thelibertydaily--2020-12-30--Liberal Legal Scholar Jonathan Turley: The Case for and Against the Appointment of a Special Counsel

Liberal Legal Scholar Jonathan Turley: The Case for and Against the Appointment of a Special Counsel in the Hunter Biden Investigation

Below is my column in the Hill on grounds for and against the appointment of a Special Counsel in the Hunter Biden investigation .
By refusing address the underlying allegations , Joe Biden is magnifying the concerns over possible conflicts of interest and his own possible exposure .
Biden is maintaining that he will not ask potential Justice Department nominees about the investigation but he is also refusing to answer specific questions .
In the meantime , he appeared to confirm that he views the investigation to be Russian disinformation .
That is a familiar profile in a scandal at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are likely to face their own prior calls to investigate the Trump family on such questions of foreign influence .
Here is the column : While Joe Biden continues to avoid specific questions on the Hunter Bidenscandal , there reportedly are ” ongoing discussions ” at the Justice Department on whether to appoint a special counsel .
Ironically , Joe Biden ’ s refusal to address specific allegations has only fueled concerns of possible conflicts for his Justice Department conducting this investigation .
His stonewalling is making the best case for a special @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to the decision .
Attorney General William Barr left his position this week , following very public conflicts with President Trump , including his opposition to special counsel appointments to investigate the 2020 election and the Hunter Biden scandal .
Barr clearly was not opposed to making such appointments ; he converted United States attorney John Durham into a special counsel , to guarantee that Durham will complete his investigation into the handling of the Russian collusion investigation .
The question is whether such grounds could emerge with regard to the Hunter Biden @ @ @ @ @ @ @ appointment of a special counsel when it is in the public interest and an “ investigation or prosecution of that person or matter by a United States Attorney ’ s Office or litigating Division of the Department of Justice would present a conflict of interest for the Department or other extraordinary circumstances.
” Clear conflicts are present in this investigation for Joe Biden .
Most obviously , it involves his son .
In addition , Biden has stated repeatedly for more than a year that “ no one has suggested my son did @ @ @ @ @ @ @ true ; many people agree that Hunter Biden was engaged in raw influence-peddling on a global scale .
That may not be a crime but it certainly is ethically wrong .
Nevertheless , Biden continued that claim after the disclosure that Hunter is the subject or target of a federal investigation .
He has referred to the allegations as a continuation of political “ foul play ” targeting his family .
Previously , Democrats insisted that Trump ’ s public dismissal of the Russia investigation as a “ hoax ” supported the appointment @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , powerful Democrats like House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff claimed the Hunter Biden laptop and emails discovered before the election were just “ Russian disinformation ” and “ this whole smear on Joe Biden comes from the Kremlin.
” Biden himself responded affirmatively — “ yes , yes , yes ” — to a recent question about whether allegations against his son are “ Russian disinformation and a smear campaign , like you said ?
” So , any criminal or other wrongdoing found by prosecutors would be an obvious embarrassment to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ were revealed in the laptop and emails seized by federal investigators .
Biden has refused to acknowledge that the laptop and emails are genuine .
He has refused to address direct contradictions in those emails .
He has declined to address accounts of key witnesses like Hunter ’ s business associate , Tony Bobulinski , referring to Biden ’ s direct knowledge or involvement — in direct conflict with Biden ’ s repeated denials .
The emails refer to payments , office space and other benefits for Joe Biden and his family from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Joe Biden has more than a son or his own credibility at stake .
This investigation started in 2018 with a Treasury Department suspicious activity report .
That does not mean there was a crime , but foreign financial transactions were flagged as suspicious and there are indications that money-laundering concerns may have been raised .
Repeated references to Joe Biden in these emails could create legal exposure .
He could face exposure in other ways , too .
One of the reasons Biden has not called Bobulinski a liar is that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with sworn depositions and discovery .
Biden is well aware of the perils from such civil litigation .
After all , he voted as a senator in the Clinton impeachment trial , which included allegations that Bill Clinton lied under oath in his deposition .
Much of this decision depends on the specific scope and underlying crimes of any investigations .
Bill Barr knew those facts when he rejected the need for a special counsel .
If this is a narrow tax investigation , then it likely is near completion .
The key @ @ @ @ @ @ @ counsel but the continuation of the current U.S. Attorney in his position pending completion .
During Barr ’ s tenure , the Justice Department handled a variety of investigations impacting Trump , from the Mueller probe to various investigations into the Trump organization and Trump advisers like Rudy Giuliani and his aides .
None required special counsels ; all continued without interference or manipulation under Barr ’ s leadership .
There also is a reluctance to allow special counsels to proliferate unless there is little alternative .
The potential to embarrass a president @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , if everyone is a special counsel , they are no longer very special .

Below is my column in the Hill on grounds for and against the appointment of a Special Counsel in the Hunter Biden investigation. By refusing address the underlying allegations, Joe Biden is magnifying the concerns over possible conflicts of interest and his own possible exposure. Biden is maintaining that he will not ask potential Justice Department nominees about the investigation but he is also refusing to answer specific questions. In the meantime, he appeared to confirm that he views the investigation to be Russian disinformation. That is a familiar profile in a scandal at the start of an Administration and Democrats are likely to face their own prior calls to investigate the Trump family on such questions of foreign influence.
Here is the column:
While Joe Biden continues to avoid specific questions on the Hunter Bidenscandal, there reportedly are”ongoing discussions” at the Justice Department on whether to appoint a special counsel. Ironically, Joe Biden’s refusal to address specific allegations has only fueled concerns of possible conflicts for his Justice Department conducting this investigation. His stonewalling is making the best case for a special counsel — but some unknowns remain critical to the decision.
Attorney General William Barr left his position this week, following very public conflicts with President Trump, including his opposition to special counsel appointments to investigate the 2020 election and the Hunter Biden scandal. Barr clearly was not opposed to making such appointments; he converted United States attorney John Durham into a special counsel, to guarantee that Durham will complete his investigation into the handling of the Russian collusion investigation.
The question is whether such grounds could emerge with regard to the Hunter Biden investigation. Justice Department regulations allow the appointment of a special counsel when it is in the public interest and an “investigation or prosecution of that person or matter by a United States Attorney’s Office or litigating Division of the Department of Justice would present a conflict of interest for the Department or other extraordinary circumstances.”
The case for a special counsel
Clear conflicts are present in this investigation for Joe Biden. Most obviously, it involves his son. In addition, Biden has stated repeatedly for more than a year that “no one has suggested my son did anything wrong.” That clearly is not true; many people agree that Hunter Biden was engaged in raw influence-peddling on a global scale. That may not be a crime but it certainly is ethically wrong. Nevertheless, Biden continued that claim after the disclosure that Hunter is the subject or target of a federal investigation. He has referred to the allegations as a continuation of political “foul play” targeting his family.
Previously, Democrats insisted that Trump’s public dismissal of the Russia investigation as a “hoax” supported the appointment of a special counsel. In addition, powerful Democrats like House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff claimed the Hunter Biden laptop and emails discovered before the election were just “Russian disinformation” and “this whole smear on Joe Biden comes from the Kremlin.”
Biden himself responded affirmatively — “yes, yes, yes” — to a recent question about whether allegations against his son are “Russian disinformation and a smear campaign, like you said?” So,any criminal or other wrongdoing found by prosecutors would be an obvious embarrassment to Biden.
Further, serious apparent conflicts were revealed in the laptop and emails seized by federal investigators. Biden has refused to acknowledge that the laptop and emails are genuine. He has refused to address direct contradictions in those emails. He has declined to address accounts of key witnesses like Hunter’s business associate, Tony Bobulinski, referring to Biden’s direct knowledge or involvement — in direct conflict with Biden’s repeated denials. The emails refer to payments, office space and other benefits for Joe Biden and his family from foreign countries, particularly China.
Finally, Joe Biden has more than a son or his own credibility at stake. This investigation started in 2018 with a Treasury Department suspicious activity report. That does not mean there was a crime, but foreign financial transactions were flagged as suspicious and there are indications that money-laundering concerns may have been raised.
Repeated references to Joe Biden in these emails could create legal exposure. He could face exposure in other ways, too. One of the reasons Biden has not called Bobulinski a liar is that it likely would trigger a defamation lawsuit with sworn depositions and discovery. Biden is well aware of the perils from such civil litigation. After all, he voted as a senator in the Clinton impeachment trial, which included allegations that Bill Clinton lied under oath in his deposition.
The case against a special counsel
Much of this decision depends on the specific scope and underlying crimes of any investigations. Bill Barr knew those facts when he rejected the need for a special counsel. If this is a narrow tax investigation, then it likely is near completion. The key is not the appointment of a special counsel but the continuation of the current U.S. Attorney in his position pending completion.
During Barr’s tenure, the Justice Department handled a variety of investigations impacting Trump, from the Mueller probe to various investigations into the Trump organization and Trump advisers like Rudy Giuliani and his aides. None required special counsels; all continued without interference or manipulation under Barr’s leadership. There also is a reluctance to allow special counsels to proliferate unless there is little alternative. The potential to embarrass a president is generally not enough. After all, if everyone is a special counsel, they are no longer very special.
The biggest issue is that influence-peddling is legal. It is the favorite form of corruption in Washington. While you cannot give a politician like Biden an envelope of money, you can give his son or other relatives millions in dubious contracts, gifts and loans. The special counsel regulations involve “an investigation or prosecution” only into criminal acts. The Justice Department does not investigate politicians’ unethical conduct or simple lying. Otherwise, it would have little time to do anything else. Notably, this argument against a special counsel appointment also is an argument for a congressional investigation. Various Democrats demanded investigations of Trump family dealings in foreign countries, including calls for a special counsel or other investigations. In 2018, Schiff wrotethat “the American people deserve to know that our president is acting in their interest and not his own financial self interest, or because he has been compromised by a foreign power.” The fear was that the Trump family was compromised or beholden to foreign interests. Those same fears exist with this scandal, and those same Democrats should support a full congressional investigation. In the absence of a clear crime, it falls to Congress to investigate “suspicious activities” that could compromise a president or his administration. The Hunter Biden investigation may not warrant a special counsel — but the public deserves answers. The point of influence-peddling is to secure influence over powerful figures. The question is whether the Chinese, Ukrainians and other foreign actors got anything from their efforts. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. You can find his updates online @JonathanTurley.
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thelibertydaily--2020-12-30--Hunter Biden Laptop Lawsuit Gives Twitter Unpleasant Legal Choices

The lawsuit alleges Twitter defamed the computer store owner in an attempt to justify its censorship of The New York Post ’ s story on Hunter Biden selling access to his father .
On Monday , attorneys for the owner of the Delaware-based computer shop who serviced Hunter Biden ’ s laptop filed suit in a Florida federal district court against Twitter for defamation .
John Paul Mac Isaac ’ s lawsuit alleges Twitter defamed him by labeling him a hacker in an attempt to justify its censorship of The New York Post ’ s bombshell story exposing the younger @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Three weeks before the 2020 presidential election , The New York Post shook the political landscape by reporting on a trove of emails found on an abandoned MacBook laptop belonging to Hunter Biden .
“ Hunter Biden discussed leveraging his connection to his father in a bid to boost his pay from a Ukrainian natural gas company , according to an email he sent around the time he joined the firm ’ s corporate board , ” the Post ’ s Oct. 14 , 2020 story opened .
“ In a lengthy memo @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , who already sat on the Burisma board , Biden repeatedly mentioned ‘ my guy , ’ while apparently referring to then-Vice President Joe Biden , ” the first article in a series continued .
Replete with screen grabs of numerous emails and copies of photographs of Hunter and his family recovered from the laptop , the Post ’ s story quickly went viral .
Quickly , however , Twitter and other social media outlets quashed the news that could have proven fatal to Joe Biden ’ s presidential aspirations .
Twitter suspended @ @ @ @ @ @ @ users from linking to the story in tweets and private massages .
Then , seeking to justify its censorship of the Biden story against an avalanche of criticism , Twitter posted a thread clarifying its actions .
After noting the articles included personal and private information , in violation of Twitter ’ s rules , Twitter noted that it “ currently views materials included in the articles as violations of our Hacked Materials Policy.
” The social media giant stressed that its “ policy only covers links to or images of hacked materials @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the materials in the Post ’ s story as “ hacked materials ” defamed Isaac , according to his complaint , by falsely branding him a hacker .
Isaac had not “ hacked ” the computer hard drive , his complaint explained .
He had legally obtained access to the materials , first when he was hired to retrieve the contents of the hard drive and then later when the owner abandoned the property by failing to retrieve it within 90 days .
And it was only after the hard drive was abandoned @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Post had not named Isaac in the articles , according to Isaac ’ s complaint , the Post coverage of the Biden scandal included a photograph of his Wilmington , Delaware store The Mac Shop , Inc. , outing him as the store owner who had provided a copy of the hard drive from the laptop to former Mayor Rudy Giuliani ’ s lawyer , Robert Costello .
Giuliani would later provide The Post a copy of the hard drive .
The backlash against Isaac was swift , according to his lawsuit , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Twitter branded him a “ hacker.
” He also began receiving personal threats and eventually was forced out of business .
Isaac ’ s complaint seeks compensatory damages and requests punitive damages of $ 500 million .
Shortly after Isaac filed suit , federal judge Beth Bloom , a Barack Obama appointee , dismissed the lawsuit for lack of subject matter jurisdiction .
As Bloom ’ s short order explained , the complaint had not identified Twitter ’ s principal place of business , and accordingly , the court could not assess whether @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the case .
Diversity jurisdiction refers to the power of a federal court to hear a case involving a question of state law , such as that at issue here , namely the state tort of defamation .
Where a case involves state law , a federal court may hear the dispute only if the plaintiff and defendant are citizens of different states and the damages alleged exceed the statutorily specified amount of $ 75,000 .
A corporation , like Twitter , is considered a citizen of the state in which it is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ where it has its principal place of business .
Isaac , who is a citizen of Florida , inadvertently only identified Twitter ’ s place of incorporation , which is Delaware ; it failed to identify in the complaint California as the location of Twitter ’ s headquarters .
Brian Della Rocca , a partner with the Maryland-based Compass Law Partners firm , told The Federalist that an amended complaint addressing the jurisdictional concerns will be filed soon .
At that point , all eyes will be on Twitter , whose leadership has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Cruz that Jack Dorsey ’ s team made a mistake in blocking the URLs of the story in tweets and direct messages .
Twitter will likely seek refuge in Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act , which provides “ interactive computer service ” providers , such as Twitter , immunity .
But Della Rocca see Isaac ’ s “ case as unique , ” telling The Federalist that Isaac ’ s legal team believes “ the situation falls outside the immunities granted to Twitter by Section 230.
” The facts underlying Isaac @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sidestepping Section 230 ’ s grant of immunity .
Of relevance , first , is Section ( C ) ( 1 ) , which makes clear that “ interactive computer service ” providers and users are not “ treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.
” But Isaac is not seeking to hold Twitter liable for what someone else posted on its platform , but for Twitter ’ s own speech .
Also of significance is the statutory language granting immunity to social media platforms @ @ @ @ @ @ @ interactive computer service , ” such as Twitter , shall not be liable “ on account of any action voluntarily taken in good faith to restrict access to or availability of material that the provider or user considers to be obscene , lewd , lascivious , filthy , excessively violent , harassing , or otherwise objectionable , whether or not such material is constitutionally protected.
” Isaac has good grounds to argue that Section 230 is irrelevant to his lawsuit because his claim of libel is not based on anything Twitter did “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ material.
” Rather , according to Isaac , Twitter defamed him when it explained why it had blocked the Post ’ s articles on Hunter Biden : It was Twitter ’ s “ clarification ” that defamed Isaac by publicly branding the emails and photographs culled from his hard drive “ hacked ” material .
Now , Twitter will counter that the statutory grant of immunity applies broadly to “ any action , ” which it will maintain would include explaining the basis for restricting access to the Post ’ s article .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ it is a question of statutory interpretation for a court to decide as a matter of law and is likely one of first impression .
But Isaac ’ s case will then present a second question—and this question will be a factual one potentially for a jury : Did Twitter act in “ good faith ” in claiming the Post ’ s article included “ hacked ” materials ?
Here , Twitter may have a difficult time establishing it acted in “ good faith ” in banning the Post ’ s article for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that it allowed The New York Times to promote , and users to share , the Times ’ article on President Trump ’ s supposed tax returns .
Once Isaac ’ s lawsuit is refiled , Twitter will have some tough calls to make .
Does it attempt to raise Section 230 as a defense , and risk discovery and a trial on the question of “ good faith ” ?
Or does it instead attempt to scuttle the libel suit on narrow state law grounds ?
Or does it attempt to settle @ @ @ @ @ @ @ attempt to clarify its decisions ?
The final option might best serve Twitter ’ s interests in the long run—both as a business desperate to keep Section 230 out of the spotlight , and as a Biden backer desirous of burying bad press for the would-be president .

On Monday, attorneys for the owner of the Delaware-based computer shop who serviced Hunter Biden’s laptop filed suit in a Florida federal district court against Twitter for defamation. John Paul Mac Isaac’s lawsuit alleges Twitter defamed him by labeling him a hacker in an attempt to justify its censorship of The New York Post’s bombshell story exposing the younger Biden selling access to his father.
Three weeks before the 2020 presidential election, The New York Post shook the political landscape by reporting on a trove of emails found on an abandoned MacBook laptop belonging to Hunter Biden. “Hunter Biden discussed leveraging his connection to his father in a bid to boost his pay from a Ukrainian natural gas company, according to an email he sent around the time he joined the firm’s corporate board,” the Post’s Oct. 14, 2020 story opened. “In a lengthy memo to his then-business partner, Devon Archer, who already sat on the Burisma board, Biden repeatedly mentioned ‘my guy,’ while apparently referring to then-Vice President Joe Biden,” the first article in a series continued.
Replete with screen grabs of numerous emails and copies of photographs of Hunter and his family recovered from the laptop, the Post’s story quickly went viral. Quickly, however, Twitter and other social media outlets quashed the news that could have proven fatal to Joe Biden’s presidential aspirations.
Twitter suspended the Post’s account and prevented users from linking to the story in tweets and private massages. Then, seeking to justify its censorship of the Biden story against an avalanche of criticism, Twitter posted a thread clarifying its actions.
After noting the articles included personal and private information, in violation of Twitter’s rules, Twitter noted that it “currently views materials included in the articles as violations of our Hacked Materials Policy.” The social media giant stressed that its “policy only covers links to or images of hacked materials themselves.”
Twitter’s labeling of the materials in the Post’s story as “hacked materials” defamed Isaac, according to his complaint, by falsely branding him as a hacker.
Isaac had not “hacked” the computer hard drive, his complaint explained. He had legally obtained access to the materials, first when he was hired to retrieve the contents of the hard drive and then later when the owner abandoned the property by failing to retrieve it within 90 days. And it was only after the hard drive was abandoned that the material was published.
While the Post had not named Isaac in the articles, according to Isaac’s complaint, the Post coverage of the Biden scandal included a photograph of his Wilmington, Delaware store The Mac Shop, Inc., outing him as the store owner who had provided a copy of the hard drive from the laptop to former Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s lawyer, Robert Costello. Giuliani would later provide The Post a copy of the hard drive.
The backlash against Isaac was swift, according to his lawsuit, with negative reviews quickly flooding Yelp after Twitter branded him a “hacker.” He also began receiving personal threats and eventually was forced out of business. Isaac’s complaint seeks compensatory damages and requests punitive damages of $500 million.
Shortly after Isaac filed suit, federal judge Beth Bloom, a Barack Obama appointee, dismissed the lawsuit for lack of subject matter jurisdiction. As Bloom’s short order explained, the complaint had not identified Twitter’s principal place of business, and accordingly, the court could not assess whether it had “diversity jurisdiction” over the case.
Diversity jurisdiction refers to the power of a federal court to hear a case involving a question of state law, such as that at issue here, namely the state tort of defamation. Where a case involves state law, a federal court may hear the dispute only if the plaintiff and defendant are citizens of different states and the damages alleged exceed the statutorily specified amount of $75,000.
A corporation, like Twitter, is considered a citizen of the state in which it is incorporated, as well as the state where it has its principal place of business. Isaac, who lived in Delaware at the time of the defamation and is now a citizen of Colorado, inadvertently only identified Twitter’s place of incorporation, which is Delaware; it failed to identify in the complaint California as the location of Twitter’s headquarters.
Brian Della Rocca, a partner with the Maryland-based Compass Law Partners firm, told The Federalist that an amended complaint addressing the jurisdictional concerns will be filed soon.
At that point, all eyes will be on Twitter, whose leadership has since admitted under questioning by Sen. Ted Cruz that Jack Dorsey’s team made a mistake in blocking the URLs of the story in tweets and direct messages.
Twitter will likely seek refuge in Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which provides “interactive computer service” providers, such as Twitter, immunity. But Della Rocca see Isaac’s “case as unique,” telling The Federalist that Isaac’s legal team believes “the situation falls outside the immunities granted to Twitter by Section 230.”
The facts underlying Isaac’s lawsuit present solid grounds for sidestepping Section 230’s grant of immunity. Of relevance, first, is Section (C)(1), which makes clear that “interactive computer service” providers and users are not “treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.” But Isaac is not seeking to hold Twitter liable for what someone else posted on its platform, but for Twitter’s own speech.
Also of significance is the statutory language granting immunity to social media platforms. That sub-section states that “an interactive computer service,” such as Twitter, shall not be liable “on account of any action voluntarily taken in good faith to restrict access to or availability of material that the provider or user considers to be obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable, whether or not such material is constitutionally protected.”
Isaac has good grounds to argue that Section 230 is irrelevant to his lawsuit because his claim of libel is not based on anything Twitter did “to restrict access to or availability of material.” Rather, according to Isaac, Twitter defamed him when it explained why it had blocked the Post’s articles on Hunter Biden: It was Twitter’s “clarification” that defamed Isaac by publicly branding the emails and photographs culled from his hard drive “hacked” material.
Now, Twitter will counter that the statutory grant of immunity applies broadly to “any action,” which it will maintain would include explaining the basis for restricting access to the Post’s article. That argument is a stretch, but it is a question of statutory interpretation for a court to decide as a matter of law and is likely one of first impression.
But Isaac’s case will then present a second question—and this question will be a factual one potentially for a jury: Did Twitter act in “good faith” in claiming the Post’s article included “hacked” materials? Here, Twitter may have a difficult time establishing it acted in “good faith” in banning the Post’s article for including “hacked” materials, given that it allowed The New York Times to promote, and users to share, the Times’ article on President Trump’s supposed tax returns.
Once Isaac’s lawsuit is refiled, Twitter will have some tough calls to make. Does it attempt to raise Section 230 as a defense, and risk discovery and a trial on the question of “good faith”? Or does it instead attempt to scuttle the libel suit on narrow state law grounds? Or does it attempt to settle the case and in the future not attempt to clarify its decisions?
The final option might best serve Twitter’s interests in the long run — both as a business desperate to keep Section 230 out of the spotlight, and as a Biden backer desirous of burying bad press for the would-be president.
Margot Cleveland is The Federalist's senior legal correspondent. She is also a contributor to National Review Online, the Washington Examiner, Aleteia, and Townhall.com, and has been published in the Wall Street Journal and USA Today. Cleveland is a lawyer and a graduate of the Notre Dame Law School, where she earned the Hoynes Prize—the law school’s highest honor. She later served for nearly 25 years as a permanent law clerk for a federal appellate judge on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. Cleveland is a former full-time university faculty member and now teaches as an adjunct from time to time. As a stay-at-home homeschooling mom of a young son with cystic fibrosis, Cleveland frequently writes on cultural issues related to parenting and special-needs children. Cleveland is on Twitter at @ProfMJCleveland. The views expressed here are those of Cleveland in her private capacity.


thelibertydaily--2020-12-31--Can Georgians Be Foolish Enough to Vote for a Hate-Filled Lying Phony Like Warnock?

I don ’ t get it .
I just can ’ t figure it out .
Of course Raphael Warnock has no business running for a serious political office .
Still , he certainly is allowed to try .
The man is a phony , a liar , a Jew-hater , a White-hater , a man messed with his wife , a man who would chant “ Amen !
” to those who would curse America .
Still , he is allowed to seek high office , just as prominent haters in other states have done .
The thing is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ through the masquerades and camouflage .
They reject the haters in statewide contests .
Are the people of Georgia multiple times more stupid than the people in the rest of America ?
For example , a hater in Louisiana repeatedly has been rejected by that state ’ s voters .
Are peaches and Coca-Cola more devastating to the brain that beignets and jambalaya ?
I am a Jew .
So I readily regard Warnock as despicable .
For me , that part is personal .
Anyone who hates Jews — well , howdaya @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a statement recently was issued by more than 1,500 Orthodox rabbis , under the aegis of the Coalition for Jewish Values , recoiling from Warnock ’ s years of hatred .
But Warnock does not only hate Jews .
He hates a great many more Americans .
For years Warnock would get up in church , week after week , and attack Jews in Israel , accusing them of horrific things that have no relationship to reality .
It was safe for him to do so .
He was preaching in a Black @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Black churches in any particular numbers , if at all , so there is nowhere safer to beat up on Jews .
Compare us to Nazis — who is going to take umbrage ?
Tell a Black audience that Jews in Israel are like those who imposed Apartheid against Blacks in South Africa .
Who will stand and exclaim , “ You are a liar !
” In a room where even Waldo will not be found , it is safe to slander Jews and Israel .
So , with no Jews in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , this anti-Semite compared the prime minister of Israel to … former Alabama Gov .
George Wallace , the ultimate racist encountered by Blacks in southern segregationist states like Georgia and adjacent Alabama .
Warnock used his Black church pulpit for years to attack Jews , to attack Israel .
Who can know or gauge how many truly decent , kind-hearted Black Americans in Georgia have been converted for life into Jew-haters for life by this evil man ?
Preachers carry enormous influence .
In between attacking Jews , this despicable hater attacked @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Jeremiah Wright aimed at .
Warnock was an unabashed acolyte — a chassid , so to speak , a starry-eyed disciple — of the Rev .
Jeremiah Wright .
Warnock invited the Rev .
Wright to his church to spew his hatred there .
What was it that made Wright famous ?
Perhaps it was this : Warnock was asked 2008 about that speech , and he said , “ We celebrate Rev .
Wright in the same way that we celebrate the truth-telling tradition of the Black church , which when @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it makes people uncomfortable.
” He added that Wright is a “ preacher and a prophet.
” Understand how bad Jeremiah Wright is .
He is so bad , so evil , so despicable that Obama , for years a member of Wright ’ s wrong church , when running for president , broke off all contact with Wright .
Obama turned left on Wright .
Obama disowned Wright , essentially saying , “ Wright ?
What Wright ?
Oh , the Wright that married Michelle and me ?
Oh , that Wright @ @ @ @ @ @ @ him .
And , by the way , if you like your doctor , you can keep your doctor — and if you like your health plan , you can keep your health plan.
” For years Warnock has been another Wright — and two Wrights make a big Wrong .
Warnock ’ s mentor , Jeremiah Wright , is the same “ Preacher and Prophet ” who blamed “ Them Jews ” for dividing him from Obama : The people of Georgia surely are better than this .
Or are they ?
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ send to Washington ?
Has Georgia advanced so little since Leo Frank was lynched and murdered there in 1915 ?
Can they really consider voting for such a hater to be a United States senator ?
I still find it hard to believe .
Plain and simple , Raphael Warnock is despicable .
He was arrested in 2002 for obstructing a police investigation into alleged child abuse at a church camp in Maryland .
He has preached that Brexit is “ ethnocentrism and hate.
” He preached that America “ must ‘ repent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ His then-wife told the cops that he is a phony , an “ actor.
” He signed on to a letter attacking Israel for having soldiers stationed in Judea and Samaria to protect against Arab terrorist attacks on Jewish civilians .
( Earlier this month , by the way , a Jewish woman in her early 50s was murdered by an Arab terrorist while hiking in a beautiful forest in Samaria . )
After Arab terrorists murdered approximately 1,000 Israelis and wounded 5,000 from 2001 to 2005 , Israel finally built a protective @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a 2018 sermon , Warnock said , “ We saw the government of Israel shoot down unarmed Palestinian sisters and brothers like birds of prey… .
It is wrong to shoot down God ’ s children like they don ’ t matter at all .
And it ’ s no more anti-Semitic for me to say that than it is anti-white for me to say that Black lives matter.
” Well , actually : No , no , no .
That simply is Wright talking through Warnock ’ s corrupt lips .
I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have lived in Israel .
Warnock ’ s words are Hitler-quality language , accusing the only majority-Jewish country in the world of shooting down others unlike them as “ birds of prey.
” It just is not true .
It is a pure lie .
He is such a liar .
But how to prove a negative ?
If I accuse you , the reader , of being a pedophile , how do you prove you are not ?
Consider the stench that remains from the lies spoken against Justice Brett Kavanaugh .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ How does Israel prove that it does not shoot down G-d ’ s children “ like they don ’ t matter at all ” ?
For that matter , how does Warnock prove that he does not “ shoot down G-d ’ s children [ as though ] they don ’ t matter at all ” ?
If Warnock actually cared about Arab lives , would he not be as agitated over the endless Sunni–Shiite internecine wars ?
Would he not praise Israel for putting her own soldiers ’ and police officers ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ persuade their Arab citizens — all of whom in truth have full equal rights — to take COVID precautions and to line up for vaccines ?
Warnock hates the people whom Jeremiah Wright hates : Them Jews , Them Whites who support Brexit , Them Whites and Asians and Hispanics and Others who do not line up behind the mendaciously named “ Black Lives Matter.
” ( Notice , by the way , how little we now hear about “ systemic racism ” and “ Black Lives Matter ” now that the American @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ? )
We know from his years of preaching hate against Israel in his Black church , where there were no Jews in the crowd , where Warnock stands on that one .
But now that he is running for statewide office , which means needing to reach out to Jewish voters in Georgia and more importantly to Jewish donors in Hollywood and elsewhere outside Georgia , he suddenly has switched his tune and says that he does not really hate Israel all that much , is not really anti-Semitic .
Yeah , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ way , as he tells other Georgia voters that , well , he does not really support the hate teachings of the Rev .
Jeremiah Wright , we know that Warnock laid his cards out on the table for years while preaching to his flock .
He has been bashing on Whites for years , outside our range of hearing .
America “ must repent its worship of Whiteness ” ?
Yet now he would sucker Whites and non-Whites who love America , telling them that he really never meant what he was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ less than he is a virulent anti-Semite when not asking Jews for their money , he is a race-baiter and hater .
We know from years of his own teaching and preaching of hate , from the pulpit of his church , when he thought no one outside the assemblage was listening or would hear , what is in this man ’ s soul .
He is evil , morally corrupt , and despicable .

I don’t get it. I just can’t figure it out.
Of course Raphael Warnock has no business running for a serious political office. Still, he certainly is allowed to try. The man is a phony, a liar, a Jew-hater, a White-hater, a man messed with his wife, a man who would chant “Amen!” to those who would curse America. Still, he is allowed to seek high office, just as prominent haters in other states have done.
The thing is, the people of other states see through the masquerades and camouflage. They reject the haters in statewide contests. Are the people of Georgia multiple times more stupid than the people in the rest of America? For example, a hater in Louisiana repeatedly has been rejected by that state’s voters. Are peaches and Coca-Cola more devastating to the brain that beignets and jambalaya?
I am a Jew. So I readily regard Warnock as despicable. For me, that part is personal. Anyone who hates Jews — well, howdaya expect me to feel? Indeed, a statement recently was issued by more than 1,500 Orthodox rabbis, under the aegis of the Coalition for Jewish Values, recoiling from Warnock’s years of hatred. But Warnock does not only hate Jews. He hates a great many more Americans.
For years Warnock would get up in church, week after week, and attack Jews in Israel, accusing them of horrific things that have no relationship to reality. It was safe for him to do so. He was preaching in a Black church. Jews don’t attend Black churches in any particular numbers, if at all, so there is nowhere safer to beat up on Jews. Compare us to Nazis — who is going to take umbrage? Tell a Black audience that Jews in Israel are like those who imposed Apartheid against Blacks in South Africa. Who will stand and exclaim, “You are a liar!” In a room where even Waldo will not be found, it is safe to slander Jews and Israel. So, with no Jews in the church to bear witness to truth, this anti-Semite compared the prime minister of Israel to … former Alabama Gov. George Wallace, the ultimate racist encountered by Blacks in southern segregationist states like Georgia and adjacent Alabama.
Warnock used his Black church pulpit for years to attack Jews, to attack Israel. Who can know or gauge how many truly decent, kind-hearted Black Americans in Georgia have been converted for life into Jew-haters for life by this evil man? Preachers carry enormous influence.
In between attacking Jews, this despicable hater attacked all the other targets that the Rev. Jeremiah Wright aimed at. Warnock was an unabashed acolyte — a chassid, so to speak, a starry-eyed disciple — of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Warnock invited the Rev. Wright to his church to spew his hatred there. What was it that made Wright famous? Perhaps it was this:
No no no, not God bless America, God damn America. That’s in the Bible, for killing innocent people: God damn America for treating her citizens as less than human. God damn America as long as she tries to act like she is God and she is supreme.
(I do not hyphenate the Holy Name of G-d when quoting Wright because his words are blasphemy and delusionally imagine an understanding of the G-d of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel.)
Warnock was asked 2008 about that speech, and he said, “We celebrate Rev. Wright in the same way that we celebrate the truth-telling tradition of the Black church, which when preachers tell the truth, very often it makes people uncomfortable.” He added that Wright is a “preacher and a prophet.”
Understand how bad Jeremiah Wright is. He is so bad, so evil, so despicable that Obama, for years a member of Wright’s wrong church, when running for president, broke off all contact with Wright. Obama turned left on Wright. Obama disowned Wright, essentially saying, “Wright? What Wright? Oh, the Wright that married Michelle and me? Oh, that Wright. Well, I never heard of him. And, by the way, if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor — and if you like your health plan, you can keep your health plan.”
For years Warnock has been another Wright — and two Wrights make a big Wrong.
Warnock’s mentor, Jeremiah Wright, is the same “Preacher and Prophet” who blamed “Them Jews” for dividing him from Obama:
Them Jews ain’t going to let him [Obama] talk to me. I told my baby daughter that he’ll talk to me in five years when he’s a lame duck, or in eight years when he’s out of office…. They [Them Jews] will not let him to talk to somebody who calls a spade what it is.
The people of Georgia surely are better than this. Or are they? Is Warnock the best that Georgia can send to Washington? Has Georgia advanced so little since Leo Frank was lynched and murdered there in 1915? Can they really consider voting for such a hater to be a United States senator?
I still find it hard to believe.
Plain and simple, Raphael Warnock is despicable. He was arrested in 2002 for obstructing a police investigation into alleged child abuse at a church camp in Maryland. He has preached that Brexit is “ethnocentrism and hate.” He preached that America “must ‘repent for its worship of whiteness.’ ” His then-wife told the cops that he is a phony, an “actor.”
He signed on to a letter attacking Israel for having soldiers stationed in Judea and Samaria to protect against Arab terrorist attacks on Jewish civilians. (Earlier this month, by the way, a Jewish woman in her early 50s was murdered by an Arab terrorist while hiking in a beautiful forest in Samaria.) After Arab terrorists murdered approximately 1,000 Israelis and wounded 5,000 from 2001 to 2005, Israel finally built a protective barrier to keep out terrorists. In a 2018 sermon, Warnock said, “We saw the government of Israel shoot down unarmed Palestinian sisters and brothers like birds of prey…. It is wrong to shoot down God’s children like they don’t matter at all. And it’s no more anti-Semitic for me to say that than it is anti-white for me to say that Black lives matter.”
Well, actually: No, no, no. That simply is Wright talking through Warnock’s corrupt lips. I have visited in Israel, and I have lived in Israel. Warnock’s words are Hitler-quality language, accusing the only majority-Jewish country in the world of shooting down others unlike them as “birds of prey.” It just is not true. It is a pure lie. He is such a liar. But how to prove a negative? If I accuse you, the reader, of being a pedophile, how do you prove you are not? Consider the stench that remains from the lies spoken against Justice Brett Kavanaugh. How do you prove a negative? How does Israel prove that it does not shoot down G-d’s children “like they don’t matter at all”? For that matter, how does Warnock prove that he does not “shoot down G-d’s children [as though] they don’t matter at all”?
If Warnock actually cared about Arab lives, would he not be as agitated over the endless Sunni–Shiite internecine wars? Would he not praise Israel for putting her own soldiers’ and police officers’ lives at risk as they attempt to persuade their Arab citizens — all of whom in truth have full equal rights — to take COVID precautions and to line up for vaccines?
Warnock hates the people whom Jeremiah Wright hates: Them Jews, Them Whites who support Brexit, Them Whites and Asians and Hispanics and Others who do not line up behind the mendaciously named “Black Lives Matter.” (Notice, by the way, how little we now hear about “systemic racism” and “Black Lives Matter” now that the American presidential election has taken place. Surprised?) We know from his years of preaching hate against Israel in his Black church, where there were no Jews in the crowd, where Warnock stands on that one. But now that he is running for statewide office, which means needing to reach out to Jewish voters in Georgia and more importantly to Jewish donors in Hollywood and elsewhere outside Georgia, he suddenly has switched his tune and says that he does not really hate Israel all that much, is not really anti-Semitic. Yeah, right.
And in precisely the same way, as he tells other Georgia voters that, well, he does not really support the hate teachings of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, we know that Warnock laid his cards out on the table for years while preaching to his flock. He has been bashing on Whites for years, outside our range of hearing. America “must repent its worship of Whiteness”? Yet now he would sucker Whites and non-Whites who love America, telling them that he really never meant what he was preaching from his church pulpit. No less than he is a virulent anti-Semite when not asking Jews for their money, he is a race-baiter and hater.
We know from years of his own teaching and preaching of hate, from the pulpit of his church, when he thought no one outside the assemblage was listening or would hear, what is in this man’s soul. He is evil, morally corrupt, and despicable.


thelibertydaily--2020-12-31--Police Clear Communist Radicals Occupying Motel, Chief Announces Zero Tolerance Policy

Update 12/30/2020 at 11:16am : Radicals with Tacoma Housing Now say police have arrived and are “ breaking doors open ” to remove the occupiers from the motel .
Police were seen , via a livestream , in “ full protective gear ” ahead of their action .
One homeless man , talking to Behind Enemy Lines live streamer , says he came to the motel for a few nights but wasn ’ t part of the original action by Tacoma Housing Now .
Not everyone occupying the motel have agreed to leave .
One woman refuses to leave the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ unclear if she ’ s homeless or an activist .
This is a developing story and will be updated in real time .
Check back frequently for updates .
Activists are asking for reinforcements to come by and help them document police action .
Right now , the “ army ” of protesters showing their support disappeared .
One man , who appears to be homeless , starts berating officers for their work clearing out the motel .
Other than that , it ’ s been mostly peaceful as officers clear out the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is on site to help homeless people load their belongings and transport them to an undetermined location .
There also seems to be more resistance from some activists and at least one person who appears homeless .
Others are packing up a lot of garbage bags filled with personal belongings .
Activists claim they brought people to help the homeless , though they ’ ve clearly abandoned them .
Now , activists claim “ Nazis ” are on site posing some kind of unknown danger .
No Nazis are on site as far @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Chief Pete Fisher is speaking now to explain why they ’ re acting today to remove the radicals .
He confirms he was working with the radicals but implies the business owner ( who he does call a victim ) might have made matters worse when he complained about the situation to the press .
But Fisher also says he had an agreement with the business owner that wasn ’ t kept .
The chief also says they didn ’ t act because of a lack of staffing and if they made arrests @ @ @ @ @ @ @ jails would take the suspects anyway .
He noted that there ’ s concern that this becomes a super spreader event since two people on site are reportedly COVID-positive .
Fisher says no arrests today ( none planned ) but is investigating the people who initiated the occupation and may face charges .
He says this is felony-level theft “ at minimum ” possibly .
Fisher promises a “ zero tolerance ” policy moving forward on this kind of illegal action .
There ’ s concern from some on the ground that when @ @ @ @ @ @ @ other radicals will take the business again — or attempt to destroy it .
On Twitter , Tacoma Housing Now claims the business owner allows his motel to be used for sex trafficking , though didn ’ t provide any evidence .
Things appear to be getting a bit tense as Antifa agitators are on one side and conservative activists on the other .
At least one conservative activist says he ’ s legally armed to protected himself against the often-violent Antifa .
Both sides appear have a dozen or so activists a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
This could putter out , or turn nasty very quickly .
Here ’ s where things stand : police are still conducting their sweep of the occupied motel .
Outside the building , around the fence on the sidewalk , two groups have gathered : Antifa and other housing activists and conservatives .
There ’ s some civil dialogue between some .
For the most , however , both sides are standing on their side without the need for police intervention .
There is , however , one man on the Antifa @ @ @ @ @ @ @ stick at the fence .
He previously indicated he ’ s suffering from mental illness .
Some media are present but they ’ re not embedded with the groups as far as I can tell .
Tensions have eased from both sides , for the most part though the activists are partially blocking traffic in front of the motel ( one lane ) .
Unsure why .
Online , Tacoma Housing Now continues their unhinged tweets online .
They say the Fife City Manager promised hotel vouchers but broke his word .
They @ @ @ @ @ @ @ may end up in jail for planning and enacting their occupation .
Tacoma Housing Now are asking people to call the Fife City Manager and read an unhinged script .
The number given is public and listed on the City of Fife ’ s website .
The Fife Police Department released a statement covering much of what I outlined above from the press conference .
Radical activists with Tacoma Housing Now ( THN ) are holding a Travelodge motel hostage in Fife while activists are assembling their version of an army to defend @ @ @ @ @ @ @ escalating and dangerous situation .
Law enforcement and local politicians are not doing much to stop it .
Of course , COVID is also now spreading within the motel as one of the organizers and one homeless occupier apparently tested positive for the virus .
This should be called out for what it is : the intersection of deranged activism and domestic terrorism .
The fringe progressives behind THN paid for 16 rooms for one night on Christmas Eve at the Fife Travelodge .
They housed approximately 40 homeless people .
But they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not paying .
They ’ ve since taken two more motel rooms , and KIRO 7 TV reports the group ’ s intent is to force the county or city to turn the motel into housing for the homeless .
Now they ’ re holding the motel hostage and demanding the city or county pay for the nights that they ’ re staying in the rooms .
“ We paid for the first night and now we ’ re demanding that the city and county pay for the other nights we ’ ve @ @ @ @ @ @ @ local Socialist leader Rebecca Parson defiantly told KING 5 .
She belongs in jail along with the other occupiers .
Parson bizarrely claims she ’ s “ bringing business to the hotel ” because she ’ s demanding government officials pay them for their theft .
This is a remarkably insane and unstable position to hold .
It ’ s also unclear how many homeless people Parson is allowing to crash at her place for the night .
THN has called on its army of supporters ( think : vegan Avengers but in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and superpowers that mostly involve playing victim on Twitter ) to show up en masse to help keep them safe from law enforcement .
On Twitter , they ask for activists to show up for “ eviction defense !
… we need at least 70 people there to prevent eviction.
” Progressive and socialist activists have rallied behind the movement on social media .
Antifa activists with It ’ s Going Down , which promotes “ anarchist , anti-fascist , autonomous anti-capitalist and anti-colonial movements , ” promise they have “ 50-70 people @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is a hardcore group of true believers .
They ’ re so anti-capitalist , for example , they have their own Instagram and Twitter accounts !
They report that “ housing activists from Tacoma Housing Now , Seattle ( the Yellow House ) , and Olympia have coalesced into a broad Puget Sound coalition that will support housing actions in each other ’ s cities.
” According to reports , about 60 protesters have rallied outside the motel as backup .
Meanwhile , the activists are terrorizing a minority business manager .
How @ @ @ @ @ @ @ m just devastated , ” motel manager Shawn Randhawa told the Tacoma News Tribune .
“ Because of the protest , I have nothing else .
I was barely getting through this pandemic , and now this .
This Christmas , the Grinch came.
” THN activists justify their hostage takeover by pointing to the Paycheck Protection Program loan that went to Randhawa , which was used to keep his employees paid .
“ They are keeping me hostage .
No one is out to help me , ” Randhawa told the Tribune @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the city of Fife.
” But to the activists , they ’ re just fighting a just cause ( while not actually housing homeless people where they live , choosing instead to steal from others ) .
“ A lot of these folks here have chronic illnesses , ” activist “ Arrow ” claimed to KIRO 7 TV .
“ They have everything from cancer to severe infections , seizures , all sorts of chronic illnesses.
” Sounds like these people should be in hospitals beds and not Fife motel rooms .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ of being as sharp as the weapon he named himself after .
He also should be in a jail cell ( that counts as housing ) .
Missing in action as this motel occupation escalates ?
City leadership and law enforcement .
Both are taking the same approach : feckless cowardice .
Fife ’ s city manager Hyun Kim told the Tribune he wants an open dialogue .
“ I would like to bring together partners to provide wrap-around services to these people .
I understand that some are sick and just a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” he said .
“ Occupying a private motel and potentially put them out of business is untenable .
I fear for those who might lose their job.
” Is it untenable ?
Perhaps Kim should , I don ’ t know , do something about it , like enforce the law ?
Perhaps offer to the business owner the same anger and urgency he ’ d expect if his home was taken over by radical lunatics .
Fife Police Chief Pete Fisher even acknowledges the lawlessness , but won ’ t do @ @ @ @ @ @ @ re trying to see if we can work out a resolution without having to take law enforcement action , ” Fisher told the Tribune .
So apparently we do negotiate with terrorists ?
Randhawa says when he calls 911 , police ignore his requests and claim they ’ re understaffed .
Shame on the Fife Police Department if that ’ s the excuse they gave .
The Jason Rantz Show on KTTH is proudly and unapologetically pro-police .
But this is a shameful response to a serious emergency .
This does , however @ @ @ @ @ @ @ stand down .
City officials have apparently made an offer of Tiny Homes for some of the homeless that THN is using as props to forward its radical agenda .
But those offers have been rejected by the hostage takers .
Now , they ’ re adding even more demands .
Meanwhile , Q13 FOX reporter Steve Kiggins put on his activist hat in a tweet seems to show his support for the movement .
Someone tweeted , “ You can literally just take over someone ’ s business and get away with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with a link explaining colonial America .
It ’ s a mind-numbingly stupid comparison .
It ’ s tweets like his that lead to people questioning the objectivity of reporters in this city ( which especially disappointing because Q13 is an outlet filled with objective reporters ) .
THN liked the tweet , of course .
This isn ’ t going to end well… or at all In my newest column for Newsweek , I tackle the strategy of protest occupations .
THN holds dangerous beliefs .
They think that rules don ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ over property that doesn ’ t belong to them ( it ’ s not the first time they pulled this kind of stunt ) .
They simply don ’ t care about consequences because there aren ’ t any .
And they ’ ve convinced themselves they ’ re heroes .
That makes them especially dangerous .
That kind of delusion can make someone do very risky things , including turning to violence .
We ’ ve already seen Antifa terrorists do that in the PNW .
And since few city leaders seem @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is wrong and will not be accepted , by negotiating ( or even , G-d forbid , giving in and paying for the nights at the hotel in this instance ) , they ’ re just ensuring the tactic continues .
Did anyone realistically think Seattle-style insanity would spread to Fife ?
Yet here we are .
You shouldn ’ t be surprised .
We ’ ve already seen it spread across Washington and Oregon and into California .
It ’ s not going to stop because we don ’ t do enough @ @ @ @ @ @ @ politicians who think they ’ re de-escalating by talking it out don ’ t realize they ’ re likely inspiring citizens from taking matters into their own hands to police their own neighborhoods and businesses .
We know that doesn ’ t end well .
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Update 12/30/2020 at 11:16am: Radicals with Tacoma Housing Now say police have arrived and are “breaking doors open” to remove the occupiers from the motel.
Cops are onsite blocking us in and have PPE and zip ties. We believe arrests are about to happen. — Tacoma Housing Now (@TacHousing) December 30, 2020
Cops are breaking doors open. — Tacoma Housing Now (@TacHousing) December 30, 2020
Police were seen, via a livestream, in “full protective gear” ahead of their action.
Update 12/30/2020 at 11:24am:
One homeless man, talking to Behind Enemy Lines live streamer, says he came to the motel for a few nights but wasn’t part of the original action by Tacoma Housing Now.
Not everyone occupying the motel have agreed to leave. One woman refuses to leave the parking lot, though it’s unclear if she’s homeless or an activist.
This is a developing story and will be updated in real time. Check back frequently for updates.
Update 12/30/2020 at 11:32am:
Activists are asking for reinforcements to come by and help them document police action. Right now, the “army” of protesters showing their support disappeared.
We need supporters on the ground at the Port of Tacoma Travelodge. Please live stream and stay in your cars for Covid safety. — Tacoma Housing Now (@TacHousing) December 30, 2020
Update 12/30/2020 at 11:58am:
One man, who appears to be homeless, starts berating officers for their work clearing out the motel. Other than that, it’s been mostly peaceful as officers clear out the occupied motel.
The Fife city manager just told one of our Covid-positive organizers by phone that Fife is doing 30-day hotel vouchers. He also said “I’m here and you’re not” — to someone w/ Covid — and hung up on us. Tbh this fits: he’s causing community spread by evicting positive residents. — Tacoma Housing Now (@TacHousing) December 30, 2020
Update 12/30/2020 at 12:03pm:
A Fife Corrections van is on site to help homeless people load their belongings and transport them to an undetermined location.
There also seems to be more resistance from some activists and at least one person who appears homeless. Others are packing up a lot of garbage bags filled with personal belongings.
Update 12/30/2020 at 12:14pm
Activists claim they brought people to help the homeless, though they’ve clearly abandoned them. Now, activists claim “Nazis” are on site posing some kind of unknown danger. No Nazis are on site as far as this Jew can tell.
Our movement brought with it mental health workers, lawyers, service workers, medics, community organizers, and people who believe housing is a human right to defend our movement….the capitalists brought Nazis. Which side are you on? — Tacoma Housing Now (@TacHousing) December 30, 2020
More fash are coming. https://t.co/RnAv5EL8iN — Tacoma Housing Now (@TacHousing) December 30, 2020
Update 12/30/2020 at 12:24pm: Police Chief speaks
Police Chief Pete Fisher is speaking now to explain why they’re acting today to remove the radicals. He confirms he was working with the radicals but implies the business owner (who he does call a victim) might have made matters worse when he complained about the situation to the press. But Fisher also says he had an agreement with the business owner that wasn’t kept.
The chief also says they didn’t act because of a lack of staffing and if they made arrests, it’s not like the jails would take the suspects anyway. He noted that there’s concern that this becomes a super spreader event since two people on site are reportedly COVID-positive.
Fisher says no arrests today (none planned) but is investigating the people who initiated the occupation and may face charges. He says this is felony-level theft “at minimum” possibly.
Fisher promises a “zero tolerance” policy moving forward on this kind of illegal action.
Update 12/30/2020 at 12:42pm: Concern
There’s concern from some on the ground that when the police leave, Antifa agitators and other radicals will take the business again — or attempt to destroy it. On Twitter, Tacoma Housing Now claims the business owner allows his motel to be used for sex trafficking, though didn’t provide any evidence.
Update 12/30/2020 at 12:45pm: Antifa has arrived
Things appear to be getting a bit tense as Antifa agitators are on one side and conservative activists on the other. At least one conservative activist says he’s legally armed to protected himself against the often-violent Antifa. Both sides appear have a dozen or so activists a piece but it seems to be growing.
This could putter out, or turn nasty very quickly.
Update 12/30/2020 at 12:55pm: Reset
Here’s where things stand: police are still conducting their sweep of the occupied motel. Outside the building, around the fence on the sidewalk, two groups have gathered: Antifa and other housing activists and conservatives.
There’s some civil dialogue between some. For the most, however, both sides are standing on their side without the need for police intervention. There is, however, one man on the Antifa side keeps swinging a pole or walking stick at the fence. He previously indicated he’s suffering from mental illness. Some media are present but they’re not embedded with the groups as far as I can tell.
Update 12/30/2020 at 1:15pm: Tensions ease?
Tensions have eased from both sides, for the most part though the activists are partially blocking traffic in front of the motel (one lane). Unsure why.
Online, Tacoma Housing Now continues their unhinged tweets online. They say the Fife City Manager promised hotel vouchers but broke his word. They might be upset since some of them may end up in jail for planning and enacting their occupation.
Update 12/30/2020 at 1:32pm: Read the script
Tacoma Housing Now are asking people to call the Fife City Manager and read an unhinged script. The number given is public and listed on the City of Fife’s website.
Update 12/30/2020 at 1:33pm
The Fife Police Department released a statement covering much of what I outlined above from the press conference.
FPD Press Release regarding Subjects Illegally Occupying the Travelodge in Fife – https://t.co/bff7gzCUVA — Fife Police Dept. (@FifePD) December 30, 2020
Original story.
Radical activists with Tacoma Housing Now (THN) are holding a Travelodge motel hostage in Fife while activists are assembling their version of an army to defend the takeover.
It’s an escalating and dangerous situation. Law enforcement and local politicians are not doing much to stop it. Of course, COVID is also now spreading within the motel as one of the organizers and one homeless occupier apparently tested positive for the virus.
This should be called out for what it is: the intersection of deranged activism and domestic terrorism.
CARES money, FEMA money, defunding the police. So many options for funding. PAY UP, @CityofTacoma and @PierceCo. — Tacoma Housing Now (@TacHousing) December 29, 2020
Tacoma Housing Now holds a motel hostage
The fringe progressives behind THN paid for 16 rooms for one night on Christmas Eve at the Fife Travelodge. They housed approximately 40 homeless people.
But they refuse to leave and they’re not paying. They’ve since taken two more motel rooms, and KIRO 7 TV reports the group’s intent is to force the county or city to turn the motel into housing for the homeless.
Now they’re holding the motel hostage and demanding the city or county pay for the nights that they’re staying in the rooms.
“We paid for the first night and now we’re demanding that the city and county pay for the other nights we’ve been here,” THN spokesperson and local Socialist leader Rebecca Parson defiantly told KING 5.
She belongs in jail along with the other occupiers.
Parson bizarrely claims she’s “bringing business to the hotel” because she’s demanding government officials pay them for their theft. This is a remarkably insane and unstable position to hold. It’s also unclear how many homeless people Parson is allowing to crash at her place for the night.
An army forms
THN has called on its army of supporters (think: vegan Avengers but in homemade defensive gear, lame nicknames, and superpowers that mostly involve playing victim on Twitter) to show up en masse to help keep them safe from law enforcement. On Twitter, they ask for activists to show up for “eviction defense! … we need at least 70 people there to prevent eviction.”
Progressive and socialist activists have rallied behind the movement on social media.
Antifa activists with It’s Going Down, which promotes “anarchist, anti-fascist, autonomous anti-capitalist and anti-colonial movements,” promise they have “50-70 people ready to defend if needed.” This is a hardcore group of true believers. They’re so anti-capitalist, for example, they have their own Instagram and Twitter accounts!
They report that “housing activists from Tacoma Housing Now, Seattle (the Yellow House), and Olympia have coalesced into a broad Puget Sound coalition that will support housing actions in each other’s cities.”
According to reports, about 60 protesters have rallied outside the motel as backup.
‘They are keeping me hostage’
Meanwhile, the activists are terrorizing a minority business manager. How woke of them.
“I’m just devastated,” motel manager Shawn Randhawa told the Tacoma News Tribune. “Because of the protest, I have nothing else. I was barely getting through this pandemic, and now this. This Christmas, the Grinch came.”
THN activists justify their hostage takeover by pointing to the Paycheck Protection Program loan that went to Randhawa, which was used to keep his employees paid.
“They are keeping me hostage. No one is out to help me,” Randhawa told the Tribune. “It’s complete lawlessness in the city of Fife.”
But to the activists, they’re just fighting a just cause (while not actually housing homeless people where they live, choosing instead to steal from others).
“A lot of these folks here have chronic illnesses,” activist “Arrow” claimed to KIRO 7 TV. “They have everything from cancer to severe infections, seizures, all sorts of chronic illnesses.”
Sounds like these people should be in hospitals beds and not Fife motel rooms. But no one will ever accuse Arrow of being as sharp as the weapon he named himself after. He also should be in a jail cell (that counts as housing).
Fife leadership missing in action
Missing in action as this motel occupation escalates? City leadership and law enforcement. Both are taking the same approach: feckless cowardice.
Fife’s city manager Hyun Kim told the Tribune he wants an open dialogue.
“I would like to bring together partners to provide wrap-around services to these people. I understand that some are sick and just a hotel room is not an end-all-be-all,” he said. “Occupying a private motel and potentially put them out of business is untenable. I fear for those who might lose their job.”
Is it untenable? Perhaps Kim should, I don’t know, do something about it, like enforce the law? Perhaps offer to the business owner the same anger and urgency he’d expect if his home was taken over by radical lunatics.
Fife Police Chief Pete Fisher even acknowledges the lawlessness, but won’t do much about it.
“We’re trying to see if we can work out a resolution without having to take law enforcement action,” Fisher told the Tribune.
So apparently we do negotiate with terrorists?
Randhawa says when he calls 911, police ignore his requests and claim they’re understaffed. Shame on the Fife Police Department if that’s the excuse they gave. The Jason Rantz Show on KTTH is proudly and unapologetically pro-police. But this is a shameful response to a serious emergency. This does, however, scream of politicians ordering police to stand down.
Fife City Manager says we have at least one more night! https://t.co/QzOIKJDTEG — Rebecca Parson (@RebeccaforWA) December 29, 2020
UPDATE 12/30/20 5:55 a.m.
City officials have apparently made an offer of Tiny Homes for some of the homeless that THN is using as props to forward its radical agenda. But those offers have been rejected by the hostage takers. Now, they’re adding even more demands.
The offer of 10 tiny homes is insufficient. Apparently the city just doesn’t believe us when we say have 43 people here. Plus, most of our residents don’t qualify for the tiny homes because they’re not couples, single women, or families with children. — Tacoma Housing Now (@TacHousing) December 30, 2020
Additionally, we refuse to leave until everyone here receives Covid testing and their results. Otherwise, we risk community spread, which we’re sure the City of Fife and LIHI don’t want. — Tacoma Housing Now (@TacHousing) December 30, 2020
Meanwhile, Q13 FOX reporter Steve Kiggins put on his activist hat in a tweet seems to show his support for the movement.
Someone tweeted, “You can literally just take over someone’s business and get away with it now. Unbelievable.” Kiggins responded with a link explaining colonial America. It’s a mind-numbingly stupid comparison.
It’s tweets like his that lead to people questioning the objectivity of reporters in this city (which especially disappointing because Q13 is an outlet filled with objective reporters). THN liked the tweet, of course.
Siri: what do you call the theft of a continent. https://t.co/Ntq5wBbfa0 — Tacoma Housing Now (@TacHousing) December 30, 2020
This isn’t going to end well… or at all
In my newest column for Newsweek, I tackle the strategy of protest occupations.
This dangerous strategy won’t just continue in 2021. It will likely spread beyond the Pacific Northwest because cities have shown there are no meaningful consequences to this behavior—one that’s driven by adherence to a dangerous ideology.
THN holds dangerous beliefs. They think that rules don’t apply; that they can take over property that doesn’t belong to them (it’s not the first time they pulled this kind of stunt). They simply don’t care about consequences because there aren’t any. And they’ve convinced themselves they’re heroes. That makes them especially dangerous. That kind of delusion can make someone do very risky things, including turning to violence. We’ve already seen Antifa terrorists do that in the PNW.
And since few city leaders seem willing to say this kind of nonsense is wrong and will not be accepted, by negotiating (or even, G-d forbid, giving in and paying for the nights at the hotel in this instance), they’re just ensuring the tactic continues.
Seattle lunacy spreads
Did anyone realistically think Seattle-style insanity would spread to Fife? Yet here we are.
You shouldn’t be surprised. We’ve already seen it spread across Washington and Oregon and into California. It’s not going to stop because we don’t do enough to force it to.
And the politicians who think they’re de-escalating by talking it out don’t realize they’re likely inspiring citizens from taking matters into their own hands to police their own neighborhoods and businesses. We know that doesn’t end well.
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thelibertydaily--2020-12-31--Beastmode: Houston Councilman Attacked by Woke Mob for Unflattering Moochelle Obama Meme; Instead of

Beastmode: Houston Councilman Attacked by Woke Mob for Unflattering Moochelle Obama Meme; Instead of Cowering, He Moves On to Blast Kamala

Calls are growing for a Houston city councilman to resign simply posting an unflattering meme of former First Lady Michelle Obama , but instead of backing down , he ’ s speaking out to defend himself .
Houston City Councilman Greg Travis , who represents the Texas city ’ s District G , to share a meme comparing Michelle to Melania Trump .
The meme featured both women wearing pantsuits , and Travis captioned it , “ Yep .
Just saying.
” Ashton P. Woods , founder of Black Lives Matter Houston , posted screenshots of the post on Twitter @ @ @ @ @ @ @ MORE NEWS : Newt Gingrich Speaks Out To Beg Mitch McConnell To Schedule Vote On $ 2,000 Stimulus Checks In the screenshots , Travis can be seen responding to a comment from local businesswoman and former city council candidate Laurie Robinson , who had pointed out that Michelle went to Harvard .
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Doesn ’ t take much—she was born with her @ @ @ @ @ @ @ brightest bulb in the lot , ” Travis wrote in response .
He went on to also bring Kamala Harris into the conversation .
“ And let ’ s not talk about Kamala—her qualification is that she sleeps with powerful men , ” he said .
“ And don ’ t bring up Hillary .
Please , she would be nothing without Bill and she had to cover up for him raping those five women .
Feminism is dead on the left .
These three helped to kill it.
” Despite the backlash @ @ @ @ @ @ @ KPRC2 that he would not be resigning .
“ I have every right to my opinion .
They have every right to their opinion .
I don ’ t tell other people they can ’ t have their opinion , ” he said .
“ They can call for whatever they want .
I ’ m not resigning.
” “ There ’ s a difference , ” Travis added of Melania and Michelle .
“ I think one is classier .
One is not.
” When pressed on this by reporters , he @ @ @ @ @ @ @ think that one represents the first lady ideal .
Michelle Obama has always been too political for me.
” As for affirmative action , Travis said , “ You don ’ t get Affirmative Action if you ’ re white.
” When asked if he truly believes Michelle only got into Harvard because of affirmative action , he responded , “ Well , the answer is I don ’ t specifically know because I didn ’ t see her transcript , but I will tell you I ’ ve read articles that alluded @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is I don ’ t know if she did or if she didn ’ t. ” “ I like women .
I like Blacks .
I like Black women , ” Travis continued .
“ One of my favorite people is Candace Owens .
I actually gave money to her organization .
If I didn ’ t like Black women , I probably wouldn ’ t be supporting her.
” Despite the many careers that cancel culture mobs like the one after Travis have destroyed , he doesn ’ t think he ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s trying to be done to me is to cancel me out , ” he said .
“ It ’ s not going to work .
When people do that I just fight even harder .
”

Calls are growing for a Houston city councilman to resign simply posting an unflattering meme of former First Lady Michelle Obama, but instead of backing down, he’s speaking out to defend himself.
Houston City Councilman Greg Travis, who represents the Texas city’s District G, to share a meme comparing Michelle to Melania Trump. The meme featured both women wearing pantsuits, and Travis captioned it, “Yep. Just saying.”
Ashton P. Woods, founder of Black Lives Matter Houston, posted screenshots of the post on Twitter, calling for Travis to resign.
“Houston City Councilman Greg Travis hates black women,” Woods wrote alongside the screenshots. “DEMAND HIS RESIGNATIOM [sic].”
In the screenshots, Travis can be seen responding to a comment from local businesswoman and former city council candidate Laurie Robinson, who had pointed out that Michelle went to Harvard.
“It’s called Affirmative Action. Doesn’t take much—she was born with her qualification. She isn’t the brightest bulb in the lot,” Travis wrote in response. He went on to also bring Kamala Harris into the conversation.
“And let’s not talk about Kamala—her qualification is that she sleeps with powerful men,” he said. “And don’t bring up Hillary. Please, she would be nothing without Bill and she had to cover up for him raping those five women. Feminism is dead on the left. These three helped to kill it.”
Despite the backlash he has received, Travis defiantly told KPRC2 that he would not be resigning.
“I have every right to my opinion. They have every right to their opinion. I don’t tell other people they can’t have their opinion,” he said. “They can call for whatever they want. I’m not resigning.”
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“There’s a difference,” Travis added of Melania and Michelle. “I think one is classier. One is not.”
When pressed on this by reporters, he replied, “Well, I just think that one represents the first lady ideal. Michelle Obama has always been too political for me.”
As for affirmative action, Travis said, “You don’t get Affirmative Action if you’re white.”
When asked if he truly believes Michelle only got into Harvard because of affirmative action, he responded, “Well, the answer is I don’t specifically know because I didn’t see her transcript, but I will tell you I’ve read articles that alluded to that. So, the answer is I don’t know if she did or if she didn’t.”
“I like women. I like Blacks. I like Black women,” Travis continued. “One of my favorite people is Candace Owens. I actually gave money to her organization. If I didn’t like Black women, I probably wouldn’t be supporting her.”
Despite the many careers that cancel culture mobs like the one after Travis have destroyed, he doesn’t think he’s going anywhere.
“What’s trying to be done to me is to cancel me out,” he said. “It’s not going to work. When people do that I just fight even harder.”


thelibertydaily--2020-12-30--Here We Go Again? Is America Prepared for a COVID-20 Virus?

Charlotte , N.C. — It has been one year since the new coronavirus ( COVID-19 ) was first identified in Wuhan , China .
As the U.S. begins to enter into the year , 2021 is this the last we have seen of the coronavirus ?
Will We See a COVID-20 ?
In December , Americans started receiving the long-anticipated COVID-19 vaccine , which was developed and implemented in record time ( less than nine months ) .
However , with vital vaccine research still unknown , what will America ’ s response be if another novel virus crosses our @ @ @ @ @ @ @ no doubt that China is the originator of the world ’ s deadliest and seasonal viral infections each year .
According to Dr. Colin Russell and Professor Derek Smith of the University of Cambridge , Asia , specifically , China , is the source of most influenza viruses .
Each year , influenza circles the globe , and according to The World Health Organization estimates , annual influenza epidemics result in about 3-5 million cases of severe illness and about 250,000 to 500,000 deaths .
Since March 2020 , America has seen itself @ @ @ @ @ @ @ liberal political policies that have left millions out-of-work and out-of-luck .
Across the country , the year 2020 has decimated lives and the future of families alike .
One would hope now that the whole world has had its first experience fighting this coronavirus , we should be better prepared to deal with it if it returns .
However , if the COVID-19 vaccine fails to fight against future or mutated variants of the virus , will America find itself back in time ?
Even more , will our against be forced to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ could our country even survive such a scenario ?
In nine months , our nation has endured a novel virus , racial demonstrations and destruction , near-record unemployment , massive additions to our national debt , and liberal political policies that have pinned families against each other and led to the thievery of our federal election .
The United States has overcome past obstacles , from war to financial ruin ; our nation always seems to come out on top .
But what about next time ?
America is deeply divided — in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ opposites in our country ’ s direction .
Somehow , our nation ’ s people have allowed a virus with a 1.7 percent mortality rate to dismantle our republic .
Sheepish and radical socialistic thought has taken hold of our nation ’ s consciousness — our people act on fear rather than facts .
I ’ m afraid our nation and its leaders have learned nothing from the coronavirus .
Instead , we have acted on anxiety and funneled fear deep and wide across America .
Our country has allowed something one-billionth of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lives and enable the socialist-Democrats to strip away our everyday freedoms that we may never get back .
COVID has killed and taken more than just lives ; it has forever changed our country .
For our nation ’ s sake and sanity , we better pray and prepare for another battle with COVID .
It or something similar may just be on the horizon — how will we react when it does ?
Eric Wright is the Editor-at-Large at The Liberty Loft and host of The Closet Conservative Podcast .
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Charlotte, N.C. — It has been one year since the new coronavirus (COVID-19) was first identified in Wuhan, China. As the U.S. begins to enter into the year, 2021 is this the last we have seen of the coronavirus?
Will We See a COVID-20?
In December, Americans started receiving the long-anticipated COVID-19 vaccine, which was developed and implemented in record time (less than nine months). However, with vital vaccine research still unknown, what will America’s response be if another novel virus crosses our country’s borders?
There is no doubt that China is the originator of the world’s deadliest and seasonal viral infections each year. According to Dr. Colin Russell and Professor Derek Smith of the University of Cambridge, Asia, specifically, China, is the source of most influenza viruses. Each year, influenza circles the globe, and according to The World Health Organization estimates, annual influenza epidemics result in about 3-5 million cases of severe illness and about 250,000 to 500,000 deaths.
Since March 2020, America has seen itself plagued not just by the virus but liberal political policies that have left millions out-of-work and out-of-luck. Across the country, the year 2020 has decimated lives and the future of families alike.
One would hope now that the whole world has had its first experience fighting this coronavirus, we should be better prepared to deal with it if it returns. However, if the COVID-19 vaccine fails to fight against future or mutated variants of the virus, will America find itself back in time? Even more, will our against be forced to shut down under liberal stay-at-home orders — could our country even survive such a scenario?
In nine months, our nation has endured a novel virus, racial demonstrations and destruction, near-record unemployment, massive additions to our national debt, and liberal political policies that have pinned families against each other and led to the thievery of our federal election.
The United States has overcome past obstacles, from war to financial ruin; our nation always seems to come out on top. But what about next time?
America is deeply divided — in fact, our population seems to be opposites in our country’s direction. Somehow, our nation’s people have allowed a virus with a 1.7 percent mortality rate to dismantle our republic. Sheepish and radical socialistic thought has taken hold of our nation’s consciousness — our people act on fear rather than facts.
I’m afraid our nation and its leaders have learned nothing from the coronavirus. Instead, we have acted on anxiety and funneled fear deep and wide across America. Our country has allowed something one-billionth of humans’ size to control our everyday lives and enable the socialist-Democrats to strip away our everyday freedoms that we may never get back.
COVID has killed and taken more than just lives; it has forever changed our country. For our nation’s sake and sanity, we better pray and prepare for another battle with COVID. It or something similar may just be on the horizon — how will we react when it does?
Eric Wright is the Editor-at-Large at The Liberty Loft and host of The Closet Conservative Podcast. Be sure to subscribe to The Liberty Loft’s daily newsletter.
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thelibertydaily--2020-12-30--Buffalo Bills Get Andrew Cuomo to Allow Some Fans for Playoffs

The Buffalo Bills have triumphed , and gotten New York governor Andrew Cuomo to allow them to host some fans @ @ @ @ @ to ESPN : This is pretty good news , but maybe not as great for @ @ @ @ @ as it could ’ ve been .
That figure is less than 10 percent of @ @ @ @ @ Stadium , which holds over 70,000 when it is full .
I understand why they @ @ @ @ @ full stadium , but couldn ’ t they try to go for 20-25 percent to @ @ @ @ @ at the game while still maintaining social distancing between groups ?
Perhaps if the Bills @ @ @ @ @ off without a hitch , they can lobby for an increase in the number of @ @ @ @ @ .

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The Buffalo Bills have triumphed, and gotten New York governor Andrew Cuomo to allow them to host some fans in the stands, according to ESPN:
Sources confirm the Bills will allow 6,700 fans inside Bills Stadium for the team's upcoming playoff game. NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo set to make the announcement shortly — Marcel Louis-Jacques (@Marcel_LJ) December 30, 2020
This is pretty good news, but maybe not as great for the Bills and their fans as it could’ve been. That figure is less than 10 percent of the capacity at Ralph Wilson Stadium, which holds over 70,000 when it is full. I understand why they wouldn’t want a full stadium, but couldn’t they try to go for 20-25 percent to create more of an atmosphere at the game while still maintaining social distancing between groups?
Perhaps if the Bills win and first game goes off without a hitch, they can lobby for an increase in the number of fans allowed in the building.


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thelibertydaily--2020-12-31--☭ REVEALED: Full List of Western Media Outlets Participating in Chinese Communist Propaganda Events

☭ REVEALED: Full List of Western Media Outlets Participating in Chinese Communist Propaganda Events ☭

The full list follows a National Pulse exposé on the China-United States Exchange Foundation ( CUSEF ) , founded by the Vice-Chairman of the Chinese People ’ s Political Consultative Conference ( CPPCC ) , which has been identified by the U.S.-China Security and Economic Review Commission as a key component of the Chinese Communist Party ’ s United Work Front.T he effort , according to the U.S. government report , aims to “ to co-opt and neutralize sources of potential opposition to the policies and authority of its ruling Chinese Communist Party ” and “ influence overseas Chinese communities @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to take actions or adopt positions supportive of Beijing ’ s preferred policies.
” Evidenced through the Department of Justice ’ s Foreign Agent Registration Act ( FARA ) filings , a relationship spanning over a decade between establishment media outlets and CUSEF can be discerned .
With the assistance of BLJ , CUSEF has sponsored trips to China for the following outlets with the explicit goal of “ effectively disseminat [ ing ] positive messages to the media , key influencers , and opinion leaders , and the general public ” according @ @ @ @ @ @ @ trips , ” the criteria for participants included “ effectiveness and opportunities for favorable coverage ” in order to secure “ favorable ” coverage ” In order to develop favorable coverage in key national media , BLJ will continue to organize and staff “ familiarization trips ” to China .
This includes recruiting top journalists to travel to China , selected for effectiveness and opportunities for favorable coverage .
In addition to CUSEF-sponsored travel , outlets also met with CUSEF officials and the BLJ CEO in various U.S. cities including New York , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Often times , the meetings were described as “ private dinners ” in FARA filings .
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The full list follows a National Pulse exposé on the China-United States Exchange Foundation (CUSEF), founded by the Vice-Chairman of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), which has been identified by the U.S.-China Security and Economic Review Commission as a key component of the Chinese Communist Party’s United Work Front. The effort, according to the U.S. government report, aims to “to co-opt and neutralize sources of potential opposition to the policies and authority of its ruling Chinese Communist Party” and “influence overseas Chinese communities, foreign governments, and other actors to take actions or adopt positions supportive of Beijing’s preferred policies.” Evidenced through the Department of Justice’s Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA) filings, a relationship spanning over a decade between establishment media outlets and CUSEF can be discerned.
Sponsored Trips.
With the assistance of BLJ, CUSEF has sponsored trips to China for the following outlets with the explicit goal of “effectively disseminat[ing] positive messages to the media, key influencers, and opinion leaders, and the general public” according to FARA filings.
Dubbed “familiarization trips,” the criteria for participants included “effectiveness and opportunities for favorable coverage” in order to secure “favorable” coverage”
In order to develop favorable coverage in key national media, BLJ will continue to organize and staff “familiarization trips” to China. This includes recruiting top journalists to travel to China, selected for effectiveness and opportunities for favorable coverage.
Outlets:
Private Dinners.
In addition to CUSEF-sponsored travel, outlets also met with CUSEF officials and the BLJ CEO in various U.S. cities including New York, Washington, D.C., and Chicago. Often times, the meetings were described as “private dinners” in FARA filings.
Outlets:
Washington Post
Associated Press
TIME Magazine
New York Times
CBS
Forbes
PBS
The Atlantic
The Economist
CNBC
Wall Street Journal
Financial Times
National Journal
NPR
Politico
Chicago Tribune
Bloomberg
BBC
Los Angeles Times
Quartz
Agence France Presse
McClatchy Newspapers
Congressional Quarterly
Businessweek
CNN
The Hill
Reuters
ABC
Nation
Yahoo!
Newsweek
The National Pulse will continue its fearless reporting into the compromised nature of Western media and the reach of the Chinese Communist Party into U.S. institutions. Please consider supporting this crucial work.