wnd--2020-09-29--Marx on Christianity, Judaism and evolution

`` If someone calls it socialism , '' said the Rev .
William Barber at an August 2019 conference of the Democratic National Committee , `` then we must compel them to acknowledge that the Bible must then promote socialism , because Jesus offered free health care to everyone , and he never charged a leper a co-pay . ''
The Rev .
Barber is not alone in that sentiment .
There are flatly too many people right now praising or sympathetic to socialism and/or Marxism .
Some attempt to make an explicitly Christian case for communism , as seen @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by the leading Jesuit publication , America Magazine , titled , `` The Catholic Case for Communism , '' as if Christians have common cause with Karl Marx and his atheistic-materialist philosophy .
Having just published a book whose title suggests just the opposite , namely , `` The Devil and Karl Marx , '' it pains me to see that anyone would believe that communism is compatible with Christianity specifically or religion generally .
Such a notion is astonishing not only given the church 's longtime intense opposition to communism , but @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by the founders and disciples of communism .
Those founders exhibited an intense opposition to Judaism as well , and they harbored some ugly views of Jews and , still more , of blacks .
Those latter views were based in part on an atheistic-materialist commitment to Darwinian evolution that made those founders quite racist .
Where to start ?
Well , for Marx , the starting point was religion .
`` Communism begins where atheism begins , '' said Karl Marx .
`` The criticism of religion is the beginning of all @ @ @ @ @ @ @ days to go until debate , Pelosi gives Biden an out : 'Why bother ? '
Marx framed man as not edified or uplifted by religion but in a `` struggle against religion . ''
This is a `` struggle against that world whose spiritual aroma is religion . ''
This is why people crave religion as a kind of drug : `` Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature , the heart of a heartless world , and the soul of soulless conditions , '' averred Marx .
`` It is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ And again , for Marx , it all begins with religion .
That 's the foundation that must be razed .
Religion was among the things he wanted to abolish , along with property , family , `` all morality , '' and more .
As for `` social justice '' Christians who invoke communism as somehow consistent with Christian social teaching , well , Marx begged to differ .
`` The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice , self-contempt , abasement , submission , humility , '' scowled Marx .
`` The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ '' Georg Jung , a Marx contemporary and close friend , said that `` Marx calls Christianity one of the most immoral religions . ''
Jung viewed Marx as a theological-philosophical revolutionary who was attempting to overthrow the entire social system , not just an economic system .
Indeed he was .
Marx in the `` Manifesto '' said that communism represents `` the most radical rupture in traditional relations '' and seeks to `` abolish the present state of things . ''
Imagine that .
That is no small objective .
And @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at the close of his `` Manifesto '' : `` They [ the Communists ] openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions . ''
Note the utterly revolutionary ambition : `` the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions . ''
Marx and Engels closed their `` Manifesto '' with this exhortation to future revolutionaries : `` Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things . ''
That objective has been seized by Marxist revolutionaries @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be to tear down rather than build up .
Obviously , this has no resemblance to Christianity – as Marx and friends knew .
In fact , Marx 's partner , Friedrich Engels , acknowledged that .
One contemporary said of Engels : `` He held , of course , that Christian socialism was a contradiction in terms . ''
Of course .
That was part of the creed of communism .
Vladimir Lenin declared that `` any worship of a divinity is a necrophilia , '' insisted that `` there is nothing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ demanded : `` Everyone must be absolutely free to … be an atheist , which every socialist is , as a rule . ''
Nikolai Bukharin , founding editor of Pravda , stated : `` A fight to the death must be declared upon religion take on religion at the tip of the bayonet . ''
According to Bukharin , `` Religion and communism are incompatible , both theoretically and practically… .
Communism is incompatible with religious faith . ''
Karl Marx was likewise unimpressed with the faith of his family—Judaism .
`` @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , '' sneered Marx in 1843 .
In his awful 1844 essay `` On the Jewish Question , '' Marx raged : `` What is the worldly cult of the Jew ?
Haggling .
What is his worldly god ?
Money . ''
The Jew , Marx snarled , had become `` impossible . ''
He chillingly concluded : `` The emancipation of the Jews , in the final analysis , is the emancipation of mankind from Judaism . ''
Marx particularly disliked a Jew who was part black .
He referred to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ `` the Jewish [ N-word ] . ''
He and Engels debated over Lassalle 's hair and cranial formation : `` It is now perfectly clear to me that , as the shape of his head and the growth of his hair indicates , he is descended from the Negroes . ''
Marx allowed for an exception : `` unless his mother or grandmother on the father 's side was crossed with a [ N-word ] . ''
Marx mocked : `` This union of Jew and German on a Negro base was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ '' We see here the Darwinian roots of Marx 's ( and Engels ' ) sordid attitude toward humanity .
They viewed human beings as made not in the image of God—the imago Dei—but in the image of apes .
Both Marx and Engels made fun of Marx 's son-in-law , Paul Lafargue , who was partly Cuban , which , by Marx 's logic , meant he was partially infected by `` Negro blood . ''
Marx denigrated his own son-in-law as `` Negrillo , '' or `` The Gorilla . ''
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ suicide pact with Marx 's daughter – alas , Marx lost two daughters in joint suicide pacts with their husbands . )
Engels figured to Marx that Paul possessed `` one-eighth or one-twelfth [ N-word ] blood . ''
When Lafargue attempted to run as a political candidate for a council seat in a Paris district that contained a zoo , Engels made sure he took a shot at Paul in a letter to Paul 's wife : `` Being in his quality as a [ N-word ] , a degree nearer to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the rest of us , he is undoubtedly the most appropriate representative of that district . ''
These views are , obviously , thoroughly un-Christian .
To Marx and Engels , Darwin was the figure to look to , not God – who , after all , did n't exist .
God was dead .
In fact , when Marx died in March 1883 , Engels looked to Darwin .
Staring at Marx 's cold coffin , which bore not a cross but two red wreaths , Engels in his eulogy invoked not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for dealing such a grand blow for materialism and atheism .
He would likewise hail Darwin in his eulogy for Marx 's wife , Jenny : `` The place where we stand is the best proof that she lived and died in the full conviction of atheist Materialism , '' averred Engels , soberly staring at a pile of dirt .
`` She knew that one day she would have to return , body and mind , to the bosom of that nature from which she had sprung . ''
Engels exhorted the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in their shared conviction that the vivacious Jenny was now reduced to mere worm food .
And yet , Darwin was hailed by leading Marxists in god-like language .
`` Darwin destroyed the last of my ideological prejudices , '' Leon Trotsky triumphed .
Trotsky said the `` facts '' about the world and life and its origins were established for him via this `` certain system '' of evolutionary theory .
`` The idea of evolution and determinism , '' he wrote , `` took possession of me completely .
Darwin stood @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the entrance to the temple of the universe .
I was intoxicated with his … thought . ''
Trotsky historian Barry Lee Woolley explained : `` Trotsky took up the faith of Marx and Darwin .
The conversion experience was genuine and thorough . ''
This is what we would expect of an ideology that fashioned a golden calf , a material idol , forged and focused on money , property , gold .
It was not about the soul .
The key to the communist-Marxist utopia would be economics .
Solve the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ you would solve the human problem .
They speak as if man truly does live by bread alone ( Christ corrected Satan on that one ) .
As Pope Benedict XVI said , the fatal flaw of communists and socialists is that they had their anthropology wrong .
They did not adequately understand man .
As Augustine said , we all have a God-shaped vacuum that God alone can fill ; not a dollar-signed vacuum .
We crave the divine manna of heaven .
Alas , the Marxism that Karl Marx bequeathed is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ worldview .
This materialistic-atheistic ideology would beget over 100 million deaths in the 20th century alone , not to mention a war on faith , family , property , and more .
It still rages .
And religious people should certainly reject it .

"If someone calls it socialism," said the Rev. William Barber at an August 2019 conference of the Democratic National Committee, "then we must compel them to acknowledge that the Bible must then promote socialism, because Jesus offered free health care to everyone, and he never charged a leper a co-pay."
The Rev. Barber is not alone in that sentiment. There are flatly too many people right now praising or sympathetic to socialism and/or Marxism. Some attempt to make an explicitly Christian case for communism, as seen in a stunning article in July 2019 by the leading Jesuit publication, America Magazine, titled, "The Catholic Case for Communism," as if Christians have common cause with Karl Marx and his atheistic-materialist philosophy.
Having just published a book whose title suggests just the opposite, namely, "The Devil and Karl Marx," it pains me to see that anyone would believe that communism is compatible with Christianity specifically or religion generally. Such a notion is astonishing not only given the church's longtime intense opposition to communism, but also given the intense opposition to Christianity by the founders and disciples of communism. Those founders exhibited an intense opposition to Judaism as well, and they harbored some ugly views of Jews and, still more, of blacks. Those latter views were based in part on an atheistic-materialist commitment to Darwinian evolution that made those founders quite racist.
Where to start? Well, for Marx, the starting point was religion.
"Communism begins where atheism begins," said Karl Marx. "The criticism of religion is the beginning of all criticism."
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Marx framed man as not edified or uplifted by religion but in a "struggle against religion." This is a "struggle against that world whose spiritual aroma is religion." This is why people crave religion as a kind of drug: "Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions," averred Marx. "It is the opium of the people."
And again, for Marx, it all begins with religion. That's the foundation that must be razed. Religion was among the things he wanted to abolish, along with property, family, "all morality," and more.
As for "social justice" Christians who invoke communism as somehow consistent with Christian social teaching, well, Marx begged to differ. "The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility," scowled Marx. "The social principles of Christianity are hypocritical."
Georg Jung, a Marx contemporary and close friend, said that "Marx calls Christianity one of the most immoral religions." Jung viewed Marx as a theological-philosophical revolutionary who was attempting to overthrow the entire social system, not just an economic system.
Indeed he was. Marx in the "Manifesto" said that communism represents "the most radical rupture in traditional relations" and seeks to "abolish the present state of things." Imagine that. That is no small objective. And neither is this rather grandiose goal stated at the close of his "Manifesto": "They [the Communists] openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions."
Note the utterly revolutionary ambition: "the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions."
Marx and Engels closed their "Manifesto" with this exhortation to future revolutionaries: "Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things."
That objective has been seized by Marxist revolutionaries still today, whose desire seems to be to tear down rather than build up.
Obviously, this has no resemblance to Christianity – as Marx and friends knew. In fact, Marx's partner, Friedrich Engels, acknowledged that. One contemporary said of Engels: "He held, of course, that Christian socialism was a contradiction in terms."
Of course. That was part of the creed of communism. Vladimir Lenin declared that "any worship of a divinity is a necrophilia," insisted that "there is nothing more abominable than religion," and demanded: "Everyone must be absolutely free to … be an atheist, which every socialist is, as a rule."
Nikolai Bukharin, founding editor of Pravda, stated: "A fight to the death must be declared upon religion take on religion at the tip of the bayonet." According to Bukharin, "Religion and communism are incompatible, both theoretically and practically…. Communism is incompatible with religious faith."
Karl Marx was likewise unimpressed with the faith of his family—Judaism.
"The Israelite faith is repulsive to me," sneered Marx in 1843. In his awful 1844 essay "On the Jewish Question," Marx raged: "What is the worldly cult of the Jew? Haggling. What is his worldly god? Money." The Jew, Marx snarled, had become "impossible." He chillingly concluded: "The emancipation of the Jews, in the final analysis, is the emancipation of mankind from Judaism."
Marx particularly disliked a Jew who was part black. He referred to his fellow German socialist Ferdinand Lassalle as "the Jewish [N-word]." He and Engels debated over Lassalle's hair and cranial formation: "It is now perfectly clear to me that, as the shape of his head and the growth of his hair indicates, he is descended from the Negroes." Marx allowed for an exception: "unless his mother or grandmother on the father's side was crossed with a [N-word]." Marx mocked: "This union of Jew and German on a Negro base was bound to produce an extraordinary hybrid."
We see here the Darwinian roots of Marx's (and Engels') sordid attitude toward humanity. They viewed human beings as made not in the image of God—the imago Dei—but in the image of apes.
Both Marx and Engels made fun of Marx's son-in-law, Paul Lafargue, who was partly Cuban, which, by Marx's logic, meant he was partially infected by "Negro blood." Marx denigrated his own son-in-law as "Negrillo," or "The Gorilla." (Paul would kill himself in a suicide pact with Marx's daughter – alas, Marx lost two daughters in joint suicide pacts with their husbands.) Engels figured to Marx that Paul possessed "one-eighth or one-twelfth [N-word] blood." When Lafargue attempted to run as a political candidate for a council seat in a Paris district that contained a zoo, Engels made sure he took a shot at Paul in a letter to Paul's wife: "Being in his quality as a [N-word], a degree nearer to the rest of the animal kingdom than the rest of us, he is undoubtedly the most appropriate representative of that district."
These views are, obviously, thoroughly un-Christian.
To Marx and Engels, Darwin was the figure to look to, not God – who, after all, didn't exist. God was dead. In fact, when Marx died in March 1883, Engels looked to Darwin. Staring at Marx's cold coffin, which bore not a cross but two red wreaths, Engels in his eulogy invoked not God but Darwin, hailing the scientist for dealing such a grand blow for materialism and atheism. He would likewise hail Darwin in his eulogy for Marx's wife, Jenny: "The place where we stand is the best proof that she lived and died in the full conviction of atheist Materialism," averred Engels, soberly staring at a pile of dirt. "She knew that one day she would have to return, body and mind, to the bosom of that nature from which she had sprung."
Engels exhorted the atheist faithful to take pride and joy in their shared conviction that the vivacious Jenny was now reduced to mere worm food.
And yet, Darwin was hailed by leading Marxists in god-like language.
"Darwin destroyed the last of my ideological prejudices," Leon Trotsky triumphed. Trotsky said the "facts" about the world and life and its origins were established for him via this "certain system" of evolutionary theory. "The idea of evolution and determinism," he wrote, "took possession of me completely. Darwin stood for me like a mighty doorkeeper at the entrance to the temple of the universe. I was intoxicated with his … thought." Trotsky historian Barry Lee Woolley explained: "Trotsky took up the faith of Marx and Darwin. The conversion experience was genuine and thorough."
This is what we would expect of an ideology that fashioned a golden calf, a material idol, forged and focused on money, property, gold. It was not about the soul. The key to the communist-Marxist utopia would be economics. Solve the economic problem, communists believed, and you would solve the human problem. They speak as if man truly does live by bread alone (Christ corrected Satan on that one). As Pope Benedict XVI said, the fatal flaw of communists and socialists is that they had their anthropology wrong. They did not adequately understand man. As Augustine said, we all have a God-shaped vacuum that God alone can fill; not a dollar-signed vacuum. We crave the divine manna of heaven.
Alas, the Marxism that Karl Marx bequeathed is very much a reflection of his impoverished worldview. This materialistic-atheistic ideology would beget over 100 million deaths in the 20th century alone, not to mention a war on faith, family, property, and more. It still rages. And religious people should certainly reject it.


wnd--2020-09-29--Who's funding shady ballot-harvesting schemes?

Last week , while on a business trip in Wisconsin , I learned about an insane ballot-harvesting scheme that appears to be tied to a deep-pocketed liberal advocacy group subsidized by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg , Google , the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and eBay former chairman Pierre Omidyar 's Democracy Fund .
Conservative talk-radio host and grassroots activist Vicki McKenna blew the whistle after hearing ads played during her daily show on 1310 WIBA .
`` Last week on my radio program , we played Biden campaign ads , '' she told me .
`` They were all about something @ @ @ @ @ @ @ It was an advertisement about how Madison , Wisconsin , would have 200 parks hosting ballot harvesting events . ''
The ads were punctuated by a disclosure that they were `` paid for by Joe Biden for President . ''
On Saturday , Sept. 26 , as advertised by the Biden campaign , Madison poll workers turned out across the city to register voters and collect absentee ballots , even though in-person absentee ballot collection is not supposed to start until two weeks before Election Day , according to Wisconsin state election law @ @ @ @ @ @ @ up to photograph the city government workers ' activities promoted by the Biden for President campaign .
The poll workers stuffed ballots into `` red zipper bags with no security whatsoever .
The poll workers witnessed people 's ( blank ) ballots , just like you would if you did an in-person absentee ballot , threw them in the red zipper bags , and we do n't know what 's become of these ballots since , '' McKenna told me .
Imagine sheaves of ballots carelessly stuffed into cheap , canvas , pizza @ @ @ @ @ @ @ carted away by unknown drivers to unknown locations for unknown reasons .
Observers captured photos of several stuffed red bags being loaded into an unmarked white van parked outside Madison 's municipal government building .
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`` It 's clear from legal analysis : this is not legal and does not comport with Wisconsin election law , '' McKenna argues .
`` There 's some serious questions about ( Democratic ) campaign coordination with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , enter a shady entity called the `` Center for Tech and Civic Life . ''
It just so happens that this nonprofit `` election reform advocacy group , '' based in Chicago and founded in 2012 , has showered more than $ 6 million in the five largest cities in the crucial swing state of Wisconsin .
In July , using COVID-19 as a pretext to boost mail-in and absentee voting , the center released the following amounts to governmental grantees : According to the Center for Tech and Civic Life 's @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from across the country for their purported `` COVID-19 Response Grant Program '' to `` provide funding to U.S. local election offices to help ensure they have the critical resources they need to safely serve every voter in 2020 . ''
Grants are to be used to encourage alternatives to in-person voting , `` voter education and outreach efforts , '' `` early in-person voting '' and vote by mail – all tactics being deployed by anti-Trump , `` color revolutionary '' forces to drag out the election long past Election Day .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ this enterprise .
The Center 's top staff ( many of them Barack Obama campaign tech gurus ) come from a now-defunct liberal nonprofit called the New Organizing Institute , whose far-left donors include George Soros 's Open Society Foundation , the Ford Foundation and Atlantic Philanthropies .
CTCL director Tiana Epps-Johnson is a former Obama Foundation fellow .
The center received $ 250 million from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife , Priscilla Chan .
Trump-bashing Google is a top corporate partner .
Other donors include the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Never Trumper '' billionaire and eBay former chairman Pierre Omidyar ) .
Chicago political activist Jay Stone has filed a legal complaint against CTCL , alleging that its grant scheme `` artificially inflates Democrat Joe Biden 's statewide Wisconsin vote total and enhances Joe Biden 's chances of winning Wisconsin 's 10 electoral votes '' by targeting private funds to Democratic-run cities under the guise of enhancing pandemic safety and election integrity .
In addition to Wisconsin , Democratic-run jurisdictions in battleground state Pennsylvania that have received CTCL infusions include Delaware County ( @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a whopping $ 10 million ) .
McKenna warns that the alarm-raising `` Democracy in the Park '' scheme in CTCL-subsidized Madison , Wisconsin , will be back in action on Oct. 3 .
I reached out Monday to CTCL to confirm whether its grants are being used for the tote bag ballot-harvesting program touted by the Biden campaign .
No reply .
Maybe I 'll get a reply to these questions : If , as it plainly appears , private big tech and left-wing philanthropic funding are being used to rig the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of our country , where the heck are the Justice Department and Attorney General Bill Barr ?
Why have n't these dubiously collected ballots already been tracked down , segregated and secured ?
And finally : Is this what the `` peaceful transfer of power '' is supposed to look like in America ?

Last week, while on a business trip in Wisconsin, I learned about an insane ballot-harvesting scheme that appears to be tied to a deep-pocketed liberal advocacy group subsidized by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Google, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and eBay former chairman Pierre Omidyar's Democracy Fund.
Conservative talk-radio host and grassroots activist Vicki McKenna blew the whistle after hearing ads played during her daily show on 1310 WIBA.
"Last week on my radio program, we played Biden campaign ads," she told me. "They were all about something called 'Democracy in the Park.' It was an advertisement about how Madison, Wisconsin, would have 200 parks hosting ballot harvesting events." The ads were punctuated by a disclosure that they were "paid for by Joe Biden for President."
On Saturday, Sept. 26, as advertised by the Biden campaign, Madison poll workers turned out across the city to register voters and collect absentee ballots, even though in-person absentee ballot collection is not supposed to start until two weeks before Election Day, according to Wisconsin state election law. Several of McKenna's listeners showed up to photograph the city government workers' activities promoted by the Biden for President campaign. The poll workers stuffed ballots into "red zipper bags with no security whatsoever. The poll workers witnessed people's (blank) ballots, just like you would if you did an in-person absentee ballot, threw them in the red zipper bags, and we don't know what's become of these ballots since," McKenna told me.
Imagine sheaves of ballots carelessly stuffed into cheap, canvas, pizza delivery-style totes. Then imagine them being carted away by unknown drivers to unknown locations for unknown reasons. Observers captured photos of several stuffed red bags being loaded into an unmarked white van parked outside Madison's municipal government building.
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"It's clear from legal analysis: this is not legal and does not comport with Wisconsin election law," McKenna argues. "There's some serious questions about (Democratic) campaign coordination with the city of Madison."
Now, enter a shady entity called the "Center for Tech and Civic Life." It just so happens that this nonprofit "election reform advocacy group," based in Chicago and founded in 2012, has showered more than $6 million in the five largest cities in the crucial swing state of Wisconsin. In July, using COVID-19 as a pretext to boost mail-in and absentee voting, the center released the following amounts to governmental grantees:
City of Milwaukee: $2,154,500
City of Madison: $1,271,788
City of Green Bay: $1,093,400
City of Kenosha: $862,779
City of Racine: $942,100
According to the Center for Tech and Civic Life's website, it fielded over 1,100 applications from across the country for their purported "COVID-19 Response Grant Program" to "provide funding to U.S. local election offices to help ensure they have the critical resources they need to safely serve every voter in 2020." Grants are to be used to encourage alternatives to in-person voting, "voter education and outreach efforts," "early in-person voting" and vote by mail – all tactics being deployed by anti-Trump, "color revolutionary" forces to drag out the election long past Election Day.
There is nothing "nonpartisan" about this enterprise. The Center's top staff (many of them Barack Obama campaign tech gurus) come from a now-defunct liberal nonprofit called the New Organizing Institute, whose far-left donors include George Soros's Open Society Foundation, the Ford Foundation and Atlantic Philanthropies. CTCL director Tiana Epps-Johnson is a former Obama Foundation fellow. The center received $250 million from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan. Trump-bashing Google is a top corporate partner. Other donors include the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Democracy Fund (founded by "Never Trumper" billionaire and eBay former chairman Pierre Omidyar).
Chicago political activist Jay Stone has filed a legal complaint against CTCL, alleging that its grant scheme "artificially inflates Democrat Joe Biden's statewide Wisconsin vote total and enhances Joe Biden's chances of winning Wisconsin's 10 electoral votes" by targeting private funds to Democratic-run cities under the guise of enhancing pandemic safety and election integrity. In addition to Wisconsin, Democratic-run jurisdictions in battleground state Pennsylvania that have received CTCL infusions include Delaware County ($2.2 million) and Philadelphia (a whopping $10 million).
McKenna warns that the alarm-raising "Democracy in the Park" scheme in CTCL-subsidized Madison, Wisconsin, will be back in action on Oct. 3. I reached out Monday to CTCL to confirm whether its grants are being used for the tote bag ballot-harvesting program touted by the Biden campaign. No reply. Maybe I'll get a reply to these questions:
If, as it plainly appears, private big tech and left-wing philanthropic funding are being used to rig the election process in the most important battlegrounds of our country, where the heck are the Justice Department and Attorney General Bill Barr?
Why haven't these dubiously collected ballots already been tracked down, segregated and secured?
And finally: Is this what the "peaceful transfer of power" is supposed to look like in America?


wnd--2020-09-29--A Supreme Court justice's only job: referee

The United States Constitution 's Article II , Sec .
2 , clause 2 , provides that the president of the United States `` shall nominate , and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate , shall appoint Ambassadors , other public Ministers and Consuls , Judges of the Supreme Court , and all other Officers of the United States . ''
President Donald Trump has nominated Amy Coney Barrett as U.S. Supreme Court justice who will replace the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg .
Barrett currently serves as United States circuit judge of the 7th U.S .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Circuit serves the Midwestern states of Illinois , Indiana and Wisconsin .
It is now the Senate 's job to decide whether to confirm Barrett 's appointment as an associate justice on the Supreme Court .
In thinking about the Senate 's criteria for making its decision , we might ask , what is the role of a U.S. Supreme Court justice ?
A reasonable answer is to recognize that our Constitution represents our rules of the game .
It dictates what is and is not permissible behavior by government and its citizens @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has one job and one job only ; namely , that of a referee .
A referee 's job , whether he is a football referee , baseball umpire or a Supreme Court justice , is to know the rules of the game and to ensure that those rules are evenly applied without bias .
Do we want a referee or justice to allow empathy to influence his or her decisions ?
Let us answer this question using this year 's Super Bowl as an example .
The San Francisco 49ers have played @ @ @ @ @ @ @ history , winning five times .
On the other hand , coming into the 2020 game , the Kansas City Chiefs had not won a Super Bowl title in 50 years .
In anyone 's book , this is a gross disparity .
Should the referees have the empathy to understand what it is like to be a perennial loser , not winning a Super Bowl in five decades ?
What would you think of a referee whose play calls were guided by empathy or pity ?
Suppose a referee , in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pass interference or roughing the passer violations against the San Francisco 49ers and less stringently against the Chiefs .
Would you support a referee who refused to make offensive pass interference calls because he thought it was a silly rule ?
You would probably remind him that it is the league that makes the rules ( football law ) , not referees .
Supreme Court justices should be umpires or referees , enforcing neutral rules .
Here is a somewhat trivial example of a neutral rule from my youth ; let us call @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , my sister and I would have lunch in my mother 's absence .
Either my younger sister or I would have the job of dividing the last piece of cake or pie .
Almost always an argument would ensue about the fairness of the cut .
Those arguments ended when Mom came up with a rule : Whoever cuts the cake gives the other person the first choice of the piece to take .
As if by magic or divine intervention , fairness emerged and arguments ended .
No matter who did @ @ @ @ @ @ @ division .
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This is what our society needs – the kind of rules whereby you would be OK even if your worst enemy were in charge .
Despite the high stakes of bitterly fought football contests , most games end peaceably , and the winners and losers are civil .
It is indeed a miracle of sorts that players with conflicting interests can play a game , agree with the outcome and walk @ @ @ @ @ @ @ miracle '' is that it is far easier to reach an understanding about the game 's rules than the game 's outcome .
The same conflict-reducing principles should be a part of a civilized society .

The United States Constitution's Article II, Sec. 2, clause 2, provides that the president of the United States "shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the Supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States." President Donald Trump has nominated Amy Coney Barrett as U.S. Supreme Court justice who will replace the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Barrett currently serves as United States circuit judge of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The 7th Circuit serves the Midwestern states of Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin.
It is now the Senate's job to decide whether to confirm Barrett's appointment as an associate justice on the Supreme Court. In thinking about the Senate's criteria for making its decision, we might ask, what is the role of a U.S. Supreme Court justice? A reasonable answer is to recognize that our Constitution represents our rules of the game. It dictates what is and is not permissible behavior by government and its citizens. Therefore, a Supreme Court justice has one job and one job only; namely, that of a referee.
A referee's job, whether he is a football referee, baseball umpire or a Supreme Court justice, is to know the rules of the game and to ensure that those rules are evenly applied without bias. Do we want a referee or justice to allow empathy to influence his or her decisions? Let us answer this question using this year's Super Bowl as an example.
The San Francisco 49ers have played in seven Super Bowls in their franchise history, winning five times. On the other hand, coming into the 2020 game, the Kansas City Chiefs had not won a Super Bowl title in 50 years. In anyone's book, this is a gross disparity. Should the referees have the empathy to understand what it is like to be a perennial loser, not winning a Super Bowl in five decades? What would you think of a referee whose play calls were guided by empathy or pity? Suppose a referee, in the name of compensatory justice, stringently applied pass interference or roughing the passer violations against the San Francisco 49ers and less stringently against the Chiefs. Would you support a referee who refused to make offensive pass interference calls because he thought it was a silly rule? You would probably remind him that it is the league that makes the rules (football law), not referees.
Supreme Court justices should be umpires or referees, enforcing neutral rules. Here is a somewhat trivial example of a neutral rule from my youth; let us call it Mom's Rule. On occasion, my sister and I would have lunch in my mother's absence. Either my younger sister or I would have the job of dividing the last piece of cake or pie. Almost always an argument would ensue about the fairness of the cut. Those arguments ended when Mom came up with a rule: Whoever cuts the cake gives the other person the first choice of the piece to take. As if by magic or divine intervention, fairness emerged and arguments ended. No matter who did the cutting, there was an even division.
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This is what our society needs – the kind of rules whereby you would be OK even if your worst enemy were in charge. Despite the high stakes of bitterly fought football contests, most games end peaceably, and the winners and losers are civil. It is indeed a miracle of sorts that players with conflicting interests can play a game, agree with the outcome and walk away as good sports. That "miracle" is that it is far easier to reach an understanding about the game's rules than the game's outcome. The same conflict-reducing principles should be a part of a civilized society.


wnd--2020-09-29--Obama judges on a rampage against Trump

Obama judges on a rampage against Trump

While the nation 's attention is transfixed on the impending confirmation of a new justice of the Supreme Court , lower-court judges have been ruling almost daily against good policies of the Trump administration and the states that voted for him in 2016 .
Democrat-appointed judges have issued sweeping injunctions on the census , the post office , the presidential election , state ballot requirements , asylum , the border wall and even TikTok .
Imagine a football game where the rules about what constitutes a first down were changed during the contest .
How silly and unfair it would @ @ @ @ @ @ @ rule change were imposed to require only 5 yards rather than 10 to attain a first down .
Yet a flood of recent decisions by Obama-appointed judges are trying to change rules for the presidential election that is ongoing .
Shockingly , more than 300 such lawsuits have been filed this year in 44 states , according to the COVID-Related Election Litigation Tracker .
Obama judges have arrogantly acted to suspend or override state laws that protect the security of ballots and prohibit accepting ballots after Election Day .
A chaotic landscape of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ an election process that has worked well for 232 years .
In Wisconsin , Arizona , Georgia , Louisiana and South Carolina , Obama-appointed judges have ordered election officials to accept and count ballots that arrive after the deadline established by state law .
The Wisconsin ruling was temporarily put on hold by the 7th Circuit , but the South Carolina ruling was upheld by the Democrat-controlled 4th Circuit .
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These rulings fly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ which requires courts to refrain from disturbing the established procedures so close to an election .
Judicial supremacy , by which judges pretend to be supreme over the other branches of government , is a pandemic now .
Federal courts have even interfered with the beneficial deal President Trump brokered for the transfer of the popular TikTok app from the Chinese Communists to new American owners .
The administration correctly viewed Chinese control of TikTok as a threat to our national security , yet a transaction which would have created a $ 5 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ been disrupted by the federal judiciary .
Joe Biden promised to appoint a black female to the Supreme Court , and Stacey Abrams , the failed candidate for governor of Georgia , seems to be his leading choice .
A Yale Law School graduate whose sister is an Obama-appointed federal judge , Abrams recently headed the $ 10 million New Georgia Project that brought the Georgia lawsuit asking an Obama judge to overturn state laws that protect ballot security .
In South Carolina , Obama Judge J. Michelle Childs issued a 71-page opinion @ @ @ @ @ @ @ requirement of a witness signature for absentee ballots .
The witness requirement was specifically relied on by Republican state legislators when they agreed to extend absentee ballots to all voters this year .
In Louisiana , Obama Judge Shelly Dick arbitrarily extended the deadlines for both early voting and mail-in voting .
In Georgia , Obama Judge Eleanor Ross ordered election officials to accept and count mail-in ballots received three days after the election , despite a state law which requires all ballots to be received by Election Day .
In Arizona , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to allow voters five days to cure a missing signature or other defect on their mail-in ballots , despite state law which requires all ballots to be completed by Election Day .
In Wisconsin , Obama Judge William M. Conley ordered election officials to accept mail-in ballots received six days after the election , despite its state law forbidding that .
In Washington state , Obama Judge Stanley Bastian ordered the Postal Service to make multiple changes in its procedures , ostensibly to promote massive use of mail-in voting .
Among other instructions @ @ @ @ @ @ @ treat election-related mail as first-class mail even if first-class postage was n't paid .
There are still plenty of Clinton judges engaging in activism , too .
Texas had a reasonable plan to allow seniors at risk of COVID to use absentee ballots without excuse , but Clinton-appointed Judge Fred Biery absurdly ruled that it violated the 26th Amendment not to allow the same accommodation to 18-year-old voters ; the 5th Circuit reversed him .
Politics abhors a vacuum , and Democrat-appointed judges are wasting no time filling up the judicial pipeline with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Justice Amy Coney Barrett .
All over the country , Obama-appointed district court judges are issuing rulings they hope will outlast Trump and be upheld by a future Justice Stacey Abrams .
The last presidential election hinged on the issue of the courts , as most voters wanted President Trump to fill the vacancy created by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia .
The same issue persists now at the district court level , as this recent tsunami of leftist injunctions demonstrates .

While the nation's attention is transfixed on the impending confirmation of a new justice of the Supreme Court, lower-court judges have been ruling almost daily against good policies of the Trump administration and the states that voted for him in 2016. Democrat-appointed judges have issued sweeping injunctions on the census, the post office, the presidential election, state ballot requirements, asylum, the border wall and even TikTok.
Imagine a football game where the rules about what constitutes a first down were changed during the contest. How silly and unfair it would be if in the second half a rule change were imposed to require only 5 yards rather than 10 to attain a first down.
Yet a flood of recent decisions by Obama-appointed judges are trying to change rules for the presidential election that is ongoing. Shockingly, more than 300 such lawsuits have been filed this year in 44 states, according to the COVID-Related Election Litigation Tracker.
Obama judges have arrogantly acted to suspend or override state laws that protect the security of ballots and prohibit accepting ballots after Election Day. A chaotic landscape of court decisions and emergency appeals have undermined an election process that has worked well for 232 years.
In Wisconsin, Arizona, Georgia, Louisiana and South Carolina, Obama-appointed judges have ordered election officials to accept and count ballots that arrive after the deadline established by state law. The Wisconsin ruling was temporarily put on hold by the 7th Circuit, but the South Carolina ruling was upheld by the Democrat-controlled 4th Circuit.
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These rulings fly in the face of Purcell doctrine, which requires courts to refrain from disturbing the established procedures so close to an election. Judicial supremacy, by which judges pretend to be supreme over the other branches of government, is a pandemic now.
Federal courts have even interfered with the beneficial deal President Trump brokered for the transfer of the popular TikTok app from the Chinese Communists to new American owners. The administration correctly viewed Chinese control of TikTok as a threat to our national security, yet a transaction which would have created a $5 billion windfall for the American people has been disrupted by the federal judiciary.
Joe Biden promised to appoint a black female to the Supreme Court, and Stacey Abrams, the failed candidate for governor of Georgia, seems to be his leading choice. A Yale Law School graduate whose sister is an Obama-appointed federal judge, Abrams recently headed the $10 million New Georgia Project that brought the Georgia lawsuit asking an Obama judge to overturn state laws that protect ballot security.
In South Carolina, Obama Judge J. Michelle Childs issued a 71-page opinion overturning several state laws, including the requirement of a witness signature for absentee ballots. The witness requirement was specifically relied on by Republican state legislators when they agreed to extend absentee ballots to all voters this year.
In Louisiana, Obama Judge Shelly Dick arbitrarily extended the deadlines for both early voting and mail-in voting. In Georgia, Obama Judge Eleanor Ross ordered election officials to accept and count mail-in ballots received three days after the election, despite a state law which requires all ballots to be received by Election Day.
In Arizona, Obama Judge Douglas Rayes ordered election officials to allow voters five days to cure a missing signature or other defect on their mail-in ballots, despite state law which requires all ballots to be completed by Election Day. In Wisconsin, Obama Judge William M. Conley ordered election officials to accept mail-in ballots received six days after the election, despite its state law forbidding that.
In Washington state, Obama Judge Stanley Bastian ordered the Postal Service to make multiple changes in its procedures, ostensibly to promote massive use of mail-in voting. Among other instructions, Judge Bastian wants post offices to treat election-related mail as first-class mail even if first-class postage wasn't paid.
There are still plenty of Clinton judges engaging in activism, too. Texas had a reasonable plan to allow seniors at risk of COVID to use absentee ballots without excuse, but Clinton-appointed Judge Fred Biery absurdly ruled that it violated the 26th Amendment not to allow the same accommodation to 18-year-old voters; the 5th Circuit reversed him.
Politics abhors a vacuum, and Democrat-appointed judges are wasting no time filling up the judicial pipeline with activist rulings while Republicans focus on future Justice Amy Coney Barrett. All over the country, Obama-appointed district court judges are issuing rulings they hope will outlast Trump and be upheld by a future Justice Stacey Abrams.
The last presidential election hinged on the issue of the courts, as most voters wanted President Trump to fill the vacancy created by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia. The same issue persists now at the district court level, as this recent tsunami of leftist injunctions demonstrates.


wnd--2020-09-30--Biden feared to answer Supreme Court question, senator says

( FOX NEWS ) -- Joe Biden refused to answer a question on packing the Supreme Court in the first @ @ @ @ @ vice president is `` afraid of alienating his far-left flank '' and losing the election @ @ @ @ @ R-Ark.
, told `` Fox & Friends '' Wednesday .
When Fox News ' Chris @ @ @ @ @ debate moderator , pressed the Democratic presidential candidate on whether he would be willing to @ @ @ @ @ end the Senate filibuster , Biden flatly refused to take a stance on the issue @ @ @ @ @ does n't want to answer the question whether or not he will pack the court @ @ @ @ @ to pack the court , '' Cotton said .

(FOX NEWS) -- Joe Biden refused to answer a question on packing the Supreme Court in the first presidential debate because the former vice president is "afraid of alienating his far-left flank" and losing the election, Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., told "Fox & Friends" Wednesday.
When Fox News' Chris Wallace, Tuesday night's debate moderator, pressed the Democratic presidential candidate on whether he would be willing to pack the Supreme Court and end the Senate filibuster, Biden flatly refused to take a stance on the issue.
"Joe Biden obviously doesn't want to answer the question whether or not he will pack the court because his far-left flank wants to pack the court," Cotton said.
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wnd--2020-09-30--Biden misrepresents Judge Barrett's position on Obamacare

Responding to moderator Chris Wallace ’ s opening question on each candidate ’ s position on Judge Barrett , Biden @ @ @ @ @ ’ s written before she went on the bench , which is her right , @ @ @ @ @ Care Act is not constitutional . ''
Barrett has not said that the ACA , @ @ @ @ @ is unconstitutional .
She has written that Obamacare ’ s individual mandate , the requirement @ @ @ @ @ or pay fine , is not constitutional .

(WASHINGTON EXAMINER) -- Joe Biden misstated Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s position on Obamacare in Tuesday’s presidential debate.
Responding to moderator Chris Wallace’s opening question on each candidate’s position on Judge Barrett, Biden responded, "What she’s written before she went on the bench, which is her right, that she thinks the Affordable Care Act is not constitutional."
Barrett has not said that the ACA, also known as Obamacare, is unconstitutional. She has written that Obamacare’s individual mandate, the requirement that people have health coverage or pay fine, is not constitutional.
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wnd--2020-09-30--Media to Biden: Back out of future debates

( FOX NEWS ) -- A tidal wave from the mainstream media is speculating whether the two remaining debates between @ @ @ @ @ should even be held after their brutal first showdown Tuesday night in Cleveland .
There @ @ @ @ @ consensus about the messy and ugly nature of the first debate -- which was filled @ @ @ @ @ Two more debated are scheduled for Oct. 15 and Oct. 22 , with a vice @ @ @ @ @ 7 .
During MSNBC 's post-debate coverage , `` ReidOut '' host Joy Reid questioned @ @ @ @ @ who has worked on presidential campaigns in the past , if Biden should bother showing @ @ @ @ @ .

(FOX NEWS) -- A tidal wave from the mainstream media is speculating whether the two remaining debates between President Trump and Joe Biden should even be held after their brutal first showdown Tuesday night in Cleveland.
There appears to be a wide consensus about the messy and ugly nature of the first debate -- which was filled with interruptions and insults. Two more debated are scheduled for Oct. 15 and Oct. 22, with a vice presidential debate set for Oct. 7.
During MSNBC's post-debate coverage, "ReidOut" host Joy Reid questioned her colleague Nicolle Wallace, who has worked on presidential campaigns in the past, if Biden should bother showing up to the next debate.
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wnd--2020-09-30--U.S. private employers add 749,000 jobs in September

( FOX BUSINESS ) -- Private employers hired at a faster-than-expected pace in September , indicating the nation 's pandemic-ravaged @ @ @ @ @ recover from the coronavirus crisis , according to the ADP National Employment Report released Wednesday @ @ @ @ @ companies created 749,000 new jobs last month , topping the 650,000-job increase that economists surveyed @ @ @ @ @ “ The labor market continues to recover gradually , ” Ahu Yildirmaz , vice president @ @ @ @ @ Research Institute , said in a statement .
“ In September , the majority of @ @ @ @ @ gains with trade , transportation and utilities ; and manufacturing leading the way .
However @ @ @ @ @ demonstrate slower growth . ''

(FOX BUSINESS) -- Private employers hired at a faster-than-expected pace in September, indicating the nation's pandemic-ravaged labor market is continuing to recover from the coronavirus crisis, according to the ADP National Employment Report released Wednesday.
The report showed that companies created 749,000 new jobs last month, topping the 650,000-job increase that economists surveyed by Refinitiv had expected.
“The labor market continues to recover gradually,” Ahu Yildirmaz, vice president and co-head of the ADP Research Institute, said in a statement. “In September, the majority of sectors and company sizes experienced gains with trade, transportation and utilities; and manufacturing leading the way. However, small businesses continued to demonstrate slower growth."
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wnd--2020-09-30--Brutal chaos at debate: Trump, Biden talk over each other for 90 minutes

At the outset of what has been widely dubbed the most important debate in the most important presidential campaign in recent history , moderator Chris Wallace lost control .
After yet another sharp back-and-forth that strayed off topic , including talking over each other , Wallace carved out a moment of silence .
`` I 'm the moderator of this debate , and I would like to ask my question , '' said the `` Fox News Sunday '' anchor at the first of three debates , this one hosted by Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Clinic .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Trump brought up his repeated accusation that Biden is beholden to his party 's left wing , which ultimately wants universal health care .
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`` The party is me , right now , ” Biden shot back .
`` I am the Democratic Party . ''
The former vice president said he 's @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Democratic platform is what he says it is .
`` Not according to Harris , '' Trump said , referring to the Democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris .
Biden insisted the public option would not end private insurance and would be `` only for those people who are so poor they qualify for Medicaid and would automatically be enrolled . ''
Trump shot back that Biden agreed with primary opponent Bernie Sanders on socialized medicine '' Not by much , '' Trump replied .
`` Here 's the deal , '' @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that everything he is saying is a lie .
Everybody knows he is a liar . ''
When Trump interruped once again , Wallace said , `` Let him finish , sir . ''
`` He does n't know how to do that , '' Biden said .
Trump , referring to Biden 's unwillingness to back universal health care , said , `` You just lost the left . ''
Biden shot back , `` Do you have any idea what this clown is doing ?
`` He already has cost 10 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ recession , '' Biden said .
Trump said , `` I want to give them health care at a much better price . ''
Wallace once again interjected : `` Gentlemen , do you realize you are both speaking at the same time ? ''
Biden inserted , `` The fact is this man does n't know what he 's talking about . ''
At another point , he told Trump , `` Will you shut up , man . ''
Finally , Wallace said facetiously , `` That was really a productive @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to be serious '' about the debate , he said , for the sake of the American people .
Amid the chaotic exchange , Biden refused to say whether or not he supports packing the Supreme Court and ending the filibuster , as Democratic leaders have threatened .
When Trump tried to reply to a statement by Biden , Wallace interrupted the president .
`` You know , sir , if you wan na switch seats , we could do that , '' Wallace said .
At various times , Biden called Trump @ @ @ @ @ @ @ clown , a `` racist '' and `` Putin 's puppy . ''
When Biden said Trump should become `` smart '' with the coronavirus , the president said his rival is `` not smart . ''
`` You graduated the lowest in your class , '' Trump said .
“ Don ’ t ever use the word smart with me , '' the president said .
`` Nothing smart about you , Joe . ''
Trump said he 's done more in 47 months than Biden in his 47 years in Washington @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the `` Trump tax code . ''
Trump asked his rival why he did n't propose a better plan during his decades in Washington .
`` Because you weren ’ t president screwing things up , '' Biden said .
`` You 're the worst president America has ever had . ''
On trade and foreign policy , Biden said Trump 's trade deals have put America in a worse position .
`` China ate your lunch , '' Trump said , turning to the Senate investigation that found Hunter Biden profited in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ foreign policy in those countries .
`` And no wonder your son goes in and takes out billions of dollars to manage , makes millions of dollars -- while we ’ re at it , why did the mayor of Moscow ’ s wife give your son $ 3.5 million ?
What did he do with Burisma ? ''
Trump said .
`` My son did nothing wrong with Burisma , '' Biden said .
`` Everyone has discredited it . ''
Amid shouting back and forth , Biden said , `` It @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with this clown -- excuse me -- this president .
`` Here 's the deal .
We want to talk about families and ethics .
I don ’ t want to do that , '' Biden said .
`` His family -- we can go on all night . ''
Trump said his family `` lost a fortune '' when it came to work for the government .
`` This is not about my family or his family its about your family , '' Biden said , speaking directly into a camera .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ about what you need , the American people , it 's about you .
That 's who we ’ re talking about here . ''
On the coronavirus pandemic , Trump pointed out that Biden opposed his decision in January to shut down travel from China , calling it `` xenophobic . ''
`` If we would have listened to you ... millions of people would have died , '' Trump said .
He cited White House coronavirus adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci saying the move save thousands of lives and told Biden `` @ @ @ @ @ @ @ did a phenomenal job '' handling the pandemic .
`` Now , we 're weeks away from a vaccine ... far fewer people are dying , '' Trump said , adding that the `` fake news gives me bad press , they give you good press . ''
`` You never could have done that job , '' the president said .
`` You did n't do a very good job on swine flu . ''
Biden replied , `` We did n't shut down the economy . ''
Regarding the current pandemic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a mask '' the number of deaths could have been cut in half .
`` Do you believe for a moment what he 's telling you in light of all the lies he told you about COVID ? ''
Biden said .
Trump said the Democrats want to keep the country shut down until after the election .
Asked about Trump holding large rallies while Biden holds much smaller events , Biden said his Republican opponent has `` been a fool on this . ''
Trump retorted : `` If you could get @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the same thing . ''
The president said Biden `` will shut it down again , he will destroy this economy . ''
Wallace asked Trump about the New York Times story over the weekend that he paid only $ 750 in taxes in 2016 .
After a back and forth , with Wallace insisting Trump was n't answering the question , Trump said he paid millions of dollars in taxes in 2016 and 2017 .
He explained he took advantage of a tax bill passed by the Obama-Biden administration that gave credits @ @ @ @ @ @ @ claim that Trump said after the 2017 Charlottesville clash over a Robert E. Lee statue that neo-Nazis and white supremacists are `` very fine people . ''
`` No president has ever said anything like that , '' Biden said .
Trump did n't mention the fact that he specifically said in his comments about Charlottesville that he was not referring to neo-Nazis and white supremacists when he said there `` very fine people '' on both sides of the issue .
In fact , he condemned the white supremacists .
His reference @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The Democrat charged Trump has `` used everything as a dog whistle '' to his supporters .
Wallace asked Biden if he believed that America had two separate and unequal justice systems .
`` Yes , there is systemic unjustice in this country in education and work and law enforcement , '' he said .
`` We have to have a system where people are held accountable . ''
Wallace asked Trump why he issued an executive order to end the teaching of critical race theory among federal employees .
Trump said @ @ @ @ @ @ @ teaching people to hate our country . ''
Biden insisted there is widespread `` racial insensitivity '' and the training `` makes a gigantic difference in the way a child is able to grow up and have a sense of self esteem . ''
Biden said he does not support defunding police but supports `` community policing , '' which Trump contended means defunding police .
Wallace was asked why he did n't urge Portland , Oregon , Mayor Ted Wheeler to call in the National Guard and get control of the more @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Pacific Northwest city .
`` I do n't hold public office now , '' Biden replied .
`` I am a former vice president . ''
Biden said the Democratic mayors `` can take care of it , if [ Trump ] would just stay out of the way . ''
In a memorable exchange , the Democratic nominee insisted Antifa is `` an idea , not an organization . ''
It began with Wallace asking Trump if he would be `` willing tonight to condemn white supremacists and militia groups and to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and not add to the violence in a number of these cities as we saw in Kenosha and as we ’ ve seen in Portland . ''
`` Sure , I 'm willing to do that , '' the president said .
`` But I would say almost everything I see is from the left-wing not from the right-wing .
I 'm willing to do anything .
I want to see peace . ''
`` Then do it , sir '' Wallace said .
`` Do it , say it , '' said @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to call them ?
Trump asked .
`` Give me a name . ''
`` What supremacists and Proud Boys , '' Wallace said .
`` Proud Boys stand back and stand by , but I 'll tell you what , somebody ’ s got ta do something about Antifa and the left because this is not a right-wing problem , '' the president said .
`` This is a left-wing problem . ''
Biden said Trump 's `` own FBI director said the threat comes from white supremacists — Antifa is an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ militias , that 's what his FBI director said . ''
Trump replied , `` Well , you know what ?
He 's wrong . ''
Said Biden , `` Everyone in your administration who tells you the truth has a bad idea . ''
Wallace asked each candidate why he should be elected .
`` There has never been an administration or president who has done more than I 've done in a period of three and a half years , '' Trump said .
`` That 's despite the impeachment hoax @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with Hillary Clinton , where it was a whole big con job .
`` But despite going through all these things , where I had to fight both flanks , and behind me and above , there has never been an administration that 's done what I 've done , '' he said .
`` Before COVID came in , the greatest economy in history , the lowest unemployment nunbers , everything was good . ''
He also mentioned the `` rebuilding of the military '' and `` the fixing of the VA @ @ @ @ @ @ @ which was a mess under him , '' pointing to Biden .
And by the end of his first term , he will have 300 judges appointed , including three Supreme Court justices , if Amy Coney Barrett is confirmed .
Biden then was given two minutes .
`` Under this president we 've become weaker , sicker , poorer , more divided and more violent , '' Biden said .
The former vice president said that when he entered office the administration `` inherited a recession '' and he was `` asked @ @ @ @ @ @ @ did , we left him a booming economy , and he caused a recession . ''
Biden said he went `` head to head '' with Russian President Vladimir Putin and said `` I 'm not going to take any of his stuff . ''
`` He 's Putin 's puppy , '' Biden said .
`` He still refuses to even say anything to Putin about the bounty on the heads of American soldiers . ''
Biden said America is poorer because the billionaires have become much more wealthy since COVID .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ , he said , `` You , on the whole , you got less .
You 're in more trouble than you were before . ''
Wallace pressed Trump on what he believes about `` the science '' on climate change `` and what he will do to confront it .
`` I want crystal clean water and air , I want beautiful , clean air .
We have now the lowest carbon .
if you look at our numbers now , we are doing phenomenally .
But I have n't destroyed our @ @ @ @ @ @ @ called the Paris climate accord `` a disaster '' for the United States .
`` As far as the fires are concerned , you need forest management , in addition to everything else . ''
On climate change , Biden said , `` I do n't support the Green New Deal . ''
But his campaign website says Biden `` believes the Green New Deal is a crucial framework for meeting the climate challenges we face . ''
It started before the debate Ahead of the debate , President Trump 's campaign asked @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the ears of each debater for electronic devices or transmitters .
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said the Biden campaign initially accepted the provision then backed out .
The Biden campaign denied the claim .
And it denied the Trump campaign 's claim that Biden 's handlers requested two breaks during the 90-minute commercial-free program .
Biden trolled Trump just before the debate with a photo of ear buds and a pint of ice cream .
`` It 's debate night , so I 've got my earpiece and performance enhancers ready @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The Biden campaign and the DNC War Room are using a Twitter handle described by some Trump supporters as `` Orwellian , '' @ Truth , to `` fact-check '' Trump in real time .

At the outset of what has been widely dubbed the most important debate in the most important presidential campaign in recent history, moderator Chris Wallace lost control.
After yet another sharp back-and-forth that strayed off topic, including talking over each other, Wallace carved out a moment of silence.
"I'm the moderator of this debate, and I would like to ask my question," said the "Fox News Sunday" anchor at the first of three debates, this one hosted by Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Clinic.
On the topic of health care, Trump brought up his repeated accusation that Biden is beholden to his party's left wing, which ultimately wants universal health care.
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"Your party wants to go socialist, and they are going to dominate you, you know that," Trump said.
"The party is me, right now,” Biden shot back. "I am the Democratic Party."
The former vice president said he's proposed that Obamacare be expanded, insisting the Democratic platform is what he says it is.
"Not according to Harris," Trump said, referring to the Democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris.
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Biden insisted the public option would not end private insurance and would be "only for those people who are so poor they qualify for Medicaid and would automatically be enrolled."
Trump shot back that Biden agreed with primary opponent Bernie Sanders on socialized medicine
"I beat Bernie Sanders," Biden retorted.
"Not by much," Trump replied.
"Here's the deal," Biden said, "the fact is that everything he is saying is a lie. Everybody knows he is a liar."
When Trump interruped once again, Wallace said, "Let him finish, sir."
"He doesn't know how to do that," Biden said.
Trump, referring to Biden's unwillingness to back universal health care, said, "You just lost the left."
Biden shot back, "Do you have any idea what this clown is doing?
"He already has cost 10 million people their health care because of recession," Biden said.
Trump said, "I want to give them health care at a much better price."
Wallace once again interjected: "Gentlemen, do you realize you are both speaking at the same time?"
Biden inserted, "The fact is this man doesn't know what he's talking about."
At another point, he told Trump, "Will you shut up, man."
Finally, Wallace said facetiously, "That was really a productive segment."
"Let's try to be serious" about the debate, he said, for the sake of the American people.
Amid the chaotic exchange, Biden refused to say whether or not he supports packing the Supreme Court and ending the filibuster, as Democratic leaders have threatened.
When Trump tried to reply to a statement by Biden, Wallace interrupted the president.
"You know, sir, if you wanna switch seats, we could do that," Wallace said.
Get smart
At various times, Biden called Trump a "liar," a "clown, a "racist" and "Putin's puppy."
When Biden said Trump should become "smart" with the coronavirus, the president said his rival is "not smart."
"You graduated the lowest in your class," Trump said.
“Don’t ever use the word smart with me," the president said. "Nothing smart about you, Joe."
Trump said he's done more in 47 months than Biden in his 47 years in Washington.
Biden repeated his promise to repeal the "Trump tax code."
Trump asked his rival why he didn't propose a better plan during his decades in Washington.
"Because you weren’t president screwing things up," Biden said. "You're the worst president America has ever had."
On trade and foreign policy, Biden said Trump's trade deals have put America in a worse position.
"China ate your lunch," Trump said, turning to the Senate investigation that found Hunter Biden profited in China and Ukraine while his father oversaw foreign policy in those countries.
"And no wonder your son goes in and takes out billions of dollars to manage, makes millions of dollars -- while we’re at it, why did the mayor of Moscow’s wife give your son $3.5 million? What did he do with Burisma?" Trump said.
Biden insisted the claims were "totally discredited."
"My son did nothing wrong with Burisma," Biden said. "Everyone has discredited it."
Amid shouting back and forth, Biden said, "It is hard to get any word in with this clown -- excuse me -- this president.
"Here's the deal. We want to talk about families and ethics. I don’t want to do that," Biden said. "His family -- we can go on all night."
Trump said his family "lost a fortune" when it came to work for the government.
"This is not about my family or his family its about your family," Biden said, speaking directly into a camera. "He doesn't want to talk about what you need, the American people, it's about you. That's who we’re talking about here."
'Millions would have died'
On the coronavirus pandemic, Trump pointed out that Biden opposed his decision in January to shut down travel from China, calling it "xenophobic."
"If we would have listened to you ... millions of people would have died," Trump said.
He cited White House coronavirus adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci saying the move save thousands of lives and told Biden "most of your governors said President Trump did a phenomenal job" handling the pandemic.
"Now, we're weeks away from a vaccine ... far fewer people are dying," Trump said, adding that the "fake news gives me bad press, they give you good press."
"You never could have done that job," the president said. "You didn't do a very good job on swine flu."
Biden replied, "We didn't shut down the economy."
Regarding the current pandemic, Biden contended that "with just a mask" the number of deaths could have been cut in half.
"Do you believe for a moment what he's telling you in light of all the lies he told you about COVID?" Biden said.
Trump said the Democrats want to keep the country shut down until after the election.
Asked about Trump holding large rallies while Biden holds much smaller events, Biden said his Republican opponent has "been a fool on this."
Trump retorted: "If you could get the crowds, you would have done the same thing."
The president said Biden "will shut it down again, he will destroy this economy."
Wallace asked Trump about the New York Times story over the weekend that he paid only $750 in taxes in 2016.
After a back and forth, with Wallace insisting Trump wasn't answering the question, Trump said he paid millions of dollars in taxes in 2016 and 2017.
He explained he took advantage of a tax bill passed by the Obama-Biden administration that gave credits for depreciation.
Charlottesville lie
Biden repeated the false claim that Trump said after the 2017 Charlottesville clash over a Robert E. Lee statue that neo-Nazis and white supremacists are "very fine people."
"No president has ever said anything like that," Biden said.
Trump didn't mention the fact that he specifically said in his comments about Charlottesville that he was not referring to neo-Nazis and white supremacists when he said there "very fine people" on both sides of the issue. In fact, he condemned the white supremacists. His reference was to the debate over Confederate statues.
The Democrat charged Trump has "used everything as a dog whistle" to his supporters.
Wallace asked Biden if he believed that America had two separate and unequal justice systems.
"Yes, there is systemic unjustice in this country in education and work and law enforcement," he said.
"We have to have a system where people are held accountable."
Wallace asked Trump why he issued an executive order to end the teaching of critical race theory among federal employees.
Trump said he ended it because it's "teaching people to hate our country."
Biden insisted there is widespread "racial insensitivity" and the training "makes a gigantic difference in the way a child is able to grow up and have a sense of self esteem."
'I don't hold public office now'
Biden said he does not support defunding police but supports "community policing," which Trump contended means defunding police.
Wallace was asked why he didn't urge Portland, Oregon, Mayor Ted Wheeler to call in the National Guard and get control of the more than 100 days of rioting in the Pacific Northwest city.
"I don't hold public office now," Biden replied. "I am a former vice president."
Biden said the Democratic mayors "can take care of it, if [Trump] would just stay out of the way."
In a memorable exchange, the Democratic nominee insisted Antifa is "an idea, not an organization."
It began with Wallace asking Trump if he would be "willing tonight to condemn white supremacists and militia groups and to say that they need to stand down and not add to the violence in a number of these cities as we saw in Kenosha and as we’ve seen in Portland."
"Sure, I'm willing to do that," the president said. "But I would say almost everything I see is from the left-wing not from the right-wing. I'm willing to do anything. I want to see peace."
"Then do it, sir" Wallace said.
"Do it, say it," said Biden.
"What do you want to call them? Trump asked. "Give me a name."
"What supremacists and Proud Boys," Wallace said.
"Proud Boys stand back and stand by, but I'll tell you what, somebody’s gotta do something about Antifa and the left because this is not a right-wing problem," the president said. "This is a left-wing problem."
Biden said Trump's "own FBI director said the threat comes from white supremacists — Antifa is an idea, not an organization, not militias, that's what his FBI director said."
Trump replied, "Well, you know what? He's wrong."
Said Biden, "Everyone in your administration who tells you the truth has a bad idea."
Wallace asked each candidate why he should be elected.
"There has never been an administration or president who has done more than I've done in a period of three and a half years," Trump said. "That's despite the impeachment hoax. And you saw what happened today with Hillary Clinton, where it was a whole big con job.
"But despite going through all these things, where I had to fight both flanks, and behind me and above, there has never been an administration that's done what I've done," he said.
"Before COVID came in, the greatest economy in history, the lowest unemployment nunbers, everything was good."
He also mentioned the "rebuilding of the military" and "the fixing of the VA," the Veterans Administration, "which was a mess under him," pointing to Biden.
And by the end of his first term, he will have 300 judges appointed, including three Supreme Court justices, if Amy Coney Barrett is confirmed.
Biden then was given two minutes.
"Under this president we've become weaker, sicker, poorer, more divided and more violent," Biden said.
The former vice president said that when he entered office the administration "inherited a recession" and he was "asked to fix it."
"I did, we left him a booming economy, and he caused a recession."
Biden said he went "head to head" with Russian President Vladimir Putin and said "I'm not going to take any of his stuff."
"He's Putin's puppy," Biden said. "He still refuses to even say anything to Putin about the bounty on the heads of American soldiers."
Biden said America is poorer because the billionaires have become much more wealthy since COVID.
Directing his words to the American people, he said, "You, on the whole, you got less. You're in more trouble than you were before."
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Wallace pressed Trump on what he believes about "the science" on climate change "and what he will do to confront it.
"I want crystal clean water and air, I want beautiful, clean air. We have now the lowest carbon. if you look at our numbers now, we are doing phenomenally. But I haven't destroyed our businesses," he said.
Trump called the Paris climate accord "a disaster" for the United States.
"As far as the fires are concerned, you need forest management, in addition to everything else."
On climate change, Biden said, "I don't support the Green New Deal."
But his campaign website says Biden "believes the Green New Deal is a crucial framework for meeting the climate challenges we face."
It started before the debate
Ahead of the debate, President Trump's campaign asked to allow a third party to inspect the ears of each debater for electronic devices or transmitters. White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said the Biden campaign initially accepted the provision then backed out. The Biden campaign denied the claim. And it denied the Trump campaign's claim that Biden's handlers requested two breaks during the 90-minute commercial-free program.
Biden trolled Trump just before the debate with a photo of ear buds and a pint of ice cream.
"It's debate night, so I've got my earpiece and performance enhancers ready," Biden wrote on Twitter.
It’s debate night, so I’ve got my earpiece and performance enhancers ready. pic.twitter.com/EhOiWdjh1b — Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) September 29, 2020
The Biden campaign and the DNC War Room are using a Twitter handle described by some Trump supporters as "Orwellian," @Truth, to "fact-check" Trump in real time.


wnd--2020-09-30--Why I'm leaving California

Why I'm leaving California

My family and my company are leaving California .
My parents moved to California four decades ago .
I grew up here .
For 33 of the 36 years I 've spent on this planet , I 've lived here .
I was born at St. Joseph 's in Burbank ; I attended elementary school at Edison Elementary ; I went to college at UCLA .
I co-founded a major media company here , with 75 employees in Los Angeles .
I met my wife here ; all three of my kids are native Californians .
This is the most @ @ @ @ @ @ @ climate is incredible .
The scenery is amazing .
The people are generally warm , and there 's an enormous amount to do .
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Meanwhile , all the costs of California have steadily increased – and then suddenly skyrocketed .
It can be difficult to spot the incremental encroachment of a terrible disease , but once the final ravages @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the illness is fatal .
So , too , with California , where bad governance has turned a would-be paradise into a burgeoning dystopia .
When my family moved to North Hollywood , I was 11 .
We lived in a safe , clean suburb .
Yes , Los Angeles had serious crime and homelessness problems , but those were problems relegated to pockets of the city – problems that , with good governance , we thought could eventually be healed .
Instead , the government allowed those problems to metastasize .
As @ @ @ @ @ @ @ less than 40,000 homeless ; as of 2020 , that number had skyrocketed to 66,000 .
Suburban areas have become the sites of homeless encampments .
Nearly every city underpass hosts a tent city ; the city , in its kindness , has put out port-a-potties to reduce the possibility of COVID-19 spread .
Police are forbidden in most cases from either moving transients or even moving their garbage .
Nearly every public space in Los Angeles has become a repository for open waste , needles and trash .
The most beautiful areas @ @ @ @ @ @ @ beach to my suburb , have become wrecks .
My children have personally witnessed drug use , public urination and public nudity .
Looters were allowed free reign in the middle of the city during the Black Lives Matter riots ; Rodeo Drive was closed at 1 p.m. , and citizens were curfewed at 6 p.m. To combat these trends , local and state governments have gamed the statistics , reclassifying offenses and letting prisoners go free .
Meanwhile , the police have become targets for public ire .
In July , the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , cutting the force to its lowest levels in over a decade .
At the same time , taxes have risen .
California 's top marginal income tax rate is now 13.3 % ; legislators want to raise it to 16.8 % .
California is also home to a 7.25 % sales tax , a 50-cent gas tax and a bevy of other taxes that drain the wallet and burden business .
California has the worst regulatory climate in America , according to CEO Magazine 's survey of 650 CEOs .
The public-sector @ @ @ @ @ @ @ up the debt while providing fewer and fewer actual services .
California 's public education system is a massive failure , and even its once-great colleges are now burdened by the stupidities of political correctness , including an unwillingness to use standardized testing .
And still , the state legislature is dominated by Democrats .
California is not on a trajectory toward recovery ; it is on a trajectory toward oblivion .
Taxpayers are moving out – now including my family and my company .
In 2019 , before the pandemic and the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 38 % , rising for the seventh straight year .
That number will increase again this year .
I want my kids to grow up safe .
I want them to grow up in a community with a future , with more freedom and safety than I grew up with .
California makes that impossible .
So , goodbye , Golden State .
Thanks for the memories .

My family and my company are leaving California.
It's heartbreaking.
My parents moved to California four decades ago. I grew up here. For 33 of the 36 years I've spent on this planet, I've lived here. I was born at St. Joseph's in Burbank; I attended elementary school at Edison Elementary; I went to college at UCLA. I co-founded a major media company here, with 75 employees in Los Angeles. I met my wife here; all three of my kids are native Californians.
This is the most beautiful state in the country. The climate is incredible. The scenery is amazing. The people are generally warm, and there's an enormous amount to do.
And we're leaving.
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We're leaving because all the benefits of California have steadily eroded – and then suddenly collapsed. Meanwhile, all the costs of California have steadily increased – and then suddenly skyrocketed. It can be difficult to spot the incremental encroachment of a terrible disease, but once the final ravages set in, it becomes obvious that the illness is fatal. So, too, with California, where bad governance has turned a would-be paradise into a burgeoning dystopia.
When my family moved to North Hollywood, I was 11. We lived in a safe, clean suburb. Yes, Los Angeles had serious crime and homelessness problems, but those were problems relegated to pockets of the city – problems that, with good governance, we thought could eventually be healed. Instead, the government allowed those problems to metastasize. As of 2011, Los Angeles County counted less than 40,000 homeless; as of 2020, that number had skyrocketed to 66,000. Suburban areas have become the sites of homeless encampments. Nearly every city underpass hosts a tent city; the city, in its kindness, has put out port-a-potties to reduce the possibility of COVID-19 spread.
Police are forbidden in most cases from either moving transients or even moving their garbage. Nearly every public space in Los Angeles has become a repository for open waste, needles and trash. The most beautiful areas of Los Angeles, from Santa Monica beach to my suburb, have become wrecks. My children have personally witnessed drug use, public urination and public nudity. Looters were allowed free reign in the middle of the city during the Black Lives Matter riots; Rodeo Drive was closed at 1 p.m., and citizens were curfewed at 6 p.m.
To combat these trends, local and state governments have gamed the statistics, reclassifying offenses and letting prisoners go free. Meanwhile, the police have become targets for public ire. In July, the city of Los Angeles slashed police funding, cutting the force to its lowest levels in over a decade.
At the same time, taxes have risen. California's top marginal income tax rate is now 13.3%; legislators want to raise it to 16.8%. California is also home to a 7.25% sales tax, a 50-cent gas tax and a bevy of other taxes that drain the wallet and burden business. California has the worst regulatory climate in America, according to CEO Magazine's survey of 650 CEOs. The public-sector unions essentially make public policy, running up the debt while providing fewer and fewer actual services. California's public education system is a massive failure, and even its once-great colleges are now burdened by the stupidities of political correctness, including an unwillingness to use standardized testing.
And still, the state legislature is dominated by Democrats. California is not on a trajectory toward recovery; it is on a trajectory toward oblivion. Taxpayers are moving out – now including my family and my company. In 2019, before the pandemic and the widespread rioting and looting, outmigration jumped 38%, rising for the seventh straight year. That number will increase again this year.
I want my kids to grow up safe. I want them to grow up in a community with a future, with more freedom and safety than I grew up with. California makes that impossible. So, goodbye, Golden State. Thanks for the memories.


wnd--2020-10-01--St. Louis officials: We won't prosecute trespassers in McCloskey case

The nine people who were cited for allegedly trespassing on Mark and Patricia McCloskey ’ s property during a June standoff will not be prosecuted , St. Louis officials announced Tuesday .
The group was issued summonses during the beginning of September , but City Counselor Michael Garvin said “ prosecution is not warranted ” and the arrestees would not have to face criminal proceedings , according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch .
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Garvin said the decision came after the city reviewed video , conducted interviews and spoke to local homeowners who claimed they didn ’ t want to press charges against the group , the Post-Dispatch reported .
One of the persons cited claimed police issued the “ citations to harass and intimidate.
” “ The St. Louis Police Department sent these citations to harass and intimidate witnesses in the McCloskey case , and to chill the first amendment rights of protestors , ” Micah Hainline , one of the people @ @ @ @ @ @ @ It was clearly trespassing and the McCloskeys were clearly within their rights to do what they did , ” former McCloskey lawyer Joel Schwartz told the local outlet .
The affluent couple was seen on video on their property with an AR-15 rifle and a concealable semi-automatic handgun as a large group of demonstrators flooded their gated community in late June .
Patricia McCloskey said demonstrators threatened to end their lives and move into their home .
“ [ They said ] that they were going to kill us , ” Patricia McCloskey @ @ @ @ @ @ @ They were going to come in there .
They were going to burn down the house.
” “ They were going to be living in our house after I was dead , and they were pointing to different rooms and said , ‘ That ’ s going to be my bedroom and that ’ s going to be the living room and I ’ m going to be taking a shower in that room , ’ ” she said .
St. Louis Police officers executed a search warrant on the couple ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and seized an AR-15 rifle , Mark McCloskey told radio host Todd Starnes shortly after the search .
The city tacked on a felony charge to the couple shortly after the rifle seizure and the pair was issued a criminal citation , according to a separate Post-Dispatch report .
This story originally was published by the Daily Caller News Foundation .
Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience .
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By Jake Dima
Daily Caller News Foundation
The nine people who were cited for allegedly trespassing on Mark and Patricia McCloskey’s property during a June standoff will not be prosecuted, St. Louis officials announced Tuesday.
The group was issued summonses during the beginning of September, but City Counselor Michael Garvin said “prosecution is not warranted” and the arrestees would not have to face criminal proceedings, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
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The felony charge of unlawful use of weapon levied against the McCloskeys is still pending, the local outlet reported.
Garvin said the decision came after the city reviewed video, conducted interviews and spoke to local homeowners who claimed they didn’t want to press charges against the group, the Post-Dispatch reported.
One of the persons cited claimed police issued the “citations to harass and intimidate.”
“The St. Louis Police Department sent these citations to harass and intimidate witnesses in the McCloskey case, and to chill the first amendment rights of protestors,” Micah Hainline, one of the people cited, told the Post-Dispatch.
“It was clearly trespassing and the McCloskeys were clearly within their rights to do what they did,” former McCloskey lawyer Joel Schwartz told the local outlet.
The affluent couple was seen on video on their property with an AR-15 rifle and a concealable semi-automatic handgun as a large group of demonstrators flooded their gated community in late June. Patricia McCloskey said demonstrators threatened to end their lives and move into their home.
“[They said] that they were going to kill us,” Patricia McCloskey told Fox News in July. “They were going to come in there. They were going to burn down the house.”
“They were going to be living in our house after I was dead, and they were pointing to different rooms and said, ‘That’s going to be my bedroom and that’s going to be the living room and I’m going to be taking a shower in that room,’” she said.
In a video posted to social media, peaceful protesters in St. Louis calling for police reforms walked past a couple brandishing firearms as they were ordered to stay away from the couple’s home https://t.co/bYl06iAiTo pic.twitter.com/wOZ1Wr3yac — Reuters (@Reuters) June 29, 2020
St. Louis Police officers executed a search warrant on the couple’s home a few weeks after the incident and seized an AR-15 rifle, Mark McCloskey told radio host Todd Starnes shortly after the search. The city tacked on a felony charge to the couple shortly after the rifle seizure and the pair was issued a criminal citation, according to a separate Post-Dispatch report.
This story originally was published by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
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