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Religious Liberty in the Age of Data Surveillance and Soft Totalitarianism
Rod Dreher’s new book, already a bestseller on Amazon, examines the erosion of religious freedom in the West and draws valuable lessons from the faithful who survived under Communist oppression.
Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents
by Rod Dreher, Sentinel, 2020
256pp
Live Not By Lies is Rod Dreher’s widely-anticipated follow-up to The Benedict Option.
Since the publication of The Benedict Option in 2017, the Louisiana-based writer has risen to become one of the world’s most important social and religious commentators.
While his last work focused on the need for believing Christians to build communities of faith to sustain themselves within post-Christian societies, Live Not By Lies develops this theme further by focusing on the widespread persecution which the author believes is looming, and how Christian dissidents can stand firm and resist this.
At 214 pages in length and written in Dreher’s erudite but accessible style, the book is admirably readable and well-structured.
In Part One, the author provides an overview of the “soft totalitarianism” which is increasingly prevalent throughout Western societies, and which is posing a fast-growing threat to Christians of every denomination.
In Part Two, Dreher tells the stories of Christians who suffered within Europe’s Communist Bloc, but who refused to abandon their beliefs in spite of enduring appalling persecution.
Dreher identifies clear parallels between their experiences and the ones which many in the West may soon face.
“What if the answers to life’s questions that young Christians the world over are looking for are not to be found in the West but rather in the East — in the stories and lives of the Christian dissidents?” he writes, adding elsewhere that Christians “cannot hope to resist the coming soft totalitarianism if we do not have our spiritual lives in order.”
The book’s title comes directly from the title of the essay which Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn addressed to the Russian people before he was deported by the Soviet regime in the 1970s.
In it, Solzhenitsyn denounced the lies which underpinned the Communist system and called on his compatriots to resist the temptation to join in supporting them.
Here, in different circumstances and faced with very different opposing forces, Dreher makes a similar appeal to his readers. Those familiar with his writing in his blog at The American Conservative and elsewhere will be familiar with many of the topics he covers and the arguments he makes.
An issue which he addresses frequently is the threat to religious liberty and freedom of speech in the United States and elsewhere.
He does not exaggerate or attempt to equate this with what occurred routinely behind the Iron Curtain.
Western progressives and “woke” activists have yet to establish any gulags. Even in the midst of recent urban riots inspired by far-left militants, political violence is still mercifully rare in the West.
Outright state censorship is less of a problem than the censorship imposed by various institutions, and the cases of religious discrimination which Dreher writes about as a journalist tend to involve people losing their jobs, not losing their lives as the dissidents of Central and Eastern Europe so often did.
Today’s progressives are different to yesterday’s extreme socialists and Communists, and the lack of meaningful debate on economic questions within political discourse today attests to this.
As Dreher notes astutely, progressives are uninterested in controlling the means of economic production; instead, they focus on bringing cultural production under their complete control, and stamping out any resistance to their core, ever-shifting and ever more radical belief system.
But there are similarities, which Dreher describes in detail.
Both Communism and progressivism have set themselves up as rivals to Christianity, and true believers in these modern ideologies can see no other logical end point in human history.
Both belief systems are deeply hostile to the past, and feed upon the suffering brought about by the atomisation of post-Christian societies, where isolated individuals are left with no way of connecting with their fellow man and where many turn to abstract ideologies to find a sense of belonging which previous generations enjoyed in their families and church communities.
Both ideologies are determined to control all aspects of society and to politicise every part of life — witness the growing tendency for political protesting to be an obligatory part of professional sports, or more consequentially, the situation whereby employees in many companies are forced to wear or identify themselves with rainbow paraphernalia.
Modern progressives and old-style Communists are united in sharing a particularly limited view of freedom of religion, which they insist should extend no further than the door of a person’s church (as the history of the 20th century shows, many leftists would not even concede that much).
And most importantly, both groups see Christians as the most important remaining obstacle to their complete domination of whole societies.
In Dreher’s analysis of these secular religions, the influence of the Polish philosopher Ryszard Legutko (author of The Demon in Democracy) is very clear, and indeed, Legutko is mentioned in the acknowledgements.
Where Dreher provides the reader with the most valuable insights is in his description of how modern technology shrinks the zone of privacy which previous generations enjoyed, and his warnings about how this is already enabling growing harassment of the faithful.
China still uses the gulag, but only some individuals and groups such as the Uyghur Muslims are unfortunate enough to end up there. As Dreher notes, in most instances, the Chinese government now prefers to rely on data collection to operate a “social credit system” which rewards compliance and which punishes those like dissenting Christians who resist the government’s diktats.
Outside of China, the proliferation of social media, the concentration of power among the Big Tech firms and the rise of “woke capitalism” — where corporations prove their credentials by taking sides in political questions and occasionally taking punitive measures against Christian or conservative groups — means that people in what we still think of as the “free world” are facing increasing pressure to behave in a certain way and to avoid taking the “wrong side” on any contentious issue.
As technology develops even further and the progressive political culture grows ever stronger, this pressure will only increase, as will the number of instances where Christians find themselves under attack.
“To put it bluntly, we are being conditioned to accept a Westernised version of China’s social credit system, which will enforce the tenets of the political cult of social justice. If this ever takes root here, there will be no place to hide,” Dreher warns.
The latter half of the book focuses on harrowing examples of anti-Christian persecution which occurred in Central and Eastern Europe under Communism, and the heroic examples of those who withstood this.
The sub-title of the book is A Manual for Christian Dissidents, and based on his experience in collecting first-hand accounts from survivors, Dreher gives practical advice for how families and communities can preserve their faith and identity in spite of great obstacles being erected against them.
“We have to tell our stories — in literature, film, theatre and other media — but we must also manifest cultural memory in communal deeds — in mourning and in celebration, in solemn remembrance and festal joy,” he writes.
To enable this to happen, he urges Christians to create the parallel polis which the Czech Catholic Václav Benda advocated when he and his family were engaged in resisting the Communist government of Czechoslovakia.
These alternative social structures — existing entirely outside of the government’s control — allowed the Benda family to retain their faith in a secular society governed by an atheistic regime. It also meant that in one of the world’s most irreligious countries, all of the Benda children and grandchildren continue to practice their faith.
Dreher praises the role of classical Christian education, but recommends much more besides:
“[W]e can celebrate festivals, make pilgrimages, observe holy-day practices, pray litanies, perform concerts, hold dances, learn and teach traditional cooking — any kind of collective deed that connects the community with its shared sacred and secular history in a living way is an act of resistance to an ethos that says the past doesn’t matter.”
This advice about preserving our identity by remembering our history has particular relevance in Ireland, a nation where the idea of “progress” is particularly strong and where the past is much-maligned, along with Christianity and social conservatism.
Though there are few surprises here for someone who has read The Benedict Option and is familiar with Dreher’s overall volume of work, this book would be of value to any social or cultural observer, and to any Christian observing recent developments and pondering what the future holds in store.
As expected given his own religious background, Dreher is strongly ecumenical in his focus in describing how Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant believers stayed true to their faith.
Catholic readers will be particularly appreciative of the author’s decision to dedicate it to the memory of Father Tomislav Kolaković, a Croatian priest who played a key role in preserving the Catholic faith in Slovakia by establishing small cell groups which ensured that the underground church could not be rooted out, even when the clergy had been subdued.
Kolaković’s followers later went on to play a crucial role in the country’s transition to democracy.
They had an option to choose an easy life or a hard one, and the road they walked must have felt incredibly lonely for many years.
In the coming decades, people in the West may be presented with similarly stark choices, in situations where anti-Christian attacks are more prevalent, and where the right to remain silent and uninvolved is gradually whittled away.
History teaches us, however, that there will always be another choice.
As Dreher writes:
“You have to live in a world of lies, but it’s your choice as to whether that world lives in you.”
Trump to Iran: ‘Do Not F**k Around with Us’
After Obama gave them billions, it’s easy to see why the Mullahs think America is a pushover. My latest in FrontPage:
Iran, said President Trump on the Rush Limbaugh show on Friday, has been “put on notice.” The President elaborated: “If you f–k around with us, if you do something bad to us, we are gonna do things to you that have never been done before.” Amid all the pearl-clutching on the Left over the President’s language (as if any Leftist politician speaksdemurely by comparison), the point has been lost that Trump’s tough stance toward the Islamic Republic of Iran has been effective in a way that Obama’s billions never were.
Back in April, for example, Trump tweeted: “I have instructed the United States Navy to shoot down and destroy any and all Iranian gunboats if they harass our ships at sea.” This came after, according to Business Insider, “nearly a dozen Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy vessels sailed out Wednesday to harass a collection of US Navy and Coast Guard vessels conducting operations in international waters.”
The U.S. Navy stated that eleven Iranian boats of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps Navy (IRGCN) “conducted dangerous and harassing approaches,” and added that “the IRGCN’s dangerous and provocative actions increased the risk of miscalculation and collision.” The Iranians, said the Navy statement, were violating the “rules of the road.”
But then came Trump’s threat, and lo and behold, the Iranian harassment of American ships ended. Trump has demonstrated again and again that being strong with Iran, instead of pursuing appeasement as Obama did, works. As Obama (who stopped Israel from going after Quds Force commander Qasim Soleimani) concluded his notorious nuclear deal with Iran, Iranian political analyst Ali Wambold pointed out that the Constitution of the Islamic Republic “proclaims ‘the ideological mission of jihad,’ which it defines as ‘extending the sovereignty of God’s law throughout the world,’ through Iran’s Army and the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps.” Thus, he said, “to treat with the Islamic Republic over the particulars of its weaponry while failing to address the very purpose of its bellicosity is delusional. The so-called Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action does nothing to change the fact that, in plain Farsi, Iran is committed to world conquest by Islam, with its clerics as warlords. Those to be conquered include America (the ‘Great Satan’), Israel (the ‘Little Satan’) and the Sunni-led Gulf States.”
The nuke deal did nothing to change that aspiration because it cannot be changed. Iran’s Brigadier General Qolamhossein Qeib-parvar of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has declared: “There are only two things that would end enmity between us and the US. Either the US president and EU leaders should convert to Islam and imitate the Supreme Leader, or Iran should abandon Islam and the Islamic revolution. If they are not going to turn Muslim, we are not going to abandon Islam or the revolution either. But I do not know why some people believe that some day we will make peace with the US and start relations with them.”
On September 23, 2015, two months after the nuke deal was finalized, Khamenei published an article entitled “The Idols Will Be Shattered,” illustrated with a drawing of the Statue of Liberty shattered in pieces. In it he declared, “The idol of the soul, the idol of pride, [and] the idol of sexual lust; the idol of tyranny and subservience; the idol of global tyranny [that is, the U.S.]; the idol of sloth and irresponsibility; and the other idols that shame the precious human soul—a plan that will spring forth from the depths of the heart will shatter them.”
But then Donald Trump became President. Iran continued its adventurism, and got new sanctions. Nonetheless, it persisted, and Soleimani was killed. Do the mullahs really doubt that Trump will act swiftly and decisively in response to further Iranian provocations? The Left’s outrage over the President’s language may be designed to obscure the fact that his strategy is working. Islamic supremacists and jihadis generally understand the world in terms of strength and weakness. They respect strength and despise weakness, and they see appeasement and accommodation as weakness. When Obama gave them billions and a pathway to nuclear weapons within ten years, they became more aggressive than ever. When Trump spoke and acted more firmly, they have curbed their activities.
But will the establishment media ever grasp the change, or report it to the American people? Of course not. They would much rather f**k with the President.
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Here We Go Again: Cuomo, de Blasio Blame Jews for Jump in COVID-19 Cases
Each year during the Jewish religious festival of Sukkot, New York City shuts down Kingston Avenue in Crown Heights to allow thousands of local residents the opportunity to safely celebrate in dance and song.
But this past week—under the guise of fighting COVID-19—New York City attempted to shut down this religious gathering by using physical intimidation, screeching sirens, and loud megaphones.
The display of force was jarring. The crowd refused to surrender their First Amendment religious liberties, and the police ultimately backed down.
Confrontations will continue so long as Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio target Jewish religious gatherings. Cuomo has limited religious gatherings to 10—regardless of indoor synagogue capacity and regardless of whether services are held outside—and shut down all schools (including the yeshivas used by many Jewish families) in so-called red zones encompassing Orthodox Jewish communities.
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Cuomo, like de Blasio a Democrat, explicitly warned Monday: “I have to say to the Orthodox community tomorrow, if you’re not willing to live with these rules, then I’m going to close the synagogues.”
The governor said he intended to coopt local police to bar entry to local houses of prayer. Days later, the mayor cracked down on First Amendment freedom even more severely, limiting outdoor gatherings to five people, effectively outlawing Jewish prayer services (known as minyans) that require at least 10.
The governor’s visual presentation at his press conference distinctly conveyed the notion that Orthodox Jews are to blame for recent increases in COVID-19 cases.
As Omri Ceren, national security adviser to Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, says: “After a summer of embracing riots in which people traveled from all over the country into New York and then mass-marched, Cuomo has discovered the real disease vector: Jews getting together to pray.”
Cuomo and de Blasio repeatedly suggested that jumps in COVID-19 cases stem from Jews praying together, eating together, learning together, and living together.
The Jew-blaming is becoming common across New York. On Tuesday, the nearby town of Newburgh announced closure of a park frequented by Orthodox Jewish families, so it could undergo “deep cleaning.”
This park contains more than 5 miles of hiking trails and a pond. Yet, city officials chose to exclude families from enjoying the beauty of the outdoors by closing acres to families in the middle of a Jewish holiday week.
A park ranger was unable to provide information regarding any prior closures and the rationale behind placing the entire grounds off-limits. A picture of Orthodox mothers with their children at the park accompanied the announcement. The very presence of Jewish children on a playground requires extreme sanitation, apparently.
In centuries past, governments placed blame for outbreaks of plagues and disease on the Jewish people. These accusations prejudiced society against their Jewish neighbors while deflecting anger and criticism away from those in power.
Using public health as an excuse to shut synagogues, stifle community gatherings, close yeshivas (religious schools), and chase Jews from public spaces is nothing new.
Numerous members of the New York City Council and State Assembly representing these communities condemned the governor’s orders as “unilateral” and “irresponsible.” They assured the governor of their intent to “worship freely … without his interference.”
Agudath Israel—one of the nation’s most prominent Jewish advocacy organizations—filed a lawsuit to block the orders. But a federal judge refused Friday to grant a temporary restraining order against the state.
The prayer services, shared meals, and outdoor singing of Jews in the streets of New York over the past several weeks commemorate a series of religious holidays comprising the beginning of the Jewish new year. This unbroken tradition began 3,000 years ago.
The weeklong holiday of Sukkot, which ends Friday evening, commemorates the encampments of Jews during their 40 years wandering in the desert after their exodus from Egypt en route to the Promised Land.
Jews construct temporary shelters in their yards, on their balconies, and in parks to recall the experience of their ancestors thousands of years ago. Gathering with family and friends within the confines of these structures to eat and to drink over eight days is an essential religious observance.
During this week, the ancient and sacred Simchas Beis Hashoeiva celebration occurs—a night filled with dancing and song. So joyous an experience was this in Jerusalem in ancient times that the sages say one who has not seen the celebration “never saw celebration in his life.”
The festival of Simchas Torah immediately follows Sukkot. This commemorates the giving of the Torah to the Jewish people and involves jubilant singing and dancing with Torah scrolls.
Although the nature of today’s persecution at the hands of New York City does not threaten one’s life, it certainly infringes the ability to live freely and practice one’s faith. Blaming Jews for New York City’s current state of misery is but a modern permutation of the age-old practice of blaming societal problems on the Jews.
New York City lies in shambles. Thousands of restaurants, bars, theaters, and stores are permanently shuttered. More than 400,000 residents have fled. Crime is soaring and drug-addicted vagrants are displacing tourists.
Many elderly residents died from COVID-19, largely due to Cuomo’s forcing assisted living centers to accept COVID-positive patients from local hospitals early in the crisis.
Although some precautions with mass gatherings are warranted given the continuing hazards of the new coronavirus, draconian edicts shutting down these important community observances are an affront to human dignity.
If public health were at issue, the government would curtail even the politically favored Black Lives Matter block parties. But it’s not about health or safety.
Blaming the Jews for the crisis neatly transfers blame for the sad state of affairs to a minority population all too familiar with such libel.
In New York City, crowding into Washington Square Park this past summer for a dance party is fine so long as it celebrates a left-wing political cause. But dancing and singing outdoors in celebration of a religious tradition invites criminal sanction.
Americans must not tolerate criminalization and prohibition of religious observances. Many thousands will choose to attend their synagogues, eat meals together, and dance during this season of religious festivals. Lawyers from across the nation stand ready to defend the Jewish community of New York City against this affront to their freedom.
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How are socialists deluding a whole generation? One of their most effective arguments is that “democratic socialism” is working in Scandinavian countries like Sweden and Norway. They claim these countries are “proof” that socialism will work for America. But they’re wrong. And it’s easy to explain why.
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We Must Return to Normal as Soon as Possible
All of us are trying to get used to the “new normal.” For some, it may be that be your company issued a work-from-home extension to 2021. Or it could be changing the majority of your medical appointments to use telemedicine or increasing the number of delivery services you use.
Many aspects of our lives have drastically changed because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Some changes are for the better, but many changes cannot be sustainable in the long term.
One area where a “new normal” has not been successful is the virtual education that many school districts are using. Keeping students behind a laptop and away from the socialization of a classroom is not working for students or parents.
What’s the best way for America to reopen and return to business? The National Coronavirus Recovery Commission, a project of The Heritage Foundation, assembled America’s top thinkers to figure that out. So far, it has made more than 260 recommendations. Learn more here.
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As a father with a young kindergartener, I have experienced firsthand the difficulties so many parents are facing as we try to assist our kids with virtual learning.
This shift to virtual education is incredibly difficult on our young ones, who deserve access to in-person education, and on their parents or guardians who must act as a caretaker while juggling their own full-time jobs.
Relying on virtual learning is having a dramatic impact on the economy’s ability to rebound. During a recent hearing hosted by the Joint Economic Committee, on which I serve as the senior House Republican member, I asked economist Austan Goolsbee if schools and day care closures are a barrier to our economic growth. He replied, “100%.”
Across the country, unemployment remains well above the 50-year lows recorded earlier this year. Entire economic sectors are still unable to safely reopen or return to full capacity. Without schools opening, many parents, particularly those in low-income households, are unable to return to full-time jobs.
Right now, lower-income parents are expressing more concern about their children potentially falling behind those in higher-income groups. Parents who are fortunate enough to have the option to work from home are placed in an impossible situation: to simultaneously work while providing full-time child care.
It should be a top priority nationally to allow children to return to in-person learning, as many parents are not able to stay at home and help their children access online learning full-time.
Only 16.2% of Hispanic workers and 19.7% of black workers can telework, making it nearly impossible for many parents to stay at home daily. Too many parents, especially mothers, are being forced to choose between staying employed and supporting their child’s education.
We cannot expect parents to adapt to this new normal, where the choice comes down to providing for your family financially or assisting your children as they try to learn online in a home setting.
Another recent study shows that 14% of households with children had food insecurity in 2018, well before the pandemic erupted. Today, children who depended on school meals are unable to receive them in communities across the country.
There are some bright spots, however. Some schools have managed to reopen their doors for a safe return of in-person learning—not only for their students, but for faculty. Just one week after my daughter started hybrid learning, we noticed a stark difference in her happiness being with her peers at school.
We are encouraged to see that the administration is deploying 150 million Abbott BinaxNOW rapid COVID-19 tests to states. States across the country must prioritize making these tests readily available in our schools, to help protect students and educators.
If schools continue to stay closed, we will see long-term side effects. Although we don’t have an accurate prediction of the societal damage caused by COVID-19, our top priority needs to be making sure that we do not continue to damage our country following the mass shutdown of the economy.
Children need to be able to return to their pre-COVID-19 learning environments immediately to ensure that we can educate our youth and support our labor force, both financially and mentally.
Even amid our differences, all Americans are hoping to return to normal following the global pandemic. Many of us never have experienced times like this, and although we have overcome many of the challenges brought upon us in 2020, reopening schools for America’s children is the most important step we need to take.
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California’s Governor Mocked Me, but I Received Ballot 8 Years After Moving
As you undoubtedly have heard on television, the internet, and social media, the right to vote is fundamental to the American system.
But as we near Election Day, it’s important to remember that the right to vote means little if our officials can’t maintain election integrity. Fraudulent votes undermine our electoral system and take rightful votes away from others.
Nearly as bad, a dysfunctional or broken election system easily can throw an election into chaos. Just look at what happened in Florida in 2000.
This issue is being magnified in 2020 because a presidential election will coincide with a global pandemic and states are experimenting with widespread mail-in voting, which they haven’t used before.
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I highlighted one potential issue in a piece I wrote in September. Here’s what I wrote at the time:
The Alameda County Registrar of Voters notified me by mail at my parents’ address in Oakland that I would receive a ballot when the state sends them out Oct. 5. This is following Gov. Gavin Newsom’s executive order that all California voters receive a mail-in ballot before the Nov. 3 election.
The problem is, I should not be considered a California voter.
Since I left California in 2011, I have registered to vote in two other places. I’ve officially changed my address. And my parents notified election workers at their local voting location after I left the state, but to no avail.
The only reason I was even aware of the situation is that my parents still live at the same address.
Newsom dismissed me on Twitter, saying that it was false I’d received a ballot from California. He never addressed the primary problem, which is ballots being sent to the wrong place or to people who are not California voters.
Just as the initial notice promised, the official California ballot arrived at my parents’ home.
And here’s my ballot right on schedule. I haven’t lived in CA in a decade & notified the state I no longer live there. I could have voted twice. It would be nice if the governor was a little more concerned with his state’s electoral security, but I guess that’s too much to ask. https://t.co/yztwaKzhLj pic.twitter.com/rfQALa7EGb
— Jarrett Stepman (@JarrettStepman) October 9, 2020
It seems that what happened to me isn’t too uncommon. Many Americans around the country have been receiving ballots for other people, or people who have died.
My official ballot arrived!
Along with ballots for four people who no longer live here (three of whom haven’t lived here in over SIX years)! pic.twitter.com/cO0MAC2HpC
— Richie🎥McG🍿 (@RichieMcGinniss) September 30, 2020
I am the son of John and Gertrude Thompson. Both passed away over ten years ago and got ballots for the upcoming election. I gave Richard Grenell permission to post these pictures and ask for an investigation as to why they were mailed ballots for the 2020 election. pic.twitter.com/HcsIzvPk7k
— Tom Thompson (@tthompson90277) October 8, 2020
I just received 5 unsolicited cheat-by-mail voting ballots at my house. Three are addressed to people who are not even DC residents. Two are in my own name. #cheatbymail pic.twitter.com/HXceTWguF7
— J Michael Waller (@JMichaelWaller) October 6, 2020
German journalist (public broadcasting) in D.C. says while he isn't eligible to vote in the U.S., he has received 3 mail-in ballots to his Washington address: 1 for previous tenant who moved out 5 years ago, 1 for landlord living in Puerto Rico, 1 for landlord's deceased husband. https://t.co/KYMks5PmBx
— Andreas Backhaus (@AndreasShrugged) October 11, 2020
Many politicians, media, and tech companies seem to be in a hurry to dismiss these problems.
Issues with mail-in ballots aren’t new or limited simply to ballots being sent to the wrong address.
For instance, the Public Interest Legal Foundation, an election integrity group, found that “32 million mail ballots effectively disappeared, went to the wrong house, or were rejected since 2012.”
Hans von Spakovsky, a senior legal fellow at The Heritage Foundation, wrote:
Taking into account the 2012, 2014, 2016, and 2018 federal general elections, 28.3 million mail ballots disappeared after officials gave them to the U.S. Postal Service. There are numerous problems to point fingers at and many explanations as to what happened to these ballots, but the bottom line is simple: Tens of millions of ballots were lost in the mail voting system on a scale not seen at polling places.
And we’ve seen other problems pop up this year.
National Public Radio reported that over 550,000 absentee ballots were rejected during the presidential primaries, far outstripping the numbers in 2016.
NPR noted that officials reject absentee ballots mostly because “required signatures are missing or don’t match the one on record.”
Election integrity is a serious matter.
Widespread fraud and electoral irregularities sent the 1876 presidential election into utter chaos and nearly plunged the United States into a second civil war.
Regardless of what happens Nov. 3 or in any other elections, our system relies on the American people’s faith in free and fair elections.
Americans should be concerned about the possibility of willful malice—or more commonly, mistakes and human error—in our elections. In these contentious times, electoral integrity should be a priority for state officials rather than an issue to be flippantly dismissed.
But given the many challenges in the mail-in voting system, the best way to ensure that your vote is counted is to show up and vote in person.
As Heritage Foundation President Kay Coles James says in a public service announcement:
In this year of chaos and disruptions to the electoral system, ensuring the integrity of our elections has never been more important, and the need for clear voices presenting the unvarnished facts has never been greater. Fortunately, every American can contribute to making sure this year’s elections advance the good of the nation and respect in our democratic process—voting in person.
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Democratic Socialists say, “America should be more like socialist countries such as Sweden and Denmark.” And millions of young people believe them…
For years, “Democratic Socialists” have been growing a crop of followers that include students and young professionals. America’s future will be in their hands.
How are socialists deluding a whole generation? One of their most effective arguments is that “democratic socialism” is working in Scandinavian countries like Sweden and Norway. They claim these countries are “proof” that socialism will work for America. But they’re wrong. And it’s easy to explain why.
Our friends at The Heritage Foundation just published a new guide that provides three irrefutable facts that debunks these myths. For a limited time, they’re offering it to readers of The Daily Signal for free.
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Communism is Treason!
August 24 marks sixty-six years since President Eisenhower signed the Communist Control Act into law. Controlled press outlets from the New York Times to the Wall Street Journal excoriated the Act when it passed Congress, powerful think tanks and lobbying groups rose up in protest, and it was ultimately never enforced except in a handful of cases. I contend that expanding the Communist Control Act’s scope and power, and then strictly enforcing it in order to criminalize communism, is the only way America will survive the coming cataclysm planned by the enemies among us. The war cry of every patriotic American must become: Communism is treason; death to communism!
The Communist Control Act of 1954 outlawed the Communist Party USA and listed several important reasons why drastic action was needed to root out the communist conspiracy. The relevant portion of the legislation reads:
“The Congress hereby finds and declares that the Communist Party of the United States, although purportedly a political party, is in fact an instrumentality of a conspiracy to overthrow the Government of the United States. It constitutes an authoritarian dictatorship within a republic, demanding for itself the rights and privileges accorded to political parties, but denying to all others the liberties guaranteed by the Constitution. Unlike political parties, which evolve their policies and programs through public means, by the reconciliation of a wide variety of individual views, and submit those policies and programs to the electorate at large for approval or disapproval, the policies and programs of the Communist Party are secretly prescribed for it by the foreign leaders of the world Communist movement. Its members have no part in determining its goals, and are not permitted to voice dissent to party objectives. Unlike members of political parties, members of the Communist Party are recruited for indoctrination with respect to its objectives and methods, and are organized, instructed, and disciplined to carry into action slavishly the assignments given them by their hierarchical chieftains. Unlike political parties, the Communist Party acknowledges no constitutional or statutory limitations upon its conduct or upon that of its members. The Communist Party is relatively small numerically, and gives scant indication of capacity ever to attain its ends by lawful political means. The peril inherent in its operation arises not from its numbers, but from its failure to acknowledge any limitation as to the nature of its activities, and its dedication to the proposition that the present constitutional Government of the United States ultimately must be brought to ruin by any available means, including resort to force and violence. Holding that doctrine, its role as the agency of a hostile foreign power renders its existence a clear present and continuing danger to the security of the United States. It is the means whereby individual are seduced into the service of the world Communist movement, trained to do its bidding, and directed and controlled in the conspiratorial performance of their revolutionary services. Therefore, the Communist Party should be outlawed.
“The Communist Party of the United States, or any successors of such party regardless of the assumed name, whose object or purpose is to overthrow the Government of the United States, or the government of any State, Territory, District, or possession thereof, or the government of any political subdivision therein by force and violence, are not entitled to any of the rights, privileges, and immunities attendant upon legal bodies created under the jurisdiction of the laws of the United States or any political subdivision thereof; and whatever rights, privileges, and immunities which have heretofore been granted to said party or any subsidiary organization by reason of the laws of the United States or any political subdivision thereof, are hereby terminated. . . .
“Whoever knowingly and willfully becomes or remains a member of (1) the Communist Party, or (2) any other organization having for one of its purposes or objectives the establishment, control conduct, seizure, or overthrow of the Government of the United States, or the government of any State or political subdivision thereof, by the use of force or violence, with knowledge of the purpose or objective of such organization shall be subject to all the provisions and penalties of the Internal Security Act of 1950, as amended, as a member of a “Communist-action” organization.
“For the purposes of this section, the term “Communist Party” means the organization now known as the Communist Party of the United States of America, the Communist Party of any State or subdivision thereof, and any unit or subdivision of any such organization, whether or not any change is hereafter made in the name thereof.”
Did you catch the difference between a normal political party and the Communist Party? Normal political parties operate democratically and submit their ideas to the American People for approval or disapproval. The Communist Party, by contrast, thumbs its nose at the voice of the People. Instead, it operates on the principle of strict obedience to the dictates of shadowy superiors whose intent is to come to power over the People.
The Communist Party also differs from other political parties in the fact that it cannot peacefully coexist with them. Democrats and Republicans may hate each other, but they tolerate each other’s existence and, ostensibly, defend each other’s right to exist – as well as the right of third parties and independents to share their views. The communists, on the other hand, deny that those whom they deem “class enemies” have any rights at all. They declare themselves alone to be sovereign. They reject the idea of pluralistic society and, instead, seek a total monopoly of political power. To communists, there can be only one voice, one sovereign, one party – the Communist Party.
After stating some of these basic facts, Congress then spelled out thirteen specific actions which would be used to determine one’s “membership or participation” in a prohibited communist organization. I mention only four. An individual who could be investigated and penalized under the CCA is one who has “prepared documents, pamphlets, leaflets, books, or any other type of publication in behalf of the objectives and purposes of the organization,” one who has “mailed, shipped, circulated, distributed, delivered, or in any other way sent or delivered to others material or propaganda of any kind in behalf of the organization,” one who has “indicated by word, action, conduct, writing or in any other way a willingness to carry out in any manner and to any degree the plans, designs, objectives, or purposes of the organization,” or one who has “made financial contribution to the organization in dues, assessments, loans, or in any other form.”
These four points alone are enough to identify and apprehend the communist traitors in our midst. Think of it, anyone who parrots The Communist Manifesto’s threats against free nations and free institutions could be rounded up and prosecuted. Anyone who preached the idea that a small clique of gangsters (i.e. the Communist Party and their abettors) should be in full control of the levers of power could be immediately silenced before he could sew the seeds of contention and civil war. Anyone who marched with authentic symbols of hate like the Soviet hammer and sickle flag, could quickly be identified as an enemy of the Republic. In short order, the subversive communist apparatus, both official and unofficial, could be crushed if we were to enforce the Communist Control Act.
Among other individuals, organizations, and publications that could be hauled in before the courts, prosecuted, or disbanded under the Communist Control Act, are the following:
- George Soros
- Jacob Rothschild
- Bernie Sanders
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
- Antifa
- Black Lives Matter
- New Black Panther Party
- Congressional Progressive Caucus
- Code Pink
- Acorn
- The Ford Foundation
- The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- Open Society Foundations
- Democratic Party
- Communist Party USA
- Revolutionary Communist Party USA
- Socialist Party USA
- Democratic Socialists of America
- Party for Socialism and Liberation
- World Socialist Party of the United States
- Progressive Labor Party
- Industrial Workers of the World
- Fabian Society
- Young Communist League USA
- North American Man/Boy Love Association
- Mattachine Society
- Southern Poverty Law Center
- ActBlue
- Political Affairs (journal of the CPUSA)
- People’s World (publication of the CPUSA)
- Liberation News (news site of the Party for Socialism and Liberation)
Hundreds of other organizations could be added to the list and many thousands of individuals – including prominent politicians, judges, preachers, businessmen, reporters, actors, and educators – would find their rightful place there as well. The United States, to say nothing of the rest of the world, is infested by communists and their ideological comrades. Today’s gaggle of communist agitators will fulfill Soviet dictator Nikita Khrushchev’s threat to “bury” us if we do not swiftly move against them.
The Communist Control Act is a godsend to the patriot movement! We ought to invoke it immediately to provide for our “common defense” as a free People. In fact, we have an extensive body of anti-communist legislation to call upon to thwart the 21st-Century Reds who are well into the process of destroying our entire civilization.
The CCA was not the first or only anti-communist measure enacted by the U.S. government during the Cold War. The CCA was merely an amendment to the 1950 Internal Security Act, or, Subversive Activities Control Act. Whereas the Internal Security Act broadly targeted subversive organizations, the CCA directly singled out communist organizations, effectively prohibiting them. And the ISA itself was only a follow-up to the 1940 Alien Registration Act with its Smith Act provisions.
The Alien Registration Act required aliens to register with the government. It was popular at the time – and it is still popular today – for “political tourists” to visit the United States and engage in subversive behavior. Two groups in particular, Soviet communists and Jewish radicals from Europe, engaged in this type of criminal conduct. The Smith Act section of the Alien Registration Act targeted those who would fan the flames of sedition and revolution against the government. It read in part:
“It shall be unlawful for any person, with intent to interfere with, impair, or influence the loyalty, morale, or discipline of the military or naval forces of the United States. . . .
“It shall be unlawful for any person— (1) to knowingly or willfully advocate, abet, advise, or teach the duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of overthrowing or destroying any government in the United States by force or violence, or by the assassination of any officer of any such government; (2) with the intent to cause the overthrow or destruction of any government in the United States, to print, publish, edit, issue, circulate, sell, distribute, or publicly display any written or printed matter advocating, advising, or teaching the duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of overthrowing or destroying any government in the United States by force or violence. (3) to organize or help to organize any society, group, or assembly of persons who teach, advocate, or encourage the overthrow or destruction of any government in the United States by force or violence; or to be or become a member of, or affiliate with, any such society, group, or assembly of persons, knowing the purposes thereof.”
The Smith Act also spoke against conspiracy. This provision was removed years later, but then added again in 1956, penalizing those who engage in conspiracy against the government with a $20,000 fine, twenty years in prison, or both. While the Smith Act seems perfectly reasonable to any patriotic American, portions of it were repealed in the 40s and 50s, and the activist Supreme Court began overturning convictions under its provisions in 1957, allowing violators to go free. Conspiracy, however, is still a crime listed on the books even today.
Numerous court cases variously upheld or undermined certain provisions of these acts. In Communist Party of the United States V. Subversive Activities Control Board in 1961, the CPUSA challenged the 1950 Subversive Activities Control Act. The Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Act, issuing their opinion that it did not violate the First Amendment to require the Communist Party to register with the Attorney General because the Party’s ideology, communism, was indeed a threat to the nation. As noted, other rulings were not as favorable. But those that were established the precedent that we could use today to enforce these laws to clamp down on the conspiratorial communist movement.
I mention one additional legislative act of peculiar interest to anyone wishing to see the Red Plague of communism swept away. The Emergency Detention Act of 1950 provided for the mass round-up of communists. Six government internment camps were created by the government in anticipation of holding the thousands of communist agitators who would be apprehended. Tragically, the Emergency Detention Act was never utilized and met its demise in September 1971. President Richard Nixon issued a statement when he signed the repeal of the Act, saying in part:
“No President has ever attempted to use the provisions of this act. And while six detention camps were established and funded by the Congress, none of them was ever used for the purposes of this legislation. In fact, all six camps have been abandoned or used for other purposes since 1957.
“Nevertheless, the mere continued existence of these legal provisions has aroused concern among many Americans that the act might someday be used to apprehend and detain citizens who hold unpopular views.”
That no president in the twenty-one years of the Act’s existence ever attempted to use it to round up and get rid of communist traitors and criminals is a biting indictment on those men, their advisors, and their supporters. Was not their sworn duty to defend the United States against its enemies and to ensure that Americans were secure in their rights? Americans cannot be secure in their God-given rights when communists are allowed to exist alongside them. The Constitution is not safe in a nation that permits communists to exist within its borders. Where communism is, Liberty can never fully shine.
Some believe that detention centers are inherently “unAmerican.” I disagree. When illegal invaders, drug cartel criminals, rapists, and thugs, storm across our Southern border, they are rounded up and placed in detention centers. This should be standard procedure for groups which threaten the nation. Remove them from the general population so they cannot do additional damage, then try them in court according to their crimes.
In 1776, General George Washington led the Continental Army on a campaign to disarm the Tories of Queens County, New York. Yes, George Washington confiscated New Yorkers’ firearms. And why not? It was a war, after all, and the Tories chose the opposing side – the side that advocated monarchy and subjugation to a ruling elite. It’s simply not repugnant to disarm or even arrest your avowed enemies in a time of conflict. And make no mistake, we are at war with the communists.
The great Ezra Taft Benson, who served as President Eisenhower’s Secretary of Agriculture at the time he signed the Communist Control Act into law, explained:
“Today we are at war. It is not enough to be against communism. We must shed our complacency and aggressively meet this challenge. . . .
“There can be no compromise with the communists. They are at war with us – with the entire cause of freedom, and the sooner every American faces this hard fact, the stronger our position will be. It is a real war. The lines are tightly drawn. The war is more insidious, more devious, more devastating, and more satanical than any war in our history. Moral principles, once universally recognized are ignored. International law once respected is thrown to the wind.
“The socialist-communist philosophy is devastatingly evil – destructive of all that is good, uplifting and beautiful. It strikes at the very foundation of all we hold dear” (Ezra Taft Benson, “We Must Become Alerted and Informed,” speech, December 13, 1963).
In his book An Enemy Hath Done This, Benson similarly warned Americans:
“Let’s get one thing straight at the very beginning. International communism is the self-avowed enemy of every loyal American. It has declared war against us and fully intends to win. The war in which we are engaged is total. Although its main battlefields are psychological, political and economic, it also encompasses revolution, violence, terror and limited military skirmishes. If we should lose this war, the conquering enemy’s wrath against our people and our institutions will result in one of the greatest blood-baths of all history. Call it a “cold war” if it makes you feel better, but our freedom and our very lives are the stakes of this contest” (Ezra Taft Benson, An Enemy Hath Done This, 165).
Author Fred Schwarz likewise admonished us to wake up to the fact that we are at war, regardless of whether we want to be, because the communists are at war with us, our institutions, and our way of life:
“[W]e are confronted with a movement which is frightening in its superb organization, strategic mobility and universal program, but which is perfectly understandable and almost mathematically predictable.
“In the battle against Communism, there is no substitute for accurate, specific knowledge. Ignorance is evil and paralytic. The best intentions allied with the most sincere motives are ineffective and futile if they are divorced from adequate knowledge. . . .
“[Communists] are extremely trustworthy. You can trust a cancer cell to obey the laws of its lawless growth. You can trust an armed bank robber to take the money and try to escape. Similarly, you can trust the Communists to act in accordance with the laws of their being. . . .
“The weapons of this warfare are not merely the classical weapons of guns, tanks, bombs, and aircraft. The weapons are universal. Education is a weapon; language is a weapon; trade is a weapon; diplomacy is a weapon; religion is a weapon; cultural interchange is a weapon. The Communists view every act and judge every situation as part of the class war. When the Bolshoi Ballet performs in the United States, that is an action in the class war; when a group of American clergymen visits Russia, that is an action in the class war; when the Soviet participates in negotiations for “peace,” they fight a battle in the class war. Their participation in the United Nations is part of this warfare. The basic Communist doctrine is: “We are at war!” This is the frame of reference within which every action and thought must be assessed and judged.
“It does not take two to make a fight. An idea in the mind of one is enough. . . .
“The Communists believe that they are at war with us. This conviction will never be changed in the slightest degree by any action in the Free World . . . We must either recognize this and defend against it, or ignore it and be destroyed. We have no other choice” (Fred Schwarz, You Can Trust the Communists (to be Communists), 1-6).
I say again, there is nothing unAmerican about rounding up those who flout just laws, endanger public order, and commit themselves to overthrowing our Republic. Patriots in the 1940s and 50s realized the need to criminalize communism and outlaw the Communist Party. This they did by enacting the Smith Act in 1940, the Internal Safety Act and Emergency Detention Act of 1950, and the Communist Control Act of 1954. They put in the basic framework for sweeping action against the Red Menace, but, due to a coordinated campaign by communist agitators, their controlled press, and their powerful financial backers, were unable to gain enough popular support to put their anti-communist, pro-America plan into action and save the Republic from subversion.
In a hard-hitting sermon delivered in 1961, Ezra Taft Benson stated that the goal of communists is “to destroy the existing government and set up a ruthless criminal dictatorship over the whole land.” He further warned: “Unfortunately our nation has not treated the socialistic-communist conspiracy as “treasonable to our free institutions” . . . If we continue to uphold communism by not making it treasonable, our land shall be destroyed.”
Can anyone disagree with his assessment? Can anyone turn on the TV, watch as Seattle, Portland, Chicago, and other cities burn in communist-led riots, and then honestly disagree that communists must be dealt with by force? Communism is the enemy. Communism is treason. Communism must die for America to survive!
This Satanic enemy, like the fabled hydra, has many heads. It operates through an extensive network of front groups. They back the LGBT movement to corrupt our culture, destroy the family unit, and warp the minds of children. They promote public schooling so they can better indoctrinate children into the Marxist way of thinking. They use the Federal Reserve and the bloated bureaucracy to chip away at economic Freedom. They use taxation as a wealth redistribution scheme. They tell blacks they’re “victims,” pour salt in old wounds, and stoke the fires of racial disharmony. They target police, seek to limit their authority via citizen review boards, and use the courts to allow violent offenders and rioters to go free. They tell women that their place is in a nine-to-five job rather than in the home raising the next generation of citizens. They push for drug legalization as a means of desensitizing, degrading, and demoralizing our nation. They enact hate crime legislation which does nothing but criminalize points of view with which communists disagree. In these and a thousand other ways, the communist conspiracy has brought Lady Liberty to her knees.
The Communist Party USA, as the classic symbol of this conspiracy, must be first on the patriots’ chopping block. Not only has the Communist Party USA formally been outlawed, but it could readily be outlawed and its members penalized under any number of laws currently on the books. It is a clear and present danger to the United States because it operates as a wing of the worldwide communist conspiracy.
Louis Francis Budenz was a member of the CPUSA for ten years, during which time he helped edit the infamous Daily Worker. Budenz became disillusioned with the Party and woke up to its threatening nature. He wrote a book titled Men Without Faces: The Communist Conspiracy in the U.S.A., which I cannot recommend too highly. In the book’s introduction, he noted that it was his goal:
“to demonstrate that the Soviet dictatorship and its fifth column in this country constitute a clear and present danger to the existence of the United States.
“I want to show beyond question that the Communist party is not a political party in the American or democratic sense, but solely a fifth column of the Kremlin.”
Among other things, Budenz observed:
“Garbing itself in the attire of a regular political party, the Communist organization raises on behalf of its own legality the cry of those “civil liberties” which it officially declares it intends to abolish. The matter would be less confusing if the Red missionaries in the guise of liberals, radio commentators and trade unionists were not so successful in preventing Americans from learning the truth about their conspiratorial setup. The whole fictitious character of this “political party” claim could be easily exposed if it were established (as it can be) from Red documents and acts that the so-called Communist party is and has always been nothing other than one division of a dictator’s army with which he hopes to conquer the world” (Budenz, Men Without Faces, 29-30).
Yes, the Communist Party USA wears the mask of “democracy,” but instead promotes tyranny of the blackest type. It seeks to end the Constitution and decimate the rights we enjoy. Budenz further explained:
“The aim of this fifth column, and of the dictatorship manipulating it, is the violent destruction of the American Republic. It plans the conquest of the United States by setting up a world proletarian dictatorship guided and ruled by Joseph Stalin. As comfortable as it may have been in the past to evade that ugly reality, it can be evaded no longer. The fanatical hope, if you can call it that, which gives drive to these conspirators is the belief in “The World October.” This promised extension to the entire globe of the October Russian revolution which set up the Soviet dictatorship is the dynamo of the Communist movement. That whispered promise is on the lips of every obscure comrade; it is proudly proclaimed in every important speech and every fundamental book by ever leader of the Soviet state.
“In the first pamphlet on communism that I was given to study on entering the party, this pledge to wipe out the American government by fire and sword was stated in the most bloodthirsty terms. . . .
“It is disconcerting, then, to hear and read the extensive speculations of certain men in public life about what Soviet Russia means to do and what its fifth columns plan. The Reds have said so clearly what their reason for existence is, and have so scrupulously and relentlessly pursued the path set out for them, that such speculations would be absurd were they not so tragic.
“There is no greater tribute to the effectiveness of the Soviet fifth column in this country than the obvious fact that it has befogged the American mind regarding its ruthless resolves to wipe out American independence. Nothing is so clear-cut as its continual insistence within its own ranks that violent attack upon the government here is highly essential. But so skilled are its propagandists – disguised as non-Communists in the radio, newspaper and moving-picture world – that they have made Americans believe every revelation of Red espionage is the result of hysteria. They have done a fairly adequate job of making America ashamed of defending its own freedoms” (Budenz, Men Without Faces, 5, 7-8).
How very prescient! Today, in 2020, we see all around us hordes of rioters, Antifa thugs, and their cheerleaders in the media and Congress, who make themselves Red in the face yelling about how evil America is, how horrible our history is, and how ashamed we ought to be our of noble ancestors. This cacophony of dissent has cowed many Americans into sitting silently on the sidelines as their country is disgraced and destroyed in front of them. Many have been indoctrinated to believe that there is no communist threat and that anyone who says so is resurrecting the “Red Scare” and is probably a “Nazi,” “anti-Semite,” “fascist,” “klansman,” or “white supremacist.”
The cultural Marxists have successfully made millions of Americans ashamed to be Americans! What a tragedy! What a danger to our future! How can a nation survive when it hates itself? How can a nation project strength and oppose outward aggression when internally its people are twisted in confusion and self-loathing?
Fellow America, wake up! Your birthright is American Liberty. Your forebears were good, virtuous, patriotic men and women. Your institutions are unsurpassed in greatness and genius. You are descendants of the Sons of Liberty. Start acting like it.
Budenz concluded his landmark book by warning that a real defense of our Freedom means crushing the communist conspiracy. Said he:
“A true defense of civil liberties recognizes that the Communists mean to destroy such liberties. To safeguard American freedom the fifth column which menaces that freedom will have to be dealt with as a fifth column and not as something else – a legitimate political party, for example, which is pure fiction. . . .
“God grant that America may have the alertness to distinguish fact from fancy, the wisdom to understand the true nature of her Soviet opponent, and the courage to stand firm for her own defense and that of all mankind” (Budenz, Men Without Faces, 297).
Another Soviet defector, Yuri Bezmenov, similarly urged tough action against communist agitators. Bezmenov recommended curtailing the rights of seditious individuals and groups before they were able to foment a crisis that could only be reversed through bloodshed. He explained that there are four stages communists move a nation through before it can be considered conquered: 1) Demoralization; 2) Destabilization; 3) Crisis; and 4) Normalization. By the time things reach the destabilization stage, Bezmenov said that only restricting the rights of agitators can save a nation from military struggle:
“Now, at that point, at the point of destabilization, also the process could be reversed . . . You know what it takes here? Restriction of some liberties for small groups which are self-declared enemies of the society. As simple as that. “Oh no,” the media and liberals will tell you, “this is against the American Constitution” . . . Ok, if you allow the criminals to have civil rights, go on, and bring the country to the crisis. This is a bloodless way to do it: Curb the rights . . . It has to be beaten in the heads of American voters that a person like that in the seats of power is an enemy. Don’t be afraid of this word. It is an enemy . . . You are doing great service by denying him a right to capitalize on his own crazy ideas . . . Restrictions of certain Freedoms and permissions at that point would prevent sliding into crisis.”
As I’ve shown above, there is legal precedent for identifying, investigating, criminalizing, and even rounding up seditious groups. Specifically, the Communist Party and sworn Marxists have been singled out as seditious. It would be foolish to not use the Communist Control Act, or some variation thereof, to take down the communist network in America once and for all.
Let’s assume for a moment, however, that there was no Communist Control Act. Americans would still have the natural right to fight back against subversive elements in society. I refer to what Thomas Jefferson called the “laws of necessity.” In a letter, he explained why a patriot must sometime act on the authority of necessity rather than abide strictly by the written law:
“The question you propose, whether circumstances do not sometimes occur, which make it a duty in officers of high trust, to assume authorities beyond the law, is easy of solution in principle, but sometimes embarrassing in practice. A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high duties of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to written law, would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property and all those who are enjoying them with us; thus absurdly sacrificing the end to the means” (Thomas Jefferson to John B. Colvin, September 20, 1810).
The laws of necessity enjoin upon us, as freemen, as patriots, as Americans, to crush the communist conspiracy and all other ruthless criminal cliques seeking to overthrow our government, undermine our Constitution, and murder our Liberty. We cannot allow our children to march into Marxist servitude because we’re worried that the Bill of Rights protects free speech, for instance. By subscribing to the wicked ideology of communism, adherents become co-conspirators in a global plot to eviscerate Faith, Families, and Freedom. As adherents to this perverse totalitarian ideology, an ideology which has led to more death, rapine, and destruction than any other in world history, communists forfeit their political rights and privileges.
I call upon President Donald J. Trump and all other elected representatives of the American People to invoke and enforce the Communist Control Act, as well as the laws of necessity, to stamp out the communist conflagration spreading over the breadth of our land. We don’t have long if the blaze is allowed to burn out of control. We must act now. The Communist Party USA must be abolished and its members jailed, exiled, or executed, depending on the severity of their treason. Members of all other communist-socialist-oriented organizations, parties, publications, think tanks, and clubs must be penalized. It must be made a crime to openly promote the anti-American, anti-Constitution, anti-Freedom, anti-Family, anti-Christ conspiracy we call communism.
We must recognize that the real virus ripping through the world is communism. The Red Plague of Bolshevism is the devastating contagion we must identify, quarantine, and eradicate. We must immunize ourselves against this spiritual, economic, and political plague by fortifying our Faith, Families, and Freedom. We must educate our youth to hate communism and all forms of tyranny over the minds of free men and women. We must no longer tolerate or excuse ideologies that promote the oppression of peaceable people. We must no longer tolerate communism.
Say it with me, dear reader: Communism is treason! No one wants to talk this bluntly, but in a crisis, straight talk is mandatory. No one wants to call for their fellow human beings to be rounded up and penalized, but that’s the dire stage we’re at. If we are to survive, we must do what a small handful of other nations attempted to do in the 1930s and 40s – criminalize communism and mercilessly crush their conspiratorial network.
If America does not destroy the communist cancer eating away at her vitals, she will die. If we do not stand up like freemen to oppose this system of unrivaled darkness, oppression, slavery, rapine, plunder, deception, and mass murder, we deserve our fate. We must not let our families down. We must not betray our country’s legacy. We must not allow our communist enemies to destroy this, the greatest nation in human history.
Stand up, freeman! Rise, fellow patriot! Put on your armor and draw your sword. The deciding battle of our lives is upon us. This final struggle will decide everything. We must not slack. We must not fail. We must pledge to ourselves:
Communism must die for America to survive!
©Zack Strong. All rights reserved.
Pre-Election Censorship
For years, censorship has stalked anyone who has dared to tell the truth or speak out against the global communist conspiracy. As one of the most significant elections in American history approaches, however, the powers-that-be have pushed their suppression efforts into overdrive. For instance, last month, Almighty Facebook announced that beginning on October 1, they would openly censor posts they disagreed with – to avoid supposed legal liabilities, of course. But it goes beyond Facebook silencing patriotic voices – all big tech entities from Google to YouTube to Twitter to Facebook have joined in a Devilish scheme to silence truth tellers and, eventually, to criminalize dissent to the Establishment they serve.
To begin, yours truly has been banned for the fourteenth time by Facebook. Interestingly, this time, they did not tell my why they blocked me for the next thirty days. And when I tried to appeal, they gave me an error message. I’m left to wonder which of my posts offended the Marxists at Facebook so much that they felt the need to ban me yet again.
Was it the post detailing how numerous Antifa members have trained in Syria with Marxist terrorist groups, learning terrorist tactics which they’ve imported into the United States? Or did they dig back to find something “controversial” I shared over a year ago in a private group, like they did earlier this summer? Who knows?! But what I do know is that I’m banned from sharing content with my 11,000 followers in the month before a critical election already plagued with fraudulent activity.
Whether I was banned pursuant to Facebook’s updated “terms of use” that went into effect on the same day, or whether this was just the latest in a long line of censorship moves against me, I don’t know. However, this will continue to happen to patriots at an increasing rate because society is in the Elite’s endgame. In my recent article “Community Standards and the Dictatorship of Consent,” I warned:
“We have to make a choice as free Americans. Will we allow ourselves to be tyrannized by a self-appointed dictatorship that wants to control our minds and force us into compliant slavery or will we reject the dictatorship of consent and instead repeat Benjamin Franklin’s motto, “Rebellion to Tyrants is Obedience to God”? Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and the rest, think they can terrorize us into compliance. They think we will walk willingly into the digital GULAG they’ve built for us. Surely, some will. Some value so-called security over real Liberty. Those who do are cowards. Their destiny is shame and regret. Ignore them.
“As for the rest of us, the modern Sons of Liberty, we will not trade Freedom for security, America for a global Marxist superstate, or Freedom of thought and expression under the Constitution for high-tech oppression with its false comfort of “community standards.” Those who comply with Facebook’s tyrannical efforts to censor Christians, conservatives, and anti-communists, don’t speak for the rest of us. Millions of us will never go along with the big tech version of communist China’s social credit system.”
In the final equation, that’s what we’re dealing with – the issue of whether society will go full communist or whether we will win our country back from its avowed enemies. Cyberspace is one of the premier battlefields in this information warfare because it is where most people today get their information. It is where they often develop their ideas or first learn of breaking news. It is a major force for good when properly utilized and a major force for evil when used to promote values that undermine the foundation of Faith, Families, and Freedom our civilization was built upon.
In this cyberspace siege, those who can be roughly deemed “conservative” are on the defensive. Big tech and its ideological allies are waging a full-scale offensive against us, our principles, our history, our institutions, and our right to think and speak as we please. They’re attempting to silence voices like mine which unapologetically reject their perversions of morals, principles, and programs, and which instead promote traditional ideals, expose wickedness in high places, and rally others to the standard of Liberty.
An analysis from the Tea Party Pac noted how the fighting has become more heated in the past four years:
“Since 2016, an untold number of conservative outlets have watched their reach plummet if their pages aren’t shut down completely. Facebook’s definition of “hate speech” has been sure to include application to all manner of ideas that offend liberals.
“Everything from Bible verses to comments on the mental health of those with gender dysphoria have been banned as “hate speech” . . . .
“The social media platform is simply trying to eradicate conservative content – however innocuous – from its platform to demoralize conservatives and influence the 2020 election outcome in Democrats’ favor.”
How can anyone deny the intensity of this war against classic American norms, against the Constitution, against our national heroes, against our Christian foundation, and, yes, against President Donald Trump? The average person and insider alike should be painfully aware of what’s happening to the First Amendment. It’s never been more important than now to recognize big tech’s schemes to silence dissent to their elitist, socialist agenda.
Journalist Allum Bokhari recently published a hard-hitting book titled #Deleted: Big Tech’s Battle to Erase the Trump Movement and Steal the Election. In it, he explained the imminent danger of big tech censorship:
“When tech giants, in addition to controlling the largest platforms on the web, also control the means of competing with them, we no longer have a free-market economy. We have an oligopoly economy, dominated by a few giant companies that follow largely the same ideology.
“Only this time, it’s more dangerous. We’re not talking about a telephone monopoly that provides poor service due to lack of competition, as Ma Bell used to do. Nor are we talking about a railroad monopoly that engages in rate fixing, as the nineteenth-century rail barons did. Those were all problematic to the public interest and deserved to be corrected, but they were not existential threats to freedom and democracy.
“The tech monopolies of today are far more dangerous. The product over which they have a monopoly is nothing as mundane as railroads or telephones – it’s us. It’s our personal information, our political viewpoints, our attention, and our content. Big Tech owns the mother of all public squares, it owns the devices in our homes and pockets, and it’s using them to find out everything about us.
“Completing the picture of a totalitarian digital nation-state, Facebook has announced the creation of its own digital currency, the Libra coin – which would give the company the power to regulate and spy on our purchases as well. Facebook and Google are tirelessly working on new ways to use our data to manipulate us – originally so that advertisers could target us, and now, terrifyingly, so that Big Tech companies can change our moral conduct and our political beliefs. If you resist? They’ll just ban you. . . .
“. . . the age of digital tyranny is already here. It is a particularly cruel kind of tyranny, because immediately preceding it was a period of true, uninhibited digital freedom. Silicon Valley entrepreneurs gave the world something precious, valuable, and almost universally beloved – and then made us watch as they smashed it to pieces.”
Bokhari proceeded to explain some of the ways that the Silicon Valley totalitarians manipulate us online. They do the obvious, such as banning posts supporting Kyle Rittenhouse, thereby concealing the truth that he is a hero for defending himself against a mob of pedophiles and felons who were attacking him and threatening his life. However, their efforts to censor and manipulate us run much deeper. Bokhari explained:
“YouTube has on numerous occasions adjusted its search results for politically charged topics in response to complaints from left-wing journalists . . . the algorithms of Big Tech companies can be manipulated against conservatives, while still granting those tech companies plausible deniability.
“Leaks have also revealed that some in Silicon Valley know exactly what the goal is in 2020. Leaked footage of Google executives that I published in September 2019 revealed the company’s leadership making sinister comments that suggested a game plan: they talked of the need to “deploy the great strength of the company” and make the populist movement a “blip” in history.”
Furthermore, Bokhari divulged the danger of an emerging field called Machine Learning Fairness, which he described as an effort to “ensure that artificial intelligence is trained to be “fair” – as defined by left-wing academics.” He wrote:
“Although Google’s ML Fairness is framed as a campaign against bias, it is the precise opposite – an attempt to imprint left-wing biases on the technology that will, increasingly, govern our lives. Ask yourself: Would an AI designed to detect incitement to violence identify antifa if it were trained by Silicon Valley social justice warriors? If you were to train an AI to detect racism and bigotry, would it identify the New York Times’ antiwhite bigot Sarah Jeong? Would it identify the feminists who like to joke about killing all men? Would it categorize Covingtongate as a harassment campaign? An unbiased AI certain would, but Silicon Valley is not training its machines to be unbiased.”
Bokhari said that the default nature of AI is “right-wing” in the sense that what it does is look at empirical data and draw logical conclusions. However, the future of AI is in the hands of the left-wing radicals building the new systems:
“Nevertheless, those on the left enjoy their own massive advantage . . . they have developed an overwhelming cultural hegemony in Silicon Valley, which is building the AI systems of the future. If we don’t want our future robot overlords to autocorrect all our emails to use gender-neutral pronouns, or pre-ban us for drafting a Facebook post that contains “hate speech,” this crisis of political culture in tech is something that must be urgently addressed. If the vast power of AI were successfully turned to political purposes, we might as well elect Big Tech CEOs emperors of the world.”
Surely you can see how devastatingly dangerous it would be to have this system rolled out on a universal scale. It would effectively marginalize and penalize anyone holding views not in vogue with the global Marxist Establishment. It would be a Chinese-style social credit system, yes, but, more to the point, it would be a digital GULAG for all humanity.
Far-fetched? Think again. In an article more than a year old, Mike Elgan warned of the communist social credit system being steadily erected right here in the United States:
“Many Westerners are disturbed by what they read about China’s social credit system. But such systems, it turns out, are not unique to China. A parallel system is developing in the United States, in part as the result of Silicon Valley and technology-industry user policies, and in part by surveillance of social media activity by private companies. . . .
“The most disturbing attribute of a social credit system is not that it’s invasive, but that it’s extralegal. Crimes are punished outside the legal system, which means no presumption of innocence, no legal representation, no judge, no jury, and often no appeal. In other words, it’s an alternative legal system where the accused have fewer rights.
“Social credit systems are an end-run around the pesky complications of the legal system. Unlike China’s government policy, the social credit system emerging in the U.S. is enforced by private companies. If the public objects to how these laws are enforced, it can’t elect new rule-makers.
“An increasing number of societal “privileges” related to transportation, accommodations, communications, and the rates we pay for services (like insurance) are either controlled by technology companies or affected by how we use technology services. And Silicon Valley’s rules for being allowed to use their services are getting stricter.
“If current trends hold, it’s possible that in the future a majority of misdemeanors and even some felonies will be punished not by Washington, D.C., but by Silicon Valley. It’s a slippery slope away from democracy and toward corporatocracy.”
As our lives shift more to cyberspace, the harm that can be inflicted by communist-oriented big tech companies is amplified dramatically. As noted, this system essentially replaces the constitutional system of rule of law, limited powers, checks and balances, and safeguarded rights with a Devilish system created by communists, endorsed by communists, controlled by communists, and dependent upon the arbitrary whims of a small group that hates everything normal Americans cherish.
In June of 2019, I wrote an article discussing the Mark of the Beast prophesied by the Apostle John and my belief that it won’t be a physical chip or tattoo, but, simply, digital totalitarianism akin to Red China’s social credit system. In the piece, I wrote:
“Yesterday, June 5, 2019, we witnessed an example of how the beast system currently curtails and controls a person’s right to buy and sell. I refer to YouTube’s demonetization of Steven Crowder’s YouTube channel. Steven Crowder is a highly popular conservative YouTuber with nearly four million subscribers on his channel. He hosts the show Louder with Crowder. Yesterday, YouTube demonetized Crowder’s channel. Why? Crowder was demonetized because he has said many things that are politically incorrect and that rub the Establishment the wrong way. In particular, he has been labeled “homophobic.” It is just the latest example of political correctness at work.
“Anyone who follows my writings knows that political correctness is a communist invention imported from Soviet Russia. It is a means of thought control and one of the greatest threats to free speech. To be politically correct is to toe the communist line – or, to toe the beast’s line. To be labeled politically incorrect, one must simply dissent from and openly oppose the communist ideology. Those who oppose the communist conspiracy’s efforts to turn the world into a GULAG must be prepared to face criticism and persecution.
“Under the aegis of political correctness, the powers-that-be have begun restricting certain people’s ability to carry on their careers and earn a living. They have directly attacked the pocketbooks of activists, labeled “extremists,” with whom they disagree. For example, they file lawsuits against Christians who exercise their right to not make cakes for homosexuals, effectively shutting down their businesses. They block people from accessing social media platforms and having an equal chance to reach an audience and promote products. They revoke licenses and kick people off the air, closing down their avenues for self-promotion. They ban authors’ books, or prevent them from reaching major distributors, in a kind of digital book burning. They restrict travel rights in some situations, such as when Britain banned Michael Savage. They even go after the bank accounts of businesses and high-profile figures, causing their businesses to collapse.
“Crowder is just the latest in a long line of blacklisted figures that includes Alex Jones, Paul Joseph Watson, Laura Loomer, Jordan Peterson, Paul Nehlen, Milo Yiannopolous, MS King, David Irving, etc. At the present time, yours truly is currently banned for thirty more days from Facebook. Alex Jones is perhaps the most famous person on the list. Alex Jones of Infowars fame has been permanently banned from Facebook and Twitter, had his YouTube accounts suspended, been removed from the Apple iTunes app store, been deleted on Spotify, and so forth. Google also restricts search results to filter out as many of Infowars’ stories as possible. Jones’ ability to reach an audience and, thus, earn a living and promote his message, has been severely compromised by the Marxist Establishment. Anyone who speaks out against the tide of cultural Marxism, political insanity, and Satanism sweeping the globe is a target for persecution. And it will only get worse. . . .
“Whether or not an official social credit system ever reaches our shores, an informal system is already taking shape. Tech oligarchs in United States and throughout the West are beginning to informally do what Red China is formally doing. Media platforms essentially rank their users and punish them for failure to comply with their political and cultural ideas. Just as Chinese are prevented from traveling, Americans are prevented from speaking. Once we lose the right to speak out, other rights will quickly succumb.”
Today, sixteen months later, things have gotten worse and our rights are quickly succumbing to Establishment censorship. This presidential election has really showcased what big tech is capable of. For instance, in August, the Committee to Defend the President, a super PAC supporting President Trump, was banned for 90 days. It’s “crime”? Sharing too many posts that were marked by “third-party fact-checkers to be false.” In other words, Marxist-minded “fact-checkers” with left-wing funding called something “fake” so Facebook could use it as a pretext to penalize Trump supporters. I’ve been nailed repeatedly for spreading so-called “false news.” In not one case were the “fact-checkers” correct in their “facts.”
Back in June, Facebook removed one of President Trump’s anti-Antifa, anti-mob violence ads, calling it “organized hate.” This action was spurred on by Mark Zuckerberg’s tribesmen in the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which ought to be branded as a terrorist organization and dismantled. The ADL of B’nai B’rith, lying as usual, tried to claim that the red triangle pictured in the ad was an “anti-Semitic” symbol. In reality, it is a Semitic symbol inasmuch as it is used by the Jew-created, Jew-dominated Antifa. Jewish-controlled Facebook, of course, complied with the ADL’s request to purge President Trump’s ad.
Donald Trump, Jr. has also suffered the wrath of the big tech gods. His Twitter account was suspended in July for sharing “false information” in a video about the Coronahoax. President Trump also shared the video, though with no repercussions. But the video was deleted by Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook.
Later, in August, Twitter locked the Trump campaign’s Twitter page over what they deemed “misinformation” about the Coronahoax. The Hill, a leftist rag, reported:
“The move by Twitter comes after several incidents in recent months in which it penalized the president’s personal account. The platform previously flagged a tweet about mail-in voting as containing misleading claims about an election. Another saying looters would be shot during unrest after the death of George Floyd was flagged as promoting violence. A third, featuring an edit of a clip of a Black toddler and a white toddler embracing, was removed for containing “manipulated media” due to the addition of a fictitious CNN chyron.”
Finally, Facebook has announced that they will not allow President Trump to declare victory on election night if they deem the results premature (technically the results are always premature until the Electoral College votes). That means we could likely have this scenario: On November 3, President Trump wins the election but is blocked from telling the public by big tech and the controlled press. Then the Biden campaign announces either a parallel victory declaration or a legal challenge to the president’s announcement. On November 4, the American People would wake up to the news that either Biden won, it’s too close to call, or the “fascist” President Trump is trying to steal the election. In all probability, a new wave of pre-planned riots and insurrection would break out with the rallying cry: “Remove the dictator from office!” Big tech almost singlehandedly has the ability to facilitate or defuse a crisis like this depending on whether they engage in censorship or whether they let the American People be heard in a free and fair manner.
A nearly endless list of big tech assaults on President Trump and his supporters could be reproduced here, but listing these few censorship attacks on the president and his family suffice to paint an accurate picture. The efforts to silence Trump supporters and anyone opposed to the communist takeover of society are legion. They’ve become so glaring and obvious that President Trump has been forced to take executive action against the offending tech companies.
President Donald Trump’s May 28 executive order states in part:
“In a country that has long cherished the freedom of expression, we cannot allow a limited number of online platforms to hand pick the speech that Americans may access and convey on the internet. This practice is fundamentally un-American and anti-democratic. When large, powerful social media companies censor opinions with which they disagree, they exercise a dangerous power. They cease functioning as passive bulletin boards, and ought to be viewed and treated as content creators. . . .
“Online platforms are engaging in selective censorship that is harming our national discourse. Tens of thousands of Americans have reported, among other troubling behaviors, online platforms “flagging” content as inappropriate, even though it does not violate any stated terms of service; making unannounced and unexplained changes to company policies that have the effect of disfavoring certain viewpoints; and deleting content and entire accounts with no warning, no rationale, and no recourse. . . .
“Twitter now selectively decides to place a warning label on certain tweets in a manner that clearly reflects political bias. As has been reported, Twitter seems never to have placed such a label on another politician’s tweet. As recently as last week, Representative Adam Schiff was continuing to mislead his followers by peddling the long-disproved Russian Collusion Hoax, and Twitter did not flag those tweets. Unsurprisingly, its officer in charge of so-called ‘Site Integrity’ has flaunted his political bias in his own tweets.
“At the same time online platforms are invoking inconsistent, irrational, and groundless justifications to censor or otherwise restrict Americans’ speech here at home, several online platforms are profiting from and promoting the aggression and disinformation spread by foreign governments like China. One United States company, for example, created a search engine for the Chinese Communist Party that would have blacklisted searches for “human rights,” hid data unfavorable to the Chinese Communist Party, and tracked users determined appropriate for surveillance. It also established research partnerships in China that provide direct benefits to the Chinese military. Other companies have accepted advertisements paid for by the Chinese government that spread false information about China’s mass imprisonment of religious minorities, thereby enabling these abuses of human rights. They have also amplified China’s propaganda abroad, including by allowing Chinese government officials to use their platforms to spread misinformation regarding the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, and to undermine pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong.
“As a Nation, we must foster and protect diverse viewpoints in today’s digital communications environment where all Americans can and should have a voice. We must seek transparency and accountability from online platforms, and encourage standards and tools to protect and preserve the integrity and openness of American discourse and freedom of expression.”
The remainder of the order spelled out the legal justification for government involvement in cyberspace to prevent censorship and bias on platforms alleging to be open forums for public discourse. One of the reasons listed in section 3, which I have repeatedly harped on for years, is the fact that our tax dollars are being given by the billions to big tech. Companies that receive public money cannot claim the right reserved to private entities to discriminate. If they receive public money, they must uphold public law (i.e. the First Amendment) and be accountable to the People’s representatives. Listing this and other reasons, President Trump ordered the Federal Trade Commission to “consider taking action, as appropriate and consistent with applicable law, to prohibit unfair or deceptive acts or practices” by big tech against its patrons.
Perhaps it was in response to this order, and to avoid legal liability for so blatantly censoring conservatives, that Facebook rolled out its October 1 rules. Slashing through the doublespeak we find that the new rules amount to a scheme of enhanced censorship! Facebook’s excuse is that they want to avoid legal problems over controversial things users may post. I believe, however, they are merely extending their suppression of patriotic voices before a major election and trying to project their own guilt onto those they oppress. Whatever the precise reasons, one thing is certain: They’ve given themselves carte blanche to censor anyone, any time, for any reason, thus presenting a serious threat to free speech everywhere.
Dear reader, big tech’s suppression of patriotic voices has deep implications for the upcoming presidential election and for the future beyond November 2020. It could well be the catalyst for the theft of the election or even an attempted Black Lives Matter/Antifa-instigated coup. However, the impact of cyber censorship extends far beyond one election, regardless of how important that election is. In palpable ways, big tech reaches into our daily lives, affects the way we can earn a living, determines what we are allowed to say publicly, stifles dissent to Establishment corruption, warps public perception of reality, promotes values antithetical to the Christian ideals that undergird our constitutional Republic, and, ultimately, deteriorates our God-given rights.
Mark my words, unless the American People wake up and demand their representatives hold big tech accountable, we will lose our ability to speak freely in any meaningful way on the internet. We will find ourselves relegated to our own little echo chambers in various corners of the web and not truly participating in debates and discussions in the public forum. Not only that, constitutionalists, conspiracy researchers, and Christians will be hunted by artificial intelligence programed to detect, track, and silence us. Truthfully, we are already being hunted and herded into a Soviet-style digital GULAG that, once society goes cashless, will have a very real stranglehold over our lives.
The fact that alternatives to Twitter and Facebook, such as Parler, MeWe, Minds, and OneWay, are cropping up, is encouraging. But the very fact that people have been forced to create alternative platforms in order to have any chance of exercising their right to express themselves speaks volumes about the level to which Marxist censorship controls the prevailing narrative and, thus, controls public opinions and habits.
We live in an age of big tech totalitarianism. The enemies of the People promote their hostile brew of communist ideology in large part by controlling the public mind through technology, which they bring to pass by silencing those who promote healthy, anti-communist principles. By picking favorites, they limit the information that the average person is exposed to. People thus limited make worse political decisions which translate into blows against Freedom – and they do so without even knowing they did. The ferocity of this dastardly assault can be greatly diminished by reclaiming the public forum in cyberspace. To do that, however, requires reeling in big tech before we have so many uninformed citizens who shrug their shoulders and go along to get along with the ravenous forces of the global Marxist Establishment.
During this pivotal season of humanity’s history, it is crucial that those who are awake and aware stand up for what’s right. It is imperative that we place principle over party and ideas over individual cults of personality. The choice before us not only on November 3 but every day of our lives is whether communism or Americanism will prevail. This war, waged on Facebook and Twitter, in the press and in conversations with friends, and in the voting booth, is as real and deadly as any our nation has ever fought or will yet fight. It is a war for the souls of our countrymen.
I close with immortal words from Ronald Reagan, who articulated the stakes of this fight so well when he declared:
“We’re at war with the most dangerous enemy that has ever faced mankind in his long climb from the swamp to the stars, and it’s been said if we lose that war, and in so doing lose this way of freedom of ours, history will record with the greatest astonishment that those who had the most to lose did the least to prevent its happening. Well I think it’s time we ask ourselves if we still know the freedoms that were intended for us by the Founding Fathers.
“. . . If we lose freedom here, there’s no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth. . . .
“This is the issue of this election: whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capitol can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves. . . .
“You and I have a rendezvous with destiny.
“We’ll preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we’ll sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness.”
©Zack Strong. All rights reserved.
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Political Ad from Jewish Democratic Council for America Compares Trump and His Supporters to Nazis
Dipping to new levels of low, Biden also recently compared Trump to Hitler’s minister Goebbels.
Dipping to a new low level of political discourse, the Jewish Democratic Council for America released an ad comparing President Donald Trump and his supporters to Nazis.
Presidential candidate and former vice president Joe Biden also recently compared Trump to Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s minister of propaganda.
The ad features archival footage of Hitler supporters waving Nazi flags and giving the straight-armed Nazi salute alongside images of white supremacists in the U.S. that are quickly followed by Trump and his supporters. The 30-second ad also features images from the 2018 Pittsburgh synagogue attack and defaced present-day synagogues beside similar images of defaced shops in the 1930s.
Interspersed are images of Jewish victims of the Holocaust.
The ad was denounced as unconscionable by the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a Jewish human rights organization dedicated to teaching the lessons of the Holocaust.
“Comparing the President of the United States to Hitler and Goebbels is beneath contempt. That a Jewish group produced [it] compounds the offense.
“For 75 years Jews have emphasized the uniqueness of the Nazi savagery, racism, and genocide that mass murdered a third of our people and led to tens of millions dead during WWII,” said Rabbi Abraham Cooper, Simon Wiesenthal Center associate dean and global social action director.
“Both Donald Trump and Joe Biden are fair game for loud and sustained criticism on their policies, language, and style. But invoking of Nazi imagery not only slanders the victims of the Nazis [and] the candidate, but the tens of millions of Americans who support him.
“In 2020, anti-Semitism from the far right, far-left, and Islamists remains a real threat to American Jews. We need to demand of our candidates accountability on how they will combat it from all quarters,” added Cooper.
The Republican Jewish Coalition called the ad “despicable.”
“Every time someone compares their opponent to a Nazi, it only diminishes the seriousness of Nazism,” said RJC spokesman Neil Boylan Strauss in an email.
“The repeated accusations that President Trump is a Nazi don’t make more people hate him; it makes the Holocaust seem less awful.
“Diminishing the Holocaust and demeaning the memories of the six millions Jews killed by the Nazis is out of bounds for rational political discourse. The Democrats have fallen far below that standard with their new ad. They owe a retraction and an apology to the American Jewish community they pretend to represent.”
The American Jewish Committee slammed the ad as well, saying, “The problem of antisemitism in the U.S. is grave. Offensive comparisons between 2020 America and 1930s Germany distract from the urgent need to fight Jew-hatred. They also trivialize the memories of both victims and survivors. [JDCA], take down this ad immediately.”
Jonathon Greenblatt, head of the Anti-Defamation League, tweeted:
The video from @USJewishDems is the latest in growing references to Hitler, Goebbels or other Nazi leaders. This has no place in the presidential race and is deeply offensive to the memories of 6M+ Jews systematically exterminated during the Shoah. https://t.co/pvO89COrI6
— Jonathan Greenblatt (@JGreenblattADL) September 29, 2020
For decades, invoking the Holocaust was off-limits for the simple reason that these comparisons were nonsensical hyperbole and diminished the evils of Nazi Germany.
Now, the slur “Nazi” is slung copiously, usually by those on the Far Left looking to silence any dissent to what they view as their exclusive corner on “truth” and hence, their “sacred” moral stance on any given issue.
Most slingers of this slur are millennials or from Generation Z, which, according to a recent survey, are woefully ignorant of the 20th century’s worse horror.
Nearly two-thirds of US adults unaware 6m Jews killed in the Holocaust – study https://t.co/UAW1WzyjLD
— The Guardian (@guardian) September 16, 2020
The fact that this ad comes from a Jewish group, which one assumes can’t plead ignorance, is so beyond the pale, it defies words.
The ad’s message is essentially that Trump has sent out overt signals as well as dog whistles to white supremacists and thus shares the blame for the recent increased presence of these groups in the American political scene.
JDCA’s executive director, Halie Soifer, defended the ad, saying, “We’re not calling Donald Trump a Nazi. We are warning against the ominous parallel of the rise of Nazism and the use of hatred for political purposes and the numerous signs that Donald Trump is doing the same.”
Yet it seems that no matter how often the president condemns white supremacy, it is never enough for Trump’s detractors or the Left-leaning press. Truth, it seems, does not matter in our increasingly Orwellian world.
In a logic-defying interchange, Fox News’ John Roberts recently asked Trump’s press secretary Kayleigh McEnany repeatedly why Trump has not denounced white supremacy. Even though McEnany gives Roberts case after case of Trump doing just that, Roberts keeps asking if the president denounces white supremacy:
In the recent debate, when asked to condemn white supremacy and their militias, Trump said “sure” a number of times. When specifically asked by Biden to condemn the Proud Boys (which is not a white supremacist group), Trump said, “Stand back and stand by.”
The remark caused many to question Trump’s commitment against white supremacists yet again. (Others assumed that he misspoke and meant to say, “stand down.” Trump later clarified, saying, “I don’t know who Proud Boys are. But whoever they are, they have to stand down, let law enforcement do their work.”)
While facts unfortunately don’t seem to matter much in American politics these days, it is still worth noting that President Trump:
- Moved the U.S. embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem
- Issued an executive order to protect Jewish students from antisemitic anti-Zionism on college campuses, reiterating that Title VI of the Civil Rights Act protects Jews—just as every other race, color, national origin, and ethnicity—from discrimination at taxpayer-funded universities
- Forged two recent peace agreements between Israel and the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain (with more countries in line to do the same)
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FLORIDA: Democrat Candidate for State Attorney Lied about Her Trial Experience — BIG Time
Amazing, simply amazing, isn’t it?
The mere thought that a Democrat candidate would LIE about her experience, then, try to blame the lie on somebody else… Well… doesn’t that seem a bit strange, to you…?
I mean, really…?… You’re kidding, right?… I’m shocked. SHOCKED!
The Ed Brodsky for State Attorney in Sarasota campaign in an email stated:
My opponent embellishes her trial record by 500%
Make no mistake about it, my opponent embellished her trial record by 500%, claiming she had done more than 150 jury trials, when the actual number is just more than 30.
“Integrity is fundamental to serving as the elected state attorney. The entire judicial system – from our courts to our juries, judges and defendants – relies on the integrity of the State Attorney’s Office. Betsy Young chose to launch her campaign with a lie intended to cover up her significant lack of trial experience, which is required to lead an office across three counties. She inflated her trial record by 500%, and also posted it on her website in private practice to mislead potential clients, In court, we call this a fraud upon the court. In the public, we call this a fraud upon the voters.”
©Tad MacKie. All rights reserved.
MUSIC VIDEO: Trump Supporter Ricky Rebel Breaks Stereotypes
Here are the lyrics to a recent music video released by the musical artist Ricky Rebel. It is a parody of the gay anthem Y.M.C.A., reformulated as M.A.G.A.
WATCH: Pro Trump Dance Party w/Ricky Rebel in Beverly Hills.
It is now being played at Trump campaign rallies, it is gotten millions of views, and perhaps as much as anything, it epitomizes the difference between the Right and Left in America.
Young man
Walk away from the hate
We’re all human
And we don’t segregate
Just like women
Help make America great
We are all
In this
Together
Colours
Are red, white and blue
And they stand for
Every on-ne of you
And together
Here’s what we’re gonna do
We’re gonna make
America great
“We’re having fun and they can’t take it.” So says Ricky Godinez, known publicly as Ricky Rebel. Godinez describes his experience as a closeted gay high school student as easier on his psyche than his more recent ordeal as a closeted conservative musical artist living in Los Angeles.
Godinez compares events with Trump supporters to the recent Antifa and BLM protests. In one case, paraphrasing, “there are bright colors, there is singing, there is happiness, and people are having a good time, and in the other case there are people wearing black, attacking people and vandalizing and burning property.”
View this video, one of many skipping virally just in front of the censors, which comes with a completely unwarranted “inappropriate” warning from YouTube, to see how it is the Trump community that is “inclusive,” and the anti-Trump minions who are filled with violent hatred.
In this video, Godinez explains why he is a Trump supporter, (1) he is committed to ending HIV within ten years, (2) his ambassador to the UN is demanding nations around the world stop killing gay people, (3) he is good for the economy, (4) “he is not for all these crazy things that liberals want,” he wants strong borders, good trade deals, and wants to bring industry back to America.
Ricky Rebel is another example of why Trump’s supporters cannot be stereotyped.
EDITORS NOTE: This Winston84 column is republished with permission. ©All rights reserved.
A Single Explanation Squares Conflicting Polls
Gallup’s most recent comparison poll for whether Americans think they are better off or worse off than four years earlier, going back to the first time Gallup asked the question, is nothing short of shocking.
Gallup’s chart compares President Trump’s rating to previous presidents at the end of their first terms and shows him at 56 percent. Obama was 45 percent; George W. Bush was 47 percent; Bill Clinton was 38 percent and Ronald Reagan was 44 percent.
So Trump’s is the highest rating, by far. No other president was even all that close to 50 percent. And this, in the midst of a pandemic that none of the others had to deal with. It’s a truly astonishing [CLICK HERE] for the poll result.
But it presents quite a quandary. How do we square these enormously positive results with the President’s low approval ratings and the polls showing Biden way ahead? They don’t seem as though they should exist in the same universe.
There are more numbers doubling down on this quandary. Polls show strong public disapproval of Trump’s handling of coronavirus. Yet polls in New York State show strong public approval of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s handling of the virus in that state — which was ground zero in the world at one point and an undeniable disaster, pulling down the rest of the nation.
One possible reconciliation of this is that Trump’s personality is off-putting to many Americans and that colors their views of him. He does indeed create a lot of unforced errors through his undisciplined communications style. That alone seems like quite a stretch to cover either of these numbers, particularly handling the virus vis-a-vis Cuomo, who is not a particularly likeable politician.
Finally quandary number, Gallup also asked, “Please tell me whether you agree or disagree with [Trump or Biden] on the issues that mean most to you.” Forty-nine percent said they agreed with Trump on their most important issues, while 46 percent said the same thing of Biden. That would seem to largely bypass the personality question.
So what to make of these vigorously conflicting numbers? Set aside problematic polling for some Trump supporters who may not tell a pollster the truth, I think the only consistent answer explaining all of them is the media coverage of Donald Trump vs. Joe Biden.
Any litany of the partisanized coverage would take a series of books. Let’s just take the white supremacy issue attached to Trump and not to Biden. (This matters a lot — and that it does, is further proof we are not a racist nation — so that really may influence the polls on voting.)
Trump continues to be smeared as a supporter of white supremacists, and as one himself, because they support him and he won’t denounce them. The most cited evidence is the “very fine people” in the Charlottesville incident. This is so ingrained in media thinking that Chris Wallace asked Trump about it at the first presidential debate.
But none of it is actually true. Quite demonstrably not true. He denounced white supremacists repeatedly in the very Charlottesville press conference, and the “very fine people” remark was in reference to the statues issue. Every person who has listened to the press conference or read the official transcript has had to admit that. Politico has the whole messy transcript here. Factcheck has debunked it. Even Jake Tapper admitted it. But anyone can just see it themselves without relying on dubious third-parties.
Further, there is video evidence of Trump denouncing white supremacy something like 20 different times — before Wallace asked him to. This includes interviews with people like NBC’s Chuck Todd on Meet The Press — kind of hard to miss. This video shows 20 times Trump has disavowed white supremacy, white nationalism, the KKK and so on. To quote Trump, “It’s never enough.” Which was proven when Wallace still asked it as if trying to pin an elusive Trump down on this, and people believe the lie.
Conversely, Joe Biden has a pretty dicey record of racist remarks and actions. Did you know that Joe Biden actually called the United Daughters of the Confederacy “an organization made up of many fine people who continue to display the Confederate flag as a symbol.” Well now.
Too many Americans who will vote do not even know that Joe Biden supported segregationists, was the primary driver behind the now-controversial three-strikes law that led to heavy black incarceration and told a black interviewer that “you ain’t black” if you don’t vote for Biden, and so many other remarks in between.
The coup de grace of the media shield for Biden is that the organizer of the Charlottesville rally was Richard Spencer, an openly proud white supremacist. But Spencer has actually endorsed Joe Biden for president. Did you know that? Most people don’t — and never will. Biden will never be asked about it.
Biden is never confronted on this actual, factual, documented racist history, while Trump is tagged with it over and over no matter what he says or does. Americans don’t think Biden is a racist. But they think Trump is despite the available evidence.
Will the media ever contrast Trump’s expanded funding of Historically Black Colleges, historic low unemployment and wage growth for black Americans under Trump or Trump’s prison reform that will allow more minor offenders to be freed for rehabilitation to Biden’s bill that resulted in “mass incarceration” or the higher black unemployment and slower wage growth during the Obama-Biden years? Will they ask Biden why he thinks more black Americans say they support Trump than any Republican in modern history?
No, on all of the above. Because asking a candidate, regardless of the answer, sets it in people’s minds. So Trump is asked about a lie over and over, and Biden is never asked about the truth — such as his intervention in Ukraine or his administration’s role in the Trump-Russia collusion hoax. He’ll never be asked by the media shield.
And so the divergence of polls. So voters who know they are better off, like what Trump has done and is doing and even approve of his job performance, say they will not vote for him. Because they believe and are moved by the media’s portrait.
The divergence itself is one of the most telling signs of both the media’s bias and the media’s influence. Trump has done a remarkable job for the American people and they know it in their lives. They understand the pandemic is what tanked the economy, and it’s global. But the picture painted to the American people is Trump is a terrible, racist human being.
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VIDEO: Lies, Half-Truths, Deceptions
The vocabulary of the ‘Church of Nice.’
TRANSCRIPT
As events continue to unfold on the Church-State scene, visible through the lens of the campaign, it continues to amaze just how much crossover there is between the swamps in the Church and the State.
Understand, each swamp is all about maintaining its respective establishment — the status quo. The elites, those who profit most off their respective systems, do all in their power to maintain the status quo (again, because they are the ones who stand to lose the most if the system comes crashing down).
What’s amazing is how much they each resort to the exact same tactics aimed at keeping the “sheeple” in line and, in a word, fooled. The weapons they use for this — and weapons is a better word than tactics because it speaks much more precisely to the spiritual war we are in — are lies, deceptions and half-truths.
For example, in the political arena, we have Joe Biden and Kamala Harris refusing to say whether they would pack the Supreme Court with extra judges. In fact, over the weekend, Biden actually said (no joke) when asked by a reporter if he thought the voters had a right to know, “No, they don’t deserve to know.” Wow.
Well, at least he’s honest — on that score anyway. But his “honesty,” or perhaps, better said, directness is aimed at trying to cover up the reality that Marxist Democrats want to pack the Supreme Court (which means add a bunch of new justices).
Of course, those new justices will all be child-killers. And the tiny, brief little period that finally conservative judges would have gained a majority will be wiped out, and more to the point never return again. Typical of the Marxist crowd when faced with defeat, they change the rules. They lie, deceive and cheat. It’s the currency they traffic in.
Now, let’s move the spotlight over to the Church establishment, which is no less accomplished in these same tactics. For starters, understand that the U.S. hierarchy, the swamp, profits from the Democrats being in power.
Financially, they are federal government contractors. They get hundreds of millions of dollars each year from the federal government to use on immigration and fighting poverty.
The problem is they dole out this money to groups who work against Church teaching in the areas of life and sexuality. But more than that, many of these groups only pay lip service to fighting poverty. They use the issue to get a foot into the door and then mobilize these communities to vote Democratic, to keep the Democrats in power.
The bishops are more than happy to get all that money, some of which they keep, of course, for administrative costs. In fact, pay attention: Nearly half the U.S. bishops’ budget comes from government money — taxpayer money. Also, a sizable percentage of U.S. bishops (more than a quarter) are actually registered Democrats (where party affiliation can be known).
You need to let that sink in: More than one out of every four U.S. bishops is a card-carrying member of the Party of Death. Others, whose party registration is not discoverable, certainly vote Democratic. They are all about politics in every other aspect of life; why wouldn’t they be political when it comes to pulling the lever?
So let’s dig into this — the Church’s establishment and its desire to keep the status quo. First up is Bp. Robert Barron and his deliberate attempt to muck up the works and confuse Catholic voters by conflating various issues, pretending (deceiving people) that there is an equality between child murder and other issues.
Barron has issued his garbage analysis, no doubt in an attempt to keep on the side of elites in the Church, saying the death penalty should also weigh heavily on the minds of Catholic voters. That is a total falsehood. Abortion is an intrinsic evil, always wrong and immoral and grave in every single circumstance because of what is being done.
The Church has taught that back to the time of the Apostles. The Church has also taught for millennia that the death penalty is permitted: It is not an intrinsic evil.
And it doesn’t matter in the slightest that Pope Francis, whom Barron is trying to prop up here, doesn’t like the death penalty. Even a pope doesn’t get to change Church teaching — even a pope.
No pope can do that, and certainly not some celebrity auxiliary bishop from Los Angeles. Barron is wrong, but he is trying to suck up to his fellow establishment bishops to stay in their favor (and perhaps even advance his career, who knows?). But there does seem to be a certain degree of career advancement under the reign of Pope Francis for those bishops willing to tout the party line on liberal politics: Cupich is the premier example but by no means the only one.
Likewise, Relevant Radio’s Fr. Rocky issued a voting manifesto last week that stressed the evil of nuclear war and urged that it must be on the minds of Catholics when they go to vote. Seriously?
There are 60 million dead babies and counting, that’s key — the continuing, ongoing slaughter, which can in no way compare to a mere threat of nuclear war. One is real; the other a potential. It’s actual killing versus theoretical killing.
But when we look at the list on Relevant Radio’s homepage of the episcopal advisory council, we perhaps gain some insight into Fr. Rocky’s motives. To cheese off that many bishops — as well as those not on Relevant’s list — well, that would not go down very well for Fr. Rocky.
Remember, Relevant already accepted Biden advertisements, saying it had no choice — not any other single option but to accept them. That is until they did what they should have done to begin with, which was change their status so they were no longer legally required to. They did it ultimately, but why not do it originally?
Again, however, remember: Relevant Radio is an establishment organ. The monstrous evil and corruption and filth in the Church is never allowed to be discussed unless the circumstances become so well known that their hand is forced. And even then, when the corruption is discussed (in a very limited fashion), no bishops can ever be tied to it, like there is this corruption cloud floating around in the atmosphere, and, eventually, it floats over the Church.
It is a moral crime for the U.S. bishops, through agencies like Relevant Radio and Bishop Barron’s self-promoting Word on Fire, to suggest to Catholics — even hint at — the possibility that Joe Biden, a heretical, gay-marrying child killer is an acceptable candidate for the office of President.
The Washington, D.C. swamp, all the Democrats and many Republicans, hate Trump because he is blowing up and exposing their lies. That same attitude is prevalent in the Church swamp as well. Trump must go, and any deceptive, confusing thing we have to do and say to accomplish that — up to and including twisting Church teaching — well, that’s okay because it’s for a “greater cause.”
Washington, D.C. archbishop Wilton Gregory had no problem denouncing Trump earlier this year, even ordering his clergy to show up at a White House protest (even though his cover men claim that clergy weren’t ordered, merely suggested to).
Well, that’s not how the priests we were in touch with took it. But see, Gregory is part of the homosexual mafia in the Church — a mafia which has spent decades deliberately dumbing down the laity so they would embrace the twisting and confusion of Church teaching.
Another bishop (actually a cardinal) who owes his promotion to homopredator Theodore McCarrick and who is in lockstep with Wilton Gregory is Joseph Tobin of Newark. Tobin (are you sitting down?) is on the bishop advisory council of Relevant Radio.
Seriously, a man who promotes active homosexuality and allowing homosexual couples to receive Holy Communion — what on earth is such a man doing on Relevant’s advisory council? Exactly what does he advise on?
Understand, faithful Catholics: You are being taken for a ride. There are wicked men in miters confusing many, many Catholics, deliberately confusing them to keep the status quo, to keep the machine well-oiled.
But these men are only able to do what they do because second-stringers help them in their evil. There is no way every bishop in America, and that means every priest as well, should not be denouncing Biden as unfit for office owing to his support of child murder.
Racism, nuclear war, the death penalty — none of these adds up to the body count of abortion, not even close. Do not be fooled by the lying, cheating, deceptive, self-interested episcopate or their sycophants, who are more interested in deception and confusion than they are in truth.
Biden and his party are evil. No Catholic — especially a member of the clergy — should be vague about this evil. But if Biden captures the Catholic vote and goes on to win the White House, no doubt the champagne corks will be popping across bishopland.
But their partying will be short-lived. Marxists always kill those who got them to power, regardless of how loyal they may have been on the path to power, thinking they would be somehow rewarded.
Their reward will be the wrong end of a gun barrel, which is fine if that’s what they want. But they don’t have a right to lie and utter half-truths and deceptions to Catholics to achieve their goal.
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Brutal: ‘Kinda Boring Out Here’ — Not A Single Person Showed Up to Biden Event In Arizona
No people, no Biden lawn signs, no visible support except from Democrat-media complex.
The polls are bullshit – big, fat lies just like 2016.
But the MSM insists that Joe Biden is up by double digits over President Trump. The Democrats and the MSM are engaged in a terrible scam against the American people, who they clearly think are stupid. Trump2020!
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‘Kinda Boring Out Here’ — Not A Single Person Showed Up to Biden Event In Arizona
Brutal news report shows no one showed up for major Biden/Harris campaign event: ‘Not much to see’
By The Blaze, October 12 2020
When a presidential campaign stops in your city just weeks before the election, there is significant fanfare: Droves of supporters and protesters turn out, there is a massive security presence, and national media from most major networks cover the event.
But when Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and his running mate Sen. Kamala Harris stopped in Phoenix late last week, hardly anyone showed up.
What happened?
A news report gaining significant attention online shows KSAZ-TV reporter Nicole Garcia describing a Biden/Harris campaign stop last week in which not a single person was in sight.
“Not a lot of fanfare out here,” Garcia reported. “There’s really not much to see. I’ll step out of the way, but it’s kinda boring out here. So, it’s not your typical presidential campaign event; we don’t see people rallying outside, we don’t see signs or really much of what’s going on.”
During Garcia’s report, her cameraman panned behind her, showing not a soul in sight other than a lone police car.
Garcia contacted the Biden campaign about the lack of fanfare and supporters. The campaign claimed details about the event were not widely publicized because of the coronavirus.
“I’m told by one of the local Biden staffers is that they kinda kept the details about the visit, as far as the timing and the exact locations, they didn’t really want to give that out to the public, because they want to keep the crowds to a minimum,” Garcia reported.
“Pretty much all the people that we saw enter into the parking lot about 45 minutes ago were with the Biden/Harris campaign and the pool reporters,” she explained. “So, you would expect to see — I mean, this is a pretty big event for the two of them to be campaigning together for the first time since the Democratic National Convention. Here in Arizona, our state has established itself as a battleground state, and so this is technically a big event, but not a lot of fanfare.”
Biden and Harris were in Phoenix to meet with Native American tribal leaders at the Heard Museum. They also kicked off their national “Soul of the Nation” bus tour — but no one was there to celebrate with the campaign.
“This is a huge event politically, but you can’t tell,” Garcia went on to say.
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VIDEO: Joe Biden’s Ancestors Were Maryland Slave Owners!
Yikes! How is the ‘cancel culture’ going to process this news?
It seems that Beck hired a genealogical firm to follow ol’ Joe’s family tree to the generations that preceded the Civil War and came up with this gem.
When I searched around I see that allegations of a slave-owning past have been leveled against the family before, but have been quickly dismissed by the likes of Snopes. Beck apparently figured ‘where there was smoke there was fire‘ and hired investigators to get the goods.
Below is Beck in a YouTube video yesterday, but you can also go here to see the video in case YouTube yanks it. Beck predicts that the mainstreamers will bury this uncomfortable fact unless you help spread the news.
Of course we understand that no one can be held responsible for every family member for generations, but since the Progressive Left wants to cancel Thomas Jefferson that would make Joe Robinette Biden fair game, right!
You can go here for links to the census documents Beck’s team has unearthed.
The Left will not have to address these allegations because Beck predicts the story will not reach their ears.
If accurate, that would make both the top and bottom of the Democrat ticket descendants of slave owners. Harris’ Jamaican family tree included a more prosperous slave owner than Biden’s however.
By the way, George Washington freed his slaves in his will, their full emancipation came on January 1, 1801. Beck’s records show that Joe’s ancestors held on right up to the Civil War—more than a half century later.
Neither Donald Trump or Mike Pence have a drop of slave-owner blood.
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