to everyone there. It was a tremendous opportunity to do what we’re told to do in Mark 16:15, to proclaim the gospel to the whole creation.”

“Some people won’t vote for me because I went to a mosque and spoke to 140 Muslims about Jesus, and that’s okay. I don’t regret taking advantage of a God-given circumstance to bear witness and give my testimony about what the Lord has done in my life. If sharing my faith costs me this election, then so be it. I know what’s important, and first and foremost, that’s my salvation through Jesus Christ,” Brinson said.

In the AL.com article Cameron Smith wrote:

If you think a masjid might be intimidating to a few Baptists, imagine what it would be like for a few Muslims to spend time with 4,000 Baptists on Sunday morning in Alabama. In fact, Taufique’s estimate of the entire Muslim population in the greater Birmingham area is about the same size as my church’s membership roll.

[ … ]

But here’s the amazing part, we also discussed our clear theological conflicts. Their belief in the oneness of Allah is wholly incompatible with the Christian belief that Jesus was fully man and fully God. For Christians, Jesus’s divinity, death and resurrection is a necessary element for salvation. Muslims believe we will all stand before Allah on the Day of Judgment and to be measured against the Six Articles of Faith and our deeds during our lives.

The central tenets of one faith are heresy to the other. Neither the Baptists nor the Muslims in attendance made any attempt to downplay the disagreement or modify our respective theologies to make others more comfortable. It simply wasn’t necessary. Neither Christian nor Muslim likely won converts over the course of the evening, but we did take a critical step towards building friendships. [Emphasis added]

Brinson has a long history of faith-based activities. Apart from nearly 30 years at Taylor Road Baptist Church and countless mission trips, he has been involved in Christian music since 1999, when he brought WAY-FM to Montgomery. In 2003, he and his wife Pam formed Redeem the Vote to engage more people of faith in the political process. In 2006, he became head of the Christian Coalition of Alabama, and in 2008 was a senior advisor to Governor Mike Huckabee’s presidential campaign.

Brinson stepped down as head of Redeem the Vote and the Christian Coalition earlier this year to run for the Senate seat previously held by Jeff Sessions.

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What Article V Actually Says

June 27, 2017/in Commentary, Courts & Law, Policy, Politics/by J.B. Williams

Increasing frustration with Federal overreaches and abuses of governmental power has resulted in many Americans returning to the Foundations of the United States to find solutions. It was known from the start that all governments are essentially a necessary evil – that in time, no matter how bound by supreme laws of the land, governments would become destructive of the very ends for which the people originally created them.

In the case of the U.S. Declaration, Constitution and Bill of Rights, our Founders did absolutely brilliant work to provide separation of powers, limited duties and authorities and checks and balances aimed at preventing that inevitability. They also assumed that sooner or later, the inevitable would come to pass, despite their efforts to prevent it – and they provided numerous remedies as well.

In recent years, one such remedy has been heavily promoted by some searching for a solution to Federal tyranny – The Article V Convention of States. The group leading the charge on this initiative is Citizens for Self-Governance and their web site for this project is found at www.ConventionofStates.com

In reviewing this proposed solution, I will work from the statements found at the Convention of States web FAQ page as well as Article V text itself.

First, the actual text of Article V

“The Congress, whenever two thirds of both houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to this Constitution, or, on the application of the legislatures of two thirds of the several states, shall call a convention for proposing amendments, which, in either case, shall be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of this Constitution, when ratified by the legislatures of three fourths of the several states, or by conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by the Congress; provided that no amendment which may be made prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any manner affect the first and fourth clauses in the ninth section of the first article; and that no state, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate.” (Source)

Next, the definition of a Constitutional Convention

Any meeting between Congress and the States in which the stated purpose of the meeting is to amend the United States Constitution, is by definition, a Constitutional Convention. The power to amend the U.S. Constitution is derived from Article V. Congress may propose and pass amendments to the Constitution without a “convention.” None of the 27 amendments to the Constitution have been proposed by constitutional convention. The Congress proposes an amendment in the form of a joint resolution, later sent to the States for ratification.

However, for the amendment process to begin from the states, 2/3 of the State Legislatures must apply to Congress to convene a “convention” for the purpose of considering proposed constitutional amendments being offered by the States. In either case, the same amendment process begins. The States cannot amend the Federal Constitution outside of a Constitutional Convention. They can only force Congress to convene a convention for that purpose and propose amendments for consideration.

The Amendment Process

The Amendment Process is very cut-n-dry. The process can begin either by Congress passing Joint Resolutions sent to the States for ratification, or by 2/3 of the State legislatures applying to Congress to convene a Constitutional Convention.

In either case, Congress will oversee the process, consider proposed amendments and determine which amendments will be sent back to the States for ratification. No amendment is adopted until this process has completed and at least ¾ of the States have officially ratified the amendments. (Source)

Statements by Citizens for Self-Governance

On their FAQ page, the Convention of States initiative answers the following key questions…

What is a Convention of States?

Answer: “A convention of states is a convention called by the state legislatures for the purpose of proposing amendments to the Constitution.”

Clear enough, right… The initiative seeks to amend the Federal Constitution by having 2/3 of the States apply to Congress to convene a convention for that purpose. But then the answer continues with this text – “They are given power to do this under Article V of the Constitution. It is not a constitutional convention.”

By definition, it IS a “Constitutional Convention” they are applying to Congress to convene. The minute Congress “shall” convene, the prescribed Amendment Process begins.

How Do the State Legislatures Call a Convention of States?

Answer: “Thirty-four state legislatures must pass a resolution called an “application” calling for a Convention of States. The applications must request a Convention of the States for the same subject matter. The applications are delivered to Congress.”

Indeed, 2/3 of the State legislatures can apply to Congress to convene a convention for the purpose of hearing proposed amendments to the Constitution. In the end, ¾ of the States must ratify amendments passed at the convention and sent to the states for ratification, or the entire process is moot.

There is some word-smithing involved here… They continually refer to this convention as a “Convention of States,” when in fact, by definition, they are applying to Congress to convene a “constitutional convention.”

A Number of other Falsehoods

“As long as each states applies for a convention that deals with the same issue (i.e., limiting the power and jurisdiction of the federal government), Congress must call the convention.”

It is true that upon the application of 2/3 of the State legislatures, Congress “shall call” the convention, setting the time, place and process for considering amendments to the Constitution. It is false that Congress has no convening authority over that convention. Read the Amendment Process.

“The text, history, and purpose of Article V all point to the ability of the states to limit a convention to the consideration of a single topic or set of topics.”

As already stated, this process has never been attempted. All existing amendments to the U.S. Constitution were passed by Congressional Joint Resolution and sent to the States for ratification. Never in our history has 2/3 of the States applied to Congress to convene a constitutional convention on their behalf, for the stated purpose of amending the Constitution.

The theory that Congress will have no say, or that the convention can be limited or controlled by the States throughout the amendment process is just that, a theory. It has never been attempted, much less accomplished.

Some point to the Bill of Rights as an example of success. However, the Bill of Rights was actually largely agreed to during the ratification of the Constitution itself, and immediately adopted after, in order to secure the ratification of the Constitution.

Closing Statement

Yes, 2/3 of the States can apply to Congress to convene a convention for the purpose of amending the Constitution.

Yes, Congress “shall” convene upon that application by the States

Yes, the States can attempt to limit and control the scope of the amendments, with no guarantees whatsoever

No, the States cannot amend the U.S. Constitution free from any Congressional oversight

Yes, the entire Amendment Process must ensue and be completed before any amendments will have been adopted.

Further, State legislatures are constantly changing as well. By the time you can get 2/3 of the States to file an application with Congress, the make-up of those legislatures will be different than when the process began. So, there will be no way to predict what amendments will be proposed by the time that a convention could be convened, or the outcome of it.

Last, I understand that some “experts” are pushing this solution as if it could work the way they say. Don’t ask me why they do this, I do not know.

But true constitutionalists seeking to reign in a runaway federal government would simply seek to enforce existing Constitutional text, rather than amending it. In truth, a serious effort to reign in the federal government would focus on repealing several existing amendments, rather than adding to them with amendments we cannot control.

Stalinist Style Show Trial on American Soil

June 27, 2017/in Commentary, Elections, Policy, Politics/by Simona Pipko

History is the Mother of all sciences. I know history, especially Russian history. I am a child of Stalinism and a former Soviet defense attorney. I have already published four books and over sixty columns on the subject of Russia, WW III, Soviet Fascism, and Obama/Putin joint ventures. Most of you had never read or heard about me and my writings, because our Intelligence has blocked information about both my books and columns. That is the reason I titled this column the way I did. Yes, we are witnessing Stalinist Show Trial in the 21^st Century on American soil: A Show Trial to destroy President Donald J. Trump.

A Brief History of Stalin’s Strategy – Fighting for Power

Show trial in the former Soviet Union.

It should be noted that before instigating Show Trials of dissidents in Russia, Stalin implemented his policy of Political Correctness to manipulate human mind and then undertook the repressive legal actions against the opposition. When my language allowed me to understand American politics, I began to get a whiff of Stalinist Political Correctness: Listening and watching to what was going on in American politics, I recognized Soviet/Stalinist politics and tried to expose it: “… political correctness is a Stalinist policy, driven by the political agenda, a skillfully crafted design of a quintessential system of lies and a long-term strategy of war against Western civilization to create a One World Socialist Government.”

But I couldn’t formulate Political Correctness and explain it linguistically and chronologically well enough, I needed an authority to do that. It took me several years to find a solid and logical definition of Political Correctness I can trust:

“In the early-to-mid 20th century, contemporary uses of the phrase “Politically Correct” were associated with the dogmatic application of Stalinist doctrine, debated between formal communists (members of the Communist Party) and socialists. The phrase was a colloquialism referring to the communist party line, which provided for “correct” (Stalinist) positions on many matters of politics, according to American educator Herbert Kohl writing about the debates in New York in the late 1940s and early 1950s.”

Writing about Stalinism and watching its ubiquitous application in the 21st Century in America, I was satisfied with the definition presented by American educator Herbert Kohl. It resolves the question of how the brainwashing of the population of Russia took place in time and space, and also answering the question of why Russian people did not revolt against the Show Trials and consequent Purges by Stalin, with the killing and deportations of millions that followed. Overwhelmed by Stalin’s heinous brutality, and in abject terror, Russia was sinking in quagmire. As a witness of Stalin’s crimes, I would add to the Herbert Kohl opinion: The early-to mid-20^th Century was a time when the politically-terroristic ideology of Soviet Fascism was established and later-on spread throughout the world by the KGB and GRU…

Stalinist Political Correctness was more about semantics, a combination of lies, fraud, and hateful verbiage to demonize the opposition, to manipulate the human psyche in the needed direction. The political objectives were to control the narratives targeting the opposition prior to the application of force. The media, subordinated to the state as an integral part of Political Correctness was inextricably integrated into the idea. By Stalin’s order, the government newspaper Izvestia published for the first time these two words in 1933—“politically incorrect.” In fact, creating Political Correctness, Stalin set up an ideological machinery and leverage for the entire global Communist movement–all Socialist/Communist media followed Stalin’s instruction…

Strong unity of the Communist Party with the Soviet State media worked smoothly against the opposition, even against the old Bolsheviks who had been victorious in the first Socialist Revolution in Russia: they were shot, deported or tried in the Show Trials. Political Correctness has served and protected this intertwined force all the long years since it came to life. It was that exact strong unity under Stalin’s leadership that criminalized the opposition, annihilated it and created Stalin’s cult of personality. Those who know Russian history can confirm the events described in this segment. Today’s America has a lot of resemblance to Stalin’s pattern in fighting for power …

A Media That Serves A One Party System

The events described in the above segment took place 70-80 years ago in a country where media was a part of Socialist/Communist state, under total control of the KGB. Nothing substantial has changed in Russia since: we have today Russian KGB government and the KGB still occupies Lubyanka, it just changed its name for the 8^th time. The country we called the Soviet Union changed its name to the Russian Federation, yet, the Soviet System with its human rights violations stays the same. Have you seen demonstrations in Moscow in June 12, 2017 and the young people arrested by the police? Not a lot has changed in Russia, and if something is changed, it is done to camouflage the Soviet System to save it. The major agenda of the ideology left by Stalin remains the same—destruction of Western civilization.

To grasp the worldwide events today and the turbulent situation in America, we have to know more about the ideology created by Stalin during those 70-80 years. Stalin was an ideologue of Socialism: he created his ideology of Soviet Fascism as a foundation to protect the Soviet System. I would agree with one of Comey’s statements about Russia and the media: “the people do not know what they are talking about.” He is right in this respect; some people writing and talking about Russia very often do not have the background to understand the subject. The reason I called the ideology Soviet Fascism is simple: I lived through it half of my life and saw the Russian socialist quagmire. I am not alone, those victims of Socialism, who immigrated to the U.S. feel the same way and I am writing on behalf of them all.

As a matter of fact, Stalin’s agenda was very clear: to destroy capitalism and replace it with Socialist economy worldwide, to build One World Government under Kremlin’s rule. When you learn Stalin’s Political Correctness you’ll grasp the significant role played by media in the process. Let me give you an example of a media man, a KGB cadre and Stalin’s apologist, who help Stalin to annihilate millions in Russia:

“Walter Duranty (May 25, 1884 – October 3, 1957) was a Liverpool-born, Anglo-American journalist who served as the Moscow Bureau Chief of The New York Times for fourteen years (1922–1936) following the Bolshevik victory in the Russian Civil War (1918–1921). In 1932 Duranty received a Pulitzer Prize for a series of reports about the Soviet Union, 11 of them published in June 1931. He was criticized then and later for his denial of widespread famine (1932–33) in the USSR, most particularly the mass starvation in Ukraine. Years later, there were calls to revoke his Pulitzer; the New York Times, which submitted his work for the prize in 1932, wrote that his articles constituted “some of the worst reporting to appear in this newspaper.”

In addition to lie about Ukraine, Walter Duranty, had assured the West that Stalin’s Show Trials and Purges were lawful and fair. For several decades Walter Duranty was lying and defrauding the public in the West. I am giving that example for a reason—knowledge of Stalinist Russia and the KGB is imperative today, 70-80 years later. The Soviet System designed by Stalin is alive and well in the Russian Federation: the same KGB under another name but with the same agenda to destroy capitalism and Western civilization is intact. Our media is not only ill-informed today, some can be recruited and groomed to suppress the natural achievements of capitalism proclaimed by Trump and by doing that to help Russia. We don’t have an independent media any longer…

The other example is media’s incompetence. Look at CNN, a leader of the witch hunt against President Trump. Take the CNN show The Most Powerful Man in the World, by GPS, March 26, 2016.

Commenting the history of the Soviet Union’s Collapse, the anchor Fareed Zaharia stated the following: “The institutions like the KGB simply ceased to exist.” I couldn’t believe my ears. For such a statement the anchor should have received a Woolf passport to prevent him to enter any media outlets. Saying that is equal to saying that Goebbels was a human rights activist. What an Ignorance within the media in 2017! Now you see how Political Correctness is working in America today within the Democrat Party, trying to cover up the Obama/Putin joint venture, the real criminality. For details read Socialist Lies; From Stalin to the Clintons, Obamas, and Sanders, Xlibris, 2016

The declared war on the Trump presidency has strong Stalinist smell and patterns. Have you seen an incredible viciousness against the entire Trump family? His daughter Ivanka is right, the family was shocked by the intensity of negative propaganda against the President and his family. What about a “hit list” of the Republicans to be murdered? It is not a surprise for me, I have been warning the public about the ideology of Soviet Fascism for the last twenty-five years. Chapter 7, WW III: Recruitments and Drugs, Infiltration and Assassinations was written in 2007, and assassinations are the last scheduled actions. What is Happening to America? Xlibris, 2012.

Urgent Message from David Horowitz

Dear Fellow American:

People ask me, “Are you shocked that MSNBC, CNN and the big media want President Trump impeached after firing the FBI director?”

My answer: “No, I’m not shocked. In fact, I predicted it.”

When my book “Big Agenda: President Trump’s Plan to Save America” was released just days before his inauguration, I was ridiculed and blackballed.

I was said to be “crazy” when I said Obama would lead a “government in exile” with his allies in the “deep state” to undermine and thwart President Trump at every turn.

But I am not crazy. All of this has happened and worse.

I made clear in “Big Agenda” that when Trump actually promulgated his plans to reform and remake Washington, the liberal establishment would simply try to destroy him.

David Horowitz is right: we are witnessing a strong attempt by the left to destroy President Trump. The left has been armed with the Stalin’s ideology of Soviet Fascism during the last forty years and followed Stalinist strategy in many different fronts: Personal destruction of the opposition leaders is one of them. You’ll be surprised by the man who supports my idea. The best lawyer in the country Alan Dershowitz told us what we shouldn’t do, and mentioned Stalin in his interview with Tucker Carlson, Fox. News June 19, 2017. He was asked about investigation of the President. Dershowitz reminded us a conversation between Stalin and his Chief of the KGB, Beria. Beria told Stalin: “Show me the man and I’ll find the crime to charge him.” The war against Trump is a typical Stalinist demonization and personal destruction of an opposition leader…

The Ideology of Soviet Fascism in America

Alan Dershowitz is right reminding us Stalinism and its lawlessness, in fact it is the essence and core of Soviet Fascism that I have been writing about for the last twenty-five years. Today we have another reminder of the ideology—Otto Warmbier, a 22 year old American killed by the North Korean regime. Senator McCain is right stating the follow: “Let us state the facts plainly: Otto Warmbier, an American citizen, was murdered by the Kim Jong Un regime…In the final year of his life, he lived the nightmare in which the North Korean people have been trapped for 70 years: forced labor, mass starvation, systematic cruelty, torture, and murder. “ This is a real description of the regime, I called Soviet Fascism. Just compare the events within North Korea today with Stalin’s time in Russia. It is an identical quagmire of Soviet Fascism…

To show the worldwide application of the ideology, I gave you the history of North Korea and Stalin’s decision to form a Socialist/Communist regime in Asia in my column, April 20, 2017. In the column, I also gave you a history of Syria and the Middle East, showing how the ideology of Soviet Fascism has been implemented throughout the world by the Kremlin. In my opinion it is not only China that has power over the North Korea. In 1945 defeated Japan had left a political vacuum in North Korea, and Stalin used it. A Korean Army was formed, trained, equipped to the teeth with the Soviet arms, and supervised by KGB men sent to implement the Stalinist formula in North Korea. Stalin personally chose its leader—a captain of the Soviet Army, Kim IL Sung. Since then, the connection between the Soviet military, the KGB and the Korean military has never ended, Soviet Fascism is currently working there. It has come to our soil as well…

Writing about Soviet Fascism for the last twenty-five years, I dedicated many pages to the politics of the Democrat Party. Moreover, in the last nine years I wrote about an Obama/Putin joint venture and Obama’s shadow government against Trump’s administration. When Sean Hannity spoke about The Deep State in American politics, I did not know the real meaning of the term. So, I went to a dictionary and got the definition of the term. And the definition had brought a real confirmation of all my thoughts…

The Deep State

A body of people, typically influential members of government agencies or the military, believed to be involved in the secret manipulation or control of government policy.

“The deep state and its policy of allowing extremist ideologies to flourish may be the actual issues of concern.” This definition confirms all attributes of my writings. It directly warns us: “the deep state and its policy of allowing extremist ideologies to flourish may be the actual issues of concern.”

Yes, I have been concerned about the ideology of Soviet Fascism for the last several decades and warned you in all my writings. This ideology is an extreme one and I was showing its nefariousness and agenda so you could learn about it and take the obvious actions. Unfortunately, our Intel has been also infiltrated and blocked information about my writings since the Clinton administration. As I understand it today, the Clinton Mafia within the Democrat Party was the foundation for the current “deep state” in America. At the Obama presidency, I described the formation as the Obama/Putin joint venture, in the time of the Trump presidency it became a shadow government—The deep state.

“The concept of a deep state suggests that there exists a coordinated effort by career government employees and others to influence state policy without regard for democratically elected leadership. The term, which was originally used to refer to sophisticated shadow governments in countries like Turkey and post-Soviet Russia, has also been used in American political science to refer to entrenched government institutions wielding power, without necessarily implying a conspiracy.” Wikipedia

Steve Bannon is correct to a certain degree, saying that “Obama put America on a collision course with a deadly historic destiny, even as it inaugurated a vital new

President, Donald J. Trump. I would say that the Obama/Putin joint venture put America on a collision course with a deadly historic destiny, even as it inaugurated a vital new President, Donald J. Trump. I had been writing about Russian connection of the Democrat Party and especially about Obama/Putin joint venture for the last nine years. Don’t forget, we have seventy Socialists in our Congress…

Don’t be surprised by the recent appointment of a special counsel to investigate Trump/Russia collusion. Trump did not commit any crimes. This is a typical maneuver of Stalinist Soviet Fascism—to blame the leader of the opposition for what had been done by Obama… Even more, remember, Obama was not alone: “there exists a coordinated effort by career government employees and others to influence state policy…” The others includes Putin and his KGB operatives like George Soros in America today. This is the answer to why the Democrat Party refused the FBI access to the Democrat’s computer system. One Democrat admits: ”the Democratic Party is more toxic than Trump.” The man should read my books to grasp the toxicity of Soviet Fascism…

Reversal of Totalitarian Socialist’s Swamp

Trump’s movement is fighting a totalitarian swamp of Socialism. It is not an easy fight. Obama had attempted to transform America to Socialism for the last eight years and unfortunately, he “achieved” a great deal and to reverse what he has done will take some time and the knowledge of the Soviet System of socialism. Look at Poland, Estonia, or Ukraine, these and some other countries are trying to reverse totalitarian socialism, created by Stalin and implanted by the Soviet System for seventy years. It is a very hard and long process. Yes, we had only eight years, but preparations were started with Clinton’s Mafia in 1993.

Just look at Obamacare. Run by the government, it was intertwined with all activities of the state, the way the Soviet Health Care was established. I believe that the Russian Academy of Science provided Obama with the model of redistribution of wealth. Obama’s objective had been clear to create chaos in existing health care and bankrupt the American economic system. Don’t be surprised that the Republicans having a lot of difficulties to dismantle Obamacare. Only knowledge of the Soviet System and time can do that. Alas, neither Republicans nor our 17 intelligence agencies have that knowledge. Yet, Obamacare must be stopped; it is like a snow ball bringing inevitable destruction to the American Republic every day. The Republicans should start the process of dismantling Obamacare now to prevent a great suffering of the Americans, it is a political urgency to do so… The time to act is now!

There is a second mistake of our Intel and the Republicans: the usage of the term Liberals. We do not have real Liberals any longer. Classic Liberalism has been annihilated and buried by Soviet Fascism with the help of progressives in the 20^th Century. Do you remember the genesis of progressive values of President Wilson? Those “values” were the beginning of the end of the Democrat Party. Early Progressives like Woodrow Wilson openly attacked the principles of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution as obsolete, paving way to the victory of Soviet Fascism. Today we are dealing with a Radical Left usurping the term Liberals.

The irony of our time is the appointment of a Special Counsel to investigate Trump/Russia collusion that doesn’t exist. It is waste of money and dereliction of duty by the DOJ. We have evidence of Obama’s clear intent to transform America to totalitarian socialism: it was a heinous crime. But we are spending money and time to investigate the person who wants to Make America Great Again. I don’t know Robert Mueller, yet he was FBI Director under Obama… Many in the government have called him “an honorable man.” A couple of months ago, we called James Comey “an honorable man.” Don’t you smell the Deep State in action? We the former citizens of Socialist countries are recognizing a typical Stalinist Show Trial against President Trump! We also know that Putin and Stalin are tied by the umbilical cord of the ideology…

To be continued at: www.simonapipko1.com.

Never-Trumpers Infected by Fake News

June 26, 2017/in Commentary, Elections, Politics, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by Lloyd Marcus

Watching MSNBC, I heard Chris Hayes list several bogus excuses for Ossoff losing in Georgia. Hayes placed Karen Handel receiving outside funds high on his list. I thought, Are you kidding me? Fake news media are committed 24/7 to deceiving Americans. Blocking Trump from implementing his and our agenda and impeaching him has become their sole reason for existence.

Ninety-five percent of Ossoff’s $23-million campaign funds came from outside of Georgia. Ossoff is the candidate who was overwhelmingly funded by outsiders, not Handel. Handel’s campaign spent a fraction of what Ossoff’s campaign spent. Chris Hayes clearly lied, dispensing more fake news.

The bottom of the screen on MSNBC read something like CBC: Trump hurts black communities. In a letter rejecting Trump’s invite to meet with them, the Congressional Black Caucus wrote, “…we have in fact witnessed steps that will affirmatively hurt black communities.”

Leftists’ narrative that Trump is a racist hurting blacks is a flat out lie — more fake news. Trump reached out to the CBC at least two times, only to be given their middle finger. As a proud American who happens to be black this truly frustrates me.

After 40 years of Democrats’ broken promises, finally a president comes along with the courage and sincere desire to offer real hope and implement real change to black Americans. His genuine compassion is met with “Screw you” from black leaders and Leftists. Meanwhile, these same people celebrated Obama despite blacks moving backwards under Obama.

As a black American, I am outraged that the CBC turned down Trump offering real help as blacks continue to murder each other in record numbers. Over 70% of black kids live in fatherless households and drop out of school. And yet, fake news media would have you believe black American’s greatest Nemesis is Donald J. Trump.

These are just a few examples of fake news media’s relentless 24/7 deceptions.

And yet, Republicans like John McCain still pander to fake news media, desperate for an approving pat on the head. Kissing fake news media’s derriere, Senator John McCain recently made the outrageous statement that Obama was a better leader than Trump. How could any lover of freedom, liberty and America say such a thing? That statement should disqualify McCain from ever winning another election as a Republican.

Never-Trump conservatives/Republicans betray their principles, hoping fake news media will not lump them in with the unsophisticated Americans who voted for Trump. I have totally lost respect for never-Trumps. I suspect many of them secretly wish Hillary won.

Think about that folks. We have Republicans and conservatives who claim to love freedom and liberty. They also claim their disdain for Trump is rooted in morality. And yet, they would prefer a vile human being in the WH who said a woman has the right to murder her baby moments before birth; a serial liar; a cold-calculating extreme Leftist who placed her political fortunes above American lives in Benghazi; someone who is totally against religious liberty and someone who vowed to continue Obama’s mission to make America last.

Never-Trumpers deem Trump’s hairdo and non-traditional political behaviors more repulsive than Hillary’s multiple crimes and misdemeanors. Such convoluted thinking is unworthy of my time or energy.

It is as though never-Trumps are back in high school sucking up to the cool kids, meaning the fake news media. By watching too much MSNBC and CNN never-Trumps have become infected via causal contact. They remind me of Lot’s wife.

God told Lot to remove his family because he was going to burn the wicked cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. Lot’s wife was probably a closet subscriber of The Sodomy Times and Gomorrah Post. Infected from consuming fake news, I wonder if Lot’s wife concluded her husband and God were intolerant religious haters. While exiting Sodom, Lot’s wife ignored God’s command not to look back. She stole one last glance at sin city and was instantly transformed into a pillar of salt.

I know never-Trumps who faithfully view CNN and MSNBC. I thought we were on the same side over the past 8 years, fighting Obama’s heartbreaking purposed destruction of our great nation; his repeals of our God-given and Constitutional freedoms. But those principles and values for which we so valiantly fought seem to have taken a back seat to their dislike for Trump. Never-Trumps either totally ignore Trump’s remarkable list of repeals of Obama’s messes or pay them lip-service. Meanwhile, it is clear to see where their true passions lie as they enthusiastically parrot fake news media’s relentless criticisms of Trump.

Fake news media, DC establishment elites and never-Trumps are so shallow in their thinking, worshiping surface appearances over Trump’s patriotic positive intentions. Obama was an extremely cold, calculating, divisive and dishonest horrible leader who looked and spoke well.

Scripture says man looks upon the outward appearance, but God looks upon the heart. We the People see and connect with Trump’s heart. I proudly stand with We the People in my support for our president.

To our unfortunate never-Trump enemies within, with God’s help, We the People will defeat you.

RELATED VIDEO: In the recent video footage obtained by Project Veritas, John Bonifield a Sr. Producer at CNN, admits to several beliefs that are in direct conflict with the official CNN narrative that Trump has colluded with Russia, and that Russia has interfered with the 2016 election. Bonifield expresses clear doubts that there is a fire behind the Russia smoke, stating, “I haven’t seen any good enough evidence to show that the President committed a crime.” He also confirms suspicions that CNN staff is ideologically biased against Trump, stating, “I know a lot of people don’t like him and they’d like to see him get kicked out of office…”

Bonifield even further confirms CNN’s bias against the President, stating, “I think the President is probably right to say, like, look you are witch hunting me…you have no real proof.”

Bonifield exposes that Russia has been great for CNN’s ratings, and that orders from CEO Jeff Zucker himself have directed CNN to pursue Russia leads at the expense of other stories. Bonifield states “And the CEO of CNN said in our internal meeting, he said ‘good job everybody covering the Climate Accords, but we’re done with it let’s get back to Russia.’”

He further comments on Russia, “it’s mostly bullshit right now. Like, we don’t have any giant proof…if it was something really good, it’d leak.”

Ignorance is Bliss: Not always so!

June 25, 2017/in Commentary, Policy, Politics, Religion/by Victor Sharpe

“Nations seek to gain time through appeasement before the Islamic tide washes over them: But that is folly.”

We have witnessed over and over again Arab and Muslim war crimes on a never ending spiral of horror inflicted upon non-Muslims worldwide and particularly upon Israel’s civilian population. No doubt, future salvos of missiles will rein down upon Israeli villages, towns and cities, fired by Iran’s proxy Hamas, the brutal occupiers of Gaza, and by its Hezbollah proxy which infests Lebanon. As before, the world will yawn.

And daily crimes committed by the Arabs, calling themselves Palestinians, who stab, bomb and mow down Israeli civilians will invariably go unmentioned in the world’s media. A most egregious example of the media’s double standard was the recent terror attack in Jerusalem, Israel, by three Palestinians, which resulted in the grisly stabbing to death of a young 23 year old Israeli policewoman and the wounding of three civilians.

The BBC’s grotesque headline ran, “three Palestinians killed after deadly stabbing in Jerusalem.” The BBC report only mentioned the deaths of the three Palestinian murderers and failed to note that they were terrorist who murdered a young border policewoman.

But then, remarkably, the same media will doubtless awaken when the Jews have the unmitigated gall, temerity and chutzpah to defend themselves against unbearable Muslim violence and provocation, as they were forced to do during the last Gaza War.

It will be then, as always, that an outpouring of brutish and irrational hatred towards the Jewish state will explode in much of the morally bankrupt mainstream media, and among the thousands of hate filled Muslims who will take to the streets of European capitals with their duped young European followers in violent displays of mindless enmity.

The world had also yawned before and during the dark years of World War 2 when Jews were disappearing all over Europe. It was a time of towering intolerance and we have now retreated to those terrible years yet again.

It was then that Hitler targeted the Jews, always the victims of prior and ancient religious calumnies. Far too many of the peoples of Europe aided and abetted the German Nazis’ systematic slaughter of the stateless and hapless Jewish communities. But long dark centuries preceded Nazism as Jews throughout Europe were martyred in their millions at the hands of both the Church and the temporal powers. Indeed if you need to know the name of the largest Jewish cemetery in the world: It is Europe.

But once the Nazi hordes were driven back and defeated the cry became, “Never Again.” But it is happening again. The same world, albeit now with the children and grandchildren of that mostly compliant generation that allowed the Nazi horror to grow and metastasize, are again turning against the Jews and against the reconstituted biblical and ancestral Jewish homeland: Israel.

But this time the intolerance that is leading them into a new dark age is that which Winston Churchill called a 7th century ideology wrapped in a religion: Islam.

Here are the words of Churchill, one of the world’s greatest patriots who helped save the world from the Nazi juggernaut of death:

“How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries!“

Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.

“A degraded sensualism deprives this [Muslim] life of grace and refinement; the next of dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property – either as a child, a wife, or a concubine – must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men … all [Muslims] know how to die but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world.

“Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.

“Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not so costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance for survival. There may be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no chance of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.”- (Winston Churchill on Islam in his book, The River War)

In the first volume of my trilogy, Politicide: The attempted murder of the Jewish state, I ended the concluding page as follows:

“I for one realize that Islam will never accept a non-Islamic state in lands once conquered in the name of Allah. Therefore I no longer include in my articles or essays the phrase, the Arab-Israel conflict or the Israel-Palestinian conflict. Instead, I call it the Israel-Islam conflict. Alas, that is what it is, what it always has been, and what it always will be.”

In Volume Two, I concluded with these words:

“The appeasement of the Arab and Muslim world will bring the exact opposite of what the appeasers seek.”

Winston Churchill wrote the following:

“Appeasement is like feeding a crocodile in the hope he will eat you last.”

I went on to add:

“The crocodile has no feelings of sympathy, nor does the Muslim Arab whose culture considers concessions a form of weakness and will offer no reciprocal concessions but cruelly demand more and more. It reminds me of the ancient saying from the Jewish Ethics of the Fathers: ‘Whoever is merciful to the cruel, ends by being cruel to the merciful.’”

The third volume of Politicide includes example after example of just such appeasement by growing numbers of individuals in the West towards the voracious Muslim appetite for world conquest, for a Caliphate and for triumphant Islam. Those individuals include politicians, tenured professors, journalists, entertainers, ad nauseam.

Nations seek to gain time – before the Islamic tide washes over them – through appeasement. They do so by ever growing hostility and intolerance towards the embattled Jewish state and towards those who warn against placating jihadi terror in the hope of assuaging the Islamic appetite. But it is all folly.

Western European nations are now submerged in an ever growing, Sharia compliant, Islamic monster that is within the gates. In a generation or two, France, Belgium, Holland, Italy, Spain, Germany, the Scandinavian countries and Britain may no longer retain a Judaeo-Christian culture or civilization except in small pockets, always besieged by a Muslim majority they so foolishly allowed to grow and strengthen within their borders.

The world is changing and Israel, the one Jewish state, now finds itself after years of foolish concessions to an implacable Muslim and Arab foe, left with so little land, and with a Palestinian Authority occupying territory in the very heartland of the Jewish people’s patrimony – Judea and Samaria – called by its Jordanian Arab name: the ‘West Bank’.

And then there is Gaza: A finger of land pointing into Israel’s heart like some cancerous tumor. This territory is occupied by Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood branch of the so-called Palestinian Arabs.
As Adrian Morgan, a past editor of Family Security Matters, in his foreword to the third volume pointed out, this Islamic organization is motivated by an abiding hatred of Jews and not only wishes to exterminate the Jewish state and all its citizens, but seeks to destroy Jews throughout the world.
And now, after Israel in 2005 drove out its own citizens from their villages and farms in Gaza, 10,000 Jewish refugees from Gaza live within Israel, their lives embittered by such a breathtakingly stupid Israeli concession.

Since Israel withdrew from Gaza in the hope that the Arabs would live peaceably with them and share in the benefits for all that comes from a true and lasting peace, Israeli villages and towns in southern and central Israel endure a barrage of deadly missiles.

So many Israeli concessions forced upon weak Israeli leaders by friends and foes alike have endangered Israel’s existence more than the combined military and terroristic Arab aggression against her since her reconstitution as a Jewish nation in 1948.

As you will read in the many chapters of Volume Three, and in the two previous volumes of Politicide, Israeli concessions have never been met by Arab and Muslim concessions: Never.

The outrageous euphemisms employed to mask Israeli capitulation are well known. “Land for Peace” is the term used to sanitize Israeli national suicide. Land, precious land, with spiritual, historical, and strategic value to Israel, has been given away to persuade the Muslim Arab enemy to join in the benefits of peaceful coexistence.

But it is a disastrous charade played upon the Jewish state for, in return for painful Israeli concessions of territory, the Arabs who call themselves Palestinians, never, ever offer peace but endless intolerance, terror and greater and greater demands.

Another suicidal euphemism to mask Israel’s gradual destruction is, “The Two-State-Solution.” This abomination has permitted a delusional belief that two states can live side by side in peace with each other. One state is Israel, a democratic nation. The other state would be “Palestine,” – an artificial creation that has never existed as a sovereign nation in all of history – that would live and breathe relentless and genocidal aggression towards its neighbor, Israel.

For such a state to exist that patently and demonstrably has no desire – because of its adherence to its Islamic faith – to ever give up its ambition to destroy the Jewish state, will be the ultimate fatal error of any Israeli government.

It is national suicide and the very euphemism, “Two-State-Solution,” echoes in its hideous similarity that other euphemism employed by Nazi Germany as it systematically exterminated 6,000,000 Jews: “The Final Solution.”

Let me quote from words I wrote in one of the chapters in Politicide; words which, I believe, must be stated over and over again.

“Even though the native and indigenous peoples of Israel are the Jews, and even though the Land of Israel was given to the Jewish people in an eternal covenant with God, it does not matter to Islam’s adherents, for wherever the Muslim foot has once trod triumphal, that territory is forever regarded as Islamic. It becomes the Dar al-Islam (the House of Islam).

“If such territory is lost to Muslims, it enters the Dar al-Harb (the House of War). Allah has been diminished and the land must be retaken however long it takes. Peace, then, is merely a mirage in the desert sands.

“Too many world leaders fail to understand the Muslim mindset. Israeli leaders, who of all people should know better, still fall into the fatal trap of believing that the Western model of lasting peace between nation-states can equally apply in the Middle East between Muslim and non-Muslim nations. It is a fatal fallacy.”

Thus we reach the year 2017. It is a year in which anti-Semitism is on the rise by quantum leaps and the international guilt that permeated nation states after the Holocaust is fast withering away. The spectacle of the individual Jew as a victim is now increasingly replaced by the Jewish state; itself now cast in the role of the persecuted Jew.

The baffling alliance of the Left with Islam is a phenomenon stalking the world. Its target is the Jewish state even though the Left is protected and free to exercise its political will within the Israeli democracy.

But it remains forbidden to challenge all powerful Islam within the fifty seven Muslim nations and, because of the insanity of political correctness, it is now practically forbidden throughout so many western countries.

Phyllis Chesler, the feminist writer, saw as far back as 2003, what horrors were emerging in the West. Writing in her book, “The New Anti-Semitism: The Current Crisis and What We Must Do About It,” she penned the following:

“When feminists, gay rights groups, and civil rights activists choose to support Islamic countries where women are subject to honor murders and vile genital mutilation, where homosexuals are imprisoned and sometimes executed, and – in the case of Sudan today and Saudi Arabia before 1962 – slavery is practiced, something irrational is at work. Only anti-Semitism can explain this weird Marxist-Islamic alliance.”

Indeed, the Left and Islam in their unholy alliance target the Jewish state with growing venom.

That Islam will turn with increased intolerance upon the leftists is guaranteed, yet it will let the Left work its evil upon Israel before – like Churchill’s crocodile – it devours its erstwhile partner.

In the Passover story, which is enshrined in the Haggadah, the book retelling the events of the Exodus and of the order of the Seder meal, there is a profound and millennial old passage:

“Not one man alone has risen up against us to destroy us, but in every generation there have risen up against us those who sought to destroy us; but the Holy One, blessed be He, delivers us from their hands.” And so it was and still is.

Hopefully you, dear reader, will become one of those who choose to defend and support Israel’s struggle to survive and benefit all mankind in an ever darkening world so full of intolerance.

In such a time as this, ignorance is not bliss.

The Left has one more argument: Kill them!

June 25, 2017/in Commentary, Culture War, Elections, Policy, Politics/by Dr. Rich Swier

The Left, and its Muslim allies, have never been open to rational discussion or debate. And now they’re growing increasingly thuggish and violent.

“Ann Coulter: The Left Has One More Argument: Kill Them!,” by Ann Coulter, Breitbart, June 21, 2017:

After a Bernie Sanders supporter tried to commit mass murder last week – the second homicidal Bernie supporter so far this year — the media blamed President Trump for lowering the bar on heated political rhetoric by calling his campaign opponents cruel names like “Crooked Hillary” and “Lyin’ Ted.”

As soon as any conservative responds to Trump’s belittling names for his rivals by erupting in a murderous rage, that will be a fantastically good point. But until then, it’s idiotic. Unlike liberals, conservatives aren’t easily incited to violence by words.

What we’re seeing is the following: Prominent liberals repeatedly tell us, with deadly seriousness, that Trump and his supporters are: “Hitler,” “fascists,” “bigots,” “haters,” “racists,” “terrorists,” “criminals,” and “white supremacists,” which is then followed by liberals physically attacking conservatives.

To talk about “both sides” being guilty of provocative rhetoric is like talking about “both genders” being guilty of rape.

Nearly every op-ed writer at The New York Times has compared Trump to Hitler. (The conservative on the op-ed page merely called him a “proto-fascist.”) If Trump is Hitler and his supporters Nazis, then the rational course of action for any civilized person is to kill them.

That’s not just a theory, it’s the result.

A few months ago, 38-year-old Justin Barkley shot and killed a UPS driver in a Walmart parking lot in Ithaca, New York, then ran over his body, because he thought he was killing Donald Trump. During his arraignment, Barkley told the judge: “I shot and killed Donald Trump purposely, intentionally, and very proudly.”

In the past year, there have been at least a hundred physical attacks on Trump supporters or presumed Trump supporters. The mainstream media have ignored them all.

Schoolchildren across the country are being hospitalized from beatings for the crime of liking Trump. In Pasco, Oregon, a 29-year-old Trump supporter was stabbed in the throat by a Hispanic man, Alvaro Campos-Hernandez, after a political argument.

Last month, the anti-jihad scholar Robert Spencer was poisoned in Iceland by a Social Justice Warrior pretending to be a fan, sending Spencer to the hospital.

It’s become so normal for leftist thugs to assault anyone who likes Trump that, in Meriden, Connecticut, Wilson Echevarria and Anthony Hobdy leapt out of their car and started punching and hitting a man holding a Trump sign, rolling him into traffic right in front of a policeman.

If any one of these bloody attacks had been committed by a Trump supporter against a Muslim, a gay, a Mexican, a woman, or a Democrat, the media would have had to drop its Russia conspiracy theory to give us 24-7 coverage of the epidemic of right-wing violence.

The liberal response to this ceaseless mayhem toward conservatives is to produce a single nut, who fired a gun in the Comet Ping Pong pizzeria in Washington, D.C., last December (hurting no one) to “rescue children,” after reading on obscure right-wing blogs that the restaurant hid a Democratic pedophilia ring. (They’ve also hyped a long list of “hate crimes” that were utter hoaxes.)

Congratulations, liberals! You got one. And some tiny number of girls raped men last year. QED: Both sexes have a rape problem.

Liberal aggression has ratcheted up dramatically since the dawn of Trump, as has the dehumanizing rhetoric, but epic violence from the left is nothing new.

We don’t have to go back more than century to note that every presidential assassin and attempted presidential assassin who had a political motive was a leftist, a socialist, a communist, or a member of a hippie commune. (Charles J. Guiteau, Leon Czolgosz, Giuseppe Zangara, Lee Harvey Oswald, Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme, and Sara Jane Moore.)…

Liberals know damn well that their audience includes a not-insignificant portion of foaming-at-the-mouth lunatics, prepared, at the slightest provocation, to smash windows, burn down neighborhoods, physically attack, and even murder conservatives. But instead of toning down the rhetoric, the respectable left keeps throwing matches on the bone-dry tinder, and then indignantly asks, “Are you saying conservatives don’t do it, too?”

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What Alcoholics, Democrats and the Catholic Hierarchy Have in Common

June 24, 2017/in Commentary, Policy, Politics, Religion/by Dr. Richard Ruhling, MD

The ability to accept reality is fading in the U.S. Freedom is failing as minorities insist on their rights like eating a piece of pie from the middle. “A house divided against itself cannot stand”, Abraham Lincoln.

As a young medical intern 50 years ago, I had a patient in the emergency room who had succumbed to the stresses of running a half-way house for alcoholics. As he mended, I went to an Alcoholic Anonymous meeting with him and appreciated two pamphlets I was given: “Alcoholism is a Merry-Go-Round Named Denial,” and “How to Help an Alcoholic Who Insists He Doesn’t Need Any Help.”

The alcoholic denies he has a problem with alcohol. It’s the fault of the kids, the wife, or the boss. There’s an inability to deal with reality without a drink and it affects everyone in his world.

The political views of some leaders, especially Democrats, are intolerance of reality.

They lost the election but there’s an inability to wait for another opportunity while working together to solve mutual problems. Washington, D.C. has been called the alcoholic capitol of the U.S. and politicians seem bent on rule or hostility, egged on by mainstream media that are willing to crumble the cookie by fighting over it. In a WND.com article titled 1 Nation, No More? Joseph Farah warns media’s propaganda war could ‘explode into a shooting war’. Farah writes:

The U.S. motto, “e pluribus unum,” no longer applies.

We don’t live up to the phrase “out of many, one.” We don’t even try.

It’s passé. The opposite is where we’re heading – “out of one, many.” We have lost our commonality. We have shattered the bonds that once held us together – namely the principles of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution and the values that inspired them.

Everyone is beginning to notice it. The evidence is in the explosive, vitriolic political rhetoric of the day.

According to a new CBS News poll, three-quarters of Americans feel the current tone of politics and debate is encouraging violence among some people. Violence, not dissent. Violence, not just passion. Violence, not constructive change.

Read more.

The media portray the Catholic leadership as divided over the Pope Francis’ liberal ways, but if this nation needs UN peace-keepers, the Pope will be the power behind the throne to favor the end of U.S. sovereignty.

What we are seeing is the creation of problems and a crisis for which they have the answers.

Truth be told, the Bible offers insight to a coming New World Order. In the books of Daniel and the Revelation, we find world governments depicted as fierce beasts of prey in Daniel 7 where Rome was represented by the 4th beast and the papacy by the little horn that grew out of it. This was supported by Protestant reformers who all saw the abuse of papal power (and why early Americans fled the Old World) as fitting Daniel’s description.

Revelation 13 picks up where Daniel 7 left off. Even though it was written centuries before the Holy Roman Empire, the beast in verse 1 is an amalgamation of Daniel’s beasts that the papacy survived. Then the US (2nd beast, verse 11, causes the world to make an image—a look-alike to the Old World Order. New World Order is what’s coming, also seen by the papacy riding that beast in Revelation 17 where all the clues can only fit one church, also called the Mother of Harlots (false churches that no longer protest her).

Here’s a prophetic view of reality,

“When the time comes and men realize that the social edifice must be rebuilt according to eternal standards, be it tomorrow, or be it centuries from now, the Catholics will arrange things to suit said standards.”

“Undeterred by [others]…They will make obligatory the religious observance of Sunday on behalf of the whole of society and for its own good, revoking the permit for freethinkers and Jews to celebrate incognito, Monday or Saturday on their own account. Those whom this may annoy, will have to put up with the annoyance. Respect will not be refused to the Creator nor repose denied to the creature simply for the sake of humoring certain maniacs, whose frenetic condition causes them stupidly and insolently to block the will of a whole people.” (The Liberal Illusion, Louis Veuillot, published by the National Catholic Welfare Conference, Washington, D.C.).

Never mind that ‘Sunday’ (their creation, also day of pagan sun worship) isn’t commanded in the Bible and “the first day” (reference to what we know as Sunday) is only found once in the book of Acts while “Sabbath” is found nine times—three times as “every Sabbath”–the custom of the apostles. They saw no change in the day of worship. Not Sunday, but baptism by immersion is the Bible symbol to honor the resurrection as we rise to walk in a new, Christian life—not by sprinkling an infant that has no understanding.

This isn’t against sincere Catholics, but against a system that fails to teach the Bible as the basis of life and salvation, Matthew 4:4; 23:9.

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June 23, 2017/in Commentary, Courts & Law, Culture War, Policy, Politics, Religion/by The Catholic Thing

Carnival in Berlin by Jeanne Mammen, c. 1930 [MOMA, NY]

David Warren on Canadian craziness: if you’re a member of a protected class, you may still say anything; but if you are not, God help you.

One is left speechless by some government legislation. That would be its intention, for it is designed to prevent, or gravely discourage, persons with views other than the Zeitgeist’s from expressing themselves.

The Zeitgeist demands. And what it demands, Courts and Parliaments deliver.

It began as a malicious game among liberals and progressives, to tar their political opponents through a mechanism we call “political correctness,” on college campuses and in other environments over which they were able to wrest control.

It was a “trend” of the late twentieth century. The Berlin Wall came down, to much celebration; but new psychic walls were erected to advance the old project of human engineering, towards the New Soviet Man, placidly obedient to the revolutionary authorities.

Then it launched, like Sputnik, into outer space. For while the bright lights in French, then American, intellectual circles remained instinctively loyal to the old Party Line, their ambitions went beyond it. They did not wish to stop at “worker’s control of the means of production,” or anything so humble. They wanted everything changed.

The Leninists, and their politburos through three generations, did not question so many of the old bourgeois assumptions, inherited from centuries of Christian civilization. To them, for instance, a man was still a man, a woman still a woman, the child was still their child. They made “advances” on such fronts as divorce, and abortion, declared the sexes “equal” – but there were still two sexes, and in Communist societies quite old-fashioned, normative attitudes were maintained.

In many ways, the Communists were among the most “conservative” of rulers. Their movement went back before Marx, to the invention of “workers” in the Industrial Revolution, and to the French bloodbath of Robespierre, in which “the masses” were first organized as a kind of battering ram against the anciently established institutions of Church and State.

Marx, Engels, Lenin, Mao, Ho, Pol Pot, were caught in a European time capsule. All of their adaptations assumed a conventional anthropology (“a man was a man for all that”). You could shoot him, or otherwise twist him to turn against the interests of his own person or family, but you still subconsciously knew what you were twisting.

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ABOUT DAVID WARREN

David Warren is a former editor of the Idler magazine and columnist with the Ottawa Citizen. He has extensive experience in the Near and Far East. His blog, Essays in Idleness, is now to be found at: davidwarrenonline.com.

EDITORS NOTE: The featured image is of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau waving a LGBT flag with a new trans rights bill today. Photo by Justin Ling.

Biblical Clues to Christ’s Hebrew Name and Jesuit Mischief with Jesus

June 22, 2017/in Commentary, Religion/by Dr. Richard Ruhling, MD

Christ implies that we don’t understand the parables—we are asleep with lights out in Matthew 25:5. The next verse says ‘midnight.’ It’s dark, and hence a need of oil in the lamps to find the way to the wedding.

There is parallel imagery in the Song of Solomon representing Israel’s wisest king, the Messiah where His name is as ointment. Ointment is an oily preparation and the anointing oil used for priests had sweet spices (Exodus 30:30-34) that would be fragrant.

“Because of the savoir of thy good ointments thy name is as ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love thee.” Song of Songs 1:3. In the dark, if we didn’t have lamps, we might find the Savior, attracted by His fragrance, as the High Priest had in Exodus 30) and be drawn to the wedding by His name.

But since so many virgins miss the wedding in Matthew 25, we must ask the question, could they miss it because they don’t have His name? A study of Christ’s name in the 7 churches of Revelation 2 and 3 shows that it disappeared in the 4th church, Rev 2:20 where Jezebel is a clue for the Dark Ages of papal supremacy.

No mention of His name is made. How did it disappear? Pergamos “held fast my name,” but after the papal reign, Sardis (Protestants) has a name that lives but is dead, Rev 3:1. Protestants accepted a false name from Catholic translators. The original King James Bible translated the Savior’s name as Iesous. How is it wrong?

Names should not be translated. George Bush wasn’t called ‘little shrub’ in Chinese when he went there; names (proper nouns) are transliterated to give the same sounds, but this was not done by Jesuit translators.
Christ said, “I am come in my Father’s name and you receive me not; if another shall come in his own name, him you will receive.” John 5:43. If the Father’s name was Zeus, then they say it right in Italy when they pronounce the Savior’s name as ‘Yea Zeus’ and in Latin America, Hey Zeus. We say Gee Zus. Jesuits used the name of Zeus, the savior god of Greek mythology who saved everyone with no need to repent!
Dictionaries show Jesuit as “members of the Society of Jesus, a Roman Catholic Order.” Christ says, “I gave her (Jezebel) space to repent and she repented not. Behold I will cast her into a bed and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent…” Revelation 2:21,22.

An Interlinear Translation for King James Bible shows Christ had the same name—the same Greek letters that are translated Joshua in Acts 7:45 and Heb 4:8, but there was no J letter or sound in Greek or Hebrew.

The true name of the Savior is sometimes abbreviated as Y’shua where the Y’ represents God’s name and shua means salvation. This is the name the angel gave to Mary, ‘for He shall save His people from their sins’ God saves those who come to Him seeking repentance. Zeus is unable to save, but millions think he will save them in spite of their sins when there is no repentance as taught in the Bible. This is Greek mythology.

Paul said to the Greeks ‘The times of this ignorance God winked at, but now commands all men everywhere to repent, because He has appointed a day in which He will judge the world,” Acts 17:30, 31. Coming soon.

A strange thing happens to many Christians who profess to follow Christ, but when they learn His true Hebrew name, they are not so sure about a Hebrew Messiah; they prefer the Greek name. We are tested by Scripture: “Thy name is as ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love Thee.” Song of Songs 1:3.

The Bride of Christ must take Christ’s true name. Are we part of the wise virgins seeking the wedding? We need to repent of all false teachings and “Come out of her, My people, they ye partake not of her sins and receive not of her plagues…” Rev 18:4

Y’shua’s name and sound the Shofar.

EDITORS NOTE: Dr. Richard Ruhling is author of The Alpha & Omega Bible Code with mostly 5-star reviews on Amazon. Readers can get more information and a PDF at his website, http://TheBridegroomComes.com.

Class and Race Are Never an Excuse to Gloat over State Atrocities by Jeffrey A. Tucker

June 22, 2017/in Commentary, Culture War, National Security, Politics, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by Foundation for Economic Education (FEE)

Even with all the news of terrorism around the world, there is something especially chilling and horrifying about the case of 22-year-old Otto Warmbier. Hearing the news of his death wounded me, and, I admit, more so than the usual litany of suffering around the world.

If there is anything redeeming to come of this, it should be a wake-up call to all of us to change the way we think about human rights and stop a terrible trajectory of public rhetoric.

Here was a remarkable young man, an outstanding student, and, by all accounts, an exuberant and warm person. Even if none of this were true, he still had a right not to be kidnapped and killed by an extraordinarily evil government, one of the last surviving full-blown totalitarian states in the world, one run by a leadership cult of the most disgusting type. But this is exactly what happened.

He was on a student trip to China and decided on his own to take a side trip to North Korea. The ad was posted by Young Pioneer Tours, promising “budget travel to destinations your mother would rather you stayed away from.” All seemed fine until he was boarding a plane to return to China. Suddenly, North Korean officials arrested him, accusing him of stealing a propaganda poster from the hotel.

According to NPR, he was trying to bring back a memento of his trip which he planned to take back to Wyoming in exchange for a used car. He tried to remove a sign but it proved too unwieldy and left it on the floor.

It tells you all you need to know that the regime believed that this was a high crime. After an hour-long trial, the government posted this apology video, which is one of the most heart-wrenching things you will ever watch. It is a forced confession straight out of the worst dystopian novel you have ever read.

He was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor. His parents could do nothing. Not even the US government could intervene. There was no jurisdiction. Otto was trapped in a horrid prison state.

Something terrible happened while he was there. The government eventually released him to his parents, citing “humanitarian” concerns. When he arrived for the reunion, he was essentially brain dead. He died two days later. The autopsy showed the North Korean government’s explanation that he had contracted botulism to be a lie.

The Disgrace of the Left

The news of this case first came out more than a year and a half ago, and I distinctly remember a strange schadenfreude emerging from the political left. Almost like this kid had it coming. Actually, not almost. That is what some people said.

Nick Gillespie at Reason dug up the archives to find the evidence. On Comedy Central’s The Nightly Show, host Larry Wilmore said: “Frat Bro Privilege not valid in totalitarian dystopias.” “North Korea isn’t a playground for college pranks, Kim Jong-un isn’t a fictional character from a Seth Rogen movie, and Pyongyang isn’t some game you play with Coors Light and Solo cups… It’s just tough for me to have much sympathy for this guy and his crocodile tears.”

Then there is this from Ebony: “I’m willing to bet my last dollar that he was aware of the political climate in that country, but privilege is a hell of a drug. The high of privilege told him that North Korea’s history of making examples out of American citizens who dare challenge their rigid legal system in any way was no match for his alabaster American privilege.”

This is incredibly wicked rhetoric, and probably both writers have some regret in retrospect. And yet: what is it that would possess anyone to express such sentiments based on class and race alone, as if this young man, who had never flaunted some imagined privilege, deserved his fate, and that it should be a lesson to all people of his class and race?

The Torture State

As dreadful as this Warmbier case is, it is paradigmatic of the totalitarian behavior of states at war. Legally, the US and North Korea are still at war. Thus does everything become justified. This is true not just in this terror state. Every state uses war as the reason to trample human rights.

New details are emerging from the CIA’s torture program that was active from 2002 to 2009, along with the testimony of two psychologists who ran the program out of a secret prison. Their private company was paid $81 million to apply “enhanced interrogation techniques” to detainees.

This too sounds like a scene from dystopia. What immediately came to my mind when hearing of the techniques (which included the use of insects) was the trained psychologist/torturer known as Scarecrow from Batman Begins.

Waterboarding is only the most famous. Techniques included this one for sleep deprivation, in the words of one of the psychologists:

“There is a tether anchored to the ceiling in the center of the detention cell. The detainee has handcuffs and they’re attached to the tether in a way that they can’t lie down or rest against a wall. They’re monitored to make sure they don’t get edema if they hang on the cuffs too much.”

What useful information came out of this program, which US taxpayers paid for? Nothing, so far as anyone knows, but it is likely that hundreds of lives were ruined, to say nothing of the countless lives lost in the wars of those years. The blowback of a growing army of dedicated terrorists is not hard to predict.

And yet you don’t have to look for small-time pundits to find a defense of these actions. They were overtly defended at the highest levels by Dick Cheney, John McCain, the head of the CIA itself, and the sitting President of the United States.

Their statements are backed by partisan supporters who believe that being from the wrong country and holding to the wrong religion is sufficient reason to rob a person of basic human rights. It’s a form of identity politics taken to a different level. It’s a game everyone plays.

No More

At some point we must say: enough. And this applies not only to the left but also to the alt-right, which daily fills up Twitter with rhetoric placing all blame for all that is wrong with the world on blacks, women, Muslims, intellectuals, or whatever.

There is always someone to cast into the outer darkness, human beings deemed unworthy of rights, people who should be gassed or tossed out of helicopters or exterminated. Every month for several years now, it has gotten worse.

And the problem afflicts not only these extremist voices. Even mainstream politics these days consists mostly of accusations of how the bad group is hurting the good group, how the bad class or race needs to be brought down so that the good class and race can be raised up. Elections are no longer peaceful transitions of managers but contests of will to gain access to the levers of power to use against your enemy.

Harmony Be Gone

Whatever happened to the old liberal ideal that people can and should live in harmony? This ideal gave rise to freedom as the enabling political and social template of a flourishing life. Every human being matters. Everyone has rights. Everyone has value. Dignity should belong to all.

The seeming loss of this dream – at least as regards politics – is the outgrowth of how government serves to divide and conquer. As in The Hunger Games, the players are so wrapped up in playing the game they are given that they forget to look up and out and see that there is a common enemy that is responsible for all this division in the first place.

Which brings us back to Otto. the egregious crime that led to his death had one cause: totalitarian government power. Anyone, regardless of race or class or gender etc., who suffers under such an evil deserves every bit of sympathy from every civilized person. It is true all over the world and even in your home town.

Whenever the violence of the state is brought to bear against the innocent, it surely qualifies among the peccata clamantia, sins that cry out to the heavens for vengeance.

In such divided times, it is incumbent on all decent and civilized people to lay down the weapons we wield against each other and recognize a truth that so many want to ignore: it is only the power of the state that can legally commit such crimes and expect acquiescence from its subjects. The government that did this to this man operated under the cover of its own legal apparatus of compulsion and coercion.

The young generation today looks around to find the source of evil in the world. One side says it is inequality and hence the state is the answer. The other side wants to blame foreigners and deviants and hence the state is the answer. But look more carefully at this case, or any case of torture and death.

What you see is that the state is not the answer at all, but the cruelest possible monster that masquerades as the solution to the problems of its own making.

Otto is a martyr in so many ways. May his death be a reminder to us all that we are all united in a common interest in freedom from the forces extant in the world that took away his life.

Jeffrey A. Tucker

Jeffrey Tucker is Director of Content for the Foundation for Economic Education. He is also Chief Liberty Officer and founder of Liberty.me, Distinguished Honorary Member of Mises Brazil, research fellow at the Acton Institute, policy adviser of the Heartland Institute, founder of the CryptoCurrency Conference, member of the editorial board of the Molinari Review, an advisor to the blockchain application builder Factom, and author of five books. He has written 150 introductions to books and many thousands of articles appearing in the scholarly and popular press.

When Blood Cries Out

June 22, 2017/in Commentary, Courts & Law, Culture War/by Brandi Chambless

Casey Anthony

“I once was Casey Anthony,” while her daughter Caylee’s blood cries out from the ground, “I know the truth.” — The Atonement

This “blood crying out” mentioned in my July 2011 column entitled The Atonement referenced the first recorded murder in human history (Genesis 4) when Cain killed his brother Abel. Until now, it was the last time I considered this passage since the days following Casey Anthony’s acquittal and the subsequent public outrage.

With the recent news, however, of OJ Simpson’s possible release from prison in October of this year, I began to think about some of the high-profile, unsolved murder mysteries in which blood is still crying out.

Like Caylee Anthony, the JonBenét Ramseys and Natalee Holloways of this world were voices of unsuspecting innocents whose fateful end was met one ordinary day of an unknown killer’s choosing.

But many others, such as Nicole Brown Simpson, knew they were in danger and left a trail of clues to tell another kind of story—the story of one who was repeatedly failed by law enforcement, counselors, and the entire court system at the hands of an abuser’s craftiness.

In covering the LA murder of Brown Simpson, The Chicago Tribune reported that Mr. Simpson even sought to portray his wife as the aggressor during a domestic dispute on Jan. 1, 1989 that left Brown Simpson hospitalized. (Vincent J. Schodolski, Tribune Staff Writer, Feb. 3, 1995)

Later, during the murder trial, the incident was described as a mutual wrestling match by the defense, and of course we all know the rest of the story. In spite of the overwhelming evidence that pointed to Mr. Simpson as not only a violent man with a propensity for spousal abuse, but also the guilty party in the murder of two people, the jury issued a not guilty verdict. Case closed.

Though the murders remain unsolved mysteries, Nicole’s blood testified on her behalf via a trail of evidence about the darker truths of her life. The evidence carried the whisper of “OJ did it” louder than any police report that recorded her repeated shouts of “He’s going to kill me!”

On December 6, 1994, just a few days shy of the six month anniversary of Nicole’s death, Senior Investigator Michael Stevens (Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office) used a drill to open a safe deposit box previously issued to Brown Simpson. Upon successfully breaking the latch, he found photos of Nicole’s bruised face, her will, newspaper clippings detailing a 1989 domestic dispute, and three hand-written letters from OJ taking responsibility for the beating.

Though her supposed killer is still at large, Nicole’s trail of evidence is a lesson to every woman who lives inside the invisible walls of a batterer that calling for help (when escape seems impossible) and documenting a history of hidden abuse can be a powerful witness in the years to come.

That is, if the years do come.

In June of 2016, the Allstate Foundation Purple Purse launched #FreeToWalk, a campaign to call attention to barriers that keep women trapped in abusive relationships. The campaign kicked off with the release of an online film “America’s Largest Prison Break”, based upon the true story of Lori, a woman who stored cash inside tampon applicators until she could make her escape. Lori was one of the chosen who was able to make it to the other side. Countless others like Nicole, did not make it.

If you are a victim of domestic violence and find yourself wondering how the cycle of abuse will ever change, the abusive partner must be willing to admit fully to what he or she has done and have a genuine desire to change. Too often, clergymen refer couples like this to traditional counselors who tend to re-victimize the abused party and enable the cycle of abuse to perpetuate.

Like Nicole, if you live inside invisible walls and today is not the day of your great prison break, I implore you to become your own future star witness and leave yourself a lighthouse toward home while in the rough waters. You may need it someday when all of the nights of terror and confusion might

A ‘One Flesh’ Sacramental Union

June 22, 2017/in Commentary, Culture War, Policy, Politics, Religion/by The Catholic Thing

Image: Wedding day: Emilia and Karol Wojtyła Sr., 1906

Eduardo Echeverria on marriage: it requires sexual difference – in the sexual act – as a foundational prerequisite, indeed, as intrinsic to a one flesh-union of man and woman.

St. John Paul II, Benedict XVI, and even Pope Francis – every one of these popes – affirms the moral and sacramental significance of the two-in-one-flesh bodily unity as foundational to the marital form of love. But it is precisely the embodiment of human persons, as man and woman, which has been lost in our culture, even among Catholics, for a proper understanding of marriage.

The unity attained in becoming “two-in-one-flesh” in marriage is grounded in the order of creation (Gen 1:27; 2:24), persists through the regime of sin, and it is affirmed and simultaneously renewed through the redemptive sacrament of marriage. I developed this point in an earlier column. But now I want to underscore that real bodily oneness, a one-flesh union between a man and a woman, actualizes marital unity.

Agreeing with Pope Francis’s critique of “gender ideology,” Cardinal Gerhard Müller, head of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, recently stated that gender ideology claims, “that man’s identity does not depend on nature, with a body that is limited to a masculine or feminine sexuality.” He adds, “There is an evident dualism behind all this: the body loses its significance vis-à-vis its own identity.” (The Cardinal Müller Report)

Contrary to this anthropological dualism, the Catholic tradition affirms that the body is intrinsic to selfhood, the human person is, bodily. This affirmation is rooted in the Church’s teaching on the soul/body unity of the human person. (Catechism of the Catholic Church 362-368) As John Paul says, “In fact, body and soul are inseparable: in the willing agent and in the deliberate act they stand or fall together.” (Veritatis Splendor 49) Therefore, we can easily understand why separating “the moral act from the bodily dimensions of its exercise is contrary to the teaching of Scripture and Tradition.”

This teaching is explicitly embraced by Benedict XVI (e.g., Address to the Roman Curia, December 21, 2012) and by Pope Francis (particularly in Amoris Laetitia 56, 74-75 and Laudato Si’ 155).

Click here to read the rest of Professor Echeverria’s column . . .

Eduardo J. Echeverria

Eduardo J. Echeverria is Professor of Philosophy and Systematic Theology, Sacred Heart Major Seminary, Detroit. His publications include Pope Francis: The Legacy of Vatican II (2015) and Divine Election: A Catholic Orientation in Dogmatic and Ecumenical Perspective (2016).

Ossoff’s Defeat is a Win for America!

June 22, 2017/in Commentary, Elections, Policy, Politics/by Lloyd Marcus

Did the Russians hack the Georgia election? Leftists are all over media creating straw-men to disguise the simple truth that voter’s have rejected their treasonous Trump resistance movement. Jon Ossoff losing in Georgia is the 5th election Democrats have lost since Trump’s shocking crashing defeat of Hillary. Losing the Georgia race has to be particularly painful because once again, Leftists lied to themselves and their base that Ossoff would surely win just like they did with Hillary.

My question is how crazy will Democrats’ official Resistance Summer domestic terrorism become after their devastating loss in Georgia? Thus far, Leftists have mock beheaded Trump; mock put a bullet in his head; mock stabbed Trump, dreamed of beating Trump with a golf club; talked about blowing up the White House, physically attacked Trump voters; kidnapped/tortured a Trump supporter and gunned down Republicans while practicing for a charity baseball game.

Leftists are disappointed, desperate, deranged and overflowing with hatred for our president and his supporters; an extremely dangerous mix of emotions. How much lower will Leftists take their depravity and violence?

My fellow Americans, I wish to express my deep heartfelt thanks for your help stopping Jon Ossoff, “Nasty” Pelosi’s latest anti-Trump minion. A handful of Hollywood Leftists spent mega-millions to help their Great Leftist Hope candidate win the Georgia congressional seat. Ossoff could not vote for himself because he does not live in the 6th district. Masters of deception, Democrats pretended their national Leftist push for Ossoff represented the thinking of Georgia voters. They lied.

My wife Mary and I spent months in Georgia with the Conservative Campaign Committee in their boots-on-the-ground effort to inspire Georgia voters to “drop the remote and vote.” We ran radio ads on major stations, conducted numerous sign waving sessions at busy intersections, sent out mailers, organized phone-from-phone, produced videos and tons of social media. We left no stones un-turned to get votes for Republican Karen Handel.

Brothers and sisters who love America, we cannot let up. Rest assured, Leftists will triple down on their insane efforts to remove our president. We must stay engaged. Republicans must continue to vote in large numbers, not taking any of the upcoming races for granted. Again, thanks for you help carrying Karen Handel across the finish line. God bless.