thelibertydaily--2020-05-21--Parents Bring 5 Kids Into Bank Staffed by Social Distancing Fanatics — Covid Karens Call Child Servi

Parents Bring 5 Kids Into Bank Staffed by Social Distancing Fanatics — Covid Karens Call Child Services

May 20 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) — Government overreach is one thing .
Over-enthusiastic government employees or jumpy law enforcement during a pandemic is another .
We can tolerate these things — at least for a while .
But when government appears to be a threat to our families , that is something else .
That is the stuff of nightmares .
This brings me to a story out of Kentucky recently reported by the libertarian publication Reason .
In early March , the parents of seven children who had recently moved to the Bluegrass State headed to the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Being recent arrivals , they took their kids along .
That ’ s when the trouble started .
According to Jim Mason of the Home School Legal Defense Association , Reason reported , “ [ b ] y the time they had returned home from their errand , a child protective services caseworker and a law enforcement officer were waiting at the door to investigate them for child abuse.
” Mason believes that this stunning overreaction is the result of widespread fear over COVID-19-based social distancing rules , and Reason obtained a copy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that confirmed the story .
The parents , who homeschool their children , left the two oldest in the car as they headed into the bank with the other five children , which featured a COVID-19 sign on the door .
According to Jim Mason : The teller immediately interrogated Bill and Kristy about why they had brought five kids into the bank at one time .
She [ the teller ] told them they could not get within six feet of her and that they needed to take the children out .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ young to be left unsupervised by an adult , and neither she nor Bill could take them elsewhere because the couple were opening a joint account , and both had to be present .
While Bill stayed with the children away from the counter , Kristy opened the account , feeling self-conscious as the staff whispered to each other and watched her family suspiciously .
When Bill walked to the counter to show his New York ID and to sign , the bank staff asked why Bill 's and Kristy 's identifications were @ @ @ @ @ @ @ explained .
Back at home , the authorities confronted Bill and Kristy , who discovered that someone had called in an anonymous tip claiming that a mother of five had taken her children out with a man who was n't their dad , and they had bruises on their arms that indicated rough grabbing .
According to Reason , the investigator “ proceeded to question the kids away from the parents , and he made at least one of the boys take off his shirt to look for bruises .
Kristy told Mason @ @ @ @ @ @ @ same with the girls , but she objected , so he only pulled up the girls ’ sleeves and took photos.
” The investigator apparently did not wonder how a caller had spotted bruises on the arms of children wearing long sleeves in the first place .
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It appears that whoever called the authorities was deliberately attempting to get the parents in trouble .
Bill and Kristy believe that it was someone who was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ had mentioned five children ( the other two having been in the car ) .
Additionally , the caller told lies specifically designed to set off warning bells , such as stating that the children appeared to have been physically abused as well as in the company of someone not their father .
The case , Reason noted , should have been cleared up quickly .
Bill ’ s driver ’ s license quickly proved that he was the father , and the reported bruises were nowhere to be found .
Unfortunately , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ incident like this is just the beginning .
Jim Mason told Reason that cases like this should be an “ off ramp , ” which means that if an investigator follows up on a call and finds nothing , he should simply leave ( take the “ off ramp . )
But instead , “ all too often investigators insist that they must robotically keep probing : opening cabinets , looking in the fridge , questioning kids .
This Kentucky investigator even questioned the family about which homeschool curriculum they were using , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the case.
” The Home School Legal Defense Association has been attempting to get legislation passed that will ensure that investigators who find no evidence of abuse or other issues simply leave the families in question alone rather than continuing to poke around .
HSLDA and other groups also want states to ban the sort of anonymous reports that had law enforcement show up at Bill ’ s and Kristy ’ s door based on deceit .
They point out that it is easy for people to weaponize the process against parents and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ case out of thin air .
As Reason noted , lawyers are working with Bill and Kristy — “ [ b ] ut the state gets 45 days to close an investigation , and Mason said it can easily get an extension , turning a time already tense with pandemic fears into a protracted period of torment.
” Jonathon ’ s new podcast , The Van Maren Show , is dedicated to telling the stories of the pro-life and pro-family movement .
In his latest episode , he interviews Scott Klusendorf about the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of locking down the country under the guise of preventing people from getting coronavirus .
You can subscribe here and listen to the episode below :

'By the time they had returned home from their errand, a child protective services caseworker and a law enforcement officer were waiting at the door to investigate them for child abuse.'
May 20, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — Government overreach is one thing. Over-enthusiastic government employees or jumpy law enforcement during a pandemic is another. We can tolerate these things — at least for a while. But when government appears to be a threat to our families, that is something else. That is the stuff of nightmares.
This brings me to a story out of Kentucky recently reported by the libertarian publication Reason. In early March, the parents of seven children who had recently moved to the Bluegrass State headed to the bank to open a new account. Being recent arrivals, they took their kids along.
That’s when the trouble started. According to Jim Mason of the Home School Legal Defense Association, Reason reported, “[b]y the time they had returned home from their errand, a child protective services caseworker and a law enforcement officer were waiting at the door to investigate them for child abuse.”
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Mason believes that this stunning overreaction is the result of widespread fear over COVID-19-based social distancing rules, and Reason obtained a copy of the letter from Child Protective Services that confirmed the story. The parents, who homeschool their children, left the two oldest in the car as they headed into the bank with the other five children, which featured a COVID-19 sign on the door. According to Jim Mason:
The teller immediately interrogated Bill and Kristy about why they had brought five kids into the bank at one time. She [the teller] told them they could not get within six feet of her and that they needed to take the children out. Kristy explained that the children were too young to be left unsupervised by an adult, and neither she nor Bill could take them elsewhere because the couple were opening a joint account, and both had to be present. While Bill stayed with the children away from the counter, Kristy opened the account, feeling self-conscious as the staff whispered to each other and watched her family suspiciously. When Bill walked to the counter to show his New York ID and to sign, the bank staff asked why Bill's and Kristy's identifications were from different states, which the couple explained. Back at home, the authorities confronted Bill and Kristy, who discovered that someone had called in an anonymous tip claiming that a mother of five had taken her children out with a man who wasn't their dad, and they had bruises on their arms that indicated rough grabbing.
According to Reason, the investigator “proceeded to question the kids away from the parents, and he made at least one of the boys take off his shirt to look for bruises. Kristy told Mason that the investigator wanted to do the same with the girls, but she objected, so he only pulled up the girls’ sleeves and took photos.” The investigator apparently did not wonder how a caller had spotted bruises on the arms of children wearing long sleeves in the first place.
PETITION: No to mandatory contact tracing and government surveillance for the coronavirus! Sign the petition here.
It appears that whoever called the authorities was deliberately attempting to get the parents in trouble. Bill and Kristy believe that it was someone who was inside the bank, as the caller had mentioned five children (the other two having been in the car). Additionally, the caller told lies specifically designed to set off warning bells, such as stating that the children appeared to have been physically abused as well as in the company of someone not their father.
The case, Reason noted, should have been cleared up quickly. Bill’s driver’s license quickly proved that he was the father, and the reported bruises were nowhere to be found. Unfortunately, it is often the case that an incident like this is just the beginning. Jim Mason told Reason that cases like this should be an “off ramp,” which means that if an investigator follows up on a call and finds nothing, he should simply leave (take the “off ramp.) But instead, “all too often investigators insist that they must robotically keep probing: opening cabinets, looking in the fridge, questioning kids. This Kentucky investigator even questioned the family about which homeschool curriculum they were using, as if that had some bearing on the case.” The Home School Legal Defense Association has been attempting to get legislation passed that will ensure that investigators who find no evidence of abuse or other issues simply leave the families in question alone rather than continuing to poke around.
HSLDA and other groups also want states to ban the sort of anonymous reports that had law enforcement show up at Bill’s and Kristy’s door based on deceit. They point out that it is easy for people to weaponize the process against parents and families they dislike and conjure a nonexistent case out of thin air. As Reason noted, lawyers are working with Bill and Kristy — “[b]ut the state gets 45 days to close an investigation, and Mason said it can easily get an extension, turning a time already tense with pandemic fears into a protracted period of torment.”
Jonathon’s new podcast, The Van Maren Show, is dedicated to telling the stories of the pro-life and pro-family movement. In his latest episode, he interviews Scott Klusendorf about the fundamental flaw Klusendorf sees in the idea of locking down the country under the guise of preventing people from getting coronavirus.
You can subscribe here and listen to the episode below:
Follow Jonathon Jonathon Van Maren is a public speaker, writer, and pro-life activist. His commentary has been translated into more than eight languages and published widely online as well as print newspapers such as the Jewish Independent, the National Post, the Hamilton Spectator and others. He has received an award for combating anti-Semitism in print from the Jewish organization B’nai Brith. His commentary has been featured on CTV Primetime, Global News, EWTN, and the CBC as well as dozens of radio stations and news outlets in Canada and the United States. He speaks on a wide variety of cultural topics across North America at universities, high schools, churches, and other functions. Some of these topics include abortion, pornography, the Sexual Revolution, and euthanasia. Jonathon holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in history from Simon Fraser University, and is the communications director for the Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform. Jonathon’s first book, The Culture War, was released in 2016.
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thelibertydaily--2020-05-21--SATIRE Home Run! ‘Stacey Abrams Says She Will Step Down As Governor If Asked To Run For VP’ . . .

Stacey Abrams Says She Will Step Down As Governor If Asked To Run For VP ATLANTA , GA—Sitting at the governor 's desk at the Georgia state capitol , Stacey Abrams told reporters she would step down from her governorship if asked to run for vice president .
`` If Biden asks me to run , I 'll need to focus on that full-time , '' she said .
`` As much as I love running this great state , if the country needs me , I 'll be there . ''
A security guard patrolling the capitol building then @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Come on , Stacey .
Time to go .
How many times do we have to have this talk ? ''
`` Classic Greg , '' she said , laughing .
`` He 's a real jokester .
Anyway , yes , if Biden decides he is not a racist and wants me to run , I 'll be there , giving my all to make sure we win the White House .
It will be tough , but I know the people of Georgia will understand why I need to leave them @ @ @ @ @ @ @ . ''
`` But really , you ca n't be here , '' the security guard said uncomfortably .
`` Do n't make me drag you out of here again . ''

ATLANTA, GA - Sitting at the governor's desk at the Georgia state capitol, Stacey Abrams told reporters she would step down from her governorship if asked to run for vice president.
"If Biden asks me to run, I'll need to focus on that full-time," she said. "As much as I love running this great state, if the country needs me, I'll be there."
A security guard patrolling the capitol building then entered the governor's office. "Come on, Stacey. Time to go. How many times do we have to have this talk?"
"Classic Greg," she said, laughing. "He's a real jokester. Anyway, yes, if Biden decides he is not a racist and wants me to run, I'll be there, giving my all to make sure we win the White House. It will be tough, but I know the people of Georgia will understand why I need to leave them for a while to save this country."
"But really, you can't be here," the security guard said uncomfortably. "Don't make me drag you out of here again."


thelibertydaily--2020-05-21--Are Quid Pro Joe Biden’s Policy Think-Tanks Deeply Indebted to Communist China?

‘ It is apparent that the Biden Center is beholden to China for its operations .
This has an insidious effect on shaping the programs it produces… ’ ( Ben Sellers , Liberty Headlines ) It comes as no surprise that the Chinese government declined President Donald Trump ’ s call last October to investigate the Bidens .
After all , the communist country already was heavily investing in the Bidens .
But the sweetheart deal that then-Vice President Joe Biden helped his son Hunter to broker with Chinese state investors in the BHR Equity Investment firm might just be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to the National Legal and Policy Center .
On Wednesday , the conservative watchdog filed a complaint with the Department of Education requesting a probe into one of the presidential hopeful ’ s pet projects , a policy institute at the University of Pennsylvania called the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement .
“ It is apparent that the Biden Center is beholden to China for its operations , ” said NLPC Chair Peter Flaherty .
“ This has an insidious [ e ] ffect on shaping the programs it produces.
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ of three such Biden-backed entities that have refused to disclose their funding sources , reported the Washington Free Beacon .
Spokesman Stephen MacCarthy declined to respond to the newspaper ’ s requests for more details about the center ’ s funding , deferring to his “ colleagues at [ the ] main university.
” But the Free Beacon reported that UPenn saw a threefold spike overall in foreign donations—with China being the largest source—ever since the center ’ s soft opening in March 2017 .
“ These multi-million dollar donations from China are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Paul Kamenar , “ but the flagrant reporting violations over the years are simply outrageous.
” The Ivy League school relied in large part on anonymous donors—which policy analysts say is a common Chinese practice for deceptively covering their tracks .
“ Anonymous giving to universities is an easy tactic the Chinese Communist Party can use to further its pernicious influence in American universities , ” Michael Sobolik , an Indo-Pacific studies fellow at the American Foreign Policy Council , told the Free Beacon .
At other times , however , these foreign @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sight .
Such was the case with a Jan. 31 forum , the 2020 Penn China Research Symposium , which featured opening remarks from Chinese consul general Huang Ping .
Coincidentally , it occurred on the same day that Trump banned most travel to and from China as a result of the coronavirus outbreak .
It was later revealed that China had covered up the scale of the pandemic , which it was aware of at the time , and it continues to defy calls for transparency surrounding the virus ’ s origin @ @ @ @ @ @ @ rates .
Biden has nominally tried to spin Trump ’ s earlier signing of a trade agreement as a liability , claiming the president had “ rolled over for the Chinese ” while attempting to hammer him for his coronavirus response .
But the reality is that the presumptive Democrat nominee is deep in China ’ s back pocket , said NLPC ’ s analysts .
“ Joe Biden ’ s affiliation with the Penn Biden Center further raises concerns of foreign influence not unlike those raised when the Clinton Foundation received millions @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was running for president , ” their complaint said .
Meanwhile , Biden , characteristically , has flip–flopped on his public attitudes toward China , modifying his stance based on whoever is in the room at the time .
“ China is going to eat our lunch ?
Come on , man… They ’ re not bad folks , folks … They ’ re not competition for us , ” he said in a May 2019 speech , according to Axios .
But a month later , Biden ’ s outlook became markedly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ m worried about China , ” he said at a June 2019 campaign stop in Iowa .
“ … While Trump is attacking our friends , China is pressing its advantage all over the world.
” Trump has continued to stand firm on holding China accountable for everything from its predatory trade practices to its espionage and human-rights violations to the recent health crisis .
He issued a scathing letter to the World Health Organization this week calling on a full and independent investigation of the virus outbreak .
And on Tuesday @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Services signed a $ 354 million contract with a Virginia pharmaceutical startup to begin a reduction of U.S. dependency on Chinese drug manufacturers .
But it may have been Huang , during his opening remarks at the Penn China symposium in January , who best articulated where Biden ’ s true north stands on the oriental superpower .
“ Considering China ’ s advantages in cost , market and supply chain , and its growing edge in innovation , to decouple from China is to decouple from opportunities , ” he threatened .

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thelibertydaily--2020-05-21--. . . And Even More SATIRE Gold! ‘Florida Ruled To Be In Violation Of Science For Not Having More Pe

. . . And Even More SATIRE Gold! ‘Florida Ruled To Be In Violation Of Science For Not Having More People Die’

Florida Ruled To Be In Violation Of Science For Not Having More People Die TALLAHASSEE , FL—While many governors followed Science and shut down their states early and still have stay-at-home orders in place , Florida kept its beaches open through Spring Break and has already begun its reopening plans .
Science says Florida should have seen skyrocketing deaths from COVID-19 , but instead Florida -- despite its large elderly population -- has not seen anywhere near the number of problems faced by states like New York and New Jersey .
This has been ruled to be in complete defiance @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Science telling us Florida should have seen massive deaths , ” said far right-wing conservative Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin .
“ And now Florida is undermining our trust in Science by not dying .
We can not tolerate this .
More Floridians need to die .
To die for Science.
” California Governor and Science believer Gavin Newsom agreed .
“ Ron DeSantis is a witch !
Burn him !
” Newsom said about the Florida governor .
Experts widely believe DeSantis used something anti-Science -- like black magic -- to violate @ @ @ @ @ @ @ There is now a movement by Science-believing Democrats to actively try to infect Floridians to try to get their death count to match projections .
Democrats have also called for DeSantis to be put in some sort of Science prison -- a cage made using force fields or lasers or other Science things -- though it is unknown if that would be able to imprison him , considering his Floridian black magic .

TALLAHASSEE, FL - While many governors followed Science and shut down their states early and still have stay-at-home orders in place, Florida kept its beaches open through Spring Break and has already begun its reopening plans. Science says Florida should have seen skyrocketing deaths from COVID-19, but instead Florida -- despite its large elderly population -- has not seen anywhere near the number of problems faced by states like New York and New Jersey. This has been ruled to be in complete defiance of Science.
"We had good Science telling us Florida should have seen massive deaths," said far right-wing conservative Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin. "And now Florida is undermining our trust in Science by not dying. We cannot tolerate this. More Floridians need to die. To die for Science."
California Governor and Science believer Gavin Newsom agreed. "Ron DeSantis is a witch! Burn him!" Newsom said about the Florida governor. Experts widely believe DeSantis used something anti-Science -- like black magic -- to violate what Science said should be true.
There is now a movement by Science-believing Democrats to actively try to infect Floridians to try to get their death count to match projections. Democrats have also called for DeSantis to be put in some sort of Science prison -- a cage made using force fields or lasers or other Science things -- though it is unknown if that would be able to imprison him, considering his Floridian black magic.


thelibertydaily--2020-05-21--Confirmed! Weary of Grenell, Senate Democrats Allow Quick Vote to Approve John Ratcliffe for DNI

( Liberty Headlines ) A sharply divided Senate confirmed John Ratcliffe as director of national intelligence on Thursday , with Democrats refusing to support the nomination over fears that he will expose the intelligence community deep-state ’ s shenanigans against President Donald Trump .
All Democrats opposed Ratcliffe , making him the first DNI to be installed on a partisan vote since the position was created in 2005 .
The tally was 49-44 .
Ratcliffe will take over the agency at a tumultuous time .
The nation faces threats from Iran and North Korea , and tensions with China over @ @ @ @ @ @ @ coronavirus .
At the same time , Trump has viewed the intelligence agencies with distrust and ousted or fired multiple officials .
The Texas Republican seemed unlikely to get the position when he was nominated in February , as he had already been nominated for the job last year and then withdrew after Republicans questioned his experience .
But senators warmed to him as they grew concerned about the upheaval in the intelligence community and wanted a permanent , confirmed director .
Ratcliffe will replace Richard Grenell , the current acting director who @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Grenell , the U.S. ambassador to Germany , as acting director ordered a review of the DNI office that Trump ’ s critics feared was an attempt to clean house .
The last Senate-confirmed intelligence director , former Indiana Sen. Dan Coats , was popular with his former colleagues in Congress as a longtime member of the D.C. “ swamp , ” but left the post last summer after clashing with the president .
Democrats allowed a quick vote on Ratcliffe ’ s nomination , dropping their usual procedural delays in a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ prefer him in the job over Grenell .
Ratcliffe insisted during his confirmation hearing that he would be an independent leader , but faced skepticism .
A member of the House intelligence and judiciary committees , he has been an ardent defender of the president through House impeachment and investigations into Russian interference .
Vermont Sen. Angus King , an Independent who caucuses with Democrats and a member of the Senate intelligence panel , said he has concerns that Ratcliffe has limited experience in the intelligence community yet extensive experience in politics .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ vital that the DNI respect the critical firewall that must exist between intelligence and political calculations — especially if the truth isn ’ t what the boss wants to hear , ” King said , blatantly ignoring that politicization of the agencies under predecessor President Barack Obama .
Before being elected to Congress in 2014 , Ratcliffe was mayor of Heath , Texas , and a U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Texas .
Ratcliffe said he would communicate to Trump the intelligence community ’ s findings even if he knew Trump @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Adapted from reporting by Associated Press .


thelibertydaily--2020-05-21--Female Teacher Who Raped 13-Year-Old Student Divorces Husband from Prison

The President 's praise of Ford sent shockwaves through the neoliberal Twitter community Thursday

Last Updated on May 21, 2020
A former teacher who was convicted of grooming and raping a 13-year-old student, and grooming another boy in a separate incident, has divorced her husband from behind bars.
Daniel Zamora stood by his wife Brittany Zamora, 29, as she was on trial for and convicted of sexual conduct with a minor, public sexual indecency and molestation of a child, according to the Daily Mail.
She was also accused of attempting to groom another young teenage boy by promising to send him nude photos.
During a class, Brittany asked the victim’s friend if he was circumcised, before showing him pictures of genitalia as he did not understand the question. But the friend of the victim maintains that she never tried to touch or kiss him.
Brittany was sentenced to 20 years in prison for the crimes she committed when she taught at Las Brisas Elementary School in Goodyear, Arizona. She was caught by a WhatsApp monitor on her victim’s phone which detects inappropriate content for minors, called Sentry Parental Control.
The unnamed 13-year-old boy later admitted having intercourse with Brittany. On one incident, another boy was on the lookout as Brittany and her victim had sex in a classroom.
The affair continued behind Daniel’s back. Before her March 2018 arrest, 3 students complained about Brittany’s behavior to the administration.
On April 28 Brittany filed for divorce, checking a box stating “Our marriage is broken beyond repair (“irretrievably broken”) and there is no hope of reconciliation.” As part of the divorce proceedings, Brittany agreed to relinquish any shared property.
Daniel stood by his accused wife. He even called up the victim’s family–which was reported to authorities as harassment–to get them to plea for his wife.
He tried to get the family of the victim to settle the case out of court, but the victim’s refused and terminated the conversation.
The victim’s family sued Daniel for failing to report his wife’s affair to the authorities when he learned about it.
Brittany, who said she would not survive prison before sentencing, has lost her teaching certificate following her conviction.


thelibertydaily--2020-05-22--Washington State Barber Calls for the ARREST of Democrat Petty Tyrant Cra-Cra Jay Inslee: ‘The Gover

Washington State Barber Calls for the ARREST of Democrat Petty Tyrant Cra-Cra Jay Inslee: ‘The Governor is Acting in Sedition and Treason Against Me and the American People’

According to the letter , unless Martin followed the direction of Gov .
Inslee , the Department of Licensing , @ @ @ @ @ , “ we will have no choice but to file a lawsuit against you and @ @ @ @ @ is your final warning .
”

SNOHOMISH, Wash. — The legal battle continues for a barbershop owner who defied Gov. Jay Inslee’s stay-at-home order.
This week, Bob Martin, owner of Stag Barber & Styling, received a cease-and-desist letter from the office of the Washington State Attorney General, who ordered the business’s immediate closure.
>> Related: Snohomish County sheriff won’t enforce stay-at-home order
According to the letter, unless Martin followed the direction of Gov. Inslee, the Department of Licensing, and the Snohomish Health District, “we will have no choice but to file a lawsuit against you and seek monetary penalties. This is your final warning.”
On Thursday, KIRO 7 News found that Martin’s business was still in operation. \Additionally, Martin called for Gov. Inslee’s arrest.
“The governor is acting in sedition and treason against me and the American people, therefore I call on the arrest of the Governor for violating the sacred trust and the security of the American people,” Martin stated.
When KIRO 7 asked Martin how he would proceed in having the governor arrested, he refused to elaborate.
Outside Martin's store, customers told KIRO 7 they'll keep coming back.
“Good for this guy,” noted customer Travis Frateau. “We live in America and it’s a free country and you should be able to take risk at your own risk.”
>> Related: Petition to recall Snohomish County sheriff gets OK
“All services are essential, not because of the service they provide, but because it's essential for everyone to provide for the family,” said customer Suzy Selin.
Martin’s legal battle could soon involve other businesses as well.
According to associates of Martin, plans are currently in place to reach out to other businesses that have defined Gov. Inslee’s order, including an Arlington gym.
They said their goal was to form a coalition of shops to speak out against the stay-at-home order.
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thelibertydaily--2020-05-22--Failed Fascist Fauci’s 15 Totally Wrong Predictions and Contradictions

1 . )
Dr. Fauci says he warned Trump in January that the US was in real trouble but that is not what he said publicly .
In January Dr. Anthony Fauci told Newsmax TV that the United States “ did not have to worry ” about the coronavirus and that it was “ not a major threat.
” 2 . )
Dr. Fauci warned of an apocalyptic coronavirus pandemic — then just weeks later he compared the coronavirus to a bad flu .
3 . )
Dr. Fauci based all of his predictions on models the that were OFF @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , “ You can ’ t really rely on models.
” 4 . )
On March 20th Dr. Fauci jumped in and during a press briefing on hydroxychloroquine treatment for coronavirus “ corrected ” the president saying , “ You got to be careful when you say ‘ fairly effective.
’ It was never done in a clinical trial… It was given to individuals and felt that maybe it worked.
” Exactly two weeks later hydroxychloroquine was deemed the most highly rated treatmentfor the novel coronavirus in an international poll of more than @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Fauci pushed these garbage models every step of the way .
A month ago Dr. Fauci claimed 1 million to 2 million Americans would die from coronavirus .
Then he said 100,000 to 200,000 Americans will die from the virus .
Three weeks ago he agreed 81,766 Americans would die from the coronavirus .
Then by that Wednesday Then by that Wednesday the experts cut the number of deaths to 60,415 projected deaths .
to 60,415 projected deaths .
6 . )
On Easter Dr. Fauci suggested President Trump .
should have shut @ @ @ @ @ @ @ number of known cases in the US was around 100 .
Fauci later walked back his attacks .
7 . )
Dr. Fauci said cruises were OK on March 9th .
That was a huge error .
8 . )
Dr. Fauci said malls , movies and gyms were OK on February 29th .
That was another huge mistake .
9 . )
Dr. Fauci was wrong about the first coronavirus deaths in the country .
Dr. Fauci , Dr. Birx and the CDC were off by nearly a month .
California officials @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Clara died from coronavirus on February 6th not February 29th .
10 . )
Dr. Fauci and the CDC missed themillions and millions of US citizenswho had already contracted the coronavirus before the draconian lockdowns took place .
Knowing this could have prevented the economic calamity .
12 . )
Dr. Fauci relied on corrupt W.H.O rulesto lock down the United States and destroy the US economy .
Meanwhile , this delays the herd immunity that is needed to prevent a future outbreak of this deadly virus .
13 . )
Dr. Fauci @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Model to persuade President Trump to lock down the entire US economy .
The Imperial model has since been confirmed as A COMPLETE FRAUD .
14 . )
Dr. Fauci warned that Georgia would see a surge in coronavirus cases and deaths by opening their economy too early .
He was wrong again– In fact the opposite happened .
15 . )
And on Tuesday during testimony Dr. Fauci told Dr. Rand Paul that opening the schools would not be a good idea .

1.) Dr. Fauci says he warned Trump in January that the US was in real trouble but that is not what he said publicly.
In January Dr. Anthony Fauci told Newsmax TV that the United States “did not have to worry”about the coronavirus and that it was“not a major threat.”
2.) Dr. Fauci warned of an apocalyptic coronavirus pandemic — then just weeks later he compared the coronavirus to a bad flu.
3.) Dr. Fauci based all of his predictions on models the that were OFF BY MILLIONS and then later told reporters,“You can’t really rely on models.”
4.) On March 20th Dr. Fauci jumped in and during a press briefing on hydroxychloroquine treatment for coronavirus “corrected” the president saying, “You got to be careful when you say ‘fairly effective.’ It was never done in a clinical trial… It was given to individuals and felt that maybe it worked.”
Exactly two weeks later hydroxychloroquine was deemed the most highly rated treatmentfor the novel coronavirus in an international poll of more than 6,000 doctors.
5.) Dr. Fauci pushed these garbage models every step of the way.
A month ago Dr. Fauci claimed 1 million to 2 million Americans would die from coronavirus. Then he said 100,000 to 200,000 Americans will die from the virus. Three weeks ago he agreed 81,766 Americans would die from the coronavirus. Then by that Wednesday Then by that Wednesday the experts cut the number of deaths to 60,415 projected deaths. to 60,415 projected deaths.
6.) On Easter Dr. Fauci suggested President Trump. should have shut down the economy in February… When the number of known cases in the US was around 100. Fauci later walked back his attacks.
7.) Dr. Fauci said cruises were OK on March 9th. That was a huge error.
8.) Dr. Fauci said malls, movies and gyms were OK on February 29th. That was another huge mistake.
9.) Dr. Fauci was wrong about the first coronavirus deaths in the country. Dr. Fauci, Dr. Birx and the CDC were off by nearly a month. California officials revealed in Aprilthat a patient in Santa Clara died from coronavirus on February 6th not February 29th.
10.) Dr. Fauci and the CDC missed themillions and millions of US citizenswho had already contracted the coronavirus before the draconian lockdowns took place. Knowing this could have prevented the economic calamity.
11.) OnApril 15, 2020, Fauci endorses Tinder hookups, unbelievably.
12.) Dr. Fauci relied on corrupt W.H.O rulesto lock down the United States and destroy the US economy. Meanwhile, this delays the herd immunity that is needed to prevent a future outbreak of this deadly virus.
13.) Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx used the Imperial College Model to persuade President Trump to lock down the entire US economy. The Imperial model has since been confirmed as A COMPLETE FRAUD.
14.) Dr. Fauci warned that Georgia would see a surge in coronavirus cases and deaths by opening their economy too early.
He was wrong again– In fact the opposite happened.
15.) And on Tuesday during testimony Dr. Fauci told Dr. Rand Paul that opening the schools would not be a good idea.


thelibertydaily--2020-05-22--Gunshot Victims Counted as Chi-Com Virus Deaths in the Democrat-Ruled State of Washington

Today , officials at the Washington State Department of Health ( DOH ) confirmed that , as the Freedom Foundation reported on Monday , the state is counting in its COVID-19 death total the deaths of persons who tested positive for the virus but died from other causes .
In remarks made during a telephonic press briefing , DOH officials even acknowledged knowingly including multiple deaths caused by gunshot wounds in the state ’ s COVID-19 fatality count .
The Freedom Foundation ’ s original report , based on DOH documents and statements provided to the Foundation , concluded that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as of May 8 : • 681 ( 82 percent ) “ list some variation of ‘ COVID-19 ’ in one of the causes of death ” on the death certificate ; • 41 ( 5 percent ) of the death certificates do not list COVID-19 as a cause of death , but indicate it was a “ significant condition contributing to death.
” • 106 ( 13 percent ) deaths involved persons who had previously tested positive for COVID-19 but did not have the virus listed anywhere on their death certificate as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ When asked about the Foundation ’ s report at a press conference Monday , Gov .
Jay Inslee dismissed it as “ dangerous , ” “ disgusting ” and “ malarkey.
” He further accused the Freedom Foundation of “ fanning these conspiracy claims from the planet Pluto ” and not caring about the lives lost to COVID-19 .
Yet DOH officials largely confirmed the main findings of the Foundation ’ s report in Thursday ’ s briefing .
The following are some of the key takeaways from the briefing .
Quoted statements @ @ @ @ @ @ @ DOH health statistics manager .
1 .
DOH includes deaths of all persons who tested positive for COVID-19 in its totals , even if the victims died from other causes , such as gunshot wounds .
“ Our ( DOH COVID-19 ) dashboard numbers do include any deaths to a person that has tested positive to COVID-19.
” “ We don ’ t always know the cause of death for a death when it is first reported on our dashboard .
That is true .
Over the course of the outbreak , we @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of death as we know it .
We currently do have some deaths that are being reported that are clearly from other causes .
We have about five deaths — less than five deaths — that we know of that are related to obvious other causes .
In this case , they are from gunshot wounds.
” 2 .
DOH may update the way it reports COVID-19 deaths going forward .
“ Over the course of the outbreak , we have been very aware of a small number of deaths being reported on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ due to COVID… We will be removing them over time from our death count.
” “ Our current dashboards reflect anybody that has died from COVID irrespective of cause of death .
Those numbers will be adjusted.
” “ We are really trying to figure out how best to report out the information on the COVID deaths in a way that is more understandable and still is accurate and is in real time as possible.
” 3 .
DOH really doesn ’ t know how many deaths are due to COVID-19 .
“ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ speeds up our regular process but cuts out much of the data-quality processes.
” “ Ultimately… we suspect that we are actually more likely to be under-counting deaths than over-counting them… It may take up to a year or more to get final counts on COVID-19 deaths.
” “ We also have a number of certificates where it ’ s really unclear at all what the person died from… For these deaths , we really don ’ t — aren ’ t able to make a determination on whether they died from COVID @ @ @ @ @ @ @ likely begin counting “ probable ” cases of COVID-19 in its infection and death counts .
When asked by Jerry Cornfield of the Everett Herald whether DOH had any plans to begin counting “ probable ” cases of COVID-19 , Cathy Wasserman , a state epidemiologist for non-infectious conditions , said the state was working on implementing new guidance from the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists .
As the Freedom Foundation explained in its report Monday , this guidance does provide for the inclusion of “ probable ” cases of COVID-19 that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ test .
The controversy could have been easily avoided if Inslee ’ s administration had followed the lead of Gov .
Jared Polis ’ administration in Colorado .
Last week , after it was reported that , like Washington , Colorado was counting deaths of all COVID-19 positive persons regardless of cause ( which had resulted in the inclusion of deaths from alcohol poisoning ) , the Colorado Department of Health and Environment began to differentiate between deaths “ among people with COVID-19 ” and “ deaths due to COVID-19.
” Gov .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ reason for the change over the weekend , stating that he wanted to “ inspire confidence so that ( the death count ) wouldn ’ t be politicized.
” He called on other government officials to do likewise , noting that , “ The CDC criteria include anybody who has died with COVID-19 , but what the people of Colorado and the people of the country want to know is how many people died of COVID-19.
” Thankfully , it ’ s not too late for Gov .
Inslee to follow Colorado ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Washington ’ s COVID-19 fatality numbers .

Today, officials at the Washington State Department of Health (DOH) confirmed that, as the Freedom Foundation reported on Monday, the state is counting in its COVID-19 death total the deaths of persons who tested positive for the virus but died from other causes.
In remarks made during a telephonic press briefing, DOH officials even acknowledged knowingly including multiple deaths caused by gunshot wounds in the state’s COVID-19 fatality count.
The Freedom Foundation’s original report, based on DOH documents and statements provided to the Foundation, concluded that, of the 828 COVID-19 deaths reported as of May 8:
681 (82 percent) “list some variation of ‘COVID-19’ in one of the causes of death” on the death certificate;
41 (5 percent) of the death certificates do not list COVID-19 as a cause of death, but indicate it was a “significant condition contributing to death.”
106 (13 percent) deaths involved persons who had previously tested positive for COVID-19 but did not have the virus listed anywhere on their death certificate as either causing or contributing to death.
When asked about the Foundation’s report at a press conference Monday, Gov. Jay Inslee dismissed it as “dangerous,” “disgusting” and “malarkey.” He further accused the Freedom Foundation of “fanning these conspiracy claims from the planet Pluto” and not caring about the lives lost to COVID-19.
Yet DOH officials largely confirmed the main findings of the Foundation’s report in Thursday’s briefing.
The following are some of the key takeaways from the briefing. Quoted statements were made by Katie Hutchinson, a DOH health statistics manager.
1. DOH includes deaths of all persons who tested positive for COVID-19 in its totals, even if the victims died from other causes, such as gunshot wounds.
“Our (DOH COVID-19) dashboard numbers do include any deaths to a person that has tested positive to COVID-19.”
“We don’t always know the cause of death for a death when it is first reported on our dashboard. That is true. Over the course of the outbreak, we have been monitoring and recording the causes of death as we know it. We currently do have some deaths that are being reported that are clearly from other causes. We have about five deaths — less than five deaths — that we know of that are related to obvious other causes. In this case, they are from gunshot wounds.”
2. DOH may update the way it reports COVID-19 deaths going forward.
“Over the course of the outbreak, we have been very aware of a small number of deaths being reported on our dashboard that end up not being due to COVID… We will be removing them over time from our death count.”
“Our current dashboards reflect anybody that has died from COVID irrespective of cause of death. Those numbers will be adjusted.”
“We are really trying to figure out how best to report out the information on the COVID deaths in a way that is more understandable and still is accurate and is in real time as possible.”
3. DOH really doesn’t know how many deaths are due to COVID-19.
“Our process for identifying COVID-19 deaths basically speeds up our regular process but cuts out much of the data-quality processes.”
“Ultimately… we suspect that we are actually more likely to be under-counting deaths than over-counting them… It may take up to a year or more to get final counts on COVID-19 deaths.”
“We also have a number of certificates where it’s really unclear at all what the person died from… For these deaths, we really don’t — aren’t able to make a determination on whether they died from COVID or not.”
4. DOH will likely begin counting “probable” cases of COVID-19 in its infection and death counts.
When asked by Jerry Cornfield of the Everett Herald whether DOH had any plans to begin counting “probable” cases of COVID-19, Cathy Wasserman, a state epidemiologist for non-infectious conditions, said the state was working on implementing new guidance from the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists.
As the Freedom Foundation explained in its report Monday, this guidance does provide for the inclusion of “probable” cases of COVID-19 that have not been confirmed by a lab test.
Following Colorado’s lead
The controversy could have been easily avoided if Inslee’s administration had followed the lead of Gov. Jared Polis’ administration in Colorado.
Last week, after it was reported that, like Washington, Colorado was counting deaths of all COVID-19 positive persons regardless of cause (which had resulted in the inclusion of deaths from alcohol poisoning), the Colorado Department of Health and Environment began to differentiate between deaths “among people with COVID-19” and “deaths due to COVID-19.”
Gov. Polis, a Democrat, described the reason for the change over the weekend, stating that he wanted to “inspire confidence so that (the death count) wouldn’t be politicized.” He called on other government officials to do likewise, noting that, “The CDC criteria include anybody who has died with COVID-19, but what the people of Colorado and the people of the country want to know is how many people died of COVID-19.”
Thankfully, it’s not too late for Gov. Inslee to follow Colorado’s lead and increase the transparency of Washington’s COVID-19 fatality numbers.


thelibertydaily--2020-05-22--‘Hundreds of Millions’ Lost in Washington State to Fraud Amid Unemployment Surge from Liberal Lockdo

‘Hundreds of Millions’ Lost in Washington State to Fraud Amid Unemployment Surge from Liberal Lockdown Lunacy

The Employment Security Department is reporting that it paid hundreds of millions of dollars in unemployment benefits to fraudsters .
The false unemployment claims were made with tens of thousands of identities stolen from Washingtonians .
And now , the Washington residents who are out of work and filing legitimate unemployment claims will have to wait a bit longer to see those benefits .
“ As we got a better sense of the scale and scope of the fraud that was being perpetrated , it was necessary for us to pause payments to be able to put additional measures in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ being paid out , ” said Nick Demerice , director of public affairs for Employment Security .
The longer wait times are expected to last through the coming weeks .
“ Typically , we tell people that it usually takes , if you use direct deposit , between 24 and 48 hours to have your payment deposited , ” he said .
“ We ’ re telling folks it ’ s more likely to be that 48- to 72-hour window for now.
” Demerice said it should not impact retroactive benefits for those @ @ @ @ @ @ @ benefits and are waiting on back pay .
The state hopes to get the money back during the criminal investigations .
“ We will work through a number of means with law enforcement and other entities to reclaim as much of that money as we can , ” Demerice said .
If you believe you have been a victim of imposter fraud , visit the ESD ’ s website and report it immediately .

The Employment Security Department is reporting that it paid hundreds of millions of dollars in unemployment benefits to fraudsters.
The false unemployment claims were made with tens of thousands of identities stolen from Washingtonians.
And now, the Washington residents who are out of work and filing legitimate unemployment claims will have to wait a bit longer to see those benefits.
“As we got a better sense of the scale and scope of the fraud that was being perpetrated, it was necessary for us to pause payments to be able to put additional measures in place that would help fraudulent claims from being paid out,” said Nick Demerice, director of public affairs for Employment Security.
Bellevue deputy mayor became victim of unemployment ‘impostor fraud’
The longer wait times are expected to last through the coming weeks.
“Typically, we tell people that it usually takes, if you use direct deposit, between 24 and 48 hours to have your payment deposited,” he said. “We’re telling folks it’s more likely to be that 48- to 72-hour window for now.”
Demerice said it should not impact retroactive benefits for those Washingtonians who recently became eligible for unemployment benefits and are waiting on back pay.
The state hopes to get the money back during the criminal investigations.
“We will work through a number of means with law enforcement and other entities to reclaim as much of that money as we can,” Demerice said.
If you believe you have been a victim of imposter fraud, visit the ESD’s website and report it immediately.
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thelibertydaily--2020-05-22--The Three Blows to the New World Order

The Three Blows to the New World Order

So much for `` the end of history . ''
Bruce Thornton is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center .
Nearly 30 years ago the Cold War ended with the collapse of the Soviet Empire .
Communism , the last challenge to the Western paradigm of liberal democracy and free trade , disappeared , defeated by the same free-world alliance that had vanquished earlier totalitarian foes like fascism and Nazism .
History understood not as events but as a tournament of conflicting socio-politico-economic orders had ended .
A “ new world order , ” over a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ won .
That heady optimism was expressed by George H.W .
Bush in his 1991 State of the Union address .
The disintegration of the Soviet Union seemingly confirmed the triumph of democracy , free markets , and transnational institutions , or as Bush said , “ a new world order , where diverse nations are drawn together in common cause to achieve the universal aspirations of mankind––peace and security , freedom , and the rule of law.
” The Nineties saw several developments that seemingly confirmed Bush ’ s optimism about the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ brutal dictator Saddam Hussein , and the ending of revanchist violence in the Balkans by multinational coalitions ; the expansion of NATO to the borders of Russia ; the creation of the European Union by the Maastricht Treaty , and the welcoming of communist China into the World Trade Organization .
All were signs of history ’ s “ end.
” At the same time , the tech revolution was relentlessly shrinking the world further , facilitating global trade and global communication through the World Wide Web , more powerful computers , email @ @ @ @ @ @ @ last three decades , however , three disruptions have challenged the assumptions of a Kantian “ perpetual peace ” based a “ rules-based international order ” that reflects a new “ harmony of interests ” among the world ’ s peoples .
Each crisis has exposed the flawed assumptions behind the naïve optimism and arrogant over-confidence of those in the West who have promoted , built , and managed this paradigm .
History returned with a vengeance on September 11 , 2001 .
The smoking ruins of the World Trade center reminded us @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Islam––one that had occupied two-thirds of the old Roman Empire and serially raided and invaded a nascent Europe for a thousand years––was not done with history .
The “ war on terror , ” including the Second Gulf War and the invasion of Afghanistan , both of which are still not finished , should have made us rethink our triumphalist assumptions about the inevitability of democracy and free-trade and peace and human rights .
And it should have chastened us for our arrogance and failure of imagination .
Our continuing inability to create @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for whom such concepts are alien didn ’ t lead to a critical reassessment of the New World Order ’ s foundational assumptions .
Indeed , President George W. Bush , in the 2002 National Security Strategy , defined the foreign policy of the United States as promoting a “ single sustainable model for national success : freedom , democracy , and free enterprise , ” for “ these values of freedom are right and true for every person , in every society.
” Bush returned to these themes in his inaugural speech @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Iraq and Afghanistan was still obvious .
He linked U.S. security and global peace to the “ force of human freedom ” and the expansion of democracy : “ The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands .
The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world.
” The terrorist attacks on 9/11 and the expensive , both in troops and resources , misguided wars abroad repudiated these utopian goals .
We failed , and still @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a 14-centuries-old socio-political order contrary to the Western liberal “ rules-based international order.
” The New World Order ’ s banishment of religion to the realm of the private was exposed as a mistake , and its global identity revealed to be an artifact of Western elites that did not capture even their own peoples ’ varied and distinct identities .
The election of Donald Trump for now has led to a retreat from policies that reflect this unwarranted and arrogant belief in transforming Muslim nations into Western liberal democracies .
But the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hostility to Trump , still defends this bankrupt paradigm .
They have continually criticized his weakening of the “ rules-based international order , ” especially his withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal , his pressuring NATO members to live up to their pledge to spend 2 % of GDP on defense , and his “ America First ” foreign policy principle and frank nationalism .
Despite Trump ’ s pushback and the pause in major terror attacks , Islamic jihadism remains a potent threat .
And it threatens the New World Order , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ acquire nuclear weapons .
Finally , it repudiates the fundamental assumptions of a common global identity and a “ harmony of interests ” underlying that order .
The Great Recession exposed the dangers of a globally integrated economic system .
It began in a feckless government policy in the U.S. that relaxed standards for home mortgages , particularly interest rates , in order to increase minority home ownership .
A real estate bubble followed , and Wall Street wolves took advantage by creating risky financial instruments for marketing these sketchy mortgages .
When @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , financial institutions were damaged , infecting the whole global economy .
Unemployment in the U.S. reached over 10 % , GM declared bankruptcy , banks disappeared , and consumer spending slowed .
What followed with the election of Barack Obama was one of the slowest economic recoveries in history , and economists proclaimed growth of GDP would remain at 2 % indefinitely .
In Europe , the sovereign debt crisis and bank failures revealed fault lines in the EU project .
Its economic regulations and the single currency , managed by Brussels @ @ @ @ @ @ @ exposed as incoherent : A single currency with various economic policies determined by distinct sovereign nations was always a recipe for disaster .
Particularly in the Mediterranean South , interventions by the EU , the European Central Bank , and the International Monetary Fund were accompanied by demands for fiscal austerity that the Southern tier felt to be high-handed and arrogant .
Suddenly the “ one Europe ” version of the New World Order , in which national differences were subordinated to a transnational governing elite , was fissuring .
National differences in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ acted as centrifugal forces , straining the bonds of the Union .
For all the global elite ’ s denigration of nationalism , Germans are still Germans , and Italians are still Italians , with different historical memories , different attitudes toward work and leisure , and different expectations of what governments should do for its citizens .
These divisions have not healed , and indeed were widened by the 2015 crisis of migration from the war-torn Middle East of mostly young male Muslims , including large numbers of jihadist terrorists .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ states was now revealed to be dangerous , and many countries reinstated border controls .
Terror attacks increased in frequency and lethality , and entry states like Italy and Greece resented having to bear the disorder resulting from migrants transiting through their countries to the welfare paradises of northern Europe .
Eastern European members simply refused to accept the EU mandated quotas for migrants professing a faith that for a millennium had attacked , conquered , and occupied their territories .
The Great Recession uncovered deep flaws in the globally integrated economy , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ national identities and cultures .
It seems that Joseph de Maistre was right : “ Now , there is no such thing as ‘ man ’ in this world .
In my life I have seen Frenchmen , Italians , Russians , and so on .
.
.
.
But as for man , I declare I ’ ve never encountered him.
” There are no “ citizens of the world , ” nor is there a “ global community ” beyond the tiny globalist elite .
The fracturing of the EU has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ divide between the EU North and South has widened even further , as already strapped economies are nearing collapse , such as Italy ’ s , the fourth largest in the EU , with France not far behind .
That calamity can be averted only by the successful northern economies that will pay up or see more countries abandon the EU as did Great Britain .
More significant is the dysfunctions in the West ’ s relationship with China .
Like the formation of the EU , bringing China and its totalitarian communist @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a milestone in the expansion and consolidation of the New World Order .
China ’ s role in the pandemic , particularly in obscuring the origins , scope , and infectability of the outbreak , and in attempting to blame it on the U.S. , confirmed what more than 25 years of its bad behavior should have taught us : an illiberal , culturally different country ruled by ruthless autocrats can not be trusted to abide by the terms of an institution based on principles and values it does not share .
Rather @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , as Jonathon Swift put it , “ like cobwebs , which may catch small flies , but let wasps and hornets break through.
” Since it joined the WTO in the Nineties China has violated trade agreements , stolen intellectual and technical property , dumped products , manipulated its currency , and committed other violations to gain an economic advantage over its rivals , particularly the U.S .
Worse yet , in our globalist delusions about the transformative powers of free trade , we have outsourced critical industries , such as computer @ @ @ @ @ @ @ giving them potent leverage over us .
The “ rules-based international order ” has merely afforded China the mechanisms and cover for undermining the economies of the West and increasing China ’ s global power .
Finally , the virus crisis has stripped the pretensions of the technocratic foundations of the New World Order , discrediting its progressive champions and their naïve faith in science as transcending professional interests , partisan biases , political ideologies , and nationalist loyalties .
Real science and technology work well for understanding and manipulating the material world @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by their passions and interests , their self-awareness , and their undetermined free will––become part of the equation .
Then certainty and predictability become rare and transient , lying as they do beyond the “ complexity horizon , ” as mathematician John Allen Paulos calls it , “ that limit or edge beyond which social laws , events , and regularities are so complex as to be unfathomable , seemingly random.
” The past few months have confirmed this assessment .
The “ experts ” we have relied on to advise our leaders @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sometimes incoherent in their prescriptions , vitiated as they are by incomplete data , flawed models , questionable assumptions , and political pressures .
As a result , panic , hysteria , and political rent-seeking have flourished , leading to policies like quarantining the healthy , productive young and shutting down a thriving economy , throwing the country into a recession on its way to becoming a depression .
As a result , lives have been needlessly lost and others will be ruined for years to come , while trillions of dollars have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ national debt .
The Trump administration has made some critical moves towards realizing that goal of dismantling some of the New World Order , particularly in terms of China .
But as the fierce , relentless domestic and international hatred of Trump shows , the global managerial elite will fight hard and dirty to protect its interests .
We will see in the coming months whether the crisis will make us all rethink our unexamined assumptions about technocratic globalism , the transnational institutions of the “ rules-based international order , ” the one-world @ @ @ @ @ @ @ cultures inhospitable to the principles and virtues necessary for those goods , and the outsized authority and power we reflexively grant to government “ experts ” to solve all our problems , even those that lie beyond the ken of science , and depend on our own common sense , practical wisdom , morals , and virtues .
Or we will watch as our unalienable rights , national sovereignty , and freedom , already assaulted by government autocrats , are further eroded .
The choice is ours .

Bruce Thornton is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center.
Nearly 30 years ago the Cold War ended with the collapse of the Soviet Empire. Communism, the last challenge to the Western paradigm of liberal democracy and free trade, disappeared, defeated by the same free-world alliance that had vanquished earlier totalitarian foes like fascism and Nazism. History understood not as events but as a tournament of conflicting socio-politico-economic orders had ended. A “new world order,” over a century in the making, finally had won.
That heady optimism was expressed by George H.W. Bush in his 1991 State of the Union address. The disintegration of the Soviet Union seemingly confirmed the triumph of democracy, free markets, and transnational institutions, or as Bush said, “a new world order, where diverse nations are drawn together in common cause to achieve the universal aspirations of mankind––peace and security, freedom, and the rule of law.”
The Nineties saw several developments that seemingly confirmed Bush’s optimism about the future: The swift defeat of the brutal dictator Saddam Hussein, and the ending of revanchist violence in the Balkans by multinational coalitions; the expansion of NATO to the borders of Russia; the creation of the European Union by the Maastricht Treaty, and the welcoming of communist China into the World Trade Organization. All were signs of history’s “end.” At the same time, the tech revolution was relentlessly shrinking the world further, facilitating global trade and global communication through the World Wide Web, more powerful computers, email, and social media.
Over the last three decades, however, three disruptions have challenged the assumptions of a Kantian “perpetual peace” based a “rules-based international order” that reflects a new “harmony of interests” among the world’s peoples. Each crisis has exposed the flawed assumptions behind the naïve optimism and arrogant over-confidence of those in the West who have promoted, built, and managed this paradigm.
9/11: Jihadist Terror
History returned with a vengeance on September 11, 2001. The smoking ruins of the World Trade center reminded us that another vision of socio-politico order, Islam––one that had occupied two-thirds of the old Roman Empire and serially raided and invaded a nascent Europe for a thousand years––was not done with history. The “war on terror,” including the Second Gulf War and the invasion of Afghanistan, both of which are still not finished, should have made us rethink our triumphalist assumptions about the inevitability of democracy and free-trade and peace and human rights.
And it should have chastened us for our arrogance and failure of imagination. Our continuing inability to create liberal democracies and human rights among peoples for whom such concepts are alien didn’t lead to a critical reassessment of the New World Order’s foundational assumptions. Indeed, President George W. Bush, in the 2002 National Security Strategy, defined the foreign policy of the United States as promoting a “single sustainable model for national success: freedom, democracy, and free enterprise,” for “these values of freedom are right and true for every person, in every society.” Bush returned to these themes in his inaugural speech in January 2005––while the failure of remaking Iraq and Afghanistan was still obvious. He linked U.S. security and global peace to the “force of human freedom” and the expansion of democracy: “The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world.”
The terrorist attacks on 9/11 and the expensive, both in troops and resources, misguided wars abroad repudiated these utopian goals. We failed, and still fail, to acknowledge that Islam is a 14-centuries-old socio-political order contrary to the Western liberal “rules-based international order.” The New World Order’s banishment of religion to the realm of the private was exposed as a mistake, and its global identity revealed to be an artifact of Western elites that did not capture even their own peoples’ varied and distinct identities.
The election of Donald Trump for now has led to a retreat from policies that reflect this unwarranted and arrogant belief in transforming Muslim nations into Western liberal democracies. But the foreign policy establishment, evidenced in its hostility to Trump, still defends this bankrupt paradigm. They have continually criticized his weakening of the “rules-based international order,” especially his withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal, his pressuring NATO members to live up to their pledge to spend 2% of GDP on defense, and his “America First” foreign policy principle and frank nationalism.
Despite Trump’s pushback and the pause in major terror attacks, Islamic jihadism remains a potent threat. And it threatens the New World Order, evidenced by Iran’s race to acquire nuclear weapons. Finally, it repudiates the fundamental assumptions of a common global identity and a “harmony of interests” underlying that order.
2007-9: The Great Recession
The Great Recession exposed the dangers of a globally integrated economic system. It began in a feckless government policy in the U.S. that relaxed standards for home mortgages, particularly interest rates, in order to increase minority home ownership. A real estate bubble followed, and Wall Street wolves took advantage by creating risky financial instruments for marketing these sketchy mortgages. When lending rates increased and the bubble burst, financial institutions were damaged, infecting the whole global economy. Unemployment in the U.S. reached over 10%, GM declared bankruptcy, banks disappeared, and consumer spending slowed. What followed with the election of Barack Obama was one of the slowest economic recoveries in history, and economists proclaimed growth of GDP would remain at 2% indefinitely.
In Europe, the sovereign debt crisis and bank failures revealed fault lines in the EU project. Its economic regulations and the single currency, managed by Brussels and its elite transnational technocrats, were exposed as incoherent: A single currency with various economic policies determined by distinct sovereign nations was always a recipe for disaster. Particularly in the Mediterranean South, interventions by the EU, the European Central Bank, and the International Monetary Fund were accompanied by demands for fiscal austerity that the Southern tier felt to be high-handed and arrogant.
Suddenly the “one Europe” version of the New World Order, in which national differences were subordinated to a transnational governing elite, was fissuring. National differences in cultures and mores were still important and acted as centrifugal forces, straining the bonds of the Union. For all the global elite’s denigration of nationalism, Germans are still Germans, and Italians are still Italians, with different historical memories, different attitudes toward work and leisure, and different expectations of what governments should do for its citizens.
These divisions have not healed, and indeed were widened by the 2015 crisis of migration from the war-torn Middle East of mostly young male Muslims, including large numbers of jihadist terrorists. The Schengen Zone of open travel among European states was now revealed to be dangerous, and many countries reinstated border controls. Terror attacks increased in frequency and lethality, and entry states like Italy and Greece resented having to bear the disorder resulting from migrants transiting through their countries to the welfare paradises of northern Europe. Eastern European members simply refused to accept the EU mandated quotas for migrants professing a faith that for a millennium had attacked, conquered, and occupied their territories.
The Great Recession uncovered deep flaws in the globally integrated economy, one of which is the dismissal of national identities and cultures. It seems that Joseph de Maistre was right: “Now, there is no such thing as ‘man’ in this world. In my life I have seen Frenchmen, Italians, Russians, and so on . . . . But as for man, I declare I’ve never encountered him.” There are no “citizens of the world,” nor is there a “global community” beyond the tiny globalist elite.
2020: The Coronavirus Pandemic
The fracturing of the EU has been worsened by the pandemic. The divide between the EU North and South has widened even further, as already strapped economies are nearing collapse, such as Italy’s, the fourth largest in the EU, with France not far behind. That calamity can be averted only by the successful northern economies that will pay up or see more countries abandon the EU as did Great Britain.
More significant is the dysfunctions in the West’s relationship with China. Like the formation of the EU, bringing China and its totalitarian communist regime into the World Trade Organization was a milestone in the expansion and consolidation of the New World Order. China’s role in the pandemic, particularly in obscuring the origins, scope, and infectability of the outbreak, and in attempting to blame it on the U.S., confirmed what more than 25 years of its bad behavior should have taught us: an illiberal, culturally different country ruled by ruthless autocrats cannot be trusted to abide by the terms of an institution based on principles and values it does not share.
Rather, those laws and conditions will be, as Jonathon Swift put it, “like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.” Since it joined the WTO in the Nineties China has violated trade agreements, stolen intellectual and technical property, dumped products, manipulated its currency, and committed other violations to gain an economic advantage over its rivals, particularly the U.S. Worse yet, in our globalist delusions about the transformative powers of free trade, we have outsourced critical industries, such as computer chips and pharmaceuticals, to China, giving them potent leverage over us. The “rules-based international order” has merely afforded China the mechanisms and cover for undermining the economies of the West and increasing China’s global power.
Finally, the virus crisis has stripped the pretensions of the technocratic foundations of the New World Order, discrediting its progressive champions and their naïve faith in science as transcending professional interests, partisan biases, political ideologies, and nationalist loyalties. Real science and technology work well for understanding and manipulating the material world, but are less reliable when humans––defined by their passions and interests, their self-awareness, and their undetermined free will––become part of the equation. Then certainty and predictability become rare and transient, lying as they do beyond the “complexity horizon,” as mathematician John Allen Paulos calls it, “that limit or edge beyond which social laws, events, and regularities are so complex as to be unfathomable, seemingly random.”
The past few months have confirmed this assessment. The “experts” we have relied on to advise our leaders during the crisis have been inconsistent and sometimes incoherent in their prescriptions, vitiated as they are by incomplete data, flawed models, questionable assumptions, and political pressures. As a result, panic, hysteria, and political rent-seeking have flourished, leading to policies like quarantining the healthy, productive young and shutting down a thriving economy, throwing the country into a recession on its way to becoming a depression. As a result, lives have been needlessly lost and others will be ruined for years to come, while trillions of dollars have been added to budget deficits and the national debt.
Time to Decide
The Trump administration has made some critical moves towards realizing that goal of dismantling some of the New World Order, particularly in terms of China. But as the fierce, relentless domestic and international hatred of Trump shows, the global managerial elite will fight hard and dirty to protect its interests.
We will see in the coming months whether the crisis will make us all rethink our unexamined assumptions about technocratic globalism, the transnational institutions of the “rules-based international order,” the one-world delusions about bringing democracy and freedom to cultures inhospitable to the principles and virtues necessary for those goods, and the outsized authority and power we reflexively grant to government “experts” to solve all our problems, even those that lie beyond the ken of science, and depend on our own common sense, practical wisdom, morals, and virtues.
Or we will watch as our unalienable rights, national sovereignty, and freedom, already assaulted by government autocrats, are further eroded. The choice is ours.
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thelibertydaily--2020-05-22--New Documentary Captures the Great Clarence Thomas in His Own Words

A new documentary captures Justice Thomas telling his own remarkable story .
Mark Tapson is the Shillman Fellow on Popular Culture for the David Horowitz Freedom Center .
Before there was Brett Kavanaugh , there was Clarence Thomas .
Many who watched or participated in the grotesque circus that was the Kavanaugh Supreme Court confirmation hearings no doubt were unaware of , or had forgotten , the ugly spectacle that was Thomas ’ confirmation hearings in 1991 .
As a black conservative , Thomas drew ( and continues to draw ) the vicious wrath of racist Democrats who reserve a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from the leftist plantation .
Then as now , the Democrats waged their politics of personal destruction , and then as now a good man with impeccable legal credentials was demonized by an uncorroborated allegation of sexual harassment shored up by the full force of the leftist smear machine .
A riveting new documentary revisits the Clarence Thomas -- Anita Hill controversy as part of a look at the Supreme Court Justice ’ s amazing life journey .
Created Equal : Clarence Thomas in His Own Words , produced by Michael Pack of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on PBS , of all places , and is still available here for free through June 2 .
Don ’ t miss it .
The producers interviewed Thomas and his wife Virginia for over 30 hours about his life , the law , and his legacy .
As the movie ’ s website states , the documentary proceeds chronologically , combining Justice Thomas ’ first person account with a rich array of historical archive material , period and original music , personal photos , and evocative recreations .
Unscripted and without narration , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ complex and often painful life , dealing with race , faith , power , jurisprudence , and personal resilience .
In his rich , sonorous voice , Thomas , the second black American to serve on the Court and , at 28 years , the longest-serving Justice , tells his life story beginning with his birth in tiny Pin Point , Georgia in 1948 .
Descended from West African slaves and born into rock-bottom poverty , Thomas later was raised by his grandparents in Savannah .
His stern grandfather , “ the greatest @ @ @ @ @ @ @ believed firmly in hard work and even more firmly in the education he never had , the lack of which he blamed for his inability to rise above his station in life .
He impressed upon his grandchildren the importance of committing themselves to school .
He told Thomas and his brother that they would attend class every day , even when sick , and even if they were dead he would take their bodies to school for three more days “ to make sure we weren ’ t faking.
” Educated by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to the priesthood , Thomas entered the seminary and excelled academically but ultimately dropped out after a fellow seminarian ’ s hateful response to the assassination of Martin Luther King , Jr. confirmed for Thomas that the church was not doing enough to combat racism .
Abandoning the seminary was unacceptable to his grandfather , who told Thomas in no uncertain terms that he was on his own now .
Thomas goes on in the documentary to describe how the subsequent assassination of Robert Kennedy , combined with the blows from MLK ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ rejection , pushed him into an angry downward spiral that led to his involvement with black radical activists ( interestingly , Thomas ’ brother , who had served in the Vietnam War , felt that Thomas and his fellow radicals should leave the country if they hated it so much ) .
The rest of Clarence ’ s story is just as compelling : his rejection of radicalism , his graduation from Yale Law School , his ultimate drift toward support for Ronald Reagan ( thus becoming a target for Democrats and their @ @ @ @ @ @ @ his grandfather ’ s death , his appointment as a Circuit Court judge under President GWH Bush , and then , of course , his nomination as a Supreme Court Justice and the relentless attacks that followed – even before Anita Hill ’ s allegation of sexual harassment ignited a firestorm .
By refusing to conform to Democrat expectations , he was the wrong kind of black man and therefore had to be destroyed , as Thomas says in the documentary .
The film devotes a short , amusing segment to footage of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a young ( but just as incomprehensible as today ) Joe Biden , who grills Thomas about natural law in a way that only Biden seems to understand ( and it ’ s not clear that even Biden did ) .
“ One of the things you have to do in hearings , ” Thomas tells his interviewer drily in the film , “ is sit there looking attentively at people you know have no idea what they ’ re talking about.
” Through the nomination process over five days in September , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to understand that “ the real impediment ” to rising above racism in America was “ the modern-day liberal , because they have the power to caricature you.
” Just when it seemed he was in the clear , then came the Kafka-esque experience of having to address Hill ’ s accusations .
“ It felt like the demons were loose , ” Thomas ’ wife Virginia says in the film , something anyone who witnessed the demonic behavior of protesters at the Brett Kavanaugh hearings would understand .
“ They were coming @ @ @ @ @ @ @ discredit him or disagree with his point of view.
” She singles out for special condemnation Sen. Ted Kennedy “ and the things I knew he had done in his life ” for having the gall to sit in judgment over her beloved husband .
Finally given a chance to respond , Thomas forcefully denied Hill ’ s allegations before the Senate and the public , denouncing the degrading proceedings , in which then-Sen. Biden is shown to have an especially lascivious interest : This is a circus .
It 's a national @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as a black American , as far as I 'm concerned it is a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves , to do for themselves , to have different ideas , and it is a message that unless you kowtow to an old order , this is what will happen to you .
You will be lynched , destroyed , caricatured by a committee of the U.S. Senate rather than hung from a tree .
“ I would have preferred an assassin ’ s bullet @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” Thomas concluded emotionally at the hearing .
Of course , he survived the confirmation process but the vicious media attacks , in which he has been demonized as everything from a “ lawn jockey for the right ” to a not-so-closeted Klansman – “ stereotypes draped in sanctimony , ” as he calls them – have not ended to this day .
But Thomas still clings to his grandfather ’ s words of wisdom : “ You may give out , but never give up.
” If you have not read Thomas @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s Son ( selections from which Thomas reads in the documentary ) – or even if you have – don ’ t miss Created Equal : Clarence Thomas in His Own Words .
At nearly two hours , it still leaves you wanting more .
It is a powerful look at the life and times and thought of , not just a conservative icon , but an American hero .

Mark Tapson is the Shillman Fellow on Popular Culture for the David Horowitz Freedom Center.
Before there was Brett Kavanaugh, there was Clarence Thomas. Many who watched or participated in the grotesque circus that was the Kavanaugh Supreme Court confirmation hearings no doubt were unaware of, or had forgotten, the ugly spectacle that was Thomas’ confirmation hearings in 1991. As a black conservative, Thomas drew (and continues to draw) the vicious wrath of racist Democrats who reserve a special enmity for minorities that dare stray from the leftist plantation. Then as now, the Democrats waged their politics of personal destruction, and then as now a good man with impeccable legal credentials was demonized by an uncorroborated allegation of sexual harassment shored up by the full force of the leftist smear machine.
A riveting new documentary revisits the Clarence Thomas–Anita Hill controversy as part of a look at the Supreme Court Justice’s amazing life journey. Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words, produced by Michael Pack of Manifold Productions, aired earlier this week on PBS, of all places, and is still available here for free through June 2. Don’t miss it. The producers interviewed Thomas and his wife Virginia for over 30 hours about his life, the law, and his legacy. As the movie’s website states,
the documentary proceeds chronologically, combining Justice Thomas’ first person account with a rich array of historical archive material, period and original music, personal photos, and evocative recreations. Unscripted and without narration, the documentary takes the viewer through this complex and often painful life, dealing with race, faith, power, jurisprudence, and personal resilience.
In his rich, sonorous voice, Thomas, the second black American to serve on the Court and, at 28 years, the longest-serving Justice, tells his life story beginning with his birth in tiny Pin Point, Georgia in 1948. Descended from West African slaves and born into rock-bottom poverty, Thomas later was raised by his grandparents in Savannah. His stern grandfather, “the greatest man I have ever known,” believed firmly in hard work and even more firmly in the education he never had, the lack of which he blamed for his inability to rise above his station in life. He impressed upon his grandchildren the importance of committing themselves to school. He told Thomas and his brother that they would attend class every day, even when sick, and even if they were dead he would take their bodies to school for three more days “to make sure we weren’t faking.”
Educated by supportive Catholic nuns and feeling a calling to the priesthood, Thomas entered the seminary and excelled academically but ultimately dropped out after a fellow seminarian’s hateful response to the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. confirmed for Thomas that the church was not doing enough to combat racism. Abandoning the seminary was unacceptable to his grandfather, who told Thomas in no uncertain terms that he was on his own now. Thomas goes on in the documentary to describe how the subsequent assassination of Robert Kennedy, combined with the blows from MLK’s murder and his grandfather’s rejection, pushed him into an angry downward spiral that led to his involvement with black radical activists (interestingly, Thomas’ brother, who had served in the Vietnam War, felt that Thomas and his fellow radicals should leave the country if they hated it so much).
The rest of Clarence’s story is just as compelling: his rejection of radicalism, his graduation from Yale Law School, his ultimate drift toward support for Ronald Reagan (thus becoming a target for Democrats and their “Uncle Tom” smears), his grandfather’s death, his appointment as a Circuit Court judge under President GWH Bush, and then, of course, his nomination as a Supreme Court Justice and the relentless attacks that followed – even before Anita Hill’s allegation of sexual harassment ignited a firestorm. By refusing to conform to Democrat expectations, he was the wrong kind of black man and therefore had to be destroyed, as Thomas says in the documentary.
The film devotes a short, amusing segment to footage of Thomas’ questioning at the hands of a young (but just as incomprehensible as today) Joe Biden, who grills Thomas about natural law in a way that only Biden seems to understand (and it’s not clear that even Biden did). “One of the things you have to do in hearings,” Thomas tells his interviewer drily in the film, “is sit there looking attentively at people you know have no idea what they’re talking about.”
Through the nomination process over five days in September, 1991, Thomas increasingly and painfully grew to understand that “the real impediment” to rising above racism in America was “the modern-day liberal, because they have the power to caricature you.” Just when it seemed he was in the clear, then came the Kafka-esque experience of having to address Hill’s accusations. “It felt like the demons were loose,” Thomas’ wife Virginia says in the film, something anyone who witnessed the demonic behavior of protesters at the Brett Kavanaugh hearings would understand. “They were coming to destroy my husband, not just discredit him or disagree with his point of view.” She singles out for special condemnation Sen. Ted Kennedy “and the things I knew he had done in his life” for having the gall to sit in judgment over her beloved husband.
Finally given a chance to respond, Thomas forcefully denied Hill’s allegations before the Senate and the public, denouncing the degrading proceedings, in which then-Sen. Biden is shown to have an especially lascivious interest:
This is a circus. It’s a national disgrace. And from my standpoint, as a black American, as far as I’m concerned it is a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves, to do for themselves, to have different ideas, and it is a message that unless you kowtow to an old order, this is what will happen to you. You will be lynched, destroyed, caricatured by a committee of the U.S. Senate rather than hung from a tree.
“I would have preferred an assassin’s bullet to this kind of living hell,” Thomas concluded emotionally at the hearing. Of course, he survived the confirmation process but the vicious media attacks, in which he has been demonized as everything from a “lawn jockey for the right” to a not-so-closeted Klansman – “stereotypes draped in sanctimony,” as he calls them – have not ended to this day. But Thomas still clings to his grandfather’s words of wisdom: “You may give out, but never give up.”
If you have not read Thomas’ 2007 must-read autobiography My Grandfather’s Son (selections from which Thomas reads in the documentary) – or even if you have – don’t miss Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words. At nearly two hours, it still leaves you wanting more. It is a powerful look at the life and times and thought of, not just a conservative icon, but an American hero.