Biden and Harris were so anxious for some confirmation of the Left’s bogus “Islamophobia” narrative that they condemned these murders as hate crimes before any suspect had been located; they wanted people to think an “Islamophobe” was the murderer no matter what the facts turned out to be. Will Biden and Harris now apologize for reinforcing a spurious victimhood narrative? Not on your life.
Hamas-linked CAIR was ready to make hay with these murders as well. But instead of a bonanza for Ibrahim Hooper and co., we get Sunni-Shi’ite jihad in the United States. And neither Biden nor Harris will utter even a whisper about that. Will CAIR come clean and note that Sunni-Shia hatred is responsible for far more violence and murder worldwide than “Islamophobia”? Sure, around the time they name me CAIR’s National Director.
by Sophie Reardon and Gina Martinez, CBS News, August 9, 2022 (thanks to Elizabeth)
A man has been detained and charged with murdering two Muslim men, Albuquerque police announced Tuesday. Four Muslim men have been killed in the city since November, and authorities believe the suspect may eventually be charged in the other two murders.
Muhammed Syed, 51, was identified as the “primary suspect in the recent murders of Muslim men,” police said Tuesday, and charged with murdering Aftab Hussein on July 26, and Muhammad Afzaal Hussian on Aug. 1. Detectives connected the two cases using bullet casings found at the two scenes.
They are still investigating Syed’s possible involvement in the murders of Naeem Hussain on Aug. 5 and Mohammed Zaher Ahmadi on Nov. 7….
Syed appears to have known his victims, police and the FBI said….
The string of murders has shaken the Muslim community in Albuquerque. Police on Sunday said it was too soon to know if the murders would be classified as hate crimes.
On Saturday, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) announced a $10,000 reward for information leading to an arrest.
In a Tuesday statement, CAIR thanked law enforcement for the arrest and wrote that it hopes “the news that this violence has been brought to an end will provide the New Mexico Muslim community some sense of relief and security.”
“Although we are waiting to learn more about these crimes, we are disturbed by early indications that the alleged killer may have been targeting particular members of the Shia community,” the statement read. “If this is true, it is completely unacceptable, and we encourage law enforcement to file any appropriate hate crime charges against the suspect.”
Law enforcement officials have not confirmed any specific motive for the killings.
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In war, each side tries to cripple the other’s economy by targeting and destroying its transportation infrastructure: ports, airfields, roads, bridges, railroads, rivers, and canals. The United States, however, like many countries, wrecks its own transportation systems—not with bombs but with laws and regulations.
The American Henry George (1839-1897) once commented on this dismal state of affairs. “What protection teaches us,” he wrote, “is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war.”
Pooling equipment and facilities could have eased the traffic crunch in the short-run, but the Interstate Commerce Act explicitly prohibited the voluntary pooling of railroad resources. In 1917, railroads appealed to the ICC for a 15-percent rate increase to help offset some of the rising costs associated with wartime traffic and afford them the opportunity [to] raise revenue necessary to invest back into network enhancements. The ICC rejected their request.
Frustrated with the growing railroad network inefficiencies during the war, President Wilson nationalized the entire railroad industry. On December 28, 1917, the newly formed United States Railroad Administration took over American railway operations. The agency immediately pooled all railroad equipment and facilities, and six months later increased freight rates by 28 percent.
Scribner adds that partial deregulation in the 1970s saved the country’s railroads from “the brink of collapse.”
2. Shipping
The Merchant Marine Act of 1920 (“Jones Act”) prohibits transporting goods between American ports on ships that aren’t American built, owned, registered, and crewed. The Act significantly increases the cost of shipping American products between American cities. As a result, goods that could more efficiently be sent by water are sent by rail, truck, or air, wasting fuel and producing far more pollution and CO2 emissions than necessary. In addition, the high cost of shipping domestic products leads Americans to buy more from abroad. Finally, the Act has crippled America’s shipbuilding industry.
3. Ports
While Covid and Covid lockdowns exacerbated problems at America’s seaports, the issues have been building for decades:
Longshoremen’s unions are limiting automation and job flexibility
The Foreign Dredge Act of 1906 artificially increased the cost of the dredging that would allow our ports to service more and larger ships.
State and local laws prevent seaports from expanding their container storage facilities
4. Air Travel
During the four decades from 1938 to 1978, the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) regulated passenger airlines engaged in interstate operations. It assigned routes, set fares, limited market entry, subsidized airlines, and regulated mergers. While the CAB prohibited price competition, it did allow airlines to compete on quality of service and frequency of flights. As a result, airlines became inefficient, overcapitalized, and overstaffed. Airlines profitably flew frequent, partially-booked flights, which, while convenient for customers, wasted fuel, labor, and equipment. Intrastate airlines – not subject to the CAB’s entry restrictions or price controls – could transport customers for half the cost of their CAB-certified rivals.
5. Trucking
From 1935 to 1980, the ICC regulated the nation’s trucking industry. The agency controlled rates and routes and limited market entry. Applicants for operating rights had to prove that existing firms weren’t already providing the proposed service and that the firms wouldn’t be hurt by the additional competition.
When President Jimmy Carter signed the Motor Carrier Act of 1980, which largely deregulated the trucking industry, he stated that the reforms would reduce “consumer costs by as much as $8 billion each year… and… conserve annually hundreds of millions of gallons of precious fuel.”
California’s AB5 law (also known as the “gig worker bill”) restricts companies’ ability to designate workers as contractors. Because over 60% of California’s independent owner-operators fall under the law’s definition of regular employees, AB5 will have a significant impact on the state’s trucking industry. By reducing or eliminating logistics companies’ ability to hire short-term trucking services and by driving some independent truckers to leave the state or the business, the law will further decrease the ability of the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports to clear their backlogs. Bottlenecks at these ports impact not just California but the entire nation.
The Bottom Line
Transportation is essential to any economy. Transportation expands the size of markets, market size determines the scope for the division of labor, and division of labor drives productivity. A nation’s transportation infrastructure is critical to its survival, but even the best infrastructure in the world cannot move people and products if laws and regulations create enough roadblocks.
Richard Fulmer worked as an engineer and a systems analyst, and is now retired and a free-lance writer. He has published some thirty articles and book reviews in free market magazines and blogs. With Robert L. Bradley Jr., Richard wrote the book, Energy: The Master Resource, which was required reading in classes at four different universities, including the University of Texas and the University of Toronto. He is currently working on another book, Caveman Economics: Basic Economics in 25 Prehistoric Tales.
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The IRS would more than double its workforce under this legislation.
Americans love their fast-food supersized. But supersizing the Internal Revenue Service?
Probably not so popular.
That’s evidently of little concern to a majority of Congress. Lawmakers are poised to pass a large tax-and-spending bill, which Biden is eager to sign, that would increase IRS funding by an astounding $80 billion. The legislation “provides 14 times as much funding for ‘enforcement’—as in fishing expedition audits—than it does for ‘taxpayer services’ such as answering the phone,” according to Ben Susser of Americans for Tax Reform.
The IRS would more than double its workforce under this legislation, Joe Simonson reports for the Washington Free Beacon. In fact, the super-sized IRS will boast more employees than the State Department, the FBI, Border Patrol, and the Pentagon—combined.
Advocates of increased IRS funding argue that this will raise revenue for essential government spending projects and crack down on rich billionaire tax cheats who aren’t paying their “fair share.” But here are two reasons everyday Americans should be concerned by such a drastic expansion of the IRS.
1) Expanding a Rogue Agency without Accountability
The IRS has abused its power in recent years with little to no real accountability.
For example, under the Obama administration, the IRS specifically targeted conservative nonprofit groups in what was a massive scandal. More recently, IRS employees illegally leaked the private tax documents of wealthy private citizens—who weren’t breaking any laws—to the media in order to make a political, partisan point in favor of increasing taxes on the rich.
Lois Lerner is retired with full pension and never suffered any consequences for weaponizing the IRS against conservatives.
Nothing happened to Lois Lerner, who oversaw the IRS during the Obama-era scandal. And while the IRS says it is investigating the tax leaks, nothing has come out of that so far. (Shocker).
These are just two examples of the IRS’s many recent scandals and abuses of its power. Why on earth would we want to expand their resources and power with this track record and no real accountability?
Proponents say we have nothing to fear if we have nothing to hide.
Only a tax cheat would be mad at the hiring of more IRS workers.
"Can you understand how 87,000 new IRS agents would scare the heck out of millions of Americans?"
Democrat Sen. Ben Cardin: "If there's no reason to be fearful, and if you paid your taxes and if you complied with our laws, you should want to make sure everyone else does that." pic.twitter.com/xRwSes2CrC
But that bizarrely assumes benevolence and good faith from a rogue agency that has displayed the opposite in recent history.
2) Cracking Down on the Working & Middle Class, Not the Rich
Americans are struggling right now under the crushing weight of inflation, facing a shrinking economy and declining real wages. The last thing they need is a tax crackdown from their friendly neighborhood IRS agent. (Even if they’ve done nothing wrong and ultimately don’t have to pay up more in taxes, it’s a headache and a half that could involve many hours of paperwork and expensive legal/accounting assistance.)
Yet that’s what millions of Americans would face under this IRS expansion. It’s simply not the case, as proponents insist, that an increased crackdown would only target the rich.
There are 724 billionaires in the US and 87,000 new IRS agents.
They're not going after the rich, cupcakes. They're coming for you.
According to the Wall Street Journal, “The Joint Committee on Taxation, Congress’s official tax scorekeeper, says that from 78% to 90% of the money raised from under-reported income would likely come from those making less than $200,000 a year. Only 4% to 9% would come from those making more than $500,000.”
When we consider these inconvenient realities, the inescapable conclusion is that the Democrats’ plan to supersize the IRS—or, as they put it, have the IRS “go beast mode”—is bad news.
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House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) promised on Monday to launch a full investigation into Attorney General Merrick Garland and the FBI’s raid on former President Trump’s Florida home, Mar-A-Lago.
McCarthy tweeted, “I’ve seen enough. The Department of Justice has reached an intolerable state of weaponized politicization. When Republicans take back the House, we will conduct immediate oversight of this department, follow the facts, and leave no stone unturned. Attorney General Garland, preserve your documents and clear your calendar,” he warned.
Indeed, , Should Republicans take back the House at the 2022 congressional midterms, they will acquire the ability to launch subpoenas into the raid. The House Judiciary Committee and the House Oversight and Reform Committee can focus on the events and decision-making process that led to the search warrant against Trump.
The House Judiciary Republicans wrote, “This is what happens in third world countries. Not the United States. Doesn’t the FBI have better things to do than harass the former PRESIDENT?”
Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel wrote, “Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Countless times we have examples of Democrats flaunting the law and abusing power with no recourse, including Hunter Biden. Democrats continually weaponize the bureaucracy against Republicans. This raid is outrageous.”
“These are dark times for our Nation, as my beautiful home, Mar- A-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, is currently under siege, raided, and occupied by a large group of FBI agents,” Trump wrote in a statement. “Nothing like this has ever happened to a President of the United States before.”
Garland Says “Domestic Terrorism” by “White Supremacists” Are Among America’s Leading Problems
On June 15, 2021, Garland announced the unveiling of the Biden administration’s new “First National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism,” an initiative designed to combat what Garland viewed as one of America’s most serious problems: “domestic terrorism” carried out mostly by conservative adherents to a doctrine of “white supremacism.” Below are some of Garland’s remarks from that day, remarks in which he: (a) cast the Trump supporters who had breached the U.S. Capitol on January 6 as uniquely evil; (b) warned of the allegedly enormous threat posed by violent white supremacists; (c) likened such people to genocidal Islamic terrorists; and (d) gave anecdotal examples of past terrorist incidents that had been perpetrated exclusively by whites…
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(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that it has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) for records ordered declassified and released by President Trump the day before he left office. The records relate to “Crossfire Hurricane,” the controversial spy operation against President Trump, his 2016 presidential campaign, and other Trump associates, and have yet to be made public by the Biden administration (Judicial Watch, Inc. v U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:22-cv-02264)).
The lawsuit was filed after the DOJ failed to respond to a February 17, 2022, FOIA request for:
All records of communication between any official or employee of the Department of Justice and any official or employee of any other branch, department, agency, or office of the federal government regarding the declassification and release of the records described in part one of this request.
Trump’s memo authorized the declassification and release of the records:
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, I hereby direct the following:
Section 1. Declassification and Release. At my request, on December 30, 2020, the Department of Justice provided the White House with a binder of materials related to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Crossfire Hurricane investigation. Portions of the documents in the binder have remained classified and have not been released to the Congress or the public. I requested the documents so that a declassification review could be performed and so I could determine to what extent materials in the binder should be released in unclassified form.
I determined that the materials in that binder should be declassified to the maximum extent possible. In response, and as part of the iterative process of the declassification review, under a cover letter dated January 17, 2021, the Federal Bureau of Investigation noted its continuing objection to any further declassification of the materials in the binder and also, on the basis of a review that included Intelligence Community equities, identified the passages that it believed it was most crucial to keep from public disclosure. I have determined to accept the redactions proposed for continued classification by the FBI in that January 17 submission.
I hereby declassify the remaining materials in the binder. This is my final determination under the declassification review and I have directed the Attorney General to implement the redactions proposed in the FBI’s January 17 submission and return to the White House an appropriately redacted copy.
My decision to declassify materials within the binder is subject to the limits identified above and does not extend to materials that must be protected from disclosure pursuant to orders of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and does not require the disclosure of certain personally identifiable information or any other materials that must be protected from disclosure under applicable law. Accordingly, at my direction, the Attorney General has conducted an appropriate review to ensure that materials provided in the binder may be disclosed by the White House in accordance with applicable law.
A Just the Newsreport details that the documents include “transcripts of intercepts made by the FBI of Trump aides, a declassified copy of the final FISA warrant approved by an intelligence court, and the tasking orders and debriefings of the two main confidential human sources, Christopher Steele and Stefan Halper, the bureau used to investigate whether Trump had colluded with Russia to steal the 2016 election.”
“The Obama-Biden Administration and Deep State spying on Trump and his associates is the worst government corruption scandal in American history,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “And to make matters worse, the Biden DOJ simply refuses to release smoking gun documents about this corruption that the American people have an absolute right to see!”
Judicial Watch has taken a leading role in uncovering the Obama/Deep State spying and other abuses targeting Trump world.
In May 2020, Judicial Watch litigation uncovered the “electronic communication” (EC) that officially launched the counterintelligence investigation, termed “Crossfire Hurricane,” of President Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. The document was written by Strzok.
In March 2019 Judicial Watch released heavily redacted records from the DOJ that reveal Bruce Ohr remained in regular contact with former British spy and Fusion GPS contractor Christopher Steele after Steele was terminated by the FBI in November 2016 for revealing to the media his position as an FBI confidential informant.
In August 2019, Judicial Watch uncovered “302” report material from FBI interviews with Bruce Ohr, showing that in November 2016, Ohr said that “reporting on Trump’s ties to Russia were going to the Clinton Campaign” and “Jon Winer at the U.S. State Department and the FBI.” The documents also showed that Ohr knew that Fusion GPS’s Glenn Simpson and others were “talking to Victoria Nuland at the U.S. State Department.” (A Form 302 is used by FBI agents to summarize the interviews that they conduct and contains information from the notes taken during the interview.)
In August 2018, the Justice Department (DOJ) admitted in a court filing that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court held no hearings on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) spy warrant applications targeting Carter Page, a former Trump campaign part-time advisor who was the subject of four controversial FISA warrants. Judicial Watch litigation also uncovered the secret FISA warrants that confirmed the FBI and DOJ misled the courts in withholding the material information that Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the DNC were behind the “intelligence” used to persuade the courts to approve the FISA warrants that targeted the Trump team.
Also, in August of that year, Judicial Watch discovered FBI records about Christopher Steele, the former British spy, hired with Clinton campaign and Democratic National Committee funds, who authored the infamous dossier targeting President Trump during the presidential campaign. The documents show that Steele was cut off as a “Confidential Human Source” (CHS) after he disclosed his relationship with the FBI to a third party. The documents show at least 11 FBI payments to Steele in 2016 and document that he was admonished for unspecified reasons in February 2016.
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Francis X. Maier:The U.S. is not a despotic state. . .but we are closer to it than ever before. Consider: hostility to religion; disregard for law; expansion of administrative power, and the rise of a biomedical security state. Can it end well?
I started this column hoping to focus on Václav Havel’s great 1978 essay, “The Power of the Powerless,” collected here. I’ll get to that. But in the meantime, the FBI raided former President Donald Trump’s home in Florida, an action unprecedented in U.S. history. So adjustments must be made.
Just four weeks ago in this space, I suggested that
The threat of impending “Fascism! Right around the corner!” – a treasured anxiety of the Trump Dark Ages – might oddly come true. Just not from the direction you thought. Mr. Trump, with his vulgar style and legion of faults, nonetheless had the effect of a sun lamp or disagreeable medicine on a nasty boil: He drew all the hysteria, fanaticism, and arrogance of hardcore progressive thought to the skin’s surface, where the boil and its poison popped.
A ”fascist” in the vocabulary of today’s enlightened classes, includes just about anybody who questions the collapse of our border security, transgender rights, or unfettered access to abortion. And this isn’t new. Barack Obama let the rat out the bag with extraordinary condescension in 2008 when he complained about underclass voters who cling, stubbornly, to their “guns and religion.”
Enter Donald Trump, who admittedly has a surplus of negative qualities. But he did, and still does, trigger in a revealing way, the dormant rage virus, the mental herpes simplex, in our nation’s preening elites. Thanks to the fury directed at him – and through him, at all those who, for whatever reason, voted for him – Mr. Trump proves that hate clearly does “have a home here.” It’s embedded in our patrician class and its wannabes.
But don’t take my word for it. Read Christopher Lasch, distinguished historian and always a man of the populist left. In The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy, Lasch notes (in 1995) that
The new [national and global] elites, which include not only corporate managers but all those professions that produce and manipulate information – the lifeblood of the global market – are far more cosmopolitan, or at least more restless and migratory, than their predecessors. . . .Theirs is essentially a tourist’s view of the world – not a perspective likely to encourage a passionate devotion to democracy.
Lasch argues that in our time, the chief threat to the civilizing traditions of Western culture comes “from those at the top of the social hierarchy, not the masses.” And he notes that the “course of recent history no longer favors the leveling of social distinctions, but runs more and more in the direction of a two-class society in which the favored few monopolize the advantages of money, education and power.” He adds, finally, that
In the United States, “Middle America” – a term that has both geographical and social implications – has come to symbolize everything that stands in the way of progress: “family values,” mindless patriotism, religious fundamentalism, racism, homophobia, [and] retrograde views of women. Middle Americans, as they appear to the makers of educated opinion, are hopelessly shabby, unfashionable, and provincial. . .at once absurd and vaguely menacing.
What Lasch correctly describes is the arrogance of America’s leadership class. This has fully ripened and congealed in the Democratic Party since his 1995 book. And along with it goes an elitist derision and fear toward America’s underclass. Trump read this reality like a cheat sheet and used it like a judo master. The very people who loathe Donald Trump helped to ensure his 2016 election, and their continuing, vindictive hysteria makes him vigorous in the popular imagination. Our nominally Catholic President and Speaker of the House deserve at least a thank-you note from the former president for keeping his looming shadow alive. . .though given his track record, Mr. Trump may be cool to such niceties.
But let’s get back to Václav Havel.
Havel wrote “The Power of the Powerless” in Czechoslovakia during the postwar years of East Bloc repression. Like Alexander Solzhenitsyn and other dissidents, Havel was a forceful voice for truth in a Soviet-style, Marxist-Leninist political system built on deceit, fear, and repression.
In such a system, Havel writes, government by bureaucracy is called popular government. The working class is enslaved in the name of the working class. The complete degradation of the individual is presented as his or her own ultimate liberation. Depriving people of information is called making it available. The use of power to manipulate is called the public control of power. The arbitrary abuse of power is called observing the legal code. The repression of culture is called its development. The lack of free expression becomes the highest form of freedom.
Farcical elections become the highest form of democracy. And banning independent thought becomes the most scientific of world views. In Havel’s words, “Because the regime is captive to its own lies, it must falsify everything. It falsifies the past. It falsifies the present, and it falsifies the future. It falsifies statistics. . .[and it] pretends to pretend nothing.”
Given such a system, open political resistance in Havel’s day was impossible. The “power of the powerless” resided instead in those citizens who simply refused to cooperate with the lies; citizens who insisted on speaking and living the truth, no matter the cost. Over the decades, this gradually eroded the system’s credibility and led to a national reawakening. But it required two virtues: courage and perseverance.
The United States is a long way from 1978 Czechoslovakia. . .but not so far as it was four decades ago. The growing hostility to religion in this country, the disregard for law and its enforcement, the expansion of federal administrative power, the rise of what author Aaron Kheriaty, M.D., calls “the biomedical security state.” These things don’t end well. And the only way we change them, the only “power of the powerless,” is by refusing to cooperate with the lies.
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“Always remember, they are coming after me because I’m fighting for you.” — President Donald J. Trump
“All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed, they must rely exclusively on force.” — George Orwell, 1984
What Americans witnessed in Mar-a-Lago is an unprecedented attack on our Republic by the federal government. The home invasion of a former President of these United States have never ever happened before.
We are witnessing the abuse of power in the U.S. like that seen in the 57 dictatorships across the world in Russia, Venezuela, in communist regimes like North Korea, China, Cuba and in Islamic supremist nations like Iran, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan.
We can now add America under Biden and the Democrat Party as the 58th dictatorship.
We are a truly nation in decline.
Former president Trump posted a 3min campaign ad style video on Truth Social — giving the latest hint that an announcement of a 2024 run is imminent (1/2) pic.twitter.com/l5ziCpWprj
Below are members of the Trump family and other commentators expressing both outrage and a dire warning on what Biden and the Democrats have done—taken away equal justice under the law and replaced it with social justice empowered bureaucrats who seek total power and control over we the people from the school house to the White House.
It’s time to drain the swamp of these bolshevist bureaucrats and their leaders.
Jim Jordan put it best.
Only President Trump could handle this level of harassment from the government and media.
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The FBI raided the Trump families’ private residence at Mar-a-Lago in search of documents that the Department of Archives believes should be in its care. This is after Trump had already provided the Department of Archives all the documents that it requested every time that it made a request. President Trump followed the law.
Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH 4th District) in an email stated,
First, Attorney General Merrick Garland abused his power to weaponize the federal government against parents who spoke up about what their children are being taught in schools.
Now, we are witnessing, for the first time in American history, an FBI raid of a former president’s home. Again, this has NEVER happened before in American history. NEVER.
Why Trump and why now?
Is it because President Trump is so successful in his endorsements for the midterm elections? Is it just a distraction from the horrible social and economic policies of Biden and his administration? Is it to focus on anything but the current disastrous economy and that America is in a recession with no end in sight?
This is Democrat long-term get Trump pattern:
Russiagate ⇒ Accused of Quid Pro Quo ⇒ Impeachment ⇒ J6 Committee Hearings ⇒ Raid a former President’s home.
As journalists we are looking at the: who (the FBI), what (looking for classified documents in the possession of DJT), where (Mar-a-Lago, FL), when (in the dark of night) and most importantly the why—yet to be determined.
Questions:
So why the raid now?
Why did the FBI obtain the warrant from a magistrate instead of from a judge?
Why did the FBI invade the Trump residence in the dark of night?
What is the long term objective?
Why Raid Mar-a-Lago Now?
First and foremost we know that the Democrat Party does not want President Donald J. Trump on the midterm election campaign trail endorsing candidates that can and will take over governorships, turn some state legislatures red and change the balance of power in both the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate.
We also know the Democrat Party definitely does not want Donald J. Trump to have a second term in the White House.
Clearly this raid has drawn national media attention. While Democrats applaud it, Republicans are using this to show just how out of control the DOJ, FBI and Biden administration are.
The lower Biden and Democrats sink in the polls the more radical they become. Why?
George Orwell explained it when he wrote, ”
Warrant from a Magistrate with links to Epstein
On October 23rd, 2007, as federal prosecutors in South Florida were in the midst of negotiations to finalize a plea deal with accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, a senior prosecutor in their office was quietly laying out plans to leave the U.S. Attorney’s office after 11 years.
On that date, as emails were being exchanged between Epstein’s lawyers and federal prosecutors, Bruce E. Reinhart, now a federal magistrate in Florida, opened a limited liability company (LLC) in Florida that established what would become his new criminal defense practice.
The stated address, according to Florida state corporate records, was 250 South Australian Avenue which was the same location and identical suite number of Epstein’s lead attorney Jack Goldberger.
By the end of the year Reinhart resigned his post in the Southern District of Florida and on January 2nd, 2008 was hired to represent several of Epstein’s accused accomplices, who would later, like Epstein, receive federal immunity for trafficking underaged girls to be used and abused by the rich and famous.
Judge Bruce Reinhart – who is reportedly the most likely judge behind the warrant authorizing a raid on former President Donald Trump’s Mar A Lago estate – is a former attorney who represented employees of convicted sex offender and notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, The National Pulse can reveal.
The National Pulse can also reveal that Judge Reinhart has donated to the campaigns of former President Barack Obama and to the establishment opponents of Donald J. Trump during the 2016 election, including Jeb Bush.
Politico – the news outlet closest linked to the establishment in Washington, D.C. – named Reinhart in their morning playbook e-mail on Tuesday, 9th August 2022.
Reinhart was later named in a civil lawsuit by two of Epstein’s victims that accused him of violating Justice Department policies by switching sides in the middle of the Epstein investigation, suggesting he had spilled inside information about the probe to build favor with the notorious defendant, the Herald reported in 2018.
The Florida federal magistrate judge who signed off on a search warrant authorizing the FBI raid of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort donated to Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign — months after he left the local US Attorney’s office to rep employees of convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein who had received immunity in the long-running sex-trafficking investigation of the financier.
So, it was Bruce E. Reinhart who issued the warrant to search the Trump home in Mar-a-Lago.
“Equal Justice Under Law” is engraved on the ornate pediment above the entrance to the U.S. Supreme Court. The Department of Justice and the FBI continue to hurl eggs at it.
Monday’s pre-dawn raid by a battalion of FBI agents on former President Donald Trump’s Florida home represents an abandonment of the cherished principle embedded in our Constitution that the law will be equally applied to all of its citizens.
Instead, political status now dictates whether a person receives fair treatment in a supposedly fair justice system.
If you check the box marked “Republican” on a political affiliation form, brace yourself for persecution and prosecution. If you check “Democrat,” you’ll be granted special elevated status. You’re untouchable. Just ask Hillary Clinton and Hunter Biden.
The idea is to demonize not only President Donald J. Trump but also anyone and everyone who supports him publicly, via donations and at the ballot box.
This tweet offers another possible long term objective of this FBI raid. Keep Trump off the 2024 ballot at all costs.
The media is missing the really, really big reason why the raid today is a potential blockbuster in American politics.👇 pic.twitter.com/3BdI9NA9Az
While there’s much speculation on this raid one thing is clear—all of the 3 letter agencies are after Trump and those who support him. Why? Because 4 out of 5 government employees voted for Biden in 2020.
The end game is to keep control of the levers of power. Democrats, the media, social media and the feds will do what ever it takes to stop Trump.
This is why we the people must stop them and re-elect Trump in 2024. If we fail, so too does our Constitutional Republican form of government.
http://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.png00Dr. Rich Swierhttp://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.pngDr. Rich Swier2022-08-09 14:40:522022-08-11 06:07:52Was the FBI Mar-a-Largo Raid a ‘Setup’ to Keep President Trump Off of The 2024 Ballot?
Karl Marx didn’t support the right of workers to bear arms because he saw it as an inalienable right. He supported gun rights because they were a means to an end.
For just $10.77, people can go on Amazon and buy wall art of Ronald Reagan apparently defending the Second Amendment.
“Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered,” the text reads next to a picture of Reagan; “any attempts to disarm the people must be stopped, by force if necessary.”
There are a few problems with the quote, but the biggest one is that Reagan never said it.
As numerous fact checkers have noted—including Reuters, Snopes, Factcheck.org, and Politifact—the author of the quote is none other than Karl Marx, the German philosopher and author of The Communist Manifesto who used language nearly verbatim to this in an 1850 address in London.
In fairness to the many internet users duped by the fake Reagan meme, the quote sounds a bit like something Reagan could have said (though it’s highly unlikely the Gipper, a skilled and careful orator, would have ever said “by force if necessary”).
Reagan, after all, generally—though not universally—supported gun rights and was skeptical of efforts to restrict firearms.
“You won’t get gun control by disarming law-abiding citizens,” Reagan famously noted in a 1983 speech.
Some might be surprised that Marx and Reagan had similar views on gun control. Marx was of course the father of communism, whereas Reagan was famously anti-communist. Moreover, Marx’s modern disciples are staunch supporters of gun control, whether they identify as socialists or progressives.
“Guns in the United States pose a real threat to public health and safety and disproportionately impact communities of color,” Nivedita Majumdar, an associate professor of English at John Jay College, wrote in the Marxist magazine Jacobin. “Their preponderance only serves corporate interests, a corrupt political establishment, and an alienated capitalist culture.”
This distaste for guns goes beyond socialist magazines. As The Atlanticreported during the last presidential election cycle, progressive politicians are increasingly embracing more stringent federal gun control laws.
“No longer are primary candidates merely calling for tighter background checks and a ban on assault weapons,” journalist Russell Berman wrote in 2020; “in 2019, contenders like Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey and Representative Beto O’Rourke of Texas were calling for national licensing requirements and gun-buyback programs.”
The point here is not to disparage politicians like O’Rourke and Booker as “Marxists,” a label they’d almost certainly object to. The point is that progressive politicians like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) might channel Marx in their class rhetoric, but they are not embracing his messaging when it comes to the proletariat’s access to firearms.
As it happens, this is a common theme with Marxists throughout history.
Why Marxists Don’t Support Gun Rights
Some may find it odd that Marxists don’t support gun rights when Marx himself did, but there’s an explanation as to why, and it stems in part from Marx’s conception of rights.
Classical liberals of the American founding saw human rights as inviolable because because they are natural rights “endowed by their Creator.” As Thomas Jefferson explained in an 1824 letter, rights—including the right to bear arms—are “inherent in the people,” which makes them inalienable.
Unlike the American Founders (and Reagan for that matter), Marx didn’t see the right to bear arms as a natural, individual right. In fact, Marx didn’t believe in individual rights at all. Instead, Marx saw firearms as a means to an end, and the end was revolution.
“The whole proletariat must be armed at once with muskets, rifles, cannon and ammunition,” he explained, “and the revival of the old-style citizens’ militia, directed against the workers, must be opposed.”
Marx continued:
“Where the workers are employed by the state, they must arm and organize themselves into special corps with elected leaders, or as a part of the proletarian guard. Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary. The destruction of the bourgeois democrats’ influence over the workers, and the enforcement of conditions which will compromise the rule of bourgeois democracy, which is for the moment inevitable, and make it as difficult as possible – these are the main points which the proletariat and therefore the League must keep in mind during and after the approaching uprising.”
We see here that Marx supported the right of workers to bear arms not because of some inalienable right, but because firearms were necessary tools in his revolution against the despised bourgeoisie.
We can surmise from this that Marx likely would have supported the peoples’ right to bear arms—right up until the point it no longer served his revolutionary purpose, at which point his support for gun rights would be jettisoned. And this is precisely what Marx’s followers did.
In his essay Letters from Afar, the infamous Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin called for an armed proletariat militia, writing that organizers should “arm all the poor, exploited sections of the population in order that they themselves should take the organs of state power directly into their own hands.”
Once Lenin achieved power, however, he immediately turned to a proven method of oppression: gun confiscation. On Decc 10, 1918, less than six months after the Bolsheviks butchered Tsar Nicholas II and his family at a house in Yekaterinburg, Soviet citizens were ordered by the Council of People’s Commissar to turn their firearms over to the state.
Lenin was hardly an outlier. Marxists who followed in his footsteps, including Mao in China and Castro in Cuba, also turned to gun confiscation shortly after gaining power.
Marx was not wrong that firearms were the path to power, but his followers came to realize an obvious truth: firearms were also a threat to their own power.
“Political power,” Mao famously observed, “grows out of the barrel of a gun.”
Mao, in a twisted way, was right. An armed citizenry was a double-edged sword. While it served the masses as a bulwark against political oppression, it also threatened the vehicle socialists used to usher in the people’s utopia: the state. And this explains why modern Marxists tend to despise gun rights.
“There’s a reason you never see a Communist, a Marxist, or even a Socialist politician support the right of common people to keep and bear arms,” US Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) recently said. “Those forms of government require more submission to the state than armed citizens would tolerate.”
There’s a reason you never see a Communist, a Marxist, or even a Socialist politician support the right of common people to keep and bear arms:
Those forms of government require more submission to the state than armed citizens would tolerate.
Jonathan Miltimore is the Managing Editor of FEE.org. His writing/reporting has been the subject of articles in TIME magazine, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Forbes, Fox News, and the Star Tribune. Bylines: Newsweek, The Washington Times, MSN.com, The Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller, The Federalist, the Epoch Times.
Two unhinged Letters to Ledger Editor were printed on August 7th, 2022 stating that guns are inanimate objects—they don’t have rights—however, we know that law abiding, gun owning citizens do under the 2nd Amendment to both defend themselves and defend against a tyrannical government, which we now have.
The woman writing the letter actually stated that guns themselves have more rights than women. I corrected this by stating that guns are inanimate objects = they don’t have rights – however…….
Guns have more rights than women
As of right now, AK-47s and other guns have more rights than women in Polk County and the United States. This is the first time in my lifetime that a class of citizens has been stripped of a right they have had for 49 years.
This was done by a politicized Supreme Court made up of five constitutional fundamentalists and one handmaiden of the conservative Republican Party.
It is also sad that in Polk County we two Republican state representatives that voted for Florida’s 15 weeks ban on abortion and have been reelected with no opposition.
That would be Melony Bell and Sam Killebrew. Both, to my knowledge, have never considered women’s health as an important issue, except to restrict it. These are the same two elected officials that manage to put gun rights before women’s rights. I am offended that that the rights my generation worked so hard to have, have been taken away from my granddaughters.
It is time for all women and men who support restoring these rights to send a message on this radicalized agenda.
I sincerely hope you will join me and become energized in voting this extremist view out of office and out of our private lives.
Sheryll Strang, Winter Haven
Gun rights are not ‘inalienable rights’
The Declaration of Independence affirms the ‘self-evident’ rights as ‘Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.’ It says these ‘inalienable rights’ have been given to all humans by their Creator, and that governments were created to protect them.
The Archbishop of Chicago, Cardinal Blasé J. Cupich, reacted after a gunman attacked attendees at the Highland Park Independence Day parade. His words cut to the heart of the gun-violence crisis:
‘The right to bear arms does not eclipse the right to life, or the right of all Americans to go about their lives free of the fear that they might be shredded by bullets at any moment. Gun violence is a life issue.’
Cardinal Cupich is right. Loving our neighbors means no longer allowing angry, violent individuals to use weapons of war against our families, friends and communities. We do applaud the limited gun-safety bill that just passed Congress, but it’s going to take more to make our communities peaceful and safe.
The mass shooting in Highland Park is not unique; families’ lives are torn apart daily by gun violence.
We need to demand stronger gun-safety laws now – including a ban on assault rifles. Our government was created to protect us; it is time for them to honor this duty.
http://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.png00Royal A. Brown IIIhttp://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.pngRoyal A. Brown III2022-08-09 08:05:092022-08-09 09:44:59Guns Have More Rights Than Women in Polk County, Florida? What!
China is conducting new military drills around Taiwan, including sea assault operations. China is pretty good at D.C. assault operations, too, judging by its recent successes in Washington.
Chuck Schumer stripped a provision from the CHIPS Act – which Joe Biden is expected to sign tomorrow – that would have prevented federal subsidies from U.S. chip manufacturers from ending up in Beijing. The measure would have barred U.S. manufacturers from making semiconductors in China that were developed with federally funded research. The provision was offered because everybody knows China steals U.S. technology.
Beijing is enjoying success at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, as well. Joe Biden sold oil from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve to China, allowing China to boost its own reserves. Biden prohibited new tariffs on imported solar panels, overlooking potential trade violations by China which has been moving solar panel production to other countries to avoid tariffs. In addition, the Biden administration quietly told American investors they can keep shares of Chinese companies officially blacklisted for ties to China’s military. And he appointed a staunchly pro-Beijing banker to a business advisory council for Asia even though the banker – a Biden campaign donor – has, in one way or another, supported surveillance of the Uighurs, Chinese influence operations in the U.S. through Confucius Institutes, and China’s debt diplomacy by which it is gaining influence around the globe.
Beijing’s impressive string of successes in Washington doesn’t end with Congress and the White House. The State Department appointed a man from BlackRock Investment Institute to the Department’s Foreign Affairs Policy Board. The Institute advises investors to increase their stakes in Chinese companies. Just the man to advise the State Department on “strategic competition” with China, don’t you think?
The Association of Former Members of Congress has extensive relations with the Exchange Foundation, which has been described as a Chinese Communist Party influence operation. The Foundation donates a lot of money American colleges, think tanks, and nonprofits to buy influence. The ties between the Former Members of Congress group and the Foundation are wide-ranging and are thought to be the tip of the iceberg of a complex lobbying operation involving consulting firms, corporate clients, and foreign entities.
Maybe the lobbying effort is how U.S. taxpayer money keeps flowing to China in the form of NIH vaccine research grants to Chinese labs, grants which help China’s military. Grant money has also been flowing for years to U.S. labs infiltrated by China’s People’s Liberation Army.
Meanwhile, the CCCP has been busy trying to get state lawmakers in New York, California, and elsewhere to pass pro-China resolutions and threatening them when they don’t comply.
They say we’re in a new Cold War with China. Sure feels like it. The Chinese tell us openly they are working for world domination. Their military has declared bioweaponry as the centerpiece of their military strategy, and we’re stupid enough to keep funding their efforts. Senator Josh Hawley has introduced a bill to prevent federal government contracts to consulting firms like McKinsey that also have contracts with China. Senator Tom Cotton introduced a bill to keep China from buying our farmland, which they have been doing near our military bases. The Center for Security Policy has been working to prevent U.S. government pension funds from investing in China. We at the grassroots can vet political candidates so we don’t send any more China sympathizers to Washington. These measures and more are needed if we are to prevent the Chinese, who are so good at elite capture, from capturing the rest of us.
http://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.png00The Daily Skirmish - Liberato.UShttp://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.pngThe Daily Skirmish - Liberato.US2022-08-09 07:41:122022-08-09 07:41:12China Reaping the Rewards of Elite Capture in Washington
If you do not remember it was on August 6th, 2011 when a Navy SEAL helicopter was shot down in Afghanistan. Mr. and Mrs. Billy Vaughn the parents of Aaron Vaughn, one of 17 Navy SEAL Team Six members along with 13 other Americans, 5 EOD support personnel, 3 AF Commandos and 5 Army aviators killed in the shootdown of their CH-47 in Afghanistan while on mission. The call sign of the helicopter was Extortion 17. They were going to aid of Army Rangers pinned down in a firefight. This loss of 30 or our finest was and still is the largest single day loss of US military in combat in Afghanistan.
Mr. Vaughn wrote the book “Betrayed” about what happened and the many lies told to them by the Navy including Admiral William Harry McRaven, Commander, U.S. Special Operations Command who lied to their faces in their home about many of the details of this unnecessary loss of US treasure. They were flabbergasted when McRaven defended Obama over and over despite his adopting a terrible COIN strategy to “win the hearts and minds of the Afghanis” and the attendant weak ROE that would get Americans killed and insured we could not win in Afghanistan. They also said Biden and Panetta were responsible for outing Seal Team Six and putting its members and their families in grave danger. In fact they said McRaven raved to them about what a great Commander-in-Chief Obama was. McRaven is still in his command.
Other major points he made which are addressed in detail in the book.
Despite the fact that an AC 130 and two Army Long Bow Apaches were in air over valley where the action took place and knew where the enemy was, they were not allowed to fire at them to provide suppressive support vicinity of the LZ because of Afghani driven US Rules of Engagement (can’t fire vicinity villages). No close air support was provided despite the fact that US forces were engaged in a fire fight, the higher headquarters knew the LZ was hot and that there was no village near the LZ, only one 3 story tower (from which the single Afghan farmer with an RPG -7 shot down the helicopter on final approach 50′ above the ground. All inside were burned to death in the ensuing explosion.
The CH-47D was never intended to be a combat assault helicopter but rather a cargo and artillery carrier. The US Army 160th Aviation Battalion has specially equipped, silent helicopters including MH 60s in Afghanistan but these were not used.
No General or anyone in chain-of-command was disciplined as a result of this huge tactical blunder.
No explanation as to why there were 7 Afghan Army personnel on board and why they were not the same 7 originally on the manifest list.
Mr. & Mrs. Vaughn, although still grieving for their son and very proud of him, have done extensive research of documents under the FOI act and by interviewing personnel involved.
They are convinced that their son and the other members of Navy SEAL Team 6 (Gold Team) were set up to die in this operation.
Like me, and many others, they do not recommend anyone enter the military today.
I highly recommend you purchase and read the book “Betrayed” by Billy Vaughn. If you have any faith left in our government, I doubt you will after reading this.
http://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.png00Royal A. Brown IIIhttp://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.pngRoyal A. Brown III2022-08-09 07:27:162022-08-09 07:27:5411 YEARS AGO — NEVER FORGET: EXTORTION 17 a Navy SEAL Helicopter was Shot Down in Afghanistan
“In 2021, by far the most common reason given was that the woman ‘[did] not want children at this time.’” — Sarah Terzo, LifeNews.com
We have long reported that abortions are done to correct an error “named pregnant” and not because of rape or incest. We have interviewed women who committed adultery or just take the necessary steps, like take birth control pills or have their sex partner use condoms, to get rid of their “mistake.”
We reported that Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, envisioned a world with no “tradition” or “moral taboos.” A mother killing its unborn child is the ultimate in having no moral taboos or morality at all.
The Bottom Line: Abortion — Birth Control — Population Control.
Now we have a report that proves our reports were spot on.
Minnesota has released its report on abortion in the state in 2020 and 2021. The report points out reasons why women had abortions. In 2021, by far the most common reason given was that the woman “[did] not want children at this time.” Eighty-four percent of women who responded gave this reason for their abortions.
According to a poll from January 2022 summarized by Live Action News, “54% of voters polled said abortion should be illegal at all or most of the time, and 43% percent said it should be illegal except in cases of rape.”
Less than 1% of Minnesota abortions in 2021 and 2020 were committed because the mother was a victim of rape or incest, and no abortions were reported either year to save the life of the mother.
Here is the breakdown of Minnesota’s other statistics. The numbers don’t add up to 100% because some women gave more than one reason. Of the 65% polled who answered the question:
84% of abortions were committed because the woman “does not want children at this time”
20% of abortions were committed due to economic reasons
14.5% of abortions were committed due to the woman’s emotional health
8% of abortions were committed due to the woman’s physical health
2% of abortions were committed because the baby was disabled
0.6% of abortions were committed due to rape
0.4% of abortions were committed because “Continued pregnancy will cause impairment of major bodily function”
0.1% of abortions were committed due to incest
There is no indication of the type of “physical health” concern or how serious it was.
Read full article.
In July we reported,
Women who seek out abortions are disproportionately poor and members of minority groups. 75% are low income and half are below the poverty line. 85% are unmarried, among those 61% had been shacking up with the baby’s father, and 61% already had one child. Those making over $100,000 a year have the highest rates of support for abortions and the lowest among those who make only $30,000. From Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, on down abortion is how the Elizabeth Warrens manage the social problems of the underclass.
Kamala Harris met with pro-abortion state lawmakers Friday at the White House to discuss ways to expand the killing of unborn babies in abortions in Hispanic-American communities.
Harris has been attempting to improve her image with the American people by portraying herself as a champion for abortion. In recent months, she has been meeting regularly with abortion activists and pro-abortion lawmakers as well as traveling to swing states to promote pro-abortion candidates.
The Biden agenda is built upon three pillars: queering America, aborting America, controlling America.
Choose wisely when you vote in in the 2022 midterm elections. The choice is between tyrants and patriots.
http://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.png00Dr. Rich Swierhttp://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.pngDr. Rich Swier2022-08-09 07:01:582022-08-09 07:14:43Report Confirms Most Abortions Done for Birth Control, Just .7% for Rape and Incest
At what point does a government, such as that of the United States, which has been called a government “of the people, by the people and for the people”, become something other than that which it was intended to be? Should we all be concerned that our own government is no longer what the Founders of the United States of America created it to be?
U.S. Government
We supposedly have a “representative government” wherein those who write the laws have been duly elected, from among the people, by the people and supposedly for the benefit of the people in their various geographical areas of representation. Those “elected representatives” are then sent to the Congress of the United States in Washington D.C., at great public expense, for the sole purpose of “representing their constituents”, meaning they should be representing the views of that particular group of “citizens” and not one single view of one single person who is NOT a true citizen.
If those 535 people would actually listen to their constituents….no, even if they would do more to reach out and involve them all in the process that gave them the title “Congressional representatives, instead of sitting on their butts in DC for months on end and then visiting those who only long to be “represented’ when reelection time draws near and they need to reassure them that their voices are being heard. What a load of bull plop.
I deplore the title of “lawmakers” granted to those 535 people. Dear God, there must come a time when we all realize that we need no additional laws, rather we need those who are purported to be “lawmakers” to actually become “law abiders”, followers of God’s law and models for those who voted for them. If we actually modeled our lives on those 535 ‘representatives most of US would be in prison in short order, based on the actions those 535 people take.
All the actions of all 535 of these United States Congressional “representatives” are to be based on the rule of law which in this nation is the United States Constitution, whether or not their actions coincide with the views of their constituents. If those views are contradictory to the Constitution, they should NOT ever be debated by those 535 representatives. Why? Because to do so would be UN-Constitutional, making such debates improper and ‘illegal’.
So what happens when the daily actions of those 535 “representatives” include the introduction of bills containing, NOT necessarily their constituents views, but instead their OWN views or worse, the views of their particular political party, and even MUCH worse, the views and demands of the grand puppeteers who pull the master strings of all Politicians?
Would this not be a violation of the oaths of office they took before God, with their hands placed on HIS word, swearing to uphold the U.S. Constitution? In those cases, do we still have a “representative government? Or do we then have a government “of the politicians, by the politicians and for the politicians?” Or worse yet, a government “of the party, by the party and for the party, and yes, even MUCH worse, a government of the puppeteers, by the puppeteers and FOR the puppeteers?”
Respect
Respect is one of the most important components in any relationship and respect is built upon a consistency in the actions of everyone in that relationship. That respect begins with knowing the other party and working toward building a mutually respectful relationship .
As a small child, I had to get to know my parents, starting with learning and understanding their first words to me. Before my earliest memories at around age four, I have no recollection of them or their words. However, I will surmise that whatever words they had previously spoken to me, they were ‘consistent’. I remember that I had respect for them and their words, even though I did not always agree with them, especially as I grew older and developed my own personality based on my own personal experiences. I knew their intent in all cases was to benefit me and not to cause me harm, and upon that knowledge was my respect for them based.
Respect Has Disappeared
But what happens when there is such a lack of consistency that forming a relationship based on mutual respect is all but impossible? Observe that the only consistency to be found in all of the US Congress is in the amount and depth of evil in the lies emanating from there. If that formerly glorious body (175 years ago) could be made to be self-monitoring so that only truth and facts reach the citizens, then possibly there could be some hope that respect could return to those Halls.
By now, everyone with an IQ higher than room temperature is fully aware that no such action will ever be taken by those 535 politicians; after all, that would be tantamount to killing the goose that lays the golden eggs, which eggs usually end up in the politicians pockets. Right, it ain’t gonna happen.
With the knowledge that, in all of Congress, there is now no respect for 1) the U.S. Constitution, 2) the true citizens of the United States, and 3) themselves, it becomes painfully obvious that the government now sitting in the U.S. Senate, the U.S. House of Representatives, the Supreme Court and MOST lower courts, as well as the White House, has become a government of, by and for the Politicians and their parties (both of them). This totally eliminates any place for the representation of We, The People, and places us all in a very precarious position. The common man or woman is now placed in the position of living in fear of the U.S. government when it should be the other way around.
The U.S. government gave up any pretense of being a true representative form of government many years ago, but, because of the skill with which they were able to keep the citizens deceived about their true allegiances, the public has just recently begun recognizing that fact.
Citizen/Voter Sentiment
The past two and one half years have made more and more citizens, supporters of both major political parties, aware that the government they trusted at one time, no longer has any trustworthiness and the most recent polls have exposed that fact.
The approval rating of the entire Congress has slipped to a level never seen before and an increasing number of registered voters are expressing their distrust of anything “governmental” and especially anything “congressional”. Many of those are questioning whether voting even matters any longer. If the information regarding voter fraud in the US election system is even close to being accurate, those questioning the integrity of our elections are right; until something changes to bring integrity back to our election process, it may not matter.
If voter passivity becomes a part of our culture, it will signal the beginning of the end of our Great American Experiment.
Conclusion
This essay began with a question: “At what point does a government like that of the United States, which has been called a “government of the people, by the people and for the people”, become something other than that which it was intended to be?”
This is a question demanding to be answered by each American citizen, at least those who truly care about what was once a Great Republic. The only way the status of this nation will stop its decline into the trash bin of history is with enough of her people realizing just how far that decline has gone and seeking their answer to that burning question.
I do not equate the United States with any of the great empires of history mainly because those empires began as mostly dictatorial states and then degenerated into democracies which have never lasted long while this nation began as a true republic and due to overwhelming apathy and a is quickly heading toward dictatorial state. If enough of her people are satisfied with that kind of existence, then nothing need be done, and in an advancing state of apathy, nothing WILL be done, and the Great American Experiment will most definitely be over.
Only if those who truly love liberty and freedom rather than living as slaves to a totalitarian state realize that, no matter what kind of United States they desire to be a part of, until they get serious enough and realize that repentance and an invitation for Almighty God to return to the USA with His wisdom and His Spirit as our guide, that decision of whether they live as free citizens of a free country will have already been made for them.
When a nation’s ‘leaders’ have lost all respect for its people and only consider them assets to be used to keep them in the lavish lifestyle most US politicians enjoy, while the slaves toil without just recompense for their labors, you can be sure the nation is circling the drain.
To answer the original question in this essay, the current U.S. Government is NO LONGER a government of the people, by the people and for the people. It has become a wholly owned business whose business model is “Take everything, give nothing back”. Unless God is allowed to return and guide this nation back to any form of its former ‘greatness’, the government will never again be considered to be “OURS”.
Time is very short for any changes needed to be implemented. Only the actions of a God-led, God-empowered citizenry can stop the political madness and give us our government back.
http://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.png00Bud Hancockhttp://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.pngBud Hancock2022-08-09 06:28:452022-08-09 06:28:45Whose Government Is It?
“When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing — When you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors — When you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you — When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice — You may know that your society is doomed.” — Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged 1957
“All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed, they must rely exclusively on force.” — George Orwell
“If I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible what was the main cause of the ruinous revolution that swallowed up some 60 million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: ‘Men had forgotten God; that is why all this has happened.'” — Alexandre Solzhenitsyn
The founders of this country were brilliant men of letters and statesmen whose greatest desire was to endow the inhabitants of this glorious land with our God given freedoms. As such, we the people, were to be guardians of our rights so that they would never become privileges.
Benjamin Franklin is thought of as “The First American.” He was a member of the Continental Congress and helped to draft the Declaration of Independence. Franklin was there as a member of the Constitutional Convention in 1787 and helped to draft our magnificent Constitution. He was an inventor, an author and founder of the University of Pennsylvania along with America’s first hospital and public library. He even identified lead poisoning and the charting of ocean currents.
Franklin stated, “Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God,” and proposed it for the motto of the Great Seal of the United States. He seemed to see into the future when he said, “Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government; when this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved, and tyranny is erected on its ruins. Republics…derive their strength and vigor from a popular examination into the action of the magistrates.”
Founding Father Franklin hoped that the love of liberty would spread throughout the world, but today we see a different future for our America, a future that is anything but bright and promising. His love of liberty has certainly not spread worldwide despite the lives of our soldiers being sacrificed on foreign battlefields for freedom.
“The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the Republican model of Government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.” – George Washington
One of the most glaring differences between the old-fashioned rule by bureaucracy and the up-to-date totalitarian brand is that Russia’s and Austria’s pre-war rulers were content with an idle radiance of power and, satisfied to control its outward destinies, left the whole inner life of the soul intact. Totalitarian bureaucracy, with a more complete understanding of the meaning of absolute power, intruded upon the private individual and his inner life with equal brutality. The result of this radical efficiency has been that the inner spontaneity of people under its rule was killed along with their social and political activities, so that the merely political sterility under the older bureaucracies was followed by total sterility under totalitarian rule.
We are fast approaching the total sterility of totalitarian rule that Ms. Arendt spoke of 72 years ago. Total enslavement is the despotic goal.
Over 157 years ago, a watershed event torpedoed the nation in a direction opposite of that which our founders intended. What we’re living through today, is a massive disintegration of society, culture, human decency and liberty, leading us into feudalistic tyranny.
Collectivism/Marxism
Collectivism, i.e., communism is the subject matter of The Turning of the Tides, by former Congressman Paul W. Shafer and John Howland Snow. It tells of how America’s teachers were indoctrinated with collectivism/Marxism, and through teachers’ unions, were taught to condition our children subtly and secretly toward a socialist America.
Listed on Page 145 are the rules of the collectivists: “does it serve our purpose?” It will sound only too familiar, but was written in the 1940s.
“The Global State will at first finance itself by appropriating your earnings under the guise of taxes. It will appropriate your savings by inflation—which is a progressive capital levy on all. It will continue to shatter the value of those savings to ‘pay’ for its crusade—inflation’s sole and unique cause.
“Thus, financed into being, The Global State will substitute its collective love and wisdom for your own.
“The State will now ‘revalue’ its currency, and from this point it can permanently finance itself. This it will do by fiat control of money. It will take over every form of wealth—and substitute its collective ownership for your own.
“Unless the policy called internationalism is stopped, this is its course. By no other means can the new internationalism perpetuate itself.
“And this reversion to feudalism is being called ‘social reconstruction’—as taught in the Nation’s schools.”
Our children are reared in the public schools and brought up according to the dictates of social scientists who are global in their sphere. They are experimenting on our youngsters to rid them of individuality, discipline, character, independence and other honorable qualities of a free and mature nature. And what happens to the people and the wealth of the Nation? It declines. It is regressivism, i.e., collectivism and Marxism on a grand scale, and we are seeing the results in today’s youth. Discipline in the classroom has so declined that teachers are afraid of their students.
All of this was planned over a century ago, and Klaus Schwab and his minions are just the latest generation in the effort to bring their final goals to fruition. The left’s outcries of racism are simply a deflection of their true nature. They psychologically project on their enemies what their true goals entail. Enslavement!
Minions of the Great Reset
The latest so-called leader of this nightmare from hell is Klaus Schwab, but we know he is just another puppet, another player along the road of turning America into a communist nation. Collectivism, regionalism, governance, public/private partnerships, the New World Order, the Great Reset, and ultimately United Nations Agenda 21/30 are all the same. Changing the names is just part of the game.
Klaus Schwab was born in Ravensburg, Germany in 1938, but like many front men, his life has been white washed or silenced from public scrutiny. No one knows if he has any religious beliefs but presume he is an atheist.
Let’s clear one thing up…Schwab is NOT related to the Rothschilds despite internet stories claiming otherwise. The Rothschilds have referred this story to their defamation counsel in Basel. There are some wonderful members of this family who are generous philanthropists who do not agree with other factions of the family. Don’t bother to email me scurrilous anti-Semitic accounts of this wealthy banking family.
Johnny Vedmore’s article, Schwab Family Values contains what appears to be valid documentation of Klaus Schwab’s family being Nazi collaborators. I can neither prove nor disprove Vedmore’s claims, but his research sounds plausible to me.
Schwab has sent his new Communist 3.0 Manifesto to every world leader and every governor/premier of every state and province around the world. His game is tyranny and enslavement.
Maurice Strong, father of global warming and United Nations Agenda 21, arguably the most significant and most secretive plan for global transformation, was Klaus Schwab’s friend and mentor.
He was an advocate of Global Governance via the United Nations, and Spiritual Governance via the cultish Temple of Understanding, which blends all religions, (in New York City next to UN) and Environmental-governance via The Earth Charter and the Ark of the Gaia Covenant. When he left “Mother Earth” in 2015, Strong passed his sustainability mantel to none other than Klaus Schwab.
“I am deeply saddened that Maurice Strong passed away yesterday at the age of 86.”-Schwab, Nov. 29, 2015. “He was one of the most extraordinary personalities I ever met.
“He deeply incorporated the World Economic Forum’s mission of improving the state of the world into everything he did. He was a great visionary, always ahead of our times in his thinking. He was my mentor since the creation of the Forum: a great friend; an indispensable advisor; and, for many years, a member of our Foundation Board. Without him, the Forum would not have achieved its present significance.”
Strong’s intent for America was clear when he stated, “Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class…involving high meat intake, consumption of large amounts of frozen and convenience foods, ownership of motor vehicles, golf courses, small electric appliances, home and work place air-conditioning, and suburban housing are not sustainable… Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn’t it our responsibility to bring this about?”
Not only will these elite control our food, but the World Economic Forum agenda (WEF) is calling for the end of private car ownership in the name of saving the world from climate change by reducing the need for green tech resources. “We need a clean energy revolution, and we need it now,” the WEF begins its article.
In 2009, George Kent wrote an article for the UN entitled, The Benefits of World Hunger. When it went viral after several years, it was removed, but the Wayback Machine caught it.
The United Nations has also declared war on “Dangerous” Conspiracy Theories: ‘The World is Not Secretly Manipulated by Global Elite.’ More censorship and an attack on those who spread the truth.
While their friend and partner, Bill Gates, busies himself with developing a vaccine that spreads like a virus to inoculate everyone, Schwab is advocating that no one should buy or sell without a digital health certificate, and he advocatestrans-humanism while insisting on lockdowns of even religion.
Henry Kissinger was another of Klaus Schwab’s mentors. German born, Kissinger served as Secretary of State under President Richard Nixon and National Security Advisor for President Gerald Ford. He is a long-time member of the globalist Council on Foreign Relations. Schwab met Kissinger over 50 years ago when he was at Harvard and Kissinger was a faculty member. In 1980, Kissinger attended Davos for the first time and he was an invited guest speaker at the WEF in 2022.
Kissinger never could speak without mentioning the New World Order several times. He was a devout promoter of the “Great Reset” along with his friend Nelson Rockefeller who became Vice President under Gerald Ford. He was also very close to David Rockefeller and penned a love letter to the man at his death. From Rockefellers to Kissinger to Schwab, all are depopulation proponents via United Nations Agenda 21/30.
The Rockefellers and the United Nations are joined together at the hip.
The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research was established in New York in 1902 and by 1928 had received from John D. Rockefeller $65 million in endowment funds.
In contrast, as late as 1938, as little as $2.8 million in federal funding was budgeted for the entire U.S. Public Health Service. Yet there was enough for the ungodly and evil Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment from 1932 to 1972.
It is easy to see that the Rockefeller family investment in health science research predated, and far surpassed, even the federal governments. More than the New Deal, WWII created the greatest boom in federal government and private industry support for medical research.
Our POWs and MIAs were left behind in Vietnam because of Kissinger; he turned his back on a deal that would have brought them home. Kiss the Boys Goodbye, How the United States Betrayed its Own POWS in Vietnam by Monika and William Stevenson, exposes the betrayal of our soldiers by the American government via Kissinger.
On page 42-43 of Henry Kissinger, Soviet Agent, author Frank Capell tells of Henry’s love of the communists. The growth of China as a world power can be laid at the feet of Kissinger when he convinced President Nixon to open the door to China and visit Mao. He made sure the communists stayed in power when he heard of a planned coup by the military to eliminate Mao Tse-Tung and Chou En-lai in order to affect a military takeover of Red China. Kissinger flew to China and his visit resulted in the execution of a group of top Chinese military men and a blackout of news from Red China.
On Page 21 of the same book, Henry Paolucci of St. John’s University, wrote a study about Kissinger which appeared in the Congressional Record of August 4, 1971, a portion of which states: “Henry Kissinger, too, expressed as recently as 1965 the conviction that the time was at hand for a surrender of nationhood because ‘institutions based on present concepts of national sovereignty are not enough.’ The goal of a supra-nationalist world community ‘will not come quickly; many intermediate stages must be traversed before it can be reached. It is not too early, however, to prepare ourselves for this step beyond the nation-state.’”
These few men and others are the ones who, in our lifetimes, have planned the destruction of humanity, freedom and liberty.
Conclusion
At the center of this evil lies the United Nations and their promotion of depopulation, vaccines, world governments, and ultimately the arrival of the evil one.
We live in dark times. Tyrannical despots seek total control.
In King David’s imprecatory psalms, he pleads with the Lord for help in destroying his enemies. “Plead my cause, O Lord, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me.” Psalm 35:1. We need the Lord’s help!
Ben Franklin reminded us long ago that, “Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.”
We have failed to guard and preserve those God given freedoms from encroaching tyranny. It’s now or never to take a stand!
