thewashingtonstandard--2020-11-15--Wisconsin Voters File Lawsuit to Exclude Over 792,000 Votes in 3 Counties

The civil action ( pdf ) , filed on Thursday , alleges that there is “ sufficient evidence that illegal votes were counted ” in Milwaukee , Dane , and Menominee counties “ to change or place in doubt the results ” of the presidential election in the counties .
The voters asked the court to declare that the counties ’ results “ must be invalidated ” and to block the counties from certifying their results .
Biden ’ s Great Leap Forward : A split second in Wisconsin I live in Switzerland and was working at my computer the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was stunned to see the Fox election map suddenly do something completely unnatural : in a split second between 3 A.M. and 4 A.M. U.S. Central Time , the Wisconsin icon switched from light-red Trump to light-blue Biden .
In that same instant , the probability meter , which had been very accurate in 2016 , likewise jerked from a 77 % Trump likelihood to over 80 % Biden .
With Biden behind , at 3:42 A.M. on the night of the election bagged a net of 118,215 votes in a single massive @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Wisconsin Voters File Lawsuit to Exclude Over 792,000 Votes in 3 Counties Three voters in Wisconsin have filed a federal lawsuit seeking to exclude Nov. 3 election results in three of the state ’ s counties that helped push Joe Biden ahead of President Donald Trump .
The action , if successful , would invalidate over 792,000 votes cast across the state .
The civil action ( pdf ) , filed on Thursday , alleges that there is “ sufficient evidence that illegal votes were counted ” in Milwaukee , Dane , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ place in doubt the results ” of the presidential election in the counties .
The voters asked the court to declare that the counties ’ results “ must be invalidated ” and to block the counties from certifying their results .
All three counties lean heavily Democrat , with Milwaukee and Dane being among the most populous and heavily Democratic counties in the state .
For the three counties , Biden holds a lead of 365,289 votes over Trump .
In the state overall , Biden holds a lead of about 20,540 votes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at 48.9 percent as of Saturday .
The Trump campaign has signaled it will request a recount .
“ Certifying presidential electors without excluding certain counties would violate voters ’ fundamental right to vote by vote-dilution disenfranchisement , ” the suit said , citing the First and 14th Amendment protections .
The lawsuit stated : “ Because illegal votes dilute legal votes , the evidence establishes , and will establish , that the rights of voters have been violated by vote-dilution disenfranchisement .
Consequently , the presidential election results from the counties identified @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reported totals for presidential electors from this state.
” The suit asserted , citing past court rulings , that there is fraud risk inherent in mail-in ballots , and that voter fraud occurs more with mailed ballots than in-person ballots .
It points out that Wisconsin “ greatly expanded ” the scope of mail-in ballots in 2020 amid the CCP ( Chinese Communist Party ) virus pandemic .
Plaintiffs noted that the “ sudden flood of mailed ballots ” this year meant that election workers in general had “ less ability to carefully @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , creating a substantial risk that fraudulent votes will be counted and vote-dilution disenfranchisement will occur.
” The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin Green Bay Division .
The plaintiffs are from Door County , Brown County , and Oconto County .
The Wisconsin Democratic Party on Friday filed a motion to intervene ( pdf ) .
The lawsuit states that plaintiffs “ possess advanced technical capability to conduct statistical analyses identifying errors and anomalies such [ as ] double votes , votes by non-registered @ @ @ @ @ @ @ deceased or moved out of state , and the like.
” “ Plaintiffs have persons with such expertise and data-analysis software already in place who have begun preliminary analysis of available data to which final data , such as the official poll list , will be added and reports generated , ” the suit said , suggesting that the results will show that “ sufficient illegal ballots were included in the results to change or place in doubt the Nov. 3 presidential election results.
” They said that the expert report will “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ casting multiple ballots , were deceased , had moved , or were otherwise not qualified to vote in the Nov. 3 presidential election , along with evidence of illegal ballot stuffing , ballot harvesting , and other illegal voting.
” The plaintiffs are seeking “ immediate production of registration , election , and other data to conduct and present those analyses to the court.
” Plaintiffs also took issue with a 238 percent increase—from 72,000 last year to 243,900 ahead of the Nov. 3 election—in a type of absentee ballot registration where voters @ @ @ @ @ @ @ type of registration would mean that the voter wouldn ’ t need to present the ID normally required of a standard absentee ballot .
Wisconsin law regarding voter ID provides exceptions for individuals who declare as “ indefinitely confined ” either due to age , physical illness , infirmity , or disability , on their absentee ballots .
The suit alleged that the town of Menominee in Menominee County in early spring “ encouraged ” voters to vote absentee and provided instructions ( pdf ) that said “ indefinitely confined ” voters “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ID.
” The suit also noted that Dane County and Milwaukee County earlier this year had “ openly advised voters to indicate that they are ‘ indefinitely confined.
’ ” All three counties saw notable increases in “ indefinitely confined ” voters .
The Republican Party of Wisconsin said earlier this year that the clerks ’ advice in the respective counties were “ willfully ignoring ” state election law , and the Wisconsin Supreme Court subsequently ruled that the counties ’ advice were “ legally incorrect.
” The plaintiffs also noted the situation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ addresses on the ballot envelope .
Under Wisconsin law , a ballot can not be counted if the witness ’ s address is not present .
However , the plaintiffs noted how the Wisconsin Elections Commission had issued guidance ( pdf ) saying that the issue could be cured by the clerk without the witness appearing .
The suit argued that the clerks “ have no authority to accept the ballot , ” and cites how Wisconsin law states ( pdf ) that “ if a certificate is missing the address of a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ counted.
” The suit also pointed out several individuals , identified by their initials only , who alleged that they encountered voting irregularities , which included having received unsolicited ballots , or having received more absentee ballots than expected , and finding names of deceased voters who , according to myvotewi.gov , cast an absentee vote .
A number of media outlets declared Democratic nominee Joe Biden president-elect on Nov. 7 .
President Donald Trump has alleged voter fraud and said any declarations of victory are premature , without specifying how widespread the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ launched multiple legal challenges in Pennsylvania , Wisconsin , Georgia , Arizona , Nevada , and Michigan , over a variety of alleged voting irregularities .
States face a Dec. 8 deadline for resolving election disputes and certifying presidential electors .
Electoral College votes will be cast on Dec. 14 .
As such , the plaintiffs in the case are seeking a quick decision from the court .
The Epoch Times won ’ t declare a winner of the 2020 presidential election until all results are certified and any legal challenges are resolved @

The civil action (pdf), filed on Thursday, alleges that there is “sufficient evidence that illegal votes were counted” in Milwaukee, Dane, and Menominee counties “to change or place in doubt the results” of the presidential election in the counties. The voters asked the court to declare that the counties’ results “must be invalidated” and to block the counties from certifying their results.
Biden’s Great Leap Forward: A split second in Wisconsin
I live in Switzerland and was working at my computer the morning after the U.S. election when I was stunned to see the Fox election map suddenly do something completely unnatural: in a split second between 3 A.M. and 4 A.M. U.S. Central Time, the Wisconsin icon switched from light-red Trump to light-blue Biden. In that same instant, the probability meter, which had been very accurate in 2016, likewise jerked from a 77% Trump likelihood to over 80% Biden. With Biden behind, at 3:42 A.M. on the night of the election bagged a net of 118,215 votes in a single massive data dump to take a narrow lead.
Wisconsin Voters File Lawsuit to Exclude Over 792,000 Votes in 3 Counties
Three voters in Wisconsin have filed a federal lawsuit seeking to exclude Nov. 3 election results in three of the state’s counties that helped push Joe Biden ahead of President Donald Trump. The action, if successful, would invalidate over 792,000 votes cast across the state.
By Mimi Nguyen Ly, The Epcoh Times, November 14, 2020:
The civil action (pdf), filed on Thursday, alleges that there is “sufficient evidence that illegal votes were counted” in Milwaukee, Dane, and Menominee counties “to change or place in doubt the results” of the presidential election in the counties. The voters asked the court to declare that the counties’ results “must be invalidated” and to block the counties from certifying their results.
All three counties lean heavily Democrat, with Milwaukee and Dane being among the most populous and heavily Democratic counties in the state. For the three counties, Biden holds a lead of 365,289 votes over Trump. In the state overall, Biden holds a lead of about 20,540 votes at 49.6 percent, compared to Trump at 48.9 percent as of Saturday. The Trump campaign has signaled it will request a recount.
“Certifying presidential electors without excluding certain counties would violate voters’ fundamental right to vote by vote-dilution disenfranchisement,” the suit said, citing the First and 14th Amendment protections.
The lawsuit stated: “Because illegal votes dilute legal votes, the evidence establishes, and will establish, that the rights of voters have been violated by vote-dilution disenfranchisement. Consequently, the presidential election results from the counties identified should not be included in certified and reported totals for presidential electors from this state.”
The suit asserted, citing past court rulings, that there is fraud risk inherent in mail-in ballots, and that voter fraud occurs more with mailed ballots than in-person ballots. It points out that Wisconsin “greatly expanded” the scope of mail-in ballots in 2020 amid the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus pandemic.
Plaintiffs noted that the “sudden flood of mailed ballots” this year meant that election workers in general had “less ability to carefully review them to screen out fraudulent ones, creating a substantial risk that fraudulent votes will be counted and vote-dilution disenfranchisement will occur.”
The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin Green Bay Division. The plaintiffs are from Door County, Brown County, and Oconto County. The Wisconsin Democratic Party on Friday filed a motion to intervene (pdf).
Data Analysis
The lawsuit states that plaintiffs “possess advanced technical capability to conduct statistical analyses identifying errors and anomalies such [as] double votes, votes by non-registered persons, votes by persons who are deceased or moved out of state, and the like.”
“Plaintiffs have persons with such expertise and data-analysis software already in place who have begun preliminary analysis of available data to which final data, such as the official poll list, will be added and reports generated,” the suit said, suggesting that the results will show that “sufficient illegal ballots were included in the results to change or place in doubt the Nov. 3 presidential election results.”
They said that the expert report will “identify persons who cast votes illegally by casting multiple ballots, were deceased, had moved, or were otherwise not qualified to vote in the Nov. 3 presidential election, along with evidence of illegal ballot stuffing, ballot harvesting, and other illegal voting.”
The plaintiffs are seeking “immediate production of registration, election, and other data to conduct and present those analyses to the court.”
‘Indefinitely Confined’ Not Requiring Voter ID
Plaintiffs also took issue with a 238 percent increase—from 72,000 last year to 243,900 ahead of the Nov. 3 election—in a type of absentee ballot registration where voters self-report as “indefinitely confined.” This type of registration would mean that the voter wouldn’t need to present the ID normally required of a standard absentee ballot.
Wisconsin law regarding voter ID provides exceptions for individuals who declare as “indefinitely confined” either due to age, physical illness, infirmity, or disability, on their absentee ballots.
The suit alleged that the town of Menominee in Menominee County in early spring “encouraged” voters to vote absentee and provided instructions (pdf) that said “indefinitely confined” voters “are not required to provide a photo ID.” The suit also noted that Dane County and Milwaukee County earlier this year had “openly advised voters to indicate that they are ‘indefinitely confined.’”
All three counties saw notable increases in “indefinitely confined” voters.
The Republican Party of Wisconsin said earlier this year that the clerks’ advice in the respective counties were “willfully ignoring” state election law, and the Wisconsin Supreme Court subsequently ruled that the counties’ advice were “legally incorrect.”
Other Issues
The plaintiffs also noted the situation surrounding absentee ballot witness signatures and their addresses on the ballot envelope.
Under Wisconsin law, a ballot cannot be counted if the witness’s address is not present. However, the plaintiffs noted how the Wisconsin Elections Commission had issued guidance (pdf) saying that the issue could be cured by the clerk without the witness appearing.
The suit argued that the clerks “have no authority to accept the ballot,” and cites how Wisconsin law states (pdf) that “if a certificate is missing the address of a witness, the ballot may not be counted.”
The suit also pointed out several individuals, identified by their initials only, who alleged that they encountered voting irregularities, which included having received unsolicited ballots, or having received more absentee ballots than expected, and finding names of deceased voters who, according to myvotewi.gov, cast an absentee vote.
A number of media outlets declared Democratic nominee Joe Biden president-elect on Nov. 7. President Donald Trump has alleged voter fraud and said any declarations of victory are premature, without specifying how widespread the alleged cases are. His campaign has launched multiple legal challenges in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Georgia, Arizona, Nevada, and Michigan, over a variety of alleged voting irregularities.
States face a Dec. 8 deadline for resolving election disputes and certifying presidential electors. Electoral College votes will be cast on Dec. 14. As such, the plaintiffs in the case are seeking a quick decision from the court.
The Epoch Times won’t declare a winner of the 2020 presidential election until all results are certified and any legal challenges are resolved.
Article posted with permission from Pamela Geller


thewashingtonstandard--2020-11-15--The Second Lockdown Is Already Here – Are You Standing Against It?

The Second Lockdown Is Already Here – Are You Standing Against It ?
Almost half of the United States has again restricted movement and called for measures to slow down the spread of COVID-19 .
After a week straight of more than 100,000 cases per day being diagnosed across the country , the second lockdown of America has begun .
It ’ s important to note that it doesn ’ t really matter whether you personally believe that COVID-19 is risky or not .
The issue that all of us face , regardless of our own belief system , is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
And if you think the last lockdowns damaged the United States , Round # 2 has the potential for even more extreme repercussions .
Consider this your early warning to go pick up any last-minute supplies at the store while you still can .
These are the states that have instituted new lockdown measures .
Best Life Online reports that governors in 22 states are beginning to enforce measures like curfews and the closures of “ non-essential ” businesses .
If you live in one of the following states , you may @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Go here to get the details for each of the states mentioned above .
Remember that the last time the United States faced lockdowns , things started off gradually as well .
It wasn ’ t long before Americans were asked to stay home “ for two weeks to flatten the curve.
” Just in time for the holidays Some states are already issuing guidance for the holiday season and making rules about how many people you can invite to your get-togethers .
California Governor Gavin Newsom offered the following guidance for your @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sounds like a lot of fun .
Recommended Book : Snitch Culture : How Citizens Are Turned Into The Eyes And Ears Of The State For those who are eager to earn their brown shirts early , you probably won ’ t have long to wait .
I ’ m sure that some kind of system will be set up in certain states to make it easy for neighbors to snitch on each other in the event that one family presumes to invite more people to the Thanksgiving festivities than are “ allowed.
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ further erode social trust if we aren ’ t already having enough issues in our communities .
We could be facing even more strenuous restrictions soon .
Currently , this is happening on a state-by-state basis , but it ’ s possible we could be looking at restrictions on a national level .
When/If ( depending on your political outlook ) Joe Biden is inaugurated in January , it may not take long for an even more extreme lockdown to occur .
But don ’ t worry , they ’ ll give you @ @ @ @ @ @ @ infectious-disease specialist and a member of Mr. Biden ’ s recently appointed COVID-19 advisory team , spoke with Yahoo !
Finance on Wednesday about measures the U.S. could take to curtail the virus ’ spread .
One option he said is worth considering : Imposing a four-to-six week shutdown of the country while providing workers , small business owners and local governments with hundreds of billions in financial aid to tide them over , he noted .
“ We have a big pool of money out there that we could borrow , at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ government .
We could pay for a package right now to cover all of the lost wages for individual workers , losses to small companies and medium-sized companies , for cities , states , county governments , ” Osterholm said in the interview .
He continued : “ If we did that then we could lock down for four to six weeks , and if we did that , we could drive the numbers down , like they did in Asia , like they did in New Zealand and Australia.
” ( source @ @ @ @ @ @ @ national debt infinite ?
That ’ ll definitely help the United States economy recover .
It ’ s interesting to note that Dr. Anthony Fauci staunchly opposes another round of national lockdowns .
Not only did the last lockdown cause massive economic problems and continuing unemployment , but it also caused a wave of mental health consequences that affected even prepared families .
Compliance will be an issue for the government .
According to a new Gallup Poll , published on November 11th , many Americans will not readily comply with a new @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Americans in Gallup ’ s latest polling on the COVID-19 pandemic , 49 % , say they would be very likely to stay home for a month if public health officials recommended it due to a serious outbreak of the virus in their community .
This contrasts with solid majorities in the spring who said they were likely to comply with such shelter-in-place advice , including a high of 67 % in late March/early April .
Another 18 % of Americans say they would be somewhat likely to follow public health officials @ @ @ @ @ @ @ month , bringing the total inclined to comply to the majority level .
But a full third say they would be very or somewhat unlikely to comply , about double the rate seen in the spring .
( source ) Other countries have dealt with non-compliance through increasingly large fines and even the threat of jail time .
It remains to be seen how the United States would handle such a revolt .
Some folks still aren ’ t quite cluing in on the fact that the second round of lockdowns has already @ @ @ @ @ @ @ acquire supplies if you don ’ t delay .
If you are not already prepared , there ’ s no time to waste .
Go here to get a FREE copy of The Prepper ’ s Workbook – the exercises in that PDF will help you get organized fast .
Remember last time around how quickly the shelves emptied ?
Yeah .
So will everyone else .
Even the non-preppers .
So get out there and get prepped .
If you wait until your state announces severe lockdown restrictions , it will be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ there will be purchase limits and angry crowds all trying to do the same thing .
If you ’ ve discovered that shortages already exist , check out these less common places to get supplies .
As well , here are some things to buy when the things you want are already sold out .
Make sure you have food , water , prescription medications , hygiene supplies , and cleaning products .
Use what you learned last time around to get better prepared this time .
We here at The Organic Prepper @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Don ’ t rely solely on mail order .
You may find a month down the road that your supplies are not coming .
Shop locally , and shop now .
Do you have any advice for others ?
Is your area restricting activities or rationing supplies ?
Will you handle this round of lockdowns differently than you did the first ?
Share what ’ s going on in your neck of the woods in the comments section .

The Second Lockdown Is Already Here – Are You Standing Against It?
Almost half of the United States has again restricted movement and called for measures to slow down the spread of COVID-19. After a week straight of more than 100,000 cases per day being diagnosed across the country, the second lockdown of America has begun.
It’s important to note that it doesn’t really matter whether you personally believe that COVID-19 is risky or not. The issue that all of us face, regardless of our own belief system, is that another round of lockdowns is coming. And if you think the last lockdowns damaged the United States, Round #2 has the potential for even more extreme repercussions.
Consider this your early warning to go pick up any last-minute supplies at the store while you still can.
These are the states that have instituted new lockdown measures.
Best Life Online reports that governors in 22 states are beginning to enforce measures like curfews and the closures of “non-essential” businesses. If you live in one of the following states, you may find that restrictions are increasing quickly.
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Florida
Idaho
Illinois
Iowa
Kentucky
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Nebraska
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
Texas
Utah
Wisconsin
Go here to get the details for each of the states mentioned above.
Remember that the last time the United States faced lockdowns, things started off gradually as well. It wasn’t long before Americans were asked to stay home “for two weeks to flatten the curve.”
Just in time for the holidays
Some states are already issuing guidance for the holiday season and making rules about how many people you can invite to your get-togethers. California Governor Gavin Newsom offered the following guidance for your Thanksgiving dinner.
Gatherings that include more than 3 households are prohibited . This includes everyone present, including hosts and guests. Remember, the smaller the number of people, the safer.
. This includes everyone present, including hosts and guests. Remember, the smaller the number of people, the safer. Keep the households that you interact with stable over time. By spending time with the same people, risk of transmission is reduced. Participating in multiple gatherings with different households or groups is strongly discouraged.
The host should collect names of all attendees and contact information in case contact tracing is needed later.
Gatherings that occur outdoors are significantly safer than indoor gatherings. All gatherings must be held outside. Attendees may go inside to use restrooms as long as the restrooms are frequently sanitized.
Gatherings may occur in outdoor spaces that are covered by umbrellas, canopies, awnings, roofs, and other shade structures provided that at least three sides of the space (or 75%) are open to the outdoors.
A gathering of no more than three households is permitted in a public park or other outdoor space, even if unrelated gatherings of other groups up to three households are also occurring in the same park or other outdoor space. If multiple such gatherings are occurring, mixing between group gatherings is not allowed. Additionally, multiple gatherings of three households cannot be jointly organized or coordinated to occur in the same public park or other outdoor space at the same time – this would constitute a gathering exceeding the permitted size.
Shared items should not be used during a gathering. As much as possible, any food or beverages at outdoor gatherings must be in single-serve disposable containers. If providing single-serve containers is not possible, food and beverages must be served by a person who washes or sanitizes their hands frequently, and wears a face covering. Self-serve items from communal containers should not be used.
When gathering, face coverings must be worn in accordance with the CDPH Guidance on the Use of Face Coverings (PDF), unless an exemption is applicable.
People at gatherings may remove their face coverings briefly to eat or drink as long as they stay at least 6 feet away from everyone outside their own household, and put their face covering back on as soon as they are done with the activity.
Face coverings can also be removed to meet urgent medical needs (for example, to use an asthma inhaler, take medication, or if feeling light-headed).
Gatherings should be two hours or less. The longer the duration, the risk of transmission increases.
Singing, chanting, shouting, and physical exertion significantly increases the risk of COVID-19 transmission because these activities increase the release of respiratory droplets and fine aerosols into the air. Because of this, singing, chanting, and shouting are strongly discouraged, but if they occur, the following rules and recommendations apply: All people who are singing or chanting should wear a face covering at all times while singing or chanting, including anyone who is leading a song or chant. Because these activities pose a very high risk of COVID-19 transmission, face coverings are essential to reduce the spread of respiratory droplets and fine aerosols; People who are singing, shouting, chanting, or exercising are strongly encouraged to maintain physical distancing beyond 6 feet to further reduce risk. People who are singing or chanting are strongly encouraged to do so quietly (at or below the volume of a normal speaking voice). Instrumental music is allowed as long as the musicians maintain at least 6-foot physical distancing. Musicians must be from one of the three households. Playing of wind instruments (any instrument played by the mouth, such as a trumpet or clarinet) is strongly discouraged. (source)
Wow, that certainly sounds like a lot of fun.
New York’s Governor, Andrew Cuomo, recommends skipping Thanksgiving altogether.
“My personal advice is, you don’t have family gatherings – even for Thanksgiving,” the governor said as he listed off a number of smaller gatherings that have led to recent outbreaks across the state.
“My personal advice is the best way to say ‘I love you,’ this Thanksgiving, the best way to say ‘I’m thankful for you,’ is to say, ‘I love you so much, I’m so thankful for you, that I don’t want to endanger you, and I don’t want to endanger our family and I don’t want to endanger our friends. So we’ll celebrate virtually,’” he added. (source)
For those who are eager to earn their brown shirts early, you probably won’t have long to wait. I’m sure that some kind of system will be set up in certain states to make it easy for neighbors to snitch on each other in the event that one family presumes to invite more people to the Thanksgiving festivities than are “allowed.” This is a surefire way to further erode social trust if we aren’t already having enough issues in our communities.
We could be facing even more strenuous restrictions soon.
Currently, this is happening on a state-by-state basis, but it’s possible we could be looking at restrictions on a national level. When/If (depending on your political outlook) Joe Biden is inaugurated in January, it may not take long for an even more extreme lockdown to occur. But don’t worry, they’ll give you money.
Dr. Michael Osterholm, an infectious-disease specialist and a member of Mr. Biden’s recently appointed COVID-19 advisory team, spoke with Yahoo! Finance on Wednesday about measures the U.S. could take to curtail the virus’ spread. One option he said is worth considering: Imposing a four-to-six week shutdown of the country while providing workers, small business owners and local governments with hundreds of billions in financial aid to tide them over, he noted. “We have a big pool of money out there that we could borrow, at historic low interest rates by the federal government. We could pay for a package right now to cover all of the lost wages for individual workers, losses to small companies and medium-sized companies, for cities, states, county governments,” Osterholm said in the interview. He continued: “If we did that then we could lock down for four to six weeks, and if we did that, we could drive the numbers down, like they did in Asia, like they did in New Zealand and Australia.” (source)
Because why not just make the national debt infinite? That’ll definitely help the United States economy recover.
It’s interesting to note that Dr. Anthony Fauci staunchly opposes another round of national lockdowns. Not only did the last lockdown cause massive economic problems and continuing unemployment, but it also caused a wave of mental health consequences that affected even prepared families.
Compliance will be an issue for the government.
According to a new Gallup Poll, published on November 11th, many Americans will not readily comply with a new round of stringent lockdowns.
About half of Americans in Gallup’s latest polling on the COVID-19 pandemic, 49%, say they would be very likely to stay home for a month if public health officials recommended it due to a serious outbreak of the virus in their community. This contrasts with solid majorities in the spring who said they were likely to comply with such shelter-in-place advice, including a high of 67% in late March/early April. Another 18% of Americans say they would be somewhat likely to follow public health officials’ advice to stay home for a month, bringing the total inclined to comply to the majority level. But a full third say they would be very or somewhat unlikely to comply, about double the rate seen in the spring. (source)
Other countries have dealt with non-compliance through increasingly large fines and even the threat of jail time. It remains to be seen how the United States would handle such a revolt.
Get ready for Round 2
Some folks still aren’t quite cluing in on the fact that the second round of lockdowns has already begun. That means you can still acquire supplies if you don’t delay. If you are not already prepared, there’s no time to waste. Go here to get a FREE copy of The Prepper’s Workbook – the exercises in that PDF will help you get organized fast.
Remember last time around how quickly the shelves emptied?
Yeah. So will everyone else. Even the non-preppers.
So get out there and get prepped. If you wait until your state announces severe lockdown restrictions, it will be too late to really stock up because there will be purchase limits and angry crowds all trying to do the same thing. If you’ve discovered that shortages already exist, check out these less common places to get supplies. As well, here are some things to buy when the things you want are already sold out. Make sure you have food, water, prescription medications, hygiene supplies, and cleaning products. Use what you learned last time around to get better prepared this time.
We here at The Organic Prepper strongly urge you not to delay. Don’t rely solely on mail order. You may find a month down the road that your supplies are not coming. Shop locally, and shop now.
What’s happening where you live?
Do you have any advice for others? Is your area restricting activities or rationing supplies? Will you handle this round of lockdowns differently than you did the first? Share what’s going on in your neck of the woods in the comments section.
Article posted with permission from Daisy Luther


thewashingtonstandard--2020-11-17--Doctor Says They Have 5 Days To “Deliver The Virus,” aka “Vaccine” As Australian Health Minister Pro

Doctor Says They Have 5 Days To “ Deliver The Virus , ” aka “ Vaccine ” As Australian Health Minister Provides Freudian Slip Of “ New World Order ” ( Videos ) You really can ’ t make this stuff up .
In two different clips , a general practitioner doctor claimed that once they removed the vaccine from the super cold environment that Operation Warp Speed will put it in ( at least 70-80 degrees Celcius ) , they will have five days to deliver the virus .
He didn ’ t even correct himself .
Then , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , but not after he mentioned that Australia is in the New World Order , something news reports have previously stated without correction .
First , here is GP Dr. William Bird ’ s comments .
These comments are tied directly to the claims of General Gus Perna during a 60 Minutes interview who speaks about having to keep the “ vaccine ” super cold during delivery .
Perna heads up Trump ’ s Operation Warp Speed .
Take your time and watch the interview below and listen to the incredible amount of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the need to keep it so cold ?
No other manufacturer is doing that , and it does make you question , what happens when it enters your body at 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit ?
On Monday ’ s Sons of Liberty radio show , I interviewed Dr. Carrie Madej about vaccines in general and then more specifically to the Pfizer COVID vaccine .
She too was curious as to why a vaccine had to be contained in such a cold environment .
Could it be because what is in it , isn ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ but the virus ?
It certainly is possible , as Dr. Madej points out that previous viruses have been spread via vaccinations in the past .
And it seems she has others that back her claim .
Meanwhile , another blurting out of the truth in the midst of the confusion by the Australian health minister during a press conference regarding going into people ’ s homes resulted in him stating they were in the midst of the New World Order .
This is not the first time Australian television has broadcast what @ @ @ @ @ @ @ However , in at least two broadcasts earlier this year , television newscasts have specifically spoken of the rollout of the New World Order without correcting it .
• Australia : Full Scale Pilot Test For The New World Order • Get Ready Australia For More New World Order : As Food Shortages Increase , You ’ ll Be Needing An ID To Buy Groceries In the end , COVID is nothing more than the pathway into the New World Order and it just may be the end for many people .
You @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with permission from Sons of Liberty Media

Doctor Says They Have 5 Days To “Deliver The Virus,” aka “Vaccine” As Australian Health Minister Provides Freudian Slip Of “New World Order” (Videos)
You really can’t make this stuff up. In two different clips, a general practitioner doctor claimed that once they removed the vaccine from the super cold environment that Operation Warp Speed will put it in (at least 70-80 degrees Celcius), they will have five days to deliver the virus. He didn’t even correct himself. Then, the Australian health minister did correct himself, but not after he mentioned that Australia is in the New World Order, something news reports have previously stated without correction.
First, here is GP Dr. William Bird’s comments.
These comments are tied directly to the claims of General Gus Perna during a 60 Minutes interview who speaks about having to keep the “vaccine” super cold during delivery. Perna heads up Trump’s Operation Warp Speed. Take your time and watch the interview below and listen to the incredible amount of doublespeak in it.
Does anyone question the need to keep it so cold? No other manufacturer is doing that, and it does make you question, what happens when it enters your body at 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit?
On Monday’s Sons of Liberty radio show, I interviewed Dr. Carrie Madej about vaccines in general and then more specifically to the Pfizer COVID vaccine. She too was curious as to why a vaccine had to be contained in such a cold environment.
Could it be because what is in it, isn’t really a vaccine at all, but the virus? It certainly is possible, as Dr. Madej points out that previous viruses have been spread via vaccinations in the past.
And it seems she has others that back her claim.
Meanwhile, another blurting out of the truth in the midst of the confusion by the Australian health minister during a press conference regarding going into people’s homes resulted in him stating they were in the midst of the New World Order.
This is not the first time Australian television has broadcast what is clear to everyone watching either. However, in at least two broadcasts earlier this year, television newscasts have specifically spoken of the rollout of the New World Order without correcting it.
In the end, COVID is nothing more than the pathway into the New World Order and it just may be the end for many people. You’ve been warned!
Article posted with permission from Sons of Liberty Media


thewashingtonstandard--2020-11-17--A History Of Vaccines To The Present Pfizer COVID Vaccine & Their Dangers With Dr. Carrie Madej

A History Of Vaccines To The Present Pfizer COVID Vaccine & Their Dangers With Dr. Carrie Madej We previously had Dr. Carrie Madej on the show to discuss hydrogels , implantable biosensors and the coming vaccine for COVID .
However , since she is very knowledgeable about vaccines in general , I thought it would be informative if she would share her knowledge with our audience so that they are completely informed as to what is in vaccines and why they are dangerous .
Dr. Carrie Madej is originally from Dearborn , Michigan and received her medical degree from Kansas @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
She then completed her traditional internship at The Medical Center in Columbus , Georgia and internal medicine residency at Mercer University in Macon Georgia .
Dr. Madej served as a private clinician and medical director of clinics in Georgia until 2015 .
She then moved to the Dominican Republic where she spends her time doing charity work and telemedicine .
Dr. Madej also served as an attending physician for the Pennsylvania College of Osteopathic Medicine – Georgia Campus , where she mentored students in clinical applications of internal medicine for 8 years @ @ @ @ @ @ @ speaker and was featured in the documentary , “ The Marketing of Madness ” about the overuse of prescription psychotropic medicines .
This is meant to be for informational purposes only .
If you require medical advice , see your doctor .
Additional information and previous interviews mentioned in this episode .
The above seems very possible especially in light of this statement below .
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A History Of Vaccines To The Present Pfizer COVID Vaccine & Their Dangers With Dr. Carrie Madej
We previously had Dr. Carrie Madej on the show to discuss hydrogels, implantable biosensors and the coming vaccine for COVID. However, since she is very knowledgeable about vaccines in general, I thought it would be informative if she would share her knowledge with our audience so that they are completely informed as to what is in vaccines and why they are dangerous.
Dr. Carrie Madej is originally from Dearborn, Michigan and received her medical degree from Kansas City University of Medical Biosciences in 2001. She then completed her traditional internship at The Medical Center in Columbus, Georgia and internal medicine residency at Mercer University in Macon Georgia.
Dr. Madej served as a private clinician and medical director of clinics in Georgia until 2015. She then moved to the Dominican Republic where she spends her time doing charity work and telemedicine. Dr. Madej also served as an attending physician for the Pennsylvania College of Osteopathic Medicine – Georgia Campus, where she mentored students in clinical applications of internal medicine for 8 years. She has served as a public speaker and was featured in the documentary, “The Marketing of Madness” about the overuse of prescription psychotropic medicines.
This is meant to be for informational purposes only. If you require medical advice, see your doctor.
Additional information and previous interviews mentioned in this episode.
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The above seems very possible especially in light of this statement below.
Deliver the virus ?????? Ooops pic.twitter.com/OSDi7hHq0X — Sala (@Salajayne) November 15, 2020
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thewashingtonstandard--2020-11-17--Canada “Needs Products… In Support Of Response To COVID-19”:  Orders “Programmable Hydraulic Guillot

Canada “Needs Products… In Support Of Response To COVID-19”:  Orders “Programmable Hydraulic Guillotines”

It ’ s bizarre , but true .
BuyandSell.gc.ca , the Public Works and Services Canada website , has entered a tender notice to purchase programmable hydraulic guillotines as part of the products and services it “ needs ” “ in support of Canada ’ s response to COVID-19 .
Here is a screenshot from the website .
The bid document lists technical requirements for the guillotines , under a heading called “ Guillotines Mandatory Requirements : ” • The Guillotine ’ s cutting and clamping systems must be fully hydraulic ; • The Guillotine ’ s automatic blade and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ its original starting position ; • The Guillotine ’ s blade depth adjustment ( s ) must be achievable from outside of the Guillotine ; • The Guillotine ’ s measurement readout must be in imperial measurement ; • The Guillotine ’ s blade changing tool , wrenches/screwdrivers and cutting block must be provided for each Guillotine ; The document also calls for a “ 1 year parts and labour warranty ” to make sure the guillotine continues running smoothly so that the chopping isn ’ t interrupted .
Some may think this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , such as the minx in Denmark that are alleged to have infected humans .
Clearly , if government wants to execute people , there are far quicker methods and even those that could render plausible deniability , but it is interesting that programmable guillotines are being ordered by the Canadian government .
What should also be of note is the COVID camps being constructed in Canada being silenced , as well .
Justin Trudeau and the Canadian government are creating Nazi Germany-like infrastructure to detain human beings en masse , and for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ politician named Randy Hillier spoke out about the government ’ s nefarious detainment plan in a provincial question period in front of the government of Ontario .
His microphone was cut off as soon as he started asking the tough questions .
The Canadian government is erecting a network of detainment camps and isolation sites to be used from coast to coast .
These “ Federal Quarantine/Isolation sites ” are being built across the provinces and will be used to strip Canadians of their human rights and lock healthy people up using false @ @ @ @ @ @ @ used for forced medical testing and forced medical experimentation with covid-19 vaccines .
If Canadians can be held down against their will over the fear that they may spread viruses , then these facilities could be used indefinitely and for whatever reason is deemed necessary to maintain an illusion of safety for the “ greater good.
” Randy Hillier , Independent Ontario MPP for Lanark , Frontenac and Kingston , stood up and questioned the government , asking how many people will be detained and how many concentration camps are scheduled for construction @ @ @ @ @ @ @ use — to control the spread of covid-19 — and pointed out in documentation that these sites could be used for “ other requirements ” in the future .
“ So your government must be in negotiations and aware of these plans to potentially detain and isolate citizens and residents of our country and our province , ” Hillier began .
“ So speaker , to the Premier , where will these camps be built , how many people will be detained , and for what reason , for what reasons can people @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and I ’ d like to have the Premier assure the people of Ontario… , ” Hillier ’ s microphone was cut off before he could finish .
Hillier reports that the government has dodged his questions since July .
“ The expansion of isolation/quarantine camps in Canada is something of concern and the Ontario government must know about it , so why won ’ t they tell the people of Ontario ?
” he asked .
Canadian government prepping for resistance to new detainment sites According to a request for information , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ PHAC ) is currently managing eleven quarantine isolation sites across Canada , which includes sites in Calgary , Vancouver , Kelowna , Winnipeg , Regina , Toronto , Montreal , Halifax , Fredericton , St. John ’ s ( Newfoundland ) , and Whitehorse .
Each site can be used to detain up to 1,600 travelers for up to fourteen days at a time .
The sites can be “ temporarily discontinued until needed again by the Government of Canada.
” The facilities may be used for “ other requirements ” for the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to safeguard the public health .
The detainment plan doesn ’ t end there .
In addition , the Canadian government lists each territory and province as a potential region for delivery of new “ Federal Quarantine/Isolation sites.
” PHAC listed the following territories and provinces as areas of concern that will host the new quarantine camps : Saskatoon , Windsor , Niagara , Ottawa , Winnipeg/Thunder Bay , Quebec City , Charlottetown , Iqaluit , and Yellowknife .
The Canadian government is also looking for third party service providers to develop a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Government contracts are being set in motion to supply the sites with goods and services .
The government is preparing for resistance , too .
One of the supply contracts includes a 36,000-canister order of tear gas , which is set to be delivered in the Spring of 2021 to the Canadian Forces Ammunition Depot in Dundurn , Saskatchewan .
This is the general time frame when covid-19 vaccines become more widely available to the public .
The World Health Organization has already primed the public to accept the detainment camps as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has previously broadcast that “ vaccine hesitancy ” is a global public health threat .
Mike Adams at Natural News asks , “ Is this bid for industrial use , or something more sinister ?
” A skeptic might look at this government bid and conclude it must be a bid for cutting equipment to be used in cutting books , stacks of papers or posters .
One of the companies involved in the bid appears to be a printing company , for example .
But wouldn ’ t that also be the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ intended for a more sinister purpose ?
Given that Canada is already in the process of constructing covid “ concentration camps ” — while touting this guillotine bid as part of “ Canada ’ s response to COVID-19 , ” many people will have serious questions about the intended use of these devices as well as the language used to describe them .
If these were merely industrial cutting machines , wouldn ’ t the listing just say , “ Cutting Machine ” instead of “ Guillotines ?
” And given the history @ @ @ @ @ @ @ revolutions in France , many people are wondering whether China ’ s corruption of modern-day Canada — including its French-speaking regions — means that China is planning to round up and execute anyone resisting communist influences in Canada .
With Justin Trudeau now appearing to be a political puppet of China — much like Joe Biden — and with Chinese troops already staged in Western Canada , these are no longer idle questions .
See this important story : Western Canada has already fallen to Communist China – America may have a chance @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Dave Hodges of The Commonsense Show recently published an article describing plans to round up Americans and incarcerate them in Canadian concentration camps run by communist Chinese .
That article explains : Steve Quayle and myself have been investigating a three-nation deal involving Communist China , Canada and the United States .
The deal has now expanded to NATO forces , living in American bases that were closed during the Bush Sr. , era .
The CSS has also learned that their is some UN involvement as well .
The agreements have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ new Harris-Biden administration of any and all .
Unfortunately , the interview that is presented below on this topic is a work in progress .
The implications of this interview is frightening as it promises an international , state-sponsored genocidal program against “ deplorables ” who will oppose the real new world order .
As all this is happening , Trudeau is accelerating Canada ’ s gun control and gun confiscation efforts to make sure that Canadian citizens have no ability to fight back when the government comes to their homes and kidnaps @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s COVID concentration camps .
Americans , on the other hand , will never give up their guns .
Count on it .
I guess we ’ ll find out soon enough the reason for these devices .
Article posted with permission from Sons of Liberty Media

It’s bizarre, but true. BuyandSell.gc.ca, the Public Works and Services Canada website, has entered a tender notice to purchase programmable hydraulic guillotines as part of the products and services it “needs” “in support of Canada’s response to COVID-19.
Here is a screenshot from the website.
The listing number is 45045-190091/A.
Solicitation document #ABES.PROD.PW__PD.B005.E78707.EBSU000 reveals additional details about the bid request:
The bid document lists technical requirements for the guillotines, under a heading called “Guillotines Mandatory Requirements:”
The Guillotine’s cutting and clamping systems must be fully hydraulic;
The Guillotine’s automatic blade and clamp must return from every position to its original
starting position;
starting position; The Guillotine’s blade depth adjustment(s) must be achievable from outside of the
Guillotine;
Guillotine; The Guillotine’s measurement readout must be in imperial measurement;
The Guillotine’s blade changing tool, wrenches/screwdrivers and cutting block must be
provided for each Guillotine;
The document also calls for a “1 year parts and labour warranty” to make sure the guillotine continues running smoothly so that the chopping isn’t interrupted.
Some may think this is a preparation to deal with animals, such as the minx in Denmark that are alleged to have infected humans.
Clearly, if government wants to execute people, there are far quicker methods and even those that could render plausible deniability, but it is interesting that programmable guillotines are being ordered by the Canadian government.
What should also be of note is the COVID camps being constructed in Canada being silenced, as well.
Lance Johnson reported last month:
Justin Trudeau and the Canadian government are creating Nazi Germany-like infrastructure to detain human beings en masse, and for years to come. A brave Ontario politician named Randy Hillier spoke out about the government’s nefarious detainment plan in a provincial question period in front of the government of Ontario. His microphone was cut off as soon as he started asking the tough questions.
The Canadian government is erecting a network of detainment camps and isolation sites to be used from coast to coast. These “Federal Quarantine/Isolation sites” are being built across the provinces and will be used to strip Canadians of their human rights and lock healthy people up using false imprisonment schemes. These sites could be used for forced medical testing and forced medical experimentation with covid-19 vaccines. If Canadians can be held down against their will over the fear that they may spread viruses, then these facilities could be used indefinitely and for whatever reason is deemed necessary to maintain an illusion of safety for the “greater good.”
Brave rep stands up and questions Canadian government’s nefarious plans
Randy Hillier, Independent Ontario MPP for Lanark, Frontenac and Kingston, stood up and questioned the government, asking how many people will be detained and how many concentration camps are scheduled for construction. He expressed concern about their current use — to control the spread of covid-19 — and pointed out in documentation that these sites could be used for “other requirements” in the future.
“So your government must be in negotiations and aware of these plans to potentially detain and isolate citizens and residents of our country and our province,” Hillier began. “So speaker, to the Premier, where will these camps be built, how many people will be detained, and for what reason, for what reasons can people be kept in these isolation camps, and I’d like to have the Premier assure the people of Ontario…,” Hillier’s microphone was cut off before he could finish.
Hillier reports that the government has dodged his questions since July. “The expansion of isolation/quarantine camps in Canada is something of concern and the Ontario government must know about it, so why won’t they tell the people of Ontario?” he asked.
Canadian government prepping for resistance to new detainment sites
According to a request for information, the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) is currently managing eleven quarantine isolation sites across Canada, which includes sites in Calgary, Vancouver, Kelowna, Winnipeg, Regina, Toronto, Montreal, Halifax, Fredericton, St. John’s (Newfoundland), and Whitehorse. Each site can be used to detain up to 1,600 travelers for up to fourteen days at a time. The sites can be “temporarily discontinued until needed again by the Government of Canada.” The facilities may be used for “other requirements” for the next two years, as deemed necessary to safeguard the public health.
The detainment plan doesn’t end there. In addition, the Canadian government lists each territory and province as a potential region for delivery of new “Federal Quarantine/Isolation sites.” PHAC listed the following territories and provinces as areas of concern that will host the new quarantine camps: Saskatoon, Windsor, Niagara, Ottawa, Winnipeg/Thunder Bay, Quebec City, Charlottetown, Iqaluit, and Yellowknife. The Canadian government is also looking for third party service providers to develop a strategy to manage the sites going forward. Government contracts are being set in motion to supply the sites with goods and services.
The government is preparing for resistance, too. One of the supply contracts includes a 36,000-canister order of tear gas, which is set to be delivered in the Spring of 2021 to the Canadian Forces Ammunition Depot in Dundurn, Saskatchewan. This is the general time frame when covid-19 vaccines become more widely available to the public. The World Health Organization has already primed the public to accept the detainment camps as “a public health measure” and has previously broadcast that “vaccine hesitancy” is a global public health threat.
Mike Adams at Natural News asks, “Is this bid for industrial use, or something more sinister?”
A skeptic might look at this government bid and conclude it must be a bid for cutting equipment to be used in cutting books, stacks of papers or posters. One of the companies involved in the bid appears to be a printing company, for example. But wouldn’t that also be the perfect cover story for acquiring actual guillotines intended for a more sinister purpose?
Given that Canada is already in the process of constructing covid “concentration camps” — while touting this guillotine bid as part of “Canada’s response to COVID-19,” many people will have serious questions about the intended use of these devices as well as the language used to describe them.
If these were merely industrial cutting machines, wouldn’t the listing just say, “Cutting Machine” instead of “Guillotines?”
And given the history of guillotines being used during radical left-wing revolutions in France, many people are wondering whether China’s corruption of modern-day Canada — including its French-speaking regions — means that China is planning to round up and execute anyone resisting communist influences in Canada. With Justin Trudeau now appearing to be a political puppet of China — much like Joe Biden — and with Chinese troops already staged in Western Canada, these are no longer idle questions.
See this important story: Western Canada has already fallen to Communist China – America may have a chance, but only if it stands united.
Dave Hodges of The Commonsense Show recently published an article describing plans to round up Americans and incarcerate them in Canadian concentration camps run by communist Chinese. That article explains:
Steve Quayle and myself have been investigating a three-nation deal involving Communist China, Canada and the United States. The deal has now expanded to NATO forces, living in American bases that were closed during the Bush Sr., era. The CSS has also learned that their is some UN involvement as well. The agreements have to do with ridding America’s new Harris-Biden administration of any and all. Unfortunately, the interview that is presented below on this topic is a work in progress. The implications of this interview is frightening as it promises an international, state-sponsored genocidal program against “deplorables” who will oppose the real new world order.
As all this is happening, Trudeau is accelerating Canada’s gun control and gun confiscation efforts to make sure that Canadian citizens have no ability to fight back when the government comes to their homes and kidnaps them, depositing them in Canada’s COVID concentration camps.
Americans, on the other hand, will never give up their guns. Count on it.
I guess we’ll find out soon enough the reason for these devices.
Article posted with permission from Sons of Liberty Media


thewashingtonstandard--2020-11-17--Michigan:  Growing List of State Representatives Seek Impeachment Of Tyrannical Governor Gretchen Wh

Michigan:  Growing List of State Representatives Seek Impeachment Of Tyrannical Governor Gretchen Whitmer

This is exactly what should be happening to tyrannical governors around the united States that have not only usurped the authority delegated to them , but even thumbed their noses as judges who have ruled against them .
One of those is Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer .
Several reports are now out that there is a “ growing list ” of state representatives who want to impeach Whitmer .
“ Today , myself and a growing list of Michigan Legislators have decided that @ GovWhitmer has crossed the line and will be calling for # ImpeachWhitmer hearings .
The list @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is overdue # MIGOP # MILEG , ” Representative Matt Maddock , a Republican from Michigan ’ s 44th District , tweeted on Sunday evening .
In a Facebook post , Maddock said his calls to impeach the governor were backed by fellow Republican state Representatives Daire Rendon , Beau LaFave , Ryan Berman , Shane Hernandez and John Reilly , as well as incoming legislators Ken Borton , Steve Carra and Patrick Outman .
The GOP lawmaker said state Senators Dan Lauwers and Lana Theis backed Whitmer ’ s impeachment as well @ @ @ @ @ @ @ said his calls to impeach the governor were backed by fellow Republican state Representatives Daire Rendon , Beau LaFave , Ryan Berman , Shane Hernandez and John Reilly , as well as incoming legislators Ken Borton , Steve Carra and Patrick Outman .
The GOP lawmaker said state Senators Dan Lauwers and Lana Theis backed Whitmer ’ s impeachment as well .
Of course , Newsweek attempts to cover for Whitmer citing growing “ cases ” of positive COVID tests , whatever that means today , none of which justify her violation of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Power Hungry Governor Struck Down By The Courts Again !
Why Are The People Still Wearing Masks ?
• Michigan Tyrant Gretchen Whitmer Loses Again to 77-Year-Old Barber : Judge Rules Shop Can Remain Open • Whitmer Signs Order Requiring Michigan Businesses To Refuse Entry To People Not Wearing Masks They even go out of their way to poison the well in the first paragraph of their report to paint Whitmer as a victim of “ kidnapping , ” when in reality , militia , which are constitutional , were set to arrest @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ Governor Whitmer doesn ’ t have any time for partisan politics or people who don ’ t wear masks , don ’ t believe in science , and don ’ t have a plan to fight this virus .
Right now , she is focused on saving lives .
The governor will continue to work hard for all 10 million Michiganders .
This is about Michigan vs. COVID-19 .
Governor Whitmer doesn ’ t care if you ’ re a Trump Republican or a Biden Democrat .
We are all in this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ apostle Paul warned us of those who present fake science .
She also doesn ’ t care about the law either nor the ruling of the Michigan Supreme Court and has gone after those seeking to hold her accountable .
She is completely partisan in her approach while pointing her fingers at others for what that which she is guilty of doing .
• Michigan Gov .
Whitmer Faces Protest Outside Her Home As Lawmakers Mull Curbing Her Powers : “ I ’ m Not Going To Sign Any Bill That Takes Authority @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Lockdown • Michigan : Businesses Facing 6 Months In Jail If They Don ’ t Track All Customers For Contact Tracing • “ Burn Your Masks ” : Attorney Katherine Henry Wins Over The Tyrant In Michigan Frankly , I can ’ t determine if COVID is real , but I know it is not a serious threat to anyone , as the recovery rate is alleged to be nearly 100 % !
The real threats are tyrants such as Ms. Whitmer who simply will not follow the law and be restrained to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on Whitmer ’ s continued defiance of the Michigan Supreme Court ’ s ruling .
• A Victory In Michigan Against A Tyrannical Governor & A New Fight Brews • Michigan Court of Appeals : Ballots Must Arrive by Election Day ; 14-Day Extension Overturned • What Is This Governor Doing To Incite Such A Response ?
Equating Law Abiders Demanding Justice As “ Anti-Government ” And “ Domestic Terrorists ” Is Not Going To Work !
If impeached , the State Senate will then hold a trial .
In a press conference @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a “ Three-Week Pause ” aimed at mitigating the spread of the virus .
During these three weeks , which are between Nov. 18 and Dec. 8 , the state will mandate that these operations be closed : • All who are able to work from home will be required to do just that There will be several areas that will remain open , according to the state .
Those include : • Manufacturing , construction , other work impossible to do remotely .
She attempted to justify her actions .
“ We @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and given to the director of Health and Human Services and upheld by the Supreme Court for incidents specifically like these , ” Whitmer told News 8 .
She then was asked about Republican representatives seeking to impeach her for her lawless behavior .
“ If they spent half as much time doing their jobs as they have criticizing how I ’ m doing mine , we would be in a much stronger position .
Unfortunately , they haven ’ t shown real seriousness here , ” Whitmer told News 8 Monday morning @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a mask mandate .
They can ’ t even wear masks themselves and they got COVID spreading through the Republican caucuses in both the Senate and in the House .
Right now , they are on hunting break through December .
We are in an urgent crisis.
” Her administration has no authority when it comes to this and she has been ruled against on several occasions .
It ’ s time the many militia groups in Michigan came together for a full arrest of this lawless woman and made her to stand @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Michigan .
Article posted with permission from Sons of Liberty Media

This is exactly what should be happening to tyrannical governors around the united States that have not only usurped the authority delegated to them, but even thumbed their noses as judges who have ruled against them. One of those is Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer. Several reports are now out that there is a “growing list” of state representatives who want to impeach Whitmer.
Today, myself and a growing list of Michigan Legislators have decided that @GovWhitmer has crossed the line and will be calling for #ImpeachWhitmer hearings. The list of violations is long and the call is overdue #MIGOP #MILEG — Matt Maddock (@matthewmaddock) November 16, 2020
Newsweek reports:
“Today, myself and a growing list of Michigan Legislators have decided that @GovWhitmer has crossed the line and will be calling for #ImpeachWhitmer hearings. The list of violations is long and the call is overdue #MIGOP #MILEG,” Representative Matt Maddock, a Republican from Michigan’s 44th District, tweeted on Sunday evening.
In a Facebook post, Maddock said his calls to impeach the governor were backed by fellow Republican state Representatives Daire Rendon, Beau LaFave, Ryan Berman, Shane Hernandez and John Reilly, as well as incoming legislators Ken Borton, Steve Carra and Patrick Outman. The GOP lawmaker said state Senators Dan Lauwers and Lana Theis backed Whitmer’s impeachment as well.
In a Facebook post, Maddock said his calls to impeach the governor were backed by fellow Republican state Representatives Daire Rendon, Beau LaFave, Ryan Berman, Shane Hernandez and John Reilly, as well as incoming legislators Ken Borton, Steve Carra and Patrick Outman. The GOP lawmaker said state Senators Dan Lauwers and Lana Theis backed Whitmer’s impeachment as well.
Of course, Newsweek attempts to cover for Whitmer citing growing “cases” of positive COVID tests, whatever that means today, none of which justify her violation of the US and Michigan Constitutions.
They even go out of their way to poison the well in the first paragraph of their report to paint Whitmer as a victim of “kidnapping,” when in reality, militia, which are constitutional, were set to arrest her and bring her to trial.
Whitmer’s press secretary, Tiffany Brown, released this statement:
“Governor Whitmer doesn’t have any time for partisan politics or people who don’t wear masks, don’t believe in science, and don’t have a plan to fight this virus. Right now, she is focused on saving lives. The governor will continue to work hard for all 10 million Michiganders. This is about Michigan vs. COVID-19. Governor Whitmer doesn’t care if you’re a Trump Republican or a Biden Democrat. We are all in this together.”
Keep in mind that the apostle Paul warned us of those who present fake science.
“O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:” -1 Timothy 6:20
She also doesn’t care about the law either nor the ruling of the Michigan Supreme Court and has gone after those seeking to hold her accountable. She is completely partisan in her approach while pointing her fingers at others for what that which she is guilty of doing.
Frankly, I can’t determine if COVID is real, but I know it is not a serious threat to anyone, as the recovery rate is alleged to be nearly 100%!
The real threats are tyrants such as Ms. Whitmer who simply will not follow the law and be restrained to her oath of office.
WXYZ reports on Whitmer’s continued defiance of the Michigan Supreme Court’s ruling.
If impeached, the State Senate will then hold a trial.
In a press conference, Whitmer and state health officials announced a “Three-Week Pause” aimed at mitigating the spread of the virus.
During these three weeks, which are between Nov. 18 and Dec. 8, the state will mandate that these operations be closed:
in-person learning at high schools, colleges and universities
theaters, stadiums and arenas
All who are able to work from home will be required to do just that
dine-in restaurants and bars
organized sports, except professional sports
bowling centers, ice skating, indoor water parks
bingo halls, casinos, arcades
group fitness classes
There will be several areas that will remain open, according to the state. Those include:
Hair salons, barber shops & other personal services
Gyms and pools for individual exercise
Retail stores
Indoor gatherings limited to two households & 10 people
Small outdoor gatherings limited to 25 people
Preschool through 8th grade
Childcare
Public transit
Manufacturing, construction, other work impossible to do remotely.
She attempted to justify her actions.
“We are using powers created by the Legislature and given to the director of Health and Human Services and upheld by the Supreme Court for incidents specifically like these,” Whitmer told News 8.
She then was asked about Republican representatives seeking to impeach her for her lawless behavior.
“If they spent half as much time doing their jobs as they have criticizing how I’m doing mine, we would be in a much stronger position. Unfortunately, they haven’t shown real seriousness here,” Whitmer told News 8 Monday morning. “They won’t do a mask mandate. They can’t even wear masks themselves and they got COVID spreading through the Republican caucuses in both the Senate and in the House. Right now, they are on hunting break through December. We are in an urgent crisis.”
Her administration has no authority when it comes to this and she has been ruled against on several occasions. It’s time the many militia groups in Michigan came together for a full arrest of this lawless woman and made her to stand trial for her crimes against the people of Michigan.
Article posted with permission from Sons of Liberty Media


thewashingtonstandard--2020-11-16--Don’t Call the Cops. Especially if Your Loved Ones Are Old, Disabled or Have Special Needs

Don ’ t Call the Cops .
Especially if Your Loved Ones Are Old , Disabled or Have Special Needs They shot at him fourteen times .
Walter Wallace Jr.—a troubled 27-year-old black man with a criminal history and mental health issues—was no saint .
Still , he didn ’ t deserve to die in a hail of bullets fired by two police officers who clearly had not been adequately trained in how to de-escalate encounters with special needs individuals .
Wallace wasn ’ t unarmed—he was reportedly holding a knife when police confronted him—yet neither cop attempted to use @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to be in the midst of a mental health crisis .
In fact , neither cop even possessed a taser .
Wallace , fired upon repeatedly by both officers , was hit in the shoulder and chest and pronounced dead at the hospital .
Wallace ’ s death is yet one more grim statistic to add to that growing list of Americans—unarmed , impaired or experiencing a mental health crisis—who have been killed by police trained to shoot first and ask questions later .
It ’ s also a powerful reminder to think @ @ @ @ @ @ @ carry out a welfare check on a loved one .
Especially if that person is autistic , hearing impaired , mentally ill , elderly , suffering from dementia , disabled or might have a condition that hinders their ability to understand , communicate or immediately comply with an order .
Particularly if you value that person ’ s life .
There are some things that don ’ t change .
Even as the nation grapples with the twin distractions of political theater and a viral pandemic , there are still deadlier forces at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
At a time when growing numbers of unarmed people have been shot and killed for just standing a certain way , or moving a certain way , or holding something—anything—that police could misinterpret to be a gun , or igniting some trigger-centric fear in a police officer ’ s mind that has nothing to do with an actual threat to their safety , even the most benign encounters with police can have fatal consequences .
Unfortunately , police—trained in the worst case scenario and thus ready to shoot first and ask questions @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a mental health crisis or with special needs whose disabilities may not be immediately apparent or require more finesse than the typical freeze-or-I ’ ll-shoot tactics employed by America ’ s police forces .
Just last year , in fact , Gay Plack , a 57-year-old Virginia woman with bipolar disorder , was killed after two police officers—sent to do a welfare check on her—entered her home uninvited , wandered through the house shouting her name , kicked open her locked bedroom door , discovered the terrified woman hiding in a dark bathroom @ @ @ @ @ @ @ four seconds later , shot her in the stomach .
That ’ s all the time it took for the two police officers assigned to check on Plack to decide to use lethal force against her ( both cops opened fire on the woman ) , rather than using non-lethal options ( one cop had a Taser , which he made no attempt to use ) or attempting to de-escalate the situation .
The police chief defended his officers ’ actions , claiming they had “ no other option ” but to shoot @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with carpal tunnel syndrome who had to quit her job at a framing shop because her hand was too weak to use the machine that cut the mats.
” This is what happens when you empower the police to act as judge , jury and executioner .
This is what happens when you indoctrinate the police into believing that their lives and their safety are paramount to anyone else ’ s .
Suddenly , everyone and everything else is a threat that must be neutralized or eliminated .
In light of the government @ @ @ @ @ @ @ might pose a threat to public safety based on mental health sensor data ( tracked by wearable data such as FitBits and Apple Watches and monitored by government agencies such as HARPA , the “ Health Advanced Research Projects Agency ” ) , encounters with the police could get even more deadly , especially if those involved have a mental illness or disability .
Indeed , disabled individuals make up a third to half of all people killed by law enforcement officers .
( People of color are three times more likely to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ counterparts . )
If you ’ re black and disabled , you ’ re even more vulnerable .
A study by the Ruderman Family Foundation reports that “ disabled individuals make up the majority of those killed in use-of-force cases that attract widespread attention .
This is true both for cases deemed illegal or against policy and for those in which officers are ultimately fully exonerated… Many more disabled civilians experience non-lethal violence and abuse at the hands of law enforcement officers.
” For instance , Nancy Schrock called 911 for help after @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with mental health issues , started stalking around the backyard , upending chairs and screaming about demons .
Several times before , police had transported Tom to the hospital , where he was medicated and sent home after 72 hours .
This time , Tom was tasered twice .
He collapsed , lost consciousness and died .
In South Carolina , police tasered an 86-year-old grandfather reportedly in the early stages of dementia , while he was jogging backwards away from them .
Now this happened after Albert Chatfield led police on a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ turning randomly .
However , at the point that police chose to shock the old man with electric charges , he was out of the car , on his feet , and outnumbered by police officers much younger than him .
In Georgia , campus police shot and killed a 21-year-old student who was suffering a mental health crisis .
Scout Schultz was shot through the heart by campus police when he approached four of them late one night while holding a pocketknife , shouting “ Shoot me !
” Although police may @ @ @ @ @ @ @ blade was still in its closed position .
In Oklahoma , police shot and killed a 35-year-old deaf man seen holding a two-foot metal pipe on his front porch ( he used the pipe to fend off stray dogs while walking ) .
Despite the fact that witnesses warned police that Magdiel Sanchez couldn ’ t hear—and thus comply—with their shouted orders to drop the pipe and get on the ground , police shot the man when he was about 15 feet away from them .
In Maryland , police ( moonlighting as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ eject a 26-year-old man with Downs Syndrome and a low IQ from a movie theater after the man insisted on sitting through a second screening of a film .
Autopsy results indicate that Ethan Saylor died of complications arising from asphyxiation , likely caused by a chokehold .
In Florida , police armed with assault rifles fired three shots at a 27-year-old nonverbal , autistic man who was sitting on the ground , playing with a toy truck .
Police missed the autistic man and instead shot his behavioral therapist , Charles Kinsey @ @ @ @ @ @ @ him back to his group home .
The therapist , bleeding from a gunshot wound , was then handcuffed and left lying face down on the ground for 20 minutes .
In Texas , police handcuffed , tasered and then used a baton to subdue a 7-year-old student who has severe ADHD and a mood disorder .
With school counselors otherwise occupied , school officials called police and the child ’ s mother to assist after Yosio Lopez started banging his head on a wall .
The police arrived first .
In New @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fire on a 38-year-old homeless man who suffered from schizophrenia , all in an attempt to get James Boyd to leave a makeshift campsite .
Boyd ’ s death provoked a wave of protests over heavy-handed law enforcement tactics .
In Ohio , police forcefully subdued a 37-year-old bipolar woman wearing only a nightgown in near-freezing temperatures who was neither armed , violent , intoxicated , nor suspected of criminal activity .
After being slammed onto the sidewalk , handcuffed and left unconscious on the street , Tanisha Anderson died as a result @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
And in North Carolina , a state trooper shot and killed a 29-year-old deaf motorist after he failed to pull over during a traffic stop .
Daniel K. Harris was shot after exiting his car , allegedly because the trooper feared he might be reaching for a weapon .
These cases , and the hundreds—if not thousands—more that go undocumented every year speak to a crisis in policing when it comes to law enforcement ’ s failure to adequately assess , de-escalate and manage encounters with special needs or disabled individuals .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ what has been happening is telling .
Over the course of six months , police shot and killed someone who was in mental crisis every 36 hours .
Among 124 police killings analyzed by The Washington Post in which mental illness appeared to be a factor , “ They were overwhelmingly men , more than half of them white .
Nine in 10 were armed with some kind of weapon , and most died close to home.
” But there were also important distinctions , reports the Post .
The U.S. Supreme Court @ @ @ @ @ @ @ thus far continued to immunize police against charges of wrongdoing when it comes to use of force against those with a mental illness .
In a 2015 ruling , the Court declared that police could not be sued for forcing their way into a mentally ill woman ’ s room at a group home and shooting her five times when she advanced on them with a knife .
The justices did not address whether police must take special precautions when arresting mentally ill individuals .
( The Americans with Disabilities Act requires “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ illnesses , which in this case might have been less confrontational tactics . )
Where does this leave us ?
For starters , we need better police training across the board , but especially when it comes to de-escalation tactics and crisis intervention .
A study by the National Institute of Mental Health found that CIT ( Crisis Intervention Team ) -trained officers made fewer arrests , used less force , and connected more people with mental-health services than their non-trained peers .
As The Washington Post points out : Second , police @ @ @ @ @ @ @ down , instead of ramping up the tension ( and the noise ) .
In Maryland , police recruits are now required to take a four-hour course in which they learn “ de-escalation tactics ” for dealing with disabled individuals : speak calmly , give space , be patient .
One officer in charge of the Los Angeles Police Department ’ s “ mental response teams ” suggests that instead of rushing to take someone into custody , police should try to slow things down and persuade the person to come with them @ @ @ @ @ @ @ funds flowing to police departments these days , why not use some of those funds to establish what one disability-rights activist describes as “ a 911-type number dedicated to handling mental-health emergencies , with community crisis-response teams at the ready rather than police officers.
” Increasingly , funds are being directed towards technologies that support predictive policing and behavioral and health surveillance .
For instance , HARPA ( a healthcare counterpart to the Pentagon ’ s research and development arm DARPA ) would take the lead in identifying and targeting “ signs ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the populace by using artificial intelligence to collect data from Apple Watches , Fitbits , Amazon Echo and Google Home .
The Trump Administration has already awarded contracts worth $ 22.8 million to seven major corporations to develop artificial intelligence ( AI ) and machine learning connected to smartphone apps , wearable devices and software that can identify and trace contacts of “ infected individuals , ” keep track of “ verified ” COVID-19 test results , and monitor the health states of infected and “ potentially ” infected individuals .
It wouldn @ @ @ @ @ @ @ predictive programs to give rise to healthcare versions of red flag gun laws , which allows the government to preemptively take action against individuals who may be perceived as potential threats .
Where the problem arises is when you put the power to determine who is a potential danger in the hands of government agencies , the courts and the police .
In the end , while we need to make encounters with police officers safer for people with suffering from mental illness or with disabilities , what we really need—as I point @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The War on the American People —is to make encounters with police safer for all individuals all across the board .

Don’t Call the Cops. Especially if Your Loved Ones Are Old, Disabled or Have Special Needs
“Anyone who cares for someone with a developmental disability, as well as for disabled people themselves [lives] every day in fear that their behavior will be misconstrued as suspicious, intoxicated or hostile by law enforcement.”—Steve Silberman, The New York Times
They shot at him fourteen times.
Walter Wallace Jr.—a troubled 27-year-old black man with a criminal history and mental health issues—was no saint. Still, he didn’t deserve to die in a hail of bullets fired by two police officers who clearly had not been adequately trained in how to de-escalate encounters with special needs individuals.
Wallace wasn’t unarmed—he was reportedly holding a knife when police confronted him—yet neither cop attempted to use non-lethal weapons on Wallace, who appeared to be in the midst of a mental health crisis. In fact, neither cop even possessed a taser. Wallace, fired upon repeatedly by both officers, was hit in the shoulder and chest and pronounced dead at the hospital.
Wallace’s death is yet one more grim statistic to add to that growing list of Americans—unarmed, impaired or experiencing a mental health crisis—who have been killed by police trained to shoot first and ask questions later.
It’s also a powerful reminder to think twice before you call the cops to carry out a welfare check on a loved one. Especially if that person is autistic, hearing impaired, mentally ill, elderly, suffering from dementia, disabled or might have a condition that hinders their ability to understand, communicate or immediately comply with an order.
Particularly if you value that person’s life.
There are some things that don’t change. Even as the nation grapples with the twin distractions of political theater and a viral pandemic, there are still deadlier forces at play.
This is one of them.
At a time when growing numbers of unarmed people have been shot and killed for just standing a certain way, or moving a certain way, or holding something—anything—that police could misinterpret to be a gun, or igniting some trigger-centric fear in a police officer’s mind that has nothing to do with an actual threat to their safety, even the most benign encounters with police can have fatal consequences.
Unfortunately, police—trained in the worst case scenario and thus ready to shoot first and ask questions later—increasingly pose a risk to anyone undergoing a mental health crisis or with special needs whose disabilities may not be immediately apparent or require more finesse than the typical freeze-or-I’ll-shoot tactics employed by America’s police forces.
Just last year, in fact, Gay Plack, a 57-year-old Virginia woman with bipolar disorder, was killed after two police officers—sent to do a welfare check on her—entered her home uninvited, wandered through the house shouting her name, kicked open her locked bedroom door, discovered the terrified woman hiding in a dark bathroom and wielding a small axe, and four seconds later, shot her in the stomach.
Four seconds.
That’s all the time it took for the two police officers assigned to check on Plack to decide to use lethal force against her (both cops opened fire on the woman), rather than using non-lethal options (one cop had a Taser, which he made no attempt to use) or attempting to de-escalate the situation.
The police chief defended his officers’ actions, claiming they had “no other option” but to shoot the 5 foot 4 inch “woman with carpal tunnel syndrome who had to quit her job at a framing shop because her hand was too weak to use the machine that cut the mats.”
This is what happens when you empower the police to act as judge, jury and executioner.
This is what happens when you indoctrinate the police into believing that their lives and their safety are paramount to anyone else’s.
Suddenly, everyone and everything else is a threat that must be neutralized or eliminated.
In light of the government’s ongoing efforts to predict who might pose a threat to public safety based on mental health sensor data (tracked by wearable data such as FitBits and Apple Watches and monitored by government agencies such as HARPA, the “Health Advanced Research Projects Agency”), encounters with the police could get even more deadly, especially if those involved have a mental illness or disability.
Indeed, disabled individuals make up a third to half of all people killed by law enforcement officers. (People of color are three times more likely to be killed by police than their white counterparts.) If you’re black and disabled, you’re even more vulnerable.
A study by the Ruderman Family Foundation reports that “disabled individuals make up the majority of those killed in use-of-force cases that attract widespread attention. This is true both for cases deemed illegal or against policy and for those in which officers are ultimately fully exonerated… Many more disabled civilians experience non-lethal violence and abuse at the hands of law enforcement officers.”
For instance, Nancy Schrock called 911 for help after her husband, Tom, who suffered with mental health issues, started stalking around the backyard, upending chairs and screaming about demons. Several times before, police had transported Tom to the hospital, where he was medicated and sent home after 72 hours. This time, Tom was tasered twice. He collapsed, lost consciousness and died.
In South Carolina, police tasered an 86-year-old grandfather reportedly in the early stages of dementia, while he was jogging backwards away from them. Now this happened after Albert Chatfield led police on a car chase, running red lights and turning randomly. However, at the point that police chose to shock the old man with electric charges, he was out of the car, on his feet, and outnumbered by police officers much younger than him.
In Georgia, campus police shot and killed a 21-year-old student who was suffering a mental health crisis. Scout Schultz was shot through the heart by campus police when he approached four of them late one night while holding a pocketknife, shouting “Shoot me!” Although police may have feared for their lives, the blade was still in its closed position.
In Oklahoma, police shot and killed a 35-year-old deaf man seen holding a two-foot metal pipe on his front porch (he used the pipe to fend off stray dogs while walking). Despite the fact that witnesses warned police that Magdiel Sanchez couldn’t hear—and thus comply—with their shouted orders to drop the pipe and get on the ground, police shot the man when he was about 15 feet away from them.
In Maryland, police (moonlighting as security guards) used extreme force to eject a 26-year-old man with Downs Syndrome and a low IQ from a movie theater after the man insisted on sitting through a second screening of a film. Autopsy results indicate that Ethan Saylor died of complications arising from asphyxiation, likely caused by a chokehold.
In Florida, police armed with assault rifles fired three shots at a 27-year-old nonverbal, autistic man who was sitting on the ground, playing with a toy truck. Police missed the autistic man and instead shot his behavioral therapist, Charles Kinsey, who had been trying to get him back to his group home. The therapist, bleeding from a gunshot wound, was then handcuffed and left lying face down on the ground for 20 minutes.
In Texas, police handcuffed, tasered and then used a baton to subdue a 7-year-old student who has severe ADHD and a mood disorder. With school counselors otherwise occupied, school officials called police and the child’s mother to assist after Yosio Lopez started banging his head on a wall. The police arrived first.
In New Mexico, police tasered, then opened fire on a 38-year-old homeless man who suffered from schizophrenia, all in an attempt to get James Boyd to leave a makeshift campsite. Boyd’s death provoked a wave of protests over heavy-handed law enforcement tactics.
In Ohio, police forcefully subdued a 37-year-old bipolar woman wearing only a nightgown in near-freezing temperatures who was neither armed, violent, intoxicated, nor suspected of criminal activity. After being slammed onto the sidewalk, handcuffed and left unconscious on the street, Tanisha Anderson died as a result of being restrained in a prone position.
And in North Carolina, a state trooper shot and killed a 29-year-old deaf motorist after he failed to pull over during a traffic stop. Daniel K. Harris was shot after exiting his car, allegedly because the trooper feared he might be reaching for a weapon.
These cases, and the hundreds—if not thousands—more that go undocumented every year speak to a crisis in policing when it comes to law enforcement’s failure to adequately assess, de-escalate and manage encounters with special needs or disabled individuals.
While the research is relatively scant, what has been happening is telling.
Over the course of six months, police shot and killed someone who was in mental crisis every 36 hours.
Among 124 police killings analyzed by The Washington Post in which mental illness appeared to be a factor, “They were overwhelmingly men, more than half of them white. Nine in 10 were armed with some kind of weapon, and most died close to home.”
But there were also important distinctions, reports the Post.
“This group was more likely to wield a weapon less lethal than a firearm. Six had toy guns; 3 in 10 carried a blade, such as a knife or a machete — weapons that rarely prove deadly to police officers. According to data maintained by the FBI and other organizations, only three officers have been killed with an edged weapon in the past decade. Nearly a dozen of the mentally distraught people killed were military veterans, many of them suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of their service, according to police or family members. Another was a former California Highway Patrol officer who had been forced into retirement after enduring a severe beating during a traffic stop that left him suffering from depression and PTSD. And in 45 cases, police were called to help someone get medical treatment, or after the person had tried and failed to get treatment on his own.”
The U.S. Supreme Court, as might be expected, has thus far continued to immunize police against charges of wrongdoing when it comes to use of force against those with a mental illness.
In a 2015 ruling, the Court declared that police could not be sued for forcing their way into a mentally ill woman’s room at a group home and shooting her five times when she advanced on them with a knife. The justices did not address whether police must take special precautions when arresting mentally ill individuals. (The Americans with Disabilities Act requires “reasonable accommodations” for people with mental illnesses, which in this case might have been less confrontational tactics.)
Where does this leave us?
For starters, we need better police training across the board, but especially when it comes to de-escalation tactics and crisis intervention.
A study by the National Institute of Mental Health found that CIT (Crisis Intervention Team)-trained officers made fewer arrests, used less force, and connected more people with mental-health services than their non-trained peers.
As The Washington Post points out:
“Although new recruits typically spend nearly 60 hours learning to handle a gun, according to a recent survey by the Police Executive Research Forum, they receive only eight hours of training to de-escalate tense situations and eight hours learning strategies for handling the mentally ill. Otherwise, police are taught to employ tactics that tend to be counterproductive in such encounters, experts said. For example, most officers are trained to seize control when dealing with an armed suspect, often through stern, shouted commands. But yelling and pointing guns is ‘like pouring gasoline on a fire when you do that with the mentally ill,’ said Ron Honberg, policy director with the National Alliance on Mental Illness.”
Second, police need to learn how to slow confrontations down, instead of ramping up the tension (and the noise).
In Maryland, police recruits are now required to take a four-hour course in which they learn “de-escalation tactics” for dealing with disabled individuals: speak calmly, give space, be patient.
One officer in charge of the Los Angeles Police Department’s “mental response teams” suggests that instead of rushing to take someone into custody, police should try to slow things down and persuade the person to come with them.
Third, with all the questionable funds flowing to police departments these days, why not use some of those funds to establish what one disability-rights activist describes as “a 911-type number dedicated to handling mental-health emergencies, with community crisis-response teams at the ready rather than police officers.”
Increasingly, funds are being directed towards technologies that support predictive policing and behavioral and health surveillance. For instance, HARPA (a healthcare counterpart to the Pentagon’s research and development arm DARPA) would take the lead in identifying and targeting “signs” of mental illness or violent inclinations among the populace by using artificial intelligence to collect data from Apple Watches, Fitbits, Amazon Echo and Google Home. The Trump Administration has already awarded contracts worth $22.8 million to seven major corporations to develop artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning connected to smartphone apps, wearable devices and software that can identify and trace contacts of “infected individuals,” keep track of “verified” COVID-19 test results, and monitor the health states of infected and “potentially” infected individuals.
It wouldn’t take much for these nascent predictive programs to give rise to healthcare versions of red flag gun laws, which allows the government to preemptively take action against individuals who may be perceived as potential threats. Where the problem arises is when you put the power to determine who is a potential danger in the hands of government agencies, the courts and the police.
In the end, while we need to make encounters with police officers safer for people with suffering from mental illness or with disabilities, what we really need—as I point out in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People —is to make encounters with police safer for all individuals all across the board.
Article posted with permission from John Whitehead