thewashingtonstandard--2020-08-07--UK Doctor Speaks Out On “COVID Nazification Of The National Health Service”

More and more doctors and nurses are speaking out about the lies , deception and what can only be explained as either outright murder or negligence on the part of some staff in hospitals .
Now , a doctor in the United Kingdom has written on the COVID Nazification of the National Health Service in the UK .
Dr Kevin P Corbett , MSc , PhD many articles on what he calls “ coronahysteria.
” Dr. Corbett wrote regarding what is taking place in the UK : The deadly coordinated command-and-control known in 1930s Germany as Gleichschaltung was the key @ @ @ @ @ @ @ society .
This process was later termed by historians as ‘ Nazification ’ .
Since January 2020 , the United Kingdom ( UK ) government has similarly introduced a system of coordinated command and control over all aspects of its National Health Service ( NHS ) .
The aim is to bring the NHS into line with its ‘ Covid-19 ’ contagion propaganda .
This is providing an industrial-scale means for exerting mechanical and biological power over the population , as well as over the occupational lives of all UK health care professionals @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have occurred in the UK in tandem with the permeation through the population of the ideas and prejudices relating to ‘ Covid-19-contagion ’ and the unprecedented fast- track legislation mandating testing , isolation and “ removal ” [ to place officially directed ] of the UK population .
The new The Health Protection ( Coronavirus ) Regulations 2020 are an extreme mandate that by order of the Secretary of State for Health force any member of the UK public to produce documents to assist health assessment and to provide biological samples of respiratory @ @ @ @ @ @ @ allow immediate contact [ e.g .
entry to home ] from public health officials to reduce or remove any officially perceived risk of infection or contamination .
The UK public can now be removed , isolated and detained against their will by Government order .
People will incur , or are already incurring , penalties under these unprecedented regulations for : i ) absconding or attempting to abscond from detention or isolation ; ii ) providing false or misleading information intentionally , or recklessly ; and for iv ) obstructing an official carrying @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the exact wording of those Regulations .
This 21st century Covid-Nazification is producing the requisite clinical and statistical data that sustains and fuels the public and professional perception of there being an ‘ epidemic ’ out of control .
Since January 2020 , NHS capacity has been overhauled and any officially designated ‘ non-urgent ’ clinical services and scheduled operations have been either cancelled or put in severe abeyance .
It has enabled both a whole-service redirection and redeployment of NHS capacity in order to facilitate two structural tiers throughout the NHS fueled @ @ @ @ @ @ @ any NHS/private facility are divided through a skewed and biased process called ‘ triage ’ according to HCP- perception of the patient exhibiting either ( 1 ) ‘ respiratory ’ or ( 2 ) ‘ non-respiratory ’ symptoms or signs .
Those patients which the NHS/private practice identifies as having ( 1 ) will attract a greater likelihood of receiving a presumptive ‘ Covid-19 diagnosis ’ ( meaning a diagnosis presumed due to the HCP- perception of symptoms/signs without any laboratory evidence ) , or a confirmed ‘ Covid-19 diagnosis ’ , following @ @ @ @ @ @ @ occurs via the online or telephone NHS 111 service , telephone 999 service , or in person at any NHS/private health care facility .
A presumptive ‘ Covid-diagnosis ’ in turn will expose the patient to further medical potential for continuing misdiagnosis and unnecessary medical intervention , further creating unnecessary morbidity and mortality i.e .
unnecessary illness and death .
The accuracy of laboratory tests for Covid-19 [ the putative ‘ SARS-Cov-2 ’ ‘ virus ’ ] has never been demonstrated in any randomized clinical trials .
Tests have been fast-tracked through licensure @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the validity and reliability of new medical tests .
The methods whereby those tests are officially authorized for clinical use on patients by our NHS agency , Public Health England , do not involve purification of the ‘ virus ’ ‘ SARS-CoV-2 ’ thought to cause ‘ Covid-19 ’ disease .
The phenomenon ‘ SARS-Cov-2 ’ has never been purified or isolated by laboratory measures known in traditional virology .
Public Health England is now explicitly directed not to isolate this ‘ virus ’ for purposes of test validation by the World Health @ @ @ @ @ @ @ no constitutional precedent or parliamentary mandate for a supranational agency like the WHO to direct UK health care science , impacting negatively to such a degree , upon NHS clinical care of patients .
The Government contagion propaganda around ‘ Covd-19 ’ is fueled by fear and hysteria .
It is skewing the usual NHS diagnostics towards making ‘ Covid-19 ’ the ‘ diagnosis-of-choice ’ .
The way suitably trained HCPs differentiate between all medical conditions which share similar signs/symptoms has been fatally skewed and perniciously biased through this contagion propaganda .
For @ @ @ @ @ @ @ campaign ‘ Anyone Can Have It .
Anyone Can Transmit It ’ .
This national campaign feeds both the public and HCPs the Government advertised-and-promulgated list of very generic and non-Covid-specific symptoms .
These include ubiquitous phenomena previously known to be non-fatal : sore throats , runny noses , coughs , feeling hot etc .
This weaponises the everyday experience of people and instils contagion-fear , loathing and ultimately paranoia .
Current hyper- hysterical perceptions of these ‘ symptoms ’ amongst HCPs within NHS/private facilities – symptoms nationally promulgated through fear-based messages as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are the mechanism that moves HCPs rapidly towards making the ‘ Covid-19 ’ diagnosis .
Such a diagnosis is often ‘ presumed ’ [ ‘ presumptive diagnosis ’ ] in the absence of any laboratory test results , which can often take days to be reported by the testing laboratories to the treating clinicians .
This hyper-projection of non-specific symptoms which enable the confection of a spurious ‘ Covid-19- diagnosis ’ can occur either over the telephone or at any emergency medical facility like a NHS Walk-In or an NHS Accident and Emergency @ @ @ @ @ @ @ These nondescript set of generic ‘ Covid-19 ’ symptoms that are now officially designated ‘ Covid-19 disease ’ can literally mean hundreds of ‘ different diagnoses ’ to an appropriately trained HCP with recourse to the proper battery of laboratory tests .
These symptoms are now being officially framed on a daily basis as ONLY implying a ‘ Covid-19- diagnosis ’ .
This process is now ubiquitous in the NHS/private practice .
It is a medical perversion of the normal ‘ differential diagnosis ’ and bolsters and daily magnifies the official statistics for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this is occurring on the back of a set of subjective clinical findings [ signs/symptoms ] , and without proper laboratory evidence ( ‘ Covid19-test ’ , ‘ SARS-Cov-2 ’ , ‘ antibody-test ’ , ‘ RT-PCR ’ tests etc. )
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Even if such laboratory ‘ tests ’ are reported back as being ‘ positive ’ , the true accuracy of all those ‘ tests ’ is scientifically unknown .
This means that the ‘ tests ’ will give false positive readings and any patient is then at risk of receiving a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ medication .
The implications of being misdiagnosed in this way are very serious and unremitting .
Such misdiagnosis allows the medical creation of morbidity and mortality in the absence of any real disease , a process known to medical science as iatrogenesis1 .
This is why a statement in physicians ’ Hippocratic Oath acknowledges that medicine is a double-edged sword – it can kill or cure .
The way in which this bias is often applied to NHS/private patients is without any , or with a reduced , touching of the patient [ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is also a perversion of the normal HCP instinct to touch and not isolate patients based on contagion-fear , unless dealing with a true High Consequence Infectious Disease ( HCID ) with high mortality .
The British Government says ‘ Covid-19 ’ is NOT a ‘ High Consequence Infectious Disease ’ .
The Government further states that ‘ Covid-19 ’ has a “ low mortality ” overall .
All of the above are producing ‘ practice over-reach ’ where patients who would normally receive oxygen via nebulisers are now receiving anaesthetics unnecessarily in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ introduced into their trachea .
After which they require on-going receipt of oxygen to survive via machinery [ ‘ mechanical ventilation ’ ] .
The latter are some of the most hazardous and intensive medical interventions any patient can receive .
This extreme form of unnecessary medical intervention can easily result in further negative medical outcomes , such as renal failure and multi- organ failure , each leading to further unnecessary medical intervention and ultimately unnecessary death .
Perversion Of Care Principles The above ‘ Covid-Nazification ’ of the NHS is fatal perversion @ @ @ @ @ @ @ It is now happening across all UK healthcare facilities .
Death rates attributed to ‘ Covid-19 ’ ’ have been many orders of magnitude less than those originally predicted .
The Covid-19 ‘ contagion propaganda ’ has Nazified the NHS to the extreme point that healthcare practices once previously considered highly abnormal are now accepted as the new normal .
These Nazified practices are by definition inhuman , unprofessional and unscientific ; and include : i ) people dying without family , loved ones or spiritual and religious support being present in person @ @ @ @ @ @ @ scrutiny and oversight ; iii ) removal of coroners ’ juries ; iv ) the excessive wearing of personal protective equipment by HCPs ; v ) excessive application of patient isolation and total exclusion of family and loved ones ; and vi ) presumptive medical diagnoses confounding of the real death and illness statistics .
Not only is he spot on about the UK , but we can see they are attempting to do the same thing here in the States .
Additionally , Dr. Corbett has written a short piece in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Where is the evidence for the existence of the ‘ novel coronavirus ’ , ‘ SARS-CoV-2 ’ ?
Check it out below .
Where is the Evidence for the Existence of the Coronavirus Final by Tim Brown on Scribd Article posted with permission from Sons of Liberty Media

More and more doctors and nurses are speaking out about the lies, deception and what can only be explained as either outright murder or negligence on the part of some staff in hospitals. Now, a doctor in the United Kingdom has written on the COVID Nazification of the National Health Service in the UK.
Dr Kevin P Corbett, MSc, PhD many articles on what he calls “coronahysteria.”
Dr. Corbett wrote regarding what is taking place in the UK:
The deadly coordinated command-and-control known in 1930s Germany as Gleichschaltung was the key characteristic of 1930s totalitarian domination of German society. This process was later termed by historians as ‘Nazification’. Since January 2020, the United Kingdom (UK) government has similarly introduced a system of coordinated command and control over all aspects of its National Health Service (NHS). The aim is to bring the NHS into line with its ‘Covid-19’ contagion propaganda. This is providing an industrial-scale means for exerting mechanical and biological power over the population, as well as over the occupational lives of all UK health care professionals (HCPs).
These unprecedented measures have occurred in the UK in tandem with the permeation through the population of the ideas and prejudices relating to ‘Covid-19-contagion’ and the unprecedented fast- track legislation mandating testing, isolation and “removal” [to place officially directed] of the UK population.
The new The Health Protection (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020 are an extreme mandate that by order of the Secretary of State for Health force any member of the UK public to produce documents to assist health assessment and to provide biological samples of respiratory secretions or blood. Individuals must also allow immediate contact [e.g. entry to home] from public health officials to reduce or remove any officially perceived risk of infection or contamination. The UK public can now be removed, isolated and detained against their will by Government order. People will incur, or are already incurring, penalties under these unprecedented regulations for: i) absconding or attempting to abscond from detention or isolation; ii) providing false or misleading information intentionally, or recklessly; and for iv) obstructing an official carrying out a function. The latter are the exact wording of those Regulations.
This 21st century Covid-Nazification is producing the requisite clinical and statistical data that sustains and fuels the public and professional perception of there being an ‘epidemic’ out of control. Since January 2020, NHS capacity has been overhauled and any officially designated ‘non-urgent’ clinical services and scheduled operations have been either cancelled or put in severe abeyance. It has enabled both a whole-service redirection and redeployment of NHS capacity in order to facilitate two structural tiers throughout the NHS fueled by contagion propaganda. Patients presenting to any NHS/private facility are divided through a skewed and biased process called ‘triage’ according to HCP- perception of the patient exhibiting either (1) ‘respiratory’ or (2) ‘non-respiratory’ symptoms or signs.
Those patients which the NHS/private practice identifies as having (1) will attract a greater likelihood of receiving a presumptive ‘Covid-19 diagnosis’ (meaning a diagnosis presumed due to the HCP- perception of symptoms/signs without any laboratory evidence), or a confirmed ‘Covid-19 diagnosis’, following laboratory testing. This ‘Covid-19-triage’ occurs via the online or telephone NHS 111 service, telephone 999 service, or in person at any NHS/private health care facility. A presumptive ‘Covid-diagnosis’ in turn will expose the patient to further medical potential for continuing misdiagnosis and unnecessary medical intervention, further creating unnecessary morbidity and mortality i.e. unnecessary illness and death.
The accuracy of laboratory tests for Covid-19 [the putative ‘SARS-Cov-2’ ‘virus’] has never been demonstrated in any randomized clinical trials. Tests have been fast-tracked through licensure explicitly ignoring the usual precautionary principles governing the validity and reliability of new medical tests. The methods whereby those tests are officially authorized for clinical use on patients by our NHS agency, Public Health England, do not involve purification of the ‘virus’ ‘SARS-CoV-2’ thought to cause ‘Covid-19’ disease. The phenomenon ‘SARS-Cov-2’ has never been purified or isolated by laboratory measures known in traditional virology. Public Health England is now explicitly directed not to isolate this ‘virus’ for purposes of test validation by the World Health Organisation (WHO). There is no constitutional precedent or parliamentary mandate for a supranational agency like the WHO to direct UK health care science, impacting negatively to such a degree, upon NHS clinical care of patients.
Contagion Propaganda
The Government contagion propaganda around ‘Covd-19’ is fueled by fear and hysteria. It is skewing the usual NHS diagnostics towards making ‘Covid-19’ the ‘diagnosis-of-choice’. The way suitably trained HCPs differentiate between all medical conditions which share similar signs/symptoms has been fatally skewed and perniciously biased through this contagion propaganda. For example, the Government poster and TV campaign ‘Anyone Can Have It. Anyone Can Transmit It’. This national campaign feeds both the public and HCPs the Government advertised-and-promulgated list of very generic and non-Covid-specific symptoms. These include ubiquitous phenomena previously known to be non-fatal: sore throats, runny noses, coughs, feeling hot etc. This weaponises the everyday experience of people and instils contagion-fear, loathing and ultimately paranoia. Current hyper- hysterical perceptions of these ‘symptoms’ amongst HCPs within NHS/private facilities – symptoms nationally promulgated through fear-based messages as denoting a ‘killer virus’ – are the mechanism that moves HCPs rapidly towards making the ‘Covid-19’ diagnosis. Such a diagnosis is often ‘presumed’ [‘presumptive diagnosis’] in the absence of any laboratory test results, which can often take
days to be reported by the testing laboratories to the treating clinicians.
This hyper-projection of non-specific symptoms which enable the confection of a spurious ‘Covid-19- diagnosis’ can occur either over the telephone or at any emergency medical facility like a NHS Walk-In or an NHS Accident and Emergency (A&E) department. These nondescript set of generic ‘Covid-19’symptoms that are now officially designated ‘Covid-19 disease’ can literally mean hundreds of ‘different diagnoses’ to an appropriately trained HCP with recourse to the proper battery of laboratory tests. These symptoms are now being officially framed on a daily basis as ONLY implying a ‘Covid-19- diagnosis’.
This process is now ubiquitous in the NHS/private practice. It is a medical perversion of the normal ‘differential diagnosis’ and bolsters and daily magnifies the official statistics for ‘Covid-19’ disease. Furthermore, this is occurring on the back of a set of subjective clinical findings [signs/symptoms], and without proper laboratory evidence (‘Covid19-test’, ‘SARS-Cov-2’, ‘antibody-test’, ‘RT-PCR’ tests etc.). Even if such laboratory ‘tests’ are reported back as being ‘positive’, the true accuracy of all those ‘tests’ is scientifically unknown. This means that the ‘tests’ will give false positive readings and any patient is then at risk of receiving a wrong diagnosis and unnecessary (dangerous) medication.
Not A High Consequence Infectious Disease
The implications of being misdiagnosed in this way are very serious and unremitting. Such misdiagnosis allows the medical creation of morbidity and mortality in the absence of any real disease, a process known to medical science as iatrogenesis1. This is why a statement in physicians’ Hippocratic Oath acknowledges that medicine is a double-edged sword – it can kill or cure. The way in which this bias is often applied to NHS/private patients is without any, or with a reduced, touching of the patient [‘clinical examination’]. This is also a perversion of the normal HCP instinct to touch and not isolate patients based on contagion-fear, unless dealing with a true High Consequence Infectious Disease (HCID) with high mortality. The British Government says ‘Covid-19’ is NOT a ‘High Consequence Infectious Disease’. The Government further states that ‘Covid-19’ has a “low mortality”overall.
All of the above are producing ‘practice over-reach’ where patients who would normally receive oxygen via nebulisers are now receiving anaesthetics unnecessarily in order to have further unnecessary oxygen-delivery tubes introduced into their trachea. After which they require on-going receipt of oxygen to survive via machinery [‘mechanical ventilation’]. The latter are some of the most hazardous and intensive medical interventions any patient can receive. This extreme form of unnecessary medical intervention can easily result in further negative medical outcomes, such as renal failure and multi- organ failure, each leading to further unnecessary medical intervention and ultimately unnecessary death.
Perversion Of Care Principles
The above ‘Covid-Nazification’ of the NHS is fatal perversion of traditionally accepted NHS/private practice principles. It is now happening across all UK healthcare facilities. Death rates attributed to ‘Covid-19’’ have been many orders of magnitude less than those originally predicted. The Covid-19 ‘contagion propaganda’ has Nazified the NHS to the extreme point that healthcare practices once previously considered highly abnormal are now accepted as the new normal.
These Nazified practices are by definition inhuman, unprofessional and unscientific; and include: i) people dying without family, loved ones or spiritual and religious support being present in person; ii) institutional removal of public scrutiny and oversight; iii) removal of coroners’ juries; iv) the excessive wearing of personal protective equipment by HCPs; v) excessive application of patient isolation and total exclusion of family and loved ones; and vi) presumptive medical diagnoses confounding of the real death and illness statistics.
Not only is he spot on about the UK, but we can see they are attempting to do the same thing here in the States.
Additionally, Dr. Corbett has written a short piece in the months following the above article that asks, Where is the evidence for the existence of the ‘novel coronavirus’, ‘SARS-CoV-2’? Check it out below.
Where is the Evidence for the Existence of the Coronavirus Final by Tim Brown on Scribd
Article posted with permission from Sons of Liberty Media


thewashingtonstandard--2020-08-07--The Ability To Defend Yourself Is Under Attack!  You Must Defend Yourself!

The Ability To Defend Yourself Is Under Attack !
You Must Defend Yourself !
From red flag laws to what @ @ @ @ @ to make gun-owning patriots look like criminals , the right to keep and bear arms @ @ @ @ @ daily in the united States .
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thewashingtonstandard--2020-08-07--California:  Deputies Caught Arresting People For Drugs, Stealing The Drugs & Reselling Them On The

California:  Deputies Caught Arresting People For Drugs, Stealing The Drugs & Reselling Them On The Street

Bakersfield , CA — As TFTP reported in 2017 , in a massive blow to justice and a nail in the coffin that is police accountability , two former cops who pleaded guilty to arresting people for drugs , stealing those drugs , and selling them for themselves , avoided jail despite their guilty pleas .
As the Free Thought Project reported , former sheriff ’ s deputies Logan August and Derrick Penney pleaded guilty to a massive conspiracy in which they would arrest people for selling drugs only to turn around and use those drugs to enrich themselves .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ , for their crimes .
After getting off with a wrist slap , last year August was charged — again — with 15 felony counts , including conspiracy and burglary , in connection with stealing drugs from a sheriff ’ s storage locker and putting them back on the street .
This recent investigation began last year and ended on Thursday with August and Penny pleading no contest to the charges .
The investigation was initiated following a plea deal between August and Derrick Penny , another former KCSO deputy , and Federal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s Office .
The DA ’ s Office said upon learning of the of the Federal plea , KCSO Commander Erik Levig began an investigation in conjunction with the District Attorney Investigator Don Krueger to learn the true extent of the crimes committed by any member of KCSO .
This year-long investigation revealed several new offenses committed by August and Penney .
After he pleaded guilty in 2017 , investigators later learned that August worked with other law enforcement agencies transporting seized marijuana from crime scenes to the department — where he was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ABC 23 , Penny also entered a plea of no contest to two felony counts of falsifying a police report Thursday .
He will serve 90 days in custody and be placed on probation for his involvement in the case .
As we reported at the time , shortly after his arrest , August released a video blaming Satan for his actions .
In the video , titled “ I ’ m sorry ” August said , “ I want to first of all just express how sorry I am to the residents @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to all the partners that I have with the Kern County Sheriff ’ s department and all the partners in the Bakersfield city Police Department .
And anybody I ever worked with , anybody that wears the badge that I disgraced.
” August went on to say that “ I made that decision based on Satan playing games with me , and making me feel like I was prideful and unable to go to family members for help.
” August explained that he pleaded guilty to his crimes and accepted responsibility for his @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Apparently , this cop was fostering a long-standing relationship with ‘ satan ’ as he ’ d been running this racket for quite some time .
August has a history of using the power of the state to oppress others and profit from it .
According to the court document , he routinely participated in “ marijuana eradication operations , ” only to turn around and sell the stolen plants for hefty sums .
August is now set to be sentenced until October 13 , 2020 , for the crimes he was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ I certainly hope the judge does the right thing and treats these former officers as they should be treated , and give them the appropriate sentence and I think that will probably happen , but it ’ s not my role to sentence people , ” Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood said .
David Torres , August ’ s attorney disagrees , claiming no charges should have ever been filed against his client who actually admitted to stealing weed and reselling it .
“ First of all , I don ’ t @ @ @ @ @ @ @ There was too much consumption of the public ’ s time , the public ’ s money , and efforts by the public , ” said Torres .
“ The reason why it was done was because of the vindictiveness of Sheriff Youngblood and he wants his thumb and finger in everything.
” All of this underscores yet another way that the police state and the war on drugs serve only to degrade society and create crime where none should exist .
Growing and selling a medicinal plant that has been used by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the problem .
Government ’ s prohibition of cannabis – borne of racism and the stifling of dissent – is the problem .
While thousands of people are locked in cages every year for possessing a beneficial plant , the enforcers of prohibition – “ just doing their job ” – benefit both legally and illegally from this war on people .
The aforementioned deputies are among the rare few that actually get caught .

Bakersfield, CA — As TFTP reported in 2017, in a massive blow to justice and a nail in the coffin that is police accountability, two former cops who pleaded guilty to arresting people for drugs, stealing those drugs, and selling them for themselves, avoided jail despite their guilty pleas. As the Free Thought Project reported, former sheriff’s deputies Logan August and Derrick Penney pleaded guilty to a massive conspiracy in which they would arrest people for selling drugs only to turn around and use those drugs to enrich themselves.
These two bad cops received probation only, for their crimes.
After getting off with a wrist slap, last year August was charged — again — with 15 felony counts, including conspiracy and burglary, in connection with stealing drugs from a sheriff’s storage locker and putting them back on the street.
This recent investigation began last year and ended on Thursday with August and Penny pleading no contest to the charges.
As ABC 23 reports:
The investigation was initiated following a plea deal between August and Derrick Penny, another former KCSO deputy, and Federal Prosecutors of the United States Attorney’s Office. The DA’s Office said upon learning of the of the Federal plea, KCSO Commander Erik Levig began an investigation in conjunction with the District Attorney Investigator Don Krueger to learn the true extent of the crimes committed by any member of KCSO. This year-long investigation revealed several new offenses committed by August and Penney.
After he pleaded guilty in 2017, investigators later learned that August worked with other law enforcement agencies transporting seized marijuana from crime scenes to the department — where he was accused of stealing it.
According to ABC 23, Penny also entered a plea of no contest to two felony counts of falsifying a police report Thursday. He will serve 90 days in custody and be placed on probation for his involvement in the case.
As we reported at the time, shortly after his arrest, August released a video blaming Satan for his actions.
In the video, titled “I’m sorry” August said, “I want to first of all just express how sorry I am to the residents of Kern County and Bakersfield and especially to all the partners that I have with the Kern County Sheriff’s department and all the partners in the Bakersfield city Police Department. And anybody I ever worked with, anybody that wears the badge that I disgraced.”
August went on to say that “I made that decision based on Satan playing games with me, and making me feel like I was prideful and unable to go to family members for help.”
August explained that he pleaded guilty to his crimes and accepted responsibility for his actions, despite blaming them on satan.
Apparently, this cop was fostering a long-standing relationship with ‘satan’ as he’d been running this racket for quite some time.
August has a history of using the power of the state to oppress others and profit from it. According to the court document, he routinely participated in “marijuana eradication operations,” only to turn around and sell the stolen plants for hefty sums.
“On 10 separate occasions between March 2014 and December 2014, August wrongfully took marijuana from a law enforcement eradication operation for personal gain. August distributed to his former confidential informant the equivalent of 25 pounds of usable marijuana wrongfully taken from these law enforcement eradication operations. August received $15,000 from the sale of this marijuana.”
August is now set to be sentenced until October 13, 2020, for the crimes he was accused of after the 2014 charges.
“I certainly hope the judge does the right thing and treats these former officers as they should be treated, and give them the appropriate sentence and I think that will probably happen, but it’s not my role to sentence people,” Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood said.
David Torres, August’s attorney disagrees, claiming no charges should have ever been filed against his client who actually admitted to stealing weed and reselling it.
“First of all, I don’t believe charges should have been filed. There was too much consumption of the public’s time, the public’s money, and efforts by the public,” said Torres. “The reason why it was done was because of the vindictiveness of Sheriff Youngblood and he wants his thumb and finger in everything.”
All of this underscores yet another way that the police state and the war on drugs serve only to degrade society and create crime where none should exist. Growing and selling a medicinal plant that has been used by humans for thousands of years is not the problem. Government’s prohibition of cannabis – borne of racism and the stifling of dissent – is the problem.
While thousands of people are locked in cages every year for possessing a beneficial plant, the enforcers of prohibition – “just doing their job” – benefit both legally and illegally from this war on people. The aforementioned deputies are among the rare few that actually get caught.
Article posted with permission from Matt Agorist


thewashingtonstandard--2020-08-07--Bill Gates Wants You To Fear The Next “Crisis” – Worse Than The Scamdemic

Bill Gates Wants You To Fear The Next “ Crisis ” – Worse Than The Scamdemic Bill Gates is doing such a good job as a puppet of the central banksters .
He ’ s ginning up fear once again , saying another crisis looms , and it ’ ll be more devastating than the COVID-19 scamdemic .
Microsoft ’ s co-founder is changing gears momentarily to panic the masses about climate change .
He ’ s now begging the government to address climate change ( take away people ’ s remaining rights ) with the same “ sense of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ crisis .
If the proper measures aren ’ t taken , he wrote in a blog post this week , then the impact could be far more devastating .
That ’ s globalist speak for “ if you don ’ t let us control , track , trace , monitor your every movement , and enslave you , the world will catch on fire.
” “ As awful as this pandemic is , climate change could be worse , ” he wrote .
“ If you want to understand the kind of damage @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at COVID-19 , and spread the pain out over a much longer period of time .
The loss of life and economic misery caused by this pandemic are on par with what will happen regularly if we do not eliminate the world ’ s carbon emissions , ” Gates wrote according to a report by Market Watch .
“ The key point is not that climate change will be disastrous , ” he said .
“ The key point is that , if we learn the lessons of COVID-19 , we can approach @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of inaction , and more prepared to save lives and prevent the worst possible outcome .
The current global crisis can inform our response to the next one.
” Gates claimed that within the next 20 years , the devastation from climate change could be as bad as having a COVIVD-19 plandemic every decade .
If he means the devastation ( which was planned well in advance ) caused by ruling classes worldwide ?
Because the virus itself is negligible when it comes to mortality .
Remember , this will not end until @ @ @ @ @ @ @ power over us .
They will push us into slavery and that ’ s the goal .
Greg Mannarino : It ’ s Critical To Understand That The Goal Is “ Full Control By The Federal Reserve ”

Bill Gates is doing such a good job as a puppet of the central banksters. He’s ginning up fear once again, saying another crisis looms, and it’ll be more devastating than the COVID-19 scamdemic.
Microsoft’s co-founder is changing gears momentarily to panic the masses about climate change. He’s now begging the government to address climate change (take away people’s remaining rights) with the same “sense of urgency” as it has the coronavirus crisis. If the proper measures aren’t taken, he wrote in a blog post this week, then the impact could be far more devastating. That’s globalist speak for “if you don’t let us control, track, trace, monitor your every movement, and enslave you, the world will catch on fire.”
“As awful as this pandemic is, climate change could be worse,” he wrote. “If you want to understand the kind of damage that climate change will inflict, look at COVID-19, and spread the pain out over a much longer period of time. The loss of life and economic misery caused by this pandemic are on par with what will happen regularly if we do not eliminate the world’s carbon emissions,” Gates wrote according to a report by Market Watch.
“The key point is not that climate change will be disastrous,” he said. “The key point is that, if we learn the lessons of COVID-19, we can approach climate change more informed about the consequences of inaction, and more prepared to save lives and prevent the worst possible outcome. The current global crisis can inform our response to the next one.”
Gates claimed that within the next 20 years, the devastation from climate change could be as bad as having a COVIVD-19 plandemic every decade. If he means the devastation (which was planned well in advance) caused by ruling classes worldwide? Because the virus itself is negligible when it comes to mortality.
Remember, this will not end until we stop allowing other humans to have power over us. They will push us into slavery and that’s the goal.
Greg Mannarino: It’s Critical To Understand That The Goal Is “Full Control By The Federal Reserve”
Article posted with permission from Mac Slavo


thewashingtonstandard--2020-08-07--HR 2:  Progressive Tyranny – Usurping Constitutional Authority Over Those Government Is Supposed To

HR 2:  Progressive Tyranny – Usurping Constitutional Authority Over Those Government Is Supposed To Serve

*Author ’ s note : Anti Fed Ed Warriors , in this final installment of my detailed series on HR 2 , The Moving Forward Act , I will be exposing the Congressional unity in forcing the United Nation ’ s Sustainable Development Goals ( SDGs ) and their agenda in America .
Education , is SDG # 4 , Quality ( Global ) Education for All .
In Part One ( THIS Is Progress ? )
I introduced you to the over 2,700 pages of HR 2 and showed you that education and labor were 100 % entwined .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Two ) , you were able to learn about the educratic overreaches of HR 2 .
In Part Three ( Meducation Progress ) , the overreaches of HR 2 in our healthcare system and how education was embedded .
Smart Car Control : Warriors , on Page 1557 of HR 2 , you ’ ll find the Drunk Driving Prevention Technology .
The Congressional purpose is supposed to help prevent crashes .
The technology involved is going to take years to come up with , but the money for funding it is beging @ @ @ @ @ @ @ need research/development and attach to STEM ( Science , Technology , Engineering , and , Math ) .
STEM will be in the pre-apprenticeships/apprenticeships and higher education .
STEM is also fully embraced by all the major vehicle makers .
While we all need fewer car crashes , the Congressional plans take prevention to a federally and internationally controlled status .
Page 1559 will open the technology research/development to international AND private organizations .
Page 1561 shows us $ 75 million per year ( FY 2021-2026 ) will be the government ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the rulemaking process must be completed and THEN , all vehicles AFTER that must be built with the Prevention Tech .
In the image below , notice that the ‘ passive ’ data system will be capable of measuring blood levels and judging erratic driving .
While it ’ s true drunk drivers are erratic , what about those who are having a heart attack or an epileptic seizure ?
What about someone with diabetes , where blood levels can cause drunk like symptoms ?
How will a mislabeled ‘ car report ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ How many officials and data trackers will have access to the information ?
As far as education , this certainly will encompass driver ’ s education .
As far as healthcare , this will definitely be something to watch .
Warriors , housed within the U.S. Dept .
of Transportation ’ s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration ’ s Office of Emergency Medical Services , the NG911 ( Next Generation 911 ) has been in the works since at least , 2017 .
From the website , I was able to find the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ HAVE to read it .
The “ Ideal Future State ” is described as this : “ The ideal future state environment should be useful to all 911 stakeholders , leverage both existing and new resources , and be resilient and sustainable.
” You won ’ t want to miss that jurisdiction of We the People under NG911 is to be shared .
This means authority will be coming at us from more than law enforcement .
( *Note : on Page 777 you can find near the driver ’ s education changes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ brought up , as opposed to law enforcement officers . )
Warriors , above , is a screen shot from the existing NG911 .
In HR 2 , $ 12 billion dollars from the federal government to cover FY 2021-2025 .
On Page 1514 , you ’ ll find that it ’ s imperative to have massive data connections coordinated not only nation wide , but regionally , State-wide , and , locally .
What HR 2 is NOT telling us is that the data system ( PSAP : Public Safety Answering Points @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , ESPECIALLY in the scope of COVID-19 .
PSAPs also have to have a registered FCC ( Federal Communications Commission ) number .
Note , that the NG911 won ’ t stop at phone calls , but will use pictures , texts , and , other data trackers .
( *Note : With the USMCA , US-Mexico-Canada Agreement , fully embedded in America , think what data-sharing avenues this will increase or begin ! )
You can also find out in the Next Generation 911 pages of HR 2 , that the federal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ NOT exceed 80 % and the whole system can be taxed , too .
( See Pages 1518 and 1525 ) On Page 1517 , you ’ ll see the federal government is EXPANDED via a new office and that office will totally control NG911 , yet the other tones in this section suggest it ’ s all to run by State and local control .
Page 1526 shows how NG911 will have to comply with International Data Standards from several groups , including the IEEE ( Inst .
of Electrical and Electronic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ even found a way to add racial issues into HR 2 ( remember , it ’ s a transportation bill ) .
How ?
Section 3005 and Section 3010 under highway safety .
Now , I ’ m not saying that racial issues aren ’ t important .
Quite the contrary , they are SO important , they shouldn ’ t be squashed into a transportation and highway update bill .
That said , I ’ ve gone on record during interviews to state , that after reading Congressional bills and hearing the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ believe our government is the biggest race baiters out there .
They continually set up the system to keep divisions at the fore-front , then , ‘ rush in ’ with some supposed solution .
Hence , the items in HR 2 .
So , Congress ’ s latest anti-racial plans are to ensure car charging stations are safe and discrimination free zones ( Page 325 ) ; under new National Employment Plan ( also a creation of HR 2 ) , see pages 679 and beyond ; Page 683 in education and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that connects ed/labor ) .
Page 754 , grants to prohibit racial profiling & on page 785 a price tag of $ 100 million every fiscal year for the grants .
Also see pages 2025 ( housing ) , 2094 ( schools ) , and 2629 ( environmental justice ) .
Warriors , in HR 2 , Amtrak ( did you even know it ’ s a government funded rail system ? )
Appears to be one of the biggest cash cows ( aka : money pit ) in the nation .
HR @ @ @ @ @ @ @ times !
Page 1061 shifts the purpose of Amtrak and addresses climate change .
The same page shows Amtrak as the pathway to the middle class , especially as access to jobs .
Page 1063 puts Amtrak as part of the domestic workforce and Page 1064 shows it as a ‘ for profit corporation ’ .
So , why is Congress setting aside billions to fund it ?
!
( See Page 1027 for the FY 2021 to 2025 billions for the Northeast Corridor and National Network .
Page 1028 shows the States @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Then MORE money can be found on Pages 1029 to 1041 .
( *Note : look below from 2013 and see the Amtrak response to a STEM supporter .
STEM , is a direct link to the UN ’ s SDGs .
Part of STEM is also climate change rhetoric taught in schools , preK to adult .
Then access this 2012 Temple University/Amtrak article . )
Amtrak ’ s not waiting on HR 2 to become law , Warriors , Look at this 2020 article and note the ‘ sustainability ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s Financial Changes For America : Warriors , I wanted to share this section , as money impacts so much of what we do in America .
It ’ s tied to the education system .
Money is SO important to the CCSS Machine that it consistently places economics OVER people .
HR 2 will change every financial system we have .
Section 6007 changes it from the multi-model aspect ( gathering and collecting data in an organized way .
Since much of HR 2 involves post-COVID recovery/restructure , you may find my @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in data capture and how COVID ’ s the change agent .
When I asked Alisoon for her best explanations for how mulit-model data ( xAPI ) harms us in education , she pointed me to this 2017 article on her blog , Wrench in the Gears .
I was also pointed to her work on Datazone ( 2019 article on her blog ) .
Transportation finance changes are in Section 7001 ; Broadband finance changes ( will connect to Alison ’ s research ) are in Chapter 2 ; E-rate finance changes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ finance changes are in Section 90610 .
Warriors , there are so many red flags in this Moving Forward Act .
Remember , it ’ s passed the House and is in the Senate .
If you missed my interview on HR 2 with the Sons of Liberty , here ’ s the archive link .
We have NO time to lose in contacting our Senators and urging them to bat down this House Bill !
My Series on HR 2 : Part One Part Two Part Three From 2002 to today , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ small meetings and large conferences .
Since 2009 , she has served as a frequent guest on nationwide radio and multimedia shows .
Lynne also co-established PIE NC ( Preserving Integrity and Excellence in Education ) .
She is a retired private ( homeschool ) teacher and regionally recognized support group leader .
She has also been a business owner , worked with children 's ministry and currently is an education liaison for Protecting Innocence Campaign ( based in OH ) , wife and mom .
Lynne is also an adviser to the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Classroom '' , where it is the campaign 's belief that `` Repealing ESSA and Restoring FERPA '' are the best ways to help restore our nation 's education system .
She was also awarded the 2011 Distinguished Educator from the National Society of High School Scholars , as well as the 2016 L & B Network 's Torchbearer Award for educational advocacy .
She has been recognized by her peers as an expert in Common Core , Career Tech Education , Career Pathways , workforce and competency-based education reform , federal @ @ @ @ @ @ @

*Author’s note: Anti Fed Ed Warriors, in this final installment of my detailed series on HR 2, The Moving Forward Act, I will be exposing the Congressional unity in forcing the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and their agenda in America. Education, is SDG #4, Quality (Global) Education for All.
In Part One (THIS Is Progress?) I introduced you to the over 2,700 pages of HR 2 and showed you that education and labor were 100% entwined. In Part Two (Progress: Part Two), you were able to learn about the educratic overreaches of HR 2.
In Part Three (Meducation Progress), the overreaches of HR 2 in our healthcare system and how education was embedded.
Smart Car Control:
Warriors, on Page 1557 of HR 2, you’ll find the Drunk Driving Prevention Technology. The Congressional purpose is supposed to help prevent crashes. The technology involved is going to take years to come up with, but the money for funding it is beging planned now. Technology like this will need research/development and attach to STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and, Math). STEM will be in the pre-apprenticeships/apprenticeships and higher education. STEM is also fully embraced by all the major vehicle makers.
While we all need fewer car crashes, the Congressional plans take prevention to a federally and internationally controlled status. Page 1559 will open the technology research/development to international AND private organizations. Page 1561 shows us $75 million per year (FY 2021-2026) will be the government’s contribution. You can also find that the rulemaking process must be completed and THEN, all vehicles AFTER that must be built with the Prevention Tech. In the image below, notice that the ‘passive’ data system will be capable of measuring blood levels and judging erratic driving. While it’s true drunk drivers are erratic, what about those who are having a heart attack or an epileptic seizure? What about someone with diabetes, where blood levels can cause drunk like symptoms? How will a mislabeled ‘car report’ impact these people’s lives? How many officials and data trackers will have access to the information?
As far as education, this certainly will encompass driver’s education. As far as healthcare, this will definitely be something to watch.
Next Generation 911:
Warriors, housed within the U.S. Dept. of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s Office of Emergency Medical Services, the NG911 (Next Generation 911) has been in the works since at least, 2017. From the website, I was able to find the Data Sharing Framework for NG911. You HAVE to read it. The “Ideal Future State” is described as this:
“The ideal future state environment should be useful to all 911 stakeholders, leverage both existing and new resources, and be resilient and sustainable.” You won’t want to miss that jurisdiction of We the People under NG911 is to be shared. This means authority will be coming at us from more than law enforcement. (*Note: on Page 777 you can find near the driver’s education changes, that ‘peace officers’ are brought up, as opposed to law enforcement officers.)
Warriors, above, is a screen shot from the existing NG911. In HR 2, $12 billion dollars from the federal government to cover FY 2021-2025. On Page 1514, you’ll find that it’s imperative to have massive data connections coordinated not only nation wide, but regionally, State-wide, and, locally. What HR 2 is NOT telling us is that the data system (PSAP: Public Safety Answering Points) is GLOBALLY connected & data shares, ESPECIALLY in the scope of COVID-19. PSAPs also have to have a registered FCC (Federal Communications Commission) number. Note, that the NG911 won’t stop at phone calls, but will use pictures, texts, and, other data trackers. (*Note: With the USMCA, US-Mexico-Canada Agreement, fully embedded in America, think what data-sharing avenues this will increase or begin!)
You can also find out in the Next Generation 911 pages of HR 2, that the federal government’s funding for it will NOT exceed 80% and the whole system can be taxed, too. (See Pages 1518 and 1525) On Page 1517, you’ll see the federal government is EXPANDED via a new office and that office will totally control NG911, yet the other tones in this section suggest it’s all to run by State and local control. Page 1526 shows how NG911 will have to comply with International Data Standards from several groups, including the IEEE (Inst. of Electrical and Electronic Engineers)
(*Note: IEEE is heavily involved in UN activities and overreaches into education, via Every Student Succeeds Act, ESSA.)
Congress’s Race Bait:
Warriors, yes, Congress even found a way to add racial issues into HR 2 (remember, it’s a transportation bill). How?
Section 3005 and Section 3010 under highway safety. Now, I’m not saying that racial issues aren’t important. Quite the contrary, they are SO important, they shouldn’t be squashed into a transportation and highway update bill. That said, I’ve gone on record during interviews to state, that after reading Congressional bills and hearing the DC Swamp speak out, I professionally believe our government is the biggest race baiters out there. They continually set up the system to keep divisions at the fore-front, then, ‘rush in’ with some supposed solution. Hence, the items in HR 2.
So, Congress’s latest anti-racial plans are to ensure car charging stations are safe and discrimination free zones (Page 325); under new National Employment Plan (also a creation of HR 2), see pages 679 and beyond; Page 683 in education and workforce development via apprenticeships (and all that connects ed/labor). Page 754, grants to prohibit racial profiling & on page 785 a price tag of $100 million every fiscal year for the grants. Also see pages 2025 (housing), 2094 (schools), and 2629 (environmental justice).
Congress’s Money Pit:
Warriors, in HR 2, Amtrak (did you even know it’s a government funded rail system?) Appears to be one of the biggest cash cows (aka: money pit) in the nation. HR 2 has it embedded a whopping 238 times! Page 1061 shifts the purpose of Amtrak and addresses climate change. The same page shows Amtrak as the pathway to the middle class, especially as access to jobs. Page 1063 puts Amtrak as part of the domestic workforce and Page 1064 shows it as a ‘for profit corporation’. So, why is Congress setting aside billions to fund it?! (See Page 1027 for the FY 2021 to 2025 billions for the Northeast Corridor and National Network. Page 1028 shows the States must also chip in millions as well. Then MORE money can be found on Pages 1029 to 1041. (*Note: look below from 2013 and see the Amtrak response to a STEM supporter. STEM, is a direct link to the UN’s SDGs. Part of STEM is also climate change rhetoric taught in schools, preK to adult. Then access this 2012 Temple University/Amtrak article.)
Amtrak’s not waiting on HR 2 to become law, Warriors, Look at this 2020 article and note the ‘sustainability’ aspect.
Lastly, HR 2’s Financial Changes For America:
Warriors, I wanted to share this section, as money impacts so much of what we do in America. It’s tied to the education system. Money is SO important to the CCSS Machine that it consistently places economics OVER people.
HR 2 will change every financial system we have. Section 6007 changes it from the multi-model aspect (gathering and collecting data in an organized way. Since much of HR 2 involves post-COVID recovery/restructure, you may find my fellow Warrior, Alison’s research in data capture and how COVID’s the change agent. When I asked Alisoon for her best explanations for how mulit-model data (xAPI) harms us in education, she pointed me to this 2017 article on her blog, Wrench in the Gears. I was also pointed to her work on Datazone (2019 article on her blog).
(*Note: you should be better able to understand why the finanical infrastructure changes in HR 2 are a horrible move for We the People, after reading Alison’s research.)
Transportation finance changes are in Section 7001; Broadband finance changes (will connect to Alison’s research) are in Chapter 2; E-rate finance changes are in Section 31341, and Housing finance changes are in Section 90610.
Access the entire HR 2 Bill, here.
Closing:
Warriors, there are so many red flags in this Moving Forward Act. Remember, it’s passed the House and is in the Senate. If you missed my interview on HR 2 with the Sons of Liberty, here’s the archive link.
We have NO time to lose in contacting our Senators and urging them to bat down this House Bill!
My Series on HR 2:
Part One
Part Two
Part Three
Article posted with permission from Lynne Taylor


thewashingtonstandard--2020-08-07--Over 80,000 Mail-In Ballots Disqualified In NYC Primary Mess

Imagine that .
And this happened under the complete control of the Democrat party of treason – they own this corrupt city – all the way back to Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall .
IMAGINE WHEN THE DEMOCRAT INSURGENTS TAKE THIS NATIONWIDE .
One out of four mail-in ballots were disqualified for arriving late , lacking a postmark or failing to include a voter ’ s signature , or other defects .
The mail-in ballots of more than 84,000 New York City Democrats who sought to vote in the presidential primary were disqualified , according to new figures released by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ BOE received 403,103 mail-in ballots for the June 23 Democratic presidential primary .
But the certified results released Wednesday revealed that only 318,995 mail-in ballots were counted .
That means 84,108 ballots were not counted or invalidated — 21 percent of the total .
One out of four mail-in ballots were disqualified for arriving late , lacking a postmark or failing to include a voter ’ s signature , or other defects .
The New York Post reported Tuesday that roughly 30,000 mail-in ballots were invalidated in Brooklyn alone .
The high invalidation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and the Postal Service were woefully underprepared to handle and process the avalanche of mail-in ballots that voters were encouraged to fill out to avoid having to go to the polls during the coronavirus pandemic , critics said .
Gov .
Andrew Cuomo signed an executive order to make it easier to vote by mail-in or absentee ballot .
The state also footed the bill by providing pre-paid envelopes for voters to mail the ballots .
placeholder “ A 26 percent invalidation rate is astounding .
It ’ s very troubling , ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ candidates in a federal lawsuit claiming voters were disenfranchised over the BOE and Postal Service ’ s handling of ballots .
A federal judge ruled Monday that thousands of voters were disenfranchised because of the tardy mailing and processing of the ballots .
The mess included votes not being counted because the pre-paid ballot envelopes were not postmarked .
Manhattan Judge Analisa Torres ordered that ballots received by June 25 be counted , though the state Board of Elections said it is appealing the ruling .
Aside from tardy mailings and processing , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ out because the voters failed to sign the interior envelope that came with it .
But he said it wasn ’ t the voters ’ fault .
“ The envelope with directions for the signature was so poorly designed , ” Schwartz said .
Doug Kellner , co-chair of the state Board of Elections , agreed with the criticism .
“ The invalidation rate is higher than I would have predicted , ” Kellner told The Post .
Meanwhile , the embattled BOE found itself mired in controversy again after emails obtained by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Kellner , who proposed reforms to prevent another absentee balloting nightmare in November .
His six-page proposal urged city BOE officials to ensure proper staffing at polling places during the November election to ensure lines are no longer than 30 minutes ; to tally absentee ballots more quickly than the six weeks it took to certify results from the primary ; and to plan for processing “ double or triple ” the number of absentee applications .
“ Add new capacity to process the applications in a timely manner now .
Do not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ can never recover , ” Kellner said .
City lawyers admitted in Manhattan federal court last week that they were still mailing absentee ballots the day before the June primary , leaving little chance they could reach voters in time .
placeholder Kellner ’ s memorandum even suggested that city election administrators should apologize for the mess .
“ To those voters who did not have an opportunity to cast their ballots in the primary election , we should apologize for not doing more , ” he wrote .
“ Elected officials and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sufficient resources to mail out absentee ballots in a timely manner , and in hindsight , we could have done more to address the problem .
”

Imagine that. And this happened under the complete control of the Democrat party of treason – they own this corrupt city – all the way back to Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall.
NYC is a cesspool of left-wing autocracy.
IMAGINE WHEN THE DEMOCRAT INSURGENTS TAKE THIS NATIONWIDE.
Over 80,000 mail-in ballots disqualified in NYC primary mess
One out of four mail-in ballots were disqualified for arriving late, lacking a postmark or failing to include a voter’s signature, or other defects.
The mail-in ballots of more than 84,000 New York City Democrats who sought to vote in the presidential primary were disqualified, according to new figures released by the Board of Elections.
The city BOE received 403,103 mail-in ballots for the June 23 Democratic presidential primary.
But the certified results released Wednesday revealed that only 318,995 mail-in ballots were counted.
That means 84,108 ballots were not counted or invalidated — 21 percent of the total.
One out of four mail-in ballots were disqualified for arriving late, lacking a postmark or failing to include a voter’s signature, or other defects. The New York Post reported Tuesday that roughly 30,000 mail-in ballots were invalidated in Brooklyn alone.
MAIL-IN VOTING FACES SLEW OF ISSUES NATIONWIDE, AS EMERGENCY USPS MEMO SOUNDS ALARM
The high invalidation rate provides more proof that election officials and the Postal Service were woefully underprepared to handle and process the avalanche of mail-in ballots that voters were encouraged to fill out to avoid having to go to the polls during the coronavirus pandemic, critics said.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed an executive order to make it easier to vote by mail-in or absentee ballot. The state also footed the bill by providing pre-paid envelopes for voters to mail the ballots.
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“A 26 percent invalidation rate is astounding. It’s very troubling,” said Arthur Schwartz, who represented several candidates in a federal lawsuit claiming voters were disenfranchised over the BOE and Postal Service’s handling of ballots.
GOP DEFEATS TAXPAYER-FUNDED MAIL-IN BALLOTS IN FLORIDA
A federal judge ruled Monday that thousands of voters were disenfranchised because of the tardy mailing and processing of the ballots.
The mess included votes not being counted because the pre-paid ballot envelopes were not postmarked.
Manhattan Judge Analisa Torres ordered that ballots received by June 25 be counted, though the state Board of Elections said it is appealing the ruling.
Aside from tardy mailings and processing, Schwartz said scores of ballots were tossed out because the voters failed to sign the interior envelope that came with it.
But he said it wasn’t the voters’ fault.
“The envelope with directions for the signature was so poorly designed,” Schwartz said.
Doug Kellner, co-chair of the state Board of Elections, agreed with the criticism.
“The invalidation rate is higher than I would have predicted,” Kellner told The Post.
Meanwhile, the embattled BOE found itself mired in controversy again after emails obtained by The Post show the agency blew off Kellner, who proposed reforms to prevent another absentee balloting nightmare in November.
His six-page proposal urged city BOE officials to ensure proper staffing at polling places during the November election to ensure lines are no longer than 30 minutes; to tally absentee ballots more quickly than the six weeks it took to certify results from the primary; and to plan for processing “double or triple” the number of absentee applications.
“Add new capacity to process the applications in a timely manner now. Do not wait for a backlog from which you can never recover,” Kellner said.
City lawyers admitted in Manhattan federal court last week that they were still mailing absentee ballots the day before the June primary, leaving little chance they could reach voters in time.
placeholder
Kellner’s memorandum even suggested that city election administrators should apologize for the mess.
“To those voters who did not have an opportunity to cast their ballots in the primary election, we should apologize for not doing more,” he wrote. “Elected officials and others warned that we were not deploying sufficient resources to mail out absentee ballots in a timely manner, and in hindsight, we could have done more to address the problem.”
Article posted with permission from Pamela Geller


thewashingtonstandard--2020-08-07--The Long, Hot Summer of 1967: A Forgotten Season of Riots and Urban Unrest Across America

The Book of Ecclesiastes says that there is nothing new under the sun .
And while many have spoken of the “ unprecedented ” nature of the rioting in the early summer of 2020 , it is actually quite precedented .
The Long , Hot Summer of 1967 was the peak of urban unrest and rioting in the United States in the lead up to the 1968 election .
While there are certainly a number of key differences , there are also a number of striking parallels that make the topic worthy of discussion and examination .
The long-term impact @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of 2020 is unclear , but the long-term impact of the Long , Hot Summer of 1967 and related urban rioting was a victory for Richard Nixon in 1968 , and a landslide re-election in 1972 .
One must resist the temptation to make mechanistic comparisons between the two , and we will refrain from doing so here .
But the reader is encouraged to look for connections between these events and more recent ones .
The riot wave in America ’ s urban ghettos might have peaked in the summer of 1967 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ begin there .
1964 is generally thought to be the beginning , with a riot that began in Harlem after the shooting of a 15-year-old black teenager named James Powell .
The story of how this happened is familiar to anyone who read the news in the summer of 2020 : The superintendent of a building in a predominantly white working-class neighborhood turned a hose on black students who had been congregating on the stoops of his buildings .
The black students alleged that he used racist language with them , a charge @ @ @ @ @ @ @ noting how often alleged racial slurs are invoked as an excuse for violence .
In any case , no one disagrees that the students then began throwing garbage can lids and bottles at him .
He retreated into his building where he was pursued by three of the students , one of them being James Powell .
A white off-duty police officer , Lieutenant Thomas Gilligan , arrived on the scene and fired three shots at Powell .
One of these was a warning shot , but the other two connected with Powell @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Gilligan claimed that Powell had a knife , raised it and then he fired first a warning shot , then a shot into the forearm to disarm him before firing the third shot .
Gilligan had an impeccable record with the New York Police Department .
Powell had a few interactions with the law : twice for boarding a subway car without paying , once for breaking the window of a vehicle and once for an attempted robbery ( he was cleared of the robbery ) .
The result was a week of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ injured and 465 arrested .
Between the Harlem Riot of 1964 and the Long , Hot Summer of 1967 , there were riots in Rochester , New York , Dixmoor , Illinois , Philadelphia , Watts , Chicago , Cleveland , Waukegan , Illinois , San Francisco and Benton Harbor , Michigan .
But the Long , Hot Summer was when things really picked up .
Chapter One : The Long , Hot Summer of 1967 It would be impossible to cover all of the rioting that occurred throughout the summer of 1967 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ riots that summer .
The worst of these were in Newark , New Jersey and Detroit , Michigan .
The riots left over 85 dead , over 2,100 injured and over 11,000 arrested .
They also caused tens of millions of dollars in property damage .
The first of these riots was the Cincinnati riot of that year , which began in the Avondale region of the city , in response to the conviction of “ Cincinnati Strangler ” Posteal Laskey Jr. for a series of rapes and murders .
Laskey ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ decision and was arrested for blocking the sidewalk , in stark contrast to the protesters of today who are allowed to block off highways .
The next day there was a protest in support of Frakes that spiralled out of control , quickly becoming an orgy of violence , destruction and looting that spread throughout the city .
Resulting in one death , 63 injured , 404 arrested and $ 2 million in property damage ( over $ 15 million in 2020 dollars ) , the riot was only quelled when the National @ @ @ @ @ @ @ first , but the two biggest riots were in Newark and Detroit .
Newark was one of the earliest and most extreme examples of white flight in the nation .
Its manufacturing base had largely abandoned the city by the time that the riots began .
The city had been on edge for a while , but things began to boil over in July 1967 , after Newark white police officers John DeSimone and Vito Pontrelli beat black cab driver John William Smith , who they claimed assaulted them .
A rumor began @ @ @ @ @ @ @ death and a crowd formed outside of the police station .
Witnesses disagree as to what happened first – the crowd throwing things or the police emerging with hard hats and clubs .
The crowd demanded that Smith be moved to Beth Israel Hospital , a request granted by the police .
That night there was a march to protest police brutality , during which an unidentified female smashed the windows of the police precinct with metal bars .
Looting and firebombing of local businesses began soon after , with the looting of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the rioting .
Six days of rioting left 16 civilians , eight suspects , a police officer and a firefighter dead .
There were 727 injuries ( including 67 police officers , 55 firefighters , and 38 military personnel ) and $ 10 million in property damage ( roughly $ 77 million in 2020 dollars ) .
Many believe that the city never fully recovered from the riots even to this day .
The riots in Detroit took place from July 23 to 28 .
At around 3:45 a.m. , Detroit police broke @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pig ” ( unlicensed private drinking club ) .
They expected to find only a few , but instead were greeted by an 82-person strong celebration of the return of two GIs from Vietnam .
The police made the decision to arrest everyone there .
A crowd began to gather to watch the raid .
William Walter Scott III , the doorman and son of the organizer of the blind pig , later admitted to starting the riot by throwing a bottle at a police officer in his memoirs .
The next afternoon @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a grocery store .
The local media tried simply ignoring the riots in an attempt to maintain calm .
Tigers left fielder Willie Horton , who was born in Virginia but lived in and grew up in Detroit , drove to the center of the rioting and stood on his car in uniform , passionately imploring the crowd to stop the violence , but failed to do so .
Chaos began on the second day of rioting .
There were 483 fires , with 231 incidents reported every hour , and a whopping @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Hardy ’ s drug store , a black-owned business known to fill prescriptions on credit , was one of the first to be burned to the ground .
Indeed , the black business district was not spared .
Firefighters were shot at as they attempted to put out fires .
U.S. Representative John Conyers tried to address the rioters via loudspeaker out of his car , but had rocks and bottles thrown at him .
All told , there were at least 23 deaths and 696 wounded , with property damage pegged somewhere @ @ @ @ @ @ @ million ( between $ 300 and $ 350 million in 2020 dollars ) .
Among those dead were 4-year-old Tanya Blanding .
The final riot in the Long , Hot Summer of 1967 was the Milwaukee riot , which left four dead , 100 injured and 1,740 arrested .
This began after two police showed up to break up a fight between two black women , around which a crowd of 350 had gathered .
The property damage was relatively scant because it was mostly confined to broken windows : it came in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Chapter Two : The King Assassination Riots of 1968 The next wave of rioting took place following the assassination of Martin Luther King in the spring of 1968 .
This wave of riots engulfed the nation ’ s capital , Chicago , Baltimore , Kansas City , Detroit , New York , Pittsburgh , Cincinnati , Trenton , Wilmington and Louisville .
New York ’ s riots were quickly quelled by mayor John Lindsay , who went directly to Harlem and gave a speech about addressing poverty .
Sen. Robert F. Kennedy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with his speech there following King ’ s assassination .
A James Brown concert in Boston is similarly credited with keeping the peace there .
Memorials were held in Los Angeles that averted a repeat of the 1965 Watts riots .
Washington , D.C. was the first to experience rioting , beginning on the day of King ’ s assassination , April 4 .
Ironically , the rioting here was started by a mob following Stokely Carmichael of the Southern Nonviolent Coordinating Committee , who quickly began breaking windows .
The riots devastated @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , which had an incredibly difficult time finding investment to rebuild after the riots were over .
Some areas of the city remained little more than piles of rubble until 1999 .
Riots in Chicago came next , starting the day after King ’ s assassination .
The damage here was over $ 10 million ( over $ 77 million in 2020 dollars ) , with 11 dead , 500 injured , and 2,150 arrested .
Baltimore was next , two days later .
The swift and sharp response of Governor Spiro T. @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 500 Maryland State Police were deployed the very day that unrest began ) was likely what attracted then-candidate Richard Nixon to choose him as his running mate .
The riots following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. were comparatively minor when contrasted with the Long , Hot Summer of 1967 .
However , it is worth noting that they happened as part of a more general pattern of lawlessness and urban unrest in the United States in the late 1960s .
It is now generally agreed that the wave of rioting in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the White House .
The riots outside of the Democratic National Conventionin 1968 likewise didn ’ t help matters .
However , whether or not the 2020 election will be a replay of the 1968 election ( which also took place during a pandemic that left over 100,000 Americans dead ) remains to be seen .
At the very least , the Democrats are going to spare themselves unrest by holding their convention virtually .
For every action , there is an equal and opposite reaction .
This might be a law of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ politics as well .
The reaction to urban rioting and leftist violence in general that plagued the late 60s and early 70s is a little-known incident in American history known as the Hard Hat Riot .
The Hard Hat Riot took place on May 8 , 1970 , in New York City of all places .
It ’ s worth remembering that in 1970 , most of New York was a lot more like blue-collar forklift operator Archie Bunker of All in the Family rather than Lena Dunham – Bunker lived in Astoria @ @ @ @ @ @ @ different place today than it was at the time of the Hard Hat Riot .
Unlike the hippies and college students of America , blue-collar workers tended to support Nixon and his Vietnam War policies .
Peter J. Brennan , who was the head of the Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York , was one of the most vocal supporters of Nixon and the Vietnam War .
The Hard Hat Riot started as a counter-protest to a protest against the killing of four students at Kent State by the National @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hundred college and high school students , but quickly ballooned to over 1,000 .
They were soon met by about 200 construction workers carrying American flags and patriotic signs .
Their numbers doubled when people working in the surrounding area joined the construction workers .
The construction workers began beating anyone with long hair in the vicinity of their counter-protest .
After this , the construction workers stormed city hall and raised the flag , which had been at half mast for the Kent State students , back to full mast .
They @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a postal worker who raised an American flag on the roof of city hall .
Most of the rioters were Catholic and turned their attention to the nearby Episcopal church in the neighborhood .
Six rioters were arrested and Mayor John Lindsay denounced the rioters , as well as police for their lack of action .
A massive influx of phone calls to local union offices were 20 to 1 in support of the rioters .
On May 11 and May 16 , there were additional protests denouncing Mayor Lindsay as a “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ It ’ s worth noting that “ rat ” is a term approximating “ scab ” in the building trades .
On May 20 , 150,000 pro-war demonstrators marched through the city without opposition .
Many workers who were on the job showered the demonstration with ticker tape .
Peter J. Brennan met with Nixon and 22 other labor leaders on May 26 , presenting the president with a hard hat .
Brennan later met privately with the president on Labor Day .
He is considered instrumental in securing a second term in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and was rewarded for his efforts with the Secretary of Labor position .
What all of these have in common are a template for community unrest in advance of an election year .
While not a direct reaction to the urban riots , the Hard Hat Riots were largely the urban white working class saying “ enough ” to the racialized and political violence that had plagued the country for the last several years .
While 2020 saw the merger of racialized and political violence running rampant in the early summer , it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ organized – and we use that term loosely – pushback of the order of the Hard Hat Riots .
Americans are a tolerant and a patient people , but their tolerance and patience has a limit .
Whether or not there will be an analog to the Hard Hat Riots in the future is anyone ’ s guess , but if history repeats ( or even , as Mark Twain once said , rhymes ) we will be seeing something not unlike the Hard Hat Riots in the near future .

The Book of Ecclesiastes says that there is nothing new under the sun. And while many have spoken of the “unprecedented” nature of the rioting in the early summer of 2020, it is actually quite precedented.
The Long, Hot Summer of 1967 was the peak of urban unrest and rioting in the United States in the lead up to the 1968 election. While there are certainly a number of key differences, there are also a number of striking parallels that make the topic worthy of discussion and examination.
The long-term impact of the urban unrest of the summer of 2020 is unclear, but the long-term impact of the Long, Hot Summer of 1967 and related urban rioting was a victory for Richard Nixon in 1968, and a landslide re-election in 1972. One must resist the temptation to make mechanistic comparisons between the two, and we will refrain from doing so here. But the reader is encouraged to look for connections between these events and more recent ones.
Prologue: The Ghetto Riots
The riot wave in America’s urban ghettos might have peaked in the summer of 1967, but it certainly didn’t begin there. 1964 is generally thought to be the beginning, with a riot that began in Harlem after the shooting of a 15-year-old black teenager named James Powell.
The story of how this happened is familiar to anyone who read the news in the summer of 2020: The superintendent of a building in a predominantly white working-class neighborhood turned a hose on black students who had been congregating on the stoops of his buildings. The black students alleged that he used racist language with them, a charge that he denied. It is worth noting how often alleged racial slurs are invoked as an excuse for violence. In any case, no one disagrees that the students then began throwing garbage can lids and bottles at him. He retreated into his building where he was pursued by three of the students, one of them being James Powell.
A white off-duty police officer, Lieutenant Thomas Gilligan, arrived on the scene and fired three shots at Powell. One of these was a warning shot, but the other two connected with Powell’s forearm and abdomen. Lieutenant Gilligan claimed that Powell had a knife, raised it and then he fired first a warning shot, then a shot into the forearm to disarm him before firing the third shot. Gilligan had an impeccable record with the New York Police Department. Powell had a few interactions with the law: twice for boarding a subway car without paying, once for breaking the window of a vehicle and once for an attempted robbery (he was cleared of the robbery).
The result was a week of rioting that left one dead, 118 injured and 465 arrested.
Between the Harlem Riot of 1964 and the Long, Hot Summer of 1967, there were riots in Rochester, New York, Dixmoor, Illinois, Philadelphia, Watts, Chicago, Cleveland, Waukegan, Illinois, San Francisco and Benton Harbor, Michigan. But the Long, Hot Summer was when things really picked up.
Chapter One: The Long, Hot Summer of 1967
It would be impossible to cover all of the rioting that occurred throughout the summer of 1967. All told, there were 159 riots that summer. The worst of these were in Newark, New Jersey and Detroit, Michigan. The riots left over 85 dead, over 2,100 injured and over 11,000 arrested. They also caused tens of millions of dollars in property damage.
The first of these riots was the Cincinnati riot of that year, which began in the Avondale region of the city, in response to the conviction of “Cincinnati Strangler” Posteal Laskey Jr. for a series of rapes and murders. Laskey’s cousin, Peter Frakes, protested the decision and was arrested for blocking the sidewalk, in stark contrast to the protesters of today who are allowed to block off highways. The next day there was a protest in support of Frakes that spiralled out of control, quickly becoming an orgy of violence, destruction and looting that spread throughout the city.
Resulting in one death, 63 injured, 404 arrested and $2 million in property damage (over $15 million in 2020 dollars), the riot was only quelled when the National Guard was deployed.
Cincinnati was the first, but the two biggest riots were in Newark and Detroit.
Newark was one of the earliest and most extreme examples of white flight in the nation. Its manufacturing base had largely abandoned the city by the time that the riots began. The city had been on edge for a while, but things began to boil over in July 1967, after Newark white police officers John DeSimone and Vito Pontrelli beat black cab driver John William Smith, who they claimed assaulted them. A rumor began to spread that Smith was beaten to death and a crowd formed outside of the police station. Witnesses disagree as to what happened first – the crowd throwing things or the police emerging with hard hats and clubs.
The crowd demanded that Smith be moved to Beth Israel Hospital, a request granted by the police. That night there was a march to protest police brutality, during which an unidentified female smashed the windows of the police precinct with metal bars. Looting and firebombing of local businesses began soon after, with the looting of liquor stores being a predominant feature of the rioting.
Six days of rioting left 16 civilians, eight suspects, a police officer and a firefighter dead. There were 727 injuries (including 67 police officers, 55 firefighters, and 38 military personnel) and $10 million in property damage (roughly $77 million in 2020 dollars). Many believe that the city never fully recovered from the riots even to this day.
The riots in Detroit took place from July 23 to 28. At around 3:45 a.m., Detroit police broke up a party at a “blind pig” (unlicensed private drinking club). They expected to find only a few, but instead were greeted by an 82-person strong celebration of the return of two GIs from Vietnam. The police made the decision to arrest everyone there. A crowd began to gather to watch the raid. William Walter Scott III, the doorman and son of the organizer of the blind pig, later admitted to starting the riot by throwing a bottle at a police officer in his memoirs.
The next afternoon, the first fire was set at a grocery store. The local media tried simply ignoring the riots in an attempt to maintain calm. Tigers left fielder Willie Horton, who was born in Virginia but lived in and grew up in Detroit, drove to the center of the rioting and stood on his car in uniform, passionately imploring the crowd to stop the violence, but failed to do so.
Chaos began on the second day of rioting. There were 483 fires, with 231 incidents reported every hour, and a whopping 1,800 arrests in a single day. Hardy’s drug store, a black-owned business known to fill prescriptions on credit, was one of the first to be burned to the ground. Indeed, the black business district was not spared. Firefighters were shot at as they attempted to put out fires. U.S. Representative John Conyers tried to address the rioters via loudspeaker out of his car, but had rocks and bottles thrown at him.
All told, there were at least 23 deaths and 696 wounded, with property damage pegged somewhere between $40 million to $45 million (between $300 and $350 million in 2020 dollars). Among those dead were 4-year-old Tanya Blanding.
The final riot in the Long, Hot Summer of 1967 was the Milwaukee riot, which left four dead, 100 injured and 1,740 arrested. This began after two police showed up to break up a fight between two black women, around which a crowd of 350 had gathered. The property damage was relatively scant because it was mostly confined to broken windows: it came in at around $200,000 at the time.
Chapter Two: The King Assassination Riots of 1968
The next wave of rioting took place following the assassination of Martin Luther King in the spring of 1968. This wave of riots engulfed the nation’s capital, Chicago, Baltimore, Kansas City, Detroit, New York, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Trenton, Wilmington and Louisville. New York’s riots were quickly quelled by mayor John Lindsay, who went directly to Harlem and gave a speech about addressing poverty. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy is largely credited with saving Indianopolis, with his speech there following King’s assassination. A James Brown concert in Boston is similarly credited with keeping the peace there. Memorials were held in Los Angeles that averted a repeat of the 1965 Watts riots.
Washington, D.C. was the first to experience rioting, beginning on the day of King’s assassination, April 4. Ironically, the rioting here was started by a mob following Stokely Carmichael of the Southern Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, who quickly began breaking windows. The riots devastated the black business district of the city, which had an incredibly difficult time finding investment to rebuild after the riots were over. Some areas of the city remained little more than piles of rubble until 1999.
Riots in Chicago came next, starting the day after King’s assassination. The damage here was over $10 million (over $77 million in 2020 dollars), with 11 dead, 500 injured, and 2,150 arrested. Baltimore was next, two days later. The swift and sharp response of Governor Spiro T. Agnew (thousands of National Guard and 500 Maryland State Police were deployed the very day that unrest began) was likely what attracted then-candidate Richard Nixon to choose him as his running mate.
The riots following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. were comparatively minor when contrasted with the Long, Hot Summer of 1967. However, it is worth noting that they happened as part of a more general pattern of lawlessness and urban unrest in the United States in the late 1960s.
It is now generally agreed that the wave of rioting in 1968 helped to sweep Richard Nixon into the White House. The riots outside of the Democratic National Conventionin 1968 likewise didn’t help matters. However, whether or not the 2020 election will be a replay of the 1968 election (which also took place during a pandemic that left over 100,000 Americans dead) remains to be seen. At the very least, the Democrats are going to spare themselves unrest by holding their convention virtually.
Epilogue: The Hard Hat Riot
For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. This might be a law of physics, but it often holds in politics as well. The reaction to urban rioting and leftist violence in general that plagued the late 60s and early 70s is a little-known incident in American history known as the Hard Hat Riot.
The Hard Hat Riot took place on May 8, 1970, in New York City of all places. It’s worth remembering that in 1970, most of New York was a lot more like blue-collar forklift operator Archie Bunker of All in the Family rather than Lena Dunham – Bunker lived in Astoria, Queens, which is a much different place today than it was at the time of the Hard Hat Riot.
Unlike the hippies and college students of America, blue-collar workers tended to support Nixon and his Vietnam War policies. Peter J. Brennan, who was the head of the Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York, was one of the most vocal supporters of Nixon and the Vietnam War.
The Hard Hat Riot started as a counter-protest to a protest against the killing of four students at Kent State by the National Guard. It started with a few hundred college and high school students, but quickly ballooned to over 1,000. They were soon met by about 200 construction workers carrying American flags and patriotic signs. Their numbers doubled when people working in the surrounding area joined the construction workers. The construction workers began beating anyone with long hair in the vicinity of their counter-protest.
After this, the construction workers stormed city hall and raised the flag, which had been at half mast for the Kent State students, back to full mast. They were joined by city workers, including a postal worker who raised an American flag on the roof of city hall. Most of the rioters were Catholic and turned their attention to the nearby Episcopal church in the neighborhood.
Six rioters were arrested and Mayor John Lindsay denounced the rioters, as well as police for their lack of action. A massive influx of phone calls to local union offices were 20 to 1 in support of the rioters. On May 11 and May 16, there were additional protests denouncing Mayor Lindsay as a “commie” and a “rat.” It’s worth noting that “rat” is a term approximating “scab” in the building trades. On May 20, 150,000 pro-war demonstrators marched through the city without opposition. Many workers who were on the job showered the demonstration with ticker tape.
Peter J. Brennan met with Nixon and 22 other labor leaders on May 26, presenting the president with a hard hat. Brennan later met privately with the president on Labor Day. He is considered instrumental in securing a second term in the White House for President Nixon, and was rewarded for his efforts with the Secretary of Labor position.
What all of these have in common are a template for community unrest in advance of an election year. While not a direct reaction to the urban riots, the Hard Hat Riots were largely the urban white working class saying “enough” to the racialized and political violence that had plagued the country for the last several years.
While 2020 saw the merger of racialized and political violence running rampant in the early summer, it has yet to see any kind of organized – and we use that term loosely – pushback of the order of the Hard Hat Riots. Americans are a tolerant and a patient people, but their tolerance and patience has a limit. Whether or not there will be an analog to the Hard Hat Riots in the future is anyone’s guess, but if history repeats (or even, as Mark Twain once said, rhymes) we will be seeing something not unlike the Hard Hat Riots in the near future.
Written by Sam Jacobs Article posted with permission from Ammo.com