thewashingtonstandard--2020-06-23--Colorado Passes Historic Bill Ending Qualified Immunity For Cops

When George Floyd was killed last month , the nation was shaken out of its slumber in regard to police brutality in this country .
Cities quite literally burned over the anger that has been boiling up over decades as cops kill people — who are often innocent , unarmed , and even children — and get away with it .
Sadly , however , the organized groups behind the protests only appear to be pushing a single , partial solution of “ defunding ” the police .
While this is certainly something to be considered , it is a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ strike the root of the problem , we need bad cops held accountable .
One major way to do this is by ending Qualified Immunity .
Luckily , this idea is now picking up steam .
This month , Colorado Governor Jared Polis signed an omnibus reform bill into law to end qualified immunity for police officers in the state .
“ This is a long overdue moment of national reflection , ” Polis said at the signing ceremony .
“ This is a meaningful , substantial reform bill.
” A summary of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ notes : The bill allows a person who has a constitutional right secured by the bill of rights of the Colorado constitution that is infringed upon by a peace officer to bring a civil action for the violation .
A plaintiff who prevails in the lawsuit is entitled to reasonable attorney fees , and a defendant in an individual suit is entitled to reasonable attorney fees for defending any frivolous claims .
Qualified immunity and a defendant ’ s good faith but erroneous belief in the lawfulness of his or her conduct are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the civil action .
The bill requires a political subdivision of the state to indemnify its employees for such a claim ; except that if the peace officer ’ s employer determines the officer did not act upon a good faith and reasonable belief that the action was lawful , then the peace officer is personally liable for 5 percent of the judgment or $ 25,000 , whichever is less , unless the judgment is uncollectible from the officer , then the officer ’ s employer satisfies the whole judgment .
A peace @ @ @ @ @ @ @ under color of law , subjects or causes to be subjected , including failing to intervene , any other person to the deprivation of any individual rights that create binding obligations on government actors secured by the bill of rights , Article II of the State Constitution , is liable to the injured party for legal or equitable relief or any other appropriate relief… qualified immunity is not a defense to liability pursuant to this section .
“ Colorado has passed historic civil rights legislation , which both allows citizens to bring civil @ @ @ @ @ @ @ their rights under the Colorado Constitution , and also clarifies that qualified immunity will not be a defense to any such claims , ” the Cato Institute ’ s Project on Criminal Justice policy analyst Jay Schweikert , and expert on qualified immunity , told Law & Crime .
“ While this law doesn ’ t affect the availability of qualified immunity in federal cases , it does ensure that Coloradans who are the victims of police misconduct will have a meaningful remedy in state court.
” As TFTP has reported , when @ @ @ @ @ @ @ overarching question remains .
‘ Do we want to live in a society whereby law enforcement officials can completely violate a person ’ s constitutional rights and get away with it ?
’ For our society to be free , the answer to that question must be a resounding , powerful , unwavering , ‘ Hell No !
’ Unfortunately , however , this is the case most of the time thanks to law enforcement personnel ’ s use and abuse of Qualified Immunity .
Qualified immunity is a legal doctrine in United @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from being sued for discretionary actions performed within their official capacity , unless their actions violated “ clearly established ” federal law or constitutional rights .
The Supreme Court created qualified immunity in 1982 .
With that novel invention , the court granted all government officials immunity for violating constitutional and civil rights unless the victims of those violations can show that the rights were “ clearly established.
” As Anya Bidwell points out , although innocuous sounding , the clearly established test is a legal obstacle nearly impossible to overcome .
It @ @ @ @ @ @ @ decision by the Supreme Court , or a federal appeals court in the same jurisdiction holding that precisely the same conduct under the same circumstances is illegal or unconstitutional .
If none exists , the official is immune .
Whether the official ’ s actions are unconstitutional , intentional or malicious is irrelevant to the test .
An example of this would be the family of George Floyd attempting to seek compensation for his death .
Because there has never been a “ clearly established ” case of a cop kneeling on a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ being declared unconstitutional , a judge in Minnesota could easily dismiss their case .
It is essentially a get out of jail free card for cops and it perpetuates the problem of police violence by giving bad cops a free pass .
Steps like this in Colorado are essential to reining in the terror of bad cops .
This is why everyone needs to call their representatives and tell them to support the bill proposed by Libertarian Congressman Justin Amash ( L-Michigan ) , H.R .
7085 which will end Qualified Immunity on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ protects police and other officials from consequences even for horrific rights abuses , ” said Amash .
“ It prevents accountability for the ‘ bad apples ’ and undermines the public ’ s faith in law enforcement .
It ’ s at odds with the text of the law and the intent of Congress , and it ultimately leaves Americans ’ rights without appropriate protection .
Members of Congress have a duty to ensure government officials can be held accountable for violating Americans ’ rights , and ending qualified immunity is a crucial @ @ @ @ @ @ @ interested in the other paradigm shifting solutions into quelling police brutality and Americans ’ deprivation of rights , we propose five major solutions , including Qualified Immunity , that will have drastic changes .
You can read that here .

When George Floyd was killed last month, the nation was shaken out of its slumber in regard to police brutality in this country. Cities quite literally burned over the anger that has been boiling up over decades as cops kill people — who are often innocent, unarmed, and even children — and get away with it. Sadly, however, the organized groups behind the protests only appear to be pushing a single, partial solution of “defunding” the police. While this is certainly something to be considered, it is a bandaid on sucking chest wound. To strike the root of the problem, we need bad cops held accountable. One major way to do this is by ending Qualified Immunity. Luckily, this idea is now picking up steam.
This month, Colorado Governor Jared Polis signed an omnibus reform bill into law to end qualified immunity for police officers in the state.
“This is a long overdue moment of national reflection,” Polis said at the signing ceremony. “This is a meaningful, substantial reform bill.”
A summary of the sea change from the Colorado legislature notes:
The bill allows a person who has a constitutional right secured by the bill of rights of the Colorado constitution that is infringed upon by a peace officer to bring a civil action for the violation. A plaintiff who prevails in the lawsuit is entitled to reasonable attorney fees, and a defendant in an individual suit is entitled to reasonable attorney fees for defending any frivolous claims. Qualified immunity and a defendant’s good faith but erroneous belief in the lawfulness of his or her conduct are not defenses is not a defense to the civil action. The bill requires a political subdivision of the state to indemnify its employees for such a claim; except that if the peace officer’s employer determines the officer did not act upon a good faith and reasonable belief that the action was lawful, then the peace officer is personally liable for 5 percent of the judgment or $25,000, whichever is less, unless the judgment is uncollectible from the officer, then the officer’s employer satisfies the whole judgment.
‼BREAKING‼: @GovofCO has signed #SB217 into law. Colorado becomes one of the first states in the country to END qualified immunity as part of this historic comprehensive police accountability bill. pic.twitter.com/ZHCKRpSaGL — ACLU of Colorado (@ACLUofColorado) June 19, 2020
The precedent setting law reads in part:
A peace officer…employed by a local government who, under color of law, subjects or causes to be subjected, including failing to intervene, any other person to the deprivation of any individual rights that create binding obligations on government actors secured by the bill of rights, Article II of the State Constitution, is liable to the injured party for legal or equitable relief or any other appropriate relief… qualified immunity is not a defense to liability pursuant to this section.
“Colorado has passed historic civil rights legislation, which both allows citizens to bring civil rights claims against police officers who violate their rights under the Colorado Constitution, and also clarifies that qualified immunity will not be a defense to any such claims,” the Cato Institute’s Project on Criminal Justice policy analyst Jay Schweikert, and expert on qualified immunity, told Law&Crime. “While this law doesn’t affect the availability of qualified immunity in federal cases, it does ensure that Coloradans who are the victims of police misconduct will have a meaningful remedy in state court.”
As TFTP has reported, when it comes to police accountability, one overarching question remains. ‘Do we want to live in a society whereby law enforcement officials can completely violate a person’s constitutional rights and get away with it?’ For our society to be free, the answer to that question must be a resounding, powerful, unwavering, ‘Hell No!’
Unfortunately, however, this is the case most of the time thanks to law enforcement personnel’s use and abuse of Qualified Immunity.
Qualified immunity is a legal doctrine in United States federal law that shields government officials from being sued for discretionary actions performed within their official capacity, unless their actions violated “clearly established” federal law or constitutional rights.
The Supreme Court created qualified immunity in 1982. With that novel invention, the court granted all government officials immunity for violating constitutional and civil rights unless the victims of those violations can show that the rights were “clearly established.”
As Anya Bidwell points out, although innocuous sounding, the clearly established test is a legal obstacle nearly impossible to overcome. It requires a victim to identify an earlier decision by the Supreme Court, or a federal appeals court in the same jurisdiction holding that precisely the same conduct under the same circumstances is illegal or unconstitutional. If none exists, the official is immune. Whether the official’s actions are unconstitutional, intentional or malicious is irrelevant to the test.
An example of this would be the family of George Floyd attempting to seek compensation for his death. Because there has never been a “clearly established” case of a cop kneeling on a man’s neck until he dies being declared unconstitutional, a judge in Minnesota could easily dismiss their case.
It is essentially a get out of jail free card for cops and it perpetuates the problem of police violence by giving bad cops a free pass.
Steps like this in Colorado are essential to reining in the terror of bad cops. This is why everyone needs to call their representatives and tell them to support the bill proposed by Libertarian Congressman Justin Amash (L-Michigan), H.R. 7085 which will end Qualified Immunity on a national level.
“Qualified immunity protects police and other officials from consequences even for horrific rights abuses,” said Amash. “It prevents accountability for the ‘bad apples’ and undermines the public’s faith in law enforcement. It’s at odds with the text of the law and the intent of Congress, and it ultimately leaves Americans’ rights without appropriate protection. Members of Congress have a duty to ensure government officials can be held accountable for violating Americans’ rights, and ending qualified immunity is a crucial part of that.”
If you are interested in the other paradigm shifting solutions into quelling police brutality and Americans’ deprivation of rights, we propose five major solutions, including Qualified Immunity, that will have drastic changes. You can read that here.
Article posted with permission from Matt Agorist


thewashingtonstandard--2020-06-23--Twitter Bans Amy Mek for Telling Inconvenient Truths

President Trump on May 28 issued an executive order designed to prevent online censorship of voices that dissent from the hard-Left ’ s agenda , and since then Twitter ’ s Jack Dorsey seems determined to defy it and force a showdown .
He has more than once flagged Trump ’ s tweets as supposedly inciting violence or committing some other transgression , and he continues his steady campaign to silence voices of freedom , including foes of jihad violence and Sharia oppression of women .
His latest victim is the popular counterjihad writer Amy Mek , who had over @ @ @ @ @ @ @ deplatformed .
Amy Mek ’ s RAIR Foundation reported recently that “ on April 16 , 2020 , the @ Amymek Twitter account was suspended ( and still remains suspended ) as 12 of her tweets were flagged for violating Twitter ’ s rules against ‘ hateful conduct.
’ ” The problem is that in these overheated days , virtually anything that Leftists don ’ t like is classified as “ hateful conduct.
” The twelve tweets in question all contained accurate information , as Amy herself documented in trying ( to no @ @ @ @ @ @ @ its ban .
The issue with them was clearly not that they were spreading falsehoods or inaccurate information , but that they were telling truths that the Leftist elites would prefer not be known .
For example , on March 31 , Amy tweeted : “ INDIA : Coronavirus Jihad !
Over 8K Indian Muslims & foreign nationals from Indonesia , Malaysia , Saudi Arabia , Bangladesh etc .
attended a Coronavirus infected Islamic event at a Mosque in Delhi .
Almost a dozen are dead & many infected – Jihadists have put @ @ @ @ @ @ @ horribly hateful to suggest that an Islamic event was a source of the spread of coronavirus , right ?
Wrong .
The day before Amy published her supposedly hateful tweet , Quartz India published a story entitled : “ A religious congregation in Delhi could be the coronavirus hotspot India was trying to escape.
” The next day , Al Jazeera published an article called “ India tracks attendees after Muslim event linked to virus cases.
” On April 2 , the BBC published a backgrounder : “ Tablighi Jamaat : The group @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” Even that far-Left propaganda organ known as the Washington Post put up a story on this issue : “ India confronts its first coronavirus ‘ super-spreader ’ — a Muslim missionary group with more than 400 members infected.
” Then two weeks later , on April 16 , the BBC ran a piece entitled : “ India coronavirus : Tablighi Jamaat leader on manslaughter charge over Covid-19.
” Quartz India , Al Jazeera , the BBC and the Washington Post were not banned from Twitter .
They no doubt didn ’ t @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , a high-profile critic of jihad terror , ran afoul of Twitter ’ s Left-fascist censors because only she had a prior reputation for being skeptical of the Left ’ s open-borders , internationalist , pro-jihad program .
Nor can her own critics argue that Amy got flagged for placing the virus-ridden Islamic event in the context of jihad when the spread of the coronavirus from that event was clearly accidental .
Amy compiled no fewer than 24 news articles about members of Tablighi Jamaat , the host of the event , deliberately @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
So in what way was this not , as she put it , “ coronavirus jihad ” ?
Amy provided similar documentation of all the claims that were made in her 11 other supposedly hateful tweets , but to no avail .
Clicking on the links for the offensive tweets now takes you only to a note saying “ This Tweet violated the Twitter Rules ” and giving a link to those rules , without bothering to explain exactly what rules were violated and in what manner .
And so it is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from Twitter for lying ; Twitter has never flagged CNN or MSNBC , so clearly it has no problem with that .
Amy Mek is gone from Twitter because she is the woman who knows too much – too much , that is , about the jihadist allies of the Leftists who are running amok in many of America ’ s major cities these days , too much about the insidious agenda of all too many of the adherents of the religion we must believe is peaceful on pain of charges of “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ too much about the half-truths , distortions , and outright lies that pass for news and that the elites feed the masses today .
She was not the first , and will not be the last .
I ’ ve said it before and will doubtless say it again : if this isn ’ t stopped and the speech of dissenters protected , America will cease to be a free society and slip rapidly into authoritarian and totalitarianism .
And I ’ ll keep saying it until they silence me as well .

President Trump on May 28 issued an executive order designed to prevent online censorship of voices that dissent from the hard-Left’s agenda, and since then Twitter’s Jack Dorsey seems determined to defy it and force a showdown. He has more than once flagged Trump’s tweets as supposedly inciting violence or committing some other transgression, and he continues his steady campaign to silence voices of freedom, including foes of jihad violence and Sharia oppression of women. His latest victim is the popular counterjihad writer Amy Mek, who had over 266,000 Twitter followers when she was summarily deplatformed.
Amy Mek’s RAIR Foundation reported recently that “on April 16, 2020, the @Amymek Twitter account was suspended (and still remains suspended) as 12 of her tweets were flagged for violating Twitter’s rules against ‘hateful conduct.’” The problem is that in these overheated days, virtually anything that Leftists don’t like is classified as “hateful conduct.” The twelve tweets in question all contained accurate information, as Amy herself documented in trying (to no avail) to get Twitter to reverse its ban. The issue with them was clearly not that they were spreading falsehoods or inaccurate information, but that they were telling truths that the Leftist elites would prefer not be known.
For example, on March 31, Amy tweeted: “INDIA: Coronavirus Jihad! Over 8K Indian Muslims & foreign nationals from Indonesia, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Bangladesh etc. attended a Coronavirus infected Islamic event at a Mosque in Delhi. Almost a dozen are dead & many infected – Jihadists have put many countries at risk.”
It was horribly hateful to suggest that an Islamic event was a source of the spread of coronavirus, right? Wrong. The day before Amy published her supposedly hateful tweet, Quartz India published a story entitled: “A religious congregation in Delhi could be the coronavirus hotspot India was trying to escape.” The next day, Al Jazeera published an article called “India tracks attendees after Muslim event linked to virus cases.” On April 2, the BBC published a backgrounder: “Tablighi Jamaat: The group blamed for new Covid-19 outbreak in India.” Even that far-Left propaganda organ known as the Washington Post put up a story on this issue: “India confronts its first coronavirus ‘super-spreader’ — a Muslim missionary group with more than 400 members infected.” Then two weeks later, on April 16, the BBC ran a piece entitled: “India coronavirus: Tablighi Jamaat leader on manslaughter charge over Covid-19.”
Quartz India, Al Jazeera, the BBC and the Washington Post were not banned from Twitter. They no doubt didn’t even receive warnings. Only Amy Mek, a high-profile critic of jihad terror, ran afoul of Twitter’s Left-fascist censors because only she had a prior reputation for being skeptical of the Left’s open-borders, internationalist, pro-jihad program.
Nor can her own critics argue that Amy got flagged for placing the virus-ridden Islamic event in the context of jihad when the spread of the coronavirus from that event was clearly accidental. Amy compiled no fewer than 24 news articles about members of Tablighi Jamaat, the host of the event, deliberately attempting to spread the coronavirus among non-Muslims. So in what way was this not, as she put it, “coronavirus jihad”?
Amy provided similar documentation of all the claims that were made in her 11 other supposedly hateful tweets, but to no avail. Clicking on the links for the offensive tweets now takes you only to a note saying “This Tweet violated the Twitter Rules” and giving a link to those rules, without bothering to explain exactly what rules were violated and in what manner.
And so it is clear. Amy Mek is not gone from Twitter for lying; Twitter has never flagged CNN or MSNBC, so clearly it has no problem with that. Amy Mek is gone from Twitter because she is the woman who knows too much – too much, that is, about the jihadist allies of the Leftists who are running amok in many of America’s major cities these days, too much about the insidious agenda of all too many of the adherents of the religion we must believe is peaceful on pain of charges of “racism” and “Islamophobia,” too much about the half-truths, distortions, and outright lies that pass for news and that the elites feed the masses today.
She was not the first, and will not be the last. I’ve said it before and will doubtless say it again: if this isn’t stopped and the speech of dissenters protected, America will cease to be a free society and slip rapidly into authoritarian and totalitarianism. And I’ll keep saying it until they silence me as well.
Article posted with permission from Robert Spencer


thewashingtonstandard--2020-06-23--Planned-emic’s Over – Cue the Riots

Planned-emic’s Over – Cue the Riots

Have you asked yourself “ Who are these evil people who ’ ve engineered this chaos ?
Are they trying to destroy America ” ?
The draconian pandemic policies , riots and race wars are obviously being coordinated – so obvious everyone has taken notice , even grandma !
Let ’ s get down to the root of this cancer : the globalist cabal .
Their goal is to control the masses worldwide .
They don ’ t care how many innocent people die to achieve their hellish goals .
The cabal ’ s evil knows no bounds .
They @ @ @ @ @ @ @ however they want .
And they hate America and everything she stands for most of all .
This is not Republican versus Democrat .
It ’ s pro-American versus anti-American .
It ’ s good versus evil .
But looking at the cabal ’ s transparent plays , they are desperate .
Panic led to stupid decisions that exposed their corruption .
Now we know who they really are and what they ’ re up to .
The cabal has underestimated everyday average patriotic Americans .
They thought we were stupid .
They @ @ @ @ @ @ @ think about everything we ’ ve witnessed in the last few years , their failed plan to take control of our lives has become clear : • None They want us divided by race , class , religion , sex , age , and so on .
Divided , we are weak and we attack each other .
Divided , we miss the target of our real enemy .
• None The mainstream media ( MSM ) is used by the enemy of deception and fear .
If you voice an opposite view @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and smeared .
The Marxist media monopoly , 90 % owned by only , take their instructions from the cabal each day on .
They are literally a mind-control tool .
The MSM ’ s propaganda will rot the soul and crush the spirit .
Notice the declining MSM ratings .
Most Americans no longer trust them , and for good reason .
Their news is fake but the war against us is real .
• None The cabal that controls the MSM ’ s talking points devised an unsuccessful Coup d ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ investigate , impeach , repeat .
• None When the coup failed , the cabal , in cooperation with China , unleashed a new virus and classified it a to control the masses worldwide .
How long will healthy people submit without question ?
mask wearing ?
Six feet apart ?
Shutdowns for business ?
No public events ?
keeping us fearful ?
Americans are over it !
Is prolonging this all about voting by mail ?
You bet !
• None The virus hysteria has failed to control us , so what @ @ @ @ @ @ @ playbook ?
Exploit peaceful protests to open the door for insurrection against the government ?
Cue the cabal ’ s army , Antifa , now designated a , to riot , burn , pillage , injure , and kill .
Antifa claims to be anti-fascist , but their violence screams fascism .
Fascists can not be appeased and will turn on their allies , making Antifa the perfect tool for the cabal , so the MSM of their violence is minimal .
• None The next step ?
Remove police and ban military @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to fill the void .
Leave no other option but self-defense for the unfortunate citizens of extreme left city governments .
• None Elite globalists are planning and financing all of the above behind the scenes .
It ’ s the usual suspects : and his America-hating globalist comrades .
Their goal ?
Keep and/or obtain power by any means necessary and hide their unbridled corruption and crimes against humanity .
With the help of the MSM , distractions are created to control the masses and prevent public exposure of the truth at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ We , the American patriots , are in the majority and are winning .
We ’ ve had enough of the lies .
Our hope will no longer be crushed by the fear-porn of false prophets : media , politicians , elites , Hollywood , and academia .
We are not fooled by inflated polls , silenced by social media , or intimidated by violence .
The enemy seriously underestimated our strength and resolve as Americans .
History reminds us of what fascism looks like : Venezuela , Communist China , Cuba , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ others .
We want no part of that .
Globalists want to destroy America ’ s history so we won ’ t make the connection that they ’ re regurgitating fascism from the same old Marxist playbook .
America fought wars to stop the evils of Marxism .
Patriots want to remember history , the good and the bad , so we ’ re careful not to repeat the bad and honor the good .
America ’ s patriots have common sense .
We know BS when we hear it and know evil @ @ @ @ @ @ @ how to think for ourselves and question things that don ’ t add up .
We are peaceful , strong , hard-working , principled , liberty-loving individuals .
And we ’ re armed .
We ’ ll not bend our knees to politically correct crap or fall victim to violent tantrums .
What threatens the enemy most is that we bend our knees to pray , just as our forefathers did .
The cabal is well acquainted with the darkness of the spiritual realm they worship .
They draw evil from it and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ destroy it .
That ’ s why they hate us .
Notice how churches have been pressured by some leaders to stay closed the last few months but it ’ s okay to hold massive riots disguised as protests ?
Their hypocrisy exposes who they really are and what they fear .
It ’ s time to shine light on darkness .
YOU are the news now .
If you see something that doesn ’ t seem right , it ’ s probably not .
Expose it with truth , using whatever talent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ armor of God as in Ephesians 6 .
Fight the good fight like it all depends on you and pray like it all depends on God…because it does !

Have you asked yourself “Who are these evil people who’ve engineered this chaos? Are they trying to destroy America”? The draconian pandemic policies, riots and race wars are obviously being coordinated – so obvious everyone has taken notice, even grandma!
Let’s get down to the root of this cancer: the globalist cabal. Their goal is to control the masses worldwide. They don’t care how many innocent people die to achieve their hellish goals. The cabal’s evil knows no bounds. They see us as livestock to be herded however they want. And they hate America and everything she stands for most of all.
This is not Republican versus Democrat. It’s pro-American versus anti-American. It’s good versus evil.
But looking at the cabal’s transparent plays, they are desperate. Panic led to stupid decisions that exposed their corruption. Now we know who they really are and what they’re up to.
The cabal has underestimated everyday average patriotic Americans. They thought we were stupid. They thought wrong. If we stop to think about everything we’ve witnessed in the last few years, their failed plan to take control of our lives has become clear:
They want us divided by race, class, religion, sex, age, and so on. Divided, we are weak and we attack each other. Divided, we miss the target of our real enemy.
The mainstream media (MSM) is used by the enemy as a weapon of deception and fear. If you voice an opposite view, you must be isolated, label-lynched and smeared. The Marxist media monopoly, 90% owned by only six companies , take their instructions from the cabal each day on what narrative to push . They are literally a mind-control tool. The MSM’s propaganda will rot the soul and crush the spirit. Notice the declining MSM ratings. Most Americans no longer trust them, and for good reason. Their news is fake but the war against us is real.
The cabal that controls the MSM’s talking points devised an unsuccessful Coup d’état based on lies: Russia, investigate, impeach, repeat.
When the coup failed, the cabal, in cooperation with China, unleashed a new virus and classified it a pandemic to control the masses worldwide. How long will healthy people submit without question? Ineffective mask wearing? Six feet apart? Shutdowns for business? No public events? Inflated death counts keeping us fearful? Americans are over it! Is prolonging this all about voting by mail? You bet!
The virus hysteria has failed to control us, so what’s next in the old Marxist playbook? Exploit peaceful protests to open the door for insurrection against the government? Cue the cabal’s army, Antifa, now designated a domestic terrorist organization , to riot, burn, pillage, injure, and kill. Antifa claims to be anti-fascist, but their violence screams fascism. Fascists cannot be appeased and will turn on their allies, making Antifa the perfect tool for the cabal, so the MSM coverage of their violence is minimal.
The next step? Remove police and ban military from cities that cooperate, leaving anarchy to fill the void. Leave no other option but self-defense for the unfortunate citizens of extreme left city governments.
Elite globalists are planning and financing all of the above behind the scenes. It’s the usual suspects: Soros and his America-hating globalist comrades. Their goal? Keep and/or obtain power by any means necessary and hide their unbridled corruption and crimes against humanity. With the help of the MSM, distractions are created to control the masses and prevent public exposure of the truth at all costs.
The good news? We, the American patriots, are in the majority and are winning. We’ve had enough of the lies. Our hope will no longer be crushed by the fear-porn of false prophets: media, politicians, elites, Hollywood, and academia. We are not fooled by inflated polls, silenced by social media, or intimidated by violence. The enemy seriously underestimated our strength and resolve as Americans.
History reminds us of what fascism looks like: Venezuela, Communist China, Cuba, Cold War Russia, Nazi Germany and others. We want no part of that. Globalists want to destroy America’s history so we won’t make the connection that they’re regurgitating fascism from the same old Marxist playbook. America fought wars to stop the evils of Marxism. Patriots want to remember history, the good and the bad, so we’re careful not to repeat the bad and honor the good.
America’s patriots have common sense. We know BS when we hear it and know evil when we see it. We know how to think for ourselves and question things that don’t add up. We are peaceful, strong, hard-working, principled, liberty-loving individuals. And we’re armed.
We’ll not bend our knees to politically correct crap or fall victim to violent tantrums. What threatens the enemy most is that we bend our knees to pray, just as our forefathers did. The cabal is well acquainted with the darkness of the spiritual realm they worship. They draw evil from it and they know we have the authority to destroy it. That’s why they hate us. Notice how churches have been pressured by some leaders to stay closed the last few months but it’s okay to hold massive riots disguised as protests? Their hypocrisy exposes who they really are and what they fear.
It’s time to shine light on darkness. YOU are the news now. If you see something that doesn’t seem right, it’s probably not. Expose it with truth, using whatever talent you have. Put on the full armor of God as in Ephesians 6. Fight the good fight like it all depends on you and pray like it all depends on God…because it does!
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Article by Karen Lees


thewashingtonstandard--2020-06-24--Another False Flag?  Expert From EMP Task Force On Homeland & National Security:  China Plans “Pearl

Another False Flag?  Expert From EMP Task Force On Homeland & National Security:  China Plans “Pearl Harbor” Type EMP Attack On US

Editor ’ s Note : I ’ d be more prone to believe that our own government would do this to us after the COVID-19/coronavirus plandemic , 9/11 , and other false flags we ’ ve seen in this country and blame it on China to get our attention off of the corrupt in office that need to have justice dealt against them .
Could we be seeing the making of yet another false flag or psychological operation ?
The mainstream media knows what they are doing when they use words like “ Pearl Harbor ” type attack .
A @ @ @ @ @ @ @ expert from the EMP Task Force On Homeland & National Security , claims China is going to use an EMP ( electromagnetic pulse ) to attack the United States .
Pry claims there ’ s a serious possibility of China plotting a surprise EMP attack on the United States .
Of course , this is based on mainstream fear-mongering , but is there any truth to the fear ?
There is , considering the language used by the mainstream media .
The keyword from the report is that China is planning a “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Josh Sigurdson put it , the attack on Pearl Harbor was allowed to happen to provide order out of chaos .
Just as the United States has been working with China hand in hand for years under the guise of competition .
So how much of this so-called “ attack ” would be a part of the overall New World Order plan ?
Maybe more than most of us would like to admit .
The global community has been working hard for a very long time to prop up China as a global @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s the perfect guinea pig state for complete control over the masses .
It ’ s easy to just blame China , and they aren ’ t innocent as a domineering totalitarian state .
But this could be all a part of the plan to destroy , and maybe even eliminate some people in the U.S. An EMP would take down the grid , meaning there would be no electricity at your home .
You wouldn ’ t have access to wifi and unless you pay cash ( which a good chunk of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ) you won ’ t be able to buy any goods .
Whether this is a false flag or not , it ’ s best to already be prepared .
Most people will not be and after a week , when people get hungry , they will get desperate .
If you are prepared and stocked up on food , you won ’ t have an issue .
If you are self-reliant and capable of producing your own food , you won ’ t have an issue .
Personally , I have been @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Both are good for you and packed with healthy fats and calories .
Even IF you run low on food , a spoonful or two of coconut oil will keep you going .
Sure , it won ’ t be fun , but it ’ ll do the trick .
You could also barter these oils .
Put them in smaller containers and trade them if need be .
Since neither of these oils need to be refrigerated , they beat stocking up on things like butter .
Both can be used @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or to put over foraged plants .
Speaking of foraging , it ’ s important to know at least some of the edible plants that grow in your area .
In addition to high-quality foods , make sure you can forage ( I ’ ve found this book helpful ) and are capable of hunting for your own meat .
These lost survival skills will come in handy in the event that grocery stores close in the aftermath of an EMP attack .
We have written several articles on how to prepare for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ If you are looking for more in-depth information , please check out the links below : A Few Ways To Prepare For An EMP These Off-Grid Summer Strategies Could Save Your Food Supply and Keep You Safe 6 Totally Insane Things That Will Happen If Our Power Grid Goes Down

Editor’s Note: I’d be more prone to believe that our own government would do this to us after the COVID-19/coronavirus plandemic, 9/11, and other false flags we’ve seen in this country and blame it on China to get our attention off of the corrupt in office that need to have justice dealt against them.
Could we be seeing the making of yet another false flag or psychological operation? The mainstream media knows what they are doing when they use words like “Pearl Harbor” type attack.
A recent claim by Dr. Peter Pry, expert from the EMP Task Force On Homeland & National Security, claims China is going to use an EMP (electromagnetic pulse) to attack the United States. Pry claims there’s a serious possibility of China plotting a surprise EMP attack on the United States. Of course, this is based on mainstream fear-mongering, but is there any truth to the fear? There is, considering the language used by the mainstream media.
The keyword from the report is that China is planning a “Pearl Harbor” type attack. As Josh Sigurdson put it, the attack on Pearl Harbor was allowed to happen to provide order out of chaos. Just as the United States has been working with China hand in hand for years under the guise of competition. So how much of this so-called “attack” would be a part of the overall New World Order plan? Maybe more than most of us would like to admit.
The global community has been working hard for a very long time to prop up China as a global order and surveillance state. It’s the perfect guinea pig state for complete control over the masses. It’s easy to just blame China, and they aren’t innocent as a domineering totalitarian state. But this could be all a part of the plan to destroy, and maybe even eliminate some people in the U.S.
An EMP would take down the grid, meaning there would be no electricity at your home. You wouldn’t have access to wifi and unless you pay cash (which a good chunk of stores won’t even accept anymore) you won’t be able to buy any goods. Whether this is a false flag or not, it’s best to already be prepared. Most people will not be and after a week, when people get hungry, they will get desperate.
If you are prepared and stocked up on food, you won’t have an issue. If you are self-reliant and capable of producing your own food, you won’t have an issue. Personally, I have been stocking up on coconut and olive oils. Both are good for you and packed with healthy fats and calories. Even IF you run low on food, a spoonful or two of coconut oil will keep you going. Sure, it won’t be fun, but it’ll do the trick. You could also barter these oils. Put them in smaller containers and trade them if need be. Since neither of these oils need to be refrigerated, they beat stocking up on things like butter. Both can be used to cook meat in as well, or to put over foraged plants.
Speaking of foraging, it’s important to know at least some of the edible plants that grow in your area. In addition to high-quality foods, make sure you can forage (I’ve found this book helpful) and are capable of hunting for your own meat. These lost survival skills will come in handy in the event that grocery stores close in the aftermath of an EMP attack.
We have written several articles on how to prepare for a grid failure and EMP attack. If you are looking for more in-depth information, please check out the links below:
A Few Ways To Prepare For An EMP
These Off-Grid Summer Strategies Could Save Your Food Supply and Keep You Safe
6 Totally Insane Things That Will Happen If Our Power Grid Goes Down
Article posted with permission from Mac Slavo


thewashingtonstandard--2020-06-24--This Way Lies Madness: The Summer of Hate Meets the Age of Intolerance

Marches , protests , boycotts , sit-ins : these are nonviolent tactics that work .
Looting , vandalism , the destruction of public property , intimidation tactics aimed at eliminating anything that might cause offense to the establishment : these tactics of mobs and bullies may work in the short term , but they will only give rise to greater injustices in the long term .
George Floyd ’ s death sparked the flame of outrage over racial injustice and police brutality , but political correctness is creating a raging inferno that threatens to engulf the nation .
In Boston @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Christopher Columbus .
Protesters in Richmond , Va. , used ropes to topple that city ’ s Columbus statue , spray-painted it , set it on fire and tossed it into a lake .
Columbus ’ crimes against indigenous peoples throughout the Americas are well known .
In San Francisco ’ s Golden Gate Park , protesters tore down a statue of Francis Scott Key , who penned “ The Star-Spangled Banner.
” Key was also a slaveholding lawyer who tried to prosecute abolistionists vocally opposing slavery .
Activists who object to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Elihu Yale , a slave trader , are lobbying to re-name the school .
Students at Harvard University want to re-name Mather House , one of the dorms named after Increase Mather , the college president from 1685 to 1692 and a slave owner .
Administrators at Woodrow Wilson High School in Camden , N.J.—named after the nation ’ s 28th president , who guided the nation through World War I while upholding segregation policies—are now looking for a new name .
In an apparent bid to be more culturally sensitive , Land @ @ @ @ @ @ @ packaging the image of a Native American princess that had been featured on its products for a hundred years .
The distributors of Aunt Jemima Pancake Syrup , Uncle Ben ’ s Rice and Mrs. Butterworth ’ s Syrup have also announced plans to re-brand and re-name their products in an effort to avoid perpetuating racist stereotypes .
Cream of Wheat is considering what to do about the smiling black chef that graces its breakfast porridge ( his visage has been criticized for being stereotypically subservient ) .
Not to be outdone , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ retire the 99-year-old name for its Eskimo Pie frozen confections on a stick because “ Eskimo ” has been denounced as a racist nomenclature used by “ colonizers to Arctic regions to refer to Inuit and Yupik people.
” Gone with the Wind , the Civil War epic that won 10 Academy Awards and has long been considered one of the greatest films of all times , was temporarily pulled from HBOMax ’ s streaming service in response to concerns that it depicts “ ethnic and racial prejudices ” that “ were wrong @ @ @ @ @ @ @ University of Georgia ’ s marching band has removed “ Tara ’ s Theme , ” the opening orchestral theme from Gone with the Wind , from its musical repertoire .
What is the end sum of all these actions ?
What started as a movement to denounce police brutality in the wake of George Floyd ’ s death at the hands of killer cops has become a free-for-all campaign to rid the country of any monument , literal or figurative , to anyone who may have at any time in history expressed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , or existed within a racist society .
The police state has got us exactly where it wants us : distracted , distraught and divided .
While protesters topple statues of men with racist pasts who are long dead , unarmed Americans continue to be killed by militarized police trained to shoot first and ask questions later .
While activists use their collective might to pressure corporations to rebrand products in a more racially sensitive fashion , the American police state—aided and abetted by the Corporate State—continues to disproportionately target blacks , Hispanics @ @ @ @ @ @ @ correct censorship is attempting to sanitize the public sphere of words and images that denigrate minorities , it is not doing anything to rid hearts and minds of racism .
As Rod Serling , creator of the Twilight Zone , concluded in the “ Deaths-Head Revisited ” episode : In other words , what we need is more speech , more discourse , and a greater understanding of history and the evils perpetrated in the name of conquest , profit and racial supremacy .
Because if we bury the mistakes of the past @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fail to at least provide context to the past , we risk allowing the government to repeat those past mistakes—rewritten for a new age—and no one will be the wiser .
It has happened already : we have allowed the government strip people of their humanity ; to segregate them into polarized classes ; to treat them as chattel ; to deny them basic human rights ; and to reduce them to figures on a ledger sheet .
Censoring speech—toppling monuments—kowtowing to political correctness—is not the answer to what ails this nation .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ and ignore the systemic injustices that undergird the words , the disease will spread .
As long as we continue to allow the most controversial issues of our day—gay rights , abortion , race , religion , sexuality , political correctness , police brutality , et al.—to serve as battlegrounds for those who claim to believe in freedom of speech but only when it favors the views and positions they support , we will all eventually lose .
Silencing unpopular viewpoints with which the majority might disagree—whether it ’ s by shouting them @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , or criminalizing them—only empowers the controllers of the Deep State .
Consider some of the kinds of speech being targeted for censorship or outright elimination .
Offensive , politically incorrect and “ unsafe ” speech : Disguised as tolerance , civility and love , political correctness has resulted in the chilling of free speech and the demonizing of viewpoints that run counter to the cultural elite .
Consequently , college campuses have become hotbeds of student-led censorship , trigger warnings , microaggressions , and “ red light ” speech policies targeting anything @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , unsafe or offended .
Bullying , intimidating speech : Warning that “ school bullies become tomorrow ’ s hate crimes defendants , ” the Justice Department has led the way in urging schools to curtail bullying , going so far as to classify “ teasing ” as a form of “ bullying , ” and “ rude ” or “ hurtful ” “ text messages ” as “ cyberbullying.
” Hateful speech : Hate speech—speech that attacks a person or group on the basis of attributes such as gender , ethnic origin @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or sexual orientation—is the primary candidate for online censorship .
Corporate internet giants Google , Twitter and Facebook are in the process of determining what kinds of speech will be permitted online and what will be deleted .
Dangerous , anti-government speech : As part of its ongoing war on “ extremism , ” the government partnered with the tech industry to establish a task force to counter online “ propaganda ” by terrorists hoping to recruit support or plan attacks ( the program started under President Obama ) .
In this way @ @ @ @ @ @ @ can be considered an extremist and will have their content reported to government agencies for further investigation or deleted .
They might even find themselves pulled from their homes , arrested by the police and thrown into a mental hospital for expressing their opposition to government policies , as happened to Marine Brandon Raub .
The police state could not ask for a better citizenry than one that carries out its own censorship .
It ’ s a brilliant ploy , with the added bonus that while the citizenry remains focused on and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ re incapable of presenting a united front against the threats posed by the government and its cabal of Constitution-destroying agencies and corporate partners .
The antidote to intolerance is more tolerance .
What this requires is opening the door to more speech not less , even if that speech is offensive to some .
Understanding that freedom for those in the unpopular minority constitutes the ultimate tolerance in a free society , James Madison , the author of the Bill of Rights , fought for a First Amendment that protected the “ minority @ @ @ @ @ @ @ even in the face of overwhelming pressure , a minority of one—even one who espouses distasteful viewpoints—would still have the right to speak freely , pray freely , assemble freely , challenge the government freely , and broadcast his views in the media freely .
The First Amendment is a steam valve .
It allows people to speak their minds , air their grievances and contribute to a larger dialogue that hopefully results in a more just world .
When there is no steam valve—when there is no one to hear what the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ grows and people become more volatile and desperate to force a conversation .
By bottling up dissent , we have created a pressure cooker of stifled misery and discontent that is now bubbling over and fomenting even more hate , distrust and paranoia among portions of the populace .
By becoming so fearfully polite , careful to avoid offense , and largely unwilling to be labeled intolerant , hateful or closed-minded that we ’ ve eliminated words , phrases and symbols from public discourse , we have entered into an egotistical , insulated @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has become regulated speech : to be celebrated when it reflects the values of the majority and tolerated otherwise , unless it moves so far beyond our political , religious and socio-economic comfort zones as to be rendered dangerous and unacceptable .
Protest laws , free speech zones , bubble zones , trespass zones , anti-bullying legislation , zero tolerance policies , hate crime laws and a host of other legalistic maladies dreamed up by politicians and prosecutors ( and championed by those who want to suppress speech with which they might disagree @ @ @ @ @ @ @ freedoms , purportedly for our own good .
On paper—at least according to the U.S. Constitution—we are technically free to speak .
In reality , however , we are only as free to speak as a government official—or corporate entities such as Facebook , Google or YouTube—may allow .
The end result : free speech is no longer free , and injustice persists .
So what we can do to end racial inequality , police brutality , and systemic injustice that does not involve sacrificing free speech on the altar of political correctness @ @ @ @ @ @ @ around , easily offended or afraid to cause offense .
Stop allowing the government and its architects to micromanage your life and curtail your freedoms .
Stop being a pawn in someone else ’ s game .
Find your own voice .
Give voice to your own outrage .
Speak truth to power nonviolently .
And throughout it all , love your enemies and put that love into action .
That last point , to love your enemies , is the hardest of all , yet it was the principle that Jesus Christ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ your enemies , bless them that curse you , do good to them that hate you , and pray for them that despitefully use you.
” This principle was also at the core of Martin Luther King Jr. ’ s efforts to combat racism and injustice .
In fact , King delivered an entire sermon on what it means to love one ’ s enemies even when they continue to wrong you .
King was not speaking in abstracts .
This was a man who , despite having faced down water cannons , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and prejudice and assassination attempts , still insisted that “ mass non-violent resistance based on the principle of love ” was his best weapon .
The first step in loving one ’ s enemies , says King , is to discover the element of good in them .
“ Within the best of us , there is some evil , and within the worst of us , there is some good .
When we come to see this , we take a different attitude toward individuals .
The person who hates you most @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the nation that hates you most has some good in it ; even the race that hates you most has some good in it… There is an element of goodness that he can never slough off .
Discover the element of good in your enemy .
And as you seek to hate him , find the center of goodness and place your attention there and you will take a new attitude.
” Second , says King , focus on defeating evil systems , rather than vanquishing individuals caught up in an evil system @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Love is understanding , redemptive goodwill for all men , so that you love everybody , because God loves them .
You refuse to do anything that will defeat an individual , because you have agape [ the love of God working in the lives of men ] in your soul .
And here you come to the point that you love the individual who does the evil deed , while hating the deed that the person does .
This is what Jesus means when he says , ‘ Love your enemy.
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ it .
When the opportunity presents itself when you can defeat your enemy , you must not do it.
” Third , says Kings , cut off the chain of hate and the chain of evil in the universe with love .
“ If I hit you and you hit me and I hit you back and you hit me back and go on , you see , that goes on ad infinitum .
It just never ends… And that is the tragedy of hate , that it doesn ’ t cut it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of hate and evil in the universe… Men must see that force begets force , hate begets hate , toughness begets toughness .
And it is all a descending spiral , ultimately ending in destruction for all and everybody.
” Fourth , says King , hate ends up in tragic , neurotic responses .
“ Hate at any point is a cancer that gnaws away at the very vital center of your life and your existence .
It is like eroding acid that eats away the best and the objective center of your @ @ @ @ @ @ @ because hate destroys the hater as well as the hated.
” Instead , use love to redeem and transform those who would do you harm .
King ’ s conclusion to his sermon is a timeless message , sent through time , to our present age .
As I make clear in my book Battlefield America : The War on the American People , we are still fighting the triple evils of racism , poverty and militarism .
We are still struggling to find our way in the world dominated by corporate greed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ being manipulated into focusing our anger on flawed individuals rather than working to defeat evil establishments .
Sixty-three years later , King ’ s words are still relevant :

“Violence creates many more social problems than it solves…. If they succumb to the temptation of using violence in their struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and our chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos. Violence isn’t the way.”—Martin Luther King Jr.
Marches, protests, boycotts, sit-ins: these are nonviolent tactics that work.
Looting, vandalism, the destruction of public property, intimidation tactics aimed at eliminating anything that might cause offense to the establishment: these tactics of mobs and bullies may work in the short term, but they will only give rise to greater injustices in the long term.
George Floyd’s death sparked the flame of outrage over racial injustice and police brutality, but political correctness is creating a raging inferno that threatens to engulf the nation.
In Boston, racial justice activists beheaded a statue of Christopher Columbus. Protesters in Richmond, Va., used ropes to topple that city’s Columbus statue, spray-painted it, set it on fire and tossed it into a lake. Columbus’ crimes against indigenous peoples throughout the Americas are well known.
In San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, protesters tore down a statue of Francis Scott Key, who penned “The Star-Spangled Banner.” Key was also a slaveholding lawyer who tried to prosecute abolistionists vocally opposing slavery.
Activists who object to Yale University being named after its founder Elihu Yale, a slave trader, are lobbying to re-name the school.
Students at Harvard University want to re-name Mather House, one of the dorms named after Increase Mather, the college president from 1685 to 1692 and a slave owner.
Administrators at Woodrow Wilson High School in Camden, N.J.—named after the nation’s 28th president, who guided the nation through World War I while upholding segregation policies—are now looking for a new name.
In an apparent bid to be more culturally sensitive, Land O’ Lakes has removed from its packaging the image of a Native American princess that had been featured on its products for a hundred years.
The distributors of Aunt Jemima Pancake Syrup, Uncle Ben’s Rice and Mrs. Butterworth’s Syrup have also announced plans to re-brand and re-name their products in an effort to avoid perpetuating racist stereotypes. Cream of Wheat is considering what to do about the smiling black chef that graces its breakfast porridge (his visage has been criticized for being stereotypically subservient).
Not to be outdone, Dreyer’s Ice Cream plans to retire the 99-year-old name for its Eskimo Pie frozen confections on a stick because “Eskimo” has been denounced as a racist nomenclature used by “colonizers to Arctic regions to refer to Inuit and Yupik people.”
Gone with the Wind, the Civil War epic that won 10 Academy Awards and has long been considered one of the greatest films of all times, was temporarily pulled from HBOMax’s streaming service in response to concerns that it depicts “ethnic and racial prejudices” that “were wrong then and are wrong today.”
The University of Georgia’s marching band has removed “Tara’s Theme,” the opening orchestral theme from Gone with the Wind, from its musical repertoire.
What is the end sum of all these actions?
What started as a movement to denounce police brutality in the wake of George Floyd’s death at the hands of killer cops has become a free-for-all campaign to rid the country of any monument, literal or figurative, to anyone who may have at any time in history expressed a racist thought, exhibited racist behavior, or existed within a racist society.
The police state has got us exactly where it wants us: distracted, distraught and divided.
While protesters topple statues of men with racist pasts who are long dead, unarmed Americans continue to be killed by militarized police trained to shoot first and ask questions later.
While activists use their collective might to pressure corporations to rebrand products in a more racially sensitive fashion, the American police state—aided and abetted by the Corporate State—continues to disproportionately target blacks, Hispanics and other minorities.
And while politically correct censorship is attempting to sanitize the public sphere of words and images that denigrate minorities, it is not doing anything to rid hearts and minds of racism.
Muzzling speech, censoring discourse, erasing history: that’s the worst possible antidote.
As Rod Serling, creator of the Twilight Zone, concluded in the “Deaths-Head Revisited” episode:
“All the Dachaus must remain standing. The Dachaus, the Belsens, the Buchenwalds, the Auschwitzes, all of them. They must remain standing because they are a monument to a moment in time when some men decided to turn the earth into a graveyard. Into it, they shoveled all of their reason, their logic, their knowledge, but worst of all, their conscience. And the moment we forget this, the moment we cease to be haunted by its remembrance, then we become the gravediggers.”
In other words, what we need is more speech, more discourse, and a greater understanding of history and the evils perpetrated in the name of conquest, profit and racial supremacy. Because if we bury the mistakes of the past under a sanitized present, if we fail to at least provide context to the past, we risk allowing the government to repeat those past mistakes—rewritten for a new age—and no one will be the wiser.
It has happened already: we have allowed the government strip people of their humanity; to segregate them into polarized classes; to treat them as chattel; to deny them basic human rights; and to reduce them to figures on a ledger sheet.
Censoring speech—toppling monuments—kowtowing to political correctness—is not the answer to what ails this nation.
As long as we focus on words and ignore the systemic injustices that undergird the words, the disease will spread.
As long as we continue to allow the most controversial issues of our day—gay rights, abortion, race, religion, sexuality, political correctness, police brutality, et al.—to serve as battlegrounds for those who claim to believe in freedom of speech but only when it favors the views and positions they support, we will all eventually lose.
Silencing unpopular viewpoints with which the majority might disagree—whether it’s by shouting them down, censoring them, muzzling them, or criminalizing them—only empowers the controllers of the Deep State.
Consider some of the kinds of speech being targeted for censorship or outright elimination.
Offensive, politically incorrect and “unsafe” speech: Disguised as tolerance, civility and love, political correctness has resulted in the chilling of free speech and the demonizing of viewpoints that run counter to the cultural elite. Consequently, college campuses have become hotbeds of student-led censorship, trigger warnings, microaggressions, and “red light” speech policies targeting anything that might cause someone to feel uncomfortable, unsafe or offended.
Bullying, intimidating speech: Warning that “school bullies become tomorrow’s hate crimes defendants,” the Justice Department has led the way in urging schools to curtail bullying, going so far as to classify “teasing” as a form of “bullying,” and “rude” or “hurtful” “text messages” as “cyberbullying.”
Hateful speech: Hate speech—speech that attacks a person or group on the basis of attributes such as gender, ethnic origin, religion, race, disability, or sexual orientation—is the primary candidate for online censorship. Corporate internet giants Google, Twitter and Facebook are in the process of determining what kinds of speech will be permitted online and what will be deleted.
Dangerous, anti-government speech: As part of its ongoing war on “extremism,” the government partnered with the tech industry to establish a task force to counter online “propaganda” by terrorists hoping to recruit support or plan attacks (the program started under President Obama). In this way, anyone who criticizes the government online can be considered an extremist and will have their content reported to government agencies for further investigation or deleted. They might even find themselves pulled from their homes, arrested by the police and thrown into a mental hospital for expressing their opposition to government policies, as happened to Marine Brandon Raub.
The police state could not ask for a better citizenry than one that carries out its own censorship.
It’s a brilliant ploy, with the added bonus that while the citizenry remains focused on and distrustful of each other, they’re incapable of presenting a united front against the threats posed by the government and its cabal of Constitution-destroying agencies and corporate partners.
The antidote to intolerance is more tolerance.
What this requires is opening the door to more speech not less, even if that speech is offensive to some.
Understanding that freedom for those in the unpopular minority constitutes the ultimate tolerance in a free society, James Madison, the author of the Bill of Rights, fought for a First Amendment that protected the “minority” against the majority, ensuring that even in the face of overwhelming pressure, a minority of one—even one who espouses distasteful viewpoints—would still have the right to speak freely, pray freely, assemble freely, challenge the government freely, and broadcast his views in the media freely.
The First Amendment is a steam valve. It allows people to speak their minds, air their grievances and contribute to a larger dialogue that hopefully results in a more just world.
When there is no steam valve—when there is no one to hear what the people have to say—frustration builds, anger grows and people become more volatile and desperate to force a conversation. By bottling up dissent, we have created a pressure cooker of stifled misery and discontent that is now bubbling over and fomenting even more hate, distrust and paranoia among portions of the populace.
By becoming so fearfully polite, careful to avoid offense, and largely unwilling to be labeled intolerant, hateful or closed-minded that we’ve eliminated words, phrases and symbols from public discourse, we have entered into an egotistical, insulated, narcissistic era in which free speech has become regulated speech: to be celebrated when it reflects the values of the majority and tolerated otherwise, unless it moves so far beyond our political, religious and socio-economic comfort zones as to be rendered dangerous and unacceptable.
Protest laws, free speech zones, bubble zones, trespass zones, anti-bullying legislation, zero tolerance policies, hate crime laws and a host of other legalistic maladies dreamed up by politicians and prosecutors (and championed by those who want to suppress speech with which they might disagree) have conspired to corrode our core freedoms, purportedly for our own good.
On paper—at least according to the U.S. Constitution—we are technically free to speak.
In reality, however, we are only as free to speak as a government official—or corporate entities such as Facebook, Google or YouTube—may allow.
The end result: free speech is no longer free, and injustice persists.
So what we can do to end racial inequality, police brutality, and systemic injustice that does not involve sacrificing free speech on the altar of political correctness or adopting violent tactics?
Stop tiptoeing around, easily offended or afraid to cause offense. Stop allowing the government and its architects to micromanage your life and curtail your freedoms. Stop being a pawn in someone else’s game.
Find your own voice. Give voice to your own outrage. Speak truth to power nonviolently. And throughout it all, love your enemies and put that love into action.
That last point, to love your enemies, is the hardest of all, yet it was the principle that Jesus Christ spoke of most often: “Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them that despitefully use you.”
This principle was also at the core of Martin Luther King Jr.’s efforts to combat racism and injustice. In fact, King delivered an entire sermon on what it means to love one’s enemies even when they continue to wrong you.
King was not speaking in abstracts. This was a man who, despite having faced down water cannons, police dogs and police brutality, intimidation and prejudice and assassination attempts, still insisted that “mass non-violent resistance based on the principle of love” was his best weapon.
The first step in loving one’s enemies, says King, is to discover the element of good in them. “Within the best of us, there is some evil, and within the worst of us, there is some good. When we come to see this, we take a different attitude toward individuals. The person who hates you most has some good in him; even the nation that hates you most has some good in it; even the race that hates you most has some good in it… There is an element of goodness that he can never slough off. Discover the element of good in your enemy. And as you seek to hate him, find the center of goodness and place your attention there and you will take a new attitude.”
Second, says King, focus on defeating evil systems, rather than vanquishing individuals caught up in an evil system. “Love is greater than like. Love is understanding, redemptive goodwill for all men, so that you love everybody, because God loves them. You refuse to do anything that will defeat an individual, because you have agape [the love of God working in the lives of men] in your soul. And here you come to the point that you love the individual who does the evil deed, while hating the deed that the person does. This is what Jesus means when he says, ‘Love your enemy.’ This is the way to do it. When the opportunity presents itself when you can defeat your enemy, you must not do it.”
Third, says Kings, cut off the chain of hate and the chain of evil in the universe with love. “If I hit you and you hit me and I hit you back and you hit me back and go on, you see, that goes on ad infinitum. It just never ends… And that is the tragedy of hate, that it doesn’t cut it off. It only intensifies the existence of hate and evil in the universe… Men must see that force begets force, hate begets hate, toughness begets toughness. And it is all a descending spiral, ultimately ending in destruction for all and everybody.”
Fourth, says King, hate ends up in tragic, neurotic responses. “Hate at any point is a cancer that gnaws away at the very vital center of your life and your existence. It is like eroding acid that eats away the best and the objective center of your life. So Jesus says love, because hate destroys the hater as well as the hated.” Instead, use love to redeem and transform those who would do you harm.
Lastly, don’t resort to violence.
King’s conclusion to his sermon is a timeless message, sent through time, to our present age. As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People , we are still fighting the triple evils of racism, poverty and militarism. We are still struggling to find our way in the world dominated by corporate greed and political ambition. We are still being manipulated into focusing our anger on flawed individuals rather than working to defeat evil establishments.
Sixty-three years later, King’s words are still relevant:
“Our world is in transition now. Our whole world is facing a revolution. Our nation is facing a revolution. History unfortunately leaves some people oppressed and some people oppressors. And there are … ways that individuals who are oppressed can deal with their oppression. One of them is to rise up against their oppressors with physical violence and corroding hatred. But there is another way. And that is to organize mass non-violent resistance based on the principle of love… This is the only way. And our civilization must discover that. Individuals must discover that as they deal with other individuals… [T]o a power-drunk generation … love is the only way… to a generation depending on nuclear and atomic energy, a generation depending on physical violence…love is the only creative, redemptive, transforming power in the universe…. [T]hrough the power of this love somewhere, men of the most recalcitrant bent will be transformed… because we had the power to love our enemies, to bless those persons that cursed us, to even decide to be good to those persons who hated us, and we even prayed for those persons who despitefully used us.”
Article posted with permission from John Whitehead


thewashingtonstandard--2020-06-24--Minnesota State Rep: Antifa & Muslim Groups Plan To ‘Police Minneapolis Under Muslim Rule’

As the city of Minneapolis moves to dismantle its police force , Minnesota state Rep. Steve Green on Tuesday stated the obvious that virtually everyone else has been tiptoeing around and pretending isn ’ t there : “ What you ’ re looking at , in my humble opinion , is communism moving into Minneapolis and St. Paul.
” And not just Communism , but the Leftist/Islamic alliance .
Green asserted that Antifa and Muslim organizations plan to “ police Minneapolis under Muslim rule.
” Those who scoff at such a notion simply aren ’ t paying attention to recent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ two weeks ago to abolish the city ’ s police force .
Its plans beyond that have so far been sketchy , but something is going to have to be put in place as an alternative to the police .
The New York Times noted that “ many have called for relying more on self-policing by the community , in the way attendees often do at events like music festivals , with the police stepping in only when a true emergency arises .
Some cited as an example how , in the days @ @ @ @ @ @ @ teams made up of dozens of members of the American Indian Movement patrolled streets and directed traffic in the Little Earth housing community in Minneapolis.
” If members of the local community end up policing Minneapolis , what might that look like ?
Back in 2016 , a series of Minneapolis Muslims in man-on-the-street interviews stated matter-of-factly that they preferred Islamic law over American law .
We have seen Sharia patrols in Germany , Britain , and even New York City , where the Muslim Community Patrol ( MCP ) is decked out @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Police Department uniforms , and drives cars carefully designed to look like NYPD cars , to enforce “ fundamentals of the Sharia.
” Muslim leader Siraj Wahhaj explained what that meant : “ The mosques need protection and the MCP cars can help stop people who were not following the rules and regulations of the sharia , doing what they ’ re not supposed to be doing , but still doing it.
” According to a Muslim involved with the MCP , this would involve stopping “ Muslim women being out after dark @ @ @ @ @ @ @ corners doing dope , Muslims drinking liquor , ” and enforcing , “ basically , the fundamentals of the Sharia.
” If such a community patrol is launched in Minneapolis , it is likely to focus on the same things , but not do anything about the fact that the 5th Congressional District in Minneapolis , Rep. Ilhan Omar ’ s district , is the jihad terror recruitment capital of the United States .
Stopping young Muslims from engaging in jihad activity is unlikely to be a high priority for a group that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Sharia calls upon Muslims to wage war against and subjugate unbelievers .
The Sharia enforcers ’ hard-Left allies in Antifa would have no problem with this .
Islam historically has never had any difficulty coexisting with authoritarian governments ; in fact , it is free republics that have never proved to be compatible with Islamic law .
Consequently , Steve Green ’ s words don ’ t appear farfetched at all .
The unholy alliance of Leftists and Islamic supremacists sees that its moment is now , and is grabbing all it can @ @ @ @ @ @ @ really could end up under Islamic rule , with the blessing and cooperation of the hard-Left ?
According to the Minnesota Reformer , another Minnesota state Representative , Mohamud Noor of Minneapolis , did not deny the truth of Green ’ s statements .
Instead , when asked about them , he “ said rather than talk about things that inflame people and create division , Minnesota needs to address the challenge before it.
” And of course , talk of Antifa/Islamic rule in Minneapolis might “ inflame people , ” so keep @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , if you oppose such an eventuality , not if you favor it .
Said Noor : “ Minnesota is awake .
They understand the challenges ; they have been hearing the challenges for far too long .
And we can ’ t wait any longer.
” Steve Green may turn out to have been a prophetic voice far sooner than anyone expects .
And if any free people who may still be in Minneapolis want to head this off , the time is now to “ inflame people ” – not to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Left , but to stand up decisively now and stop the power-grab of these insidious totalitarian forces .

As the city of Minneapolis moves to dismantle its police force, Minnesota state Rep. Steve Green on Tuesday stated the obvious that virtually everyone else has been tiptoeing around and pretending isn’t there: “What you’re looking at, in my humble opinion, is communism moving into Minneapolis and St. Paul.” And not just Communism, but the Leftist/Islamic alliance. Green asserted that Antifa and Muslim organizations plan to “police Minneapolis under Muslim rule.” Those who scoff at such a notion simply aren’t paying attention to recent developments.
The Minneapolis City Council voted two weeks ago to abolish the city’s police force. Its plans beyond that have so far been sketchy, but something is going to have to be put in place as an alternative to the police. The New York Times noted that “many have called for relying more on self-policing by the community, in the way attendees often do at events like music festivals, with the police stepping in only when a true emergency arises. Some cited as an example how, in the days after the killing of Mr. Floyd, teams made up of dozens of members of the American Indian Movement patrolled streets and directed traffic in the Little Earth housing community in Minneapolis.”
If members of the local community end up policing Minneapolis, what might that look like? Back in 2016, a series of Minneapolis Muslims in man-on-the-street interviews stated matter-of-factly that they preferred Islamic law over American law. We have seen Sharia patrols in Germany, Britain, and even New York City, where the Muslim Community Patrol (MCP) is decked out in uniforms that strong resemble New York Police Department uniforms, and drives cars carefully designed to look like NYPD cars, to enforce “fundamentals of the Sharia.”
Muslim leader Siraj Wahhaj explained what that meant: “The mosques need protection and the MCP cars can help stop people who were not following the rules and regulations of the sharia, doing what they’re not supposed to be doing, but still doing it.” According to a Muslim involved with the MCP, this would involve stopping “Muslim women being out after dark, Muslim men hanging out in the corners doing dope, Muslims drinking liquor,” and enforcing, “basically, the fundamentals of the Sharia.”
If such a community patrol is launched in Minneapolis, it is likely to focus on the same things, but not do anything about the fact that the 5th Congressional District in Minneapolis, Rep. Ilhan Omar’s district, is the jihad terror recruitment capital of the United States. Stopping young Muslims from engaging in jihad activity is unlikely to be a high priority for a group that is dedicated to enforcing Sharia, since Sharia calls upon Muslims to wage war against and subjugate unbelievers.
The Sharia enforcers’ hard-Left allies in Antifa would have no problem with this. Islam historically has never had any difficulty coexisting with authoritarian governments; in fact, it is free republics that have never proved to be compatible with Islamic law. Consequently, Steve Green’s words don’t appear farfetched at all. The unholy alliance of Leftists and Islamic supremacists sees that its moment is now, and is grabbing all it can.
How likely is it that Minneapolis really could end up under Islamic rule, with the blessing and cooperation of the hard-Left? According to the Minnesota Reformer, another Minnesota state Representative, Mohamud Noor of Minneapolis, did not deny the truth of Green’s statements. Instead, when asked about them, he “said rather than talk about things that inflame people and create division, Minnesota needs to address the challenge before it.” And of course, talk of Antifa/Islamic rule in Minneapolis might “inflame people,” so keep quiet. Keep quiet, that is, if you oppose such an eventuality, not if you favor it. Said Noor: “Minnesota is awake. They understand the challenges; they have been hearing the challenges for far too long. And we can’t wait any longer.”
Steve Green may turn out to have been a prophetic voice far sooner than anyone expects. And if any free people who may still be in Minneapolis want to head this off, the time is now to “inflame people” – not to riot and destroy after the manner of the Left, but to stand up decisively now and stop the power-grab of these insidious totalitarian forces.
Article posted with permission from Robert Spencer


thewashingtonstandard--2020-06-24--The US Matrix:  How Government Is Seeking To Turn Us Into Widgets

The US Matrix : How Government Is Seeking To Turn Us Into Widgets The government is seeking to turn both us and our children from human beings , made in the image of God , to nothing more than widgets , or a Communist workforce , for their own gain and power .
How would HR 6415 help this Matrix -type scene play out ?
Breeding servants ( our children ) of the State ( and retraining adults ) through ‘ civics education.
’ And yes , this globalist , Communist , United Nations agenda continues on with extra force @ @ @ @ @ @ @ //www.ed.gov/news/press- releases/secretary-devos- launches-new-student-centered- grant-competition-spur-short- term-education-opportunities- entrepreneurship-and-economic- growth-america-reopens DeVos ’ s first press release for competitive student grants for workforce prep/jumpstart the economy post COVID-19 : DeVos ’ s second on the latest CTE aligned State ‘ winners ’ : https : //www.ed.gov/news/press- releases/secretary-devos- approves-six-additional- perkins-career-and-technical- education-state-plans If you really want to see how close to reality the Matrix is becoming : https : //matrix.fandom.com/ wiki/Headjack The National network for Perkins Funding ( based on every 5 to 17 year old in the country , regardless of school choice ) .
PF is what @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in .
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You can right click , and go straight to the article for the show ) : From May 2018 , the article where you can find the CTE Pledge each State must take .
From July 2018 ( just before the Strengthening CTE law was signed ) , I showed you how Congress passed the Bill by a voice vote , not a roll call vote .
From August 2018 , just what the new @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the federal government/lock in a national workforce/lock in an Executive Order for more apprenticeships , and SO much more .
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The US Matrix: How Government Is Seeking To Turn Us Into Widgets
The government is seeking to turn both us and our children from human beings, made in the image of God, to nothing more than widgets, or a Communist workforce, for their own gain and power. How would HR 6415 help this Matrix -type scene play out? Breeding servants (our children) of the State (and retraining adults) through ‘civics education.’ And yes, this globalist, Communist, United Nations agenda continues on with extra force under the current administration.
Articles are unlined and should be embedded links viewers/listeners can access. You can right click, and go straight to the article for the show):
From May 2018, the article where you can find the CTE Pledge each State must take.
From July 2018 (just before the Strengthening CTE law was signed), I showed you how Congress passed the Bill by a voice vote , not a roll call vote.
From August 2018, just what the new CTE law would actually do: expand the federal government/lock in a national workforce/lock in an Executive Order for more apprenticeships, and SO much more.
From Feb. 2020, ‘Ageless’ C.A.W.s (as young as 6 years old and up, for alignment/national economic gain).
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