thewashingtonstandard--2020-12-27--Millions Of Your Dollars Unconstitutionally Spent By Pentagon To Invade Christmas Movies To Promote

Millions Of Your Dollars Unconstitutionally Spent By Pentagon To Invade Christmas Movies To Promote Military, Incest & A Host Of Other Agendas

I don ’ t know if there is ever going to be anyone with the guys to stop signing spending bills that show a flagrant disregard for the American people ’ s money or the US Constitution , but here ’ s another example of why DC needs to either be reigned in or abolished and a new form of government put in its place , as founding father Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence .
The Pentagon spent millions of dollars from Americans , without authorization per the Constitution , to literally invade Christmas movies this year @ @ @ @ @ @ @ few other agendas .
Love boats , Oedipus complexes , and pants suits on a desert island – a pair of new schmaltzy films , courtesy of the US Department of Defense , are the Christmas present we could all do without .
You know how it goes , you spend half your life waiting for the US military to help make a sentimental , Christmas-themed romantic comedy and then two come along at once : Hallmark ’ s USS Christmas and Netflix ’ s Operation Christmas Drop .
Neither film could have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ half of USS Christmas takes place on board an aircraft carrier , and the scenes were filmed aboard the Battleship North Carolina and the USS Yorktown , courtesy of the US Navy .
The plot of Operation Christmas Drop revolves around Andersen Air Force Base in the Western Pacific island of Guam , with full access provided by the US Air Force .
Christmas rom-coms might seem an odd choice for the Pentagon ’ s entertainment liaison offices to support – neither film depicts war or violence of any kind , after all @ @ @ @ @ @ @ what we find beneath the enticing shiny paper and ribbons is not merely the disappointment of the same gift they got you three years ago , but the nagging anxiety and sense of betrayal that comes with an unwelcome present .
However , we can not simply re-gift USS Christmas and Operation Christmas Drop and wash our hands of responsibility for the bad choices of others .
Hallmark , the Pentagon , and a partridge in a pear tree Why a giant of cinema such as Hallmark would want to work with the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ difficult to pin down , but the relationship goes back at least a decade .
Hundreds of pages of reports from the US military ’ s Hollywood offices , especially those of the Army , detail numerous collaborations with Hallmark since 2010 .
These range from manipulative , tearjerking Mother ’ s Day video messages from deployed sons and daughters to manipulative , heartwarming military-dog-themed reality shows .
Another effort saw them commemorate 2015 Veterans ’ Day with a special film featuring a Congressional Medal of Honor recipient receiving the accolade of having @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Supporting these sorts of productions helps the DOD expand both its fans and its market share – the lifeblood for any entertainment-media concern .
As one Army report notes , regarding its support to the Second Annual Hero Dog Awards Show , “ By airing on the Hallmark Channel , the demonstration of the Army serving as America ’ s Force of Decisive Action reached an audience that it might not typically reach.
” How a golden retriever could ever be a ‘ Force of Decisive Action ’ ; however , the report @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is that while Man of Steel and the Transformers franchise act as attention-grabbing recruitment commercials for teenage boys and young men , in order to reach young women and their mothers , the Pentagon has to try something other than blockbusters about good aliens fighting bad aliens with the help of F-35s and the National Guard .
Likewise , few films and TV shows aimed at women have the necessary story components for promoting the military as the solution to all problems .
Enter Pitch Perfect 3 , Captain Marvel , and some @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ve ever seen .
USS Christmas : An exercise in cringe and condescension Both of these films are based on real-life military traditions , with USS Christmas locking its sights on the US Navy ’ s Tiger Cruise program , which allows the families of service members to take cruises on Navy ships .
In the past , it was aimed at civilians in general , but women could participate only if there were already other women on board .
As an LA Times article from 1990 promoting the program put it , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ bartenders , bands , entertainment , waiters , gift shops , gourmet meals , and midnight buffets ?
And most of the time without women !
’ Homosexual subtexts aside , the program has been adapted into a morale-boosting effort so that active-duty sailors can spend some time with their families , and to generate support from families alongside positive PR .
Guidelines published by the Navy outline what to bring , and , more importantly , what not to bring on a Tiger Cruise .
Among the forbidden items are “ weapons @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as alcohol , illegal drugs and “ obscene clothing.
” In USS Christmas , a young female journalist is working for a local newspaper on a story about a banking scandal , but she ’ s bored and looking for something less substantial .
She asks her editor for permission to go on a Tiger Cruise so she can spend some of the festive season with her Navy pilot sister , but also because she ’ s looking for a romance story to write about , and hopes to find on board .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ s captain makes every effort to force his son – who ’ s also a pilot – to fall in love with the journalist , and the two bond while investigating a Vietnam-era love story between yet another Navy pilot and a dancer he met during a Tiger Cruise .
Oh , and our protagonist ’ s deceased father was – you ’ ve guessed it – a Navy pilot .
Despite the journalist ’ s personal rule not to date military guys , originating from her childhood when her father was frequently @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the film , she has fallen for the captain ’ s son , as well as finished her story about that time , 50 years ago , when two people you ’ ve never heard of fell in love and got married .
For his part , the captain ’ s son ( who is at least six inches too tall to be a pilot ) overcomes his obsession with duty , learns to love Christmas , and submits to his father ’ s desire that he begin a relationship with a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the way , he recruits a five-year-old black kid and teaches our protagonist how to walk down a flight of stairs .
90210 actor Trevor Donovan , who plays the son , tweeted his thanks to the Marines from North Carolina ’ s Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune , who agreed to play background extras in the movie .
As this tweet implies , there is more to this film than meets the eye .
Beneath the insipid , saccharine exterior of USS Christmas lies a string of militaristic messages , aimed primarily @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for the Pentagon .
Just as in Pitch Perfect 3 , the plot involves a woman falling in love with a guy who ’ s in the military , hammering home the message that the services are a good place to meet a nice young man .
If you like guys who look like a supernumerary from Triumph of the Will , that is .
However , the film is extremely condescending towards women , suggesting that female journalists want to write only shallow articles about romance .
The problems faced by military @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are also trivialized throughout , and , in a woefully misjudged bit of screenwriting , the journalist ’ s Navy pilot sister has the call-sign ‘ Daddy ’ s Girl ’ .
All aboard the good ship Oedipus !
At the end of the film , our protagonist asks her editor if she can cover the military full-time , because “ They ’ re so important in our community.
” In short , this film encourages the women watching to join the military , fall in love with a man in the military @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s sent halfway round the world and never gets to see the kids ) , or to devote their careers to becoming cheerleaders for the military .
The remarkably similar Operation Christmas Drop is , in part , the result of the Pentagon recognizing the importance of streaming services such as Netflix in increasing the range of its Hollywood office ’ s efforts .
In an interview earlier this year , the Pentagon ’ s Branch Chief for Entertainment Media , Lieutenant Colonel Glen Roberts , paid tribute to his predecessor ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the office , saying , “ Dave Evans did a fantastic job coming in after Phil [ Strub ] and cracking the code on working with many different studios and kind of bringing us up to date on social media and the new venues for entertainment media.
” Just like USS Christmas , Netflix ’ s seasonal offering is a story about a young woman who falls in love with a military officer who wouldn ’ t look out of place on a Nazi propaganda poster , against a backdrop of Yuletide activity @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as an open fire .
The title comes from a real military operation to provide Micronesian islanders with basic foods , tools , equipment , and medical supplies , using air drops out of the aforementioned Andersen Air Force Base .
The Christmas Drop has taken place every year since the 1950s , and is the longest-running DOD operation , and the oldest humanitarian aid drop in the world .
So far , so Santa Claus .
While the PR value of a film honing in on this operation is obvious , the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ an engaging story .
But don ’ t worry – a congresswoman in a Clintonesque blue pants suit wants to close the base , because they ’ re wasting all this money on colonized indigenous types , so she sends her legislative aide out to Guam to conduct a full audit .
The general in charge of the base gets wind of this , so he orders his most silver-tongued , two-faced captain to give the aide a full tour .
The captain sets about convincing the aide that they aren ’ t @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and are solely there to maintain the American empire .
Along the way , the dialogue is peppered with lines that were likely inserted by the Air Force ’ s Hollywood office , including a reference to Space Operations – a PR priority for the US military .
The entire premise of Operation Christmas Drop is absurd – the Pentagon would never close a base on the westernmost border of US territory .
Guam was colonized by the Spanish empire in the 1660s , and was seized by the US during the Spanish-American @ @ @ @ @ @ @ value on the fringes of East Asia makes it a vital square on the chessboard , especially in any potential confrontation with China .
As the film wears on , it emerges that the congresswoman only wants to close the base because the alternative is closing one in her own district .
The dual messages are clear : first , any notion of scaling back the DOD ’ s presence across the world is just a cynical political move , and has nothing to do with excessive expenditure or neo-colonialism .
Second , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by the machinations of elected politicians – indeed , if we could just get rid of democracy – everything would be fine .
The only perspectives offered by the characters in this film are either that helping some of the poorest people in the world is a bad use of public resources , or that thinking about closing US military bases overseas is a moronic consequence of representative democracy .
It ’ s difficult to say which of these films is worse , either as a piece of entertainment or as a propaganda @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with keeping military bases open and weaponizing the spirit of Christmas for militaristic ends , while simultaneously reassuring the audience that no taxpayers ’ money is going to help these indigenous people , thus maintaining colonial prejudices .
Meanwhile , in USS Christmas , the moral of the story is that , if you ’ re a young lady looking for love , then sign up to the US Navy – though you will have to put up with men suggesting you want to have sex with your own father .
Hollywood , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has given us a choice between the devil and the deep blue sea .
And there you have it .
None of this was stopped by Congress .
None of it was stopped by President Trump .
Trump , for all his big talk about draining the swamp , just keeps pumping the swamp full to overflowing into the united States .
Rest assured that it will be even worse in a second term , and even more than that should Joe Biden go into the White House .
Article posted with permission @ @ @ @ @

I don’t know if there is ever going to be anyone with the guys to stop signing spending bills that show a flagrant disregard for the American people’s money or the US Constitution, but here’s another example of why DC needs to either be reigned in or abolished and a new form of government put in its place, as founding father Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence. The Pentagon spent millions of dollars from Americans, without authorization per the Constitution, to literally invade Christmas movies this year to promote the military, and a few other agendas.
Tom Secker has the story.
Love boats, Oedipus complexes, and pants suits on a desert island – a pair of new schmaltzy films, courtesy of the US Department of Defense, are the Christmas present we could all do without.
You know how it goes, you spend half your life waiting for the US military to help make a sentimental, Christmas-themed romantic comedy and then two come along at once: Hallmark’s USS Christmas and Netflix’s Operation Christmas Drop.
Neither film could have been made without military support – nearly half of USS Christmas takes place on board an aircraft carrier, and the scenes were filmed aboard the Battleship North Carolina and the USS Yorktown, courtesy of the US Navy. The plot of Operation Christmas Drop revolves around Andersen Air Force Base in the Western Pacific island of Guam, with full access provided by the US Air Force.
Christmas rom-coms might seem an odd choice for the Pentagon’s entertainment liaison offices to support – neither film depicts war or violence of any kind, after all. But if we unwrap them, what we find beneath the enticing shiny paper and ribbons is not merely the disappointment of the same gift they got you three years ago, but the nagging anxiety and sense of betrayal that comes with an unwelcome present. However, we cannot simply re-gift USS Christmas and Operation Christmas Drop and wash our hands of responsibility for the bad choices of others.
Hallmark, the Pentagon, and a partridge in a pear tree
Why a giant of cinema such as Hallmark would want to work with the Department of Defense (DOD) is difficult to pin down, but the relationship goes back at least a decade. Hundreds of pages of reports from the US military’s Hollywood offices, especially those of the Army, detail numerous collaborations with Hallmark since 2010.
These range from manipulative, tearjerking Mother’s Day video messages from deployed sons and daughters to manipulative, heartwarming military-dog-themed reality shows. Another effort saw them commemorate 2015 Veterans’ Day with a special film featuring a Congressional Medal of Honor recipient receiving the accolade of having a highway interchange dedicated to him.
Supporting these sorts of productions helps the DOD expand both its fans and its market share – the lifeblood for any entertainment-media concern. As one Army report notes, regarding its support to the Second Annual Hero Dog Awards Show, “By airing on the Hallmark Channel, the demonstration of the Army serving as America’s Force of Decisive Action reached an audience that it might not typically reach.”
How a golden retriever could ever be a ‘Force of Decisive Action’; however, the report doesn’t clarify.
The point is that while Man of Steel and the Transformers franchise act as attention-grabbing recruitment commercials for teenage boys and young men, in order to reach young women and their mothers, the Pentagon has to try something other than blockbusters about good aliens fighting bad aliens with the help of F-35s and the National Guard.
Likewise, few films and TV shows aimed at women have the necessary story components for promoting the military as the solution to all problems. Enter Pitch Perfect 3, Captain Marvel, and some of the worst Christmas films you’ve ever seen.
USS Christmas: An exercise in cringe and condescension
Both of these films are based on real-life military traditions, with USS Christmas locking its sights on the US Navy’s Tiger Cruise program, which allows the families of service members to take cruises on Navy ships. In the past, it was aimed at civilians in general, but women could participate only if there were already other women on board. As an LA Times article from 1990 promoting the program put it, ‘How about a cruise ship without bartenders, bands, entertainment, waiters, gift shops, gourmet meals, and midnight buffets? And most of the time without women!’
Homosexual subtexts aside, the program has been adapted into a morale-boosting effort so that active-duty sailors can spend some time with their families, and to generate support from families alongside positive PR. Guidelines published by the Navy outline what to bring, and, more importantly, what not to bring on a Tiger Cruise. Among the forbidden items are “weapons of any sort,” as well as alcohol, illegal drugs and “obscene clothing.”
In USS Christmas, a young female journalist is working for a local newspaper on a story about a banking scandal, but she’s bored and looking for something less substantial. She asks her editor for permission to go on a Tiger Cruise so she can spend some of the festive season with her Navy pilot sister, but also because she’s looking for a romance story to write about, and hopes to find on board. During the voyage, the ship’s captain makes every effort to force his son – who’s also a pilot – to fall in love with the journalist, and the two bond while investigating a Vietnam-era love story between yet another Navy pilot and a dancer he met during a Tiger Cruise. Oh, and our protagonist’s deceased father was – you’ve guessed it – a Navy pilot.
Despite the journalist’s personal rule not to date military guys, originating from her childhood when her father was frequently away from home, by the end of the film, she has fallen for the captain’s son, as well as finished her story about that time, 50 years ago, when two people you’ve never heard of fell in love and got married.
For his part, the captain’s son (who is at least six inches too tall to be a pilot) overcomes his obsession with duty, learns to love Christmas, and submits to his father’s desire that he begin a relationship with a woman he has just met. Along the way, he recruits a five-year-old black kid and teaches our protagonist how to walk down a flight of stairs.
90210 actor Trevor Donovan, who plays the son, tweeted his thanks to the Marines from North Carolina’s Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, who agreed to play background extras in the movie.
Big thanks to the service members from Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune who participated in the Navy Ball scene in Wilmington for #USSChristmas. “USS Christmas” premieres on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries on Saturday, Nov. 28 at 9 p.m. pic.twitter.com/OeMa0f4aL6 — Trevor Donovan (@TrevDon) October 15, 2020
As this tweet implies, there is more to this film than meets the eye. Beneath the insipid, saccharine exterior of USS Christmas lies a string of militaristic messages, aimed primarily at turning women into recruits or advocates for the Pentagon. Just as in Pitch Perfect 3 , the plot involves a woman falling in love with a guy who’s in the military, hammering home the message that the services are a good place to meet a nice young man. If you like guys who look like a supernumerary from Triumph of the Will , that is.
However, the film is extremely condescending towards women, suggesting that female journalists want to write only shallow articles about romance. The problems faced by military spouses, who are primarily women, are also trivialized throughout, and, in a woefully misjudged bit of screenwriting, the journalist’s Navy pilot sister has the call-sign ‘Daddy’s Girl’. All aboard the good ship Oedipus!
At the end of the film, our protagonist asks her editor if she can cover the military full-time, because “They’re so important in our community.” In short, this film encourages the women watching to join the military, fall in love with a man in the military (but not to complain when he’s sent halfway round the world and never gets to see the kids), or to devote their careers to becoming cheerleaders for the military.
Operation Christmas Drop: An exercise in incredulity
The remarkably similar Operation Christmas Drop is, in part, the result of the Pentagon recognizing the importance of streaming services such as Netflix in increasing the range of its Hollywood office’s efforts. In an interview earlier this year, the Pentagon’s Branch Chief for Entertainment Media, Lieutenant Colonel Glen Roberts, paid tribute to his predecessor’s work in expanding the scope of the office, saying, “Dave Evans did a fantastic job coming in after Phil [Strub] and cracking the code on working with many different studios and kind of bringing us up to date on social media and the new venues for entertainment media.”
Just like USS Christmas, Netflix’s seasonal offering is a story about a young woman who falls in love with a military officer who wouldn’t look out of place on a Nazi propaganda poster, against a backdrop of Yuletide activity that makes the military look as cuddly as an open fire.
The title comes from a real military operation to provide Micronesian islanders with basic foods, tools, equipment, and medical supplies, using air drops out of the aforementioned Andersen Air Force Base. The Christmas Drop has taken place every year since the 1950s, and is the longest-running DOD operation, and the oldest humanitarian aid drop in the world. So far, so Santa Claus.
While the PR value of a film honing in on this operation is obvious, the air drops alone do not make for an engaging story. But don’t worry – a congresswoman in a Clintonesque blue pants suit wants to close the base, because they’re wasting all this money on colonized indigenous types, so she sends her legislative aide out to Guam to conduct a full audit. The general in charge of the base gets wind of this, so he orders his most silver-tongued, two-faced captain to give the aide a full tour. The captain sets about convincing the aide that they aren’t wasting taxpayers’ money on humanitarianism, and are solely there to maintain the American empire. Along the way, the dialogue is peppered with lines that were likely inserted by the Air Force’s Hollywood office, including a reference to Space Operations – a PR priority for the US military.
The entire premise of Operation Christmas Drop is absurd – the Pentagon would never close a base on the westernmost border of US territory. Guam was colonized by the Spanish empire in the 1660s, and was seized by the US during the Spanish-American war. The base’s geostrategic value on the fringes of East Asia makes it a vital square on the chessboard, especially in any potential confrontation with China.
As the film wears on, it emerges that the congresswoman only wants to close the base because the alternative is closing one in her own district. The dual messages are clear: first, any notion of scaling back the DOD’s presence across the world is just a cynical political move, and has nothing to do with excessive expenditure or neo-colonialism. Second, if only the DOD could operate unencumbered by the machinations of elected politicians – indeed, if we could just get rid of democracy – everything would be fine.
The only perspectives offered by the characters in this film are either that helping some of the poorest people in the world is a bad use of public resources, or that thinking about closing US military bases overseas is a moronic consequence of representative democracy.
Weaponizing the spirit of Christmas
It’s difficult to say which of these films is worse, either as a piece of entertainment or as a propaganda exercise. Operation Christmas Drop equates generosity with keeping military bases open and weaponizing the spirit of Christmas for militaristic ends, while simultaneously reassuring the audience that no taxpayers’ money is going to help these indigenous people, thus maintaining colonial prejudices.
Meanwhile, in USS Christmas, the moral of the story is that, if you’re a young lady looking for love, then sign up to the US Navy – though you will have to put up with men suggesting you want to have sex with your own father.
Hollywood, with considerable help from the Pentagon, has given us a choice between the devil and the deep blue sea.
And there you have it. None of this was stopped by Congress. None of it was stopped by President Trump. Trump, for all his big talk about draining the swamp, just keeps pumping the swamp full to overflowing into the united States. Rest assured that it will be even worse in a second term, and even more than that should Joe Biden go into the White House.
Article posted with permission from Sons of Liberty Media


thewashingtonstandard--2020-12-27--WHO Scrubs Naturally Acquired Immunity, Fauci & General Health With Kate Shemirani

This week , it was discovered the World Health Organization scrubbed naturally acquired immunity from its website .
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thewashingtonstandard--2020-12-26--Former Congressional Candidate Arrested After Abducting 12-Year-Old Girl

Well , it appears this goes on all the time despite what the media and corrupt politicians would have you believe .
A former Virginia congressional candidate was arrested this past week at Denver airport for abducting a 12-year-old California girl .
An avowed white supremacist who ran for Congress in 2018 while advocating for pedophilia and rape was arrested last week for allegedly kidnapping a 12-year-old girl .
The Fresno County Sheriff ’ s Department said in statement that Nathan Daniel Larson of Virginia was taken into custody during a flight layover in Denver .
Authorities said they had @ @ @ @ @ @ @ girl from Fresno , Calif. , on Dec. 14 .
Police believe the girl met Larson on social media in mid-October , and that she was coerced into running away with him to the East Coast .
Police believe she headed to Fresno Yosemite International Airport to catch a cross-country flight to Virginia to be with Larson .
Authorities in Denver say they checked the airport and discovered Larson with the child during a layover .
“ Agents rescued the girl , who was uninjured , and made arrangements to have her reunited @ @ @ @ @ @ @ she was later on Monday night , ” the sheriff ’ s office said in a statement .
Investigators say Larson had flown to California and traveled to the child ’ s home , where he persuaded her to sneak out of her house around 2 a.m. “ Larson made her wear a long hair wig to alter her appearance , ” authorities said in the statement .
“ He also told her to act as though she was disabled and unable to speak to ensure she would not converse with anyone at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the airplane.
” Detectives searched Larson ’ s home in Virginia and found electronic devices that revealed he runs a website that encourages pedophilia and child rape , according to deputies .
In a press conference midday Saturday , Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims said on the morning of Dec. 14 , her office received a report of a missing 12-year-old girl who may have been coerced into running away with an older man who she met on social media in mid-October .
Detectives with the Central California Internet Crimes Against Children Task @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Detectives contacted law enforcement authorities ( in Denver ) and asked that they check the airport for Larson and the child .
A Denver Police officer assigned to the local FBI Task Force located Larson and arrested him .
Agents rescued the girl , who was uninjured , and made arrangements to have her reunited with her family in Fresno , which she was later on Monday night , ” the Fresno County Sheriff ’ s Office said in a statement .
On Dec. 17 , Fauquier County , Virginia authorities searched Larson @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
While there , Larson ’ s father , 69-year-old Arthur Larson , allegedly assaulted a Homeland Security Investigations agent .
The elder Larson was arrested for assault and battery and later released from jail after posting bond .
Detectives seized electronic devices during the search of the Virginia home .
“ During the investigation , detectives uncovered Nathan Larson has a deeply disturbing background .
He is a white supremacist and a well-known advocate for pedophilia .
This is a man who runs a website , which encourages the raping of children @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of children being raped .
During the past two months , Larson was able to convince the Fresno girl , through manipulation and grooming , to send him pornographic images of herself , ” the sheriff ’ s office said .
Additionally , according to Mims , Larson threatened to kill the president of the United States in December 2008 while he lived in Boulder , Colorado .
At the time , George W. Bush was president and Barack Obama had just been elected .
Larson pleaded guilty in federal court .
In @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 16 months in federal prison .
He served 14 months .
In 2017 , Larson ran for political office as an independent , seeking to become a member of the Virginia House of Delegates representing District 31 .
He went on to lose the race .
Clearly , this is the problem .
When you threaten to kill the president and all you get is 14 months in prison , let back out onto the streets to run for political office , you are only encouraged to engage in more criminal activity .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ the man never breathes another breath if found guilty in this matter .
Article posted with permission from Sons of Liberty Media

Well, it appears this goes on all the time despite what the media and corrupt politicians would have you believe. A former Virginia congressional candidate was arrested this past week at Denver airport for abducting a 12-year-old California girl.
Nathan Larson, 40, was allegedly caught trying to transport the girl across the https://t.co/f9SuTE9RhD — Relationship Advice (@dogetyourexback) December 24, 2020
The Hill reports:
An avowed white supremacist who ran for Congress in 2018 while advocating for pedophilia and rape was arrested last week for allegedly kidnapping a 12-year-old girl.
The Fresno County Sheriff’s Department said in statement that Nathan Daniel Larson of Virginia was taken into custody during a flight layover in Denver.
Authorities said they had received a report of a missing 12-year-old girl from Fresno, Calif., on Dec. 14. Police believe the girl met Larson on social media in mid-October, and that she was coerced into running away with him to the East Coast.
Police believe she headed to Fresno Yosemite International Airport to catch a cross-country flight to Virginia to be with Larson. Authorities in Denver say they checked the airport and discovered Larson with the child during a layover.
“Agents rescued the girl, who was uninjured, and made arrangements to have her reunited with her family in Fresno, which she was later on Monday night,” the sheriff’s office said in a statement.
Investigators say Larson had flown to California and traveled to the child’s home, where he persuaded her to sneak out of her house around 2 a.m.
“Larson made her wear a long hair wig to alter her appearance,” authorities said in the statement. “He also told her to act as though she was disabled and unable to speak to ensure she would not converse with anyone at the airport while making their way onto the airplane.”
Detectives searched Larson’s home in Virginia and found electronic devices that revealed he runs a website that encourages pedophilia and child rape, according to deputies.
KDVR added:
In a press conference midday Saturday, Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims said on the morning of Dec. 14, her office received a report of a missing 12-year-old girl who may have been coerced into running away with an older man who she met on social media in mid-October.
Detectives with the Central California Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force took over the investigation.
“Detectives contacted law enforcement authorities (in Denver) and asked that they check the airport for Larson and the child. A Denver Police officer assigned to the local FBI Task Force located Larson and arrested him. Agents rescued the girl, who was uninjured, and made arrangements to have her reunited with her family in Fresno, which she was later on Monday night,” the Fresno County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.
…
On Dec. 17, Fauquier County, Virginia authorities searched Larson’s home in Catlett, Virginia. While there, Larson’s father, 69-year-old Arthur Larson, allegedly assaulted a Homeland Security Investigations agent. The elder Larson was arrested for assault and battery and later released from jail after posting bond.
Detectives seized electronic devices during the search of the Virginia home.
“During the investigation, detectives uncovered Nathan Larson has a deeply disturbing
background. He is a white supremacist and a well-known advocate for pedophilia. This is a
man who runs a website, which encourages the raping of children and sharing of naked
photos and video of children being raped. During the past two months, Larson was able to
convince the Fresno girl, through manipulation and grooming, to send him pornographic
images of herself,” the sheriff’s office said.
Additionally, according to Mims, Larson threatened to kill the president of the United States in December 2008 while he lived in Boulder, Colorado. At the time, George W. Bush was president and Barack Obama had just been elected.
Larson pleaded guilty in federal court. In October 2009, he was sentenced to 16 months in federal prison. He served 14 months.
In 2017, Larson ran for political office as an independent, seeking to become a member of the Virginia House of Delegates representing District 31. He went on to lose the race.
Clearly, this is the problem. When you threaten to kill the president and all you get is 14 months in prison, let back out onto the streets to run for political office, you are only encouraged to engage in more criminal activity. A bit of justice would suffice that the man never breathes another breath if found guilty in this matter.
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thewashingtonstandard--2020-12-26--Another Flawed Data Model From Imperial College To Blame For Latest UK Lockdown

The source behind the claim that a new COVID-19 strain in the UK is 70 % more transmissible , Dr. Erik Volz of Imperial College , admits that the model that produced that statistic is flawed and that it is “ too early to tell ” if the strain is more easily spread .
On Saturday , UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced extreme new measures just before the holidays due to the emergence of a new COVID-19 variant .
Per Johnson , as well as the UK ’ s Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty who also spoke at Saturday @ @ @ @ @ @ @ strain – nicknamed VUI-202012/01 – is around 70 % more transmissible , but no evidence shows it to be any more severe or deadly than previous strains .
According to the BBC , Johnson ’ s assertion that the new variant “ may be up to 70 % more transmissible , ” was based on the information discussed the day prior by the UK government ’ s New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group , or NERVTAG .
Yet , as the BBC notes , this figure apparently comes from a single @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by Dr. Erik Volz of Imperial College given last Friday , the same day as the NERVTAG meeting .
Volz – a close colleague of the discredited Neil Ferguson – delivered the presentation to COVID-19 Genomics UK ( COG-UK ) , a research consortium largely funded by the UK government and the Wellcome Trust and , in particular , the Wellcome Sanger Institute .
The Wellcome Sanger Institute recently came under fire for “ misusing ” the DNA of Africans to develop a “ gene chip without proper legal agreements ” and an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ties of the Wellcome Trust to the UK eugenics movement , the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine .
Notably , the Wellcome-funded scientist behind that vaccine candidate , Adrian Hill , was recently quoted by the Washington Post as saying that “ We ’ re in the bizarre position of wanting COVID to stay , at least for a little while…But cases are declining.
” The UK government , Google and other powerful stakeholders are positioned to profit from sales of that particular vaccine candidate .
According to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ COG-UK “ has resulted in the generation of > 40,000 SARS-CoV-2 sequences from the country in < 6 months ( approximately half of all genomes sequenced globally as of 7 July ) ” and “ has facilitated the usage of robust and systematic sampling and shared bioinformatic and laboratory approaches and the collection of consistent core metadata , resulting in a large , high-resolution dataset capable of examining changes in virus biology in the United Kingdom.
” However , in his presentation last Friday , Volz repeatedly downplays the quality of COG-UK ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the validity of the model used to justify the 70 % figure , raising obvious questions as to why Boris Johnson would cite the figure so prominently and use it to justify draconian lockdown measures during the holiday season as well as the arbitrary creation of a new , more extreme lockdown tier .
In comparing the new strain , which Volz refers to in the presentation as N501Y , to another strain named A222V , Volz states that “ We ’ re still basically in the very early stages , we basically @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , whereas we have now observed A222V for 3 months.
” After noting the limited nature of the dataset for N501Y , Volz stated that “ the growth [ in cases for the new strain ] does appear to be larger.
” He then quickly adds the caveat that “ trends you see early on don ’ t always pan out , you need to let more data accumulate.
” Volz then goes on to compare the transmissibility of A222V and N501Y .
Regarding the model used to determine A222V ’ s transmissibility @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is not particularly good ” given that “ there are lots of outliers early on and there are lots of outliers quite late.
” He concludes that “ we wouldn ’ t expect that a logistical growth model is necessarily appropriate in this case.
” However , he uses this “ not necessarily appropriate ” model of a poor fit to compare to the new strain .
Yet , even with the model for the new strain ’ s transmissibility , Volz states that it ’ s “ too early to tell ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , stating that the 70 % figure estimated by the model is based on “ the current state of our knowledge , ” which again is based on 1 month of data and its trends , trends that Volz also noted “ don ’ t always pan out.
” Volz then adds that the sparse datasets used to develop the transmissibility model for the new strain had some issues , stating that “ the sample frequency is very noisy and overdispersed.
” Later on in the presentation , Volz states that the data @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ non-random and very noisy sampling , ” bringing into question not only the limited amount of data in terms of time , but also the quality of that data .
After noting the glaring flaws in both models he is comparing , and that it is “ too early to tell ” much of anything about N501Y , Volz states that N501Y is “ growing faster than A222V ever grew.
” Volz ’ s presentation follows his release , alongside Imperial College professor and NERVTAG member Wendy Barclay , of the preliminary @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Volz ’ s presentation last Friday and this preliminary characterization , first published on December 19 , were the main sources of data considered at the NERVTAG meeting .
Notably , the study , written for the UK government and Wellcome Trust-funded COG-UK , has yet to be peer-reviewed and makes no mention of increased transmissibility or the 70 % figure .
Volz ’ s colleague , Neil Ferguson , also played a key role in promoting the need for more restrictive lockdowns due to this new genetic variant .
Ferguson was caught @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lockdowns he had heavily promoted and arguably orchestrated in order to visit his lover .
He has also previously attracted heavy criticism for a history of producing flawed models , particularly his wildly inaccurate predictions regarding the anticipated COVID-19 death toll that were largely used to justify earlier lockdowns in the UK .
Despite his relatively recent fall from grace , Ferguson remains part of NERVTAG and was also part of last Friday ’ s meeting to discuss the new strain .
That meeting was said to “ have played a pivotal role @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mind – and led to Saturday ’ s announcement that Christmas was effectively canceled for millions.
” However , much like Volz ’ s tone within his presentation , the NERVTAG meeting did not authoritatively agree on the 70 % transmissibility rate .
Instead , a majority of the body ’ s members opposed any sort of “ immediate action over the new mutation ” and had wanted “ to wait for more evidence.
” The minutes of the meeting , as cited by the Daily Mail , noted that NERVTAG had only @ @ @ @ @ @ @ strain was more transmissible and had concluded that there was “ currently insufficient data to answer crucial questions on the new strain , ” including its alleged increased transmissibility .
Compounding the issue was also the fact that , as noted by NERVTAG ’ s meeting minutes , the new strain “ can be challenging to sequence , ” meaning that it is not easily identified relative to other strains .
Notably , while most NERVTAG members opposed the sort of “ immediate action ” that Johnson announced following their meeting , Ferguson @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the NERVTAG meeting and claimed that the UK needed to go into a third lockdown more restrictive than any previous lockdown .
Ferguson appears to be a key member of the “ vocal minority which believes that… we should be panicking much more frequently ” that a senior Whitehall source cited as “ bullying ” the UK government into taking more extreme actions in recent days in a recent conversation with the Daily Mail .
In the few days since the measures were announced , Ferguson has become the main source for claims @ @ @ @ @ @ @ higher propensity to infect children , ” though he has also stated that “ we haven ’ t established any sort of causality on that , but we can see it in the data.
” However , he also notes that “ we will need to gather more data ” to actually determine if children are more easily infected by the new strain .
Another NERVTAG member and also a professor from Imperial College , Wendy Barclay , also repeated the unproven claim that the new variant increasingly infects children , stating that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ susceptible to this virus as adults.
” Barclay ’ s laboratory at the Imperial College is funded by the UK government and the Wellcome Trust .
Despite Ferguson ’ s admission that there is no actual evidence to back up that claim , mainstream media headlines in the UK like “ UK coronavirus variant may be more able to infect children – scientists ” and others implied the statement was based on more than just speculation from incomplete , biased datasets .
The over-hyped concern about children being reportedly more susceptible to the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ increased vaccination of that demographic , which has been shown to be largely unaffected by previous COVID-19 strains relative to other age groups .
Critics of the questionable narrative already labeled “ conspiracy theorists ” The lack of legitimate consensus from NERVTAG and related institutions like Imperial College on the new strain ’ s transmissibility has weakened Johnson ’ s claims that crippling Christmas lockdowns are necessary as well as his justifications for the further new restrictive lockdown measures , so much so that it has even drawn criticism from mainstream media sources @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ABC News .
Despite the dubious justification for the lockdowns being glaring enough to be noted by the mainstream , the UK government is reportedly now “ monitoring social media for conspiracy theorists ” after government surveillance of social media reactions following Saturday ’ s press conference revealed that “ many are unconcerned by the new variant ” with some being “ more skeptical ” and noting the “ concurrence of a new variant with the approval of a vaccine was suspicious timing.
” Media reports on the UK government ’ s monitoring @ @ @ @ @ @ @ strain stated that “ the conspiracies come despite the UK government ’ s New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group ( NERVTAG ) outlining the potential severity of the new variant.
” Those reports failed to note that the NERVTAG minutes revealed a lack of consensus for the new lockdown and a lack of confidence the increased transmissibility of the new strain .
Per this narrative , outlets like ABC News and even the majority of NERVTAG members who did not feel there was enough evidence to justify the claims of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be deemed “ conspiracy theorists.
” The narrative surrounding the new strain and the affiliated lockdowns provides a clear example of how easily “ expert opinion ” can be manipulated to support a particular policy in the absence of any legitimate justification .
The actual consensus of the NERVTAG meeting as well as the experts quoted by mainstream media outlets that dissent from those of the “ vocal minority ” , represented by Neil Ferguson and Wendy Barclay , have been largely ignored in UK mainstream media reports and the UK government itself @ @ @ @ @ @ @ would delegitimize the resulting policy .
Instead , those who dissent from the clearly questionable narrative are being quickly labeled “ conspiracy theorists ” by the UK government , a move that will likely result in an expansion of the UK ’ s already declared war against independent reporting and social media posts that dare to question and/or challenge the government ’ s favored narrative .

The source behind the claim that a new COVID-19 strain in the UK is 70% more transmissible, Dr. Erik Volz of Imperial College, admits that the model that produced that statistic is flawed and that it is “too early to tell” if the strain is more easily spread.
On Saturday, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced extreme new measures just before the holidays due to the emergence of a new COVID-19 variant. Per Johnson, as well as the UK’s Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty who also spoke at Saturday’s press conference, the new strain – nicknamed VUI-202012/01 – is around 70% more transmissible, but no evidence shows it to be any more severe or deadly than previous strains.
According to the BBC, Johnson’s assertion that the new variant “may be up to 70% more transmissible,” was based on the information discussed the day prior by the UK government’s New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group, or NERVTAG. Yet, as the BBC notes, this figure apparently comes from a single source, a 10 minute presentation delivered by Dr. Erik Volz of Imperial College given last Friday, the same day as the NERVTAG meeting.
Volz – a close colleague of the discredited Neil Ferguson – delivered the presentation to COVID-19 Genomics UK (COG-UK), a research consortium largely funded by the UK government and the Wellcome Trust and, in particular, the Wellcome Sanger Institute. The Wellcome Sanger Institute recently came under fire for “misusing” the DNA of Africans to develop a “gene chip without proper legal agreements” and an upcoming Unlimited Hangout report will detail the ties of the Wellcome Trust to the UK eugenics movement, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine. Notably, the Wellcome-funded scientist behind that vaccine candidate, Adrian Hill, was recently quoted by the Washington Post as saying that “We’re in the bizarre position of wanting COVID to stay, at least for a little while…But cases are declining.” The UK government, Google and other powerful stakeholders are positioned to profit from sales of that particular vaccine candidate.
According to Volz’s most recent publication, COG-UK “has resulted in the generation of >40,000 SARS-CoV-2 sequences from the country in <6 months (approximately half of all genomes sequenced globally as of 7 July)” and “has facilitated the usage of robust and systematic sampling and shared bioinformatic and laboratory approaches and the collection of consistent core metadata, resulting in a large, high-resolution dataset capable of examining changes in virus biology in the United Kingdom.”
However, in his presentation last Friday, Volz repeatedly downplays the quality of COG-UK’s sampling and, by extension, the validity of the model used to justify the 70% figure, raising obvious questions as to why Boris Johnson would cite the figure so prominently and use it to justify draconian lockdown measures during the holiday season as well as the arbitrary creation of a new, more extreme lockdown tier.
In comparing the new strain, which Volz refers to in the presentation as N501Y, to another strain named A222V, Volz states that “We’re still basically in the very early stages, we basically have one month of growth for comparison, whereas we have now observed A222V for 3 months.” After noting the limited nature of the dataset for N501Y, Volz stated that “the growth [in cases for the new strain] does appear to be larger.” He then quickly adds the caveat that “trends you see early on don’t always pan out, you need to let more data accumulate.”
Volz then goes on to compare the transmissibility of A222V and N501Y. Regarding the model used to determine A222V’s transmissibility, Volz states that “model fit is not particularly good” given that “there are lots of outliers early on and there are lots of outliers quite late.” He concludes that “we wouldn’t expect that a logistical growth model is necessarily appropriate in this case.” However, he uses this “not necessarily appropriate” model of a poor fit to compare to the new strain.
Yet, even with the model for the new strain’s transmissibility, Volz states that it’s “too early to tell” what N501Y’s transmissibility even is, stating that the 70% figure estimated by the model is based on “the current state of our knowledge,” which again is based on 1 month of data and its trends, trends that Volz also noted “don’t always pan out.” Volz then adds that the sparse datasets used to develop the transmissibility model for the new strain had some issues, stating that “the sample frequency is very noisy and overdispersed.” Later on in the presentation, Volz states that the data, provided by COG-UK, was both “non-random and very noisy sampling,” bringing into question not only the limited amount of data in terms of time, but also the quality of that data. After noting the glaring flaws in both models he is comparing, and that it is “too early to tell” much of anything about N501Y, Volz states that N501Y is “growing faster than A222V ever grew.”
Volz’s presentation follows his release, alongside Imperial College professor and NERVTAG member Wendy Barclay, of the preliminary genomic characterization of the new strain. Volz’s presentation last Friday and this preliminary characterization, first published on December 19, were the main sources of data considered at the NERVTAG meeting. Notably, the study, written for the UK government and Wellcome Trust-funded COG-UK, has yet to be peer-reviewed and makes no mention of increased transmissibility or the 70% figure.
Ferguson’s Return
Volz’s colleague, Neil Ferguson, also played a key role in promoting the need for more restrictive lockdowns due to this new genetic variant. Ferguson was caught in May breaking the rules of previous lockdowns he had heavily promoted and arguably orchestrated in order to visit his lover. He has also previously attracted heavy criticism for a history of producing flawed models, particularly his wildly inaccurate predictions regarding the anticipated COVID-19 death toll that were largely used to justify earlier lockdowns in the UK. Despite his relatively recent fall from grace, Ferguson remains part of NERVTAG and was also part of last Friday’s meeting to discuss the new strain. That meeting was said to “have played a pivotal role in changing the Prime Minister’s mind – and led to Saturday’s announcement that Christmas was effectively canceled for millions.”
However, much like Volz’s tone within his presentation, the NERVTAG meeting did not authoritatively agree on the 70% transmissibility rate. Instead, a majority of the body’s members opposed any sort of “immediate action over the new mutation” and had wanted “to wait for more evidence.” The minutes of the meeting, as cited by the Daily Mail, noted that NERVTAG had only “moderate confidence” that the new strain was more transmissible and had concluded that there was “currently insufficient data to answer crucial questions on the new strain,” including its alleged increased transmissibility. Compounding the issue was also the fact that, as noted by NERVTAG’s meeting minutes, the new strain “can be challenging to sequence,” meaning that it is not easily identified relative to other strains.
Notably, while most NERVTAG members opposed the sort of “immediate action” that Johnson announced following their meeting, Ferguson appeared on the BBC the day of the NERVTAG meeting and claimed that the UK needed to go into a third lockdown more restrictive than any previous lockdown. Ferguson appears to be a key member of the “vocal minority which believes that… we should be panicking much more frequently” that a senior Whitehall source cited as “bullying” the UK government into taking more extreme actions in recent days in a recent conversation with the Daily Mail.
In the few days since the measures were announced, Ferguson has become the main source for claims that the new variant “has a higher propensity to infect children,” though he has also stated that “we haven’t established any sort of causality on that, but we can see it in the data.” However, he also notes that “we will need to gather more data” to actually determine if children are more easily infected by the new strain. Another NERVTAG member and also a professor from Imperial College, Wendy Barclay, also repeated the unproven claim that the new variant increasingly infects children, stating that “children are, perhaps, equally susceptible to this virus as adults.” Barclay’s laboratory at the Imperial College is funded by the UK government and the Wellcome Trust.
Despite Ferguson’s admission that there is no actual evidence to back up that claim, mainstream media headlines in the UK like “UK coronavirus variant may be more able to infect children – scientists” and others implied the statement was based on more than just speculation from incomplete, biased datasets. The over-hyped concern about children being reportedly more susceptible to the new variant could be used to justify increased vaccination of that demographic, which has been shown to be largely unaffected by previous COVID-19 strains relative to other age groups.
Critics of the questionable narrative already labeled “conspiracy theorists”
The lack of legitimate consensus from NERVTAG and related institutions like Imperial College on the new strain’s transmissibility has weakened Johnson’s claims that crippling Christmas lockdowns are necessary as well as his justifications for the further new restrictive lockdown measures, so much so that it has even drawn criticism from mainstream media sources outside of the UK, such as ABC News.
Despite the dubious justification for the lockdowns being glaring enough to be noted by the mainstream, the UK government is reportedly now “monitoring social media for conspiracy theorists” after government surveillance of social media reactions following Saturday’s press conference revealed that “many are unconcerned by the new variant” with some being “more skeptical” and noting the “concurrence of a new variant with the approval of a vaccine was suspicious timing.”
Media reports on the UK government’s monitoring for “misinformation” regarding the new strain stated that “the conspiracies come despite the UK government’s New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (NERVTAG) outlining the potential severity of the new variant.” Those reports failed to note that the NERVTAG minutes revealed a lack of consensus for the new lockdown and a lack of confidence the increased transmissibility of the new strain. Per this narrative, outlets like ABC News and even the majority of NERVTAG members who did not feel there was enough evidence to justify the claims of the new strain’s transmissibility, could be deemed “conspiracy theorists.”
The narrative surrounding the new strain and the affiliated lockdowns provides a clear example of how easily “expert opinion” can be manipulated to support a particular policy in the absence of any legitimate justification. The actual consensus of the NERVTAG meeting as well as the experts quoted by mainstream media outlets that dissent from those of the “vocal minority”, represented by Neil Ferguson and Wendy Barclay, have been largely ignored in UK mainstream media reports and the UK government itself, presumably because citing such inconvenient facts would delegitimize the resulting policy. Instead, those who dissent from the clearly questionable narrative are being quickly labeled “conspiracy theorists” by the UK government, a move that will likely result in an expansion of the UK’s already declared war against independent reporting and social media posts that dare to question and/or challenge the government’s favored narrative.
Article posted with permission from Whitney Webb


thewashingtonstandard--2020-12-26--CONvid-1984 & The Agendas To Come

CONvid-1984 & The Agendas To Come

The narrative regarding CONvid-19 has been utterly debunked and yet , the media and lying politicians continue to try and advance their agenda with it .
Investigative journalist Spiro Skouras recently interviewed James Perloff regarding what ’ s taken place this year with CONvid and what we can expect to see in the near future .
As we approach the final days of 2020 , Spiro is joined by author , journalist and recently retired registered nurse , James Perloff , to reflect on what is widely considered to be the wildest and worst year perhaps in our lifetimes .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ world would like us to believe this is all by chance and we must blindly follow their mandates and restrictions in order to mitigate this crisis .
Spiro and Perloff delve beyond the surface of this crisis to explore potential motives behind what appears to be a pre-planned agenda attached to the current crisis in order to facilitate the most significant transition in human history .
James Perloff shares information from his new book titled COVID-19 and the Agendas to Come , Red-Pilled which reveals what the social engineers have in store for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to check out our report on the World Health Organization ’ s scrubbing of naturally acquired immunity from their website .
Also , listen to The Sons of Liberty radio show from Saturday morning where our health and wellness expert Kate Shemirani and I discuss this and much more .
Article posted with permission from Sons of Liberty Media

The narrative regarding CONvid-19 has been utterly debunked and yet, the media and lying politicians continue to try and advance their agenda with it. Investigative journalist Spiro Skouras recently interviewed James Perloff regarding what’s taken place this year with CONvid and what we can expect to see in the near future.
As we approach the final days of 2020, Spiro is joined by author, journalist and recently retired registered nurse, James Perloff, to reflect on what is widely considered to be the wildest and worst year perhaps in our lifetimes.
The media and the governments around the world would like us to believe this is all by chance and we must blindly follow their mandates and restrictions in order to mitigate this crisis.
Spiro and Perloff delve beyond the surface of this crisis to explore potential motives behind what appears to be a pre-planned agenda attached to the current crisis in order to facilitate the most significant transition in human history.
James Perloff shares information from his new book titled COVID-19 and the Agendas to Come, Red-Pilled which reveals what the social engineers have in store for the future of humanity.
Be sure to check out our report on the World Health Organization’s scrubbing of naturally acquired immunity from their website.
Also, listen to The Sons of Liberty radio show from Saturday morning where our health and wellness expert Kate Shemirani and I discuss this and much more.
Article posted with permission from Sons of Liberty Media


thewashingtonstandard--2020-12-26--Could the Next Standing Rock Be Brewing in Northern Minnesota?

Despite sub-zero winter temperatures , a conflict over a controversial new pipeline is threatening to boil over in rural Minnesota , turning it into the next Standing Rock .
22 people were arrested last week during protests in Aitkin County , around 120 miles north of Minneapolis , for trespassing against the construction of the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline .
The pipeline project would carry more than 750,000 barrels of fracked Alberta tar sand oil through the United States .
Activists from environmental and indigenous groups are braving the snow to form a barrier to the construction of a pipeline @ @ @ @ @ @ @ through a number of delicate ecosystems , threatening many of the state ’ s famous rivers and lakes .
Other segments of the new pipeline have already been completed in Canada , North Dakota , and Wisconsin , leaving only the 337-mile Minnesotan section to be constructed .
The final go-ahead for the nearly $ 3 billion project was given late last month .
Around 2,000 people are currently employed on the Minnesotan portion , with 2,000 more expected to join soon .
Yet a whole range of environmental groups , including Greenpeace @ @ @ @ @ @ @ out strongly against its construction .
They have been joined by a number of local legislators .
Reporter and photographer Emma Fiala recorded their visit to the protest encampment for MintPress , which included two individuals staying high up in the trees .
“ We have a moral imperative to do our part of mitigating the damage of the climate crisis , ” said Jen McEwen , Senator-elect from District 7 in Duluth , “ If this happens right now while we are at the helm of these decisions , history will not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have existed since 2017 .
However , there is a feeling that , with construction beginning , something big might be about to happen , turning Aitkin County into the next Standing Rock .
That is certainly the worry of local police , who have been engaged in constant monitoring of the protesters , with documents showing they have repeatedly turned to North Dakota officials responsible for the militarized crackdown at Standing Rock for guidance .
The state of Minnesota is clearly expecting trouble and does not want to be left with a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Dakota was following the massive protests at Standing Rock .
As a condition of its approval of the pipeline , the state required Enbridge to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in expected future policing costs up front .
While this might have been financially prudent , it has led to a situation where Enbridge is effectively calling the shots , working closely with law enforcement to suppress dissent .
One county sheriff even admitted that the oil company had donated the tools that he used to cut loose pipeline opponents who had @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The molding of state and corporation goes further , as considerable resources have been spent on monitoring and spying on the water protectors .
“ When you walk in the grocery store of a town of 200 people , and there ’ s some guy taking a picture of you with a cellphone , that ’ s really obvious , ” said one leader .
However , others have alleged a near-constant network of surveillance , including drones and the use of informants and undercover agents posing as protesters , in what @ @ @ @ @ @ @ MintPress spoke to a number of environmental groups opposing the pipeline .
“ Tar sands are some of the world ’ s worst , most carbon-intensive oil on the planet…Studies confirm that the climate impact would be that of 50 coal plants , causing upwards of $ 280 billion in climate damages globally .
Line 3 , Keystone XL , and all tar sands extraction and pipelines must be stopped immediately , ” Osprey Orielle Lake , Executive Director of the Women ’ s Earth and Climate Action Network ( WECAN ) told @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a Canadian energy giant employing over 11,000 people , is infamous for the 2010 spilling of close to one million barrels of oil into the Kalamazoo Creek , a mistake for which it paid the state of Michigan $ 75 million in damages .
The new pipeline would cross the Mississippi three times , as well as 200 additional bodies of water .
“ Minnesota should be worried , ” Malik Russell from Stop the Money Pipeline , a coalition of 130 organizations attempting to halt Wall Street funding of environmental destruction , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ process of oil extraction is the most horrible ways of oil extraction methods on the planet .
Tar Sands is a toxic and brutal method that poisons and destroys our natural environment , clean water , and the communities near it.
” Much of the resistance to the project is led by local Indigenous organizations , who argue that the pipeline violates many treaties the U.S. signed with them .
The pipeline cuts through Ojibwe and Chippewa Reservations , including sacred land that the Ojibwe use to harvest wild rice .
“ Line @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to the Dakota Access and Keystone XL Pipelines , where governments and corporations refuse to uphold and respect the rights and sovereignty of Indigenous peoples , refuse to listen to the public who do not support these pipelines and refuse to act in good faith to protect water and the global climate , ” said Osprey Orielle Lake .
“ We need to put people and the planet before profit.
” Minnesota is currently enduring an intense epidemic of COVID-19 , losing 92 people on Wednesday to the virus .
Bringing in thousands @ @ @ @ @ @ @ already strained rural state hospitals .
Over 20,000 people have already been hospitalized since the pandemic began .
Activist groups have promised to continue fighting and brave the winter ’ s temperatures until the pipeline is shelved .
But protesting the fossil fuel industry will soon become a criminal offense , turning civil disobedience into serious felonies .
That is if new legislation pushed by industry groups such as the American Legislative Action Council ( ALEC ) is passed .
Minnesota is among their test states , where some legislators , their pockets @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to essentially criminalize protest .
“ This pipeline isn ’ t about the so-called ‘ safe ’ transportation of a necessary product , it ’ s the final gasp of a dying industry desperately trying to perpetuate fossil fuel use in a society that knows its past time to make better choices for energy use , ” said Amy Gray of the Stop the Money Pipeline Coalition .
At the protests against the Keystone XL pipeline at Standing Rock , protesters — and even journalists — were essentially treated as such .
Democracy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with rioting and faced one year in prison for covering the events .
Heavily armed police officers in full riot gear arrested nearly 500 people , even using water cannons on them amid freezing conditions in the winter of 2016-2017 .
The process was begun under President Obama , who refused to halt the pipeline ’ s construction , even symbolically , during his lame duck session .
Almost as soon as Donald Trump assumed office , he canceled the environmental impact assessment and the project was swiftly completed , the first oil @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that year , the pipeline leaked 210,000 gallons of oil in Marshall County , South Dakota .
It is clear that , for many of the activist groups opposing the project , the question of the Enbridge pipeline construction is virtually a life and death one .
“ This is a fight we must win if we as a nation are going to beat back an existential crisis heading our way at full speed – the climate emergency , ” Russell told MintPress .
Senator-elect McEwen seemed to agree ; “ We have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of mitigating the damage of the climate crisis… If this happens right now while we are at the helm of these decisions , history will not look kindly on us , ” she said .
Protesters in Aitkin County predicted that , if construction is not halted , their numbers would swell , threatening to spark a nationwide story that could dominate the festive period

Despite sub-zero winter temperatures, a conflict over a controversial new pipeline is threatening to boil over in rural Minnesota, turning it into the next Standing Rock. 22 people were arrested last week during protests in Aitkin County, around 120 miles north of Minneapolis, for trespassing against the construction of the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline. The pipeline project would carry more than 750,000 barrels of fracked Alberta tar sand oil through the United States.
Activists from environmental and indigenous groups are braving the snow to form a barrier to the construction of a pipeline that will traverse the Mississippi and pass through a number of delicate ecosystems, threatening many of the state’s famous rivers and lakes.
Other segments of the new pipeline have already been completed in Canada, North Dakota, and Wisconsin, leaving only the 337-mile Minnesotan section to be constructed. The final go-ahead for the nearly $3 billion project was given late last month. Around 2,000 people are currently employed on the Minnesotan portion, with 2,000 more expected to join soon. Yet a whole range of environmental groups, including Greenpeace USA and the Sierra Club have come out strongly against its construction. They have been joined by a number of local legislators. Reporter and photographer Emma Fiala recorded their visit to the protest encampment for MintPress, which included two individuals staying high up in the trees.
“We have a moral imperative to do our part of mitigating the damage of the climate crisis,” said Jen McEwen, Senator-elect from District 7 in Duluth, “If this happens right now while we are at the helm of these decisions, history will not look kindly on us.”
Protest encampments have existed since 2017. However, there is a feeling that, with construction beginning, something big might be about to happen, turning Aitkin County into the next Standing Rock. That is certainly the worry of local police, who have been engaged in constant monitoring of the protesters, with documents showing they have repeatedly turned to North Dakota officials responsible for the militarized crackdown at Standing Rock for guidance.
The state of Minnesota is clearly expecting trouble and does not want to be left with a huge bill and cleanup operation like North Dakota was following the massive protests at Standing Rock. As a condition of its approval of the pipeline, the state required Enbridge to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in expected future policing costs up front. While this might have been financially prudent, it has led to a situation where Enbridge is effectively calling the shots, working closely with law enforcement to suppress dissent. One county sheriff even admitted that the oil company had donated the tools that he used to cut loose pipeline opponents who had chained themselves to Enbridge’s equipment.
The molding of state and corporation goes further, as considerable resources have been spent on monitoring and spying on the water protectors. “When you walk in the grocery store of a town of 200 people, and there’s some guy taking a picture of you with a cellphone, that’s really obvious,” said one leader. However, others have alleged a near-constant network of surveillance, including drones and the use of informants and undercover agents posing as protesters, in what effectively amounts to a counterinsurgency operation.
MintPress spoke to a number of environmental groups opposing the pipeline. “Tar sands are some of the world’s worst, most carbon-intensive oil on the planet…Studies confirm that the climate impact would be that of 50 coal plants, causing upwards of $280 billion in climate damages globally. Line 3, Keystone XL, and all tar sands extraction and pipelines must be stopped immediately,” Osprey Orielle Lake, Executive Director of the Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN) told us, adding that,
Business as usual must not and cannot continue. It is far past time for governments and financial institutions to immediately implement a managed decline off of all fossil fuels and support the already flourishing regenerative, renewable energy sector, just transition plans, and community-led climate solutions. These are the solutions we need.”
Enbridge, a Canadian energy giant employing over 11,000 people, is infamous for the 2010 spilling of close to one million barrels of oil into the Kalamazoo Creek, a mistake for which it paid the state of Michigan $75 million in damages. The new pipeline would cross the Mississippi three times, as well as 200 additional bodies of water.
“Minnesota should be worried,” Malik Russell from Stop the Money Pipeline, a coalition of 130 organizations attempting to halt Wall Street funding of environmental destruction, told MintPress. “The Tar Sands process of oil extraction is the most horrible ways of oil extraction methods on the planet. Tar Sands is a toxic and brutal method that poisons and destroys our natural environment, clean water, and the communities near it.”
Much of the resistance to the project is led by local Indigenous organizations, who argue that the pipeline violates many treaties the U.S. signed with them. The pipeline cuts through Ojibwe and Chippewa Reservations, including sacred land that the Ojibwe use to harvest wild rice.
“Line 3 is yet another example, similar to the Dakota Access and Keystone XL Pipelines, where governments and corporations refuse to uphold and respect the rights and sovereignty of Indigenous peoples, refuse to listen to the public who do not support these pipelines and refuse to act in good faith to protect water and the global climate,” said Osprey Orielle Lake. “We need to put people and the planet before profit.”
Minnesota is currently enduring an intense epidemic of COVID-19, losing 92 people on Wednesday to the virus. Bringing in thousands of out-of-state workers in risks overwhelming the already strained rural state hospitals. Over 20,000 people have already been hospitalized since the pandemic began.
Activist groups have promised to continue fighting and brave the winter’s temperatures until the pipeline is shelved. But protesting the fossil fuel industry will soon become a criminal offense, turning civil disobedience into serious felonies. That is if new legislation pushed by industry groups such as the American Legislative Action Council (ALEC) is passed. Minnesota is among their test states, where some legislators, their pockets greased with oil money, are attempting to essentially criminalize protest.
“This pipeline isn’t about the so-called ‘safe’ transportation of a necessary product, it’s the final gasp of a dying industry desperately trying to perpetuate fossil fuel use in a society that knows its past time to make better choices for energy use,” said Amy Gray of the Stop the Money Pipeline Coalition.
At the protests against the Keystone XL pipeline at Standing Rock, protesters — and even journalists — were essentially treated as such. Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman was charged with rioting and faced one year in prison for covering the events. Heavily armed police officers in full riot gear arrested nearly 500 people, even using water cannons on them amid freezing conditions in the winter of 2016-2017. The process was begun under President Obama, who refused to halt the pipeline’s construction, even symbolically, during his lame duck session. Almost as soon as Donald Trump assumed office, he canceled the environmental impact assessment and the project was swiftly completed, the first oil being pumped by May 2017. Later that year, the pipeline leaked 210,000 gallons of oil in Marshall County, South Dakota.
It is clear that, for many of the activist groups opposing the project, the question of the Enbridge pipeline construction is virtually a life and death one. “This is a fight we must win if we as a nation are going to beat back an existential crisis heading our way at full speed – the climate emergency,” Russell told MintPress. Senator-elect McEwen seemed to agree; “We have a moral imperative to do our part of mitigating the damage of the climate crisis… If this happens right now while we are at the helm of these decisions, history will not look kindly on us,” she said. Protesters in Aitkin County predicted that, if construction is not halted, their numbers would swell, threatening to spark a nationwide story that could dominate the festive period
Article posted with permission from MintPress News


thewashingtonstandard--2020-12-26--Endlessly Pontificating On The Good Things Americans Do, While We Allow The Atrocities Committed To

Endlessly Pontificating On The Good Things Americans Do , While We Allow The Atrocities Committed To America ’ s Babies Is Why We Need Repentance I was attending a Christmas service at a Church on Christmas Eve , and instead of feeling the joy of Christmas , I was grieving .
All the talk about joy and happiness was more than I could take .
Partway through the service , I prayed to God , “ I am sorry.
” I am sorry we are standing here listening to people talk about the baby Jesus in a country that has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that is since the Obscene Court committed the atrocity of claiming they could legalize murder by calling it abortion , and claiming unborn babies are not human .
I am sorry we did not put those members of the court in prison where they belong .
I am sorry Christians are begging for their vaccines with no concern as to if any babies were killed to make those vaccines .
In one of my previous articles , I wrote about an article about how several Covid-19 vaccines are made using fetal cells .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ of health care , Christians should be boycotting any pharmaceutical company or doctor that has not proven beyond any doubt that they have no connection to the use of anything from babies murdered by abortion .
I am sorry I served in the military and wasted all those years and wrecked my health in the name of freedom when the people used that freedom to say babies can be murdered by abortion , and then use those babies as ingredients in vaccines .
The gangrene of healthcare , abortion has rotted healthcare to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
They have been dehumanized to such a point that so many are willing to participate in the atrocity of injecting the result of a murder into their body .
I am sorry I am a chief of an Ambulance Service and an Emergency Medical Technician when the healthcare system , of which we are part , is so unethical .
We are so unethical that we allow all these immoral things to go on .
Healthcare workers are first in line for the vaccines that are made using murdered babies .
Even @ @ @ @ @ @ @ take the vaccines , how do we work with the unethical people that do ?
How do we claim to be ethical with abortion rotting healthcare to the point that very few people care that murdered babies are now viewed as nothing more than ingredients ?
Ingredients that are making billions of dollars for the evil people involved in this atrocity .
How do we claim to be ethical when Christians ’ thinking has been polluted to the point that they participate , instead of protesting this abomination to God ?
That was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ realize that I am a Scrooge , but I do not know how to separate it all .
Were the soldiers in the Third Reich good people and only the death camp guards bad ?
No , they were all bad .
All the German soldiers were bad .
Some soldiers killed the people in the camps and other soldiers protected and served the German government and camp soldiers that did the killing .
I share this guilt .
I served the military of a government that allowed babies to be killed .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ to be killed , but that government also paid for the babies to be killed .
Besides paying for those babies to be murdered by abortion , our government paid pharmaceutical companies to dehumanize the babies to the point of considering babies as ingredients for vaccines .
That same government praised and paid those evil companies for making vaccines while hiding the fact that babies were murdered to make the vaccines .
That is the government I served as a soldier and an airman .
I am so ashamed I served a government @ @ @ @ @ @ @ take all those years back and have served God by fighting against those atrocities instead of protecting the government doing them .
This country is good at pointing out other countries ’ faults and then claiming that somehow makes us good .
We would be wise to remember when Jesus told us to take the log out of our own eye before we take the splinter out of our brother ’ s eye .
Unfortunately , America has a forest in her eye instead of just a log .
America ’ s and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ arrogance .
Instead of repenting for the evil we have done , we list all the good things we do and then throw a tantrum if anyone complains about the evil .
How about you , do you think someone who allows murder should get away with it as long as they can list some good things they do ?
The Nazis made some medical discoveries experimenting on their victims .
Yet , they still faced the Nuremberg trials and claiming good deeds did not set them free .
I realize God forgives @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as ours .
However , it is hard to ask for forgiveness as my fellow healthcare workers and my government are so delighted with the vaccines that were achieved through the atrocities .
If there is no remorse , how can there be forgiveness ?
As Voltaire said : “ Those who can make you believe absurdities , can make you commit atrocities.
” Americans are never-ending in their belief in absurdities : Endlessly pontificating on the good things Americans do , while we allow the atrocities committed to America ’ s babies @ @ @ @ @ @ @ praise for selling the organs of his victim , and claiming the lives he saved , excuses the murder he committed .
That is America today , and that is the Church today .
Abortion is just modern-day Moloch worship , only we have made it worse .
If I am a modern-day Scrooge , my hope is there is a change of heart for America as there was for Scrooge in A Christmas Carol .
America needs a change of heart .
The Church needs a change of heart .
We need @ @ @ @ @ @ @ should be instead of allowing the atrocities to remain .
The Church ’ s boycott of vaccines and any healthcare involved in them or abortion would be a good start .

Endlessly Pontificating On The Good Things Americans Do, While We Allow The Atrocities Committed To America’s Babies Is Why We Need Repentance
I was attending a Christmas service at a Church on Christmas Eve, and instead of feeling the joy of Christmas, I was grieving. All the talk about joy and happiness was more than I could take. Partway through the service, I prayed to God, “I am sorry.”
I am sorry we are standing here listening to people talk about the baby Jesus in a country that has murdered more than 62 million babies; that is since the Obscene Court committed the atrocity of claiming they could legalize murder by calling it abortion, and claiming unborn babies are not human. I am sorry we did not put those members of the court in prison where they belong.
I am sorry Christians are begging for their vaccines with no concern as to if any babies were killed to make those vaccines. In one of my previous articles, I wrote about an article about how several Covid-19 vaccines are made using fetal cells. Given how abortion has become the gangrene of health care, Christians should be boycotting any pharmaceutical company or doctor that has not proven beyond any doubt that they have no connection to the use of anything from babies murdered by abortion.
I am sorry I served in the military and wasted all those years and wrecked my health in the name of freedom when the people used that freedom to say babies can be murdered by abortion, and then use those babies as ingredients in vaccines. The gangrene of healthcare, abortion has rotted healthcare to the point that babies have been dehumanized. They have been dehumanized to such a point that so many are willing to participate in the atrocity of injecting the result of a murder into their body.
I am sorry I am a chief of an Ambulance Service and an Emergency Medical Technician when the healthcare system, of which we are part, is so unethical. We are so unethical that we allow all these immoral things to go on. Healthcare workers are first in line for the vaccines that are made using murdered babies. Even though many of us have refused to take the vaccines, how do we work with the unethical people that do?
How do we claim to be ethical with abortion rotting healthcare to the point that very few people care that murdered babies are now viewed as nothing more than ingredients? Ingredients that are making billions of dollars for the evil people involved in this atrocity. How do we claim to be ethical when Christians’ thinking has been polluted to the point that they participate, instead of protesting this abomination to God?
That was my Christmas Eve at Church. I realize that I am a Scrooge, but I do not know how to separate it all. Were the soldiers in the Third Reich good people and only the death camp guards bad? No, they were all bad. All the German soldiers were bad. Some soldiers killed the people in the camps and other soldiers protected and served the German government and camp soldiers that did the killing.
I share this guilt. I served the military of a government that allowed babies to be killed. Not only did that government allow babies to be killed, but that government also paid for the babies to be killed. Besides paying for those babies to be murdered by abortion, our government paid pharmaceutical companies to dehumanize the babies to the point of considering babies as ingredients for vaccines.
That same government praised and paid those evil companies for making vaccines while hiding the fact that babies were murdered to make the vaccines. That is the government I served as a soldier and an airman.
I am so ashamed I served a government like ours. I wish I could take all those years back and have served God by fighting against those atrocities instead of protecting the government doing them. This country is good at pointing out other countries’ faults and then claiming that somehow makes us good. We would be wise to remember when Jesus told us to take the log out of our own eye before we take the splinter out of our brother’s eye. Unfortunately, America has a forest in her eye instead of just a log.
America’s and the Church’s problem is their arrogance. Instead of repenting for the evil we have done, we list all the good things we do and then throw a tantrum if anyone complains about the evil. How about you, do you think someone who allows murder should get away with it as long as they can list some good things they do? The Nazis made some medical discoveries experimenting on their victims. Yet, they still faced the Nuremberg trials and claiming good deeds did not set them free.
I realize God forgives me for serving a government as wicked as ours. However, it is hard to ask for forgiveness as my fellow healthcare workers and my government are so delighted with the vaccines that were achieved through the atrocities. If there is no remorse, how can there be forgiveness?
As Voltaire said: “Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
Americans are never-ending in their belief in absurdities: Endlessly pontificating on the good things Americans do, while we allow the atrocities committed to America’s babies. This is like a hitman expecting praise for selling the organs of his victim, and claiming the lives he saved, excuses the murder he committed. That is America today, and that is the Church today.
Abortion is just modern-day Moloch worship, only we have made it worse. If I am a modern-day Scrooge, my hope is there is a change of heart for America as there was for Scrooge in A Christmas Carol . America needs a change of heart. The Church needs a change of heart. We need to start making things the way they should be instead of allowing the atrocities to remain. The Church’s boycott of vaccines and any healthcare involved in them or abortion would be a good start.
Article by Steve Richards


thewashingtonstandard--2020-12-26--California: Cop Indicted After Video Captured Him Breaking Into Dead Man’s Home & Stealing His Guns

Santa Ana , CA — A veteran cop was arrested on multiple felony charges including “ suspicion of burglary ” after he was captured on home surveillance footage repeatedly returning to the home of a dead 70-year-old man and stealing from him .
Amazingly enough , despite the video , the officer was not immediately fired and instead placed on paid administrative leave .
This week , however , a grand jury indicted the disgraced Orange County sheriff ’ s deputy on burglary and gun theft charges months after he allegedly broke into the deceased man ’ s home several @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to KTLA .
“ This act in and of itself has done so much damage to the public perception of law enforcement and the timing could not be more detrimental , ” DA Todd Spitzer said in a written statement Tuesday .
Deputy Steve Hortz , a 12-year veteran of the Orange County Sheriff ’ s department reportedly responded to a home in Yorba Linda after family called in a welfare check on a 70-year-old man .
When Hortz arrived , he found that the man had died of natural causes .
On @ @ @ @ @ @ @ felony counts of second-degree burglary and two felony counts of grand theft of a firearm .
As TFTP reported , on September 9 , the family of the deceased called the department to tell them that multiple items were missing from the home .
An attorney for the family provided the department with surveillance footage from the home which showed this thieving deputy returning to the property on multiple occasions and leaving with stolen items .
In the video , we see the deputy brazenly entering the home with a dolly and hauling @ @ @ @ @ @ @ incident , Hortz returned to the home July 27 and allegedly broke into the unoccupied residence through the rear and left a short time later .
It was unclear if Hortz , who was in uniform at the time , left with any property from the home .
Hortz then returned to the home on the mornings of Aug. 10 and 16 in civilian clothes and allegedly removed items including weapon safes , ceiling fans and cases containing unknown items .
OCSD immediately launched an investigation into the burglaries as soon as they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ morning of Sept. 10 and was booked into the Santa Ana Jail on suspicion of burglary .
He was also placed on administrative leave , and the department said it was investigating prior calls Hortz handled to see if similar instances had occurred .
Despite the video of the deputy ’ s crimes , he was not immediately fired , even after the sheriff blasted him in a statement .
“ The suspected criminal actions of this deputy are a violation of public trust , ” OC Sheriff Don Barnes said in a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ held accountable through a swift and thorough process including a full criminal and internal administrative investigation.
” “ I will do everything we can to make sure he does not return to a uniform in this organization or anywhere else for that matter , ” Barnes said during a news conference at the time .
However , that bad cop was allowed to stay on for weeks after being arrested , and was never fired .
Instead , Hortz resigned to avoid departmental discipline .
Barnes did say that he is now investigating @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in order to see if there are other potential thefts .
This cop stole 15 firearms from a dead man .
He also stole the man ’ s ceiling fans and multiple weapons safes — which he can be seen brazenly leaving the home with on a dolly .
“ He ’ s embarrassed this profession , he ’ s embarrassed this organization , and he ’ s embarrassed the almost 4,000 members who do good work everyday , ” Barnes said .
But not all 4,000 of those cops are angels .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ was arrested , another Orange County deputy , Angelina Cortez was charged with a felony for stealing a credit card from a suspect and using it .

Santa Ana, CA — A veteran cop was arrested on multiple felony charges including “suspicion of burglary” after he was captured on home surveillance footage repeatedly returning to the home of a dead 70-year-old man and stealing from him. Amazingly enough, despite the video, the officer was not immediately fired and instead placed on paid administrative leave.
This week, however, a grand jury indicted the disgraced Orange County sheriff’s deputy on burglary and gun theft charges months after he allegedly broke into the deceased man’s home several times, prosecutors said Tuesday, according to KTLA.
“This act in and of itself has done so much damage to the public perception of law enforcement and the timing could not be more detrimental,” DA Todd Spitzer said in a written statement Tuesday.
Deputy Steve Hortz, a 12-year veteran of the Orange County Sheriff’s department reportedly responded to a home in Yorba Linda after family called in a welfare check on a 70-year-old man. When Hortz arrived, he found that the man had died of natural causes.
On Tuesday, Hortz was indicted on three felony counts of second-degree burglary and two felony counts of grand theft of a firearm.
As TFTP reported, on September 9, the family of the deceased called the department to tell them that multiple items were missing from the home.
An attorney for the family provided the department with surveillance footage from the home which showed this thieving deputy returning to the property on multiple occasions and leaving with stolen items. In the video, we see the deputy brazenly entering the home with a dolly and hauling off stolen items.
As CBS Los Angeles reports:
In the first incident, Hortz returned to the home July 27 and allegedly broke into the unoccupied residence through the rear and left a short time later. It was unclear if Hortz, who was in uniform at the time, left with any property from the home. Hortz then returned to the home on the mornings of Aug. 10 and 16 in civilian clothes and allegedly removed items including weapon safes, ceiling fans and cases containing unknown items. OCSD immediately launched an investigation into the burglaries as soon as they were reported. Hortz was arrested the morning of Sept. 10 and was booked into the Santa Ana Jail on suspicion of burglary. He was also placed on administrative leave, and the department said it was investigating prior calls Hortz handled to see if similar instances had occurred.
Despite the video of the deputy’s crimes, he was not immediately fired, even after the sheriff blasted him in a statement.
“The suspected criminal actions of this deputy are a violation of public trust,” OC Sheriff Don Barnes said in a statement. “This deputy will be held accountable through a swift and thorough process including a full criminal and internal administrative investigation.”
“I will do everything we can to make sure he does not return to a uniform in this organization or anywhere else for that matter,” Barnes said during a news conference at the time.
However, that bad cop was allowed to stay on for weeks after being arrested, and was never fired. Instead, Hortz resigned to avoid departmental discipline.
Barnes did say that he is now investigating other incidents in which Hortz was involved in order to see if there are other potential thefts.
This cop stole 15 firearms from a dead man. He also stole the man’s ceiling fans and multiple weapons safes — which he can be seen brazenly leaving the home with on a dolly.
“He’s embarrassed this profession, he’s embarrassed this organization, and he’s embarrassed the almost 4,000 members who do good work everyday,” Barnes said.
But not all 4,000 of those cops are angels. In fact, the day before Hortz was arrested, another Orange County deputy, Angelina Cortez was charged with a felony for stealing a credit card from a suspect and using it.
Article posted with permission from Matt Agorist