NY Times Issues Correction After Smearing Horse Border Patrol

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The New York Times corrected an article from last week which asserted that horseback Border Patrol agents used their reins to “strike at running migrants. The Times‘ correction states the original version of the article “overstated what is known about the behavior of some Border Patrol agents on horseback.”

“Overstated” is an understatement, or at least a euphemism for “slandered,” since all available evidence absolves the Border Patrol of any of the heinous accusations leveled at them by race-mongering media leftists and grandstanding Democrat leaders.

The Times White House Correspondent Michael D. Shear wrote an article on September 24 in which he reported, falsely, that Border Patrol agents on horseback chased and struck at running migrants with the reins of their horses. Shear also noted that President Biden vowed that Border Patrol agents who mistreated Haitian migrants crossing the Rio Grande would face “consequences.”

Since that article, even the photographer who shot many of the images now at the center of the controversy declared that he “didn’t ever see them [the agents] whip anybody,” and that his photos have “really been misconstrued.”

The Times‘ correction reads: “An earlier version of this article overstated what is known about the behavior of some Border Patrol agents on horseback. While the agents waved their reins while pushing migrants back into the Rio Grande, The Times has not seen conclusive evidence that migrants were struck with the reins.”

Shame on Shears, the propaganda outlet The New York Times, and President Biden for smearing the agents trying to contain the border chaos the leftists have intentionally created.

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NYT’s Economic Manifesto

During the first weekend of July 2020, The Times devoted its entire “Sunday Review” section to an economic manifesto titled “The Economy We Need,” calling for: (a) banks to apologize for “structural racism”; (b) the enactment of an Amendment enshrining “voter equality”; (c) wealthy Americans to “give up your privilege.” The manifesto focused on redressing economic inequality — not economic growth or job creation — as America’s main economic challenge. Toward that end, the lead editorial called for the Federal Reserve to target black unemployment only, instead of overall unemployment, and for banks to pay reparations. It also demanded that: (a) banks “apologize for their culpability for and complicity in structural racism” and “commit to serving black people as they do whites”; (b) consumer debt should be cancelled; (c) banking fees be eliminated for black customers; and (d) black homebuyers and businesses be awarded interest-free mortgages and loans.

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BLM Leader Rips Race-Baiting de Blasio, Calls Vaccine Mandate ‘Racist’

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Could the Left’s authoritarian vaccine overreach herald the breakdown of its coalition? Chivona Newsome, who cofounded Black Lives Matter (BLM) Greater NY, gave an indication of this Sunday when she castigated New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio for his citywide vaccine rules, which she said were “racist.” Kevin Downey Jr. asked Thursday: “Will Black People Save the Nation From Vax Passport Mandates?” If Newsome has her way, the answer will be yes.

As Kevin noted, BLM held a protest Wednesday at Carmine’s, where three black women recently attacked an Asian hostess who asked to see proof of their vaccination status. At that protest, Newsome said: “Seventy-two percent of black people in this city from ages 18 to 44 are unvaccinated. So what is going to stop the Gestapo, I mean the NYPD, from rounding up black people, from snatching them off the train, off the bus?”

Who indeed? In the statement she issued on Sunday, Newsome doubled down and hit de Blasio for his hypocrisy: “Although Mayor Bill De Blasio ran on progressives values, nothing in his tenure will attest to his campaign promises. The September 13th vaccine mandate is racist and specifically targets Black New Yorkers. The vaccination passports are modern day Freedom Papers, which limit the free will of Black people.”

There is more. Read the rest here.

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VIDEO: Biden’s Calculated Catastrophes

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The Left weaves its malicious destruction from every angle.

We interviewed Daniel Greenfield (Shillman Fellow, Freedom Center) on Biden’s catastrophes.

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Reclaiming 11 AZ Electors: One GOP Senator Blocking Election Integrity

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The breathtaking mis-reporting from the mainstream media on the Arizona election audit hides the fact that tens of thousands of votes (ballots) are questionable at best. At worst, they are fraudulent. The evidence is overwhelming that systemic corruption took place in the 2020 election. And the job in not done. The next step is reclaiming the 11 electors (decertifying the results), however, one state senator is standing in the way of the truth.

Graham Ledger speaks with Arizona state senator Sonny Borrelli about the options at this point and who that lone Republican senator is who stands against election integrity.

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VIDEO: Johnson & Johnson’s COVID Vaccine EXPOSED

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Project Veritas released the third video of its COVID vaccine investigative series today exposing two Johnson & Johnson officials who argue children do not need to take the COVID vaccine in part because of the potential long-term side effects.

Here are some of the highlights from today’s video:

  • Brandon Schadt, Johnson & Johnson Regional Business Lead: “It’s a kid, you just don’t do that, you know? Not something that’s so unknown in terms of repercussions down the road, you know?”
  • Schadt: “Kids shouldn’t get a f*cking [COVID] vaccine.”
  • Schadt: “It’s a kid, it’s a f*cking kid, you know? They shouldn’t have to get a f*cking [COVID] vaccine, you know?”
  • Schadt: “J&J is like stepping in the best smelling pile of sh*t you could step in.”
  • Justin Durrant, Johnson & Johnson Scientist: “Don’t get the Johnson & Johnson [COVID vaccine], I didn’t tell you though.”
  • Durrant: “It wouldn’t make that much of a difference” if children are unvaccinated for COVID.
  • Durrant: “Inconvenience [the unvaccinated] to the point where it’s like, ‘I might as well just f*cking do it [and take the COVID vaccine],’ you know what I’m saying?”
  • Durrant: “It’s almost like — you’re almost like a second-grade citizen if you’re not vaccinated…you can’t do anything that a normal citizen can do.”
  • Durrant: “If you can’t work, I feel like that’s punishment enough… Only way people really act and comply is if it affects their pockets, like if you’re working for a big company and you’re going to lose your job, best believe you’ll be the first one in line [to take the COVID vaccine]…That’s what we’re doing.” 

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MIKE PENCE: A History of Treachery and Betrayal

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“Trickery and treachery are the practices of fools that have not the wits enough to be honest.” – Benjamin Franklin

“Sometimes the people you’d take a bullet for are the ones behind the trigger.” – Taylor Swift

“There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honor.” – Benjamin Disraeli

It’s time to take a break from the totalitarian control of citizens via the plandemic and forced jabs.  On December 19, 2020, Mike Pence allegedly received the Moderna COVID-19 jab live on TV.  I have trouble believing any federal politician has actually received the jab because none of them have had adverse effects or died.  But on April 14th, Mike Pence underwent surgery for a pacemaker since his heartbeat had slowed.  In 2016, he had informed candidate Donald Trump that he had a heart diagnosis of an asymptomatic left bundle branch block.  One wonders if Pence actually received the inoculation or if the necessity of a pacemaker was coincidental.

Stalinists v. Trotskyites

Here’s the latest from the comrade in our White House…Joe Biden hates patriotic America so much that he fired Lee Greenwood from the National Council of the Arts.  Greenwood wrote God Bless the USA in 1984 and was appointed to the council by George W. Bush.

Why do I hear no outrage from the Republican Party?  Most folks have figured out that the neo-con Trotskyite republicans aren’t much better than the democrats.  Like Stalin and Lenin, Trotsky was a communist, but he wanted the “slow” acceptance of communism and only murdered three million whereas Stalin and Lenin used iron fists and boots to stomp on any rebellion.  Stalin’s death toll was over 20 million and Lenin claimed the lives of tens of millions of people all over Europe.

The comrades in the Democrat Party are Stalinists, those in the Republican Party are Trotskyites…little difference except for a handful of brave men and women who cling to the truth of our God given rights and the US Constitution.

Back in February of this year, I wrote three successive articles on former VP Mike Pence.  The first article exposed his lifelong congressional friends.  The second article was about his upbringing, his voting record from the time he entered politics, the people he chose for the Trump administration, and his failure of every job President Trump tasked him with, including the hellish nightmare of the Covid Task Force with Fauci and friends.  The third and final article in the series was about the people who funded Pence throughout his political career, big name people who still support him.

Koch Organizations

The Koch brothers have been long time friends and financial supporters of Michael Pence. Accordingly, VP Pence stacked his own office with former Koch brothers’ employees.  Even Kellyanne Conway was affiliated with the Kochs, and she and Pence have been good friends for years and even have family members who have intermarried.  In June of 2017, 16 of 23 senior white house officials had ties to the Koch brothers, including Reince Priebus, Jeff Sessions, Mick Mulvaney, Rob Porter and Don McGahn.  Even Treasury Secretary Mnuchin helped the Kochs out with a change in tax laws.  The Trump administration was packed full of Koch operatives, brought in by their water boy, Mike Pence. Here is a shocking list of the Trump transition team Koch beneficiaries.

The Koch organizations, including Americans for Prosperity, are anathema to Constitutional conservatism.  They prefer open borders with cheap labor, amnesty for illegals, across the board abortion, Agenda 21 sustainability and environmentalism and the financing of American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) who has promoted an Article V Constitutional Convention for decades.

Dick and Betsy DeVos

Financial support from Dick and Betsy DeVos commenced when Pence first entered politics.  Betsy DeVos is known for her support for school choice, school voucher programs, and charter schools.

Betsy and Dick DeVos were impressed by Pence’s support for their pet project of charter schools.  One wonders if Pence and DeVos back American tax-funded charters by Islamic Imam Fethullah Gulen, Rudolph Steiner’s Anthroposophical Waldorf Schools and Communist Chinese charter schools.  Chinese investors are putting millions into Florida Chinese charters.

Pence’s devoted financier, Betsy DeVos was nominated for Education Secretary after Michelle Rhee was dropped. DeVos donated to Bush’s unsuccessful presidential campaign and was lauded by Jeb Bush as she previously sat on the board of his Foundation of Excellence in Education which promoted common core. The two share an education reform policy that supports the transfer of public dollars to privately run schools, such as for-profit charter schools and voucher programs that use taxpayer funds to pay for private schools.

Columnist Diane Kepus researched Betsy DeVos and knew she would be a disaster; her two articles on DeVos are well worth your time, Link and Link, and her fears were well founded.

Mike Pence played an important role in the confirmation of DeVos for Education Secretary. Amid protests from Democratic critics and teachers’ unions that DeVos, a billionaire charter school supporter with no public-school experience, was unqualified for the position, the Senate deadlocked in a 50-50 tie. Republican Senators Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska joined their Democratic colleagues in voting against DeVos. Normally we wouldn’t laud their votes, but this time they were right.  On February 7, 2017, Vice President Pence cast the historic tie-breaking vote to confirm her, the first-time a vice president has been called on to break a tie in a cabinet nomination.

DeVos announced her resignation on January 8th, 2021 in the wake of the assault on the U.S. Capitol. She said in her resignation letter to President Trump there is “no mistaking the impact your rhetoric had on the situation, and it is the inflection point for me.”

On September 25th at a Republican Leadership conference in Mackinac Island, DeVos implicitly criticized the GOP’s ongoing capture by former President Donald Trump insinuating that Trump supporters were like a cult, when it’s Betsy and her ilk who are the real cultists.

Heritage Foundation

Mike Pence joined The Heritage Foundation as a distinguished visiting fellow in February 2021 after serving four years as President Trump’s VP.  They are old friends.  Three decades ago, it was The Heritage Foundation’s influence that inspired Pence to help create a think tank in his home state of Indiana. After coming to Washington as a congressman and later as vice president, Pence frequently collaborated with Heritage.

In 1991, Pence became president of the Indiana Policy Review Foundation (IPRF), which is part of the State Policy Network in Indiana. Link  They are satellite affiliates of the Heritage Foundation whose goals and interests are similar to the Koch’s.  The IPRF was a small group back when Pence was their president, but in the years since, it has amassed an enormous budget thanks in great part to the largess of the Koch network of donors and others.

Pence now advises Heritage experts on public policy issues and ensures Heritage remains the leading conservative voice on solutions to America’s biggest challenges. Pence also writes a monthly column for The Daily Signal, Heritage’s multimedia news outlet.

Heritage is well-known controlled opposition.  They are funded by long time pro-aborts and Council on Foreign Relations members.  Heritage fellow Richard Allen (CFR member) wrote NAFTA, and Stuart M. Butler wrote a Heritage monograph mandating all households obtain adequate health insurance.

In early August of 2021, Pence spoke at Young America’s Foundation, an “associate” member of the State Policy Network, and was immediately booed when he told them to get the COVID jab, despite telling the audience that he and his wife Karen and their children had all had the inoculations.

Pence and the Leadership Institute

A few months ago, I received a 12-page letter from Mike Pence extolling the virtues of Morton Blackwell’s Leadership Institute and pressing me for a large donation.  I saved the 12-pages, and last week I received another letter from David Horowitz asking me to pledge funds to the same organization.  Mr. Horowitz is now promoting an Article V Constitutional Convention.

Morton Blackwell is a long-time member of the rightwing Council for National Policy (CNP), and back in the late 90s he was urging a chaplain friend of mine to join the CNP.  One Sunday, Blackwell took my friend to his Episcopal Church in DC, and the female preacher asked for prayer for her husband as he was an abortion doctor and was doing a particularly difficult abortion that morning.  The chaplain was horrified, got up and left, and refused to join the council.

The Leadership Institute is also an “associate” member of the State Policy Network.  Their past students include:

  • Mitch McConnell (who in 2020 had a Freedom Index score of 20, which means he voted against President Trump and the US Constitution 80% of the time. Don’t forget that he and his wife Elaine Chao are very connected to a Chinese shipping company through Chao’s father and sisters.
  • David McIntosh – head of pro-amnesty Club for Growthwho spent $2 million to defeat Donald Trump in Iowa in 2016.  McIntosh was also a co-founder of the Federalist Society.  Kellyanne Conway and her husband are members and they urged Trump to use the Federalist Society for a list of possible supreme court justices.  (Mike Pence urged Trump to also use the Heritage Foundation for possible justices.)
  • Grover Norquist – head of Americans for Tax Reform and board member of the National Rifle Association is also married to a Palestinian Islamist and has allegedly become one himself. Norquist has a strange alliance with radical Islam and introduced the Muslim Brotherhood to the George W. Bush White House. Frank Gaffney has fully exposed Norquist.
  • Ralph Reed – originally the head of Christian Coalition for Pat Robertson and mailed out voter guides where many true constitutional conservatives were lied about or ignored and neo-con RINOs and Trotskyites were promoted. Reed was also involved with Jack Abramoff who went to prison for the Native American Lobbying scandal.  According to Abramoff’s book, Capitol Punishment, Reed made at least $5 million and should have gone to prison with Jack.  Abramoff also promotes his friend Grover Norquist in his final chapters.
  • Mark Souder – Congressman from Ft. Wayne, Indiana who promised to serve only six terms, but ran for a seventh and resigned when he was exposed for having an affair with a married part-time staffer.

Mike Pence’s good friend, Nikki Haley also endorses and promotes the Leadership Institute.  Many people believe Nikki would make a fine President or Vice President, because she did what her boss, President Trump, asked her to do at the UN.  One of Trump’s business friends in South Carolina called him in early 2017 and asked him to give Haley a position in his administration.  He told Trump that their Lt. Governor was far more conservative and South Carolina needed to be rid of Haley.  After January 6th, 2021, Nikki Haley excoriated her former boss by saying, “We shouldn’t have followed him.”

The old saying, “Better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than open it and have it known,” describes Haley to a T.

Advancing American Freedom

Mike Pence joined the advisory board of Advancing American Freedom with several former Trump hands, including his close friend, Kellyanne Conway, Larry Kudlow and David Bernhardt.

The advisory board includes a number of heretical doctrine “Christians” who are confirmed dominionists, several neo-con Trotskyites, and even members of the Council on Foreign Relations.  My friend, JW Bryan has thoroughly exposed the CFR in his articles as a globalist enemy organization within America.  Pence’s old Indiana buddy, David McIntosh is also on the board as are several people who are promoting an Article V Constitutional Convention.

John Guandolo Exposes Pence

In this video starting at 5:10, John Guandolo exposes VP Mike Pence and his actions during his four years as Donald Trump’s VP.

He states that when Pence was Governor of Indiana and John’s organization, Understanding the Threat, was doing work in Indiana, “Pence had no desire to hear or deal with the truth about jihadi threats in Indiana.  The Islamic site of North America’s headquarters is there in Plainfield, Indiana, and Indiana is one of the three states where the Muslim Brotherhood settled in the United States in the early 60s, and he did nothing. Even though we were working with state legislators, who got it, we couldn’t get him to budge, but that’s a different story.”

John states, “On January 5th, there was a massive meeting in the Trump Hotel in Washington DC with every major player, ten US Senators, their staffs, all the key players in the entire voter fraud game.  The president’s staff and the VP had people there and people who I know directly. I have looked at their briefs and looked at the information and been briefed about what was apprised there regarding the evidence of the fraud and it’s undeniable.  It’s factually rock solid.  Mr. Pence agreed that he would go with what the decision was.  He was going to do a number of things, but essentially, for the sake of this discussion, he pushed it back to the states.  There were some other things he agreed to do, investigative stuff, and before the clock struck midnight on the 5th, he recanted and told the president, I’m not going to do it.  We know that somebody met with Mr. Pence and we still haven’t identified who it was who got him to turn, but I think Mike Pence is a turd and I think he’s a traitor.”

“He was the guy in the Trump administration who was leading the Republican establishment turncoats and there’s more evidence than just what I’m saying right now.  Just that one point should be enough to make people realize that guy is not batting for the American people in any way, shape or form.”

The interviewing host is absolutely right when she said that Donald Trump supporters have been labeled domestic terrorists.  “The Revolutionary Movement against the Constitutional Republic all said that the people at the capitol on January 6th were involved in a coup and were insurrectionists, when in fact they were the people the Dems supported for the previous year…the Antifa and BLM communist agitators on the streets of America. They openly supported them and everything that supports that ideology.”

“Mr. Trump’s greatest failure was to rely on the RNC to fill his administration and they filled it, not with Phil Haney, not with Stephen Coughlin, not with Rich Higgins (fired by McMaster), not with people who actually knew the threat.  They intentionally blocked those people.  John Gallagher, one of the two people vetting national security positions, was the CEO of the Institute for Global Engagement, a Muslim Brotherhood political think tank front in Washington DC.  He was the guy the RNC put in there to screen national security positions.  That’s why you got only bad guys in the administration.”

Pence in 2024

Pence and his wife Karen have always wanted the presidency, but what he doesn’t understand is the fact that he followed the advice of his good friends from Congress, Paul Ryan and Jeff Flake, rather than standing with the man who gave him the chance to one day lead the country.  Pence is our 21st Century Benedict Arnold…he stabbed the president in the back and the Republic in the heart.

He’s working on an $18 million war chest.  His group, Advancing American Freedom, is shaping up as a vehicle for testing the waters and building the infrastructure needed for a White House bid.  The group is staffed by some of Pence’s top allies and ex-aides, including former Koch employee and Pence chief of staff Marc Short, political adviser Marty Obst and former senior Trump White House staffer Paul Teller.

Pence is touring states and lecturing on election integrity after previously refusing to address it.  Unlike James Comey who is a guest lecturer at Howard University, the same university exposed in Manning Johnson’s book, Color, Communism and Common Sense, as being loaded with communists, Pence is lecturing on something he knows nothing about.  Not surprisingly, Federal Judge Emmett Sullivan who was in charge of General Michael Flynn’s case and would not dismiss it, received his undergraduate degree and JD from that very university.

Pence has become persona non grata amongst Trump supporters; someone needs to tell him his political career is over and lock both him and his frumpy control-freak wife in a closet.  I’d go further, but this is for public fare.  When Pence allowed the certification of Biden as the winner under very shady circumstances and then elbow bumped with Pelosi, we saw it all.

Pence admits that he is proud Biden was certified on January 6th, but there are over eighty million Americans who know the truth.

Conclusion

Few people know that America’s Front-Line Doctors headed by Dr. Simone Gold who is also an attorney, went to VP Pence in July of 2020 and told him that if President Trump made Hydroxychloroquine and over-the-counter drug as it is in so many other countries, that lives would be saved as well as the President’s second term.

She told Pence, “Once it’s Over-the-Counter, there’s nothing Congress can do, there’s nothing the doctors and pharmacists can do to stop it…They were going to hold this coronavirus thing over him [Trump], so if the death rates went down to zero, it would have been beautiful.”

She said she met obstruction at every turn.

Mike Pence truly is a modern-day Judas.

©Kelleigh Nelson. All rights reserved.

SHARIA AMERICA: California Schools Prepare for Influx of Afghan Students, Offer ‘Culturally Appropriate’ Halal Meals, Muslim Prayer Rooms

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Don’t dare ask where the Jewish or Christians prayer rooms are, islamophobes!

It is widely known that Muslims are the only immigrant group who come to the West with a ready made model of society they believe to be superior to Western law and they work furiously, by all means, to impose it. Under Islam, shariah (Islamic) law supersedes Western law. Anywhere Western law and Shariah law conflict, it is always Western law that must give way. What those of us working in defense of freedom did not expect, was the craven capitulation and cowardice by Western left elites to Islamic supremacy.

I don’t worry about the fanaticism of the enemy, I worry about the treachery on our side.

And the Democrats are only to happy to have America submit.

California Schools Prepare for Influx of Afghan Refugee Students, Offer ‘Culturally Appropriate’ Meals, Set Aside Rooms For Prayer During Muslim Holidays

By: Cristina Laila, The Gateway Pundit, September 25, 2021 at 8:41pm

Even halal food and provided prayer rooms.

Elk Grove Unified School District is preparing halal food and providing prayer rooms during Muslim holidays.

Joe Biden purposely turned Afghanistan over to the Taliban and packed evacuation planes with tens of thousands of unvetted Afghans and flew them to the US.

The Afghans are being dispersed all over the country and California agreed to take in at least 5,000 refugees.

The majority of Afghans being brought to California will live in Fremont and Sacramento.

The San Juan Unified School District where more than half the population is Afghan, hired a team (with the help of state grants) to help with the influx of refugees.

EdSource reported:

Elk Grove Unified School District began offering culturally appropriate meals and setting aside rooms in many of its middle and high schools for prayer during Muslim holidays in preparation for the additional Afghan students it expects in the next month. San Juan Unified is offering Saturday school for English learners, and Fremont Unified is planning to hire more translators.

Sacramento school officials have been meeting weekly with representatives from resettlement agencies to prepare for the students. Resettlement agencies partner with the federal government to ensure refugees have food, clothing and housing, as well as medical and mental health services, among other things, for 90 days after their arrival in a city. After that, school districts often take on the role of liaison between the family and social service organizations, offering translators and guidance.

California school districts with Afghan student populations are offering wraparound services for refugee families, including dedicated staff to enroll students in school, language classes for parents and students, and translators to help explain schoolwork or make medical appointments. Districts also refer families to community resources that provide food, housing and medical care, among other services.

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VIDEO: Massachusetts State Troopers Resign En Masse Over Mask/Vax Mandates

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The Democrats are deliberately destroying the country. And they’re not even pretending anymore. Things don’t just happen, they are made to happen. Labor shortages, food shortages, gas shortages and dictatorial mandates – it’s the bloody Soviet Union.

Mind you this is happening across Europe:

Massachusetts State Troopers resign en masse…

By Kane, Citizen Free Press, September 27, 2021:

Troopers are not happy with Charlie Baker

The State Police Association of Massachusetts said dozens of troopers have submitted their resignation papers as a result of the Vaccine mandate. The state is requiring all executive department employees to show proof of vaccination by October 17.

The State Police union released a statement following the judge’s decision:

Throughout Covid, we have been on the front lines protecting the citizens of Massachusetts and beyond. Simply put, all we are asking for are the same basic accommodations that countless other departments have provided to their first responders, and to treat a Covid related illness as a line of duty injury.

The State Police are already critically short staffed and acknowledged this by the unprecedented moves which took troopers from specialty units that investigate homicides, terrorism, computer crimes, arsons, gangs, narcotics, and human trafficking, and returned them to uniformed patrol.

Full story with photos at DailyMail…

Here’s the full event:

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German Journalist: Police Classify Anti-Semitic Attacks Committed by Muslims as ‘Right-Wing’

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Then politicians bemoan a rise in “right-wing extremism.” It’s quite an impressive house of cards they’ve built.

German newspaper complains that crime statistics on anti-Semitic attacks are manipulated to hide Muslim perpetrators

Medforth, September 25, 2021:

German politics misses the point when it comes to anti-Semitism. Journalist Lennart Pfahler is convinced of this. As he writes in the early edition of the newspaper “Welt am Sonntag” ( September 26), Muslim anti-Semitism is still taboo in Germany.

Whoever names it must fear being called a “right-winger” or a “fig leaf” if they are Muslim themselves. This is a “criminal failure of discourse”: “Apart from the police crime statistics, which have been blatantly misleading for years and which automatically classify alleged anti-Semitic crimes as ‘right-wing’ motivated if they cannot be attributed to anything else, there is little to support the convenient thesis of the marginal phenomenon.

In a survey by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, 41 per cent of Jews in Germany said they felt most threatened by Islamic anti-Semitism.

Conservative politicians and Jewish associations regularly pointed out the problem. Too often, the response from “left-liberal columnists and Muslim activists” was appeasing. The debate about the broadcaster Nemi El-Hassan shows how much the fight against anti-Semitism has degenerated into a political question of opinion.

Background: German public broadcaster WDR wanted to hire the journalist as a presenter. After protests – among other things because of El-Hassan’s participation in an anti-Israel Al-Quds demonstration – WDR suspended its decision. Prominent voices now wanted to stall the reappraisal of the case, Pfahler writes. Especially for those Muslims who tried to address the issue in their own community, this defensive attitude was a slap in the face….

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New Wine Company is an Unabashed Cheerleader for America [+Video]

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It’s becoming a popular fad for companies to focus on America’s so-called faults, not our freedoms.

Bank of America (1.00): “All Americans need to see racism as a national issue.”

American Express (1.00): “George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and Christian Cooper are just the latest victims… that indicate we still have a very long way to go as a nation to ensure that the human rights of all people are respected equally.”

Amazon (1.62): “The inequitable and brutal treatment of Black people in our country must stop.”

It doesn’t stop with corporations, either. This pervasive anti-American sentiment is also being passed on to our children. Several weeks ago, a California teacher removed an American flag from her classroom “because it made [her] uncomfortable.” She told her students to pledge allegiance to the LGBT Pride flag, instead.

Clearly, the cultural war on America is in full swing. Thankfully, some courageous organizations are fighting back, branding themselves as unabashed cheerleaders for our nation’s values. We the People Wine (3.68) is one of these companies, offering an alternative to wine-drinkers who proudly stand for our founding principles like freedom and equality.

We the People Wine is intentional about combating the anti-American orthodoxy pushed by many cultural and corporate icons. When he appeared on Fox & Friends last month, founder Ryan Coyne said, “We wanted to build a brand about American exceptionalism. Free people, free markets, free speech – all the values we think are under attack by world culture.”

Every We the People Wine bottle proudly features an American flag, and a portion of proceeds goes toward pro-American causes. Their recent advertisement, which went viral, features a near-prophetic President Ronald Reagan reminding us that freedom in America must be fought for.

That’s exactly what We the People Wine is doing. With their entrance into the market, wine-drinkers who love America now don’t have to buy from wine companies such as Barefoot (2.67) or Constellation Brands (2.67), which 2ndVote shows lean left. Instead, use your wallet to support your American values. To order a bottle (or two!) from We the People Wine today, click here and remember to thank them for what they are doing!

Use your voice to call out Barefoot and Constellation Brands to let them know why you will not continue shopping with them. Click the company names so that you can contact them directly through the 2ndVote page!

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VIDEO: Virginia Mother of Six Raises Hell About School Library Keeping Gay Pedophilia Books for Kids

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Parents must know what their children are being taught in our public schools.

100PERCENTFEDUP.com published the following video and commentary By Leisa Audette:

Virginia mom Stacy Langton spoke at a recent Fairfax County Public School Board Meeting as a very concerned parent. She spoke about her concern for the content of books found in the school library.

The video clip below shows Stacy Langton who told the school board that she was able to check out the two books at the Fairfax High School library she had seen other parents protest:

“Lawn Boy” by Jonathan Evison and “Gender Queer: A Memoir” by Maia Kobabe

Langton told the school  board: Both of these books include pedophilia. Sex between men and boys … One book describes a fourth-grade boy performing oral sex on an adult male. The other book has detailed illustrations of a man having sex with a boy.”

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Has the time come to regulate social media?

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The brilliant Nicholas Carr has proposed a Digital Communications Act.

Nicholas Carr is a writer whose book The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, published in 2010, gained considerable attention by pointing out how new technologies have affected our basic thought processes, and not always in a good way.

In the fall 2021 issue of The New Atlantis journal, he proposes a legislative initiative he calls the Digital Communications Act that would, if adopted, go far toward alleviating some of the worst harms that social media currently cause. But to understand the thrust of his proposals, a little historical background is in order.

Electronic media basically do two different kinds of things: personal communication and broadcasting. Until the internet came along, these two different activities were done by more or less completely different kinds of technology. The telegraph and telephone are classic examples of the first kind: personal communication, one person to another. As regulations evolved in the 20th Century to deal with issues of privacy arising from the fact that telegraph and telephone operators could eavesdrop on personal communications through their systems, legislatures and courts came up with what is called a “common-carrier” doctrine.

Borrowed from the transportation field, the concept of a common carrier is that some industries do things that are so vital to the public good that they need to be regulated in order to enforce goods such as fairness and privacy.

The first quasi-independent federal agency of any magnitude, the Interstate Commerce Commission, was established to enforce common-carrier rules on railroads, which had previously engaged in discriminatory and predatory pricing to exploit farmers who had no other way to sell their crops in wider markets than local ones.

When Western Union and the Bell System came along, the federal government applied common-carrier rules to them. The tariffs, as they were called, could get quite complicated, but the overarching principle was simple: treat all communications as private and treat all (or most) customers the same.

Broadcasting, on the other hand, had to be treated differently once people figured out that one person in a studio could potentially talk to millions of others nationwide. The Federal Radio Commission of 1927, predecessor to the current Federal Communications Commission (FCC), came up with a phrase that described how broadcasters must treat the privilege, granted by an FCC license, of addressing thousands or millions at once: “the public interest, convenience, or necessity,” sometimes abbreviated PICON.

Over the decades, PICON has dictated how broadcasters must behave in order to retain their broadcasting privileges. As the nature of the public changes continually, PICON standards change as well. From the 1940s through the 1980s, the FCC imposed what was called the “fairness doctrine,” which required broadcasters to give equal time to opposing sides in a political contest, for example. After the FCC abandoned the doctrine in 1987, religious and partisan political broadcasting flourished, but the net benefit to the public is debatable, to say the least.

When the internet came along, it put all these nice separate types of communication in a super-speed blender and mixed them all together. From the same computer, I can email one friend, or if I’m a super-influencer, I can send the same image of my latest clothing style to ten million people. But the two categories—personal communication and broadcasting—still apply, and it’s not that hard to separate them by either intent or by statistical means.

As Carr puts it, “An Instagrammer [or an engineering ethics blogger] with a hundred followers can be assumed to be engaged in conversation; an Instagrammer with a hundred thousand followers is a broadcaster.” Carr says—and I agree with him—that the psychological or humanistic categories of personal communication and broadcasting are still useful and should be used to discriminate between two types of regulation that his proposed Digital Communications Act would apply to social media and internet service providers.

For personal communications, ranging from emails, to Facebook posts to a few friends, to search-engine inquiries, the Act would require companies to respect one’s privacy. No more searching for snow shovels online and getting buried in emails and pop-ups for snow shovels, dirt shovels, and snow cones. No more talking about driving to a fast-food outlet and having your phone overhear your conversation and throw ads at you for that chain, or a rival one. We’ve almost gotten used to it, but I know people who have gotten used to living with cancer. That doesn’t mean it’s a good thing to have cancer.

For broadcasting, which means anything anybody does that reaches more than a certain threshold number of people, something like the old PICON doctrine needs to be imposed. Carr is perhaps intentionally vague on what a 2021-era version of the fairness doctrine would look like. Much of the really harmful stuff that runs around the internet is spontaneous, as “going viral” is not something one particular person can infallibly bring about. But the process itself is easily monitored and encouraged by the social media companies, as things like that are their bread and butter. And it wouldn’t be hard to set up rules or software to regulate the process—technically, I mean.

Politically, it’s another can of worms altogether. In what could qualify as the understatement of the year, Carr says his proposed Act “would be complicated and controversial. It would be resisted by many powerful private interests.”

Yes, only Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon, well, you know the list. It would be opposed mainly because it would cut off one of their main revenue streams, which is advertising targeted by means of snooping into your private communications, and that would be barred under the Act. A snowball has an excellent chance inside Mt. Vesuvius compared to this bill, at least under present circumstances.

But times and circumstances change, and maybe some day an outrage may occur that is so universally deplored that the political will of the country will favour such a move. As Carr points out, it was the sinking of the Titanic in 1912 that catalyzed international regulation of the radio waves, because interfering stations made it hard to conduct rescue operations by radio. We have had numerous political disasters that social media have played a part in, but nobody has been killed yet, at least not directly.

Anyway, I think Carr has done us all a great service in basing his argument for a Digital Communications Act on a sound historical footing, and now all we need to do is enact it. Stay tuned, so to speak.

Sources: Nicholas Carr’s article “How to Fix Social Media” appeared on pp. 3-20 of the Fall 2021 issue of The New Atlantis.

This article has been republished from the Engineering Ethics blog.

COLUMN BY

Karl D. Stephan

Karl D. Stephan received the B. S. in Engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 1976. Following a year of graduate study at Cornell, he received the Master of Engineering degree in 1977… More by Karl D. Stephan

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What does it mean to be an American? by Lieutenant Jason Redman, U.S. Navy SEAL (Ret.)

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“When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Today’s blog was written by a friend of mine, Lieutenant Jason Redman, U.S. Navy SEAL, retired. His story is truly remarkable. A story of true American bravery. He is a modest man with an incredible family.

He has written several books, his first and my best named “the Trident.” You can purchase it on Amazon and it should be required reading for all Americans. He is a motivational speaker and some of you may remember him speaking at the Tampa Save America Foundation conference. Do yourselves a favor and read every word here. Then share it with friends and family and especially your kids. I have included a lot of links at the bottom for you to research him more. Also a link to where you can donate to the dangerous work he is doing now with Task Force Pineapple. Why does he do it? Simple. Because he is an American.

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE AN AMERICAN?

By Lieutenant Jason Redman, U.S. Navy SEAL, retired.

These days I’m asked on an hourly basis about my involvement in Task Force Pineapple, a citizen-liaison network formed by the need to protect the lives of Americans and our most dedicated allies left behind with the chaotic and expedited withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan. During a one-week period between the fall of the Afghan government and military and our official final exit, Task Force Pineapple successfully evacuated more than 800 Americans, Afghan veterans, interpreters and various VIPs utilizing a first-of-its-kind virtual underground railroad mechanism dubbed The Pineapple Express. We reasonably believed that these efforts were necessary to prevent the immediate threat of serious bodily injury or death to fellow American citizens and our Afghan allies. A thousand or more stories represent as many people assisted or saved.

The members of Task Force Pineapple managed to do all of this from right here within the U.S., but it required us leveraging our collaborative knowledge of Afghanistan and good relationships built with allies and friends around the world.

Why do I do this? Because I believe it is the right thing to do.

We’re Americans. It’s what we do.

For generations in my lifetime, it meant something to be an American citizen. We cared about such virtues as honor and integrity, and we acted accordingly. We upheld a distinctive sense of pride and a standard of respect for who we are as a nation of people unified in this mindset, and other countries knew not to mess with Americans overseas because we would expend everything in our power — diplomatically, politically and militarily — to protect the lives and freedoms of our people.

I recall a story told over the years by Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North to illustrate the kind of commitment and integrity ingrained in U.S. troops based throughout the world: On April 6, 2003, the U.S. Marine unit with which North was embedded was just outside Baghdad when their rifle company was ambushed. A foreign journalist for an international news agency filmed as a young Navy corpsman, a combat medic to the Marines, twice turned and rushed through the fire, straight into the fight, and returned from the densely chaotic battlefield carrying an injured Marine to safety. As he returned from a third run, carrying a third injured man over his shoulder, the journalist called him out to this effect: Hey, mate, what’d you do that for? Didn’t you notice that wasn’t a Marine? The newsman was right. The wounded warrior wasn’t a U.S. Marine. He was an Iraqi soldier. And as North tells it, the Navy corpsman responded with a rhetorical “Didn’t you notice? He was wounded. That’s what we do. We’re Americans.”

As a Navy SEAL, I recall gearing up for a mission in Iraq to possibly rescue a U.S. Marine and Army soldier who had been captured. Never before had I had such a powerful sense of pride and peace of mind knowing that if I were to die on this mission, I would die perfectly content having done the right thing. To me, that’s the essence of being an American. And the fact that we left American citizens behind in Afghanistan in the hands of a violent and extreme Taliban regime, that we were not extraordinarily aggressive and immediate about getting them out ASAP, is disturbing to me. And I believe it should bother every American — those in government especially — that we left so many behind who trusted in our promise, our values and our commitment.

We’re Americans. And that behavior doesn’t represent us. Americans operate with honor and integrity — It’s what we do. Task Force Pineapple is an expression of that mindset.

“Honoring the Promise”

To call myself an American means something. And there is a responsibility that comes with being an American citizen — and it especially applies for those in American government — to honor our promise to take care of the people who have taken care of us.

These amazing warriors and Afghan allies fought directly alongside us. They willingly put themselves and their families at extreme risk by assisting us as interpreters, intelligence gatherers and in other mission-critical roles as we fought to protect their citizens and ours from those bent on destroying us all.

They all knew they might die for the cause. And many of them did. Some had family members who were murdered as punishment for their efforts.

Today as Afghanistan has fallen and is now back in the control of the Taliban, we must save them. Task Force Pineapple knows who and where these at-risk people are. They trust us. TFP alone is aware of thousands of high-risk SIV holders and their family members in Afghanistan still trying to get out. But the border has been locked down, flights are not available, and our original mission is no longer possible. For now, we are focused on keeping our people safe inside Afghanistan with such essentials as layup sites, shelter, food, clothing and medical necessities.

For example:

Last month, an at-risk Afghan family who had been working with U.S. government and military forces had been directed onto buses with some 250 others outside the gates of Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport (HKIA). The Taliban fired on the bus, scattering all the families in terror. This allied family found immediate refuge in a small house but at high risk of compromise. They got connected to Task Force Pineapple, who identified a safehouse and a plan for movement to a new, safer location where the two parents and their five children now hide more securely.

Just this week, a woman went into premature labor in Kabul due to the stress of her husband having been kidnapped by the Taliban. Three other women cared for her but could not stop her post-delivery bleeding. The hospital was not an option due to the threat posed by the Taliban and the fact that she would not be accompanied by a man. A Task Force Pineapple shepherd reached out for support, and we were able to sync a call with an American midwife and an Afghan official who translated life-saving medical advice.

Task Force Pineapple is ready, willing and able to act, but we cannot do this alone. This now must be a government-led initiative, and it is time to expedite our efforts to do so. Task Force Pineapple is standing by to assist. We have the ability to help honor America’s promise to bring these people back by facilitating rescue, recovery and resettlement to safe places in the U.S. with plans and funding for their successful futures, reintegration, and repurposing of their unique skill sets relied upon by U.S. military and government organizations for patriotic service.

Honoring our promise: It’s simply the right thing to do. It’s the American thing to do.

American credibility

To accomplish such a tremendous feat requires leveraging our long-standing relationships with allies around the world. And right now, the credibility of America is at stake. I fear long-term damage as a consequence of leaving our allies in a state of extreme danger and not honoring our commitments to their well-being in exchange for their commitments to ours.

Others worldwide are watching us. Allies are watching what we’re doing. How many of them are second-guessing their own commitment to us? How many people would still consider jeopardizing their lives and their loved ones based on U.S. promises they can’t necessarily trust?

I’m concerned about America’s reputation. I worry about our intel-gathering capabilities in years to come. Our strategic influence in the world is predicated upon the relationships we establish and maintain with people around the world who are willing to help us. Those relationships take years — decades — to build, and the trust required must be earned.

So I think it is time we should all ask ourselves what it means to be an American. I see our country so divided these days that I wonder how many of us have a definitive answer. What once was an “indivisible” nation of citizens who cared about doing the “right thing” by others seems to be represented — even hijacked — by a modern-day “What’s in it for me?” mindset. Task Force Pineapple is an unequivocal example of the mindset that insists that our core values and principles can still prevail. There’s nothing in it for any of us who are taking action aside from the personal pride and peace of mind in knowing that we are acting with integrity to honor the promise that America has made by trying to help the people who have helped us.

This message from a rescued family to their Task Force Pineapple shepherd speaks volumes (names have been changed):

“Hey John, it’s Bill. We are moving on the first leg to (unnamed city) in America, and I want you to know. Please come visit us. You saved my family. Anything you need, I’m forever here. We love you.”

Why do I do this? Because I think it’s the right thing to do. We take care of the people who took care of us.

We’re Americans. It’s what we do. And that means something.

It’s not too late to course-correct. We can still do the right thing, the American thing.

You can help

  • Task Force Pineapple appreciates and accepts monetary donations to help fund safety, clothing, transportation, medical and resettlement efforts. Make yours at operationrecovery.org
  • Contact your representatives and tell them it is un-American to leave these people behind and that we must honor our promise to bring them back. Task Force Pineapple welcomes the opportunity to work directly with and in support of DOS.
  • Learn more via recent media coverage, including:

13 News Now, 9/3/2: https://www.13newsnow.com/article/news/national/military-news/task-force-pineapple-afghanistan-refugees-veterans/291-af67e9f6-8b98-43f2-89d9-f42458e396c9

ABC News, 8/27/21: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/us-special-operations-vets-carry-daring-mission-save/story?id=79670236

Newsmax, “Wake Up America” with Alison Maloni, 9/1/21: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrXJxbU7URY

iHeart, “The Brian Mudd Show,” 9/1/21: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/745-brian-mudd-show-28418850/episode/retired-navy-seal-lt-jason-on-86465541/

The Jim Bohannon Show, 8/30/21: https://omny.fm/shows/jim-bohannon/jim-bohannon-08-30-21#description

About Lieutenant Jason Redman, U.S. Navy SEAL (Ret.)

Jason Redman is a retired U.S. Navy lieutenant, best-selling author and sought-after personal/professional-development speaker and trainer. During his 21-year Navy career (1992 – 2013), Redman spent 11 years as an enlisted SEAL and nearly 10 years as a SEAL officer and was awarded the Bronze Star Medal with Valor, the Purple Heart, the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, the Navy Commendation Medal, the Joint Service Achievement Medal, five Navy Achievement Medals, and two Combat Action Ribbons. After surviving critical wounding and near death by enemy ambush in Iraq in 2007, he endured nearly 40 subsequent surgeries and returned to duty as a Navy officer before retiring in 2013. Since then, Redman is the author of multiple books, including the New York Times bestselling memoir “The Trident” and Amazon best-sellers “Overcome: Crush Adversity with the Leadership Techniques of America’s Toughest Warriors” and Pointman Planner. He develops leadership programs and speaks, coaches and trains nationwide, imparting motivational and leadership wisdom to help individuals and organizations overcome and conquer adversity and take control of their own personal and professional lives in pursuit of mission, resilience and ultimate life success. Visit: www.jasonredman.com.

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New York Governor Denies Legitimacy Of Religious Exemptions To Vaccine

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  • Democratic New York Gov. Kathy Hochul denied Monday that there are “legitimate religious exemptions” to the COVID-19 vaccine. 
  • “There are not legitimate religious exemptions because the leaders of all the organized religions have said there’s no legitimate reason,” the governor said. 
  • Under the Americans with Disabilities Act and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, U.S. employers are required to accommodate their employee’s “sincerely held” religious beliefs. 

Democratic New York Gov. Kathy Hochul denied Monday that there are “legitimate religious exemptions” to the COVID-19 vaccine.

“There are not legitimate religious exemptions because the leaders of all the organized religions have said there’s no legitimate reason,” the governor told reporters during a Monday morning briefing, “and we’re going to win that in court in a matter of days.”

The governor was referring to a lawsuit filed by a group of 17 health professionals represented by the Thomas More Society against New York and Hochul. The lawsuit accused the state of violating Title VII and Constitutional rights through its vaccination mandate and by disavowing religious exemptions.

The United States District Court for the Northern District of New York granted a temporary restraining order to the medical workers Sept. 14, barring the New York Department of Health “from interfering in any way with the granting of religious exemptions from COVID-19 vaccination going forward.”

“What New York is attempting to do is slam shut an escape hatch from an unconstitutional vaccine mandate,” Thomas More Society Special Counsel attorney Christopher Ferrara said in a Sept. 14 statement. “And they are doing this while knowing that many people have sincere religious objections to vaccines that were tested, developed, or produced with cell lines derived from aborted children.”

Thousands of Americans are seeking religious exemptions to vaccine mandates, citing reports that some of the vaccines were developed using aborted fetal cell lines. Under the Americans with Disabilities Act and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, U.S. employers are required to accommodate their employee’s “sincerely held” religious beliefs — including potential religious objections to a vaccine.

Earlier in September, Hochul told reporters that she was unaware “of a sanctioned religious exemption from any organized religion,” dismissing the idea that healthcare workers could be religiously exempt from the state’s vaccine mandate.

“To the extent that there’s leadership of different religious organizations that have spoken, and they have, I’m not aware of a sanctioned religious exemption from any organized religion,” Hochul said. “In fact, they’re encouraging the opposite. They’re encouraging their members, everybody from the Pope on down, is encouraging people to get vaccinated. So people will say what they choose.” 

Ethics and Public Policy Center senior fellow Roger Severino told the Daily Caller News Foundation at the time that neither the governor of New York nor or any employer has the authority to tell an individual what he or she believes.

If an employer rebutted the religious objection of a Catholic employee by pointing out that the pope urged Catholics to get vaccinated, Severino told the DCNF, that would amount to religious discrimination.

“For employers to say, ‘you are wrong’ about your own beliefs is a) arrogant and b) discriminatory because people are entitled to their own religious beliefs,” Severino said. “Even if they disagree with their own religious leaders.”

“Public institutions should not act like inquisitorial boards, quizzing people’s religious beliefs and trying to find holes because somebody has a different view of things,” said Severino, who is the former director of the Office of Civil Rights at the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).  “If separation of church and state means anything, it means that state institutions don’t second guess to try to resolve religious truths.”

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) guidance warns that “whether or not a religious belief is sincerely held by an applicant or employee is rarely at issue in many types of Title VII religious claims.

Neither the commission nor the courts should “be in the business of deciding whether a person holds religious beliefs for the ‘proper’ reasons,” the guidance said, but they may examine whether the individual’s motives or reasons for holding the belief.  

COLUMN BY

MARY MARGARET OLOHAN

Mary Margaret Olohan is the Daily Caller News Foundation’s Social Issues Reporter. Follow Mary Margaret on Twitter.

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Prayer in Public Schools Is Back … as Long as It’s Prayer to Allah

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My latest in PJ Media:

Prayer in public schools has been a hot-button issue in the United States ever since the Supreme Court ruled against it in the landmark 1962 decision Engel v. Vitale. But now it’s back, at least in one school district in Newsomland. EdSource reported Monday that California’s “Elk Grove Unified School District began offering culturally appropriate meals and setting aside rooms in many of its middle and high schools for prayer during Muslim holidays in preparation for the additional Afghan refugee students it expects in the next month.”

Ironically, as Daniel Greenfield noted, the Elk Grove Unified School District “became famous for Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow, in which an atheist sued the school because the Pledge of Allegiance includes the word, ‘Under God’. The case was an awkward mess that went to the Supreme Court, but should never have gotten that far and ended up being tossed out because Newdow didn’t actually have custody of his daughter.”

There was, however, a case in Texas in 2017 that establishes an important precedent for what Elk Grove Unified School District is doing for Afghan evacuee students now. Liberty High School in Frisco, Texas, established a prayer room for Muslim students, drawing a rebuke from Texas Deputy Attorney General Andrew Leonie, who said:

“Liberty High School’s policy should be neutral toward religion. However, it appears that students are being treated different based on their religious beliefs. Such a practice, of course, is irreconcilable with our nation’s enduring commitment to religious liberty.”

Indeed. One parent put it this way at a Frisco school board meeting in 2017: “Liberty High School is not a mosque. It’s not a synagogue. It’s not a tabernacle. It’s not a temple. It’s not a church. It is a school. It is a public school supported by taxpayers for the purpose of educating our children.”

However, Liberty High was able to assuage concerns. Several weeks after Leonie’s statement, Marc Rylander, director of communications for the Texas attorney general’s office, issued another statement, saying: “We are grateful for Frisco ISD’s prompt response and have been in contact with their attorneys. They assured us today that students of all faith, or no faith, may now use this meeting room during non-instructional time on a first-come, first-served basis for student-led activities. Religious liberty is a cornerstone of our society and we are glad that students at Frisco ISD may practice their faith in accordance with their beliefs.”

There is more. Read the rest here.

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