As we witness a government that is out of control and rapidly becoming a dictatorship it is useful to remember a warning given by American broadcaster for ABC News Radio Paul Harvey on April 3, 1965.
If I were the devil … If I were the Prince of Darkness, I’d want to engulf the whole world in darkness. And I’d have a third of it’s real estate, and four-fifths of its population, but I wouldn’t be happy until I had seized the ripest apple on the tree — Thee. So I’d set about however necessary to take over the United States. I’d subvert the churches first — I’d begin with a campaign of whispers. With the wisdom of a serpent, I would whisper to you as I whispered to Eve: ‘Do as you please.’
“To the young, I would whisper that ‘The Bible is a myth.’ I would convince them that man created God instead of the other way around. I would confide that what’s bad is good, and what’s good is ‘square.’ And the old, I would teach to pray, after me, ‘Our Father, which art in Washington…’
“And then I’d get organized. I’d educate authors in how to make lurid literature exciting, so that anything else would appear dull and uninteresting. I’d threaten TV with dirtier movies and vice versa. I’d pedal narcotics to whom I could. I’d sell alcohol to ladies and gentlemen of distinction. I’d tranquilize the rest with pills.
“If I were the devil I’d soon have families that war with themselves, churches at war with themselves, and nations at war with themselves; until each in its turn was consumed. And with promises of higher ratings I’d have mesmerizing media fanning the flames. If I were the devil I would encourage schools to refine young intellects, but neglect to discipline emotions — just let those run wild, until before you knew it, you’d have to have drug sniffing dogs and metal detectors at every schoolhouse door.
“Within a decade I’d have prisons overflowing, I’d have judges promoting pornography — soon I could evict God from the courthouse, then from the schoolhouse, and then from the houses of Congress. And in His own churches I would substitute psychology for religion, and deify science. I would lure priests and pastors into misusing boys and girls, and church money. If I were the devil I’d make the symbols of Easter an egg and the symbol of Christmas a bottle.
“If I were the devil I’d take from those who have, and give to those who wanted until I had killed the incentive of the ambitious. And what do you bet? I couldn’t get whole states to promote gambling as thee way to get rich? I would caution against extremes and hard work, in Patriotism, in moral conduct. I would convince the young that marriage is old-fashioned, that swinging is more fun, that what you see on TV is the way to be. And thus I could undress you in public, and I could lure you into bed with diseases for which there is no cure. In other words, if I were the devil I’d just keep right on doing on what he’s doing. Paul Harvey, good day.”
http://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.png00Dr. Rich Swierhttp://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.pngDr. Rich Swier2023-06-12 09:47:112023-06-14 07:18:34Paul Harvey’s ‘If I were the Devil’ and the political persecution of President Donald J. Trump
Left-wing billionaire Pierre Omidyar’s nonprofit provided funding for a “portal” linked to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) aimed at flagging and removing “misinformation” on social media platforms relating to the 2020 election, according to documents obtained by independent journalist Lee Fang.
The Center for Internet Security, a nonprofit organization focused on cybersecurity, partnered with election officials and a component of DHS to facilitate the reporting of “misinformation” during the 2020 general election through its “reporting portal,” as revealed in a CIS report obtained by Fang.
“Through the support of a grant from the Democracy Fund, CIS began developing a web- based interactive platform, the Misinformation Reporting Portal (MiRP) as a means for facilitating interaction between election officials and their representatives CISA, CIS, and social media platforms,” the CIS report stated.
A nonprofit founded by left-wing billionaire Pierre Omidyar funded a government-linked “portal” that was used to flag and censor social media content containing “misinformation” during the 2020 election, according to documents obtained by independent journalist Lee Fang.
Center for Internet Security (CIS), a nonprofit that advocates solutions to help safeguard against online threats, collaborated with election officials and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), which is a component of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), to report misinformation during the 2020 general election, according to a CIS report Fang obtained. Omidyar’s Democracy Fund provided a $130,000 grant to CIS with the stated purpose of “program support for Elections Security Best Practices Project,” according to 2020 tax records obtained by Fang.
“Through the support of a grant from the Democracy Fund, CIS began developing a web- based interactive platform, the Misinformation Reporting Portal (MiRP) as a means for facilitating interaction between election officials and their representatives CISA, CIS, and social media platforms,” the CIS report states.
CISA has a panel called the Protecting Critical Infrastructure from Misinformation and Disinformation Subcommittee, which issued recommendations in June 2022 on how to address threats to “critical functions” of democracy, including elections.
“CISA does not censor speech, period,” the agency told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “CISA’s mission is to build resilience to disinformation and foreign malign influence activities that threaten critical infrastructure, including election infrastructure. We work in a non-partisan manner with state and local election officials to equip the American public with accurate information about the conduct and security of their elections. Online content platform operators, as always, make their own decisions regarding the content on their platforms.”
I have a new document showing that a billionaire Biden donor funded the "misinformation reporting" portal used by the Dept. of Homeland Security to flag tweets for censorship during the 2020 election. I obtained this report from a public records request. pic.twitter.com/EguMPFM8ZK
The CIS’s MiRP handled 209 cases during the 2020 election and 61% of them “resulted in positive action,” meaning the posts were taken down or labeled, according to the CIS report. There was an increase in misinformation submissions around the time the actual election occurred, as over half were within 10 days of it.
Some examples on election day were “claims that typical machine issues were nefarious and intended to sway the election” and “claims that typical election operations (e.g., movement of ballots) were improper and/or nefarious,” according to the CIS report. On election night, there were reports of misinformation on “claims of ballot ‘stuffing,’” “claims of intentional restriction of poll watchers” and “claims of manipulation of results by voting systems or super computers.”
CIS and CISA collaborated to make sure that the submissions were promptly sent to the respective social media platform within one hour of receipt, most often Facebook and Twitter, according to the report. Facebook and Twitter accounted for 80% of the reported cases.
“In addition to sharing all reports with CISA, some reports were shared with the Federal Bureau of Investigation,” the CIS report stated.
The Omidyar Network, a social change investment firm, also funded Accountable Tech, which led an effort to pressure advertisers to stop buying ads on Twitter after Tesla CEO Elon Musk purchased the platform, according to the project’s website. The Omidyar Network contributed four grants ranging from $12,825 to $209,500 between October 2022 and March 2023, according to a grant database.
Jim Trusty puts George Stephanopoulos in his place🔥👇🏻
“No person is BELOW the law…You have investigations in Delaware that are a thousand times more serious by a President who has authorized his DOJ to try to sink the candidacy of his prime opposition while Biden has unsecured… pic.twitter.com/LNWFTTSikY
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UPDATE:FITTON: TRUMP IS AN INNOCENT MAN! Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton appeared on NewsmaxTV with Eric Bolling and Joe diGenova to discuss the latest indictment of former President Trump over his handling of classified records.
The Democrats are Trump’s biggest campaign booster.
Former President Trump topped his closest Republican challenger by nearly 40 points in a new poll of likely GOP voters following the news of his federal indictment.
The CBS News and YouGov poll found that 61 percent of likely GOP voters would vote for Trump in the 2024 Republican primary. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) trailed in second-place, garnering 23 percent of the vote.
Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) and former Vice President Mike Pence each received four percent of the vote while presidential candidate Nikki Haley received 3 percent of the vote. When asked what candidates they would consider voting for right now, 75 percent of likely GOP respondents said they would consider Trump and 51 percent said they would consider DeSantis.
Twenty-one percent of voters said they would consider Scott, 16 percent said they would consider Pence and 15 percent said they would consider Haley. Presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy received 13 percent of the vote, while former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie received seven percent when voters were asked what candidates they were considering.
Maggie Haberman: Trump indictment is ‘most devastating…that I have ever read’
Former DHS official: Trump indictment paints ‘vivid picture’ of what national security community dealt with for four years
Sixty-one percent said news of Trump’s indictment does not affect their view of him. When asked what should happen to Trump if he is convicted of the federal charges, 80 percent of likely GOP voters said he should be able to be president.
The Justice Department charged Trump in a 37-count indictment last week over his handling of classified materials after leaving the White House. Justice Department evidence revealed that the former president had documents containing nuclear and military secrets and the charges hold several decades of prison time.
The poll included responses from 1,798 respondents interviewed between June 9 and 10 after the indictment was unsealed. The margin of error for the sample is plus or minus 3.3 percentage points.
Where did Mateo Ventura convert? Who taught him about Islam? Authorities have no interest in these questions. The number of converts to Islam becoming jihadis is high, but officials the world over are completely indifferent to this phenomenon.
WORCESTER, Mass. — A Wakefield teenager was arrested Thursday on charges he allegedly ran a gift-card reselling scheme aimed at raising money for the foreign terrorist organization ISIS, federal prosecutors said.
Mateo Ventura, 18, was ordered held after he was arraigned in federal court in Worcester on a charge of knowingly concealing the source of material support or resources to a foreign terrorist organization, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office of Massachusetts.
Ventura provided multiple gift cards to an individual he believed was an ISIS supporter, with the intention that the gift cards be sold on the dark web for a little less than face value and the resulting profits be used to support ISIS, prosecutors alleged in charging documents.
Ventura allegedly stated that he wanted the proceeds to go to ISIS “for war on kuffar,” (disbelievers).
Between January 2023 and May 2023, Ventura donated $705 in Google Play Store gift cards intended to support ISIS, according to prosecutors.
Ventura implicated himself in the scheme by conversing in lengthy conversations with an undercover FBI agent who was posing as a supporter of the terror group, documents indicate. He also expressed a desire to move abroad to join and fight with ISIS.
On Jan. 26, 2023, when asked about hijrah (traveling to join ISIS), Ventura allegedly stated, “I want to give my life for jihad fisabillah (for the sake of Allah) intention is pure from heart,” and also stated that he would “make good fighter for dawla (ISIS).”…
Ventura’s father, Paul, said his son is a loyal American who may have a fascination with terrorist organizations, but no desire for affiliation.
He partially blames the school system for his son’s predicament. “So he’s in his SPED (special education) class and the kids in the SPED class are looking at school shootings and terrorist attacks in school,” Ventura said. “That’s what he’s learning in his SPED class.”
Paul Ventura told reporters outside of court that his son suffers from learning and neurological deficits that have made his academic career “very difficult.” He also explained that his son was bullied to a point that forced him to leave Wakefield High School in 2022, a year before he was slated to graduate….
http://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.png00Jihad Watchhttp://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.pngJihad Watch2023-06-12 05:43:402023-06-12 05:52:05Massachusetts: Teen converts to Islam, raises money for the Islamic State for war on non-Muslims
And you thought the Democrats couldn’t get any sicker. The Democrat who introduced the bill previously passed a bill that lowered the penalties for sodomy with children.
California Bill AB 957 would classify gender-affirmation for children as essential child care. Pictured: Police officers observe a protest of parents and progressives at a Pride Month event at a Los Angeles elementary school.
A recently amended California bill would add “affirming” the sexual transition of a child to the state’s standard for parental responsibility and child welfare—making any parent who doesn’t affirm transgenderism for their child guilty of abuse under California state law.
AB 957 passed California’s State Assembly on May 3, but a co-sponsor amended it after hours in California’s State Senate on June 6.
Assembly Member Lori Wilson, D-Suisun City, wrote the bill and introduced it on Feb. 14. State Sen. Scott Weiner, D-San Francisco, co-sponsored it. Wilson’s child identifies as transgender.
Originally, AB 957 required courts to consider whether a child’s parents were “gender-affirming” in custody cases. Wiener’s amendment completely rewrites California’s standard of child care.
AB 957 post-amendment “would include a parent’s affirmation of the child’s gender identity as part of the health, safety, and welfare of the child,” altering the definition and application of the entire California Family Code.
California courts would be given complete authority under Section 3011 of California’s Family Code to remove a child from his or her parents’ home if parents disapprove of LGBTQ+ ideology.
By changing the definition of what constitutes the “health, safety, and welfare of [a] child,” schools, churches, hospitals, and other organizations interacting with children would be required to affirm “gender transitions” in minors by default—or risk charges of child abuse.
AB 957 could also expand which organizations provide “evidence” of gender “nonaffirmation” to California’s courts.
Because of the addition of “gender affirmation” to the qualifications of California’s standards for “health, safety, and welfare,” California’s courts would now be able to accept reports of gender “abuse” from progressive activist organizations—as long as they claim to provide “services to victims of sexual assault or domestic violence.”
In essence, a boy could report his parents to his local school’s Gay-Straight Alliance club or other LGBTQ+ organization, who could then report the boy’s parents for child abuse.
Incredibly, the bill provides no definition whatsoever of what would qualify as “nonaffirming” to a child’s gender.
As Susannah Luthi of The Washington Free Beacon points out, “The bill makes no distinctions regarding the age of a child, how long a child has identified as transgender, or affirmation of social transition versus medical sex-change treatments.”
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The tyrannical indictment is 49 pages long. Trump faces a whopping 100 YEARS in prison if convicted of all charges and given the max on each one. This would mean he would die behind bars, which is what the Regime wants.
The moral rot and extraordinary corruption and criminality is fast destroying the greatest country in human history. So exceptional was America, we will not see the likes of it again.
Tom Fitton: Classified Docs Case Against Trump Is “A Lot Of Noise,” Grand Jury Testimony “Was Like Being On MSNBC.”
his is just a lot of noise to try to generate pressure on Trump, or pressure on the Justice Department to go after Trump. There’s no there there. How do I know that? Because I went before the grand jury and was harassed for four hours, where we argued about this Clinton-Sakharov case.
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You go into the grand jury room, I don’t have a lawyer, so your lawyers are sitting outside. So if an issue comes up in the grand jury you have to consult your lawyer about, you have to leave the jury room. It’s a smallish room, 23-25 people sitting in there, it was full. And I had three prosecutors asking me questions about this issue about the records, the disputes about the Biden election, and my response generally is, “I don’t understand why you’re going after Trump when you protected Bill Clinton” and “Doesn’t the first amendment protect the ability to dispute elections?”
So it was a debate, it was like being on MSNBC for four hours.
FOX BUSINESS HOST: Did they try to intimidate you?
FITTON: They sure did, that’s how I took it. At one point, one of the prosecutors said, “Do you plan to talk about this testimony, what happened here today?”
I said, “I don’t know, maybe to my lawyers.”
And then he asked me again, “Do you plan to talk about it?”
I said, “I don’t know, it’s out there publicly.” And then he asked me a third time and i said I don’t know.
And then he said, “By the way, you are allowed to talk about it.”
I said to him, “You know, given your questions, it’s a little bit chilling.”
And so, he’s trying to get me to swear before a grand jury not to talk when I had every right to talk. That was so abusive and I’m still ticked about that. We may follow up on it.
A key piece of information in the indictment is grounds for a quick dismissal proving Biden’s corrupt DOJ was the source of leaks RATHER than President Trump’s attorneys. Former DOJ Attorney Jeffrey Clark states that this finding is grounds for granting a motion indicating jury pool poisoning and dismissing the indictment.
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I'm beginning to read the indictment against Trump. But even three pages in, it's clear that the leaks that preceded the indictment are far too close to what is actually being pleaded by DOJ to be a coincidence.
I’m beginning to read the indictment against Trump. But even three pages in, it’s clear that the leaks that preceded the indictment are far too close to what is actually being pleaded by DOJ to be a coincidence.
For example, in paragraph 6a on page 3, we hear about the recording of the Bedminster call, which the MSNBC’s of the world have been beating a dead horse about for quite a while based on such leaks.
This means that Trump lawyers could not possibly be the source of the leaks.
Ergo, the leaks are coming from DOJ. They must be investigated and punished.
Also, this is grounds for granting a motion highlighting jury pool poisoning and dismissing the indictment before it reaches even its one-month birthday.
All of this is so outrageous; it shocks the conscience. It’s fundamentally anti-American.
I've carefully reviewed the indictment of Trump by his political opponents at the Biden Justice Department. (.@JudicialWatch has nearly 30 years of experience litigating federal and presidential records issues, including the famous "Clinton sock drawer" case.) The document…
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Washington, D.C. – Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton made the following statement regarding the indictment of former President Donald Trump:
This day will go down in infamy. The unprecedented and corrupt indictment of President Trump is built on sand and is brazen election interference. It is an indictment about nothing. Biden’s further transforming of the FBI and Justice Department into political enforcers in order to jail his leading political opponent could lead to the end of our constitutional republic. The indictment has followed years of prosecutorial misconduct, harassment, and abuse victimizing Trump. Not only is Trump innocent but he is a crime victim.
Joe Biden wants to distract from his own personal corruption and join the ranks of foreign dictators by trying to jail and turn Trump into a political prisoner. Congress should act immediately and do everything possible under the law to undo this attempt to wreck our republican form of government. Every candidate for public office should denounce this attack on our elections.
Let’s hope the courts recognize this sham indictment for what it is and shut it down. In the meantime, Judicial Watch will continue to hold the Biden administration accountable for its role in the worst corruption scandal in American history – the effort to abuse and destroy President Trump!
I've carefully reviewed the indictment of Trump by his political opponents at the Biden Justice Department. (.@JudicialWatch has nearly 30 years of experience litigating federal and presidential records issues, including the famous "Clinton sock drawer" case.) The document…
Americans had 4 years to taste what it is to have a godly federal government that actually cares for its people. This angered the evil one and he was quick to react. What’s next?
Amir Tsarfati (Israeli- reference below) investigated the following and used also an investigation of an Israeli journalist that investigated it.
Following are Israeli investigations about lots of un-constitutional activities of the Democratic Party and US Supreme Court in the 2020 US elections, described in the above video followed but a summary of key things:
The mail-in voting was always on the margin side before the 2020 elections (in 2017) and the Democratic Party took the margin and replace it with the main voting.
Using the Covid 19 panic, Dem started a popular movement to send tens of millions of mail-in ballots and planned to “engineer” them later on.
Democrats created a system to appeal to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court and made it easier to change criteria where every single enveloped would be counted, which allowed them to count ballots sent after elections day, by people who left the state, without ID and without a signature on them, ballots of dead people and ballots without a name- Dems prepared before a huge bank of DEAD people and kept them in a separate room. On Nov 2nd and 3rd, there was a new ballots bank that they created.
All of that was done in October and just before the 2020 elections day (close to Nov. 4 so Republicans won’t catch them for the evil plan). they knew there is a big risk to using it and kept all these fraud ballots aside and not in the same room where they counted the regular votes.
On Nov 1st and 2nd Dem ran all the fraud executive orders to by-pass the Pennsylvania legislators and most Democrats leaders knew about it, including Nancy Pelosi
When the Dem got the real numbers from Florida and Texas they realized they are in real trouble
When the real results started coming in from Florida and Texas and they realized Trump has a big lead on Biden of hundreds of thousands of real votes, they realized they are in real trouble. They were in Panic and made all the following mistakes and moved in all the fraudulent ballot votes and even start to create fake ballots on the spot, in the counting room.
They released bulks of ballots that were 100% Biden, which mathematically is impossible.
they started using the engineered fake ballots from the other room and from trucks that started to download TENs of MILLIONS fake ballot envelops-
This happened at 4 AM in the morning and the Republican observers were asked to leave the room
We have a testimony of a woman on it, from that counting room, who said:
“At 4:00 AM vans started coming in. Ferrari came in and boxes were unloaded and immediately were rushed into the counting room. This is when the Republican observers were literally kicked out of the room”.
When Dem saw that Trump is winning in many states they were in Panic and made all the following mistakes and moved in all the fraudulent ballot votes and they even start to create fake ballots on the spot, in the counting room. They released bulks of ballots that were 100% Biden, which mathematically it is impossible. They counted ballots even three days after elections day.
the Governor and Secretary of Pennsylvania said to all their operatives “Whatever it takes, Trump cannot win this state” and the head of the postal service (all three were Democrats) instructed all his people that any envelop would be counted, even if it was sent after elections day (all the above were unconstitutional acts).
In Pennsylvania, Democrats had in the legislative house only 93 Representatives Vs 109 Republicans which means they cannot do the above scheme (tricks), but there were Democrat Governor, Democrat Secretary of state, and US postal service in their pocket
Dems understood this is the time to take Pennsylvania BACK to the Democrat’s side.
Dems moved the power to decide on election criteria in Pennsylvania from the Republican-leaning legislation of the state to the Liberal-leaning state court.
By the constitution, only the Governor of state can change anything regarding the elections. Dems used it and the Governor of Pennsylvania extend the time that mail-in ballots can be counted to a few days after elections day.
In October 2020 the US chief justice made a big mistake: The Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court made an un-constitutional decision by allowing the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania to by-pass the legislators and do those changes
Beforehand, they appealed to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania to ease the regulations and allow to count even ballots without a stamp, with no ID or signature- with nothing.
After that, a lot of opposition started, and when this whole thing moved from Pennsylvania Supreme Court (which approved it with all Dems there), it went up to the US Supreme Court in October. That is where Chief Justice Roberts made the big mistake- The vote was FOUR “against”, THREE “for” and Roberts joined the “for” and created a “tie”- then, per the US Constitution, the state of Pennsylvania gets to decide on it.
This means the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s decision to count even fake-illegal ballots will stay without a change.
In this case, the Chief Justice of the US made an unconstitutional decision by allowing the Pennsylvania Supreme Court (with Dems majority) to do those without going to the legislature in Pennsylvania.
In this case, the USA Supreme Court, in a very odd manner, did not give opinions and explanations. This unconstitutional US Supreme Court created unconstitutional election orders and executive orders.
By this Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision, the Governor and Secretary of Pennsylvania told all their operatives “Whatever it takes, Trump cannot win this state” and the head of the postal service (all three were Democrats) instructed all his people that any envelop would be counted: He told everybody that any envelope which will arrive after the due date, and enveloped which were sent after the due date, they should stamp them as they were sent and arrived before the due date and everyone counts them in. If the stamp is not clear (even if someone made it not clear) you can assume it was sent on the election day.
Dems allow counting ballots three days after elections day.
Thousands of people in Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, Nevada, and Pennsylvania that do not exist or do not live there, voted.
They released bulks of ballots that were 100% Biden, which mathematically is impossible.
These banks of ballots were illegal and they knew it
Trump lead in hundreds of thousands and they needed more and more fraud ballots.
By using these banks of illegal ballots on Nov 4, it basically made the voting of 2020 elections not important: Before Nov 3rd, 100 MILLION Americans already SUPPOSEDLY VOTED with the illegal ballots. We know there was a letter that was sent with names of dead people and people that do not live there, and they crossed their names.
In some other states, more than 100% of people voted- more than people that registered to vote.
When Dems saw that Trump is winning in many states they were in Panic and made all
possible mistakes and moved in all the faked ballot votes and they even start to create fake ballots on the spot, in the room.
There were two different ballots banks and they never thought they will use the bad one until they realized that Trump is leading the elections.
We caught them on cameras for the following:
At 4 AM in the morning, Boxes were entered from coming-in trucks and it was moved to the counting room immediately (caught on cameras). They throw away ballots for TRUMP after they already separated them ahead of time (they were not allowed to do that).
It was a huge blue wave and not a red wave.
Marc Elias was the lawyer who plan and prepare the above scheme 3.75 years before elections day: He work on all the plots of the Democratic Party and did all the dark, dark, dark deals (to build the fraud mail-in ballots bank with Biden’s only name on it) as a lawyer in the Perkins Coie firm, as a non-profit organization. They started in Feb 2017 working with each Democratic Governor in any swing state on how to expand the regulation and the criteria for the mail-in ballots, 3.75 years before Nov 2020. For more than three years they have been working on this scheme, making sure all the governors and the secretary of state will be in the picture.
They appealed hundreds of times and filed lawsuits hundreds of times and exhausted the legal system.
That is why Nancy Pelosi said: “No matter what, by the end of these elections, Joe Biden…..” and ALL the leaders of the Democratic Party knew about it- they knew the victory is in their pockets as they worked on it for 3.75 years. These banks of fraud ballots were illegal and they all knew it.
With caution, more likely they even tried it two years before in the midterm elections.
Marc Elias (Born to a Jewish family in New York City) worked for John Kerry (as a general counsel) and for Hillary Clinton in 2016. Marc Elias is the one who was asked by the Democrats to make an investigation on Trump and was supposed to find anything against him (he did not find anything and not any court accepted anything against Trump).
Marc Elias Lawyer is the one who was asked by the Democrats to make an investigation on Trump and was supposed to find anything against him (and no judge or court accept anything against Trump), before the elections.
The Perkins firm received Millions of Dollars in donations from the Democrats.
Marc Elias created the fraud ballots described above.
Amir Tsarfati served in the Israel Defense Forces achieving the rank of major.
In 2001, Tsarfati founded a non-profit organization called “Behold Israel”, which focused on reporting current events and developments and has since expanded to an international ministry with extensive in-person teachings and conferences, and online resources.
So, the great achievement of Western civilization – consensual government, individual freedom, rationalism in partnership with religious belief, free market economics, and constant self-critique and audit has died a pathetic death. (“The Thinnest Veneer of Civilization”)
There are assassinations and then there are political assassinations. Guns are how a civil war ends… politics Is how it starts.
Trump, a great American hero and patriot has been hounded and persecuted for the crime of standing for the American people and the foundation of our once great republic, the Constitution. For this, he has been indicted, impeached, smeared, defamed. libeled etc. This while the Democrat party celebrates murder, rape, child mutilation, domestic terrorism (BLM, Antifa), rioting, looting and the wholesale destruction of once brilliant cities.
Once we could count on elections to see our way clear of political tyranny and criminality. Those days are gone. Gone with integrity of our election systems.
You can look away and pretend that this is not happening but you cannot avoid the horror, chaos and consequence of looking away.
After Trump indictment claims, Democrats lean into “more serious” case
There are political favors. And then there are assassinations.
The Biden Department of Justice has indicted Donald Trump, the Republican frontrunner – and Biden’s greatest opponent – for the 2024 presidential election. Trump faces 100 years, if convicted.
The news that former president Trump has been indicted on federal criminal charges related to his alleged mishandling of documents after leaving office marks a new milestone in America’s depressing descent to politics in the style of Peru or Turkey, where departed presidents and political opponents are put in prison as a matter of routine.
The regime appears to be so besotted with Trump-hate that it is desperate to fling charges and indictments at him, for virtually anything. Following two inane and failed impeachments—the first one of which was so obscure it is hard to find anyone who can even remember the charges, much less describe them lucidly; the second of which occurred after he left office and covered events he was not present at and which he discouraged—we have been treated to a “flood the zone” legal harassment campaign unrivaled in American history. Trump’s enemies—comprising more or less the entire federal government and its many penumbras; the media; academia; most of the corporate world; and a large portion of his own political party—have concocted a series of criminal and civil allegations so absurd that even the prosecutors bringing them have trouble containing their smirks.
Tish James, the feckless attorney general of New York, threw the weight of the most powerful state office in the country against Trump and his businesses, managing only to convict his accountant of having not reported some corporate perks as taxable income. This is normally a civil matter, and almost never prosecuted at the state level, but the executive in question was actually sent to jail.
New York State then passed a law giving adults who were sexually assaulted at any time in the past a one-year window to sue their assailants. This law was specifically targeted at Donald Trump, as its sponsors boasted. Roberta Kaplan, a powerful Democrat lawyer (who, incidentally, helped to defame Andrew Cuomo’s accusers) enlisted E. Jean Carroll, a former advice columnist, to swear that Trump had raped her in Bergdorf Goodman at some point in the nineties. When Trump denied having met Carroll, and derided her claims, she sued him for defamation, too. Manhattan juries found for her in both cases.
The district attorney of Manhattan, Alvin Bragg, has indicted Trump on criminal charges of falsifying corporate records for recording his payment of extortion money to a porn star as a legal expense, rather than as a campaign contribution, though indeed the payment was made through his lawyer. Because the corporate records in question were those of the privately held Trump Organization, this charge is tantamount to writing a check made out to CASH and filling in the “Memo” line incorrectly. Even the New York Times had trouble making it sound like the charges were worth making.
The Democrat DA of Fulton County is evidently trying to put together a RICO-conspiracy case against Trump for encouraging the secretary of state of Georgia to “find” more votes for him following the 2020 election. In the new electoral environment, where it often takes weeks for votes to be counted as tens of thousands of mail-in ballots trickle into the polling places, Trump’s request sounds prudent and reasonable. But we are now in a political climate where selective quotation, innuendo, and dark glances from CNN anchors mean more than actual circumstances.
The federal indictment over the allegedly purloined documents is the stupidest of all the investigations against Trump, and thus, in this Swiftian atmosphere, the most serious. Trump’s office was engaged in what appears to have been a normal and routine back-and-forth with the National Archives over the disposition of some of the papers he took with him upon leaving office. The FBI, apparently under the direction of Attorney General and denied Supreme Court appointee Merrick Garland, staged a raid on Trump’s residence, seizing the documents in question. The FBI leaked photos of empty folders marked CLASSIFIED and TOP SECRET. Television commentators expressed anxiety about whether the absence of documents from the folders indicated that Trump had already sold their contents to Russia.
Soon after, it emerged that President Biden had stored boxes of government-owned documents in his garage. The same special prosecutor investigating Trump promised to look into the question of Biden’s documents, too—though there was no raid on his house, and media reports indicate that there is no rush to resolve the case, certainly not before November, 2024, anyway. Some observers with especially long historical memories may recall that a former secretary of state who ran for president in 2016 had an issue with a private server in her house that maintained highly sensitive information, which was later determined to have been illegal, but not worthy of prosecution.
We are deep in Lavrentiy Beria land, now, the province of Stalin’s top cop, who supposedly remarked, “Show me the man and I will show you the crime.” America is no longer governed by even the pretense of the rule of law. The assault on Trump may be designed to neutralize him as an electoral force in 2024, or in some extraordinary way it may even be designed to solidify him as the besieged leader of a fractured Republican Party and elevate him as a martyr in the eyes of his deplorable legions. Either way, it is clear that American history has been split—between republic and tyranny—and we are somewhere in time near the cleft.
I've carefully reviewed the indictment of Trump by his political opponents at the Biden Justice Department. (.@JudicialWatch has nearly 30 years of experience litigating federal and presidential records issues, including the famous "Clinton sock drawer" case.) The document…
http://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.png00The Geller Reporthttp://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.pngThe Geller Report2023-06-10 10:04:022023-06-11 12:37:46Trump Faces 100 Years: The End of America
Of course. Judge Mike Hammer doesn’t have the first foggiest idea of what jihad is, so he ascribes Bader Alzahrani’s words and actions to mental illness. In this, he stands firmly within the contemporary mainstream.
A Saudi national accused of stealing a school bus in New Jersey and driving it to Pennsylvania before getting caught in the Poconos is not mentally competent to stand trial, a U.S. federal judge has ruled.
Bader Alzahrani, 22, is facing charges from incidents in January, including receipt of a stolen vehicle transportation of a stolen vehicle in federal court, and motor vehicle theft, burglary, theft of moveable property, criminal damage and criminal trespass in New Jersey court.
In an order signed March 27, federal Judge Michael Hammer said based on a psychiatric report sealed by the court, Alzahrani has a mental disease or defect that makes him unable to understand the court proceedings and properly participate in his defense….
Alzahrani was in the U.S. on a student visa and was attending an unidentified university, but he left the school in October and was reported missing, an FBI agent wrote in court papers.
On Jan. 15, a home break-in was reported in Livingston, New Jersey, and a backpack found inside with Alzahrani’s Saudi Arabian passport and a journal with writings about jihad and threats against Jews and police officers, prosecutors said.
The journal, with entries in Arab and English, had phrases including, “Why didn’t you slaughter the police officer who threw the Quran?,” “Blood, blood, destruction, destruction. Allah,” and “Destruction of the new world and the earth will be destroyed from all sides,” according to court records.
There were also derogatory remarks about Jews and white people and other violent references, records state.
http://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.png00Jihad Watchhttp://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.pngJihad Watch2023-06-10 09:37:382023-06-10 09:42:15New Jersey: Judge says Muslim with ‘jihad’ journal accused of stealing school bus not competent to stand trial
Former President Donald Trump announced Thursday he has been indicted over his alleged mishandling of over 300 classified documents.
Trump said his attorneys have been informed of the indictment “seemingly” over the documents the FBI seized during the raid of his Mar-a-Lago home in August. He has been summoned to appear at the Federal Courthouse in Miami, Florida, on June 13 at 3 p.m., according to another Truth Social post.
The indictment reportedly includes at least seven counts, including conspiracy to a scheme to conceal, willful retention of national defense information, and false statements and representations, ABC News reported.
The former president immediately pointed to the classified documents found in President Joe Biden’s home in Delaware and his office located at the University of Pennsylvania.
“Page 1: The corrupt Biden Administration has informed my attorneys that I have been Indicted, seemingly over the Boxes Hoax, even though Joe Biden has 1850 Boxes at the University of Delaware, additional Boxes in Chinatown, D.C., with even more Boxes at the University of Pennsylvania, and documents strewn all over his garage floor where he parks his Corvette, and which is “secured” by only a garage door that is paper thin, and open much of the time,” the former president wrote on Truth Social.
“Page 2: I have been summoned to appear at the Federal Courthouse in Miami on Tuesday, at 3 PM,” he continued. “I never thought it possible that such a thing could happen to a former President of the United States, who received far more votes than any sitting President in the History of our Country, and is currently leading, by far, all Candidates, both Democrat and Republican, in Polls of the 2024 Presidential Election. I AM AN INNOCENT MAN!”
“This is indeed a DARK DAY for the United States of America,” he concluded. “We are a Country in serious and rapid Decline, but together we will Make America Great Again!”
Trump proclaimed his innocence in a video posted to Truth Social, calling the indictment “the greatest witch hunt of all time” and an attempt of interfering in the 2024 election.
“Very sadly, we’re a nation in decline and yet, they go after a popular president,” he said. “A president that got more votes than any sitting president in the history of our country — by far — and did much better the second time in the election than the first and they go after him on a boxes hoax. Just like the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax, and all of the others. This has been going on for seven years — they can’t stop because it’s election interference at the highest level. There’s never been anything like what’s happened. I’m an innocent man. I’m an innocent person.”
Federal prosecutors informed Trump’s legal team of an investigation Thursday over his alleged mishandling of the documents. Trump faced another indictment by a Manhattan grand jury over allegations that he paid $130,000 in hush money to former porn actress Stormy Daniels to keep her quiet about an alleged affair in the lead up to the 2020 presidential election.
The FBI raided Trump’s home in August to retrieve 15 boxes of classified documents requested by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). The agents at the scene retrieved around 20 boxes of binders, a handwritten note and the executive grant of clemency for Roger Stone, information about the president of France, and binders of photographs.
Trump argued the documents were all declassified and in safe storage in an Aug. 12 statement.
In November, Biden’s lawyers found classified documents at the Penn Biden Center, a think tank where he held an office when he was vice president. They discovered additional documents from the Obama-Biden era in the president’s private garage next to his Corvette in Delaware in January.
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At that time there were multiple networks reporting on at least two county attorneys who contacted Rep. James Comer, R-Ky. However, we have not seen anyone indicted as yet.
QUESTION: Why?
Adam Sabes from Fox News on April 5th, 2023 reported,
Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., said that two county attorneys from Tennessee and Kentucky have asked him how they can “go after” the Biden’s following Former President Trump’s indictment.
Comer made the comments on Wednesday on Fox & Friends.
“And I’ll tell you, one of the things that I don’t think it’s been picked up a lot that’s going to be a problem. And I had two calls yesterday, one from a county attorney in Kentucky and one from a county attorney in Tennessee. They were Republican, obviously, both states are heavily Republican. They want to know if there are ways they can go after the Biden’s now,” Comer said.
He added that the Democrats have “opened a can of worms.”
“They’ve set precedents now that we can’t go back on. And now we’re going to see a judicial system that’s already bogged down with doing what they’re supposed to do, and that’s going after real criminals, people that are committing real crimes, burglaries, rape, robberies, things like that. And now you’re going to start having ambitious political people like Alvin Bragg try to make a name for themselves and go after big pie-in-the-sky federal cases. And it’s just not a good path that we need to go forward on in our judiciary,” Comer said.
At least two local GOP prosecutors are looking at ways to charge President Biden and his family amid Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s prosecution of former President Donald Trump, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer revealed Wednesday.
“I had two calls yesterday, one from a county attorney in Kentucky and one from a county attorney in Tennessee,” Comer (R-Ky.) told “Fox & Friends.” “They were Republican, obviously, both states are heavily Republican. They want to know if there are ways they can go after the Bidens now.”
Comer is leading a House Republican investigation into Joe Biden’s role in his family’s international business dealings in countries such as China and Ukraine. The lawmaker’s staff recently reviewed Suspicious Activity Reports filed by banks to the Treasury Department regarding possible criminal activity by the Biden family.
It is now June 8th and we have heard of no grand jury empaneled to look into the Biden family. We understand that it takes time to gather the needed evidence and call witnesses to testify. We’re hoping that these two DAs and perhaps others are looking to do the same thing.
The timing is perfect to announce multiple grand juries empaneled to look into at least the following individuals:
Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. and his family members who have profited from deals made by Biden and his son Hunter.
Attorney General Merrick Garland for weaponizing the Department of Justice and using it to go after political opponents of the Democrat Party and Biden and his family.
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas who has had articles of impeachment filed by Congressman Clay Higgins (R-LA) on June 7th, 2023.
There is more than enough evidence from the Durham Report to the various hearings held by House Committees to bring charges against each of the above and more members of our federal government.
As Congressman Comer said the Democrats have “opened a can of worms” with the indictment of President Donald J. Trump.
It is past time for those who believe in the rule of law and hold positions of District Attorney or state Attorney General to take action.
As Christian English naturalist John Ray wrote, “What’s good for the goose is good for the gander” or whatever personal pronoun one might use, pun intended.
We believe that multiple grand juries must convene and issue indictments before the end of 2023 against those who have clearly committed crimes, including treason, against the American people.
It is time to restore the fundamental ideal of equal justice under our laws. Not to do so would be both a travesty and endanger our Constitutional Republic.
We have provided a list of District Attorneys, below, by state. We ask that you contact your DA and ask him or her to take on bringing this administration to task.
District attorneys in Alaska are based on the locations of district courts. Some districts share district attorneys, however. Alaskan district attorneys are appointed by the Alaska Attorney General, currently Treg Taylor.
District attorneys are assigned to Arkansas’s 23 judicial circuits. Arkansas’s prosecutors are known as Prosecuting Attorneys. Their elections are non-partisan.
Prosecutors in Connecticut are known as state’s attorneys. Each judicial district is assigned its own state’s attorney. They are appointed by a state commission.
Hawaii’s prosecuting attorneys are assigned by county. Those in Hawaii, Honolulu, and Kauai Counties are elected on a non-partisan basis, while Maui’s is appointed.
Indiana’s prosecutors, known as prosecuting attorneys, are elected to the state’s 91 judicial circuits. Each circuit, with one exception, covers a single county.
Kansas prosecutors are elected by county, although some prosecutors serve multiple counties. Most are called county attorneys, but six are designated as district attorneys.
^Carter and Fallon Counties share their county attorney. In Fallon County, the county attorney faces election, but he or she is appointed in Carter County. (Hessick 2020, p. 183)
^Petroleum County appoints its prosecutor. (Hessick 2020, p. 183)
Nebraska prosecutors are known as county attorneys. Though each attorney technically serves a single county, attorneys elected in one county are sometimes appointed to serve in others
North Dakota assigns state’s attorneys by county. Their elections are non-partisan, while two counties (Golden Valley and Steele) appoint their prosecutors.[49]
Texas prosecutors cover districts that include multiple counties, single counties, or even parts of counties. They can be known as “District Attorneys” or “County Attorneys.”
Virginia prosecutors are known as “Commonwealth’s Attorneys.” Most are assigned by county or independent city, although some independent cities lack their own prosecutor.
http://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.png00Dr. Rich Swierhttp://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.pngDr. Rich Swier2023-06-08 13:58:322023-06-11 06:14:10Biden Family Crimes Matter: Time to Empanel Multiple Grand Juries and Indict Them and Members of this Administration!
Sixth-Grade Gym Class Basketball Game Causes Constitutional Battle in Federal Court Against Officials of Lakeview Public Schools and Jefferson Middle School
ANN ARBOR, MI — On Tuesday, June 6, 2023, the Thomas More Law Center (“TMLC”), a national nonprofit public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, filed a federal lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan against Lakeview Public Schools and its officials, as well as the Principal and Vice Principal of Jefferson Middle School (“JMS”) located in St. Clair Shores, Michigan.
The lawsuit, which claims willful and malicious disregard of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the Michigan Constitution, the Michigan State School Code, and the School District’s own policy, was brought on behalf of Jonathon and Casandra Olbrys, and their minor son (referred herein by the pseudonym J.O.), a sixth-grade student at Jefferson Middle School. Their son is an exemplary student enrolled in accelerated academic courses and prior to the incident, which is the subject matter of the claim herein, was without any history of school disciplinary action.
Richard Thompson, TMLC’s President and Chief Counsel, representing the Plaintiffs commented, “The U.S. Supreme Court, concerned that state schools could become enclaves of totalitarianism, famously stated in the 1969 Tinker Case that children do not shed their constitutional rights at the schoolhouse gate. The Court observed that the vigilant protection of constitutional freedoms is nowhere more vital than in our American schools.”
Continued Thompson, “I am astonished at the duplicity and utter disdain these school officials had for the rights of these parents to see their son’s educational record, which they have a right to see under federal and state laws, and the School District’s own published rules.”
The constitutional battle involved in this case had inauspicious beginnings—a sixth-grade gym class basketball game and a videotape.
On the morning of January 18, 2023, the Jefferson Middle School sixth-grade gym class informally divided themselves into two groups, those who wanted to play a game of basketball and those who wanted to practice alone. The basketball game would more appropriately be characterized as “streetball” or a neighborhood “pick-up” game: no referee officiated, players called their own fouls, no rules were enforced, no score was kept, and no oversight was provided by the gym teacher or anyone else.
Players began blocking each other, bumping, boxing-out, and engaging in other forms of contact normal to basketball. The JMS Defendants contend that during the game one of the players was allegedly pushed and another allegedly punched several times. Three players, including J.O., were instructed to write statements about what happened. Apparently, all three were interviewed by the Vice Principal. And all three were suspended for varying lengths of time, with J.O. receiving the longest suspension of five days and prohibited from stepping foot on any school property or attending school events for ten days.
Violation of Due Process
J.O. was never informed of the provisions of the Student Code of Conduct that he was accused of violating. Nor was he given any explanation of the charges against him or a reasonable opportunity to respond to those charges, requirements of due process that the Supreme Court has imposed on public schools since the 1975 case of Goss v. Lopez:
“Due process requires, in connection with a suspension of 10 days or less, that the student be given oral or written notice of the charges against him, and if he denies them, an explanation of the evidence the authorities have and an opportunity to present his side of the story.”
In clear violation of his rights under the Due Process Clause, J.O. was never given the required notice of the charges against him. Instead, the Vice Principal took a few minutes to view a video which purportedly captured the incident and hurriedly rushed to the judgment that J.O. was the one who punched one player and pushed another player to the ground. J.O. was never allowed to see the video which was used to determine his guilt. Beginning with his written statement a few minutes after the incident, J.O. has steadfastly maintained that he did not punch or push anyone to the ground. Nor did the other two suspended players ever indicate in their written statements that he did. In fact, one of the players admitted that he was the one that was punching J.O. All the Defendants were made aware of that fact, to no avail.
Where Is the Video?
When Plaintiff Casandra Olbrys was informed of the video in a phone call with the Vice Principal at around 12:50 pm on the day of the incident, she immediately asked to see a copy. He refused. As the video was the main evidence against her son, she was attempting to ascertain exactly what transpired and the sequence of events leading up to the alleged incident. In her meeting with the Principal the next day, Mrs. Olbrys again requested to see the video. The Principal refused.
Since the incident of January 18, 2023, Plaintiffs have made at least a dozen requests, both orally and in writing, for the opportunity to view the video. Initially using the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) as a shield, the Defendants denied access to the footage outright because images of students not directly involved could possibly be revealed without their consent. But in a good-faith effort to protect the identity of any students not necessary to the investigation, Plaintiffs offered to pay any out-of-pocket cost associated with acquiring software that would blur out any peripheral students.
After several months of assuring Plaintiffs they would have an “edited” video copy of the incident, the Principal ultimately defaulted on her guarantee and has continued to unjustly block any access to the video.
The Defendants have also refused Plaintiffs’ several requests to review and make copies of their son’s entire educational record, which would include a copy of the purported video of the incident. Defendants’ refusal violates the School District’s own written policy which provides on page 31 of the School District Handbook that “Students and parents have a right to review and receive a copy of all educational records.”
The information contained in J.O.’s educational record is permanent. It is made available to any educational institution that asks for it, and any potential employers who ask for consent to view it.
This lawsuit is more than pointing out the wrongdoings of the Lakeview Public Schools’ administrators and JMS officials. According to the Defendants’ published policy (page 31 of the School District’s Handbook), parents have a right to amend their students’ record when they believe any information contained in it is inaccurate. To avail themselves of that right, however, the Plaintiffs must first know what is in J.O.’s record, and secondly must see the video which they believe will exonerate their son.
Contrary to Defendants’ repeated misrepresentations, the FERPA rules allow J.O. and his parents the right to review his entire educational record, even though it may contain confidential information about other students.
The unfortunate part of this story is that had the video Plaintiffs requested at least 12 different times showed their son repeatedly punching another player, they would have ceased their conflict with the Defendants.
But because the Defendants’ actions were intentionally deceptive and showed a complete and deliberate indifference to and conscious disregard for J.O.’s constitutional rights, Plaintiffs seek punitive damages in an amount a jury deems sufficient to punish and deter Defendants and other similar entities from like conduct in the future.
Lastly, in a May 24, 2023 email by Plaintiffs’ counsel to the Principal, she was asked to state whether she still had a viewable copy of the video—she refused to respond.
http://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.png00Thomas More Law Centerhttp://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.pngThomas More Law Center2023-06-08 11:42:432023-06-08 11:42:43Sixth-Grade Gym Class Basketball Game Causes Constitutional Battle in Federal Court
Laws to protect minors from gender transition procedures have made massive strides over the past three years, but two recently enacted laws mark a new milestone. On May 17, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) signed into law SB 254, and Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) signed into law SB 14 on June 2. More than any of the other bills passed in 2023 or previous years — and there were many good ones — these two laws solidify the place of protecting children from gender transition procedures as part of mainstream conservatism.
Although the common sense of laws to protect minors from dangerous, experimental procedures might be obvious, they weren’t a guaranteed success. When the Arkansas legislature passed the very first successful bill of this kind in 2021, Republican then-Governor Asa Hutchinson vetoed it, although the legislature overrode the veto. Hutchinson claimed (in The Washington Post, of all places) that the law “den[ied] best practice medical care to transgender youth” and that his veto represented “restrained and limited government.” The bill not only faced ridicule from local outlets, but even from national platforms like “60 Minutes.” With fierce media opposition and a real possibility of bumping against Republican icebergs, the first bills to protect minors from gender transition procedures were truly sailing through uncharted waters.
Another 2021 controversy over a transgender-related bill in another ruby-red state demonstrated another possible vulnerability states could encounter when passing legislation to protect minors from gender transition procedures. South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, also a Republican, vetoed a women’s sports bill, citing fears that the NCAA might sue or boycott the state: “If South Dakota passes a law that’s against their policy, they will likely take punitive action against us.” Indeed, major corporations have shown themselves more than willing to win brownie points with the Left by boycotting states that pass conservative legislation on social issues.
These handicaps lead us to consider why laws protecting minors in Texas and Florida can be so influential.
Large Populations
For starters, Texas and Florida have huge populations. Texas (30 million inhabitants) and Florida (22 million inhabitants) are the second and third largest states by population, behind only California and ahead of New York, Pennsylvania, and Illinois. Florida has twice as many people, and Texas has almost three times as many people, as the next-largest right-leaning states, Ohio, Georgia, and North Carolina — the next-largest states whose legislatures could conceivably pass conservative policies.
Their huge populations make Texas and Florida more costly to boycott. While major corporations have called for boycotts on North Carolina over its bathroom bill and Georgia over its heartbeat bill, they stand to lose more if they boycott a larger state. This calculation holds for urban markets as well. Texas and Florida are home to 15 of the nation’s 100 largest metropolitan areas, including Dallas (fourth largest), Houston (fifth), Miami (ninth), Tampa (17th), Orlando (22nd), San Antonio (24th), and Austin (26th). These markets are too large to abandon lightly.
Their huge populations also make Texas and Florida important electorally. After the 2020 census, Texas boasts 38 seats in the House of Representatives, and Florida boasts 28 seats — combining for 30% of a House majority. Many members of Congress embrace policies popular in their states, so this could influence congressional support for similar legislative proposals. Texas and Florida will also combine for 70 votes in the electoral college in 2024 (a candidate needs 270 to win). Historically, Florida has been an important swing state (although trending to the Right), which has voted for the winning presidential candidate in every election since 1996 except for 2020. Meanwhile, Texas has been a must-win state for Republican candidates (but where Democratic candidates believe they can expand the map); presidential campaigns cannot afford to bypass either state on their path to victory.
Substantial Democratic Minorities
Due in part to their size, Texas and Florida are also home to considerable Democratic minorities that can maintain a critical mass to keep the Republican majority on their toes. For perspective, in the U.S. House, there are currently 13 Texas Democrats (the fourth-largest Democratic delegation) and eight Florida Democrats (tied for the 10th-largest Democratic delegation, even after Democrats lost three Florida seats in 2022). This enables state Democratic parties to mount credible challenges in statewide races; for example, Texas Senator Ted Cruz (R) won reelection in 2018 by only three points over Beto O’Rourke (D), and Nikki Fried (D) defeated Matt Caldwell (R) in a 2018 race for Florida Commissioner of Agriculture.
Such credible opposition prevents the dominant Republican parties in these states from ossifying, a common side-effect of one-party rule. Republicans must continue to run competent candidates to win races, which helps these states lead nationally on many issues, including protecting minors from gender transition procedures.
Demographic Diversity
Another factor bolstering the credibility of Republican leadership in Texas and Florida is the states’ demographic diversity (and, increasingly, the diversity of the Republican coalition). According to the 2020 census, approximately 40% of Texas’ population is non-Hispanic white, while nearly 40% are Hispanic, 12% are black, and 6% are Asian or Native American. Similarly, Florida’s population is 51% non-Hispanic white, 27% Hispanic, 15% black, and 6% Native American or Asian.
Obviously, Republicans could not win elections in such diverse states without substantial support outside of whites alone. Not only does this belie media narratives, it also forces the Republicans in these states not to insulate themselves. And, in fact, Republicans are successfully winning over increasing numbers of Hispanic voters in both states. This broadens the appeal of any laws that are successfully passed by state governments in Austin and Tallahassee. Republicans couldn’t maintain power in these states if they passed laws that only appealed to a narrow group of extremists.
Growing Populations
It’s also worth noting that both Texas and Florida are growing rapidly. Both state populations grew by an estimated 15% from the 2010 census to the 2020 census (twice the national average), resulting in Florida gaining one seat in Congress, while Texas gained two. It’s one thing for the media to write off a state passing conservative legislation if that state is stagnant or declining, demographically or economically. But both Texas and Florida are booming. Lots of people are moving there (which, in a free country, implies lots of people want to move there), a sign that these state governments aren’t quite as benighted as the media suggests.
Muscular Legislation
One final reason why it matters that Texas and Florida passed laws protecting minors from gender transition procedures is that these large, diverse, and growing states — where credible minority opposition keeps the majority honest — passed strong, robust legislation that offered effective protection to minors. Both bills provide multiple enforcement mechanisms for a prohibition on doctors treating minors with puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries, limit an exception for children currently receiving hormone treatments, and forbid the use of public funds in performing gender transition procedures on minors. Florida’s bill, in particular, is among the strongest protections for minors passed to date, and Texas’ is not far behind.
This is relevant because some of the 19 states that have enacted legislation watered down the language, pulled their punches, or failed to approach the issue comprehensively. State leaders in Utah rewrote a bill to protect minors from gender transition procedures, so that the final version contained “massive loopholes,” while at the last minute the West Virginia Senate majority leader amended that state’s bill to grandfather-in anyone currently receiving gender transition hormones. In Georgia and Tennessee, no version of the bills that passed attempted to save minors already sucked in by the lifelong hormone regimen. Legislators in Kentucky saved their bill from near failure by amending a slimmed-down version into another bill, while legislators in Nebraska excepted gender transition hormones from the prohibition to acquire the votes needed to overcome a filibuster.
Except for Nebraska (signed into law on May 22), all these states adopted their laws before Texas and Florida. That is, they voted before the two red-leaning giants had voted to adopt strong protections for minors from gender transition procedures. Earlier this year, it wasn’t clear how much traction the legislative push to protect children would achieve. With the media and hospital associations lining up against the bills, and limited information on what other states would do, it’s not terribly difficult to imagine how some state legislators talked themselves into watering down their proposals. And if Texas and Florida had imitated their lack of conviction, they would have appeared entirely justified.
Instead, Texas and Florida raised the bar. The 800- and 600-pound gorillas of democracy’s laboratory climbed up to the top shelf, inspiring or daring other states to do likewise. It turns out that mainstream conservatism (or simple American common sense) is consistent with zealously protecting children from predatory and experimental policies.
Nearly every state that passed a bill to protect minors has room for improvement in future legislative sessions — although Arkansas (2021), Arizona (2022), Mississippi (2023), and Montana (2023) stand out as laudable exceptions. Specifically, state legislatures should bar state funding for such procedures on minors, require informed consent, and set a sunset date for any exception for minors currently on gender hormones.
The legislative movement to protect children from gender transition procedures has seen some significant milestones. First, Arkansas’ legislature passed a bill over the governor’s veto in 2021. Second, in 2023 the laws exploded across the country, as at least 16 other states joined the three early adopters, indicating a spike in momentum. But not all of these bills were of equal quantity. The third milestone was when Texas and Florida, the largest and among the most influential right-leaning states, enacted strong protections for minors, signaling that this issue was now squarely embraced by mainstream conservatives.
The next step is for states to improve on the initial laws they passed this year, to more securely protect minors from these predatory practices — even as the movement continues to expand to other states.
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On June 7, a nonprofit by the name of Moms for America held a press conference on the Capitol grounds in Washington, D.C. to speak out about biological men competing in women’s sports across the country. H.R. 734, otherwise known as the Protection of Women’s Sports Act of 2023 has passed the House and is waiting for the Senate to schedule a vote. Professional and collegiate athletes gathered to share their stories along with different state representatives, all united under one objective: calling on the Senate to act and pass the bill.
Tennessee State Representative Diana Harshbarger (R) stated, “I know, as a health care professional, you cannot change somebody’s DNA.” She went on to note how we are in the middle of a spiritual battle. “As the Bible says, what is looked at as evil is now being looked at as good, and what is good is being looked at as evil. That is a spiritual message that I want to send to every American. … We cannot legislate morality.”
One by one, several female athletes also shared their experiences of competing with men identifying as women. Each experience was unique, yet all shared the same conclusion: sex is biology, not identity, and females simply cannot compare to males in terms of athleticism.
Macy Petty, a collegiate volleyball player, was the first to speak on behalf of the girls. Men increasingly stealing opportunities in women’s sports is a “direct threat to the integrity of the competition,” she emphasized. Early in her career, Petty had an opportunity to showcase her skills in front of several scouts. “On the other team was a very tall and athletic man,” she stated. “I did not sign up to be in a co-ed league. … The ruling authorities decided this boy’s feelings overrode our opportunity to play in a female only league. … With his biological advantages, he wooed the college scouts. I hate to think what young lady was passed over to make room for him on their [female] college team.”
After Petty shared her experience, other female athletes stepped forward with similar, heartbreaking stories about times that they were robbed of their sports opportunities as well. To conclude the press conference, Idaho State Representative Barbara Ehardt (R) spoke about how she has been an avid voice in this fight for sports equality throughout her lifetime. “I spent years fighting for opportunities for our girls and women [with Title IX]. Now we’re going backwards,” she said.
Ehardt emphasized how the culture is claiming to make sports a place of humanity, inclusion, and community by allowing men to compete against women. “Folks, I’m telling you, that’s not it at all,” she said. “When it comes to athletics, when it comes to keeping your job, it is about winning. If it wasn’t about winning, players wouldn’t get cut and coaches wouldn’t get fired. It’s about winning, make no mistake, and we cannot compete with the male counterparts.” Ehardt concluded by expressing how her passions have heightened since Title IX was first enacted in 1964. This is not an issue that’s relevant only to the present batch of competitors, she contended. This is an issue that has been debated and fought over for decades. “People, it’s a movement. … Step up, be courageous.”
The fight for integrity in women’s sports is raging, because it questions a fundamental truth. As Kassidy Comer, former college basketball player, told The Washington Stand, “You [cannot] ignore God’s plan for who we’re made to be. You know, we were crafted in the womb in His image, and He does not make mistakes. So, when you’re looking at it saying, ‘I know I was born this way, but I feel like I might be this way,’ that is just spiritual warfare, and that is my strong belief as a Christian.”
When asked how her faith helped her be bold in this fight, Comer responded, “I believe we are called to speak truth into this world. We are called to be salt and light. Salt and light can be invasive sometimes, [it] might hurt somebody’s feelings, but we’re called to speak truth … and that is one thing I’ve really tried to do with the platform I’ve been blessed with.”
Debbie Kraulidis, the vice president of Moms for America, stated that this fight is not an easy one, but it is certainly necessary. “We are going to put the pressure on the Senate to pass this bill,” she said. “It is up to us … to protect women’s sports.”
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