What’s really driving the chaos on the streets of America? It’s not Black Lives Matter, Larry Taunton insists. At its core, it’s Marxism, a dangerous plot that could destroy society as we know it. Don’t miss Larry and Tony Perkins as they take a deep dive into the philosophy that could send our country down the oppressive path of the failed revolutionaries across eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. It’s an eye-opening conversation you won’t want to miss.
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Security for @tedwheeler’s condo said a while ago they called police but no one has showed up so far. That part of the Pearl District in NW Portland is currently completely occupied by far-left protesters demanding he resign. #PortlandRiots
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Covid. “Better illegally alive than legally dead!” I speak to a doctor and a patient who tell of their harrowing experiences with Covid. Also included. Mark Levin interviews Professor Harvey Risch.
President Donald Trump is leading former Vice President Joe Biden ahead of the November election in the battleground state of Michigan, according to a Republican-leaning poll published Friday.
The president carries a narrow 46-45 lead Biden in the state, a poll published by the Trafalgar Group shows. The poll, conducted between Aug. 14 and Aug. 23, comes a day after Trump wrapped up the Republican National Convention, and less than a week after the Democratic National Convention.
The poll surveyed 1,048 respondents and carries a margin of error of 2.9 percentage points. More than 40% of the people the firm polled were between the ages of 45 and 64, and white people made up 81% of respondents.
Polling website FiveThirtyEight gives Trafalgar Group a “C-” rating in May for accuracy and methodological performance.
Other recent polls show different results.
Biden is ahead of Trump in Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Florida and North Carolina, according to a CNBC poll released Wednesday. Trump won Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan by a total of just 77,000 votes in 2016. Biden also leads Trump nationally by eight points, 51-43, the poll showed.
The former vice president leads by five points in Wisconsin, a state currently engulfed in riots after the police shooting of Jacob Blake Sunday.
Trump’s re-election campaign and pro-Trump super PAC America First Action reportedly halted television and radio ads in Michigan in June amid concerns of underperformance in the battleground state, The New York Times reported in July. America First Action cut Michigan from its ad buy in July and instead rolled out ads in Arizona and North Carolina.
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Guide us to the straight path, the path of those upon whom You have bestowed favor, not of those who have evoked [Your] anger or of those who are astray.
The traditional Islamic understanding of this is that the “straight path” is Islam — cf. Islamic apologist John Esposito’s book Islam: The Straight Path — while the path “of those who have evoked Allah’s anger” are the Jews, and those who have gone “astray” are the Christians.
The classic Qur’anic commentator Ibn Kathir explains that “the two paths He described here are both misguided,” and that those “two paths are the paths of the Christians and Jews, a fact that the believer should beware of so that he avoids them. The path of the believers is knowledge of the truth and abiding by it. In comparison, the Jews abandoned practicing the religion, while the Christians lost the true knowledge. This is why ‘anger’ descended upon the Jews, while being described as ‘led astray’ is more appropriate of the Christians.”
Ibn Kathir’s understanding of this passage is not a lone “extremist” interpretation. In fact, most Muslim commentators believe that the Jews are those who have earned Allah’s wrath and the Christians are those who have gone astray.
This is the view of Tabari, Zamakhshari, the Tafsir al-Jalalayn, the Tanwir al-Miqbas min Tafsir Ibn Abbas, and Ibn Arabi, as well as Ibn Kathir. One contrasting, but not majority view, is that of Nisaburi, who says that “those who have incurred Allah’s wrath are the people of negligence, and those who have gone astray are the people of immoderation.”
Wahhabis drew criticism a few years back for adding “such as the Jews” and “such as the Christians” into parenthetical glosses on this passage in Qur’ans printed in Saudi Arabia.
Some Western commentators imagined that the Saudis originated this interpretation, and indeed the whole idea of Qur’anic hostility toward Jews and Christians. They found it inconceivable that Muslims all over the world would learn as a matter of course that the central prayer of their faith anathematizes Jews and Christians.
But unfortunately, this interpretation is venerable and mainstream in Islamic theology. The printing of the interpretation in parenthetical glosses into a translation would be unlikely to affect Muslim attitudes, since the Arabic text is always and everywhere normative in any case, and since so many mainstream commentaries contain the idea that the Jews and Christians are being criticized here.
Seventeen times a day, by the pious.
Jacob Blake’s father might not have been aware of this interpretation. At the same time, however, he could have chosen any kind of passage that called for unity, forgiveness, reconciliation. Instead, this.
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Joe Biden is collapsing. And it’s going to get worse for Biden in the coming weeks. Trump is riding high on an incredibly strong convention, an economy that is roaring back, and an energized voting base. In addition, Joe Biden will no longer be able to run his “prevent defense” campaign. Now that the race is essentially tied, Joe Biden is going to have to leave his basement and campaign outside. He is going to have to step onto the debate stage with President Trump, were his cognitive impairment will be further exposed. And don’t forget about the Durham Report that will likely be released to the public sometime after Labour Day. We have a long way to go, but it’s looking good for Team Trump.
Just a month and a half ago, Rasmussen Reports had Joe Biden 10-points ahead of President Donald Trump in the polls. Now he’s only ahead by one point, within the margin of error.
Even if Biden’s now-slim lead in the polls were to remain frozen as of today, Trump would still have a clear path to an electoral college victory, as Hillary Clinton lead Trump in the popular vote by just over two points in the 2016 election.
While it is impossible to know the exact reason (or reasons) for Biden’s polling collapse, it comes as the economy continues to rebound from the coronavirus, riots continue to ravage liberal run cities longer than anyone expected (to no condemnation from Joe Biden and Kamala Harris), and a Democrat National Convention widely viewed to be a snoozefest was held.
It’s hard to imagine how anyone could’ve had their mind changed by the extended Zoom meeting that was the DNC, but the RNC is changing hearts and minds – or at least some.
Of note, Rasmussen was among the closest mainstream pollster in approximating the popular vote in the 2016 election. Rasmussen had Hillary Clinton up 1.7 points over Trump on election day 2016, while she ended up winning the popular vote by 2.1 points above him (48.2% vs. 46.1%). The Real Clear Politics average of polls had Hillary up for six points. Unlike the other polls, Rasmussen correctly saw Trump had a path to victory in the electoral college.
Have the benefits of marriage become a middle-class secret?
Why should only the middle and upper classes enjoy the advantages of marriage as opposed to cohabitation? This is among questions posed by a recent Centre of Social Justice UK report called “Family Structure Still Matters.” With married parents twice as likely to stay together than cohabiting ones, their kids can benefit from numerous advantages of this stability – such as avoiding mental health issues and criminal conviction.
The report’s introduction sums it up well, saying: “The consequences of family instability are alarming; while the benefits conferred by marriage are inspiring. It is therefore surprising that government consistently fails to distinguish between marriage and cohabitation. In its language around family structure, including, crucially in its data collection, government persists in blurring the two categories of ‘married’ and ‘cohabiting’. Official silence on this issue has sent out the message that marriage and cohabitation are interchangeable. Yet we have seen how the two structures lead to widely different outcomes.”
What are these outcomes? The CSJ study points out that for cohabiting parents, their children experienced higher rates of cognitive delay; a greater presence of aggression and anti-social behaviours; more likelihood of involvement with crime or domestic abuse; and more under-performance in the educational arena.
The disadvantages extend to the parents themselves too, including higher levels of psychological distress and less healthy lifestyles; while married couples were both healthier and more likely to engage meaningfully with their communities.
In Australia in 2017, 81.3 percent of couples lived together before marriage as opposed to just a 16.0 percent in 1975. There is no doubt that this is the norm now, but as a Sydney Morning Herald article from late last year pointed out, “cohabitation doesn’t deliver the same levels of happiness, trust and well-being that marriage can bring.”
Unfortunately there exists a “try before you buy” mentality, something I see often amongst my generation. And while this seems like a way to avoid marrying the wrong person, most don’t realise that it also ingrains a non-committal mentality where one can pick up and leave at any time.
The CSJ report calls for the government to be more honest in its distinctions between marriage and cohabitation, so that couples can make more informed decisions about their lifestyles – and I, for one, agree.
Tamara El-Rahi
Tamara El-Rahi is an associate editor of MercatorNet. A Journalism graduate from the University of Technology Sydney, she lives in Australia with her husband and two daughters. More by Tamara El-Rahi
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Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Rayshard Brooks, Sean Reed, George Floyd, Trayford Pellerin. The list of African-Americans killed by police in 2020 is long and dismal.
And now Kenosha, Wisconsin, is burning after a police officer shot 29-year-old Jacob Blake in the back four times earlier this week. It seems that everything that the Black Lives Matter movement stands for has been corroborated. Black people are victims who are doomed to be oppressed by systemic racism in American society.
It’s a difficult moment to watch a documentary which stands the BLM narrative on its head. But perhaps it’s the best moment, because the contrast between two worldviews is so stark. (Download here.)
The message of Uncle Tom, directed by Justin Malone, is that African-Americans have to stop blaming other people for their problems and to work hard in America’s dynamic economy to achieve success. It is Martin Luther King Jr’s dream:
“I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin, but by the content of their character”.
For those watching it outside the US, the film’s narrative is mind-bendingly unfamiliar. Without ignoring the poverty which blights the lives of so many blacks, it highlights dozens who describe themselves as conservatives, Republicans, or even fans of President Trump. One hilarious scene features a young black Republican with Huuuuge MAGA cap rapping “I’m black I’m no Democrat”.
The executive producer and one of the main voices in the 106-minute documentary is Larry Elder, a radio show host in Los Angeles and the author of several books.
“The idea that a racist white cop shooting unarmed black people is a peril to black people is BS, complete BS,” Elder tells an astonished (white) interviewer. He spouts reams of statistics to back up his contention. The big problem, he says, is black-on-black murders. The success of African-Americans isn’t reported by a left-wing media, he complains. If black America were a country, he says, it would have the world’s 15th highest GDP.
An apologist for white privilege? No, but contrarian views like this are why black conservatives are taunted as “Uncle Toms”, after the subservient “yes-Massa” character in the famous 19th century novel. It must have taken a certain amount of courage to appear in this documentary.
The character whose life is threaded throughout the film is a Texas plumber named Chad Jackson. He personifies the film’s focus on hard work, education, family stability, patriotism and rejection of victimhood. He began life as a Democrat but after he became a Christian, he was converted to the quintessentially American philosophy of success through hard work.
Amongst the impressive speakers is Allen B. West, a former lieutenant colonel in the US Army, a former US Congressman, and the current chairman of the Texas Republican Party; the late Herman Cain, businessman and one-time presidential candidate; and Robert L. Woodson Sr, a former civil rights activist and social entrepreneur.
The show-stealer is Candace Owens, a 30-year-old Republican activist and author. Her tweet this week is characteristic of her combative style: “Black Lives Matter and Antifa activists are what happen when a society gives birth to an entire generation of spoiled rotten brats who have never experienced any real suffering”.
Uncle Tom features a clip from a C-Span recording of a hearing in the US Congress at which Owens was invited to speak . An expert from the University of Chicago (who bears an uncanny resemblance to the Twitter profile pic of ultra-woke Titania McGrath) dared to suggest that Owens was supporting white supremacy. It was a mistake; Owens demolished her:
We’re tired of rhetoric, and the numbers show that white supremacy and white nationalism is not a problem that is harming Black America. Let’s start talking about putting fathers back in the home. Let’s start talking about God and religion and shrinking government, because government has destroyed Black American homes, and every single one of you know that.
Her words convey one of the main messages of the documentary: that Democrats are fundamentally to blame for the chaotic state of black neighbourhoods in America’s big cities. This narrative runs contrary to the conventional wisdom, but it deserves a hearing.
It’s a matter of record that it was Republicans who freed the slaves and that it was Southern Democrats who fought back with the odious Jim Crow laws. But when President Kennedy and his successor Lyndon Johnson enacted civil rights legislation, African-Americans became welded-on Democrats. One of the film’s speakers recalls that when he was growing up in the South, every black home had three pictures on the wall: Jesus, Martin Luther King Jr and John F. Kennedy.
But the Great Society’s welfare payments corrupted black society. Men stopped working; they deserted their wives; their children were raised without fathers. “Under slavery a black child was more likely to be raised by his biological mother and his biological father than today,” says Elder. “The welfare state has done more to destabilise and destroy the black family than even slavery did.”
African-Americans became clients of the government – of the Democratic Party. The welfare state is Slavery 2.0, says one of the film’s participants bitterly. “More blacks are killing other blacks in one year than the Klan killed in 70 years,” says Woodson.
Abortion is part of this grim picture. The film highlights the role of Margaret Sanger and the abortion supplier that she founded, Planned Parenthood. This week, as if she were fact-checking the film, a New York Times columnist quoted a Democrat activist: “They say Black women are the base of our party. Well guess who has abortions? Black women. The majority of people who have abortions are women of color.”
It’s a sorry reflection on the Democrats if their success is measured by aborting more black babies.
“Uncle Tom’s” pro-Republican, pro-Trump message might irritate some folks. But oddly enough, you can hear in its hostility towards “liberals” a distant echo of Malcom X, the firebrand Black Muslim who taught that whites were devils. In a 1963 speech he said:
The white conservatives aren’t friends of the Negro either, but they at least don’t try to hide it. They are like wolves; they show their teeth in a snarl that keeps the Negro always aware of where he stands with them. But the white liberals are foxes, who also show their teeth to the Negro but pretend that they are smiling. The white liberals are more dangerous than the conservatives; they lure the Negro, and as the Negro runs from the growling wolf, he flees into the open jaws of the “smiling” fox.
The film has its flaws: it’s a bit too long; the musical score is obtrusive; many of the speakers aren’t identified. But as a foreshadowing of a more hopeful future for African-Americans, it’s hard to beat.
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Some Kenosha residents are rethinking their support for Democrats amid the rioting and violence that has erupted in the city, the New York Times (NYT) reported.
Several residents of the Wisconsin city expressed their fear in an interview with the NYT as the riots that struck many cities across the country following police shootings of Black men arrived at their doorstep.
Jacob Blake was shot by police Sunday in Kenosha, and later that night, unrest began to escalate, resulting in arson, vandalism and, a few days after, two people being shot to death.
Many residents say that Democratic leadership has been absent, and Democrats seem reluctant to denounce the violence.
John Geraghty, 41, works at a tractor factory and doesn’t pay attention to the presidential race. Although he was on the fence about who to vote for in November, he’s now unsure whether the Democratic state leaders are willing to remedy the violence.
“It’s crazy that it’s now happening in my home city,” he told the NYT. “We have to have a serious conversation about what are we going to do about it. It doesn’t seem like the powers that be want to do much.”
Former Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden responded Monday to the shooting of Jacob Blake, saying that “Equal justice has not been real for black Americans and so many others” and that the country “must dismantle systemic racism.”
Biden later condemned Wednesday the “needless violence” in Kenosha, and said that the protests over police brutality were “right and absolutely necessary” but that “burning down communities is not protest.”
Once again, a Black man — Jacob Blake — was shot by the police. In front of his children. It makes me sick.
Is this the country we want to be?
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Republicans have focused their attention on Wisconsin, which Trump won in 2016. The rioting was also mentioned at the Republican National Convention, which is taking place the same week that riots emerged in Kenosha.
Geraghty, a former Marine, told the Times his city began to resemble a “war zone” and that Democrats were “letting people down big time.” He also believes Trump bungled his management of the coronavirus pandemic, describing it as “laughable,” and that he didn’t like how Trump talked.
But he also said that it seemed the Democratic Party seemed most interested in attacking Trump and calling him a racist, an accusation made so often that it was only alienating people.
“The Democratic agenda to me right now is America is systematically racist and evil and the only people who can fix it are Democrats,” he said. “That’s the vibe I get.”
“I’m not 100 percent sure of anything yet,” Mr. Geraghty said of November. “But as of now I’m really not happy about how Democrats are handling any of this.”
The RNC dedicated several moments to emphasizing Trump’s “law and order” platform, and also criticized the movement to defund the police, attributing such a push to Democratic leadership.
Public support for protests following the death of George Floyd has dropped in Wisconsin by 25 points since June according to a poll published by Marquette Law School Wednesday. While support for demonstrations against police killings stood at 61% approval to 36% disapproval in June, both figures changed to 48% in August. The poll was conducted before the protests and riots in Kenosha that began Sunday.
Don Biehn, 62, owns a flooring company in Kenosha, and he bought a pistol for the first time in his life Tuesday amid the chaos in his city, citing the need to protect his business. He told the NYT he had been calling county and state officials for days to explain how grave the situation was in Kenosha.
“There’s people running all over with guns — it’s like some Wild West town,” Biehn said. “We are just waiting here like sitting ducks waiting to get picked off.”
“It’s chaos — everybody is afraid,” he added.
Although Biehn didn’t initially support Trump, he’s now grateful he’s president because he understand the situation in a way other politicians didn’t.
“There’s nobody fighting back,” he said. “Nobody is paying attention to what’s going on.”
Priscella Gazda, a waitress at a pizza restaurant, said she had voted only once in her life, and it was for Barack Obama in 2008, in hopes of getting health insurance. She told the Times she’s “not the one who would ever vote,” but after the unrest in Kenosha, she’s voting for Trump.
“He seems to be more about the American people and what we need,” she said.
Americans across racial lines remain overwhelmingly opposed to violent protest to “improve the situation of black Americans” with 73% of respondents indicating it tends to “hurt” that cause, according to a new Gallup poll released Wednesday.
The poll found a higher percentage of white Americans opposed violent protest (79%) than black Americans (59%). Both groups overwhelming agree that nonviolent protest helps blacks, with 78% of whites supporting it and 72% of blacks.
Gallup based data on June 8-July 24 survey of U.S. adults.
The polling company noted that “Since Gallup last polled on this subject in 1988, there have been meaningful increases in the percentages of Americans saying that nonviolent protest, violent protest and economic boycotts, in particular, can help. Opinions on the effectiveness of legal action are little changed.”
In 1988, 79% of overall respondents were opposed to violent protest.
The poll also found that Americans don’t tend to sympathize with violent protesters who engage in “looting or property damage” with only 41% of overall respondents indicating so. However, the question did uncover an apparent racial divide on this issue, with 60% of black Americans finding sympathy and only 38% of whites doing so.
But sympathize or not, only 12% of black Americans and 8% of white Americans say violent protest is ever justified.
“The survey was conducted during a period of nationwide protests,” Gallup noted, that included both nonviolent and violent responses to the death of George Floyd after his arrest by Minneapolis police.
Another recent poll indicated that 77% of Americans are “concerned” about the spike in violent crime in American cities.
Gallup conducted its survey by telephoning 1,226 adults living in all 50 states and Washington, D.C. Because the pollsters oversampled black responses “to represent racial and ethnic groups proportionately to their share of the population,” the margin of error varies.
For overall results that margin of error is ±4 percentage points, with a confidence level of 95%. For black American respondents the margin of error is ±7 percentage points with the same confidence level.
Surveying the wreckage that is the Church in the West, a normal person would ask himself, “What’s left? Really, is there anything still here?” Well, yes and no.
The Faith as it once was lived out — carried ashore by missionaries and legal immigrants — over the centuries, that’s pretty much gone. There are certainly pockets (and they are growing), but at the present moment, the Church of Nice — which is in a death spiral — still has the numbers (not to mention money and buildings) on its side.
It doesn’t really have the Faith, but it does have the material wealth needed to hang on for at least the current crop of crooked bishops to go to their graves. How much longer beyond that? Well, good question. Odds are — the smart money says — not too terribly long after they all die; give it five years, maybe 10 on the outside.
Now for the other side of the ledger, the increasing Church — the one that the likes of Bp. Robert Barron mislabel as “traditionalists.”
They aren’t as much traditionalists as they are orthodox, like Church Militant. We’ve never claimed to be “traditionalists,” but we absolutely stand on (and die on, if necessary) our orthodoxy. In fact, the squishy term “traditionalist” doesn’t even seem to have any kind of agreed-upon definition.
To some, it means being a sedevacantist or a member of the SSPX cult, with its ties to Nazism and sex abuse cover-up. Still others think it means simply an adherence to the traditional Latin Mass and nothing more.
So when Barron tries (and fails) to lump all non-Church-of-Nice Catholics into the “traditionalist” basket, he really reveals his complete ignorance of the current landscape in the Church.
But whatever traditional means to whoever, no one is confused over what orthodoxy means. Unlike “traditionalist,” orthodoxy actually does have a definition: It means “true teaching.”
Church of Nice supporters wouldn’t know orthodoxy if it was a dog and bit ’em. Many of them have spent decades at this point being lied to (or actually, better stated, subtly deceived).
It originated with the modernist bishops and their seminary faculty back in the 1960s and 70s and moving forward. Those men — the ones who taught the current bishops when they were just little gay seminarians — those men instilled the corruption we see today now exploding all over the Church, like time bombs going off everywhere.
But just like no explosion wipes out absolutely everything, so too the modernist bomb that went off didn’t reach every last soul. Some survived. Some, true, were wounded. Some were deeply wounded, but not everyone was killed in the explosion.
Some of the survivors and their children are now beginning to comb over the wreckage and are finding it has become the haunt for greedy old queens and careerists in miters. Unlike the families they destroyed, they personally profited from the destruction.
In fact, they have deluded themselves into thinking that the Church burning to the ground is actually some kind of improvement, a progressive triumph. Holding hands during the Our Father like half-witted Protestants, that’s what these misguided Catholics who don’t really know what being Catholic is have been told: Hold hands, wave at each other, enjoy fellowship, have a donut, listen to Fr. Gay tell a stupid joke and then go on about himself (in a womanly voice of course).
This is the Church of Nice on full display: A body of people who don’t know what they stand for, so they will fall for anything and accept anything. A recent National Review article last week pointed out this about Kamala Harris: “She embodies the future of American religion: In a time of expanding religious pluralism, the country’s younger generation, many of them children and grandchildren of immigrants, will recognize in Harris a kind of multi-faith and spiritual belonging unfamiliar to the mostly white Christian majority of past decades.”
That’s true. In fact, the article title called Harris “the future of American religion.” Hard to argue with it. In fact, all that nonsense of being spiritual and accommodating of a multiplicity of faiths, that all began in the Catholic Church under the crooked bishops.
It’s still carried out and going on now by just the newest crops of crooked bishops. If that’s not bad enough (Kamala being the future face of religion in America), the National Catholic Reporter — the heretical paper — went so far as to say that Miss Green New Deal herself, “AOC,” is the future of the Catholic Church.
They actually missed the mark. AOC isn’t the future, she’s the present — a phony Catholic “committed to social justice” but really committed to herself. Again, like Harris, AOC has the U.S. bishops to thank.
None of this would have been possible without the meltdown of the Church. And don’t think for a minute the meltdown was by accident. It was deliberate from the very first moment it came into focus. But where we are here is where we are.
All that can be done now is prepare for what’s coming. And consider, even if the election swings Trump’s way, what do you suppose will be the case in 2024? Trump is a singular force — really unrepeatable.
He has only slightly more in common with the Republican establishment than he does with the Democratic establishment. Both hate his guts because he calls ’em like he sees ’em. And he’s usually right, even if he gets a little Twitter happy. Who cares?
But it’s that same resentment against Trump fueling the political left that is fueling the resentment on the theological left against orthodox Catholics. The theological Marxist establishment hates our guts, not really any less than the Church of Nice establishment hates our guts.
To both sides, orthodoxy is the evil that dare not speak its name. The frightening thing is that the Church of Nice and the theological Left (and there isn’t a lot of sunlight between them) are pretty closely aligned with the actual Marxist Left. And they too, having Satan as their father, likewise hate orthodox Catholics.
The growing band of orthodox Catholics is going to have to make some choices in a few months or a few years. But the choices are going to have to be made. The world will be less and less hospitable to you and to us, and then it will turn violent against us all.
Who knows how all this will unfold? But you better start preparing. State of grace, prayer life and sacraments. Stop listening to a bunch of crooked bishops who helped rain this evil down on your heads. There’s not much left, really. Except you. You can still be pleasing to God. So get on with it.
National Association of Police Organizations (NAPO) President Michael McHale lambasted Democratic leaders nationwide at the Republican National Convention Wednesday blaming them for the “chaos” that has occurred in American cities recently.
The death of George Floyd and the shooting of Jacob Blake have sparked mass anti-police protests and riots across the country. In the aftermath of Floyd’s death, police morale drastically declined, according to multiple police union officials.
“Chaos results when elected officials in cities like Portland, Minneapolis, Chicago, and New York make the conscious and very public decision not to support law enforcement,” said McHale, who is also the president of the southwest Florida chapter of the Police Benevolent Association. “Shootings, murders, looting and rioting occur unabated.”
He continued: “The violence we are seeing in these and other cities isn’t happening by chance; it’s the direct result of elected leaders refusing to allow law enforcement to protect our communities.”
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McHale also attacked Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris for their views on law enforcement.
“I’m shocked and disgusted by how far left Joe Biden has swung and how anti-law enforcement he has become,” said McHale. “And Kamala Harris’ legislation to further restrict police would make our American communities and streets even more dangerous than they already are.”
He added: “Like many others on the left who want to defund the police, Senator Harris’ legislation provides less training, not more, for law enforcement.”
Harris said departments should be “reimagined” when asked about defunding the police in June.
Founded in 1978, NAPO is a coalition of police unions and associations, according to the organization’s website. It represents more than 241,000 law enforcement personnel and 1,000 police associations nationwide.
NAPO officially endorsed President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign for president on July 15, according to a letter addressed to Trump posted on the organization’s website.
“Our endorsement recognizes your steadfast and very public support for our men and women on the front lines, especially during this time of unfair and inaccurate opprobrium being directed at our members by so many,” the letter said.
The New York Police Benevolent Association, the largest police union in the United States, endorsed Trump on Aug. 14. It was the union’s first presidential endorsement in at least 36 years, according to its president Michael Lynch.
“We need your strong voice across the country to say, ‘We have the support of law enforcement across this country,’” Lynch told Trump at the endorsement event.
http://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.png00The Daily Callerhttp://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.pngThe Daily Caller2020-08-27 08:00:342020-08-27 08:05:52VIDEO: Democratic Officials Responsible For ‘Chaos’ In Cities, Police Organization President Says At RNC
LANSING, Mich. /PRNewswire/ — One Nation and Election Integrity Fund filed lawsuits in federal court against Gov. Gretchen Whitmer for silencing political speech; and in state court against Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson for circumventing state law protecting the right of Michiganders to have their vote properly counted. The lawsuit seeks to allow retail politicking leading into the general election and block Secretary Benson from sidestepping state law and suspending ballot integrity protections. The groups point to Governor Whitmer’s threat of jail time for those seeking to host political rallies and election irregularities in Wayne County during the August 4 primary as justification for the suits.
Political Speech is the Right of Every Michigander, Not Just Those with Whom the Governor Agrees
“The rights of the citizenry to assemble and speak in pursuit of jointly held political goals as enshrined in the First Amendment are essential to our democracy,” said Phill Kline, director of the Amistad Project of The Thomas More Society. “Particularly in a year in which our nation will select a president, safeguarding these rights is of fundamental importance.”
Thomas More Society attorneys are representing One Nation and the Election Integrity Fund.
“Governor Whitmer and Secretary Benson have encouraged Michiganders to vote by absentee ballot, rendering retail politicking in the months leading up to the election of even greater significance,” said Kline. Unlike other years in which most ballots would be cast on election day, hundreds of thousands or millions of votes will be cast in the weeks leading up to November 3. As the Michigan electorate complies with the Governor’s insistence that they cast absentee ballots leading up to election day, her executive orders prevent those same voters from gathering to speak about the candidates and issues on which they are voting.”
“One Nation supports reasonable and rationale dialogue on race that acknowledges our nation’s failures while respecting its goodness,” said One Nation President and former Michigan civil rights Commissioner, Dr. Linda Lee Tarver. “However, we were told we cannot rally and continue to be confronted with ever-changing, confusing and ambiguous orders from the Governor.”
“America doesn’t have kings and queens, nor should all government power be vested in the hands of one person to the detriment of our civil liberties,” said Tom Brejcha, President and Chief Counsel of The Thomas More Society. “These powers must be limited in some fashion, or we have created a form of government foreign to this nation’s history and practice.”
Secretary of State Benson’s Absentee Ballot System Fails State Law
“Secretary Benson reduced in-person voting and made absentee balloting the foundation of our elections yet she has not done anything to assist local clerks in comparing voter signatures, the only method of verifying that actual voter filled out the absentee ballot,” said Glenn Sitek, vice president of Election Integrity Fund. “Something needs to be done to ensure every citizen’s vote is counted and election laws are followed. We intend to do just that.”
Absentee ballots require additional efforts to protect the integrity of the ballot because those ballots are cast outside of structured election sites where election officials can ensure voters aren’t intimidated, misled or coerced when casting their ballots. Those officials also ensure only properly registered voters cast the ballot and that each person only casts one ballot. This is impossible to do when the ballot is cast absentee. To protect those ballots, however, Michigan law requires a comparison of signatures to ensure the voter to whom the ballot is sent cast the vote. The lawsuit states Secretary Benson’s unilateral action undermines that process.
Using the Secretary’s new online system, thousands of ballots will be mailed to addresses, but without the required signature comparison to ensure that the addressee voter requested the ballot, and legitimately requested it to be sent to that address.
Additionally, the lack of an application signature also undermines the process of authenticating ballots once they are returned via mail. The Secretary’s own “Election Officials’ Manual” requires the officials processing these ballots to compare the signature on the ballot to the signature on the application to “determine the legality of the ballot.” This comparison cannot be accomplished if the application lacks an accompanying signature.
“Governor Whitmer and Secretary Benson’s attempt to drastically change election processes at the eleventh hour would allow anyone with Internet access to vote by mail, with no way to verify who requested the ballot or who actually cast the vote, as long as they claim to be a self-quarantining voter,” said Catherine Engelbrecht, Founder and President, True the Vote, a partner in The Amistad Project.
“This unlawful move by the State of Michigan towards all mail ballots would effectively increase election fraud, voter confusion, and contested elections, depriving all Michigan voters their right to a free and fair election. Exploiting the fear of COVID to radically alter election laws is deceitful and wrong, and we’ll keep fighting until they stop,” Engelbrecht said.
Although Secretary Benson has encouraged reducing in person voting and made absentee balloting central to Michigan elections, she has not offered any training for signature comparison, failed to establish a best practices for signature comparison, has not established a method to verify that signature comparison occurs, and has side-stepped state law by her actions. Moreover, she has misled Michigan voters by falsely claiming signature comparison software is available to local election clerks.
To view both lawsuits and learn more about the Free Persons Initiative, visit www.got-freedom.org.
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The seventeen Alderpersons of Kenosha, Wisconson have lost control of their city. The Democrat Governor Tony Evers of Wisconson has, like other Democrats in cities like Atlanta, Portland, Detroit, Chicago and St. Louis have also lost control of the violent gangs who run wantonly through the streets of their cities with the intent of causing destruction and mayhem.
I interviewed the alleged shooter before the violence started.
White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows said Tuesday night that Gov. Tony Evers turned down an offer of federal help from President Donald Trump to help quell the outbreak of violence in Kenosha.
“We have a National Guard standing by that if the general for the National Guard needs additional help, we’re there to do it,” Meadows said. “But today, that request was denied by the governor.”
Kenosha devolved into anarchy because the authorities abandoned the people. Those in charge, from the governor on down, refused to enforce the law. They’ve stood back and watched Kenosha burn. Are we really surprised that looting and arson accelerated to murder? pic.twitter.com/oul2KUiDi3
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KOMO Anchor Eric Johnson takes an in-depth look at the impact the drug and homelessness problem is having on our city and possible solutions in “Seattle is Dying,” a news documentary that aired on KOMO-TV in March, 2019.
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